the public and for commissioner maufas and commissioner yee who were not there. is we have to make some choices here. we've got to say what things are we going to continue to collect the same data on because it was so much. we needed -- this was baseline data on a huge number of questions. all the information, it's interesting and compeling to people and we all express that we would like to continue doing everything. and then also it was -- we were told that, first of all, if you remember we had grant funding for research related to an assignment policy. second, the huge amount of staff work was basically done on people's own time that's all of sthrem the same jobs. these the same people who are doing the -- actually serving our parentses in the educational placement center and in the weekends and the

evenings they were creating these maps an chars and we can't do that. we can't impose on them in the same way. it's when they don't have the research component. we have to decide what we want. it has to be more manageable. and then we have to figure out what resources it would take to do that. >> if it's any consolation to you, commissioner wynns, i've been here a lot of saturday. i just want to tell you sorry that i did. i'll try to make it to the next meeting. i have seen e.p.c. staff when i've come in. >> yes, i wasn't just repeating everybody said when there were five of us in the room but we have a reason to do that. last, i want to say just to switch gears, the rules committee will be meeting on the 21st here at 6:00 next wednesday. and our new legislative advocates the people with the

school innovations anded a vosevowcassy that we just -- advocacy that we just contracted. and their team will talk to about it. so this is the chance of the board. the meeting will be augustmented and the community will begin to develop a relationship with our new advocates. wednesday, the 21st at 6:00. >> who's on the rules committee? >> i am. emily. >> but you're all welcome. and so we want to -- >> deputy superintendent yee? >> i got an e-mail from one of our colleagues about the student assignment monitoring report. it is on the website.

so in case people are looking for it or listening to the meeting still. it is on the website. it's in the enrollment section and it should be locateable in that section and we can send the link to all the commissioners so you can find him. >> so i just briefly wanted to report last friday, i attended my first meeting as the newest member of the csba advocacy committee or is it the legislative committee. i was kindly appointed by the president of csba who i happen to know. but of particular interest to this board is that a number of bills have been introduced that have to do with student discipline issues and suspension, expulsion issues. we did not take any positions yet on those bills. but had a discussion about what kind of legislative principles

they should be developing with respect to student discipline such as expulsions. so i actually have a lot of hope that we will come out of something -- that they will be a leader. san francisco has been a leader on this. >> i want to say that i have brought to the csba a policy and program staff and also to the executive committee, the frerls the restorive practices workshop at the school sight summit. they're interested in already working on it. and last i should say that if any of you, the csba will develop a number what i've been calling content area, probably one of community schools, charter schools, school finance and so all of you who are delegates, three of you will be getting, you know, you'll get information when committees,

appointments come up, even if you're not delegates please let me know. >> i wanted to just quick -- there has been a lot of things going on in the school district. but i thought one of the coolest thing that happened -- was it yesterday? was that nasa visited gallileo high, that's what i call it. so they had a live astronaut coming to talk to the kids. and it was such a great day. it's too bad other high schools didn't have the same benefit of having these speakers come to the school because they were pretty inspiring. i could see the kids thinking in their heads, i want to be an astronaut. and it was that and i'm going to move on to item -- ok. i'm not going to end anything. commissioner mendoza? commissioner mendoza: so budget

and businesses service committee is meeting tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. so be here for a third night in a row. and i also want to announce a -- the asian-pacific american heritage month. they're doing a student project and the club or group can win up to $750 for their club. and so we're looking forward for having them apply for this. it's going to be student clubs and association encouraged to enter into a service community project. it can meet the needs of the a.p.a. community and at the same time promotes the awareness and history of a.p.a. history month. and so we're looking forward to getting this information to all of the high school student clubs and hope that they will take the youth service challenge. >> commissioner murase?

>> i just want to make a comment and a couple of shoutouts. tonight was a really super tough meeting. i'm still kind of in shell shock. but i did want to state that the march 15th deadline is state law. there are some things that we criminal and some things that we don't control. i just want to say that we all need to be on the same team. teachers, support staff, i'm hopeful about the measures that will be on the november ballot. but i really invite folks who have possibly solutions to come to us. we heard a lot tonight about whatnot do, but i think we'd love to also hear how we can work together to close the budget gap. a few shoutouts, many of us were at the honor roll event. i want to thank commissioner

maufas for her leadership and virginia marshall. a number of commissioners were at sun set elementary school for read aloud day march 2nd. abraham lincoln had their b.s.a. performance. brotherhood, sisterhood performance on march 8th. and i attendanted the ignite performance on march 10th that brought young women, high school and college students from all over the bay area to get them activated in the political process. it was great. i met some young women from san francisco public high school. let's see, claire had their starlight celebration on march 10th. and i also joined commissioner ye and commissioner fewer at the galley yo event. i had never met a u.s.

astronaut before. so that was very exciting. and just a shoutout for the san francisco p.t.a. they're having their reflections award ceremony on april 14th and bike to school day april 12th. thank you. >> i'm shocked that you didn't mention that yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the girl scouts of america and both commissioner murase and i were there. the commissioner was instrumental in planning the event. it was the declared girl scouts day by the mayor. >> item t, report of closed session, none. no other staff reports tonight. so item d, adjourn. yeah.

>> welcomed to the regular meeting of the budget and finance subcommittee.

are there any announcements for us? >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. complete any documents to be included in the file and they should be submitted to the clerk. >> would you call item number 1? >> item number one, resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to retroactively except and expend a federal state grant and the amount of $650,000 from the california department of health to participate in a program entitled "the nurse a family partnership" -- "nurse family partnership."

