supervisor chiu: thank you. the -- will go into this issue in greater depth. one question i have for the young people who i know will be presenting tomorrow is to help us as a city think about how we prioritize various capital needs within j.p.d. there are other needs and we have fairly limited capital resources. the department has a certain sense of where things ought to go but i would like to get feedback from folks who have experience with the system and who know young people going through the system. >> thank you. if i could ask the use commissioners to continue? >> >> hello, supervisors.

i am the chair of theyouth -- the chair of the youth immigration committee. although san francisco is a sanctuary city and provides a lot of opportunity for immigrants students, as an immigrant myself [unintelligible] and my friends and i don't speak a lot of english or -- just a transition to a new environment. as well as survey conducted by bcyf. and some youth employment forms.

there is consensus that access to a job is a big priority for undocumented youth. a job allows us to better support our family and learn about what this new country is about. how can we provide opportunities for undocumented youth? there is this program that pays undocumented youth. there are many options. scholarships, internships, stipends. because immigrant youth ssa boulder will population. we hope that you can create another program that will help support undocumented youth and ask bcyf to extend the program

to give opportunities to undocumented youth. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello. prior to no. 5, is in regards to the police department. this priority grew out of the work this year which also many of you know, we had a first-ever joint hearing with the police commission and the youth commission which lasted four and a half hours and over 70 members of the public may comment and 30 of them were youth. we sent recommendations to chief suhr. he agreed to these three recommendations and we are grateful and excited for these three things. the first is a new training for

police officers. this training for zero new officers in patrol officers insurgents would emphasize real- life scenarios on interactions and training on brain development, asserting authority and effectively communicating with youth, and the escalation tactics. this curriculum would in corporate -- incorporate real- life scenarios and be based on procedure. we have met with the captain who was in charge of the training at the department and we're excited about this moving forward. when the chief agreed he stated it could be wrote out in six months. we -- this will be provided on schedule and facilitated by adequate trainers who will be able to produce results. the second recommendation is

provide know your rights pamphlets. they are the results of revisions of the department general order 7.01 in regard to police and youth interactions. it was a collaboration of the juvenile justice providers and others. it is a pamphlet that talks about -- the procedures of getting arrested and transferred and detained. it helps the youth give them body language and tone which will not escalate situations with officers. it would be great to have that knowledge prior to being arrested. if sfpd provides these pamphlets to all high-schools and bcyf community funded organizations. we hope sfpd could follow on the

it get better ready is. and maybe make another video perhaps featuring chief suhr. we know he has a real passion for at rescues in education. the last recommendation is for sfpd and the school district to formalize a memorandum of understanding that sets up a clear division of responsibilities on how arrest should be made on campus. we hope the mayor and the board of supervisors will be mindful of these recommendations and oversight of their implementation. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: a few questions on the mou. is that just does that exist currently to govern that relationship? >> no.

it does not exist. it has expired. supervisor avalos: there has been something in the past. >> there has been something in the past. it is a matter of the lawyers coming together and talked -- talk. supervisor avalos: are there other pressing issues that need to get resolved to move forward? >> i am not too clear on what the issues may be but the pressing issue would be for a system to get in place on how arrests will be made on campus. i know there is somewhat of a non clear -- a not clear agreement on who has the responsibility for that. supervisor avalos: even though the mou has expired, is it still in effect? >> megacap and can answer that. thank you.

>> we did have an mou with the school department or the school organization up until 2009. that was regarding activities of school resource officers on their campuses. andi believe -- i believe the mou expired and those grant funds went away. i know that chief suhr was willing we get back with the new school superintendent and have an mou regarding the sro's on the school campuses and other issues. supervisor avalos: since 2009 there have not been sro's? >> there have been but the mou has not been updated. we still have the sro. they have been very valuable -- a very valuable resource for the

department and the school district. the youth commission were saying how invaluable the sro program was at the school. supervisor avalos: are they working off the expired mou in terms of how they conduct -- >> right. we decentralize the sro program. it used to be the juvenile division. there were sent out to the different stations but they still responded to the schools in the same manner. we had extensive 40 our sro training that all the sro's went through and working with the commission we're working -- looking at reupping the sro course again. it was valuable and instrumental in reducing crime. supervisor avalos: when it comes to finalizing this amillia, is there a time line? >> i know with the changeover of the school, i am sure it would be pretty soon. chief suhr has a very good

working relationship. i am sure we will be addressing that. supervisor avalos: the other recommendations i hear, know your rights and the updated of the it gets better video. do you have a sense -- >> i was looking at the meeting of the youth commission. the scenario-based training, it was chief suhr's. it was a joint meeting with the board. we are moving forward on how to educate our of answers on how to handle encounters with juvenile and the escalade and understanding the juvenile or youthful mind. and different techniques of dealing with them. we will be working with the youth commission to help us with scenario based training. supervisor avalos: that is for your records or the entire --

