we are not oversight role anymore from parcel a, but, if the scanning results from california department of public-health shows that there is contamination left at this parcel, then both the dtfc and ucepa will have to decide what additional testing or mediation needs to be done. at that point, we will become the oversight agency. >> president cohen: as of right now, you are not the lead agency? right? i'm just trying to understand exactly. >> i'm sorry. it's a little complicated. the lead agency for the clean up is the department of navy. >> president cohen: yes, i understand that. i want to know your role. you say you are in collaboration. you are not doing anything. the other agencies are doing the analysis. what is your role? >> so our role is we have

expertise in chemical contamination. >> president cohen: this area of expertise, how does it help with the -- with the over all clean up of the shipyard? >> so, hunters point was not only contaminated with radio logical matters. it has contamination of all kinds of different chemicals. dtsc experts looked over the clean up of all other contaminations and then only with restrict to radiological matters, we relied on california department of public-health. >> president cohen: thank you, that clarifies. >> sorry. i didn't understand your question. i thought you were still focusing on radiological. >> president cohen: there are many things that are associated with the contamination of the shipyard. radio logical, which is the focal point.

your agency, that you represent, is responsible for other chemicals, for lack of a better way to describe it? >> i apologize again. clarify. the navy is the lead agency responsible for clean up of all contamination. chemical, radiological, everything else. our department as a state oversight, has expertise on chemical waste. we oversee all the work that the navy does in terms of cleaning up chemical waste. we use our contractor, california department of public-health, to oversee the radiological clean up of the site. so we do have oversight for all the clean up, except our department doesn't have the expertise on radiological. >> president cohen: i understand. what is it that you will review with the department of

public-health? >> with respect to parcel g or a? >> president cohen: parcel a. >> parcel a is only being evaluated by california department of public-health. >> president cohen: as it relates -- i don't know what that means. a cheerleader? >> we think it's a go ahead approach because there were concerns expressed by the residents and by going back and retesting it, it will provide information to either prove or disprove that there was contamination left. >> president cohen: parcel g? >> parcel g is a complete retesting of all the areas that tetratech conducted sampling. our role is to make sure that the retesting is conducted, consistent with the work plan that is now being revised and released at the end of the month. >> president cohen: and so, what will you be reviewing with

public-health? >> so the department of public-health will be our agent for addressing the radio nucli and they could be being split samples along with the navy so that they can they can analyze the analysis is done properly. we've also considered and recommended having a third party oversight that the navy apparently going to bring on board to have another contractor oversee the work of their contractor to make sure they're also following up. our role is to make sure what they have indicated in the work plan will be done. for example, if they said they would be testing all the soil in the trenching in this area, my staff will be out there, california public-health staff will be out there and usepa will be out there, to make sure they

were taking samples from the areas they were supposed to. >> president cohen: will your staff be doing any testing on the chemical waste? or is it just an oversight, making sure that collection of the samples are done? >> if there is new discoveries that there's additional chemical contamination that hasn't been already addressed, yes, it will be doing that? at this point, the chemical contamination was addressed. >> president cohen: my final question is, what are the next steps for your agency in relation to the work plan and the monitoring process? >> what are the next steps for you. >> after it's released we'll comment back to the navy whether it has incorporated all of our comments in the work plan or not. if it has, we will be giving the groner light to go forward with the testing to ensure that there is no further contamination left. >> president cohen: how many comments have you submitted so far to the draft form?

>> we submitted -- i don't remember exactly the number of pages. we had ttsc's comments on the cover and a memo from california department of public-health attached to our comment ler. i think it was in the 20 to 30 pages long. >> president cohen: are you in agreement with that, janet? >> ok. >> president cohen: thank you. i hope you feel better. i appreciate your answering the questions. >> thank you very much. >> president cohen: the next speaker from the california department of public-health. mark star. the deputy director for environmental health. he has, on his team, anthony chew, his chief, the division of radiation safety and environmental management and also dale sureknack, who does public affairs. good to see you. >> thank you so much, president cohen for in invited us here today and we're happy to give you an update on our parcel a

