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 students. our recommendation

is to expand munis youth rate to include 18-year-olds and also another issue we've identified is transitional age youth. if there is a way to get discounts for this population for muni and also the small population of high school students that's over 18-year-olds, 19 to 20-year-olds to get reduced fares. for both of these two priorities, i would like to thank the municipal transportation agency for passing them and for making an adjustment to the budget to include the 18-year-olds. we would like to thank sf mta for that and we hope the board of supervisors would be supportive of that as these two priorities get pushed. >> supervisor mar in >> yes, these two policies are a good example of the youth

commission and the starf and i like how you are part of a broader movement pretty much diverse from all the neighborhood and you help to bring the voice and power of young people to make a major policy change. i know supervisor campos and avalos had some involvement in that but it's important that you have effectiveness in these priorities. >> it's not just this commission, it's tons of community based organizations and the reason we are successful is that it's a really strong community effort of a lot of additional committees. with that, we'll move on to priority no. 8 which will be commissioner ed heart. >> hello supervisors. i'm care of the justice committee this year. i will be presenting about priority no. 8 which is

full implementation of the mou signed between sfusd and sf p.d.. it's been a priority for three 3 years now. this term we met with chief sur and community group members and we also presented at the board of education. this past january we got this mou passed. now that we have one we would like to move our focus from getting an mou to implementation of that mou. with that, our recommendations are to identify time lines to expedite full implementation of the school sites. continued collaboration relationships with sfusd and stakeholders to include process to implementation, to commence training and collaboration with sf you'd. if there were trainings for actual documents we would like to see inclusion of language from do 71. i would like to thank the chief

who is here today and everyone who worked with us on this priority and students who collaborated with us. we see this mou to improve community relationships within the city and establish relationships between the schools, departments and the community. i will be presenting no. 9. the police department has made huge strides in improving youth relations. they passed didgo 7.01 for interrogation. last year announced the police officers would be involved with the boys and girls club of america. that being said we recommend an implementation for training for all police officers for the stress on sarjs sergeants and patrol officers to do the following. focus on police and tactics, and offer practical and

communication skills for mental health, deescalation strategies, address issues of racial profiling and include youth in the training and apply scenarios. this has also been a priority for the past two 2 years and we really see this as another opportunity for sfran -- san francisco to

>> i will be presenting on no. 10. we are excited by the progress that has been made by the mayor's housing community towards reaching the goal of developing 400 affordable housing units for transitional age youth by 2014. this year on may 7th our committee organized a youth town hall where more than 14 youth advocates raised the affordability and housing issues that youth including transitional age youth are confronted with. we would like to acknowledge city staff from hsa and dcyf for yoing us at the town hall. our priority is to encourage to build on its progress towards meeting the

400 -unit goal by 2014. to strengthen and expand the social safety net for transitional age youth that are critical for them as they transition in dependent housing. we urge providers to implement and evaluation tool with input that measures the quality and effectiveness of transition age youth housing and supportive services and to analysis outcomes for all. last but not least we urge greater housing support for those who might not otherwise be eligible for age youth housing program. i will present on no. 11 for vital transitional age youth services. in our city, there are $11 for vital transitional age youth services. in our city, there are between 5,000-8,000 ages who will not make it in this population.

leaves their set of policies for this spring of this year. transitional age youth discan -- disconnected age youth have more challenges and should have more opportunities and challenges in meeting their needs is that they are excluded from services that are funding by the children's fund. we met with the transitional age youth executive director network to discuss the city's current investment in transitional age youth and how we can look at the need for additional dedicated city funding for transitional age youth. the network has had experience of

provider and have taken into account many of the policy recommendations by the ksf and they came before our commission in may 5, 2014 and #145er with -- shared with us their funding proposal. our recommendation is to support their funding proposal and to approve funding for a two 2-year bridge for transitional services and these services should include additional centers for education and employment and case management and employment. up to 400 subsidized summer employment, expanding emergency housing fund and new transitional housing beds and 12 beds for residential and mental health treatment for citywide case

manager. the projected funded needs is $5 million in the first year and $6.8 million in the second year. now i'm going to pass the mic to the vice-chair who will present. >> supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: before you sit down. you say it was excluded from the children's fund. i'm not sure that is entirely accurate because the children's fund has provided financial support to community based organizations for transitional age youth i thigh for -- i think for the past couple of years. i want to get clarity because when i was former director of the non-profit we supported k-youth and case management and supported services many i'm not certain

