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10 years ago in looking at how to manage those with alcoholicism and provided them an opportunity for deintoxicating and trying to get them into other levels of care and treatment and part of the homeless outreach team is successful to provide them with emergency stabilization beds inform gaining their benefits and stable listing while we wait for permanent housing with over 2 hundred and 87 units a lot of the discussion i've heard it today as well in terms of working with diversities and our ability to bring diverse populations into our workforce and we began this last year with had over a year of working internally to work on black african-american health inches initiative one is health and
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humiliate train we've trained over hundred and 50 staff and we'll continue to provide the ability to have a conversation been race and it's impact on health, i have a mandate to take trauma informed training particular the patient clients we serve have had impacted trauma workforce development is one of the important parts of our work in terms of the diversities we have an internal workforce that is very diverse but we want to provide opportunity for our staff to succeed from a career lard we are working with the schools throughout the system including pipelines now if you think about the fact we had a train center at san francisco
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general we're trying to set up those pipelines through internship and training with san francisco state and the colleagues and many of the therapy programs throughout the city we building that helping our staff going back to school is one of the important things on human development and schools for individuals that are city or department employees to, ever go back to get their master or finish our bachelors and worked in a significant way to look at how we're providing care to african-americans 80 throughout the departments and with the data shows we really have to address african-american health in the department and so we're working throughout to create standards and quality of life for african-american and others ethnicities over the last several years the
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community is working towards zero hiv infection and hiv city government ma we're working closely there's 3 areas one to insure we get people immediately to care we know that when people start taking medication and treatment their eliminations of transition we know that if individuals are not caring for themselves and fall out of treatment is impacts they're going health and causes death and to track them into care through your outreach ability and ongoing work around the hiv stigma you'll hear more about that when we go into our budget process i am sorry to our cfo to finish off the presentation and
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prepared for any questions you have. >> good afternoon, supervisors greg cfo i'll go through those quickly eave touched on this with the prior hearing today global warming speaking san francisco has done an incredible job getting people enrolled in insurance under the ac a we've preceded our projections and seeing the data indicate there are a lot of people on insurance that were previously uninsured 41 thousand enrolled in covered cal and 51 thousand in the expand medi-cal and that brings our level of urban insurance to bro below 50 percent that was prior to ac organization so in terms of our own department's role in preparation for ac a we are a big player in actually
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executing and implementing ac a we've talked about this we currently have 36 - thirty thousand individuals that are enrolled in the san francisco health network they're receiving care at the time did you want people on expanded medicaid and bic definition newly eligible under the affordable health care act that's a big expansion the next phase will try to move to the covered cal area to expand our outreach to the populations eligible for the programs but not eligible for medi-cal medicaid so the up fluctuation of insurance is a very good thing we have a lot infrastructure to put in place to be able to accommodate that population and make sure we're being pro-active and effective
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in deliver care i'm sure you're aware of we have over the past year banished or launched the san francisco health network it is historically our department had been a san francisco san francisco general a laguna honda a primary care system and pay system we're bringing those together into one umbrella networked organizations and try to network the care across the system and allows us to have better health outcomes and prospective care but a big change in infrastructure so we have the new organizational infrastructure we have the next phase kind of the critical is the i p systems now we have the infrastructure in place we need the technology to make sure when
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our a patient and go the san francisco general the providers can see what your attempt was to make sure all the medical data is coordinated and the treatment so our big focus one of the big focuses on rebuilding our electronic record system the system that documents clinical care we have many electronic health systems and not all of them talk to each other permanently or at all it is really a coordinating and cutting-edge modern health care for people that are going to be hitting united states in a lot of different areas within the network our goal over the next several years to replace that fragmented i p m structure with
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the unified electronic system that enhanced the sharing the data and easier for the providers to make sure the loan is talking about to the right hand so trying to get the i p infrastructure in place to support our structure into better patient care we'll leave it at that and i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. wagner colleagues, any questions for mr. wagner or ms. garcia that's correct thank you very much and for your continued hard work and last up the mayor's office of housing thank you mr. lee. >> but colleagues, we did ask mr. lee to come back given the housing portfolio deals with
