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memories and stories we grew up with so we can pass it on to the next generation. those fire sprinklers would have helped that building that displaced a lot of people. it's important. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> good afternoon. tommy from the housing rights committee. just want to thank you for your support for this legislation. it really is a infor no-brainert looks like it will pass the board. >> joseph smith with the housing rights committee of san francisco representing the west side housing rights committee. we support the legislation. we're glad you do as well and just want to thank supervisor ronan and the colleagues for all their hard work on this legislation. thank you. >> great. thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment. any final comments. i think we've all pretty much said it. >> let me say it. thank you for the presentation.
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thank you for the public making comments. i want to thank supervisors ronan's office for bringing this forward. i wish we had done this several years ago. in the last few years, as we heard from the public, it's been several fires in the mission and also in the tenderloin. it seems like knowing all details, that these fires could have been preventable if the buildings were up to code. it seems like there were a lot of electrical issues. we need some to make these landlords bring things up to code so it's safer for our residents. it's traumatic for people that have to go through that and the families to move and figure out what to do and they lose everything and have clothes.
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thank you supervisor ronan and carolyn for working on this and i'd like to add it as a co author. >> great. anything else? i think we can make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendations. at this think just so everyone understands why sometimes this is heard in two different committees, carolyn referenced it, but one deals with the land use aspect of the legislation and importantly, the administrative code which is important here is that whatever cost the building owner incurse cannot be passed on. we don't want to see that happen in this situation. we want to encourage people to do the right thing and think about people's health and safety. besides talking about sprinklers, it gives us options just for basic fire detectors, right. in some cases, even fire
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detectors would have saved people's lives and probably got the fire department there. i remember. i walked by it for decades on 22nd and mission and it's still a hole in the ground and it's sad. i know people's lives were impacted for the rest of their lives. this is such an important piece of legislation. thank you supervisors' office and thank you to carolyn for your hard work and supervisor ronan for her leadership. positive recommendation to the full board. thank you. congratulations. [applause] can we -- i think the folks get through item number 6 real fast. is mr. everyling still here? did he leave? he must have stepped out.
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we have two items here both are sponsored by supervisor peskin. coming up. sunny. why don't we take item number 3 first. is that ok? sunny? sunny? let's do item number 3 first. we're going to call item 3. >> clerk: ordinance amending the administrative code exempt from the physical visibility or capital improvement projects under the jurisdiction of the san francisco municipal transportation agency that was support an increase on improvements in municipal railway services. >> supervisor peskin is not here but we're joined by his chief-of-staff sunny. would you like to make some opening comments about this item? >> sure. really briefly, my name is sunny from peskin's office. this is a straight-forward piece of legislation. chapter 29 of our code provides that any department, city
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agency, board commission, if proposing a project that will require initiating environmental review if you believe the project is estimated to cost more than $25 million, and a million of that being public funds then you have to go through significant fiscal feasibility analysis. it's an impediment for large scale projects that are potentially eligible for competitive funding whether the state or federal level and so we have taken up this piece of legislation in order to exclude large scale transportation projects under the purview of the pfmpa to ensure we can be eligible for this hard to get funds. i know that is from sfmta is also here if the committee has has questions to address. >> it talks about any project
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implementation for cost exceeding $25 million. it goes on to say that will cost more than $1 million in public money for pre development planning. what's the difference there? >> i mean, my understanding of the difference is that $25 million is triggered because of construction. for the capital side. the design cost in particular are often what are the most difficult because when you comply for these grants and the office having written letters of support for the agency and other departments to apply for state and federal money, often times they want to see pre construction planning and design. of course, if we're having to go through a fiscal feasibility analysis to actually initiate that then that can cause significant delays with being able to apply.
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>> just for clarity, maybe deputy city council, so it's the $25 million capital cost and the cost that exceed a million dollars that trigger this financial feasibility study that has to happen in all instances. >> john gibner. under the rule, the ordinance requiring physical feasibility funding. it's a 25 million-dollar total cost with $1 million city cost. so what's the $25 million? it's what they're applying for? the million we're putting in on the city side. >> is that what you are saying? >> we need to have -- both conditions would a supply so the project is $25 million over and a million city funds are being used for the project.
