they confirm this mou remains in effect. to cut to the chase, this issue is about committing to writing, simply in legislation, provisions to protect our legal civil rights. if you think about it, the idea that people should put our sole rights on the basis of mere trust, so when they created the bill of rights and did not say, trust us, we will not violate our rights to free speech or unreasonable seek -- search or seizure. it will protection under a law -- trust us, we would never treat people unfairly. california right to privacy. of course the standards are put clearly in writing. to suggest we should really trust, especially in the circumstance, with lots of rights violated, i think is inappropriate. there is a model that has worked in portland. we urge you to follow in portland's lead. thank you for your attention to this issue. supervisor kim: thank you. i have a question for the city attorney, ms. adams. how my understanding is any mou that is 10 years or longer must come to the full board for approval. in the case o

mou. dusty but we are striking out. we are clarifying the -- that i am we are striking out. last couple yet streamlined the reporting requirements for the office of citizen complaints. this work is the result of many years of effort. many of you have been following the slaughter that i have. the human-rights commission heard what are committed backers are experiencing post-9/11, whether it's questioning around religious beliefs or what the cultural activities in their homeland without any cause of reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. this resulted in a comprehensive report released last year which was unanimously endorsed by this board in april. the board's resolution made clear that "committee members are concerned about the criminalization of their identity and guilt by association becoming the standard for policing and national security strategies." that is something we do not believe in in this room or in the city. this legislation is in response to that resolution. in august, the committee approach the board of supervisors to see if it codify the things we have st

from my perspective, we all agree that these types of mous undermine the public trust. i'd like to think the chiefs because of an easing gauge with many of us on this conversation and we have come to learn of the fact in 2007 the police department entered into this secret agreement this is legislation to make sure that regardless of you this feature police chief is the legacy we're trying to stand for today remains in place around the process and civil liberties. i would like to think the broad coalition that has come out in support of this measure. civil-rights organizations, how the rights organizations, labor unions, organizations that work with the lbgt community, the small business community and other organizations that understand what this about. coalition is abroad because everyone in this room, we know we do not want history to repeat itself. it was not too long ago that japanese americans were in turned. because wartime necessity called for it. it was not too long ago, and 1950's, that chinese americans were detained and interrogated during the cold war. it was

legislation in portland that in contrast to the standard 2007 mou being utilized in the case of a sense of the police department facilitated this patient in the joint terrorist task force while ensuring various civil liberties concerns the elected by the memorandum of understanding were addressed. recently, the portland police chief issued a first annual reports on the joint terrorism task force. some key things to know include police officers in portland continue to be able to put his bid in the full range of jttf activities through legislation. a concern that pivots been raised in san francisco is the ability to purchase bid in confidential briefings. the portland reports there evidence that opposition given access to those briefings. the fbi did not and will not block their progress addition in the jttf, even if they are subject to local civil rights and protection. cheap reported they were directly with the federal court is on jttf matters. the look of the park and has been able to directly applied its own civil rights standards to its own officers bursa's what was previously offere

and we're in stages of trying to bring that mou to conclusion. we intend to do that. and where tribes approach us prior to the signing of the mou and want to establish from the tribal nation with v.a. a direct relationship because they have a medical facility and would like us to provide the same coverage, we're willing to do that. but that would be on a case by case basis. >> thank you. secretary shinseki, staffing shortages continue to be a problem, although there's been progress. some clinics are seeing staffing levels below 50%, causing excessive waiting times for veterans that need care. and i understand this is an issue you've been working on. as you know, the number of veterans needing services is growing yearly and it shows that you have been making progress. can you provide an update on that? >> mr. secretary, thank you. thank you for the question. the -- we have addressed -- we have talked about mental health earlier and the efforts that we're making to try to assess whether there's adequate staffing there. i think you're probably talking about primary care.

