met with kate howard and other person in our office along with our analyst and i think there was openness to hearing about the priorities and encouragement we should look at the fellows program as well. i'm hopeful we'll have some further conversation soon but i don't have anything more to report at this point. >> in that regard, ms. paolo and i have been meeting with most of the supervisors and i think you met with a couple of them but up until then we met with supervisor canady with the last one we have scheduled i think we have nine out of the 11 that we met with and we presented the budget package to them and universally they've all said we will support whatever you need. so, they seem sympathetic to the fact that the commission has not had a budget increase and they recognize that we need more resources to do what many of the supervisors agree we should be doing. so i'm thoroughly optimistic. turning to the next item, which is the approval of the minutes for >> i just want to make sure you want to make sure this opportunity for public comment >> i'm sorry. does anyone want to comment

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, supervisor avalos, members of the committee, kate howard, the mayor'sget director, thank you for your opening commenpervisor avalos, as you know, we've been working closely with your office with the rec and park department and the office of economic and workforce development over the past several years to figure out a plan to move the car barn project forward. last year, work done by your office, rec and park and oewd resulted in a modified phased plan for activating the car barn and the power house, and the planning work for that modified plan was funded through the mayor's budget at about 475 thousand dollars. the mayor's office is happy to continue to work with you and your office to figure out an appropriate strategy for fully funding the project, as i think i've shared with you, at this time, it's very difficult for our office to support general fund supplementals given the city's financial outlook, we've put out budget instructions that demonstrate that we have budgetary gaps growing from 100 million to 240 million dollars over the next two years

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both publi

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both publi

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howardnd we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both public

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howardwe're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both public and

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, supervisor avalos, members of the committee, kate howard, the mayor's budget director, thank you for your opening comments, supervisor avalos, as you know, we've been working closely with your office with the rec and park department and the office of economic and workforce development over the past several years to figure out a plan to move the car barn project forward. last year, work done by your office, rec and park and oewd resulted in a modified phased plan for activating the car barn and the power house, and the planning work for that modified plan was funded through the mayor's budget at about 475 thousand dollars. the mayor's office is happy to continue to work with you and your office to figure out an appropriate strategy for fully funding the project, as i think i've shared with you, at this time, it's very difficult for our office to support general fund supplementals given the city's financial outlook, we've put out budget instructions that demonstrate that we have budgetary gaps growing from 100 million to 240 million dollars over the next

met with kate howard and other person in our office along with our analyst and i think there was openness to hearing about the priorities and encouragement we should look at the fellows program as well. i'm hopeful we'll have some further conversation soon but i don't have anything more to report at this point. >> in that regard, ms. paolo and i have been meeting with most of the supervisors and i think you met with a couple of them but up until then we met with supervisor canady with the last one we have scheduled i think we have nine out of the 11 that we met with and we presented the budget package to them and universally they've all said we will support whatever you need. so, they seem sympathetic to the fact that the commission has not had a budget increase and they recognize that we need more resources to do what many of the supervisors agree we should be doing. so i'm thoroughly optimistic. turning to the next item, which is the approval of the minutes for >> i just want to make sure you want to make sure this opportunity for public comment >> i'm sorry. does anyone want to comment

confirmed a budget committee meeting we've been waiting to her budget committee with the director kate howard will be march 25 i believe at the 10:00 a.m. mrooek will be sending an e-mail to the budget committee members will be similar to the voicing our what will be our priorities so reporting to ms. howard's and budget relate while continue to work on the 2016 june 2016 bond and a reminder $350 million which 58 millions is earmarked for if the fire department and for the ems facility that will be constructed the rear of station 9 property and other $14 million for continues projects that the 2010 and 2014 have been addressing percentage related to staffing changes he's been patient i think he is the back of room i'll call firefighter keith to describe his position that is evolving and in my selection as coordinator give you a little bit of background about the times at the department keith. >> thank you. good morning commissioner as chief joanne hayes-white stated i'm keith i'm familiar with all of you and congratulations to our reappointment i've been in the department for 20 years i start

covington and good afternoon, commissioners since march 9 our budget committee will be meeting with kate howard this friday march 25 in room 201 and i know the past we've had commissioner vice president cleaveland attend i think you have it on your schedule we hope to do review with the mayor's director we met with the members of the committee to talk about the needs in catching for the years we had to reduce the operating budget the biggest priority is the fleet plan so we will hopefully come out of that meeting with some direction the mayors office i'd like i'll be happy to report at the next meeting april 15th. >> with regard to academies as you may know the 1 and 19 academy is in their ninth week we started with 44 now 52 the two people that are no longer many the academy have reas i understand because of injury things are going well, it is very comprehensive academy we're being flexible we that this is important deputy chief wilson and deputy chief benign i didn't we've transitions in alignment with the state marshall curriculum we planned on that being similar to other academies legislate

