stations where people can dispose. it depends on the relationship that an individual -- people use drugs have with the police department because there's also -- that's often a barrier but i have seen out of the in the community some tenderloin police officers walk around with small boxes and give them out. that seems to be a good relationship. >> supervisooor fewer: you say the kiosks are emptied every four to six weeks but what about the other things? >> there's kiosks and boxes. the kiosk is the size of a mailbox for lack of a better term. then the smaller boxes are about the size of an it. it

depends on the size. some have to be emptied frequently and some as population street is a utilization of the box 50 ivy street used to have to be emptied every two weeks and once there started to be construction on the high-rise the people hanging ouhan hanging out and the syringing decreased significantly. at the library or bill graham the kiosks there need to be emptied consistently every three weeks. they will have anywhere from 2500 to 3,000 syringes in them. >> supervisor fewer: of all the syringes you collect from all the programs what percentage are

you collecting of needles used in san francisco? >> we are collecting around 3 million. >> supervisor fewer : annually? >> yes. we have to be able to assess and look at the syringing going out and the syringes coming in. now as i mentioned the collaboration with the kiosks, i've had several conversations with some staff that said that they feel like the number of syringes that they are picking up are going down and they have related to the keyings that -- kiosks placed in hot spots. when i learn of

large encampments i needily contact our fund -- immediately contact our funded provider to make sure that people have dispos disposal supplies at the camps. they were pickle up less loose syringes and containerized syringes. that's a positive step. >> supervisor cohen: all your burning questions answered? all right. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: we need to hear from natasha about performance measures and street cleaning from the controller's

office. out of the controller's office is the po performance program which i oversee. i just wanted to let you know that there's a big resource responsible on the website at sfgov.com/scorecards. today we are going to launch a benchmarking session where we will move our annual city wide benchmarking into active dash boards that can also be found there. i also wanted to let you know that we are work being all city departments right now to realign their measures with goals they have been working on throughout their own processes and with the mayor's office that will be in the june 1st, mayor's budget book. i just wanted to

give you a quick couple of highlights on this. this is different than the department will be tracking as bruce robinson showed earlier where it was detailed. here we have just some high level measures . i understand this chart is hard to re reed and i apologize. the department has a goal goal of responding to street and sidewalks cleaning requests within 48 hours. another thing that our office does is a survey. so here we are asking citizens what they feel about government services. there's a familiar question about street and sidewalk cleanliness. as you can see the answers whether

the citizens are rating this an a or a b vary by geographic boundaries. the third most requested response was that infrastructure and cleanliness was one of the top issues. taking a look at 311 data i have to give a couple of maps that our office created on where these requests are coming from. you've seen some portions before. the first is on general street cleaning requests. this should give you a good over view of where in the city the street

cleaning volume of requests are coming from. as we were talking about needles it's tenderloin and civic center and for broken glass on the northeast side of the city. just one last thing that public works is responsible for is responding and abating to graffiti on public property. here we are showing both requests for abatement on public property as well as private property. private property abatement is the responsibility of home and business owners. the response has been up and down for the department though they are coming close to abating these public profit graffiti requests within 95% of the time in 72 hours. that's all i have today on street cleaning. any questions? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. that's it. we are going to move

on. so finally a presentation from the community represented by three directors of the community district. i want to recognize karen flood. are you here still? there you are. also dominic milandry. are you here? dominic is no longer here. yes. okay. and then tracy everwine from the central market cmd. both of these ladies will give a joint presentation when you're ready. >> good afternoon, supervisors and thank you superveez -- supervisor cohen for inviting us here today. i'm here to represent the 13 property based cbds in san francisco and then following me are two other

colleagues of mine that will go into more detail, the first representing the neighborhood and then the downtown districts. so just a quick over view of the cbd program. so private property owners form districts because they see a need for extra services from cleaning to marketing to advocacy to so much more. they are willing to assess themselves to pay for these services. they do so with an understanding that the city will maintain their baseline level of services so these new services will enhance not replace city services. once formed they are usually run by a n nonprofit and governored by a board of directors. these are all over the world. this is not a new concept. there's about 1600 in north america alone. there's 74 in new york city, 40 in manhattan and there's a trade organization, international downtown association. we come together, the members do, to discuss best practices and hear low local -- locally we have a

cbd consortium. the next shows a cbd. there's six duowntown districts clustered around market street and there's seven neighborhood districts. cbds contribute significantly to san francisco both in dollars and in investment. so in fiscal year 16-17 there were at least $146- million, 14.7 million. this is for cleaning services, safety services, marketing and so much more. they are able -- cbds are able to raise additional funds for all of their programs.

