the understanding that they are drawing out of that reserve fund and need to build that fund back up to get it to the proper amount in order to be in that commission's policies should we adopt something today. and one issue that i think that i did find and one of the commissions and i incorporated the language in our, for the purposes of the language, although that you can remove it if you so desire, and one of them, that specifically acknowledged that the staff, when they leave have things that are cost and associated with that, and such as the pay out and the vacation time and the things like that and make sure that the reserve has enough money to pay for all of the staff leaving assuming that they will leave on the last day of that fiscal year, if you leave on the last day, a lot of places what you do is pay out of person and it will take a month or two to find a person to replace them and all of a sudden you balance it by not having the person there and that pays for the vacation time and given the fact that how they currently operate and how the position and is one that is established in a way where it could send any fiscal year and right now we have through the

next fiscal year and we are okay for now and it will likely end and if i leave at this point, you will be paying out and not necessarily have much money left in the account for that and so having a reserve fund that is set aside to make sure that you are paying out and not going into debt for the very end of the year is that something, and needed. and having said that, even if you went with the ten percent amount of the lowest, of the lafco you will actually have more than enough to cover my expenses of the departure should that ever occur. and so i will leave it at that. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner breed? >> thank you. i do understand that for some time, lafco has had a reserve, and we usually keep a certain amount of money in the reserve account, but, i guess, i am just not clear as to why we need to establish a policy with those minimum reserve, so since they are seems to always be a

reserve, that exists within the lafco budget. >> there is always been a reserve, probably because the first few years of lafco we got a money from the city and county of san francisco and it sat there being unspent and when i started working for lafco i believe that the reserve was somewhere up to 1 million dollars and we are now down to or we will be at the end of the fiscal here, $300,000, and we are doing it as a way to help the city and county, and many of those years were difficult budget years and we are not going to take any money we will spend ourselves down and every given year, even though we have the fund that will be going away as well, and unless we get an extension of the mou and we are going to get to a point where we don't have any money left in the reserve and so setting up the policy now, will establish and we continue to spend down which is what my goal will be to take the least amount that we need from the city and county until we get the reserve to a respectable level and by setting a policy, we will be establishing what that level

is, and because what i want to keep in mind is if we budget ourselves should there be a last m inthat needs to be done, we will have a reserve always in place to make sure that we can do the things at the end of the year that we will not be able to do otherwise, it givens us the flexibility and you are correct, up to now we have not had a need for policy but i could see one coming in the next couple of years and maybe not this upcoming year and a year or two after that and this establishment now will be helpful for us. >> for the next several years you will be living off of the reserve and moving down and we could, actually, be using a different source of funding to pay for lafco activity and here we will with this policy, and we will set a floor for what the minimum will be in our reserve. >> correct. >> as we move on to another source. >> and as we go back to the city and the county funding source, and as our funding source for lafco, we will have a reserve set in place, to protect ourselves in case there was an over run of cost for some reason.

>> and so, just for clarification, so, clearly, if we have say, a requirement, that we said ten percent of a certain dollar amount as a reserve, we need to go into those reserves how are we going to refill it, so that it goes back to what we expect to have as a policy for a minimum reserve? >> what you should do is spend it down in one year and with the following year's budget your goal will be to make sure that you have enough money left over, at the end of the year that you are balancing that out and you are saying, hey, we diped in $5,000 into the reserve and the following year you will have a line item that will be repaying the $5,000 is one way that you can do that. >> i mean, and i guess that i just, i just don't see that it is establishing a policy is really necessary. since we received our annual

allocation, and the goal is that if necessary, it does not need for this allocation for whatever purpose we will budget for that. >> correct. >> what you get is sometimes you will get something at the end of the fiscal year, occurring. and for example, my departure could end at the end of a fiscal year and once we are off of the current reserve being as flush as it is and we are down to the regular amount, you could end up if you don't have any reserve left over, not having the ability to pay the package to the staff when they leave, and you are all of a sudden going into debt and that is not good and there are ways for the county to loan money to lafco if it was so needed but having a reserve will keep that process from having to be discussed but to make sure that we are maintaining our own budget in ourselves and having the extra should there be an over cost run and like i said, the policy to set up one is up to the commission to decide. >> okay. >> okay. thank you for your report. and presentation, and we will go into the public comment, on

