>> this is the only key site that has committed to development agreements. i would love for all of them to do development agreements but i cannot mandate that. >> i get it. >> this is the only key site moving forward with the agreement that would come before the board of supervisors. >> i think because of that, i think it gives the community and everyone that much more assurance. i don't understand. i have not heard the argument as to why we need this amendment now. i understand why you are doing it, but if there was no development agreement to, i would say yes, i am with you because you need the leverage and you need the ability to ensure that you are going to get some form of affordable housing. by the fact that this will be coming back to the board for a development agreement approval, it seems to me like that is a strong assurance that you will have the ability to negotiate affordable housing, whether it is on site or off site. >> you can look at it either way from the project sponsor perspective, you can say because there is a developed agreement

later on that will become -- that will come before the board of supervisors, there will be flexibility for the board of supervisors to rezone this parcel back to allow for office space. so you could also make that argument as well. >> or you could -- i mean, -- >> you could argue either way. >> india basin, they had to have a final approval. we were able to get much more than was on the table before their final agreements. i think that approval gives us the authority to ensure that we will get the appropriate -- we can go back and forth all day. i don't think, at this time, i'm not supportive of this amendment i think the fact there is a developed agreement ensures there will be an ability to negotiate something and i think probably what needs to be negotiated is the ability for there to be a fund for acquisition of small sights. it sounds like something that would make more sense on this site rather than putting conflicting use as. it is one thing to be across the street from loading and unloading and another thing to

be right next to or above. i think that is what concerns me for those who would be living there. i would not want to live next to trucks going in at 1:00 am or 3:00 am or on top of -- actually , i did that in college and had to move my dorm room because i couldn't sleep. anyway. side note. >> thank you. ok. thank you, very much for that dialogue. i wanted to go back to the mint issue. i know that we had talked about giving a week span of time. i know this has been an ongoing conversation. i am wondering if maybe oewd staff are working on the mint and can speak to this project and where the status is of things. whether it is negotiation or the project in general. >> thank you.

i'm the project manager. i'm here today with others from the historical society. as i understood from prior conversations, there was a discussion of potentially a full restoration of the planning commission recommended amount of funding of $20 million. that is what we came prepared to talk about today. this notion of additional funding, be a tide to additional parameters or detail is news to us on a project team. is something we can be happy to work with you on but as of today , that is new information. i would love, throw out quick clarifying points on where we are in the hopes of focusing the conversation. firstly, the only thing related to the mint that is part of the

central soma packet that is in front of the committee is the recommended planning commission recommendation of a 20 million-dollar allocation to the capital project. so there's no other print preapprovals are rezoning related actions as part of the plan. all of which would have to come before you at a future date. we are not planning on rezoning but for their project approvals would all come before the board for review. second quick thing, as currently constructed, the proposed allocation of the c.f.d. revenue futures would go to the fiscal rehabilitation of the mint. city dollars going to a city infrastructure project. we are not intending to make those available or otherwise re grant to specific community groups, including the current --

the perp -- or even our long-term partner. i wanted to clarify that. maybe there was confusion around the $20 million going to particular neighbourhood groups. city dollars for a city infrastructure project investments. and then lastly, both the proposed interim lease, which is a separate item at a separate board file, the intention is to activate and steward the mint for the next few years until such time as we are ready to proceed with the fiscal restoration project. both as proposed with the interim leased and -- lease and the long-term restoration project. they are built around this concept of public access and community activation. and with the chair's permission i was going to ask to share a few words on the long-term project this notion of a cultural community commons which

is really core to -- there has been some conversation about how we will partner in the future with community groups and what kind of access and activation of the space they would have in that model. >> thank you. >> thank you. it is great to see you. on behalf of the california historical society, we are honoured to be working in partnership with the city and county to revitalize and bring back the old u.s. mint into a vibrant and sustainable plays for history and culture for all of us. one of the key tenants of this exploration, which i think he remembered, we received a million dollars grant from the state and then the city is also matching that. we are deep into the planning process. we are midway through and hope to bring back to you next year, may be before this time, let's say before halloween, a full --

fully proposed a fully developed project. the cultural commons is a key idea with chs and for many of our community -- community partners with whom we have worked. we look forward to exploring this over the next 6-a months. as we work with our full team of architects and museum designers on this. what we do know after our initial community meetings and our initial capital campaign feasibility study is that this commitment by the city for the city's owned own resource is a key component to kick off the project in ways that are meaningful, those two donors and other agencies who would be willing to invest in this project. i look forward to speaking and we have been honored to speak with many of our community members and partners since i have come to c.h.s. years ago. we have worked about 250 different partners in the bay area. sometimes that is for an evening program and sometimes that is for a much longer and sustained set of efforts.

we believe deeply in the community partners response. i'm happy to answer any questions. i deeply appreciate your incredible deliberations on this and i know the mint is a very small part of this. i appreciate the attention that you have paid to it its. thank you. >> thank you. i do look forward to future conversations around the community cultural commons concept. i think that is exactly what supervisor kim was looking for in terms of partnership with the mint. the point i made last week was that of course, i want to support that effort but i also want to make sure that the project can -- its rehabilitation and so forth can be kicked off, which is quite expensive. it will be beyond this 20 million-dollar pot for 15 million-dollar pots that we are allocating through the central soma plan. i think, again, there are probably negotiations underway, but i want to make sure the project can move forward on its own. with that said, i know that

supervisor kim has additional amendments that are currently being drafted. but as i have stated in previous meetings, i would like to add back the 5 million into that pot that was suggested by planning commission from the regional transportation fund. >> ok. at this time, do we have any other comments or questions? >> i do. >> what i would propose is that we move forward amendments that perhaps are not controversial with this committee. so if we can move forward with amendments -- actually, i am looking at last week's. i have so many. if we can look move forward all of the amendments except for the

tenth amendment and we can take a roll call on that. we will move forward with those amendments first and then i will make two more amendments and then supervisor tang, you have an amendments. i may be amending that next monday with the additional language of linking the $5 million to below-market rate space for other nonprofits and cultural organizations in the south of market. i just want to confirm, is the 14-foot p.d.r. height included as part of your list? >> no. >> hold off on the flower march 1. >> so amendments of 1-9 and then i will make two more amendments and then supervisor tang, i believe you have a an amendment. >> is that all right. >> yes. >> there is a motion to amend as was stated by supervisor kim and we will do that without objection. >> great. i would like to move forward

with the tenth amendment which is to rezone a portion of block 377 a lot 0052 m. you are. >> i'm sorry. i thought -- we are not holding back on that one for next week? >> no. >> there is nothing that will happen between now and next week this agreement will take weeks, if not months to negotiate. so there is not going to be a commitment that will be made in a week's time for education or a fee. it will take some time. >> i would like to move forward this amendment today. >> for the supervisor his consideration, you are considered to doing this m.u.r. would you be willing to postpone this and allow parties to talk with you? may be you can get some form of commitment in writing that would talk about small sites acquisition or land dedication and then we can have a better --

>> this project is so big. >> i understand. it would be a very complicated amendment. >> there may be major changes through the agreements that have nothing to do with this housing portion. i'm happy to talk to outside of committee about that. >> know , know , i get it. >> i really need to move central soma out of land use next monday so if making that amendment next monday requires a continuance, then i am not open to waiting on this amendment. >> deputy city attorney? >> yes, if you make the amendment today and continue it you can pass it out next week or remove it next week. if you make it next week, it will trigger another continuance inland use. it is a subjective amendment. >> i guess what we could do is what we did when you asked me at

rules, to leave it in for the process of moving things forward but allow for the option to remove it. i would think that we would encourage the parties, both the flower march representative and community members to talk with one another and talk with the supervisors' office and you can get some form of commitment in writing. you may not be enough for the development agreement but it may be enough to satisfy the needs of the community and the supervisors' office to make a commitment in some form of small sites acquisition or contribution to land or in lieu fee or whatever it may be. i think that is where the. we can go ahead and move forward with the amendment with the knowledge that i reserve the right to make a motion to remove it next week. >> would you like a roll call vote on that particular one? >> no, that is fine.

we can roll call it next week. again, i think that may be -- the project sponsor is here and their representatives are here. may be they can talk and talk with supervisor's office. that is fine. we can do that. >> all right. item ten, this is regarding assessors block 377 a lot five. we will take that amendment without objection. >> that's fine. >> ok. the second amendment was the amendment that i was asked to weighed a week. to bring forward the land use committee. it was amendment date last week. this is to allow the project on fourth and harrison to provide a minimum of 14 feet floor to floor p.d.r. ground floor height and reduce the mass reduction controls on harrison street and on fourth street with contention on the project providing land for affordable housing, currently this is a discretionary approval and i understand that the planning

commission would be very likely to support this as a discretionary approval by the project sponsor did ask for certainty in moving forward with the project as they have proposed. we can take a roll call on that. >> ok. to the city's attorney his office, his is also one of those new amendments that if we, i know we talked about it, but we have not taken action. >> there is a question if this is a substantive amendment. [indiscernible]

