commission president thomas president mazzucco is en route. commissioner dejesus. commissioner chan is en rout5e -- route. commissioner slaughter: here. secretary lt. falvey: you have a quorum. >> this is the regular meeting for the police commission, wednesday, march 16, 2001. commission president thomas mazzucco is on his way, and until he arrives, i will be leading this. some items will not be called this evening. which leads us to, lieutenant, please call item no. 1. secretary lt. falvey: item number one is general public comment, where members of the public can address the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. neither police nor occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond but may provide a brief response. commissioners and occ personnel are advised to not enter into any debates. comments are limited to three minutes. >> please come forward. the microphone. >> ok. hello, ladies and gentlemen. my name is christine harris. i have repeatedly aske

commission president thomas mazzucco. aye. commission president dr. joe marshall. aye. commissioner dejesus. commissioner dejesus: to vote no to go dark when we were scheduled to be here anyway, i think is really disrespectful. i vote no. >> going dark is not part of the motion. >> that's something we'll discuss later. >> no. >> that's what the intention is to go dark so i vote no. doesn't matter. we're not going to have a meeting but we're not going to have a meeting at all, i think is disrespectful. >> commissioner james hammer. commissioner hammer: under the law of contract and good manners, having made the offer to them and having it accepted and acted on it it would be unwise for us to unilaterally cancel it which is what this motion is. i would ask the president reconsider it. but nonetheless i vote no. >> commissioner angela chan. commissioner chan: no. >> commissioner carol kingsley. commissioner kingsley: i vote yes. and in part because i don't feel prepared. i don't feel like i have -- or will have the opportunity in a week to be adequately prepared to assess