suggested earlier. president katz i won't reiterate therm in the interest of time. is there anything else? >> that's it. >> great. thank you. >> is there -- >> so moved. >> adjourn in memory of alvin b. petrie and zeke grader. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you everybody.

s [ gavel ] >> welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. i will call the roll call. commissioner hayon. >> here. >> commissioner hur. >> here. >> commissioners keane and andrews have been excused from tonight's meeting. so

everybody is accounted for. item no. 2, public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. does anyone wish to make public comment? seeing no response, we'll turn to item no. 3. hearing on the merits in reethics complaint no. 19-131115 in the matter of lynette sweet and lynette sweet for supervisor 2010. respondents. >> chair renne, justin mainardi, acting executive director. this is the matter where the respondent had requested a continuance by 30 days, that you would grant them for next month. >> all right. >> so we have taken that off -- well, you can taken it off calendar, i should say. >> that will be on the agenda for october 26th?

>> unless the parties were to settle, that is correct. and even in that case, well, yes. >> item no. 4, presentation by information technology officer -- >> i'm sorry, public comment on i. 3 before you move on. >> all right. >> the request -- speaking as an individual, the request to continue the matter, there weren't copies of that made available or the granting of that. was that done administratively? >> there is an email sent by the respondent's attorney to staff. staff communicated that to the chair. the chair granted that and there was a response and i'm not sure if it was done via email or not. >> maybe can i get copies at some point? if the regulations don't already provide it seems to me a grant for continuation for that should have been made early on and if it occurred

after the agenda was prepared and disseminated that the matter should have been heart on heard on matters. so i think that should be moved up to at least a week before the meeting so things are not put on the calendar and pulled off like that. >> all right. >> i think there may be such a rule, but the chair always has the discretion to continue it in the interest of justice. >> we're in favor of the interest of justice. that is good. on the merits and i'm sure we'll -- i'm not sure, if we hear it again there will be further opportunity for comment, but it seems to me and i have not reviewed the file on the matter, that the respondent was an elected official on the bart board. was a serious candidate for the board of supervisors, apparently did not file certain reports and so i think that there is a great public interest. although she did not get elected in it case, i think there is a great public interest in enforcement here. i don't think this is one that just warrants a slap on the

wrist. ip hope and i'm sure that the staff and commissioners are taking this seriously and will in time . thanks. >> thank you. item 4pt presentation by information technology officer steven massey regarding pending changes to the commission's website. steve. >> jesse mainardi, acting executive director and i will introduce steven and let the commission know that the -- one of the real strengths of the commission is its electronic presence and presence online and great info graphics and material that we make available both to folks looking to comply, members of the public just looking for information and then people looking for data about the reports that are filed whether it's campaign lobbying, et cetera. one of the challenges though with that is that we have so much information and our current website, which was designed a number of years ago,

is a little -- it's a little busy for lack of a better word. so at the beginning of this year, one of the things that staff undertook with steven as the lead is a revamp of the website, with a couple of goals in mind. he will tell you about it, but one is to make it more user-friendly. so that folks looking for information can find it. folks looking to learn how to comply can find it, and then folks looking for information about particular elections, can find that information. and one of the major things was switching from sort of just a website that had a lot of information stored in various pdfs that people download to sort of a more modern website, where the information appears right on the screen. so he will tell you a little bit about that, but that was started earlier this year and we have goten to the point that essentially the main framework and the majority of the actual

content is basically done. we need some tweaking to sort of launch it. so it's probably not going to happen immediately, but we wanted to get that out there for you and the public to see. so i will given it to steven. >> okay. again i'm steven massey. so i'm going to give you a little preview of the website i have been working on over the course of the past year. this is actually -- i'm sorry about this presentation on this computer screen. it's sort of like look at artwork on a nitari, but it is what it is and you'll have to use your imagination to a certainly extent. this is the existing website sfethics.org was launched in

2009. and it has at this point over 4300 pages on the site and all being stored on what is now an obsolete management system and still being maintained by the company that we work with, but not being actively developed and i do have some concerns about the future of the company. knowing this is a project that would take us easily a year plus to reorganize, we started on this about a year-ago to try to move it to a new system. to give you an idea of what things looked like in 2009, when i look back at our data back then, 100% of users were on a desktop pc and couldn't find a mobile user. most people come to our site to file electronic forms. they are also coming to our site to look at las and advice and downloading paper forms and

viewing disclosure forms that were filed. and they were also looking at information about the commission, such as agendas, minutes and information about the commissioners. at the time we had only three electronic campaign forms. we're in the process of launching two more. we had optional electronic form 700 filings, so maybe less than 20 people filed electronically and campaign finance data was available on spreadsheets and pdfs that would be downloaded. largely we were what i considered to be a paper-based office and most information was available in our filing cabinets in our office. if you jump ahead to july, 2015, one in ten of our users are on a mobile device. it's lower than rest i would say the general ed community, but it's enough if one in ten users are looking at a website, that they essentially can't read on a mobile device, it's becoming a problem.

the sections popular change over time and still the e-filing is popular and the campaign and visualizations didn't exist in 90 and it's now the second most accessed section. still laws and advice and campaign financial manuals, lobbyist and visualizations, there wasn't even electronic lobbyists reporting in 2009 and then the lobbyist manuals. now we have 14 electronic campaign forms, which includes the entire public financing program. which is recently switched to electronic filing. that will be in place for the 2016 elections. we have electronic form 700, electronic lobbyist reporting and registration. you can pay settlements. late fees, registration fees online. we take electronic signatures on campaign statements. so you can actually sign it online and don't have to file paper copies

anymore. if you have training requirements, you can complete those online by watching online videos. we have open data sets and programming interfaces for people who want to tap into the databases that we have for their own projects. we have data visualizations and then we have these additional mandates which have come into place in the past six years. for instance permit consultants, electronic lobbyists reporting, major developer reporting. we just sort of tacked it on to the existing site because there wasn't a really good way in the existing content management system to organize things. so what else is missing on site? over time we have come to see certain areas to be improved. one thing we don't have on the site, we don't have a section for "enforcement." and we only have one page dedicated to "complaints," and how to file a complaint. so we wanted to build out that section. we don't really have step-by-step compliance information that includes

registration, and filing. so what we provide people right now is a printable manual and list of forms that they need to download, but at this point i think most people expect to get to a website and have a step-by-step in what they need to complete to comply with the various disclosure requirements. we also don't outline the audit process. so we do notify people on the website when their committee has been selected for audit, but we don't detail on website what happens next? and i think there is some value to people understanding if they are going to be selected for audit, what might happen after that? what is to be expected? we also don't have a really clear site navigation on the site, with breadcrumbs and i will go over this in a minute. the result is that when we tack on new features it just becomes very cluttered with a lot of things on the homepage. the last thing that it's actually difficult to print for those who still use printers. when we print content on the

page, it often cuts off sides of the page. it's very difficult to look at. so we wanted to address that as well. so this is the new page. again it's a little hard to see on this screen. but later you can take a look at it when we have had it posted online. and we have taken away a lot of choices on the page based on data we have collected over the past six years. often times when we're speaking to people on the phone, even when we had them on the phone with us, they often couldn't find the link. so we have reduced the number of choices. so the top -- we have also tried to make the website perform similar to most websites that you go to. so there is certain expectation of the interface. so we have added a log-in button at the top to get into our account to file your forms and that appears on every single page of the site. we have reduced the number of site sections to five.

we have added the section of the page here, where we can pin something important to look at. so for instance, this is right before the elections. so we have the data visualizations that pertain to this election. you can imagine before form 700 is due, we would pin the information that is relevant to filing form 700 right on the homepage. we have also added the four quick links which i will go over in a second that allow you to jump into sections deeper within the site, that we feel are the most frequently accessed sections of the website. down here you can't even read it, but it does have on the left is about the commission. in the center we have reduced the new section of our site down from three sections to one. so we only have one place for people to get their news. we have added the "interest persons list form," right to the homepage. so you just enter your email address and

hit "subscribe." that will file off an email to verify that you actually own that account and then you will be on the list. it's about as easy as we can make that. in general, we also have our social media sites linked at the bottom there and most people at this point tend to get their information from our social media pages. there is about, i think about 14 times as many people on our twitter page getting news than our ip list at this point. on the bottom, we've removed the contact page on our site and just added the contact information at the bottom of every single page. if you click the address at the bottom of the page and it will actually give you the directions to our office from your current location. tap the telephone number, it will dial our office. so again, this is a little hard to see, but it's one of the internal pages.

