good afternoon, i would like to call the meeting of puc

to order. secretary, can you call the roll? [roll call vote] commissioners you have copies of the minutes minutes from the january 12 meeting. the 1st time that i can

remember was 20 years ago, when the puc began the program and she was always there to remind us of that. and she was always able to do that and not in a forceful but in an effective way. that was essentially positive and her spirit came through on that. she will definitely be someone that is remembered i will also ask that we adjourned the meeting today in her remembrance. we will take this moment for public comment. good afternoon commissioners, my name is ted

knollenberg and i am representing district number 5. last year i brought before the board of supervisors legislation to require the city of san francisco to have individual water meters so that it would be easier and more efficient for people to be able to understand their water use. primarily the fact that if they are responsible for the bill they will pay more attention to the fact of how much water they use. the mayor wants 30,000 new housing units by 2020..in affordable nature. another 30

to 40,000 market rate units will be built. almost all of them will be multiunit buildings. having water meters for each of those units means that there would literally be hundreds of millions of gallons of water saved by doing this. this would also provide a basic level of service metering and this could also help on the revenue side. i ask you to consult with the board of supervisors because this meeting is already in the

process. thank you. any public comment? we will move on to public comment. we will move on to communications. commissioners, any comment on communications? >> i would like a memo from staff to develop what the plan is to execute these market activities and make it available and distribute that for the people that want to use it. >>commissioners, anything else?

moving on. any public comment? any commission business? seeing none. we will have our report from the commissioner. >>before the general manager is mr. richie with the drought update. we have lots of interesting news. in december, the numbers started to improve the reservoir is at 75% capacity

. and this is a reflection of how we manage during the drought to conserve as much water as possible. this year we will look at the other side of this claim as we try to figure out these excess flows of this year and how we manage this in the water bank at a robust way. the water bank is at a 32% capacity. normally at this time-year-old be about 100% so we want to make sure we get that back as soon as possible. our storage is about 49%, we are below on our total system store is right we are working on that already. we are still well below average. our precipitation has continued to

decline, we have started to get close to the 1993 curved. with this phenomenon we are staying above the average level on a continuous basis for this year. water available to the city, this year we already have 65,000 available and we we have about 50,000 for the entire year. we will be looking at these public storage

levels that we have achieved over the past year. the graph shows that the puc has been above in on precipitation on the accumulative level.i may stop using this one because this is not all the time but again we have bright colors in our watershed and in the bay area. these go hand-in-hand. the curve of the current year for the 1st 2 weeks were below 2015

level so people saved more than they did last year or so people have done very very good with conservation with our customers.so it is not just san francisco. the waterborne proposal on january 15 to adjust the conservation standards. there are 3 potential adjustments to these standards there would be a climate adjustment and a growth adjustment and new local drought resilient supply credit which they are starting to use

now. i think that is very appropriate to use. in consideration of their standards we will consider this on february 2. we will submit a comment on february 2 and keep you involved throughout this process. the regulations for water division measuring more instated on january 17. when will we consider our drought this year is over. we are

hoping that this year might be the year. we need to be perpetually pessimistic.right now we can take any questions? >> thank you. any public comment? next up is clean power update. >> thank you barbara hale with clean power. we have locked in our supply pricing with the general manager having signed a confirmation with the general

financial agreement at the last meeting we had our proposed projections show improvement on the 12th. anarchy milestone sure that we are on track for service to customers beginning may 1. i'm going to pull out a familiar source and use this slide.you can see here we are now funding our operating reserve and are conservation reserve we now project our reserve to be determined overall we have a modest margin of 16% as of january 12.

this is a culmination of the final supply the came and at the review at the last meeting this would have beenthe 1st portion of the commercial implementation. are contract negotiations as i mentioned our complete. our signed contract are in their final steps. we are maintaining the controller funds and that will complete our negotiations for these. after that we are on track.

we are on schedule with our key milestones and we should be able to serve customers by may 1. if you would like to know more you can find out more about each step on cleanwater.org to learn about her next phase. i am optimistic that we will get very close to that. thank you. >> next up is mr. sandler with the quarterly budget. >> hello jason sandler with

the san francisco lasco. if you have not signed up i really encourage you to do so. if you haven't signed up i encourage you to do so for green. i could not find up because i am and implore the and it's only for customers. if i could sign up for a live i would. thank you. >> mr. carlin. back on track. >> man have the slides please? thank you. >> commissioners, eric

sandler, cfo for our financial services. this is our annual budget report. we have been a little off track this year. as commissioner richie pointed out this would show up in our budget financial. our water sale revenues are a little lower than when we did our drought scenarios. the good news is that we've been able to offset a significant amount of

