housing, we are ending up actually losing existing affordable housing. and so part of what i think the community and the supervisor is trying to do is to create some impediments, where bad actors are disincentive vised. disincent vised. and a some point that tenant is going to be able to come back, there is a financial disincentive for them to keep that unit open as we have taken care of that family for six months or a year or year and a half. and, yes, it is a policy choice because the pie is getting a little bit smaller. there is no question about that. and that means that some folks are waiting longer in line. but it also means that we

are saying that that rent-controlled unit is going to remain a rent-controlled unit at its previous rent. there are legitimate reasons that people have to temporarily displace a tenant for major work. some of the mandatory work. i get that. but there is also a group of folks who go about, many of them speculators, keeping units off the market as long as they can, knowing that that tenant is not going to return. to the extent that we (a) say we're going to own it and have a place for them because we actually do have the capacity within our inclusionary and 100% affordable stock, and we have these additional findings that the a.l.j. has to make, and ultimately we're in the business of preserving existing rent-controlled housing at its current non-vacated rates. which is the whole reason for this.

i want to thank the asian law caucus and c.d.c., and the tenant rights committee for pushing this supervisor on his legislation. i would hope that the committee would adopt the amendments and then we would have to continue it. there are other amendments that are being discussed that might require additional con contuances. >> chairwoman: i'm wondering if we should add tenants replaced by fire -- >> they're already in. it includes o.m.i.s, fire, and -- >> chairwoman: okay. because sometimes, when

the unit -- when a fire doesn't require demolition, they can come back. but i guess they would fall under the first preference, where it wouldn't be temporary, and they wouldn't have to -- they wouldn't have to give up the unit once their new unit was offered to them? >> i now understand, and am happy to talk to your office in the intervening week. yes, i get it. >> chairwoman: okay. great. i'm happy to make a motion to accept the amendments, if that's okay with my colleagues. can i take that without objection? without objection, that motion passes. and then we'll continue this item. supervisor peskin, would you prefer to the call of the chair or to next week? >> i think one week, and i will have hopefully only one more amendment next week -- maybe two, now

that you've got that idea. >> chairwoman: okay. so we'll continue this item for one week, to the next rules committee meeting. >> thank you colleagues. >> chairwoman: without objection, that motion passes. thank you. thank you, everyone. mr. clerk, can you please read item number two. >> item number two is the ordinance under the administrative code to change the name of the mental health board to include in the definition of consumer one who receives substance use services, and to permit a consumer who is an employee in the health or public or private agency, and who does not have any influence or authority over any financial or contractual matter. concern the employee or the employer to be appointed to the commission. >> chairwoman: thank you. and we have andy mullen here from supervisor stephanie's office to present. >> good morning. thank you for holding this

hearing today. i'm andy mullen. i'm here on behalf of supervisor stefani, who holds the board of supervisor's seat on the mental health board, and she unfortunately couldn't be here today. and many of the members are here for public comment. the legislation before you today is fairly simple. it makes three proposed changes. i'm going to sort of discuss them just in order of importance. the mental health board is a fairly unique body in that it has been around since 1956. and it puts a majority of its seats for consumers of mental health services or family members of consumers of mental health services. which means it puts people directly in this system in the driver's seat. because the mental health board has been around for so long, some of the language, i think -- and we would probably all agree -- is a little antiquated, its conception of what mental health is and the services is.

the first thing it does is expand the definition of consumer, which are a majority of the members, either directing or through their family members, to in clues include substances abuse treatment services. it also esplanade expands the eligibility of consumers to hold seats. previously there was pro bingprohibition of ployment. employment. the consumers are now waived. they could just have to excuse themselves if they had a financial conflict before them. thirdly, it proposes renaming the mental health board to the behavioral health commission. that comes because the word "behavioral health" as you all know is an umbrella term that

includes mental health and substance abuse issues. our conception of this has changed a lot since 1956, before all of us were born. this is now meant to be more inclusive of the work that they do, which is interface with the department of behavioral health services under d.p.h., and report out and advice those departments and those employees on these matters. with that, these changes come to you directly from the members themselves. and many of them are here to speak about the personal importance of these changes to this organization. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> chairwoman: i had a question about -- and this is for you or any of the members of the mental health board, where the term "consumer" comes from. it brings up the idea of someone who is buying something. and i'm just wondering why patient or individual