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>> what are we changing it to? we're just saying if there's an- >> the only thing we're doing is adding to the utility projects which already add. we're just adding large muni service and expansion projects. >> the large $25 million and above projects? >> yes. it would still apply. the dollars would still apply. it's adding one more carve out to the carve out section of the code. >> so, right now an existing law says it's under $25 million you wouldn't have to do a feasibility study? >> that's correct. >> we're trying to deal with the trigger. >> this revision does not have anything to do with a financial trigger. all it's trying to do is add an ex conclusion to large transit
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projects. in addition to utility projects and prop k projects, which are already carved out. >> right. meaning basically we wouldn't -- it doesn't matter what the cost of it is. we're saying we don't have to do this? >> for these projects the board would not be -- the department would not need to come to the board for a fiscal feasibility finding. >> regardless of the costs. >> correct. >> that's what i'm hearing, ok. >> ok. >> any other questions? my public comment is closed. and we'll make a motion to pass the committee with positive recommendations. >> great. >> we do that out objection. so moved. thank you. please call item number 2.
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>> item number 2 ordinance amending chan ter 66 and deleting 66a of the administrative codes con formed passage by the voters on november 8th, 2016 of proposition c finance acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing. >> great. so since supervisor peskin is not here again, do you want to hand it over to director hartly or say words. >> i will avail myself of this. supervisor peskin's office one more time. i know that deputy gibner needs to go to an oversight committee meeting for this next item and there are a couple of formatting revisions, technical changes that he would like to speak to and explain before we commence. >> great. thank you. i'm bouncing back and fourth a bit this afternoon. we've prepared and circulated to
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you copy of anna mended version of this oi ordinance. this version that you now have just sticks to those formatting errors and also makes a few very clarifying corrections in the title on page one at the page two line 21 changing a word and a few clarifying corrections to the definitions at the bottom of page 5. after director hartly presents and public comment, we would suggest that you adopt those amendments and we'll have a clean format error-free investigation of the ordinance going forward. >> sounds good. >> director hartly.
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>> good afternoon, supervisors. kate hartly, director of the mayor's office of housing and community developmentment i am here today to introduce the seismic safety retro fit and affordable housing loan program. my colleagues, jonah lee, amy chan, caro line mccormick are here. they've been great work on this so i just want to give them that introduction. i wanted to say thank you and express our gratitude to the housing advocates who pushed for this repurchasing of existing funds that were not being utilized for anti displacement purposes. this action provides an amount of funding and the terms that we need, that is low cost loans over a long-term that will allow us, as a city and also the housing developers and owners who will be the ones putting this money to great use to achieve our mutual anti displacement and preservation
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goals. with that i will let jonah and amy tell you about this program. >> can i ask a quick question. it's blocking my mind right now. on your presentation, which is going to -- this is mm like $35. >> that's a abbreviation for million. $350 million. two ms means what? >> millions. >> really? >> many millions. mm is just -- >> i've never seen it. >> next time we'll spell it out, sorry. >> good afternoon, supervisors. amy chan from the mayor's office of housing and community development. so the proposed legislation
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creates the seismic safety retro fit and affordable housing by repurchasing the seismic safety bond passed by voters in 1992 as proposition a. proposition a authorized the city to issue $350 million in bonds to help homeowners comply with the city's requirement to retro fit unreinforced masonry buildings. specifically the proposition called for $150 million for below market rate loans and $200 million in market rate loans for this purpose. and after many years, only 95 million of funds were utilized which left us unspend bond capacity. so, as director hartly mentioned, in 2016, housing advocates identified an opportunity to rehouse. to meet the goals of anti displacement, of bringing
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housing into permanent affordability and providing low cost and long-term funding for capital needs. the board of supervisors with legislation sponsored by supervisor peskin and then supervisor breed, placed proposition c on the ballot and it was passed by voters in 2016. so the proposition c language specifically added preservation as an eligible use of bond funds in addition to the seismic retro fitting. there are 104 for the below rate loans and 150 for market rate loans. all other requirement in proposition remaining, including for resource hiring. the legislation before you will implement proposition c by amending chapter 66 of the
