everybody. [applause] >> so the mayor and mr. benioff will be available to answer any questions, so we're concluding this event. and there will be a tour after you've talked to the mayor and mr. benioff, i'm happy to take people to some of the rooms. i want to give you that. [applause]

>> supervisor mandelman: good afternoon, evening. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am supervisor mandelman. to my left is supervisor ronen. i'd like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. before we go to announcements, can we take a motion to excuse supervisor peskin without

objection? great. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call the first item? >> clerk: item one is an ordinance showing support for the jewish community and tree of life synagogue, and mr. chair, this agenda item was requested to be sent to the december 12, 2018 board meeting as a full report. >> you know, normally, these type of resolutions are heard

and adopted without reference to committee at our board members, but there's been a change by our board president, and now these resolution right side coming to committee -- resolutions are coming to committee. i am absolutely heart broken after the mass shooting at the tree of life synagogue like i am after every mass shooting. we should all be free to worship freely without threat of gun violence, yet we see all t too -- see that all too softof in our community. th three days before this shooting, in kentucky, a gun man tried to enter a predominately african american

church. when that failed, he went to a grocery store and killed two people. whether worshipping at a synagogue in pittsburgh, historically african american methodist church or a sikh temple in wisconsin, people should never have to worry about gun violence when praying or attending services at their place of worship. the epidemic of gun violence in america has already taken far too many lives. the ripple effects of gun violence are endless, and we must do everything we can to end the gun violence in our

country and the hate that fuels it. sandy hook happens six years ago december 12 -- no, december 14, 2012. 20 first graders were shot in their classrooms, six educators, not much happened in congress since. since that time, six years ago, 600,000-plus americans have lost their lives to gun violence, but in spite of all the sadness there year and since then, there is still reason to have hope. after 20 years in the gun violence prevention movement, i really do take solace knowing there are millions of people doing more than just offering their thoughts and prayers. since the sandy hook tragedy, millions of americans have joined the fight to end gun violence. there are many different gun violence groups out there that are doing great work. on march 24 this year, we witnessed them to come together, the march for our

lives. last month, gun safety advocates helped gain control of the house and elected new gun sense champions across the country. and now nancy pelosi has announced that gun law reform will be a priority in the house of representatives. today we are here to remember those in the tree of life tragedy, but also know there can be help in this epidemic. i get asked all the time, why can i have possibly hope when we hear mass shooting after mass shooting. i was reading cory booker's book, united. he said hope confronts. it does not ignore pain, agony or injustice. it is not a saccharine object.

you can't have hope without despair because hope is a response. hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word. and i just want to close by saying yesterday, we were at an interfaith vigil at s sst st. ignatius. we had mayor breed, nanny pelosi, victims of gun violence, and so many survivors. and we had children in the audience, my children. i have a 13-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter, and towards the end of the interfaith vigil, this beautiful teenager was singing amazing grace. and right before then, we gave an opportunity to everyone in the audience to say the names of people they've lost to gun violence. so many people stood up, so many people said names of loved

ones they lost. and then, this elizabeth nelson sang amazing grace, and i had to give closing remarks. i looked out into the audience, and my daughter, nine years old, crying buckets of tears. it took everything in me, really, honestly, to get through my closing remarks. when i went to my daughter after, she said to me, mommy, we have to make this stop, we have to make it stop. and people ask me, too, all the time, like, on the campaign trail, what does this have to do with district two? you know what it has to do with district two? there are kids in our schools that are suffering. there are kids that are doing lockdown drills because they're preparing for the mass shooter. this is something that transcends the psyche of my country, i feel so sorry for these people that are losing their loved ones. we have to it happen to call

attention to the begun violence epidemic in our country. 96 americans are shot dead every day in this country and hundreds more are injured. we have to continue to talk about this whether we like to or not, so i am thrilled today to be joined by senator scott wiener who's taken time out of his busy schedule to give remarks, as well. i want to thank you for being there yesterday senator wiener and giving attention to this very important topic, so i'd like to invite you to come up at this time. >> thank you. i want to say thank you, colleagues, but you are colleagues, for -- even though i'm no longer on the board of supervisors. it's going to be back in room 263. it's my first time back since leaving the board a couple years ago. and supervisor stefani, i just want to really publicly thank you for your advocacy. i still remember the first time when i was on the board of supervisors and you were a board aide, and i went to my

