on jury duty to mr. updyke. >> john updyke my colleague is doing his civil duty at jury duty and this is for kearny it is a 6 story one hundred and 36 unit single room occupancy development this has been newly complel rehabbed by current owners that join us sam and another sam this is a unique transitioned from two perspectives the terms i'll go into in a moment and two the asset itself so in this case we have what is really a brand new asset with new infrastructure to new accelerators and the uniqueness of the sro is each unit has a

separate boom and it's not something we usually find this project is made possible by the city's participation in the 25 cities initiate a collaboration of cities across the united states the veterans affairs department hud and the international council of homelessness all in a project to end chronicic homelessness this is a meaningful way towards that goal in this case, the transition requires the fiscal participation i want to stressing that the partnership from the va where aren't with respect to their wrap around it is not necessary services and the hud you vouchers in the

budget analyst report it was valued and a at one-hundred $7 million of the first year of the overall extensions this is an important note without that partnership we wouldn't be here before you today the transition itself is at the $1,190 per unit we've capped it at 2 hundred and 5 thousand dollars per year that's air overall cost of maintenance that is the master leases it the typically capped at a per unit base it leads to fingerpointing how it it defined those caps have not proved use full since the budget analyst report was

issued we'll pleased to report that ownership was agreed upon and a reduction over the first 10 year term to one percent rather than two percent that is modified but a 9 hundred thousand plus savings to the city ovsh over the term it has a 5 year renewal option subject to board approval i've joined by a host of folks that can answer questioning questions but want to bring up amanda to talk about the details of the project. >> thank you. >> good afternoon amanda freed from the office of hope but i did want to thank you for your

consideration of the lease today? a extraordinary momentum to end veterans homelessness in san francisco i'm joined by folks from the va and veterans themselves who came to speak about what this building means in terms of our fight for veterans homelessness i think you're familiar with the building it's one of the most notorious building in san francisco we were made out at how many police officers said i did the most arrests in my history and great war stories i invite you to walk through the building it's amazing to see the transformation

i want to thank the va and the housing authority our local hud office and many colleagues from the sf a it is a tremendous effort because of the unique partnership that john spoke about one the things it addressed in the report but really an important consideration is the one hundred and thirty vets sited in this this are provided an amazing amount of services not quantified in this budget with every hyde voucher comes a waking up wrap around of benefits that is typically a 3 to one ratio most of the times veteran's spend time on the grazing list but we want

veterans back into the work and not social workers so bin by this project we're enabling vets to come off the street who have the most significant barriers and giving them some significant infusion of services to help them stabilize into housing and move on to bigger and better things f this is the wave of the future we hope to go with our housing provisions in terms of the coordinated way we're finding tenants for this building over the summer we started a process can everybody raise your hand if you're here to support this item and don't worry they're not all going to speak but all of us toethd together have worked together and do street outreach we sent 3

nights in august going going to the folks who served in the military and giving a score of assessment tool used nationally to find the folks that need the housing the most not the next in line or who showed up to the most is appoint but to bring those folks into a building like kearny is a tremendous opportunity so i'm here to answer questions i want to note if you do approve the lease today, there will be a subsequent accept and expend contracted with the housing authority i don't want that to surprise anybody that will be going into a contract with the joufrnz u vouchers to accept those funds thank you very much. >> supervisor mar. >> ms. freed i want to ask you

according to the chronicle there's 4 hundred and 16 homeless veterans is that accurate and that was our last at this point from two years ago but we have housed folks but that's the best count right now. >> over the past couple of years the 76 units that are researched where are those building it mentioned a safe haven at the hotel. >> there's one in the mission and 32 unit over the jewel restaurant that was converted into retains that houses 32 vets and that's another controversial building in the mission like this one i'm sure it's going to

be competitive and the chronicle mexicans e mentioned your lou the need the homeless vets with the most need would you talk about that process. >> so the tool is the vi vet it was developed by a professor being used across the country it asks people various questions it take about 15 minutes you'll ask them about the experience how long they've been homeless and questions about their psychiatrist needs we have a number of folks he everyone from community ambassadors to case workers to members of the project homeless connect the hot

team going out and providing those services to the folks on the street we have a would have staff team at plowshare leading the forest you don't see the name of the veteran then we have the teams going going out to work with the veterans to get them ready in terms of documentation like military service number of sifts we're only doing that with the folks that score the highest. >> besides the 50 questions you have a process to verify the information and looking at the highly sought after units. >> most people underestimate how serious their health conditions are we're being careful to validing everything

and make sure we're getting the sickest people. >> the other question i want to know how the federal funding from the hud to the about 2/3rd's of the first year is coasted about $1.2 million of the first year is there additional federal money that comes in artist first year according to the budget analyst the cost her unit is $400 more than the sro unit so the $400 is more per afternoon sro and i think it's saying that the proposed master lease is about $2 million in the first year total first year costs are $200 million plus and the program through hud covering 67 percent is there additional

federal money that comes in after year one. >> the leasing costs are annual the way that the value works is they set their fair market value every year so for this year we know there fair market value rent is we can go up every year hud resigns the value around 2 percent and is that accurate an sro but those sro's have a bathroom in he each unit and other amenities but for an average in chinatown or the tenderloin or the mission what is an average sro rent. >> supervisor as i think is also noted in the report the range we're seeing in our older

master leases that have been before the board have 4 hundred to $700 per unit hover those are often based on deals that were struck as the year 2000 and the renewals were not a reset to the ami reflatter so if we went out to the marketplace today with a sro facility and had to raise it the seven hundred number maybe the down side it would be higher the board knows the dynamic in the marketplace whether sro or the r m b amenities that's a dynamic that's changing the sro market and the numbers even though this is a master lease

not to value. >> just a layperson could you define what an sro is if it has a bathroom is still can be a single room occupancy 50 that's a defines between a studio and what is a amenity being the restroom and enough power for a micro wave that's the difference between a studio those numbers as i think are in the report are over $2,000 per month per unit that's a big gap between where we're another we're in the reasonable place given the unique nature of the facility and the capital renewal gives us a facility and reduction in what we expect to see in maintenance and repair. >> so ms. freed of the veteran

population i know for people that live in sro's there's a large number that are seniors with disabled among the veteran homeless population are those numbers higher curious out of the veteran homeless population. >> the colleagues from the va can speak to that but, yes we find because of the population we're looking for the folks with acute needs they all have a disabled whether mental or physical this building has two elevators. >> colleagues www.drnpa.org. >> on page 16 we note that including the rents and additional costs ftsdz utilities the total cost to the city are

$27 million plus that's over the 10 year term of the master lease that's shown in table 3 on page 16 of our report on page 17 we report that the proposed resolution states that quote the master lease rate for the property has been determined no greater than the fair market value and the first year rent of 1 thousand plus per unit or one million dollars $82,000 plus was based on negotiations between the real estate division and the landlord the for all for the property was difficult to evaluate towards the bottom of page 17 as supervisor mar mentioned the proposed rent 6 is one thousand

$190 for sro unit the most in the first year which is $399.54 percent more than the unit per month master lease between dph and the landlord hotel at 7:30 ellis street they can't recommend approval at this time because the board of supervisors nor the budget analyst has been given specific time to evaluate the terms, however, in the board of supervisors didn't approve the master lease the city will losses many units and hud funding dollars. >> okay. thank you, mr. rose

and to our team for that report colleagues any questions ms. freed to clarify i know this is a short timeframe it is not what we want to see but understand this is a time pressure with the federal dollars and my understanding they have actually pulled their support for projects already based on the timelines the threat is clear we will loss our funding. >> hud released a selection we submitted on application for the project and were awarded one of the conditions is being in contract with the housing authority by october 6th they pulled the award for another

county that was awarded because they indicated they were not going to be finished and they've consistently followed up to make sure we're going to meet that deadline. >> thank you very much why not move on opium i have a number of speaker cards if you will line up on the far side of the chamber. (calling names) i'll call the rest anybody else if i didn't call line up on the far wall. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors i'm honored to be here in the room

with fellow vets that's an how shall in itself if you know what i mean i almost didn't come i thought that would be on a automatic goal but if it sdp isn't i don't see why this makes sense i know the budget analyst and other people, of course, need the money first of all, the actual cost of a market rate is not near the numbers if you walk the street to procure it we're not - we need the building so bad it gives the vet a chance to let the vet be walking around the it neighborhood a lot of us vets didn't get our fight until we came back to the tenderloin we fight for our lives and sobering it and a quality of