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administrative code. it adds at acquisition and rehabilitation as the eligible use. it designates our steed-wide affordable housing committee as the body that would approve loan applications. it also requires program regulations for this program to be approved by that body and then finally it requires affordability restrictions and tenant protections. i'll turn it over to my colleague, jonah lee. >> thank you, amy. the seismic safety retro fit pro voids low cost and long-term mortgage loan financing on a first-lean basis. the program has the flexibility to finance acquisition and rehabilitation projects or to be a source of take-out financing in conjunction with another construction lender. we expect most of the loans, financed under the program, will be structured as permanent take
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outs. interest rates will be set based on the city's cost of capital. one-third of the cost for affordable projects and 100 basis points over the cost for market rate projects. to maximize the funding available for our affordable housing projects we expect to blend the program funding while still achieving a below market rate interest rate including small and large residential sites as well as s.r.o.s, mixed-use buildings will be eligible to receive loans provided that the majority of the improvements to those projects are attributable. speckle edge able uses acquisition and holding cost, take out, rehabilitation costs and the associated soft cost. project management or developer fees as approved as well as capitalized reserves. new construction and acquisition
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without rehabilitation are not eligible uses. affordability restrictions will be evidenced by a declaration of restrictions that is recorded against the properties. permanent affordability look required on below market rate loans. market rate loans must remain affordable for the loan term. projects will be restricted at an average of 80% ami rents which is currently $2,131 for a two bedroom unit and household income will be 120% of area median income which is currently $127,000 for a family of three. market rate properties wills will be prohibited from passing along to tenants the rehabilitation costs associated with the loan. owners will be responsible for temporary relocation expenses for both residents shall and commercial tenants.
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the program will compliment the small sites program. which is preserved 26 buildings with over 184 units to date. the 4830 mission project, is a great example of this. this was a project that was acquired in july of 2018 by meta with a 13 million-dollar acquisition loan from the san francisco housing accelerator fund. the expected permanent take out through prop c includes financing of 9 and a half million dollars expected to occur in the spring of 2019. we also expect that that prop c funding may reduce the need for gap funding under the small sites program. >> before you go onto the next slide. this is a good example where we can explain it better. so, small sites acquisition
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money will be used and it will help you more with the take out financing? in this example, that's what you are saying? is that how you anticipate utilizing this funding? >> yes, that's correct. >> take-out financing as well as acquisition is what we're calling direct acquisition. >> so you could have -- if this would have been proved prior you could have used this money to do the 13 million-dollar up front? >> that's correct. and, as you said, in this case, it's an estimated savings to the city of $2 million in small sites program funding which, you know, it's enough money to do another six-unit project. >> again, i'm just not familiar. what do you mean by permanent
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take-out financing? i don't understand that term. >> permanent take-out financing is financing for the stabilization period. in mortgage and real estate, financing, you typically have different financing for the construction period, the period where there's work being done and then the stabilized period. so take-out financing is the financing that would occur after the project is completed and stabilized. >> what do you use that money for? >> it's to payoff the construction financing and -- >> so it's like a refund. >> it's like refinancing. >> i understand stuff like that. >> sorry. >> can i just -- >> the accelerator fund is loaning the money. >> just to follow a question which is -- in the first slide
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or the beginning, there's been about 90 something million used. it was a loan program at the time? it gets repaid? does it mean that you always are going to have -- it's going to get reduced? >> the repayments under the existing program from 1992 as well as the revised program prop c, before you today, all of those repaymented go to payoff the bond issued by the city. they're not going to be recirculated or revolving to be lent out again. >> it reduces our debt long-term. >> exactly. >> thank you. >> go ahead. >> that was a great ex pom. exa. >> in terms of next steps, we're working with our other partners in the city to for the general
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obligation bond, seismic safety loan program 1992, serious 2019-a and we're targeting an amount not to exceed $105 million. concurrently, we're working on operationalizing our loan program, rolling it out and marketing it to our sponsors. working with an active pipeline of 27 projects representing 312 units. >> reporter: are those mainly small sites? >> those are mainly small sites as well as a few big sites. >> that's a new one. big sites. go ahead. >> that concludes the presentation. >> thank you. >> any other questions from the committee? >> seeing none. we'll go ahead and do public comment.