this item. regarding the san francisco reserve policy. and yes? good afternoon, once again. commissioners. >> and first, just to speak in favor of what your staff has recommended and i think that we are getting closer to game time with clean power sf and there are going to be needs for the staff and the contractors to do the work and some of that might be surprise work and i think that it makes a lot of sense what the director freed is proposing. and all right, i guess the executive officer, freed is proposing. and so, we would support that. and i would also like to red flag something for you. with regard to the funds that we get from the san francisco public utilities commission, i believe that even though it was not necessary for the lafco to do this, there was a memo of understanding or agreement formed with the puc about the use of the funds and the responsibilities and that i believe is up next year. and so now would be the time to

start exploring and making sure that that agreement stays in place. and so that we don't find ourselves next year, with the san francisco public utilities commission saying, well, guys, there is funds are not available to you any more, because the agreement is no longer in place. so, i just wanted to red flag that and so the folks are paying attention to it. >> thanks. >> thank you. any other member of the public that would like to comment come forward and seeing none, we will close public comment. and colleagues, i am actually, i know that we are going to go through maybe a couple of more years before we get to the end of the reserve, i actually would support a policy that would put a certainly percentage on it and i actually would be fine on the high end, 25 percent, or it is a small, and it is not a small fund, it is not a large fund, and so, to me having a policy of about 25 percent and which possibly

could be about 75,000 dollars, or $300,000 reserve, and actually, i am thinking as i am talking. so i am probably like a 15 percent reserve to me would make the sense and to me would be around $40,000, and i could probably live with something like that and we would not get to that until we actually have you know, utilized what is in the existing reserve and the reserve policy will kick in, when we have another sort of funding that would pay for the general lafco activity and so it would not be like we are living off of the reserve any more and the other four, i will live with a 15 percent and i am willing to go up and down on that and probably more up than down? >> commissioner breed? >> and i am okay with it. i just want to make sure that what we are trying to do, as we relate to developing a plan, and what we are trying to do as we relate to implementing that plan and a joining marin or all

of the things that we want to do and i don't want this to have an impact on the expenses necessary to see those things through. and so i guess, i am okay with establishing a reserve, but, i'm not okay with doing it at the expense of what we are trying to accomplish. i don't want that to create a difficulty for us. so that is the only issue that i will have, but i am open to the possibility of doing it. >> yeah. and i would be concerned about what happened to it and mr. freed will respond to that. >> yeah, the one thing to keep in mind is what we are talking about is the general fund reserve and not our cca fund reserve and they are two different accounts of money and while i, and i am looking at it here and i am realizing that the policy itself is not stated but if you stick it into the lafco budget section, it does not talk about the funds and it does not impact that in any way and this will be the general fund reserve, rather than the lafco cca fund and if we are going to set that up, can you

make sure that is clear in the language? >> thanks. >> okay, colleagues, very good. >> and o, i put on 15 percent, and i could go a little bit higher, or if the people don't want to have a reserve, let me know. and we will have it and i will motion that we put in this language, but a percentage that we will put in will be 15 percent. okay? and the other colleagues and we will take that without objection. >> actually, if you are wanting to approve the draft language that we put in he, miss miller is saying that we might want to establish one in the draft forms and the 1.51 is establishing the annual budget and might want to say when establishing the lafco budget and not the cca fund, and then we could adopt the draft language that is in here with the 15 percent number added in and i think that will be addressed to commissioner breed's concerns.

>> okay and this will effect the next fiscal year and currently we have the lafco for the next fiscal here is how much? >> and when i looked at it, and two or three months ago, we were in the 350 range, i believe, and that is, you know, we probably spent that down a little bit and so my estimate is that we will end to $300,000 to $310,000 in the reserve account, and if we establish this today we are above the policy and i would not be putting any warnings to you, probably at all next year, it will be the year after that when we are setting up the budget that we want to make sure that we are balancing things correctly. >> and so by adding this language we are not setting up a reserve on that amount of money already? >> we are setting up that we have an amount and we are meeting that and we have more than what we need in that account and so as we are moving forward, what i will imagine and this is just thinking ahead and not out loud. is not this upcoming fiscal year, the budget has been

decided the following fiscal year, we probably are going to need to get some money from the city and county of san francisco and maybe we don't ask for the three. and the 300,000 is still caping that reserve and so we are spending it down appropriately and we have the amount correct in the reserve, and accepting the full amount and balancing the things out. >> according to the language and the majority of the vote of the commissions, the money can't be used and so there will have to be an actual vote for anything to go below. >> i will read into the record the language, 1.65, when establishing the annual budget, lafco shall at a minimum hold, 15 percent of the annual budget, or enough to cover costs for the department staff

severance pay whichever is greater and i think that there is another language to add. >> yeah. and that first sentence is when establishing its annual lafco budget. >> okay. >> when establishing its annual lafco budget, it shall hold in the reserve account, 15 percent or enough to cover the cost of the severance pay, whichever is greater by the majority vote of the commission shall the money be used with the understanding that it will be replenished in the future. >> okay. so the colleagues, we can take that without objection, and great. thank you. >> and actually, that is a very responsible for us to do. and so. >> item seven, executive officer's report. >> and i wish you all a happy pride weekend. >> happy pride to you as well. >> public comment on the item number seven? >> general public comment, is the next item.

