commissioner, bothers me. and to want to ago ahead and answer daize this and talk about it, i will talk about it. but i will share my views as i am sharing my views now. and you will not read about it in the chronicle, you will hear it from me, right here. >> thank you. >> commissioners? >> i just want to reiterate that i think that we should agendaize the issue not behind us just going forward, regarding what our process will be and clarity for us, and clarity for the department and i think that will be healthy. >> chief? >> i want to reassure the commission that in this instance we did follow the

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>> government audit and oversight committee government audit and oversight committee supervisor david campos will be joining us shortly. i also hear a rumor that supervisor mar maybe here as well to talk about another item. the court of the committee is erica. hello erica. and i would like to thank our friends at sfgtv. madam clerk please read the

announcements. >> the clerk: please turn off all cell phones. >> please read item no. 1. >> would you like me to call items 1 and 2 together. >> yes. >> item 1. item 130762: memorandum of understanding, amendment no. 5 - san francisco police officers' association units p-1 7 p-2aa]1307621.sponsor: mayorordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 5 to the 2007-2015 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police officers' association units p-1 7 p-2aa by implementing specified terms and conditions of employment for fys 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018. 7/23/13; assigned under 30 day rule to the government audit and oversight committee.the chair will entertain a motion to refer this item to the full board as a committee report for consideration on september 17, 2013. >> item 1. sf 621234 item no. 2. item 130763: [memorandum of understanding, amendment no. 5 - san francisco police officers' association unit p-2bb]1307632.sponsor: mayorordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 5 to the 2007-2015 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police officers' association unit p-2bb by implementing specified terms and conditions of employment for fys 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018. 7/23/13; assigned under 30 day rule to the government audit and oversight committee.the

chair will entertain a motion to refer this item to the full board as a committee report for consideration on september 17, 2013. item no. 2. sf 631234 >> thank you very much. good morning martin. you may present. >> good afternoon, martin brand department of human resources. we present to you two contract extensions for the san francisco police officers association. these contracts present agreements that we'll start staffing the police department recruitment efforts. we will be, we've negotiated lower start rates for the incoming recruits for the classification which has allowed us to start a class of 50 recruits in october, early october. and we'll be staffing aggressively and reflected in your budget that the board passed earlier this year. we expect to have three classes in the next 12 months. we are very

happy that we can do that and we can do that in part because the agreement that we bring to you has lower start rates for these individuals who will be coming in which represents a 10 percent lower start and as the employees go through the process of going through steps, it does offer a lot of savings. you will see from the comptrollers record that you will see a savings and now extended to 3 years to 2018, but in short-term we'll see a saving in 2013, 14 and 15, 16 and we have a very modest cost-of-living increase. 1 percent in 16 and 2 percent in 17 and 18 as measured by the

department of labor. we believe it's a sustainable model for not only this department but others in the city and allows us to meet the rates. >> when you say lower start rate, you are talking about salary. what about the lateral transfers? >> that would, the lateral transfers, it depends on what step they come in at the department. i do believe they go to the academy. if they come in as a police officer, i believe they do go to the academy and start at that step, if they start as an officer in the command staffcious they would not be affected by the lower start rate. >> let me clarify my question, if you are a lateral transfer are you getting a pay raise, are you getting an increase or coming in at the level that you left. >> that's a good question. i'm

going to ask the city manager. >> good morning. steve ponder. my understanding is they come in if they are a full standing police officer, they would have training. they wouldn't go up or down. it would be something approximately to what they are earning at their former jurisdictions. >> thank you so much. is that it? >> that's the presentation. >> one quick question because just for the public's sake, i know this item came up. if you wouldn't mind sharing with us briefly what the changes were? >> absolutely. the parties and city and negotiators and the poa negotiators reached a tentative agreement back in about july, i believe, june, may, june. and what happens once you reach an tentative

agreement, the association receives a board process and we filed as with the board we were scheduled with the committee and before the committee hearing, at least before the full board hearing, the matter was voted down by the membership of the police officers association. we went back and we revisited their concerns, actually the final agreement has less money in it, their concern was the sick leave cash out program that had a set date in the first version of 2017 version. they asked that sunset date be pushed out to 2018 and took 1 percent less in the cola to make-up for that. it was a little bit of tweaking. it did not get better. which is also nice to

bring forth the principles that you passed your agreements that was passed overwhelmingly. >> thank you very much. let's open up for public comments on these items 1 or 2. you have 2 minutes. you will hear a soft bell which will indicate that you have 30 seconds remaining. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. when i looked at today's schedule, these two first items struck me as being outside the jurisdiction of this committee. the reason why i feel that way is that the name of the committee is audit and oversight and even though there was questioning now just now of the details, i feel that these two items maybe should be better heard in budget and

