>> is there video on here? >> can we do a -- >> a video? >> you are going to up load a video into the computer. >> it's online so i can put in the link to it. it's going to be his comment. they say sweeps don't happen but i can show you videos of it. my name is kelly cutler and i'm with the human rights homelessness. hsoc has been a huge focus for mine over the last year. i've been seeing what is going on and so close when it comes to outreach with folks in encampments and regularly doing outreach and talking to folks. if we were hearing from maybe one person every once in a

while. we're hearing the same thing from everyone when it comes to sweeps and their belongings getting taken. i also talked to the officers on the front line and i got to tell you, they're being thrown under the bus. they don't -- first off, they're being put into a role that is not their role as an officer. they also don't have the resources. they just say i wish there was somewhere that folks could go and they know that there isn't. my big beef with hsoc from the get-go and continued throughout has been the lack of transparency, the lack of community involvement. i'm on the local homeless coordinating board and i was with sfpd homeless advisory board and nothing. nothing. the only way i was able to do it was to do a ton of sunshine requests. it's not ok to be where the department heads are all just working together.

there's no input from the community. that's a major issue with that. there are alternatives and we've been working on the safe sleep policy until this prop q nonsense that was just a political ploy came in. but we were bringing everyone to the table and making progress to go into the right direction. we need to start doing that again. we need to find real solutions, not just sweeping people around. it doesn't work. >> thank you. >> our next speaker. which may be a video. >> click enter and it should change over to the live broadcast of your video. >> we have it cued up. present on the url.

>> hell oh i'm resident of district 8. at hearings like this we seldom get many voices of the homeless themselves and we, who are housed at the luxury of coming out and leaving our possessions safely ensconced in our homes. poem less people don't have that ability. they put their positions at risk if they come to a meeting like this. they also are out there fighting just to subsist on the streets and i just want to keep that in our thoughts as we move forward.

thank you. >> thank you. >> how are we doing on the --

>> our notice was given. the police force has been conducted. all right. so they have been noticed and they know what is going on. unfortunate situation. >> you weren't supposed to --

the shelters are full, right. 1,000 people are on the waiting list for the shelters. so, ma'am, you are more than welcome. >> that's not abandoned property. it's his. >> it's not abandoned. his right there. >> i understand. it's his property still. >> it's not abandoned. >> i understand. >> you can't take unabandonned property. >> i'm done talking to you. you are not understanding.

i owned a home and i lost it in foreclosure and now i pay taxes my whole life and they're talking all my stuff and throwing it away. they don't offer me housing or shelter. they expect me to stay out here in the freezing cold with. >> dan: shelter. they thrown away seven tents of mine. they're taken it as evidence. seven tents. they through it away. >> have you tried to go retrieve it? >> yeah. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close public comment? i am now going to close public comment. public comment is now closed. colleagues, any comments or

thoughts? >> thank you, chair mandelman. i would just like to give you an opportunity to respond to what we just saw obviously, that is very emotional and i don't know the situation of this individual, whether or not he got his stuff back, whether he can still? whether or not he is in services now but obviously that's a very short moment in time. we saw a little bit of an issue. if you can comment on it and let us know what you think about what we just saw? >> i'm grateful to see the video. it really shows the challenge that we have in our attempt to help people. i will say this, the officers did a great job, very professional. very composed. very patient. they have to be patient. these things take a long time. and we're trying to win over people on services. i also know that watching the video, i think whoever was recording it was making an issue about posting notices. the reality is is that we're not required to post any notices.

