we are all part of the same people. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning and thank you so much to super supervisor cam pos. california is a home to the largest population of immigration of immigrants in the united states. immigrants are family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers and many of us like myself are immigrants. california's communities need common sense immigration policies that up hold our basic values and protect the rights we hold dear. protection of the unity of the family must re/phaeupbl at the heart of immigration law and policy. we recognize that there are many times of

families and our immigration laws shall respect all family members, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, contact with the criminal justice system or current immigration status. we call for immigration reform that /r-plts the value of unity of the family. for these reasons the california immigrant policy acceptabilitier urges you to adopt this resolution. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, thanks for having us. i'm ashley and this is my partner ki and this issue affects us greatly. we met nine years ago and fell in love immediately and that was a trial in and of itself because i cam came from a very conservative community and i was rejected by my family and communality, but that issue

/tk-fpblt compare to this immigration nightmare that we /tpaeuls. and though we've been lucky and managed to stay together legally here, it's really put us through the ringer. we've had to uproot and move /twaoeuls, she had to get a second-degree to stay on a student visa, which was a financial burden because that was expensive and we had to live on my income alone. it's been really difficult for her. she has felt like a perez /tpher in this country, too afraid to leave that she wouldn't get back in so she's missed saying /tkpwaold bye to the grandmother who raised her on her death bed and /pheultszed funerals of close families, /herpl brother's wedding, her niece's birth and didn't see her family for eight years so it's been really hard, but the most difficult part is that we live with every single day that she'll lose her job

and that we will have to find another country to live in. the country she was razed in -- she was raised in [inaudible] we wouldn't be able to move there and we're not sure where we would move. so we've had to put our future on hold until we get equality and it's becoming really frustrating and scary and we know a lot of people have fought that battle much longer than us, but we don't want our whole lives to be about this /-fp we want to move on and that's why we want our family to be included in comprehensive immigration reform. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. the representative for aclu had to leave because of a scheduleing

conflict so i'm reading the statement for the record. the aclu of [inaudible] upholds the values of fairness, equality and rights for all. immigration reform must include the [inaudible] committed and loving couples in same sex relationships to sponsor the spouse or permanent partner in the same way opposite sex couples have long been able to. this has cost this lbgt families to live in fear for far too long. this is a critical component of any reform proposal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you supervisor campos

and yee. i'm a resident of a state that tried to legislate morality or a type of morality through proposition eight. now those same forces are trying to do the same thing through a federal immigration bill. i want to thank you supervisor campos for taking the lead on united families acting. you supervisor campos are this generation's hero for equality. senator diane knew the first openly gay elected official, harvey milk and she also announced his assassination. i urge her to ask herself the one

question, what would harvey do? would he stand up for equality and will you? thank you. >> thank you, sir. i have another speaker card from ashley meyer, but any /phebl of the public who has not spoken who would like to speak please come forward. so with that we will close public comment. just want to add a couple of points. the amendments -- there are a couple that are being considered and one of 'em is amendment six, which would allow same sex binational couples a u.s. citizen to sponsor his or her domestic partner in any part of the country. amendment seven would allow that sponsorship only if people -- the couple has been married in one of the states

that recognizes legal marriage. the reason why i think all of us support amendment six and /whao*eu it is such a clear choice is that if the you only limit this right to couples that have been married in the few states that recognize same sex marriage, it means that in places like california that same sex couples living in this state which does not allow for same sex marriage, we would have to travel outside the state of california for us to actually exercise something like that. that the not equality. that is not equal treatment under the law. and our hope is that the delegation that represents us in washington dc will send a very clear message that the citizens that they represent, the people of the state of california, the

lgtb people of the state of california have the right to the same rights as residents of any other state. it's a very basic e principal. we want to be very clear, on record that this is an important issue. and some have said if you include lgtb rights in comprehensive immigration reform, that will kill immigration reform. i beg to differ. if you do not include lgtb rights and comprehensive immigration reform then you don't really have real reform. it is hatred, bias and prejudice that will kill the reform. the people who hire

against the lgtb community are people who are basing their opinion on something that is prejudice. that's what it is about. so i ask my /kol likes today to move this forward to the board of supervisors and my hope is that we will have a unanimous vote to the board of supervisors so we can send it over to other representatives so they can see that san francisco is united in this fight. supervisor yee. >> thank you. i want to thank all the individuals and organizations that came out today and in particular the individuals that shared their stories. i'm very thankful of what i heard today. before i move this, i agree that we need

to make those amendments and i would be supportive of that. and i would like to join my hero, your hero here and be asked she be named as a cosponsor of this resolution. i'd like to make a motion to pass this out with a positive recommendation. >> thank you supervisor yee. we're proud to have your cosponsorship. let's be clear here, the heros are the couples who have been fighting for this for so long. you are our heros. thank you very much. with that we will take that without objection. we will have this item move forward without objection. thank you very much for coming. >> if we can please call item number two. >> item two is a hearing to consider the transfer of a type 21 off sale [inaudible] from

