dr. marshall referenced. >> great. thanks. all right. so dr. marshall? >> i'm curious, is there a reason we didn't have a community meeting the end of july? was it because we couldn't, is there something else scheduled for the last wednesday or we couldn't get a venue or didn't pick a site? i don't know why but -- >> i may or may not be here that day. >> lieutenant falvey will be on vacation. >> all right. >> is there any public comment regarding line items 3 a, b, c or d? the commissioner report and scheduling of items? >> commissioners, good evening. for the record, my name is emil lawrence. i have a few brief comments. first of all, i think for the public at large, and i'm not sure who is supposed to handle this, but someone should direct some of you on how to use the microphone. based on the various levels of your speech, and whether you're addressing the public at large or whether you're addressing one another on a question because it's very difficult for us to follow you on exactly what you're doing. what you're discussing. in relation to whose que

dr. marshall? commissioner marshall: commissioners, when you were speaking chief, we used to get those daily reports, crime reports, it happened every day. are we still -- am i off the list or we're not getting them anymore? i'm not sure? do you know what i'm talking about. >> are you talking about the daily recap? commissioner marshall: yeah. >> we get them in bunches with, not each day. commissioner marshall: it kept me abreadth of what's really important. can we get those again? when you mentioned the bay view, i would have known if we had gotten the daily recap. i'd appreciate getting it again. president mazzucco: commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: are we having an increase in illegal fireworks in the city because my neighborhood was rocking from dark until almost midnight and i'm talking they had their own show going, the exploding sparklers, i thought it was lightning but it was exploding stuff and big bombs and it was really disturbing how long it went. president mazzucco: so is the

dr. marshall is en route.ight's calendar, we have a lot of closed session matters we'll be dealing with in closed session at the close of the calendar. they're disciplinary matters. so we'll start with what we need to do at the beginning which is line item number 1 >> the approval of minutes, an action item for the following meetings, june 1, 8, 15th, and 22nd of 2011. >> thank you, lieutenant. commissioners, you have those minutes in your packet with the caveat we had a discussion regarding the fact these commission meetings are recorded and the best record of these meetings will be the recorded version as opposed to the minutes that we have 250eu7ed -- typed. but there are any changes? commissioner chance [ >> i have a minor one. the spelling for, june 22, 2011, the first page, just -- i'm familiar with michael. it's michael gause, he's at the mental health association and spoke on behalf of the crisis intervention training work and sistil connor is a sponsor for dore clinic. >> commissioners, any other chan

dr. joe marshall? >> here. >> petra dejesus? >> she's en route. >> commissioner angela chan? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter? >> here. >> commissioner julius turman? >> here. >> we have a quorum of commissioners and also joyce hicks of the office of citizens complaints and the chief of police. >> thank you, lieutenant falvey. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the july 13, 2011 police commission hearing. ladies and gentlemen, tonight is what we call our discipline night so we have some closed matters, disciplinary hearings which by law have to be held in closed session so we have a very light agenda before that so we now move to line item number one which is general public comment. >> item number one, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department or o.c.c. p

dr. joe marshall, and i have been on the commission forever. president mazzucco: my day job is in private practice as an attorney. before that i was an assistant district attorney in san francisco and an assistant united states attorney. again, this is my favorite part, coming up to the community. >> thank you for wealth -- welcoming eyes. my name is julius turman. this is my eighth day. during the day, i am a partner in all law firm. we focus in labor and employment. thank you for having me. president mazzucco: thank you. please call line item #1. >> also for the audience, if anyone needs translation services, we of spanish and cantonese language translators in the back of the room. >> do you want to mention who else? >> [unintelligible] >> i need to leave. i cannot remember anything. >> you cannot leave. we need a quorum. [laughter] >> item 1, our review of recent activities, the chief's report. president mazzucco: good evening, chief. i believe we have some activities over the past week. >> prior to yielding the major portion of my time to c

[applause] then we have our community grand marshals, dr. erin belkin, victoria korakowski, christiana remmington, therese terry st uart, dr. roland stringfellow. [applause] grayland k. thornton. [applause] these are our grand marshals this year. congratulations to each of you. thank you for being part of our city's official pride month and parade. [applause] hold on. then i would like to note that we have special certificates of honor ofrom my office and the board of supervisors to present these proclamations to the very special lisa williams and executive brendan bian for this year's honors. [applause] congratulations. we have certificates for each and everyone of you that are about to be passed out as well. once we do that, we can take bigger picture. -- we can take a group picture. we present to you all of the official grand marshals of this year's pride parade. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. i did think i might make a surprise announcement that i am running for mayor of san francisco. but

dr. joe marshall, commissioner james slaughter, commissioner petra dejesus. we are also joined by chief of police george gascoign. also with us are the it assistant chief. this isn't she said of the operation pirro. assistant chief denise schmitt. deputy chief john murphy, enforcement and security at the mta. commander sandra tong of the airport bureau. commander james dudley of the airport operations bureau. commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. commander daniel lazard, chief of investigations. this is a time when we stop and offer special members of the police department. these are members who have distinguished themselves through their bravery and dangerous situations. it is important to note one of the criteria for the medal of honor this one failed to -- failure to take such action would lead to center. these are actions above and beyond call of duty. at this time, i would like to invite the chief of police, cheif gascon, to come up here and speak. >> thank you, everyone, for being here. this is a special moment in policing movie get t