. >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all

ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth

playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most

important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an

important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: hi, everybody. i am so excited to be here today to sign my first budget as mayor. thank you all for joining us today. today's budget is really a team effort. it involved so many of you here who made this possible coming together to put together what is going to be, i think, one of the best budgets to implement what we know are our priorities so we can see change on our streets here in san francisco

every day. i'd like to thank our board president, malia cohen, who's here today to lead the budget process along with members of the budget and committee, supervisor stefani, supervisor fewer, and supervisor yee. and i'd also like to thank members of the board of supervisors who are here today. supervisor mandelman, supervisor brown, supervisor satisfy tang, a safai, and supervisor tang, and all the budget and legislative analysts who will be fighting me, and the director of the mayor's budget office, kelly ki kirkpoint rick. yes, you can give all those people a hand. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: you know, these are really challenging times for our nation, and we have a federal administration pursuing an

agenda that threatens our core values and dismantles programs for people that we know that need them the most. but this is not the first time that san francisco has faced threats from the federal government and sadly won't be the last. now more than ever our city must respond by protecting our values, protecting our residents and making smart investments for the future of our city. this budget is a clear reflection of our priorities, a clear demonstration of how we will invest our process perin making sure that there is equity and inclusion. and we are happy to be here today at bishop swain community house because my top priority as mayor is homelessness. we need to get people out of tents, off the streets and into the care and shelters that they

need. and bishop swain, a permanent -- we'll just let that go by. we're going to ban helicopters in the city. this will be a permanent housing site for formerly homeless individuals does exactly what we want to see happen in our city. i met earlier with some residents here, and it is clear that our problem with homelessness is not intractable. budget investments like the ones we are making today change people's lives. michael, who i met here, was homeless for three years, sleeping in his van, living on the streets, sleeping in golden gate park after he lost his job of 14 years. he is now housed and living a great life.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: brenda is here today, as well. -- oh, brenda, is it okay? i better not tell your age. homeless for four years before being connected to bishop swain by the sanctuary, a 24 hour shelter in the south of market neighborhood, these two examples are what happens when we provide a safe environment and permanent, supportive housing where we can make real progress. and the budget includes $60 million in new funding for critical homeless services and programs which will include 430 new permanent supportive housing units over the next two years. now we know it's not enough to get people indoors. once they get the care and the

assistance they need, we are committed to providing permanent, affordable housing and doing more to make sure we ensure housing in our city. $4.4 million will go to operate a navigation center specifically for transitional age youth -- that's young people between the ages of 18 and 24. $12 million is allocated to expand rapid rehousing programs for youths and adults, and $2 million will go towards creating two access points to families and residents struggling with homelessness. additionally, this budget will fund four new navigation center facilities, including one that specifically works with women and expecting mothers. these navigation centers go beyond the traditional shelters in offering intensive counseling and services to help people break the cycle of

addiction, poverty and homelessness. we're investing $6 million to create a dedicated street medicine team, a first in the nation program, to bring treatment directly to people suffering with addiction on our streets. finally, we know the best way to fight homelessness is to keep people housed in the first place. this past election, voters approved proposition f, which provides a right to counsel for tenants who face eviction, and i'm proud that this board and this mayor is investing $5.8 million to fund this program. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: additionally, we are reviewing our -- renewing our commitment to creating and preserving affordable housing by investing more than $800 million to

construct and preserve over 3,000 units of affordable housing. while we work to help our homeless population into care and shelter, it is clear that the daily conditions on our streets are unacceptable. i'm committed to cleaning up our city. i want people in san francisco, when they walk out the door, to feel the difference when they step outside. this will take a focused, sustained effort, and we're making the investments to make this happen. in addition to the $67 million that we are currently spending on street cleaning, $13 million in new funding over the next two years will go to fund comprehensive efforts that will help make a difference. 44 new neighborhood cleaners, split across all of the districts here in the city so that no provider is upset about getting their fair share. we are opening five new pit stops, and we're expanding the

hours so people have rest rooms to use rather than using our streets for that purpose. and we are expanding our efforts in cleaning up needles. that is going to be so important to the cleanliness of our streets and the quality of life. i also recently announced that we are going to be investing another $725,000 for the fix-it team. these are really neighborhood-driven project that's can help make the neighborhood better based on feedback from community members. this is all a part of making our community safe and making our communities clean. this budget includes a strategic plan that will deploy 250 new officers on our streets. over the next two years, you will see more foot patrols throughout the city and additional officers will be added to help address violent crime and property crime. this budget also includes

