Its so great to see a full house like this. It means the world to us and to the whole cause of antitrafficking. We are waiting for mayor lee. My name is Nancy Goldberg, cochair of the seven cisco collaborative against Human Trafficking. I wanted to introduce my past chair, and my new cochair. When i tell people of my involvement their shock to hear that San Francisco is in major definition of Human Trafficking. They think it is people from other parts of the world. There are also so many right here, from our own bay area communities. In the city that is out of Human Trafficking we are also committed to being an agent of change. I want to give you a brief history of sf cat, San Francisco collaborative against Human Trafficking. In response to what we saw is a growing problem, four organizations formed up in 2008, the Jewish Coalition against Human Trafficking; National Council of jewish women, jewish reel fund, we then realize would needed a wider coalition in order to be more effective
No period between sf and gov. My telephone number is 4155546789. Just call me at our main number. And our tty is 4155546169. Thank you. My second presentation is on the Mayors Office on disability Capital Projects requests for the next fiscal year, fiscal year 2014. These have already been submitted to the capital committee. And many of these are continuations of projects that we already have in the works. We try not to overwhelm the system with too much requests and spread our funding out based on the projects scheduled. But our funding tends to be a priority by the Mayors Office and by the board of supervisors and the capital committee. And we really do appreciate the attention that they give our projects. For San Francisco General Hospital, we are, of course, fully funded for the work were doing inside building 5, the main hospital. Which will become clinics and a support hospital once the new San Francisco general rebuild project is complete. Were asking for an additional 1 million
Think both emily but also Nancy Goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. I am privileged today to recognize a number of individuals who have been strong, strong advocates, people who have gone way beyond the duty but also deserving of recognition for all their advocacy work. The first person i would like to introduce is these years recipient of the abolitionist the word for advocacy, staff attorney with with the Asian Pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. Apl applause we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. She is a founder and executive director of Freedom House. She is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, em. applause we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, Department Heads, the Human Rights Commission we wanted to ma
Nancy kirshner rodriguez, police chief greg sur sounds like i will like to turn this over to mayor lee. Diana are you here . He is on his way. Well thank you. Why dont we do that . Why waste a moment. Nancy did mention that we will announce the winners of the fabulous Poster Contest. I am the executive director of commission on the status of women. The mayor will be announcing not only the winners of the Poster Contest but also the winners of this years abolitionist awards. Fire commissioner is here and emily conroy from the department of justice is here. Thank you for joining us. I want to bring up mayor lee so she can bring up the announcements of the honorees for today. Apl applause thank you emily and thank you to the commission on the status of women to our Human Rights Commission thank you for being here and the commissioners and staff as well. Thank you police chief for being here and certainly all the other Department Heads. Wendy thank you for being here as well. Members of th
Shot and killed himself. 35yearold officer tonn can be seen here with his k9 yaro. Now, the Small Department is mourning its loss. Everybody enjoyed working with him. He was a hard working officer so and he was he was a lot of fun to work with. Weve learned officer tonn was actively involved with the bay Area Organization called cover your k9, which provides bullet proof vests for police dogs. Tonn and yaro participated at a fundraiser in oakland just last summer. In the bay area, a huge turnout for a Gun Buyback Program in marin county led to some unexpected problems today. Allie explains what organizers did once they ran out of cash. The Buyback Program began at 11 00 this morning at five marin county locations. At Police Headquarters the line to turn in weapons snaked around the build sglg two semiautomatic 22s. Havent used them in year sgls residents who turned 2 semiautomatic 22s. Havent used them in year sgls residents who turned in semiautomatics got 00 for each firearm, 100 for