>> go ahead. >> basically, same situation. it is substantive. if you made it next week, it would trigger another continuance. >> ok. roll call vote on this one. >> yes, please. >> on the motion to amend the legislation by stated by supervisor kim. [roll call] >> there are two aye. >> this amendment passes. i will make a motion to restore the $5 million to the mint project from the regional transportation fund as was recommended by the planning commission. roll call vote. we will do that without objection. sorry. deputy city attorney? >> just a clarification because there has been confusion about

how this piece works. the committee can certainly make that amendment. we would reflect that amendment in the ordinance itself as in section 434. just referencing the plan that was adopted by planning and the change. but the committee is not amending the implementation. >> thank you. that -- thank you for that clarification. we are ok with doing that without objection at this time. ok. colleagues, any other further questions or comments or discussion? >> i just want to thank the land use committee but i will thank you next monday. >> with that, we are going to continue items 11-15 to the next land use committee meeting of november fifth. we will do that without objection. are there any other items before us today? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. we are adjourned.

in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with

the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. >> so thank you all for coming. this is a very exciting day, and the person behind what we're going to break ground on, so a big hand for joy oh. >> thank you, everybody for coming here today.

we're so excited that we finally reached this milestone that we're moving into the second phase of this project. without your support and participation, we're not here today, and i look forward to you to come to our grand opening at the end of 2020, when this project is completed. we're very excited to have mayor lee -- i'm sorry. mayor breed to -- and supervisor kim to be at our ground breaking today. i would like to first -- i'm trying to make this short and cover everybody, and this has -- it's been an effort to get to this point today, and i wanted to first thank you, thank my partner and investor that came all the way from asia, they came

specifically for this ground breaking. chris chang, who represents c.d.c., continental development corporation, from taiwan, and mr. ran, from shanghai. they are both very successful and socially responsible developers in asia. so i want to just mention a few names that help us get here today. one of them is the tenderloin housing clinic and randy shaw who actually hosted our bimonthly meetings in their office across the street from here, alongside with tndc and hospitality house. we -- the housing clippnic is

going to help us provide a job training program to allow the residents in their projects to learn the skill to work in the -- the hotel when we opened. so there are many parts of this project that we think we can contribute back to the community. one other significant thing, though, that the project is driving is we're taking 50% of the arts fee to allow the local nonprofits that service the tenderloin area, the program includes wild flower institutes hidden gem program, phase two, counter proposals, the turk and taylor project, and the lgbtq

interpretive program, and also, the magic theaters arts program. so there's so many organizations that we worked with for the last four years to come to this point. so of course, we're going to be building -- many years working with planning department, we're finally coming to an agreement to create this first modern flight iron building with a picture behind you, in front of you, in the intersection of midmarket examine tenderloin. we are -- midmarket and tenderloin. and i want to thank all of the arts designer involved in the project from hindal b.a.r. and o.s.a. we're standing on this platform, and this is built by, you know,

our contractor. we are confident that we can get to the finish line under budget on time, right? so there's leti. if you have any problems, he's the supervisor on-site. any questions you have, go to him. most importantly at the end, i wanted to thank my staff. please raise your hand. [applause] >> and charlie thompson, there you go, our attorney, who we spent many sleepless nights, right charlie, working with will thatcher. will, where are you? will finally agreed to sell the land in the corner lot to us. so without any of you, we are not here today. and i want to say since january of this year, eric tau, terry

re reagan, and brian baker, jessie herzog, i'm very excited for you to help us, and we're going to work together until the end of the project. thank you. so mayor breed, can i introduce you? we're so excited to see what you're working on, creating housing for different income level residents, and your work on sort of a tough love projects here in the city. and your work that you're doing

in identifying the director of the housing delivery that's going to stream line the application process and the housing process. and we're confident that the city will be a better city for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i am so excited to be here today, and i think mayor lee wanted us all to know that he was paying close attention to everything that we're doing. you know, it's -- it's great to be here today. in fact, i just did a ground breaking earlier on 420 units in the civic center area, and now, 242 units right here in central market. and on top of that, the 65 units of affordable housing that will come with this development. it is a beautiful day to build housing in san francisco.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: and you know what i'm most excited about when building housing, supervisor kim? the fact that i helped to lead the efforts on the board of supervisors when we passed neighborhood preference legislation so that 40% of all new development of affordable housing go to the people who live in that community first. so if we are going to make changes all over san francisco, we have to make sure that we include the people who are a part of these communities. part of making sure that we revitalize san francisco is bringing others along, but we do know we have challenges with homelessness, we have challenges with housing. we need to do better with our public transportation system, and it's going to take us all working together to accomplish those goals. projects like this take us one step closer to doing something absolutely amazing right here, and people say central market. i say the tenderloin. right here in the tenderloin.