on the side we have actually added site navigation, which doesn't exist right now, but allows you to see the level you are at on the site. we have a zoomed in version and this is the page for campaign finance disclosure and the visualization and forms that we have. while we updated the site, we took the opportunity to update the technical features on the site. none of these features are particularly revolutionary in the it world, but it does bring us up with current technology. one thing we wanted to address was making the site responsive to your device. if you are on a cell phone you can actually read the content, verse if versus if you are on a larger screen. we add the the points and changed the site navigation and built it for a phone and added

breadcrumbs and also added the ability to print pages on a letter head. we also reorganized the site and we spent a lot of time not only reorganizing the content, but making sure as much content on the site right now, that the links will not be broken. so most content that is on there, for instance if you had linked to an audit report from five years ago, that will still work on the new site. we also added new "enforcement" section and we have a complete walk-through of the complaint process. what happened with that is jesse approached uc hastings and the same professor who worked with the students on the lobbyist fact sheets and they worked on simplified process for what happens when a complaint is filed? that way instead of looking at the enforcement and investigations, regulations document, which is currently available -- this is a little more user-friendly. we have also detailed the audit

process, so you know what to expect if you are selected for audit. we also created complaint walk-throughs and every section of the site, instead of having different ways of organizing the information, every section -- if you are a lobbyist or a candidate or primary consultant, we structured the content such there is for instance does this disclosure requirement apply to me? what are the registration requirements? what are the training requirements? and if there is training requirements we show them the video right on the page. and then we added that interested persons sign-up on the homepage. so to give you an idea of the device site. imagine you had a really large screen. current website would take up just a fraction of the page. then you end up with all of this wasted space. the result of having all of this wasted space if you look at data visualizations or these sort of spreadsheet content that we have on our site, you

are very limited and constrained what you can see at a time. if you are on a small device, like a cell phone, i can tell you that the website is completely unreadable. i don't know if any of you have tried it before, but it's microscopic. so now what happens if you go to the site on a cell phone versus a larger device? the site reformats the content and font and you can read the content no matter what device you are using. on this screen it's a little hard to see anything, but on the left is the agenda for the august 4th special committee hearing and sized appropriately for a cell phone. on the right is the same content, but you would need a magnifying glass to look at it. so these quick entry points we put them on homepage. we took a look at our data and really people come to the site for three main reasons: people looking to get guidance

such as informal or formal advice, looking at our publications and trainings. that is the first link there. the second link is to file statements. so if you need to e-file form 700, campaign reports. the third link is to view the disclosure forms, filed by people and the various data sets that are available. we added a fourth link, and we now have a "file a complaint" button and you can see the complete complaint process on our website. we have also reduced the number of categories on the site in this sort of table of contents down to five different sections. there is now a "commission" section. which has again the agendas, minutes, information about the members of the commission. we have also added a staff page. we know it can be frustrating

when you need to contact a government agency and you don't know which staff person is responsible for a particular area? so we added a staff page for people to see that. we added a compliance page with all the compliance walk-throughs and added the disclosure section and then we have the new enforcement section, which includes complaints, audits. we have non-filer information, late-filers, paying your fees. and then the law section with our advice and all of the laws pertinent to the ethics commission. and then on the side we have these site navigation menus. so you can see here for instance this person has chosen the "candidates" page under the "campaign" section and from there they see additional content to read such as "running for office." reporting and record keeping and what to do after the campaign because

they still have reporting obligations that are are often times overlooked by candidates. we added a mobile menu. you have probably see this when you have used a cell phone, you have seen this on many websites. tap the menu button and out slides the table of content. we added breadcrumbs that were requested by people that i spoke on the phone and the site hierarchy, so can you jump up a level and have an understanding where you are on the page. and lastly, we have this print -- you can't see it on here -- but there is a print sheet of all the contents on letter head. so i'm just going to pull up the site here. so this is the new site.

and again, we're now pinning the data visualizations -- the data visualizations this year compared to the previous years will now scale whether you are on a cell phone, up to a large screen monitor. if you are on a cell phone and interested in this information, you can check it at any time. we're showing here the summary information for all campaigns. we have contributor information. so you can search the contributors. and you can see the different contribution-levels that each contributor is making in comparisons to the other contributors for that particular race. we have maps that are showing the support for each candidate in each zip code within the city. we're also tracking for instance late contributions. this is one of the tools we came up with last year to help cut out the noise as far as

late contributions. because late contributions, you are seeing tens of them every single day. so what this does is lous allows you to pinpoint alarply large contribution that may have come in. in this case there is one contribution in the $4 million range and the other contributions combined are within $100,000 per day. going back to the homepage, right now on our current website when you click to file a complaint, you could download the form and regulations document. and what we have here is a brief introduction about filing a compliant. then we have the section here that can you read about the complaint process. so there is the complaint preparation, submission, preliminary review, investigation of the complaint,

stiplated orders, including settlements and probable cause and hearings on the merit. so if you click on one of these, we provide people with important information before filing complaints. questions that you should be asking? such as who do you believe is breaking the law? what laws are they violated? what laws support your allegations? when did the alleged violations take place and so on. instead of supplying people with the code sections within the jurisdiction of the commission, we write out the different areas of law that can be investigated by the commission in plain english. just to go over one more section. filing statements right now, i'm sure you have gone through the form 700 process.

and if you go to "register" under form 700, there is maybe 20 something links you can browse through. we have distilled this down to a pretty simple page to get started you choose the type of filer that you are and that will take you to the registration information. once you have done that, you go to the selected column, which is to e-file and probably the most popular page on our website is to viet reset your password and the third is e-file documents for campaign. when we're ready to send that out, we'll do this and happy to take any questions at this time. >> first of all, great job. i look forward to it actually being operational.

but i'm remembering the presentation that the students made -- what a year-ago? >> right. >> something like that. so they had great graphics, which they used for the things that they worked on. now has their work been incorporated into the website? or is that a completely separate issue, or operation? >> that was a separate project. we linked to their contents so people could find it. >> okay. >> they actually rely on those application programming interfaces that i talked about. so we have actually added the documentation for each of those programming interfaces right on our website. so that people can easily find them. one of the things when we initially met with them was they had a little trouble finding the information of just how the information is structured and what they should be looking at? so we tried to improve that area of the website. >> so when this new website is

operational, we'll be able to link to the work that they have done is that correct? >> yes. >> and presumably, those charts are being what continually updated with information that they created, the charts and graphs, all of the graphics that they had? >> as along as they continue to maintain their site. >> does it depend on them, or our own people now updating those graphics? >> it depends on them. if they want to continue to maintain their site. but we continue to maintain the data that they are relying on. and we keep that up-to-date. the graphics that we have on our site are going to be continued to be maintained. >> okay. so at some point we might not be -- when we link to them, we would not -- it's possible that we would not be linking to the graphics that they created is that what you

are saying? if they decide they don't want to keep that up or maintain it? >> right, they could pull it down at any time. it's really up to them. >> so we can't depend on them? >> right. >> i would like to echo commissioner hayon's sentiments and great work, thank you for doing this. did you use a vendor to help you do this? >> we spent a little less than $300 on the project. >> well-done. >> and our time. >> of course. >> does that come out of our budget? >> the $300? >> yes. >> yes. >> maybe talking in future, but have we explored the possibility of getting some contributions from either computer companies or high-tech people to underwrite all of these changes that we want to make? i mean particularly --

and possibly even from the city, when they burden us with the website having all of the 700s, it seems to me that maybe we should start thinking about maybe there are sources to underwrite the cost of our website. >> are you suggesting that we boost mr. massey's salary? [laughter ]. >> since he did all the work. >> perhaps friends of ethics would like to raise friends for the ethics commission? it would be nice if we could get some funding for it. >> i think it's tremendous what you are doing, and it will be a great public service. [ inaudible ] >> i'm sorry? when will it be operational? >> i expect sometime early next year. i'm not sure if you are aware, but i will be on paternity

leave starting in november, so there will be a slight break in the project. when i come back, i expect we'll get it up. in the meantime, mr. shen is unaware of this, but he is going to have to read all of this new content on the site before i get back. >> congratulations on the upcoming addition to your family. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> i guess any public comment on this particular item? >> david pilpau as an individual i just want to appreciate all of steven's work. you see him every so often at the commission, but he does great work behind-the-scenes every day. the website, the data, public records, all kinds of things. steven is one of the great things of the commission. and i would point out as you asked about the money, other city departments have updated their websites and engaged consultants and spent thousands of dollars and done i don't know what; this was basically

steven on his own time -- well, on city time -- [laughter ] >> on his own, figuring out what needed to be done and doing it and not spending a gazillion dollars. so i think the commission really is a model for the city in terms of updating its website and he has been very responsive to me on my occasional questions. the one thing i was thinking about in terms of enforcement, the current chart that lists past stipulations is a bit hard to navigate and doesn't show the respondents' name. if at a minimum a field could be added to show the respondent's name, where there was a matter settled and stipulation it would be easier to figure out what was at-issue? some of the file names with coded, so they are stip09-15 and you have to go into the stip, to see who it was and it's very difficult. so just adding the field of who the respondent was, if made public, would be helpful. thank you very much.

