>> good morning, everybody. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the september 26th, 2018 regular meeting of the public safety and neighbourhood services committee. i am chair of the committee. to my right, will be vice chair, supervisor and ronen we have supervisor peskin. i would like to thank jesse larson and helena mendoza for staffing this meeting. mr clerk, do you have any announcements. >> thank you. please ensure you have silenced your electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed as part of the files to be committed -- given to the clerk.

>> chair mandelman: great. mr clerk, please call the first item. >> agenda item number 1 is a hearing to consider the promise to premise transfer of a nonsale general public liquor licenses doing business at a pub located at 1706 post street. it will serve the public convenience and necessity of the city and county. >> chair mandelman: great. i don't believe we have a representative from the sfpd here but we do have the recommendation for approval. >> hold on but we do have the police department's recommendation for approval with conditions and we also have the applicant. go ahead. >> thank you. mr chair, supervisors, i'm here

today -- >> chair mandelman: please state your name. >> my name is mark and i'm here with my client who is the owner of the pub at 1706 post street. this is an interesting situation where my client purchased at this establishment it has been in operation under the previous owner for seven years, and before that another owner but it was a karaoke lounge and sport bar. towards the end of his transfer at the abc, they came in to do a final inspection and found there was a mezzanine that was not on their plot map. in situations like that, has to go back to planning and it has to go to what is called a premise to premise transfer. so premise one is the downstairs premise and premise two is a downstairs. in order to do that we need public convenience and necessity determination. so this has been a community serving establishment. it is very small. with increase in the mezzanine,

it adds about 20% of the square footage. and there has been no noise complaints, no police issues for the last seven years. he is a great operator. we would like to request that this be granted and scent off to the full board. >> chair mandelman: thank you. did you want to say anything cleo k. are there any members of the public -- are there any questions firstly thank you. you can sit back down. are there any members of the public would like to speak on this item? seeing none, i will close public comment. colleagues, the items before us. >> supervisor ronen: i'm happy to make a motion to prepare a resolution finding that this license needs -- >> chair mandelman: public

convenience on necessity? and without objection, we can approve that motion. do you want us to separately vote on that? ok. do you want to make a motion to approve that resolution? >> supervisor ronen: make a resolution -- make a motion for a resolution. >> chair mandelman: great. ok. >> thank you. >> supervisor ronen: you're welcome. >> chair mandelman: congratulations. mr clerk, can you call the next item? >> clerk: five agenda item number 2 is an ordinance to authorize a chief of police to provide signed verification a preapplication meetings for neighbourhood restrictive liquor licenses spee what i think this is yours. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. thank you for hearing this today this legislation speaks to -- seeks to streamline the application approval process for type 87 liquor licenses. this new liquor license was created in 2016 their state

legislation and is available to establishments only in commercial corridors that have been identified as needing activation and investment by the city. this new neighbourhood license significantly is more affordable than liquor licenses in the current private market which can reach up to a quarter of a million dollars. neighborhood are on the list of eligible areas in the city where you can apply for the license. given the high cost of reds and the threat of displacement, we need to do everything in our power to support small businesses in these particular neighbourhoods. this is rather simple. the amendment assigns the police department as the jurisdiction to provide verification at the outreach plan and neighborhood engagement rather than the board of supervisors and streamlines the application process. this way the applicant will need to come to the board of supervisors once instead of twice. making the entire process quicker, easier, faster. >> chair mandelman: great.

i believe we may have someone from workforce development here. come on up. >> hello. i'm from the office of economic and workforce development. these race -- these licenses are raised last year and we were very successful. we had 19 applicants apply for the five licenses. they were issued to the dark course and existing businesses in the excelsior. to a newly opened businesses in the bayview received them. this hearing is something that other applicants do not have to do and is only required of these type 87 liquor licenses and it is designed as an opportunity to meet with the community in the development of the business plan to ensure it is responsive to the community. we believe that this will streamline and so we are hopeful that you will approve. you should also have a letter from the police department agreeing with us. >> chair mandelman: great.

thank you. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. the item is before us. >> supervisor ronen: i will make a motion to move this with positive recommendation. >> chair mandelman: great. we can take that without objection. fantastic. >> thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. mr clerk, i think that since supervisor safai is expected to come later we will call item four before item three. >> clerk: it is an ordinance to erect a statue of my angelou at the main library. stating a city policy that 30% of nonfictional figures -- public building names and street names be women. amending big ministries of code to create a fund to accept gifts to pay for the design, construction,, repair, maintenance and improvement to

public art on city property and affirming the appropriate findings. >> chair mandelman: thank you for calling that item. i note that not only are we missing one supervisor but we are also missing supervisor stephanie. we should probably recess for ten minutes. any suggestions about how long we should recess for? >> i would just hold the hearing >> chair mandelman: i think we should recess for 15 minutes to give supervisors a chance to get here but we will start in 15 minutes. five minutes. we will race rice us for five minutes. supervisors, >> chair mandelman: we will reconvene. supervisor sc14 is here.

do you want to talk about your item? >> supervisor stefani: thank you. thank you for the opportunity to speak on this item today. in san francisco and across the nation, we lack representation of women on boards and commissions in leadership positions and in public spaces. this legislation will lead the city and the public to recognize a great accomplishments of women throughout history. the people living in san francisco now and future generations must to see the accomplishments of great women alongside the accomplishments of great men your children, both boys and girls, should see themselves in history and in our public works of art and the one way to remember this history. the maya angelou statue is the first step to accomplishing full representation of women in our city. the statute is just the first step. this legislation also establishes a goal of 30% female representation in the public realm by 2020 and i am hoping we can get to 50%. when we seep streets and public buildings and works of art will

finally see the women who have impacted our world. researcher just 30% is in proportion with critical mass is reached in a group setting. the voices of the minority group become heard rather than simply representing the minority. this legislation establishes a public-private fund for the design and maintenance of statues depicting historically significant women including maya angelou. after discussion with the arts commission on the department -- department on the status of women, we have proposed amendments and they have been handing out doors handed out to you. on page 1, lines one and three, we are changing the word from statue, to the general term of work of art. on page 3, section three, changing the word of statue to more general terms of work of art to. and page 3, section 15 clarifies the maya angelou work of art will be a significant figurative representation of the poet. page 4, clarifies the categories and city departments which we will be tracking to hit our goal

of 30% nonfictional representation by 2020. on page 4 and 5, it updates the department reporting dates. this legislation is groundbreaking, not just for san francisco before the united states. this legislation gives an opportunity to provide proper representation for women and the public realm and i want to thank my cosponsors, supervisor ronan and cohen, tang, kim, supervisor brown and also to marco kelly who really spearheaded this under supervisor farrell. i also want to thank the arts commission, the library commission on the department on the status of women. thank you for hearing this item and i would love to take questions if i -- if you have any. and we have elizabeth newman from the department on the status of women to answer any questions. >> chair mandelman: thank you. did you want to make a presentation on this? ok. >> good morning.

thank you so much for bringing this item forward. i was in the department of the status of women and we are glad to be here in support of this legislation. i want to remark that our commission did vote to support this legislation when it was initially before this committee back in january. we are also very encouraged by the provision that was -- that would monitor the representation of women. this is an important effort to rectify the underrepresentation of women's contribution to society. and to encourage women possess leadership in the future. this is really important because art that recognizes historical people, very often is recognizing white men. and one of our important roles and this will be to monitor the representation of women. it is something that has been required by the department through the groundbreaking convention on the elimination of discrimination against women that san francisco past 20 years