those revenue reductions. as we mentioned before the power enterprise is more resilient and our financial results meet policy targetsfor coverage and reserves. on the water sales revenues we project about 20 mgd. you can see how this breaks down in terms of retail sales and wholesale than in terms of revenue. our uses have come in about $51 million offsetting our revenue reduction . 38 million the lions share

had been cumulated over the last fiscal year. we essentially have impounded account with that service. forcing us to pay next year's principal way in advance. now that we have that amendment sprung in no longer exists and that was $38 million and that is the lions share which you see. wastewater had a budget of reduced revenues of about $13 million. we had a savings for one time close outlook $8 million. on the planning side we

had about $17 million in reduced revenues. we generated more water than we had anticipated on the water banks and we generated more power. we had around $12 million in the transmission and distribution savings. some of that is a refund. and then the bulk of it is as of last friday we took the opportunity to generate revenue in bidding in a number of markets that we can

participate in. finally, we meet all of our policy targets for reserves.i would be happy to answer any questions. >> i have a question about the system a. 1.15. that is service coverage under water and abroad? >> that is a very good question. that is a venture in our service coverage to include these ventures. with the drought and the decline in this

water efficiency, the current coverage that does not include fund balances are not a topic of conversation and discussions with rating agencies. so we provide this expeditionally. >> we are currently under the current at 1.5. in your slide you show 1.25 which is under what our requirement is. >> that is what our policy is based on. that is a very good question. >> commissioners, anything else? any public comment?

thank you. >> i just wanted to say one more thing, you have probably been reading in the news about flint michigan and their lack of water supply and the primary issue for flint michiganis there contaminated water supply because of lack of

corrison we have a lot of discussion about this about a decade or so ago but we do not have to worry about this currently but we did find lead in our weren control. if anybody is concerned about it they can go to our website which is cleanwater.org and you can see that our levels are well below what is the limit and i didn't want you to see this in the news and worry about it. thank you. >> that concludes the general managers report.the next item is the performance review report. nancy holmes.

>> good afternoon commissioners this is nancy hom i am the director of puc commission control. are based senior management are done internally. the agency values these activity and takes into consideration all recommendation that is made by visiting auditors. are highlighted executive summary report had a total of 42% of individual cooperation. as we continue throughout this year this may continue to increase as we continue with our plan and with individual

audits. we had completed audits this past quarter of a total of 17% in total. this present quarter shifted more towards a national audit, this is a result of recent conditions in our financial statement and are financial market. again of the 8 projects that were completed in order and in addition to the financial audits the following were completed. the data processing for the trade year. as previously reported in the previous commission meeting those evaluation of lessons learned in the wsip and applied

by ssip i kevin shenk. and finally the citywide procurement assessment and no recommendations were made regarding this. there were 19 audits upcoming and reviews. there will be 3 in the next quarter. there is one for cash receipts and 4 revenues and one is for theinternal controls evaluation we also have the state coastal

conservation grant administration and for the performance audit the city will continue to plan a citywide fleet management under the framework of the ssic so that commission has planned to review their audit in the 3q4 we will continue to keep you posted on the progress and the results of the annual plan. thank you. >> i have a couple of questions. in prior quarters we received a table of all of

the audits completed and what the status were. >>there is a dashboard that shows the completion of these audits. >> the audits, whether it is performance or financial whatever the findings were-- >> it is in the report. i can clarify the report a little bit. we updated a report to make it easier for reading. we have an executive summary as well as a dashboard. in the back of the report there is a detailed summary that has all of the details which are asking for. are separate findings and the type of audits. >> thank you. i cannot find

it. if it is they are, i am fine. i'm sure i can find it . i just did not. on the lessons learned audit, that was done on the revenue bond oversight committee, right? at some future time i would like to have a discussion from our staff as to what we think about that report and what that tells us. there are a bunch of suggestions made, and when a report-- when we get an audit, we respond to the audit. i guess with the revenue on we didn't give a response in the summer. but typically we give a discussion about the recommendations of the audit. so much will lean toward

cultural changes that will help improve as an organization. i would like to see the commission discussed this at some future time on that audit report and i hope that we are doing this in a response to it. >> that is fine. then, on the citywide puke procurement assessment.that is basically what we call the processors and this was a specific need for improvement. when reading the clause of the audit it was not clear if there was a plan for improvement or not. a lot of this it seems like we are already doing it, or that it

could be a possibility. it wasn't clear if there is a plan in place to address what appeared to be deficiencies in the process. i would like to see our commission responding to that. if that is what our plan is, but whether there is a plan or a legislature being pursued it would be useful for the commission to weigh in on that. when i speak of my knowledge is quite old. to my knowledge i hope there is improvement that we are making to do that. >> we will work with the city commissioner to do that. >> anything else?do we have