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homeless certainly not only exist but in the pipeline i want to include that as part of the conversation. >> good afternoon olsen lee director of the mayor's office of housing in terms of the most cd mission wanted to clarify how our mission fits within the subject matter of that particular hearing in terms of the the providing the financing and facility the purpose of affordable homes in san francisco one of the decision this were made n many years ago the decision to create permanently supportive housing rather than lease hotels or other housing and this is define in part by
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creating permanently affordable housing we could leverage or leverage outside resources to pay for the cost confident housing in some cases the operating costs of housing is lower than the lease housing and ♪ cases the hours is built to current standards in terms of of accessibility and other important issues of people with disabilities the people has a dual track in providing the housing for the disabled and seniors and others in terms of 0 both the master lease hotels and the permanent affordable in terms of our work and in terms of creating affordable housing what both the directors of h and dph have articulated is one of the basic things for the welfare of all the clients is
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having a home that's our primary mission and our department is to create affordable housing assumes we can and as quickly as possible and leveraging outdoor resources from all levels of government so that we can stretch the local affordable housing funds as much as possible and in that process we community with our partners at dph and s f s to think about the types of housing we types of supportive housing we create on behalf of the city trying to meet the needs of city overall and through this participating it is a very great partnership with an occ and the services agrees we've been able to create permanently supportive housing our expertise is the creation of
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the capital the expertise of the other two departments is the creation of the services and the funding and management of those services and together we create a permanently affordable supportive housing and the best examples of that reasonable include 1045 la could not supportive housing for families that opened up this year and 1184 street in mission bay the grand opening a couple of weeks ago 1/3rd of all the occupants were for formally homeless families and that's possible in part because the - in the case of 1184 street the h s a provides an operating agency for the development and service
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contract to a service provider to insure those families will be successful in addition to those two examples as we spoke yesterday in the mayor's office of housing is deep in our work on public housing many of those extremely low income people identified them as statistics both of h s a and dph are residents of public housing in some reasons they can afford to stay overall i'm sure you're aware of the need to rehab and preserve that affordable housing is a major initiative of the administration and in addition our work in hope sf basically rebuilding 4 family developments that were so delipidated we shouldn't be
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rebuilding and we should be not rehabilitating but rebuilding a large part of our work in terms of providing affordable housing how that- those units because their they will be sauptd by the federal governments rent subsidies will be able to serve individuals, families without income; right? the thirty percent of the income whatever their income might be on g a or cal works they'll be 38 percent of that number or nothing as the case might be that allows generations of families and individuals to stay housed 90 in san francisco in addition to the our work in terms of the brick and mortar we work in the neighborhoods and strengthen the physical and infrastructure of the neighborhood this is where some
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of the homeless and safety net services are provided out of the community development division at this time i'm going to turn it over to deputy director to talk about our budget and sort of the details of our budget and brighten chiu and benjamin and i will be here to answer any questions the board any have >> thanks mr. lee and benjamin from the mayor's office of housing and community development i'm going to go through the first few slides quickly you saw them last week our budget is a little bit less than half from the general fund about 25 percent from the federalist grants and quarter from the development impact fees if i drill down into the general fund portion for 2014-2015 our anniversary operating budget delores out the door $21 million from the
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housing trust fund the boards authorized $20 million from the moogsz and we've not taken that action yet but expect to utilize it authority for the housing department the loss program two work orders to fund subsidies at the housing facilities and then what we're calling the services i'll drill down duo 0 to about $7 million a year here on that slide you'll see a brief bullet list of safety net services your department focuses on i'll run through those the loss program it started in 2007 and curling with the fund from
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dph and h f a there are approximately 15 not quite 15 heed hundred those households don't have itch income paying rent we need to help support the units in those buildings and killer within our mshgd housing portfolios are several units set aside in our that i'm another 6 hundred unites set aside for homeless individuals and families and 20 percent of all the affordable units in our family developments are referred for homeless families and those are by h f a access points. >> when you talk about the pipelines what's the timeline open that 5 or 10 years. >> shorn that.
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>> yeah. yeah in the 5 years or less range. >> perfect. >> we mentioned this briefly last week as well as the ellis act preference program that the board 3r5u68d a year ago a key way to issue it is basically a safety net for people living in san francisco that have faced ellis act evictions in the last year since the inception of the year we've processed hundred and 34 households being housed in affordable housing in san francisco. >> we're calling safety net services on this slide is about $7 million of general fund commitments that goes out the door to support the services see of the san franciscans on the slide a few of the key areas
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those grants go towards eviction and legal services a variety of services for immigrants we our office is one of the main offices in the city that focuses on the capacity building to help strengthen the infrastructure for our city we do have some grants for transition youth and we focus on literacy and improving the listcy for translation services on that note improving the access to housing we've been working over the last few years take into account and working with the cd to make sure we have appropriate services we have been and continuing to improve our website to make it more friendly and increasing the technology tools and the application process to make it easier and to be sure that
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people who are bilingual and languages other than english can access that and worked with the department to make sure that the language access own is phone and in personal who people happen to walk into the office finally i'd like to end with summary of the existing housing portfolio we see a core part of our mission as being good asset managers of the portfolio over 21 thousand units the city has funded over time we see a key part of our mission to help insure that those units stay affordable and they stay as an option for people living in san francisco thank you very much. >> okay thanks very much colleagues questions
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staff are any other departments okay thank all the departments for being here and your continued work and look forward to our conversations during budget season at this point open up for public comment i have a number of speaker cards i'll name them please feel free to line up everybody will have 2 minutes (calling names) and great, thank you supervisors
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i'm terry from the food bank and the chair of the task force we want to thank you for your support by the mayor's office and the security last year i'm pleased to see those items highlighted in the dos proposals i think if we reach the security by 2020 to continue this investment and highlight two things for cal fresh really appreciate the highlight of the work that's being done to reach out to target the population especially those on medi-cal many comments were made about the incredible job that the city has done in enrolling people in medi-cal beyond our wield i did imagine people enroll under the programs i want to be here a year from now seeing the same thing is happening in cal fresh to increase the income for food and the resources for low income
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families in san francisco those who are eligible and for a family living at the poverty level family of 3 work to receive the maximum cal fresh benefit a 6 thousand dollars increase in the spend money for food that gets us close to the alleviation of a food budget, and, secondly, and from a city prospective it is about (3) 600-0000 in federal money if we enroll as unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests fresh we're serving a fraction of people eligible for home delivered groceries those programs are absolutely critical to keeping people healthy and in their homes and absolutely cost effective way of keeping people healthy and save i appreciate our support.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, everyone. supervisors i'm bill hirsh i'm the director the aids referral panel i'm here to talk about the hesitating proposal i want to thank the board for their support ar l t was one the agencies that expanded our capacity for veeblgs defense no more cost effective than keeping people in their current avenue, i, tell you we fight zealously and save someone's housing yesterday and two on thursday i want to commend supervisor wiener for the work he's done to identify the issue we see a looming eviction basis people will be losing their long term ability to pay their affordable current relent if the city can
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do more we support the hesitating proposal thank you. >> hi, i'm teresa the manager the interest for the homeless for the justice center and the bar association of san francisco which took half my time to say my title him here to support of the proposal last year that was extremely helpful to hire a new staff attorney but the need is absolutely not met i just looked at since adjoining january of 20145 hundred and 44 clients come to us with eviction cases pending and specialize in the homeless folks this special population we were able to take 75 percent of the cases one of
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the things that is important almost 60 percent of the clients were 50 year-olds or 25 percent 60 and over increasing number in 80s and 70s that are long term tenantscy like 44 year tendency the thing that happens they've been living in their place something goes wrong like they leave the water running and instead of trying to do something to help them to stay the landlords take advantage of them to get the unit on the market we were fortunately able to help the tenant the need is great if we can help the fined for eviction protection it will help thank you. >> real quick as we go through the hearing we have a rule not
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to clap reasonable person loud noise but we want to speed people through here and get people through as quickly as possible. >> good afternoon board supervisors i'm a resident here in san francisco in enjoying and a member of 10 to one i support a lot of people in the community in terms of housing and my job almost a decade i've been working in the affordable housing nonprofit for people that are formally homeless and coming thorough the programs you've heard from the dph and hshlgs f a i'll tell you one of the things that study ousted the testimony formula a lot of folks not the workers but folks seeking the services wanting to have good paying jobs and meaningful wakes up one of the
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ways to stay out of poverty and be able to have housing so my nonprofit i come from you came from the fundraisering events one of the things we highlighted was actually, the job employment program to actually help train folks to get back to the workforce a lot of the folks in those kinds of programs that are subsidized and aid by the city and county of san francisco are folks working in the nonprofit and trying to better their lives we see a great need to increase the funding for a lot of the services not only to address the needs in the community but also folks like us working there to be able to fast food a cost of living and looked at it that and propose it to the mayor, we need
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an increase and more housing but that means embattling low wages thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm stephanie a shop speed up and work wore conner house incorporated they serve formally homeless and disabled population i myself anal a recipient of the safety net and tremendously grateful to the sfifblg i presently reside in a hotel and work in a support services hotel i'm here speaking no support of the automatic cola increase and as employer employee one of the nonprofits the income is very
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tight and i also train individuals in coming out to a job they're looking to get promoted and i'm training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in san francisco it is you know i'm just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that i'm representing at the conner house and training thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm elizabeth alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what