in a community environment. most times we try these individuals within hours or the next day. it can take multiple hours to a full day, and yet, my staff, many on the floor to have the ged or high school diplomas are forced to act. three of these -- were due to the clients who were not receiving medication, or mental health services. i want to highlight 274 seniors, 60 years and older, some of whom are in their 70's and 80's. they have psychological trauma

because they are in a sheltered environment that they are not used to. high school education is called upon to serve both of them. we act as a hospital and many times the ambulance goes out and we have medical emergencies, and we have called -- we are called upon vallely to make decisions about who needs the ambulance, and which dr. we should call. i want to emphasize as we look into what the shelter is and is not doing, we know that we're acting as a hospital and the psychology -- a psychiatric ward and people coming out of prison and in nursing homes. with the money that is spent, will not have the resources to deal with what we see and i

anticipate that this will get worse and not better. i say that the unrealistic expectations of the shelter system and a staff capacity that we currently have, we cannot possibly meet the complicated needs of the many residents that we really do try to serve. this is difficult. >> i appreciate your comments, that it would be helpful in future situations to have a discussion about what would happen, and we really do appreciate you bringing your perspective as someone who works in a shelter in terms of being able to address some difficult challenges. >> what would like to suggest or ask is that a group come together to brainstorm solutions, for the issues to

become better. we are the ones attempting to provide services. that would be my recommendation. >> is there any other public comment on the committee report? >> it is a good idea to have the group come together and the group should have a local homeless coordinating board, the s r zero task force, and i will also like to see people -- my goal is to have the shelter be a place where people can get the life skills that they need to get out of the shelter system. what i understand is that one person lives for 20 years in the

same shelter system, and i think some people are getting stuck in the shelter system. what they're getting paid to do -- they have to do the police and paramedics, this is like a $500,000 you go -- yugo. in the quarterly report, this was an updated version of the document. what this is is that you talk about the shelter, and did not do the shelter inspections. the people on the committee not doing their inspections, whether he was not in compliance.

we just need more conversations about the transgendered shelter opening up. i don't know if there was one meeting about that. and there is the shelter training manual, when this was brought up in the local homeless court. it seems that they did not understand what the document was. i think we have a lot of problems and we need to start pulling this together and having some conversations. >> and is there any more public comment? public comment is closed. if people could line up, this would be great. >> good afternoon, members of the board. i would like to address a couple of concerns i would like to report. there is a lot of emphasis on

the training. shelters are obligated to provide a certain amount of training, and this is in the shelter training manual, which is detailed on page 27. there is a detail explaining the content of this -- the shelter training manual. it is important to be familiar with the concept because the standards and the requirements, there are significant requirements. at a previous meeting, it came out during the meeting that some of the members were not familiar with that. it should be a more collaborative process. i think it would be difficult for us to report the information directly to the

shelter monitoring committee. this is something within the report that is called for. i think that there should be a process in terms of how to report to training data. additionally, i think within this report -- i think that instead of reporting directly to the committee, they already have the monthly meeting where the issues can be discussed and coordinated. in the spirit of collaboration and said of one body trying to check on the other. thank you. >> i am wayne barnett.

one of the biggest issues is not the training itself, this is about providing the overtime to have the training. we have the trainers, and you can look at the numbers of the multiple services, but one of the biggest challenges is this 24-hour facility, -- you brought this. >> can we just -- could you call to see what is going on? i apologize. my apologies. thank you so much for being here. i want to make certain that everyone is safe. we will take a break and we will come back.

>> thank you for the patients. for those of you who are watching, and looks like it was a 3.9 earthquake, and this happened over the hayward fault in berkley. nothing that we have heard so far here. please line up again. i was going to say -- public comment is closed on this item. i do want to thank him for being here and giving the committee report. i am happy to hear that despite

a low number of members. you are able to conduct all of your designs visits. i want to thank mr. walton, also to be on hand to answer questions and members of the public -- is great to see you here. it would be good for us to move forward with a dialogue about how to address these issues given the limited resources that we have. i would like to continue this item to the call of the chair. can you please call in #3. >> three members in terms of the monitoring committee. we have 10 applicants for three seats, and so i will call you up again in the order that you are listed on the agenda.

and if you could take a minute to describe your background and your experience and why you would like to serve. supervisor elsbernd was here last time. >> we have three people who testified last time. >> i will not call those three names but i will call the other. the first is lamont -- thank you for being here today. >> good afternoon. my experience does not exactly leading to anything that has to do with being on this

committee, but i will mention this anyway. i was the president and ceo of -- my uncle owned the company and basically we worked with people, which is what the committee is doing here. we took them out of the garage and put them in for of people. we had a staff of 82 people, in the awful, va., seattle washington, and pennsylvania. nine years of 13 years of profit. three years of small business administration was awarded to us. i graduated on the president's list, as far as professionalism