that it's entirely accurate and where your information came from. i just wanted to get some clarity if you had it. >> yes, please. >> so when we consider transitional age youth 16-24 there are a number of transitional youth being served through funding. our children's fund do only allow us to serve people up to the age 18. we have additional funding through partnerships with the probation department and other non-children's funds that we use for our violence prevention funding so dcfs have funds for people underage. >> some of those monies are not necessarily violence prevention monies that we've used in the past. you are

saying they come from various sources and one of those sources is currently not the children's fund? >> right. we can only seven -- serve up to 18 with the children's fund. others could be funded through others. >> technically bylaw you cannot use the funds for the youth. >> yes. >> i didn't want to expose myself. i just wanted to be clear. thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> i want to compliment you on the housing. this is a great policy recommendation and want to thank you for bringing up transitional age earlier and the expansion of the children's fund that will be on the ballot to increase

would allow us to meet the largely unmet needs for that population of young people that are disconnected and even connected transitional age youth and the task force and the recommendations of the youth commission are great ones. i'm really appreciative that you hone down to really good detail for giving us good policy recommendations as well. i'm realizing you probably graduating today. i know there is a lot of high school graduation s going on. congratulations. [ applause ] >> thank you. supervisors. i would like to present our next priority no. 12. cultural competency and training and youth services. it's been 15 years since it was created. in the sf administrative code

chapter which includes very critical criteria for all city employees to come into contact with youth and city contractors which receive 50,000 or more in city administrative funds. this has gone unfunded for 15 years and this has not been carried out. in 2012 the youth commission partner with dch which the currently being piloted at the site. through the lack of resources we have been unable to support department and developing staff praying and to make appropriate referrals and to identify administrative barriers to keep this population of youth from

accessing their services. also most cities and contractors do not collect information regarding sexual orientation or gender identity of the youth they can you remember serve which leads to a loss of determination and how if lgbt youth are accessing the current service that the city is providing. we are very thankful to supervisor avalos campos and wiener for supporting this. the committee to hear about the city department efforts to implementing 12n. and we are very happy that since january 20, 2014, the youth commission has been able to partner with several other organizations and departments and working group meetings and how to best carry out and we would really

like to thank jpd, sfpl, sha, for coming together and really speaking about the different needs of youth that they see through different services they provide. our recommendation is that we would really like to ask the board of supervisors in upcoming fiscal year to identify and dedicate funding sources and implement this training to different departments and support the planning and coordination of this training and to call on city departments to begin to collect information on sexual information on gender identity on this intake form when providing services to these youth. hello again. i will be presenting on priority no.

13. following up and urging against officers and the recommended community session. in january 2013, chief williams presented a plan to arm officers in the program. in response in february the youth commission passed the resolution against the arming of jpd officers. i would like to thank the board of supervisors for holding a hearing on the issue in may of last year and for dropping the plans for armed procedures this year. however this commission would still recommend following up on not arming officers and arming as any part of revised safety protocol and if any measures are made that will include stakeholders such as youth, juvenile service providers and parents and members affected by the justice system. we feel this is only way for standing

the juvenile probation department in the state. now i would like to invite my colleague eric wu to present no. 14. >> hello, again. i will be presenting on priority no. 14 supporting democratic and accessible city college in san francisco. we made city college in san francisco as part of our budget policy priority this year again. this year youth commissioners have attended a division by superior court judge by granting an injunction to revoke the college accreditation. youth also spoke at public forums and rallies and workshops and cohost a workshop where the chinese aggressive appropriation and conducted

outreach for youth is survey for increasing transparency and participation of youth concerns in the educational master planning process. the youth commission also supported resolution by supervisor campos calling for a rein statement of the community colleges and restoring the democratic government of college to ensure the continuance of open action mission in colleges for both non-credit programs. we recommend that city elected leaders should take all possible measures to restore democratic governance throughout san francisco and to ensure continuation of the college open access mission and nop credit programs and employ the politically and financial institution for

advanced rolement. on the next priority i will be sharing as well. priority no. 15, ensure a respect for civil rights residents. in the past 4 years san francisco has enacted ordinance of sleeping on public parks and vehicles and has enacted such laws that public nuisance exist. we believe that homeless people deserve for their civil and human rights to be respected and don't believe should be criminalized in public. we work with the coalition on homelessness to pass the

resolution and some of the resolution does is we urge to support the homeless bill of rights and stop enforcing the -- and support the rights of homeless individuals to move freely rest and sleep and be protected in public spaces without discrimination. rights to occupy a legally parked vehicle, right to share food and eat in public, right to legal council if being prosecuted and the rights to 24 -hour access to hygiene facilities. now i'm going to pass it to vice-chair kong. >> that concludes our presentation. thank you for your time. [ applause ] it's been a really great year in the youth commission and

