we are operating under an mou that they can block. commissioner slaughter: i think we're all frustrated the fbi is not here to answer some of these questions. i think that would help us. with respect to representation'' you are making, i have heard of the representations about compliance with 8.10. i still don't see how this language in the order that says the lot -- officers must be in compliance come if they're not -- i will leave it that. i think the language here in this bureau order can be improved upon. i also respect chief suhr and his effort to make sure there is no daylight between sfpd's obligations to being compliance with these important policies. >> rich -- with respect to the standards, the chart we presented to you we went over line by line with the fbi and said, is there anything here that is not accurate? they agreed it was accurate. they say we don't always apply those guidelines. we are more limited. what the guidelines say, the controlling documents, it is exactly, according to the agreement, what we showed you. sh

as it relates to an mou or city mandate. we will continue with vacation accrual limits. the disproportional accrual limits positively benefits against oppression retirees. out of the sample of nine suppression retirees examined, 6 had accrued vacation balances that exceeded 487 hours, and the above exhibit shows six examples of suppression retiree cruise vacation pale benefited from the higher of parliament of vacation accrual. colorado -- column a show's actual cruel, and b shows the recalculated amount -- colorado -- cooumn -- column a show's actual accrual. for the suppression employees retired in the allotted time using the proportion from the sample, is projected that at least 26 of these may have had vacation balances that exceeded 487 hours upon retirement. the maximum allowed vacation accrual had been 487 hours for suppression, the department would have saved an estimated amount of $146,000-plus, which is an average of $5,628 per employee, as stated earlier. what we recommended was that the department should determine whether vacation accruals for suppression emp

-- let's see, for payout -- you know, there was an overpayment of possibly $150,000 if you compare what you are paying versus what is required by the mou and the same thing with vacation accrual. you have an overpayment of $146,000. how was that decision made in terms of paying above what the mou

-- let's see, for payout -- you know, there was an overpayment of possibly $150,000 if you compare what you are paying versus what is required by the mou and the same thing with vacation accrual. you have an overpayment of $146,000. how was that decision made in terms of paying above what the mou they require? how does that happen? >> i just want to say again that we agree with the auditors' recommendation that these accruals share bid just upon retirement for non-suppression employees, but we would also like to note that in the report, the audit team reviewed 23 non- agression retirement payouts for fiscal year 2009-2010, and they performed a sample, and using the fire department figures, with vacation conversions that their figures, without, so they arrive at that difference of the four samples and took that average and used it as a multiplier we believe that figure is an extrapolation of those numbers and we are not in agreement there was an overpayment of $150,000. supervisor campos: let's say it's half that. how was it decided to pay an employee above what the m.o.u. requires? >> this is a longstanding practice and it's the assump

in addition, in the past year, the office of labor standards enforcement have entered into an mou so that we can implement cases against business cases as they move through their case process. with that, i am happy to take any questions. >> thank you. any questions? thank you very much. let's turn the hearing to public comment. let me call of your names. if you could please come up,walter, norman, chung, johannes, chen, chen, if you could please start lining up. please come forward. if you could please come up and you could begin to speak. lopez. juan, claud, brown, kate, any member of the public who would like to speak, please come up. the mic is yours. >> [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon supervisors over your lunch time. i am from the progress of workers of lyons. i am an activist in the tiny speaking community. -- chinese speaking community. >> [speaking foreign langueage] >> i work with low-income parents and i help them do referrals. i work with a lot of wage theft. >> speaking[speaking foreign la] >> they worked very hard to make a living for their families. they t

it is a new project to be here asked -- as an mou. i, for one, am very comfortable proceeding to this step, and i am sure we will be joined with lots of notice in do time. and with that, if i could have a motion? commissioner caen: i would like to move. vice president moran: is there a sudden? i will seconded. collins' favor? any opposed? the measure carries. -- all in favor? we need three votes, not a majority but the majority of the commission. commissioner courtney: i would like to move that we carry the item over. vice president moran: we can have a motion to move to continue it. opposed? it carries, said that will be continued to a future meeting. -- so that will be continued. secretary housh: item 12, the discussion possible action to approve the plans and specifications and award water and a prize water system approved a program funded a contract, the calaveras dam replacement project, a joint venture to construct a new earth and rock fill dam to replace existing calaveras dam in alameda county and perform project-related work

they recently rejoined and adopted an mou that we took content from in drafting this bureau order that i think

