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[laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest because one of my jobs was moving out of this building when i first started over 20 years ago and again its a volatile sometimes process and especially if the economy changes but i think were very, very close for having this solid plan for this and i am very hopeful that we can and to all this planning were doing but i want to acknowledge all the staff who behind us are doing some incredible lifting and right after two hospitals being built wore back right at doing more capitol projects and were Getting Better at the management of those and also really managing the financially so i just wanted to acknowledge greg s leadership our c. F. O. Regarding that relationship. It also does and i sit on the committee that reports out all of the city capitol projects and ace watch you know some of the departments were very highly regarded of our ability to operate all of our capitol projects and getting them out the door so we hope it continues that reputation so that well be seen as an project to move on and having people in Safe Buildings is a real goal we all have. Can i followup with one last question, first of all, no rest for the weary but thank you so much and i really appreciate all the work and answering our questions and youve been getting us to this point with so many projects like the a. H. R. So with regards to capitol projects , how much are we at risk with regards to the operational budget if there are building capitol over runs are we responsible for the whole projector just the operational aspects of decanting buildings and the staff or if the building costs 10 or 20 million more than most does it come out of our general Fund Allocation because i want to know how much risk we have around the building. Interview so the short answer is were not going to put ourselves in a scenario where we have to face that decision. Its a real issue and we learned that the regard way overtime over starting with the San Francisco General Hospital bonds and we put a lot of oversight in place to make sure that we dont end up in a situation where we go out and borrow money through a geo bond and run out of dollars to complete the scope that we said we were going to complete so our approach and our policy now is that we make an investment up front to do the planning and the estimating and we appropriately size the geo bond if our ambitions are higher than the dollars available and the bond we scale back our ambitions and so the other piece that we have in place is we have oversight process and structure that i think is barely strong and we have executive committees Barbara Garcia herself chairs the a Oversight Committee and we have controls in place if there are changes to scope or to costs for us to review those, we review those changes as they come in so we have a lot of controls around the process with the goal of not putting ourselves in a place where we hit that situation and where were over budget and we have to deal with it. The risk to volume our department because theres d. P. W. Involved and other divisions where they are the lead constituent or the lead interest. Yeah, we worked very closely with d. P. W. So d. P. W. Is our partner in delivering all the capital programs with us from beginning to end so we work with them very closely and in the event that we do get to a point where we have a challenge in the budget or we have an unforeseen cost that arises, ultimately the financial responsibility for that would be what the department of publichealth because d. P. W. Is our implement er and we are the lead sponsor or the lead constituent as you say of the project so it really is on us to manage the projects from the beginning and as we foresee or as we experience problems as we go along for us to take ownership and manage the solutions. Thank you, very much. Just to make sure just to let you know we are starting quarter ly meetings with d. P. W. To ensue were coordinated with them as well. Our. Saphia is but executive level we will meet shortly for our first quarterly meeting with the executive director of d. P. W. Yes, thats absolutely correct, i think weve gotten a lot of experience both on our side on the d. P. W. Side through this work with the vendors and how to hold the vendors to accountability so yeah its a good point. I do think there was an example back when we were building laguna and it was commission that needed to listen to what was happening and then the department the directors and finance people and so fourth working with the Mayors Office to workout what was going to happen and that day up with of the issues was steel of course and that drove the cost of the project far higher than project ed and there were a number of other controls that probably should have been in place but weve learned from that experience and did much better at the sfgh rebuild but we did have to work i mean working closely with the city so its not that you are responsible and cuts half the people off the clinics but how do we do this and the ultimate was to remove one time and it then butts it back within the budget and so its a collaboration because city cannot just have you also default on the project nor could it actually want to sustain taking away patients needs related to this but this is part of the i think the Due Diligence that we have to have to work with the department and with the administration to be sure that things do stay on budget and when they dont, then earlier rather than later the answers need to come a lot more transparency which i believe the department has really come up with now over the