from resting, charging,

prosecuting offender, death of offender by means of suicide by other means. that offender may have been taken by law enforcement. the national average in 2017 for murder for united states is 61.6%. that is the last reported ucr report. it comes out annually. the 2018 statistics will be out in july of 2019. san francisco police department reported a 100% clearance rate in 2018. 48 homicides. 35 homicides were cleared by arrest in 2018. in the 35 arrests, six of those were from previous years. in the ucr guidelines, you cannot go back to rechange the percentage you have to carry it

over. the best example if a homicide occurs on december 31st, you make an arrest on january 1 of the next year that arrest is cleared in the next year. that is a guideline we cannot contest with. as i said 46 homicides, 35 were cleared in 2518, 29 arrests, 29 of the homicides were 65 percent were cleared in 2018. there was an additional 11 cases of the 46 where 23% were cleared by exceptional means in 2018. additionally, with the six previous year homicides, that is an additional 12% if you combine the percents it equals 100%. that is exceptional lehigh clearance rate. there is a combination of fact fors that got us there. in previous years we had seen

lower cases. 2016 it was 71%. that is higher. in 2017 it was 61%. now we are up to 100%. as the chief mentioned we are at 100%. 33 percent reductions from this time year-to-date last year. i will entertain questions. >> to make sure i understand. of the 46 homicides that occurred in 2018, they weren't all resolved, but you had several related arrests. when you agate the numbers to take you to 10%? >> 29 arrests with six arrests for previous year homicides. >> commissioner hamasaki: cleare departments arrest of the individual. it doesn't take into account

decisions made by the prosecuting agency, right? if the da declines to prosecute because of different standards that doesn't factor into it, is that accurate. that's correct that doesn't factor to the reporting of the d.o.j. >> thank you, chief. anything else? >> thank you. next agenda item. >> item 1bdpa director's report on activities. it will be limited to brief description of the announcements. discussion will be limited to determining whether to calder the issues raised for a future commission meeting. the november and december 2019 and january statistical reports.

>> good evening. i have the facts for this week's meeting. we are at 69 open cases this year versus this time last year 57 cases in terms of cases closed. i keep track of the closures to keep track of the time to report back. 68 this year versus 51 last year. cases pending open i have 282 pending versus 248 last year. sustained rate this year 10 so far this year versus one at this point last year. cases that i have opened of 282 still open and pending, past 270 day point are at 27. this time last year we were at

39. the final status for our cases are mediated. we have had three cases mediated this year versus one last year. for the past few weeks we had a number of activities. last week we participated in the dpa was selected to participate in the civic privilege presentation and our project which was jointly tied to the local slam organization presented for the city presentation. that was last week with th the mayor who spoke talking about increasing the technology capabilities for the work we are doing. highest priority is to replace the case management system and enable the organization to make data driven decisions about the information we collect and disseminate in ongoing operations.

we issued the r.f.q. for the new case management system. we had nine different companies apply to do that work, the ongoing work with us. this is tied to the work that we have already started with ingarnd launching a new website which we desperately need an agency as well. i will say in the mediation we hosted a training session for all of our mediators. as the commission is aware, we went through reevaluating all of the mediators that were registered and affiliated with the organization and are providing ongoing training to make sure that our mediators we are using are neutral and partial and properly trained in terms of our process and objectives with the mediation. that training was last week.

we also did a couple outreach events february 9th we did resource tables for the summer resource fair. we are participating with the city's goal to bring in and hire and inform our youth so we have some in our office this year as well. on february 12 we participated in this park and rec. no, park station with the sfpd and northern station sfpd committee meetings. i went last week with some of my staff to the law schools. with the presentation on race and justice we did a networking event to collect resumes and interview students for our summer programs to bring students back here to work for the summer.

that is the update on the stuff we have been doing in the organization. i have a couple of reports. do i have to go after each one? great. if you have questions to ask. quickly, i am trying to move it through. you have the notes in front of you. i am not going to read line by line. i will tell you the highlights from each of the months. first one is from november. i would point out that the case total was 66% higher than november 2017. again, i think this is a reflection of the work that has been done recently with the organization both in the outreach work we have been doing and with the technology work we have been doing with slalom and our own internal hardware to make things accessible to the

broader public. i will say if you look back into those pages and see the number of complaints coming in, how many. there is a significant segment that come in online for the technology stuff is really important. that is what we want to continue focusing on it. i have included a breakdown as well of the specific complaints that have come in. that is for all of the months. in the past we had questions as to what they have been. i am including them as standard as with the monthly reports. for the month of december, the most significant things are the case total 53% higher than they were the year before. you can see that was the summation of year in december when we had 660 for 2018 total which is 31% increase over the