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>> please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors, peter cohen. small sites, big sites, medium sites, obviously we're very enthusiastic about this coming into effect. we want to thank all the folks involved, the mayor's office of housing, the advocates, our organizations and also the supervisors who led the charge. this is an example of creative way to find money and i'm going to give a lot of credit to whitney jones who kind of uncover it but we all worked to figure out how to make this happen. it's 72% of voters supported prop c november 2016. 72% of voters. most voters don't really under bonds and the narrative around that was to acquire housing and get it off the speculation market and make it permanent leah forward able to low and moderate households. that sold 72% of san franciscans. i want to reminds us that this is something that makes total
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sense to folks. we can really build on affordable housing program and strategy on an acquisition platform as much as new construction. and i think that's what the voters really told us with that strong support. just in general, this is one tool we've been building a lot of tools to build this program. acquisition for folks who have been around this industry a long time was much stronger years past but it's kind of been rebuilt, if you will, almost from nothing in recent years. we're putting that back together. not only the funding and the kind of program tools the mayor's office of housing but the level of the organizations. we're doing capacity work. we have five organizations doing acquisition programs and three more trying to build that staffing ex and work with the housing accelerator fund to do capacity building. i just want to say this is a great piece of legislation. it's part of really building an effective and impactful strategy. thank you for your support. >> thank you.
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>> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is whitney jones. peter was too kind to say i was responsible for this. we're really excited to see these funds hit the streets. we've fought for this program and we fought for the repurchasing of those funds in this way. this is the program that will be one of the key tools we need for acquisition rehabilitation of at-risk buildings as a way that is the city's program for anti displacement of low income people. over our 41-year history they have acquired about 20 existing buildings with about 1800 units. so we're very familiar with this work. it is and has been crucially important in chinatown. we're planning on using the prop c funds for a 73-unit sro
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building and our small sites work, which again, these are the fundamental programs we're using to keep low income people in place. we also worked with staff on the language for the use of these and we look forward to their being available as soon as possible. thank you, very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. carolyn fang from mission economic development agency. thank you for the opportunity to support this fantastic legislation that will leverage taxpayer dollars even further by having lower cost mortgages for us to be able to preserve and acquire buildings. to date, as supervisor safai knows we've been able to buy 22 buildings across the mission district and many parts of san francisco. more importantly, this will help us to take out seven buildings that we've already acquired including 4830 mission. we really hope you can support this because this will be part of leveraging financing.
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what we need next is more equity. we need to find more permanent sources to leverage those taxpayers dollars. in addition to this bond, we want to be able to look for more dollars so we look forward to this and future support for more acquisition funding. >> thank you guys for all your hard work on this. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is daniel. i'm on the agenda for later. i work the the northern california community loan fund and i just wanted to express that affordability needs to be intentional and it's a market and we're super fans of the small sites program. this is such an innovative and important mechanism for insuring affordability in the city and also i wanted to note something else. i can't remember. i'm in support and thank you. >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this item. seeing none public item is
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closed. any comment. colleagues. >> i'm just make one. i can attest to the importance of this program firsthand. we just worked with meta and we worked with the mayor's office, we worked with community advocates and we were able to do the largest small sites acquisition in the first non-rent control building. without these funds, these folks, families and lives are i am pacted. so having another tool in the tool kit in a creative way, i want to thank supervisor peskin. i remember when he put it on the ballot. i know the housing -- two years ago, sorry. housing advocates were paying attention and were responsible. it feels like last year. it was two years ago. it was very important because i know the small sites acquisition fund is running out of money or might already have in the moment and so, we need to be able to
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replenish this and give additional funds to do this work. everyday we're able to identify these opportunities and these are real families that are being faced with eviction and displacement. this is an important thing. thank you guys for all your hard work and thoughtfulness and creativity and so i am a co sponsor. i'm just adding myself to everything. it's a lot of good stuff today. this is a really important one. so thank you. any other comments. seeing none, we'll make a motion to send this out with positive recommendations to the full board. >> mr. chair, would you like to adopt the amendments proposed by the city authority? >> right. sorry. can we make a motion to approve the amendments. >> moved. >> thank you. >> without objection. >> and we'll move this to the full board with positive recommendations as amended.
