nonprofit housing with really struggling with housing. it's disheartening to hear my co-workers talk about leaving the work that we do helping homeless people and housing, and they go to another job. i know one of the people that i work with, the other full-time job that he works goes toward the rent. some of the people that i've worked with over the years end up on wait lists, and i see them deteriorating out on the street. it's not because they lost a job, it's because the overwhelming stress of trying to navigation employment and barriers that society puts on us and these overwhelming rent, it's crushing to people, so we really need to be prioritizing housing that people can move into and live in.

thanks. >> chair fewer: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lorenzo. i am a community organizer in the tenderloin and south of market. so i think the -- first of all, i'd like to thank you all for, like, hopefully making this happen, and you know focus on more the need of who are actually be most need for more housing. so i'm particularly focusing on, like, you know, seniors, seniors housing -- senior housing because they work so hard to make, you know, to help build our city. and giving them this important attention for them to being housed is so important. so i believe we should allocate a portion that would actually be for our senior housing. so -- and the other thing is

that it is so also important that we should provide funding for preservation of rent controlled buildings. i can tell you, i've been working with tenants in the tenderloin. we've been fighting the monster, which has been, like, trying to evict them from their housing for the past three years. you know, they -- what monster did was, he, like, tried to increase the rent by 70%. so we were able to successfully fight it, but we know it's not the final solution. the final solution is to buy that building and buy it and convert it to permanently affordable housing by making a nonprofit, like, buy it. so i think if we would -- you know, this housing bond would help a lot, in, like, doing a

lot for the small size housing. so i am excited to vote for the -- >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i appreciate it. is anyone else for public comment here on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, i h'd like to voten these two items separately -- oh, supervisor yee. >> president yee: yeah. i just wanted to make sure we thank the public for coming out today. although we were hoping to make some final amendments, after all, we just found out an extra $100 million less than a week ago, i believe, or about a week ago. i was hoping for a miracle, but it didn't happen. the miracle was the $100 million. so thank you once again, and i have a lot of confidence that the -- my colleagues and i and

the mayor's office will get to something by next week, and then, we can move on. it's true, it's been a collaborative effort to get us to where we need to go, and it's kind of nice to actually have a measure where we're not having competing measures that are fighting each other, and this is a good process that i'm enjoying. so i think what we need to do -- i don't know if we need to actually continue these items until we can make these amendments, so i'd like -- mr. givner, givner. so i'd like to make an amendment to move these items to the next budget and finance committee meeting? >> chair fewer: thank you, president yee.

i'd like to say thank you, president yee and thank you to the mayor for working on this so needed bond to help people stay in san francisco. overdue. thank you so much for the leadership. so yes, you have a motion. there's a motion on the table to continue these two items, is that correct, president? >> president yee: yes. >> chair fewer: okay. >> president yee: what's the date? >> chair fewer: the next budget meeting? >> clerk: june 13. >> chair fewer: and i would like to second president yee's motion. can we take that without objection? done. bam, it's done. thank you, also, to the public for coming out. madam clerk, would you please read item 6. >> clerk: item 6 is a hearing to identify the youth commission's budget priorities for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 and requesting the youth commission to report. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and i believe we have our youth commissioners here.

>> hi. all right. hello, supervisors. good afternoon. thank you for having us? my name is calvin, and i'm the legislative affairs officer for the youth commission. i also represent district 5 on the commission. with me today are commissioners dawn, min, thai, hilton, and hurgi, and we are here to present the youth commission's budget policy and priorities for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 fiscal years. so the primary charted function of the youth commission is to advise the mayor and board of

supervisors on the unmet needs budgetary policy of youth in san francisco, and so throughout the year, we fulfill this function mainly by referring legislation that is referred to us by the board, by supporting community initiatives for youth and by bringing individual issues and concerns affecting youth to you directly as supervisors. however, the youth commission's annual budget and policy priorities report is the result of a more comprehensive process of outreach to our communities and our constituents and affects the most important and pressing concerns of youth in san francisco with action steps that we urge you to take in order to address those concerns. so we were here before on february 13 to present our preliminary version mainly dedicated to budgetary

recommendations? we are back here today with a basically finalized set of recommendations, and we -- the final report will be circulated to your offices in the upcoming weeks. so this year, the commission has six big priorities in three policy areas. civic engagement, housing and land use and transformative justice. so we are going to present each one of those priorities. each priority has a set of recommendations that are sort of actionable steps that we think the city should take to meet the concerns of youth? and just to note that these priorities have been the culmination of work over several months, so they may not exactly reflect current events. so for example, we are actually quite pleased that the mayor's housing bond has mentioned specifically transitional age

