in. we're asking if those are from the neighborhood. and for this, we're mostly constrained by our objective, which is to make a difference in this particular community, but also by the definition of the declaration. my hope, and i think that supervisor ronen spoke to this a few hours ago, is we see this really work. so once we're past the emergency time frame, we can expand and/or duplicate the model. >> supervisor haney: thank you. thank you for that. i have a few questions about the linkages, and when we're talking about, of course, a link -- linkage site or a linkage center, you know, some of the questions, and i think that they're very fair questions and concerns, is

linkages to what? are you going to be able to ensure that, for people who are brought to the center or who were referred -- and i want to talk about the role of community organizations in this. i don't want to grapple with people and take them to a site without having worked with them before. i don't think that's going to work. what's going to work is working with organizations that have already connected to people, and we're making streamlined access to those places in a really urgent and effective way. so are we making more placements available or are we just connecting people to placements more effectively or both -- >> both. >> supervisor haney: okay. >> both. so we are -- i think the first, we definitely want to be more effective with the placements we have.

we want to be very transparent and very sort of -- we want this to be a menu, essentially, for this group of folks that we hope are going -- that we're going to have come here so that we can, you know, be sharing information about what is actually available. the other thing, i believe, that is so important, is the assessment and coordination. this is the first time that we have a place where everyone will be. when i say everyone, i mean all of representatives of all of the resources that exist within our -- the resources now.

to supervisor stefani's point, there are beds available as we speak right now. the other thing we want to do is work closely with h.s.h. to make sure people that have coordinated entry or their documents, if there's a problem getting them in. to be honest with you, we already do this at a much lower level through hsoc and some of the other outreach efforts. we problem solve all the time for people in that way, but it's at a much smaller scale, to be honest with you, and this feels like this is going to be something very different in which we're going to be tracking, really, what the resources are on a daily basis and be able to problem solve for people. and like i said, somebody has an appointment, for instance, if someone decided they were

ready for treatment and couldn't get there for a few days, we don't want to turn them back out on the street. and so we'll have everything there, right? and it's just going to be much more efficient and a way that we can actually effect change and serve these fellow residents of san francisco better. >> supervisor haney: so one of the things that i'm hopeful that we're using this time and effort to jump start some of the inefficiencies and lack of access and hurdles that exist for people to get care that you you -- care, that you, during this time, can break them down and

be transparent about them to bring about longer term systems change and can be built into how we do things normally. i'll point out a couple things, and i would just love your commitment to work on these things. one is we know that sometimes it's hard for people to get enrolled immediately in medication. they're told to come back in a few days and it's not immediately identifiable. we know we have over 700 vacancies in supportive housing where we've been trying to get people placed, and all of the hoops and barriers, and how to identify getting people into a bed or a treatment bed and all the vacancies there, or a permanent treatment plan, to identify what's holding us back

there and breaking through on that. and lastly, the role of community organizations. like, we know a hospitality house that's working with a set of folks with overdose, that they know they can get into care, but because of all the layers and krurcrates and layers of this and that, that they're not able to refer someone directly. i hope that you can not only have the linkage site but freeing up placements and rapidly ensuring access to organizations and knowing that we can help them effectively. >> yes. yes, yes, yes to all of that. and to beg the obviously question, could we do this -- could we do this without, you

know, having a linkage physical site? we do it, and we could continue to improve it. the difference is that we have a physical place where we can engage and not me, we, but that providers can engage with people, that they can get safe off the streets, and that they're welcome to come in the door and walk out the door and come back, you know, when -- and that's just -- that's just the -- the fact of the matter, so, you know, i -- and the other thing is, like, having a higher level. so i intervene all the time when i can, when there's issues with these kinds of sort of systematic issues that we have. we had a client -- i don't want to give too much information. we had a client who was homeless who was ready to go, who had supportive housing, but

we had problem with the housing authority or something. the housing outreach workers can't deal with that sort of thing, and this is something that we were able to figure out. this is crazy. we have a vacant unit. we have an assignment. we have a human being who's ready to go inside, but it's not happening because of crazy things happening. we were able to resolve this, and i think this will helpful not only to resolve but help us identify why those problems exist, and again, that's the longer term, the issues here that we want to pursue. >> supervisor haney: i think as an example, and i mentioned this just a few weeks ago in my comments, we had a hearing about prop c amounts, allocations that we had in the budget, and there are dollars that i think could help us prevent overdoses, and we

