meeting july 15th. >> on the motion offered by chair agenda item 3 continued and 4 be continue to the july 15 meeting vice chair preston >> aye >> member peckin >> aye >> there are 3 aye's again >> thank you that motion passes. thank you for being here. mr. clerk do we have any business before us today. why no further business. >> we are adjourned. thank you., test, test, test, tes, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , t

ready., test, >> okay. good morning, everyone. i am wearing shades nobecause it is july because i forgot my other glasses. bear with me. [laughter]. okay. unless i could not read this at all. good morning. i call the san francisco department of disability and aging service meeting. wednesday july third to order i'm the president janet spaers

this meeting is conducted pursuant to the brown act. noted on the agenda, members of the public may bench this via sfgov.org and channel 78. and offer public comment by calling the published phone number. like to welcome the public and staff who are watching live on sfgovtv. to eliminate back grounder noise all here via web exasked to mute themselves when not speaking or waiting to present. san francisco hsh das commission acknowledge we are on the home land of the ramaytush ohlone who other original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the stewards of the land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone never cd nor goff got their xw responsibilities as well as for all who reside in their

traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional home lands. we wish to pay our respects acknowledging then cestors, eldand relatives of the recommend ram community. and by affirming their rights as first people. take the roll. >> commissioners respond with present. president -- president spaers. >> present. >> upon vice president lum. >> present >> commissioner bittner. >> present >> commissioner jung. >> present. >> commissioner knutzen. >> present and commissioner pennington. present and kelly dear man. >> present >> item 3 communications. we like to provide instructions for the public comment process. public comment on each item on the agenda and urg everduring

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if you submit public comment via e mill tell be forwarded and part of the official docket. are there other communication from commission members? okay we will move to item 4. >> commissioners, your next is item 4 approving minutes of wednesday june 5, 2024 meeting. are there comments or questions from the commission regarding the wednesday june fifth meeting minutes? mr. secretary is there anyone who wishes to comment. >> are there members that would like to comment on item 4? opening statement phone lines. no callers, thank you. >> no further requests to speak is well a motion to approve the wednesday june fifth meeting

minutes. >> moved. >> second. >> mr. secretary. take a roll call vote for the wednesday june 5 meeting minutes. >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen. >> yes >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung. >> yes. >> commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> we have a unanimous vote. >> commissioners item 5 is the executive director's report. kelly dearman >> thank you very much president spaers. good morning, everyone. i have a few things i like to report of first, i hope you are staying cool. and second, first i want to talk about the budget of the state budget it locked dire the left time we spoke, at the end of the day we have a budget that includes a lot of the things that we wanted so, i think it

was a good resolution. in particular, the ap f expansion was funded at 70 million dollars. the training money for ap s was restored. ihss eligibility restored for medical undocumented adults they tried to take that now they put this back. also include a request for 51 million dollars for ihs administration. and that was not included however there was agreement that a new budgeting methodology would be worked out. so. there is w to be done. but -- that is better than when we thought it would be. >> the other things are -- let's see. hold on. it reduces the ihss back up provider system budget by 3

million dollars in 24/25 due to lower utilization. it was not totally cut. and -- i think and the approved a one time shift of 4.25 million dollars in special funds for the long-term care ombudsman program from the licensing program funds and inside 1 and 2 million dollars that would come from state health facilities, citation penalty in the 24/25 budget and on going. all this to say, it locked dire not long ago and there was a lot of shifting, a lot of advocacy. thanks to all of those who were advocates to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities were taken care of in the budget. i'm happy with where we ended up. begin where the state is -- with the money. >> on the local side, we have a

city budget and because of all the adjustments we had to make mid year, we did not receive any additional cuts. i should say that the dignity fund was fund at the 3 million dollars, you know 1.7 million dollars goes to cost of doing business and remains off set general fund monies that were cut. what this means is that there will be no new programming. for dignity fund. but -- we will be able to maintain the programming this we have. >> the last two things i want to mention a couple weeks ago, we paymented in the world elder abuse awareness day press conference. which was well attended by the

mayor. the da's office. the police chief. the attorney general. among others. to really talk about all the scams and how people are praying on older adult and it is thaejz is available out there. and how all of the parties are working together. recognizing how important this is and this it is about 3 billion dollars a year i think is lost. and they are praying on our older adults and so we do this press conference every year. and it was well attended. got media coverage and thanks to ap s and -- joe, who is not here who worked heard. self help for elderly among others. it was a great press conference. >> and then lastly, i was

invited by the metro government of seoul. south korea to speak at a forum on older adults and policies that we have in place to help older adults. i went last week. and it was really amazing time to be in a forum with people from south korea but there were speakers from spain and from different apartments of the united states. and from japan. and all talking about what can we do to make sure that older adults are able to live and thrive with dignity. so, i think it was a good time. i will say in south korea, they do have a lot of accessible parks where they have ramps this go like over the water you feel

like you are part of the water at the beach. they have that accessible universal accessible ramp that guess right to the water. and i was impressed by that. on the other hand, there are some issues that seoul has the highest suicide rate in the world and lowest birth rate. and so, and among those who are committing suicide are older adults they get to end of life and don't have money to be able to care for themselves and don't want to put this burden on their kids. there was a lot to talk about. it was very interesting. conversation and i will let you know what come next. that's all i have. >> thank you.

>> was there a reason that san francisco was invited or you were, just to present on something? >> other than i'm upon just fabulous. >> yea. >> [laughter]. >> yea, so, yes. i'm kidding. >> i was not objecting. >> [laughter] seoul and san francisco are sister cities. and there was a delegation from seoul that was here about sick months ago. and they came to talk you to and i think from there i was like i will have to come and talk to you and they said, and so you will. that's how it happened >> a great relationship. >> >> i'm very happy. i was really worried about it.

and its not perfect but a lot better than -- >> yes. yes. >> and i think it is super exciting that you guys are going and i hope you have some time to kind of have fun there and do -- >> thank you. so much, commissioner. so. i did take a few days to hang out in crowa and it was wonderful, so. i did take time and i, too am happy with the budget and even though it does not give us everything we want i think we made big strides. so, i think we will be fine for now. thank you so much for those comments. >> okay. commissioners item 6 is the

employee recognition. executive director deerman, president spaers and will honest or the 24 employee of the month jackie wan in home supportive social worker. [applause]. >> in home supportive service team at das is proud to announce that jackie wan has been named the employee of the month for july 2024 in recognition of contributions and remarkable dedication to our organization. with an impressive 17 year tenure. jackie consistent low gone above for or clients and colleagues in her role assan a social worker. volunteers to assist in emergencies and relieve work load taking on additional clients and challenging in urgent situations. service delivery unwaivering

compassion, collaboration and accountability left a lasting positive impact on her team, the agency and the community serves by das programs. jackie is an outstanding advocate. her attributes blending effort. integrity and he understanding. resonate with both clients and colleagues. her clients commend her for her kindness. professionalism and dedication. patiently explains revving lazes and supports them in setting up reliable care. her effectiveness in stake a supportive and caring environment is deeply rooted in unwaivering w ethic encourage demeanor and expression of care and welcome attitude collaborative efforts for client autonomy and success. we are privileges to announce ms. wan at the 24 employee of

the month. transforms many lived through tireless efforts and inspiation to all. she establishes her as invaluable asset to the das and ihss program and makes us all proud to be part of the successful team of congratulations to jackie for this deserved honor. [applause] >> ooum -- good morning. thank you for this honor. i want to express my gratitude and thank everybody at our ihss services and express my unit member who is always work above and beyond for our clients and for our program. i'm fortunate to work with the great team of people. upon the best of the best. once again, thank you very much. >> thank you.

[applause] [applause] >> okay. commissionerings item 7 the case report. presented by judith dancer.

>> hello. so. today's case report is brief today. we had taylor talk from cal track. about health related social needs and how agencies staff can support their clients with navigating service. provide by health providers and respective online platforms. and in july we are vehicle the health researchers at ucsf a hemorrhagic emergency research study. there is imployed consent if you go to the emergency room around strokes and they are doing research around that to see if the community and providers agree with that or not. so, there has been back and forth. they will talk to case about that. and we had changes on the case board.

unfortunately, fortunately for her unfortunately for us -- very wella she retired. moved up to so no onea and a long time board member. so good on her. i know we will miss her she was the most out spoken. i'm in that camp, so. it is good that i guess i■# taking her place a bit. and then we do have a new board member colletty. and she works at telegraphic hill community sxernt does the senior programming and family services. with nvp. she supervisors people that are in different service providers and different buildings, two building in that area. and we are still waiting on the behavioral health pilot that was the case ask.

and it says rfp in june. or july. we will wait to hear and we talked about the dignity fundful that's all i have. commissioners. thank you so much for this report are there questions? >> okay. thank you very much. >> okay. >> thank you. >> commissioners, item 8 is general public comment. an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters not on today's calendar. are there members that would like to address the commission today? >> i have a hand out as well. >> and so we have 3 minutes i am start the time and i let you know. >> i want to mention quick point of order there was no public comment for the director's report. i can just use public comment to discuss this if this is okay

there is no public comment for the director's report. >> there was last month. >> no. >> no. >> we don't because it is not an action item you are more than woman to speak on temperature i will start it now and you can start. >> >> good morning for the records i'm chris warkline i hand out two documents a speech 1967 and i draft resolution appropriated for the city of san francisco i have at board of supervisors and the city attorney's office am i will be speaking about the scams most those having an [inaudible] in san francisco with political leaders. several in the city of san francisco have created a tiran and he dictatorship using military equipment to weaponize public health and safety. this is not new as a speech on april fourth state the same issues that are present in 2024

and would like to major issue in san francisco in 1978, 79ful jim jones political assassinations. martin luther words we must begin to shift from a single oriented so tight to personal. when machine profit and property rights are more important than people. giant racism, material. and militarism are incableable of being conked. martin king was talking about computers and ai and we are dealing with same issues. i spoke with all safety commissioner in san francisco we need to doe nouns any and all person weaponizing public health and safety it is kills citizens. people, friends families. the two attempting to cover up the amount of deaths at 250 kearney strength the director out on medical leave and

transfer force resignationos staff and deny fair housing. i request this board make this a priority they are former homeless and in supportive housing with the city of san francisco and they're veterans and seniors. the other thing the city has not violation of the charter the disaster counts not held since august of 2023 than i are using the equipment for disasters on the people in the county of san francisco. leadership of san francisco oousz use the pride event to place surveillance on out of state individualors and out of country visitors. they have in the past retaliated with violence because of this and well is no reason to assume they will in the retaliate with violence. other day a person was thrown in frontave bart train because of the weaponization of public health and safety and i'm asking the support. >> 30 seconds. >> to make this a priority.

thank you. >> are there other members that would like to comment? moderator open the phone line for public comment. there are no callers. thank you very much. commissioners that concludes the members of the public. >> that concludes the members that wish to address the commission. >> commissioners the next item is 9 old business. >> commissioners indicate by raiding your hand if there is old business you would like to discuss. >> no. okay. we can move to the next item. >> commissioners the next agenda item is 10. new business. 10 a-footwork are action item

this is require a vote by the commission. >> item 10a requesting authorization to enter in a now contract with compassionate community care for the period of july 24 to june 30, 27 in the amount of 180 thousand dollars plus 10% contingency not to exceed con98 thousand dollars. kerry kenzie will present this item. >> hello good morning, commissioners. director dearman i'm presenting for kerry kenzie who is not well this morning. i'm the protective service program director. and we are requesting authorization to impelement a new contract to provide emergency at home support to older adults and with disabilities who are exploitati. the purpose of the contract is

to meet our mandate provide for emergency in home protection, a safe and stable environment. through this contract we will be able to keep clients safe in the least restrictive environment which is their home and work with clients and for the system to find solutions and coordinate service on their behalf upon thank you. >> wow. >> are there questions from the commission? regarding item? question? >> mr. secretary do we have anyone from the public when wishes to commencement. >> are there members what would like to comment on item 10 a? open the phone line. no callers.

thank you very much. hearing no requests to speak we'll close public comment. is there a motion to approve. >> i move. >> second. mr. secretary take a recommend call vote for item 10 a. >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen. >> yes >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung. >> yes. >> and commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> thanks a unanimous vote. >> thank you. commissioners. agenda item 10b is review and approval of the california department of aging health insurance advocacy program contract hi24/25 and associated budget and all amendments. melissa mc gee will present. >> hello, good morning president

spaers, commissioners and executive director dear machine i'm a program manager at das. so in may you approved a contract with self help for elder low to administer the health insurance counciling and advocacy program. as well as the medicare improve ams for patients and provider's act. programs. i'm here as we presented that item a bit out of the normal sequence. department of aging in san francisco that is the das commission. today i'm requesting you accept and approve the funds for the high cap contact dates april 24 through march of 25. amendments may allocate in this

time frame. and cda contract with das is included in your documents. and we want to apologize for the misstep in the process of approving self help to administer the program before we procedurally approved accepting the funds. and we reached out to cda and they understand and are okay with this. do have you questions? commissioners are there questions regarding this acceptness of the cda contract? do we have public comment?

