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issued. >> properly exercised it's discretion according to the guidelines. >> on that motion to uphold with that basis commissioner fung? aye. commissioner hwang is absent. president lapis lazuli ruz? no. no. commissioner honored honda. aye the vote is 2-1. we have no further business. we are adjourned. so says madam president. [ meeting is adjourned adjourn >>
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>> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our first full budget and finance committee meeting for 2014. on wednesday march 5th and i'm supervisor mark farrell and i'm joined by mar, and supervisor john avalos and london breed and supervisor wiener. i want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting, jennifer and the clerk of the committee, ms. linda wong. madam clerk do we have announcement. >> silence electronic devices
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and complete speaker cards and items will appear on the board of supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. >> madam clerk, call items 1 and 2 together. >> item is a resolution approving a performance contract behavior health services and the department of health care services incorporating the mental health act in transition for homelessness and health services grants, program for the period of july 1, 2013 through scombrun 30, 2014 and authorizing the behavioral service so sign at greement ed agreements. resolution authorizing adoption of the fy2014-2014 annual update to mental health services act program and expenditure plans. >> okay. thank you. we have sims ons to speak on these items and thank you for being here.
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>> hold a second. can we make sure we have our mic lit up. >> is that better. >> so the first item, the performance contract is a zero dollar contract that basically includes the conditions and requirements that the department needs to meet to get these different streams of funding, the federal funding, the past grant comes to serve services for homeless individuals, the mental health block grant is broader, and that comes through the state as well and the mental health services act funding that comes from the state controllers's officer month so they have their own mechanism of funding authority and go through the regular budget process. the state recently let the department know that we needed to get a resolution from the board, adopting the performance
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contract. it's not a contract that has been required for four or five years. the state recently transferred from the department of mental health over to the department of health care services, all the over sight for mental health so in that transition, there was a feeling that the state that we needed to update this. so it's about data reports and do you want me to update -- the second item, the mental health service between 2005 and 2006 and we have plans and the annual update is the requirement to provide an implementation update so be update all the plans at one time and just as a side note, very soon i'll be back to present a resolution for adoption of an integrated plan for the next three years which
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is all those pieces together. but this is just for the annual update. >> okay. thank you very much. colleagues any questions? okay. we have a report from our budget analyst, why don't we go to that now? >> good member dhar farrell, this is a zero dollar contract. it sets up the conditions by which the city accepts funding for the prop 63 and other federal grants for mental health services and it's fiscal year 13-14 and it's retro active and the board has approved $30 million in the 13-14 budget. they'll have to be another approval for the 14-15 approval and the estimate budget for 14-15 is $34 million. >> thanks. i presume given that the 14-15, we'll have the resolution before us, so it's not retro
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active. >> that's the goal now that we know the state is going to ask for it. >> i can't wait to have these come to the board of supervisors. colleagues, any questions. president mar. >> i wanted to ask mrs. simmons, i know the budget items will come later for the department, but do you have projections for what the state's mental health funding will be coming up this year with the governor's budget, do you have any projections right now? >> overall budget, i don't. for these three fundings, the information is in there and it's my area and that's what i can speak to. >> okay. and i know with discussions about laura's law and even within the mental health commission, lots of debates and discussions going on that it seems like an important -- your budget items but the state's funding of mental health services are
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reestablishing a lot that was cut over the years and that's critical so i'll be looking forward to the information that you and others provide later. >> we're launching a planning commission and i'm sure the board has looped in on that. but being around individual that's have been difficult to end gage into services so i think the laura's law sits into that discussion and it's a tool that we have to work with folks. >> okay. thank you. colleagues, any further questions or comments. okay. thank you. at this point we'll open up to public comment. seeing no public comment. public comment is closed. colleagues we have two items in front of us. can i have a motion to move to the full board. >> so moved. >> we can take that without objection. >> all right. madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> all right. we are
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>> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 role the only thing i'm good at i have trying to find my way through school i jousted coffee and decided to do that for the rest of my life i started looking into the process of the coffee and where it came from and where do those beans come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coach stays with me i grew up and one day i'm going to own a coffee shop i should at it in 98 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops to see why people
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go to come over shops. >> we've searched beans api all over the world tokyo and south america. >> when i wanted to do was get into every aspect of the coffee and real estate there was multiply steps of making a great cup of coffee. we do is revolt and that's because with the qualifies of coffee shop and once you revolted it it how far anyone else's and the coffee and one thing about the coffee they were special blends i create. i spent seven years on one blend. each bean is all chemistry and blend with each culture and
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beans is like people beans and those people give me a reputation and it only happens fwhons a lifetime. your clients love you and that's what happens. >> but then i fell in love a eternal hanging out at the coffee shops the coffee woosz terrible by the community aspects i initiated. >> i think it's a important place to find your friends and people. >> you love my city san francisco has a good name and a reputation and has every culture in this planet in san francisco.
