and thank you so much ms. hicks. >> good evening supervisor mar, supervisor cohen and president breed, and i do appreciate you inviting me to speak with you this afternoon to address issues about bias in the san francisco police department and how to restore the public's trust after the horrendous racist and homophobic texts that have now seen the light of day, but which the office of citizen complaints was privy to a short time prior to their release, but we were not able to comment on them, and i will say it has been an incredible burden for me to live with the hatred that was reflected in those text messages, and one in particular struck me about african-american children swimming in the swimming pool where former sergeant ferminger's children swam and how that would contaminate -- i'm not going to use the word that was used but how what would contaminate the pool and so you know about joyce hicks. i'm a daughter of a tuskegee air man and one of the last surviving and his career was stymied because after the air

hicks. supervisor mar. >> yes thank you so much ms. mics. i wanted to first ask you about there is quite a bit that the officer does and you said the f.t.e.s and the unit and you mentioned the racist homophobic texts report reported to your office and do you have suggestion on what type of training is needed for unconious bias and of the racism and built into that and it's an open ended question. >> yes thank you supervisor mar. it's the occ's strong recommendation that the san francisco police department all officers engage in training that involves learning about the science of implicit bias as well as and it is my understanding from chief suhr that they're going to begin that training in may, but i think it's important that the training also (paused) >> >> and that facilitator felt it was important to get viewpoints not just from the department that is caused the community distress but to also include members of that community who have been aggrieved and some outside persons. as a matter of fact at that training which was in palo alto som

. >> ms. hicks understanding you please wrap up so we can get to the public speakers. >> i will wrap up and the third recommendation i have and it's something i am addressing with the mayor's office and that is to adequately fund the office of citizen complaints so that it can conduct its investigations in a timely manner, and that it can provide policy recommendations with more frequency so thank you very much for the time. >> thank you and i will make sure that my staff reach out to you for the recommendations and professor fidel and all of the great recommendations that you have given us and thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> i see no questions. i'm going to open up public comment and first call reverend amos brown and president of the naacp and i have other cards as well followed by other speakers. [calling speaker names] . reverend brown. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. president breed and supervisor cohen, ladies and gentlemen, i am president of the san francisco branch of the natio

. >> thank you so much ms. hicks. >> you're welcome. >> thank you director hicks. colleagues any further questions? thank you for your presentation. >> thank you. >> up next -- apologies chief hayes white and the fire department. thank you for being here. >> thank you chair farrell. good afternoon members. committee. joanne hayes white and assisted by mark corso. you will have the presentation provided to you in hard copy and then we're going to set up it but i would like to get started first of all by thanking for the opportunity recognizing our analyst from the mayor's office of budget and kate howard. we're working closely with the mayor's budget office on this year's budget and have an opportunity to restore and rebuild some of the department that we had to reduce in sort of the lean economic years. we will go ahead and get started. today i wanted to talk about -- i have 14 slides for you. what i am going to talk about the overall operational trends and you can see on the slide that is before you. those are some of the areas we will highlight and i am happy to

that would be helpful to know and one other question that i asked ms. hicks about language access needs. are you hiring bilingual, multor the first time it's part of the criteria for applicants to have a secondary language. you should know that we have a number of -- i don't have it off the top of my head. we have spanish speaking and cantonese speaking individuals in the department and uniform members and some with tag log and russian speakers but primarily russian and chinese and cantonese. >> i know as we have our language access report we will have more of the reports that come forward through the office of immigrant affairs and civic engagement soon but i was going to make a point about chief suhr's chart about overtime and it looks like it's creeping up -- the costs are creeping up in the police department even though the number of officers has increased significantly. i am wondering if you have an you know date on the overtime -- >> update as your seeing the increased levels and i assume we will have less overtime but i don't see anything from the slid

ms. sanchez regarding the security outlining an approach for non-kinetic means of ballistic missile defense. amendment number 178r1 by mr. hicks regarding the administrative nuclear security to submit requiring the administrator to submit a data sheet for the enhanced radiography project. amendment 278r1 by ms. gabbard regards removing the deadline for reassignment that they board an associate certification and with that i urged a guess but and i yield back. >> is there further discussion on the en bloc amendment offered by mr. rogers collected not the question is on amendment offered by the german from alabama. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. icas have it and the amendment is adopted. next the chairman recognizes mr. garamendi for the purpose of offering an amendment read. >> and amendment at the desk. >> was apple distribute the amendment. without objection the amendment is considered as read in the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i think i explained this. i will go very quickly here. this is a request for a report from the department of strategic command abo

. >> director hicks do you have anything you want to - >> i know you and i have discussed the 21st century is there something else you want to audio. >> thank you very much ms. turner i can't get any touchscreen to work i'm pushing it and pushing it and keep getting to the enter our pass code to ask permission to speak it was a procedural matter it might be safe some time if after chief suhr and his staffer go through their responses to the recommendations then we follow-up since we might be duplicating work is my only sense we can do it quickly we know what we've worked on so, yes, i think it is important that the response come back to this commission and the opportunity for the public to comment unless this commission thinks there is a better way for the, llc approach. >> i think i appreciate that director hicks part of reason the chiefs point we have a rich policy we have a history of working collaborating with the children activist community i think there is a part of responsibility for the commissioners need to hold we're here because we're members of the community and it is incumbent upon us to bring those and share i asked the ocii and police i'm cal

ms. welch and christine and she's terrific and ben rosenfeld and kate howard with the things we're trying to get done with the police department right now. >> thanks chief. okay. up next related joyce hicks real quick who is head of occ to come speak on her doesn't which i know -- department which is under the police department but integral part of the public safety infrastructure here in the city. . >> good afternoon chairperson farrell and members of the budget and finance committee. i am joyce hicks and i thank you for the opportunity to address you. we are getting the powerpoint loaded up on the screen. >> why don't we get going because we have a number of other presenters and i want to make sure we're respecting people's staff time. >> certainly. i will quickly run through the presentation, the topics that i will discuss with you will be the history and the mission of the occ, organizational developments, our budget, investigations, legal unit, and information technology. the history and the mission of the occ is that it was created by a board of supervisors initiated charter in 1982. the occ became fully staff and operational in 1983. it is under the jurisdiction of the police comm