is that what ought to be looked at is the number of cases that are in the agency as opposed to the number of officers. commissioner kingsley: the picture just gets more bleak if you base it on the best practices, which is what i'm hearing. director hicks: the picture is challenging. commissioner kingsley: "challenging," that's a better word. director hicks: we are not bleak at the o.c.c. staff. commissioner kingsley: very well put. the language written down in terms of complaints, 93% were in english, i think in that range. director hicks: yes. commissioner kingsley: and some others. i appreciated your comparison to the racial ethnic breakdown. is there a breakdown in terms of what people indicate on the census as their primary language, the breakdown for the city. do we have any similar cost available for us? >> we have not gathered that data in the past. this is an evolving report. commissioner kingsley: since language access has always been very important, that's where that question was coming from. director hicks: yes. commissioner kingsley: agencies, similar agencies in other cities

specification number two, steaped 5-0. specification number three. eight videos involved. sustained 5-0. specification number four, there were two videos involved. sustained 5-0. specification number five, there were six videos involved, not sustained. two votes. in favor, sustained, three votes opposed. so we'll now move into the penalty phase with respect to the specifications that were sustained. i'm sorry. it is getting late. i can't remember how -- who went first last time. i think we ought to have the department -- five minutes. >> the issues here with respect to penalty are very similar to the issues that you saw in previous case with officer -- one of the things a makes officer lewis' case distinguishable from hers which justifies a higher penalty in his case is he has been with the department much longer. she had been the department only 10. there is an argument to be made that he had a relationship with officer cohen that put him at more distance. she was engaged to cohen. lewis was just an old friend so there are a lot of reasons to believe that officer lewis sh

these numbers are from 2010. you can see that there are 920 tons, 65% of everything coming into the center, about 17%. 290 tons. paper is 270 tons. construction and demolition is 212%. in total they are bringing in 1,682 tons. that is how it breaks down and as part of the overall diversion rate but we were talking about. one interesting point of note is as a couple of these centers have closed over the years, paint -- hank has seen an increase in tonnage in the center. about 163,000 was paid out to the community. just to give you a picture of what is currently happening there in terms of tonnage and the version and how it fits into the overall picture. the question has come up about what our city wide strategy is. if we are no longer operating at this size and we are still bringing in 0.1% of the diversion rate, the department of the environment's role is to ensure that we compensate for the materials and that san francisco has easy access to redemption. one option is a technology called the reverse vending machi

so that number has declined. the total number has declined significantly, so it would not be attributable to that one factor, although that is part of it. because that population has always been a small percentage of our total population served, the larger reduction, we think -- there are many factors associated with it. certainly, that is part of it, but there are other factors. city-wide factors also a tribute, in terms of the economy, programs and other departments may offer. as much as we would like to take full credit for it, we know it is his efforts on the part of the city and county that have helped in that reduction as well. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chu: why don't we open this up to public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to advance with recommendations. supervisor chu: without objection. item three please. >> item 3. resolution authorizing the san francisco department o

if is a bit more of a static number. those folks, the cases have a there been resolved or their act to of -- or that are actively engaging in treatment. >> so -- supervisor kim: 42 that actually completed the program? >> that was written one year ago, so the numbers have changed. supervisor kim: that's good. >> the federal government took quite a long time. the solicitation was published a year-and-a-half ago. our application was submitted one year ago. it was not until as recently as december that we received our award modifications. supervisor kim: i will not ask any more questions about it grant, but i would like to get the updated numbers. i will definitely come to visit. supervisor chu: are there members of the public who wish to comment on item number four? >> it good morning, the supervisors. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. i would like to speak on behalf of this resolution. i think any money the department of public health gets is a step in the right direction. under the leadership of the new director

the numbers 2842. as you see, this represented only 16% of the total, meaning that 84%, science and engineering doctorates attained a u.s. universities were obtained by u.s. sec, the numbers change from 1980, 1994, 2005, three reference points here. in 1994 the numbers increased almost 7000, which is 6950. by 2000 buy the numbers exceeded 11,000. and this number ncreased the stent representation to almost 40% of all doctors attained at american universities. as the next slide shows, it should be noted that there is variation between the five fields. for example, this is for 2005. as the chart shows, you see a great foreign domination of the engineering field for doctors. 61% of all thought traits in 2005 were by foreign students pay on the other end of the spectrum as you see why science 20% of life-sciences obtained by foreign students coming in at 72% if my math is correct, 72% of all doctors were retained by u.s. citizens. so you see the variation here. so my point is that we want to study the pheno

