Of women and as you can see we have a rich and wealthy history of women and it is part to be the history. Thank you, good afternoon, everyone and it is a pleasure to be here and i am julie, soo, and i am the pas president on the status of women and i am a senior on the counsel of department of insurance and a former mathematician and went to law school to work on healthcare reform. And still it is a big undertaking and so i expect in high school i will be coming upon my 40th reunion and sometimes, and in six years. And i also sit on the board of the Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and my passion is inaudible appropriate out reach on out service and social services and i am also an executive board member of the California Democratic party and cochair of the committee for about six years. And i am a fourth generation san franciscan, and so i am very passionate about keeping my city great and making our city great. Commissioner gamez . My name is alicia gamez and i am a commissioner on th
This is, and it is really important the moments when you do something when no one is watching and not m response because it is the right thing to do. We did it in october. And the giants are in the world. , they are in the National League championship series. I got ahead of myself. And that is all right. Line item 8, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item ten below, closed session, including Public Comment on vote whether to hold item ten in closed session. Ladies and gentlemen, we will go into closed session to deal with matters that are protected by the provisions of the california law, is there any Public Comment on that. Hearing none, we will go into closed session, thank you everyone. Thank you, everybody and i know that it is late. Thank you so much. I need a vote. Could i get a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. I need to call it. Okay. Item nine, vote on whether to hold item ten in closed session. Action n. So moved again. Second all of those in favor. Aye.
And now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in San Francisco, have been Domestic Violence related. And we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the Police Officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we dont want somebodys inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that San Francisco is a sanctuary city and that there is status in the United States will never be called into question and they need to report, because again, there is no excuse for Domestic Violence upon anybody. Our special victims unit continues to thrive without 16 additional investigators to the special victims unit just in the calendar year, 2014. And the things for most as we see it work here best in San Francisco and as we continued to have the Domestic Violence advocates located in the special victims unit
Francisco. Its a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. For more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. Get in touch with the parks and Recreation Center so come the Health Commission will come to order and will call the roll. Commissioner singer . He is here. Commissioner pating . Here. Commissioner taylormcghee i am sorry that i missed you present. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner chung . Present. And commissioner karshmer. Present. And i believe that the commission are going to do the introductions. And there will not be a roll call from the commission on the status of women. We are going to do the introductions. Oh, yes and the introductions sorry, and before that, i would like to welcome, dr. David peting to our commission, this is his first formal Commission Meeting after appointment in august. [ applause ] with that, i think that as to become acquainted with each other, we are asking each one to at lea
President of the Police Commission, loftus, and many others, help me Welcome Police chief greg suhr. Thank you and on every marked Police Vehicle in the San Francisco Police Department there is one Bumper Sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the Police Vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for Domestic Violence. And because, there is not. And much has been made in the National Media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the Domestic Violence. And the San Francisco Police Department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for Domestic Violence in San Francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i can violence homicides in San Francisco. And now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that