ago. we are encouraged by the fact that tracking the appointments of women to commissions and boards has resulted in women being equally represented and appointed positions. however, we have also found that in particular, asian and latino women and men are underrepresented. i do have copies of the most recent report for you to review if you should like to. we just want to make sure that we recognize and thank supervisor stephanie for bringing this forward and mentioning that we support the amendments to address the reporting requirements and we urge your support of the legislation to continue the legacy of leadership on women's rates. thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: i wanted to thank supervisor sc14 for taking over this legislation. i am proud to be a cosponsor. i was -- stefani for taking over

this legislation. i was at the event when this idea was come up with. it was an idea and an effort spearheaded by a woman who was under the obama administration. she has a plan to make sure that women are represented, not only in public depictions of historical figures that we all look to and admire, but also on corporate boards. and in management positions or in governments. so she has the 30, 30, 30 plan. thirty% representation -- public public statues in commemoration, 30%, 30% board positions held by women and 30% government representation. she seeks to achieve that, i believe, by 2020. which is a tall order. but i think a very, a very

important goal. i am glad that we are trying to accomplish that in at least one way in san francisco. i also wanted to mention that it was mr rios who was responsible for advocating and winning a policy to put the first portrait of a women on u.s. currency. and we were set to have harriet tubman be the first woman to be depicted on a 20-dollar bill but my understanding of that is at the treasury department will not commit to this under the trump administration. it is unclear whether this plan will move forward, which is very frustrating. i was looking forward to the day where i would see harriet tubman on our u.s. currency. i hope that that will still happen. i wanted to thank you supervisor sc14 -- stefani, it is very important that our daughters get to look at statues of women who

have accomplished amazing things in our society. and something that they rarely get to do today. if they get to see a woman depicted on a statue, it is usually a fictional woman. a character. very rarely is it actually a human being who lived at accomplish great things. we know there is no shortage of women who have done that in the united states. thank you so much. >> chair mandelman: thank you. are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. the item is before us. i believe we need to act first on the amendment. so moved. we can take the amendment without objection. and then. >> supervisor ronen: i moved to bring this for the positive recommendation. >> chair mandelman: great. we will do that without objection. all right. thank you.

mr clerk can you call our next item? or our last remaining items. >> there's one remaining item. agenda item number 3 pick an ordinance to amend the height -- health code to establish a surplus of medication suppository program to be overseen by d.b.h. >> chair mandelman: supervisor safai is here as our guest. >> supervisor ronen: -- 35 this is an exciting thing. i had the great fortune of sitting down with janet riley, one of the board members of planning by the bay and she said i had this great idea. it will help low income san franciscans that have a hard time accessing good, reliable healthcare and access to good cost reduced medication. and so she bought -- brought in a group called serum. they started talking about the

ability to take medication from individuals that may be have passed away or don't need it anymore and take that medication and recycle it without having it go into the waste stream. and sending it to specifically for free clinics. so we are essentially mirroring the program. we are getting access and then we reached out to the department of public health and work with them over the last ten months to come up with this legislation. we have had to make sure that we were abiding by state regulations and so on and so forth. because we are a city and a county, and made the process that much easier. a lot of people ask why we are a city and a county and what benefits there are, but in this instance, it was a direct benefit. we have the ability as a county representative. we have representatives from three clinics here today. two of which are represented in my district. there is many more all over san francisco.

they are all over the city. mission neighbourhood health centre his, clinic by the bay, others that are basically dealing with low income families that would not otherwise have access to good, affordable medication and good affordable health care. so we believe today that this is a strong step in the promise that we have made to bring full universal healthcare to san franciscans. we are also being respectful and i know supervisor peskin joined us here today. he is here today. he is a very conscious of protecting our oceans and our water stream and the committees that he sits on. this takes medication out of the waste stream and not polluting our oceans and water streams and the environment, as well. essentially, the legislation creates a surplus drug repository this estimation program. donor organizations, essentially