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thank you. please call -- i think we did -- sunny, do you know where mr. eberling is? i thought i saw him here. can you send him back? thank you. we will take item -- hold on. we have five, six and seven left. why don't we go ahead and take item 5. >> item 5 hearing to consider a pointing one member term and one member term ending january 31st and 22 to the mental health board and there are two seats and four applicants. >> let's go ahead and hear from tony parks. please keep your comments to two minutes or less. >> my name is tony parks i'm a long-term resident of san francisco. i am one of the many people that
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at one point have been evicted from my apartment. i'm now a consumer of baker places. i live in one their facilities. my interest is to try to be a bridge between the tech world and the city services that are in the city. i believe that two can help each other. rather than just fight each other on market street. and i want to say i only missed two meetings in three years. i am a reader of the "new york times" everyday and read with interest anything that helps us with information about helping this big problem that we have much. >> great. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for your service. >> any initial questions. we'll call you back up if we have any. the next person mr. windship
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hillier. >> thank you, good afternoon committee members. on information and belief, i have been denominated as an international terrorist and or someone who willingly aids vets in conspires with international terrorism. as a result of the surveillance that goes along with this, it had been used to implement out patient psychiatric treatment on me. including involuntary dosing with antipsychotic powerful and debilitating medication and dangerous. chemicals substances, the intent is to cause extreme pain for behavioral purposes. to cause asthma, inducement and
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sodium cyanide, which causes lethal in higher doses. if appointed to the board, i will work for full disclose your of the involvement with the war on terror. mental healing services provided through the city. i'd like to draw your attention to the graph i have here on the p.c. this shows a drastic increase in the number of mental health filings in san francisco superior court. beginning on 2001. it goes from 100 filings a year to 2,000 filings. that's the order of magnitude increase from two a week to 40 a week. i see that i'm out of time. i will investigate this if awe
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apoint me to the board. >> my name is marcus dancer. i'm up for the seat for a family member of a consumer. my sister has been here for 25 years. my sister is in her 60s and she's been having mental illness since she was 20-years-old. over 40 years. i'm 53. i witnessed my sister for my whole life. she lives here. i'm up for this seat here in san francisco. i think i can bring my life experience in that regard and also some of my own work that i do. i'm a crisis intervention trainer of a cibhs. i was also set on that panel two and a half years while we compiled for the training for
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the state of california. i worked with the homeless coalition when i first got here. i've been here 19 years. i worked with c.b.o.s, young community developers. i'm a minister here in the city. i am a associate minister at golden gate church of christ and i was a minister in fillmore at the uptown church of christ. my passion, my ministry has paced me in working with people that are in crisis for mental health. i think i can bring an experienced eye to the board if i am appointed. thank you for your time. do you have any questions for me? >> have you attended any of the meetings in the past? >> yes. >> so what has been your observation? >> i believe that reasonable experience can be brought to the table and making suggestions for
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the actual board to act on. it's a lot of people on there. i met with elaine on several occasions and i've been to executive meeting as well. it's a place where reasonable implementation of policy can be started. i know we don't have the power to start anything but we do have the access to make a suggestion. i think i would fit great on that board. >> any other questions? >> we'll call you back up. the next applicant is virginia brasky. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i am applying for a family member feed on the board.