isn't used as opposed to "consumer." >> that is such a good question. i have no idea what the answer is. >> chairwoman: i was figuring some members of the mental health board might be able to answer that. >> do you want to answer that? thank you. >> hi, i'm helena brooks, staff to the mental health board. i'm trying to remember when "consumer" came in. it probably has been eight or nine years. it came from clients requesting that. what could say it is consuming mental health services and substance abuse services, but it was clients not wanting to be referred to as clients or patients, was my memory. >> chairwoman: i appreciate that. i just always -- it just never made sense to me, so i was curious about that. thank you so much. are there any questions? no. we'll open up this item for public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak? and thank you so much to

the members of the mental health board for being here today and for serving on this body and for all of the advocacy you do on behalf of this community. it is so appreciated. good morning. >> good morning. thank you. i'm john sanders. i co-chair the board, and i hold a consumer seat. and just to give, i gues guess -- i guess to underline one of the reasons we're requesting the change is historically there has been a divide between mental health and substance abuse disorder services, leaving consumers -- basically leaving consumers no choice but to choose between co-occurring disorders. if they go for treatment for one, they're often excluded from one or more programs based on having substance abuse for one or mental health issues for the other.

again, with behavioral health being more inclusive in addressing both, mental health and substance abuse disorders, the name change would align us not only with other california counties that have transitioned in this manner, but it also helps us when we're -- with programs that are seeking funding. oftentimes there is that same divide between mental health and substance use. and when we have these integratitintegrative services,t pushes them to gain funding for those sources. [buzzer] >> chairwoman: thank you so much. >> good morning, chairwoman ron nan and members of the committees. my name is terry bora, and i have been on themental

health board for four-year. the change has been gradual, i would say, over the last three years. there are now 11 commissions that are called behavioral health, and there are 32 boards that have used the name mental health/substance abuse. i think that this gives the public more reason to contact our board if there are certain situations that they would like us to look into. it also expands the facilities that we can monitor. which i think is a good thing. the public needs to know that our board, our new commission, is there to serve them.

so i think this is a good thing. i know in the scheme of everything that you're looking at, it is not addressing homelessness, it is not addressing tenants. but even shakespeare said, what's in a name? so this is an important change for us. thank you. >> good morning. my name is richelle slota, and i serve on the mental health board. sandra fewer appointed me. i am in favor of this change because it improves clarity and consistency for our message. and that's the heat of it. heart of it. it is not a huge thing. it is a little thing, but it is an important thing. thank you very much. >> chair ronan,

supervisors, my name is greg betor, and i'm, too, a member of the health board. as i've been on the board, i have noticed a fine line between mental health and mental health/behavioral health and then substance abuse. they've all been put under the same umbrella, and i feel that as we move on and progress, the term "behavior" would probably encompass, one, similar things that we're working with, and i think my colleague just said, we don't do much housing or the things you guys are dealing with, but i feel that the change in name would give us a little more flexibility in the things that we do. thank you for your consideration. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. the next speaker.

>> thank you, and good afternoon. my name is iddelle wilson, and i'm a native of san francisco. i love our resourceful city, it is the most city in this world. we have the best services you can possibly get. you cannot get anywhere else. renaming our board from a board to a can commission is very important because somehow when it is a commission, it seems a little more important. i'm not saying that boards aren't important. please, don't nobody go back and say i said boards aren't important. but when you're a commission, people are oh, you're a commissioner, oh, how are you? no, i'm just kidding. it would be very important.

i'm in support of everything my colleagues had to say. i'm not going to repeat it. i'm in support and behind all of them. thank you so much. >> chairwoman: is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? would you like to speak again, soon to be commissioner? alana? do you want to say anything else. that didn't take up your time, sorry. >> i'm not a commissioner. i'm just staff to the board. >> chairwoman: oh, okay. >> i want to make clarity on two of the items, the one about consumers who are employed by the department being on the board. that is actually a state regulation that was not in the original administrative code because it came bou about about two years ago. and the third item about our role with the mental health services act was also added by the state. so, any other questions? >> chairwoman: that's all. thank you so much. is there any other member of the public that would

like to speak? >> i was just wondering if any of the consumer groups might qualify, kind of, as lobbyists if they're selling any kind of material, like needles or what have you to any of the programs, and then they're sitting on the -- i don't know, in effect, who is on the commission, but i mean speaking in generalities. using one example that i can -- or one item that comes to mind. i was just wondering, lobbyists sitting on the board as consumers. >> chairwoman: thank you. seeing no other members of the public who would like to speak, public comments is closed. i just wanted to really give a shoutout and a thank you to the members of the mental health board, soon to be the

