they expect the black people to be there. it is a charade. bring in some private funding and let us get something going to help these kids get their life going, show them how to run businesses. we have city departments looking over our shoulder. we are trying to be a positive influence but they want to look at us by e numbers. we are superseding the numbers but they will not come up with any creative stuff. we are going to help you all do this. we are looking for you, supervisors. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i am the coach executive director of inner-city youth. i am here to talk about bringing more resources to agencies that are on the ground working with young people affected by violence every day. we are located on 96 broad

street. the third murder happened down the street from us. one of my staff actually went out to the scene to try to revive a young man. she was unsuccessful. he died in front of her and in front of the community. he was shot in daylight. he was a former participant. he had just come to the center to access summit plummet services. for an agency like inner-city youth, i think we're the only funded bp agency in the omi. the entire community comes to us because they see us as advocates, as a place that they can go to get help. we are more than willing to provide that assistance but we need some support from the city. we need that investment, or at

least referrals. i cannot refer anybody to sunnyvale, hunters point, western addition. i have to come up with travel costs. we need some real assistance and real, tangible opportunities we can provide for these young people. i refuse to close my doors to them, even if i do not have the money. thank you. >> i am also with inner-city youth of san francisco. we're at the corner of broad and plymouth. i want to think of surprises for initiating this discussion. yesterday, we had a short meeting with young people and staff to come up with some solutions to prevention of homicide, and all the talking about what happens in the community in the aftermath. we came up with a couple of things. young people said that following a homicide, the whole community physically comes out. they said generally the police on the scene do not make them

feel safe or protected, but they perceive them as looking for information, which as we know in the community is stigmatized, and sometimes life-threatening. they said if dph or mobile crisis was able to offer three to four mental health workers on the scene, that would provide some sort of day consoling buffer in that time period. they also said that having the crn and community front line workers there is great, but with the absence of trained clinicians, it is not as and tactful. another solution the staff came up with was 4 dph to issue an rfp for organization working directly with those impacted with ptsd. a lot of times, nonprofits like us are not funded at a high level. as a result, we do not have the capacity to have a mfw on staff.

if we were able to access mental health services for a long term period, it would be impeccable in the long run. they also said, in 2002, supervisor avalos, there was a boxing program at one of the gyms. we know that boxing is something of a pre -- antidote for dealing with anger or other problems with young people. we encourage you to see if there is any way to bring the program back or access the old equipment. lastly, perpetrators of violence are also victims of violence. as we look into that, when we are talking about doing trauma work that is so necessary, we need to look at going into our jails and prisons and hospitals to make sure the cycle of violence does not continue and we can have a long-term solution. thank you.

supervisor avalos: thank you very much. before the next speaker, i will call some more names. the ness said jackson. francisco de costa. sebatien contera. mary harris. violet. we line up on the other side and please come forward to speak. >> supervisors, you understand, in this city, we have about 805,000 constituents. the city budget, you will understand, having worked on the budget before, we have a $7.2 billion budget.

now, i have attended over 242 funerals. when we see the city department and some of the heads of the department coming here, they are representing something as if they are representing -- presenting it for a grant. these people do not have the guts -- the mayor's office representative, all the others -- to go into the community, walk into the community, knock on the doors of the community, and find out what is really happening. so we spend thousands of dollars addressing this step and the other. we have a community for listing

documents that everybody has, including all of the supervisors have read it at some time, but none of you want to implement it. so, today, some of the members, some mothers, have come and spoken to you about gentrification, about lack of quality of life issues, and what do our supervisors do? what do our authorities do? they waste millions of dollars trying to put the sheriff on trial. imagine a city and the sheriff cannot carry a gun. what kind of joke is this? where are your priorities? we have been in the trenches for a long time, and so has ross

mirkarimi. i know all of the police command, the chief, and the other deputies that are here, all the police authorities that gave their presentation, i had met them personally and spoke to them about environmental concerns. this dog and pony show can only take a so far. we need you in the community talking to focus groups, talking to the mothers, talking to the victims. thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is vanessa jackson. i met with you several times. i work with parents and at risk youth, and i do a lot with the gain in junction -- gang

injunction. the work that i do, i do not get paid for it. i love my community and i have watched my kids been shot. i have watched people die in my arms. i know they have all the services, but some of these services just do not work. they need some more tailor-made services. the problem i have, i work with the family who is on the witness protection, who once i talk to the city investigator, he complained that he gave them almost $10,000 and he was not doing any more. this lady was a witness to a murder. and her husband was killed. she was a teacher for the san francisco school district. she is now an apology. she was moving her stuff by bus. the man said that he would not give them any more money. their kids cannot even play outside.

