in the otc additionally provides mediation as an alternative to discipline. in 2010 the otc facilitated 53 mediations. that reserve -- represent 8% of the cases be closed last year. the mediation program allows complete install resolve issues with the accused officers in person and a dispute resolution format. the goal of the mediation program is to bring the involved parties together in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. our mediation can be and have been conducted in languages other than english. participation in the mediation program is voluntary, and the complaint and complete it must agree to mediate for a mediation to go forward. i am proud to report that eligible officer participation in the mediation program is 95%. the mediation participation of san francisco police officers is the highest per capita of similar mediation programs in the united states. now i will share just a few statistics with you about the complaints we receive it 2010 and how we resolve those complaints. in 2010 there were 854 complaints. this represents a 16% reduction in

additionally, they did landscaping and means projects -- maintenance projects. others help with habitat restoration projects that land'' end, the battery and of the presidio, and at the pacific co. on the curled vincent, and they collected 2 tons of crushed cans worth $200,000 for charities. why is that even more significant? because the aircraft carrier had just returned to the first american corp., san francisco, after a seven-month deployment and an historic tour to the middle east. yet, the sailors found the time to go out and do this particular project. lastly and certainly not least, the visits to our hospitals. sailors, marines, and coast guard visited our hospitals in palo alto, san francisco, and also san francisco general hospital children's ward. having attended last year, i got the same for this year. the kids, doctors, nurses, they did not want these sailors, marines, and coast guard to leave. most importantly, it was a two- way street. all of them said the same thing. it was great to be involved with the community, to do these projects, and to come

additionally, the plan has a comprehensive set of transportation policies that go beyond the physical. in terms upper -- in terms of parking, the downtown, even prior to the downtown plan, has had very strict parking allowances. there are no required parking minimums in the downtown, and they're currently is a fairly low caps. nonetheless, we feel and working with the mta feel that even this is potentially too much, that keeping parking at a minimum in the core of the downtown is why we have stayed off major congested and are commuting in the downtown in the last 30 years and that we should pursue the and tighten down even more as we get buildings that are substantially bigger than we have seen in the past. the plan does propose to reduce by half the amount of non- residential parking allowed and does propose that the city should investigate and pursue an overall absolute parking staff. the plan does support the notion output congestion pricing as a necessity in the future to keep digestion down in the downtown manager that transit can run and the other modes can be accommodated. the

additionally, i think within this report -- i think that instead of reporting directly to the committee, they already have the monthly meeting where the issues can be discussed and coordinated. in the spirit of collaboration and said of one body trying to check on the other. thank you. >> i am wayne barnett. one of the biggest issues is not the training itself, this is about providing the overtime to have the training. we have the trainers, and you can look at the numbers of the multiple services, but one of the biggest challenges is this 24-hour facility, -- you brought this. >> can we just -- could you call to see what is going on? i apologize. my apologies. thank you so much for being here. i want to make certain that everyone is safe. we will take a break and we will come back. >> thank you for the patients. for those of you who are watching, and looks like it was a 3.9 earthquake, and this happened over the hayward fault in berkley. nothing that we have heard so far here. please line up again. i was going to say -- public comment is closed on this item. i do want to thank him for b

and the oversight of the program with greater public access and additionally it grants more developers with the 1% art requirement. and the establishment of the art work trust will beautify the active uses there. and section 1409 is amended san francisco beautiful hopes the arts commission will continue to involve partners and how to spend it and necessary art enhancements. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am george williams. as a former member of the planning department staff i was involved in the development of the art work and the open space and i along with ava lieberman did an evaluation of the downtown privately owned accessible spaces and commonly referred to and i am concerned as drafted the proposed legislation will lessen the impact of the existing program in the downtown. and the art commission suffers from severe funding and the administration of the public art works and other programs. and with existing program with no cost to the city and the private art works and art works that are enjoyed and will be enjoyed for years to come.