, since 2015, have taken free and reduced medication from over 1,550,000 patients. and we have removed over 2,000, almost a quarter of a million pounds of pharmaceutical waste from the waste stream and medicines. we are taking a big step today. i will open it up for public comment or ask the department of public health to come forward and give a timeline of what the next steps would be and then i will thank the people that really helped to put this together over the last year, as we have worked on it. other than the people i mentioned already. thank you. >> good morning. i am the chief pharmacy officer with the department of public health. i'm very pleased to be speaking today on behalf of the department of public health. in the past, we have supported the safe med disposal ordinance which was previously known as the med project which has been effective since 2017, february. since that time, the project has

collected more than 7.4 tons or 14,000 pounds of unwanted and expired medications from community members in san francisco. the med project is fully funded by pharmaceutical industries and it is now operating 47 medication kiosks at 46 locations in san francisco. we now welcomed the introduction of this new ordinance which will allow eligible entities like clinics with pharmacies to receive donated surplus medications and then provide them for free to low income persons. the medications might otherwise have been destroyed and it will improve access to pharmaceutical therapies for persons who might otherwise not be able to move forward with them and reduce pharmaceutical waste by recycling surplus medications.

as the public health agency, we want to acknowledge our support for this ordinance which will provide these free medications to low income persons. thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor safai: i think we can open it up through public comments. i want to recognize my cosponsor , supervisor safai -- stefani and stepping forward for sponsoring this legislation. >> supervisor stefani: thank you supervisor safai for taking a lead on this. i did a tour of clinic by the bay with janet riley and heard about this program and came back to supervisor safai and i said i want to spearhead this with you. i was so upset he beat me to it because it is such a wonderful program. i was talking to my mom and my sister. they're both nurses and they were telling me some horror stories of people that actually cannot get the prescriptions that they need and people that have to choose whether or not they are buying groceries are getting medicine that they need to keep going.

so i think this is an important program i am very happy to be a cosponsor on it spee five thank you. >> chair mandelman: we can open up through public comment and then i will say a few words about how it will work in realtime. if there are members of the public would like to speak, they should come on up. you will have two minutes. please state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the microphone. those of you who have paired statements are encouraged to leave a copy with the committee clerk for inclusion into the initial file. no applause or booing is permitted. in the interest of time, speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is claire from the nonprofit, serum, we help implement and create drug donation programs around the country to safely and efficiently reduce prescription drug costs and promote environmentally sustainable

healthcare practices. our flagship program in california has been assisting santa clara county surplus medication repository and distribution program since 2010. we have partnered with santa clara county county run pharmacies to help manage, receive and inventory donations from over 200 medicine donors. this pharmacy is exclusively supplied by donated medicine and since 2015 has dispensed over $2 million of medicine to patients in need. the types of medicine that are eligible for donation are noncontrolled, not expired, not opened and medicine that has not been in the hands of individual patients or the public. we fully support the ordinance establishing the san francisco surplus medication repository and distribution program. thank you, so much. >> chair mandelman: neck speaker. -- next speaker. mrs. riley. >> good morning. i am the cofounder of clinic by

the bay. we are a free, primary care clinic and the excelsior district of san francisco. we have been around and providing primary care, preventative healthcare since 2010 at clinic by the bay and we are almost entirely volunteer run. currently, we have 1700 patients at clinic by the bay. last year, we did more than 2,000 patient visits. because our patients are living on limited resources, they often come to the clinic where the complicated, chronic conditions like diabetes, high lipids, hypertension, that have gone undetected and untreated for many years. as you can imagine, these conditions require medication. when you are uninsured, like all of our patients are, and you don't have access to medication, getting monthly medications that you need to control these conditions is untenable for most

of our patients. and left untreated, these chronic conditions can be debilitating. they are demoralizing and they can even be fatal. which you might imagine as well. so, when we learned about the organization that was matching access medication with patients in need, we thought it was a fantastic idea. we knew that not only would it be incredibly helpful for patients that could -- at our clinic, but for patients throughout san francisco. it will save lives. i want to especially thank a supervisor safai. you have been amazing. thank you supervisor stefani. i will hope you will hear from our doctor to, out our clinic, has been shepherding this legislation through as well. thank you and i hope we can get your support for this important legislation. >> chair mandelman: thank you. next speaker.