$1.7 million in funding to implement the 272 reforms recommended to our city by obama's department of justice. and we are adding, because supervisor president cohen is making us do this because of her leadership around police accountability, another $1.5 million to create four new positions at the department of police accountability. when i was on the board of supervisors, one of my proudest accomplishments was helping address our ambulance crises. but today, there are still emergency response issues we know we need to tackle. we're adding personnel resources to the 911 emergency dispatch center to ensure that san franciscans get the immediate help they need, especially when there's an emergency. we're investing $1.5 million in funding for the fire department to staff a medical assistance response team to quickly

respond to medical service calls in the tenderloin areas where we know there is a high call volume for those services. all of these investments equal one thing: positive change for yo our residents, and i am optimistic that we are going to be able to make these changes together. when you walk the streets, you will feel the difference from our neighborhood cleaning group, our mental health and homelessness investments meaning better and quicker response to people who are in crises on our street. this budget investment means more police officers in our neighborhood, more beat trained with 21 century policing. and our significant spending on affordable housing reinforces my commitment to affordable housing in san francisco. this budget represents our

values for a safer, cleaner, more equitiable city. i keep saying this. we all want to make a difference. i love this amazing city. many of us who work for the city and these nonprofits, we know how hard it is to get our city to a better place. we want to do that. we want to focus on making san francisco, and these dollars, invested right are the first steps to help us get to that better place, and i am excited to be signing this budget, and i'm going to be even more excited when i see this money being put to work on the streets of san francisco so that each and every san franciscan can feel the difference for a cleaner, safer, and more beautiful city. with that, i'd like to turn it over to the president of the board who is also the finance chair for this budget, supervisor malia cohen. [applause]

>> president cohen: thank you. hi, everyone. what city would we be in if there were not the occasional hecklers. you heard the remarks from the mayor. she talked about how the budget was going to be spent, and i want to spend a couple minutes talk about the process that we went through that brought us to where we are today. first of all, this is an $11 billion budget. it's a reflection of the city of st. francis, a city that we both grew up in. this budget is supporting the city's most vulnerable with passion and dignity and also helps us solve some of problems that we are facing. it's the result of a robust, transparent, and inclusive

process with an open and often vigorous discussion around our priorities. what i'm most proud of are the investments reducing homelessness, and i want to acknowledge our guests here. thank you for allowing us in your home today. and i also want to call out that we are champions of public safety for all citizens, and we are also committed to making sure that our streets and our parks are clean, that they are safe, and i'm proud of our commitment to serve the residents of all of san francisco. so some of you may remember previous budget processes as being bruising, yes? no? yes, says ben rosenfeld. bruising and somehow contentious and somehow would draw the ugliness not out of only department heads, not only out of elected officials, but also our advocates.

i'm just being honest here. the mayor talks about how she was excited to be signing our first budget, i'm excited to be signing my last budget. now i'm grateful that i was given the opportunity to chair the budget and finance committee, and it truly has opened my eyes on the entire internal workings of local government, but also, many things were revealed to me last year that i set out to correct this year, one of which is how we evaluate the departments that are making requests. and for what reason are we not more policy driven? so my goal, along with my legislative team, headed up by sophia kitler, our goal was to take out the politics of the budget process and really infuse the policy access of how we are driving our budget. and i think we created a budget that was more transparent, that created robust, in depth, and thoughtful policy conversations

that helped shape why we do what we do. i mean, in essence, we're all public servants. most of us took an oath to be here, but we are serving because we believe in the work that we're doing. we believe that we are given an opportunity to help people and have a -- to help them have a positive impact on their live, and we cannot ever lose that focus. and sometimes, it gets lost, so what we set out to do was to have a stronger, more transparent and more democratic process. we wanted to make sure that we are funding our greatest needs and investing in the most effective programs. you see this is a unique process because if you recall, the budget actually starts in september. many people don't know that, but the process starts in september, and last september, it started with ed lee. he gave a directive to his department heads, he gave some rules on some constraints, on where -- and where the budget priorities should be, and then, by december, department heads have an idea on where they're

