diverse candidates that we really deserve on the sunshine task force. so, with that said, then, today i would like to make a motion to see if we can nominate david pilpel for seat 6, louise fischer for seat 10, todd david for seat 8. rodman martin for seat 7. and samuel mccormick seat 11. and all those are really took into consideration not only your application and your testimony today, but also all the background information, some experiences as well. so, with that, i'm happy to see what my colleague would like to say as well. >> similarly, the remark of having a diverse group of people is high on my agenda and it' been high on every committee, tac, commission and so forth, that we've been able

to appoint. ~ it's we bring this up all the time. i'm also looking at the, if this is the correct record, of who missed meetings and so forth. it looks like at least for a while, there's always been a quorum so i'm not sure what people are saying. on this sheet, started 6-12, 6-6-12, there's never been more than looks like two people that were absent from the meeting. there are some overlaps in regards to the people you named. for seat 6 i would also reappoint david pilpel. seat 8, todd david. seat 10 louise fischer.

on my -- people that i felt comfortable with would be for seat 1 mark rumold, seat 2ali winston, seat 5 allyson washburn, and seat 9 chris hyland. so, the ones i actually named were all reappointments or they are specific to a group. that's what i would like to move forward with. so -- >> it appears that we are in agreement on three appointments today and unfortunately there are only two of us. so, it looks like david pilpel seat 6, [speaker not understood] fishier [speaker not understood]. with those three can we perhaps make a motion to send those forward to the full board with the committee report?

the city attorney has something to say. >> mr. chair, we were going to recommend that you duplicate the hearing file. send the original one, make a motion, and submit out. as a committee report, the duplicated file amended to only indicate the remaining seats and then continue that to the call of the chair. >> do i need to make that -- do we need to make that [speaker not understood]? >> okay. so, i'd like to make a motion to duplicate the file. we will keep one file continued to the call of the chair. wased on our comments about seeking diversity of candidates, and then the second one duplicated file would be with the motion to appoint the three people that at least we agreed on so far. >> so, let me ask a question. if we only appoint three today, it doesn't seem -- would there be a quorum? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. existing members i believe are

currently holding [speaker not understood] and will continue to hold over. the three appointments would be kind of dove planned approved by the board. those would be filled by the new members. so, unless there are issues with existing members continuing to make meetings, the appointments today would create form problems. >> okay. so, so, the recommendation is that we will move the three people for seats 6, 8 and 10 which is needed to fill. todd david and louise fischer to the full board with positive relevanttion. ~ recommendation. >> as a committee report. >> no objection? so motion passes. [gavel] >> mr. chair, we need to make a motion to continue to the call of the chair [speaker not understood]. >> yes. >> yes. >> so, i'd just like to make a

motion to continue the file to the call of the chair. >> seeing no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> so, before we he entertain a motion to convene in closed session, is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on item 4 through 17? >> mr. chair, would you like me to call the item? >> yes he, please. >> items number 4 through 17 are [speaker not understood] for existing lawsuits and claim. >> okay. so, i believe there is one card first. milo [speaker not understood]. thank you it, my name is milo hanky [speaker not understood]. i sit on the national board of

directors of civic america. today san francisco beautiful urges this committee to vote for a continuance on item number 8, settlement of lawsuit regarding contest promotions of bill board operator that is long violated the laws of this city. ~ the -- i think we have a number of concerns. it's been very difficult, almost impossible to get our answers -- our questions answered clearly to the planning department or the city attorney's office. and we believe this committee needs to hear from us and receive our insights and our interpretations over the proposed settlement as we under it and also the background on the offending [speaker not understood] law bill board operator called contest promotions. we're not certain that the proposed settlement is even accurately summarized in the agenda. it mentions nothing about all the fines that, for instance,

it might be forgivenfor a mere $375,000 ~. the last time a similar settlement came in it got passed, it was dropped off christmas eve, went through as a consent item at the board of supervisors and we ended up having to file a lawsuit against a group called metro fuel in the city of san francisco. what we're talking about, we're talking about prop g, a ballot proposition we sponsored with the help of a few supervisors, passed with 79% of the vote. no new billboards in san francisco. and as i'm reading this today, it violates the law. it violates the law and rewrites the definition of what a bill board is. so, if this thing gets fast tracked on up to a meeting tuesday, we might be making a serious error and inadvertently be rewriting our sign definitions in violating prop g. so, i would say please let's go for a continuance and get the facts straight. >> thank you.

