sf 72.org that is where there is good information we work on that site very well to prepare everybody and again thank our department of emergency services for putting out robust sets of information for i cannot we will definitely be taking care of people on the streets as much as possible and hear more detail but 11 hundred more beds more than the shelter beds and in addition to the winter she will not beds that enter faith council is helping us to identify that are human services will identify an additional 11 hundred shelter beds for those people that that she will not should that large storm come our way we're preparing those sites

and want to make sure that people who are on the streets know we have your outreach teams letting them know we have additional shelter so we simply do not try to experience the effects of a large storm by themselves but reach out to as much as possible thank you to public works and the public utilities commission for work together i've seen the crews and done videos with their volume trucks i know how loud 38 they are they've been looking every catch bacon and with all the leaves they'll be plugged so we have to refresh those catch bacons by unfleg influencing them and any residents that see them plugged for trash or leafs

report those to 311 and those agencies will get out to take care of them and make sure our infrastructure can go as much as they can to deal with 9 emergency our office of economic workforce development i want to thank them they've been in communications aimed at our small businesses that are particular flowed prone areas their preparing and making sure we know what they can do and the services we office public works and other agencies working on those sites we'll have those sites up where residents and visitors can object 10 i think 10 free he moomd for their use at locations that convenient for them this is one location we'll

have them at a number of locations nearby historically identified places of flooding but i do want to say our attitude as city hall is one we want everyone to know that alert sf and the 72 hours.org is there we're preparing for a disagreeing discharge that is man made or otherwise we're prepared and want to put out as much free information as possible so when people plan for those disasters it is less changing more before corning sea making sure they take care of the communications and their families and businesses and their neighbors i want to say again, thank you to our event our police department they'll be out there

making sure they respond to any specific needs that are there along with public works as we have our deniable that can assist people in inspecting areas the city or the homes and apartments what might be needed as well as public works we emphasis that if there is any life-threatening emergency people for sure call 9-1-1 but when no life-threatening emergency please call 311 steady and that will be taken care of and the distinctions are in the tree branch falls on the street none it hurt that's the 311 but if a life wire ryan falls and people around that that is a 9-1-1 it is life-threatening we need to distinguish that so we don't

have our lines filled with inappropriate calls to those lines we want the public to be read i again offer my thanks to the departments that are here today they are ready and they're willing they're able to engage in the departments and we want our city to be safe and prepared and doing what we do early and often so again, thank you and up now with more details along with the other departments is ann from our department of emergency services. >> thank you, mr. mayor and good morning in the early 80s and the late 90s we had huge storms here in the bay area well, actually throughout california according to a recent released e released report 46 days of rain in january and february of 1998

that's a lot of rain we learned from each experience each large storm that go things happy you you know you have downed power lines and the mayor said and power outages and flooding all sorts of thing we need to prepare we've gone through 4 years of drought a lot of trees coming down they don't have the root structures and the mudslides we have been preparing for this the impact is on the whole community of san francisco we started developing plans last fall working with all of our city departments agency and our nonprofit partners in the faith community and developing a game plan for el nino this year our concept of proclamations or

game plan is continuous operations through a storm it if a severe storm tweezer in constant contract with the national weather service that provides us with information on point telling you the impact and severity of the storm and the potential hazards to san francisco we will queen a conference call with the city storm incident management team or i m t to update the partner agencies what to expect with the upcoming storm if necessary we'll open our emergency operations on 1011 turk to make sure we're court reporting our response activity with rains as the little spitting rains out p there and right now our city is

preempt twenty-four hour to make sure that the residents and citizens and the visitors to san francisco are safe our game plan relies on the corridor response at all levels of government navigate our lead integer managers my lead el nino plan is meeting with fema to talk about our court reporting response effort our success relies on all our partners like pg&e, and our community-based organizations who are integrated with us at all levels of emergency operations in the field on the tv monitor you'll see sf 72 hour or city now the information hub and find information updates i'd like to take the opportunity when not an emergency this is a live site i

encourage people to go check it out and finally with alert sf our text merchandising service in san francisco we have a new feature that will make that easier for people to sign up all you have to do a text 888777 triple 8, triple 7 and type in alert sf you're connected to this environmental service i encourage all people in san francisco and visitors to sign up for alert sf by registering you'll be able to keep yourselves save. >> what to expect as we approach the el nino storm on that note i'm going to turn it over to trent roar the director of our emergency services.