>> hello, larry bush for friends of ethics. if you will provide us with the budget needs we'll try to see what we can do with friends of ethics to raise money for you. >> oh, my goodness. >> steven said $300. >> well, actually i'm prepare to offer a million dollars. but it's not my money. it's from the controller. i had a meeting with the controller about their ability to create a very robust system of electronic filing. and their ability to tie that into the needs of the ethics commission. and i know that he is planning on having a conversation with the commission with chair renne. he was mentioning specifically the ability to exchange information on everything from contractors to campaign contributions, to filers,

people who are on board, the directors. all of the kinds of things that you would normally be required to review if you were doing an audit or an investigation. and the fact is that the controller has about $2 million a year returned back to the city, because it has not yet been able to identify a legal way of meeting it under the bond obligation thing. but they do think that they can do that with this program. so i'm hopeful that those conversations will go forward and i will take a small percentage of that. when this does go forward, i hope one of the things that you can do is create flexibility so that you can search entertainment and travel and so forth, to see people who are city business and whether they are making payments at the request of an official or travel gifts or whatever else it may be? as was just mentioned in terms of enforcement cases, your

system now for 700s allows you to go in and hit a button for non-filers and you can see who has not filed. the only way you can see who has not paid on a penalty is if you go into the executive director's report and then he will list in there who has got pending charges. but i think if you do have a system where people can search what it is in terms of compliance, it would be very helpful. thank you. >> good evening everybody. my name is jonathan messer. just a quick comment if wasn't brought up before i arrived. currently the advice letters are not searchable. you can't search the names, nor the content within them. a search function on that, because now you have to basically go through this list that is on the website, and the description of the title is usually not very helpful. so a

search function for advice letters i'm assuming all the attorneys in this room would very much appreciate that. thank you very much. >> good evening. eileen hansen. i had one question and it refers to mr. massey commenting that he had some concern about the viability of the company that you have been working with. so i'm just wondering if you can talk a little more about that? and address whether we should be working with a company that may not survive and what is our backup plan, if they don't? just a little more detail on that. thank you. >> so the company that we're hosting with right now is called tai ped-- although, they are not called that anymore. it was a san francisco company that dte was considering contracting with for the entire city website.

we piloted the system and then thai ped backed out of the negotiations with the city. we were allowed to continue with them, and it was fine for a while and then they were bought out -- i think twice. and the company that owns them now still maintains the system, but it doesn't develop it anymore. so this time when we move to a content management system, we moved to a system that really is portable and can be moved to other vendors, if the vendor that we're using right now goes out of business. so it wouldn't take us very long to get the site back up again. i hope that addresses the concern. >> seeing no other public comment, we'll turn to item 5. discussion and possible action regarding commission's activities relating to its

expenditure lobbyist ballot measure prop c. there isn't really too much to add other than executive director mainardi and myself have attended a number of meetings since our last commission meeting, and also friends of ethics has been active in responding to invitations for speakers, who can advocate and overwhelmingly at least my experience has been that the various clubs seem supportive of proposition c, as you probably saw over the weekend. the chronicle came out in support of it, and the

editorial, i thought answered and responded to some of the criticisms that have been raised by those who are opponents. any public discussion on 5? >> larry bush for friends of ethics. i would like to note that we now have three current and former mayors who have endorsed prop c, mayor lee, dianne feinstein and art agnos and five members of the board of supervisors. one concern that has continually arisjen concerns from the unions and if would be helpful if the commission put together a simple fact sheet that explains how prop c affects unions and that it doesn't affect their ability tot to do collective bargaining and doesn't affect

their ability to talk to members and doesn't affect workplace conditions. when i met with the political directors of least one union, and explained it, they said that really allayed their concerns. but since what i am suggesting is essentially a fact sheet and not an advocacy piece, i think if it came from the commission itself, and was provided to members of the board of supervisors, all of them, not just the ones who have endorsed it as well to the labor council would be very helpful. thank you. >> thank you. david pilpau speaking again as an individual. just to follow-up on what larry was suggesting if you pursue that approach to suggest a similar fact sheet for non-profit organizations, covering what they would be required to disclose both in member communications, and

other communications, not to members, just to clarify their obligations. i think both of these fact sheet ideas could relate to the measure that is proposed now, but ultimate could be fact sheets used for the ordinance, if adopted. thanks. >> thank you. >> 6, discussion and possible action regarding the commission's search for a new executive director. the search committee met on friday of this past week to review the applications that have been received up to the cutoff date of september 11th. and made the decision that they would not re-open that in the week between labor day and

september 11th we received a significant number of well-qualified candidates. and that the feeling was that there was not a need for re-opening the process. the recruiting -- the alliance associates flagged 11 names that they felt were highly-qualified candidates, and in our meeting on friday, we narrowed down to invitations will go out for an interview on october 14th to five candidates who appear to be the strongest with the hope that out of those

five, we'll be in a position following the interviews to submit to the full commission hopefully by the 26th of oct, but october, but that may be overly optimistic, the names of the candidates and to have those candidates interviewed by the commission with the hope that a selection can be made. is there any public comment on that item? >> david pilprai again as an individual. you appreciate again your continued transparency on this process. so if i understand correctly you are down to five currently although you could revisit some of the others. what i didn't hear is how many total applications that you received? i'm just interested in the number -- not. >> it was in the 30s >> okay. >> and they were applications

from almost all geographical areas in the country. so there was no reason to believe that it didn't get wide, wide circulation. >> excellent, i'm pleased that you are satisfied there was a significant applicant pool and we're down to five at the moment. thank you very much. >> in this type of process, is there maybe a subsequent essay requirement? in other words, that you might pose questions to the applicants in writing, if later thoughts come to mind? i don't know how the process would work if you would expect on the middle of october to interview by skype, which i understand is the mechanism that you are going to be using. and then you might actually follow-up with questions to be addressed by each applicant?

maybe about their specific background, or would you plan to call them back on the phone? i don't exactly know how that process might work. >> the way it is contemplated now is that the applicant will be provided in advance with the invitation. i think three or four questions, which we want them to respond to and we're sending them in advance, so that they have plenty of time to give thoughtful consideration to their answers. so that we get not an off-the-cuff answers and these are questions that call for specific examples of certain areas. so it's not the kind they can go out and google and get information >> right. >> it's more -- then we have -- i think it's down to about

13 sort of core questions out of which we intend to interrogate candidates on. it's contemplated at the full commission there will be other questions for the commission. so there isn't necessarily a rehash of what we heard when we first met with them. >> so your initial interview will be with the committee, or the subcommittee. >> correct. >> to individuals. >> right. >> and then it's open to the commission as a body to look at your findings, recommendations and thoughts, and if other commissioners have questions you might get back to the applicant. is that it? >> the present process is that the committee meets with the five that we have identified as being the strongest candidates.

and assuming, following our interview, that we believe there are two or three or maybe even five that we want to leave it to the commission to interview. so we would, in those instances and i think our present contemplation is those will be face-to-face with the commission. our interviews and commercial initial interviews for the five will be by skype or some such process. >> got it. >> even candidates local will not be interviewed person ally, but in the same way. >> that is the initial electronic means. >> yes. >> when we get to the meeting of full commission and the

selection committee presents the two or three or four or whatever it may be, candidates, who they recommend -- who we recommend they ought so select out of that, there will be personal interviews with the commission, and the commission will then act as a whole. >> and that of course will be a closed process. >> correct. >> thank you very much. >> at an undisclosed location. [laughter ] >>although, i should tell you that we are required to notice it, and if it's at our october 26th meeting, when we go into closed session, we'll go somewhere else. >> are you serious? that is how it's going to work? >> pardon me? >> that is how it's going to work? >> yes. we have been told that for example, our meeting on the 14th will be noticed, it's a

public meeting with a note note cation -- an indication that we'll go to closed session. there will be a public meeting vote to go to closed session and when we are done with that, to go back to open session and decide whether or not we want to disclose anything. >> i suggest the top of the mark is very nice. >> excuse me. >> the top of the mark. >> i like that idea. >> yes. >> commissioners just to follow-up on that. so the recommendation will come to the commission on the 26th, hopefully, and possibly you'll be interviewing people at that meeting as well? >> we may. >> okay. >> that is to be decided and that is why i say, that maybe too quick, and it may be that we'll want to set a special

commission or full commission meeting sometime in november, rather than wait until the regular meeting for purposes of the final interviews by the full commission and selection. >> but it's possible that the committee would recommend to the commission for the meeting on the 26th and bring the candidates to that meeting? >> yes. >> in case you decide to interview as a body that even? >> evening? >> correct. >> i had one other question, chair renne that the commission open up to a member of the public in the process and i'm curious if the committee made a decision whether you want to do that or not?

>> the committee's recommendation was that we not re-open the process to add additional members of the committee. because of the fact that it would delay the process. now i should say for the record , there was a suggestion made as ms. hansen has indicated, that we should include at least some representative of the stakeholders in this kind of a process. and i pointed out that if that recommendation had been made before we started the process, or before the commission

selected its committee, there would have been an open discussion with the full commission. and the commission could have made that determination. but i'll entertain any discussion or any comments that commissioners have on her suggestion that you ought to, as a commission, we ought to add some additional members of the selection committee either at this process or in the future? >> if i could just add? i would appreciate a conversation about that, but my recommendation at this point would be just that the process leading to the commission then

interviewing the candidates be open. so that you have narrowed it down to five, and if you could include a member of the public in the interviews, with those five, that then leads to a recommendation to the commission as to whether or not to interview five or three or four, however money? many? at that point the stakeholder would be inserted. so i don't see it slowing down the process. >> she did indicate a commitment of confidentiality to whoever gets added. in other words, to the same level of confidentiality that we as commissioners have. good. >> my reaction to that is that i can see where it's coming from. you know, i think one of the reasons we have gone through this lengthy process is to make sure that the public has a lot

of say in the types of things we're asking and the types of things we're looking for? i do think however it is the commission's responsibility to make this hire, and that it would be best for the commission to sort of maintain that. the other thing is the practical concern. i could think of a lot of good people to be that person, but who we choose, other people may not be happy with that and adds a level of complexity that we shouldn't add at this point. >> understandable and if coy clarify, i was not suggesting a person or two involved make a decision, just provide feedback so that obviously the commission is the body that makes the decision. >> emotionally i like the

idea, but practically, it seems fraught. because the issue is then who are the members of the public that are chosen? and what if the viewpoints are all over the place? and very much in conflict with perhaps what the commissioners or the committee that initially interviews the candidates? i just see that becoming a difficult situation, or creating conflict. where we don't want conflict. but maybe we can figure out you some way to include some feedback from the public? but i'm just not quite sure at

in the moment what that would look like? i don't see it as someone being on the interview committee, because again, who is that one person that going to be picked? and that in itself would be full of con flict and controversy and if anything, we're trying to get to a point where maybe there isn't so much conflict between decisions at the commission-level and the public? but perhaps if we put our creative thinking caps on, we might find a way to accommodate at least the idea of involvement on the part of certainly of people who are interested in what goes on at the commission? so sympathetic, but not quite sure how that should be implemented. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> thank you.

