being at home, being a native. i am asking to be reappointed back to the board. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. at this point i'm going to ask if there's any public comments. come on up. you have two minutes each. are you going to be repeating? no. i wanted to speak. my name is takai tyler again and i wanted to speak in support of melody daniel. i think that she would be an excellent addition to the mental health board both from her personal experience, her professional skills and expertise and just would be a great blend and make sure that there are, as she said, resources that are coming to serve the most vulnerable populations, one of which is -- are the residents of district 10. so, i just wanted to speak on her behalf and say that i think she would be an excellent

addition. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor breed has -- >> oh, no. >> okay. good afternoon. my name is sean joyce, and i also will be speaking on behalf of melody daniels. i get kind of choked up and compassionate when i speak about melody because i love her so much. she is a hard working, loyal, giving person who not only cares about her community, but people in general. and, you know, she spoke about the episode about her family member. i was there. i saw her go through that. you know, she's so strong that she, she handled it, i know it was tearing her up inside. but her having her masters in mft. and she's trained to deal with even if not only her own family, but other people in the community. and she would be an asset to

the board, not a liability. she's a strong-willed person. she's also helped me get my thoughts and my mental -- you know, in order because i'm not an easy person to deal with myself and she showed me that strong women like herself that i need in my life are here for a reason. and like i said, she would be an asset to the board and hope that she's appointed for either seat available. thank you. >> thank you. and i love the color of your jacket. [laughter] hello. my name is virginia lewis. i'm a licensed clinical social worker and i currently serve on the san francisco mental health board. i'm here today in support of marlene flores as a board member. i have known her for over 15 years.

she is intelligent, perceptive, dedicated, hard working and a team player. she is also bilingual, both english and spanish. she is the parent of a bipolar child who received and made use of public social services because of marlene's excellent parenting and continuing advocacy. her child is now a well adjusted adult working, attending college, married, and a parent. she has had extensive personal experiences with community mental health services. one responsibility of a parent board member is to provide information and insight to the board and the director regarding the delivery of community mental health services. marlene's knowledge of spanish will provide valuable insight -- will provide value in

ensuring assets and understanding of the special issues in the delivery of services in the hispanic community. they currently have no one from the hispanic community on the board. i know that if selected, marlene will prove to be an excellent edition to our board. thank you. ~ addition to our board. thank you. >> thank you. so, ms. brook, i just want -- it was mentioned, do you have anybody that's bilingual on the board at all? >> i'm sorry, do i what? >> do you have any bilingual members on the board? >> not bilingual spanish. we have chinese, vietnamese, the actual demographics are 7 women 5 men, 7 caucasians, 3 african americans, 1 vietnamese who speaks both vietnamese and

french, and 1 chinese person who speaks -- forgetting which dialect, but no one who speak spanish. >> thank you for the clarification. so, seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, i would like to take seat 12 and 15, since there's one applicant for each one of those seats. we'll take them, if you could move the nomination of seats 12 and 15 without any objections? >> yes. >> do we have to say the name on record? go ahead. >> so, we have a motion to accept and approve errol wishom to seat number 12 and lena miller for seat number 15. i'd like to make a motion that we move this forward. >> second. >> thank you. no objection. motion to move forward.

[gavel] >> so, what we have are basically four people for the three seats. any thoughts? supervisor breed. >> thank you. my thoughts are one of the challenges that we continue to face in the african-american community is the issues around violence and the lack of supportive mental health services. it does my heart good today to see so many african-americans have a real sincere interest in serving on this particular committee because right now this is a really important time so that our children are not growing up believing that the violence that they experience or have experienced their entire life is actually normal. so, we have to address this problem and we have to address the mental health issues in our community. and, so, i'm really excited to

see some amazing people, including lena miller who i know and respect and does amazing work with children in the bayview hunters point. with that, i want to make a recommendation that we reappoint ellis joseph to seat 14, that we support melody daniel for seat 13, and idell wilson for seat 16. >> supervisor cohen, do you have any comments? >> yeah, i just wanted to speak to the fact that, again, that according to ms. brooks, that there is not a spanish speaker

on this body. i think it's important to have a spanish speaker, bilingual representative. i think you said 7 caucasian, 3 african-american 1 vietnamese, 1 chinese if i'm not mistaken. what is the male female ratio on this? ~ >> [inaudible]. >> thank you. >> [inaudible]. >> all right. looks like we finally have an opportunity to increase the male representation, which is sometimes very rare. so, what i'd like to propose is supporting mr. ellis for seat number 14. >> [inaudible]. >> i see, but he's up for reappointment. so, that means that -- so, he's up for reappointment. so, to maintain the balance i think is what we're talking about, the balance of the male/female ratio.