i'm grateful i got an chance to work with my colleagues. we hope you will keep these priorities in mind for the next budget season and available for any questions you may have. >> thank you. supervisor avalos? >> thank you. i appreciate all the information and appreciate you putting this together. exciting to see this youth commission putting this together and this is what your role is. it's fab will us to see that happen. i agree with supervisor mar, the work done around muni is some of the best work i have seen at the board of supervisors by young people to show a great example to show great advocacy for adults. i want to thank you for the great work. these priorities represent san francisco values. i want to

congratulate you on absorbing that at your age and presenting as well for the city and what we can do to better serve young people. i have a couple of questions. one is there was mention of arming the jp dshs. is that still an issue? the j pd? >> yes. basically it is not in this year's budget. however chief nans has not committed himself to never bring up the idea again. we are saying we would like to continue to not have it in the budget because it's still an option. >> okay. i should speak more clearly, it was arming the unit of the probation department and would work in collaboration with the police department. that will move forward. i did a hear last year and i'm happy to hear it's not being addressed in

this year's budget. thank you. and there was a comment about the sro officers in the schools that was you as well. can you describe, you mentioned graduated discipline or enforcement. what does that look like in terms of the offenses and young people would be enforced with? >> the graduated offenses clause what it does is it includes a kind of gradual form of punishment. it's more rehabilitate iv than just immediately punishing someone for a minor behavioral thing in a classroom. so it's just a way to make it so that students can get a second chance so they can kind of recognize their minor mistakes but not directly get punished for them right off the bat. >> great. thank you. does

that involve collaboration with a school social worker as well that is helping to build a relationship with officers or is this directly with the officer and the students we have one of our staff here officer pat oon. >> she's doing a great job. we are looking at a restorative model. the school is continuing to develop a restorative justice program and the police department would like to do something similar and bring the two together. the goal of this is for the lower line basically school offenses that, yeah, they can be considered criminal, but it's more something that could be a behavioral change is more needed than to arrest the student or a citation. we are trying to look for is change that behavior, but if it continues, the child could be

arrested. it's not the goal of what we want to do. we really want to see more of a changed behavior and not using the police to come in and on low level offenses arrest the kid and disrupt the whole classroom setting. >> what works in the school to make that happen, is it the teacher, the social workers? >> we are looking at models. i know the county of -- has this model and we have a peer court using at a type of model where we actually diverted kids to justice which is where they had to apologize. that's what we would like to see come back again. we would like to have something to mesh so we have one system in place. that if something happens in school, the same way can happen in

the community. we would like to see it handled in the same way. so the student can benefit from this and the victim can feel made whole. often times what happens now, a youth gets arrested or cited, often times the victim never gets pulled back in this equation. what about the victim if they get victimized several times. what are we doing about restoring their sense of being important. thigh -- i think we spend a lot of time with the person petrator but now to make a restitution. we are working with the school district to come up with a solid comprehensive plan of graduated sanctions around this sort of model. i hope that answers a little bit of

your question. >> supervisor breed? breed breed >>supervisor london breed: thank you. this is really impressive. thank you all so much for all of your hard work on continuing to meet and to discuss and to develop a great plan. these are not things that with i was your age not too long ago, just kidding. i never thought of these kinds of things. i would have never come up with such a comprehensive over vow of how we address these particular issues. some of these issues are incredible especially around police training, housing. this is absolutely incredible. i have two things i want to just really highlight and hopefully they can be brought into play as a

priority and potentially it's something that we can do from the board of supervisors. one of the things that i think the reason why i probably didn't get in as much trouble that i could have when i became a teenager was because i had a job working with the mayor's training program which is what was available back then. i had a job during the summer but i also had the option of working year-round. what i noticed was that initially pretty much everyone in the neighborhood had access to these jobs. most of the times everyone was working even though we would get in an a little bit of trouble, we had access to jobs. as minimum wage began to increase, the number of jobs began to decrease because the funding did not increase to accommodate those jobs. i think one of the things i

want to make sure as supervisors when we are looking at increasing the minimum wage, that we want to make sure that no one is left behind especially young people. i also this i that, yes, we can do all these wonderful things, but i do think it's important to make sure that every teenager in san francisco has access to employment where they potentially can get paid a stereotyped stipend -- because that keeps young people out of trouble. i know when i have worked with young people in the past, oftentimes we would make sure they were fed and had some money to participate in the program. mostly because we knew that they were probably out there breaking into cars and doing other things to get money. so the goal was to keep them actively engaged to get them into programs and to make sure that they have support so they can grow and thrive