Transcripts For SFGTV Special Transbay Joint Powers Authority 10716 20161010

Sell project that is active and ongoing i believe well have a new project plan in midnovember. Of what year. This year. Sorry just been 10 years i was asking. Yeah. So thats the main focus of where we are helping with. And can you help fire get they are stuff on the Property Information map. Oh, yes. Excellent. There is a reoccurring theme for the next 8 years of my life from the board has me. And the g f team can help with that. Thank you mr. Roberts. To the very, very patient people from the public and the department of Human Resources anyone want to make a Public Comment on item 7 please come on up. Good morning. Im the lead organizer for the right services a government we firmly believe that housing is a human right and the advocates to insure that folks have the ability to advocate for the right for dignified and great homes i appreciate the tennis of the review and want to encourage this process in the process at least to a final recommended include the folks that are effected and those finding before leading to the recommendations are shared with the proper departments we know that issues with the hazardous ability with the dense populated building where the heart of unoccupied buildings the longtime residents but those are consistent processes so based on those recommendations i want to list and recommend that the Fire Safety Task force is something you sponsored moving forward we insure those finding find a way to be implemented we do look forward to the collaboration amongst the agency the Fire Department and others have been putting into practice funding some of the new positions and community, however, we disagree on the reason the tracking the residential complaints take along i want to say that the current practices of Fire Department lack clear protocol and the hazards go undecked and fail to be documented consistent i appreciate having the Amazing Technology but if folks are not trained to identify those it is a shame to recommend that and through we firmly believe that proper tainting training to use the Code Enforcement is ill say in our office we see close to 4 hundred cases some of them are a result of some of the departments here and some require more work on our end so to the end of bringing buildings up to code i encourage to look more in details to the recommends and so have further implementations in some of the spaces. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors i work for Central Center collaborative and the program he oversee a clinic in the tenderloin we have Fire Department the Housing Inspection Department we focus on south of market and tenderloin i just want to highlight certain things weve been doing we working closely with the housing inspectors that are working in our jurisdictions of tenderloin and south of market we have in fact, in our own office seen over one thousand tenants that come through our doors to help with the tenant landlord issues i also want to highlight we have been working with the Fire Department to host workshops in all the hotels and have done 24 workshops for tenants and for management in sro hotels id like to thank you for the opportunity to push for more workshops part time well try to workout that with the Fire Department they dont have the funding and we would last week to see that happen thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. Hello my name is anna work for the coming Outreach Program of the tenderloin clinic and want to enhance sorry make sure that you know how for this Code Enforcement Outreach Program for our community especially in youre with a lot of the tenants that are bilingual having this Program Helps create the trust between the city agencies and the tenants so i want to sorry make sure that that the Code Enforcement Outreach Program is being enhanced and all this meeting thank you. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors my name is rosa im the Program Manager for the Code Enforcement Outreach Program another tenderloin housing clinic i work along with anna and though i read the report i said to highlighted some of the Amazing Things i think the Code Enforcement Outreach Program helps to facilitate with the dbi funding our Code Enforcement Outreach Program focused in the tenderloin and we had a bit of outreach in the south of market area has assisted tenants within those areas that are as anthema mentioned bilingual they speak mayan and cantonese and mandrin what were able to do is provide a brazen or link between tenants within those areas to a city did not like the department of building inspection to correct negligent conditions the landlords have per traditional housing is a right in San Francisco and make sure those conditions are up and make sure that tenant which we had seen in the last two years were not selfevicting themselves because of conditions in building that have been so decrept with over run of rodents or landlords not responding to tenant concerns that tenants are thinking about environmental impactism were proud at tenderloin clinic we feel we help several tenants i want to say we helped at least 6 hundred amount number of tenant so elder and families in the tenderloin so i hope you guys that message is conveyed and communicated in a very long way thank you very much. Sir. Hi tom from Human Rights Committee i kind of want to echo what a lot of the people saying Human Rights Committee in recent a case in supervisor president london breed district an elderly woman who had been relocated spoepdz to roommate her parapet shed burn relocated temporarily but the temporary was seven months it was really the effort of not only supervisor breed office but the human right working in conjunction with dbi and that kind of work came because of close relationship with dbi and this program and because of that the bottom line was we were able to get her back into her parapet in one week because of this relationship i want to urge you, i dont know what the board can do weve been meeting with the Fire Department and trying to set up a Similar Program within the Fire Department the reality were in the ground the tenant organizers people come into our office and see 5 thousand implies a year we hear about the foreclose safety problems we need this working relationship that the Fire Department i can call up someone directly and say hey i have this address heres whats happening can but send an inspector to make sure that happens thats the kind of rep with dbi we really, really need to relationship with fire to help to prevent some of those fires. Thank you anyone wish to comment here to testify on this item no. 7 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I know that supervisor breed has a few words to say but ill start with a highlevel of thank you to the 2016 civil grand jury for all of your reports and professionalism and for thank you for all your hard work to move this and other subject matters forward we greatly appreciate our work for nothing. But you signed up for the job thank you. For all of that. 13 per day. You cant get here