$2,000 to $2,000,970 for refurbished tablets. this is what the department of f environment has done refurbished ipads. the software would cost $1,800 annually called director point. i looked at other software this is the most user friendly. you would receive an electronic version of the binder on the tablet. you can access from your laptop or desktop at home it is very easy to use. this is what the department the sf department uses as well. two step authentication. that being said, the tablet use

would eliminate paper cost of $50 per year. it would reduce staff time it takes to put together the binders to two hours per month or eliminate about $2,502 per year so should the commission go paperless the total cost per year for commission prep would be $3,050 as compared to $3,802. >> just the right thing to do. >> it is just the right thing to do. >> commissioners any questions? >> would we be able to bring our own tablets? >> yes. >> we can write right on it? >> absolutely. >> the tablet has to be running the software, correct. >> it has to run the software. it would be downloaded as an

app. you would have your own unique long in which would be under our account. >> the app is free. the license you can have the app to log in to activate the charge? >> it does. it is a one-time expense for the tablets and it is an annual expense for the subscription to the app. if there is a longer term contract that price goes down. >> what if a free app comes along. >> yes if it is secure and were safe any questions or comments? open up to public comment? any members of the public to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we have a motion. >> i move to go paperless and name it after my name.

(laughter). >> the paperless act of 2019. >> shall we lobby the mayor to make that official? >> i think so. >> i second. >> commissioner ortiz has a motion to go paperless and to have the motion named after himself. >> we will petition the mayor's office for a official day of recognition in honor of the city's zero waste goals. commissioner adams is absent. (roll call).

>> motion passes 6-0 with one absent. >> item 9 approval of draft meeting minutes from october 7, 2019. >> any comments about the minutes? any public comment on the minutes public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> i move to approve the meeting minutes. >> seconded. >> voice vote. >> all in favor. >> motion passes. item 10 director's report. update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, department programs and policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding the

small business activities. >> i have a request we close the meeting in honor of buck. city attorney for 50 years. he provided a tremendous amount of guidance around the legacy business program. he was complete very significant behind some very groundbreaking legislation and legal action for the city. he will be greatly missed. >> okay. do we have any -- does any members of the public like to comment on the director's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. 10 commission reports. allows president, vice president

and commissioners to report on we haven't small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. >> any reports? any public comment on the commissioner's reports? >> seeing none public comment is closed. >> new business allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. any members of the public to comment? >> i have one new agenda item. i want to talk about scheduling on monday's at 2:00. that is hard for business owners to be here at 2:00 on mondays. i would like to examine doing this at a different time in the future. >> yes you proposed for the agenda under new business. any other new business?

do we have public comment on the new business? public comment is closed. next item. >> it is our custom to begin each malbusiness commission with a reminder the office is the only place to start a new business in san francisco and best place to get answers to questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when you have a question what to do next. find us online or in person at city hall. all services are free of charge. small business commission is official public forum to voice opinions and concerns about policies that affect the chinning vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance where small business matters start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> 13. adjournment. action item. >> so moved. >> second. >> motion to adjourn the meeting

all in favor. >> hammer down at 10 minutes after 7:00. >> good morning, everyone. what an exciting day in the city of san francisco right here on jefferson street. i want to thank you all for coming out like they say. it takes a village to really come up with a great project and this project is a great project

that involved many people from many city departments, many years ago. it started with the fisherman's worth plan and there were many agencies that were involved. i see john brown from the planning department is here. harlan kelly from p.u.c., our friends from the port are here. the san francisco transportation authority is over there, and many agencies, of course,, public works. they are part of this project. and when this project first started, it was a five block project and we could only find funding to do the first part in the first part was from hyde to jones. but we also had to do it in quick time, in under six months we were able to build the only -- the first part of jefferson street before the america's cup and i can tell you that project

has been a fantastic project. so this phase two is also going to be done in record time, under a year, starting today after this groundbreaking. with that said, i would like to introduce someone that has been a champion for pedestrian safety , implementing vision zero , and really making our safety the beautiful city that it is, i'm making sure that we'll work together. let's welcome our mayor london buried. [cheers and applause] -- london buried. >> thank you to all the community members who are here today to celebrate phase two of four phases of really changing the future and the landscape of fisherman's worth in this area, which is not only visited by people from all around the world , there's actually an incredible community of merchants, of people who live here and who walk these streets every single day. we want to make sure that it is

