supervisor mirkarimi: this it excites you, sure, why not? good morning. welcome to the san francisco

board of supervisors. i am joined by a supervisor campos. supervisor cohen will not be joining us today. we will entertain a motion to excuse her. supervisor campos: so moved. supervisor mirkarimi: the motion passes. thank you to sfgtv for their ongoing service. madam clerk, please read item one. >> item 1, ordinance amendment the san francisco police code section 107 1.1 to prohibit public nudity in restaurants and prohibit sitting on public benches or public seating areas without clothing or some other separate material between persons genitals, but talks, or tail region and the seating surface. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor wiener brought this matter to the board. supervisor wiener: thank you for hearing this today.

this is a piece of legislation that would address two very discreet issues, specifically requiring clothing for persons who are inside restaurants and requiring that of someone is in public and sitting on public seating, that the person has to place something down to sit on instead of sitting directly on the public seating -- if someone is nude in public. we have, specifically in the castro, a number of people who are regularly -- regularly nude in the neighborhood. there are a lot of opinions on the issue, and that is a conversation that i am sure we will continue to have in the city. the legislation addresses two very specific issues that are issues in the castro, possibly

elsewhere, but primarily this one neighborhood that i represent. if there are any comments -- supervisor mirkarimi: no, but there probably are a preponderance of jokes and clips we can make. supervisor wiener: they have all been made, but if there are any new ones, i would be glad to hear them. supervisor mirkarimi: in response to the naked ordinance, we have a naked audience, too, i think it may have peaked -- climaxed to the point where -- [laughter] thank you. supervisor wiener: i guess, maybe we should open up for public comment? are there any members of the public who would like to comment? supervisor mirkarimi: please step forward. >> good morning.

i am the executive director for the castro copper market community benefit district, although right now, i am speaking on my own. the benefit district has not taken a position on this exact piece of legislation, although we are discussing public nudity internally. i would like to say that i support this legislation and that i do think it is needed. there have been many occasions where i have personally observed people sitting on the chairs that the cbd has bought without a separation between their naked bodies and the chair, and people have to go right after them and sit down. i think that since the legislation was introduced, people have been joking and saying it is only a matter of public decency, and it is, but they were not doing it before. the idea of this legislation was introduced. the other thing i would like to

say is that i also have seen people in cafes, restaurants with no clothes on completely naked and believe that it is an important piece of legislation for san francisco to outlaw nudity in restaurants and places where people eat. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? step right on up, please. >> are also believe in this legislation as well. -- i also believe in this legislation. it has not been a problem that i remember in the castro until there were the parades'. just sit down on a public share or bench, something needs to be done in order to stop it. i do not like that the kids see this, and people in general just do not want to be exposed. there is a time and place to do this.

also seeing that there was actually an investigation where there was a sexual pedophile -- i do not want to say pedophile, but a sexual offender was roaming around. i do not want to encourage this for them to come around and the naked in front of kids, people who do not want to see that. there is a time and place, so i also hope that this will pass. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, supervisor wiener for facilitating this. i believe it speaks for itself. we would like to entertain a motion. supervisor campos: forward with recommendations. -- moved to forward with recommendation. supervisor mirkarimi: so move. no objection. madam clerk, would you please read item two? >> item two, resolution

authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $550,552 from the department of homeland security, 2010 port security grant program for ferry building and ferry terminal mass notification system improvements at the port of san francisco. supervisor mirkarimi: welcome. >> good morning. i am the program manager at the port of san francisco. you're sorry you did tell you a little bit about the mass notification system. we have found that there is not an effective means to communicate to the public in the offense of a disaster -- in the event of a disaster. after the earthquake in 1989, over 300,000 people assembled at the ferry plaza, and there was no means for us to communicate with them how transportation would be handled, what bridges were open or shut, and how there is would be operating. this is a 2010 ford security

grant program grant. there are no matching funds. -- this is a 2010 port security grant program grant. the system will have multiple language monitors and an announcement capability throughout the ferry terminal plaza. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. any comments or questions? seeing none, thank you. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. we are almost there. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: i make a motion to move forward with positive recommendation. supervisor mirkarimi: move forward without objection. i shall look to the full board. is there any other business before this body? >> no, this is not. supervisor mirkarimi: this is probably one of the quickest

meetings in the history of public safety. thank you, everybody. this meeting is now adjourned.

