>> >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the mayor's disability council here at city hall on friday june 19, 2015. here in room 400. at this time i would like to turnover the opening introduction of the meeting to cochair supanich. thank you. >> good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's disability council.

city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mccallister street via ramps. access at polk street carlton b entrance is provided a wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agenda is available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this room's sound system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pda's. your cooperation is

appreciation. >> we welcome the public's participation during public comment and you can fill out a card or call our bridge line 415-554-9632. where a staff person will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meetings are generally held on the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be july 17, 2015, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 1415-554. 6789 for voice or 1415-554-6799

for tty. we hope you will join us for the americans disability act wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. please visit our website at ada 25 bay area.org for more information. once again that's ada 25 bay area.org. a reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you so chair supanich and now we'll proceed with the roll call. >> cochair supanich, present, senhaux present, kostanian, present,

harriet wong, pre, roland wong, present. >> my video display is not logged in. can we get the caption control? >> thank you. we'll next proceed to reading of the agenda. >> agenda item no. 1, welcome, introduction and roll call. agenda item no. 2. action item. reading and approval of the agenda. >> agenda item no. 3. public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 4. information item. report from cochair supanich. >> agenda item no. 5. information item. the impact of cuts to students

with disabilities. a brief overview about the challenges faced by students with disabilities as it relates to cuts to federal financial aid. presentation by raquel santiago ceo of disabled students association at san francisco state university. >> public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 6. information item. an overview of the san francisco police department crisis intervention team and it's current status. cit is is a partnership with between sfpd and the mental health serves providers and community advocates. presentation by commander robert sul oh sullivan cit over sear golden gate division operations bureau, lieutenant

mario molina. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 7. information item. collaboration in the mental health and criminal justice system. the success of san francisco cit program is an example of how criminal justice partners can step outside of their traditional roles to better serve people with mental health disabilities in our community. presentation by jennifer johnson deputy public defender, behavioral health court. public comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 10-minute break. agenda item no. 8. information item. the office of citizens complaints and it's collaborative role in police community relations. the presentation will provide an overview of the office of citizen complaints, it's complaint process and it's role in making recommendations to enhance

police community relations. this presentation will also highlight some history of the process that led to the adoption of the crisis intervention team model for san francisco p.d. response to mental health crisis calls. presentation by samarra marion policy attorney office of citizens complaints, city and county of san francisco. >> agenda item no. 9. information item. mental health disabilities and policy interactions. effective response methods when working with people with mental health disability in crisis and training the sfpd cit in those techniques. public comment is welcome. >> agenda item no. 10. information item. community perspective on crisis intervention team. where we are

and where we want to go moving forward. presentation by jennifer freeden back, executive director, coalition on homelessness. public comment is welcomed. agenda item no. 11. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. agenda item no. 12. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> agenda item no. 13, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 14. information item. correspondence. agenda item no. 15. discussion item. council member comments and announcements. agenda item no. 16. adjourn. >> >> thank you. we'll now proceed with

item no. 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. we ask when you make public comment that do you the following, please be respectful to our presenters. do not direct questions to them specifically and please stay within the time limits. so if you can please fill out a speaker card, they are located in the desk in the front of the podium and chip supanich will be reading the names and accommodating me. thank you. >> i have no public comment cards at this time. for this agenda item. >> okay, we'll go ahead and close public comment and move on to information item no. 4 which is a report from cochair supanich. thank you >> thank you. good afternoon,

everybody. the main item on my report is to inform you of a coalition in the bay area. this has been going on for over a year. it's looking like we will do so in a couple of months. we have representative from san mateo county, alameda county, oakland and berkeley. and we came together to coordinate our activities around mayor's with disability act 25 anniversary but we find we have a lot of things in common and a lot of things we share and we believe that a stronger voice will come out of a coalition than