safe, it is walkable, it is enjoyable and people have incredible experiences when they come to visit san francisco. today we ordered the sun to shine so that people can happen even better experience. this project is an example of how when city departments come together for a common goal, with community members and the fisherman's worth, community business district in the san francisco chamber, thank you, rodney, for being here today, that we can make incredible things happen. i'm excited that public works and the port and the planning department and so many of our agencies have made this a priority. we know that money generated from tourism actually helps to support so many incredible things that we do in san francisco so we want the experiences to be that much better. and looking at how we are taking a street that used to be a

one-way, turning into a two away , widening the sidewalks, making it more clean and more green, and at the same time, thank you to harlan kelly, the director of p.u.c. for digging into the ground, and we are taking around the fiber-optic cables that all the things that we need to do to make sure that the pipes and infrastructure is working so that we don't have to go back into the ground is absolutely how we should be working on public projects like this. i'm excited. it took a lot of money, yes from a lot of different resources, and i want to say a special thank you to david chiu for his work in providing resources, working along with supervisor aaron peskin and supervising estate resources to make this project a reality. it does take a village. it does take a lot of money and here we are at the end of what is phase two to make something incredible happening for this particular neighborhood. thank you do all the folks

involved and i'm excited that mohammed has promised to do this in record time and within budget we will be watching very closely because that is what i care about the most. i know that one of the most fiscally conservative persons on the board of supervisors cares about that as well. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, aaron peskin. [applause] >> thank you. good things come to people who are patient. as down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. some years later, the planning department stepped in even before the days of john ram and graham and that led to phase i. let's be real, there was a little concern.

rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman 's worth -- wharf keep up. years ago they brought the f. line in here and that was a boom to fisherman's wharf and it is beloved around san francisco and around the world. after that, we expanded the sidewalks. fisherman's worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for san francisco. year in and year out. it is high time that san francisco city government reinvest so that fisherman's wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. $600 million in retail sales, $250 million related to hotels, millions and millions,

16 million people come here every year. thirty-nine is the number one tourist attraction in the city and county of san francisco. investing $16 million of city and state funds makes perfect sense for this fiscally prudent supervisor, including, and i am wearing now my hat as chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, not only $1.2 million of your half cent sales tax, but each of the members of that body get $200,000 to invest. i put my $200,000 into this project. it is just a little bit, but it helped make it go. congratulations to all the departments and particularly the community that made this happen. thank you so much. [applause] next, from the port of san francisco, we are on port property until you get in the middle of that street, then you're on mohammed's property, but we are on the lands of the

port of san francisco. it's executive director, elaine forbes. [applause]. >> thank you so much supervisor peskin. thank you to mayor breed for prioritizing safety and economic development and helping this neighborhood thrive. you have heard from the other speakers about this area being the goose that lays the golden egg, which is completely true. 85% of visitors to san francisco come here and they come back again because it is such a wonderful experience that we have to continue to invest in, but i want to talk for a second about the community that is here we have 500 businesses. many small businesses can eat, many multigenerational businesses that make this place thrive. we have an amazing fisherman's wharf community. we have the fisherman and women who are the reason for this place you have been fishing and making their life off the bay for generations and fisherman's wharf is about the fishing community and about the small communities -- small businesses

in the community. that is why it is a special place to come and visit. i want to acknowledge all the community did to get to this place today, to have our groundbreaking. it is a real celebration to all of you. thank you for making fisherman's wharf such an amazing experience for all the people local and visiting that come and again -- that come again and again. i want to acknowledge my commissioner who is here today. now i'd like to turn it over to randall scott. he is the c.e.o. of the fisherman's wharf c.b.d. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you to all of you. i came here last december to fisherman's wharf and fell in love with it all over again. i want to encourage each and everyone of you to come down and visit and see what is going on. the pedestrian developments of jefferson street, wider

sidewalks, easier to walk through, all around the world, people have been doing this to their cities and the foot traffic and the visitation that comes down with that and the boost of businesses is absolutely fantastic. i can't wait for this to finish. thank you very much for only promising for one year. as mentioned, we are the tourist heart of the city. people come down here, they have fun, they go back to their homes , they bring back more people. i just want to say, you know, to the city, thank you for reinvesting and fisherman's wharf. we promised to take very good care of it and we look forward to those people walking down the street. to those of you in the bay area, i would highly encourage you to come down and visit. this place has something for everyone. we have a treasure hunt do you can go from bar to bar, attraction to attraction and enjoy an entire full day down here.

