at some point, there was an a, b, and c priority. but you can change those if you want. >> another question, these parties and the items underneath them, where they based on other objectives or goals -- general objection of work -- were the based on general objectives or goals? >> they were based on what the commission at that point felt work priorities. >> at the meetings, we discuss what the priorities were, but we did it, and the commissioners that were present said -- submitted lists of what they thought were priorities, and they were consolidated by how it was listed out by the majority of the commissioners. >> thank you for that input. >> that is how we ended up with these lists. >> which is the list? >> and then, we tabulate it. some of these priorities on this list have been covered recently, so it is kind of an antiquated list. i just talked to commissioner chan. maybe what we should do is we have taken a lot of time for people to be here, and it is very costly. maybe we should look at this list hard when we have our commiss

that's a priority we're going to want to discuss. another priority would be for us to discuss the backlog of disciplinary cases most efficiently. so i would propose or make a motion that we discuss these two priorities. at another meeting as soon as possible. commissioner hammer: i would second that. >> i would want clarity. we have been discussing a backlog. we put rules and procedures in place that shortened the hearings and stuff and we've also helped with these digests that will be delivered and we're getting them monthly. so i would like to know what you mean when you say -- >> i understand, commissioner. ix cues me -- excuse me, but i haven't been part of the discussions. one of the thoughts i had in f in terms of want -- in terms of wanting to revisit it, we zil still do have quite a backlog of cases. it is routine, but this is a per view of the commission that we're responsible for in a very unique way. and that we might want to discuss it, and particularly with our new commissioner as well to see where we're going to go in t

any other priorities you want to work on tonight? >> mr. president, the retreat. a point of clarification are round that -- is that going to constitute a special meeting of the commission where we meet in our usual location? is that required? >> it has to be noticed, and the public is invited. this is a quorum. i doubt that we will do it on wednesday night. we just have to figure it out. >> [inaudible] different times or different locations. >> i think we need to vote to have a retreat first. am i move that we set a date for a retreat -- >> i move that we set a date for a retreat for the police commission. >> without objection, so ordered. do we want to try to pick a date now? >> it depends how soon you want to have it. bamut is the chief can attend that, i'm really hoping he will be able to. >> it is our retreat. we can invite anyone we want to. >> i guess i would stress that because our work is all tied together, that we invite the chief to coordinate his calendar with us, so if he is interested in attending, we can make sure that it is a date that he is availab

they give higher priority to freedom of speech of course if it was a question of living in desperate poverty they wouldn't like not listen in russia it's obvious that in russia today. money wealth personal wealth is a high priority that even a speech freedom of president is that what you write here but like in america after nine eleven the whole nation was ready and even eager to compromise these values to security to feel more secure which is which is again and there have been serial thing rather than like. i mean the security is a material thing and there was a huge chance initially there was a huge overreaction today because he's recovered from it but there was a huge reaction in one day washington d.c. and new york were attacked by kind of what's coming next week and next week and next week this feeling so this is what you mean by saying people are flexible yet people respond to their basic values in the long run but they also respond to what happens today they're not real but the values persist a long time but what happens today also shapes you and you're absolutely right this i

western europe japan north america australia etc began to surface as a new kind of basic value priorities that i call post materialist in the sixty's because this was twenty years after the end of world war two the economic miracles that western europe and japan and so on experience plus the welfare state that made people grow up for the first time most of the population these countries was growing up under conditions where they took survival for granted this is unprecedented most people throughout most of history and most people still today grow up with survival being uncertain with starvation being a real possibility the germans the swedes the americans who grew up in that era. didn't they took survival for granted and that was a big big change it opened the way for other things to take top priority so in the sixty's we started out with student protest this was the era when student protests france six hundred sixty four sixty eight the head pain you know you know anything only real drives on us. all around the world or in many countries there was student protest because this was a gener

defense review and mission of priority in our budget. i usually speak a little more to the defense of audiences so i won't assume you've read all these documents but if you have, for example, the defense review, you might foits as you read through it that there is really not a single case or instance where the q.d.r. are strategic document proposes we give up any line of business and stop doing anything that we're doing. makes it pretty hard to reduce your budget. that would be a nice way to reduce your budget. there would be good things if you could reduce things. make the workforce smaller or something which the secretary has said we cannot do at war. so that somewhat constrains our ability to cut the budget can leads us to how we can be more efficient at doing what we do. so what's asked for our people in uniform is high. earthquake in haiti, flooding in pakistan, doesn't necessarily have to be conflict, but our folks are called into demand. so we don't build the budget based on the fiscal picture i talked about, but we need to be min

survival for granted and that was a big big change it open the way for other things to take top priority so in the sixty's we started out with student protests this was the era when student protests from six hundred sixty four sixty had to have pain you know anything only real drives on us. all around the world or in many countries there were student protests because this was a generation that for the first time. the majority of them had pushed materialist values the older people all of the older people were had been experiencing world war two the great depression world war one starvation had been very real they had they knew that this could happen and this was a different world in which imagination self-expression choosing your way of life personal freedom were more important than ever before and at that time interestingly there was this slogan in many countries don't trust anyone over thirty because there was this big generational divide everyone older was. pre-war generations now things have changed to the point where even the middle aged people have grown up after world war two ok i

