and so i am, and cathy baxter is a tough act to follow, and i am really agree with so much of what she said, and i think that this is a relevant le important step that we take here and this has been on the table for a long time and there has been a lot of collaboration and could it be more perfect? probably, when we get on there and it is in use, will we maybe see the places that it could be tweaked a little bit, that is possible. i don't know, we will know when it goes through. and so i am very much in support, of the policy being accepted as updated. and i want to say, i also agree, that for me, this is really about providing first responders with protocols so that they know what to do when they get to a crime seen, especially with a lot of officers and our relationship with the police department and we have watched the senior officers go and i also see in my own office, a senior, inspector come with a junior, inspector, and it is really encouraging to see that kind of transfer of knowledge and information, and the care that they are taking with the victims. and i know that my organi

. >> good evening, chief suhr and commissioners my name is cathy baxter and i am the director of the child abuse council and i have been there for 38 years, and i wish that i was making that kind of money, because i am retired in december with no pension. and having worked in a non-profit for 38 years that was enlightning. and i would just like to. >> the people know that. >> but there is a lot of public agency people that don't know that. but i want to say that i feel really proud to be here on domestic violence month and i work closely and i am the director of the council and we are here to support this and child abuse prevention center is here to support this also but i am the chair of family violence and that means that i represent the child abuse piece, and beverly upton represents the piece and shanna with the elder abuse and i wish that we could talk about family violence so that the bumper stickers say family violence if someone is going to apply for the police department and they have a domestic abuse charge they should not apply, and have a child abuse charge and you should

rolang g, i don't think there are any other agency and a gem in the jewel for the familis for cathy baxter. >> and i am not knocking them and i am just saying that we have no idea who these people are. and they are not non-profits that suck the money out of the city and they are there to create a greater bureaucracy as the domestic violence has been declining to some agree, but we are seeing more agencies pop up, almost everywhere. the fight domestic violence, or to promote brochure and documents to prevent the domestic violence, and i can read a few here under the san francisco domestic violence, council, there is 17, agencies. and the apa families support services and the asian pacific islander and the asian woman's shelter and the legal aid fund and the san francisco united against violence and the cooperative restrainingorder, clinic and the house, and the futures without violence, and glide, woman's shelter and i have a problem with the glide woman's shelter because she get a half a million dollars to run that organization over there. they don't donate it to anybody. and then we have