may serve three times that number so wall it 15,000 people coming through our doors. >> they come and go? >> right. if you look at a 12-month span the average number of months on cap is seven or seven and a half months. that's the average. of course you have at either end of that you have people who have been consistently on. we even tried to insentavise spokes away from workfare with a higher grant. we have grant differration. you can do something else and get a higher grant and we had people chose work fare. >> there are a lot of people who say i want something more. i'm able to work 30 hours a week and i want to do that.

i share your concern and i kind of see the angle you are going at and look, they're doing six hours a work and they're not getting anything out of it so job training is not preparing them for the next step. but for some, that's all we can do and they appreciate the structure and they get their cash assistance and benefits in exchange. >> do you think these individuals that do this workfare and it seems to work for them because it's enough for them to live on in their living conditions with some other assistance? don't you think a part-time job, a steady part-time job would have better outcomes for these folks? >> absolutely. why is why we offer that to them. you have the option. you can go into jobs now and go to a part-time job. you can go to job training and you can volunteer at a non-profit. giving the client a choice in

every step. reaffirming that choice when they come in for benefits. nevertheless, you still have a couple hundred choosing workfare. >> and a question, are you proposing increase or decrease in the number of g.e. positions? >> we are flat. >> ok. are you proposing an increase or decrease in the number of civil service positions? >> flat as well. are there positions that would be transitioning from permanent to temporary or being contracted out? >> not contracted out. we have a whole series of substitutions. it's really too early in the process to know how we're adjusting that. we often have from year to year you have different departmental needs and you may need to substitute positions so we do that constantly and it's part of the budget submission in june. >> thank you, very much. i appreciate it. now i think we will hear from

sherine. from the department of aging adult services. >> good afternoon supervisors, sherine, director of the department of ageing and adult services. i'm just going to go over some caseloads first. so, just want to start with in-home supportive services which sour biggest program at d.o.s. ih. we serve about 25,000 clients or we served about 25,000 clients last year alone unduplicated and we had about 22,400 independent providers serving that clientel. on average, clients get 98 hours a month, which on the private market if they had to pay for that it would be almost $3,000 a month. it's a really great benefit for those people who need it. i wanted to talk about

integrated intake in referral. in 2016, with the support of mayor lee, we were able to open up our dos benefits and resource hub at the corner of goff and otus and we wanted to help streamline the intake process for people who need our services and make it easier for them to find us. we constantly are up against people not knowing where to find senior services or services with people with disabilities and we wanted it to be our hub for those services. what we have are people can access home delivered meals, they can come in and sign up for those and they can call in and do it online. they can also make reports of abuse to adult protective services and they can get support of services and also we co located our county veteran service office there. so, last year we had about close to 15,000 intakes for those

programs. we received close to 28,000 calls. we were able to work with about 2800 veterans and file 5700 claims for veterans, which result inside about $4 million in retroactive benefits for those veterans. in office on the aging, we have now served over 34,000 people in the last fiscal year and that is an increase of more than 10,000 individuals annually since five years ago so we've really increased in those services and those services are things that really help people engage in communities such as senior centers, meals and those things. i know, you are all very familiar with those. just wanted to highlight some of the things we're doing in our various programs. thank you to mayor lee, he put that into the budget last year

and so we were able to get it up and running last year and it has a clinical focus for clients who can't provide for their own basic needs due to substance abuse. the unit was launched in may of 2017 and we've since served 285 clients in that program. in that unit. about 50% of the clients were referred because they were at high-risk of loosing their housing. and to date, almost 80% of the clients whose cases have been closed were found to be safe, stable or thriving at time of closure as a result of their a.p.s. intervention. we're really excited about the results of that unit. you've heard a lot about conservatorship today and if you asked questions. we continue to work in partnership with the department of public-health, community behavioral health services within d.p.h. and the homeless

department to assist people who are experiencing acute mental illness or grave disability because of that. we're continuing to expand the community independence participation program that provides for community-based conservative o.p.p. ship and we work actively to keep people who need conservatorship at the settings. you asked about placement. half the people in our program end up being out of county but we're really working on this community based program that helps people stay here if they agree to conservatorship and you know, we're really able to serve them better in support of housing or places like that within the city. so far we've assisted over 50 people in that program. the number may be lower but the threshold is very high for someone who can towell actuallyn that so we're excited about that number. we're participating, the inner

