you for bringing this to ordinance and for supporting it. i just want you to imagine not getting paid for a year. how that affects your family, your employees and their families. a year is a long time to go without income. we have all made relationships with landlords to promise we would pay them and we can't because we had the doors locked on us. these fees being waived is just the very first step in the long path and journey back to recovery as the other small business owners stated. we would appreciate if you could focus more on small business. the two biggest issues in san francisco is small business community and our kids in school. a lot of things out there about taking over bike shares and starting banks.

that is ridiculous and slap in the face. people have lost jobs, businesses, homes in some cases. we need focus on rebuilding the small business community, backbone and fabric of this community. if you help usury cover, we assure you we will help the city grow stronger and more beautiful and more safe than it has ever been. if you focus on things that don't matter in the pandemic it will get worse. continue working hard on our path. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am owner of the business in the soma. thank you guys. most of us are mom and pop shops. we have less than 9 or

$20 million in revenue. many of us are holding on and reinvesting savings in the businesses. we believe in san francisco and want the city to recover and thrive. we are opening with debt to landlords and vendors. we have received no support or grants or releave in the city. these fees were paid for the ability to operate in san francisco. in 2020 we could not operate. we all sacrificed and suffered losses. this is a small gesture of support and the fair thing to do. thank you for advocating for our survival. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> i own a bar in marrena and the hate ashbury. thank you for helping small business in san francisco and being supportive of small business and that should be noted. please pass this legislation. it is the beginning of much more funding to small business for two reasons. one it is a quality of life for all in san francisco. our neighborhoods are so important to bringing tourists here, to live life and bring back the vitality of the excitement of san francisco. i am a native here in san

francisco. i want to take my hat off to you and to the rest of the supervisors to listen to callers and pass this legislation. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i am owner and operator of a lounge in soma. i want to say thank you to supervisor stefani and haney. to echo what everyone said. our business is significantly down. customers and businesses in our neighborhood it would be basically the companies moved out. buildings are vacant. traffic is down.

we need help to keep our doors open to continue to have staff and to be open to serve our community. i appreciate you guys bringing this to the table. i hope it passes. we need all of the help we can get. thank you again. >> next speaker, please. >> i own new balance and three fitness studios in san francisco. i am in favor of anything to support small businesses. back taxes for the year we were closed will not help usury cover. san francisco will get a large sum of money. this could make-or-break businesses resulting in them going out of business and bringing in less revenue. tens of thousands are moved out

of san francisco and every day companies are going to remote work only. give people a reason to commute to the city and vacation and move to the city. we need the small business community to keep the city vibrant. circling back to the first point we cannot afford to lose businesses. finally, if you don't charge these fees, the money will got to employees, landlords, most of which are small business owners. we are a progressive city and we need money in the pockets of real people, not the bank act of the city of san francisco. >> i am president of the san francisco small business commission speaking on my own behalf, also a small business owner myself that caters to the

music industry. i want to say that i am speaking on behalf of the countless small business owners who could not be here today because they have to work. it want to thank you for introducing this legislation and i want to thank supervisors haney, mar, ronen, and mandelman for cosponsoring. it seems only right that if businesses are unable to do business in san francisco by city order they should not have to pay for the privilege of not doing business. i think this is very the least the city can do for small businesses that about half of all employees in san francisco including many of our most privileged and vulnerable communities. it is the largest source of

entry level work for all employees in the city. it is critical that we get small business communities back up on its feet. it will be the fastest path to recovery for the city as a whole and this is an important step in what i hope will be many steps towards helping small business rekor. thank you so much. i yield my time. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. this is cat anderson, small business owner in the bayview. my business partner and i own the cafe. i am a recafternoon park commissioner speaking in my own capacity. i want to thank my supervisor stefani for bringing this forward to show the city is

listening to small business and every little bit helps. we appreciate that. we also need more help. i know there has been offerings of grants out there. if you could help spur the process. we got e-mail saying we can't hear about the equity grants because there are so many people needing help and they haven't mailed out the applications. we need more help sooner. there are some corridors that have suffered greatly. third street is the african-american district. it doesn't have the foot traffic. i hopes you continue to create policies you will keep that in mind and look at the business districts as needed that don't have very much foot traffic and it is very difficult to stay alive. i want to share that we are not making a profit. we have lost so much business.

we don't pay ourselves. we are living on savings and retirement. thank god we have that. we love what we do and we love providing hospitality for the residents of san francisco. keep this in mind and help us with more money. the state is charging fees for alcohol licenses. if you can addvo indicate for the state on that i would really appreciate it. thank you for your time chair haney and the committee. we appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you for your call. >> there are 32 callers listening and seven in the queue. please press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold continue to wait until you are unmuted. please unmute the next caller.

