gang injunctions was that necessary then, i think that we're saying now is have we learned other tools, have you learned other ways to really to impact gang violence? is there other ways that we can do it, and i think that is what we're trying to find out. so i think that i will speak to the director because he's waiting. >> i have one thing to say, supervisor fewer, you have made repeated reference to have to speak to people who do not feel they should be included. i encourage you to either contact our office directly or have those indvidual to contact our office. i will send you all of the motions so you can see who is going to be taken off and what are the particular names. if you have an individual that is not on those lists to be removed, i encourage you to contact our office or have that person contact our office. >> supervisor fewer: i will say that i have spoken to men

who have been on this list and i think that they need to be taken off and for three years they have tried and for three years they have lived under this. and i think that for those of us who can't imagine that it might be difficult, but,ctually, today with mr. jones i can imagine it. and i think that it's a heavy burden. anyway, thank you so much. i think that we all learned a lot today. and i think we're about to learn more from the inspector. so my question, inspector, whether or not in the last couple years about -- you're in the gang task force, is that correct? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: and how long have you been in the gang task force? >> i went to the gang task force in 2002. >> supervisor fewer: in 2002. >> right. >> supervisor fewer: so there's clearly gang activity still in san francisco, would you agree with that? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: okay. would you agree -- so can you tell me that the people who are in gang injunction lists which

we have heard today from individuals that say that if you are just merely -- you're on the list but you're with your children and that police can stop you and actually question you and detain you in front of your family even though you're not in an area of gang activity or not participating in any gang activity, can police stop you and detain you? >> it depends on the circumstances. you know, with that there's a lot of information that's not available. if you're asking me if th yan stop you outside of the gang safety zone when you're not in the company of other gang members solely for the purpose of violating the gang junction, no. no. you cannot. the gang injunction was not intended to just be used as an arbitrary tool to just stop anyone anywhere at any time. there has to be probable cause. when we apply the gang

injunction to gang members we have been given a specific set of criteria or elements that we need to meet in order for the district attorney to even consider refiling charges and so if we see a gang member in a gang safety zone, we n't say we see them in the gang zone and now we'll arrest them. the officers have to be able to articulate they oberved them for a period of time and the things they were doing, that they were actually loitering in the area. because many of the gang members, even though many of them do not actually live within the safety zone -- and one of the figures that i found very interesting is when we did an analysis, 37 names were listed on that injunction. at the time of the individuals being listed on the injunction 32 did not live within the safety zone. and they lived outside of the safety zone and many had

addresses outside of the city. there were actually five people at the time they were listed on the injunction that had addresses inside of the safety zone. later on there's individuals that lived outside of the safety zone that had moved back into the safety zone or began to use addresses there. and of the five in the safety zone, two moved outside of the safety zone because they moved with a girlfriend and they started a family. so we have to look and to have a specific amount of information in order to make the stop for the violation of the gang injunction so there has to be an observation and the individual has to be inside of the safety zone. and so i can't speak as to exactly what happened with mr. jones. but if he was outside the safety zone, it could not be the only

reason for the stop. >> supervisor fewer: so do you think that sometimes police officers may stop people that they think have a gang injunction are enjoined and violate the rulesf the gang injunction? >> you know, there wa ot of things that will happen. there will be perceptions of the officers and perceptions of the individuals that are being detained as to why they're being stopped. i'm not going to say no because i can't speak for the actions of anyone else beside myself but if that does happen there are remedies and they can file complaints and the individuals can approach the city attorney. there's a number of things that can occur. >> supervisor fewer: and i just think that if you're in a gang and if you are enjoined in a gang injunction and police stop you outside of the zone and you are not -- i mean, i can't

imagine an individual wanting to go to court and say, you know what, it was a violation and, you know, i mean my husband was a police officer for the city for five years and i think that you may know him and know a little bit about the reality of what sometimes happens on the streets. i also just want to ask, so in the last, these people that are still on the list that in the last -- have you found that people who are in this gang injunction list have committed crimes, gang related, within the lawo years? >> yes. in fact -- >> supervisor fewer: would you say everyone on the list? >> pardon? >> supervisor fewer: would you say every individual on the list? >> no, because when we recently did the review we did the five years standard that we used when individuals say they get convicted of a 186.22. when individuals are convicted of the gang charge, of the 1866 hadn't 22, they are then

