hsa has a seat on the committee. they hold the majority of the contracts for the shelter for writers. their relationship is the -- that we provide information about the concerns and the data we have collected to all agencies. some of the information the committee has provided around access issues have been part of the change in policies around reservations days and changes locations as part of another process, so hsa has the information from the shelter monitoring committee, the service providers themselves, and my understanding is they use that information in making some of their decisions. supervisor campos: is the shelter monitoring committee under hsa? >> no, it is not. as far as i understand, it is under the legislative branch. it is under the board of supervisors that created the administrative code. the staff is a department of public health staff, but the shelter monitoring committee is not under the department of public health. supervisor campos: the committee staff its staff of hsa? >> of dph. i am employed

the chair of the committee was going to be here this morning.nfortunately, he is ill and he extends his apologies and has asked me to follow up on some of the points that he wanted to stress that after meeting with supervisor campos earlier this month. you will find three reports in front of you. they cover three different areas, standard of care report, an analysis and overview of all standard of care complaints received for the fiscal year 09/10. august quarterly reports cover the last quarter of 2009, 2010. the newest report was just approved at yesterday's meeting. it covers the site inspection, the number of complaints received from july 1 to september 30. the chair also wanted to use the opportunity to talk more about the policy recommendations the committee has made in the past and wants to focus on in this upcoming fiscal year. there are four things the committee would like to see the city and county look back, explore, and hopefully put into practice. one is the ability for the system that currently exists, the changes reservation syste

is that the fault of the committee, tracking providers, dph -- so what the committee is looking for, looking to you, our resources are allotted. sites can have an opportunity to send some staff to training. that information can be brought back and they can train the trainer. we are looking to see if training manuals are being used, which staff has had what type of training, so we know what is lacking. right now, the data that we have is inconclusive as far as which sites have had an opportunity to sit down and go through every chapter in the manual. supervisor campos: on case management, you are having 11th -- talking about having 11 case managers for close to 1134 adults. you noted some of those case managers, sometimes the number is actually smaller because some are assigned to specific sites. what are we talking about in terms of the specific case load of these case managers? >> unfortunately, i do not have that data. the information we got from the roving team, you are looking at one to 54 or 136, depending on the services they are providing. delors street has 85 clients. they ha

there's a capital committee and operations committee. this is one step further in giving public notice of items agendaed and giving them an opportunity to speak without the consequence of it being acted upon that day. that in -- one of the desires beyond the public input will be that it gives staff a chance to get more input so items may be modified to reflect community input before they reach the commission for final approval. so with that, i'm going to ask commissioner boneniia to weigh in on this because she inspired me to move in this direction and we'll speak later when it is on the agenda. >> thank you so much for this opportunity. during my first term we had this subcommittee structure in place and -- i was of the strong belief then and i am now that it served the public very, very well. and with -- would it al -- it allowed us to have that maybe we don't have as much of now and that is -- to -- it allowed us to get input and buy-in from the communeity -- from the -- from the onset as opposed to after the fact. it also -- also all

is that the fault of the committee, tracking providers, dph -- so what the committee is looking for, looking to you, our resources are allotted. sites can have an opportunity to send some staff to training. that information can be brought back and they can train the trainer. we are looking to see if training manuals are being used, which staff has had what type of training, so we know what is lacking. right now, the data that we have is inconclusive as far as which sites have had an opportunity to sit down and go through every chapter in the manual. supervisor campos: on case management, you are

and full committee leadership. do you see there being a drastic change? walden was once on the committee and give up his spot. do you think -- i know that you cannot speak to the individual, but do you think those candidates representing different views on some of the issues we have talked about? or do you see them all being in similar camps, so much so that it is safe to say that, no matter which one of the antics of the subcommittee, we will see a slightly different role for the subcommittee -- no matter which one of them takes up the subcommittee, we will see a slightly different role for the subcommittee? >> they will be focused on broadband reclassification and spectrum. given the thoughts on privacy, it is tough to see that there will not be focused on privacy. finally, the committee parties, whether republicans or democrats are in charge, -- the committee priorities, whether republicans or democrats are in charge, those are the hot button issues. those are likely to be the priorities moving forward. >> what

