marks. we will be exhibiting our display that highlight all of the amenities available in the park. we're continuing to welcome with the recreation and park team to see how we can encourage families to take free shuttle buses from the farther locations in our city straight to gold gate park. finally, watch for the library to really commemorate the park in a special way, with a limited edition golden gate library card coming this spring. we love our libraries, and we love our parks, and i know that all san franciscans love them, too. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: tom and then audrey and then bob. are you tom? come on up. yeah.

>> hello, my name is tom steele, and i'm here to represent "flagging in the park." we're a small grassroots group who organize community building gatherings in the national memorial grove five times a year, which i assume aren't familiar with, except, perhaps, for phil. so as these events started 23 years ago at the height of the aids epidemic, when a small group of friends gathered in the newly established grove to celebrate still being alive in the face of a very uncertain future. as well as to remember those already lost to the plague, these folks got together to do this by dancing together with vibrant silk flags such as these -- and i just wanted to show you these. they look like this, made of silk, and hand tie

tie-dyed. for smrkwe believe those who wee lost trafficking so young would want to be remembered for their vibrant lives. our events are always free and typically well-attended by regulars, for whom we feel we provide an uplifting experience in these times of growing isolation in our society. to spanned beyond our established core crowd, we very happy to be embraced. for the most part, we do our own thing, and most of society is not aware of what we do. so we're very happy to ar arrange a special event that day to represent the diverse vibrancy of our beautiful park and to

demonstrate the beautiful aid memorial, and we'll show how to dance with flags, bands, hoops, and i hope we'll see some of you there. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: audrey and then bob. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is audrey engals, and i'm here on behalf of the jamestown organization. we are serving thousands of students and families in our after school programs and other programs throughout our community. when we heard about this possible historical celebration event, we wanted to come and support the bid. and after the presentation that lisa just gave, i'm even more excited. one of our programs is a local performing ensemble. this is our most dedicated group of high school and transitional-aged youth

performers, who have not only performed all over san francisco and the bay area, but also around the world. these students meet once a week to hone their skills. one of our core values of the organization is artavision, which a combination of art and activist. these kids are singer-songwriter and performers and music producers, who use their talent to bring awareness to different issues affecting our community, whether it is through drumming or theater works, and everything in between. local/local is celebrating the people through their ideas, their art and their activism. wmost, if not all of our

students, and all of our arts program. >> steve: actually,have grown un francisco, and have many memories of golden gate park, whether that is from going to the playground, or going to other events, or visiting the museums and other attractions throughout the park. the celebration of golden gate park is not just a celebration of land and trees, but of celebrating san francisco and its dedication to the arts. our performing ensemble just this past year performed at the academy of science, and perform at the amphitheater every year. many of our students throughout the years have also made great use of the rec and park department's programs and have worked as student counsellors. i was just telling my own 14-year-old daughter she should get a job with rec and park because it would lead to graitd greater

opportunities for her in the future. we all as individuals, and as a community, value our parks for the enrichment they have provided us. it would mean a lot for our students to be able to perform at such an historic event as they watch the community shift and change to unfamiliar territory as their friends and families are displaced. they understand as young folks of color, performing music and dance from traditions, their performance itself is an act of empowerment and a declaration that they are still here and that they matter. we would love for the city to say that to themselves by inviting them to perform at such an historic event. i encourage you all to take the time later to actually look them up, to see their faces, and to see what it is that they do because they're my pride and joy and my work, and i think you guys would feel the same if you saw it yourself. >> thank you very much. >> chairwoman: bob? >> good morning, commissions, my name is bob feedler, the executive

director of the stern growth festival. i'm here to indicate our support for and intent to participate in the golden gate anniversary, 150th anniversary celebration. given -- we plan to do that by providing local artists and musicians to perform in different locations at different times throughout the celebration. and given that the theme is that it is everybody's park, that really marries quite well with our ethos, and we plan to provide a lot of diversity in those musicians, and hopefully highlight some different neighborhoods and different things to welcome everybody to the park and so given our 83years of partnership with the rec and park department, for which we're extremely grateful. grate, we're delighted and honored to be part of this celebration.

thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: is there any other public comment on these items? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner lowe? >> you about to say i think we should take these up separately. for item 7, i move to approve. >> second it. >> so moved. commissioner lowe? >> on matter 8, i think we should be in the practice of getting a certificate of appropriateness first before coming to this commission, and understand that is not going to be heard until january 15th. i will move to advance this matter, but i think the better practice is that before coming to this commission, and when this commission is the last stop of approval, that we should have the certificate of appropriateness in front of us. second, i wanted to note in our board packet that

was attached was a term sheet; it wasn't the actual agreement. i understand there is an agreement to come later. again, i think this should be a practice where if this is the authorizing act under chapter 31, we should have the actual agreement, not the term sheet. on that basis, i would like to first note that under article 7 of the park code, this does give this commission the authority to approve the observation wheel and would move to approve -- to authorize the general manager to -- we would want the general manager to come back to us on our next commission meeting in january, and i believe that is january 16th, to report back, one, the certificate of appropriateness was issued by the historic preservation commission. and, two, to report back

that indeed the agreement and permit that was issued to the operator is on the same terms and conditions that was in our commission packet. >> thank you. is that in a form of a motion? >> i'll second that. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? >> yea. >> so moved. >> chairwoman: item 9, the park and maintenance standards annual report. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is ben, and i'm with the san francisco recreation parks department, and i'm one of the administrators for the park maintenance standards program we have here, rawprunning alongsidehere.for ms

is my second year as part of the program. i am very excited to present to you our scores. what is new this year is that we decided to take a deeper dive into the scores. we decided to dissect it, an additional layer, so we could get more out of the data. and, also, we are, during this presentation, going to show you the controls' office online dashboard, where members of the public and people such as yourselves, the commissioners, can go on line, look up your favorite parks and learn a little more about their scores. so without further adieu, i will introduce to you allison emily from the control's office, who will complete the rest of this presentation. >> thank you. >> commissioners, thank you for having me here. can you guys hear me? >> we can. >> usually my voice is so

soft. i'm, again, very proud to present this report. it was a great team effort, a collaboration between the controller's office and r.p.d. i'm going to just go through quickly some high-level summaries that we took out of the report, and them emily, my colleague, will spend most of the time whacking you walkinu through this incredible new dashboard that allows people to explore the data as much as they want. i'll begin. just before i get into the scores, i want to remind everyone kind of how this program works. there is an evaluation form for every park. in fact, some parks are so large they're split up into smaller sections. there is a set of standard criteria that need to be met, and each park is broken up into segments called features. for example, children's play areas are one feature. trees are another feature. and then an aggregate

score is made. we can look at overall skiers foscores for all parks, t we can drill down deeper and say what about certain parks? this year in fiscal year '19, the average score is 92%, which is an increase from prior years. we are increasing slowly every year. and you can see one of the main drivers of this increase is actually just a decrease in the overall thread. for several years we would have out lier outliers. so that means throughout the city, wherever you are and whatever park you go to, you're experience will be more similar to someone else in a different part of the city. however, as we presented before, we do continue to see a geographic disparity

between the north and the south. so there are no top-scoring parks really in the southern half of the city. this is a map of the 10 top scoring and 10 lowest score parks in the city. what i want to talk about a little bit is something new that we've started to do this year. we've created a methodology to kind of group the kinds of criteria that we look at. so we look at things like is there a certain amount of litter or graffiti anywhere? and we could see things like, is a wooden slat loose on a bench, which is dangerous. these are considered routine maintenance, which requires specialized skills to clean up, but with have the specialized staff and resources to do so. and the time category is repair. these are repairs of structural projects that will take a larger budget and a longer timeframe to

fix. we wanted to create these categories to help our staff kind of determine not just which parks are struggling and where, but what will it take to improve the response to these parks. it is a very different resource allocation to address problems of litter than it is to address cracks in asphalt. so while we are still perfecting the methodology, we were able to find some kind of interesting first takes. one of which we just looked at the extremes, which parks are on each end of the spectrum which need the most help with cleanup versus need the most help with repair. we can compare hilltop park, which needs cleanup help and repair, and we see it has struggled a lot with graffiti in the past, so it can be what is driving this category break down. and mckinley square, in the other end, has more