required to register for five years as a gang member when they move in or out of the jurisdiction and they're required to register with the chief of police just like other statutes. and i think that it's in the california penal code so that was the standard that we're using when we were doing a lot of reviews so we went back and there were some individuals that early on maybe the first year in the five-year period may have had police contacts but there weren't arrests so we didn't preclude them from submitting those names and having the attorney review them to have their names removed. but there was that five-year period that we're using. because the state statute says five years and you have to register and if you can stay out of trouble -- even probation of parole ends after two or three years depending on the conditions. but it's set up under the state

statute that it's five years for the registration so we were trying to be consistent. >> supervisor fewer: so are there gangs that have white members? >> pardon? >> supervisor fewer: are there gangs that are made up of white people in san francisco? >> yes, there are some -- we have the hells angels here, ok okay? but we super two other gangs that we have been monitoring for a year or two now that have come to our attention but we don't have enough evidence and information in order to prove r eate statutes that they're a gang at this point. >> supervisor fewer: so you don't have enough information to say that the hells angels are a gang? >> we don't have enough evidence and if we went to court and proved that this gang exists as a gang and that the individuals associated with it are gangs because we have to understand

that -- and i think that perhaps maybe if you have another hearing that we could explain the process because it's a very complicated process. but i think that -- i think that what we have to -- in ordeot have a better understanding is the process that we use when we're articulating someone involved in a gang that we use to show at aang there. and we have individuals that fit some of the criteria under the state statutes but there are other elements of that that we have not been able to prove yet. so we can't file chargeson this -- these two particular groups and prove that they're gangs under state law. >> supervisor fewer: since you have been doing this for a long time now do you think that there are other things that we could be implementing instead of gang injunctions that could have a positive impact in curtailing gangactivity? >> you know what, a gang injunction is one of the tools that can be used and one of the

tangible things that we haven't talked about with benefit is that one of the things is keeping the gang members from loitering in the gang safety zone. there are so many times that we respond out to drive-by shs ootingnd that involved the gang members. when rivals want to avenge something they know where to go. in april there wa aooting that occurred at third and six men were shot and one died. and i was appalled because there is actually more coverage of the woman that was shot at the google headquarters than the fact that we just hass shooting in the bayview and one young man lost his life and five other young men were shot. so there's intangible benefits? but are there other things that we can do? yes, yes. >> supervisor fewer: what would be some of those things that you think in your opinion that we could do that could actually impact the gang

activity. >> first of all you have to start with some of the youth as they're in middle school and high school. that is the breeding ground for gangs and that's where they start to get indoctrinated and they start to become involved. you have so many of the youth that are maybe in a one-parent family or we're talking about individuals that are in a socially economically depre area that we sit here and we look at all of the trappings -- the jewelry, the cars, the clothes, the money, there's a lot of things that theyouth become enamored with and they don't understand or they haven't been given the skillset to realize that you have to work hard to get something. and they find other ways that the gang offers in order for them to achieve that. >> supervisor fewer: so you think that if we invested in prevention at an early age that we might see the benefits? >> yes, there are some intervention programs that are geared towards middle school and high school students that help.

also job programs. up until about five years ago i used to have a contact where i could get some individuals, you know, gang members that wanted a job or something and i could go to the city and i could get them jobs. i don't have access to those programs anymore. and i think that if we had access to jobs, if we had access to training, and somebody that is working a 40-hour week doesn't really have time to hang out on the street corner late at night or become involved in something. >> supervisor fewer: or is economically stable? >> pardon? >> supervisor fewer: or someone, an individual who is economically stable also might not join into a gang. >> exactly. >> supervisor fewer: so there are things that we can invest in to prevent gang activity and there are things that we could -- so i think that i'd like to see the data on how many of those people who are still on the list, how many of them have

