>> good morning, good morning, good morning and welcome to the urban alchemy oasis. we are excited to be here and thank everyone for time to come and to celebrate with us. we are here to discus the results somewhere outcomes study in the work of tenderloin and midmarket community, supported and launched by . the work done by urban alchemy practitioner, the community safety work, the goals for the program are to provide servicess to our unhoused neighbors in san francisco to reduce crime and struggling neighborhoods and to provide an alternative community based public safety where folks from the community, folks with lived

experience can do the work of restoration and healing and support for some of our most vuliable neighbors. this study was carried out by stanford university, stuart, the director of stanford's ethnology lab and they have studied the results of this program appy today to discuss the findings and so we are really grateful you all grathered here to talk about this work, to hear about the phenomenal impact we have been able to make in these communities and as you can imagine, the results you will hear today you probably have seen them. you probably have felt them and today we are just really excited to not just have to rely on what we see and what we feeto have data to back up what we know we are experience igin our community. to kick off this morning i to welcome cofounder and ceo dr. miller to greet you and bring you her.

[applause] >> today is a really good day. today we have some good news. we have been hearing a lot of bad news about san francisco and the conditions on outoday, we have some really good news. we are here to talk about the exciting initial results of stanford university study that shows presence in the tenderloin caused a significant reduction intotal crime and drug crime. i think the important thing to know ban alchemy you can't read obour website is urban alchemy was born and bred and grew right the cracks of this concrete in the streets of san francisco. in this grit and grime, we grew

and i want to thank you mayor breed for seeing us. [applause] and allowing us to grow and not plucking us out before we really chance to show our beauty and our brilliance to the world. we know what we feel on these streets. the residents of the tenderloin know what they feel these streets. businesses, universities, they know what the difference is when urban alchemy fjhas been on these streets. but it seems more like a political conversation then it does a reality. when dr. stuart came to me and asked for rmission to study the results of urban alchemy or what was happening with urban alchemy out on these on the condition

that you look at our impact on crime in the streets that we are, because i know we are making a difference. i know we are changing the environment. thats why urban alchemy has grown so much and been in demand, but i don't have any data. i can't prove it, so i feel i'm out here trying to scream to the world, what is happening is listening. but today we got that data. crime rates are dropping throughout san francisco. the tenderloin, dr. stuart's research shows that crime rates have dropped by 52 percent in the tenderloin on

the streets where urban emy is. we have saved the lives of a average of over 200 people a year . during the pandemic it was up to 4 or 500. through not only narcan reversals, but procedures. our results show the difference between social service programs built by and for the people in our own neighborhoods and people who are looking from the outside and making opinions and conjecture about how it should be done.organically in response to the conditions that we saw. using common sense approach to the realties we were engaging with every day to create this unique model that is urban

alchemy. we talk a lot about san francisco being the a lot of people don't understand about san francisco is it is a always been a boom this city has always been gritty and grimy. we are beautiful too and have a lot of things going on, t the grit, and grime, the wind that shaped the topography something that infuses the people. we have this creativity to deal with stuff in a way that unique to this place and that is what gave birth to urban alchemy. that is the invasion that we are going to throughout this country that we have already began exporting throughout this angeles, our circle program, response connected to

the 911 systemalso been replicated in san francisco throughout the heart program. we are also going to be launching it in austin and portland. what we are demonstrating is this is not a fluke. there is something ecial happening here. my dad used to say to me and so grateful to him for instillingand my soul lana, dont tell me what you don't want, tell me what you do want something different, we need to start focusing on the things that are working and to start naming what it is that we want. to our practitioners this data is proof that what you are #= doing is working. i know it is heartful when

people say stuff like, all is standing around. we are responding too much money. day to day you know you are out here making a difference. you are watching these miracles unfold. you are connecting with people and i know you know because you feel the love from the people. if you were not doing that work, that wouldn't allow you to be here, but the fact you are embraced and loved, you know the difference you are but now we got the data and it is from stanford university. you are those heroes and i see you, i thank you and next i want to introduce our alustrous mayor, mayor london breed who be, who allowed us to thrive, and who allowed this miracle to grow in san