i tell know if any every member of the committee has anything to add. i like to echo the comments of my colleague, supervisor campos, the chairman of the rules committee. i think that mr. slaughter answered questions very sensitively. he had many people speaking on his behalf. what i felt was on honest answer about the efforts to show police and community efforts to make things safer among the immigrant groups. i know that his record was repeated by a number of people in the audits about his long involvement with different social justice issues, in particular supporting children and other efforts. i went into the meeting with some questions but i think that he responded very sensitively so i'm supportive of his appointment by the mayor. >> i have known mr. slaughter for a number of years and i appreciate my colleagues on the rules committee offering their support and schering was presented at the hearing. i also think about the fact that he has been involved as an attorney in complex issues is important. there's quite a bit of financial fraud taking pla

the nobel committee in norway made the announcement on friday. >> the nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize of 2010 to liu xiaobo for his long struggle for fundamental human rights in china. >> the 54-year-old became active a human rights activist while attending university. human rig attending university. in 1989 he joined a pro-democracy demonstrations in tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdown.at tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdown. tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdow tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdowa tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdt tiananmen square, which ended in a bloody military crackdown. authorities arrested liu as one of the protest's leaders and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. the incident did not deter him from releasing papers seeking political reform. the chinese government responded by detaining him or keeping him under surveillance. in 2008, liu, along with hundreds of intellectuals, released via the internet a polit

would you like the work was committee report? -- the rules committee report? we did hear a legislative overview, not a lot of legislation in front of us. we did get a little bit of a report on moving the hvac -- moving the age back on kindergarten. there are going to be some effects. 18 is monitoring this -- a team is monitoring this. we also have a report from susan wong, and this is really going to be a great effort. they are working on a contract right now, and at the end of the year, we should have updated policies complete the online, searchable -- completely online, searchable. it seems like a small thing, but she is doing great work. and finally, we had a small change to the board rules. it was for first reading, and it will be for second reading next time. there is not going to be a meeting for the rules, policy, and legislation committee until january. vice president mendoza: thank you. item t is a report of those things in closed session. the board voted by two ayes and -- the approve the expulsion of one high school student, wrote -- they approve th

the committee reviews all of those. they actually take testimony and they are able to ask them questions. >> these are recommendations from the committee. >> actually, it is the chief taking recommendation. >> i have done this before. >> it confused me tonight. we do have new commissioners, so it looks like we are making this police commission commendation. i think we need to make it clear the committee is recommending to the commission. >> that is correct, commissioner. they are all commission-level awards. they cannot be presented to any officers without commission approval. >> public comment? president marshall: we can take public comment before we vote. >> commissioner steve johns. i just want to thank commissioner mazzucco and chief gascon for redr resurrecting this tonight. when we heard what the actions the police took, four people voted for police commen indications? that never should have happened. maybe we should go to a role call vote to see where everybody stands. plus i happen to know that i have had the pr

will be sitting in as a member of the committee in replace of ross who is at the coastal committee. the clerk of the committee is mr. victor young. mr. young, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to speak during public comments fill out a card and turn it in to myself. if you have any 2k0789s please include a copy to the clerk for the file. the board of supervisors agenda on september 21, 2010 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. young. please if you could call number one. >> item number one, resolution approval the agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the nonprofit institute of aging, community living fund and linkage program services to adults with disabilities for a total not to exceed $13,941,544. >> very good. an and colleagues, i have and perhaps you have on your desk as well, an amendment, actually reset the total amount for the agreement to $16,144,186 and make that amendment here. >> if we can do that without objection. okay. >> good morning, chairman and members of the committee. i'm david

you have to be a resident of the city to serve on the committees. we had one person who moved out so we will have to remove him. then we will one person resign from the board of tkpers. all others -- examiners. all those said they wish to continue. we we we are meeting october 7 to review. any resumes that we get we will review at that time. >> commissioner murphy, i think if we meet after october 3 and find that there isn't a good pool of applicants we can extend the date. president murphy: ok. thank you. commissioner hechanova commissioner hechnova: in addition to the individuals the notifications being sent out to professional organizations ar business organizations such as a.i.a.? >> right and we have people that in the letter i asked them to pass out the information on to any colleagues or any in their companies that might be interested. commissioner hechnova: thank you. president murphy: thank you, ann. thank you, commissioner lee. >> do we have any public comment on that item? president murphy: seeing none. next item. >> we are going into 11.