behavioral health commission, it would appear. as many of you know, i've been working very closely on these issues and on a proposal with supervisor matt haney. we were going to come and speak to you about it at your last meeting, which was unexpectantly cancelled, so i'll really looking forward to the opportunity to speak with you all. i will say that mental health assess also recognizes the integration of a substance abuse illness and mental health illnesses as being very similar and oftentimes people have two dual diagnosis. most providers say it is a rare day when they see someone with just a substance abuse illness or just a mental illness, and not a co-incurring

diagnosis. so this makes a lot of sense to be changing that name. i also have to say that i'm very excited that you will now have an official role in oversight of our substance use programs in san francisco. you know, most of those are run through health 360, which i think is an incredible organization, but i do believe they need some oversight in terms of both the switch to drug, medi-cal, in terms of funding sources for their services, and the number of vacant beds there are in the facility every night. we know there certainly is not a lack of need for those beds in our city. but somehow, whether it is procedures within the organization to get into those beds, or the type of programs that are being offered, there is a mismatch in terms of what is going on there. because the fact that there has been as many as 70 beds vacant in a night

is up to the level of an outrage given what we all see, the suffering we see in the streets every day in san francisco. so the fact that this board will be soon to be commissioned, and will be overseeing and forgetting out what is going wrong there, and how can the city intervene to make sure that is not the case is a relief to me. i wanted to thank you all for your extraordinary work. i can't wait to meet with you all and talk about mental health assess, and how we're really going to be hopefully very shortly a model for the nation on how to achieve genuine mental health parity in the city. perhaps we can finally do that in san francisco and then sprayed it to the state and the rest of the country. there is a lot of work and advancement happening in

this field. i certainly hope that san francisco will be on the forefront of moving that forward and i very much look forward to working with all of you. thank you for bringing this forward, supervisors stefani and mandelman, and thank you to the commissioners for doing all of your extraordinary work. i look forward to getting to know you much better shortly. with that, is there a motion? supervisor mar? >> i just wanted to echo your deep thanks and appreciation for the board members and soon to be commissioners on such an important body here in the city. and thank you for all of your work and leadership on these critically important issues that connect to so many other important and challenging sessions that we are dealing with as a city.

i would like to make a motion that we move this forward to the board. >> chairwoman: without objection, i move it. mr. clerk, are there any other items? >> that concludes the meeting today. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned at 1 11:

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>> good morning and welcome to the street scape project and muni project. i certainly as the public work's director for the city and county here and i want to thank you for all coming out to celebrate this very exciting project that will improve the lives of the many people who use this inner sunset corridor. the project which spans all the way from aguelo to 19th avenue

will improve the quality of life and transit services of this diverse neighborhood, which serves families, students, merchants and tourists alike president the street scape improvement is a collaborative project with the ms works and the utility's commission. for the past two years, they've been working together to make crucial improvements to the inner sunset street scape and nearby transit services that not only make the area more vibrant and more accessible, safe and reliable. when you look around the surrounding streets, you see the vibrant landscapes that add to the neighborhood's charm, improve seating, as you can see, visitor striving, new street trees. all of this creates a healthy

environment and a great carbon footprint. what many do not see are the upgraded traffic signals, the repaved roads and all of the help to improve thed safety and transit service. there's many components to this project that has not been seen. we have improvements to the underground sewer line and improvements to our water lines, our firefightings were upgraded or replaced, all to increase capacity and to minimize any destructions that will provide more reliable service to the community. also, as a part of this project, there's more than 3,000 feet of

pipe that was installed for the department of technology for future fiber optic cables and this is a great partnership. as we do many projects on patrero we're installing pipe and we'll have the pipes electric in and, of course, less destruction to the neighbor while the projects happen. with all of that said, it brings me great joy to see the work that all of these agencies are doing together and how we come together to improve the quality of life of this diverse neighborhood in san francisco. san francisco. i want to thank john thomas and our project manager, johnny farm, harlin kelly and his team from the puc and mr. maguire and, of course, our contractor, who was out here everyday making