going. they submit this budget -- excuse me. to ed lee has his hands on this budget. and then, you may recall, he had an untimely death. and so then we were placed in a chaotic state. mayor farrell made the presentation on june 1 on the budget. he had his fingerprints on this budget. so now we are going to be celebrating signing of abudget that has the fingerprints of our mayor london breed. that is a moment in our history. we need to celebrate this because we are resilient. we are resilient, and we didn't do it alone. there are certain parameters that people like kelly kirkpatrick and ben rosenfeld helped put into place. what we did was we took an entire comprehensive list of requests from all across the city, $140 million that my colleagues had, that departments had, that advocates

had. instead of making this list secret, we made it public. we put it on the website and we made it available to everyone. and i think that helped demystify the process for process. what we also did, we had long, multidepartmental meeting to understand not only what we had funded in previous years but also how we are doing in those areas. are we, as a city and are we as a department, meeting our mark? or are we continuously throwing money out there, trying and hoping to meet our mark? so we introduced some metrics that we're going to be implementing -- i hope, in the future. i will not be here, so i'm going to look at my colleagues to do that, to make sure we are doing a good job to fund programs that are solid and help us solve major problems that we have identified, such

as homelessness, such as the cleanliness of the streets. we use this as a framework to evaluate the budget's proposed budget, and so we were asking critical questions such as how do these investments make further the priorities of the department? are the investments missing anything? as we know, the june budget season has always been a chaotic time where the community benefit organizations and frankly those front line people that are working directly on the ground have come to the budget to ask for additional funding. i'm proud to say nothing was cut. the list of budget that the mayor presented to you is an expansion of good things. i at this point would be remiss if i did not think carmen chiu, the assessor recorder who was instrumental in bringing in the funds so we could have the benefit of spending it.

this has been an iterative process. i would like to just call out the committee, the budget and finance committee, the vice chair sandy fewer, supervisor yee, supervisor stefani. i also want to recognize supervisor sheehy because he had a significant role in shaping this as well. jon givner, our deputy city attorney giving fantastic advice. i say a fantastic sparring partner when you spar with him, and ben rosenfeld, who has been our rock. he gives solid and sound advice. and kelly kirkpatrick, a wonderful woman who stepped up in the absence of melissa whitehouse and has now been donned the queen of the budget -- budget team. i also want to recognize harvey

rose because harvey rose is a critical entity in the process of the budget because he takes out the politics, and he just goes straight to the numbers and goes straight to the crux of the issue, and he squeezes, sometimes bloods comes out of this process, but he squeezes dollars and cents that allows us to begin the discussion on how we can add to the budget priorities laid out by the mayor's office. so harvey rose, thank you, you have been fantastic, the consummate professional, and i want to thank your entire team. and of course the clerk of the board, linda wong. as you know, the clerks run the machine. they run the committee. they start on time -- well, relatively on time, but the notes are there, and i would not be able to do my job if i did not have the outstanding help of linda wong. so folks, i hope you will enjoy this moment. i'm excited to stand next to mayor breed to sign her first, my last, budget, and i just want to say congratulations to all the department heads that

participate in this process, that come before the budget and finance committee, and they plead their case. i've tried to make the process fun and thoughtful and most importantly informative, and with that, i thank you. malia cohen. >> the hon. london breed: the last point i want to make as we sign this budget, i want us all to remember that we know that there's a lot of work to do. and the work that we do every single day can be the difference between someone's life and whether or not they make it. and that's why when you go out there, and you spend this money, make sure you remember that everything that you do for the city, it matters. it matters for people like michael, it matters for people who are here in this location where we are today, and so let's make every dollar count, let's make every dollar matter for the lives of so many san franciscans, and i want to make sure, again, that we walk out

the doors and we feel the difference for a better san francisco. now let's sign this budget. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: all right. are we ready?

>> president cohen: thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. and

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up

for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

>> president serina: good afternoon and welcome to the matinee addition on aging and adult services. will they please take the call of both?

[roll call] >> at this time we ask that you silence all electronics. >> president serina: made a -- may i have a motion to approve the agenda? >> moved. >> president serina: thank you. all in favour? thank you. motion carried. may i have a motion to approve the june 20th, 2018 meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> president serina: any comments or questions. >> can we note that we have another director here. >> president serina: thank you. ok. all in favour of approval of the minutes? >> president serina: thank you. motion carried. and now the director's report.

