of the... >> i am here to say that the homeless, and they have come in the age our youth and this is just a shout out to everyone here today to say what i am feeling about you too. and my concerned, is larry was my psycho therapy clinic for the past years. (inaudible) and i worked for many months as well as group therapy, and it became evident to me that he was suffering from the trauma of living in that hotel and it was harassment of them, and the other resident and even some hotel front desk staff on the occasion, and to be... and (inaudible) and cannot be finding with the sro and he needs to live the building and stay out for most of the day

and night, and this is (inaudible) to the services for the communities and the lgbtq when the people of color and we hope that you may be able to assist in this and stabilize the emotional trauma, that doing the best in the hotel and... (inaudible) our strong belief that emotionally cured and support it to achieve this long time goal of returning to work. social justice with all of us in san francisco and what we have said today is that it is time as we salute, harvey milk giving us hope to come here tonight that this city is falling on the hope of giving people the chance to hope to bring themselves gay, black and white and yellow brown and it

is time for our president to bring the habitat for humanity back to this country, thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment? >> hi, i guess, that we have something that bothers me is that the homeless community is not this mono community that everyone speaks of. i just feel like i have a homeless friend and he probably has an iq of 150. he is just highly intelligent. all that he really needed was an opportunity the

recommendation to this body is to call in your unions and your labor unions and your medical unions. and call in your tech, you know, everybody, is beefs up on twitter, but call those people and call the video game manufacturers, and see how they can change some of the homeless and train them and also see what type of jobs that they can actually provide for these people. and not only, and it is not a mono community and some of them and the homeless has those skills and they just need the opportunities and it is just accessively difficult and hard if you are homeless or just stigmaized. and so, that is my thing and is that the other thing, and some of the homeless, and suffer like posttraumatic stress

disorder from abusive family and sexual trauma that they might have from things like that and i think that is part of the plan. and the plan on ending homelessness, and it feels and it implies that you are supposed to close some of the shelters and put that money into housing and i am hoping that we can really fix ate on putting the money more into these. and these housing units. thank you. >> thank you. >> and are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on items one or two? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, in members of the public i want to say thank you. and for those who have been here today, and yes, ma'am? >> okay. >> mj isabel and i am 68 years of age and i have been openly gay all of my life and i have lived through being homeless when i was a youth and now i am

teter tottering on the edge of being homeless again, when i first had my housing i had a job and i got a better job and i got my better job because i was living in the housing situations where it was supposed to be affordable housing. okay? and then, i became ill. and i lost that job. and my rent did not go down and my rent continued to go up. and now, over half of my income goes to my rent. and i cannot live like that. most that i talk to each month they have a pulse between are they going to use it for medication or being able to pay for their lights or they able to eat? and i don't, and the reason that i don't know what is going on because i have to run out of here and go to a senior center and eat lunch and come back, okay? because, do i pay my bills or

do i eat? it is no joke. i lived through all kinds of changes to get an education and i am back in school trying to get another education because i need a job. it is not a joke it is easy and you feel secure and each month i have the nightmare of trying to figure out can i keep a roof over my head? >> are there any other members of the public that wish to comment. >> i will close public comment. and again, i want to thank all of the presenters, and especially those who came in the public comment, and you know, as we continue to go through these issues, you know, and particularly today, with tay and the lgbtq population, and especially as much as they continue to and as we see the make-up a large percentage of

the homeless population and it is critical to go through the issues and i want to thank the people to diving into it and look forward to continue to discuss this and the other policy ideas moving forward, and a lot of the comments were focused around the budget season today and the committee and getting to the heart of the budget season is appropriate and i want to thank those, and my colleagues as well for being part of this hearing and for today's hearing and for i will close it off but supervisor avalos and anybody else if you have comments? >> thank you, chair for all. and i would want to thank you for being here, and for, your struggles this in it is streets and being able to talk about those here and you need to come to city hall where there is a lot of power and talk about your own personal issues but i really appreciate your doing that. and i also want to thank the director, and dufty and your staff, and your staff and the hsa and multiple times for your

hearings and it is critical that we are looking at the whole, range of diversity of youth that we have in the homeless services and i appreciate chair farrell's, you know, approach here in these past few months. and we are in budget season and i really hope that in 200, mayor's office is listening about how we can do much more to provide the adequate range of services that are going to help to meet this crisis that we have in san francisco. and i know that, what the mayor does not do, there will be some work that we will and we can do as supervisors with a little bit of money that we have to move around and we have to enter in the budget price. and the process and we are looking forward to being involved with that and working with chair farrell in that effort. and today's discussion was about homelessness and around the lgbtq youth. and i cannot, and i cannot

speak more clearly, that we have a real crisis when it comes to how criminalize young people in san francisco. and especially when the people come from places where there is oppression.