sure that we got this job done. and now, the person who helps to make all of these projects happen, the person who makes our neighborhoods better for everyone, the person looking out for the future of san francisco, without future delay, let me introduce our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] >> it's so good to be back. i remember when we first set on the path to do this project for this neighborhood, andrea, i just noticed you were over there and it's great to see you and martha and so many folks from the community. you all did the work because you wanted something better for this community. we have kids everywhere and these kids from stepping stone preschool are joining us today. and you'll get your snacks in just a minute, so don't worry. [cheers and applause] >> we have kids, we have families, seniors, people who, basically, love this community and so many amazing restaurants,

so many amazing places to shop. this is like really a jewel in san francisco and, in fact, when improve was supervisor, i came to this community a lot to hideout and relax. and it was great. what was so important was to make it a lot offer annua and dl with safety and public infrastructure improvements. one of the things that i spent time with some of the neighbors doing is standing on the corner of ninth and irving and many of you know the familiar sound of some of the onl old muni trains which still come through this way, how loud and heavy they are. remember i said the new trains will be much quieter. did you just hear how much quieter the new trains are? a loa lot of the promises to ths community are finally happening

and it was because of your patience. we know that it was very challenging to come in and the construction and the loss of parking and tearing up the streets and digging in and you all, through this whole challenge, you were very patient and we really appreciate that, because now we are here realizing just really a dream for community, an improvement to the sidewalks, an improvement to the infrastructure and an improvement to our water pressure system so that when there is a fire or emergency, the pressure -- i know this is not probably that interesting, but it makes all the difference when dealing with any emergency that water suppression and our equipment and the systems actually work when we need it the most. the fiber optic cables, improvements to the sidewalks, all of the amazing things that will make this community not just safer but more boost and

sobeautiful.i want to thank thet park neighbors, at the time of the leadership of andrea yaguin, that you pushed us to give some attention to this community and shine a light on the challenges that exist here is why we're here, as well as the inner sunset merchant's association. the merchants here who serve the community, this is really not just a place where so many neighbors enjoy and eat and go to the hardware stores and pick up glasses. people from ucfs spend a lot of time here during lunch and people from the park spend a lot of time here and this community has come together as a force to make amazing projects like this happen. so i'm really excited. looking forward to doing even more, because i have not forgotten about the wires over

on ninth and irving and what we need to do to underground those wires. i know that's important and we're talking about right down the street, the gateway on gaten lincoln and ninth and to really transform this community because it's a jewel in our community. thank you to the department of public works, to mta, all of the contractors, all of incredible workers who basically not only worked in this community but spent money at the restaurants and this was definitely a great effort and took time and here we are, a celebration of just really an amazing project that is going to change the quality of life for the residents who live here. so enjoy it and next up, i want to take the opportunity to

introduce your supervisor, valley brown, who as you remember was out here on a regular basis working with you all to move this project forward. she drove me a little crazy because she was running out of patience with the city bureaucracy and trying to get it done. and now she gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, valley brown! [cheers and applause] >> you know what they say what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and that's how i feel about this project. i want to say i'm sorry to everyone. it was her fault. she started it and then i had to come in and finish it, right? [ laughter ] >> yeah, i'm not going go over everything we've done because i know mohamed nurue gave you all of the sexy details. but what i see is this

neighborhood coming together and saying, ok, this is painful and especially the merchants, but we know once it's finished, it will be amazing and $21 million later, yeah, it looks pretty amazing, i'd say. i want to thank people and i have to read this because i always forget one person and then i get in trouble after wars. afterwards. so thank you, mayor, breed for starting it, city administrator, naomi kelly and mohamed nurue from public works. i mean, this is something i have to say was -- he really jumped in and said, let's make this happen and let's make it as less painful as we can. acting director for sfmta, tom mcguire and san francisco's puc. i would call everyone on this list and said if there was a pile of dirt and they couldn't

park their car at 7:00 at night. so the responsiveness of their teams were amazing. i want to thank all of their teams because every week we had an issue, whether it was the veterinarian or people getting dirt in their driveway and couldn't park their car. park driveway, this is all things that they really stepped up. i put 75k into budget so we could do a pilot programme called curb management. and this something i would think about because barbara, i don't know where barbara is from the

neighborhood, she would tell me everyday when i walked by her house how we had people parking in her driveway or double-parking to run in and get the ubers and stuff to get the food from the merchants. we said, how can we solve these issues? they said, parking is so horrible here. i heard that, no -- [ laughter ] with these parking, so really having to look at creatively looking at curb management, so we're in the process of right

now of actually having a community engagement of this curb management and how do we make it easier for people to park and easier for businesses to have people be able to come in and get what they need and get out so they're not parked there for hours. how do we, you know, get the uber eats and all of the other deliveries, where they have a place to park and can get in and out so they're not parking in barbara's driveway? so this is actually happening now and once again, the inner sunset park neighbor and merchants are at the tables saying we'll work with you and this is the only way i like to work because i came as a neighbor activist and i didn't like it when people did things in my naked an neighborhood andt when i walked out the door that it was done. so thank you to everyone for being here today. i'm really excited for all of the work that's done.