>> good afternoon commissioners. i wanted to start off by talking about the representation of the national association of area agencies on aging aging, the meeting in july in chicago. we were fortunate to have 11 people there, people from the management team as well as people from the planning team representing which was great. it was really nice to be able to spread out and go to different workshops and bring back different information back to our team. one of the things that we heard there that we continue to hear is that there is a lot of concern about what will happen in the federal budget in the next year. there's a lot of conversation about cutting the services that we work very hard to protect and we worry about a lot. there's also a lot of talk about the older americans act reauthorization and what the strategy around that should be with respect to getting it reauthorized. before those of you -- for those

of you who are on the commission, you can remember that the act was just reauthorized a few years ago. it is already up again if i thought reauthorization. and it is really hard to think of it strategically what the best approach to that should be. is it time now to open up the conversation? or is it best to weight until the political situation looks a little bit more favourable to older people? so it will be interesting to see what happens with that i think we will be looking -- we will be meeting the commission on the advisory council to weigh in and support the older americans act and the programs that are related to it in this next year, as we look at the budget. a lot of our programs continue to be at risk. that was one of the big takeaways from that meeting. in addition, we had a lot of chance to hear from other aaa's

and they're related partners and hear about some really fantastic ideas. things that we could implement here. we had a follow-up meeting last week when we came back with our internal team to talk about some of the things that we might talk about implementing in san francisco. as usual, we often are reminded -- once again we are reminded we have great programs here and we have great support from having fantastic commissioners, to have a great advisory council members and really, you know, really strong advocates in the community. that carries us if either then a lot of our colleagues are able to be carried. we certainly have a lot more money in this program than most people do. the california association of area agencies is having its annual board retreat in september and we will be focusing this year on a couple of different years.

one is behavioural health and making sure that older adults are included in mental health services act programs. one is thinking about housing and trying to figure out if there is a partnership that we can have between the sea four a and the california directory to come up with a intentionally new housing legislation that helps support people staying at home safely. at all so we are looking there at reframing aging as we are in san francisco. so that is exciting. it is my contribution to the board. to bring in people from frameworks to talk to the directors about to reframing the aging and how we might do some statewide campaigning around ageism. moving on to reframing aging, i am really excited that we have actually launched our reframing aging campaign work last week.

commissioner wallenberg is involved in that group. it's exciting to have him and have the commission represented their. we are looking at building a two prong campaign. one to talk about reframing the aging in san francisco and combating ageism at able -ism, but also making sure that people really know how to access our services. as you remember we found out from the community assessment and also other places that people do not know how to access services often when they need them. so it is exciting to embark on this. it will be a lot of work. hired a woman who many of you may know but many of the people in the community know who will be our project manager. is. it will help to have her with us. it's a lot of work. we need someone to move us in the right direction. i'm excited about that. we had our first meeting august 8th and we will continue to meet monthly. we will have some committees

working alongside that bigger workgroup. we also just launched residential care for at the elderly group. this is something that the coordinating council has taken on, in part at the request of supervisor he who is really interested in ensuring that there are residential care facility beds in san francisco. as we know a lot of them have disappeared and there is just a whale in the city to make sure that we maintain what we have and hopefully for entice people to grow the number of beds that they have that they're contracting the city for. this is something that we have announced we are very interesting and. we put $1 million into really helping to support the rcf be in san francisco and we are hoping that this council and workgroup can find some recommendations

and good solutions for keeping residential care facilities in the community, particularly when we think about the people who need the most. who which is the people who are in the behavioural health system, people who are clients of adult protective services and people with advanced dementia. we will be working on that. again, there are a number of people in this room who are involved in this process. in that group. and the last thing i wanted to talk about today, is the mayor's office sent out a bunch of policy recommendations. you may have read in the paper or heard that right after mayor breed was elected, she had a lot of policy advisors and broke them out into different interest areas to come up with certain policy and recommendations for her and things they would like her to work on. i think she was trying to find a diverse group of people. meeting people from all walks of

life, regular san francisco residents who work in or go to school here, people with disabilities, older people, children and, you know, who will represent those groups. and business et cetera. people came together on a saturday and really started to hammer out a recommendations. she has asked departments to take a look at those recommendations and respond with a short memo about where our interests fit in with the recommendations and what we're doing about some of those recommendations if we are already working on those. we are in the process as a department of -- in preparing that memo. we as a human services agency will combine our memos and sends them back as an agency. that is something we are working on and it is due at the end of the month. i think that's what i have for today unless you have -- that is what i have for questions today.

