captain mahoney, welcome. would you like to add anything to it? >> no. just what we talked about i know in the past, the j.p.a. is structured so that there are 19 separate seats on this j.p.a. it takes 10 cities or counties, whichever, to decide on the j.p.a. for it to be functional. there are a number of decisions that need to be made at the first meeting of the j.p.a. directors. such as who will be secretary, who will be the fiscal agent. who will be attorney staff for review and all that. it's an excellent opportunity for san francisco to be -- get in on the first steps of this and maybe make some of those decisions. and possibly get some of the funding for those positions to the city and county if we decide to be the fiscal agent. since we have two seats there, the recommendation that i have is that we move cautiously but quickly in getting on to this j.p.a. >> i -- commissioner mirkarimi: i would agree, so far to date it's been our role in the area, through the grants we have been the ones assigned to farm out those particular grants to other jurisd

commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff.nder 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 to celebrate the incredible acts of bravery by the men and women in our department. before i say a few words about these incredible men and women sitting in the front, i want to thank their families. your support, day in and day out, or caring, companionship, your ability to talk to your loved ones as they are going through difficult times -- i was going to say men and women, but today we have just

mission this, i had a family issue i had to be in santa bar are and i came back and father michael mahoney was pastor he let me camp there let me stay overnight. i felt surrounded it was just so peaceful. >> the missions are great places however we need to remember the indian experience was not that peaceful. it was colonialism is not the best thing around if you are a native people in a foreign country coming in, it is politics going on today. foreign country comes in they want to exploit the people there tell you we are doing something good for you in the meantime we are taking all your gold away today we take their oil away and say we did something good for you but i celebrate in our family that the francis can missionaries brought our faith you have to look at the system what was good most of my family that i am aware of are practicing catholics. >> it is wonderful we have people like yourself, curator at one of our missions know both sides of the story and willing to share it. we can say the missions are a no spin zone. >> when bishop bill was our pastor he gave me two directives, one

but there will be, i want to make perfectly clear, our officers have been told -- commander mahoney has been advised when there is a conflict, 8.10 controls. that is an issue that needs to be discussed. we made a strong effort. i think commissioner slaughter was at one of the meetings with me. we're working towards -- it is a collaborative effort. i can't wait to have chief suhr there at the next meeting. >> it involves a general order. >> 8.10. >> 8.10 is sound. commissioner dejesus: we're also -- negotiating that too. >> sorry, i wanted to make that clear, that commander that honey has made clear to everybody as we iron out the small issues that need to be discussed. commissioners, any other reports? ok. so we move on to line item 3-d. commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration for future commission meetings. >> we tried to schedule something for the human rights commission and pick a date for that. >> what is our visibility for may 18? >> i'm going to be out of town on business may 4-may 11. i should be back by the 18th. >> how does that sound for t

the chief gets a lot of credit, as does captain mahoney, who worked diligently to make sure that most of these questions have been answered before tonight's hearing. i want to thank them for their hard work and think the chief for making quick, good decisions. the other thing that came up, there is concern about what took place at the airport. i think we should make clear the police department has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever over the tsa. that is not something that comes within our jurisdiction. i want to make that clear. i want to thank everybody for their hard work. this was all accomplished thanks to the hard work of the aclu, the law caucus, and the human rights commission. with that in mind, we can move forward with the hearing. >> thank you, my name is michael sweet, and i am chair of the human rights commission. i think the police commission for sharing their regular meeting time with us and for everyone to join us, i want to take a second to recognize that we have been joined by a number of additional members of the human rights commission. they have joined us a sens

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