item no. 7. >> i just wanted to make one comment, if i dismay may? if you are thinking about something close to the election i would recommend that you make the decision after the election is over, because the election will tell you something about the direction that the public sees the commission going in. it will give you some information that you don't have otherwise and also have an effect on what the responsibilities will be for the new executive director, as well as for the commission? since it's only be another week past october 26th to have that discussion, it seems like it's a worthwhile delay. thank you. >> all right. >> i will say, chair renne, if we do schedule it for another day, that we try to get that on calendar as soon as possible, given it will probably take some time and calendars especially in november are

hectic. >> schedule what? >> if we're going to schedule as mr. bush suggested interviews to interview the candidates, i would like to do that as soon as possible. because if i find out october 26th you want to do interviews on november 3rd, that is probably not going to work for me. >> oh, no; as i say, we'll try to do it assuming that get to that point, we'll try to do it calendared on the 26th. if we don't, then at the 26th meeting we can either decide to wait until november, end of november or to have a special meeting. >> great. >> turning to no. 7, discussion and possible action on the commission's august 24th, 2015 draft meeting minutes.

any comments or suggestions on those minutes? i haven't asked for public comment yet. i will wait and see what commission members -- >> no comment. >> hearing none, any public comment? >> david pilpau, two suggestions at this time. page 2 the third paragraph, ms. parise' comments to clarify to add the two words "this year" after "is the most heated one." it doesn't do much, but it clarify a little bit. >> i wouldn't make that change. >> all right. >> yes? no? okay. and on page 4, the big paragraph about the closed

session. if there is a way to tie the coming and goings to the three specific matters in closed session. it's not clear, for example, which matters acting executive director mainardi did or did not participate in? so if you do say somehow related to items 2 and 3 and somebody left and somebody came in. >> all right. >> again, i'm not seeking to determine what occurred. >> i understand. >> thank you. >> do i hear a motion with those corrections? >> i move to approve with the additional information about who was present at closed session, but without changing the comments of another public member. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye.

>> opposed? minutes are accepted unanimously. let's turn to no. 8, discussion of the acting executive director as 's report. mr. mainardi. >> thank you, chair renne. i would point out a couple of items in particular, item 1 the commission is disbursing funds in connection with district 3 election. so at the time it was $207,000. that is now uped to $245,000. so that is good. it's good that folks are using the public financing system. i do want to jump to no. 10, and publicly recognize mallika alem, our campaign finance assistant, who worked at our front desk and was a really

wonderful person with very warm and welcoming. she has left to take another position with the city. so i wanted to recognize her for all of the good work and she will be missed. she is a very nice person. and then finally, with out reach and education as chair renne has stated, chair renne primarily, but also me, we have been attending various endorsement meetings. then we also did send out -- we have been trying to take into account the comments about our interested persons list. so we have been accumulating emails and we sent out the first of what we hope is a series of emails to political clubs, unions, non-profits, pacs, that sort of thing. basically soliciting and asking folks to sign up for the "interest persons" list. or to follow us on twitter as

steven pointed out. we have over 1400 followers on twitter, which is where a lot of folks get their information these days. we sent out about 65 or 66 invitations, and we had six responses. so six people signed up for the ip list. so we plan to do some more in future. that is primarily it. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you to you and the chair for going to all of these meetings, and i know it's been a lot. and with the whole selection process as well for the chair. it's above the call, and thank you. >> i have a question about all of those presentations? any color commentary that you would like to share with us about those meetings in the interest of the public? >> well, i think they are all a little non-plushed, because

most will say commissioner renne is here in favor of the -- because they always introduce either in favor or contrary, pro or con and i have to always start off and say, no i'm not here in that role. i'm not sure if they fully appreciate the restrictions. but as i say, most of them have been relatively friendly, but because of the restrictions -- the speech we give at the beginning of what our limited role is, it's really not very dramatic. >> do you find that people are interested in the topic and want to discuss it with you? >> yes. >> or are they just being polite and listening?

>> no, they'll ask questions and comments and are interested in the idea of greater transparency. any public comment on the acting executive director's report? >> david pill pau again and i wanted to also appreciate mallika, a wonderful person in the office. she will be missed. she did accept another city position, so she is not going away too far. the access language, i assume that update is not finalized? >> not yet. >> when it is i look forward to geting it towards the end of this week. thank you. >> any others? all right. turning to item 9. which usually is at the very

end, but as you may have gathered from the fact that we have changed the order a little bit on this. because of the item 10 is a closed session, save the public need to stay around for some of these items, but any commissioners or anybody in the public have suggestions for items for future meetings? >> i had one and i have talked to mr. mainardi about it. when you look at our enforcement process, when a complaint comes in, the steps that take place make the procedure a procedure that goes for at least two, three months.

and when you have an election campaign and there is an alleged complaint of a violation there isn't usually time for the commission to act to try to correct either the misinformation that may be out there, because a complainant may have put in material and ross of what their complaint is and because we haven't gotten to the process quickly enough, i wonder whether we ought not to take a look at whether there is some way in which we could set up a mechanism that for complaints that relate to alleged violations within say the 60-days before the elections, that we have some special procedure to be able to

deal with them? either to correct the misperception or if, in fact, there is egregious violation, that the public knows about it before it makes its vote. i don't know -- the city attorney will have to weigh-in on it, but i think it's a worthwhile subject for a future meeting. >> i agree, chair renne. actually i whole-heartedly agree that we should think about that and look into it. there are lots of complexities, i think, because an allegation, you know, that we don't have a chance to really fully vet and if it gets out there and we say that we put a parameter around, that we could change an election in a bad way. but i do understand the concern and agree it's legitimate and i'm happy to help working on it. >> public comment?

>> mr. chair, specific to your thought, it seems some easy advance work could be done in advance of that meeting, where that would be on the agenda. and that is to ascertain if our sister agencies in the united states have ever established such a process or contemplated such a process? and it's possible that somewhere that mechanism exists. bob stern would know, but then you could also check with the individual agencies. >> and part of the requirements that extend our time are by ordinance. so that we can't do it by regulation. it's just simply a matter -- and i think that when we talked about it, said that the fppc

tends to give priority or accelerate their investigation into it when it's an item that might relate to an oncoming election. i just don't know what the limitations are. >> they may have a procedure and may have flushed out the legal requirements are to be judicious. >> david pilpall again. i think it's worth discussing and there are obviously a lot of complexities to it. one thing you might also consider is the ability to juggle or balance workload on enforcement matters? it appears in your closed session that some of the matters are related to past elections and reporting to the extent that those don't bump up against a statute of limitations, putting some of those things off for a month or two in preference to things that are more current might be

doable. the public is not aware of the specifics of your complaints and how much juggling staff can do within the statutes of limitations and other considerations? so that might be something to discuss in a future meeting on this issue. thanks. >> larry bush. i would like to endorse what chair renne is saying. sorry i was late. so i missed the conversation that you had about lynette sweet, but that is a case that goes to the 2010 election. and since that time, she was in an election again in 2012. so here we are in 2015, and it's five years after the complaint was being looked at. she has already gone through other election and she happened to lose that election, but it's a long time to go without a resolution to the questions. as part of your look at, that i would like to suggestion a

clearer set of guidelines of when penalties are considered? and whether you consider the past record of the person who is alleged to have violated something? at the fppc, if you have failed to file a form 700, it multiplies the penalty when they finally do it. and i don't know what kind of research or background was done on lynette sweet, but she was the subject of a major fbi investigation for misuse of city monies that had to be repaid when she was the board treasurer for the 3rd street economic development corporation. i know about that because i was the public affairs officer at hud and hud demanded that the city returned the money because it was misspent and she went on

to the redevelopment commission. if you look at her history it's repeated failures to comply with disclosure rules and if you look at your professional experience, she was a banker. so i don't know how you weigh these factors? but the fact that those factors exist should be part of what gets weighed. thank you. >> thank you. >> eileen hansen. i, too, concur with the recommendation from chair renne. that looks at what happens in the future? we also have a situation right now in this current election, where complaints have been filed that affect the election, or could affect the election. as you know, because it was raised at the last meeting, although i couldn't be here, because i was out of town, i have filed a complaint

regarding the election in district 3. i don't know if that complaint is going to be resolved before the election, but it's a complaint that if not resolved could result in one candidate not receiving public funds, which obviously create an imbalance in the election. so there is good reason to try to resolve that before the election one way or another. and i don't know if that can be possible now, but i think there are other complaints pending that have to do with this election. and it really does no good to resolve those complaints after the election. it's unfortunate that we are in a situation that takes quite a long time to resolve complaints and elections in past have been determined in part by the amount of money that people received through public financing. so to put an idea for the future, i also wonder if there is anything that can

be done and maybe not at this late date with a month to go before the election? i would greatingly suggest if at all possible complaints that have a bearing on this election at least be attempted to be resolved before the election. i'm intrigued by the idea, if they can't be resolved there is an announcement of some sort there a pending complaint, so people can make a decision in their voting with some full -- fuller information. so i think it's going to take some creative thinking to deal with it in next month, but i certainly support dealing with it in future. thank you. >> thank you. >> it seems to me that a large part of the issue, if not the entire part of the issue is the way the department functions, and the way the workload is distributed? and i don't know

what is involved in reorganizing the office, so that these kind of complaints take priority? these are very important and they reflect on the commission perhaps more than anything else that we do. so i don't know, mr. mainardi, maybe you have some thoughts about how the workload can be redistributed and streamlined there so this issue gets addressed at least administratively and procedurally? there are other issues involved in it as well. it's really about the workload to a large extent, is it not? >> thank you, jesse mainardi. i have many, many ideas on this issue, but i don't want to get too far afield from sort of the topic as to whether this is an issue -- get to the substance as opposed to raising this as an issue to be identified?

