they will be brief us as to how the cit unit is working. and they will work together to advocate for more resources for the mental health community over all. that is a very quick the brief. i am happy to answer questions. i should also say the architects of the memphis model, sam cochrane and randy dupont, did fly to san francisco to explain this model to us and answer our questions. they testified last wednesday in detail about this program and they were amazing in guiding us along the way. supervisor mirkarimi: i just want to extend -- i can say this safely for all of us -- that was an impressive hearing. i watched it. i thought the work that you and commissioner dejesus and hammer put into that, i really just made the police commission shine. i very much appreciate the effort that led up to it and the result coming from it. >> thank you. president thomas mazzucco was also agreed to build the bridge between the public and the mental health stakeholders. it was great to see the mental- health community come together and agree we need this

our proposal needs to be implementation of a pilot after the cit unit has been trained and is running. that is a reasonable time line. we come back in 90 days and it takes up to a year. i think it is a reasonable time line. that is my last amendment. cit -- the pilot proposal can only be implemented after cit is up and running. commissioner hammer: i appreciate your proposed amendments. i think the first to make a lot of sense. the third one i am concerned about, not because i do not think the officers in a pilot program ought not to be trained. just the opposite. i think we are going to have the opportunity as to put together a proposal to have a lot of requirements for the pilot program -- how many years the officers are going to be in it, a clean disciplinary record, a judgment from his or her superiors, and most importantly having already received the 40 hours of training that more than 900 of our officers have done. however, i would be opposed to making it contingent upon another program that is very, very important and is obviously just starting. we voted on it two weeks ago. bo