HASA Meeting Minutes: 10/12

HAIGHT ASHBURY SERVICE ASSOCIATION MEETING
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12th 10am - 11:30
HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINICS, INC.

Meeting Minutes


INTRODUCTIONS
1. Oli Goss- Lower Haight Merchant Association
2. Brian Cheu – Mayor’s Office of Community Development
3. Julian Davis – Rep. for Assemblymember Mark Leno
4. Hernan Luduena Segre – Huckleberry’s Cole Street Youth Clininc
5. Tim Foley – SFPD Community Policing Lieutenant
6. Mary Howe – HAYOT / SFNE
7. Jennifer Dominguez – Boys & Girls Club of SF
8. Dania Sacks March – Huckleberry’s Cole Street Youth Clininc
9. John Ehrlich – SFPD Captain Park Station
10. Ed Melendez – Larkin Street Youth Services
11. Tacing Parker – Ella Hill Hutch
12, Eason Ramson – Ella Hill Hutch
13. Marguez Gray – CHALK, Inc.
14. Kyle Pedersen – Safety Network
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*** SFPD PARK STATION CAPTAIN SEEKS REQUESTS FROM CBOs***
SFPD Park Station Captain John Ehrlich is seeking requests and suggestions from community-based organizations detailing how Park Station officers can best partner with community-based agencies. Captain Ehrlich is urging his officers to take time to participate in short and long-term projects with community-based agencies.

For example, the Boys & Girls Club of SF, Ernest Ingold Clubhouse will host a monthly rap session between officers and their teen after school program. The discussion will be a “no holds barred” dialogue that will enable the teens and officers to begin informing one another’s perceptions and increasing the humanity and understanding that we have for one another.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR REQUESTS BY OCTOBER 31st, 2005
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LOWER HAIGHT MERCHANT ASSOCIATION
The Lower Haight Merchant Association is a newly formed partnership between merchants in Lower Haight. On Saturday October 8th, LHMA organized a spectacular Clean Up Day. DPW and Supervisor Mirkarimi participated in power washing sidewalks, covering graffiti and increasing the number of trashcans on the streets.

LHMA was invited to the HASA meeting to open the discussion on ways that LHMA and HASA can partner in future projects. A merchant in the Lower Haight is organizng a mural project and community-based organizations should contact Kyle if they have youth who would be interested in participating. Community-based organizaitons should begin thinking of additional ways that HASA could partner with Lower Haight merchants.

COMMUNITY EVENTS & CONCERNS
Cole Street 15th Anniversary Party
Huckleberry’s Cole Street Clinic’s
15-Year Anniversary Party
Open House

October 29th, 2005
12pm-4pm
555 Cole Street (btwn. Haight & Page)
Bus Lines: N Judah, 43, 7, 71, 6, 37, 33

Bring Yourself, Your Friends & Your Family; We’re Having A Party!
Music, Food, Fun, Games, Tours & Much, Much More!

**Plus A Special Unveiling Of New Artwork In The Clinic**
For More Info Call: 415-386-9398


Haight Ashbury Youth Outreach Team
Community Preservation & Beautification Clean-Up Day

The Haight Ashbury Youth Outreach Team (HAYOT) is organizing four community Clean Up Days. The Clean Ups recruit youth who utlilyze HAYOT’s drop-in facilities. The youth are trained on how to pick up trash, recyclables, used hypodermic syringes, and other forms of waste. Once trained, the youth head into Golden Gate Park and begin a 2-hour intense clean up. The first clean up brought in over 6 biohazard containers of syringes and 30-contractor sized trashbags.

To celebrate the day’s activities, HAYOT hosts a community lunch. All community residents, community-based organizations and merchants are invited to attend the lunch.

COMMUNITY POLICING
*Haight Referral Card (Completed)*
The Haight Referral Card has been completed and sent to the printer. We should have enough cards to distribute to CBOs and the police of Park Station. The intention of the card is to increase the number of referrals that police make to CBOs. Kyle is currently working on a method to track the number of people referred by police and will also track the services provided by CBOs. Please contact Kyle if you are interested in assisting him in developing a tracking process.

