we have out of control real estate market that is crushing huge numbers of people in our city. as much as we can do for those kids, homeless kids when they are in school, what they need in addition to civil service and support, those kids need a home.

lastly, i want to put in little bit about concern of spending reserve is a real one. when the recession hits in the next few the conversation will be about spending additional money but which vulnerable population to leave behind. our ability to avoid that conversation and to continue to support those vulnerable populations in the future is dependent on having reserves we can tap into.

i think the priorities that have been identified by the coalition are extremely important. i think that's all i have to say. i will have more questions when we drill down little bit more on the actual proposal. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, i want to thank everybody for coming out.

city here is listening to everybody. supervisor mandelman said it's really difficult because we want to please all of you. we want to fix all your problems. that's really tough. it's hard responsibility for us. as you're sitting out there, i got to thinking about me. i've been out there on the other side in red shirt with something i care deeply about. i thought about times where the subject matter who i cared about didn't even matter to people. after sandy hook, when april of 2015 congress said, we don't need universal background check on gun sales. that was devastating to our gun violence movement. today, because speaker pelosi whipped everyone in shape and we

took back the house, they're having a hearing on universal background check. it takes that work. why i'm saying that is because it made me realize that here in san francisco, we care about every single thing that you talked about today. it's not an issue of subject matter. it's not an issue of go away we're not going to listen to you because we believe in the second amendment and wanting background checks is crazy. everything you said meant something to all of us. every single person on it board of supervisors cares about kids. we know that if we don't invest in 0 to 5, they'll have trouble in the future. we know that those teaching 0 to 5 need raises and they need affordable housing. if we don't have them, they can't teach. we know people need to get off the child care list so parents can work. we know all that. we know 3000 children, homeless children in our school system is

devastating. people from homeless prenatal program were talking and talking about how kids are homeless in shelters, it's devastating to hear that. we all care about that. we want to fix that. also, that our teachers do not get paid enough. i voted for prop g. our teachers do not get paid inform. we want them to stay in san francisco. we care about that. and dealing with addiction and which is a beast of disease. we all agree on all of these issues. i'm trying to get something positive about this. we don't always agree how to get

there. some of us want to go up the middle, some of want to do inside path. we have different ways to get there. at the very foundation of who we are san franciscans, every person on this board care about what you brought to us today. it's not an easy task. we want it make all you happy. with that said, i also held a community meeting in district two to talk about this. the same issues came up. some people they have to go to homelessness. some people said, just put it in reserves. i want to guarantee you that we are trying to come up with way we think is best. voters are clear, prop g, themed -- they want teachers to get salary increase. baby prop c, they want people to have opportunities for child care. november prop c, we needed to

deal with our homeless issue. we need invest in our resources that deals with good outcomes. i just want everybody to know that as these are altitude up in litigation, we get this windfall money, we're trying to really figure out how we can save lives, how we can keep teachers in the city. it's not an easy thing. there are issues to consider in terms of reserves and the recession coming and making sure a when we get windfall, we're not always investing in ongoing costs because we might not have that money coming in the future. i want to acknowledge that this is not an easy process. we care deeply about all the issues that you brought to us. it's not question of your issues don't matter. we heard you and every single

usually you brought to us is so extremely important and i'm just going to commit to everybody i will try my hardest to come up with a solution not just today but on the budgets and finance committee as we go forward. it's just -- lastly, i want to thank my colleagues too. supervisor fewer and everybody for putting forward something that i think we are all beginning it get behind. we are all on the same team. we might have different ways. we're going to do this together and thank my colleagues for their work on this. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. wall >> i want to thank everyone for coming out today. it's been a long day. we've heard lot of testimony.

