up are alison chin and yuka [speaker not understood]. so, alison and yuka. i also wanted to just state -- yes, please come forward. (applause) >> i would also like to say that president chiu and others acknowledged that it takes a village to really support a healthier community, and i think they come out of, in many ways, the wellness center from washington high school in addition to rams and the community-based mental health services that rams represent. alison chin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 15 years of experience in community and human services. she began as a research assistant intern for one of the first u.s. studies on hiv, substance abuse in asian american populations and ms. chin has since worked with a range of culturally diverse communities of children, youth and families providing clinical assessment, hydrotherapy and health education.

she's worked with rams since 2006 as a behavioral health counselor for teens and families providing culturally competent assessment therapy and crisis intervention services, especially for students on-site at washington high school in the richmond district and also lincoln high school in the sunset district. and she previously served at burton high school through the wellness initiative. and i'd just like to give tremendous props to our city's wellness initiative and wellness center throughout the city as well. ms. chin serves with passion and dedication working with culturally diverse youth and families while demonstrating tireless advocacy providing mental health services. thank you so much, alison chin, for being here. also we have yuka hachiuma who is a marriage and licensed therapist with 10 years in the mental health field. she is a bi-cultural, buy --

bilingual japanese speaking therapist. [speaker not understood]. she especially serves students and family with limited resources and youth that receive special education services while providing consultation to school faculty and administrators and i'd just like to thank erica and the washington community high school also for their support of the wellness center and the great partnership with rams as well. while at rams she previously served as the first coordinator for the agency's launch of the summer bridge program, summer mentoring program for high school students designed to promote awareness of psychological well:and fostering desire in the helping profession. she serves the diverse san francisco community of children and youth while modeling compassion in the mental health care field. i also want to acknowledge we had i think the president and

ceo of rams. he's here and angela tang the director of operations. i think i saw christina shad, the leader of richmond multi-area services. if you could come forward and join our two honorees that would be great. i wanted to say that in many ways rams and washington high school are creating a new model of mental health services really involving young people to really understand themselves, but also that support each other as well. * shea thank you so much to alison and yuka and rams for being here. i wanted to ask if alison and yuka would make a few remarks. i just want to thank you, supervisor mar and the board and rams for the initiative. it's such a great honor and especially with all the honorees here who have dedicated so many years. i'm just -- i'm so humbled to

receive this. and i just want to share this with all of the wellness staff who work so hard not only from rams, but from the school district. it's just such an incredible initiative. maria martinez is also a staff through wellness and just -- i'm just always inspired by the youth and families that we all work with. they're just so incredible, search such incredible people in san francisco working so hard together. so, thank you very much. goodness, i didn't think i'd be speaking. thank you very much for this commendation and just wanted to say that i appreciate your acknowledgment of the importance of mental health services in the city. thank you. (applause)

>> thank you. thank you. our next commendation will be provided by supervisor christina olague. >> i just want to thank all of you for being here today. mental health is an issue that i had prioritized in my own life. and i believe that one of the reasons it's so critical here

in san francisco is because it emphasizes healing instill of criminalizing people in our communities. and too often i think that this society takes the easy way out and chooses to throw people in jail or to criminalize young people even at an early age. often young folks suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, who are exposed to a lot of trauma in their lives are immediately placed in special education classes instead of given the -- even though they have the aptitude of not even higher aptitudes than a lot of their contemporaries, because they're having behavioral issues, in many cases i believe it's related to the environment. and some of the issues that they're exposed to. and, so, i think it's critical that we start to look at people who are struggling in a more compassionate way.