chair yee and member tang, again, my name is patrick minot shaw and i'm also advocating that you separate item 14 from [speaker not understood] consideration of all of these matters. last december 7th i wrote to the board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee of which supervisor yee and supervisor campos were then both assigned to that committee. and i submitted testimony to you this morning. i'm not sure it repeats the

testimony i presented in december. the city controller has noted and advised the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee the unspent funds from bond measures which [speaker not understood] by way of recoupment is a policy matter for the board of supervisors to decide how that money is going to be used. it does not need to be deposited directly into the general fund and my strong recommendation is that the mayor, 21% of the 70 million that the city attempted to recover, just 15 million being recovered. be used in one of three ways or a portion of it in all three ways. one, you should be paying down the debt on the general obligation bond so that the voter can have some relief.

two, reserve the 15 million for [speaker not understood] problem at laguna honda. they have been eliminated in [inaudible]. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisor yee and tackvthv. i'm jim rubin, rubin, junius and rose, and i am the attorney for contest promotions which is number 8 on your calendar and matter that mr. hanky spoke about. i wasn't intending to speak unless somebody spoke on this matter. so, here i am. this is the settlement of a lawsuit that started in 2008. the city frankly was losing

that lawsuit because the law was pretty clear that these were on-site advertising billboards. the city attorney recognized that. we've negotiated a settlement that took over a year. i find it hard to believe that the planning department wasn't available. they've always been available to answer any questions that anybody else wanted to ask. dan sider is the primary person that's been handling this and i know dan to return his calls and provide information. there is nothing that's been secretive about any of this. it's on your calendar. it's been properly noticed and san francisco beautiful could have called me or anybody else. this is the first i've heard of anybody paying any attention to this settlement at all and it's a last-minute. so, i urge you to proceed and recommend that the settlement be approved along with all the other settlements that you have on your calendar for next tuesday. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> is there a motion to convene in closed session? >> so moved. >> okay.

no objection. [gavel] >> member of the public, we will now be convening in closed session and we would ask that you please leave the committee room. thank you very much. >>please stand by - meeting in closed session >> [inaudible] the session the committee voted by a 2 to 0 vote to forward items 4 through 17 to the full board with recommendation. >> can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection, that motion is passed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, that concludes our business for today. >> okay. so, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

>> good morning, everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, may 14th, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be sharing this committee and i am joined by supervisor john avalos and breed and, we will be joined by eric mar and scott weiner and i want to thank the members of sfgtv as well as the

clerk of the committee, linda wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices and complete the speaker cards and all of the documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted items will appear on the may 20 agenda. >> a few procedural items we have a long agenda, we will take a break from 12:30 to 1:20 wherever we are at that point in time, and given that it is a 90 degree day, we don't see that very often and so we are without coats over here at the board of supervisors and with that madam clerk, could you call item one? >> hearing on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. >> okay, thank you. colleagues, and members of the public this is a hearing that i requested, and the third of hearings that we have had over the last few weeks and this hearing kicks off the focus of the subpopulations of the over

all homeless population here in san francisco. today's hearing is on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. and we have again, met with the department heads and the city staff and the different service providers and advocates and community leaders in the area, and we do know that these very subpopulations have unique needs and there is much cross over between them and so to look forward to exploring this over the upcoming weeks. >> we know from the recent homeless point in time that women account for 27 percent of those who are percenting homelessness. but, it is also alarming to know that women and families represent the fastest growing groups of the homeless population nationally and that among homeless families 90 percent of them have a female head of household, but we also know in particular that women who are experiencing homelessness face additional safety concerns and it is alarming that 15 pepser of females reported domestic partner violence as cause for the homelessness and 12 percent of the women who are

