rum -- and capt young to for their efforts. i'm sure that they have assigned a very good sgt. that is a very -- that is the sense of security that the community needs. because of this hearing, this is an opportunity for other city agencies to start working together. the city attorney's -- the city's attorney should be coming to the homes and to the market. i think they know the family research center at 158 broad. there have been continuous problems at these places and

nothing gets done and no letters get sent. there needs to be a follow up if they want to do things correctly. i would like to say that dcyf and enloe w. de -- abnd mowde, we definitely do not get our fair share by any stretch of imagination. we need job training and jobs for our youth. we need officers to come into the neighborhoods and get out of their cars and go into the family resource center, into i.c. buckman, and into the places that offer services and the actually working together with them. i thank you for the healing circle and i hope it is one of

many that may continue. and also, the translation services that they have been offering that they have been asking for because the community is diverse and changing and in order to get the word out, we need the translation services. [bell] i hope that we can get some kind of follow-up in the community, whether it is the u.s. summit -- youth summit or from within the community, because we need to be having a dialogue. there were many suggestions today that we will follow up on. this will be the future. we will follow in their footsteps and others and they need to be respected and spoken to and trained so that they can be our future leaders in our community. [bell] lastly, i would like to invite everyone to the national like out on tuesday, august 7th, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the lovely >> center at capital

-- at the levee rec center at capital and montana. thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, walter, this is a very somber occasion. i love your singing, but hopefully you can have something that fits the occasion. >> ok. ♪ the look of witnesses in your eyes ♪ ♪ in your eyes ♪ the look of witnesses ♪ i can hardly wait to relocate you ♪ ♪ build a better world around you ♪ ♪ how long you have you ♪ and we will make it soon ♪ ♪ ♪ and the look of love ♪

♪ we will not frisk you any more ♪ ♪ in a city, no more frisking ♪ ♪ and we will make it better for you ♪ ♪ and employment comes to you ♪ and i know you have you ♪ and i will bring it all and you deserve it all, too ♪ ♪ ♪ >> -- supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i work with communities in se san francisco, in particular, catholic paris it -- catholic parishes in district 11. we no longer want to just be the site of funeral services, but site of change for our community. we brought around 50 parishioners.

we have supervisor avalos so we can begin to figure out what the role is of public officials and our community. we want to call on our city services and partners in the community to figure out how we can join together and step up to this challenge any new way. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jackie travis -- jackie charl as -- chavez. instead of relying so much on city hall and department head, maybe it is time we take our neighborhoods back. summer is almost over and i have not seen and to many block parties in our communities. i think that is one of the

easiest ways to come together. something sensible -- so simple. i feel silly even sang it to my bike the pta can -- even saying it, but the pga can get us together. -- the pta can get us together. at a community, start our own neighborhood watch program. start our own block parties. i would like the city to make block party permits a little more easy to obtain. encourage the community. get our neighbors out so we can have the police officers out and maybe in a presence that is more social. maybe have the police officers come out in more social attire, something not quite so intimidating, where we can actually go up and shake hands and get to know them by name. i have lived in the excelsior my whole life, and maybe one or two

police officers -- and i cannot name any by name. that is pretty sad. let's take our blocks back. let's take ownership. let's have those community block parties. let's make an inclusive and invite everybody. i stepped out of my house one day and there was a block party and i did not know. that is my block and i was not invited. really? let's start bringing our neighborhoods together. let's not depend on city also much. even though they are expected and they are obligated, but sometimes we wait and wait and nothing happens. we need to start doing it ourselves and get to know our neighbors by name. sometimes love prevails. and when you love your neighborhood and you love your neighbors and you know your neighbors, why would you hurt them? you watch out for them, for their house, for their kids

because there is love. [bell] and that is all, thank you [applause] supervisor avalos: any other member of the public? mr. beltran is here, our next speaker. >> i really feel that omi needs more support from the city. it needs more services. it has some fantastic community- based services out there, which also needs a more support. i believe these community meetings with the department should happen. and with these roadblocks and getting these services out there, it will happen if you continue to push on with this struggle to get your services for your community. supervisor avalos: any other member of the public who would like to comment?

