sitive way you know i'm distancing looking at a lot of contempt about the people in the streets i know from the predecessor and people in the streets it is not about moving people off the corners but making sure we care about their lives they come in and get services and support this is what living is about you offer them the opportunity to change their lives let's getting to the business whether homeward bound to give a great connection to our family whatever this is san franciscans want support people that are already here we're going to provide you with the services to get you there and when we say permanent long term housing whether a hotel or

other places they'll be matching up the occupant services to continue the support for unit so you'll not end up with a false promise or disengagement i believe more work i know it is cutting-edge and allows our city to come together tight with so many services put them in a focus effort i think we'll succeed i know other entities i have a lot of hope and thkts jerry and the challenging chamber of commerce are here the sduth school district and other agencies particularly the neighbors want to us psyche baud we honor them by having the best programmed so with that i'm going to let bev and mohammed

nuru walk you through a little go tour so you can understand what we're doing within this month of march we'll begin the interests this as capacity of one hundred people but 75 people mr. surpass so we can give quality support so our director (clapping.) we wouldn'ter here without the mayor putting out the call i want to say thank you for asking people to step up for the city and homelessness i want to mention peter the principle of marshall elementary school and many myths leaders and community organizations are here i'd like to acknowledge the members who were the first faces i saw when

we opened the gate all the women that are here to support us and wanting to see the families helped with that we couldn't have done it without you without the san francisco enter faith council and michael is here (clapping) 25 years ago a mayor of san francisco appealed to faith leaders to partner in addressing our city's growing choonl he asked these faith leader if they'll on their hearts and doors and kitchens to offer dignity and sheltered and food to those in a variety of circumstances couldn't helpism with that came the birlt of the interfaith council who's core missions to help the winter shelter and more relevance to support the critical and

collective work of the faith collective based services that provides the safety net for the vulnerable citizens fast forward 25 years this mayor, mayor ed lee a called upon our council to partner with the city this time on a pioneering initiative that engages the private sector generosity a higher collection of nonprofit to provide the immediate and direct services to those who we encounter on the streets everyday on its core the navigation center will benefit the kindness and recessed pit and shelter and services and whole other level it is creating a new and innovative culture that is fostering community and creating opportunities for those with resources those who care

deeply about the fragile and rich fabric of san francisco to work hand in hand with nonprofit agencies many of whom have been providing that sort of care for over a significant with the sanction city entities are insuring our public wealth and safety this is nothing less than san francisco values at work mayor ed lee the san francisco interfaith council thanks you and for inviting us to collaborate with the city with a need for our core mission we're grateful for the extraordinary donation to our organization that makes the funding for this possible and for the sincere spiritual selfishness that the attention be at the end to this

important work and may his example of quiet generosity be one to be yes, ma'am late among the peers we're grateful to the mayors staff and here i'd be remiss if i didn't thank the deputy of staff jason elliott and director of the strategy partnerships and our director of hope bev their efforts in guiding us to the government together we can meet the projects many sensitive guidelines deadlines and i'm permanently indebted to the chair as the the executive committee and the interfaith board of directors many of whom have joined us height to get with the human resources agencies when we received the call they k37b9d the leadership

in embracing n this collaboration and do everything we can to make sure we met and exceeded the fiduciary responsibility of a nonprofit so our partnerships partners can be met allow me to end pro effective voices of faith tloit throughout the aged remind us that history will just the greatness of society to the regress e degree it takes care of the people in needs no doubt we'll smile to the countless souls that will be helped thank you (clapping.) >> as the mayor indicated every member of the board of supervisors that visited this site before we opened we're incredibly proud of the partnership and the hope that

the navigation center can respond to the homelessness in the district they represent i'll invite up the president of the board of supervisors and supervisor farrell and supervisor mike wasserman raw a. >> good morning. today is an absolutely beautiful day this navigation center will be a brand new beginning for so many people i'm excited to be here today along with my colleagues and the board of supervisors to just thank beacon hill for that his creativity (clapping) homelessness is not an offer night problem and not overnight solutions all the agencies youth lions that severs us in the hate

ashbury neighborhood and other organizations that are rolling up their sleeves to make sure we're here at the navigation center is going to be a game character for our city i know we've had challenges and i know this is really going to change homelessness in san francisco we have to continue to work hard to come up with new innovative idea if we want to tangible tackle this problem i want to thank the doors and the interfaith council for their generosity and 2nd support and all the department heads i know that mohammed nuru and dpw and the neighbors here in the midst district and thank supervisor campos for saying that homelessness is not backpacks our district but a citywide issue we all have to step up to the plate to part and work together if we want to