everyone in the city knows what is legal and not legal. we only post notices for prop q and prop q is led by the department of homelessness in support of housing. the officers followed the law, the policy and i know it felt like there was a believe that their items were being taken but that's the bag-and-tag policy. individuals can go pick it up at the public works yard. thank you for asking me the question. >> thank you, vice-chair. well, i, again, want to thank our departments for coming to this hearing and presenting and helping us to have this conversation that i know they have to have. on a daily basis with constituents and in community meetings and i did feel it was important to have this conversation in this building with the public being part of

it. i also want to reiterate the part of this that gets lost, was the ways in which san francisco is doing better than other places. we have create the more supportive housing and we have prioritized that. we have added hundreds of new shelter beds over the last couple of years and we are trying to lead with services first. i really appreciate that. the other thing that struck me about this hearing, and i said when i started, is that san franciscans do not agree about what we want all of you to do when confronted with tents or stuff or people in public spaces. it's been clear in this hearing. i am reminded of a particular block in my district where i know hsoc and public works get inundated by this block because

they're confronted half the time. there's something at this intersection, tents, gathering of folks, blocking paths, and difficult folks and they are asking our office for help and they're asking all of you for them. so we try to get them that help. we ask you to get out there and try and clean up conditions there. there's also another person who lives on that block who knows out and argues -- this person is a friend of mine, who argues for upwards of an hour sometimes with the public works crews and the police who are out there spending to thresponding on tha. it's a microcosm of san francisco right now. our office is overwhelmed with calls, e-mails, texts from people who are seeing things in their neighborhood that are

unacceptable. there's a little bit of shock when they ask for reinforcement around these conditions. i will fess up and say i will do it. when i get a call, there's a guy norm us tent next to fitness sf and everyone is unhappy about it. i ask you to do everything can you do to get that tent gone. so, in that sense, impart of the problem. i suspect all of my colleagues are too. you are in this difficult position of having us responding to different sets of constituents demanding di diffet things from you. i can't solve that problem for you. i recognize that you are in that spot. you all know how to do things that none of us know how to do. i am very grateful for the work that you do each and everyday.

we do have a scarcity problem. we have a scarcity of resources in this city that we did not create. we have more supportive housing than more place and more shelter than most places. we're doing everything we can to expand that out as quickly as we can. the reason i wanted to hear from the coalition and contemplating this concept of whether we need to explore sanction some lower level of care for folks or a place where folks can be and not be moved around i can is the, ie coalition's point is receipt anyone with me. when our offices are demanding an enforcement response and that enforcement response does not offer most people an actual place to be, it is an untenable situation for everyone. it seems to me that if we can explore coming and finding places where people can be, and remain, and not be disturbed, until we reach those goals,

which we need to be aggressive about, bring on those shelter beds, get the additional capacity, sanctions encampments or tiny homes or whatever other options are not a permanent solution. we do not want them becoming part of our landscape in san francisco. i do believe that we are going to get to the place where west shelter capacity we need and until we get there we may need to look at some of these options and i'm grateful to the folks who helped us explore that this morning or this afternoon. i also think another point i don't want to let go by is really going to be supervisor vice-chair stefani's hearing coming up in two weeks where we explore the mental health response. clearly, a significant portion of the folks on the street and a significant number of the behavioral issues and a significant amount of the stuff that collects is related to folks having serious mental health issues, serious substance use issues, and us not having the ability to get them the care and treatment that they need whether because we don't have

the resources or the legal tools to do it. so we will continue that conversation in two weeks. i think we're going to have to take that matter up next. with that, thank you all for being here and thank you folks who came out. mr. clerk, can you please call the next item. >> is there a motion for this final item? >> we need a motion for the last item. >> i'd like to move to have this continued to the college here. and i will take that without objection. thank you. >> agenda item number 2 is a hearing on the coordination of homeless services including the county's use of welfare and institutions code section 51 other for substance abuse and mental health challenges in order to prevent them from ending up back on the street and entering service providers. >> thank you. >> voice chair stefani, can we -- i'm going to have you

