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they plan to return to the board for bond issuance approval for this project later this year. we anticipate the project will close construction financing and start construction in january 2020. on behalf of mercy health in california, e.c.s., and i'd like to thank you for your consideration today. we look forward for your continued support. my colleague amy chan is here with me with mercy housing california and with that i'd like to conclude the staff report. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you, miss mcnamara. colleagues, do you have any questions? thank you very much. miss campbell, does the office have any findings on this item? okay. are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is
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closed. i move that we send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. can we take that without objection? thank you. mr. clerk, please call items 8 and 9 together. >> clerk: agenda number 8 is a resolution authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a local operating subsidy program grant agreement with 275-10th street associates l.p. a california limited partnership to provide operating subsidies for formerly homeless adult households at bishop swing community house at 275-10th street. and for 15 years and six months from july 1, 2019, through december 31,2034, to not exceed $5,579,553. agenda item 9 is authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a local operating subsidy program grant agreement with mason street housing associates l.p., also a
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california limited partnership. to to the formerly homeless adult households at 149 mason street for the term of 15 years and six months from july 1, 2019, through december 31,2034, in an amount not to exceed $18,135, 164. >> supervisor mar: i'd like to recognize scott madden from omchd. you have up to five minutes to present. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor brown, and supervisor peskin. good morning. the mayor's office of housing and community development is seeking the board of supervisors' approval of the renewal of two expiring contracts under the city's local operating subsidy program. the renewal would provide for the operating cost subsidies at two affordable housing developments and the first is the house at 275-10th street and the second is the mason
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street apartments at 149 mason. both provide permanent supportive housing to 131 extremely low-income formerly homeless adults. the two contracts together would compromise $23.7 million in city financing which would be provided over a period of 15.5 years starting this july 1st. the local operating subsidy program was created in 2004 in connection with the city's 10-year plan to abolish chronic homelessness. one of the pillars of that plan was to create 3,000 units of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals and families. and the basic element of the program is that it provides an operating subsidy to cover the difference between extremely low tenant rental revenue and the total operating costs of these buildings. and the subsidies are sized to fund break-even budgets,
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including conventional operating expenses, debt service, reserves and partnership management fees. and annual disbursements are provided according to scheduled amounts with adjustments made as appropriate based on any surpluses from prior years. and the disbursements under the program are subject to annual budget appropriations by the board. o.c.d. administered the program with the department of homelessness and supportive housing budget. currently the program has 32 buildings under its purview, representing 1,161 units, that serve a variety of target populations from seniors to transition-aged youth, single individuals and families with children. in 2017, the program supported 1,454 households representing a total of 2,061 people. and now to the contracts themselves, the one for bishop
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swing community house would be for $5.6 million, and that would be over a 15.5 year period starting next month and ending in 2034. and it would cover 75 of the total 135 units in the project which is about about 55% and thr by section 8 and continuum of care rental assistance vouchers. the building opened in 2009 and it's an attractive five-story building in western soma. and the it has 135 studio units with outdoor community and service space. in addition there are about 3,000 square feet of commercial space on the full some street of the building. the owner is an affiliate of thetheepiscopal community servi, and with the affiliate of mission housing and the
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supportive services are also provided by e.c.s. with funding from the department of homelessness and supportive housing. the target population is extremely low income single individuals. 63 of the units in the project are set aside for folks who either have mental illness, h.i.v./aids, chronic addiction and intellectual disability or some form of long-term chronic health condition. average annual income at the project is currently 13% of the median income which is characterized as extremely low. that is less than $11,000 per year. it has served 600 individuals since it opened 10 years ago. and the average length of tenancy is about 5.5 years and about a third of the current residents have been in place since the project opened. so there's a bit of stability there. and for 149 mason street, that contract is $18.1 million --
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i'll wrap up -- and also provided over 15.5 years. that contract would support most of the units at that project, 55 out of 56. and the owner is an affiliate of glide economic development corporation with property management from the john stewart company. and supportive services are provided by glide community housing. with funds from h.s.h. as well as the department of public health. both these projects are attractive, well managed and highly supportive permanent housing for extremely low income formerly homeless individuals. they're important resources in the city's array of services and programs that alleviate homelessness. and both projects merit renewed lost funding to continue to serve homeless folks well into the future. thank you for your attention and i'm available to answer any questions that you may have as is my colleague, senior asset manager mike malone. and i would like to introduce
