at s. d.a. and the participants that are greeted and assisted by appear advocate that is a part of the reserve program. it's also important, i believe, to note that there's also value when there's a multi generational work environment as well. there's some to be said about the work ethic and years of work experience and how to problem solve in the real world. so i would really encourage continued funding. younger workers would also be rewarded and benefit if they are open to the mentor ship from older adults and people with disabilities in the workforce. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello i'm betty trainer on the board at senior and disability action and also with

the community living campaign. i'm speaking strongly in favor of the reserve program. i'm looking for work and they're seniors and already spoken today. and there just isn't enough money to hire them in these different positions. i also know from the other side, an organization that wanted to have more people from the reserve program to work in her garden program but there wasn't the money there. and so i think this program that just needs to be tremendously expanded the need is there. i can talk from personal experience. i retired from full-time work about 10 years ago. i unfortunately never had a job where i got a good pension and so i'm basically living off of income of social security. so my savings is dwindling and i was fortunate enough to get what some young people would call gig jobs. i have one where i take minutes for a board meeting and i get paid for that and i get paid for

wonderful work with seniors through the community living campaign. this is helping me to pay for my food, et cetera, so my savings doesn't go down. i'm not just the only person, i'm representing so many seniors that were just living as far as income from our social security and we need these jobs. please, help us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i'm judy. i want to tell you my story. i spent my whole career working in non-profit agencies. mainly as a grant writer. and they did not pay pensions. on the side, i was doing a lot of advocacy for parents and children in the public schools. i decided it was time to retire from my full-time job and start an advocacy program.

so they gave a going away party for me and the next morning my son called and said that his wife was going to die. she had a brain stem tumor. so i immediately went to santa cruz and spent the next couple years in santa cruz in classrooms and at home, i never saw so much cound reand shopping and taking care of the family and i began taking classes. which was the only thing i had energy for really. and i realized that we weren't talking about aging, this is a program for older people. and i was aging and we were all aging. i started looking into it and started a program there and realized i wanted to get the word out in the community about older people and began writing for a neighborhood newspaper.

i've been at your office many times. and i've been at your office too. and an article in your paper this coming month. it was really rewarding. a lot of people learned something about it. my goal is when seniors are isolated at home, they should know what is happening in the community and know where to go for services. and so, eventuall eventually mad we now have a senior beat. >> thank you, very much. the next speaker is coming up, can i call charles minister, benjamin chung, and nikki and kristen peterson. >> thank you board of exercises. my name is winnie yu. we're a non-profit organization

in san francisco. we help immigrants and older adults stay active and be able to live independently in their homes and communities. i like to summarize our workforce services that we provide in addition to the social services which we also provide for continuum of care. self-help has a series of job readiness workshops to help immigrants and older workers be job ready to secure employment directly or enter vocational connectioning to get the skills they need to be competitive in the job market. our employer engagement focuses on helping job seekers develop skills that match the jobs available in the job market. our staff of career advisor helped with job coast case management, follow-up, to support job seekers to get a job and also keep their job after placement. in the last year, annually, we help over 360 older workers through our workforce services and we provide a range of

vocational training tracks for entry-level workers to access inindustry in the city, hotel housekeeping, in the hospitality and personal caregiver home health aid training for the healthcare industry. we have workplace bridge programs that help job seekers gain the english skills needed to access vocational training and also community college systems. some of the challenges are priorities is develop being secure workers especially those who have multiple barriers to employment such as language. outreach to and more entry level job access and job placement after training and help more incumbent workers access advance training to increase their earning potential and move into entry level jobs. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> i'm the director of the community living campaign. and an older adult with 67 years behind me. i want to thank you for holding this hearing this morning. many have spoken to what a great challenge it is for our city right now. more than half of us seniors and people with disabilities lack economic security. social security and s.s.i. are nowhere near enough to help us make ends meet and we're 25% of the population. you've heard how non-profit programs have provided an example of what is possible but the funding is so minimal. participants hit a wall if there aren't pathways to more opportunities. on the other hand, while the challenge is great, the opportunities are even greater. we, seniors and people with disabilities, are this vast reservoir of time, talent, experience, commitment to purpose, and to serve us. so hire us, engage us, keep us