any public comment? the next item is bond disclosure responsibility. >> this next item is a bit of a team effort. i am going to introduce our city attorney steve smith and he will provide you the details. you are all are familiar with the fact that we have very large capital programs and these are specifically for debt we currently have 177 million for wastewater and about 77 million for the power enterprise. on

we bring bonds before you to be issued, one of the things that we bring forward is something called the official statement which is essentially an offering document that the entire investor community can set forth not just the terms and conditions of offering but also all of the developing characteristics related to the puc enterprise as far as money said that the investor can make an informed decision and that is called primary market disclosure of the preliminary official statement. this and the commission all have responsibilities to make sure that preliminary disclosure is accurate. we have developments and also we have obligations to keep that updated and that we will continue in our

obligations. we will practice on a periodic basis to educate staff and educate the commissioners and responsibilities related to disclosure. i believe the last time that we did that with the commission was 4 years ago. we have mr. smith from the city attorney's office which will present to you information regarding commissioner responsibility. mark? >> my name is mark blake i am the deputy city attorney. i have been with the city now for about 10 years, i have about 20 years experience in finance,

and working with the bond offering process. working with steve smith in san francisco we employee and outside law firm in preparing our offering document aand the 3rd thing is we need to give you our insight in terms of where the department is headed and in terms of the disclosure and in terms of the fcc and we discharge your legal responsibilities under the

federal procurerment laws.laws with me today i have brought a very good offering document as to what your responsibilities are. the city officials and our staff is available anytime you have questions to answer any concerns you have about the disclosure process. what we're going to do today is basically touch on the official statement is and what the legal statements are attached to one the official statement and then i will touch on. the team is and before an offering document comes before your board for

approval i will go into what goes into its development and its review. 1st of all, when the puc creates the bond they create a financial statement. this is including bond terms, regulatory findings outstanding litigations and it covers risk associated with that particular bond issue. in our text here the biggest in respect to issues is the plasma covenant and the drought. those are the factors that we talk about. we lay all that out in a respect that you're used to seeing in

the cardinal rule that the fcc is that there are not regulation requirements in the document. that is how they would ultimately enforce the disclosure against the puc. i like to talk about who our team is. before the offering document comes to you it will be critically reviewed by sfpuc officers and staff. so if they are the secures of disclosure. at initiation we would like to finance the facility and in

that process we would like disclosure in bond counsel and in the disclosure offerings we will have disclosure counsel. we will provide all the necessary litigation expertise regarding disclosure counsel and bond counsel and offer all of our expertise on these documents. we will provide a third-party review on these statements and a testament of these documents and we will test these for consistency. as well we provide a comfort

letter at the end of our process and this indicates that they have disclosed everything within the document. this gives us comfort that we can move forward with our finding. bond counsel renders an opinion of validity on the bond. that we have complied with state law on the issuance of the bond. instead of a bondholder or an outside investor with these obligations we enforce their right to be repaid. finally our financial advisors will work with the puc staff with timing on the market and pricing and staffing and construction of the issue.

that is the team and the team works on this before this document is brought to you for your review.there are very few changes after the documents have been obtained for your approval. i have gone over this already the official document is the official statement of the sfpuc. the reason we take this so seriously is because the consequences are severe. questions are raised about the competency of our disclosure. the adverse rating agency

actions, if we were to lose access to these ratings we could lose our capital and not be able to finance. this could lead into sec investigation as well as criminal investigation of employees and public officials. as well as investor lawsuits. that is all for me i will turn over the presentation, if you have any questions i'd be happy to answer them thank you. >> good afternoon my name is steve smith i am here on behalf of of the bond disclosure counsel i would like to address some points that mark made in terms of our stock offerings as

to whether or not to buy your bonds are not. your document is your statement to investors in your statement to the market and therefore it is important, it is very important that this document is correct and that it is complete.as mark mentioned the consequences of inadequate disclosure.the worst is fcc investigation and lawsuit and the other end of that would be a bad reputation in the market as far as your reputation of

disclosure in that. as with any option in improving a bond issue is no exceptions. it is important that you take the time to understand the bond transactions. you have to understand what is being authorize? what projects are being funded? are there any other financial impacts on the organization? from a disclosure standpoint your obligation is to ensure that the puc has a

good debtissuance process. and has followed that process. with your obligation, this is to make sure that this is a followed process. specifically it is important to make sure that there is an officer assisting with finance that has the responsibility in building you and offering document that is correct and complete. the responsible officer is empowered to have the attention and cooperation of everyone in the organization if necessary. and that there would be sufficient time allowed for the process to work these things through. for matters to be handled internally.