-- this is that i am people person. and it also says i get the job done. i like to get the job done. the best collop -- wally for this committee is my reasonableness. my views are not the top priority here. she and involves looking at the entire situation. i've dealt with that and how i deal with this situation. and i fight hard for what i believe in. i think people deserve to be treated equal, even without a home to call their own. >> did you say you have

experienced homeless? >> i am currently homeless. i have spent five months as homeless. >> have you spent time in and out of the shelter system. >> out of one facility, only. one night, by first got here, in the sanctuary. >> you have an extended reservation? >> thank you so much for being here and applying for a seat. christian wilcox is next. >> some of the people on the

list are already on the committee. >> can you let us know which one? >> linda -- >> she is now the local homeless coordinating board. is he one of the -- i don't know who he is. elizabeth -- >> she was appointed to the local homeless coordinating board. i will not call those three names up. thank you. his christian here? if not, we have heard from simon already. now we have jose >> hello, supervisors.

i am going to tell you a little bit of my background. i was born in mexico. in a family of seven children. me being the third oldest. my mother passed away and my father left us. i went to high school, and was working part-time in there. we supported the family by ourselves since we were 15 years old. a friend of mine said that there was a job available for me in santa barbara.

i said i'd better do this. and i moved to the united states in 1987. i did not speak any english. i worked hard for a year and a half, and -- specific names. i tried to get better jobs, in restaurants. 80 years after this i got the opportunity to work for this task force. so i had no idea what this was. people know that in spanish.

i decided i would take a risk and that i would do this. i was first and -- after a while, the company went out of business and i lost my place. and i became homeless after that. and now, i did not work for a couple of years. i started to go to the conditional homelessness, to do

whatever i can just do -- i think that -- i have a lot of experience with talking with people, -- >> i could not see this on your present day. he speaks spanish fluently? i know that you live in oakland. a new volunteer in san francisco. do you work in san francisco? >> i am working down to the city -- >> do you think that you'll be

challenged in doing many of the visitations, because you do not work in san francisco? thank you very much. thank you for applying. mr. petty is not going to be here. next we have deborah, -- >> supervisors, i have spoken in front of you before but i will go over what it is -- >> did you speak at the last rules committee meeting? >> there was a question before. i was formerly homeless.

i have worked in mother brown's kitchen, i worked in homeless tonight, i feed the homeless on wednesday evenings down on sixth street, and i worked in the food pantry every tuesday. and i speak a little bit of french. i know that is not handy in the shelter so much as spanish. other than that, are there any questions? that is pretty much what i have told you in the past. >> are there any questions? ok. can i ask what you would hope -- hope to accomplish? >> there are times when i was in

the shelter, they weren't listening a lot, when i came up with suggestions and sometimes there are better suggestions than what is in place. i like to listen to people in here with they have to say, and if there is a way to do this better than it is being done, this should be in the year of somebody. i would like to make things better than they are, and whenever this takes, i would like to work at trying to make things better. and i want to do what i can to help. and i like the people on people connection. >> this is a lot of time commitment but you believe you'll be able to commit to this? thank you so much for being here

again. elissa anchor has already been appointed, and we heard ramon at the last meeting. we will openness for public comment. please line up if you would like to speak. >> walter. the look of shelter is in your eyes. in your eyes. i can hardly wait for you to pick some good appointees. and that's for you, committee. and then we will wait and see. >> thank you, mr. paulson.

>> do so with the delores convenience services shelter. i think that i will speak. i would like to talk about what i see as the three priorities that i would look for in a candidate. the first, spanish-speaking ability has been mentioned many times. i do not want to put this other kinds of diversity or demographics, i think this is over all an effort to make this as representative of the committee as possible. i want to mention, leadership skills are something that are needed on the committee. if you compare the way this committee functions, compared to the local homeless coordinating

board, in terms of setting up committees and work groups, the sheltering monitor committee could use some leadership to take it in this direction, for the participation. somebody with that kind of experience would be great. and the spirit of collaboration is something that we have seen before and i hope that any candidates coming into the committee would come in with the intention to collaborate in good faith. not the mindset of being on one side or the other. the spirits of collaboration -- thank you. >> thank you so much. and are there any other public speakers? he spoke -- ok.

>> there are several things that we do need, some serious leadership. this is about the vision of what we will be able to have if -- i spoke to other people in the rules committee about what i would like to achieve, and there is a line item for food and the transgendered shelters, the one that will be opening up and there are several issues. i want to hear from the homeless about what they need. we cannot just throw cliches at them. we need to include them. other people come in from out of town.

they do not get paid enough for the transportation costs. >> thank you. >> i thought we would have the chance to speak again. i don't want a more time off of you. but in my last hearing, you need to work with the department of public health, counseling to homeless people, and also, a sense of the problems they have right now with spanish speakers. this is to ask the spanish speaker residence.

spanish speakers, with all of the problems that they have on us, they are allowed to communicate how they feel. it is important you have a solution for this problem. >> and is there any other public comment? public comments is now closed. we have seven applicants for three seats, and six of them have spoken to the rules committee already. i would like to concur that i would like to find some by lethal -- bilingual spanish speakers as well. at least three of the applicants speak spanish. i did watch the last rules committee meeting and was able to hear the conversation. >> i think that this is easy. we only have one woman applying,

mrs. muse, and i would like to appoint her to seat four. >> it was good to see you and i appreciate you applying again. i would like to see you on the shelter monitoring committee. we can nominate her for seat four. >> i would just like to ask a question. in the back -- are you currently living with a child under the age of 18? that is a qualification for the first seat. >> you are reading that correctly. >> simon martinez has also applied,