>> good morning. jason stein. i own the tattoo in the mission operating since 1998. thank you, supervisor stefani. it is the least the city can do right now. give us a break on fees. there are a lot more things that need to be done. we are playing catchup for years from this pandemic. we were barely able to operate last year now we are under limited capacity making 25% of what we normally made. we managed to pay rent all last year and continue to do so. we work in a building, old building in the mission. the landlord is a family woman who can barely keep the building. she is operating by the skin of

her teeth. we have the pizza and the bar and a tax business here 30 plus years, us, all in the building. these are all small businesses to keep her building operating. all of these businesses affect the landscape and eco system of the city and anything to help maintain these businesses and support us is certainly helpful weighing fees. we pay over $2,000 per year in business fees. health department fee is $1,800 per year increases every year. in november we have to pay last year and this year close to $4,000 in health department fee. we are already in debt. i don't know how we will pay that bill. certainly waiving for the years closed and in the future would be very helpful. thank you for listening. i yield the rest of my time. >> next speaker, please.

>> this is the chinatown merchants association. thank you so much for providing this legislation. i agree with the previous speakers that this will really help every little bit helps. as you know there is a lot of news on chinatown, and we are hurting like many small businesses in san francisco. i am speaking on behalf of a lot of the small business owners who can't call in because of language barrier or they have to work. allow the mom and pop business owners who don't know anything outside of chinatown is their whole life. my family started business since the 1950s. i have seen the ups and downs. this is catastrophic.

i have never seen it like this. if you go along grand from birch to broadway there are only 35 open out of 200 stores on grant alone. we are tourist based. it will come back. thanks to your support of shared spaces this last weekend was the busiest we have ever seen. business owners were very happy. they saw a lot of people coming to chinatown because of chinese new year. i wish all of you happy chinese new year and we hope this is the beginning of working together to see that all of us can work together to help small business in san francisco. thank you for all that you do and work on it. people really love san francisco. i can tell by the tourists this

last weekend. it may beings me very hopeful. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> this is richard, president of the japan merchants association. i want to thank supervisor stefani and the cosponsors. this is the right thing to do. assessing fees to these disadvantaged merchants is not the right time to do this. also, the malls have merchants that don't have direct access to streets so they can't have shared spaces. it is just very problematic because the mall is shut down. now that they have been re-opened, they are starting to recover some losses, but, you know, because of the shutdown

for two or three months and they have been completely closed, some have already closed for good. they are not coming back. you will see a lot of vacancies within the malls. i just want to express my sincere appreciation to all of you, supervisors for recognizing this and hopefully the board will support this as well. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i represent the unified tattoo and body art shop in san francisco. i am calling to support small business through waivers. in 2020 there were 24 registered. we pay $1,710 annual

registration. it would cost. [indiscernable] to waive the registration. individual artists are $125 a year. there were 412 licensed body art practice nevers in 2020. in 2021 there are $105,000. all for tattoo and body art could be waived to $387,150. i would also like to emphasize more than half of the businesses are owned by women and people of color, one-third are women like myself and one-third are people of color. our community has a significant number of queer and transshop owners. this will create unsurmountable

debt. instead of grants that may not cover a month's rent please consider supporting 428 tattoo body art facilities and small businesses with fee waivers. waive or fees for 2020 and 2021. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am the. [indiscernable] i am a founding member of the merchants association. i urge you to support this legislation and i am grateful for it. small business contributes to not only the san francisco economy but also the moral of

residents. they are struggling due to closures and have increased costs due to rising crime. several people have said small business will be the engine for recovery and should be supported in every way possible. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> supervisors, for the first time in a year you have heard the pleas, cries, desperation of small businesses. the san francisco mayor's office of economic development, mayor's staff has taken a raise. she makes $400,000. the small businesses are

suffering. we need to do a needs assessment. how many businesses are paying taxes? how many are in business? who has reached out to the small businesses to fill out forms? who is working with the banks, big banks like bank of america, wells fargo raking in millions? there are issues that you don't know. some have applied for unemployment and haven't got money because it has been stolen. everything has to be incorporated in the needs assessment. essential workers have to be sent to the districts, 11 districts so they can do a needs assessment so we really know how desperate the small businesses are. they employ more people than

anybody else. i commend supervisors who went out of their way to do this at the last 11th hour. somebody is doing god's work. it takes us to san francisco. the small businesses are pride, work hard, for all of their work this pandemic has brought them down. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i own two bars here in san francisco. i spoke early so i will be very