been arrested for recent gang activity. i think that if you have that data that would be reallyb helpful. >> excuse me, we can go back and we can review a lot of that data because now that we haved the review of a numb of the individuals that run the injunction, they have been removed and they don't have to be a part of that because in order for them to be revedmo there would have been nothing in the last three years. >> supervisor fewer: the people on the list, there's about 53 that are still on the list and then, yeah, i'm wondering with the city attorney when will you do your next review to see whether or not -- so when you do your review are you speaking also to community members who sort of know that their communities well and have their ear to the ground on who are gang members and who are not? >> in regards to when we do our review? >> supervisor fewer: yes, a review to take them off the list or you weren't -- yeah. you were around when they put

some on the list? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: so did you speak to the community members who actually know the neighborhoods very well. as you know there are sort of informal leaders in the community to know that these individuals and they know who are gang members and who are not. so did you do an evaluation and did your evaluation include an investigation with these individuals? >> when we were looking to submit our portion of the evaluation we reviewed the records that we had, that were police reports, that were statements, social media. because one of the things as we go into the future gang members have also gone into the 21st century and there are a lot of other pieces of information that we gather. so we were coming at it from the police department's point of view. the input from the community on that would have been something

that we could incorporate maybe through the city attorney's office because we were just looking at the -- >> supervisor fewer: so your job or your role in this was to really look at police activity cit to look at that data and the s attor job was to go into the community and find out what the standing of this individual was in the community or to gather some information? i'm saying for us if you're on the gang injunction you're involved in some of the activities. the individuals listed on the injunction were the individuals that were the most problematic and involved in some of the crimes. >> supervisor fewer: when we spoke with individuals they didn't think that they should have been on the list to begin with. they say that it's alleged and i have never been a gang member. and i lived in sunnydale and i

should have never been put on the list. that's why i'm wondering -- i ean,i understand that you have your records through the police department. and there's another side of the community in which you do not live and which you do not probably have access to that information as a police officer. but there are people who have other types of information. i'm not saying that the information that you gather is false and i'm not saying that the information that you gather should not be considered. what i'm saying is that the information is in the community and in the community leaders and those running those community-based organizations, those testimonies should also have been included as part of an overall opinion about what should happen to this one individual. >> well, i think that would be something that maybe going forward could be included. but you have to remember that it's not just the police department that was labeling these individuals as gang members. it was a review process, a

right? (please stand by). it is given to the judge.

the judge makes the determination based on the evidence provided. it is not just police reports written by the police. those reports include statements by victims, witnesses, there is picture evidence, there is all kinds of evidence considered. i think what we need to do for you to have a better understanding and maybe understand the whole process is to be able to show you the whole process. >> inspector, i think i understand. what i understand what you told me is very, very clear. what you just expressed to me was that the community members were not consulted. i think i understand perfectly actually. what is presented to the judge is evidence from the gang task force, and victims' statements and witnesses. really no one from community-based organizations actually working in those communities. i think i understand pretty clearly what you have said because that was just my

question. i am wondering what kind of evidence comes when you are a judge to look at it. you only know the evidence that you are presented with. if the evidence is from eight members or 11 members of the gang task force coming togethe and witnesses and police reports and nothing from the community, i think i understand that really well. what is the balance here and whether or not this is a tool that is still useful and that are there other tools that we could be loves. i think that where we made the mistake we didn't do reviews on more timely basis that didn't involve mr. jones and he had

that over his life for so many years. when he could have off-years ago. that is what we are saying. any questions for this sector? thank you so much for being here. it is a long hearing. thank you for being here listening to this testimony. any more questions? i think i would like to continue this to the call of the chair. >> thank you for everyone that has come out today. thank you, mr. jones for sharing your story. thank you to shed light on this issue. i think that is contentious from the public testimony that i am hearing. i know i really learned a lot from the experts in the room and from the public testimony, too. >> thank you so much. this item is continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, any other items? >> clerk: no further business.

>> the meeting is adjourned. >> have have a nice evening. thank you. zbls hi.. good morning and welcome to.

>> i am joined today by supervisor aaron peskin who's the vice chair. i'd like to acknowledge our committee clerk, john carol and also the staff at sfgov tv for ensuring that our meetings are available to the public on-line. president breed is not going to be able to attend today's meeting, and so we will take a motion to excuse. president breed, we have a motion and a second. we can take that without opposition. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk, can you please call agenda items 1 through 4 together.

[agenda items read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk, and i see mr. brian hsu who will be presenting on each of these items. >> good morning, brian chiu with the mayor's office of housing and community developm i come here with our annual request to allow us to accept and expand our hud allocations in these four different funding streams. as you see attached in your packet, we are moving into the fourth year of our five-year

funding cycle. we are grateful that we will be able to maintain all of our grantees at the same level to which they were previously entitled this year. as you may recall, even though the president chose to zero out the community development block programs, congress saw fit not only to renew that program but actually to increase it a little bit more, which means that for us, we have a little more money to provide for our affordable housing and a little bit more money to rehab our community facilities. in the black grant program, we also received a little more money for our home funding. that's the dollars that allow us to build new construction for our affordable housing. our emergency solutions grants program was renewed at about the same amount, and our hopwa program, housing for persons

with aids also compensated slightly, which accounts for the slight decrease that we will be receiving that hud imposed on that program. we don't really have any significant program attic change from last year because we're moving into the fourth year of our five-year funding cycle. we ask that you allow us to accept these funds and expend it i the way attached. i'm available for any questions that you might have on any aspect of that program. >> servisokim: no questions at this time, so at this time i'm going to open it up for public comment on items one through four. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send items 1 through 4 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and we can do that without opposition. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk. can you please call item number 5. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor kim: and maria benjamin is already up at the podium, director of bmr and home ownership. i also want to acknowledge that cice yen, as well as deputy city attorney sam ray are also here to ask any campbell. severin campbell is also here to make comments after. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. item 5 would allow ocb to purchase a condominium that is

scheduled for foreclosure sale. it is located at 860 mission street, and the building is called soma grand. the original owner purchase it had in 2008 through the bmr program. he had a first mortgage and since 2015, mocd, the planning department and the city attorney's office has been in contact with the owner several times to try to bring him in compliance with the program. he owes the h.o.a. over $35,000 in unpaid h.o.a. dues. in 2017, the owner defaulted on his first mortgage, and the

lender, which is seline finance has scheduled an auction for the property. mocd is requesting from the board to take the most exditious course of action which is to bid on the unit at the auction for up to $300,000 which is below the allowable maximum sales price, according to the rules. if we are successful, we would transfer the ownership to an income eligible household. if we are out bid at auction, the unit will still have affordable housing restrictions, but it is a costly and lengthy process to work with an investor who purchases it to bring it back into compliance. so we're asking you to forward the legislation to the board of supervisors with a recommendation so that we can take the quickest and most efficient route to bring the

property back. and as you said, chair kim, my colleagues are here to answer any other questions. >> supervisor kim: so miss benjamin, i know this came , i think two years ago, when i held a hearing on below market least i had heard for the first time that we had lost at least one or two home ownership units to market foreclosure to the banks. just to help me jog my memory. what is the protocol when we know one of these units is at risk of foreclosure. it just seems plainly wrong that a bank would get to own one of these units when it was part of a contractual agreement with the city that middle class owners could purchase homes in san francisco. i'm really glad in this case we

have caught the unit before it goes t sale. of course it seems wrong that we bid on this. you know, what is the protocol currently, and what can we do to amend this to strengthen our ability to procure these units back? >> the current protocol is we monitor the units, all of our units, and when the first notice of default is -- it's usually like three months before their lender has or h.o.a. has the right to actually foreclose or go to sale. we contact the homeowner, and we reach out to them. a lot of times, they don't understand that they actually do have equity in the property, and so they -- they're kind of -- if they're in a financial problem, they are just, like, if they're giving up, we let them know what the value of their property is and then that leads to the sale of their home, rather than letting it

just go. >> so -- sorry. in that instance, we would purchase the unit back from them? >> i just want to understand the universe or the scope of this issue. i think it's pretty incredible that we have a pretty sizeable bmr home ownership program today and very few of the owners default. so that i think is pretty extraordinary, well i'd love to get a sense of -- how many

b.m.r. units are there? what b.m.r. home ownerships are there, and how many fall under this category where we have to actually work through the bank? >> currently, we have 12 units in this category. they're at different phases of the foreclosure sale. like ma i can't just mentioned, the first phase is called notice of default. in that phase, we usually reach out to the owner and refer them tomo d sf and for the agency to provide education for the homeowners. the housing counselor will do financial analysis for the household to see if they can initially keep up the payment of the property. of course there are all kinds of programs help out with the homeowners. mocd, internally we have the program called mortgage assistance loan program which is specifically designed to