year. for january the third report, case total is 26% higher than we were in january of 2018. i would just point out the take away is that we have increased spikes and investigations from the office and complaints being brought to the dpa as measured from the reports. that is it. >> thank you. commissioner. >> commissioner hamasaki: as general dpa duties, is the dpa responds to sp1421 requests? i know that i have been seeing a lot of things online about different departments and so forth. >> it is a huge part of our

day-to-day activities right now. >> commissioner hamasaki: before you finish do you have the resources right now to do so. finish with that. >> yes, i have allocated resources. i have resources working on 1421. no, i don't have enough resources to continue at this pays for not just these requests for the requests we anticipate will be ongoing from now on out. i don't know if that answers the questions. the department has resources allocated as well. we have about the same numbers working on the same things. each department is handling it individually, but some of the departments have more requests than others. we are one of those departments. >> is it a timeline or letting people know? >> we have been responsive to all of the requests that have come in so far, and we are

trying to prioritize the requests that have come on based on what is available to us in terms what we can pull and disseminate before analyzing each of the individual reports in terms of what everybody is going to get. they are all separate. some of the requests have come in didding everything. we are still using that same prioritization. the officer-involved shootings. >> commissioner hamasaki: some of this is actual you have to dig into boxes? >> that is 100% correct. as far back as 1982. >> commissioner hamasaki: best of luck. >> keep in mind the digital process was the last department in the city to get to the technology status. we are still trying to define and clarify.

we have more than a little information that was not captured in digital documents. we have more hand searching than other departments have, unfortunately. >> to follow up are you working with the city attorney's office for a policy to be in place for responses? >> we have been talking regularly how we are interpreting 1421, what we believe our obligation is. we believe our obligation is different from other departments. it is a case-by-case analysis. there are two levels what we are doing at one level and how the city is approaching it at another level. we want to be as consistent as possible so we are not releasing or preparing documents differently from other agencies. in some cases, i think that is

likely. >> >> commissioner taylor: i know my fellow commissioners have been working on 1421. i asked a couple meetings ago for an update. whenever that is ready that would be helpful for the commission to hear and understand if there are issues with coordination, what those issues are in all of the stakeholders and players, that would be helpful for us. i would love to prepare that and present it to you. >> we have been meeting with the dpa, city attorneys, police department, and almost every top member of the city attorney's office is in the room trying to find the way through this. we are working on it. it is a work in process. there is great advice from the city attorney. we are all in the room together working on there. the main goal is consistency through the agencies. >> the police department is

releasing documents at this point. they released pursuant to 1421. now it is coordination to see if we obtain a uniform policy so dpa and the police department can have. >> and the police commission. >> thank you. next item on the agenda. >> this is item 1c commission reports. they will be limited to brief description of activities and announcement. cushiocommission president repo. >> at the last meeting when i became president i did say in an effort for greater transparency on behalf of the commission i would ask in march each commissioner give a brief report on whatever he or she is doing

so the public knows what we are doing. now there are many folks that don't know what we do on a weekly basis. i will revisit that. the second meeting in march i will ask for a two or three minute report by each commissioner at that time and we will firm that up. in the last week i have asked commissioner hamasaki to be involved with the working group on staffing, and i think right now the matrix group with mr. brady is working with the department to analyze staffing. i think the president of the board of supervisors spearheaded this to make sure there is funding. it is moving forward. i asked commissioner brookter to be the commission and work with the dpa and report back and let us know your view how things are

going. finally, on saturday i did attend a celebration of black history month put on by the police department and the mayor's office. it was first annual. i thought it was terrific. i assume there will be a second one. it is not just for african-americans. it is a critical part of american history. i think it is important for all of san francisco to participate. it was a terrific display of history and culture. i appreciate the department taking the lead in that. derek brown who i think was the brainchild. i thank you for that. yes, commissioner ham sa. >> commissioner hamasaki: this will be a presentation next meeting from matrix consulting with the staffing study. they are trying to -- the

department is living off this mystery number of 1971 for a number of years, and i think there is a pretty universal feeling that is not well supported by best practices as far as i learned a lot in meeting with them, staffing, proactive time, reactive time, you know, i think it will benefit the department. i look forward t to forward to m them next week. commissioners and i met with interviews to fill the long vacant -- might i say this? i'm sorry. it is a long day, a long week. you know, what i want to say to

