. >> president walton: good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, march 22nd. our clerk is mr. victor young. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by supervisor rafael mandelman. >> clerk: the board of supervisors slaltive and

committee room are closed the. community members will attend the meeting as if they were present. public comment will be available on each item of the agenda. comments or opportunity to speak during public commentary are available via phone by dialling (415) 655-0001 the i.d. number is 1878969131. then press pound and pound again. when your item of interest comes up, dial starly to be added to the speaker line. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment to

victor.young@sf.gov.org. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. young. can you please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. a new rule 2.21.1. allowing for adoption and subject to approval by the full board. and a new rule 2.21.2 clarifying the process falsify direct appointments to subordinate bodies by district supervisors that are not subject to approval by the full board. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. young. colleagues in the 13 years i have been a member of the board of supervisors i have never had the pleasure of chairing the

rules committee before and i have been able to undertake a number of reforms and streamline the process and this is the first of those reforms. there will be others forthcoming and this is really very simple. as you know, there are a number of different ordinances relative to appointments to various policy bodies wherein a district supervisor has the ability to appoint but that appointment is subject to the approval by the full board of supervisors. those traditionally have come before the rules committee but they are pro forma. so the new board rule 2.21.1 would provide that for district

supervisor appointments pursuant to those ordinances, they would -- that are subject to approval by the full board that these appointments would bypass the rules committee and be adopted by the full board of supervisors without reference to committee agenda calendar and that would still allow for public comment and any supervisor would still be able to make a motion to send that to committee for further consideration or additional public comment. appointments in this category by example include the park recreation and open space advisory committee that we refer to as prosac. each of which are nominated by an individual supervisor and then approved by the full board. currently, those go through the committee process and are routine, but this would allow them to go straight to the full

board provided that a complete application has been submitted and a form 700s are required that those too have submitted and that the appointing supervisor has made the representation via a letter that they have met with the applicant and believe the applicant to be qualified per whatever ordinance they're being appointed to and fit to serve. new rule 2.21.2 advises direct supervisor appointments which are not currently subject to approval by the full board and after conferring with clerk calvio, we're improving this new rule primarily to distinguish this category of appointments from those in the proceeding rule. but nothing about the process would change. this just clarifies that and these direct appointments, examples of that are behavioral

health commission, the advisory board, the mteac and are not subject to approval by the full board. the words in 2.21.2 just clarified that. finally, colleagues and prior to public comment and thank you deputy city attorney pierson, i'd like to make a little amendment which really tracks with charter section 4.01 subsectionb as for the appointments subject to approval by the full board. those appointments would still be referred to by the committee. and upon consultation with ms. pearson you are required to make a small amendment. which these would have an aid

waiver which would also be referred to by committee. so page 2, i'd like to insert the words "and/or aids" in two locations directly following the word "residency" so in each case residencies and/or wage waivers would still come before this committee. i'm happy to take answers and public comment and otherwise look forward to moving this modest process improvement to the full board. are there any questions or comments from committee members? seeing none. mr. clerk, why don't we bring -- i'm sorry. supervisor mandelman. >> i just want to thank you, mr. chair, for bringing this on and i thank mr. hener in your office for his work on this. as a member of this committee, i'm grateful for this report.

>> chairman: thank you, vice chair mandelman. and part of the reason that it's going to the adoption without committee reference dall canada is not only so the public can know but so that the clerk can track these appointments in the report which will be tomorrow. i'll be introducing at the full board of supervisors a hearing in this committee with regard to how we use the state maddie act. and with that, can we please open this up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public that wish to comment on this item call (415) 655-0001 the meeting i.d. is 1878969131 press pound and

then pound again. press star 3 to be entered to speak. please wait until the system tells you you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. we have two in line to speak p. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> can you hear me now? >> chairman: we can hear you now. mr. pillappeal, please. >> i support this change as chair peskin indicated. more can be done to encourage people to apply for the annual madi act, but this modest change allows person appointments to avoid committee hearings thanks to supervisor peskin for their work on this.

but as was indicated there may be others that i don't track to which it applies and since the amendment i don't think has been available to the public yet, i'm just wondering if you can make clear if the age waiver that was discussed would apply on page three as well to those appointments subject to the second rule. >> chairman: and, i do not wish to engage valuetive of the brown act in a back and forth discussion and, number one, the 199-page madi act report is available online and that certainly is a clue as to which bodies these rules would apply to as to the exact places that

and/or age would be inserted page number two, line fourteen. so appointments requiring a residency and/or age waiver shall not be eligible to appear for the adoption without committee reference agenda. next at line 15 upon receipt of a nomination that requires a residency insert and/or age waiver. and then again at the last page, page three, line three, if needed, appointing district supervisor shall also include the waiver of the residency insert and/or age requirement in their letter or format testation that is submitted with the appointment package. next speaker, please. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you, mr. chair. my name is win shapilliar.

i oppose this rule. the proposed rule 2.21.2 -- i'm sorry. the proposed rule 2.21.1 would take away the public's right to testify as to approval of the appointment being made. and would thus violate the brown act section 2549.3a and the sunshine ordinance as well as contract the whereas clause which maintains opportunities for public input. for this reason, i recommend rejection at the proposed rule. or if the problem may be split, rejection of the rule 2,.21.1. or the proposed rule 2.21.2. >> chairman: thank you. are any other members of the public here for public comment on item number 1?

>> clerk: i believe that was the last caller. waiting confirmation. >> correct. no more callers in queue. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed and with regard of the comments of the last speaker the adoption without committee on reference calendar on the board of supervisors agenda is indeed subject to public comment. to 100% of the appointments subject to 2.21.1 will be subject to public comment at the full board of supervisors on the adoption without committee reference calendar and it is not as i've been advised by counsel valuetive of the brown act. with that, colleagues, i would like to make a motion to amend with the aforementioned

amendments relative to age. with that, mr. clerk, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: may we now -- i would now like to make a motion to send the item as amended to the full board with recommendation as a committee report. a motion on that please. >> clerk: in the motion recommended as a committee report. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: next item, please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number two.

ordinance amending the administrative code and campaign and governmental and to establish the vision of responsibility in the office between the executive director and the chief medical examiner. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. colleagues if you will indulge me for a couple of minutes. i want to thank you for considering this legislation and by way of background, the office of the chief medical examiner plays a crucial role in providing unbiased timely and scientific forensic medical services to the general public and the city and county. unfortunately, the office as we all know has long been plagued with a series of -- well, let's call it like it is, scandals, miss management, lack of management of one flavor or another over quite a number of years, probably as long as i've

been here. which, ultimately, has been laid at the feet of a number of industry administerers to address given that this is one of the governmental functions of the city administrator. in march of 2014, the chief medical examiner, dr. heart stepped down amid a huge backlog of cases over half of which were over a half a year in duration which not only impacted families waiting for closure and death certificates for their loved ones, but also delayed the workings of our criminal justice system that relies on the medical examiner's office. ms. heart's successor dr. hunter came here in the year 2015 and had a limited duration of only about four

years and in june 2019 left and was recruited to lead the same office in san joaquin county, california. and, since then, there have been a number of problems. i think we all read the sad story about a medical examiner, or preng analyst who got arrested in the state of utah with stolen evidence that led to a number of high profile media stories as well as a large number of criminal justice cases being questioned and kicked out. at that time, i had several meetings with then city administrator kelly to discuss possible reforms and restructuring of this office. and, frankly, she admitted we already knew in part that i've

included as part of the firm record of this proceeding today that it is really quite difficult to attract a chief medical examiner not only to this office but offices around the country. it is a -- there are not a lot of doctors in this business. so at any rate, in september of 2020, i asked the budget of legislative analyst to conduct an analysis of comparative practices of medical examiners, core functions, general oversight, hiring and firing criteria, and funding. i held a hearing on that. and, i think ultimately, the policy direction that i'm recommending today and discussed with then city administrator kelley have now

discussed with city administrator choo that there needs to be a clear role that's tasked with performance measures and the day-to-day operation and that really serves in a more traditional department head role rather than the doctor role. so, to that end, the legislation that i've introduced that is before you which, in essence, creates a department head who is not a doctor, obviously pursuant to state law, the chief medical examiner will still be the chief medical examiner and has to be a doctor, but is not going to be under this experiment, the department head. that is the sum and substance of the legislation that is before you. i am happy, colleagues, to attempt to answer any questions. and, if there are none, i'm

happy to go to public comment. and i want to thank my chief of staff for her years of work on this issue. supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, supervisor peskin. i do agree it is a complicated issue. in my limited capacity working at the district attorney's office between the year of 2007 or 2008 until 2010, early 2011, the medical examiner's office faced a lot of challenges and i think will continue on as you mentioned. i do think that it is good to have someone in a role that functions more as an administrative role helping the

office to integrate both integrate with the rest of the city government, but also have some type of accountability and, you know, transparency between the role as medical examiner which a lot of information is confidential but also kind of parts out some of the administrative tasks to allow transparency but efficiency to the process. i look forward to seeing how this is going to play out. i think that it would be interesting to see specifically how with this structure what kind of plan that we will have to improve the efficiency for the office. but i'm happy to support it today so that we can see how

this is going to show us at some point. i mean, in the future would love to circle back to learn more about, you know, the performance and evaluation of this new structure for the medical examiner's office. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan. and let me employ the first to say what i touched on earlier. this is, indeed an experiment. so if it works, god bless us. if it needs tweaking or rescission, we can deal with that in due course, but i think it's a step in the right direction. and, we will continue to monitor this as the rules committee and board of supervisors and i know city administrator choo and her staff has been looking forward to this. with that, seeing no other names on the roster.

mr. clerk, why don't we open this up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public which to provide public comment on this item should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 1878969131 then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star 3 to line up to speak. the system will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. we have nine listeners and one caller at this time. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> can you hear me now? >> we can hear you mr. pillpell. >> it is david pillpell again. so i was going to ask for a little bit of an explanation of who is the department head and why the chair split. as i understand it, it sounds like the administrator because there's been a position for a

long time in that office of an office administrator. it sounds like that position or a new position is created that gets upgraded to an executive director and department head much like the health director. meanwhile, the chief medical examiner becomes more like the health officer at the health department. and so, it's really more of a split between the department head and administrative functions and the chief medical officer -- chief medical examiner and medical/forensic functions. so i think that makes sense. i support this change as explained by chair peskin and if needed a future change so be it and thanks again to chair peskin and sunny angelo for

their work on this. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to comment on this item? >> clerk: that completes the queue. >> chairman: thank you. so, colleagues, if there is no objection, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the recommendation with the full board of supervisors. on that, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: thank you. can you please read the next item. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number 3. motion approving the mayor's nomination of appointment of carol isen as the human resources director of the city and county of san francisco pursuant to charter section

10.103. >> chairman: thank you, clerk young. colleagues, this is one of the very rare provisions in the charter where the board of supervisors has to concur with the mayor's nomination of a department head. the other -- the only other one i can think of is one that we dealt with quite recently which is the city administrator and here today before us is the nomination for new director of human resources in the form of one carol isen who i've known for the better part of 20 years. originally as a union representative at the international federation of professional technical engineers local 21. most of our staff, actually, come from that and later on as a senior ranking official in

the department of human resources. with that, i would like to invite ms. isen to make an opening statement and then i'll turn it over to committee members and then we'll open it up for public comment. ms. isen, if you are there, the floor it yours. >> thank you, chair peskin. members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to speak with you today. i am honored to serve the city and its officials and employees as human resources director. the nomination and i hope support and confirmation from this board of supervisors to service the city's human resources director is the culmination of a long career in public service. as a union representative and as a public servant. i am a career long advocate for

public service and for effective and equitable government operations and services. i would like to describe the qualities and strengths i believe that i bring to this position and my thoughts and plans if the board confirms my appointment. first, i commit to this board and to all employees in the city that i will set the tone from the top. i am ethical, respectful, i am direct, and i am compassionate. i bring deep knowledge to the merit system and the relationship in which these two things are intertwined. i have extensive experience and respect for the civil service union. i believe that fair, nonbias, nonpolitical ethical civil service employment is essential to the delivery of high quality public services. the city's employees are its

greatest asset as has been so clearly demonstrated over the past year during the local emergency which has been brought on by the covid-19 pandemic. i will always be their champion. i will honor their great work and i will take steps for compassionate but firm course direction when needed. as you know, i would be the first openly lgbtq employee which a key junction of my career, i would not have felt comfortable and safe to state this in such a public manner. as a worker advocate, i bring a deep and abiding commitment to the rights of all workers to provide free of psychological harm in the work place. bullied, harassed, suppressed, not appreciated or encouraged or unfairly disciplined or

intollerable. all of us have the right to earn a living and should do so with respect and discipline. our efforts are making this point forcefully. i am committed to doing everything in my power as human resources director to listen and to address head-on the demand for racial justice and equity in the workplaces. we owe this to our employees. i commit to being a full partner and champion as the human rights commission, the office of racial equity, the office of transgender initiatives and all of our city agencies including the department of human resources pursue the critical task of advancing racial and social justice in the san francisco city employment. i believe that organized labor should and must be our active partners in this work. the rights of all workers to be treated fairly and with dignity

and respect is at the core of the labor movement's mission which are the principles i have advanced throughout my career as union representative and as a city employee. i'd like to pause here for a minute just to acknowledge the recent violence against our asian american and pacific islander community. our colleagues in the aapi world are so woven into the fabric of our work. at d.h.r. we will make sure thatsen xenophobia has no place in our workplace. i urge everybody who feels the need for those services to take advantage of them. if confirmed, i will pursue the following objectives. first, to protect the integrity

and fairness in civil service. part of the oath for this position which is the only city employee to take this oath is the following: i am opposed to the public service as a reward for political activity and will execute the office of human research and director with the spirit of this declaration. i will uphold this oath to the fullest of my capacity. but this is a significant challenge. d.h.r. processes on average 125,000 applications for employment every year and over 11,000 appointments each year. we have multiple points of entry through the perm nans that will service to various appointment types permitted by charter, but exempted from the civil service system. at present, d.h.r. conducts audits only in response to allegations or complaints. i would seek to establish an auditing function within dhr

which would conduct routine and random audits and coordinate its activity with the whistle blower function, the public integrity unit of the civil service office. i think it's important to get the word out. the d. h.r. is stepping up its oversight and this is supported by the executive and legislative branches of the city. and, as you know, with the support of the mayor, i have launched an independent review of our equal employment opportunities and employment practices. we will work with all interested parties including this board once the report is issued. in addition, d.h.r. is recently initiated a collaborative effort with pacific bridge with u.s. response to evaluate and amended or business work processes. i would like to make sure the

departments are at the forefront of addressing this conduct promptly and effectively. in a well publicized incident last year, a now former employee of our e.e.o. division hid her actions and deceived supervisors and co-workers in our division. we're working with civic bridge with identified steps to systems are in place to prevent misconduct in the future. second, i will promote and inforce healthy work places. this includes everything from respect and dignity at work to robust health and safety programs. i intend to prom l gate with increase and swift consequences for misconduct and special focus on misconduct and its discriminatory, defamatory or

