i do not see it any other way. we are so behind an -- that is my phone. i am really looking to hear how we are going to address the barriers for families to understand this. i do not think it is us. there is an accountability we have to accept, but as a parent that information was never readily available. they had to go see it out. i do not want that to be a clique thing. it needs to beat everyone knows, so these are really my deepest areas of concern, and is not just for african american families. get it is for all families, no matter where they are coming from. now particularly at elementary school graduation, i asked him how many notes to languages and how many notes three languages, and then i asked to see hence for how many notes just one, and i say c'mon, we have to do something about this. i really believe it is a must. you will be learning about a different culture. you are really careful about your own culture. those are really the things i hope to hear from you. one more quick question, and i guess this is how it works for public schools. how wel

i also get people who are very angry who i think are may be very hostile or fearful of china rising. i get strange e-mails like, "go back to china if you think you are so great." that is not what i am saying. i also get e-mails from people who perhaps are parents themselves. i am not trying to tell other people how to parent. i believe there are many ways of being a great parent. show me a kid that is happy, self-reliant, and strong, and i say you have good parenting. i do not care about good grades. you do not have to be supervising are playing the violin. but people still are judging me very harshly. they are projecting all these things like, "i feel so sorry for your children. that is a little hard for me to take. my kids are thriving. they are huge personalities. tavis: let me ask you questions that are connected. how are your children handling all this controversy? you are not parenting alone. you are not a single parent. you are married to a person who is not chinese. you are married to a jewish white males. what has he said about all of this? >> you mentioned single parents. so

the concerns of the renters are legitimate, but i think they are safer with the development agreement than without. the development agreement supersedes law change, as far as i am concerned. what i am hearing is that if the law were to change in the future and rent control provisions were not as inclusive as they are now, and there were fewer protections, the development agreement in place would be a protection. that is basically what you have indefinitely. the units continue indefinitely. that was not brought up. i was happy to see a lot of people i knew were testifying. some people spoke about the fact it would not be affordable. i think with that many units being built in different configurations, both for rental and ownership, they are going to be at much more affordable prices and we have seen in the past. i have also noticed that one of the things that is part of our motion that we will hopefully approve tonight gives the supervisors and others in the planning department the process to continue to work with the project sponsor to make changes that do not significantly lower the

grievance i think they are all very much and i think there are a lot of contact the process of the division is just beginning and i do hope and believe that this year we will be able to reintegrate a substantial number which will be able to make a difference. >> charlie: does that include those that are in port. >> there was the possibility of some of them. >> charlie: what's the level of negotiation today, negotiation between u.s. military, the afghan military, the karzai government and the taliban. >> actually i wouldn't say that it is a very high level at the moment. they are all contacts which we comfort build on it in the future. >> charlie: you're not negotiating with anybody? >> if i do also i will not admit it here. >> charlie: nice try, though, wasn't it. but there are negotiations going on. >> yes, there are definitely. >> charlie: going to try to figure out how to stop the war not just reintegration. >> i think the mechanism has been in place. ment a group of people. they are doing it also. but pa side that i think in different level people who have contacts, they were all trying

know i have asked for these members to be here. why they are not here today -- i am baffled. that is basic. that is really basic. this is one of the rare times they can speak to the board of education to report the work we have appointed them to do, and they are not here today. that is another level of the runaround. if i go to my appointees and they tell me they did not get notice, that is not right. these very basic things need to be covered by you all. let me ask, dr. connor. is this a proposed process that we have in place that we are now looking at? >> thank you for letting me speak and defend walter, because i do not think it is right for him to get, you know, come to the first board meeting and take such a beating. the key here is walter has been religiously producing the comptroller's report, which is what he was told was all he needs to do. so the comptroller's report was that this was the inputs that go into the budget, and he has to collect from every program manager the outputs on those activities. when were they done, and what happ

if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also promoting economic development so we have a financial engine that will continue to promote us year after year. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness in san francisco? >> i am one that thinks mayor newsom did a great job thinking proactively about what we need to do in san francisco. when he started care not cash -- but enacted so many things past that. project award down, when he ended up making sure there were family members on the receiving end,

now, i work with young people who are put in dangerous situations every day. i have to do a couple things for them. i have to be able to tell them how to cut down the chance they will be in those situations in the first place, and when they end up in those situations, i have to tell them what to do. if not, i'm not doing them any good, because i want to keep them alive and free. so the officers are confronted with these incidents. so i would like to know from you, how would those things be handled differently? how would they be handled in the future? >> the circumstances in every community are very challenging, and how law enforcement proceeds to follow with their training, and as i difficult situation. but for somebody to come before you and present any program that says if you do this you will never have another tragic event within your community would be very wreckless in making those kinds of comments. the crisis intervention team is an approach that addresses the broader issue of the community. it also allows the officers that have many years of experience

i really feel sorry for our children and grandchildren. we are telling -- felonizing recreational drugs, felonziinizg recreational sex. i go into prisons, and in interviewing lesbian women who are 19 and 20 years old who get 20 years for having sex with a 17 year-old. she's 19, she 17, she got 20 years. that is what is coming to. in this country now with mandatory minimums, with these damned sex loss -- sex is illegal, guys. next, they are going to start arresting people for having sex out of marriage. sex offender laws, there has not been a word about that today. it is worse than the war on drugs. if you get arrested on a sex offense, that to happen to anyone of you. you are all than -- tehm. -- them. any of you to be arrested for inappropriate touching. what is that? five or 10 years? what gets to me now is it is not just about criminal records. many of you could be arrested tomorrow based on the supposition or the allocation of some witnesses that said that you sexually assaulted them in an elevator in a parking lot. there is no defense. it wi

i increase the more truth. just people who areare of what is going on in the world -- i in craving more truth. -- i am. artists make decisions. they are trying to get their singles play on the radio. they are trying to sell a lot of records. right now, it is kind of that club sound, and everything feels like a rave. even the so-called r&b artists, they have got a club, something on their music, and that is what everybody is doing, and that is what is working on the radio, so sometimes are afraid to do something outside of that, because they are worried that if it does not work, they may not be able to have another album. you cannot blame them because people are buying fewer albums because of illegal downloading and all of these other options people have, that the record industry has contracted significantly, and with that comes a bit of fear of, you know, not selling. there is a risk that you will not do well, and i felt that, knowing that those risks or there, i felt i had to do this album. tavis: does the pressure -- to your poi

are terrible. the new zoning, i cannot say that it is really needed. what it does is opens up a way to tear down the building that are already there, stuff more people into a district that is basically a little flat areas surrounded by hills on all sides with freeways on the other side. there is no place to expand. the parking is so terrible by the commuters coming in, people have to walk way up the hills. i cannot tell you the number of people i see pulling up in front of my house, getting out with a suitcase to go down to bart to leave on a two-week trip. i know there are neighborhood parking zones where you can get a special sticker, but 50% of the neighbors have to agree to a $100 a year cost. so our block does not have this, and this is one of the first one people use as a long-term parking lot. so i do not see what is to be gained by changing this. they will be able to stuff a few more people into housing units of new retail, but we are going to lose -- no matter how sensitive the design -- we are going to lose the character. you have seen what th

i want to know what the officers are going to do in those situations. for me i think that's crucial. >> what you are talking about a school resource officer. just to let you know, there is a serious effort to put c.i.t. officers within that role of school resource officers. it goes hand-in-happened because many of our -- it goes hand-in-hand because many of our people have, youth, have mental health issues. but the special zation -- specialization you were talking about, when a call comes in, and the dispatcher is screening the call, and clearly the dispatcher indicates the call is about a

i think we are right in line. we are doing the same buy back. we could use more. i think if you were to talk about gun violence. in 2006. we took 238 off the street and already in 2008. we have taken 296. a lot of people are high 5ing. to me. where are those guns coming from. where are these guns coming from. if the numbers are becoming so high, we are quadrupling. we better find out where they are coming from. the gun buy back is good because it cuts down to domestic violence. you can no longer sell the gun. people are selling us guns they can't sell otherwise. i am not saying it's a bad program. we would like to have more gun buy backs. it always comes back to capabilities and your help to get to the community and tell people. if you see a gun. call us. we will make a report. we just took an ak 47. we bought that gun and nothing happened. i would rather do that. it's not the absolute program. the other thing i wanted to stress. the call in. we have identified 44 who are at risk. they are either victims or suspects. 9 out of those first are shot are killed. with t

