the police to barman is committed to being a world-class police department. a leader among urban police departments by hiring and promoting talented officers and professional staff, employing the highest standards of performance, the best practices in policing and accountability, and reflecting the values of world-class city that it deserves. we have brought the city's violent crime rate down to historic lows and implemented in a bit of crime-prevention strategies to keep san francisco the safest big city in our country. our officers have dedicated long hours to protecting our citizens and have shown a commitment to finding better methods to deliver police services to victims of crime. volunteer time, both on and off duty to provide at-risk kids an opportunity and positive attitude with in their neighborhoods. a goal to be a mentor to new officers as they begin a career in a dangerous yet rewarding profession. with the expiration of the deferred retirement option program, the so-called drop program, the department is certain there will continue to be signific

a really open in barman. nobody has an office. no exterior walls so we can enjoy the view. we are really proud of our office team and everybody involved. with that, thank you all for joining us to celebrate. it is really great to be building this company here in san francisco and that the mayor and the city's support. we could not think of a better place to call home. thank you again for coming. [applause] i have a little something for you. come on up. i will hand these over. welcome to the drop box family. >> nice colors, too. [applause] >> all yours. >> thank you. thank you very much. i wanted to come over here to congratulate you and i asked for the starting of the company, but i wanted to make sure that you knew that i was coming here to congratulate you on two tech awards. that is wonderful. congratulations. as you all may know, there are a lot of great reasons to be here. as soon as i walk in, icy phil cosby. i knew phil when he was just one shot. now he is inspiring the kids and he has done well. he is hiring people at the same time. if i am not at his shop one block

>> we do have to who are in the department of an barman. we just promoted one to a leader who is leading the environment now team. supervisor cohen: what is the criteria that you use to evaluate will be accepted into the program? >> we work with quite a few nonprofits that do the kind of work we do in that community. we have close partnerships with goodwill, the san francisco conservation corps, we work with a lot of development programs where they have maybe six or eight week program and provide an opportunity for participants to do a two-year stint with us. it's a much longer opportunity. we work with a lot of partners and that's the main way we have been recruiting. >>supervisor cohen: these are paid positions? >> yes. i believe the hourly rate is $14 an hour. supervisor cohen: this is 18-24? >> not all of them, but many of them. supervisor cohen: is there an age limit? >> there is not an age limit. the department of the environment has 30 staff whose primary responsibility is an outreach. 90% of our outreach staff are bilingual. they sp

the barman of justice, a reentry tool to bring people back into the community and integrate them into the community successfully as opposed to just dumping people on the street and hoping that they will be able to do what they need to do on their own. also, the early resolution gallagher, and this is one of the things mentioned. the fact that we are working together very thoughtfully with the way we file cases as well as the way everyone else works together in the system to reduce the workload. as well as the other area i forgot to mention, we spend a great deal of time training our staff. the next iowa to talk about is the department why training. hit the right button there. ok. as was indicated earlier, we had some problems with integrity and training in the office and 3-d compliance, and since i took over the office, we have spent a great deal of time to make sure that those areas are handled -- and that they are brady compliant. the cases tried has gone from 40% to 67%, and i attribute that directly to much better trained personnel. next, very quickly, i want to go over our capita

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i agree with the chairman's opening, and entirely that a stable regulatory and barman is important and the jumping back and forth is not helpful -- regulatory environment is important and that jumping back and forth is not helpful. when you set out specific targets, you pinnace to technology pass the do not turn out to be the -- pin us to technology paths that do not turn out to be the right ones. i want stability, but i do not want the government pushing industry in a certain direction. those would be my recommendations for the u.s., let's not forget that we are outperforming china by a wide margin. thank you. >> let me start with a few questions. this analogy to what was done with sematech i think is an intriguing one. my recollection of that experience was that the industry itself, the semiconductor firms themselves, came to washington and basically said we need to do this. we want to do this. we need government assistance to help us get started. and we did that. at the same time, my recollection is that the original members for u.s. companies -- were u.s. companies. i think nac app