i don't mean we, the poa. i mean, we, the police department. in that survey, it indicated that about half of the department took it. almost 50% said that -- actually, 68% said that they would leave the department by lateraling or retiring in the next five years and half of the membership took it. the other part said 40% already had applications in. they just may not be in the background process. we could be on the verge of losing 300 officers. i don't know how we police the city of a million with 700. your reaction to that? >> i don't think the police department is big enough today on authorize the strength or actual strength and losing more officers is not a good thing. we have to take steps to do aggressive recruiting and hiring, which we're doing. we need to increase the authorized strength as we get savings from pension reform and other fiscal reforms we can do that. in the short run, there are things we need to do. we need more officers on the street. the officers stepped up. they're doing it with overtime. we can't keep that up forever. w

. >> so, two weeks for the poa, one week for the command staff, and then an additional three weeks? >> i would say probably two weeks for the command staff for them to look at it and for us to do a presentation with them and then a couple of weeks to ask to get on the agenda item. >> the touchier issue is the meet and confer with the poa. so hopefully we can get it done in one meeting but sometimes is takes more than one meeting. >> if we... a couple of agenda items from here, we are going to talk about calendaring future items i want to get a sense of when we will calendar it? >> end of october, beginning of november? >> if you would like to schedule it so that it is on the calendar, we will make every effort to make that date and we can always move off of that if we can't make it. >> thank you. >> okay, for general order, 5.01. chief tamioka and i met with director hicks and marian on a policy recommendation that occ had for a change to 5.01. we had that meeting a few months back. and in the last couple of days, we received e-mail from the occ with some recommended language. i hav

poa is direction. they will be out here keeping everybody safe. >> reporter: now, this shouldn't be a big shocker but officials are asking people not to drive even once you get here. parking really is expected to be a nightmare. so use mass transit, bart, ferries, muni all ramping up service beginning tonight. so this area right around marina green is expected to be one of the hot spots. we have america's cup, the blue angels viewing, sailboat racing continues through sunday. we talked to america's cup organizers who say they are happy to be sharing the spotlight. >> so there's a lot of action down here on marina green and i think we're going to have hundreds of thousands of people between the show in the sky and the show on the water. it's going to be a great weekend. >> reporter: we have heard this called carmageddon san francisco, a little dramatic but they are expecting about a million people to land here, extra people, to be here in san francisco. so that's a lot. back to you. >> that is a lot. el

these are fantastic infrastructure in terms of width and right of way, sunlight and poa potential trees which i think will be interesting to see of how you're addressing the materiality of market street. i think one of the sad things which has happened is that the contemporary buildings, which happened after the brick theme was installed, some could never really address and embrace market street. so the modern contemporary buildings, more toward the ferry building, all don't really deal well with the entrance and the vertical materials interacting with the brick. and even as you move further up, the historic buildings really all look, unfortunately, not lending their lobby or the greatness of those entrances to be gateways to, and when one of the commissioners talked about -- i think it was commissioner hillis, how does retail deal -- how do the new buildings deal with being part of market street. i would be very interesting to hear your next discussions. i hope you will tell me that the brick will disappear, that we indeed have enough energy behind the rethinking of market street to ta

poa was great.e out here in numbers, directions, stickers on kids and, of course, keeping everything safe. >> reporter: so we're basically talking about everything, all leaves, all days off canceled, everybody is going to be in san francisco for the weekend? >> fortunately we didn't cancel everybody but just about everybody that wanted to work or could work is working. >> reporter: by the way, guys, let's not forget that after the weekend, after the 49ers, after the america's cup, after the blue grass festival, after all of that, president obama is coming in right? so you're going to have a good time there, too , huh? >> yes. the president of the united states loves coming to san francisco. i'm surprised he is going to minutes the weekend but he will be here monday. and he is coming to get advice on how to debate. [ laughter ] >> from you, from him, from anybody? >> quick before we go, mayor, what do you think of the debate? real quick. >> i think mr. obama got his hat handed to him in his hand with