volunteer. for teacher security. i received much of my training after i was released on prole in north carolina after more than 20 years in prison. i was an active member of the u.s. army second air born division serving as infantry squad leader. i have taken notes of multiple attempts to establish programs for youth to teach skills that would show them an alternative way of life other than that of the streets and crime. none of these programs came to light because of lack of funding from either private or government sources. when this board and the future looks to ways to prevent mass murders like those that recently occurred in the hayes valley neighborhood it should consider allocations to places like the watc which planned

out radio -- outreach the hard to reach gang members. >> public speaker: president breed and other victims. i rise to review my previous remarks on your on going validation and support for nicotine addiction industry. i appreciate your respect for due difference to the district supervisor even i might concede that it might prevail. but for the fact there is no such things in the atmosphere. separate and in viable from all others it is all of san francisco as one breathing hole you must consider. you will get the same free flawed

argument supporting them and you will be able to counter them. the first t connection to lung cancer. that argument is good because that connection is weak. however nicotine in whatever form is strongly and favorably associated with heart disease. it's the tar heat that is associated with lung cancer. the second answer is that no nicotine escapes the user. we normally breathe in air that is.04 cash diekdzrbon dioxide and 16 percent oxygen. it's on views -- obvious that a useren inhales the rest. exercising choice is to be

valued as long as your choice doesn't diminish mine. secondhand exposure is first hand abuse. by the way, people who live in seismic zones should not live in glass houses. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening, i'm john from san francisco. this is about the funeral of a young black boy. i was walking by the church and little old church. upfront a lonely couple sat. in the casket was a child. i can picture him living curly

hair and smiling face i have seen perhaps a thousand in my early. then rose a black preacher from a little wooden desk and he said don't be weeping for this pretty bid of clay. for the lord didn't give thank you baby by 100,000 miles and he keeps it's until your hearts are grown and until what you are setting now has an interest on the loan. so let your hearts in heaven rest and don't go criticizing to the one that knows the best. he has the right to take away and in conclusion, i add

he has the right to take away, not you, me not anybody else. this is an american icon hank williams senior, the father. this you for listening. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. next speaker. please. >>supervisor london breed: in your face. >> queen bee i would like to thank ms. cohen and supervisors. i just want to show you. i'm glad she's our supervisor and we are supporting. my name is ace and i'm on the case and the corridor ambassador. let me show you what we have going on in fillmore. we have a building owned by yoshi and now with all the closing businesses i'm representing a group that is known as the

fillmore bay area media group. we have the community component there now. michael johnson met with us and he says he supports us. we are the community entity. so i have arranged my first corridor and i'm inviting the whole city and county and the mayor if he cares. i'm inviting my supervisors ks i know she'll be there. and we are going to talk about things that happened down at fillmore and explain some of the things about that current building there. it is operated by a gentlemen a little older than me, we are going to have we may that are going to be using that space like social media. yours truly. i'm at the bottom of the garage and art gallery. we are going to have a black

history month. everyday we are going to have issues there to raise money. supervisor, we are hoping you will be there tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.. we'll let you go e in the next few men's -- minutes after that. i call it the feel no more. in fillmore. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, ace. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: >> tom. when you know your gems are protected and the shoe fits you even if there is a glass wall involved it's easy to take a good vote. a year 1/2 ago about a

spokesman was on television talked about high rises and i said that doesn't fill well with me. i brought a show and tell. yes. okay that's sarah from the office, south beach, 19 years ago. that's sarah with her son. he's now 19 in santa clara. robbie and his daughter when he brought his daughter home from the hospital, the mother went back in an ambulance because she was in a coma. couple years later, there is our little girl. same day there is mom. these are stories these are our gems. they had to leave. their

second $400 rent increase sent them traveling. here is kay. below market rate apartment dweller. she's going to be losing her spot possibly. here is kim, another below market rate person, 20 years living in south beach. she is vulnerable and ready to go. here is a courageous woman 81 years old. she's moving down scale because her rent went up $600 to apply admiral. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: >> as you know while this is my answer, we want to fight

racism and homophobia and and dr. brown letting people know what xenophobia is a because you don't like the way people talk. district 6 often and when you go bayview they say we are not part of black lives. when you go to district 5, they say we are not part of black. we are the unfor gettable people in district six. we deal with it in the tl. i want to show you, this is a 10-year report, this started 51805 where racist and hate crimes. this is a guy that through coffeen my face