so, the next slide that we go to is our due diligence. 1st, you should always feel free to ask questions best staff and professionals. we have to make sure that the official statement is actually reflecting areas that you would have specific knowledge of. and you can rely on that staff but that reliance must be reasonable. particular things to look for are things that you know as a commissioner. that

you are not sure that the responsible staff-- and if there are things that the staff is informed if you know what particular things and if you have things that are particularly touchy or particularly sensitive or things that you have concerns about then you have lorraine and you have mark and you have your attorney and you have your city attorney's office and your deputy city attorney are excellent resources for discussing legal issues bearing on the side of things, if you are wondering if something should be mentioned or no there are great resourcei will bring

mark backupbless you guys have questions. >> commissioners? thank you very much. we appreciate the time.i do have 2 requests. 1st of all it is about the informationthe information that was provided to us seems to be very complete in terms of the standards of what is done and how it is done and what their responsibilities are. one thing that i would like to request is that the commissioners be provided with a searchable pdf of those materials. a searchable pdf of the materials that are part of

the package. if you could supply that independently said that to be part of our library, then we can check up on items as they come through. basically, it was already presented to us but it can be separated out to make sure that all parts of the document are searchable. the 2nd is, it appears from reading that the commission has a very particular responsibility to not be assumed by staff and not discharged simply by relying on staff. we need to make sure that questions are posed and answered. my request that comes from that is for the city attorney. that is because that is the relationship where the city and that commission staff

meet in many places. this may already be going on but if you can make sure that when these items are presented to us that they are presented in such a way that they create not only the circumstance for the way it is but also that there is an administrative record that reflects that. if that requires that there is a restricted dialogue with the commission and varivisors than so be it. if it is a matter of various representations then we can make sure we meet that requirement for that to happen. i want to make sure it is dealt with in a substantively different way than items that come to us and we don't have a particular area of expertise, but this is a higher level of

responsibility and i'm one make sure that the city attorney is properly involved in presenting this information to us and that the commission can make an appropriate administrative record. >> any other comments from the commission? or the public? thank you all. again, i do appreciate the materials you put together their. they were informative as a summary at this time which is probably what you were looking for. the next item is the report of the--

>> good afternoon commissioners i am the assistant commissioner ofbawsca. i think it is important for you to have the most updated information. this chart shows updated numbers for the last 6 months for the period of june through november of 2015. this shows a picture of your wholesale customers with our agency in green. and you see the aggregate target has achieved 29% overall so

there is a significant responsive customer base throughout the communities as well to put this a different way if you willtake the total volume over a 9 month savings, which is required over a nine-month saving total, 24 of the agencies have already achieved 100% of their savings over the last 9 months of the fiscal year of 2016 and 40% more has achieved this further goals for october. another way to put this is the agencies have achieved 141% of their combined savings target. that is enough water

to provide water to the valley for 8 years. i think that our communities and our agencies should take a lot prided that. that is all i have. i'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you. that is a very impressive performance. >> 2 slides back we have the cities that have exceeded their nine-month goal. then is that cal water service, that is the district that provides for the woodside. they started off very slow in their service area but they are benching their way up quite significantly so they are pretty confident in their progressionthe other agency is the daly city which are over

100%. and they started out very very low when they started out and they're also highly residential as opposed to some of the other water using areas so they have just been bringing up their savings as their low per capita as consuming water. they are meeting their target overall but they are just not knocking it out of the park like some of the other agencies. >> thank you. >> which brings us to the consent calendar.mdm. sec. >>item 11 is the consent calendar. items under the consent calendar are considered to be routine by san francisco public utilities commission and

will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public server quest, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. item a is the approved modification of number 1 to joc-48r. item b is the approval of the correction to the contract duration of the association to change the contract duration 1826 consecutive calendar days to

1095 consecutive calendar daisy's.item 3 is to approve that contract duration of increasing the contract duration from 365 consecutive calendar days to 395 consecutive calendar days. >> all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> item 12. >> item 12 is to approve the plans and specifications of award contract number ww-613 2 approve the southeast water

pollution control plant and disinfection upgrades in the amount of 25,750,00. >> we do approve this plan. we at this time did not meet this goal but at the time this was a very tight space and we did speak to a management firm as to what we could anticipate but i guess the contractors came in higher than what we could anticipate. i think part of it is also that we have had a good bidding and a lot of the

contractors are very busy and i think that the contractors are very busy because they already have a lot of work. i don't think all of the contractors are quite as interested but they don't want to not bid on it. >> also, could you comment on the protest? >> the protest is from the number for bidder from moderate mechanical and that is basically having to do with a complaint that they did not-- that western water did not meet those requirements but there has been 2 responses from western water and those issues

have been resolved. >> thank you. >> do we have a motion? both consecutive. any public comment? >> all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> the motion carried the item 13. >> authorize the general manager to execute one half of the sfpuc a memorandum of understanding with san francisco municipal trip rotation agency 1st sewer and water system improvements on masonic avenue between geary

