will you give me guidance now help me through tomorrow so, make a good appointment today doesn't anybody stay in one place any more it would be so kind to see more keys at more homeless doors and i sure hope this city road don't hope to lose me and we need some more help so please get it now we bring it now appointments today hey, hey, hey bring good appointments today

he's a hard act to follow. supervisor, hi, amanda from the mayor's office of hope. i did want to take a chance to thank everybody who came forward to apply. it's exciting to see such qualified applicants for this body and take a moment to thank the staff at hso, megan owens and the whole team at housing and homelessness. the local coordinating board is really an essential body in our city. we work with them extensively and the membership is really important to us. i think their committee structure is functioning at a really high level right now and it's informing a lot of high level policy discussions we're having into entry into the system and strategic planning, thinking ahead. so, i just thank you in advance for your decision. it's not an easy one with the quail if i had applicants and thanks to all my colleagues at hsa for making it an exceptional body right now. thank you. ~ qualified >> thank you.

i'm charles sommer. i want to put in a word for deleano seymour. i know him a someone who came into the dining room to eat. as he grew from homelessness, he brings his tours to the dining room and has shown a great lovely for st. anthony's. i believe deleano can provide a [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. ~ hello. so, my name is henry [speaker not understood]. i came from france five months ago to do a documentary about homelessness in the tenderloin. and when i was trying to understand how -- what are the issues with homelessness in the city, i was asking people who, who i can talk to to give me

all the best, the best information and all the best advices to work on this project. when i asked people, everybody was telling me you should go see dell seymour. since i've known, del helps me do this movie, he knows what he's talking about. he's got all the knowledge and the experience, and you want somebody with good advice to help san francisco improve the life of homeless people and low-income people, you should choose del. >> thanks. >> thank you. seeing no more public comments -- come on up, then.

i believe i'm connected. if you can show with the laptop. right there what i'm showing you is basically the bylaws. for me, it implies that the local homeless coordinating board should be the most creative and innovative body to help end homelessness in our city. and at this point i really feel that [speaker not understood] local homeless coordinating board has turned its back on the homeless. i feel their primary goal at this point is more to just get funding for the shelters and whatever programs.

with that said, on top of it, they just lost two sunshine ordinance hearings regarding -- really basically regarding treating homeless activists with dignity and respect. so, i mean, the local homeless coordinating board has some major problems. so, part of my thing is i'm looking for someone with enough dream and vision besides getting funding for these programs, you know, something to help homeless spiritually and intellectly and then like the housing. and we have a problem where if you take -- if you look at a person that's in the city for 10 years, they keep siege ~ cycling in and out. that's a problem. we need someone who understands policy and procedure of these

bodies. then we have a problem with attendance of the local homeless coordinating board because the attendance of the local homeless coordinating board has been very shaky. i fear some of them are really on the edge of being disqualified for being members because their attendance is so shaky. i just want to say we need a dream and a vision to help the homeless he escape poverty. i just really see that there are -- we should be coming up, that should be the body that is, you know, trying to help people live better, do better. create their own businesses, buy their own housing. >> thank you very much. were you up here to support any particular candidate? i do like the black guy, but i do wonder if he's strong enough to break past the

stagnation of this body. >> thank you very much. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> okay, colleagues. >> i have a question. >> sure. >> i wanted to know if there is anyone from the local homeless coordinating board here. hi. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to be clear i'm not an appointed member of the board, i'm a staff to the board. my name is megan -- >> perfect, megan, you're the person i'm looking for. can you tell me how many people serve on this body? >> nine. >> nine people total. today we have an opportunity to appoint one person to three vacancies? >> there is one currently. >> correct. can you describe to me the

