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>> good morning and welcome to the board of supervisors rule committee monday, april 12th, 2021. i'm the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by supervisor mandelman and soon to be joined by supervisor connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through its video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present comments to speak during public comment are

available by phone by calling 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 185. you'll be muted and in listening mode only. dial star 3 to be added to the line to speak. best practices are to call from a quiet location. you may e-mail me myself. public comment by e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. and i would also like to note that supervisor chan has logged

in. >> supervisor peskin: could you read the first item. >> clerk: yes. item one is that the public utilities commission would otherwise be required to install without competitive bidding, subject to specified conditions. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. this is primarily sponsored by president walton. i see mr. burch is here. we're joined by manuel from the public utility commission. go ahead, perspectivy. >> good morning chair peskin and the rules committee. i would just like to say a couple of words about this item as we look to revitalize our

public housing in district two. this small admin change will allow us to stay on schedule and also it will allow for all greenhouse and 100% energy and gas. and also, like we said we have staff here from the p.u.c. that will also answer questions. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. burch. mr. ramirez. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is manuel ramirez. i'll give you a little bit of a background introduction into this ordinance. consistent with chapter 99.2 in these administrative code. the development agreement generally requires developers to obtain from the p.u.c.. we treat the payments and the

cost sharing similar to what pg&e would do. with that in mind, the p.u.c. adopted regulations last amended in 2017 that would require the cost of new electric facilities with developers. the they that the infrastructure is built out, the developers are required to pay 100% of the sub structures. meaning the conduits that the facility runs through. all rules and regulations allow for an applicant to do the installation of the electric facility that the p.u.c. would be required to do and then we would reimburse the developers. unfortunately, our rules and regulations while they do allow for the applicants, there is no mechanism for us to directly

reimburse the developers. this ordinance sort of closes that gap. the proposed amendments of chapter 99 were waived the city's competitive bidding requirements for construction projects to contract directly with the developers that these facilities as new development projects. the ordinance still has protection. specifically, the p.u.c. can only have entities that regard the developer to complete infrastructure for the project and two, include the workforce that requires nondiscrimination and payment of wages. this ordinance has some protections to prevent from oversiting the work. we do a cost estimate and we would compare what it would

cost to do the installation versus what it would cost to do the developer. is to keep on their timelines and their schedule. it's sometimes faster for them to go ahead and do the installation and make sure that the schedules for their construction projects are on time. i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you, mr. ramirez. and i was also briefed by mr. scarpula over the weekend and talked to president walton about it before we scheduled it and it appears to be fine by this supervisor. any comments or questions from members? seeing none. is there any public comment on this item --

>> chairman: supervisor chan, i've got to get my chat button fixed. >> supervisor chan: can you hear me? >> yes. >> supervisor chan: my question is for in terms of labor and expertise and installation, what likely to be -- what kind of expectations would require. i assume that there are probably not that many people out there with that type of expertise already. is that correct? >> so the work required is with some medium to high voltage electric facilities and there

are a lot of contractors that can do that work. our you tilt is required to do that work. to just proceed with that portion of the work. >> supervisor chan: okay. >> chairman: and the cost reimbursement is the same in either event. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> supervisor chan: thank you. >> chairman: all right. why don't we step to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item so call (415) 655-0001 the meeting id is 1875 our 55557. then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star to speak. please wait until the system

and one person in line to speak. >> chairman: first speaker, please. go ahead, speaker. >> clerk: speaker, you have been unmuted, you may begin your public comment. >> all right. i'm going to go ahead and mute the caller and go to the next caller. >> chairman: thank you. >> chairman: and this is for item number one. >> the caller disconnected. i'll go ahead and unmute and

circle back to the next caller back again. caller has been unmuted. all right. there is no more callers. >> chairman: all right. public comment is closed. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you supervisor peskin. i believe this is in further answer of long standing city policies to encourage the provision of clean, green municipal power developed in the city. that are being provided by the developers as part of the

projects and would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chairman: all right. and i will take that on the motion. clerk young, a roll call please. >> clerk: on that motion [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: next item please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number two the appointment of james byrne to the police commission april 30th, 2024. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young, colleagues. this is an appointment nomination to the police commission made by mayor breed of james burn who i have had the opportunity to interview and i believe the two of you have had the opportunity to do so as well. i would like to, if there are

any opening comments feel free to make them. if not, i'd like to hear from mr. byrne and then follow up with any questions that we may have and then go to public comment. seeing no questions or initial comments from the rules committee. mr. byrne. good morning. welcome. the floor is yours for as long as you would like it. >> good morning chair peskin, vice chairmandalman and supervisor chan. thank you for this opportunity and speak to you today. it was a great. the police commission plays an important role in the oversight of the police department. this is an extremely important

role in any democracy. supervisors, 2,000 years ago during the roman republic, the question was asked, who guards the guardians. democracies have struggled with this question for over twenty-five years. one of the guards in san francisco is the police commission. i the son of irish immigrants. i was born near mcclaren park. i have lived almost my entire life in san francisco. i have seen many changes in the city. polices in the u.s. and in san francisco is undergoing many changes. i want to be part of that change. it inspires me to be part of that change. as a young man while traveling

by train with my sister in northern ireland, i was forcibly removed from my seat and detained with a rifle held to me at close point by northern irish police purely because they suspected i was an irish catholic. i was terrified. my teenage sister thought i was going to be taken away. i experienced police abuse and bias first-hand and that has never left me. i have seen the benefits as a result of the police reforms in northern ireland. in my immigration law practice represent people from northern ireland, i've studied police reform arising from the patent police report and used it as a part of premise as their defense. that culture changed though not perfect has worked in northern

ireland. it will work in san francisco. currently, supervisor walton and others and spearheading a policing plan in the bayview neighborhood. from the meetings i've watched the police commission, this plan appears promising. but it is one thing to listen to a presentation at meetings. it is another to go out into the field and get your hands dirty and see what's going on in the bayview, in the tenderloin, and in the mission, but also in the castro, in the sunniside, in the excelsior, in bernal heights and all the wonderful neighborhoods that make up this great city. i intend if i am confirmed to get my hands dirty and to go out into the neighborhoods and see how these plans are implemented.

the issue of police accountability is currently being addressed by the police commission. in reaction to the men and women in disciplinary matters. complaints about the timeliness of disclosure of those records. this is an issue i would like the commission to continue to focus on. another issue that will be before the board is a new crisis response team that the board of supervisors has created to do with crisis situations that may not require or benefit from police presence. in the past, these matters would have been handled by the police. this is a new program, but it's not a program without precedent. a number of years ago, i was representing pro bono a tenant

wofs being evicted. the sheriff's office sent a deputy to see where the lady was going to live on the day of the eviction. on the day of the eviction, the sheriff's office brought a social worker to deal with the problem. the social worker had a much more appropriate and deescalating response. the crisis response team when fully trained and running full-time will be able to serve a preventive and social work role for the city. change is always hard but it works and it will work. when you're allowed to smoke in restaurants and bars. the owners were viamently opposed to the change. over time, they adapted to the change and i am sure not very

many of them want to go back to the way it was. hopefully, these changes, these reforms to the police department will work and they too realize it's for the better. our justice system works most of the time for most of us, but it's not perfect and i have fought for the victims who've been left out of that system time and time again. i have dedicated my entire professional career to helping immigrants stay in this country. i understand their fears. i know that a documented immigrant let alone an undocumented immigrant in a criminal court is far less equal than an american citizen. the u.s. citizen is worried

about how much time he will be doing. this gives prosecutors tremendous leverage. i have seen the value of our sanctuary city policy. how many times does a miner criminal arrest even without conviction lead to deportations and families split asunder. i want to be their voice on the commission. san francisco is a city of immigrants. these people need a voice, i want to be that voice. change sometimes comes slowly. as robert kennedy said in south africa, it is from numerous acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped each

time a man stands up for an ideal or improves the lots of others or strikes out against injustice. he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance. i have dedicated my entire professional career to being a tiny ripple of hope. thank you, supervisors. >> chairman: thank you, counselor byrne and i'm sure that there are questions from members. let me just start with one very obvious one and this is a sillily question, but it's a

question i have to ask which is inso far as this seat requires a retired judge, which you are not or trial experience. it sounds like you have plenty of trial experience, is that correct, counselor? >> yes, supervisor. >> chairman: with that. i do have some follow-up questions but let me turn it over to my colleagues. supervisor mandelman, any questions or comments? >> supervisor mandelman: i think supervisor chan was waiving her hand. >> chairman: sorry. supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. my question today for mr. byrne is for us, i think you kind of mentioned that about the change of times and what we deem at

one point in law enforcement was valid as we make progress and we learned, you know, new ways of thinking and really better understanding of how law enforcement and its system really impact people and we can see especially most recently how that impacts communities of color and what i would love to understand, you know, i think which i really agree most recently mayor breed has talked about looking at the law enforcement budget specifically for our san francisco police department budget and to really think about what it means to keep the community safe and i agree with her that to really which now has, that's what we have developed is the crisis response team to really allocate dedicated a team of experts, mental health experts,

social worker in response to mental health issues or homeless issues, all those issues that related to wellness and, you know, mental health, all that is currently happening on our streets with that too comes ways of instead of having law enforcement on our school sites, we're making sure we have nurses and counselors on our school sites. it's a new direction that we're looking at how to deescalate situations in our community. so i just want to get your take on that specific issue if you can elaborate because that also impacts the way we view police department's budget and how do we allocate resources. >> thank you.

i think the crisis response team started late last year and isn't operating 24/7 yet as i'm aware. so i think it's important that that be -- the team be fully trained and implemented before looking at the police budget and how to allocate resources correctly. if the police department is doing a lot of that work particularly in the late hour of the evening and during the night. it's important that team be up and running completely before you take that police department out of that situation because the last thing you want is an

adequate response so in some ways it may require more money in order to get the crisis response team fully trained and up and running. >> chairman: supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: i think then my followup question will be. so i guess maybe it's almost a yes or no question. so i soon with that, you are supportive of this initiative. you wanted to see it happening and moving it forward and will there be sort of -- what will be your take to kind of help make sure that it does work and that this model does work and move this forward? what will you bring to the table to make that happen

should you be confirmed and appointed to the police commission? >> well, as i opened with my remarks, so i like to go out and get my hands dirty. if i'm allowed to go out on one of the crisis response team's calls to see exactly how they do work and, at the same time, go out with the san francisco police department to see how they deal with the issue so i would have some method of comparison because you don't want to -- for doctors do no harm and so you want the crisis response team to work but you don't want it to have a learning curve. you want to be able to smoothly adapt to the situation as

possible. they're going to be learning pains, but fortunately, the police department is there at this time to at least help cover for them until such time as they're fully trained. and i intend to go out and see that they are as trained as best that i can determine along with i'm sure other people. i'm sure i won't be alone in this. >> supervisor chan: thank you. so chair peskin, i think this is more of a comment and all i wanted to say is, you know, i've had a conversation with mr. byrne and it was a great conversation and i really learned a lot about his work, working with immigrants and including some of the story, a

more personal story that i think he has mentioned in conversations assisting people i think even with this crisis response team. i think we're able to dive deeper about people with mental health issues and eviction in need of help and people who are in need of immigration status living in fear. just all that. sorry about that. background noise. and so we're also training a puppy. sorry about that. i also wanted to say um -- i also had a brief conversation

with police commission president malia. >> president cohen: really wanting to make sure from our last appointment from mr. larry yee to you now mr. byrne to make sure there is a team of commission and really looking at the support our police department making progress and i think that, you know, she really under her leadership, we want to make sure there is support all around to move the agenda forward. so she's also in support of you and i was pleased to hear, i'm ready to look forward to hearing more public comments today, but i'm definitely inclined to support our appointment today. so thank you and again, my apologies for all the noises during this comment and interruption. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan.

vice chair mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you chair peskin. we had a good conversation. i want to say that i was impressed and gratified by mr. byrnes commitment to reform and ensuring that we achieve a police department that's unbiased and hue main and nonabusive and i think in san francisco, particularly in this moment that has to be a threshold necessary set of qualifications for any police commissioner and i think mr. byrnes has shown by his past work, his commitment to justice and the inequitable

society in has been amply demonstrated. i wanted to just touch on a few things. you can respond if you want to or can. the first thing i want to say as we consider another nominee to the police commission. as i said that a commitment to reform is necessary. in my view for police commissioners in san francisco at this moment. i think what i'm hearing is a desire for an effective as well as compassionate policing and concerns about the efficacy of our criminal justice system more broadly in the city. concerned about property crime rates and home invasions. sometimes at the same home. concerns about a perception if

not always the reality of unsafety in the city. and also, the bad experiences that, you know, take on a life of their own as they get repeated through the mill. but having police officers to say this city doesn't really care about crime, isn't going to do anything, they're not even going to report it. we can't do anything. in some ways, this is for the police department to address a broader conversation but as a commissioner i would effect you would have a police department that does everything we can to prevent and solve and deter crime. [inaudible] >> if it's a question, i agree with everything you just said,

supervisor. >> supervisor mandelman: that is an answer i will accept. thank you, mr. byrnes. my second point goes to the street crisis response team and i am a strong supporter of the street crisis support team. i think it's important to remember that as we envision the street crisis response team, we gave this program many different charges. one of them was to provide a level of response to the street they are simply not getting right now from public health. we're very close to being in crisis and they're just not getting the outreach and intervention that they need and the residents in san francisco are wondering what the hell is

going on and we're worried about sick people before they intervene before they're just running in traffic and absolutely out of their mind. so partly the street force is out of mental health sf was beginning to address that existing vacuum for a service that was simply not being provided. secondly, there was a hope in the height of the george floyd summer that we might be able to divert some calls. the first set of folks on the scene wouldn't necessarily be police officers. and our maximalist hope not funded but aspirationally. out of an overall total number of calls that have come in for police service and over 300,000

calls a year. i want to thank you for your commitment to reenvisioning policing and finding alternatives. but even if the street crisis team is a wild success, it will divert a fraction of the calls for police services that come in and, again, finding other alternatives and other creative ways ensuring police response is not the only tool we have in our tool box. i support. but i also think it's important to be aware of the limitations of and set realistic expectations for what alternatives can achieve. and that was a -- another speech that you could acknowledge or just nod. [ laughter ] >> again, i agree with everything you said that

particularly given the current climate of anti-asian violence, yeah. almost at least in the asian community, particularly the chinese community it absolutely calls for an increase police presence in order to attempt to deter that type of despicable behavior that's going on. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. and my last point i will make and i think this should be an easy one. the importance of police recruiting that looks like san francisco, a police force that looks like and is part of and integrated into the communities that are being policed. and i think that we could achieve, we could go a long way to breaking down some of the barriers between police and

community and we do make that leap as we recruit and train and retain excellent police officers who have received the highest quality of training and come from diverse backgrounds. one of the biggest challenges right now i think is, you know, restoring the belief that this is actually profession that is valued and for which we are grateful when folks in particular people of color and queer people sign up to go into the even harder than being a police commissioner job being a police officer and so that is another little statement that is as a police commissioner, you know, part of your job will be ensuring that we are able to attract and retain these high

quality excellent diverse officers. >> absolutely. i mean, obviously, for the police to be part of the community, it would be nice if they could afford to live in the community and just as schoolteachers are facing the housing crisis so police officers are and many of them are living farther and farther away from the city. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mr. byrne. i will be supporting your nomination. >> thank you, supervisor. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor mandelman. mr. byrne, a couple of questions. one of which i raised when we spoke and the other one related to liquor form 700. but i first wanted to start with the issue of tasers and where you fall on that public

policy matter? >> at this time, i agree with the policy. i think both the police commission and the board of supervisors that the san francisco police should not be armed with tasers. recently, california law has changed. let me go back. the key issue is that tasers have been lethal. it's crazy to believe that tasers don't kill people. tasers do kill people maybe not as much as bullets but they're still a lethal force and one of the changes to california law recently is the police officer's use of force on when deadly force is authorized.

prior to about three years ago, a police officer a felony person could use deadly force. but the california legislature has basically put a totality of the circumstances and reasonable tests now for the use of deadly force and it was interesting in preparing for the hearing that a comment was on the california police officer's association website, the comment about the change and particularly to the point in light of the new staff, officers are going to need new training. and so i believe at this time, we need to see the effect of the california state legislatures change which does not give -- creates a reasonable test and the

totality test. not some 19th century wild west test that was the previously law in the state of california. >> chairman: thank you, counselor byrne. let me just move to a question i have on your form 700s. it sounds like you've taken on a little bit of tenant law at least on a pro bono basis. on your form 700s, there is a long list of construction and engineering companies and building companies and i was wondering is that a different practice of law or is that immigration law and why those appear on the form 700s? >> thank you for the question. they appear because there's i would almost say a dyer need for engineers particularly with

all the new construction that's going on in the bay area and a huge part of my practice is getting work visas and green cards for these engineers and construction companies all over the bay area and other parts of the united states and so but i'm not related to anything with property development or getting building permits. it's solely to get their necessary workers in to the united states. >> understood and well explained and appreciated. if there are no other questions or comments from committee members, why don't we open this up to public comment, mr. young. >> clerk: yes. members of the public wish to provide public comment should

call (415) 655-0001. the meeting id is 187 545 5557. then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star to speak. and you may begin your comment. we currently have seventeen callers with four people in line to speak. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> good morning. this is marlene tran, a long time activist in visitation valley and a cause i taught for 37 years both adults and immigrant children in san francisco. i want to thank the mayor for

nominating mr. byrne. immigrants need all the help they can get. i support mr. james byrne for the police commission and he will be a good candidate because i am so and really be involved with our residents so that he has a really good picture of what it's all about. so i hope the commissioners or rather the supervisors will let him be our next police commissioner. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, ms. tran. next speaker, please. >> so board of supervisors, when you read the first agenda item, we could not participate with our public comment. therefore, the agenda item has to be revisited.