experiencing violence, while they are homeless. we need to do better as a city and we will and i look forward to that discussion, in terms of families for me and many of us at home as a father of three it is auful that we have families living on the streets here in san francisco, and it is a positive sign to see as many homeless populations have recently began to decrease, but the number of persons and families experiencing homelessness has increased nationally here in san francisco and we have at least, 679 families who are experiencing homeless and by the way by the count there are 2200 students who are homeless or marginally housed it is stressful for the families to deal with circumstances like that, in particular for children who are going to school it is a completely different ball game. and we also know that our wait lists for the shelter haves grown. and we are experiencing a 6-month wait list for family to get access to shelter and we

need to do better. and as with all of these hearings, i hope that we can use the information that we talk about today and the discussion to really look at what is going well and what we are doing right and what we can do better in the future, and so we are going to have a number of speakers and public comment and as with before, i would like to invite, devn the director to kick things off, thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee and today is the beginning of the ex-expanded committee participating in these hearing and i want to acknowledge london breed for being here and appreciative of her work on public housing and supporting families and accessing public housing as all of the committee members and i want to say that i looked in the room today and i was pleased because i know so many of the people that are here today but it is great that we are going to hear from them and there are a number that live in the grand southern hotel and i have had the privilege of meeting with them

and visiting the grand southern, and joining supervisor campos on that tour and meetings and really seeing some of the challenges that families are facing when they are under housed and living in sros and i think that we are really blessed that our providers and homeless family service area and the domestic vie liens programs are some of the best in the city and i think that you really see incredible work being done by the individuals in this room and supervisor as you indicated, to start out talking about women who are homeless in san francisco, 27 percent of our homeless population is female. and there was a recent, uc san francisco, study, by dr. alise rilely that found that 25 percent of homeless and unstablely housed women have been sexually or physically victimized in the six months alone and 60 percent have experienced sexual or psychological or physical violence, most of the violence against the women is not from a primary intimate partner but from partner who are not

primary partners and neighbors and people on the street. and former partners and so forth, unsheltered women are extremely high risk of continued violence and we take this very seriously which is why we worked with the human services agency to change the reservation process so that the women no longer have to stand in line, over night, putting themself at risk of violence and now i want to commend and thank hsa and i know that joyce can speak to this and as a result of using this process and seeing the increase demand for women, it has been shifting to add more women focused bed. one of the things that we also want to do that i know that hsa shares, is that we have had an emergency winter shelter program for many years and it is for men only, we are interested to see in this coming winter that we have the interfaith council participate and offer a come parable space for women in the emergency winter shelter program.

in terms of family homelessness, president obama through the inner agency council established a goal to end it by 2020. we must quickly begin to change the current trajectory of family homelessness. and first, i have to give special thanks to lynn and mark of the sales force foundation and many other private funders in san francisco who have made it a priority and i can also acknowledge the work with compass. and they made many improvements and he is here and he will talk about the incredible effect that has it and the ability to add rooms for homeless mothers with newborns. we have a deep bench of workers, and with continued federal funding and leadership,

meet the goal. >> 216 families on the san francisco centralized wait list for shelter, the last count showed an increase in the number of homeless individuals and families and a decrease in the percentage of those living on the street, 15 percent of homeless families in 2011 were on the street and 5 percent in 2013. families experiencing homelessness are as a whole, similar to other low income family and face a range of obstacles, they face things. in san francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of public health will describe our service model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the

services offered to the families. coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connecting points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate shelter and housing system for domestic violence and the department on the status of women and often time our regular system enter faces with these systems when the stays have ended and they are having difficulty accessing housing, priority for the pregnant women and the families of newborns and the department of public health is funding five rooms at the london hotel and three rooms at star community and services include visiting nurse, and wrap around public health. you are going to hear a lot of discussion about rapid rehousing and this is a central element in the espra proposal for next year's budget, the goal is to help persons who are

homeless move quickly into permanent housing minimizing the time that they spend being homeless, it provides families with a time limited rental subsidy and case management to assist the family to increase the income so that they can cover their housing costs after the subsidy ends. and rapid rehousing, is for persons with mid range aquuty whereas it is targeted for families with high acuity, it is always delivered through the sites in the rental market. why it is important is because most households who become homeless today have already lived in independent permanent housing and can generally return and remain stablally housed. homelessness itself is associated with a host of negative out comes that can be minimized by limiting the period of time of people experiencing it and by helping, homeless households return to permanent housing as soon as possible, the communities have been able to reduce the length of time that people remain in