now supervisor mandelman, the noe valley farmers market. i haven't realized at the time that you were so involved in the issue, and i was really so in awe of your tenacious advocacy, and i want to thank you for not backing down. and thank you for the amazing and moving interfaith service yesterday. this issue is -- it's really -- it's -- it's -- in a way, it's unbelievable that we can, as a society, every few weeks, there's another tragedy, another horror, that you would have thought was impossible, you would have thought it would be just impossible that someone would walk into an elementary school and murder children, that it would be impossible that someone would walk into a synagogue on shabbat and murder

parishioners, including elderly people, including holocaust survivors. these things, it's so easy to become used to them and to become numb about it, and we cannot ever, ever, ever become numb. and i know that speaker approximate pelosi -- it's great to be able to say that again, is going to hold people's feet to the fire and be able to produce some great legislation. i want to say to you we in the legislature now that we have a very, very strong super majority of democrats, of progressives in the legislature with a governor elect who has shown over and over again, gavin newsom, has repeatedly shown us how committed he is to

gun safety measures, and i know we're going to do strong work, and we will be a good partner to the city of san francisco. this year, we did raise the age to purchase guns to 21. i want to thank my partner, senator anthony porentino. the governor did veto my bill to ban gun shows at the cow palace. we've banned bump stocks and continue and be a good partner at the state level. finally, i just want to note on the tree of life in particular, all of these shootings, in schools, pulse nightclub, musikfe music festivals, they're so horrific. that could have been any of us.

the number of saturday mornings that i spent in synagogue praying was -- i can't even begin to count. and just for that to happen on this -- such a sacred, in this sacred space. it's just unbelievable, and it's just, i think, remotevaivs us. so again, thank you so much for your leadership. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, senator wiener. i think you might want to -- >> supervisor stefani: yes. we have abby porter from the jewish relations committee.

>> thank you, and to senator wiener, thank you so much. senator -- i'm sorry. supervisor stefani. what i want to thank you for most importantly is your empathy and your action. what you have done with this resolution, but more than that, with your career dedicated to gun violence prevention is making our entire city and our society safer. i'm really grateful to all of the supervisors for understanding the vulnerabilities of theure issue community, not only in pittsburgh, not only in charlotte, but right here in san francisco. we've seen the recently audited data from the fbi that shows that the jewish community unfortunately is still the number one targeted community in the nation in terms of hate motivated and bias motivated violence, and certainly all of you who have been inside our

jewish synagogues or offices, know you can't enter any jewish property in the city without going through a metal detector. supervisor, i want to also particularly thank you for the way in which you worded this resolution because in this resolution, you call out the racist attack on the a.m.e. church which result index two african americans dieing in a race motivated incident. this was in the days leading up to the tree of life shooting. and this is because important the bigotree and prejudice that motivated these two attacks is

the same. it's intended to delejt miez vulnerable minority populations in america, it's intended to put a chilling effect on intercultural connections, and it's intended to divide our society while ranking some superior to others. but we are united in our determination to root out hatred and extremism. we are united in our efforts to end gun violence, and we are united in our efforts to stitch together a diverse society based on mutual respect and dignity. so i'm just grateful to everybody here to this resolution, and what i'd like to say is let's get back to work. let's help stitch together the beautiful tapestry of san francisco society. >> thank you, abby. i'm looking forward to working with you. and thank you, senator wiener.

i just -- i want to close by saying, you know, after the shooting, at the tree of life congregation, we did come together as a city with our jewish community at an interfaith vigil to bring hope into this life, and it was incredible at temple emanuel. i was struck by the words -- i grew up catholic. i was struck by the words, do not be daunted by the emormity of the world's grief. i want to let everyone know

that there will be a gun by back this saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. so colleagues, i'll turn it back over to you, but thank you again for hearing this item, and i look forward to getting it passed out of committee with a committee report. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, supervisor stefani. are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item? great. i have a few thing to see say about public comment -- things to say about public comment before you speak. speakers will each have three minutes. please state your name clearly into the microphone. no applause or booing is permitted, and in the interest of time, speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition of previous statements. hello. >> thank you, mr. chair, supervisor stefani, member of the committee. i am a member of the san francisco youth commission, but i am not speaking today in my

