i want to say the advisory board works very well.is a good opportunity for the police department to get different input on what is going on and what affect neighborhoods. a month to bring a perspective we do not always get a chance to do in other forums. as far as community policing, i am from britain originally, hence the extra. there is one thing i think is important to this discussion. the community are the police and the police are the community. i think you have to recognize the two elements of community and police. i think that is a very important concept. the public has to become more involved. the youth were talking about the police being unapproachable. part of that is walking up to the officer will that are on the beat and saying hello and getting to know them. that is on the community as much as the police department, to be approachable and to be willing to listen. i think that is all i have to say. thank you for having this. >> my name is alfredo najila iii. i am the third director of the mission to empower youth. i am al

i was on the advisory board in 2006 under heather fong. we spent a year talking about community policing and what it is in creating the definition. some of the things that came up tonight we did discuss and some of the things are not on there. what is important is implementation. a lot of things we talked about over the years i have not been addressed. what happened to us -- we were kind of lucky because we did have a beat officer for seven years, which created a lot of trust. we had a very good experience with the officers. it is more than just a beat officer. it is not just one thing. there are a lot of different pieces that have come together to create the community things. the most important thing is communication. i think seeing our beat officer and the communication he had with everyone created that trust, which led to collaboration. i think the cab is very important. i think we need to empower it. i also think we need the legislation to be able to continue community policing to make it work in the long term. >> my name is david delp

training for captains to oversee the advisory board are ongoing. an officer of the committee relations unit is a coordinator, and they work alongside with the captain. this capt. is in charge of the youth form. we have different captains in different venues, working closely with the forums. quarterly, or when a situation arises that demands immediate attention, they meet with the chief of police. community policing advisory boards are initiated by the committee, and they encompass many community groups, such as at risk youth and promote a sense of community ownership and pride. that is what we're striving for. it is an improvement in communications and relationships between the police department and community. the young lady who was from -- i forget the name of it -- we showcased her work. we did a community project with her, or she had members of the committee do an art contest to lower car break-ins. we did that project, it was very successful, and that is just one example where the community police advisory board participated, had an idea, and d

i was lucky enough to be working on the advisory board. i was the person that set of the western addition. it is an excellent idea and it should stay. the one thing that concerns me is the list for people to be on that board seemed like it appeared from nowhere. the police department decides who gets to be on the board. maybe that should be stated. another thing i noticed is that most people have a lot of political power in the community. if each person has political power, it is seen as someone that can bring in a whole group. it didn't have the grass-roots elements. they already have a bunch of hats. there is a lot of people from the community that can make an impact. the final thank is that with foot patrols, i feel like ross mirkarimi is trying to get foot patrols. the gang injunction was on, the police department started posting police officers. that was a great idea. you did not feel right. the foot patrol as when it is convenient for the police officers. [chime] >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors, commissioners. m

>> as far as that goes, every station as a community policing advisory board. that consists anywhere from 15 up to 25 members of the community that work with the captain directly to put together community policing initiatives and processes within that district itself. we have our community forum. there is a citywide group. in my form, i have the asian- pacific islander forum. we focus on citywide issues that affect asians and pacific islanders. also, our captain attends at least four, up to 10 communities in district. it is everything ranging from -- most are broken up into smaller groups. they attend those meetings, also. we have the pal program in place. we work with juvenile probation. we work with our gang task force, our sro's, to put together things for kids who are at risk. there are a lot of different things out there. i am not familiar with all of them. i have my own little niche. i know that we are continuing trying to think of new ways to engage the communities and to have them be a part of this whole policing effort. supervisor cohen: you mentioned

but the studies with their science advisory board. we have used a transparent consensus-based process to scope this study. we expect the science advisory board to have a meeting on this study parameters on monday. all of that has been opened. we have vetted the people who sit on the board to make sure they don't have undue conflicts of interest so that we don't have folks later worried that the study was somehow skewed. with all those safeguards that we have put in place i'm certainly not going to be close minded to say we don't need to look to make sure that we are doing everything right. so that is why i am going to go tomorrow to pennsylvania, to philadelphia to our office to try to understand what the state of play is there. the last question was about the national study. the budget this year calls for $6 million for that national study and i think congress last year or the year before, can't remember, were authorizing for your leadership in ensuring we have the study money. the only thing i will say is we have to spend money wise

