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tonight. >> an update. >> good evening. >> good evening, commissioners my name is mimish, and i am the director for the department on the status of women and i want to echo the thanks to the captain and sergeant for involving the community and the department and being able to give the feedback on this policy. i agree that there are important changes on the piece of when to refer to the child protective service and one piece that we think is important is that the parents should understand in which circumstances there is going to be a referral to the child protective service sos that they can understand the consequences and so it is really important that the criteria that are laid out are very clear, both for the officers who are going to be following this policy and for the parents or the guardians who are affected and in the current version of the draft, there is still a criteria that refers to criminal threats defined by the california penal
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code and while the police officers know what that means, i don't think that the average parent will understand what is covered by that and so our suggestion is to spell that out a little bit more to explain, the threats of the great bodily injury. and other than that, we are very grateful that a lot of the feedback that we gave was incorporated into the policy and, we think that it is a lot stronger now, in preventing unintended consequences of people being afraid to contact police for help,, if they knew that there would be an automatic referral to the child protective services >> thank you. >> one last thing, that you may want to know about it, and especially commissioner, melara, there is a referral card that we are going to put together with the packet that the officers have to hand for our victims when we go to a scene, explaining exactly what is happening as far as the cps referral, and i have given that
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card, that referral card that we are looking at to the occ, to marian and to the community advocates in this. and so it is self-explanatory, and a card that you will see. okay? and upon completing of the order. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hearing no public, or further public comment, call the next line item. >> line item 4, approval of the awards and committee recommendations, action. >> okay. >> commissioners in your packet, is a list of the recommended awards from the medal of valor meeting that we had at the hall of justice and i spoke about it in the last commission meeting and we met on july, 14th and i was the commissioner that was comment, and chief suhr presided over the day long event of making the selections and so what you have in the packet is the officers who have been nominated for in the silver medal of valor and the bronze
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and there are various awards, and the police commission commendations and life saving awards and i was present for the presentation of each and every one of these incidents. where in, there was discussion, and questions asked by the most senior members of the command staff and the police department, and it is an unusually large number of awards, you will see a large number of gold medals of valor that we do not give often, i can say that the crash of the aircraft and these incredible officers that decided that it was their duty to run so to the burning aircraft while the firefighters were suiting up and we have the silver medal of valor for the officers that were involved in the life threating situation and so all of these have been provided to the occ to insure that they have been properly vetted and none of these officers have any charges that are pending or
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under investigation and all of this has been cleared and vetted and if you have any questions for me and the chief regarding these, feel free to ask. >> so you answered my question, thank you. >> very much. and i still think that and this looks great, a lot of people here and i assume that it is from the rescue, and the other. >> yeah, the lion's share, that there were 19. 19 of those medals went to the folks that their actions in the asiana plane crash. >> thank you for that and i am sure that they are well deserved and i look forward to hearing and we should really start talking about a policy and you said that there is no one with the charges pending but we don't have a policy set in place and maybe we should talk about it as a commission or set the committee together whether we want a policy in place on that issue or not. but you did address my question and i think that this is great. and you got to talk about a policy going forward and you can talk about setting up a committee on that. >> commissioners any questions
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regarding the nominations? >> commissioner hwang? >> could you let me know how do the folks get nominated for these types of award. >> it is an incredible process. >> and so an event happens and the captain or a commanding officer, prepares, a recommendation and it comes through the chain of command and it has to be approved to get to the chief and if i believe that it is deserving of consideration, we send it to a committee of three captains. that change each time that there are those and so there will be a new three that will do the next round and the three captains that all of the submissions and some of them are for, and some of them don't and they believe that are captain accommodation and in fact, in many of these there were more involved involved than the ones that are receiving medals. and they will be reduced, some of them to a captain's
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accommodation, which is still, a notation of somebody doing something well. i signed four or five of those a day for great work that are done around the department but it does not cross the threshold to be considered for a medal of valor there has to be personal jeopardy involved, unless it is a life saving medal. there are other categories. we just had a submission of that nature for a cash of firearms that were ceased. these captains make recommendations and they put the people in and then it goes to the full medal of valor committee which are all civil service captain and above and then there is a voting and we do, quite a bit of sausage making ourself and separating people out like, some that we deserve were deserving of gold and some silver, and there is