they recently rejoined and adopted an mou that we took content from in drafting this bureau order that i think meets a lot of the concerns that caused become -- the convening of this session. the department offered this bulletin. in it, members must identify themselves as members of -- as police officers, not federal agents. they work on terrorist cases that have a criminal maxus. the chief reviews all investigations on a quarterly basis and he is to meet with any change in fbi

they recently rejoined and adopted an mou that we took content from in drafting this bureau order that i think meets a lot of the concerns that caused become -- the convening of this session. the department offered this bulletin. in it, members must identify themselves as members of -- as police officers, not federal agents. they work on terrorist cases that have a criminal maxus. the chief reviews all investigations on a quarterly basis and he is to meet with any change in fbi command to explain these protocols within 30 days of that change in fbi command. we will continue to work with the fbi and hrc to engage in dialog regarding our members' roles and responsibilities and are receptive to this particular unit bureau order. we are happy to amend it further. as far as to night came, i wanted there to be something that was a standing protocol in place moving forward that i could represent to this body. president mazzucco: thank you, chief. the tone is that most of the concerns we heard regarding whether or not the memorandum of understanding from 2003 was different from the most recent

we have an mou with them. chairperson chu: thanks. >> i think that is it for me. i am going to turn it back over. >> just to conclude, perhaps where we started, the department has had obviously a challenging budget year to establish sources of revenue, reorganize, and implement the new revenue model. but it is paying off. due to hard choices we have made, we do have some good news in the context of a $4 million based budget cut. we will not be laying off any additional staff. no increases to existing fees for programs or permits. no reduction to facility operating hours. our goal is to continue funding our scholarship fund by 50% a year. we hope to be well over 300. we communicate about a scholarship fund. we're going to add a second partner apprenticeships class in september 2011. we have been in conversations with human services agency and tuition services and other agencies about a work force development program for playground embassadors. this would be a pilot with a small amount of money. we are interested in increasing the amount of youth we employ during th

should be a process that evaluates that a country is not in compliance, enter into, if necessary, an mou to address the deficiency, and allow for an octoberive mou. [applause] a reasonable system of diplomatic consequences must be available to the secretary of state and the president of the united states so no country may engage in the repeated violation of its treaty obligations without meaningful we view. in conclusion, and i appreciate the extraordinary amount of time this issue has been given by this committee, and i will tell you that as the prior committee hearings and commissioned hearings have made incredible impacts on the operation of domestic law in the united states, and so i congratulate the chairman and the members of this subcommittee for spending the time that they have. you're already aware that two of my clients, david goldman and mike call elias provided testimony today. i'm not the only family lawyer working to be sure children are protected, and i wringed when earlier there was a moment or two of concern about the motivation of lawyers, but i need to say that the ame

should be a process that evaluates that a country is not in compliant, enter into, if necessary, an mou which addresses the deficiency and allows for an objective review. [applause] a reasonable system of diplomatic consequences must be available to the secretary of state and the president of the united states so that no country may engage in the repeated and flagrant violation of its treaty obligations without meaningful review. in conclusion, and i appreciate the extraordinary amount of time that this issue has been given by this committee, and i will tell you that as the prior committee hearings and commission hearings have made incredible impacts on the operation of domestic law in the united states. and so i congratulate the chairman and the members of this subcommittee for spending the time that they have. you're already aware that two of my client, have offered testimony to you today. i am most certainly not the only family lawyer working to see that families and children are protected from the scourge of international parental abduction, and i cringed when earlier there was a mo

so we have been spending the last several months working with our city attorney an arts commission staff to revise the mou about how those dollars get spent. on june 20, we will get back to you with an overview about the work that has been happening at policy and resolution for your adoption, and by that point, we should have finalized the mou between the puc an arts commission that will realign those dollars, which ends up being millions of dollars to be more consistent with the puc's priorities. >> so we will be back next month, but you should have an answer to your questions for the last year-and-a-half. >> if you would like a preview, i am happy, but i know commissioner vietor wanted us to be brief today. >> in the mou, do you know any advance if we have any say sell about the approval of the arts that will be in our facilities? >> i do. [laughter] >> will you share with us? >> i would love to share with you. what we uncovered as part of the process is that in 2004, there was a city attorney opinion that let us know that the puc has full discretion over how our e

example of domestic violence which are genuine concerns and abuse which are concerns and by having an mouopposed to what we have seen in many, many of these cases, and that is pretext to avoid returns, can be verted out and the japanese legislators dealing with rewrite of their domestic law have the benefit of experts in the united states who are facile with these issues and create an objective and credible mechanism for ensuring such allegations are seriously addressed, mutual recognition encouraged, and preventing false allegations to reduce the effectiveness of the treaty. we have to deal with the issues of american service members and their faps and assist judge advocates with tools to advice american service members and japanese-american family members of reasonable and enforceable resolutions, and we have to assess japan's commitment in preantal abduction by setting standards that can be evaluated and can be addressed critically, if necessary. this provides a template for other countrying which are considering the steps approach ing signing on to the hague convention. we have other