francisco. [applause] >> alright. thank you dr. miller and welcome to the tl everybody! let me just say, as someone who was born and raised in this city and someone who grew up in san francisco not too far the tenderloin we always knew that this neighborhood had challenges, but i will tell it is an amazing community filled with people. filled with families, filled with immigrants, filled with people from all parts of view to the bayview to fillmore, all kinds of people from all walks of life live and and thrive in the tenderloin. but we also know there are real challenges here as well and we also know that police alone can't just be the solution. part of what i appreciate so much about today is many of us like dr. miller and i and folks who work with urban alchemy,

they understand an icdotally what is going on in the tenderloin and how much an impact that the people who work for urban alchemy who are out there putting their lives on the line when other s won't even walk through the tenderloin, they understand the significance of the impact because every single day, you imagine confronting someone with a knife or someone who is about to overdose or someone who is in of the streets and they are trying to save lives and this is happening regular basis with the people of urban alchemy every single day and here we have instead of folks criticizing urban alchemy, instead of people saying it is and they ain't doing nothing and being mad and political about it, came, dr. stuart came and said want to help and see and notice a difference and we want to work

with you. we don't want to be on the outside analyzing and telling whautyou are doing and not doing, we want to work as a partner with you to really analyze the data and really understand what is happening and on the places as dr. mill said,en othe areas where urban alchemy is located, there is 52 percent reduction in crime in the tenderloin and icular areas. how significant is that? it is significant because the people that would have been attacked, the people who would have died from drug overdose, the people in other situations are no longer in those situations because of urban alchemy and urban alchemy (aalone. that is significant in and of itself and that is why we are is a important institution filled with people who care about community. filled with people who may have had their own challenges with

the criminal justice system or with addiction or other issues they see people on the streets the empathy comes from a place of experience and understanding and a desire to see something better for those who struggling. that's what urban alchemy represents for the tenderloin community. often times goes unnoticed and thankless from leaders of the city, about not from this one. [applause] so, today as you hear the data and get a better understanding of what urban alchemy is about and what they do, it is not just about the data. it is about the people. it is about the relationships. it is about that person just because that individual like louie is talking for urban alchemy they are agreeing to treatment and they are clean and sober for a year. it is about the person that did want die on the streets of san francisco from a drug overdose.

we talk about how amazing and l this city is and this is a beautiful city. this is incredible city filled with opportunity. i understand and i'm the beneficiary of that opportunity, but too often people who suffer in this community are not and the fact is, without urban alchemy it will be far worse. i feel it is getting better. now, place then what we used to be. in the tenderloin overall 11 percent drop in crime and again, that attributed to the relationship that exists based on the work of our ambassadors and especially urban alchemy. thank you all for being here today to report on this data, but more importantly let's report on the facts and various ÷o situations and incidents occur where no one talks about it or

sees it. those are the stories of lives saved and changed that need to be told more and that is why we are here today, to talk about the data and talk about the stories and make sure people understand we will continue to do all the work necessary, all the investment necessary to continue to support urban alchemy, to continue to invest e tenderloin community to make sure every person who lives and works here is safe. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you so much dr. miller. thank you so much mayor breed. the relationship to academia can never be under-stated. the importance shape our young brilliant minds. they give us benchmarks to today they provide the data that makes the things we see on the streets and in our communities data, so don't want to take up a lot of time. i want to invite dr. stuart

from stanford university to come and share th have all gathered together to hear, so if you all welcome dr. stuart to talk about the impact reptht come from their study. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, i'm forest stuart professor of sociology at stan ford joined by nab nob ph.d candidate spear hp heading the analysis and stats i want to share today. for the last decade or so i specialized in research across the country so cities like los angeles chicago and seattle cities responds to issues like urban disorder violence and homelessness and last year i trained focus obtenderloin and midmarket with cilen more and patrick [indiscernible] professor at the northwestern medical school.

