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 that goes 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 thing that i would have a

question about and i don't know that this is something that a person that should be a member of the task force per se, but i know something that has been important for us in the violence prevention work that we have done in the mission is how do we bring more than just the usual suspects or the typical players into the fold? and specifically i am thinking about the business community because i think -- i would imagine that some of the recommendations that will come out of this task force will require involvement by the business community. nothing stops a bullet like a job. well, i think that it would be helpful for us to include some role by the business community because i think that gun

violence has not only implications in terms of human life but also there are implications in terms of the finances and the business of the city, so that would be one thing, and to the extent that some of these major companies and tech companies included see gun violence that involves them as well but it's not just a mission or a bay view or western edition issue but it's something that they are connected to and committed to, so i don't know if you have any thoughts in terms how the business community could be part of this? >> sure. i definitely think adding seats is a solution and representation for the communities you mentioned. we work with the neighborhoods and [inaudible] torres and the work of the office of economic development. we try to engage

the merchants association. one thing in the report that was highlighted and published around services there are multiple councils in the city and county of san francisco and i wouldn't disagree and i think our office is looking at the redundancies so we as an office would be more than willing to be able to modify the priority in terms of the public safety cluster. we would highlight of course gun violence as the number one priority in order to avoid redundancies and have a full buy in so that's the only area i am cautious about and creating another council and the report is highlighting and that would create another body and what strides are we making? i believe we have made strides in the last couple of years with you and supervisor cohen and supervisor tang and i think the council is one aspect and one mechanism of looking at it but

it's the ground level work -- for example our [inaudible] meetings that are most effective and call in the different partners and i encourage the engagement at that level so i am happy that we bring to light with a district format if there are cases that we discuss these issues. i would caution in a very respectful way just creating another council versus really looking building off of what we have. >> no. i don't think it's about creating another council. how do we engage the corporate business community in this discussion? i am not worried about the merchants being involved and the small business owner because i think that is already happening, but what role do these tech companies that are making a lot of money in san francisco what role -- or some of the other big corporations have in this? right? i think it's a very important question because i haven't seen sf city

and some them doing this kinds of work. the other question is i think it would be important to have someone from the mayor's budget office also involved because i would imagine there are budget implications to some of the recommendations, so i would sort of say if there is someone from the budget office that is involved as well, so if there are specific actions that are needed where money or other things that are needed that they have a role, but i want to thank supervisor cohen. i think this is exciting and i look forward to working on this. >> okay. i just want to clarify just some things. this is a conversation that we're having about an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the gun violence prevention task force and this task force will advise the departments