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adopting nondiscrimination standards city and countywide that would prohibit discrimination against any people who have a past criminal history. and that would protect people in employment and housing county and state wide. just wanted to encourage the board of supervisors to support that. supervisor cohen: is this the same as the human rights commission? >> yeah. thank you. chairman mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. james patrick carroll, democratic candid...

goals or visions we are setting. i just read an email by the chief executive officer of naacp. [tone] who contends that in this nation we have this disproportion at number of african-americans, particularly -- reverend, let me ask a question so you can keep going, please. tell me about more of the disproportionate representation of african-americans. >> disproportion at number nationally. about 12% of the population. but at the adult level were about 45% to 55%. of incarceration. depen...

and i encourage you to share those models with other counties. because were seeing a lot of threats of other counties expanding their jail capacity instead of actually supporting people to be successful in the community and stay in the community as opposed to increasing peoples times in the jails. and then curb, a lot of the work were doing is also on the state level. and a lot of the pushback were hearing from legislators from the governors office and from the cdcr is that theres no p...

discrimination standards. >> one of the conversations thats happening right now in san francisco county is around adopting nondiscrimination standards city and countywide that would prohibit discrimination against any people who have a past criminal history. and that would protect people in employment and housing county and state wide. just wanted to encourage the board of supervisors to support that. supervisor cohen: is this the same as the human rights commission? >> yeah. thank you...

districts. i believe that these are effective ways to gain traction on these issues. i also hope to see more involvement from the sheriffs department. i think that inputting the sheriff in place of the police department where we have issues with rebuilding trust is an important change. one of these places where we see that is an important shift, i anticipate, getting deputy sheriffs to do the booking rather than the police department. thank you for your time. chairman mirkarimi: thank ...

harmful way, if we are required to make cuts, to try to effect those reductions in services. id be happy to answer questions you have as we go forward. obviously our priority is to protect the health of all san franciscans. thats our mission. were working hard to finish the rebuild of san francisco general hospital, which thanks to all of the voters who supported our bond measure. we recently moved into a brand-new facility at laguna honda, state-of-the-art facility, thanks to the supp...

the second half was tougher. that really did eat into services. were very grateful today that some of those services have already been restored, the nutrition services for seniors. our target is to preserve and protect the core services, food, jobs, income security, housing, and basic services to seniors and the disabled. denise, do you want to -- >> good afternoon. my name is denise chung. im with the office on the aging. we provide services to seniors and adults with disabilities. we...

aside from that the other issue as it relates to the budget, we talk about it every day at central station, how can we help the situation with its budget situation, because its really our situation. were all in this together, so as much as the unions working with the city, i know the police officers, certainly the sentiment at central station is how can we help. so stay tuned. thank you. >> good afternoon. im over at the housing authority. thank you for all for having me here. ill prob...

out there to protect other officers, to do proactive police work, for sufficient officers to respond as backup, so to speak. one of our biggest priorities at central station is maintain foot patrols. its one of the things that remains a priority in these challenging fiscal times to maintain foot patrols. aside from that the other issue as it relates to the budget, we talk about it every day at central station, how can we help the situation with its budget situation, because its really ...

policy set forth in the capital plan. i have mostly been talking about street repaving, and that is where the majority of the funds in the proposed bond measure will go, about $148 million. but we will also be spending $22 million on sidewalk excess ability improvements, which include 1900 new curb ramps citywide, 125,000 square feet of new sidewalk that is the responsibility of the city. these are sidewalks that front public property or have been damaged by the citys street trees. we ...