because i was singing in my lobby. before christmas someone went in my apartment and burned my apartment. the lady told me i was getting too comfortable and september me to my burned out room and we have burn outs in castro, the mission, hotel, ambassador in. when we call the police and they don't take us serious. when we are getting beat down in the tl. the blacks in san francisco, sometimes i feel like we are in shanghai. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. are there any other members of the public who

would like to provide public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed.. mr. clerk, before we call the adoption without committee reference, supervisors mar can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar. motion by supervisor farrell and tang approved. motion to continue item 35 motioned by supervisor wiener and seconded by supervisor tang. without objection item 35 will be continued. mr. clerk can you please call the remaining items in the adoption without committee reference to agenda. city clerk: items 34-36 are being considered for immediate adoption without reference. a single roll call vote. as such matters can be removed and

discussed separately. item 35 is being removed until the february 21st meeting. >>supervisor london breed: would you like to approve items. city clerk: campos, crist stan stop sign, >>supervisor london breed: cohen, aye, farrell, aye, kim aye, supervisor kim, wiener aye, yee aye, avalos, aye. there are 10 ayes. >>supervisor london breed: this item passes unanimously. hold on colleagues. we have an item on the agenda. mr. clerk can you please call the item for the imperative agenda. >> we have declared january 21st, as san francisco

restaurant week to encourage all san francisco to support their restaurants. >>supervisor london breed: let's take the first finding to find this resolution purely commendatory moved by supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen. we can take this without objection. and also before we approve this imperative item, we must take public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to provide public comment on this particular item. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the other item that we need to move forward came to the board after the agenda was posted. can we have a motion to move that forward. moved by supervisor farrell, second by supervisor cohen

without objection. can we take both of those findings, we already did that and now on the substantive imperative agenda item, can we move that item forward without objection. without objection the imperative agenda passes. mr. clerk can you read the in memoriam. city clerk: on behalf of the late rosy lee and on behalf of the full board for the late morales and for the late dorothy adams and laura lie. >>supervisor london breed: okay, colleagues, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>present.

>> >>at this time i'm going to turn the meeting over to my vice president because i have asthma and i think he can carry through. thank you. >>thank you. richard, would you announce some changes to the treatment of the agenda, please? >>if you all look at page three on the agenda please note that vice president seriina will not be calling the agenda items in that order. >>thank you. >>the items will be called in the following order: item e, item i item j item f item h and item g. with that modification i ask for a vote to approve the agenda. >>approve. seconded. >>all in favor, any opposed. thank you, the motion carries.

>>i would like to also make a slight change in the agenda and move the employee recognition of after my report if that's possible. >>absolutely. any objection to changing the agenda? thank you. item number 3 approval of a consent agenda. >>so moved. >>second. >>thank you. any discussions? any comments from the public? all in favor? >>i. >>any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item number 4 approval of the december 23, 2014 meeting minutes. any modifications or changes to the minutes? any comments or changes from the public. hearing none motion to approve. >>approve. >>second.

>>any opposed. thank you, the motion carries. . now item number 5 director's report, ann hinton. >>good morning president james, seriina and commissioners, just a few things to report. first of all i want to thank deputy mcfadden for taking responsibility in replacing me of december in washington dc at a board meeting and having visits on the hill and that's where i want to start with my report in terms of things that have been happening since i saw you. you know that congress was able to reach a budget agreement so we are not having a continuing resolution at this point, we actually have the budget in place and that budget although not having all the things that we were certainly advocating for when the board was in dc in

early december it had one thing in it that was a very pleasant surprise and that was that for the very first time congress has provided $4 million for the elder justice act initiative and this is something that's been in place for years but has never been funded and there was a lot of concern that if there wasn't funding put into the budget at this point the act itself might go away and have to start all over with that. the president has, in his budget, asked for more money for this, in which wasn't funded to the full amount he asked for, but to have 4 million in first time funding i think is significant in the funding itself not so much in the dollar amount. 4 million for the entire country won't go very far, but will give the administration of community

living additional dollars to build on the platform that they have become which is to direct data from across the country so they can start looking at what does elder abuse look like across the state and provide information to us so i think that was just really great news. some of the disappointing news was that money for the adult and disability resource centers 10 million of the 16 million that funds that program for across the country, 10 million of that was in play since early fall. and that 10 million was not refunded so $16 million program has now gone to 6 million. it was something that wasn't funded at its maximum anyway so we're waiting to see now what fallout there will be. san francisco has been implementing an adult with disability resource model with very little of this kind of

