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we have been fortunate in the seven months of the year gun shootings are relatively consistent with last year and a good year but still one shooting is too many but the officers are in the right time at the right place and i think you will hear tonight how they were on scene in the midst of a shooting at larkfield and farrell the other day and one gang member was injured and killed but his gun was taken into custody as well as another one and the officer -- just like at asiana and right place and right time and take the appropriate action when called upon. on a lighter side we hired service aides and met in the castro with supervisor wiener, the district attorney and discussed public safety in
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general and one of the cases were the outstanding arrests that we worked with oakland to make of the suspects committing the robberies on pride weekends. one of the videos on television is where the suspect kicks the woman down on the ground. he is in custody along with three others and three have been formally charged and proceeded against and great case and help of oakland and good job and make use of video to make the identification. on july 30 we did a kayaking trip up to sauce liteo and had the rodeo at the ballpark and officers from the region from 15 agencies competing in a motorized skills competition. it was very well attended and officer ray padmore who is one of the bicycle
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instructors took the children off for a bicycle safety class and their own skills competition and a size down if you will course. they did better than i did. last night was national night out all over the city. every district had an action. clyde covered southern and tenderloin for me as you heard. i was at bay view, park, northern and bay view, northern and -- we just missed mini-- park. the mayor was out. the bay view had three this year. very well attended. a lot of people were fed and a lot of fun and there was swriewm everywhere and the buy back is at us bank and 22nd and cap street and
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$100 for any handgun or rifle non assault type. any assault rifle would fetch $200. we encourage anybody to turn in whatever guns you have. any gun off the street is a good gun off the street and then this saturday is our second academy jamboree and the recruits have been working through their time and invited up to the academy with the families. it's from nine to one. it's a lot of fun. we expect many youth from the city. we did boys and girls club the first time. we will have presentati officers on horses and other things and putting them in contact with the cops which is a good thing and lastly there was a heightened security mention in the media. this was due to the action
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taken world wide at consulates. we have a lot of consulates in the city, infrastructure in the city. again we're a destination place so it wasn't so much that the officers did anything over and above other than making their presence felt among the critical infrastructure and consulates and holy places. it's similar to what we do anytime the national threat level is raised and around the holy days and we haven't had anything so far but it's good for training and when we have so many new officers and they're get familiar with the district. we're having a bank robbery series. these are the high jump robbers. they appear to be very coordinated both in their skills of jumping onto the counters an actually timing how long they're
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in these banks, so we encourage the public that if you see someone around the local branch or bank and don't belong and please call and we're working with the fbi and actively pursuing information and hopefully we have a resolution soon. >> great thank you chief. any questions for the chief regarding statistics and recent events? hearing none please call line item 4b occ personnel report. >> (inaudible). >> that's right. sorry about that. >> do the fdrb. >> sorry sergeant crudeo.
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name is sergeant john crudeo and with the office of internal affairs and with the officer involved shooting team. i'm going to talk about the officer involved sheeting investigations, our status report for the last quarter and the fdrb summary. the fire discharge review board -- we will start with that. the second quarter the board was convened on june 20, 2013 and we reviewed two cases that were concluded. the investigations were concluded. those case are listed here. the voting members are shown here consisted of deputy chief chin who was the chair, deputy chief loftus and smid t and beale and the members were vice president truman,
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director hicks was president. and staff from the risk management officer and sergeant [inaudible] -- >> [inaudible] >> sorry. with respect to officer involved shooting 13-004 this case was presented by inspector mcdonald and occurred in dublin california on the home of the officer involved. the officer was off duty and cleaning a weapon when he had an accidental discharge which struck his leg. he was in the process of repairing a weapon and had actually forgotten if he had loaded the weapon and struck his leg and recovering from the injury at this time. he is back in a limited capacity, and the finding on the case was not in policy. the other discharge we looked at was one occurred that in alfred lake in 2013. in
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this case a dog charged an officer who was investigating a man that he had seen that was unresponsive and slumped over -- he was slumped over the dog and the dog charged and the officer fired twice and that was determined to be in policy. those were the cases we reviewed and forwarded to through the fdrb to the chief. you have the reports i believe. they were submitted june 26. we will get into it in a moment and i prepared this last week and there are some changes and i will put you on your toes. in the second quarter and the open case from 2011 as you see in the copies that you have we have five cases open and the status
