>> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos and joined by tang and cohen and our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will be on the april 7th board agenda, unless others stated. >> the first part of the agenda includes the members of the board of supervisors who are applying for the outside committee and regional bodies and there will be an opening

perhaps, that has to leave at noon, and we will open that up and continue it to the end of the agenda, when we will do the other interviewwise the monitor committee applicant and let's go to the first item. >> item number one is a motion >> purpose mar has been there and he does not need to be here to present and so we can open it up for any comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment on the application to lafco, and seeing none, we will close the public comment and could we have a motion to move forward. >> i would like to move

supervisor mar to lafco and this to the full board with the positive recommendations. >> and that is seconded by cohen and do you have any? >> sorry i don't. >> okay, we can take that without objection. >> and next item please? >> item number 2 is a motion reappointing supervisor kim term ending june 30, 2015, to the association of bay area governments executive board. >> same situation, with supervisor jane kim. applying for the abag and the executive board and open it up for public comment, any member of the public that would like to comment. seeing none we will close. and if we could have a motion for supervisor kim? >> so moved. >> okay. and seconded by cohen. and we will take that without objection. >> thank you. >> item three. >> a motion appointing sburp julie christensen term ending june, 30, 2016, to the

association of bay area governments executive board we will open it up for public comment and we will close the public comment and move that forward with recommendation and, could we take that without objection. item four, to change the composition of the family violence council and to establish the sunset date for the council. >> okay. and this is item sponsored by supervisor tang. >> all right. >> thank you very much, i will be quick on this. basically the family violence council is something that is unique in our state. and it is the only inner agency and county wide advisory council dealing with child abuse and domestic violence and elder abuse, the recommendations have sparked really great improvements in san francisco. and it was for example, instrumental in advocating for the children's advocacy center

which is a state of the art forensic interview for children, and it helped to establish the intervention, program and to assist the department of emergency management in establishing specialized codes for various types of family violence and now the council is in the fourth year of producing the report on violence in san francisco and highlights the trends and helps to show the various ways of the victims of violence can access hope and so we thought that consulting with many of the city departments it was the appropriate time to make the updates to the ordinates that were made during the fourth annual report and so in short, the amendments include adding 16 members to the council, that includes, juvenile probation, public defender, animal care control and the san francisco unified school district and the human resources director and the fire department and there are a few other changes to the ordinance that will just help to insure

the rotation of the committee numbers and just foster new leadership and so i want to thank you colleagues for your support on this, and at this time, i want i also wanted to thank supervisors breed and co-hen of course for co-sponsoring this, i know that we have, three departments, who are going to present on this and i believe that the rest may speak during public comment, so i would like to invite up the representatives from the commission on status of women, the department of adult and aging services, our district attorney's office and i think that i all see juvenile and probation here, and so any department if you want to come up and just briefly provide some information on this item. that will be great. >> good morning, chair, avalos, and vice chair tang and supervisor cohen i am the assistant district attorney and i am presently the managing attorney of the domestic violence unit in our office. and we urge and support passage

of these amendments to the family, violence council, ordinance, and the fbc, is a perfect venue for collaboration and exchange of ideas and much needed improvements, to our criminal justice system's response to not only domestic violence, but stalking and elder abuse, the council and all of its members work tirelessly to improve and develop needed policies and protocols to benefit the most vulnerable in our society, women and, children and elders affected by domestic violence and abuse, as you know the san francisco commission and the department on the status of women established the justice encourage oversight panel in response to the tragic murder of claire joyce temp anco in 2000. and since then, it is numerous subcommittees worked tirelessly for 12 years to study and address the much-needed recommendations to how our city

agencies would address a response, and work to report it, and report the investigations regarding domestic violence, and in october of 2014. the final evaluation of the justice encourage oversight panel on domestic violence and policy reform in san francisco was published and however, as a dear friend of ours, beverly upton wants to say that our work is not yet done, the study lists a complete list and status of pending recommendations which i brought with me and i have it on my desk as a constant reminder of the fact that we have a lot of work that needs to do and that work, rather than have them collect dust in a nice binder, that work is or will be done and can be done wi the family violence council, and in its present form, we have a subcommittee, appropriately titled the justice and courage subcommittee and the

representatives of our community, police department and probation, and the victims services advocates and district attorney office meet to continuously work on addressing these pending concerns, and still developing policies. needless to say that it is imperative to pass this ordinance and vice chair tang already addressed the formal of the much needed members it is imperative to have the collaboration of these important key members that will be participating to formalize it and i will not repeat what vice chair tang outlined many of them some of who may address the committee it morning and so all of the partners are key if we were to continue and thrive and erratical domestic violence and we thank you for addressing the work of the family violence council and we applaud the recommendations and thank you for the support and urge the