connected so we can help others. just imagine if you were able to mobilize more of us to teach computer skills and online safety to our community. the peer navigators to help people access appropriate health, physical and behavioral health services. to help people learn how to use all the transportation options now available to avoid being isolated. organize neighborhoods so they are prepare prepared for emerged people can look out for one another in a crisis. be dementia coaches to families struggling with a loved one with alzheimer's. men tore high school students to successful leah ply to college. the time is now. we can't wait. we help make the city of wonderful diverse inclusive creative city it is and we want to stay. we look to the board of supervisors to help support this movement for economic security. we look to the mayor's office for strong leadership and clear direction with the city departments to work together with the non-profit and business

sector. just imagine the possibilities. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. charles, senior disability action member and also active with reserve. i got turned down by two jobs this past week. going through the process. i was born in a working-class family and working is part of my d.n.a. i worked in heavy industry and also for the government. since i've been retired, i haven't been laying around drinking beer and watching television. yesterday, and monday i was on the picket lines with the u.c. workers and a lot of my older adults were there also for that important struggle. i was in supervisor's chambers a couple days ago about the same subject. jobs for seniors and people with disabilities.

i go up to sacramento, i was up there friday for defending three anti fascist youth who had been victimized for fighting to defend themselves against fascists a couple years ago, they're being prosecuted. i keep active. i am active with senior and disability action. i go up to sacramento. there's thousands of people like myself who worked all their lives, who are on fixed incomes, not making a hell of a lot of money, we can use the money and we can use that social environment that we've been used to all our lives. hell, i was working when i was 10-years-old. it was part of our lives as kids. pg&e have been laying people off and now they got caught with the fires. people like myself that can be put into jobs there? i bet all these u.c., they've

been going after contractors laying off union men and women and hiring contractors and paying them minimum wage. and they sure got money. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is kristen peterson i'm the chief and services at the arc san francisco. the arc has been around for 65 years and we serve adults with developmental disabilities. when you hear the numbers you've been hearing this afternoon, about individuals with disabilities and their unand under employment, the individuals that we support nationally are employed at about 11%. that is their employment rate. which is shocking. at the arc, our employment rate is about 45%, which when we do an event we get a big round of applause for. if you take a step back from

that, that is horrifying in a city where unemployment is under 3% currently. we have wonderful partnerships with oewd, department of rehabilitation, the regional center, as well as many of the companies here in san francisco. but one of our most significant gaps is not the demand, as far as our clients wanting to work and wanting to work full time, or the demand of employers wanting to hire. it's our ability to be able to staff our programs. we are fighting against increasing costs of running our business. the minimum wage rising significantly as within our organization for six years. the difference between our wages that we're able to pay and the minimum wage keeps getting smaller and smaller for specialized work. i would like to encourage the city, it look at how your funding programs like hours and

when r.s.p.s go out, to make sure they're not just focused on new people and programming but sustaining the programming core to individuals with developmental disabilities. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. christine. i'm an attorney here in san francisco and the first thing i did when i went to usf law school was i 'em employed the americans with disabilities act on my own behalf. fell under its protection and was able to graduate from usf law school. and then advocated on bow half of the disabled to give back to that community to make up to say thank you because if it were not for the americans with disabilities act i would not be an attorney today. and so, as you look around the room, you see people from all back grounds here advocating.

