we have been dealing with hot spots, transfer points that are like 16, twenty fourth street, a geneva, fillmore, chestnut, we have been dealing with 4th and gary, masonic and gary. we are currently riding the 22, the 31, the 6th, and f line when time prevails. we're trying to get a handle on working together with the school. this is our sixth year in working with the school district. we started a relationship with them in 2004, we began working

on a variety of different things including truancy. we will be at the schools this coming year. we will be there to work with the staff as well as the unit assigned to muni. i forgot everybody is not familiar with those phrases. i am available to answer whatever questions. we also work with the kids on treasure island. that is the responsibility of san francisco to provide transportation to the island and to its residents. we have a number of issues out there, and we have a great work relationship with the director that has worked with us. now that the terminal is going

to be close, we're going to be working to get those people over there. as you may not be aware, the 108 is the only line of transportation that is provided by the city. they have one line that transports the people there back-and-forth. we have a number of students from the treasure island that are attending the school district here. they come home in the morning and they get their education. when school is finished, they are back on the bus which is usually a transfer, and then they go over to treasure island.

supervisor dufty: commissioner kim:. -- commissioner kim. commissioner kim: i am looking at a survey that the use commission provided. it says here that 40% of students are most likely to report violence and harassment from other youth. we met yesterday, at and he started to mention -- and you started to mention that some of the lines that you also write. do you ride the buses? >> we monitor the terminal line at the east bay terminal. if the staff is available and we have time, we ride over on the 1 08. we also have surveillance cameras that have been brought up to par.

if there is something going on, we're able to pull up the camera and meet with the staff. that is the other part of the residents that live on that island that is made of halfway houses and people returning back to the system. we do work -- we rely on the southern station to work with us to follow buses when there is a big problem or we noticed a fluctuation of kids going over and doing whatever they're doing. it was captain o'leary, that might have changed. i know we have been working down there, and deputy chief murphy has done enforcement which has been a big help to us in the

school district as well as around the school routes. we seemed to have gotten the full cooperation from all the stations. >> i hear a lot of students say they get harassed on the bus. i'm not sure if the videos catch a lot of that. it is not necessarily a crime, but bullying and harassment. to try to manage that, there is a program where young adults used to ride the buses and provide a level of supervision and conflict mediation. do we have fought every introducing programs like that? >> i wish we could afford the luxury of having enough staff to be able to ride those coaches. we don't. we have allocated at a couple of staff members to working at the terminal.

we also have the task of writing -- riding the t-line. if time is available, we will go ahead and write the 108. most of the time rely on video surveillance and the seven stations. those are the number of officers assigned to treasure island. once we have identified the perpetrator, we work to bring closure. they have a standard policy, and they will not tolerate any type of behavior that is destructive -- destructive -- disruptive to muni riders or those on treasure island. we are not able to have staff

that ride it. terminal monitoring is a full- time job. we have all kinds of stuff going on, smoking , drinking, eating, dropping stuff. -- smoking in line, drinking, eating, dropping stuff. there are people living on that island and we don't think that they should have to bear that kind of attitude. we monitor the line to make sure everybody is on those buses at the time they stood in line. >> that is good to hear. what can we do to partner with these programs to have their young adults riding with the buses? happily partner with the community response network to kind of bring folks together

around the city. there are a lot of leadership programs that are slightly older. how do we work with them? it was a partnership. >> we had the guardian angels right it one time on their own. this is a certain element that we must be very careful about. they have rules and regulations, and everybody has to follow them, including us. when you have people that are wanted through their own thing, so to speak. muni is going to be careful. we don't want to be sued. you heard deputy chief murphy talking about cross boundary issues, and if this kind of issue happens, we're going to have a problem. the mtap people go through

training, a long background check with the police department, and until you can get everybody on board, it is a little risky to ask another group that hasn't been familiar to take on that task. i would like to say that is open for everybody, but it is not. we're very particular about the group at the schools. we require everybody to check in with the school, check in with the officers, and we're all working on the same level. if people not want to do that, i have to say honestly to you, i don't feel comfortable working around them. he said policies and guidelines for reason. we don't want to just anybody running around a school. saying that they work for muni.

>> but we need to figure out how to get around some of these obstacles. if we know that the students don't feel safe going back and forth to school, we have to figure out a way to address this. i don't say that we work with everybody, but we figure out the cooperations we can have to get past it. what can we do to get past the no-answer? a lot of the youth talk about having mentors and adults riding the buses with them to help them feel safer. how can we

>> there are basically 1000 vehicles a day on the street. there are 733,000 riders.

for instance, a central station will send me what they're doing in a plainclothes capacity, in a uniform capacity, whether they're running robbery or graffiti, the plans for their individual districts. the police are on the lines and is pretty evident that police are on the lines by the trend we're seeing, the downward trend of violence. i am going to continue it. we also have the inspectors as a group of 46 or 47 additional eyes and ears that do the proof of payment enforcement. they are also focusing on the most problematic lines. i think things have changed. i know that things have changed in the last seven or eight months. i think this next school year,

the kids are definitely going to feel safer on the buses. commissioner kim: that is great here. if we have a lot of lines that are particularly -- >> is the 14, the 38, the 49, and the tl. we have it all broken-down, and it will be between 2:00 in the afternoon until 8:00 at night. those are the peak hours after school. i am looking at the overall scope. 3:00 to 6:00, when you look at each individual station, definitely for central, in the stations that have a high concentration of schools, definitely.

commissioner kim: we all gather data. it is good to bring an overlay to have this survey were the greatest number of students reporting issues are in those neighborhoods and having information from sfpd and muni is really helpful. we all have resources about how we can best work together to address the issue. i hear about it so much from students, the safety back-and- forth. >> i think the other part of it is that the task force team has made many arrests, and that being said, the individuals riding the buses, they don't know who a police officer is.

