and are still owed over $460,000 in back pay. these workers are back. they're working there. and when i was in the room with the mayor's office, steve calwa and our representatives [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. [speaker not understood] from san francisco. why i love san francisco, the beautiful location on the bay, the general mild weather and cooling fog, the different cultural neighborhoods where you can visit china, south america, [speaker not understood].

you can pretend you're lost in the wilderness. the museums, opera, that you can be an elitist. the free street entertainment that you can feel like a commoner. the many coffee shops where you can sip coffee for over an hour, recite bad poetry and smell bad. the board of supervisors public comment where you can get two minutes to give us your 2 cents worth of enlightenment and sing. the pretty streetses where you can find discolored items that you have been looking for for years. the new farmers markets where real farmers can't afford to shop. fisherman's wharf, pier 39 and the cable car, tourists come to visit. the beautiful wondrous

engineering feat of golden gate bridge and the bay bridge. the [speaker not understood] emporium shopping centers where the rich come to shop and the poor come to watch. and, of course, the castro where you can be liberated from everybody else. thank you for listening. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. >> if you could pull the microphone in front of you, please. i have a cold -- >> pull the mic -- i see. my name is john [speaker not understood] and i am a member [speaker not understood] i'm in the african union representative and we've heard from -- we got a letter from nelson mandela, former president of south africa. we've heard from local 22 international [inaudible] union 22, i think, i'm not so sure. but i want to talk about this [speaker not understood] and

its role in financing gay pride, which is this sunday. i am i believe still a member of [speaker not understood] organization that's helped keep the city prepared for [speaker not understood], casualties, or crises such as [speaker not understood], the oakland 519 3 [speaker not understood] houses were destroyed [speaker not understood]. fema is the federal agency for emergency preparedness and we haven't had any major earthquake in san francisco since '89, but we're praying and i believe that's a good thing to do even in your meeting, to pray that people can make it through okay a fun day so that business can start again on monday, july the first, which is why i'd like to

propose to you all perhaps pcp on monday. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm a volunteer physicians organizing committee, i'm also a resident of district 5. and i'm here to speak on the general topic of the need for mental health services in our city. and basically we find it unconscionable that we have a director of public health and certain staff from the mayor's office who are claiming that we have enough mental health services and there's a certain deal on the table with cpmc where there is zero psych beds in there. at the same time, we have many physicians who would love to be here who are fearful of retaliation, retaliation whether they work under dph or retaliation whether they work under sutter cpmc in particular. there were some questions for the supervisors. knowing that some supervisors have been going to bat for

mental health, we greatly appreciate that. obviously this is not an issue that is going away. last week i understand there was a bielenson hearing where the director of public health had many comments directed towards her in regards to possibly cutting programs next year especially in regards to mental health, up to 25%. so, how are we getting a story over here that we have enough psychiatric facilities, whether inpatient and outpatient and other services, and then on the other hand, we have very contentious bielenson hearings about cutting mental health programs next year. this does not make any sense. so, what is the point of dph to deal with these patients? we see a lot of the increased flow through through these psych facilities. guess what? many of these patients are ending up back in our jails. we're seeing numbers such as recidivism increasing. so, the numbers are on our side as well, but really this is more of a political problem of

where is the will to make sure that we have the services and to put the responsibilities where they really need to be put. so, this issue isn't going anywhere and we're hoping that perhaps in the future we can force hospitals to include psych services. >> next speaker. stephanie hoffman, member of national alliance of mental illness. to maintain that san francisco and the bay area in general can withstand more cuts to mental health care and roadblocks to patient access goes well into the realm of dangerous and harmful. all you have to do is look around your districts. the tenderloin, the mission, market street, no one can deny there is great need in these areas for mental health care. when and where -- when and how would that be addressed? [speaker not understood] a critical massa round mental health issues given by high profile and widely publicized [speaker not understood].

it is reckless and irresponsible to sweep mental health care under the rug. in short, now is not the time to be an enemy of mental health. [speaker not understood]. mental health resources certainly doesn't reduce costs. instead the costs are off load the to the tax paying public, individuals who can't access public health care, [speaker not understood], emergency rooms, jails, shelters, as well as police and fire services. the cost then compounds exponentially and the public pays the price. the department of public health and board of supervisors, you have been commissioned to ensure health care needs are met and protect the public's best interest. hats off to those who have advocated the mental health [speaker not understood]. and that, quite frankly is a price we can't afford to pay. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. hello, my name is dale

