General public on. Members of the public address the commission for up to 3 min. On any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear in the agenda. Speakers shall just for most of the commissioner. The lack of response to the commission or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement or support of statements during made during Public Comments. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, [closed session] [gavel] mdm. Sec. Item number three approval of the minutes. Approval of minutes from regular meeting arcade 2017. So moved. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] commissioners . Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. Item number four certificate and indulgent of appreciation. Public Information Officer Jonathan Baxter 2 certificate and acknowledgment of appreciation of herman duron or guerra, arun ran over, Jennifer Diego cervantes for the quick and Decisive Action they displayed on february 21, 2017 at 1453 hrs. With help save an adult male life was being pulled out to the bait to due to strong ties. Was going to make a presentation on this . Good afternoon president madrid ominous Jonathan Baxter to begin our presentation on this item. Welcome. Commissioners, chief hayeswhite, numbers of the command staff and everybody present i want you to welcome you today. Today im honored not only to give this presentation but a few minutes before this event i had the pleasure of meeting aron and Jennifer Cervantes prior to this event and talking to the three of them nine years old, 19 years old, and 20 years old, me, a professional Public Servant at the last quarter of my career, looking at three young people the im sorry two young men and young lady youre about to meet gives me a piece of mind to say the least that our future is safe because we have people like this. I know theres a lot more that are going to step up and do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. On 221 2017 at 3 53 pm in the afternoon, mr. Michael shanahan was enjoying a swim in aquatic park in San Francisco. Weather conditions on this date due to recent storms yielded a very strong tide. Which attribute to mr. Shanahan been swept out into the San Francisco day. Esther shanahan was able to grab hold onto a be pure piling and begin to yell for help. Fortunately, three young adults were fishing nearby. Nineyearold aaron durrant, oliveira, heard the yell for help and quickly notified his brother firemen over and from his girlfriend, Jennifer Cervantes. The three were together very quickly to locate nearby rope to throw to mr. Shanahan. Within our rope now securing mr. Shannon from and called 911 and provided very descriptive details of the incident. Aron and from and to the rope with mr. Shanahan opened onto the other end of the rope, while being pulled out due to the current, jennifer had the wherewithal to make herself visible and direct responding San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Police Department units to the exact location of mr. Shanahan. I want to stop your for a moment and really explain to action zero. Aron oliveira had an amazing [inaudible] on the phone copied earlier cummings being a little humble when he said that it was the dispatcher that did a great job just ask the right questions. I know for my 27 years of experience with the majority of the rescues and surf rescues and water rescues we have had, one of the problems is usually not having descriptive adequate pinpoint locations and information. All of that was given by erin on this phone call. Secondly, when we arrived i want to correct you i think was by furman width you are correct. By furman. Second of all jennifer was able to get the wherewithal in earlier she stated that just kind of came to her to do this and we would ones that were directing. That is not true. Jennifer walked out, grabbed literally the Fire Department and walked as to the exact location where mr. Shanahan was having his tragic moment and that saved so much valuable time and possibly his life. Continuing, San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Police Department units were able to locate rescue assess and transport mr. Shanahan to a hospital without delay. The San Francisco Fire Department believes that the quick thinking and levelheaded actions of thurman, aron, and jennifer resulted in a successful outcome for mr. Shanahan. Instead of this incident being a search and recovery operation, the San Francisco Fire Department was able to quickly rescue mr. Shanahan from the waters. These three young individuals knowingly or not, save esther shanahans life that day. Now, with the permission of the commissioners i would like to invite mr. Shanahan up to the podium would like to say a few words before we present the certificates. Absolutely. Thank you. Mr. Shanahan. Welcome. Thank you very much and first of all, just it so wonderful that the city Fire Department and Police Department recognize this kind of behavior and response. Aron, furman and jennifer you saved my life and [inaudible] the great Fire Department we have and the please of him and copy off that piling but if you had not reacted in the time you did this quickly as you did, what wasnt discussed was the fact that the hyperthermia was really setting in with me and i did not have much time left. So i will never be able to thank you. Parents mother, great job raising my kid and i kid. Thank you so much. [inaudible off mic] please. [applause] [applause] commissioners, thank you very much. Joann hayeswhite fire chief. I always say the city smalltown so when i found out about this story that are pil brought to us as walls are responding crews from pd and Fire Department, i, too, like jonathan sort of in a back nine of my career was very inspired to hear the three people out having a nice afternoon fishing to assist someone. Did no total stranger. For me, i sign allow certificates every illustrated her about mr. Shanahan. To my great surprise, i wanted i said to mr. Shannon, who i met and know from over the years, i said you are the mr. Shanahan. Its amazing like i said big city smalltown. So we are forever grateful for the great work that you did and im glad your join us are able to join us today. Congratulations i like you on behalf of the Fire Department and as was the Commission Michael each of you up individually and then you can stay by me and maybe if one of you were all three of you want to say a few words i know the commission would be very open to that. So furman, im going to read each certificate. Theyre slightly different so, on up, furman. Its a certificate we are presenting a meritorious conduct in appreciation presented to you from and ran all the era on february 21 while fishing with aron and jennifer, you are notified of calls to help from a swimmer would be in the waters of aquatic park and swept out to the date due to the rough waters. With your assistant to quickly Work Together to find a rope and throw to the swimmer to the swimmer was able to hold onto the for you and aron held the other in tight despite the treacherous currents trying to call the swimmer away. Once the swimmer was secured you called 911 and provided as doi baxter said. Just into detail about the swimmer and location to your quick actions contribute to the successful outcome to this one. So we want to say thank you and congratulations. [applause] before i go on, i also have to say, and it knowledge presence of your family here and i think all Great Children come from great parents. The tickly, great mom so thank you much mrs. Olvera for what you did. [applause] next im going to call little brother, aron durand all there. Come on up. [applause] if similar but i want to read the bulk of it for you. On february 21, 2017 while fishing with furman and jennifer, your aquatic park, calls from help from the swimmer who been in the water swept out into the bait due to rough waters. With your assistance you quickly Work Together to find a rope and throw it to the swimmer mr. Shanahan. The swimmer was able to hold onto the ball you and your brother of the other intake despite the treacherous currents trying to both the swimmer away. Your click actions contribute to successful outcome for the swimmer and understand your brother is interested in the Police Department but we would love to see you be a firefighter sunday. Congratulations. [applause] next, i like to call Jennifer Cervantes up. Congratulate you. [applause] was certificate also reads on february 21 while fishing with aron, and ferment your aquatic park you are notified of calls for help from a swimmer who had been in water and aquatic park and swept out into the bay. Your assistance to quickly Work Together through rope to the swimmer in the swimmer hold onto the tie to the local aron and ferment held the other anti. During this time, you, jennifer wiggled to direct the arriving San Francisco pd and to the exact location of the swimmers seconds or minutes counting the situation. Your quick actions contributed to the successful outcome for mr. Shannon so congratulations and thank you. [applause] we just want to say thank you. Its really great mr. Shanahan are very glad we could [inaudible] we are so glad we were there to help you. I am, too. [laughing] [inaudible off mic] im really grateful [inaudible] and im grateful for being here. [applause] commissioners, in closing i just want to [inaudible] although i like to see everybody become a firefighter especially for the San Francisco Fire Department, furman mentioned that he wants to be a Police Officer so i thought what better opportunity than what the finer applicant and to have our San Francisco Fire Department recruitment down team here tonight to give him some information hopefully be able to recruit him. So thank you very much. [applause] [photograph] [applause] isnt any Public Comment on the previous recognition . Seeing none, commissioners, did you wish to say anything . Yes commissioner covington thank you mr. Pres. Again i want to thank mrs. Olivera and also, jennifers parents for raising such wonderful children and children learn kindness and have big hearts because of their parents. So, ms. Oliveira, your setting such a wonderful example and we are all the beneficiaries of it. Mr. Shanahan, we are glad youre still here with us. I want to say, to aron and furman and jennifer, you are so on the right path. Please, stay on the path. You are really really good people, young people and we so often have complaints about how young people are conducting themselves. So, thank you for reminding us that there are some wonderful young people who have such care and kindness and who are so very very clear in their minds and in their hearts that not only do they jump into action, but they are able to give the information that is necessary for people to get to the point of rescue. So thank you, again. Thank you commissioner covington. Any other commissioners wish to say anything . I would just like to say, job well done. He rose, at all ages and i think it was a marvelous thing and thank you very much for your heroism and saving a life. So, without further ado, mdm. Sec. Next item item five k9 badge ceremony for sffd k9 search team. Assistant deputy chief chief Jane Francisco k9 Program Manager to introduce capt. Peter gross Program Training coordinator who give a brief overview on the sffd k9 program and present the badges to their handlers to pin on the k9 search teams. Hokum chief francesco thank you. Im very excited to be here for the same francisco assistant of the cheaper the Homeland Security division im also serve as the k9 Program Manager which means on the liaison and point of contact to california urban search and rescue Task Force Number three down and speed menlo park it am very excited today to indoctrinate and bring it to the department are for newest members. Our four k9 from k9 search teams. First, i want to say these teams have given tremendous time and dedication to getting these dogs trained in providing the service they do provide. Typically, it takes 1218 months to get dog certified in this task. Our members here through their hard work did this in about six months. So tremendous amount of work they did. To the town of time their own time to care entering these canines constantly always having to do that when these canines. So without further ado, i would like to bring up capt. Peter gross are training coordinator for the canines breed of the other k9 search ons and he will introduce them and give you a little brief about what they do. Thank you, chief. Hello. Commissioners. Im going to invite the k9 search teams to join me here so i can present them to you. Chief hayeswhite, commissioners, and the command staff on for allowing me this opportunity to present to you the San Francisco Fire Department k9 search teams. I presented the proposal to you to the commission to develop a research k9 Program Towards the front San Francisco Fire Department impact on the 20 13th and today i am pleased to report to you that the San Francisco Fire Department has for fema certified urban search and rescue k9 search teams that are integrated into our operations and report to our fire stations on a regular basis. Commissioners, allow me to introduce to you lieut. Gareth miller and his k9 partner, [inaudible]. Firefighter ed martinez, k9 fritz. Firefighter eli thomas, k9 beta. I have my search partner. K9, angus, who you about before. I want to take this opportunity to thank the chief. Chief hayeswhite, chief gonzales, chief williams and she francisco for your tireless support of the developers of the program and your continued support today. I also want to take this opportunity to it knowledge the commitment and effort of these three gentlemen and their dogs. They have taken on this commitment with dedication, hard work, and passion. All three of our newest k9 search teams were paired with search dogs back in october 2015 the computer large amount of training specific to urban search and rescue and Disaster Response and also dog handling. Completing the process and becoming a fema k9 search specials, which is the highest level of certification in this discipline. All three k9 search teams were fema certified in april 2016 by completing the rigorous evaluation and they continue to train weekly commuting high level of readiness. These firefighters in the k9 partners not only become great ambassadors [inaudible] by participating in Community Events such as fleet week ending 150th anniversary but also become valuable operational resource not only largescale incidents like we saw in the earthquake and 89 but also to local incident such as complete or partial building collapses or auto rollovers were victims ejected, the search canines will not only help locate the trapped are missing survivors, but they will also help rescuers were victims are not. This will help us to focus our efforts appropriately. Therefore search canines are also known as California Task force three as chief francisco mentioned it located in California Task force please located in menlo park is one of the 20 fema past forces that make up the National Response system for disasters. Whenever they deployed, they deploy with four of these fema certified search teams. So they put great value in this resource. It takes those teams 4072 hours to reach us to assist us. Having this valuable resource here at home will help to about trapped victims of better chance of survival after earthquake or incident. Closing my thank you for knowledge in our efforts today. Certainly i cannot discern the todays beginning of the canine gradual further the pride, help our handlers for the hard work and accomplishment. Thank you very much. I like to take a quick moment to thank capt. Peter gross for the work hes done to get the program off and running to get the program where we are and i cant thank you enough for what hes done and the members themselves for the commitment been shown to this program. At this time like to ask chief to come down to present the badges to the handlers. On behalf of all the numbers about San Francisco hardbound we are happy to give you badges to your canines indefinitely in appreciation for your efforts above going above and beyond providing additional service. So special night for you. I know number of you have your family zero, to so welcome to your families and also for your support. I know the canines are living at home with all of you. So, thank you. The first badge will go to capt. Gross and angus. [applause] the second handler is firefighter eli thomas k9, leader. [applause] next is lieut. Gareth miller and k9, vida. [applause] last have firefighter ed bikinis and k9, fritz. [applause] [applause] if you have any questions will be happy to answer them at this time. Thank you very much, chief. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissions, commissioner hardeman thank you vista president. Well its great to see this time around. Four years ago this commission was presented this idea and we were just really encouraged and excited now to see this succeed and hopefully something we never have to use but when you need it gets there. So i just a couple of questions about how you the dog stay with you 24 hours a day . To the rotate if youre off or do you keep them at your house . So commissioner, to address your question, the dogs are part of our families. They join us to our assignment so whether we are going to regular assignment or detailed assignment, we get sent to our regular station the dog accompanies us at all times with these dogs might develop the really tight bond with her handler they probably join them too much of their activities throughout the day but they do return home with us at the end of the day whether its from duty where they live with us as part of our family do they get ever get an opportunity to play with each other . These dogs are all pretty serious. I know the might of a little Side Relationship going on. Im not sure but theyre all pretty serious and competitive because these dogs are carefully selected to do this kind of work and usually makes them they were really strong focus and thank you very much. Thank you to all the commissioner nakajo thank you and much. Thank you so much for this opportunity to witness this badge pinning. I want to thank all the family members because certainly, in terms of the training but also the love and support its got to be part of the family and its pretty evident in terms of [inaudible] as well. I know san franciscans and particularly myself and many of us are dog lovers but to be able to see a dog that can potentially rescue lives is a great feeling. So thank you so much for all your work and we are looking forward to a long relationship. Thank you mr. Vp commissioner covington thank you very much mr. Pres. Thank you very much, first of all, to francisco for serving in the capacity of being the head of the k9 units. I have had the pleasure of being with capt. Gross in the south bay and watching the canines go through their paces and was very very impressed. Its been about two years now i guess since i was down there and as many of my if any of my fellow commissioners have not had an opportunity to the canines in action with her handlers, i really do want you to do so. Its a very rewarding to see them be, fourlegged professionals. They are as acting capt. Gross said, theyre pretty serious about their work. And very eager to do their jobs. So thank you all. Thank you to firefighter thomas and lieut. Miller and firefighter martinez. This is a Wonderful Program and i know it has been through the efforts of capt. Gross, that we have got to this point. So he has been very steadfast and communicating with the chief of the department as well the Commission Regarding his vision for the k9 division. So thank you all so very much. Thank you commissioner covington. Thank you, capt. Very good program. You guys are all terrific and what you are doing is saving lives and its important program. So thank you for all you do. I know you go above and beyond your daily jobs just to take care of these dogs to make sure that they can perform. When they need to get so thank you for the extra hours in the extra effort and the extra love that you put into this program. Because i know thats what it takes to make itits a good program that it is. So thank you all, each of you for doing that. And for continuing to build the k9 programk9 rescue program. Thank you chief francisco for bringing them to tonight and having us giving us the opportunity to thank them personally for what they do. Its a lot of extra hours and extra cost that you arent families are bearing to do this so thank you on behalf of the city and behalf of this commission. Thank you phrenology not, thank you, chief. Chief francisco final words . Yes if you want to see training or demonstration or come out and watch old search a rubble pile, they take care of a football size field in a matter of minutes you anytime you want to see that were happy to arrange it. Thank you so much. Mdm. Sec. , next item item six chief of departments report report from chief of department Joanne Dwight on Current Issues activities and events within the apartment since the Fire Commission meeting of march 8, 2017 including budget academy, special Benz Communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. Report from administration, deputy chief Ramona Williams on administrative divisions facility status finance report services Homeland Security and training within the department. Good evening president cleaveland. I want to get right into my report since our last meeting march 8, regarding budget as i reported in the past two cycles, we are on track for revenue and expenditures this fiscal year. We will enter into further discussion with the mayors Budget Office could ive yet to get involved since we submitted our budget on february 21, but her Deputy Director mark corso is in regular contact with the mayors Budget Office. I did want to remind you that we will be presenting an overview of our Department Budget to budget and finance committee on april 27 at 1 pm. The chairman of the Budget Committee this year is supervisor melia cohen and she has been projected after the mayors commit the balancedbudget on june 1, presentations by our department the week of june 19. Your presentation on june 18 as well as a followup presentation on june 22 both at 10 am before budget and finance committee. Regarding academies, when on 21st academy chief williams would probably go into further detail but during our 17th week. My understanding is all kept local and state tests have been passed and so we will be graduating 49 members from that academy. On april 14 10 am bearden high school. We are in the process of selections for the 122nd academy scheduled to begin on april 24. Be comprised of 54 members, 42 off the list and 12 coming from station 49. Eight of those wellbeing peaks three level to paramedics and her being each three level i and the and emt singles final selections are being made. At this, we have 35 conditional offers, meeting people that have been selected and pending final passage through the medical component will be in those seats and ive another 14 alternate officers out of which seven will be selected to join the group of 35 for a total of 42. We did conduct some interviews last week at the director of Human Resources and i,. We anticipate more meet and greet interviews in the june timeframe for placement in the September Class and we will also be because this is a question, the listthe referral we are working off of is from january, so before we make final selections for september we will probably refreshing given you this a new referral to capture those that may take the test after january, before june. Moving right into activities, since march 8, on march 9, i did announce one on march 8 the unfortunate and untimely passing of our activeduty member firefighter joe walt [inaudible] who passed away on march 8. His celebration of life and variables on march 9 and i would like to knowledge deputy chief williams assistant deputy chief francisco and rpi oh Jonathan Baxter further assistance and putting together relatively quickly we had about 24 hours notice, the proper and fitting tribute to firefighteras well as her deputy chief tony rivera and his crew from the yearbook for the apparatus we needed there and so forth. There was a service here in the city and a final resting in livermore. So in order to pull this off in a fitting tribute to firefighter who dedicated 12 years with the San Francisco Fire Department we hired him in 2005 we also had phenomenal assistance from the San Francisco Police Department with sister with a motorcade, motorcycle escort, california highway patrol, Alameda County Fire Department truck Livermore Pleasanton Fire Department and livermore Police Department to effect a safe secure passage from the city the couple of our rigs through and to livermore. I did one make you aware of that and have the opportunity again to thank mayor lee who visited just a month before he passed away. He was traveling in vietnam but nevertheless extended his condolences and was appreciative of the opportunity to have met him. On march 10, theres a newly formed under the Deputy Director chief of staff, david, kate howard, she is working closely in the Mayors Office and shes putting together working group of which im a part of. Regarding its called the street working. Basically, its regarding a number of situations and complaints coming in from 311. Some 911. Just about street behavior, safe streets and so forth. There was a kickoff meeting. She has several departments participating the director public health, the police chief, myself, director of public works and the new Homelessness Department director, jeff kosinski. To talk about goals, further collaboration, and achieving those goals and just that would be the kickoff meeting in then, also i attended a meetinganother followup meeting because the priority for mayor just on the 20th with the same parties to talk about the steps in which we can work closely together to address some of the street issues that the city is experiencing. On march 11, many of us never to knowledge president reagan and commissioner covington, attended and participated in the st. Patricks day parade, which was a good celebration here in our city. On the 13th of the month, deputy chief williams and i attended the united fire Service Womens annual membership meeting. It was about a threehour breakfast meeting. Well attended and a lot of topics were discussed. So that was headed there some changes in their leadership. That was announced and there will be plansthere are plans underway to acknowledge and celebrate 2017 as the 30th anniversary of women coming into San Francisco Fire Department. On 16 march, i did afterward i visited station 1900 the members are still grieving over the loss of their colleagues firefighterthey spent some time with them. Just checking in and seeing how they were doing. On the 17th of participated in a [inaudible] a lafayette elementary. On the 20th, the deputies and i participate on monthly labormanagement meeting. Local 798 headquarters. Was a productive meeting. Later, that afternoon, with chief scott, our new police chief, we assisted with the delivery of meals on wheels event or delivery to one of their clients on pine street, which is a program that does so much good for a lot of different people. Its the second year i participated last year i participated with chief suhr. As i said and i went to another Street Working Group meeting and then i just want to let you know, upcoming, tomorrow chief tony rivera and i will be participating in the fire boat ill be on the panel will be in the audience. Listening and contributing. The design criteria panel. In which there are proposals that will be submitted for our review for the new design for station 35 which pier 22. 5 thats an allday review of looking at designs, functionality, and what we feel would work best if i am one of five panelists on that panel. So more to follow on that design and the criteria. Then, i know our favorite i believe chieffrom the airport has invited all of you on the 29th to the grand opening of San Francisco Fire Department International Airport station three. Which will be celebrated at 10 am on the 29th. That concludes my report. Thank you, chief. Any Public Comment . On this item . Commissioner covington thank you for your report, chief. I just want to know about the budget has the Budget Committee met recently . The Budget Committee has not met since we submitted our budget on february 21. I believe in anticipation of the meeting on april 27 there will be director course so will reach out to the Budget Committee and possibly convened a group. Certainly, we will bring backwere having ongoing discussions but theres nothing at this point thats been decided so were kind of in a week and see pattern but we are definitely intending to convene certainly prior to the mayors budget meeting on june 1 possibly before presentation on 27 april well, Budget Committee will be prioritizing particular budget items to share with the commission . So if you recall, we did submit our budget can we were asked for 3 reduction, which he responded to that we are open to further discussion. We were asked to reducetook some issue without giving our increase call volume and so forth. In terms of additional items, we did not submit additional items, if im following your question i see. Will you be submitting additional items equipped to to be determined i think at this point we have to fight for remaining status quo because again the ass and still is the asked that we look gatekeeper for reductions. So we have a prioritized list, which should be reviewed again by the Budget Committee i agree with you. I think at this point our priority right now is to hold firm on where we are at. All right. Definitely, we need to hold firm and i know that my fellow commissioners feel the same. In my conversations with the mayor, i have pointed out that from my perspective, i think we need to keep the academies going because we have so many people were going to be retiring very soon and i dont want to see any kind of falloff from us having really robust classes in the academy. Thats a good segue into complimenting everyone on us having 49 graduates. That is excellent. We need every last person zone looking forward to that graduation. Its just wonderful that we have our audienceour audiences and making up one longing to be in our department and see that some members of our community are having their dreams fulfilled by being selected by the chief of the department to enter the academy then to go through the graduation, it just a wonderful thing. Commissioner covington, thank you. We are in complete agreement with your comments about maintaining the hiring plan adobe fought collectively sought to get. Likewise, with our fleet replacement claim. We know all the efforts that we collectively put forward on that so those are definitely two initiatives or line items that we really dont want to compromise on given the number of retirements and given the fact that prolonged period of time we did not have Adequate Funding for our equipment and are free. Yes thank you. So the fire boat ais going to be looking at design and functionality and im pretty sure aesthetics as well but will you be coming back to the Commission Sharing portions of those discussions with us . Yes. Okay. I look forward to that. Thank you again for your report. Thank you commissioner covington good commissioner hardeman i will be brief mr. Pres. Thank you for your report, chief. I probably should ask you this over the phone but i just came to meapproximate, how far down the list did you get recently the old tablesi think you got to 850 last time. I dont know im just curious sure. The list is constantly being refreshed as a people coming off of it and getting onto it. Between 3504 three 4000 people on any given time so 30 504,000 eligible to be selected if it passed all the criteria . Correct. If