for 13 a day and wards wrashdz to this report no action this body, or needs to take with that said, id like to do this is within the purview of the San Francisco Government Audit Oversight Committee to bring this matter back we do it the continuity the civil grand jury with continuity reports well continue to revisit this issue i appreciate the fact that both departments are taken to seriously and appreciate the work the respect commission and mr. Hui get that done. Supervisor president london breed and thank you to again to the civil grand jury you know the people who usually go through the process to be part of the civil grand jury and spend countless hours with the research and work it is a thank also job you care about the city and care about green house back i want to letting you know, we appreciate the time and work in preps those amazing reports it is great to shine a light on things well talk about they board of supervisors maybe during biscuit season. Oufrments i know get 80 getting to a point we make the covets changes to make sure that government is working more efficiently for the people it intends to serve those reports go a long way in the right direction so thank you. I want to ask specific questions because from my perspective i want to fix it and i want to fix it because it shouldnt be that you, you this someone has to reach out to the board of supervisors or to their supervisor to deal with that situation that tommy mentioned it was horrible to have that person not having an advocate to help to fascist the process she would be homeless this is a frustration that so 34 people that dont know who to crack are experiencing all over our city i want 24 process to work better and heard from one of the speakers specifically the responses the Fire Department was they dont have the funding and i guess i understand to understand if this is true or not true what is the issue with the departments budget in terms of being a little bit more responsive with those situations those fire Code Violations and whats happening base especially because preservation is important so we dont get to a point where things happen in the first time we all want to avoid getting to that point clearly in the first place i want to understand the Fire Departments role and not having sufficient funding to be more responsive is true and if thats the case you know where do we go from hey here and highway to fix it. Mr. Fire marshall de cossio. Yes. Thank you. With regards to staffing and funding first of all, id like to thank the Building Department for theyre supporting us with two new positions community each. Thats my next question with the competence and funding at dbi is it possible to fined the positions necessary and thank you very much for dbi for that support. With two positions a new fire investor and inspector to go to neighborhood and address all Fire Safety Concerns as far as contact theyll be the point for the community to reach out and other positions four new inspector positions and create a fire complaint section what weve done in the past they used to be sent out to the different districts multiple district throughout the city their duties for full inspectors a hoist of things if that fire complaints but we created a new section and consolidate all the complaint to be more efficient and addressing the these complaints. Which did this start is. Last week the additional positions and again, this process has been in the works for quite a few of the i permanent was a part of Fire Task Force the Interagency Task force i sought concerns of the public and at this point we start to plan that with allocating the resources to the sections and started out with a reassigning the champion and concluded that reallocation so, now a champion, lieutenant and 6 inspectors that address all fire complaints. Okay. The other question i wanted to ask something he most recently experienced with an individual in my district who is a hoarder and had a fire and as a result i think what bogged me the most about the situation there was a fire the Fire Department came and put out the fire and there was really no connection or no followup to services for this particular individual in fact, the reason he got involved several neighbors of this year person had reached out to me and had a fire the door was broken i mean but we got services you know after my office was made aware of the situation, we were able to work with you know the different departments Human Resources and all of these things to get him services we discovered his water was cut off i dont think so where the disconnect was youre talking about a Senior Living without water clearly has issues and needs support and i guess from my perspective he know not as if we talk about someone in their personal home you would be able to prevent or know theirs issues without getting involved i guess i didnt understand why the department after they put out the fire that there were no signs to see there was a need for social services or for support or dbi even or just im trying to understand after the situation occurred you know what is your role to connect individuals that we know are clearly in trouble to the resources they need to get help. I think part of this is training and reinforcing the idea were a department and a process to refer those issues to protective services and dbi the tools are there i think about reinforcing and meg to the field and the issues to have an avenue to reviewer to other auditions think that is mainly training the tools are there. I guess i see a bit of a disconnect and wanting to make sure that we are doing what we can to be supportive and you are doing what you can to make sure that is not just about, of course, a role that 9 department plays responding to all the 911 emergencies and dealing with challenging situations i know so many people appreciate but then there are other layers as a fire marshall what you deal with in general with occupancy and other challenges with the buildings im just concerned that from my perspective not sure of the what the policies are with the department and how those policies actually serve the public as it relates to preservation in terms of the civil grand jury report after something occurs and is there a disconnect and something we can do to support you know moving the in the right direction to. Ill bring this forward to the deputy chief. And to mention the department of building inspection is it polk what youve been provided is sufficient or is there a need for Additional Resources because clearly i know the opportunity exists from the funding is available and dbi can use funding for this particular purpose i think this is really you know a great opportunity to try to make sure we have the appropriate capacity to support the department in this regard. Were rolling out programs teammate with the fire complaints in the Community Outreach at this time no need for Additional Resources but down the road we may this is in any to us we are rolling this out i think from what i sit were good right now with the two new programs. Okay. Thank you. Thank you fire