so, since i've been supervisor, one of the organizations that -- community-based organizations that i've been very impressed by is the west side community services. i think that the -- (applause) >> there are a lot of communities, communities of color. they still have stigma attached to that name, mental health. so, it's really incredible that these individuals in this agency that's run currently by dr. jones who does pretty incredible work in the community in the western addition. (applause) >> that, you know, that they provide culturally competent services. and, so, the person that we're honoring today is it a willis. she's the program coordinator from west side community services in the western edition. tia wallace has been faithfully and compassionately working with children youth and their familiesates west side community services for 12 years. *

as the program coordinator for both their team core and [speaker not understood] case management programs. these two very important programs focus on serving at-risk youth ages 0 to 25 in the western addition. * 10 in this capacity, kia has touched the lives of young people and their families ask has made a significant difference in our community. can i ai provides valuable support to other community-based organizations * in the western addition so the west side services has partnered with other cbo providing these services to young people there. and on her own time continues to mentor and provide general counseling and life skills education groups and recreational activities to at-risk youth ages 14 to 17. so, it's not just her job, it's her life. she does this all the time and

they are grateful for that. her dedication to her at-risk youth is inspiring and it is my honor today to recognize tia wallace for her outstanding community services in the mental health field and also to really just observe the fact that you have a wonderful attitude. so, it's clear that you -- (applause) >> [speaker not understood] what it means to live a really fulfilling life. so, we're grateful to give this to you. please say a few words. thank you, thank you. first i would like to thank supervisor olague for acknowledging the work that we do in the western addition. i would like to thank dr. marianne jones for allowing me to bring creativity and thoughts outside of the box into the work that i do. and lastly, i would like to dedicate this award to the youth that i serve and also my team stacy, sierra and anita,

because without them i wouldn't be here to accept this honor. thank you. (applause) (applause) >> our final commendation today will be provided by our district 8 colleague, supervisor scott wiener. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. -- mr. president. today i am thrilled to be honor sergeant kelly dunn from the police department who has been patiently waiting. sergeant. [speaker not understood] appointee to the mental health

board where she provides invaluable insight. prior to becoming a police officer about a little more than a decade ago, kelly already had a long history of working in the mental health field. she worked at the mobile crisis treatment teams in both san francisco and oakland, [speaker not understood] psychiatric institute at ucsf, at the time substance abuse treatment center and mount scion crisis clinic. she also previously worked at malcolm state hospital. through the years kelly has become the expert within sfpd in terms of police interactions with mentally ill and we've had a long, a history of trying as a city and as a department to grapple with the issue of how do we respond appropriately to subjects who are mentally ill and may not really be in a

right state of mind and making sure we use alternatives other than deadly force. kelly has really been instrumental in sort of moving that training program forward and making sure all of our officers know how to respond. kelly, you've been just an amazing public servant in san francisco, and i'm thrilled to have appointed you to the mental health board and honor you today. congratulations. (applause) thank you, supervisor wiener. i just want to thank you for honoring me and thank you, all the board of supervisors. i really appreciate this because we all have been coming together for mental health in the community, trying to revirginiavv l our latest training and have [speaker not understood] where things have to go to the use of force. and, so, i appreciate you guys honoring me and we're going to continue that work together and try to make it as good as possible. so, thank you. (applause)

>> thank you, supervisor wiener. i want to thank all of our colleagues and all the members of the public who have come today in celebration of mental health appreciation month. before we continue, i do understand that there has been a little bit of an unorthodox request to reopen up public comment. i'd like to ask our clerk what the procedure would be if we were to reopen up public comment. >> mr. president, a request to reopen public comment must be

unanimous. a motion, grant a motion and a second in order to suspend the rules to allow for further public comment. >> so, colleagues, at this time is there a motion to reopen public comment? motion by supervisor avalos. is there a second to that? second by supervisor kim. we reopen public comment. ma'am,. two minutes -- you have two minutes. i'd like to dedicate this to people who have been victimized. i myself have been victimized on a regular basis. since i ran for office, horrendous bruising, horrendous taking away, my seizures that i get are a result of having been run over by a car suspiciously two blocks from my house when i [speaker not understood] breaking my back [speaker not understood]. no i have done what no one in

