and as you've heard from -- you heard from deputy director cohen about the successful linkages we've been able to make to shelter and even to housing, so those resources include s.i.p., congregate and noncongregate s.i.p., navshelters and emergency shelters, and also nonhousing services such as the linkage center, medical and nonmedical services, home ward bound, and other financial benefits and problem solving. [please stand by]

to increase safe passage and accountability and this sentiment is supported, that people want to help people in crisis and are very supportive of our helping efforts and services but they also want the city to increase and invest in efforts to keep them safe.

they want to keep streets healthy, safe and accessible and we have gotten feedback that some streets, that there has been improvements and especially in certain streets. and this is especially true on the streets that the joint field operations have focused on. but they want the community wants to see that improvements are sustained and that we don't relapse and go back. and then displacement as we heard, supervisor -- and of the supervisors who made comments earlier that there are activities that are being displaced to areas outside the tenderloin and in particular we're seeing lower polk area and market street. so, last slide, or next slide. our field operations -- so, you know, our community embassadors

have done incredible work and are generally very well regarded in the community and their efforts have helped to promote safe and thriving streets and they are helpful that they are not a replacement for law enforcement. outreach teams are successful when they're resourced and the more shelter resource that's we have and the more and terms in this help people say off the streets and we've also found that most people are in need of shelter but many, there's a percentage that have access to shelter and have a room already but are returning to the street for various reasons and within the healthy streets operations center we know 15 to 20% of people that were encountering and they have have a rom or some sort of shelter and last week we

found that 35% of the folks we're encounter inside of it's have shelter and why is this we do understand some use tents and outside outside of their shelter and there are reasons that tents and structure can be used for more nefarious reasons and resale of stolen goods so, of course, tents and structures can reduce stave passes. as a city, we need to be clear if you have shelter and if you have a hotel room or supportive housing that is setting up a tent outside is harming the community and we want to help you to figure out what are other alternatives. and to that end, this is why it

is important that we have multi-disciplinary teams to address these complex areas that we experience and we work with clinicians and outreach workers and community paramedics and they are working together and with this police when needed and cleaning an infrastructure issues. and i can tell you that the biggest challenge that sixth in this role is ensuring that folks don't go back into silos and the only way that we are successful is when we work together and and finally as we access treatment and this means growing and expanding helping measures and disrupting the flow of narcotics through the safety measures and we have to be clear if you have shelter putting up a tent is

causing harm and we have seen it union fight and work better as a team and it doesn't happen overnight and the linkage center has been proven to be a place that people will go it was

impacted by things most significantly if folks remember we started this at the height of the omicron-vancouver surgery and really a good toll on our efforts and in the first, at least month if not we're really just still coming out of the staffing challenges from omicron and i really want to shout out to everyone who worked on this project and is working on this project because they did it with a lot of passion and not all the resources they needed. the staffing we need to support the linkage center and the joint field operations is just starting to be available and so that is why we intend to continue the work in the tenderloin through june 30th. the understanding is that the

emergency declaration will expires but we don't need that to continue to do this work and we will continue to do so and the declaration was incredibly important at the time it was passed in order for us to move quickly to set up the linkage center and for dph in particular to do the hiring they needed to do and the only thing that we do continue to need is disaster service worker that has been assigned for city and to support and the tenderloin. >> thank you, director carole and director cohen.

do see supervisor stefani in the queue. >> thank you president walton i have to say off the bat, what is happening in the tenderloin is and not just the tenderloin and we have overdose we do to covid and we know what we did to the city to deal with the fact and that we had a pandemic that could have killed thousands of lives. i am a little concerned about we don't have a sound going through the system so let's take a moment. >> we will take a five-minute recess. my apologies.

>> all right. we are back in session for this tuesday march 15th, board of supervisors meeting. our apologies for the brief technical difficulty. supervisor stefani, i believe you are on. >> as i was saying, what we're seeing on our streets is the most serious public-health crisis facing our city and in

terms of those suffering from the disease of addiction. i don't know if i feel confident in our metrics and dph's data in terms of the goals here but thighs are not recreational drug's you but people who were the object decision to use has taken over there lives and it's not a matter of will power and these are people, i hear these mothers talk about their boy that used to play little league and mothers and fathers who would love to get back to their kids and the parent and addition is deadly and it's a beast that lives inside once' head and it's so difficult to deal with on once' own and i see things posted between dph employees and

they say things like between us i'm victoria this a safe space and of course we want people to feel safe and i'm very nervous about what the metrics are in terms of are we trying tinter seen in people's lives that are suffering from the disease of addiction so they get off the drug destroying their lives. or are we perpetuating drug use and dependence on it. there has to be a wreck ong of the two. and yes, harm reduction we want to make sure we're meeting people where they're at but we need to know what are we holding dph accountable and what is the data we're asking for and i would like to know who are they serving, where are people coming

from, what are the targets i am very confused about the targets and because in this presentation i didn't see it and if we're talking about intervening in people's lives, and truly helping those who are suffering from the disease of addiction on our streets and we need to have a goal of getting them better and getting them into treatment and what should that be is it 5% or 10% more? that is a discussion and a conversation that needs to take place and i don't know that dph had that conversation yet. and i just feel i continue to feel that there's this there's something that is preventing people from getting into that recovery and i would like to know whether or not they have considered metrics in terms of

those outcomes of people getting better approximate because they're not going to get better if they continue to do the drug that is killing them and the drugs are killing them and they will eventually die of that drug. you can nar can them 50 times one drug dealer night sell them something with too much in it and they're dead the next day southern less you take measures, to get them off those drugs, they're going to die from that disease. and i want to know where is the energy and the resources to put to make sure it can't be drug maintenance it has to be more if we truly believe we are here to help them so i want to know what

metrics are being used or has that been discussed in terms of goals to make sure that we are intervene north a way that actually helps people. >> dr. cunning. >> thank you supervisor stefani for raising what i know are both of us hold dear which is, helping people recover.