official capacity but as a resident of the city and as -- on behalf of bay area student activists or basta for short. we are here today because of hatred, we are here today because of guns, and we are here today because of a broken way of life. we are here today that the injustices and wrongs that this country has accepted as normal. this resolution dlarg support for the jewish community following the deadliest act of antisemite crime in the history of this country is unfortunately the latest chapter in the history of gun violence that this country has known. in fact it is no longer the latest chapter. this year, gun violence has marred every aspect of american society from schools to restaurants to places of worship, no one can feel safe. i got involved earlier this year after the parkland shooting, and yet, i have

already lost track of all the shootings after which i have attended a vigil or demanded action. we have seen how gun violences permeates our society and yet our highest leaders have dog nothing to solve this crisis. at the vigil yesterday, speaker pelosi said something i'd like to paraphrase. in order to be worthy to extend our empathy to those who have lost loved ones to gun violence, we must show we have the courage and will to take action against gun vie lenses. it is necessary that this resolution is accompanied by renewed vision of the board of supervisors for common sense gun control. thank you for this legislation. thank you, and i urge support. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. are there any other speakers who would like to speak during public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: the

matter is before us. vice chair ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'd also like to take the opportunity to thank my colleague kathrin stefani for always taking leadership around this issue and stop the madness in this country that we're facing when it comes to gun violence. i was in los angeles visiting my family when this latest mass shooting took place, so i didn't get to participate in any of the vigils that were here, the local sort of community rebuilding when these really destructive events take place, so i really do appreciate the opportunity to be able to speak today and support this resolution, and i would just echo my colleagues. you know, i did, as a jewish woman who has family that survived the holocaust, actually, i was getting a lot of texts from people, you know, checking in on me to see if i

was okay. and what struck me is that i didn't feel that differently to the way that i feel after every mass shooting. it just after every time feels so personal and it feels like such a violation of who we are and our -- and our safety. and the efficients thing i always think about is my six-year-old, and the fact that one of the -- and the first thing i always think about is my six-year-old. and the fact that one of the things i always think about is her school, and will she be safe in her school? the fact that parents in this country think about that, it's just insane. i know i'm not alone in that. it's something we have to stop, and we'll continue doing our part at the local level. we thank you, senator wiener for doing your part at the state level, and we will look to soon to be leader pelosi to do the same at the federal

level, but we've got to join together and fight this every single way that we can at every level of government from the streets to the halls of power. but we know that this is insanity, the vast majority of us, and we will do whatever it takes to keep our families and our community safe. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, vice chair ronen. i also want to echo thanks to you for your unceasing advocacy around this issue for many, many years, and in particular for your support after the bits burg shooting. i just pulled up the list of the folks that were killed at 101 california in san francisco in 1993. there were folks that have been directly impacted that and experienced that from you friends or others who were killed back then, and it's extraordinary that was 25 years ago, and looking at the list of victims and thinking of the 25

years of their lives that were stolen from them, and the years that were stolen from the hundreds of thousands of people that have been killed since sandy hook just six years ago. i believe that poerlly, we need to consider a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation as a committee report. >> clerk: you're not obligated to do so. >> supervisor mandelman: but that would be -- we're not obligated to do, but that would be the thing to do. >> supervisor ronen: so moved. >> supervisor stefani: supervisor mandelman, i would like to correct a typo. >> clerk: if you would like to take a motion to amend, that's fine. >> supervisor mandelman: we'll consider the motion to amend first, and i can do that, and we can take that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: we have our -- our under lying motion to approve as a committee report. >> clerk: as amended. >> supervisor mandelman: as amended. got it all, and we will do that

without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: all right. thank you, supervisor stefani. mr. clerk, can you call the next item? [agenda item read] >> supervisor mandelman: supervisor fewer, this is your hearing. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor mandelman. colleagues, thank you for holding this hearing regarding our juvenile protection department and log cabin ranch. i had called this meeting for looking at our existing processes and strategies for j.p.d. are serving or communities and their families. i have asked chief nance to share the current demographics of at risk and justice involved youth. i also understand that dcyf is an agency that supports our

young people. due to time constraints, i would like to focus today's hearing on j.p.d. work. we also know that log cabin ranch has been closed since june of 2018, this year, we have an opportunity to discuss and rethink the use of log cabin ranch. during my time on the school board, i visited log cabin, a residential facility that opened in the 1950's, and i know this facility used to serve a youth at one time and was considered the last option before california youth authority or now known as v.j.j. on a personal note, my husband also spent time at log cabin ranch school when he was an adolescent, and after speaking to him was what motivated me to actually go visit the ranch when i was on the school board. i'm hoping that this conversation will be the beginning of a continued