our perceived presence has gone up exponentially. >> i am interested in figuring out what we can do to have -- i don't want to criminalize bullying, for example. i was interested in this idea of having an adult or adults in general -- young adults or adults in general that does not have to derive from that level of enforcement. >> is zero tolerance means that somebody gets the rest of the time. the zero tolerance means that you address it. don't do that, you got it? we don't cite them every time, but we tell them that you can't stand there and drink the beer. what we started today, we're

definitely on the right foot. they basically put their cards on the table and said, who can we send where? it is not exactly redistributed, but certain kids can go to that school. they may not have the program for that child so they have to go to this school. i get that. it is important that we get that part of it straight. supervisor dufty: briefly -- >> the youth themselves produced a dvd about keeping themselves safe. i think that is something that is going to be coming out to raise awareness of that is going to go a long way.

supervisor dufty: i want to welcome the commissioners who are joined by the program and policy coordinator to make a presentation. >> i am yasmine, i go to balboa, and i am 16. >> i currently go to notre dame univsersity. >> i graduated class of '09, and now i attend sf state. >> can you guys put our power point on the screen please?

>> unfortunately, none of us know how to do it. there it is. >> this power point is pretty much -- we made it ourselves, commissioners. it is our solution to distribution of the youth pass lifeline. you might be wondering, what is the fast pass? it would cost $10 a month, and its purpose is to be given to students who qualify. -why create the fast pass? it would be for the students to have affordable muni access.

there are a few main reasons why. >> the first reason why, as you can see on the pie chart, the unified students are strongly dependent on muni. about 70% of the school district students take muni. it is very important for them to have a mode of transportation. the second one is the rising cost of muni. in may, 2009, it was $10. a year later, we see that price double. it is important to have affordable access. the last reason is the high proportion of low income students.

54% of the san francisco students qualify for free or reduced lunch. it is over half of the student body. >> we began the youth lifeline fast pass in february 2010. it was adopted by the youth commission in that your area. it was adopted by the board of supervisors in april followed by the education -- the board of education. since then, the mta has budgeted $1.4 million for this. that money will go to 12,000 youth passes each month. the support services will have the full responsibility for distributing these passes.

>> the basic plan would be for mta to give us 12,000 fast passes every month, and support services will be in charge of selling the fast passes to the students for them to pay and money which makes more sense. they pay to get their food, tickets, everything. >> the youth commission suggests that we take the most simple approach to this. we think that the simpler it is to buy the fast passes, the more likely students will buy them. here is what we suggest. the only requirement for students to get there fast passes would be to show the free or reduced lunch card or pen

number. -- pin number. as yasmine mentioned, that is what students are used to. it would be $10 in exchange for a fast pass. >> some questions that we had were that we want to partner with the sfusd in the distribution plan. the simpler will make the process, the more that students will buy it. for example, i have here -- awesome. ok. cool. here is what the sfusd drafted for students to fill out. one thing i saw off the bat that was complicated, there isn't anything that says what is the

fast pass. so i made my own. the youth-friendly version is this. it says what it is and a bunch of other stuff on one page instead of all of that. so we just want to ask them what the application process will be. we want to be fair and kind of make sure that they know what they are trying to sign up for and have the proper information. >> another concern we had is the manner in which we prioritize which students receive the fast passes, and which schools?

this year, there are only 12,000. there are over 30,000 low-income students that qualify for free or reduced lunches. >> another question, they used to be sold at the schools. could it not be replicated? >> when i attended the middle school in maybe 2004, i remembered that a secretary used to sell fast passes and i would go each month and pay $10 or whatever it was. it mysteriously stopped and i never knew why. it has been done before and we

should do it again. we also want to see if there is a possibility of existing school sites and advisory councils, pierre resources. -- peer resources. we want them to partner also with us to make sure the students know that the fast pass exists. >> in the last couple of points here, we want this to be available to all schools under the school district including charter schools. we want the program to be something that, again, is going back to the idea of free and reduced lunches to provide a fast pass at an affordable rate. and lastly, students need to

know about this. we need a way that we can advertise and sort of thing out of the box when it comes to the out reach for the program. this is something that is important, going back to the idea of affordable muni passes and access for the most vulnerable youth. >> they use commission looks forward to consulting with the services to make the plan successful. we thank you for taking the time to consider this issue. it can completely be a huge success. i would personally like to take -- it can really work. thank you. supervisor dufty: commissioner kim? commissioner kim: i don't know

if you can put that back on the screen. we did not get copies of them. i am curious, are we distributing them in our charter schools as well? >> i did not hear? [inaudible] commissioner kim: do we sell fast passes at school? that is new information to me. >> i have not verified that. we can get more information about that, how it was done through schools. it can be very valuable. commissioner kim: one of the challenges is the amount of work " we're and end -- we're handing to our school counselors.

which middle school were you at? >> it was seventh grade, a little while ago. commissioner kim: we do want to work with these commissions in advertising the lifeline passes. you can do better out -- then we can -- outreach than we can. you can create fires for the schools and the commissioners can be spokespeople. i think the word will spread faster through you than for us. you brought up a couple of points, but i don't remember them. the you have the questions? -- do you have the questions? [inaudible] >> it's on the thing. there it is.

commissioner kim: the other issue that i talked about with mario is that we may be able to do some psa's on muni lnes, -- lines, advertising the fast passes. i think the last issue was the priorities. i don't know if you want to go over how we make fast passes for students. >> it is still being finalized. homeless and transitional age youth. and then it's open to all students. one other issue that this does raise up is that we have not prioritized between secondary and elementary. we think both of those groups are deserving of this. one big issue for this