>> on the search and we are still working to standardize our metrics including a number of people who recovered to treatment for their addictions mental health and their physical health and or all three. i can share with you is that we know at this point that the majority of visitors are unhoused and from the tenderloin and we know that the most frequent request for services includes housing and as well as other material basics and we've been able to at the last director carole suggesting things to make getting into treatment easier than a

dangerous be stances and for example working with community partners to provide same-day access to treatment in one tank in colleagues in one of our neighborhoods ownership treatment programs and on site assessment and it gets a person to care right then and there. additionally, we're working with our treatment access program from mental health to facilitate access to residential treatment and we are very open to doing more and looking ways to improve upon that as well as this important community feedback during my presentation and the state to do what i think is some of the exactly what you are

suggesting supervisor and to urge with every turn recovery to make available recovery supports and entry into treatment. >> if you for that. i have another question along those lines and i everyoned that one e-mail that said between us, which nothing is between us as we know, and also on that e-mail who to invite and there are a lot of people providing the recovery that i was just speaking about in terms of aa and na and even private providers like olaf house and salvation army and i think that when you are -- i went to the linkage center and i understand what is going on there and i also think there has to be something in someone there that

can say to someone that is suffering in their disease that there is hope that you don't need to keep using that i want to use and you can get better too and there has to be that personal connection so that people can realize that where they're at is not where they're going to stay and if they seek help and at the link age center and i asked about it when it was there and it wasn't occurring then and you have to have people that are in recovery i don't want to get into the harm reduction but people understand and recovery what that means and you need to be able to provide people that can help these people and disease and i would appreciate someone just even acknowledging that you are willing to do and many people

who suffer from the disease of addiction is talking to someone who has gotten better and they follow by example and they get the support and so i'm hoping that that is being brought into the conversation and into the lincoln center. >> supervisor. >> sorry, go ha head. >> so the question is, is it happening or will it happen or can it please happen? >> so, thank you for that question and yes, i grow that support by people who have similar experiences, peer support, mutual support is a vital part of recovery and our intent with a sober living space is to create those with that space and opportunity for people exactly as you were describing

to interact with folks and recovery who have lived through and shared that hope and serve as role models and and achieve their goals. >> we can't have this conversation without talking about that there are drug dealers out there who are preying on people who suffer from the disease of addiction and unless we're serious about taking care of those people and lifting them up and acknowledging them as human beings who node help, we should not allow drug dealers nears the center and and the fact that we are makes me if if we want to help people with addiction and it's unbelievable with me how it continues and they prey on those and as we've seen and we just saw in the mission, recreational drugs, perhaps, laced with

fentanyl and the reason they do that because it a ticks more people guarantees customers and there has to be something done about that, again, if we truly care about those who are suffering from the disease of addiction, we will intervene in a way that prevents people from selling cheap drugs that could kill them and that is not being done and something needs to be said about that and dph needs to acknowledge it and work with law enforcement to make sure it's done. the other thing about law enforcement. other neighborhoods are suffering because there's more police officers in the tenderloin but i hear everyone saying there's no police officers in the tenderloin so i'm confused to the different experiences that others are having and finally, i just, you know, trisha, wrote an article about this crisis and there was one wrote in there that sums up all of this and the profile was

on this man named anthony and he said, i am not worried about dying from fentanyl, what cares him here is the life strangled by it and we need to intervenes in a way that gives people hope, not just means in their addiction but serious wise to give people hope in recovery and making sure we're setting metrics and goals to get people into recovery and reporting back on how we're doing because what we have been doing what we continue to do is not working and it's deeply flawed what we're doing is not working and someone needs to do something different. thank you.

>> thank you, supervisor stefani. supervisor ronan. >> thank you. first, i officer want to thank and acknowledge the hard work of everyone involved in this effort and i see how hard you work everyday and i would agree with my colleague supervisor stefani that something is not working. it's not for the lack of trying and hard work and i guess i wanted o with my opening remarks wanted to hear from dr. cunnings and from dr. director carole do you think it's working? is it too soon to tell and has the intense focus and

redirection of resources hurt the implementation of mental health assess. my response partially to supervisor stefani is and i wish we would know, we don't even know if mental health sf works and and so, two years after and after we said this was the vision of how we were going to and in the city and i do think that the focus on the linkage center has moved us forward because of that and i've had additional herzog if you could . if you would both remark on those questions. we making come from slightly perspectives on this we're seeing the same thing that the system is broken and that is it

doesn't feel like we're making do you want to start, dr. cunnings. >> yes, happy to start and supervisor ronen, thank you for that question. let me say a couple of things first is we are eight weeks into the center and we stood up in an extraordinary program we said when we were quite stretched for staffing and developing models and aiming to listen deeply to a community neighborhood feedback

and based when we start up new programs it takes a while to attract participants or guests and our experience i think that reflects some of our successes is is that we have been able to host more than 15,000 visits in those weeks and make 3,000 connections to override the a services that people were interested in receiving. i realize these are not outcome data yet to the point that supervisor stefani raised to the point of reducing overdose deaths. as well as housing folks. i really want to achieve and share those kinds of outcomes

for this to work and i'll share the story of one gentleman who after showering for four days in a row, he felt confident to seek employment and we know that seeking employment and being employed is good for ones' mental health and helps people in their journey of recovery from addiction as well. additionally, we have cared for another gentleman for example who came to us unsheltered and without shoes we provided a hot meal, connect him to shelter and medical care and benefits, all of which we know will help improve his health and

circumstances and so i am very committed to measuring the outcome that matter to all of us and seeing if this model can contribute to the over all health of the tenderloin and the city and to supervisor ronen's other question and point about the extent to which this has diverted us from other important work including implementation of mental health sf i will share that the highering that has been enabled by the emergency declaration is vital to our implementations efforts and without that extended urgent hiring we would be behind where we are now and they have been paid to the tenderloin response many of us have been devoted to the hiring efforts across the

department and i'm very optimistic that this will hasten implementation after its are not slowed them down. i will turn to director carole. thank you supervisor. i don't have too much to add and the role of the department of emergency management was to stand the site up which we did and then we turned over the day-to-day operations to dph and partners thereafter. i think the other health and human services department can speak and are presenting more on the numbers. it's hard to sate full impact the linkage center from my

perspective. folks who are there providing direct services can speak more appropriately to it? >> i guess, but, you are overseeing this strategy, right, so i guess where i'm a little lost, so, it's unclear whether this project is working even in the tenderloin and it feels clear to many of us that problems have gotten worse in other neighborhoods because of the intense focus on the tenderloin and who is in charge of looking the intervention and deciding if it's working? i'm talking about the over all situation in the streets of san

francisco. >> yeah, thank you supervisor ronen. i mean, for the tenderloin emergency initiative i leave staff and ong the initiative and as i said, it's hard to sate impact of the linkage center and there's a lot of focus on the linkage center and i will say this, outreach, while the linkage center is absolutely targeted for the tenderloin, we know that they are have been referrals from outside of the tenderloin and we don't know how many of those have occurred and so there's been no gate keeping from outside of the community and i can't draw a direct