and we can answer the questions. i'll be begin with closure and i spend my time on parcel a and find preliminary and the up-to-date numbers from the work we're doing there. our department has a role in overseeing the safe use of materials in california in general and this includes medical uses and such as diagnostic x-rays, ct scans, training the staff that handle those, things like that. there's cancer treatment and many areas we oversee but also industrial uses, research uses and and others. it's a important component of our department public-health protection programs. you just heard from mr. nazimi,

because of the skills set and expertise, they contract with the department. because they're the lead agency reviewing d.o.d. clean up activities for the state. and we are able to provide the expertise for the radio logic aspects of the activities at military sites for transfer to civilian use. >> you asked our role. our department is in this capacity that dtsc contracts for and we're both consultative and regulatory. we do review of the radiologic clean up work. we look at the plans for clean up. the work plans as you've just been discussing for parcel g, we're part of the process of commenting on the work plans. we'll analyze the survey data as it's the processes underway. we occasionally do confirm tory surveys and our own sampling. split samples. our lab in richmond does that

work. we also review the conditions, if there's a limited release, we review the conditions of the release of the property. and we license entries. it's including workers at the sites. our purpose with the contractors is to oversee worker safety as well as public-health and safety and the work that they do. specifically for parcel. i won't repeat those. you know them better than i do. but because of our expertise, as we've discussed, we've identified for the request to do a health and safety scan of parcel a one based on the concerns raised by residents and others about information at hunters point in general. we have experience with other

health and safety surveys and we will fulfill the need for an independent entity to conduct such a survey. we will undertake the survey and the navy is funding the project. so specifically, our work lan for parcel a-1 focuses on three critical areas. the first one is to detector assess the possibility of any radiation from something in the soil. it could still be there or may have been introduced at some point. the radiation survey is what we're doing and it's the most appropriate approach for a health and safety survey like. this health and beta radiation don't penetrate soil. the outdoor areas that are uncover ground has been our primary focus or those that have limited cover. there's landscaping, there's sidewalks, there's asphalt, things like that. they are more likely to have detectable substances than areas with a thick foundation and gravel. we have focused on those areas to date.

because we're more likely to find something there and those soils are generally representative of the site as a whole. lastly, our concern is the safety of theents the potential that there could be exposure to residents and so we're assessing that site for gamma radiation using a scan to see if there's direct exposure to humans and the environmeey background levels. the way our work plan works, is when the radiation measurement higher than background is found, the location is documented and investigated by conducting supplemental measurements. we use two other instruments held over the spot for 30 minutes or morend what that radiation is and what the isotope is that is buried there and whether it's naturally occurring. we confirmed that elevated levels, any confirmed elevated levels that are not natural materials result in notification

of all the involved agencies that you've heard from. >> president cohen: let's back up. it involves notification to all the involved agencies. what about the notification to the community offer to your government partners? me? >> that's coming up. >> president cohen: got it. >> so we coordinate on a response action. as i'll get to, the deck marker is a good example of that particular process. but first, i want to mention since our scan began on july 16th. we used two devices, one that is over a large, flat area. we also have used walk-over surveys for areas that we can't access with a vehicle. we're just about -- we completed the part, the analysis is almost done and as you heard earlier, we're close to 95% done with the walk-over survey. we've just added the construction areas. and so that adds a little bit more time. we expect to be done this week.

so we have work with the homeowners association and you asked about notifications and based on resident requests, we have expanded our original work plan. we scanned outdoor private areas between residential units. we've scanned the slopes going down from the residential areas, which is fill-up material that is uncover. it's useful to scan that. we did the large soil pile at the southwestern edge of the parcel. to date, all of these have been completed. we'll be offering windowsill dust testing as well to residents. so far we have 87 natural occurring anomalies. 42 of those were from the walk-over survey and 45 from the tow to ray. that's brand new information we'll put in our weekly update for the residents.

