days. and that time, i was electronically monitored through all of my walk of every day and i was also home detained after 9:00 p.m., in that time, i got my high school diploma, received an internship through the sheriff's department and have now been working for three years. and so, this does work for low level criminals. it has nothing like, i don't see them letting a murderer go on home detention, i don't see them letting anybody that has 3-d uis with may hem going on electronic monitoring but for those low level criminals that do deserve the second chances it does work. >> i want to thank you for sharing your story. and very inspiring and congratulations. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is kevin pull son and i am assigned to the community programs which means that i manage the deputies and the men and women who manage

the electronic monitoring system for the department. >> i wanted to say just a few short things, one, i want to make sure that we know that in addition to knowing where people are, we also have the ability to monitor their alcohol consumption, and so we know whether they are putting themselves more at risk. and the other thing that i wanted to mention is to make sure that we know that this is a relationship that we do electronic monitoring and not just putting the person, or a person in an electronic jail. but, it is a calculus of interviewing the person and working with the person to provide them the resources that they need to successfully reintegrate with the community. and this means providing them educational services, and substance abuse services, and a variety of violence interventions so that we give them the tools to succeed in the community at the same time as letting them know that we are watching them and working with them for their success. thank you. >> thank you. captain. thank you for what you do.

>> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is nick and i am the director of the legal services in jails in san francisco and i am an attorney and i am also an ex-offender. and one of the things that i have been working here for 15 years that mike hennesse pointed out to me when i started working here is people who go to court from outside from the street, usually stay out of jail. i was one of those lucky people many years ago. i came from a family who was able to bail me out of jail and i was able to get out, and eventually get my life together and show the court that i was worthy of staying out, part of that was the color of my skin and part of that was the socio economic family that i came from, the majority of the people in our jail don't have those resources. they don't have the opportunity to bail out and we can and then on the other issue that i want to talk about was the district attorney brought up the people

with prior serious crimes. now, someone could have a prior serious crime from 20 years ago, not have money, and not be able to get out of jail. if for something minor today. whereas someone can have a prior serious crime and a current serious crime and have money and still get out of jail, and so, it really does, even though the public safety is a big issue, it comes out to people with money are able to get out of jail and the people without money aren't and it comes down to that simple and do we want to keep the people in jail, solely because they don't have the resources? thank you. >> thank you, very much. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. again, i want to thank everyone for their thoughts and comments, and it is clear, that all of us even if we have disagreement, you know, we all agree that the main thing here is that we want to maintain the

public as safe as possible and in the process of making sure that we explore the alternatives to incarceration and i think that it really is about striking the right balance. and we have a motion, and to amend the ordinance, and we also have to include in the amendment, the annual report. and i want to turn it to supervisor yee. >> thank you very much. >> i really, i guess that the last speaker that just spoke, hit the point very clearly to me, in that, with this is going to do is continue to look at vehicles to even out the playing field for everybody regardless of what socio economicks that people come from. and i, again as i said earlier, i think that this is just a little too... for us to help people get back to their lives,

and so, with the annual evaluation reporting to the board of supervisors, and you are even stronger to maybe, to get this passed to the full board. and >> great, so can we take, and i just want to make sure that we are clear on the amendments to our deputy city attorney and our clerk and we are clear on the amendments and a motion to amend the amendments and so we can take the motion to amend without objection, and now on the item as amended, if we could have a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation, as a committee report? >> so moved. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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francisco recreation & park commission. would the secretary of state well call roll p commissioner president buell. commissioner low. commissioner bonilla. commissioner harrison p sxhgd. councilmember zaph hearsay been excused absent. before we get starting bio today just a few reminder we ask you turn out of our electronic sounding devices and ask you take my secondary confidence outside and you will have two minutes >> how many people are here to testify or speak on general public comment. yeah. i think we'll do 12 manipulates per person

>> we ask you fill out a blue card i'll call the cards in then each person will have two minutes to speak own each item today you can speak on general public comment if that item is not on the agenda we have a 15 minute limits on the first part of the meeting if you're unable to speak it will be continued to item 13 and please address our comments to the commission during the general public comment neither the commission nor the staff will respond to my comments in order to allow equal time the commission may ask the questions after the it is

closed. with that, we'll go to item 2 which is the presidents report >> very briefing i want to congratulate the staff on the america's cup at the center we're advancing the cost of successor that put more demands on our fields let's he keep building successor fields and thank to tom heart and the golf shop for this enormous success in getting the pga championship and the president cups returning in 20025 i hope people appreciate the pga championship

is one of the big four that will give harding a big boost in remuneration for all those involved a tip of the hat it was really a good job remarkable. that concludes my report. and is there anyone who wants to make general public comment on the president report seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 3 general manager report. >> i'll try to hopeful as quickly as of those i can we have recognize for special people gathered in the back if uniform. i want to start with an update on the drought. so i want to give you an workshop on the conservation efforts in light of the drought we have a difficult job to do in

those circumstances our responsibility it absolutely to participate we're the single largest municipal water yourself question have a responsibility to participate we have to do so while keeping in mind protecting our living things in the system it's a dedicate balance our department has an 18 percent reduction over the last 18 years through a variety of strategies most significantly oversight and discipline by staff and partnerships with the puc on replacing our irrigation systems and >> synthetic soccer systems

additional is a variety of reasons we're here by clearly in light of the drought so in the past few months we've issued to staff very detailed derivatives and scald all irrigation run times by 10 percent we've continued to work with our partners at the public utilities commission at the gerp golden gate park and lincoln park and purchased something called pdr pg&e technology h that allows us to measure water contestant we've prioritizing all repairs of irrigation issues we're moving forward with the puc replacing our systems next up is the irrigation system at the