motion to continue this for two weeks until march 14th. >> yes, do we have to take a public comment on that? >> yes, ma'am. >> we will take public comment on that. if there is any? >> oh, as far as prevention? the effects of social exclusion and cognitive performance are known the results of the significant cognitive skills and the consequence of experience threat to an individual's need to belong also described as a defense state of cognitive deconstruction. the effects was clearly shown by worse performance on i.q. tests and time interval estimates and proper explanations and simple reaction time tests and a cognitive marker such as the anti test. the test is providing gross equipment of injury or

dysfunction to the frontal lobe and eye movement. so social exclusion results in self-regulations deficits and self-awareness aversion, disorder time perception and orientation as opposed to future orientation and a sense of meaningless, lack of emotion and lethargy and the contributors to that paper are from university of new queen's land case western reserve san diego state and one other institution in the social and personality psychology november 1st, 2007 and the paper entitled thwarting the need to belong and the interpersonal and inner effects of social exclusion. so at the same time my previous comments were not entirely fair. my argument against the creation and maintenance of various special interest groups and the

multiple indication of calls involved that i fully recognize disparities in medical services. racial steering and discrepancies in the services provided. all of that. >> thank you. are there any other members? >> yes. >> >> good afternoon. my name is eric, i love in san n francisco and i work for a non-profit heath care provider. we serve over 10,000 low income san franciscans with over half experience and homelessness. we appreciate the allocation of the dollars to create house for those experiencing at risk of homelessness in san francisco. as you know, our city currently has a fragmented system where hundreds of unstable housed people living with mental health and addiction disorders are released from psychiatric emergency hospitalization without follow-up. very often, health rights 360

has no option but to do the same and discharge people from our addictions treatment into unstable living conditions. it's unrealistic to expect a person to maintain goals to stay connected to on going services when discharged back to the streets. thank you for calling a steps to this issue as we look at people go through our systems as their conditions worsen and chances for recovery slip away. we appreciate your efforts and trying to understand and solve this complicated issue. thank you. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none. public comment is closed. we have a motion before us to continue this item until march 14th. we will take that without objection. mr. clerk, do we have anymore items before us today? >> there's no further business. >> thank you, with much gratitude for all that you've done to make a difficult day work, we are now adjourned.

>> providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed together. because we're a small division out here, and we're separated from the rest of the p.u.c., a lot of people wear a lot of different hats. everyone is really adept not just at their own job assigned to them, but really understanding how their job relates to the other functions, and then, how they can work together with other functions in the organization to solve

those problems and meet our core mission. >> we procure, track, and store materials and supplies for the project here. our real goal is to provide the best materials, services and supplies to the 250 people that work here at hetch hetchy, and turn, that supports everyone here in the city. i have a very small, but very efficient and effective team. we really focus hard on doing things right, and then focus on doing the right thing, that benefits everyone. >> the accounting team has several different functions. what happens is because we're so remote out here, we have small groups of people that have to do what the equivalent are of many people in the city. out here, our accounting team handles everything. they love it, they know it inside out, they cherish it, they do their best to make the system work at its most efficient. they work for ways to improve

it all the time, and that's really an amazing thing. this is really unique because it's everybody across the board. they're invested it, and they do their best for it. >> they're a pretty dynamic team, actually. the warehouse team guys, and the gals over in accounting work very well together. i'm typically in engineering, so i don't work with them all day on an every day basis. so when i do, they've included me in their team and treated me as part of the family. it's pretty amazing. >> this team really understanding the mission of the organization and our responsibilities to deliver water and power, and the team also understands that in order to do that, we have a commitment to each other, so we're all committed to the success of the organization, and that means providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can

succeed >> the hon. london breed: how exciting is it to be here today? i know many of you are wondering why we chose this location of all locations. it's because this location is the backdrop of what will be future homes -- four to be expect, right, sam?