i am particularly taken with casey allen's comments on hours. which are currentfully there at 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and obviously that can be seven days a week with no other statement. i have no problem with crops growing seven days a week. they're going to. 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and additional. however, it comes to sales. when you get into residential neighborhoods in the middle of them and please correct me if i am incorrect and i could set up a store selling my agricultural goods including value added from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. seven days a week all year. is that correct? >> i think my take on the legislation is you could sell your produce vegetables, lettuce, et, seven days a week 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. >> all right. because i would object to that and there should be much more stringent regulations to hours and how many days per week that can be done if we are going into residential neighborhoods. and the real problem with that one. and we're familiar, some of us, with agriculture every day of the week and you have the lot on mcalester street and i

i see on page 17 that sort of says -- it doesn't say these are done. i'm hoping it isn't just going to say done when it is done. i understand it is not, but i want to know what the benchmarks are and how we can check on them, and i want the public to be able to know that. even though i found this a little simplistic -- not for us, but in other places. there are many school districts that have used this kind of a planning mechanism where in particular parents, teachers can say here is our goal. they mostly used measurable test score data, but i am going to say we have a goal related to engagement in outside activities for students. our goal is we have a certain percentage by such and surf date, and here is how we are doing on that. i hope that, as we have talked about, that as time goes by, we will be narrowing that down. in other words, we will be able to say this year we are going to concentrate on these things. we are doing ok in these areas, but we want to increase the trajectory here. here is our specific goal. i would like to know what those specif

i do know that there are gaps in coverage is. -- coverages. i work for a technology company. in other countries, they are only using broadband. in remote areas like alaska, they communicate solely through cell phone technology. people are carting around ipads and other sort of tablets. our growth has exploded. companies have been caught flatfooted. they are catching up by building these additional and cannots -- antennas. part of it was not anticipating this. that is where we are today. we do have the complication of the landscape of san francisco that does not make it easy. you can be at the front of her apartment but at the back, it is actually quite interesting, the challenge there. i would have to address the board of supervisors as they take this issue up looking at how they might engage the health commission. i have mentioned the ideas about are there certain heights of buildings that make sense? are some two tall stalks are some too short? there have to be some ideas about that. we do not necessarily know the next generation of technology that is going to take hold. to

i think there are some issues there. i look forward to engage in the police department through this committee and through the police commission in that discussion. i don't think the level of community policing is where it needs to be, and whether it is foot patrols or general community engagement, i think we can do a much better job. when you have numbers like the ones we have had for the first month of the year, it is a concern because, notwithstanding the low number of homicides you point to, if this rate continues, it would be problematic. >> i totally agree with that. supervisor mirkarimi: 2 that point, we do share your optimism. regarding the issue of comstat and how it creates a reflective model, an important model of statistically capturing where crime occurs and where incidences' and resources are applied, that is important. it is critical that the police department have that model. what is at risk is the community advisory boards, which i think should serve more as an antenna, transmit and receive the nuances of

there are other recommendations listed in the report. i think those are some of the broad brush ideas that we had, and i would be happy to answer any questions for you. >> i do not have any questions, but i do have a couple of comments. i thought that both of these audits were very useful. too often, we think of audits as a difficult or bad thing. some are useful. in some cases, i know we talked about scheduled compression, which i know was not your piece of it, but there has been a lot of concern about that, and i think that report was helpful in sorting out. the obvious answer is yes, things are compressed. and what does that mean for us? does it mean we have a financial capacity problem? it personnel capacity problem? the answer to those are no. basically, there are things that happen, especially with tunneling and major earth building project that screw things up. you do not know those until you get into them. the sense i get was that of the risks we have direct control over, as far as the staff, the assistance they have to work with,