current composition of this nine-member body. >> members are appointed three ways. members appointed by the board of supervisors, one vacancy in that group. so, three persona pointed by the board of supervisors. one persona pointed by the mayor and one persona pointed by the city controller. of the three named by the board of supervisors he is kim arm buster. he has a drop-in center at glide foundation. the other persona pointed by the boer -- i'll run through all of their names because i don't know where all folks are appointed. board of supervisors laura guzman. wendy phillips. ken [speaker not understood]. and eric brown. >> actually what i'm trying to understand is to get -- i want to make sure we appoint the ones that is a healthy mix. since we have three men obviously i can't make a

determination on the gender, but maybe we can talk about the background of the three different candidates. is there a member that's already on the body that serves this by population, their service provider or some way associated with the homeless community? >> great question. [speaker not understood]. board members have notice throughout the [speaker not understood] so it's single adults. >> thank you. my other question is what is the number of folk that have been homeless themselves that serve on this body? >> currently there's one member. >> just one. so, one out of 9? okay, thank you very much. no further questions. >> breed. >> thank you. how often does this body meet? >> this body meets monthly from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the first monday of the month. every board member is also expected to take a leadership role in one of the committees. committees meet bimonthly or quarterly.

>> do we have any attendance information that you can provide us with to understand if there are some challenges with some of the members who are on the board in terms of attendance? >> of the folks who are currently on the board? >> yes. >> there are two members who have missed three meetings in the past year. >> board appointment? >> one member is board appointed, yes. >> is there a attendance requirement? >> there is a stipulation in the by laws, people will be approached about attendance. >> okay. and in terms of the board appointments, so, laura guzman is the co-chair? >> yes. >> and she's still on the board? >> yes. >> is she a service provider? >> she is. >> wendy phillips? >> wendy phillips has resigned. that's the appointment you're considering today. kim is a service provider. and eric brown. >> he is currently a recipient

of continuing the funds. >> okay, this is a really tough decision for us because i feel that we have three incredible candidates and i'd like to appoint all of them, especially if there are some members on this committee that are not showing up for meetings, i think it's time that we give people an opportunity. so, i know we only have the opportunity to appoint one person but i don't want to miss out on the opportunity to lose the other two as a result. this is the first time where i feel like each and every candidate is pretty outstanding. so, i am very concerned about making a decision that could discourage any of them from

continuing to participate. so, i just wanted to get some thoughts from my colleagues they believe would be a good person for this seat. i am justly not a supporter of the residency waiver, hardly ever. and in this particular case, i feel that it's something i would support. so, any of these candidates i would be happy to support. and i just want to get some thoughts from my colleagues on what they think. >> so, i share your opinion, supervisor breed. we have basically three outstanding candidates. each with their own strengths and perspectives that i could easily see bringing it assets into this body. and, so, it is a tough decision.

if you would, breakdown the role of this body in regards to looking -- there was mention of looking at funding and looking at&tly it and so forth and being creative and so forth. how much time is actually dedicated to particular aspects of the role? >> that's a great question. i would estimate service is a minimum of 5 hours per month of hard time that folk are spending [speaker not understood] where they are taking a leadership role. during a time of year where our community is reapplying for continuum of care funds with a $23.8 million grant that we reauthorize annually and this

board has direct oversight of, folks are spending 80 to 90% of their board's service on a ranked listed of projects, creating a fair and accurate process to score against each other. during the rest of the year this board is focused on advisory capacity. that's when the more creativeness comes in, [speaker not understood], focus on hearing from other expert groups about the situation of hunger, situation of housing stability, situations of mental health [speaker not understood] that impact homelessness. >> thank you. doesn't make it any easier. [laughter] >> so, thoughts? >> so, i've actually come to the conclusion that i'm going to be supporting mr. del seymour for a couple reasons. one, i'm most intrigued by his background. clearly he's demonstrated the strongest support here today with not only letters of

support, but also persons that have come to show up for us to testify. we're talking about a man that has a breadth and depth of experience that far exceeds the other two gentlemen. we're talking over 10 years hand on experience. i also want to think about the composition of the board. if there's only one other person there that speaks from that same experience of having experienced hoochlessness. i think an additional voice to the board is actually a healthy complement and would provide a robust discussion as we continue to talk about homeless issues in san francisco. >> supervisor breed, any thoughts around a particular comment? >> yes, and i would definitely be willing to support supervisor cohen's recommendation. i think -- and i'd also like to look at the possibility of replacing members who are not attending meetings with some of