years in order to give us the information and so thats why im looking forward to being able to do that and i think we need something similar on our capitol projects right because that is another bond issue were following in terms of the seismic renovation at five and our other clinic buildings so were model it similarly although not as complex as the e. H. R. , right. Its interesting because when you look at what is under that building 5 program, there are the team here knows it from experience but there are dozens and dozens and dozens of moving parts different clinics relocate to go different areas so there is the bit of complexity to this but we will continue to report to you with the kind of summarized version much like we did with the bond. Ok. Thank you. Other questions commissioners on this particular part . Sorry to make you keep going. The last slide on the marathon. [laughter] Financial Data nightmare. [laughter] so risks and uncertain tease this is the last subject that the commission requested that we touch on. So the two biggest as no surprise they have been for quite some time is the federal environment, the policy environment and state and the economic changes possibility so recognizing of course that anything that happens there could be big enough it really changes the numbers that we projected out here in fundamentally changes the environment weve been looking at so weve been conscious of that and weve been talking about at this commission for most essentially the entire time ive been here and before but also at this city level trying to put ourselves in a position where when something happens we probably wont be able to mitigate it entirely but we can at least buy ourselves some room to deal with it so were not kind of thrown in to react mode immediately when something happens so a couple of the initiatives that are core to that strategies the reserves on the d. P. H. The management reserve that we created we have 92. 2 million thats built up from zero not so long ago so thats a lot of progress and that is i think a big deal helping us sleep a little bit better at night and in addition in the budget that was adopted over the summer, theres a 50 milliondollar place that is in a central city reserve to mitigate impacts of changing to the a. C. A. Or other federal cuts so that is helpful reserve if theres action again it wouldnt be enough to just make those a nonissue but it would be enough to help us mitigate the impacts and have time to develop a response to whatever may come. On the e. H. R. Project i showed you that large project budget over ten years. We have been funding that in pieces overtime and we have in the 1819 budget the the the last lump sum appropriation for the first three years of implementation so we have those funds set aside in a project budget and this is a question that has come up here and in other settings on the e. H. R. As how are we going to make sure that we have the funds in place to deliver it this is been our approach in our strategy and to make sure that we actually can execute and we have those funds that are segregated and a project they dont close out at the end of the year and its a project that continues overtime so the funds will remain available and they have the ability to manage that project so we through the work of the last several budgets pre funded that project with we had good news and its a Good Practice of saying when we have good news lets put an end to investment that is Capital Investment that will payoff over the long run and lastly the general fund we talked about there is the citys general fund reserve and this has been the work of the city and the controller and the mayor s office and over the last many years the city and the board of supervisors adopted the policy to increase the size of the citys general fund reserve it used to be 25 million total for the general fund and that reserve has grown overtime to about 8 of general Fund Revenues from a fraction of 1 that puts us in more of a Standard Range where we have re serves that are more proportion at to the size of the citys revenues so that should provide some question with one of these big changes. And then lets see of course Revenue Generation is our other strategy for mitigateing any of these issues and the more self reliant we have on our revenues and the less we rely on general fund dollars or were reliant on good news from the state or federals, the less susceptible to those changes so that thats got to be our policy for in sul eighting ourselves from the swings of the financial world so that is all ive got. [laughter] well, that was really very commendable. [laughter] recognize aside from having to stand. By itself its difficult. Its good for my back. I mean obviously the work behind it in the way that you and jury staff has recognized it as assisted the commission to understand where were moving forward and ask the commission if you have thoughts now commissioner gardner. Good. You have done a good job and he is at this point that this is a lot of money and its going and you reached also and. Thank you, very much and i just want to save the ive seen a change in culture and ownership of the financial situation that has been pretty profound and we have if you look at our financial steward ship is an element and integrated in to the planning in the other areas so all of the leaders in the network and on the Population Health division and i think the leadership is really coming from the divisions to drive the changes that end up on my spread sheet so focus on Financial Management in the department outside of the finance division is really strong. I would ask add to the chair that