structural problems, so cracks in the asphalt, for example. so when r.p. staff looks it these, they can approach it differently. i'm going to turn it over to my colleague emily, who is going to take you through that online dashboard, and we're willing to take any questions at the end. thank you. >> thanks, alice. hi, everyone. i'm elli emily gonzales with the controller's office. we heard you're really interested in the accessability of this information. that is a data-rich program and we produce a lot of reports, but how can residence and operational staff as well leverage this data? so that was the lens we were taking. we were updating our dashboard to make sure this data was more accessible or unsdzable. understandable. i'm going to walk you through the dashboard so

you will see exactly what you can expect to find there. let me see if i can do this from here. our overall park scores, park maintenance scores is just sfcontroller-parks. and on that page you'll find all of our reports from previous years, including this one. and also a link to our dashboard right here in the middle. once you follow that link, i have already pre-loaded it -- you'll get to the dashboard and land on his landing page. we have information just about the program itself. you know, how these scores are calculated, which parks are included,etc. so that kind of program level information here at the front. and these tabs are really where you can dive into the data.

let's take a look at the first one, the city-wide trend's tab. theryou can look at the city-wide parks score -- let's just follow that one, as an example. here is before the dashboard is interactive. these are all of the sites that are evaluated here on the map on the right. and then in this table, in this graph, you can see you're looking at the city-wide average park score over time, over the last five fiscal years. you can change that graph to show how the minimum score has changed, which alice just highlighted. by clicking minimum score, you see this changes to represent the minimum score, and you've seen that in crease over time. you could also look at the standard deviation, which is a measure of how spread out the scores are across the city, and we have seen that that has decreased over the last five years as well.

so a way to interact with the state in a new way. i'm a little snow on navigating this web. but you can look on the same city-wide trends tab, the highest and lowest score parks, and you can see all of the years of this data. you can look through p.d.f. reports, and now you can look and click through the past five fiscal years and seeing before the top 10and bottom 10 maintenance-scored parks are. and you can click on those specific parks. here we can click on buchanan street mall, and it will not only adjust to zoom in on that park, but will show you the feature scores at that park. sites are divided into separate features, like lawns, hard scapes, etc. and you can see that

granular data right here. i want to take you through the other tabs just briefly. obviously you can explore this at your own leash at home. leisure at home. now you can look up any park and find information about that park. so you can just search a park by typing it in. or, here, i'll just select one. alice chalmers. you can see when you have selected a park, you'll see that the map zooms and on where that site is, and you'll see overtime how that park has been scoring in their annual scores as compared two the city-wide average, which is the gray line. and below you'll see the feature scores at that park, and how the feature scores compare to the city-wide average feature scores. where is my neighborhood park really shining compared to other parks in the city, and where is it

struggling as far as maintenance. i think this is an amazing resource for residents. my friends have already been using it. and i'll just quick through the other three tabs. the district tab is supervisor districts. this one has a map shaded by the average park maintenance score for each supervisor district. you can just click on any district. i'll click district 11 here, to see its average score. and then all of the parks that were within that supervisor district, their annual park score and how it compared to the city-wide average. just a key finding from the report is district 11 has been the lowest score supervisor district in terms of the average park maintenance score for the last five years. so you can kind of see those trends overniem. anovertime.and you can select te fiscal year to kind of track those. i'll move on to the

equity-zoned portion. you can filter by year. it will show you the different parks that will were labelled equity zone in that year. and this shows the score distribution for equity-zone and non-equity-zone parks. i'm not going to go into all of these, because the dashboard is use to your own adventure session. every single park's feature here is listed for users to interact with. so maybe i'm really interested in children's play areas in particular. we can click on children's play areas and really go into a deep dive. as this is showing f.y. 19, but you can select a different year. how many play areas did we evaluate? 161. they had an an rag average score

of 81. and then you can see all of the score distributions for all of those children's play areas. there are a lot of ways to interact at this point, and i'm not going to go into it, but you can scroll and see all of the children's play areas, or click on them from the map. you can click in the history gram and then the map will filter. and you could do that for lowest scores, too, and, again, you can do this for all of the features. we're really excited with this new improvement. i just have one more slide for you all, back to the power point. okay. our next steps are in our improvements to the program. so something we haven't spoken about is the data collection of this data, done by staff members in the controller's office and in rec and park.