>> good morning, supervisors. i am the executive director of mission neighbourhood health centre. we have several clinics in the mission and one in the excelsior and we serve about 13,000 patients each year. about 30% on issue. this program will greatly benefit our uninsured patients, but not only the uninsured. we had a situation with a patient on medicare. and for some reason, she got into the wrong medicare part d. program and needed to pay about $1,200 a month for her diabetes medication. she is a retired person on social security and she cannot do this. this will be a program that can benefit people who are also falling through the cracks with medicare part d. or other insurance issues. at least during the period where we can then resolve those issues for them. we are looking forward to working with the department to

really work through the nuances of how to make the program efficient and accessible for the clinic for the patients that need it. we are in support of this initiative. thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i and the c.e.o. of the san francisco community clinic consortium. our organization represents 11 of the nonprofit community health centres in san francisco. collectively, our members serve 113,000 san francisco residents which is about ten% of the population. we also serve about 4200 healthy san francisco people and 46,000 other enrollees. our organization serves two functions. one is a common voice for the health centres under our umbrella organization and the second one i will speak to them just a moment.

in terms of the 11 health centres that operate throughout san francisco, with a quick survey out to them, they reported back that they have difficulty obtaining search and medication vaccines and medications and also inhalers, particularly for the healthy san francisco population. they also work to cover creams and ointments for people who have psoriasis and other issues where these medications might not be around and the expectation is patients will pay for them out of their own pocket which is very hard for them to come up with. the second charge of the san francisco community clinic consortium as we have our mobile street outreach -- outreach van. this service does urgent medical services throughout san francisco. we serve about 1,000 patients. we do that in conjunction with the department of public health and this particular van, normally treats infections and

injuries and illness. so we have need for antibiotics, also epinephrine pens and other things that our patients on the streets need to have in a more urgent service in order to take care of their treatment. again inhalers came up again as a medication that we need to. we would like to support this very important ordinance. thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. are there any more speakers? anyone from the public who would like to speak? come on up. >> excuse me. my name is scott. on the cofounder of clinic by the bay. i just want to ask for your support of this ordinance. thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. anymore public speakers?

seeing none, public comment is now closed. the item is before us. is there a motion? >> supervisor ronen: i would like to thank you, supervisor safai for this legislation. it sounds amazing. what an innovative program and a win win for everyone. if you could add me as a cosponsor i would really appreciate that and i want to thank everyone for the amazing work on this. what a great piece of legislation. with that, i will make a motion, sorry. i will wait to make my motion. >> chair mandelman: thank you. i wanted to say some closing things. just for points of clarification >> supervisor safai: think of hospices and nursing homes and senior living centres. essentially what ends up happening is tons of medication goes unused. once they are, they go to a fair party and we need to screen them for additional screening. i want to be clear there is no opioid involved in this program.

it is not hard medication. is a kind of thing that people need on a daily basis. my son uses an inhaler. these things are life changing. they are expensive. we don't have the ability to get them. after ghost of the third-party, it goes to the free medical clinic. it is watched and monitored every step of the way. after we are done with this legislation, it goes to the full support of the board. the department of public health and the consortium of free clinics and a number of other entities are going to sit down and talk about the implementation so they can find a formula and figure out how they will put this into effect in san francisco. so they're still a few questions that need to be answered and i know that the free clinics are deeply invested in this and this

is something that will make them that much more of a strong service delivery. i wanted to thank a few other people that were mentioned today i know dr catherine kobe was very much involved in clinic by the bay. david goldschmidt from clinic by the bay. dr patel from the department of public health. and of course, our chief pharmacy officer who spoke here today. mr david's words. -- mr david woods. there are so many other people to whom i am thankful. our city attorneys. as much as this sounds straightforward, there were some nuances in the meeting with the state definition and seeing how we could implement this. the city attorney's office did a phenomenal job in helping ensure that this was a well-crafted piece of legislation. and then individuals from santa clara county board of supervisors.