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liz pocok, the director of housing development and asset management. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. madden. any questions, colleagues? great, thank you. miss campbell, does the d.l.a. have findings to share? >> yes, the board of supervisors is being asked to approve two local operating subsidy program agreements and each is for 15 years and six months and one for the bishop house at $5.6 million and the other for 149 mason street of $18.1 million over the term of the agreement. so table four and page 9 of our report summarizes this. and the per unit cost at bishop swing over a 15-year term is about $74,000. and up to 75 units for 129 mason is $123,000 for 56 units. the variance really has to do with bishop swing actually a
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much larger building with 135 total units so at that operating costs are being spread over a larger number of units with other funding sources. and we do recommend approval. >> supervisor mar: thank you. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'd like to move that we send these items to the full board with positive recommendation. can we take that without objection? thank you. mr. clerk, please call item number 10. >> clerk: agenda number 10 is a resolution approving the first amendment of the grant between the city and county of san francisco and wu yee children's services for the provision of early head start and head start support services to support the city's implementation of the san francisco citywide plan for early care and education. to increase the amount by $4,122,076 for a total amount of $11,786,599 and extend the grant
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term by one year to commence july 1, 2019, for the total agreement term of july 1, 2017, through june 30, 2020. >> supervisor mar: thank you. i'd like to recognize the h.s.a. here to present on this item. you have five minutes for your presentation. >> thank you. good morning, i'm the office of this. we request authorize to modify the grant with wu yee children's services for an additional $4,122,076. for a new total grant amount of $11,786,599 and to extend the term one year to june 30th, 2020. and the approval of this contract will ensure that wu yee
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children's services will continue its operation from enrolling the eligible children, providing program services to their families. and in addition funding will support wu yee in managing the program to ensure proper staffing levels at each site and classroom and to deliver high quality early learning experiences to each child enrolled in their program. i'm available to answer any questions that you have about the question and we also have another person to discuss the procurement process. >> supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, do you have any questions? thank you. and miss campbell, does the d.l.a. have findings to share on this item? >> the board is asked to approve the first amendment to the existing agreement between h.s.a. and wu yee for early care and education and the current agreement is $7.7 million and this extends it by one year and increase by about $4.1 million
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through the fiscal year 2019-20 for $11.8 million. and we summarize the terms, financial terms, on table 1, page 13 of our report. because this agreement contains contingencies in the prior two years that were not used we actually do recommend a reduction of $420,870 from the proposed not to exceed $11.8 million to $11.4 million and otherwise we recommend approval as recommended. >> supervisor mar: thank you, miss campbell. i'm sorry, just on your recommendation about the reduction. is that something that we would need to take action on? >> yes, you would need to amend the resolution to send it to the full board with the lower amount. >> supervisor mar: and -- >> i believe that the department can provide you with the amended resolution to submit to the full board. >> supervisor mar: okay, great.
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colleagues, do you have any questions or comments? so maybe -- we should have a motion to amend -- yeah. >> clerk: let's take public comment first. >> supervisor mar: okay. any members of the public that would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would make a motion that we amend the item to reduce the amount by the amount that miss campbell stated. was it -- >> clerk: $420,870. >> supervisor mar: yes. so on the amendment, the amended -- well, a motion to amend the item without objection? and then can we -- i would also move that we send this item to the full board as amended and
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with positive recommendation. >> clerk: this was requested as a committee report, mr. chair. >> supervisor mar: as a committee report. without objections? thank you. mr. clerk call item 11. >> clerk: item 11 is a resolution authorizing the human services agency to continue its membership in the 18 county california welfare network consortium and approving the operations agreement to the technology services l.l.c. and the welfare client data system consortium counties for the city's share of the oversight of d.x.c. technology contract for the implementation of calwin. and authorizing the executive director to expand the authority from $82,571,463 to an additional amount of $5,716,385 for the period from february 1,
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2020, through january 31,2023, for a total project budget of $88,287,848 for the period of july 1,1999 through january 31, 2023. >> supervisor mar: thank you. i'd like to recognize h.s.a. here to present on this item. you have up to five minutes for your presentation. >> thank you. good morning, chair mar and supervisor brown and supervisor peskin. i'm the contract director for the human services agency and the human service agency requests the authorization for a continued participation in the calwin cob sort yum and the use of the calwin services through the d.x.c. technology services. to increase the authority from about $83.5 million to $88.3 million from the period of 1999 to 2023. and the human services agency manages several public benefits programs including cal fresh and medi-cal and foster care
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eligibility and employment services. and every california county uses one of three large client database systems to manage eligibility and to make payments to clients and providers. these are the primary systems that eligibility workers and employment specialists use every day in their work. san francisco has been part of an 18-county consortium since 1999 and using the calwin system. and this system began development in 1999 and then it went fully operational in 2005. and so the county has been using calwin for 14 years. in four years, in 2023, the state will move to a single state-wide system called calsaw and that's used by all 58 counties. this resolution allows to fund the use of the system until the new calsaw system is in place in 2023. i'd be glad to answer any questions that you have. >> supervisor mar: thank you.