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is pending and close the helped report and finish off the investigative investigation and i got it for 005 and that is moving forward. good news. 2012 cases, the open cases are these six. 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006. those are open investigations and the other cases are 13-001, 002, 003, 004. that case was presented at the fdrb. that was the accidental discharge. 005, 006, 00 seven, so we have the two cases -- one
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case they mentioned closed. 13-004. a new case was started 13-007 and we now have the 17 cases open, but of course we have some changes. we had the da -- [inaudible] moving forward and we had progress with the da's office and good talks with them and we expect a number of letters coming out in short term. >> thank you sergeant and thank you for your work. when i was on the commission there were 10 times as many cases pending as now and thank you for your hard work. commissioners any questions for sergeant crudeo? hearing none i think you are free to go. >> i have question. thank you
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very much. whenever this comes up i always ask and according to who is the next commissioner and for the fire and discharge board and i haven't been there for a year plus and i am happy to do it if no one wants to. >> i haven't done it at all. >> do you want to go the next time and if you can't i will do it. >> whatever. i will defer to the schedule. >> i am glad you mentioned it. the next one is scheduled for september 19. it's penciled in now. i guess the administration bureau is just confirmed the chief's calendar and we have to make sure all who are going to be present are going to be present and we're holding a large block and this is a big one and we have a number of cases. >> then i won't go. >> sorry deputy chief. sorry sir. >> thank you. >> okay. so it's between me and you. >> we will figure out whoever
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is available. >> perfect. thank you sergeant. >> thank you. >> all right please call 4b. >> 4bocc discussion and review of recent activities. >> director hicks good evening. >> good evening president mazzucco and commissioners and members of the audience. last night the occ was also present at the national night out activities held at northern, mission and ingleside districts. last week attorney donna salazar did a role play on occ mediation to students at uc berkeley and next week i will provide the commission with the july monthly comprehensive statistical report and that concludes my report. >> thank you. commissioner truman. >> dr. hicks are those new glasses?
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>> let me see. >> they are my glasses. i normally wear "a" contact lens. >> they're very nice. >> thank you very much. >> make sure that gets in the minutes. >> director hicks is wearing glasses. >> thank you director. >> you are welcome. any other questions for the director? seeing don please call line item 4d -- actually c. >> commission reports, decision and commission reports and commissioner reports. >> i have nothing to report this evening commissioners. do you have anything to report? >> actually there is one report. the commissioner is back and i wanted to welcome you. >> i missed you guys too. >> and the commissioner was confirmed for additional four years and commissioner dejesus
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and dr. marshall are the originals. >> no, just dr. marshall. >> oh you're not. it's good to have you back petra. >> thank you very much. >> 4d. >> 4d and schedule announcements and items for consideration at future commission meetings. >> any announcements inspector monroe? >> next wednesday we will be here and the next week we are dark and we're in the community on the 28th on the gordon j lowell elementary school on clay street. 950 clay street and that will start at 6:00 p.m. and also september fourth we're holding the medal of valor ceremonies at the legion of honor and that starts at 6:00 p.m. >> great. before we move to commissioner chin give us a
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break down and the report from the youth commission. can you run through what other items we have scheduled? i would like to check on the date on the presentation of the police reserves and the presentation regarding the social media policy for the officers. >> well the reserves is put off because he is on vacation and it's not until september 25 and we won't have a meeting because of the medal of valor ceremony. >> we're continuing to work on that. i don't think it's ready to be calendared yet. >> okay. i know the city attorney was on vacation too and if we get those two items in september that would be great. commissioner chin. >> my only item and let the commission know and you probably seen the letter and ask for an agenda item at a future meeting so they can talk about the
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joint meeting that we historically held a year ago and where we are and we have that calendared for next wednesday night. that's it. >> anything further? well, without further adieu public comment on line items four, a, b, c, d? any public comment? hearing none. public comment is now closed. please call line item five. >> public comment regarding to closed session and whether to hold item seven in closed session. >> all right gentlemen we're going to go into a privileged personal matter and can't be in public and subject to the constitution and the police officer's bills of rights and it's confidential. any public comment? hearing none public comment is closed. please call the next item.