[inaudible] . to my worker's compensation division which has led the way to fair and processing of claims, we will takes step the to fulfill our full charter responsibility to expand in health and safety coordination with our city departments. as we have taken a leadership role throughout the local emergency in many practice areas, we have launched a citywide health and safety coordinating committee and brought in efforts to support this work and i would like to very much build this up and keep it going. i will work to promote career employment for all our employees, not just some and encourage training, education and skills development. we will strengthen our partnerships with our city agencies in community and educational partners to advance job opportunities and pathways to them.

and, i am committed to pursuing these activities through a highly focused equity lens. we will do this through the support of our newly created office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. through the diversity, equity, and inclusion office, we will immediately begin to establish city wide and department levels strategic goals for this work and examine and promote practices that support an inclusive and belonging environment in which all of our employees are treated fairly. next, i will modernize and improve merit based hiring and promotions. our civil service system is rule and process bound as you know. i am aware of the range of complaints not new that the time and complexity involved in hiring is excessive and overly

burdensome and further complaints that it adversely affects citizens of color. we have initiated a review of several aspects of city employments to understand how they are working for our employees and for our city agencies and where they're falling short including testing protocols, minimum qualifications, the use of temporary and permanent exempt appointments. outreach and recruiting and, finally, deidentification of applicants in the selection process. and, we will continue that work and look forward to reporting our work to the board of supervisors. we are looking forward to completing our first major milestone of our hiring modernization program with our tracking system. i hope this is only the first of major investments in system supporting personnel activities. a lot is expected of d.h.r..

however, the department is badly in need of investment resources. with that, i would like to acknowledge the professionalism and dedication of the employees who comprise the department of human resources. i've heard from many corners the perception that d.h.r. has broken. not without major challenges as i've stated here, i think d.h.r. is not at all broken. with the same energy that we've poured into the covid response, we will focus on critical evaluations, process reforms and course correction as needed of our core work. i intend to reform and revitalize d.h.r. and focus on the priorities i have outlined today. thank you, chair peskin and members of the rules committee for considering my nomination. i ask that you recommend me to

the full board of supervisors as the city and county of san francisco human resources director. >> chairman: thank you for your courage and seeking this seat and having been nominated by the mayor. are there any questions or comments from members of the rules committee? seeing none at this time. why don't we -- supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. and, yes, i agree and i thank ms. isen for your submission to be nominated to, you know, and to be going through this process to really manage our human resource department in this challenging time. you know, i think for the last 15 years, i have worked in various city departments and --

and both at will and/or as a temporary position or even as a civil servant. i do agree and i really appreciate you specifically address that your intent to reform, you know, e.e.o. because, and to really hold our department heads and executives accountable for misconduct because we have seen, you know, in the last year in 2020, i want to say this on the record, be it public corruption be it sexual harassment and discrimination for either racism or for race, you know, age, all of that, when that really comes to light or any of those to come to light, we know it's actually have gone through

a pattern and quite some time that built up to those cases for lawsuits. and, as someone that's been in the city departments for the last 15 years, i really look forward to have a mechanism that's put in place in every point of our city departments to make sure that these behaviors don't go unchecked on all levels, but most definitely our city department heads and executives because at times or a lot of times we're cultured to have a diverse, safe, healthy work culture really comes from leadership from the top, from city department heads and their executives. and, so i really look forward to seeing your leadership, you know speak for the workers, making sure that they are respected and treated right for the work that they do and that,

you know, not let any of this misconduct go unchecked for far too long. so i thank you for all your comments today, you know, directly addressing racial equity and misconduct. it's really what i need to hear and it's really what i want to see for someone, you know, managing our human resources. because i also know it's very challenging. you as human resources stand alone in trying to oversee all these city departments where they -- all these city department heads and executives as appointing officers have really -- they leverage on hiring and recruiting and disciplining workers and it's going to take a lot of effort to hold them accountable and have transparency through that process or with that process. so i thank you and i look forward to supporting you today. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan. seeing no other names on the

roster. mr. clerk, why don't we open this up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 1878969131 then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star 3 to line up to speak. a system will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates. we currently have seven listeners and four callers in line to speak on this item. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> yes. my name is miguel galarza with engineering. i've known carol for about 20 years. i've worked with her with work force development when she was

with p.u.c. and recently worked with her extensively with the san francisco p.o. lane negotiations that took numerous months to complete and was instrumental in bringing it home and considering all the stakeholders involved. my relationship with her has always proven to be respectful and courteous. i look forward to see all the constituents involved and has always been on top of her game. as i am not a city employee nor have a stake in the game. i just simply want to say that, as an employer, having someone on my team that would have the experience and level headedness that she would bring to the city would be an outstanding asset to the city and her appointment would bring credit to departments and bring it full circle.

so i wholeheartededly approve her appointment and look forward to seeing her in that decision now and for a long time. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> can you hear me now? >> chairman: mr. pillpell, please proceed. >> thank you. my last comment today i believe. i believe the controllers subject to approval by the board of supervisors. on this point, i strongly support carol ise n's nomination as human resources director. she is an outstanding person, caring and knowledgeable about city personnel, policy, and process as a former labor representative for local 21. city employee, supervisor employee relations director and manager. she will not be the first woman

as the city's h.r. director and hopefully not the last, but an excellent one perhaps and hopefully much like andrea gordine many years ago. she has my full support and i think she will do a fine job. thank you very much. >> chairman: next speaker, please. >> good morning san francisco board of supervisors rules committee. my name is sal cruz and i'm a native san franciscan and long time resident of bernal heights district 9. i'm calling for carol isen's nomination. i am a labor union president at b.a.r.t. and have worked with carol for years and facilitating partnerships between labor and management. carol shares the values that my neighbors and i in bernal

heights uphold. i support carol isen's nominations of appointment human resources director for the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> okay. good morning chair peskin and the other members of the rules committee. i'm here to urge you to support carol's appointment to the department of human resources director. i currently work at the san francisco zoo as executive vice president of human resources. prior to this, i was with the city and served as g.s.a. and labor relations manager before promoting to human resources director. i also work for p.n.c. and chinese affirmative action. i first met carol back in 1994.

we were on staff for 10 to 14 years before carol decided to take a position in leadership. i got to know her very well as a colleague and i consider her as a life long friend. i'm happy to share a secret with you and that is her character, her core values and her strong ethics have not waivered over the years. she's a compassionate person and furthers the lead in inclusion, equity, and access, diversity and a consensus builder sometimes to a fault. carol's task mainly to diversify -- >> chairman: thank you. mr. young, i concur with all of your comments and we're sorry to cut you off. i share your opinions and experience with ms. isen. mr. clerk, are there any other members of the public for this item three?

>> clerk: i believe there may be one mr. speaker. >> chairman: next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is dante king and i represent a group called the black employees alliance. and we had maybe over between 50 and 70 of our members contact each of you to not support this confirmation. there are many employees who believe that director isen will carry on some of the woes that the human resources will continue. so i'm not speaking on behalf of myself but on behalf of a group that consists of over 400 members. so please take that under strong advisement and consideration. >> chairman: thank you, mr. king. are there any other members of the public for public comment? >> clerk: yes. we have additional people get in line. i believe we have three additional callers.

>> chairman: next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is elia hernandez and i'm with [inaudible] san francisco. and we would like to have [inaudible] to come back. >> chairman: i'm sorry. that's item number 4. the next item. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> chairman: yeah. so if you get back in line, we will hear you for item number 4. >> clerk: can we have the next caller, please. >> good morning, mr. chair and members of the committee. rudy gonzalez with the construction trades. in that capacity, we have several thousand frontline public workers at the city and county. they deserve fair and transparent leadership with the head of this agency and we believe carol isen's appointment will bring just that.

she not only has the experience necessary for this important role, but for those of us who've had to deal with her directly, sometimes in difficult circumstances and in opposite ends of an argument. she also brings the credibility that's necessary to be effective in this role. not only the management side of the city as an institution, but also the workers and importantly the community. so we appreciate her appointment is timely and not lost on us as an lgbtq leader. this also stands as an important statement with this appointment of inclusion and diversity which she represents, embodies and promotes with her own teams. so the building trades are in strong support of moving this forward and supporting carol isen. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker >> kim cavaloni, san francisco labor department.

i want to say we support carol isen, she and her no-nonsense to [inaudible] -- perpetuated through human resources over last decade and she's willing to tackle it as best she can. [inaudible] -- with her and we know that she's going to make some changes that are deeply needed within the department and we look forward to that. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, this is jessica brown with the black employee alliance. i'm here on behalf of the b.e.a. to represent us not supporting carol isen's appointment as dante king mentioned earlier, we do not believe that carol isen will be

able to impact the change that is necessary for black employees particularly black and latinx employees. unfortunately, we feel she will maintain the same status quo that has led to higher disciplinary actions of black and brown employees, salary gaps, and unfair rules for the civil service examine. while this is not an attack on carol isen on a personal note, at the same time, our h.r. needs reform. >>. we need someone to come in with the social justice to amongst black and brown employees across the city and we need somebody to adhere to the mayor's racial ordinance in order to bring inclusion and true diversity in social justice. so the b.e.a. does not support carol isen and we ask the city

to reconsider appointing her. >> clerk: i believe that completes our queue of callers. >> chairman: okay. with that, public comment is now closed and i will turn it back over to the committee. any comments from committee members? seeing no names on the roster. let me, first, for my own personal experience say that what we've heard from many of the public commenters and what we heard in ms. isen herself is just right. she has experience within the department of human resources, within other city positions, within labor on the other side

and most importantly as i think we all experience in her opening statement, she is humble, she is real, she is compassionate and i, for one absolutely concur with the mayor's appointment and am ready to hear a motion from a member of this committee and would suggest that that motion include that this be sent as a committee report. >> supervisor: so moved. >> chairman: mr. clerk, on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. [roll call]

>> clerk: the motion is adopted without objection to recommend the matter as a committee report. >> chairman: ms. isen, we will see you tomorrow afternoon. mr. clerk, could you please call the next item. >> clerk: yes. next on the agenda is the hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending may 1,two thousand twenty-two and two members terms ending may 1,2023 to the office of early care and education citizens' advisory committee. >> chairman: thank you. colleagues, as part of the mission i'm on as chairman of the rules committee is to address the backlog of appointments and reappointments and vacancies that are under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors, to streamline that process as you saw in item number one earlier.

you will recall last week that the board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution encouraging the speeding up of appointments to this body, the office of early care and education c.a.c. which was established back in 2014 to make recommendations to the office of early care and education regarding their mission of providing those services for children ages zero to five in san francisco as well as to other city departments involved in early education matters. when that resolution introduced by supervisor melgar came up at the full boards, i noted i would schedule it at our next possible meeting, which is today. some of those seats seemed ready to go and another seat,

seat 7 seemed less ready to go and i will schedule that at the next meeting. since that time, i want to point out a few sticky wickets for this committee to think about that i have discussed with counsel ms. pierson who is available to speak on them a little bit more. interestingly gnu and if you look at the maddie accurate report or that agenda for this hearing or the underlying documents, you will see that the seat 6 position actually expired in 2019 and was not heard by the previous rules committee for whatever reasons. albeit, ms. sullivan, the current occupant of that seat reapplied timely but it was never heard. the reason i bring this up is

because the enabling legislation passed from seven years ago said that there was a two-term limit for any individuals serving on this body and each term of two years. the interesting thing here is ms. sullivan has now served for almost four years, but two of those years were in the holdover capacity wherein she was not reappointed. counsel advises that that may not or probably does not trigger the four year, two-term limit, but i wanted to be very transparent, colleagues, with that. there's only one applicant for seat 9 which applicant would require residency waiver. there were five applicants for seat number eight. one of those individuals

jessica campos has withdrawn. so there are now four applicants for that seat. three of them would require a residency waiver and we did discuss at our last meeting section 4.101 subsection b of the charter which certainly encourages that where there's a qualified applicant, we seek a resident of the city and county of san francisco. so those are the thorny issues before us. i also want to point out and we can hear from staff to this body and to the department that there are an additional five seats that are mayoral seats. so the original enabling legislation created a nine-seat body. four of which are appointed by the board, five of which are appointed by the mayor. i have not had an opportunity

to discuss with the mayor whether there can be some balancing and whether the mayor may be interested in accommodating some of the remarkably qualified individuals that are before us today. we have a number of options. we can consider these today. we can move -- we can continue this item in whole or in part to the next meeting of the rules committee where it will be also considering seat number 7. so i just wanted to throw that all out to you, colleagues. are there any questions or comments from members of the committee? if not, i suggest that we go in order with the applicants as listed on the agenda. so why don't we start with ms. sullivan. ms. sullivan, if you would like to make a statement, i have read all of the applications and i'm sure my colleagues have