okay. welcome back, everyone to our regularly scheduled budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, may 28, 2014. we are coming become from recess

for our 4:30 special order. madam clerk please call item no. 4. city clerk: item 140214 hearing youth commission budget priorities for fy 2014-2015. >> i would like to thank you for coming here and for putting this material together and your presentation today. i want to call up whoever is speaking first and come up to the mic and we can get the ball rolling. >> all right. thank you. good afternoon supervisors. i'm with the youth commission and the richmond district in san francisco. as you may well know the youth commission pursuant to charter section

-- 1.24 to impact young people here in san francisco. the commission is composed of 17 young people, one representing each district and additional six appointed by the mayor to have represented commissions to represent all the youth here in san francisco. this year has been a great one for the youth commission. we have 16 full youth commission meetings. we have 78 committee meetings each year along with countless hours of outreach in our respective neighborhoods and communities. more specifically 4.124 g of the charter that the commission shall report to the board of supervisors annually and the goal accomplishment at the end of each fiscal year. by this today we are going to present 15 policy and budget priorities that we hope will meet our collect identify -- collective goal of serving our young people. we have collaborated with multiple youth group priorities, youth

peers, student lead ers and the the youth commission has worked to put this together. i hope you take this into consideration as you go into budget process. without further a do i will give the floor to our vice-chair. thank you. >> hi. my name is michelle tong our marry -- mayor appointee. i would like to discuss the priorities today regarding policies and recommendations. it's a stream of funding from 1991 for the children and youth of san francisco serving over 50,000 youth and only serves 18 and younger. the youth commission

has played a critical role led for youth in partnership with the ococ process. over this entire youth town hall and the entire process for the children's fund we heard multiple times that this should be a priority of the city and it's been estimated that there has been over 9,000 alone. the formal exclusion of services provided to them leads to data integrity and does not allow us to assess the services they are getting and that the city is providing. even though right now city does provide currently for 18 and over and the tytf student record clearly shows there is an

urgency to show this connected population. here are our following recommendations for the children's fund to allow the youth the fund for 25 percent youth for any part of the oversight with half of that youth body being 18 and under and half being disconnected representative. to also support better coordination of services provided by the city, sf organizations through sharing best practices and allowing free rent to the youth when so that they can convene. resourcesing youth leadership groups to hold annual halls to evaluate programs and identify needs in addition to the cna process and to increase the fund to allow services to provide and support

disconnected k and for the children's fund to prioritize and dedicate employment for undocumented youth, mentoring program and adult probation system and support 18-20-year-olds transitioning to juvenile systems. >> thank you very much. nick from the youth commission. for priority no. 2 is about the youth voice policy. this priority no. 2 is heavily based on legislation and i'm sure you are very familiar with which is the brown act which is the state legislation. the brown act for decades has ensured that meetings by local agencies are open to members of the public and they have an at some point to observe the meetings and can make comments at those meetings. that applies to all board of supervisors and those

in san francisco. however every meeting of the board of supervisors and commission available to the public they are barriers to youth 18 and younger namely the public hearings when youth aren't able to attend and provide their input. we have reviewed trouble youth data that don't care at all about government politics and/or only a little bit interested in government and politics. we believe the more opportunities to testify in front of elected officials in san francisco could provide more gauge engagement. the brown act has an elected body that may impose requirements upon itself under the jurisdiction which allows greater access at the minimal standards. by that we hope the board will do this. youth currently can't vote and

choose the board of supervisors. can't make policy decisions and at this point you can't even provide input during public comment on legislation. so our recommendation is that this board of supervisors a firm their commitment to youth voice and guidelines to youth hearing for board of supervisors. one update, supervisor mar introduced legislation that will do this and have the youth commission have the power to make the recommendation that a hearing be made after school hours. this is made during the rules committee and we hope when this legislation comes before you that you will support that. thank you very much. >> one second, supervisors mar. >> i want to thank those for that piece of legislation. i

will make sure as it's scheduled we'll do this at a youth friendly time. this is a great example at 445 :45 p.m. that we can also engaging us and helping us to make the best policies for you for the interest of not just youth, but the whole city. >> thank you. again thank you for having us here at 430 :30 p.m. today. we have youth in the audience which is something that will hope with more legislation in the future. that concludes priority nose -- no. 2 and i will pass it to commissioner web who will discuss priority no. 3. >> good evening, board. i'm trisha web. i'm also on the youth justice committee and today i will be talking to you about priority no. 3 which