it's time we change the word disabled. people with disabilities are able. they are capable individuals as they come from all different back grounds and now that the act will be 30-years-old, it's time we convene a grand jury or some sort of task forced to take a look at how we are serving the citizens of san francisco and see how our graduates from the san francisco unified school district are tracking. are they 'em employed, have they found employment, where are they now and are they shut in? i would like to talk about individuals with aspergers. in the next 10 years, more than 500,000 individuals in the united states will be suffering from or have the autism spectrum. of those individuals, 85% will be un'em employed. they will be college graduates

without employment. they will not have jobs. are we serving them well having them graduate from college and have nowhere to go. i believe that we did public-private partnerships with the san francisco chamber of commerce. if you look at this diagram you'll see the non profits we have in the bay area that work to try to help these individuals. yet we have absolutely no coordination. >> thank you. next speaker. the next speaker is coming up i'll call tyler sutton, june' dwanis and joe ramerez. >> hi, i'm mimi aragodi.

i have been going to the arc for seven years and i work at the academy of science sciences. i've been there for seven months now almost eight and nine and i have autism. i've been trying to get a job for years. the reason i think the arc is a good place for help because it helps people get jobs and fin find -- go to school. the thing is, i have been working for, i've been with dan for years and my group and --

sorry. i forget what i was going -- the reason it's hard for me to find a job is because i have autism and my concentration is impaired and i never could trust myself in a job. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> hello everyone, my name is benjamin and i have been in project search for a long time. it's a really great program for people with disabilities and it can help us get a job. i wish that we could have more

paid job in the city because we need money to survive. i hope that people with disabilities will also have, let's just say, i don't know what to say. >> thank you. >> great, thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is tyler sutton and i was diagnosed with high functioning autism at the age of seven. i'm very interested in government and politics and i have interned for the former district 9 supervisor cam post as well as the hillary rownan. >> you are the best. >> while i was studying politics at usf. i graduated with a b.a. last year. both of arc and the san

francisco department of rehabilitation have tirelessly supported me in my search for a job that makes good use of my strengths and interests. i'd like to thank everyone working for those organizations. i hope that some day i can put my unique strength and talents towards making this city a better place and ensuring everyone finds fitting, fulfilling work that i am. and to that effect, i say fund these people. >> thank you. >> i just want to thank tyler for his amazing work and my office for so much time and how much you contributed and helped our constituents. i just want to thank him publicly for that amazing work. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi joe ramerez, the managing director for employment services at p.r. c.

p.r. c.'s mission is to help people effected by h.i.v. and aids, substance abuse and mental health issues to realize opportunities that integrate legal, social and health services that impact wellness and potential. i also sit on the h.i.v. and aging group. work group so i'm representing vincent, who advises d.o.s. and one of the things they're recommending is an employment program for people with h.i.v. as we saw, a lot of the great services, the new emerging disability, aging population is people with h.i.v. and aids. and they also don't have the punitive return to work benefits so more and more are seeking income potential. we are partners with the department of rehabilitation, the office economic workforce development, and part getting the zero initiative in this last year and we placed 153 people, 9 # 6 of them using the d.o.r.

services and we'd like to make sure homeless populations get the case management services in coordination with employment ser visions as majority of the people we see have homeless or are marginally housed. if we could start imbedding those services that would be better. right now they're not embedded. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm juno. i'm the executive director of support for families. thank you for hearing our voices today. i am a parent of a youth with disabilities. who is actually now an adult. i'm here to talk about youth can bis abilities and special healthcare needs. those are the ones that grow up to be adults. disabilities is a part of our national commission. yet challenges that youth with disabilities experience are crushing. youth with disabilities are at a

higher risk then their non disabled peer for abuse, neglect, dropping out, homelessness, juvenile justice system as well as joblessness. good news is, research shows that they can reach their potential with appropriate and timeless services. they can have success. if we want our youth to work, we have to set up a system to help make that happen. families and providers need information education and support to assist them in getting the services. they need assistance in negotiating assistance whether they're at a regional center, education services, in-home support services. s.s.i., d.o.r., medical medical, institutional teaming and last but not least, we need to provide a coordinated system of transition services. to give our youth the

opportunities they need to grow up to be contributing members of our community. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. if there's anyone else who would like to make public comments, please lineup on the left. >> hello, supervisors. jessica layman with senior and disability action. you've heard a lot of great comments today. i wanted to thank you for taking the time to hear from us and think about it and to continue and figure out what we can do as a city. i really want to highlight i think we're at an exciting time where the way we talk about aging and the way we talk about disability is starting to shift from this negative idea that oh my gosh, people are going to take over and what are we going to do so people are a resource and seniors and people with disabilities bring such amazing experience and perspective to our community. and i think marie job ling took credit to say you know, we have people who can do amazing work

and with programs like reserve and csep so i hope you build them, as well as looking at how we can train businesses and non profits to understandablism and ageism and at the city level, right, what we can do to provide incentives to make sure people are in jobs where they will contribute so much. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is ricardo perez. i'm a regional specialist. i wanted to quickly let you know that one of the programs that we do assist with businesses and other departments is disability etiquette training that is commonly known as windmills. we offer that free service to anybody and everybody that needs it. aside from including education about disability we discuss about ageism. we also discuss with the businesses how we can better accommodate in order to be able

to employ any individual that comes through d.o.r. or any of our vendors and agencies that we happen to work with. just want to quickly let you know that we can is assist with that in case you need that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joyce. i'm active with senior disability action and among other things. i was sitting back there and i'm also signed up with reserve but i haven't been assigned a job through them yet. with my experience this past two months, i had -- what do you call, a garage sale with my neighbor across the street three doors down. and i'm thinking, i went online yesterday and there's a huge need for a senior housing and i'm thinking, hey, i can help

with homes staging, which is you decorate the house. actually i pushed a heavy cabinet and i'm thinking a job for seniors and not too shabby for 70-year-old. even if i can't lift stuff, there's a technique they say, i can decorate with paintings and set up a dining table and estate sale. there are so many disabilities we can do. i'm thinking please fund us. there's so many possibilities. senior housing and i can help with that. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is dianne cannes and i consult with community living campaign and other national and local active aging programs. and i just want to emphasize a couple of things i heard today, notely, from the oewd

representative that their work is focused on specific and unique challenges facing the city with respect to employment. hopefully you heard that person and others talk about the issues of confidence or almost too much training to find work. i think that probably rises to the level of a specific and unique challenge. programs like reserve, which i work with marie to help start, are critically important. they are drops in the bucket. the narrative about ageism and the possibilities of older adults to contribute has to be extended to the private sec to and the very sector oriented needs to be integrated with a specific and unique challenge. and the opportunities of older adults. so if there's a way to connect the dots here, that would be terrific. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other individuals who would like to speak in

public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. >> i just wanted to make some comments first thanking supervisor ye for bringing this hearing forward and thank you for your incredible work. i've been choking back tears half the time through this hearing because thinking of my father during this process. he is almost 80 and worked well into his 70s while he was physically able. and just it was out of need. it was out of financial need. how much discrimination he faced trying to stay in the workforce. if it wasn't for my mother's pension, as schoolteacher, they would be living with me. there's no question in my mind. social security is not enough and our time for people to survive on that if it's your

only source of income. and so, i just want top express my incredible support for these programs and to say that reserve is cutting edge and we should be funding it to make sure that wait list of applicants is met. i'm very supportive of that ask and request. it's such a benefit, not only to the businesses and organizations where seniors and people with disabilities are placed but to those people themselves. it's such a win-win situation. it seems like a no-brainer but i know it's something that we're fighting hard for. so i just want to express my appreciation and support for the final program and to really just thank you all for your tremendous advocacy and support. >> thank you. >> well, i was going to say

something. you can say something and you close it out. frankly i was just going to express my gratitude to you for holding this hearing. i do want to thank all of the people from the various agencies and especially the public that came and commented today. as i said, this issue of people with disability and access to the workforce. i want to give a shout out to positive resources center which has been a leader getting people into the workforce. it's been an issue we have been watching for over 20 years and so i'm just grateful for the attention that's being brought on this today. >> thank you. thank you colleagues for being so patient for these two long items i had on the agenda today. i felt it was really important. like said, my office is going to continue meeting with the department folks and hopefully bring in other people to see how we can move forward.