*October Park District Community Forum*
The October 27th, Park District Community Forum, will be held at Park Station Community Room (1899 Waller St.) at 6pm. This month’s forum will focus on Operation Outreach. Each Police District has two Operation Outreach officers who directly serve the homeless community. All CBOs are encouraged to attend the Community Forum to learn more about the roles of the Operation Outreach officers.

*Park District Community Forum Advisory Committee*
The Park Police District (which is most of District-5) holds monthly community forums. In an attempt to increase participation and meaningful dialogue, Park District is organizing an Advisory Council for the Community Forums. The Advisory Council will represent merchants, residents & community-based organizations.

Please contact Kyle if you would like to represent your CBO or if you would like to recommend a resident or merchant. Please see flyer for additional information.

District-5 CBO Meeting Minutes: 10/17

Ella Hill Hutch Community Center
District 5 CBO Meeting
October 17th, 2005

Meeting Minutes

Introductions
1. Dean Jones – Westside Community Mental Health
2. Brian Cheu – Mayor’s Office of Community Development
3. Julian Davis – Rep. for Assemblymember Mark Leno
4. Hernan Luduena Segre – Huckleberry’s Cole Street Youth Clininc
5. Richard Johnson – Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association / HV Playground
6. Regina Dick-Endrizzi – Office of District-5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
7. Greg Vaughn – Back On Track SF
8. Jessica Dobson -
9. Tacing Parker – Ella Hill Hutch Community Center
10. Angelita Lewis - LCDC
11. Kyle Pedersen – Safety Network (Park District)
12, Sandra Bolden – Safety Network (Northern District)
13. Marguez Gray – CHALK, Inc.
14. Dario Harper – Ella Hill Hutch Community Center
15. Jermaine Gardner – Ella Hill Hutch Community Center

District-5 CBO Co-Chair
Ella Hill Hutch Executive Director George Smith asked for a volunteer to partner with him as Co-Chair of the District-5 CBO collaborative. Mr. Greg Vaughn of Back On Track volunteered to to become Co-Chair with Mr. George Smith.

Announcements
– Due to the continued and increasing violence within Districts 5 & 10, meeting participants suggessted establishig a community driven crisis intervention model. The cirsis intervention model would be a community designed and implemented approach to providing support and counseling to community and family members. It was suggested that the crisis intervention model could work in partnership with San Francisco City crisis units. There was also a suggestion that the crisis intervention model would be an on-call service.

– Dario Harper initiated a discussion around District-Based Planning. This was a new concept to many of the meeting participants. Therefore, Mr. Harper offered to speak more in depth about the community planning concept at the November meeting.

Safety Guidelines
Sharon Alford has asked for all organizations to review the current list of Safety Guidelines (see below). The final draft of Safety Guidleines will be used by all District-5 CBO participating agencies. The primary purpose of the Safety Guidelines is to ensure that agencies can make confident referrals by knowing that the referring agency will abide by the Safety Guidelines.
Please review the guidelines and bring additons/subtractions/changes/suggestions to the November Dist.-5 CBO meeting.

1) Secure/Free From Violence
+ Adults Not Permitted, Or Must Be Escorted, While Youth Services Are Offered
+ Provide Violence Prevention Trainings For Agencies

2) Not Having Fear While Walking In The Street and When Working
+ Is Turf An Issue With/Around Your Agency
+ Transportation Is A Primary Concern Among Youth When Crossing Boundaries

3) Boundaries Not Be Violated

4) Who To Contact – Immediate Response – Where To Go

5) Having A Plan (Emergency Plan)
+ We Discovered That Very Few Agencies Have An Emergecny Response Plan

6) Free From Threat Environments

7) Free From Crime & Drugs

8) Respect
+ Lack of Respect Coming From Police Officers
+ Work TO Establish Respect Between Police & Community

9) Being Able To Trust Peace Officers
+ It Was Discussed That Dist.-5 CBO Collaborative Is Not Ready To Have Police Participate In Meetings
+ Meeting Particpants Felt That Police Have Not Followed Through On Agreements In The Past & Have Therefore Violated Trust Agreements
+ How Can CBOs Begin To Build Trust With Police?