> my comments are usually short. i have a question for bill, who has scared me to death. after we hear all this, and he sounds like the problems are worse in washington. but are there any things positive you found in washington that have happened? >> there's a new president. [laughter] >> there are -- the enforcement priorities have changed somewhat. there are the voices of progressive immigrant rights folks are being heard. what you heard me articulate earlier is my best judgment of who is getting the better of that arm wrestling, unfortunately. but yeah, i mean there are good proposals floating out there in terms of backlog production, in terms of restraining ice, in terms of potentially different types of visas that are more fluid. i wish i could say i was confident in that. i fear the worst because of what we are witnessing on health care reform. >> thank you. >> welcome to the commission. thank you for joining us this evening. this is his first commission hearing. >> i actually also had a question. we have heard a

i am open to anything that helps. i'm all for children. they are the lifeblood of this city. but i think i'm inclined to lean towards the transit side and let's see if we need to do this. i don't think we do. people can manage this other ways. if other ways need to be found, what we are proposing today, let's do it. i'm not going to vote for this . >> i have given this a lot of thoughts. i believe that san francisco and the transit -- it is critical that we review that policy. i think the children of san francisco are important to us. we think about the elderly and disabled. we think about expanding any type of exception. i believe that we can adopt something in the middle or a pilot program to see if we can find something that works for the benefit of everyone. i think we have to have parameters to make sure that it is not abused as well as for the elderly and the disabled. [laughter] >> i thought you were going to pu tmt me in the middle. director nolan: we have director lee's suggestion. mr. yee? >> do we have an idea of how many people use all

supervisor mirkarimi: i did not mean for you get interrupted. are you sure you do not have anything else to say? >> no, thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: the names that i called, please come on up. supervisor avalos: i would also appreciate if no one from the audience would interrupt the speakers. >> good morning. i live on the crosstree about 100 yards from the recycling center. -- i live on carle street about 100 yards from the recycling center. i took off work today to come here to voice my opposition to the removal of the recycling center from its location. it has been there for 36 years. it is a community center, more than just a recycling center. my children have done their community service there. when my eldest son got arrested at an anti-war demonstration, he was able to do his community service there. same with my daughter goes to high school. i use it myself. if you take the human element out of our community, it will lose something very important. the big issue -- i understand the concerns of the people who are opposed to it. the larger i

and so, i think there are some ideas that i heard in the hearing yesterday that are definitely worth suing. so we do take it seriously. i have taken this seriously frankly because sexual assault is a problem on university campuses. in texas and am just like every other big public university and one of the suggestions as h.r. folks are, since you get in touch with some of the universities that have the best prevention programs in the country to see if we can learn some and from these universities. so i think we have a broad program to try and tackle this, but there is no question that there is more to do. i just invite admirable it to comment. >> i testified over here as vice-chief of the navy on this subject. and there is a lot of work that needed to be done. it was very obvious that all the services. i testify with my advice cheese. and so, i think what the secretary -- i agree with what the secretary said in terms of we've made progress. it not enough. it's completely intolerable. and it has to be answered i think i'm sort of the scale side as well as the leadership side. and i stil

i just want to bring up mining concern. you are taking a new map with elementary school boundaries, and your superimposing it on this map where you have designated students who reside in areas of the city with the lowest average test scores. i am requesting -- i would like to know how this board of san francisco figured -- of would like to see why our block is included in the shaded area where i live. basically, you are taking an area for drew elementary, and half of it is shaded and half of it is not. half of the students who live in this area get to choose a different school. the other half has to stick with their neighborhood school. that does not make any sense to me. i think spencer -- if you look at the five maps, they do not correspond. i would like to know who i can talk to about that particular issue. president mendoza: thank you. i do not know if darleen -- we are going to have to speak with darleen lim, the director of our educational placement center. thank you for being so polite. >> just one second. congratulations, c