>> it will be for new recruits and the police department as a whole. what you're talking about -- supervisor avalos: as far as the training, is that conducted within the current department budget or is that -- is the department asking for an allocation? >> i cannot speak to the right now. supervisor avalos: excuse me. supervisor chu: let's let one person speak at a time. supervisor avalos: it would be -- if i am asking questions, i appreciate you giving me the space to do that. >> certainly. >> will be incorporated -- will it be incorporated into the budget for training? that is the request of the youth commission and it would be worthy to ask for us as well so

the training could be adopted within the regular training budget for the department? >> thank you and i will bring that back to achieve s- -- chief suhr. hopefully that would be incorporated. you had one other question about disturbing your rights pamphlets. we will be doing the distribution. -- you have one other question about the know your rights pamphlets. we were working on the video that was similar to "it gets better." i apologize i could not answer the budget 1. supervisor chu: thank you. >> kind of switching gears into

priorities 6, u.s. involvement plans. we really admire the america's cup. they included a youth involvement plan, which had a focus of providing jobs and making young people involved overall. we hoped that this would be an aspect of more city negotiations. we thought when businesses come to san francisco, prioritizing youth could be an aspect of the deal. when companies come, they could provide some internships are jobs for our young people. or they could donate to our internship programs and we wrote the resolution asking for this and we're excited when the board of supervisors passed it on march 27. we would love your continued support to that. we could see this through and turned the u.s. involvement plans when companies come into action.

one goes to owed. -- o.eewd. thanks for helping include young people in our city. supervisor chu: thank you. >> i am a mayoral appointee and also the chair of youth city services. our priority, no. 7, is implementing 2007 pay recommendations. san francisco, there are approximately 5700 homeless and most are used between the ages of 20 and 24. 6000 lack a high school diploma.

5000 neither work or go to school. not only does the population represents the future adults but also the current generation of voters. then-mayor gavin nissen -- newsome proposed [unintelligible] the youth task force issued a report containing 16 recommendations. they include involving disconnected youth in municipal decision making and expanding operations for tay, creating individualized plans for disconnected youth. transitioning to adulthood, providing safe and stable housing and more. some departments have responded remarkably such as the mayor's office of housing which convened the working -- housing

workgroup. the city needs to improve its relationship with tay. san francisco is falling short of the regionally assigned goals particularly for low and moderate income housing. the city meets 67% of its housing goals and at the current rate of production it will only achieve 16% of its goals for low-income housing and 25% of moderate income housing by 2014. the commission recommends considering the status and development of recommendations. the transitional use task force -- [unintelligible] and the future but also san francisco. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. president chiu: i know mayor lee had issued a policy

directive and there are specific individuals within city government that were asked to form on this and i am wondering if we have represented some -- representatives of any department that can talk about any department in regard to tay services? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here for the department of children, youth, and families. dcyf was given a grant to supervise the coordination of tay services. i think the transition is happening as different departments identify who their deputy directors are that are going to lead the efforts within those departments. i wish i could speak to it at length. all that is in process. we're bringing in the young adult advisory board that the tay initiative has within our

department including an adult advocate. the overall accord made -- coordination is happening. they have data and reporting about the progress made with each of these goals within the report. that is the best i can say for now from our department. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am from the mayor's office of housing and i would like to report from our initiatives that had been set up to address the goal. in the report, we were identified as having 400 units of the goal for tay housing. at the moment we have 153 of the 400 units targeted. 79 of those units are in active pre-development at this point. we also have prioritized the

transitional age youth as a priority and the cdbg funding -- in the cdbg funding. we allocated $685,000 to support services for transitional age youth which include case management, bed -- ged prep and services. president chiu: there is one agency that is point on this even though there are three staff leads in each department has a deputy director. who is -- is maria su -director? >> i think the best person is glen eagleston. essentially, he reports to iran

and iraq can speak to that. president chiu: your report to him? >> i am just as colleague. he had another meeting to go to. president chiu: what we often find is to have disconnected services across a number of agencies and it is difficult to find who is setting the goals. do you have a sense of when is a good check and to understand if there is a task force, if there is some body that will be achieving some goals, when is the next milestone? >> there is a tay executive committee that will be meeting on their own. that is all the executive directors of cbo providers that work with tay. i wish i could speak to the plans they have. glen will have -- be their point

