we're considered the tech center of the world now and i agree with all of your supervisors sentiments mr. br u.s. o is on point infrastructure has got to be first but it it can't be just for government only we are not in the neo lithic period as as with chat anooga, it it can be done. much of the city facilities are already covered especially with the fiber network that's already in place housing authority almost all of the low income facilities and the libraries all the police and fire departments, just so much is already wired up already but residents and local businesses need it now. our taxes are paying for this so it's time to

give us back something. we're happy to see that that marginal that marginal ized communities are being served and that needs attention and proper funding to maintain access on cost -- the colombia telecommunications study fiber study back in 2007 or 8 i think it was that the that the that the board of supervisor's commission and further to the premise there were 6 different financial strategies outlined and i don't believe it costs over a half a billion dollars then it may now but thinking of scales of economy, probably the affordability is about the same and probably far more reasonable than say the puc sewer replacement renovation

project in san leandro we heard recently that a sizable network by one business owner was donated for all of downtown and their education system but it it couldn't be expanded out to their homes because there's no infrastructure it's kind of a waste right now because they have high technology in schools but the kids can't use it at home and that's why infrastructure has to be first and we reject the notion of out right leasing of any city sets what have you and ten see like leasing on the network is a far better way to go i think the residents of our city have had enough of long-term rights of way com deered by uber etc. and the fcc minimum standards are

minimum just that which are frequently inadequate to keep up with and we need bigger pipe and we can't be thinking in today's terms and another like chat anooga utah has a ten-city fiber network and costs there are $65 for one gig a bit for residential we can do that and beat that. >> what city? >> in utah ten cities connected together been around for almost a decade called the utopia net. with that i just want to say there was a report in forbes magazine that china has

increased by over 6000 gig abytes and that's going into terra byte range and we have to think in forward terms not today's terms i'll end here thank you very much. >> i'm going to call a couple of names. alex from monkey brains and bob was here earlier and kevin from the campaign -- that's the next item. charles barb, scott adams from comcast and eric brooks. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon supervisors and is committee members i'm the cofounder of monkey

brains.net and operating in san francisco since 1998 and broadband access since 2008 my company uses a technology that expands fiberoptic connectivity by using wireless networks i have a slide here showing the the line going through a building and using high capacity and multipoint antennas to spread the bandwidth and spread that that last mile you have heard here today and deregulation of access to city assets to require building networks out into the marginal marginal ized communities.

broadband access obviously involves leverages existing networks and networks that have yet to be built and the digital divide obviously exists in those areas that the network is not and in that regard right of way becomes very crucial in this. . they have deep pockets and no sense of urgency when it comes to providing networks. this is a very important thing to bring connectivity from one area to another. the big once

program currently involving getting city entities to speak to each other is a wonderful idea but currently doesn't include in small business providers. >> please wrap up. >> okay no problem. my last two things were city assets obviously fiberoptic connectivity and as as far as regulating the use the city has had wonderful success with the community broadband project and monkey brains is a great success expanding internet use ing the network to extend to homeless shelters and install series of access point and within a few hours have 70 or 80 homeless people using the internet without any instruction from us and this is

the type of thing that that can be done and taking the use of these assets and steering them and directing them to places that open up digital access. >> thank you so much for being here and being such such a good partner with the city as well. next speaker. >> good afternoon my name is charles bar san francisco resident and 3 kids in the san francisco public schools and owner of web path it's a dynamic market and i think that we should look at this report in a new way because the report as is shown shows the same problems that we've heard over and over again and they are solvable but the thing we keep struggling with is there's there's no technology that we don't have here in in san francisco that they have in any of these countries where they

say everything is fantastic and what's lacking here is the political will to make this possible and you have to open up the rights of way. web path went through a 2-year process to get into the public rights of way 2 years we waited and the only people in this room who can make the network go are the supervisors so you must look at it in a different way and the way to look at it is through a regulatory framework. name another informational type service -- television radio telephone cable that hasn't been granted a set of rules that apply everywhere and you are allowed to go build and the internet is the one you don't have that the one area where you don't have a set of rules that everyone can agree on and go with they need to be

to be competitive not exclusive . we do it in very different ways as all companies because there's there's no set of rules i think you would be very wise to examine this. >> what areas are you located. >> our offices we have two we offer services in 4 other cities san diego and boston and open in new york right now employ 85 people and work very hard to make sure that everyone in san francisco has good internet. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors eric brooks. representing san francisco green party the local grass roots organization in our city and i like mr. wolf a member of san francisco public