as well for the 14 or however many individuals that are left that are before us. ms. sullivan, the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. >> chairman: i'm sorry. seven applicants for three seats >> thank you, very much, supervisor peskin. i want to thank all of you for moving forward on seating the o.e.c.e.c. and it has been kind of lonely in that room with all the seats being filled so i'm so grateful you're moving forward with this. and, i wasn't aware there was a problem with my seat until just now. so, if there's a problem that i need to find someone that's also in family child care to

serve if i can't, let me know. >> chairman: thank you, ms. sullivan. and it may or may not be a problem. we can hear a little bit more from the city attorney. i don't want to put words in the city attorney's mouth, it's kind of a line call. does that conclude your initial remarks? >> yes. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. seeing no questions for ms. sullivan. why don't we move on to seat 8, ms. fromer. >> good morning. can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> good morning chair peskin and rules committee. happy wonderful spring day in san francisco. my name is gina fromer and i'm at childrens counsel of san francisco. we provide resources for child care providers. as a sixth generation black san franciscan born and raised in

bayview point with deep roots and ties to my community, through my work and experience i am uniquely qualified for the c.a.c. seat 8 position. san francisco's local planning counsel for child care and the public policy chair for alternative payment public program associations. public policy committee where we advocate for additional resources for child care, and i also stayed on the southeast community commission as a member working to improve social and economic outcomes for citizens of our community. very connected to our city. i'm running for c.a.c. because there is more work that needs to be done. and, as an individual deeply involved in my community, i won't have time -- you know, i won't take too much time playing catch-up if appointed. i will be immediately be able to meet the needs of our

community and get to work. right now, our city of san francisco is in dyer need of two representations. every day, we have more families become ineligible with less child care spots available in the city. if you remember, prop c ruling is, working with the community in the office of early education to see how spending happens from those dollars. and, if appointed, i will do everything in my power to expand c.a.c. involvement as well as the impact across this great city. one of the things i wanted to mention and i know there's a rule around out of residency, but i want the body to know that in 2000, i was gentrified out of san francisco with my three sons but since then, and for 40 years i've been committed -- i've committed my life work to this city and

children and families across ymca work. community on top of the hill trying to get some work done. he wanted to get some work done in his community and now children's counsel of san francisco. i am a life-long san franciscan. i just live outside of our city and i really believe that when you spend twelve hours in the city you really do live there, you sleep somewhere else. but i really do appreciate your consideration. i thank you for this work. overall, the city needs legs and true support to work across the child care needs of our community. and, i do want to say one thing about the diversity of this group which is really important. we talk about true representation. i believe we need true representation across the c.a.c. group. thank you so much supervisor chan, and supervisor mandelman

and supervisor peskin for the work in our city. >> chairman: thank you for invoking the name of my 1980s and i do

thorny a year ago, but i do believe that more than ever early childhood education does need proper representation and also support as we have been up ended through this covid-19 crisis, and we are feeling it on all levels and so i have

been very thoughtful and watching how i can contribute and it was ms. fromer's predecessor who recommended a few years ago that this is where i would start to dip my toe in and use my experience with g.s.a. and the federal side of the work that i've done to contribute to san francisco as a whole. so i just want to thank everyone for considering my application at this time. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. seeing no questions from committee members. the next applicant jessica campos has withdrawn. so why don't we go to jennifer curran. >> good morning. thank you chair peskin and members of the rules committee to allow me to speak today. citizens advisory committee seat 8. my name is jennifer curran and i am the executive director a family private foundation in the city. for over 30 years, the peter

hoss fund has worked in partnership with the city to strengthen the quality of education in the city. particularly those living in underserved communities. i have enthusiastically dedicated my career to addressing inequities and challenges that young children and families living in poverty face. for the past 16 years, i have worked in a variety of capacities in the city that further this mission including 13 years spent in direct service to san francisco's young children and families through my work with jump start a national literacy organization. in my current role, i direct early education grant making which reaches all corners of the early education field in the city including early education work force leadership development and early

leadership in child development. funding key initiatives in innovative strategies. i feel that i would bring a unique perspective to the citizens' advisory committee strengthening the city's commitment to public private partnerships. i am an alumni of san francisco state university and mills college and a proud mother of two young daughters who were actually born in the city and a former resident of san francisco for 18 years. i have been a regular attendee of the citizens' advisory committee for the last five years. thank you so much for your consideration today. >> chairman: thank you for appearing before us and for your application. with that, why don't we move on to june lin-arlow. >> okay. hi everyone. good morning. my name is june lin-arlow and i am an american woman living in

district 5 of san francisco. i am a child and family therapist and early childhood mental health consultant working in the bayview. children in san francisco have struggled over the past year through collective trauma but also displacement and racism. as a therapist, i work closely with children and families. very young children have absorbed the anxiety of their care givers and have experienced an unprecedented level of isolation during the pandemic. as a mental health consultant, i work in three preschools in san francisco and a domestic violence shelter and in my role, i work with staff to strengthen their capacity to support the social emotional, behavioral, and relational health of children ages zero through five. by working in person and in my experience, there's been high staff turnover this year at all

schools and staff are stretched incredibly thin because early education and child care system absorbs the stressors that children and families experience at home, everything is especially heightened at this time. almost all of the children who get referred to me in mental health consultation are black boys and i spend a lot of time working with staff and administration on being trauma-informed, understanding the meaning behind behavior, having a strength-based approach and addressing racial bias when working with young children of color. when staff feel supported in their work, i've also seen these child care and education sites provide a place of stability and nurture during this difficult time. i'm very concerned about the long-term mental health and social development impacts for children over the last year which will be a priority for me if i were appointed to the seat. i would also make it a priority

to advocate for working and ways condition that allow for people who do the incredibly important work of caring and educating our children to be able to work and live in san francisco which has gotten increasingly unaffordable over time. and, finally, i would advocate for any efforts to make early child care more affordable for working families in san francisco. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, ms. lin-arlow. can we move on to liz cortez >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to speak about my qualifications today. my name is liz cortez and i'm the associate director for the mission promisers initiative, a collective impact prenatal and college initiative that supports families in the mission district. i have worked for eight years with many early learning to align our efforts and support children and families to

improve outcomes around school readiness. i worked in various capacities implementing early head start and head start programs. i have years in experience in the education field. i come from an immigrant family and i'm the first person in my family to attend and graduate from college. i'm applying for seat number 8 as a community member with expertise in early care and education that provides families and child care providers with support around financial istanbul, business development, affordable housing and connection to supportive services. i believe all children in san francisco should have access to the best early care and education possible. additionally, when we dissect the data, we consistently see that black and brown children and families are not doing as well as other families across the city.

i believe that these families need specific strategies and we should invest in this support. we also need to understand what's not working for families at the systems level and address those systemic barriers. we need to have a deeper relationship with families and partner with them to cocreate strategies with them. they know what's best for their families and we should support that. i also agree with the rights to the applicants that representation is very important for this community. thank you again for allowing me to share a little bit about myself. >> chairman: thank you, so much. and, why don't we move on to the one applicant for seat 9, sara hicks-kilday. >> good morning, chair peskin, and supervisor mandelman and chan. i'm an applicant for the child care planning and advisory

counsel seat which is seat 9. i first want to also appreciate your passing of the legislation and strengthening the oversight bodies last tuesday and moving this process forward. currently, i'm an appointed member of san francisco's local plan and counsel known as c.p.a.c.. i also sit on c.p.a.c.'s executive body and the members of c.p.a.c. elected me to a member a year ago and i've been waiting for the seat back appointment to move forward. last week the policy and legislative committee. as a member of cpac i bring the board of educators to the advisory body. holds convenings with center

and family child care educators focused on identifying issues and needs to support their work and livelihood. bringing educators and expertise into policies. i bring to my work with ecsf my own experience as past educator focused primarily on infants and toddlers, a parent who ran a home-based co-op and expanse for early care and education. i cochaired the ad hoc committee and worked with the committee to identify the cost parody with educators as well as to identify priority benefits and barriers. i am committed to continued

work expanding community engagement in planning including every applicant not appointed here today and strengthening the information and community input. we need every person involved in the discussion and we need to stir up more interest to get at what we really need. since the ad hoc community planning committees and in my work with early educators of san francisco, our focus is ensuring the least at the table are included, specifically on site educators, black educators, educators whose first language is spanish, lgbtqi educators and others under represented. we also work to identify and advocate program solutions and i want to thank those of you who are here with prop f to release the prop c funds

greatly needed during the pandemic needed already before that. i will bring my work as an oececac. found a place in the east bay but have worked in the city since that time. up until now and i'm pleased to be considered for this position and offer my experience and knowledge as part of the oversight committee and thank you all for your time here today. >> chairman: thank you, ms. hicks-kilday. before we discuss this at the committee, why don't we go to general public comment, mr. young. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 1878969131, then press pound and pound

again. if you haven't already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until you are unmuted and you may begin your public comment. we have 17 people in line for public comment at this time. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> hi, good morning to all. my name is elia fernandez. i'm with parent voices of san francisco. i just want to say gina is a wonderful person and i'm speaking to support gina as executive director of childrens counsel. she's also a strong supported parent of community voices and decision making in supportive as children's counsel. thank you so much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> good morning chair peskin and fellow rules committee chair members. i'm the cochair of the sf early care and education advocacy coalition and cpac coalition. we are proud and thankful to see c.a.c. seats being filled. and at the advocacy coalition as follows. seat 6, pat sullivan. seat 8, gina fromer. seat 9, sara hicks-kilday. as a member of the southeast community commission. gina is greatly involved in the sfece community and has improved outcomes for black children in san francisco. she has expanded our work in

addressing mental health among young children. we appreciate the resolution approved by the board supervisors on march 16th ensuring that the commercial tax for early care and education dollars and our city funds has strengthened community oversight. the c.a.c. needs applicants who can jump into community and department planning already under way. thank you for your time and consideration. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm beverly baloochin. and i'm represented children and i am here today to support seat number 6, patricia sullivan. seat number 8, gina fromer. and seat number nine, sara

hicks-kilday. all three of these candidates are very active and knowledgeable and are really supporting and have been for a number of years working early care and education. i just want to say also that we really appreciate the resolution approved by the board of supervisors on 3/16 for bringing these positions, the appointments to make them active and we really look forward to people being able to just pick up where we are and go right ahead with this important work. so thank you very much for today. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker >> hi. good morning, supervisors. my name is maria. i'm the organizer of parent voices for the last 25 years.

i was also a cpac member for 23 years and supervisor of the legislative committee. i have attended oece meetings. and i expect that gina fromer would also bring. as a community person and as ceo of children's counsel, i know that gina is strongly supportive of parent voices and community voices and as someone who has experienced giving subsidized care herself, she is very well versed and experienced the issues of early care and child care firsthand other than the fact [inaudible] she would also have access to a lot of very useful information that the o.e.c.e. would need. we are expecting the biggest

infusion from prop c and i believe that gina has the best knowledge and information and energy and the spirit to hear from parents and the community and that is what we need at the oece. we support her appointment for seat 8. patricia sullivan for seat 6 and also sara. please appoint her. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. good morning everyone. i am from parents voices in san francisco. for over six years. i'm calling to support gina fromer for the incredible work she does with families and communities of color in addition to education as a leader and director of the children's counsel. thank you so much.

>> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i'm here. i'm in support of gina fromer for becoming the c.a.c. president. and i want to say that i had many -- i know her through childrens' counsel because parent voices is an agency that is home at the childrens counsel and as a parent and gina as advocated for my family and she's very approachable. she truly can bring the voices of parents in need of child care to the c.a.c.. so i really highly recommend her because she not only represents the african american community, but also the immigrant community in many

levels. she's been leading childrens' counsel in a very wonderful way. so i'm really happy to recommend her because she really would be great for our community too. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, good morning. my name is lee marquez and i am -- i have 10 years of higher education administration experience and then i had to become an active full-time parent with two little ones back to back. i'm currently a san francisco resident and very active in san francisco community with regards to child care and parent advocacy and i wanted to call in today to support the following seat 6 patricia

sullivan, seat 9 sara kilday and seat 8 gina fromer. i felt gina's passion and dedication through her experience and that's really something that resinates to me. so i think it's really strong. it's important to get candidates and advocates that are passionate, have experience and can be an asset to our and i think those three can definitely do that. thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> clerk: i believe that may have been our last caller. >> yes. we have no more callers in queue. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. thank you to all of the applicants and to all of the members of the public who testified on this item number 4. colleagues, before we discuss this, i would like to give maya

castleman and the staff in the office specifically as it relates to the mayor's five seats. i understand there are vacancies there who are individuals who like what who are sitting on expired seats as this community grapples with making sure that we have a diverse set of representatives on this body. so, with that, if you're available, the floor's yours. >> hi everyone. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak and as all of the applicants said, we really appreciate the efforts to move all of these appointments forward. at the body is half appointed

by the board. under the mayor's per view, there are several seats with specific requirements and a seat that represents a parent or guardian of a child care and services. seat two is a representative of the school district who is recommended by the school superintendent. that recommendation to succeed the current person who fills that seat was committed in 2019 and we've just been waiting and pending approval by the mayor's office. the parent seat that i mentioned, seat number 1, the previous parent representative resigned in 2019. we're waiting for the mayor's office to post a vacancy notice and we are, you know, on stand by and ready to get the message out to the community to have parents apply.