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i am a mordechai of a son who was diagnosed with skitso effective disorder. my son passed away in december of 2014. it's partly as a tribute to him that i am here today. he benefited from community and city agencies. he lived in oceanside and carlsbad. when he finally had been diagnosed and gotten the proper medication, he became an active member in his community trying to alleviate the stigma of mental illness. he went to a clubhouse that served consumers of mental health diagnosis. he worked as a social security advocate trying to help people get their social security benefits. he also was a member of a panel
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that presented to police in san diego county. it was called purt. it was the psychiatric emergency response team and they trained police officers to understand the fierce and the problems that people with mental health have when police meet them on the street. i'm proud of that and i want to continue his work. i have come to a few of the mental health board meetings over the past six months. i have been gratified and inspired by the work that they do and also becoming knowledgeable about some of the things that go on here in this city. i just want to say, i'm sharing a little bit of my story because mike's story is what gives me my experience. when mike was -- before he became ill, he worked for hughes aircraft. he had a masters degree in
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science. he worked at hughes aircraft in laser optics. it was at that the spector of mental illness took over his life. i want to say he was on the street for a number of years before he was diagnosed. he came in contact with a response team, a mobile response team and that's what helped him on his road to recovery. i just want to say i'm gratified for places like that. thank you. >> thank you. >> any questions? we don't have any other applicants in front of us. we have tough decisions to make when we have multiple applicants for the same seat.
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public comments. >> david elliott louis. seat 12, tony parks. i previous served two terms on the mental health board. the last appointment was by london breed. i found her to be an important consumer voice. an articulate voice. she was an invaluable member. i'd love to see her get reappointed to a second and final term. i'm withel mental health association and tony perks has a lot to offer. i hope you will consider reappointing her. thank you, very much. >> thank you so much. >> next speaker. >> i just want to introduce
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myself as executive director of the mental health advisory board and if you have any questions and want a second, tony is a fabulous member of the board. she didn't toot her horn for having department of public-health, through her research and advocacy implement the no-smoking policy at residential care facilities. they actually have now implemented it. in terms of the other position, the family member position, i think both applicants are strong but we actually need more males on the board. we have mostly females. we are also encouraging people to take seats who have family members that have been through our system here. so they're familiar with what we have to offer. >> thank you for that in sight. >> supervisor stefani has a question for you, ma'am. >> are there other appointments coming up soon? or is the board full? >> not from the rules committee.
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let's see, supervisor malia cohen has a heat that's vacant. >> the president of the board has a seat to a point. >> yes. yes. >> district 5 and then we actually appeal to the rules committee, we have not had a supervisor on our board for since fiona mile left. we keep trying but we aren't inspiring someone to commit from the supervisors. we would love to have one of you. >> great. >> great. >> thank you. >> any other members of the public wish to comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. so my original remarks stand. i think that it's not an easy situation. >> i just want to comment that i agree that it sounds like ms. parks would be a great reappointment and thank you for
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your service so far. the other two, of course, again, we're in a situation where we have two qualified people with stories that i'm sure would help their work on the board. i personally know marcus very well. i've worked with him and known him for years. i know he and his wife and i know he is an incredible person and someone who would do great work on the board. i do have to say that. i know him very well and i trust that he wants to do a good job on this board. your story, ma'am, just moved me. it's a hard decision to make but i just wanted to let everyone know that i do know marcus well and i think he with do a great job on the board. >> thank you. if i can ask a question to the director. >> it says here on the -- it says on the notice seat number 6 is vacant. seat number 12 is tony parks
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which is being -- >> it's considered vacant until she's reappointed. seat number 14 is a vacant seat. so do you have two openings? >> that was angela pond. maybe that's the one. >> that's the one that mark spencer and virginia. >> we have 12 and 14 but it also says seat number 6 exceeding eugene. >> that's malia cohen's seat. >> district 10 supervisor. >> got it. >> so that's an individual. 11 of the seats are appointed by each individual supervisors and then five of the seats are appointed by the rules committee and then the rules committee also appoints the supervisor the 17th seat. >> seat 12 and 14. >> correct. >> ok. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, sounded like this is not
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an easy decision. i think that ms. brasssky as your story was gut-wrenching and i'm sorry for your experiences. i can't even begin to imagine. same with you mr. dancer, i know you are still continuing to live with that. ms. parks, i would be comfortable reappointing miss parks. sounds like a strong recommendation from the director. any other thoughts from supervisor stefani. i think the thing that tips the scale in my opinion is the director saying that we need more males on the board. and there's not as much male representation on the board. i think that's an important voice from the director here. i also understand both of them have their own personal experiences with their own family members and so, i would love to see both of them be on the board. so this is not an easy decision.