they're currently using a more outdated app, which will be transitioning over through a new app by estry, and the data collection tool will be built in that app. and they will be working to implement this tool in the next fiscal year. it is our biggest task of improving that. and we'll be expanding the maintenance task, and we think it is really promising to look at this data in kind of a new way. finally, i wanted to highlight for you something we height highlighted in the report: we have over 100 evaluators in dozens of departments, which are going out with the standards to evaluate parks. it is crucial that everyone is applying the standards in the same way, and able to identify the same types of issues across time and across parks.

that's something that we've been interested in, but we want to expand that analysis and the future. we look forward to your questions. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. a very interesting presentation. mr. ginsburg? excuse me, do you want to ask for public comment. >> chairwoman: i have one blue card from albert. and then i'll see if there is anyone else. >> good morning, people. they was talking about standard deviations and statistical mechanics. when i look at it, it will be the application. how do you apply standard dedeviation. she is talking about how the numbers, as they decrease, there is less deviation. but there is another part to it. of the averages, there is also the key statistics to the averages that can be

thrown out. i've been looking it over, and i kind of seem to come up with what is the lowest score, such as mckinley, and it should be immediate attention. but then it wouldn't be so much of a drag on the other scores. so to make it more useful, this type of controller evaluation, probably something i would think about is money. they would be allocating from park maintenance, deferred maintenance. what are the funding that is available to immediately deal with a stat location, such as mckinley. meanwhile, as i look through all of this, it looks great, but there has been a continual increase. of the park maintenance, i would like to commend operations director danny kern to keep up the good work, and hopefully we can

get your scores up. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: albert. >> i don't know if it is good morning or good afternoon. >> still good morning. >> good morning. all right. can i see this projector again, please? do you have it working? okay. so right here you're looking at this october 7th, 2019 rec and park, strategic planning. so basically about the equity analysis and met metrics, 2019, discussion and possible action. there is an issue with that i have. here we go, change -- please keep that on. so there is a change and

score, figure five, increases and do decreases in parks' scores in 2018 and 2019. guess what? table four. largest decreases in parks -- n, but decreases, decline, in parks scores. here it is, park 165, lewiston playground. the scores are 85% for fiscal year '18 and '19, and then it changes, minus seven. here is -- this is lewiston playground. and this is the playground scores, and city-wide scores, and it shows the decline.

here is a map -- this map shows the southeast district. these is the equity zones. the equity zones show rec and park department parks within equity zones and other parks, and basically your guys -- this is all here. it doesn't lie. here it is again, 2015, 81.19 -- i'm real suspect about these numbers. district 9, p.s.a., three -- i'm very concerned about the numbers. i believe they're lower than what you guys are saying they are. [buzzer] >> save to help -- oh, no. total managed assets, educated three equity metrics, average parks evaluation score.

[inaudible] >> a.d.a. compliance needed, equity deficiencies, equity metrics, subsection h-1, and shall include mitigating any equity deficiencies in the plan. i'm so close to finishing. [inaudible] >> one more. san francisco, i need to talk to somebody. i want somebody from the lodge. >> thank you. mr. ginsburg burg? >> commissioner, i just wanted to thank the partnership at the controller's office, emily and alice, they're like the money ball team of park scorers. we've got data that we can slice and dice in any particular way. and i also really wanted to thank ben for his

management of our program, and of course danny and lydia, who have been around. this is a really, really good tool. this morning before i came here, i was doing my park inspection in section one in the fuchsia delv del of gold gate park. and if anybody wants to do a park inspection, what we've got the tool on our apps. it's pretty cool. >> thank you very much. seeing no other comments, that was information only. thank you. that was great information. and it is a great app, and we'll continue to enjoy it. and congratulations to the staff. the numbers keep getting better. >> chairwoman: item 10, is there anyone who wants to speak during public comment who did not speak during item 4. >> i would. >> you spoke already. >> i've got a lot of hot wind here.

sorry. >> chairwoman: we're now on item 11. commissions, do you have any matters to raise? >> just one. i would want to direct the commission secretary to work with the permits and reservation staff on updating the permits and reservation policy. i think it needs to be updated. >> thank you, commissioner. >> chairwoman: okay. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 12, new bis agenda business agenda setting? >> seeing none. >> chairwoman: any public comment. public comment is closed. item 13, public communications. any comment on the public communications? please come forward.

