information backyard between the ram and the faster your programs are going to be run. if the hard drive can be cared the long-term america and you, store documents and movies >> the internal hard drives allow you to expand the hard drives. once you get on line with your expenditure it rewards or requires wifi and it allows you to connect without wiser the internet you have to have wiersz. the touch pad is how you send messages to the computer. the part of the computer is the o s is the operating systems.

there are multiple operating systems available bus the most importantly is making astonish and windows. the major dividends can be boiled down to purchase. and making astonish is the programs you'll notice when you go do into the story e store they're more expensive they have you video editing and puc's towards office use and gaming things like that >> all those exponent are what you said into 3 general models the desktop the laptop and the tablet. the desktop is the home computer that you are desktops are good because their lower costs the downside once set up they can't go anywhere >> it's not something you're

going to move around the other consideration is the screen side are you can have a larger laptop. a laptop is a potential computer and all the exponents are combined in a smaller passage. the laptop you can take to school and it's mobile. >> the laptop can travel with you but you should carefully consider how much travel you're going to do. >> the laptop are heavy they can have higher revolution if you want something small and a light hallway the table is new thank you it's lighter and has longer battery life. >> tablets are powerful but

their abilities are more limited than the laptop and their nor for the internet or watching videos and laptops over word progressing and typing documents and using spreadsheets things like that. >> to figure out what expenditure is a good fit for you, you need to plan on what you want to do. >> there's a lot of things like e-mail and skype and being on facebook in fact, by you see seniors who are creating websites and doing graft design and having photograph. >> what programs will you be using or are you a casual suffer would you like to take it with

you around town. >> it's great typing short e-mails by nothing extensive on a be tabltd. >> i need to be able to buy a good all around desk for $400 but if you very specific he needs the cost can go up. you want 2 gig hurts and at least 4 gigs of ram. those store your videos and documents. if you're looking for a laptop try them out in the store as they have any touch pads >> there are different types of of mouse's and there's voice activation. >> once you have an idea of

what you need be sure to shop aaron and compare on line and look at the mustards website for refurnished computers that come with a warrant. and they offer computers for much, much less. purchasing a computer should not be securey you can slejtd/select a system that can get you because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and

safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad

impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant

introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the

heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat. . >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it.

. >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags. let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job?

is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up.

. >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by

the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their

toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away. the raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. that's quite a sight. >> yeah, that sounds interesting. >> i really appreciate you coming by and it was a so, same time next week? well, of course.

[pledge of allegiance] >> mr. president, i would like to call roll. >> please do. >> >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman. >> here. >> commissioner marshall? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus? is en route. commissioner loftus? >> here. >> commissioner wang is excused. >> commissioner malaro. present. >> we have a quorum and with us this evening is the chief of police, suhr. >> and thank you very much inspector monroe and commissioner dejesus is making her way down, welcome to the wednesday, august 6, 2014, san

francisco police commission meeting, and this is we always say is our favorite meeting, we are out in the community, and we usually do our hearings at city hall, but usually the last wednesday of the month, we go out to the community, involving each district station, we have ten district stations and so we moved this a week because we have a lot of commissioners on vacation or in trial. so we are excited about this and obviously this week it is mission station and captain are the main events here and so our meeting will be different and we also do something different at our community meetings and actually have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they do in their day jobs. and so we will start from the left to work the way to the right. tonight special meeting because we have our brand new commissioner with us tonight for the first time and i would

like you to welcome sonia melara. >> she is the newest member of the commission and she served on several commissions here in san francisco and we talking earlier that she is in my opinion is a native and came to san francisco when she was 14 years old and educated here and has both her bachelor's and masters degrees and on the faculty of san francisco state and she is the specialist social worker, and she works at the saint francis hospital and she just a great, great edition to our commission, and she really really has fondness for the city, her city and so, without further adieu, welcome and tell the commission about yourself and the audience. >> well, i thank that you have done quite a bit of good job, saying what i do and where i have done by presently i run, a saint francis hospital, i ran