linkage to the outside of the immediate area as to movement of the problem outside of the tl and it doesn't make sense because they're still in the tenderloin and people learn quickly when resources are available and tend to gravitate. i believe that the joint operation, the joint feel operation has provided us, has been successful in some of one could argue is low hanging feet keeping the streets and clean and doing an outreach on a daily basis and identifying people who are experiencing homelessness and connecting them to resources and folks that are housed and are, you know, having behavior that is harmful in working with them to stop that behavior and

i'm going to defer questions about law enforcement strategy to the police department and there has not been additional resources to the tenderloin to my knowledge or not significant additional resources to the tenderloin until recently on the law enforcement side. so i think we still would need to see where that would go and again, our staffing is i just want to remind us why we were all here. we didn't do this ash trally and it had a higher and in the tenderloin and soma and this

data is hard and my hope and i still feel this way and we talked about this that we'll learn what is working in the tenderloin and apply it to our other communities. that's where we are. >> i have just a couple more questions and i'll turn it over to my colleagues and other folks have them. we got a letter from the office of the controller yesterday. saying 10.9 million program was moved to the department of covid response project and it's not

inspiring confidence. it's one of the most effective programs that we used to have the whole person care addicted people in the city and and we're not taking away money from that project and like i just, who is responsible for an over all vision in the city, around how to coordinate all of this and have a way to get us out of the conversation and in my district feels worse than ever. why did we take $10.9 million from the whole person programs, one of the best programs we had dealing with mental illness and

substance abuse? >> >> i'm not familiar with the letter and the funding, whether if there are any funding changes and we'll try to get that information to you as soon as we can. >> this was sent yesterday. i read it this morning and i was shocked. i printed it out and brought it here to ask questions about it today. >> we have peg stevenson. >> yes, good afternoon, supervisors. we're working on metrics for the tenderloin and i don't know the reason for that letter. i'll try and find a colleague that can answer. >> thank you. is there anyone from the mayor's

office that could respond? >> i don't know. i'm texting my colleagues to find out. >> this is just worrisome enough to me that the leaders do not know a letter was sent out to all of us and let us us know that $10.9 million was redirected to the department covid response project. i'll pass on until someone can respond to this question. >> thank you supervisor ronen. supervisor haney. >> thank you for the questions and comments. i would echo just to start the gratitude similar to supervisor ronen for all the work and certainly for the sincerity and

the commitment. i have questions and comments. one is, as director carole said, we chose and the mayor chose the tenderloin for a reason and the drug overdoses in particular. the proclamation itself is a local emergency which gives extraordinary legal powers to respond to drug overdoses in the tenderloin. one thing i didn't see and it seemed to me it should have been front and center, after three months of this proclamation of an emergency, did we reduce overdoses in the tenderloin?

it did save lives because of this. i didn't see overdose numbers in the presentation at all when this is a extraordinary legal authority that we provided because was it as a result of this emergency? >> dr. cunning. >> there's a lag as the medical

examiner value waits and assigns cause of death and we typically that monthly overdose deaths data is released with some lag time and we expect february deaths to be issued in the coming usually week or so and it's a key metric and don't have it knowing that the lincoln center opened january 18th. we also tracked overdose reversals at the center as i presented, there have been more than 30, 35 reversals at the center and these also represent lives or deaths averted based on our response.

we are working to share other metrics, i don't know if director carole wants to add to that. >> yeah, i think dr. cunnings covered it and so you know, the data that we have i think if you look at the ome data there's a light decrease but again it's not really represented as of our work because the data lags. it's not exactly one month and we started in mid-january so we got to data for january but it really is reflective of and within 90 days there are certain things we can achieve and i think just pulling together a coordinated response putting together the operations that we've had and the resources is

anna achievement in and of itself within let's say 60 days, most people who know me i don't like anything to take any time and i troy to make things happen as quickly as possible and the reality is that this is all -- these types of things take time and we are not going to know about what the impact is on overdoses for some periods of time and i do think that as we move forward the focus on data, the focus on who we're serving, you know, how many people are getting into housing and all of that will be helpful as we see the number go down or which way is goes because that gives us understanding are the interceptionsed that we are doing be they hoping or not? are they impactful on this particular crisis? and while overdoses was the number one problem we had seven priority issues and that were articulated by the tenderloin

community and it included crime drug sales and violent crimes and included access and cleanliness in the streets and a number of other issues which we also have been addressing and we'll continue to in this response. >> thank you for that, i would say that i would imagine that you are looking at the dover dose data on a much more real-time regular basis particularly during this emergency that was my suns they allowed for us to look in much more real-time it's concerning to me that you are referencing data that is available to the public and it will be available

to the public for the month of february and we're a few weeks into march and it's my understanding of how this data works is that we should have some preliminary sense of whether there was a reduction in february at this time. but, i do want to note that there were definitely other metrics that were noted and will was a lot of work to get things off the ground and one thing, another thing that i also did not see is, whether there was progress and how we were measuring and sharing that progress on any of those other metrics. there was some discussion of row fer als and i want to say little bit about the referrals but you mentioned a reduction in crime and a greater cleanliness and how are we holding ourselves

accountable did they talked about the sense of it anecdotally and i have my own experience and there from living there and what metrics on these other important variables that the community identified were we looking capacity do we have any progress there? >> >> thank you i can start answering. i want to row fer back to the overdose and we cannot assume so ome has to validate cause of death and we can't make assumptions based on anecdotal evidence and about an overdose and it's something that is hard data when it comes out of the ome office which data is challenging so i appreciate

there's a delay and i can tell you one thing the ome does not sort of provide a assumption or cowsment on cause of death that is a problem. we're looking for data on ems data and on overdose reversals so calls in in that are responded to by ems that are either known to be or suspected to be related to overdose and that data also is not 100% clear because sometimes those calls come in and not breathing or passed out or arrest and so, there's a elect of a lag in that data also but we are incorporating that into our --

we will be incorporating that into our metrics also. from are challenges that i think that the -- well, first of all, we are taking feedback weekly from the community, about what they are seeing and not seeing, especially when it comes to cleanliness, areas that there's issues and that sort of thing so that's more really qualitative data but it's fairly important and i want to defer to the the police department and they can talk about the crime data and dr. cunnings can talk more about the health data and the challenges that we have that certainly frustrate me as not a medical person, the complications of having a low barrier site in which you can't or do not want to ask a lot of

