on responsibility to an harngs s a. the responsibility lies within the adult probation it's only asked to be expressed and it's expresses is in this resolution and it will be enforced >> can i mr. roar envy understanding is this amendment is a whereas clause. it doesn't effect any of the bottom line about accept and he extend and doesn't impact the rezoning of the site to allow a shelter there. this would be in any way binding or changing of the law. no supervisor. simply a whereas clause but some

of the things raised by your colleagues can have merit. we don't have state law applying to any of our shelters so no it's not binding. as whereas clauses are it's simply restating. i understand some of the concerns >> okay. so a couple of things i'm going to be voting for the accept and extend today there's a rezoning process in the future and i assume that the department and mayor's office will be working with supervisor cowen on the rezoning process. i'd be cloind to refer to the supervisor on those amendments since this is not mandating s h a to do anything in the future. there would have to be a

statutory change in order to make required changes. i personally have of - i have a concern with the way sex offenders have been addressed. i think it was prop 84 more or less makes it illegal for sex offenders to live in san francisco given how dense we are. we set people up for failure. i don't agree who can be in shelters it should be a safe environment but that's a confidence for a different day. ultimately whether to accept this grant i'll be deferring to

supervisor cowen on the amendments and will be accepting the resolution >> i have one question to our city attorney. i want to clarify this issue to add some language that says that you know what it currently states that the state department will composers this and nothing about the human services i'm president classification >> deputy city attorney. i agree it's implicit in the language but the board can adapt that additional language >> i'll suggest to the maker of the amendment is that spirit of the language in line with what you're conferring. >> yes. >> i have some language on the fly but if you want to word it a

little bit for us. >> i think you had a good job. nothing on the human services agency >> i'll suggest that as a friendly amendment if supervisor cowen you can accept that. >> yes. >> supervisor avalos. i find it hard to accept sex officer. it makes us uncomfortable it could make us more uncomfortable about the resolution. we're got the adult probation enforcing their state law. in this case we've got a shelter to provide a residence for

someone you without a home. i think the shelters would help those who need opportunity in his or her life to stay off the streets and not offend. this mentioning of this resolution he really counter acts what we think about san francisco and i find it difficult to support. i'll support the underlying resolution, of course, but vote against the second amendment. the first one is okay >> if i can remind members of the public not to show support of or against resolutions. >> i want to ask director moore if he acceptance what we do for our other single adult shelters.

are you planning on supporting or do an evaluation or strategy for safety standards etc., >> we intended to do the advisory committee. as you mention we do it at numerous sites particle homeless shelters we assess security needs and public security needs and reporting back to the board in a year is fine >> okay. thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> as the department head do you have a preference whether or not this language around beginning with line 8 whether that language should be in there or not.

>> supervisor. it's certainly new territory for the human agency. i thought some of the comments by your colleague is good if someone is a sex offender perhaps that person should be in a shelter and not in the neighborhood. but in terms of mixing issues of sex offender even though we're not required to screen it's something brand new to mention around our emergency homeless shelters. we doesn't have any clauses of folks who are convicted of murder. the idea around an emergency shelter is to get someone off the street

>> i don't want to put words in your mouth it sound like you don't want to have that language in there. >> i'm going to leave that you to you all to decide 50i7 i've given my concerns. >> let me ask you a final question. if we don't add this blank u language would this shelter be anyless save than any other shelter on this issue >> oh, supervisor no. it would be operating in the same manner. accurate number of security and site supervisors and that's the same as our larger shelter. this is the same as the surrounding neighbors >> thank you. >> supervisor yee.