[speaker not understood]. part of san francisco cares, and thank you, supervisor wiener and the others for mentioning the need for acute psychiatric care. i believe that as brian stated, that mayor lee and the director of public health are disingenuous when they claim that we have enough acute inpatient psychiatric beds while cutting voluntary outpatient services at the same time. i want to leave you with some statistics that the national average for public acute psychiatric beds per 100,000 is 17. san francisco has a total public and private of 11.2, which includes the 16 beds that sutter is now promising to keep. and, so, this is an issue of parity and not charity because severe mental illness,

schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychotic depression is a brain disorder that requires at times acute inpatient skilled nursing care. and to say that we have enough beds while raising the bar for admission is disingenuous and dangerous and i want to remind you that we do not want a tragedy to happen in our city. so, you cannot talk out of both sides of your mouth. thank you. >> thank you. let me just remind members of the public to please keep comments to discussions that have not yet happened at public comment and, so, in particular i know there are a number of individuals who did come to observe the cpmc hearings. if you want to speak about public and mental health issues in general, that is permissible, but not specifically referencing cpmc. thank you. next speaker. hello, my name is susan baronstein and i'm with san

francisco [speaker not understood]. i also have a mentally ill family member who i have great commitment to and concern about. i want to raise one question here now. i don't know if it's been raised before. despite their own budget woes, why does the department of public health -- why is it not willing to demand that a wealthy private hospital corporation do its share for inpatient and outpatient mental health care in this city? i just wanted to underline that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. my name is barbara [speaker not understood] and i'm just here along with my friends from nami to be in support of the obvious need for acute beds and the whole continuum of care in the mental health system. i live in cathedral hill and i ride 38 bus down to downtown and i'm in union square often or on market street and the need is just out there crying

out loud, and i know you all know that. but i just wanted to be here in person to say so. thank you for considering what we're saying. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mary voight. i am a volunteer with [speaker not understood] mental illness here in san francisco. i just want to say that for almost 10 years now, every monday, i call our hot lines. i get messages from people around the country whose family members live here, people who live here. i just can't tell you how many times i've talked to families who say, my child, my husband, my mother needs to be hospitalized. but every time we take her to the hospital, they just say, we don't have enough beds. there is no space. so, i hope that we can

increase, if not, at least hold on to the beds we have. so, thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. members of the board of supervisors, ray heart, director of san francisco [speaker not understood]. i think all the members of this board of supervisors is probably familiar with what i have up on the screen here. in particular [speaker not understood]. it's a civil jury instruction basic standard of care. negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to prevent harm to one self-or to others. a person can be negligent by acting or by failing to act. a person is negligent if he or she does something that a reasonably careful person would not do in the same situation or fails to do something that a reasonably careful person would do in the same situation. city librarian luis herrera and the library commission led by

jewel gomez have been negligent in their oversight of the friends of the san francisco public library. an examination of the documents produced at the library commission meetings over the years show they have simply allowed the friends to self-report regarding more than $60 million raised and expended in the name of the citizens of this city. it is my belief that this private-public partnership will be reviewed by the civil grand jury. and eventually by a civil jury of 12 san franciscans. and they're not going to be too pleased. in a typical year, the friends raise approximately 4 to 4-1/2 million dollars. they spend another 2 to $2.5 million from former reserves and the citizens of this city benefit to the tune of less than $400,000. here's what you approved previously. and if you looked down here at the bottom, you see $750,000,

but you also see right above it, donor designated funds, $309,000. so, out of 6-1/2 million dollars a year, the friends do manage to turn over $400,000. and as i've mentioned before, they also use a lot of that money to payoff the staff by giving them trips, paying for enrollment in courses, and doing other things. i will admit these are roughest matts given what luis herrera has unlawfully withheld public records disclosable under the sunshine ordinance and california public records act. it's been referred to you and you ignore the referral. >> next speaker. my name is dan sillberg. i'm pastor at st. paul's lutheran church. i've served that congregation now almost 15 years. our clientele and our communities are -- have been

focused on marginalized, the homeless -- those that are on the edges of our consciousness, those being in many ways the mentally ill and those that are in need of mental care. these folks have been neglected. i have served 15 years in the streets and have seen it with my eyes. and if you'd like to join me on any given day, i would be happy to give you a tour, give you an opportunity to see the kind of dispair there is among my folks. ~ despair because there is an inadequate and a hesitation -- not only a hesitation, but a simple ignoring of the desperate need for services for mental health. it's incredible to me that a city of this magnitude and quality with its incredible

wealth would also ignore and dismiss the kind of pleas and the kind of cries from very, very silent, but painfully suffering people. you have the opportunity to respond and speak with legislation and with money and with services for those who are in need of services. please, join those who now struggle to find those services for these folks, please. my name is paulette brown and i've been coming here for a while. i've come back here concerning

my phone for [speaker not understood] whos was murdered [speaker not understood]. his anniversary is coming up again. still no justice. still no -- nothing's happening. i don't even have an investigator any more. my investigator is retired and i am left alone and i just want to bring recognition to that. if anybody -- people know who are killing our children. i have to live with every day thinking about my child. i have to live every day seeing my child laying on a gurney lifeless. it's just not my child. all these children that are being murdered every day and more now are all of our children. how long are we going to be ignored? i know who murdered my children. i know who murdered my child.

