me other than walking or taking the muni for to the funds to take a taxi, so if there is an emergency or an attack, that is what we do. we know you have supported many things that the community cares about. we're also concerned sometimes about some of the choices that are made about funding, so do the right thing today in and help us with the fast pest. -- fast pass. thank you, and good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i am with a collaborative. the young people spoke so eloquently about how important the transportation is for their

needs and how much time they spend on their every single day to make a better life for themselves, so what i am going to touch about is how great the city we live in, a look we are to live in a city like san francisco the operas in so many -- that offers so many opportunities it. a lot of our families, i would say 100% in some areas, do not have cars, so public transportation is the only way to go to the academy of science, to spend the day at ocean beach, where to go for a walk in golden gate park. this is, for us, a key issue, because we're able to provide that great city that we all fought so hard to maintain for the young people and the next generation when we provide these. it is not just access for school

and bettering their opportunities and attendance, all very, very important things. some items were touched on, safety and security issues, but we're building a city for the young people, and we need to make that accessible to them, and that is really, really important, and therefore, we think you for your support.going forward. thank you. 2 supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is -- i am a member of the parent advisory council. i am also the member of another group. i am here to support free transportation for students. education is a right, and getting to school should be, as well. there is an issue of safety, but each time a child does not show

up due to lack of money, the school district loses so much money. multiplied that by so many students each day, and this should be the incentive to provide free transportation to all of our students in san francisco. san francisco is one of the biggest city in the united states. i am asking you to please be the voice of our children. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the member of a group, and i am here to support this. i have three children who go to school, and this resolution will really help my family in order to go to school and to the kids doctor's appointments without me having to worry about how to get there. i am looking for a job right now, so this would really help my family. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is angela irca. i am here to speak on behalf of

the three a hundred families that we help each month to get a pass from the school district. this resolution would help the families that are getting these but also the ones that are not able to. right now, the free bus passes -- the number to supplier families are limited, and some have to double up. when you're talking about some families who are not able to access that program who live south of market, so we hope that this resolution moves forward. it will really help the families not only get their children to school, but there are so many aspects of using the muni, and they would not have to worry about getting their families to other parts of their daily

lives. we hope this means forward. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> i am with the youth commission. we are here to ask this to go forward and hope to the calendar tomorrow for the full board meeting. we hope that this committee and the full board tomorrow and i do the presentation from staff, it was really encouraging. we want to show the young people some love. not just the board but in part for city staff for various departments and the school district about why the commission has been advocating for this for over a year. the initial resolution that the commission adopted actually happens february 1, 2010. last year, asking about delays, and our steadfast commitment to

the fast pass, charging the board of supervisors and the mayor on behalf of our young people. this makes manifest the need for affordable fussed passes. in the 2008-2009 school year, west and 60,000 schoolchildren qualified for the reduced free lunch. there was the great recession of 2008 that has definitely subsided. public agencies like the m.t.a. are going to be facing projected budget deficits in the years to come. families are facing the same thing going forward in the years to come.

the numbers will go up. it will be higher. it is also worth noting, some of the young commissioners, some of the public comment by organizers from other community, organizers, there is a demonstrative need from young people who go to parochial schools. proportionally, more go to these types of schools. proportionally. this is not to say the all of these people are sitting pretty, so, perhaps, going for, there will be a way for the city to partner to make that happen. but i think it is worth mentioning that in a survey we conducted of over 40 hundred 50 public high school students, the vast majority of them procure all high-school students, more selective cheaper buses and trains. they would like to improve muni

other than the other options they were presented with. i would like to thank the office of supervisor camps, -- campos, is deaf, and others. we have worked really hard to make this happen, and we really hope that, in fact, on april 1, they will get a fast passes. please go ahead and urge the mta board to show the low-income young people some love. thank you. happy valentine's day. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is lorielle, and i am also a member of power. i am here to ask of the resolution but. it is something we can do in

april. " 12,000 kids. everything else that they have to do because they do not have the money to afford the cust -- pass. what it means to be young people who do not have 75 cents to pay the bus. you know what is going to happen, right? $75 from your family because you do not hunt of 75 cents. they want their friends to come to the library, but they don't have 75 cents.

i am hungry, and maybe i have to pay this, it and i do not have 75 cents, even the small amount of money. that would be my fair -- fare. they have this feeling many, many days of their life. they live in a city with nice views, but i don't have 7 5 cents to be there. and i like to be in a place that is free, and there is supposed to be access for me, but i again do not of 75 cents.

thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. thank you for transmitting for all of the spokes. >> sure. >> hi. i am a organizer for power. first, i want to thank you for providing us for -- with this space today. we really want you to pass this resolution to provide more fussed passes -- more fast passes. it reminded me of how difficult it is for you to not only get to school, but it was mentioned about the fear that they have and experiences. a lot of them that have friends that have been ticketed, not once, but many times, and they have to avoid muni cops to get

to school. "hopefully next time they will not catch me." it is really sad. having to do with these officers just trying to get to school. this is part of the reason we are fighting this campaign. we're working on a campaign to really focus on this and the increased enforcement that was happening on the public transit system, so a lot of our youth, as i mentioned, were not able to come today. they are just trying to get to school, but it is also an issue of criminalizing our youth, and i was told about different treatment on different bus lines. where do the buses go? they go to the fillmore and the intermission. some people get tickets, but they never get taken off, right? it is not just the financial

burden but the treatments, the different treatments, in the way people are treated, so i just wanted to highlight that and think before hearing us, and i just encourage you to pass the resolution. banks. 2 -- thanks. aysupervisor alioto-pier: -- supervisor mar: any other members of the public wish to speak? again, i went to thank you. to the many parents and children who have come out and spoken today, and in particular, to the organizations that have been organizing around this, the amazing work of the youth commission, and then cbo's, like power, thank you all.

mr. chairman? supervisor avalos: ok. thank you, supervisor campos, and i want to thank all of the members of the public who came out today, the young people and their parents. i was particularly impressed with the leadership shown today by young people, and it makes me feel we good about this, and i hope we can create a san francisco where you can continue to live your lives here in this city, and i think a resolution like this and moving towards making muni accessible fully for all low-income young people and all young people and the school systems is part of the process of making san francisco more local it. like you have done today, -- more livable.

how much of the city is represented here, chinatown, mission, all of the high schools across the city represented here today, and that just speaks highly of the work you have done in coordinating the efforts through the youth commission and working with the school system and with departments like mta and d.c. why of -- and dcyf, so i want to thank you for working to improve the lives of your peers and future generations. supervisor mar: chair avalos, i want to acknowledge the work done by supervisor campos, but i want to say for them to make further demands for freed me passes for all youth, and i

think a good point was made about the next generation having full access with public transit for the whole city for everything that those of more affluent backgrounds have, so it is about equity, and it or them -- i encourage you to keep working on this. other groups should really hear about the organizing you are doing, multiracial, a cross- class lines. this issue be -- congratulations to the great co-organizing for all the organizations that were here, as well. supervisor campos: i also want to thank my legislative aide, sheila, who is in the audience for all of the work done on this. thank you for making all of this happen and for putting this together. it is greatly appreciated.

thank you. supervisor avalos: very good. we have this before us. we can motion to move forward without objection, and it will be with the committee report, so we are taken the vote, and when i gavel down, we will pass this resolution. [applause] madam clerk, do we have any more items before us? clerk: no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned.

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>> hello. 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i

encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they

target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many

visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little

more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time.

how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b.

we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working

through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to

increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiti