a part of that but i think that we always need the opportunity to look at new programs with the new populations coming into managed care. >> great, thank you. >> and the colleagues any comments or questions? >> seeing none, thank you for your, supervisor tang? >> just a quick comment and i just wanted to thank you, because i know that you helped out our office when we were partnering with them for the international woman's day celebration and really helping to get the clients paired up with some of the services and it looks like we were probably at, and around the same time. >> yeah, nice to see a fellow ider. >> thank you. >> great. thank you for your presentation. >> thank you very much. >> okay, and this item is now opened up for public comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment, >> thanks so much for letting me speak, i am from the san francisco health plan and we are considering her for appointment to our board, and emily, comes

in as she told you with a vast knowledge of our programs, and we take care of 130,000 low income, seniors disabled and family low income families, throughout the city, and it is really important to have somebody who really understands those programs and what the challenges are and she targeted them right away, we have incredible growth and it is a wonderful opportunity and we have to be able to manage the growth and so that the people can get to the doctor and get access in a timely way and so we are pleased and we would urge your support. >> thank you. >> any other member of the public that with like to comment? >> all right. >> i am katie all bright the executive director of the san francisco child abuse convention center and i promise to be short, i support web b nomination and i worked with her in the children's center of san francisco, and the bay view, child's center and the center for youth wellness on

third street and she was instrumental in its creation and its current success, it is smart and solutions oriented and knows healthcare and deeply understands our community and the needs for the population and she will work hard for san francisco and i urge her nomination is support. >> thank you. >> okay. any other member of the public that would like to comment? >> seeing none, we will close the public comment. i am just very impressed very concise, but very impactful presentation and demonstrates a great deal of knowledge and the authority of the work and moving forward in terms of our healthcare planning in san francisco and so i am fully supportive and thank you for your interest in this service, and so, colleagues could we have ail motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> we will take that without objection. >> next item please? >> item number 7, hearing to consider appointing three members terms and ending

december 17, 2015, to the sweat free procurement advisory group, three seats and three ap applicants and >> i believe that they are here, we will take them in the order that they are in. we will start with jason oringer. >> good morning, my name is jason and i have been a member of the special advisory group for a couple of terms and part of the sweat free committee, that helped to work for the law, along with the mayor's office and supervisor at that time, amiano and it was about ten years ago that san francisco passed this almost ten years ago, any way, and that san francisco passed this ground breaking, legislation, and you know, what was different about this ordinance is that a lot of the sweat free laws that proceeded it were

limited in scope and didn't have have youer much direct account nlt they were statements of principles on avoiding sweat free conditions and limited to the garment industry and the thing about this is that it starts with the garment industry and it also has the opportunity to be expanded to other commodities that the city purchases. and look at, the working conditions, and based on the standards and the city standards, and across the globe and so really, it is, and you should be thought of as a compliment to this sort of construction and regulations that the city has and services and regulation and guidance that the city has in looking at the full scope of purchasing and so, you know, as in any piece of legislation that you know, takes on something, that big and new, there has been a lot of wrinkles and a lot bumps in the process of trying to get regulation and get a scope and get the law to work. and a lot of the early years of this piece of legislation

worked you know, trying to partner with the purchasing department with the oca and develop regulations and actually, get a grip around the industry which did not or has not garment industry which is the first group which was very resistant to being regulated right? and made, many effort to avoid and regulation and that knew that san francisco is just one public enty among many that purchases items from them and so the city took a leadership position in working to try to be a convener and to reach out to through the mayor's office and through the board of supervisor to other cities and state to sort of come together to try to look at a higher standards in the garment industry and so i think that you know, we, and i, i am excited about coming back in this position and i think that we have gotten through a full round of the garment and associated contracts with the city that are now covered by the ordinance and we have actually, you know, worked with

the non-profit, compliance partner and the workers rights, and to, that has developed, several report and they were to implement the report and try that out and so we actually have a working system that we would like to come back to and i look forward to another year of work on actually trying to move the legislation now that we have actually got a lot of the wrinkles out to move forward and think about again, the scope and the promise of this legislation, as it was originally conceived, and i would like and i would hope that the other members of the advisory group will be coming back to you all, also. and to gather, to get your support and in doing that because i think that there is a lot of promise and it is only a little bit of it has been realized so far with this ordinance. >> questions? >> when you talk about the garment industry, what does that include? is that providers for uniform for the cities and also the

people with other >> yeah, so it is, originally it started out, the ordinance is uniform and other garments so, several city departments and i think that there are uniforms for the police department, the fire department and fire turn out gear is actually covered by this, and for the jails, right, the inmate and the parking department, and a lot of those are the bigger contracts that are covered and then the ordinance was expanded to cover actually woven other text tiles that can get the work into the health department which is another animal altogether. >> it is manufacturers, and it is also services? >> yeah. >> it is manufacturers. so, it covers for services it covers technically the part of the stuff that they purchased, right? and so that, the service contracts for the laundry and other things are covered by the service, regulation, but also covered by this ordinance, if they meet the threshold for the part of their contract that is

actually purchased. >> great. okay. >> and then, you mentioned that so far, the sweat free, procurement legislation is really impacted the garment industry and where do you see it and the other industries that it will impact and has started to impact. >> and so right now, the ordinance and there has to be and sort of an affirmative decision, through the oca, right? to decide on any expansion and i would assume that would come through and deliver a process with you all as well and right now it only applies to garments and other woven things and i think that there are promise in other industries, i would say that technology is one industry that has been discussed and people have talked about food as another industry and thinking about the food supply chain in the food, but there are several and i think that it would be, and we have had the discussions that the advisory committee about what are the biggest areas of purchase in the ones that might be, experiencing the most abuse, and both domestic and

international. >> oh, and we want to asks as well in terms of, and in terms of the garment industry and in terms of how our cities legislation, and on the sweat free, procurement, how have, how is the behavior changed within the industry because of this because of this ordinance. and i think that there has been some, so, there were a lot of levels of difficulty, and because, there is a lot of levels of subcontracting within this industry, and so, the city has vendors that they deal with which are basically just, and they with a lot of the uniforms for example, to just to be taking the negative segment, they have to and they have shops, right? where you have a uniform company that has a contract and they don't produce any uniform and they contract with another that outsources the stages of the production to the other companies and so a lot of the

early part of the ordinance was trying to get the workable and real information at the locations and then, to be able to investigate the working conditions, and in that supply chain, and so that is accomplished and there is actually a survey system, that now can do that, and now, there is a whole other level of being able to investigate, and in what the verasity of the information that they are receiving is, and even getting the information took a couple of years of work because a lot of it international. >> and there are manufacturers overseas. >> exactly. do we have any manufactures here in san francisco and in the bay area, there are, and the garment industry, in san francisco has been shrinking and we have had an initiative early on, which the chinese progressive association really worked with and worked with the city agencies and the mayor's office of economic development to try to see how much of this work could be out and there is an initiative now and what the determination was of the early studies and i think that it is echoed to more recent and that

there may be more support necessary, than not just some kind of a buy local or an institutional or technical support that will be necessary to help the local garments but there are manufacturers and it is a shrinking number and that could do the work and they are not doing to now and they are doing the subcontracted work for other things and i think that there is also, an effort to reach out to sfmade and the kind of profile and the kind of products that they produce and compared to the kind of products that they are looking for is kind of different and i think that it is a promising area for discussions. >> okay, great, thank you. >> and you have demonstrated it. >> thank you. >> we have another, and we have two more applicants and i am sure if they are here, yuval miller is the next? >> thank you, supervisors avalos, tang and cohen, i

appreciate the opportunity to be here today and it would be an honor to serve on the advisory group and although other cities have sweat free ordinances only san francisco and one other city has created a citizen body to over see ordinance implementation and broaden the out reach to the public about the great steps being issued. and as a member of the advisory group i would encourage the effective performance in two primary ways and first i would leverage my experience in human rights, poverty reduction and international labor law and i think that you have my materials and in case you have questions later to explore the creative intentives to work with the ordinance and second i would seek to encourage and improve the out reach, through the connections with the diverse stake holders and one of them would be my predecessor

was a student at sf state who more could be down to reach out to the schools and part of that is because this really has to be seen against a backdrop of other measures that are not at the city level, but in the private sector and those are mostly college level licensing agreements with adias and nike and the like and so for example, the university of oregon that has a licensing agreement with nike and the students, staged a sit-in, and insured that the university would work into the licensing agreements, working standards for the production chain abroad and the reason that it worked so well at the college level is because those licensing agreements make a lot of money for nike and adias and etc. and at the city level here, we are paying for the uniforms and so there is a dual, incentive and really that is where, the

creative, there has to be a process to comply and also on the public level to reach out to the public to get the public support for these measures so that the same kind of so that they can actually be effective. and otherwise, you have a situation where the public wants to pay less money, but the public also wants better working conditions, and most of the time the public does not even know that this ordinance exists. and when i found out that it existed i was surprised and impressed and that is why i started coming to the meetings and i think that there were, out of the 12 months of the year, there were five meetings actually held last year, and although, that was not one of the two ways that i would like to help out this committee. and i would say, that i schedule those meetings and i made time for them and i have a busy schedule and i would be part of the quorum that allows the meetings to go forward and

meet, having five out of 12 months of meetings is not sufficient in my view, i think that san francisco is a flag ship and requests to lift the people out of poverty and improve the human rights and, that i would be honored to help to start that voyage and serve the city. >> great. >> any questions? >> comments or questions? >> no. >> okay. we are good. thank you. >> the next applicant is julienne fisher. >> good morning, supervisors, thank you it has been my pleasure and challenge to be a member of the public on this committee and i asked for your support going forward. previous two speakers have more than covered some of the potential that sweat free procurement advisory group can do for the city. as a member of the public sitting on this board, one of the things that is just very

simple that we have been able to accomplish and would like to expand is to know that our city budget has been used to purchase uniforms or other items, in a circumstance where those workers now can have breaks, and now can have healthcare, or are free from harassment and particularly the women, and you know, it, and the ability to participate in that, and hopefully to expand that as we purchase things through our city budget and it is what keeps me coming more than anything. and i have been a worker in the city of san francisco, and ideal conditions for over 30 years and, so to be able to advocate on behalf of somebody else and to have the city participate, by having this ordinance, and having members of the public and people with the previous qualifications come, and work on this effort it is just a great thing. and i think that we are really having the potential to expand what we do. and we appreciate you listening to these comments and i ask for your support.

thank you. >> thank you very much. >> comments or questions? >> thank you, open up for public comment, any member of the public that would like to comment, seeing no member come forward we will close public comment. >> okay, colleagues this is before us and who has it. >> thank you. well you made it easy because there are three seats and three applicants and i want to thank all of the applicants and i think that there is one reappointment and two reappointments yes and i want thafrpg the ones that have already been on the advisory group for wanting to continue and i think that you bring a great background whether it is from the private sector in the work in the human rights and your experience with the labor organizations and a member of the public too and i think that it is important and so i am

happy to recommend. >> that is seconded and do you have a comment >> i was going to make the motion but she beat me to it. >> we can take that motion without objection and thank you for all of the applicants fox here and congratulations and this will go to the full board where we will vote on it there. next item. >> we have already call. >> item 8 has been called. >> we are reopening item 8 which has been called and let's go to the first person on the list, mico rolanda williams. >> good afternoon, miss williams. >> good afternoon, supervisor avalos, and tang and cohen. my name is mico williams. i am a applicant, formally homeless parent with a child living with me under the age of

18. so, i have been homeless in five family shelters, two out of state and three in san francisco. i have been in providence and i have been in the kano house and rafial house, i believe that i have an acute awareness of the families in the shelter andvy licensed the children being abused and the shelters, not company plying with their mandate to report to the cps, and i would like to be able to hopefully stand the gap to be able to have a common procedure done to be able to have the parents come in and have the child abuse awareness class during the orientation so that they can see how child abuse effects not only their child but also, other families that are within the shelter system. that is about it. and is it there any questions? >> for me?

>> i know that your seat and specifically, that you are experienced being formally homeless and certainly, you can speak to that, and what are some of the issues that you can see the shelter monitoring committee being able to address in the future, and some of the pressing concerns that you might have, if you are appointed you would like to work on? >> there are so many things going on in the family shelters and the people coming from different backgrounds and bring all that have with them. and i think that the staff at the different various shelters, on whatever some of these are transitional and some are not transitional, and i think that the staff needs to be trained a little bit more adequately on how to address or be more cultural sensitive and like i said before, i think that they need to be a little bit more

not as negligent as they have been in the past with reporting things that happened in the shelter system. with the families. and i know that the people are addressing the different issues as far as you know, the sanitation and things like that, but to me, the lasting effects of child abuse on children in the shelters is, and i am a victim of child abuse myself and so i know when i was in the shelter that affected me greatly, and i reported to cps, and i do not have the backing from the people in a couple of the shelters. a lot of the things that happened behind the closed doors when there is nobody monitoring them, it should not be going on, and maybe, to have someone go in to talk to the clients there to see what the opinions are about, you know, abuse that is going on that they are witnessing. and indirectly or directly with the other people's children. and so, it is something like that could be implemented i think that it will help to solve the problem of child abuse within the shelters. >> thank you.

>> i have a couple of questions and maybe you can talk to me about some of the issues that are factors that contribute to a family, becoming homeless. >> i was a displaced housewife and i went into the world without any marketable skills and i did not adjust well at all to becoming employed and knowing the magnitude of responsibility that it took to be able to pay the bills and stuff like that. i was you know, like i said i was a homemaker and i did not know anything about that and so when i went to do it on my own, i failed miserably. and i have two older children, and i ended up homeless and my ex-husband, he won full custody of my children, because i do not qualify to be able to physically care for them which i do understand, it was their best interest was put first. but, there are several things

that surrounds people becoming homeless. drug addiction is not always a factor, which the people think that it is, myself, i ended up, dealing with these issues because of depression and stuff after i became homeless, once you become homeless you take on a lot of other things, psychologically and emotionally once you are out there and dealing with the experience of being homeless and now my, and i have a son now and he is 18 months old and now only am i healing myself, i am also trying to find stability for me and my son, and so, all of this pressure and stuff is to be and daunting, it can be overwhelming. and i did have a lot of support from various agencies, and you know, that i worked with in the passed with the physical services being one of them and moved me over the years and end helped me with the struggles and there are notable places that do help and it is not like they are at bad i just had the bad experiences with a couple of places that i had been in.