that pointer is, you know i got a lot of feedback after the last meeting about some of the discussions here, and you know i want the public to know, i want the department to know and everybody to know this commission i thought of it in the analogy is kind of a sports analogy for football playing friends here. we get on the field and my litigators, we have the fights we need to have, they go the way they go, and we move on. the work is not stopping because we had a disagreement. all of us are active and engaged in the last week, and you know speaking for myself i have a lot of respect and admiration for all of my commissioners. i felt like we were siblings last week and sometimes you have got to fight it out. i look forward to working

together with everybody, and i think we are well situated and prepared to continue to serve the department, the city and the people. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> on thursday i met with the lep working group at mission station. there was a great turnout of many groups that work there, and miss marion, put it together with an agenda. there are some things to report on that. one of the key things of the projects they are working on is trying to expand the number of department of human resources to certified languages to include growing populations. the officers need certifications to use them at work.

first one is toysen, hindu and air back. we have officers -- arabic. we are trying to get dhr to certify. they want to rule out the language line on all patrol officers phones so they can video conference with american sign language interpreters. that needed added. it is not added assert fiction. they want to expand the human resources certification to include bilingual translation. we have interpreters. if the person writes out a statement in their own language our officers have to translate that document before they write their reports. there is no certification for

translating documents. we need dhr to provide certification and interpretation only and translation of witness victim statements at the scene. that is something they are working on. that is important. before they decide who to charge, they need to understand what the victim or witnesses are saying in their own language if they write it out. they want to improve services at the stations to provide more information about the availability of bilingual officer police service aids. someone brought in a picture of roll it in electronic messages machine hooked to a computer. you can program in and then people can read it. then last one is deaf and hard-of-hearing. this is concerns from domestic violence survivor. they had a terrific relationship

with the department to move this forward. those are some of the things they are working on. if they have those boards they would also make information more available for the bilingual officers and police service aids at the station house. >> thank you, vice president taylor. >> commissioner taylor: it was an exciting week. we had the job of trying to replace the irreplaceable. we are still working on that. i want to just note a couple things. black history month celebration that sfpd put on was fantastic. it was really moving. i was shocked it was the first. it should not be the last. it was very powerful. i was happy and proud to attend the class graduation for the 251st academy class from sfpd. i was struck by the class representative elected to speak

gave the most amazing speech. i think really, really recognizing it and holding themselves accountable and to high standard, it made me proud to be on the commission and hopeful for the future of sfpd. these new graduates were really impressive. they took the burden that every officer carries very seriously and took it upon themselves in a way that made everyone proud. i have been working on the stack force. i have reached out to the chief about the staffing needs of the police department and the recommendation and pursuant to the legislation that he passed

and his desire to see that through. >> i want to say thank you for stepping in and taking your leadership. i am looking forward to working with director henderson to meet bi-weekly on wednesdays. working closely. i want to report. >> was the mayor rather young for lifetime achievement. >> she stated that she was younger than the general manager kelly and was receiving the award but it was all in good fun. the general manager they want to

make sure they can keep that going. >> thank you. next item on the agenda. >> item 1d commission announcements and scheduling of items for consideration at future commission meetings action. >> any items? moving on then. >> can i just announce for the members of the public next commission meeting on february 20, 2019 at city hall in room 400 at 5:30 p.m. >> okay. are we now taking an item out of order? >> yes my apologies. public comment on 1a through d. >> anybody for public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> my apologies i forgot to mention item 7 will be taken out of order after item 2.

>> okay. >> this is item 2 presentation by the youth commission regarding the youth commission budget priority discussion. >> before that director henderson has a comment. >> we talked about it before in previous hearings about scheduling a time for the audit, hearing for the audit at some point in march. >> we have that. we know that. thank you. ready for the youth commission. >> good evening. >> i have a flash drive. >> i am nora hilton on the youth commission and the chair of the

transformative justice committee on the commission. okay. >> speak into the microphone. >> i have a transformative justice committee. we are finding alternative also for incarceration and resources to give youth access to education and community hearing and sustainable housing for vulnerable communities. what is the san francisco youth commission? >> the youth commission is a body of 17 youth or transitional age used that collect information from the youth of san francisco about needs and report to the board of supervisors and mayor what the