the number 10 is just as important. we have to be very, very important with the numbers. and we have to do this partly for the reason i said, to human reason, but also for historical reasons, which is history assigned about death. history is about life in a flight account such as this one brings us to the borders of what history can do. because history is about life, i try to portray individuals who died while they were alive. very often when writing about the famine or holocaust, people appeared just at the moment when they die essentially. so i try to introduce in this book people -- the little boy in ukraine who saw food where there was no food and died in the famine and the rest either died in the family or the terror for the polish officer just before he was shot. he was keeping a diary -- a final entire entry about his wedding ring that was being taken from him for the young woman in the synagogue who knew she was about to be shut and scratching at her mother in the wall wall of the synagogue. i think without these kinds of materials, without trying to re-create peo

the numbers just don't wash. if you stay with the current system, the h1-b's need to be smaller or temporary like a three year max. i think if you did that and maybe expanded the eb which would be a very good idea, i think we'd be in a much better situation. >> george mason university. the panel seems to imply that there's a u.s. problem. we need immigrants to grow our country, to innovate, to be successful, and i really wonder it that's true. i mean, because what you're implying is that there's something really wrong we want to fix, and we want to fix it with immigration, and i'm not sure that the panel actually believes that, or is immigration really a bigger issue of american exceptionalism that we sort of don't understand, but this economic issue, i'm not sure that there's something really wrong that we need to fix with immigration. >> i guess i would answer that by focusing on innovation, and certainly the president in his state of the union address talked about the importance of innovation for long term pro

these are huge numbers, larger than the dot com bust. alameda and santa clara did about 1000 come a tenfold. -- 1000, tenfold. we are doing better than our counterparts in other parts of the bay area. i feel fortunate. the tax reduction was about 21 million in taxes that were not collected. 21 million in taxes were not collected. that is a significant number. it is out of a $6.5 billion budget. overall, the difference to the city is still rather small compared to what it meant to many of the other counties in other areas. let me stop there and take questions. >> [inaudible] >> 6462. of those, we actually reviewed only 4177. many of those were already reviewed. we have actively reviewed them. some of them were not eligible. >> [inaudible] >> anybody who has gotten a reduction, they don't need to apply. we will look at it again. if you have gotten a reduction through an appeal or through our office, they don't need to apply again. they will be reviewed. they may want to apply because maybe they want to give us information we don't know. th

secretary: item number 10 is about whether or not to disclose item number nine. president mazzucco: any? hearing none. line item one. secretary: the approval of the minutes. president mazzucco: a motion? a second? public comment? line item number two, please. secretary: the rent-free use of the facilities for the community events related to the chief of police selection process, from the following organizations, including the lgbt community center, and the southeast facility. president mazzucco: any comment from commissioners? the irish cultural center is $900? ok. commissioner kingsley: location, location, location. president mazzucco: all in favor? line item number three, please. secretary: 9 item number three is general public comment? president -- line item number three is general public comment. president mazzucco: seeing none -- >> i have waited for years to a public comment, but -- secretary: a review of recent activities. chief: i will make it real short. we are still down with a property crime and part-one crime. we still have a slight uptick in homicide

it will be increasing the number of miles. president goh: is their public comment on this item -- is there public comment on this item? >> good evening, commissioners. you ask for the electronic printouts. we supplied them. you asked for mechanical records. the mta says these things don't happen. if you want a copy, i can give them to you. these are not -- the mta is wrong saying they don't break down. they are vans converted into heavy lifting lifts. with the the roads in san francisco, we know that they are the worst roads in the world. the hills are the worst streets to drive on. this is the worst city to drive- in. bottles everywhere -- pot- holes everywhere. there is oil changes. we have preventive maintenance. that is when you want to get a spare and put the vehicle o, hae the brakes looked at. commissioner fung, you mentioned two-hours. every time you go to the bathroom, if you're not there, you log off. if you go through a million waybills, you will see these in- and-outs all the time. the machine will automatically lo

granted, this is a significant number. >> calling item number one, consent calendar. it report from the departments regarding policy proposals. >> are there any questions? >> will you provide a comment? otherwise i will ask questions. >> no, because this is on the consent calendar. the policy analyst is here in the audience and i am available as well. >> ok. >> sergeant mitchell is here. >> thank you very much it is also very busy. the reports that we got for this evening are pretty impressive so i am asking a few questions to better understand some of this. in terms of the general order proposal, this packet has several pages that list 1st the dates of proposal and these are only addressing general orders. is that correct? >> yes. >> the dates on this proposal are from 2003 until 2007. >> this runs all the way until 2010. >> some of them were initiated back in 2003. >> ok, because it did not show where they were started later than 2007. is there some history there? >> no, you are correct. what we have done is the general order is that we have worked on in the past qu

that number is not coming across well. again, with the idea of aging in the community and landlords being able to move their tenants down to the first floor of the building to make it more accessible and easy to get out, having limited ability -- limited mobility, we recommended a rebate program with a cost based on a certain number of relocations each year. some other options that have subsidized the senior village program, there is a lot of information about the village programs in the report. having been proven successful elsewhere, this would allow low- income seniors to participate in the program. we found it very appealing as it provides an array of services so that they can choose from a number of different things. if they need assistance in all maintenance, they can access those services and go back and forth. offering a lot of options. which would be very effective. we also recommend no. 5, funding for halftime employees to do more outreach. we thought that there could be a benefit to having more out reach to a br

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i provided this body with my proposal for a number of years. i want to take this opportunity to share that this is a good example of why my proposal for the marine science academy as a part of this project -- this entire entitlement process is an inherent educational opportunity for kids. i teach high schoolers and have a consulting practice. kids in the schools have a separate reality in classrooms. their understanding of the real world and what the classroom work means to them is very abstract. i am asking this body once again to consider working together to create a marine science academy project where high school and college students can be involved in the step-by-step process that is necessary part? -- for public and private agencies to cooperate. there are no separate, isolated entities. there is financial support from the public. the students also have a very great need to be introduced to the public service jobs that this body holds, as well as other agencies. it would be a tremendous incentive for these kids. thank you very much. super

number one position limits sizing number two reserve requirements being raised number three changes in margin policy. i think there is a recognition amongst the futures regulators in exchange is that left unchecked we could be back at one hundred fifty dollar oil and we could start having people play games with some of the narrower commodities to make life difficult for the industrial economy that actually wants to build and produce things so it's not all bad i think higher prices this time we're going to result in a little bit of sanity and. not necessarily overwrought regulation but a sense that they're there do have to be some grown ups around the exchanges before things get out of control but every time they raise margin requirements or raise position limits bernanke you just raises the quantitative easing so you know he's got his fingers on the controls he can keep raising these things by grillings of dollars let me ask you something he was on sixty minutes recently he said that while the little problem with all this money we're creating within fifteen minutes i can reverse direct

the numbers 2842. as you see, this represented only 16% of the total, meaning that 84%, science and engineering doctorates attained a u.s. universities were obtained by u.s. sec, the numbers change from 1980, 1994, 2005, three reference points here. in 1994 the numbers increased almost 7000, which is 6950. by 2000 buy the numbers exceeded 11,000. and this number increased the student representation to almost 40% of all doctors attained at american universities. as the next slide shows, it should be noted that there is variation between the five fields. for example, this is for 2005. as the chart shows, you see a great foreign domination of the engineering field for doctors. 61% of all thought traits in 2005 were by foreign students pay on the other end of the spectrum as you see why science 20% of life-sciences obtained by foreign students coming in at 72% if my math is correct, 72% of all doctors were retained by u.s. citizens. so you see the variation here. so my point is that we want to study the ph

on item number three, hearing none. any objection? roll call vote on approval of consent item. >> [roll call vote] >> i will vote aye with that caveat. >> [roll call vote continues] motion carries five to one. president mazzucco: let's proceed to item number four. >> assignment the disciplinary charges against sergeant ernest tachihara to a commissioner for evidence taken. >> i represent a special patrol officer tachihara. >> commissioner kingsley, i turn it over to you. commissioner kingsley: i think that we ought to have a telephone conference to get the procedures rolling. if you gentleman with a coordinate with the lieutenant, he will coordinate with the three of us. we will get the ball rolling. thank you, gentlemen. president mazzucco: public comment. hearing none, item number five. >> commission announcements. tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m., some of the commissioners will gather to receive public input on characteristics and traits people would like to see in the next chief of police. lee will be at a similar meeting and will be i