i think that there is a great emphasis on economic development that's highly desired high priority and in fact i would say depending on what stage of development your advice is something i would give high priority to myself if i were even more so if i were governing a low income country economic development would be top priority at a higher level of development it has less payoff in terms of happiness quality of life beyond a certain point getting two cars in every garage is ok but a third car is not really doing much for you and it's adding to pollution and noise and driving all kinds of stuff is kind of diminishing return from economic growth rushes at a stage where they have experience as you know all. dreadful setbacks the. period from about the collapse of communism around one hundred ninety the breakup of the soviet union the gross national product went down to about forty percent of its former local life expectancy furrow order all kinds of very severe things happen and the the reaction of the russian people was reemphasizing survival values and interestingly a tendency to tradi

. >> we also should set our priorities as a commission. i understand that annually the commission looks at its purpose and reformulates that, looks at its prortse at some point, -- priorities, at some point, objectives and goals. all of this should be discussed and voted on and priorities set. in the meanwhile, commissioners, we don't know exactly when that will be. we can go ahead and this is the item that chief gas gone raised there evening. i would think that that is -- chief gasgon raised this evening. >> there is a motion on the floor. >> i think we should take the chief's lead on this. i any we should have a hearing on the shooting of this german tourist. at the first possible meeting we should discuss this. part of the problem is the entertainment commission has no authority over the police commission. if we're not at the table talking about that solution then we're not going to have a solution. i think we ought to talk about it, act on it, and if we agree, to set a meeting soon, a joint meeting with the entertainment commission and

are not your priorities. >> they are not my priorities and i cite for my priorities the fact that theirystem hasn't worked. it's not a new program that they're talking about. it's the same program that went back to 2002 and 2004 and the same people. we started on a bad road around 1999 which is under clinton's administration and i take full responsibility -- happy partner in that. the fact is getting rid of glass steagal was a terrible mistake for the american community. it was good for the banks. >> charlie: separated commercial from investment banks and insurance companies. >> yes, it took away the responsibility and gave the banks the opportunity to take money at very low interest rates, guarantee the government and lend it out indiscriminately. it was a bad thing -- >> charlie: we have been on a deregulation trend for a long -- since reagan. >> but it doesn't work. it has not worked in this country. >> charlie: we got too much deregulation and therefore we had to come through in 2010 with a new financial reform which looked anew at regulations. >> in 2008, the government was called

the p.a.c. >> another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that's on a lot of people's minds. i know at our school we're trying to figure out how to better recruit a more diverse range of parents and meet the needs of our families and how to communicate with our families and really feel this is an important step for improving the schools. we know we've heard in conversations in the past on the p.a.c. that better communication is really critical. parents are really looking for that. i know that i've been talking to a group of parents that have been writing letters for 10 years about a teacher that they're very concerned with at their school and they're not clear about where these letters have gone, about how the process works, about how complaints are heard through the district. very important to have a transparent process in place where parents understand how these process ees from the district work. communication is one of the issues we've heard. parents want to be engaged but sometimes have barriers and

job creation has been her top priority for san francisco. she has worked to transfer treasure island from the navy, work to clean hunters point, and transformed the transbay transit center into a multi modal facility. speaker pelosi provided the first seed money to the project which allowed us to begin the planning process to get to this point, and has consistently worked tirelessly on behalf of the transbay project, culminating of the equipment -- commitment of recovery act funds. working with president obama, speaker pelosi has focused on creating american jobs and moving the economy in a new direction. under her leadership, congress passed tough wall street reform legislation to rein in big banks and protect consumers. historic health care reform is for promised achievement and she continues to be done energy, security to create jobs, combat climate change, and physician america to a clean energy economy. thank you, speaker pelosi for everything that you have done. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. thank you all very much. i accept y

again a perfect example that priorities given to moving vehicles verses pedestrian safety. in that area people with handicapped and mobility impairment have to travel long distances to cross the street. gridlock in san francisco is more of a day-to-day chore to maneuver third. third and folsom is when you find cars blocking part of the sidewalk of which pedestrians are required to cross. this is definitely not a good safe practice. i print these out to give them because there's an a pun dance of information to you and i hope you take the back of these photographs to take notes so when you go back to your community you continue the discussion on pedestrian safety. thank you for your attention this morning and have a good day. [applause]

that's our priority. that is not their priority. this is not about inter-party bickering. this is about major philosophical difference about whose side you're on. you don't like to think that. we come here to find our common ground. if we can't find it, we still have to move. i have never voted for a perfect bill in my life. i don't think anyone has. i wish it were not so stark. i wish the election wasn't so necessary for us to win. i really do. there should be more common ground. are we unhappy that, not at the -- the job creation has not gone as fast as we would like? we were digging out of a deep hole. we'll continue to fight. >> speaker pelosi, thank you for joining us. >> i look forward to welcoming you back again. congratulations to you. >> thank you.