10) Familiarity

11) Willingness To Work Through Differences

12) Action Plan

13) Community Neutral Territory / Support By Community
+ Similar To #2? Could They Be Consolidated?

14) Community Accountability By Community Members

15) Welcoming Environment With People I Can Relate To
16) Reputation For Quality Care

17) Trust Other Community Providers Including Police
+ Could This Be Consiladated With Number’s 8 & 9?

18) Know The Community
• Willing To Be Vulnerable
• Community Members Look Like Me
• Intimate Understanding & Experiences
• Model Behaviours That Preaching (?)
• Creative Response To Liability (?)
• CBO Accept Responsibility
• Ground Rules

19) Respect In Our Communications
+ Possibily Combine With Number 8?

Next Meeting Assignments
* Review MAGIC’s Memorandum of Understanding and Come Prepared With Changes and Suggestions For How We Can Craft A Similar Memorandum for the Dist. 5 CBO collaborative.

* Review Safety Guidelines & Make Additions/Changes/Subtractions

* Create Sub-Committee To Review Resource Manual

* Sandra Bolden – Organize A Presenter To Present On Emergency Plan

* Dario Harper – Discuss District-Based Planning

Next Meeting
* Due To Holiday The Next Meeting Will Be Held Nov. 14th , 12pm*
Location
Back On Track
1399 McAllister St. (Cross Street – Pierce)
Building Adjacent To 3rd Baptist Church
Parking Available

Minutes
Julian Davis

Lunch
Angelita Lewis

Lower Haight Merchant Assoc. Meeting Minutes: 10/10

LOWER HAIGHT MERCHANT ASSOCIATION
OCTOBER 10th, 2005, 7pm - 8:30pm
MEETING MINUTES

CLEAN UP DAY
LHMA held its first community Clean Up Day on Saturday, October 8th. The Clean Up was held from 9am - 12pm and a barbecue brought the day to a close. There was an estimate of 30 - 50 volunteers. Included in the volunteers were the Director & Assistant Director of DPW, District -5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and his aide Regina Dick-Endrizzi.

LHMA has decided to organize the Clean Up days on a quarterly basis. The next Clean Up has yet to be scheduled. LHMA would like to thank all of the Lower Haight merchants that donated food to the barbecue and their energy to the Clean Up.

DEVELOPMENTS ON BECOMING A BLOCK ASSOCIATION
In order to ensure a strong infrastructure, LHMA has decided to establish a steering committee. The steering committee will be a diverse representation of business owners and establishments. The steering committee will work to establish examples organizational structure to present to merchants. Following presentations, merchants will then vote to decide which organizational structure best fits their needs. Please contact Oli if you are interested in participating on the LHMA steering committee. It is still being discussed, but the steering committee will rotate members on a 3-month or 6-month basis in order to prevent burnout.

One way to ensure a proper and effective creation of a merchant association is to understand the short and long term goals of the merchants. All merchants have been asked to bring their short and long term goals for the LHMA to the November meeting.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF BLOCK CAPTAINS
Block Captains are still needed for Steiner & Waller Streets. Please contact Anne P, if you are interested in participating as a Block Captain. Wyatt, of San Francisco SAFE will conduct a Block Captain training before the November LHMA meeting. The Block Captain training will review roles and responsibilities of Block Captains and discuss the support that San Francisco SAFE provides to Block Captains.

One of the most important roles of Block Captains is maintaining communication from merchants and transferring that information onto the other Block Captains and the LHMA steering committee. Wyatt, will review phone trees and other methods of communication during the Block Captain training.

KEEPING CLEAN AFTER CLEAN UP DAY
The San Francisco Graffiti Task Force will attend and present at the November LHMA meeting. The Graffiti Task Force will address neighborhood concerns around graffiti. Rick, of Cole Street Hardware, has offered to provide anti-graffiti paint. Anti-graffiti paint dissolves spray paint as soon as spray paint is applied to the painted surface.