and address the committee.nk it is important for them to come before this body. if we could make that motion, with that, make a motion which would mean that we would be confirming -- recommend the confirmation of the appointment of steven lee and natividad ramirez. thank you both for your service, and congratulations. please call item 7. >> item 7, hearing to consider appointing one member, a term ending july 20, 2014, to the entertainment commission. there are 16 applicants. supervisor campos: we have one opening and 16 applicants. for the record, unless i'm corrected, three applicants have withdrawn their application. that is anderson pugash, and also miles christian daniels, and shahriar amighassemkhany. svetlana kaff we heard from already. we could next call brit hahn. again, thank you all for your patience. >> good afternoon. i would like to say it is an honor to be considered for this position with all these qualified applicants. many of them are my peers in the entertainment industry, and i'm sure you wi

i would like to request that the public advisory committee set up its own committee of participants in the process on a daily basis, the stakeholders in other words. i would like them to be in the process of defining what occurs on a day-by-day basis for the movement of the site permit. thank you. that is my request. president murphy: thank you. any further public comments? seeing none, commissioner lee. commissioner lee: after listening to the comments and discussion on this topic, it seems to me one of the stumbling blocks is the department's participation on this committee. i think a lot of the issues would be resolved or be discussed and answered. i will pose this to the commissioners. is there anything we can do as a commission to help you get these other departments to participate? >> in the future i think what i will do at the public advisory committee is ask the city attorney to attend. because some of these policy changes that people or the commission or public advisory committee think are policy changes are not policy changes. they are state laws that have been ignored by the

the house transportation committee. so joining us to talk about all this. wall street journal columnist editor and james freeman and kim strassel. dan, we keep hearing this is a wave election, a big event the kind we don't see often, but what explains the vulnerability of a guy like ike skelton, he hasn't gotten less than 86% since 1982. >> the problem is there's a percentage higher than that. he voted with nancy pelosi 95% of the time and it's really fascinating because skelton, head of the defense committee is very conservative guy, pro defense, pro iraq, pro afghanistan. >> paul: brought the b-2, everybody believes to the air force base, the bomber. >> and running against a formidable candidate. and bill clinton came out there to campaign for him and sarah palin to campaign for her. his problem is, he's in a district that voted in 2008 for john mccain. obama's-- >> by 60%. >> by 60% and obama's approval rating in that state is 36% so he may lose having voted with pelosi, and this is a perfect story of what the democrats did. they you know, forced guys li

annually the permitting committee will review the s.b.c.'s strategy plans and identify items for implementation. that is our mission statement to give clarity to the purpose of that committee. in that meeting we talked about goals, objectives and other ideas that would come up. one of them is we have somewhat discussed or partly discussed this evening having a joint commission hearing with the planning commission. i am also hopeful of maybe including the building inspection commission and actually having a real brainstorming session involving those three commissions. i think there is a lot of overhappen, and i think it might be helpful to have -- even though there are logistical obstacles to overcome with a meeting of that size, it would be worth it for examining issues that all three of those commissions coffer. in particular our permit committee, one of the issues is permit streamlining. i think the d.b.i. may be ahead on what they might implement in the future for a permitting process. it might be a centralized and online tracking system.

after the committee process, and before it gets to the rules committee. just do not think that is acceptable. we should require that all committees meet these standards. we should require that all committees, a special the rules committee, post complete transcripts online. with obvious exceptions for those panels dealing with classified information. to insure that there is propped brock -- proper oversight, congress should review its internal committee structure. this has not been done in 15 years. just think about that. we cannot ask our members to be more engaged if they sit on three different committees and a handful of subcommittees. we currently have a rules require -- regarding member limitation, but they're always waved. -- waived. we need to rethink this. i know i have covered a lot of ground here and run at a lot of ideas. some of them may get off the ground in the next congress, some may not. but i do believe that it is important that we had a discussion and equally vital that that discussion starts right now. reform should always be an ongoing

i understand that this will go to the budget and finance committee. i encourage you to go and visit both of this size before you give your final approval and bring it back to the board. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i am here to speak on the crisis facing our family courts. there's a protest set for october 12th in marin county to the construction -- destruction of evidence. we have a mediator on record u.s. confessed to destroying records. he is the same media that has been mediating my child custody for the past three years and has cost me a minimal amount of pain and suffering -- and innumerable amount of pain and suffering. ring county is where the most egregious crimes have been committed, they are now under fbi investigation. there is a formal complaint with the attorney general's office. i am teaming up with the center for -- excellence. we have a press conference said. this starts at 8:00 a.m. and will be gone until 1:30 p.m.. in every county in california, the crisis is such that they're using mediators and depriving people of the