they get for wrinkle 12, which i dont know i can agree with that score equates to, and on the eligible list. Since weve use the ntn National Testing network, process i have gone down to a score of 840 or level viii and typically commencing the highest score is level iii. So retired from the range between level iii and level viii. I knew how couple thats [inaudible] correct. I believe in you served in the us military is better Points Associated with that and thats incorporated into the score peabody they have their score and then the department of Human Resources there is that chance points given so in cases theyre always going to be there rank is going to be improved by the fact they serve their country and we have over the last several years hired a very High Percentage of military veterans. Very good. Thank you thank you commissioner hardeman. Chief, thank you for your report one quick question. The working group with kate howard that you are typing that you met with on the 11th, that is different from the ems response working group. Is that correct . It is two separate working groups . Yes. At some more of the private Providers Department of Emergency Management and then theres stakeholders like local 798. This is more about an increase and concerns, complaints, if you will made regarding street behavior, people feeling that not feeling safer trying to get point ato point b streets being blocked and so forth. The tense situation on the same caymans, that sort of thing. What about the traffic and just generally the Traffic Congestion . Week i will start bowing. Im happy to start that one. I know we have several takers on that. The working group on that although we work closely with the mta and there are a number of projects that weandrew good partnership, have agreed to a compromise on and there are some for the sake of access and her ability to get somewhere in a relatively short period of time. We stress our concern on some of those in the initiative. Thank you. Commissioner covington your final question . No. Im sorry [inaudible] okay. All right, thank you. Call the next item. Sec. s administrative report. Yes. Good evening president covington excuse me president cleaveland. Fellow commissioners, chief, Ramona Williams deputy chief of administration this is my administrative report for the month of march which covers activities from february 23 march 22, 2017. I will begin with the Assignment Office. The Assignment Office is in the process of implementing the results of the vacancy bid the airport staff. They continue to work with division of training on scheduling probationary members for their sixmonth and oneyear assignment changes as well as prepare for the upcoming 121st academy recruit graduation of their assignments. Under Homeland Security, during this reporting period, chief francisco as always has continued to attend various meetings and training exercises. He recently attended a tabletop exercise at the giants ballpark. Hes made a presentation with dem and dx training annies also produced the event action plan for the st. Patricks day parade. He has also currently workingmeeting with vendors regarding updating the fdo see, and he had coordinated the k9 demonstration for the civil grand jury that are Training Facility on Treasure Island. He continues to update the command staff on all real or potential terrorist activities and as always, always like to remind the public to stay ever vigilant and if you see something, to say something. Under isp, during this reporting period, the bureau has continued to conduct background testing of candidates for the upcoming academies eachtwo and hthree academy. There were 34 members randomly selected during this reporting period and all results were negative. On a final note, id like to knowledge the hard work and dedication of acting capt. Sheila hunter, who for personal reasons as requested to return to the field. She worked very hard and diligently with Investigative Services bureau conducting investigations and assisting with the background investigations and testing. She is being replaced by capt. Michael smith, who is currently receiving his training and will assume the role beginning next week. Under the physicians office, they are also very busy administrative preemployment examinations for upcoming cadets for recruits for the academy. Privation her he and promotional physical for Department Members in addition the mud they conduct workrelated and returned to duty injuries examinations and administer immunizations for members. During this reporting period, 32 workrelated injuries were reported down from 41 the last reporting period. Under support services, a total of 146 requests were made for service during thisand process during this reporting period. Construction of pump station one located fire headquarters is nearing completion. There some final work being done on the second floor as we make room for additional staffing. Support services chief leave iraq is continuing to work with mta on street designs to ensure that this notice disruption to Fire Department operations and the ability to respond to emergencies. Right now, they been focusing on how our response will alter with speed homes on the speed bumps and speed tables which are just recently learned the difference and how the bike lanes will impact apparatus positioning including muni wireless and how that may alter our operations and ability to ladder various buildings in the district. Regarding station five, the construction contract was awarded to alter construction. They are scheduled to start midapril with a completion date tentatively set for the summer of 2018. Station 16 work is currently in progress. Unfortunately, there are approximate two months behind. However, the contractors have begun working on saturdays with no additional costs that will be incurred by us. They are currently under pining the neighboring homes to reinforce their foundation before they start the heavy foundation work, and their confidence that the project will be completed by january of 2018. All easter projects continue to move forward and on track and under doe, fleet, the personnel has performed 21 emergency field repairs to San Francisco Fire Department apparatus, including ambulance, during this past 30 days, they resulted in minimal disruption to the department readiness, keeping vehicles in Service Without the need for a changeover. So that has been an asset. Eight engines are in production with a delivery date of for this august, and for more there after, probably 46 months thereafter. Boe has received for ambulance in january and there in the process of ordering for more new ambulances. Post under 18 is now in the field and operational and another [inaudible] currently being outfitted. The final location is to be determined. The aerial ladder truck specifications are complete and the final draft is almost complete and will go out to bid shortly. Doe is streamlining the process repairing [inaudible] with the help of puc in central shop for more efficiency and quicker turnaround times. And they are in the final phase of installing cordless extrication tools to all our all our aerial ladder trucks and they should all be outfitted by the end of this month. Lastly, under division of training, during this reporting period, chief danaj attended a symposium in san diego last month and they were able to receive training on the latest props as well as meet with target solutions that to update our system we have currently have in place. They also as was mentioned in the Previous Report participated in assisted with the planning on high raise drill last month. They continue to conduct live Fire Training for our members. Forcible entry training, and as always, planning of upcoming drills for the remainder of the year. Under ems, along with our ongoing paramedic and emt certifications we are currently conducting cpr training for our members and a resumes practice your module in the city proper good last reporting period the members of the Airport Division were receiving that training. During this reporting period, the 12th emc academy graduated 25 emts could we had a oneweek hthree level to Paramedic Academy held for eacheight members for members and seven numbers completed that academy. Are paramedic members stationed 49, have also received alternative destinations [inaudible] i training and they have also received preceptor training which will allow them to oversee and evaluate our emt and paramedic members during their ride a longs as a phase of the academy training. Under bart lieut. Overseas Emergency Preparedness for the community and this is along with the k9 program a vital asset and resource to be realized in the event of a major disaster in the city. In addition to the monthly training sheet continues to make presentation throughout the city at various Community Events. Our fire reserves also continue to be ongoing training weekly at the vision of training facilities, both fulsome on Treasure Island. Lastly, at the chief mentioned, the 121st recruited academies currently their 17th week with 49 recruits. I am happy to say they have completed all the testing as the chief mentioned and is currently receiving specialized training such as wildland, hazmat, firefighter Survival Training to name a few. Thats at the time this concludes my report on happy to answer the questions. Thank you chief williams. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner hardeman briefly again which is unusual. Were moving along too good. Last meeting was three hours. This is pretty quick. I was going to make a comment about chief columbini of those went to san diego. I sent a couple people a photo from my old flip phone so its not very good but the flip phone about the san diego fire exam which used to be a station. I dont know of any you got to seehave been [inaudible] i was there for meeting and next morning. For walk smoking a cigar and i go by this and i see this my wife was with me so i can smoke anyway i go by the museum and the doors are open. Its beautiful. With a duos private events there. Its a museum but fascinating. I shouldve wrote this down, but i didnt. At that station, the standard thread was invented. Thats standardized for all Fire Department in the united states. Effective hosei dont know what it was but i do know i read that and i thought was pretty interesting. That was her claim to fame. Its a great museum. Old apparatuses and all kinds of things hanging all over the walls. Very nice. I talked to couple firefighters working with San Franciscos Public Safety attempt to get the museum [inaudible] and they were very encouraged. They like what they saw. So see what happens. It would be nice to get a nice present for San Francisco especially after seeing that one for san diego. Thanks for the report, chief williams. Thank you commissioner thank you commissioner hardeman. Vp nakajo thank you very much president cleaveland. Thank you for a much chief williams for your conference of report. Also thank you very much chief hayeswhite on your report chief williams. The semantics its [inaudible] because of some lunch area of responsibility that you have within your office. Again, your responsibility again for me, when you give your reports it just adds education and affirms my understanding of our Department Administrative infrastructure. So when you talk about the airport chief cost a lot of we are what we are really looking forward to that opening on march 29 which is next wednesday which is a major accomplishment for us and the airport, city and county. When we talk about the graduation coming up on april 14, chief columbini with commissioner covington and the rest of the commissioners, we are so grateful for the professional training of your training officers. Again, the numbers, 49. Thats an amazing number. This is a just a recent kind of accomplishment. I think we been on a threefor your home so to speak. So its really quite significant. Point of information. I did notice chief, that youre wearing of gold today. But i will be at our ride along this coming friday and thank you very much for indicating to me that you will be present with me on various formats of that i can see the experience chief liam scum of writing and immigrants in being [inaudible] but im really interested in the actually of observing when the supply is replenished through the vehicles and the system that occurs with that as well. I have not heard of for a wild chief williams, anything about training facilities. I guess, at some point maybe that something you might give us a briefing on because as we go through all these classes, i still concern myself with our facilities and what we are going to do with that because we are always proactive within that projection. So, at some point, in your next report maybe could talk a livid about that. I agree and confer with commissioners that the budget and the classes are so important chief hayeswhite. I know that they will be reported to the Budget Committee. My question isnt using frame rate where i can even ask it, but dir. Corso, not that the president has committed his budget overall, i know that [inaudible] is no more anticipation some real numbers and how that affects San Franciscos budget in our areas and i will be curious as to what that atmosphere looks like realistically for ourselves and i know they were holding the line but i would be interested on the other ramifications that budget cut were adjustments because were all going to be in the same city for this year for sure. I failed to mention the last Commission Meeting, i wanted to give recognition to our president , president cleaveland, because when we went to visit the mayor on our large long list of discussion, the president was so good to talk about our intake fleet that sitting out there. I think it station on in the parking lot with a storm and with the tarps and so basically again the initiative of understanding that [inaudible] to the mayor to have some kind of sheltering with that and at this point, there arent representatives and at some point mr. Pres. , i think you want to maybe regroup with the organizations in terms of again we have a lot of interaction with [inaudible]. I just want to again come in chief and the department to understand, your presence here is always looking out for us in terms of that. Other than that, at this particular point looking at my notes,i have nothing us. Thank you. Thank you mr. Vp i will pay you later. [laughing] chief, williams for your report i have a quick question. You have any idea you can give us on h23 program . Maybe chief gonzales can step in and give the commission a quick update on the status . Good evening president cleaveland commissioners, chief hayeswhite. Debbie is also operations that i can quickly president cleaveland, we met today with dhr pres. Oconnor myself. His representatives and we are going to meet one more time. With the chief, the director of Human Resources, myself. The reason rest of dhr. Youre going to talk about steps going forward. As i stated at the last minute classification is official which is great. I think thats a huge hurdle that need to be accomplished. The next, schmidt will be putting those two in good pres. Oconnors convinced i was part of a bundle of other conditions so we will work it out and as i said last meeting as well ill reiterate in good faith we will continue to negotiate when i want to get it done as soon as possible the timeline, about when you might be able to [crosstalking off mic] it just kind of up in the air . I would like to have it done by april. Those two positions. I think the concern from the union and from the members we have the concern the workload during the day that is being addressed. We do have as you know the 212 hour shifts to cover a. M. And p. M. But we also [inaudible] to help with the day work load. Thank you, chief. Appreciate. Thank you chief williams for your report. Mdm. Sec. Next item please item number seven Communications Received from last meeting of march 8, 2017 email from mr. Corgan dated march 7, 2017. Any public, and on these medications . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Okay. And the secretary species next item item eight agenda for next Commission Meeting discussion regarding agenda for the april 12 2017 regular meeting. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Vp nakajo thank you very much president trying to mdm. Sec. Do we have something scheduled on the next Commission Meeting of april . Yes we do we have the fire reserves presentation. Thank you very much. That has been confirmed width at some point as a discretion at the president and chief, if there might be some kind of presentation update or education in terms the water rescue component of our department. Commissioners, we know about the units but again our Knowledge Base gets so enhanced with various numbers come they give based on your discretion chief, the president , i would not means mine seen something that gives us information about what goes on with that. So those two items but i dont have a date for the water rescue. Its at your discretion. [inaudible] thank you very much commissioner covington speed thank you mr. President. I would like an update on where we are with station 49. In terms of the planning . Also, if theres been any movement on the location to replace the Treasure Island facility . Thank you. Thank you commissioner covington good term commissioner hardeman any items . [inaudible] i would just like to add one mdm. Sec. , and thats perhaps the program on the San Francisco fire Museum Status update kind of an overview of exactly what the museum has as part of of its collection. What the status is in terms of how well there be a maintained or not be maintained, and just what possibly we need to do in order to create a really first classwhich we deserve,firstclass San Francisco Fire Department museum. So i like to add that to the list of upcomingnot necessarily next meeting but whenever the guardians of the city and others that are actually protecting our Museum Artifacts at this time can put together a program. I think would be very educational and useful for all us not only in the commission but in the audience and at home to understand the need of our department to have a firstclass museum. Any further items, commissioners . Thank you very much. Adam secretary, call next item item nine adjournment so moved. Is there a second . Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. This meeting is adjourned. [gavel] [adjournment] hello. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the wednesday march 22 regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at a special at at 3 00 p. M. And i am supervisor ronen and to my left is supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer and supervisor safai has joined us. The clerk is erica major and i would like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Madam clerk do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be parted of the file somebody submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the april 4 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. And we called this meeting today or i called it at a special time because were going to have two hearings, one about child care and about one staffing and teacher housing in our Public Schools and wanted to accommodate those that could only come at this time and we have a long agenda and we will go quickly as possible so everyone can get home and feed their kids and get to sleep. Check check will you call item 1. Yes, is a hearing on the Family Violence council 5th comprehensive report on the Family Violence and requesting to the department on the status of women to report. Thank you. And we will start with a representation from supervisor tangs office. Hi. Good evening. I am from supervisor tangs office and i would like to keep my comments short and go through the report of the Family Violence council and weed like to give your thanks to those that putting together this information important on the status of this important issue in our city so i would like to hand the mic over to the department on the status of women director maf ari. Good afternoon chair and supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer. Thank you for having us today. I want to acknowledge the leadership for requesting this hearing. We were originally presented in october and after waiting three hours the committee decided we should be scheduled to today and were delighted to be here with three new members with the board. Congratulations to each and every one of you. The Family Violence council and compose upon of 24 members. 21 Government Agencies and three Community Based organizations plus many more attend regularly. I want to acknowledge some of the members who are here today. We have captain yuma bailey from the Police Department. Maria mcgee and the District Attorneys Office Julie Leonard from family and Children Services of the Human Services agency. San francisco is unique and we address violence across the life span and including elder abuse and family and child abuse. The mission is respond to the citys response to Family Violence in new and innovative ways. For example the first guest speaker to the council was representative from animal care and control known as the dog catcher so you might ask why the dog catcher has anything to do with Family Violence fam but turns out where there is animal abuse there are signs of child abuse or Domestic Violence or elder abuse and families are more likely to open the door to animal control than others and theyre a mandated reporter and one of the activities is publishing an annual report on Family Violence in San Francisco and the only of its kind in country and we bring work from 20 agencies and staffed by the department on the status of women and has three cochairs. Kate i albright and keaght and sean and couldnt be here today and we have staff filling in. I would like to thank the interns nicolette and the office of womans policy and we put together this report and switch the slides to these slides. So just in terms of a quick overview of our report. Methodology the data was collected from july ion, 2014 to june 30, 2015 from 15 public agencies and 27 Community Based agencies so today we want to give you a high level view of trends and statistics. Also talk about Family Violence deaths in 2015, achievements of the council and recommendations for 2016. We dont have time to go over all 121 pages of the report but it is available on our website so im going to turn it over to Katie Albright to give statistics on child abuse in San Francisco. Thank you so much. And supervisors its an honor to be here. Thank you so much. My name is Katie Albright and the executive director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center and our mission is end abuse in 50 years. I will be highlighting specifics around child abuse prevention statistics specifically and my colleagues will be highlighting Domestic Violence findings and jill highlighting elder abuse findings. I wanted to thank dr. Morassy and others for their incredible work and leadership on this report as well as the entire department on the status of women for the dedication to End Community violence in our San Francisco. We are truly connecting the dots between child abuse, Domestic Violence and elder abuse and creating Effective Solutions for families in our community. As you will read in this report i want to pull back on three highlights. One, prevention is key. Two, we really can connect the dots. As was said between child abuse, Domestic Violence and elder abuse both in terms of its cause as well as prevention opportunities in the to find solutions and finally private private truly work and i think you will see that in the report today and as you read the findings lets me start with the child abuse finds specifically and i wanted to highlight again the prevention is key. When you think about the finch finding the top line is a program by the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center and operating 24 7 for more than 40 years really thinking about as initial response to families in crisis and we see more than three times the number of calls as our Child Welfare department, their hot line so you can see that this is truly an effective measure in order to be the First Responders on the line and the calls are from suicide and crisis calls how to do encoder dropped and as you will read in the report on page 62 yearo over the cdcs rates of child abuse relatively constant from 11 to 14 year over year. Turning to the Police Department the find it is show there is a 30 decrease in the number of cases investigated by this department in 2015 conversely in later slides investigations of elder abuse have increased by four fold and we will look at later slides how those connect with each other. Finally turning to the District Attorneys Office the findings show a 33 decrease in cases filed by the district attorney, but in 11 increase in conviction rates. Theres more information in the report and the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center looked at the economics of abuse in our community and i am happy to make that available as well. Creating a link between child abuse and Domestic Violence i wanted just highlight some success numbers that we see in a program called safe starts and focused on family with children 06 exposed to violence and between 201115 we saw an increase of 103 as well as an increase in the work by the district attorneys victims is department of 41 in this last fiscal year. Again it shows the interconnection between Public Private partnerships and the importance of focusing early on prevention. I have the happy opportunity to turn it over to my colleague bev upton to focus on Domestic Violence. Thank you katie. So i want to walk you through some of the Domestic Violence statistics. I want to talk about the San Francisco Domestic Violence consortium and the community. San francisco is really rich in a diverse array of Services Operating 24 hours a day shelter, crisis line and then Community Based non Residential Services which serve the needs of specific communities, the Spanish Speaking communities and the asian speaking community and the lgbt community. We have a safety net built over 40 years in San Francisco to protect the most vulnerable of Domestic Violence and its an honor to represent them at the Family Violence council. When you talk about what katie talked about for Domestic Violence agencies and number of people served youre seeing about 24,000. That is roughly three times that were seeing at from the calls at 911. That again really echoes the fact that people want to speak with somebody who speaks their language, who understands their cultural issues and who may not be part of a criminal justice team. Now of course San Francisco wants to be ready when people need that kind of solution. Theyre here. We work with them every day but just as we saw in katie numbers for child abuse the largest number of calls and the every day solution to many peoples Domestic Violence and the exposure of children is reach out to the community so you can see shy of 25,000 folks are served in the Community Every day every year. 21,000 are reaching out on our 24 hour crisis lines. San francisco the department on the status of women funds women inc. To operate San Franciscos 24 hour crisis line ferlt the shelters and other agencies answer their crisis lines during the day but 24 hours a day every day of the year you can get many languages that are very well versed and trained in Domestic Violence issues and can help kied people 24 hours a day. As we talked about 911 receives about 9,000. Again we see those as the more serious calls. We have begun trainings with 911 new dispatchers on the language of Domestic Violence, what some of the challenges for reaching out for help might be and connect people faster in their language and their own cultures to solutions around Domestic Violence. The special victims unit they have a happy load on Domestic Violence cases. Heavy load from cases and its down a bit but up when you look at the numbers and the bulk of the cases theyre working on. When we look at the District Attorneys Office our numbers differ than child abuse but again i think we have a longer history and so we looked at 542 500 cases being filed. Thats a 63 increase over the year and the convictions and probation were 111. Also a small increase. I will take this opportunity to say that most of us in the community and our partners in criminal justice do not always see incarceration as the solution to Domestic Violence, so when we dont see huge numbers going into incarceration were not deterred by that. In fact it gives us hope that more is being handled in an alternative manner and in the community, so we see these as positive numbers. Speaking of more positive numbers were seeing convictions and probation up as well and then i think one of the more hopeful numbers were seeing in this chart 142 folks convicted and ending up receiving treatment at our rsvp. One other number i would like to add is how many other people are receiving intervention classes out in the community. San francisco has ten more Domestic Violence intervention classes where people are not incarcerated but go through probation to get to the classes so theres lots of folks to change the Belief Systems and their behavior out in the community. Certainly if it requires a Law Enforcement response we want to be there for that and partner with them but we do not see that as negative numbers. On the next slide there you go. Thank you. We can tell a pretty good story with a cautionary tale; right . When we started this work or in 1991 in the 90s we were losing seven or eight women a year to Domestic Violence. Now are these numbers always perfect . No. Women and other people lots of folks die as a result of Domestic Violence that are never captured so do please keep that in mind. Also it has an implicit outcome in suicide, so these numbers are just what our medical examiner over the years as determined to be Domestic Violence homicides. Okay. With that baseline you can see where we were in the 90s, seven, eight women a year and i can tell you if this chart started earlier would be more and in the 80 it was ten or 12 and over the last ten years we have substantially reduced the number of women dying from Domestic Violence in San Francisco. In fact when we really had an all hands on deck response in San Francisco when the community was were still robust but when we were starting our partnerships, getting more funding, establish svu, getting probation to the table, work with the da and pds office we had 44 months without a homicide for Domestic Violence that we know it and that is unprecedented for cities and San Francisco. You can see the cautionary tale as we move up were seeing increases and three is consistent for the years and were waiting for a couple of determinations from the medical Examiners Office in 2016 but you can see the trend and we need to be vigilant and we know about this. Any questions . Any questions . Thank you so much. Good afternoon. My name is jill neilson and a Deputy Director with the department of aging and Adult Services which is part of the Human Services agency. Our department operates multiple programs that promote the self sufficiency, safety and health and independence, not just of elder adults about adults with disabilities. We are one of the programs that is operated by our program with Adult Protective Services and a primary Safety Net Program to serve older adults and adults with disabilities that are experiencing abuse. One of the things that we know for sure that elder abuse is on the rise here in San Francisco and thats not just here in San Francisco, but thats also across the state and across the country. In fact the adult protect Service Program over the past five years has seen increase of 22 in the reports of abuse we receive by the hot line. Studies across the country have shown that 10 of older adults suffer abuse and we know the rates are higher when you look at vulnerable populations like individuals that have dementia. What you will see from this slide is reports to Adult Protective Services that were confirmed cases by others increased by 33 in fiscal year 2015. We also can see that requests for civil restraining orders which is another way to track elder abuse and went up almost 200 . San franciscos special victims unit is responsible for investigating reports of elder abuse, and we did see that in fiscal year 2015 there was a decline in the number of cases that the special victims united investigated pertaining particularly to physical abuse. However, in the area of Financial Abuse we saw that there was a significant increase over 200 in the number of cases that the special victims unit investigated and we owe that to the addition of three investigators that were specialized in the area of Financial Abuse. And its a highly specialized area and the cases are time consumes and require great deal of training. The District Attorneys Office reported 30 convictions and i just thought i would report that does just pertain to family crimes but crimes that might occur to an oldare adult, for example a street crime, so it goes beyond Family Violence. Adult protective services is a state mandated county operated program and were responsible for investigating reports of abuse, neglect, exploitation and self neglect. And in fact over the in 2015 the program in San Francisco received over 7,000 reports. What youre seeing here pertains just to elder abuse. We have pulled out our cases involving adults between the ages of 18 and 64 and what you can see from this slide is that psychological and mental abuse is the most commonly confirmed abuse and that type of abuse is often cooccurring with other forms of abuse such as financial and physical abuse or caregiver neglect. Our Program Works closely with criminal justice partners. One of the ways that we do that is through the Elder Abuse Forensic Center that is operated by the institute of aging elder abuse prevention program. Were also very important to have an elder Justice Subcommittee that we were able to form through the Family Violence council and it really allows us to work on increasing operational collaboration and effectiveness. Thanks very much. I am pass it back to the department on the status of women. Good afternoon. I am the policy director on the department on the status of women so i am going to follow up with some of the ways that we then are able to use the data in the report so it doesnt just sit on the shelf so looking at the summary i want to reiterate some of the points that have been made about the experience of the Community Service providers because you can see both in the area of child abuse and Domestic Violence our cbos are fielding three times as many calls than the Government Agencies and going into budget season its important to fund them that are providing the services and part of the safety net. Another way we looked at the data and really combine looking at child abuse and Domestic Violence and elder abuse and we did a dive around the special victims unit formed in 2011 and prompted by a huge contraction of staffing at at Police Department so there was a need to consolidate so there was separate units for all of these categories and consolidateed in the special am victims unit but we saw with fewer staff the number of investigations overall declined both total and for each of the areas so were hoping as we see the Police Department running more academies and up to full staffing that the special victims unit will receive more staff to enable to get back to the number of investigations it used to v i will go quick and i know you have other hearings but stop me if you have questions. In terms of Racial Disparities we see for the agencies that do provide data black and latino victims are disproportionality represented at Victim Services and the District Attorneys Office and Trauma Center clinics and for Family Violence and disproportionality represented in terms of their population overall in the city and one ways that we use the data this is a map of 911 calls by Police Station regarding Family Violence in San Francisco so you see that the bay view and ingleside have the most Family Violence calls so we use that to implement two programs, one we did an ad d campaign in october of 2015 and the person purchasing the ads were in bus routes most affected by Family Violence and we were awarded excellence communication award by the California Association of Public Information officials last year for the campaign that ran on bus and shelters and online and dating apps like grinder and okay cupid which was a first. We also have a Pilot Program were running in the bay view to target high riskinin Domestic Violence cases and prevent some of the homicides that beverly talked about and where the calls are coming from and talk to the police and about cases at risk and talk to an advocate at the scene and new program informed by our data so im going to very quickly zoom through some of our achievements. As katie mentioned our Public Private partnerships are fabulous and able to do great work and some of the improvements we have seen are coming up with better prot will cos at the on protocols and the special victims unit and i want to commend captain bailey and we had turnover and since shes been there we have better policies when Police Respond to a Domestic Violence call and when Health Care Providers have to report Domestic Violence to the police and how that report is handled. Weve done some training as mentioned at the department of Emergency Management, at the Housing Authority and we recognize there are tenants there experiencing Domestic Violence and as previously mentioned as a result of our last years report the special victims unit had investigators for elder abuse at that unit. So im going to let you look on your own. Our recommendations for 2016 i will point out we did include in our report a very ambitious five year plan for combating Family Violence that has budgetary needs and it would be great when looking for the budget this year to be consulting with that. Any questions . Thank you so much. Colleagues do you have any questions . Any questions . No . No . Supervisor sheehy. No, i just wanted to thank you for your report and thank supervisor tang for calling this meeting and acknowledge Katie Albright and Beverly Upton and shawna resources with the Family Violence council. I worked as a Victim Advocate in the District Attorneys Office for victims of Domestic Violence and hate crime. I was there when this happened. I take no credit but i was there from 98, 99, 98, 99 and i saw the genesis of this work and it really was lead by the community. Luckily the district attorney, the Police Department, all the various pieces came together but the drops in rate and this 44 month span and no homicides. Congratulations. Really this is astonishing. Peoples lives have been saved and i want to specifically note the comment about it really isnt about convictions a lot of the time. Its about changing peoples really their world view a lot of times. There is a power dynamic that is very sinister and people can change and families can be healed. I did want to look there was a piece of data that jumped out on page 97 at me, and that was looking at thats in the schools. Yes. And you know the different the numbers are quite dramatic when you look at physical and sexual dating violence between heterosexual kids and lgbt kids. You know 6 and dating violence and 12 for lgbt kids and [inaudible] for heterosexual kids and 21 for lgbt kids and i saw some scary dat on suicide among lgbt kids in the schools so i think there is something i may want to come back to that at another point because im not sure that is what is happening to the lgbt kids in school are safe as we hope and not as safe as they should be i think and maybe we can continue. Maybe get some data too on lgbt elder abuse. That would be very nice to have that because i am glad youre picking up elder abuse as our population ages our people are incredibly vulnerable. And i am a member of the budget and finance committee and i am committed to defending existing funding so we cannot let the cuts at federal and state level and the Trump Administration impact violence against women programs and elder abuse programs and child abuse interventions and i took a look at the funding recommendations in the five year plan to address all of these needs and in a tough budget year i look forward to work with you as part the budget process to accomplish these goals. Thank you. I just want to respond on the School District data on lgbt and actually it was supervisor sandra fewer that allocated funds for a person within the School District on those issues and active member of the Family Violence council and we would like to have any staff come to the quarterly meetings and that is where the data was unearthd and we will have conversations with the School District to address the disproportionality between lgbt and straight disparity between straight and lgbt students and Family Violence. That would be great. You might look at suicide data as well. I dont have that in front of me and not really public event it was distributed so all i had was a screen shot of that but i think theyre parts i think its two sides. Same coin so looking at the violence and not the trauma and pressures that lgbt kids are under school is important. I wanted to address it quickly as one of the trichairs. The day this information was presented at Family Violence council the gasp in the room was audible, so were going to really want to partner with you and your leadership on this because it was stunning. I can tell you the day it was presented many of us left the Family Violence council feeling like we had not done everything we could for our kids, so we want to partner with you. Thank you. I would appreciate that. It was stunning. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you so much. I wanted on thank you for the presentation and all of your work and just echo. I serve on the board of [inaudible] one of the Community Based organizations that provides this essential work that is language and culturally appropriate so want to appreciate that your focus on those types of services and the Public Private partnership. It really make a lot of sense and also wanted to appreciate a comment from Beverly Upton about not wanting to rely on incarceration as the solution to violence and sometimes makes matters worse so thank you for the thoughtful and incredible work. I really appreciate it and if theres no other comments from my colleagues i would love to open it up oh sorry, supervisor fewer has a couple of questions or suggestions. Thank you chair. Thank you for the report and its comprehensive and i have to go through the whole thing and i have some comments and i echo with sfusd lgbt students and hard to read the statistics as my son is gay and know first hand about some of the issues concerning are inclusiveness and in our classroom settings. So yes, i would love an update on sort of that resolution i wrote and also about the funding and the programs that we are implementing for that. I have a question though, and this is on this big report, the 2014 comprehensive report on Family Violence in San Francisco page 70 and i think this is probably a question for katie about the child abuse intervention program. I am looking at this that so maybe i am just seeing this data as a little i am just reading it briefly of the program the client statistics which dont seem that promising katie but i want to mention i think its pretty like theyre mandated by law to complete a minimum of 52 sessions. Is this why these stats are so low . Low . Actually this is page 70. I just want to clarify the 2014 or 2015 report . This is the 2014 report, and so are we seeing Better Outcomes gradually . Are we learning from it . Or maybe just give me a snapshot. Its a very good question supervisor if thank you for asking tthis is a legally mandated program to have a 52 week counseling session. San francisco was able to implement it several years ago. It was an initiative of many departments and the Mayors Office coming together to go forward and its an evaluation based program so evidence suggests its working as an inter vengdz. I believe those programs and others working on the front end and, wog with families and protective factors with these intervention programs will bring the numbers down and one of the things that is interesting that all of the Family Violence elder abuse, child abuse, Domestic Violence what we want to see is awareness raised and reports increased and then substantiated cases decreased over time and one thing we grapple with trying to understand the true cost . What are the true numbers prevalentacy of these abuses . So this program is an effective intervention. The city has invested in it and we do definitely believe there are other intervention programs that are effective. I just wanted to add the numbers seem low because the only people are sent by the court and convicted and we dont have a tremendous case load of people convicted of child abuse. Thats what that reflects. Thank you very much. As i rethis what i upon looking forward is sort of the correlation between wage disparity, the corlaigdz between families tripling up in households, seeing such a way. Wealth gap in San Francisco and stressing our families out and wondering if this is compounding the program i mean im not a social scientist but i can see it has an effect and speaking to people in sros now and multiple People Living in one room so wondering as a city what are some of the initiatives that we can align with the preventative things and do together . So when we look at Family Housing and were discussing it and what is an appropriate housing situation of a family of four . What is an appropriate housing situation of a family of six . Is it a two bedroom apartment of 1300 square feet . Those type of i think policy issues that were grappling with on another to solve another issue we think about housing but how these things also affect the Domestic Violence and child abuse, and i think that if we can align them a little bit and get suggestions around it knowing these statistics that we might be able to use the resources to really address other issues, not just that families need home,s, but what makes for a Healthy Family home. I will make a connection and connect dots here and you know this is near and dear to my heart. Eviction prevention want keeping the families in the homes that theyre in and also were very concerned because of San Franciscos housing crisis that people will stay in dangerous situations longer in order to keep their housing, so eviction prevention is a way of preventing elder abuse, Domestic Violence and child abuse and keeping people in stable housing and not forcing them to stay in dangerous places because theyre afraid they dont have another place to live. I think we need to connect the dots and conversations we dont have with housing and the health of the family and also i think Something Else they really would like to look at is these statistics by race, really looking deeply into race because were also looking at a Racial Disparity in San Francisco that is happening quickly and what happens to segments of our population and reporting and cbos versus the police and now in time of the trump era and we will see a decrease of people actually reporting and increase of people staying in unsafe situations . And actually when we talk about elder abuse too. Thats a growing population in my neighborhood. Its the largest growing population of seniors and i am actually probably in that category right now so i am concerned also about the statistics around where some of the eldare abuse is happening . Is it in institutions or institutionalized or in individual households . So some of the things what can we do prevention wise . What education give to caregivers and even family members so theyre able to express through the love ones what might be happening to them because a lot of times i say elders are sometimes embarrassed to speak up about it and i think this is something that has been abuse in general quite frankly in our society stigmatized by society so how can we have victims of these crimes actually come forward and to seek shelter and actually safety . Right. Before i turn this over to jill i want to say another prevention youre working on in another context is immigration, making sure that San Francisco stays a sanctuary city. People wont reach out to help and even to the community and not to the criminal Justice System which we want them to feel safe and have confidence if there is something serious going on to reach out to whoever is appropriate so all of the mayors efforts and the board of supervisors efforts around sanctuary city and keep San Francisco safe for all is a preventive tool for elder abuse and Domestic Violence and child abuse. We agree. Really quickly in response to your comments. One thing we do know for every instance of elder abuse that is reported between 14 and 24 go unreported and certainly shame goes a long way. Victims do not speak up. Sometimes the victims have dementia. Due to their Cognitive Impairment they dont know they have been victimized. They might not be willing to accept help. We know that typically the abuse is happening in the home and the abuser is loved ones and the Family Violence concept. Caregivers. We need to support caregivers and family members and there is a connection between psychological and financial stressors and abuse and thats why we need to help the families in multifaceted ways. Thank you very much for your comments. Thank you so much. Now i would like to open for Public Comment. Is there anyone that would like to speak on this item now is your chance to come forward . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] and colleagues can we move forward with filing this hearing . Yes. Okay. The hearing is filed. Thank you so much. [gavel] thanks for your presentations. Madam clerk can you call 5th comprehensive report two. Yes number two is a hearing to consider that the type 51 club license to Treasure Island yacht club doing business as Treasure Island yacht club located at 300 clipper cove way and will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Hello. We have someone here from the Police Department to speak on the report. Hillo. I am from the San Francisco Police Department. You have a report for Treasure Island yacht club located on 300 clipper cove way. If a driewfed the license will will allow them to sell beer, wine and distilled spirits to guests only. There is zero letters of protest or support. Theyre in lot ten and high crime and in census track as listed which is low saturation. Southern station has no opposition. We approve with no conditions. Thank you so much and now we have the applicant here. Would you like to say a few words . Thank you supervisor ronen. My name is nice an and the current commodore and the member share for the Treasure Island yacht club. Most people dont know who we are and in a serious issue and talking about yacht clubs. We have a deep history and navel history and started by the navy 50 years ago and celebrated our 50th anniversary. Were a humble small yacht club, less than a dollar for membership and a club and boating available for those that are interested that are avid boat motorists as well as new members. We recently because of the development of Treasure Island were displaced from our old location. Three years ago we didnt have running water. Thats how humble we are so we moved to a new location and over a year ago we have been filing for the departments transfer and im not sure of the challenge the previous commodore had last year and took so long and the membership is small because its a dollar a day and 44 memberships up to 93 now and im the membership chair and i do also do the dishes but so we growing and the development of Treasure Island is proceeding forward but im not sure what has taken so long for the premise and transfer from location to location. Were a nonprofit. We try to give to the community on Treasure Island and we have navy members and most are retirees and some live on the island and so as i said the membership is pretty low because we want to be open to the community on Treasure Island and those around it and the Liquor License permit is the only other source of income for us meaning when we have other yacht clubs that want to come into Treasure Island we can host them and without the liquor permit its difficult to do that so we appreciate your approval of support on that. Thank you. I know these delays are frustrating. Its something that i am interested looking into and trying to address. Thank you. So i am sorry for the delace. Thank you very much. Is there any member of the public to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues do you have any comments and if not can i get a motion to send this forward with recommendation . Supervisor sheehy. I thought you had a comment. We have a motion to move this forward with recommendation. Seeing no objection this motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you please read item 3. Yes item 3 is a hearing to consider that the type 40 onsale beer license to askander harooni located at 835 larkin street will serve the public convenience or necessity for the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. Thank you. You have a report for 5th comprehensive report located at 835 larkin street. They applied for a type 40 license and if approval allow sale of beer and zero letters of protest and in considered a lot of high crime. They located in census track as listed which is considered an undue concentration area. Central station has no opposition. Approve this license with the conditions submitted on the report you have before you and the applicant has agreed with this application i mean with this conditions. Thank you so much. And we have the applicant askander harooni here to make a brief presentation about your business. Yes. We were asked to keep it short so i will keep it brief. My name is askander harooni. Im a cofounder of this business located on 835 larkin street. We opened in 2013 as just a record store and in december after remodeling we added a coffee bar. From the beginning we wanted to add it but it took a while to get to that point. Basically our Mission Statement we wanted to create a unique space something that i experience when i was studying and working in a record store overseas in germany so we consider our space as a cultural hub. We do events that feature arts locally and nationally and were a coffee shop so we get a mix of people that come into our store, and to describe our team. We have a beer and coffee manager, Christopher Griffin who owned another coffee shop in the mission. Me, the cofounder and josh woods who is here and my brother. Obviously we are asking for your approval of our type 40 beer license and chris can explain kind of our beer set up. How are you doing . Thank you for your time. Basically our set up is going to be stripped down. Im going to do three draft beer options, and a draft combutcha option and non alcoholic and on top and nice for somebody else who is a booze drinker and then were going to have three craft can and bottle options. I am look at a couple of partners of beer company that sponsors musical events and festivals around town which we are also interested in hosting at our space. Planned to wholesale with morris and e grando and familiar. Theyre pretty much the distributors here and its going to be very basic and thats about it. Thank you. Absolutely. To close it off we do have a ton of support both from tenants in our building. Were under hearten hotel and a sro and local support and businesses in the area. We also have a great connection with hearten hotel. I always go there for every event and give me contact info and if its ever too loud and contact me. Any of the tenants can call me. Its okay and to explain our event we have a limited performance license through Event Commission and we have good reviews so if you checked online through yelp great ratings. Also ranked number two for Record Stores on four square from 105 ratings, and i guess its not working anymore but thats pretty much ti hope you can come for an event or enjoy a beer hopefully. Thank you so much. Colleagues any questions . And then i will open it up for Public Comment. Does anyone want to speak to this item . Hi. My name is steven quinoa. I have lived in that area for about 30 years and when the record store opened i cant tell you how enthusiastic i was. Its nice to have somewhere they feel connected to i dont go to the bars in the neighborhood or a lot of the other places but i immediately found a home and i have been to some of the events that have been held there and i think theyre very proper. These guys are very socially conscious. They have benefits for organizations. Theyre holding one this month for planned parenthood and i just would really like to recommend that they are able to get their license. Thank you so much. All right. Any other speakers feel free to line up and you can line up against this wall over here. Hi. I my name is justin and i live in the neighborhood. And i just like to express my support for them as well. Its a bit of a trouble troubled neighborhood where we are. Theres a bleak environment and since they have opened they have added a lot to the neighborhood. I mean including the people and our surrounding, some of the homeless and everything. They interact every day so our homeless unofficial Community Center and away and especially for artists finding spaces and they express themselves. They have a critical space for the city and theyre very responsible as well. I think the beer license will help you know add a sort of ambiance to the art shows, to the record release shows. I just cant say enough what they have done for the neighborhood and i think theyre a grate addition. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im lisa torscpez a social scientist with the federal agency over on larkin, golden gate and the record store is just a few blocks from where i work and not far from where i live so i have been visiting over the last months and fyi they have got a terrific jazz collection if you like jazz. I have been one to the recent eating events and had a dj and a great showing and i would like to support their request for a beer license. I think theyre doing terrific things for the neighborhood and theyre really sweet guys. Thank you so much. Is there any other speaker who would like to speak at Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues any comments . Seeing none i would just like to say i cant wait to come to the record store. I havent been there yet but it sounds amazing and thanks to everyone that came out today and can i get a motion to move forward with physical recommendation and that is unanimous. Clerk clrk can you call item 4. Yes item 4 is a hearing to consider that the issuance of type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to Pacific Retail vcf incorporated and doing business as vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street and public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. I will give a report for vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street. They applied for a 42 license and if approved this will allow to sell on sale beer and wine. Zero letters of support or protest. Theyre considered in high crime and census track considered a high saturation area. Central station has no opposition much submitted with conditions on the report and applicant has agreed with these conditions. Thank you and is the applicant here . Hi. Good afternoon. Thank you for entertaining our application. We have been in business for three and a half years. Our store is elgantd. We have a health score of 100 and high comments on yelp and not a lot of locals. We get tourists but not locals. About two years ago the board of supervisors approved our 21 license and that helped but weve chosen to focus pretty much on high end spirits and mostly organic and sustainably produced wines. People dont understand them well so they want to taste them and every day we get the tourists who are the primary customers and sometimes its difficult to sell them wines without being able to taste them so we have applied for this license in order to number one be able to satisfy that need. Number two, most of our colleagues in this business give events. Weve tried that without serving alcohol. Doesnt work. So we would like to have beer and wine so we have events with food and oil and vinegars and spices and prepare hors doeuvres and taste all of the products and not just alcohol and give them the experience of organic products and most are organ and i can naturally produced so the other thing is we would like to do events that we publicize for charities as well. A lot of our colleagues do that as well and were working with a websited called if only and automatically part of our profits from events would go to charities. At the moment and since we opened actually we have worked primarily with two charities, the San Francisco Marin Food Bank and with the Aquatic Park Senior Center because theyre across the street from us so we like to expand our ability to have events of which portions of our proceeds would go to charities. Essentially in all honestly our business struggled a bit in the last six months and while the 21 license helped we had issues with ghirardeli square and historic environment. They made changes to the garbage and recycling policies and due to some engineering deficiencies in the building the odor permerated our store and fixed now but affected us a bit and we would love to recoup that and increase our sales. Finally you know in addition to requests by tourists on a regular basis we find that the locals that come to our store are excited about having us be able to serve food along with the wine so they can actually taste all of our products at one place. With that i thank you for your time. Thank you so much. And look for your support. Thank you. Great. Seeing no questions i am going to open it up for Public Comment. Would anybody like to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues can i get a motion to move this forward with recommendation . Without objection the motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you call item number 5. Yes item 5 is a hearing to evaluate access to quality affordable childcare in district 11 including analysis of the number children age five and under living in the district and the available spots in privately operated and city funded facilities. Thank you. Supervisor safai would you like to run your hearing . Yes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity supervisor ronen and sheehy and yee to be a part of this Committee Hearing today. This was the very first thing i introduced as a supervisor on our first Board Meeting that allowed us to have a conversation about child care and the impetus to this was 12 years ago district 11 faced an emergency and it resurfaced about a year ago with the lost of Mission Child Care Consortium. Theyre the largest subsidized child care facility in the city outside of the School School that is part of first five. 524 subsidized slots are in this location. Its been serving the mission where it got its original name and moved to the excelsior since the 70s. Its been around a very long time and after securing multiple longterm letses the owner decided to sell the building in 2015 after they had talked about longterm lease. This facility pace over 28,000 a month in rent and 100 reliant on reimbursement for state subsidized child care slots. So the situation was more pronounced and the housing crisis and the recession in 2007 and the uptick in tremendous in cost of housing and real