the rights of passage if we can give you triple honors, again, its really been a fascinating just watching you and listening to everyone working and come in with the qualitative data in a way you can understand and review and see its astounding so really honor is ours, thank you. Commissioner. This might be a Monkey Wrench question, when i look at this has been a really clear and education at presentation and the question in my mind is when we talk about Contingency Planning why arent earthquake part of it because a lot of the work that we are going inform move forward with with the seismic retro fit and you know and moving like the departments, its really contingency important that no other natural disasters happen at this period of time. The last big earthquake is 1989 and theres no predictions when the next one is. Like has the department actually talked about having a contingency plan if like in three years theres a earthquake and that was before we actually moved any of the departments, you know, what would happen . Well, we consistently have drills in terms of how were going to respond to any kind of disaster and continuity of operations is part of our planning and we do practice what would happen if we did have any disaster of any kind and its hard to predict but continuity is a Core Foundation of prepared ness and so we have a plan and we consistently look at that plan and that means also success is of who is in charge if something happens if our own city recently so we are pretty prepared and they cant prepare for everything and everything but you have a operation of Operations Plans and they would look at services and how we responded so as an example if our Community Clinics wentz down we would probably open up the types of facilities and were getting pretty good at pop um clinics and so we have contin duty plan and the doctor is in charge of that and as part of the preparedness response. So i appreciate reminder in terms of Emergency Response and you have done a great job in like organizing and planning and im really curious not concerned yet but this gives me a lot of concerns and all the natural disasters and how it hit and in the east coast and how some of the really Emergency Services its paralyzed and it happened in puerto rico so that actually thought that i have in the questions that i have its kind of fiscal impact with that have and for us and its not so much ho how we respond to if and that is for us and how how we sort those impact. We should add on this list of federal and state or economic we should add that and you are right because that could happen Significant Impact that i dont think theres anyway to answer that question because etch type of event is its own type of event and for seen and theyre a whole a lot of potential risks that could come with that and as part of our disaster prepared ness exercising and working with the and on our process for the extent theres a disaster that allows us to recoup funds and federal or state governments and our structure and process ready to respond that so that is a financial upkeep initiative and that would be part of it and the seismic safety of our buildings is probably the most obvious mitigateing event if we did have a big seismic event that disabled one of our buildings and we had to move staff or services out that would be a financial cost and it would be productivity cost and it would also be really problematic if those people are supposed to be responding to other peoples emergencies so i dont know how to answer that question but she think about it as we plan for financial contingencys thats one of them. Out of the contingency plans that would be one that is still manageable for us you know, that is compared to some other possible scenario because of this years Political Climate and which includes relationships with north korea so i think that to really be able to plan some of these or have these discussions ahead of time like maybe im just like negative nancy, i dont know. Not at all. You know the city wide we do this process all the time several times a year we are doing different kinds of scenarios and so city wide we practice as well because the department is not going to be able to do this on their own the department of Emergency Management is the conveneer and coordinator of our responses city wide but what we can do shortly and one of our next meetings coming for the new year we can kind of go over some of the disaster trainings that we have had city wide and to be able to discuss that as you can remember fleet week is one of those areas that we do real major Disaster Response in terms of doing training and activation s around drills and so we can share the network city wide and the work on the department so just recently with our heat, we did have our hospitals being greatly impacted by that so there were conversations and some of us sitting and talking about what would happen if one one of our hospitals due to heat and the machinery going down what it terms in terms of evacuations in terms of the the hospital and so we can all practice, practice, practice, practice, you cant always predict but you can always be prepared so i think we can bring that forward to you and show you the work weve been doing in the last couple of years. And mr. Wagner said well add to that the risk and uncertain tease is a good point. Thank you. Yes, Commission Commissioner bern. Just with regard to the disaster planning, does that take in to account mutual aid from surrounding counties and are they in place . Yes, they have been in place and weve actually used them not so long ago and at times to bring on ambulances and a lot of times it goes the