net which several years ago our first job was to make sure that a monopoly partnership did not takeover all of the wifi hubs in san francisco that would have had a very slow ad driven internet service for everyone want to talk about the core of digital inclusion and the core is the same as the core of transportation inclusion was in the past century. what we're talking about is much like the internet -- i mean the interstate highway is highway system and road system that got built in the 20th century built by governmentals so that all businesses and individuals as long as they could afford a cheap clunker car could travel anywhere they wanted in the country created the biggest business boom this nation has ever seen to create a public network of roads and now we're

in the 21 st century where the key to including low income people and most importantly san francisco in this tough economy -- we need the city to build its own fiber network if chat anoogo can do every resident for 20 bucks a month for fiber we can certainly do that in san francisco it will pay it back very easily so this is about digital inclusion is just like the highway system we need to build the 21 st century reasonable century road of fiber for all citizens of the city and needs to be owned by the city and citizens and not privatized like the wifi thing we rejected several years ago. >> next speaker.

. >> chest er williams i'm representing my company today and the community at large i want to give you a brief brief i'm i'm agreeing with a lot of the speakers here there's a need for san francisco to step up. let me give you a brief history -- at one time there was a need to start technology in silicon valley many of us in the minority community pulled together at that time jesse jackson who bought stock in some in some of the major companies a adobe hp microsoft oracle ibm they all came to the table. we don't want to deal with san francisco directly was their biggest complaint and we asked them why and they said you are too political and now they have all come to the table but they

have come to the table now at their advantage because they have such a big advantage in the community and i passed out papers earlier we were funded from that particular program and that program allowed us to look at seniors it allowed us to look at youth, and it allowed us to look at vocational training throughout the entire community of western addition i've been involved in trying to create something much bigger in the bayview and i'm saying i'm in support and mr. br u.s. o did a very good report yes we can do it in san francisco but we have to combine the politics and deal with what needs to be done in the community thank you. >> thank you mr. williams. >> next speaker. >> hi i'm the executive

director of community technology network a part of sf connected funded by the department of aging and provide trainers to the senior centers our trainers work one to one in small groups with the seniors at those locations and the need that i see happening and i appreciate that you talk about digital inclusion and affordability and adoption and the adoption piece is what we focus on understanding that the devices that people use change every year or every 6 months and the applications that they use through those devices also change frequently when was the last time you logged into your gmail and noticed the menu changed so the need for training is crucial and making it so they want to have it at home and a lot of people don't want to have it they they are

fearful of it but if they don't have it at home and they have a question that's where the divide begins so we'd love to see more people get affordable home access and the devices but the training is very very important and there's already computer centers all over the city as you know with housing developments they were mandated to put in computer centers but not staff them. they may have volunteers or some training but it's it's inter mittent. so i'm wanting you to think about the opportunity that exists to create jobs in the city and

employ people to become community train ers in their community. >> thank you for being here. mr. adams. >> thank you supervisor mar and supervisor campos and supervisor christiansen i'm the director of government al, external affairs here in san francisco i'm here today i wanted to talk about one specific effort that that comcast has done internet essentials to help bridge the digital divide as the report notes this program was created to address families with school-aged children and the way it works is families with a child eligible for to participate in the in the school lunch program or home

schooled if they meet the eligibility requirement can enroll for 9.95 plus tax and provide an option for internet-ready computer for 150 $150 and then opportunities to get training and online and in person thus far wanted to talk some a little bit about our success and in just 3 and a half years connected 450 thousand families nationwide to the internet through internet essentials and that's largely due to to the partnerships we've had locally and city county governmental agencies and educators here in the school district and very much agree with you guys we're proud of our success but there's more work to be done and miguel

said it earlier the report says it it's going to take a coordinated effort and comcast looks forward to working locally with folks thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for being here. next speaker? >> hi i'm a resident of the tenderloin i'm an entrepreneur and i'm here to give support to supervisor campos and his comments about the plan. i would ask the supervisors to consider the relationship between free or affordable municipal broadband access to online education and vocational training and access to cost saving services and income

inequality and wealth and inequality and echoing statements earlier about us looking to the future to see how our world will run so my view i think is shared by everyone in the room that san francisco is the best city in the city in the world and it deserves the best and most ambitious plan to provide municipal broadband to all of its residents and business people thanks. >> thank you. anyone else that would like to speak? public comment closed. colleagues are there concluding remarks from any of you? supervisor christiansen so i see none great report thank you so much. mr. gamino and the staff i really appreciate you being here and engaging and my hope is that we're following up on this issue and looking at not only the comcast essentials program but looking at at and t