. >> item 1, hearing on the community police advisory boards at san francisco police departments stationed throughout the city. requesting the chief of police or other appropriate persons give a general update on the community advisory boards, including the structure, the goals, evidence that the goals are or are not being met, and the level of community participation. item two, hearing on the state of community policing in san francisco, requesting an update from the chief of police and mayor's office on the status of the efforts outlined in the november 2006 report and to clarify whether or not the department continues to embrace community policing strategies. item three, hearing on the update of the selection process for the san francisco police department chief. chairperson mirkarimi: thank you. i want to welcome various members of the san francisco police commission as well as the police chief and many senior members of our illustrious police department and district attorney's office, and a number of other city advisory groups and commissions. a few ground rules. we have called the tw

she sits on heat advisory board of a major german bank and knows how the old boy network functions. > the positions on the company boards are often filled on the golf course. regardless of attitude. >> one company has managed to increase women in top jobs without government quotas, but it remains a rare situation in the landscape. norway has gone the furthest in demanding that women share the boardroom with men. in 2006, a law went into effect that mandates that at least four out of 10 positions be filled with women on coorate advisory boards. if they do not comply, they face heavy fines, even closure. it has transformed the face of business in norway. >> in oslo, this looks very different five years ago. but then, not one woman was on the supervisory board. but after 2007, quota meant two men had to vacate their chairs for women -- the quota meant that. >> at first, we were skeptical. but they bring with them many new points of view that we men have not seen before. that benefits the company and our product line. >> there are special courses to show up-and-coming female board members

a resident of the western addition as well as the community advisory board. i was born and raised here in san francisco. the relationships that i developed it with the police at a very young age was in my neighborhood where i knew the officer that was patrolling. as well as the officers that were involved with the schools. it is those early relationships that i developed with the police the allowed me not to be afraid of the police or dislike the police. it was very sad to hear how they use at the beginning of this meeting -- youth at the beginning of this meeting felt as respected by the police. they allow them to be able to make those relationships at a young age. that is where those feelings developed, at a young age. i know that with all the cbo's, working with the youth, we need to keep up with the police to have them develop those relationships with the use of the way that the cbo's do. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> i work with the coalition of homeless here in san francisco. we are the community. lead the committee and the commis

police advisory board. you will get an update from each district captain. they do not like to dispatch from the station. they want to get the complaint to the 0123 if it is appropriate. the dispatcher would have to decide whether garbage is an important issue for the police officers. i tis a conversation that we need to have. but we can enumerate many areas, especially in my district, where garbage is dumped. for instance, yesterday morning, i went to get my newspaper, and sure enough, after we talked about it on saturday, somebody dumped a big bag of garbage right across the street from my house. this is not amazon hard for mclaren park or balboa park station. somebody just toss it out -- tossed it out. if you go to amazon park tuesday morning, probably before 7:00, you will see that the garbage cans and big garbage cans are overflowing. tuesday is the day that they pick up garbage. people inevitably are going and dumping their garbage in parks. mandel is notorious for having illegal garbage dump on the st

on the advisory board. there's though question about that. >> reporter: his website says his company is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the millions in government loans. he didn't want to talk about it. >> i can't speak to that. i'm so sorry. >> reporter: we're out in public. >> in addition to the cold shoulder from mr. westly, the white house said we have it all wrong. politics has no role in who gets the billions of dollars for coveted loans. for green energy company startups. it's all about merit, they say, diane. >> good to see you tonight, brian. thank you. >>> this is a story you'll remember. thousands of parents and children held their breath at seaworld in florida today, as tilikum, the giant whale who drowned his trainer a year ago, was brought back to the show. matt gutman watched the spectacle in orlando. >> reporter: it started with the dhants. chants. with the trademark splash, killer whale tilikum's first time back in the pool since he grabbed his trainer's pony tail. >> jumped up and

community policing advisory boards allow them to hold regular meetings with the police chief, and this is important because whatever problems they are facing, they can share with us, hopefully, if -- hopefully before it festers into a larger problem. it is key that we maintain that open partnership. police district cabins have e- mail, they post issues on the internet, and they keep their membership or their committee members updated on what it is that is going on in their neighborhood, crime tips, and tips about crimes that have occurred in their areas. assistant captains have meetings with their stations, they are wheelchair accessible, and encourage all members to attend and have their voices heard. at every police district station has bilingual and multilingual officers to act as interpreters. at each station has public forms translated into common foreign languages. each district station makes available its contact email, including the captain's e-mail to the public, the committee to relations unit, -- the committee relations unit, to be sure that people's needs are met and handle