youth as a population to receive housing under the bond. so without further adieu, i will turn it over to the rest of the commissioners to present the priorities. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm commissioner min. in light of the rising tension in our current political climate, the youth commission believes -- the youth commission believes it is all the more important to include youth in politics and legislation that will affect them in the years to come. currently, young people in san francisco are voiceless in local politics even though many of us drive, work, pay taxes and regularly take part in

rallies. the youth commission strongly urges the board to support assembly member evan low's amendment and the movement which would grant youth suffrage. next, i hope we can all agree that the foundation of any functioning democracy is a strong civic engagement, and that is why our commission has been dedicated towards providing youth the necessary resources and preregistering to vote. our -- through our civic engagement committee, we have already registered over 50 people, and the question may come up, then, how does preregistering contribute towards our democracy? well, data proves that engagement in the political

process at a young age instills lifelong habits of performing civic duty. thus, the youth commission strongly urges the board to work with the san francisco unified school district on implementing board education resolution 162.23-a-3, that the department of children, youth, and their families require that their youth serving agencies provide preregistration options, and that the board and dcyf to work with the school board in fulfilling their previously committed voter education policies. and finally, we -- we do hope that the board continues to support the department of elections and their budgetary needs. so without further adieu, i'm going to pass it on to commissioner dong. >> my name is maggie dong, and i am the vice chair of the housing and land use committee,

and i'm here to present priority three, which is to increase emergency shelter options and permanent housing options for transitional age youth. so our first suggestion is to complete the 2015 housing plan. the goal of this plan was to complete 400 units of permanent supportive housing by 2015. but four years past the few date there is still 120 units that have not been completed? our suggestion for the department of homelessness and supportive housing is to actually allocate 120 of their 700 units that they will be providing in other projects and to take that and to allocate that for transitional age youth. second is to commit to a new 2025 t.a.y. housing plan. so other than the 2015 t.a.y.

housing plan, there has not been another housing plan for this population? we know there is still a need of supportive housing for t.a.y., and that exceeds the 2015 goals, so clearly, there is a need for a new ten-year plan in order to provide the sufficient amount of housing? and the third point is to construct a t.a.y. navigation center. so as we've discussed in the budgetary priority presentation, the t.a.y. navigation center is still not constructed. the board of supervisors promised it would be established by 2018, but we're still not seeing any progress despite there being funded allocated for it already, and i will pass it on to jose. >> hello. i'm commissioner thai.

i'm the chair of the housing committee and district 8 youth commissioner. community based organizations are on the front line, providing housing to youth experiencing homelessness. they are doing their best to provide these services while being severely overstretched and over capacity. i can tell you that the system is challenging to navigate and not all services are adequate to serve youth. since there's no adequate services, this leads youth to be unsupported as well as lead to commit acts of survival. and now i'll be introducing the transformative justice committee's priorities. priority 4 is to continue the expansion of alternatives to incarceration for youth in

t.a.y. and encouraging the closure of juvenile hall at 850 bryant, to expand youth court, and to hold a hearing regarding the t.a.y. population in san francisco jails. the connection between youth homelessness and incarceration shows that their needs are not being met. >> so we would be -- it's a continuation of -- as a continuation of priority four, we would urge you to continue funding holistic services such

as behavioral health therapy and drug screening services. we want to stress the effects of trauma on young people, and that is one of the reasons why people end up in places like youth guidance center, so it's important to have youth guidance centers that treat the effects of trauma before young people are introduced to the juvenile justice system? we would also like to urge the -- like, the voices of formally -- formerly incarcerated youth on committees and panels, similar to the youth, and incentivize the priorities of being on these panels and also to make monetary investments that support young people in and

around the juvenile justice system? and our last point, we would like to reform the cash bail system as it's an unfair system that unnecessarily impacts low-income communities that don't necessarily have kbhaacc to that monetary bail. [inaudible] >> -- s.f. children of incarcerated parents bill of rights. it explicitly details the rights of young children with parents in systems of incarcerations, the issues they deal witand explicitly detail

their rights. so our second point on priority five is to create a school district -- school district liaison role inside of jails to support students with incarcerated parents and support connections within the school district for students with incarcerated parents. our fourth and final point is to ensure regular evaluations of the police department's youth at time of arrest protocols set forth in d.g.o. 7.04. this program trains new officers in, like, situations of arrest where there are children present because we think it's important, especially going back to the juvenile trauma of people in the juvenile justice system, seeing very harsh arrest situations of your parents or family members can be very, like, negatively impactful on

young people, and we would like to make sure that all police officers in sfpd's department are trained in arrest protocols, including young people, and using the basis of these training programs by taking the experiences of young people who were present at their parents -- at the time of their parents' arrest and making sure their voices are included in these training programs. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is alexander. i am also a mayoral appointee. i'm representing priority 6, which is implement and invest in san francisco police department's juvenile resource officers and san francisco unified school district's youth cognitive development trainings and culturally relevant youth trainings. the first is required trainings for police officers on youth focused deescalation tactics.