>> yeah. >> the hon. london breed: four new opportunities for accessible homes that will be affordable to folks in san francisco. these garages and hundreds of spaces like them sit often empty and under utilized while our city continues to experience a housing crisis that is pushing low-income families out of our cities. this is why in 2014 we took the first step into converting these spaces into much needed housing. we saw some initial success, but as we all know, our bureaucratic system in san francisco got in the way, and it's often too complex and people find themselves struggling just to get through the initial permit application process, let alone the construction process. since 2014, over the course of

around four years, only 377 units were approved. more than 900 units were stuck in limbo because city departments could not agree on how to handle certain key issues. that was more than 900 opportunities for new housing, 900 units stuck and waiting for approval. that is why back in august, i issued an executive directive to clear the backlog of more than 900 units within six months, and to make sure that every application from that day forward was acted upon within four months. and today, i am so happy to noun announce that we have met that goal. all of the 919 units -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: all of the 919 units that were

stuck in review were acted upon, and that backlog is cleared. of those, 439 units have been permitted, and onver 90% of those projects that were approved, those units that were approved, are subject to rent control. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: that's more units permitted over the last six months than over the entire course of the last three years. that's a big deal. all of the remaining applications were responded to and sent back to the applicants with specific instructions on what they need to do to keep their application moving forward through the review process. we are now waiting for those to be approved. that process itself has been overhauled so new applications are not subject to that old

bureaucracy. we have roundtable sessions where all departments come together to review all applications all at once, and each department added staff members dedicated solely to reviewing and submitting a.d.u. applications. we submitted a simple, straightforward, a.d.u. check list, the first of its kind, to applicants get the information they need to start the process up front so that each department can provide consistent feedback. and we conducted outreach to design professionals and homeowners to inform them about these new changes and encourage them to apply. these reforms have been incredibly successful even in just our first six months. since august, we have received applications for 206 new units and 49 new units have been built. that is a 72% increase from the

68 building over the course of three years. but we are not stopping there. i am also proposing, as many of you might have heard, which is super duper exciting, the waiver of the department of building inspection permit fees for new a.d.u. applications, saving applicants anywhere between 7,000 and $10,000 in fees to encourage people to come forward and produce more units. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: waiving the fees, streamlining the process. it may sound like the simple thing to do, but it is so challenging sometimes to get some of the simple things done in san francisco. what this process has shown us is that approving housing does not have to be and should not be a difficult process. we need clear guidelines, a

transparent process for projects to either be approved or responded to. and this is why what i have done since taking office has been really about moving the process forward and getting more housing built in san francisco so that people can afford to live here. some of you know -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: -- that i recently appointed a director for housing delivery whose sole job is to work with various departments to get housing built and to provide input on policies that we need to implement to either cutback on bureaucratic red tape or the things we need to do to get this important housing built. and many of you know that i'm proposing a charter amendment so that when we try to build 100% affordable housing that fits within the code of our existing policies, that it is

done for teachers and affordable housing as a right. no more delays, no more bureaucracy. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so yes, we are making progress, and six months may seem like maybe a long time to many of you, but six months in bureaucratic time is really fast. and so i just have so many people to thank because doing this really does take a lot of people. we have a number of commissioners that are joining us here today, and i just want to thank the planning department. and i think the planning -- is myrna here? oh, thank you. the president of the planning commission, myrna melgar is here. thank you for your leadership with the planning department to help make this possible. we have the department of building inspection here, as well, and i want to thank the

director for being here -- oh, john rahaim, planning director is here, too. commissioners -- thank you, commissioner mccarthy and thank you, commissioner deborah walker from the department of building inspection for being here, as well. thank you to chief. >> commissioner hayes-white:: - chief joanne hayes-white from the fire department, and fran see covington from the fire commission and joe hardeman from the fire commission. it takes a village to get this housing built, but this is a first step because we know that there are so many things that we need to do in san francisco to get more housing built and to get it built faster. we are going to be making