i felt it was important we needed to have a hearing to shine some light on this for the public to hearing and i think we did the presenters today, they did a great job in really highlighting what the needs are. basically, we're seeing that there are some efforts being made to address these issues but i'm -- even with the resources we have, what we think exists with data, it's not enough. number one. number two, i don't think it's even that accurate to reflect what the real needs are. i think we're underestimating the real needs. we're going to move forward and i think all the departments are underring that's a concern, how do we get better data on this issue.

because as she was mentioning in her presentation in opening it up, the number of people that just gave up are really hard to figure it out and i know, talking to quite a few seniors, they seem to be in that category where they're not in any data set. they would love to be able to feel confident if they look they can find something. i think the funding piece is really something crucial. i'm hoping that in the mayor's budget, it's going to be reflective of some of these needs. i'm hoping the department folks can bring it back to the mayor so say look, there was a hearing. it's real obvious that these type of services are sorely under funded and something i hope support in the budget as we move forward.

i certainly will -- you can count on me to look at this issue as one of the priorities in the budget. i can't thank you enough for coming in and sharing your stories. i am hoping that some of my colleagues here maybe and other colleagues on the board of supervisors would join in my effort to promote this issue and highlight it and give it the resources that it really needs. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> how would you like to -- >> we can close this item. >> without objection this file is closed. mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee. >> there's no further business. >> the committee is adjourned.

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children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here.

we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their .

good afternoon. i want to thank you all for being here today to talk about not only the success that we've had here in the garage in the mca with the police department, but also talk about what we're doing around car break-ins. i want to thank the director, scott, peskin and stefani, who have been at this and talking about this for some time. you know, we have and have had a car break-in epidemic in the city of san francisco. in 2017, we had 30,000 break-ins in the city of san francisco. as we talked about for months and i have as mayor, it should not be a gamble to park your car on the streets of san francisco. this affects people who visit the city of san francisco, the people that work in the city of san francisco and it affects the

people that live in the city of san francisco. and the current conditions on the street, is something that is unacceptable. i want to commend chief scott. at the end of last year he implemented reforms, creating a dedicated unit in the police department and increasing foot reforms, we've seen 17% decrease this year alone, but as we talk about all the time, we're not resting on our laurells, it's still unacceptable what is happening, so we're moving forward. we're here in the stockton garage. this is a garage that is one of the most popular in the city. right next to the financial district, right next to union square, right next to places that people come to visit. last year, 2017, it was a hot spot for car break-ins. a high of 62 one month.

but thank foss the reforms, we have seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of car break-ins here in the stockton garage. specifically an 83% decrease in the amount of car break-ins here. so in january, we had 44 break-ins. in february, 12. in the month of march, 9. and knock on wood, this year, so far -- this month so far, we've had zero in the month of april. so if you think about that from a high watermark of 62 last year per month, to now zero so far in the month of april, we need to acknowledge, celebrate and respect this as the city of san francisco. and we need to think about moving forward and what we're going do do about it. we thank chief scott, dedicated foot patrol officer here in the garage, which i know we can't replicate everywhere, but we've

installed cameras, done fencing around the infrastructure to reduce the loitering. a ton of software and hardware upgrades, entry kiosk, monitoring system. simple but effective hardware and software upgrades making a difference for the people that park their cars here in the garage. it's with great excitement we're here to celebrate that. we're doing this in other garages, six throughout the city of san francisco. a garage that supervisor stefani represents, when i was a district 2 supervisor was the bane of our existence on pier street, now down 55% thanks to the efforts of the mta and the police department. i want to thank captain engler representing the area. we are doing it right and the sfmta and our city garages are doing it right.

this is where we can lead by example. we can control this property. and we can focus on efforts that are going to work for car break-ins. so today, we are not only celebrating and honoring what we have accomplished so far, at stockton and these other six garages, but we're announcing also today that all 22 city-owned garages, by the end of next year, we'll be implementing all of these reforms at all of our city-owned garages. car break-ins are epidemic, but don't have to be moving forward. just the other week, we launched the parks mark campaign, a number of announcements are coming in the next weeks and around street cleanliness and homelessness, but as it relates to car break-ins, what we're doing now is working and we're going to now put the pedal to the metal and make sure that

every one of our city-owned garages republiclicates what we seen. we all want to see it replicate the success we've had here as well. thank you for coming here today. with that, we'll introduce the chief of police, bill scott. >> thank you, mayor farrell. first let me say thanks to mayor farrell and supervisors peskin and stefani for their leadership. keeping the focus on the issue is important in terms of us moving the needle and turning the epidemic of car break-ins around. i'm going to talk about mr. ed riskin, head of mta, but today's approach, we know is the way to go. we have to be a more resilient city. we talk a lot about prevention, don't make yourself an easy target, but there are other things we can do to be more

resilient and prevent the crimes from happening in the first place. the things that have been implemented here, the fencing installed, to stop unauthorized entry, the lighting and the surveillance cameras to discourage would-be thieves, this is a team effort. and this is what collaboration brings to the table. again, go back to mayor farrell and his leadership and before him, mayor lee in order to force this issue, force a collaborative partnership that has led us to some success this year. we are working hard to continue the effort as the mayor said. this is going to be spread to all the city parking garages. although the deployment is part of that factor, we'll do what is necessary in terms of having the visibility and the presence to make sure that people know we're

out here. that was part of our doubling of the foot beat. the people that are apt to victimize others need to see us, they need to see their police officers out here visible. i think that gives everybody not only a sense of security, but also it deters these crimes from happening in the first place. we know we can't have a police officer at every corner every hour of the day, and that's why we need other measures, fencing, lighting, cameras to help us identify people that are apt to victimize others. so with this initiative, we believe that we will continue in the direction that we're going in terms of reducing these types of offenses and as the mayor said, we have about a 17% decrease year-to-date which is over a thousand less victims. i think that's something we can all be pleased with. but we still have a lot of work to do.

i would like to introduce ed riskin, the head of mta. >> thank you, chief. good afternoon. we're happy to be able to be here. it may not be sexy stuff, but parking garages are an important part of the transportation system here in san francisco. we want people to be able to find parking and feel their car is going to be safe when they leave it, whether it's on the street or off the street. the parking garages are ways for people to find parking, not spend time looking for parking on the street, and we want them to know when they leave their car in a public parking garage in san francisco that their car is safe. so we have been working on this in a number of different ways, partner with the police department, the leadership of chief scott has been critically important. a lot of the success that you heard the mayor and the chief talk about at this garage in particular has really been the presence of san francisco police department.

and we work with them in districts around the city where we have our garages to try to focus their resources as strategically as we can, because as the chief says, we can't have a cop in every garage all the time. to that end, we're using old technology and new technology to make more sustainable improvements in the garages, so that we need to -- so that we can really rely on the police only when we need them. the old technology as you heard, it's fencing, lighting, signage and we've seen some pretty good results already from some of those activities. and then there is the new technology. a number of years ago, doing an assessment of our garages, what we determined was that a lot of the technology in our garages was old and out of date, not just from security perspective, but operational and revenue collection. so we developed a program a

number of years ago supported by mayor lee and board of supervisors and the mta board of directors, that culminated in a three-year project to modernize and upgrade all our garages. we're about a third of the way through this 3-year project and these improvements do include things like high-definition cameras that hope us both monitor activity in realtime, but also help the police after an incident make positive identification of suspects so they can -- and particularly they can identify repeat offenders and really target their investigative resources appropriately. it includes more secure gates for folks getting in and out. communications equipment so that patrons can communicate with garage staff. a number of other improvements to make our garages safer and secure facilities. as you heard from the mayor, the