the youth commission has -- the youth commission strongly advocates that there be -- that there be trainings throughout the san francisco police department for all officers that focus on interacting with youth because youth brains do not develop fully until they're around 25, and we need -- and the san francisco police department -- we advocate each officer receives these trainings, so if they're interacting with a youth, that they're not be sort of any escalation of this interaction, that there be sort of a general sense of calm, that the youth does not feel sort of threatened. and also, we want the trainings to deal -- to also deal with trauma because we don't want the youth to experience any trauma during these interactions which should not any ways invoke trauma.

we advocate that -- we the youth commission advocate that there be widespread youth trainings for all. we ask that they expand these trainings for the school resource officers and juvenile probation department especially because these two subsets of the police department interact and are bound to interact with youth more frequently, and we advocate that they be for all people working in these categories. the mayor and the board of supervisors ensure wide spread distribution of know your rights initiative. over the years, the youth commission has worked with the police commission of

accountability on the know your rights program. one is pamphlets that explicitly explains the rights that youth have with police. for example, the recent edition of the all 17 year olds do need representation. the other is workshop for youth that are sort of all -- that deal with possible interactions and possible instances where they could be talking with police. so we want to make sure that the board of supervisors and mayor distributes the pamphlets where youth congregate. so for instance, san francisco unified school district, social media, and other places that youth congregate, such as rec centers in order to make sure that youth get the information that they need and the information that they should

get when dealing with police interactions. and then, the next is to widen and expand the youth-police interactions that we've started this year. so the youth commission's transformative justice committee has hosted a youth police roundtable this past march. they've met with chief scott many times, and they've also talked with other members of the police department and had other meetings to start building bridges and start getting more work done regarding to several issues with justice for youth, so we want to expand that, and some of that involves having a quarter -- having a quarterly plea -- chief youth advisory roundtable. we also want there to be an annual youth police roundtable. and also more -- and also, we want there to be a youth seat on the police commission so

that the police commission can have -- while dealing with issues pertaining to youth can have an actual voice of a youth on that commission to help with navigating decisions regarding youth in the police department. turn it over to commissioner dong. >> we just want to acknowledge some of our community partners and city partners for helping us and inviting our budget and policy priorities? this concludes our presentation, and we will be available for questions if you have any. >> chair fewer: president yee? >> president yee: yeah. i just want to thank the youth for coming out and probably the whole youth commission in putting this plan together. it looks like it's been well thought out, and there's --

everything that you presented today was really exciting. i'm excited to see youth, those 16 come back. i know we made an attempt to get that passed a few years ago, and several of the youth that came from my district were actually disappointed. i'm hoping that with this time around, that with all your help and everybody's help on the board of supervisors, that we can get this passed. so i will volunteer myself to help you pass that. the other thing -- the idea of having a youth representative on the youth -- on the police commission is a great idea. i think we have that in other entities, whether it's city

college board. they have a student rep. on the san francisco unified school district, they have a student rep on that board, so nothing new. i think we need a voice there that's representing the youth. so if that's something we need to do regarding an ordinance, i will help do that. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: i just want to say i think you made my day because despite my advanced age, i agree with every one of your recommendations, and am really proud to be working on some of them. go closure of juvenile hall yesterday, 10-1 vote. it was pretty amazing.

yes, snap for that. i also just want to echo and mention that it's really frustrating that we haven't opened up the t.a.y. navigation center yet. the fact that we have put money in the budget two years, and the fact that we still don't know if there's a site that's feasible is extremely, extremely frustrating. i was talking to jeff kosinski, the director of supportive and homeless housing about it. i know we're looking in district 5 specifically for the site because that is where most of the homeless youth in our city are, but there comes a point where we have to look close by if we can't open it right in district 35 because it's not okay that we've now gone 2 years with the site funded or the program funded

and no site found. so i wanted to echo and share your priority in that direction and hope to work with you in really pushing to get some final action on that. but overall, just such a great, thoughtful report and set of priorities. you make us proud, and so glad we have a youth commission in san francisco because your voice is so critical. and it's also an important check on adults who are, you know, writing our laws and are focused in the right places and are making the right policies and youth agree with some of this direction -- or disagree, but it's really important to know that. thank you so much for all of your hard work. >> sorry. through the chair, if i may address that. thank you for your support, and also our full report in mock up

form here, we'll be distributing that very soon to your offices, and it has a lot of background information and statistics and sort of elements that we hope that you can review when it comes out. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: yeah, i'll be brief. i just wanted to say how impressed i was by this presentation, by this extraordinary document. we talked the last time you were here in february about unfulfilled promises, the t.a.y. navigation and homeless transition for a.g.s, and i hope that the city will move more aggressively over the next year on fulfilling some of those promises than we have over the past years.

