shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49?

>> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting

local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

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>> well, thank you all. we are going to start. welcome to the bristol hotel. my name is randy shaw. i'm the director of the tenderloin housing clinic. see, i wasn't -- see, i thought, i didn't prepare remarks. why don't we keep people moving in the door here. thank you all for coming. it's really a special day because the bristol is a special property. i don't know that a private bath hotel that would be for lease for formerly homeless people, and the bristol hotel, i would say half of these rooms are bigger than any of our 21 other hotels that we lease. it's big rooms, quality hotels.

right where you're going to take a picture, there's going to be a kitchen installed. it's in the building department now. i want to give some background how we got to this point. i think it's important to realize that when we met with the owner to do the hotel, we agreed on a certain price, but then, there was a private donor who was willing to pay more. i contacted mayor breed the day after she was elected. it took a while, because she was busy and i was out of town. i got together to see what we could do with the property. a lot of people would say hey, we don't have that money in the budget. we can't get into a bidding war with private developers. but that's not what mayor breed

said. jeff buckley was with me. she said, do whatever it takes to get that hotel. i said okay, mayor. i called bill, the owner of the hotel. i called bill, and i said bill, look. we can offer to pay a little more. mayor breed said she really wants the hotel. i'll tell the private people we don't want to use them, this is the key thing where we get mr. bennioff involved. we had an agreement, but we had no funding source for the hotel. so time was passing, and i'll let the mayor pick up the story, but i got a text one friday at 6:00 from mayor breed, saying i got the money for your hotel.

and i'll let her tell you -- i'll have her tell you how she accomplished it because it was no small feat. with no further adieu, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, randy. it's really exciting to be here today. when we have an opportunity to provide housing like this to so many people who we know are living on the streets, we have to do whatever it takes to get access to this housing. and so when randy and i talked about this in my office, and he told me this was a newly renovated hotel that could provide 58 units of step-up housing, i just got super excited because this doesn't come along every single day. so i started making the phone calls. and not everyone said yes, but mark benioff said yes as soon as i asked him about this

project. as soon as he said yes, i immediately called randy and said tell bill to hold off because we have a generous supporter helping us address homelessness here in san francisco. mark and lynn benioff have been absolutely instrumental for addressing these issues. thank you, mark, for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, we are here to celebrate this along with a number of other things i know we will be able to accomplish in san francisco to address what we know is a real crisis. we have 58 units of step-up housing which creates exits for people who are living in permanently supportive housing who are now able to live independently, and it will also create 58 vacancies in our existing supportive housing

that can go to people who are in our navigation centers and who are in our shelters. because of the activism of people like randy shaw in the tenderloin housing clinic and the generous support of mark and lynn bennioff, we are able to turn this into housing for formerly homeless adults. we all know there's not a one-size-fits-all. we all have a story of our own of challenges of people we have tried to personally hope. i work alongside jeff kozinski who manages the department of homelessness, and there's not a day we don't talk about people we are trying to help.

we know that this is no small task. it's been an issue in san francisco for decades, but through bold and innovative solutions, we know that we can make a difference in people's lives. it's not sometimes just housing, it will be supportive services, it will be shelter beds, it will be all that we need in order to address those issues because sadly, we do know that so many people who are struggling with homelessness are struggling with mental illness and substance abuse disorder, and those are challenges that we have to address in addition to providing a place, a safe, affordable place for people to call home. we know the voters recently approved additional funding to homeless programs, and i'm committed to clearing any

additional hurdles that this funding may face. but we can't stop. since july, we have helped 500 people overcome homelessness, and i am working to open 1,000 new shelter beds, this will clear the shelter wait list so that everyone has a place indoors. and our new one system, a central database tracking individual case management and responses is ahead of schedule in signing people up. we had a goal to reach about 2,000 individuals by the end of october. we are almost at 4,000 people in our one system, which is our coordinated system to try and track and help people out of w

introduce the man that's stepped up to the plate and made it happen for us, mark benioff. [applause] >> okay. well, make a little adjustment here. well, good morning, everybody. good morning. and to mayor breed and to jeff and everyone from the city, to randy shaw, and everyone from the tenderloin housing clinic, to all of our friends who are here, and our partners from these amazing n.g.o.s, like our good friend, tamika, larkin

street, glide, catholic charities, so many of you who are doing god's work, working on homelessness every single day. thank you for your work. we are ending the crisis of homelessness in san francisco. and we have a very serious crisis of homelessness in san francisco. everyone knows this is my number one priority. we have over 7500 homeless individuals on our streets, we have over 1200 homeless families, many with two kids each, and it is time to bring this to a close. that is why lynn and i are excited about this announcement, and we are thrilled to be making it today here with the mayor. this is an example of the difference that we are going to make with public-private partnerships, the city, business, philanthropy, and

n.g.o.s. this is the path, this is the formula to bring homelessness to a close in our city. when mayor breed, a champion of the homeless, knew that the bristol hotel needed funding for housing units, she swung into action. she contacted me, and i agreed that this is something we want to do. i glagreed to give $6 million towards improvement of the bristol hotel working to get out of homelessness. bras the because the experts tell us, and the medical research shows that when a homeless person finally gets a home, which is what it's all about, when a homeless person finally gets a home of their own, it's transformative. it's a catalyst for change. it's a reduction of all

symptoms and all issues in their life. and i'm told that these units are going to go to people who are living in lodgings where they have to share bathrooms. these people are on our mind, especially at this season of the year. that's part of what having a home is all about, the basic dignity that every person deserves, and that is why it is my number one priority for our city. randy said getting the call was lik like a miracle, but i'll tell you, when it comes to ending homelessness in our city, it doesn't take miracles, it doesn't take miracles, it takes money, and it takes a lot of money. so this is a solvable problem. there are programs that work. we have many great examples of

programs that are working, like randy's program, like tamikay's program. but we need a scale of these programs, and that is going to take a lot of money. that is why with the passage now of proposition c, the city will start collecting that money january 1. that is the miracle. that is the miracle that i'm so excited about. and a result of the campaign, we identified so many new ideas and so many new opportunities, like the partnership that brings us here today, and many others that we plan to announce in the coming weeks. bristol hotel is a preview, and this announcement here today, is a preview of what is to come because the city will finally have the money to do it. not just to do this, but to do so many other things that are on our list. it's the beginning of a whole parade of new investments to end homelessness in our city. and i want to make one final

point. starting january 1, starting january 1, the biggest, the wealthiest, the most important companies in our city, like mine, salesforce, the city's largest employer, will pay more, about one half of 1% of our revenue to help homelessness. that is very exciting. a lot more buildings like this are going to open up, a lot more shelters, a lot more services, a lot more capablities. that is very exciting. that is the miracle of this season, but that doesn't let anyone off the hook. it doesn't, in any way, absolve the rest of us. it doesn't absolve me, it doesn't absolve you from giving what we can and embracing our responsibilities as citizens and as neighbors. prop c doesn't replace philanthropy as today is

evidence of. it complements it. that's why jeff tullio has given $1 million to homelessness. that's why the chair of airbnb has given $5 million to homelessness. i challenge every c.e.o. in our city to join us, to join sales force, to join the city, to join all of our n.g.o.s as we work to get everyone in a home. join us in the wisdom of st. francis. st. francis, who is the name sake of our city, who said, it is in giving that we receive. that is why we are here, that is what we are doing, that is what we are committed to doing, so we all must be committed to restoring the greatness of our city. this is a san francisco that takes care of its people. it always has. this is a san francisco that is a fabric of tolerance and diversity and inclusion, but it

is a city that is a fabric of compassion and love, especially at this time of the year and especially when we look at our city's most neediest, when we walk down the streets and see our homeless and say wow, there through the grace of god goes i. thank you all for being here today, thank you, mayor breed, for your wisdom and your incredible work, and we can't wait to have this opened it up and getting it used for great order. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i do want to say, if you look at the actual practical effect, if mark benioff and his wife had not stepped up, they would have been renting these units out for $2,000 a month, as

compare today the 50 -- compared to the 500 to $600 a month. coming up, our next speaker, gail, who is a tenant in one of our other s.r.o.s, who has to share a bathroom. >> my name is gail seagraves, and i'm a collaborator at the s.r.o. and i'm a tour guide for the tenderloin museum, and i'm also very active in the community. but today, i'm here because i am so excited that the bristol will be opening soon as a much needed step-up hotel. i've been living at the elk hotel which is a supportive s.r.o. for over ten years now,

where i have to share a bathroom, and i have to share a shower, and i've woken up many times in the middle of the night because tenants have issues. and this is why this is so important for people like myself. when i came here to san francisco 12 years ago, i came here for a job. and then, life hit me hard, and the job fell through. and then, when i went through my savings, i had to stay in a shelter, and then an s.r.o. so after working on certain areas of my life, i became ready to move onto a more independent life, you know, where you can have your own rest room and a community kitchen and laundry, those simple yet very, very needed things for a person. not only that, but when people like me that are independent and can live independent when we leave, that will open up so

many s.r.o. rooms for those on the streets, for those in shelters. it's just going to be amazing. i have talked to anybody that would listen, i mean, anybody, that we need step-up hotels and it would just go right around and help everybody. so i am grateful to see this happening with the bristol, and this is a win-win situation with the homeless, and thank you for this opportunity, everybody. [applause] >> so the mayor and mr. benioff will be available to answer any questions, so we're concluding this event. and there will be a tour after you've talked to the mayor and mr. benioff, i'm happy to take people to some of the rooms. i want to give you that.

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>> all right. good afternoon, everyone. i am paul yepp. i am the kmonding officer of the central police station. and i want to thank you for being here today. irts to thank o

. i want to thank our supervisors for being here today, first of all, mayor london breed, supervisor aaron peskin, and on cue, the chief of police, bill scott. executive director of sf safe, kyra worthy. park and rec commissioner allen low. park and rec area manager zach taylor. chief of the park rangers, mike celeste. president of self-help for the elderly, annie chung. from the chinese benevolent association, charles chow. and from the san francisco police department command staff, deputy chief ann mannix, commander dan perea, commander

david lozar. oh, and -- i'm sorry -- oh, and i'm sorry. reverend malcolm fong -- the latest commander for the san francisco police department, darryl fong. congratulations, darryl. this is about you. [applause] >> and of course the executive director for the ccdc, malcom yo. i am proud to share with you the grand opening of the san francisco police department public information drop-in center, and it was quite a collaboration between city partners and our community leaders. and i can't be more proud to have got this done with everyone in this room, so thank

you for that. and let me go ahead and introduce our first speaker, the honorable mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, captain. i'm really excited to be here because this is a really incredible opportunity for the chinatown community. what we ultimately want to do is make sure that people are safe, and part of making sure that people are safe is not only a police presence but it's also people feeling comfortable with reporting crimes. when i first became mayor, one of the first thing that i did was to add additional beat officers here in chinatown, and we're continuing to add more beat officers in civic center and other parts of the city as those new academy classes continue to graduate. thank you supervisor peskin and members of the board of supervisors for supporting the additional academy classes which will ensure that we are able to get more officers on the streets. but we know that police

presence alone can't address some of the challenges that exist, and in particular, in communities where people speak different languages, there are often times, you know, just really a disconnect between the crime that happens and their ability to report those crimes. and so this drop-in center will be used as an opportunity for people who are a part of this community to basically come in to develop relationships with the officers here and to report crimes if they occur. and so i'm excited about that because i know that captain yepp has done an outstanding job in this community with building good relationships with the people in this community and also commander lozar who was the former captain of this station has also been instrumental in continuing to bridge that gap. this is just the next step in ensuring that people feel safe,

that people feel secure in their community. that they have a comfortable place to come and to meet with police officers. and i want to thank annie chung and the work of the self-help for the elderly and all that you do to also work with so many of our seniors in this particular community. we definitely have a lot of work to do, and this is just one of the first steps in trying to meet people where they are and come out into the community so that people are comfortable with having conversations and building relationships with our police department. it's something that is really important to me as someone bho grew up in the western addition and worked really hard to bridge the gap between law enforcement and one another. it's a way to stop crime from occurring, but once they occur, we have an obligation to work hard to address those particular issues, and this is

just one step closer in getting us to a place where people can feel that their voices matter, that they will be supported and protected in their community, so i am grateful to the san francisco police department for providing the bilingual officers who will work with this community. i want to thank chief scott for his leadership. will i i also, i know that supervisor peskin will be hosting office hours in this location. who knows, maybe one day, i'll join you. it's just another way to bring law enforcement, to bring all of these things directly into the community, to make the community not only a better community but a safer community who every who lives and works and spends time in this neighborhood. so thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm excite thad this space is opening to provide this opportunity for the folks in

this neighborhood. >> thank you, mayor, for your leadership and your support. the next speaker is my favorite district three supervisor, supervisor aaron peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, captain nepp. to our mayor, london breed, chief scott, to all of the dignitiaries gathered herein, it takes a village, and what you see in this place are many different agencies and nonprofit partners coming together. so we are here at portsmouth square which is the living room for this very, very dense community. everything that happens in this community happens in this treasured park, and we are on rec and parkland, which is leased to an organization that has been taking care of this community, particularly the seniors, since 1966, self-help for the elderly. and we have company a.

why is it called company a? it is the first police station in san francisco. i like to say all of our districts are created equal, but district three has central station, and we are more equal. why do i say that? because i know the working men and women of central station company a, and they're not just police officers. they do wellness checks, they know the people in the community. a long time ago at the board of supervisors, some 15 years ago, there was a big conversation about community policing. and when it was explained to me, i realized that i had community policing. all of my beat cops, they know the folks, whether they're in the pings or in north beach, and it really is the essence of what makes a safe community. and they're culturally competent. as a matter of fact, there are 460 officers in the sfpd who speak a multitude of languages,

some 30 languages. the beat officers in chinatown speak fluent cantonese. they engage with the seniors, they engage with the children, and this is an unparalleled opportunity for the people to have direct access twice a week in this treasured spot. as you all know, we come here for press conferences, for celebrations. this is a community that has under reported crime. i get to read about it in the journal and sing tao. this is an opportunity for people to come in and speak in cantonnese to report what's happening on the street. i'm incredibly grateful to the

police department. chief scott, you have a great worker in paul yepp. captain yepp, thank you for making it happen, and -- [speaking cantonnese language] >> thank you. and our next speaker is chief of police bill scott. >> thank you, everyone. and i won't go over the points that supervisor peskin and mayor breed said, but i want to reiterate a couple of things. first of all, thank you mayor breed for her outstanding leadership. you know, part of what makes this work for us is the executive leadership of the city. the budget that we received this year was very supportive, and it will enable us to continue the path of increasing our foot beat officers and that really speaks to our goal to engage better with the city of san francisco, the residents of the city of san francisco.

the other part of that is, you know, this community center will allow us to get to the root of policing, and that's getting people comfortable to report crimes when they occur, because that impacts how we deploy, that impacts how our resources are distributed throughout the city. so this is a great step in that direction. before i go any further, though, all this doesn't work without the people standing in the back of the room, and those are the officers that are assigned to this district, the central foot beat officers and supervision, captain yepp and his team. they make it work in conjunction with the community. i know they're behind the cameras, but i just want to thank the officers for what they do in this community, because we do have great relationships in this community. we do have some really good things happening in this

community. we are a police department that wants to be responsive to the community that we serve, and that all starts with the officers. the command staff, we do what we do. we lead the department, we set the course and the chart and all that, but the work gets done at the field level, and i can't say i'm so proud to have the officers in this room as the team that's doing this work. so thank you for what you do. as supervisor peskin said, we have over 460 -- i think the number is up to 490 officers that speak 30 different languages. we want to engage with our city. we want to get better at that. we want to be better at policing. we want to be the best police department in this nation, and i think with the leadership of this city, we're well on our way to do that. this is just another step, so thank you for kwbticontributin our city, what we know is a great thank you. thank you so much. >> thank you, chief.

as i said earlier, this project doesn't happen without our community partners, and one of our great community partners is the president of the self-help for the elderly, miss annie chung. >> thank you very much, captain yepp, and thank you mayor breed, thank you, supervisor peskin, who knows our place very well because you hold a lot of office appointments here. welcome, everybody to our portsmouth square clubhouse. as mayor breed and supervisor peskin and chief scott said, we know that partnership with the sfpd is very important to our community. we are the second most dense part to san francisco, probably second only to manhattan, new york, because as you see, a lot of our residents lived in very crowded housing in s.r.o.s. you see a lot of seniors

walking on the street, talking on their phone, not a very safe thing to do. because we heard that crimes usually get underreported in this community. no matter how hard, commander lozar, when you was our captain, and captain yepp come around to our senior centers and keep reporting the crimes, no matter how big or small the crimes are. when paul came to me and said, annie, you think you could rearrange a little bit of your schedule to accommodate our drop-in center, i said yes without the blinking of an eye. i know it will be a welcome sight. our merchants, our residents, our seniors who live around here, our children, you are welcome to see our police officers, especially those who speak the language. they feel comfortable of coming in to ask questions, and i think that through our work, we could also arrange for small

groups of residents to come in to get some public safety education with our officers. so thank you, mayor. community policing is all about the community. and if we build our rapport with our police officers, i know that i am krcrimes reportl increase, and i thank you very much for all of your leadership. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, annie. and then, our final speaker from the community is executive director of the chinatown community development center, malcolm yao. >> well, paul, thank you for the promotion. i'm not the executive director, i'm the deputy director of chinatown community center, but i'll ask for a raise. thank you very much. you know, this drop-in center is really all about community policing. i think we've thrown that term around quite a bit, but captain yepp personified that.

community policing is taking leadership and pulling the threads together necessary to make this happen. it wasn't easy, it wasn't from command on high. it came out of paul's head. he knew that reporting needed to go up, he knew that it needed to come back to the community, and this was captain yepp's brain child, and he took the lead in pulling all the threats for doing this. so i really want to thank you for this, captain yepp, for your leadership in the community. i don't say this lightly, when i say that auntie rose would be proud of you. she absolutely hated the koban, but she's going to love this. thank you. >> okay. that concludes the speaking portion of this press conference, but i did want to take the opportunity to introduce our officers new to the station but well known in

the police department is lieutenant doug farmer, sergeant paul rogers, sergeant klobuchu, officer bob duffield, officer pauli tang, officer jennie mau, officer reggie pena, officer matt fambrini, and officer alex anton. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause]

>> great. the meeting will come to order. this is the november 30th, 2018, special meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. i am sandra sandra lee fewer picture of the commission. i am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock and cynthia -- and commissioner hilary ronan and i think we are waiting for commissioner singh. i would also like to thank the staff at s.f. guv t.v. today for recording today's meeting. are there any announcements?