do we have callers. there are none. thank you. >> no faerth requests to speak we'll close public comment. commissioners >> now have you a motion to approve item 10 b. >> moved. >> a second. will you take a vote? >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes >> commissioner knutzen. >> yes. >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. commissioner jung. >> yes. >> and commissioner pennington, >> yes >> we have a unanimous vote. >> thank you. president spaers. i want to take a moment and acknowledge and thank melissa mc gee. most staff know. this is she will be retiring on behalf of the commission we want to thank you for the incredible

work you have done. many years of service. done with effectiveness, efficiency care being compassion and sense of humor. and also i thank from the dignity fund over site committee wishing you have created staff for many years. thank you we wish you well. happy retirement >> thank you. [applause]. thanks. thank you. >> item 10c what am i doing. okay. now. item 10 c request authorization to enter in a grant agreements with multiple providers for community ambassador program for july first of 24 through june 30 of 26. and a combined amount of 313,

636 and 10% for total amount not to exceed 345 thousand dollars. lauren will present this item. >> hello and good morning. commissioners. and executive director dearman i'm lauren and a program analyst where office of community partnership at das. and this morning i'm here to talk about the community ambassador program this program will aimoromote community awareness of programs and services that are provide by das to older adults and adults with disabilities in the black indigenous people of color and vietnamese communities. tell be achieved by community ambassadors give information d about das services and focus efforts on reaching the mentioned communities in san francisco. the services that will be provided under this program will include formal out reach at locations public places.

community events and information about das programs and services. will be provided to the target population who night not be aware of or have access to the information. also. community leader or partner recruitment identify, recruit and engage members, businesses or entities of the community to reach the target cop population and prosecute note awareness of das programs and service. and trainings consist of trainings to be provide by the das benefit and resource hub and the grantees to ensure ambassadors are aware of services available within the community. senior center in district 6 has provided 50 years of services to older adults and adults with disabilities in the tenderloin. the vietnamese component of the ambassador program will be provided by senior center w with this community since the 80s.

with the history of w width vietnamese community and partnership with vietnamese partners and leaders the senior center will provide the rope out roach to the population. mission ymca at the intersection of district 8, 9 and 11 provide the portion of the grant. through the experience and bilingual staff they built connections in the communities providing cultural programming across various sectors. early childhood education to senior services. >> they target community which include family in public how doing. the incarcerated,im grants and english learners.

both organization will provide 700 hours of out reach. connect with 70 community leaders and part sdmers provide 84 hours of trainings to ensurety community are verse in the das service. the ambassadors and support staff will work with the benefit and resource help to raft resources out reach and training so they can effectively provide necessary out reach to target population in the communities. and i want to provide context. an example. a day in a life of ambassador going to high trafficked areas bus stops, grocery stores, health cte engage with the target population in a one on one manner. word of mouth is effective sharing information with older adults and with disabilities.

as noted in the communities needs assessment and the das listening sessions with communities of color in 2021, knowledge of das service system essential. and helps to support and assist individual who is might feel alone as they face challenge in life. thus we are excited see this needed program continue in the second term. as it will prosecute mote awareness through community based organizations active targeted out reach and engagement and provide visibility representation and knowledge of factors that might impact service engagement. i seek approval on this item and open to answering questions the commission may have. il add one note. the a denialedics a documents for both service providers in the objective table the fiscal years are incorrect those will be updated after commission.

>> thank you. >> thank you. commissioners are there questions regarding this. >> sure i will start to my left. >> okay. >> thank you for the presentation and the thoroughness of the report. i have one question. about the 2 recipients curry senior center and mission y. the funding is equal low split between the to and one is serving the vietnamese population and the other the bipoc. i wonder what are the numbers of you know those in need? in those communities >> since it is 50/50 split the bipoc community might be larger may be they need more funding for out reach? i think is pretty important. >> i'm sorry can you repeat the question. numbers with the target groups

funds here the bipoc and the vietnamese community. the funding is 50/50 and so i wonder does this reflect the size of the population in those upon communities? commissioner, good morningful program manager with office community partnerships. so, this was throughout rfp the funding amount for the program with two components bipoc and the vietnamese population is 150,000. we did receive proposals that are higher than what is allocate with the two. a decision was made to make sure that both get attention and both have equal funding so that services can be met. i do understand the population you are mentioning there is higher need that is a factor we continue to grapple on.

if funding is more available our provideers can expand service for sure. because, however, the funding allocated that is visible for this program is 1 if i felt total. so 75 thousand dollars for each program allocated. >> the fundsers in their proposal have the data on populations >> yes. there is a target and plan about out reach and the proposal. >> great. okay. >> thanks. commissioner, moving around >> good morning. >> it is my understanding that they have an extensive out reach program. the addition of the two ambassadors is a new program? you are adding. >> no. it is a continuation program. of an existing program.

>> thank you. >> my question may be long the line with commissioner pennington. i looked at in terms of the service objects my question is -- in terms of the upon numbers under service objectives for trainings per training session and the individuals. >> ambassador training and under the one for senior center there are 70. and then under the one from the ymca is 14 is this 14 sessions or 14 individuals? >> in terms of the training >> the training. those are hours. hours. of training. >> okay. >> so then my next question is -- again, more -- along -- commissioner pennington's question. same amount of funding.

may be i asking a question you can't answer today. are we -- adding more ambassadors through this? >> so. again in the hole. like of all the community ambassadors that advocating for are we getting an additional. >> what is unique to the program it sading ambassadors targeting the specific pol lagzs like the vietnamese and bipoc. a continuation of a program that was beghan may of 22 and ended june 30. so it will continue so we are

going to use these ambassadors that the y and the senior center will target the populations which have been identified having the lowest participation in and, wearness of das service. this program will help to further reach in the community. and pull this more consumers and the community members that could benefit from programming and service. >> okay, thank you. >> one follow up. this is for the future. i -- love to look at performance out come and metrics and since this is a program that is continuing nice to see how the program did on the performance in the past cycle. and it men in here and i could in the pull it out. it would be life low to see that. in the next. >> of course.

>> thank you. that was my question. thank you. any other comments. >> mr. sect are there public comments? there are no callers. thank you very much. >> we will close public comment. is there a motion to approve item 10 c from the commission? so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. mr. secretary will you take a roll call vote >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen. >> yes. >> commissioner bittner.

>> yes. >> commissioner jung >> yes. >> commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> thanks a unanimous vote. >> thank you. >> thank you for answering all the questions. >> yea. >> commissioners item 10d requesting authorization to enter in two guarantee agreements with legal assistance to the elderly lae provide health law and life planning services for the lbgtq+. for the period of july first, 2024 through june of 26, for you 86, 374 thousand dollars. plus a 10% contingency not to exceed 535 thousand dollars. catherine. no. this is not catherine. [laughter]. michael will -- good morning i'm mike subing for catherine.

good morning executive director dear man the item over the last 3 months brought our legal grants and our contract cycles we had our items grouped together. these other last two legal programs we are bring through all of which are going out a couple year in new grants existing programs and new grants i think what you unique we have seen over the last 2 commissions a lot of legal service grants. we write them broadly where we allow the providers to you know legal special and expertise in flexibility what they will do based on when they see needs for clients and the expertise in their staff they may have. these two here are ones which are unique and they are specific to specific legal issues. we have 3 of the total last month and before we saw one focused on veterans and mental

health claims the 2 on lbgtq+ life planning. as well as health law. legal issues assistance. i want to parse out that lbgtq+ is focused health planning is the health related legal services is in the population focus today is specifically legal issue focused. it is merky there. start with lbgtq+ life planning this program has roots back in the lbgtq+ aging task force in 2014, part of that report they recognized that lbgtq+ older adults have face obstacles and lack of resources when drafting life planning documents. things like wells and trust. power of attorney for official matters. medical decisionmaking. documents. and why those part of the reason

why they are there is i legal competency amongst providers helping same sex couples navigating the prosecute bait laws around the types of things. we have come a long way over the years and i don't know photocopy a lot of those historical legislative discrimination is in place. but a lot of the history of that remains and needs to be expertise in helping folks navigate that. the estate plan and life planning process is a personal one. and you know it requires a level trust with client and attorney. and so there is also a need for that increase sensitivity and understanding. when working with lbgtq+ populations. wing through family dynamics and family of choice. you know wishes. about who is involved and end of

life matters and beneficiary of estate and things like that. we as a result we brought this program launch in the 2018. we are keeping the same grantee it is legal to the elder low in collaboration with aids referral panel. they are -- providing attorneys to work with folks to develop estate plans. this includes the things i mentioned wills and trust. purof attorneys and medical decisionmaking directives. there is an out reach component. we don't usually have this in legal grantses. in this one lae and alrp do monthly out reach events. most typically at lbgtq+ focused organizations to help roach this population. these are two hour events.

to talk about the service. issue they can help weapon and getting start with the press. the intakes and i think in situations they are able to -- complete small are documents with clients at the events. they have special out reach materials prochur web presence for this program to get the word out. over in our health law. the health law twhorld is one we learned about through our community need's assessment process. in 2018. i think is when we this came on our radar. and launched that the same year with legal assistance to the elderly. we will continue and when this is doing this is an attorney who is just focussed on working with people who have legal issues rolled health care access. it is a lot of things denial of coverage when insurance is denying and people are paying

out of pocket for services. that they insurance should be covering. or when people are difficult positions where they are rationing the health care when it should be paying. i think what is interesting about this program they have established mou's to work with our long-term careom buds man program. so the ombudsman program isut there in language term care facilities in skills insing facility and assisted living a sillities. medicare counciling service. with these agencies knowing about each other it facilitates referrals between the two. which is great. the ombudsman is responsible for everyone in one of the facility and wing with family members to tell them. get to you lae of the high cap

is the same. see over 2,000 clines a year they are ready to send folks over. and facilitated interesting sharing of knowledge where they are able to sharpen each service. you know the attorneys at lae are able in working with ombudsman get a senseow things operate on the ground in the facilities and through the players and things like that. on the high cap side they done interesting work. around around setting people's benefits up to mack myself benefits and minimize cost where they see this when someone is on medicare and medical and a share of cost assessment is made they work with the high cap program to look at the person's benefits and their insurance coverages and maximize the use of which insurances and possible premiums

and purchase of service in order to really increase insurance coverage and decreasing expenses this are coming out of pockets. very complicated stuff. very cool. >> with that i will open to turn it back for questions. question thes from the commission. it is complicated process. >> 83. all of us. >> and if i can ask, can anyone who like if you are hear burglar people facing the problems can an access to see if they are how open is it is income eligibility? >> no for older adults and with disabilities. so i think legal assistance to

the elderly is the place to start call them >> people call and -- correct. >> otherwise, family members trying to help and this can be very not helpful >> yes. >> right. right. >> yea. >> not an exert. you know. and i know we up with the program for lbgtq+ life planning services before but in view of -- the vulnerability about the future, >> right. this is important right now. lbgtq+ people have not been able to get married. and so like 2013. up until then you are always pay being money for complicated legal documents can construct what is by law when you are married straightforward. you know it does not cost as much and not as complicated so many laws are there.

and already there. and in place in case you don't have the planning. and so, that was it is very important always health care important. and it is going to probability be could be equally important in the future. so continuing this model we have in san francisco. where people are -- become expert at helping same sex couples and understanding it is issue system important now. so glad we are doing this again. yea. >> i have a question. mr. secretary comments from the public on item 10d.

thank you very much. >> no further requests to speak is there a motion to approve 10d >> i move. >> we have move a triple move and second? >> mr. secretary. take a vote for item 10 d. >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen >> yes >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung. >> yes. >> commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> thanks a unanimous vote. >> thank you, motorcycle >> item 10e requesting authorization to enter in i grant agreement with curry senior center po provision of mental health connection and tech support for lbgtq+ old are adults with disabilities for a period of july of 24 through

june of 26 in amount of 1 million dollars. plus a 10% for revised total amount not to exceed 1 know million, 372. >> we have mike presenting. >> item observe you a new two year grant continuing a pilot project we have been working on since may of 2022. curry senior center was our original grantee. we are excited keep working with them for this new period. this program was born out of a study during covid older lbgtq+ adults. really demonstrating that the negative impacts of the covid having on them. isolation, stress, increase need

for mental health support service. this is on top of historical study this is show this is a population that already suffers from a preclusion from service lower rates of participation and worse out come for service this is we are providing there not engaging with them. >> idea here with this program originally was to develop cultural competent providers for services. any telehealth format for lobes older adults. idea there was 3 thing there is. the training module. recruit. of providers, therapists. a training immediatule to increase our cultural competency in serving lbgtq+ older adults and the use of technology to facilitate telehealth as a way

to break down barriers for access to mental health services. what did we flrn this first dwo year period? found this clines seem to prefer in person service i want to think the bay area. telehealth gives the ability it reach out to providers for the field. i think that the in person have plus -- some showing a preference for providers preferred. there was an as a part less of a need for devices. we did not seat demand for devices to access this service we thought we would. we saw the demand for assistance and how do i figure this technology out and get connected. so that was manage we did we

were expecting and did see. what we have done and done is have kind of changed the program a bit based on the ideas. with some and -- relaunching with what we learned in seeing how goes the big things the pieces here the training mod you'll stay in place. that is a 5 hour training process. that all providers will go through. there is still recruitment of private therapists to participate in this. there will also be the use of in house staff at curry senior center to provide those services to clients. we will see a reduced expectation for deliver of devices, technology i think we had a targeted at 50 each year.