marshall de cossio supervisor yee. Just want to make a general comment i want to thank the grand jury for this year id be able to read several years of report from the grand juror efforts and we have to say this this year is the best in terms of all the ones ive seen it is useful and its been seem to have the ability to move some of the departments more than in the past so i want to congratulate actually, the juries that were working on the reports. Thank you supervisor yee so with that, why not have a motion to file item no. 7 made by supervisor yee without objection thank you, again one and all and lets see return to item 2 thank you for your patience im sorry i forgot your name i know you represent the department of Human Resources. Thank you. Im the Employee Relations director and i am fairly new to my position i can assure you ill have answers to our questions when you ask them. Its all good. Let me i think ive gathered the information requested and let me address each item individually you asked me about the recreation facility assistance on page thirty of the ordinance and this is a new classification it is being created and worked in conjunction with the seiu this is intend to provide permanent staffing for our recreation facility in the past we used primarily temporary staffing and this is a new position to provide ongoing permanent staffing you asked about the physician claefgs. By the way, im not trying to be funny but do we really have a city patio invite. Two city moa patianistoa p city pianist. Now theyre represented in bargaining unit the seiu. Okay moving forward. Supervisor breed wants to know where they play and i can get you their schedule im meeting with them this afternoon. I say next question, i noted on page 20 with the physician classifications if so being eliminated this sclaefgs is being eliminated because we no longer use it we have been using the physician specialist and the senior physician specialist classifications this is being eliminated the next question owe not on page 15 the senior examiner this. Special examiner and im sorry special examiner this classifications used to be unrep and this classification you asked me what it does that support the hiring examines the proctor hiring examines and fluctuate as we are at the east bay and flow of hiring asked by the about the classification an page 11 it is a classification that is used a senior level in the planner series and the most complex position mr. 9 peep in the classification there is 2 in the planning department, two in mta and 3 at the that concludes my report. And one at the airport. Okay. And we looked at the history it been used consistently not earmarked to be eliminated so. Ill have to go through my records and see why i have this thought ill put that on the budget analyst. Okay. There are other series of planners transportation, planners and others it may be that maybe a transportation planner because i know that goes to level 4. That was definitely those planners 5 well get to the bottom of it. The next question and that i had noted from you was about the Program Manager an Economic Department on page 7 a good item we looked back not used roll call and should be earmarked to be eliminated well begin and reach out to the department and posting that westbound the unions to get their input before eliminating it. So in the meanwhile can we have it live as a think unreverend position. We could if we felt it was to the filed when we look at the the classifications responsibility more appropriate than represented we could temporarily while we work to eliminate it move it back to the un represented. We can take care of it for you. Well just strike line 24 on page 7. Okay. Thank you that concludes my report. Thank you, ms. Mason if you ever find other categories we dont need them as a matter of policy eliminate them. I want to recognize my colleague steve our compensation specialist steve prides himself on findings those and updating the ordinance. Only one got through this year. He said that was a good catch so laughter . All right. Thanks and we had Public Comment on this so the only remaining person in the Chamber Wants to comment on this Public Comment is closed. Id like to make a motion to remove line 24 can we take that without objection . And would one of you want to make a motion so marked supervisor yee mad that without objection it is done colleagues, we dont need a closed session madam clerk read item 8 item 8 and 9. Together will be fine. Authorizing the settlement of the file of the city and county of San Francisco acting by the Airport Commission against name and item 9 a resolution approving the settle filed by darlene i have reviewed those item is there any Public Comment on items 8 or 9 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And can we have a motion to full board with a positive recommendation. Made by supervisor president london breed without objection and then one final word which is next tuesday october 18th is the hundredth anniversary celebration of the original move into those chambers and i am using this opportunity to ask the president to see if she can get one of the two pianist to come down and play. Im sorry the 18. For both. I meant october the 18 no meeting on october tuesday the 11 ill get in trouble and the City Attorney is coming to yell at me okay were adjourned special meeting to ord. October 7 rfx , 20 r 2016. Prior to fake r taking role and note for the portion is connected per sunt to california government code and director gee at hotel mia and participating by speaker phone. With that director gee. Director gee. Present. Director kim, present. Reiskin, present. Nuru, present. Sartipi, present. Harper , present. You krhave a quorum and before we move on ill verify particulars with director gee. Director gee, can you hear me well . Director gee, can you hear me okay . I swear we did a test before this. Director gee . Director gee. Pardon me a second rkts ill just go to the cell phone. Hi director gee im using my cell phone to put you on speaker. Are you having technical difficulties on your end . Can hear you clearly now. Lets go with this technology then. With that, i announce that mr. Chairman had a quorum and verified particulars with you. Can you hear me okay . Yes, i can. Okay. Is your location reasonably accessible to the public . Yes, it is. Great. I coordinated with representative at the hotel and confirmed a copy of the meeting notice is posted. We can call your next item, Public Comment is item 3. Please. And i havent received indication a member wants to address you so we can move to your next item. Please do. Which is closed session and at this time you are scheduled to go into closed session and not received indication a member of the public wishes to address on the ititem said here. Any member there with you director gee to discuss . Seeing none there and here well clear the room at city hall and director gee you can go ahead to youri believe you are going to the hotel room for the portion of the closed session meeting. Yes, thank the boferd directors special meading is back in open session