as we look at educators who came up, as we look our folks who have been fighting our city, our home coalition. we've been fighting to eradicate and get rid of homelessness. i want to thank all of you for coming. what i really think we heard from all the groups that that spoke today is that, they want to see resources go to executing carry out the will of the voters in terms all the propositions that have passed. like chair fewer said, we've been put in an ignorant predicament to be challenged. we all want to decide to do in our own city with our own resources. it has been a blessing for us to

have someone els -- $185 millio. that has made that something that makes me even more excited about living in san francisco and administer excite -- more ee opportunities. i want to thank my colleges. this has not been an easy week coming to this splic place. one thing i wanted to say, because i want everyone to be clear, at least from my standpoint, every child in this city belongs to all of us. these are our children. there's no school district

children, there's no city and down of san francisco children, these are all our children and all of our responsibility. i'm always going to fight for that lens. we're in city with the least amount of children with the smallest child population particularly for urban cities in this country. it is our responsibility. we don't take that lightly. we'll continue to fight and focus on that. this is not the end. we have bigger budget as a city and county of san francisco. there are more resources that

are available for us to fight for the things that we need and the things we need to get done here in this city. we're going to continue to do that through the budget process. i know we're all committed to that. i'm not going to take up much more time. i know you've been here all day. i want to thank my colleagues. i want to thank the chair for her leadership on this and for corralling all of us and making sure that we push hard to come to a place where we can all be willing to move forward. i too would love to be added as a cosponsor with the amendments that have been presented today. i want to thank everyone for fight sog far for the priorities we have here in the city. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, now supervisor brown. >> i want to thank everybody who has come together. i know you're probably hungry and bathroom breaks like me.

but you're here. that's what's really important. all of my parents and constituents have reach out to me. i gotten hundreds of emails about our homeless crises and about our school district. if i haven't responded, we're still working on it. thank you for caring like you do. that's really impressive. as a community activist for years, i know how hard that is. i know how hard it is to take a day off away from your job, away from your family and come and sit here. to make sure that we hear your voice. i want to thank my colleagues. lot of times we don't agree on lot of things. when we do agree, we're usually -- we come together and we're a strong force. i think this is one of those times. we all agree.

couple of points. with the homeless crises, call it a crises, i can't walk in my district where i don't see someone in need. i'm always rattling the chain, saying we need more homeless shelters. we immediate mor -- we need more housing. we need services to help people that are struggling with the homeless situation. we also need to make sure our education and our teachers are strong. coming up, i grew up with housing instability where we were moving constantly. new friends, new teachers. it was really hard. one of the things i struggled in

school, because nothing was ever consistent. i'll be pulling out one school and go to another. it was really a struggle. the teachers a i had realized that and really grabbed on to me and said, i got to make sure that you're secure and you're educated. i owe them everything. i owe them why i'm sitting here is because of them. when i was a community activist, i actually was protesting when we were looking at closing schools. they closed john sweat. lot of you remember that. we protested and they wanted wanted to john muir. that was in my neighborhood. we protested, kept it open. i was one of the neighbors that started the first pta they had.

they haven't had a pta in 50 years. we felt was so important because, hundred years ago, even earlier than that, schools were community centres. i remember speaker said, you have a strong school, you have a strong neighborhood. i really believe in that. as we're looking, i know that we need to really support community school initiative also and i hope that the district really feels that's important because i didn't have a child in john muir. it was a school, three blocks away from me. i thought that was really important. we fundraised. i volunteered teaching art. it was really important a the school was successful. as an aid, i fought to get the community beacon in there. because it was so important for those kids to have after school

program. there was nowhere for them to go. i completely understand that. i thank every teacher and educator here and early child care teacher and educators so important. we all know that. i also was legislative aid when had the downturn. few of us were here. supervisors stefani and supervisor ronen was here legislative aid. it was excruciating. we were making choices that i think lot of us went home crying and exhausted. we have to make sure we're in position with this city that win we have a downturn, everyone going to be okay. we do need reserves. i want to say, thank you,

supervisor fewer. thank you very much. i think i need it take you for dinner, drinks, everything to say thank you. she has been an amazing power broker in this whole situation. i can't tell you how much easier that makes it for us to come together. i want to make sure that my name is on this as cosponsor as we move forward. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: now safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor fewer. truth is, --

i want to associate my comments with supervisor mandelman. i also received a single volume of small -- emails from the pars and teachers and educators in my district along with the leaders from s.f. community school. my district has -- i fight quite often with supervisor walton about who has the most children under the age of 1 18 in the entire city. depends on who's making the count and where the lane is drawn. if families want to be able to survive and live and feel comfortable and welcome in san francisco, they're surviving in our districts. mine and supervisor walton.

that doesn't exclude any other districtses that have children and families. we have the highest concentration. i hear from them every single day about what it means to be a working family and living if the city. we were presented with three really strong messages from the voters of san francisco. focus on educators and ensuring they have an ability to continue to grow and thrive. focus on early childhood educators. i want to point out, we last friday, president yee and some of us others went and sat on a panel. there were about 150 early childhood educators in the room. we have money to fill classrooms now. we don't have early childhood educators to fill the classrooms and leave them. they can't survive on minimum

wage. minimum wage is not a salary to be in that industry. they can't attract them. thank you to president yee for his forth right and leadership on ensuring that we're inserting that conversation in as well as voters of san francisco. last one is proposition c, $300 million would have made a significant difference in this conversation. $50 million on parcel tax would have made a significant contribution in this conversation. as well as $150 million for the early childhood educators and a industry. if you add that up, that's over $500 million. we don't even have enough in this surplus to meet that. we're trying. i think every single w. of us on this board thinks and believes that all three of those is a strong statement for working families, families in san

francisco, individuals that are living on the streets that are unhoused and need additional services. we are making some really strong commitments if this -- in that manner. i believe it the board made a really strong move in the right direction. i want to thank supervisor mar, thank supervisor fewer and mandelman and peskin for the hard work they've done. let's be clear, i want to be clear about this. i know president yee said this, there are additional funds coming in. we're fortunate to have abundance of riches if san francisco. we don't need to be faced with the fool's choice. this is not about choosing between homeless services and early child care and support for educators. we can make a strong commitment. at the end of the day, we are

doing year two, the mayor made a strong commitment in prop c and other services that lot of folks spoke about today. we're trying to balance all of that. i think when you look the percentages what the voters ask for and what we put forward in the surplus, each one of them its >> -- is getting strong percentage what the voters said. i wanted to call that out. also to end with saying, as supervisor mandelman said, which was a wonderful point, we do care. we care about our teachers. i have two children that are if first and third grade. the school year began with seven educators turning over. it is not uncommon occurrence. as a supervisor district 11, i have had it deal with situations at s.f. community school working

with the superintendent, same thing with monroe. three months in the school year, there was not a teacher in one of the classrooms at monroe elementary. that caused significant upheaval and disruption. i understand firsthand. i emphasize and i want it make sure that loud message is sent. every single member on this board cares and deeply cares about educators, early childhood educators and ensuring we have the right commitment for those living on our streets and affordable housing. without the commitment for affordable housing, also many of the teachers, we heard that last fall. of them will be forced out of san francisco as well.

i want to thank everyone. thank you for giving me the opportunity to say few words. i also like to add my name as cosponsor. we have a really strong commitment to ensure that we have a pathway for success. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i think we have 11. i have to say, this is quite a feat. i'm new to being budget chair. i think i got very quick lesson these last couple of weeks. lot of beating up. here we are, 11 of us agreeing that this windfall is not enough. we have great need in the city but that these appropriations recommend reflect the will the voters. representing prop c, prop g and also prop c. i want to say little bit about -- i don't know if lot of you

know about myself. i'm fourth generations chinese-american, four generations of my family have been educated draw the san francisco public schools. my grandfather was educate in the the oriental public schools. my mother and father were educated here. then i got on to the school board in 2009, quit my job for the last eight years from 2019 to 2016, i made $461.75 a month serving on the san francisco board of education. was humbling. i was an advocate on the other side of the podium yelling at the school district all the

time. when i was there, i learned a lot. i was very humble how hard people worked educating their students. i want to say that because i was there and raising three children, being stay at home mom and taking care of young children for a very long period of time, is very taxing. i know how hard our early childhood educators work. i know how hard our sfusd educators work too. i think that when i i think about homelessness, i want to grad school. no one expected i would go or go to college when i did earning i remember one thing from grad school. that was maslow hierarchy of need. if you're hungry or sheltered, you can't learn and meet your

full potential. i think what this budget really shows is that, although, a majority of the money was put toward a lot of homeless and housing initiatives, i think we carved out enough money for san francisco educators. i meanwhile sfusd, in my book, there's not at hierarchy. i don't think the work of childhood educators is less valuable than the words who teach k to 12. if we want to talk about educational outcomes, must look at 0 to 5 and those years. especially for those wonderful communities we are trying to close achievement gap. while i was on the school board, i wrote the resolution for ethnic study for restorative practices looking at the systemic racism in the system.

what we're seeing here is a compromise. it is a compromise of great realizing what the voters wanted but also that there's great need. what i have been disappointed it, take money from affordable housing acquisition, take them from substance abuse, give -- earmark more money. it's not about. it's about that all of these things are really super important. all of these things are part of raising the village and supplying the village that our children need in san francisco. i'm thrilled that we are all together on this. knowing this isn't the last money. there's more money coming. i also want to echo what supervisor mandelman said. i was on the school board when we sent out 506 pink notices.

the thing that saved us was rainy day fund. rainy day fund. i was at the charter amendment to have the public education enrichment fund. city and -- there was nowellness centres. all these things our children need city and county of san franciscos puts in un$1 million every year into the fund. it pays for these things. they are essential support for our students and also for our teachers. i want to the say, this has been learning experience for me. i'm glad and proud of my colleagues that we have all come together and this is only the first $185 million.

i'm hearing there's more down the pipe. i'm hoping we can have an open conversation about how this money should be spent. i will say, that needs of the homeless folks that are living on our streets, i think if you have a child in public schools, if you work in public schools, if you're an early ed teacher, if you are a senior, if you are a people like us who are parents or part of the community, we know we have a homeless crises. we know that there are people in need. we know that children are homeless too. this resolution also includes an intent to make the homeless request and housing request that the mayor has pick for us that we are actually taking from. it makes it whole too. is it everything that we need?

absolutely not. i'm a fourth generation chinese-american. i'm glad that we have come together. i heard from colleagues that's request for the city departments to actually outline exactly what is being funded. i will open again for questions and comments of the city department. mr. comptroller. >> madam chair, i was going to briefly suggest, you have number of department heads here today that i'm sure will be open and welcome discuss with the board.

>> good afternoon supervisors department of homelessness and supportive housing. very briefly, the current proposal would fund 300 units of lisaed housing for chronically homeless adults. it funds the expansion of existing navigation centre cents well as safe centre. we believe once cuir given the go ahead, we'll be able to put most of this online within six

months. thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors, greg wagner, acting director of department of public health. to express grated fo gratitud. we've been in the process of doing evaluation of key gaps in our system of behavioral healthcare services. focused on the epidemic of homelessness and homeless individuals on the street. proposed funding in this legislation addressed two key areas of need. the first will be to purchase additional 14 beds at the st. mary's healing centre.

this program has been -- facility was open in 2017. at that time we purchased 40 of the 54 beds available. it will allow us to purchase the remaining 14 beds that's needed. the second component, which is also very optimistic it would allow us to add 72 residential step-down beds. this is a newer model of program. after people go through

residential treatment program for substance use, often, that's a productive program. as they're coming out, there's a need for additional period of time for them to stabilize anybody who knows people struggled through addiction and recovery from addiction. this would allow for level of care to live in environment with other people recovering from addiction. >> good afternoon supervisors.

the budget as proposed would do several things. it would provide $40 million for our small site acquisition and loan program. this is very important program that keeps valued member of our community here in san francisco. secondly, it would provide $42,000,000.456 for ne$42,000,0. severely mentally ill individuals as well as homeless seniors. it will be the new home to the urgent care clinic. the street outreach team and homeless outreach team. those services are provided in seismically compromised building. we're very much looking forward to relocating those services.

we would have $6 million that will jump start the development on three new affordable housing development across the city. we have $14 million for site acquisition. this money will leverage $5 million in grant money we got from the metropolitan transportation commission for an acquisition and the transit orient development neighborhood.

we are looking forward to buying a site and putting a stake in the ground. colleagues any questions at all? supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: i want to thank three department it is working on these proposals. number of them were anticipated in prop c. i want to drill down more on the st. mary's bed. i'm one of the people who insisted these remain in. my understand -- i want to address the issue. i heard not all the st. mary bed are used for san franciscans. some of them are being used for

sonoma county or other counties. can you address that? >> yes, i can. thank you supervisor. when the facility was open, 54-bed capacity facility. that the due to budget constraints, san francisco department of public health san francisco it funds for 40 of those beds. in the interim as we purchased 40 and there were 14 remaining, the program has been working with marin county and with kaiser and has contracted on kind of as needed basis to make

those beds available to those two entities. >> supervisor mandelman: those are the 14? >> exactly. the funds that will be included in the supplemental, will allow us to use additional 14 beds for san francisco residents to prioritize those beds for individuals that are priority clients for our public health system. >> supervisor mandelman: my understanding is that when people are taking to psychiatric emergency services, there's a challenge for our system. we have a pretty impacted psych unit at s.f. general.

doctors in p.e.s. are struggling. there isn't always a place upstairs, bed available now for the people who are being brought into p.e.s. that's a challenge for our system. one solution that might be create bunch more psychiatric acute beds through s.f. general, but really what i heard from doctors, they're not sure they need more of those acute psych beds. they have people stuck in the acute psych beds who could be lower level of care. also, when we don't have those

beds in san francisco, we have to contract out of county and send san franciscans to other places for those placements. this sort addresses that. it may not be enough. it moves if the direction of addressing that real shortage of subacute psych beds for people who are coming out of hospital hospitalization. >> our goal is to have our clients a the lowest level of care that's appropriate. this is one of the options that allow us not to have people in patient psych beds, cost of inpatient psych bed is five times the cost of community-based bed. you're not receiving the most appropriate level of care if you're unnecessarily inpatient. >> supervisor mandelman: in terms of the substance used

beds, my understanding it, we can basically get drug treatment for most folks just right to access treatment. we can get them into a 90-day program. we frequently have nowhere for them to go after 90 days is up. they go for very short drug treatment program to the streets and back to an s.r.o. community. narrothey're not able to contino receive care.

there's a chance that not on cycle of treatment where they can succeed, using again, back to treatment. around and around. that's the point of the 72 beds. >> that's exactly right. it's level of care that allows next step coming out of substance use, residential treatment. there's quite bit of evidence having that next step allows people to continue the process of recovering and getting healthy. in addition we'll have pipeline availability into the residential programs. we're hoping you get better results and increase that

capacity in treatment. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. we have upwards thousand people on the shelter waiting list. the mayor identified goal creating a thousand shelter beds. that may not eliminate that. how close does it get us to the mayor 1000 shelter bed goal? >> this adds approximately 300 beds. we are working on a plan to add thousand beds some time in 2020 locating sites and doing good design work does take time. we're hopeful we'll be able to

find the resources to achieve that goal. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. ms. hartley. mainly about small sites. my experience small sites has been the short time i have been in always. i a number of proposed small site acquisitions. >> we started off slow in 2014. we then got a big allocation of funds. we take 10% of inclusionary

fees. we bid small site development. there's some constraints on the small site program i know that the supervisors very aware of. it's difficult. especially when you're trying to keep residents that we really value housed. those are costs and developed for capacity. we did then, however, we did have a very prolific small site acquisition period. we've got about 200 units that have been preserved. they mostly been in district 9, some if district 6. they've been spread around. they've been continued if d9 because there's been a very active developer there. >> supervisor mandelman: superve there's a need in our districts. >> we also would very much like to expand our small site program.

not just with the funding but in the application. it money will go long way towards that. i like to work with you both supervisor few and mandelman and all the interview supervisors tk about ways to do capacity building to bring more nonprofits on board. >> supervisor mandelman: is there a cap? >> the planning code cap small sites program at 25 units. we put small site funding into

the proposition a at general bond, 25 bandage. 25 -- $25 billion. we have been able to do larger buildings and that would be my goal as well. we can really -- if a 50-unit building comes online -- >> supervisor mandelman: seem like there's more bang for your buck. >> i agree. we have total agreement and desire to expand into under served districts to build out capacity and get economies of scale with buying bigger buildings. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: could you explain how you're calling it a

safe shelter site. it's different from a regular shelter? >> yeah, it's in between. lot of things that we learned in the sites around the low barrier entry more flexible rules. people able to eat when they want to rather than set times. it is a model that we're going to continue to pursue. it's really kind of best of both words approach to providing people with temporary shelter.

>> supervisor ronen: do you have a location determined. my concern all throughout the 2018-2019 fiscal year there was funding available for navigation and it hasn't been touched. if we appropriate this money for this purpose and therefore not another purpose, will it actually be used this year for this purpose? >> yes. we are very close to having site for the navigation centre. that one is more challenging because the population are concentrated if specific neighborhood. we've been very specific about where we want to place that site which makes it little bit harder.

with safe centre, opening quite few navigation centres, we're going to start with the basic structure and then do bring in the utilities afterwards. for example, division circle, it took us quite a lot of time to bring the utilities in. it was the hardest part of the job. we'll get the structure set up and bring in generator and temporary water and seasonnatio- sanitation facilities. should allow us to open up the sites. >> supervisor ronen: is that because of the pg&e se shenanig. >> the issue with the centre is trying to find a location.

we are looking at one specific site now. because we're looking specific neighborhoods, it's harder to find an appropriate location for that facility. >> supervisor ronen: the safe centre, you're feeling confident of the various locations you're looking, you'll be able to lisa or buy one quickly and get it up and running? >> yes. >> supervisor ronen: now we're going upwards 300 additional beds coming online, hopefully very soon, does that mean that you'll be able to -- is there going to be a time limit on the amount of time people can stay in those beds? that's been one of the major problems. people get in. they might get some stability and they are released back. in many cases on to the streets. they feel like they lose your

community, their belongings their sense of regularity and then only to be turned back to the street. >> there's three types of navigation centre beds. about 50% is could pathways for housing bads. those are for high priority clients. we also have seven-day beds. we have only 15 but we have seven day beds that are used for emergency situations. the remaining beds about 45% of them are what we call time limited beds. they are 30-day plus. you can stay for 30 days, as long as you're accessing

services and moving forward towards addressing -- could be you're waiting to get in permanent shelter or looking for another housing option, we'll continue to extend. i should point since navigation centres opened, only 15% exited. there's a fair amount of discussion about this issue. i are say it's the vast majority of people who go into navigation centres do not exit because they are forced out. >> supervisor ronen: i know that supervisor stefani and mandelman have a hearing coming up on homelessness. we can talk about it more in in-depth there. thank you.

>> i have a few questions for the comptroller regarding the mechanics of the reserves and how that's going to work. understanding that the reserves that go into this fund are for one purposes and they are going to salaries. i want to make sure we're lining the charter and the voter approved requirements. >> the rainy day one time reserve not ending up in this reserve. what's happening if the proposal, the rainy day reserve is used as the charter said it should. for one-time purposes only. it frees up like amount of discretionary general fund money that can be placed into the reserve. general fund money, excess eraf and property tax money end up in

this reserve. >> thank you for that clarification. aredly-- are there any requirements to access the funds? >> the language that governs the fund is on page 16 of the amendment. you have that in front of you. this is unappropriated reserve we are creating in the amendment. it draws from it and it would require appropriation action by the board of supervisors to pull money out for these purposes. the two specific purposes outlined are for staff and teachers of the sfusd wage increases and then secondly for early care educator wage increases that authorize earlier in the ordinance. basically, the way the language works here, it says that this is

to be last resort. the goal of the reserve is to meet the funding gap on this programs and begin in fiscal year 2021. to the extent a other city revenues not available prior to that date, or other school district revenues or legally available reserves are not available to meet that need. this would be a source you can draw upon. it's the way the language works. frankly we will expect to see new developments in each of those areas. we've talked about some of them here today. such as should the city receive excess eraf funds. for '19 and '20. the ongoing eraf benefit we have

will continue to trigger increases in other baselines. it's outlined in the safety net but last safety net. >> one more question around that, supervisor mandelman touched on it. there's lot of trepidation around dipping in the reserves. has this anything like this been done before? it's very creative. i compliment my colleagues for coming up with this. i'm wondering if it sets precedence or do you have worries around it? >> these are just my opinions on this. these are choices for the mayor and board. one distinction to draw early is this con