individual council. we have a plan in 2016 around collaboration opportunities. so i will keep you posted as that moves forward. the other thing i wanted to just do was plug out ada 25 event on july 1st. there will be dignitaries and speakers and music and snacks and entertainment and comedy and dancing. so i want everyone to pay us a visit from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on july 1st. thank you. >> thank you, cochair supanich. we'll go to information item no. 5. which is impacts of cuts to students with disability. a brief overview about the

challenges faced by students with disability as it relates to cuts to federal financial achltd presentation by raquel santiago, ceo of disabled students association at san francisco state university. thank you for being here to address the council. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, my name is raquel santiago at san francisco state university and have been for the past 7 years. i also sit in the san francisco human rights equity committee on a

different capacity. there have been a lot of financial aid cuts. it's been pretty bad. from academic year from 2013-2014 pell grants were cut. in year 5 all students received a 3/4 cut, 1/2 to 3 quarter cuts to pell grants and year six it was cut out completely. this resulted in a loss of $5500 per year to students. this academic year additional limits put on financial aid was on again by the federal government. no students was grandfathered in and including students admitted under prior policies. these led to an increase in student loans. students were taking out higher aggregate limits. while we understand the goal was to reduce student loan usage according to what they

said to us. that is not the case. this led to an increase. when you cut out grants, where is is that money going to come from? it has to come from somewhere else to fund education, housing, etc. students now are being stream lined through the university. this is our opinion on it. we also feel the new policy is discriminatary towards disabled students and low income because of the large number of students of affects. right now the government spends between 3 and 9% on education the military. federal education expenses account 3- 5 trillion in 2012. for 2 years, a little bit of history, for 2 years students were held from transferring to the university at the city college level

because of impacted limits in the college as well as programs. you were forced to remain at city college for 1-2 years. disabled students also historically have to take more remedial courses. when you transfer from city college to university you are required to take classes over again. that is disabled students having more units. that's where we are running into a problem. no one is speaking out against this except for the disabled students organizations across the college campuses. then the big question is what happens to disabled students in higher education. where does the education come in at. like i said before this does increase student loans to lifetime aggregate limits and they take out more

in the hopes they can graduate. still forcing disabled students to take more courses in 1 semester even if they have reduced course load accommodations through pdrc. this lowers gpa and scholarships. some students are feeling that both the government and the university are treating education as a privilege and not a right. so others feel like they no longer are wanted in higher education at the universities. and they are considered, they have to be in an educational without a disability. they are really feeling down about it. it's harder to get scholarships due to lower gpa aechltz --'s. if you are on a reduced load, you are not on the dean's list, not on the honor roll. yet

your gpa is there for a scholarship. it's more difficult to take out school loans if you are in housing or pay for rent. even more difficult if you live on campus to increase cost. tuition is rising but funding is going down. we sent a request to san francisco state university for a response many times. we met with them last year and this year. their response, i'm just going to be brief outline. maximum time for an education program is defined in the federal regulations and no longer than 100 percent of the program. while we agree with that, these students were admitted under prior policy which was only transfer units at the city college level. now they are counting

everything which is hundreds of unites for disabled students which automatically disqualify them for financial aid. units and remedial units. we have not seen that. it allows for exception, but the policy is not clear. it's not listed openly and they have not adopted a policy for disabled students. they are allowing 1 year appeals and rubber stamping them but that student is considered to be on probation vment yet they are doing what they can do. they are saying these regulations are on a

timely progression for program completion. every institution says they must have these bench marks in place. while we agree, we feel they are stream lining the students without a proper education. yes they have the largest graduating class but very few of those are disabled students. they claim in no. 5 that these changes are required for satisfactory academic progress policy and meant to align with the changes in the regulatory level. they have been delaying these for years. but where was the transparency on it? they gave 1 year and said we hope you can graduate within this time period because after this you are not getting financial aid. that's when we started addressing the issue. and our response to fsu, we let them know there is a lack of

