. >> reporter: we're standing outside san jose city hall, the new keefe is chris moore -- chief is chris more. >> chris move has been with the police department for 29 years. >> it's been a long career, i'm blessed to have the opportunity to serve as the chief of the best police department. >> bill: >> reporter: i believe that chris more is up to challenge. moore brings decades of experience, but the city is facing financial differents -- difficults. >> if you look at the math and look at the short fall. it takes 349 officers to close that. that's just the math. >> 349 officers laid off this year in a worst case scenario, even if the rank and file agree to a give back, there could be 200 laid off. >> i think it leaves us and the citizen in a precarouse situation. the chief knows the job will be tough. >> it will be tough, our employees will step up, the city is working hard to minute mize damage -- minimize damage. >> he has a lot of experience with the city of san jose, he has great potential, understands the city. >> the 49-year-old moore who served for a year as council to former atto

executive director keefe and we have a couple of other superintendents that will be available. as promised, we're here this evening to bring quality school pattern that the work that staff has been condid -- has been conducting over the majority of the school year. we're going to show a powerpoint presentation, but to remind you about the outcomes of the presentation, we want to review the purpose of the middle school project. we want it answer key questions that the board members raised since the last meeting. we want to discuss a pathway and a pattern of the pathway, approximate -- the prompt -- the proximity pathway. we want to agree on community engagement and analysis for a quality middle school plan. just as a matter of review, the charge of the group that has been working on the quality middle school pathway is developing a quality middle school pathway and to implement a man to insure that quality middle schools and options at all schools including the extending of language pathways and other academic programs from elementary school to middle school, allow for a a polic