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quite a heated conversation in after it is all settled there is a vote. and you have to get two-thirds of the assembled civil service captains above to carry the day for the medal. if you don't receive a two-thirds vote it keeps going down to the medal until there is a two-thirds majority and then that is the medal that you get. so, it is very, very fair, in that not any one captain can sway anybody one way or the other. and gold medals are very rare this is as many and i have been on the committee since 1997 and i will tell you that is as many gold medals i have ever seen especially in one incident. >> and i think that it deserves and i voted the gold medal myself. >> i add that the department is the second oldest in the country. they have a great tradition and i think that it should be your turn to go to this as a commissioner and the tradition
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in how formal this is to be in that room that the chief demands that every member of the staff and the captain and above be there on time and be in the address uniform and it is very formal and when the presentation is made, regarding the incident, for example, the aircraft and the captain made the presentation, those officers have been nominated are brought forward in the dress uniforms and the presentation is made by the captain. and there are requested by the captain and there are questions, by the captains in there for example, if it is an incident involving gunfire, how far were you aware from there and where were you, and did you fire back. and i mean that it was very, very thorough and first of all it is overwhelming to see the heroism of these officers and these men and women and then, the questions that are asked, the chief is right, it was, it is not an easy thing and i mean that they asked the very serious questions and in the officers responded to the questions, and then there is a vote and the part that left the chief left off was just amazing and it is a secret ballot and
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it is a wooden box and there is colored marbles for the gold medal and silver and bronze and commendations and the police commission and then that box is passed around by inspector monroe and the captains and they reach in and take one marble and put it in on the other side and then the commissioner, and inspector monroe and i count the marbles i tell you when the officers do get a gold medal of valor it is one of the most impressive things that i have seen and those officers are called in, and they get a standing ovation from the command staff and the police department and there is a reception line and it is just, it is really awesome. and so, there is a lot of effort that goes into this. and there is a lot of debate. and again, it is amazing, some of these things that these officers did and i said this last time, they always ask, do you have anything like that, no we are just doing our job and they are all there because they did something above and beyond the call of duty, but none of
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them seem to recognize that and it was just pretty amazing. >> and i might add, commissioner hwang, when i first got on the commission, we did not televise the ceremony and they said that it needs to be seen. and we thought, you know, with all that they have done at this time, this should be televised and so when we do the ceremony now, it is televised and oh, the commission, and it is great. >> it is great, and the chief apologized that it took a whole day, and i told him that this was so rewarding it was the best way to spend the day. >> so commissioners if there are any questions or comments, regarding the particular awards or we have to call for the public comment before i have a motion, any public comment regarding these awards? >> hearing none, do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> passed. thank you. >> police call the next line
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item. line item 5, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below closed session, including public comment on vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. >> any public comment for confidential litigation matters >> hearing none, closed. >> next item. >> 6, vote on whether to hold item 7 in closed session, action >> is there a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you, we are going to move to the closed session. >> could we vote wherever to disclose. >> i move to not disclose.
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commissioner ortiz-cartagena. commissioner paul. commissioner riley and commissioner white not here. item two is general public comment this allows the general public comment to comment on meters within the committees purview do we have any members of the public that want to speak >> any must be of the public want to comment on items noted on today is taunted general comment is closed. >> item 3 is the possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on file number 1040798 this is a business tax regulation code amending the common administrative provision and payroll tax expense and gross receipt tax it is the tax and
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regulation dpoed code by revising the payroll expenses and making the amount consistent with the requirements for small business exemptions and second and third clarifying the group engaged in business in san francisco must reshlg with the tax collective e collector and the register fee and number 5 clarifying the basis of the regulation fee and 6 deleting obsolete provisions this afternoon you have the protective manager of the office of the treasure and tax clerk providing you with a presentation today. >> welcome. >> good afternoon commissioner thank you for having us this
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afternoon i'm going to be joined by the mary ann from the department of workforce development in addition to talking about the changes we're making or we're proposing to the business tax registrations code i want to give you an update around the gross receipts tax you can know about that and take that back to our various constituencies and communities. as the regunmen said this is our annual administrative active changes and the changes this year are really driven by our looking at the implementation of the gross receipt tax and finding that the law has passed did a good implication of who had to file and when tlgs situations when it might unclear
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for small businesses about when they had to file particularly if they didn't have a tax liability so we're going to help you to understand the filing relations and they've been go driving ivory driven by the amount of tax you pay but that's evolving it is more consistent as a matter of how much payroll tax and gross e gross receipts and corporate structures that may or may not effect small businesses but small minor regulation requirement and the final item that the er is working on or we're proposing is that is this does effect new businesses in san francisco previously under current law someone came in the month of april or may and they