that augments their budgets as well. 16-17 was about $4.3 million. these services range from sidewalk sweeping to power scrubbing, graffiti rem e remov removal, the big bailey smart -- big belly smart cans. there's other brands that do the same. we remove a lot of trash. again 16-17 about 2.1 million pound of trash was removed by all the cbds and that's 1700 adult sea lions. if they moved from pier 39 to the city center play plaza -- plaza and lay

down they would fit. we have boots on the ground every day. we provide consistent cleaning and rapid response sometimes, sometimes through a dispatch center. we can hire staff quickly, do pilot programs such as the trash or workforce programs, security camera programs and such that are replicated throughout the city. we know our stake holders and collaborate with them and talk to them about keeping their sidewalks clean. above all we really take pride in our neighborhoods. that's what is really important from all of us. we do that on a hyper local level. we could be more successful with better coordination with public works and other city health departments. that's on both of us to do them and with more resources i think we can deliver directly to the neighborhoods because we know what is needed. with that i would like to turn it over to dominic who is the executive director of the top of broadway and he will go into

more detail. >> so i'm here to today to talk about the tangible benefits. one of the most visible benefits that we provide is with responsive cleaning of the public rights of way. a lot of times this is either contracted or done in house. that's the

dynamic stewardship of our rights of way that includes pressure washing, sidewalk sweeps, increased landscapinini and tin collusion of sidewalk am am amendees. this is facilitated by our in-house maintenance team or ambassador program. the a m abba ambassadors observe and report, clean sidewalks, give directions. they feed reports to cbd staff so we can best tailor or operation to revolve around the district and resolev with demands of the corridors. one of the other functions is business and residential advocacy and quality of life

issues. neighborhoods as i mentioned before are aware of some of the stresses with the larger trends and localized trends. the cbd is there to provide a safety net and sense of consistency when it come to public sidewalks so the districts can look as presentable as possible year around. finally we are mandated to directly engage with community members and engage with other local institutions and low -- local non-profits. this mines business owners, property owners and others within our boundary to bring everyone to the same table and run in the same direction to develop localized solutions.

i'm sorry, i forgot to click this. one other thing we do is create space for the community. we do this by as mentioned sidewalk cleanliness is one of the mandates. creating spaces is also just as paramount. we bring together local stake holders and really hammering out consensus on how the district wants to coordinate and market itself to the greater san francisco bay area. sub gent marketing campaigns can distribute to the identity. that allows a command for new

demand for the community to activate. i included some pictures all over neighborhoods in san francisco. as you can see the seed installation at the astro district which is quite inpressive, we have fisherman's wharf, a new community park and two parking spaces in noe valley to create a public park let. often times these project that is are designed to create new public spaces are facilitated between cbds, area nonprofits and partners. there's very potential to accomplish even more. it has been incredible

useful in assisting cbds to realize beautify projects. the more we have at our disposals to suppleme supplement the greater the ultimate benefit is to our neighborhoods and con -- con -- constituents and stake holders. we have that immediate and direct impact on the qualify of life of our districts. cbd projects and programs vary understandably as demands and stresses on individual communities differ. solutions for japan town or noe valley may not be relevant to other cbds within the city. when we apply

for grant funding what we are asking from the city is to empower our community cbds to develop solutions as specific to our district problems. i included these programs. it's also better to have strategic partners. tyou can see the cbd led effort. it was a grant rp201 i think. it's a grant for the invested neighborhoods that have cap tase -- capitalized

on. they are data driven to allow our cbds. >> supervisor fewer: have you transitioned into the downtown cbds? >> not yet. other lighting installations that increase public safety but add a dynamic sense of art. with that i would like to introduce the next

speaker. >> just like the neighborhood cbds the downtown core cbds everybody everyone. we could have had five slides showcasing district stake holders. this is just a snapshot of the folk that is we are trying to improve the public realm for. we have had slides on the challenges that cbds are facing. one came in last week that end capsules everything. this is one contribution to stephenson

valley. >> one person? >> one person. >> so we see a blocked sidewalk forcing pedestrians to walk into the street. this individual collects needles. you can see all the sharp containers that have been collected by this individual. this individual suffers from mental illness and is very hostile. this takes a cbd and sometimes two to three markets 3,000 and 4,000 per

