this is leo chi, dcyf, that will make a presentation. they switched from three-year to five-year cycle this year. >> all right. thank you very much. thank you, supervisor cohen, for having these hearing and highlighting children and youth services and for doing a strong job on the section of the report. i'm cfo for children youth and their families, here on behalf of the department. our director is at a national conference on school programs. the department of children youth and their families is the city agency responsible for ensuring that children and youth dollars allocated from the general fund are funding high quality culturally relevant services for children and youth and their families. the services are for children up to 18 years old as well as disconnected, transitional youth, up to and including 24 years old. we perform this through strategic funding, quality services, engagement with san francisco communities and partnerships. dcyf is working with san francisco to make it a great place to grow up. we relieved our r.f.p. for f

dcyf is looking at the data through a number of lenses, including by race. if i can show you the slides, i will show you how the data is presented. as part of a results-based accountability process, our team created score cards where they looked at the information about a lot of key -- what became indicators. so this particular example shows our desire to increase the percentage of students that graduate within four years. so you can see that there is specific, colored lines that correspond to asian, latino, whites, black and native-americans and hawaiian and pacific islanders. there is also a come paparison the state. so we have these score cards on our website. there's a whole section. so you can get that information. and our data team would be happy to walk through it with you. >> supervisor fewer: when you determine whether or not programs are funded for additional years, this is for five years. it's a long funding cycle. are we looking at those programs that actually have had impact for these particular students, meaning, are we using the funds to close

so with our recommendations, we would urge dcyf to require their -- the option of preregistration and to support a state proposition that would lower the voting age from 18 to 17. we would urge the board of supervisors in dcyf to make sure that the required policies pass to allow preregistration. >> supervisor cohen: getting back to your number two recommendation. supporting the lowering age of 18 to 17. we did that here in san francisco. it didn't manifest anything. we took it to voters and it failed. >> talking about proposition f, which is -- >> supervisor cohen: go ahead. >> i think you are talking about proposition f, which was two years ago, november, 2016, it was on the ballot. this is different. that was in the state. the last one was supporting the department of elections. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. there it is, yes, prop f. priority 7? >> as josh mentioned, it was on the 2016 ballot and only lost by 2%. right now, there's a huge amount of young people who are outraged and the self-labeled mass shooting generation are all people that want to be able to hold th

>> in this case, it would be like dcyf and their nonprofits. so we provide nonprofits the funding source to maintain and perform some of this work. and we have funding in both our operating budget and capital budget. >> supervisor cohen: why is so much more spend on trees as opposed to landscaping? >> mainly, the tree maintenance fund was approved by voters. and cement work is pretty expensive. tree establishment $2,000 pear tree from procurement, installation and maintenance of the tree. what drives up the cost around trees, cement work is quite expensive. >> supervisor cohen: you do the cement work, right? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: so it's at cost? >> yes. we've added a cement crew. >> supervisor cohen: how much is granted out to your partners? >> can i get back to you on that amount? i should know this and apology for not knowing. we'll get you that number this afternoon. >> supervisor cohen: not a problem. colleagues, do you have any questions for bruce? all right, bruce. i think you're off the hook. thank you for your presentations. sor

families in crisis, and it is happening because of your leadership and because of the leadership of dcyf, first five, and human service agency for blending their funding. so, we are thrilled in that, and it's showing significant improvement. now turn to who are the victims of abuse. and here we know that most children are victims of abuse by people that they know. it's not the stranger. 86% of those who are abused knew who their perpetrator, potential perpetrator was, and overwhelmingly there is a disproportionality, latin, and other people of color. seeing that in the numbers coming to the district attorney office, and those coming into the child protection system. it's important to note these are reported cases, these are people who are getting access to services, may already be involved in the system. and that disproportionality is concerning to us. we also know and this relates to national trends as well that more girls are victims of violence than boys. but when we dig deeper into the data, we see that more boys are victims, particularly older boys, are victims of physical abuse, as

i suggest that should be made public like what dcyf has available. >> we don't have that on our website. we can take that and move forward. >> i would appreciate that. how do employers look at work force training programs overall? what is the attitude? >> nationally or here? >> i only care about here. >> i think that employers -- we have built a pretty good reputation for ourselves in san francisco. the sector academies are successful in working with employers. anytime work force is introduced to an employer, there is maybe a gut reaction or they tend to be a little hesitant and think it is a charity activity or it is going to be really requiring that they extend a lot and lower what their bar for a qualified employee. >> that stigma is something i have heard also, and the flip side is that i have also heard positive outstanding feedback for people who had preconserved -- preconserved notions how they found a rich talent pool. how do we break down the stigma of the work force that they are not as desirable and really promote that we have an outstanding training program, outstanding youn

back and have a broader look and talk to all these individual agencies, whether it's the library, dcyf and early childhood education, and public health clinics, in terms of fire, police, and the school district particularly to talk about this issue and to get our heads around it. and we've been forwarding this conversation, working with the city's capital planning department, department of real estate, mayor's office of housing and workforce development, so we're having this robust plan that we've been working on. >> commissioner fong: thank you. i know we've been working on the future, and it's hard to talk about the future as specific as possible, but what are the planning department's challenges look like in 2026, and what about the schools in maybe it ends up being on the sixth floor of a building, and maybe every kid has an ipat, and they never leave their house, but i think this is a very good plan, and i'm supportive of it. >> president hillis: thank you. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: i wish you the best, mr. wertheim in your new residence after the end of thi