>> my name is cheryl davis. relative to not just the areas identified on the agenda, but just in general, my biggest concern is how to be more proactive and know what the issues are. that is part of your agenda in working more closely with the crn and those who have their year to the ground. my heart is heavy right now because things are very heightened right now. and across the city is very volatile. we are worried about gun violence happening and school is about to resume and hopefully, there'll be some safety in that. i know i saw kyle peterson out in the hallway, but doing more with housing authority, to support the folks and the programs that are being funded through different places.

they do not have the capacity to relieve did -- to really do the work they need to. sometimes it is hard to get the city to find those things, but the truth of the matter is, the population of the folks, they need more resources. they may not be ready for jobs, but they do need someone to work with them, give them something to do and keep them busy. that is what we need to be looking at doing to invest in supporting those people that most likely will be stopped. give them something to do with their time so they're not in a place where somebody wants to stop them, but somebody is there to celebrate them. we need to look at how we can plan more and look at who is most likely to be involved in gun violence and look at ways to support them so we do not -- so they do not feel that is their only option. supervisor avalos: anyone else

wish to speak from the public? come on up, you have an announcement of what you want to share. please, come up and you can have an addendum to your comments. >> tonight, the healing circle is meeting at paradise baptist church. we need every 2nd and 4th thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and we will be meeting the majority of these issues -- meeting about the majority of the issues brought up today. we're at 2595 hanover avenue at paradise baptist church. that is where everyone comes to the table to discuss this further. supervisor avalos: that is just south of geneva on the left side. >> wright, author of san jose, correct. -- off of san jose, correct. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to say i appreciate your comments about the holistic

approach of dealing with violence in san francisco. however, we cannot let school districts off the hook. this has to start early because most of the young men that are here involved in gang violence, by the age of 13 aire complete the disenfranchised from the school system. we have to do something better early on with the school system. that is what i want to add to it. supervisor avalos: thank you. any other member of the public like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. i want to thank the members of the public for your patience and injuring first from the department. i appreciate your comments as well. i totally agree that there is much more the city needs to do in providing greater investment and greater support for victims , and for big -- and for witnesses. greater support for young people and job creation efforts as well. i believe i need to be more on the ground in my own district in

doing that work. originally, i had planned to have this hearing in the omi neighborhood and my office is considering having a continuation of this hearing in the neighborhood itself to get a better sense of people coming who do not have the time to come during the day, but have it more in the evening to get that input that we need to have. i appreciate the work that many of you are doing as residents in the neighborhoods and leaders of community-based organizations. i think what needs to happen is those efforts need to be at ground level with the supervisors and with the city departments to look at what we can do at ground level. i look forward to moving forward with those relationship building efforts in the district. supervisor olague, you have comments he would like to make? >> -- supervisor olague: do you want to go to the other speakers now?

supervisor avalos: i would, but if you have other comments you like to make supervisor olague: i can wait. supervisor avalos: before the other speak

>supervisor avalos: ok, we are born to get restarted next up, we have a presentation from the mayor's office of housing and community development. that would be item two. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for holding this hearing.

i will try to keep my remarks brief, given the time. again, i am brian chiu, director of community development for the office of housing. our strength is in three different areas. one is our community development block granted -- block funded work by investing in both community facilities and services. we do that recapped -- capital grants, mostly in district 11 through the ymca, the lutheran church through the child care facilities, and on the services side supporting some organizations, such as the case management services for the omi begin that you heard about today. is it enough? i would not say so. you already know that we lost about 20% of our development

block grant funds. we wish we could do more, but we know we cannot support it anyway that we want to. -- in a way that we want to. we do not have a specific area for violence prevention. we have tried our best not to overlap with other departments. you ever heard about the great work that dph does. we do try to find areas that support the general infrastructure through community and neighborhood centers, domestic violence, homelessness, areas of financial education, those areas that were to ameliorate the root causes of violence. -- that work to ameliorate the root causes of violence. you know some of the work that we do true compass point, to the california community loan fund, after our staff, three bta capacity building that we can offer to different