they were our points of contact down there. and then the california state board pharmacy, laura hendricks. there were a lot of people who were involved in putting this piece of legislation together. but i always like to say is we don't always have the ideas. we don't always originate to the ideas and think about policy. and often times the best ideas come from the community. i want to thank the folks who brought this to our attention. we have, in my office some controversial things, recently but i'm hoping this is not controversial at all and this is something that will be encouraged by everybody. it is something that is well needed. thank you to everyone who came out today and thank you for all your hard work in helping to make this happen and thank you for your time. i urge full support. >> supervisor ronen: i will make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation.

>> thank you. >> chair mandelman: thank you. mr. clerk, do we have any further items? >> there is no further business. >> chair mandelman: and then we adjourned.

>> all right. good evening, everyone. first of all, good evening, everyone. welcome to compass family services. [applause] >> my name is chris wagner, and i'm the board chair of compass family services, and i promised myself i wouldn't get choked up, but today, by far, is the proudest moment of my volunteer career. i'd like to acknowledge our distinguished guests, mayor london breed, supervisor jane kim, who i think is my supervisor. [applause] >> rafael mandelman, assembly

member david chiu, and representatives for senator's feinstein and kamala harris, abigail and june harris. thank you so much. so today, we celebrate the official opening of our new service hub for homeless families and families at risk of becoming homeless in san francisco. [applause] >> we are really thankful for so many of you who have been here with us every step of the way and to create what we see here before us. this facility represents our commitment to san francisco's homeless and vulnerable families, telling them we see you, we are committed to serving you in san francisco, and we are investing in your

future. securing a permanent home for compass is a perfect example of private public partnerships and how they can benefit our community. one partner has been the city of san francisco. the city itself was one of the first to recognize the importance and significance of this project with a lead grant of $1 million. [applause] >> i'd like to thank and express our deepest thanks to joaquin torres for the office of workforce development for not only their strong support, but for their lead support in this project. [applause] >> we gratefully acknowledge

the let's make it happen spirit of our partners and the compass board for getting this project off the ground. our next very important step -- you knew this was coming -- is to raise the funds we need to pay for this project. we will be out in the community, you can rest assured, shortly with a major campaign to seek the help of the philanthropic community and all to assure our service hub is here to stay. he can assured we are part of the solution -- you can be assured we are part of the solution. it's my extreme pleasure to introduce and welcome our city's honorable mayor london breed and invite her to say a few words. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i have got to say i am truly honored and excited to be here

today. what an amazing, beautiful facility, a welcoming environment for so many families that we all know struggle with homelessness, and that should not be the case. a kid should not have to do their homework in situations that sometimes are not the best. when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and visited our family shelter in our district, i was really heart broken at some of the scenes that i saw and some of the frustration that i had for many of those kids that they were in, many of those kids attend schools right here in san francisco. and one of the things that i'm most proud of is working with our late mayor ed lee is to give $2 million to the housing authority to remodel 179 unit to place 179 formerly homeless

families in units to call home. but we didn't do it alone. we did it with organizations like compass point because it takes a partnership in order to help our homeless families who live on our streets in san francisco. as mayor, addressing this challenge is really important to me, finding solutions, finding partners, trying to figure out the best ways possible. when we developed our coordinated entry system, compass point has been there for us, helping to lead the way so that we can produce the types of services that we truly need to make a difference. so i want to thank each and every once of you for being here today to support this great new step. a $1 million grant from the city, and i, of course, deserve