they all seem like priorities. i was curious about that. president marshall: we will try to get you an answer to that after public comment. >> good evening. have not seen you in a couple weeks, other than on tv. i am disappointed. the rumor mill had a different assistant chief. all of you people must have seen "the guardian" today. i want to commend the commission, the chiefs -- eye was the first 1 months ago. when it first broke, i followed it like a rat. communicating, gary and i used to discuss this topic all the time. i call the tall. i called it six months ago. disciplinary action, everything was handled correct. i know the end result, but i will not go public. it was great work in a bad situation. the end result will be great. we will have the best crime lineup in the state. thank you. president marshall: next speaker, please? >> good evening, commissioners, mr. president. my name is rodney. i live a couple blocks down the street. i tried to visit you every time you come to my neighborhood. i would like to thank the commission for inv

you see them listed in priority order, so you will have the site, and then you will see two columns, and then you will also seen the work is proposed to be accomplished by a maintenance crew, or if this would be allocated to the job order contract process, which is managed by the capital division. one of the key deciding points to making that decision is the city code requires a certain level of work, beyond which -- i think it is set at about 140,000. the work has to be offered at a bid. it has to be bid out, so that means my first priority was chinese playground and to resurface the club house rules. the clubhouse was below grade, and since that is a specialized construction combination, we need a special contractor to do that. that is actually the only basketball court in chinatown, and there's a great demand for basketball in chinatown, so this became our number one priority, and it has been there for its useful life. no. 2, it is very large on a very small park. there was a landslide that occurred about a year and a half ago, and it is because of constant concern, because we nee

we have discussed priorities.what has come out of the long term planning process over the last several months. public priorities, commission priorities, staff concerns, and recommended levels of service goals. we spent the last three meetings talking about those. today we have set goals and levels of service that we can move forward with to get the program moving forward. to review, there are five goals. compliant, reliable, resilience and a flexible system. minimize flooding, benefits provided to impactive communities, modified systems to adapt to climate change, and lastly achieving economic and environmental sustainability. we will move into the expectations for today's workshop. today we are focusing on goals and level of service. really, this is an improvement program and a capital program that is the result of the master planning process that occurred over the last several years, ruling in all of your concerns and conversations here at the commission, identifying how we will meet the challenges of the future

and the 10th priority is public awareness and support. you know, one of the issues that we haven't included in the whole issue of media is the music industry and its role. ron, what would you say about that? i think the music industry plays a large role in how they can portray addiction and recovery. i listen to some of the music my kids listen to, you know, rap music. some of it's great; i like some of it, but a lot of it the words are horrible. it portrays drug use and sexual abuse. but then, on the other hand, i have great songs that i listen to about recovery, success stories in recovery. aerosmith's amazing; richie supa who wrote amazing also wrote in the rooms who won the prism award in 2009, which is fantastic. there are so many musicians in recovery today. well, nikki sixx; nikki sixx did a whole album, right, mark? absolutely. right. and richie supa is putting out an album now with dozens of recovering musicians from different groups we've all heard of since the 70s and they're producing it now and they're all written about recov

the stranger suspect case priorities -- is it a priority? san diego, yes, santa clara, it depends on trial needs. alameda county, as needed. our department, yes. definition of a backlog in san diego county means it is unassigned. in lapd, unassigned. to declare, unassigned. alameda, over 30 days. sfpd, unassigned. that is what i mean by industry standards. staff numbers and forensic biology unit. san diego county, 21 . the lapd, 27. santa clara county, 20. alameda, eight. our department, seven total. average number of new sex cases requested monthly. lapd, 112. santa clara, 20. alameda, three. san mateo, seven. our department, 17. that is our comparison with other agencies. what are the standard for the turnaround time? how long do these things take? we have a department bulletin, which is a policy, 10-054, which talks about the protocol for dna analysis. we look at a couple of different standards, one being immediate. it is an immediate request, within four to six weeks, we will turn around the case. we recently had one case that was turned

border security is one of my highest priorities. i represent 785 miles of the mexican border, more border with mexico than any other member of congress. as the vice chairman of the homeland security appropriations committee, we have made -- making our border more secure a high priority. earlier this month, the house passed supplemental appropriations bill that continued funding for operation iraq in afghanistan and it included $701 million in much-needed border security funding. this is funding that our men and women on the border are asking for and need to get the job done. we all know the violence in mexico has escalated. we need to ensure the u.s. borders are not left vulnerable. this new vulnerable is much smaller than the previous one that was cut by the senate. this bill does not have the operations -- a much-needed program that is supported by many bipartisan members. nonetheless, i support the chairman on this effort. i thank him for his leadership. and this bill will target funds just as the previous house-passed supplement