am the vice president on the commission on the status of women and i have been on the commission for about 14 years now. so, i am the senior linking member of the commission and it is a pleasure to be here, and to see some new face and in new and friendly, faces and i just want to acknowledge three very key people that are with us today. and as far as the history of this commission, and we have roma guy who is the former commissioner of this commission, and one of the women that helped to make this commission possible. many years ago. and we also have sonia (inaudible) who is the former director on the commission of the department of the status of women and also, former commissioner here to help the commission and then we certainly have taylor-mcghee who did not mention that she is a former member on the status

of women and as you can see we have a rich and wealthy history of women and it is part to be the history. >> thank you, good afternoon, everyone and it is a pleasure to be here and i am julie, soo, and i am the pas president on the status of women and i am a senior on the counsel of department of insurance and a former mathematician and went to law school to work on healthcare reform. and still it is a big undertaking and so i expect in high school i will be coming upon my 40th reunion and sometimes, and in six years. and i also sit on the board of the saint francis memorial hospital and my passion is (inaudible) appropriate out reach on out service and social services and i am also an executive board member of the california democratic party and

co-chair of the committee for about six years. and i am a fourth generation san franciscan, and so i am very passionate about keeping my city great and making our city great. >> commissioner gamez? >> my name is alicia gamez and i am a commissioner on the status of women and i have had the pleasure of serving for about three and a half years. and in my day job and i am an attorney and i practice in the areas of tax and trust and state planning and litigation, and i am a current board member of the san francisco bar association, and i am a chair of the trust and states litigation section of the bar association. and also on their tax executive committee. i am in my prior career, i was an academic and i moved out here and earned a phd at stanford which i carried

forward, in my training and ethnic studies and women and gender studies which i have had the pleasure of applying here during my tenure as a commission on the status of women. and i am, it is with great pleasure that i attend this joint commission meeting. commissioner jung? >> hi, i am mary jung and i served on the commission for two years, and my day job i am the director of government and community affairs for the association of realtors small business people who try to help people to get the dream of home ownership, and i am the chair of the democratic party. >> and commissioner ackerman. >> i have been on the commission for a year and i am a former deputy attorney for san francisco and did work with the health department, and i am very excited to be here.

and i am an attorney, and my day job, i now work in public health. policy and legal work related to chronic disease prevention, and primarily obesity but i do a little tobacco too, so it is fun to be here. >> thank you. >> and everything else that you would like to say? >> well, yes, first, thank you, we certainly are pleased and welcome the commission on the status of women, and it is clear, that many of our issues overlap, and also, it looks like many of our personnel overlap. and we generally see it, because at least half of whom we should be taking care of are women. and so, our commission is looking forward to understanding your perspective on what women are receiving today, and in our health system and what our city should be

doing to continue to improve the health of our population. and so, again, welcome to our chamber and we look forward to a productive evening. >> i just want to add, i guess one thing. for the commission on the status of women, this is, i believe, our third joint commission meeting that we have held, we have also held a joint commission meeting in the past year and a half with the police commission and with the small business commission. and i know that several of our members definitely myself included, would like to express that in keeping with the other objectives that 50 percent of our population, of course is women, and we are finding that these joint commission meetings are particularly useful in informing our work going forward together, and also as a commission and a department and so we want to thank you for all

of the work that has gone into putting this together and we are looking forward to a great dialogue. >> thank you. >> we can go on to the next item,. >> yes, and commissioners before we announce the resolutions that are coming forward, resolution a, and b, will be voted on by both commissions, but separately, and so we will call the vote and the third resolution will be voted on by the commission of the status of women for the public. >> if on your commission you need to accept? >> could i have a motion to approve the meeting agenda? >> motion to approve the meet ago again da. >> is there a second. >> second. >> and all of those in favor. >> aye. >> recognizing the

contributions of roma guy. >> i believe that everyone has a copy of this in the book and i would like to ask any commissioners that would like to speak, personally on and i would like to call her for her incredible legacy across the organization and in the support of many individuals as well, many of whom that i believe that we all call friends.

>> can we put the resolution on the table first for both parties? and i would move the resolution on behalf of the health commission. >> okay. >> and is there a second to that? >> and there is a second. >> great. >> go ahead. >> and i move it. >> for the commission on the status of women. >> okay. >> is there a second? >> a second. >> and okay. so we will receive the comments, and if i could, i want to thank all of the commissioners to be here today and but particularly to roma guy and roma has been an

incredible leader in our department and the mentoring for the staff, and how much you are and how special you are to the health department and to many of the staff and the executive staff, particularly of the health department and thank you so much for all of your service and your commitment to the community. and the woman's community, particularly. >> and i'm emily murase on the director of the status of women and pleased to be here as a guest of the health commission and i want to say that roma guy is a giant in the woman's movement here in san francisco and she has been a part of every major initiative from the woman's foundation to the woman's building, and we owe her a tremendous debt of gratitude and i had the privilege of serving her on the community board on the state school of social work which offers the steady supply of the graduate interns for our office and it has been a pleasure working with her and i can't