>> again, my name is albert san. advocates for a.d.a., and friends of mclaren park. you know, when i got this announcement and i went online on computer, the server doesn't work. so, in other words, i distinct do idoesn't work. so i can't do it from home. so i had to go to the -- over here on the third floor, i believe it is, where they have all -- they put out these -- i know you guys supply it, but then there are commissioner documents -- i really apologize. i'm real tired. to get that information was extremely difficult. even they had an extremely difficult time trying to navigate the computer. this is in city hall. so i think under the

sunshine law, i'm requesting for this information that you guys use to make a decision, all you commissioners -- and i respect you guys. i know this is not an easy job. but the public has a right to be involved and to be heard. so i'm asking on the sunshine law to make this more accessible. you know, trying to deal with the law is unbelievably difficult. so i would ask for more transparency. this is public funds. this is not your slush fund anymore. the bonds are public money, our tax dollar from the ballots. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: is there any other public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. we're on item 14, adjournment. >> moved. pie>> seconded.

>> thank you very much. >> good morning. thank you so much. i am mayor london breed. i am excited to be here today joined by supervisors safai and vallie brown. this, as you all know, is a representation of a lot of the work that we have been doing in

san francisco t to come up with creative solutions to address homelessness. we have to understand sometimes it is not one size fits all, and trying to understand exactly the challenges that people who are homeless are dealing with and meeting them where they are and getting them the help and support they need to transition into a more permanent stable housing situation is something that we care about. this is why we have been fighting so hard to build more shelter beds, to look at places that are under utilized space to identify weighs in which we can have temporary or permanent space for shelter to allow for a situation like this where we are taking a parking lot slated for 100% affordable house anything the near future and using it when it is not being used for a place for people to safely park,

get supported services and resources and make sure that we are able to help people transition into a permanent situation. i will say that i am really proud to work with two individuals who have been the leaders in this effort. starting with the board of supervisors and understanding there are so many people before the homeless count was released that showed we had an increase in the number of people living in vehicles. these two supervisors led the efforts around solutions around safe parking for those who unfortunately are sleeping in their vehicles. as a way to provide a safe place like where we are standing here today. in october of 2019, the city counted over 700 occupied vehicles in san francisco, both passenger cars and rvs so we

know that this is something that we need to provide a solution for. i want to be clear because the first thing you hear from folks it is not enough. it is better than what it was. there was nothing in the past. now this is an example. this is not from my understanding what we are trying to propose here today is not something that we are familiar with anyplace in the united states where this is happening and actually has a track record of proving successful. we are stepping out to be the first to try something different, that we are hoping could work to support people that we know need support. i want to thank not just the supervisors but i really want to thank urban because they are the ones that you will hear from

them in a minute. this program is absolutely incredible in the civic center area and other places throughout san francisco working with so many vulnerable population of san francisco, helping to keep the neighborhoods and civic center and downtown area safe and clean and accessible and treating people with respect and dignity. i appreciate the work they are doing. i also want to appreciate the lake view omi community. mr. and mrs. harris are here and steve and others. this is not something always popular to do. not only did supervisor safai lead in this effort to have community meetings to talk about this location used for this purpose, he really took a lot of hits from the community and, fortunately, so many community members were open and willing to allow this use to take place, and we truly appreciate the

neighborhood for allowing us to do this on a temporary basis. this vehicle triage center is something, i think, that can be potentially duplicated throughout san francisco. ultimately, the goal is to get people into safe affordable housing that is really the goal of this. this is a way to bring people inside, to provide showers, to provide restroom facilities, to make sure that we are doing it in a way that meets people where they are and treatings them with respect and dignity. i am grateful to be here today to kick this off. i do want to say that a lot of work through the mayor's office on homelessness has gone into identifying all over san francisco people who are living in their vehicles and trying to create, you know, a way to know what already exists.