amendment number 151 of mr. neugebauer of texas, amendment number 13 of mr. rooney, amendment number 8 of mr. stearns of florida. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 414 printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman from new york, mr. bishop, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will reamendment. the clerk: amendment number 414 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. bishop of new york. thchair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen having risen, a recorded vote is ordered members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. house house -- any use of the clo

behind tab number nine. and it will be on slide 16 and 17 behind tab number nine. >> what caused the increase in the pension projection? the market adjustments, the market value -- it is because of the stock market valuation declines. we are having to put more cash and because the stock market -- cash in because the stock market has not performed as well. general market conditions, the pension retirement system uses a five-year smoothing. if you look at our recent performance, we have done very well. if you turn the clock back, we are still absorbing those. >> everybody is hurting. is it possible to get a report from the retirement fund as to what caused this? >> they have prepared such a report. i believe they also did some renewal of their projections. >> we are living longer? >> we are. in addition to the item number nine, there is item number 10, which includes the motion for a wholesale water rate hearing. i also wanted to mention that we have gone and updated that based on the resizing of the waste wat

ultimately, abag will adopt these numbers. the jurisdiction will have their representatives advocate for them. commissioner wiener: is there any enforcement mechanism at all? >> we always ponder this question. enforcement tends to be more on the carrot side, which is where it will have -- why we have this delinking of the housing investment. the implication being if you are not doing these things, which you will see in our policy approach, if you did not provide your fair share of affordable housing, maybe you should not get as much maintenance funding this time around. other than that, i believe the state enforces -- they can bring a suit against communities, for example, that did not have the conforming housing element with the region. i am not sure what the actual consequences are. commissioner wiener: is this because how of their lack of space, the political reality? geary, we hope, is going to get brt, so there would be more transit capacity. -- vrt, so there would be more transit capacity. >> we have looked at some of th

the department of building inspection, you can call up a number. there is a person at the counter there to give a free information about the building code. your options are, and you can have a plan and start working towards it. at least you are moving towards accessibility, which is what every body needs a very good -- every but they need 3 did the department could also provide workshops for the public curio -- for the public. we taught a workshop, and we showed an example. the more people start thinking about accessibility, they will come up with their own solutions, because it is not really rocket science. as far as highlighting businesses, it is an interesting idea. i am not sure how people to the. -- how people do that. getting that information will make it so people can look at how people solve the problem, because it is really just problem-solving and a sixth of. >> any further questions? >> have you ever encountered in a situation that could never be solved, given the few just say, given seven out of faith, the eighth one will be insurmounta

supervisor chu: we will be calling a number of items out of order today. the item we will be calling first are items 6 and 7 with regard to the health services, because of some timing and scheduling issues. we will also be calling item one, the issue on the disability access improvements. that will be called after noon. we want to let people know in case you're here for those items. please call items 6 and item seven. >> item 6. ordinance amending chapter 16, article xv, of part 1 of the san francisco administrative code by amending section 16.703 regarding board approval of health service system plans and contribution rates. >> item 7. resolution establishing monthly contribution amount to the health service trust fund. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have catherine got from health services here. >> thank you, members of the committee. item seven is usually the item taken ahead, the approval of an annual compilation of the average employer contribution to health benefits of the 10 largest counties in the state of california. the health system by c

so the numbers are mixed. some people saw some good numbers in them. the surveys showed a drop in unemployment which was not a bad report, but this hard number of actual jobs was pretty troubling, i think. i would just say a few things that i believe are important and need to be understood. this congress passed a stimulus package that was supposed to keep unemployment from going above 8%. it went to 9.6%. it's dropped some since then, but it's still extraordinarily high. we passed that package and it didn't stop unemployment from rising. it was based on a keynesian concept of government taxing -- really, government borrowing money to spend into the economy on the theory that government can create jobs. not long before the vote, gary becket, the nobel prize-winning economist from chicago wrote an op-ed, and in it he said he had examined the proposal and that it was far too ineffective in creating jobs and economic growth. he warned that it would not be effective. he warned that the growth factor was below one, it should be above one. he said maybe .7, a