Due to the success of the Clean Day, LHMA has decided, with the support of Supervisor Mirkarimi and DPW, to organize quarterly Clean Up days.

LHMA has secured additional trashcans that have been distributed throughout Lower Haight. This in addition to the tree cutting and the continued pressure washing. Merchants have offered to organize a mural project that will be displayed on the new trashcans. We will discuss this at the next meeting.

There are still concerns of "dumping" in the community. Merchants are encouraged to take note of continuous dumping locations so we adjust trashcan locations if needed.


MUST DOs FOR NEXT MEETING
-ALL merchants should bring short & long term goals for LHMA (what would you lke to see) this is very important as it will steer the committee in the starting direction.

- Steering Committee should meet once to identify members and to bring 3 examples of organizational structure

- Block Captains must meet with Wyatt and participate in Block Captain training

- Mark (Future Primitive) will report on trashcan mural project

- Jason (Alt Health serv) will report on CART program


NEXT MEETING
Monday, November 14th, 7pm Squat & Gobble


TOPICS
- Report Back From Block Captain Training

- Steering Committee To Report On Members & Organizational Structure

- Graffiti Task Force Presentation

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED REGARDING AGENDA FOR NEXT MEETING.

Haight Ashbury Food Program Honors 24th Graduating Class

Haight Ashbury Food Program


The Board of Directors & Staff of the
Haight Ashbury Food Program invite you to join us
in the honoring of the 24th graduating class of the
Food Service Job Trainign Project.

Monday, Ocotber 17, 2005

Haight Ashbury Food Program
Community Kitchen
1525 Waller Street
San Francisco, CA

*Lunch 12pm*
**Awarding of Diplomas 1pm**

Please RSVP to Nyna Pais-Caputi
415.566.4158

LHMA Meeting - October 10th, 7pm

LOWER HAIGHT MERCHANTS MEETING
OCTOBER 10, 2005
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Memphis Minnie’s
576 Haight Street

Contact: Oliver: 415.699.3292
email: oliver@recordpressing.com

CALLING ALL LOWER HAIGHT MERCHANTS
Lower Haight Merchants Are Organizing Ourselves In-Order To Increase Neighborhood City Services, City Government Accountability, Establish Regular Communication Between Merchants & Address Ongoing Merchant & Community Concerns.

The Lower Haight Merchants Association (LHMA) will be hosting our third meeting on October 10th, at 7pm. LHMA meetings are held at rotating merchant locations and the October meeting will be held at Memphis Minnie’s. The September LHMA meeting was hosted by Idlehand and welcomed Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and his aide Regina Dick-Endrizzi. LHMA is working in partnership with government officials and community organizations to increase neighborhood safety and city services, enhance merchant communication and partnerships and to address critical concerns of our community. All Lower Haight merchants are encouraged to attend the October LHMA meeting.


LHMA-October Meeting Topics:
* Developments On Becoming An Association
* Block Captain Role and Responsibilities
* How To Keep The Area Clean After LHMA Clean-Up Day
* Developments On Garbage Issues
* Follow-Up With Supervisor Mirkarimi on Increasing Trash Cans
* City Responsiveness (Foot Patrol, etc.)

* Phone / Fax Tree How To Use

HASA Meeting- October 12th, 10am

HAIGHT ASHBURY SERVICE ASSOCIATION MEETING

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12th 10am - 11:30

HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINICS, INC.

529 CLAYTON St., 3rd Fl.
(Enter Through Left Door)

Contact Info: Kyle 415-571-0338

I hope that all HASA-members will be able to attend the Wednesday, October 12th HASA meeting. Please encourage additional service providers to join us. I have attached the agenda for the meeting. Please contact me if you would like to add or change any of the agenda items.

I have included an agenda for the meeting for you to review. Please make additions and changes to the agenda. We would like for the meeting to be as relevant to your needs as possible. Please voice your concerns so that we can continue to strategize together on how we can collectively meet one another's needs, and therefore, more effectively meet the needs of the communities that we serve.