finance. now if i remember my schedule correctly, budget and finance only meets one. i think under the current state of san francisco, it should meet more than once. so i find this kind of interesting that this committee meets twice, but yet, budget and finance meets only once. it's kind of obvious when it mentions what's up for consideration on september 17th. i think anybody in this room would know that's being done for expediency sake. just as a matter for the record, i would like to say that i feel that items 1 and 2 should not be heard in this committee and that it is being heard in this committee for the wrong reason and that i think budget and finance should meet twice, not only once. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to

direct the city attorney. would you address the appropriately about items 1 and 2 being heard. >> these items were proprietary appropriate --ly referred to this committee. they shall be referred labor agreement. so gao has an will continue to consider items like this. >> perfect, thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak to this item? seeing none. public comment is closed. just for members of the public we've been asked to consider this report for september 17th. motion was made and second by supervisor cohen and without objection, it passes. okay. thank you. next item. madam

clerk could you please call item no. 3 and 4. >> the clerk: item 130601:agenda[hearing - civil grand jury report - "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation"]1306013.hearing on the recently published 2012-2013 civil grand jury report entitled "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation." clerk of the boardd6/10/13; referred to department.9/3/13; received and assigned to the government audit and oversight committee. >> the clerk: sf 611234 sfitem 130602:[board response - civil grand jury report - "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation"]1306024.resolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 2012-2013 civil grand jury report entitled "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation" and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through his department heads and through the development of the annual budget. clerk >> the clerk: sf 611234 sf 21234 >> thank you very much. today we are hearing the grand jury reports beginning with reports that require response from the board of supervisors. on each of these items, the representative from the civil grand jury will have 10 minutes to present their report and we'll hear from the city department to respond to the report. after the city

department responses, the civil grand jury will have 5 minutes to make any concluding remarks. for each report there is a come pan companion response. please note that in responding to findings we must either agree or disagree with the finding. if we choose to disagree we must provide an explanation. for recommendations we have four different options on how to respond. the recommendations has been implemented. the recommendation has not been implemented, the recommendation requires further analysis on the recommendation will not be recommended. we have the staff here to join us with these efforts. thank you. with that introduction let's begin our first report. we have miss maria martinez and hilary from the civil grand jury to present. good morning. thank you for joining us.

>> hi. i'm the fourth person from the former grand jury. good morning madam chair, supervisor tang and other members. the jury thanks you for holding this hearing for "are the wheels moving forward?" frup for the 2010 sharing the roadway from conversation to conversation. before i pass the podium to my colleague, i would like to acknowledge the presence of the other grand jury members from 2012-2013 and members of the current sitting grand jury. now i would like to call up my colleagues maria martinez who is the chair of this report and hilary. >> welcome to all the members, past and present. after this civil grand jury report, i believe we have four city departments that will be presenting their responses.

>> good morning, supervisors. san francisco's landscape is changing in an exciting and dangerous way. in 2010 the board of supervisors passed the bicycle mode share to 20 percent by 2020. since that time the city has added miles of bike lan and bike lane infrastructure which has helped increase the rider ship we see on our streets. in this report, "are the wheels moving forward?" the civil grand jury did a follow up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway from confrontation to conversation. while our jury acknowledges that the city is making in roads to promote cooperation and understanding between bicyclist and motorist and pedestrians more needs to be

done with education and enforcement. hardly a week goes by that we don't see a bicycle related story make head lines and often involving and accident. this is a topic on many people's minds. our leaders must do more to enhance the safety of our streets. first and foremost the jury believes it's important to set a goal. in this case the bicycle fatality and incidents. we ask that the city adopt a bicycle safety agreement. based upon the mayor, sftd and advisory committee, this idea requires further analysis. to clarify the civil grand jury agreement is to bring the city department's together to collaborate on how to city

should address enforcement issues and give sf p.d. more support. as the sf mta response and locations for targeted enforcement for engineering counter measures. the recommended safety enforcement campaign would be a high profile campaign that will put all users on high alert on conduct and suffer consequences if not honored. both the mayor and sf mta that the steering committee could reconsider state of the issues with the possibility of setting goals. this injury does not believe this is a strong enough commitment. this injury urges

the board of supervisors to pass a resolution requesting the creeks -- creation of a bicycle safety agreement task force to advance this recommendation further. the jury recommended that the sf p.d. establish a comprehensive bicycle training program for it's new recruit officers as well as on going bicycle training in its continuing education program for police officers. while the sfpd has bicycle training that includes traffic enforcement instruction, only 1 hour is dedicated to bicycle enforcement. given the increase in bicycle rider ship and increasing numbers, the jury believes more robust and single topic class needs to be implemented. a stand-alone class to review california vehicle code and traffic codes as related to bicycling is

essential to training and also stresses to officers the importance of this issue. the jury would like to acknowledge the sfpd and their commitment to update it's safety video modeled on chicago's traffic enforcement for bicycle safety. it is crucial that this version include all california vehicle codes and traffic codes related to bicycles. the sfpd expects to complete and include this video in existing officer training program with a completion date of january 2014. since this injury -- jury has completed it's termed, we expect this to be