we will keep a tech support person in place to help with distribution of the devices and anyone who is still chose to access telehealth. tell not be closed out as an option but it will be an increased resource in person service. finally the thing we see is the use of health navigator or mental health navigator and advocate positions and the folks will focus on a couple of major tasks the big ones are breaking down barriers for accessing service this is is w with clients to identify any bear dwroers accessing service. that could be anything from helping arrange transportation to services. and -- mental health advocate system working we learned that many people are eligible for these services under their health plan but navigating to

access the service and and a half access competence service system difficult. there will be a position here to help that process as well. finally, the folks will work to out reach get the word out about the program. and continue recruit in new clients. for this service. i think reflecting back this has been a learning process and remains a very important issue this we are trying to figure out. in meeting the need in the community. i have personal low enjoyed the feedback and learning that curry has brought to us through the process. i think they are very talentd and skilled provider. so, we looked for your approval for new two year term for this project. happy to answer questions.

commissioners are well questions. >> just i have one clarification. it says, this is for lbgtq+ and older adults? it is inclusive of people who may not be in the lbgtq+ community? >> it is, technically >> i mean and i imagine then when you did the study the needs and the mental health needs you were looking at all of the different communities and pargsing them out to see who had different services. how needses for services might differ by community and >> this is truly low focussed on the lbgtq+ population we did in the study other needs of other communities. i think that from a legal stand point we are not able to restrict service its a specific

population or category, perhaps. so that is why you see that broad language the eligibility we are not turning folks away. we are ensuring that our grantee kershaw sebuilding this program so this within it there is this competency to serve lbgtq+ population in particular. >> okay. and will this is not in the scope. i think the bipoc community is challenged post pandemic for mental health service. >> yes. >> telehealth and things like that. i don't know if there are other program this is is. >> yea. it does not i money not the greatest thing certainly what we are looking at when we look at this we think about how this is working and you know this could be create an opportunity for replication for other communities. based on how it guess. >> great. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> commissioners are there other questions.

upon are there comments from the public? thank you very much. >> thank you. no further requests to speak we will close public comment. is there a motion to approve 10e? >> moved. >> seconded. . mr. sect take a vote for 10e? >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen. >> yes. >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung. >> yes. >> commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> thanks a unanimous vote >> thank you.

commissioners item 10f is requesting approval for a now contract with the san francisco healing plan provision of community support services to the san francisco health plan members. lee will present this item >> good morning president spaers and commissioners and executive director. i'm program analyst with office of community partnerships. i request your authorization to enter in a new contract with san francisco health plan for das to be a provider of community support services. the service are planned to be subcontracted to the community living fund program. with institute on aging. i would like to start with some brief background information.

funded by das community living fund aims to reduce unnecessary institutionalization. the two populations focus include nursing facility residents, transification to the community. and individuals in the community at risk of being institutionalized. the program is designed to have two pronged approach. court nayed case management and purchase of service. under umbrella of clfp in addition to the original service component; well is another component named, das ecm. enhanced care management. it provide says similar service to the members of san francisco health plan. das ecm is under a separate contract with das and the health

plan part of california advancing ino have aing medical initiative. cal lane. the service are funded by san francisco health plan and basically does not use the city's funds. >> like das ecm. this cop tract will bring community support cs services an additional component to clfp which is also part of cal lane. das program will center its services in coordinating the transition orb the diversion process from nursing to community setting. what other similarities and difference among the 3 components? the original das ecn and cs,

talk about the similarities first. both das components aline with the original services. in serving the two populations of focused and shared same goals. to tofter age nothing community with the two pronged approach. some of the difference among the 3 are the following:first, as mentioned unlike the original funded by das, both services are covered by sanning fran health plan through [inaudible] funding. second. both das service are are offered for the members of san francisco health plan. while the original service have no requirement of any med kale managed care plan membership.

third, mostly the counterpart of the intensive case management piece. of the original services. where as daz cs is more similar to clfp purchase of service. next i like to say more about the das cs service this contract. which would include two service areas. first community transition services. also known as nursing facility transition to a home. this area of the services is designed to assist individuals in transitioning from licensed facilities to living arrangement in private residents. service mainly include needs assessment, housing navigation.

home modification and coordinating the move. it covers nonrecurring expenses. necessary for the transition. for up to a total lifetime max amount of 7, 500 dollars per client. second, nursing facility transition or the diversion to assisted living if sillity services. the goal to assist individuals who are in nursing facilities or risk of being place in the such i facility to transition or divert them to assisted living settings. service of tht area will include need's assessment securing a facility residents, ensure the assisted living providers wrap around service in place and

coordinating the move. it also covers the facility's fee plus admin fee for a maximum of 5, 892 per client per month. if this contract is certified staff will file claims to san francisco health plan for reimbursement for services provided. the funds received will be used to off set the cd general fund. that concludes my presentation. thank you for your consideration and i do my best to answer any questions if you have. >> thank you. >> commissioners are there questions regarding this contract. item 10f. a nice job of explaining a complex.

it med it clear. thank you for this. >> thank you. glad ton >> comments on this side. >> hearing none. mr. secretary will you open up the lines for public comment? . opening statement phone lines for public comment on 10f. thank you very much. no comments to speak on this item. from the public may i have a motion and second. >> move. >> seconded. >> hearing the first and second mr. secretary. tick a vote for 10f. >> president spaers. >> yes. >> vice president lum. >> yes. >> commissioner knutzen.

>> yes. >> commissioner bittner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung. >> yes. >> commissioner pennington. >> yes. >> thanks we have a unanimous vote >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that concludes items 10 for action. the next is announcements? i will make one. there will be no das meeting in august we will have our summer recess and [inaudible]. [laughter] and hopeful low we'll have warm weather are there other announcements? >> okay i don't hear others. begin this, i adjourn the meeting of the das commission. it is mr. secretary 10:49!

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this is about rebuilding and reimaging the city. we will talk about revitalizing downtown. >> thank you for having me. >> the initiatives in the downtown area and enjoy businesses. perhaps you can tell us about your plan. >> yeah, sure. well, you know, first i'd like to acknowledge we are here visiting union scare. this is the heart of the city and people come to celebrate life's greatest moments whether it's the holidays or buying your prom dress or getting married. you always think about union square as a place to celebrate. we would like to continue in that celebration especially postpandemic. this is a great place to

celebrate life. we want to be creative getting people outdoors. we are still coming out of the pandemic and enjoying what we have to offer think about the beautiful hotel and historic district. we have world class shopping destinations and theater here we are using our strike thattic plan there was a time when weus people want r want a bit of everything appeared experience. one of the newest initiatives is union square. in you come down you will see blooms cascading from hotel awnings and blooms on historic building fronts. you will see them on bus

stops. you can go to many of our restaurants and they have cocktails. they have food and of course, being connected withification we have our bloom gown that's behind me. so, a announcement f ways to celebrate blooms. this is another great time of year for union square we are kickoff the holiday celebrations. they bring out the animal window. we have ice skating. music is another great way to come and enjoy union scare. we are a recipient of the latest grant. this is bringing it into the public life.

we are doing it here. this is in our park. it's really show this is great when it comes to music. >> we have been ignoring the fact for the districts it's a pretty common place across the country and opportunity to transform our spaces. >> yeah, i agree with you 100%. >> we have 13,000 hotel rooms. what if we had a school or soccer this is something we

couldn't do before. our rates prior to the pandemic was under10%. we are higher now. >> we have businesses like cable car a lot of history and innovation here as well. we want to be ready for the opportunities. this is where some office spaces will come. we are seeing office leases in union square. the cable car comes through it. why not come to work in a vibrant space. >> a lot of the businesses have been remarkably resilient. can you share success stories and talk about how they have been supporting them. >> this aligned with what i just said about historic neighborhoods. they have seen everything from the great depression on. in fact, the earthquake of

1906. we have been around for hundreds of years. celebrating 116th birthday. open to the public in october. they are not gone. they are just down the street a beautiful store where people find great fabrics. contemrare just here on powell street. a lot of the luxury retailers are expanding neighborhood print. >> we talk about the area with a rich history. what about the spaces and stronger sense of community. >> yeah, you know. i have to say these challenging times brought the

community together. we had a unique opportunity here. was an opportunity to look at the district and assess where we might need something. we need a bit more of everything. we broke it down into different categories. we looked at economic development and change offering. people were accessing, you know, nightlife, food, or shopping differently out of the pandemic. we wanted to look at marketing and what it meant to get the news out about what we were doing in the district. looking at our own organize as well and what we would need to get that out there. also creating a safe space. we are creating a safe and secure area. our locals in particular you

can go shopping anywhere in the bay area. any of those places will look like any other place. in san francisco, you are somewhere special. this is a unique place and we needed to get it right. we have done that work and continue to support our district and see different ways to do business here. to be creative and innovative. we were able to change the planning code to make it more flexible to do business here. we are the c3r. we have three floors of retail maybe today we don't want two levels maybe we just want one level instead of too much retail we need a school or something else. very exciting times and really

interesting people and ideas. >> that's great. >> so, i guess, finally, what do you have for san francisco residents and businesses to be apart of this. >> this is the gateway of san francisco. it only drives. right now, we are so many and still love our great city and what we would like to see. this is san francisco and the residents. look around, have a coffee. listen to music on the weekends. we have so much to offer union square. with that, support these businesses. we have a number of openings, a number of businesses betting on union square.

in fact, we have a new hotel. the owner is from back of house, that's the name of the organize. they brought us several other residents and now this wonderful restaurant, i italian restaurant. this is on top of the old restaurant. it will have a rooftop and one of the largest in san francisco. it's a london based business abdomen and betting on n square. we have a great bar scene popping up and speak easy and pch. hawthorne, school. this is the place to come down and enjoy. come, don't forget union square is the place to be. certainly in the years to come.

a very difficult time of course for any major city. we are dealing with the same thing. explore and support our businesses here. we'll continue to thrive. come on down, you will be wildly, also surprised at how beautiful it is since we are still blooming. >> thank you, that's great. it's great to hear your optimistic outlook on restoring this part of time. >> thank you for having me and taking a little time to showcase our heart of san francisco. >> thanks again. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another one shortly. thank you for watching.

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20

years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the

dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years.

i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000.t/ it was a ghost town in

chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because

it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares.

but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days.

i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community.

>> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a

remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality

products and something that's very, very good. ♪♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of

quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over

100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint.

people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prercarved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is

important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors

does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we

make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in.

but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪♪

forward/hospitality. >> heart of san francisco an aide so important diverse culture in the name for remarkable individuals like carlton b goodlett a man wheeg legacy is at the iconic lashed not just a man of intelligent his journey was far from san francisco good had studies earning a mountain lake cut off road in child psychiatric a city that is is campus for staff's contributions a city with a very different place when dr. good let was around and you would see

him on streets like the fillmore and wha mrs. minority healthcare to people who that did not have insurance or an ability to pay for that. >> dr. good working hard around city hall meaning he would load boxes with people and they would go to san francisco state mainly and other places as well and protest these unjust treatments and unfairness of their system. >> dr. good was a america civil service activity with naacp■. and protested for the discriminations against blacks and public transportation and

public housing and the reporter as most people come into the building today don't know who he was was district attorney know that not only was a physician, a activity but also an incredible cardplayer. in his spare time. >> and the won a number i published and the also ended edited another newspaper wells fargo willie brown and dr. good had a close relationship in the early 90s several groups got together to his own dr. good and put together petitions and worked very, very hard to have

the official address changed. >> dr. king's day of the celebration is in january, i got to call from mayor brown which i've known for in many, many years to ask me to change the street sign this is remarkable. okay. >> in january of 1999 right after the building reopened, mayor brown and i went outside at that moment it was still cold street we shut down the word on the sign that read polk. >> put up the sign that said number one, dr. carlson carlton b goodlett white. >> i think that he earned a

certain place in respect of all poem he was just a remarkable individual. unfortunately, we didn't live long enough here to see the street sign >> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started

applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in

2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and

almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling

session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding

out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's aisting on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was

brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units

across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]