agency high priority case review meetings and we're very excited to be involved in those meeting. it's clear you are asking questions about someone who has been 5150 multiple times. the key is getting the resources in place at the right time. right when that person needs resources we need to have the placement and we have been given the jurisdiction, the authority to serve and all of that has to happen and it's really great we're doing this inner agency collaboration and looking at each individual needs. also just the change in representation from the district attorney to the city attorney that supervisor sheehy, you referenced that president reid was in the legislation related to that. we're working closely with both teams to make sure that the

transition happens as smoothly as possible. and then in home support of services, home bridge is our provider that does what we call contract mode so they work with people who really can't manage their own worker. they provide the workers, they train the workers, et cetera. so it's kind of our highly vulnerable i.h.h.s. population they're working with. one of the issues they've been facing is just this very, very high turnover. of course the economy has been good and people can find jobs elsewhere and working with this population is tough. it takes great workers and dedication and commitment and passion and so, we wanted to work with them. they were having a 60% or 70% turnover in their home care staff and so, we helped them to implement a tiered wage and

essentially, we're study the tiered wage and see if it helps that workers are getting paid more. they start off-the-record with a $2 increase and then some of them will be able, with extra training, will get access higher amount so up to $3 over the minimum page. and then moving on to our community based services, i know everybody knows about the dignity fund and we just finished the dignity community needs assessment part of the dignity fund legislation. we will be reporting part of the legislation says that there needs to be a joint hearing of the aging and adult services commission and the oversight and advisory council of the dignity fund so we'll hold that on apri6 here in city hall. and there are some highlights from the report that i just wanted to point out to you. and one is that toss is serving

1-4 of the community based programs. this doesn't include inhome support of services, it's really that 34,000 people we mentioned and the equity analysis is factors are accessing services at higher rates. in particular, we're really pleased to see that toss is serving half of the low income seniors and this ind indicates we're doing effective strategic targeting of populations that we know really need our services. and then we've identified research and analysis such as breaking out the communities in color to see how we're really doing within and across those groups. and also, the lgbt population. we just started really

collecting the sexual identity and sexual orientation identity. we don't have good data how we're serving that population. we expect to have better data around that next year. when the aging and adult services commission has approved the community needs assessment, i'll be bringing it to a committee of the boards and it will go to the full board for their approval, before june. and then lastly, i just wanted to mention the support at home care pilot and that was really interesting that was championed by erik mar, former supervisor, before supervisor fewer. what we're doing is focusing on a middle-income population that can't afford home care outright but may be able to pay for a little bit of that home care. these people don't qualify for in home support of services or

community living fund but we want to see if they can really benefit and stay at home more easily if they had up to 18 hours of home care per week. and so, we're really still recruiting people. we want to find more people with disabilities who are under 60 to participate in this study, it's really a study. we're working with the institute on aging who is administering the program for us and they've engage ucsf to do a thorough evaluation and looking at utilization, looking at quality of life indicators, et cetera. so we're going to be very excited to find out the results of that are and see if it's making a difference for people. when we talk about making a difference, is it keeping them out of the hospital. is it keeping them at home, et cetera. and then lastly, we're enhancing outcomes. focusing on performance objectives in our community

contracts. and just trying to do this while not over taxing our community providers. of course we always want to ask for more information but we hear from them that we are trying to do things without a lot of margin so we want to make sure we're not asking too much, at the same time we want to move to a much stronger focus on community impact on client impact, et cetera. i want to give one example. we're piloting evidence-based measures to track loneliness and nutrition risk and implementing follow-up procedures to ensure clients have access to appropriate further resources. i think that's the end of my report. unless there are questions i'm going to turn it over to september gerard. >> any questions? >> yes, i had a couple. one does your eviction prevention unit work with the sheriff? i did have a conversation with her where she mentioned that for