seat number 3 is currently filled by sanda davidson and must be an early education provider that serves infants and toddlers ages zero to three. fonda has officially served one term. similar to the issue that you guys talked about with patricia sullivan. you know, her term expired and so she's been acting in the body of the holdover since then and if she is allowed would reapply as an encumbent. seat number 4 must be -- it's a very similar requirement to the seat number 8 that we've been talking about today. basically, it has a pretty broad requirement. must be a family support provider, provider or educator who working with children of special needs, a community member with expertise in early

education, a member of the mental health community. so the same requirements as seat 8. that seat is filled by jerry yang whose first term expired in may 2019. we just haven't gotten approval of that application from the mayor's office. so this would then again bring up this issue about the length of holdovers. i will mention he has served as the member of the committee for the past three years. and then, seat number 5 must be a representative of the institution of higher education. and it is currently filled by [inaudible] who's final term expired may 2020. and, again, we are waiting for the mayor's office to post a

vacancy application for that seat. so i hope that covers your questions. >> chairman: thank you, ms. castleman. that was super helpful and i think the community identified and your chair identified that we need to reappoint people and appoint people to vacancy and so this now has our attention and so we are doing it in real time. thank you, ms. castleman. if there are no questions for ms. castleman, and i see supervisor mandelman's name on the roster. i would like to make this high level suggestion that we have coming our next meeting which is april the 5th which is that perhaps we can, the community and the providers and this

chairperson work with the mayor's office and mayor breed's appointments staff to see whether or not we can accommodate some of the embarrassment of rich that is we. that may not be the case with seat number 9. given the hold overand the two-term limit around seat 6 and given the number of applicants some of whom clearly can be accommodated by the mayor's appointments, all of whom seem to be qualified.

perhaps colleagues, we might want to consider continuing this file to the 5th and sending it to the full board as a committee report. and, by the way, given there's no board meeting next week, it would get there at the exact same time. so there's really no delay. so i just want to throw that idea out there. and, with that, vice chairman mandelman, the floor is yours. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. i know it's particular to have these extraordinarily well-qualified people for this one seat is an embarrassment of riches and great and also kind of a problem. i do happen to know two of these applicants and i think quite highly of them. they both work but do not live in district 8.

gina fromer who a number of folks who called in to support began her current division of children's counsel just before the pandemic so i haven't gotten to know her as well as i would have liked but have seen some of her excellent work and then heather morado who i do know quite well and am a big fan of and who does tremendous work both in the community and at that institution. and so i imagine that i'm not saying similarly excellent things about the others because i have not happened to cross paths with them. so we have some hard choices and some truly excellent candidates. >> chairman: thank you, vice chair mandelman. member chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. i agree. i am in support of continuance

and just really look forward to seeing folks especially those that actually have institutional knowledge in the intent of prop c that was passed about, you know, how can we provide affordable, quality child care service in san francisco. i, for one, as a mom that really was struggling years ago when my son was still a toddler, you know, to try to find quality, but really affordable child care service. and so i appreciate everybody's work and knowledge and experience on this. and, again, i do see in the coming months that we're going to hear more and more of those who have lived here for a long time and worked here for a long time in san francisco. and, unfortunately, gentrified or priced out of san francisco in need of a residency waiver,

but their hearts are still left behind in san francisco. and i am just -- i think that eventually, we should come to have a conversation really about how do we address residency waiver in the long-term especially for those we know that really qualify and have worked and dedicated their time in san francisco. so thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan. and, let me just state my own personal bias. i'm super into ms. fromer and ms. june lin-arlow, but everybody is qualified and committed. with that, colleagues, you have my promise that in the intervening two weeks together with the providers and the community will reach out to the mayor's office and ms. castleman to see whether or not

we can have some of our cake and eat some of it too. with that, i would like to make a motion to continue this item number 4 to our next meeting of april, the 5th. mr. clerk, on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion [roll call] >> clerk: the motion to continue passes without objection. >> chairman: next item, please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for appointment of lashgs shawndra price-breston to the treasure island development authority. >> chairman: let me just say she comes highly recommended from any number of individuals

that i hold in high esteem. the application speaks for itself. she has support of the district 6 supervisor whose district encompasses treasure island. and, with that introduction, mrs. price-breston, the floor is yours. >> thank you supervisors. i've been a san francisco resident all my life. i've been on the frontline in many areas. i'm a hazardous waste [inaudible] i'm a recurring certified medical assistant. i've worked in the c.l. as a services counselor. i've held lots of votes in the employment office [inaudible] and i'm really happy to be active in that. obviously recommendations for

[inaudible] -- which i think is very important. [inaudible] -- i've taken many classes on violence. i love my community and i see a lot of changes coming. there's going to be a lot of changes coming and, you know, i'm pleased to say when the quarantine hit, i think the island residents were more secured than anybody in san francisco. [inaudible] -- navigating. i look forward to being a voice of of the residents. i look forward to the changes to help anything that the residents out here need. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. why don't we open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak to the mayoral nomination of ms. price-breston to the

treasure island development board. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item call 1 (415) 655-0001 i.d. number 1878969131. press pound and then pound again. at this time, we only have one listener and nobody in the queue to speak at this time. >> chairman: okay. then public comment is closed. colleagues, i would like to make an amendment to the item before us which is to remove in the long title at line 3, the word "rejecting" and to remove in the body of the motion at line 8, the word "reject". on that motion, a roll call

please. >> clerk: yes. on the motion to amend. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion to amended passes without objection. >> chairman: and, then, colleagues, if there is no objection. i would like to send the item as amended to the full board with recommendation. on that motion, mr. clerk. >> clerk: on that motion to recommend as amended. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion to recommend as amended is adopted without objection. >> chairman: ms. price-breston you'll be before the full board

of supervisors on april 5th. and we are adjourned. >> thank you so much, supervisors. i'll see you then. >> chairman: see you next week after next.

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housing acquisition opportunities with discussion and possible action by committee. i will turn it over to our housing pipeline liaison to give an introduction to this item. >> it will be the same as last time with a shorter version of this. pointing out the urgency of the issue considering especially the exits from the sp hotels and so many people will have the urgency and opportunity there right now. both with the prop c funding which obviously we are all very concerned with. it can accomplish things we weren't in a position to do before, and also the. [ inaudible ] federal funds and expectation of

possibly additional state funds as well. given the urgency and opportunity, i think we will have acquisition as a significant part. i expect we will of our own plan which we are going to approve next month. we would see it as being far better if we weren't moving together with the departments on this as well. i think our goals would be much the same. we would want to be informed. we are asking to present to us where the departments are anticipating with the acquisition process. with that. [indiscernable]

>> we will move to presentations. i believe everyone received this in advance to review before we hear from folks today. i will turn it over to the director. >> this is laura. good morning, everyone. i am emily, interim director of external affairs for department of homelessness and supportive housing. i hope you are doing well. thank you for inviting me back. i am pleased to be here. acquisition for new permanent supportive housing in our community. my colleagues from the housing department are also here. we will present this.

this is an opportunity. we couldn't agree more. this is an exciting silver lining for an opportunity right now. the department along with other city partners is eager to move forward with an acquisition strategy that may beings sense for our non-profits for the city. >> emmy your sound is bad. do you mind turning off your camera. maybe that will improve it. you are in and out. stop me if it is not working. >> as i was just saying, we can move to the first slide. the city not just department will share the goal of continuing to acquire and expand

permanent supportive housing for our most vulnerable residents. we want to do this smartly with a long term strategy. we have the opportunity here to build that and a process for continued expansion of supportive housing ongoing basis and not just immediate. we continue to build out with acquisitions in partnership with the our city our home committee to bring on permanent housing. we are committing to gathering information on all potential psh sites, not limited to the buildings functioning as sip hotels and establishing a city strike team. >> i am not hearing you.

>> it is cutting out. >> that is much better. >> sorry. we are interested in gathering information on all potential buildings to use for psh including sip hotels but not limiting. we are establishing a city strike team which is a task force to move forward with the acquisition strategy. really we want to lay out in partnership with our city our home criteria to take advantage of these opportunities so we are not looking at all projects but have a standard we agree on as we evaluate our responses we are able to move forward quickly and

know that, hey, this project meets nine out of 10 priorities or something to that effect. as i mentioned previously, the recovery plan is the driving work of the department of homelessness. we are excited that any acquisition additional acquisition of hotels would be above and beyond the 1500 units of psh coming online in the next two years. as i said before, this represents a tremendous opportunity. we do have a strategy for reaching new psh, 1500 in the next two years in partnership with our city our home for housing and expansion.

new prop c funding is a critical role in expanding that and new construction projects to create more psh beyond the initial goal. one thing we want to keep in mind as we look at acquisition is the ongoing and long-term resources it will take to provide the operations and services for these units. we do want to create a standard way of assessing and we have created a way to assessing buildings for our future tenants. it is important as we look at the market and our real estate team is an important part of our strike team. as we look at supply and demand, there are not the fire sale mentality. there is a lot of interest in selling, we have not seen a

significant reduction in price. there is a disconnect what buyers and sellers think the market should be. it is important to note that while interest in entertaining potential sales of sros and buildings is at one of the highest level ever. the city is not aware property owners are necessarily willing to sell at or below market value. we know that they are willing to consider selling. it is an exciting opportunity. we are cognizant there are things like deals to be had necessarily. in terms of creating a competitive process in the buildings we are looking to acquire, we want to create meaningful comparisons, meaningful comparisons between similar types of buildings. some hotels it is easier to

compare with similar amenities and sro with sro. we need to look at improvements needed and comparable factors that we want to judge potential purchases against the number of units, type of property angie graffiti of those. come -- and the degraff fee. it results in pricing when selling property. it is easy to create a competitive process as multiple buyers look at a single property. the city is a single buyer looking at multiple properties. once a site is selected it makes sense be to negotiate based on type of property and extent of improvements needed. for example, all things equal it makes sense to compare tourist to tourist and residential

property to residential properties. in terms of improvements, we want to compare whether a property is turnkey and needs minimal work or needs substantial improvement. that is an important comparison for the city in determining what they should pay for a particular property. to say in another way the city would pay more for something they have to invest less in to move forward with occupancy. in terms of disclosing negotiations this is something people are eager about. we need to wait until we have a tentative agreement that is signed delaying announcing the negotiations in a public sets is important to ensure the competitive process and specific information about our process.

the moment a site is identified and announced in a public target the negotiations can be compromised as the seller might feel the city is more committed to this and less willing to walk away. the city is willing to walk away from a site that is more negotiating leverage that we have with the seller. once a letter of intent for a purchase in sales is signed it is more appropriate to disclose the status of the negotiation at that point. the rfi is a unique frame that was preliminary and did not commit parties to negotiation. property owners asked to maintain discretion as prematurely announcing negotiations impact on investors, employees and

financial institutions. some property owners may not mind sharing information, others are clear that they do not want to share that information. they are interested in selling. in order to ensure competitive process and maximize the city's investment and saving money and getting deals for the city. the better deals, the more deals for people achieving our shared goals. we want be to create this meaningful comparison to measure properties against each other and maintain discretion when discussingtic properties in public settings. we are working as the city, not hsh alone. this outlines the details of the key departments that played in this including shh and the real

estate division. i am going to turn the slides over to my colleague from the mayor's office of housing and neighborhood -- community development, excuse me, to talk about their pipeline. >> thank you, director. >> good morning, everyone. i am a senior project manager at housing and community development. i work on the multi-family team. 2006 we have been issuing of notices of procurements that include 20% portion of units as supportive housing. depending on the project it goes up to 50%. we also issue 100% permanent housing targeting populations identified in hsh strategic plan

in collaboration with hsh. these are adults, seniors, families, transition age youth and mental health services and those with serious mental illness. in 2019, the city received an award of $100 million of state no place like home capital funds. the supportive housing units for people experiencing serious mental illness. the goal is 500 no place like home units within the psh sites up to seven years. this is coming in various stages and will take time to develop all of these units. hsh applies for master lease in city leased housing outside of the area that we work with them. there are hybrid models of supportive housing that they

collaborate. home key projects and bryant which the new housing project built with the support of the san francisco housing accelerator fund and without the capital funds. they will be providing the local operating subsidy for that project. this is a snapshot in time of the target population of the current pipeline of ocd and ocii financed projects in line by 2025. these are under construction or in predevelopment. as you will see the majority of these units will serve adults at 62% of the units, family units both make up 13%. veteran 7%, transition age youth 5% and the no place like home units i discussed before are

among these units. there are an additional 600 units projected to come on line by 2028. there is a potential for more units to be added if down the line ocoh capital funds are deployed. i will pass it now back to emily. >> in addition to the ocd pipeline. shh has inherited a significant portfolio of permanent supportive housing between dph direct access to housing and hsa portfolio. when we lunched in 2016 it was a combination portfolio. since then we have criteria for

new units no more than 70% of income towards rent and it provides remainder of funding needs. some of the legacy units have not converted. it is a focus for both the board of supervisors and hsh. as was mentioned here and applicants to any of these units are referred through the coordinated entry system. we can talk more about budgets relating to this if there are questions about the number of units specifically. ann spoke about the pipeline a bit. i want to add some fuller picture to the pipeline. in addition to the mohcd/ocii pipeline of 1500 we have diverse

plus, rapid rehousing for tay and families, 1500 new psh units by the end of fy22. nearly 1100 units of flexible housing subsidy pool for families and add difficulties and 400 units at the psh at thegranada, diva and the tay site. one of the questions that was posed by the committee the last time we talked about this was the comparison of the units and construction type and payment strategy all impact what we pay for doors, for new permits.

you can see on the slides acquisition in place with two examples versus new construction and the three examples below. the units we brought online for under 300k are sros without bathrooms. the more expensive units have bathrooms but no kitchenettes. it is difficult to compare the cost of newly developed housing. they often have bathrooms and kitchenettes. there are costs to converts hotels. not all hotels work as psh and it is not seamless from one to the other. we have upgrades nearly almost always needed. i think when we talk about sip hotels it is important to emphasize these were entered into for emergency purposes.

none of them were originally intended for long-term housing. when we look at the needs of each of those buildings and to determine what it would take to convert from hotel to housing. hotel acquisition master lease home key all provide mead housing opportunities and new capital development with nonprofit partners. they are higher quality and offer long-term affordability. i don't think it is one or the other that we need all of these strategies to expand up from that supportive housing. in terms of evaluating costs in addition to the purchase and developing costs, we have the on going operating and services costs. we estimate as we think about new units $1,100 per month per unit in operating costs. $550 per month per person in

services costs. you can see that results in annually and those are ongoing financial commitments that need to compliment the one-time investments of acquisition that we have. what are we doing? a lot of the time we are going on. we issued the rfi and received over 70 submissions. we are vetting these currently. we are establishing a city team to identify the resources and ongoing both for acquisition and ongoing operations and subsidies. developing a strategy for immediate and long-term acquisition strategy. beginning to implement this we will issue a competitive nofa to generate competition among potential sellers. i mentioned the need to

establish a competitive process between similar buildings. of course, the due diligence needed to move projects forward. we have issued the rfi. we received 76 properties that responded. it is still open. with over that 4700 units in the pipeline. as i mentioned. under the real estate section a lot of interest in selling. we don't yet know what the energy will be like around good deals, market rate, below market rate purchases. we have to exclude some right away. we have also done site visits for 24 of the sites. these are the attributes we

looked at when assessing the building. these were all part of the process and we have gone out and done site visits at 24 buildings looking for amenities and attributes that we know are of utmost importance to our client. unit count is important in terms of the economic feasibility of the site, space for supportive services, majority vacant, ready for occupancy, location, elevator, ada accessibility and looking at other amenities. kitchens, private bathrooms and unknowns. which are the total cost of acquisition plus rehab. these will take further assessment to determine. i did want to share two examples of the properties that have been assessed.

maintaining the confidentiality of the respondents. we have seen exciting properties. medium sized is 100 to 150 units. we did see smaller properties in 60 to 100 range and few larger properties in the 150 plus. property one hads communitial spaces. elevator, mix of shared and private baths and it does have accessibility issues and some deferred maintenance work. the second example medium sized hotel. offers a range of room sizes, good kitchen and open space. elevator with accessible entrance and private bathrooms and some additional modernization needed.

we will see that throughout the respondents. what is next? the city team to move this project forward is being informed with key departments participating. we are identifying resources for acquisition to work with our city our home to determine the level of investment here. we want to determine the fastest timeline and model so what would be appropriate for achieving that. completing due diligence and beginning the negotiations with specific building owners. >> they need to move forward with the service providers.