we just finished the study where we evaluate whether or not the urban alchemy m has indeed reduced crime in san francisco and i want to point out origins of the story. some of the origins of thof these evaluations are typically commissioned by cities. often commissioned contracted out by orga we have done ours differently. we have done differently funded and run through stanford th noting the study came as a coincidence. i had been walking down hyde in the summer 2021 as a part of different project in the city and had time to kill and hit the corner of eddie and hyde and notice two very different scenes on bof the street. on the northern side unfortunately there was a active drug market, people sell ing on the sidewalk, the sidewalk was so full i had to walk in the street and when i are hit eddie i looked across

the street and it was peaceful and no crime and the big difference was besides the conditions there were people wearing green vests. with this urban alchemy logo on it. i started to talk to residents and business owners over the next few weeks and they said that urban thfolks standing out there made them feel safer and they were convinced urban alchemy was reducing crime, but it is one thing to feel safer, it is another to be safer. this is nigh job to parse out the difference to the two. we put the question to the test. all the crime stats availability from the san francisco police department and analyzed them and design we did i'm not getting too technical but called a quasi-experimental design and pretty standard in policy analysis if you want to evaluate a policy has effect and borrowed from experimental drug trials.

we grabbed every intersection with urban alchemy is stationed and treat as the experimental group and match on with one where there is no practitioner and make sure they are matcheds a well as they can. we have a experimental group and control group and then we start the clock and look to see how the urban alchemy intersections, the experimental intersections differ from the control intersections and we watch them over proceeding 12 months and we found that in urban alchemy intersection crime went down 52 percent. there were about 320 crimes per week in intersections, this falls to about 150 crimes per week once urban alchemy comes on the scene. we found graup in drug crime which fell 80 percent in the urban al scaem intersections. when you see the big results you want to double check to

make sure anything else isn't pushing reductions. there are lingering things that could be responsible. what is neat by a quasi-experimental design, it is called a causal design so we can say urban alchemy caused the changes, but we have to h theories and explanations as to why crime dropped. the 1st we tested was covid. covid caused drop in crime all over the place so was the reduction attributed to urban alchemy or covid? according to the the isn't attributed to covid. was urban alchemy displacing the crime in the 40 intersections to nearby intersections. we include this in the model and determined 52 percent reduction is not attributed to displacement to ot zu intersections, so this is pretty confidently redurkz caused by urban alchemy. so, moving we have done over the last year and a half members of the research team have been

shadowing urban alchemy practitioners, sometimes up to 10 hours a day watching what they do trying to figure the secret sauce and mechanism responsible for ducing these crimes. things like building trust, creating social debt, providing resources. these are the kinds of things we will be integrating into analysis as the next step is write up the findings and begin submitting for scientific peer done in the next couple weeks. i want tode describing the study sharing gratitude and thanks to the team at urban alchemy. subjecting to these kinds of rigorous evamuations can pters if the don't turn up but urban alchemy approached with a confidence and transparency that allowed us to come in and hold them accountable and a model how we can do academic and organizational collaboration and accountability in the future so thank you all for being such a

outstanding partner for us. [applause] >> thank you dr. stuart. thank you and your team and thank you to stanford university. next up ve gibson from midmarket foundation. this type of work nation wide is not possible in a vacuum. it means we have to be partners with our academic partners, with civic partners and also with our business improvement partners and are so we want to invite mr. steve gibson up to talk a about their role in our partnership and how it contributed to our success. thank you. [applause] >> steve gibson, executive director of midmarket foundation, midmarket business association. i want to sof things. one, we recognize urban alchemy in the talents quite a way back. in 2019 we teamed urban alchemy with a pilot project on

6th and market and that is the community based safety program began. we were asked by businesses on the intersection to make change bought it was chaotic at the time. we teamed with urban alchemy and did a small pilot project and that proved the urban alchemy approach could make a difference. from this pilot project, with the blessing and financial support mayor and her office of economic workforce development, we were able to grow this program. we are now entering our fourth year of ity based safety program working with urban alchemy and you heard about the change, the data behind it, the statistics, it is all true. we can give you stories about businesses were saved, about certainly saved hundreds of lives on the street and they have made a incredible difference.