estate losing this access for free child care became more underscored because as you know if people cant afford to have affordable childcare its often they cant go to work and families shouldnt decide between work and child care and paying rent so i am happy to say over the last two years we started a Community Organizing effort working with the office, California Program first five, mayor ed lee, the property owner, the hellman foundation, commissioner hydra mendoza and many other people we were able to get Grant Funding and actually the timing of this hearing is very nice because in the next days the owner is signing a purchase and Sale Agreement five and a half million dollars. All the people in the audience sitting in the first row and myself, the mayor yes, applause. Five and a half million theyre going to be owning this property and thats the impetus so were really excited. This will be the largest 51st program in San Francisco and serve the city for the next 50 years. The issue is not just about funding but familiarities so that was facility and it is another reason and my childs facility is moved from the opposite from the excelsior to the mission and were dealing with issues of the socrates disadvantaged socioeconomic families and under five and tend to be the most vulnerable and we know there are families on wait list and in all of these centers so all of that is part of the main reason why we called for this hearing. We hope this hearing will help to inform the conversation about child care and facilities in other parts of San Francisco and it happens it rolls into the conversation of educate our housing that is the next item on the agenda that we called for so it fits nicely i think. Theres a scarcity of brick and mortar facilities and outdoor space requirements constrain the ability for locations so we wanted to think about this in the context of this hearing today so the two caveats are to be fiscal sound programs to serve 24 or more children and housing 75 square feet of open space so lets think about that, so again understanding the achievement gap and closing the opportunities and what does that mean . Children particularly of mono lingual and disadvantaged backgrounds have access to the right skills and preparing for kindergarten and thats a lot of this conversation so the idea that there could be the conversation about children being behind as they approach kindergarten is not something that we want to even have a conversation about. We want to do everything we can to get them prepared so in our district we have cleveland, giewp lupe, the spanish biliteracy programs and tag lot programs and monroe has a dual immersion path way. Jose ortiza and mandarin immersion so we have a lot of programs in the Public Education system and only San Francisco community and sheer don dont have authorized language and another way we know it helps children prepare so finally i will end by saying state subsidized early child care is mandated to run quality curriculum by the department of education. Access to the free and affordable programs is a vital component to our childrens academic success so theyre the reasons we called for the reason today i. I have a special thanks to many and from the unified School District and the executive director of access and equity sorry if i didnt say the name properly. [inaudible] and the director of California Child Development programs for the low Income Investment fund and the school board and children, youth and their families so if we could call up september to do your presentation and then we can ask a few questions. Good afternoon supervisors. We appreciate the opportunity. We pulled together we have a brief presentation and weve tried to share citywide comparison data to put things in context. I am september jerad and the director of early care and education come in that capacity since july. Our mission as a new department is have access for all San Francisco Young Children zero to five and their families. Its a Great Mission and challenge and work we do together. Lets talk about San Franciscos Young Children. San francisco is home to over 44,000 Young Children under the age of five and you can see that district 11 is home to the second highest proportion of children of any district in the city. Far too many of Young Children start off early life in poverty and as you can see we have desperate rates by district and 11 of the young start off life with the stress of poverty. The children of our city are increasingly more diverse than the adults and the children of district 11 represent this trend. The supply of child care available for working families is a pressing issue citywide. In almost all homes all parents are working and many parents are working more than one job to make ends meet so demand for care is extreme. As you can see by this slide district 11 has proportionately fewer Child Care Spaces than other districts but amazing asset in district 1 is a thriving and actually the biggest family care child sector in the city. Theyre women licensed by the state, Small Businesses primarily women owned and women of Color Running a business and running for an educating and loving our citys children. In the interest of time i will skip these. A teaser. I want to jump to the issue of affordability because the squeeze our country puts stress on working families and more stressful for all of us but this graph shows you the colors are hard to see today. But fully 55 of our families of Young Children face affordability challenges. If you use the measure of 110 of area median income. Thats a wonky number. Its a housing benchmark we use and a policy benchmark that you adopted for thinking about the child care system. Thats about 106,000 a year for a family of three. If you look at this graph the bottom represents the income threshold by which the federal government helps family meet their Child Care Needs through the federal head start or Early Head Start program if you have heard of that. One of the partners is in the audience today. It has a family of three and caps at families earning 20,000 a year. When the state helps a family it caps out at 56,000 a year. When you factor in high cost housingue will talk about that later and the relatively low wages of working families this is where the squeeze comes in and over half of the Community Needs help meeting the cost of early care and education. I adopt to talk about San Francisco one of our strengths and its because of Public Investment and the resources that the city puts into our sector offers an amazing array of choices and opportunities for families. Theres universal preschool. Our Program Available free Half Day Program to all four year olds and district 11. We have contributed child care homes Small Businesses receiving subsidies to serve low income families. San francisco School District is a major contributor to high quality early Care Education in the district and they will speak about their work. There is parent based vouchers and choose the care choice and get support and last but not least Community Programs Meeting Needs and many of the programs that supervisor safai mentioned. This next graph is complicated but i use it to illustrate a point. Its not just families that are squeezed with the high cost of providing Early Learning for children in San Francisco. Its actually the professionals and providers themselves and programs p the blue line represents 85 of the market cost for child care. And thats a good benchmark for the cost of quality not the only one. The other lines that are well below the top blue dotted line show you what the reimbursement rates coming from the California Department of education or the state department of social services to help eligible families pay for care. That red dot is an important one and represents some of the policy guidance and change as a city family with partners agreed to which is San Francisco will bundle programs and streamline our work and help families up to 110 ami meets cost but were going to pay fair bers rates to the provideerce that do the work whether its the Child Care Centers or Small Businesses caring for children and the importance of doing that is unfortunately Early Education is among the lowest wage work in San Francisco and the average preschool teacher with a ba degree in the community is earning between 35,000 and 40,000 a year and im sorry one out of every three preschool teachers is eligible for some form of public assistance while working full time so we have pressing issues to grapple with. I dont want to give you a desperate picture. We have a very professional work force and commitment to quality and continuous learning. This scatter plotd shows that citywide. This shows you the provide erts participating in the quality system in district 11. And in some before i pass it over to my colleagues i want to say theres assets with early care and education in district 11. There couldnt be a more diverse vibrant community to support the young learner and robust child care sector and high engagement in curriculum based practices. As supervisor safai shared there is a facilities crunch especially for centers theres not enough spaces to meet the needs of families and the cost of quality care is beyond what subsidies pay for a large number of working families. Theres great facility successes that the supervisors shared. Permanent longterm Quality Control of the Community Service for Mission Child Care Consortium and excel seer family connections and i want to give the mic to my colleague from first five and tell you more about the work. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. I am with first 5 San Francisco and you heard a little about the macro level what the city is doing. Now well focus a little more on district 11 but a little background about first five. Were part of a state system. Every county has a first five and funded by tobacco tax and in san we have unique position where our fund side leveraged with local dollars so we have greater impact and part of the work is not only working with the early care system it really is focusing on families, communities and providers. And our work really is about sort of three tenants and focused on Family Engagement and support because children dont live within the context of family and communities. We really strive to having quality instruction in every Early Learning site and also meeting the needs of children social emotional well being and this we see as a path way to their lifelong success. We operate for the city well, we lead an initiative that is jointed funded with the department of children, youth and their families and department of Human Services called the Family Resource centers. There are 25 in the city but in this map mostly are concentrated on the eastern side of the city with the highest need. In district 11 there are three Family Resource centers portola connections and excelsior connections and [inaudible] and these hubs serve over 1500 not only children but their families and its through a variety of supports. The most popular that you see is actually parent child interact growfs and this says a lot about district 11. As september demonstrated the need for licensed facilities is actually its huge in district 11 and its been so for many number of years since first five and other city did thes have done is build strategies to support families especially in the early years and one of them is through the Family Resource centers provide play groups for parents and caregivers so we see its one of the frequently used services in district 11. In terms of the demographics at least for the families who come to the Family Resource centers 89 of them are either asian or latino. We have over 81 of families speaking another language other than english in district 11. And as we will talk about in a few minutes one of the things that is prevalent throughout San Francisco is the unstable housing and so if district 11 is not isolate friday that, and we know that all of these factors are indicators actually impact childrens lives. And the work of first five is build on the quality in any community and for the work that were doing in district 11 it includes improving the lives of children while theyre in care, and lots of research around what happens with children are in high quality Early Learning programs, and one of the things that we have done in San Francisco is that we have not only invested in high quality Early Learning were investing in the external process which is called the quality rating and improvement system. Its a little like yelp for Child Care Centers but instead of crowd sourced its really through an external assessment that is researched base and looks at several elements of quality and what we do for any program that is funded by the city its required that they participate in the quality rating, and the quality rating and includes not only professional Development Pathways but we use the qrs as a framework. A way to support systems change throughout the whole system of Early Childhood and this cant be done without the support of all the departments in the city including the School District. These are some of the areas that we focus on as part of the improvement system for Early Childhood, and teaching is not just about abcs and one, two, three. Its really a collaborative process and as youre going to hear a little more through our School District partners we have similar ways of pathways for the professional development for early educators and its about reflective practice. Its about indepth project base learning and coordinated professional development supports. This is not the exhausted list of things that we provide educators, but its the highlights, and some of the areas that we also focus is around working with teachers around what is equity and specifically what is Racial Equity . Because we cant get Better Outcomes if teachers also dont have that very core knowledge and just to give you a snapshot what district 11 has in quality in comparison to citywide most of the programs in district 11 are in matd rix from tier one to five. Most of the programs are hitting the higher tier levels. So im going to skip a little bit just for sake of time and you can read this over. One of the things that were actually very proud of is through the rating process we are able to see the interactions between adults and children, and this is an area that has longitudinal information around the impact that it does not only on third grade level reading but also math and as you can see your interactions are really high not only in district 11 but across the city and funded through local investments. And then i leave you with this thought. So thank you very much and i will hand it over to my next colleague. Good afternoon. My name is [inaudible] and the executive director of Early Education programs in San Francisco unified School District and i am very proud and pleased to have this opportunity to tell you about the wonderful things that are happening in our district in terms of our youngest san franciscans and early ed learners. Okay. Im going to give a very brief presentation and it will cover the overview of students that we serve in our district, the demographics of the students in our district, as well as share with you the Early Education schools in district 11. I will also share some of the strategies that we have in our classrooms and some of the professional Development Experiences that we have for our teachers and staff and finally i will share some Kindergarten Readiness data that weve collected over the past three years finally i will give you some information on the parent engagement practices that we have in our district for Early Education. Okay. To begin okay. I guess i am doing this too. Okay. I didnt get professional Development Using the device today so thank you. So we actually serve infant toddlers, preschoolers, transitional kindergarten as well as out of School Program children so the out of school is an after School Program for our tk through fifth