reputation of the condition and preservation and as i think you said so eloquently the needs to be an mou with immediate critical to the resolution of existing cases involving children alleged to have been abducted to japan and abducted within japan as well as japanese children alleged to have been abducted through the united states. you and i went we were in japan made the argument repeatedly. we've done it here and you made it like i said during eloquently i wonder how our other witnesses might feel about that because my deepest fear will be japan gets all of the adelaide, praises appointed by the other g8 leaders for its commitment, and then when it comes time to implement all the existing families are left behind, and that which is agreed to becomes swiss she's so to speak, because it is riddled with loopholes to read what you want to start on that? >> i think that there is a genuine concern given what i have seemed as projected reservations and if there is not some dialogue immediately generated by some objective existence criteria provided that first dhaka this process will the law

commission meeting, and since that time, we want to give you an update with what is been happening with our arts enrichment realignment and revised mou that will be taking place

the mou before you formalizes the roles and responsibilities among the sfpuc, department of environment, an invisible transportation agency. these charging stations will be publicly acceptable throughout 13 city own garages. the charges are provided to the city free of charge through 2013. the facilities are customers of the power enterprise, and they pay the enterprise rate. approximately a range of facilities between 12 cents and 18 cents per kilowatt hour. during the term of the program, the power provided to the public for the charging sessions will be free, but the power enterprise will recover that cost through the facilities themselves. mta for example. beginning mid-year, the host agencies, including sfpuc, department of the environment, and municipal transportation, including others will be working together to develop more clarified rules about responsibility of ownership of the facility for the chargers, maintenance costs for future, to 2013, and we will -- we at the agency will collect the data from those chargers -- public chargers. we will be collecting the usage. we will be co

reflect these publicly accepted 2002 mou's, that you anticipate would be a significant issue, or maybe that the police commissioner has more experience than i have would be an obstacle to doing that conceptually. i know we don't have a resolution in front of us. >> the police department does not to resolution. i am not in the resolution business. i don't see how -- like what i did with the unit order, my desire was to incorporate everything as close as possible to closing the gaps between 8.10, the 2002 mou, and the 20 -- and a 2007 memo you. depending on whoever would be in that business of creating the resolution, that would be on them. >> the second part of that, mr. crew, you mentioned the portland resolution did not allow for any deputization. i am wondering if a resolution -- with that preclude deputization? >> the concept is something that the federal government provides to local entities. if you think about this, the police commission could pass a resolution saying we are going to notify that we are doing the transition, we are opting out of the mou in 60 days, here are the standards we want to apply, something like the 2002 mou, but the police comm

instrumental in helping us get the mou with tsa people to make sure we are serving our local states with one voice from dh is. >> thank you, sir. [inaudible] we have an excellent relationship with tsa and fema. we also have a close relationship with federal law enforcement intelligence communities and we have over 120 detectives and other officers at the jttfi new york and also have offices officers here at lx one and other federal agencies and law enforcement and public enforcement agencies. we have a very good relationship with the mta, the metropolitan transportation authority and the port authority, amtrak, long island railroad, new jersey transit and a host of various meetings that coordinates rail transit safety and security issues and we also have very good relationships with local law enforcement offices in the region through various programs. we have outreach and liaison relationships including joint training operations with other law enforcement offer -- offices so offices on several so i would say overall we have excellent relationships with with both federal, state and local. >> i would echo the same sentiment. the amount of communication

an adequate response following their assault. on march 23rd, 2011, rainn and the peace corps signed a memorandum of understanding or mou tiexiera education resources and training schools for risk reduction and responds. since the signing of our mou we have been asked to review training content and procedures. peace corps is in the process of updating and improving their response to victims of sexual assault we believe they are moving towards implementing some of these best practices. as the committee on foreign affairs is charged with general oversight of the peace corps we believe it should do the following -- enact legislation that will ensure the peace corps establish best practices for victim responds and include a mechanism for formalizing planning to address high staff turnover due to mandated appointment limits. we recommend peace corps expand on the progress being made with the hiring of a victim advocate with the addition of mobile victim advocates. these trained staff would be able to me immediately travel to the location of a volunteer who has been assaulted and provide on the ground help completing of the start model. staffer