so, supporting what supervisor breed says and siegeless eeing -- seeing ellis in seat number 14, i'd like to support melanie daniel in seat number 13 ~ and propose marlene flores for seat number 16. >> i have a follow-up question. >> supervisor breed. >> the other seats, when is the next opportunity for an appointment with some of the upcoming expiration of term? does anyone have that information? >> [inaudible]. >> which is for someone who actually lives in 2 or does it matter? can you come to the mic? i'm sorry, so the people listening at home can hear. >> the state does not have any, you know, requirement that

people come from the districts and many supervisors are quite open to participants being from other districts. others are not. they will choose only their own, so -- >> okay, thank you. >> if i want to say one more thing about the spanish speaking, one of our bigger roles is doing site visits. so, we have not been able to visit any programs for the past couple years where the clients speak only spanish because we've had no board members, with the exception virginia speaks a little bit. she would go to help out to try, but we haven't been able to do that. >> can i ask a follow-up question? so, you need a member of this committee to actually have that ability? >> part of our role in the oversight of the programs that are served by community behavioral health services is that we -- board members go visit programs and interview clients. ~ one to one. so, they go out to all sorts of

programs that we fund and interview maybe 10, 15 clients and they need to be able to speak the language. and that's why we really try to get multiple languages represented. >> so, you don't have access to translators? >> we have access to -- we could, yes. we could actually do that. but when you're doing one on one clients, what we have found over the years when we've had people to speak the actual language, they're much more comfortable talking to, you know, a member of the board who is either a client themselves or is a family member or such who actually speaks the language. and they feel they can speak more freely. that's just what we see. >> thank you. so, just for clarity, i just want to make sure that i make it clear that i stand by my decision to support marlene

flores for -- i mean, i'm sorry, melanie daniels for seat 13 and idell wilson for seat 16 and i would hope that we could use alternatives if -- i mean, we'll see what happens based on supervisor yee's desire. ~ for a bilingual spanish speaking candidate. >> here's my thoughts. i would be supporting ellis joseph with the two of you, i will be supporting melanie daniels, i support the two of you. i feel it is very important to have representation. i mean, i don't believe there is even a latino on this board. so, we need that. although i would always support push for translation to happen, i know as a bilingual, sort of bilingual person that when you

speak in their own native tongue, that culturally things are a little different from actually having something translated. so, i'm supporting marlene flores for seat number 16. so, let me go for this one at a time, then. for seat number 14, there was a motion, i believe. >> yes. >> for joseph, mr. joseph. so, with no objection that motion is passed. [gavel] >> for seat number 13 there was a motion. >> yes. >> and without any objection melody daniel for seat number 13 passes. [gavel] >> for seat number 16, i believe there's a motion for two different people. i am seconding is there a motion for -- >> i made a motion for flores. >> i'm seconding marlene flores. we can have a roll call if you

would like. roll call, please. >> on the motion, supervisor breed? >> no. >> breed no. supervisor cohen? >> yes. >> cohen aye? supervisor yee? two ayes one no. >> marlene flores will be forwarded as our recommendation to the full board. so, that motion is closed. [gavel] >> okay. i believe, once i get to my notes, we might be able to -- almost finished. madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? by the way, thank you very much. i always forget to thank all the people that come out for these seats and their willingness to even apply. and, again, go ahead. >> i'd like to say to ms. wilson, before you go away, it's actually been brought to our attention it looks like supervisor farrell has a seat that's available for an appointment.

i'd like to, with your permission, ask him to consider you for his appointment. okay, thank you. >> thank you, ms. wilson. madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, mr. chair. >> is there nothing -- if there is nothing further, this meeting is adjourned. [gavel] >> okay. colleagues, can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> i think you need to wait until linda say -- can we go ahead? okay. he so, deputy city attorney andrew shen to report back on the committee's discussion during closed session. the committee has moved forward unanimously the first nine settlements on their agenda,

items 8 through 16. and has also moved to continue item 17 to the call of the chair. >> thank you. colleague, can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> moved and seconded. so, it moves forward. okay. >> thank you very much. >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, mr. chair. >> okay. then this meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> the weekly buzz, it is the