seniors because she has to do it and she comes across folks that are not aware of what is happening to them. >> we do work closely with the sheriff and we can make sure the deputy sheriffs understand how a.p.s. works and we work closely with that. >> my understand question was the dignity fund. so long time survivors of h.i.v., the interface isn't working well? >> we're very interested in working with long-time survivors of h.i.v. the request that came to us didn't quite fit the dignity health funds. i'm continuing to work with the h.i.v. and aging task force and find ways that we can help we as

a coming up next through dignity fund or other ways help support them and it didn't quite meet the criteria what we're doing and also i think there was another issue with the panel and volumes we're asking and we're interested in working with them. >> it's a challenge for that community to manage this system and i know that there's a lot of confusion on where people should be going for this support and they don't fit in the dignity fund so many of their request have health components but from the patient or client standpoint, they're not really separable. you have people living with h.i.v. 20, 30, 40, well not 40, well actually, some are 40. so you have people who are aging

with h.i.v., you know, 60% of the people with h.i.v. are over 50 and that will be 70% soon and we're not finding a place for that community within the city funding structures and they don't seem to fit here and don't seem to fit there. given what people have survived, and given the support, the enormous amount of support that that community drummed up for passing the dignity fund, it's a challenge trying to figure out what advise i can give to that community to try to participate and have some sort of relationship -- you know, just to have something happening for them as they age. >> i mean, what i would suggest supervisor, is that if maybe through the h.i.v. and aging task force, if they set up a meeting with me and we can just literally talk about what the challenges are, maybe we can help them -- i could help them

figure out what the right path is. and i think so that didn't happen. so we had some asks that came in and they didn't seem quite related to dos but if they were able to just have a conversation about how they might go about it, maybe that would be the best way to do it. i'm happy to have a conversation with them about that. >> it's hard if it ends up being something i have to deal with in the add-back process. you know, it's -- >> i can talk to them. >> this community has been through a lot. and the trauma that they've experienced and the loss that they've experienced. the effects of aging and h.i.v. presents unique burdens to this community and the ability to self-organize and really direct is a challenge. at the same time, to maintain some sense of community when so much of, you know, so many people have lost so many people.

the social isolation is a huge issue. and so it just feels like rather than help it's like you guys pull it together and figure it out. they've been pulling it together and figuring it out for 30 years. >> they have, but i think we have to work within the constraints of our funding and so i think if they came and talked to me about it we can figure something out. i really do. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i just have. you said the report is going to be coming out on april 4th or the results? >> yeah. the report is public and i believe that we have already sent it to each of you through your aids. if you haven't received it i'll make sure it went down. i thought it had. it's public. >> just very quickly in a couple sentences, what do you see as some of the gaps or trends that we will have to address in our

budget cycle probably in the years to come? i know that there have been estimates that the senior population is one of the largest growing populations in san francisco. i know in my district it is. and the need is going to be great and that we're seeing, we just had a report on home care. we've had a report on skilled nursing beds, we've had a report on a lot of these homes that take care of seniors and they're closing because of a high cost of san francisco and so can you give us a snapshot of where do you think this is trending and what some of the gaps are. [ please stand by stand by for captioner switch ]

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lot of the jobs are going to be, and that's where the need is going to be. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. and now, i believe we have last but not least, the fabulou is

the office of early care and education. >> good afternoon, supervisors. again, i'm september jarrett. our city is home to about 48,000 children under the age of five, and we believe thatbyy getting our youngest residents off to the strongest start, we can avoid some of the challenges that they face later. with that start, they'll be productive citizens. with that, i would say just a few things. a key point of the critical piece of early years is access to high quality care and early childhood education.

in frisk frissan francisco, vil of our children are growing up in households where parents are working, and half of our household struggle providing hey quali high quality learning that they prefer. san francisco's stepped up to meet the challenges. our work next year, like we and my colleagues shared, we're lucky enough to really steward and san francisco's a leader nationally in drawing down state and federal funds to close the early learning gap for families, and we are also a leader in investing local dollars because in a national context, the state's as far behind other successful industrialized countries that really invest in families when they're young, in that critical standardup period where lifetime earnings of parents are low because they're early in their career, typically, and the cost of really giving the

kids that education and support that they need is high. so many other countries, the u.s. has yet to catch up, really invest publicly in that critical window, and in san francisco we're proud to make a difference and demonstrate some good practices. some of our priority, laies, l year, we created an enhanced san francisco tradition of closing the gap for children and families and launched a new program called early learning scholarship, continuing to leverage state and federal dollars, and trying to meet families' needs with a sliding scale, early care and education program that draws down and meets our lowest income family needs but works up the income ladder to more working families that might not be eligible for state and federal assistance but can't yet afford the high cost of quality in san francisco.