help homeowners who are in default of mortgage payment or at risk of foreclosure. so it depends on the household situation. there are different options available fort household? i would say on a more quarterly basis, we were able to help between three to five households to bring them back current or hel them with different mortgage options. the reason why we have 12 units on this category because we are still actively working with them. they are still also working with their first mortgage lendo do ownership modification. >> how many units have we lot to foreclosure. >> for the inclusionary program because our restriction survives the foreclosure, so we actually -- just in the last two years, we only have one unit that was actually sold under foreclosure, but now

we're working on it, and the new owner understands the restrictions and willing to work with the city to sell the unit to the next qualified buyer. >> supervisor kim: okay. okay. >> supervisor peskin: my recollection was we had two -- >> supervisor kim: eah. >> those two units were not inclusionary units. they were former redevelopment agency properties, where we don't have the -- the restrictions do not survive foreclosure. >> supervisor peskin: right. and once those were foreclosed on, they became market rate units forever. >> the inclusionary rate unit, we're talking about, which survives the foreclosure. the inclusionary units, we lost that. that's part of -- the affordable restriction does not survive the foreclosure.

>> supervisor peskin: and those are the ones we want to stop. >> those are the ones -- since that time, we have not had any. >> supervisor kim: how many units are like this? this is the mission walk. so how manyits are like the mission walk? >> our portfolio right now, we have 700 units under sfra, which either the restriction does not survive foreclosure. the units, we have about 1300 units. >> supervisor kim: 1300 unit total? >>0 total, but for the sfra, we have 1300 total. in addition to the two programs, we also have the conversion below market rate program, which is the oldest b.m.r. rate program, which was suspended in 1988, and for that program, we have about 900 units there.

>> supervisor kim: but of what we consider the traditional below market rate units, there's about 2,000 below market rate home ownership. >> 1300. >> 1300. >> supervisor kim: and of the 1300, there are 1200 in various stages of foreclosure shall we are working with. >> that's correct. >> supervisor kim: and do we require notice to mohcd for all of these units? >> correct. for all the units, we have a copy of request of notice f default. so that will automatically notify the lender whenever there is a default, but for the counter conversion b.m.r. unit th i mentioned, those were on the very old program.

that time, we did not have the process to have that documenting ready, but mohcd, we have a system, and that system actually sends daily e-mail updates for all our portfolios, so whenever there is anything happen to our unit, we get notification. >> supervisor kim: okay. yeah. thank you very much. i do have to say that 12 out of 1300 units is pretty extraordinary, and at some point, i'd like to have an understanding of what we do to ensure people remain successful in their home ownership. but it is for this item before us. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you, miss yen, and thank you, miss benjamin. why don't we open it up for public comment on this item. seeing no public comment,

public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would move item 5 to the full board with recommendation. >> supervisor kim: great. so we can adopt item 5 without objection, and we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, can you please call item number 6. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you. rachel alonso, the transportation financial analyst from the depart of public works who's here to present on this item. >> good morning.

the proposal allows us to accept a total expend of $926,426 in t.d.a. state grant funds. this is an annual funding source, and the expenditures are similar in nature to previous years' resolutions. the transportation development act of 1971 earmarked one quarter percent of the general state sales tax for funding. m.t.c. allocates funds annually to the nine bay area counties in accordness with the sales tax collected in each county. public works and the m.t.a. are submitting a joint resolution. improvements could include but are not limited to striping and signing changes, bulb outs, safe hit posts, and bicycle turn lanes.

