program and we expect to have a resolution we'll work on at that meeting with potential of bringing it to the fill commission at the next program we're going to i have an update on the green business program and we're going to begin our work on come milestone i piling our part the commissions part of the departments unanimous report. >> great, thank you commissioner. >> welcome public. >> questions or comments. >> you can come because now we regularly oh, i don't know if it's such a problem when we're did you observe one person but when we provided when everyone

came in we'll treat the meeting as a full commission meeting so if you want to come let emerging know. >> my policy is noticed such that the public has advanced notice that the quorum is exceeded that the meeting is treated as a committee as a whole unless within the realm of what brown act provides for that makes the deputy city attorney tom owen happy we're compiling all right. public comment on the policy committee reports seeing none, monique hear item 13. >> the support in the leading communication a report outlining (inaudible) activities of the last meetings and there's not report not included if you have

questions (inaudible). >> very succinct colleagues. >> i'm loving this no questions. >> thank you moomg questions on commission secretaries written report seeing none, public comment is closed item 14 please. >> announcements colleagues. >> colleagues. >> do you want to talk about the hearing at the board of supervisors with the port resolution since it came to here i was thinking either 14 or 15 we could do that and make that dramatic it's to the 13 that makes it lucky arrest all right. public comment on announcements? seeing none, can we hear item 15. >> (inaudible).

>> it's pretty exist actually, it's been fun the director and myself around the issue of taking steps to be the first city in the country to make it a prohibited practice to export dirty fossil fuel materials that pollute community and contributed to climate change those are coal and petroleum coke a cool alternative and crude oil and our commissioners and our commissioner wald of the policy committee remember when we had the conversation there was talk about a new facility and pier 96 that the peer is looking to build a cargo terminal and it was praised from the sierra club and the grant institute asked the skew is this

a facility that can one day have the materials they need someplace to go to port thanks to the ports leadership the port has said no to coal and started a policy committee and excited to share yesterday's at the board of supervisors the conversation has elevated to establishing san francisco and really this particular site this new facility at pier 96 at health department can be potentially with a little bit more work that director reaping he will will lay out we're poised to be thanks to a hearing by supervisor malia cohen a resolution that passed sponsoring from supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener yesterday supported the port and sf environment to make pier 96

the first facility in the country that makes export of those dirty polluting follows i will fuel make export of those materials prohibited at those facilities that is amazing and you'll in motion as of yesterday i don't have anything to add except yeah. (clapping) i have to compliment the port this wasn't their idea necessarily and it came from you the commissioner on the environment and some of the mechanics on the public works allowed them to pit together bid language and lease language and operations language we hope

about not only lock the citizens of san francisco but sever as a model for other ports up and down the west coast it started here and stampeded the right kinds of conversations that needed to happen. >> thank you to our deputy city attorney tom owen the sunshinef announcement comments principles on item 15 seeing none, public comment is closed we're going close everybody all right. colleagues future business items >> commissioner stephenson i have maybe two one in thinking about the zero waste our talking about the mayors mentioned

meeting next year and maybe being a stage to show case this program that will be interesting to later than by a b.a. about above and beyond where we're making the mistakes things can be recycleed but interesting to hear about it exemplifies things that need this have solutions that are greater than city policies before we move to set the zero number. >> then i'm wondering if we should hear about the natural air program. >> that's good to so zero activate specifically a conversation around the items if there's nothing we can do that is a big chunk of the percent and a the national areas. >> i'd like to just reaffirm

that i'm hopeful we will have another joint meeting that the utilities commission which prey they promised as you and now we won't have to wait year and years and that's a great idea an phenomenal idea even in conversations with mta chair of the board of supervisors tom nolan and i have had xhifgdz and hesitate expressions interest in the sfmta and the commission meeting around sustainable transportation maybe the focus on the transportation can do you think. >> yeah. and i'm sorry, i he was shuttling papers one of the community members dropped off a

note asking us agenda lists things around trees and subject matter that was raised in the general public comment around trees specifically, i know you've done a lot of work around that subject commissioner wald along those lines a community member dropped off a nice note with a picture that's the note about cups of recycling so i do have it right here its very nice that yeah. from robin share i can see that at home and she's asking for us to talk about trees in san francisco forests the increased flame ability of then forests the health of sue electro trees and the climate in

the difficulty of creating the static. >> we have an urban forestry program so the department has quite a bit of interest in trees and pesticides use other topics colleagues scomploing all right. members of the public want to suggest topics for future agenda we have a team the sf team you guys are a troopers yes, no any public comment on that item? is closed we're on our last item. >> the commission on matters within the commissioners jurisdiction. >> public comment on any topic

