have immigrant parent overall san francisco has been up and prolonged to reach 47.6 by 2025. >> next to slides are maps from the presidental election turn in november term elections you'll see this in the next slide the neighborhoods with the most with the highest concentration of young people in the visitacion valley and other areas had the lowest turnout in san francisco we account on the contributions of the youth and each participated in heavy issues on the ballet property taxes and

soda tax despite the elected and low turn anti nationally san francisco their demonstrating the leadership like i said, we have the participation in the 2008 ballot and most may the record show the tobacco legislation that was passed this year we're a city with remarkable engagement efforts including the youth advocacy and the empowerment fund that was praetd created by the voter a few examples young are making returns on the civic leadership and i'm sure you're aware of young people and families in our city still face many challenges the youth and families make increasing small share from the population assignment we're

facing champs like income inequality and water skater it but we'll help to solve and strongly believe we need all hands on deck to address those problems that means we want to insure that we are investing in a civics and development of young people now not later and i'd like to introduce my colleague joyce. >> jillian sorry. >> sorry commissioner my davis. >> okay. commissioner. >> hello, again so we're going to talk about why lower the voting agelogically the voting age is a robust voter participation that will have a healthier democracy we have have more live long voters for the

future elections and he all know this is a sessions look issue, however, we've 2k3w5rg9sd a lot of information why this is a good thing for the youth to vote and continue. >> what does that mean the second issue. >> i guess something people will look at like twice this is an issue that people can consider and look at more into. >> some people. >> what do you mean i don't understand the statement. >> we'll look at it more. >> like the 16-year-old voertsd or who who is looking it. >> young people and when people get an idea awkward people look at the idea and dictator look at the research and a second look

more in debt finding be understanding. >> why age 16 is better to vote - we care about local issues and develop their own opinions about the community and at the dinner table to express their ideas but no way of putting for the in their thoughts thoughts and that is by voting and however 8 years old are in translation from high school to college new responsibilities so voting is not a priority so the because of that a lot of young people don't vote until their late 20s by having the voting age to 161 is better for them to make voting their priorities and still be ambitious and i have a

question does our research tell you why people don't vote until their late 20s the reasons why. >> the reasons why people don't vote until. >> 8 is a upheaval people are going to college and employment and maybe form new relationships so they're taking those priorities like employment and 0 college and graduate school and once settled they begin to have another dollars interesting like i said 16 people are stationary and have the opportunity to see the communities does that answer our question supervisor cowen. >> thank you. >> so, now we're going to talk about why 16 is important. >> so before that you're saying is if a young person is voting

at 16 and 17 and then when we go through the period of up heavily to 16 to 25 their lots of changes going to school and living in different places and hard to connect they experience the voting which helps with the participation in elections so you might see less of a drop off in the vote that happens when a young person turns 18. >> okay. so moving to the 16 years old voting so the moments that someone votes very likely they'll keep voting then the earlier they'll continue to vote have a better chance of voting in the latter elections this breaks down to the number of most and can determine the likelihood of them voting in the future the earlier

the better for the future we'll move on to commissioner julian. >> okay so 16 years old voting will increase the voter turnout over the long term as we see young voting with the trnsmittal effect on the peers it increases the voting the research showing you shows that once a 16 or 17 year-old talks about politics it is brought home or into in their classrooms they'll discuss the choices and voting choices with their family members and classmates and this converges people to vote and their peers

to register and vote well, we also have seen when given the chance 16 and 17 years old will are vote as seen isn't there the criticize that are allowed to referendum like norway and germany and uc and austria this is shown by the 16 and 17 he remember recommendation and turnout to vote this also is true in the united states that have allowed it chicago primary and many maryland where 16 and 17 years old showed up 4 times as older voters. >> on the countries you've listed that have the votes are there restrictions on the vote such the ones that be restrictions on the youth in san

francisco. >> i'm not sure about the restrictions in place. >> what restriction are here. >> for example the youth is only for municipal you'll not been able to vote on state or national politics and the question in norway or brazil and other countries so. >> so all the countries the working k they're on allowed to vote in local but in argentina i can vote like on the local elections without a problem. >> it sounds the youth vote is extended there is some limitations where it is just municipal like what we're taken care of here over and over you mentioned argentina it is national; is that correct not a carr blank so there are restrictions. >> there are restrictions like