>> chairman: thank you. >> -- agenda item number 2, i do participate in all of the police commission meetings and there is a lot of politics going on at that police commission meeting. one of the main persons who is creating a lot of confusion at all the police commission meetings is the chair. she has the habit of making comments, often when people speak on public comment and some of the commentors are very astute. i've known them for a long time. in my humble opinion, this police commission, the way it operates has to be completely revamped. now you have this commission, he may say what he wants to say, but i don't think he lives

in a time that is relevant and knows what really is going on ground zero. bayview is not what it used to be many years ago. with all the shootings and killings, we need somebody who really knows the difference between gangs and [inaudible] and we really need a person who knows about the community response network and we just can't have somebody coming z

. >> chairman: next speaker

please. >> super, this is clay. >> chairman: operations if you can get the next speaker. >> chairman peskin and supervisors, i've been a san francisco business owner for 30 years. jim has guided us and advised us on the legal issues to employ irish workers. jim showed and demonstrated care for the whole person, not just our employees. he followed up and asked questions during their time with us asking how they were, how their experience was in san francisco. i've experienced jim's integrity and empathy first-hand. so i am here to strongly support his nomination. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, mr. dougin. next speaker, please.

>> good morning. i am a local of san francisco. i've also grown up in san francisco and i've known jim almost my entire life and he's a great man. he would be a fantastic addition to the police commission. he's got great morals. he's from san francisco. and he's helped my family out as well. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. go ahead, speaker.

>> good morning, supervisors. i am a licensed attorney, i am a member of the executive committee of the immigrant rights commission. i'm here speaking in my personal capacity. i also support the appointment of mr. byrne to the police commission. because of his commitment to the police commission and i do have a voice that has the experience that mr. byrne has with the immigrant community will serve the commission well. thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker please >> hi. i met the jim byrne through my

paper work for immigration to this country. i found him to be a very understandable person. my community knows him very well. so he's a very rounded person and i definitely support him for the commission position. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. >> good morning supervisors. can you hear me? >> yes. >> good morning. good morning supervisors. this is arcella. i am a professor where the majority of my students are immigrants. i'm an immigrant myself. of course, of other religions and i'm calling in support of mr. jim byrne to be appointed to the police commission.

i met mr. byrne and i asked questions and i'm very satisfied. he understand the trials and tribulations of the immigrant community and, myself, my community. that's what it passed for decades. they have police. they have been caught in turn. many of you know in the news, his answers were very satisfying and i hope he gets appointed to the commission, the police commission and my community looks forward to working with him. thank you very much for listening. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen, supervisors. my name is robert wong. i'm a member of the chinese

consolidated benevolent here in the chinatown of san francisco. mr. james byrne has a long history as an immigrant attorney that has protected some of our most vulnerable populations in our san francisco communities. when immigrants come to our city and when they need help, we should help them as they have helped us now and in the past. james byrne is an excellent choice for the police commission. he is also an attorney and i definitely support him for the position of police commissioner for the great city of san francisco. thank you for giving me time to speak. thank you again. >> chairman: thank you, mr. wong. next speaker please. >> hi supervisors.

i'm here to call in support for james byrne as well. his background resinated they came from a country that was stooped. many of the reasons for this country is the develop of distrust because of james byrne's experience, i do believe he could be an advocate and a bridge to the individuals and the immigrant community as they navigate the criminal justice system for the first time and having talked with supervisor mandelman i'm confident he's going to take a wholistic approach for really understanding what it means for police reform. there's a lot of lead bullets but a lot of -- the wholistic

approach is going to require everything from police reform to increase diversity on the police staff and solving all these issues. i'm confident from hearing the call today and all the questions and his background and as a lawyer for immigrants will increase trust and safety. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. good morning, supervisors. my name is mark and i'm a filipino immigrant. i work at st. agnes church and that's where i've met jim and his wife. in the fall of 2019, i was helping an immigrant family i met in el paso, texas, who had just crossed the border seeking

asylum. i asked jim if he could help them. since then, jim has been helping the family throughout their asylum proceedings as i have been accompanying them. i think that the san francisco police commission would benefit greatly from integrity and kindness. thank you so much for your consideration. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, good morning supervisors. my name is carla torres. i'm a san francisco native and also a child of immigrants and personally know jim through his help of my father: it was an awful experience watching him get handcuffed and jim

providing my family with this trust and the legal immigration system and he just provided us with this trust and we confided in him, he's gave us all of his support and i think that during his work with immigrant communities and other marginalized communities, he has a really good input and truly knows the effects of the long lasting effects that this has on the community and i think that because of his work he does have the experience and and knowledge that would benefit the police commission. thank you >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker. >> hi. i am the president of the [inaudible] women's club and part of the general federation of the

women's club in the nation. i was by promoting diversity and civic engagement and culture in the bay area. and i met with mr. jim recently and by reading about especially coming from, you know, immigration and also knowing more about diversity and community and law. it's very important. i do support him 100% and i do believe our community needs to be more united in our diversity. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you.

next speaker. >> clerk: that may have been our last speaker for public comment on this item. i am waiting for confirmation. >> chair, sorry. i might be the last speaker. >> clerk: yes. thank you. >> thank you. >> chairman: is that, annie. go ahead. >> sorry. i wasn't sure i was on the line. good morning, supervisors. i'm here. this is annie chung from [inaudible] for the elderly and i'm also here to support jim's nomination to the police commission. sf pathway to citizenship and we have helped probably over

now 10,000l.p.r. residents to become legal residents and we do this with a large number of volunteers who will spend a whole i really appreciate pro bono attorneys like mr. byrne who is willing to spend a lot of time fighting for the immigrants who are usually stripped of their rights and eager to do everything they can and then get citizenship. so with jim's background as an advocate for the voiceless and the most vulnerable, people, mostly minorities who face deportation, really, those are the darkest hours and you can imagine the fear that our community has particularly has

nowadays with the anti-asian hate crimes. so we're looking forward to a police commissioner who would listen, who understands the fears of the immigrants and who would really roller their sleeves and come down to the community to work with us so we could provide public safety and some reforms for community police work for us. so i'm here to urge the rules committee to support jim's nomination and hopefully we will see commissioner jim byrne working alongside us. >> are there any other members of the public for public comment on this item number two? >> clerk: i believe that concludes public comment at this time. >> chairman: okay.

public comment is closed. before we hear any final comments from committee members, let me join the comments of my colleagues by thanking mr. byrne for his willingness to serve. it is no small task and he seems to be absolutely up for the job and i would like to acknowledge mayor breed for making a good nomination that i think is going to be universally embraced. with that, are there any comments or questions. seeing none. why don't i first make a motion to amend the subject. motion by removing the word "rejecting" in line three in the title and removing the word "rejects" in the move clause at line 13. on that motion, mr. clerk, roll

call please. >> clerk: before that motion, i'm getting a comment from our tech support that there is one more comment. is that correct? >> chairman: i'm happy to re-open public comment. >> clerk: i'm just reading messages from them i believe. that completes public comment. the person calling in had already spoken. >> chairman: public comment is twice closed and a motion has been made on that motion. a role call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion [roll call] the motion passes without rejection.

>> chairman: and why don't i make a motion to motion to send it to the full board of supervisors on that moegsz. >> clerk: on that motion [roll call] the motion passes out objection. >> chairman: thank you, mr. byrne. we will see you at the full board of supervisors this week. and supervisor mandelman will you make a motion to rescind the vote on item number one. >> supervisor mandelman: so moved. >> clerk: the motion to rescind. [roll call]

the motion to rescind passes out objection. >> chairman: okay. let's re-open item number one up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members -- if you have not already done so please press star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. can we have the first caller for public comment on item number one. >> so supervisors, during this pandemic, it's very difficult for us to participate in this virtual meetings and it makes it all the more convoluted than that deprived to speak on the

topic. it's a really convoluted subject. where the citizens, the constituents, the taxpayers of the pay view nor has that been a meaningful meeting. now, we do understand that we have an issue that people want to use natural gas and at the same time, they want to talk about climate change and completion of the ozone level. but the city hasn't been very clear of this and a planning department and others have been pushing for new development to

have others in the restaurant run by electric city. we haven't had a hearing on this recently. we had one a long time ago. so some of us are interested in subjects like this because we deem ourselves environmentalists. we don't deem ourselves as jail birds or those who favor criminality. it's happening in our city right now with some heads of departments charged. and it starts with development. >> clerk: your time has elapsed. >> chairman: are there any other speakers for item number one. >> clerk: i believe that was the last speaker for item number one. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed.

vice chair mandelman would you like to make a remotion. >> chairman: on that motion roll call, mr. young. >> clerk: yes. on that motion [roll call] . the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: and we are adjourned. >> still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of

issues, why did we plant them in the first place? >> trees are widely planted in san francisco. with good reason. they are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. we have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in san francisco. we have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. this is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. you can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. you can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. in between you can't it is a lot of strong wood. they are attached so sharply together. this is a much weaker union of a

branch than if you had a wide angel. this is what it looks like after the fi c.u. resolution s limb l. >> we see decline. you can see the patches where there aren't any leaves at all. that is a sign the tree is in decline. the other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. we don't want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. >> in a city like san francisco our walks are not that wide. we have had to clear the branches away from the properties. most of the canopy is on the

street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. that can be a factor in tree limb failures. a lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. why did we plant them in the first place? they provided the city with benefits for decades. they are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight climate change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. >> when we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. i got into this job because i love trees. it just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. i have also seen first hand what

happens when we have failures. we have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. that is something we can't live with either. it is a challenging situation. we hate to lose mature trees, but public safety has to always sustainable future . to always >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose

it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use.

>> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone.

>> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact

pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org >> the hon. london breed: well, first of all, thank you so much for being here. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and i just want to start this press conference by really acknowledging what happened in atlanta, georgia. many of you heard about the asian american women who were killed, unfortunately, and targeted in atlanta, and i've reached out to mayor lance bottoms to express our condolences. as many of you know here in san francisco, we've seen a rise in hate crimes against our elderly asian community, and i want to

make it clear that we won't tolerate it. san francisco will continue to support and uplift our asian community. at the beginning of this pandemic, the xenophobia and racism against our asian community has been really horrible, and we are all struggling here. our city has been impacted tremendously. now is not the time to continue to accept hate against a particular community. now is the time to uplift and to support and to embrace. we are almost in a good place one year later after the city had to make one of the hardest decisions it ever had to made to shutdown, to shutdown to save lives, when we didn't

understand exactly when this virus meant and how it could impact us. but you, you trusted the leadership of the city. you trusted the department of public health. he trusted the science. and you didn't completely understand. i know i didn't, either, but i was grateful. i was grateful for the city of san francisco because our quick action is being praised throughout the city for saving thousands of lives. but there was sacrifice. there was sacrifice because so many people did lose their lives. there were people who did not make it through this pandemic. there were businesses that had been around since before i was born that did not make it through this pandemic. there were people who struggled

because of the decision we had to make. we recognize our children have suffered, our seniors in isolation have suffered. our mental health has suffered, but san francisco, we've been in this place before. we've struggled before. there was a pandemic in this city 100 years ago. there was an earthquake in 1906, there was an earthquake in 1989. there were things that we have experienced before, and we came back. when you think about it, we came back because we didn't drown in our despair. we took the tragedy, we took

those experiences, and we used those experiences, tragedy, to make san francisco a better city. when you think about it, the embarcadero -- some of us remember that freeway that was down there. remember the freeway on thompson in the fillmore-western addition-hayes. those neighborhoods used to be dark because of the shadows of the freeway and the noise and the pollution. we took a tragedy in the 89 earthquake and created an opportunity, an opportunity to make embarcadero and the city's waterfront one of the best anywhere, and we will do the same with covid-19. we will take what we have experienced this past year and use it as an opportunity to

address issues around inequity that have only been lifted higher as a result of this pandemic. but let me tell you another thing. we should be proud of what we've been able to do. when this city shutdown a year ago, there were still people that had to go to work. there were people at san francisco general who had to sacrifice their lives. when you look at the data in the city and county of san francisco of the workforce and who contracted the virus at some of the highest rates, it was people who work for the department of public health. they put their lives on the line in order to take care of those who were sick. it was our muni drivers, our

grocery store clerks, our police officers, our firefighters. our essential workforce in this city had no choice but to show up because we were counting on them. today, as we think about that year and all the work that we've had to put in in order to get to this place where we are today, i'm grateful. i'm grateful to the workforce here in san francisco, and i'm grateful to the nurses and the doctors and the clinicians and the janitors and the h.r. representatives and all the people who still showed up. i'm grateful to the people in the nonprofit and still provided rental assistance and made sure those who were suffering from covid and could not collect unemployment, that

they had the resources that they need. when you think about all that we've done in this city, we built a testing operation from scratch, mary ellen, leader of the emergency response in this city. we built testing capacities from scratch. we had to pull together resources and p.p.e. we remember those times when folks were just doing everything they could to get by and in need of n95 masks and other things in order to serve the people at san francisco general. look at where we are now. 33% of san franciscans over the age of 16 have been vaccinated. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: 71% of those over the age of 65, our most vulnerable population,

vaccinated. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: yes, we're still in this pandemic. i see dr. colfax shaking right now, like make sure you remind them we're in the midst of a pandemic, but we've conducted over 1.6 million tests since the beginning of this. almost 10,000 people were served through our hotel programs. 10.5 million meals and 2 million bags of groceries. the work continued. we came together. we supported people in san francisco. i remember early on, when i received a note from my neighbor that said if you need someone to go grocery shopping, you need someone to pick up medication, you need someone to do anything, or just need somebody to talk to, here's my

e-mail and my phone number. that's san francisco right there. that's what we do. even despite the challenges that we face, we rose to the occasion, and we took care of one another. we all did our part, and it was hard. we didn't get to see our loved ones. we had to separate our kids, still struggling to get back into school. we sacrificed, and we made it through. we need a little bit more, just a little bit more. as we look back on this past year, what i'm going to take from this is what an amazing future we have and how san francisco is going to continue to be more aggressive than it has ever been to address then

equities in our city around health care, around housing, around unemployment. how san francisco is going to do everything we can to pour resources in our small businesses and keep our shared spaces program, our parklets, where our businesses and restaurants can continue to get back so they can eventually get back on their feet. what i'm looking forward to is that san francisco -- as much as my family drives me crazy, i miss them, and i'll probably spend a little bit more time with them as a result of this, and i think you feel the same about your family and friends: a newfound appreciation for one another for what we've all been through together. so i know it's been hard, but there is hope. there is hope for a better future because out of those ashes, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city

because we are still here, and we stand in solidarity with one another, getting through this crisis. so thank you to all of you who have sacrificed so much. the health care workers who couldn't go home and had to stay in hotel rooms away from their families and even their kids. the police officers, the firefighters, and as i said, the people who still showed up at those grocery stores and dealt with us complaining with something being a different price on the shelf versus when they rang it up at the counter. the businesses that dealt with the resources. the folks that work at these hotels, the people that work at these shelters. so much work, so much

sacrifice, and i feel good. i feel good not just because i was vaccinated yesterday -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i feel good because i see the city coming alive again. so as we begin to reopen one year later, let's just remember, remember all we sacrificed, and let's also appreciate all that life, all that life will bring us in the future as we come out of this pandemic because it was worth it. it was worth it. 448 people tragically lost their lives in san francisco, but you also have to understand san francisco is one of the

densest cities in the country, and we had one of the lowest death rates of any major city in the country. we were a model for this, and it has everything to do with you. people were wandering, well, how did you shutdown in san francisco? it wasn't because we did it early, it's because we have some of the best health care professionals in san francisco. if you get sick or something happens to you, this is where you want to be, is san francisco general. the likelihood that your life will be saved is better than anywhere else in the world, and i want you to know that. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so today, we celebrate, we remember, we get excited about the future, and we show one

another support, because we're all in this together. we remember that all of us are sacrificing, all of us are dealing with something, and as we began to reopen our city, dr. colfax, hopefully sooner, rather than later -- dr. colfax doesn't want us to have any fun. he's like, well, i know the state said we can do this, but unfortunately, i'm going to hold off. but i did also say to you, dr. colfax, that i heard dr. fauci said, let's not move too fast, and this has been one of the most conservative department of public health departments anywhere, so we do appreciate that because it has made a difference. so thank you to our essential workers, thank you to the san franciscans that sacrificed. thank you to everyone who will

continue to do their part, and there will be a time where we will be able to come together again and actually talk without wearing a mask, and i am looking forward to the day when that happens. thank you all so much for being here, and with that, i want to introduce dr. grant colfax. [applause] >> well, good morning, everybody, and thank you, madam mayor, for your brave and bold leadership throughout this pandemic. the decisions you've made have saved countless lives. your support for the public health department -- [indiscernible]. >> -- and the decisions you were forced to make --