we initiated the work-plan protocol and identified all 87 of those as being potassium 40, a natural-occurring isotope and it's been around us since the solar system is formed and it's in our bodies. in addition, we detected one naval radio containing deck marker as you've heard about on september 7ing, the location was the bottom of the hill and in an undeveloped area you heard the navy contractor removed that is when something is a man made substance we would bring in the other agencies and the contractor. we opened the process. the object was about 10 inches of soil and the hole was scanned in order to demonstrate that there was no other contamination

around it in the soil, the marker and removed. specifically, about that, we're asked to provide a little information on the findings of that specific marker and the hazards. the surface level removal of the marker. it's about 1/15th of that amount in an hour. it's about 1/15th of what someone would get if a single dental x-ray. someone would have had to sit on the spot for 15 hours just to get radiation equipment to one dental x-ray. anybody more than a meter away from the spot would not have received any exposure above background. so getting to your question, it

took me a while. to keep residents we provide. we don't have all the data analyzed so the final report will be available in late fall. but we, every step of the way, understand the residents desire to be informed of our scanning and what we are up to and have had questions related to radiation and to that end, we have let several homeowners and we began on july 5th. we wanted to prioritize this for the residents and they're our primary concern. we also, most recently, had one on september 19th. which was about the deck marker and explaining what it was, what we found, what it means comparisons to the radiation that we all get every day around us. that is how we have been

communicating with residents. we also have a website where all the documents are posted and the progress reports. we have an e-mail that we accept questions and respond to and we continue to accept and respond input throughout so we adjust our work plan based on that input as we've already done. we will be doing so as we start scanning parcel a2 in a short while. lastly, i just want to say is we continue to coordinate with all the involved agencies, including your own san francisco department of public-health and office of community investment and infrastructure, as well as the state and federal partners that you will be hearing from here today. >> president cohen: thank you, mr. star. i appreciate your presentation. your presentation was mostly focused on parcel a-1. i was wondering, i would like to

hear your plans for parcel g. >> we'll be hearing from e.p.a., the three mond tory agencies. i coordinated on our comments that you just heard, we were part of that and we're expecting and the navy has agreed to incorporate those comments in the work plan and we will see the revised work plan at end of the month. our role, you know, these are two quite different situations as i'm sure you have gathered, parcel a was release aid long time ago and people are living there. what we're doing is health and safety scan, which we have done in other areas in order to see if there could be something there that could potentially expos residents. at the rest of d.o.d. sites and hunters point, we look at the work plan and the data and after the work plan is underway. we will do some of our own surveys if necessary.

to really important. that people have been receptive to and opened to receive your feedback. specifically, i'd like you to take a couple minutes to talk to us about how does radio activity really work? now, please, don't go into a full-on 40-minute lecture but maybe you can just give us a primary level of how radio activity works? >> how did you know, i had a power point right here. so, it's cosmic rays, you've heard about airline flights and

being exposed. those are cosmic rays. there's a number of natural isotopes, po tas see yum 40 and there's a lot of natural radioactive substances that people could potentially be exposed to in certain situations. and the concern is that it can be gamma rays or x-rays and any of those cases, ionid and for humans it means damage to d.n.a. or other important molecules in our body and mutations or cancer can result as one of the most common concerns with radiation. >> president cohen: thank you. i don't have any questions. i'll turn to my colleagues to see if they have any questions. doesn't look like there are.

i appreciate your presentation. next we will hear from the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. i think we have enrique, john, kelly, maria. welcome back. >> good afternoon, president cohen, supervisors, thank you for this opportunity to present to your meeting here today. i am the director of the addition of the u.s. environmental protections agencies regional office here in san francisco. i'm joined here by my colleague- >> please continue. >> sure. >> i'm joined here by john chestnut, and lilly lee, the remedial project manager for the hunters point site. the public's concerns are important to us. we take them seriously. as such, this site remains a

high priority to b.p.a. region nine. we have assembled a team of national experts on radiological clean up to advise us and provide technical expertise. all this in fulfillment of our over site role. that is our role here is to oversee the work that the navy is conducting. you have already heard from the navy. the lead on the clean up at the hunters point site. e.p.a. and the state of california have been overseeing the navy's radiological work to ensure the safety of the surrounding communities for the past decade. long-term radiological monitoring by various parties of groundwater, ground surfaces have shown no exceedance of third party contractors routinely conduct in-person observations of the current radiological clean up work. in response to the discoveries