brief. i just want to point out the grants are very hard to obtain for all small businesses. >> excuse me, sir. unmute this caller. this caller has provided comments. we can only allow each caller to speak once. next caller, please. >> this is jessica ray. owner of ray dance studios, brick and mortar to provide jobs for artists in san francisco. i urge you to pass this legislation. we can continue to cleanup along with other operational needs to push forward. i urge you to consider specific grants and pathways towards dance studios that directly support and provide opportunities for dance and fitness educators and performing

artists. please consider rewarding companies that stayed in the grind during the pandemic to provide creative avenues and services for businesses, staff and communities. i am jessica and thank you so much for your time. >> current lethere are 20 callers listening and two in the queue. press star 3 to be added. next caller, please. >> i am a small business owner and i want to thank the supervisors for considering this legislation. to supervisor stefani for sponsoring this. i owned a restaurant for 30 years. it is a common practice to pay license and permit fees. these are to allow you to operate and due to the pandemic the small businesses closed or

operated on limited basis. common sense dictates if you with not allowed to operate you shouldn't have to pay for these. our industries have struggled, our employees are trying to survive. we need help. these government actions to curb this pandemic are what has forced us to closures. we need government help to rebound and rebuild. it is unfair to make us close and we need your help. grants are not enough to survive. there is not enough dollars to pass to every business that is decimated. this is one piece of legislation. i urge you to pass it. this will be a good building block for us to get back and operate and bring back our

employees that have lost their lives. get back to the restaurant business and small business and rebound. we will all work together in the future. this is badly needed. i strongly urge you to pass this and i strongly support this. >> next speaker, please. >> i am the owner of. [indiscernable] i am calling in to say thank you to supervisor stefani and matt haney for backing this ordinance. i just was hoping that we could speak to the rest of the supervisors asking them to support this as well as we are in the personal services industry which makes 13.5% of the 97,000 small businesses in

san francisco. 42 now of those are sole -- 42000 are sole proprietors having to do with the ordinances of putting in p.p.e. and making sure employees are safe, and fixing our graffiti on our stores and break-ins and all of the things put forth to us that we could make it safe for the public and our staff. it is just so much money to ask us to pay and kicking the can down the road with deferral is no better way. it will add restrictive capacity. we are not making the money we were making before. we were shut down. with that that just makes that can that was kicked down the road a larger bill for us when we are able to even have money

to pay it. out of that 13.5% of businesses of the personal services we about from two to 15 people at a time losing half of our staff because of the restrictions. we have our hands tied to hire any new employees which is what we want to do to get the economy going so people can afford to live in the bay area. that is what i have to say. thank you to supervisors for listening. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. this is a new business owner omission street. i just want to thank everybody

caring for small businesses. being a new young business owner i realize how difficult it is to really open a business in the city. specifically if you are young and you don't have a lot of financial backup. this should be really one of the few things that you are focusing on right now, but it really should be one of the items that you are going to support that will help young entrepreneurs to feel welcomed and supported and open in their businesses. i strongly urge everybody to pass this legislation and please do anything you can to help us all. thank you. himself to be together.

thank you. >> one more caller. >> i am a co-owner in san francisco. as a san francisco small business owner for 13 years, obviously, this is the worst situation that we have ever been in and we are actually doing okay as restaurant owners go and are able to retain our staff. i am not sure how much longer that is able to go on. i appreciate the board of supervisors considering passing this legislation. small businesses you have heard a million times. they may being san francisco san francisco. a business like ours i would hope that has the reputation

will be able to continue to be something special that we bring to the city as we are all in desperate need of help. any and all help. we love being small business owners and want to continue to bring what we can to the city. i please urge the board of supervisors to pass legislation and i appreciate you considering it and i am looking forward to the day when it is easier for small business owners to keep doors open and keep those in san francisco employed and to keep contributing to our economy in our city. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. are there any other caller in the queue? >> that competes the few.

