Points into three key points around availability of data, accuracy of data, and being folks being able to ingest it. A lot of the data that we requested is not available because its not broken down in ways that are meaningful and helpful to identify the communities that are most negatively impacted. A lot of times that means that we cannot actually get answers to some of the most pertinent questions. There was a situation that we were in a meeting and wanted to know the population of special education students that were of africanamerican ethnicity or race. And we were not able to get that information, even though we know its one of the larger groups and most impacted in that. Weve had a lot of issues around accuracy. Weve requested data countless times before they had a good, computerized system and gave us 800 documents to sort and sift through to discuss whether its disproportionate suspensions towards africanamericans, and there was. We till have struggles knowing if its accurate a
Im the seniorsy advocate youve heard a great deal with the work that the organization has done in evaluating the program in the Oakland School district, i dont need to repeat that here, but we want to emphasize that our organization sees this initiative important enough that i made it here today. This is not actually my normal realm of work, i tend to work in sacramento, but we really believe the city of San Francisco could do something here to help california to make sure it meets with the rhetoric of being a global leader. We hope youll continue, thank you. Im a volunteer with food San Francisco and also a conscious consumer. Im here on a personal note because for ten years of my life i suffered severely from depression. And when i was 18, i attempted suicide and shortly after i was put on zoloft and when that didnt work, well beau well. And prozac, and then i was told he could no longer write me prescriptions because i had moved. Being the 22yearold i was, i had no idea how insuranc
Good afternoon, everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the january 24, 2018 regular meeting of the rules committee. Our clerk is alyssa summerall and id also like to thank samuel williamses and high Maya Hernandez from sfgov tv. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve be
Appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcast and electronic Communication Arts for over 20 years. For 10 of those years, i served as chair of the department. Ive also been a member of the Nationa
Suspects bank robber. The suspect fled and was shot after allegedly robbing a td bank around 10 00 this morning on york road. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is live at Hatboro Police department with more on what happened, alexandria. Reporter first question we had was did this person have a right to be carrying that weapon. We now know that they did. What the shooting justified that parties still under investigation. There is a municipal official who witnessed a bank robbery at td bank on south york road here in hat wrote township. They persued that person and then ended up shooting that person and hopefully we can show you this story, right now. No audio. All right. So i guess we are having an issue with that but the municipal official here in hatboro, ended up shooting this suspect in the hand, arms and nonlife threatening injuries. Police are investigating if the shooting was justified but the only injury was to that suspect who is now in Police Custody and recovering at a