the persons we have here today who are interested in serving. clearly various perspectives are needed. people take it for granted when they've been in a position too long. this is an important [speaker not understood] in our city where we want people who really care about serving on this body. ~ to make a difference. and i think dan, it was mentioned that he had volunteered for six months, which to me is a part of demonstrating your commitment to a particular issue. and also the other gentleman, gary was actively engaged while in law school on this particular issue. to me, that is a part of demonstrating your commitment to serving and resolving some of these issues. and genuinely helping people. so, i just want to look at -- i don't want them to be discouraged, but i do want to

also support del because i do think we need someone on this body that has that direct experience, and he has been out there and he knows what it feels like. we need that diversity in terms of experience on this particular board. and i would like to direct staff to go back and look at replacement of those who are not attending the meetings. but today i'm happy to support the recommendation made by supervisor cohen. >> great. s >> we'll make a motion, then, and vote on t. for the two candidates who have not been selected, i think all three of us feel the same way. you are great candidates ~ and we want to note our appreciation for you to step

forward and apply for these positions. it's not always the case where we have really 100% of the candidates stepping forward to be such qualified people. and i'm going to echo supervisor breed's words that don't be discouraged. there are going to be other opportunities and we really hope that you will step forward again. so, i'm hearing that there's a motion. is there a motion for del seymour? >> i think we need to make a motion first to waive the residency requirement. so, i'm happy to make that motion. >> i'm happy to second that motion. >> okay, it's unanimous. that motion passes. would you like to make -- >> sure. i'd like to make a motion that we appoint mr. del seymour to seat number 2 on the local homeless coordinating board. >> is there a second? okay, by consensus, the motion passes. [gavel] >> congratulations, mr. seymour. (applause)

>> madam clerk, item number 4. >> item number 4, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending june 1, 2014, to the reentry council. there are four seats and 12 applicants. >> so, we received a large number of applicants for these vacancies and many of these applicants actually just came in. there's 10 more than noted on this agenda. to give everybody a fair chance at this, we wanted to make sure we have time to actually look at the applicant's resumes and so forth. so, i will be asking for a continuance of this item for -- to the next meeting to allow us to actually do a better job in

looking at all the applications. colleagues, so, at this point are there some people here for this item that would like to speak for an applicant? i wanted to give you to do this since you're here, but understand we're not going to vote on anything today. so, you have two minutes to come up here as part of the public comment. >> i have a comment. i wanted to ask for clarification. >> go ahead -- hold on a second. >> so, mr. chair, you're asking us to continue the item entirely and not take any action on any of the particular item? >> yes. yes, i have not seen these other 10 applicants. >> so, --

>> and we did notify some of the people not to come. >> okay, because there was a time when we had filled one of the vacant seats with a member listed here and i came prepared today to make sure that he continues his service. will this delay his ability to continue his service? this term expired on july 17, 2013, for robert bowden. and i was wondering if this might impact his ability to serve in his current capacity. >> let me ask the city attorney. i believe when people term out of a committee and they haven't been replaced, they can continue? >> okay. >> so, there shouldn't be any

issue about their continuation until we actually take a vote. is that correct? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. that's right for advisory bodies like this one. for bodies that are created by the charter, people whose terms have expired can only hold over for 60 days. but that 60-day rule doesn't apply to advisory bodies that apply to ordinance like the reentry council. >> so, i guess we can hear public comment and i can make some further remarks. i know we're going to discuss a continuance, but i am interested in not continuing seat 4 and appointing seat 4 in order to move that particular seat forward and narrow down the number of other appointments that we have on our list. so, i'd like my colleagues to take that into consideration. thank you. >> okay. so, yes, sir. good afternoon, my name is omar breed love. i'm here to speak on my own