children and youth in san francisco need. at the end of the year on july 1st we create an annual report for the activities and goals for the entire area. what i present this year is we decided to make a budget priority resolution that allows youth organizations to influence the budget process through the youth commission. it also allows the youth commission to advocate for specific programs. our budget priorities are things we are advocating for funding in the departments or organizations or partners. in addition to the budget priorities the transformative justice committee is working on extending the miranda rights to 17 and under, implementing the training and closing to support community partners working to

close the 850 jail. it is made of three separate committees. first civic engagement committee. this priority is engaging youth in the democratic process and focus this year is 16. i am the chair of the transformative justice committee. our priority is community investment and finding alternative also to youth. the third is the housing and land use finding permanent supportive housing and creating a navigational center. to develop the budget we have talked with community partners. coleman advocates and lawyer representing one of the youth at the log cabin ranch. we have also met with the chiefs

and visited the youth development trainings like policing the teenage police trainings that happened this year. our first budget priority is investment in reentry programs and service for youth. supportive housing and giving youth that have exited th the criminal systematic sessto help them readjust to coming back to society. we really encourage the investment in young adult court which is community assessment and resource center, and our main goal is to reform the juvenile justice system and the probation system so they truly benefit the youth of san francisco. statistics which you already know. transitional age youth from the ages 18 to 25 who might have

exited youth but are still transitioning to fully adulthood. they make up 2 25% of the jail population. 56% of the population of jails in san francisco is black. black people make up 3% of the population in san francisco. 30% of the people incarcerated are . >> what was that. >> 30% are house less. next budget priority is the instruction for law enforcement officers on youth cognitive development and interactive with youth. it is necessary to be instructed on how the teenage brain differs from the adult brain. as a transformative justice committee we visited the last

training that happened. we met with some of the strategy for youth people who de saned the trainings. -- designed the trainings. we encourage the officers to take the trainings. this was implemented in the last fiscal year, it was not consistently implemented, and although this was like a priority only two trainings of police and the teenage brain actually happened. less than 100 officers were originally trained in this. why are we here to talk to you? budget cuts. the mayor requested to cut up to 6% from the departments over the next two years. youth commission is concerned about vulnerable youth disadvantaged if programs are scaled down or cut. the commission strongly urges

the programs are not cut and invested more. our specific asks of you are that you element a training that is comprehensive and culturally comprehensive for youth and police and probation officers, regarding rights of youth, biases and systematic oppression. in addition, we request transparency with the community after incidents such as the incident at the high school. you work with the community or sfpd works to build solutions, community oriented solutions and creates a dialogue between sfpd and community. the transformative justice community is holding the police round table on march 12 where youth and community partners are invited to share stories of

interactions with police, and we can all learn and build a dialogue between sfpd and directly to community partners. >> thank you. are you inviting us to the marc? >> it is open to the public. we would appreciate if some members connected to sfpd would come. >> where and when? >> at the main library in what room? >> it will be in the heritage room a. >> what time of the day? 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. >> okay. march 12th. vice president taylor. >> commissioner taylor: great presentation. can you talk about policing the teenage brain training? >> in i believe it was march, 25 officers were brought in for training for the workshop called

policing the teenage brain. these officers were to get trained to become trainers and go off and teach their own units how the teenage brain differs from adult brain and changes interactions with youth. we think this is great, but we also think i it is important moe officers are trained. we are encouraging all officers take this course. i personally went to one of the trainings, i visited, not the whole day. it was powerful. there was a few students who were paid to come there. there were scenarios where the students were the officers and the students were told by the facilitators, come up to the officers as you see officers coming up to you. how do you see the officers coming up to you. the students were aggressive and able to share. even if the officers didn't necessarily see themselves

coming to the students greg i feel the students intern spread that way because of the cognitive development. that is how the teenage brain works. that is the little part i saw. there was a whole day training. that was powerful to me, and it is like showing differences between the teenage brain and youth brain in a youth oriented way. >> do you know about this? >> i have heard of the program and took notes to find the status on the program. we will report back. >> commissioner. >> commissioner hamasaki: do you have other members of your committee with you today? >> not present in the room. >> commissioner hamasaki: what is it look like what you would like the commission to do regarding is it developing a policy for the officers or just

the training aspect? >> for the mandated cognitive development training. >> is this something you took from another department? how did you come across this program or this training? >> it is already implemented. we are encouraging it to be implemented further. it was a priority in the last fiscal year. we feel it should be more. we encourage all officers to go through the training 134 officers are going there. we think it is important all officers are educated on youth development. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you for the presentation. i think for those who worked with juveniles in the criminal justice system, you know we understand the particular challenges that exist at the intersection of young people and

