Understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yes. Thank you for the presentation and i really appreciate chief hayes white letting know early she had the obligations in dc as well. I wanted to just ask about overtime. I know the chief of police sure give us the charts and making efforts to reduce overtime. I dont see that in this presentation. I know we had good data last year from you on the impact on the Academy Class and the stabilization increasing of your force, but i am just wondering are we seeing continued progress in reducing over time expenditures, or is your industry so different that its different and thats not
Some challenges. You know im a former commissioner for the department and this particular Department Needs Additional Support and so i am hoping that this information thats provided to us would give you a clear understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yes. Thank you for the presentation and i really appreciate chief hayes white letting know early she had the obligations in dc as well. I wanted to just ask about overtime. I know the chief of police sure give us the charts and making efforts to reduce overtime. I dont see that in this presentation. I know we had good data last year from you on the impact on the Academy C
Savings and we have one time savings. These would allow an increase of nine 10 of a percent in the budget and as the director stated we are working with the department and will report back next week. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thanks we will see you next wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. We will go into recess until 145. We will see you then. [gavel] were at our regularly scheduled meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. We are in the middle of hearing items 1 and 2 for the 2014, 15, 16 budget. Well pick it up. Up next is our public offender and we have mr. Adachi here and well get moving. Were joined by supervise reed as well. Good afternoon. The Defender Office is mandated to provide legal reputation to anyone who is arrested in San Francisco for a miss demeanor or felony crime and we represent those in the juvenile and the Health Courts and in San Francisco we have now almost ten speciality courts where we provide legal reputations. We
Positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a weight based on the
Savings and we have one time savings. These would allow an increase of nine 10 of a percent in the budget and as the director stated we are working with the department and will report back next week. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thanks we will see you next wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. We will go into recess until 145. We will see you then. [gavel] were at our regularly scheduled meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. We are in the middle of hearing items 1 and 2 for the 2014, 15, 16 budget. Well pick it up. Up next is our public offender and we have mr. Adachi here and well get moving. Were joined by supervise reed as well. Good afternoon. The Defender Office is mandated to provide legal reputation to anyone who is arrested in San Francisco for a miss demeanor or felony crime and we represent those in the juvenile and the Health Courts and in San Francisco we have now almost ten speciality courts where we provide legal reputations. We