restrooms. it a good idea. thank you. >> is there any other public comment here? all right. the bridge line? any public comment on the bridge line? >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is bruce wolf and today i'm representing san francisco. i agree with all the priest -- previous speakers on the critiques that they have. shero -- they are very important. i also want to include a guide and service dogs. obviously a dog takes up some room. usually they are fairly large when they are used with a harness and when the cars are very busy and maybe all the disability seats are taken by people with disabilities, there isn't

additional room for a dog to take up enough space for 1 person. so i'm wondering if there was some ability underneath to provide underneath the seats enough space. i have not entered a car yet with my dog. i do have a disability and have a service dog for balance. i would appreciate any consideration you can make for those of us that require dogs to be functional. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other comment on the bridge line? okay. moving on. going to agenda item no. 8.

information item, report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> good afternoon, the disabilities commission met. the first meeting held march 26,27, and 28 transportation

was one area of many exercises. it was community based organizations and city and county government, muni and private enterprises to solve the problems with transportation during a disaster. the next topic the committee took up was the review of the city shelter database. which roughly 50 percent of the city shelters are fully accessible. many others are unusable but not ada compliant. there were many efforts to make shelters

fully accessible or at least unfavorable for people with disabilities in an event of a disaster. there are three categories of shelters in the city. one is city owned properties and schools, two churches, three, private schools and the work base organizations to work on accessibility issues. there are no requirements for private schools to be accessible. the committee thought importance to pursue in the future. then the committee set several goals in the next 18 months. included in the list were for data base, point of distribution, sites throughout the city for food and supply for people with mobility issues and coordinating with government and community based organizations to lower -- services and ensure maximum

effect of services in the event of a disaster. this concludes the report. the disability committee meets next on friday july 11, 2014, at city hall. we welcome all to attend. thank you. end of report. >> thank you. >> you're welcome.>> i would like to make a correction or clarification to the board. one of the items that were discussed at the disability disaster preparedness committee meeting is that more than 80 percent of the site on the list on the shelter data base list are usable to people with disabilities are not necessarily ada compliant as the current regulations of the department of traffic requires. and approximately

50 percent of the site are city and county under city and county of san francisco jurisdiction so we know a lot about the disability. the other 50 percent are faith based organizations and community agency which remain to be inspected and reviewed. >> thank you. moving forward, we have agenda p item no. 9. public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc council. >> hi, good afternoon. cochairs. just want to touch on a little bit of the history in san francisco in terms of

advocacy and also what you have been doing and those before you. i recall one, after the meeting. one item in front of us was ada related training. soon after the incident approximately 12 years ago. after heated discussion and ada coordinator from michael sergeant sullivan, i don't know if he's still there. he asked for $40,000 in training for the police. it's not big money. after the discussion we moved fov it and support it. i talked to myself, 5:00 p.m., why have we done so far, are we going to make a difference. the guy, the supervise who controls the funding, the finance committee. that happens to be leland yee. so

i make a phone call to his office to give it a try and we are in some relationship with -- mayor's supervisor. he's done a few good things and significant by the city college. i was a student at that time as well. i made a phone call. two days later he called back and woke me up and he said, this is leland, are you there, michael? i said yes. what happens to the $40,000 funding for the prang is -- training is not a big amount. it's never been my style or my approach, but i think when we as advocates or councilmembers we should try to do something we could have done differently or out of

that box to make that phone call whether you know them or not because they serve on our behalf. they are on our payroll as well. annoy -- you know what i mean. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment for item no. 9. items on today's agenda? okay. >> hi, my name is larry j edmond's. yesterday was my birthday. i come down here especially because i want the mayor to know that and sro's that we have a little bit too much race as much, verbal abuse, profanity, threats and violence and phobic. i have been dealing with this since february. a young lady came to me today where she's in a room at 208 and i'm in 520. i'm

glad that she was here. she left before i got here. the ideal that the current newspaper, i told her that she can come here on a third friday. she was amazed and she beat me here. generally when we get to the hotel, a lot of tenants don't know about these meetings here because somebody will remove them in our building. she was like, i was just glad that she made it here and she knew how to get here and now she can come back. but being a person with disabilities and not being able to approach a person is sometimes is hard that people don't want to is survive by your disability. you should have disclosed the disability when you respect others. but, today i'm supposed to be right now. mental health really matters. i really hope that

more on mental health will be brought up for keeping the sro's because there are people just sitting there. they don't get out. i think bart could be good. i ride bart to the end of the lean. -- line and people can use those types of mobility back and forth and i hope bart will run better. i know when they come in those bicycles and wheelchairs. i ride cal trans a lot for football and basketball games. they have a set up where you put the bicycles. something needs to be worked because there is frustration with people not being able to. last night about 2 or 3:00 i'm looking at the ac transit. about 60 people getting on

the bus. it's amazing how a 24 hour bart and it's amazing how many people got on the bart. so many people come here at night. if you are ever downtown at 2 or three in the morning, it's taking so many people back to east bay. it's amazing and wonderful. thank you.a any public comment? we have on the bridge line. >> hello. are you there. >> i have no more comment, thank you. >> okay. thank you. okay. moving forward. agenda item no. 10. information item correspondence.