again, thank you to the city and county of san francisco, thank you all for coming. [applause] >> all right. in fact,, this very spot that we are standing will become a brand-new plaza. as everyone knows, it is a parking lot now but we will redo it and it will have nice paving patterns. those architects at public works , they have had fun with it everybody is okay with it. okay. let's go and break ground. we have some shovels. let's get busy here. >> all right, come on in. ready? squeeze in.

squeeze, we don't have to touch. all right. are you guys ready? five, four, three, two, one. there we go. [cheering]. >> all right. >> all right. thank you. >> what are you going to use it for? [laughter] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we

help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses.

the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell

things, all those things, it's >> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer

because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what

the public likes. so we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market.

the ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together.

>> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a

little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did?

>> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the

dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪) >> good morning, everybody, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the meeting of the rule's committee.

i'm hilary ronan, chair of the committee and sitting to my left is supervisor marr and to my right is matt hainey. our clerk is victor young and i would like to thank lawrence brian for starting this meeting. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones, complete speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. >> and before we get started, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton? >> so moved. >> without objection? >> thank you. >> without objection that motion passes. there clerk, please read item number one. >> item number one is a hearing to considered the proposed ordinance by four more supervisors to the march 3, 2020

election to establish mental health sf to provide mental health services and psychiatric medication to all adult residents of san francisco with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders, homeless, you uninsured or healthy sf. >> thank you so much. i could not be more excited to be where we are here today. we just came from an incredible rally with over 600 people, healthcare workers, frontline social workers, conservatives and family members, psychiatrists, psychologists and, you know, everyone who has been dedicating their lives to addressing mental illness and substance use in our city and country. i could not be more excited that today is the day that we are

finally moving forward, a major step to get our march 2020 ballot measure mental health sf to the people. supervisor hainey and i, together with the cosponsorship with supervisor marr have worked with the true experts of the field. you could hold down signs at your chest level and you will be removed from the chambers if you hold them up and really i would love to see all of you stay because this is a very important, important discussion. thank you so much. supervisor hainey and worked with the true experts in the field to draft this legislation and we're very, very proud of the outcome that is before us today. mental health sf is a universal -- let me repeat, a universal access to mental health care for everyone suffering from mental health

care and substance use disorders. specifically, this means the city will be providing that care to everyone who is homeless, who is uninsured, unhealthy san francisco or enrolled in medicale or who has a severe mental illness. anyone who is leaving jail and hasn't been able to reapply for m emedicale. it's for all of san francisco and if you are insured and have private health insurance and cannot access care, which we know happens every single day, mental health health sf is creating a new office of private accredittability and well will have advocates there, ready and willing to fight with you alongside you, with your

insurance company for the care that you deserve and need. anyone can walk in the centre there's crisis stabilizationandg centre and transportation to and from programmes, includes county jail and hospital psychiatric emergency service's unit. finally you won't be treated in

a silo and go to every provider because you will have a case manager to coordinate that care and will give you a treatment plan and have you navigate up and down that treatment plan based on what you're experiencing today. if you are dealing with a lower moderate mental health, you can have a regular case management to help you when you need that help to get appointments. if you have homeless and have a lot of other barriers making it difficult for you to access services, you'll get an intensive case manager. if you are on the street and you are not ready to trust people yet because you haven't been

given that reason to trust people into the system, we will have critical case managers that will come out and work with you and get to know you and build that trust with you. when you see people in psychosis and talking to themselves, you don't have to call the police anymore if that's scarry to you. you will have a ful number to cl of mental health professionals, to make sure that people are

safe. that team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and mental health sf will meet a huge expansion of services. right now we know that people are getting stuck in a level of care that they know -- if they're able to get into care at all in the first place, they often get stuck at a hire level of care where they don't need to be. we know of people who have spent nine months in jail, waiting for a bed in the system and no longer, that is unacceptable and it is not going to happen in this city. we will help anyone who needs the care get the need.

