meaning it's basic to the department. it shouldn't have taken the subpoena from committee republicans to this administration to let gao and congress conduct oversight into this terrible disaster. the biden-harris administration's failing will continue to have rip the effects on hundreds of thousands of students to come and mr. chairman, i know we have the copies of the two reports from the gao. but i think it is important to point out the gao is basically an agency that we can count on simply to call balls and strikes. it is nonpartisan. and very grateful again to the hardwork that is done by the gao over the years and as i've mentioned we've had the gao in this committee time after time after time. and the reports we get are excellent. but i want to point out that titles of the two reports that we have even though they may have been mentioned already. one is entitled fafsa. education needs to improve communications and support around the free application for federal student aid. and the second one, department of educatio

when the justice department works with police departments to achieve reforms, these costs decrease. our work in seattle in albuquerque and baltimore has led to declines in use of excessive force but reductions in violent crime. we stand ready to continue working with the city. the people of memphis deserve fair, transparent, nondiscriminatory constitutional policing, nothing less. we are prepared to work together to write a new chapter for this city. but make no mistake, the product or practice in memphis must end and federal law authorizes us to sue for an injunction if necessary to accomplish that objective. ensuring transparent and effective policing is a top priority for the justice department. let me just talk about the sum total of our work. since january of 2021, the department has launched 12 pattern or practice investigations into law enforcement agencies. we also are enforcing 16 preexisting agreements with law enforcement agencies across the country. these collective efforts are resource and time-intensive but has fueled real reforms including most recently in seattle, ba

chief of department. present >> president morgan will read the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment. [ramaytush ohlone acknowledgment] >> item 2. general public comment. members of the public miaddress commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction this does in the appear on the agenda. speakers shall address to the commission as a whole dp not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not constitute agreement with statements made during public comment. i'm going say is there public comment madam secretary >> i see one person approaching the podium. you have throw minutes starting now. >> yes. i want to take the 3 minutes. the chief report. when i pledge read the 10 commandments. the world is on fire, so -- san francisco is still all right, i guess. what is going on with very bad especially in the middle east. so -- pa

the justice department, i'm sorry, of the fbi. and it's a sort of all these senior fbi officials come over to the to the sorry, all these senior doj officials over to the fbi for what they hope be a come to jesus meeting where they can finally agree. doj and the fbi people looking at mar-a-lago. what do next and bluntly whether or not to carry out the first ever search of a former president's. they had been arguing for weeks about this and they going to this meeting it devolves into a shouting match. they're screaming at each. they don't trust each other. and the head of the washington field office for the fbi is named stephen don tano. he spoke to me on the record. he in the end of the meeting, he just says, i am not searching mar-a-lago. we're rushing this. and his it wasn't he was in tank for trump. what i found that these career people tend to be biased towards their own institution, towards their tribe. and he arguing if we do this search where it's we're into trump's m.o. we're into his conspiracy theory of the evil jackboot

we had representatives from the san francisco fire department, the sheriff's department and department of police accountability, and i'd also like to mention that janelle caywood from dpa was really helpful with their insight and their feedback and suggestions. so deago 5.18 was last adopted in 2008. some of the highlights and changes that we made, probably the first thing is we replaced the term prisoner and prisoner handling to persons in custody. we felt that was kind of a more expansive term, consistent with other newer adopted. we created a definition section at the beginning of this dgo. we also replaced the special category section with a vulnerable population section that includes like juveniles, elderly persons, pregnant persons, and persons with physical disabilities. we incorporated several department notices into this dgo. one of the most important being transporting persons who use mobility devices. and then finally, we updated the overall organization and content for clarity. i think one of the things that we found in the existing dgo is that we there was a lot of things

soy know that, other departments do reorganize. and i think there are some other departments who we've been in touch with recently who looking at reorganizing either parts of the organization or i don't know if they're looking at major reorganization al structure. >> that's great. and that's part of getting the word out that i hope other departments will do what public works did. it's good to take a look what worked and what didn't and you can set an example that would be great. you said, you know, you gave the memo to the mayor elect perhaps you met with him and discussed fnlt any initial reads that you feel comfortable how this may be received by the mayor elect or perhaps he has not had time to get into the weedses of this. >> yeah, did i have a chance to sit down with the mayor elect. it was a brief meeting, mostly jufpt saying hello--just saying hello to each other. we have not had a chance to talk about the reorganization or too much else with his office yet. but we are looking forward to more meetings in the weeks to come. >