$1 million more for the work that you continue to do. thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm looking forward to opening this building so that we can get started on this very important work because we have people who need homes. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. oh . so last fall, erica and i had the pleasure of meeting with supervisor jane kim, and we presented our plan and our vision. i'm delighted to welcome back her -- or welcome here to see firsthand what we've done, and we'd love to hear your thoughts. [applause] >> supervisor kim: actually, you are welcoming me back for the space because for those of you that don't know, i spent

six months here in this space back in 2016, and so i'm very familiar with this site. and so i was truly delighted when you both came to my office to say that there might be an opportunity to turn this vacant retail site into a hub for so many of our families and those that are needing services here in the city and county of san francisco. mayor breed talked so much about the importance of this work and also the initiative that mayor ed lee had begun during his time as mayor, which is for san francisco to end homelessness in san francisco in the next five years. and we talk so much about homelessness as being an issue of single adults but for those of you that are in the field, you know that families are often the fastest growing demographic in homeless counts in cities throughout the country, whether it is san

francisco, new york, and l.a. it is the silent demographic that we don't get e-mails from our constituents about, asking us to solve that is often one of the most critical in the issues that we must address here. we know that children who are homeless are more likely -- five times to be more likely to be homeless as adults. we've seen what it means for children to be able to complete their homework, having a place to call home, calling in sick regularly, having a place to shower. i have to tell you one of the most heartbreaking stories that i heard from some of our young mothers is actually having to bathe their children in a sink at their local church because they have nowhere else to take their children before they get ready for school. and compass family services has

been at the forefront of ensuring that we are providing these critical services to families to so many of our clients that need it the most. in order to provide those services, it's critical to have a home and a space to walk into. so i'm so excited that compass family services will be opening here in this district, and i really want to recognize the leadership of the board chair, chris wagner, and of course to our wonderful executive director, erica kisch, who's been running this century old organization so critically in san francisco. we are making a dent, we are finally reducing the immense wait list that we are reading about in 2015 for families that are sleeping in shelters, sleeping on the streets, sleeping in our cars and making sure that we are addressing

this issue. when the l.a. times said that the new face of homelessness is single mothers and children, we heeded to that call. we need to get women and children off the streets, and i am just so proud to be a strong partner along with mayor breed and assembly member david chiu. this is an issue that we all care deeply about. we can end homelessness, and i'm so glad that compass is going to have a seat in the middle of our city that they can provide the services. i just want to take a moment to thank the staff at compass family services. this work is so difficult to do. [applause] >> supervisor kim: and you are at the front lines of doing this work, and it's always amazing to ask staff members how long they've been at this organization. and i think it's pretty astounding, the tenacity, and

the faith of the workers in the field. i was pretty touched when one of our compatriots used to serve, when the chronicle asked him if it was incredibly depressing to work in the field of homelessness over 40 years because it doesn't get better, and he said i don't view hi work as ending homelessness, i view my work as ending homelessness in the lives of people. for those of you that have viewed the moment, i've been lucky to watch an individual walk into their permanent home for the first time or a family to walk into their permanent home for the first time, we are ending homelessness in their lives, so thank you for all doing this incredible work, and

congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor kim. as you know compass works with the city as a partner in our comprehensive continuum in care of homelessness or to help end family homelessness. for families that are already homelessness, and now i'd like to welcome jeff kosinski, the director of family homelessness to say a few words. jeff? >> thank you so much for being here today. you know, just a few years ago, one in every 20 students in the san francisco unified school district was experiencing homelessness. it's one in every 20. every single school in the school district had at least one homeless family. some schools had over 10% of the families in that school were experiencing homelessness. but thanks to the hard work of many people including compass, we've reduced family

homelessness by 15%. by the end of this year, our goal is to have no unsheltered families at all, and we're very close to achieving that goal, and by the end of 2022, our goal is to have no family experiencing homelessness in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you. we're not going to do that without organizations like compass. compass is one of the anchor institutio institutions in our homelessness response system, and this facility is just absolutely amazing, and what's really -- i came by to visit a few weeks ago right when it first opened up, and the physical structure is really amazing, but what's really just so heart warming is to see all of the families here and all of the staff here using the space. it's just such a beautiful facility, it uplifts people's spirits when they're here, and

