mr. pacheco and mr. alec our legal process clerk and cynthia goldstein the board's executive director also joined by representatives that have cases before the board jav us the enforcement enforcement and legal affairs management division of taxis and assessable services and be joined by scott sanchez that represents the planning department and planning commission and senior building inspector at this time mr. pacheco go over the guidelines and will conduct the swearing in process. >> please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or business card to the cler

mr. pacheco, i agree with you that merely throwing someone in jail and having them come out and probably go back to jail in the first place is something that ought to be addressed. can you give me an estimate if the recidivism rate of those who have gone through the lead program and graduated, and ended up finding out that it didn't work. >> certainly mr. chairman the program has been in existence for one year and as such we don't have the type of statistical data that seattle does. seattle has shown that in their program and santa fe is modeled after that, the recidivism, let me just make sure i have the correct number for you, let me see i had it marked here for you, i'm sorry sir. it would be 80% less. >> is 80% less then the recidivism rate before the program started in seattle. >> correct. >> will let me say that i think this is probably the most important thing we ought to look at because as the man goes down, the profits that are made by the dealers go down as well. we can talk about saving lives and giving people hope, in my home community in southeastern wisconsin we have had a

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mr. pacheco our past clerk for all our service that that was and wish him all the luck in florida. >> any commissioners comments any public comment on item 2 okay item 3 the boards consideration of the july 22, 2015, minutes commissioners any additions, deletions, or changes deletions to the minutes if not may i have a motion to approval of the minutes. >> so moved. >> we have a motion from commissioner vice president honda to do you want the minutes any public comment on this motion? seeing none, then we will call the roll starting with commissioner president lazarus commissioner fung commissioner wilson commissioner swig thank you the that motion carries 5 to zero i'm not sure what to do with the next item without inspector duffy here he's been detailed commissioner president lazarus it's a short item item number 5 for two rehearing requests on eureka street the board received a letter from the appellants for the appeal number 071 and 2 for the dbi actually now i'm reading this may be we can't hear that one either. >> that is also dr related so the only one that isn't involving the depa

mr. forbes. >> miss pacheco, when looking at these programs to stop recidivism, have you done any studies to look at the faith-based programs that have worked successfully to stop recidivism? had he done an analysis of that -- have you done an analysis of that? and the impediments we are putting in front of them to stop them doing the work they are doing? >> not really sir. lead is a fairly new concept and there really isn't another model to compare it to. >> oftentimes we love to create new wheels and reinvent the wheel that we have had some incredibly successful programs across the country and we have put one impediment after the other in a couple mentor a role with what you are doing and it some point in time we need to take a look at that and analyze that. mr. riley, but the me ask you this question, today if we looked across the country, the gang membership would equal the fourth-largest army in the world. we have also had testimony that in some of the most violent gangs serving as these that works, at least 85% are coming illegally. they are bypassing any prevention programs. it sho

mr. pacheco our past clerk for all our service that that was and wish him all the luck in florida. >> any commissioners comments any public comment on item 2 okay item 3 the boards consideration of the july 22, 2015 minutes commissioners any additions, deletions, or changes deletions to the minutes if not may i have a motion to approval of the minutes. >> so moved. >> we have a motion from commissioner vice president honda to do you want the minutes any public comment on this motion? seeing none then we will call the roll starting with commissioner president lazarus commissioner fung commissioner wilson commissioner swig thank you the that motion carries 5 to zero i'm not sure what to do with the next item without inspector duffy here he's been detailed commissioner president lazarus it's a short item item number 5 for two rehearing requests on eureka street the board received a letter from the appellants for the appeal number 071 and 2 for the dbi actually now i'm reading this may be we can't hear that one either. >> that is also dr related so the only one that isn't involving the depart

mr. pacheco served as the legal assistant has moved ton to increase under and victor has a long history of the board of appeals and many of us may have encountered he's a wonderful guy to work be he left last week. >> commissioners on behalf of the kroerntd that was a brief meeting at the preservation mission on university street the old ladies home was issued for landmarking and commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move on to to general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i do have two speaker cards. >> great, thank you. >> georgia and john. >> good afternoon, commissioners i have been here before talking about the alterations that are demos in noah valley i'll talk about that but i think interest is something that is happening because of that thos

mr. chairman. ms. pacheco, we are looking at programs to stop recidivism.e you done any programs to look at the faith these programs that have worked incredibly successful in trying to stop recidivism. have you done an analysis of that? specifically, how they looked at their success rate and impediments we are now putting in front of them does not them from doing the work they are doing. did you make in the investigation? >> this is a fairly new concept and there isn't a model to compare it to you >> oftentimes we create new wheels and reinvent the wheel or we've had some incredibly successful programs around the country that we poked one impediment after the other in a complementary role. mr. reilly, let me ask you this question following up on the chairman statement. we've had testimony that today for look across the country, to gang membership of this country would equal the fourth-largest army in the world. we've also had testimony, both administrations, not a push on just one. the most violent games serving as networks that 85% are coming in here illeg