Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in chicago. The way we will do this today is we will have a series of a panel of experts that will provide testimony to the task force, and that testimony will then be considered by the task force as it goes into deliberations. Let me say this. For the witnesses we have today, one, thank you for being here. For the first time of the task force, were also going to have several witnesses come in through and im going to get myself in trouble because im not a tech person so i apologize ahead of time thro
Rn. She is 38 years old. Her Interest Rate is 8. 5 interest from the government. Why is the Interest Rate so high on these Student Loans . Guest it is not high relative to what they would be paying from a private lender. It is a subsidized rate. There is a new innovation in the student loan market when they with private lenders. Host linda, what is your situation . Caller my husband has Student Loans. There are so many things being said that are not true. We started out with 31,000 in Student Loan Debt after having them since 2000, we are down to 54,000. We have been making a 340 payment for the last four years and only seen our balance go up. We are on the income or tengion payment plan. To say this we are on the income retention payment plan. We are battling with a student loan provider where it says in the contingent plan, it is capped at 10 of the original loan value. They had added an added and keep trying to say that is the way it goes. After 25 years, you say the loan is forgive
Of me will not attend. Suzanne giraudo, please. Good afternoon, supervisors to understand a little bit about who i am i have been on the commission, i am a practicing child and adolescent psychologist and i am director of the Child Development center at california Pacific Medical center, were the largest provider of Child Development services in San Francisco and in northern california. Last year, serving, we had over 20 thousand visitors of children in the birth to 18 age range. I have an increased concern with birth to 5 services. Since currently, one in 68 children are now diagnosed on the autism spectrum. At our Pilot Program at nems that we started in july, we screened 2000 children under the age of 5 and 16 of these children were in the high risk range needing further services, assessment and treatment. First five needs to continue the work in both developmental and Mental Health services for kids. What first five has done since developmental and Behavioral Services have signific
Children hospital oakland and [inaudible] try to as a consortium and group address the issues of increased developmental needs within the city and county particularly. I feel that i have the experience in history to continue to work with the challenges in support of kids and families within the city and county. First five is really essential to our city, not only to support children and families in their services but through various programs and platforms such as the frcs that we work diligently with and are always looking to expand the services. My other concern with the number of kids and families that we see and the services and programs to meet the needs is to keep young families within San Francisco rather than taking off to other communities. So, for these reasons, i would like to continue on the commission. Thank you very much. Supervisor tang . Thank you, thank you so much for being here and for your patience through this hearing. I would just say that since all of the applican
[inaudible]. I also did like hearing from ms. Hall and her experience and i absolutely agree with supervisor avalos and that it could be a great forum for her to learn about how funding decisions are made and how it is that we can better bridge sources to communities that need it. In termser of looking at what this committee does, i know that a lot of the decisions that are made has to do around funding and how you allocate grants, so i do see how mr. Stafford could bring with his background with his strategic planning, background, some value to the community as well and someone who did not appear us before, mr. Loftman, i really liked his background and what he brought to the table. He did reach out to our office and i know he couldnt make it because he was out of the country but hes someone who has expertise in Affordable Housing finance, he works for the oakland housing authority, so i think he brings a good perspective to the committee, so i would have liked to be able to appoint h