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>> next item is whether to hold the item in closed session. >> i move. >> second. >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. we're now moving >> so, good morning, everyone. my name is mark farrell. i'm the supervisor from district 2 here in san francisco. last year, thanks to the great leadership of our mayor ed lee,
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his office of housing in particular, olson lee and brian chu who are here with us today and my colleagues on the board of supervisors, together and with the voters of san francisco, we passed proposition c, the housing trust fund initiative, to create and approve affordable housing city-wide and to provide loans to assist with the down payment towards the purchase of homes here in san francisco. the passage of the housing trust fund was and is a huge win for all of san francisco and our residents as one step in the right direction towards continuing to solve our city's ongoing housing needs. we are here today to announce the launch of a renewed down payment assistance program for our first responders here in san francisco. statistics will say that the majority of all of our first responders live outside of our city limits, and i for one believe that our communities and our neighborhoods are strengthened here in san francisco by the men and women who put their lives on the line every single day for us as san francisco residents. those that are standing behind
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me here today, living here within our various neighborhoods of san francisco, we're not only safer on a day-to-day basis in our neighborhoods when our first responders live in our streets, but also when the next big one hits here in san francisco we need to be ready to be responding and be a resilient city as we strive to do here in san francisco. when proposition c was being crafted, i introduced an amendment to help our first responders remain here in san francisco, to provide them an opportunity to qualify for down payment loan assistance programs that were not previously available here in san francisco. before we had a down payment assistance programs only for our police officers that amounted to $20,000 down payment loan assistance. it wasn't effective. it isn't enough, and didn't make a meaningful difference. as a result, those funds largely went unspent and unused, and police officers continue to leave our city to find housing elsewhere. after the voters blessed
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proposition c last year, over the last few months i have been working with the mayor's office of housing. again, want to thank olson lee and brian chu for their strong involvement, in consultation with our first responders, their union membership, their union leadership as well as the general membership of their departments, as well as homeownership sf, a city-wide coalition of experienced nonprofit homeownership providers to craft an initial program that matched the intent of the voters while also taking into account the unique needs of our first responders here in san francisco. i believe that we have found a true middle ground today with all of the stakeholders that provides down payment assistance for our first responders and encourages them to move back into our city of san francisco. this next year is going to be a learning experience. we will continue to adjust the program over time with the goals of making sure that our down payment loan assistance programs in san francisco for our first responders is as
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expansive as possible and as effective as possible. we want these men and women living in our streets and in our neighborhoods. given the support for this program here today and the overwhelming demand that i have heard from our first responders, i am confident that we will have a success on our hands and a program that all san franciscans can be proud of. but i want to list a few of the qualifications from a high level perspective for our first responders in this program. they must be an active member of our police, fire, or sheriff's department. they must remain an active member for five years after qualifying for this program. they microsoft must not have owned a principal residence in san francisco the last three years and this must be their only principal residence moving forward. each household is limited to one loan that is 200% of ami for the household ~. and they also must qualify independently for a 30-year fixed rate loan so that we can ensure that our first
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responders that qualify and use this program remain in san francisco and are healthy financially. as a native san franciscan who grew up in the marina and whose family was deeply affected by the 1989 earthquake, i saw firsthand how integral our first responders are to making sure our streets and our neighborhoods are safer, again not just on a daily basis, but in a time of great crisis here in san francisco. this program is intended to truly help our city's first responders live in our neighborhoods and making our neighborhoods safer. it's a new policy priority here in san francisco based on vocation, not just income. and it's something that i believe the voters of san francisco have spoken for and something that we can all agree on as a priority for our great city. i want to thank everyone for taking the time to be here today as we get set to launch this exciting new program. and at this time really thank our mayor ed lee who not only was the leading charge behind
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proposition c and had the vision to make it a reality for san francisco, and put so much on the line to make sure we passed it last year, but to also say that his leadership has allowed this program and this first responders loan program to happen. and i want to thank him for his leadership, again, the leadership of his team and the mayor's office and brian chu and introduce once again our great mayor ed lee. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor farrell. it's my personal pleasure to work with you. not only have you done great things for your district, but for the city as well. it was kind of fun, you and i and our friends being there at the white house lawn yesterday celebrating the 2012 world series for the giants, and having president obama give us such great warm accolades. that will help us this season for sure.