i have the trait as well. [laughter]. >> as you are thinking about that, i would like to ask you to give us one more. there are 2 completely surprising and interesting substories woven through this narrative of your brother, 1, your fabulous aunt character in mexico getting frosty into mexico and running around with frita caller and your discovery of apples? >> this is astonishing, are we talking about the family past apple? >> both and the way thing danagers come together, yeah. >> kind of astonishing, again working on the idea that everything is passed down in families is it or is it not or is it coincidence. my father had a difficult relationship with his father from mexico. we knew our family had this chain of nurseries from mexico. i never understood because my father would change tg subject when his name came up. our grandfather was an orchardist at the turn of the century. >> which you hadn't even known. >> i didn't know it until i discovered this at the archive when i was trying to page through all of these things. then i disco

i think those are some of the key things. here is a meeting occurring in los angeles, and i want to think the department for arranging for that trip for us, to make sure we do all of our homework in preparing for this upcoming commission hearing. commissioner kingsley: i was the only commissioner who had not participated in this meeting on friday, until dr. marshall appeared. i just want to thank you on behalf of all the rest of the commissioners, director hicks, and the three commissioners to participated in this and are -- and are participating in an ongoing fashion. in has been earmarked by the police commission as being our number one priority. you are doing a lot of the book work and outreach on this. -- but work -- footwork and outreach on this. the training has been incredible, and the continued coordination. let us move forward into the future. on behalf of everybody else, thank you. >> you walk down a city block and see mental health issues. i witnessed two young girls offer a homeless person a cupcake, and he respond

the public needs to know that these are random family disputes. i think that the public israel over -- is overreacting to this. this is family stuff. i'm from boston. people are not out there cutting for people. >> is a any further public comment? >> good evening, on the subject of money, i am curious. what is the administrative staff here? how many assistant chiefs of police, how many deputy chiefs of police, how many commanders? we seem to have gone top-heavy around here and more important to have the brass then that the cops. they do a good job when they are out in the field but they have to be hired. how many police officers are we down now? it is more important to have commanders? what do fine for them to do? is there a place we can find out what the count is for the administrative staff? >> you can talk to the commission secretary. >> the retirement for the chief of police is 240 grand annually. they should not make over $100,000. they are retired. the subject of money is what keeps the world going on around. this is a biggie. all of those cha

. >> i just wanted to respond to the commissioner about making a list about what businesses are fully compliant. i think one of the unique issues with this particular item is that, for an example, with parking lots and the striping, they just changed the color. i think it just went from blue to white. if you did not update your parking lot, now you are out of compliance. i think the idea is a really great suggestion. if it is a program you can implement or it is a certain time that businesses get an acknowledgement -- but then they have to revisit because of ongoing changes in code that businesses are going to be required to stay up with. commissioner lee: i have a question about obligation. does the landlord and the tenant sure the obligation, or is it just the tenant or the landlord? >> the landlord and tenant share the obligation. most landlords put it in their commercial leases that all 88 or accessibility requirements are required to be done by the tenant. that is generally in commercial leases. commissioner lee: how is our out reach going? do we just target the tenants? i know t

i do not see what we are gaining with that. as far as the roof deck is concerned, i am not sure -- architecturally, i am not sure if it's what i see in the other pictures. but it is a right. it is something they can do. i am not sure if i necessarily want to remove that deck. commissioner sugaya: i am ok. vice president miguel: i would not want to remove the roof deck. i think it is perfectly compatible with the neighborhood and i see no problems with it at all. as far as an additional notch in the building, you are notching a deck. commissioner moore: we are nudging the building. vice president miguel: a minor notching, i would not object to. i do object to removing the roof deck. commissioner moore: normally, when a roof deck has a railing wood stays within the family of the railing's we see here, i would like to see the stair -- i would like the stair to have, basically, a ticket rather than a solid -- a picket rather than a solid wall. a roof with a deck pulled back looks like a parapet in an office building. it might be out

are ok, and they have laid a time bomb. you know the first reaction is going to be, i got a permit. the better you do that job, you are also providing another permit for small and businesses. >> next speaker please. >> i liked the suggestion of having dothe dbi. we have the legislation that could potentially trigger mandatory. most people do not realize there is such thing as a structural exercise only. is untitled 24 -- it is titled 24 construction cost reagan most people will realize that should take care of their requirements, but it does not. people need to be notified and informed. accessibility is a much more complicated they, dense if you have to deal with it, you are going to have today and the accessibility consultant to help you. i appreciate the efforts to put this out there. this is a constant effort. outreach is crucial. >> any further public comments. next item. >> and next item is item number eight, commissioners comments. . >> what i see is some category of notification davis -- notification, and we are seeing how they are notified on whether they have made efforts of

i am a are newsom's -- i am mayor newsom's education adviser. it is an interesting seat at an interesting time. it is my pleasure to do these events. it is a fantastic moment for so many of our principals and teachers. it gives us an opportunity to thank them for all they do for our children, our community, and our parents. it is a wonderful thing. we were sitting around and wondering why we never did this, so we are really glad this is the fourth year doing our teacher of the month and our third year doing our teacher of the year. i wanted to thank a few folks really quickly. we have had some fantastic donations to all of our teachers and our principles. they have no idea what we are getting -- what they are getting today. i am excited to be able to rattle off the price list. we have so many prizes to give. i want to thank linda from comcast and tony from chase. they have been our monetary sponsors. we are really thankful to them for supporting this endeavor we have done. we have so many other sponsors, which are all on the back of your program

i have never seen a business that is fully compliant. usually, there are two different kinds of certificates you can get. one is, "i inspected it and these are the things you need to do." making that good faith effort goes a long way in helping achieve a mediation are a settlement if it does go to court. i think the people that are doing the drive-bys and exploiting the situation are looking for people who are making no effort at all. that has sort of been my experience, that those who are making a good-faith effort usually are a lot further ahead. even so much as -- i have had clients who have received these letters saying that there is a problem with their business. one business ignored the letter. they got sued and went to court. the other business immediately contacted them and said, "i am good to figure out what is wrong and i am going to fix it," and did not get sued. that is sort of how that works. i want to set a couple of other things. the commissioner was talking about how people can do their own self-analysis or get information. there is informa

you are on a parity, called i was reading -- you are on. caller: i was reading what ralph nader called the two-party dictatorship. right here in west virginia, tonight in berkeley springs, more than one of the people will be gathering to protest the corporate dictatorship and we are having market flowers from physicians for national health program and they will be talked about all that we are spending $700 million a day on iraq and afghanistan. those are two wars the majority of the american people are against. we could use that money here so we are not fighting each other over the crumbs. and dr. flowers is going to be talking about getting rid of the private health insurance industry so that we can actually cover our people and save money. we can save money by two simple things. bringing the troops home and getting rid of the private health insurance industry. the rebellion -- it is not just these big rallies in wisconsin. we have a small town in the middle of the week the day after a snowstorm and there will be more than 100 people protes

hanc issue, and i think those are definitely separate. it is sad that an issue is pitted in the new versus the old within the haight ashbury and i appreciate the folks who have moved in with in the last senate 20 years and their passion to save the neighborhood and their pride, but i think that they are misguided in attacking hanc and the recycling center for the ills of the neighborhood. again, i think they are completely separate issues. and the people on the street being verbally abusive leaving the output and begging for money are not the people using the recycling center. many of the people sitting there are those who have been using the recycling center, and i do not think any of us do that. in an era when native plants are valued, i think that it is something we should value and not look at getting rid of a place like hanc. it is not about the golden gate park mission and vision. i think it is a thinly veiled political attack on hanc as well as issues with homelessness. i urge you to keep the hanc recycling center and made a plant n

president mendoza: i have to cut you off. there are other speakers coming from fairmont. >> can i take tina's time? president mendoza: you cannot. we have a lot of other speakers. >> actually, i am taking tina's spot. i am a fairmont mom. you can imagine my dismay when i found out, after moving my children from marshall to fairmont, a great distress to have this occur. it was not the entire reason we transfer our children in second grade, but it was one of the reasons. it is not because emery is it a bad school. but it is not a community school. to have alvarado students go to lick instead of everett is ludicrous. everett is not our community school. lick is. we have spent years trying to get our kids into fairmont. we expected our kids to go to lick. this is turning everybody upside down. why do i want to send my kids to 15th and dolores when there is a lovely middle school where my community is? it makes no sense from any perspective. i looked at all the numbers and rationale. it does not make sense. secondly, i understand there is c