independence from pg and e. is so important and it is important to san franciscans. it is all over the news and i think, what i am hearing from advocates and hearing from the public, i represent the public seat and i'm trying to best say how they can serve the public and also serve the board of supervisors. so if that is not part of what the p.u.c. presents in terms of revenue bonds are getting started with the local buildout, than maybe they can inform the board of supervisors so the next bold steps can be taken so we can reach our climate goals. that is just where i am. i don't think that it's your resistant to doing the work or that the work even hasn't been done, but just that there is an urgency. there is an urgency. so that is something i will be asking my colleagues on the

commission today, is to start looking at that report. >> i definitely hear your urgency. i appreciate that you are recognizing i'm not saying that i'm not enthusiastic about the project. i'm thinking through, as i stand here and hear your comments about what is the best method to achieve that and to be responsive to the urgency, given the scope, given the responsibilities that we have for a successful enrolment to occur between now and april. thank you. >> and that is really something that they can lift the wait on that. that is the benefit of having the commission. >> i hear you, what part of the challenge is what happens when, again, just to be frank, when we bring a third party in, they sit down and take my staff's time to understand what we've already done, and what we want to do and

how we can do it. it doesn't really lift a lot of burden off of us. it is another project. it is another draw on time and that's fine. i'm just saying i would like the room to be able to work with my staff, work with your staff to figure out what is the best way to accomplish it, is it with a third-party third party or not? how do we achieve the goal you are challenging us to achieve. >> i think the p.u.c. has a long history of disagreeing with you guys on methods. it might be an area where we disagree, but i think that is where we as an -- you as an independent body is looking at a different angle and that, it is unfortunate because i feel like i want us to really work together, and i think that may be a really good way to be

together if we were to have a joint meeting with the p.u.c. and with your commission. >> i will yield here. because i think we see next steps and big picture, and obviously if we were to do an r.f.p. for a third-party, that work would not begin happening until the full rollout. that process takes time. >> okay. >> would you suggest that at our next meeting that the executive director sets up a joint meeting with the p.u.c. and the main bulk of our meeting be dedicated to this report that we are hearing an update on at the rollout? >> i would like to focus -- i would like the focus of the joint meeting to be an update on the local buildout plan. >> yes. >> and then the reports would be something separate that they take up as business.

>> okay. i think if we can make an agreement, that we would ask our executive director to work to schedule that meeting with the p.u.c. too, and just so we can have a full discussion with the p.u.c. about the local buildout. >> that would be great to. >> okay thank you very much. let's open this up for public comments. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm with the californians for energy choice in san francisco clean energy advocates. we have sent you communications highlighting the sydney, australia, plan. please take a look at that again it is really important as a model. i want to refocus us away from optimizing cost of renewable energy to remind the commissioners and the s.f. p.u.c. that the more we build local and regional and get away

from long-range transmitted energy, the less we need the transmission lines, and the last we will have fire danger because the transmission lines can then be turned off in high fire times when they are not needed. and eventually, hopefully by mid century, we can get rid of the transmission lines. this isn't just about low-cost renewables. this is about removing ourselves from pg and e. and the transmission lines for perfect safety purposes as well, not just becoming independent. on the buildout plan itself, please, we don't need another report. that is what the other report was for. we need a plan like the sydney plan, and i want to come to the defence of the s.f. p.u.c. here. if you look at the city charter, it tells the s.f. p.u.c. that his job is to deliver reliable, affordable utilities to rate payers. it is actually the opposite of its job of what it is chartered

for, to come out with some big and bold multibillion dollar buildout plan for renewable energy and efficiency. it is against their jobs. what we are doing with this as we are trying to force the s.f. p.u.c. to do something that is not charter to do, and it is actually chartered not to be that risky pics of the board of supervisors and the mayor are the driver of a buildout plan. that is where we need to go. >> could i recall, mr brooks, just to clarify, when we are talking about the next step from the report, i was referring to something like the city plan. >> right. >> i just want to clarify that we are not talking about another report, i was just using that as an umbrella term. i think when we do look forward we'll be talking about something like the city plan.