change people's lives for the better i'm excited i can't wait for the doors to open thank you for being here let's get started (clapping.) thank you, president breed and mr. mayor and welcome to the myths i want to begin by thanking the incredible mission community from the beginning when we started to talk about that 2 this process alike you'll see in parts of city or the country people were not saying not in my backyard but how can we help people and i think that's the spirit of this incredible neighborhood the mission is truly a special place (clapping) and i really want to thank the neighborhoods i want to thank beacon hill acknowledged the principle of the school and all the amazing nonprofits that are

out here this wouldn't be possible without their involvement and especially acknowledge the work of my staff carolyn what has been instrumental in working with beacon hill and christen i'll be honest mr. mayor i don't know that something like that could be possible without the creativity the judge the skills that beacon hill duffey brings to the table we're luke that he is in the role he's in he's been some place that's been kind of a kurth of an opening argument of talented players that are here behind use it took someone to do that i'll simply note that i'm very proud to be part of the effort you know we had a breakfast at the chamber of commerce yesterday and i'm grateful the chamber of commerce

is here where we talked about the tremendous prosperity that san francisco is seeing blue there's audio side in the prosperity the most unequal supply in the country we see that on the streets that's a testament we are talking about we're saying it is not enough to have prosperity but to make sure we take care of those who are on the streets it is ultimately who we are how we treat those who have the at least and in the st. francis homelessness e homeless people having it have a place to go i'm grateful but unfortunately, we've seen the board of supervisors saving don't sleep in the parks or sit on the sidewalks instead of continuing to go down the path of criminalizing people we're

giving people a place to go thank you very much (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor campos and i'll say the next time people will fund ice cream for everyone in the crowd i want to thank everyone behind and in front of the of me my colleagues on the board of supervisors on their support supervisor campos in particular for his leadership in the mission district and mayor ed lee and to motional i've never seep beacon hill duffey so happy beacon hill thank you for your leadership and your enthusiasm and without you, you, you obviously we wouldn't, here today i'll say first of all, to echo homelessness is an issue that effects every san franciscan and ever neighborhood and visitors but homelessness in our city and this issue we tackle that has

been happening for years this is those are our mothers and father and brothers and sisters we'll not be who we are as the city of st. francis without making this a priority i'm proud as we on up to send a message to the city of san francisco, and, secondly this navigation center sends a message that still and city government will not accept the small business commission not afraid to break the mold we'll challenge wasn't we've done in the past there's a better future for the homeless in san francisco and today is just the beginning thank you very much (clapping). >> several years ago when i had joined the sdpufks san francisco budget & finance committee i remember feel like we never had

enough teachers or pens or enough paper and it was midway through office i realized there's the one thing the city and county city had too much it was land and what our surplus property would like and since this day this is the number one priority we know the the achievement gap is the opportunity gap we started thinking about values in our surplus property now the automatic is thinking about dollars let's build market rate housing on the site this used to be the site of fedex school it was we all had long kvendz whether what about a different

surplus to build grocery stores where kids have access to healthy food and build affordable housing for teachers and kids this is what is keeping our kids insecure that was a long and multi year process but i'm excited with i came to the board of supervisors actually part of the mission in the district i represented i was able to continue working with the mayor my first year to figure out with the housing and urban development and it was on the boundary line to build affordable housing i'm so existing this is expedited actually in the pipeline that has become a reality in the meantime waiting for affordable housing in the mission something actively this community fought for we're going to be able to make this an oasis for people in the homeless shelters and i want

to recognize but before i say that something in the policy word did h.r. policy and the mayor made a commitment to take an homeless by hiring beacon hill he was notorious we were imitated by the level of his public engagement he respondent to everything no phone call was two small to take to respond to and for him to be the person that is new addressing our recipe with no homes and nothing in our city this level of public service is being it is being partnered with that community it is incredibly important i i know he brought a lot of folks together i see people from the community services asia the hope lions and shawn h s a and over the course supervisor campos office coalition for

homelessness and to make sure we're providing the serviced we haven't traditionally provided in the shelter i respect there to get my placement and thought when i saw it that night if you were disabled or a boyfriend i didn't want to leave midnight the shelter or a friend in the - all of the things addressed in the pilot program i'm excited about the trust we're going to begin to build i'm thankfully for everybody making this a reality. >> i want to call out the members of the hope team for all mohammed i 120e8 st. sam from the public housing i'm going to

