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inspiring and it is one of the reasons we are able to attract the resources of that we can for this area. tiger means, just so you know, tiger means and it is completely in keeping with what the mayor said, transportation investment generating economic recovery. is this a perfect fit? a perfect example of what a tiger grant should be? [applause] i'm honored to join the chancellor and the mayor and a new title for tiffany, executive director as to the successor. mike, you spoke about jobs and construction and the rest and it is -- we all have worked together, mayors, admirals, generals, you name it, right from the start of my 25 years to say how can we create jobs and grow our city whether it is housing, transportation, health, education, whatever the subject? and right off the bat, nature gave us an opportunity with the earthquake. an unwelcomed change but nonetheless, taking down the decision that the people of san francisco had to make and mayor at the time about whether to take down the freeway or to shore it up and that decision to take it it down of course led to so many things south of market. the military decided they were going to close three military bases and this small, teeny tiny seen, 40 square miles and three bases which gave us opportunity for the presidio treasure island has been mentioned and of course very important to us, your neighbor here at hunters point. so all the mitigation, removal of poisons of the past and some of these places, they are all construction nirkt i evers. so -- initiatives. for this $10 million, for every dollar, there are 20 times more requests for the grant, so we were sort of pestering the secretary about what this would mean in transportation investment generating economic recovery. how we met the standard of that title. of course, since president obama became president, we have passed the recovery act, so much has happened here in terms of central -- we start with the presidio, the doyle drive. that is one that is in construction now as well as central subway, transbay terminal as you mentioned all of these things before that third street rail all coming out of initiatives. i have to prove to my colleagues that there will be economic development that springs from these projects. i also have to prove that dirt will fly. that the community is together in support of the initiatives that are we are putting forth. doesn't mean we have unanimity. but that we have consensus in % mike spoke in some very health science metaphors, didn't he, chancellor, talking about good bones and sinew and tiffany talked about the backbone and the rest of that, though. it all helped to bring us back to where we are. ucsf. this incredible institution for research, for care, for improving the health of the world and national newswide. so with their excellence, we were able to attract resources to the research. that research, in order to attract the talt talent, the nobel laureates and those who would be, need labs, knees the infrastructure. it is all a circle. infrastructure attracted talent. talent, additional infrastructure attracts capital and what some of the byproducts -- in the private sector, some great companies serving meeting the aspirations of people in terms of drug development. you just need to look at buyers. buyers -- i don't know what it was. hall? the names indicate so much of the success of the area. we also have to prove, as the mayor said, when there is a public investment, that there will be private investment and non-profit vement that will follow. so -- investment that will follow. we see this philanthropy. the market opportunities that spring for us. perfect. tiger. perfect tiger grant. so i thank you for what you do to make this possible. i want to also acknowledge president obama and the recoveryability from which much of this has sprung. the tiger grants first appeared in the recovery act. we were trying to get them in the appropriations bill, conth to get them in the appropriations bill. we do have one other bill on the table. it is 100 days old since our chairwoman barbara boxer, great pride of california, passed in the senate, a bipartisan way, a transportation bill that received on the record 75 members of the united states senate. democrats and republicans. senator boxer, the chairwoman, the ranking republican on the committee, senator degrees, you have to be a contortionist to have a further spectrum of how far they are on most issues, but together on this transportation bill, because everything that we're talking about here is about jobs now. it is about connecting communities. it is about transportation. it is about quality of life. quality of air. it is about commerce. product and people to work and to market and back. it is about economic development that takes us -- about growth. about growth. it takes us to a special place. and yes, our projects have to be of national significance and we can compete with anybody on that score. so i'll accept your compliments, tiffany, and others on what i have done. all i can do is advocate for what is happening here and what's happening here in every respect is excellent. excellence at ucsf, in ideas aboutability in our community and in the contributions of the front pi focused in a way to produce the result, excellence in our workforce to respect our workers that we have selective bargaining and davis bacon as part of it recognizing that we want the best possible talent so that we can have the best possible results. i'm shrew absolutely delighted. this is a very happy day for me. earlier this month, the $150 million loan to continue the work for presidio parkway formerly known as doyle drive, under another formation, doyle drive. the federal government has recognized, and it is not -- people look at this and say you get everything. they are connected. we proved that we were deserving and it is now -- now it opens another possibility so we celebrate this today for what it does and thank you for spelling out what it does in terms of connecting to other transportation here. but it -- when you talked about how it connects up to the other things. it also will lead to other things. we're hoping to get this transportation bill passed and more possibilities spring from that, but i know the way you will exploit and i mean that in a positive way, all of these resources, what it can also attract and what it can lead to, we'll be back celebrating for something else very soon. in closing, let me say one of my big selling points, in the