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priority to make this happen. >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you both of you. >> line item 3b. >> 3b occ monthly comprehensive statistical report [inaudible] complaints in february 2013 and adjudication of sustained complaints in february 2013. >> good evening president, members of the commission and members of the audience, you have in your packets the february 2013 and 2012
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comprehensive reports. from january 21, 2013 through february 28 the [inaudible] this's 20 fewer cases than were opened in the same period in 2012 when we opened 121 cases. from january through february this year the occ investigators closed the same number of cases as were opened -- 101 cases. as of february 28 the occ had 307 pending cases. as of today the occ has 301 pending cases compared to 371 pending cases this time last year. [inaudible] allegations in february, the occ sustained four allegations and nine --
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>> you can't hear me? >> you're not even up on this. your mic's on. >> the occ -- that's louder -- mediated five cases in february or 11 percent of the cases we closed. in february 7 officers were offered mediation and one officer declined. this year to date officer acceptance rate is 87 percent. that's lower than in /praoefs years where acceptance rates exceeded 90 percent but with the pass /sapblg of only two months this year it's too early to tell if this is a trend. today the occ had mediated 10 cases in the area of mediation i would like to announce that our mediation coordinator donna, is the
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recipient of other award. the [inaudible] northern california of which commissioner kingsly is a member presented ms. salazar. she's been a practicing mediator since 1994. she's a pan /alist for the san francisco court, the first district court of appeals and the bar association of san francisco. she became a community board immediate yeh forin 1997 and joined their staff in 1999. the occ mediation program has consistently mediated more cases than any other officer citizen mediation program in the united states. the occ
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program is the recipient of the 12 community board award for excellence as an organization whose innovative work for best practices. lovingly known as the god mother of the san francisco bay organization, donna joined the board in 2012. she brings her experience in labor of relations, business, real estate to the occ. she has touched many lives and truly inspires greater peace in our community. and then quickly moving to the last category [inaudible] cases in february [inaudible] sustained case in february. she upheld our findings of knee /tkpwhrebgtive duty when an officer failed to notify dispatch when making a traffic
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stop and that concludes my report. >> thank you very much and thanks again to donna salazar for her work in the mediation field. little concerned about the decrease in the number of mediations that the officers are willing to participate in and we'll probably have words with the appropriate folks in charge of that 'cause i think it's a great process and saves a lots of time, energy, but it's great for the public to hear what officer felt and vice versa. >> thank you. >> i must say that being there on saturday when ms. salazar received the president's award for mediator of the year for this organization it was a very proud moment to be there, to see her get this award. it was wonderful and was also very gratifying to know that she's ours here at the occ and that
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we have such a distinguished mediator at the helm of the occ's mediation program. >> thank you very much. we feel quite privileged to have ms. salazar as our mediation and outreach /kaordz they tore 'cause in addition to the work she does she manages our office's outreach program. >> please extend our congratulations to ms. salazar. well deserved. i've known her for quite some time and know she does great work. i want to ask about the fall your to collect traffic stop data. just to make sure it's in the framework, but the chief's policy now is to bring those cases if [inaudible] for this case the allegations that's the repeated offense -- the failure to collect traffic stop data. >> this particular case is for
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failure to notify dispatch when making a traffic stop so an officer for officer safety reasons and other reasons is required to let dispatch know that this is what is occurring and in this in/tapbs the officer did not but it is true that it is our policy when it is a failure to collect traffic stop data that he has a progressive discipline approach. first offense -- it's a warning an admonishment, second offense, assuming there are no other discipline issues, second offense would be a written reprimand and the third offense would be the loss of pay through a suspension. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you very much. please call line item number 3c.