the officers in this agency lost confidence in the department and the department leadership four yearsgo. i completely understand that. we have tried to regain that and restore that confidence in the department and i think it is better. i will not speak for 2000 of my cops but i will tell you i don't pass a police officer without talking to him. most will acknowledge things are much better than they were. we have just got to get going with that. the other thing i will finish with this, and local government local police department appreciate what they do the public appreciates what they do. it is good for their outlook. one of the things about this is my third police department, the culture here is one where these cops know the people who work here and are on capitol hill appreciate what they do. i'm not saying there are some exceptions there are always exceptions but the cops here know people appreciate what they do. and that her derives a pretty good culture this police department very proud of that. >> thankce you. >> very good. senator shift? senator padilla was asking me if this ha

the department now has an additional 360 sworn officers on duty. from 1842 to 2,222. there has been a 60% increase in the number of threat assessment agents. four years ago the department did not maintain a dedicated civil disturbance unit program and today it has six platoons totaling more than 225 officers. and while only 25% of officers have access to riot gear on january 6 ofth, something we will never forget, lock down above, now every officer has this equipment. none of this would be possible without the officers who stand in defense of the capitol every day and who have risen to the occasion as various threats have confronted members of congress at the capitol and beyond. in recent years these men and women have worked significant overtime, had vacations canceled, family events canceled while the department worked to add more officers. we thank them deeply for their service. i commend the chief's commitment to ensure the department has the personnel it needs, including offering hazard pay, retention bonuses and tuition support and for exceeding the goal of hiri

officers in this agency lost confidence in the department and the department's leadership four years ago. i completely understand that. we have tried to regain that and restore that confidence in the department. i think it is better. i won't speak for 2000 of my cops, most technology things are better than they were. we have to keep going with that. i will finish with this. local government, local police department, if they feel elected officials appreciate what they do and the public appreciates what they do, it is good for their outlook. my third police department, the culture here is one where these cops know that the people who work here appreciate what they do. there are always exceptions but the cops know that people appreciate what they do and that provides a pretty good culture in this police department and i am proud of that. thank you. >> very good. senator schiff. >> senator padilla asked if it has sunk in that i'm on this committee. i thought it had but i look at my nameplate and it still hasn't. i'm not used to seeing that. i'm thrilled to be on your committee and apprec

blinken: the neo executed by the state department and the defense department.hair mccaul: i would have to say waiting until the last minute is not executing a plan it all and it led to the deaths of many americans and afghan people and afghan allies. sec. blinken: the record reflects this decision was reached collectively. no one urged initiating the neo until we decided to do it on the 14th. chair mccaul: in my review of our investigation, there was so much confusion coming out of your embassy, coming from the top military advisers, who told me, testified that they told you to close down that embassy in advance to protect americans and american assets and classified documents. they were left to the taliban. you were in charge by law. you may have delegated this, i don't know. but to legislate moving forward, i need to know who was in charge and that is why it is so important that mr. sullivan, the national security adviser, come before this committee and give his testimony about what the hell was going on during this disastrous evacuation. with that i now reco

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the commission interacts with the department through the department heads. so the commission would send a request to director o'riordan through the commission secretary, with its priorities and wishes and potential changes to the budget, and to get into some of the other questions that you had asked. the department is one of the earlier phases of the budget. after the department submits its budget, it goes to the mayor's office. who who makes changes? they will submit mayor's proposed budget on june 1st. they can make any changes they want. after that. then the supervisors take over and they can make limited changes. they can't change anything. they can't increase the oversight overall size of the budget. but they make their changes. and then it's passed by the full board and signed by the mayor again. so that's the order of operations. it doesn't come back to the budget, does not come back to the bic after it, after the department submission is made in february. okay. thank you. i think you actually answered my question. i was going to ask timing and phases

, department of public works and sf fire department. i where can't stress enough the importance of the department of public health role in vision zero. through your agency research we all understand who is most effected by traffic violence. older adults, people with disabilities, low income residents and even children. the high injury network map where crashes are happening vusear and fatal help sf mta prioritize quick build project and where to focus fliment r limited stach and resources and helps understand whut straet design treementds are workish. the high injury network helps the san francisco police department focus limited traffic enforcement resources on places where data shows the most crashes. walk sf is here to ask, when will the next vision zero policy strategy be brought for adoption and see the next injury map? lives are on the line and no time to waste. thank you for your time. >> thank you. any other public comment in the room? general public comment? and is there remote general public comment? >> no hands up. >> thank y