this world has done, recovered from organic brain damage. [speaker not understood]. as a six-year old i twisted an ankle. when i seizure, i cannot walk. i am treated mercilessly by the paramedics, by the police. when i was in bus accidents as a result of the carnival of the giants game, people getting on the bus, there is no accommodation for me. there is no help for me in your society. where do i get anything? nothing. my possessions are being taken away on a regular basis. i live in a society where communist, fascist slop is expected to be served. i can't live with that. i am a sensitive person and as a reasoning disabled person i should not have to be going to jail where the bruises are covered. there is not a care, not a [speaker not understood]. and you say that this is a mental health society that helps people?

i have cured my brain. i have cured my childhood disfunction. people who have emotional problems are not diseased. they have problems that can be fixed. and i say that this society needs to find people like myself who want the solutions. they want to know what people are experiencing, and they want to fix it [inaudible]. they should be working for the [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. [inaudible]. >> mr. deputy sheriff, could you please? -- get into position? thank you very much. thank you very much. i love this country more than anybody in america -- >> thank you very much, ma'am. [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much, ma'am. thank you very much. deputy sheriff? next speaker.

i'm from bayview hunters point. it was really a pleasure just to see this day, to see you honoring the people in the community, you know, [speaker not understood] acknowledge myself as the woman of the year in bayview hunters point and i just wanted to know this was very refreshing and up lift totion me. i also want to acknowledge that my mother, my actually best friend is the mother of karim [speaker not understood]. thank you, christina, for acknowledging him. [speaker not understood] mayfield who is bringing the [speaker not understood]. he was fighting for a lot of young men who have died and a lot of young men that are trying to stay alive. the bayview can help, come to see if anyone can assist in getting him to be in the parade tomorrow for the giants because he is also adding to san francisco. does anyone have any advice, i will leave my number with whoever is appropriate to do. thank you very much. have a wonderful evening. >> thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak in public

comment? last but not least, david elliott lewis. i knew almost everyone you honored today and almost every, every person was well deserved to receive that acknowledgment so i wanted to thank you for acknowledging these people and mental health awareness month. mental health often gets edv brushed under the carpet with so many other pressing issues, but we see the consequences when we ignore it. the cost of behavior sort of unrespond to can be costly to society. i'm thankful we have proposition 63 that lets services upon being provided. and thank you as a board of supervisors for acknowledging this important issue. thank you. my name is david elliott lewis. thanks. >> thank you. any other members of the public want to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. let's go to the adoption counter. >> item 20 to 24 is being considered without committee reference. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. a discussion can occur, the

matter will be separated and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? the house has changed. roll call vote. >> supervisor campos? aye. president chiu? aye. supervisor cohen? aye. supervisor elsbernd? absent. supervisor farrell? aye. supervisor kim? aye. supervisor mar? aye. supervisor olague? aye. supervisor wiener? aye. supervisor avalos? aye. there are nine ayes. >> these resolutions are adopted. >> madam clerk can you please read the in me nor gym? -- in memoriams? >> yes, these will be supervisor avalos paul. mar, the late mr. alan farley. on behalf of president chiu for the late ms. marta. >> madam clerk, is there any other business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business, mr. president. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned? .

[adjourned] >> good afternoon and welcome to the october 26, 2012 meeting of the local agency formation commission for the city and county of san francisco. i am david campos and i am the chair of the commission. we have our clerk is linda wong and we want to thank the following members of sfg tv staff for covering the meeting today. madam clerk if

you could please call the role. >> commissioner avalos. present. commissioner olague absent. commissioner mar, present. commissioner pimentel. commissioner schmeltzer. >> present. >> there is a quorum. >> thank you very much. if you could call item two. >> item two is the minutes from the special meeting. >> do you have the minutes of the meeting? before we take any action i would like to ep it up to public comment. any member of the public that would like to speak to item two? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues do we have a motion? we have a motion by commissioner avalos and second by commissioner schmeltzer. if we could take that without