with this reshaping, we're now reaching 7500 young children and their families under the age of five, and we're serving about 680 more kids than we served year to year with the same dollars and we're drawing down -- we're closing the gap and drawing down more state and federal dollars, about 18% more than we were with this new approach. looking ahead to next year, early care and education, we do want to try and offer the many small businesses and nonprofit child care centers that do the hard work of educating and caring for our children a cost of doing business increase to meet their increases expenses. we're also really working hard to try and get better information out to families and programs. we don't right now -- finding early care and education is one of the most difficult choices a parent or a caregiver can make,

and finding quality timely relevant information about your program options, what your share of cost is, and whether or not the city's financial assistance can help you and your household is so really hard to navigate. so we're actually through the mayor's start-up and residence process, we accelerated building a new digital portal, one-stop shop in three threshold languages so parents, on their schedules, nights and weekends, not just days when we're working, can really be empowered to know their range of options and the financial assistance we offer? i hope to be sharing with you -- we'll actually have beta testing of parent programs and professionals and we'll be happy to share that with you and engage your districts and networ networks in testing that new information portal. like director mcspadden shared, we have a workforce challenge in san francisco. education and early childhood care is among some of the most

physically demanding work and among some of the lowest paid in the city, and we have a lot more to do in recruit, retention and compensation work? we're looking to expand the number of spaces in early education programs to prove sprisk's a leader in planning policy that really support and promote the employment of family home child care centers, and lastly we have an opportunity because the city's children are everybody's responsibility to further some public and private partnerships to close the gap for families, and with that, i'll take any questions. >> supervisor fewer: so thank you, miss jarrett. actually, i just have one of the same questions that i asked for sherreen, which is what are we seeing about urgent needs and gaps? >> well, there -- we -- we're

fortunate enough to have a san francisco citywide plan for early childhood education, which was endorsed by the nature yo and board of supervisors in 2016, and we setup four prior areas and northstars that we're moving our system towards. first, we share the vision that every san francisco child will have access to an affordable high quality learning setting. within that, we have several thousand low income subsidy eligible families who've asked for child care financial assistance for whom were not receiving financial assistance from the state or federal government, so one unmet need is really clearing the list essentially of families that have the need and are working. the second is because of the social policy framework, we're having this middle income or missing middle where there's working parents working hard that quite -- can't quite

afford the full cost of quality, so there's a missing middle that we have an aspiration in this early learning scholarship approach if this were available where parents are paying a portion of cost but getting if financial assistance. there's kind of a hard cliff right now. you hit that wall, you meet that dollar an hour base, and you could lose your child care assistance. i would be remiss to say our third priority is really our workforce. folks work hard -- there's nothing harder, i think, than managing a classroom of young children, at least for me. excuse me. but we have some recruitment and compensation challenges. one example, the cost of living in san francisco is high, as we all know, for -- for all of our san franciscans and families in

particular. our workforce right now in a community based setting or a family child care home may be ashi as earning on average, even with a b.a. or b.a. work, less than 40,000 a year. that's far below an average two bedroom rent right now plus important. so while it's noble work and important work, the pay is below what the professionals need to thrive. as one of our family child care advisors reminded me, she said i can't pick up my family child care business and commute in from oakland or alameda or somewhere more affordable because child care homes they're home is being licensed and operated to care for other san francisco children. so those are the three pressing gaps. we do have additional challenge, which i think is important to lift up? because of fragmentation in different program and see some challenges in state and federal policy, our early care and

education is hard for busy working parents of diverse cultural backgrounds to navigate. and so a fourth priority is to lift up and make better, more clear information available and also make our programs easier to understand, access and engage with and retain. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. a lot of similarities between daas, also. thanks. so let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on these items. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any questions, comments for our presenters today? seeing none, thank you very much. can i have a motion, please, to file this item? [ inaudible ] >> supervisor fewer: oh, supervisor. are you making the motion? that's great. okay. so we will file this item. thank you very much. and madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> clerk: no, madam chair,