boulevard and fell street in coordination with masonic avenue complete streets projects for the costs in the amount not to exceed--, furthest sewer work and thefor that sewer and water work. >> we find that these have a

longer lifespan for the application of the sewers. >> i am impress. do we have a motion? seconded. and we have a public comment with mr. wallenberg. >> i am here because i live in the area and i will be affected by the work that is going on there. there are 2 things that concern me. one is that the expected duration of this project is 24 months. this has already been in effect for 18 months. which everyone finds outrageous to do a 1.6 mile of roadway which is about 12 city

blocks and for 18 months that will be traffic moving n. to the ctr. part of the city and particularly masonic will be clocked for 18 months. i really question why does it take to years to do this work? it doesn't seem rational. the other problem that bothers me here is that the mta will plant 200 trees, and the water and sewer lines will run it or imagine the middle of the street and to put free roots right above that that just seems like a bad thing to do. that may not want us in the short-term but in 20 years from now or 30 years from now we may see a problem with these trees.

we need to rethink what is going on here and i think through the investment that is being made in preparing this investigation. >> the sewer will be 2 separate sewers on either side of the median. >> given a comment about that 24 months? >> mtais really taking the lead on this but i do know that the government utilities are really taking a lead on this. >> these wwater and sewer

lines are not being put in concurrently because you cannot close the street on both sides so that cat and not happen consecutively said these things take time to do. >> we have a motion on a second. >> aye. motion carries, thank you. >> that brings us to close session. item 16 will be conference with by legal counsel for on litigating claims. item 17 is the conference with legal counsel and item 18 is the conference

with legal counsel for existing litigation and items 19 and 20 will not be discussed today. >> can i have a motion? >> motion seconded. any discussion any public comment? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. m we are back in open session. in closed session the commissioners approved items 16 and 17. can i have a motion whether or not to close

discussions on closed session. do we moved to not disclose? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. is there other new business? seeing none, i would like to injure in this meeting in memory of dr. jackson. [gavel]

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about and trust that you are sufficient and enough where you are to begin and then is her that you are being tenacious about getting to the next place in the evolution but by all means start with you are and know that's enough behalf of al the staff at st. anthonys it is great to have your here this morning. [applause] >> here at st. anteanys work with people who are homeless and those on the virj of becomes homeless

and what we have sheen more aunch unforch-footly than not is people that feel isolated and excluded so very happy to see when the mayor has something to say about the homeless pop ylgds he comes to the tenderloin and st. ancyanys. we insisted those we serve the homeless in particular are not the problem, they are brothers and sisters. the problem has to boo with us and the way we structure our liferb jz cities and thijsss like that see great to see when we want to do something about homelessness the mayor is coming forward and making good proposals for how we can solve our problem, not fix the homeless. >> [applause] >> there are a lot of people

here working for years on that problem. it is a problem for the whole community but it is also one we need to thitsy to step forward to help us do so we welcome the mayor in his remarks today. without further ado, i would like to recognize a couple people here that have come and been long involved ing these issue. angela alota is here today. from the san francisco interfaith counsel we have mikem pops and rita chimal. supervisor marc farrell is here. supervisor jewel jewel yechristensen and all the department heads here of the city and all the community based organizations that are represent. thank you for coming and welcome to st.

anthony's >> good morning everyone. thank you all for being here. let me begin with just comment about some things that have occurred in the last 48 hours that i know are on peoples minds and want to address that right off before i get fl to had body of the speech. but i want to start out with some words about the officer involved shooting that occurred yesterday in the bay view and rutted in the death of a man. let me first say that any time, any time, there is a officer involved shooting i take that extremely seriously and so does our chief. i have seen the video

too you know, you look at the video and you just-before my words came out, we were yelling drop the dam knife. i already spoken to the chief and there will be a thorough and transparent investigation of this incident without delay and know the public deserves this and expect it and i expect it as well and will make sure the community knows all the details about this. i also want to take a moment of silence with all of you to remember the victims of the tragic and sensely shootings in san dern bernardino yesterday. our thoughts are with the victims and families and the people of san francisco grieve with them. but you know, you know what they really

deserve? those families deserve action. deserve the congress that will stop this madness, stop and by enacting sensible limit ozen deadly fire arms and they need to do that now. [applause] we cannot just accept this. we cannot just accept this. thank you. thank you. and again, good morning everybody and thank you for being here. first again i want to say thank you to the [inaudible] and barry for hosting us this morningism barry you and the staff for helping the needy and velinable throughout the city is a inspiration to me and it is never tiring to cut turkey with you