month. we need to address the antistreet behavior. as both my colleagues touched on our budgets are fixed but we are extremely well poised to be efficient in service delivery. we have wonderful metrics. we are just tremendously accountable. so we really implore you to stare any funding opportunities, grants our way. we would put our resources towards extending the hours of

operation. many of us do not operate late into the evening where we are seeing increased problems. >> do they extend back to your camera? >> they are in our hot spots. >> are these movable or fixed? >> they are fixed and they are -- the latest technology to those very extensive. so don't

know. >> are they registered? >> yes. >> thank you for your thoughtful presentation. i don't know if you have any other questions? question for either karen, dominic or tracy. can you-all estimate the additional levy or tax burden annually on our residents that they have taken on? >> just so -- just for some clarification are you querying the quantitiable amount? >> it's the budget committee. i'm looking for a little bit of numbers to quantify. >> good afternoon. senior program program oewd. i can not

give you a set number per each cbd that each assessment formula is derived via what the total budget of the district is as long as -- as well as the parcel characteristics of each individual parcel. >> okay. you cannot. >> no, but i can get you the assessment formula and give you some sample assessments for each direct. >> i'm not interested in how the properties are assessed. what i'm looking for is to understand residents will say my taxpayers pay for street cleaning for the streets to be cleaned. i'm trying to see how much how much of that is true. not everyone has one in their neighborhood. i don't know, chris, are you able to answer that question? >> can you rephrase the question for me?

>> sure. so taxpayers say to me all the time, particularly when we were erecting the green benefits district in the dog patch neighborhood, they will say why should i assess myself an additional tax when i pay property taxes, sales taxes, all these different taxes go into the collection of taxes that are collected from the state as well as from the -- as well as for the city and county of san francisco. then in addition to this very high cost of living and tax collection we asked them to assess another, although very small fraction based on the parcel of their property. how do we, you know -- you know, is there a thoughtful response to that? >> yes. so we are when going -- when we are going too these community meetings that's a concern that assessees would be delivering to the steering

committee trying to form a community benefit district or a green benefit district or kid or bid. the response per the management agreement with the city any baseline service within a cbd zone cannot not be pulled back. >> i definitely understand that. thank you. i'm going to direct my next question to karen, dominic and tracy, this wonderful trifecta leadership. i know you work closely with the department of public works. i was wondering in your opinion from what you've seen you don't have to have data to back it up, what kind of programs are working, what do you like, what would you like to see more of? do you need more pit stops? do you need more zones? do you need the zones to be more

smaller and more people working the zones? i'm just trying to understand a little bit better as we go into this budget discussion. there's going to be people advocating for money. i wanted to -- i wanted the conversation to be driven more on policy and policy priority. >> so i think we both have a quick response. >> we would love to see more pit stops. ideally staffed to cove. we take care of the areas around the pit stops. as you can see public works helps us a lot with removal of large debris. so all we have to do is pick up the phone and call and

they -- either they come out with a truck or we can call recology and they come out and help us remove those hazards from our sidewalks. >> supervisor cohen: it sounds like you like the pit stop? >> absolutely. we are very excited about larry's proposed temper proof cans that are in design currently. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for the question. we work closely with dpw to coordinate services. treasure management is a huge deal. what is creating the problem is what is happening with the private collection of the cans that get out. they don't knowsly have to -- the private businesses don't pick them up until they reopen which could be a couple of days over the weekend. if they are not lost and it's not required to lock these cans they get

rummaged through at the nighttime. there's digging for recyclables, digging for feed, sometimes regard receipts and it creates just a complete mess on these sidewalks. that's sucking up a lot of our resources. rehired the downtown streets team to start in the alleys because it was sucking our resources from doing that. i worked for dpw back in the late 90s and we had litter enforcement officers. there's one for our district that's a supervisor but there needs some enforcement. people are behaving badly. they need to put it out at the right times, lock their bins and be responsible.