think it would make a lot more sense since i've had a request from the mayor's budget director kate howard to have a conversation with her and the mayor which i will want to do this week and before hearing this item again next week, so what i would like to do is have this item continued. i'm okay accepting at that time maybe next week, we can do the budget analyst recommendations at that time, but overall, we can continue this for one week, i think that would help have that conversation. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. so, if there are no other questions or comments from colleague, i'm going the see if we can get chair farrell back in the chamber to take action on item 1. >> and i'll have to step out at that point. >> yes. >> do you want to go ahead and make a motion. >> go ahead. >> so, i'm going the make a motion to continue this item for one week. >> second. >> okay, we gt a motion by supervisor yee, second by supervisor tang, can we take that without objection? supervisor kim, do you want to vote on this? we need supervisor kim, would you like to vote on this continuance? okay, can we

covington and good afternoon, commissioners since march 9 our budget committee will be meeting with kate howard this friday march 25 in room 201 and i know the past we've had commissioner vice president cleaveland attend i think you have it on your schedule we hope to do review with the mayor's director we met with the members of the committee to talk about the needs in catching for the years we had to reduce the operating budget the biggest priority is the fleet plan so we will hopefully come out of that meeting with some direction the mayors office i'd like i'll be happy to report at the next meeting april 15th. >> with regard to academies as you may know the 1 and 19 academy is in their ninth week we started with 44 now 52 the two people that are no longer many the academy have reas i understand because of injury things are going well, it is very comprehensive academy we're being flexible we that this is important deputy chief wilson and deputy chief benign i didn't we've transitions in alignment with the state marshall curriculum we planned on that being similar to other academies legislate

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, supervisor avalos, members of the committee, kate howard, the mayor's budget director, thank you for your opening comments, supervisor avalos, as you know, we've been working closely with your office with the rec and park department and the office of economic and workforce development over the past several years to figure out a plan to move the car barn project forward. last year, work done by your office, rec and park and oewd resulted in a modified phased plan for activating the car barn and the power house, and the planning work for that modified plan was funded through the mayor's budget at about 475 thousand dollars. the mayor's office is happy to continue to work with you and your office to figure out an appropriate strategy for fully funding the project, as i think i've shared with you, at this time, it's very difficult for our office to support general fund supplementals given the city's financial outlook, we've put out budget instructions that demonstrate that we have budgetary gaps growing from 100 million to 240 million dollars over the next

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both publi

covington and good afternoon, commissioners since march 9 our budget committee will be meeting with kate howard this friday march 25 in room 201 and i know the past we've had commissioner vice president cleaveland attend i think you have it on your schedule we hope to do review with the mayor's director we met with the members of the committee to talk about the needs in catching for the years we had to reduce the operating budget the biggest priority is the fleet plan so we will hopefully come out of that meeting with some direction the mayors office i'd like i'll be happy to report at the next meeting april 15th. >> with regard to academies as you may know the 1 and 19 academy is in their ninth week we started with 44 now 52 the two people that are no longer many the academy have reas i understand because of injury things are going well, it is very comprehensive academy we're being flexible we that this is important deputy chief wilson and deputy chief benign i didn't we've transitions in alignment with the state marshall curriculum we planned on that being similar to other academies legislate

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both publi

document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both publi

process of confirming a date for our budget committee to meet with the mayor's budget director kate howard. i anticipate that will be some time next month during the month of march. not any know staffing changes to report for this reporting period of time. we do anticipate fire fighter keith bracha to introduce himself at the march 9th report. in the process of announcing very soon some acting positions in the ems division which we will be able to report at the next meeting. related to academies, 119th academy is off to a good start. they begin on january 25th, and later we are joining by station no. 49 for a total of 50 members going through the academy with a graduation date in may. followed by the 120 class which is yet to be selected. backgrounds have been pretty much conducted and interviews will take place through the meet and greet in the march and april timeframe. we have members that were a good fit to our department and very instrumental during the staffing of super bowl week. there are 13 members this week that are transitioning to become full time members of our department as e

howard? i said, sure, kate, that's fine. >> mind you, there was an incident at the gym. howard's soon-to-be ex-wife came around, they had words. at 8:00 p.m., a drugstore camera showed kate relaxed, buying wine and snacks while waiting on her prescription refills. ethan paid for dinner. chicken, salmon teriyaki. >> like a japanese like -- kind of like cuisine-type thing. >> she didn't drive, so he took her home. dropped her off before midnight. something else -- something earlier that friday that bothered the warings at first was terrifying them now. the more they thought about it, just before she went to the drug store friday evening, she started telling her father about some problem. >> saying that she felt like she perhaps had unintentionally got herself in trouble. and i said, "well, why don't you tell me about that." and she wouldn't tell me any details. >> was she clearly worried? >> she was concerned. >> clearly worried. >> about something. >> naturally they told the police about that. nothing came of it. and as the air thickened into a steamy august, the weeks tha

. >> the gym trainer and kate's romantic interest, howard gatts, told capps he heard from her at 10:30 p.m., still at dinner with ethan then. there was another call, it was after midnight, well after police believe she was dropped off at home. >> she told me she was at some friend's house. they had already made it to the house. she sounded a little buzzed. >> and then a very last message from kate. a text. very strange. >> "i'm off to greenville to pick up some lovely." whatever lovely was i had no idea, you know, and, "i'll be back in a few days." >> did that make sense to you? this time she did not text back. silence from kate. except the middle of the night, her cell phone pinged out on james island, miles from her the cops had surmised, remember, that a closer tower to her house may have been too busy to handle the call. but at 1:53 in the morning? not a chance, thought andy savage. >> just preposterous. they were looking for an explanation, plausible explanation consistent with the theory that she voluntarily left. [ ringing ] >> that middle of the night call, by the way, was to h

met with kate howard and other person in our office along with our analyst and i think there was openness to hearing about the priorities and encouragement we should look at the fellows program as well. i'm hopeful we'll have some further conversation soon but i don't have anything more to report at this point. >> in that regard, ms. paolo and i have been meeting with most of the supervisors and i think you met with a couple of them but up until then we met with supervisor canady with the last one we have scheduled i think we have nine out of the 11 that we met with and we presented the budget package to them and universally they've all said we will support whatever you need. so, they seem sympathetic to the fact that the commission has not had a budget increase and they recognize that we need more resources to do what many of the supervisors agree we should be doing. so i'm thoroughly optimistic. turning to the next item, which is the approval of the minutes for >> i just want to make sure you want to make sure this opportunity for public comment >> i'm sorry. does anyone want to comment

met with kate howard and other person in our office along with our analyst and i think there was openness to hearing about the priorities and encouragement we should look at the fellows program as well. i'm hopeful we'll have some further conversation soon but i don't have anything more to report at this point. >> in that regard, ms. paolo and i have been meeting with most of the supervisors and i think you met with a couple of them but up until then we met with supervisor canady with the last one we have scheduled i think we have nine out of the 11 that we met with and we presented the budget package to them and universally they've all said we will support whatever you need. so, they seem sympathetic to the fact that the commission has not had a budget increase and they recognize that we need more resources to do what many of the supervisors agree we should be doing. so i'm thoroughly optimistic. turning to the next item, which is the approval of the minutes for >> i just want to make sure you want to make sure this opportunity for public comment >> i'm sorry. does anyone want to comment

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at the november 4 meeting kate patterson was not in the chamber was behind the commissioner and behind howardas our the director of the street artist program whispering in their ear that they did not need to respond to public comment and they did not to answer anything. she did not even identify herself to the people, the street artists were being impacted. there was a member of the media there videotaping did she give her card to that person and later gave false information in an interview to the san francisco chronicle. that's pretty common. that was clear and deliver it. people were not told. the questions were not answered and they were hit with this just like that. i think there's this other thing that i struggle to talk about, a number of us had our artwork confiscated. in my case, it was a loss. it was about 3 months of work i was told i would get a letter to the later, letter never came. so i would urge you to support this. a lot of us are struggling. >> man, and he's the just-can you speak you are were being confiscated? can you speak about? >> i was at the montgomery bart that i not

at the november 4 meeting kate patterson was not in the chamber was behind the commissioner and behind howards our the director of the street artist program whispering in their ear that they did not need to respond to public comment and they did not to answer anything. she did not even identify herself to the people, the street artists were being impacted. there was a member of the media there videotaping did she give her card to that person and later gave false information in an interview to the san francisco chronicle. that's pretty common. that was clear and deliver it. people were not told. the questions were not answered and they were hit with this just like that. i think there's this other thing that i struggle to talk about, a number of us had our artwork confiscated. in my case, it was a loss. it was about 3 months of work i was told i would get a letter to the later, letter never came. so i would urge you to support this. a lot of us are struggling. >> man, and he's the just-can you speak you are were being confiscated? can you speak about? >> i was at the montgomery bart that i not

at the november 4 meeting kate patterson was not in the chamber was behind the commissioner and behind howards our the director of the street artist program whispering in their ear that they did not need to respond to public comment and they did not to answer anything. she did not even identify herself to the people, the street artists were being impacted. there was a member of the media there videotaping did she give her card to that person and later gave false information in an interview to the san francisco chronicle. that's pretty common. that was clear and deliver it. people were not told. the questions were not answered and they were hit with this just like that. i think there's this other thing that i struggle to talk about, a number of us had our artwork confiscated. in my case, it was a loss. it was about 3 months of work i was told i would get a letter to the later, letter never came. so i would urge you to support this. a lot of us are struggling. >> man, and he's the just-can you speak you are were being confiscated? can you speak about? >> i was at the montgomery bart that i not

at the november 4 meeting kate patterson was not in the chamber was behind the commissioner and behind howards our the director of the street artist program whispering in their ear that they did not need to respond to public comment and they did not to answer anything. she did not even identify herself to the people, the street artists were being impacted. there was a member of the media there videotaping did she give her card to that person and later gave false information in an interview to the san francisco chronicle. that's pretty common. that was clear and deliver it. people were not told. the questions were not answered and they were hit with this just like that. i think there's this other thing that i struggle to talk about, a number of us had our artwork confiscated. in my case, it was a loss. it was about 3 months of work i was told i would get a letter to the later, letter never came. so i would urge you to support this. a lot of us are struggling. >> man, and he's the just-can you speak you are were being confiscated? can you speak about? >> i was at the montgomery bart that i not