bury. i also want to say thank you to our elected and appointed officials and community leaders and pleny of the non-profits providers are here this morning, thank you for joinsing us today. i'm very proud for being reelected your mayor. this is a wonderful city and want to say thank you to the voters of san francisco who believe in our solutions oriented and collaborative approach to solving problems and have asked us to return to do more. thaupg for placing your trust in me for the next 4 years. this is the greatest city in the world and i'm honored and humbleed as the mayor to serve another term. you know, i often said and will continue saying i love the city, i love it as much of any of you and also with you. i love

that we never run from the challenges. we confront them with our progressive optimism and something that has come to define our city in all of us. we tackleed a whole lot this last 5 years and some the most complicated and intractable challenges remain and i ran for a second term so we can work on them together. foremost among the challenges wrun we struggled with for decades is homelessness. let there be more doubt, the collective best effort like service providers like all you in the room today have certainly made a difference. i know that because i have been paying a attention to this for many years. while i may be a little silent sometimes, i watch, i talk to

people, i engage and once in a while i might be lucky enough to hand out a key. you are the ones, everyone in the room, you are the ones giving the hor heroic rfts at front line staff on a midnight shift at the shet ers and do the outreach and are case managers with a challenging loud. or you may be the one cleaning up the streets so people might have a cleaner street to be on because that is the only place they have. the best evidence of all of the work collaboratively is the over 20,000 formally homeless people living indoors. living independently and with the social and emotional support that they need and that the needs

that are met with our city services or they might be back in their home towns. but, despite this we haven't eliminated homelessness. as we house and serve thousands, they are replaced by new thousands. people, people who fall in homelessness here, people sent from other states or people who arrive every day seeking a better life in our city. as a result we continue to have people living on the street, under the freeway, in tents on the sidewalk and some even without tents. all together, more than 3500 people are street homeless in san francisco. human beings. human beings with hopes, with

fears, susceptible to cold and rainy weather. human being who deserve or compassion. we know there are nearly the same number of people without homes that are living in our shelter, treatment programs or temporary situations. friends , this isn't a healthy way to live, you know that and i know that, especially if children are a part of that family. it is not just a growing problem here in san francisco by the way and we all know that as well. major cities across our country, la, new york, honolulu, seattle and more and the state and federal governments offer us too little assistance. that's why next week i'll join at least 5 other mayors on the west coast and our federal government representatives to explore federal funding opportunities and policy

changes in the area of homelessness. i know we look at the streets sometimes and the encampments and the depth and complexity the problem jz to some it all might feel hopeless, but as your may frr the next 4 years i'm optimistic because today in san francisco all of the ingreedgents of success are here to end homeless for thousands of our fellow citizens. thanks to a historically strong economy we do have resources. we certainly have creativity and know we got the passion. for our serviceers providers and city staff, we have the energy that is required. we have public support to try new more effective approaches. but you know what is missing? what

is missing is the ingredient lacking for generations, it is what we call, real cooperation. we can't solve street homelessness, but it will if we want to , it will require cooperation. we have seen this cooperation at the place called, the navigation center at 1950 mission street. when community providers work with city departments, when the private sector in the surrounding community all come together with us, we actually are creating a national model for ending homelessness. so, next year we are going to do something bold that skills up the cooperation and coordination this requires and we see at the navigation center all of that happening

across the board on homelessness. i will call apauss all the departments to work together with our community based organizations, advocate and national expert to ert change and reform or government and other, and will create a department with a mission to end homelessness here in san francisco. [applause] i begin by not just making-i know people have worked on this for years and want to acknowledge first the great work of our past mayors, feinstein and agnos, mayor jordan and willie brown, of course gaveen newsome. i want to build on each of their legacies for addressing homelessness. of course our former supervisor

alota talks about passion. she dedicated a life time to the work and want to say thank you for being here and thank you for being a trusted advisor and advocate and one that reminds everybody we got to get to better solutions. i want to also acknowledge the good work of our former supervisor bevan dufty and director of hope for the last years for tireless work with service providers and client to move people into better lives. i learned a lot with bevan, but i felt his passion avenue day he has been on the job. and today, building on the work that came before we begin a new agency, a agency with a budget and mandate to solve homelessness. we'll bring together under one roof the multitude of

homeless outreach, housing, shelter and supportive services that exist across many different departments. over the last 20 years, we increased our spending on homelessness because the crisis got worse. but because we didn't have a central department for homelessness we layered program upon program across a dozen different department said and then we expected the better outcome. no one agencyies mission was homelessness and today we fix that. with greater coordination we expect better results, more efficiencys and deep er accountability. to make this new department a realty next year i'll be calling upon the leadership of barbarager seea director of public