because i think that is probably outside of the scope. but i guess i would just say, i think everybody has touched on a lot of very good points. as chair renne said, there are particular requirements by the charter, and there are some issues to be sort of dealt with in connection with that. but i think these are all great points, and certainly part of a broader discussion on a lot of things. >> my suggestion was only that we put it on a future agenda wheres it's an item and the public can weigh in on it and the staff can give us guidance as to what and what cannot be done? it's may be it awaits the appointment of a full-time executive director, but just to put it on the back burner. all right. item no. 10. discussion and possible action

regarding complaints received or initiated by the ethics commission and then it lists five -- -- we in a possible closed session i'll take public comment on all matters on this, including whether or not we should meet in a closed session? >> eileen hansen, i would just ask if it's possible if you go into closed session, if it's possible to somehow inform the members of the public, who would like to come back and hear if a resolution is made public, approximately -- well,, when you come back, if there is a way to inform

members of the public that you are back in session? >> i would think if we're talking five, i suppose realistically 7:15 probably would be -- may be optimistic. >> that would be enough if people come back at 7:15, that would be earlier enough to hopefully be back brush back? before you are back? >> i think so. >> it is usually not a problem for us. >> thank you. >> all right, any comments by members of the commission as to whether or not we should go into closed session or a motion? >> i move we go into closed session. >> second. >> any public comment before i call the question? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed?

hearing none, the commission will go into closed session. [ gavel ] [ gavel ] >> all right, records will reflect we are back in open session.

is there a motion as to whether or not we should disclose the closed session deliberations? >> i move that we not disclose our deliberations during closed session. >> second. >> all right. all in favor? >> aye. >> i also will announce in open session that the commission approved a settlement of ethics complaint no. 13-100730. and the settlement agreement is a public document and will be posted on the commission's

website. josh, do i have to read the whole thing? >> no. >> it also -- at the closed session, the commission approved a settlement agreement relating to ethics commission complaint 26-1001021. and that settlement agreement is a public document and will be posted on the commission's website. do i hear a motion to adjourn? >> is there public comment? >> yes, thanks. i'm sorry. >> thank you. >> eileen hansen. the two settlements that you announced, how do those relate

to these five complaints that you just discussed in closed session? >> they were two of the five. >> can you say which of the two relate to those numbers? because i didn't see those on here. >> they relate to 1 and 2, lines 1 and 2. >> okay. and can i also ask your reasons for not disclosing? are you -- is the motion not to disclose related to the discussion you had, or to the resolution or lack thereof? >> all three of those, the discussion and the lack or lack

of resolution, or resolution. >> so can i maybe ask it a different way. it sounds like you resolved 1 and 2. would it be fair to assume that did you not resolve, 3, 4 and 5 and thus they are ongoing? >> it's okay to answer yes or no. >> yes, i think that -- whether we may have resolved them, but we're not disclosing the resolution at this moment, or they are ongoing. >> or they are ongoing. >> right. >> all right. thank you. >> did i hear a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> [ gavel -

>> when you show up to vote auto our local polling place everything is running smoothly but a lot of details involved in running a polling place your may have a few workers with appear to be our or on their own what happens if if the polling place is not open on time are a machinery doesn't function who can they your honor, to for help

those poll workers have a large support structure managed plths the department of elections let looking at behind the screens and running hundreds of polling place is made and smooth and seam also as possible. >> before a polling place opens on 7 handsomely on election day did needs support supplies the delivery trucks garnet and vice presidents warehouses to load of the equipment and supplies before we set up to vote there be that a scanner once again you scan it will tell you okay. >> oogs trucks deliver deny 3 hundred and 80 and 5 hundred 86 polling place depending on the nature of the elections

and right now, we're loading the delivery trucks those trucks contain all the equipment that pat polling place needs for voters open election day voter booth and election materials and most important voting equipment those pause contain the presync pacific their scanned and verified as their loaded into the trucks. >> the scanner that they're using will be used before that comes on the lift date gate. >> because those voting machines handle powell equipment it is important they go on the correct truck. >> once again do push the benefits get the gate back down this driver knows that's the order that expects it that way we we can't deliver those machines to the wrong place

they've not work on to ballot and he'll have to pull from his right that's as the the optical scanning and system. >> 7604. >> 76 a 4. >> every time we move a vetting components is tracks it's location and handling system. >> a week before election day 7 to 10 trucks roll out to deliver the powell packaged to the polls around the city. >> hello department the elections dropping off the powell equipment and. >> using the scanning manager an employee checks off to make sure they have they're voting equipment and supplies on election day what happens in a powell worker delivers the door locked at the polling place?

>> on election day the rather sedata city hall cafe is a beehive of the activity teams work to settle issues that may arise in the field. >> this is the election center and wall the election center essentially a bank we i put together and on election day the poll workers call in on a procedure or parolee issues and the calls or the polling place is locked often enough the polling place are late. >> the poll dispatch team comprised of 60 to 80 employers are ready to be snatched to any polling place with missing or possible sick workers and there are procedural issues how to

complete the roster or a machine jammed it said interand it will reject it; right? >> you call them and a representative on the other ends what's the issue take down our issue and get people to help you with the issues they resolve and one of the issue is recognized into the database it routes the issue to the phone bank and list on the jeep in the category. >> the phone bank swings into the action and the steps to deal with the issue until it's resolved. >> it is a transparent process the public looked at the issues we're dealing with throughout the day starting at 6 o'clock in

the morning what. >> what happens in an edge print wouldn't work or a machine malfunction the colorado base company applies the materials runs a phone bank at the election center and trains and stages 20 to thirty technicians throughout the city on election day the fielder support team tackles the issue they help the poll worker over the phone. >> oh, yeah. >> or they get a field election deputy or fed to retaining respond out not field. >> before each election the field election deputies learn the skills to support 7 to 10 powell placed in the field. >> this is a copy of the material in the fed binder those are coworkers do have.

>> they receive special training to trouble shot. >> people on election day there's also a big support team for every single one of you. >> then the fed checks in to their mar make sure they're available to deal with issues. >> i want to confirm that is locked which it is and our edge is fully set up. >> some questions we resolve easily over the phone and some with the deputies each field deputy has his or her on coordinator in the election center if correspondent gives the advice and informs home sharer of they're specific polling place that needs assistance. >> the fields election deputies with the extension of the people

in the field and on the grounds with infrastructure research and ballots. >> your ballots a 5 part ballot. >> their taking care of the final details we can't while we're in the election center. >> the the fields deputy or fed's are issued a cell phone and check list to follow. >> they'll get a list of tasks to complete throughout the day. >> one example of the task between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. the fed's should make sure the polls are open and drop off the supplemental ballets and over completed the fed indicates by checking the box. >> and as the fed's check each polling place with that smart phone applications the relatives

are track work back at the election center there is realtime account of polling place. >> the correspondent is able to access the fed court tool it lists the fed's team and all the tasks the fte is in favor of completing as the fed checks off picking up they're bags and dropping off ballets and transfers the fed's quotient seize in realtime as the tasks are checked off by the fed's and this allows the fed correspondent to track in realtime all the fed's work in the field. >> perhaps things are going smoothly out at your polling place. >> those are the blaults. >> the fed's checked in and a all is well.

>> this is the precinct. >> there the city more contract with the department of the election back and city hall proactively checking in with the polling place throughout election day. >> the voters turn out call serve that group of 10 coworkers is calling outline polling place to see how many voters. >> my name is joshua josh is this 33718 percent i'm calling to get the numbers on the front of our machine. >> navigation to the overall turn out we are concerned with how many ballots into the sight machine. >> the last time as a member. >> that information is into a database it is visual at the election center that the voter

turnout hits a 24rer8dz showing sight think outside the box that full they notify the deputy then the field election deputy and a deputy sheriff go to the polling place for a transfer from the sight think outside the box so voting can continue when the polls close poll workers account for the ballots the roster of voters the memory pack from the inside machine and others edge printer with the report those are the results of the polling place and need to be transferred r transported safety to the election they can count on the parole officer to take custody of the ballots and roster and edge printer and finally they confirm their polling place are secured after a long day in the days following

the trucks that deliver the machines will once again be dispatched all over san francisco picking up the machines and packaged for deliver to the warehouse for unpca and storage the next time your that he appealing palace look at the poll workers you may actually see the teams of people and systems and technology that stand behind the poll workers to make you're voting experience as smooth as possible as a society we've basically

failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to

know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend

we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year.

>> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief

in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the

sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the

cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand

out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for kim. >> good morning, everyone

we're here today to announce a new partnership with the set of circumstances to support small businesses i want to thank sarah kim and chinatown we've been hearing from the mayor and supervisor christensen and the pointing and co-founder of fte have and from capital one and be hearing from derrick latter and joined by the installation mark white the wanting thought san francisco small business commission and the president of the co-founder of fte have to talk about the city of san francisco. >> (clapping.) hi derrick business is one of the thirty businesses right now on the keva west side in san francisco it is giving loans you

know keva raufrnd 10 yargz in san francisco as an organization that supports enterprise halfway around the world get our start in the development world and a few years ago starting work working in our own backyard what motivates us to work in the united states is the statistics coit u coming out of the concrete cringe 7 out of 10 small businesses that apply get a reservation and two of over small business is if small business small businesses have challenges that is very, very difficult and one thing welds to make easier is letting every day small business participate in crowd funding you've heard of that for major movie but one for the little kwie that local small business that might be selling

delicious treats right here arrest a home basis daycare or a house cleaning service that makes our communities better they're struggling for access to capital we want to connect them to capable lenders to finance their dreams and derrick right now for example, he was on the keva website and lane is 5 percent opportunity from a group of individuals that everyone else can chip in and basic become an investor in derrick's business he buys the equipment pay back the loan and get money back into our account future 5 hundred has startups but it is a chance to be angles for derrick you thoildz without a whole communities of supporters i want

to fierce this our sponsor capital one that is committed to small businesses when we graduate from the first loan then hopefully graduate to large loans from capital one and also the city mayor and the team with the city has been incredibly helpful in facilitating the connections to local organizations working with underserved small business this would not have happened we wouldn't be able to help (calling names) tinder economic development project urban solutions and 50 other groups in san francisco that have actually promenade it in helping businesses like derrick's discover the keva playroom so the call to action for example, aura small business inform san francisco and struggling think

about crowd funding and think about keva.org and get on to will have a zero percent along these 95 percent of businesses that post the loan gets funded in thirty days if you live in the city and you care of is economic vibrancy this is a simple way to liking a facebook you can now invest $25 with that, i want to to your knowledge cushion to you get involved and thank you very much again to capita one of the city of the list of the huge list of communicated supporters that make it easier for small businesses like derrick to get a loan thank you (clapping.) >> thank you you know since day one mayor ed lee has made

supporting and tracking small businesses a priority of his administration he talked about how to help to support small businesses it is an honor to welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, todd great to join you and see the product of working with the small businesses and working with the chamber of commerce and the groups in chinatown and to promote hot how to fill vacancies i love the story that mr. shaw from keva.org given i know that in speaking with him and others that the founders the eco have were expired inspired empty mohammed's that give a recommendation he started figuring out the challenge of women owned and minority owned businesses with or without way

out no bank dash and wanted to get micro loans out to the community that continues to be the story even in great economic foundational places like san francisco working with with our small business commission and mark igniting e dwight one of the leaders and the chair we continue with our director of our small business office to identify the challenges that our small businesses and make sure that we cover everything from having an internet portal we get your preliminaries in within place and forms to making sure they are connections to simultaneously micro loans and large banks i'm so happy to see on this example of derrick's effort because his great gather i need to say that as you know i have a joke coming it great

gather used to serve this wonderful dragon beard candy to the emperor of china i'm not a ini emperor only the mayor but i wanted to signal i'm here to also not only taste this candy by support small businesses like a delightful and part of cultural experience and draw we want to have for people visits place like chinatown but all over the city support initiative forevers to criteria small businesses we hope with the support of eco have at the first and capital one later on that they will grow into a large attractions that continues success in san francisco it is that is these kinds of

businesses the yes, ma'am before that time of our commission towards businesses like women's businesses we then continue it effort it is wonderful someone many the private sector like you and me can over a $25 effort or effort to a company and have it interest free that is a fantastic promotion we want over one thesis businesses if san francisco to receive this kind of treatment from the next few years this is a great launch another great effort for the private sector linking u.s. bancorp up with the city of san francisco to support small businesses i can't wait to have my mustache touch that thing (laughter) i have the privilege of working with supervisor christensen because she's a great supporter of small businesses himself o

herself having a small business herself and knowing the champs and giving me constant advice to us house to do better i'm liking the whole voimg from the small business commission to eco have to capital one to our supervisor and to our economic development office that we keep working with investment in neighborhoods and all the grant programs that our city offers to really flower aisle out more the small businesses i've ouch said it is our small businesses that are the backbone of our economic strength in this city as an examples like this supporting derrick's family of a receipt he'll keep secret for years to come we're delighted in

celebrating on this wonderful candy and the history of that is what we find interesting not just what we do but the history of identity it has to the cultural sixth we offer in san francisco so i'm delight to join every one of you to this incredible opportunities but also to know the connective backward with wasn't what we are doing to support more of the efforts coming forgot in outline chrlt centers and also our commercial corridors in the city with that, i want to congratulate everyone and thank them and i'll be interested in what everyone has to say but taste this stuff quickly thank you (clapping.) >> as the mayor mentions beer here in chinatown in the heart of district 3 sported owe

supervisor christensen a tireless advocate for the business community and economic workforce development supervisor christensen. >> thank you (clapping.) i always say to everybody incite this a wonderful neighborhood wear in a beautiful place want to welcome everyone and encourage folks to come to chinatown the jewel of district 3 as the mayor mentioned i ran a 134b important over thirty years and worked with entrepreneurs and inadvertent oversees and people on ideas as important as those ideas they're made or broken by a lot of backhouse things like financial responsibility and funding and so i'm excited for the opportunity that potrero have will bring to the merchant of our district this process that business and scott wiener value of these process answered a few of the questions for a lot of

people the question is what's the new economy doing for me how does that work for the average person or the small business owner and potrero have is spilled one of the answers i have not have found by my son an avid potrero have investigator he's watching the businesses grow with the effects of his contributions it is go fascist for this to our merchant in district 3 where is chinatown going and evolving i've only been to have dr. blanco spirit candy in the past only authentic treat is going to be available to residents and to visits because of derrick's efforts and eco value of these help is great for chinatown and after all us

i'm grateful to eco value of these help and i'm delighted with derrick's success and everybody come down and joy some and i want to invite up capital one of the financial partner on this issue. >> (clapping.) good afternoon and thank you very much m and supervisor it is a fantastic day to be here in san francisco wonderful to meet derrick and he's family capital one as an expensive collaboration with potrero have we're thrilled to be bringing potrero have to arrive we provided a total of 8 hundred and restraining order thousand dollars over 3 years to pep help to enable hopefully, a though new business owners to assess potrero vaz platform and to help

others business owners there are products or services and slacks with organizations and partners like e like potrero have in the city of san francisco and the wonderful programs and services you have in place to support men and women over the years we've been investing over 1 point one million dollars to capital one to men and women like derrick that are launching and expanding small businesses and ouchd over 7 hundred small businesses and looking at to being part of the thousand that be launch and flourish hopefully in san francisco i want to say from my heart derrick to you and your family it is wonderful to hear our story and the power of what you're doing and passing on through generations thank you for letting capital one be part ever it and have a wonderful afternoon (clapping.)

>> so i want to invite derrick to talk about eco have of san francisco is going to benefit his business here in chinatown. >> derrick. >> (clapping.) first of all, i would like to thank all the media and for coming to this press event frankly the first time to give a speech in the public i'm derrick i was born if hong kong and stayed with my family when i was 21 my family used get the traditional candy store in hong kong we're selling a unique candy called dr. blanco candy the best candy and this is my dad so, yeah basically, he spent his life to make this candy for that the rest of world i wish you can

give him a hand (clapping.) >> thank you so much the dr. blanco beer candy was only for the chinese yes, ma'am per and maybe you know of chinese candy it is mask and started in europe and he kept pulling that like a white psychological after he worked with the peanuts and sesame needs is innovate like my kind of america candy or pastry i was was saying this candy is a chinese cultural thing and i decided to open this store after graduation but thankfully it is kind of frustrates for fresh owners to

set up a business in a decity not easy i'm short of cash and also so at the first, beginning year i'm kind of lost by i would see i'm the lucky one i get the help from the small business administration and also potrero have and yeah, the oewd they give me lots of opinion and information how to get a story store and require the permits so i really time to say thank you especially to the folks they preside a platform to buy the sgrints and transportation because my business is invited to some kind of a cultural

festival we need a transportation cargo so when eco have knew any story willing to help me thank you, again last but not least i would like to thank telephone call to all the labor and communities i can't stand here and the dralg can't continue to showing it to you so thank you very much (clapping.) >> thank you, derrick i think derrick you're the reason we're here and the supervision with the thousand loans to small businesses coming out to helping you two lessons derrick said girs first go on potrero have and provide a loan but not leave here without having some of the

dr. blanco beer candy thank you very much i appreciateyou. >> how is everything doing this morning. >> yeah. good morning, good morning happen october 1st welcome to the indemnification awareness month events i'm dr. murase executive director of the one and only status of women department yeah.