most of the restrictions in the united states like maryland they're allowed to vote in local elections very don't have the local authority for the municipal elections they can't participate in the national elections. >> i'm wondering if there are a commentary on the limits. >> like the thought i understand the local level they'll do it and make it invading like the uk when they saw actually my colleague will introduce moss more of the ideas but has concerns thank you. >> and really this is median we have jurisdiction over our panhandle election but not federal and state so i wouldn't call it a limitation but we want

to make sure we're promoting you know franchisement one our jurisdiction. >> slide okay. >> we have also seen the legislation that 16 and 7-year-old are prepared to vote but since they have a grammar access to knowledge for debating political issues than ever before due to the internet and cola's in school able to discuss the issues with their classmates and people outside of their community 16 political knowledge is about the same as as 21-year-old and quite the afternoon of the adults a they've development the ability

to make independent voting changes to whether or not it teens will influence the pressure to vote like their parents we've seen especially in the independents referendum that most teens voted not like their parents but they discuss it with their parents they'll not vote with their parents they can swaes r access and analysis their information independently on their own. >> and we're not asking to be accompanied by snare parent. >> you go alone with your parents not over your shoulder your own choices. >> and finally we believe that 6 and 17 year-old have the rights to vote with the

responsibilities accruing crew at the age ever 16 and 17 they can work and pay tax and drive cars as people that eye public services are effected directly by government decisions 16 and 17 year-old are ready to have a say how their government is ron run and now to commissioner joyce. >> before my colleagues commissioner comes up like for example in 2014 they saw a huge 55 percent turnout of young people when they saw the huge turnout why not allow young people to vote and in elections that property owner to matters the national matters to the uk this is then empowers the city

councils with the elections the british at that particular time supported it and lowered the voting age and the 3wrish9 at that particular time created a committee like a researchers saying it is this is good for uk youth regardless where they come from when they published that report they decided it is a good idea to lower the age in the uk and hopefully abroad. >> commissioner cardenas before you go the presentation references a lot of research but didn't cite our source. >> where do you get the sources. >> my commissioner will cite the resources. >> we got our information from

a lot of resources thank you for that such as. >> so on the slide i think the second one there is raven that shows the 16 political ability is the same as 24 years old so the entire slide references research i want to know your sources. >> i believe in our packet in our youth commission priority report and resolution it cites the sources and we'll send it to our office as well. >> we wanted to read into the record today so folks will listening at home know. >> so looks like there are two sources a few sources cited

becoming a habitual voter and the american science review and the social actions amongst the first time voters and the election and 17 years old voted that's the chicago tribune and it is highest among the - >> in the resolution we have 26 citations. >> thank you. >> thank you and before commissioner wu speaks is great to see how thorough your commission has been doing the research and hadn't jumped to conclusions but helped to have the knowledge around this charter amendment that's the thing a lot of people without seeing the studies or

information you know think this is like way think outside the box but when we see when experience the young people in have in terms of the understanding of the political issues it make sense especially, when you add in the research that's been done. >> this raven has been built on since december of 2014 so for 6 months we've started reaching this before i introduced this to the commission and before our commission hearings you know like special reaches as well and before commissioner wu speaks there's a great deal of ages that's in place around assessing whether young people can do this kind of work the youth commission has done a lot of work in putting together this charter but when the idea was floated in the media it was all

about supervisors trying to control young people it was not about young people trying to create the space to participated more in our civic life this was greatly missing in this decision so it make sense when we see the second look type of issues the more you understand the experience of young people how much they contributed to the sovereignty is it make sense. >> supervisor joyce will talk about that as far. >> thank you for that comment that actually goes imperfect into the response the response is quite huge since the charter amendment walgs introduced in march a lot of local press

authorities in the new york times and the chicago tribune and the detroit news as you likely saw the chronicle come out against the legislation hours in the legislation unfortunately, the chronicle was not reaching out to the youth commission or contact the effort before mar march macro their decision you've invited the chronicle to a debate weep be leading and hopefully hear back from them. >> i hope you're able to have an editorial on top of that to me after they came to a conclusion without discussing with the young people they're trying to achieve not the type of process they go through when it comes to charter amendments and issues.

