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commitment to diversity and i know you have it in your heart. and for that, what i want to say is, you have our unwavered support. anything we can do to assist you, our community, you have it and we will do it. we could not be prouder of you. and i could not be prouder of you personally, congratulations. the second thing i want to talk to you i asked officer michael evans to come. a few weeks ago, you guys had an issue regarding an alleged misconduct by a patrol special. and some of the comments that were raised during that commission meeting ended up being interpreted by the media i...

to order. please turn off any cell phones or pagers. would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. taking of roll call commissioners. >> present. >> commission vice president dr. joe marshall. >> in route. >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner james hammer. >> in route. >> commissioner angela chan. excused. commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner slaughter. >> present. >> we have the assistant chief thromace sawyer. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, april 20th, 2011 commission meeting. we have an issue that we are ...

website, costs the city next to nothing. we realize the numbers that you are going to take from here and say this is how much it costs. if we had 40 more officers, assistants, you would get 40 officers for free for the city. hard to tell the citizens that we are getting rid of 40 officers. the city shortfall this year is $308 million. next year 460, next year 680. board of supervisors talked about dropping the drop program. if they do that you will lose approximately a quarter to a third of the police department. the rules and regulations need to be looked at and they need to be redo...

for me, the compliance issue. it is funny because the department has laid his back on us. it means an oversight of this body. we tried to do some of that oversight. we have a couple of things going on here. the controls report and oversight of his body of patrol special, they have not been successful. i want to know what we're going to do here. what is the game plan? i hoped we can come up with that in the next few minutes. that is my request. >> i think i have a game plan after hearing the presentation. i will get to you and commissioner hammer. you ask that they have their certific...

need. and one other thing you need to take into account, the finances of the city. you have 40 police officers that if you discount the pssg program and look at the police website, costs the city next to nothing. we realize the numbers that you are going to take from here and say this is how much it costs. if we had 40 more officers, assistants, you would get 40 officers for free for the city. hard to tell the citizens that we are getting rid of 40 officers. the city shortfall this year is $308 million. next year 460, next year 680. board of supervisors talked about dropping the drop...