questions and finally, i also just want to highlight that getting over 400 people no shelters and 150 processed for permanent supporting housing in less than 90 days is fairly remarkable and on the part of hsh so there's, and so i don't want that to go without note and not only is it because hsh partnered with us through provide the resources but both in the form of set aside for this and redoing the teams in the mild to work with people to get throughout and i go back to the joint outreach that this doesn't happen and we feel we have to work with people and get them inside. so, i will turn it over perhaps

to dph. >> thank you, director carole. i know commander is on as well as other representatives from the police department who is going to respond. >> this is chris canning. i would be happy to take any questions if i may. >> , captain. thank you and happy to be here with you as noted earlier and for a little more than a year, and i certainly the mobilization of this initiative and one thing i don't want to note generally is how grateful i am to have the amount of attention focused and resources on the variety of

complex issues that have traditionally impacted the tenderloin neighborhood for quite some time and i want to compliment director carole for her leadership and courting these efforts that has been no small neat. all first address specifically some of our strategies that we have utilized regarding drug sales and that has been a primary concern that i hear from the community and preparing for this meeting and working through out this initiative are frequent and there are a variety things with the police department and the ability to enforce the law and reduce drug sales to the full capacity of our ploy and very visible uniform police officers and strategic

undercover nations and as well as or dinnated efforts and outreach up with thing in the short time i'm been through this and quite frankly and experience so how. >> aarti: less of challenge so as i result of this initiative, what i would really appreciated is number of things we've looked at with a little bit more focus in terms of metrics i think it's

important to note that there are those things that we share we also breakdown those arrests by the primary arrest height whether it is drug sales and arrest and things of that nature and we also look specifically at the quantity of narcotics we are seize will be they are from an arrest or through an investigation. we look at calls of service that the tenderloin officers respond to as they come in what we found

as we look at results of our efforts is a couple of things, the quantity of narcotics continues to increase and just at a first blush of our year to date and quantity and that we see it's track to go about double of what we've seen and during 24 period of time last year and that goes for both entirety of aquatics specifically for our seizure of fentanyl. in terms of the arrests of drug sales that we notice and we notice that maintained a level of consistency and one of the

things that we have been challenged with and we look at through success is the coordination of you're visual presence with the strategic execution of narcotics it focused enforcement and we find that quite frankly where there's a lot of cops and there's not a lot of folks engage and drug dealing or drug sales and so, coordinating those efforts with you are undercover inspectors and other supportings from the police department as been something that we find is showing improvement on a block-to-block basis, however, the analogy of pushing the air in a balloon or toothpaste in a tube around is a challenge we look to address with than shipping and mobilizing our

visible presence. one thing that i think i would be -- i really want to point out the officers that work here a lot the tenderloin, i wish i could have many, many more because they awe are engage in work through it's through helping address and connect people to the resources and services that the one thing i am impressed with is the coordinated effort between partner agencies through direct

carole's leadership and the daily deployment plans and regularly and i think they're a step in the right direction where i hear a lot of concerns from residents and folks in the community, though wanted more so finding a way to be efficient is something we're striving to do and so i know that was a little bit of a narrative i'm happy to take any questions and if there are any other commissioners? >> thank you. i believe there was also director carole referred to response from department of public-health unless -- >> i have questions. >> it's not your turn, supervisor preston, unless supervisor haney you had questions for captain canning.

>> i presenter your work and all the officers and i'm glad you feel there's been additional support during the emergency and you know, you and i speak on a regular basis so i don't have any specific questions for you. i would say that as you know very well, the drug dealings challenge in the tenderloin has continued if you has gotten worse in my view in the last few months and i want to make sure that particularly because says the proclamation of local emergency did not give any particular powers associated with stopping drug dealing a lot

of it has moved from one part of the neighborhood to another part of the neighborhood and the impact and harms associated with it has really gone despite un'em immediated so as a statement in my experience and i appreciate your leadership and obviously it means a lot more assistance and various times to types to be able to address i did want to just, i know, folks have a lot of questions and i wanted to finish a couple more questions that i had. one is about and i mentioned that there's going to be metrics and there will be a public facing dashboard but one of the things i was hoping for and this was presented as was we were going to have a travel of transparency aren't metrics that were identified that showed progress on a whole number of factors and that is not something that i have yet scene

and i hope if we do continue this effort that we are more accountable and transparent on those things and what i did see though is a lot of important data around service connections and around the linkage center and one was that there were 15,612 people or visits to the linkage center do we have the number of how many those are unique visits? are there 15,000 people that visited? how many people were we served there? >> >> dr. cunning? >> thank you for that question discussion i just want to appreciate really the urgent need for getting numbers on the dashboard and working out our

initial standardization and collection of data so what we're presenting is accurate and complete and what i can share with you is some of that information that those 15,000 visits or not unique people and represent individual visits that we collect each day and we are -- i guess striving to both create a low barrier site where we are not always asking for people to identify themselves and in order to create as welcoming a place as possible. however, we are really looking for ways to get at exactly what you said and i'm just looking at my numbers in front of me and we know in the last two weeks we've had nearly 504,900 visits among

those about 3 other were first-time guests and this means that this works out to be about 352 individual guests a day at this point the majority of whom are return visitors but each day we are seeing new guests a arrive and participate in the center and have the opportunity to be linked to on going care. >> so we don't have a number of how many unique individuals we've served at this site? >> we will pro for the latter periods of time and recognizing that in the earlier days, we are data collection systems didn't permit us to look at unique visitors so we are working towards getting that for you and

public and likely for the latter periods so we'll sort that out as we improve our data and metric systems. >> question for hsh on shelter. i appreciate the efforts to connect people to more shelter and certainly there were a number of people connected and with that said, 66 shelter placements from the linkage center is just one a day. part of the reason is to help people get off the streets quickly. is it not being used for that purpose and 283 shelter placements from the city is impressive and it's four or five a day and i don't know if that's is in scale than what normally

occurs during a non emergency? >> this is emily cohen from hsh and i'm happy to respond. this is much more than we are rable to make available to people living outside these 280 plus shelter placements, these are homeless outreach teamworkers taking people off the streets of the tenderloin and we're not even saying good to the linkage center. they're welcome to but we're giving them into shelter even before they get to the linkage center and tremendous opportunity, opening up nearly 300 units of new shelters to make available for this the housing placements and bringing

it to eligible people. people aren't jumping the line but we are able to connect people who otherwise have been eligible for housing but not connected to our system and bring them directly in. so the entire operation, linkage center and the work being done by the outreach team from the street has resulted in many more people being linked to resources and and so while we don't have month over month shelter placement data, holistically, i think i can see this is a dramatic expansion of what we've been able to make available. >> in just 15,612 visits to the linkage center and roughly one shipmenter placement a day, can you help me understand how that