additionally, approximately 250 training exercises, workshops city-wide, have been conducted with first responders and other key city officials and many of these training and exercises have gone well beyond our government agencies. they now agree non-government, a eighth-based, and community- based organizations, businesses, and schools. we have revamped our city's outdoor public warning system, using homeland security funding. and today, there are 109 sirens with voice and tone capabilities located throughout the city. as part of our regular exercise on tuesday afternoons in our afternoon testing, we record announcements that are in english, followed by spanish and chinese in some of the areas that we have also enacted alert, saidsf anaya personal use on a weekly basis, to make sure that things are correctly being sent out to all of our citizens who sign up. that text-based system delivered emergency information to cell phones, pda's, e-mail account, and 16,500 have signed up for a largesf. we had our award winning website, 72hours.org to help create emergency plans, bill disaster kids

additionally, she is the host of "beyond the headlines," which takes an in-depth look at issues. a longtime volunteer for the san francisco beat of voters, she is a past recipient of our "women who could be president" award. we are honored to welcome cheryl jennings. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you for this great turnout. you have such an impressive turnout. we have 12 candidates in the form that we are going to use, for those of you who are familiar with the league, we have a one minute opening statement from each candidate, then questions from each journalist. raise your hand to let people know where you are sitting. the journalists are going to ask questions of the candidates, questions of their choice. they may ask follow-up questions. it bit different, we may have a lightning round within this section. this is confusing to me, so if i get confused, they will straighten me out. this will entail cancers, a simple yes or no, with follow-up questions. not everyone will be included. we apologize for that ahead of time. all candidates will be timed with a maximum o

additionally, that's what i wanted to say. >> john. can you commit to that? this is a very good of example of where we can stop the infection. right? we know it's there. so let's stop it before it becomes a disease. can you commit, you have worked with people. this is something that has been raised. >> i am committed to continuing the conversations >> you had another question. >> we would love to hear commitment from other folks. just to put it out there. we are talks about immigrants. a lot of people we are working with are undocumented. people do not trust the police. especially our young folks. we had a person beat up by the police. we are hoping in the future. the police department can think of how the immigration rates. it's not proimmigrant. especially undocumented youth are afraid for their safety and aren't coming forward. >> i would like to address some of the issues on our undocumented youth in san francisco. it's important that we protect all people regardless of their immigration status. the police and rates that have happend and been on going. th

it's additionally personal to me because i have 2 children in the unified school district. we do take this very seriously. back to 2001. there was a mtap program. we have dozens of individuals who are out there to work specifically with schools and work close with schools. they have the individuals in this program, primarily in middle schools and highs. they have relationships with school security personnel, the idea being, if we do get the information, we are able to redeploy these individuals to head off these conflicts. one of the things we tried to do was one, we increased mtap personnel and this year, where you hear about the cuts as it relates to staffing. we have not reduced personnel assigned to that. it also is responsible for parking and traffic and in that unit is school crossing guards. school safety as it relates to students getting to and from school. we want to make sure we protect everyone out there. the challenge is staffing and having enough people as well as education. one of the programs that he we implemented was electronic devices. it used to be ipods.

additionally, some community gardens and nonprofits simply do not go forward because they have not got the capital to deal with the installation. they can pay for the water, but the meter cost is a hard point. the legislation would set aside $100,000 with an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each award. the awards would not actually be cash for the entity. it would be funding within the puc to install the meters and related service items. there is a program laid out here where we would get applications. and move forward with installing meters as appropriate. >> do we have the staff employed already? do we have staff employed to do this already. was this part of our budget? >> we have staff that administers various grant programs. this was another simple one that we would just add into that. commissioner moran: the meters that we are installing -- are we creating new customers or new accounts? >> yes, there would be an account for each meter. commissioner moran: if i put a big garden in my back yard and had a separate meter, with that new meter be attached to my water bill? >> or moran,

additionally, we also have 364 complaint cases out of 804 complaints submitted to the two- year period of 2009 and 2010. members of our committee, the detailed spreadsheet from which each of these 364 complaints were carefully examined. all of our committee was well acquainted with each complaint and the tracking numbers attached to them. he states that the grand jury pose a complete review was based on a small number of cases. unless you think that 360 is a small number. our calculations show that of 364 complaints received, only 36 were actual complaints. and at a couple of comments. he does not reflect in has, that members were in contact with him during the investigative process. he suggests that most of our interaction was with the whistle-blowers' themselves. our interaction was primarily by e-mail. it should also be noted that only after the civil grand jury was well into its investigation of the whistleblower program, that the policy and procedures manual would be updated after five years and there were few benchmark studies being done, but only during that time as we began the