the energy was just really phenomenal. we had families in here facing a crisis, i can't even imagine as a father or as a parent not having a place for my children to go that evening, but just the vibe here, and the way staff were treating people, and just the attention to detail is really extraordinary and very fitting for an organization as spectacular and committed to doing this work as compass. i've worked as a nonprofit executive director for many years, and i know that it's often challenging as an e.d. or even as a board member to come up and ask people to support your organization. no matter how much you're commit today it, it's a scary thing, but since i'm not a executive director anymore, maybe it's easier for me to encourage you to please support compass, please support their capital campaign. this is really important work they're doing, it's really life changing work that they're doing, and we're so appreciative to everybody at compass and to all of you as

well for being here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, jeff. it's now my pleasure to introduce, without a doubt, one of the most amazing and dedicated individuals i've had the pleasure to work with, the executive director of compass family services for the past 24 years, erica kisch. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thanks. this is such a great turnout, it feels very great to be celebrating with you all here tonight. about 400 days ago, i toured this building. it was kind of a shell, and a former gym, and i imagined it as being the new permanent home for compass family services, a

service hub for san francisco families facing homelessness. it was centrally located, easily accessible, just a block from city hall and very closely located to other locations in the city for other families facing homelessness. little did i know that 37 grove would turn out to be so much more. it's a safe and welcoming and healing environment where families experiencing the trauma of homelessness can access a myriad of interrelated and complementary services that address housing, support, stability, jobs, child care, legal, and i could go on and on and on, all under one roof, and all with the ultimate goal of helping families to achieve economic stability, self-sufficiency and economic well-being. so we stand here tonight not in

front of but beside so many of our friends, our partners, our colleagues, our supporters, who join together to help make this project come to life and who have been committed to this every den and committed to this effort to end family homelessness in san francisco. first and foremost, i want to thank nafir and namidi. they're somewhere way in the back. [applause] >> so they and the sun hill corporation, they had an amazing vision, amazing generosity, amazing vision, and without them, we would not have this project, we would not be able to get it off the ground, and hopefully they'll make the way up to the front for the ribbon cutting. i'd also like to thank

compass's board of directors who had the vision to address our real estate need head on in their 2015 to 2018 strategic plan. every one of them has been supportive in this project and has supported it financially as well. and on our board, i especially need to call out brian mcenerny, who's also way at the back. brian really spear headed and guided this project. he was here night after night for months, and without him, we would not be here today. i also want to thank especially our board chair chris wagner and our board vice chair allison engel. [applause] >> both of them put in many,

many hours over the past year, and i joked to chris over the last year that he was going to lose his day job because he was always at compass. i also want to mention equity community builders, opportunity fund, chase, and the low-income investment fund and our quality board. i want to thank -- [applause] >> -- first republic bank, the northern california community loan fund, the world's greatest real estate broker, paul pechani. [applause] >> our brilliant architects at t.e.f. design who turned this building -- as wonderful as it is, it's a strangely shaped building. they turn it had into something really amazing.

ken white of glazer wild, who always has our back, and our fun dl fun-tastic staff. we just heard tonight that j . jpmorgan chase has awarded us a grant of $25,000. most recently, chase provided the equity investment through our new markets tax credits deal for the building. thank you, j.p. morgan chase and mike kimball, who i think is here with us tonight. [applause] >> so next on our agenda, we're going to cut this ribbon, and after that, we invite you to explore the building. you can go back that way, you can go down, you can go up, and we'll have staff that are wearing compass name tags that

are scattered throughout the building who can give you more information throughout the programs and the services we offer here and answer any questions, and then we've got refreshments on the second floor in the conference room. so thank you again for celebrating this and it's time to end family homelessness in san francisco. thank you. [appla five, four, three, two,

>> good morning and welcome to the agency on aging. please call the roll. [roll call] we ask that you please silence all electronics and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. before asking for approval of the agenda, there is a modification, no closed session today. so with that change, a motion to approve the agenda. >> so moved. >> all in vo