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i'm not sure if other departments have posted them also, publicly. but ours is generally available for the public? that's fan it is tick. thank you. >> commissioner turner. >> good morning, i'm really excited. always we have a new xhap behr but i would be remiss not to mention director alameda, i think it's reflective of who and how we operate. but also, just the simplicity of being able to serve the community through general hospital yes, but there is a host of facilities from public facilities to fire stations, i really want to make sure that that is acknowledged that that tenure, that history delivered some of ehthe most monumental projects on the globe. i always want to remind our folks when you walk the city and the streets, you're often seeing things that can only happen here and that's it's because of that department. as it relates to the memo, i'm wondering if we need to add a slide or maybe have our own. provide governance and even out in the public, making sure that our role is very clear, to the mayor elect, also as know, all commissioners

that's why it's the position of the department that the planning department did not prevent, didn't take any action that it should have taken or vice versa, to prevent the property owner from being aware. as you can imagine, we have thousands of permits every, every year that are approved over the counter that our neighbors aren't notified of, that concerned neighbors and interested neighbors have a few different ways if they want to stay on top of a property or project. one is to obviously just monitor the website because all the permit activity is online. you can also request black book notation with the planning department, where specifically for projects like this, if there's a property and you want to be notified of all permits, even the ones that wouldn't trigger a notice, you can you can pay an annual fee to have that applied to that property. so then we will notify you of these projects before we approve them over the counter, even though we're not otherwise required to provide that notice. so your bottom line, yes or no. is this this the department was fully in compliance on the

we had representatives from the san francisco fire department, the sheriff's department and department of police accountability, and i'd also like to mention that janelle caywood from dpa was really helpful with their insight and their feedback and suggestions. so deago 5.18 was last adopted in 2008. some of the highlights and changes that we made, probably the first thing is we replaced the term prisoner and prisoner handling to persons in custody. we felt that was kind of a more expansive term, consistent with other newer adopted. we created a definition section at the beginning of this dgo. we also replaced the special category section with a vulnerable population section that includes like juveniles, elderly persons, pregnant persons, and persons with physical disabilities. we incorporated several department notices into this dgo. one of the most important being transporting persons who use mobility devices. and then finally, we updated the overall organization and content for clarity. i think one of the things that we found in the existing dgo is that we there was a lot of things

clearly you helmed this department. more important low something that was new and i think you done it with grace and a poise i think we are deserving of, i hope you will be interested in repeating and like to nominate vice chair zoubi not here today has been truly i think a force to make sure we stay groundd and focusd and new commission needs a perspective i'm glad to have his nominate chair post for chair and vice chair zoubi for vice chair. >> thank you. i second both. >> thank you. >> i would -- add that i note everyone is aware you asked about term limits. and was requested to stay on and i'm happy to do that. i have spoken with both commissioners zoubi and blume to ensure they were comfortable with my continuing as chair and commissioner zoubi as vice chair they assured me they were. i wanted pass that on. so i shall accept and commissioner zoubi will accept his nomination. open will motion to public comment. nomination it is chair and zoubi as vice chair line up to the audience lest if are commenting from outside

the police department, sheriff department and firefighters pension system and investments by however the pensions are routed independently. or generally within the broader pension system or network with regards to essential-- so, designated essential workers. just to get a handle on the health and status of the pensions. >> thank you for your comment. do we have additional speakers? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. i like to move to continue this item to call of the chair. thank you supervisor peskin for your leadership on this. >> my pleasure. not really. >> yes, on the motion to continue this item to call of the chair. member chan, aye. chair preston, aye. i have two ayes. >> motion passes. we are going to go ahead and call out of order. next item number 4 and i believe per the president memo, supervisor melgar is appointed to join the committee as a member for this item. can you call item 4? >> item 4 is motion directing the budget and are legislative analyst to conduct a comprehensive performance and management audit of san francisco zoo for fis cal year 24-25 and 25-26.

fire department.want efficiency and so whatever decision that our elected officials, our city council comes up with, right, we just want to make sure that it does not infringe on the safety of oaklanders. >> so safety being the priority -- >> safety is number one. >> obviously the feeling of safety is something that's just humungous for quality of life. if there have to be cuts to the police department, to the fire department, what do you think could jump in to maybe help fill the void? >> you know, that's an excellent question, but right now they're looking at the oakland police department and they're also looking at fire department. actually the city-elected officials are the ones that makes those decisions, not us. we weren't elected to do that job. so it's really up to them to come to the table to sit down, right, and really work on this budget. it can't just be two areas. there's got to be other areas that they must look at, but they must do the work. they have to work on this together. >> of cou