haven't put out the money, we haven't funded the beds directly. those kinds of things, and i know as part of this, we're putting a lot on you in 90 days, but one of the things you can do is start getting all of that out. it's about doing the things that we've already committed to. and i think that's a big part of it. the very last question that i have is i think accountability here is going to be very important, and you talked about, you know, whether we might have -- there might be some sort of hearing at the board or -- but i want to get clarity, and i want to get some statements about how are we going to measure success? what are the metrics that we're going to be accountable about? we don't have to have a whole list here, but i think one of the things about covid and why

i want folks to be brought to the overdose epidemic is that level of transparency, how many folks are being placed in the treatment beds? what's the wait time to get a bed? how many people are we reaching on the streets? and then doing that, you know, in deep partnership with the people who are out there right now in the community and making sure they are a part of all of those efforts. can you speak to what your vision of that is now, and i certainly will, you know, in my role as supervisor, you know, want to, you know, make sure that's a huge part of this, not just for the board but for the public? >> absolutely, and it's very important to me that we measure

the metrics. the controller's office was the team behind the dashboard and a lot of data collection and sharing and crunchtion that we did during covid. and so that's the other thing. we're -- we know how to -- we have the infrastructure to share, and so the kind of things that we are looking at very -- so i don't have all of the metrics, but what i do have, it'll be part of this document that you're going to get sent as part of this plan. less open drug dealing, less open drug use, and we have ways to measure that. let open tents, less waste on the sidewalk. we're going to measure 911 calls. we're going to look at all the different types of calls that

come into the area. we are going to use surveys and ceilings to determine types of public safety. we, number one, need to be tracking overdose deaths as this is the impetus for us having this calling for this emergency declaration, so we'll be working with medical examiner and -- and all of that. so most of the things, we already have tools to collect that data, and -- and, you know, that will -- and then, we'll also be adjusting those metrics as -- if it turns out that we need to -- we missed something that we need to add. we also have the existing teams, like i've mentioned any times, sword and skirt that are in the tenderloin, so we'll be pulling data from their systems, also. so absolutely, this has to be a

huge part of what we're doing to determine whether we are successful or not. >> supervisor haney: and you, and i appreciate that, and i do think there should also be -- one of the things that i think is critical to success, and we saw this during the process of bringing people inside during the -- when we're bringing people in place in the shelter in place hotels, doing it in close partnership with outreach organizations and people that have connections in the neighborhood is critical, so the idea that we can have city staff do this on their own and bring people to a centralized site, that's not going to be effective, so i hope that the deep collaboration is there, and i will definitely be engaged in that. for data, for history here, when i came in in 2019, we had

a situation where we weren't reporting overdose deaths until nearly a near after the prior year when we were reporting. so for overdose deaths, we didn't know until the end of 2019, and we require it to be reported at least more regularly, so i think that helped to spur the emergency and being able to respond in real-time. obviously, having the data is one thing, but using it to save lives and to respond in real-time is critical, and so i hope that we can do that on many more indicators than -- than overdose deaths, and use it to help people. and, you know, i think generally, you know, i do want to say that i appreciate the commitments that were made tonight and the clarity. you know, i know we are going to be working closely together

and also holding everyone accountable to these commitments. and even thoi i think i've made it clear that i will be supportive of this. there's a lot of work left to do to get it right, and if these commitments are not upheld, that we would bring this back and revoke this authority. i think it's important that that was underscored, as well, and i take that very seriously, but i also take seriously the commitment that we have to residents of this neighborhood to respond with urgency, coordination, to confront this epidemic, to ensure that this neighborhood is safe and healthy and to save lives. so thank you, again, director carroll, and thank you again, colleagues, for all of your questions and comments, and i will turn it back over to you, president walton. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor haney.