various jobs he has held, he has to get a job done. when i came to the mar major's office, twfs the reputation of his experience in public works and experience in the officer who had to get the job done for the city. before he became mayor and so when he was selected first and then liquiditied after that, -- elected after that, it was clear to everyone who met him or when he came to d.c. or when he brought people here, he could get the job bone. he knew of what he spoke. he gave a clear eye of what could happen. i wish you could see him. the federal officials come to town and whether we're looking at central subway or whatever the project is, chapter and verse, totally knowledgeable, understanding the possibility, understanding the possibilities. that's what our mayor is about. people know what he says he is going to do something. the job will get done. totally operational. very inspirational. we're very proud of you, mayor lee. thank you all very much. [applause] >> good morning. thank you for being here this morning at the san francisco police academy. i want to introduce some of the folks behind me. obviously our mayor, ed leigh. the president of the san francisco police commission. ron conway, caroline, the director of global human engagement for hewlett packard. our chief information technology person here at the san francisco police department, leo solomon, director of project i.t. management. adam, founder of arc touch. zach, product lead, arc touch, and the newest classes of the strans police academy, lateral and spri level. the entry level officers are starting today. without delay i am going to introduce mayor leigh to explain why you are here. it is a very exciting day for me as chief of police as we step into the next stage of progressive technology for the san francisco police department. mayor ed leigh. a [applause] >> thank you, chief. thank you very much. i am glad to be here this morning and certainly the very first thing i want to do is challenge the chief and thank all of the men and women of the new class, who will also share in the responsibility of taking care of our citizens. i want to thank you for your sacrifice and the work that you will be doing with us. our police department of course is essential to a safe city. when the chief and i first did our interviews when he was coming in to see me, we talked about the technology, and i had said in my previous role that we were part of the effort to help sue and her efforts to modernize our police department. of course within months sue was coming in to the city administrator's office telling us what the department did not have set up. with commission president mizuko and the chief, as they have come together during this administration, we wanted to take care of that in the most passionate way. a couple of weeks ago we were up here already announcing our city's support and efforts to create multiple classes for the future to make sure that as we see so many other of our officers retire, that we fill those ranks. i think that our new recruits are completely reflective of that effort, and we will see more and more of our recruits in the months to come as they help take care of the future ranks in our city. today we are announcing a very special endeavor, one that reflects so many of our administration's effort to modernize our police force. as you know, i have been very much focused on our openness in inviting technology to help us solve problems, social problems, communication problems, challenges that each of our departments have. and i'm thrilled because the formation that ron conway led with the creation of sf-city and the promise that not only would it be a voice for technology and innovative companies to tell us what we could do to help the industry succeed in our city, but there was also a promise that we mutually made together, which was how could we help our technology companies help us become a better city to help us serve our residents, smarter and more efficiently. we identified quite a number of projects in our city. some of them are being baked, if you will. this is one we wanted to put out front and center. six months into this new administration, we are ready to announce today that in partnership with sf-city and one of the key members, arc-touch, and h.p., hewlett packard, we have formed a two-phase project that will address something that we have identified for many years that has hampered our police department's efficient use of time. one of the things that the street officers do on a daly basis is they have to write instant reports and get the data to do their job. most of that is done by the officers leaving the streets and returning to their stations or to the downtown office to access the ready computers that are there so they can get the data there. we don't have the mobility, if you will, to have the officers access that information while they are in their cars or on the streets. so in a two-phase process what we are doing today is announcing a partnership with h.p., who is donating some 60 of the initial first-class laptops to be used by this particular class to train them, and sf-city is donating $100,000 in that effort with the whole training program. combined they are working with arc-touch to develop application soss that once these officers -- applications so that once he these officers are trained, arc-touch will be then in phase two developing applications so that various mobile devices in addition to the laptops, and eventually it will be tablets and then mobile applications that might be on their phones, to be able to access crime data, be able to utilize new technology in order to transfer speech and video into written reports that will make the officers very versatile in the field. that is important to stress. one of the problems we have always faced in both limited budget times and even robust times, is whenever you have to have an officer remove him or herself off the street, out of the the presence of the community, in to a station to write reports for several hours, that presence is missing. in order for the officialses to be had, we have to develop innovatively technology that offers access in a mobile way. that is what this relationship will do for us. it begins with this donation, but the essential part that will take place in these walls is the actual training to utilize the accessed abilities from the h.p. lap tomas into the crime data warehouse and have the applications developed over time. it's a wonderful program. it is one i think that reflects exactly