mr. harvey as well as ms. [speaker not understood] and ms. campbell for all the work that you have done. this is a complicated process for everyone and i appreciate it. what i'd like to do is i'm going to give you a quick overview of our mission and i'm not going to read it. i think you all have the handout. but basically our work is overseeing the [speaker not understood] to make san francisco a safe city and to do so in a very thoughtful and effective manner. our department is broken down into three sections. we have the criminal department which has vertical and horizontal prosecutions, white collar, [speaker not understood] investigations, and we have the community collaboration department. that's where we have our alternative programs and initiative. we have victim services. we have juvenile and communication, and we have the support services department which is our finance, human resources and technology. as you can see, there is a brief overview of what our budget looks like when compared to current year to next year. and then this is

harvey told conflicting stories about where he supposedly went. >> i think the most damning evidence in this regard was the fact that despite having a history of calling mrlliams on the telephone over the years that they knew each other he never called his phone one time after the day the victim went missing. >> that didn't mean harvey killed steven, the defense said. steven b. was so depressed about losing his career and father and about getting older that he killed himself. and the medical examiner testified it was possible steven could have shot himself. >> what was your opinion of the idea that he might have committed suicide? >> i think it was incredulous. i don't think he would have done it. >> still, it was another explanation, and the jury would have to consider it. so now the courtroom waited and whisper whispered. would harvey take the stand? >> i told the investigators that i thought he was going to testify. and they didn't think so. they thought i was crazy. >> what made you think he would? >> well, he's a con man. and he likes to talk. and conmen think they can talk themselves out of any situation. >> he was right. sure enough, harvey was co

. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> rise please for the pledge of allegiance. >> mr.call the roll, please? >> please do. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus is en route. >> commissioner loftus?

t people were working together soidz towards a common person on harvey milk would have made things possible. in the years that followed mr include senior citizens and young people and ethnic minority and more. there was practical reasons, of course, mr. milk was a politician. and he knew he needed folks whether or not we could find them but people from different backgrounds that got to know each other discovered how much they had in common the most important alonzo lesson he taught everyone has something that makes them different and one group that has held down the he thought rest of us have the ron responsibility to stand up and fight back we all have a stake in equality that's why mr. milk spent time you're going lgbt people to come out of the closest we knew when more straight people economy more gay people sense would prevail over division and hope would conquer fear and more than anything mr. milk gave people hope. there's one of the reasons he ran for office in the first place but showing the world he wasn't afraid to be himself he helped other to take pride in would and who we were that was easier said than done

harvey rose has done an announcement. thank you president chiu this was meant to be scheduled last week but due to an error of calendaring i want to give mr. rose and his team a chance to speak >> mr. rose. >> that mr. rose. >> mr. president, and supervisors on page 4 of our report we recommended based on the budget simpleminded by the department of public health we recommend you, you reduce this contract not to exceed by 76 thousand plus from a request of 14 million to 14 million plus and we recommend that you approve this resolution as amended. >> with that, supervisor farrell. >> and mr. rose i said the department of public health is in agreement with this recommendation. >> so we'll make a motion to amend this as the budget analyst. >> supervisor farrell has made a motion to adapt the budget analyst recommendation without objection and on the underlying resolution take a roll call vote on the resolution as amended. >> on item 50. >> supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos? supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor malia cohen. supervisor farrell. s

. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> rise please for the pledge of allegiance. >> mr. president, i would like to call the roll, please? >> please do. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus is en route. >> commissioner loftus? >> here. >> and commissioner wong? >> here. >> mr. president, we have a quorum and also, the chief of police gregory suhr. >> welcome to the wednesday, july 2, 2014, police commission meeting, you see that we have a pretty wide agenda and we are moving into the summer session and we actually may have some other days off due to vacation schedules and training schedules, but welcome. this meeting is going to be a very positive meeting. we are going to have after general public comment, a presentation by officer jason johnson, regarding a trip that the police department arranged and i will leave it for him to tell us more about it but it is something that the police department with be proud. >> without further adieu, call item one. >> general public comment. >> t

mr. ruffo, go ahead. >> thank you, supervisors, chair farrell, members of the committee. thanks to the mayor's budget office as well as harvey rose's office for this year's budget. i'll provide a brief overview of our budget and discuss the current year outcome and our new initiative related to the year ahead. our fiscal 14-15 budget is 36.1 million dollars. that's down from a 13-14 budget of 39.2, a decrease of about 3.1 million dollars. decrease hees principally resulted in removal of one-time sources. in our 13-14 budget. total fte, we have 6ftes in this year's budget to bring total count to 92.5. in terms of highlights for the current year, as you all know, our unemployment rate today stands at 4.4%. this is down from 9.5% in 2011. that said, 21,000 residents remain unemployed and that remains a focus, [speaker not understood]. that's why we continue to implement "er manufacturing factor initiative which is focused on key manufacturing sectors, spreading the growthedthv we've [speaker not understood]. food and beverage as well as other sectors within apparel and other sector. this year we've also worked closely with supe