[inaudible]. >> i know we will keep this item brief. if i can ask the applicant [inaudible] to please come forward. thank you for your patience. >> good afternoon and thank /kwroug for allowing me this opportunity. my name is [inaudible] i'm the sole proprietor of [inaudible] cafe at 539 sutter street. in 1993 we moved to 539 sutter street for a better location. since 1999 my family operated business, catered to locals and

office workers. we offer /tpr-rb mediterranean wraps and many other items that compliment a local sand witch shop. we also offer a fine limited selection of /waoeupbl and spirits. after 20 years in the same location my [inaudible] of a further lease extension by the building management. in order to stay on the same block it became part of my family we decided to move 80 across to 522 sutter street in a bigger place. i would like to continue my business and thrive even more than i have in the past. thank you for your time. >> thank you. do you want to

say something? >> yes. i'm going to say good afternoon david and mr. yee. nice to be back home again. mr. yee, i /sr-pb haven't seen you in a couple months. david -- i've been in that neighborhood for quite some time and [inaudible]. nick don't know he's raising a family, but he has raised more than a family in that neighborhood -- the nurses, the doctors, the dentists, the /kapbld /-l stick make /-rs -- everybody goes to nick. he is a family man. >> just want to -- we -- this is the opportunity for the applicant so maybe you can speak -- >> nick done know i missed my

train. i have something to give to you -- and i'm asking you david and the board of supervisor, we don't want to see him leave outta that neighborhood because i can be dragging in the field and i can have quite a few peoples with me. first thing he say come on in, have a coffee and have a sandwich. and i wind up getting in trouble because id do work in the field. just like now i'm here with nick because i want to be here with nick because i don't wanna see him leave and he has college age children and they going to my hometown which is new york and then they will be a part of my family. they'll be going to college there. i thank you all in advance. >> thank you miss stacy.

there's miss stacy rule here at the board of supervisors so we will now call upon our police department, inspector fong or keller. >> good afternoon, i'm [inaudible] on behalf of [inaudible] has filed an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 21 general license for 522 sutter street. from december 2011 to december 2012, we have one police call for service and no police report. notification date for the [inaudible] on

november 6, 2012 and the notice to the public was post on [inaudible] and this plot has 380 police report recorded for 2012 and the applicant premises is located in a high crime year. this premises is located on [inaudible] with population of 3833. the officer [inaudible] three and the [inaudible] so the applicants premises is currently located in an [inaudible] concentration area. we have one letter of protest reported with the california [inaudible] the department recommendation would be no opposition from central police station if the applicant

agrees to the recommended condition, alu concur. condition one is [inaudible] dated 10-30-2012. the sales of [inaudible] spirits in sizes smaller than 20 milliliters is [inaudible] no malt beverages shall be sold with an alcoholic content greater than 5.7. loitering is prohibited on or around this premises. it's my understanding that inspector stockwell and the advocate [inaudible] agree to these conditions.

>> thank you very much inspector. supervisors, any comments, questions. why don't we open it up for public comment? is there any other /phebl of the public who had not spoken? my understanding is that this is something given that there is a positive reck /phepbl /tkaeugs that there has been outreach to the community. i know the district supervisor is supportive. i would support moving this forward with a positive recommendation if we have a motion. we have a motion by supervisor yee to move this item forward we can take that without objection. thank you very much. congratulations. if we can call item number four. >> item four is a hearing to discuss recent events of spry

/hrepbls to the transgender /skphaoupbty. ty community. >> thank you. this is an item that i introduced -- the hearing request. and let me begin by saying that one of the most disturbing things that i have seen as a district supervisor in the last few years are some of the incidents around the violence targeting our transgender community and it pains me that the concentration of that violence has been in the mission. the mission is a very welcoming place and diverse neighborhood. but in this neighborhood that embraces people from all walks of life, we have a group of

human beings are being targeted and being targeted for physical abuse. i am proud of the transgender community of the women who have come forward to speak about difficult situations. the /purpl of this hearing is to /pwrepbg a level of gravity that i belief this herb sure has not received so that we as a city can make a concerted effort and commitment to make dealing with this issue, this violence against the community the priority that it needs to be. that's the point of this hearing. and the hope is that out of this hearing we will not only have discussions and we will get information, but that there will be action, a comprehensive strategy by this city to make sure no woman, no transgender

woman or member of this communality feels unsafe in san francisco. so with that, i have a number of speakers [inaudible] and i'd like to /tkpweupbl by calling on rebecca from our dis/trebgt attorney's office and i want to note that our district attorney has a long history of supporting this community and of making i want clear that we in san francisco are not going to tolerate any kind of hate crime against the transgender communality. with that i'll turn it over to our assistant district attorney so she can present. >> thank you. good afternoon yee. thank you for /eupbl serrating the district attorney's office [inaudible] working on for some time so we

welcome the /hr*epb, we have a hate crimes unit where our prosecutor has specialized training. he has successfully prosecuted transgender hate crimes. with respect to the transgender community and hate crimes, since 2010 we've had 11 cases and we've been able to file on nine of those. six of those cases resulted in /haeutd crime convictions. we strive and continue to strive to improve relations with the

transgender community [inaudible] with the mayor's office and with any other neighborhood community or government organization that will work with us on this to improve the transgender community and law enforcement. those meetings will continue until we see what needs to happen happen, which is good /khrab /raegs, reporting when crimes occur and successful prosecution of cases when that is merited. to improve the safety at 16th and mission we have attempted to organize the community on patrol similar to that of the castro community. we've participated in the mayor's office meetings about 16th and mission to make sure we were reviewing all the cases in that area. we want to make clear collaborationings aside that we offer victim services

for any and all who has been a /srubg tim of crime in the mission dis/treubgtd. people with go to the women's building every wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm. obviously our goal here is to make sure that /efrpl, regardless of genre, identity and orientation feels comfortable reporting crime and we will prosecute it when we can. >> thank you. any questions? why don't we now call upon our police station captain, captain moser of the mission station. the police department is a very important player when something happens they are the first

agency this they interact with. and i see sergeant [inaudible] is here who has a long history of serving or lgtb community well, not only in the department, but throughout the city. i'll turn it over to you captain, but the question that has come up for me in terms of the police department is what's the level of sensitivity to this community. what we have heard repeatedly is that they feel there is a disconnect, that there isn't a level of understanding that makes many of them feel welcome to move forward and to come forward and report a hate crime and that at times when a crime is reported, it is not treated as a hate crime. and that of course, this creates disincentives for

many of these women to come forward. you know you care deeply about all of our residents and i wan to thank you for always being proactive and so those are the kinds of questions that i think need to be /tkeuls cussed as we're talking about this relative to the police department. >> certainly. thank you. good afternoon supervisor campos, supervisor yee. as you mentioned we're here to talk about crimes against transgenders in the mission and at 16th and mission. we've had three reported cases involved transgender victims. one occurred on january 26, an assault; another occurred on march 30, that was also an assault; and the third occurred

on april 8 and that was a robbery. on those three cases we've made arrests on two of those -- the robbery and one of the assaults. as a representative, the population of crimes in the area of 16th and mix, in that same timeframe we've had approximately 375 incidents and of those, three were involved transgender victims. with the level of concern and the talk of the up tick of crimes of transgenders, this speaks to a possible reporting problem, as you mentioned, being that we have three crimes out of a total of 375 incidents. there's a few things that we've been doing to improve the general safety of

the area and second, to improve the relationings between the law enforcement and transgender community. 16th and mission, we've tried a different strategies to address safety concerns down there. we conduct a joint operation specifically targeting 16th and mission with bart police, robbery bait that we've done to

really build a bridge with the transgender community and encourage that reporting of crime, which is really what we want to get to because as we see when we do have the crimes that are reported, our officers are going out and we are successful in making arrests and that's what it's really about is bringing these individuals to justice. one thing that we've done is the department has created an lgtb safe zone. it is at all district stations, including the mission. signs are up to show the people that the police stations are a safe zone where

if you are a victim of crime you can come in and be treated fairly and justly. [inaudible] with the sisters of perpetual indulgence to get the word out again that these stations are lgtb safe zones, places where you can come to report and feel safe. we are trying to get the community around 16th and mission involved in a similar safe zone project where we want to get businesses to come forward and become safe zones for the transgender community should they feel they need a place to go into where they can feel safe, where someone can call the police for them and