>> so >> how long have you been in the shelter? >> oh, gosh, i was homeless after i left my husband, 2006 on. and then, i did get housing in an sro but i left, and when i was pregnant with my son, and so i had to get out of that circumstance to try to find a better housing for me and my son when he was born, so up until september of 2014, i finally got permanent housing for me and my son and i am employed. >> we like your success story. >> yeah. pretty much. >> yeah, but i am only as strong as my support system that was around me. it was definitely a struggle and i pulled out of it and i believe that my experience will help me to help other people, you know, and not only with the children, the parents a lot of the parents are healing too. you know? and while the parents are receiving services, sometimes they can be under a tremendous amount of stress, and they may not be abusive before they come

into the shelters but sometimes that stress will make them snap at the kids and who knows what can happen, you know, crime, and i think that it is just important that while the parents are getting services that these children are being protected as well and taken into consideration. >> and i just have a few more questions. >> okay. >> in your opening remarks you spoke about a desire to see cultural sensitivity training among the shelter staff. >> and maybe you can talk a little bit more about what exactly you saw, or experienced, or what kind of a training that you would like to see and so when you say the cultural sensitivity and does that mean that the staff that speaks more than one language. >> no, i think that we all came from different backgrounds, whether you are african american or asian and your up bringing within your household could be totally different from someone who comes from an asian household and so a lot of the times you have an african american person that comes

from, let's say a household where you know, the people are more forward with how they discipline their children, knowing the difference between what is abuse and what is not abuse, and being able to address that family and provide the services that they need to order to be successful parents without misunderstanding that something is abuse when it is not abuse and then also, understanding that just because the people are quiet or just because you know, you don't see abuse that it is not happening. so being able to be culturally aware of the people's up bringing i think will, if they are coming into it like that, they are better able to assess what is really going on with the child and with the family instead of assuming just because this family is loud, that abuse is happening and just because this family is quiet the abuse is not happening. >> one more question. i am not sure how many you have been in, but i was wondering if there are examples that come to your mind of shelters that were outstanding that were clean.

physically, nurturing. that provided a good environment for you to grow? because we often times hear about the shelters that are not. >> i was wondering if you are able to contrast between a well run shelter verses a not well run shelter? >> okayvy been in a shelter in las vegas, nevada which was deplorable and the worst that i have been in but i come to san francisco and there was rock veil house which i believe was a beautiful place for the families to stay. and it was very clean and good meals, and they had a private chef there that cooked well rounded meals, and excellent and after school care and everything and the only thing that was lacking with the house was that i think that, i don't know if it was a lack of experience from the staff or the lack of training from the staff, but, you know, when i

was reporting that the things were happening they were, they wanted to work with the family and say that working with them on an individual basis and we understand the concern and everything, but, you know, they still were not willing to, i feel like take the appropriate steps in order to protect the family and the children but they did the best and every shelter has the strengths and the weakness and maybe it was a training issue, i don't know. >> i was at kanyel house and a transitional shelter, and they, had very supportive staff there, provided, and nice rooms and everything, and just the pressing things in most of the shelters is that they need to customize the training somehow and there was an issue where there was training flaws and stuff and so even though there was, you know, 80 percent of what they were doing was right, there was still that 20 percent that needed to be addressed

that was not. and but those were two pretty good. >> great, thank you, i like the background that you bring. it seems very measured, and you have had experience and. >> and a negative experience, but also, it is a little bit of a romantic story. so far it sounds like it could be a happy ending. >> it is a very happy ending, san francisco has been good to me. >> i am glad to hear that. >> mr. chair, i am done. >> thank you, thank you for sharing, a lot of personal information, as well. >> it is not easy to do. and i am sure that there is a lot to do that, thank you. >> please consider me for seat one. >> great. thank you. >> all right, have a good day. >> so we already heard from mr. jackson, who is still here. and kim armbruster who is someone who has withdrawn her application. and okay? and so she is no longer an applicant, and we have anakh sul rama?

>> hi i am a community organizer with the community housing partnership and i moved to the city in 2007 as an lgbtq, hiv positive refugee from texas i got a job when i first got here and just for different reasons i was not able to get housing, and i lived in my office for a bit of time, there was really stressful at work, and difficult for it and i ended up losing the job and ended up becoming home sxls staying in the shelters, and as a person that was lived most of my life in the south, we are as gay people where we think of san francisco as a place where we can come to and find community and find like minded people and find healthy situations to lift ourselfs in and when i got here i