initial results at the pier street garage which i used to hear about from mayor farrell back when he was supervisor farrell and supervisor stefani, it had been a problem area. you heard the results, 55% reduction since the new improvements were in place. this is success we hope to replicate everywhere. we're not declaring victory here. you see a park smart sign, not a mission accomplished, because as the chief said there is more work to do, but we'll continue and complete these installations by 2020. we'll continue to coordinate with the police department and the d.a.'s office and are grateful for the strong leadership we have in our mayor and board of supervisors and the mta board of directors to ensure that our garages can be safer for people to park. thank you. >> thank you. and for your leadership.

i would like to bring up two members of the board of supervisors who have been focused on the issue for a long time now, and have been leaders on this, supervisor peskin and supervisor skef stefani. >> thank you, mayor, chief scott, ed riskin, the working men and women of the police department. i want to note a number of great cases that the cops have made in the last number of days, 11 arrests out of northern, central and southern stations, so thank you, captains, for that work. and then supervisor stefani and i are doing our part today by funding that $32.5 million which is to say that we're parking here and those parking validations, those parking costs go to pay that. we're always worried about the money. this has been extremely frustrating, not only as a supervisor, but somebody who had

his car broken into on the street. and i cannot tell you how delighted i am that we are addressing it. and those numbers are extraordinary numbers. 83% drop in this garage in a few month's time is really something to celebrate. i was just across the street at my optometrist and she said they have noted the immense change. so i heard about it from people on the street before i actually heard about it right here from the mayor. i want to thank you again and look forward to getting it to zero. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor peskin. last month at the budget committee, we approved the resolution of transferring this back to the sfmta and i raised questions about their greater public safety measures at this location and all the garages under their jurisdiction. i was motivated to do so not only on the terrible story of someone's dog thrown off the

garage, sorry to bring that up, but it was devastating to many people and its owner. and the only way the police were able to identify the perpetrator was because of a private dashboard camera that captured the crime. but i was able to do so based on my own experience sitting in the pier street garage and witnessing sophisticated criminals staking out cars while i tried to call it in. they laughed at me while i was on the phone with police. this is criminal tourism and it must stop. this is a garage in desperate need of help and i want to thank the sfmta for their attention to these issues. we've heard everything that has been done in the garage and after the installation of 12 cameras, new lighting, signage, the pier street garage saw a significant decline in break-ins. with a 55% reduction in six months after the upgrades.

i cannot thank everybody enough. i hear from constituents every day they do not feel safe and we're responsible and accountable for the safety of our community and cannot allow opportunities for people to be victimized. i am encouraged by their progress we have seen here, due to the measures put in place through our partnership with the mta. improving public safety and reducing car break-ins takes a multi-pronged approach and we have to use all of the tools available to us. i applaud the sfmta and the police department for working together to address this epidemic. this type of collaborative approach will combat future problems. i'd like to thank mayor farrell for his amazing leadership to make sure all departments are working together to make significant improvements in the area. as the numbers show, special attention and the presence of security enhancements actually do work. it is my priority to fight for these resources.

we know that when captain joe engler of northern station assigned police officers to the palace of fine arts, a hot spot for auto break-ins, there were zero break-ins. we know what works outside the garages and inside them and we must invest in those resources to keep our communities safe. these initiatives are just the beginning to tackling this crisis head on. last month, i called for a hearing to review the progress of safety measures in place at our city-owned parking lots and garages and that hearing will take place in june. this is yet another chance to learn about initiatives at these sites and to receive updates on what is working. i know today that we all agree that residents and visitors to san francisco should not be fearful of break-ins or their own personal safety in parking garages or lots and we must do everything we can to keep them safe. thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott, supervisor peskin, all

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[off mic] >> supervisor safai: good afternoon, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 8th, 2018 meeting of the rules committee, my name is supervise ahsha safai. to my left is norman yee and catherine stefani. our clerk is michael young. i would like to thank baltasar and [inale