passage, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors and avalos and taning and cohen. and i just wanted to very briefly speak in support of these amendments in support of the family violence council and the juvenile probation department has been actively participating on the council for several years voluntarily and because we understand sxa recognize the importance of the work that this group does, we are pleased to see that the sponsor ship from the board of supervisors to continue this family violence council, and to support the amendments to the council, and is being advanced, we will look forward to continuing to work in collaboration with the other partners, and we recognize the family violence has a devastating impact on young people, often resulting in their involvement in the juvenile justice system and to the ex-at extent that we have

coordination and we believe that the continued effort will help to prevent the further domestic violence and therefore we support this amendment and i thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors, susan with the department of human resources just happy to be here today and say that we are in full support of the ordinance and we are very honored to participate in the collaboration with all of the departments involved and it is a natural extension with the partnership with the department on the status of women to provide the resources and assistance to the city employees who may be dealing with issues related to family violence and we are supportive and happy to be a part of the collaboration. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is mimi and i am the director of the woman's policy on the department of the status of women and thank you for supervisor tang and supervisors

breed and cohen for co-sponsoring, they have the lucky to work with them and we are happy to work every day to improve the response to the domestic violence and elder abuse and child abuse and one of the aspects that make our council unique in the way in which it is a true collaboration between our non-profit agencies that provide the services and our city departments of the structures that it is chaired by three chairs who come from the community based organizations and then there are the members of the council, that come from the city departments so it really works, so well, and as supervisor tang mentioned we are unique in the state in really addressing all three of these issues and in the way in which we are structured and it is very exciting to be able to add the six new partners some of whom have been participating and some who are new and really making sure that we are getting all of the various agencis that might have an impact on being able to improve the situation for survivors of child abuse

and elder abuse or domestic violence and we are so proud about the reports that we have put together and i think that makes us unique in the state and in the depths of the data that we provide if you have not had the chance to read the most recent one and it is a bit long and we have revealing information about where people are seeking services and the way in which various city agencies are responding and i want to call up sergeant who is here from the special victim's unit of the police department and give him a chance to speak as well. >> thank you, good afternoon. and i am antonio with the special victim's unit and i am the acting officer in charge of the domestic violence portion, with the luxury that i have been with the domestic violence unit for approximately almost 14 years. and i have seen the growth, and i know as being part of the partnership that it is important that we continue this. so, this police department is

totally in support of this and if you have any questions i would be free to take those. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and you? >> thank you very much. >> all right. i think that is all for the department representatives and do we have more from the departments? any of the non-profit agencies will have to speak during the public comment just as a reminder. okay. all right. >> okay that is all of the department representatives, we can go on to public comment, public comment is now opened on this item, come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you, so much for having this hearing today, i am privileged and honored to support the family violence ordinance and i'm katie the executive director of the san francisco child abuse prevention center and one of the tri chairs of the family violence council, the san francisco violence council is truly the best practice in the state and we are the only counsel to join together

domestic violence and elder abuse in an inner agency county wide, body and it allows us a opportunity to address the violence with innovative and effective coordination, with the support of the council, san francisco can be proud of accomplishments in recent years and i will speak now to just child abuse prevention and my co-chairs will speak about domestic and elder abuse, first we can be proud of the increase in the investments and the under served children with the recent voter approved, extension of the children's fund and the public education and enrichment fund and this increases the critical funding for the next two decades to serve the children in the transitional use many of whom are at risk of neglect in the community. >> and second we can be proud of greater accountability for the support of child abuse offenders through the intervention program a comprehensive, 52 week, program

for the convicted child abuse placed on probation, and san francisco was the third county in the state, to implement such a program. and third is supervisor tang mentioned we can be very proud of the open and the accreditation for the children's advocacy center and this is located in the bay view for the children to find justice and heal with all of the city partners that need to hear that child's story and it is one of the highlights of my career and the child abuse prevention center and something that the city should be proutd of. finally we can are proud of the -- >> that was your time. >> that was your. next speaker, please? >> when you hear the second

ding, the mic is off. we hear you, i think, it might not be picked up by the television viewers. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is shauna reevee and the director of elder abuse prevention, and i also direct the elder abuse center for the city and county of san francisco and we are one of eight forensic centers in the country and one of the first as well and i fully support this ordinance to expand the membership of the family violence council bas the family violence council is crucial in highlighting the abuse and across the life span and does not turn into another form of abuse, mainly the elder abuse, when someone hits age 65, this recognition, is unique among counties and i have worked in other counties and the recognition that abuse, occurring across the life span is all related and the work in the report that come out of the family violence council and form what we do at the

