we have two inspectors handling roughly 500 sro's. they are investigating complaints and doing some room by room inspections. these have been designated as family sro's or where the city has the master lease function. for the apartment inspection program, we have 10 inspectors distributive citywide. supervisor kim: 10 for apartments and two for hotels and shelters. you say that is roughly 530 hotels and shelters? but there are roughly about 500 sro hotels. with tourist hotels, is 800 total. supervisor kim: these two inspectors are responsible for 800 hotels? >> that is correct. we're managing by the complete response to complete response -- we are managing by the complaint response. at the service level we are providing, it is adequate. i mentioned we're doing the pro- active inspections in only a subset of the tesoro -- of the sro's were the city has the master lease responsibility or where we have assigned families. i think we would be welcoming of being able to do a preventative function. it would need additional resources. we are

one-third of our membership resides currently in sro units. we have over 60 members present today as they recalled earlier, and are here to express concern about the bedbug epidemic and the rise of the infestation and need for a more streamlined and foresman regarding the issue. we also think the board of supervisors and city government for the opportunity to speak on behalf of bedbugs and hope that we have your support on better enforcement process and streamlined and forth the procedures. thank you. >> [speaking chinese] >> good afternoon. i am the president of the resident improvement association. we are an organization established by members of the chinatown housing project. we of more than 400 households in the development. most are low income modeling goal, immigrant families and seniors. we are here to support the effort of the san francisco 10 and communication to solve the bedbug epidemic. we understand the plight of low- income tenants living in substandard housing conditions. there needs to be more out of reach done in the community

it has tremendous effects on the children living in sro's. because the bedbugs bite them at night, they cannot sleep well and they do not have good performance in school. for now, bedbugs may affect families in sro's, but soon, it will be a widespread city problem. today, a lot of our families wanted to come to the hearing but many had worked in the morning, so they could not come. i have a lot of faith in the city of san francisco and our supervisors that they will come up with a good solution to this problem. and also, she agrees with what tina was saying, that there was more language capacity in both departments inspectors so that we can regularly communicate. lynn would also like to speak for a little bit. >> [speaking chinese] >> my name is lynn, i am 13, and i live in an sro. having bedbugs for a long time, we have caught many people, thus control companies, and they said you need to not be in the room for a couple of hours. we come back and the bedbugs are still here. sometimes i go to school, i scratch my head, and a bedbug falls out,

i do not live in sro, i live in an apartment. one wall of the apartment building is adjacent to an sro. i don't know if that's where the bedbugs came from and i don't think i care where the bed thought -- or the bedbugs came from. i had a boyfriend number of months ago and we broke up a while back. he had bedbugs in his apartment and he dealt with it quite effectively. i believe today he does not have them anymore. there is a possibility maybe when he came to spend the night he brought the bedbugs with him, but i don't know and i don't care. i'm not interested in putting blame, i'm interested in expressing what i go through. i appreciate the gentleman who asked about what is the difference between mesquita as? the difference is you get these bites on you and these bikes do not heal because every night -- you get these bites on you in these bites' do not heal. they go back to the night before. they go back to the same hole because it is easier. there's already a scab there and it's easy to get to that and get through the blood. i

hoarding -- sro units are so small that tenants do not have any place to put their belongings. so while we are treating, it is best not going to work. there are a lot of new procedures coming out. supervisor mar: i think we are going to hear testimony from a woman from around the corner where i live in the richmond district. i think it is not just south of market, tenderloin, sro's, but also in other units in many of our neighborhoods throughout the city. for people that have not experienced bedbugs, why is it different from mosquito bites, flea infestation, other kinds of tests? why are they more of a problem? >> imagine if you went to your home and every time he went to sleep, all these bugs would come out and bite you. there is nothing you can do about it. i have never experienced it, would never want to, but i have had tenants call us crying. they call the city, property manager, social workers. dealing with this over 10 years, i do have to say one thing. there was one tenant, after informed that he had bedbugs, he shot himself because he was afraid of losing his house. we

the mission article said about 3/4 of the sro's were interested. i am wondering if other areas have extremely high infestations. do you know? >> we did not break down this information by regions of the city. i will tell you anecdotally that the mission definitely has a high infestation. the tenderloin and other areas have high infestations. a lot of that has to do with the operation of the hotels. in the cases we have referred to the city attorney, we have had discussions with operators to encourage them to be more sophisticated in dealing with the bed bugs and migration of personal effects throughout the building. we're not completely there yet. that is something the department of building inspection has been working on. the other thing i would like to show you has to do with the number of inspectors dedicated to this. for housing inspectors, anyone could be dealing with bed bugs. i have sectors based on geographic areas throughout the city. i have an inspector completely dedicated to doing room inspections within residential hotels. we do have th

to make sure that our asian american brothers and sisters, and grandparents who are still living in sro's, i want to thank you for the work you are doing for them. the work we are doing for asian- american brothers and sisters who still today may not have health insurance or child care. for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparents who may not have access to the prescription drugs or senior services that they need. we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. i just want to thank you in this year of 2011 are coming together as a community for the work we have done, the work we are doing, and the work we will continue to do. [speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause]