the biggest thing we have is that, where they are not people begging us to extend the program and are now it is throughout all midmarket, most of the tenderloin and has grown from this one intersection to all of that area and been very successful and continuing to be successful and before i leave i want to bring up one thing that has not been mentioned here, but incredibly important to this whole program is the fact-it chokes me up a bit, but the lives of the practitioners and how their lives have changed by doing this work. the people on the street as we call them, the guests on the street, they lives have been saved and changed, but so the practitioners and they have gone on to other jobs to college degrees and number 2 or 300 practitioners passed through this program and really changed

their lives through this and that's-urban alchemy does not get enough credit for that part of this, so i want to thank stanford for recognizing for validating what we knew and have seen on the street, the positive changes. thank the mayor again for supporting us and for continuing to and this program and thank you for caring enough to be here to record this event and to spread the good positive news about tenderloin, midmarket and about urban alchemy and their program. thank you very much. [ >> thanks so much steven. a perfect segue to our final speaker for this morning to represent the men and women who spend countless hours in the tenderloin and midmarket community who do this work every day and support of our st vulnerable neighbors and all those who pass through the streets. i want to introduce our director of operations for san francisco, mr. arwho

will come and talk to us on behalf of the practitioners that you see around you. [applause] >> thank you kp. i want to share two stories. the first story i want to share is about when we received our first office on 72 6th street and when we received our office over there, i was walking down stevenson alley and a guy approached mehow he had got off drugs and stopped drinking and asked me withed it be possible for him to become a employee r urban alchemy. i said of course. he plied and begain a employee 3, 4 that. a week after that, or two years after that he became a supervisor for urban alchemy. two years after that he became a director for urban alchemy,

he is currently a director for one of our bigs program, the bar sfmta program. the second story i have to share is about 54th mcallister street. if anyone know about 54 mcallister street there fsh a lot of negative brhavior. a lot of people selling drugs, using drugs, sleeping in tent, blocking the doorway where the senior citizens couldn't go inside their homes and also they had a truck that come and drop them off irn the wheelchair to get fl to the senior citizen home. when we was called upon to go over there and see could we address the issue, one thing about urban alchemy, we are kind, so when we say we are ve empathy and compassion that includes avenue over everyone. we went a week in advance to share with them is we will be

here in a week and in a week that when we arrive the next week we arrive this behavior and negative selling drugs and sleeping in the establishment cannot go only claung. the week after that we arrived and the place in front of 54 mcallister is clean and able to walk through. the senior citizens can come in and out of the establishment in their wheelchairs. thank you for your undivided attention. back to kp. [applause] >> so, we heard from the folks rk, we heard from our stakeholder partners, we heard from our amazing mayor, we heard from the leader ership organization. we heard the data. now we have a question to answer. when we walk out of here, do we go back and continue in the course of dispair? saying there is no hope, nothing is changing, or do we take the data that we ho

valuable, do we take the narratives we heard, do we do what our mayor said and recognize that while we are not where we are not where we were and take that to encourage us to move forward. to double down on have been proven by data to work. to continue to support and speak up for the men and women that do this work. or do we just go o business as usual? do we decide that we actually want to continue pushing a message that says nothing is getting better? i think we all know the answer to that. i think we all know our intellectual responsibility. our responsibility to the city and our responsibility to the people that we all have been tasked to serve in one way or another and we have the responsibility to push a message that says, there are options. there is opportunity. there is hope and when we all together, when we are willing to be honest with one another, we can make changes

throughout the communities that we hold so dear. thank you all for being here today. thank you for taking this time. thank you for spreading the message and are sharing the news. while we won't do quon and answers, all of our speakers today are willing to be available for step asides at the conclusion of the program yíwithout further ado, thank you all and have a fantastic day. [applause] >> >> shared spaces have

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this meeting will come to order. good morning everyone, and welcome to the monday, january 8th, 2024 meeting of the rules committee of the san francisco

board of supervisors. this is the first 2024, and i want to wish everyone a happy new year and welcome everybody back from winter recess. i am supervisor matt dorsey, chair of this committee and i am joined by vice chair shamann walton. and we are going to be joined shortly by committee member asha safai. uh, together we would like to express our gratitude to our clerk today, as always, mr. victor young. thanks also to the team at sf govtv for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting. our producer today, mr. james kawana. we have a crowded agenda today with five items