Though she has already allocated funds to pay for the search, Mayor Thao said in her KTVU interview that the commission has not agreed on hiring an executive search consultant and has therefore not yet begun the search process. “I am pushing and pressuring them to actually finally agree on a consultant," she said. “We are waiting for the police commission to actually go and sign with the consultant.”

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