supervisor chan? thank you. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton, and just some -- a few question additional questions to director carroll. i just -- you made a comment earlier in the beginning of your presentation that nothing like this has ever been done before, and i wonder if you can explain how the -- how the linkage center as you general vision it is different than the center at 1380 howard? the 2019 announcement by the mayor of that facility and the plans there to help those suffering from substance use and mental health disorders sounds to me to be nearly identical to what you're describing. i'm just wondering if it's the

location of the linkage center or something about it that will make it different than what's being offered at 1380 howard? >> thank you, supervisor preston. first, it's a neighborhood response, which is nothing we've ever done before. also, this is mental health. although we focus on health, h.s.a. is committing resources. we are going to bring in the components of homeless connect. so in addition to seeking health services, folks may have a pet that they need to help with. they may not have an i.d. or other issues, basic problem

solving issues that can prevent a person from seeking care that we want to be able to kind of have these wraparound. we also have h.s.h., so we want to coordinate access to health, what is needed on the side of the housing for the person, are there other basic needs that need to be met? and then, in addition, i've mentioned a few times that we're going to be working with adult probation. i think next week, if we're talking next week or providing you more information, that there's going to be partners at the table. so from that perspective, i think it's different. it's a combination of linkage, but also a respite site. it is a drop-in center. it's a place where people can come rest. it's safe. they can get food, it's hygiene, and we're really trying to have this be a way that we can -- because the

other thing that we've been told from our public health partners is life on the street is about moving from one place to another, so we're following the advice of the public health folks that we create an environment that people will be able to come into and feel okay and even provide some stabilization for them during the day or at night or when it's needed, so i think it's much expanded from the 1380 site. >> clerk: i'm sorry. pardon me. we will lose our interpreters. we have 146 people who are listening and 88 in the queue. i just wanted to make sure you

had all the information needed for the public. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. >> supervisor preston: thank you, madam clerk. real quick, just to follow up, is this intended to be indoors or outdoors? is this intended to be, like, a tend model somewhere? >> we don't have the -- we're still providing services indoor, we're still providing shelter and drop-in, and we are

moving forward. obviously, we will be taking all the precautions we can. we will be offering testing and vaccination at the site, but no, we are not -- indoor or outdoor, we are planning on moving forward. >> supervisor preston: and when do you expect to complete your written plan? >> we'll have something to you on monday. >> supervisor preston: thank you. and last questions, what are you planning to do in the next two weeks that you couldn't do if this was taken up at the january 4 meeting? you said, if we don't do this declaration, it'll take many months or a year. i would submit that's only accurate if we don't pass a new declaration in a couple weeks [indiscernible] that you couldn't do if a revised declaration of this type was passed in our january 4

meeting, when the plan was before us? >> supervisor, we're doing this -- the mayor has asked for this because there's two deaths a day. if we were losing two people from covid a day, we would be taking action. there would be no hesitancy. two people a day are dying of overdoses, and most of them are dying in the tenderloin. surely, we can't wait two weeks. that's the only thing i can tell you. >> supervisor preston: my question is what will you do differently in the next two weeks if you don't have this approved today or another version of it on january 4. what will be different for your work between now and then? >> we're going to continue -- well, we won't be able to sign a lease or moving forward with any of the materials or things that we will need, so those are

things that we can't do. but obviously, we are going to continue to work to open the site. we'll continue to work with our community partners. we'll continue to work with all the other things that we can do, but, you know, we're not really going to make the difference that we need to make specifically to address this specific crisis, and so it's just two more -- it's two more or four more or however long it goes of not addressing this particular crisis. >> supervisor preston: thank you. i'm done. i would just comment that it's basically two weeks, you will not be able to sign a lease when you can't do this, and we could hear this on january 4 when we actually have a plan before us. >> if i might, supervisor, through the chair, we are prepared to sign a lease.

we can do so as soon as we have a declaration. there are other parts of it that we are determining whether we need some adjacent sites, but we're ready to go. we have a site, that the -- what i was referring to is the overall design and whether or not we need some additional space outside that would require a tent is still to be determined, but we have a site identified and we are ready to go. we could have signed it today. >> supervisor preston: thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor preston, if you want to follow up with director carroll after public comment, you may do so, but we should go onto public comment now because, one, folks have been waiting for hours, and two, we will lose interpretation in 30 minutes. [please stand by]

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francisco and also a lifelong resident of san francisco in my will on the council and as an individual . i'm calling to express our support for the emergency declaration thatyou're holding on here tonight . there is a public health drug crisis in the tenderloin and it's time it should be treated as a crisis that is. the majority of our hotel workers live in san francisco and many live in the tenderloi . our employees, residents and visitors are all impacted by this emergency. this declaration will allow those addicted to get the help they need and also protect those that live and workin the tenderloin as well . again, i urge you to do the humane thing, the right thing and approve this emergency declaration that has been proposed by the mayor thathas been needed for way too long .