about the data, e.p.a. is part of the clean up team with the state and the navy has been actively involved in the development of the new work plans of the uncertainty of the site and reassure the residents of their safety. we have stepped up tour over site activities at the site as well and planned to have staff on site during the plan retesting. we will take samples to ensure the integrity of the data and restore public confidence in the clean up. with regard to parcel a, with the recent discovery of the naval deck marker at parcel a and the issues we've discussed with you, regarding the work on the shipyard, we are aware of the keep concern that you and the community have had about any potential impacts of the shipyard on the current and future residents and workers.

e.p.a. was on site when the deck marker was unearthed, observed it's removal and analyzed the data collected to ensure that the public was not exposed to harmful levels of radiation from this object. e.p.a. has carefully studied the health effects and we do not believe it would have posed a health risk if it was left in place. radiation readings during and after removal indicated no residual contamination in the soil. >> president cohen: thank you. >> we appreciate the work of our colleagues at cdpa, department of public-health and their cannes that discovered this all the work they have finished across parcel a1 does not show radiological exposure to the public. when they finish the work they have already started, the california department of toxic substance control, and the navy will have value waited the results and discuss any follow-up scanning or testing efforts and the city and parcel

a residents. as we have stated before, the concerns we have would not impact the health of the current rear dents in parcel ar. the areas under question are enclosed under protective covers or inside locked buildings and secured parts of the. for the other parts of the site outside of parcel a, due to drew to the concerns, epm and the navy grow that comprehensive testing is before any new parcel transfers proceed. the navy must clean up the area until it is safe enough to transfer. e.p.a., the navy and the other regulators have analyzed retesting approaches. we have listened closely to the community input both at many community meetings and from

written comments. e.p.a. appreciates the navy's publicly stated statements, agreements to implement the regulators recommendations, which provide the plan that protects public-health and the environment while moving expeditiously to get the answers we all want soon, as soon as possible. we look forward to reviewing the revised work plan closely, as soon as we receive it. together, with my state regulatory partners, we commit to have our technical experts monitor this every step of the way to ensure the safety of future residents and workers. we understand, in closing, the community has had a cloud of uncertainty hanging over its head for far too long. we all want the retesting to start as soon as possible. only with retesting can we know the facts about the extent of any potential contamination and begin clean up if needed right away. i appreciate the navy's movement forward towards the important

steps. this urgency must be balanced with the need for a careful and transparent review of the work plan by both the community and the regulatory agency to make sure we're moving forward responsibly and efficiently to protect public-health. to ensure continued transparency throughout this process, we, at e.p.a., have committed to attend the bay view hunters point and meetings and provide regular updates on our progress. we also regularly meet with local federal elected officials to update the community's representatives on the work on the site. we continue to directory sources to hunters point so our team of text cal experts can focus our attention on this community. we're working hard together with the navy and our state regulatory departments and your departments to develop plans that will ensure the hunters point naval shipyard is clean and safe for the community. again, i thank you for your invitation and i look forward to your questions and i might ask lilly and john to help me with some of your questions.

>> president cohen: i appreciate that, thank you. i think your presentation was clean and straight forward. you didn't behind hi-tech cal words or terms. i appreciate you for using everyday terminology. my main question is, what are the next steps for your agency in relationship to the work plan and the monitoring process? i'm under the impression that your comments are reflected in the 30 pages of comments back to the navy. >> we gave them extensive comments last august, mid-august on the work plan that they submitted to be public review and agency review last june. so -- >> president cohen: they haven't changed? >> our comments have not changed. we stand by those comments. those are the same comments we've provided to the navy last march. >> president cohen: that's a long time ago. my question is, for what reason do you believe that work plan hasn't reflected the comments that you've given? >> we believe, based on the statements the navy has made