we are finally in in country realizing the diseases of the mind are as important as diseases of the body. when you are diagnosed with cancer or with a tumour, they don't tell you to wait two months and we'll see you when we can get you if is we may or may not have services to provide you and you can lanquish on the street in the meantime. well, why are we telling that to people who have an illness of the mind? that makes no sense. and we finally have mental health parody in maine and guess what? in sanfrancisco, we'll have it in practise and in reality, as well. that's what mental health sf is all about. thank you. if you can instead of clapping do the spirit fingers, that would be much appreciated.

we spent months and months and hundreds of drafts and what you have today is a labor of love and came from the minds of experts and substance abuse and workers.

this has been with a lack of a functioning system and not with the workers itself and we want to make that incredibly clear beforclear.we are in discussione mayor's office right now and the mayor's office has not been opened topento a universal systl

health care and they have wanted to focus on the 4,000 individuals in the street. i understand where they're coming from but we want to go bigger and we are in those discusses right now and they're going well and i'm very, very hopeful that we can come to you shortly and say, you know what? we don't need a ballot measure. we can implement it right now which would be amazing but we don't have that deal today but rest assured that matt and i together with the mental health sf committee, many in the room and i'll talk to you about them in a second, we are doing that hard work of defate, discussion and compromise. but where we will not compromise, we need a universal program and that's where, if we can't reap acan't reach an agrel

go to the ballot. i appreciate the gph and mayor's office have been engaging in the serious discussions. so with that, before i turn it over to matt and to -- to supervisor hainey and supervisor marr, i have to give a few extra special thank yous, start wiging with our staff. our staff have been living and breathing mental health sf for a long time. a shout-out to catalinas morales who started us off and studying to become a social worker herself. so maybe she'll be one of the social workers in sfgov. carolyn gusen, i love her and can't thank her. i'm sure matt will do this,

abigail ribimonti-mesa, you are a brilliant ray of sunshine and we're so lucky to have you in this battle with us. i need to thank particularly the people who have spent countless, countless hours serve on our leadership committee for mental health sf. there are individuals from -- i'll say the organizations, sciu10-1, ifpte -- did i say 21? and national union of healthcare workers, nhw, as well am i missing anyone? i think that's theunions. the assembly member sil tin

didn't has been with us from the beginning and the amazing mark chucklebang. and labor council represented by kim tavaloni, sciu10-1 by katelyn prendavel, jason kloom, local 21 represented by deborah grabel, julia harding and i think that's it and nuhw by paul kumar and ryan beaston, 2015 by lerma and julia harding. and then zach golden, sarah short from the demand coalition who was just, i think detained

by hopefully will be joining us soon didn't then finally we've received amazing support this entire time by the incredible liam mcglofland and jackie kragr. thank you for your incredible nonstop work on this measure and then finally, there was a little conflict before we came in here. there's a lot of excitement and emotion but i will tell you the deputy sheriff's association has been supportive of mental health sf. so let's just know that they have been supporting us from the get-go on this initiative, because they know what it means when mental illness goes un treated. so thank you to them and thank you to huey sf, 2121 and i said

that the san francisco labor council, the consumers and the families, most recently zach williams who made a beautiful video and tribute to his father, robin williams, who battled and struggled with mental illness in his lifetime and has been a huge supporter of mental health sf. we've had so much incredible imput from all of our community-based organizations from the get-go, community housing partnerships, tenderloin development, coalition on homelessness, senior and disability action, mental health association of san francisco, taxpayers for public safety, st. anthony's glide, the support of housing provider's network, human service's network, progress foundation, the national alliance of mental illness, the direct policy

alliance and so many more. the reason we've had 100 drafts of this measure is because every time we shared it with the experts, they had new, excellent feedback for us and so we kept making it better and better until we got to the product you see today. so with that, i wanted to thank you all so much for this labor of love, this community labor of love that we've all created in mental health sf and whether we pass it here at the board of supervisors or at the ballot in march of 2020, we're going to make damn sure this law is enacted because it's time for change and time for solutions. supervisor hainey. >> thank you. >> thank you.