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>> one other question about the supervisor seat. if the supervisor is not able to make it, can they send a proxy? >> the supervisor is send a proxy but you can't vote. you can send staff to be present and listen but you have to actually vote. supervisor peskin was a board member and actually attended most of the meetings and supervisor sue bearman was there when i first started with the job. it's very valuable for your it was if your staff attends. you will know issues. tonight we're hear about the lunch. transitional aids youth program in san francisco. >> i'm definitely interesting. i'll follow-up. >> great, thank you. >> any other thoughts?
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did you make a motion? >> she did not make a motion. >> she just shared her thoughts. >> so, do you want to make a motion? >> well, based on my personal experience and what i know of mr. dancer and what the director said that i would at this time, feel comfortable moving forward marcus dancer to seat 14. i would like for virginia to stay involved. that would be my motion at this time. >> tony parks for seat 12. >> yes. we have agreement on that. we can do that without objection. >> thank you. so then that would be the motion. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> please call item number 6.
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>> members terms ending april 27, 2020 to the south of market community stabilization fund and community advisory committee. >> unless there's any comments from the committee, mr. lot, can you come forward. please, keep your comments to two minutes or less. hell oh again. than>> hello again.my name is d. as i mentioned previously, i am 'em employed at the community loan fund. i will take out and however, i am a fundraiser and a strategic communications person is my background. my husband and i live at sixth and howard street. i'm a fundraiser by profession. i am proud soma resident by choice. we are both very active in the community. on the board of hospitality
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which you may be familiar with as a homeless service organization in the tenderloin and i also work there 11 years previously. i think, given my background and my interests in the soma c.a.c. are really about making sure that i think it's really unfortunate this community is defined by its challenges and there are so many community assets and such a entrepreneurial spirit in the community. something like the stabilization fund really provides the necessary resources to the non profits who are serving these folks and kind of illicitting that spirit. that's something i try and approach the community in that way and it's something i appreciate that the c.a.c. as well. perhaps two years have been fulfilling in service and i've learned a lot about my own community and the work that we do. so i just am very proud to be a community member and help you serve in this way. thank you.
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>> thank you. >> do we have any questions. >> thank you, supervisors. i a apologize, i was across the hall at the other committee hearing tracking an important financial item for the central soma plant. i didn't realize you had jumped ahead that quickly. >> we were trying to jump around. >> and of course i worked south of market affordable housing for 41 years. we do have generational households in all our buildings, even senior housing. it's the three a lot of life in sareality of life.i would appreg continued on the c.a.c. i think i've been there four years. it's a vital group. next year will be important because a fair amount of the central soma plant
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implementation will actually come to that c.a.c. for a input from the community. much more to do next year than in past years. i would appreciate very much. i do live on folsom street for 22 years too. i appreciate your support. >> quick question. how is your attendance? >> i believe i've made all but one meeting. >> you missed one? [laughter] >> they're both reappointments. >> ok. >> thank you, we'll call you back up if you have other questions. >> please come up to the mic. >> you are on camera and this is for later. >> sorry. i did miss two meetings for work event that i had to attend. one was my own event was it was
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a fundraiser and it happened to be that night. now that it's meeting a block from my home it's fairly easy for me to get there. >> how often are the meetings? >> they're 90 minutes i believe is our agenda? >> how often. >> once a month. >> ok. >> we have one tomorrow. >> ok, great. >> any other questions? seeing none. supervisor yee. >> i'll go ahead and make the motion to -- >> i believe we need to have public comment. >> any members of the public wish to comment on this item come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i'll make a motion to a point daniel halak to receive one and john eberling to seat 6 with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> great. we can do that without objection. call the last item.
