. we know the finalize project report for the requested 1387, 500 is still being considered by dph and it's still exploring option for the expansion of the resources is further under investigation. the homeless outreach supplemental appropriation is still to be determined. therefore our recommendation on page 7 is that we recommend that you amend the proposed ordinance to place all of the $1387500 money on the reserve on the final project scopes details and implementation plan and consider the approval of the board of supervisors.

>> thank you. i introduce this to the board and they have decided to issue the contract fees to the workers. it's about a further month delay between now and actually utilize the funds so in full support of doing that. colleagues, any questions for mr. rhodes at this time? >> please, thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: mr. rhodes, to be clear, i was talking about the annualization of this money what would it be? >> it is not understood to understand it. it's an estimate of 5.6, but we have not received finalized budget details. that's something we would look at as some of the departments provide to us. >> what we have now is a supplemental appropriation that would get us through

this current fiscal year. >> that would be the plan and whether or not all that money would be suspended through june 30th, i don't know. this is for the balance of the fiscal year. >> maybe a question for dpp and how long would it take to bring on the staff that we want to pay for with the supplemental. it takes a long time. we've seen some departments take month to bring this along. we have march, april, may, june. left in the fiscal year. is that enough time? >> there could be some time to be helpful, but yes, it takes time to do contractual profits but we have from non-profits that we can bring staff quicker on that side than our side of the department. it would be a small amount that we can spend by the end of

the year. >> we would be making this supplemental appropriation and is there is a commitment from the mayor's office that what we do today will be analyzed in next year's budget and the year after that. the question is for ms. howard. we went through the process last year where we did a supplemental towards this time of year. if there is not anything from the mayor's office to expand our homeless outreach team and other services, i'm wondering if it makes sense to actually approve this today? >> supervisor, kate howard. the budget director for the mayor's office. it a good question. as you know and as you will hear in a few minutes when the controller and i talk to you about the city's financial outlook in the next 4 years, our forward outlook does assume the inclusion of

this supplement al spending next year. that is a projection and ultimately whether those funds are included in the budget is a decision that we are still making a determination on. i think certainly this is an important policy priority for the city and for the mayor and we are eager to work with supervisor farrell and the department to as the plan becomes more solidified. >> and we are talking about this supplemental provision today is for homeless outreach team and related services for mostly homeless outreach team. what other services are we looking at the budget for homeless services that we expect to include when we start our budget

deliberations in june? because if we are only doing homeless outreach services, i'm not sure it's going to be adequate. it maybe top heavy if we are not looking at enhancements on the middle of the back end. >> so a couple of ways to respond to that. one, there is the front inside which is the outreach and engagements that you are talking about here today. there are services then once you have done that outreach and engagement like stabilization beds and shelters and longer term supports which are our homeless programs which every year we add new units of supportive housing. i can show you what we are planning on in terms of the number of new units of both single and

family supportive housing coming online next year. >> if we do, please do, i would like to see the trend over many years. i don't believe we've always expanded. i remember something was going off line and some were going online. if you can prove what we've done over the years we can see it and it would be great to see. supportive housing is one of the most important things we can do in the overall system to help people exit homelessness. >> that's right. i think you are recalling a couple of proposals several years ago whereas the city was bringing on brand new supportive housing units mostly through the department of public health, we talked about and proposed ending several master leases with buildings that were not in as good as

condition. those were the things the board ended up accepting and implemented. i will be happy to provide you information over the last 5-10 years. >> great. no more comments. why don't we open up for public comment. if there is any member of the public that would like to comment, please come forward. >> randy shaw. the housing clinic and we do support the housing workers and told that the tenderloin would get one of the teams. obviously we need that. one point that hasn't been mentioned here that some member of the board that every person that comes across is homeless. in the tenderloin you have people who have medical problems who are housed. if you want a police officer instead of catching criminals spending time dealing with a person in a

medical crisis or a homeless outreach worker. you want a homeless outreach worker. i also think there needs to be a discussion where we are putting the homeless in stabilization. i have talked to the health director and supersedeas or farrell. half the rooms currently used in the stabilization programs is given to the worst slumlords in san francisco. if you try in -- increase that number. you can't have people sprawled out and we are talking about people that are literally sprawled out on the street and having a police officer

having to devote all that time makes no sense. the reason we need to move on this today even though it will take 3 months to get people on board, at least we start by july 1st. if we wait for the budget. it will be december. i hope you move this and vote on this today. thank you. >> thank you, anybody else wishing to comment on this, please come forward. >> hi. my name is cynthia. i'm with the program collaborative. the main reason that i'm in the program is because of the hot team. when i first got after being gone for 12 years. i lost my car. it burned up on the parking lot on my way here. i had a tent, my boyfriend and two dogs and we set up a tenant under the freeway and the police came and told us you need to go to the project