ehealth, trent roar director of human sunchss and [inaudible] director of hope. together we have aurltd r already implemented some the most forward thinking progressive homeless policies in the country. we created the nations first navigation center, which is just 9 months that we have successfully moved more than 250 people off the streets into healthier settings. great progress towards ending chronic veterans homelessness is done these last few years tackling family homelessness we made great progess. a new investment in supportive housing of 29,000,000 this year. i want to saw they think to tren, barbara and sam and all your team said for pourer your hearts in this work and thank you for joins forces with us to take it to the next level vlt i want to say a special

thank you to public works. i know that department . you kept our streets and have done your best and for always having a positive interaction with the homeless people and compassion and thank you for taking on the smelliest dirtgist jobs in town. i also want to say thank you to all of the people who are own single room occupancy hotels in the city thmpt hotels that are cooperating and working with us to make these units available for people transitioning out of homelessness. that is stock of housing. we never thought through our past loousts and insistence to get code enforcement, we didn't realize how valuable they are to us and a valuable assess they can be. i know some people will say, a department to solve

homlessness mayor. 93 eve. we can't solve homelessness in san francisco. i know that will will be peoples comments. i say we will end homelessness every every single day for @ least one person. for at least one family. for at least a veteran every single day. i know because i have felt the power of giving keys to people exactly in those situations. we will end it for every 1 for every day for someone who suffers on our street. that is what the purpose of creating this department is about. i want a staff at this new department, each person on the staff will come to work every morning with a single

minded focus on ending homelessness for people on the streets. i want the measure of the work of this department and my office to be answering this question, what did i do to end homelessness on our city streets today and what did i do to give people a stable shelter, a home and a path to a healthier life. that is what i want them to ask themselves every single day. i want that to be the question that they ask of themselves. you know, ending homelessness in a very simple way is a matter of priorities. to get there we have to double down on programs that truly work. we have to coordinate with partners, federal, state and other cities. we have to share and do the best practices and we have to also share our challenges with each other. and you know, i

always am focused and concerned about congress and as you know, congress is largely abandoned homelessness in the country and we in san francisco can't wait frathe politics of waug wash dc to arrive, we have tolead and we lead with values. our san francisco values. that is what being a san franciscan is all about, isn't it? it is our values. to be fully able to achieve this vision i'm inviting a group of national experts to advise how to create and set the mandate for this new department. i have spoken to president obamas point person on homelessness, matthew dorty and he agreed to come out and advise and has the expertise of looking at programs across the country to

see what works. we want to be egressive on this but want to be practical at the same time. how will we define sausking street homelessness? what are the investments we are making and how can we double down on this? is there something that we can be doing that we are not already doing? i aults want to invite the local homeless coordinating board to serve as a formal advisory body during the process. we convened san franciscos best and brightest on that commission and definitely need your input. i invite all of you here, every one of you, the people working hard every day day in and out to join in defining the new effort as well because i'll present this plan with the budget this coming year. foremost among the efforts of the department are expanding the successful navigation center program. we learned

that by removing barrier tooz entry into the shelter program and pairing ever navigation center with a housing exist we are making a difference. we already committed the funding in the budget this year to double our capacity at the navigation center and the department will significantly increase to this model. we'll coordinate outreach and build more centers and secure more housing exists. certainly this requires serious funding. since i took office we have spent all most 100 mil yen more every year on homeless services and housing and my commitment today is this, to never let our city slip backwards on our funding priorities. that means movering forward we'll spend at threes

250 million a year on outreach and housing for 10s of thousands of people. we know success isn't mesered by how much money we spend, you know that. accountability matters. we are measured by the number of human beings we lep off our streets and into a better life and by conditions on our streets also improving at the same time. so, i'm setting a ambishish but i believe an achievable goal for the second term. by the time i leave office we will move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness and we'll remove them out of homelessness forever. [applause] and we'll build a system that ends a persons

homelessness before it becomes chronic. that is another thing we learned from the navigation center and we'll do this and achieve this all together. we'll do this by housing families, veterans long term homeless to homeward bound program and long term care for the seriously mentally ill. i also need cooperation for the private sector and philanthropic partner tooz participate as well. i already started conversation with san francisco's business leaders on this particular goal. business leaders, big and small, about a multi-year partnership to add additional navigation centers to the cities portfolio. to them across the board i say thank you and begin by saying a personal thank you to our first anonymous private donor to the the first navigation center.