transparency in how to file an appeal. there is no information for a student in the process other than general -- appeal procedures. shouldn't be grandfathered based on appeal rights and admittance rights. what we have seen recently under the pell grant cuts, csa has a few suicides. the university blames it on other reasons, but we feel this was theizing -- icing on the cake for them. the students are adversely affected. this year and last year 240 students dropped out of college and graduated with a bachelor's

degree. 347 returned to city college because they can take more classes. in reality this only increases the amount students have to take out in students loans by decreasing it and you cut grants student loans increase to offset the student cost. and that is a very fast and brief summation of what's going on. hopefully within the 10 minutes and it's now open for questions. thank you. >> we are going to open up questions with public comment and we'll start off with council and i believe cochair supanich has a question. >> first i want to acknowledge

the problem with the pa system. there is some static. -- >> to advocate for changes in the system. and who you might be collaborating with to do so. >> when this issue first started we addressed the issue directly with pelosi's office. we sent letters regarding the pell grant to every person on the senate committee, on the workforce committee, especially after i read the workforce report and was appalled at what i saw. the only people we received responses from was nancy pelosi and jackie spears. out

of 275 letters two people responded. nancy pelosi's response was that they had every intention of restoring financial aid to students but we have only had cuts. we realize the moment us battle. we are still trying to education and sending students to department of rehabilitation to try to get their tuition covered through that process, however our experience is 50/50. it depends on the students. we found they have to jump through hurdles and while we recommend it, some students give up. last year we went through all of our sclips -- scholarships for disabled

students which was $400000. there are now talks of gpa increases for students to continue receiving financial aid. which would be above the 2.0 limit which is the basic fee. our opinion is getting harder and harder for disabled students to have an education. while we are grateful to the universities for trying to implement policy to continue students getting financial aid, we continue to fight that. we know there are administrators fighting about that. i have met with them for hours and they don't agree with it either but they are stuck with the regulations. we continue to fight across the board. >> thank you. >> councilman harriet wong has a question. >> hi, thank you, raquel for

coming today. i also attended city college and san francisco state university and they are both excellent schools. i guess my question is so when the student transfers from city college to state college and has to retake a course is that even when they have a passing grade from city college? >> yes, because the university does not consider it upper division. and it depends on the class which is a gray area. for example, i'm a psych major and a minor in counseling and rehabilitation. i have to retake the class. psych 5 is equivalent to psych 1 at state. some count as a

transfer, others do not. right now the university is limiting the retake of classes to twice even if it's a w. they have recently instituted after we complained to the department of education. they have the ability to withdraw for medical. it's on an individual case by case basis. a lot of units are still being double counted. >> i really commend all of your hard work on this and back in the late 70s san francisco state had a very strong disability student committee. because i was very active in other clubs then. so i know about this. and at the time the student union was brand new. >> thank you. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you. any questions from the staff? any public comment on the bridge line? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. we will now close public comment. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> okay. we are going to to move on to information item no. 6. an overview of san francisco police department crisis intervention team and it's current status. cit is a partnership between san francisco police department and mental health service providers and community advocates. presentation by commander roberto sullivan, cit

overseer golden gate division operations bureau mario molina and coordinator behaviorism science. >> thank you, good afternoon. i apologize for commander oh sullivan, he's not going to be able to be here. we have a problem at the hotel with our president. my name is mario molina with the san francisco police department. currently the oic, the officer in charge of the behavioral science unit and cit coordinator for the department. my job entails assistant program for police officers, cit is under my umbrella. today we are going to give you a brief overview of the san

francisco police department and what it's doing in the community especially with people with disabilities. terry birn is going to start the powerpoint. >> what is cit, it's a partnership between the sfpd and mental health providers and tries to fill the gap in the mental health care by identifying areas of the system which need improvement. >> [inaudible] >> cit stresses, [inaudible]

>> i'm sorry. >> i'm at the age now. i can't wear my glasses. >> the cit identifies mental health illnesses. it dispels myths surrounding illness and identifies systems set up to help. cit stresses the use of time distance, and verbal persuasion to reduce the use of force and maintain the safety of both individuals in crisis and officers. as a new member to the