law enforcement. i want to say i really appreciate the work you folks have done. i know that this came up sometime last year because there was something about policing the teenage brain that was an article or some sort of other program, but i know the chief was interested in this as well. >> the chief had a few officers attend the training on the add do less sent brain. a few officers went to the training and they reported back to the chief and the chief was looking into expanding the program to have more officers go to the training or have the training come to the department. >> i think speaking for myself i am strongly supportive of this. this is a wonderful thing that you folks have done. >> can i add some contact goes to this. as staff person for the commission. the youth commission for a decade strategy for youth, this

develop alley working and understand -- developmentally working has been demanded for a decade. this came from lisa duro who offers there. there is strategy money for policing the teenage brain. training for the trainers there, is a process. 25 police officers can get this and report back to the department. however there was not a lot of follow up which is where we are coming through. there is only two sessions when they were to go to trainings every three months. it was march. then the next session was in december. there is a huge gap with that. >> could you introduce yourself. >> i am caroline.

i use data and pronounces. i am the specialist. >> director henderson. >> thank you so much for being here today. i spent a lot of time doing juvenile stuff. i appreciate you guys referenced the important work that we did with the district attorney's office and the police department that has been around for a couple decades now. not to age myself. i am glad you guys mentioned the significance when we started it in the 1990s. i want be to say to articulate this in the presentation that the dpa has been working could lawiththe youth commission for o decades and revising 7.01 including a couple milestones. the commission including the knowing your right for youth and

brochure, drafting of the children of arrested parents to minimize trauma to youth and children when parents are arrested. and from 2015 the recommendations about the youth brain for all sfpd officers. we have stayed connected with the commission to commence the training which took place last year, and we also are in contact with youth educationalist for the implementation of the free training. we would urge the sfpd to expand the officers participating in the cognitive training especially you were referencing earlier we have an out said training source and it is free. there is no cost. one of the issues is having those to affirm the standards of implementation.

one of the challenges we have been dealing with and they were talking about was having the captains come get the training and then they rotate out. unless we institutionalize the training with the specific captains in the specific area, you have to start all over again and new captains may or may not have that training. >> i noticed on the last page of your presentation your ask is not in the printed part that we got. >> it was updated today. >> it would be nice if you can e-mail that to us. that was the bullet point what you are asking for. i do notice on the presentation there is a resolution that is lengthy in the back. it talkers about money for the mandatory infraction for law enforcement on interactions with youth and to work with the youth

commission department of dpa and community organizations like frisco and cop watch for curriculum on interactions. we have the budget presentation coming up. if i understand it right, you are asking different agencies to include in their budget a portion that would help with the youth commission goals and objectives and in particular to meet this mandatory instruction. we have a free class. do i read this right? is that what you are asking for? >> fully implementation. as we talked about in the past what you are talking about and what they are alluding to. >> it is on the back of the presentation. you are asking the different department heads to include in the -- include in the bunk it funding to meet the goals.

three paragraphs. the one in particular you are talking about right now, is that right? >> that is correct. the strategy for youth right now is funding for the sfpd. we would like to expand to student resource officers and multiple settings in the public library and with traffic court. how do we address things that come up there? that is the big goal. >> is this resolution pending or something you are working on in the future? >> omnibus preliminary budget priorities. >> this resolution has already passed. that is what we are presenting now. these are our budget priorities. we are now presenting them to different departments. >> has anyone met with the departments, department to ask

whether or not they would be able to include any of the funding specifically for this particular topic? >> thithis is the first time the youth commission is doing the budget pen betation to the -- presentation. it is usually in the priorities in may. right now it is february. we are looking through all of our budget priorities. this is a lesson learned moment. hopefully, this will allow for room. hold up, maybe we shouldn't appear for the budget just yet. >> the reason we are doing this. in the past we would give the budget priorities long after these would happen like in may we would be doing this thing now. like everything we would say we wanted as budget priority wouldn't have an effect on the actual budget.