changes, and it is by any means necessary for the purpose of making sure that we begin the process now to get more housing built so when we think about the next generation of young people growing up in san francisco, and we think about what's going to happen when they become adults, where are they going to live? where are they going to live in the city that they were born and raised in? we have to start now, thinking about the future and providing more housing opportunities is really what's going to change the future and make it possible so that the next generation of san franciscans can afford to live here, and the people who are struggling to live here have real opportunities to live in the communities that they love. and so with that, i just want to thank each and every one of you and all the amazing people that made this possible. i'm really excited about this. i'm excited that we have shown that government can work, and this is a great day here in san

francisco, and with that, i want to introduce serina calho calhoun who is an architect what is one of the people who is a beneficiary of being able to take advantage of this opportunity and get important units built in our city. [applause] >> good morning. my name is serina calhoun, i own and operate a small firm in hayes valley. we by some nature have become experts in the a.d.u. process. since the mayor's executive order six months ago, we have seen a radical change for the better in the a.d.u. process. we've had 42 new dwelling units that are stuck in the system move smoothly through this process just since here announcement. it's been absolutely incredible. projects that were taking over two years for approval are now

being processed and approved in only four months. actually, we submitted two projects at the end of october and they are already approved. all the city departments have joined together to stream line the reviews and most importantly, the reviews are consistent. i no longer have to make six individual recheck appointments with six individual people for one project. i can do it in one shot, and get all their comments together. it's amazing. i'd love to see that apply to a lot of other project types in the city of san francisco. the mayor's office has just done an incredible job, too, of trying to find ideas and asking us for more ideas to make this process even smoother, and it's such an honor to participate in a process in the city of san

francisco. i can't thank her enough. with that, i'm going to turn it over to sam moss with housing [applause] >> mission housing, we've been talking about this for years, and to be able to stand here and take credit for it, it's just amazing. [laughter]. >> mission housing, myself, we believe it's important to do everything that you can. everyone should do everything they can. from single-family homeowners to developers, to look at the crisis and actually solve it, by adding new units, and that is what we are doing here. it's my hope that san francisco and the bay area and nationwide

will follow mission housing's example that we've been tasked to do. it's because of mayor breed's leadership and leadership of our city departments agreeing with our sentiment that we can do so today. i just want to thank everyone for coming, and stay tuned, because better things are on the way. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and we also have a tenant who is going to be saying a few words, so dora, you want to come on up and speak? it's okay, if you want. okay. nice. well, thank you for being here today, and again, these units will be accessible, which is really important for those who are seniors and those with disabilities. in thinking about the future of

san francisco, we have to think about all possibilities for housing. and i know that, you know, a couple hundred units may not seem like much, but in the bigger scheme of things, that one unit will make a difference in someone's life, and so we have to make sure in san francisco that we are doing everything we can to capture as many units as we can for the purposes of expanding our housing stock because we know we have a number of challenges, and we know that we need affordable safe spaces for people to live. i'm really excited that we were able to meet and exceed the goal that we set in the directive next year, and there is definitely more to come for providing housing opportunities for all san franciscans, and i want to thank each and every one of you for being here today. thank you so much. [applause]

>> i lived in the mission neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to

the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did

have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. my favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me

and i >> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality

products and something that's very, very good. ♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way.

so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over

100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's

joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is

important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors

does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we

make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure

that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪

>> the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of san francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of san francisco. through our partnership, and because of public investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park.

we have it safer, happier, more joyous. >> 3, 2, 1, [laughter] =--[applause] >> it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. >> this is an amazing park. we have not revitalized it without public and private investment. the critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. we reached out to everyone in this community. we love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. what you see is what the

community wanted. these ideas all came from the residents of this community. as a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park.

15, 2019 meeting of the ethics commission. [roll call] agenda item number two is public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. >> good afternoon. i'm not sure if this two minutes or three minutes. in front of me, two minutes. >> chair chiu: it should be three minutes. we'll change that now. >> good afternoon. my name is ellen lee zhou, e-l-l-e-n l-e-e z-h-o-u. i am an