grade students. For infant Toddler Program we have 24 spaces in two classes at one school in the district and that is the presidio Early Education school. For our preschool we have about 1560 spaces at 77 classes at 35 schools in the district and that is early ed stand alone schools as well as our elementary schools. For transitional kindergarten we have 454 spaces as well as sorry, 23 classes at 17 schools in the district and finally for our out of school after School Program we have 2178 space at 83 classes at 25 schools in our district and we also support 16 special day classes. I will talk about demographics. Thats not it. Thats it. Okay. Great. So our prek students range between three to five years old and so we have 676 three olds and 817 four year olds and you can see from the demographics that most of the highest or the top two ethnicities that we serve on chinese and historic as ingrid shared in her data as well. We also serve 250 prek special education students in our district as well in our early ed programs. The next slide im going to talk about the programs in district 11 that we serve. So there are three schools at full capacity in district 11 right now and those schools are share don, prek which is a 12 months the school is in session for 12 months. We have san miguel, Early Education school and a Year Round Program and we have excel sor guadalupe prek school and as i said all schools are at full capacity in district 11 and a total capacity of 230 spaces at all schools and again our highest ethnicity served are the chinese and hispanic programs. Some of the strategies in action. You know its important as part of the San Francisco unified School District Strategic Plan not just k12 but Early Education levels as well that we have a High Quality Professional Development system and high quality strategic learning for our teachers so this happens through workshops, coaching and professional learning communities that go on throughout the year, not just in the early Ed Department but also at our colocated elementary sites where we support our teachers. So some of the classes that or sorry, curriculum that our teachers have professional Development Im sorry, professional Development Im a little nervous so excuse me so some of the professional learning that goes on is in english Language Arts and math and science so our teachers actually explore different type of math pedagogy and making sure its appropriate for our early ed students as well as our early ed students have access to eco literacy, science where you can go or visit an early ed school and you will see evaluation of gardening and students using science and record information such as drawings or different types of art media to express their ideas through their learning. The other piece that is important is the culture and climate. We want to make sure that our students are emotionally and culturally ready for school as part of our Kindergarten Readiness program. We serve students that have a variety of needs and so therefore our teachers have access to professional development where they learn more about Inclusive Practices as well as trauma, how to work with children that have all kinds of different types of issues, so theyre ready to learn and can succeed in school and have the appropriate support. Also as mentioned earlier we are in tune to culturally relevant teaching practices. Okay. So with all of this wonderful work that were doing in San Francisco unified to help make sure our teachers provide a high level of instruction and have high quality and effective teaching methods we have seen the fruits of our labor through the very challenging work it is to be a preschool teacher but we have dedicated professionals and as a result of our fruits of labor you can see that we started taking baseline data on our preschools in 2013, and 37 of our students at that time they were at 37 of Kindergarten Readiness and you can see over the past three years they have had tremendous growth and they are now at 55 which is really something to be said about the work that the teachers are doing, the professional development, the coaching, all of these things make the high quality educational experience have impact on the work. Okay. Moving right along so i just wanted to speak about the transitional kindergarten and as you may know that the Kindergarten Readiness act of 2010 required that we have traditional kindergarten. So traditional kindergarten is the first year of a two year Kindergarten Program and has grown immensely in the district and the reason why we have transitional kindergarten and the two years are important because it gives the youngest children an opportunity to spend more time learning socialization skills and learning about letters and, numbers and how to get along with their piers as well as many other factors in terms of emotional and social growth. In 2013 we had seven classes at five schools and increased from 23 classrooms to 17 school sites where we now have a presence. Okay. Im going to skip that. Next slide and move into some of our strategies and action, so what is happening in our strategies and action is at early ed schools we are consistently throughout the year make sure that our systems and operations are in place that we have we spend time looking at our enrollment, how pier were working with Human Resources and it and strengthen the structures that we have in those place. Noodle what we do at the thats what we do at early sessions and we meet monthly and having professional learning communities and review data and share best practices. We support the elementary prek five school and working closely with them making sure theyre consistently developing appropriate practices and prek instructional learning opportunities. Final lie i would like to finally i would like to talk about the Family Engagement and its not just having that relationship with the family that as was mentioned earlier. I mean it takes effort by everyone in the district to develop the relationships with families and therefore we have workshops for our teachers and have professional learning communities on how to build and strengthen the relationships with the families that we serve in addition to having our site clerks participate in workshops so when theyre enrolling our parents into our schools theyre able to communicate and be culturally sensitive to the needs of the families in the community as well. We also have Family Support specialists in the schools to help negotiate difficult and challenging situations that the family may have, going into the homes and communicate with families or work with social workers or other support people that are that the family is working with to make transition and communication smoother and access support in the community and we work closely with the partners that just did the presentation. First five, cpac among others to make sure that we are working in concert with meeting the needs of everyone that our families and students and everyone in our early ed community so with that being said i have one last shot that you can see here and basically its a short letter from one of the parents that talks about the aspirations that they have for their child and we support this in every way possible because what the parent wants for their child is what we. As early ed staff, our teachers, our principals and everyone in early ed in sfusd to support our children. Great. Thank you. Im only going to ask a couple of questions for both of you and move on to the next item. Okay. But one question i have seen the question in tk from 2012 to now and you know the original slide said we had the second highest number of children under the agest of five but only one tk site in district 11 so are there expands tk in district 11 since we have the second commissioner hylandest number of children. Under five . Its something that we are looking at and in order to expand the tk site you have to find the space and so i know that we are at capacity at our schools but this is definitely something were mindful of and our plan is to address this issue. Okay. And then so i think thats the only question i have for you because some of the others you answered them but i wanted to bring september back up or ingrid. With regard to the Family Child Care homes providers does the office of early care and education Early Education and owed is there strategies to work with Small Business owners to access state subsidies and training so they can have access to curriculum by the California Department of education . Is there anything planned to work with them since we discovered there is so many . Thank you so much for that question supervisor. I think we do a fair amount and a fair amount more we can do and child care and Small Businesses. I failed to mention the city supports a Family Child Care network and strategy on professional support and curriculum and instruction issues or pedagogical issues in the homes and business and Small Business issues. We have partners for Small Business and the Mission Economic development association, the Child Care Facilities Fund providing support to the child care sector on real estate issues but i think we can do more and better to strengthen the businesses and deepen the supports because they really are extensional at caring for our youngest children especially infants and toddlers where we lack options and theyre the backbones of the neighborhood and i would like we can certainly do more to strengthen the supports and grow the support. And is there would monthly child care expenses be reduced if the providers enroll the into the state program and are they connected to that . Not at all. The cost of doing the cost you would for my child or your child is completely divorced and shouldnt be but from the bers rate. Were trying to flip the scipt in San Francisco but we have a obligation to leverage the dollars and set in the case of the California Department of education reimbursement rates are set on a statewide flat berg reimbursement rate that shows the gap and several thousands of dollars a year per kid and run that out in a Community Center and explains the squeeze that not just the families but providers who are relying on government sources to support them. And then do you think it makes sense to work with owed or city college to come up with a curriculum to help Small Business development and fostering the creation of early child care homes . We have some of the curriculum but we can always do more with city college, with the Child Care Facilities Fund and the Mission Economic Development Fund but we can do more. And my last question are there partnerships or other agencies or Community Based organizations that currently exist to identify and recruit amongo lingual non English Speaking families and participate in free or subsidized programs . Yes. I can speak a little bit about that. The city at this point and time contracts with two important agencies that are part of the early care and education system. Childrens council of San Francisco and [inaudible] Children Services that provide resource and referral outreach and engagement to San Francisco diverse families in multiple languages. Great. That was my last question so i appreciate everyone coming today. I appreciate all the hard effort and work that was put into this. This is really informative and we will certainly follow up with your departments respectively. I see commissioner mendoza is here. I thanked you before and thank you again for participating and moving the conversation forward and i dont know if colleagues have any other questions. I see a audience of people waiting for the next item and i know theyre excited about that as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. These items are interrelated. I am sorry were running later than we expected for the last item and i know so many of you are waiting so patiently. Were about to get to that item but before that i am opening for Public Comment on item number 5. Does anybody like to speak to this item . Please come up and anybody else that would like to speak you can line up against the wall over there. Good afternoon my name is cindy and i am with Mission Neighborhood centers, head start and Early Head Start. We Serve Centers in the mission, ten in the excellsor and Hunters Point and mission bay and have a small center for 24 preschool children, three and four year olds in a full day program with teachers who are qualified and have spent a lot of time and attention making sure theyre providing a safe space for those children. We have a wait list for that site of approximately 29 an internal Mission Neighborhood center wait list of 29 children who are preschool waiting to get into that site. The San Francisco Child Care Connection february monthly report for 91304 has 298 children waiting for infants and toddlers and preschools waiting for child care in that zip code. I would like to ask the city to take a look at a location that we have looked at. Its 35 and 45 an dagga avenue and as a potential site to establish a state of the Art Education early care and Education Center for head start and Early Head Start using a continuum of care for infants and toddlers and preschool children. The properties as they are now theyre not feasible for such a project. However, with the hospital and support of the city and together with our vision and expertise for the mission center. We believe a site at this location would fulfill the urgent need for a high quality facility for space for head start and Early Head Start. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is leah and i am here today representing Mission Neighborhood centers to urge you to invest in Early Childhood education in the excelsior district and we provide programs to 400 children across ten sites in San Francisco. As we heard access to quality affordable child care is a significant challenge to families in the excelsior. Despite the vast number of families and children under five in the district quality programs are rare to find and even harder to access. In addition sky rocketing rent prices and the lack of Affordable Housing continues to put a burden on low income families that already suffer to meet ends and we ask for Affordable Housing and head start classrooms by partnering with nonprofit providers and Affordable Housing developers. An example of this as you have heard is at 3545 an dogga in the excelsior. These buildings and formerly Emergency Hospital serving residents for free and has been vacant since 2008. The city released an rfp to lease the buildings because of black mold and wear and tear is an environmental hazard. A better story would be to develop Affordable Housing for families while offering Early Childhood education on the first floor. The city needs to be creative and support at risk families and children. We urge to consider the request and other options for Early Childhood education in the excelsior. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is gabriel and i will be brief for the next item. Thank you supervisor safai for calling attention to this matter. As a constituent i certainly and a graduate of Mission Child Resource Center i understand the needs of the district and glad calling attention to this. I want to thank the providers like Mission Neighborhood centers who is doing a stellar job and high rating providing the services and impressed by the presentation today and speakers and representatives from cpac, first five, department of children, youth and their families and i want to let you know and the supervisor know that meta, Mission Economic Development Agency is willing to work on helping to meet the needs to really see where the disparities are because there is over representation of disparity in the southeast sector of the city and also with families of color so were happy this matter has been called so thank you very much. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else for Public Comment for investment
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