happens. we are penting and it was mentioned when this is a model that works and i would have expected a lot more shelter placements and is it because there are not enough shelter beds to refer people when they come into the linkage center and so few of the people that come into the linkage center are in need of shelter. it's a higher request and we're filling the available beds safely and so do we have enough shelter to meet the unshelter needs in the community whether the tenderloin. we have made 300 new beds, nearly 300 new beds available at records speed and in addition to continuing to expand the existing portfolio and i listed several new programs that were

bringing on-line in the coming weeks and we're continuing to grow the resource as the investments sort of allow and it is not a matter of people not needing the shelter or not wanting the shelter. we are really trying to meet the needs that sun presidented community wide. >> thank you. >> and making more resources available. >> thank you. i don't mean this as a criticism but it's important for our board where where the need is making more investments and the linkage center is obviously a huge focus this effort represented in the presentation and the data and as it relates to getting people off the streets, and if the issue there was that there weren't referrals to be made, or

placement and it sounds like it was more the latter. there was a huge desire for shelter and we made it but we could have done more if we had more placements and i just want to -- >> if those 280 plus placements hadn't happened off the streets, they would have happened at the linkage center but we were able to get up stream before with those placements and making that experience of crisis just a little bit shorter for folks. >> that's great. >> so i look at it as initiative wide, not just the linkage center. >> thank you. yeah, and i do think that is important in some ways i've been a little surprised by the focus on the linkage center and it's a good example of where you see a neighborhood wide response. i just want to say just to close in, we have a lot more

conversations about this. the declaration of the emergency and the commitments to the neighborhood and the commitments to the city are significant and they are rare and and we have a responsibility to be clear about what we did, what was and you and whatcomes out, people are ae on the street, well, they made this emergency declaration, now we hear it's going to end. this is what we were worried about. things are going to go back to just the way they were and the commitments that were made are not going see it the follow through or the sauce s sustainability that they require and i don't think we thought we

would solve the overdose crisis in the tenderloin in 90 days but i truly hope and believe this is the beginning of a deep sustained commitment calling something an emergency is ringing the alarms and we have to demonstrate we are treating it like an emergency both for these 90 days and moving forward and so i hope that we do provide that commitment and i'm not clear about what happens next i saw there's a crisis response until through june but then, after that, we go back to highway it was. what i meant to treating something like age american see

and we internet veer seen and we will have a lot more conversation and i think just none of this was meant to say that anybody did anything wrong and i think we did something extraordinary with this so say we were going to proclaim a local emergency and we made a lot of commitments that brings with it a lot of responsibilities moving forward. thank you. >> president walton: thank you supervisor haney. supervisor safai. >> thank you, mr. president. some of my colleagues have talked about a few of the things that i wanted to talk about and slightly different way. i just want to make a point. i think metrics are really important as a lot of us have emphasized here. specifically, so much of the conversation has been on performance measures that look at process issues and how many people came in the door, how

many times, soul services they were linked t if we're going to make meaningful changes, we need to shift to looking at outcomes and i know 6 o days is clearly not enough time to do this and we have to look at the long-term. how will we measure in the short, medium and long-term. so, i understand that the dashboard is going to be created. we've talked about measuring the number of overdoses have we had an impact on that and how have we impacted the crime in terms of and prosecution and it's isolated into the tenderloin but in terms of largen context how does it play into our over all

conversation. about 50% of the overdoses happened in the tenderloin in this part of town but that means the other 50% were happening all over the city. to supervisor and we have to continue to expand the options of abstinence based treatment and additional forms of treatment that are not related to situations where medication cannot be offered. methadone has no harm reduction or medicine that can be offered. meth, yes, sorry. meth. cocaine is also another one of the most addictive drugs out there on the streets right now that it's not something that can

be offered to move that off of the addiction and i appreciate the step that was made there but metrics are important. please, shift the conversation more to outcomes and not just process issues. i'd like to transition specifically to the drug dealing. for me, it's a particular concern, i made it in my opening statements, highlighted that the impact on family seniors and other vulnerable populations. with all the community safety organizations in the area so i'm interested to hear if there's work put into that and any thought put into that and there isn't a need to recreate the wheel and as a tool and how can

you build off of that and then simply, when is the police officer department planning to have more officers in the area to deal with the drug and crime persistent in the area? those are my two main points. so that's further -- >> go head. thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm the acting deputy chief of investigations and part of that role is i do have the narcotics detail that works closely with captain canning in the tenderloin and we constantly have conversations, we talk about weekly trends and daily friends trends of not just violent crime in the tenderloin but the drug dealing. we've done 13 operations with 52 arrests and since the

declaration and those are resulted in 12 search warrants and 36 arrests so 5.8 pounds of fentanyl just in the we work closely with captain canning as far as deployment. if he sees trends like for example, 700 block of seventh street corridor. if he sees those trends he communicates it to our undercover officers that some of they were actually tenderloin plainclothes officers working in narcotics capacity to better communicate. we do it on a daily basis so we're out there on a consistent

basis and we work with, including to put the officers in that corridor and we have seen a reduction. we've had 36 shootings in 2022. over all in this city, but just the february stats show a 40% over all reduction in shootings. [please stand by]

>> they were actually in cars house individuals in fact on the west side. that's to say in fact you continue to make these investments in the tenderloin.

i really want to make sure we get the results we are looking for and i think my colleagues have already expressed their concern about the matrix of measuring success and especially like supervisor safai said, not process really but the outcomes andthis is a specific question . i think for doctor clemens that in your presentation you mentioned 3268 connections for services. meanwhile you also have mentioned most individuals that have come in for service at the centers are on house unhoused from the tenderloin. so i am trying to understand out of that 3258 connections for services, out of which how many were actually for drug relatedtreatments and services . >> thank you supervisor chan.

