such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out. >> we have a huge number of volunteers who come in and they will walk our dogs, socialize our animals, play with cats, play with them, bring them to adoption events today. >> i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. >> we're in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you can donate money if you don't have time. if you do have time, you can come down to the shelter and volunteer to actually have one-on-one time with the animals. if you're like me and you don't have time to give to an animal, if you actually have one of your own, you can get your fix on the weekends, come in and pet them and love them and it's great. >> this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov >> hello, everyone, and thank you for joini

they're understaffed underfunded and they have too many patients to didn't have private physicians and with four or five hundred patients in an emergency room it's very difficult to treat us those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the candor was in the bottom two and a half percent of all hospitals in the state of california health officials a patient there had been put in quote and media jeopardy patients in martin luther king medical center to get ready for fewer services and a new way we cannot assure that patients would be safe or that fundamental hospital standards can be met the proposed closure of the trauma center will have an impact the l.a. county fire department i'm begging of you don't ignore this. don't marginalize this . warrant i'm thomas and. my. psychiatrist. used to be a very simple system that we have to every patients the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds that i'm each as eighty patients out of our system in the city she didn't look well it's in the sat scores we close our doors here and you are close to

they are underpaid and understaffed.f they had more staff here maybe this wouldn't have happened. >> reporter: and you're seeing live look again of the massive memorial right here outside the police department. a lot of candles and flowers and a lot of personal notes written on this american flag. we're also learning more about officer capoot. he was survived by his wife and three daughters. one is a teenager. two of them in their early 20s. one of the sergeants did tell us in the conference that a lot of people have been calling. how can they help the family? they are hoping to set up a trust fund or a college fund for his daughters. back to you. >> gil, i guess he was a coach and just a really good man. are we learning any more about the suspect himself and were vallejo police familiar with this guy? >> well, they aren't commenting. they won't elaborate as to whether he has a prior criminal history but like i said, they believe he acted alone. he was found with a handgun at the incident. they do know he entered that ba

and she has been very, very strong and supportive of lawrence and the group that has really been understaffed and trying to bring this about, and it is something that is very, very important. thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on item number three? seeing none, item number four -- president hechanova: there is somebody. >> this is for general public comment. we are on public comment. the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> good morning, commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name is sue zandt dumont, and it is wonderful. i want to talk about how wonderful it is that recreation and park is finally taking care of this historic landmark. recreation park is the boat house landlord, and they have neglected to of house for many years, blaming the tenants to the cat on a month-to-month lease for six years. since stage one of the capital improvement has begun a broad house, several health, safety, and environmental issues have surfaced. i contacted mayor lee, who is responsible for the ge

the occ has been historically understaffed, and the controller even pointed this out in its 2007 audit. they said best practices for investigators is 16 cases for investigators, when occ investigators have 30 cases. even though last year we only completed 76% of our investigations within nine months, we did complete 100% of the investigations that contains sustained allegations within statutory time limits, which are generally under government code section 341 year unless told -- under government section 34, one year unless told. in order to bring down the caseload to 20, the occ would need four additional journey level investigators. the second recommendation is a little more attainable with additional budgetary resources. that is that the occ has not implemented an automated ticklish system in its database. it would cost us $12,000. unfortunately, the occ's $4.3 million budget is personnel, and it has very little discretionary money. a lot of it is used to respond to document request from either the federal court, or grand jury, or state court. this is an extremely high expense, so w

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dozens of police calls are going unanswered because the understaffed police department is tied up withotesters. terry mcsweeney is live at the police department with more on this story. >> reporter: they are saying it is a threat to public safety for the people of oakland what is going on with occupy oakland. it is not the message they are fine with the message they consider themselves part of the 99%. but, the money spent on over -- over time for the police department, one million dollars, they are saying is costing the city money it doesn't have. police power that should be spent in high crime areas of the press conference held yesterday by community policing leaders and some members of the religious community held in a room with a broken window and rock on a chair still fresh from wednesday night's violence. these folks are saying in a city with one of the highist crime rates in the state in an area where foreclosures are skyrocketing they don't have a million dollars to be spending. it is a threat to public safety. a throat public health. they say they have a -- a threat to public

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problem is in tennessee, i suppose there are other states -- so many of the state agencies are understaffed and overworked. so when the -- this legislation passed it was essentially them giving to the state department safety to do these, perform these tasks and i think that's also what's hampered the situation. but i was talking to a person just about this very thing the other day at what point not when you register to vote, if they're going to have this law, when you register to vote if you register at the election office, why not set it up there that you could have the photograph? it would take some of the burden off of the -- off of the -- >> motor vehicles -- >> motor vehicle department. >> right. >> it makes a lot of sense, mr. campbell. if we're going to make the federal government and the federal government has this law that you've got make registration available but that was in the good old days. but if you have to have this, registry means nothing. let me ask you at question, mr. chairman, if i can. police recently arrested a supervisor of elections for casting fraudulent absentee