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colleagues, any questions? thank you. miss campbell, is there findings to share on this item? >> the board of supervisors is asked to agree to the continued membership in the calwin consortium and this started in 1999 and to bee to99 continues . and it's $82.6 million, this increases by another $5.7 million to $88.3 million. to date through fiscal year 2017-2018, total expenditures under the calwin agreement are $66.3 million and they provided a budget for the remaining $24.7 million through 2023 that includes a 12% contingency and we recommend approval. >> supervisor mar: thank you, miss campbell. are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item? seeing none, the public comment
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is now closed. and colleagues can we recommend this item to the full board without objection? thank you. mr. clerk. call item number 12. >> clerk: you want do that as a committee report? it was requested as a committee report. >> supervisor mar: okay, move this -- recommend this item to the full board as a committee report without objection? thank you. mr. clerk call item 12. >> president yee: agenda number 12 is directing the budget analyst to conduct four performance odd yits in fiscal year 2019-2020 for the effectiveness of the city departments' pre-apprenticeship and workforce development and community benefit programs. and the policies and the procedures of the mayor's office of housing and community development for the acquisition of sites for the development or preservation of affordable housing, and public works' street resurfacing program and
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street tree maintenance program. and removing from the 2018-2019 audit work plan the performance audit of the city's workforce development programs for low-income, homeless and formerly homeless adults. >> supervisor mar: thank you. before us is a motion to set the budget for the next fiscal year. and i'm calling for audits of city departments, workforce development and community benefits program and homeless services provided by supportive housing. and mochd policies and programs for acquiring and preserving affordable housing and street tree maintenance by public works. and audits are crucial for oversight and accountability and by prioritizing audits for these crucial city services and programs we can ensure that we're using the city's best strategies and means for addressing some of the biggest challenges facing us. affordable housing, homelessness, workforce development and more. as a representative of my
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constituents, as a member of this board, and as chair of the government audit and oversight committee, i'm deeply committeed to the essential oversight functions that we provide for public services. it's essential for our own effectiveness and the ethicity as a city. and for the trust in the public places in us. i'd like to thank the budget analyst office for her partnership in preparing this motion. and my co-sponsors, supervisors brown and president norman yee. i look forward to working with you all as these audits move forward to ensure our public services are meeting the public needs. chair, i'd like to -- or i'd like to welcome severn campbell from the office to speak to this item. >> just very briefly, we're actually completing three audits now that were requested for 2018-2012019. the audit for the congestion management of the m.t.a. and the oewd's oversight of construction
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projects and impact on small businesses, and an audit of the potential transition of the housing authority to the city. so the audits are near completion and the report should be submitted to the board of supervisors hopefully shortly. we would be able to begin these requested audits as of july 1st as soon as the budget review is completed. we would conduct the audits one at a time in the order which they're in the motion unless request was made to go out of order. >> supervisor mar: thank you, miss campbell. any questions or comments, colleagues? are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues can we recommend this item to the full board without objection? thank you. mr. clerk, please call item 13. >> clerk: mr. chair, agenda number 13 is scheduled for an 11:00 special order, 11:00 will happen in about four minutes.