[indiscernible]. >> okay. i'll loosen up. your support deep into the nights of the discussions we had, the decisions you made have indeed saved countless lives and helped the city weather the very worst of the pandemic. and i have to say, mayor, when this is over, i'm looking forward to a big part, and dancing with you, and shouting with joy, and raising our hands and celebrating that we made it through this. and also, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the year of pain and suffering for so many, including the nearly 450 san franciscans who have lost their lives to covid-19 this year. my condolences to their families and their loved ones. in standing here today with

you, mayor, and my fellow department heads, it's a profound and emotional moment for me. as some of you know, i came to san francisco in the early 90s as a resident here at this very hospital to fight hiv/aids, which as we also know, has unfortunately claimed thousands of lives in san francisco. and as we have seen with covid-19, exploit the social, cultural, and economic fault lines of our society and brings more harm to people of color. if you had told me then, on ward 5-a, the old hiv ward, that we were pioneering the

play book to fight covid-19 and to slow a pandemic 30 years later, i may not have believed you, but here we are. and while this has been an incredibly challenging year, it has also been filled with moments of hope, and even optimism. for me, the moments that will always stick with me are when, after the decision to shelter in place, those few weeks when we actually saw the curve flatten -- and i remember people telling me, it's happening, and it took me some time, and finally, i was able to say to the mayor with confidence, we have flattened the curve. that's when we knew that interventions like social distancing, limiting gatherings, and masking, could slow the spread. we didn't know that at the time, and we showed that san francisco could do this

together. and then, there was the morning that i read about the results of the first vaccine trials, and when the mayor asked me early on when we'd have a vaccine for this, i told her it would be a long time, and i was wrong, and i am so glad that i was wrong on this. as someone who started working at d.p.h. for vaccine trials for hiv/aids, something we still don't have an effective vaccine, it was so satisfying that within a year, perhaps the fastest timeline in history, we would be able to protect people from this disease. in walking in here today, you see the lines of people getting their vaccine. and now, we have not just one, but three vaccines that are highly effective in preventing deaths and hospitalizations from covid-19. and i'll never forget the day, december 16, that we administered the first vaccines

here in san francisco. the milestones i've described have been hard won and are owed to the people of this magnificent city. just like in the early days of hiv/aids, it's san francisco's spirit of innovation, it's compassion, and its refusal not to stand idle when the federal government failed in its leadership to make so much of a difference. as the mayor said, our covid death rate is among the lowest in the nation. i could not be prouder of what we accomplished together. another part is the public health clinic and our partnerships across the city. our close collaboration from the outset enabled us to scale up programs and services quicker as we wrapped our arms around the city. and we have seen this virus

take hold in communities where people have to leave their homes for work, increasing their exposure to covid-19 and who often live in larger households making it difficult to isolate from the pandemic. the d.p.h. and covid command, in partnership with our community partners, prioritized vulnerable populations in our emergency actions and response. we have come so far, but we still have farther to go, and we can go together. to my colleagues at public health and covid command, this year was so difficult for you where you found yourself in learning curves where the stakes were so high. your compassion and diligent work for communities have raised the bar for supporting these communities in overcoming barriers to better health and economic outcomes. and, you know, the other day, i

saw a patient in clinic at our positive health program, the building adjacent. she was 65 and an immigrant and living with hiv. today, her hiv is well controlled with meds. she contracted covid and recovered. in fact, the day i saw her, she had recently received her second dose of the vaccine. her story is striking to me because she embodies san francisco's own story of surviving two pandemics. like so many of our residents, she is a testament to our resilience and the compassionate care that people can get in this hospital and this city. there are so many people to

thank, including my colleagues on the frontline. i want to thank the deputy director of d.p.h., who is continuing to hold so much during this pandemic. [applause] >> to dr. aragon, who's gone onto the state, to be the health director. and for dr. susan phillips, who has stepped up in the role of acting health officer, and dr. susan ehrlich, chief medical officer of this hospital. i want to think of us about the things that have come out of this pandemic. maybe it's the safe streets or walking down our neighborhood

corridors. maybe it's having a new pet join your family, or maybe it's getting to go out with others. for me, it's dancing, and i look forward to going out and doing that. whatever it is, as the light at the end of the tunnel shines brighter, let us carry on the positive transformation of this past year that makes this city a wonderful place. remember, mask on, stay strong, and get the vaccine when you're eligible. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. colfax. i'll believe it when i see it. he's the one i have to talk to every day, and he's always, like, well, we have to do this mayor, and i'm, like, why?

i don't want to do that. and speaking of hobbies, i was -- before this pandemic, i had zero lives, anything in my place, and now, i have 31 plants. i don't know if any of you have any hobbies, but plants are my babies. that's my story, and i'm sticking to it. i just want to take this opportunity to thank the director of emergency management for the city. when you talk about our response to covid and how challenging it's been, it's not only been here at san francisco general, but moscone center has really been ground zero in some ways for the emergency response. so many of our city employees who work in various departments, they've showed up as disaster service workers from the library, from d.p.h. and other places, and we

embedded a whole covid team in this emergency response. so when we talk about getting groceries and services and everything we did in this city, everything we had to do came out of this whole operation managed by this incredible woman, our director of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. [applause] >> good morning. thank you, mayor. it has been a mayor that has moved by so quickly and yet felt like an eternity. through it all, we were led by so many shining points of light. one of the brightest ones you just heard from, our mayor. our mayor, london breed. mayor, i want to thank you -- where are you? -- for your steadfast leadership and support, your vision, your resolve, and your

compassion. [applause] >> it is what we all needed during this enduring crisis. [applause] >> and dr. colfax, thank you for your courage, your integrity, and your wisdom. i do not think of a -- could not think of a better partner to have during a pandemic. even when covid fatigue settled in, and it has settled in, san franciscans continued to do the right thing for each other. i also want to recognize that this year would have looked a whole lot different if it weren't for the thousands of health care workers, many of you represented here. our emergency services personnel and our essential workers continue to come to work and risk exposure to help our beloved city.

on march 17, a year ago, 2020, i was standing inside moscone center, overlooking third and howard streets, the day before the shelter in place order had been announced, and we moved from our very tightly packed, not very safe emergency operations center on turk street to moscone center. outside, the streets were empty, and it was, like, every person, bicycle, scooter, and car, had just disappeared. inside, however, it was a completely different story. it was a hive buzzing with activity. we had veteran responders who had been working nonstop over the previous two months, and we also had hundreds of new, fresh faces. these were planners, election staffers, librarians, analysts, accountants, you name it, from other city departments, who

were activated by disaster service workers. we had work to do. since that day, over 11,000 san francisco public servants have banded together to develop and implement one of the most expansive local emergency response shelters in the country. together -- and you've heard some of these numbers already -- the covid command centers have tested 1.6 million tests, and we are at the top of the country for testing. millions -- [applause] >> millions of bags of groceries and meals for food insecure san franciscans, and we continue to do that. thousands of housing rooms for

people who needed a place to safely house or quarantine or people who needed a safe place to shelter in place. we developed 3,000 multilingual posters, flyers, and health fact sheets that you will see all over this city. we engaged and developed health partnerships with our cities, and they have worked disproportionately -- with those populations disproportionately affected by this pandemic. i have the number, 236,000 vaccines, but i'm sure it is more than that at this time. as we look back on all that we have accomplished, we need to remember why this matters so much. one of my co-workers shared this story with me. an older couple was sitting in

the post vaccine observation area, holding hands, and they were both crying, with tears streaming down their faces. a staff person went over to ask to see if everything was okay. they smiled through their tears and said their grandchildren were born during this past year during the pandemic, and after an eternity of zoom calls and socially distanced visits, they were finally going to be able to hold those grandchildren close. so to all the essential workers that have struggled and sacrificed, your work means something to this couple and to the nearly 1 million people we share this city with. so as we continue to vaccinate, set up to reopen and get on the road to recovery, there's still a lot of work to do, but in this year, we've grown smarter and definitely closer. and like the phoenix, that is

the symbol of the city, as the mayor said, we will rise from the ashes again. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mary ellen. i'm a doctor here at zuckerberg staff and trauma center, and i'm here to share a few words from the prospect of our essential workers. firstly, just want to thank everyone who spoke up here today. i think that this is an incredible milestone, and so this is quite a huge honor to be able to share a few reflections. i think my message in just thinking about a one-year milestone of this pandemic is some of the things that mayor london breed already touched upon: remembrance, in terms of

everything that we've gone through, the resilience that it took to get to where we are today, deep gratitude, which i think really resonated with me as our mayor spoke, and hope in terms of where we are right now. from the early days of not knowing what we were up against to the amazing professionalism and team work, to the sadness of seeing our latinx communities disproportionately impacted by this pandemic, to the stress in terms of addressing second and third surges of cases here at zuckerberg san francisco general, this year has been a bill challenge for our klein --

big challenge for our clinical teams and our community. and i remember the tears. i remember tears shed due to facing so many unknowns related to this new virus. i remember the tears shed after a long day of work, when staff were coming and asking questions about how we were planning to ration our supplies. i remember the fears of not knowing how bad each surge was going to be, and wondering if we would see the coming flood seen in other parts of our country and the world, and of course, i remember the tears of joy, pure joy, in sending our patients home to be reunited with loved ones, sometimes after many months of battling through illness here at our hospital. very proud to say we've cared

for over 1500 patients during this pandemic, and this is a tribute and compliment to all of our tears, and serves as a source of pride to all of us here at zsfg. i'm deeply grateful for our hospital leadership, and i'm deeply grateful to mayor london breed and her team for the proactive steps taken throughout the pandemic, especially those taken one year ago, at the outset. because of all of her swift action, we have grandmothers and grandfathers, we have mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, friends and loved ones who are here with us today. to our staff here at zsfg, i'm

grateful for all of your hard work in addressing the needs of the community, and it's really taken all of our team members. i want to give a shoutout to our greeter and screening staff at all of our campus entry teams, to our facilities and management staff, to our pharmacists, our food and nutrition services, to nutrition management, to our respiratory therapists and our rehab staff, our social workers, our eligibility workers, our clinical lab workers, who have done all of our testing, to our care coordinators, our bed control operators, our technology and information analysts who keep our electronic systems runs, our chaplains, our nurse practitioners and nursing

teams, to infection control and infectious diseases, our staff and nursing assistants, and our physician and nursing staff who spent countless hours and hours in rooms when we didn't know much about this virus, caring to make sure that folks could recover. really, you are all some of the best clinical staff on the planet, and the survival rate -- i'm very evidence based. the survival rate of our covid-19 patients is just one shining example of the incredible work that you have performed. thanks to you, over 94% of patients who came through these very hospital doors, we were successfully able to discharge back to the community to be home with their loved ones. so to close out, really, i just

wanted to share a message to all of those that we serve in the community. we are hopeful, extremely hopeful, but the work is not done yet. we are here to serve each and every one of you, irrespective of race, creed, sexual orientation or gender identity, legal status or economic status. keep masking, keep washing your hands, keep using commonsense around gatherings, and maybe most importantly, vaccinate, which is, like, our real way out of this pandemic. i'm going to say a few words in spanish for our latino community. [speaking spanish language]

[end of translation]. >> your clinical health care providers here at zsfg know the toll that has taken on all of us, psychologically, mentally, economically. we know the road has just begun, but we see the light at the end of the tunnel. we are here, and we are ready to support you. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. >> as we work toward closing this chapter in our lives, really, let's continue to work together and support each other so we can get to that light at

the end of the tunnel as soon as we can, so thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, dr. ortiz, for that message, and thank you so much for acknowledging how many people in how many departments have had to step up and serve at this hospital in particular to address this challenge, and thank you for the lives that you've saved. i also want to acknowledge that our police chief, bill scott, is joining us, as well. thank you, chief scott, for all that you do and that the san francisco police department does to keep our city safe. it really does take a village, and this is the village that held themselves together to take care of the people of san francisco. you should all be so proud of what you've been able to accomplish. it has made a difference, it has saved lives, and we're

going to look back on this moment, and people are going to say where were you during the 1920 global pandemic -- what year? i told you i was up since 6:00 in the morning. where were you during the 2020 global pandemic? and so many of you are going to have a story to tell, and how incredible this city was and how we stood together. thank you for standing strong, thank you all so much for your steadfast leadership and advocacy and work in keeping our city together. i'm so honored to represent you as the mayor of what i think is the most incredible city anywhere in the world. so as we reopen, let's get back to work. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: but we will celebrate soon.

thank you all so much. take care. [applause] >> -- when connected you will hear the meeting discussion but will be muted and in listening mode only. when the item of interest comes up, style star three to be added to the speaker line. call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly. and you may submit your public comment to me that will be

forwarded to the committee and will be part of the official file. >> thank you so much, secretary han. welcome to the oversight committee. this is a special meeting april 9, 2021 and we will now call the roll. [roll call] >> all right. we are quorum. do we have any public comment that is not on the agenda? >> members could call for public comment.