hopefully, this mou, whichever way it goes, will benefit the union. hopefully, the union will continue to improve itself. we have to be optimistic in the future, even though, according to my interpretation, the union sometimes cooperates with the employer to often. it is kind of like the nfl situation, where you need a commissioner to put down the hammer on people that obstruct justice. the last thing i have to say it is -- who is the next coach sean peyton? chairperson farrell: thank you. next speaker. >> gabriel holland, san francisco but the coordinator for 1021. i want to thank the city for bringing this to your city. i hope you support it. our union supports it. as gus feldman mentioned earlier, deskilling captures part of the picture. to go more global, it is about valuing the work of people of color. that is why these classifications years ago had a raise. we had a comparative for the study and found those positions were underfunded because the were primarily women and people of color. 80% to 90% women and people of color. the value of their wo

as i describe, we're working with the indian health service to establish this mou which would open a lot of processes for -- especially for alaska native veterans. but in the meantime, based on my visit to alaska, the alaskan native medical consortium, we've also established discussions with them trying to ensure that however the ihs mou progressing that we have are ready to provide help to veterans who are being seen now. >> you feel that's going in the right direction with the travel concerns? >> let me talk to dr. petzel since -- >> in negotiations and discussion. >> thank you, mr. secretary. senator begich, i really do sim -- sympathize with the ruralness of alaska. as well as other parts of the country. while we're waiting for the mou to be finished, alaska is one of two places where we are proceeding with tribal interactions and i hesitate to use the word pilot. but to get specific agreements within a tribal unit in alaska. i believe it's the southeast alaskan tribal association and we are progressing in getting some arrangements made. it would be wonderful from my perspective

mou. mainly i am puzzled as to why it was assigned to this committee. it seems this is a financial matter rather than an audit and oversight matter. i do not know whether it actually belongs here. i have a feeling that maybe it is here because there is something else to do on this committee. i find that a little hard to believe, but maybe i am wrong. i would like to thank mr. feldman for his comments. he is part of the new 1021. in my opinion, it is a vast improvement over the previous 1021 i had to endure with. hopefully, this mou, whichever way it goes, will benefit the union. hopefully, the union will continue to improve itself. we have to be optimistic in the future, even though, according to my interpretation, the union sometimes cooperates with the employer to often. it is kind of like the nfl situation, where you need a commissioner to put down the hammer on people that obstruct justice. the last thing i have to say it is -- who is the next coach sean peyton? chairperson farrell: thank you. next speaker. >> gabriel holland, san francisco but the

relationship with our department has been around for a long time but was never formalized until this mou approximately one year ago. one of the benefits of the mou it is we are able to track and the programs together in the same database, so we know month over month, year over year, exactly how we are doing. i also have with me the president of the board of friends of the sharon arts studio. i have our rec and park manager of the facility as well, and the administrative director. if you have questions for them. the new agreement basically continues but we were doing before with one fundamental change, and that is, in the past, the department was picking up the cost of publishing a brochure that goes out to about 2000 people. friends of the sharon arts studio has 500 paying members. they have a mailing list with 2000 people on it. those folks get the catalog mailed to them. in addition, the catalog is made available at as many rec and park facilities as we can so that people that are not members have access to their programs as well. the change in the new agreement is friends of the sharo

in terms of the mou's, these are our interagency agreement for the large projects. and the original projection was based some money coming in from mta. i think it is actually coming from the federal government for the central subway project, and that is going to be delayed until around august. so that will go on into next fiscal year. i am not very concerned about the fact that we have only received about 56% of what we originally estimated. in terms of the expenses, as you know, the majority of our expenses are related to personnel. we have been trying to fill positions. in fact, we have about 20 requisitions i got approved last friday that proposes a challenge for us. some of those are tested already and we are waiting for results. some of them there are not in the testing, so we will have to move through a process to hire the people, that we're getting recognition from the mayor's office and from dhor that -- from dhr that it is vital to provide the service. non-personnel-related expenses, yes or not particularly concerned about this one either, because a lot of

the mou states afghanistan will continue favorably u.s. input regarding whether to release a particular detainee, but given the current pos color posture o afghan government this is not very reassuring. i'm concerned about history repeating itself here. in iraq we waited until the last minute to deal with this issue and that particular example is not one we should be seeking to repeat. in light of the new mou, what is your plan regarding the handling of high-value detainee, both afghans and third country nationals, to ensure that these individuals will not pose a threat to the united states in the future? >> and i'll defer to dr. milner a moment. but should there be a disagreement with the afghans, should there be an intention expressed to release one of the detainees, ultimately that they control, we express our desire that they not. they will give it favorable consideration, if, in fact, they continue to desire to release that detainee that question will then go a bilateral commission, which has been established within that memorandum of

