as well so with that said, i notice that the third item for the categories of preference for the general public and my recollection back in june or july is that it was general san francisco residents and general public and working with the director it seems like maybe that was not actually in a previous document and i wanted to talk about whether or not that's something that can added maybe conditional to approval or something like that. >> thank you chairperson johnson. actually the san francisco workers were included in the committee approval and it was an oversight that it wasn't included in the dda. >> thank you okay so great. so is that something that's just a simple edit? >> we'll include that in the preference so you have the certificate of preference category one and category 2 and category those who live and work in san francisco and then members of the general public. that was easy and of course all subjected to fair housing laws as well. >> okay. and i think i have one more but i'll open it up in anyone else for comments. >> i just want to add a comment your memory was right. and i'm

allotted different pressure points in the system right now but i think the biggest problem is that the general public doesn't realize that and it's a hard sell to the public eco-'s all that people ever hear from politicians are kind of you know lock them up and throw away the key, three strikes you're out. they really are fearful of getting elected by talking about any of these issues or showing the least bit of fairness or empathy for these people that are going through the system. so i think there has to be a cultural shift in the kind of conversation that we have publicly on this issue. >> any good news? >> there are some places that are doing a good job. washington d.c. is one of them. they have the crÈme de la creme a public defender systems. ronk's public defenders has started a national movement to limit caseloads and to try to deal more holistically with all of the issues that defendants might be facing like if they come into the system because they have been stealing and that is related to drug addiction or homelessness or whatever. those new programs are trying to have public defenders offi

any other members of the p be who wish to speak? general public comment? mam, please step up. speaker: good evening, supervisors. my name is jackie brie son. jakkee. i'm here to raise the issue of divorce that you have not heard where it comes to vulnerable populations which are housed nr: this vulnerable population is housed at taxpayers expense. the people in so-called supportive housing who are being evicted left, right, front and center because there are no protections for them. there are a number of non-profits which are taking taxpayers money and can't even both being in compliance with the administrative code which requires that there be a minimum of two designated public board of directors meetings per year and the notices of said meetings be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors and my personal favorite, the government document in the public library. yet, these very same non-profits who shall remain unnamed are crying poor mouth. their rents are going up. they are talking about how they need to purchase buildings and get taxpayers money. but i'm saying that

the president report. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and we're on item number 3 the general manager's report >> here. thank you, commissioner in the spirit of brief commission president's report and the brief committee agenda i too am going to try something different and be briefer let the record reflect that. with the holiday season approaching i want to talk about some winter celebrations and other news from your parks. happy thanksgiving tomorrow night and recreation center our staff is going to are a rec and park feptd and our fourteenth cook off turkey fenlt we're going to have a intuition contest this is every bit as exciting and drastic as that show. every year our staff out do themselves and i urge everyone to attend and get an early taste of the holiday. then if that isn't enough help us with o our light tree lighting and reeshts and a visit from the guy in the red suit. it's going into one are our popular events we have several folks come out and it's more exciting and there's a great tradition here. this was started by john mcclaren who started lighting trees that

the general manager's report. >> thank you general manager. would anyone like to comment on the general manager's report seeing none, public comment is closed. c comment. (calling names) so if you could come up and as a reminder i have 3 minutes each. come on up. >> good morning. i'm mark hawthorne i'm representing a couple of organizations which you know 33 camp has had it's choomgdz with the foyer and so forth i want to say that as a member of the friends of camp massachusetts our committee who are obviously devoted to helping the commission. i know that mr. kislingbury has been in contact are our president joe in helping to counterfeit the cam so again, i want to extend myself there. the other organization i represent it the horseman's association. and again, i'd like to offer our assistance in things in san francisco to help out especially berry kit field for example, that is in disrepair and the area is closed to horse riders and so forth the gates locked it makes it difficult for people to bring in their rigs and a horses and try to do an event and i would as the president of the organization offer our services to the recreation and par

there no one any public comment public comment is closed do i have a motion to adopt the consent calendar >> all in favor, say i. call item 3. >> the general public comment the public can address the committee he within the jurisdiction of the committee and the speaker will address the commission as a whole for the commissioner police rules of offered neither the commissioners or police are required to answer the questions. the occ personnel should rind from entering into discussions and please limit our comments to 3 minutes >> time for public comment. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm happy to say we've made it to the end of the year i'm sad i won't be seeing you actually january. it's been an interesting year for jack i didn't and i have been able to meet and become evenly adam with another police captain. he's done an incredible job and the most powerful guy in the room knows i'm not easily expressed. with the champion kers he's tale an interest in the street and has come out on his own and made arrests of the people who are smoking in the bus stop in the shelter which is one of my pet peeves i don't care what you're smoking unless i