additionally, we did some market analysis to be sure that, in our opinion, this rate is consistent with market, and it is from what we found, considerably under market. finally, the budget analyst report, there is a suggested slight amendment to cap the amount of $54,000, and we're certainly comfortable with that a man that suggestion. certainly, we're here to answer any questions you might have. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> madam chair, members of the committee, as we point out on the bottom of page three of our report, and as mr. updike has indicated, the additional rent for the renovations would be $1,500 per month for the requested 36-month lease extension. that would computer out to the $54,000 because of the total monthly rent would be $30,800. that is a base rent of $29,300 plus the $1,500. and also, as indicated, we are recommending that you amend the resolution to add the language between lines two and three on page 3 to read -- for the result of the human services agency shall not read -- be irresponsible for any renovation cost above the estimate the cost of $54,00

we have parks and recreation and additionally opened one of the new parks is the presidio. we only county open space and all of the developed land. we wanted to make certain that we get away from the standard and think about how we make certain that this is really usable. this example is one corner of the city and this is a great open space resources getting the numbers very high, but this is not necessarily a space that a lot of people use, so what we have developed is, falling on the existing road analysis -- where do we prioritize the acquisitions and renovation dollars? you have worked extensively on this so i think that this will be very familiar to you. the first is population density. what are the most dense neighborhoods? you see those with these colors here. where is the lowest income level throughout the city? and then concentration of youth, one second, this is not working. >> sometimes it takes a mantle of the graphics can you do the overhead? >> there you go. i don't know if you can see this too well. this is the concentration of the seniors and next, we looked

additionally, the application to plan and does not include meaningful statistical evidence to back up the claim for dropped and blocked customer calls in the neighborhood. for example, of verizon claims as many as 50 failures per hour, but there is no explanation of how many calls when through during the same time. the application also does not explain the cost of dropped calls. how many problems are there that adding new antennas will not resolve, like customers using cell phones with a gun charge batteries? -- with uncharged batteries? exhibit b in your packets details all the information verizon must provide to prove it has a problem with capacity among adjoining cell phone sites. unless verizon is willing to present this information, the cannot prove a problem with capacity in the richmond district. verizon also claims these antennas are needed to provide emergency services. however, the emergency response plan explicitly advises against reliance on self phones during emergencies, and lists eight non-cellular, emergency communications systems that will be in place during and natur

additionally, the loss of parking. >> colleagues, we have received the report from the citizens' advisory committee. is there any question? let's open it up to public comment. thank you, mr. davis, for your service. public comment is closed. item number four? >> item #4. recommend adoption of san francisco's project priorities for the 2012 regional transportation improvement program. this is an action item. supervisor campos: and we have the report. >> i will present this item. i will try to keep it simple. every few years, the california transportation commission adopted a program that is a five-year program of projects. there are a number of different state and federal funds programs that funneled through. 75% are programmed by agencies like this entity. that work is done for the approval of the metropolitan transportation commission. they will approve bay area regional transportation improvement programs. they are all compiled together and caltrans sets the priorities. collectively, all of that stuff is in the state transportation improvement program. we are hoping that with the budget

the response to complaints to inspection citations and the enforcement of code violations, and additionally, what strategies can be used to increase the efficiency in addressing these issues and the capacity to take legal action against the egregious property mayor lee: thank you. what we are addressing code enforcement issues, we need to divide the conversation into two conversations -- vacant buildings and occupied buildings. for obvious reasons, we -- within the occupied building category, we prioritize by buildings that pose the greatest risk to health and safety of the occupants or neighbors. for a vacant buildings, the city provides to pathways -- we give building owners and opportunity to register with our vacant building program. to register, building owners must pay $795 in annual fees and bring their buildings up to code. once registered, we do not enforce any more violations. because of this program, 85% of the buildings on the vacant and the banding building list are registered and in good conditions. for buildings whose owners refuse to register or do not qualify for registrati