i wanted to reiterate my own and the departments commitment to working on overdoses throughout the city. san francisco saw as we all know epidemic numbers of deaths and each death represents the loss of somebody who is has died prematurely and we need to do everything we canto prevent these deaths and we havemany tools . while we are focused on the tenderloin , we are also working throughout the city to prevent overdose deaths, to get people into treatment and care so our eyesare not off the rest of the city as we do this . the 3000 connections really represent a broad set of referrals that we are able to make the lincoln center. we are, have made, we are aware of 65 connections totreatment . another more than 50 connections to other drug use

services, harm reduction, syringe access services. we also have an increasingly will have providers on site who can offer connections directly as you heard from deputy director: and the outreach setting. we are also aiming to make as many direct connections with on-site providers who are we are cooperatingwith . i know and here strongly the wise and important councils of the board to achieve outcome metrics and we are working to make that available to improve our data systems and get that important information to youand to ourselves . >> thank you but understand that's also a follow-up of what supervisor ronen have talked about, is whetherthis model

works . to our linkage centers we create an environment where else can come in and it's a low area to receive treatments and question i had then, what about for many other folks that do not come from the tenderloin or even if they're in the tenderloin. the requirement is for them to walk through that door and that is in my opinion perhaps already a challenge. so now help me understand what are the efforts besides waiting for someone to get through that door. which is very impressive, 15,000 counts assuming probably again, we don't know how many are unique but either way is and if it's at the returning rate that is impressive for three months time .so help me understand then in your opinion a linkage center waiting for

people to come through versus your effortsor balanced approach of also continuing outreach . that people who are not from the tenderloin or not in the tenderloin again it's to focus onreducing overdose deaths and knowing that yet , 60 percent in the tenderloin but whatabout the other 40? how do we balance that effort between the tenderloin and everyone else ? >> absolutely, supervisor. and those visits represent the first eight weeks. the declaration was about 12 weeks ago and we open the center eight weeks ago and with our ongoing efforts as well as new initiatives under funded by proxy, one of the important initiatives we started up around overdoses are sort teams or street opioidresponse teams . those teams have responded and i don't have a number in front

of me to a number of calls in partnership with our colleagues at san francisco firedepartment . with our street medicine work we are able to both provide response to the overdoses and or follow up with folks who have experienced a nonfatal overdose. why this is an important intervention is we know people have experienced one nonfatal overdose or very heightened risk of experience a subsequence table overdose so that sort team is one example of a service that is available citywide. we are continuing to respond to those overdoses and provide follow-up for both folks who are not housed and in a relatively bigger grant follow-up for people who are housed as well. additional efforts with our

strong partnerships so some of our outreach and street based harm reduction programs who are working with people at risk of overdose everyday to provide them information and tools to reduce their risk of overdose . increase their education and ability to link to treatment and other important services that are like saving whether it is medical care, physical healthcare, mental health care and work collaboratively with our colleagues in a set hsa to link people to housing. all these interventions whether it is treatments for substance use disorder and addiction, mental health care, physical healthcare and housing are all scientifically shown to reduce risk of overdose , improve recovery and improve people's overall health so we are continuing all those services across the city.

>> great, please educate me then what is your approach to the matrix of measuring outcomes and if you already have one approach knowing it again like you said only been eight weeks, developing the matrix of the measurement of success or what is, maybe perhaps your establishedone . >> i think our true north star is reducing overdose deaths, both in thetenderloin and across the city . that is for all of us want to see. we know that happens when people not only receive education about overdose, know how to reverse and overdose. importantly as has been pointed out here, reduce their use of

drugs, stop their use of drugs by entering into treatment . by receiving support from peers as well as getting our mental health and other physical healthneeds met including housing . so that is our ultimate metric both for the tenderloin and fo the city . there are a great number of process metrics that include entering into care and treatment and we are working on improving our data systems and again, the backdrop of the tenderloin initiative, i'll circle back to our hiring efforts which include a number of analysts to expand our data collection and reporting abilities which do lag and which we areworking aggressively to improve .

>> with all due respect and obviously not an expert in this area. help meunderstand then what is the reduction rates , which percentagethat you considerwhat we're doing right now to be successful . is it 10 percent reduction in overdose deaths , 50 percent? help me understand what is the reduction rate that we are looking for with the things that we're doing,with investments and resources that we're doing. what is your aim in overdose steps ? >> i'll answer that by providing a bit more context for the situation that san francisco and really, every jurisdiction nationally with the entry of fentanyl into the drug market in the country and in san francisco since 2018. san francisco has seen an almost doubling of overdose deathssince 2017 . this is not unlike other jurisdictions so weare not

unfortunately exceptional in that way . so our first step both in the tenderloin and in the city is to flatten the curve. we want to see a cessation of the very steep rise in overdose deaths that this city has seen since starting in late 2018, heading into 2019 2020. 2021 saw a decrease in preliminary data as put out by the office of the medical examiner. we want to see that curve b-flat as our first step and then decrease. this is an enormous challenge for myself and for all of public health working on this tragic, tragic problem in which this country has lost more than 1 million be people to overdose deaths in the last decade. >> that's helpful for me to

understand what is our goal. that helped me understand by the time you come back and say you would like to extend until december 31, here's what i would love to see and hear from you is that the matrix of measuring all these things, what you consider as a successful outcome. i definitely would like to see the number that is unfortunately still a tragic number but at least not on the rise. for this supervisor to say yes, please continue and support this effort. i want to say it today here and loud and clear that those are the things i am looking for from your department so thank you so much and again, it's heartbreaking work and i don't and the you and i appreciate yourleadership on this . i do have more questions, i'm sosorry . these questions now i'm

shifting to our department of homelessness and supportive housing. i know for the last eight year , our effort and i think from what i understand is the goal is by june we will have 6000 permanent home placements and i'm trying to understand the conversation that we just had or the presentation wejust had from you .is that with the hundred 54 like, home processing. 345 shelter placements. are these actually on top, in addition to the 6000 commitments that we are making, that we have made? or is this part of the 6000 permanent home placements,part of the goal we are trying to reach by june ? >> thank you supervisor, i'm ellie: with the department of

homelessness and housing. as partof our homeless recovery plan , we are, we have a goal of achieving 6000 placements by the end of the fiscal year. and all the placements that we are making whether that's through the linkage center or directlyfrom the hot teen or from an access point . those are all being counted towards that goal. >> there's 154 home processing, i'm sorry. i'm not familiar with all these terminologies but please educate me and correct me if i'm wrong but with these hundred 54 home processing, is this part of ... my assumption is that is not part of the 345 altered placements. >> correct. the 345 shelter placements are separate and when you say somebody is in the housing placement process where

referring to the fact that we have assessed them for housing and are working to match with the available housing resources and that i think it's 54 have moved in from the linkage center into permanent housing. >> got it and i think for 345 shelter placements at some point you did mention that they're not actually really through the linkage center that you gotthe individuals . the outreach was conducted it sounds to me and again, i could be wrong but it sounds to me like the 345altered placements that you presented , they were not really from the linkage center but from the outreach conducted in the tenderloin neighborhood on thestreet . >> it's a combination of both, supervisor. it is 283 placements directly from the streets of the tenderloin aspart of the emergency initiative and 66 placements from the linkage center .