over the last few weeks that, to the public, that they are incorporating the comments that the regulatory agencies, including e.p.a. have provided them. we're hopeful in getting a work plan from them, i believe bit end of this month, around the end of the month, that reflects the comments that both e.p.a. and the state of california provides to the navy. >> president cohen: thank you, i appreciate your time. the last folks we will hear from is from the department of public-health. they will be here making a short presentation and then we can go to public comments. >> good afternoon. >> president cohen: good afternoon. >> thank you, very much for in inviting us to speak. my name is dr. thomas. i'm here with amy bronell, she's been working on this project for over 25 years. i'm the health officer of san francisco and the director of

the population health division. as health officer, my job and responsibility are to protect and promote the health and well-being for all in san francisco. there is nothing more important to me than the health and safety of everyone in the city, but especially for our communities that have suffered from historical injustices and health disparities. i want to acknowledge and thank the community residents and environmental justice advocates for their compassion and commitment to equity and dignity for the community. i have learned so much from their collective wisdom, lived experience, expertise, and advocacy. as the health officer, i stand with the community in fully support the california department of public-health, radiation scans, to ensure the health and safety for parcel a residents. we not only want to ensure safety, but we want to -- we want the parcel a residents to

feel safe. unfortunately, the deck marker finding was upsetting to all of us. we understand everyone's concerns. we hired an independent technical expert. you've heard those conclusions. i won't repeat it here. the bottom line is that based on all the information that we have, we believe that the parcel a is safe. what are we doing to get better at serving the community around these issues? we are re-assigning staff to strengthen our partnership with existing community residents and environmental justice programs in the neighborhood so we can set a common agenda and continue to move on the other environmental justice issues that concern the neighborhood. we are strengthening our community outreach. i wanted to summarize really quick -- you've heard the roles of the other agencies. san francisco department of

public-health's role is similar. we're local. we provide oversight. we have an engineer that reviews the plans, reviews the data. we hire consultants to help us. we're an extra pair of eyes and you've heard how this is playing out with parcel g and parcel a. one important thing to realize about parcel a, is even though parcel a was transferred in 2004, that if any issue comes up, the navy still has the responsibility to work with other regulators to make sure that things get taken care of.

>> president cohen: thank you. i just do have one question. what would be our department's role in providing the feedback. communicating to the neighbors, why there's a work plan and what it hopes to accomplish? why people should be paying attention. the importance of this work plan related to parcel g? >> so we independently review the work plan separate from e.p.a. so we also provided our comments based on the consultants we higher. we have our own health physicist

to review everything. right now we're deep into planning on how we'll reach out to the community. we're going to develop a website. we're developing materials. we want to make sure the community is not only learning about what is happening in the shipyard but they're also aware of the other services that the health department makes available in the community around all health issues. >> president cohen: i appreciate that. thank you for acknowledging the role of the residents and the community environmentalists and the advocates and they've played. sometimes when we were not paying attention they were still there. i'm grateful for that. i don't have any other questions and i don't see my colleagues having any questions. so we're going to close out this portion of the hearing. what i'd like to do at this time is just take a moment and say thank you to all the people that came to participate in this hearings and that have traveled. many of the representatives from the navy traveled from san diego, others from sacramento. i'm grateful for your time and

commitment. i'd like to begin to institutionalize these kinds of updates maybe every three months so we can keep a better record and just stay in touch with the happenings of the shipyard and what is going on. things are moving very quickly now. i just want to be able to stay on top of the changes. i'm excited to learn that the work plan is going to be finalized and publicly released. madam claire, if we can close out i think we can go to public comment. >> clerk: so we'll go to public comment for item 14. any members of the public who wish to speak, please come on up. >> newsbreak. breaking news. i just happen to come here.

i'm telling you. first of all, i want to thank you president cohen for holding these meetings. i appreciate your expertise and these questions. i'm appalled. i've been around some 20 years, y'all. here we are in 2018. what does this mean. when do we look at my -- first at all, i'm not here to criticize, i'm here to analyze. for my community. and my family. my name is ace and i'm on the case. i knew all the players from back then and these new players and all you city government agencies. we got the navy? we got the e.p.a.? i'm a.c.e. and then we got the state. i know a lot about what is going on here in the department.