>> i think it tells the general public something new in terms of the degree to which the nsa can monitorhat we do on the internet and the privacy of our own homes and offices. however, at the back of our heads we kind of -- most of us are kind of aware that american intelligence services do have the ability to know more than our noses, and we have given them the license to do that. so the extent to which they can do surveillance is new. the fact that they do surveillance is obvious. >> matt sledge, what about the response from the companies? is this a new chapter in this continuing saga? the back and forth between the people who carry all of these to snoop on them? >> yeah, i do think things are changing, and a lot of it is coming from customers not just here the u.s., but in other countries, especially when they are dealing with any sort of cloud computing, or software, they want to know that their other countries are suspicious, i would say probably naturally suspicious now of american tech companies. and some have always been fairly good stewards of their customers, and others, and ch

but i think the biggest problem is the general public doesn't realize that and it's a hard sell to the public because all the people of her hear from politicians are locked them up and throw the key. they really are fearful of getting elected by talking about any of these issues are showing the least bit of fairness their empathy for these people who go through the system. so i think there has to be a cultural shift in the kind of conversation that we have publicly on these issues. .. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you for asking me. >> up next on booktv, this to win john ferling examines the jm political rivalry between thoman jefferson and alexander hamilton. this program is just over one hour.

our ridership and working with the officers and all the muni folks around us and working with the general public when they have an increased ridership during the holidays. this is my way of saying sfmta and the entire board and everyone on our camera team the drivers and inspects included and thanks to the officers behind me but all the officers working in every station day to day. they're doing their best we know whether it's market street or in the bayview they're all the rates are coming down because everyone is much more aware and we're helping each other. so congratulations but let's talk about eyes up and phones down. let's put that million dollars in the event in the city. thank you very much and congratulations (clapping.) thank you very much many mr. maybe mayor, i think you can hear the passion and the commitment to the issue in comfortably the situation were we certainly share that compassion. our number one goal is safety. our number two is implementing the policy that was put in place thirty years by the board of supervisors it's making transit an attractive option for people to tak

. >> actually, it goes on sale monday for the general public. two of those. >>> new at 11:00, san ford is heading to the rose bowl again this year. the cardinal family beat the arizona sun devils. final score 38-14. they're expected to face michigan state or ohio state on january 1st. this is the first time sanford (#lkt(()háo back years since th 1970s. more coming up in the comcast sportsnet report. >>> coming up, a delta flight made an emergencyçó landing aft taking off. the latest on the teenager whoÑ died midair. >>> the anniversary of pearl Ñi harbor. volunteers work hard to make it a brighter holiday for kids. >>> today marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor and the number of survivors is getting smaller each year.Ñi almost 2400 service members killed in the early morning surprise attack that drew the elta flight leaving seattle had to make an emergency landing after just taking off. an airline spokesman said a teenager died shortly after the plane left the runway. the pilot diverted the plane to spokane because it was the

jail than to go to an ivy league college yes that's bizarre so social and that's that's what the general public the general us public doesn't know that because like market just said politicians have done a great job sending one message you know i'm a lock him up king rather than you know if we were smarter we'd actually be electing public officials that are smart on crime not tough on prop the state he had to the statistics state and federal prison population decreased by one point seven percent last year just because of the demographics oh that's all it is my father who was a criminal prosecutor for many years used to say if you want to solve the crime crime problem just lock up all males between the ages of sixteen and twenty fourth crime would plummet immediately because eventually once you get through that age group and is they as they age crime goes down i mean that's just a simple zaba least we have seen a social media question stephen bar of facebook by what percentage with the population in prison system be greased if marijuana would be criminalized. do we know many do but i would say t

ladies and gentlemen, i want to start before we move into our hearing totally tonight before the general public comment tonight we're going to adjourn this meeting in memory of michael howard who is going to be buried tomorrow. he began with the sheriff's department. he joined the sfpd january 9th, 1990, and served with great pride in the southern station and now his last assignment in the police station. he was awarded two accommodations. officer howard passed away monday november 19th. we're going to adjourn in his honor for together for one of our fallen police officers >> item number one the public can address those items in the jurisdiction and speakers shall address the commission as a whole and not individually. under commission rules of order commissioners nor police officers are required to respond to the public. individual commissioners and police and occ shall refrain from entering into debates during public amen comment. >> good evening apply brown how are you? >> i'll get you hold on a second. hello. there you go >> can i use the overhead. as i come all the time concerning my son w