>> what we would like to see is the department to provide a presentation about what is before us. we have information but just for the general public to understand the issue. can i ask you to go through what the grant is about, what it will do for the department of public health? >> i am happy to explain this to you. this is a home visiting program where public health nurses will be visiting first-time mothers did. we will be seeing 100 new mothers in the first one-two years. we are targeting mothers who are low income, may have been exposed to violence. we are including teenage

mothers, african american women, and non english-speaking women. the women are enrolled by the 28th week of gestation and their pregnancy and will receive one on one home visits through the first two years of the child's life. the curriculum is assessments, goal setting and behavior change which is integrated into each of the visits. the clients focus on short and long term goals and to achieve the healthy pregnancy outcome, growth and development, and self-sufficiency. this program has been in existence for 30 years and is a research-based, evidence-based program. some of the improvements that have been seeing and study it through randomized trials have included a unmarried mothers,

improvements in economic self- sufficiency and health benefits, including a reduction and use of welfare and other government assistance, greater employment for the mothers, a break in the cycle of violence, improved school readiness, and less subsequent pregnancies. >> you said that this program has been in existence for 30 years? this has been a program that the dph has had or has been in existence for 30 years? >> 9 there. this is a national program throughout the united states. -- neither. the program has been in existence for 30 years but it is a new grant fund through the affordable care act and federal funds. this is a new grand opportunity. >> it looks like there are no matching funds that are

required and that you are not hiring additional folks, correct? >> no matching funds are required but we are hiring five public health nurses and one clerk, all of whom will be 100% grant funded. >> you said that you are enrolling people as early as a 26 week, will that be through our help the san francisco program. how do you plan to do that work? >> we have an existing model where we are providing home visits to all mothers giving birth in san francisco. our primary referral source is san francisco. this will be targeting first- time mothers. we have a very good base. we have estimated that we have close to 1000 mothers annually who could potentially be

referred to this program. >> thank you. this looks like a new resolution but it looks like they will be hiring additional nursing staff. i am assuming they will be using existing requisitions and pay for it with a grant. >> thank you. that was my question. the other one was, we have had similar programs like this in the past that do neonatal care like this in san francisco. >> we have been doing home visiting for several years. this is the first evidence-based program that is being provided. >> if you can go deeper explaining how that works, how that will be different from what we are currently doing. >> there will be benchmarks. there are benchmarks within this program where we will be able to

measure outcomes for both the mother and for the children. this is in the specific areas of prenatal care and also school readiness for children. this is decrease in injuries and reported injuries and decreases in the utilization government programs. the benefit of this program is for every dollar spent or invest it into the program there is a $5 return. >> the benchmarks, do they come from the grantor or were those agreed upon between the city, the dph, and the grantor. >> we have not seen the new benchmarks as of yet but those

should be coming soon. >> great. thank-you. i would be very supportive of the resolution. >> thank you. >> i think it is great that we will be able to find work like this. i want to suggest in case this is not on the list and reach out to our public school, for teenage parents. >> thank you very much. we have a direct referral process to target those teens. >> i believe that this does not have a budget analyst report. why don't we open this up for public comment? >> supervisors, i am the director of environmental justice.

given two minutes the least you can do is to give us three minutes. if you choose to give us two minutes, that is fine. what i see here is that you're getting a grant. we have at three or 4000 women, mostly teenagers who are pregnant who could use this grant so what i am encouraging the people who gave the presentation is to have a website where the empirical data is posted said that we can see exactly what is done. normally what happens is even though the presenters don't look like anybody who lives in the community, we need people who look like the people who live in the community who sympathize

with them and understand the conditions to be part of this program. these type of grants do not benefit and there is a lot of dictation. you will see 650,000 that are there trying to employ three or four people from this grant. maybe they should employ one or two people from this grant and put more money to serve more women in the disadvantaged areas. this is a very very deep issue that cannot be addressed in two minutes but this is what happens. people come here, speak arbitrarily in general terms. some questions were asked, not a very deep questions. i would encourage you, supervisors. if there is one person here

during public comment to give us three minutes. thank you. >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, the item is before us. >> a motion to move forward with recommendations. >> we will do that without objection. item two, please. >> a resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to retroactively except and expand a state grant in the amount of $135,600 from the department of rehabilitation to participate in a program entitled "state vocational rehabilitation services program ." >> good morning, supervisors. i am here to present this very important resolution.

what it does is that we have been working with the department of rehabilitation for a number of years and as has been stated in the documentation, we have worked with them to pull out a funded position. this is a position that will essentially oversee the collaboration that we have with the department of rehab. we can have a more comprehensive way of being able to identify consumers that are in our system that can be sent in for training, vocational opportunities, and hopefully end up in some kind of vocational

position, jobs, real jobs. that is what this position will be doing. >> if there are no questions, i believe there is no budget analyst report. why don't we open this up for public comment? are there members of the public that wish to speak on item number two? >> from time to time, i'd to send you all articles addressing issues like this said that when we visit the jails -- which we do, at our own expense -- we see very little rehabilitation. unless you are blind and cannot hear, you know that the governor and the state policies have now released thousands of prisoners who are out there hanging here,

there, everywhere. with 135,000, you can do very little with what you have stated here. we're spending millions of dollars and nobody gets rear to -- gets real jobs. most of you that are in the chamber, you have career jobs and make over $100,000. if you read the paper, you will see that it takes a lot of money. what i'm saying is this, rehabilitation, restored of justice, these are the terms that are deep. -- resto