>> next speaker. >> we are happy to be here with you today and i would like to thank avalos and other supervisors on this committee on this leadership on this issue on bringing it forward and i would like to thank the hard work of all of the youth commissioners and particularly mia toomuch for bringing this issue forward and thank you. and san francisco is a sanctuary in city ways, we have led on queer issues and it has made our city a sanctuary not only for the youth who grew up here but from the youth around the world who come to our city as i did when i was 18. many of these youth who are coming to san francisco and

many of them come here because of a lack of support in their homes or communities. and the club would like to see the city agencies provide the adequate and ininclusive support that these growth came here for and need. we support the youth's commissions ask for staff training ininclusive intake forms and identifying leadership to work on ongoing best practices and implementation of nxefl. we look forward to working with the youth commission the family and the elected officials to insure that 12 n is fully implemented in a timely manner, thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, thanks for having this today, i'm super excited to see all of the people in the room and for the enthusiasm for the board of supervisors and so thank you. my name is pipe long and i work with health initiatives for youth. we have already been doing these trainings and offering

provider trainings for lgbtq competency for 20 years we are a dcyf contracted agency and i just wanted to say that i think that there is a lot of room for collaboration and basically they said that actually there is already funding in every agency's budget for ongoing training and professional development and if we can prioritize making this something that is a priority and saying that every agency needs to say this is required and let's do it and i mean that every staff has to go through certain training. and so i do love the fact that there is a video and i do agree that there does need to be the human one on one component and we do the training, and it is always the discussion, we do the popular education-based training so they are not boring and they are absolutely interactive and they really put the training recipient at the center of the conversation so that they can then use their own experience to learn about

that the other people's experience and i find that to be really effective. and so i would say, you know, recommendations include the human component and actually in our offices we do provide the mass trainings that anyone is welcome to come to obviously we don't have so much room and we also go to agency and do the trainings all of the time so this is the kind of thing that we can collaborate with other agency and standardize the forms that we have been using for 15 plus years and we are just really excited about the opportunity to be part of the conversation and i brought a couple of the queer young folks to come to our fabulous folks to come to the center to tell you about their experiences.

and in closing i want to add to what jodi said about really making sure that there is particularly housing. and a component of understanding the barriers for queer, young folks. people come here and i was a homeless young youth and it is really hard, it is hard to find affordable housing. so particularly emphasizing how to get the folks into more permanent housing, and so thank you so much. >> >> it was really good. >> next speaker please. >> i am alex (inaudible) and i am one of the youth here in san francisco, i do a lot of the classes and trainings with hifi and do a lot of volunteer work at the lgbtq center. i have actually seen you there.

>> i used to be in foster care, and it was really hard as a transyouth and to identify as a pgp, >> and they were put. >> i was put into... >> an all girls group home and i was in a room with a fellow roommate who was actually transgender phobic and i had to deal with it to advocate to be put in my own room or someone i would be comfortable. it took three months to get my own room and put up with this girl for a long time. >> and afterwards they put me in a foster home where the family told me that i couldn't stay there and i had to be a female if i was living with them >> it was very hard. but, you had to get through it.

i don't think that any youth should have to deal with that. >> thank you. >> thank you for sharing that. >> next speaker please? >> hi, my name is lorenzo harris and i am also a youth here in san francisco and i actually just arrived here four weeks ago away from washington state because things were not going well there. and i came here because i thought things would be better and i have used a lot of the services here and i mean, so far, everything has been... i just feel like why is this even an issue? you know? you know what i mean? like, yeah. i feel there should not be an issue and i feel like we should not have to have a whole thing

about this simple respect for lgbtq people, yeah. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> and anyone else who would like to speak, if you could just line up over by the wall or collect at the podium after this speaker. >> i want to say the same (inaudible) youth for showing up today and actually we have leaders tomorrow and today and it is a change that you can actually do today and an update. and you can do it for a while now. >> and so my name is mckera and i actually work for a high five as well. but more than at high five worker, i have been a youth immigrant in the city. and i am moving in without knowing anything and actually being treated very nice way in the city to which way is challenging and i think that is enough to actually getting both into trainings. and something that we have noticed and the thing that was

brought up in the conversation here is that the importance of when we talk about lgbtq issues, we not just talk about sexual orientation, but i think that there are quite important as understanding the different levels of sexuality like sexual orientation or gender identity. and sexual assignment at birth and as well as gender expression and those are things that i have not seen happening in a long time, actually never. and at high five as well as the most itemization in san francisco we have been trying to get that approach and we have noticed results out of that. what i am going to make is i am going to tell you a little bit of the feedback from comments and reactions we get from city workers and actually it is enough to work with the school district and we work with a system and other cbos as well as dcyf and we have this one exercise that we ask the people

that are working with the youth to actually and a question, whatever question they have about working with the youth. what are some of the challenges and we ask them to write on a piece of paper without putting their names or anything that is going to identify them. >> and it is interesting to see the questions that came out of those. of that exercise and i will take the random questions and some of those are what is transgender? >> and i mean, actually people that are working with transgender youth have no idea what it is. >> and another question is how do i pretend that i expect something that they tell me it is for. >> and they actually know how to manage, the youth, because ne could... (inaudible) that is something wrong for them. and another question is... i believe that is supposed to hurry up. how could we effect when the security and administration and

even other teachers keep making the comments and the jokes. what can i do? and we have more here and the number one comment that we get from city workers is i get it, i understand, but there is nothing that i can do. and that is actually i think something that one of the many parts of having 12 is going to implement... >> thank you very much and i also want to welcome, the students from bella vista school in oakland and welcome to san francisco city hall and thank you for being well behaved and it is very impressive and i hope that you are enjoying your visit. >> next speaker. >> my name is mia (inaudible) and i am the chair woman of the san francisco youth commission and i am used to being one of the youngest person in the room

clearly not at the minute. >> we just want to start out and the youth commission is excited to hear about it and the fact that there are these departments that are creating these different trainings and listening to their remarks and one of the things is to keep them from the need of the centralized authority responsible for compliance and we do not feel that should be the authority and we would love to be a youth consultant on people creating their trainings we serve one year term we don't have enough capacity to be the one telling the program. why aren't you doing the training. >> and that set and we also want to say that the dph, 30-minute video is great but clearly if there are these other departments that are able to create much, much longer trainings. there is more that can be done. that can be fully captured in 30 minutes. so it is a great first step and

a great kind of catalyst, but, we don't want to create a situation where every department shows the 30-minute video and then they are done because the actual demographic that were spelled out in 12 n such ases hiv and positive youth and abused youth and disabled youth they are not fully addressed in that video because it is the first step for a training and i think that everyone has echoed so far that the 30 minute training video would never be enough without some sort of a discussion and facilitation and more than that. so, that is essentially our main point, we just want to make sure that what is going on so far is the beginning of the process to expand and to resource these trainings and to prioritize them because they are important and also to recognize the fact that the lgbtq sensitivity trainings don't insure attitudes and

behaviors and to access the best practice to make sure that the youth are actually receiving the quality care and one of the ways to do that is by tracking them. how do we know that they are not slipping through the tracks if they are not tracking who they are. and obviously the different people have come up with different concerns for that and i am not a legal genius and i just want to urge that is important. because, youth access and services is already a challenge, and it is already a struggle that the youth go through, so to receive for the youth to actually feel safe receiving the services that we provide as a city and we need to have these best practices created thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, for summarizing at the end and any other member of the public that would like to comment, come forward and seeing none we will close the public comment. >> and commissioner campos. >> thank you. >> i don't know if you want to you know make some final remarks but one thing that i would say is, i do want to

begin by thanking the youth commission and especially commissioner toomuch. it is incredible when you look at the fact that we passed this law in 1999. that there is still no the level of compliance that we want to see. and it is quite amazing that it is the youth people who are basically saying that you are not doing what this law said that you were supposed to do. and i really appreciate all of the departments that have come forward when there are different levels of compliance and it is impressive to see the things that are happening and certainly the video of dph and i really appreciated the presentation and all of the things that they are doing and that they are going to do and i appreciate that and of course the human. and i think that the main and of course the juvenile probation department and i

think that the training that is in here, chief is really impressive and i would love to figure out how to take that on the road with some of these other departments and of course, dcyf who has then a lot of work with the lgbtq community especially youth, and you know, just to recognition that more needs to be done. and i think that the main thing and i would leave it to supervisor avalos and i want to thank you, supervisor for identifying this issue. i do think that we need to come up with a way of overseeing compliance. the 12 n ordinance does not really provide for that. to include, the body or the hrc or i don't know who, that actually provides a report so that is actually someone that is compiling all of the

information because i think that like even though, it is amazing that the departments that came and they are probably the departments out there that need to be looked at but i think that this is one of those things where i think that all of us as adults in the city government have to take responsibility for the fact that we have not done anything that we need to do. and the amazing things going on in these departments and i look forward for your leadership and thank you for your comments. >> i am actually, i really enjoyed hearing this a lot and i have enjoyed the work done by the departments. and they have gone into and just recently where they need to go and i really appreciate the work of commissioner toomuch and the youth commission over all to bring this to our attention. i think that this check in that we have today, is really going to be instrumental and actually getting and moving forward on making sure that we are in

compliance and i do agree that we do need to change 12 n to improve upon it the added compliance process in it as well as a reporting mechanism at the end of each year. and it would really assure that we are meeting our marks on these things. so what i would like to do is speak with the youth commission afterward and develop a plan with the youth commission about how we can move forward legislatively and administratively and getting the departments together as well will be really important, i think that seeing the video, with that meeting would be a really great thing to see and do and think about how they can use the video for our own training and also to think about how we can make the similar improvements in other departments as well. and so i look forward to moving forward on this with you. i want to see how we can make this happen. >> great, hearing, supervisor yee?

>> yeah. thank you avalos for bringing this for the committee. >> and i want to thank everybody who came out to address this hearing. and as we have a knowledge a long ways to go. and we need to, and we need to go on these days and we can actually feel comfortable that we don't need this. but at this point, we are at a state where this is still needed but we need to be aggressive about this and i concur with my colleagues here that it seems like we need to have a centralized compliance monitoring system for this, and whoever is going to bring this up as a modification of i would be very supportive of this, thank you very much.

>> thank you. >> supervisor, do you want to continue this to the call of the chair and bring it back or file this? >> yeah, that is it. >> yeah. so we have a motion to continue, motion by supervisor yee? if we can take that without objection, and again, i want to thank everyone and you know that one of the many great silver linings is that when the youth commissioners take over the world and running the city things will be in much better shape than they are today. >> now, mr. clerk, if you could call item number two, again, thank you supervisor avalos. >> item number two, the hearing to consider the issuance of type 48 on the premises to art rodreguz doing business as ferrill in district eight >> so we have been joined by supervisor weiner and this is a request that comes from an establishment in district eight and we don't want to lose the quorum and so i apologize in

waiting for this. supervisor weiner, do you want to begin? >> yes. thank you mr. chairman. and i am here today in support of the liquor license transfer to this space. this is currently a vacantcy and it was previously a nightclub called trigger which had a lot of problems and a lot of consistent conflicts with the surrounding neighborhood. and it ended up closing down. it has been a vacantcy ever since. and i think that a lot of us were very concerned when it closed down that this could end up turning into a long-term vacantcy and so a lot of us were very, very happy when the new owners have stepped up to take over the space and to turn it into this.

and they own, three on bars in the castro and the edge in the midnight sun, and in each instance when they have taken over the bar they have made the bar better. and they have upgraded it, sometimes fixed code violations, resolved the issues with the surrounding neighbors and made positive changes to all of these establishments. and they also have a long track record of working very well with neighbors and with the community in general, tim is on the board of the video neighborhood association. and i know that this has project has good support in the neighborhood. and i am a very supportive and i will also note that there is a condition in the liquor license transfer for use of video surveillance, and that is an ongoing discussion that we have been having with the police department and i believe

that this language conforms to the department's new approach as opposed to the previous approach which is a little more extreme. i have also spoken to one of the owners and understand that they are supportive of having a video surveillance and i am comfortable with that condition and given that circumstance. >> i do support this, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor weiner and i really appreciate your comments and certainly agree with everything that you said about the applicants. why don't we hear briefly from the applicants just to give you a brief opportunity to say something and again, thank you for your interest in this application and for all that you have done and for the communities if you can just say a few words. >> thank you. supervisors, my name is tim (inaudible) and i am one of the owners and we are requested a public convenience for necessity for the transfer of a type 48 liquor license. it is going to be a cocktail