homeless shelters and it reduces the public and personal cost of homelessness, less than $18,000 per family and the shelter costs $45,000 per year, for a family. and once a family finds housing the success rate is over 90 percent, because of the excellent work done by agencies that you will talk with today. what are some of the challenges to rapid rehousing? the market in san francisco and in the greater bay area is increasingly expensive and competitive, the families receiving subsidies and having a difficult time finding apartment in their budget and convincing the land lords to accept the subsidy and competing with individuals willing to pay whatever it takes, families who receive the subsidy must have the ability to increase their income and programs are seeing families with high financial barriers such as evictions, large debt and poor credit, programs are not equipped to offer financial counseling and debt relief

service and there is an effort that will be coming up this year to provide these types of services i want to under score, chairman farrell's points of 2200 homeless children in the san francisco unified school district and i met recently with some of the staff from meta and as you know they are embarked on an exciting federal grant and promised schools to really improve the quality of education, in several schools, in and around the mission, and neighboring areas. i have to say that the meetings that they have had with parents, and they have said, that no topic supercedes homelessness, from the families, families sharing that they have been evicted and family sharing that they are couch surfing and so i do want to say that i think that this homelessness and the thought that we are not doing everything possible to help the

families exit homelessness really exact as a toll that is going to come and i think that effect us and because we have seen the data for the familis that have experienced the homelessness and the odds of those children growing up and experiencing homeless again are high, the wait list is 7 months to get into the shelter, three to five years to get into affordable housing and i think that these numbers really show that rapid rehousing and the work that is being done by our homeless family service agencies is really outstanding and necessary, thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. dufty, no questions, we will move on. thank you, we will move on to joyce, from hsa. >> and good morning, supervisors, i'm joyce crum and i will be presenting on the department dem graphics and the services provided to women and families. both supervisor farrell and dufty talked about in our home s count, 27 percent of the

population were females. also, part of that count, 679 people in 132 families were identified in the count. 95 percent of people in families were sheltered either through transitional housing or other programs, but mostly in shelters. 34 people, which he spoke, were the lowest number of people identified as being in cars or on streets after 7:00 p.m. which is when we began the count. so we administer the homeless prevention funds and i want to highlight some funds that have gone directly to families, 214 family house holds were provided with rental subsidies. in some cases up to 5 years. 120 family households provided

with shelter deversion assistness, and which means that they came to connecting point to get on the wait list, in hopes of getting a shelter but, the two deversion specialists that work with compass were able to divert them from the shelter and provide them with the rental subsidies to help them either stay where they were, or move on to other housing. and so under our... >> excuse me, supervisor mar? >> could i ask a question about the homeless count? >> yes. >> i know that we have the sro families and sro census over the years and i think that a supervisor directed, but do we know how many families are on sros right now as well? >> i am going to look to megan? megan is our staff person that conducted the count.

>> good morning, supervisors, we are not able to count families in sros during the one night point in time count it is staffed by volunteered and has a limited budget and those folks are not included in the federal definition which is the primary reason that we organized the count there have been studies in families in sro but they are not included in the 13, or 11 count. >> that would be helpful to get the last census for the sro especially for the families, and their geographic concentration so that they are hopefully added to a similar population as homeless families but also the families in sros and i think that in different times, we have defined families who live in sros as also homelessals well from my understanding. >> correct. and dan, kelley, who is head of our planning division has conducted a couple of studies over the last couple of years, so we will provide that information to you.

thank you. >> okay, so i left off at homeless prevention funds, 214 family households, were provided with rental subsidies and 120 family households were diverted from shelter. so i am going to move on to our adult emergency shelters which is ages 18 on up. and we have a total of 305 female shelter beds. what i would like to highlight is this coming fiscal year, we are adding an additional 25 shelter beds through a woman's place and we are starting a pilot program, to parallel the interfaith winter shelters for men for women. we have had a numerous conversations about why we don't service men, it is difft