>> while we're waiting for the mayor who is in the audience please raise your hand if if your part of the con tomorrow other nonprofits service paradises in the room please raise your hand (clapping.) do we have commissioners department heads are city officials or city staff to support this cause (clapping.) there office of the city administrator other community members to dedicated to uventd solutions for domestic violence (clapping.) all right. thank you everyone for coming out we have a role in england domestic violence we're especially police department to have mayor ed lee his comment to ending indemnification is evidence in the hectic budget and beginning later unanimous lighting of city hall purple

you'll have to come back to see city hall to demonstrate his commenting commitment a number of very important announcements to make many morning please help me welcome the champion to end domestic violence mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> thank you emily and thank you to you and the commission to our city agencies our elected leaders that are here as well to join me in a need to refresh our collaboration and to do more to end domestic violence we're not just talking about reducing it we should really focus our sites on ending it and emily is right. i begin by making sure that the budget that we have and it's a large budget but what i've tried rush very much in the years to make sure that the work with the

board to say have it budget reflect our san francisco values and one of the strongest value together agreement walter without any doubt to end domestic violence and in doing so i want to point out that more people and everybody has a role in this it is not just our eloquent community basis agencies that do an tribal wonderful job a key to our success noting not only the commission on the status of women not just me or elected officials we should find more partners and increase and build a movement constantly to find more partners to evidently ends domestic violence we're finding out more and more it takes our entire voyage of san francisco

duo to do a better job i'm very proud of our budget an additional million dollars i know when we announced that not only were their smiles but conform that the voices and the ideas you have the penetration that goes into ignorance about this or excuses or misinformation we need to go deeper and wider with our message this additional noirldz is consistent westbound a direction we've had 90 in our entire budget in the years we've increased grants in our domestic violence programs by over a hundred and 10 percent and we will side more if there are better ideas to come up with those ideas penetrate that ignorance that we know is out there make sure we're always doing ♪

many currently and competent way go to our youth and hit the next generation they're with us and always say not only domestic violence it is skulks and human trafficking alls areas we care about we work together to make sure we do even more we also and know there are victims here we need to work but even better you can help us identify the things that led up to the horrible incidents you've faced but also about recovery how do we recover completely not no one gets left behind how to help their fathers and mothers the family nebraska's members don't even better so symbolically this city will be lit up and wear purple and show purple and have that meg out but as you may know those things are symbolic we need to have that

message taken t taxi is deeper and wider today, i'm very proud to make sure that you know your city is not only supporting we want to be a great part of it that's why a couple of announcements today on very important programs we're launching today the very first consistent with what i said we need to have a lot more communication so we're providing very strong adds and we're going to infiltrate spaces an muni buses to maybe anymore areas of the city that will want it place adds out to launch and education campaign that we fled to end domestic violence and we need to help people understand what to do so this launch on the muni spaces begins now we b have been working with muni we're going to smartly not just kind

of saying let's put up adds but took data from the family violations couldn't and look at the 9-1-1 calls come from in the city and concentrate our areas this is where things are or things are happening this is smart using dale data an incredible council of people report to us where things are happening and focusing our energy and he'll on the other hand, you'll see some are wearing i've getting got 3s in different languages and complained in areas of the city we know things are happening chinese and spanish and english, of course, and more languages to make sure he got to make sure the message is out so not just the symbolicness of purple as

explaining what we do we are also part of the message here is that we created a website the website is called learn what to do .org learn what the do again educating everybody about how to help folks in need and help folks recover and recognize and understand the red flags the commission has been great in identify that people on staff have identified there is also part of that launch and learn experience we now have a website you to go to a cultivating competent websites in difference of different languages to understand how to help i'm also proud in announcing implementation that connects our city employees directly to the officer efforts in the community we've worked dwlos with nike and

all the departments within our audience as i said earlier volunteers that xhimentd committed yourselves to be part of the movement within the city family of volunteers to create a liaison people who are going to do help others understand and make sure that things are record this is an incredible effort by the city i know that our director of human resources mickey is hear and speaking in detail i'm proud of city employees i've worked alongside of you for 27 years and stwreel proud whether you work with the police department, in over commission on the status of women with our staffer on the board and staffer in the mayor's office whether you're working in addition like the city planning department or commission i want

everybody to talk about it and understand it even more this is a great movement this is something that we've been proud of i know in recent years we slntd you know months of no homicides and, of course, we are met up with unfortunate circumstances and this reminds us how much more work we have to do more than just standing beside you we need to bring more people in and have city hall with no room for standing of people that want to commit themselves for more we begin with the thirty thousand people government that we have i'm proud to represent but i also want to say thank you to the numerous community-based agencies i repeat it you're the key to our success and able to

talk to people their culturally challenging different languages and the things that happen in their families and connect in a right way the police department and the department of public health and the social department and responder to be we have to do better and more and more in government given a stronger foundation we have it we're trying to prevent this from happening we know if we let go of things things will happen and get more and more about preservation we need more propose properly educated and trained in other words, to do that i'm proud to make sure your city is lit up and people to wear those the purple and to make sure that people are aware what i'm mostly proud of the day

to day work the confuses the break there is no when our dealing with violence you know when i speak of a victim but people that know people that are involved in violence domestic violence you know it is sometimes extremely difficult to talk to people a brown that tension started happening and gets away this is a challenge a lot of people it is kind of easy after the violence has happened to then touch someone it is harder it is harder to get to those red plastic bags flags and say this is going in a bad way stop slow down and start talking and resolving that before it gets out of hand this is what you're city is privileged to do with a strong budget and have that budget reflected in our san francisco values thank you for being here today and not only

celebrating awareness but making sure that works more for everyone and thank you for understanding the more roles that everybody has to play in order to get to zero homicides but also stop the violence thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you so much mr. mayor this year we're focusing on the people who are working in the trenches we have our services providers and liaisons over here (clapping.) and we're so fortunate to have our assessor-recorder carmen chu (clapping.) and supervisor scott wiener has joined us today (clapping.) and next up the president open

the commission of status of women airbnb debris served over 15 years under there 3 marries a mayors a fierce leader please join me in welcoming our leader. >> (clapping.) thank you well, good morning san francisco look at us my goes on every year we gather to acknowledge and get moving on domestic violence awareness month this crowd gets larger and it just makes any heard heart 80 so glad as emily mentions i've been on the commission of status of women for women for some time a privilege and honor when they says i'm the most senior member people are calculating my age

i'm proud to stand with the folks behind me and most specifically with our mayor every time i hear the mayor speak to those issues i know from more than just strong policy stance and problematic efforts it comes from his heart i, tell i appreciate that so very much let's thank our mayor for the leadership he's providing on a daily basis to make sure all our families are savvy want to quickly acknowledge other folks with us certainly we have our friends from the district attorney's office that worked very hard give them a hand absolutely (clapping.) and our collaborative efforts sunny shorts a champion against

family violence in the brainchild of so many great things including working with the sfiekz and the rfp program so we're god gladys she's been with us for some time and dedicated leader on this issues that is the first domestic violence campaign at aimed at by a stands in the city that is very key and very important i think that maybe the first bystander campaign in this country so you you'll are here not only to gather together to get things started for san francisco but you, your leading the way for 24 nation so as the mayor mentions that we're addressing all relationships all family relationships and espousedal

relationships including the lgbt relationships the ads are in english and spanish and chinese and has mentioned we use and working hard to make sure that is driven it is database so we don't just go out and plaster the city with information and that may not necessarily target those audience or those members of our community that need it the most the family violence council has been just exceptionally so wonderful and so very helpful and so strong and they focus on this particular campaign so we thank them also be running adds an facebook so talk about a really powerful

partnership with our tech leaders here that are based in san francisco they're going to be a very critical part of this particular add campaign along with okay. you cupping that i had gets the grinders (laughter) and people media so we thank them and any of their representatives many, many thanks and appreciation everyone has a role no stopping domestic violence we know a value of this city is domestic violence is a community issue is as community matter that's when we come together as san francisco family to make sure that those persons that are witnessed to that are seeing as the mayor described feel safe

and supported in their effort to possible save someone's life to possible save someone's life so we want to make sure that we create and atmosphere and environment and ethic in this city about safety for everyone that is appreciated and imagineable that someone can provide to be an aide and assistant i've very proud to represent the historic commission on the status of women and this particular effort and going to count on every single one of you to spread the word to make sure we end domestic violence so thank you all for being here this evening (clapping.) >> and one other thing that people can also go and visit

learn what to do.org got that is a that with me. >> learn what to do.org. >> (repeated.) >> spread the word. >> if i could ask the domestic violence liaisons to come over your next speaker someone making the first appearance so liaison come over here we'll recognize you. >> go liaison. >> (laughter). (clapping.) while with we're going it a few for shout outs representatives from the police department let's give them a beg hand (clapping.) and folks from the mayor's office km (clapping.) the juvenile probation

department thank you for joining up i us (clapping.) barbara gazacy from the health department and joys and beverly from the office of labor standards i saw nancy from the da's office someone making her first appearance in this annual human resources mick write callahan responsible for the recruiting and remaining over thirty thousand employees of the number one employer city government a new program that the mayor annuity please help me welcome human resources director mickey callahan (clapping.) thank you very much it is a privilege to be here and privilege to speak about an

exciting new program that dr. murase and mayor ed lee mentions our domestic violence liaison program we're struggling about how to reach out to at the employees with though thousand employees there will be 13 hundred city employees that are survivors of domestic violence domestic violence is also a human resources issue with 65 percent of humans reports that effects their ability to work and the cdcs the domestic violence is $1.8 billion nationwide we care about our employers we wanted to provide them resources in the same way as a wellness program we're

happy to work with wonderful staff in the department want status of women i want to call up kendall and some of the (clapping.) human resources our chief policy person (clapping.) and so the program is launching this month we have posters on the workplace and 50 people as you see men and women all backwards we want everyone to feel they can call someone they trust i want to close with at quote from one the application we received from a volunteer which i found compelling actually 3 but you'll only cry but let me read this one i've been a victim myself and believable it is extremely important for someone experience domestic violence it have support and wanted to their my journey to emphasize it can

happen to anyone and survivalable that's the wonderful kind of volunteers we have thank you very much dolores park >> thank you very much nike and a couple of folks we have the 3 family violence you'll hear if later (clapping.) so next is we have a very special treat christian from a sfusd while at burton high school startled an innovative group that helps athletics to raise awareness and your understanding a grant from the children of families please help me welcome christian organ