>> they are paid for by the city and county of san francisco but -- according to the 2007 mou -- they are put under the direct supervision of the fbi. their work in fbi headquarters, on golden gate and are obligated to follow federal guidelines. supervisor avalos: ok. thank you. supervisor kim: please line up if i had called your name. hitt otherwise, i will call others bigger cars. if you are no longer speaking, i will call up other speakers. >> thank you so much for holding this hearing. my name is -- i am on the board of directors from the asian american bar association. aaba is a broad coalition of bay area bar association and several reorganizations. this coalition includes a coalition of san francisco, bay area association of muslim lawyers, san francisco hass -- a national lawyers guild of the sentences of bay area, iran and american bar association of california, bay area lawyers for individual freedom and the vietnamese american bar association of northern california. as well as other civil rights organizations such as the aclu, asian law caucus. this coalition urges the full

and we're in stages of trying to bring that mou to conclusion. we've, we intend to do that. and where tribes approach us prior to the signing of that mou and want to establish from a tribal nation with va a direct relationship because they have a medical facility and would like us to provide the same coverage, we're willing to do that. but that would be on a case-by-case basis. >> thank you. secretary shin shinseki -- shin, staffing shortages continue to be a problem although there's been progress. some clinics are seeing staffing levels below 50% causing excessive waiting times for veterans that need care. understand this is an issue you've been working on. as you know, the thurm of veterans -- the number of veterans needing services is growing yearly, and it shows that you have been making progress. can you provide an update on the department's progress to address staffing levels? >> mr. secretary, thank you, senator akaka, thank you for the question. we've addressed, we've talked about mental health earlier and the efforts we're making to try and assess whether there's ad

we are in stages of trying to bring that mou to a conclusion. we intend to do that. and where tribes approached us prior to the signing of that mou and want to establish from a tribal nation with a va a direct relationship because they have a medical facility and would like us to provide the same coverage, we are willing to do that, but that would be on a case by case basis. >> thank you. secretary shinseki, staffing shortages continue to be a problem, although there has been progress. some clinics are seeing staffing levels below 50%, causing excess of waiting times for veterans that need care. understand this is an issue you have been working on. as you know, the number of veterans needing services is growing yearly, and it shows that you have been making progress. can you provide an update on the department's progress to address staffing levels? >> mr. secretary, thank you. senator akaka, thank you for the question. we have talked about mental health earlier and the efforts we're making to try and assess whether there is adequate staffing there. i think you're pro

mou we look in ourselves to protect our land here. many of us like your country. many of us die for your country. because we have respect for the land and for the people like you, who help us and support us. i see six of you support us and five said no. why no? who are you? you are hereby our voice. you are going to be outside by our voice. i say this not to scare nobody, but this is our wisdom. support us like we support you. do not act like you are a dummy or you do not know what you do to support us. it is someone like me who has time to wake you up. if you do not wake up, i have punishment to wake you up. sooner or later, you will find everyone behind me and everyone agrees with what i said. i am very glad to see campos and kim. she goes outside to support the muslim people. not only that she has muslims were in her office. -- work in her office. we are here because we love you. we love you more if you support us. wake up and see what i said. i do not need to repeat. every word i tell you is going to be on your mind, if you have one. thank you. >> occasionally

