gibner, yes. as long as the applicant's is on the agenda the committee could appoint them to any seat. just to respond to the other question. i think i gave a convoluted answer. the applicants must be city residents. in some cases the board can waive the requirement and in others you can't. this is a situation you can waive the residency requirement. >> okay. i have a question for each one of you that have applied and you don't have to -- the question i have for you is that i asked the question when the meeting would be, and it sounds like it's every other month on a tuesday in the evening, and several of the current members have expressed disappointment with not having

quorums sometimes. is that going to be a problem for any of the applicants that they cannot make meetings? okay. i just want to make sure. in the past we would ask anybody that's been in any committee whether or not they have been making meetings because it's important for us sitting here to appoint people that will be serious about their positions, and not just have a name in the position and never show up and it causes problems for the committee as you have heard from some of the speakers. okay. is there any public comments on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] . colleagues my staff and i actually went through the list pretty carefully to see how --

there are actually nine seats and eight applicants, and so we went through the application -- people's applications we tried to figure out how we could arrange it so if any it's acceptable to us as a committee to appoint each one of them and there were overlapping interest in certain seats so we couldn't have two people serving on seat one or whatever, so here's my recommendation that -- i'm going to go according to the names that are shown from top to bottom. mark kress i would suggest seat one. alexander mullaney to retain his -- assign him seat three. aaron goodman

seat eight. robert muehlbauer seat nine. rita evans seat two. chuck burwell seat six. daniel weaver seat five. and gwynn seat four. okay. >> sounds good. >> can somebody make -- >> so moved. >> any objection? >> nope. i just want to thank everyone for their participation. i agree and concur with all of your recommendations supervisor. >> okay. i also like to thank everybody for their interest in this and it's close enough to my home. that's why i asked the question whether or not you can make the meeting because it's important to my district also. okay. so with that motion passes. [gavel] congratulations. let's see

where are we? >> item number 3. >> item number 3 madam clerk. >> item number three is a hearing considering appointing six months terms ending november 18, 2016 to the urban forestry council. there are six seats and eight applicants. >> so we have a request to continue this item due to an emergency that affected the ability for the applicants to attend this meeting. however we will hold public comment on this item. if there are any members of the public who are present for this item so any public comment on this particular item? okay. seeing none then public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues do we have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection. so

motion passes. [gavel] i would like to take the items -- item five out of order mainly because the author of this item is -- won't be able to show up until later so can we take item number 6 seven -- >> you mean closed session. >> you want to take the settlements next. >> six and seven first. >> so you want to go into closed session? >> yeah, go into closed session. >> items six-nine are resolutions and settlements of lawsuits and unmitigated claims . public comment. >> before we entertain a motion to convain in closed

session is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on items six-nine? seeing none public comment on these items would be closed. [gavel] . colleagues is there a motion to convene the closed session? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection. members of the public we will now be convening in closed session. we would ask that you please leave the committee room until and you may come back after the closed session as we continue item number >> okay. >> deputy city attorney john gibner. during the closed session the committee voted unanimously to forward six, search, eight, nine with full recommendation. >> thank you city attorney john gibner. colleagues can i have a motion to not disclose

what happened in the closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> a motion passes without objection. [gavel] i believe the people are here for item five. >> five or four? >> four or five? >> okay. this is four. okay. madam clerk can you please call item four. >> item four is an ordinance administering the administrative code and establish children, youth and their families oversight and advisory . >> >> >> >> gun violence prevention task force. >> we have supervisor malia cohen joining us for this item and we have presenters. would you like to take over this agenda item supervisor cohen. >> yes. thank you very much. i don't see my presenters or my

speakers. i will start with my opening remarks and let them filter in, so good afternoon colleagues. thank you all for being here today. it seems as though every week the news is giving us a reminder of the importance of this work that we're doing but everyday gun violence inflicts tragedies that don't make the front pages. although the majority of these shootings rarely make national or local headlines the tragedy and trauma they cause is no less real. i am committed to working within the city structure and community to save every life that we can and working collectively to restore the safety and confidence to our communities with deliberate concrete steps to stop gun violence. almost every study

produceds same results families and people of color suffer from the majority of gun violence and one of the leading cause of deaths for teens. these numbers hold true in san francisco. in 2014 the concentration of violent crimes specifically shootings and homicides were focused on a very few -- on a handful of neighborhoods with approximately 75% of the intdinses from the bay community, the tenderloin and the mission districts. 87 percent of the victims were male. 84 of the victims were either black or latino. 66% of the victims were between the ages of 18-30 years old. we know that gun violence is urgent and complex and a multifaceted problem and deserves and

requires evidence based and multifaceted solutions but they must be coordinated and have a method in place to measure the success and the failures, so back in august you may recall that i requested an audit of the system and services because it became apparent to me that sometimes the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. according to the report we in the city and county of san francisco are spending normally $50 million on violence prevention services, $50 million. judging by the amount of money that we have allocated for violence prevention services we're in agreement that preventing violence is a priority. what i am interested in is figuring out what works and what doesn't work? where is this money