forensics center and makes the work that we do multidiscipline and multty generational and so i support this ordinance, thank you. >> next speaker please? >> pardon my voice, beverly upton, and the reason that i traveled to washington, d.c. last week to present and i came back with a grocy sound, thank you, as most of you know san francisco in most counties in san francisco, and in california, had a dow mist i can violence council, for almost 20 years, and we decided five years ago, to expand it and take it off line and bring it up to the next century so we did that and we took it off line and looked at what we can offer san francisco. and what we saw was an opportunity to blend our good work, with elder abuse, and child abuse and domestic violence and i am so proud of this collaboration. and i am so proud of our partnership with the department on the status of women, that

supports this project and really helps to keep us all moving forward and my incredible co-chairs from the elder and the child abuse, and the six new members that are in the proposed legislation will add to the depth and the breadth of what the council can do and so as we see the new codes for 911 and the new protocols and we see the additional resources for the service providers and we will see the additional people at the table and the animal care and control and the fire department and hr that can really help to embed this work in the city and so i want to thank supervisor tang, and supervisor breed and cohen for their work and i want to thank you in advance for passing this resolution. >> thank you very much, if there are no other members of the public, who want to comment, we will close public comment, and we have this item live before us. >> supervisor taning? >> thank you, i want to thank all of the different people who came out today, and whether it was a department representative or the people who do incredible

work in the community and thank you for being part of this wonderful forward thinking klabive and i think that you do amazing work and inspirational and i hope that my colleagues will be able to support me in adding these critical departments to the new membership. >> thank you, i also want to take a moment to acknowledge the hard working men and women, mostly women, that are on the front lines that are just really helping to make our city better. >> and so, to the department heads and to the non-profits and i know that it is a thankless job and we know how it can be thankless and i just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. >> and my comments are that this family violence council, makes so much sense. we have many households where the children and the couples

and elders all live in the same place, and having it and recognizes the unique needs that the neighborhoods have and work towards the greater for the community and i will be backing this legislation and i want to thank the community members and the department heads and supervisor tang's office for moving it forward. >> thank you. >> and so can we have a motion to move this forward. >> yes. >> and we will take that colleagues without objection. >> congratulations. >> we will go out of order and we have an applicant that is applying for a seat on the shelter committees that has to leave at ten, and let's go to item 8 and we will continue the item to the rest of the meeting. >> a hearing to consider appointing three members and terms ending november, 23, to the shelter monitoring committee, there are three seats and four applicants.

>> so this is opened up for applicant, darcel jackson, if you could spend a couple of minutes talking about your interest in the shelter committee and what your experience has been and understanding i have heretofore what the committee is about and what would you like to achieve as a member of the committee? >> first of all my name is darcel jackson and i have been experienced and percent and i think that i am a good candidate and i am involved in a number of projects and the co-founder of shelter tec, which is bringing free wi-fi to shelter sos that the people can close that digital divide and use it for the job searches, and the job searches and resumes, and you know, so that we can, transition from the

homelessness. and having been momentless on two different occasions because of the economics, as an iron worker, and the work slowed down and i could not find work and ended up homeless, and so i get to meet the homeless people, and there is a lot of people that just want to make a transition, and anything that i can do to help them. and having been in the shelter, and you know, i would like to be instrumental in keeping it on par and maybe even making it better. >> and what would be making it better look like to you? from your experience? >> i think that there should be more emphasis on transitioning from homelessness, to the getting back into the workforce connecting with family, and getting out of the shelter. and there is a group and i think that, 40 percent of the people already have the tools to get out of this shelter if they had access to things like computers, from getting job resumes and then there is, and it isn't designed for people like that can youer kur you are

cently and if you have a job, you have the requirements that you have to check in at 2:00, and if you get in a job, it is 9:00 to 5:00 and how are you going to check in at 2:00 there needs to be more attention put on the people who are trying to make a transition, some people are not cap able of making the transition, because i lived among some of them but there is a great number of them that want to make that transition and there are hindrances in the way so that they can't. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> anything else to add? >> no. i am going to go to school. i am making a transition. >> okay. >> so we are going to actually make the vote on the applicants at the end of the meeting today so if you want to check in with my office. >> i actually they gave me permission to stay, and i am going to the chef school at the services and they thought that this was important so that i could stay. >> okay, i just missed that great lunch that we have every day. >> all right. >> right on. thank you. >> and so we will continue this item to the end and we will go

to the next item which is number five. >> confirming the mayor's reappointment of joel ramos to the board of directors term ending march 1, very good. >> please come forward. >> this is one of our key appointments that we have today, but in general one of the most important ones of the city and so i want to thank you for your service, up to today. and but, now, looking for your second round on the mta board of directors. and so, here you are here to present, and we are here to check you out. >> thank you. so much, chairman, avalos, and vice chair tang and supervisor co-hen and it is an honor to have been submitted to be considered for reappointment and it has been a privilege, i know, serving up there on that board, and it is a very tough

position, because transportation, is so critical to all of our lives. and i, i feel as though, the past four years i have learned a lot. and there is a lot to learn. but i feel like we have been able to move the city forward in a positive direction in ways that i think that can be seen in a lot of the improvements that we have seen through the transportation system and one of my first goals that i had coming on to the mta was to move forward the concept of boarding and all door boarding is what is allowing us to be able to speed along our service to allow the people to get on to any door and without having to cue up like they still do in the east bay, so if you are ever interested in what it looks like or feels like, i would encourage you to take the bus on ac transit where they are still suffering from, what

feels like agonizing delays while the people cue up one by one and now they are looking at us and trying to replicate that system. and another thing that i think that has been a wonderful benefit to the boarding has been an increase in safety on our system and we have seen lower cases of fare evasion and i think that with the fare inspectors i know that there is safety and supervisor cohen you are interested in making sure was, implemented in your district. one of the other things that i think that i have been able to help to move along, i feel is an important issue for a lot of our community and it has been the free muni for the long commute and seniors it was one of my priority to make sure that we are doing everything that we could to make the system affordable and accessible for everyone and as we know that the city is not getting less expensive to live

in where we can help the people stay in the city, i think that we are doing something that would be most appreciated by everyone. and that particular, and those actions along with what we have been able to do with the muni forward, we are seeing the dedicated transit lawns lanes and a little bit of the adjustments to the system and the adjustments that have not been made in the generations all working to improve not just the corridor routes and the computer lines but the local service as well and over the next four years as we continue to roll that out i want to be sure that we do that in a way that is sensitive to the community's needs and as you all know that i am not exclusively transit rider and i am off and very much a pedestrian, and supervisor tang and i am also, very frequently as walking around your district as a pedestrian and living out in the inner sunset. and but we do get out to the sunset a lot, and i know how important and critical vision zero is to you, and to everyone, frankly, but i have

seen you be a champion of that, and i want to make sure that we can achieve real results in the short term that we have set for ourself to get to vision zero. and i see that, in most primarily, by winning more funding to be able to get the infrastructure improvements that we need for the vision zero and i think that if any, or if the past election, and ballot measures are any indication of the measures that we are making and i think that we have been doing a good job, i feel as though one of the primary challenges that we are looking at with my next four years is this question of the, all of the transit systems that are showing up that are quite within our jurisdiction of regulation, and it has been, something that we or i have not been to a meeting in the past three years and i have not heard about, there are tremendous challenges ahead and there are terrific opportunities and there are challenges and having, worked in transit advocacy for the

last, nine years, professionally, i do know that if we don't, and we are not on top of regulating our system its could, actually back fire and we would end up looking like the city of bogata, or just about any city in any less developed country where the streets are flooded with under regulated transit opportunities, and that come mri indicates the entire system and so thinking about the long term implications of every regulation that we set up and everything that we do basically, it is something that i will be thinking about as we move forward over the next four years, so i will stop there and i know that you guys have a lot to do and you are busy, but i did want to communicate how excited i am about the opportunity and i am not doing this for an election any time, and i am doing this because i love this city, like all of you, and i feel like i have something to offer, and i would gladly step aside if somebody more qualified was able to offer something more effective but for now, i am happy to step

up in and do the job if you will have me. so, thank you all so much for your own service. >> thank you, i want to thank you for your service on the board of directors and mta and it has been really great to see what the mta has been able to move forward in terms of infrastructure and in terms of new fleet that we are working towards building, and in terms of the attention to the pedestrian safety, and where we are now seeing, the mta and in a place that has not been in 25, 26 years, and to live in san francisco and they were called back in the 90 and what to talk about 100 days that is not the kind of approach to really how we make a long term changes and the investments in the transit systems and thes really a full time around the clock effort. and looking at various parts of the system in terms of the infrastructure and the streets and our buses and the light rail vehicles and the whole works