opposite direction so for north base buyers and weve sent hundreds of police over 100 individuals from our department so we have several more layers of mutual aid and everything from ambulance to we have one non profits that responded to the earthquake but never really got funded and is the Nonprofit Sector and how important they are during this period of time and we have them in memorandum of understanding so they can respond and as you know they are on the ground in their communities and we want to make sure of that so its. It sounds like we get a little discussion about the nerd program too and how well its doing in the neighborhood so its struggleing off and on and with that so well schedule a presentation on the Emergency Disaster Program as the Department Finds it has the or we have the time for it. Further questions at this point . I want to thank you for what everybody here has said is i believe in extraordinary presentation on behalf of the department here and i think the only changes from what you have heard before in trying to and agreeing with you to stay within the budgets in terms of increasing the budget well not increasing our percentage and i do not hear anybody thought we should change that guideline and we would continue with that and continue trying to of course meet the contingencys of the future and youve certainly built the reserves up even more than we had last time and im hopeing the general funds two types of general fund are much clear to people and it look at it and i in the little colors of railroads po art arent some are grown and some are yellow but i think its very important and people get confused. Would you like to provide any last words . Thank you for spending the afternoon with me. [laughter] so lets thank mr. Wagner and his staff. [applause] our next item 10 otherwise business. Commissioners do we have other, we are not going to have a meeting on january 2nd. Because of that some items have been pushed and mr. Wagner mentioned the capitol plan presentation bumped to march 6tn and take a look at the calender in front of you. Well be here, were doing the calender. We can move on to item 11 joint Conference Committee report there hasnt been a meeting since the last Health Commission meeting so theres no report and item 12 is Committee Agenda setting which you just referenced with the calender and so we can move on to consideration of votes for closed session. Were there any Public Comments concerning closed session . No Public Comments. No motion for closed session is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor a aye. Opposed. Commission will now go in to closed session. Thank you. Those who are not part of the closed session should vacate the room. Please stand by say aye. We will not disclose the discussion and ready for a motion for adjournment and the second. All those in favor. Please a aye. Dr. Chow. Im sorry, id like to move we close in memory of mayor ed lee. I will accept that and we will close in memory of mayor ed lee. All those in favor. Please a aye. Aye. All those opposed this meet asking now adjourned in the memory of ed win lee. Can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance. President turman okay. Clerk president ure man, id like to call roll. President turman okay. [ roll call. ] clrk clerk president ure man, you have a quorum. Also with us is the police chief and the interim director of accountablity, paul henderson. Thank you very much, secretary kilshaw. President turman members of the public, welcome to the december 6, 2017 session of the Police Commission meeting. Well jump rite . Clerk item 1, request and file action. Request from the chief of police to accept 6,000 in gifd cards from target to help 40 under privileged and disadvantaged children. President turman commissioners, are there any questions or comments on this particular consent item . If not, ill move in favor. Move. All in favor . President turman any opposed. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk [ inaudible ] presentation of safe place initiative. Good evening, chief scott. Good evening, commissioners. Commissioners, president ure man, Vice President mazzucco. Ill start this week with crime and then talk about some significant events that have happened over the past week. Start off with our homicide rate. I know thats really been a huge issue for us this year. We are at 56 homicides year to date. Last year, we were at 50. We ended up 2016 with 58 homicides, so we have seen a downward trend in homicides in the last couple of months, and we are hoping that we can hold the ground to keep from having an uptick by the years end. In our sheetings, we are actually down 8. 4 from yeartodate. This time last year, we had 152 shootings year to date, last year, we had 166, so its about 15 less than this time last year. So again, thats a good sign, and i think weve deployed some Good Strategies to try to keep the homicide rate at bay for the remainder of the year, so we have three weeks left to do that. There are some significant at least one significant. We had an arrest on a homicide that occurred on september 6th of this year. It was a stabbing, homicide with a knife. We had a suspect that was arrested on the 28th of november. His name it gregory speech. Hes an African American male, 35 years of age. He was charged he was booked for 187 c murder and charged with that offense, as well. So that is good news to report, and hopefully, that case will be prosecuted successfully. There is actually there was one significant event and that was a shooting at the 1600 block of sunnydale. One male was shot with life threatening youries. He is expected to survive. This