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longer need for their core function. this is a public resource that should go to public good. i support this measure and look forward to the passage and implementation. thank you >> thank you mrs. dodge. >> good morning supervisors. my name is marilyn [inaudible] with [inaudible] thank you supervisor kim for introducing this measure. so, i'm learning about how this works but i worked with [inaudible] 12 years. [inaudible] which is what a lot of the youth are having to do so i'm excited to [inaudible] so the youth can see the leadership at city hall that cares about us being here in the city and to make sure that we definitely prioritize the public sites so as a organization many other sites have continued to be doing
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this. [inaudible] mayors office of housing have that up there and want to make sure they know we fought for the land. it was for the public good. i hope the supervisors support this because when we are older and choose to have kids zee to make sure they can stay in the city. how will we stay here when everything is 3.something million dollars? >> calvin welch, san francisco information clearing house which is a member [inaudible] i want to speak in support of this measure and thank supervisor kim and avalos for their sponsorship and urge supervisor tang to join with them in sponsoring this important issue before the ballot. it is important to understand that this amends the
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existing administrative code that limits only to very low income homeless housing. the disposition of surplus base land. it is not at all correct if the implication of the office of work force and economic development or your comment supervisor tang that this ignores the needs from the affordable housing community of the plight of middle income people in this town. this ordinance will allow surplus base land to go as high as 150 percent of medium. another point that is often lost and i'm kind of taken aback by the mayors office of work force development, the largest housing subsidy in the nation goes to the middle class. not to low income people and that is the mort gj tax deduction.
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by a factor of 10 to 1, it out numbers huds budget that pays of every other low income housing group in the nation. for the city and county of san francisco to use its limited resources to provide assistance to the lowest income people in the city simply balances out what thiboard routinely does. 2 years ago you increased conversion of condo, 10 thousand people all middle income or above. the board passed a ordinance that allowed short term rental uses that took thousands of units out of the housing market including rent controlled units to benefit middle income people. please don't tell me this one measure will unbalance a already unbalanced housing organization. thank you. >> thank you very much.
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>> next speaker please. >> i red all the cards if you would like to speem come up >> good morning. i don't think i need to wait to be called. [inaudible] i lived in san francisco for 36 years since 1976. if you agreed with the arrythmiatic there are 3 years missing. those were years i moved from the city to fremont who took care of my mom and stayed with her 3 years until her death. when i moved back to the city i couldn't afford the rent because it had gone up so much. in that sense i'm in favor of the ordinance and i think we need low income housing. i'm not in favor of affordable housing because i feel the word is played with and defined many different ways including way to exclude low
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income people. i am low income. i'm also part of a group of senior and disability action. i have gray in my beard, i call myself presenior because i'm not old enough for senior housing and we don't have enough. i'm also disabled with chronic depression and don't qualify yet for ssi, but if i did qualify for it and got 850 dollars a month i couldn't afford the market rate rent in the city. for the past 30 years i have been a professional handy man [inaudible] i repaired a lot of apartment s and put them on the market and they have been paid city taxes. i can't afford the [inaudible] that i worked on. basically i am here today to say that seniors need low
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income housing, disabled people with mental problems need low income housing especially those who have been homeless and yes i'm homeless. not only do seniors and disabled people need low income housing but i need it. >> seeing no further public comment for the chair if we can clous public comment >> close public comment. it is closed. >> thank you. i did have follow up questions but think we'll have a opportunity to continue this discussion. for the sake of time i would like to wrap up. i want to thank everyone who came out and your eloquent words on why this is so important for us to fully implement and how the measure in the ordinance will go to strengthen both the
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transparency and accountability in the process and original intent which is insure available public sites that are not fulfilling a essential department or need go toward production of housing. again this ordinance expands to include housing for homeless and low income working class, middle and moderate income up to 150 percent. we know we are not building middle and moderate income housing here in san francisco. most recently i know supervisor avalos and i work would the giants to 40 percent of affordable and middle income but 12 percent was affordable housing. close to 30 percent of the hoizing is going to be for households between 90 and 150 percent ami. that is unprecedented and go towards what we call middle class households here in san francisco. i look forward to had continuing dialogue. there
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are 2 parallel tracts for the ordinance. one with 4 signatures that cannot be a-minded and one that can have potentially 6 cosponsor squz maybe take on the feedback. i think my intent is to go forward with the strong est measure to the voter squz this is something we herds over and over from the voters. i make the point wrun of the members of the public made, we just puchsed a site in the mission, a former gas station on 16th street at 18.5 million for 1 percent affordable housing. this is great and important for the mission but imagine what we can do on our own land where that cost isn't a primary driving factor. i look forward to the continuing dialogue and thank my colleague frz the hearing. >> supervisor tang >> i want to thank supervisor kim forbriing this fort. there are very good improvements and look forward working with you
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to see how it is we can actually make it even better so with that then i know this is just a hearing today so we'll take further action on the other item. >> great thank you. the other item will appear next thursday in rules or i think that is when it will appear at the regular rules committee meeting. we'll announce when that will be. that is a item that can be considered for amendments potentially. this one cannot and so by city charter we are supposed to have a hearing on item put on the ballot by 4 signatures, that is this here and i believe we can just file this hearing. okay. if we have a motion to file >> make a motion to file the hearing >> motion from supervisor tang and second by supervisor kim and we'll take that without objection. this hearing is now
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in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a
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community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers any time of the day and night
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it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls. >> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go anymore over and over send our dayshift out they've meet the
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population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe auto. >> it was funded through a
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unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival
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modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. >> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping hand to get on my feet take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's clients. >> a month ago they came to me
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>> this consists of 4 consultants the police headquarters with the from 850 with a brand new fire station number 4 to serve mission bay swimming pools at office of economic workforce development in the fire station thirty. >> is the the hall of justice on bryant the new home for 2 hundred and 50 uniform and voiven compresses we all it was opened in 19 so sociothat is a 50-year improvement as far as structure and work environment had that will be a great place to work. >> when construction began in 2011 this was with an clear goal to make sure with the big one heights the resident will will have a function police
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department those are the highly seismic standards it is up to operate up to 96 hours from the police department perspective that building is self-sufficient for a main made arrest in all disastrous zake ever after we will run our operational from here no matter what happens this building and the people that serve the businesses will continue to function building is designed to meet lead goal certification and also to art installations on the campus that was designed and constructed to better sense of ability so for example we're using solar water heaters we're also urging gray water for reuse inform flush water and rainwater for the cooling and irrigation
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locked on third street and mission rock is it serves the motorbike neighborhood and motorbike i moiks is a growing neighborhood and the intent of the bond to have please and fire serves to serve the community. >> hemming helping to keep the building and the stay safe was the not the only opportunity it creates many jobs with 82 bleb businesses overall san franciscans contributed one hundred and 87 thousand hours to help to complete the project it shows the city of san francisco the elected officials and police officers and more importantly the voters that paid for the building this is what we can do with when we wrorpt this is a beacon when we need to build new extra we can trust them with the money and the plan they did a
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