that. organic has to mean the same thing for everybody on all of the blockc >> i think the -- the trick is not to think about decentralizing everything.

lettuce may not have a tracking model, when that arrives at different points along the way, it is certified as having reached those points and not

having been tampered with with this specifically model. and when the lettuce is taken out of the container, it started getting tag, right? it has a unique number. so in the case of e. coli outbreaks, can not only look at and say where is the tag that that was sold at, you can tie that back to what was the batch it came in, what was the container came in, that container came in a larger shipping container, and you track back to all of the affected places that we have to withdraw this lettuce from and whether or not it was tampered along the way. so it's not simple but it's not that it hasn't been thought of,

either. >> any other questions? fascinating and so many questions and so much to learn and so much potential at the same time, and also want to ask if there's any public comment on this item? good evening. >> hello. it's been a long time. eric brooks. i am not speaking for any of the organizations that i work for this evening because this is very speculative territory and i don't want to step over that line, but i will say that i learned about and started studying bitcoin and investing them in 2011 and started dealing in them in 2015. so you should bring me into this space. a, i love bitcoin and cryptocurrenciys. they're going to revolutionize

the world. bitcoin is not going to be creating nearly as much greenhouse gases in the future as it does now because of things like the side chains and the lightning network, and i did explain that in more detail if people want to ask me questions because i'm going to get to my three minutes. and i'm also invested in power ledger and i'm invested in a lot of other -- and in supply chain tokens and things like that. and i want to start there. the conversation you just had shows that cryptocurrencies and supply chain and certification is not going to help you. you still to have have a certifying body when you put the lettuce in the box. that's not going to help. that applies in spayeds to carbon credits which are already bad and cryptocurrencies and

blockchain is not going to help in carbon credits because you need a certifiers there, and we've got certifiers there, and it's not working, so i would recommend against that type of thing. so you're asking for use cases -- well, another thing that needs to be said is we've got to be really careful to hopefully make this so you're not just hiring a middleman like uber to be a token man for you in this purpose. most of the people in the i.p.o. is a middleman for the blockchains themselves. i would like to see the sf program create its own coin. you've got a bunch of business and homeowners in san francisco. some of them will put solar up

and battery storage in their facilities. some of them won't, and cleanpowersf could create a nonprofit noncorporate city cleanpowersf coin for people that have solar panels in their roof to exchange their energy with people that don't. and -- and private -- on private exchange. the only time cryptocurrency makes sense is when there's a private exchange of value. all the other tracking and value stuff, all that can be done with databases in a much more efficient manner without using the blockchain at all. i hate to be a downer on that, but that's the reality. and i'm open for questions if people want to dig deeper into what i know. >> thank you. any other public comment? ashley, i mean, thank you so much for that -- for your presentations, for being with us today. anthony, next item. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>clerk: the next item is item

8, director's report. updates on the department of the environment, administrative and programmatic operations. the speaker's debra felder. the presentation is the director's report and the operation is discussion. >> i just want to say thank you so much. >> put it on a blockchain. >> yeah. that was really interesting and lots of food for thought, so we will be back in touch. thank you. thank you for taking your time, yeah. [applause] >> oh, my gosh. okay. so you got a long director's report in your packets that gave you detailed items in terms of what we've been working on. as you can see, there's just a whole range of things from the way we're looking at environmental justice to the way we're working with affordable

housing and our energy programs. zero waste is going very, very full bore ahead with the new system and helping especially complicated accounts like multifamily buildings and large commercial office spaces to figure out spaces as well as the small guys, so we've been very busy in that way. we have been working also on the zero waste front on infrastructure and on policy. on the infrastructure today, recology celebrated the opening of what they all their west wing, which i keep thinking about the white house, but it has nothing to do with that. the west wing of recology's tunnel road facility was expanded for the compost because the amount of compost of organics that we collect on a

daily basis is so massive compared to the original size of the collection area that it was being overwhelmed and we were having challenges of keeping getting it through throughput. we have this challenge where all the organics will be emptied and literally pushed off a cliff, off an edge onto a waiting truck below, and they can weigh it and send it off to the composting facility. so we are really gearing up to handle the organics, and now it's a question of the outreach side of making sure we generate as much as we can. and we can -- if anybody would like a tour of that, just let me know, and we can think about -- it's not actually all that gorgeous. it's a big, concrete area, but it's interesting on the scale side to see that. also, we've been working on zero waste facilitator legislation. neha, our fearless city attorney, has been working very

hard with all parties to draft amendments and make it a strong piece of legislation. i want to thank commissioner aun, who on his personal private side, came and talked about it. but it's been -- it's gone through a lot of evolutions. i think it's a really important tool for our zero waste program because if it gets adopted by the board of supervisors, it will give the department a added tool to address large commercial accounts like large multifamily and large office buildings who want to essentially just pay their way out of zero waste by just paying the increased charges and fees and not really trying to improve their status at all. so it will give us a way to require the hiring of people whose job it is to think about zero waste in these businesses. so it's very exciting, it's been a long time coming, and i think, knock on wood, we're approaching

the finish line on it. recology launched their better at the bin campaign. we had a wonderful -- they have a new truck that's really fun, so i think in the straw ordinance -- well, the plastic litter and reduction ordinance that you weighed in on had to be amended for the disability community because of the need for plastic straws as a tool, not a convenience, to use their words, so there's been a lot of activity in the last couple months around zero waste from the legislative side, the infrastructure side, the ordinance side. i feel like we're getting our arms around the push and it's going to help the mayor talk about what we're doing to meet our commitments from the global climate action summit where we have new zero waste commitments from the city. for the future, i would just say that christmas is coming, the holidays are coming. if you aren't already aware, and we have some holiday traditions in the department of the environment. one is our green christmas tree

program, which is literally buying a live tree -- or renting a live tree, i suppose is the way it is, because after you decorate your live tree, they be it goes back to friends of the urban forest, and they plant it. so we're putting a big plug for that. if you'd like more information, let me know. there's also our annual tree chip event that you are welcome to come to that we are demonstrating on live t.v. how -- the idea that people should put their christmas trees out on the curb at certain points in time and they need to take all of the tinsel and everything off so they can be chipped, and we have a lot of fun putting christmas trees into the chipper. so if you'd like to join me in that event, let me know. it's kid friendly to watch. it's definitely not kid friendly to do. so i'd just advise you of that.

the last two items are on december 5, at lunchtime, that's a wednesday, we are going to have a very special speaker in our lunch and learn, dr. elizabeth deaker, she's going to be talking about her research on gender and environment and specifically using that bike study as a model. she's apparently a very distinguished scholar, and she will be coming to our department on wednesday, december 5, at noon. would love to have people there to listen if you're interested. and the next day, december 6, which is a thursday, in the evening, from 5:00 to 8:00, at the main library, the curet auditorium, we are going to show a movie, the devil you know, to

show a movie about teflon and the chemicals in them. you may remember we banned the use of fluorinated chemicals in packaging, so we will be on a panel, along with other people who made the movie and other environmentalists. i can't say that it's a heart warming movie. so the part that becomes heart warming is that you, the commission on the environment, the board of supervisors, and the department of the environment are doing something about it, and that is what gives me hope. so with that, i would like to see if there are any new staff in the room. i see one, two, if you would come up and -- three, i see -- there are three new -- please come up and say your name, your

program you're working in, what your role is, and where you came from, if you can remember the three things. >> my name is sierra. i work for -- with -- on the team of toxics residential reduction, and i'm -- what do -- i'm going to do? >> what do you do now, and what did you do with the program. >> so before i came from cal state northridge, and i graduated in may. i worked at t.j. maxx. i studied environmental health and occupational health and safety at northridge. and my position now as a toxics residential associate, i do right now battery site visits at retail walgreens stores, and i do healthy home presentations. i'm getting ready to do that,

too. there's also helping residents when they call, they ask me questions about where to safely dispose of their household hazardous wastes, so yeah. thank you. >> welcome. >> hello. my name's elizabeth felter, and i'm joining the climate team. i'm a hazards and climate resilience analyst, and as my title makes obvious, i'll be working on the hazards and climate resilience plan, which is across several different departments here in the city. before that, i was with the bay conservation development commission, working on their sea level rise adaptation planning program? and before that, i work with the national oceanic and administration digital coast partnership, so done several years of sea level rise specific work and really excite today

