we definitely will be missing commissioner melara and we are wishing her well of course at the police commission. i look forward to improved relationship with the police commission that serves us so well already so if we're prepared for the vote. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. the resolution is passed and we hope to present it to her at our planting meeting at our next meeting. >> item 11 is other business. >> okay. we're at other business, and commissioners i would note though that with commissioner melara leaving the position of vice president is vacant and we will then be entertaining nominations and a vote for that on september 2 our next regular meeting date and we will let the other commissioners who are unable to be here also notified of that. >> yes. we will make sure that happens commissioner. >> thank you. so that is an agenda item on september 2. >> the next item 12 is a report back from the joint conference committee and committees and the only committee that met was laguna honda on july 29. >> okay. i noted the typo here and looks like la

. >> commissioner melara? >> yes, i just want to report that last friday, i attended a meeting at the mayor's office in regards to a plan that has been proposed by the members of the latino community, and it is called the road to peace and it is a plan that it is trying to address the violence in the mission district. and so, the mayor's office has been working with this group for some time and i was invieded to attend and the mayor's office has committed to looking at potential sources of funding to put the plan in practice and the group has been asked to come back with a specific plan of action, that would specifically look at actually some results in the community, and so, i will be participating in potential move forward. and so i will keep you posted on that. >> great. >> commissioner hwang, welcome back. >> thank you, i do want to apologize for missing a couple of meetings. >> you have family commitments, >> i have been working on police commission, business in the between time i want to report on a coup

. >> melara, en route >> with us is the chief of police, suhr >> thank you so much, ladies and gentlemenugust, 27th, 2014, san francisco police commission, meeting without further adieu, call line item one, general public comment. >> the public is now relevant come to address the commission, regarding to items that do not appear on tonight's agenda. the speakers will address the remarks to the commission as a whole but not to the department or the occ personnel, on the police commissioner rules of order, the police, or the occ, personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. the individual commissioners and personnel should refrain, however from engineering into any debates or discussions or the speakers of general public comment, and limit your comments to three minutes. >> the first speaker. >> i am here because of my attempts to address the issue have come back to me with no satisfaction, and the sense that i have gotten back from this is a complaint that i filed with the court and i got at this point, it is a temporary r

. >> one last thing, that you may want to know about it, and especially commissioner, melara, there is a referral card that we are going to put together with the packet that the officers have to hand for our victims when we go to a scene, explaining exactly what is happening as far as the cps referral, and i have given that card, that referral card that we are looking at to the occ, to marian and to the community advocates in this. and so it is self-explanatory, and a card that you will see. okay? and upon completing of the order. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hearing no public, or further public comment, call the next line item. >> line item 4, approval of the awards and committee recommendations, action. >> okay. >> commissioners in your packet, is a list of the recommended awards from the medal of valor meeting that we had at the hall of justice and i spoke about it in the last commission meeting and we met on july, 14th and i was the commissioner that was comment, and chief suhr presided over the day long event of making the selections and so what you have in the packet is the off

our brand new commissioner with us tonight for the first time and i would like you to welcome sonia melara. >> she is the newest member of the commission and she served on several commissions here in san francisco and we talking earlier that she is in my opinion is a native and came to san francisco when she was 14 years old and educated here and has both her bachelor's and masters degrees and on the faculty of san francisco state and she is the specialist social worker, and she works at the saint francis hospital and she just a great, great edition to our commission, and she really really has fondness for the city, her city and so, without further adieu, welcome and tell the commission about yourself and the audience. >> well, i thank that you have done quite a bit of good job, saying what i do and where i have done by presently i run, a saint francis hospital, i ran the valley services xh is the program that provides visitation for the children and the parents referred from the family court. and these families are referred to cause different things,, and domestic violence, and i have wor