who we did invite to be here but didn't come and looking at the lifeline program required by the fcc and looking at other options for lower cost high speed internet and i think monkey brains and the other companies that came forward looking at different suggestions that they have had as well but i really do think we need more of a digital inclusion task force of people that have worked on it from the past and also the senior center and fillmore and western addition districts and others that are being left behind to conform our technology plan so that no one is left behind it's been eye opening to look at other cities and what they have done but the report just reconfirms what we've known as well the suggestions from supervisor campos that we need to be much more aggressive as a

city like others have and look at the economic potential and equitable ly to connect and train and support more people in a sustainable way is really what i'm taking away from this hearing and i'm appreciative of this and i'll ask to continue this as we think of other different issues that may come up and new information that comes to us but as we develop our connectivity plan and other plans for the city and with that let me say -- can we do that can we do that without objection? thank you everyone. can you please call the next item. >> number 4 a hearing for status update who were impacted by the shooting at her herz playground. >> the sponsor is supervisor

cohen. >> good afternoon everyone. colleagues thank you for allowing me to join you today to talk about this important item. the item before us is a hearing that i've requested to follow up on the families of the children that were impacted by the tragedy shooting at herz playground back in june of 2014 as you may recall the neighborhood camp counselor was shot in front of approximately sixty children last year at the playground in visitation valley and it impacted many families including youth that attend our school district following the incident city departments including the department of public health district attorneys victim's service office and the san francisco unified school district coordinated efforts to

ensure those impacted by the incident received the services they needed including counseling and mental health support and today's hearing will provide us on an update on those impacted by the incident and it's our responsibility to ensure that the youth and families impacted by this incidents are supported not just for weeks after an incident has come but months and if needed years ahead. we've also learned that in a report i commissioned earlier this year regarding violence prevention services that there seems to be a lack of communication when it comes to addressing some some of the issues we need to ensure that we're provider wrap around services to address the needs of the youths following these critical incidents and it's my

hope here today to provide an opportunity to grow and see how we can move together closer as one team and move in a more thoughtful stronger coordination across all city departments as well as including our service providers so first up we're going to hear from the mayor's office and followed up by the san francisco unified school district and thomas gravin and kevin gogan and following that we'll hear from the department of health and in closing hear from dr. rodriguez from the district attorney's office thank you for being here. >> thank you supervisors for allowing us to present an update on the playground incident and discuss over all what our office has been doing around intervention efforts i'm

the director for mayor edwin lee and my role is to oversee the response team when there's such an incident incident such as this one for anyone that is impacted from a homicide or any aggravated assault or a shooting so a little bit of background of the incident -- we wanted to just briefly describe that this incident did occur last summer on june 27th and it occurred at 2:00 p.m. and unfortunately many individuals were impacted there was a victim that was targeted playing dodge ball with his ten-year old son and unfortunately he was targeted a 32-year-old male father

suffered multiple gunshots and unfortunately passed away once he was transported to sf general hospital. this agency does violence prevention work and unfortunately this young man was trying to transition from a former lifestyle and street violence and his past did haunt him and he was targeted in front of a playground where there was the witnessing of many children there that day and it was a horrific tragedy and our office at no moment denies this was an issue that we wish we could have intervened at a greater level if we had the capacity to do so. any homicide is a tragedy event and called our office to action and really have really elevated all of

our work and it pretty much forced our office really tries to double down any efforts in order to make sure that we try to heal some some of the tragedy that any community faces such as this one and with that as i mentioned earlier our office is directed immediately after an incident especially such as this one to call the street violence response teem and the response team is a collaboration of city departments basically coming together every wednesday to review all incidents of homicides shootings and aggravated assaults and go through an immediate response plan needing to be implementing right away and is followed up with 72 hours after the incident. the city

departments and elected offices that participated -- we had about 13 different parties all involved including some some of the departments you will be hearing from today directly. and also the elected office of the district attorney and the coordination and alignment piece -- our office, the office of violation prevention services took the lead to coordinate strategies and services on the ground level to make sure anyone that was impacted by the issue that we tried to actually support them whether it was through mental health services or creative

strategies our roll is to call on the different departments and basically our role was to align some some of the long-term commitments so this would you wouldn't be a one time approach or intervention our hope was to create a penetration in the services given the magnitude of this issue that came up and we participated in organizing a large town hall in which supervisor cohen you participated and we had a a hundred attendees from the community were there and basically stated what was needed to intervene into some some of the issues that occurred. i do want to recognize that that the partners here are going to be explaining a little bit more in detail the areas highlighted here so i'll start off with