>> it is something i was wondering about quite awhile progressing and making decisions. the think to bring up is that to make sure we have hotels disbursed throughout the city so they are not all in the tenderloin district. the equity in making sure that they are in all parts of the city. also, kind of being aware of the

environment that some of them are in so different people may have different needs. elderly population or those with severe disabilities. it may be better they are not around so much of the hustle and bus sell, you know. i get that we have got to have toilets in the rooms and kitchenettes make it more attractive, but i am wondering if there are other dimensions that we are looking at in terms of geographical as a community and neighborhood that they are in. the population we are putting in those hotels. i want to make sure they are not all in the to. too much of that and we have hotels throughout the city.

>> we completely agree. the majority of respondents were in the downtown area. as we look at the respondents, we want to put a high value on location and geographic diversity. we are particularly interested in the hotels outside of the downtown center, outside of the tenderloin to add more diversity to the portfolio and provide more equity within the geographic locations of our permanent supportive housing. we are constrained by the responses that we get and knowing where the majority of the responses are coming from. that is why we support the flexible housing pool. they can take the subsidy to different neighborhoods to better meet their needs. we are trying to achieve that goal. we share that goal with you. location is listed on the

attribute side. i think outside of the tenderloin area will be considered because we also value that diversity of location. >> thank you. member fry den back. >> thank you for the presentation. i have a couple questions and comments. i will do it. we don't have a back and forth or whatever. this is amazing. we have the magical moment that i am hoping we take advantage of both movement around the real estate market and also having funding not just from prop c but leveraging state funs, stimulus money, reimbursements that freed up general fund so that we can really take this to the extent

that we need to. this is a massive humanitarian crisis that is neglected. from my perspective and doing this work in san francisco for 26 years, i haven't ever seen the opportunity that we are in now. it know it is a tremendous amount of work to take advantage of the moment. it is exciting. i hope that all of us together can really make this happen. i want a clarification. we have 1493 lots in the pipeline. i want to know the number of years in the pipeline we are talking about there. i am clarifying that separate from the 1500 number from the new permanent supportive housing. i want to note that it seems like we have shifted the definition of permanent

supportive housing. it is a little bit confusing, i guess. i thought about it as permanent. we own as an entity the building and then we separate out master lease or subsidies that were used in the private market. not that they are more or less than. we never considered them permanent. the landlord can go out of business. i wanted to note that we are talking about a variety of housing options. wanted to know where the strike team is located in hsh, in the covid command, out of mohcd? this is what i am hearing from hsh in hearings and meetings, you are a new department, small

department and have a massive task and there seems to have the tendency to have everything inside hsh. that is a problem. this needs to be city-wide. other departments should be taking on this stuff like mohcd that have been doing this. my last peak is accelerator fund. why not give them a set of criteria what you are looking at and do a lot of this vetting for you. real estate are overwhelmed. we have accelerator fund ready and willing to throw down. why not have them do some of this work for you? again, in this spirit this is going to take all of us, this is not just for us to be successful with this it can't just be the small team at hsh. those are my three things. >> if i may respond.

>> go ahead. >> i completely agree with what you just said. the inner agency team is yet to be determined. hsh is not an acquisition department, not a practice that we have taken on. with covid we have had help. we did not do that alone. we will not do this alone. it is a city-wide effort. i am here to represent the department and the fact this is not going to live solely within hsh. it is multi departmental effort. what we call hsh. talking about permanence from the perspective of the tenant. this is not shelter, transitional housing.

this is your home. it comes with an ongoing subsidy and wraparound services. i think phs is taking on different models. master lease. scattered sites. provide that stability for the client and ensuring people can get matched with the right resource and type of housing to meet their needs. they are not time limited in that. i think what you said about permanence is something we either the city or community own as part of the definition of phs. hss doesn't own any acknowledges. we would consider the 8,000 units to be permanent supportive housing. maybe that is different language. that is the lines of what you mentioned there. >> thank you. vice chair d'antonioio.

>> first question was accelerator fund. >> we are working closely with the accelerator fund. they play a very important role in due diligence to move for quickly and this city. they are a partner in doing a lot of that work. >> thank you. >> my colleague is also on the line. she may want to weigh in on that as well. >> would you like to respond? i can see her. maybe vice chair d'antonio and come back. >> thank you for the presentation. i think she touched on what i wanted to ask. about the variety of different

housing options. my understanding from the presentation was the 1493 number were permanent supportive housing. i see why we are talking about this because of sip and getting people into housing, getting that plan done. i think a lot of folks want to hear about different types of acquisitions. we want to talk about different options other than permanent supportive housing. deeply affordable units. things that are owned by the city that can remain deeply affordable. i really want to come up with creative solutions. i want to try to do things like infill grants where our subsidies where we have two subsidies combined to make it 30% a.m.i. i want to look at the pipeline overall of the city and see how we can partner with anyone who

is building and make things deeply affordable where people can be on fixed incomes and still qualify for units without it being permanent supportive housing, without going through coordinated entry. we know a lot of people don't qualify for coordinated entry. i think this is great from the permanent supportive housing aspect. going forward we want to plan ahead looking at the pipeline especially as we no, i thinks are slowing -- we know that things will slowdown. this is an opportunity where our dollars will go further than in the past. i hope that we can have that conversation going forward. maybe we can have another presentation on that. thank you.

>> do you want to respond in regards to the deeply affordable pipeline? >> i would defer to my colleague from the mayor's office of housing and community development. our focus is largely on psh. i hear your recommendation, vice chair. this is incredible to try different things and to think beyond the models that we know. we know psh works well for highly vulnerable people experiencing chronic homelessness. we know there are other needs in the community and we need a mosaic of housing options available. i will defer. >> hi, everyone. i wanted to clarify the 1493psh units. jenny asked what is the

pipeline? 2025. there is an additional 600 units to come on line by 2028 further out for various reasons. regarding the affordability of affordable housing that is critically important. as you know, sometimes the basic tax credit level or income level necessary to obtain financing of the project aren't extremely deep. it is only the tsh units that have that affordability. we hear that. what is needed is the financing to be structured to have more units at the deep affordability level. one exciting program is sos. those subsidies on top of tax credit provide deep

affordability to low income seniors. if we could create other subsidies for the additional affordability that would be really helpful. it is an ongoing effort. we could in the future present our pipeline and show what are the median incomes targeted and get to the challenges of bringing the affordability level down? >> thank you so much. that would be great. i would love that. thank you. other folks would, too. >> member reggio. >> one is the timing on this. particularly the timing. it is a lot of work and very considered work. i understand that between now and the time you can do that there is the potential for

opportunity with the funding if that were to come this summer. as of a couple weeks ago it may consumer. the question is timing. are we ready to move that quickly? is the city ready to move if the opportunity is there? the second thing is to comment on the projection of costs. $6,000 for services, $13,000 for operations. i do have concern based on cost factors several years ago when i was actively in the work. i just can't imagine that is a sufficient based upon the projection of the ongoing basis. that is not to say i am correct on that. it is to say that i want to have some assurance we are not setting up a thing where we acquire it and under fund for the long-term and make it hard to sustain staffing and provide

the wraparound services. third thing is the issue of the 30% of income level. i would request clarification on that. whether or not that applies to those currently in supportive housing or only new projects going forward? >> i will try to answer your questions. if i miss something, please let me know. in terms of timing we are determining the exact timing. i feel confident with the rfi responses we will be able to move fairly quickly in the development of the city team. we will move quickly when our city our home funds do become available. we don't want to miss that opportunity. i am going to turn it over to

gigi who has additional information to respond to your second question. >> gigi for hsh. member reggio, thank you for the questions. this is on a very fast trajectory to be put together. we hope within the week to have the mayor announce the strike team. the inner agency team so the team can start moving forward. there is a lot of prep work with the rfi. the goal is 30-days to turn around both the nofa and vet responses. not just for home key that might be available this summer. there is a variety of funds already appropriated from prop c. we are putting forward our prop

a, the go bond strategy. i think in consultation with many of you and other city partners, we don't want to miss the opportunity in the market. that is why this dedicated team outside of me and couple other people holding it. this would be their full-time work and they would be accountable to the mayor and the various department heads including hsh, controller and other key stakeholders. i think once that team is in place the goal is to move very quickly to turn around nofa and identify the various funding sources so that group has both kind of a funning target and unit target to aim for and can start to vet opportunities as they come. your second question about the operating sources. that 1650 per unit per month. that is higher than our master

lease average, higher than the typical ocd subsidy. they try to address some of those considerations that you raised. i also think that it is important especially as we go forward that we build in cost of doing business increases into the contract from the get-go so those contracts are keeping pace with inflation and other cost pressures. the other thing to note is any sort of unlike the legacy portfolio hss inherited. mohcd has operating reserves, capital reserves that wouldn't be included in the 1650 per unit per month that really sustain the building, draw on the operating reserves for damage on the building, ongoing capital improvements and reserves to

keep the building up to par. that is looking at direct subsidy. right now it is best estimate, i think, that can be refined as we go forward to the budget process. i didn't quite -- happy to answer questions about the 30% directly that has been a policy of hsh since we started. there has been legislation passed by the board of supervisors to meet that goal for our legacy tenants. happy to answer any more specific questions on that. thank you. >> we will go to member leadbetter. we are at time for this item. we will take questions in the queue. >> thank you so much. good morning everybody. this is really great to see the

presentation. i know there is a lot of interest in the committee around hotel acquisitions. i recognize the presentation was largely about that topic. if you want to pull back to place this in the other charges of our committee and to echo for the sense that we have an acquisition moment right now and we also have a pipeline moment beyond acquisition, and we are sharing that with the flex pool, it is a psh town. that is how we organized. we had many opportunities based on our stock of housing. we are in the moment and want to embrace all of the housing strategies we are trying to implement right now.

it is in the private market with everything we can to protect tenants right and long-term tenancy and what we need to make it permanent and safe as well as acquisition. it is an exciting time to expand intervention and we need high level expertise. we need mohcd helping. we need the legacy portfolio is a lovely term. those in it don't feel so romantic about it. we will level up that portfolio. we have an opportunity to do that within the dollars and we

heard that loud and clear with the prevention dollars. [please stand by] . . . . >> an i hear it might be about acquisitions and also a new office being formed.

i hear a lot of movement. i think it is an exciting time and with the expertise that the whole system needs to go into the new phase. i will echo the comments about the operating subsidy. i think those numbers are low and the comparative analysis is a range based on the commonly visible end. what we want to achieve. and i think if we go in with those numbers, we will undervalue ourselves and all be in fabulous legacy portfolio moving forward. as the other thing is would love to see a little bit of focus on what -- on how we are

approaching the re-entry population with the new scholars and acquisition and leasing. and a little bit to member's comment where is the re-entry population is specific and doesn't always make it through the coordinated entry system. and we've got a lot of interesting opportunities out there, i think, to move from what the re-entry community has done to create a lot of transitional housing. and help that community move from transitional housing into a permanent housing or acquisition. and then i think with the families, we have more dollars than the numbers tell us there is homelessness. i know that is understood counted. i just -- i know that is

undercounted. we have a real opportunity to end family homelessness in prop c dollars. and some of it creative, small side acquisition, preservation, and all that stuff that i think we can also look across the prevention fund and the housing fund that we can really do some exciting work there. also building off of member antonio. and finally, i think all of this tells us points to the next phase of the planning which is the systems models. it feels like we are in this great moment and all just kind of grabbing what opportunities are in front of us. and i think i am excited to do this with the modelling and to make that inventory so that we can begin to have this

comprehensive view and excited to move forward with the city on this. >> thank you, member leadbetter. then we have to move to the next item. >> my question has been answered. thank you. >> thank you. so if that is no other questions from the members, we will go to public comment. secretary? >> member of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-f 5 # a-0001, sesz code 146, 550, 2411 and then pound and pound again. and if you haven't already done so, dial star 3 to speak. and the system prompt will inkate you have raised your hand. and you may begin your comments. please note that you have three minutes.