harvey milk has given us hope. the greatest love of all is for the children to be themselves and not have hate. thank you. >> thank you mr. edmond. >> good afternoon supervisors and board members. my name is michelle and i serve as the vice chair of the youth commission. when i first heard of 2025 and it had so many different topics which sparked so many different discussion points and i fell in love with it. i want to applaud the staff which put it all together which i know was a lot of effort. i want to encourage future curriculum planning to be processed in the same way where it invites not only san francisco unified school district staff members, but also students and service providers. i really hope in the future outreach towards the students can be increased because i want to see more students voice their own experience and needs by themselves since at tends of the day, no one can represent us better than we can represent ourselves. i look forwards to seeing all the funding implemented in the future. the current style of teaching is not the best for all, but it shouldn't be completely erased either. i hope in the f

mr . she said. you would still. look on the machine. you're tuned into our attention also with me you know neil neil harvey as well on this tragic day i reminder of our breaking news story a malaysia airlines boeing seven seven seven has crashed in eastern ukraine all two hundred eighty passengers fifteen crew as well meaning two hundred ninety five people are presumed dead that is according to ukraine's security services that the plane was on route from kuala lumpur and was flying over the part of ukraine where kiev is carting out its military crackdown on government protesters the jet apparently disappeared from radar around sixty kilometers we believe from the russian border the first local it's who arrived at the scene reported dozens of bodies the crash site is spread over an area rug and a kilometer wide and ukrainian authorities they claim the boeing was presumably hit from a rocket launched by self defense fighters but later denied be of any weapon capable of bringing down a jet so high president poroshenko said the ukrainian military did not target anything in the region either several may.

value that secured the harvey milk camera shop and was the treasurer of san francisco heritage and in the community also served on the board of the deploring services organization. mr. richard has a tremendous respiration of fighting for the neighborhoods and historic preservation and also is someone who has a long reputation of working well and trying to bring district voices together and with that, ask for your support and want to thank the rules committee for their unanimous recommendation of mr. richard >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman i'm proud to be supporting president chiu nomination i've had the pleasure of working with dennis on many, many issues both before i was on the board of supervisors when i was the president of the castro valley neighborhood association and he was the president of the triangle association we got to work on any issues and since i've been on the board of supervisors i've had the pleasure to work with him. i cannot think of a more qualified candidate than dennis richard he brings a credible you breath of experience in terms of every imagineal air force issue and historic preservation and formula retail denn

mr. richards for 20 years. we met in boxing class. so we go back and worked together on the friends of 1800s saving the building and the harvey milk store and the market octavia. with dennis i think we are getting several things. it's been long my contention that people in the neighborhood understand planning better than going to the architecture school and not the things i learned in school. dennis has been a member of the community for a long time and involved in that process in that community. in both prospect ifs, he knows how to community works and more than that, he cares about it. as a member of the community, he knows what community means to people. he knows what's at stake and his passion for the city is important. lastly he's a natural leader. he really is. i have seen him in leadership positions many times. he knows how to bring consensus, resolution, he knows how to open discussion. i think that is going to be a skill that is going to really shine on the planning commission. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. aaron highland. 22 years resident of the castro. i knew dennis long before he knew me. our firm worked on the

i'd like to thank harvey rose, [speaker not understood] for the great collaboration we've had this year. so, thank you. >> thank you very much, colleague. questions for mr. rose or for ms. kelly? okay, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> okay. up next we have our police department. >> good morning, supervisors. >> good morning. >> folk get us queued up, i also want to have a chance to say thank you to everybody that helps the department out and me personally. budget is never a strong suit of mine, so, it takes a lot of work and a lot of help to get to us this day. specifically, the board's assistance, especially with the staffing plan from two years ago, but starting this summer we start to go positive marching back to the charter mandate in 171. the police commission is always supportive of certainly mayor lee for his leadership, and that of his budget office. kate howard, the budget director and jason cunningham and leo chi, the analysts assigned tower office. controller's office, ben rosenfeld, [speaker not understood] who is also assigned to the department as you can tell there's a lot of people assigned to help us. and then of course my staff, [s

harvey. you know me. you know i don't cause no ruckus. >> you complied and laid on the ground. mr. williams kept on trying to fight. and like i do with everybody in here, your first offense for fighting's gonna be 10 days. >> oh, man. come on, man. i mean, come on, hale... i comply with everything the officers have asked me to do. i've been in here. i ain't been kicking on no doors. i ain't been causing no ruckus or nothing. >> sign right there and right there. >> [ sighs ] that's just bull[bleep] man. lose all the way around. lose my money, lose my commissary, and lose my privileges. >> you want to sign that? >> that don't even make sense, man. you know me. collins, that don't even make sense. >> all right, let me explain something to you real quick, all right? i ain't got nothing to do with this, but i'm just witnessing this. however [clears throat] you know what this started from. >> dude's trying to steal my [bleep] >> what's it originally started from? it started from putting money on an account illegally. >> i ain't know nothing about that was illegal. >> no, man. >> come on!