it's amazing. and should i bring up naomi? naomi! so now i would like to introduce naomi kelly, a city administrator. this was her baby to manage, all of the different people to make sure it was done right. and so naomi. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, supervisor brown and mayor breed and director of public works. this project has more meaning to me because i live in the neighborhood. i spend so much time here on these corners, going to amazing fantasy with my kids, burn sf, jamba juice, you name it, so i live through the construction and understand the merchants and the pain you went through. but boy, did this turn out beautiful! i've been to many scape improvements in different

commercial corridor and i have to say these seats and planters are some of the best i've seen in all of san francisco. so you all did a great job on that. [cheers and applause] >> again, i want to thank mohamed nurue and john thomas is completing this project because it was done on time. public works delivers many key construction projects throughout the city and having it done on time so we're not disrupting the merchants for longer than we should is very important. you heard this specific project was $21.3 million and it's connect the to residents and we're more resilient. as chair of the ten-year capital plan committee, we have done a lot to make sure that we have coordinating our projects.

it was putting in our new sewer lines and water line and that's important for someone who lives in this neighborhood because i can tell you where every sinkhole was. i was drawing diagrams and handing it to the sf puc saying these are the most important parts to touch in the sunset. underground, we've put in more than 4,000 -- the mayor is right. that was the large effort budget item at 7.$3 million. , along for the water and sewer

line to appreciate upgraded protection for this community in case of a potential earthquake. also groun underground, we put n municipal fiber providing secure signals to this community. at the street level, pedestrian and muni riders will see improvements as you can see with the curb ramps and that was approximately $5.7 million. but not just here in the inner sunset aisles, but public works have resurfaced 644 blocks across the city this year and we work together as one city, connected, and i'm pleased to introduce tom maguire, the interim director of transportation. [cheers and applause] >> it's great to be here and

celebrate the puc, public works, city administrator and the elected officials who helped get the funds together and get the wills together to make this happen and the street scape is basically but when i look at it, i don't just see beautiful planters and trees but safety. i see muni riders getting on and off trains going by and we see them getting off on a nice, safe sidewalk. they're not getting off into traffic like they do elsewhere in the city and this is the experience we want. we know this is the lifeline of the sunset, one of the busiest corridors and the streets in this area are some of the streets that are high injury vision zero and we want to make sure transit riders are safe, not just on their journey on the trains but when we get on and off on beautiful street scape. so thank you to the community for your patience as we have been working with our fell let's agenciefellowagencies to get thd thank you to everyone who fought for the funding and fought for

the design to get this project done. thank you. >> now after listening to all of us, after i'm sure you're bored, i want to bring up andrea jabli to give her viewpoints of this project as a neighbor, thank you. >> to the people who live here and work here and the merchants who come here, we didn't just do this as a photo-op. we did it because there are two important reason for people in this neighborhood to have this happening and one is the muni, the end juda will be faster. you'll get to work faster and home faster and anyone who does that everyday understands how important that is. it's also going to be safer for you. now you're not going to be hit by cars trying to squeeze in between the boarding ramps.

most importantly, ninth avenue and irving is an intersection that is painful for people who walk around this neighborhood on a frequent basis. you're sometimes stopped at a light for up to two and a half minutes while waiting for trains to come and go and bikes, muni, all that stuff. now that the stops have been reconfigured so that the buses get through the light before they have to stop, that intersection will be so much more pleasant for all of us to experience. so that's why we're here and why we did it and everyone who has put up with the noise and all of that, give yourself a round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, let's give the project is big hand. this is a great improvement. our mayor is challenging us to continue do more projects like this and public works and the partnership with all of the agencies will continue to deliver for you. so with that said, we will cut the ribbon and so, where is the

ribbon-cutting team here? we have behind us. >> and would the folks like martha, barbara and other community members feel free to come up and cut this rib bin. ribbon. this is for your community and we want to make sure you're a part of it. are we ready? >> yes! >> we sure? 5-4-3 -- you're not even counting. are we ready? >> yes clam 5-4-3-2-1!