>> today the housing authority commissioner meeting on today, thursday, january, january, today thursday, june 27th at 4:30, we're starting a little bit late so thank you for your patience, every one. go >> commissioner mary anne. >> present. >> commissioner. mics. >> lindo. >> present. >> item 2 is the acknowledgment of the ramaytush ohlone. >> we acknowledge that we're on the unceded homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the origin hab tants of the san francisco peninsula, in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone never seeded nor lost or

forgotten their responsibility for this place. as guests, we reside, we recogniz■lthat we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging, the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone and by affirming their soverne rights as first people. >> item 4 is presidential report. >> no items to report, just looking forward. since this is a first meeting of the beginning of summer, a very safe summer and please be watching for the heat advisories, in the coming weeks so that we're all taking care of each other. if there are any questions that people have, please reach out to 311, and issues at site

please reach out. but remember you always have 311 as a point of access to make sure that you and your family and members and children seniors are protected during the summer months. thank you. >> thank you, president. item 5 is general public comment, before we start, i would like to note this portion of the agenda is not intended for debate or discussion with the staff. if you have questions or would like to bring a meater to the commission's attention, please send email to sf gov. t a, and i will start with the submitted speaker card for general public comment. and if you just come up to the podium, you'll have two minutes, and if you hear a beep that's for 30 seconds remain anding there will be a beep when your two minutes are completed. we'll start with chanel. >> just to make a note, for any

resident issues, who from authority staff is present to help answer those questions? great, thank you, kendra. sxl ceu is enroute and will be here but before any action. thank you, thank you very much. >> speaker: good afternoon, i'm here to address the commission about the housing authority and issue at hand. so my concerns are being able to communicate with the housing authority effectively as far as more lines or email a dresz to access, to the different departments, pretending to disabilities and ada accommodations for patrons receiving tran fehr vouchers from other counties.

and also, being the long wait in the lobby. so that's why i'm here, i wanted to speak, and then also, addressing the fact that everybody in the bay area or most major cities are under housed. it's not enough housing to go around for people in the wait list as well as accessing housing directly. so if in one county and you have to go through another county and you're disabled and then you have to look for housing, how can we transition or expedite the process of turning the vouchers into emergency housing vouchers for those with disability? so those are some of the concerns i wanted to address and hear something about. i did pass through sunnidale and i did see the new construction of the housing and the way the roads are, not

actually connecting. i see some things are under way. so i did read further about the agenda today. and as far as accessibility the public transportation and just being mindful for disability for people with disability. thank you very much, have a great opportunity. >> you too, thank you for coming. >> next is chris ward klein. >> i have a hand out as well. >> speaker: good evening, board commission. for the record i'm christopher klein. i just wanted out a draft resolution where your feedback is needed. this is need today prevent a tyranny here in san francisco. a few city leaders are using military equipment such as

c6ir, with it they can take control over your phones and systems. here in san francisco, they are price gouging veterans and non vet arz and then using them to non compliance. if anybody speaks up, they attempt to evict the resident by forced to include health resolutions. i'm going to read the resolution now, and as you can see it has been presented to the key commissioners in san francisco. will you ensure provieeding information with sfpd and sheriff when recommending indict toment anybody using improperly safety system such as sherlock to alter a person's mental health and ptsd and using ultrasound to cause twelg and false illnesses or death to

i willy influence notes and illegal play to pay schemes and alter for other political and religious reasons. and the last thing i wanted to bring up, at 250 kearny there is been an abnormal amount of death so i've asked, the department of justice to investigate and launch an investigation. thank you. >> thank you. >> jason lawrence?

>> speaker: thank you for having me. i've been here for the past 30 years. it's very--? mr. lawrence, if you make sure, i want to make sure that you're speaking into the microphone. >> speaker: all right, i'll be real quick. >> you don't need to be quick, i just want to to make sure that you can be heard. >> speaker: i moved here 30 years ago and i love it and i would not live anywhere else. two years ago i got diagnosed with h.i.v. and went from having aids to being undetectable but about four years ago, i was diagnosed with a fractured hip and it has to be replaced and right before

could vid, so there was no--covid, so there was no surgeries during covid, elective surgeries that is. so i went waiting on that for my surgery. and after that they wanted a year sobriety before they do surgery or 12 clean ooh urines. i put in 3 requests from my doctor and pesh al letter from the doctor as well and i've just been ignored and i'm start to go have falls in my own apartment. i don't know what else to do, i'm kind of frustrated, i'm not much of conversational person but this seems so simple, thing to do, they got a lot of property a lot of rooms and they're telling me that i need some kind of tax credit from my doctor so. there is no on going

discussion, it's suppose to be a fair housing act. and they just ignore me. >> mr. lauren, i'm sure you've been having that experience and can a person will speak to you right now behind you, to help you resolve that. >> speaker: okay. >> just a quick question, what has been the method of communication with the housing authority around the request? >> i submitted everything to my social worker at the property that they have onsite. >> at the ambassador hotel? >> uh-huh, i've been there 14 years, and i loved it. it's just that for some reason, this is just started happening. >> all right, great. i appreciate you coming today and i hope that we can help with the wrap around supportive services to see what we can do. >> speaker: thank you very much. >> thank you very much for coming in. >> speaker: margaret mcmurphy.

>> speaker: hi good afternoon, every one. if you recall i spoke last month about resident advisors and how we were, expanding and getting along, and i mentioned that i found my niche but that niche is preventing lawsuits from tenants against the management by advocating for the tenants and management as well and interfering, just basically communicating, it's been solving a lot of the problems. so in the future, i want to know if maybe you would consider letting me have an agenda item because i have a couple of clients that i'm representing that may go over two minutes, but i'll try not. one of the things, 25 sanchez street, the president is having

a hard time communicating with management. they're using their storage closet for their own storage instead of the tenant association and that may sound silly but it's a lot of little things like that ra tha* have building up. and i'm also training the resident's board from for the tenants association officers, i'm training them for their new role and anyone that wants for free, every second saturday, every month at my residents. so, the main reason why i'm here today is a client named norman will bert and he's received a letter that basically says that they're going to stop giving him the happen money because he failed a couple of things in inspections. he feels it's retaliation because he did win a lawsuit against them a couple *f years ago. and i've been adjusting, kendra

so she has been helping me. >> that's your appropriate way to issue. >> thank you very much for all that you do. >> thank you very much. next is it kevin roach. >> speaker: i'm kevin roach from the arc of san francisco and i'm hoping that, the board of of the housing authorities will build more affordable housing for the people with the disability. and my other concern is that in san francisco in the mission district, i see there is condos, not affordable housing, and a big building near the park, saying it's affordable housing. and my worry is that the clients at the arc with people with disability, request not

afford to live here. our social workers we're losing. it's a battle where i feel like, are we ever, what i was going to say is i hope you understand what we're going through that we're worried for the future of san francisco, that pole people are not going to be pole people. there is a lot of pole people and so many resources downtown that they're getting built. and i'm hoping, that you will open the door and i do want to thank you about the housing authorities that every time i call, they communicate very respectful to me for my services. and i appreciate that because they ask you for your social security card and they talk clear. years ago, i almost wet my pants, they would not talk clear. soy want you to know that there is a door, housing authorities

have done very respectful to the clients when they're looking for asking about their voucher how far are they still on their list? and that part means a whole lot to me that you're caring enough to talk, the people we call and talk to, we tell them our number, our social security number and they talk like not mean to us and that means a lot to us for people with disability or anybody, and i think that is adorable and they do, and i want to say too that they don't put us all in bad neighbors. they want us to live in a safe neighborhood. so i want you to know that i think that's very important. two and a half years ago, put their name and they put us in better neighborhood like not in a rough neighborhood. so i think that is a big plus. >> thank you for coming in today.

appreciate it. >> thank you. >> next is isaac. >> speaker: so my name is isaac and i'm from the kelsey and i'm going to be talking for the kelsey and i'm talking about any experience with finding affordable housing. and it took me four years to find where i live now. and that's because the lists are so very long when it comes to apply for housing, that you have to apply so many time just to get housing and it takes people so long. that many people will get discourage sxz just accept their situation and just think, just think that they will get a very discouraged and then turn away from looking for affordable housing. also i like you, figure out to get the list to get the list shorter so people that don't

have a long wait time. these people deserve housing these are the people in our community who can't afford market rate housing, so they have a limited amount of housing. and a lot of people applying for these house anding that there is causing that so many people that there is not, that there is just supply issue and housing i got today is because i got evicted where i was, i got to be on the first people and i got a voucher that got me the housing and that should not be the reason that you have to get the housing, you have you should be able to get your housing without having to have something bad to you that, should not be the reason we get house hading. i would like to see the list, i would like to see the list, more work being done to get the list to be shorter to people

have a less of a waist time and don't have to wait years to get the housing that they deserve. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> belinda wraklin. >> speaker: hi name is belinda, i worked in affordable housing since 2005, qualifying people for home ownership and rental housing. my last position was at san francisco corporation and go to housing authority with clients that came in with issues and could not get through. one of my ask is, that the housing authority qualify people and not disqualify people. a lot of time and it's not just the housing authority. a lot of times what happens is

they come in, people come in and whoever is working with them tells them what the rules are but they don't tell them the exception to the rules. so i'm going to give you an example. for example when you're qualifying for a home ownership and they say you have to be doing something the same work for the last two years, well the exception, so when you say that, oh i have not done that, so people walk away, but the exception is if you go to school and maij order in that, then you qualify, right? or if you work for a bank and you go from receptionist to a sales person, that qualifies because you're in the same industry, right. so if you explain things like that. the other comment i want to make and it's been the experience and one of the main issues that the housing authority is like the other gentleman said, reasonable accommodation forms from the

doctor's office, i've gone to at least six times to say this form is correct. i've had the experience of people being sent back or denied because this reasonable accommodation is letter is not correct. well, if it's not correct then tell them what it needs to say and send them back, we need this letter to say this, it needs to be written like this. so that's my comment. >> great. >> my qualified instead of disqualify. >> and this is based on the experience 1815 edward. >> yes. >> great, thank you very much, belinda. is there any additional general public comment?

>> speaker: my name is frances hardwood and i represent sccsd, i'm a board member. and i want to update you. as of right now, we're working on our email corporate email, so that's going to take a little time but we're working on that. so i want to let you know that. and we're going to get a website too, i want to let you know of that as well. thank you very much. that's it. >> thank you very much. thanks for coming in. >> speaker: no problem. >> any general public comment in the room? we do have somebody online, stephanie papas would you like to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes.

>> speaker: hi, can you hear me now? >> yes. >> speaker: hi i'm a fellow officer of frances and i just wanted to briefly add to what he said. sorry that we have not been more present at the meetings. i know there is been some negativity that has been brought forward about us and i wanted to let you know firsthand that we feel like we're doing well as a board that we managed to successful complete ten elections of our 14 active buildings? and we're about to get some help. as seniors and people with disabilities, we recognize that we need a little more support.

we agree that we could use a little more support for our board so we're exploring adding two advisor roles to the board. we have one fellow in mind who is a former board member and now works on a hud committee, named kevin lee and we're open to who our second advisor would be. but, i just that's one of the things that we've been looking at and working on as ways for us to get a little more support and a little more caught up, we have a few things, business wise pending. so, so, i'll introduce myself and say hello and just add on that tha* we feel like in general, and since, i've been on the board since march of 2023 and other than, the resent disruption we had and

disagreement with ms. nolty, i think we've been in very strong process and in further contact as i finish off my term the rest of this year. >> great, thank you so much for making my time. >> i apologize for not being here sooner. >> no, thank you for making the time, that's what matters. >> speaker: thank you. >> last call for public comment? then we can move to item 6, this is tenant representative report for anyone that has not already spoken would you like to give a report to the board? then we can ask for public comment on item number 6, any public comment? i do not see any, we can close public comment and we would like to move 7c to first report

out due to staff availability. that would be the leasing update and that would be presented by joe mueller from the housing authority. and for sf gov. tv, we do have a power point for this. >> speaker: hi good afternoon, today i'll be presenting the calendar 2024 leasing plan. if we could go to that first slide, please. thank you. so just as a reminder, right now on the power point we've got the 7 leasing strategies that we had done last year as part of the 2022, leasing plan, filling vacancies, issuing new project base vouchers and payment standard increases vouchers adopting strategies to increase the leasing success

rate and to conduct wait list openings. overall, there is a lot of carry over in what the strategies are going to be for 2024. the main difference is going to be within the strategies, the different focuses on how we're going to reallocate the resources. can i go to the next slide please. so before i get into going through the 2024 strategies, i would like to take a moment to highlight,000 in plan inter acts with the strategic plan that is something that has been talked about. so two of the goals within our strategic plan are number 1 to become a high functioning agency and ensure reassurance. with those two items, that is a good way to highlight how that strategic work in practice. one of the strategies in the strategic plan under becoming high agency is to go through a

make driven ditsing. --decision. everything has been done with an eye on making data driven decision sxz seeing what we've done in the past and making a determination on what has and has not worked, looking at hard data that we've collected over the last couple of years and then out, that's how, it ties into kind of go-one of becoming a high efficiency and at the same time it helps to ensure fiscal resilience with practice of going and going into executing this plan to go through our reserves without over extending ourselves financially and maximize the amount. so with that being said, i will get into now the 2024 strategies. today, we are expected to expend 281 million dollars out of the authorized 411 million dollars that we received from hud. our goal is to maintain 8

million dollars out of this 411 as reserves. this is recommended by hud, it's just to maintain this on hand in case anything unexpected comes out through the year or if there is anything that needs to be closed out from the prior year. so, allowing for that 8 million to be held, that leaves us with 22 million dollars of of reserves to be able to increase our program capacity. these are the tragedies that we're going to implement to use up the 22 million dollars. so the first one is going to be voucher issuances. again, this is something that we had done last year, we'll be doing it again this year. this year we're going to place an emphasis on filling vacancies at our pbb sites, we'll continue to monitor our standards so based on the bedroom size of the unit, we'll continue to monitor and conduct analysis regularly to see how

the current requested rent amount right side lining up and if it needs to be adjusted either up or down and then 4 and 5 adopting the leasing success rate and opening the wait list as well as purging tenants off the wait list. can we go to the next slide please. thank you. so the first strategy that we're going to be going through are voucher issuances. so we have 518 vouchers and this is residual that we've done. and all told, the last couple of years, we've pulled over 2000 names off the wait list to exhaust the wait list and make sure that everybody has come in and receive a voucher.