community policing advisory boards allow them to hold regular meetings with the police chief, and this is important because whatever problems they are facing, they can share with us,pe

we expect the advisory board to have a meeting on study parameters. all of that have been open, we have vetted the people to make sure they don't have undo conflicts of interest and folks later worry the study was skewed. with all of the safeguards that we have put in place, i am certainly not going to be closed minded to say we don't need to look to make sure we are doing everything right. so i am -- that's why i'm going to go tomorrow to pennsylvania. to philadelphia, to our office to try to understand what the state of play is there. your last question was about the national study. the budget this year called $6 million for the national study. i think congress last year or the year before, i can't remember, for authorizing it and for ensuring that we have the study money. the only thing i'll say is we have to spend study wisely. i will say the national study should be the only study served. after the process that opened that transparent and vigorous to try to outline the study, i want my research and development to understand what additional work i

and we put in place the start of community advisory boards. there's san francisco safe neighborhoods. there are a lot of people out in the community that we can draw upon. and i think that we need to do that. and we need to do it of course work with the board of supervisors. we need to take a very pro-active leadership role ourselves as a commission. and so therefore i second postponing this conversation and getting a better grasp on this ourselves. president mazzucco: commissioner chan. commissioner chan: i'm going to maybe flip orders with commegser -- i've already spoken once -- with commissioner -- i've already spoken once. president mazzucco: go ahead. >> i should explain a little bit more. i thought that hillary ronan who is a legislative aide had worked out to all the commissioners and we were c.c. aide and if i'm wrong then i'm wrong. i did bring copies of the ordinance that was introduced yesterday and will pass it out. also the one sentence or three sentences or resolution that i drafted that i want to invite everyone on this commiss

have made mistakes, and one man was not one of them, but mistakes were made, and the previous advisory board could not come to a decision on the appropriate design, even after some simplification of the design at their request. now, just before this project was to go before the planning commission, they asked that the eir be done over from scratch because it was decided that it was mistaken in not calling it a the facto demolition.-- a de facto demoliton. -- demolition. there were vacations, changes in jobs and assignments, and that was mostly responsible for this amount of time. i say mostly because mr. zillman had to deal with some life threatening illness. the planning department recently gave you some yellow highlighting examples from the interior guidelines, some from some standards, some from the reconstruction standards. they are very different, but i would maintain that perhaps neither should be applied. this is a special situation, or perhaps, from each, but let me talk about the a little bit. the rehabber standards are supposed to be used when there is some building left -- the reh

with the landlords and a number of merchants in the corridor now with the urban and i sit on the advisory board so i know about the organization and there are organizations working to improve the corridors in the legislation that will go a long way in helping them in that regard. president olague: it would be great to hear from mowd in the redevelopment areas with a later hearing or something with a memo from staff. commissioner amount ant? commissioner antonini: i'm going to be supportive but generally believe that the resieshl uses and restrict t it more might have a desirable effect and things that have happened under the scenario and pointed out that the restaurants that are drawing people in there and certainly people drawn in and other businesses and people see it might be desirable and think maybe we're going to want to live there and to some degree along fillmore and that is what' going to drive it and i don't see any harm with this as long as it isn't restrictive it that excludes the businesses or uses that might end up adding vitality to the neighborhood and as a supervisor pointed ou

i have been appointed to the back streets advisory board. our charge was to come up with some suggestive policies strategies. lastly, i was in her the bioscience task force. we had years to come up with a policy suggestion. i've had experience and i think we have served in these rounds. i will say that the housing representative to the committee, -- at died about 8 months ago. i would bring myself to u.s. someone from the housing community. i have a couple of kids, i've been in the city for about 19 years. thank you for your consideration. >> are there any questions? seeing none, we will open it up for public comment. thank you for being here. i don't know if you want to make any comments to the committee. >> i am the director for the mayor's office of housing. i will not be speaking in any -- in favor of any candidate. we have three seats, including the one that is currently occupied by the incumbent. we have been short two members. we will be making recommendations for the block grant funds. the house of repetitive has suggested a cut in f