need it to let -- take their own actions, and fat, tomorrow, to really understand the basis of our mou's. we will have this full discussion in april. a couple of major announcements, the first phase of the replacements of the existing dr access to the golden gate bridge is almost ready to open. we are looking at an opening for switchover date of april 27th, that is the end of next month. it is hard to believe after so many years of pushing this project forward. the first phase will entail a closure of the entire access to the bridge for a three day weekend. during that weekend, there would be the completion of street level the tort behind -- street level detour behind the palace of fine art. this is a tremendous engineering feat and it would be accomplished demolition in just one weekend. this is one of the innovations, the many innovations that the project is coming up with, rather than lengthening the suffering for two or three months, noise, dust, for the neighborhood, for the habitat, for the protected habitats in the presidio and so on, it was decided that we would do this in one we

i know that you are working on an mou with the indian health service. you find solutions to help provide services to our native american veterans and i commend you and all of your involvement in these efforts. ms. secretary can i get your commitment to look into possible ways of working with the native hawaiian health care system and the native american veterans to provide services for in this case native hawaiian veterans who lived in many of the rural parts of the state of hawaii? >> senator, you have my assurance that we will do our utmost to provide for many of our veterans, wherever they live, the rows -- most rural in remote areas, the same access and quality to health care health care and services as we provide to someone living in a more urban area. there is a challenge with that but we are not as sensitive to that challenge and we are working hard to provide va provided services and where we can, to make arrangements where if quality services exist in those areas, making arrangements for veterans to be able to participate with those local oppor

i am a little puzzled by this mou. mainly i am puzzled as to why it was assigned to this committee. it seems this is a financial matter rather than an audit and oversight matter. i do not know whether it actually belongs here. i have a feeling that maybe it is here becae

>> mou to go to close session. >> second. -- move to go to closed session.at a second. >> all in favor? we are now in closed session. we will be taking a brief recess.

>> mou to go to close session. >> second. >> second. -- move to go to closed session. >> we are reconvening after the close session, item number seven. is there an item tmotion to rec? >> move, seconded. >> we are now in open session. >> item number7b, action to convene a closed session -- reconvene in open session to vote on whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. >> move to disclose. >> the commission has agreed to discuss the item. >> thank you. as president of the commission, you have been overwhelmingly approved. thank you for taking on the job and responsibility. duquesne now come to the mike if you want to say a few words, finally. congratulations. >> thank you. unfortunately, this is good. the way i have believed timor, besides myself and we need the support of the director and the commissioner because by myself i cannot make the work. also my staff and below the knees to be working together. the last management, we were working at with acting. then, everything hopefully improving. the number of backlog. hopefully this is in there for a major project. ther

we would also like to talk about perhaps a revised mou and we understand the powers that be and the ways that police officers are given -- giving their lives to their job, and their profession, and we understand that, need be, arrests have to be made, but we also want to take into the fact that our city has been a leadership city, and taking into account the youths' perspective, and at schools where arrests may be made, and that they can be handled appropriately. the job has to be done. it also impacts the classroom and others. i believe with all of the leadership and attendance and all the creativity, i am confident that we will reap positive outcomes for today, so thank you, and think you to the members of the public today. we're interested in hearing your experiences and stories, but please, let's advocate. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you, commissioner ontiveros. i want to thank my fellow commissioner, commissioner chan, for her hard work. commissioner chan: it is also mario, too. president mazzucco: 01 to start with some, including the excelsior unit, and the youth. the viet

in light of the new mou what is your plan regarding the value of the detainees afghans and third country nationals to ensure these individuals wilt not pose a threat to the united states in the future? >> i will defer to dr. miller in a moment. should there be a disagreement with the afghans, should there be an intention expressed to release one of the detainees, ultimately that they control, we express our desire that they not -- they will give it favorable consideration if in fact they continue to desire to release that detainee that question will go to a bilateral commission. the chair on the u.s. side and the chair on the afghan side of the bilateral commission is commander of isf and the minister of defense where we will have the conversation whether that individual should be released or not. i believe we will ultimately be able to resolve this to our benefit within the bilateral commission if they don't take our initial desire to be their decision ultimately. with respect to the third country nationals that remains to be determined. we have not yet addressed that and we will do tha