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>> thank you. the minutes have been approved. we will go to item 4, discussion and possible action by the committee on draft investment, planning framework and final proposed ocoh outcome measures, including an overview on stakeholder input,ley yay san activity, and process for making recommendations for the funding to include the investment plan. i will turn it over to the amazing data officer, member nagendra. >> thank you, chair williams. get the video on. there we go. i have a presentation to share if that's possible. i also belief i was co-presenting with matthew who i believe should be on as of now. >> he is on the attendee list. >> if we could elevate him to panelist. >> he has been elevated. as far as the presenter role,

who needs that? >> that can be me. >> okay. one minute, thank you. can everyone see my screen? thank you. good morning, everybody. this is a continuation of the conversation that we were going to have at the last meeting, but we were out of time. and so this is the presentation i shared publicly after the meeting and is a little bit revised. essentially i am going to walk through these items today. i will introduce matthew in a minute. we are going that talk about the investment plan was developed,

what information is performing plan and will have an establishing the outcomes and potentially voting on those if that makes sense. and just a little bit about the timeline. the reason we are teeing up this agenda now is we are going to spend the bulk of the meeting walking through the investment plan. this is just a draft and meant to be the first iteration. it will be presented by the ree yaysons and we will talk about that in a minute. i want to thank the staff who have supported us at the controller's office and the department. i am quite proud of everybody in

this group and all the responses we have gotten. and really all of the stakeholders that have participated in the process cht hundreds of people. i specifically want to thank chair william, vice chair d'antonio and liaisons who supported this process. it's been, i think, it will show in all the recommendations we will be talking about today. who's also been working on development plan and supporting the listening sessions is tipping point community. and the consultant that is an and i want to thank andrea evans who is on today and the director of the chronic homeless

coalition and tipping point and matthew dougherty that i will introduce you to in a second, but we had a lot of support from and matthew, are you on the line? he is the former director and that's the federal agency that coordinates all the federal agencies on homelessness. he was there from 2015 to 2019 and has a long, long history of experience and homelessness and really, really fortunate to have him. he has 30 years of leadership in the private and public vectors with ending homelessness and creation of integration of housing, service, economic opportunities and has been provising expert guidance through national, state, and local organizations to seek

solutions and was an incredibly amazing resource for us. he also developed and implemented the home together plan that is all 50 states and to have the thinking about how to plan and has been enormous and works over california. i will turn it over to you and to let you talk more about yourself and the work that you are doing and particularly to talk about the federal and state dollars. >> thank you. and embarrassing number of bullets on that side, but thank you, but to tipping point to be a part of the incredible opportunity for the community there to have a scale of resources to mobilize and really strategic and purposeful ways. it is an enormous opportunity for you all and for the entire community. i just quickly want to talk

about how this work intersects can many of the other projects that i am talking with and with the covid-19 homelessness response and with center on budget and policy priorities and national health care for the homeless council and national innovation service and several other partners that initially were helping structure from covid-19 and is especially focused and helping communities think through what they need to build towards what we should have had before and the challenges and the weaknesses and to provide the federal

resource and house comes in response to the covid-19 pandemic that create enormous opportunities to build towards the systems that have always needed to be in place. and with the state of california and focused on working with the california homeless coordinating and finance council and action plan to prevent homelessness in california that was adopted by the council about two weeks ago. and state agencies to implement that action plan and with the different elements some is grounded towards the future of that area. and trying to get to for a long time. and go to the next slide please.

and what is important to recognize is the ways that the covid-19 crisis has really stressed and strained homelessness response systems everywhere. that's been everybody's experience as the homelessness system needed stronger partnership, more capacity and to respond with urgency. and with the heroically work and to try to do all we could to build up responses. on top of that, a surge of new resources that make it possible to the greater scale and for san francisco is the opportunity to align that surge of state and federal funding with the own

courage and resources through federal and state funding. with the rescue plan that was recently passed. i am not going to talk through this array of resources that allows communities to fill up and to do more for veterans and investment and specific and housing activity. these resources together help us to scale up and all elements of the response and to be strategic and purposeful about how to do that together and how to use the funding sources in the most

opportune way and with the highest and greatest impact. that is similar to what you have the opportunity to with the our city, our home funds to think across prevention and permanent housing and mental health expenditures and shelter and activity and the partnership of federal and state resources to think about all elements of the system at the same time as well. next slide please. so this is what i want to highlight the american rescue plan that passed in early march. similarly with investments that cut across full range of responses to homelessness. the emergency rental assistance and that will follow previous addiction prevention and homelessness prevention and the flexibility to do housing for

people who already lost their housing. and the biggest scaling up of housing choice vouchers that is experienced coming soon and the home funding which had just the acquisition and permanent or interim housing and the flexibility and local and state funds that are intended to broadly cover the communities of and impacts of covid-19 and on budgets and the flexible to be used on homeless activities. and the infusion into the emergency food and shelter program. which is the sense that there is an opportunity to think about the entire system as a whole and our city, our home funds and the

importance of trying to think about these resources as a collective pool of resources rather than separate buckets of resource. that is something the liaisons and departments are thinking through what is the best opportunity for these resources in light of the full array and coming into the community and likely more work to be done to build towards an investment strategy that guides future funding decisions in alignment with the the opportunities which don't come without challenges. none of this is easy work. there is a tremendous amount of work to get to the point of where you are today to think about the best and highest uses of the ocoh funds. i will turn it back to cynthia. >> thank you so much, matthew. matthew is a the most infusion

of funds that we have seen from all levels and is a big part of it. and so we have a lot of work to do to deliver the system and the departments and the mayor's office is using these in the most strategic of ways. >> and hear about this for the investment plan recommendations if recommendations aren't from the liaison specifically but from city departments, the work that the liaisons have done and with over 800 stakeholders and i

want to highlight that work and how robust it's been. these are pictures from the glide event and serving some tablets and you have heard several times about the spending ideas and the budget priorities and are responsive and helpful in figuring out what they need

and what they are asking for. and we included some specific conversations and unhoused families and three interpreters and all over zoom and we had lived experience in many of the sessions. and we had stakeholders and we have national recommendations on how to prioritize the different resources and goals and strategies with the values that we determined early and and thought through thement ka pain coalition priorities in terms of how to think about the

recommendations. the questions that we asked to give you a sense is what interinterventions and the nonsourced providers face and what should be scaled up. and we also asked people in listening sessions and many of the sessions and with the ways to reduce disparity and to ask about equity goals and how to get there and that is reflected in the conversation today. that is many of the niche tifrs and plans that you have seen me present before that we looked at and tried to align with. and the final investment plan will be a summary of the work that will happen after the vote that will summarize the final decisions will have details specifically for recommendations and with 2021 and 22, 23, across

all categories and aligning with population categories and used in the various frameworks and the hsa and the identification of which will require more funding and project how much more funding in future years and the projections of the outcome to be achieved and so far as we can tell in terms of how many housing placements and to advance the equity goals. and to achieve the full outcomes we are projecting and to support the achievement of other areas and the mayor's recovery plan. we need more detailed modelling and planning process and are hoping to get to that after these funds are allocated and fully released to fully ground the funds and planned uses and align with the other strategic efforts and make it as data

driven as possible. that will result in a sort of more city wide plan and that serves as the means and gaps analysis. and to identify the objectives and with what the departments will do and the investment plan details and an example of what to see today because you will be walked through this with the permanent housing category. we tried to make this as visually accessible as possible without putting too much information and wanting to get the liaison the ability with the investment by population and recommendations for 201, 21-22, and future equipment required to sustain that funding. some are one time. some are future year over year investments and what the projected outcomes will be and

where this is with different department requests and community input and other things that we are trying to achieve. the actual report will have all this captured and descriptions and how they are aligned with equity goals. this is the table of what it will look like in the report. so to go end with the outcome goals. you have seen this before. the goals outlined in the city our home legislation. and in permanent housing, shelter expenditure, homelessness prevention expenditures and you can see the numbers are not meant to be over one year, but over several years. we are going to be sort of really figuring out how far our investments are going to get us towards the different goals. and the action item we may want to take today, we can discuss this today and take a vote on it today and discuss it today and take a vote on it in the final

investment plan meeting on april 20 but we need to establish the outcomes that we want to work towards. and these can be adjusted with more system models. we know on the left hand that these are our city, our home goals in the legislation i just showed you. and they support the outcomes to be pursued in over community plans. one is ending family homelessness and this is not the all our city, our home funds to end homelessness and this is something that will change because this is using the federal definition, and the likelihood is that the ending using the prop c definition which is much more expanded and including the definition of family homelessness is pushed out and we want to figure out what is the end to family homes in san francisco.

and the rediction for chronic homelessness and the reduction has been very, very well modelled through hsa and tipping point so we have pretty clear idea of how far our city, our home is going to get us. and reduce homelessness by 50% by 2022 and the veterans groups and this includes sfcs and the entire sort of veterans groups and with the stakeholders that end better homelessness and give us a clear idea to go by 25% with specific kinds of asks. the other thing that is important for us to take a stab at and get something down is to refine it after today or after the 20th and are really very, very centered on improving

equity and to respond to race, sexual orientation and gender. we heard this throughout the sessions with community members and departments and we want to support progress towards the outcomes in our recommendations. what we don't have is all of the data that we need to really make very specific recommendations and assistance model and process with the race equity lens is going to help us to get there. and i wanted to provide some examples with targeted reduction goals and the example would be reducing homelessness among black people which is what the people currently experiencing that and that is three and a half times overrepresentation. that is the disparity. and there is the no general population. the general population of san

francisco with 6% representation and one way we don't think about it is how to reduce homelessness to mirror the general population and how long is that going to be? i threw in three years here and that is certainly something not based on looking at the capacity and how to do that. i will say in our experience having targeted goals with numbers and very intentionally and using those to really think through all of the interventions and how we're targeting those is important. other examples would be reducing homelessness amongst lgbtq people from certain percent in three years and the overrepresentation we know in the homeless population. and reducing homes particularly and drill down more and there is a very disparate impact for people who are trans in the homeless population. and use the equity impact analysis to make the target funding population and i have been talking for a while.

i am going to stop there and will pause for discussion. and to see what the committee would like to do. would you like to adopt these goals? to go to the particular goals and more data models? how should we talk about the talk about the equity goals? i will stop and open it up for discussion. >> thank you, member nagendra. here i see member haynes. >> thank you, chair. thank you, cynthia and everybody, who participated in this really important work. excuse me. my question is in relation to

how we are tracking the populations in terms of the goals that we will be making the votes on in the future. when i look at figures like wanting to look from the experience of poverty by population. i'm black and queer and when -- like, i'm wondering if we are tracking what we can work to track attrition. the african-american population in san francisco when i was born was over 70%. the population now is 60 [inaudible comment] to measure attrition of the

populations we want to make a significant impact in and only because a significant amount has left the city. i want to make the request that we make an impact and showed up in the data is because large amounts of the populations have left. so san francisco has lost significant organizations of the african-american population and it has lost significant portions of the next population and other demographics and won't be out of the city. how are you tracking more of the

demographics. [inaudible] >> i want other folks to jump in if they like to and i completely understand what you are observing and what you are asking. this is one way to talk about equity in terms of should we be trying to mirror the general population. we don't have to choose that as the goal. and we really are trying to reduce disparity and that is one way people in certain communities are looking at and could be increasing exits to housing and trying to reduce

disparity that way and coming up with different number, but the department is able to de-segregate much of the data by race, ethnicity and gender. i leave that up to them to desegregate data and track it that way. in terms of a deep equity impact analysis, i think that is on the books for them. i hear what you are saying and i want to let other folks weigh in. >> thank you. member freedombock, member miller, and member andrews. >> good morning, everyone. thanks for all the work that you have been going on this. and i really like member haines

suggestion in figuring out how to fold in the displacement factor. maybe that can be a separate goal because i know for families in particular a lot of what we are doing with families, almost all of whom are black and brown r putting them outside the city. and so i think that that has a direct with the homeless population, it has a direct impact. and in terms of your question, member nagendra in terms of what we would like to do today and feedback on that, it would be great if we could get lined up on the goals as much as we can. and have a vote on them or at least the ones that we can do. and that would help us as we're moving towards the 20th to kind of frame the things that we're doing there. and we will be able to see how close we are in getting towards the goals. and i just think that lays things out nicely. i am not sure about whether we

should -- i really like except for the displacement factor, but i like trying to align the homeless population with the general population. correcting for displacement. i'm not sure what the best way to go is there. i think we need to decide on the disparity piece and talking about comparing the general population to the homeless population and reducing it down, we can do the same for the lgbt, trans, etc., or we can do it a different way and we're backing out and saying we want to have x percentage of exits go to the population based on the disparity that exist. that is a goal, of course, and

is tricky with the different legal stuff we have talked about before. so on the first slide, though t one before this on the overall goal, really think we need to change the family one. to line that up and we are talking about 1,000 units and looking at the numbers, i think that we could get a 75% reduction or 850% reduction of family homelessness within the prop c definition. and so that should be kind of our marker there. and i think when we did prop c, we thought we were really close to ending family homelessness

and the numbers are dramatically large and over 1,000 verified as homelessness and families that are in sros. so if we put the numbers together, i think that can be close to 75% reduction. i would recommend changing that language on the first one and we have to move away from that framework that has basically excluded often times and works against black and brown families the way we have excluded people disproportionately. we need to have the broad definition from an equity

perspective. to measure for displacement brought up in terms of this plan and also for member freidnedbach, are you recommending that we go by the prop c definition for family homelessness and kind of say that is what we want to move forward with? i don't know if we can do that in a motion or just change it with no objection. if anyone objects, just unmute. i am going to suggest 60%, 6-0,

>> can you repeat that? that one we probably should do as a motion. >> i would like to reduce this goal to reducing family homelessness by 60%. by whatever five years is out. i'm sorry. what year is it? to 2026. is there a second? >> i would second that and i will just put the caveat and to sigh what that pipeline is and increase the goal and shorten the time. i think it's as long as we're doing that target.

>> can i say at least 60%? >> a member nagendra, do you agree with that? >> yes. >> any discussion on this change? if you can unmute yourself and i know the hands are for other comments. >> i am not sure that i have the record for the definition and i can't see anything in the ordinance that defines it. >> it is in the legislation to include families who are with some families unable to go

through that process and i will let others talk about it. and include families whob doubled up and living in residential hotels with minors under 18. >> we have that in the legislation and i am just searching keywords and not seeing it. i will keep looking for it. i want to make sure that everyone understands what this to be defined by the legislation

and by at least 60% so to that is what i am looking and and can transfer that over, that would be great. >> any member discussion or question or comments? >> i have a question and remind me what that said before the amendment just now. >> and just saying end family homelessness with the h.u.d. definition and is >> i think 60% is okay, but i am wondering what is stopping us and as far as i am concerned,

this should never be family homelessness, period. so i am wondering if the department can maybe speak to why did we -- why 60%? can can we do better? you know, and even all these goals would be great if we achieved them and i will talk more about that once i get to my hand raise part. but i am wondering what these are based on in the department's kind of analysis or understanding of what those numbers are. so if many they look like the other thing to achieve and a way to achieve something different. maybe better.

so the 53% was looking at what is in the pipeline and they did the data analysis and this is the update to the framework last year. and so now that we have an expanded definition, different resources, we are kind of past december. it is totally possible and we don't have the data or the universe of data on the expanded definition. in other words, we don't have all the things we need. that is there, but we can get the analysis. >> member freidenbach, do you want to speak to the 60%? >> i think to be -- i don't know if everybody is breaking up, but

the internet seems to be unstable. >> yeah, it is. >> okay. the 60%, and i was just using the numbers we recently got back about how many families are over 1,000 and the minimum of folks that have minor children through the sro families united collaborative with door to door outreach to almost every family living in residential hotels. i was taking that number and then dividing it by the 25% of the 4,000 units that we have in our overall goal. and that comes to about 60%. so i am totally in agreement with member miller to get to 100% and i agree that we should not have one child in a city as rich as san francisco living in the midst of a housing crises, but i was looking at prop c

money. the other piece is that we are leveraging all the other resources to member miller's point, maybe i am off on that and shouldn't be so literal about prop c with the bigger goals and is possible to go00 and family homelessness ended. i would be happy to make a friendly amount to the proposal if folks are down on that. >> do you want to -- would that amendment be to end family homelessness by 2026? >> yeah. so there is enough money right now and there is enough money where we should not have one child in homelessness and five years and we should be able to figure something out in five years. to me that is way too much time to have a 60% goal and i also

think that by looking at these goals and with with not just prop ocoh. the way i see us is we're not a separate thing from the entire system. we're the kind of power boosters. the low turbo to put in the back. what are our goals collectively for the city? and working with hsh to pull the resources together to collectively hit our goals. that is my two cent. it sounds like you like to make a friendly amendment. restate your motion with the amendment. and make a friendly amendment, side note, love it when people

are pushing it further than me, so thank you. i appreciate it. i was being too conservative. so amend the motion to end family homelessness by december 2026 using the prop c definition of family homelessness. >> thank you. is there a second? any further discussion? all right. so secretary william, roll call please. [roll call]

the motion passes unanimously. and member freidenbach, it is still on you if you have additional questions or comments. did we lose her? >> an i'm here. there you go. i don't know if folk cans hear it's kind of garbled and breaking up a lot. i don't know what's going on. member. >> we're making a motion -- so we're -- that's fantastic. >> it is still on you and the motion passed you unanimously. do you have other motions or comments for member nagendra? >> not at this time. >> thank you. we will move to member miller and then member andrews. >> so i just wanted to say how much i appreciated the presentation and really how

exciting it is because when we look at the resources, covid was ruff and a lot of is tough got going very fast in san francisco. and it really allowed us to open up the whole idea and with the village model and because san francisco was one of the first. and so with the 10 count and we know how to drop. and somebody recently called me and said should we be worried that in september, 2,000 people are going to go out in the street. i said from where i am sitting no, one is going to allow that to happen. so it's really exciting to feel like we can build it out more.

so i think these are great -- this whole process has been wonderful. and i also in alignment with the promise from both member freidenbach and haines. okay, so i am kind of saying something a little separate but i want to keep front of mind that the trick with this is how do we get it done? because we're going to have to create a hell of an infrastructure to make sure this happens and it happens on time. and the truth is, right, we're behind on quite a few things. we're behind on spending money. you know in terms of the homeless department. we're behind in placement. and there's a lot of reason and i am not saying that is not a critical thing, but this stuff

is really, really hard to put together and make happen. it is easy on paper, but in reality it takes a lot of people working together. what i would like to bring to the consciousness of the committee is that where we have to pay attention to is the plan and the implementation for how we're going to get this done. once we say okay this is a good plan, whatever we kind of agree on at the end, that now we are starting to pay attention. how does this happen? if we get behind the 8 ball, we have to start giving back money, we lose a year or two, all that time equals people out on the street and people experiencing trauma. just a lot of hard stuff that people have to endure. and so what i am saying is, we know that there's a lot of work we have to do on the infrastructure to get here.

so with somebody who runs an organization and how big it is and i have been working on a lot of these projects.

>> i don't know a lot about the other committees other

than being on those committees myself. i was grateful is to them. i don't know if that might be an overlap of work that's being done i know our effort is to maximize them out on money. i'd like to sort of maybe offer an amendment to this. i'd like to determine if we are overlapping work that's being done if we confirm that first before charging to first before charging to

investment. like i heard from before. i wonder if that work is already being done. >> member andrews. >> i just wanted to have a clarifying point to you. part of this is to put those back together. it's exactly what i'm trying not to continue to do is creating another report but take what's been done and bring it together. you know, that's the success of a selective impact model and interdisciplinary team. there is workout there being done. you participated in many of those gathering those and synthesizing the information

frompry vengeance through those who are experiencing it in realtime that's apart of their charge rather than, in addition to looking for gaps. that's clearly what we will ultimately find. there is duplication and grapes. one thing grap. there is energy around equity and everybody has their own strategy on it. my nervousness is it can and does happen. that respective departments and agencies and it will fall

through the cracks. that's what i want to mitigate. >> i saw a few hands. i believe i saw, yes, member. >> oh, you are muted. >> i am just appreciative of the conversation. this is a complex topic we really wanted to look into. what i'm hearing is we have a consin as you cond using our dollars to coordinate equity and quality assurance across different departments and initiatives. i know the justice folks are working on this too. they are very focused. it sounds like we don't have to assign the vehicle but we

would like to commit funds to this work i'd like to say i'm the systems modeling. it's not just about data. we brought these pieces together and help come up with realistic goals. very much focused on experience. people who are doing the work and have knowledge in the area. it's not guilty just about modeling things through data. we arrest chore that together. i don't know if we want to define it in this moment. i'm thinking about the rest of the agenda items. it sounds like with my emotions or say you want to commit to administrative funds to an effort that will look

like coordination of everything that member hayes and anderson talked about. >> i accept. >> okay, wonderful. >> i think you encapsulated things pretty well. this is in an important direction. this is the direction i once established with you all. i know we are on this topic but we'll get back to where we were. i agree, there were some items in regards to the language around, i wanted to clarify. we move along but after this

we are back to the language and goals. >> thank you so much member hayes. in terms of building out the goals we will need to spend time on the next meeting working on this. this is not the only opportunity we have member hayes you have your hand up. actually, member, they put their hands down vice chair deantonio. >> thank you so much for putting that together. i was really raised on the familyishes. i know we have city departments on the call. when we talk about equity we have a lot of native folks

represented. because we bundle when we do our point and data, it's hard to determine outcomes. i'd like to encourage the city so we could have some outcomes from those represented. taking out the data and having data from native folks. i know being in the family system there are a lot of native folks. >> thank you vice chair. at this time i'll call a roll. [roll call]

>> the motion passes unanimously. we'll go to member i wanted to move away from chronic call homelessness. we were trying to go upstream and not have a system where you were dead to get help. i'd rather that be 50 % reduction in adult homelessness and not closing on chronic disease. this will create a situation systemically that you have long-term homelessness before you get assistance. >> thank you, member.

i think we can shift that. >> i we could add in other goals for noncrotic call adults. we don't have to come up with that goal right now.

switching the language. would you like more conversation around that. >> i would think we needed more discussion on the committee but we could, we could add a goal here or discussion. we could add a goal that says reduction of adult homelessness. that's nonchronic adult homelessness. unless that's too confusing. i would amend to add that. we could wait for more discussions >> yeah, i mean, i'm very deliberate about wanting to move the word chronic.

i understand the idea of long-term homeless. i think we can go farther. we don't, you know, we can go beyond the chronic and we have to resources. >> thank you, member friedenbac beh. i'll go to member haines. >> this is important to me. i wanted to reiterate the idea of adding in the individual

demographic as the individual that's not yet married but hopefully in the future. you know, it was a difficult time accessing services, you know. i don't have a child so i couldn't access a lot of services that were made available to families or women with children. there was a gap. forgetting those resources and services. i'm grateful i never contracted hiv or any other disease that would give me complications. that would also give me additional resources. to add individuals that would create the space for more services to be made available for those who don't fall into the resource category we would like to prioritize. sometimes when wow focus on

prioritizing the demographic another demographic falls through the cracks. we are focused on what is valuable but we forget individuals that are single are valuable. they contribute to families they become engaged in. thank you for bringing that up. we would love to be included in conversations. in terms of the language the demographics. if you could bring that up so we can comment better. that would be great. >> sure, let me share that. >> is it this one or the one before >> the one before. >> yeah, the language is so trapping. it's important because it helps us communicate. especially when we look at fiscal regurgitates in the

language. when i created an emergency shelter. the language i would like to see is creating an additional emergency shelter. when we look at it down the line. when people say we created 1,000. that means we created an additional thousand or added 35 to add up to 1,000. those are the types of things i like at, so, because this is a summery of goals. we don't know what that means in the background. if the language could be modified. the city had 1,000 and then we were able to provide additional 1,000. that means we had 2,000 when it was said and done. when i look at something creating emergency shelter for 1,000 they all ready have more

left. if the language is modified we had 4,000 and go we have 8,000 and that addresses the issues you can determine this and getting to the goal measurement. that's what i'm worried about. >> looking at the time. we will need to move back to our time. we will revisit these goals

and outcomes at other meetings. i know we are taking a lot of notes. vice chair d ian ton yo ' antonio will take-over and i'll be back. >> good morning, thank you, members.

>> this will allow our community to focus on the community and i really feel we need an approach that's data driven >> at this time i'll go to public comment

>> if you wish to provide public comment please call-in 1-415-655-0001. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. you have 3 minutes. >> checking the attendee list now. i do not see public commitment 'll" pass the chair to vice chair d ' antonio. we'll move to item five. thank you vice chair. i'll be back. >> thank you. >> there is actually one public comment that just raised their hand. i'll take this caller. >> okay. >> thank you so much for making time for me.

this is kristine evans. i wanted to emphasis i'd appreciate you are super thoughtful about keeping with the intent of proposition c and what they cast their vote for the last round had some problems so i appreciate

everybody taking time to understand the intent of the legislation and make sure we are making sure we honor what the voters intended to end visible homelessness to the best of our ability with resources that should be prioritized what is coming to mind is extending pharmacy hours or, you know, the part teams which i think are not bad uses of funds. they are not what prop c funds were designed for. prop c funds were 100 % focused on ending peoples homelessness and providing where it's emergency shelter or provide permanent support of housing that our city needs. thank you so much for paying great consideration to the voters intent with prop c.

thank you so much. >> great, thank you. >> you would like to move onto item number five? >> i forgot i was chair for a second. can you pull-up the agenda for me please. >> will you let me share. i'll be sharing some stuff. >> thank you, laura.

recommendation for housing, prevention, and shelter hygiene they came up with an initial set of activities. some things we are still waiting for more information on. this is a discussion point we have time between now and the 2h to really provide more information and discussion. i'd like to point out these reck membered decelerations are not from inside. this is based on all of the information and input and plans we have been looking at for months now. i'll turn it over to them. they have done a tremendous

amount of work. i'd like to thank them. >> should i share the housing spreadsheet. >> yes. >> thank you. >> so, yes, if you can share the housing spreadsheet. i don't have a copy here. i didn't have access to a printer. i'll work from this as well. so, i should be able to. i think what we learned and discussed in prior

if we tied that down farther. it might be a little less than what we had. it might be necessary to tie

these numbers and we could have a little less assert of plan than we have here. we'll try hard to find a way to make sure we have the money to do it. the first line is from and it import tan thing to look at is the focused statement there. what will happen with that. this is leveraged money. it won't do the whole thing but where prop c funds can fall on several initiatives and other sources as well. really, the public sources out there to create 4 hung to 600

units of new housing for folks. we are anticipating this will be acquired housing rather than new developed housing. that means it's hotels, apartment buildings that the team would be about to go out and tie-down and give them the resources to do it. the timing is on it and they can do their work right now. by july 1 they would have up to the $100 million available. dealing with the cost factor. we assume 350 to $400,000 per unit. that will come out closer to the 400,000. we are keeping flexible the number of units with that we

would add another point to that. we heard loudly from the community. we don't want to restrict it's efforts. look more broadly and as we say that we recognize with the rfi that came out, i think i'm correct on that and the department can correct me if not. you realize that would be a challenge. you don't want to lose that goal. it's $100 million there is a rhyme and reason how we came up with the number of units.

there is conjecture on that about how much money will come in from those sources. if you go down to the second line. i'll cover the general. all of this is in the general population category. separately, we'll see categories for families. when we say aquisition and rehab we talk about aquisition and rehab for adults. 4 to 600 units. sheltered adults. go to the next line operations and services $21.6000 per year for operations and services. that's more, slightly more than the department is calculating.

they are just slightly under 20,000. we are recognizing the funding had to be adequately there. we'll want as we fine tune this in the next few weeks to make sure that's the number that will allow us the kind of operations we would like to see. that figure of $3.2 million in the third column. i'm pointing to it with my hand that i realized doesn't work for you. the $3.2 million will be the annual cost, is that right? yeah, that's right. the annual cost. that's a quarter, i'm getting myself--go over one to the right where you see the 13 million. that one. the cost to do this for a full year operations at 21.6 would

be $13 million. we hope the team and department can bring this on very quickly. that's why we are budgeting a quarter of that for fiscal year 2122. let's go to the next row. i have less specific information on that. the department is asking that we come in with greater funds in 2232. right now, we look at the resources we are carrying forward and next fiscal year this is $1.2 million for

operations and services there. a little note. we are talking about a 3 % annual inflater subsequent we are recognizing that right now at the 3 % increase we are on the low end on that and we would have to look at that being higher. it's the right assumption. flexible housing subs aciddy. they recommended, i'm looking to the fourth column 975 sip residents. they rekeyed the subs subsidy. we spoke about this among the other community members we

were working on that. we decided to add in 500 flex housing subsidedies for those who ies. we are asking for 50.7. that's one of the places we will have to see if the income for these requested. we would like to hold onto that. we with building the inflater into that as well. we are impacting 350 residents with that that airlines with hshs request when they met with us a few weeks ago not

sure if that number is the same. we do have numbers for the current fiscal year. member friedenbach. i wasn't sure if you had something to add. this was with the current phrase of folks coming out. one thing, basically, in having conversation with chris

and others we decided that the phrase 3 and 4 should be released earlier on concern of getting things going and meeting the deadline of those coming out-of-the hotels. >> so if it wasn't fully used we would want it to rollover look to the bottom line and means from the general population we are looking for the release of 30, this is line 10. $30 million this fiscal year. $174 million next fiscal year. again, we have to go back and fine tune that to make sure that doesn't exceed what we have available and we look at

those numbers and also see if there is a potential for moving funds and other than that compliant with the term of prop c that could put more money in this is just for adults. it might be good to go through presentation rather than discuss this in the interest of time. you go to the population. it's virtually the same categories a million dollars it's available to strike team to do it's work in response to proposals as well. some units that's proposed in

that regard. there is definitely enough money to support that within $80 million. the outcome row e is we would have 200 units acquired in rehab. little interest we took a different approach in this. the maxed money in the community they will be able to link up with the transitional age range. so, if we look to the note. this is the last column. this is row 12. assume 350 to 400 per unit. it's sufficient to cover the full cost. they will leverage other public and private resources. again, siting projects and strategies linked to racial

equity. they are siting outside subsidies as well. we calculated that in the same way. this was at 21.67 per unit. a 3 % inflater. there was a full year of operations. this is column d. we are looking at 4.3 million and hope to be up and running so we have a million dollars recommending for release in 2122, 1.1 million. we have rapid funding. this would effect 80 sheltered youth and provided subsidies and aligned with the request to this area.

we saw additional housing. we added subsequent to my leaving town. i got a note on that. i didn't talk to jennifer. member friedenbach can you talk on that. >> it's a little challenging what category to fit in this is additional speciality and it has a hardened to it. the idea is it for youth so they will move on after, you know, after they are able to get on their feet and whatnot. it's not structured with a hardened. that's why it's in this category. it came from communities of a large number of different

providers. this is enlight of the camp closing down. >> thank you. >> if you go to that next line. sorry i am going back and forth. i see that's 2 million. let me say without going into that level we will check that number. there was a lot money in that bucket to handle it. this is to put in flexible longer term housing and

subsidies. we get to the totals and you see them. i think we had funds unlike the general population where we exceed the money. we have leeway and we are also looking off at the capacity. there was a number of units we are projecting already. if we get to the 200 units and we need 300 units, you know, at a later date we could come

back finish families with children. we are looking at 2 to 300 units. this we assume 600,000 plus per unit, the 84 million reflects that 600,000 across the unit rather than 500. we had that 500 that's sufficient. we adjusted that within the last day or two. again, this is leverage from other sources. it could be built built loan. we will get much farther if we bring in other sources to leverage that this is an operational thing. we will talk about how this one will be operationalized. most of the that came in and

the rfi put-out. this is something suitable for sing 8 adults than falllies. we would like to see that for doing an over-the-counter that would go to the housing providers and be able to move more speedily. we go to line 20. this is supporting it across a 30,000 per unit per year. that figure needs to be checked. there is enough money to increase it if we need to. there are services and other services with other things we have provided 30k may or may

not be accurate. this would support the needs of 300 currently unsheltered families and families and sros. we are looking to make sure we meet those needs as well. we are projecting that at cost. it has to be double-checked on that. the bottom line ends on being direct it's $99 million. if you look to that very bottom line i think that's an error. i think we are actually asking

for the release in the housing budget of 360.9 million in that column roughly 400 million. let me stop talking. i don't know if the chair would like to take question on this particular part. thank you, member. thank you. i'd like to open it up. i think we will let people ask questions on what you said. i know we--with have a time constraints. i'd like to get to everybodies thoughts and comments.

>> sure, if someone could pull-up to behavioral health component. while we are doing that, i just wanted to say, sort of the approach we continue to take. that was an impressive presentation to some great level of detail. kudos to you and your team for putting that together. what i wanted to share today we we were looking at all of this information. my assessment and oural unanimous our at came up in multisessions meeting with dph personnel and

the heads of behavioral health to get a understanding of what their priorities were. i sought to match those departmental priorities as often as i could. what was being pleased to say. this is a significant amount. we are not as far along we define the program. i doe no, what my responsibility is to make sure whatever is in the community and larger buckets and funding recommendations are incorporated in. >> member, i'm so sorry. we were taking questions on comments on member reggio's part. i'm not sure if this l lead up

for that. >> so, on member reggios part. thank you, member reggio. people--my questions are around 975. i think i lost the max on the housing plan and if we are consistent with what had been presented or if we are making changes. i can't totally follow the housing specifically.