>> vice president loo: i am just wondering, do we have the final budget yet thought about that apartment? >> we do have the final budget for the department, but, yes. the mayor signed the budget on august 1st, so we have our final budget, yes. >> vice president loo: what is the month? >> i don't remember exactly what it is. where is alex? $334 million. >> president serina: question. you mentioned the reauthorization for the older americans act and the thinking and discussion about the political strategy to see that that is done. how widespread is familiarity with the elder americans act? how much does the public know about it and what it entails and how it benefits people? >> i think a lot of people do not know about it. there are a lot of communities that have really focused on talking about it and getting

information out about it and there are counties within california that have been a pretty good job of that. particularly, i think people take the opportunity when they are doing their area plan to do public education around the older americans act, and they put out infographics and things like that that really describe how the older americans act works and how it really works within communities. that is not something that we have done yet. but we certainly could. i would say, if you ask the average american about the older americans act, probably there's not a lot of knowledge about its me when i don't see much about it in publications. i think, given it's significance, if there is a written reason -- way we can raise the profile, it may generate more political support. >> i agree. it is a good point. that is something i can bring up as a board member at the national association of agencies on aging. i can bring it up with them and i have a close association with

people above aarp and american society on aging. they have a group that meets, you know, aging association organization where they can certainly be talking about that more. >> president serina: aarp would be a great advocate. finally, on the policy recommendations and the information that mayor breed has requested, was there anything in those taskforces that was a surprise to us? different from what we are doing? a variation on a theme? >> not so much. i think there's a lot of opportunity to talk in our short memo. there's a lot of opportunity to talk about how the work we are doing fits in with the policy recommendations. whether it be focused on, you know, there was a group that was looking at children and families and older adults. there was -- certainly we fit there. even within homelessness, when we think about the homeless prevention work that we do, you

know, or the number of homeless individuals that we work with in our various programs, when we think about housing some of the work we do with housing subsidies, we think about workforce and employment, you know, we are certainly doing work there. i think there are a number of -- and even in equity as a whole. there was a section therapeutic the work that we do brings a different lens to the equity conversation when we start talking about older people and people with disabilities. there's an opportunity to say, you know, these are areas where we are doing these things. they may not match exactly who the people came up with the recommendations were thinking, but they add to the conversation and to the great work the city is doing. >> president serina: maybe we can use them to help advocate thought that more money for at some of the programs. [laughter] >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? thank you. employee recognition.

the department of aging and adult services commission and executive director shereen will be recognized -- will be recognizing sanchez from the d.a. ss office for her hard work -- for her hard work and dedication. [applause] [cheering] [laughter]

>> ok. can everyone hear me? ok. congratulations. i want to start off by talking about the great work that the eligibility unit within the organization does. they do very special work. one of the things that we -- i can't talk like this. i will talk like this. [laughter] >> can you hear me? 's perfect. one of the things we are really excited about today is that she does fantastic work within her unit. i also wanted to talk about what the eligibility organization does. they are the benefits and resource hub. and what the eligibility workers do is they help people access and medicate benefits. [laughter]

[indiscernible] >> the human services agency and the work that it does -- >> our mics are not working. the wireless mics are not working. they said they were going to come up and take a look. ok, thanks. [indiscernible]

[laughter] [indiscernible] >> she displayed good leadership and displaying good skills. she has become our unofficial in-house i.t. expert due to her vast computer knowledge.

she has always lent a helping hand when staff has had technical issues and she has taken the lead in developing our sharepoint website. she is a great spent -- fan of disneyland and star wars and she is a dog owner. [laughter] i think one of the things that is great if she has brought her experience from another unit to this unit to pick one of the things we have really noticed in building this particular site is that we have needed the expertise of people who are willing to come over from other programs and work with us and teach us about what they know about eligibility and the world of medicaid and medic health. thank you so much. on behalf of -- on behalf of the department of aging and adult services, i want to say that you are our employee of the month for august. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i just wanted to say thank you

file for this award. it is an honour to be employee of the month and i want to thank my fellow coworkers, supervisors and the leadership thought by the continued support. thank you. [applause] [please stand by]