the relationship that ron conway and i discussed months ago when we started this, how we can be a more efficient city, how can we save time, and how can we still have the officers perform the essential service of being physically there in the neighborhoods on our streets, protecting our citizens and visitors. so this is a wonderful announcement. i am fully endorsing this. i want to thank the chief and the president of the commission and the whole commission. i want to give a strong shutout-out to sf-city and the members, who have stepped up so quickly to identify this area that will have endless, i think, solutions to giving us the ability to be even more efficient. the time-saving aspect of this is so critical because the more police presence that we have as we invite and have events in the city, we have to have the officers out there even more. so over a short period of time, you will see the absorption of this technology into our officers presence out there. i think in a very short time the ability to have mobile applications will be a very, very good answer of efficiencies for our officers. again, i want to thank h.p. their team is here today. arc-touch, and their leaders are here. of course sf-city. this is just one. we have so many other departments that are asking for modern technology. as we go through other things, we will come out of our baking oven and on to modernizing our whole city government. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i can't tell you how exciting this is for the san francisco police department. much has been made in the media that we are currently down between hundred and some-odd officers, and we will be down 300-plus officers by this time next year before we catch the bounce from these new officers hitting the streets. by being able to have these officers remain in the field through mobile technology, it will increase their time on the street 3-4 hours a day, 30% to 40% a day. multiply that times the well over 1,000 officers we have in the field, and you can imagine the efficiency that promotes for the police department and contribute toward public safety. i have to tell you though, mayor leigh is all about efficiency, technology, public safety, and public-private partnership, and we are lucky to have as our mayor. with what a friend of mine saw in 2003, and we are naming this the michael j. homer initiative. his mom's sister and niese just walked into the room over here. so i am going to ask them to come forward. mike was a tech giant, one of the starters of net escape, and bill campbell, ron conway, and todd bradley of h.p. we would often talk about having to make san francisco and the police department the most technologically progressive police department in the country. and if we could ever be in a position to make that happen, we would do that. then we were blessed with a mayor who wanted to see that happen and an i.t. director that could make it happen. so going forward, this initiative, however it can help the san francisco police department be connected and then hopefully eventually grow it regionally, to make it simple, this is in fact the bat computer. we can punch a single piece of information into a google search system to tell us what we need to know, whether it is a car, a person, a description like that. we can find it out like that. you would think we would have been able to do this already, but that has not been the case. we just got e-mail department-wide last year. so we have moved tremendously just in the last 13 months, and we have left the note post-it days, and we are now into a google searchable web base data warehouse and now have a partnership with sf-stit, h.p., arch-touch and a mayor pushing the whole thing forward with his full sort. and these officers behind me will never know a desk top computer. they will only know mobile technology, and that includes the three classes a year for the next six year and two classes a year after that. so eventually we will be the most tech no logical progressive police department to make this -- not only san francisco, but the entire bay area as safe a community as there is in the country. so i think you, and again i want to recognize mike's mom, irene homer, sue homer, and sue's gorgeous daughter. [applause] for giving us mike for as long as we had him. there wasn't a smarter guy on the planet. we will try to carry on in his memory. our next speaker will be president thomas mizuko of the police commission. [applause] >> thank you. i will be brief. you noticed some emotion with the chief. he was good friend with mike homer. he was very successful in the computer industry. yet he never lost his friend who were working and serving the city as police officers. i know they were very dedicated to him. so i want to thank his family. when i first joined the police commission four years ago, we were having a meeting regarding crime mapping, and it was important to us to have the community able to go online and see what is going on in their area. then i asked the chief, "well, when the officers get to work, are they able to go on line in their station and see what has been happening in their car sector?" the confer was no. i said what is going on? we don't have internet capability at the police stations. that was a shock. that has changed thanks to mayor leigh, chief conway and folks before him and sue. we set out and hired the first director of technology, who reported back to the commission and told us there was no technology. so we have made great strides. i want to thank the members of the community who came forward. we talk a lot about community policing. we wondered about our neighbors in silicon valley, what can this do to make our officers more efficient? how can they help us? that is a form of community policing. they came forward. from the bottom of my heart i want to thank everybody, mr. conway, h.p., sf-city. this is an incredible accomplishment. and i want to thank our new officers. this is a sight for sore eyes. this is what mayor leigh made possible through his work with the board of supervisors. this information technology is going to them. they are more second knowledge sandovaly. look at them. they are younger. they were raised on laptops. i want to thank everybody for being here and making this possible. thanks. [applause] >> i want to reasure everybody that even though we couldn't share information, we are a very chatty police department, and we told everybody what happened the day before. our next speaker is no stranger to really anything that is