going? now the executive summary -- you guys have a copy of the budget and analyst reports? the report says the budget for these programs increased 23% over the past five fiscal years from $38 million to 47.$5 million and despite this high level of funding the city does not have a coordinated planning process or any efficient way of measuring program performance. it seems to me that we don't have a money program with services and prevention but maybe we need to be more about the metrics. we do have a lot of incredible work in the city to curb violence but to determine if all of the well intentioned efforts are working we need a coordinated body

funding system and a measurement that truly understands what we're doing well and more importantly what we're not doing. prevention of the violence occurs along a continuum and that continuum begins in early childhood with programs that help parents raise healthy children. now this audit actually indicates as much that we're spending 70% of the $48 million on programs that target youth. in creating this body we want to have a systems approach recognizing that comprehensive approach to violence requires an interdisciplinary effort aimed at linking existing city efforts, community organizations, and members of the community. a comprehensive community approach recognizes that no single program is sufficient and there are many opportunities for effective

prevention and programs that use strategies of combined service coordination partnership between the police and the community, neighborhood mobilization and job training for youth have all proven to be successful. they have proved success. we must also again have some system of metric to measure the success so we know that our efforts are good. so before i bring up the staff i have one amendment to the ordinance to incorporate that we have learned through the bla report and colleagues you should have a copy of the amendment in front of you. i'm going to read the proposed changes just into the record. in the findings sections i would like to add the following language. "according to the budget and legislative analyst january 13, v

violence prevention report from the fiscal year listed san francisco has spent approximately $208 million on violence prevention programs and services. despite this level of funding the city doesn't have a process or way to measure performance so i would like to bring up the director of violence prevention service for the mayor's office whom we have been working with from the beginning, and also want to take a moment to commend her for her hard work and thank you for the compassion you bring to your job. i would love you to begin to walk us through some of the existing violence prevention services that are run out of your office. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon supervisors. i actually have copies of the powerpoint so i will pass it to the clerk to

pass it to you so thank you for having us here today to talk about the services for violence prevention. what i would do to start the presentation is briefly give an overview of the initiative, its inception, what the different strategies are and cover a little bit about the outcomes that have been presented so far since the actual release of the initiative. if we can start off with the presentation. okay. thank you. i want to start off before i start talking about the initiative itself i want to acknowledge the efforts that we have here in the city and county of san francisco not only are supported by multiple departments in the city and

county including the department of public health, the san francisco police department. we have violence prevention strategies also through dc ys and throughout the city departments and we have many community based organizations such as young community developers and. [speaking spanish] and workday in and day out with us to make sure that we have interventions that are community based and culturally comtent and i want to acknowledge that and it wouldn't be where it is without the organizations and collaborations in the city that there are so with they will give a high level introduction around ipo. it was launched in july 2012. this is an initiate lead by mayor lee. he announced the ipo initiative which stands for interrupt, predict and organize and for a safer san

francisco and has three core strategies and the strategies just as the tag line states is interrupt, predict and organize. the interruption piece refers to a enforcement strategy and deals with hot spot neighborhoods and make that we identify those spots and target individual neighborhoods or areas that are impacted by any type of form of violence including homicides, shootings, activated assaults and create an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies here in san francisco and the police department to make sure that they interrupt, the violence. the second strategy is predict and stands for predictive policing for an effective violence prevention strategy. this strategy refers to making sure that he we use our innovation and enhancement through the departments and the

probation department to look at different trends, different areas that are impacted by violence in order to be able to predict in the future somewhat or make correlation around where we believe that we need to concentrate our work and organize is the third strategy that really calls out more of the comprehensive approach. it calls out organizing social service agencies, enforcement partners, none profits and faith based communities to address all forms of violence in the city and county of san francisco. the last strategy is a strategy that i oversee directly the organized strategy. and what you see in here in terms of a diagram in the three prong approach that we have. in each strategy there are different sub strategies that actually are performed in order to get to making sure that we have a safer city. under the organized specifically i will concentrate on that since today i was asked

to concentrate on that violence prevention work. we are charged under the office of violence prevention services to actually make sure that we organize social service agencies and we work closely with city departments and key stakeholders to identify any gapies in service and we look at goals identified by our departments and public safety partners and we keep track there are correlations among the city and look how trends are changing given the impact of services. we are charged with a strategy and make sure any victim of homicides, shootings or activated assaults get these services and we have 14 city departments that come on a

regular basis and we basically discuss any incidents that impact the city a week prior to that wednesday meeting. the meeting is held for an hour. i facilitate with my team this session and we make sure that all of the resources of any victim is actually identified. we identify community based strategies that need to be implemented right away and also look at any families that are impacted including any district students in san francisco unified school district students that are impacted by an incident. we coordinate and work with the other city departments in making sure that they attend our monthly public safety cluster meetings where we identify not only semester plans that we need to plesmment or look at trends or areas that the initiative needs to be adjusted. part of our role is work with the existing councils and really be supportive in terms of looking at the way that the