(clapping.) >> hello and thank you one thing i'm christian i'm the co-founder of this my sophomore in high school there was so much t of assault from athletics and work with my quiche to the side he cape about how to be part of the solution he kauptd with that a rape preservation to know that athletics are telling the exultant that is going on and needs to stop at that time the other athletics in the high school football team we trained them how to write grants and went back to the department and started that is consistent of a curriculum and

taking talking about the infrastructure of rape and what is didn't understand as we talked about the deposition rape and soushl souls that he rape and gang we give them the specifics and the real life situations we got into the puma prevent they wanted to take this message out and showed what we leaders how to come up to reach a mass of people we calm can you came up with the annual preservation of rape we got approval from the staff from burton high school i went to the principal and explained it and rape awareness from there, i took news to the academy and they were ecstatic from there we created poster in every language to plaster the walls of burton

high school so anyone that walked the hauls we are supportive of the victims after that we keep k kept going forward and now at santa fe state weave had our first rape awareness last year (clapping.) the pumping school to move forward having chapters united nations nationwide to educate young men so they have a knowledge and opening the table for discussion which they grew up they can be better functioning adult and have a role in the conversation so sooner we can put an end to this heinous crime thank you (clapping.) >> thank you so much christian and telling missouri ma we appreciate that now turn to a

nonprofit service committee as you can see the society director the asian shelter in so 88, 27 years ago i went to this year shelter which will go on to become only the third shelter in the country to help asian families please help me welcome (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone start to wiggle our tows so how calibration keeps going i'm very happy to be here i'm over and over kid with the asian shelter some of my coworkers are here on october fierce the start of the domestic violence month we know that domestic violence awareness

month not the most we're aware of domestic violence we know department of transportation awareness month is the month we push awareness heard than at&t any other awareness we growing and working to address it in all the diverse ways so when i look across the room and till when i drive around san francisco on any day this might be a mark but when i drive around the city i think about all the different was and the different people who are work on case of domestic violence every day i think about crisis workers and the shelter advocates and police officers and introoerm decreases and lgbtq advocates and burn staff and probation officers and leaders and journalists that be

definitely putting a story out that public benefits worker in every sector but youth workers and teachers and childcare workers and attorneys in immigration law. >> criminal law and judges and family members and friends and loved ones and it is a lot of people who are really toughing domestic violence every day with the roll i'm not talking about the people that are just in life i think about our city as people mentions a hard year in the domestic violence field so i think about children who have stopped their fabricate from killing higher mother and crisis to protect themselves from acts and about transgender women that have lost their life

since we meet october 2014 i'm thinking about the access support for the people in the room and been the people that have not the people who lives have mattered more in the public eye or the mainstream movement and people lives that have not and people that come into contact and witnessing domestic violence and nerve and feeling there might be more dread of domestic violence and currently using a pattern the graduation and cell and denies october 1st what will i say what are we trying to make more aware and what conversations are the conversations we want to push ourselves this month than many other moments the sooner moment to have those conversations not

the moments after a tremendous loss has happened we want to talk about more than that denies though sometimes starting the conversation is more than just recognizing domestic violence happens in 11th relationship not just straight relationship we the 80 want to go further, however, from the conversation starts there let's start where we or it is more than that making survivors and community members aware obviously the conversation should start there or not we want people to know what we provide in the city we're not here to tell you what you do or judge you over the experience the violence we're not here to say you must do abc d or whatever that's not what we

were going we want to people to know i'm with the asian shelter or people to know we've trained anti advocate domestic violence protects to talk about what is happening to you not a special right we're not going to think about it which someone calls what language is that we want people to know transpeople you can come o to a ows some save places in the area and other lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders we have programs that are not just thinking that we can fit you into what exists but programs trying to center you this is real and barriers our addressing and lower-income but you're addressing barriers you're facing that deserve

special attendance and special programming safety funding not other funding that gets cut i think also the things we're trying to build is also more than saying there are all those bystanders with a role to play we know that every survivor didn't get programming he know that we do know that every survivor goes to someone that he trust at some point you go to the friend the trusted community member maybe not member who that will support you but go to small business that is our role to see those people as the kind of personnel whether they have a badge or degree maybe in mechanic engineering they're also people that need support and training they need help with awareness and understanding that not just

domestic violence happens but their victims or perpetrators but domestic violence is a nuance we want them to know we want to build their awareness if someone fights back or swears or there is no something that didn't mean that person a an abuser if you're a mythical unicorn of a human being we want our people to be seen as people and respond with xhashgs compassion and non-in the right direction judgment and support and in the papers all the time having the responses i've never seen him angry or upset which he's at my housed we start from different places some people start with that and hear

department of transportation no, no we're totally respect if he will if he that's not how domestic violence works what happens at home didn't happen everywhere that's the whole point we want to build are you think the awareness of everyone ourselves as workers and community members and family friend and sooner rather than later and action dominates from awareness so action in we've come a long way month is a big deal. >> (clapping) and next it alicia the volunteer corridor for women inc. it stands for women organized to make abuse non-exist she'll let know about assistance to family and friends exercising abuse

please help me welcome. >> the clerk will take the roll >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> aim alicia the economic & workforce development corridor at women inc. we've worked to empowers the survivors to create lives free of violence within the lastful few years we offer services to those if he should by woman we receive call many from survivors themselves and receive calls from community partners and friends and families seeking support how to help loved ones we notice the gap in san francisco of family members of survivors we've created a support group with the family members impacted by family members the support group begins in october we encourage you to call

for information we recognize denies can effect multiple people at levels we recognize that ding is a communities issue with a role to play the healing is important we hope by offering the forgives tools to take back to our communities to help the communities healing where our a friend or family member embarked by defendant's no. 1 denies you're not alone and support it a big deal thank you (clapping.) thank you, alicia before we introduce your last speaker talking about how everyone has a big role to play shout out to her and her team they've created an app for domestic violence i siefrlz looking for sincerity so, please checkout that auto save night an

app on your phone next last but not least i want to thank beverly upton the director of the domestic violence consortium (clapping.) she's a true force of nature nothing gets in between beverly and woman experiencing domestic violence countless lives have an saved by her we're pleased to stand together with her please help me welcome our hero beverly upton (clapping.) thank you so much thank you all i'm also so overwhelmed when i see our work is seen thank you all so san francisco is on a long road and the road leads towards progress and safety and justice it is long

i been at the consortium tech 10 years and you've been there 15 years we're on a path heated in the right direction we have a lot to do and we're going to do it we're going to do it together when we look at the progress we've made over the last few years i wish mayor ed lee was here thank you for increasing the small budget but it gets bigger every year for people shelter and seeking hedge fund different languages to survivors everyday those dollars make a huge difference that's a huge investment in our community our beloves communities the mayor's office wait (laughter) the san francisco police department wow. i mean, look how

far we've come bilingual apps on the phones and language lines figuring out how to speak to the survivors everyday trying to do berries the commission everyday under suzy loftus trying to do betters everyday is it perfect no do we agree on everything no, but we are on the path we are on the path (clapping.) c hr wow. progress huge police radios making something that was a dream happening looked at our colleagues our advocates our friends in their purple lace how autism is that how autism is that we need to mix everybody and make sure that all the advocates know the liaisons and

probation sunny and chief karen and andrea wow. a great partnership to make sure our intervention program is efficient active and getting better they're too on the path to saving lives we have to help them get better we are we are (clapping.) and then we talk about the beloved community we have to talk about the department of the status of women born to do this work this was why the department and the commission was founded it grows every year and captains but this is added heart we love them we love their leadership the staff that does so much and the staff and emily who always such a thoughtful leader on those issues (clapping.) and then our beloved community

our beloved communities while we're at fundraiser and doing the things their answering the phones and getting people that are so afraid in so many languages to say you save wow. that's huge you guys are are saving lives every single day i think about the department of the status of women the staffing and pulling together the council katie and shawn y in a and child's abuse fits together to continue on this path it such an honor i'm so grateful and have to say that we still have no more work to do the two lastly homicides i see you there you know my heart is with you the last two domestic violence homes we had and perhaps more but the 20 last who were gun violence

someone that shouldn't have had a gun raised it in anger and killed someone at the end of a domestic violence episode we have to address gun violence the d b community (clapping.) - >> and i'm part ever it i think we've been shy over the years because we have so much to do just doing what we are doing we're kind of afraid to try to expand but look here is our opportunities we can join with our brothers and sisters trying to keep guns out of the hands of violent people those are our brothers and sisters we're not alone all of us are moving on the path we need more i need to take a second before he hope to end on a high note i want to honor the folks that lost their

lives to domestic violence and have to say it not as over and over kid said not always in the paper it is the suicides on the bmg or the golden gate bridge or the child that was over and over infanticide over and over the person that left san francisco or ended up in the bay they started here they are all ours can we have a moment of silence to think about them thank you (silence). >> so with that, let's try to move into denies awareness month make sure that we all keep working together we all take care of each other that work is hard work let's move that path is wide and room for all of us thank you very much

(clapping.) >> thank you so much beverly we want to ask my staff to come forward i want to thank all the department staff please come forward (calling names.) (clapping.) >> so given the amount of work our department do don't people think i have a department of the hundred people he want i to see our staff we're also helped by policy fellows (calling names) who are here by really want to thank ken that has worked on this from start to finish please give her a big hand dolores park and so finally we want to thank the deputy director of staff paul monte sereno son and thank you all for joining us and be sure to take pictures of city

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>> good afternoon, i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday september 22, 2015. roll call, please. >> commissioner caen. >> here. >> vice-president vaoet tore, chasing ner courtney, commissioner kwon, mission xher moran, and we have a quorum. er >> before you head the minutes of september 9, 2015, any addition or