i want to make it clear that this is not an open invitation to people in other counties to come to san francisco because the fact is we have a long waiting list of people who we have identified and they will be our priority along with other unhoused individuals who sadly are sleeping on the streets. we, of course, invite other counties to look at this as an example and to do their part in addressing this issue. this is not just an issue unique to san francisco. this is an issue that impacts the entire state of california. we are hopeful we will partner in the near future to talk about ways to move forward with solutions like this and others to make sure that san francisco is not the only city and county bearing the burden of the expense of doing unique things like we are doing today. with that since the rain is coming down and you guys know i

don't like to get my hair wet. we are on dangerous territory here. i would like to introduce the supervisor safai. [applause] >> we will pause for mayor breed to have an umbrella. (laughter) >> you know, i want to say i think this is historic day in san francisco. i know that people have been talking about doing safe parking in one form or another for over a decade, but truly we are standing here today because of the individuals that stand behind me. we had a situation where i went out and told the story a few time also. i went out on christmas day with my daughter. santa had gotten her a bike and we went to the playground and

the street was lined with people living in rvs. i thought what is happening? so i called s.f.m.t.a., got started getting calls from neighbors. they were saying they wanted these cars removed. i think that the knee jerk reaction in these situations is to just think about the vehicles but not think about the individuals that are occupying these vehicles. these are folks that are human being just like you and me. they are working, often times students, often times they are veterans, they are people who are productive members of society and want to be respected like you and me. i will tell you, my knee jerk reaction was to call and say where are the signs, we need no overnight parking signs up. s.f.m.t.a. said we are going to pause, we are not going to keep

doing this. it just pushes people from one block to another. then i got back to my office and there was a photograph of a young woman living in an rv, and it was a handwritten note from supervisor brown that said let's work on this together in a humane way. that really caused me to pause, and i walked into her office and i said don't blind side me like that again. we kind of had a laugh, but the truth was i said you are right. we have to do this the right way. we buckled down, the staff buckled down and wrote a piece of legislation. we went around the bay area and looked at best practices. we crafted a piece of legislation. the reason that this is able to happen is because of that piece of legislation. we also march would into --

marched into may or breed's office. >> mayor breed: you walked. >> there were two of us. we marched. we had an uncomfortable conversation. by the end, the mayor committed money, and she challenged me. are you going to put one of these in your district? i said i absolutely am. i know where we can go. i called mission housing development. they had gotten control of this site. i called jeff and we had a conversation to say can this be the first place where we do safe parking? fast forward. it looked like once the census came in that there really was a justification for doing this. out of the increase in homelessness, 70% of the increase and i think it was 13%

increase in homelessness, 70% are living in vehicles. if now, was not the time then it would never be the time. we did that. the mayor allocated over $1 million for this effort. we engaged the community. as the mayor mentioned, steve and the reverend. the improvement association, 45 individuals in the room and we took a vote. after that vote it was a unanimous vote to proceed with this. we had a community meeting and 600 people showed up. by the end an and mary and i wil tell you we never have 600 people show up for a meeting. it leaned towards support. we wanted to be the first and

share in the responsibility of dealing with the homeless crisis. i want to thank the mayor and i want to give a special thanks to the department of public works. we would not have been able to move as fast as we would if they hadn't been able to get this ready you see the solar panels, security cameras, lighting, privacy fencing, restriping, bathrooms, office space and urban will be here on site 24 hours per day, at least two individuals. we have the captain, liaison with the bart police. wwe are working with s.f.m.t.a. yes there will be tough loved involved. when we go out to proactively move people out of the streets where they are living in vehicles, we are not going to invite more individuals to

occupy those spaces. s.f.m.t.a. will put up the signs to encourage people to omentalis these spaces. myself and soon pe supervisor bn called for a meeting. president yee is looking for a location. supervisor walton is looking for space in his district. it will be a humane way. i want to thank everyone today. i want to thank the individuals that made this possible, and we are going to continue to look to expand and make this model a successful model. as the mayor said, in one year we will break ground on 100% affordable housing on the site. we will see what works, what i am provements can be made and how to do it better and how san francisco can lead throughout the bay area.

i will introduce supervisor vallie brown my co-sponsor in this effort. >> thank you, super-vior and mayor breed. it was over a year ago that i did send a photo to his office of me living in a van when i was 13. as some of you know, my mom had odd jobs. she was always struggling to make ends meet. there were times she didn't have enough money for the next aren't. she would borrow a van from a friend and we would live in the van until she was able to get money for the next apartment. as a child of 13 living in a van, there is a lot of struggles. there are things you have to wear a bathing suit all of the time. why do you wear a bathing suit?