process to evaluate and refine strategies for making sure that we're reaching our most goal, ensuring that we are improving the out comes for our young people. first, i would like to invite j.p.d.'s chief nance to give a presentation. colleagues, if it's okay with you, i would like for our juvenile justice provider's association to present their analysis of their juvenile just i say services, as well, representing over 20 organizations with mission aligned in bringing the voices of young people and their families to advocate for positive change in the system. and now chief nance. >> supervisor fewer, thank you. chair mandelman, supervisor ronen, thank you all for the opportunity to talk about the juvenile justice system. before we begin, i just want to acknowledge that we have members of our superior court in the audience representing our juvenile justice courts,

and we enjoy tremendous support from our judges, and they are very invested in the programs and services offered by the juvenile protection department. i did put together a slide deck for you that essentially responds to the questions that were raised, and i think you highlighted those questions in your opening remarks, supervisor fewer, so we'll move onto the next slide, which really looks at the trends in our juvenile justice system. i think the overarching statement is that san francisco's efforts and investments on behalf of young people in our community have paid off. we have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of young people that are not only referred to our juvenile justice system, but also

receive petitions for adjudication in our court. that reduction has resulted in a more than two-thirds reduction in the number of young people that are involved in our system. going from over 4,000 young people referred in the year 2000 to just over 1200 in 2017. at the same time, our utilization of custodial options such as our juvenile facility has been reduced by two-thirds as well. again, the average daily population in 2000 was 120 youth. we spiked in 2008, up to 124 average daily population in our 150-bed facility. and last year, the average daily population in our juvenile hall was 45. so again, community options are

being utilized. and not only are we able to move young people into the community, but we're also able to connect them to community programs and agencies. so log cabin ranch -- we'll move onto the next slide here. our log cabin ranch facility, as supervisor fewer stated, has been open for about 70 years. it is a staff secure facility. it is not a locked facility. it provides educational services that are administered by the san francisco unified school district. we've developed partnerships with vocational agencies that are providing construction training and other trades. we work very closely with the department of public health to provide clinical services, so many of our young people have experienced trauma. we know that many of them are experiencing violence in their communities, and we also know that many of these young people

are self-medicating and in need of significant clinical intervention. so those partnerships have been strong with respect to the clinical services. but not only that, san francisco was one of the first jurisdictions in the nation as a result of a federal grant to implement a robust reentry strategy that combined our efforts within the protection department, with community agencies and our bench officers, where judges are looking at reentry plans and coordinating with the young person and their family in developing the best transition from log cabin ranch to the community: so the status of log cabin ranch was as stated, on june 27, log cabin ranch was temporarily shuttered. there were a variety of reasons for that decision as are listed here. we have experienced a perrenial

utilization of log cabin ranch. the low census resulted in an average daily population of 14 young people at log cabin ranch during -- between the years of 2008 and 2017. par of our concern is also with the awols in that facility, young people who are walking off the campus unauthorized, in some cases, being driven off by individuals from the community, resulting in high-speed chases with the san mateo county sheriff, crashes, and having these young people leaving in the middle of the night, not knowing if they are safe as they traverse the mountain roads of la honda. finally, concerns about sustainability. at every budget hearing that i have presented at, it's -- the

chief probation officer, i have been asked about the investment at log cabin ranch and the small number of young people that are served in that environment. and with an expenditure -- annual expenditure of $4 million, in some instances, $5 million, it simply is not sustainable if we're only serving a handful of young people in that facility. we believe that there is an opportunity for us to look at other ways to serve our young people and perhaps a more effective utilization of that log cabin ranch facility. so more about population trends, so commitments by type -- and i'll walk-through this for you. the number of dispositions in san francisco for juvenile youth have reduced by two-thirds since 2008 through

2017. most young people are placed on protection in the community and continue to reside with their families and attend their local schools. as you can see here, the reduction is stark, it's significant. and as has been the case for many, many years, the city relies very little on commitments to the division of juvenile justice, favoring out-of-home placements instead. at the same time, we recognize that there are some competing interests and opportunities for young people that are committed to out-of-home placements as a result of changes in state law. ab-12, for example, young people who were previously in foster care throughout-of-home placement are eligible for financial support when they become a nonminor dependant, when they turn age 18.