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it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i role like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and after living here the entire time there's one thing that's important the people talk about seattle and they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco. san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of coffee scene in the entire nation >> there's so much romance in coffee it is around the sourcing of it and how it got her it's a
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complicated thing. >> i know for a pharynx born to make coffee i got it from my dad that's the life i live speaks for me. let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ watching. and hey entices we welcome a new week and new most that's welcome some new flavors. this friday kick a off 2014 with live music and analogy games at
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>> we love our parks, but we love... >> and the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. >> the children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. and we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. >> the best park in san francisco right here.
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francisco. >> hello didn't go everyone and thanks to much for being here today, it's meaningful to have your support and have you here today. you know, we decided to do this this year i think it's important to setting the tone when it comes to public safety. there's so much to celebrate about what's going on in san francisco and all the good things we're doing and all of we
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in the criminal justice system we forget to take a momentum and take stock of all the things we're doing and what we intend to do. i want to thank our chief of probation and our public defender and all of you. i know many of you had to cut short your knots to be here. i'm sure you're aware of i'm here to make san francisco the safety city in san francisco. i'll continue to work for that. and alongside the prosecutors in my office we're sdrath every strangely to do this. we work tirlsly to make sure that the offenders are kept away
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from our community. we're implementing a different approach more modern approach to our work that focuses on 3 critical areas, cripple prevention and victims and a violent offenders. many things are clear to me. violence in our streets walnut be 2r0r7b9d that unravels the community and that's why dangers offenders will feel the full weight of my office. they can't be around the rest our of citizens we prohibition society from this that is any
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observe part, however, there's more a nuance part of my work and what to do with the vast majority of community those who are not enhollering dangerous but are still committing crimes. we're trying to dish the nuance from the harder cases. i want to talk about to you about this part of our work. the concept of modern dangers where they feel the full weight of the law and don't receive the full rehabilitation they need in order to lead a crime free life. the immense part of our duties can't be under state. in partnership with the rest of
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the criminal justice system wire continually looking to ways to make to safer. their making sure that the gang members are off the street so we can sleep at night. to those of you in my office i want to extend any appreciation and gratitude for the long hours you put in to make it safer. please stand for a moment and we'll recognize all of you (clapping) thank you you're seeing an credible that group of men and women that work for you each and every day. sometimes neglecting their personal life and family and that's to make sure we get the work done.
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i thank you. you know, central to a more than that justice system is our more than that technology. it's time to incorporate more signs and data in the work we do. i know my partner continuing talks about using the best practice we must do that. the efforts can reduce our population in our prisons. i'm pleased to announce we pursuing the system that will quickly visit the prosecutors when key criminals are apprehend. the tools are da staff and others are helping my office focus in response to crime. smart usage of data can maximize
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taxpayers' money and to focus on the issues that promote the most sources kwundz. back in 2009 drug related these are were 63 percent of our work. we were engaged in a two decade war on drugs that hadn't necessarily begun away. today, this is cut in half at the 32 percent and there's an important point to be made here. we're doing because we're focusing our resources on more violent offenders. the results are felony filings for domestic assaults and robbery are up more importantly
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convictions go in this area is up, too. in fact the percent of our caseload in robes has almost doubled. this focus is essential to keeping violent crimes down. last year there were fewer crimes we also saw a thirty percent instruction in homicide. we have the trauma avoided and we're satisfactory for it. however, robberies are up all over the city and there's more to be done from san francisco to london to columbia we're facing an epidemic of cell phone robberies. in honon
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