lounge and dance bar with occupantcy of approximately 250. a little bit of history and this has been for over 75 years and throughout the vast majority of the history as a bar and a place of entertainment has not been a problem in the neighborhood it was the site of the first day bar in the castro in the 80s and 90 it was a popular bar called the detower and the nightclub trigger and we have designed it from the start to really try to avoid the problems from trigger which were mostly noise and crowd management kind of issues and the design is to be more of a warm comfortable space which is a combination of a cocktail lounge that with partitions that can separate out from the dance area so that on monday or tuesday night it can be more warm intimate lounge space and then it can open up on weekends

to a larger dance space which the castro has deseeupd and has not enough dance space. we have done a significant amount of out reach for this, starting back in december because we knew about the history of trigger, we want to make sure that we understood the people's concerns and we are able to address them. and we met with dtna the neighborhood association, and the valley association and munsy of over market and castro and we received support from munsa and another letter of support. and i am not aware of any opposition to our plans and we did a bunch of sound tests in cooperation with the neighbors where we installed sound recording equipment in neighboring properties and really played very loud music

to try to stress the space and we received a whole set of recommendations for what we could do to improve the sound containment and all of which that we plan to do as part of the remodel and incorporate a lot of feedback from the neighbors in our designs. and as supervisor weiner said we do have other bars in the castro and we have a strong focus on community events and fund-raisers that all of the bars will continue. and we have a history of working with the neighborhood and the neighbors on the sound issues and reducing crime and all of that is stuff that we feel is really important as part of operating the business and especially in that mixed use neighborhood like the castro and we want to continue all of that. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? >> thank you. >> we appreciate the very good presentation, now if we could hear from the police department from inspect or fong or keller.

>> good afternoon, supervisors, good afternoon to you today. i am inspector fong from the san francisco police department. and pita and tana on behalf of (inaudible) incorporated has filed an application with the department to fund and help the department as it controls to abc and seeking a type 48 permit of license for 2344 to 48 market street and located on the west side between 16th and 17th street from march 2012 to march 2013. that the department will see the service and 3 for the report. >> notification for it was on march 11, 2013, and a notice to the public was posted, it was

2031, calls for service, and recorded for 2012, so the premises is located in a high crime area. >> and the permit is located in the census track 169 and on sale license authorized by the track and actively now have 23 and so the applicant premises is located and currently located in an due concentration area. no protest is recorded for the department of privilege control and one recorded of and the california department of alcoholic beverage control. it is no opposition from the mission three station to the applicant and agrees to the recommended condition, and the alu recommendation is approval. and the condition is the service and conception of alcoholic beverage shall be permitted between the hours of

12 noon to two a.m. daily. two the sales of alcoholic beverage for the off sale consumption is prohibited. the petitioner shall be responsible for the letter and the area and adjacent to the premises over which they have the control. and loitering is prohibited for the licensed premises and the control. the licensee that is depicted on the abc form 257. >> and number five. and shall be removed from the premises and all parking lot under the control of licensee within 72 hours of application. if the graffiti occurs on a friday, weekend day or on a holiday, the licensee shall remove it within 72 hours following the beginning of the next weekday. >> (inaudible) shall be

equipped with lighting to illuminate and make easily decertainable the conduct of all persons on the premises. and additionally, the petitioner shall not disturb the normal (inaudible) of the residents. >> no noise shall be audible under the area of the control of the licensee as depicted on form 257 and in the hours of operation, the petitioners shall utilize the security system to record all entrances and exits and outside of the premises and the petitioner shall obtain all security recordings for at least 30 days and recordings for the san francisco police department when interested as evidence in a criminal investigation. >> the applicant agrees to the recommended can't. >> and number eight, the

security camera, condition was updated with the updated language. >> thank you. >> any member of the public that likes to speak come on up. >> tom prentata. >> the podium. and i actually came to speak on the item before this and i can't resist the opportunity to sing the praises of tim and the ownership team of beau as someone who has worked hard to dispell the stereotypes, and to my great as a model of a perfect club owner he has engaged in the neighborhood in a fantastic way with all three of the bars of the member of the merchant's association and all of his bars