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didn't work. i want to make sure we're doing what we need to do to provide a road map of success for each of those capabilities. but there are some that have been left in limbo without a clear understanding of access to equipment. i don't know what this looks like in terms of exhibit no. 2 it to the public but just a way to make this really an effective tool for community to use. it's important to me >> thank you. >> i'll just add something to many. you're touching a sweet spot.
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when i invested canning r rescinding kin street i asked it's important to manage our points the fiber but we need to manage the communication. what drives you crazy drives me crazy. we should aggressively communicate to everybody out there and you can count on me to come back soon with my plans >> i'm looking forward to it. i have a few other questions that are a little bit separate from that program. again a lot of money and a lot of challenges. and anymore specifics. in city hall we've been xrng
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challenges to the network. we want to make sure that the place where city business gets handled on this scale we're adequately served with access to the internet to conduct business. no need to respond i want to make that point >> can't agree more. >> the other thing to mention i serve on the golden gate bridge and recently, there was an app that was presented the board makes the ability to do business so much more efficient because you're able to download information and but my point is
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since budget season, of course, we've had budget - i mean we've had a ton of documents to read and it would be great to not only the board of supervisors but commission - different commissions like planning and others who have significant documents to read r with an app to be more efficient at our jobs. i know we've talked about this not the app in the past but san francisco it is place where we lead the way. i want to make sure we're looking ways to be better policymakers. i want to put that out there. so with a budget of over $80 million to get there sooner and not later. i want to mention that i would like us to look into our camera
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system and our inventy. i know we have dealt with crime because you have our camera we have be able to prosecutor people for violent crime in some cases. i'm not looking to put cameras up all over the place but we do have a number of cameras all over the camera and there's some uncertainty whether those cameras with working or not. having a clear understanding and schedule as to checking on those cameras making sure their maintained and working is something it's important to me as well. i want to let you know my
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concerns and hopefully, your department will lead the way to take care of this. >> it means you know what works and what doesn't work. >> thank you. supervisor mar >> thank you and i'm sorry if i mispronounce your name. i know you've been brought in to advance our technology. i'm in agreement with supervisor bred on a lot of issues on the digital divides. i'm really glad that a lot of the senior centers are being excepted. at any time a good training of many seniors who are using
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technology for the first time. i know the brngs program in its last year what are our plans to continue to target population sets that don't have access and are struggling to keep up with the changes in technology? >> this is where i'm supposed to be careful. so the grant is going to be consumed i believe by september. their all the channels we can tap. and then there are partnerships we can is the reason with people who care about this topic. without talking about things that are not signed i can say that much. by it's extremely important to me. it's not only the digital divide in age and minorities and not only the 3 by 5 it's hardware
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and it's homes. you say do to the park and do your homework. the amazing thing when you're in san francisco and in this area altogether is there's more than you thought possible. and that's what i like the spirit of it enables things. i can tell you i talked to partners who care about that as well as whether facebook or the google or apple. a lot of folks respond to this on digital inclusion. and we're on process we're tackling that.
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>> i hope the tech companies are going to carry through. i hope those companies comment to bridging the digital divide so everyone else has assess. so thank you >> thank you very much for your presentation. we also have a budget analyst report. mr. rose? >> i didn't hear the department did the department comment on our remedies. i recommended reductions on page 58 total a mile 149 of that amount 881 are one time savings. this would allow an increase of
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>> mr. chairman i'll have to look at that. in my report before me on page 58 it is 10 6149 and that's repeated mr. chairman on page 61 where we have a breakdown it's general fund and non-general fund is a total of 104149. but i'm certainly >> we definitely have different numbers then? >> you are correct plumber i'm sorry. i have an edited page that's incorrect >> okay. thank you. supervisor bred.
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okay in terms of the recommendations i understand you're still discussing with them. if there's a minimum we'll wait for a week and come back. >> that's correct we're still discussing with 2 or 3 in the group. >> okay. all right. colleagues before we thank you gentleman any further questions on the remgsdz? >> thank you for being here we'll see you next monday. >> up next we have our human rights commission we have teresa
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from her department. >> good afternoon supervisors aim teresa sparks i'm the executive director. we will be very brief and we won't take a lot of your time this afternoon par we want to go through some of our recent initiatives and look at the budget. the human rights commission was founded originally through mayor in 1963 and formalized into a human rights commission in 64. i have a photograph here i'd like to show you. which actually, it's tale from a nip from march of 1964 this was at the hotel where
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african-americans were removed because they were demonstrating for jobs for african-american at the time. and an additional 2 point something african-americans were taken away. this is the premises upon which the human rights commission was founded to the at that time. we have investigated discrimination against the rights of all people. we are prompting understanding of the residents of the 71 and also mitigating and making recommendations with respect to involving community problems. a year ago in julia year ago next most the human rights transition occurred in which the
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43 positions were move forward to the contract morpd division for and the cracking function and equal benefits were moved to c m.d. that left us to focus once again on our core functions of non-discriminati non-discrimination ordinances. right now we have two major departments. i've move over here. you can see we have two major departments the sober - the policy and associate justice and the complaints investigation
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division. we actually have two chartered or two advisory committees which are one of which is in the administration code and the equity advisory committee and we have the african-american empowerment advisory committee that's been around for two years. the discrimination division last year, we received a total of 17 hundred and 66 inquiries and intakes into our discrimination division. we actually investigated and filed and investigated 1 hundred and 5 complaints. the primary complaint is on housing. it's the class you have disabilities. for your education you'll be happy to go through the list or
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i can go through the list on your own of the various types of discrimination and classes. policy and social justice division. we had issued 9 resolutions and mitigated 4 issues. served as novrn profit issue hosts. we hosted education events and convened more than 1 hundred meetings and realized 10 or 11 i believe the number was 11 issues last year our major initiatives under the
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lgb advisory committee we're working on is the lgb aging policy task force. we facilitate that work group we facilitated and staffed that group. the lgb working horsing work group looking at discrepancies in the lgb community. the lgb youth group and looking at both the mission looking at the areas in this city that are not traditionally places for gaze and lesbians and we're looking at what services exist in those areas for non-traditionally populations. equity advisory committee we have a speaker series which goes around and don't education. we have a silver commission.
