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i do agree about the setting up the shelter on the waterfront. and i also was really heartened

by supervisor -- [bell ringin ringing] -- by supervisor walton's approach to looking at potential that we can do this. you know, if all the people that were housed in san francisco were required to spend one night sleeping hard on the street, they would realize what those folks on the street have to put up with. how do you get up in the morning and get cleaned up to go to work? what do you do when your -- [bell ringing] >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is betty trainer. i was senior disability action and i'm a resident of the western addition. i'm bringing that up because a few years ago when there was extreme weather, the ymca, the

buchanan, was one of the temporary shelters. that is right next to our complex. the director of the ymca there was very committed to providing that y as a temporary shelter. he called a meeting. the neighbors came to. he answered all our questions. he actually even was able to get investors -- volunteers from our community for this. what happened? as far as i know nothing happened. none of the homeless people were admitted to the shelter. i guess they didn't meet the criteria. maybe it was 42° instead of 40. 42° is very cold. i encourage the supervisors to accept the criteria of the coalition on homelessness. especially about lowering the threshold. i also want to bring up one other issue which relates to the homeless outreach team.

i called 311 in december because of a woman, a senior, who i saw sleeping on the street. when i called, it was a little after 10:00 p.m., and the 311 person told me, yes, this would go to the homeless outreach team, but unfortunately, they're not on duty. their hours are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. i encourage you to make the homeless outreach team 24-7. please find the money for this. and the recommendations of the coalition on homelessness. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm tiffany, district one resident. in a special report published last year by the united nations, the city of san francisco was singled out for its punitive policies and denial of basic human rights to life, housing, health, water and sanitation. the u.n. has called for the policies to be prohibited by law

and immediately ceased. the day before mayor london breed's inaugural ceremony on july 11, 2018, taking place a stone's throw from the u.n. plaza, there was an e-mail. can you please have the 70 units head down to clear out the homeless? they will need to stand by after the sweep is done. a few of the supervisors have expressed dismay and surprise that the sweeps have been happening continually. but if ignorance as a law doesn't hold up in court, does ignorance of human rights' violations fare any better? what is your defense, supervisor mandelman? we call on you today to end sweeps effectively immediately. we call you on to provide constituents the basic right of

adequate human shelter. not a cot for one day. not 25 extra mats during a rainstorm. we call on you to recognize and understand the respect their decision to refuse services that are inadequate and incompetent. we call on you to cease the persecution of the unhoused. these are our demands. we, the people, say enough. thank you. >> hi, my name is harvey williams. i'm a d-6 resident. done outreach and aid and taken statements from unhoused people in recent months. just to reiterate things that have been said. i know you don't want us to repeat, but we have to respond to lies that are repeated. the services offered are not in good faith and are used as a threat. people are not able to get their belongings back and everybody knows it. last week, tuesday, february 26, i spoke to people on 46thish and

the outer sunset, a married couple, and a man named roy. all said they regularly confiscate their belongings. they're given a few minutes to pack up. if they can't do it, their items are taken. they've had dozens of tents taken. roy had his glasses taken and is unable to see. robin is disabled decorated veteran and they slept in the rain on monday night because the last tent was taken by the city. they had a dozen tents in recent months. 12. a lot of those are handed out by people like us. they were thankful for the tarp i gave them that was left over from a drive the dsa organized. there is good chance that will be taken, too. i've spoken to dozens of people. they threaten arrest, confiscate

their belongings. and leave them to suffer. any offer of service is disingenuous. the question is not whether shelters are offered when they do the confiscations, but whether the offer is in good faith. to make it worse, these human rights are displayed on the twitter account, in actual fact, these are human rights' abuses and they're serving one portion of the population and brutally punishing another. >> hello. my name is tony page. i am paraglide and formerly homeless. one of the things i want to talk about is the fact that we have been having these sweeps at such

a regular basis. i think it's reprehensible. we have people who are losing everything from their meds, their clothes, their tents, all their belongings taken and the cold part, it's in the middle of -- cruel part, it's in the middle of extreme weather. i don't understand why you -- why the city would want to tear down peoples' tents in the middle of a rainstorm. or when it's 40°. i don't understand that. the other thing is, i think the city might need to adapt some newer ideas. maybe start networking with some of these organizations here like some of them in the room here. or maybe even organize with some of the churches or something and maybe starting things such as tiny house villages.