behalf and express my interest to be appointed to the reentry council. i am a former prison inmate, a former drug addict, former homeless person, and i have turned my life around and i want to thank the city of san francisco for identifying the need to address the importance of people coming out of prison and having the resources that are needed to get their lives back on track. in turning my own life around, i want to be part of the solution. i've been a part of the problem so long. i now want to be part of the solution and help -- i've taken away from the community for so long and i see this as an opportunity for me to be a part of the solution and help not only my life, but the lives of

other people that have been in the same situation as i have, which helps not only the individual, but helps the family, helps the community as a whole because of the crime that's committed. and it helps the children because of the recidivism of parents going in and out of prison and stuff like that. so, i would just like to express my interest and put my name in the box and let it be known that i'm interested and that i be considered. thank you. >> thank you. >> excuse me, what's your name again? >> omar breed love. i'm not on this list. the clerk just told me my name is on the other list. >> you're one of the more recent -- >> yeah. >> thank you very much. any other public comments? come on up. my name is it james hooker. i represent the allen community development corporation in the western addition as well as the crease project which stands for

conflict resolution education and employment services. first let me say that ~ i've been attending reentry council meetings for the last 26 months and i'm also a member of the m-3 movement as well as the alan's community development men's group. my interest is in expertise in employment and education for under developed and under served people. unfortunately, many of the candidates who are now coming out of prison were people that i was working with trying to keep them out of prison. we have a recidivism rate that's going to require that we have a successful, as i like to tell them, poster boys, who can effectively represent the communities in which they come from.

the sheriff's department, public defenders office, all have qualified programs for reentry and what we'd like to see is the community become an equal partner in the reentry concept programs that are being developed and a key to that is going to be having representatives from the prison population. so, we look forward to your selection. i did speak with a gentleman who asked me to come forward and his name is kevin bass. he's not here today, but i do know that it's been two years since he's been out and this is something that he's really interested in. and once again, i a plot the fact that we're going to be getting four new candidates or at least three new candidates for the reentry council that will be representative of the [speaker not understood] supposed to serve. thank you. >> thank you very much.

♪ [speaker not understood] the city will softly dig and i know you're so all alone but you've got the tools to make it i know you're gonna take every opportunity and take it reentry love is all around no need to waste it you're gonna use all your tools you're gonna make it you're gonna make it after all city hall they're going to make it after all thank you. >> any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, as i indicated, i would ask for a motion to

continue this item to call of the chair. supervisor breed. >> okay. so, i realize there are other candidates, as i said before. when we, when we address the vacancy of seat 4 not too long ago, we heard a laundry list of candidates and at that time made the decision to appoint robert bowden and i'd like him to be able to continue in that seat number 4. and, so, i would like to prior -- before we make a continuance i would like to make a motion that we appoint robert baez ento seat 4. okay. so, it's been --

>> is there a motion and second? i have an opportunity to actually hear everybody and see everybody's application to weigh whether or not i would be supporting robert bowden. it's nothing against robert bowden. for me it's a process of being fair and also telling people that we will be continuing [speaker not understood]. >> so, mr. chair, i apologize. i do understand the fairness of the process and that there are applications that we had not necessarily received prior to today, but regardless of those applicants, the only reason as i said -- even considering moving this forward is because we did consider seat 4. we listened to a laundry list of candidates earlier this year. and we made a selection at that time, and i for one would like to see mr. bowden continue in

that seat and i don't want to waste anyone's time by allowing other members to believe that there is a possibility, if there isn't. i just want to basically take that one off the table so i then give everyone else a fair shake in terms of some of the other seats listed here. that's my reasoning and i respect your decision, but i really definitely want to be able to move that particular seat forward. >> your reasons are well taken. [speaker not understood]. >> okay. >> i just want to note that for the record. so, let's have a vote. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> aye. supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor yee? >> no. >> the motion was to not proceed? >> it