mr. henderson. mr. controller, can you please note that it is the intent of this committee to set the recommendations from the budget legislative analyst and this department. thank you, director henderson. good luck with the rest of the job and thanks for taking on this responsibility. >> thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. let's hear from the superior court. could we have the b.l.a. report, please. >> the department's proposed $34,614,412 budget for fiscal year 2019-20 is $250,985 or .7% more than the fiscal year 2018-19 of $34,363,427. the department's proposed 34,934,097 budget for fiscal year $20-21319,685 or .9% more than the mayor's proposed fiscal year budget. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $20,000 in fiscal year 2019-20. of those reductions, they're all ongoing savings. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget for fiscal year 20-21 total $20,000. all of the $20,000 in recommended reductions are ongoing savings. this would still allow an increase of .9% in the depart

mr. henderson? i have one. i see you have 45 positions in your office? >> yes. >> chair fewer: so i wasn't actually under the impression that your office was that large. how many cases are you looking at? >> i'm so glad you asked that. part of the reason you presumed that the office wasn't that large was because until i came in, we had so many f.t.e. positions, some remained open more than two years. some of the efficiencies are the speed as which -- at which we conduct independent investigations. in the past, 16 to 30 cases that we held in the past were expired jurisdiction, meaning they took over a year, and we just lost the cases. since coming in and filling those f.t.e.s with the investigators, we've had zero loss of jurisdiction in old cases. so we've sped up the amount of time that we spend on cases, but more importantly, we take on more cases. our caseload has gone up, in some quarters more than 30% for a number of other reason, but that's the 45 number and why it's much bigger -- >> chair fewer: so what is your caseload, mr. henderson? >> the cur

mr. henderson. >> thank you. >> chair fewer: all right. let's have the fire department now, and do we have chief nicholson here? oh, she just went to the bathroom. oh . sorry. said that over the microphone. that's fine. everyone needs a biobreak. okay. come on up. okay. are we ready to start? hello, chief. thank you for joining us today. we are setting your timer for five minutes. if you need more time, we can allow it, but we understand there's a big sporting event going on at 6:00 tonight, so we are rushing out of here. mr. clerk, please set the timer for five minutes for our fire chief. thank you. >> chief nicholson: thank you so much, chairperson fewer. jeanine nicholson, chief of department. i will try to be as succinct as possible yet informative. >> chair fewer: great. thank you. [inaudible] >> chief nicholson: the next is an i.s. programmer. and then, the last is fire protection engineers. and what i can say about this is they're backfilled temporarily with our h-4 inspectors because there is the need for that work. but the problem

mr. henderson is shaking his head. we keep it very clean and nobody is allowed near the crime scene, no one is allowed near the officers. it is really well done. the difference is the d.a. takes the lead. the reality at the time, it does take time. we had some of these cases with the das -- with the d.a.'s office before they would close their case, and the d.a. was the chief at the time, and he said that was unacceptable. he complained, and now they have gotten much better. it is still not as good. we had an officer involved shooting involving an officer at the airport, and san mateo county closed at the airport in six weeks. we were impressed by that. it was a complex case. i know there is a dedicated unit to do this, but they are complex , and even more complex by video, video on the street, video of the officers. it doesn't take a lot of time. my perspective is you want to do it right, six months seems very reasonable to me, these cases are complex. a lot of witnesses, a lot of people being witnessed -- being watche

mr. wade henderson. he was the president of the leadership conference on human and civil right and a great hero for many years. thank you for your attendance and your years of work. mr. hillary shelton was here earlier and they were a team. he was the naacp and he left. miss dean, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i thank you for having this hearing. as troubling as this topic is, i can't tell how you how glad that we're here today. i can't tell you how glad this conversation is taking place. i thank my congresswoman from texas, miss jackson lee, for her leadership on this legislation. we're here to acknowledge the terrible wrong in history. to recognize the continuation of those injuries and that's one area i want to examine quickly if i can and discover a remedy to these atrocities. some measure of healing for this country. if i could take a look in the time that i'm allotted at two things. mr. coates, i wanted to ask you about the ongoing predatory practices. i happen to be a member of

mr. billy henderson had a passion for flying planes since he was a young man. as a matter of fact, he used to fondly say he started flying in 1946, when he was 16 years old, and began legally flying 20 years later in 1968. mr. spano: billy turned his passion into a life purpose, and in 1974, he and four others created son and fun, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting aviation education in central florida. sun and fun has grown from hosting a small fly-in which attracted 900 attendees to the largest annual convention in florida. every year more than 100,000 visitors come to lakeland to watch pilots such as the blue angels, show off the best that aviation has to offer. sun and fun only brings -- not only brings in $60 million to central florida every year but also has an impact beyond the convention. the organization operates the florida air museum, which houses over 100 aircraft and sponsors over $2 million per year in scholarships for aviation education. the skies over lakeland will never be the same without you, billy henderson, but they will be marked by your l

henderson from the department of police accountability. >> please call the first item. >> line item one, presentation of certificate of asset appreciation, action. mr in his assistance in the rest of a potential kidnapping suspect -- assistance in the arrest of a potential kidnapping suspect. >> okay. , members of the police commission, chief, i would like to thank you for taking this opportunity to recognize somebody in our community that did in extraordinary event and an extra ignored -- extraordinary situation. on april 12th of 2019, at 1224 -- at 12:24 a.m., police were dispatched to a call of the person who attempted to kidnap a small child. once we got on scene, we did quickly determine that the suspect was detained by mr. walker here, and then backing it up, it was a mother, and she was walking her 2 -year-old child on castro and 17th street. she had another newborn baby on her chest when the suspect grabbed her child and walked away. this happened directly in front of mr. walker as he was walking with his own child and his wife. this person, the suspect quickly ran away, and without any hesitation, mr. walker gave chase, having to leave his