>> yeah. great. >> and just, using the opportunity of the executive officer's report because it is an action item, eric brooks, representing san francisco green party, our city. and san francisco and the clean advocates of the co-coordinator of the choice and on the ab 2145, issue, you might remember that you and the executive officer prepared a letter to your almost to send to sacramento, assembly members about ab 2145 and now that ab 2145 has changed the coalition has to once again, to the senate, get a whole new series of opposition letters. and we could conceivablely ask you in july for this and however, the senate assembly will be taking this up in very early august again. and so if there is a way for the before the july meeting, for you to do an action item and so that you, as the chair

can work with mr. freed to send a new opposition letter to incorporate the new problems with the bill, and that will be good and so, you know, i will leave this open to mr. freed to make any recommendations, and what i would strongly recommend that we try to get a letter of opposition, very quickly to the senators, and if you get it to me, we have been in the conversation with senator leno and he wants to see such letters right away and so if you get it to us we can make sure that he sees it. >> thanks. >> thank you, i appreciate that and if we choose to right a letter, i want to just to state what our position will be, based on the legislation, and so it could be something, and a little bit different, but i think that what we want to see as an out come and it will be what i think that will be the most appropriate and any other member of public that would like to comment. >> seeing none, we will close public comment. and our next item is general public comment.

>> item number 8, public comment. >> any member of the public that would like to comment on any item related to lafco purview? and seeing no one come forward, we will close public comment, and or next item? >> item 9, future agenda items. >> colleagues, any future work for lafco? >> seeing none, we will go into public comment? seeing no member of the public come forward. we will close the public comment and our next item? >> ten, adjournment. >> colleagues, we are adjourned happy pride weekend to all. >> great.

>> rise please for the pledge of allegiance.

>> mr. president, i would like to call the roll, please? >> please do. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus is en route. >> commissioner loftus? >> here. >> and commissioner wong? >> here. >> mr. president, we have a quorum and also, the chief of police gregory suhr. >> welcome to the wednesday, july 2, 2014, police commission meeting, you see that we have a pretty wide agenda and we are moving into the summer session and we actually may have some other days off due to vacation schedules and training schedules, but welcome. this meeting is going to be a very positive meeting. we are going to have after general public comment, a presentation by officer jason johnson, regarding a trip that the police department arranged and i will leave it for him to tell us more about it but it is something that the police department with be proud.

>> without further adieu, call item one. >> general public comment. >> the public is welcome to aaddress the commission. address the commission as a whole. on the commission rules of order, during the public comment, neither the police or the personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public. but may provide a brief response. limit your comments to three minutes. >> it is time for general public comment. >> >> good evening, president mazzucco, and commissioners and

chief suhr and director hicks, i am the president of the san francisco police station. and i wanted to appear before you tonight, basically to comment on an article johna, lamb, and he was granded a list, and the officers who have fired their weapons and who have been involved in officer involved shooting since 1990. in his article he makes references to the number of sfpd officers, who have fired their weapons in the past 24 years. and he intends to betray our members as being somehow trigger happy, nothing could be further from the truth. what he does not touch on in the article, some of these discharges were accidental or unintentional and tragically some of these were officers who had taken their own life due to

depression, or ptsd. >> he also does not touch on the fact that the vast majority of these discharged were by officers who had put themselves in harm's way and were performing heroic acts, protecting the lives of the residents of this city, or, simply protecting themselves, from suspects who had fired first responsible them or who had assaulted them. >> my name is on this list from an incident that occurred in 2002 while he was serving on a federal task force and i can tell you that this is the last thing that a san francisco police officer or any police officer wants to put themselves through. it should be noted that they are investigated by criminal and administrative investigators and also, the district attorney conducts a

thorough investigation, independent of the police department. the review process is thorough, and each incident gets reviewed by the san francisco police department command staff up to and including the chief and the commission is kept advised of the product of these investigations. in the vast majority of these incidents involving a criminal suspect, the members of the sfpd act $within policy, for the size of our department and the size of our city, for the date, time and population that exceeds over 1 million, the number of officer involved shootings in san francisco, is below the national average. that is due to the professionalism of the members and the training that each one of those receives. >> i wish that mr. lamb had touched on any one of those issues. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, i am here

before you as a resident of san francisco and also a former officer in the 146. i am employed by the fire department, as a fire engine paramedic. and i worked for the city as a paramedic, since 1976, i am not here as a representative of the fire department i am not speaking on their behalf. we have a situation where the ambulance service is arriving at a critical point, i would call it, and that is we don't have enough of them and it is more important, what is called the medic to follow which is the situations that effect both the police department as well as there are no vehicles available. each of you has a document which i have prepared in advance and so you have it. >> yes. >> just to be as dramatic as possible and to drive home the

point is that, if somebody a police officer, shot, stabbed or suffers some short of internal injury if you get shot in the arm i can control it and stabilize you and you probably will do fine, if it is internal injuries, there is very little, that the paramedic can do in the field in an immediate sense there are a few things that we can do, what we need is a rapid immediate transport to a trauma center, with a trauma surgeon and that is the bottom line. and so the problem that we have and the reason that i am here for you is that your appointees of the mayor and i want to ask you on our behalf, the paramedics of the city and the fire department and if you have any influence over the mayor, to lobby for us, because, we presented a plan, to solve, some of the problems, with the lack of ambulances. we asked for 9.8 million dollars, along with the

comprehensive plan and we got 3 million, and it is simply not going to get us to where we need to be and hanging over our heads is a sort of that we are not meeting certain mandates by the state of california for example we should be doing 80 percent of the total 911 calls and we are barely making it past 71 or 72 percent to the extent that you have the input for the mayor of san francisco if you could lobby on our behalf for the additional money above the 3 million that he is giving us. we would be in your debt, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and i want to thank you for the packet and thank you for the hard work with the paramedics that serve the fire department and you are true heroes out there we do appreciate it. >> thank you, it is very kind of you. >> any further public comment? >> hearing none, the public comment is now closed.

>> the chief's report, and and chief, good evening, >> very quickly, jason has a presentation that i think that everybody is interested in, and i made the report on the violent crime is down 13 percent, and part one crime is down one percent, and we are still experiencing difficulties with theft, auto theft is up, 12 percent burglary is up seven percent and grappling what we believe to be issues with 109 and the early release of pretty much property of the criminals from the jail and then the folks refend and we are aware that the violent crime is down and i can't say enough about the partnership and the

community and the jobs program from the mayor's office and the work of the unified school district and the drop out rate, that has us on a half year paced that if we did, do as well with the second half of the year, it might leave us with the lowest homicide total since we have been keeping track since 1950 and we are at 14 homicides for the year and we did percent one last friday. and in the station, valley, actually on a playground and a playground that we had schedule to start taking on the officers as we have, at garfield playground, in ashley, and modeled on jj who is going to speak shortly in being in the willie maze clubhouse and we are going for go forward with that and obviously there were children present when this shooting occurred, and this city is putting a ton of resources in there through the department of public health. and to see if we can't get the kids to a better place and

certainly any playground in any community will be a safe haven and so we will work with the mayor's office and other folks to make sure that we climb that playground for the kids. the officers were doing the best that they could and this is over the whole weekend, 70 intoxication arrests and another 75 went to centers and felony arrests and assaults and violations and we did have a shooting at one of the venues of one of the out lying stages and that, young person was hit in the hand, and that suspect is in custody, and there were 11 misdemeanor arrests and we recovered three firearms. and so, and the entire command staff and some of the members of the commission, participated

in what was possibly the biggest pride parade that i remember, so, all in all, a lot of police work got done, and a lot of fun was had by a lot of people working with the mayor's office to make next year's pride that much safer. >> with that i will close out my report and invite up officer jason johnson and his able assistant. to do a presentation on a pretty spectacular trip. >> i would also apologize in advance for officer johnson, not being in the uniform but he is here on his own time, as he is a new father. so he is off on family leave. >> the information with the boy's club. >> he better not be. >> i was actually had my newborn son and i kind of hurry to make and... >> just today?

>> yeah. >> no he was born on march 10th. >> okay. >> and i understand. >> yeah. >> and i have been there. >> congratulations. good evening, everybody, and we are back from the trip. the trip of a major success. i knew that it would be impactful, but not to the extent and i did not know that it would be coming back and doing what we are doing now. and so, some of the kids like, i believe that i told you before, have never been on a plane. and not even really been out of san francisco. and so, we flew from here to germany. and we got to germany and you know the kids, be in germany and calling everybody and we are in germany and we were there for about 6 hours and then we flew from germany to