whatsoever not on today's jurisdiction. >> within 0 our jurisdiction not euastronomy my or bad admit 10 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you, thank you everyone (clapping) thank you sfgovtv >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> my name is emily murase and i am the executive director for the department on the status of women here to welcome you to

our event marking the birthday of domestic violence awareness month. we have so many successes to report to you tonight. first of all before i introduce our speakers i just want to recognize that domestic violence survivors among us they deserve our continued support and applause. >> next i want to recognize the staff of our partner agencies and all of the folks here who work fighting domestic violence every day, many of them are holding our signs and let's show them our appreciation. without further adieu, please help me welcome our may or, lee, who in every year of his administration has invested greater amounts of public funding to combat violence

against women and has been a true leader in this area and please welcome mayor lee. [ applause ] >> thank you for you and the commission to do for the city, and just want to say that anita wanted to be here but she wants to give you her love and appreciation for all of the work that everybody does. this is our 20th, anniversary and celebration of awareness and it is serious business in our city, we have an impressable 44 months without domestic violence homicide in our city. impressive. and we had expressed how wonderful that feeling was just a year ago of course, this past year we have had three homicides domestic homicides in our city. and this means, for us, not a case of failure, a case of more work that we have it do.

and we are ready for this work. in fact we are so ready that emily says that we have increase that budget every year and we increased it by 1.6 million dollars and for our domestic violence programs. >> and it is worth t it is worth every penny of it and i want to thank every member of the board of supervisors who stand up here and work together as part of a city family and the police chief and the district attorney, and our commission on our commission on the status of women and all of our friends in the community, and the community agencies are so important for this to happen and more and more, we are recognizing that immigrant groups and the people who don't speak english as their first language need more direct help in this arena and the education, and the services, and the advocacy and we want to make sure that when we do have extra funds, to put to, and to the programs that we also reach

all of the immigrant families and we break every language barrier to make sure that the services and the programs are reaching but the most important message is violence is not tolerated in this city. all forms of violence. it also means violence is not permitted in any of our sports and their cities as well. and yes, and we will continue to ring solid and true on that, and we continue to want to be the national model that everybody can follow but we will also take care of local business, i very much appreciate a lot of faces that are standing up beside me here. faces that i have seen for many years working on this very, very hard program very hard topic, gut wrenching topics and every story that you read can just wrench your emotions

because they are wrong and they should never happen. but i also have hope that i see a lot of young faces, once that hopefully, we will be a part of their education and they will adopt what we do here today, and they will look forward and they will see, not only 44 months, but they will see 44 years of no domestic violence, how about that for our kids? [ applause ] >> i also want to give a shout out to everybody who worked on this justice and encourage panel that was started some 12 years ago. when we asked them to assemble to go through all of the work that we have not done and what we should do, and the private sector and the public sector with the city agencies and with the non-profits and with advocacy and they came up with 121 recommendations for us. and i am proud to say that today that we have our final

evaluation report for those 12 years work that we have been doing to tackle these 121 recommendations and this final report, is a part of the reflection of the work that we have been doing and i just want to say a big, big thank you to everyone who has been working on that panel and everybody, and all of us who are carrying out those recommendations and all across in our education and institutions and in our public safety departments and divisions, and in our communities, and every aspect must be covered. and that has been a valuable report and an extremely important exercise for our city to do, and in the form and to continue doing even more. and so i joined our board of supervisors and i joined the da and our police department and our fire department and all of the community agencies and let's continue on the trek and let's end the domestic violence, and everybody is wearing the wonderful colors of

purple to signify this moment, but let's keep this month, every month, of the year, and no matter of sports we are celebrating, and no matter where we are, and let's speak to each other and say, end domestic violence for men and violence and girls. and thank you, so much mr. mayor and i want to take a moment to recognize members of the elected family who are here with us today. and supervisor, and supervisor jane kim and we saw that he said here, and with this as well. and so really it takes a village to tackle this problem and you will see many crackers around and it represents some of the 121 recommendations that

were completed, in our final and you will hear more about that and next please help me welcome police chief who has shown his commitment to fighting the violence against women and, we are joined tonight by the first female president of the police commission, loftus, and many others, help me welcome police chief greg suhr. >> thank you and on every marked police vehicle in the san francisco police department there is one bumper sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the police vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for domestic violence. and because, there is not. and much has been made in the national media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the domestic violence. >> and the san francisco police

department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for domestic violence in san francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i can violence homicides in san francisco. and now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in san francisco, have been domestic violence related. and we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the police officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we don't want somebody's inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that san francisco is a sanctuary city and that there is status in the united states will never be called into question and they need to report, because again, there is no excuse for domestic violence upon anybody. our special victims unit