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>> it's so great to see a full house like this. it means the world to us and to the whole cause of anti-trafficking. we are waiting for mayor lee. my name is nancy goldberg, cochair of the seven cisco collaborative against human trafficking. i wanted to introduce my past chair, and my new cochair. when i tell people of my involvement their shock to hear that san francisco is in major definition of human trafficking.

they think it is people from other parts of the world. there are also so many right here, from our own bay area communities. in the city that is out of human trafficking we are also committed to being an agent of change. i want to give you a brief history of sf cat, san francisco collaborative against human trafficking. in response to what we saw is a growing problem, four organizations formed up in 2008, the jewish coalition against human trafficking; national council of jewish women, jewish reel fund, --

we then realize would needed a wider coalition in order to be more effective we reached out to a large variety of the government sectors. in february 2008 the jewish coalition held a conference against human trafficking which included agencies such as the san francisco commission on the status of women, representative of the mayor's office and other nonprofits. this event also attracted members of the state assembly and a few congressional offices. at a meeting following our conference a i was asked to chair the larger group and my condition was that there be a cochair from the mayor's office at that time was catherine dodd.

the san francisco collaborative against human traffic was born. in 2010 - from the beginning emily morassie (sounds like) executive director of the san francisco commission on the status of women was always involved as well as theresa sparks, executive director of the human rights commission. they were not only the core of the beginning but also generously offered to help us and support us and today that is where we are housed. we have a membership of over 28 agencies public and private representing a wide area of government agencies, law enforcement agencies, service providers, educators and community members. we are committed to ending human trafficking through collaboration, education, outreach, raising awareness and supporting survivors

of human trafficking. how many cities have this kind of public private cooperation? i don't know but we are among the first and speaks about the efforts put forth in the city but isn't this the city where all things that are impossible can happen? i wanted to just a few people who are here. first and foremost the honorable mayor ed lee. and supervisor carmen chu, has been a great champion. the winners of the sf cat annual poster concert and the keynote speaker, -- a human traffic survivor and advocate. i want to say that other human rights commissioners are here, -- and vice chair doug chen,

-- commissioner, the president julie -- nancy kirshner rodriguez, police chief greg sur (sounds like) -- i will like to turn this over to mayor lee.diana are you here? he is on his way. well - thank you. why don't we do that? why waste a moment. >> nancy did mention that we will announce the winners of

the fabulous poster contest. i am the executive director of commission on the status of women. the mayor will be announcing not only the winners of the poster contest but also the winners of this year's abolitionist awards. fire commissioner -- is here and emily conroy from the department of justice is here. thank you for joining us. i want to bring up mayor lee so she can bring up the announcements of the honorees for today. apl(applause) >> thank you emily and thank you to the commission on the status of women to our human rights commission thank you for being here and the commissioners and staff as well. thank you police chief for being here and certainly all the other department heads.

wendy thank you for being here as well. members of the community. advocacy groups that have been so important to this movement. supervisor carmen chu, i know you and mayor newsom had this initial effort back some years ago to recognize the need to abolish human trafficking. an san francisco being such an international city, many of our roots are from immigrant families. we understand the problem. we did do something about it and continue that effort. i want to thank the us attorney's office for being here. and so many of you who have from the community done and continue to do what you can do to end human trafficking. this is such an important challenge for all of us.

and because we here at from immigrant families; we hear from immigrant women and girls. the stories are real. they come across international borders. and so san francisco being the city that is not only aware of this, and aware of international traffic that occurs we have to continue doing something about it. if anything, our goal is of course to educate our youth; to make sure they understand that they have partners in both city government and in the community to help. those that are lucky and can survive; all of this and when they end up on the shores of san francisco, if we can find them and provide them with support and help them change their lives. and then get to the business of the criminal acts involved in exploiting our kids.

we should do all of that and this trafficking. i want to thank everybody for being here today, helping celebrate this event recognizing the awareness month but also recommitting ourselves in every possible way to do what we can do to end this on a worldwide basis and to know the source businesses and individuals and groups of people organized to continue this effort and to do our best to end their activities as well. i want to make sure that i think both emily but also nancy goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. i am privileged today to recognize a number of

individuals who have been strong, strong advocates, people who have gone way beyond the duty but also deserving of recognition for all their advocacy work. the first person i would like to introduce is these year's recipient of the abolitionist the word for advocacy, staff attorney with with the asian pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. apl (applause) we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition.