at some point, there was an a, b, and c priority. but you can change those if you want. >> another question, these parties and the items underneath them, where they based on other objectives or goals -- general objection of work -- were the based on general objectives or goals? >> they were based on what the commission at that point felt work priorities. >> at the meetings, we discuss what the priorities were, but we did it, and the commissioners that were present said -- submitted lists of what they thought were priorities, and they were consolidated by how it was listed out by the majority of the commissioners. >> thank you for that input. >> that is how we ended up with these lists. >> which is the list? >> and then, we tabulate it. some of these priorities on this list have been covered recently, so it is kind of an antiquated list. i just talked to commissioner chan. maybe what we should do is we have taken a lot of time for people to be here, and it is very costly. maybe we should look at this list hard when we have our commiss

is it a priority and is it recommended. and there are criteria set out in the policy about whether it's a priority. the key issues are, is it something that the plan calls for that both the cac and the city agencies really see as a short-term priority? as you can recall, the plans are 20-year plans and there are a number of infrastructure ideas in there. we don't have the funding for all of them. the cac's are working really hard to determine what their priorities are in the short term. the market octavia cac has a draft of that. that is what we would use to facilitate that and the eastern neighborhood cac has a resolution that came through the board. and those will continue to be refined. there's an annual process for updating and what the cac and the city see as the priorities for the planned area. also cac's support the idea of it being more efficient to deliver the good through in-kind as opposed to having the city build it it. and whether an improvement is recommended, it's really about what is that actual, and we all

we have not established any priority. this would be -- our recommendation would be that this committee select what they consider their priority for the full board to approve. we would like to see at least projects selected to complete in 2010 begin in 2011. the board can always adopt another audit or if the new party. this list was compiled based on three criteria. it is the board's rule to have an audit of the city department every eight years. we have gone back and evaluated all of the audits conducted by the department since 2002 and look at areas that we thought still needed attention. we have solicited information from members of the board on what they considered priority issues. we have a lot of work on the budget and legislative work. i think a lot of what you see here comes from problems that we have identified that we cannot really address in a weekly legislative item. a couple of these were identified as working on other projects, issues that needed further evaluation. would you like to ask me questions, did you

that is something that needs to be on the priority list. ever way the wind blows, there are still issues to be depelt dealt with -- to be dealt with on that bulletin. so that's an item we should be prepared to deal with. so i like the idea of having what we know is on the horizon and stuff. i just don't want to get locked on to a bangkok where it is not -- into a box where it is not on the priority list and we have to bathe wait until next year to address it. that's how i'm going into this. i'm going into this with that understand. now you can talk. president marshall: and -- i don't want to say "and" to that negative, but that is part of how we want to discuss it. commissioner dejesus: and i think the idea of the new commissioner being sworn in, i think that is great if he can come to a retreat, because they are very rare. it is hard to get us all together f -- together on a saturday. i am happy to put the time in and get it done. i can live with the time. president marshall: are there questions on the agenda? commissioner kingsley: did yo

next is a list of our identified priorities, but it is an incomplete list. we value being inclusive and so we have not finished to identify our priorities. we still need to work with our parents, our labor partners, and our community partners. this will continue to be defined. i will not read them to you. our charge is to accelerate positive results for students. we will develop a profile with our teams in conjunction with a balanced scorecard, but the staff and principles of the schools. we have been doing a needs analysis of the schools in the superintendent zone in collaboration with the schools, working with instruction reform facilitators, working with our partners in school innovation, with a defined rubric for change, integrating our balanced scorecard, combining our resources to this defined set of priorities, and our external providers and partners. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i am the superintendent for the superintendent schools. i had the privilege of working with the mission district and john muir school. at the center of

any other priorities you want to work on tonight? >> mr. president, the retreat. a point of clarification are round that -- is that going to constitute a special meeting of the commission where we meet in our usual location? is that required? >> it has to be noticed, and the public is invited. this is a quorum. i doubt that we will do it on wednesday night. we just have to figure it out. >> [inaudible] different times or different locations. >> i think we need to vote to have a retreat first. am i move that we set a date for a retreat -- >> i move that we set a date for a retreat for the police commission. >> without objection, so ordered. do we want to try to pick a date now? >> it depends how soon you want to have it. bamut is the chief can attend that, i'm really hoping he will be able to. >> it is our retreat. we can invite anyone we want to. >> i guess i would stress that because our work is all tied together, that we invite the chief to coordinate his calendar with us, so if he is interested in attending, we can make sure that it is a date that he is availab