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>> 3c commission reports discussion, commissioners reports. >> i just have one quick report. i want to send my thanks to the city attorney's office. recently they've had two high profile victories on behalf of the commission where they represented us, one from the first district court of appeal and secondly in front of the -- please call line item 3d. >> commissioners announcement and scheduling of items identified for consideration of future commission meetings action. >> there will be no meeting next wednesday, that would be the 20th of march and the next meeting is march 27 and that's a community meeting and that will be in the mission and
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it'll be at 450 church street at everett middle school and that starts at 6:00 pm. >> any announcements? >> we have the resolution for organization reporting for an agenda, i believe in april. was it the first meeting in april or the second? the third meeting many april? april 3. okay. good for that. thank you for that clarification. i believe at the last meeting we had mr. lawrence had brought up the topic of our community outreach and letting folks know when and where we're having our
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community meetings and just in general our notifications. and in follow up of that i'm wondering if we could get a copy, inspector, of all of the places that we do publicize meetings and if we could just have that distributed and spend a few minutes going over it so if there's something else we can do that isn't going to cost the department a significant amount of money that's within budget that we can do that as additional outreach on behalf of the commission. and if we could schedule that for any time that's con convenient for you, inspector since you're gonna provide us with the information. >> i'll give you an email and i'll work on it tomorrow. >> for the community meeting that's in [inaudible] i wanted to ask if you could just let
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the captain know that it'd be great to see community turnout at that because my understanding is there have been at least one meetings about recent violent incidences there and there was a good amount of turnout and sometimes i'll notice you have that turnout for those incidents but for the police commission is less turnout. so i'd like to see those community members so make sure the call is put out the same way they put out for those types of meetings. the last meeting we had was really great. >> anything further commissioners. all right. it's now public comment regarding line items 3 a, b, c or d. >> first on the chief's report,
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in particular the presentation regarding iphone robberies and prevention i wanna thank the captain for his presentation. i think it's important that the public be made aware. i think the most important slide was be smart with your smart phone. if you not aware of your surroundings, you're making yourself venerable. also if somebody points a gun at me they've got the iphone. and one quick thing -- the technology you've asked about for these items are available and they've been in use for a number of years in other countries. on the director's probation report. /tkpwepbl, last month martin [inaudible] of the police officer's
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association took exception to some of my remarks. according to him i chose to come here and make dispairaging remarks to other officers in the department. he should get his facts straight. i did file a complaint with occ. i did that during a break the police commissioners meetings. i can understand confusion in the matter since here we are six weeks later and i have yet to receive any acknowledgment of the complaint. no complaint number, no nothing. i wouldn't be at all surprised to hear nothing for six to nine months only to receive a dismissal form letter regarding the
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complaint. not surprised at all. putting out /sta /teusices on occ is all well and good, but i've said on numerous occasions, have you ever tried asking people who go through that process what they think of it? you can't tell what the process is like unless you experience it. i've experienced it once before. i got one call from investigator, i didn't hear anything for more than seven months and i got a little form letter with two boxes x'd off saying no cause for action. that was the end of my involvement in that. and i talked with the investigator and i asked can i find anything about that and they said it's all confidential. so basically if you're involved in it your involvement is totally meaningless. >> ladies and gentlemen,
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commissioners, for the record my name is [inaudible] lawrence. i've been a resident in the city of san francisco for 44 years. [inaudible] any other part of the city that the police commission's gonna hold a meeting. and my suggestion first of all would be put fliers in the churches and schools and local stores down there. have a policeman come up and speak to 'em by handing it out. i'm sure there's 30 to 40 of those places in local area. i'd like to speak about the sixth and mission street crime area. when i drove at night i used to drive a taxi in that area and see crime non stop that the police couldn't believe was taking place. i delivered drugs for drug dealers. i was driving around the area to pick up packages that i didn't know what was in
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'em. i've seen crimes take place with no policeman in that area because i don't think there's enough. i worked for hud for about two-and-a-half years. part of my job at that time back in 2003 was allocating housing the sixth and mission area and [inaudible] prisoners coming out of prison. they did their time, you seen a body of a grown man only to find he had the mind of a child. did 15 years in prison, the government put $20 in his pocke give him a place to stay. i had about 120 prisoners that i got housing at
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hotels. i wanna talk about cell phones. they're not cell phones, they're computers. selling literally millions of 'em every month you're not gonna do any damage by putting out efforts to stop any of this stuff. i was accosted by -- i have a file with the [inaudible] on an ipod that two policeman beat me up for one that was stolen or taken a month earlier. it was a broken piece of place tick 'cause i told him i was in panda express and i [inaudible] steal 'em from jack in the box. they didn't like my answer. they kicked me in the legs, handcuffed me when there was no crime whosoever. so i said a third of these crimes are
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basically non existent. people report them stolen, but they lost 'em themselves. you can have them registered like guns. >> please call line item number four please. line item four. public comment on all items pertaining to items six and below. closed session. public vote on whether [inaudible] involving the city. hearing none public comment's now closed. please call next item. >> vote to hold item six in closed session >> do we have a motion. >> so moved. >> we're gonna now only artist
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residence program -- >> we are back in open session and we have a quorum still. commissioner [inaudible]. >> thank you very much inspector monroe. do i have a motion as to whether or not we'll disclose the matters discussed in closed session. >> please call line item eight. adjournment. >> so moved. thank you.