>> i will take the first caller. >> welcome, caller. >> and good morning, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to provide comment and h.s.a. for presenting on acquisition strategist. i am gabby ruiz, the planning and policy manager at tenderloin development corporation and a member of the supportive housing provider network. i want to say we are fully supportive to select immediate and long-term needs. and the acquisition of quality sros and hotels for permanent affordability through nonprofit ownership and is one critical component that the solution set to permanently make affordable, and city and nonprofit partners to be realistic about the rehab operating in ongoing capital

needs associated with owning buildings that are sometimes 100 plus years old. and wants to be a part of the solution to achieve the ambitious and bold layout in the mayor's homeless recovery plan. and we need adequate funding and operating costs for the funding and to move ahead with the resources and thank member leadbetter and to reiterate and operate the costs for unit listed and presentation on slide 12 is too low. we would love to get this to a realistic standard for all providers. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. is there additional public comment? >> i am checking now. >> i do not see any additional public comment. i want to thank the director cohen, ann romero, and gigi

whitley for joining us in this conversation and with that area and gigi. >> thank you very much for having us. and i wanted to let folks know that i have a slightly updated version from the slide deck that was emailed and posted and share that through laura that can be posted. we look from that area and continuing the conversation around the services around operating dollars. and the resources that we currently have dedicated are comparable to the most city projects and pipeline and we also want to continue to have that conversation. about the appropriate funding levels. >> all right.

we will move to item five, discussion and possible action and on the proposed ocoh measures. i will turn it over to the data officers. >> thank you. can i have the capability to share my screen possibly? >> thank you. >> can everyone see my screen? >> i am going to assume that is a yes because i can't see anyone. >> yes. >> yes. >> sorry. >> all right. thank you. i wanted to start today and first let me tell you why we are having this discussion. i would like to give you a series of updates about the investment and action plan so that by the time we are voting

in april, nothing will be a surprise. we will be meeting with the committee members and have another special meeting on march 29 and meeting with departments. essentially wanted to give you just a little bit of an update today to lead us into why we need to have an outcomes discussion. and so there will be more and more detail as we move forward. but i just believe that on march 29 we have more time for a fuller update on the investment plan. i wanted to give folks a sense of what the investment plan is shaping up to be and we can move into discussion in which we look at the ocoh goals in the legislation. we see what outcomes and in other plans and we have the beginning of the discussion to continue into our next meeting if we need to. and we started doing this in january and let's see how far we can get with the data we have. and realized that we can't do the full systems models and the

systems models involves more partners and really look at the funding. so there is a lot of information we have gather and detail and specific recommendations for fy2021 and 2022 and across the expenditure categories informed by the input. and when possible, we will make recommendations that are aligned within the different plans and essentially to the framework and young adults and street homelessness and any other goal to align with. and we identify which recommendations will require funding and project how much funding in the future and fiscal year and we will see if we are committing one-time funds versus

year over year fund. and what the impact will be over time. and which will limit our projected availability. it is important for us to see that. and make sure we understand what decisions we are making into the future. and the projections of the outcomes to be achieved and through the recommended investments and how the recommended investments and the equity goals around racial equity, lgbtq equity, and another justice conversation. and we will start that today. and i am going to mention that we have been asking that question in our stakeholder input sessions and so we'll have more of an update on that, too. and the stakeholder input is going to inform all of this. and they will give much more of an update on where we are with the stakeholder meetings. and that we have been joining and facilitating and inviting and invited to various stakeholder meetings.

and the big tent meeting on february 26. the meetings since then and before then have been with smaller groups which is inviting folks to let us know where they want to talk to them and facilitate something. we have them and specifically really trying to put together sessions that are for people with lived experience. and i will let the other ladies on who are leading that work to talk more about that and to mention that. and the reason we -- and one more thing that i want to say is while in this investment plan we can identify our proirties for the use of the fund for future years, and i want to put a plug in for really doing more detailed modelling and planning process after we make the recommendations in april. and that was that will help us look at funds come into the city. and to tell us how to allocate funds across the city and move in the same direction to reach the goals we all want to reach.

that would really help result in a plan that serves the needs and gaps and help our needs assessment process. so i just want to put that plug in and continue talking about that phase that will happen. and the outcomes different plan and why are we talking about this today and the plan? we need to have the best practice and accomplish the outcomes now and making progress in preventing homelessness and we don't have outcomes and additions to the system and make the impact and if you want the data, we need to figure that out and homelessness and if we didn't know we need to change

course over time and help us move and fund differently and to adjust the outcomes and this is telling us how we're going to track progress and helpful to know and preventing and reducing at a measurable rate. and to make the impact we want them to make. and i am just going to remind us what the expenditure categories are. we have talked about these a bunch but just to level set for folks who are also listening or attending the committee members and we have 50% in permanent housing. there is a lot of sort of targets in that 50%. and the category we will permanently house 40 people. i will go into more detail on

that. and 20% and 10% in clean streets bathroom and shelter. and accountability and oversight and the ocoh outcome goals are in each category and there are goals and legislative decisions. it is over time. it is not over the first year. the goal in permanent housing the goal of providing permanent housing for 4,000 people and additional units and placement and 4,000 units and into the system. and creating for over 1,000 people and drop in hygiene programs. to prevent 7,000 people from becoming homeless and the behavioral use and substance abuse treatment. and to bring us back into to what is in the legislation. and i also want to mention that

we are in making this investment plan and trying to align with goals in all the other city plans and other goal. we look at the input from homelessness with 500 unhoused people to tell us what the needs are and where the bottlenecks are. the shelter in place with free housing plans and mental health reform and sfs and the five-year updated tra teejic and homelessness recovery plan. and we are also amazing with justice and safety and justice goals that are kind of coming to fruition through that process and the group there is are working with. and they have some goals they have been working on for a long time. i also want to -- and jenny, i don't know if you want to talk about these. but i want to frame the conversation with what the prop

c our city, our home coalition priorities are. this is essentially the evolution of the campaign into a coalition of number of different kinds of stakeholders and they also have priorities. they would like us to kind of make sure that we are thinking about. jenny, do you want to -- >> it's just partly thinking about a matrix around making decisions and to fund this and not going to fund this. and i think some of us are kind of envisioning there will be a menu of options moving forward in terms of we can spend money on x or y or z. and so this would be kind of the things that from the our city, our home coalition perspective and which is the group that put this on the ballot and wrote it, etc., and to correct systemic inequities by ways, disability, sexual orientation and gender.

and that to be thoughtful that sometimes we need to do more for particular communities and look at the system and they have been historically so screwed over. we need to make up for that if we're going to have real equity. and prioritizes long-sterm solutions. we really want to move the dial on homelessness, but go upstream so we have a system in place where we are not in the nightmare where the poorest community members are facing this as we're moving forward. we are not going to be reactive in the moment and really just putting in long-term solutions. but making sure that the long-term solutions are simultaneously moving people off the streets. we are moving the dial in term of street homelessness and in a way that is permanently solving the problem. and we ensured for everybody

temporary bed that is created should be one to three permanent housing spots. and we have movement through the system and we structured it that way. and structured the emergency funds and to be a place where people are stuck to move on from. and minimizing the locking in prop c funds and to develop and the ability to learn, actively learning doesn't mean we have to do this going forward. and that is hard because it is hard to change once you created something. if we're going to be successful, we need to be willing to change decisions in the past that aren't great and shift funding around. and maybe we make decisions and

maybe were not the right decision. and the last piece is consistent with the legal text and intent communicated to voters which is to move the dial on homelessness and create new housing and behavioral supports for homeless people and shelter to prevent homelessness and in the three categories and is about serving people who are currently homeless. moving them in the direction of getting them off the streets permanently and housed and should be about prevention and keeping them in the housing and from becoming homeless again. and that is part of that framework. >> i didn't mean to do that, but thank you, jenny, for -- and for letting us kind of get insight into the thinking of the coalition and our city, our home

coalition. and i think what you are describing is trying to create that flow that the system doesn't have right now. preventing people from falling in and housing the folks as celebrating as we can and have that flow between the different program and interventions and system. and -- sorry, go ahead. >> and through doing that now. and get someone into a treatment program. let's move them into housing. >> thank, jenny. i am done now. >> before i get into discussion questions, i want to talk through the goals and where we have seen alignment any other plans. and the ocoh goal and that can give and sort of make progress towards the hsh strategic framework goals.

and the updated agency and will be the five years is next year and an update on that plan and the goals updated last year and ended a year and a half ago and by december 2022. and to point out the goal that is using the federal definition and not the prop c san francisco definition which is broader. and to figure out how we're going to use that bigger, broader definition with what it does to the goal. and reduce crime goals by 50% and reduce youth homelessness by 50% by 2022. those are in the framework to vied 4,000 housing places and report progress metrics and increasing the number of people placed in permanent housing and other long-term placements and survey results which emphasized

the importance of ending homelessness and supporting people's treatment and service schools. and not returning to homelessness as well. and they are also primary elements of the mayor's homelessness recovery plan. and the creating emergency shelter for over 1,000 people and furthers us towards the goals. it is temporary but does help and we do need some temporary interim services for people who are current homelessness. and it features those goals in the framework. and expanding and strengthening the crisis response system. and it can be aligned to the revolving door reports and low barrier emergency shelters and actually providing and with the mayor's homeless recovery plan

with the focus on shelter recovery. and for preventing 7,000 people from becoming the same sort of movement towards the goals and hsh and goals in the mental health reform around street-based mental health services and the evolving report and new entries to homelessness and preventing the members and described and shape prevention strategist and loss of housing and not being able to pay the rent. we have clear recommendations there. and the mayor's homelessness recovery plan and focus on prevention plan and increased risk of homes due to covid-19. and finally, behavioral health and substance use treatment and aligns for various goals in the

five-year framework and hsh and encampments and supports the achievements and mental health reform and performance met ribs and recommendations and focus on access and quality of life. and resolving doors tell us that significant levels will be real health care challenges and to address the need to expand the services and have more appropriate models of care. and further the recommendations and if there is no specific equity rules as in we're percentage goals around the committee. and we want to help advance lgbtq equity and other justice goals. what is specifically what we are talking about and to set this now and the systems process and what are we working wards? and we don't have that

intentionality and we need to embed it with the real, tangible goals. and how the goals align with the community plan and what other equity goals to establish. and just give you an example of why setting reduction goals is important and might not be able to set reduction goals and 50% and something else related to mental health and reform. and our recommendation is to model the funds and to do that systems modelling and to understand how many people are year should we be preventing from homelessness and how many people to house every year to get to those goals. we have some of the reduction goals and we don't have one in every area. there is an example of alameda

county and they just published the equities and the race equity analysis to drive the systems analysis. they figured out to get to zero and this is how many people we need to house every year. and how much prevention to do every year. and i am going to stop and open up discussion. i talked for longer than i meant to. and for us we can start this discussion now. i can just sort of prepare you to have the discussion in the next meeting. and i wanted to ask, what do we want and how do we feel about the outcomes that i have described? and obviously we have the legislation. those are parameters and what do we want to do next year? and working towards the reductions and that i mentioned at this plan. and establish outcomes and areas

we are talking about and stop there and open it up to the committee discussion. and i see member miller and we have seven more minutes for the item and we will have more time at the next meeting to dive in deeper. and member mill and leadbetter and in two minutes. and i wanted to express my appreciation for this whole team. and the folks with hsa and are stretching themselves and trying to acquire this property and be thoughtful and in the presentation and you just gave in member was like a lot of

really smart people who are really investing the intellectual and spiritual energy into this and really and truly trying to create something and be thoughtful about it. in working a little too hard and i feel proud to be a part of this team in san francisco. and i know hsh, and a lot of people throw rocks and people like to blame them for all the problems, but people who wake up every day and devote themselves to trying to figure this out and are doing it, i just want to appreciate everybody and energy and saw it and looking at this kind of work and not really appreciated or compensated. for people who put that energy

into making sure that san francisco really shows proof of concept that there is a different way that you can deal with this and be successful. and i feel like that is what we're on our way to. i just wanted to thank, like i said, thank you, cynthia, and thank jennifer for the presentation. and i really want to thank the hsh staff for doing the work every day. i see you guys next time. >> thank you, member miller. we will go to member leadbetter. >> thank you. you guys know how i feel about this work. and excited to be getting there. thank you, cynthia, for everything that you put together. i know it's really hard to move from a city full of people doing really amazing work to thinking forward and trying to figure out

how we really target our expenditures. i think that is our charge here. i will feel really good when we get a stronger sense of what our comps are and costs are and what we're using the dollars to accomplish. i did wonder based on the last conversation with the planning and processes we should be tracking towards and why the best conversation about whether the inventory means that and whether the and then i would love fit the controller's office can send out to the committee mes the analysis and the alameda county plan. i worked on that plan and the one thing that i can tell you which i think hopefully can be

very inspiring is we had apps which we line up for the systems modelling. and so that the gold standard of this type of planning also design the tool that is embedded in our system so that once we do our system model, exeasily translate that to ongoing ability to check that model that we currently have. and the real inspiring piece is when alameda county did that work, and nobody felt like we had this together and the data that meets and what that system looks like and who is in the system and out of the system and the work to get to the number. and we look at the pit count and

that is reflective and we got the annual number and made sense for who was experiencing homelessness. and the extra, extra inspiring part was that the racial equity goals came out of the process of doing focus groups. and i don't think we need to have the world's best brand-new spores for the look at the clarion truth that comes out of the listening sessions and events. we can go really far by taking what we have heard so far and taking it seriously moving it forwardment >> we may have lost julie for a second there.