or even legal encampments. i've seen other cities adapt it and it seems to be working pretty well. you know, it's just something to think about. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for holding this hearing. i'm representing glide along with community members and staff. i find myself affected by the hearing as i'm sure many of us do. we completely agree with the recommendations of the coalition and our partners. we completely agree that the sweeps need to stop. and i think what comes up for me, i really want everybody in the city to believe the people who are affected. i just want us to believe the people, because it doesn't seem like that happens. it seems like if anything comes up from the city, it should be from the voices of those people.

i agree that police officers are not equipped to do the work we're asking them to do. and the dpw workers themselves are probably traumatized from the work they have to do. i believe that if we can do something that -- folks will be able to participate in a way that will lead to the outcomes we're looking for. if we can't do housing, we do shelter. we have to meet people on the street where they're at, and let them have what they need to survive. in glide, we're willing to work on this. we're willing to provide supplies, help with social services and all the ways we possibly can. but i think the one thing i wish we had heard from the department of emergency management other than disdain, what if we had found those of us who are housed without housing?

what if we all became unhoused? i think it would be dramatic, incredible and what we need to see today. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. i wanted to thank you all to voice the urgency at which we approach and work on this ish. my name is -- this issue. i'm the director at an organization that works with homeless families in achieving stable housing. late last year, during the severe smoke and air quality issues we were experiencing, agencies were scrambling to try to protect people from the outdoors. while they were able to provide masks to the community, we had requested and were not able to obtain masks for children. this made it abundantly clear we

don't have a child centred approach to weather conditions. the threshold the city operates to trigger this process does not take into account the fact that children, as well as seniors as well as people with disabilities are extremely vulnerable to air quality conditions. so my ask of you supervisors you take into consideration those most vulnerable in the community to set the baseline for when these emergency protocols are to take effect. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors, thank you to coalition on homelessness for bringing solutions today. i wanted to read -- i'm colin, i wanted to read our response in the sf "examiner". winter is here in san francisco with the heavy rain and

pervading chill all around the city we see people experiencing homelessness carrying their soaked belongings and taking shelter anywhere they can. we hear the voices of people who have witnessed the confiscation of tents and wet weather gear from those suffering homelessness. it is difficult to understand why these items would be seized without room for each and every person in need. we're encouraged that the district 6 supervisor matt haney called this hearing to respond to the homelessness during record-breaking storms and cold temperatures. during the weather, only 75 matter were supplied for an estimated 4,000 in need while 1200 are still on the waiting list. in that same period, the san francisco police department and the department of public works continued their assigned confiscation, at times using harsh language and rhetoric that seemed to boast of taking tents and personal belongings from

people living on the streets. we understand that the city is working toward building better infrastructure for our unhoused, but that support is not yet in place. those beds are not available tonight and will not be for many nights to come. st. anthony's calls for a just approach by police, public agencies and policymakers without leaving our neighbors more vulnerable and deeper suffering. we ask them to partner with organizations like glide and so many others where our principles of compassion, dignity and respect guide emergency response protocols providing shelter, not seizure of tents. [bell ringing] >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi again. long hearing, huh? anyway, thank you so much for holding this hearing, especially

matt haney and thank you for inviting the coalition on homelessness. it's clear that the departments are violating their own polls and procedures. we're seeing this in the videos we showed, public comment and from homeless people themselves experiencing this on a daily basis. we see that what is happening is cruel an inhumane. over the past couple of weeks and months we've talked to many supervisors. and what they've been telling us that they need to talk to department heads to see if policies are actually being violated. we have no reason to lie. no one here wants to be in a three-hour hearing on a thursday, but the departments have serious motivations to pretend to the public they're following procedure. but policies and procedures do not matter if they're unjust -- [applause] these laws are unjust. these policies don't provide anyone with adequate services or

dignified housing, much less shelter and actively work to confiscate property. none of the departments are here to hear what we're saying. they haven't even sent a representative. it's clear they don't care what we have to say and they want to continue what they're doing. we need you to keep the mayor and the department heads accountable. we want to see our severe weather recommendations adopted and want the supervisors to oppose sweeps. we don't want to hear that it's a difficult position to take. and with this roomful of people asking you to make a change, you have the political cover to then oppose sweeps. because everyone here is asking you to do that. i know that this is a hearing. it doesn't warrant action. but what we need you to take is action. and now that you have heard all of this information, you are beholden to it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm with dsaf.