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>> supervisor mar: sorry. >> clerk: we couldn't call the item until after 11:00 is struck. >> supervisor mar: so we'll hold off on that and can we go to -- yeah -- can you call item 14. >> clerk: the balance of today's agenda are the closed session items and it may make sense to call a recess until 11:00 strikes. >> supervisor mar: that's good. so we'll recess now until 11:00. >> clerk: government audit and oversights june 20th regular meeting is back in session from recess. >> supervisor mar: call item 13. >> clerk: an ordinance to amend the code to establish the
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cooperative living opportunities for mental health fund and the mental health program to fund the residential properties to be operated as communal properties for those with chronic mental health disorders and omchd and the department of public health to establish policies to issue funds from the fund in authorizing the department of public health to place clients in properties financed by the fund and to have monitoring and oversight for such properties. >> supervisor mar: thank you, i recognize amy binder from supervisor ronen's office to present on this item. >> thank you so much, supervisors. i appreciate you taking this item today. and i apologize that supervisor ronen is buried deep in budget and finance committee hearing today and wasn't able to be here. i know that she would have liked to present personally. so the legislation before you authored by supervisor ronen and co-authored by supervisor haney is for presents for the loan fund and program to help to
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address the crisis of people living on our streets. it enables non-profit organizations to have apartments and single family homes to have non-institutional facilitated communal households in which four or five people with chronic mental illness can share a home assisted with an individual and a household case management services that are available on-call 24/7. the legislation establishes a fund under the code to receive and disburse funds including the $5 million prioritized through the board's work together on housing bonds. but also funds through the budget and through philanthropy and other sources yet to be identified. and they would issue to nonprofits to purchase the eligible properties and dph would expand on the current contracts or issue new ones to enable those non-profits to provide the services. d.p.h. would be the party that would determine the client eligibility and authorize the client placement and we know that much of the services
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funding can be recouped through medi-cal. and this program is in response to one of the most imlairing crises in san francisco, our response to the mental health situation on our streets is -- we know that there's a significant lack of housing options for people existing residential treatment programs and d.p.h., in fact, reported that 44% of the people exiting those programs were leaving without a place identified for them to go next. and we know that this particular model does work. several of our most respected mental health providers and the progress foundation and positive resource center and they have been operating throughout san francisco for years. until now almost all of those have been master leased and with the current rental market in san francisco, it's just not a reliable way to hold on to housing and so the intent of this is that new units could be acquired and existing properties
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might be available and feasible and that we would be able to grow the program as both needed and an appropriate housing option. and supervisor ronen is asking for your support to forward this to the full board as a committee report and with your recommendation. and a huge thank you to steve fields and richar rich heasley,d andrew is not here, to sharing their wisdom and experience in shaping this. and over the past several weeks we have worked with kelly romdoo and craig wagner of d.p.h. and kate hartley of o.c.d. and they helped to refine the legislation and their insights are behind most of the amendments introduced today. and i'm happy to answer any questions and also we have others here to answer any questions. i don't know, shall i describe the amendment? is that the way to do this now? or you have them before you and
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they're highlighted. and they are -- they are intended to make the program work better. so we've done things that just clarify that the program will be functional for both d.p.h. and i can get into the details if you would like that. >> supervisor mar: yeah, thank you. colleagues, do you have any questions? so i'd like to welcome kate hartley from mochd up. and if you want to share some remarks on this item. >> thank you, supervisors. kate hartley the mayor's office of housing and community development. we are happy to be working with d.p.h. and the providers and we
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look forward to the ability to provide an expansion of housing model that works for this population. so we expect to have a serious collaboration with d.p.h. to make sure that all of the elements of the program are fully covered. and that is still to be determined but i think that we have a good start. >> supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor brown. >> supervisor brown: hi. miss hartley, do you have enough staff to really handle this, to be able to -- do you have the capacity to be able to manage this program? >> our staff right now is stretched pretty thin because of the small size program has expanded and new money has come in to further bring in new properties under small sites.
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it's a very laborious process to underwrite a small building with existing residents in it and to do their rehab without disrupting the tenants who live there. this particular program we anticipate will probably start off somewhat slowly. we do have $5 million reserved in the bond, so should the voters pass the bond, that would get us going. but because the residents of the program will not be paying rents that actually will leverage outside debt or repay our debt, the rents that the residents of the programs will pay will go likely to operations. we -- it will be a different model which is why we really need to work with d.p.h.
