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the case from the attorneys and the support staff prosecuting violence in this city are are you able so long as they stay hi high. those kinds loads are we hope short time. i think the peculiar the finance committee did in making the changes necessary to appropriate the amount to the district attorney's office during the budget and finance committee was priority because based on the need what was being recommended to us is appropriate. as well as the information that is of the appropriation going to the status of women was carefully vetted and discussed
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and i am comfortable in moving this item forward and looking forward to moving another project forward that talks about the additional appropriation and i wait for this this to be returned to the board and supervisor yee >> thank you. i also want to thank the community for actually help with this issue. and i guess one of the comments i want to make and i'll be sporting as it is sent back to committee. as i'm listening i understand the statute of woman support is necessary but what i feel has been silent in this and something for us to think about
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it's not just about legal services that we need to be concerned about. i was on the board several years and i saw domestic violence and even the organizations that deal with children particularly there is no resources were a lot of times the people's were caught in the middle of the two parties. so as we move forward we need to provide some resources for those types of services and supported them because those are the organizations that are dealing with the items. >> thank you. i want to make a
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comments i do support the underlying speak up i supplemental that is before us today that cute of the budget committee today but i think it should go back to the budget economy. it was such a short time we have to spend the fund i have no doubt there are community needs but i'd like to see an overall plan by which we're helping victims of domestic violence. the one thing i am excite about we'll be able to develop an overall plan. but shelter transition housing
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are the basic needs that families need once they flee a violent situation. i meet many women and children that are swaip violence and they're in a single room and, of course, our homeless shelter system. i'm also very supportive of having that situation and talking about what the appropriate budget process is in june. so that we know that money we're putting forward is going toward a broader goal >> spiefr wiener. >> thank you mr. president. i support the supplemental and i'm speaking because actually, i
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don't wag the cut that was made by the budget committee i think it's a mistake. i am glad we're helping victims of domestic violence and i don't disagree in any way before but the fact is our district attorney's office is understaffed in many ways in which this is a crushing caseload. and while that is very important for your us to support the victims of domestic violence it's also important to send the message that people who commit domestic violence will be held accountable. i think it's important to send
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that message loud and clear. i know that every time the district attorney's office comes forward and says they want more staph. and the district attorney's office handles 1 hundred percent of the case load and so i don't agree with what the budget committee did. but i will be supporting amendments and i'll be supporting this amendment >> i just said to add i think the final part which supervisor kim mentioned is the supplemental plan is approved by the time they start to hire and spend the funding we're probably
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already into our cycle. so i do think it was priority in the further to take a look at that process. >> spiefr campos. >> thank you mr. president. just want to make a couple of points. i support what happened at the budget committee and will be supporting this supplemental. i do think as a general rule supplemental should be the expectation not how we run those agencies but the fact is there are times when a need arise when action needs to be taken. i support the work of the budget committee which it comes to providing funding for agencies like the district attorney like
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the public defender who are providing a service i tend to agree with supervisor wiener on the request by the district attorney's office. i certainly understand that there is a need, there is an increase in workload and i certainly would be supportive to provide whatever resources they need for that office. i certainly would have been supportive of the alternative amount as well and with respect to the prime rate also, we provided resources to one and that could lead to alternative resources needed by the other. we need legal representation in
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terms of defense and that people are properly represented t is so critical as a matter of rule the second part i want to say is it is more important for us to have a comprehensive discussion. i'm supportive of the alternative amount to be redirected to community based organizations. i know that many organizations they are doing a lot of work with very little. and i know that in terms of being efficient that they're an example of how you can do a lot with a very little money. so i think even if an intelligent to see what is
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needed. and i'm concerned about language barriers of people coming forward like woman who don't speak coming forward >> i want to say one more thing. i am glad we kept the program for domestic violence program. a lot of support services we need to assuring that we're able to prosecute those cases. we need the legal services. >> mr. president, chu. >> thank you, mr. chair i want
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though make a couple of comments. first of all, i share the redundancy of colleagues when we were first discussing the school supplementals. i had a really hesitation but let me point out a few things we did set aside money. this is part of our budget process and when i decided to support the school supplemental we also know there are other supplementals coming down the line especially in the health care area. when it comes to health and i think in this stance i am concerned about the domestic violence. i think did matter it as i and i lutd to before the caseload from
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the prosecutors office we have a spike of domestic violence in the last few years. we have to make sure that your conviction rate stays high and they're not where they need to be. i think the district attorney's office needs to be where it was and the budget committee obviously made adjustments. i know we're going to have a discussion about what supervisor cohen supported and i'm also supporting. the line share of the money went to the district attorney's office and went to make sure we're hiring another staff
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person only 23 percent of the total $753,000 is being divide among the organizations. and the fed back i've received from the domestic violence community is that money is not enough. i thought it was okay to hold the line but i do think reallocating the $750,000 should be reallocated. i want to thank everyone who is working very hard particularly to the men and women of the domestic violence groups. thank you for continuing to insure that san francisco remains a city on the forefront
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and hopefully, we'll be one of the cities that doesn't have violence of this kind >> thank you mr. president, chu. i want to acknowledge that the budget analysts office did a thorough study and they gave arguments on the district attorney's office and the public defenders off. from the original proposal of doubting the staph from 11 to i think it was 21 or 22 we'll have tenant positions and not permanent position. we need critical legal services and it was very clear that on the victims side of the district
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attorney's office it made a lot of sense but the budget office countered some of the information that president chiu gave us in looking at the hours of cases and how the public defenders office and district attorney's office handled those cases. i'm supportive of supervisor cohen who says we should get for services to our victims in this community >> thank you. all supplementals are not necessarily equal. we did reflect a loss of monies but i did recognize it was a loss of federal funding. the upcoming supplementals that i believe will come from the
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fact we're losing some certifies that were from the state. that is definitely considerations. and i think some of the health care supplementals many of them has been resisted back. they were supplementals that were paid for and generated by that department. i think it's important to figure out what was important about the supplementals as we move forward. when he take a look at our appropriations we're looking at seven hundred and 50 next year so we're not talking about an investment that is one time that is 750 it's not a one-time investment. it's an ongoing investments.