the valley services xh is the program that provides visitation for the children and the parents referred from the family court. and these families are referred to cause different things,, and domestic violence, and i have worked for many years, and one of the issues that i have focused on is in the area of the domestic violence and so your problems here are a lot of my opinions on this commission related to those issues, and as, the president said, i am on the faculty of san francisco state university. and i am married and have no children. and only a bird, and her name is stella. so, but, what i tell people is that at the very, you know, i can leave my child in a cage

and nobody will call child protective services. so, that is pretty much is my little history, and. okay, thank you, dr. marshal. >> dr. joe marshal. i run a program called the boys club and my previous to that i was in the san francisco unified district as a teacher and an administrator for a number of years. and i was the assistant principal at this school for four years. and so this is really surreal, and there are a lot of things in this auditor um and a lot of assemblies and a lot of kids and great to be back with what we spent the time with. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner turman. >> good evening, my name is joyce turman and i am the vice president of the police commission and i am a former district aid resident and i lived right up the street for a

long time and i now live on potrero hill and i am a partner at the law firm of read smith where i am the group leader of the labor and employment department. and i specialize in single playing in a different class action and litigation and for three years now and it has been a great time serving i am glad to be here this evening and yourp concerns with the police department, so thank you so much. >> thank you. >> commissioner dejesus? >> i am dejesus, and i am a native san franciscan and i have been on the commission for quite a while. and my day job, and i am an attorney and that is it, i live in the neighborhood and i live up there and that is it. and commissioner loftus. >> hello, my name is susy

loftus and i am also a native san francisco and my day job is actually just recently to return to the attorney general's office for the state of california where i work in the division of law enforcement. most recently i worked in the bay view hinter's point who have been exposed to violence and consider to break the cycle and help the kids heal and so i am raising my three daughters and i always make this mistake and my husband and i are raising our three daughters in case, in fairness, in case you are watching darling and we live in the out in the outer sunset. >> thank you. >> and i have been on the commission less time than dr. marshall and commissioner dejesus and i am also a native san franciscan and we have raised the children in the city and my career and i have been an assistant district attorney for ten years and an assistant united states attorney for nine years before going into private practice and i am a partner at

a firm and it is the best part of being on the commission is coming out to the community and we are looking forward to hearing from you and what your concerns are, and without further adieu, we are going to move right into our agenda, and ladies and gentlemen there are quick items that we will handle and in the beginning we will go through the consent calendar and the quick reports and then we will have the public comment after the native attraction, where captain, one of your native sons give us a report. >> let's start with line number one. >> we have spanish translation. >> item one is proval of minutes and action and for the meetings of april 23rd and june 4th, and june 11th, and june 25th and july 2, 2014. >> commissioners you have the minutes in your packet are there any corrections or changes that you think that we should make? hearing none, do i have a motion?

>> move approval. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> move on to line item number two. >> consent calendar and request and approval accept donation of $7500 from miss karen fireman for the sfpd mounted unit and request for approval for accept the donation of $6,000 from the san francisco police officers association for the use of the sfpd wilderness program and also a request for approval to accept a donation of $4,000 from the supporters of the sfpd wilderness program and for use by the sfpd wilderness program and a request for approval to accept five canine bullet resistive vests and valued at approximately $7500, and cover your k9 from the sfpd canine unit. >> we have to approve any gifts over a certain amount, i think that it is 25, when people make gifts to the police department, as you can see there are a lot

of memos in the packet from the commanding officers and we get the gifts for the dogs and the horses and so i want to just tell everybody thank you for those gifts, it supplements what we do on the budget for the horses and the mounted unit and the dogs, and the horses and the dogs are the favorite members of the department and i know that the chief would like to have more of them and because the dogs bring in a lot of money. have you looked at this and reviewed it? and are there any questions or concerns? >> hearing none, do i have a motion to accept these matters on the consent calendar? >> move approval. >> yeah, do i have a second? >> all in favor? >> aye. >> that is great. before we move on to line item number three, i would like also to introduce our patrol special police officers that are here tonight, iron who is the leader, and fits who is one of the patrol specials they are in the back and i asked them to come to the meetings because they work through the police commission, and they are