thing happened at about 7 22 in the evening on december the 1st, and we do believe there may be some gang involvement in this particular crime, and so our Gang Task Force is investigating, and that happened in the i thingle district, and thats it for significant crime for the week. The most significant event weve had this week is an officerinvolved shooting that occurred this past friday, and ill read the details. On december 1st, 2017 at about 1 30 in the morning, San Francisco officers responded to the 1800 block of 3rd street regarding a carjacking. A female lottery employee was assaulted and sustained nonlife threatening injuries during the lottery. A second vehicle observed as a gold suv was at the scene and is believed to be involved in the lottery. State Police Officers saw the lottery vehicle and the suv traveling closely together in the bayview area district. The vehicle sped up and the vehicle was stopped in the area of ingelside and were detained. Officer pursued the suv and eventually an officer was involved in a shooting. Body cameras from the officers involved in this incident have been retrieved, and the area was canvassed for other video and evidence. The San Francisco Police Department robbery detail investigating the carjacking and the robbery, and the San Francisco Police Department homicide detail, along with the San Francisco District Attorneys Office, the San Francisco Police Internal Affairs Division and the office of police accountablity, and the office of the chief medical examiner were also called to investigate this incident. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to call the sfpd tip line or text a tip to tip411, and begin the message with sfpd. You may remain anonymous. Tomorrow, we will have our town hall meeting at 1800 oakdale. Itll be at 1 00 in the afternoon involving our practice at town hall, which we try to have it at the same time the shooting occurred, unless it happened in the morning, so we will have that at 1800 oakdale, and its open to the public. Police, im going to ask you to schedule that town hall to sometime in the evening. 1 00 p. M. Will not give the public enough time to attend that meeting, especially in the middle of the day. So please work with your staff to come up with a 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Start time, please. We will fulfill that request but it might put it off to another day. President turman i would rather put it off to another day than not have the public have access, so thats fine. And the other events this week is Traffic Safety operation plan for president turman could you hold one second before you go further, chief. Commissioner d commissioner dejesus, is this along the same line of what you just said yes. I think its important that the community and the public be able to go, and so id ask that it be moved from 1 00 in the afternoon. President turman thank you. Chief of police, please proceed. Thank you. The police will conduct a Traffic Safety operation on december 12th, 15th, 18th, and 28th that will focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety. Over the past three years, the department has identified areas where significant numbers of pedestrian and bicycle related collisions have occurred and responded by deployed additional officers to those areas in an effort to prevent deaths and injuries. Special attention will be given focus on the following allegations speeding, failing to signal for righthand turns, as well as any other dangerous violations, and that is the my report for this week. President turman thank you, chief. Did you want to call the next item on your list, chief . Yes. So we have commander david lozar who will make the next presentation. President turman good evening, commander. Good evening. Members of the commission, chief scott, im david lozar from the police chief commission. Im here to speak to you and present to you a new program and initiative that were initiating in the San Francisco Police Department called the Safe Place Program, and officer navarros going to get that up on the screen here. So briefly, ill just give you the background what our objective is, the implementation and our key points, our goals, and plans moving forward with the Safe Place Program. So a little bit of on the background is that theres an officer by the name of james ritter in the seattle Police Department, and in 2015, he created the Safe Place Program in seattle, and it was essentially created to address the Lgbt Community issues president turman weve had this part of the presentation. Can you get to what were doing . Yes. Okay. Heres our plan, and i just will say this in 2013, the San Francisco Police Department under chief sur started a similar initiative, but it was just relegated to police stations and the will Lgbt Community. Were starting this in january. Well have an officer who was be engaged in the liaison division. Were going to message this program through bill boards and press conferences and social media and any way possible to get the word out. Weve created our own symbol to recognize San Francisco safe place initiative. Thats new branding decals, but a 6 by 6 sticker on the window. Anyone whos willing to participate, theyll get a little bit of training and well be grateful for their assistance with the public. As you know, the goal is to help the public, anybody is in need of police services, if theyre fearful, if they need help, they will see this sticker, they will see this symbol, and they know they can go into a business and be helped. Our phases will be in four phases. One will be schooled, followed by community facilities, followed by businesses, followed