continues to thrive without 16 additional investigators to the special victim's unit just in the calendar year, 2014. and the things for most as we see it work here best in san francisco and as we continued to have the domestic violence advocates located in the special victim's unit and, the celebrates their 10th anniversary this year, and being, emerged in our 14 and the ten yard audit, and in the backlog and we contracted with the vendors to clear it back ten years by the mid 2015. we initiated an asap protocol,

in january of this year and so there will never be a sexual assault kit backlog again. >> so again, i know that there are other speakers and i don't want to take me more time and i just goted gonzaga the to keep saying it and we kelt that it was important enough to put a sticker on the cars when it is the only one there it speaks volume to have it committed we as a city and a police department and how much we enjoy the partnerships and we are committed to nobody being able to make a excuse for domestic violence, thank you. >> please help me recognize the members of the police commission and the police department. [ applause ] >> next is our district attorney george cascon who has championed effort to intervene and prevent acts of violence against women and he is exciting news to share, please

welcome the district attorney. you know, it is exciting to see it here today. and but i like to for a moment, all of us coming together and they see and that no more violence. come on. >> no more violence, you know, still, one out of every four women in this country, report being the victim of domestic violence some time in their life. and so while we often get together, and especially during this month, to celebrate the accomplishments and to talk about all of the great things that we are doing, and there is still a lot of work, and this year, and 3 homicides and do not indicate that there is a lot of work that still needs to

be done. and especially those, who are working in the domestic violence, and i want to thank the supervisors and the mayor for the monitorry support that we received last year, and to beat all of the resources. and for it to support, and insure, and in order to do the work. and we have the resources and the conviction rate and that are significantly increased. and we have it in front of and getting the victim services to the big victims and to the suppliers very quickly. and most people think that in the district attorney office is a prosecutor, and when it comes

to the domestic violence, and it is a great deal of, and and it to make sure that we get the restrainingorders and to make sure that we deal with the custody issues and and for the survivors, and to be able to move on with their life. and you know, recently, you know, we were just talking to some of the other people that we work with and some of the survivors and we have the women who said, you know, i was so, so afraid, of going to court and she walked in, and she met one of the victims services counselors, and she said that you know, i felt that all of a sudden like i was at home and that makes a difference, not only in being able to begin, the healing process, and but,

also being able to hold the aggressors accountable and you know, we tell the people that actually if we do our work well, and we intervene earlier, we have an opportunity and that all of us can prevent the future acts of violence and assuming that the family wants to stay together, we can actually help the families do it together. and that is not the cycle of violence goes on for years, and it usually does by the way, if you do not intervene early on, it will increase the frequency and it will increase in the level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. and unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. and you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in domestic violence in your home and you are almost

guaranteeing that your sons, will grow up, to be abusive themselves and end up in jail. and we need to work together, to win this cycle of violence and we need to get to the day, for having, this meeting and this come ration of success to suppose to still talk about one out of every four women being the victim of the violence in their life and i am really honored for the company that we have hear today and we have a lot of work to do and i look forward to being able to continue to work with you. thank you. >> before i introduce my commissioners i want to report that thanks to the leadership of eric mar and human resources director cal ahan and her staff, every city employee will receive this brochure on recognizing the signs of dow domestic violence and the

resources that are available later this month, and next, please help me to welcome on the commission on the status of women, the senior member of our commission and long time activist on women human rights issues and the chair of the oversight panel, she is going to talk about our final report. welcome commissioner shorter. >> and good evening, everyone, and it is, and it is with the great honor that i stand here today, to not only represent our distinguished commission on the commission on the status of women, but certainly the justice encouraged oversight panel, and let me tell you, what tremendous work has been accomplished over the last, several years, we know that san francisco we are having not only local impact and it has

been described by our mayor, and by our police chief, and by our district attorney, and when you hear in the public discourse, the term that we started with in san francisco, a few years ago, that the domestic violence is not a private family matter. in reference of what is happening within the national football league and the other arena, we know that we are having the impact and so, we want to applaud all of those persons that stand here with us today, and in unison to have even greater impact this is nationally the report and if it was up to me, i would read the whole report. but i won't do that, but i am

going to trust that each of you will get your hands on this report, when it is in your fully bound form and review it. and really appreciate the work that has gone into not the report, itself, but the work that has gone into making the critical and necessary changes that we have the critical response to the domestic violence in san francisco and let me just give you a few of those highlights etch of which is not more important than the other and each stands alone with great importance. and one, we have been able to achieve the greater accountability for domestic violence, offenders and working with the probation department, and and the others to achieve this end and we have ex-expanded language