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Jails. So misdemeanors arent going to be sentenced to county jail but will be sentenced in Community Service or whatever. And for those individuals who do need some measure of control and supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District Attorney. George, two questions there, one related to whether or not drug possession should be treated diff...

These items and see if we cant get a happier new year. Thank you very much. Just as a reminder, this is only on items that is upeder the general managers report. We do have general comment right after this. Good morning, commissioners, my name is [inaudible] hernandez gill, im the Community Organizer with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, i would like to thank the commission for their support last year for the jfk driveway, the city has Ambitious Goals with the yearly results were seeing on j...

Charged with a crime. Do you agree with them [ i dont. I understand where marty is coming from. I think we have to make sure when were treating this as a misdemeanor we do have a tool to ensure that people who need treatment are going to be afforded the opportunity and are going to have treatment. I also agree with tal, not necessarily everybody that uses drugs is an addict, and not necessarily everybody who uses drugs needs to have treatment. But having said that, people that we often come in c...

Charged with a crime. Do you agree with them [ i dont. I understand where marty is coming from. I think we have to make sure when were treating this as a misdemeanor we do have a tool to ensure that people who need treatment are going to be afforded the opportunity and are going to have treatment. I also agree with tal, not necessarily everybody that uses drugs is an addict, and not necessarily everybody who uses drugs needs to have treatment. But having said that, people that we often come in c...

Service or whatever. And for those individuals who do need some measure of control and supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District Attorney. George, two questions there, one related to whether or not drug possession should be treated differently for adults than from juveniles. And then a question about back on track, whether or not that ...

And supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District Attorney. George, two questions there, one related to whether or not drug possession should be treated differently for adults than from juveniles. And then a question about back on track, whether or not that program would be positively or adversely affected by senator lenos proposal. Yes, l...

And supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District Attorney. George, two questions there, one related to whether or not drug possession should be treated differently for adults than from juveniles. And then a question about back on track, whether or not that program would be positively or adversely affected by senator lenos proposal. Yes, l...

Also when someone is doing good and recognizing their progress, not just sanctioning them when in fact they relapse because relapse is a fact, and its part and parcel to addiction recovery. George, let me ask you, marty raisesed the point that the reason that we need felony possibilities with drug possession offenses is that we need an incentive for people to choose treatment when they are charged with a crime. Do you agree with them [ i dont. I understand where marty is coming from. I think we ...

The student delegates report. Student Advisory Council recently had the reteeth with the Youth Commission on january 12 and 13 at civic center secondary school. We learned about the schools budget and the members of the peace cap presented that process in it. We reflected on the work we have done in the year and set goals for the remainder of the year. On sunday legislative aid came to us speak to us about the importance of youth voice and did a workshop with us. We broke out into the committees...

And supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District Attorney. George, two questions there, one related to whether or not drug possession should be treated differently for adults than from juveniles. And then a question about back on track, whether or not that program would be positively or adversely affected by senator lenos proposal. Yes, l...