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good morning. i want is start by that thanking mayor lee for starting first. there are two stories today, the one you read about in the papers today, the deal and the process. the deal, the transaction i believe is a win win for the city of san francisco and for the medical center and the center health system. by the name, my name is gerardo. this agreement ruts results in a significantly
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larger hospital. 120 beds. a significantly smaller hospital. 255 beds. saint luke's hospital will be 25 of all the cpmc. it will continue to provide the level of care with no financial conditions or projections and i think we have solved what was an issue and initiated on the side of the hospital. over and above the on going care obligation of the hospital. the agreement is $90 million for
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cash benefit and others related to health care, affordable housing and pedestrian safety. that's an overview of the deal and you will hear, i'm going to be to make some acknowledgements an those that negotiated the contract, the development agreement as to specifics. the process was one that i came into with somewhat or some bit of trepdation. i have been involved and know what i know from the board of supervisors from what i read in the newspapers. i was concerned about what it would be like to work with these young people who are responsible for the legislative function of our government. i also realized
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that by san francisco definition that i was dealing with supervisors of three different levels, left, middle and right. and i need to say today that i have never been so impressed in my life by politicians to watch them come together as one and to develop a strategy along with a hospital team for the common good. [ applause ] >> we developed together a process that was transparent. the members of the board of supervisors and the members of the team were able to see all the numbers, budgets,
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projections and brought in expertise to verify those numbers were real number. we got educated together. we politicized together and then we built trust. i'm not saying it's perfect trust, but we built trust. so i would like to single out david chu, david campos and mark ferrel for the great job they did. [ applause ] >> the mayor's office in particular a great deal of debt. he did a great job. i just don't know who i'm going to talk at midnight anymore. [ laughter ] . i also want to thank people from the department of public
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health and others from the mayor's office. but colleen chav an and wagner were instrumental in helping us understand the projections and understand the construction cost, etc. i would also want to acknowledge the hospital team, mike, warn browner. ceo of cpmc, [ applause ] george, i want to say is it w u. and john gates creative cfo who works at the hospital and the chairman of the board mr. bob -- [ applause ] . throughout this process, i had the luxury of a number of
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people helping and counseling me and encouraging me, but i would like to particularly thank bishop mark andrews who has been a tremendous supporter of saint lukes. and last but not least, i want to thank the san francisco coalition. we, as part of our process had meetings with the coalition in my office, their executive committee that varied from 10-13 in size from meeting to meeting and also their liaison mr. mark kumar who kept everyone a price apprised of what we were doing. i know that
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san francisco is still a city that knows how and wants the city to work and cares about each other. congratulations to san francisco. i want to introduce our fine mayor ed lee. [ applause ] . >> thank you. i yelled out wife and family to make sure that there was a way in which to acknowledge the tremendous sacrifice that lou gerardo has given. when you see construction workers, you know something big is going to happen. it has in the same level of excitement that i have seen in the rebuilding of general hospital and the uc medical center. every time we touch our health care system, we have something that promises
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a better life for people and barbara is as excited for this announcements as well. saint luke's are incredible institutions for san francisco. that's why we thought it would be best for the whole city to make this project happen because of the laws of the state of california that require that seismic upgrade of our health institutions, because of the tremendous pressure to improve san francisco and bay area and the economical structures that face this hospital and so many other hospitals. the job is never done. this is an announcement of where we are today, but we have to get this thing built, we have to make sure it's furnished like we are working on to make sure everything
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happens at a time when there is economic pressure and institutions coming from national decision that don't necessarily compliment the economic recovery that we are experiencing in the bay area. so, i want to put this into perspective for one great acknowledgment that i want to make is that this was not easy to do. lou's assignment here and i don't know why he took this up because it really accounted for hundreds of hours of his time to keep everybody at the table , but it is an acknowledgment that i want to make to thank the board president chu, and supervisor ferrel. each and everyone of them to say