in light of what the bottom line is wore voting to accept funding from the state. and concerning the comments that's been made around the second whereas clause i'm feeling that at this point, i will not be supporting it; however, because of the discussion we've just had it almost seems as if we should take this issue and have a further sophisticated further conversation about this issue but for me just accept the money from the state for this shelter >> okay. colleagues. any further discussion. we have supervisor cowen and

supervisor jane kim has asked to defied the issues so let's talk about the first lines >> supervisor avalos. i >> supervisor breed. >> i. supervisor farrell >> i. >> supervisor mar. >> mary. supervisor yee. there are 10 i's and one no >> i'd like to make a motion to resend the vote. >> seconded by supervisor farrell that vote should be resented madam clerk, call the

role again on line items. >> supervisor breed. >> i. supervisor chiu. >> i. >> supervisor farrell. >> i. >> supervisor kim. >> - on the second whereas clause roll call. >> (calling names)

there are 7 i's and 4 notices. >> that amendment passes and on the final 3 further result clauses on page 2. madam clerk roll call >> oh, supervisor breed. we're still on the dividing up to amend and a yes on page 2 >> thanks. >> other comments supervisor campos. >> supervisor campos. i. >> supervisor chiu. i >> supervisor cowen. i >> supervisor jane kim. >> i. >> supervisor mar. >> i. >> supervisor weiner. >> supervisor yee.

those pass and on the underlying discussion >> i did want to make some comments because of some concerns that have been expressed to my office about this particular item. the human services agency and other hope and city staff should will impaneled the community. the community concerns that have been expressed are valid and i respect their position and respect what sxhooen r supervisor cowen is being asked to do. i - we have a clear need for more shelter beds. and we are experiencing a disheartening wave of evictions. i've seen the statistics from

the sheriff's department and people are ended up on the streets but especially now more than ever because there being a evicted. a huge number are african-american and they remain in the bayview and western edition where we have to provide support and services and provide save shelters. one of the concerns of many of the folks who from the homeless community has expressed concern about shelters. i want to make sure we don't move in a distribution and not provide a comprehensive approach to make sure those shelters are safe but the people being served are getting the services adequate from the homeless situation into a long-term more stable situation. homelessness is a citywide

issue. i have an obligation to treat it accordingly and to do everything i can so i'll be sporting the item for the fund. again, i receptor being in a position but i can't turn down the grant. i expect that h s a and hope b will make this right. and more than that i expect there will be going on services and not when this grant runs out who's going to continue to work necessary to make sure this shelter does what it's supposed to do. i'm happy we have items to come back for more approvals two more

for an opportunity to change the zoning of area which should have been done before this opportunity was presented to us in the first place. i want to make sure that between now and then before those items return to the members of the board there's expensive outreach done so the folks most implicated in the zoning requirement are reached out to a lot more aggressively. thank you and again i'll be supporting this item today >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. i'll be brief. i said the comments made by supervisor breed. i actually think there should be a larger discussion about deciding where to locate shelters. we can do a better job of gaem

the community. i represent a district that has a number of homeless he shelters. i know anytime you're talking about adding a shelter there's push back and the way to deal with that is try to get people to understand what the concerns are and whether or not there's common ground. we went through that process in the expansion of an lgbt shelter the first ever it's kind lgbt friendly shelter in my district but we have to put this in context. i understand the concerns that supervisor cowen has raised and let's have a separate discussion about the process. we're talking about san francisco facing an

affordability crisis. we've heard about the homeless people being pushed out. we know the number even if homeless is increasing. what are we as a city doing some of the actions that have been taken at the board of supervisors with respect to homelessness we we voted to kick homeless out of the parts it was 50 to 4 hundred people in golden gate loan that will be implicated. we're talking about expanding restrictions on many vehicles who are homeless are living in those vehicles. and so we're making is harder for homeless people to be out there. we're saying you can't be in our parks or vehicles. well, if we're saying you can't be here or there let's give them a place to be.