talks about investigating the needs of and expanding support services for youth with incarcerated parents. throughout the duration of the 2013-2014 term, the youth commission has been working with the youth leadership program called project what. which is comprised of youth with incarcerated parents either formally incarcerate or currently incarcerated parents. on mar 2014, the board of supervisors held a hearing of incarcerated youth and the various departments that provides services for youth with incarcerated parents. the hearing will be held thursday june 19 th if you would like to attend. on behalf of the commission, i would like to thank the

police commission for passing dgo 7.04 which establishes protocols for making an arrest for youth and children. i would like to thank supervisors for their support involving the hearing. we hope you get involved furred. -- further. we also hope the board of supervisors take measures on the data distribution and life outcomes of youth with incarcerated parents as well as promoting family and unity and sustained relationships between youth and their incarcerated parents by encouraging enhanced protocols for consideration of

a family in sentencing positive, visiting policies in county jails and providing funding house ing and support services and visiting standards for incarcerated parents. feel free to ask questions during our presentation or you can save it until the end. i will now pass it on to commissioner for youth. >> hello board of supervisors. i'm with the health and wellness community on priority no. 4 the district disability awareness efforts. currently as of 2010 there are 6096 students with disabilities which is the total population.

the sf -- is making the learning environment as inclusive for all students. they have a resource page on their website, workshops and other programs geared towards direction of disabilities. the committee this year distributed an informal is survey to 85 students to gauge their knowledge on disability awareness. 46 percent of these students were interested to learn more about special education and only 17 percent considered themselves very familiar. the youth commission appreciates and commends support for all students who have different learning styles and different learning speeds in a range for mental and intellectual and developmental disabilities. we support the implementation and proposals of programs that build understanding,

acceptance and friendships between students with disabilities and students in general education. lastly we encourage the school district to expand and prioritize already existing programs and critique -- curriculum that engage youth and include students. thank you. next is priority no. 5. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is michelle lee and i'm with this years youth employment and immigration committee. our goals this year to increase employment opportunities for undocumented youth. they face employment, scholarships and loan and other state and federal services. as a result of federal requirements. the san francisco public sector has not hired undocumented youth

who would otherwise be eligible. the youth population has been identified as a need of the community, various forms or various sum it's. in response to this the 2013 summer jobs program, funding by dcyf and united way provided programs for undocumented youth through a series of stipends. while successful, it only employed 44 students which is only 4.8 percent of this population. with this we are asking the board to take action to allow undocumented youth to participate in sf summer jobs plus public youth programs by utilizing certain methods including but not limited to individual stipends, gift cards or educational scholarships. additionally we hope to see undocumented youth employed at a rate consistent with the youth population.

this is 350 job opportunities for undocument youth at the upcoming summer. undocumented youths should have ak access to employment opportunities. thank you very much for your time and we hope you take this into consideration as you continue your budget hearing process. >> thank you very much. nicholas for youth commission. i will be presenting on priority six and seven which are our muni related priorities at the commission. priority no. 6 as you are familiar with is the -- youth priority. it's something that we advocate for since 2009-2010. a multiyear effort and we've had a lot of commitment to this and it's been a tremendous struggle. the reason why we begin advocating for the youth program was the extremely

sharp jack s in price. mainly the pass to $20 in may of 2010. at the same time, sf usd was making severe cuts to yellow school bus services and had no options to get to school but to use muni. a program for low income and motion derate youth. there was a pilot program for 16 months which will go until this june. but luckily this year the mta in their operating budget including for the next 2 years. of 40,000 estimated eligible youth for the program, 31,000 or 71.2 percent have already signed

up which is an extremely significant percentage which shows the need for youth in san francisco. our recommendation is that this board of supervisors along with the sf mta continue to partner with sf usd with regard to the program. lastly one of the reasons why this program has been so successful is that it's easy to sign up. there is actually a free muni lifeline program a few years ago which failed. because this program has been very easy to sign up for youth. all you have to do is fill out a single form. that's why it's great. it's less administrative on muni and great for vulnerable population in san francisco such as undocumented community. more specifically, priority no. 7 is about the

inclusion of 18-year-olds in sf municipal unicipal transportation agency, 75 percent or 3,000 will turn 18 in their senior year. the problem is that currently sf mta only occurs ages to be 5-17. on the students 18th birthday they are forced to pay $66 a month per pass or $2 which is expensive if you are a high school student. many agencies in the bay area of the east bay and golden gate transit of the north bay consider their youth to be 5-18-year-olds so that that gets almost all high school