>> i think this is concluding this very long day of budget priorities. i would like to close out and open up to public comment. if you guys are able to stick around i would love for you to stick around for public

>> thank you. i'm robin ross, who is part of the hepatitis c task force and we've come here today because our budget ask, while general, will directly and inappropriately help san francisco achieve cleaner streets. >> which organization? >> san francisco hepatitis c task force. i've spoke with you before. as we heard, one of the biggest complaints is used needles and syringes littering the streets. we're asking for funds to expand the hepatitis c navigation staff

because these people are out on the streets. they're talking to people who are doing the drugs on the streets and probably half of whom have hepatitis c. outreach workers pick up drug paraphernalia, but do so much more. they engage folks on the dirty streets, helping people get tested for hepatitis c, getting into care. and help people get off the streets. studies have shown that people who just know their hepatitis c status reduce their drug use. and people who are cured feel better, have better energy, brain fog lifts. they start getting their lives together. these navigation programs are successful programs, but way

understaffed. they need to be in more areas of the city, where drug use, homelessness and dirty streets intersect and hepatitis c is the common thread that offers solutions. please ask the coalition packet. >> how much are you asking for? >> and we're just asking for a modest amount, but it's urgently needed, while we look for more robust ways to fund the programs. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> i'm ace washington, ace on the case, fillmore corridor ambassad ambassador, anything else you want to call me. i'm appalled and i will try to keep it to a where my blood pressure don't go up. i was here about the street

cleaning, had issues with d.p.w. what made my blood pressure overboil is when you asked about the cbd, dbd and the other organizations that you give funds to. but in the fillmore, what i call the feel-no-more, haven't started the pac, cbd, and all that's left is ace, in front of you. i'm appalled. and i haven't had a chance to talk to the caretaker mayor here yet because there's an issue going on and i will bring that up. but i'm going to be at every meeting on the financing and budgeting this year because it does not show where blacks are in the budget nowhere. the $10.1 or 2 billion. i'm appalled of the department heads down here talking about some money.

i'm appalled. i'm appalled here. in district 5, we don't have after cbd. we don't have a cad. but you have an ace. and i'm the fillmore corridor ambassador. i should have been called up here to tell you about my community. i'm appalled. when i go home, i have to take my blood pressure medicine, every time i come here to "silly hall." i've been here longer than anybody. i get no respect here. i have to file a complaint and then you will want to talk to me then. i can do that. marie rogers did it, under the organization i'm with now. i'm appalled! the way you treat us in the 11th district.

[inaudible] >> i wonder if the needle exchange program would consider taking syringes, so no one would have to risk being accidentally stuck with a needle and i was worried about the degradation rate of fentanyl, because it's appearing in other drugs and microscopic quantities are supposed to be pretty powerful. also -- yeah, i believe that $200,000 is an excessive amount to operate a small, portable outhouse or toilet. it's roughly $1 million over a five-year period to sustain one facility or $6 million over the 30-year trajectory in luxury homes that are purchased.

let's see. can you reduce the job status under street cleaning operations to that of temporary position? can you double your work force by eliminating benefits and operating -- and operate within the existing budget? >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is orlando chavez. i'm a hep c navigator at the guide foundation and i'm here to support the ask for full-time navigator and outreach worker at glide and also the full-time navigator and halftime nurse practitioner at the san francisco aids foundation. i'll tell you straight out that 16 years ago i was on these streets. i was in these jails. i was in these methadone

clinics. i was very unreachable. if you tried to talk to me, i was lake, talk to the hand. today i'm the person that goes out and talks to the people that are in the situation that i was in. and the line starts at my door at 9:00. so i need 10 of me to do the job that i do. we're asking for one full time navigation. so we can go out and have those conversations with the people at homeless encampments, at the jails, at the shelters. the syringe access programs, we're not just out there willy-nilly tossing out syringes. we're also picking them up. when the navigators go out with teams, they build on a community of trust. they can cross into enclaves and

communicate with people. like the horse-whisperer, only i don't talk to horses. i talk to human beings. they need me. san francisco needs me. for every person we turn around, we have success stories, i could tell you if i had more time, but we've been able to take people that are homeless without m medi-cal and get them into treatment within 16 days. >> how much does it cost for an additional worker? >> we're asking for $119,000 for the full-time navigator and a halftime outreach worker at glide. and the san francisco aids foundation is requesting $148,000 for one full-time navigator and halftime nurse practitioner. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> can i ask a quick question? no. >> go ahead.

>> a quick question. i'm wondering what makes the difference -- what helps to pull people in and gets them better? >> connecting to someone, connecting to someone that understands their needs, is the most effective way. everyone we talk to say they've never talked to a peer navigator before. they've had bad experiences at medical clinics. if they're connected to care, they're not engaging with care. when we reach out to them, they can tell if there's anything fake or fraudulent about us in about 30 seconds and they will back off real quick if they think that. you need peer-based people to do the work. >> thank you. >> and thank you for your important work. thank you so much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. good afternoon. i'm ray goldstein and i have been a hepatitis c patient and i'm advocating for a synergy

between the department of public health, the department of public works, and other like-minded organizations that want to clean the streets. it begins at the top with drug use. san francisco has what is considered to be a model plan to eliminate hepatitis c. the department of public health, viral hepatitis coordinator katie burke, will be speaking next week on cdc's grand rounds, on san francisco's innovative methods, coalition of public health and community-based organizations. in order to meet the goal of hep c elimination, we need to fund community organizations through the department of public health to do outreach to people and navigate their way to better health. i think the word navigate is key, although there are much more simple, direct, and

quick-acting cures for hepatitis. the arrangements that need to be made among the various medicaid, medicare, insurance, pharmaceutical companies, all of these things are bewildering to many patients. and the type of navigator that orlando was talking about is the key to linking patients with the available treatment. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm courtney pearson, here from the san francisco aids foundation. i wanted to give a little more context to our syringe access services that have been discussed today and some of the work we're engaged in. for background, san francisco's been a leader in providing sterile injection supplies for those that need them for monday that are 20 years. because of that commitment, our h.i.v. prevalence amongst people that inject drugs has fallen

dramatically and less than half the national average our rates of new h.i.v. infections remain higher than other states and national statistics and we know that participants that can define the number of syringes they need are effective and not all methods of syringe access provide equal public health benefits. removing limits on the syringes that people can access makes it less likely that people reuse syringes. our access model, participants define how much they need and receive safe disposal containers. we're committed to public health and clean and healthy streets. in addition, we're growing the number of hours or team conducts street sweeps too collect and dispose of used works. in march, 101 hours was spent collecting and safely disposing of thousands of sir syringes in

42 sweeps and nine cleanups. we've recently expanded our peer disposal program and hired a full-time coordinator to organize our participants, neighbors, and partners, to join our community cleanup efforts. syringe access reduces h.i.v. infections, provides care and proper syringe disposal. we encourage the city to install more models and more kiosks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. thank you for holding this hearing and coming hearings. a lot of good information and i hope a lot of food for thought as you prioritize your one the decisions in the next few months. clearly there are steps taken with neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations on the

health side, to really make this city shine. unfortunately, all you have to do is look at emails that all your business organizations, hotel council and the chamber get every day from visitors who on the one hand enjoyed parts of their experience here but on the other hand will never come back. and it's because what is on the streets of san francisco. i think you heard today, there are steps that can be taken in the budget, whether it's changing trash receptacles, more needle disposal boxes, more pit stops, sidewalk steam cleaning. and really working closely with the community benefit districts you have. the chamber has taken the lead in forming a downtown community benefit district that we hope we will have property own other vote and board of supervisors approval this july, that will raise over $4 million a year for downtown services. you can assist all these

communities benefit districts in the budget cycle this july, though, because every community benefit district has unfunded services that are required by law. you look at the community benefit district plans and the property owners pay for most of it, but every district has 1%, 2%, 5% that's general benefited. that could be given back to add to the service levels they're providing on the streets. we urge you to look at that in this summer's budget process. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any speaker? >> hi there. good afternoon. cassandra costello with san francisco travel. department of public works has been a great partner with the travel industry and kind enough to give us -- i think it was a kind thing -- 5:30 a.m. tour. we've went with them and saw the challenges that they face every day. thank you for the work.

you heard about surveys of the residents. our visitor surveys are similar. so folks that are writing us, filling out our surveys, top three things that are negative about their experience -- cleanliness of the streets is one of them. they see the same things we see every day. the human waste on the street. the needles. and they're shocked. they're completely stunned. and unfortunately going back and telling their friends and family about that experience and they're not coming back. so we need to make sure that we're upping the efforts that d.p.w. is doing, supporting community districts. we've want more focused, regular steam cleaning. areas where the high visitor areas are among market street, holiday plaza and others. we think a matching grant program would be very helpful to encourage more private investment. i think it's an efficient and effective way to is up supplement what public works is

funding. and the pit stop program. we're convinced this is a successful program. we want to see more in highly trafficked visitor areas like 5th and howard and tenderloin and mid market and especially the ones that look like the painted ladies. we're happy you held this hearing and focusing on these important issues. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to be here to speak. once again, i'm quantella hen i have. today i learned a little more about the numbers of the homeless people. but however, i still feel like it's an urgency from the area of where i live at, which is in between hyde, ellis, right on the other side of the police

station. we do have two groups. some is glide groups and they have red buckets, but they don't have a -- what do you call a -- pit pot program. it was on eddie and jones. it is not working. i ask that you please reconsider and hopefully the last two weeks we had eight overdoses on ellis within itself. so i'm really hoping that we can get the money that we need to move this forward. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm javier baman. i work with housing intership. quntella henry is one of the housing representatives that we work with and i think she's been demonstrating, you know, the

tenderloin neighborhood is a very critical part of the city that needs street cleaning. it's unsettling to hear the fears and despair that the residents in the tenderloin especially feel about stepping outside and walking in their own neighborhood. we also have staff who fear working to and from work. for example, in the marina district, supervisor stefani's district, we have a building and a lot of residents used to live in the tenderloin in transitional housing and they express gratitude that they live in a neighborhood where the neighborhood provides services to keep their streets clean. i think that highlights the need and the critical urgency of the funding for street cleaning, especially in neighborhoods like

the tenderloin. we know it's a city-wide problem, but in places that are the most affected, i think it's important that we continue to fund them and we thank you forrfor allocating the funds and hope that you recognize the urgency of the matter by continuing to fund street cleaning. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon. jennifer freedom from coalition on homelessness. so fun, get to have potty talk. [laughter] i wanted to say -- you know, there's been a lot of unfortunate quotes from d.p.w. management in the newspaper lately. despite that, i really got to give it up for the department for becoming part of the solution and doing pit stops. it's reducing waste on the streets and infuses dignity into the lives of people that are

forced to live outdoors. there's not many things more humiliating than to be forced to do a private, human act outdoors. each of the pit stop potties are equipped with sharps containers. and the bathrooms, as helpful as they are, are only open limited hours, and we cannot control our internal clocks and when people have to go, they got to go. that's why the homeless emergency service providers situation has a $500,000 ask in our budget request to add more than 100 hours of service to the existing pit stop capacity. in addition, there are things that we hear from homeless folks that they do ask for more garbage bags and brooms. they want to be part of the solution. there is a lot of struggle for them keeping up because of all the illegal dumping that takes

place. but also, homeless people really appreciate the d.p.w. cleanings, but it would be a lot more helpful that they were on a scheduled basis so folks can prep for it. and be ready to move when d.p.w. crews get there. it works well when they know they're coming at a regular time each week. lastly, we're spending a lot of money -- >> next speaker, please. >> my name is michael harris. and i live at 51 6th street, hillsdale hotel. i call it ground zero. it's not really the tenderloin. it's south of market. i'm a former coordinate in the city of inglewood in the late '80s/early '90s. the problem is, we're in a crisis situation with street cleaning. tourist season is ready to come.

you can do what you want with the budget at any time. i live in a transitional housing building. we need to pay the people that live that are on g.a.r. or cap to help clean the streets in their neighborhood. that's how you will clean up the tenderloin. you will not clean it up by bringing in outside people. let the people in the neighborhood take care of their own neighborhoods. snare not doing anything in the rooms. let's do a proactive approach. give the people the jobs that live there. and then you will see -- you will see a change in the tenderloin. hire the people on c.a.p. to clean the streets. that's all i have to say. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. pat scott. i'm here by accident. i just happened to peek in and see you sitting here, so i thought i would have my two cents worth. i really am asking you for $200,000 for teen programming. we have no targeted teen programming and we're looking at a population of african-american

and latino students that are from 14% to 20% proficiency level going to san francisco public schools. we see kids in an after school program that's no longer funded. starting july 1, we will not be able to provide any programs for them. we take the kids from washington and from other high schools. we give them academic support. we have new youth radio studios, san francisco bureau of youth raidy -- radio, so we can teach young people production skills, so they can learn to tell their own stories. how to be involved. we have new studios, but we have no money to run them. so i'm asking you for the $200,000 to run teen programs for next year. so we can pick up these kids and prevent them from being homeless because that's exactly where they're headed.

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. >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco planning commission and building inspection commission joint hearing for thursday, april 12, 2018. i will remind members of the public that the commissions do not tolerate outbursts of any kind. please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings, and when speaking to the commissions, if you care to, state your name for the record. i will take roll for the plannin