homeless connect. we went there and met with a hot team and they put us in a stabilization room. now the stabilization room, it was great to have it but after my board -- boyfriend and i split up that was very tifg. it's very terrifying for women and lgbt community because they are drug ridden and dangerous and run by the worst slumlords in town and full of bedbugs and cockroaches. i understand there needs to be more stabilization rooms. for those that are homeless should be in dignified housing. >> good afternoon. i'm a community organizer and

central city collaborative. in response to many many hotel weekly where we come across hot team tenants. i can't tell you the importance to emphasize the importance of expanding hot team services because of course case management is a direct contact that these tenants have and we heard many compelling stories of how it could be. i definitely support that. i do want to emphasize what cynthia sad -- said and randy said that these rooms are not suitable special where they are surrounded by drugs and other issues is something that needs to be addressed before you think about expanding the whole program itself. one other thing is it's really important to hold the owners or the owners and management

of these residents accountable for the kind of spaces they are providing. i'm an outreach worker and i have been kicked out of so many hotels and potentially denied entry and i can't speak to these hot team tenants. i think it's important for us as outreach workers we are paid boo i the city to do these outreach and it's important to have a conversation with the hot team. i do support the expansion of the hot team services. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon, jennifer, coalition on homelessness. we sent each of you force about how we think the hot team could be approved. -- improved. i want

to thank you to work on this issue of homelessness and getting this issue address. we believe and what we did is we did as quickly as we could get a lot of input from providers for using hot team services to get ideas from them in terms of their feedback on this proposal. one of the things that came from everyone is that outreach doesn't work unless there is exits out of homelessness. there is a lot of concern around stabilization room because people don't have tenant rights and they are in the worst kind of hotels. our recommendations are moving forward is to make hot teams successful by using this money for exits out of homelessness creating a medical shelter, using the money instead of stabilization rooms for permanent housing and doing the things that need to be done to get people off the streets and that means access

to tangible, touchable services that will get people off the streets. we have a budget proposal that we are putting together that has a number of very immediate solution to get people off the streets. one of the proposals is the proposal for just under $3 million to open up the vacant housing authority units in public housing. they said that they can get units open within 3 months. they have them sitting there boarded up. these are disabled units and family units. we have about 109 units identified for just under $2 million. >> i have a follow up question if you don't mind. we got your 2 pages. as in the

recommendations we would like to -- because everyone thought about the homeless coalition being involved and hoping to craft this and i'm not clear that it exist. it says that what your recommendation says is we would like to see the supplemental for hot, homeless outreach team move forward the following changes and you have all of these changes here. i'm not clear from this if you want funding for hot. you have here that you want it to go forward and you have here that don't list hot as someone -- something you want to fund. i'm not clear under the guidance of the department of public health that is consulting with you and the homelessness whether there is a plan in place for me to feel comfortable to support. i would like there to be and i feel like i want to continue this item at least a week to get more information to see

how we are going to fund under a real clear agreement or understanding for coalition of homelessness and other groups for the department of public health so we can see the system as a whole and not looking at the front end of it. why can't we put the dollar amount here and your actually supporting hot? >> we didn't have the resources of going through the whole community process as we would. when we were putting a budget proposal we usually have 6 months on it and we didn't have the time to go forward with it with some general guidelines. we did put in there with relationship to hot team that we do support a modest increase in the medical enhancement of the hot team and that the ideas for the

rest of the remainder of the money is to have these exits connected to hot team using hot team resources for homelessness. i'm sorry it's not more define tive. for us it's a really intensive community process that takes a lot more time. >> i appreciate your helping and appreciate your work with supervisor farrell in working with this. i'm just not clear with it. supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you, where did you get your number from for the rehabilitation for the public housing units? >> from barbara smith. >> how recent is that information? >> we just met with her yesterday. she gave us the information i think 2 weeks ago. >> okay. because i'm still waiting for that information as well. >> i will forward it to you. it has the breakdown of the

units for the amounts per. >> it's estimated about $20,000 per unit. >> most of it is $12,000 and some that are vacant that are higher and one was $24,000. but most of them appear to be paint and carpet. that's why it should be so quick. and according to the housing authority they don't have the resources the do that and that's why they are sitting empty so long. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> we are still in public comment. >> i forgot we were in public comment. >> please, c'mon forward. >> members of the board my name is stuart and i serve on the board of the economic project. it doesn't take much walking around the neighborhood to see people in

need and people in immediate need who are going through various crisis and need help to being connected to services for which are not adequately funded but nonetheless. we support the hot team. they provide a valuable service to the neighborhood. they provide an alternative means to addressing immediate issues alternative to calling the police department which they have their backlog issues as well. we support the expansion of this program anden currently encourage you to support this as well. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i just want to address some of the questions. colleagues, from my perspective, as we all know the amount of homelessness we all deal with

in or neighborhoods, the numbers are undenial. i think from when i learned that our homeless outreach team only enables two or four people to be on the street at any given time, is we have to change that. this is discussing one time the homes less operation in city hall and what we are doing as a city to address it. i appreciate supervisor avalos comments around that. this is one part of it. this doesn't negate a report for anyone around san francisco. but it's a start right now and something we believe that we could get implemented right away. you don't have a bigger support than me and continue to support those increase in capability if we are interested and serious about