>> clerk: thank you for comments and lastly i apologize for interruptinganyone tonight we are setting thetimer for one minute each . next speaker . ca my name is jeremy miller and i oppose theemergency ordinance under consideration . i align withcomments by supervisor preston . it's not a question of whether an emergency exists, it's a question of whether granting emergency powers to the mayor effectively address this emergency and the answer is no. there's no need to theorize aboutwhat this ordinance might or might not do . mayor said house you would use emergency powers and as maya angelou says when someone shows you who theyare believed them the first time. there's the question of enforcement . this declaration says deaths occurred outside the tenderloin how do you square this with defined geography . addressing the concept of tough

love, it's a fascist profile to talk love withparamilitary treatment . the safety of the tenderloin has been london pre-explore the pain of attics to give them more power would be atravesty . >> clerk: thank you to the caller thank you for yourcomments . next: please . ca this is lesliedreier calling on behalf of housing rights committee of san francisco . we oppose the emergency orders and really hope all of you supervisors would back this plan. what's happening in the tenderloin is the result of policy failures , putting profits over people needing homes and services for decades. this power grab will not remedy the situation or does the causes and it will only make matters worse. if the city want to address steps they must look at dpw

city workers stealing residents and survival gear every day. we urge you to address problems by keeping an expanding hotel programs and implementing evidence-based solutions like heart. in this season of cold, rain and covid searches reject this emergency ordinance. trust the mayor when she says she will enforce it bytapping." no, keep your authority . >> clerk: thank you for your comments let's hear from our next caller please . welcome, caller. >> caller: kenny perry okay? >> welcome ca i'm with the

mental health association of san francisco and i'm a native san franciscan and longtime resident of the tenderloin and our agency opposes the proposed legislation that would be an acted and voted on today. appreciate all the dialogue i heard today it feels like in my experience and identify as an attic and an alcoholic and the only thing that's worse for me is the voluntary treatment. we're all about voluntary services first. it feels like we talk about cards which is great proposal and i don't feel like, our agency feels like we haven't committed ourselves to these alternatives . this is not the time to repeat the mistakes of the past through the overreach of the over policing of the tenderloin seems to be guaranteed by

what's being proposed. this could be an opportunity to commit ourselves and implement alternatives. >> clerk: thank the caller for their comments. let's go to our next caller please . >> caller: jennifer greeted mark, several years of community outreach or response to the tenderloin due to the pandemic has increased homelessness and behavioral healthchallengesalongside massive increases in policing . people are suffering . when this emergency declaration was introduced by mayor marie we needed a her. we need the mayor to implement money and instead we got some kind of sick joke absolutely nothing and a lot of threats. we got pathetic offsets of the lincoln center for 100 people,

calling it a containment tank two days ago mary and carol said yesto threats and arrests . did you even talk to any homeless people ? get something real in writing. vote no on mayor giuliani's war ondrugs . >> clerk: do we have another callerin the queue ? >> this is paulina and i support mayor breeds emergency declaration of the tenderloin. we can help people selling drugs and are addicted without sacrificing publichealth and safety .we need to reignin the chaos and disregard for life in the tenderloin is urgent . we can't allow these streets to be afree for all. that's not functional . we don't deal with that level of turmoil. we must talk more about the impact on the greater tenderloin and the city and not apologize for it.

we need to use city resources more effectively and cut through the redtape now . i don'tcare who proposes what when . i'm fed up with the bashing of mayo agreed the police to the detriment of common sense and healthmeasures . i'm disillusioned by the special interest groups profiting from the worsening of this complex. the emergency plan is clear enough this is a low barrier approach . better long-term treatment ... >> clerk: thank you for the caller. we are setting the timer for one minute. if possible could you please provide comments to a minute. let's hear from our next caller please. >> caller: my name is william jake, i've lived in san francisco for 28 years . please ratify the emergency declaration.

