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Iener campos good morning. This is the regularly scheduled audit and oversight committee. We are joined today by committee clerk, erika major. Id like to thank jim smith and jonathan gumwalk from sf gov tv. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Please make sure to silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items [inaudible] unless otherwise stated. Before we move on we are going to need a take a 20 minute recess. We will be tabling item number two and ...

Heights play ground. I would like to introduce you to Barbara Williams and karen lacoi which she has the Merced Heights playground family. Okay. Thats also been helping. We strongly endorse this project for the following reasons. The 2010 census reported there was an increase of over 10,000 in population in 941 three two causing a shift in the district and district 11 from ocean avenue all the way over to holloway and i am sure commissioner mcdonnell worked on that project and how the community ...

With that playground that it did have cca wood. However t was removed because it was dangerous several years ago. There is no rem nance of this park left so playground structure rather so there was nothing to grade so for many years some of us kept the banner going to say even though you have a failing grade you have park playgrounds that were eliminated and removed and those need to be considered too, so we considered those and incomplete perhaps but nevertheless the task force kept it for cons...

Shelter, so if they encounter an individual that has a language other than spanish and chinese then they can reach out to the department and ask for Interpretation Services to work with the clients. They do that often. On the single adult side in some cases the clients are only there one night or up to 90 days with a 30 day extension so they could be actually there for 120 days. If a client is seeking services because they cannot speak to the staff in their language the staff at the shelter can ...

On the phones. Have to wait for the sergeant to come with the phone so they can call the Language Line. Now every officer has the phone so they are using it, which is what we want. And the phone has google language on the phone so they can figure out who they need to talk to the person to. None of us have to talk to each other any more face to face. My take away. I guess the push one thing i would stress is if theres a way to increase the number of direct bilingual officer interactions, i dont k...

Runs out of tokens . Well, i think in this report it just referred to United Council not having tokens on site. The other shelters do have tokens on site and theyre given out monthly at the shelter directors meeting so it was just one reference in this report six months ago that United Council didnt have tokens. And giving the tokens at the beginning or once a month but by the end of that month do they still have adequate tokens . Yes, they have them available or if they need more they can alway...

Contact those officers by using dem or contacting dem directly and finding out who is available that has that skill set. As i look at it, it looks like theres a decrease in the number of sort of bilingual officer contacts. In 2013 it looks like there were more sort of face to face interactions between a bilingual officer and a client. In 2014 the vast majority of the contacts were through the phone interpreters, about 2700 out of the 2954, right . So there was an increased use of the phone lines...

Iacp international chief of police was asking for an article on the steps that we took to develop this policy and she asked if i would step forward and be do it, i said sure, thinking, you know, ill do a couple paragraphs on it. Then after i committed she said yeah, its got to be about 2,000 words and i said, oh, i feel like im back in college. Anyway, i worked really hard on it, had some help from some people in our department and just described the collaborative effort where it started back in...

Were getting 4,000 in the Community Just on violence against women you guys are getting probably more and just anything we can do to Work Together to collect those stats, i know dem has put a lot in place to help that and also i think thats bilingual officer contacts, we need a way to really capture those. Im a little bit concerned just as one of the commissioners was that this is a little bit heavy on Language Line and i think its easier to track. So i think theres an opportunity to get a clear...

Thank you for having the space here tonight for us to talk. Thank you for all your hard work on dgo 7. 04 and thank you so much for taking the time to include youth voices in this process. Project what is really excited and really grateful to know that the chief is designing officer trainings on trauma and its effect on children. We feel that this is a really important opportunity to continue to include youth voices and to include the impact on children when their parents are being incarcerated....