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>> item number 7, hearing to consider a pointing one member term ending july 12,020th to the children youth and their family oversight and advisory committee. there's one seat and two applicants. >> unless there's any initial comments can we hear from naddia sharif. hello. good afternoon supervisors. my name is naddia sharif and i am a san francisco native. thank you for the opportunity for having me here today. i am extremely excited about the possible opportunities to serve on this board. as i am really passion at about working to improve outcomes for youth. just in general really passionate about the work that i do as an advocate. i have committed my life to advocating for policies and funding for programs that improve outcomes for children in
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youth. over the past 13 years, i've worked diligently to ensure that varied experiences of youth, particularly paid youth are represented at policy and decision-making tables. i'm excited to know there's a seat filled on this committee. as a youth who grew up here in san francisco, i've participated in many youth leadership development programs funded by dcyl as well as work at several community-based organizations here funded by dcyf. my primary reason to wanting to serve on this board is just to ensure that the most vulnerable populations have exits and resources to opportunities by seeing that the community organization that's do the most effective work and saying the highest needs population continue to receive funding. >> great. >> any questions?
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>> so your current work, i guess, is out of san francisco state. >> yes, i work for an on campus supported program for current and former foster youth. >> is it like a mentor-type program? >> it is a case management program. so we provide academic support, socially motional support, and over all just provide a safe environment for youth. or for foster youth. so that support comes in the way of just being there as a listening ear. opening up opportunities for them to fund their education. we support not only undergraduate students but graduate students as well. >> in your opinion, what's the greatest need for youth in san francisco if. >> the greatest need?
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i would say probably access to quality and affordable housing. being that i was born and raised here, graduated, went to college. had i not been on my grandmother's lease and kind of got grandmotherred in but i'm not sure what the exact term is, i probably wouldn't be -- i know i wouldn't be able to afford to live in this city. i am a recipient of subsidized housing. i notice even with a lot of our students, their number one concern after college unfortunately is not getting a good-paying job but it's like, finding stable, secure housing. >> how does dcyf play no this? >> i think dcyf plays into this by one, supporting programs that
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help young people reach a level of self-sufficien self-sufficiey reach 18. and also -- the biggest piece is the actual funding for these type of self-sufficiency leadership programs. as i mentioned, i've participated in many programs as a youth myself and found that those who are doing magnificent work often don't have the longevity because there's no money. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> thank you. call the next applicant.
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>> ms. powell. >> welcome back. >> thank you. hello supervisors. my name is joanna powell, i'm a candidate for dcyf seat 11. thank you for making time to hear from me and sticking around to the very end. i am interested in serving because dcyf's mission of improving outcomes for children and youth has been the corner stone of my adult life. after graduating from college where i major in poly sigh with a focus on inequality i was a second grade esl teacher in the broncs which was an eye-opening experience. it showed me how amazing and resilient students and their families were and how broken the systems were that we're supposed to be serving them. to make a bigger impact i went to law school where i focused on education law and policy. after graduating i clerk fo cled for a general judge and council council to school districts. i provide advise on all policy and legal issues that the districts encounter. which their public agencies so you are probably familiar with a
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lot of them but also school district-specific issues like special education, student discipline and teacher administrator employment disputes as well as litigation. when not at work, i volunteer as a tutor and serve as vice president of the san francisco charter school. you should have a couple of letters of support from folks there. i believe that the result of my passion, experiences and skills, i have alberta to offer. i was asked to speak about my goals for the dcyf and i don't have the full context and perspective. based on the meetings i've attended and other conversations i've had, it seems as though communications with service providers is an area for improvement. i understand there was some confusion with time lines and requirements and connection with the switch to a five-year funding cycle and also at the september meeting, the service provider working group raised a concern regarding lack of communication over the switch to a new data base and invoicing
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