this year we are doing it earlier. >> to ask if there is money to help implement this, is that right. >> like today we met with budget and finance committee with the board of supervisors and had a presentation with the police commission. >> what are you doing after this? commissioner brookter. >> i want to commend the two of you. it is not easy to be here on a wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. i want to thank you for your service, especially serving on the youth commission. i got the opportunity to spend time with a former commissioner zack, who is a good friend and the great work he did on the youth commission. i have a quick division as we talk about budget cuts and transitional ags and homelessness. what are you doing with the rising up campaign the mayor has

to cut transitional age youth homelessness in half by 2022. are you familiar with the campaign. >> this would be more for our housing and land-use committee. i can connect you with them. >> please. >> thank you very much. >> next item. >> is there any public comment on item two? public comment on item two? >> come on up. you are it. >> thank you kindly. good evening. i am jessie stout, an tropical storm in san francisco. i -- an attorney in san francisco. i think the transcommittee is doing great work. i think this is how san

francisco is going. these are our voters coming up, and i think in particular the subject they presented about the play of the san francisco police and sheriff's department are going to be important over the next couple months. hearing that the jail population is primarily african-american and 30% of people incarcerated are homeless at the time of their arrest is deplorable. we can do so much better to provide service. it is fantastic the youth commission is providing mental health services and housing instead of incarcerating people. to have people faced with incentives to commit crimes to be provided with a place to sleep, place to live so they can

stay free. it would be so much better. i ask you to take seriously the youth commission presentation and consider all of the priorities in this resolution. thank you. >> i would say the participants are not just future voters. i think they are future leaders in the city. i thank you all. >> public comment. >> good evening. >> i am not as prepared as i want to be. i want them to know i stand here in support of them. we have to make sure the budget cuts are far away from services and cut from the top, i always say. i am so very concerned about the incident at balboa, that was my friend's son affected. there is movement. i want to support that our youth have the dew process they need

-- the dew due process. thank you. >> thank you. no further comment i see. next item, please. >> this is item 7 out of order. discussion and possible action to adopt rules for administrative appeals, discussion and possible action. >> good evening. i am carol ison. employee relations for employee city. this is the deputy city attorney who advised the negotiations that led to the proposed rule pending before you tonight. we are here to urge adoption. i want to make some brief comments and look forward to hearing the discussion. to give you background. in june of 2017, the first district court of appeal ruled the police commission's discipline rules did not provide

the opportunity for administrative appeal i have disciplinary actions as required by the public safety officer procedural bill of acts right. they adopted the rules and you posted them for meet and confer process with the san francisco police officers. i will comment about the process. i want to tell you the key features of the rules pending before you tonight. when the commission imposes major discipline on a police officer, that is defined as greater than 10 days up to including termination whether it is from the accountability or from the police chief commission then rules and then under pro

bar the employee, police officers is entitled to an appeal of your decision. that is what we believe is in front of you today. we are urging your adoption. key features are as follows first administrative law judge from the california office of administrative hearing would conduct and decide the appeal. the record on appeal would consist of police commission's decision and findings of fact and full record of the proceedings before the commission. that record can only be augmented for three reasons. one, on showing of good cause as determined by the alj. the record can be augmented with any record that was inadvertently admitted or excusedded and, finally, any newly discovered evidence that could not have been known at the time of the original trial. the alj would conduct a full

independent review, paper review of the entire record. the parties would fight briefs and could make appeal appear for oral arguments. finally and most important the alj would review your decision under two standards. legal error or abuse of discretion. again, as we explained earlier, the appellant, disciplined officer would where the burden of proving that the commission committed an illegal error. if they find they did abuse discretion, a very high standard, alj can reduce to lesser penalty or vacate altogether. we have been in negotiations over a year. we went through a fact finding process required under state law. the neutral panel in the fact finding process was preeminent

professor of law at the university. william gold was the chairperson of the labor relations board during the clinton administration for over 50 years. it was an honor to work with him both ourselves and the union. sy is want to draw your attention to an important statement in the record. he stated the alj will provide the parties with career impartial expert civil servants disinterested in the outcome of the disciplinary matter. we are here to recommend. we feel comfortable we covered every issue and we recommend your adoption. thank you. >> anything you want to add at

this point? >> she covered it. >> i want to clarify. the rules you are asking us to adopt are they also in william gold's decision? it looks like the language tracks. >> yes, it does. >> we are really. this is agreed to buy the dpa as well, i'm or repoa. >> yes and dpa as i understand it. >> it came about after professor gold issued his recommendation. >> >> commissioner hamasaki: just briefly remind me. is this for the short term processor the long-term process? >> this is for as long as the rule is in effect. >> what we call the short term process. >> commissioner hamasaki: if the

commission adopts this appeal procedure it would remain in effect until the commission changes it or there is some other change in the law to make it inapplicable for example a charter amendment could accomplish that. >> thank you for your regard ha. stand stanthe . [please stand by]