that result inside 577 applicants being housed. currently we have 518 vouchers still active on the streets out of those 1143 that were issued. based out of our leasing success rate which has increased. when we stafrted this project, three years ago, back in 2021, we prevented our first leasing plan, we were around 38 percent, we were up to 16 and 17 percent now. so we've seen a significant increase over the last couple of years of the vouch thaerz are being issued. we're anticipating 275 admissions, and this is expected to incur about 1 to 2 million dollars. in addition to the vouchers that are on the streets searching, we will be pulling names off our newly opened, as

of last year, housing voucher and inviting those applicants into a briefing to receive a voucher. we're anticipated 600 vouchers to be issued for the remained he of the calendar year. we'll be monitoring the response rates of these names that were pulled as they're coming in and making adjustments so that way we can hit the 600 voucher issuance mark. applying the success rate of 16 to 17 percent, we're expecting about 350 new admissions from the wait list pool that we'll be doing this year. i will highlight that due to the time to lease up, only about 185 will be leased up in 2024, some of those will end up based on the timing of when they get their voucher and when they're able to secure a unit,

we'll be anticipated in 2025, but for those that will be leasing in 2024, we're anticipating about 5 to 6 million dollars. and i would also like to note that we do have a policy in place that for every ten vouchers that are issued, every ten vouchers that are issued, three names will be pulled off the choice mobility, the project and tenant base wait list. since those applicants are already part of the program, we don't anticipate a huge impact with them on this, on this strategy. those will impact and there will be more felt on the next strategy which i'm about to get to. next slide, please. thank you. so the main focus of our 2024 plan is going to be working on filling place vacancies. currently, our goals are to get

to a 93 percent overall utilization with no individual project base site having below an 11 percent. so on this chart right here, the left hand side of it is showing how many admissions for xhifting sites we've been processing per month up through the ging of june. and once you see when it starts to be 49, that's what we're projecting for the remainder of the year. averaging these 49 new admissions per month will get us to the 93 utilization overall goal with no individual site below 80 percent through the rest of the year. 49 is lower than what we've averaging per month. and part of the reason of that drop off is if you look at the column on the right hand side, these are new units, buildings that we don't have vouchers at

that are being leased up. there is about 500 units here split between project vouchers and tenant protection, so it's slightly different sources. and the tbbs don't count, which if you remember back to last year, that's something that we had to submit for. the tbps are not subject to the same cap so that's a separate allotment. but there are still units that will need to be used up. and in doing so, this will take time and that's, sorry, so these new vouchers will take time to lease up and take staff resources which is why you're saying the afternoon below what is being done. and then overall, like i mentioned, this is the main focus of our plan this year. so, if we hit these goals, the

80 percent per building and 92 percent overall this will spent down 13 to 14 million of our half reserves. next slide lease. okay. and, in twoen these two slides, like i mentioned earlier, we will continuously looking at the payment standard for our program. at the moment, our payment standard is in line with the rents that are being requested. like i mentioned, we'll continue to monitor this if we need to increase or change it, this will be something that we need to keep. it's in line with the rents that are being requested. so moving on to this slide on the screen right now. this is the strategy that we're going to be adopting strategies to increase success rate. so we have been doing tenant and our leasing has gone up

significantly. we're up to 60 to 70 percent for the given month now. but one thing that we're going to be looking at closely this year is our tenant support services. so right now, we're offering security deposits utility fees and application fees for voucher holders who have been searching for a unit for 60 days. we currently have two million dollars for the services and right now we're looking at way that's we can expand and increase the impact of the services that we're offering and that they do have these, that they do have these benefits for lack of a better word available to them, better way to see help them secure housing. next slide please. so the last item that i would like to touch on today is our wait list openings. so back in may, the authority

had created a project wait list, thaoz ones are designed to feed into any site that has an exhausted wait list. the bep fit, that way if a individual is exhausted, you have a large feeder wait list. so it will decrease the time that it will take to fill these vacancies. it will give us bigger pools so. as part of that opening, we added 10,000 new applicants to these six wait lists. and the goal is that this will be on a two-year wait list cycle so we'll be able to move through and provide these relevanteder, as more sites have those wait list exhausted, we will then have this list that these streamline list that will be able to provide

referrals with as well. and by having it on a two-year cycle, exhausting and reopening the wait list, it will ensure this there is less time that the applicants are having to wait for housing. and then kind of concurrent to this opening, we've been working on purging our current wait list. so going through and identifying applicants who are on the wait list that maybe found housing but did not remove their name. contacting them and seeing if they wished to remain on wait list. over 2000 inactive applicants have been identified op the authority wait lit through the different mailings, we expect this to never increase until we end the project. but it will p be until department, and at that point,

commissioner kim y dates so wel that with the report out. and if that is the end of my presentation, thank you very much and bennett and thank you very much commissioners. >> are you open for questions? >> yeah, we can take some questions. when you talk about the reduce authority reserves. >> yes. >> what number are we talking about in the presentation slide? >> if you can go back to slide number 3. so right here, i've got it laid out on this chart. so our authorized authority for 2024 is that amount on the far hand side the 411 million. yes, the amount that is that 411 million, that's the full

half expense per year. as it stands if we were to do nothing for the program, today we're anticipating the 381 will be spent. this is in half payments for things that are already obligated that we have already earmarked to pay out. >> just to back it up, one of the things that i like to do when we have so many members of the public that watch online and also be present, being able to take 100,000 foot view of what we're looking. so 411 million in funding and 381 of earmark expenses and that includes, just to get basic about it. >> yes, so the authority currently provides a

help realize the housing, vulnerable community members. in safe decent affordable housing. i appreciate that, i want to make sure that it's in recognition of that strong body of work and i very much

appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> commissioners any additional questions? all right, thank you. thank you very much, every one. safe travel. >> item 7 a is the plaza east update. john steward if you would like to start. >> good evening. >> good evening. yeah, good evening. are you going to put up the slides? >> yes, sf gov. tv, we have slides for this as well. thank you. >> thank you, our first slide is a staffing slide, this looks like--. >> i'm sorry, can you make sure that can you introduce yourse >> absolutely, my name is ron and i'm a regional director for

the john steward subpoena and i supervisor the staff at plaza east apartments, public housing and tax credit approximately 200 unit site in san francisco. and today we're reporting on the may period. the first slide we discussed staffing, we are still one person short, the maintenance tech, however we have identified a person he's in prehire, he has 25 years experience in the field lives locally. he has been working for months as a tempt and we're going to bring him on full-time. which will bring us up to full-staff. a little side note, i'm going to be away next month, i was trying to get the present to

come but she can't so there will be something that will be here to present for me. next slide first. >> we'll try to be as rigorous as we are. i'll be watching the recording later. next is the work order details, we opened including the emergency work orders and closed 157. commissioner kim, how are you doing? i want you to know that the work order that we did not close was open on friday may 31, we closed that work order on monday june third.

the average to complete the work order was one day. well within industry standards. i want today break down the 158 work orders. and let you know what they looked like. 153, 50 for appliance reports. 7 for common cleaning. four electrical, 22 plumbing and 7 were inspections. you might remember the last couple of months, we had a lot of work orders because of our fire inspection so now that has flattened out a little bit. is there any questions about this? >> yes, last couple of meetings, we were hearing about consistent mold and flood issues. can you talk about how those issues have been addressed today if you're aware of what

might be outstanding or people still coming forward with those requests? or, i would like to get a better understanding about how those issues are coming to you and how you're following up on them? >> sure, sure. so, in the last 30 days, we have had one person come forward with a mold request. i have been tracking that personally, it happened last wednesday, the head of the council called me and told me there was a problem. i went down to the site, i looked at the unit. we called two companies that do mold remediation, got two kids already. i approved one of the bids today. so we will be scheduling the work immediately and after that is done, we'll hire another contractor to finish it up.

a common problem particularly in older buildings. we work on resident education to make sure people understand the cause of mold. mold happens when you don't open the windows, when you have a single pain windows and you have heat inside or cold outside or vice versa, it happens when the vouches are too close to the wall and the air can't get in there. and i don't think he had looked in the closet for a while and the mold started growing his clothes. other than that, i'm not aware of any other mold issues we've had in the last 30 years. >> that's great to hear.

can you share more about those. >> sure, couple times, a year, we do, we do, community meetings and we discuss it, it's also brought up when they sign their lease. there is a policewoman pamphlet that they get. >> i mean, i also have personal interest as a renter myself, i know it can be a surprise when suddenly, you realize an appliance was too close for a wall for too long and clothing, is too far against the wall. and you find there are other guests waiting behind it. i think it's great that you continue to provide that education, it's always useful for people. i would like to see the

documents are next time you're present, just what residents are receiving. >> that's good, i made a note. >> thank you very much. and i appreciate you being able to talk so quickly about single mold request and keeping up-to-date on those issues. thank you. >> is there any more questions about the work orders? the next photograph is the trend line each month. the next slide is the unit detail. this slide, details occupied units, vacant units that are ready to rent. vacant units that are being remodeled and units that are pending analysis when we get ready to bid out the, the amount of money that is going to be spent on capital improvements this year. only one number changed here, one number changed from vacant

to ren oohable, we had a transfer, we had a person in the unit and they moved to another unit, so their old unit, it needed to be turned which you'll see on the next slide. >> just before you go to the next slide, you said immediately the issue would be addressed. it was wonderful to see. the reporting, there was a request to have the remediator come and tend to the unit. in the meantime it was covered are plastic and taped on the wall. how much time will it take for somebody to come out and remediate? >> good afternoon, the plastic happens after they seal that up so, somebody does not have a cavity in their wall where there is either insulation or empty. so they cut out affected dry call and they seal it up and

kind of a duct tape so the unit is still habitable. what happened in this case and i'm free to say this because we have not discusd any names or unit numbers we went to clean the mold so wipe it down, so that and call the contractor and the person refused that work. he was afraid that if we wiped it down, we would not do any further work. so we are going as quickly as possible, it happened 8 days ago and we're scheduling the work right now. >> that's great, so in this particular case, mold issue came up, and you came and both cut the area because you saw how substantive the issue was. >> i'm not being clear and i've had a long day, i apologize. >> no, i'm just trying to

understand. >> okay, so it was reported on wednesday and we called the remediator which happened on friday. on thursday, we took staff to wipe it down. he refused that. so as of today, it's not wiped down and not cut out, the bid was approved last night and the work is being scheduled right now to cut it out to put the plastic up. >> okay, so since it was first reported, how soon will the remediator come in and take care of that work? >> i don't have an exact answer but they usually take one or two. that is their job to be quick. >> but it sounds luke it's been longer, given that it's thursday and it was reported last week. we're past that point, when will the issue be remediated. >> i anticipate next week. i approved the second bid right away.

it's just you're doing a great job from the time we began these conversations, under your leadership and the manner in which we've seen incremental improvement and it is an opportunity for you to be clear with us and for your own teams on the rate in which you want to see the ats addressed and under what timeline. so that you can share. i hope that when they come in we're going to wipe it and follow-up with formal remediation as you should be receiving from us, this is an example from us, telling you what we're going to do and having a clear time and that everybody understand the issues. i would love to feel, that there is a response time.

>> i hope that happens, and one thing i did to ensure that happened, i communicated very quickly and with the council leader. she was the one that called me and alerted me to the issue before the property manager did. and i called her every step of the way. and often time, she is the main conduit between myself and the residents. >> thank you very much. >> the next is move in and move outs, transfers and there was one --transfer as i talked about. usually i talk about referrals and move in. last month, we talked about the referral and the length of time that it was taking to take somebody in. we have vacancies and we ask

for referrals. we received 7 referrals, we received 6 in april and one in may. out of the 7 people, three of them, never showed up or responded to communications. three people came out and they declined a unit there. and the last person moved in. now for the person that moved in, we talked about how long the process took and i want to report on that and i have four dates for you. the date that the person was referred to us, was april 11. we called them, they had their first interview with us on april 15th. they were approved for move in on june 5th which is about, 40 days and they moved in the very next day. they had some assets i don't

know how to say this word,zelle, i don't know how to say this word. this is kind of inside weeds but this is the new reality we live in where it is more difficult to verify income and assets for people that job moves quickly and have jobs like uber eats and have cash outs. i thought it was a good result and i do. that concludes the occupancy part of my report, is there any questions? >> so i don't mean to go into the weeds with you, but sometimes we do. so when we think about, so i think the reality, the changing reality of the workforce, it's

a big economy. and it's very expensive to live in san francisco so people patch multiple jobs together and there is growing technology. so when we think about, about having people to go from having, how are you changing from traditional models where this model of people have one job, they have sort of batchingering in a traditional way and people don't do that, and technology is not that way, how is the industry changing and how are you changing to accommodate to people, work history is different, bank history is different, the way we bank is different. >> that's a great question and it's something that we've been dealing with, really since covid, because that's what

changed happen. it's not how john steward is changing. what we do is governed by the tax credit allocation committee and through hud. we have to follow two sets of regulations, the most restrictive of both. for instance, they require us to verify 400 percent of assets. we have people that are homeless that don't have two quarters to put together and we're verifying the 4 dollars they have in their cash out. the system does not work well for some of our population. however, there is some help on the horizon which would be hotma, it's the new housing way, it affects a lot of things but one large one is income and assets and it's going to change some of that. we're going to have, the, threshold of what we have to verify is going to be higher.

it should help with some of these issues. it is, it is difficult there is a lot of regulatory agencies in trying to get them to row their boat the same way. and all have the same set of rules is difficult. the john steward company and owners, in work groups to try to advocate with people like the state of california and housing development and mayor's office and to try to get every one to adopt the same standards. >> how know how many times somebody needs to have their

eligible termed by multiple agencies. in some of the areas, each had their own requirement so you had individuals who were going, through a multiple eligibility processes. even though, they were able to navigate. so if, so is the, do you know whether these individuals are actually having eligibility determined, determined by multiple entities? and is there a way to streamline that? >> great question. so there is two parts to this. one is when we determine eligibility we may be doing it for several different programs. when developers, develop properties these days, they grab money from as many agencies as they can and they all have a different set of rules. our compliance puts the rules together and comes up with the

most restrictive rules so all the programs are met at once. that's part one. part two, i think, refers directly to the property and the housing authority work with housing choice voucher. now plaza it's public housing and we're the only ones that verify assets. but if you have a site with hcv, both the site and the housing authority both have to determine income and assets, we have to do it for our regulatory requirements and the housing authority does it and, in order to determine the tenant portion of rent and their eligibility. and i think the answer is, when it's done right and it usually is, we work consecutively. not concurrently. so, it's the process. we also share documents with the housing authority, and so we're using the same set of documents. so, we have to done what we

could to minimize the burden to the applicants. >> thank you. >> i think that was any last slide, are there any other questions? >> no, thank you very much. >> i'll see you guys in two months. >> next is service update would leasing come to come up. >> speaker: hello i'm with plaza east. >> services coordinator at plaza east. and we have our may services report for you guys. as far as, i'm so sorry, christine. >> i'm christine zapata the new

controller and i float around to all the sites. >> thank you, for our may services report. for the month of may, we have successfully assisted with all of up-to-date relocations that being one. tore tenant engagement, we were able to host coffee hour. an increase from 18 months and that's every wednesday at 12:00 p.m. we were able to host a healing and wellness event for 8 residents in partnership with dph services onsite. we happy were able to partner to be able to plan for a summer kickoff. we were able to be able to provide technology support and commuter literacy in partnership with our partners, for two residents. we were able to hold weekly community building meetings with our tenant association, the community advocates and the

volunteers for senior programming regarding summer programming and preparation for june. we were able to assist healing and wellness appointments for one on one crisis services for three services. and we were able to also assist with property management for out reach for work orders making sure that those work orders are getting properly through the channels and being handled correctly and then overall, we were able to service over 150 residents, between connections, referrals and providing our onsite services. any questions for services? >> commissioners, any services? no? can you talk about the types of referrals that are made? >> i can take it, so basically depending it's case by case but say somebody comes in and they may need help with pg&e or rental assistance, they may

also need assistance surrounding healing and wellness that would be mental health support. so we try to refer them to our partners and the services. >> thank you, and can you remind me the kaidans, the coordination. >> oh yes, right now it's weekly, almost daily. >> and how are things going for the summer a heads? >> so summer program are going well. and some surrounding, communities as well. we have, mental youth that we have with the boys and girls club in san francisco, so they have elected to go to boys and girls club as opposed.

we're helping to make sure that food is on the site, with field trips, we've been able to go on field trips with them as well. just last week, we did a connection with with tenant association, we did family movie day, where people were able to go to the cabuki and see a movie. we are doing, every one reads program where mo magic and we're doing the workshops for the kids to do educational kids as well. >> out of curiosity, what movie did you take them to? >> they either all inside 2 or bad boys for life. they had a choice. >> and inside 2, was great. >> i saw it too, it was a great movie. >> i have not seen it t don't

spoil it for me. >> my lips are sealed. >> all right, any additional questions? thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you. >> next is solicitations update from suati. >> all right. >> this is a lot more brief, the rfp has been issued already. it was issued on june 4th. and we had the preproposal conference on june 18th, where i just went through the entire rfp given, instruction on how to complete it properly. which was via zoom, we did record it, it was in the marketplace, because

preproposal conferences are not mandatory. but anybody who even later on gets, signs up with the marketplace and wants to know, okay how do i do this, they can look at the video. we also ex tenlded the question deadline, the deadline originally was the 25th and so we extended it, it's going to actually end at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. at which point i'll a answer any questions if asked. so far, there have been no questions. the submission deadline remains the same which is july 10th, we have not seen any need to extend that at the moment. i just want put on the slide that think point, we think that that they will see and go to the normal way so you'll next hear about this when we come and ask for your approval.

and we go through the entire logitics of how the evaluations went and then we'll be asking for approval to contract at the time, how we normally do procurement. >> how many organizations were present for the conference? >> i wish i had written it down, actually, it had a nice, the same organizations, i can ask because there were a couple from the same organizations, so multiple people from the same organization it seemed like, so there were at least three to four distinct. i can say that the solicitation went out to about 848 or so people within the marketplace that their companies in some sort of way, hid what criteria

would be needed to fulfill it, the rfp was filled well within the range if we were to bid to get a nice competitive bid going. and then, they have the option in the marketplace, so say whether or not you're going to bid so. there is one that said, they might, and one that they definitely will, so we've got two, obviously, we will never know until july 10th. so far, so good. i think that might have been the largest preproposal that i've had people attend. i've done them for other ones and we may get one or two people, so it was a nice turn out, actually. >> thank you very much. >> no problem. so the next one is the capitol improvement. so originally, we wanted it to be out like mid-june, clearly,

that's not going to happen. we were, ex paneding the scope. so i will be working on that, this week or this week is out, so next week? we do recognize it's a holiday week with july 4th, but i will get the scope together so we can get issuing either that second week in july and when i say issue, that's just putting it out and so it runs in the paper so it's up in the marketplace and people can start viewing it and then we let that process happens for two weeks, just by regulations before, we have prebid where, where i would explain the process like i did for the preproposal and there will be a walk through on the site during that particular one. so we're looking, i put just to give cushion, the second or third week of july. but it is not as if we had not already done the work, we're just expanding the scope and

making sure that any requirements bonding type requirement that the city might have, i have to put it into the solicitation as well. we're not waiting for the city's two million dollars funds to issue the rfp, we got the 5 million. so we'll start there and we think that once, potentially we can give the city more information that they need for their loan committee process if we get started. so we're not going to wait. but i do have to wait that every one who is bidding, knows the criteria when we start to fwet city funds. i do have to mack sure that the information is in the ifb but as i said, i'm going to complete that all week and we should be able to issue right after that. and then once we do that, just like the other one, there will be no more report out, we just

come like we normally would, once the process has been completed. >> all right. in terms of the, the reviewers who will be selected to evaluate the ultimate proposals. for both services and for infrastructure improvements, capital improvement, can you determined and can you share, the diversity of panelist who will be reviewing those proposals? >> so panelist are only for the rfp, the ifb is low bid and we're open to selecting one contractor for that, because we do want this to go quickly. so there will be no panel for that one.

but the 5 person panel. so we will have to make that decision soon, because once the proposals come in on the 10th and i do the initial review to convene. so probably within the next couple of weeks we'll figure out how we're selecting a person, that we're going to have to volunteer, i'm not quite sure how we're going to do that. and normally, we do three-person panel but with a five-person panel, we pick somebody within the city that would have some knowledge of the sort of thing that we're trying to pro cure. so we've got a thing about that.

and then, one or two people from the housing authority, so that gets us what? one, two, three, four. and then i'm not sure where we might source the final one if you have any suggestion. but it's going to be a five-person panel and it's all die ver,--diverse. and usually when we do a three person panel, maybe two from the housing authority and one from the city. this time it will be at least one from the city and maybe one from another housing authority, i don't know but it will have a resident on the panels. n.and just from the evaluation perspective of services, will somebody or evaluation guidance that will be provided to panelist, will there be anyone with services expertise in the city to help create those from the panelist so they understand exactly how that review process

should go? >> the panelist, so there is a packet that i typically give in just the, almost like an opening instructional scpeel that i do where i explain all the documents, they to confidential, the non disclosures that sort of stuff, they have a written narrative that's where they put down their thoughts of each proposal, what they like and what they didn't like. so it provides some guidance on what they were thinking when they made their scoring? they're provide with the hri and what each of those criteria they're suppose to be looking at.

and then they make their scores. even when it's on zoom, it's all, they're essentially, they're not scoring together, they don't discuss their but they are almost in the room together and in the end, there is potentially a discussion about just to make sure that there is not any out like crazy deviants, is that the word? from one person score to the another. somebody scored perfectly for a particular point and another panel gave them the lowest like a 5 or something, so it's like what happened here? and then that would allow somebody, oh no, they did here,

so it catches if somebody happened to miss something so that sort of thing happens. but nobody is, obligated to change their score based on this, this would be something that they would do on their own if they were to change it. so we don't guide them in scoring and they don't have to match up or anything like that. >> the, the way that you explained it, is there a who has the policy about how things are rated? who selects the panels? how they're selected? it's, is that all the discretionary or is it written in a policy somewhere? >> no, it's not written in a policy how and who selects the panel, it's just, since i've been here, it's just been that, that, it's just always, always a diverse, it's never, it's never all the authority, i don't know, you know, if that's, if they have to do it that way, they never do.

>> i think our attorney might know may supplement that. >> city attorney: the xhaoef executive officer is the procurement officer pursuant to the code. so those kind of decisions are made by the and that is actually in the code. the majority of the times when you have a request for proposal, the panel is basically dictated by the type of services that you are providing. typically, you have somebody who has expertise in the panel and as, mission, many times you get people from different jurisdictions out of the jurisdiction that you're in that actually have, knowledge also. but the in terms of the criteria, it's something that

the procurement officer is responsible that can adequately evaluate. and most of the time, the review, of the panel is based upon questions that really try to, that is basically consistent with rfp, in terms of what is going to be covered and how to respond to that. >> is that, is that, best practice? is there protocol that is written. >> my sort of view of how procurement goes it's regulated. my experience is many times, the rfp establish how it's going to be determined how it's going to be evaluated and the

process of that. so that when somebody submits a bid, they know how it's going to be evaluated. the really to have a process transparent and also objective and also i think it's very important to point out that many times, the panels do not talk to each other while they're scoring and that discussion may happen later. but that is so that you really get an evaluation that based on my expertise in the panel. it's going to depend on what type of bid you're pro cushioner. pro curing. >> yes, but the process by

which you go. >> i think in the -- --. >> and letting the panelist know how the rating know. so every level of consistent and not every process has its own set of procedures. >> in the procurement policy that we adopted, each time of procurement type actually says what has to happen. >> got it. >> so the i think is, like mission, the request for first one, it's just a bidder. it says what you have to do to do the evaluation. so that is in the adapted policy and based on hud and we incorporate many of those things. >> right, so as far as that goes with the procurement, it's general, it's not as perfect as

how you choose one person but yes, like diane said, it's like how i know what i'm the talk that i give them before and that's all in the procurement policy, so it's the same documents every time we do a panel. we don't release the name of the panelist. i'm just told who they are and i connect with them to do my part. and even the pact that we have to have a odd number, that's all in the code, i know it's going to be diverse but i don't know how they're going to be chosen. >> great. and how the housing authority

define diverse for panel? >> excuse me. >> how does the authority define a diverse panel? >> when i use that word, it's not procurement word it's not all from our agencies. >> okay, got it. >> we don't operate any different as it relates to procurement, following rules, creating an appropriate panel. who have knowledge and expertise no different than what we do in the city. the panel it's not her job to undertake who is going to be in the panel as the contract

beinger as the individual who has the responsibility to help us with the contracting process. and we make sure that every one on the panel isn't from the housing authority so we're looking out, it might be from other housing authorities, it might be from city staff and in this case we'll have somebody from city staff because the city has provided services and this really is the first time that the housing authority has put an rfp out for services. to ensure that we are, following appropriate guidelines when it comes to what type of services need to be there along with getting input from plaza in particular. and also ensuring that those

services to some level and degree are comparable to our sites in particular. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. we also have an insurance update. >> speaker: good evening, commissioners i'm here to provide an update on insurance coverage at plaza east. as you may be aware, the authority informed that they will not no longer keep plaza in their insurance policy, this may be to incurred debt plaza over the last decade but also because of costs.