i'm excited for our partnerships to develop more in the coming months just like the way we started our first navigation center. it was a partnership with faith and funding sources and community in the mission and then everybody else. we need more partnership models like our effort to end family homelessness in the elementary schools which is the focus of [inaudible] 2 great civic leaders. no less different than our technology leaders like nob nub who also became a partner to end veterans homelessness by funding a viable new housing for them in mission bay. letting people live on our streets exposed to violence and whether that isn't compassion. it isn't healthy, it isn't safe and it does want represent

who we are as san francisco and it is not our san francisco values. you know, i'm also proud of our city coming together over something that used to be controversial and i'm talking about lauras law. thank you for visor marc farrell, thank you for your leadership in this effort on a issue that used to divide a lot of us, now it units us with a comma causs because we are figuring it out. since we launched our consensus program just last month we have already received 28 referals from ern concerned family members and service providers. some of the most severely mentally ill they are finally getting help. laura's law is one the

many compassionate programs we should be doing in partnership with our courts and district attorney and justice system. san francisco values means we won't lock people up or persecute them just for being mentally ill. that won't happen and won't happen as long as i'm mayor, but we can use the resources our justice system to make sure people are getting better heltier outcomes. i want to challenge the courts, our public defender and district attorney and health provider tooz come together in the same spirit of collaboration that i proposed today. coming together with your diverse responsibilities and your legal mandates to better serve those desperately in need of our help because i will challenge you with the same outcome i'm calling upon everyone else.

let's talk about not just our legal mandates, lets also talk about outcomes for people. [applause] it is not compassionate and you will agree with me on this to let people suffer silently, to medicate with drugs and call and live an unhealthy life on our streets, that is not compassion and we are empowered to help the seriously mentally ill people but first have to agree to coperate. in a new year i'll invite all our gurchlt stakeholders and mental health and criminal justice to convene with me. i bring this group together to get past the reasons we cannot do things and figure out a way we can do it. let's say for example, you take this program, some of you in the room know what the 51/50 program is. it

is a program with people in personal crisis and danger to themselves we take them to the hospital for 72 hours, but you know what is the challenging part of that 51/50 program? once they come out they go right back on the streets and into the same unhealthy situation that they were literally 48 hours ago. we pulled them out and bring them right back in. that is 51/50. let's redesignthality program for a better outcome, a sustained outcome for those individuals. let's redesign conservativeship programs to serve the intended populations while respecting their civil liberty. we can have a better outcome on that as well. the seriously mentally ill deserve our best efforts. it is complicated and

that's why we take that challenge up. as we focus on getting people into healthier settings, we also need to refocus on the people who are not homeless. the people who prey on our homeless. drug dealers who target the addicted and mentally ill contributing to serious health problems. i'm calling y i am calling for stepped up enforcement for predatory drug dealing around our navigation centers and shelter and homeless service locations and every place we house our homeless. [applause] we need to clean up drug dealing around the buildings where homeless people are trying to clean up their lives. we are not

criminalizing drug addictions, we are enforcing existing laws to protect the most vulnerable. i want to thank supervisor and president of the board of supervisors president london breed for being a leader on the reforms. she is a strong voice the quality of life and reformin our treatment of the mentally ill. that's why friend i am optimistic. a new department, ambitious goal, a will in our city to succeed on this. we can make homelessness rare. we can make it brief. we can make it a one time event in peoples lives. we can move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness forever. for too long deeply held and ideological differences divided all of us. some say we are not tough

enough. others say we are not compalgzinate enough. some say we spend too much money and others say we haven't spent enough. it is time to reconcile these disagroogruments not to set them aside but work through them. if we can cooperate to solve homelessness the sky is the limit on what else we can achieve together. i want to say to you again, we can end homelessness for each individual that we touch, for each family, for each child, we can do that for them. that's what we can define as ending homelessness. if we do it together, we will have demonstrated that collaboration and cooperation is the best way to move forward. so, i want to end by saying thank you to all of you for taking time out of

your busy day to listen to me. i'm excited to work with you, this will give a struck chur to work effectively with all of us. we can do better and will do better, i'm excited and we are san francisco. thank you very much. [applaus week. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the san francisco. the reporter: has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place

win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned sierra nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of yosemite park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands

up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp camp is celebrating it's 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. >> through there are signs that

prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the yosemite park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the national park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed then the city of san francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him

tuesday morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means there's going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome i see i see. >> with a little taste of freedom from the city life you can soak up the country life with swimming and volley ball and swimming and horseback

riding there you go buddy. >> we do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of san francisco rec and park department has to offer hopefully we've been here 90 years my camp name is falcon i'm a recession he leader i've been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he

activity or children activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life the essence of camp mather one thing a that's been interesting i think as it

evolves there's no representation here oh, there's no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so there's more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyone's is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they don't have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. >> how are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches

and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve

the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather

after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place that's crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. >> the evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and - this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things >> unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory ♪ ♪ ♪ admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and park department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside

of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half >> everything is so huge and beautiful. >> the children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles it's a great place to let the children see what's outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra wilderness camp mather is waiting and we look forward to city manager's office you here soon

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