and that financial support is not available to a young person that is committed to log cabin ranch. so if the option for a custodial treatment environment is log cabin ranch or an out-of-home placement facility, the out-of-home placement facility tends to be a more viable option for our youth. log cabin ranch, or l.c.r. has been considered the last option for a young person to stay locally before they are committed to the department of juvenile justice. and while that may be a worthy role for log cabin ranch, it simply cannot be the sole purpose of that facility, there simply aren't that many young people who are in d.j.j.

jeopardy. so when we look at the removal commitments, out of the 84 commitments resulting in removal from the home, approximately 25% of those in 2017 resulted in the commitment to log cabin ranch. that's a small number, compared to the number of commitments. and as you can see on this slide, barely visible in each of the bars here, is the gray box which reflects the number of young people san francisco commits to the state division of juvenile justice. that number continues to be substantially low, and in 2017, it was four young people, and i think so far this year, there may have been two. and so again, these are very, very low numbers of commitments to d.j.j. instead, young people are being committed to log cabin ranch or have been committed to log

cabin ranch or to out-of-home placement. and i'm aware that since the closure of our facility, we have not seen an uptick in the number of young people that are committed to the division of juvenile justice. there are those that will tell you that since log cabin ranch closed, we have lost an opportunity for young people that know results in them being committed to d.j.j. that simply is not true. since the closure of log cabin ranch in june, we've had two commitments to the division of juvenile justice. one of them is a young people that was ordered from the adult court, so it wasn't even a juvenile court matter that resulted in that commitment. so we continue to rely on community alternatives. we've implemented ways for people to serve time in juvenile hall as a commitment to juvenile hall where we have a tremendous amount of programs and services. a strong partnership with our

health department and the school district, and strong partnerships with our community-based organizations that deliver services within that environment. when we look at the demographics, another significant shift over the past decade that we have seen in our young people committed to log cabin ranch, if you look back at 2008-2009, there was a much younger population of young people that were committed to log cabin ranch. fast forward to 2017 and 2018, two thirds of the youth admitted to the facility were 18 years of age, 12 of 18. so this is significant for a couple of reasons. one is that these young people are now ageing out of our justice system, so by the time these young people turn age 18, they can no longer be in our juvenile facility. so if they need more intervention, if they need more

support, more services, more treatment, they simply won't get that through a commitment to log cabin ranch if they're coming there at age 18. the other thing that we've seen that is not reflected on this slide but is certainly significant with respect to log cabin ranch is the nature of the offenses that these young people have committed. ( remember, i talked about the last chance ranch. last chance because these people have committed serious, and chronic offenses. as a result their options are fewer, and these are young people for whom the level of intervention is far more significant in terms of what we need to offer. so when you look at who has completed the program at log cabin ranch, sips 2008, we've had 198 commitments to the facility. 6 -- since 2008, we've had 198 commitments to the facility.

68% graduated the program, and they achieved some significant goals and objectives while they were there. our ranch failures were about 20%. these are young people for whom we determined are not a good fit simply because they are not acclimating to the program, young people who abscond from the program or young people with whom an alternative plan is filed with the court to consider an alternative disposition. when you look at the log cabin ranch program completions from 2008 to 2018, since 2014, program completions have been on a downward trend, and awols and failures have increased. again, a suggestion that we need to hit pause and see why

this is the case. between january 1 and june 22, we had seven people that awoled from the log cabin ranch facility, four people in june, which ultimately led to my decision to temporarily shutter the facility. >> supervisor ronen: why do you think there is? why do you think there have been this increase -- through the chair? >> thank you, supervisor ronen. i think there are a lot of reasons. what we see in the removal of young people from their parents, even when we plait them in out-of-home placements, foster homes, group home facilities, that there is a high abscondtion rate, and part of that reason is they want to be at home, they want to be in the community. they want to be with their families. i think part of the uptick at log cabin ranch is the frustration that young people who are 17 and 18 years of age

have, having perhaps been in the juvenile justice system for, you know, most of their teenage years -- i know for a fact as the acting director there several years ago that many of these young people would say that they're not confident that what they're going to get out of log cabin ranch is going to be beneficial for them. so i think that there are a variety of reasons. but i also believe that to the extent that there are these other options that a young person may go to, so, for example, we have several young people that have failed at log cabin ranch and were replaced in a foster care facility, therefore making that young people eligible for the ab-12 funding that i described, over $900 a month to help sustain that young person and transition them back into the community. [please stand by]