and director gee, can you confirm you can hear me and in a location reasonably access nl to the public. I can hear you just fine and in the hotel lobby. Great with, counsel report. [inaudible] from the clouzed closed session mptd with that directors, that does conclude your agenda. We are done. Thank you. [meeting adjourned] im emily executive director of the San Francisco department on the status of women. Welcome to our event to mark Domestic Violence awareness month. So i want to invite the folks with the signs to come on in and walk in closer. Before i introduce our speakers tonight, i want to recognize the Domestic Violence survivors among us, they deserve our continued support and a round of applause for our survivors. [ applause ] next i want to recognize the frontline staff of our Partner Agencies and all of the folks here who work on fighting Domestic Violence every day and lets show them our appreciation [ applause ] Domestic Violence continues to be a huge problem in San Francisco last year there were almost 9,000 911 calls for help, 3,000 Domestic Violence cases reported to the Police Department, and according to official counts we lost four lives in the last two years. Were so fortunate to have a mayor who has made ending violence against women, including Domestic Violence a priority. At the begin thing of mayor lees tenure in 2011 the city was investing 3 million in a year in direct services to survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking and under mayors leadership this funding has increased to 6. 3 Million Dollars today. [applause] [applause] without further ado, please help me welcome our mayor, edwin lee a true leader in ending violence against women. Please give him a warm welcome [ applause ]. Thank you emily and everyone, welcome to city hall. As you all know, october marks Domestic Violence awareness month, and i want to say thank you to members of on or our board of supervisors, supervisors campos and weiner are here and they agree with me that funding for more doors to safety is really important for this city. And you know, i think Domestic Violence and abuse of loved ones most of the time happens behind doors. So were trying to open more doors. So it doesnt happen. And that is why we have resources to spend to make sure our prosecutors and our da and Police Department are working together to make sure that we hold individuals accountable. That is, of course, our criminal Justice System. But we also know, given the great work that our department, our status of women, our great, wonderful communitybased nonprofits that are working every day, have seen other doors close, and we have opened them up. Because we need a School System that educates our youth. Violence is not acceptable. It may be good for certain types of sports to hit a ball, but its never good to hit another person. That is what education door is opened with this funding. We need our Health Care Centers to have their doors opened so we can treat and find those that are abused and help them out of that misery and Housing Authority to make sure Public Housing residents dont feel any less than anybody to get treatment and support. We open up the workplace to make sure that we can talk about it, and that reports can be made around Domestic Violence. Our schools, our youth, are there to help us prevent and to support those who are victims. All of these systems, we are opening more doors with this resource. So i have been proud to work with the board to increase funding. Its not so much about the dollar amount, we actually all have to feel that we have completed every single door opening to make sure we prevent violence. Because every time we hear of that fatality, we look upon ourselves and say what did we not do to try to prevent that from happening . That is why were going to be even more successful. Finally, were in the process of creating a brandnew program. Again to connect survivors of Domestic Violence, who call the police. We want to connect them immediately to an advocate to make sure all of the things are done properly at the very time that person that victim is in need. And were going to do that with this additional funding. Were using data from the Family Violence Council Report to start this program, and were starting it right in the bayview, because the bayview and the Bayview District has the highest call volume of 911 calls related to Domestic Violence. So let us all keep focused. Let us make sure that not only are we making awareness, but were actually investing in the very programs that will end Domestic Violence. With that, im happy again, tonight, to announce for the fourth time with everybodys support, but especially with the support maybe its 6 million times support from our San Francisco giants tonight, city hall will be lit in purple for the support that we have for awareness of Domestic Violence. Let us all celebrate that and continue with the giants. Thank you [ applause ] thank you so much, mr. Mayor. Next please help me welcome someone who represents the heart of the community, my dear friend, woman warrior, Beverly Upton with a very special presentation to make to the mayor. [ applause ]. If you know me you heard me say before i have the best job in the world and now i have the best job in the best city in the world. Thank you so much. Were really here today with this letter signed by so many of you that are ending violence against women, violence against children, violence against transgender womens, violence against the lgbt community. We are here to say that we stand together to end Domestic Violence. We want to take a moment to thank mayor ed lee for his continuing support for raising those dollars for us, for the board of supervisors, for really making this a priority, and really raising the issue that this hurts everybody who lives in San Francisco. So we just want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support, mayor lee. Your continued support, and also, may the purple on city hall be a beacon to everyone in San Francisco and beyond for safety, justice and healing. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you so much, beverly. That is such an important acknowledgment of the citys support. Next i want to welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener who stands with us today in the fight to end violence against women. Please welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener. [ applause ] good evening. And welcome everyone to San Francisco city hall and i especially want to welcome our students from school of the arts and the district that i represent. Welcome to city hall. [ applause ] thank you. So Domestic Violence, its one of those things that it is always present, and its often just underneath the surface. And i think a lot of times people dont talk about it, and its very silent, and its secret, and its hidden. But it is always, always there, and it is deep and broad and toxic in its impact on our community. And once in a while something happens that brings it to the surface and people finally start talking. That happened four years ago this month in this building when sadly the board of supervisors, a minority of the board of supervisors made the wrong decision in allowing our sheriff to keep serving. I will just call it out. That was one of those moments when people started to talk, and i remember in the days and weeks after that unfortunate decision, a tragic decision, i really was reminded how broad and deep this problem is. The people that would talk to me about their experience in a relationship, about their experience as a child, observing or seeing one parent abusing another parent, or the experience that they had with a college roommate, or a friend who had been abused. People who havent been abused, but it has impacted their lives and how many people in this city, in this society have been deeply, deeply affected . Yeah have been deeply affected by Domestic Violence . And so it is so important to talk about it. And not just to sweep it under the rug, or quietly take care of it. We need to be talking about this problem, because that is the only way that were going to put an end to it once and for all. So lets keep fighting thank you. [ applause ] thank you, so much, scott i want to acknowledge a few senior officials Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu is with us today [ applause ] and if you might hold your applause, we also have list liz and jackie and Police Commander greg and adult probation chief karen fletcher, if we could give them all a big round of applause. [ applause ] i also want to thank mayors deputy chief of staff Paul Henderson and our budget analyst laura bush who joined us today and chief fletcher asked me to make one quick announcement to save the date for friday october 28th, 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. The Adult Probation Department is supporting veterans and survivors of Family Violence from trauma to healing from 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. And please join us there. I would like to if any introduce the Deputy Health director at department of Public Health and please help me welcome dr. Chan. [ applause ] thank you emily. I just want to spend my five minutes just giving a little bit of the data that reflects supervisor wieners and the mayors sentiments about us coming together. The mayors sentiment and also the underlying prevalence that we all know is in San Francisco and most of us know that the prevalence one in three women have been victims of intimate Partner Violence and in San Francisco we know among our most vulnerable women, those in ninemonths of pregnancy, there is a wide disparity in ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic class. So amongst those who are most stressed, those in poverty. The prevalence is 11 . That is about three times higher than those who are not in poverty. So that really speaks to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in San Francisco and what that does to all of us. Im in Public Health and im a pediatrician and tell you this issue profoundly affects women and children. This prevalence of Domestic Violence experienced by lowincome women and women of all classes, causes an increase in coping and reactive behaviors and that is why we have this link in intimate Partner Violence causing a fourfold risk increased risk in drug use, fivefold risk in depression and of course, increased risk of suicidality and it affects babies too. Women who are experiencing intimate Partner Violence are three times more likely to have a baby born preterm or lowbirth weight. So this all attributes to life course of consequences in child abuse and neglect and drug addiction. But there is hope in the Health Community and research we now recognize and understand that your interventions are aeffective. Primary care intervence and communitybased interventions are effective and its more and more important that we come together, integrate our Community Programs and health services. So that we can better address this issue as an entire community. One great example is that our county hospital led by many of you advocates, and internal medicine physicians, dr. Lee kimberg, who has received a federal grant, the arise grant. That really builds upon the partnership of San Francisco General Hospital, ucsf, bay area legal aid, la casa, against violence and Trauma Recovery center to provide integrated screening, counseling, quality counseling, and effective referrals to all of the women who go through our county health system. So this type of integration we feel is very promising. Its a National Leader and its becoming a National Model of how we in San Francisco can integrate our Services Better to serve our most vulnerable population at their most vulnerable times. Thank you very much for all you have your service. [ applause ] thank you very much, dr. Chan and i want to acknowledge kathy, who is here representing sheriff Vicky Hennessey and our Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu would like to say a few words. Thank you, i serve as San Franciscos elected asesor and im so honored to stand with beverly and with you, emily and all of our Community Partners to bring awareness to Domestic Violence. My comments will be short. When i stand here today i see how wonderful it is to see over the 100 people here all behind us, but also in front of us. Who came out because they understand just how important this cause is, to bring awareness. And i know that here we have 100 people already who know that they can each play a role when they see Domestic Violence happening, or they are worried that Domestic Violence might be happening, that they are going to do something. That we all take a pledge to do something about it and to make sure that our loved ones arent suffering alone. Emily was just telling me there are a ton of resources that are available and listed on the department on the status of womens website and encourage everyone who cares about this issue to please take a look at it and if you know anybody of your friends or any of your family who is going through something and not ready to take about it, please be a shoulder and please share with them all the ways that we might we able to help them. I think that is the only way were going to end Domestic Violence with that, congratulations emily on your tireless leadership year in and year out [ applause ]. Thank you carmen and i want to next introduce carmen chung and gabby, High School Seniors who participate in the young asian women against Violence Project of the Community Youth center. Lets give it up for carmen and gabby. [ applause ] hi my name is gabby. Hi, my name is karlen and were from the Leadership Program called young asian against violence. We dedicate its a program dedicated to positive empowerment and development of api High School Youth young asian women in San Francisco and to strengthen resilience, pride, healing and knowledge of young asian women to advocate for the end of Domestic Violence in our community. We educate about violence against women through creating and for thiating workshops and education creates longterm effect rather than a bandaid solution and enable using