acknowledge dee 1k34i6rd and chris teen that does amazing work everybody loves christine and another community lalia son and we have brought on board the director of the navigation center someone that was involved in opening the myths neighborhood center and went on to go back east to school work no new york city and coming to making sure it is working this is julie ledbetter right here we not only have the mayor but the director of pblgs he wants to get this going the police chief suhr is here and the mayor mentioned jeff who has been to the site and helping to clear people's record and police officers are here for public

safety and i know their exist about bringing up resources and i want to thank in the spirit of what the mayors represent in working with the corners of the city the coalition of the homelessness is here with due outreach and encourage people to take advantage of the services we're providing thank you everyone for being here and scott walter is here and his colleague is not here under the leadership of trent has done an incredible job of bringing on board dave is here from h s a and supervisor kim acknowledged the contract board the 24/7 and the e pitiful of community services working on other things with the city departments now mohammed and the mayor are going to start off a tour with the

press and anyone is welcome to come here we're going to have food assessable twoursz for people that are living that under tunneled thank you all we look forward the best is yet to come thank you very within our population there are people who simply do not have access to the internet who do not have the means to access information the way that others have, and i think that it's really imperative for

government to make sure that we play a role in closing that technological divide. so you have to strike that balance between maintaining that character, but also welcoming in the new people who bring their own -- >> absolutely. >> so i love that. i love that mix, that balance that comes with it. it's hard to strike the right balance, but -- >> it really is. >> but it's there. >> i was born in guatemala and came to this country as a kid. i was brought here by my parents. and essentially grew up in l.a. and then moved up to the bay area, where i went to college. i went to stanford. my background for the first few years out of school was a practicing attorney. i worked for -- in the private sector for a number of years and then i went and worked for the city as a deputy city attorney and then became general council of the school district here in san francisco, and through that became involved in politics and at

some point decided to run for office. [speaking spanish] >> i think that san francisco really represents the best that this country has to offer. it's a place that welcomes people from all over the world, from all over the country, and it's a place that not only tolerates, but actually embraces diversity, a place that is very forward thinking in terms of how it looks at issues. it always felt like home, and i felt that as a gala tino man that this -- gay la taken no man, that this is a place where i could be happy. now doing the job of a supervisor has been the most rewarding experience. it is really remarkable how

amazing our neighborhoods are, how amazing its people are. i have a progressive outlook in terms of how i see things, and by progressive i mean we have to make government and make the city work for everyone and that means that it's not just those who are doing well it's also those who are not doing so well, those who have the least. but it also means making sure that the city works for the middle class. >> good evening, everyone. good evening. thank you all for being here. and when we first got into office about two years ago, we started talking to the mayor's office of workforce and economic development and trying to figure out how we can help different corridors within our district have a better sense of what that neighborhood should look like, what its main concerns and priorities should be and a strategy for the

community. and that means business residents and the city working together to make whatever that vision is a reality. ultimately if there is a guidance on how i approach government, i believe in good government, i believe in transparency, i believe in accountability, i believe in making sure that we follow best practices. i think that oftentimes transcends the left, the middle and the right. it goes beyond that. and that's why as a supervisor i focus so much on contracts and how the city spends its money, which is not traditionally a progressive issue. but i believe that we have an obligation to make every penny count. thank you. [applause] we are still going through a very tough economic time. we are still not where we need to be in terms of job creation and economic development.

so government, i think, has to work with a lot of different folks, not only the business community, but also the community groups to see how we can create economic development that works for every san franciscans. >> one of the topics is -- [inaudible] >> as a member of the police commission, i learned that the most effective policing is the policing where you have the police and the community working together. so you need training for the police officer who's already there. it is important to have police officers on the street and having that police presence, but at the same time, there has to be a connection between the police and the community. so i think we're on the same

page. you have to make sure that you create an atmosphere where people feel safe and i think that to feel safe they have to feel like they're in partnership. i really believe that when you are blessed with the opportunities that this country gives you, that you have an obligation to give back. i really believe in public service. i could be in the private sector and make a lot of money, but i believe that i have a duty to try to make things better for other people and to pay back to a country that has given me so much..

>> good evening and welcome to the march 18, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and she's joined by our vice president commissioner vice president honda's and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson to my left is robert ryan the deputy city attorney and provides the board with advise at the board is mr. pacheco and i'm sdng the boards director we have departments with cases before the board scott sanchez is