with many insurance companies exiting out of california paired with history of plaza, this presents a real challenge to find a replacement policy for the property. at the time, nbs agreed to keep them which gives the authority until may 31 to find a replacement policy. next slide. when the authority first received the news, we reached out to our insurance company and insurance group in hopes of leveraging, unfortunately because of plaza is not considered a public housing site but rather mix property, hei cannot provide a policy for plaza under the authority.us ev could produce it would proof

difficult failed react scores. hei proofs to be accurate policy for plaza we worked with brokers from hei for almost three months but in the time frame, we did not receive a single insurance quote with habit ability coverage which we need. the authority informed nbf that we were able to find coverage for plaza in the time frame provided. next slide. earlier this month, it does gift authority some breath room. for the rest of the 2024, we will be ex mroeg all insurance

options for plaza. we're hoping with the resent authority investments being allocated for future services at plaza, for the property. that we anticipate any to be costly. we're still able to find sufficient coverage. in brief, plaza is fully covered for the retaineder of 2024 and authority has about 6 months to determine the best option for insuring the property starting in 2025. does anyone have any questions. >> yes, what does 2024 mean, calendar year or fiscal year. >> calendar year, end of december. >> so at the end of december

this year plaza will no longer have insurance covered under master plan. >> so nbs let us know that they're going to keep it until the end of 2024. >> but after that point, beginning in january first, 2025, we have not solved through that. >> through the chair, this is what we're solving for and briefing you openly about the need to solve the situation, we've been able to work with nbs to keep them and our hope and our goal is by next calendar year, we'll be able to, secure insurance through the housing authority for plaza east. and we'll keep you a breast and i've talked to other management

companies, so we're not the only, organizationed really having this struggle around habit ability insurance that we have, we have this on all of our properties with the exception of if we do this as a stand alone, we will not currently have habit ability insurance and that would require us to consider self funding. so we're continuing to work along our insurance broker to determinate some point can we find somebody to provide habit ability insurance. and as we move forward with the work, as it relates to the initial, the ifb that we're working on as it relates to the five million dollars that we are putting into the property, the hope is that as we're putting in all of this work that that this will also strengthen our ability to have

the type of insurance that, our sites need. our other sites have today. and in talking today, to some of my colleagues our different development companies, they too are struggling with habitability with some of their best sites as well. with what is happening around california and the mass pull out that we're experiencing and we donough at the state level, insurance commissioner is really working with insurance companies to come back and to really work alongside different organizations in our state. >> can we go back to the opening slide again?

>> they're able to make it in the end of the 2024 but no longer than that, are there any other reasons other than the reasons on the slide. >> right now they're asking us to have our own insurance. and we brokered to have it for the full year because we paid for a full year. >> okay, and our cost for plaza insurance is almost a million dollars. >> how do they have the right to not carry insurance? for the property moving forward past the 2024 date? >> that's the conversation that

we're having. we continue to have the dialogue with them and we'll continue to have that dialogue. yet, at the same time we want to know what we're doing to ensuring that plaza remains ensured. you're talking about almost a million dollars of operating cost for a site that gets 2.2 million dollars in subsidy from hud, rather than that cost coming out of the general operation funds, the housing authority is paying that cost. >> thank you, any other

questions from commissioners? and when is the next time we're going to have an update on this item? i assume this is a long term ve summertime and we might be hearing this again in september in the new housing authority fiscal year? >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> this is the update with the corporation. >> thank you, i wanted to start the conversation with talking about our following up from our last meet ing, our property highlights that we have had for our may initiatives. we are still working with the contract for golden gate towing with the contract has been

repaired. we've already received some red line comments back. so that we can contract, so i'm expecting a response tomorrow. for the group, if you recall, we were talking about the repairs, both at sunnidale and potrero, i wanted to report that the sunny roof are complete. the potrero roof were much more extensive, having had the chimney, being vandized. so we do have a schedule that is being maintained by the contractor, we are absolutely ahead of schedule today with

regards with that schedule and the completion is july 26, 2024. additionally one of the things that been observed while we're up there doing the repairs? of what the roof conditions are for the longevitiet. so instead of just taking care of these, emergency concerns, we also want to provide a holistic long term broad approach so that long term capitol planning on the shortened, better decisions can be made in the future as well with regards to the roofs. as we also have previously

reported, there has been a vacant monitoring plan that has been established and approved with the housing authority. that eugene has implemented and training is completed and it's well under way. there is a weekly report that is prepared it is, a very comprehensive report and quite granular. so that every unit is accurately displayed. but the report out, and with the housing authority is on a weekly basis and it also breaks it down to different categories.

the detail which i have attached for an example is monitored with the condition of the vacant units. we have completed our first round, if you recall, we had identified independent individuals that had safety concerns. and approval to have recovery has gone under way. that those were recovered and at the time of the recovery with the lock out there was no one remaining president in the unit, they haabandoned it previously.

our next slide is just a sample of that type of report that is going out. this is just a graph of the information and the numbers and data of vacancies and codes that have explanations with regards to each one of those codes that are there in the front. my next slide is the sunnidale sample, it's due to housing authority. so it's not a month end report so i wanted to give that clarity with regards to how it's being reported. is there any question before i move forward from our initiatives from the prior month? >> no, this is wonderful. such a quick question, given that we're moving to the summer months and issues can compound during these months, can you

share with us, the little bit of coordination that you and housing authority are having with sfpd and other safety partners on sites? >> if we can delay that, i'm going to talk about that in my report. >> okay, thank you. >> as a matter of fact, i got visited today the officers came in and wanted to take contact. thank you. i want today move on to our next slide which is monthly executive report. and we do have the information of the number of collaborations that we're having with the cb orks, pardon me, and rebuild potrero and the star king meetings et cetera, that are regular participations. you do see other meeting that is the meeting that we had with the rules committee with the month of may with the

supervisors office that was held. i also have our vacancies numbers of the 939 doors, we do have the total vaik apartment today for both property are, at the time of the report, are 326 of them. one of them are on notice at the time, that please remember that the on going are incorporated into the total occupied doors, it's just an alert that that would be upcoming in the period. so as we close the portfolio is 65.3 percent occupied for both sites. any questions before i move on? >> it's 65 percent but it does not take into account the ones that are intentionally vacant? >> all doors, yes, ma'am.

i wanted to share where we are with our billing. we have, we weekly meetings that we do have collaborative where we're comparing our numbers and, our accuracy and reports and we have noticed that there was a variance between the examination completes versus how many we actually received. i did elevate to the team that i did see that there was a mailing address, discrepancy. so that was causing delays to put towards rent ledger corrections.

so we did elevate that, it's already been resolved at this point, i want today report that but that was resolved this period in the month of june. and just on tuesday, i received all the 2023 that were outstanding and we will be moving rapidly for the residents, in addition, part of that is as we've received many of the 23 that were not prior received were having a very strong initiative to have lease execution for that fourth phase group of house holds since they're still working on 24, there is no reason that we cannot go ahead and have accurate leases because of the 2023, rent change notice period would be sufficient.

moving on to rent collection, the rent that were build per property, we have been working on the rent collection, we continue to press for tenant repayment agreement. but as there has been more recertification notices, residents are wanting more individual one on one sit downs with reexams and ledgers and we have been providing those on a case by case basis. so they can see where the rent was actually add jaoufted --adjusted. so we're start to go see a pickup again it may slow down a bit while notices were being sent out and now communication is being sent back out again.

any questions before i move forward? on our next slide is the graph that shows your trend for the rent collections. so it's since january, you can see, i made sure that the grass were different, so it might be a little easier to distinguish between the two of them so you can see the tenant portion of rent billed versus the tenant portion collected. thank you.

our next report is our staffing and execution. of the initiative. you will see from prior reports that staffing count has actually increased. we did receive approval for additional staff members because as you can see imagine walking every vacant unit every single day is a considerable amount of manpower. so those potsing positions have been opened up and seeking to fill them. and our vacant unit senior manager that we have already hired. she was a previous ebmc employees with lots of years of training and experience. she is doing a fantastic job, she is already, socialing, being new to the report, she is

already very adept in knowing, doors, streets, building what happened on that unit, two weeks ago, has not changed today. does she need attendance today? >> she is. >> welcome marnequieq. i wanted to share with our execution, we have continued our leases. this report was at the end of may, we are moving forward pressing with many more of the rent notices to give an example for for instance, that we received at the end of this year was 99, we have just received confirmation this week

that 194 of the 2023 were uploaded. so we just received those, there is a lot of work for us to do start knocking on taorz and getting executed for the household. for our work orders, i want today talk about this for a minute to make sure that we have clarity with regards to what is going on. you will see in the month of may, there was a elevation in the number of work orders that were not completed by month end. if you go back to sunnidale number here at the end of the month, it exactly correlates with mind you the couple of days between the vacant monitoring report. and the work order report.

compromised board ups ux the one that is on the screen here. with respect waiting for materials. the materials were, wrongly being delivered did i home depoe. the incomplete work orders bit end of the month for the sites because we were actually challenge with materials. so that is the we have completed during that period, in the work of may for both properties. i hope i explained that well, any questions? >> commissioners any final questions on that? no, okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i want today talk about our

june initiatives and what we've been focusing on this month. the golden gate towing which is tomorrow, and another meeting to discuss it. we have had concerns with watch tower, with regards to our camera work. they've lost their subcontracter on the western region. they found some additional sub contractors, they have come out, they looked at some of the assessments. part of the challenge that we're having at potrero, it's no longer a matter of vandalizing cameras, it's now getting to the degree where the actual conduit and wiring are being stripped off the building, as previously mentioned. so we had, this on the 18th of

this month, the vendor was out, we're truing to assess and for next steps. so it is on our tuesday call with the follow-up with housing for our next steps to, watch tower finding was. with regards to the groups, i wanted to give you what those projections are, so you know how many we're buildings we're looking at until that is completed. to work on our proactive approach for unit inspections. so we are preparing for that

plus we also realize in the month of july, we, we will have our residents out and about in enjoying their hol iday and enjoying their neighbors so we've been having an effort to ensuring that all the sounding vegetation and vegetation between the buildings no dry vegetation are at-risk so any due to dry weather would be mitigated. and that concludes my report. and i'm open to your question. >> commissionrs any questions? any summer plans for the development? >> actually, coming right around the corner is national night out and that's one of the things that we were talking about with our staff as we get residents out and about and mixing and mingling among themselves so we were talking

about preparing for our national night out initiatives. we're working with another thing that, for the community to have community enrichment. but one of the other things that we were talk anding planning, we're going to work with our cbos to provide as i had said previously. aor other resources everywhere to be able to provide those. we're actually preparing a a collaborated cut sheet if you will, a brief instructional sheet. so when residents come and pay rent, i'm encouraging my staff can you confirm what your intention is, do you want this paid for your prior balance?

if the tenant is not indicating that. so that those individuals with prior balances, might be more app to receive services and keep them houses without risk. so it's, that is one of the initiatives that i really want to have a collaboration because if there is resources, we want to make sure that the rest of them have them. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item 7d the financial report will be continued until next month's meeting. item 7c is the chief executive officer communication sxz that will be communicated by--shoe. >> thank you. on your question share regarding safety and coordination between the housing authority and sfpd,

today i met with as well as nc and as well as kendra. i think we're able to make progress. one of the action items that was discussed that teresa just mentioned, making sure that officers stop by and touch basis with property management and immediate change that is going to happen. each and every hour they're fwg to make sure that they're driving through the property. and we're also working with the captain on having somebody on a weekly basis come through and walk through property staff through all the vacant unit as well.

