Folks for sfgtv for the broadcast, clerk. Please be sure that all devices are silenced, items acted on today will appear on june 7 board of supervisors agenda. Please read the first item. To discuss the codes for Motor Vehicle tracking systems and all Motor Vehicles by the city. Thank you, this item is brought to us by supervisor yee, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin, morning, everybody, the item we are talking about is telematics, and this is a technology that has gps along with capabilities to collect data on speed, mechanical diagnosis, safety and other information. In other jurisdictions this technology has shown significant benefits early on including increasing safety, substantial cost savings. Has been used to correct, train and coach, to improve driving habits. Decrease inappropriate or unauthorized use of the vehicles and shown to have environmental benefits and reducing emission. Typically San Francisco leads the nation in setting precedence but in this case we are
Given the problems that supervisor peskin identified with the Small Business commission, just not the last eight months when they didnt have a secretary but years, how do we know we are not spending this money into a black hole. 2. 5 million, how do we know this is money that will be used wisely, if you can respond to that on the Small Business commission and i will ask mrs. Whitehouse on the same thing obwd. Supervisors whether through the standard forms of accountability and oversight, or through the powers that the board has or briefings that you would like us to do with you and your staff. We are happy to provide you whatever level of engagement and information that you are aware of. So that you feel comfortable with the implementation of this program. Our mission at the office of Economic Workforce Development and the office of the Small Business is to help San Franciscos Small Businesses succeed. We are not in the business of starting programs and having them not be successful. O
Broadcast, clerk. Please be sure that all devices are silenced, items acted on today will appear on june 7 board of supervisors agenda. Please read the first item. To discuss the codes for Motor Vehicle tracking systems and all Motor Vehicles by the city. Thank you, this item is brought to us by supervisor yee, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin, morning, everybody, the item we are talking about is telematics, and this is a technology that has gps along with capabilities to collect data on speed, mechanical diagnosis, safety and other information. In other jurisdictions this technology has shown significant benefits early on including increasing safety, substantial cost savings. Has been used to correct, train and coach, to improve driving habits. Decrease inappropriate or unauthorized use of the vehicles and shown to have environmental benefits and reducing emission. Typically San Francisco leads the nation in setting precedence but in this case we are actually behind the cur
Deadline for turning in applications easily there can be 200 people around the block in line at 4 oclock to turn in their applications. Its frustrating for all. And so we do send staff that day, but they cant stay there all day. And our developers bless their heart are on their best behavior when we are there. But things happeni when we are not there. We need to continue this secret shopping that all of our peoples needs are being met. Part of the selection criteria that was developed by the nonprofits we are looking at as a model. I want to go into some of these things that are very important and then provide updates to what we spoke about in 2014. Were looking at standardized eviction time, how long they look back on an eviction if you had an eviction. The ability of an applicant to present mitigating circumstances if their eviction was no fault. Or if their eviction or other mitigating circumstances. Like domestic violence. Or i like this one, they currently are enrolled in a Money
They took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. We are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. That is a good thing. It is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. We have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreignlanguage. Of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 mandarin, 9 certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to getting information on any type of crime occurring. We do use landline with an interpreter is not available, that is the card. Most of the language services, including interpretation, we had 1800 calls that required interpretation of language services, most of that was spanis, with about 1060, second was cantonese, with about 400 calls. Sometimes, you may be underreported, it can be a lot higher if n