. >> so we're at the point now where we're identifying all of the stakeholders and representatives from those agencies. i'm reaching out to various members of our city agencies to identify folks, and we'll work with our juvenile probation commission, with our juvenile justice coordinating council and others to identify the best folks with the best ideas that can help inform how log cabin ranch can be a resource to san francisco. finally, we have a very

aggressive timetable to pull together this information. by the end of the fiscal year of next year, we are hoping to have a set of recommendations that can be advanced to mayor breed and to the board of supervisors as to how we can best utilize log cabin ranch as a resource for the city. so that concludes my presentation, and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor mandelman: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: so my understanding is we own a piece of property in happy valley. >> that's correct. >> and that property is now defunct? >> that is correct. i believe hidden valley ranch was used as a federal detention facility. when log cabin ranch was operational, we continued to

use the gym that is located there, and we made some renovations to make that building useable, but the rest of the buildings on that site, which is about a quarter of a mile up the road from log cabin ranch, those are not useable. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. i think it used to be a facility that housed very younger children. >> that is correct. >> supervisor fewer: so this task force is going to be discussing not only the property at log cabin but also hidden valley, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> supervisor fewer: okay. great. so i wanted to know a little bit about the educational outcomes of students that are actually sent to l.c.r., and what are the outcomes there, the educational outcomes for those students. >> so that is actually a very bright story with respect to the educational outcomes for a number of reasons. i think the first and foremost is we don't have a truancy

problem when kids are going there. the school is literally a hop, skip, and a jump from the dormitory to the classroom. the second is we have from extremely creative and innovate tiff teachers that have worked at log cabin ranch. young people are working outdoors and learning in the -- the environmental classrooms, so to speak. the opportunity to catch up on credits is one that many young people at log cabin ranch have taken advantage of. the fact that we're able to offer not only the tradition classroom setting for young students pursuing a diploma, but the opportunity to work young people obtaining their g.e.d., literally stewarding

those young people to the point they obtain their g.e.d., and the fact that we've been able to offer college courses to young people, meaning most people who leave lag cabin ranch who have been there for any substantial period of time walk away with either a high school diploma or g.e.d. >> supervisor fewer: do you have those numbers of students who actually receive the g.e.d. and how many receive their diploma. >> we certainly can get that. we don't have that today, but we can certainly get that for your office. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. trusty staff. okay. so now, we're onto community-based program use among j.p.d. use. >> certainly. so in this portion of the presentation, we took the time to pull together some analysis of the use of community-based programs and services for young people in our juvenile justice system. and i -- my analyst, cody, who

is handling the slides and i, we had a conversation about this particular slide. it's one of those that you can read as you're resting this evening, but the one that i want to highlight on this slide -- and it's a busy slide -- it clarifies the services that young people are receiving ad a preadjudicated youth, a youth who has not been found -- or made a ward of the court. and those services for post adjudicated youth, young people who are wards and have had a disposition. as can you see, there's a heavy dose of community resources and programs for youth at that phase of the system. when you look at services that young people have received in our community, we took a look at a snapshot of young people on october 4 of this year. there were 301 youth.

we literally did a pain staking review case by case of each young person's case file to determine what services they were involved in, if any. 85% of the young people who are under our supervision are receiving services from some agency or resource. there are about 45 young people who are not receiving services, and on this very same slide, i've laid out who those young people are, youth who are employed, young people who are not responding to the referrals or following through with the community agencies. young people who have had their community involvement interrupted by a new referral, young people who are attending college courses, and some of these young people who have other situations that are -- are unique to their individual cases. there are just under 600 young

people in san francisco's juvenile justice system, and as can you see from the stats here, 419 are getting services. so we are very proud of the fact that these young people are linked to community agencies. when you look at the next slide, you can get a sense of the breakdown of the kinds of services that young people are receiving. i spoke about the foster care youth, and the resources available to young people as a result of either being at risk of removal and placement into foster care or young people who have been in foster care as well as those who have returned to the community. and so there are a lot of federal funds that pass through our system that are available to young people. several years ago, san francisco joined a waiver of the title 4-e that allowed us to have more flexibility with how we can link young people to