to make sure that our asian american brothers and sisters, and grandparents who are still living in sro's, i want to thank you for the work you are doing for them. the work we are doing for asian- american brothers and sisters who still today may not have health insurance or child care. for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparents who may not have access to the prescription drugs or senior services that they need. we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. i just want to thank you in this year of 2011 are coming together as a community for the work we have done, the work we are doing, and the work we will continue to do. [speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim. >> one of the most happy experiences growing up as a chinese-american was always getting days lece red envelopes. usually, there

we go to the different schools to reach out to the wellness centers and check in with sro's, i would really love to make that happen. we are offering our services to the schools, >> edy zing is a shining example. he was down for 2 decades. let's join with eddy on that. rebecca. >> would it be possible will to have coordinate with muni where the bus stops are. the bus is going to be there within 10 minutes of the final school bell so they don't have to wait 20, 30 minutes for a bus. and kids have to transfer. it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get home. if it would be coordinated between the school district and muni that buses arrive and coordinate transfer stops. that would help kids on muni and maybe have a person on the bus stop. >> we have time, sorry just one more. >> okay. all right. peer pressure. >> my name is rudy corpus. give a big shout out. i think one good solution is to focus more on elementary school kids. educate them in a way they can comprehend. if they can recite a whole e-40. you know a first grader came to school with a gun. focus on the elementary school kids. tha

we will hear from sro tenants with david. [applause] >> my name is david lewis, i am here representing the city. i am here representing -- these decisions need to be smart. treatment can cost so much more. consider these trade-offs. community health services verses domestic violence. affordable and supportive housing programs verse is homelessness spearheaded -- homelessness. it stands for a single room occupancy hotels. most of these were constructed after the 1906 earthquake. they were built to house the workers after the quake. they are home to over 500 families and 1000 children. just in the area alone. to some of the city's most vulnerable residents. after many, these are a safeguard to homelessness, and they are also a step up and they step out to people that have been homeless. please remember that the true cost of homelessness is not just found in the service issues, it is in the impact of the quality of life. helping to move people out and stay out involves a series steppingstone programs. the begin with shelters, ca

she was a sro , school resource officer. during that time, she worked with middle schools throughout the district and in many areas where they were experiencing violence. she has been an invader. i would like to acknowledge captain masha ash. captain ash has done a tremendous amount of work. she worked on protocols that would work with children taken to the youth facility. during the parent's arrest and from trauma. thank you very much officer pri lo and captain nash. i am going to go over the panel discussion. we are try find solutions which includes violence to and from school and on the site. our goal is to move forward solutions. we ask that all questions be reserved today end. please feel free to jot down questions you have. those questions we are not able to get to, we are interested in collecting them. we are going to collect information with respect to solutions as well as action items that they are going to take back and work on. so our first topic is violence to and from school. jeff will moderate this piece. >> we

if you are a victim of residing all black, brown, or poor, residing in your sro -- president chiu: thank you on behalf of all of the supervisors from rhythm nation. general public is closed. could you read the adoption without committee reference calendar, please? madam court has just reminded us we have not yet filed item one, given that we have finished general public comment, including individuals who wanted to comment on questions asked during question time. i would like to file. without objection. now, if we could go back to adoption without committee reference. >> items 22 through 27 are being considered for immediate in unanimous adoption. these will be acted on by a single roll call vote unless a member requests otherwise. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any items? supervisor avalos: item 22. president chiu: please call the roll on items 23 through 27. supervisor farrell: aye, supervisor kim: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. >> there ar

part of the sro program, it offers 6 officers skills clinic. we are doing that within 9 middle schools. it's grant funded specifically for that. and so far, the funding stream is there and the school district has been supportive of that as well. that add to the other programs. project impact and alert. all very important programs. the other piece that we're charged to do is help create a saver environment for the children in school. so we, as school resource officers, wear many hats. 1 day we are mediating or siting a child. we offer classes. we have a wilderness component. we take them hiking. we do that with the school district, the boys club and the ymca. the connection is the important thing. without the connection and listening relationship, there is no trust. that's what we strive to build. >> thank you. did you want to add something, angela? >> yes, i did, i had a couple of action items. i think this is a good time to add. to officer parillo. there's a lot of great programs. i noticed these programs are sporadic. there's a couple at this

in the community of attorneys because she would send me all of the clients the were living in our sro'snd struggling with immigration reform and all of the blockage is there. she had such a big heart, but i could not take on as many clients as i possibly could, whether they were single clients or whole groups of them. i selected annie chung this year that she continues her great work. you can see her senior centers all over the city servicing clientele. you can see that she has gone well beyond just senior centers, that she is in meals programs. that she has also served on various committees that help us way beyond the traditional senior programs. for example, i served with her way back when it was pacbell. then it became sbc. then back to at&t. she is advising verizon and others because she knows as well as i do that communication and the way we communicate has been evolving. and if we do not keep our seniors involved in that, they will be left behind. as many other groups are left behind when it comes to technology, says she has gone ahead of them. that is a woman who has been for see