council member parsons: are we ready? great. let's -- we've invited a new council member, wendy james, to read our introduction today. >> welcome, everyone to the mayor's disability council, today is friday, october 15, 2010. from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. will be our meeting at city hall, room 400. >> control room, there's no captioning.

>> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we

can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we

used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

>> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of city school districts's. i'm the chair of the committee joined by fellow supervisor chris damey. our scol board members here with us are commissioner kim and fewer and mendoza. i want to acknowledge and thank our clerk who is here clerking for us and acknowledge that the great folks at sfgtv are making

it possible for the people of san francisco to see their city government at work. and could we call our first item. >> item number one, hearing to consider how we are addressing the needs of students who are being served in the wm system and the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. and i want to acknowledge that crisis here as always to represent the school district. today we are continuing our hearings on looking at how various city agencies are addressing the needs of students who are being served by multiple systems within the san francisco unified school district and the city and county of san francisco. we will focus how we partner with the juvenile probation department to make sure our youngsters remain on the right track and adequate support between ours schools and city departments to succeed. i have acknowledged our clerk and chris. today we are joined by the

department of youth, children and families, jim, who is a san francisco unified county schools, claudia from san francisco unified school district, support services and probation chief, bill, the director of our juvenile probation department. our goals are to look at the operational logistical partnerships between the school district, juvenile probation and children, youth and families to ensure we don't lose students between these systems and make sure we are managing and supporting them towards susan looking at the current partnership, are we in a state where it is more reactive and already looking at young people who have to get in trouble in the justice system or are there ways to be more proactive to ensure we are engaging those young people who are at risk. so with that, i think i will

start and invite di and n and from d.c.y.f. to start us off here. >> thank you and good afternoon board of supervisors, members. i would like to start off with saying that we provide many different opportunities and partnerships to be able to address the needs of at-risk youth. this question, we thought it was so broad that we narrow it to a couple of examples that we support in coalition with a couple of city departments. and i would like to start off were stating in 2008, we -- as the department of children, youth and families, department of public health decided to merge our funding streams to better support some of the c.b.o.'s, the strategies to