people mostly homeless are dying every day because of the situation with drugs and the situation with people living on the streets and five blocks is completely out of control. alarming number of people living on the streets are seriously disrupting our communities whilethey are killing themselves with drugs . we certainly have an emergency on our hands, don't we ? the mayor finallydeclared a state of emergency in the tenderloin . ithink it's clear and she needs what she said . the current situation is absolutely horrible. it's bad for everybody, especially homeless people who are addicted to drugsso it's time for a change now . the successful response for all those mental health resources as and law enforcement are clearly what'sneeded to address the urgent emergency so mayor breeds, i trust you and i thank you . >> clerk: thanks for your

comments. next speaker please. >> caller: my name is kelly powell and i'm representing the hotel council of san francisco and i'm a member of the bay area women's and children's center advisory board in the tenderloin for about 20 years andi volunteer there .i'm calling to support the emergency proclamation mayor breeds as declaredurge you to vote yes . the reason, people are dying on our streets in unprecedented

... the proposed plan should change every day and this is not good governance. i don't understand why we're not self starting with services and before we give the mayor emergency powers let's see a publicplan the whole community can get behind and start implementing cards and come together with real solutions . >> clerk: let'shear from our next caller please .

>> caller: my name is stephen, i'm vice president of central council and also a firefighter in the city. a few days ago i went on a detail to station 36 in san francisco . we were all like forwarding calls after calls, overdoses, stabbings, assault.as somebody grew up here the situation is downtown is untenable. it's a dystopian nightmare. if your tourist would you think of our city and what do you think your experience would be like if you lived there you're undoubtedly hearing people saythis is a return to a police state and a failed war on drugs but i can tell you as someone used to work atstation 36 these drug dealers are preying on people .they threatenresidents and even us the first responders . this must be stopped . the villains are clear, it's

thedrug dealers and they must be stopped right now. i support this declaration by the mayor and i thank you for your time .>> clerk: let's hear from our nextcaller please . >> caller: my name is jack and i work in san francisco . i opposed the emergency ordinance and i grew up going to the tenderloin and have long been in need of services and have never needed more policing. people face discrimination and they are taught to respond to any type of weapon's arrest. clearly not well-equipped to support people . the mayor should move forward with spending 100 million of unspent funding and address the 10 percent rate in housing and get people on the streets to go. many supervisors have made it clear it is that you don't have relationships with people that aredoing the work topermanently house people and that's what we need . we need permanent housing for people .

>> clerk: let's hear from our nextcaller please . >> my name is lidia branson and i have spent 14 years of my life working in the tenderloin on the corner of goldengate and jones and i'm now working at a project in the mission. i've gone through a lot of changes myself while working in the population of the tenderloin with the idea that people need to hit rock bottom in order to be, to go through recovery with drugs. i know thisnow not to be true. that now rock-bottom is in fact sometimes death . adding in morebarriers for service for people and forcing them into treatment is not the way we're going to solve this problem . i do not support this measure. thank you . >> you for your comments, we

have 171 people listening at 112 are actually in thequeue ready to make comments . let's hear from our next caller. welcome, caller. >> caller: i am a community minister workingwith on the house to focus in the tenderloin and other areas of the city . i am urging the board to vote no tonight. because this is an extremely urgent problem and it does need to be dealt with quickly but it needs to be dealt with well and we don't know that this plan will deal with it well because nobody has seen an actual plan. i urge you to delay your vote until january 4 when we had a chance to look at the plan, see the details and have a strong assurance that nobody will be threatened with arrest for declining services and i believe that we will lose people to overdoses in that time but a poorly executed plan

will probably risk us more lives than alienating peopleand re-traumatizing people that waiting another 12 days will so i urge you to vote no tonight . >> clerk: thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next speaker please . >> caller: this is marty regan. this plan must address and alleviate the root causes of poverty for long-term sustainable success . we call the city to open the shelters waitlist. relief for hundreds of millions for low barrier easy access mental health and reduce the bureaucratic barriers that providers can quickly get people who are on the streets safely housed into themany units . providers know what works. mobile case management,

compassionate evidence-based and effective intervention that are critical to meet the needs ofthe tenderloin for all residents . >> clerk: thank you for your comments,let's hear from our next caller please . >> my name is sandra dressler, a resident of district to defeat an action at st. james this couple church of richmond. we oppose the emergency ordinance under consideration. i am a public health professional and volunteer worker with needed services. the criminal justice response does is not a solution. systemic change is needed. the mayor is sitting on over $100 million of proxy funding for behavioral health treatment programs that will be much more