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i know there is a limited disbursing in timing and i think it is priority so we can mile-an-hour how effective our services are. and thank you. colleagues any further discussion. okay. why don't we proceeded to the votes. i think first for item 7 there are no amendments with regards to what came out of the budget committee. with regards to 8 i think we should duplicate that file and add the additional 1 hundred and 18 thousands of dollars and we cut the remainder and refer that back to budget. is it okay if he vote one time
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on the amendment and the duplication doesn't require a vote but you can vote on the referral >> and then we'll vote on - why don't we then vote on the unduplicated part. >> on item 7 - (calling roll on votin voting). >> there 11 i's. >> that ordinance is passed for 3. and then on one version as
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amended by cohen this was second by myself. can we do that same house, same call and are we voting on the original file? >> no, i suggested that i suggested we voted on the portion that is amended by 1 hundred 18 thousand. >> so 3 it will be downsized for the committee. >> can we do that same house, same call? and if he could vote on the duplicated versions as it came out of the budget committee? without objection that is passed on the first 3.
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thank you, colleagues item number 9 >> it's approving to provide housing and extended 3 years and for a total of 40.5 million for the period of july 1st through june 8th. >> item 10. >> item 10 is a resolution 30 years the parks department to accept a gift of 1 hundred 89 point 1 thousand for recreation for a period to remain in effect until completion. >> this motion is accepted. >> he retroactive agreement with the parking and transportation department to
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allow appropriation to be terminating on january 31st and. >> this resolution is approved. now we have car share use and making the requisite finding >> i thank you mr. president. before us today is legislation that will encourage more car sharing availability throughout the city. this will correct planning code processions that are currently indulge dedicated car sharing spots. the failure undermines car
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sharing in san francisco and this legislation does recommend that. the legislation has the unanimous support of the mta and that agency requested certainly plans and i did take care of that. we've never be transit without car sharing. from time to time they will need access to a car. for each car spots unfortunately, many of the location where we currently have car sharing pods are sdoip. many gas station parking lot are
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being developed. we have a slow process in terms of increasing the numbers of car spots. car companies are challenged with finding available spots. the planning codes actually e rekdz obstacles in car sharing. currently car share spots are treated the same as car sharing spots so if the developer wants tocally several car sharing spots we require the developer to include car sharing spots in their plans. this - there car sharing areas
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that don't encourage sharing spaces. this is supportive of our plan >> we have accepted every recommendation for the maintenance mount. the legislation will require that each of oscar sharing spots will be restricted. so if the future the car sharing company withdraws the spot can be used for bike storage or bike storage. the additional car sharing spots
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will only be allowed if it is not use for addition car space your knowledge. and lastly it facilitates car sharing spots and not to be used for unlawful purposes . we will allow sins to complain if the car spots are not being used correctly. now we also want to help people find the locates for car spots that they need. now we're talking to the
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planning commission to help advanced this goal and reducing the need for cars in this city will make more spots for your car parking >> i want to add my name as a co-sponsor. >> and with that colleagues any further discussion? can we take this same call? without objection it passes. madam clerk call item 13 >> it requires hotels to have grab bars in pool facilitates and the failure to provide a
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phone just a second is discouraged. >> colleagues that piece of legislation will help making make our housing especially in our hotels satisfactory and reduce isolation for many people with disabilities. as our population continues to grow we help to make our existing how's even safer. working phone jacks and grab bars in shared bathrooms are a cost-effective and a way to keep our residents connected to our community. i want to say that the mayor's offense on disability are really instrumental in helping us graft this legislation. but it was really helpful from
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our senior organizations that came up with a saucer where they looked at this legislation and hopefully other pieces of legislation will make our seniors in disabilities communities safer. we also have senior people who i thank. and mr. president, chu and our former colleagues in their line share housing for there could sponsor shipping. this is will enpowering our people's in this city.
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and especially thanks to the collaborate work of our residents in our communities buildings as well. i wanted to also thank nick from our staff who creates less isolation for our seniors >> supervisor kim. >> thank you i'm really proud to come sponsor this legislation as well. i want to thank supervisor mar. i'm first starting with hearing the study and following through with the first piece of legislation from our community. and as hotels become more scare