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closely. so our staff can oversee the acquisition and the rehab of the properties and then we expect to be able to transfer the assets to d.p.h. and because they'll be overseeing -- they'll be conducting contract management with the providers. and they'll be overseeing the lease -- the compliance with the program requirements. we will put a date of trust on the properties so that if there's a termination of the use of the property for -- which it is intended -- if there's a sale or if there's a transfer, we will make sure that we recoup the city's investments. but it won't be -- we don't anticipate that our staff will be conducting a long-term sort of asset management because it just doesn't -- the program doesn't operate in the way that small sites do or other multifamily rental buildings do. so that's a long-winded answer
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to your question. i'm not sure yet because we don't know what the scale of this will be with the $5 million and purchasing -- either a single family home or a small building. we anticipate in the first year that there may be one or two properties that the funding will cover. if there's additional funding that comes forward for this program and we need to ramp up, then we will need additional staffing because it's a very labor intensive process to manage the acquisition and rehab of a single-family home or a small building. but, again, we're -- we're happy to be working with d.p.h. and we know the need is there and so we will move forward accordingly. >> supervisor brown: thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor peskin, any questions? thank you, miss hartley. >> thank you.
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>> supervisor mar: i'd like to recognize severn campbell from the office to share her findings on this item. >> in terms of this fiscal impact of this proposed ordinance, i would confirm what miss hartley said which is that we did not make any estimates on the cost to either d.p.h. or mochd for staffing because the scale of the program at this time isn't known. and any additional staffing costs or resource costs would be subject to the board of approval during the budget process. we did, however -- and we didn't receive it in time for our report -- but we got the legislation -- the legislation requires d.p.h. to provide the support operating costs for cooperative living environment. and so we did get some numbers from d.p.h. after our report went out where, for four person cooperative living household they would estimate costs of about $73,000 to be paid by d.p.h. and these would actually be offset by rent or by medi-cal
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reimburse minutes so the net cost is about $42,000 so the total cost to d.p.h. would be determined on the scale of the program and how many agreements were funded through this fund. we consider approval of the ordinance to be a policy matter for the board. >> supervisor mar: thank you. any questions, colleagues? sorry, are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item? i have two speaker cards here. steve fields and richard heasley. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and members of the committee. i'm steve fields, the executive director of progress foundation, a non-profit behavioral health provider in san francisco. been doing it since 1969. and we've been operating this model of service since 1971 in the county as a part of our continuum. i think that the key to the discussion around cooperative apartment settings is probably a
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key to this whole discussion that we're having now about reforming and fixing our behavioral health system. we don't have enough places where after we've invested in treatment in our clients -- maybe in-patient care and acute diversion from the hospital, and 90-day residential treatment -- and then people leave after an intensive treatment experience and they go back to a community where the supportive housing is often in the very neighborhood that was the source of much of the problem that created the use of drugs and the continuing mental illness. so our model of using co-op apartments is that integrated scattered site apartments in neighborhoods all over the city. so clients aren't all congregated in one part of the city. but they get to live and experience living as any of us would in communities all around the city. those apartments are intensely supported by case management,
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which is a medi-cal reimbursable service so it brings in significant revenue for the structure. and so this is to me the way in which we address recidivism and retention in the community for our most disabled clients. and i urge that you move this forward in the interest of the clients we serve. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. fields. next speaker. >> good morning members of the commission and the chair. i'm richard hes aley, the executive director of connor house. we provide residential communities to adults who are recovering from mental illness and more recently dealing with a lot of people who have also been chronically homeless. and we started operating our
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first co-op in 1963. we found that the people who were graduating from our residential treatment facility, the original connor house, had actually had nowhere to exit so we started master leasing apartment buildings -- apartment units often in other apartment buildings. a lot of triplexes, railroad flats, where we could get three to four bedrooms for conregat living for three or four or five people. we have 68 people in residence in 19 such units right now and they are invisible in five supervisorial districts because have no signage and we have virtually every presence in the neighborhood just like every one of our neighbors has. and our folks who live there come and go. i think that the most sailain't
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thing about it is that it's to create a normalized residential setting as we can create. so we are paying particular attention to complying with the homestead act where people should live in the least restrictive settings possible. that's what co-op units actually are and they operate at about half of the costs when you buy them and operate them than they do whether you master lease them. we have some of both and long experience with both, both finance through the mayor's office. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. heasley. thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, can we amend the legislation as proposed by -- as presented by supervisor ronen? without objection?