The Lower Haight Merchants' Association Clean-Up Day will be held this Saturday, October 8th at 9am. Supervisor Mirkarimi and Lower Haight merchants will be out in the streets and on the sidewalks picking up trash, power washing sidewalks and covering graffiti. Come out and help clean-up the neighborhood and meet merchants. Rumor has it that there will be a fantastic BBQ to conclude the cleaning!

Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to seeing you all Wednesday, October 12th!

Meeting Agenda


10am-10:10 Introductions

10:10 - 10:45 Community Events & Concerns

*Cole Street Block Party

*HAYOT Community Clean-Up Day

*Haight Referral Card (Completed)
*October Park District Community Forum
*Park District Community Forum Advisory Committee

*Community Concerns & Issues

10:45 - 11am New HASA-Projects

*Suggestions For New HASA-Working Groups

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11am - 11:30 Tour of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc.

HANC General Meeting - Election Spotlight Oct. 13th, 7pm

HANC GENERAL MEETING

Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council

*Election Spotlight*

Assessor & Treasurer Races
and Props F, G & I
Everyone is invited to attend.

DATE: Thursday, October 13th, 2005
PLACE: Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street
TIME: 7:00 - 9:00 PM

It's election time again on November 8th. Meet the candidates for Assessor: Phil Ting, Gerardo Sandoval and Ronald Chun and Treasurer:Jose Cisneros, Calvin Louie, Manuel Valleand Isaac Wong. All have been invited.

Prop F Neighborhood Firehouses-Should all firehouses be fully staffed?
Prop H Firearm Ban prohibiting pistols.
Prop I Military Recruiters in Public Schools

Speakers pro and con have been invited.

SF 5-Together Meeting - Oct. 5th, 6:45pm

SF 5-Together Meeting

October 5th, 6:45pm
Northern Police Station Community Room

Fillmore at Turk
Muni line 22, parking on Turk

Tonight through the assistance of Supervisor Mirkarimi and Daniel Homsey, Director of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services we have assembled representatives from SFFD, SFPD, Office of Emergency Services, Red Cross and local hospitals who have experience in disaster planning. As we've witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the city of New Orleans, many of us have recognized the need for community preparedness when the infrastructure of a city is overwhelmed or even incapacitated. Together we will begin a dialogue that will result in a disaster plan for our neighborhoods.

6:45-7pm
* Gather and socialize.
* Feel free to bring food/beverages to share during meeting.

7pm
* Convene meeting Richard Shadoian, President
* Welcome
* Introductions
* Announcements
* Approval of minutes

7:15
* Discussion with Supervisor Mirkarimi

7:25
* Discussion with the Director of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, Daniel Homsey

7:40
* Program: Creating a Community Plan for Disaster
* Program chaired by Richard Shadoian, Cole Valley Improvement Association and Cheryl Brodie of Stanyan Fell Neighborhood Association
* SF5Together is initiating a process to establish a District 5 Community Response Disaster Plan.

9:10
* Officer Reports
* Reports from Message Board Moderators
* Public Safety Emmett Gilman---emmettg1@yahoo.com
* Environment Paul Wermer--paulhwermer@att.net
* Business Michael O'Connor---divisadero628@earthlink.net
* Land Use Barbara Meskunas--- brmeskunas@cs.com

9:25
* Discuss program for Nov 2nd meeting
* Dinner planning for our December 7 meeting
* Announcements

9:30
* Adjournment

Lower Haight Clean Day - Oct. 8th, 9am

CALLING ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS!!!

Merchants, Community Based Organizations & Residents
Are All Encouraged To Participate In Cleaning Their Community

IS THIS YOUR COMMUNITY?
HELP US KEEP IT CLEAN!

SF Police Commission Meeting & BBQ

San Francisco Police Commission Meeting
Park District BBQ

Come meet your Police Commissioners! This is an opportunity for citizens of the Park District to address the Police Commission on matters of interest and concern. A public comment period will follow!

Hosted by:
Park Police Station

Where:
Grattan School 165 Grattan St.

When:
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
BBQ at 5:30 PM
Meeting Starts at 6 PM

Parking:
On The School Yard Disabled Parking In Front

Contact: Kyle Pedersen 415.225.8390