they are riding their bicycles in the living room. this does not make any sense. our people are getting sold out for pennies. i have another client that would testify to a murder, and now that it is over, she had a warrant out for her arrest and is in jail. this is ridiculous. is this the protective custody by your offering? it does not make any sense. you asked us to do certain things, but then you do not follow through on what your instructions are supposed to be. you know what i'm saying? if i was wearing black and i had a silver badge, you would fly me to where i need to go, but no you made a choice to be an officer, and you are going to cover them, but the community, you cannot cover them. i can go to the bottle an cents off for a dein

because they are dead, we do not even get a nickel. you want to bring in people with felonies or have been convicted. it does not matter. you have a dead child, dead mother, dead mother. it is not worth a dime but you want to set up this dinners and cooked popcorn and cotton candy for somebody's life? that makes no sense. this city is ridiculous. i just graduated. there 1 million african- american people incarcerated in the prisons but 50% come from san francisco. you have all the cash. this is the only place where the officers are not getting laid off, but they are planning people. especially at anglesite. they are so rude and nasty and a talk to you like you have done something. you want people to testify and to write. you have to treat people right. otherwise, you are going to have

some stuff happening in san francisco because people will not take it anymore. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> i am the transitional aid case you manager at the omi beacon center. i want to thank you for calling this hearing. the recent violence that has what the community has really impacted our community centers, not just the youth that attend, but also the staff members. we are related to and friends with a lot of the victims in the community and it has been devastating. some of the programs we provide, tailor-made is a bout prevention program where we try to address the individual needs of the youth and provide wraparound services. this is one of the case managers in the program and these are some of the youth in the program. in terms of a solution, we are advocating for more workforce development dollars to create

more opportunities for young people to get off the streets. the less young people we have on the streets, the less people will be dying on the streets. we are teaching people to make money in a legitimate and productive way and giving them tangible hands on job skills. i wanted to let some of you talk about their experience with the program as well. >> my name is jp, i am with tailor-made, a gang violence prevention program. i agree with somebody who had mentioned the engleside police department treelike come. whether you are on the streets or not. there are so many -- people are maun-living in my neighborhood. i am one of the people that used to participate in that. these are one of the program the need to be funded. i recently turned 18. i am not try to go to jail but

sometimes i have to do shady things to survive. hi i and try to get off the streets with programs like this. they need more money. they need to be funded. they need to be appreciated more. and that's that. >> thank you, supervisor. i wanted to ijp. forgive me for bringing this up. he has been with us since the sixth grade. one of this dream was not to go to prison and become a gang leader. after coming through a program and thus helping him to think about what life has to offer him, he is making better choices and better decisions. i am the son of a mother who had to bury her son. this man took my family to a place where we did not want to be. i am a victim of gang violence on the street. my brother was killed in 1989

over a parking space. i watched my mother die in her eyes when she had to bury her son. i watch my family died because they had to bury a son. our table is missing one person at thanksgiving, missing one person at christmas. you know what? i had to make a conscious decision not to follow in the footsteps because he was my role model. we have the omi beacon center, all sorts of different places to go to, but i'll want to stress, if we can look a bit deeper in the financial budget and just make sure everybody gets an equal shot, so it does not cause a divide within the community. i work closely with icy and other agencies. because the finances are different, we're almost at odds. i just want to say thank you for giving us this opportunity. god bless san francisco. supervisor avalos: thank you.

next speaker please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is leah weiss, i'm here representing the burnie heights community center. there was another tragic event where three members of a family were murdered. during this loss, one of you decided to ignore it -- organize a peace march to recognize the lives lost and the pain for the family and community. it was to make a statement that the young people in the community care. since then, the vernal heights community center has supported us by organizing community events with a main goal of helping to break old patterns of violence, as well as hoping that we can have a different dialogue with law enforcement in the area. as we have heard from others, the members of the excelsior -- engleside police department and

community have negative relationship with one another. we incurred in by police officers to take part in the workshops and not necessarily be there as observers but as participants, so that we can start a new dialogue. also to change the training that is required by the police department to have the police officers take part of these conversations so that they are more well-informed and can be members of the community and not looked at as a disembodied force. we would like to also encourage that everyone as individuals would be accountable to the community as a collective. at this point, i want to extend and in by to everybody for our next event on august 10. we are having an open mic called speak your piece. we do not want to feed into the isolation in our community but actually bring people together. helping san francisco's communities build ever upwards. here is another member of our

program. her name is a pilot. she will talk about her experiences with us. -- violet. >> hello, my name is violet va squez. i live in areas which are known to be violent. i also attend balboa high school. i have been involved in a lot of violent activities, including losing family members to violence and also being held at gunpoint myself, and other violence appeared in the past six months, i have also been helping to organize two events. one youth summit in may. now i'm helping to put together an open mic involving poetry. these two events have helped me express myself in a way where i do not have to turn to violence. to be able to write poetry by using my pen and paper, instead of using my fists to fight off a person.

that 15 years old, it if i was not involved in this program, i would probably be in the juvenile justice system. because of these two events, they have been helping me along the way to deal with a lot of problems at home and in the community. they also give me a sense to not put myself in dangerous situations and have responsibility to help the community. i would also like to invite the community and the board to the open mic we are holding august 10 from 4:00 until 6:00 at the excelsior community center. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you, supervisors and avalos and olague for having this hearing.

and for asking the questions that you are asking. i would be remiss if i did not thank chief sterling and capt. 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 inth