because you went to the gas station to rest up. you couldn't be naked. you had to have a bathing suit. you had to do homework before sundown because there was no light only a flashlight. you had nowhere to cook meals. these things that we don't think about are things that you think about when you live in a vehicle. you have to plan your life so carefully when you live in a vehicle. and i have to say the things sometimes are meant to be. as a child i don't have many photographs of myself. we move so much and you lose things. i found this photo of me living in the van at 13. i felt like it was meant to be of me moving forward to say why aren't we thinking differently about housing people? helping people that are struggling? iit is a thin veil from from

being homeless on the street. i never tried t to do a this wih you. you never know who lives in these vehicles. thank you may or breed for putting the money forward because it was $1 million to say let's try this out. thank you to this community for stepping up to say let us be the first. i absolutely feel we are going to need more through the city like we need navigation centers, homeless centers, we need more. this is the beginning. thank you everyone for coming and for sharing and supporting. let's move forward. thank you. [applause] >> the folks that will manage this is urban.

they are the wantings who have been doing an incredible job with the civic center, ambassadors of the community. managing the public toilets or overseeing public spaces in other areas and trying to get people help and support, and in some cases connectedded to the homeless outreach team. this are an invaluable resource in san francisco. the person in charge is lana miller. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you. i want to thank everybody who allowed us to be part of this effort. it is very, very important. as we see homelessness is continuing to increase all of the time. we are tasked with continuing to find ways to deal with it. a lot of people, sometimes

people get frustrated in the city and there is a lot of that. what i see from my perspective because as mayor breed said we are all around the city in every intersection where you see a mix of homelessness and mental illness and addiction, there we are. from what i have seen from that perspective and talking with people from all over the country is this situation is only getting worse. we are not in a position to say we don't want to deal with it. we can't deal with it, we must deal with it and we must find creative ways to address people with love, with respect, with dignity. as supervisor brown said, that used to be her. it used to be and is a lot of our family members. it is not going anywhere. it is up to us as human beings

to find ways to scale up. what we saw with the fires recently is that a lot of people are now living in their vehicles. i think when we see more and more people displaced through climate change we are going to see more and more people who are living in the streets. now we have to get in front of this. i am really, really honored to be part of the thought partners who aren't saying it is somebody else's problem. we need to find a way to get people out of here so people feel comfortable, but people putting their headins together o find creative ways to address this with love and dignity. eventually we all have to scale. thank you very much. we are really great full for the opportunity to be part of this. [applause] >> thank you. our last speaker today is a person who grew up in san

francisco in the bayview-hunters point community and one of the first clients that we will work with here, sandra youth. (applause) >> hello, i am sandra hughes. i was born and raised in san francisco. as a child i experienced a lot of trauma. as a result i have struggled most of my life with trusting anyone. even those who want to help me. i am currently home less and i live in my rv. the neighborhood around me has changed. where i used to ride my bike as a child, there are businesses. the community members yell at me not to park there, to move away. they treat me as if i am less than human. i wish they could understand i don't want to live in the rv or have to park there either.

i want what everyone else wants, safety, dignity and a community. i don't feel safe living in my rv. it has been broken into five time also. i am scared every night when i try to sleep. i don't feel safe around people. shelters are not an option for me. when the team told me about the vtc opening up and gave me information, i thought the opportunity to move into the vehicle triage center with my rv would offer me safety and security. maybe i could learn to build trust with people until i can find stable housing. i want to have a key for my apartment, i want to connect with my family. i want safety. this would be a first step in the feeling of safety my allow me to heal and rebuild my life.

thank you. (applause) >> thank you again for sharing your story. as you can see we have a lot of work to do in the city. part of it is the opening of this parking lot as a safe place for people to park, but ultimately it all goes back to housing. you feel like i repeat this over and over again. it is not just the money necessary to build housing. we know san francisco is one of the most expensive places to build housing in the first place. it is also about having the courage to cut back on the bureaucratic red tape so we don't have to wait years to build housing so that people like sandra and so many others sleeping on the streets have a place to call home. this is what we will continue to

work on. yes, we celebrate a milestone that we have this parking lot for people to park safely, but, ultimately, they nehousing. we have to do a better job as a city to build it. thank you to the department of public works, the hot team and be the work you do on the streets, thank you to the san francisco police department and the folks who work with us. wrap it up. it is time to go. thank you. [applause]

>> good morning. today is wednesday, december 18, 2019. this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. please turn off electronic devices. first item is roll call. (roll