for a total of 345 as part of this initiative. >> thank you andyou mentioned you conducted 2000 in the last eight weeks . you've conducted 2000 outreach encounters. assuming those are all in the tenderloin and again, are those 2000 accommodation on the streets and linkage centers? >> outreach, where referring to conversations our homeless outreach workers and city staff are having with people living on the streets at the tenderloin so we look across the city throughout the year but the 2000 number is pulled directly from the tenderloin since the start of the emergency initiative and these are 2000 conversations, 2000 discussions or contacts that are outreach workers are having withpeople on thestreets . we may have contact with somebody three orfour times a day , 10 times a week .

we are very persistent in our reach which is what eventually puts these people either in the linkage center or indoors. >> i'm trying to understand if that's that 2000 outreach encounters were counted or somehow overlapping with the 15,000 something visits inthe linkage centers . >> excuse me supervisor. it is quite possible the outreach center encountered someone on the corner of turk, had a conversation with them, want them tothe linkage center and they were counted again at the linkage centers so they may or may not be the same people . the system is not capable of duplicating that . >> i think what i again really look forward to seeingis this . from both the linkage center count but also kind of having this court needed effort to help me understand that you,

all of you in a coordinated manner no people as individuals but not numbers. i think that the challenge for me personally, sometimes i feel and i think perhaps it's the reason why sometimes some ofmy colleagues feel the same way . it's that looking at numbers is great. and again, it's the reason of where looking for results and we're looking for results for individuals . we want to know that individuals are getting the service. getting the treatment and how many of them are getting those treatments and it's okay that there overlapping .that someone is getting treatment and getting housed. that's great but it would be helpful for us to understand, and in some way it's understand that investment inresources that we're putting in .

how many people arewe actually helping and at what level ? that's the information i'm seeking next timewhen we talk again. so thank you and thank you president walton . >> thank you, supervisor preston. >> thank you president walton. and let me just start by thanking doctor parens and her team and director carol, her team and everyone i know has been working very hard around the clock to get the linkage center going. and appreciate their time, taking our officeon the tour and soforth as you've done for other supervisors . i did have questions. i wanted to start , mister president i don't know if we have someone if the mayor is available or someone from the mayor's office who can speak on

their behalf . all right. okay. so my question is regarding the decision not to seek to renew or extend the emergency declaration. can you explain the rationale forthat decision ? >> thank you for the question supervisor, tom helena with th mayor's office . director carol mentioned in the hearing the nonrenewal of the declarationdoes not impact the ability to deliver services . as far as what the declaration did allow for and the ability to hire various health officer , and the speed at which that was able to happen, the expiration of the declaration would not have impacted that. >> okay, so when was the

decision made not to seek to extend the order? >> as far as the announcement isconcerned ? that was yesterday. >> and when was the decision made? >> i don't know when the decision was made but the decision being announced was yesterday . >> you know when? >> so i believe, i was involved in the discussions leading up to the final determination but just in the last few days is when itwas made . >> iq. and so is basically the rationale for not continuing it that is no longerneeded for the objective ? is that what i'm hearing? >> so first of all, i don't

mean an emergency declaration to do emergency response. there are reasons that we declare an emergency and those usually fall into certain categories . one would be you know, financial recoveries so if the state for fema was declaring a disaster you have to have a disasterin order to align . the other reason is to provide expedia did processes in order to in this case it was to stand up thelinkage center, one . secondly, hiring. two, for the part of public health and the third most important thing has to do with disaster service workers. so the linkage center is up. we were able to get our permitting in place. the department of public health

as i understand it will follow the processes and we along with the processes for an extension of the lease. i believe that needs to come before the board . we don't need the declaration for that. we do need the additional smu so when we realized the supplemental wouldsuffice and that was the advice of the city attorney i believe we decidedto move forward but like i said , it doesn't impede the work, the overall work of the initiative at this point . >> thank you and the supplemental that you referenced, will that exclusively go with the issue of dfw workers? >> that's right. it's just through june 30 i believe. >> thank you. the handoff here from dem to dph of the linkage center

control,when will that occur ? >> dph is still ... so dph is responsible for the day-to-day services that are happening at thelinkage center . and generally the overall operations.i say generally because dem still holds police and we still hold some of the contracts for for the parties and different things so we are still supporting but we are out of the day-to-dayoperations and in particular we're out of the day-to-day operations with services that are there . we are notservice providers and dph is working with their contractors on those . >> does not apply to the outreach as well ? is dem leading the outreach or is thatdph leading that ?

>> i really appreciate the question because i feel like things are getting a little bit convoluted and the various conversations we're having. but in one emergency initiative is still ongoing . that operation is led by dem. and so the overall operation and everything that we've identified to respond to the various priorities areas and problems in the neighborhood is still under dem. and outreach is falls under that. the joint field teams and different departments are involved. so for instance, my department, my staff are have leadership positions for instance for the operations chief . and the lead for the joint outreach which is an ems chief.

reports up to the operations chief so we are operating in an icf mode with dem asthe incidentcommander these other , all the activities still continue under that command . >> question for h sh deputy directorcolin. and apologies if you've answered this but i don't think so. can you just specify. you've given detail around the shelter placement . do you have a number of folks who through this initiative got displayed either from supportive housing or another housing placement? >> thank you supervisor. 154 people have been assessed for housing to this new linkage center. and 56 of them havealready moved into housing . >> and that's permanent housing, not another.