>> thank you. i'm trent the human services and hsa is the lead agency for providing shelters in emergencies and we're stepping up for el nino on both ann and i were actually involved that the shelters in the 7, 98 a lot of lessons we learned the biggest one we don't want a single shelter with one thousand plus people but shelters where the homeless are and a plan as the mayor said 11 hundred shelter beds with others depending on the demand located throughout the neighborhoods in san francisco admission and south of market, tenderloin, civically and southeast part of city and bayview and the hatred

golden gate park but the process we'll undertake when we prepare for this storm will be meeting with the national weather service we'll look at winds and temperature and duration and amount of projected precipitation based on those factors we'll decide whether or not to activate the shelters we'll prepare in phases so if we do make the determination we need to activate for our long phases do it in phases the way we stage the locations allows us to bring the shelters up to two or three hours so that excludes mats and partnering with meals on wheel easy this salvation army and others meals on wheels and staffed with city staff as well as the nonprofits the shelter will operate on to a

form 700 to project how long it will last and probable a half or a day after the transitioning out of the shelters the types of location the first thing we look at where are the existing be shelters are providing shelters for folks our emergency shelter some is 15 hundred and 25 beds right now at hsa and that's 1 hundred plus for single adults women and families and some have drop in areas or cafeterias to allow individuals that's the first place we'll look and activate and have our partners with the rec and park department their 3 rec centers that will be used and then the nonprofit partners and others who have facilities we can use and lastly

other facilities ymca for example, has stepped up to provide their give him nature in the western edition and activating weasel be learning was a as we go it is hard to anticipate but in 1998 we had a thousand beds that seems to me you looked at sort of the homeless places in the at any given time 3 thousand people on the streets some don't want to good indoors and at risk of our harming themselves partnership with other agencies and temporary accommodations for two or three nights and others for the homeward bound the transportation program in other cities and shelter the remainder

as we assess the storm and the demand and already have contingencies for hundred additional beds should we need that the facilities will not be some discussion or word on the street to have tents they're not tempts those are permanent structures that will be adding mats and other things to - some of the facilities some of the bigger sheds might be heat and in those cases erect a tent inside of a structure but no plans for tents on the city streets and thanks to the partnering with tdm and others nonprofit partners with the department of health we'll be doing the street outreach and the hope sf so we feel that we're prepared and almost finished with the memorandum of understanding and contract for

locates we'll be ready to activate within a couple of weeks we anticipate the weather is hard to anticipate but the heavy el nino rains from january so february we'll be prepared for the homeless residents thanks. >> thank you's interpreting we'll hear from barbara garcia. >> good morning the district will have roving teams to make sure that the medical needs and the mental health needs of clients are taken care of we're working with the outreach teams for the serviced to make sure they know that the sheltered will be available particularly our homeless outreach team that have mooeveng relationships with the people over the years will have the ability to get the people into is the she recalls we feel confident about that and our teams will insure that any

individuals that needs services and ongoing support will be provided by the teams the roving teams are ready to go thank you very much. >> thank you bearing now we'll hear in mohammed nuru the director for public works from san francisco. >> thank you like the mayor said over the last few months all the agencies have been working to present prepare for the upcoming storms as part of work we've done over the last few weeks had a couple of sandbags give away gaze and 15 thousand sandbags were given out we still have a large supply of sandbags and any residents feels their vulnerable to any