i'm here to oppose the sweeps under all circumstances. throughout today's hearing we've heard a lot that before any property is confiscated, unhoused people are offered shelter. departments were light on providing any kind of numbers for that. so here are some numbers from chris herring's research as a candidate at berkeley. he says there are over 1300 adults on the list for adult shelter. 158 of them are senior citizens. unsheltered people have the option of waiting for a single night bed daily. herring found that in order to secure one of these beds, "one has to typically wait for four hours and it is not unusual to wait over eight in order to go to a shelter, people on the streets are asked to give up all of their belongings that don't fit in a backpack and have them

bagged and tagged, despite the fact that there is understanding if you forfeit your property, there is little chance you'll get it again. so when he says shelters are offered, he's lying. he's referring to a handful of beds that are vacant due to bureaucratic incompetence from the dpw. simple math can show that. therefore, to quote herring, the offer of shelter is not a genuine offer of services, but a weapon to dispossess the city's poorest who have already lost everything else. we demand you respect our unhoused neighbors' autonomy and property. please have a moratorium on all sweeps. thank you. >> supervisors, i'm larry

ackerman. retired scientist, research scientist from ucsf. and i'm collaborating, working with coalition on homelessness, because i found them a very good responsible organization. i was alerted to the issues on the streets, via my husband, who has mental and drug issues. i've helped him on many occasion try to navigate human services, life on the streets, trying to find his phone. he can't keep track of a phone, so 311 is not an option for him. and i gradually built up a personal picture of how rugged life is on the streets. and when i've seen people lose all their belongings from these sweeps, it was disheartening.

it was really depressing. the biggest point i want to leave with you, as long as the police department is the lead department for the hsoc, we're going to have conflicts, we're going to have difficulties. i know i've encountered difficulties from police over 25 years. various structural issues. so i'm calling for a social workforce. hot teams. we need to be sending out social workers, not police officers. thank you. do what you can to stop the sweeps in the meantime, okay? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you.

tyler. dsa. i first want to note, i know a couple of people said this, but for people watching this at home, everyone here left. jeff said he was going to come back, but everyone representing the cops, they're gone. they don't want to hear. they saw our signs but we're not supposed to have signs in the hearing. they didn't want to hear from us. i wanted to note that again. i definitely support the recommendations of the coh. i think that -- i also want to clear, i see looking at lines, response to homelessness in extreme weather. i hope what comes across is not a demand to stop the sweeps when it's raining and cold, but to actually stop the sweeps. every night, it doesn't matter how cold it is or if there is smoke. i also wanted to follow up on the pedestrian advocate that was here and was talking about the

supposed excuse that we have to clear the tents because they're blocking the sidewalk. they're not. usually they're placed in such a way to get around them, a wheelchair. but what is blocking the sidewalks is the fences that dpw puts up after they put someone away. it's a pre-emptive sweep. they just put up these fences and often they're in front of empty retail space or they're in front of a wall -- so they're not even protecting someone's business. they're not even protecting someone's store front making it look nice. they're -- these fences are protecting nothing. so if we're not out there every night, we don't necessarily see the sweeps happening, but if you live in the tenderloin, if you see these fences in front of a safeway, by a church, that means the sweeps are still effectively

happening. [bell ringing] even if you don't actually... >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, my name is evan. i'm with the dsa and i'm d-1 resident. i was watching the hearing last week in this room and listened to david lazar. he said that people can retrieve their tagged belongings, but homeless people know that's a joke. he said, "we're trying to win over people on services but the offers of services are miniscule, sometimes only a single night on an emergency mat in the floor and they're offered -- if it can be called that -- under the threat of citation, arrest and confiscation. i want to tell the supervisors to have an ounce of skepticism about this police department. just this much. we have officers who sent racist

texts still on the force. whistleblowers like joel babbs have been retaliated against for calling out wrongdoing on the force. this is a department whose union did an end run around the police commission through restrictions on taser use in prop h. and we had the former president called the late jeff adachi aisle and bottom -- vile and bottom feeding. you have to ask them what their experience is, because they're telling a very different story. [bell ringing] i'm happy to walk you around myself or arrange to have a walk-around to talk to homeless people. if you can't square the stories from homeless people with what department heads are saying. dig deeper. do your job. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i would like to discuss what the goal of this city sweep

strategy could be, because commander la sfwlar went up -- lazar went up there and talked about how the goal was to get the homeless people shelter. this is a lie because the government agencies admitted there is not enough services or shelter for the people on the street. so that is nothing but window dressing to deceive the public about what is actually happening. the dpw claims of preserving people's property is again, just window dressing. we can see it is false. [please stand by]

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san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for

san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where

the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low

tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station

number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference

point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

>> good evening. i'm like to welcome everyone to the meeting and turn off your electronic deef electronic devices and please stand nor pledge of aleth -- for the pledge of allegiance. good evening, president her -- hirsh i'd like to take roll call. [roll call]