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moved >> we are now in item 10 general public comment continued. anyone here let to make general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. where now in item 11, closed session. anyone would like to make public comment on closed session? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, you need to make a motion and vote whether to go into closed session >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] so moved >> so we would ask everyone to >> we need a >> we need a 16:45:23>> we need amotion hearing >> e would be whether you want to report any actions in closed session >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] he was the second one is whether to vote
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to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session >> motion? moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] >> thank you were now on item 12 new business agenda setting. measures you have anything any items >> can we just i don't know where to put up in the placeholder for the very last comment made around the revisiting-i don't know the right iteration but at some point >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> i think what we can do is just you can have that under new business or under-we can do it under new business agenda setting and we can have a discussion at this point >> yes, that's the point he was fine the right rhythm >> [inaudible] we can't be
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>> thank you, kyra. good morning, everyone. thank you. thank you for being out here being part of the great city response to this big big challenge. i know what carol was talking about it i was one of those frustrated people as well as watching on television. but i do enjoy these days when -in fact, this is the 65th, 65 times, we have brought hundreds if not thousands of people together to make sure that we are helping folks touched the services we want to have. we have today over 150 different
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services that if we do not come together people might not be able to get the support. we are and we will always be the city of love in san francisco. were demonstrating this. yes. thank you. you are demonstrating this >> >>[applause] >> some people frustrations because they just want the issue to go away. it's not going away. economic inequality is not going away. discrimination is not going away. it takes people like you to work with us to resolve them every single day. so today we are demonstrating. i want to just say thank you to all the different companies the individual volunteers coming together. there are so many of you. i know somebody is going to name all of the names of all the difference wonderful companies that you represent. i just want to personally say thank you for coming together again 65 times. now we're doing our part as well. you know some
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people say what you doing spending $267 million a year on homelessness and we still see so much challenges? well it's expensive expensive to live in this great city and we don't want people to live on the streets. we don't want to see needles on the streets. again, we do it the way we are compassionate about it. we are humanly compassion about how we solve this problem. so in the next pew months we have three more supportive housing buildings opening up in san francisco. three more added that will be dozens, hundreds of units so that people will have the housing with supportive services in february, will open up-yes >> >>[applause] >> in february, we'd open up new is navigation center. everybody know what a navigation center is? all right. let me explain.
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everybody understands what shelters have been, right? they getting get out. get in and get out. that's what shelters have been. when i came to be mayor i said that's not good enough. to have people come into shelter, briefly, then kick them out at 8 am. ring them in at 4 pm kick them out at 8 am and without much service or support. what we introduced was a center called a navigation center. helping people navigate to permanent housing. the open up the very first one at 16th and mission street. for 75 people. it's a 24-7 operation. people of the meals they need to have get all the services they have. they can kind of get back into the spirit of how to sleep at night. a lot of homeless people sleep in the daytime because of all the dangers that occur on the streets. so we are getting back into the habit of living in their own units. over
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probably usually about 2-3 weeks people then have individual case management that helps them navigate to permanent housing. this is what we do now as a new model. it is now become the national model. seattle, portland, los angeles, have all come in and they said we need to have these navigation center. rather than temporary shelters that offer really no pathway to permanent housing. so when we build and when we we have the permanent housing use these navigation centers to get people prepared so that they can stay in their units have all the support they need. so we need more navigation centers. the next one that will-thank you. >> >>[applause] >> this is, again, this is our best practice understanding of what really works to change people's lives. because if you do encounter you will encounter them today people are been on the streets sometimes for many years. a lot of phobias that a
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lot of mistrust. a lot of habits and behaviors that are going to be very challenging for them even if we have eight units ready for them they might not be able or ready to accept it. so the navigation centers we are doing the next one that we have. we are able to work this out with the before of san francisco and they have provided us with an area near the dogpatch that we work it out with immediate neighborhoods were now embracing it so they welcome injured 70 person navigation ctr. on 25th st. in the dogpatch that will be ready for operation in february that again 24 seven you another site we were working on the salvation army as well. so we're taking care of business. i want to say this is a new approach. we have to be patient but we also to the right. we are not to move people from one corner to another corner. that's not what san francisco
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is about. when we have a new department. of department on homelessness and supportive housing. jack crews is to work at hamilton family shelter is now the director of operations of its whole new department. we consolidated the services of or five different departments to place it is one dedicated department. now just like every day i get to work with 120 people this one to permanent come to work and save to me unto themselves everybody they touch i get to end homelessness for one person every single day. that makes me feel great. does not make you feel great? >> >>[applause] >> we have the navigation centers we have the new housing coming aboard. we also will have a good we are having a cayman resolution team. this is
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just idea. kim and resolution to what is due? practice we don't want people to live but our streets. had we do it? are clearing out the demons of the past month we've been very focused mission area from 16th on what tonight street. we seem to have a very strong presence of an cam and there. we are helping people be indian camp. were doing the camp kuwait which we will clear those intimate but at the same time bring the man. in fact the first two weeks as we got people ready were able to bring in 35 people into permanent housing to navigation centers and d encamped those areas. when we get camp that means no more needles on the street. the more people shooting up, laying across the street and the midday. we are trying to do this in way in which we can
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also take the men on a permanent basis give them the help and support they need. so i want to say again thank you to all of you. i would give you a sense of what we're doing here just working with public health with our human services, with our social services as well as our new department on housing and homelessness. and we work together with our police department so we don't criminalize homelessness. just make sure we do it all the right way. so when you do your work to that new mail there's thousands of other people that are helping you in helping us figure this out permanently and ending homelessness as many people as we can touch. thank you for coming together for 65th project homeless connect will be there working hard to make sure we do it the right way. the human way. the san francisco way. thank you very much. >> >>[applause] >>
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>> >> >>[gavel] >> good morning everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october 26, 2016. my name is mark farrell all be chairing this committee. i'm joined by supervisor katie tang and supervisor norman yee. i want to thank the clerk of the committee and sfgov tv for covering the meeting today. do we have any announcements? >> please silence all cell phones. items acted upon today will appear on n
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