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were starting their business the way that the law worked they would have to registration their business with the renewal period they'd have to come back and pay thirty days latter to renew for next year we thought this the silly so we're striving when someone paid we have to issue within thirty days their certificate even if not effective until july one we'd have to issue it increase in the mid of may people had to come back we thought it was not very convenient for small businesses so, now once this law changes you can come in and registration and pay nor the current year and the year coming up and we'll issue our certificate for july
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one this will be a slight administrative active convenience for those new small businesses but we think it will be simple they'll appreciate this and certainly someone that has done it in the past knows it's frustrating. i want to first of all, ask for questions and get into talking about what we've done around the gross receipt taxes >> all right. 0 so i'll bring up mary an with the office of department of workforce development she and i will talk about what we've been doing with our outreach who we've been talking about and give data on that. >> sfgovtv we're going to be doing a power point from the
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computer. good afternoon commissioner president adams and commissioners. regina thank you for having us here today, this is our update on what we've done with the gross receipts to date >> ems we've been here before our original outreach was heavy allow front loaded our goal to hit all the businesses prior to the paying the register fee in may. and we feel that we did a are good job we sent out a survey and 67 percent of those applied to the surveys about the changes in the tax prior to the business register fee. so on a high-level this kind of you show us what we've done we did one hundred and 73 plus
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online impressions that was people that clicked on the media and some which that included our social media we partnered with interesting organizations unified to help us get our language and information out that are that there we did 23 presentations 34 with organizations and successors and that's high-level that didn't go into speaking one-on-one on the tax. this slide shows you we launched a website in january this is kind of an overlay of a number of his that went to the website during certain periods in particular like the neighborhood newspapers our hits went up and the engross receipts fee people
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went directly to the website or directly to 311. this particular graph i've i'm going to turn it over to greg many say our calls to service 311 >> good afternoon this is a chart i know it's hard to read on the power point it's not report you have towards the back. this is showing how many calls we've received at the office of the treasurer tax clerk from 311. i've offer ladies the time periods in blue is the calls received in 2013 and in orange the calls received in 2014. you'll see that if you look at the data around april and may in april we saw an increase in the calls during the first quarter when we had the first gross
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receipts fees and if you look at the comparison between 2013 and 2014 we saw a decrease in the number of calls to 311 to our office. another the first week of may we sent out the notice hey, it's time to register we saw a decrease because i'm sure you're aware of you got three or four conversations in our office saying something has changed get ready we've had our outreach and the hundreds of thousands of online impressions and our engagement in the community. so we believe that that really helped us to reduce the amount of people calling into 311 needing the help and we were able to help them and get the register so we counted that as one of the successes of our outreach we're excited about
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that. >> so also with regards to the comments i'd like to say there was a lot of work put into what we sent to 311 to their knowledge base so myself and grass worked hard through 311 and the consumer representatives to make sure they had the information one of the things this slide speaks to had a responsibility issue we give them information and beyond that those are actual questions that 311 could not answer and had to refer to the offers of the go tax collector. >> good. >> thank you. so where do we go from if here
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we're going to continue our outreach in a very not necessarily in an aggressive manner but trying to reach out to the agrees we were not able to context connect with the merchant organization and reflect that the tax changes in effect. we're going to help seek help for businesses to be able to prepare for the february 2015 deadline for getting more detailed information graeg is working on that and seek partnerships restraining order different organizations for instance, greg and i had a skeptic meeting with the tax commission i'm sure you're aware of all the taxi drivers have to register with the city and one of the things we've discovered
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with the fee he period they all came to file at the treasure and tax collectors office that created a long cue and had a lot of customers waiting we're going to partner with them so next year when the register fee is due it will go to the taxi commission. those are some of the partnerships we're seeking out and opportunity for associations to perhaps invite like the apartment association to invite people into the office and help them with the last filing for 2015 because most of the smallest apartment owners that will be two or 3 questions they'll be fine so we're going to seek out the partnerships with different organizations to help with the 2015 deadline. and then lastly we have a focus
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on delivering positive customer service at the end of the day people are going to be better served if we give them positive customer service and promptly answering their questions and if we don't have the what's-her-name to find out them. that concludes my presentation. . i want to say that i very much want to thank regina for the meetings she helps us to do our best by small businesses. this partnership between the office of small business and the office of department of workforce development has had great working relationships and we've achieved a lot in the last few months. we're looking forward to doing more. i'd like to call out commissioner riley i had an interim this
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