all you players, movers and policymakers. let me tell you something, this is 2018. we're going into 2019. my name is ace and i'm on the case. i'm dealing with the federal, the e.p.a., the state and the city and county. we don't have a chance unless you participate us in your over all game that you guided the work plan. where i come from, we called it the master plan. we failed it because we weren't at the table. right now god is able. we're going to be at table. i don't know about community input. look what we got going on right here. you got me talking to you like this. ain't no way in hell if you wasn't doing wrong you wouldn't listen to this but i'm putting it all in my song about the southeast.

this is appalling. appalling. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is steve castleman. i'm an attorney with the environmental law and justice clinic at golden gate university school of law. we represent green action for health and environmental justice. we have been involved in the clean up for a number of years. a lot of years. i heard that the plan for parcel g will be comprehensive. that is simply not true. the plan that we have seen so far is nowhere near comprehensive. unless the navy has changed its tune in the past week or 10 days, they intend to serve a much less than the entire parcel g. let me give you an example of

why you need to be very, very careful about listening to what these people say. because, they will tell you that they're going to sample 100% of the trench units. sounds good, doesn't it. what they don't tell you is they are not going to sample 100% of the soil from those trench units. they intend to sample one-third of the soil from those trench units and let two-thirds go by. they say they can have a statistical guarantee that it's clean. don't believe it. give us an opportunity to give you a substantial presentation. we will fill you in on what they will not tell you because we have an advantage. we've actually talked to the people who did the fraud. none of these people have.

not one. we've talked to dozens and dozens of people who have been out there working at the shipyards. we know what happened. the navy relies on -- >> your time is up. finish your sentence. >> the navy relies on documents to determine if there were radiological impact. >> president cohen: what would you say? >> we are relying on people who actually did the dumping. i'm sorry, the fraudulent work. we've talked to those people. we have heard the navy for two years talk to those people. we have urged the navy to conduct. >> thank you. you are pressing your luck, your time is up.

>> president cohen: thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to comment and speak in public comment. >> clerk: this public comment is closed for item 14. >> president cohen: thank you, very much, everyone. we will see you in a few month's time and we will notice when the next update hearing will be. thank you. >> clerk: what would you like to do? >> president cohen: file this as heard. >> clerk: we can do that without objection. all right. ok. thank you, very much. and madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> we're going to file the item, not hear it in a few months. >> we can keep it open and then just come back again in three months. that's fine with me. it's up to the chair. >> do we need to call the chair. >> all right, so, let's make a motion to rescind that vote.

without objection and then let's make a motion to continue that hearing to the call of the chair. let me do that without objection. thank you, madam clerk, any other items for us today? >> there's no further business. >> thank you. we are adjourned. hello, everyone. welcome to kelly cullen community. i'm an assistant manager here. we have a general manager and another assistant manager.

kelly cullen community is located at golden gate and we are formally the ymca. we provide 172 efficiency studio units for chronically homeless people. we're glad to do so. we also have a health clinic downstairs, social workers on site, and also nurses. we thank you all for coming out. now we'd like to just welcome senator wiener. >> thank you, i want to thank the community for hosting us here today. this is an amazing facility and amazing. this is a fantastic example of what san francisco is about. it's about helping our most vulnerable residents. helping people succeed and be housed and healthy. that is what the city of saint

francis is about. i'm so proud to be a san francisco an and to represent this great city and the state senate. so, i first want to thank governor jerry brown, for signing senate bill 1045 into law. this bill is a significant step forward in taking a new approach to the epidemic of mental illness and severe drug addiction we see playing out on our streets every day. not just in san francisco but cities throughout this state. this is not progressive to sit by while people unravel and die on our streets. to be clear, we are not talking about most homeless people. large majority of homeless people are not what this bill is about. this is about a small percentage of chronic homeless people, who are incapable of making

decisions for themselves due to severe mental health and drug addiction issues. who are incapable of accepting services. we need to help these people and we need to stop just letting people unravel and die on our streets. the city of san francisco and other cities have told us, is that the current conservativeship laws in california, are not meeting the meets, particularly of people with severe drug addiction. people who are cycling in and out of the psyche of emergency room and they're backout on the streets unraveling more and more. we need to help get these people into housing, into services, get people stable and healthy and do everything we can to get their lives on track and that is what senate bill 1045 is about. this is not about mass