we are going to open doors and provide opportunities, nonprofit theater space, retail space, spaces for people who live in this community to use, making sure that the hotels and the housing that are available are also available to the people who are part of this community. i'm excited about the future of san francisco, i'm excited about the opportunities that this project brings, and i am committed to continuing to do what we need to do to cleanup the tenderloin, to provide job opportunities for those who need them, to make sure that we have rest rooms and other places for people to use the rest room. and i know supervisor kim is very happy with the amount of time that i've been spending in the tenderloin. it's one of my favorite places to visit, because i know that one of the things is not just constantly investing dollars and getting people to work, it's about being involved in the community and the solutions we

need to continue to move things forward. it's a great day in the san francisco area, it's a great day to build housing, and i am so excited to be at the ground breaking of this project that within two years, we are going to make sure that this place -- i am going to be here, hopefully, for the opening, as well, but more importantly, in the meantime, the outreach and the work that we need to do to make sure that the community continues to be a part of this project is going to be so very much important. and yes, i am hiring a housing delivery director because we need to deliver more housing for residents of san francisco, and this is helping us get just one step closer to that goal. thank you all so much for being here. [applause] >> supervisor kim, you and i, we

worked on this project i don't know how many years. five or six years? more like eight. okay. thank you for all those committee meetings we held in your office, and we are here today. i want to say with your midmarket tech exam initiative that you worked with the great mayor lee, and you continued working on creating the lgbtq cultural district in the tenderloin, it's great -- it's contributing greatly to the revitalization of this area, so we thank you for doing that.

>> supervisor kim: we have been working this project since 2011, and even though we entitled the project a little over two years ago, there continued to be other actions that we needed to take to ensure that this project remained viable. very few projects do i get to sit with for eight years, but this, but this project, not only is it a vital part of this neighborhood, but this project was a key component. it went through many iterations, and countless community meetings for each of the iterations, but i'm just excited in the end the project was able to keep all the components that we initially wanted to see. we wanted to respect and acknowledge the history of arts and arts done on midmarket. whether we're talking about

a.c.t. down the street to all of the great theaters like s.h.n., and i'm so excited that joy has committed to the magic theater to have their own dedicated space here at 950 market to join us in creating this cultural arts district. second, i want to make sure that we're creating jobs for residents ensuring that tenderloin residents would be able to work at the hotel and retail at 950 market.

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. >> supervisor kim: and that's part of why it took us so long to get to this point, to see how large the site is and what it's going to mean to the midmarket arena. i finally wanted to acknowledge late may i don't remember ed or. i know jeff buckley is here and worked on behalf of his office to make sure we could go through so many different processes to get to this point. a project like this doesn't happen without strong support

from the mayor's office, and by the way, it will continue to need strong support from mayor breed and her office. congratulations, joy, congratulations, everyone. >> lucky today to have from our well known neighbor, glad memorial, we have rabbi michael lieszak to give a blessing. so please welcome rabbi mike lieszak from glad memorial. >> i am michaelle lieszak.

did you want to see the drawings of the building here behind me? is that going to be a gorgeous building or not? yes, yes, a real site to behold here on market street. beyond the physical beauty of 950 market street, we at glide want to absolute the people at group i with the help of market street for the masses and central city s.r.o. collaborative for thinking deeply how this project will be a real source of vitality for everyone here in the tenderloin. we are particularly moved because group i went above and offfor securing how doesing for formerly homeless people. that points to an inspired sense of responsibility for our community's most vulnerable people. beyond housing, the fact that group i donated many to our district and included grounds for a space in their building for communal space is a real

gift. they worked hand in hand with the people here in the tenderloin to ensure that this area of the city continues to lift all of the people who live and work and learn in this city of san francisco. may we continue to grow partnerships like this in the city that we all love. deeply grateful. >> all right. thank you, everybody. we'll see you at the next ribbon cutting. [applause]

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.

>> good morning and welcome to the october 17 meeting of the government audit and over sight committee. my name is jane kim and i'm joined by aaron peskin and supervisor valerie brown.