funding anyway so i think we're going to be find but i think watching what happens in the rest of the state will be important as we were really hoping for sites across the state, so no matter where an older adult or family would be they would be able to access that site and move from county to county as they needed to be. we'll have to see what happens. i think there will be more advocacy on this issue from now until the spring so we'll have to see on that. we also -- if you remember a couple of years ago we had legislation in congress that's requiring reductions for the next ten years we're in our third year now. those cuts are still in place. we were hoping to get back to the 2010 2012 funding levels but that was not to be. but i think we had been expect that would be the case. there was a little flurry of

excitement on the hill one of the day i was there. we thought that the older americans act was going to move. it looked like both senators in deep conversation over this and over the funding formula had reached a come promietdz compromise, but things have not happened. it's interesting to be there when things are flying and fast and furious and then at the end of the day you're back to where you were. i think that's most of the life lights on the budget. the state budget we're still waiting to see what comes from that what the governor will suggest. we know our city and county budget is in better shape than it's opinion for a number of

years so the mayor has issued directions tomorrow afternoon i feel think at 3:00. somebody's going to nod to me. 3:00 tomorrow there is a budget meeting, everyone's invited to that so if you want to hear more details, but at the january -- at our next meeting you will be getting all the details around it but safe to say we won't be doing any program reductions like we have done in previous years and we're looking forward to a much better time in this year's budget. i have two other things i have wanted to report on. one is that the sheriff has convened a group of people to discuss the older adult population that's in custody and this is a meeting that he's been trying to pull people together to for a while now. kathy davis, day view hunters point, senior services was at the table. and of course members of his own

team were there and i think this is one of what's going to be probably many meetings moving toward a much larger convening of people to really look at what's happening to the population there. and i say old earler adults bewe're really talking about people in their 50s and up because many of the people coming into custody now in that age range have cognitive impairment so i think it will be a very interesting conversation with not such easy solutions, both to -- is resolutions to things while people are in custody may be easier to reach than to do when people are released but it's going to be interesting. and the last thing i wanted to talk about today is that linda lau, our nutritionist is going to join me for this part of my report. i'm going to send this around

because i want you to have a chance to look at it. this was a gift from a group that was here from america samoa a couple months ago. i wanted linda to share with you what she has -- what she has been doing with this group of folks. some time ago the regional office, the federal regional office here in san francisco asked linda if she would provide support and resource and some direction to a group of people in america samoa. the idea was that there were no nutrition programs there, no nutrition sites and how to get things up and running. and so not only did linda do that but on the recent visit that they had here to the city, they got around to visit some of our sites. as linda will tell you they now have more than one site. it is really an exciting program and i just really -- kudos to

linda, but it was great to have of course, the feds ask the san francisco triple a to be part of this initiative so linda, i'm going to turn it over to you. >>good morning commissioners. just a little background the american samoa had asked us to share some best practices and resources with them. as was mentioned, they don't have any home deliver meal programs, but they were receiving title 3c federal money for these programs and what they were doing for over 20 years was providing a food voucher which they can use in any grocery stores for anything they want so there was little control over what kind of food but in

essence it didn't meet the guidelines for the older americans act. and so in july 2013 they asked and we were fortunate to have our department agree to provide that support to them and they basically -- we share best practices. they made a visit to san francisco in january, 2014 to visit a few of our centers, including third street senior center santon latino and the samoan community development center which we offer samoan hawaiian style meals. that was one of the impetus was on how to provide that and activities for the seniors. so we did. it took them a little over a

year-and-a-half to get everything together so i wanted to show you some brief slide shows that they had shared with us and a little bit of highlights of what happened during the visit. so this is the american samoa and their mission is to provide the best services with the utmost respect in order to be perpetuate and maximize the happiness and well being of american samoan senior citizens. this is -- you probably can't see the organizational chart here but i thought it was very interesting because their organization's very different. on the very top is the governor for the american samoan government and right below that is their director and we met with him. they were the administrators and they wanted to see how it happens because there was a lot of resistance from the seniors

who were very vocal. they didn't want to change the food voucher program because they were used to that for over 20 years. anyway, in may, 2014, they had a procurement meeting with all the different vendors. they look at different models how they can implement this because resources are pretty scarce and they didn't have the type of infrastructure that we have, but they have restaurants and they have schools, they looked at schools. but finely they -- nothing that i have went with was working with caterers and having the restaurants be able to provide the food for the different senters that they will offer the new program. there are 15 new sites where they started this program in different parts of the island. interestingly they wanted to start out with a few pilot