kind of flooding through the garage or door or the back of their house come to our yard chavez a large number to supply people and in addition our crews are scheduled to work around the clock performing inspections of trees any potential tree hazard that the public seize they should let us know when we have storms we're vulnerable to branches and trees falling so call 311 number will allow us to get and work on that emergency preparation for the storm it is fall and with the fall we all see the leaves with a little bit of wind the wind leaves can clog

our cap baselines so if you see any catch by an that has a number of leaves again call the 311 number the 311 comes through the system to us we'll have crews that will be out there to clean up the catch baselines with the rain like el nino can flowed pretty fast and if that catch by an is not clean quickly water raise and jumps the curbs and gets into homes the public can help us you know when you see a situation like that it is an easy job get a rack or broom and put the leaves in a bag so we're ready for the storms and we'll be working around the clock but possess importantly the public eyes on the streets so when you see things you

believe that creates a situation please call 311 and we'll be out there thank you. >> thank you, mohammed next michael deputy general manager of the public utilities commission. >> michael. >> good morning so we're you're wart and power providers in san francisco and the bay area many of the remarks are my remarks on that and i think to emphasize with the mayor said we need to be prepared we are we have been working on this for quite sometime and corridor with the public works and actually working with the city attorney's office if we do get into a situation where there is damage in the city one of the things that mohammed said i want to emphasize you'll help yourselves

by clearing storm drains 25 storm drains in san francisco we can get to 9 thousand plus so many we'll not be able to get to if you get out there and make sure that the water goes away from buildings and protects the property the other thing in a low lying area you're there elevate our belongings and put them up high to not get disadvantaged i don't know wants to lose their prized possessions and fled insurance you can take out flowed insurance and lastly we have a grant program at the public utilities commission for eligible pertaining to help to protect their property from flooding and finally if flooding 311 we're monitoring that our

crews without with the department of public works and that's the best way to respond to our concerns thank you. >> thank you very much, michael this time i'd like to acknowledge our partner here with us today ashley from the meals an wheels, bruce makinna with the corporation thank you. >> major sheryl with salvation army and marty with project open hand thank you. >> and charles from st. anthony's and berry anderson from pg&e that concludes our press conference we'll stick around and answer questions if i want to do individual interviews thank you all for coming thank interviews thank you all for coming thank ui want to do indi interviews thank you all for coming thank want to do indivi

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>> we are the ones making the changes by partnering with businesses by partnering with the government we have friends with hsa bearing with the duthd we're grateful for everyone san francisco of you take the day off work to do something for the neighbors experience

homelessness that is much more than people sleeping on the street but people don't live the life they want i'm excited to introduce mayor ed lee if a coffee shop walking down a street and him standing there for minutes shaking that person's hands and that's the type of leadership san francisco needs so welcome as we always do our wonderful mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you. >> good morning, everyone. >> morning. >> all right. how do you like being in san francisco >> yeah. >> this is a great place love it a lot of people love this place and come to the city things happen to them and we

find them many of them on our streets we need to help them our project homeless connect is a huge examination thank you to kera but most important we know that our city can't help our homeless by government we can do a lot before i fulfill i'll say this we can never do better job without the volunteers like all of you thank you for coming out today and helping out our homeless (clapping.) get all the services they need i understand the hotel council is in the room thank you hotel council i understand the grassroots gay foundation is here thank you . >> (clapping.) >> so many other companies and corporations and employees and residents and folks that time to

help out you've got the big heart you're city is famous for the big heart tony bennett says you're reflective of that today is providing another touch another welcome hair cut, some services, maybe some teeth get fixed and counseling maybe direct help and benefits keeping people occupy the streets maybe a conversation as was designed by the original people that kicked off when i was working for gavin newsom he they told me about his project homeless connection now get to work with sam dodge couldn't get beven off his bed he's rest the dream we'll have an opportunity to just tough people to maybe talk about where they came from and