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considering a career with the city and county of san francisco good morning and welcome to the community and assessment services center. today's event focuses on our efforts specific to the firearm compliance and safety initiative. this initiative is a collaborative efficient toen sure the -- effort to ensure the removal of guns from our communities. the adult probation department plays a critical role in the process as outlined in new responsibilities defined in proposition 63. the safety for all act. these new responsibilities coupled with the sheriffs department work in recovering a

firearm from restrained persons is at the very core of the work we do to promote public safety. many thanks to those individuals who have joined us this morning and their continued support to keep our communities safe from gun violence. specifically, mayor mark farrell, supervisor stefani, supervisor sheehy, chief freeno representing sheriff hennessey. chief bill scott from the san francisco police department. beverly upton and the domestic violence consortium. it is truly my distinct privilege to introduce mayor mark farrell, a long time advocate for gun control and safety. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced anti-gun ordinance to 2015 which was subsequently approved by the

board of supervisors. this gun control package was intended to fill gaps that existed in federal, state and local oversight of firearm dealers and ammunition sales. this included requiring the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales within san francisco and required the regular storage and electronic transmission of ammunition sales data to the san francisco police department. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced a safe gun storage and trigger lock law apooreded by -- approved by the board of supervisors in 2016. this mandated that all be kept in a locked container or be disabled by a trigger lock. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell announced his intention to introduce a gun restriction law after the krissy field rally in 2017.

as you recall, an alt-right group, requested a permit to hold a rally. there was a city-wide response to prevent the rally from becoming violent against the anti-immigrant national rhetoric. ultimately, the group withdrew from holding the rally, citing safety concerns for their own members. as you can see, our mayor of san francisco has been a true advocate of gun safety and gun control. please join me in welcoming mayor mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, chief fletcher. i want to thank you for your hard work. i want to thank the police department, chief, thank you for being here, the sheriffs department and supervisor stefani and sheehy, who have been leaders and beverly upton and doctor. it's an honor to be here.

recent events across the country unfortunately have brought gun reform and control questions back to the forefront. we did not learn from columbine and sandy hook and we're faced with another mass shooting in one of our schools in the parkland shooting in florida just a couple of weeks ago. as congress continues to stick its head in the sand on the issue, it is up to state and local governments to counteract and to do everything we can locally to protect the sanctity of life for our residents. i was honored last week to join the walkout with the school along with supervisor sheehy, which is in district 8. with the high school students there. at 10:00 a.m. i know schools across the country and right across the entire san francisco were participating in the walkouts. very proud of our students and local leaders here in san francisco for all of the efforts they did in terms of walking out

and demonstrating their own first amendment rights, but also the voice of the next generation. this is a fight that doesn't end today or tomorrow. this is going to be the next generation of americans that will carry this issue forward and make a difference in the country. so inspiring to be there at the high school last week, watching students in israel walk out of their classrooms, watching students in iceland walking out, in solidarity with the youth of the united states of america. we are not alone in this fight. for once, last week, instead of fighting against d.c. which we do constantly in san francisco, we were fighting with generations of young children across the entire globe. it was incredibly inspirational. unfortunately, the nra continues however to dominate politics in washington d.c. and as chief fletcher kindly mentioned, as a supervisor,

thanks to the leadership and producing of my legislative aid, now supervisor catherine stefani, we worked on a number of gun control laws in san francisco during my time. chief among them, a law that then forced the last gun store in san francisco to leave our city limits and to shut down. as i was trending on twitter with the nra because of all the hatred they were spewing toward us in san francisco, toward me personally as a legislator, we told people in the community in san francisco, we would rather see a preschool or grocery store, as opposed to a gun store. that's what we need more of in san francisco. very proud to have seen that go through. and then to see lieutenant-governor newsom and his efforts with prop 63. huge credit to lieutenant-governor for his efforts and bold leadership on so many issues here a san