element park as commissioner president buell alluded to with the demand of soccer increasing our synthetic turf they reduce water and the synthetic project projected to save 4 million gallons of water every year we've contributed $100,000 for installing the low flow fixtures it's one of the areas where we can improve the most it required a significant exam investment but many of our stand alone restrooms are old and rely on more water than needed. and lastly we think it have upgraded shaping and the public utilities commission has asked to up workshop those and we'll

keep you posted we're planning some additional measures to marry we are helping lead the way in the city's conservation efforts. on a more upbeat to missouri note that month is is national recreation and park commission month when we they an opportunity to highlight our report here in san francisco we mark the most search warrant with just a ton of great events that demonstrates the wide array of the things encouraging people to get out including our last summer with the annual rec talent competition going on now area daytime exams and taking park from the social media

challenge take one indoor and post it on feedback or twitter with july out is in you'll see that all over a variety of national parks and tweeter feeds learn more on were you website at sf.org so the world cup final between argentina and germany was not only american people amazing game but custodial midnight a month of viewing parties that are that a tremendous success crowd estimates were between 15 and 20 thousand people gartd if the civic center the crowds have been tremendous and commissioner president buell says its not

only a testament to our country but we've done a great job in building a series of the events i comment because i want to thank several members of the our team mostly lisa she railway likes credit by the way, she has now about 22 months to catch her breath before we focus on the women coming to town in 2016 are 2015 not two years but next year right >> but this is a team effort and i also want to thank our public affairs director sarah our park patrolling patrol bob and all the staff that were out

there everyday and bob and our supervisors and caesar for their huge undertaking we were able to raise a significant amount of money not only to cover the cost but to support the americans bay area and thank you for the entire organization for their continued sports has been a tremendous partner and any of the precedes we've raised are going toward the association program to continue to activate the caesar center through american bringing skills it's an amazing projecting program i

want to highlight our last summer at the stick we're not kidding. this past weekend some of the biggest names in football come out a play games at candle stick park joe montana and i believe there was other things the san francisco police department beat the fire department they have to serve members to the members of the san francisco police department in an upcoming event on august 3rd we'll be hosting a free house at the stick clurd carn value rides and fields activities with the san francisco giants and warriors

participants b will get on the field and take pictures and bid a goodbye this is a free activity and we encourage all our 94124 neighbors to please come you've been gracious and have been inconveniented and the event it free you requires a ticket for admission on you can log into the website for more information. we've been talking about summer but not two earlier for fall our fall recreation bins saturday august 2nd at 10110 a.m. or on line you can log on to sf.org

and log onto that and get jogging classes and arts and programs for a seniors we'll move from the summer as we speak into fall programming with over 14 hundred programs and just a few short days this year's the 3 day festival will kickoff on friday august 8th featuring connecticut i can't west and tomato petting i didn't and the heartbreakers the killers and the acidic and the flaming lips our personal favorite. another (laughter) elton wrote that not me >> (laughter). you folks in outside land and other entertainment have

provided our department with this year it will be merely $2 million no support the programs log onto sf programs day. two there parking spaces have ochtd more small business in district 6 and we're pleased to report we've opened with the office of economic workforce development and the department of public works those items were before you a dog park and creating they're part of a multi agree on los angeles police department that was previously occupied by the freeway structure in paifrp partnership

r with supervisor kim and the department of real estate and the county transportation agency and others we're thrilled to have small business for people and official opening in the near plaza is planned for early falls we'll keep you abreast of the time now i will conclude with two special recognize items for the first thing that's that's time for our department quarterly employee recognize. >> thank you good afternoon mr. ginsburg and i'm the human resources director for the department i'm proud and how should to be here to introduce

jolene as the award employee recognize program joline started on may six 17997 and promoted up to the senior personal clerk and payroll clerk and has been the payroll manager for the recreation and park commission since 2002. this past april the recreation and park commission was one of the departments to convert 15 hundred employees to the new payroll program in order to do so we had to train one hundred and 40 supervisors i others yourselves this happened during the busiest he time of the year and when the payroll clerk we were down two payroll clerks

joline effectively used all the system and joline dedicated herself no having few glitches and disruptions without jolene's efforts that would be disrupted did department and couldn't afford that so on behalf of the rules committee we want to thank her (clapping.) >> that's good.

>> hey can we please before we precede i need everyone to take a seat. >> all right. i wanted to conclude the recognition portion there's two special individuals who won of whom has retired lewis are you here and lewis fong and bob ramos if you guys wouldn't mind step forward to the podium we talk about commissioners about the importance the park safety we were very fortunate and blessed to have more investment in the

park control officers we can't do it alone we rely on the services the self-med and we're grateful to chief suhr and i wanted to recognize those two individuals lewis has retired you look great and bobby think your retiring shortly both gentlemen have worked tireless in golden gate park our largest park and the park will probably the most complex and challenging social issues so i'll start with lewis retiring from the san francisco police department since 152007 he was with the motorcycle unit to patrol golden

gate park and in the 1980s it was pulled out of the park things thanks to the leadership of chief suhr when we saw vandal ifrm in the park the chief made the decision to bring him back to insure our gardeners and staff is protected from vandals and bob ramos who is accompanied here bob ramos joined the self-police department in the 81 and working in patrol and in 991 was on the tenderloin task force before we returned to richmond station