programs and services. so we spent a lot of time on wrap jar wraparounds so that we can reduce the number of people that we remove from their home. that's a federally funded program. as you can see, about 30% of the young people in our services are receiving services from the federally funded program. 70% are getting their services elsewhere, including what i found a remarkable statistic that i was not aware of, and that is about 18% are receiving their services using private or voluntary resources that the family on their own has been able to connect that youth to. so to graphically represent where the young people that are receiving their services, most are receiving services through

mission neighborhood centers as a result of the detention alternative services that we provide. an opportunity to develop a plan, to get a young person out of juvenile hall when we don't believe that their risk requires them to be there, and then work with a community agency like m. and c., follow up with the family, engage in programs and services and the like. and that's a tremendous resource to our young people x x -- young people, and it results in fewer people being in juvenile haul. there was a question about funding that comes through the juvenile probation department. i want to make it clear that the way the juvenile justice crime prevention act dollars that come to our juvenile probation department are utilized is as a result of a

local action plan that is developed by the juvenile justice coordinating council which has membership that includes all of our juvenile justice stakeholders inclusive of the juvenile justice providers association and a number of community agencies that attend and weigh in on the development of that plan. so our department work orders, close to $1 million of juvenile justice crime prevention act dollars to the department of children, youth, and families, to fund the community-based contracts that were developed as a result of the recent request for proposals process that the department of children, youth, and their families went through. we do not fund the intensive supervision clinical services. that's a program that is administered by the department of public health and funded by dcyf. on the next slide, i wanted to give you a sense of what is

happening with the juvenile probation department budget since fiscal year 13-14, and i know there have been a lot of questions about the budget. and so while the dollar amount has increased in our budget, if you look at the f.t.e. counts, our department has reduced our f.t.e.s at each fiscal year, and we're in line to do the same this year. so we're continuing to reduce the number of staff that work in our department. but i will say that there are costs that are beyond the control of the probation department. we have our debt repayment to cover the cost of the juvenile hall facility that we opened in 2007. we also have medical -- medical care costs that -- health care costs that are driving these

costs. we have negotiated labor agreements that increase the wages that drive these costs, and so there are a number of these circumstances -- utilities, our work orders to other city departments. so if every city department charges us 3% more, we have to increase our budget by that amount in order to pay for things like lights, gas, utilities, vehicles, all those things that are part of our requirement. and then, obviously, we have to clothe the young people in juvenile hall, we have to make sure they're fed, and those costs go up. so those reasons are why the dollar amounts have increased in our budget. but i will say that we -- we feel we're pretty good stewards of the city's resources not because we believe that we have to be, because it's what we

fundamentally value. so our utilization of resources has been very lean, and we've been very thoughtful about this approach. and then, one last thing that i will say about our efforts moving forward with respect to log cabin ranch and our juvenile justice system in general, part of the reason why we're hiring a consultant is to develop a master plan. that master plan will not only help drive our decisions with respect to log cabin ranch and projections for how that facility will be used for the next 20 years, but also our replacement of the administration building at the 375 woodside location, which is beyond its useful life. that facility is not seismically safe. we included that building in part of the ten year plan master replacement. and part of what this will

contain is plans for rehabilitating that facility, as well. >> supervisor fewer: so colleagues, do you have any questions? thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> actually, if you have questions -- we will hear first from the juvenile justice providers association. i know there are a lot of people that want to speak in public comment. since we are on limited time, i think we'll save some of this for later. please. >> good afternoon. thank you so much for having us. my name is dawn stickle, and this is jencke. and we are with the juvenile justice providers association. we want to talk a little bit about some of the work that we do as providers in the city.

d.j.j. has over 20 organizations that are funded and involved in the lives of young people who are involved in juvenile probation. and so just to give -- i'm trying to hurry because the overflow room is filled with, like, young people who are here to talk, and i don't want to take their opportunity, and at the same time, i think it's important that we lay the groundwork for some of the stuff we want to talk about? so our justice systems were created back when society believed in bad people, and in this day and age and especially in san francisco, we understand that there's no such thing as a bad person, that there are people who have been traumatized, who have been abused and broken and neglected and who are in need of supports and opportunities and places for them to be leaders and people to believe in them. and the system -- the justice system needs to be