you want to leave your son to the care of the donald trump justice department? and the other guy pardon his daughters father-in-law and not only pardoned but made him ambassador, the other guy pardoned steve bannon, even after he stole money from his own supporters. so if you want to call me out for pardoning my own son, do so. he's just about out of caring right now.>> one of the things, i think you just mentioned it, one of the knocks that trump and his supporters have against president biden is that he has weaponized law enforcement against donald trump. the senior magazine writer for political magazine wrote a piece on why he felt the president shouldn't pardon hunter to grant him some sort of clemency. and he wrote this and he makes the same point you just made, this is not to excuse any of his comments, but the gun charges have almost no real precedent in the conduct underlying the charges usually resolved by the justice department through repayment or fines. he writes, the reason we are here is because trump and his republican allies successfully pressure

what does the department tolerate. and if shooting where deterrent you would expect new orleans to be a very mile city because so many people are being shot and that's not the case so there's really no association between crime rates. i'm not sure i disagree. i think the criminal element is aware of what a police officer can do and what they can't do. i know they're in they're quite aware of what you capital punishment laws are. you know, when they started executing death row inmates, the other 107 after the first one was executed, the screams, well, that wasn't the deal. when i perpetrated my crime. you i was under the impression that i die for what i did. you know when i struck that 15 year old kid in the commode, i blew him apart with a shotgun you know, it's unfair. the contracts broken. they not read the newspapers and watch the tvs. the street communication system is very and i can remember years ago as a rookie police officer, you didn't have that same fear going into a building at 3:00 in the morning for the sa

heather harding: both of you keep saying the department as if there is not a threat to the department. while there might not just be a direct path to get rid of the department of ed, we are likely to see a severe neutering so i am wondering how we think that the department is going to function if there are echoes of this project 2025 notion. they do provide protective for protected classes. where people are not supporting privatization, most americans like public neighborhood schools but still we have to think about how the protected classes, generally the job of the fed so i am worried about those things and not may be actual legislation or getting rid of departments but in how people behave for civic servants. nat malkus: shockingly, donald trump suggested he would abolish the department of education. you can say not to take him seriously, how do we take that seriously? what will be the effective trump on the department over the next several years? >> this is a fig leaf. frankly you cannot do any of the things he wants to do without the department in play. it's almost impossible to

state department, you find the allegations are unfounded. the u.s. conclusion these allegations are unfounded? is that the end of the process? >> i'm not going to speak to that. there continue to be a number of deliberative processes as it relates to situations on the ground, tools that we've spent a lot of time speaking about up here, things like churg, conventional arm transfer policy, things like the leahy process. i wouldn't speak to those processes in detail, but these allegations of genocide continue to be unfounded. >> i mean, people might see a corn tra diction because when you've been asked previously about alleged violations of international humanitarian law, you've said it's reasonable to assess that they may be violations but you can't make a conclusion because of a lack of information is what you've said before. you say there's a lack of information in terms of what you know about going on in gaza and yet you can say you can conclude and you have found the allegations of genocide are unfounded. how is it you can conclude now but not conc

going forward. >> we're your department. we're here for you. we're you and that, and i really believe that san francisco really embodies that. i tell you, it was the greatest decision i ever made. i kept thinking, my gosh if i didn't play softball i wonder if i would have heard about it. it's funny you plan in life and gu to college and you plan your next steps, but the most profound decision nz life, is how you meet people are random. i was meant to be i think and it was such a great fit being that social worker with the ax, that's it. >> so i see san francisco and san francisco leadership and government as a beacon for the entire country. because we are so up front about what we believe in, we're really up front about inclusivity and i know that, others look at us, many look to us. we've had other departments, contact us in terms of how do you, how do you do this? how do you create a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce? and so, but i would be lying if i said that we don't have any problems in california or in san fra

the other departments, department of benefits and family support as well as hs a support is 8 floors in that brilding. building. the building is not earthquake safe so they are in the process of trying to figure out where folks can go and there is a variety of things that are in the air right now. up in the air now. one thing 2 gough the owners of 2 gough had a business on the third floor and they got another business in walnut creek and decided not to operate that more so public conservator moves to the 4th floor and the last i heard and this is moving target is i think family and child support folks were moving into the 5th floor. that was the last piece i heard but that too may change, so it still stays within the agency. and we have other-das has other floors that and programs on other floors at 1650. >> thank you. >> she asked your question. okay. any other questions from the commissioners? okay. you are up ravi. ravi. >> ready to go to the next one? okay. item 6, commissioners, item 6 is the das employee recognition. executive director dearman, president spears and das commissi