i have the names of every last one of them and i can bring them up. thomas hannibal. i don't know the rest of the names, but at this point i'm so upset about what's going on with my child and i have to live with this. and not only -- i don't have to be -- you don't have to see me. i could be another mother standing here saying the same thing, same thing. we go out to a visual labor day. next time i come, i'm going to bring all the names of the people who murdered my child. these names are at the homicide, on the fifth floor in the book. so, i'm not just talking about just pulling up any name. these names are in the book of the people that murdered my child. and i'm not asking for an eye for an eye, but i want justice [inaudible]. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, public comment is

now closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read our adoption calendar? >> items 47 and 48 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single owevv call vote enact these items. if a member objects the matter can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items? supervisor farrell. >> item 47. please. >> roll call vote on item 48. >> item 48, supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. there are 11 ayes. >> motion is approved. [gavel] >> item 47, madam clerk. >> yes, item 47 is a resolution supporting the health service system for participating in the establishment of multi-para databases that can be used to evaluate and improve the

quality and cost of care and resolve past legislation to establish full quality and cost transparency in the public interest. >> supervisor farrell. >> thanks, colleagues. colleagues, this is an item that i sponsored. i'd like to move it to committee, please. >> this item will go to committee. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor farrell for the late mr. cole man halloran. on behalf of supervisor campos, for the late ms. mercedes majenko. >> thank you. i want to take a moment to thank sfgovtv [speaker not understood] for their coverage of today's meeting. madam clerk, is there any more matter in front of the board of supervisors? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> [adjourned]

welcome all of you here to kick start the 2013 annual and the 43rd celebration of pride month in san francisco. it's a wonderful time. it's an exciting time. obviously and thank you supervisors for being here, supervisor chiu and scott wiener for being here and supervisor cohen. i wanted to see her face. chief, thank you for being here as well. all of our leaders of the community. thank you for being here and helping us kickoff a wonderful celebration. you will see the

flags go up on market street and castro city. everybody is anticipating along with us in the city. we hope that in the next few days, our country register the right decision. the correct decision. yeah. >> [ applause ] >> i can't tell you how excited we are. i know for me back in 2004 as director and back in 2008, we had that feeling in our city, the feeling of equality, the feeling that we had that. we wanted to follow that. it is in that spirit and by the way, there is many more things as well that we are doing together and i wanted to

thank all the leaders of our lgbt community for not only having a great parade, not only doing the right things for marriage equality, but on a daily basis we are also doing what san francisco can do all the time, we take care of each other. while the economy has improved and unemployment rate has gone down, we took the opportunity to then say with our supervisors, when those federal cuts came we are ready to do what we need to do to fulfill those cuts and make that gap go away. we are able to do that in an i don't year budget. this is what we do for each other, we help each other out. we are not going to let hiv and aids to hurt us. we are going to continue those improvements, while we are in discrimination, this is the spirit of our city, this is a wonderful way to celebrate with

every community. i want to thank leaders for being great leaders from the whole city of san francisco. this is part of our dna and i want to continue the work with the mayor's office and board of supervisors, we want more reasons to celebrate in the city and gay pride is the month for the city. with that, i want to proclaim today the start of lgbt month in san francisco, pride month. [ applause ] >> and with that, if you join me to unfurl this flag to let everybody in the world that not only are we alive and well, we have many reasons to celebrate. thank you for helping me celebrate. c'mon supervisors.

>> [ applause ] >> yay! it's a beautiful flag. >> we have some refreshments in the balcony for everybody to enjoy. let's keep the spirit for everyone and let's spread the love. hopefully in a few

days we'll have more reasons to celebrate here in city hall. thank you. [ applause ] ♪ >> i am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. >> it is in the mission, how are we going to get there? we are not driving. >> well what do you suggest?

>> there are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta.com. >> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the

bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. >> neat. we can finish making travel plans over dinner, now let's go eat. >> how about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. >> can't we go to the food truck. >> do you want to walk or take a taxi. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options. >> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. >> that is smart. >> are you giving me a compliment. >> i think that i am. >> wow, thanks.

>> now you can buy dinner. sfmta.com. access useful information, any >> meeting of the san francisco ethic's commission will now come to order. >> commissioner renne? >> here. >> commissioner studley. >> here. >> commissioner hur? >> here. >> and i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, brett andrews welcome. >> thank you. >> brett, perhaps you would like to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself. >> sure. so i have been here in san francisco for ten years. and i have been the executive

director of positive resource center, at the mental health organization that provides benefits counseling and employment services. i have been active in the community at many different levels and i am just looking forward to participating in the ethics commission. over the years of having conversation around this type of work, what is very clear is that there is a lot of interest, and a lot of passion and a lot of knowledge. as i have talked to the commissioners and advocates it is important that we have respectful engagement and i suspect to be a bridge in that regard and i look forward to participating with the staff and the commission and the community >> we are looking forward as well. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> now any public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on