broaden the scope of the climate change and resilience topics that i'm working on. i'm really proud to be a part of this great staff. thank you. >> thanks, elizabeth. >> thank you. >> my name is bitan chin, and -- >> into the mic. >> testing? okay. hi. my name is bitan chin, and i finish my master's this summer in u.c. santa barbara, and my degree was in environmental science and management. and now -- so i joined the energy team a month ago, and specifically, i work with barry and ammon on green buildings. so now, i mainly work on the operations side of the existing commercial building ordinance, yeah. so before i came here, i

interned with the national center of ecological initiatives. it was a lot of interesting data stuff. happy to be here. thanks. >> thanks. >> welcome. >> okay. that's it. >> any questions for director rafael, commissioners? >> just one. the two events, do we -- if people are interested, commissioners are interested, when should we -- is the deadline to let anthony know or -- >> for both of those, i -- you know what? i don't know about the movie, if there's a limited number of spaces. certainly, for the lunch and learn, you can just let anthony know on the day of so he makes sure you're in the system and can get into the building. and anthony will let you know if there is any deadline or

preregistration for the movie because i actually don't know the answer to that. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item, the director's report? >> good evening again, commissioners, eric brooks. this time, i will put my organizational hats on, so i'm here with san francisco green party and our city san francisco and californiians for energy choice. first i want to bring to your attention something that i e-mailed a little while back and make sure that you see it about why -- i mean, director rafael brought up in previous reports -- excuse me -- renewable -- quote, unquote renewable diesel, and i said something very cautionary about that, that it's not any better than the body that we use now which is largely made out of soybeans and creates irreversibility land use change.

so take a look at -- irreversible land use change. take a look at that. you can e-mail me if you have my e-mail address. i also want to bring up the fact that lately, the clean energy -- san francisco clean energy advocates in san francisco that have been working so long and hard on community choice and cleanpowersf have started meeting with the mayor's office about bringing the sort of model that sydney, australia has for a complete county renewable master plan to san francisco. and that shows promise. we've only just begun to talk to them about it, but it would be great to have the department of the environment get involved and the commission get involved in that, as well. and some of those talks are with director of workforce development arce who you're familiar with, commissioner wan, and if you could get actively

involved because of that connection, that would be awesome. another thing i would say is really crucial that this commission work on, and i think you've got the charter ability to do it, i -- since the latest wildfire, there are a lot of very angry consumers, angry people that got burned out of their houses and watched their friends get burned out of their houses, angry environmentalists that are already -- we are going to have, in 2019, probably the biggest grassroots coalition that we've ever had to fight for community choice, to fight for localizing energy so we can start getting rid of transmission lines, and the number one fight, the beginning fight, will be -- will be to say to pg&e and the other utilities, you are not going to pass your wildfire liability costs to the

consumers. that's not going to happen. we're already beginning a no campaign, and we're going to get strong on that. and it would be great to have the mayor's office, the board of supervisors, and most importantly, the commission on the environment and the department be involved in saying that loud and clear with us. thanks. >> thank you. any other public comment? next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 9, committee reports, highlights of the october 17, 2018 operations committee meeting and the october 22, 2018 and the november 12, 2018 policy committee meetings. this item is for discussion. >> i will try to be brief, given the lateness of the hour. at the october 22, 2018 meeting, the policy committee did a very deep dive on the commitments

that the city signed onto during the global climate action summit with a focus on the zero waste and green bond commissions. robert haley came to our committee to talk about the department's part of those commitments, and we had a great presentation by mike brown, who manages the environmental finance programs at the p.u.c. about how he does his work in that program on green bonds. and then, we received a very full and fascinating presentation on all of the department's recent state and local legislative initiatives. we heard in particular from jenn

jackson who talked about the toxic legislation that we have been involved in, including debbie mentioned the furniture one, right. and then, finally, charles sheehan, the chief policy and public affairs officer, discussed all the things that were before the board of supervisors this year that implicated the department's work including the plastic and litter reduction ordinance and a number of others. it was a very interesting meeting. and then, our most -- what would have been our most recent meeting, the one in november , was cancelled. >> commissioner stevenson? >> for -- on october 17, we had a meeting of the operations

committee along with our finance and administration program manager, he gave us an update on the budget. there was a slight change between the budget that was presented to the commission in january and the budget that the mayor approved? we went over that, and then, kara gurney, who's a senior engagement specialist at the department gave us a presentation on all the outreach efforts that happened for the new bins in certain neighborhoods, so we still got to learn about that. and finally, the outreach program manager, she gave us an update on the bin top or battery recycling program. multifamily residences have an orange bucket where they can put their batteries to recycle, and single-families can put their batteries on top of their black

bin in a plastic bag. so a lot of people didn't know about that, and they did more outreach on how to recycle the batteries. >> commissioners, any further comment on the public report? any public comment on this item? >> yeah, eric brooks just as a public citizen. my building doesn't have a battery bin, so what do i do to make sure that it gets one? >> good question. director rafael? >> with the permission of the chair, i will answer the question? so that is a great question, and for anyone who's listening, if you are in an apartment building that does not have a battery bin, you can call recology and let them know, and they will deliver one to your property manager? if for some reason that is not successful, though it really somebody, call our department,

and the receptionist will get you to the right person in the zero waste program, but recology is the deliverer of orange buckets, and they would be happy to make sure your property manager has one. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 10, announcements. this item is for discussion. >> is there any announcements, commissioners? no announcements? any public comment on this item? hearing none, next item, please. >>clerk: the next item is new business, future agenda items, charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. the explanatory document is the 2019 commission on the environment meeting schedule. this item is for discussion and possible action. >> and anthony will do the report in the -- in charles's

absence. >> thank you. good afternoon -- good evening, commissioners. in your packet is the list of meetings for the commission and the committees in 2019, so please mark your calendars for those dates. the next commission meeting is tuesday, january 22nd, at 5:00 p.m. here in room 416. the commission will be hearing the recommendation from the operations committee about the department budget. the commission will also be reviewing its annual report. just one note on that, as i work with the department to develop the annual report, all of you had gone to 18 events during the global climate action summit, and i wish we could have been at all of them to take pictures, but if you have any photos from gcas, if you can actually send them to me so we can add them to the annual report or any other photographs of you at work for the department. the other item for the commission meeting is officer

elections will happen in january , and we are still developing other presentations, as well. the december policy committee meeting is cancelled -- oh, that's not true. the december policy committee meeting is absolutely happening. it will be -- i don't have the date, but it will be the second monday. >> it's like the 10th. >> the 10th. there it is, of december. the next operations committee meeting is wednesday, january 16. >> okay. thank you for that clarification. any comments on anthony's report for charles? any public comment? please come forward. >> one last time at the mic. eric brooks, san francisco green party, and local grassroots

effort, our city. couple of things. you may have noticed that not many of the opponents of most pesticide use came to your final hearing on that and that's because up to that hearing, we had not been reached out to by staff to engage in a dialogue, so we gave up, and we didn't come. so i hope in the next year, we make much more progress on the pesticide issue so that that side of the issue is being heard and we're coming up with some compromises at least on pesticide use. and the other thing just that i would say, once again, taking off my organizational hat is just to repeat -- well no, i'll just put on the one for clean energy, californians for clean energy choice, it would be good if you couldie agendaize the ise

that's going to be in sacramento around energy and the wildfires so that there can be recommendations hopefully coming from this commission. that i think is really important because this is -- 2019 is going to be a war of the people against these big corporations that are causing these problems, and it would be great to get you all involved in it. and then, now taking off the organizational hat, just to get back to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, i know that i can help. so those of you that want to move forward with that, and you do, please do contact me, and i don't mind giving this out, even if this is broadcast, it's my last name and my first initials, brookse brookse@igc.org, i can help you decide what to use bitcoin and cryptocurrency for, and i can do it for free, to please do

contact me. thanks. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 12, public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on public employee performance plan and appraisal report. >> before we vote to move into closed session to review director rafael, we will take public comment on all matters related to closed session. is there any public comment on this item? hearing none, okay. so then, i think the next item, anthony, is we need to vote, correct? so we need to vote on whether to hold closed session to evaluate the performance of the executive director, deborah rafael.

do i hear a motion to move into closed session to evaluate the performance of the director. commissioner wan? >> i move. >> and that was commissioner aun? thank you. okay. any discussion? okay. i guess any >> we are back in open session, and we need a motion to not disclose any of the discussion held in closed session. do i have a motion? so moved by commissioner oyos, commissioner stephenson seconded. is there any discussion? any public comment?

all those in favor, signify by saying aye. [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. okay, and then, the next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 15, vote on whether to make a recommendation to the department of human resources to increase the compensation of the executive director fell, this is a discussion item and action. >> this is a new item where the commission can make a recommendation to the department of human resources on the compensation of director rafael. i'll need a motion to start the discussion. that motion -- that motion that we would vote on is to recommend to the department of human resources to increase the compensation of director rafael. may i have a motion? >> i move. >> second. >> been moved by commissioner wald, seconded by commissioner oyos. any discussion?

any questions? all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? and then, we can -- >> we should say based on the conversation that we had during the full -- the full and complete conversation that we had during the closed session, i move that we -- i recommend that she get a raise. >> just maybe at a high level, you can state what your reasoning is that isn't about the closed session. >> okay. for extraordinary performance in the last year. >> second. >> it's been moved by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner sullivan. >> and just acknowledge that there's no public in the room. >> and there's no public currently present. all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries.

>>clerk: all right. the next item is item 16, adjournment. the time is 9:03 p.m. >> we are adjourned. good night. >> supervisor: good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

i'd like to bring the chamber to order. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the november 27, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i want to thank each and every one of you for being here today. mada madame clerk, please call the roll for attendance. >> clerk: yes, madame president. [roll call]

>> clerk: madame president, all members are present. >> supervisor: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> supervisor: all right, thank you for joining us in the mrooej of -- pledge of allegiance and i'd like to thank those here today with assisting us with the broadcast. are there any communications? >> clerk: none to report, madame president. >> supervisor: before we proceed i want to pause and recognize on this date 40 years ago we lost supervisor melk and mayor

musconi and supervisor mandelman requests we honor them who were assassinated today 40 years ago and supervisor mandelman will have more later. we're approving the minutes from october 23, 2018 for the full board. is there a motion to approve the minutes? by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor fewer. without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment. madame clerk, please call the 2:00 p.m. special order. >> clerk: we have the honorable

mayor london breed to engage with formal policy discussion with the members of the board. there were three topics submitted by supervisors, yee, brown and mandelman and we'll proceed in that order for each topic. as a reminder the mayor and board may not discuss matters already on committee and on the agenda as an action item. the mayor will address the board up to five minutes. the format for the discussion is two minutes each for question and two minutes for the answer. if a follow-up question is asked, no more than two minutes for the follow-up question and two minutes for the answer to the follow-up and finally public comment for this item will be taken during general public comment. >> supervisor: thank you. madame mayor welcome back to the chamber. i want to give you an opportunity for brief opening remarks if you have any. >> thank you. thank you, president cohen and members of the board of supervisors and members of the

public. it's truly an honor to be here today to address you. as president cohen mentioned today is the 40th anniversary of the sad day in our history in san francisco the assassination of mayor george musconi and supervisor harvey milk and i hosted family and friends of mayor musconi and supervisor milk and many of the board of supervisors to celebrate the lives of these two men. it was inspiring to hear about their stories of their work, life and legacy. both george moscone and harvey mi milk ex exemplified through

their actions. they began to point women of color and members of the lgbtq community which at the time was unheard of and we're fortunate and take for granted the diversity we're able to celebrate today. by doing this mayor moscone open the doors and mar -- mar i have milk fought for seniors and low income people and people of color. while this is not all their work, it was a key part of their l legacy. they were ahead of their times in so many ways. i'm proud to continue to work with many members of this board

for the purposes of moving forward with the kinds of policies that make our city better for all people of san francisco. while their deaths were a dark day for our city their lives and legacies are far brighter and will continue to shine today. >> supervisor: thank you. would you please call the first topic. >> clerk: supervisor yee submit the following topic noticed on our agenda, affordable housing, quality care and education and workforce. supervisor yee. >> thank you, madame clerk. thank you mayor breed.

i have hope that you as a mayor will continue the culture of wanting to stay ahead of the curve. my question really is about early care and education. as many people know, education benefits the economy and our babies and research has proven the benefits of early care and education for young children and costs families upwards of $20,000 a year. the e.c.e. workforce who performs this actual work and they are sorely under paid. vote understand this and in june voted to support the early education for all initiative.

this will expand efforts and the question i have for you is how would you lead the implementation of the childcare initiative and what is your vision for early care and education for the city such as addressing the early education workforce issue and the affordability crisis that parents have to go through in terms of paying for this care. >> thank you, you know education is a key priority for me and the public school system made me who i am today and we know early education sets the foundation for our youth and children for their future success. ensuring access means make sure we provide quality early care and education for our students. access means providing the necessary resources so the ability to pay is not a barrier.

access is also getting low-income children off the skitti skitting -- existing waiting list which i know you care about and it means once a child is in a program that program should provide an enriching experience. my office of early childhood and education identified three key areas necessary for fostering a competitive and well qualified and early care workforce. teachers need to be paid more with the higher cost of living and other more competitive job opportunities retaining and tracting a workforce has become -- attracting a better workforce is getting more challenging and early education program participants and with training as a condition of funding more support is need. and teachers need quality education and quality teachers

need ongoing education and opportunities for higher education. resources, we know, that are needed for this purpose. i am committed to supporting and enhancing our office of early childhood education in those particular areas and increased compensation for early childhood education professionals is definitely a priority of mine as well. >> supervisor: at this time you have an opportunity to make a follow-up question. >> thank you, mayor breed for your answer and i'm glad to hear we're on the same page. in the past, you've been one of the supervisors supporting some additional funding for the office of to do this type of work. as you know it's really a slice of what they need. as you also know, the initiative i'm talking about is in the courts hand right now.

and i'm pretty here we're going to win. we may not hear for a year. in the meantime, so the question for you would be, would you be supportive knowing that we need all the resources that are hung up in court right now. and in the meantime, there's going to be a year that might pass by and would you be supportive of providing additional resources in the meantime while we wait for the court to have the results? >> as i said, this is important to me and analyzing the budget specifically for this department exactly how resource currently advocated and where resources are needed are equally important so my plan is for each and every department based on how much

additional money we will have to invest and as i mentioned before as a top priority this is something i'm committed to. >> this is where it gets interesting. the mayor has the ability to ask supervisor yee or anyone in the chamber a question. madame mayor, do you have a question for anyone? >> actually, i don't. >> supervisor: i build -- built it up and you let us down. we'll move upon -- on. >> clerk: the district 5 supervisor, supervisor brown and they'll plan for homeless services, supervisor brown. >> thank you, mayor breed for being here today. the majority of san francisco

and until a court order is won to pass this measure. i want to thank you for proactively introducing education to allow city attorney h herrera to seek legislation and legislation may take months and years. i think people from san francisco understand the problem has been decade in the making and i think they understand how complicated it is and in the end the solutions will not problem or total or fast but this has also made it clear the majority of people from san francisco believe we can do better. there's a role for the city, government and more funding is needed. i think the message was loud and clear, homelessness is one of our priority. so i want to know and the

question is while the city waits for a judicial decision, how can we work with you to help deliver on the promise of prop c and the will of the voters and how can we work together to deliver more funding for homelessness as quickly as possible? >> thank you, supervisor brown for that question. following the election, it's important we all come together and move forward. as with june's 2018 proposition c regarding childcare and prop g that funds teacher wage increases, there's legal uncertainty regarding our recent prop c to fund homeless programs. because of the uncertainty to fund homeless programs, we know that we won't necessarily be able to, until we go through the courts access the funds. we know that i'm committed to moving forward quickly and

responsibly to address any legal challenge and it's why i put forward the legislation for the purposes of making sure that we confront any legal challenge head on to get certainty as soon as possible. and i think that if someone choose to file litigation, it is what it is and there's not much to do about that. i do look forward to passing the legislation quickly and i'm committed to doing all i can to see the funding from prop c is implemented as soon as possible in a responsible manner. but while we wait for funding i'm meeting with civic leaders to identify funding for programs and addressing homelessness, mental health challenges and addiction and will add 20 new shelter beds and more addiction

beds and i look forward to working on the challenges of vehicle homelessness and we'll have a number of announcements in the near future about additional plans for the purposes of addressing this issue. we can't wait until the courts make a decision. we need to move forward now and find creative solutions to address this challenge. >> supervisor bourown, do you he a follow-up? >> supervisor: yes, i appreciate the shelter beds. i think it's going to help a lot of us because i think a lot of us are just using enforcement instead of having the pathway to a shelter bed. my question is as a supervisor for myself and anybody else, how can we help you get the shelter beds out faster? >> i'm so glad you asked that question because often times, it

may not just be about funding. it's also about getting community support to open a shelter in a particular location. in fact, i know that supervisor peskin has identified a location we're currently interested in using in his district for the purpose of providing as many beds as possible but there has to be a community process. way you help our office implement these beds as quickly as possible is helping us through the public process and getting community support for these particular facilities in the areas that we've identified. that will be key to getting these shelter beds open quickly. and the fact is we need more beds. we have identified several locations and resources to support these beds and we will need community support to get these facilities open. depending on who's district it will be in, my goal is to work

with the supervisor of that particular district to get those beds open as quickly as possible so thank you for your question. >> supervisor: thank you. mayor breed do you have any questions for supervisor brown or any other member in this chamber related to the topic? >> no. >> supervisor: all right. we're going to keep moving on. madame clerk could you can thank you third. >> clerk: the supervisor from district 8 mandelman submit the topic on homelessness. >> i think it's indicative of where the city and sport is that two of the questions today relate to homelessness. i want to start by thanking you, mayor breed, for your demonstrated commitment to challenging homelessness but i do feel i want to try to have the conversation more publicly around homelessness and district

8. the challenges are not unique to san francisco and i don't think they're the result of failures of local policy makers but that being said, i think our terms in office will be charged by how we tackle the issues. you and your administration are hard at work tackling the crisis city wide and we've made significant commitments to impact homelessness and i see that every day in the crews out a and i was surprised reading in the chronicle earlier this month about the city's success in resolving challenges and the unfortunate truth is in district 8, street conditions do not appear to be improving in a sustained way. some may get resolved quickly but the constituents in the triangle are not seeing a

reaction to the homeless folks seeking shelter in public spaces and there appear to be more on sidewalks and vacant door ways and garages than ever before. more troubling, they appear to be suffering from severe mental illness or substance abuse disorder. i recognize that addressing the challenges will take time. but i do need to be able to tell my constituents what they can extent to see and what improvements they may see and what are to address homelessness in the neighborhoods. >> supervisor: thank you, supervisor mandelman. i know you're committed to addressing the issue and helping people living on our streets not only in your district but throughout our city. we've discussed this issue and i'm committed to address the issues in district 8 as i'm committed to meet the

challenges. through our healthy threats operation center our departments are working together to address homelessness and quality of life on our streets. while we still have a lot of work to do, there are some encouraging signs. the department of homelessness and services reports we have helped 577 people exit homelessness between july and the end of september of this year. we are moving people into shelter and housing including to our new bayshore navigation center which just opened with 128 beds and have a new one on fifth and bryan with another 84 beds and i'm looking to open more beds as soon as we can and you talk about people living with severe mental illness and substance bord -- disorder and

i've announced plans to add more next year. i'm very much looking forward to continuing to work with you and the board on conservatorship legislation to bring help to those with addiction issues to the help and support they need. as you and i have discussed recently, district 8 residents can look forward to coordinated efforts of resolution teams coming to some of the areas by church and market areas but as i've said before, homelessness is not an issue that stops at district lines. it impacts every area in the city and some more than others. as mayor i have to look at homelessness on the city wide level and address it as a regional perspective because we know there's a lot of work to be done.

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