and then we're also speaking from a ho listic perspective, while the captain has sole responsibility for what is existing in bay view, i'm asked him how can we have a more holistic dialogue around the services for all of our site. how it's occurring and how we're working city wide with other department around safety on our site. so we're going to work on coordinating that dialogue. so that we can talk about what is working and what is not working and what will be our approach through the cbos that we work with around safety and just all of our other departments that are working around our site. so there is a commitment to begin to bring stakeholders

together to have a greater or more holistic dialogue. additionally with that, the question came, it's summertime and what plans do we have in place really to look at and ensure adequately ensure that our sites are safe? and again that's where that greater dialogue needs to take place. but there is a commitment in the bay view in particular to begin to visit our sites much more often than they have been. we have an acknowledgment that they're going to work to determine how we can reestablish that work that we have really been missing out on and the need to ensure that the sites are secure and safe. additionally, i did share and

this has come up in the hearing with the board of supervisors around the security as teresa mentioned, our security cameras are being vandalizedment they're no longer, where somebody is shooting a paint ball to block out the vision of the camera, but literally ripping out the guts of our security system. so i have met with our watch tower partners along with teresa around what are we going to do, how can we establish a more viable way for our cameras to be able to do what they need to do without being destroyed at that level. additionally, we are there has been a discussion around security. and i am not inclined to bring

on security on our site. generally what we are finding, they are wanting to bring personnel who have firearms and i don't believe that's an optimal way to provide safety for our site. that is a huge risk for our site. and we're working hard with sfpd to do something different where we have trained officers providing help with safety on our site along with finding ways to really secure our cameras so they cannot be destroyed and we're losing footage. i would like every one to work on this.

security, personnel who are really not adequately trained to have firearms to potentially have individuals who we have found are not residents who have the legal right to be on property who have different types of firearms and to even consider those firearms going off in our site potentially could harm our residents as well. so we want to find a viable solution that keeps our residents safe and so i want today share that and i wanted to thank commissioner lindo, he is deeply involved with this conversation with me and if he would like to add, i would like hum to do so. >> another thing that we're going to do is network with the district station.

and provide some training for the officers that are afraid because--. the officers are not clear on what the legal authority is to enforce the black ards --placards what you can do to try to resolve those issues. so kendra and i have spoken, the district captain was very patient, very understanding. we were talking with him for about an hour, hour and a half. he has a vision of using some of his housing task force that are still assigned to the space station.

and obviously everybody what lives up there in potrero. >> thank you. >> thank you, that concludes all the officer reports, we can open up for public comment for item 7. >> speaker: hi margaret mcnolte speaking of president of 16 bush, we have had both armed guards and unarmed guards. and by having the armed guard it's reduced the number of tes passers and people coming on to

do bad things. letting tenants involved, like if somebody brakes and in and, the tenants are not allowed to know anything. it's like the perpetrator has more rights than the victim. at the very least, you can post something that says other tenants should watch out for this person. or if you see this person back on the property, call 9-1-1 or anything that would involve, the tenants would like to be involved in helping solve the crimes, if you can do anything, that would be great. on the second matter, i would like to know if i can precomment only the annual plan that will be coming up. i just wanted to say, did excellent work. i sent to several of the

meeting and she's been exemplary in everything she covered and i just wanted to say that she was really great. thanks. >> any other public comment? item 7. >> speaker: hello. hi everybody i'm nusuri, so a couple of things, one is that, for the gentleman, he's gone, for plaza, i can understand the gentleman not want to wipe down the mold, because i know when you wipe down, because if you're a old head, if you wipe down it does not do anything for the montheder and pushing the couch against the wall, that's noeler al and looking into the back of your closet, we don't do that, nobody does,

i'm old. but i want to talk about for pro potrero, we would like to work thank you, we're trying to do it in a safeway. getting ready for the music explosion, it's going happen at the cross center. so we can slow down some of the violence. and then also like i talked to joel it will be good for the cbos on the ground to know more about what they have as far as for the unleased residents. so we can also educate them. letting them know that okay, your time has come up. but this is the things that they have for you, and for the watch tower cameras, those of us on the ground can maybe help with some solutions as well and we're trying to educate the younger generation that

violence is not the way. so that's why we do like the washington dc, trip for civic engagement. we have a lot of youngsters working in our office right now. and over the course of times, we have a very diverse crew from asian to latino to white, working in potrero, i think that us working together will be more inclusive of everything of what is going on. and especially those on the ground. and part of the reason that this comes in is the hippa law, and at the end of the day, we're work width same individuals so like the young lady said, if we know when somebody house has been broken into, maybe it will help them breaking into other houses. i just try to cover all of this stuff? in one breath but at the end of the day, what we're trying to do is slow down the violence

and work together because when watch tower put the cameras in, there are a lost blind spots. so some folks may know what can happen, so they are not taking the cameras and so forth and so on. there you're welcome. >> good to see you. >> speaker: you too. : >> any additional public comment. we can close public comment. and item 8 is commissioner comment. >> we had a speaker, and she was very thorough and interesting. and the other thing, some approval regarding temporary streets that they're going to put in, i got my notes here.

easement agreement and construction agreements for the sunnidale. >> thank you, commissioner lindo. public comment on item number 8 for the committee report? not seeing anything, we can close public comment. item number 9 is regular business consent items. the commission minutes and consent item number 2, mentioned by commissioner lindo, approving or authorizing the executive officer for phase 3 of the sunnidale project, housing corporation and sunnidale infrastructure llc two easement agreements for the utilities west access road between the authority and developer and three a pedestrian and medical access and city utilities in agreement

for the west access between the city and county of san francisco and developer. any of these items that the commissioner would like to pull for further discussion? no. that sounds good then we can ask for any public regarding consent agenda? don't see any, we can close public comment, ask for a motion of approval of consent agenda. and a second. >> second. >> roll call vote, commissioner pikes. >> aye. >> commissioner kim. >> aye. >> commissioner lindo. >> aye. >> and president torres. >> aye. >> thank you very much, so moved. item 10, just 10 is regular action items, we have one action item that is approving and authorizing the chief executive officer, the housing authority and five-year plan update and capital fund as mandated by quality housing and work responsibility act for

2025, fiscal year. presented by our attorney. >> all right, hello. >> good to see you. >> i appreciate everything that everybody has been saying about margaret or commissioner lindo. i know that my presentations have been lengthy at times. so this annual plan process was done admittedly a lot differently than the way linda typically does it. we did keep it rather high level because it was mandatory changes to regulation all in the code and we were basically taking the language from the code in the final rule and putting it into the plan replacing any obsolete language.

so we did intend in the beginning in the first meeting that i had on this, i said that the following slides would you know, i was trying to mirror the way that linda did it but it was like 200 slides. so instead, i gave a series of four distinct presentations is what i'll say. i've given the presentation like nine times but for distinct presentations that got a little bit more in depth about the different changes. so, the slide that, that's on the screen right now is the timeline, we're at the end, finally. so, so that's, okay. no you can move to the next slide. one of the things that we were

focus this entire time we've been focused on the annual plan examine i'm sorry, on the hcv administrative plan and on the public housing side. that we, robust conversation was not had about the actual annual plan document which was the document with all of the attachments which would include the changes that were made to the policies. so, we posted the annual plan and all of the attachments including the policies on our website on may 6th that started the comment period. we did not, change out the any of the plans that we put on the site just to keep the version control of what every one was looking the same, even as comments and things came in examine we were looking red lines, we did not change up the plan.

so, in acknowledgment of that, this slide shows the you'll plan document did under go, a change from when we posted it, to what is published in your book today. and those changes are, at the time of posting back in may, we did not have the final finance numbers, so there was a section annual plan for financial resources under 903.7c, that did get up dated. and it added emergency housing voucher to the chart in there. and so that did change the numbers a little bit in that section. just for transparency that is a different also. in the statement of housing needs and tragedies for

addressing those housing needs which is in section 903.7 of the plan, the one that was originally posted still had the information about the homelessness point in time count from 2022, and i did find, they're going to release a full report, a full report will be released sometime during the summer. but i did get the preliminary report on the homelessness point in time for 2024, so we did update that information to accurately reflect, the, you the situation, the unhoused situation in san francisco. because it ties into the different plans that the authority has for housing. in that section. and then the, also we have the audit and this is still, this

still remains true and the reason i'm bringing this up today is part of the attachments that we have to give is the audit, the most current audit that we had at the time that we posted, because the 2022 audit and i'm told by our c.f.o. that we will have the 2023, he said tomorrow. so it was going to be after i had presented here but we will plan when we submit it to hud we will include the 2023 audit. we're going to keep the 2023 on there but we're going to attach that that is not in publishing your book there just because we will not have it until tomorrow but when i submit to hud, we'll have the 2023 in there. and for the new activity section, that's a section lower down in the plan, we did add,

our official fair cloth to rad commitment that we made to the board of supervisors, so there is a statement in there about the fair clause to right. and we did also add a plaza east language that was focused on the stabilization of the site and the capital funding that we plan to allocate to that site in the upcoming years, since the that's the point of annual plan to let them know where we're going. so those were the changes in what is being presented today. okay. the resident advisory board, so we had two meetings with the

resident advisory board. one in may on may 17th, one in june, on juneth 7th. and those comments are part of the attachments that we submit to hud. this shows, we only showed, concern that the residents brought up for the most part, when changing all the changes, they clarifying questions were asked but no concerns were brought up. except for the there were a lot of comments and robust communication against the discrimination complaint that i did in chapter 2. when we got to talking about the family and household which was in eligibility.

there was a report that we have to, it's not necessarily new but, but that we have to run this report to make sure that a tenant is or that an applicant is not already receiving assistance in another site somewhere. so one of the residents saw that as problematic for her son who lives who is grown and lives with her and trying to apply with another programs and they see, oh you're in a household that is receiving assistance and he's been denied, being able to get on the programs. we do during all of these meetings, i have our contractors onsite, they were or at the meeting and so one of our contractors were able to let them know that that's not how, our program works, if we see that somebody is a

household, we do just have to verify that they've moved out or things of that nature and ■ would not automatically disqualify them but that was a concern raises and we do recognize that there are many programs in san francisco that are not run by the housing authority and maybe that's a problem for other programs. but we did clarify that, that this process would not instant ly preclude anyone. on that day it was the last day of our wait list happening in may. so another thing brought up, there was some suggestion of just, trying to get more media

savvy in being able to put out there what it is that we're doing. she says she knows what others are doing than san francisco farce communication. a how we may want to communicate better with people. so just, putting it out there. >> keep on going. i'll have? some questions on communication, it's a theme that is coming up lately. on how we're communicating is become an issue for maintaining services and quality of service, et cetera. >> okay.

there was a concern about having notice before anyone comes into the unit. and we did discuss with that resident management, so our policy would not address that but definitely there seems to be and i think that was a resident from the jfk towers. consider they say she is on drugs i guess during the reexamination there is an annual inspection and she is like a shut in and she's not seeing posters. so other ways to contact the different people that they have

onsite so that while still preserving their dignity. and then the other thing that came up, and it's not directly related to annual plan, but they wanted me to make sure that highlight. they're concerned about the amount that they're paid, the 25 dollars a unit and we recognize that's federal law. but it has not changed since the 90s and here they are trying to help the ten in the sites that they manage. because this group would be the association and all that, and so definitely with the phta that amount has not raised since the 90s and they would like to see that raised and they're writing to hud about that.

i'm putting that out. >> thank you. >> no problem. so the reason why i put this here in the very first meeting that we had, i gave i gave this kind of table of contents and and said what changes would be made into the policy. so the things that you see in red are different than what what i said were going to be addressed. and changes have been made just to the red sections. so we can move on to the next slide. so this is chapter 7, if you recall, we made changes to chapter 4 ahead of annual plan

for, we added an exhibit for sites where we added a process where most cd or the department of homeless and supportive housing could give referrals and then after 30 days, if they had given a referral to the particular site, the housing authority would give it from their wait list. we did that, there was a lot of confusion around the chart that was there. and a lot of sponsors of the buildings became concerns that we were, that dhsh were going to get to refer from their list to all the pvvvs within the site and this was a concern because you need a right amount of services to supply for the population.

that was never the intention behind it, so we have clarified the chart. so i just put briefly on the top, you can see it's a pri'm s commissioner kim, i don't have my headers there, but it would be the project name, the project street address, street number, street address and then that third, that fourth column is building prequalifiers. the 5th column is unit prequalifiers. and so the issue was, there was so much information put in it about the building in general and when joe was up hooer, and ron both talked about this the developers they're getting money from all kinds of sources that require them to have certain populations and units.

and then when we issued pvvs, we don't necessarily know when we gave the pvvs oh they put it in a unit that has to be housed by somebody with a particular prequalifier, they have to be homeless or they have to meet designations or anything like that. so we had to make sure that we had people that met the prequalifiers. so if they were not able to refer somebody from 30 days. then we would be able to refer somebody who meets the requalifier, because if we send somebody that didn't, that would delay the lease up

process examine we wanted to protect our utilization rate. but the exhibit was meant to say, no, if it's our pvv, that's when dh can do it or when they can do it and if they don't, refer somebody in 30 days, then we'll step in. if there is no prequalifier, then you come straight to us. so we clarified that language down there. so the chart will be cleaner and for any sites that have any over day, it will say for the prequalifier overlay. and you'll have the new language that is most city can do it after 30 days if no overlay.