>> i am a messaging and framing guy from a long time ago, as a grassroots organizer. i want us to start using the word plan. it will be great if you guys could do that. thanks. >> we will do that. thank you. >> public comment is now closed. can you please call item number 4. >> it is an update on emerging mobility services labour study draft scope. >> thank you very much. i would like to invite mr bryant go vote to discuss this item. >> i know you're trying to wrap up soon. i want to give you a short update on the labour study. i have a final draft r.f.p. for the survey of on-demand workers, which i have given you copies of today. i am venting it, running it through our advisory committee and gathering feedback and hopefully will be issuing that r.f.p. in the next few weeks. commissioner ronan, you suggested i reach out to the national employment law project. approved very helpful. i talked with becky smith there and she connected me with the

washington department of commerce which is actually doing a survey nearly identical to the one we are doing. we have been able to share information and i have been able to draw language from their r.f.p. into our r.f.p. i did mention to you at the last meeting, thank you for that connection. i did mention at the last meeting that the costs for the survey is likely to rise. we will know --dash we won't know exactly how much until we get proposals and. what i've done is broken the r.f.p. up into phases. the first phase will be done with the 50,000 -- 55 thousands that we have authorized for that , and the remaining phases be done after the start of the next fiscal year, once we have secured the remainder of any necessary funds. we will not know until the proposals come in. in the meantime, we are pretty much on track with our literature review and the other aspects of the study at your january meeting. i will be presenting the

findings of the literature review and best practices. that is the latest on our labour study. >> thank you very much. any comments? >> i have a quick question. if the s.f. p.u.c. joint meeting is in january, then we may, we want to separate out the labour study portion. >> okay. >> to make sure they're not at the same meeting. >> i will talk you about the timing. it may actually need to be in february just to coordinate between the two of us. >> thank you. let's open this up for public comment comments. any members of the public? >> good afternoon, commissioners and with the californians for energy choice and san francisco clean energy advocates. we have a really golden opportunity right now on the subject and that is cpuc reform.

since the fires, the recent fires, as a statewide organizer on clean energy and power issues , i have been invited to several different coalition meetings for statewide coalitions on what -- we will do something now about pg and e. we will do something now to block the bailout and we will do something now to reform the cpuc and previous reforms of the cpuc included breaking up the cpuc so that it becomes part -- part of it goes to a telecom agency, part of it deals with the electricity problem, and then we take the transportation staff that the cpuc unfathomably it is in charge of, and i -- to evolve that to local control. if you can be proactive about that, 2019 is probably going to be our opportunity. there probably will be a bill

driven by the advocates and a couple of good legislatures to reform the cpuc and that's our opportunity to say enough of this nonsense. we will bring it all back to local control. please have that on your radar and on your agenda so we can get on top of that. thanks. >> thank you very much. public comment is )-right-parenthesis can you please call item number 5? i'm so sorry. i did not say or see you there. >> if we could direct staff to add any cpuc reform regarding transportation to our legislative watchlist? >> that's a good idea. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. public comment is now closed. can you please call item number 5? >> for the record, no action was taken on items three or four. >> thank you very much. >> item number 5 update on request for proposal for legal services. >> i believe our attorney is excusing herself and i believe

mr goebel has a presentation. >> this will be brief, commissioners. i'm happy to report that the r.f.p. process for legal services is starting to wind down. our evaluation panel is meeting next week and i anticipate that we will have a final push finalists selected in the next few weeks. we will then of course, enter into a contract negotiation once the process is complete. we have some strong candidates. >> commissioners, any comments or questions? thank you, brian. okay. as their public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, once again. brooks. san francisco clean energy advocates and californians for energy choice. it sounds good that there will be a choice made. i've said this a lot but i want to hammer it home that the more local that legal representation

is, the more they will be accountable and buy in to getting our needs met. please make sure that that is a top priority in this selection process. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. can you please call item number 6? >> just for the record, there was no action taken on item five >> yes. >> item six is the executive officer report aid, community choice energy summit and the budget update. >> thank you very much. >> commissioners, this week the community trace energy summit is underway in san francisco and i have been attending some sessions. i wasn't able to attend all of it because of my duties here. it is ongoing today and. clean power s.f. intern is there the most interesting panel i attended was a session yesterday on the pcia or the exit fee. what struck me in learning about how the pcia is arriving to that

is there is no transparency whatsoever in how pg and he sets their rates to determine the exit fee. i'm still trying to understand how all this works. one presenter pointed out that the p.u.c. chapter decision and process fails to address whether the costs are reasonable at all. summit also pointed out in a panel that ccas were created to stabilize energy markets and that this process impedes the ability -- the stability in the energy market. that conference, continues today and i will report more on that dust on it at the next meeting. second as i have provided you with copies of our latest expenditures as of november 15 th. so far this fiscal year, our expenditures are now around $73,000. i have, of course, started thinking about next year's budget and what division will be

in the next fiscal year and even beyond that. i'm also trying to determine what our process should beef for figuring that out. i'm currently working on a two page that maps out the future of the company, and i'm very interested in getting all of your input on that. >> colleagues, any questions? thank you very much. no action needs to be taken on that. public comments, please. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. sorry, but there so much. we haven't been here in a while. there is a lot to cover. on the community choice piece of the report, one thing that i'm really excited that the whole state is rising up and getting angry about pg and e. there is one thing we need to be careful about. there is a lot of demand right now for california to just take over the electricity grid. that is a desirable long-term goal. there's a lot of talk about,

let's just make sure that we don't shift costs from pg and e. to the customers, which is important, and if we do that, they will go bankrupt and he'll be cheaper for us to take over pg anti. that. that is not necessarily true at all. and i want to remind folks and the public that when we created a community choice in 2002, part of the reason we created it that way is so pg and e.e. and utilities would retain control and the expenses of the wires and the transmission and we could move rapidly as possible working on only energy generation and energy purchasing to make sure that california, through community choice programs, which are booming right now, specifically builds enough clean energy and efficiency fast enough to deal with the crisis we are seeing that is currently burning down california. and if we were to make the grab right now within the next year

or two to make california a public power agency, that would slow that down. we would have to buy pg ne's system and the other utility systems. we would have probably a lot of legal debate. the cost could be anywhere. if you look at public power agencies, a lot of times they are not as aggressive on clean energy. we have spent the last two decades getting community choice in place. it is about to serve 80 5% of the customers, and it is building renewables fast. we need to be careful on that and not to derail it. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. no action needs to be taken on that. can you please call item number 7? >> his public comment.

>> would any members of the public like to come forward,. >> one more. [laughter] >> we need to talk about legislation. 2019, as i said will be a very important year and advocates are angry and moving to pushed forward to. i mentioned cpuc reform. it is definitely going to be on the table if advocates have anything to say about it. the top priority right now is no bailout. that needs to be a strong focus. there will be a bill to that effect and we need to be very proactive about guiding the board of supervisors and guiding the s.f. p.u.c. to oppose any bailout and make sure that the costs of the wildfire liability is directly on the corporation and its stockholders, because if it isn't, they will not have any incentive to prevent forest fires. it will be just like the bank bailout where the banks have no

incentive whatsoever not to creat just crash our economy because they know we will just pay for it. we can't do that with the wildfire. there is also an important piece of legislation that probably will be put up again, we have a lot more activist energy behind it. that is on transmission access charges. be looking for that. clean coalition will be the driver of that bill. what it will do, right now, for all of this excess transmission that we don't need that we pay for, we pay, at the customer metre for transmission charges. that is not good to. a lot of times, that is buying energy that comes locally. the customer metre is not where we should pay for transmission access charges. we need to pay for app at the substation where there is real transmission coming in. so this bill will switch those charges up to the substation and that will make it cheaper to get local renewables built because

we will no longer have to locally pay for transmission charges that aren't used. >> thank you, very much. >> public comment is now closed. >> my doctor's school -- i had to pick it up. i'm so sorry about that. i wanted to echo commissioner pollock and asked that we keep any bills related to the pg and e. bailout on our watch list as well. >> can you please call item number 8. >> item number 8 would be future agenda items. >> are there any future agenda items,? >> this is restating what we've already stated in the meeting. i just wanted to be clear that i wanted it as a future agenda item and i will defer to the chair on scheduling which meeting it goes to. but just to make sure that they are adding, as an agenda item a

special study that will builds on the report that will model the sydney plan. we can think of a better name for this agenda item at a later time, but essentially, that is what i am looking for and that it also be included in our budget discussion when we look at the next fiscal budget. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any business, other business for us today? >> that concludes our business -- public comment. >> public comments. i'm so sorry. >> hello again. one little comment on this. this is something i've said before but we need to make sure we are hammering at home. biomass is not a good way to do renewables. the sydney plan has a lot of biomass and biogas in it. it is very important. that plan was written before

battery storage became competitive with coal. and so now the battery storage is being competitive and especially renewable projects that are combined with battery storage, it's very important that the sydney plan -- the sydney plan is awesome, but that part of it is not awesome. when we develop our plan, we need to make sure we replace the biomass and biogas with things like battery storage and efficiency and demand response because biomass and biogas actually, especially in the short term, make the emissions go up. if you look at the intergovernmental panel on climate change report, they are saying we have a decade left to get our act together. we can't afford to play with the biomass. that is an injection early on of carbon that we shouldn't be putting in the atmosphere. it's very important as we move forward with this plan that we ask the contractors that we hired to do it to not to do biomass and biogas and to really

focus on battery storage to replace that component. the purpose of biomass and biogas is just to make sure there is 24-hour reliable power that is always on. battery storage solves that problem. the sydney plan was made back in 2013 or something like that. we are way beyond that now i need to get that component in. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> could you please integrate his comments when you are looking at scoping that out for us? >> i would be happy to do it. >> thank you. madam clerk, is there any other business for us today. >> that concludes our business today. >> our meeting is adjourned. thank you very much.

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to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the

better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to

suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, that in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly

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>> 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. this was not created overnight so the solutions are not going happen overnight but i'm truly committed to work with you we can see and feel a difference on our streets every day. it will require more resources an will require work and it will require patience. thank you so much for your question. >> supervisor: supervisor mandelman, do you have a follow-up? >> an applaud each of the efforts your making and expanding the shelter bed capacity and the question -- the follow-up would be given those

commitments an and resources we may be able to bring to bear in the 2019 budget, do you feel folks in the areas of the city that feel they have not seen improvements will see improvements over the year? >> i think as the investments go as planned, 1,000 beds which includes mental health stabilization beds for people suffering from mental illness which also includes a few hundred single-occupancy hotel rooms. buildings we're looking to acquire which includes the shelter beds we talked about. if we can invest in those, which i'm hoping we'll be able to do early next year, we should be able to open up close to 1,000 possible beds. that's 1,000 people we will be able to get off the streets into

shelter or some sort of housing situation. i think it will make a difference but it is not the long-term solution and part of the long-term solution is investing in housing, getting rid of the bureaucratic red tape to build housing and talk to council to keep people housed and keeping it affordable and make sure there's more investments and looking to the state and hopefully the federal government one day but develop funding opportunities to get housing built. this is going to be a combination of things we'll need to do and work with regional partner in san josé and oakland for the purpose of approaching the situation on a regional level because here in california we know this problem is significant and if we don't

continue to aggressively build more housing it's going to get worse. the key is housing production. the key is access for housing for different income levels not just extremely low or wealthy. the people in the middle are the ones being squeezed out and we have to do a better job at that. >> supervisor: madame mayor do you have questions or closing remarks. >> yes, closing remarks. great to be back in the chamber. thank you all for your questions. i look forward to continuing to work with every one of you on the many priority you all have as it relates to the challenges we face in san francisco as well as the challenges you have in each of our respective districts. feel free to reach out to my office anytime and thank you for allowing me to be here today. >> supervisor: thank you. madame clerk, this concludes the formal policy discussion. thank you mayor for joining us. the matter has been discussed

and now filed. madame clerk please called the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 2 through 10 are on consent and considered to be routine, if a member objects an item can be removed and considered separately. >> supervisor: items 2 through 10. on the question shall the items be passed. pl please call the roll. >> clerk: [calling roll] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: the items are past man -- unanimously.

please call 11. >> supervisor: objection, the ordinance is passed. please call the next item. flexible, multi-use retail; permitting temporary pop-up retail uses in commercial spaces; permitting flexible retail in certain neighborhood commercial districts; permitting arts . >> supervisor: same house, same call. the ordinance is finally passed. >> clerk: madame learning. madame clerk.

>> clerk: establish procedure of municipal transportation agencies for projects that do not include transit only or emergency vehicles and/or golden gate transit vehicles to make the appropriate finding. >> supervisor: same house, same call. objection the ordinance is called. it's 2:33. let's go to the 2:30 special order. >> clerk: okay, 2:30 special order. we're ready. >> supervisor: we have three special accommodations. first i want to recognize supervisor tang and then hear from supervisor mann dallman and finally -- mandelman. >> supervisor: i have been working on illegal massage establishments and this board helped close many loopholes an ensure the businesses