>> thank you. madam clerk and let me also thank everyone who called in for your support and for your resilience during the last year. as we heard, this past year was one of the toughest years for our small businesses. i just also want be to thank you all for organizing and for fighting for not only your own businesses but the other businesses in the city, and as you all said, this is such a critical step that we have to take but it should be one of many and i know in this committee we look forward to working with all of you in the coming weeks with more support for small businesses and during the budget process in the coming months. with that i will turn it over to

supervisor stefani. you had amendments and closing remarks to make before we move this forward. >> thank you, chair haney. i will be brief. i want to thank everybody who called in towed. i hear you. i absolutely agree that this should be a beginning. there is so much more to do. the last caller looks forward to the day when it is easier for small businesses to operate in the city. i look forward to that day as well and will do everything to work towards that goal with you at our side helping us do that. finally, i want to thank chair haney for his cosponsorship and my early cosponsors ronan and mandelman. thank you to the members of this committee, supervisor s afai and marfor your support today. i want to thank my office,

legislative aid has worked so hard on this legislation. we couldn't do this without him. with that, chair haney, i would ask one of your committee members to move my amendment and pass out to the full board with as age of recommendation. >> so moved. >> we have your amendment is moved. could we please take a roll call vote on the amendment? >> on the motion, vice chair safai. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> haney. >> aye. >> three ayes. >> thank you. now, i want to move to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. roll call vote, please. >> on that motion safai.

>> aye. >> mar. >> hi. >> haney. >> aye. >> moves to the full board with positive recommendation. thank you for your leadership. we look forward to continue to work with you and the small businesses to do more for them in the coming weeks and months. thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item 2. ordinance waiving certain procurement and contracting requirements in chapters 6, 14, 21 and the construction and as sessmanagement and other services for the project utilizing the joint development delivery so the development using the best selection process and provided the city elect the project after completing the review under the california

environmental quality act. members who wish to comment call 800-474-6762. (187)479-4354 press pound pound. please dial star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold please wait until you are unmuted to begin your comments. >> thank you, madam clerk. this item will be continued. we have somebody from the sfmta staff to confirm the request. do we have somebody from sfmta here? >> maybe they knew it was being continued. >> okay. >> i will make a motion to continue the eye time.

>> there is a motion to continue for two weeks on march 3rd budget and finance committee. before we take that motion, are there any members of the public who want to speak on this item? >> yes, operation is checking to see if there are caller in the queue. please let us know if callers are ready press star 3 to be added to the queue. those on hold wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. let us know if there are callers for item 2. >> we have no callers in the queue. >> thank you. appreciate that. public comment is now closed. we have a motion from supervisor safai to continue to march 3rds of the budget and finance committee. roll call vote, please. >> saffie. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye.

>> chair haney. >> aye. >> three ayes. >> thank you. we will hear that on march 3rd. please call item 3. >> resolution to retroactive authorize the department of public health to accept grant in the amount of $300,000 from the robert wood johnson foundation for participation in a program entitle evaluating san francisco street crisis response team as a model for treating mental and substance use issues among adults experiencing homelessness for the period december 15, 2020 through june 14, 2022. if you wish to comment call 800-474-6762. please dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line an. a system prompt will indicate you have ways raised your line.

>> this is entitle the evaluating the response team as well as treating the substance issues among adults experiencing homelessness for december 15, 2020 through june 14, 2022. mental illness and substance abuse are prevalent among the homeless in san francisco. 17695 people who are identified in fiscal year 67% had mental

health or substance abuse diagnosis. 30.9 percent or 3930 individuals were high risk with a psychotic disorder. >> if san francisco is no exception. mental illness comprises one quarter of those experiencing homelessness and a third have substance abuse disorder. people of color are under representedded. 30-year-old men experiencing homelessness have 11 years shorter life expectancy.

to help address these challenges, government leaders including supervisor haney and others on the board in collaboration with the leaders engaged with community stakeholders to pass legislation called mental health san francisco with a team to implement in december of 2020. through the model in which the clinician is paired with the paramedic from the fire department and the peer specialist they provide assistance for clients who have symptoms of substance abuse. the health crisis avoid upness contact with law enforcement which is important for the health absafety of people of color. that program has four clinical

functions or key clinical functions to dispatch which is primarily from that one operations. sf with the clinicians and peer specialists to assess the situation. to treat by de-escalating and medically stabilizing in crisis to link the most appropriate setting. the target populations are adults with disorders, experiencing homelessness. >> well established care management system used to examine 3-a key outcomes within

the 7 or 30-days post crisis. the mental health and substance abuse crisis services and housing placement. interrupted time design with analysis will exam impact of the outcomes and the analysis by race will exam potential disparities without comes before and after the intervention. the interviews will be conducted with clients who had positive or negative outcomes to identify barriers to effective care. this research will be conducted in collaboration between researchers and ucsf institute with the inter mead de area. $300,000 will support the program. sub s subcontracted to who is responsible for the half time

research associate. they are also responsible for subcontracting for the science institute for specific limitations support as well as covering research related travel costs and open access to publishing fees and 10,000 $900 from direct costs for incentive and computers. we request approval to expend the funds. the award letter on november 20 of 2020 for project start date of december 15, 2020. thank you. any questions for doctor goldman? is there a report on this item?