by faithbased organizations, and of course were rebranding our own brand. Is essentially, the plan, were going to exceed the seattle Police Departments model. Were redesigning the logo. Our Pilot Program will begin on february 1st, 2018, in the mission and the bayview districts, and then, based on surveys, and our interaction with the public, well make adjustments to the program and essentially roll it out citywide by the fall of 2018. In terms of the Community Engagement division and the tasks, were going to look for Grant Funding and other federal grants and donations to roll this out. Were going to do internal training with the department by putting out a bulletin, letting every Police Officer know that we have this program. Were going to work with our Community Officers at mission and bayview. We need their support and officers and buyin to roll this out in two districts, and were going to have the officers on foot beats and have every officer we can to promote the program. Each station will be marketed, and were going to get Success Stories on how it works. Well put it on our department website, and well promote it any possible way that we can. I know tonight i thanked you for approving the 6,000 grant from target. Thats for another program, but target now has agreed to provide 2,500 to help us kick this program right away. Thatll be a consent item that comes to you down the road for approval. On the last page, id like to reference the decal, if you have it in your handout. Thanks to officer Yolanda Williams and tory grady. Each part of the star has a symbol compassion, justice, honesty, integrity, respect, and this purple star will be placed, four by six decal, in the windows of these businesses. Were very excited to roll this program out. Last note, id just like to note that we made changes to this presentation and powerpoint from the original one. Its been amended for the public that may have received it on the internet when the Commission Posted it last friday, and with that, ill take any questions that you may have. President turman commander lozar, i want to say, i meant no disrespect. Its just im sick and ive got a long agenda. I just want to get this. Its okay. President turman commander lozar, thank you for your dedicationtu dedication. President turman chief, do you have anything you want to say . I just wanted to say i thank officer lozar for putting this together. I just want to say i am so grateful that i am to have a program of this type in the city and keecounty of San Francisco, and i assure you were looking forward to making this a model that other cities will also want to tailor. President turman thank you very much. It should also be known that we took seattles program and modelled it outwards. Thank you for taking the first step. Thank you so much for your hard work. Commissioners, do you have any comments . Commissioner melara officer lozar, ive been waiting for this for a long time. I was involved in the initial conversations with the seattle program, and so i want to extend my help because when i we started talking about this here, bank of america, whos very involved in seattle, and has expressed interest in contributing here, so id ask you to follow up. Thank you. President turman commissioner dejesus. So thank you for expanding it. This just for lgbt or anyone . Its for anyone. Anyone who needs possible assistance, they need help. Theyll see this and know they can go into a business or school or faithbased organization, and theyll know they can get that, so were promoting that. I think its a great idea, and im looking forward to seeing it put out there. Thank you. Thank you very much. President turman all right. Chief . Commissioner, that is all of the chiefs report. President turman dont you have one more on the or is that on a separate line item . I think thats on a separate line item. President turman thank you so much. All right. Inspector sergeant kilshaw. Report on present dpa announcements, report on the 2017 statistical reports, presentation of cases received, mediations and complaints, adjudication of sustained complaints for october 2017, and companion reports. President turman director henderson, we have your reports, and we have had a chance to read them. What else can you offer in your reports. I presume you dont want me to read them line by line. They are scintillating. Understood. But you also have the monthly stats, and you also have the Third Quarter october 2017 reports. I will point out just the highlights of these things, the three cases where discipline was imposed on cases investigated by the dpa this month were also consis tetent,d we agreed with the discipline administered by chief scott. There was a lot of discussion about the cases last month that we did not agree, so i just wanted to point that out. President turman good. I will say in the last year, we received 380 cases and closed 545 cases. At the end of the Third Quarter, moving to the Third Quarter report, the highlight is the 270 cases remain pending, compared with 418 cases that were pending in the last Third Quarter of 2016. The other highlight combining the information from these two reports is that 55 of the cases were sustained in the Third Quarter of 2017, compared to 43 in 2016. Theum other informati the only other information i want to share is weve reopened the final negotiations with the District Attorneys Office for ongoing negotiations. Ill keep you updated as we moving along. T weve introduced software to our office for better Customer Satisfaction from the community, and weve also started with our public records training so that all staff will now be trained in terms of how to