so hoping that in the near term, we can figure out a way to get the juvenile facility closed, as well. so thank you, youth commission. >> chair fewer: thank you. [please stand by]

>> was that, you know, they serve 90% students of color, a third of them come from households where english is not the main language. 54 languages are spoken in the san francisco school district. i want to say that i think the housing site that the one that is in g5, i hope this is in the housing bond to complete that. it hadn't been completed yet. i would like to see some

permanent support of housing for our youth. the navigation center is only for 90 days. it is not a permanent solution. millions of dollars go to this. i would actually see permanent housing. i want to commend you. this is great. again, i would say the committees we have set up with the school district, also with city college. we also want city college to capture through a voting registration which i don't see. i have been to city college to register folks, i don't see a robust effort. a lot of the kids graduate at the age of 17. you can register a year earlier actually than 18. perfect when there is required course that is an apg course required for graduation we add

that to the curriculum so every student with the ability to vote, hopefully everyone, those particularly who have proper documentation in this country will be able to vote, also, and every voice will be heard. i want to thank you very much. i look forward to hearing more about this. when i look at this what i don't see are sort of the budget asks for this. how we operate here is people have a list and a little thing that says how much money should be allocated. that takes another step of thought. how much would it take to add caughtly implement this? in which budget should it go into? if you want workshops should that be out of the police budget, out of which budget

should that come from or is it something that the youth commission wanted to take on themselves to help design that? anyway, i think that what as this committee looks to is actually a budget number. again, i was a big supporter of 16. i did a video awhile ago. i don't know if you still have those in the archives. i will say that it is promising, and it is time where this country is around the lack of participation of people voting. this particular election in 2016 has sparked interest in people that they know they must actually voice their opinion about things like student debt,

like gun control, like a future for our youth here in the world but also in our country. thank you. any other comments? >> supervisor stefani: i want to thank you all for coming out and sharing your perspective. it is great to hear from the youth and i want to encourage you to engage with me as i continue my work on the blue ribbon panel with the juvenile justice system. it is something i care deeply about. there are many ways to repurpose juvenile hall in a way that is going to better outcomes for youth. as we develop plans to deal with the problems that have been mentioned, i encourage you to engage with me as i continue my work on the blue ribbon panel. thank you. >> thank you so much.

we will be reaching out to you about that. thank you. >> just, chair fewer, to respond to your question about budget numbers. for this committee the youth commission has limited capacity. we have been trying to bring up the policy considerations. i think this year we will probably not be able to come with a more elaborate report on actual numbers. we will take that request into consideration and think about ways to try to adjust our capacity to provide that in coming years. it will help all of us to sort of figure out, you know, what we can do, when, how we can accomplish these recommendations. >> thank you very much. madam clerk, i would like to file this item. i make a motion.

could i have a second. supervisor mandelman, thank you very much. is there any other business before us today? >> we are adjourned.

shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant.

so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses.

it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level

rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's

guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of

lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments.

>> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help

people in any way we can. >> >> my name is sofy constantineo and a documentary film maker and cinema togfer, producer and director.

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street photographry with a few portraits. i'm going arounds san francisco and capturing the [inaudible] as we started to do this project i was reading about the decline of african american population in san francisco and i wondered where the remaining population was and what they were doing and how life was for them. >> i wasn't very inspired by school, i wasn't very inspired by continuing to read and write and go to class. i watched a lot of movies and saw a lot of [inaudible] i said that is what i want to do. i had this very feminist [inaudible] and i felt like there was not enough of a womans vision on the stuff that we see, the movies that we make and the beginning of the [inaudible] the way we look at

women and the roles women take in the stories being tolds. they felt [inaudible] they did want feel complex. i was like, i have a different frame i like to see the world shaped by. >> my grandsmother was a teacher and taught special education for 40 years in los angeles and when i was growing up she inspired me to record everything. we recorded our conversations, we recorded the [inaudible] we recorded everything to cassette players. learning multimedia skills, from the other crossover employment opportunities for young people. someone who grew up in la rks san francisco feels like a small town. i lived in western addition and i was

looking for someone to cut my hair, i found [inaudible] he seemed like a very interesting guy and grew up in the neighborhood and had a lot to say about something that was foreign to me. that local perspective and so important to me because i think as someone who isn't from here, knowing that history allows me to be more engaging in the community i live in and want the same for others. i want people to move into a new neighborhood to know who was there before and businesses and what cultural and [inaudible] shape what we see today. >> my guiding principles have been, if you stick to something long enough and know what it is and go for it you will get there. [inaudible] where i want to go, what i want to do and it is totally possible so, the impossible is

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