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thank you. and can we move this item to the full board as amended as a committee report without objection? thank you. thanks, everyone. so, mr. clerk, call items number 14 to 20 for closed session. >> clerk: ajenda items 14 through 20 are various ordinances authorizing the settlements of lawsuits against the city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor mar: are there any members of the public who wish to testify on the items that will be heard in closed session? seeing none, public comment is now closed. do we have a motion to convene in closed session? thank you. so we are now in closed session
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>> clerk: we are now back in session. they took the following actions. for agenda items 14 to 1 18 recommended to the full board of supervisors and for 19 and 20, the items are continued to the government oversight and audit committee. all taken unanimously. >> supervisor mar: thank you. do i have a motion to not disclose the proceedings from the closed session. >> so moved. >> supervisor mar: thank you. any further business? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor mar: we are adjourned. thank you.
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>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and
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quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic
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restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ]
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>> good morning, everyone! how are you all? so, welcome. i'm with the hotel council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. it's the second love our city event but it's the first one that is a tourism and hospitality industry have helped organize. so today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] i'm joined by our chair of our board, mr. james lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the hotel council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of san francisco and her
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team for partnering with us on this love our city event. so please give a big hand to them! [applause] we also couldn't have done it without our partnership with the public works department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. raichal gordan as well. their team has been incredible to work with. we also have, you can see the signs out here today, i'm going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. and last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up
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all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses. and it really is a 24/7 job. we want to thank you for everything that you are doing. we also want to thank wreckology. they sponsored our t-shirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] >> a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. thank you very much. if that was designed to bring us to work together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. so i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and tourism industries for making sure she's doing everything that she is doing. let's give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have
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come together to work with us on this event as well. it's my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> thank you! good morning, everybody! now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up san francisco! let me just start by saying thank you. we know that we have a lot of challenges in san francisco. we have far too many people living on our streets. we have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. i know our small businesses are struggling. the city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. i was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. you know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. she would always say clean it
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up. ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. you know how kids are. we would should i look, it's our responsibility to keep our community clean. now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. you know, at the time as a kid you are like i don't want to do this but then, as you get older, it's just a part of who you are. i find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the african american culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that i've made and also the example that i've set for other young people to be better stewards of san francisco. so what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for san francisco. you are taking care of the city. you all are showing how much you love san francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, they're less
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likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. it does make a difference. so i want to thank all of you and all the community business districts and the people who are out there every single day. i especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep san francisco clean, green and beautiful. i love our city. i know you all love this city. thank you for showing your love by taking care of san francisco today for this amazing event. have a wonderful time out there! >> thank you so much, mayor. i'd like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. >> thank you, thank you.
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how is everybody doing this morning! make some noise if you love our city! [applause] >> make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today! who would have tht we could call this a cold day in san francisco. we're glad the temperature came down a little bit but it's still a beautiful day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and we're going to do some cleaning up. i'm the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. the tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. i see folks here from the hotel. make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. this is a city that is still a world-class destination. people come here from all over the world. we want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that they're going to have an
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incredible experience and they're going to see clean and safe streets and they're going to see the people of san francisco care about our community. that's what you are demonstrating today. i want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. if you look out there, there's things we can do. we need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. let's get out there today. i'm going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. have fun. let's love our city. [applause] >> thank you supervisor haney. next i'd like to introduce our partner from sf travel. we have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. peter
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gamez. [applause] >> wow! good morning, everyone. this is a great day for us. as many of you know i'm the board chair and this is one of the issues we've all rallied for all year. this is a special day for all of us. thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and tourism industry to love our city. together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for san francisco. i want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, i'm also a native san francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and we're very thankful. we're proud to partner with the department of public works. the total council of san francisco and many of our community partners to do tour
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part to keep san francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make san francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. thank you. >> last i'd like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group we've been partnering with on this. [applause] all right! are we ready to go to work! all right! let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. love our city everyday, right! everyday! the public works department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. you are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it
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needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. san francisco! i'll be really short. today we have over 45 different sites. some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. all that is going to make a difference. the number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. safety is a high priority. we've been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. how do you be safe? all of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. if you see something that you are in doubt of whether it's glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask
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that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. other than that, enjoy yourselves. it's a nice day. again, i'm very appreciative for everyone coming up. let's have fun! love our city everyday! [applause] >> thank you. thank you, very much. before we close out, we're going to do a group picture. stay where you are. no one move. just stay still for a minute and we'll take a group photo. >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical,
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not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays --
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fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to
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bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our
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corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful
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>> good afternoon. welcome to the june 18t june 18th meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. (roll call).