to create a foundation of change. Together we stand in solidarity with the 15yearold meadows who was incarcerated for defending herself and her family from her abusivefather and today is the day of her Court Hearing and instead of being given a safe space to heal she is being isolated from her community and loved one as she faced prosecution. It angers us to see one of our own peers for being punished for defending herself. Why are systems that are supposed to protect us harming us . As youth, our experiences are often invalidated. We have few opportunities to speak up for ourselves. We are disempowered. There are limited resources and space for healing and safety. And its really rare for us to find the resources. It} n a society where youth hold less power than adults we need spaces to be heard and four survivors to be visible and validated and providing a space for young women to share their ideas and experiences and create and opportunity to heal and grow from trauma. Youth are capable, but we need a community willing to stand with us in times of need, rather than turning away. The end of the violence starts with us. We urge you to keep your ears open to the voices of youth. To keep your mind open, to learn. To keep your heart open to our experiences. We urge you to stand in solidarity to stand with survivors of violence. [ applause ] thank you carmen and gabby, we have a whole crew here from Community Youth camp center. If you want to wave, i want to invite the Sheriffs Department to talk about the positive reapered of sheriff hennessey, please welcome dahlia [ applause ]. Good afternoon everyone. Again im davila the survivor restoration director for the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and as i look out at all of you, im reminded once again how important it is for our community to come together to support survivors of Domestic Violence. I have had the honor in working in our Sheriffs Department for over 20 years, and proud to be in the position that i am as the director of our program for the survivors. I would just like to take a moment to share how the Sheriffs Department has supported innovative programs for Domestic Violence survivors over the years and continues under our new sheriff Vicki Hennessey to not only provide those same services, but also we have enhanced them. Many of you in the audience, i know, know about our resolve to stop the violence program, our rsvp program that was started in 1997. Yes, its been 20 years. And its still here, going strong. But it was the first Justice Program that specifically worked with male offenders who have violence documented in their criminal history. Particularly Domestic Violence and again, that program is still going strong today. In fact, with our Court Collaborations in 2015 rsvp participants that were in custody for Domestic Violence increased 93 , which was a substantial increase from 2014, which was only 20 . The Sheriffs Department also has our out of custody Community Programs utilizing the Violence Prevention Program man alive, which is used in both our Community Programs and in custody programs. While we do need programs to hold offenders accountable and to give opportunities for them to change their behavior, we need to equally and more so provide services for our survivors of Domestic Violence. The San Francisco Survivor Restoration Program which i have been honored to be with over 20 years, provides services for survivors through their own process of restoration, empowerment and providing opportunities for them to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of all the key components of the program. As we know, as we all know the importance of having Survivor Voices at all of our takes. Tables and we offer with our Sister Community agencies many of whom are here today direct Crisis Services through the Response Program along with our empowerment groups which is under our Survivor Empowerment Program and i would like to give special acknowledgment to my staff here and my team, that together with their fierce advocacy in 2015 as we supported 65 survivors who obtained their visas and six granted political asylum and permanent residency and db survivors graduating from our empowerment program. Our Newest Program in the Sheriffs Department is our survivor in custody program. A Reentry Program that we make contact with incarcerated survivors of Domestic Violence, and provide resources which are traumainformed and culturallyresponsive to the many challenges that they face. These services are also provided for our incarcerated db transwomen, stalk and trafficking victims. I will just end with this quote, one of my favorites from helen keller, that i love and its just simple as to say, alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much. And when i look around with all of the agencies here, and the hard work in changing our systems together we can definitely make a change. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much, dahlia. I just want to acknowledge a couple of staff people who are here, alden from Assembly Member tings office and i want to acknowledge the Family Violence counsel chair Katy Albright who here as well. Next up is the Community Education at las casa delas madras that opened as the first Domestic Violence shelter in the state of california and only the second in the nation. Please welcome cara. [ applause ] im going to put this down, but i was holding the door to shelter. Good evening, its wonderful to be here with all of you standing in support of Domestic Violence survivors. Over 40 years ago we began as a small shelter for battered women in San Francisco and today la casa is still providing Emergency Services to women and children in need through confidential shelter and 24hour crisis line. We also provide counseling, case management, support groups, a teen program and Legal Services at our jobs center on Mission Street four of our advocates work as the only two womenspecific Supportive Housing sites in San Francisco, providing emotional and practical support to over 150 female residents. This partnership is entering its 18th year. La casa also had the opportunity to extend our support services in San Francisco by providing targeted programming to specific populations alongside amazing Community Partners. I would like to highlight four of these programs today first were pard to be pard of zuckerberg San Francisco gener hospital and la casa advocate is onsite to meet with patients that dispose instances of intimate partnership violence to their physician and providing danger and risk assessment, safety planning, grief counseling and resources and referrals. This individual will also provide training on intimate Partner Violence to health care professionals. Second, funded by the department on the status of women, colocated at San Francisco Housing Authority. As many of us know survivor safety challenge is navigating the Public Housing system in San Francisco. We work to ensure they have safe places to life and raise their families. Our advocates at the Housing Authority also educate Property Management and support