think of a better way to acknowledge her here than at this joint commission. >> and i am here on behalf of our commission and we are more than pleased to be able to again, recognize commissioner guy, her work, and most were not here, at the time, on the commission, and for the i would say, the first strategic plan to be put forth as the pioneer effort and the fact that we needed one, and she has also serviced on the major committees and of the mayor on behalf of our health commission, and on behalf of city government. and so, all of way from also, the challenges dealing with the southerner and the saint lukes issues to even our, to even the planning for the campos initiative and all, she has been in every one of our major

initiatives over these last two decades, i think that the commission has been fortunate, to have her formally as a member of the commission, and to have her, informally, then in or on her own, continue to benefit, to the city, and benefit us, with her wisdom. and so, the commission thanks you, very much. >> commissioner i would like to say something. >> thank you very much. i am having pleased to support this resolution, for roma she was one of the first persons to reach out to me when i came to san francisco. she has had a eye on woman's rights and issues and i applaud her for that and admire her for her service. >> thank you. >> i would like to just congratulate roma guy and she is so deserving and let's say

that someone said that she was a giant, i want to say tiny but mighty, because she is, she is so persist ant and that is a lesson that we all need to learn is that you can get things done by being persist ent and she is everywhere so i want to thank you for paving the way and allowing us to carry forth, the torch of all of the great work that you have done, and in particular, i have received the phone calls from other of your colleagues, or former colleagues who could not be here and in particular, the commissioner of this and she is up in abdomening men abdomening men toe today. sacramento today. >> roma we are family. and i have known roma pretty much from the day that i set foot in san francisco, and some time in the last century. she knew me before my dread

locks. and i have always taken great pride in and describing roma, and as a relation to me. i say that i am a child of roma guy. and that i have sat at her knee, and have learned many things about san francisco and her love for san francisco, but, the woman's movement toward the duration for all women. and not only here in the san francisco bay area. and to the internationally. and so as commissioner soo expressed, just a tiny and just the corridors of san francisco,

and and also, sometimes we have been fooled by the year of the dreadlocks by roma and we don't always agree on everything, but we always know that there is a great deal of love, and respect, because we are both committed to doing the right thing and i have learned a lot from you. and you are more deserving of this and all of the other accolades coming your way. >> and i just want to add, and everything, that the commissioners have said so far, and i can, and i can attest to the international part of it, because, you know, like one of the few places that i did not expect to run into too many of the san francisco colleagues, that have been in the international conferences, and, and the departments of both attending, and you know, like the international conference, and in dc, i believe, and i think that what strikes me the most and what inspires me the

most about is her passion and i don't know what her passion that drives her energy or her energy that drives her passion. and i think that only she can answer that, but that is really inspiring for me, and you know, like there are few people that i would really consider an icon but roma is definitely one of them, and i can only hope that i can have, the same kind of passion for my community, and you know, and to be able to continue to do my work for my community, and on behalf of, you know, the san francisco family, like, roma does,. >> was there any public comment for this item. >> and receive for the vote then, and i am told that both

commissioners each one will have to vote separately and so that it becomes each commission's resolution and you will start with your commission, first? >> yeah. >> okay. >> and so we will have the health commission, vote first, all of those in favor of the resolution, please say aye. >> aye. >> all of those opposed it will pass you unanimously. >> on the status of women, all of those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> unanimous. >> and thank you, commissioners and when i tried to co-here with my energy, commissioner chung, and when i was in the fourth grade and the nuns called my parents and they said, what are we going to do,

she can't just run around the school yard 40 times before we call recess and so i ended up taking on the violin, and baseball. and i started up in the northern maine like the baseball players and let me show you how, and i think that we have life energy and we just need to find where we want to put it, and i did, with your help, i don't think that i know and i know that the health commissioners are better from the commission and at the department of commission on the status of women, i should say,

and but, then when i got here, i am like, oh, i could say something, teasing, and just about everybody, here. and so you know, when the commission on the status of women, was formed, it was a task force, originally, and i wanted to go, and ask some funders for battered women shelter, where i met, former commissioner melara and now the commissioner, and congratulations to the police force and we were both pretenny bopers and we were there as volunteers with our nap, sacks trying to respond and so that was a long time ago and, i think that it is 40 years now, and so, it was the beginning of that and we were a part of the civil rights movement and we want to acknowledge that.