accommodate and respond to inquiries that come from the public. Our new computers are out. That training is take is place. Also present with me today is senior investigator sarah monder, and my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, and they are available if questions come up during the meeting that they can respond to. Thats it. President turman commissioners, any questions for director henderson . Commissioner dejesus i just wanted to say, we talked about the training fund, its a little bit low for your investigators, and so im wondering if you can just speak to that. Sure. Its one of my top priorities. The training budget allocated for the department is 4,000. Thats about three books these days. And the work that the investigators need to do, the work that the lawyers need to do, the work that our policy people need to do really means that they have to be exposed to a broad number of current topics in order for us to follow and define best practices, so one at the very top of my list of priorities, when i meet with the budget team, and i start meeting with them next week, is to address the training budget. Up to now, weve been addressing that by having and making calls, and having friends coming to do the training, but thats going to run out, and im going to need funding to get the training going. Ill keep you upgadated, but ie already spent my 4,000. In the first three days, i spent it. Thank you. President turman all right. Any other questions for the director . President turman commissioners, do you have any reports . Commissioner merle . Commissioner melara yes. Not sure if that falls under that or their future scheduling for the commission. President turman are you asking for something to be scheduled . Commissioner melara yes. President turman then it falls under future scheduling. Commissioner melara okay. President turman commissioners report. Clerk item 2d, scheduling of announcements, and announcements of items introduced at future meeting. President turman commissioner merle . Commissioner melara just to ask that the cid policy, the new draft be sent to the commission and be scheduled for the january meeting. President turman any other any other scheduling requests . Secretary kilshaw. Clerk commissioner, we have Public Comment on items 2a through d. President turman members of the public, is there any comment on item 2a through d . Good evening, commissioners. Im not sure, in your report, did you talk about the fatal officerinvolved shooting . Okay. So id like to last week, when i was here at the last meeting, i brought up the report of the civil grand jury on fatal officer involved shooting and all the recommendations that the grand jury made, and i would like to submit this to you and ask that you agendaize this for future meeting, that you talk about what is the implementation status of the grand jury recommendations, and we ensure that the investigation of this officer involved shooting is in compliance with the grand jury recommendation. President turman any other Public Comment on items 2a through d . Good evening, officers. I would like to also address the killing that happened. You know, theres a line from a bob dylan song. Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king. In this case, steal a little, and they kill you. You know, were dealing with a lot of poverty and a lot of tragedy, and i dont think someone carjacking, suspected carjacker deserves to be killed. They say that they dont know if he had a weapon yet, or theyre not reporting yet, but they kind of know that its always reported if they do, so this seems like another tragedy that wasnt necessary, and i think we need to think about why people are stealing, and why were living in such desperate times. True tragedy, and i feel like we need to really work on i mean, if that was your mother or brother, would that policeman have shot to kill . How come we never hear about people getting wounded, taken down by being shot in the leg or in the hip or anywhere that doesnt kill them . I feel very sad about this happening again, and i want you to consider that were living in very difficult times, and stealing is not a death sentence, and its no duty of an officer to determine guilt and to therefore kill someone. Well, he stole a car, and therefore, the officer had to kill him. Its not simple whats happening in this world. Its a tragedy, actually. Thank you. Any other comments on items 2a through d . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Secretary kilshaw, next item. Clerk general Public Comment. The members of the public are free to comment on items that do not appear on tonights agenda. Under Police Commission rules of order during Public Comment, neither Police Commissioners no, sir officers are required to answer, and should refrain from entering into any debates or conversations with speakers in Public Comment. Comments are limited to three minutes. President turman thank you, secretary kilshaw. Public comment on items not on the agenda. Good evening, mr. Sellhorse. Good evening. Happy holidays and all of that. Sergeant kilshaw, Police Commissioners. I dont have anything prepared. I want to say a couple things. I dont have anything prepared, but i want to say i think the new chief is doing a much better jonathb than his predecessor. The officers just do their job like professionals are supposed to do it, and i thank our new chief. Hes done a great job in instilling a professional ethic in a department that has always been good, but has it a plhad of flaws under the previous administration, police chief sur. And if you dont think we have a problem, i invite you to look at whats happening now, peter