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i am enthralled to join supervisor farrell here to launch our program focused on our first responders and help them afford a home here in the city. and for all of reasons that supervisor farrell listed. but i also want to take the opportunity to thank all the san francisco voters, our housing advocates working with business to help create this opportunity with proposition c last november. and giving us the privilege to implement it in the right way. and i know there's been good solid debate at the board of supervisors about how we go about doing this, but compromise has been reached. we understand they are giving all of us room to maneuver, to do the right things, have the flexibility that a pilot program takes. but the ultimate goal has been agreed on very strongly, and that is that we must have our first responders living in the great city of san francisco. our police officers, our
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firefighters, our sheriffs, to people that we look to to depend on the first critical hours when an event hits our city. we want them here. but also on a nonevent basis. i happen to live next door to somebody who is a member of nert, the neighborhood emergency response teams. and he is so proud of being able to be trained in our neighborhood in glenn park. by firefighters who know what they're doing, and just having that presence there in our neighborhood makes our neighborhoods feel stronger, feel confident that government is there with them and for them, and that the people who work in this city are there with them in case anything were to happen. that's the feeling that i think is represented by the launch of this program. and, so, the officers standing to the side and behind me, not only am i proud of the work that you all do on a daily basis, but we want you here all the time, 24/7. we want to live next door to the people who are caring about the city.
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just as we would for teachers, nurses and others who are also already participating in our first-time home buyer program as this program gets launched for our first responders. i think the city becomes incredibly more strong on an everyday basis on all city, each neighborhood basis when we have our first responders here. you know, the experience that we've had in the last few weeks at the airport again remind us how valuable our first responders are. i continue thanking them for putting their lives on the line and taking all the risks necessary to keep our neighborhoods and our city safe whether it's at the airport or in the recent fire that occurred this morning or all the other emergency situations we might face. at the same time on an ongoing basis, we need more of our city employees who work for our city living right here to take advantage of. that's why i'm proud of supervisor farrell who led the
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effort with supervisor avalos and others to make sure that our first-time home buying programs are programs for down payment assistance are working well and working to get more of our city employees to live in our great city. i'd be the first to say we haven't done everything that we can possibly do. even though i know there's some 42,000 units under construction already in our city already permitted and whether they're here along mid-market or they're in hunters point or they're in treasure island or in park merced, and i think we've done well to get a lot of projects going. we have to also deal with affordability. and that was my link to the success of the city, that while we become more successful, we're not leaving anybody behind. we're a city for the 100%. and we want everybody who wants to live here being able to be here. and in particular, those that we want to be here are going to help us recover in any kind of
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event. in an emergency event, i've been trained ever since my very first visit to new orleans after their disaster happened in katrina so know that we've got to recover better ~ to know. we've got to ask everybody today, we want you -- we ask you to live and work in our city. and if there is anything to happens, to be right there for people so we can recover extremely fast and well. this is the vote of confidence that our voters had in us, with the housing trust fund, and also working with us to make sure that we had a first-time home buyer program and the first responder's home buying program so we can locate everybody here who needed to be here to help us with a quick recovery if there is anything that should happen. this is the context in which we launched this program. we will adjust it along the way to make sure it continues to work effectively. and i'm gratified to be working with olson and his team of
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people that are community developers and housing developers to make sure this happens for everybody. thank you to our first responders, to our chiefs, our sheriff, our police chief, our firefighter -- fire department chief, and all of the rest of the employees here who will take this opportunity to live in our city as well as work for the greatest city that we have. and as we become more successful, we'll take care of others who want to live in this city as well. with that, i'll introduce olson lee who can explain everything from debt ratios to how this program works and all of the different financing schemes that we have to make sure it works well. olson lee. (applause) >> thank you. i really want to thank the mayor and the board of supervisors for their leadership, again, on the whole prop c effort and also the voters of san francisco. i will not go into a front end and back d
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