and then for the and then you became a commission, and then it is really a thrill to see today, but, of this joint commission, and then this effort, because a place was built in the electoral and the governing system for both the health commission and the commission on the status of women because there was no commission there was no health commission, not so long ago. i was in my 20s when, it was katherine dodd and kate, cline, right? and said, that we have and we have to do something, because they are going to shut down, san francisco general. and that is really, what happened, and you know, we have to form a commission, and so

then, i think that commissioner (inaudible) was probably in medical school when that happens. she is our senior. right? and so, any way, i really acknowledge your significant contribution dr. chow, because san francisco general, and its relationship to public health in the safety net, and your seniority mattered in all of these years. and certainly, at that time, director garcia you were maybe graduating from high school, i don't know, but it was before you were a community organizer in watsonville that was for sure, but for me it was just like a thrill, and i just, i just want to say, one thing, and you know, as the community organizer and i first got here, and and someone said, you know, we need to put more gay people

on the health commission and it can't just be gay men and so someone came to me and said, and you know, that your partner, dion jones and she is a nurse at san francisco general and she is doing incredible work on the emerging aids, and we don't have a definition about it, and it is the aids epidemic and we would like her to be on the commission? you are kidding she does not qualify. and i said, well, why not. and so this is our fellow, democrats, and i said, because she is an employee of the health department. and i said, you should ask me. and i said, but you don't qualify, you don't know anything about healthcare. and i said, well i am a fast learner, and i am a community organizer. and of course i am a fast learn, right? and well, we will have to check with the democratic party on this, and okay. and so, you know, i said, fine,

any way, so i became a commissioner under the director hernandez and she said to me, okay, you have to be, and laguna honda on the finance committee, and i am like, the learning curve? right? >> and so i ended up at laguna honda, and later on and so it has been and it was a wonderful 12 years and i really learned but the funny part about it is when the chronicle reported the commissioners under mayor brown appointed and before when i was in the chronicle they used to say roma guy, the separatist feminist, no matter what i did. no matter what.

and you know, persist ans and energy and passion, thank you for the honor and the praise and i look forward to more energy, and as long as i have it, and my passion, is attached. thank you. >> commissioners, and let me go to the next item. >> yes, please. >> item 2 b is a resolution recognizing october as breast

cancer awareness month. on your agenda it may say september, but the resolution says october and the agenda posted says october and so we are going to say october is breast cancer awareness month. and i believe that you have the resolution before you. in and you can go by the same process. >> okay. >> and my copy says october and so i think that we are okay. >> and so, the resolution, is before us and at the health commission and could i have a motion to acceptance for the resolution? >> so moved. >> is there a second? >> second. >> is there any public comment? >> and i have not received public comment. >> is there any further discussion? commissioner soo? >> okay that was just, and okay. and thank you. >> and so from the commissioner, side, and all of those fa favor of the resolution, please say aye. and all of those opposed. the resolution is passed. and we will go on to the plan and the status for women.

>> great. >> we also have the resolution before us, and so could i have a motion to approve? >> motion to approve. >> is there a second? >> second. >> any public comments? >> no, i have not received any public comment. >> all of those in favor. >> aye. >> okay. >> thank you. >> next item is a resolution recognizing the 2014, cedaw woman's human rights awardees and these are just for the women commissioners. >> you can proceed. >> great. can we make a motion as approving it? >> so, i guess that i would just, i would just like to say that next monday we will, the friends of the commission on the status of women, will host

a luncheon event where we will honor a group of women, who are giants. and in many different fields, and i would just like for the good of the order to read out their names, alicia kudrow who is the president of mill college and we are recognizing at&t and particularly ken mcneilly for their great work. and we are recognizing becca prowda and a former commissioner, and her work with levi, and we are recognizing another person that i considered giant among giants katherine dodd for her extraordinary work inside and outside of government.

we are recognizing elizabeth avar tarchi an amazing city attorney. and for her work. and we are recognizing dr. nancy mulcan who is the director of the ucsf national center on excellence on woman's health. and we are recognizing regina scully, and among other things has produced the invisible war and she is a incredible supporter of women and we are recognizing rita simel who i am sure that many of you know for her extraordinary interfaith work in this community in bringing many people together. and we are recognizing dr. sue, yun who you may know not is the

union representative for the international alliance and the chair of the ngo and the committee on the status of women and for the united nations and a partner to us and our work on cedaw and other things and we are recognizing the great chief justice of the state of california tony cadel. and i am going to mess up her name. and who we are is the second woman in the first philippine woman and an incredible leader in domestic violence and so i would ask for a motion to approve all of our resolutions from one of the commissioners. >> i so move. >> okay. >> is there a second. >> i second. >> okay. >> is there any public comment? >> seeing none, i will call a vote. all of those in favor? >> aye.

>> great. >> thank you. >> item 2 d is the top health issues affecting women in san francisco, and director barbara garcia will introduce the item. >> i will welcome the commissioners from the status of women and the director, and i am sorry from the commission, and from the department, and dphs and multiple roles in the city and and our city wide responsibility and we are response for protecting and promoting the health of all san franciscan and we also provide a full spectrum of healthcare services through our dph clinic and hospital and our community based organization and in our role to assess and improve the health of all san franciscans we track the health issues city wide and we have two presenters for us today, and shadery and michelle kirian from the

population health division that will present the top health issues effecting women in san francisco. >> good afternoon, commissioner and directors. thank you, for the opportunity to present at this special meeting. and i am going to give the demographic overview. so there are approximately 356,000 adult women living in san francisco and representing 46 percent of the population. and the majority are white are of asian decent and in fact, there are women who are asian in san francisco is much higher than the proportion of the women who are asian state wide which is 23 percent and african american women we have 6 percent and women identifying as hispanic or latino are 17 percent in