public works proposes to use $232,000 to repair public sidewalks, curbs, gutters and angular returns at various locations citywide. the remaining $232,000 will be used for planning and design of curb ramps at various sites thhouthe city. locations will be selected from a list developed by public works and the mayor's office of disability. curb ramps designed with this grant will be constructed in fiscal year 18-19 with funds from prop k. the m.t.c. does not require local matching funds, and i am joined today by m.t.a. and public works staff. we'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. seeing no questions or comments from committee, at this time we are going to open it up for public comment for item number 6. seeing no comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: and madam chair, i would make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive

recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you, and thank you, miss alonso, for presenting. we will move this forward without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, please read the next item. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. and we have kerrie huang, long-term director of ageing and adult services to present on this item. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. we are requesting authorization to enter into contract with brilliant corners for rental

subsidy to facilitate independent living for eligible residents within the city and county of san francisco. services include rental unit identification and acquisition, rental subsidy allocation, unit habitability, tenant well-being inspections, and the modification of housing. just to give a brief background he c munity living fund was established under section 10.100-12 of the san francisco administrative code to fund ageing in place and community placement alternatives for individuals who might otherwise require care in an institution. perthe code requirements, daas provides the board of supervisors two documents: the community living fund six months report twice a year detailing the level of services and costs incurred, and second the annual plan once a year.

the goal of the community living fund is to assist those who are at imminent risk for and to prevent institutioniron possible. this includes transitioning individuals from skilled nursing facilities like laguna honda hospital which has a dual purpose of allowing people to live independently while freeing beds up for those who need it. this concludes our report. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and john, thank you also for being here today. i just had a quick question. this is a very low dollar amount, which is great. it's not that i want us to spend more, but i'm just curious, what can you do with $16,000? >> it's 16 million. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm so sorry. clearly, i just came back to

work. this is a large dollar amount, then. could you explain -- it's closer to 17 million, thank you, supervisor peskin. could you explain what this contract costs cover, and i am familiar with brilliant corners and their work, but what services would be provided under this contract? >> sure. it covers everything from the point for the preparation for moving into the individual up till the time that they leave. so it does a lot of -- they do a lot of work in terms of unit identification and finding appropriate market rate community settings in fair market housing, and it's looking also at accommodations that a person might need. for example, someone might need a roll in shower or an elevator because they need wheelchair access. they do things in -- in preparation for the move, including looking at floors and if there needs to be a rug or

not be a rug. if someone has a wheelchair, maybe they need a harder floor. they'll do things like grab bars, and they manage all the logistics of what one might need prior to move in. once someone has moved in, they'll do regular checks more intensively in the beginning to make sure that person is settled in. this might include, you know, making arrangements with landlord if something is not working properly. they serve as a liaison between management and the client. thereafter, once things are stable, they'll meet with them every month to do what's called housing retention visits. this requires an individual going out and meeting with the client one-on-one and just kind of doing the -- you know, everything from the -- the habitability of the unit to repairs to any landlord tenant issues. if they need social services, they'll make the

recommendation. if someone is ready for termination, they will make those arrangements, as well, and help ease the facility transition. >> supervisor kim: and how many clients will this serve? >> this contract has a capacity to serve probably up to 120, that amount. of course it's a moving target with rent rates going up. this contract currently serves 102 participants. we had a -- we transitioned a couple of new people out, and then there was about nine people that transitioned in this year. that number is always moving and we're always trying to maintain a pipeline as much as possible so people can be housed. >> so brilliant corners acts as an advocate between a landlord and a tenant, and why is that approximately $140,000 perindividual. it's a 17 million contract, and it serves, you said, roughly 120. >> yeah. i'm the director of contracts

for the human services agency. the bulk of the contract is the rents itself. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm sorry, so this includes the rent. >> yeah. >> supervisor kim: what portion of that is the rents versus the services? >> 16% of it -- i did the math right before. it's about 16% is just administration costs, and the other three -- it's in the budget. the other 80-something percent is all rent. >> supervisor kim: the other -- i'm sorry? >> so for an approximate cost of about 3 million a year, 2.4 is rent subsidies. >> supervisor kim: 2.4 of the 17. >> it's about 3 million a year, so 2.4 is administration. the way setup our contracts is we have a set base amount, and then we have a contingency.