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we're talking about elders of color and their particular issues dealing with the crisis of aging. we work with the council we have a reentry work group. we work with the department of education and we will be able to issue our awards this year. the african-american community empowerment issue is combining the 8 or tin reports that were created in the city. we combined the reports made the recommendations and we're implementing the various recommendations. the outreach and training which we are responsible for and have been doing more and more in monolingual communities in the
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mission. youth sensitive and culture we're working with the health department and the youth commission on coming up with training for all agencies in the city government which have direct contact with youth. and consequences of youth. i think that supervisor mar i we appreciate you attending a community meeting. and precision - prostitution we handed out many condoms they were afraid of those condoms.
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we have worked with the police department and that ordinance has been changed and it actually a nationwide sample. reducing barriers for people with provide arrest records. and we've been working with the seattle human rights organization because they just passed a local ordinance which is pretty groundbreaking on people who or been formerly incarcerated. our positions after the slit last year the human rights commission had 12 positions. we have suggest we have 12 this
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year and telephone for the years through 2015. non-funded position a hundred percent of them are funded in the budget. we're asking inform a minimum decrease about 3.1 percent. other general services we're having an increase this year of 83 thousand over last year primarily because of rent and technology. and next year 28 thousand due to similar incity uses. and primarily it's for slarldz.
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during this year we operated with only 9 people on folks because of various retirements and people leaving the agency. and we're hoping to we've been assured by the mayor's office that 3 positions will be filed hopefully very, very quickly in the next month or so, so with he can get up to 11 individuals. you you can see the main sources. the main source of this year we have about $1.2 million of source of revenue. and about a 6 hundred and 47 though dollar work order. the work order was concurrent it was issued along with the issues.
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and in 2015 the work order will be absorbed both our work - into our work order. we benefit the citizens of san francisco across the city and many, many benefit the organizations within the city so it's difficult to pin our expenses on any one department or another. again, i, see the uses are prominently salary related and other than that the next largest are working orders to other departments. major initiatives 2015 i won't go through those but your major
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initiatives are under the lgb committee. we're starting to talk about the needs of the lgb and disability people. and we'll talk about how to assess city services. we'll be working with the mayor's office on this. we have a deaf individual who is a member of one of our committees. we use a sign language person and we'll be rolling that out. our experiences with facilitating this rather than on the screen and the translator next year. this is a program the federal
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government has to allow young children whodunit came to this country very, very young and help them with a path to citizenship. african-american community empowerment we're looking at mentorship form with spur. legal clinics we've been giving the parents rights training for public schools. it's been a very, very effective program. we're going to work with the task force with the board of supervisors and with the unified school district additional we're looking at how to create spur n
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incubat incubator. and we're still working with dp h with developing a first in the country health, physical and mental impact study of sustained discrimination by our community in san francisco. we will be using the model to impact the discrimination across the city. we're establishing a discrimination intact incline to train young lawyers on how to deal with discrimination and we're using if to move our complaints along. the war on drugs the case act we're working with communities model communities in the mission who were prominently spanish
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around the corridor. we've been meeting with them and listening to them on friday nights and in the late hours to work with them to develop better communication with the police department especially spanish communities. that's the end of the presentation. we have not had any contact with the budget analyst department this year. and i think i'm assuming that's our budget. and a thank you, mr. sparks and thank you for your great work and the staff. we don't have any reports for the human rights commission >> i was going to thank you for your 50 years of work i'm proud
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to have on a clerk working with the lgb commission and a number of other departments. i know your operating with a streamline staff and i'm appreciative you do so much and are extremely sensitive even with the inclusive america muslim population. even just pulling people together. thank you for your great presentation >> thank you, colleagues any other questions? >> okay. thank you mr. sparks for being here. okay. up next, we have our department of public works and we have their staff
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