that is my a priority. the reality if you just do that, the things that move you forward to your goals never get done. the things that move you forward to your goals are not the things that are pressing down on you. they are not the things with the most pressure or crisis associated with them. so in pr and time management, we say you have to make your apriorities those things that are the things that are moving you forward in the direction of your goals and objectives personal or professional. >> ney can get intermixed. >> personal can be just as important as having a balanced life. >> i have a friend who was a politician for awhile in new jersey way back when and he told his secretary that he returns calls between 30 clock and 4:00 p.m. and if it is an emergency to tell him, but there was a hit list to get through at any time, his wife, his daughter. he made that list and maybe four or five people on it, that was it. >> exactly. that is part of the prioritizing. find out how much of the personal time gets

it would be great if we could help to realize some of these priorities in the schools. that was meant to close our achievement and opportunity gap. a lot more details on -- maybe the best of what we want, lowering our expulsions and suspensions, parent engagement, english language learning. that could be realized so we can launch them in other schools. the thing that would be the best place for us to implement a lot of these initiatives. having that be more specific would be helpful. also, something that would be helpful for me is what the goals are that we hope to accomplish every year, even if wea

it would be great if we could help to realize some of these priorities in the schools. that was meant to close our achievement and opportunity gap. a lot more details on -- maybe the best of what we want, lowering our expulsions and suspensions, parent engagement, english language learning. that could be realized so we can launch them in other schools. the thing that would be the best place for us to implement a lot of these initiatives. having that be more specific would be helpful. also, something that would be helpful for me is what the goals are that we hope to accomplish every year, even if we achieve them or do not achieve them, just to know that we can measure whether these are working. we want to lower truancy by 10%. we want to lower expulsions by 5%. at the end of the year, we know whether we are meeting our goals are not. it does not mean that if we do not meet them wheat were unsuccessful, but at least we know what is possible and have a means to keep us accountable to what we are promising the community. in terms of the parent empowerment, we definitely wan

we will be deciding on our priorities on october 19. we are speaking with district staff and commissioners on how we can represent parent perspective to inform and strengthen these positions. if you vote later this evening to attend the timeline, we really feel that this is an opportunity to conduct a thorough and transparent process for all of our middle schools, and we hope we can take this chance to inform families as well as teachers and other staff. and also, i wanted to talk briefly about the auditors' report on special ed. it reinforced what others have heard over the past several years during discussions about school quality. what we know about special ed is the annual report. i want to go through them here. we really want to commend the superintendent for commissioning this audit. we are glad to see the district become the oldest to engage families. members are going to be participating in the community meeting on october 18, and really afford to see more discussion on how to forward this process. i know it is a tricky process.

eventually they want to know which projects is high priority. and what specific public safety concerns put these projects on the list. it also asks for information on anying section of line 132. s that the san -- that's the san bruno line that exploded. the pg&e wants to know if any of that line was on high priority projects. remember, the fireball in san bruno burned for over an hour. the shutoff valves were manual and took some getting to. automatic valves are not required. they want to know how much it would cost to replace these. they are answers that mayor reed wants to know. >> i'm not gonna pretend to be an expert because i'm not but there's technology that would allow the shutting down of things. >> reporter: we do expect to be able to take a detailed look at what pg&e has to say about these high priority pipeline projects in less than an hour. certainly the utility remains under high scrutiny. as we wait for the answers to two critical questions -- how did it happen and could it happen again? back to you. >> thank you. >>> the young wom

again a perfect example that priorities given to moving vehicles verses pedestrian safety. in that area people with handicapped and mobility impairment have to travel long distances to cross the street. gridlock in san francisco is more of a day-to-day chore

we can follow suggestions to provide more priority for transit, but we need to keep our overall network in a state of the repair. we know that deferred maintenance is a problem not only in terms of safety and operation, but it is also a big budget concern. so, these are going to be very important issues in terms of transportation and funding that is critical here in the city and with regional partners. how do we do this work? with the involvement of many people, including the board, neighborhood advocacy groups, travel, geographic markets, the work trip and the non-work trapped. we will be using technical tools and outreach to will saukvillole community involvement. technical out reaches tomorrow, as our citizens advisory committee kicked off on october 13. the first being the central freeway study from 12:00 to 2:00, an open house at our offices on the 26th floor. from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. we will have a presentation and workshop. fees check out our worksite for more information. we are also planning a joint out -- and on the sixth of october. commissioner of the lows will also be atte