>> supervisor kim: i understand. i understand. thank you so much for that clarification. just one other question. this is actually separate from this particular contract. several residents in my district are recipients of section 8 and work with brilliant corners and are having so much difficulty finding a landlord that is willing to accept section 8 even as a section 8 holder. so as a policy matter, what can we do to support our tenants who are even -- you know, that are lucky enough to even get section 8, a rent subsidy and get them into housing. it's been incredibly painful to see in particular some of our s.r.o. tenants who won section 8, lose section 8 because it expires. >> it's a very challenging question, but the focus of community living fund and brilliant corners primarily are keeping people out of institutions, so these are

individuals that if they were not assisted, they would be sitting in laguna honda or a skilled nursing facility where it would be thousands of double a month. i think it's double than community living. so the people that have access to these pipeline of units are folks that would otherwise require institutional care. it's a different population. these are folks that maybe need help with their activities of daily living. >> supervisor kim: so do you have a 100% housing rate with this cohort? >> yes. >> supervisor kim: so my question is separate and apart from this contract. because this contract with brilliant corners is before us, i'm asking what we can do to help these tenants find housing when they get a section 8 voucher and they're working with brilliant corners to obtain it, to obtain the housing.

>> so this question's outside the scope of contract. >> i think this is a new contract to us that had been previously held by the department of public health, and we're taking it on. i don't think we're tully aware of whatrilliant corners has. >> supervisor kim: got it. thank you very much. all right. so seeing no further questions from committee members -- actually, is jennifer malvo here from brilliant corners? could you come up, please? hi. thank you. thank you for being here today. >> of course. >> supervisor kim: i was hope that you could answer my question. so completely separate from the contract itself, given the scope of your organization, what are some of the challenges and ideas that brilliant corners hs to help some of our tenants who have won section 8 but are not getting housing on our rental market here in san

francisco, and what are some things that even legislatively or from an advocacy standpoint can the board of supervisors or city do to help these tenants because i have several residents in the tenderloin who have been fortunate enough to land section 8, and then languish because they're never able to find housing on the mark, and then, their section 8 expires. incredibly frustrating. >> i don't work on that particular program for brilliant corners. i do know what it is, and i can speak to what some of the challenges are. a lot of the challenges are poor credit scores. a lot of the landlords don't want to work with individuals that don't work or don't have high incomes. those are the main challenges that we see at brilliant corners. we're working internally on some of that stuff, but it's a bigger issue. it's not something that we can

resolve, like, today or tomorrow, but those are the issues, like, landlords are discriminatory. in our case, in our program, we advocate for the client, so we speak directly with landlords and we build that relationship. unfortunately, i can't speak to the other program that brilliant corners has, but those are definitely some of the challenges that we have as aanncy working directly with landlords. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you. i'm sorry to put you on the spot, but i just thought that you were here or brilliant corners is here, and this is something that has been dogging our office because tenants win section 8, and then watch them languish because they're not able to get section 8 housing. i'm just wondering if there are ways that we can support these tenants legislatively. >> i can put you in touch with the director of that program, and she can give you more information. >> supervisor kim: okay.

thank you very much. so at this time, we're going to open this up to public comment on ice number 7. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, will you read the next item, please. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor kim: thank you, and we have mickey callahan, director of human resources, presenting on this item. >> thank you very much, madam chair, supervisor peskin. i'll be brief but certainly i'm here to answer any questions. i'm here with community relations director carol isen, as well. we're here with a number of contracts, particularly the fire mou's. there are many changes. our highlights covers most of them, but there are a lot of updates, but parties came with a lot tot table. as a result we did end up in arbitration. there were a lot of work that people wanted to do, and the results of these arbitrations are the agreements before you with respect to police and fire. additionally, we have a number of mou changes which reflect

the agreements that we made with our unions to correspond to ab 119, new employee orientation, and some other minor changes really on the order of howusekeeping to deal with organizational issues and other contracts. i'm very happy to answer questions. maybe that's the best way to proceed. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you so much, director callahan. there are actually no questions at this time on these items. >> supervisor peskin: let me just say for the record, we've discussed this plenty in closed session, so it's not as though the members of this panel are just saying yes. we -- i think we have had maybe three, maybe four closed sessions particularly around local 798 and the p.o.a.'s contracts. we're familiar with the balance of these. i want to salute you and the employees relation division for all the work that you've done

over these past many months, and thank you for your work with the board of supervisors. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you. so at this time, we will open it up for public comment on items 8 through 20. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would like to move items 8 through 20 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: and we have a motion to move that forward. without objection, those items pass. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor kim: thank you. we are adjourned.

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