private enterprise that actually they own the beats in your neighborhood and they are paid by the merchants by their service and they look similar to the police department and i want everybody to see them and if there are any questions about the service that they provide, they are here tonight and thank you guys for coming. >> line item number three, please? >> 3a, reports to the commission, discussion, chief's report, review of recent activities. >> chief is fresh from the beyonce concert. he is ready to go. >> actually i missed the concert. but i understand that you might be able to hear. based on the complaints. so, any way, it is a pleasure for me to be here and it is a pleasure to be back in the mission. and i spent six years of my time in the police department here in the mission and it was

absolutely one of my favorite times and if there is a community that teaches you your trade, it is the mission district and so everybody, there is plenty of input and plenty of back and forth and i think that the district now is certainly a safer place than it was back in the mid 90s, when i was here. and i think that now, with it and it is in great hands, going forward and i am sure that you will hold them accountable or you should based on what you did for me for six years. any way, i am going to be brief and then i am going to give it to dan, but, the city wide out look on crime right now, violent crime is down significantly, we did suffer enough homicides in june and july, one of those homicides occurred in the mission district on saturday july 19th. that suspect is in custody. so, that case is cleared, and you will be prosecuted for the offense.

homicides, year to date though are down tremendously. although, we sadly have suffered 23 homicides, in san francisco. relating that to 2007, and 2008, both of those years about this exact same time we were around 60. and so, it is, we are going in the right direction, i think that one of the reasons that we are there, again, that we can talk about it during the summers, is our engagement of young people and it is now, we are now doing 7,000 summer jobs, through the mayor's office. 300 of those jobs, are through the police department and when you think that the summer job idea started back in 1997, in the mission district, and we called it the queen team, and they worked, and it was all privately funded and i see the people over there and he was good for $1,000 of that at the time. and there were, i think, ten or 12 kids and that is all of the money that we could pay, i kicked in a little a bunch of

the merchants did, and all of the kids did the clean up and that is mushroomed to 300 kids and we actually have the police officers in the department right now that were the original clean team members and so it totally works, and now, as we see the homicide rate half of what it was, just five or six years ago. and getting the kids to graduate high school, and the child ready or college ready, it is totally the way that it should be, and how we are back there on that beat and that is committed to educating our young people. so, with that, we are going to graduate all of those young people from their summer jobs and get paid this friday, and then hopefully back to school, year after year after year and we consider, we are going to be doing it again and again. we are hosting the jz, beyonce concert here at san francisco at at&t last night we had a few auto burglaries but that went

without event and it was well attended and we are getting a lot of noise complaints and hopefully that will not be the case this year, last night was national night out, in san francisco and including in the mission district it was terrific to see so many kids out and everybody together and the city agencies and young people and it really was a perfect night, traffic we continue to do our piece of the enforcement, education and engineering and enforcement and education, and being something that the police department can have an impact on, citations are up better than 50 percent, including here in the mission district and some of the engineering is actually coming in as we just put in one of the first new signal lights at yorba and sunset boulevard, where unfortunately a fatal collision had occurred and two injury accidents just in the calendar year, 2014, so the message has been heard loud and clear we have to get a better

handle on the pedestrian and traffic safety. and we want to keep our focus on violent crime as a police department and as the 300 officers that were short right now, come back, you will see all of those beat officers, bicycle officers, and school officers, and park officers and hopefully that will also give us a chance to make a bigger impact on property crime, which is up and that is my concert refrain is do not leave your belongings in your car in plain view. if there is nothing in the car, and all of the burglar will go to the next thing and if you are going to use your cell phone, try to step into an old phone booth to do it and don't just walk down the street and not pay attention and fall victim to someone taking it. and although we are better this year than we were last year, our cell phone robberies are still a problem across the country. so i am going to yield the rest of