>> there isn't any correspondence this week. >> thank you. discussion item. agenda item no. 11. discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements? i have got a comment and a question. how did everyone here at council think about today's show up of people in attendance? comments on that? >> it was encouraging to see as many people out here as possible that we saw. in particular the mobility impaired, sight impaired community was represented. i wish we could have heard from more. >> thank you. i agree.

cochair supanich that it's always a great sight to see in person and the bridge line people taking advantage of that access for their means. today hopefully moving forward whether it be about bart, whether it be about housing, whether it be about any other issues affecting our community that you know that you have a place not to just come every third friday, but for a place to go afterwards. this is a hub that we can create here to go forward outside of this council and do good work. and comments? councilmember? >> did i just cancel myself? i want to thank the organizations and the disability community coming out today. i'm really glad that we could provide a forum for these issues and concerns about bart and access issues.

and i hope this begins the dialogue between the disability community and bart. and going forward, i would like to see a future updates from bart and from the disability community to see handout you -- how this partnership goes forward with the recommendations. i look forward to hearing more. thank you. >> thank you. and with that, agenda item 12. adjourn. thanks for coming. we'll look forward to seeing you next june on the third friday. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

>> good morning, everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, may 14th, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be sharing this committee and i am joined by supervisor john avalos and breed and, we will be joined by eric mar and scott weiner and i want to thank the

members of sfgtv as well as the clerk of the committee, linda wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices and complete the speaker cards and all of the documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted items will appear on the may 20 agenda. >> a few procedural items we have a long agenda, we will take a break from 12:30 to 1:20 wherever we are at that point in time, and given that it is a 90 degree day, we don't see that very often and so we are without coats over here at the board of supervisors and with that madam clerk, could you call item one? >> hearing on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. >> okay, thank you. colleagues, and members of the public this is a hearing that i requested, and the third of hearings that we have had over the last few weeks and this

hearing kicks off the focus of the subpopulations of the over all homeless population here in san francisco. today's hearing is on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. and we have again, met with the department heads and the city staff and the different service providers and advocates and community leaders in the area, and we do know that these very subpopulations have unique needs and there is much cross over between them and so to look forward to exploring this over the upcoming weeks. >> we know from the recent homeless point in time that women account for 27 percent of those who are percenting homelessness. but, it is also alarming to know that women and families represent the fastest growing groups of the homeless population nationally and that among homeless families 90 percent of them have a female head of household, but we also know in particular that women who are experiencing homelessness face additional safety concerns and it is alarming that 15 pepser of females reported domestic

partner violence as cause for the homelessness and 12 percent of the women who are experiencing violence, while they are homeless. we need to do better as a city and we will and i look forward to that discussion, in terms of families for me and many of us at home as a father of three it is auful that we have families living on the streets here in san francisco, and it is a positive sign to see as many homeless populations have recently began to decrease, but the number of persons and families experiencing homelessness has increased nationally here in san francisco and we have at least, 679 families who are experiencing homeless and by the way by the count there are 2200 students who are homeless or marginally housed it is stressful for the families to deal with circumstances like that, in particular for children who are going to school it is a completely different ball game. and we also know that our wait lists for the shelter haves grown. and we are experiencing a

6-month wait list for family to get access to shelter and we need to do better. and as with all of these hearings, i hope that we can use the information that we talk about today and the discussion to really look at what is going well and what we are doing right and what we can do better in the future, and so we are going to have a number of speakers and public comment and as with before, i would like to invite, devn the director to kick things off, thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee and today is the beginning of the ex-expanded committee participating in these hearing and i want to acknowledge london breed for being here and appreciative of her work on public housing and supporting families and accessing public housing as all of the committee members and i want to say that i looked in the room today and i was pleased because i know so many of the people that are here today but it is great that we are going to hear from them and there are a number that live in the grand southern hotel and i have had the

privilege of meeting with them and visiting the grand southern, and joining supervisor campos on that tour and meetings and really seeing some of the challenges that families are facing when they are under housed and living in sros and i think that we are really blessed that our providers and homeless family service area and the domestic vie liens programs are some of the best in the city and i think that you really see incredible work being done by the individuals in this room and supervisor as you indicated, to start out talking about women who are homeless in san francisco, 27 percent of our homeless population is female. and there was a recent, uc san francisco, study, by dr. alise rilely that found that 25 percent of homeless and unstablely housed women have been sexually or physically victimized in the six months alone and 60 percent have experienced sexual or psychological or physical violence, most of the violence against the women is not from a

primary intimate partner but from partner who are not primary partners and neighbors and people on the street. and former partners and so forth, unsheltered women are extremely high risk of continued violence and we take this very seriously which is why we worked with the human services agency to change the reservation process so that the women no longer have to stand in line, over night, putting themself at risk of violence and now i want to commend and thank hsa and i know that joyce can speak to this and as a result of using this process and seeing the increase demand for women, it has been shifting to add more women focused bed. one of the things that we also want to do that i know that hsa shares, is that we have had an emergency winter shelter program for many years and it is for men only, we are interested to see in this coming winter that we have the interfaith council participate and offer a come parable space

for women in the emergency winter shelter program. in terms of family homelessness, president obama through the inner agency council established a goal to end it by 2020. we must quickly begin to change the current trajectory of family homelessness. and first, i have to give special thanks to lynn and mark of the sales force foundation and many other private funders in san francisco who have made it a priority and i can also acknowledge the work with compass. and they made many improvements and he is here and he will talk about the incredible effect that has it and the ability to add rooms for homeless mothers with newborns. we have a deep bench of