>> yes. >> i wonder if unsheltered is the right term or if we are talking about other portions. for example. we need to make this between in flow and outflow. we do that across a lot of our work here. i'm not sure with are working for two or three people i'd just like to text back. >> can i chime in on that. let easy two things. there was consistency. the amount we are doing this at is $34,000 per person.

the department came to us. yes, the department head has to explain what we got there. we have another 17,000 roughly. that does come from the 50 million. it comes out to 34,000 per person per year. on your point on target. we also would like to include the sheltered person. we would like to include people in addition to those who are currently in the ship hotels so people at sanctuary for example. in other words they were in

ship hotels and this wouldn't exclude them. >> i think we comment on the first question. so, the numbers of people in the categories have not shifted. those are what we are originally looking at back in december. one change on the housing is the subsidy amount increased. i don't have that part of our conversation. the other thing, it shelfed here and somewhat welated on the pay immediate needs for the flex pool. those are going up in the immediate needs category. that's also severing the people coming out of camp. so, i just wanted to make sure

everybody understood in this category. >> thank you. >> my other question was on 350. we'll take it back-up to the request. 550. i think this is directly reflects. we will see in a month on

that.

>> if what we end up with 500 units, it's not going to cost 13 million a year, it's going to cost less, but we're

calculating the amount on what it takes to reach the upper end of that range. >> great. thank you. member nagendra, did you have a comment? is. >> yeah, i do have a comment, but i think that it's reiterating some other comments. member leadbetter and member friedenbach mentioned this, but it's our responsibility to make sure that everyone is triaged and having the right sort of housing and stability to really think about the system across -- it's not perfect, but that's how we're thinking in terms of different interventions and amounts. >> great. thank you, member nagendra. i have some questions and talks, and i was going to move

into the line. one thing that i have, and i don't know in we can answer this today, but, like, what are the link-up strategies going to be? like, how is that going to happen, what are they? yeah, and then, one of my other more general overall of the strategies is i'm wondering why 3% inflation? i'm wondering that 2% would be okay, 2 to 2.5%. 3% feels high to me, personally, and i feel like 2% is a standard that's used a lot, so i'm wondering where we got that 3% person. second, what about the youth? i know we had -- like, what, like, federal dollars could we be using? i've heard money coming from, like, the federal level for

foster youth, and i know that people are becoming homeless at a young age, and we're doing more to address those upstream goals, and i'd, like, to hear, like, what we're, like, doing to address that. and also, i'd also like to know how long the short-term subsidies are form because that, like, wasn't determined in there, and around the short-term subsidies, and that's going to go for any of the populations that we're you can -- we're talking about, so really looking at the retention outcomes. and i'm wondering, too, i'd like to see more recovery in rapid rehousing. i'd like to see more longer

term subsidies for youth. so i'll keep going about that, but, like, for families, there was a number around 300 units per families. i don't have it in front of me, so i can't think of the language right now. it says 100 s.r.o. families, so 300 targeted and 100 going towards s.r.o. or are we talking about 400 total? and then, i needed, like, more information on the acquisition. it seems like a lot of these buildings that would be good for permanent supportive housing because we need five bedrooms, we need four bedrooms, and then, into that, see what are the different size

units for families. and then, i also wanted to talk about what are the federal dollars going towards families? i'd like to see more families, also, as far as, like, if there's, like, d.v. dollars coming from the federal level? i know there were, like, when covid first hit. we had 100 vouchers go towards this, and i never really heard anything about that, so i just think that there's, like, a lot of federal and state dollars, like, what i'd like to see how that's tied more towards families and youth and not towards single adults. and yeah just, like, thinking about, like, the cost of these family units. if there's going to be, like, child care on-site, how do the incentives, like, tie into the cost and some of the other things there? that's what i'm thinking of, and i'll stop there. >> so i don't think there would

be the ability to do all of this at this level in the meeting. i guess what would be helpful to me, and i'm thinking the other liaisons would have the same in their presentation is we would not put our stamp of approval on these presentations, but yeah, we have the right approach. and then, if we could hear your questions between now and april 20, we can tie that down with more specificity. but it wouldn't help -- you know, if you think the approach is wrong, and you really missed it, that would be helpful to know today, yeah. >> so i don't -- i don't think the -- [inaudible] >> yeah, i think it's a great starting point. for me, sometimes, it's hard for me, like, to think abstractly, so yeah, this is a, like, good, like, starting

point. yeah, we can touch base offline. i just wanted people to know, like, since i was in charge of gathering, like, feedback, that i, like, heard them. >> and i often think in terms of this committee, i think that this is a personal opinion, that we need to not be too operational. that's why we have departments. we need to set the big picture. we need to say we are making $100 million available to you, and we want you to address, as you're working this, equity concerns as well as the locations rather than us figuring out that level of stuff because i think that would be an operational cast that i think is beyond our purview, and we just don't have the capacity to do it. we don't have the person power to do it. >> i -- thank you, member.

i'd like to know from the person who are doing that work what that looks like? and make sure that it's, like, on public comment, as well, like, so the public knows what those things are, as well, so there's really action behind the work. but thank you so much. i want to turn it over -- i see emily cohen has had her hand up for a long time, but laura, i see you over there, so why don't you take us away, laura. >> i just want to do a quick time check mostly because there are so many questions, and we have three more presentations to go through, and i want to make sure that we go through those presentations with a timeshare of structuring all of the content and get being that organized through both the cynthia's work but also through the department's, and so just

to kind of flag that we will follow up after and gather any of these questions that we have sort of around more of the details, etc., and we compile them? we do have the goal of the 20 and trying to flag that. we do have a hard stop of staffing. we don't have the ability to run long here. it is a three-hour meeting, so just to make sure that we can put on air some of the next three presentations, but just keep the time for sharing of discussion and questions offline. >> being on. thank you, laura, for keeping us in line. >> so i'm going to turn it over to julie leadbetter to go through her presentation, and then, we'll take questions and comments at the end. >> great.

well, i just want to confirm. it sounds like what we're saying here is that as long as we get our information out today publicly, then we are free to talk amongst ours about this, so that -- >> i would say you can talk amongst yourselves here at the meeting. we will continue tofollow all of our coordinated rules on following through on what is going to be voted on in the investment plans on the 20. that's why i wanted to get through the presentations today. i talked to member nagendra for receiving information from members before the 20 meeting, so kind of loop back on that, but we would centralize a process about communicating for the plan in order to have all of your questions responded to by the 20 so that you can kind

of discuss and vote at that time. >> thank you so much. that's super clarifying. >> just a quick second here. so this proposal concludes large investments in building large housing systems and prevent people from exiting to homelessness or from experiencing homelessness. so first, i'd like to thank the san franciscans who really participated in the listening sessions and writing proposals and suggesting really, really amazing ideas for how our system can respond and ending homelessness. i heard with resounding clarity that people need even more flexible financial assistance

in higher amounts with more flexibility on how to spend them. i heard that people want income and employment support. i heard that bipoc communities are continuing to be the hardest hit; that our service system should be local, accessible, culturally competent and move forward centralized access points or system points, really trying to meet people where they're at with flexible response resources. also understand that many folks affected by homelessness and housing instability or are also seeking income support or also seeking employment support or also seeking health support. so we need to understand that the community wants us to be mindful that each service instead of creating a silo, but

creating access to all kinds of supports, and it's the job of the system to make that happen. it's not the job of the individual to walk from place to place to place to get that work, so [inaudible] address the whole person, client centered, coordinated, and seamless as possible so people can get the help they need. i also want to thank everyone [inaudible] really developing these proposals in collaboration with community, and honestly, i'm just very honored to be able to carry forward the incredible work that has been accomplished to date, and thanks for letting me do that on your behalf. a big thank you to tipping

point [inaudible] especially chair williams and vice chair dan comeo. looking forward to hearing everyone else's presentations, and want to take a quick second to welcome the incoming director of homelessness and supportive housing, shireen mcspadden. i think those of us, for a couple decades, we've kind of heard the term and lived under the leadership structure of the homeless czar, and i just want to acknowledge how traumatizing it was to hear that, and we can now work together and move forward in demonstrating this

leadership collaborative that we're demonstrating on our city, our home. i want to thank the mayor who's heard the voice for change and to leadership for stepping forward to this challenge. so thank you, and looking forward to work with you on this challenge. i basically have a few questions that i would love to get feedback on the committee on, and i'll just say them real quick and do my presentation. the first one is how much we can do, and how quickly? so what's realistic, and what are our public sector and community-based agencies need up front and overtime to scale the system? i'd love to see feedback from the community on how conservative or assertive we should be in allocating dollars up front and year over year, understanding that the system needs to build in an equitable

and sustainable way. i would love the community's feedback on is this an equitable and proportional set of recommendations. i really tried to prioritize equity and build on the work that has been done by h.s.h. to raise up a network of bipoc organizations that deeply serves people most impacted. i think their work to date has ensured 80% of their resources are going to serve bipoc communities, and i'm making sure that continues. also tied to -- oh, also try to drive more resources to communities impacted by criminal justice systems and employment resources and look for some proportional spending for adults, youth, and families, calling out that we know the s.i.p. housing is

taking a lot of our community resources, and we can't forget the other folks out there. so if you have any suggestions on how to make it more equitable, and then, the last question is how many people are we serving and how well are we serving them? so to everybody's points so far, like, how are we spending these dollars? how consistent are they being for household costs and ensuring quality of care? and one of those things i think is the really pressing question of capacity, particularly at the community level i'll go through the recommendations pretty quickly here, so easier to see the whole chart, but

what you'll see here is the first [inaudible] all populations. this is the proposal largely coming out of h.s.h., mohcd, and the listening sessions largely that they've been doing to build on this active network of c.b.o.s. the idea is that there would be four components of a prevention system, one being targeted homelessness prevention, another continuing the sort of long-term strategies of the victim prevention and housing stabilitization, serving largely e.l.i. communities as well as people at risk of homelessness, and then this,

category of in the last couple months, this s.i.p. housing session -- it'll be clear when we see the dollars in the next one, so basically, this emerging sense that we need more dollars, more flexible dollars, and more of them. so the boundary is in our discussions between probably solving diverse, rapid exit, and housing subsidies sometimes become very blurred. as we move down the list, i'll show you why we made decisions like that, but basically, they're looking at an investment of 20 million in the

first year, pledging more services in the next year. should we be bumping up to $30 million? is that -- do we need to do that right now? should we leave some in in in the coffers? okay. so [inaudible] up to 15,000 per

household, 2 million a year over the next year. i put a minimum service level here because we don't know if everyone is going to need 15,000. keep in mind a lot of infrastructure and administrative costs to build out the system are included in the upper portion, and so the lower portion is really based on direct clients assistance dollars, so those outcomes are are really about the money that's going to the clients as opposed to the infrastructure or staffing necessary to administer the program. so because you can see that we sort of just added problem satisfactorilying dollars for justice involved folks at $1 million each year, s.i.p. rehousing, this was an ask of

$1.25 million for s.i.p.-related housing. want to make sure that the workforce strategies are adding additional capacity, that they're linked to homelessness and housing instability, and that they're robust enough to include some of the strategies that our workforce programs haven't been able to see, like learn and earn models, paid training, because we just haven't had the resources. so putting in a range of support there and a range of

dollars. >> -- that's at $3,500,000 a year. those are investments that come

back into the community when the [inaudible] is recovered. and then, again [inaudible] that leaves us with a balance of almost $30 million, so if we were to transfer funds from prevention, we heard very loudly that those funds should go towards permanent actions. so i didn't put a dollar there, but i want to say that the intention that the -- if we transfer them, it should go to permanent exits. >> thank you guys so much. i think we're taking questions offline. i just want to say thanks to everyone. >> thank you so much, member leadbetter. i think chanel -- we're going

to move next to member friedenbach to talk about [inaudible]. >> yeah. hi, everyone. echoing all of julie's gratitudes and congratulations. so if we could pull up the shelter, thank you. so this first piece -- next slide, please. all right. so, basically, i just want to talk a little bit about my process really quickly. you know, we basically, again, taking all the input from community, taking the input from the department and kind of pulling that together, our total pot is 33 million, and we would go about 12 million over

that, and so what i decided to do for fodder to people think about is to sort of come in at the lower end of, like, basically to reduce it down so that we had some space to add stuff back in. the reason for that is there's a lot of thinking going on around reimagining shelter. there's a lot of innovative ideas out there, and not all of them have totally grown or [inaudible], so to speak, so we might want to hold back the money, and also, we may want to, through the discussions, change some stuff. i also have some on going holes in my information, so i wanted to create space for that, as well. so -- so that's kind of -- kind of the way that i was thinking about it and looking at input

from the listening sessions and looking at, you know, just input from as many people as possible and a revolving door on the shelter piece and trying to listen to what, you know, what unhoused people are telling us and trying to pull it together. so it's a little challenging, i'll just say, up front, because it's a lot of moving parts for us. i'll just say, on this first screen, there is, we've got immediate needs last year. we continued the moscone center until july 1, and we continued the safe sleeping centers and the trailers out in the bayview. so what i have recommended is that, is that we basically make the state trailers permanent that are out in the bayview, and this is in line with the

department's [inaudible] halfway through the second year? and so i'm suggesting here that we, that we continue the state trailers because they've been so successful. another piece of this is -- one of the feedback that we got in all of these different places is people wanted a diverse shelter system in terms of the different types of shelter to meet different types of need, so the trailers offered this different, this different approach, so i'm really trying to prioritize maintaining that permanently, and then also trying to ensure the equity. bayview has the second highest, sometimes the highest homeless population but hasn't had the same emergency services access, so really trying to have stuff that meets their needs. so this number may be wrong, so i was also trying to leave

space for that, and emily and i are going to check in on this after, but that's serving 135 people? and then, there's a request from the department to pay for the on going navigation center operation since the baseline was established. they have that not coming in until fiscal year 22-23, and the ask is higher than this. i lowered it down to create some space in the second year if we wanted to create some other kinds of shelters, and then, the city would have to come up with the remainder of that. so the whole -- this on portionately bring -- this proportionately brings it down to 208. this is something that i hope we'll incorporate into all of

our staff, so basically stating wherein the code this adheres to, so this is all 1028 plan b and meets the definition as it's all laid out there. so next slide, please. so this next piece is, so safe sleeping. so these -- there's a lot of notes here. so the safe sleeping villages, like i said, we paid for until july 1. the department's proposing for continuing them in full for another year. there's some other priorities that came up, and if we did that, we wouldn't have enough money. we're paying about 60k per person per year, so you might remember in member reggio's presentation that we put in 500 permanent housing, explicitly calling out the people in safe sleeping villages, which is

about 250 people, so making sure that people can move out of the safe sleeping villages and into permanent supportive housing. and then, the proposal that i have here that i would love feedback on offline is to preserve 100 of the safe sleeping spots that are on going so that we have that diversity in our shelter system, not doing the whole thing, given the cost is 50% higher of the cost than we're paying for housing subsidies right now, so that's also the thing, trying to figure out for a tent. so -- but there's also this real advantage to them because for a certain part of the population, not as an alternative to housing, but as an alternative to shelter, that would be funded at 110 slots going forward. most of the sites have to be

moved any way, and then allowing for the sites to basically go through october to make sure we have enough time to get all of those folks into housing and they're not out on the streets. so this next line is s.i.p. hotels, and the money that's supposed to be coming back to us. we have a sleeping shelter at horace mann right now. as part of our shelter and trying to do better by homeless families, the idea is to have a noncongregate mission based shelter that's able to serve a lot of the school aged kids community and doesn't have to be limited to them, but there is this -- you know, we do want

to capture the community that's there. this is at 25k per person but does not capture the services. if we transfer the b.v. program, we would operations money from that. so that's the idea there? there's another one that came from community. this is not coming from the homeless department but just, you know, kind of trying to pull everything together. next slide, please. oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, before you do that. so i just want to talk about the cost of the safe sleeping villages. i forgot to do that. so the safe sleeping villages, you know, there was conversation and feedback that i got around, you know, is

there a way to bring down the cost, so tried to really look into that, and a lot of the -- there's not a lot of places where we can bring down the cost. i mean, there is, but, you know, we'd be -- we'd be making some hard choices, so, you know, getting rid of the food bank or changing the food bank or changing the model? there's not a super easy way to bring down the cost, and i'm getting kind of different concerns and feedback about that or there's not quite consensus about that, and i just wanted to bring that up also. this is funded at 164 per person per night for the continuing 100 slots, and then,

the remainder is the average of what's remaining is how that is budgeted. this -- let's see...so next slide, please. so this next piece is -- so we -- we continue to have this issue on the family side. again, this -- you know, the family needs weren't reflected on the emergency services in the department proposal, but what we've heard over and over again is that there's not emergency capacity for families to become suddenly homeless with kids. there was the friendly shelter that closed down. they moved in the pandemic over to the oasis hotel. there's potentially space in the ballroom of the oasis hotel

to have that be a shelter with the private rooms for the hotel for people to come in and out, but for surprise families showing up, to be able to have that backdrop. we know what happened with families, and i think we have a ton of families that are trading rooms for sex, trading places to stay. we have families trading drug use for places to say. we don't have a dollar amount for that yet, and so that needs to be developed, so again, trying to create space in the budget for that one, as well. this next one is a new r.v.

