we heard about the potential for layoffs and are happy to understand how the poa has stepped up and allow you to close the budget gap without layoffs. but we have been acutely aware of the staffing issues. adonis' say i am glad to hear, but i am not surprised to hear you say that top among the challenges you are going to be facing is staffing. i will speak for myself, but i think you're going to have a very receptive body here, doing whatever we can to continue to keep the word at the front of everybody's minds, the people making decisions about how the budget works, that it is critical to maintain the gains we established with the former chief and you, community police , the trust that depends on having the stuff on the street. thank you. you need to let us know what we can do to help you. that is what we are here to do. >> i cannot tell you how much i appreciate the board of supervisors. the budget was tough, and they put the money they're for that class, for the first time completely supported by the mayor's office. we have everyone's attention. it is just important we keep it. >> i wa

it may not be in accordance with the poa work rules, but they were able to do it because of their faith in you. what that has translated to is a 4% reduction in the amount of staff but a reduction in crime. you were doing more with less, which is something we have been hearing for a while. it appears you're getting by and from the community -- buy in from community and officers. this is incredible. i imagined the success rate is much higher when you have a group working with time frames and participation. i have to tell you again this is a very significant, comprehensive report. you should be commended for your leadership. your command staff should be commended. more importantly, we should commend the men and women of the police department, who are out on the streets. they appear to be getting the job done. they are doing well. this is very impressive. i want to thank you for your leadership. commissioner kingsley: i think the president said it very well. i do not remember, in this commission, requesting a 100-to report, whether or not we did or anybody else from the mayor's office. it

. >> did you have regular meetings with these poa's? >> i do not have regularly scheduled meetings with them. as peg groups by me with them regularly. >> thank you. thanks for your hard work. >> dr. marshall? >> if this question has been asked, i apologize. in your 100 days, do you plan to take a look at the recommendations of the report and make a decision on which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to jettison? what are your thoughts? >> a couple of the things, a lot of the perf report spoke about another layer of bureaucracy. staffing levels, that is not where i think would be the best place to expand our resources. i would rather as we have done shranink control so the officers we do have have a control that is more manageable and tell them, do their job. i do like investigators. i have been a proponent of that. that was mentioned in the efficiency plan. i do like the special victims unit, putting the special victim operations, that was also in the report. and then as we go through it, i know they spoke to technology and

just signed off on by all the police employee groups, who will now meet and confer with the pla -- poa. i am confident i will make that september 15 promise to have that draft to you for adoption. will have the first career development policy in the history of the department. we are meeting with district station personnel to hear from the officers. i met with southern station and inside station this morning. on wednesday nights, i go back and meet with the officers from 9:00 to 11:00. there have been great ideas that have come from the officers, and some concerns they expressed have been addressed. it all goes toward we are one police department, one city. it is not just the sort -- just the command staff. none of this could have been accomplished without their input. the amount of talent behind me is unbelievable, and i am blessed to have them is my command staff. we have established guidelines for training for plainclothes officers. that was a concern when i first came into my position. we have established proportions at the stations to have tighter, smaller units to insure better co

>> there was a poa from the army there pend we had discussed come of the issues that i thought would arise. obviously they did arise. but -- well, thank you. i think what's important that i just want to stick to the story line. and the story line is about the men and what they accomplished and how important the public outside of the military and special operations need to look at southern afghanistan, what southern afghanistan is, especially kandahar, it's the cross roads to five major cities. all of the five major cities in afghanistan. it has been significant in the center of gravity sense the time of alexander the great. it is where everything travels from persia to asia. it was the old silk road which was part of the reason the british were so content on controlling it twice. it's hugely significant about the area. and that's what we wanted. that's what we wanted people to know. it's just the one. it's been for centuries an exceptionally diverse and dynamic place where the shoulders are serving. any other questions? got to be somebody. yes, sir? >> this was one the best -- toward

that's what happened in this latest attack with the poa. someone said hey, look what i did and some folks within "anonymous" are saying wait a minute... what? i'm not sure i agree that. >> okay. >>> in an effort to battle the brain drain, the cash-strapped uc system is offering merit raises for nonunion faculty and staffers with salaries up to $200,000. a $140 million pool is being divvied up. most faculty with good reviews will get a 3% bump. it could be hire for classified staff who haven't had a raise in four years. many took a one-year pay cut. in july the uc regents raised student fees by nearly 10% on top of an 8% increase last fall. >>> a dramatic change of course at hewlett-packard. the palo alto company is discontinuing its tablet computer and smart phone products. and it might sell or spin off its pc business. the pc industry is under pressure from hot-selling smart phones and tablets. hp lagged behind apple and google in those markets. hp is shifting focus to software and services. >> they bought it as part of palm a year ago. sp