to present a symposium that will feature a keynote from fema's deputy administrators and will additionally include a panelist discussion and question and answer session from the audience regarding the aspect of whole community preparedness and disaster recovery itself. that will take place beginning at 8:30 on the 17th, as i mentioned before, here in city hall, and it is by invitation only. the second event we also have coming up is the fourth annual great california shake out, the drop, cover, and hold drill that will be held on october 20 at 10:30 a.m. right now, we have slightly over 290,000 attendees registered for that particular drill. we would like to exceed our number from last year, which was 350,000. we are looking this year to cap off at about 375,000. we would appreciate any help you can give us from your department level in creating back milestone -- creating that milestone. thanks. >> thank you. any questions? hearing none, i will just open it up to disaster council members. announcements? things you're doing in your own departments or agencies? >> i represent the building ow

additionally, i will mention that the ratio of dwelling units in this building, to a parking spaces, has diminished and decrees to since the original proposal. there has been a lot of confusion in the communication about what this development was. i recall from the april 2010 meeting of the planning commission that i attended myself, there was some confusion among the commission members as to what the designation of the building was. some commission members thought that the building was exclusively for senior living. there were reminded that time that in fact it wasn't strictly so. a lot of the residents in the neighborhood have in their minds and i don't know how it got there, residents thought that they were going to see, as we just heard, assisted living building. the point that i am making is that the communication about what this development is has been very confusing to the residence in the area. also, i let the record from the april 2010 meeting and there was a note that there was no public opposition to the project. i was confused by that because i spoke at that meeting in op

additionally, this would have to be a priority for the program regionally. we are only one of the transit offices operating the clipper program. we have to stand in line for our needs along with the other issues in front of clipper. with the budget analysis report, included were some areas that we do not feel we agree with. one of the first ones is they felt we could reduce our number of fares sectors and test savings of $370,000. we do not think this is the case. we are very low on tfi staff and we believe the staff would have some safety and customer service issues as well. we do not believe that assumption is realistic. we also think we will have to incur some administrative effort in marketing and communication costs. things like, what happened to the clipper card? how will we handle that? we also have to work on marketing this program around schools, in terms of educating the use and how to use the system. we would have to work with the school district. the budget analysis estimate also assumes that $1.4 million in that you provide will continue and tha

additionally, what we plan to do is the academy of hospitality and tourism will be part of, so the students can share with other students, faculty, the neighborhood, and others to come by and what to look to the artwork we have. >> by working with the students, we hope to raise awareness of the collection and foster stewardship. we brought diego rivera to the city. i think the wpa art work is characterized by stylized robustness and a pervasive occupation with a historical. in this panel, we have a depiction of george washington moving west. what is interesting about it is the image of lewis and clark here is in black and white, something that is occurring in the future, painted as though it was in the past. what is interesting about it is the very obvious conclusion of slavery. the number of students were expressing unease around some of the themes. the additional mural would be placed in the school, one with more positive representation of the student body. in 1974, they completed three panels that were placed in the library -- in the lobby. they depict native, latino, asian american, and

additionally, you are allowed to go above 3 feet in the required rear yard when slopes are between 15% at 70%. there is the calculation that you would go to the property line, 3 feet above grade a, take a 45 degree angle, and the deck cannot penetrate that plane. that is exactly what the permit holder did, and the plans from the retaining wall had a very thorough planning and analysis. they demonstrated that it complied with the relative code requirement. in regard to what is or what is not natural gray, we reviewed the maps and it appears that the retaining wall based upon a first review appears to hold off what was apparently natural gray. i'm understand the concern about that, he'll be happy to go to the site and continue that evaluation, but it is on a separate permits. it is not on the permit that is before you. any action that we would take would be a suspension of the previous permit. that is where we are at this point, and i think that has been explained to you by the appellant and by the permit holder, the real issue seems to be about landscaping. that is something that is bey

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