park in the bayview, and this is also, like, huge priority coming out of the bayview community. so we have some of the equity perspective trying to correct some of the equity perspectives that the bayview has faced, and this is coming from a lot of different communities in the bayview asking for a new r.v. park. their ask was 16.5 million in the first year, and then, it had half a year's funding in the second year. maybe i had that -- oh, yeah. this would be a permanent program, not a temporary program, is what i'm proposing here, and having -- not that people would stay there permanently. they'd eventually move out, and

then other people would move in so people would continue to move through, but the site would continue to be there ideally. and if we'd have temporary property, we'd have the funding to move it to another property, but the priority would continue. this is lower down in the thinking. it's not that this would start july 1, it would start a little bit later, but fully funded the second year, and this would serve 100 vehicularly housed people. and this is coming kind of from the equity thing. i feel like there's a lot of -- there's a lot of sort of strands that we're hearing from our input but also kind of strands blowing through these inputs. it's being called a navigation center. i don't know that it is a

traditional navigation center, but for folks coming out of our jail with nowhere to go, this would be a landing point. i don't think this would be operated through the homeless department but would go more through the criminal justice system for 863,000 a year, and i don't have the numbers on how many that would serve. so you can see here -- so as we're moving forward, one of the things that's also coming through that hasn't quite gelled yet is tiny homes. one of the things that was com

coming out of this. unhoused people really appreciate the privacy in the noncongregate sites, but we have a bit of room here, but this total of 15.8, i think is wrong, and then it'll go out, and once we get the family drop-in numbers, and once we populate that, that number will be higher. two quick questions for you guys to consider, not answer now. i think as we're thinking about this, thinking about what values or principles should be

prioritized with sheltering options, i mentioned diversity of options, privacy, thinking about those things, what are the quality of the sheltering options that the committee most wants? and then, we look at the proposals and see how they align with the values and qualities. so i'd really like to get, like, feedback on others from the quality and housing system. and this is the other thing from mental health is how do we, in temporary shelter connected to permanent housing investments, so ensuring that a shelter is a step to exit and not just a step to more temporary housing, so i'll wrap

up there and thank you for listening. >> i'm going to go to member miller. >> thank you. so good news as i'm trying to figure out what some of the calls were as we last week with sleeping. i think it's important because, you know, when that article came out, everyone was, like -- especially me, because i wanted safe sleeping villages, and i want confused about why it was so high. many tents have couples in them, so it's not per bed or per person, as most things are calculated. the other big call that can be reduced significantly is that -- and a lot of this is you don't know what you don't know until you go through it.

instead of purchasing things, the showers, the toilets, all those things, the charging stations, the city is renting them. and, you know, i was told the city, they could have paid four times for them now what they cost for. so what i was advised is a good way we should be thinking about the safe sleeping villages, we should find a way where they wouldn't cost more than what any other emergency shelter cost. and that that should be our goal. any way, i just wanted to share that with the group because there was too many questions about that, and i think we should know. >> thank you so much, member miller, and in the interests of time, i'm going to go to member andrews, and hopefully, we'll have some time for some questions. not many, but...

>> thank you, chair williams. these are some really impressive presentations. i just want to thank everybody for all the work that they put in. can everybody hear me well? i actually had to purchase an internal mic, and i had to make sure that it's working. i actually can thank my i.t. department, because it's great. i started off on my presentation, i left my hand up and released that i was actually going into my presentation, so forgive me for that. we've been working tirelessly. between reconciling the information that we gathered, which was such rich, deep information that we gathered from our information sessions, community sessions, working with the department and just identifying with other service providers some of the challenges and the struggles

that we had. and i just wanted to say that, you know, for what we do, when we do well, we really do well. but i noticed in the first two sessions when we had those informations, that the information and the dialogue was long, and unfortunately, what was unsure is what was doing well and what needs to be expanded. so for commissioner miller's point, for what's doing well and what's not doing well, i would not want a client to be thinking that they're not doing well. so if -- thank you very much. this is a -- as member nagendra said earlier, this is

absolutely a high-level draft document that we are working on. it's taking a little longer to add some meat to the bones is we're doing a significant reconciliation between what we were hearing in the nunt and what was being proposed by the department of public health. so we have a two-year budget that was recommended plus the community's recommendations -- and again, i want to shoutout to member leadbetter for taking on those prevention support systems that really lead and go to the determinants of health. so through here, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight recommendations that will have subsets to them between 21 and 22. in our continued investments,

we want to establish and expand more of our street crisis response teams to ensure immediate access to urgent care services. i'm looking forward to hearing some of the outcomes and the successes of the first rollout of them. that would be a 13 million investment in 21 and 22 and a 14 million investment in 22 and 23.

>> we have programs that are in various stages of implementation, very much targeted capacity, i would call that. with new investmented, we'd like to expand behavioral health and clinical health services with an investment of 6.7 million investment in 22 and 7.7 in 23. overdose investment, this was

huge and significantly discussed and talked about and felt it was very much needed. overdose prevention through expanded access to investments. increasing the capacity for local treatment beds, another huge -- this is something that's been a long time coming because overall, i don't think we've made a significant investment in local treatment beds in quite sometime, which it totals up to about $29 million. at 12% implementation --

[inaudible] i want to thank them for their recent activity to hearing what was in the community around targeted mental health investments, particularly around the community. i know we're continuing to have those conversations, wanting to significant investments in those targeted areas. and with that, i think i'm going to stop there, and just to let you know that there's a significant amount of work that we're going to do between now and the 20, filling in a lot of those, but my priority was to make sure that there was -- i

sat in the space of reconciling and elevating the interest and the issues and the challenges of the community and the spending plan. thank you. >> thank you so much, member andrews. we have about seven minutes left on the clock for the committee meeting. i know it was mentioned that staff have a hard stop of noon, so i'll go to member miller and member friedenbach. >> oh, i forgot to take my hand down from last time. >> thanks, member andrews. i know you've been working hard on it. the initiative language is

really clear on this one, on behavioral health. behavioral health services for homeless people, i think that's one of our areas that we really need to big down on, and if there's -- big down on, and if there's service percentages that are going to be used to help unhoused people, that's going to be used to help that. the city could still do those things. they just have to find other resources for them, which would be awesome, and i think we're better leveraging prop c to make other things happen. i would like to see some proposals in there for additional cooperative housing. i'd like to see proposals in there for boarding care acquisitions, and, you know, maybe have kind of a broader

array of those things. i'm really, really pleased to see the expansion in beds. i think everyone can kind of see where i'm going with this, but really, really hard to address your behavioral health needs while you're still homeless, and getting trauma layers on top of layers on top of layers, so in terms of maximum impact of the dollars, i'd like to see that piece expanded, get the homeless the help, and thank you so much. >> can i just quickly answer that? in that slide, you saw there was a one-time maintenance for acquisition of beds. i don't want that it's not only certainly for treatment but

it's pretty much the model that many of us who are service providers provide in our continuum of service, and it wouldn't be hard that that would be considered in there, but i'll get you on that. thank you. >> i have member nagendra. >> thank you so much, member. i think seeing goals for outcomes next for the dollars would be helpful for me to, like, really wrap my brain around specifically how this whole targets homeless folks and how many people it will target. >> yeah, it's a great question, and i would say this is or opportunity to define what the

breadth is. we start with how many and in what ways can we touch a client, and what do those strategic touch points do that then moves them into residential and transitional treatment and care, behavioral health, mental health that then leads them into stabilized housing. so you have to figure out -- and if i could just say a word here, take my our city, our home hat off, for many people who are engaging in psychiatric emergency services, we recognized that there was a hole as a touch point, and created hummingbird as a low

level touch point. once you have them as an audience, you can begin to share with them in this precontemplative state that include being a -- housed and include being in care. >> we'll go to member nagendra, and this'll be our last member for today. oh, you're muted. >> i wanted to -- yeah, i think that we are trying to get more details -- i'm just going to echo what member d'antonio said, and i know that member andrew is working through that,

so i thank him for the coordination that he is doing and the work that he is bringing to this. i want to say two things. one, we are having a stakeholder meeting on april 16. we are going to post these materials, work with the controller's office on how to get feedback in a coordinated way, but i just wanted to make sure that the public knows they have a chance to weigh-in in various ways. >> with that, we'll go to public comment, if there's any public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001, access code

187-86-6894, then press pound and pound again. press star, three to enter the queue, and you will have three minutes to provide your comments. and we don't have any callers in the queue. >> thank you, secretary hom. i just want to thank all the committee members. i'm just so excited to be a part of this work, and we'll move to item six, future agenda items, if folks want to -- i know we have a lot. future agenda items -- i'm not seeing anybody, but i do see member leadbetter.

>> [inaudible] and i think in our december proposal or presentation to the board there was discussion among the board of supervisors where we can give money back and use money from other sources to give back to the funds and then increase new housing units. so i know there's a lot going on, but i really feel responsible that the committee members not being able to speak to the million of dollars that have been spent on advance repayment. >> thank you so much, and secretary hom, do we need to go to public comment? >> yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment, call

415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 1887-786-6894, press pound, and pound again. then press star, three to enter the queue, and you will have three minutes to provide your comment. >> i need a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> second. >> it's been moved and seconded. any discussion? we'll do a roll call. [roll call] >> we are adjourned at 12:02 p.m. thank you, everybody.

. >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a

goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016.

we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever.

>> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i

know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make

it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay. >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has

transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the

soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

>> this park is open. ♪♪mayor l. breed: good morning, everyone.good i'm san francisco mayor london breed. i'm here to welcome home our governor gavin newsom to make a very, very special announcement. i do want to start by just really, really, thanking the u.c.s.f. team, all the runners,

all the nurses, all the doctors, all the people who have been on this site since january of this year. vaccinating thousands of san franciscans. i want to also thank our disaster service workers, people who work for muni, who work for different city agencies, the library. they have moved from their current responsibilities to be here on site to help make sure this is a smooth operation. i don't know if any of you have seen, i guess, what they call the pit down there, but for those of you who may not have had a drivers test in many, many years, you may not want to go down there because it's an obstacle course. in any event, today is a good day. yes it's a typical foggy day in san francisco on the west side but it's still a good day. as of today, over 50% of san franciscans over the age of 16 have been vaccinated.

yes! [applause] and also, 85% of those over the age of 65 have been vaccinated in san francisco. [applause] our hospitalization rates are at 20 people. can you believe where we were over a year ago? and where we are now today? with that many people who are vaccinated. who would have thought we would be at that place today? san francisco is currently in the orange tier, and fingers crossed, governor, we will be in the yellow tier next week. and we will be headed home very soon. but guess what, folks? we are still in the pandemic. and we still need to be careful. as you can see, we are still wearing our masks. even though i don't know what anybody else looks like here. but we are keeping each other

safe. and as we come out of this pandemic, we are going to look back on this time and be so excited and proud. for what we accomplished here in san francisco and the state and the person who has led this effort to keep californians safe. to make sure that the hard decisions were made, when other states have seen their numbers sky rocket and still refuse to make those hard decisions. he has beared the brunt of the challenges of this pandemic. no one had a play book written. no one told us we would be dealing with a global pandemic. but our leader, governor gavin newsom has done an extraordinary job helping to move this state forward, and that's the reason why we are in a very good place. so ladies and gentlemen, governor gavin newsom. [applause]

>> thank you, madam mayor, very much for the introduction. and thank you for your leadership, dr. colfax, let me just acknowledge that you have been leading the state in terms of your vaccine efforts. that 80 plus percent for 65 and other. le 50% of folks getting their first dose is substantially higher pace of administered doses than the rest of the state. i want to compliment you, mayor, on your extraordinary job. compliment the partnerships including the partnership with u.c.s.f., community college site. a site the mayor proudly told me has the capacity to administer over 5,000 shots each and every day. the only constraint is manufactured supply. i want to remind everybody we are designing a system here in the state of california that can provide upwards of 5.8 million vaccines to be

administered on a weekly basis. currently, we are receiving about two and a half million. but we have designed a system that includes this site here that allows us to more than double that capacity. in anticipation with expectation that we will be receiving more vaccines, you have noted that everybody now in the state of california, 50 years and up, is now eligible to receive their vaccine. we began that process, established that threshold on april 1st. we are encouraging folks that have not yet signed up to go to "my turn" the state wide platform to learn about the most approximate site for where you are living to get these doses administered. today in the state of california we are proud to have passed two significant milestones. twenty million administered

doses in the state of california. and four million administered doses under the more important equity metric. those two milestones, let's put it in perspective, are significant. we have administered more doses than all but five nations in the world. the state of california that 20 million mark represents over 7 million more doses than any other state in the country. that 4 million on the equity mark, to me, as i noted is more important and significant. this state set a commitment and goal of providing upwards of 40% of all our first doses and providing them under an equity metric, in order to deliver on the cause of equity. we still have a lot of work to do in that space. we are mindful of that. but that four million mark is as important as the 20 million

mark. and today we have formally passed that. so what does that mean? it means a number of things. we are seeing death rates, mortality rates go down. we are seeing case rates stabilize. we had the lowest case rates in the united states of america. over a 7-day period now we have a 1.6% positivity rate state wide. we report today 1,367 cases. still prevalent. still deadly. still a challenge that we need to tackle. and that's why we are mindful, as the mayor said of the imperative and importance of not letting your guard down. not taking off your masks, maintaining your vigilance and accessing once they come up these vaccines.

in anticipation and expectation that we do all the above, i will repeat, continuing to wear face coverings, continuing to access vaccines and continue to administer vaccines in an equitable framework. if we keep the pace, we are moving now beyond the blueprint. we are announcing today that on june 15th, we will be moving beyond the blueprint and we will be getting rid of the colored tiers. we will be moving passed the dimmer switch. we will be getting rid of the blueprint as you know it today. that's on june 15th, if we continue the good work. we anticipate enough vaccines are coming into the state of california, with two and a half million people just last week receiving the vaccine. we anticipate over 30 million people will have been vaccinated at least one dose by the end of the calendar month.

with anticipation of doses coming in from the federal government into this month and into may, we can confidently say by june 15th, we can start to open up as business as usual. subject to ongoing mask wearing and ongoing vigilance. this is a big day in terms of the pandemic and the journey we have been on, as the mayor noted, over the course of the last year. and this is an important milestone today, that 20 million and 4 million equity mark. this is a compliment to all of you. to the mayor, to all the work that's being done by local health officers all up and down the state of california. at the end of the day the vision is realized at the local level. i want to congratulate and applaud all the community partners, the community organizations, all the work being done in a culturally competent manner in every

language across state of california, and delivering on the issue of equity. i want to thank the mayor. i want to thank dr. colfax and also dr. galley who led the charge. we had a blueprint in this state for 31 weeks now. by the way, 16 counties are moving today into less restrictive tiers in that blueprint which is further progress. but no one has been more enthusiastic than moving beyond the blueprint than dr. galley. but soberly, and thoughtfully. led by data, led by disease prevalence, looking day in and day out of hospitalizations and i.c.u.'s, tracking these mutations. and i will close on that point. we are very mindful of the variants and very mindful of mutations. we have sequenced more than any other state the genomic sequencing is second to none.