francisco and across the state. specifically around gun control. chief among the parts of prop 63 and what we're here today to talk about and announce, is the ability for local law enforcement personnel, for our sheriff's department to confiscate for guns. we want less guns. we will never pander to the nra here in san francisco. guns do not belong on our streets in san francisco. and i am proud to be here today along with chief fletcher because since prop 63 was enaced on january 1 of this year, our adult probation department has done heroic efforts and their case load has skyrocketed through the roof in the ability

to confiscate firearms from homes here in san francisco. firearms we do not want to appear on our streets. we do not want them in the hands of san francisco residents. because of the work they've been doing, and because of what we are seeing into the future, today we're announcing that we're funding in this upcoming budget, close to $1 million of new funding for the probation department alone to make sure they have the staffing they need. 500 will be hired, so they have the staffing they need. because these people are going to be working full-time to get the guns off the streets of san francisco, i cannot think of a better priority for the budget. i want to thank everyone for being here today. i want to thank chief fletcher for her leadership on this issue. this is something that everyone behind me supports. this is something the entire san francisco supports and as mayor of san francisco, this is something i will never forget

and we will always prioritize in our city government. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you, mayor farrell. it is a tremendous amount of dedication and support you have committed to this effort. and we thank you very much and on behalf of the residents of san francisco, i know each of them feels safer with having you committed to such an effort. thank you. it is now my pleasure to introduce supervisor catherine stefani, supervisor is ardent advocate for gun control. supervisor stefani is familiar with district 2 and all of their concerns as she worked as an aide to both micayla, and now mayor farrell for nine years

when they each serveds the district 2 supervisor. in february 2018, supervisor stefani. join me in welcoming supervisor stefani. >> thank you. first i want to thank mayor farrell for committing to the funding to make sure we comply with proposition 63 passed in 2016. a clear mandate from california voters that they wanted to keep weapons out of the hands of felons. and to make sure that after they're convicted, their weapons are actually confiscated. it is not by sent that this -- accident that this proposition passed. as a gun violence activist for two decades, i have seen support for commonsense gun support

continue to grow as we're inundated with devastating stories and gruesome scenes of gun violence every day in this country. more than 90 americans are shot and killed and hundreds more injured every single day in america. our gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of other developed nations making this a uniquely american crisis. i also want to mention in light of the fact that we're celebrating women's history month, the board of supervisors today, that gun violence disproportionately affects women who are 16 times more likely to be shot and killed in america than peer nations. 50 women are shot to death in a month by current or former partner. 4.4 million american women have been threatened with guns and guns are weapon of choice in

domestic violence murders. women are the victims of mass shootings. as a mother and i know i speak for millions of other mothers, we are tired of sending our children to school to participate in lockdown drills, preparing for mass shootings and wondering if you're children's school could be next. there was a school shooting today at a high school in maryland. one is dead. one is in critical condition. a woman. and another has serious injuries. it is time to stop this madness and i praise the students who walked out last week. i went into the crowd and told them, thank you, you are the next generation. you're going to help us solve this. i was so moved last week by their activism. i know they're going to be the force that helps change and turn the tide on this horrible epidemic in our country. proposition 63 will make

california the first state in the nation to require all prohibited criminal offenders to provide proof that they sold or transferred their firearms after their conviction. i want to really thank lieutenant-governor newsom for everything he did to make sure the proposition passed. i would also like to thank chief fletcher for doing everything you can, beginning january 1, to make sure your team and san francisco is following the law and removing illegal guns from dangerous individuals. i also want to thank the efforts of the department of the status of women and our family council led by beverly upton, for their important work. and chief scott with the chair, we cannot do this work without all our partners. i am so proud to join the mayor today and the colleagues up here in supporting additional funding to make sure that san francisco

is removing guns from violent offenders and following the letter of the law. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor stefani. we're pleased to have with us today, supervisor jeff shery. he was appointed by mayor lee in 2017 and serveses as the chair of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. 20 years ago, mr. sheehy helped create and defend san francisco's historic equal benefits ordinance. making san francisco the first city in the country to require employers with city contracts to offer equal benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. supervisor sheehy recently declared support for the march 20, 2018, march for our lives, where commonsense gun reform and commended the students in san francisco and around the nation for leading a movement to demand