>> you are back. >> you are back. >> we will talk about this more and curious about lining up the partners with the modelling. and there is concern about the capacity to do the work. i get that. maybe we can start talking with the local homeless coordinating board and is with the h. u.d. ta and get back to the table. and sort of what is it going to take to point us in the effort. >> thank you, member leadbetter and thanks so much, for all that

work. it is really just echo julia's comments and it is exciting. and i feel strongly and that we should be moving toward ending family homelessness and not the tip of the iceberg and definition of what's been in the strategic plan. but really making sure that all san francisco families and kids have a safe and decent place to call home. and i feel strongly that we could get close on youth. and then i am not sure exactry what that goal looks like and the modelling will give us more knowledge of and moving upstream and with some of the staff and

same people who were homeless and kids and adults and we see it is really tragic. and part of the idea is to go upstream and delivered about that and the third thing which is very related is the focus on chronic homelessness. we deliberately did not focus on chronic homelessness in the riding of the initiative. and we really in the spirit of upstream. and not force to live and before the damage has been done to the physical body, the mind, the hopes and part of the prevention piece and moving us forward. and so i think that the whole kind of construct need to be a little bit different. and to do that.

one example, for example s if we're talking about folks who are living in r.v.s and getting creative with having an r.v. park and maybe a low cost way to do that. and those are folks who would not probably score high through coordinated entry who would probably be in a motive hardship and long time and who goes the other direction. we see this all the time and the vehicle towed and can't pay the tickets and just making comments around there going upstream. i would like to see our goals aligning with that vision. and you did a beautiful job of where we are lining up. and i am pointing out where there is less alignment. moving the dial further than what we thought was possible.

thank you. >> i'll wait. >> and i am frozen, too. thank you. i don't see any other comments, but go back to the member to close us out. >> and i wanted to respond to a few thing. one, i want to ask the committee what would be helpful for our ensuing discussion. it sounds look there are some questions on the table and asks about housing pipeline goals, whether we can figure out other goals and outcomes that we are not paying attention to and not bringing in. i wanted to reflect on what we were saying and having a chronic goal and thinking about ho do we want and -- and other communities and do we want to

set goals around nonchronic individuals and talking about the individual adults that are not chronic yet. and are literally homeless and we are talking -- and there is always vets and far to think about reductions and do we set goals around nonchronic literally homeless people, like reduction in vehicular homelessness reduction. and think about it in different ways and goals that were setting and the proper systems modelling process help us refine and start somewhere. and just to bring it out there. and to open if it is okay, we have about a minute and contact me offline and tell me what would be helpful for the ensuing

discussion and are we aligned or do we need to have further discussion? do we need to plug in holes? >> an i love the idea of having goals and i think that when we shifted away from extremely low income housing and access, for example. and a lot of increase in lengthening and with the homelessness and thanks. and i ls a want to say thank you for this event. i am getting a lot of help. don't think for a second i am

doing this by myself. screenmate leadbetter is underselling her support. and i feel the same way about the committee member. >> we need to go to public comment. >> members of the public what wish to provide public comment call 415-615-and 0001. and access code and pound and pound again. if you haven't done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until you have been unmute and may begin your comment. you have 3 minutes. we do have a caller. . >> welcome, caller.

>> and i just wanted to make a comment on the consideration of equity goals and just probably considering this. and i wanted to note that i think the consideration and the privacy funds and to eliminating the disproportionality is possible to model how to do it. and black and african-american and lgbtq neighbors. so would just like to put a plug for consideration of that among your equity goals. thank you. >> thank you, caller. do we have further public comment? >> i am checking now.

i do not see any additional public comment. >> there are no additional public comments. >> and say thank you to secretary. thank you for the comments and we will have a further discussion at the next meeting and encourage them to lock at the sides and discussions for the next meeting. thank you. we will now go to item -- here we go. item six, which is discussion and possible action by the committee on the work. and then we will start with the committee liaison. >> thank you, chair. and not so much to report.

and with the commission put on pause. and asked as the communications and part of that time. and to be involved and from that information the interim survey and included in the communication efforts.

and the understanding with the partner and excited in the idea of the website. with that information that is shared to the communities. and engage with the our city, our home objective. >> slow down on the communication effort. yes. >> i'm sorry. my internet is freezing. so sometimes it is hard to get the full policies and from that

community impact. and impact. thank you. >> i have a lot to report back on and report back on the discussions and a lot of content and the question of what priorities people had and things that are occurring and shout out and even if you don't hear your feedback and are not included in the notes and the feedback taken into account.

things from the first priority question. and the fist session to report back on is great turnout and we were capped at 100 people and more were trying to log no n and from the community and the things we heard from folks and want to see buying buildings and properties to create affordable housing for families and secure funding for the development and exclusively low income housing. and funding to expand existing permanent supportive housing and permanent subsidy programs and affordable housing, that came up a lot. and bedroom sizes and varying

bedroom sizes. the need of larger families. three bedrooms, four bedrooms. and affordable housing create has the same level of quality of other developments. caps on rent and to buy affordable housing. that was from the homeless family discussion and domestic violence consortium and a group of providers and i am going to state the priorities as well. before that, some alarming

numbers and turned away 660 people last year and 2,000 people would not access shelter. those are numbers that need to be with the domestic violence. and emergency housing, transitional housing, step up housing and available in multiple languages, trauma informed. and behavioral health care and meeting people where they are is important. and legal services beyond prevention and eligibility criteria custody and that with the preventable with prevention. and next is the session and

folks with lived experience as well as providers and with the funding priorities and more treatment services and with the longer term transitional housing period and stabilization beds and gender specific programming and housing. this includes families. we got information that cameo house is closing. and that served a lot of information and something for us as committee members and with

the system and involved for individuals and more engagement and before release. and getting people to the housing situations. a really intense need to keep families together. reunification to get involved and big barrier for folks to get

the housing as well as transition and transition out of transitional housing programs. i wanted to report back on the provider session and talked about the outcomes with a large outcome and conversations and homeless families by the san francisco definition. to the strategist and medium term shelter options and echos that hotel rooms has worked well for the purpose. and upstream solutions for families with greater autonomy in the system.

and so those were some of the sessions that came up and a lot of people want to see peer led resources. and that is awesome and pain and as far as diversion and what people need and charging and wi-fi stations and to give more autonomy in the system and language access is huge. and educational component that came up a lot.

and with multiple providers and with lived experience. we can see that family reunification and the effect of many different systems colliding with a lack of collaboration and lack of options for folks. that was really big for people. and really quick to shout out a couple more things that we have coming up. and we did have a session that we are still cleaning up the notes. i will have that report back at the next report back, at the next meeting. we are planning on having a vets session, veterans, on the 18th. the glide session will be this

thursday and from the our city, our home website from 7:30 to 1:00. and to drive through to get the flyer and posted and send it out. and another session with the transgender variant and intersection justice project. we are scheduling that out and we would like to have two more sessions. and specifically targeting the black and african-american families and pregnant women. so i know that was a lot that i just threw at you guys. and i wanted to make sure that not just this committee but anyone who is watching this and reading the minutes later and watching this later has this

information. that we have been gathering. you are being heard and all the feedback is going to go into the system's modelling and going to go into the from the framework and reach out to me or anyone else on this committee. we are happy to schedule a session and sit down and talk to you. and thank you, everyone. >> thank you so much. thank you for all your hard work and i haven't gotten the chance to attend a number of the sessions and powerful and inspiring. i have a hard stop for an

appointment. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. i don't have the agenda in front of me. but mary, could you say who was next? and i can also take questions. >> if you have any questions on what i reported back on. member haynes, did you have -- >> thank you. and get through and recognize the small session and to the history communications and to data collection and curious and the feedback and i don't know if you were collecting and just notes down on paper and technology and from that point in time and the city and this

information and covid-19 not meeting in person and now everything has been online. and easier to electric information and whether it's you collecting it and typing it in and typing it in and individuals with the meeting and to give it to you and send it to other liaisons as well. that is my experience information and with that amount of information whether it be through individual meetings and i think it will help with that area. and to support back and my history and with the i.t. professional is not fun to keep notes and wonder what happened to the notes.

and first rater than later. nothing but notes and the history of the ideas that i have ever had. and it is easy to maintain that data and to look at that data and sort of extend my thoughts to you and help and specifically with that community and recommendation effort and to extend that to other commissioners. as you are collecting information and doing meetings largely through zoom, if you need support with putting together forms, we need to identify from the video what the information will go in and i feel that everybody is producing a report and i feel like all the reports are on your machine and to put them and somewhere and i am hoping with communications and communications and

technology feature and with the weather system. to provide something a little too spread out. i wanted to offer that as common feedback to the commission in terms of being able to see information that you are referring to. thank you. >> thank you so much. we will definitely touch base on that. and a lot of qualitative data and the way that we have been gathering it as far as in break-out rooms and writing and having different facile daytors and note takers and still needs to be sort of coded and extracted, if you will. and i know that cynthia probably

has a larger role in this data. and how that will happen. and i will let her speak to thatened a maybe that is something for the next meeting that we can kind of discuss. i don't know if you want to respond at all? >> i can say something quick. first, i want to thank you for the leadership in the stakeholder sessions and they have been amazing and leadership is incredible. and i appreciate your work and have been -- it's been great to see your leadership in this. >> and i i wanted to also quickly respond we are trying to deal with the data and have the method of electric collecting notes and is all sort of electronically collected by each note taker and sending

recordings of the meetings and notes as we are able to summarize them and those are going up on the website and as we get them and code them, we are sending them. there is a lot of materials under the liaison page. it is a good question to bring up and to advertise that way more. and by servicing and going along to try to code themment >> i appreciate the responses. and me as a commissioner and is challenging to understand. and not somewhere elsewhere we can easily do that. i wanted to pop in my support. >> thank you, member haynes. member andrews?

>> thank you, vice chair. if you don't mind, i'm sorry, i had a hard stop at 11:30, and i will jump in behavioral health. and i will be really brief. and tonight take the brevity for not a lack of work. we have been working hard and a behavioral health listening session with powerful notes and vice chair, a lot of what you were talking about in term of peer support and counseling came up which was huge and continue hypotenusety and behavioral health and find the right language so everybody understands the uniqueness of behavioral health services to lead to long-term permanent housing. and educational component required of all of us in behavioral health within the city and nonprofit service

providers to understand the unique sets of modalities and to happen and i want to thank chair -- i want to thank member for her great notes. thank you for sending those. i have those. i had a really great meeting with member nygendra. and we tomorrow are going to be meeting with hell haley hammer and dph health and representatives and who will talk about the investment planning along with the member. and i think jenny is joining that as well along with myself. we are building the plane. we are building the plane while we're flying it and loved the larger framework and that we are

bringing and filling it in along the way. lots of great work that is happening. i am super excited about the presentations happening today. and hearing from me and hsh and in the plan and recognizing the wonderful points of data that ultimately will lead to 4,000 folks being permanently housed. and with that, i will stop there. i am happy to answer any questions and stay on for another minute to answer any other questions. and we will meet tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. i am super excited about that one. >> great. thank you. do we have any questions? member haynes. i see your hand. >> an apologies. that was up from the last time. >> okay. >> thank you, member andrews. member leadbetter. we have a question.

>> and the thank you for your participation in the prevention section as well. a lot of crossover between behavioral health and and we are doing our best to communicate across the liaison to the extent with which we can with the brown act. thank you for your participation and leadership on that side as well. >> thank you. it is great working together. >> great. thank you. seeing no other questions, member reginald, are you the next -- i don't have the agenda in front of me. >> i do. i can help you. >> the homeless prevention liaison, member leadbetter please. >> thank you. >> all right. i can also make relatively --

i'm sorry. it still seem like i am cutting out a little bit. can you hear me? okay. >> so the knewest liaison and i have tried to move quickly to set up a listening session to get from public processing place prior to and i hope hoff a really wonderful meeting with hsh and others who have been working pretty diligently in preparation for this moment. i think the prevention world is kind of in a unique position to see a tremendous amount of dollars come down from the state and federal government to and the pressure to cleanse prop c

dollars now is a little less. and provider and network and it was a prevention and working thuch loser and i think they are sort of doing a lot of planning that will really feed into investments in the future. so still sorting out how much the ask will be within the investment and action plan this time around and how much might go forward the future. a lot of feedback around we talked about it today around really look at the prevention dollars to support stabilization in support of housing due d and do we need to circle whack to member andrews for a conversation about the

behavioral and a lot of comparative initiatives close to the housing and homelessness system. question marks about how that looks and that what looks like. and it's not specifically called out and to the main stream benefits and support and we are hearing that loud and clear. a little more thinking need to be done there. and i want to thank chair williams who helps also with the prevention session and tipping point. >> they are smending tremendous amount of time to support the liaison work, and i appreciate that. we have had some conversations not specifically in the prevex

and talk more with vice chair about how we sort of look at the lived experience within the prevention world and to design and get people involved in ways they want to be impactful. and to member haines comments, it might be helpful if it wouldn't be too overwhelming to put the questions we ask at the listening sessions on the website. and maybe we can start just have a place where people can ask the questions. and meme can't always come to the listening sessions but very simple questions. we can have one for each liaison and i don't know what that

entails. >> thank you. >> thank you. laura. >> thank you. and we do have the website. we have been requesting notes from various sessions and guess those into review and post any questions that you want to pose adds part of the general framework. we are about to post an and i think this week they have been testing other more robust version of a calendar to show the different sessions and linked to the materials from the sessions. and that should go up this week and opposed to the other version. we have the con tlent there there as member haines and with the web disigned session and

make it robust and what you need. and to try to catch up and once we have the new staffing on board and map out the web content and what makes more sense. and email me and we will get it up as soon as we can. and thank you so much. and i am curious to the extent of the type of resources in our city. and with the different organizations and greater organization and to the extent like google to manage that facility or all the documents associated with each organization. and microsoft teams which is

part of the office 365 and implement the technology and give the commissioners and day bow something that may not be associated with the personal account and with the commission work and and keep things up and be segregated and legal purposes and in terms of the internal document and management. and sometimes we get to the meeting and in terms of documents and brampton and yesterday evening and i read it in the middle of the and if we

are able to move in that direction and those who may not be working more posting together and to the extent that we want to collect information with surveys and those type of technologies could make it easier and integrated online platform. and and more just as much with the full machine and now that we are building acclaim and hard to get a sense of where the actual plans are and sometimes the person who likes to build confidence and give you a plan associated with things that i am part of. >> a couping a couple of

responses. the shared documents are going to be challenging. our public committee. and all the information is subject to brown act, and so we need to post everything online as it is available to you and also needs to be made shabl and and the delay in you receiving presentations is mostly due to the work that is going into crow yating those and that is department or committee members who are compiling that information. it is not allowed to have insight or either those are working documents that are in

advance and that is the roles around that. so we have tried to give members more advance notice on the materials. we have asked presentations to be shared in advance. sometimes that is not possible. i asked for the presentations last week to have it to me and departments and we asked cynthia as well and these are trust con trants of making communication strategies and having the agendas clear sooner. so giving more lead time to create the presentation so they can be provided to you in

advance that will be a working process as well. and to nail down the real framework. we started to do that. we know what the agenda should be. that is the continuous improvement process with sooner notice on the agendas and sooner distribution of and that is not public information and information that is public committee, the and available to february 1 so -- >> thank you so much, laura. i want to be mindful of time for everyone. if we could just -- actually, ken, because we did mocd today.

and i think you are free and clear. if we could just have public comment on this item and move on to proposed agenda item. >> awe thank you and members who wish to provide public comment should call in and press pound and pound again. if you haven't listen done and please wait and you have three minutes. i do not see any public comment, so we can move on to item number 7. >> that is committee to propose agenda items and possible committee actions.