>> yeah. some of the commissioners are in the process of writing an editorial for the chronicle this is an issue of democratic engagement the chronicle framed this as a partisan but backed by research increasing the kickoff participation and youth 16 and 17 years old voting will be good for democrat but not for the following reason it is not the biggest hibernating more 8 to 29 years old registration as democrats but san francisco is different in the city for example, more than 1/3rd of sf students attended private scott taylor's schools have more moderate youth next slide we

talked about the reaching and background but the question everyone wants to know if this will have an impact to answer that, we have to know how many 16 and 17 year-old in san francisco based on estimates with the census 8 thousand plus and not all eligible to vote this will increase the electorate by over a long term an important impact on the turnout in san francisco with that i'd like to say that the opportunity before us is very immense and san francisco has an opportunity to build on the reputation of innovation and participatory democracy to extend the voting rights to 16 and 17 year-old we'll invest in

the young people and encouraged by young voters and increase the 1r0e9 turnout i'd like to conclude the presentation and thank you for the opportunity and we'll entertain questions. >> i want to know if incarcerated youth will be able to vote. >> i believe in february this february we met with the chief of the department and said most likely extended the ballots to the youth no problem. >> that's the goal to make sure we can extend that level of franchisement to the incarcerated. >> it's not part of the resolution. >> it didn't have to be. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney under state law people who are currently in prison for a felony or on parole can't vote

so this provision will apply to youth who are incarcerated not for a felony. >> thank you. >> and if you're pre1y5u9d adjudicate the state law that passed two years ago that shifted people into county jails. >> ab 109. >> realignment yeah. yeah the word escaped me under repollinate yes yourably to vote. >> that was also the issue we had so. >> i'm sorry. >> we had a concern will come incarcerated youth participate in the electrical process can

they vote and we discussed this so they can for the public record. >> and chief said this is something he can do. >> from the legislation passes with the restrictions that the city attorney dablths. >> okay. very good really great presentation and thank you for your work and your around to answer questions weight have a couple of other speakers and then go to public comment next will be john the director of our department of elections give you a little bit of background with the costs and things in terms of young people voting. >> good afternoon john with the elections cost will be around $90,000 to

cost and this is installation to $90,000. >> correct for us we need to know the breath of the privilege to vote for the 16 and 17 year-old tie into how we sdrabt the ballots do we tie the contest for the youth voters to the same ballots given out to over the 18 or older to make sure the proper contests are given to the correct voters also with the registration database it - right now if someone is not 18 can vote how to tune it to 16 and 17 to cast a ballot and 2016 a

statewide database so the local issue as well as the information is concerned then 2014 is a state issue how to sync san francisco to the statewide approach since the state is in charge of the registration not the county and how to distribute the rentals how to count the 16 or 7-year-old information those are things are doable noted how we can't do it but the issues. >> the policy before us is whether the voters you know when it comes to voting if we move forward to the ballot if they approve and the department of the elections to make that happen. >> right right of. >> your department to insure

the franchisement can happen in san francisco and make sure that votes are done and accounted and recorded within the pressure verify but law. >> yeah. yeah. for us if our process needs to change we'll make the accommodations and move it. >> you said $90,000. >> yeah. we said basically, we're by and large that on looking around 13 thousand voters 8 to $10 a voter for the support costs per legislation and maybe that number will the expected increases in the voter registration. >> yeah. supervisor cowen. >> thank you has the election taken a position. >> not before the elections commission. >> - >> i can bring it up to the

commission. >> great. >> thank you director art we're going to - we are expecting a couple of school board members commissioner fewer or commissioner vice president haney don't see them off not able to make it opening it up for public comment before public comment against i do - i actually neglected to say that we're working with the youth commission and their disconnection there's been a lot of talk about not going to this ballot in this legislation by increases november 2016 election we'll expect the turnout to be the highest and expect the wide it amount of participation and deciding whether or not the youth can vote that's something that i will have at the end of

the meeting and we also have as a member of the whole currently the way the term is written for the manipulate not the school board side we've expanded with the member to include the community college board legislation and the school district election as well into this effort those bodies as well will be participating in the election okay . >> before we real quick supervisor campos. >> this is a charter it the told her 2/3rd's of the majority. >> this didn't require a 2/3rd's majority. >> but we need 6 votes to get it into the ballot next year

we'll move forward moved with a vote from the board of supervisors we'll need 6 votes and any any public comment on this item? if there are cards to turn in for the speakers give them to our clerk first up welcome. >> good afternoon rules committee my name is anna i'm a 17 year-old youth commissioner and future senior at george washington high school i'm here with my colleagues to talk about the vote 2016 legislation that gives 16 and 17 year-old the right to vote in elections i am in support of this legislation many adults please we don't care about how our government works