objection. madam clerk will you please call item three. >> item three is reports and update on cleanpower sf and update on the california puv, suggestions for items to be discussed at the last meeting. >> our executive officer nancy miller. >> yes nancy miller through the chairs. we have waiting for sf puc staff. >> shall we come back to this item? >> why don't we do that and see if anyone shows up. >> commissioner schmeltzer. >> i believe maises hale will be in shortly. >> if there is no objection let's move to item four. >> item four is studies on the voting process and for local offices in the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. if we could now

any mr. fried for a report. >> sure. jason fried and we asked some changes made to the report. they sat down with myself and chair campos so they were invited to what they felt were suggestive edits to the report that they felt needed to make the report better. that report is in your packet and you can review it if you choose to make the changes. i wanted to mention because we rarely get communications from outside folks. we did get a comiewgz from cory cook and we got it late yesterday so if you have any questions on it i will be more than happy to try and answer those commission. >> commissioner avalos. >> thank you. i am just reviewing the letter for the first time. could you summarize it for me? >> sure. basically he is saying that the terminology used in

the original report is fine. i used language that what would be the traditional academic version of the language and he is okay. he doesn't feel there is a reason to make change scption he understands it's it was done accordingly and reasons why i changed the language is primarily it was the language used in the city and since was to deal with san francisco and the discussion going on at the time i wanted to keeplet language the same to that discussion and why i had the definitions the way it was and he wanted changes made that were more traditional in nature. >> are you a academic or a card carrying member of a amdemmic institution? >> no. >> thank you. >> before we take any action is there any member of the public

that would like to speak on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. mr. fried in terms of here, the lafco we can make the changes? >> yes, you can or if you don't want to. >> it's up to the commission. commissioner avalos. >> i don't feel strongly about makes changes. the report was complete. i am fine with the language and served our purpose here. if there are academics that want refer to the report they can use it in whateve setting they want. >> okay. >> seeing no other action let's proceed to item five. >> item five is executive's

officer report. >> just for the record we of joined by commissioner olague. >> commissioners the joint meeting is set for the 30th and when ms. hale arrives we will talk about the agenda items for that. at your chair you have the notice of cleanpower sf and it's in the english, spanish, and chinese, so i have really no other report. >> thank you very much. colleagues any questions for our executive officer? why don't we open it up to public comment. any member of the public that would like to speak to this item please come forward. >> good afternoon eric brooks and localing the local green party. sounds like you're moving so fast i missed the caa item which is a good sign.

>> we're coming back to it. >> i wanted to speak in regard to scheduling and the joint lafco caa meeting. i was at the last meeting and the first one started taking on community choice and cleanpower sf and rate setting, and i was -- it was good to hear at that meeting the chair actually say that we need a lot of the customer data and things like that, and a lot more study work to help advise the rate setting process before this is taken up by the sf puc and then the joint lafco /sf puc, and a lot of that data has just a couple days ago come in from local power, but it will probably take throughout november to crunch that and longer to crunch that and apply it to the rate setting, so i

would just ask the various bodies to be flexible in their time line now. we have gotten this thing passed. it's on the way and now we to make sure we have solid customer data and solid data in what we might be installing and inform the process of making the opt out better. possibly giving us better rates from the beginning or shortly therefore and making sure we're identifying customers the right way with regard to marketing this thing to them so we can way down below what is currently projected as 50% opt out and that is likely to go past the joint meeting next month, so just wanted to put that forward that we want to make sure that we're not rocketing too forward too quickly setting the rates until we have all the information we need from local power and other studies. >> thank you mr. brooks. any other member of the public that

would like to speak on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. madam clerk if you could call item three. >> item three community choice aggregation report and status update on cleanpower sf and update on california puc. >> and there are several reports and joint meeting that will be taking place and i will turn it over to the lafco staff and we were joined also by barbara hale. >> ms. hale will speak to the first item. >>