how we can help them going forward now we've got project homeless every day outreach going on this is incredible and 24 services but we have more than that toughest people for a moment who want to do and i know you on the ultimate answer is we should house people on a sustainable basis and supply the support ms. sonata isn't that the way to treat our homeless population. >> yeah. (clapping.) not from corner to corner or encampment to encampment no objection we constructed this navigation center at mission that gave us a view for 200 and 55 people who have come from the navigation center in the last 9

months all either permanently housed with support services 200 and 55 or 16 percent of them said i want to go home can you help me we connected up with families and that's the home what in the world bound program the human tough (clapping.) and it is still not enough too many of offering our brothers and sisters on the streets we can do more that's why i mound with the support of people working on this issue including project homeless and connect inform so many years we have to do more for more people we're xhoementd into a department to end homeless how about that name, huh? (clapping.) and i'm not such a politician that i'm going to announce we're

ending homelessness that is not true but i'll tell you this was real eejs to end homelessness for 8 thousand people forever before my term is out with you're help that's doable that can be done with that department i get to two we organize with project homelessness correct i'll have 20 to thirty people in the department who's number one focus every single day is going to be who can i help come off the street into permanent homes we get do did that every single day with the department who's mission and function and budget is to end homelessness for some individual some woman with

children or families a veteran that help out everyday to help the reason you're here we'll continue this romantic volunteerism to help people to make sure they know we have compassion but it will take deeper compassion to make sure we have the housing and the support of services to have in permanently off the streets be forever this is a commitment i'm proud to have a second term and a strong city economy to make sure we have the resources we need that and little volunteers most importantly we will always welcome our compassion to help people who are less fortunate they're like us you know sometimes, we might be one or two rent payments away from having a cat introduce event

everybody about feel that we know that homeless is not about people on the streets for years some people have things happen to them with we've got to help them this is what san francisco is thank you for being here and project connect and consult to be part of the homelessness connect and we'll make sure you're part of the city that does it right thank you for being here today (clapping.) how do i top that i love that 8 thousand you know for a long time we're on 25 van ness 1 to hundred people we talk about what we can do but one thing we can't do our office is small we can't serve as many 0 people but other partners that are helping

we would like to do is really create a hub where anyone who is experiencing homelessness can council at risk of being homeless talk to one of our lawyers we have a robust program come into the office any day and talk to a lawyer we can get those things for you, you doesn't have to wait i hope next year in the door front and we'll do more volunteers to come here he everyday you volunteers every single day at on this project homeless connect it is amazing people give you give up their time we're a community with connections and say you matter by showing you we want you to

have every every opportunity we want to give you in san francisco san francisco are winners and make sure that everyone has that opportunity so thank you (clapping.) we wouldn't be able to do those events without having sponsors each the events cost a good amount of 340e7b we have a new sponsor this december it is a really exciting sponsor we were able to have a wonderful party i can tell you they party hard so today, i want to welcome richard from the grassroots day rights foundation they are are doing amazing work in pointing out lgbt issues 20 percent of the people experiencing homeless are lgbt they walk down the street

and see the youth kicked out of their homes they're excited to partner on each section we understand that homelessness is a not one-size-fits-all problem more one-size-fits-all solution so it takes looking at each individual for a solution we thank you for helping us to have the funding to help with the lgbt this year thank you. >> (clapping). >> good morning, everyone i can't think of a finer way to start the day then in the company of people that have decided to take time out of they're precious life to help to heal the dick between people living on the street and the rest of society it's no surprise the logo is to help nothing bridges that divide more

effectively than the human tough you're here to provide that the grassroots gay rights foundation is committed to changing lives by supporting organizations through project connect that help happy and healthy community when necessary approached us for a grant we were struck by the community based service model with only 13 staff members they reach 5 thousand 4 hundred people and the only way they're able to do that is because people like yourselves are willing to take the time they trusted the miss and are here to do you're part to start to end homelessness in san francisco and, secondly, they presented us

with a compelling model when we learned for the first time that nearly thirty percent of the homeless in san francisco are in the lgbtq community we are very proud to be sponsoring a two year project with them to help reach that community i know that some of you in the audience have been homeless and others more fortunate but all of us know the jest it is your of reaching out particular at that time of the year can begin to change the dynamic of hopelessness thank you for taking that step some of us wish to be remembered for our witness, some of us for our accomplishments but how much more fulfilling to be remembered inform you're kindness we at

project homeless connect and the grassroots gay foundation applaud you for yours thank you >> (clapping.) >> one of our other great sponsors is the hotel council i don't know if you've seen the newspapers we want people 0 because we understand that when you walk by someone suffering it hurt and want an answer who to call and make that better we've come up with is an 8 hundred number and come up with ease ways to fund instead of giving cash you give someone cash they can get that cup of coffee we give them that beautiful cup of coffee we can also give tooth

brushes and life-changing services like housing this is important that connection one of the great partners is kevin with the hotel console i want to shout out 200, 200 and 50 they're not here all but a shout out to all of you who everyday is talking to people explaining what this issue is so kevin (clapping.) thanks so much terra thank you project hope and others you've been incredible as we organize ourselves and mayor ed lee it is exciting to see the news and everything you've pulled together at a lifetime recipe we appreciate the partners that the city has sam and the whole group

with the city we precious it be many of our hotels are involved with homeless project and volunteering and working on different projects this year we announced a long term project we'd like hotels and the travel that partnered with you raise you're hand if you're in the room that's incredible (clapping.) on behalf of the people i want to thank you all and looking forward to how we can help and make the connections and increase our commitment thank you very much (clapping.) so i spoke about some of the changes that are happening this year one of the great thing is outreach and education we bimonthly invite all people in social services to be able to

come with an expert with an lgbt health or on medicare anything that people experiencing enemies might need when we as social workers know each other we get more work done so we're excited and another thing outreach i hope you guys come and join us we during that have continued to expand when we first start everyday connect that was merely opening we thought a few phone calls now sometimes, we have a hundred people standing in our office and that's so there are a lot of people that trust and trust us because we met one of you or one of us but still needs to get done we are excited as we move into the new year to change the strategy i want to introduce

and make it and tell you about a couple of changes first my deputy director emily cohen can you come up for a second (clapping.) i have been out from this city for a few months and emily dpount mind when i call her every 5 minutes i'm proud to see here going to the mayor's office of housing we understand there is not about an agency but a mission to end homelessness i think we can get it down to where's the word i'm looking effective zero to an effective zero with the right people wanting to do that and with sam and emily i'm excited to partner with emily with the mayor's

office and mr. daily who might be getting texts from me so connie will get the call i mean, i'll introduce connie who the reasoning as the deputy director program. (clapping.) >> she's going to be directing the program to outreach for all the fundraiser if you have any questions with everyday connect or any fundraiser go through connie 10 years managing homeless services and then kate i have you will know one of the events leader an amazing kate (clapping.) we have added additional duties she's the deputy director for marketing and fors of you who have seen the market changing our website has made it easier for people to do better but also

changing it for we've participant that don't need to leave the library it is online we're doing a lot of great work and thank you to the staff and say good by to emily and excited cit can you come up he's our new events manager so i'm going to have her end with the closing and want to thank you to kate she put on a wonderful event as always and we're excited to see

as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder

so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity

foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help

us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and

they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient

what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things

you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the

conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for

>>[gavel] >> welcome to the tuesday, december 15 at damon commission. my name is brian kim. i'm president. before we start with a roll call a few housekeeping items. if you're a member of the public, like to speak on any item you see on the agenda we have these pink slips up here that you fill out. and it to our staff and alcohol new ones were open for public comments. second, if you could please turn off your cell phones or put them on silent so that we can not be disturbed during the meeting. finally, thank you sfgov tv for your services and producing and airing this lab to the public every time we meet. organa go ahead and start with local. >> commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph