the straight forward club, we have a tight relationship that i've been working with them for over 10 years. we have been trying to get kids to get internships and we need things like that across the city. boxing is a healthy way for these young men to get these aggressions out and learn discipline. we support those types of activities and part of the thing is when we look at the community mobilization, we try to do things these young men who are at the most risk of being perpetrators and victims are not engaged in. we try to have basketball tournament and sporting events where they could be involved in those types of things because the gunmen who are the shooters are not the ones signing up and so we try to create an alternative. we had turfs intermingling and it was a tackle football but

after we got that out of their system, we were able to regulate and have a flag football game. then we were able to organize because one thing we can do is ensure safety. if we put on events like that, things are going to be pretty successful. midnight basketball, there are 200 people in the gym but they're not shooting at each other. we understand that's part of the territory. poll community could get together and realize we could be in the same room together and have a good time. those are some of the efforts we want to focus on and that's the preventative arm of the work that we do. that preventative arm works closely with the crisis response and the reactive peace we do as well. i want to open up for questions

around what we do and how we operate. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. >> i would like to thank the speakers. everyone knew heard to date -- public safety remains one of the highest priorities here for san francisco. it's really important for this hearing that you guys put on today, the presence that was here in terms of individuals talking to you and were here today for the hearing with that department heads, the san francisco police department and community-based organizations and the neighborhoods -- this is really important both internally and an externally. hearing from people in both the healing circle at having representatives here from the district attorney's office with the victims' witness that the

kits, i think the message we want people to take away from this is that public safety has to be a collaborative process. it is the sense i'm sure you are getting hearing that conversations and hearing all of the agency's work somewhat independently but work with each other and it obviously that is always our goal, to make them work in an interconnected fashion more efficiently. ultimately, that the goal. the reason i came up here is i wanted to acknowledge or bring up for a brief moment housing authority. they're part of that fabric and all the initiatives we talk about, they have a corner of it they contribute to. if we could just bring up the director here in san francisco. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

it's a pleasure to be here. this is an important conversation. what you have heard for most of the time we have been sitting here is much of the caliber to of and a collective work we are doing together. i would be better served if it cost less and could listen given this particular uptick in activity within our community. >> -- supervisor avalos: i appreciate you being here. i don't have any public housing sites in my district, but i will defer to supervisor olague in questions. supervisor olague: i think the critical issue is the fact that millions of dollars was poured

into some of the sites to create these beautiful community rooms and facilities. there are some where they have computers but sometimes there is no training on how to use a computer and because there is no one who can monitor their use, the residents don't have access to using the computers. the services are only provided on site and now they're starting to come back. thank you for working with us. it has always been good, but we had all these facilities but no services on site. i heard time and again from residents that there were all of these turf wars and there's even tragic stories like some people who just can't even leave

because of fear of what could happen the minute they leave the site. sadly, most of the violent crimes we have been hearing about, these shootings, these young men, the 13-year-old and a 15-year-old -- the 13-year-old that shot in the face lives in the housing authority. is multi generational. his mother was murdered. it's just this thing and hopefully we figure out a way to get ahead of it. but this is a middle school kids. there was a murder in the bayview. his family lived in hayes valley. but there was the incident where five people were murdered in the excelsior. the perpetrator lived in hayes

valley. there's a lot of that and yet people who are concerned about public safety and that sort of thing so to the extent we could give some attention on site, may be on going somehow. we've been trying to work with westside and a lot of cbo's continue to work on prevention, working with families and whenever. someone mentioned witness protection. having to move people, this woman living in a three-bedroom with a son who was murdered. she wanted a smaller place. we worked to try to find her new residents. so there are those levels of cooperation that we have been

successful in having with your office and i hope we continue to move in that direction. we will look for more issues as they come up and let you know, but it is deep. >> let me first say thank you. you have been instrumental in challenging us to create those opportunities and make improvements where you have asked for them. in some cases we have been able to react quickly and in some it takes a little more time. public safety is our number one objective. jobs are our second. i like the mayor and we have to do something about these guns. we cannot have young kids settling disputes with guns. it's simply not something we can allow. we are doing lots of things, but we need to do more and evaluate

if the things we're doing are the things that should be doing. i agree 3000% with what we have heard today. if we all remember the game in second grade where we start at the beginning of the line and sometimes the story is not quite the same one gets to the end of the line, we need to engage each other as family members to make sure communication channels are clear and concise, particularly in instances like the voucher program because we have vouchers that aside for victims of violence. sometimes there is just a simple disconnect in that line of communication. we appreciate from you, our community car residents and program participants, from everyone you have heard from or our partners to remind us that link has to remain in tact and our focus has to be in dealing with our residents and community members, particularly and specifically, our youth.

we will continue to work -- i cannot say enough about kyle and we look forward to doing as much as we can as we move along. supervisor avalos: thank you. we appreciate your patience sitting through this hearing. we appreciate your work. >> you have heard quite a bit about our story. i don't have to tell much of it. supervisor avalos: thank you. that's our list of presentations and speakers. i would like to thank you all for being here and being part of this hearing. i was very glad to hear -- i think it is important to have a presentation of the crn here it in the public safety committee, so i think it is important that is shared more publicly.

to tell you the truth, i was a little taken aback that we don't have a sense of a new direction of where we're going in this city and that was not discussed. i believe there is work that needs to be done certainly on what the response is going to be two homicides and islands and my -- using the word response might prompt you to think this is about intervention but the work that has to be done is about prevention and what are we doing on the ground that is really going to lead to a change in people's experience in the neighborhood? i believe from my perspective coming out as a social worker and community organizer that community integration is a big part of that. it seems like we have been in this place before. we have actually had models we

have used in the past. i recall back in the nineties we had the community peace initiative in the mission district. that was a good model that we have and we don't have a program like that now. we have bits and pieces but i think it's something that should be implemented in a lot of our neighborhoods around san francisco dealing with high levels of violence. i think it's something we can actually go back to and find some of the answers we need in terms of how to do prevention work. did it and eliminate every instance of homicide? it did not, but it created better interaction in a written making sure we developed the leadership potential to have a greater response. i would like to be able to get to that new focus in our city as we look toward making our city

safer. i admire the work of what we have done in this year's budget supporting the commercial corridors. if we look at supporting our neighborhoods with the same attention, i think we can make headway in making our streets safer and preventing the loss of lives of young people. the focus needs to be in neighborhoods like lake view where we don't have the capacity that it needs to be at. i want to make sure we can continue this dialogue. i'm going to be following up with the mayor's office to make sure we can do it and also on the ground in my district. this hearing was co-sponsored by supervisor cohen who has done a lot of work in her neighborhood to make them safer. i would like to continue this hearing to make sure we can have the focus in sunnyvale, bayview,

hunter's point and parts of her district as well. those neighborhoods have a high level of housing authority property and residents living in the housing authority that need to have their voices heard and make sure the city is coming together. we will continue this item to the callwe will continue this io the call of the chair. i would like to move it toward its neighborhoods in my district as well, to continue the dialogue. i would like to propose that. we actually will come later to the neighborhood level discussion, and probably the evening to actually have that discussion. if we could perhaps close this hearing, i want to thank you all for your participation and come back again at a later date would be the course of action. supervisor olague: i do not have a lot to add. i agree with everything supervisor avalos said. definitely, we want to be a part

of that discussion as well, meaning the western addition, district 5. we need to be a part of that also, because it does need to be comprehensive and city-wide. i know we cannot afford another bond. maybe there should be like a public safety bond. i know we have too many task forces. how do we respond to this in a way that we are prioritizing it as a singular issue? that is the holistic approach. let me check in with our foundations. i get many of my ideas from ms. hewitt. i think there is a lot more work we have to do, obviously, but funding is still key to this and the community input.

young people want a future. you know, they want to have good lives. they can lead the charge, and we can take their lead. >> thank you, supervisors. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will continue this hearing to the call of the chair. i want to actually close the meeting -- i was prompted by sharon hewitt, and i think it is very important to do that, end this hearing today in memory of the mother and the family of those members in denver and to homicide in san francisco as well. supervisor olague: i would like to leave with one quick thought. and we can deal with it later. have you been open to case managers in addition to property managers at certain sites?

or a case management training program or something like that? also, i do not know if there is a partnership -- there must be with the sfpuc and that sort of thing. eventually, of course, we will have to come back to the issue of jobs. continue to the call of the chair. supervisor avalos: we can take that without objection. madam clerk, any other items before us? >> would that be on both items that you continue to the call of the chair? supervisor avalos: actually, it is item 1 to the call of the chair. thank you for the reminder. we can file item number

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[unintelligible] we are underrepresented. >> i was singing of starting an irish pub. that was my idea. >> one our biggest is the corned beef and cabbage. we are asking people what they're thinking in getting some feedback. >> for a lot of people i am sure this combination looks very wrong. it might not sound right on paper but when you taste it to or have it in your mouth, it is a variety. this is one of the best ways in creating community. people gather around and talk about it and get to know different cultures. that brings people together and i hope more off the grid style and people can mingle and interact and remove all our differences and work on our

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