the p.a.c. >> another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that's on a lot of people's minds. i know at our school we're trying to figure out how to better recruit a more diverse range of parents and meet the needs of our families and how to communicate with our families and really feel this is an important step for improving the schools. we know we've heard in conversations in the past on the p.a.c. that better communication is really critical. parents are really looking for that. i know that i've been talking to a group of parents that have been writing letters for 10 years about a teacher that they're very concerned with at their school and they're not clear about where these letters have gone, about how the process works, about how complaints are heard through the district. very important to have a transparent process in place where parents understand how these process ees from the district work. communication is one of the issues we've heard. parents want to be engaged but sometimes have barriers and

job creation has been her top priority for san francisco. she has worked to transfer treasure island from the navy, work to clean hunters point, and transformed the transbay transit center into a multi modal facility. speaker pelosi provided the first seed money to the project which allowed us to begin the planning process to get to this point, and has consistently worked tirelessly on behalf of the transbay project, culminating of the equipment -- commitment of recovery act funds. working with president obama, speaker pelosi has focused on creating american jobs and moving the economy in a new direction. under her leadership, congress passed tough wall street reform legislation to rein in big banks and protect consumers. historic health care reform is for promised achievement and she continues to be done energy, security to create jobs, combat climate change, and physician america to a clean energy economy. thank you, speaker pelosi for everything that you have done. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. thank you all very much. i accept y

we are saving money for the city where they can -- where we can respond to low-priority calls. they said they have to -- when we go to the range, the staff is there regardless. they are -- we go there, they are getting paid to be there. 30 minutes, we call up, we leave. members of the department, five days a week, when we go to training, they are there being paid. we have been paying for advanced training, and we get the same training every time -- c.p.r. there is also a question, we have three high-ranking officers in charge of us. do you need three? do we really need all three of those in charge of us? and the liability issue, we have $3 million in liability. i have workers comp and car insurance. the city does not compensate me at all. it comes out of my insurance policy. we back up to sfpd every day. thank you for your fime. -- time. >> good evening. my name is ernest. look at the big picture. he was there for a purpose. it is up to you how you want to handle it. but the police department -- look at the big picture. the patrol special has a viable position in today's societ

of the staff's priorities for the year. our goal is to -- before the end of the school year have completed that work and be able to share information with the board and the public. >> so before school lets out in the end of mays what you're thinking. the board would have voted on adopting the new feeder participates. st that your plan? >> is that your plan? >> i'm looking at the superintendent who seems to be saying yes. >> there's no way for me to say that the board would have voted it. we will have it presented to the board. >> i'm trying to. i have got questions from the community. i think because we -- after we did a little bit of public engagement around the original draft plan, people are -- people want to make sure that we do this earlier. next year. so it sounds like that's our plan, so that is good. my last question is whether -- i continue to get questions -- as you know, i have been sending them to you. i continue to get questions and suggestions about how could you move this boundary line here and why is this pa

-- policy priorities. they have different policy objectives during their time in office, and we feel that it would be helpful if we could assist them in fulfilling their policy objectives and partnering with them. it seems as though -- we need to fix this problem, and they are going to go for the fastest and most expedient way. and sometimes without adequately considering all of the consequences. again, this has come out of the discussion from the alcohol mitigation fee that could have a very negative effect. you don't think so, but you can't hire those extra people. he can't do different things. in the next five months, we would like to reach out to each supervisor. we discussed office hours in relation to the small business assistance center. >> the small business center -- the city is not taking furlough days, so what the majority of the unions did do was take the equivalent of 12 furlough days and reduce individual salaries based upon that amount. what was added was that there were 12 floating holidays

take a little break, and then we will discuss the priorities.this would be to figure out our priorities so there is some sort of criteria. pthis is not even a starting point. it is just a reference point, and we could come up with a list that is completely different. this is prioritizing our areas of concern. commissioner kingsley came up with this. we have a way of measuring and make sure we can address them, and we are thinking about where the chief comes in with feedback, that we have in our discussion about communication and protocol and how to best make that effective, and then the final part, number seven, is a very quick exercise. this will not take very long. commissioner kingsley: i just sÑ for the afternoon to fit into the 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. slot, and we understand that the chief and the director would be present for that, as we felt that it was important for us to get that kind of feedback and interaction for that park, especially, and the other thing that came to mind is that mr. slaughter has beenmk be a new memberot-=$ií9sl