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affairs that handle the officer involved shootings -- three of our sergeants -- to help stress the importance of getting these documents in a timely fashion. >> i recall hearing this problem in the past and so i'm /wopbldzering rather than just waiting for each quarter and seeing this problem again, if we could in the interim before the next quarter report, if there is a problem that we hear from the department or the occ and we address that. if we /kwould -- any interim status reports, please feel free to come in front of us. >> i understand this is a priority to occ and it's important to me that we get this done in a timely fashion for them so i'm gonna make it a priority to make this happen. >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you both of you.
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>> 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 comprehensive reports. from
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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 -- >> you can't hear me? >> you're not even up on this.
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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 recipient of other award. the [inaudible] northern california
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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 program is the recipient of the 12 community board award for
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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 stop and that concludes my report. >> thank you very much and thanks again to donna salazar
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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 we have such a distinguished mediator at the helm of the
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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 failure to notify dispatch when making a traffic stop so an
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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. >> 3c commission reports
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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 it'll be at 450 church street at everett middle school and
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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 community meetings and just in
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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 the captain know that it'd be great to see community turnout at that because my
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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, in particular the presentation regarding iphone robberies and prevention i wanna thank the
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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 complaint. not surprised at all. putting out /sta /teusices on occ is all well
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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, commissioners, for the record my name is [inaudible] lawrence. i've been a resident
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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 'em. i've seen crimes take place with no policeman in that
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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 hotels. i wanna talk about
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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 basically non existent. people report them stolen, but they
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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 and welcome to the county transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of transportation authority. the clerk of the committee is erica chang. we are broadcast today. madam clerk could you share any announcements? >> no announcements. item no. 1, commissioner breed, campos,
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present, commissioner david chiu, absent. mr. cohen, absent. kim absent, mar, wiener present. yee, absent. we have a quorum. >> very good. call item no. 2. 2013 meeting. >> comments, questions on the minutes? public comments open. no. 2. no member come forward we'll close public comment. commissioner breed and without objection. >> next item, please? >> this is information item. >> good afternoon, colleagues.
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hopefully my voice will work this morning. i want to thank lombardy for these note. there were two issues to be addressed at the federal level to provide funding for the federal government through the end of the fiscal year and sequestration. congress passed a continued resolution to provide funding through the end of the budget year through september 2013. congress approved funding at the map 21 at the federal transportation bill funding levels, however this is a presequestration. the sequester official took effect on march 1st. however it taking time to find out how to federal budget cuts will affect individual programs and
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projects. handful of programs funding by the general fund, the central subway project. unlike other programs which are safe from sequester, the new start program is expected to receive $100 million for the current fiscal year. we continue to work closely with the sfmta for subway and work on ways to keep the project moving should federal fund be delayed. on the local front we are trying to confirm a date for transportation workshop now into early may. i encourage fellow commissioners to attend and this will provide an opportunity for investment scenarios for the plan. on a
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related note, early this morning, the director, myself attended the task force. the mayor has set an ambitious goal to priorities recommendation for this fall. a collaborative effort of the work coming on on the transportation plan. also attended the meeting today were commissioners chiu and wiener and to discuss the level of the focus where the transportation task force works on capital projects and operations as well of the mta. that was something that supervisor wiener was very thorough about explaining this morning. lastly on the executive director recruitment effort, the personnel committee met on the hawkins company to provide
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selection with a permanent executive director. i met with the group last week and i believe meetings are being scheduled with different members of this body so i encourage you all to make the effort to meet with them and provide your input on your vision for the authority and what the new executive director could be like. that concludes my remarks, thank you colleagues. >> if there are no comments or questions we can go onto public comment. seeing no other member come forward we'll close public comment. madam clerk call the next item. >> this is an information item. >> good morning, acting executive directors. the executive director's report should be on your desk. i will keep this brief because i want to save a minute for a quick demonstration we talked about last month. following on the chairs remark with respect to
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the federal funding situation, i want to provide a little context with respect to project. it has a grant agreement from the federal transportation administration. under a normal circumstances, the amount that is to be received each year is subject to the annual budget appropriation process, at the end of the year there is a likelihood that mta may not receive the funds as we expect. that is why we've been working from the get go to try to make sure we have finances in place if the fund come in slower to meet the needed cash flow. mtc, the government have released the regional transportation plan known as plan bay area. that's up for 55
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period. the environmental impact report is scheduled for released on march 28. there is documents on the website. there are a number of events going on around the region. we have an open public house on thursday april 11, on 1231 market street. we have the public hearing requirements on sb 375 and also reach out to a number of community based organization counties in san francisco. the chinatown community development center and department staff have been attended those meetings as well to help explain how plan bay area relates to the planning efforts going on in san
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francisco. cal trans, let's give a quick heads up. i expect to come to the plans and program committee shortly. the process is under way for the transportation. through the mayor's office we have prepared a comment letter on the scoping for the environmental document for cal tran. a year ago this body of executive directors signed a northern california high speed memorandum you mean agreement. in the peninsula quarter which is a blended system of cal trains and high speed rail operations. the first project to get funded, and the project control project, they are three different names but tightly linked togethern