>> do you have any questioning and i think this happened last time, too and report back isn't there and people might be cure outabout what is going on there. and to briefly sap and in terms of future ie teps, wanting to have that on there and mier and waiting to get an agenda. >> >> i would love a deep dive into what we have spent so far.

the huge allocation anded a vance three payments which is larger than anything we have ever approved. i want to get to account ability on what is already spent with a lot of questions from folks and don't feel uncomfortable and the department and what is left in the balance. >> i think you clarified this last meeting.

and in the original immediate need and with what is ho the immediate needs and chart. >> you are muted. >>ened a several items on there and specifically put if there was stimulus money and reimbursements that they would be covered by the other things. that is the repayment piece and basically and a lot more information and gathered from the perspective on what the specific items are and there is i know the controller has been doing that work to pull that together. and the plan is for that to come back together. and i am not sure what the timing on that water is.

and that is definitely part of what we have to do. and differences, i think, and the repayment thing is kind of a question. and it was the controller's office put the money on reserve but later could it be spent and saying that we can preparing and for things for reimbursements for. and there may be stuff in there and framework and prop c and acceptable spending and the big picture question and items that are out of alignment and all that need to be discussed for

sure. >> that is great. >> i just -- >> how much funding you have left. and that is something that is ongoing with the supporting document for our meeting. and it will continue to change as we spent -- and we contest things. and we can open it up to public comment. and members who wish to provide 415-615-0001, code 146, 550, 2411 and pound and pound again. and if you haven't done something, for and please note

that you have three minutes. great, and i guess we can adjourn or take role to end. >> motion to adjourn the meeting. >> i will make the motion to adjourn. >> do we have a second? >> second. okay. great. thank you. and call roll. member frnl and member haynes. member leadbetter. >> yes. >> member miller. absent. >> member reggio? >> yes. chair williams, absent. and the meeting is adjourned at 11:55. great.

thank you, everyone. >> and see everyone on the 29th. . >> the hon. london breed: good morning. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and i'm really excited to be here at pier 39 today. i'm excited to be here today because we have some good news.

i know i gave it away last week when i said that the state was going to finally allow us to get into the red tier. we were keeping our fingers crossed, hoping we would get here, and guess what? we're here. we're in the red. now, i know red doesn't sound that great, but it's great. here we are. we were in the super purple, dr. colfax, and what that means is this is just the beginning. this is the beginning of a new day for san francisco. today, i'm joined by director of public health, dr. grant colfax, the director of the port commission, elaine forbes, the director of the golden gate restaurant association, as well

as the executive director of pier 39. most people who come to pier 39 are the people who visit our city, but let me just tell you, pier 39 and specifically the wharf and this area which attracts tourists from all over the country, this is also and can be a destination for san franciscans, especially at a time like this. and because we're in the red tier, the opportunity to expand what we open and what we make available to the public is really exciting. in fact, when i went to galileo high school near ghirardelli square, some of us would go down the street -- this is when

atari came out, and nintendo was just starting to take over the game. when people came to san francisco, we felt like we were ambassadors because they always had questions about where to go and what to do. for everyone, i'm sure you're tired of being cooped in the house and want something to do. here is your chance to come to pier 39 and get irish coffee at cioppino's, scoma's, and some of the places that we all know and love. what better way to come out and open the doors than to come out and open the doors and enjoy your own city, to do a

staycation in san francisco. what does a red tier mean for san francisco? it means that indoor dining can begin to resume at 25%. for us ladies, we can get facials now, and places like our ferris wheel in golden gate park, the carousel pier, can open. so you better go ride the ferris wheel in golden gate park before the fun police shut it down. there are so many things to do in san francisco, and what we want to do is we want to support them. we want to support our businesses, to enjoy our city, but we still have to remember

we are still in the midst of a global pandemic. so that means in a restaurant, when you're waiting for your table, keep your mask on. when your waiter walks up to the table, put your mask on. when you go to use the rest room, put your mask on. we're in the red zone now, but in a few weeks, we'll probably be in the orange, and that means we open our city more. and then, eventually, we'll be in the yellow. once we get vaccine and have more supply, we'll be in a better place. as of this day, over 22% of san franciscans over the age of 16 have been vaccinated, and 54% of those 65 and up have been vaccinated, and those are our most vulnerable population. those are the ones most likely

to get covid. we're in an amazing place. we're not completely where we want to be, but we're better than we have been since october of last year. so i'm excited. this is the beginning of a great time in san francisco. he saved money, not buying those plane tickets to other places. you can come out, enjoy the shops and incredibly vibrancy of pier 39. you want to go and visit alcatraz, even though you want to make sure you have a ticket to come back so you don't get stuck over there. take advantage of every opportunity, but be mindful of

the fact that we are not where we need to be yet, but we are getting there, san francisco. we're getting there because we stuck together. yes, i've had to come out here sometimes and, you know, ask people to be on their best behavior, dolores park and some other places, but ultimately, san francisco has had one of the lowest infection rates and lowest death rates of any other major city in the country. we should be proud. i am, and i'm excited about what this means for the future. so folks, let's see what this means. let's slowly get back our city so we can do what we know and

we love and -- we can get back to what we know and what we love and what we miss. and now, let's talk about the numbers with the doctors in the house. dr. grant colfax. [applause] >> well good morning, everybody. today is a great day for san francisco, and i'm so proud of how far we've done, and thank you, mayor breed, for your leadership during this unprecedented time. we've now emerged from the worst surge since the beginning of this pandemic, and we are ready to slowly start opening again to support our businesses and to resume some of the activities we've so sorely missed during these past months. right now, san francisco is averaging about 67 new cases of

covid-19 every day, and while that's still far too many covid cases, we are down from 169 that we had at the beginning of february and far down from our peak surge in december. right now, we are at about 7.5 new cases per 100,000 residents, and as we look at our city testing rate, our seven-day rolling average rate of positivity is just about 1.5%. our hospitalizations are also down by 72% from their peak, and right now, we have 74 people hospitalized across san francisco, and we are at a relatively robust 31% i.c.u. intensive care unit capacity. we've made great progress these

past few months, and these key indicators are the very reason we're gradually able to reopen. it's because people in san francisco did their part: socially distanced, wearing masks, and avoided traveling outside except for essential businesses. now we are able to move in to the red tier, and here in san francisco, our health equity metric continues to improve. nationally, for that metric, we are now in the orange tier, with a most recent value of 3.5%. and today's local good news follows the great news that we now have a third vaccine: the johnson & johnson product. this is another key development. we know that our vaccines are our ticket out of this

pandemic. so soon here in san francisco, we will have three vaccines to offer people. our vaccine rollout continues. we have administered over 250,000 shots in san francisco. this is not sufficient, but we are making progress, and we now have the capacity to administer well over 10,000 vaccines a day. we just need that supply to improve. and because we haven't gotten all those vaccines into arms yet, we have a way to go, it is critical that we stay vigilant to maintain our progress. and when it is your turn, and you are offered the vaccine, take the shot. these vaccines are safe and effective, and along with our safety measures, are our way forward. i do also want to briefly mention the variants.

while we have so many kinds of hope, our variants are a concerning factor, and we are watching and monitoring the situation closely. there is a growing presence of more variants in our region, and they represent an increased risk of transmission of the virus. nationally, as you can seen, cases have started to rise slightly over the last couple of days, so this is why we need to continue to double down on those prevention measures. remember, san francisco, we know despite this unprecedented year and all the uncertainty, we know how to slow the spread of the virus. we've beaten back three surges. let's keep our progress. i have been amazed and inspired by the ways our city has responded to these moments, and i know this has been an incredibly difficult year for us in our community, but remember, mask on, stay strong.

by committing to the guidelines and following the tried-and-true preventative measures we know work, we can continue moving forward. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. colfax, and just want to reiterate that now as a result of our vaccines, we're providing vaccines for those in 1-a and 1-b. many of you know that we announced that last week, and what that means is people who are teachers, people who are child care workers, those who are muni drivers and others are able to get the vaccines, but also, what's really exciting is that restaurant workers will be able to get the vaccine because

of where we are in the 1-b tier. and today to talk about the restaurants and about what they face but also to get you excited about going to restaurants is laura thomas, the director of the golden gate restaurant association. [applause] >> hi, everyone, and thank you, mayor breed for inviting me to come today. can everyone hear me today? it's pretty windy, so i'll try to talk into the microphone. so this year has been so challenging to our industry, and many have been without work as we've had to shutter our restaurants in response. we are really thankful for the strong, science driven leadership we have in san francisco with mayor breed, dr.

colfax, dr. philips, and oewd. we also really appreciate what mayor breed and the team was able to do last week and give all of us a one kind of week heads up so we could all be ready to open up for the public hopefully tomorrow for indoor dining and the amazing outdoor dining that we've been able to take advantage of with shared spaces. so while shared spaces is continuing, we're all excited to take the next step in this march, which is 25% indoor dining capacity. this doesn't save our industry, but again, it lets us start to move forward to losing less money, i like to say. i have two restaurants myself, and i have to say it's been a really financially devastating year, and we're grateful for the help at the local, state, and federal level, but it's not

enough. we need to safely reopen and moving in that direction. with that in mind, i just want to go over a few points that we reiterated last week that we'll be doing with the city. how do we safely reopen? we're going to open a little bit looser restrictions on the outdoor dining. we're going to allow no curfew, so as long as you're seated and eating, you can dine beyond the 10:00 p.m. time frame that we've done before. we're going to loosen it to three households, six people or less. you have to have bona fide meals without alcohol just to keep everything under control. that's why it's there. everything is going to feel tighter, but remember, we're moving forward. we're going to ask that people

sit in tables of four or less, that it's one household. and mayor breed said it, and i know it's a pain, but whenever approaches you, be it a waiter, a busser, a server, or a manager, we need you to put your mask back on before they reach the table. to help educate the public that this is going to help the situation, the easier it's going to be on everybody. we ask for your help communicating that message. there will be signs. they will say if you're seating inside, you are going to need to continue -- we are good night to continue the curfew there, so that will stay there. we're going to ask that everybody is completely outside by 10:30. nobody can do reservations or enter after 10:00, and that we want to just keep it calm for a while until we can move to the

orange. if you have an issue, please dine outside. if you're still uncomfortable, we're all doing to-go, we're all doing delivery, and we appreciate everybody's support of our industry, and we want to get everybody vaccinated. it's been amazing. we're one week into the vaccines for our industry of workers, and we're seeing things moving forward now. we appreciate everybody's support, and we couldn't have a better team here to work with. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, laura. just a side note that candy baron has pink popcorn, if you remember pink popcorn from back in the day. feel free to go in and grab some.

the other line is the f-line, they'll start serving this community seven days a week starting in may. i know there's been a lot of talk about the cable cars. now you know we're not san francisco without cable cars, so just so you know, the cable cars are coming back, and they're coming back sometime this year, date to be determined. so with that, thank you so much for being here. happy to open it up to questions. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: well, i think i'm more optimistic than confident. i would say that what we're doing with the vaccines especially with the most vulnerable population, those who are the ones most likely to be hospitalized, those have been extremely helpful. and i think as we continue to see hospitalizations continue to decline, i think we'll be in

a good place. i'm pretty optimistic and hopeful, and i think that we are in a very, very good place to not go backwards, and it also is going to be contingent on our behavior, as well, but i think a combination of vaccine and our behavior is going to put us in a situation where we most likely won't go backwards. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: laura, do you want to talk about that? >> yeah, i'll be happy to. so we've always had the restaurant workers -- we provide p.p.e. if they want it, the face masks. we've all followed the sanitation guidelines for the sanitizers. you guys have seen it if you've gone out, wiping the tables between, following strict guidelines on capacity, and

yes, there's always been an amazing sick pay program in san francisco. prepandemic, we always offer up to 72 hours a year. if you do the math, that's nine days on a normal eight-hour day, and then at the federal level, there's the ffcra program which goes until the end of march. if somebody can't come in due to covid, the businesses can actually payout that sick pay and then ask for reimbursement from the federal government. so we're ramping up our vaccines, we're getting them to the people, and we need them to be able to operate. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: my response is that all of you know, san francisco was the

first major city to shutdown, and we've been extremely conservative about every decision we make. in fact, dr. colfax and i argue every single day because i want to do more. and even though the state gives us permission to do more, we're still doing things stricter than the guidelines even. what i will say is that san francisco has been the most conservative when it comes to the implementation of the lockdown, and i'm confident of the decisions of the department of public health to move forward in this decision. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: well, i think dr. colfax should probably address that directly, but ultimately, i think that, you know, when you look at our case rate, when you look at our death rate, when you look at what we've done in san francisco, i think the numbers

speak for themselves even though it's been a challenging time for all of us. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: okay. thank you. make sure you have lunch at pier 39.

>> good afternoon. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the mar22, 2021 meeting of the land use committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am joined by dean preston and aaron peskin. i am myrna melgar. do you have any announcements? >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members city employees, the committee room are closed. members will participate remotely. this