Academies do volunteer work both as part of their academy work and that they volunteer their own time aside from working specifically with youth, so this class worked with the youth in the Housing Project in chinatown, also with John Muir School in the western edition and with youth and time paid and a requirement that they volunteer and that came across loud and clear. I also think i have said this before, the chief and his remarks specifically spoke to the changing in culture around mentalityal Health Crisis and what lieutenant molina talked about and sometimes you have to go in and things take fast and sometimes you need four hours to get the woman out of her home and i think the chief categorized it sometimes youre a first responder. Sometimes youre a social worker so i think really the opportunity for a lot of change comes in how we train the new officers and what we do and i just want to reflect to all of you again having before there on behalf of the commission a lot of what was
Short of heroic and i saw these guys walk in now and is cool but youre wearing sheriffs stars. You need police stars. He has a lot of them in the pock disblet we have a focus on have young people graduate from high school and all of the numbers of the Justice System or someone that falls into the system and all of the numbers are from graduation of high school and not that college isnt for everybody and as many as possible but thats about successes and more lawyers and doctors on the panel right now but to that end we do a lot of summer employment and break employment so what a lot of people dont realize and since this is on tv tonight a lot of the summer jobs the city does for dpw, puc and park and rec which do most of the jobs they close in midfebruary for the online applications so anybody thats watching and youre wondering if youre young person, High School Age interested in summer employment go to the sfgov website and curve around and look at these departments and if something in
Is there, the homeless coalition. We have meant entities coming together talking about what is going on and enhance the problem and kudos to them and they do all of the work. I believe the update is coming and we be make sure there is notice and hear from them as well. If you watch the last meeting and watch sfgtv and i dont know which commissioner and said theyre most proud of as a program and anything we can do to support. If there is anything tangible that we can do you have our support. Commissioner lost us is very supportive of what were doing. Thank you. Any other questions . No. Thank you. Thank you for all of the work. Keep up the good work and we will see you at the meeting. I am trying to get someone to come with me so stay for that part of the agenda. Thank you. That concludes my report. Thank you chief. Inspector please call the next line item. Directors report and discussion and activities. Director hicks good evening. Good evening president and commissioners and chief suh
Police. You have enough as it is now. You need to fix income for people to get low Income Housing to make it better. You know what i am saying . You all spend a lot of money on nothing. Its bull crap but you can do better if you put your minds to it. Thank you and have a blessed day. Thank you. If there is anyone else to speak please come forward were going to close public comment. Thank you debbie leman and thank you for holding this hearing today. The cost of business is the number one issue in the sector for over a decade now and increases are sporadic and less than inflation and less than comparable City Employees receive although its from the same source of funding. I want to look at the issue in the context of the income inequality in the city and the primary team of the mayors address this year. Were in the midst of an economic boom but seeing record of San Francisco poverty and 13. 8 driven by rising unaffordability in the city. The cost of doing business is a key piece of this
The academy four classes maxed out . We will talk to you next time. Its not lost on the Mayors Office as all. Its one of the top priorities. Got it. How do you feel about lateral hiring versus academy clazs . We hire laterals and there is interest in the bay area to be members of the San Francisco Police Department. We try to be judicious who we hire from other departments because we dont want to take officers that might not be a good fit in San Francisco and over the last i guess since 2012 we had a Lateral Academy class. About a year its 10 to 15 officers per class and maybe 10 to 15 attrition of those classes but were making sure that we get real good officers again and benefited in 2012 because others were forced to layoff and the officers that were free agents if you will. They didnt come upon being available at their own doing. It was a matter of seniority. They let the most Junior Officers go and they few have been stand outs for us in San Francisco. Even if you bring laterals i