let's create some shelter spaces so those people have a place to sleep. let's create a shelter to at least the people who are being moved out of their vehicles have a place to sleep. we can't prohibit people from being people and give them options. that's the problem that i see and i'm going to vote for this item today >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i think a lot of good points are being made about $1 million for another homeless shelter in our city. we don't have enough beds i get e-mails everyday to address

homelessness. i have a a to commend hope and this is an initiative i've brought up what are the number of homeless beds in our shelters we have very, very few beds open for folks we send our hot teams out to. so if we're going to make a dent it's only exacerbated by rent prices in the city we need to expand our shelter system. i'm happy to vote for this i want to thank the department to really help the individuals out on the streets. i want to thank the folks at the board meetings i was moved by the testimony and i'm moved by

mother jones sorry mother brown in the bay community. there's compassion and elegant compassion. especially in the southeast sector. i'm listening to the executive director talking about the people sleeping in their chairs and their legs are swollen. i'm expiated to see a sisters shelter coming to this neighborhood >> any final comments. madam clerk, call the roll on the resolution as amended >> sxhooefz. i >> supervisor breed. >> i supervisor campos. >> i. supervisor jane kim >> i.

>> supervisor mar. >> i. >> supervisor tang. >> no. >> supervisor yee. there are 9 i's and two notices. the resolution is adapted >> (clapping). >> if i could ask folks again to remind people in the board chamber would don't express. if you could leave quietly i'd like to go to our accommodations. i want to start with supervisor campos. again, if i can ask folks to leave adequately we have a lot of business to conduct today. thank you >> supervisor wiener.

>> thank you very much mr. president. before i - should we wait >> folks if i could ask folks please clear the chamber we have a lot of business today. >> and if we could ask the doors to the closed to hear from your colleagues.

if we could ask folks inform please move in quickly to get to the business of this chamber. thank you supervisor weiner. >> thank you, mr. president. colleagues before i was had the honor of being elected to the board of supervisors i had the how were you of spending a decade say city attorney in the city attorney's office. i know that supervisor campos had a similar honor. the city attorney's office is the best office in the country. it's the collection of incredibly talented attorneys.

it's just amazing. and i'm hoping we'll soon be send one of envy colleagues to the u.s. senate. and absolute high owe you clear is from our two folks who have been profoundly dedicated to attract the best talent and providing the best representation to the city and playing a challenging role dealing with 11 supervisors and mayor and department and the many pushes and pulls that they deal with on a daily basis. but long preceding me and supervisor campos and dennis herrera and preceding all of us is one of the really shining

lights of the city attorney's office office. i had the honor of being a former colleague and as well as a neighbor and a constituent. buck joined the city attorney's office on june 17, 1970, that was when i was 5 weeks old. one of my colleagues was not born yet i'm one of the older members of the board. so many years of service. buck has taught and mentored generates of deputy city attorney's. how many people have learned about buck and it's hard to overstate that. buck recently was given two very, very prestige with regards on october 1st, he rested the

international lawyers association award the lifetime achievement and october 11th from the california state bars public law sections he got the public award of the year. i can say buck is one of those unique people he first of all, hazed seen that all in 43 years has an great memory of what happened in 1975. when i call him up he'll probably asked about the same questions. as excited we get buck also has seen it all and had similar calls over the years from

various supervisors he remains calm and gives great voices. he has evenly periodic he knowledge and i remember as deputy city attorney when i didn't want to do the research i called buck. one time i double-checked him and he was one hundred percent right. as a member of the board of supervisors i know i can also call buck and get phenomenal legal advice more than information. it's knowing what the answer is and knowing the pitfalls of what we're thinking about. so buck you're such a treasure not only for the city attorney's office but for the city of san

francisco. sometimes when people are disparaged and people have stereotypes about what a public employee is when i look at you, you could have probably made an absolute fortune but instead, you devoted our life to san francisco. i know buck will be voting today on a resolution proclaiming buck day. i want to really give all the honors so thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor weiner. i want to thank supervisor weiner and our city attorney.

i was thinking about amending supervisor weiners resolution to have your brain photocopied. as supervisor weiner amply pointed out we all know if there's one person who knows the answer it's likely to be you. you've helped us deal with legal matter and trained entire generations of public advocates in the country your truly a lawyers lawyer. from my staff and i, we want to thank you for what you've done. i'd like to acknowledge supervisor campos. >> i want to thank you and one question remains who came first, the charter or buck