effective than dealing with th crisis of addiction and overdose on our streets . the solutions that at the root causes for these problemsshould be implemented and are intervening with police response is not appropriate or effective . this is not a political challenge, it is a human rights issue . vote no. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, let's hear from our next caller. >> caller: this is charles had, president of the coalition for san francisconeighborhoods . not just for some but for all. we have joined in the past with rescue sf in supporting supportive housing legislation and a place for all and we join together with him tonight in supporting the mayor's legacy proclamation for drug overdoses in the tenderloin and for all of our neighborhoods begin to look like that further.

we support the emergency proclamation because it will enable the city to have more effective emergency response to public health, behavioral health, social and housing services . now, stop talking. it'stime to act . thank you very much and seasons greetings to all of you. see you next year. >> thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next caller. >> of public concern is that substance abusers are in a system involving advocacy, fundraising so that people may be addicted to the present system as a whole and some of these people on the street just need a pound.

some are homeless and they become involved with other people that want them to use drugs because they don't want to use drugs alone and they wind up doing dying in twos and threes and some people are safer in jail than off the street and fentanylare medically indicated . they suffer from ptsd and deaths. people can take drugs in jail even if they refuse to be on the street,jail can be a preventative measure . there are worse alternatives to jail for having a hard time. >> thank you for your comments operations, another caller in the queue .

>> caller: this is matthew, i'm a district resident and i agree the situation in the tenderloin is dire oppose the resolution becauseit would eliminate important safeguards against corruption . san francisco is in the midst of a major public corruption crisis. several high ranking officials have been arrested or resigned due to corruption allegations and meanwhile this public proclamation would remove contracting requirements and civil service rules that exist to prevent corruption.this enables the crooked backroom deals that would erode public trust in government and iurge the board of supervisors to reject this resolution and work within the boundaries to address the crisis in the tenderloin >> clerk: thank you for your comments, do we have another caller in the queue ? >> caller: this is david elliott lewis, 15 year tenderloin resident, member of people's congress i have concerns about how public

comments will be waived by the emergency board as well as other safeguards. it's way too vague at this time pleasevote no instead do this . provide housing forall who need it. there should be no one sleeping on our streets . provide counseling services at the safe injection sites, safe use of sites. get rid of coordinated entry please and stop closing hotels, shelter in place hotels when the government is still willing topay for it . stop the law enforcement or move along policing that don't have any housing to move along to. david elliottlewis, a longtime resident , thank you very much . >> clerk: thank you for your comments do we have another caller in the queue ? >> caller: i work in downtown

san francisco and i oppose the mayor's emergency declaration which is just an expansion of already existing strategies that have been tried and don't work and its decision pointing to hear peopleusing drugs but not once did i hear anyone mention perdue pharma or speculative real estate or any of the actual causes of the opioid crisis and homelessness crisis in the tenderloin .the city is trying to do militarize and defund law enforcement and build up empowered working-class and neighborhood organizations independent from business and realestate interest groups. something that would help the tenderloin community is making san francisco a true sanctuary city giving rewrites for all immigrants. do not vote to letlondon read it give more money to the police . >> clerk:thank you for your

comments. mister tang may i ask you turn your camera off. thank you sir for being here . operations, do we have another caller in the queue ? >> caller: [inaudible] >> caller: i am someone who grew up in the elves and network for the elves and today i speak on behalf of of the citizens that have been neglected and unheard for decades. just because the dl is filled with many lower-class first generationimmigrant families does not give anyone the right to take advantage of us . if we and open air drug market isn't permissible than it shouldn't be permissible in ours. the dr has the highest population of children in the bay area but we must invest in and we all knowit takes a village to raise a child and you cannot raise a child in the middle of an open-air drug market . we are asking you to and on the

side of justice, on theside of truth andwe are not a containment zone and i'll leave you all with this . god almighty is watching . iq. >> clerk: operations, another caller in the queue ? >> caller: this is ross from the richmond. raised ships in the day. it's pretty disheartening to hear people not support the measure that would hopefully get people off the streets. i think even if you don't support this measure, at least propose something. it's too long, too little and i really think that there at least needs to be something done. >> thank you for your comments. operations, another caller in the qu