life this will give us a decent quality of life this is a fantastic program a lot of people know that in the ages 60 to 70 most are african-american this is the year of the draftees you you know the government went in and skirted out the inner cities detroit and drafted all the people of color we're in our 60s please consider giving us that place this means so much to us veterans thank you your. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon board of directors i'm jamie the united states navy veteran this housing is to crucial to developers in this city the city is the greatest city in the world i've

made a lot of bad choices 14 years ago i lived in a cardboard box and became an addict and prerequisite if it wasn't for the va jumping u jumping in i wouldn't be here today, i'm in the transitional housing thanks to the city of san francisco i was able to get into the rehab centers i'm in transitional heirs it's time i leave my transitional housing i have a hud voucher and it's harvard to find housing this heirs that the city has backed with the va gives me and other conveniences like me a chance to become even a better if he were in society that's you'll we want to be accepted back into society be

part of society i live in the t l i can't go out because this end of the block there's a shooting every week and there's a shooting on the other block this i know that the funding is hard and what have you but the pay back for the city on this is to tremendous to bring those that went out and fought four their country and most of us did that on our own we came back it is a greats thing to give back to the people he let us be part of society thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i wanted to thank everybody for inviting all the vets today, i know we've acknowledged the vets but could say vets raise their hands and in particular men and women i'm tim a vietnam veteran i've

been with the va about 15 years now, now the last 5 years i've been working for the veterans housing program i'm really happy to be talking here today, we're here to ask you as well as president obama to end veterans homeless across the country we made great strides in the city we have a lot more to do affordable housing is on our agenda i know you all know there is not much affordable housing out there we're here we go 80 here to ask for your assistance in the kearny housing practice writing project to provide housing and partner with us as the city should i think this city also leads the way in e-cigarette protons homeless are not on

veterans about - megan mentioned the cities we've identified over 5 hundred veterans that are curling in need of housing we need the project vast program is working everyday working with landlord we spend more time looking for housing then we do helping veterans settle into their houses and turn their lives around i'd like to say i know we have limited time i'm going to finish up by saying the veterans put their lives and plans on hold and their families supported them going forward today, i stand before you the va is asking you to raleigh behind you

recall president lincoln said to care for him you having shall have born the battle for his widow and the government has an obligation to those who entered into war and served their country. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> pull the microphone down. >> i'm not at all but i'm an american veteran i spent a lot of years in and out of prison because of my homeless as a matter of fact i did thirty years in britain i prison because of being a drug annexed definition i slept on the street the last two months april 1st i went into the safe haven in the tenderloin and been there it's

only up to 6 months in february my time will be up i told my story to the chronicle and was in yesterday's newspaper i was on the first page supervisors we need this place the veterans of any and/or post veteran and/or veterans you overlooked we were forgotten and treated badly but veterans that are coming home today are being traded like heros and i see some of the people that we fought in the 60s living in houses today and sleeping on the sidewalk please get this building for us. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm app deposit picketing i'm an u.s. veteran i used to be on the streets but now in a house and i made a lot of changes sins i got in when i was 0 out in the street i revolted myself and walking around and walking around no more to go you know so having a place to go is ground level great i'm giving back they're talking about giving back but i am you know being me becoming a good citizen and most veterans are but without a home you know there's a lot of anger and so you get

what you put in you know and i think that will be great for anybody to have a home you know or a place to live you know but with you w we talking about veterans that risked their lives to protect you know and so i'm just here to support this because you know it was done for me and so i'm glad to be here to support it that's it. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you for having us here i'm daryl rogers i'm a native san franciscan i'm also a veteran i was also homeless in

this town and one of the things that struck b me about come back to san francisco was the lack of care if you don't care enough for veterans today then authorities bigger problem you're going to face later is what are we're going to do about them until we do something about the homeless vet then the problem that ms. city and counties around the nation there is no one that the veterans feel like they can go to they go to the streets and end up in prisons and jails we can stop it we can do it today by offering the veterans a place to stay i wouldn't be able to live in the city i was born in without the hud system i couldn't afford it i plead with you tak