this. this is my perspective again when we talk to citywide no one disagrees that this is under staffed right now and this can really help right way and as we enter budget season right now about additional things we can be doing in this area. colleagues, i hope to have your support. supervisor mar? >> yeah, i wanted to add that i'm very supportive of this. i feel there is a tremendous urgency in supporting a really strategic focus on helping people exit homelessness. i do want to say that supervisor avalos' point about clarity on the plan and i know you are working on that supervisor farrell and the clear plan for exits out of homelessness and i'm clear it's being

formulated. i wonder if there is harm in delaying this for a week so the coalition on homelessness and stakeholder group can have some dialogue and clarity out of exits on homelessness and they address transitional youth for population and other focuses and i know that's coming up with the children's amendment discussion. i know there is a lot of pieces for me that i don't have clarity on and i know there is urgency in funding this and supervisor avalos' as the controller and budget analyst as the impact for future years if we are going down this road in the in next 10 years to impact the general fund. i feel like supervisor avalos suggestion to continue the homeless can have input so we have more

clarity, i would appreciate that. >> from my perspective two things, no. 1, the comments made on the one page are that people are referring to, the vast majority of those are things that it's under the purview of the department of public health to implement. it's not for the board of supervisors to dictate. i think one comment was around the medical shelter when i very much support and there is a discussion or comment when we had our meeting with the coalition on homelessness and others to talk about a supplemental to put a down payment on that project. as we heard from my perspective this is a target of supplemental to work and use. this is a budget when it's ready. we hope there is right now and we think there will be but it

not right to fund this right now in terms of supplemental. there would be more advocates i believe yesterday to discuss these items during the entire budget process. but i think a lot of thighs items -- think a lot of these items require much more discussion and have further budget implications. i think the reality is at some time we have to make a decision and vote on do we believe as supervisors we work on homeless population or do we want to put it elsewhere. that's a discussion to have. i appreciation the suggestion that having to push this another week doesn't help at all. we are having a whole broad discussion around

homeless discussions is the right thing to have. but in terms of this supplemental today is about getting more outreach on the streets as soon as possible and a focus on that. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, i'm not clear that this is the right approach to take. i don't know this is the real process where we have to make our enhancements. i do believe that we need to enhance homeless outreach teams. totally fine to do that but i'm not sure it's done with the extent that are being planned with the number of fte's and this makes a lot of sense especially when people are on the streets exiting behavior or health conditions that need help and support like mr. rashad talked about

in the tenderloin that there ought to be added enhancement around that. i'm happy to support that, but for me if we were to approve $1.3 million today we are setting in motion what we would expect to annual eyes -- in the budget. i would like to department to come back with a plan a and plan b. what does plan b look like? if it's half the cost. if it's half the number of fte's for the homeless and we can talk about other aspect of homeless services that they want to be able to enhance. otherwise if we can't continue today i'm going to ask for another motion that we cut this in half amount to figure

out how to annualize homeless enhancement. i don't think i'm ready to discuss this. >> i appreciate the perspective without a doubt. what i would say this has obviously been introduced in the committee over a month 1/2 ago. from a time to speak with community meetings. i have had multiple meetings with a department that do such an amazing job with our homeless outreach team. from my perspective, i appreciate the comment and more time to have a more fully baked. from my perspective this is ripe to go and we have a pressing need on our streets to get this to

our neighborhoods. >> thank you. i support this supplemental appropriation. we have to move this today. we have an emergency situation on our streets. sometimes in san francisco we see so much day after day it becomes sometimes almost invisible. when we are actually looking at what's happening on our streets it's an emergency now. you don't have to go far to step right outside this building to center plaza and walk over to larson street and you see people sprawled out. these people, we need to get them off the streets. it's not enough just to rely on police officers to do that. we need homeless outreach workers and it is embarrassing how little homeless outreach capacity we have in the department of public health. i find the

most common arguments that when someone has a solution that we can't do that unless we do this at the same time because there are five other problems as well. so don't do this until we have solutions for the other five parts as well. we know that with any other complicated problems we know there are things we have to do. with homelessness we need more permanent affordable housing and psychiatric services and substance abuse services. we need job training and a lot of things we need to get people stabilized and into housing for their lives. step one is to get people off the streets when they particularly when they are in crisis and not just relying on police officers to do that. homeless

outreach workers are a critical part of that structure. we know it works and i think we should move forward to get this function not really fully staffed because it would take more than this but better staff today and we should of course keep working on these issues as well. >> supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i'm fine with moving this forward especially if it's placed on budget reserve and will provide and opportunity for the department of public health and the homeless outreach or homeless advocates to maybe work on proposed if they have any changes because we don't expect to receive that information until i guess within the next 2-3