organizations. mostly for district 11, the third prong that we offer is community building and can be been efforts, some most recently over the past three years or so with the support of your office, supervisor avalos. we have been utilizing general fund dollars that we have been able to -- that you have been able to secure for our office to initiate a planning process, creating a cohort of community groups that now include up to 32 groups, subha rhys providers, neighborhood organizations -- service providers, neighborhood organizations, which has become an ongoing community collaboration that no longer depends on city staff to keep it going because it has seen its own value and has continued to meet since we helped to get off. -- to kick it off. it looks at community infrastructure and community building. our ongoing role now that the collaborative is up and going is

to utilize some additional general fund dollars for a community action grant for a program that provides an opportunity for some of these smaller community groups to have up to $5,000 to do smaller projects. there are ways in which people can get to know their neighbors, as was mentioned here, get to work with each other. supervisor avalos: i'm going to stop with -- stopping for a second because my office has been a big part of the community work and the organization and leadership coming together. the action grant programs come out of that. i think it's a really good model. the mayor's office of community development has been an integral part of that, as has san francisco state university, the community involvement center with san francisco state university. it seems like we could have a focus with that group and it could be about a community planning process that is specific upon not general like

we have done in the past. -- that is specific, not general like we have done in the past. but that is specific around violence prevention. with folks coming out from all different departments and community-based organizations and the police department or other departments having a focus around violence prevention. i want to propose that we get really on the ground worked, you know, working with community residents to put some real ideas on the ground. some good ideas came out today. how we actually get to that level of implementation, a lot of the organizations that we have funded over the years have done a lot of great work. but it will also involve entrenched, on the ground work that they do not have the time to do the planning and new ideas. that is where the mayor's office of community development can

play a large role in working with our office as well to make sure we get to that next level. i would like to propose that as one of the ideas that we can move forward with from this hearing. >> i think that is a good idea in working with your office as well as the community collaborative. it does bring in the one person on the ground that does it all by him or herself and the larger neighborhood of groups. i'm happy to follow up with your office and the other departments here today to make sure we can make a connection and form an appropriate discussion. >supervisor avalos: it seems like we would need other resources within community development that is actually building your capacity to do the work in the neighborhoods. >> we will always welcome that discussion right now prepared our community efforts are divided across the will city. if we did something that is much more intensive, we would have

the best resources appropriate for the bass partnership. supervisor avalos: was there more to your presentation? i did cut you off in the middle. >> no. we have done a somewhat similar process in the western addition. i think we are finalizing a report with compass point. we have always been looking with your department to see what is possible. we do not want to use a cookie cutter approach. supervisor avalos: we would love to work with you on that. just a follow-up question for mr. henderson. this is something that has been broad opt about using our existing -- brought up about using arkin -- our existing community development that we have. we would like to see a greater

effort, not that you are not making an effort now, but a greater effort within the mayor's office to do the community building efforts that are going on in the omi. i think specifically looking with staff at the mayor's office of trinity development to focus on violence prevention and neighborhood integration -- specifically looking at violence prevention and neighborhood integration. >> i'm happy to look at that and make whatever recommendations that come out of those conversations. i'm assuming you're talking about the housing. supervisor avalos: the mayor's office of community development? i'm talking about that and probably making some greater did -- greater investment in to that to create a response that needs to be made in response to violence in particular neighborhoods within the city.

next up, department of children, youth, and families. blacks -- >> good afternoon. i'm the director of the department for children, youth, and their families. supervisor avalos: before you start -- i'm sorry to cut you off. i'm just picking about the last presentation. i do not feel like we got beat -- the focus that we needed to get on the neighborhoods. we just put millions of dollars into neighborhood commercial corridors. we're doing all of this effort to support small businesses in san francisco. that is a really good thing. we have specific people doing case management work. we have small businesses. but we do not have people doing specific work, case management with neighborhoods about how we can help prevent violence in the neighborhood