institutionalization. this is about really focusing on relatively limited number of people who are dying on our streets and helping to get them stable and into housing. i want to thank my colleague, assemblyman chiu for supporting this bill. i want to thank the city of san francisco, particularly mayor breed and supervisor mandelman. they have just been champions for this bill. they actually came up to sacramento to testify in committee in favor of the bill. they're that committed to it. and i know that they will work hard to implement it. this is not the end of the road. this is going to be a long-term state-local partnership where we will work together to make sure that san francisco has the tools and resources that it needs to help our most vulnerable residents survive and thrive. so with that, it's my honor to bring up our great maryland mayn

breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much for your leadership. trying to address what we know ar major challenges, throughout our city, with people who struggle with mental illness. it's something that is going to require leadership from both local and state officials and senator scott wiener and david chiu have been moving forward incredible policies that will help us implement the things that will be important to addressing these issues. i want to thank governor jerry brown for signing sb1045. i probably harassed him every single day until it was done. we didn't get the safe injection site bill signed but we are not going to give up hope. there's still work to be done in that effort. but this is a great first step. what wore doing here in san francisco is, we are working to

begin the process of passing legislation, through the board of supervisors, so that we can implement this law right here in san francisco. i've already given directions to the department of aging and adult services. our human service agency and the department of public-health to begin working with the public defender, the district attorney office as well as the superior court so that we develop the right legislations here in san francisco to move it forward so we can implement this policy. i want to thank supervisor rafael mandelman for being a supporter and champion in this effort. we know there are challenges. many of you know, today we announced we will be opening another 1,000 new shelter beds here in san francisco by the end of 2020. that is important. we have to build housing and no we're not building housing fast

enough. we also need places for people to go because clearly, sleeping on the streets is not a humane situation right now here in our city. part of moving forward with providing more shelter beds also means making sure that we have more mental health stabilization beds for people as we move them through this system for the purposes of trying to get them conserved so they can live healthy and productive lives. this is not just trying to -- we're not just trying to force someone into a situation. this is about helping people get healthy and stabilized. we all know what is happening here on our streets is unacceptable. currently, we're using our hospitals and our jails to cycle people with mental illness in and out of the hospitals, in and out of the jail systems and they

are not getting healthy. they are not getting better. we need new solutions. we need bold leadership to move forward with the kinds of solutions that are going to be effective and deliver what we need. our next steps are to pass legislation. our next steps are to fund an open new mental health stabilization bed. our next step are to continue to work collaboratively in order to deliver what we know will make the difference on our streets. shelter beds, mental health stabilization beds, building housing, provided supportive services for people we know that are struggling here in our city and dealing with the inequality gap that we know continues to persist, not only in san francisco but throughout the country. we are making -- this is a great, great step and i remember back in late january, early february, where we were at community housing partnership

building the richardson apartments, which i absolutely love, 120 units of supportive housing for people who were normally homeless and struggle with mental illness. the perfect example of a place that we have in san francisco to help address many of these challenges and we have to open more places like that. more supportive services that are going to help us get people who are chronically mentally ill and suffering from homelessness off the streets into a safe environment and healthy. so that all of us in san francisco are thriving and no one is left behind. i want to thank each and everyone of you for being here today. i'd like to introduce someone who is also been a champion in the assembly with so many incredible pushes for legislation, including making sure we build more housing and the state helps us in that effort. ladies and gentlemen, assembly

member david chiu. >> thank you, very much. good morning. let me first start by thanking mayor breed for your bold and innovative leadership as we move forward in dealing with the intensity of the crisis that we've all experienced in recent years. today is a good day for san francisco. today is a good day for the city of saint francis. i want to thank so many folks responsible for moving sb1045 but of course the team behind me. starting with my colleague, who is both a physical and a figurative giant when it comes to moving forward important and bold things, like this bill. a couple months ago, the team behind me came to the assembly judiciary committee i serve on. we explained that san francisco needs this. first, because people are dying on our streets. it is not humane to allow folks to die in the streets when we