>> good morning. welcome to the grand opening of the san francisco police department's special victims unit. i am the commanding officer of the new svu. i would like to take a couple moments to briefly acknowledged our honorable mayor ed lee, chief greg suhr and command staff, commissioner azuko, and commissioner chan as well. thank you for joining us. i know how busy your schedules are. i believe district attorney gascon is going to be here any moment. i wanted to take a moment to acknowledge our professional partners.

child protective services, adult protective services, the child abuse prevention center, the mayor's office into violence consortium, -- anti-silence consortium -- anti-violence consortium, and casa de las madres. with that, chief greg suhr. [applause] >> welcome. i really appreciate everyone being here. in my administration, we do not do a lot of press conferences, but this is really important. october is domestic violence awareness month. it was a major priority of mine and the mayor's to make an

impression that we have to take care of our most vulnerable. we will open one is to be the special victims unit in the san francisco police department for the first time where we consolidate the domestic violence units, a juvenile, human trafficking, missing persons, elder abuse and neglect, financial abuse, and sex crimes into one unit. over the next few years, we will go through a huge transition in the police department. some of our most experienced officers will be retiring. we want to make sure we do not lose their expertise and their ability to work with the advocates to make the most successful prosecutions possible for those who would victimize our most vulnerable. often the victims come with children.

we wanted to have a warm space that was secure. i think when you find your way inside, you will find that is the case. a lot of these officers will pick up the expertise from each other where maybe they did not have it before. if there is a day when we are short, they will bring this additional ability to connect with the victims. the advocates will also be providing services and support. i like to think they do it in no other city like they do in san francisco. working with partner agencies is key to this. this is a cooperative effort that happens to be located inside the police department. i want you to take special note that we have a children's play area to keep them occupied,

safe, and warm. we have books in chinese that were provided by a community member. we have books in spanish that are on the way. we want to make this a place for everybody. i will not go on and on. i really want to get to what is important. that is to get inside. i will pass the microphone i cai appreciate his support in pulling this off. it took a lot of change and collaboration of the police department. they moved their space, they work on their time off. they worked with me and the command staff to get this done. i think when you go inside, their hearts are in the right place. this is the deputy chief. >> good morning.

fiona mah appreciates the invitation and appreciates the effort to better serve victims of crime in san francisco. as the chair of the select committee on domestic violence, she has been a tireless advocate for victims and survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. she is unable to join us as she is chairing a select committee hearing. >> thank you. thank you for being here. we have a special victims unit. it has been a culmination of a lot of discussions. i want to thank chief suhr. we said we would have to do more and do better with less.

with those ideas in mind in knowing we have a dwindling force but increased amount of demand from our communities, we needed to do smarter things. it makes so much sense that this innovative idea of bringing the various investigative units together in the same space and under the same command can make the offer is even more resources put together. i want to thank the community- based advocates for their willingness to bring resources to work with our law enforcement. this effort is also a reflection of the commitment from our police commission. i want to thank each and every one of them and their leadership in working with the community and our police chief. it means so much to bring more and better resources and enforcement of our laws right to

where the victims need it. this is a special time. we have the most vulnerable parts of our population, women, children, and elderly, who can get better service here in a culturally competent way. i am proud to be the mayor of the city who knows how to do it better. for the state of california, our elderly population is the highest level in the whole state. bringing more resources to the victims who may be financial victims, victims of abuse, as well as recognizing this being domestic violence awareness month, that we will do better with this coordinated effort. i am excited to see this unit come to fruition. i thank the chief for making sure we reorganize properly with the future in mind. i am glad to begin the ribbon

cutting and allow everyone to see what we have done and for the committee to know that we're working hard to increase -- for the community to know that we're working hard to increase the resources for them. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. we have the president of the police commission. >> it is great to see the collaboration between the commission, the mayor's office, the police department, the district attorney's office. it will increase the expertise our officers have. it will streamline the process in terms of managing the units. we're looking at losing a lot of officers to retirement. this is an excellent idea to train them in new areas. we owe it to the precious crown

jewels of our city. this is a great place for children to come and a great place for women to feel comfortable. i know the most domestic violence cases, the victims may decide not to cooperate. the results are sometimes tragic. i want to thank the mayor and police department for taking a big step in leading the state and country and how we handle these issues. thank you. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge our new officers in charge that are assigned to this unit. lt. jane, lt. foxx, and lt. scallini. i also want to acknowledge the

dedication and ongoing hard work that the investigators assigned to the different disciplines that will be culminated here. they have the logistical move and continued to work on their cases as we were moving forward with these -- this. they still had to work on their cases in debt outstanding job during this difficult time. along with that, i wanted to say thank you again to the mayor and chief for making this happen for us. it was a long time overdue. we're very excited. chief? >> channel 26 is really taking a beating. [laughter] i am going to forgo the honor of cutting the ribbon. i will ask commander sandra

tong who conceived of and was the first commanding officer of one of the first domestic violence sections in any police department in california to do the honors with mayor lee with these not so classroom-safe scissors. we will have you come forward and do the honors. [applause]

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 a