staff at housing sites across the bay area and to incidents of Domestic Violence onsite. Third, there is say la casa advocate at 850 bryant street and follows up on Police Reports of Domestic Violence to provide the survivor with resources, referrals and support. And finally, as mentioned earlier, in partnership with the department, glide, will have a advocate responding to all Domestic Violence situations. These four programs allow our staff colocated at the hospital, sros, the Housing Authority, hall of justice and bayview to provide advocacy, support, resources and referrals to survivors. Survivors that are navigating complex processes made even more challenging by experiences of trauma. Were proud at la casa to be part of the first line of response to survivors of Domestic Violence and proud to serve as a continued support system to survivors on their path to healing. And of course, were proud to be part of a community of organizations, many of whom are here today, working tirelessly to end Domestic Violence in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] thanks so much, cara. I want to acknowledge the executive director of la casa, kathy black is in the audience and we have another cochair of the council is here and our last speaker is commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson, our newest commissioner who joined us after retiring after a oyear career much of working as mayor lees invaluable aassistant and please women the commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson. Thank you [ applause ]. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for coming to this important event. We gather annually in october to recognize Domestic Violence awareness month, to celebrate how far we have come and to renew our efforts on what we still need to do to end intimate partner velocity. Violence in 2015 the department of Emergency Management received 18917 calls related to Domestic Violence. One in 13 Violent Crimes calls are Family Violence related and in 2015 Domestic Violence was the second most Violent Crime to which the Police Department responds. During that same time our Community Partners received over 21,000 calls to their Domestic Violence hotline, nearly three times as many as 911. This shows the importance of having multifaceted response to Domestic Violence. Many survivors may not want to involve the criminal Justice System and so we must ensure that we open many doors to safety so that different systems can assist survivors of Domestic Violence to be safe. Today we have heard from our health care system, and the wonderful work at the department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital and we heard from our communitybased Service Providers who provide counseling, shelter, Legal Services and advocacy and we heard from our peer educators who provide Intervention Services by working with youth to help teach healthy relationship skills and heard from our colleagues at the Sheriffs Department, who do not just house Domestic Violence offenders, but provide programs to victims and perpetrators of abuse in our jails and of course we heard from our city leaders who help ensure that we fund our public agencies and the commission on the status of women is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year from our earliest years we have focused on responding to Domestic Violence. The First Program we funded was la casa delas mad res. As you heard earlier it was the first Domestic Violence shelter in california and the second in the united states. How amazing is it that we have gone from one 75,000 grant for one program to our now over 6 million in funds to 27 different agencies . But our work is going on. In the past two years there are been four Domestic Violencerelated homicides each year, two out of those four Domestic Violence homicides in 2015 involved guns. We cannot stop our work until no one is killed by an intimate partner. Thank you for joining us. Together we will one day end Domestic Violence. [ applause ] thank you so much olga. I want to acknowledge jeff the head of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, who has joined us. To close our event today, i want to introduce the ensemable that will sing a piece that fits to music a text by the famous africanamerican poet audrey. Please give up for the ana cruces travel ensemble. [ applause ] [ music ] [ applause ] i want to bring up deputy chief of staff for Public Safety Paul Hendrickson for a very special unanticipated special announcement. Paul. Thank you, emily. How is everybody doing this evening . Great [ applause ] im a little disappointed i wasnt asked to sing [laughter ] but i think there is a reason for it. That is okay. I just wanted to thank you guys, all for coming out here tonight. Its really important to do the work that we all do, and there are so many different agencies and individuals out here, representing the work that we do with Family Violence from the Police Department to the District Attorneys Office to the Mayors Office, to the nonprofit agencies, and really it all begins and it ends with community and the fact that you are all here tonight is a big deal. You all saw earlier when the mayor was out here and he was presented with the big letter signed from all of the agencies that are funded through the city services. And whether when we went back into the building he wanted to make sure that i presented to you and you know that letter will be on the display in the Mayors Office in room 200 for the next few weeks and this is something that i havent seen done in past, but he was really touched by the fact that so many of the agencies came together to thank him and thank the city for its collaborative work to end Domestic Violence. So people that will be coming into this beautiful building and into room 200 for the next few weeks will see that letter, that many of you that are here tonight signed. And it will be on display inside the Mayors Office. So thank you all so much for coming and being here. I would encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity that you are here tonight to make sure that you make a record for yourselves. This would be a great thing if you stick around in about oh, i would say about an hour or so, youll see the building lit up in purple to take a picture of that, to take a picture of some of the other speakers and your friends that you saw here tonight with your message and put it on out on your social media messages and facebook and twitter and linkedin accounts to know its end Domestic Violence awareness month. Thank you all for being here tonight. I look forward to working with you through the year with the Mayors Office. [phra ufrplts ]. [ applause ]. I want to thank paul and the Mayors Office and thank the Domestic Violence consortium and my amazing staff, policy director candell who came up with the idea of lighting city hall purple, lets acknowledge her. [ applause ] and i want to thank our policy members for putting together all of these signs. And i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. See you same time next year. Thank you very much. [ applause ] good morning lions whew [ applause ] well this is a great morning. I got to walk and to roll with all of you to the Dianne Feinstein Elementary School and im glad to see the lioness here our vision zero hero [ applause ] she has got the most famous costume for next halloween. [laughter ] i also want to say thank you to all of the elected officials and departments, our police officers, the parents, but most importantly, the kids of Dianne Feinstein thank you for walking with me [ applause ] to our principal, im going to work very hard with all of these people that i stand next to, our transportation experts, from the county and muni. Our rec and park director, our assessorrecorder, our director of walk sf. Were going to work really hard to make sure all of our streets are safe for you to walk to school and from school every single day. That is important to us. I want all of you kids to grow up taller than me [laughter ] that is kind of easy, but we start off with easy things; right . And i really want to say thank you to all of the parents, to the volunteers of this school. Because every single day, somebody is watching out for all of you, and mostly its your parents and i want to say thank to all of them and our School District who is working very closely with all of us, making your streets safer, slowing down traffic, educating everybody who uses the streets. We got to have safer streets and working hard this november, because its electionyear to try to raise a big, big number. How about 100 Million Dollars for better streets . Whew [ applause ] that is a lot of money, so were all going to work together, keep our streets safe, educate each other and make sure you are safe every day. Thank you very much, principal, for working with us. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mayor. Thanks, good morning girls and boys good morning i hope everyone is doing well. Its so nice to see you all today and to be able to walk and roll to school with all of you. Growing up here in the sunset, one of my favorite things when i was growing up was actually walking to school with a lot of my friends and playing with them before school started. You know sometimes school can be long and its not as fun all the time. But at least i tried to have some fun in the morning before i went to class. And so i want you all to try it out if you do walk to school in the morning and see if you feel better throughout the rest of the day and if you have a little bit more energy and experiment with that and see how it goes, okay . To all of the parents, i want to thank you for taking time out of your day to encourage kids to walk to school and well do everything to make it safe for them, not only Elementary School, but throughout their years. Thank you for being here today. Next i would like to introduce our superintendent lee. Good morning, Dianne Feinstein Elementary School lions can we get a roar . Thank you all for showing up to school today and every day. We are so proud of you, all of you lions. And we love you. And we want you to be physically active. We want you to be safe getting to and from school. We want you to come to school with a great, positive frame of mind, ready to learn, ready to be kind to each other, ready to think about your place in the world and in this city. So think about all of the adults that are here, mayor lee, supervisor tang, all of our department heads, you all are going to run this city some day. You are going to be up here 20, 30, 40 years from now, so just imagine your place on this stage at the walk and roll to school 2050, okay . [laughter ] so thank you all for paying attention to how you get to and from school and how you treat each other. At this point, i would like to bring up Manuel Rodriguez one of our fantastic parents at Dianne Feinstein elementary. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor lee and to our elected leaders for visiting our school community. For a long time now i have been rolling to school with diego and paolo and we work outside and hop on our bikes and roll down the hill to get to dianne fein [stpao epb ]. Of feinstein and gives us more time to focus on each other and not so much time to worry about parking and traffic. Walking to School Every Day makes us feel good and helps us breathe the fresh air and get exposed to the environment. So i would encourage all families here to the greatest extent possible, if can you do it, try to walk to school at least once, twice a week, a month, whatever works for you all. Thank you very much. Thank you all for being here. [ applause ] thank you, manuel. Hi im nichole the executive director of walk San Francisco and we along with the San Francisco safe routes to School Partnership put on this event every year. So i want to first thank the San Francisco safe routes to School Partnership partners led by the department of Public Health, who are here with us today. I want to thank other partners within the partnership and thank my team at walk sf for all their hard work, especially josie, and the mta and ywca and the San Francisco bike coalition, sf environment, and especially sfusd and thank our leaders who are here with us today. We have the Police Department, the mayor, we have supervisor tang, the department of transportation leader director reiskin and our superintendent lee and rec and parks director phil ginsberg. Thank you all for being here with us this morning and im probably forgetting a few people, but i especially want to thank the school for hosting us this morning and principal chang and nurse catia has been amazing so lets give a round of applause for the school [ applause ] so as the mayor mentioned for all of you voters and future voters out there, there are some really important measures on the ballot that i want to encourage you to take a look at. Because these will help make our streets safe and those are propositions j and k and make sure you take a look at those before you go to vote. And i also want to encourage all of you to get active, follow manuels advice, try to get out and try walking once this week. If you havent already today. Do it more often, if you already do it sometimes. To try to get out there and move your feet. I want to especially thank you our vision zero hero have you met the vision zero hero . Hi everybody so vision zero hero, what do we want . Safe streets. What do we want them . Now kids can we try that together. What do we want . Safe streets. When do we want them . Now. What do we want in safe streets. When do we want them . Now awesome, i will bring back principal chang and thank you all. [ applause ] thank you so much. I want to reiterate our thanks to all the people who showed up here and support our School Every Day. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own thats thank you all for coming from to the disaster counsel. We have a packed agenda and ill try to get you out of here in an hour [inaudible]. We do have a chance at the end to have a roundtable soap if people have announcements they want to make [inaudible] and [inaudible] thank you, and i want to thaner