851 u.k. variants we have sequenced in the state. 10 south african, 35 brazilian variants. close to 9100 west coast variants and we are also tracking a number of different variants, new one from india which got a little bit of attention this week. this double mutant, double variant and variants from the east coast, including a new york variant. this is really a race, these vaccines against the variants, against the mutations. that's why again i will end as i began, it's incumbent upon all of us, not to announce mission accomplished or put down our guard but that vigilance that got us where we are today, the lowest case rates, positivity rates that is in america. we are seeing bright light at the end of the tunnel. and june 15th, all things being equal we will continue that good work, we will move beyond

that blueprint and opening up the economy, business as usual. with that, i am happy to take any questions. and again, just want to thank everybody for all their extraordinary work. >> thank you, governor. i'm -- >> i'm sorry, over there. >> dar mazerati, question about the coliseum vaccination site. we heard confidence from the president and senator that site could be extended past next week. do you have details today how that might work, particularly the supply of vaccines. >> both sides will remain operational, oakland, rather the alameda site and l.a. at cal state l.a. both are operational, seamless operation. the only changes we won't get the direct allocations of vaccines from the federal government. that's the direct change otherwise no perceptible change in a meaningful way to the

public. the issue is constraint. the issue is supply, manufactured supply. we are working with ut county, northern county. working with alameda county and contra costa county, forming a regional partnership with fema, cal, and matching the allocation with the state allocation of vaccines. we aren't successful of extending beyond the commitment the federal government made. that commitment was the first commitment in the united states, we are very grateful to president biden and vice president harris to their commitment to the state of california. but they made that commitment. they said when that commitment ended, they held to their word and now we will be taking over at least the vaccine supply component and matching it with

the counties'. >> thank you for doing this. this is ben christopher with cal matters. you said june 15th, assuming we meet the conditions we will be back to prepandemic business as usual. does that mean schools k-12 june 15th will be required to open back up or maintain pre-pandemic posture? >> i want kids back in person, in school safely for in-person instruction. we made this crystal clear since we put out a proposal in december. and on june 15th, we anticipate there will be no barrier to getting all of our kids safely back. not just k-12. community colleges. including institutions of higher learning. so on june 15th, the answer to your question is yes, affirmatively we expect our kids back in person instruction, to the extent that june 15th calendar is consistent with any ongoing

in-person operations at least k-14. >> there's an expectation, not requirement? >> there's an expectation. the legislature will have more to say about the expectation. but no barrier to having our kids back in-person instruction. that's the expectation. you will be hearing more about our efforts to more firmly and foundationally advance that cause. >> great, thank you. >> hi, governor, fiona with the mercury news. the june 15th news, what standards about hospital rates, thresholds to make that decision? and secondly, will local jurisdictions be able to maintain stricter rules? >> look, at the end of the day, we will be very mindful of these variations, variants and mutations. we are mindful of disease spread. we will be mindful of hospitalizations. we will watch all of the above.

making sure we are meeting the equity marks we set forth. by the way we went from two million vaccines 23 days ago to four million under the equity mark. we anticipate conservatively, again, that's just assuming an old pace. let's do the conservative pace. two and a half million doses last week by the end of this calendar month, north of 30 million people will be vaccinated with at least one dose in the state. or at least will have administered 30 plus million doses. i want to remind everybody, that in california currently, there are about 32 million people that are eligible to receive a dose of vaccine. so we are getting to a point where the vaccine administration, that's just in a month. extrapolate ten weeks out. we are looking ten weeks out. that our expectation the vast majority of people who would want, in fact everybody who

wants a vaccine will have had the dose, the second dose, will have the opportunity to see at least a few weeks of those vaccines in people's arms. so the stability and the efficacy of those vaccines will be at peak. we anticipate the case rates will stabilize. and we anticipate we will not see a significant increase dm hospitalized patients that have received the vaccine. and that's a met -- metric to which we are marking consideration, as it relates to our broader surveillance. dr. galley, i want you to come up, you can talk a little bit more. we have not put precise numerics to that because we are working with the counties. but we broadly are monitoring at least those categories and five total categories, as it relates to that question.

>> thanks, governor and mayor, thanks for hosting us and dr. colfax, thank you for all your hard work. indeed, we will be looking at hospitalizations in particular. we are enjoying low hospitalizations across the state. you heard today 20 patients hospitalized in san francisco with covid. that's a tremendous number in the face of what we have been through over the last year. but we are particularly concerned about not just the hospitalization numbers but also who is being hospitalized. are those who received the vaccines being hospitalized? we are looking internationally on the east coast and midwest, we are seeing many of those hospitalized today with covid, those who have not yet received the vaccine. the governor's point this is a race, between vaccines and variants and additional cases is key. we will keep a close eye not just on that hospitalization rate and number, but understanding who is in the hospital, and whether those who are vaccinated are the ones who

are hospitalized. if that is the case and we see a number of people hospitalized who have seen the vaccine, that's a different level of concern. we will be talking about that, like the governor said with our local partners. looking at vaccine supply, we often talk about accessibility, ability to get a vaccine in a timely way. so looking at what's reasonable to get a vaccine, a couple weeks from people's interest, to being able to get that vaccine appointment will be a key marker we will be watching closely. taking feedback from our county partners, our pharmacy partners, federally qualified health centers to make sure all individual who's are eligible will be vaccinated in a timely way. looking at that approximately 8-week period. a couple weeks to get the vaccine, or the appointment. and about six weeks further down the road to see both shots administered.

and then a couple weeks to begin to see peak antibody response so people will have that protection and can move around the state and counties with confidence. >> governor, follow-up on the oakland coliseum site. with the state allocating and matching that allocation with the counties, ultimately what's the number, what are the numbers going to be like in terms of the number of people getting vaccinated at that site under the fema plan and under the plan with the state and the counties. >> we are working through the details. again, it's determination of what those two counties can put up and we will match same down in southern california, they are operating about 6,000 a day. they have a couple mobile sites, adding 6,000-7,500 a day, baseline about 42,000 a week. remember, this is not a zero sum game. there is increasing supply from

pharmacies coming from direct allocations from the federal government. wal-mart, costco, among others last week, part of the pharmacy program. we are also increasing the option of centers. le when these two fema sites came in, we were living in a different world. mass vaccine sites represent those sites, roughly 3% of the state wide distribution and allocation of vaccines. so we are in a different place. those sites are important, they are up, they are operational, they are turn-key. we want to keep them up, we have been crystal clear with the federal government about that. we tried to get extra doses, we are competing with 50 other states. for what it's worth i talked to other governors who are envious, we have two sites. the first state to get two sites. vast majority haven't seen gotten one site. that's what we are up against

with the federal government. they fulfilled that commitment and now working with the counties to figure out what their doses on. on the basis of this, the reason we can't answer that question, the question requires new updated information from the federal government. this morning we received word that we will get about 16.5 million doses of pfizer and moderna nationwide. and then a variable on the j& j, we are translating what that means for california and contra costa and alameda. we will figure out our match. >> can we expect that number to be lower? >> i wouldn't expect anything until be work through those numbers. >> regarding mask mandates about a third of the states across the country have lifted their mask mandates or never had them in place. when do you anticipate the state of california lifting that mandate?

>> we aren't anticipating in the short run lifting the mandate. for masks it's the most important non-pharmacological intervention we could have. i want to remeand people this disease continues to be deadly, not only in this state but across the country. it didn't take easter weekend off, or spring break week off. it's as deadly as its ever been. the only thing we have done, suppress the spread, mitigated that spread because of the number of vaccines administered because the ant -- antibodies that have significant increase across the state and country and because of mask wearing. we are committed to extinguishing this disease. and we don't have any short-term goals as it relates to lifting the mask mandate. >> hi, governor, stephanie zero

with abc7. a couple questions. a follow-up to what you eluded to a moment ago. how many vaccine doses do you anticipate california will receive weekly by early may? secondly, given indoor venues will be able to open assuming criteria is met, what is the state doing on fake vaccination cards? >> two weeks ago we received 2.8 million, last week 2.1 million, this week 2.4 million. i just referenced, had a call, governor's call, weekly call, runs the task force for the biden administration. they set out the federal allocations. we are translating that. we just got that a couple hours ago. once that information is, once we receive that detailed information, then we present that to the counties. we present that publicly to you in real-time.

i anticipate those numbers to continue to go up. the one variable remains, j&j, the stabilization on pfizer and moderna we have more confidence in the short run. j&j we have confidence in the long run and medium run. it begins to give way to more confidence in may that j&j will come in more supply. the issue of supply, we have confidence the numbers will continue to tier up and by may we will be in that frame that president biden made clear a few months back when he said by may, every eligible american that wishes to access and get a vaccine will have the ability to schedule that access. and i believe that to be the case in may as well. >> hi governor, andreas with

telemundo. are you worried about cases going up in places like alameda? >> we are always mindful. first thing we do, we wake up, look at case rates, by region. the bay area saw a modest increase in the last number of days. state wide, decrease. put that in perspective. new york had over 6,700, a state half our size. florida over 4,700, much smaller. california less than 1,400. we were 2,400 a few days ago, it bounces back and forth. positivity rate remained 1.7%. 1.6% today. 1.7, 1.8 the last few days. so yes, day everyday we are cautious and mindful. everyday people get vaccinated

and these cards go through a race to these variants and race to keep the rates at a minimum. >> hi there, how can you ensure people from other states who have lax rules about covid don't come into california and reintroduce covid into our population when we are moving towards herd immunity. and secondly, once june 15th passes, could the tier system come back afterwards if our rates go back up. >> look, one thing we are mindful of is, you don't know what you don't know. with these mutations, with the variants, with the reality they are experiencing in places like italy, germany, france, the challenges, they are seeing around the rest of the world. increased cases in other states, 16 plus states have seen pretty significant increases in the last few weeks. you got to be open to argument

and interested in evidence. there's always the prospect. we will always be led by data, led by reality and experience on the ground. if we aren't vigilant, if we don't spike the ball and announce mission accomplished, and the good work we have done, july 15th we will be beyond that blueprint and back to normalcy. but importance of masking, particularly indoors. as it comes to people coming from out-of-state, we are aligning efforts with the cdc and recommendations. just last week we made an update to our state guidelines as it relates to travel restrictions. we had a 120 mile restriction. we broadened that state wide. we had specific language updated in that guidance we put out last week as it relates to out-of-state travelers and put up guidelines as it relates to

travelers, those seeking to join conventions in this state and requirements around vaccinations and testing. the concern is real. we maintain strict guidelines in that space. and we will continue to monitor based upon what's actually happening. not what we want to happen, but actually what is truly occurring in real-time. >> hi mayor, megan from the chronicle. come april 15th, will the supply be able to meet the demand for vaccines and will people be able to sign up early before april 15th to get the vaccine? the second question is, i know alameda county previously said they aren't able to take over the coliseum by sunday. will the state be leading the effort or? >> fema -- thank you for the question. i really want to clear this once and for all. the site will continue to operate. fema will continue to provide

the support. they have been crystal clear about that for some time. there's just been ambiguity. i'm appreciating the nuance. about one thing, that's supply. direct allocation of supply. we fought hard to get that supply extended. they couldn't do it. with that in mind, we will figure out the supply. but all the money that they supported that operation and backed the operation with, will continue to flow. all the personnel we need will continue to flow and support that operation. we have augmented our efforts beyond just that site and will continue to increase the total number of available opportunities for people to access these life saving vaccines. as it relates to again, the details, as it relates to supply, we will be forthcoming when we have more clarity.

hopefully this afternoon, once we are able to assess that three-week window, in terms of the supply coming in to the state. and forgive me, the first part of your question? >> sure. will residents 16 and older be able to sign up for the vaccine before april 15. >> yeah, you can go to the "my turn" app. the reason, this is a nuance question. the answer is yes with the my turn. other counties may still be working through old systems but the idea is to get everybody scheduled. let's make this crystal clear, by april 15th, if millions of people try to get a vaccine, it will take some time. it will take a number of weeks, it will extend perhaps over a month until we have the available supply. again, we are still constrained by supply. the eligibility will open up so the opportunity to access will be made available to everybody

16 and over. by the way, we hope to drop that eligibility from 16 down to 12 once the f.d.a. approves the eligibility for 12-16-year-olds. so we will try to mark and progress in parallel with the cdc. but again, i caution everybody. on april 15th, we don't anticipate a substantial increase in available supply beyond what we are receiving this week. modest, but not substantial. >> hey governor, jeremy white with politico. i think that will be the expectation, the state of the state speech was focused on recovery. there are a lot of ambitious bills, fracking, child care. is there capacity or appetite to take on some of these issues

this year, particularly those that could be economically disruptive or something the legislature and your team need to be focused on economic recovery. >> economic recovery to me, is significant, not narrow. i get the broader point. we haven't backed off on making transformational change. we're not backing away from our efforts with cal aim. a once in a generation opportunity to completely reimagine our substance abuse, behavioral health. we weren't timid. we were quite bold in january. anticipating a modest surplus that's grown substantially. surplus well in excess of 25 billion today. that doesn't even include the 26 plus billion we will be receiving from the federal government from the stimulus. we want to be as bold as the khal -- challenges are big in this state. we will we are mindful a lot

of the surplus, not a lot. vast majority is one time in nature. we will maintain our fiscal stance and prudence. we have the highest reserves in state history. we will be paying down more money in potential obligations than any other time in our state's history. our bond rating is the highest it's been in over two decades. we will continue to do what we can to set aside dollars for a rainy day. but we are mindful that economic recovery has to be focused on equity. and those disproportionately impacted by this pandemic. we will continue as we have in the last number of months to prioritize and target our relief efforts and recovery efforts in that manner. but no, the answer to your question, jeremy, is we are committed to being bold and transformational. but we are also mindful that we cannot oblige or obligate

dollars over the long term that we don't have. and so we will continue to also be pragmatic in that respect. >> thank you, governor. i had a quick follow-up on your earlier response about the mask mandate which you said you have no intention to get rid of in the short-term, the virus being deadly. if we get to the point hospitalizations are low, might you consider flipping the mask mandate? >> we are open to argument. we are interested in data. the disease will make the determination. it won't be political whim, won't be determined outside on the sunny west side of san francisco in the early part of august. this disease continues to be rampant, continues to be deadly. you are seeing disease spikes and surges in other parts of the country, driven by youthful exuberance, literally and figuratively as well as these variants. all these things are factors

including the lived experience around the rest of the world. we are very sober about all this, we don't subscribe to the point of view as some of the other states. there are few, you know, baseball fans i take a back seat to. i was disappointed to see some of those images, tens of thousands of strangers packed into a stadium without any mask mandate on opening day the other day or yesterday. one of those states. that's not the lead we are going to follow in the state of california. we will follow the lead of dr. galley and colfax and others and continue to be sober and mindful of this disease and this pandemic. >> last question. hi governor, this is -- >> by the way, the mayor is still here. she is always available for any questions. >> forgive me, mayor. >> god bless you. >> hi governor, this is -- just one question. because people who over the age of 16 can be injected since

april 15th, can you talk about support we have seen from the federal government? >> for people over 16. support from the federal government that's come for them? >> can you talk to support we receive from federal government. >> the broader support specific to the vaccines? >> yeah. >> well, i mean, the support we are receiving from the federal government is extraordinary. i just want to note that it's come in many different ways. we are getting direct support for these two mask vaccination sites that will continue in the state of california, both in alameda and l.a. that support will continue in terms of personnel and reimbursements in partnership with fee -- fema and office

of emergency services. the counties, l.a., contra costa and alameda county. direct financial support for direct vaccines. again, i will remind people, you can get a vaccine regardless of your immigration status. your ability to pay. vaccines are free. i want to encourage everybody 50 and over today to get a vaccine. on april 15th, everybody 16 and over will be eligible for a vaccine. we are in a race against these variants and i want to encourage everybody who hasn't availed themselves to do so. the sooner we do that we truly can turn the page, move away from this blueprint by june 15th. continue to do what you have done to get us where we are today. among the lowest positivity rates in the country. i'm mindful always of these mutations. i want to again thank dr. gally and colfax and mayor breed for

extraordinary leadership. thank you to the partnerships at u.c.s.f., community college and one of the larger vaccination sites, not only in san francisco but northern california. we appreciate everybody being out here today. thank you. >> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else.

surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five

years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but

also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both

we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections,

identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest

challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't

do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is

going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant.

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>> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san

francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs.

>> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people

that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the

owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much.

[roll call] mr. sanchez is absent, correct? ms. foster? >> here. >> thank you very much. >> you're off mute. >> thank you. this is commissioner molina. i'm here also. you didn't call my name. >> okay, thank you for capturing that. section b, opening item, approval of board minutes of the march 23rd regular board meeting. i need a motion and a second.