commonsense gun laws and school safety measures. please help me welcome supervisor sheehy to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, chief. you know, the movement by the kids has really been inspiring. my 13-year-old daughter at her middle school, public middle school here, her whole class, whole school participated. to see this next generation take the baton and show leadership in fighting against the scourge of guns is something that i am so proud to see. what i also find very interesting is having watched the kids from florida, they're insistent on not being coopted by politicians like myself and insistent on driving the movement themselves for the nation. i'm particularly focussed on

this day, on the issue of domestic violence. i actually -- i think maybe worked in 850 brian. i worked for the district attorney as a victim advocate for victims of domestic violence. i think in almost no other setting is it more important to get weapons out of hands of the people who are committing the crimes. i know from my experience that the vulnerability of women, the intense fight to escape the power and control of the men who are abusing them, is a huge challenge. and the irrationality that surrounds the perpetrators, they're focus on maintaining power and control, even to the point of killing their victims, killing the family of their victims. i think -- it's one of the most dangerous situations i believe

for a police officer to be put into, walking into a domestic violence situation. it disproportionate number of murders happen to victims of domestic violence. and so i really want to salute the effort to get the funding to make sure that no guns remain in the hands of people who commit domestic violence. so again, i want to thank the city for the initiative. thank you, mayor, for your leadership and it's an honor to be here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much for your support supervisor sheehy. it is my pleasure to introduce beverly upton. she serves as the executive director of san francisco's domestic violence consortium. a 7-member panel of domestic violence organizations and their supporters committed to the effective delivery of services and public policy.

ms. upton has actively supported individuals who have lost loved ones to domestic violence. through court hearings, and regularly attending community events to promote domestic violence awareness. ms. upton and the department on the status of women have worked with the sheriff's department and the probation department to identify those crossovers to collaborate to keep the guns off our streets. please join me in welcoming beverly upton. [applause] >> thank you, chief, thank you, mayor farrell, thank you to the doctor for her leadership and everybody who is with us today. i am also proud to be one of the tri-chairs of san francisco's family violence council and it shows that domestic violence threats with weapons are up 50% in san francisco. we have to stop this trend and

this will help us. this weekend alone, the thousand oaks mall shooting started with a domestic violence incident. the parkland shooter was set off by relationship that ended poorly. who knows what got the young man that shot today at his high school in delaware? but as supervisor sheehy reminds us, domestic violence is at the kernel of so many of these dangerous mass shootings and taking entire families out around the country. this weekend in brooklyn, a family was shot and killed. four members of a family. including a one-year-old. there have been 15 calls of domestic violence to this household. the gun was still in the home.

the prerp traitor of the domestic -- perpetrator of the domestic violence took out four of his family members. we have taken every effort in all of our careers to make sure this doesn't happen here in san francisco. we need to take the guns out of the hands. perhaps getting the gun out of the house in brooklyn would have saved lives. it's a first step, we have more work to do. we hope to see other programs this year, but it is a first step. it's a first step toward safety and healing and as chief karen said, safety for all. we're hopeful. i'm hopeful and i hope you're hopeful, too. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, beverly, you are a champion for victim rights

throughout the city and beyond and we appreciate your efforts. as stated over and over today, proposition 63 is a historic and unprecedented step forward for gun safety in california. this really is an effort to bring agencies together to ensure the safety of the residents of this jurisdiction. and we are certainly proud to be part of that. since the implementation of this mandate, the adult probation department has received 63 referrals for investigation. we see all kinds of people come through the department and people referred and it is critically important to work together to identify where individuals have legal weapons and illegal weapons in their possession that are going to result in crimes and death. we support and applaud the support that we have from our board of supervisors and from

our criminal justice agencies. each of them has been a viable partner in making this proposition a reality in terms of how we can implement and save lives. the adult probation department is pleased to partner in this process of removing guns from prohibited persons. we look forward to the collaboration with the sheriff department, police department, board and mayor farrell in making this a reality. we thank you for attending today to support the city's efforts in this initiative. we certainly at the close of this press conference will be open to questions. so again, thank you so much for being here and supporting the effort. and we look forward to the collaboration in the future. thank you. [applause]

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