this would not have happened the way you've gone to the community and engaged them with respect and humility and it's an honour to be a part of this process is a part of your staff in my first nine months of office. >> for everyone that works in our city, the tenders loin, this is an issue of human rights and people in our city who are in need, who are suffering and sometimes quietly. this is a huge step to make sure

that people have care to access and treatment and that we actuallyize mental health as a human right and create a model that should be replicated across our country. san francisco has the capacity to do that. before i go into a couple of things, i do want to make one thing clear that i think is important. this is the people's house here in city hall and we want you all here. you all -- this place belongs to you and it is important that you feel safe and that this place is accessible to you. so i think were some things that happened out in the hallway in terms of people were treated that i found unacceptable and folks not in this room with us right now, you have our commitment to have their back because it's important that all of you feel safe here and feel that this is your home and can be heard here. and in many ways, that's what this for us is about. it's hearing the people, what they're experiencing and what

their needs are, the patients, families and then making that real policy. so it's important that you can find a path to do that, not just with us directly but here at city hal hall. >> for those fighting to be make substance treatment right, this has been a long journey and i want to recognise all of the people fighting for decades and decades, whether you work in a hospital and trying to fight to make sure there's adequate staffing and you're getting support for a patient on an individual level, whether you're part of the mental health association or the treatment on-demand coalition is working and showing up to these hearings

for funding, this is not a new issue and mental health sf didn't come out of the sky. it was built on all of the fights and the struggles to get us to this point where we have said this is the model we want to see made a reality. and if we will have treatment on demand, how do we actualize that and build a system.

we're done with the incrementalism, bureaucrats at the top telling us the need is met. it's not true and real you and you all have been saying that again and again and again and now it's time that city hall recognises that and makes changes that reflects that, because we don't want to be here in five years having the same conversation about everything is fine and we're taking these little steps. we're long passed that. so the crisis response team will

respond to how crisis in the street. far too arc too often i see thee used far too often and that can make things a lot worse. instead, we need people who are trained to respond in never ways and in ways that we not only stabilize the situation but enter people into a system of care. it just cycles right back. there's no responsibility for that person and their needs in an ongoing way and that's the commitment we want to make with mental health sf.

the office insurance accountability, this is very important because no one in our city, whatever your insurance situation is should feel alone without someone they can go to fight for them and to make sure they get access to treatment and i want to shout out to the folks from kaisr and uhw fighting for mental health within the system at kaiser and many of us have kaiser and we've heard people going months without treatment. they need to get their appropriate care and when they fail, it hurts all of us and ultimately, they will in many cases become the city's responsibility. so we have a direct interest to fight for all residents.

and integrating that is a huge fall mental sf will fix. this is separated from the system of housing and so we end up in this sort of round about where you say, well, why didn't the treatment work? because they were released to the street. or somebody goes into a navigation center or shelter and can you get this person access to care and that's not us, that's dph, that's not what we do. so the result is, of course, that people's care is not treated with the urgency and the impressive approach thacomprehet desires.

this will require us to work together to hold the system accountable to make this a reality. i do want to thank our staff one more time, your staff, carlina and carolyn for their extraordinary work. we have been spending, i think.

i'm thankful for the work of everyone on our committee, supervisor marr and so many others and i think we're close to getting this done. there's a few more steps to take, but ultimately, once it passes, we'll also have the responsibility to make it a reality because this is one more big step on the road to making sure mental health sf is not just a right in name but practise and i know that's what you have fought for in your lives and continue to do. so thank you again. thank you supervisor ronan for your leadership and i'm excited to move this forward but i'm more excited when we start to see the impact it will have in our neighborhoods and residents and communities. >> thank you. supervisor marr? >> thank you, chair ronan. i wanted to add my brief thank yous and thoughts before we hear

public comment and so i just wanted to start by thanking supervisor ronan and hainey and staff for all of your incredible leadership in creating this proposal for universal access to mental health services and treatment addiction for everyone that needs it here in the city. mental health sf is exactly the kind of bold, comprehensive solution needed to address the behavioral health cry vi crisisg our city, cutting across all districts, in the mission district in the tenderloin to the sunset district. thank you so much. i want to acknowledge all of the community organizations, the front-line nurses and clinicians and social workers and the patients and their families that have pushed us and pushed the city to really address this crisis in a more comprehensive

and bolder way. i look forward to having this move forward on the ballot this march or legislatively, whatever is the best approach, and i'm happy to cosponsor it and support your efforts. >> thank you so much and i just wanted to thank the city attorney's office and ann pearson who worked on the hundreds of drafts that i talked about with us. they gave us important feedback to give to us. with that, let's hear from you