>> no report from our office. >> any members of public to speak on the item. >> operations check to see if there are callers. >> supervisors, this doctor has really given a good needs assessment on the subject. yesterday on a virtual meeting the very fancy name, our city our home, oversight committee. these are the members on that

committee who are rambling. all they want the money. >> we want be to know the real population that is suffering this. is a city and county of san francisco named after st. francis. i represent the first people of this city, the ohlo ne. we cannot see so many people that need mental health or who are mentality challenged all over our city attacking people, defecating, urinating and thinking nothing about it.

>> an i am pleading with you to give us quarterly reports as to what is happening in san francisco. >> god bless you, doctor and do our best. >> thank you. are there other callers for item 3? >> that completes the queue. >> public comment is closed.

i did have a question for you on when reports will be released publicly in the timing of it. one of the things that i had asked dph about with this program people really in a more ongoing immediate basis want to know how many calls they are taking and what for. maybe if you could speak to sort of the reporting that you are going to do and when. how that may interact with data that could be made more regularly available related to this program. >> sure. reasonable and hopeful question. as you pointed out, evaluation that we are describing here with the support is meant to be a full overarching evaluation of

the impact of this program on the mental health system overall and so it is interrupted time method that i described takes time to be able to arrive at the final result. the anticipated 10 days of program will be around june of 2022 when we will wrap up and publish the findings. other ongoing reporting from the operations team itself. i would defer to my colleagues more directly involved in the operations and happy to follow up on that information. >> thank you for that. is there somebody from dph who is here? >> well, i am from dph. >> i guess i should have phrased

that more specifically in the sense that and i can follow up separately. i am interested to know about the ongoing reporting and i meant specifically who would be in a position to clarify if there is more ongoing reporting happening in terms of the number of calls and for what and outcomes of the calls. less in depth analysis but simply knowing those things and being able to see those over the course of this year is very important. >> acknowledging those types of data are of great interest to the public. i am happy to follow up with the appropriate person from dph to communicate with you on those issues. >> great. seeing no more comments or questions from colleagues i want to add my name as cosponsor of

this. as one of the authors of member mentalhealth sf we want the bes. supervisor safai. >> please add me, madam clerk as cosponsor and somebody that started an evaluation and audit my first day in office four years ago. i know you are familiar with that, dr. goldman. i appreciate your hard work and agree with supervisor haney. as you begin evaluation and collect data it would be good to have an update so we know how progress is or what your evaluation looks like. again, really appreciate this analysis. i think it is going to tell us a lot about what we can do and how

the street crisis response teams are helping as we see more arise right now with this pandemic. i am sure there is more people in need given the circumstances. thank you again. >> thank you for that performance audit of the behavior health system which was the foundation for mental health sf to identify gaps in the system. one is what is happening on the street and how people are enter understand the system and receiving treatment. i am hopeful that the report and research shows this is a valuable thing to have and effective tool to have. the research will derm that. i am glad this is being done in this way. i want to move this item to the full board with positive recommendation.

roll call vote please. >> on that motion. >> safai. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye, haney. >> aye. >> three ayes. thank you, doctor goldman. give my best to your brother as well. please call item 4. resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of $3 million from the california department of public health for participation in a program entitle california home visiting program state general fund innovation for the period november 10, 2020 through june 30, 2023. please call 800-474-6762.

wait until the system indicates you are unmuted to begin your comments. >> thank you so much. we do have diane from the department of public health here to present on this item. >> she has joined us, however, her microphone is muted. >> sorry. i was disconnected when i went to come on. thank you very much for hearing me today. i am diane be son director of nursing in the materm child health section for the dent of

public health. thank you for your consideration to support $3 million in funding for the california home visiting program innovation grant which wasn't visioned in 2019 when there were $20 million for the home visiting program. the home visiting team advised $16 million towards evidence based home visiting programs and $5 million for existing projects. the san francisco consortium is collaboration between san francisco and soma and nap take counties field nursing home visiting. we were awarded the maximum of $3 million for three years for the innovation grant. background for the development of innovation. in july 2018 the sonoma field

nursing team launched the trauma informed approach in public health nursing to address the unique needs of families where children are to encounter toxic stress leasing to sub-optimal brain development. this incorporates adverse child experiences, education and self-reflective approach with parents to increase family resilience and reduce risk for future childhood trauma. additionally, the san francisco consortium is committed to avoiding re-traumatizing individuals by the services administration trauma principles of the guide for clinicians and leadership. we have developed the guidebook for delivery of the model. this is the work of the san francisco consortium's initial