councils are operating, whether they're effective, they have actual efficiencies in the way they're developing strategies, and we also keep real close track in terms of the funding requested through the councils. in terms of specific projects we're required to oversee this [inaudible] program and something specific asked by our office however we leveraging the human services agency, department of public health and others to implement this program. it's a program that targets high risk individuals given in 2012 what we found in different community forums residents were telling us over and over again that we needed to concentrate on the victims of homicides and the victims of highest concern are between the ages of 18-25 so we created a program which our office oversees that actually works

with these individuals that are high at risk. we identify them through the gang task force, through the police department and the probation department and the street outreach team. we work with these individuals i like to say from the ground up. we identify them and work closely with them to be able to make sure they work with us for a 12 month period through public works who are the host and we offer job training, mental health services and work with some of the community based partners trying to make sure they choose an alternative lifestyle so that is an actual special project that we oversee specifically given the mayor is a champion making sure that we use jobs and a way and motivating preventing violence in the city and county of san francisco. we oversee the street violence program and the outreach program here in the city and county of san francisco some of you may have known as

the crn in the previous iteration. we directly over see this group and with the department of public health and dcyf and part of the reason it's moved is to make sure there is align line with enforcement partners and strong oversight in terms of performance and we like to make sure that all of the administrative pieces are settled so that they can continue doing the work they're known for. the last piece we're in charge of is working with agencies around faith based gatherings so what you see on the power point is examples of different events and different types of community or public awareness strategies that we've had and implemented such as the gun buy back event, different forums to basically get the community aware of the importance of ending violence, so that's our roles and responsibilities. in terms of our outcomes of what we have

seen since we launched i feel we have seen a 36 reduction in homicides since the launch of this initiative. communities with low resources have received very much supportive resources such as the visitacion valley neighborhood. they received close to $3.5 million in social services and they were in dire need of that so that's one area we ended up moving forward under the ipo initiative. we have seen different impacts in the juvenile and probation diameters and seen the juvenile rates drop and average of 70 a month and it's a true success if you look at the trends throughout the country. we have dropped the rates dramatically and also with the probation department and

despite realignment and we have many that reduced revocations, have demonstrated a low count of recidivism rates here in the city and county of san francisco, and other things i would mention is since ipo we have been able to target 110 high risk individuals and at risk individuals who are served by the program and 500 individuals through the state violence response teams and make sure any victim of violence has a wrap around approach and finally the city and county of san francisco with the domestic violence part of the work that we've done cell straighted 10 years of zero homicides in the city and county of san francisco and also a hallmark to the work that has gone on. in terms of the gun violence prevention and public safety cluster we were asked to go ahead and present some of our recommendations and moving forward with the gun

violence prevention task force and what we have -- in conversations that we've had with the mayor's office and the supervisor we agreed that joining the task force together would make sense and there definitely needs to be a focal point around genviolence. we are recommending that the cluster and violence prevention forum actually get tied together given we have an existing body that meets on a monthly basis. you can see on the board we have 16 different departments that participate including the san francisco police department and they meeting regularly to basically analyze public safety trends to look at crime trends and make recommendations and basically strategically plan for the city and county of san francisco on how to reduce forms of violence that include gun violence, domestic violence and human trafficking. all of the city departments and either the director or a deputy director at our meetings and we believe that joining together with

supervisor cohen in creating a joirnt task force would make sense there are a couple of benefits in doing that. one we would build upon the success of the public safety cluster. we would eliminate redundancies and staffing that is needed. our office is willing to do that to make the gun violence prevention task force successful so merging with them we would work closely with supervisor cohen's office and we're willing to increase the attention on the issue of gun violence. we're happy to look at that area as one of the key areas that our office focuses on. we're not in disagreement at all there is a need to look at additional strategies and supporting what is already existing and out in the community in terms of reducing gun violence. we also would include the engagement of existing participants in the public safety cluster which are called out in the ordinance themselves. we would eliminate redundancys in that fashion and

then we also would support and given that we would increase the voice of community members since we understand that the ordinance would actually make seats available for community residents to come and join us in these conversations and strategies in more official capacity so with they will just leave it there. i don't know if there are any questions by the rules committee. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor cohen for bringing this item forward and i actually think that the work that has been done by her office and the work that that includes the work of the budget and legislative analyst is something that could be very useful, and i think it's very carefully thought out. i actually think that the selection of the members, the 13 members is something that makes a great deal of sense. the

couple of questions that i have were points of concern are not so much with the mechanics of what the task force looks like, but quite frankly the priority that this will be given and whether or not for the mayor's office this will be a top priority. i am very familiar with the work that she has done and she's amazing and great that she is there, but i think it really requires a commitment s beyond your office because i know that your office does great work and the commitment is there, but i actually think that for something like this to be successful it has to go beyond that. it has to rise to the

level for the mayor's office itself. it becomes a top priority so that is something i would like to hear more from the mayor's office about, and what i have experienced -- not only as a member of the police commission but as a member of the board of supervisors is and i think supervisor cohen and other supervisors who have violence -- gun violence happen in the district it's an ongoing issue that there are discussions and reports come out and then reports are completed and they go on a shelf, and nothing happens after that, and so that's the thing that worries me making sure that there's actually work that follows. one