of contact and he will know the benchmarks and the time lines on -- that you are requesting. i do not know that today. supervisor chu: we also have kay te howard. >> i think that the director will be able to describe more of the work in june and that will be a good initial check-in point. she is the point person for the mayor on all things related to tay. president chiu: kc ok. supervisor chu: thank you. back to the youth commission? >> hello, supervisors. i was appointed by jane kim. i represent district 6. i am also be a public-relations officer. during the day, i worked at a career youth center in the caster. through my work i found lgbt

youth are affected disproportionately to a lot of other services. they're more likely to be bullied, to be assaulted at school, to also end up homeless. we talked of 5700 homeless youth. 700 are lgbt identified. which is important in talking about this. lgbt youth need the services most. it is important we have the service providers educated on the needs of lgbt youth and relate to them in an educated way. there was a law passed 13 years ago to ensure that providers are trained. there are not any city departments that are in compliance with this.

and that is why it is our priority to praise the department of public health for taking a lead on this project and coming up with a training model that we can use to roll out to other city departments but currently, as supervisor chiu was talking about, when you have departments working on a product -- project, it is hard to negotiate a lead. that is why the commission is urging the board and the mayor to work with the department of public health to create a plan to implement 12 men across the board to departments and city funded projects and to come up with a tracking mechanism to ensure that they are in compliance as well as tracking whether or not it is effective or not. supervisor chu: thank you. >> i was appointed by supervisor

wiener. i am the youth commission's community average officer. i want to express my gratitude for your time and attention as well as we do with some final thoughts about the priorities we have talked about today. the priorities are the culmination of a year's work in the commission as well as tremendous dedication from use commissioners in identifying and addressing the city's youth's and it needs. it is our obligation as commissioners to do so, but it is more than that. it is our passion as individuals. we would love nothing more than for you today coming out of this hearing to immediately ends with the address these priorities. in a perfect world, we would ask you to make our top priorities your top priorities. but this is not a perfect world. as our chairman mentioned and i am sure you have heard many times before, san francisco.

general fund is facing a $170 million deficit. we know and you know in the future you have to make some tough decisions. what we ask of you today is simply to help the youth commission as we continue working on these priorities and keep working on them as you move forward. some are easily solved fiscally, free muni which can have an immediate fiscal impact. some require a more indirect approach. we recognize that and we want to work with you on implementing the best approach possible. we appreciate the opportunity to come before you today and i know i speak for my colleagues when i say we look forward to working more with you in the future. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for pulling this report together and sharing with us your budget

priorities for the upcoming years. i know many members here will be interested to continue working with you on some of your priorities and taking a look at our budget. we do have a big challenge ahead of us not just for one year but multiple years. we appreciate your comments to our budget. colleagues, given all the comments we have heard so far, i want to open this item up for public comment. are there members of the public who wish to speak on this item? if there are none, public comment is closed. president chiu: i want to thank the the commission for your work and over the next week as we go through the budget process, i hope to see you continue to engage with the board on this and with us through the course of the year. i know these budget priorities will change over time and will look forward to getting that feedback and also understanding after each budget cycle whether we as a city were able to meet

the priorities that you set up. thank you for being here. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim: i want to also thank the youth commission. this body plays an incredibly important role in the city and i am impressed by the policy and budget priorities for this year. it is a diverse array of issues. some of which i was not aware of, despite my time as a youth organization -- organizer. highlighting access to recreation facilities at juvenile hall and how we provide jobs for our transfer -- transitional and undocumented youth. we have been struggling for years on a mou, that is important to highlight. i appreciate all your work that you have done thus far on seeing

muni for low-income youth and all use. you have made a lot of headway. we do not have enough voice for young people in city government process so you play a vital role in educating city officials and leaders on what we can do better to improve the city for young people. there is not enough for young people today in san francisco and we all agree to that. it is helpful in giving us direction on areas we can improve on. i appreciate that and i want to appreciate mario from the youth commission. infrastructure is also very important as well. the youth commission has downsized and it is great to see that there is still input at this level. glad to see that you are still able to achieve these types of reports. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor avalos?

supervisor avalos: i would like to echo the comments of my colleague. i have been working with the youth commission since 1996 and i can think of many commissions that have stood out but i think this one stands out in so many ways. the policy recommendations that come from the commission have been insightful and understanding -- in terms of moving policy and with the board of supervisors. and our partnership with community-based organizations has been excited -- exciting. the youth commission might have one or two main leaders and spokespeople. we have many members of the commission who are active and involved in so many different ways in providing their experience to a dancing policy issues within the commission and outside the commission with policymakers like ourselves policymakers like ourselves here on the committee.