can do something in the city of saint francis. we know there are things we can do. there are services we can provide. there are roofs we can build. that's why this is so incredibly important. and one thing i also said to my colleagues, as they were looking at all of us as sa san franciscs is we represent the diversity. not just how we look but we represent diversity of views who all believe the same thing. that we have to saves the lives of folks dying on our streets. we also know that with sb1045, we're going to make a good step forward. it is not the last step. we need so many new things. this is why mayor breed's announcement around a thousand shelter beds so incredibly exciting. i want to thank governor brown and our colleagues, not just for signing this bill, but for signing my bill that will create streamlining to build supportive housing in the state of california. gill gillman from community housing partnership, we've worked together in moving

forward project for formerly homeless individuals that took years when they should have been entitled within months. our bill will make sure we get more done. if voters have their way in november, we'll have, with propositions 1 and 2, another $6 billion of funding coming from the state to build affordable housing and supportive housing for chronically homeless folks. we can do it. this is the city of saint francis and i'm proud to be part of this. with that, it is my honor to introduce the newest memberrest board of supervisors but someone who for his entire life has been fighting to make sure we're addressing the challenges. rah y'alrafael mandelman, come . >> thank you. good morning, everybody. i want to start by thanking senator wiener, again, for your incredible work on this important piece of legislation at a time when the federal have left cities like san francisco to fend for ourselves in the

face of a terrible homeless crisis. we're so lucky to have senators like senator wiener and assemblyman chiu. i also really want to thank mayor breed, for your commitment to implement sb105 so we have every tool possible in our toolbox. every san francisco an has had the experience of walking out our doors and seeing people who are clearly sick and unable to take care of themselves. as compassionate as san franciscans may be, it's not the job of neighbors to take care of people struggling from mental illness and substance abuse. it's the job of the government to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves. sb1045 is not a panacea, it won't solve all problems. it shows the commitment of the city, of our legislative delegation in sacramento and us here in san francisco to make sure that sick and vulnerable people get the care that they

need. we are just starting the local conversations. those who are skeptical about this legislation will be heard. there is going to be a robust process that engages providers and advocates but i think we can all agree that the status quo is not acceptable and that we need to get sick people off of our streets. we're going to have a conversation about assisted out patient treatment but at the end the day we ned inform move people off the streets and indoors. i also want to extend my great thanks to mayor breed, for recognizing that we need to invest more in shelter beds, more off ramping for people who are homeless. no one should be living on our streets and no one should have to live on our streets and i know and i'm so grateful that mayor breed shares that tremendous commitment. i'm looking forward to doing this work with the folks behind me and the folks out here. i think we're going to make some real progress and we are going to show that san francisco is the city that knows how. with that, i would like to invite our next speaker, the

c.e.o. of community housing partnership. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. before i start i also want to thank senator wiener and mayor breed, who earlier in the year announced we were advancing this measure. community housing partnerships mission is to help homeless people become self-sufficient. what we know is that as individuals spend more and more time on our streets, without stable housing their conditions worsen. their health conditions are more chronic. their mental illness and substance abuse is more chronic because it's harder and harder for them to seek services and treatment. this is one tool, this is one option, for a small group of people that can help really stabilize and change their lives. we also need treatment on demand. safe-injection sites, more shelter beds, and navigation cr and supporting housing all

things that mayor breed, senator wiener and assembly member chiu are championing for. we know with the right levels of support, homeless individuals can stabilize, rebuild their lives, peace by peace and many of them become thriving members of their community. they become activists, some of them are here today. they go back to work. they start rebuilding their lives. community housing partnership this year had 75 individuals exit supportive housing into the private market and become fully self-sufficient, opening the slots for people living on our streets and in shelters. community housing partnership believes that every tool should be available to help individuals that can't help themselves. it's our pleasure to be supportive of sb1045. thank you. >> senator wiener. >> i want to thank you for being here today. that concludes the press conference and folks will be

available for questions one-on-one. thank you, very much.