The program and we are getting people out to have fun in this beautiful city. Rec and parks womens Volleyball Program is available at richmond rec center. Please visit us onli okay, good morning. Thank you all for coming out today. Were very happy to be here. My name is ed rifkin, im the other ed, director of transportation. And as the transportation director, i oversee the sfmta which is the agency that is charged with implementing the citys transit first policy. And what our goal, what the citys goal and the transit first policy is is to make sure that everybody can get around San Francisco, that everyone can get to where they need to go. It is an important part of making the economy of San Francisco work, to making the quality of life good and better. But its not just get around San Francisco any old way. This is San Francisco, and we have values that we bring to our Transportation System. We want people to get around in a way that steps lightly on the environment. We want people to
Ability to work on things that would interrupt and intervene earlier in the behavior patterns of people that would be both victims and perpetrators of Violent Crime in our city. To support the Police Department and Law Enforcement system of doing more predictive policing using both data and technology to help us do that. And then, of course, i think the most important part is to organize our communities and work with communitybased organizations, families, religious groups, and everybody thats on the ground to find more ways to intervene in violent behavior out there and utilize resources such as education systems, our Community Jobs programs, others that might allow people to go in different direction. The unfortunate and very tragic incident in connecticut in Sandy Hook Elementary School of course heightened everybodys awareness of what violence can really be all about. And as we have been not only responding, reacting to this National Tragedy that i think president obama has adequat
Way to confront the challenges that we do face particularly in the area of Human Trafficking on one side. I think it all fits to having this hearing tonight, the work of the Family Violence council for me i feel like a broken record, i feel it is a model, the benefit of being both a city and county, in some respects it is easier to bring all Partner Agencies together by choice or by hook. But i would urge us to continue to look at regional partnerships and for ways to support this beyond our boundaries. The crimes are not just within our boundaries. A want to make this comment before we go into Public Comment, more question than anything else. In the spirit of how i do business. This is the part of tonights agenda. Im not saying it should have been. But tonight looking at the response of Domestic Violence, the prosecution rates, the query reporting module, and the other things im curious about the status of women. At some point i would like to hear about any progress in prevention of a
Kind of have to informational hearings and for people to continue to ask questions, which we will then again forward to redevelopment personnel to moewd and to the oversight board. But i believe that before supervisor mercurini left, he did request a audit and we will find out what the status of that is. There were a lot of questions around 800,000 and we will find out about that and make sure member s of the public receive, but we didnt want to leave without having an opportunity for members of the public to put concerns or questions on the record which we can then forward on to the appropriate departments so people feel there is some Movement Toward establishing some accountability for some of the actions that have occurred in that part of the city over these number of years. So, again, one of the conversations that we just started was with the merchants to try to establish some controls along the lower fillmore area that we hope would be beneficial to the Small Businesses and small
Minutes to comment under general Public Comment and we heard your general Public Comment and we appreciate it and we heard other Public Comment. There isnt a series of comments on other peoples comments. If you have something that you want you had three minutes under general Public Comment. Thats the subject matter. Im sorry to do that but thats the rules and we have to apply them to everybody equally, if we show any favoritism to all, we have to show it to all and the rule is not proper. Send us something in writing and let us know, thank you. If i may, its on the i did not raise this in the previous point. It doesnt matter, the three minutes are up and if i do it for you, i have to do it for everybody, so i apologize that its an inconvenience to you but you can express anything you like to us in writing and well read it and take it into consideration. Thank you. I object to the inability to stand in support of gene gareki and my fellow members and i regret your decision that its not