thank you. thanks for that. and in your presentation that you referenced the three sit hotels that have closed that are now in use for this initiative and i think can you just clarify are those fully like 100 percent in those hotels are through the placement from the lincoln center or the tenderloin outreach? >> that's the majority of placements are through the tenderloin initiative because the linkage center because of the outreach we do has other referrals like hospital discharge and the homeless outreach team as access and in other areas of the city as well

so it's not 100 percent exclusive to the tenderloin as weknow the need exists elsewhere but we are focusing great deal of the resources to people experiencing on shelteredhomelessness in the neighborhood . >> and just, as a comment to have some perspective on this . this body took action nearly 2 years ago to direct the administration to acquire 8250 hotel rooms at the time when they were all available and empty and i think we all know that the back-and-forth is to read there of achieving less than a third of thatnumber. i just , i think that i suppose in a sense progress to date closed seven hotels and open them for this effort but when we talk and when we hear from the roman and supervisor walton from all of our districts, about the lack of ability for the team and outreach folks to place people and have available

hotel rooms like, this is the problem we're trying to solve a small part of it through this initiative and i appreciate those efforts but these are hotels that should never have been closed and we should have been all along the way getting a lotmore of them as the board unanimously directed at the start . i don't think we would have seen the need foremergency declarations . we would have all those rooms all along. switching to just a few questions onthe , for captain canning or related more generally to the police issues here. the, you've described a what sounds like a surge in officers coming to the tenderloin in

response to supervisor ronen. either two captain canning for really whoever can answer. how is this increase in officers in thetenderloin being funded ? >> thank you supervisor for th question . i appreciate that but i understand it's correct that the question is how are they being directed and what kind of work they're expected to do, is that correct ? >> the question is how they are being funded and for the question we have that appropriation that we understood wasgoing to increase funding to get morepolice out . that was withdrawn . but now we're hearing there's going to be a surge in officers so where is the money for that coming from? >> i don't have the answer to that supervisor. i certainly can get the information as soon as possible

and answer that for you directly but iunfortunately don't have the answer to that now . >> mister pulido, doesthe mayor's office, and the mayor's office provide clarity on where the funds for this increase in officers come from ? >> i don't have an answer to that question but i can get it for you . >> can you shed any light? >> in my conversations with the chief these are accommodation of overtime and real preparation of resources so what i can tell you iswhat i think are no additional funding . that has been appropriated in any way for these additional officers. i would double check that information. that's just based on my conversation. >> do you have aprotected cost ? >> i don't know ifyou're trying to respond .

>> i know captain canning is in operations but overall when you mention surge, what our staffing levels are actually probably one of the lowest that we've ever seen. so this is something operations questions we can get back to you after talking to the operations chief but i can tell you i ended the staffing conversation and when we track staffing we are down almost 500 rosters so i don't like to use the word surge but our times where we juggle resources and try our best to help out districts that need help and we try our best to be efficient, tomove people around with the resources we have . >> i think that i'm a bit confused in the back-and-forth with supervisor safai who was

specific about asking for a union square style presence of police. i don't know if you have the exact same thing but there was anindication of going in that direction .that's what different from saying we are understaffed and we're going to bring back up the staffing reports. is the plan like, let me ask may be more directly. is the plan that in the upcoming weeks we're going to see basically a restoration of the levels of staffing that existed a year or two years ago in the tenderloin or is the plan as i think you've previously stated to dramatically increase the numbers beyond those levels? >> i can tell you we are continuing to do playing closed operations in the tenderloin with coronation with patrol.

with captain canning and also partly this other district. that will continue and i don't want to talk operations mainly because it's out of my area but i am in an overall umbrella staffing conversation and that's the reality of the staffing numbers we have. >> with all due respect i understand there'sproper conversation around staffing levels, department divide and citywide and we can argue about that until midnight on its own . i'm asking about the item that's before us is and the statements that have been made around policing in the tenderloin and maybe the way to just take it out ofthe subject into the objective is what's the snapshot of how many officers are out on the streets ? or have been over the last year

and on average in the tenderloin. what's it been during the state of emergency here and what's it going tobe under this undefined increase ? is that information you can either give me now not commit to giving to this board, as quickly as possible? >> supervisor, thank you for the question and clarification. it makes total sense and i want to provide you and the board complete and accurate information when we're talking about really fresh and ongoing news of some deployment shifts i want to make sure weren't able to address the question as to where it's coming from. that as i understand it and to look into thatand make sure we will support that information as quickly as possible . >> i think people are owed some transparency on this and i just i think we have differing views

certainly on the board and i think there are certainly differing views in the city about the appropriate levels of police and about what police work should be and so forth but what disturbs me is i think a bit of a trend of making, having some big pronouncements about the plan andthen we see things totally different .we heard at the outset of this state of emergency discussion going to be all this policing focus on drug dealers in particular. we spent a lot of time staying on top of getting the data so that a lot of different views and when you look atit, there's been no change . if you look at at least for the first seven weeks of this period and thank you to the tv and stafffor providing the information , there were 85 arrests for narcotics sales and possession with intent to sell

in the first couple of weeks of the state of emergency and there were 88 last year in the same timeframe whether you think it's good or bad , you announced there was going to be a huge crackdown on drug dealing and there was no change whatsoever to the sense of police interactionso going into whatever this next phase looks like , i think we need to get to the not our span of the numbers but the numbers. how many officers areexpected to be out there and then we can provide the oversight . we can debate whether these changes are good or not. one area of concern ... before i go on,director carol . his dem recommending this increase of officers, whatever, whenever we figure out how many officers it is that are being proposed or committed.

is this a dem recommendation? >> yes. >> and is it ... and whose decision was it to direct this increase in officers ? >> it's the chief'sdecision . so the request has come ... a couple of things. first of all, as i noted we hold listening sessions. we meet withresidents, providers, businesses every week . and acrossthe board , they want to see, they have said they want to see a greater presence in the community of law enforcement.and the other

thing is that one of the second after overdoses, greatest identified problem in the neighborhood is drug dealing and violent crime. those are not something that we can salt with our joint outreach. we don't goservices first on violent crime, supervisors . that is why that need to address these issues has continued and i think we're all aware of the staffing. i've been talking about staffing issues since i got here, since we started today and it is across the board and we know it's also with our law enforcement partners but it's absolutely based on theproblems that we are trying toaddress . based on feedback from the community .

we absolutely notonly do we believe we should have this, we have asked for it . >> director kyle, when you came before us on the eve or the day before the eve of the holiday, december. you were pretty clear that the state of emergency was not going to beused to leverage more policing those were your words . and i'll read youwhat you said . although interrupting illegal activities and enforcement for behaviors that are a threat to public safety are basic citywide response it's important we declare this emergency declaration is based

on a public health emergency and is no way a means to criminalize drug use to be leveraged for more policing. that was a commitment and i think there was asimilar commitment from andre powers . who also committed in seeking approval and gaining approval despite the objective of supervisor waltonof gaining approval . that was a key commitment that we would not see certain kinds of policing. and or surges in policing as part of what is fundamentally and we would hope we all agree a callous response.i am just stop by the timing here. and i don't doubt the intent to follow through with that commitment you madeto the board , mister powers made to the board . but i find myself concerned that the timing of this undefined and much referred to

surge in police is going to now, a time when the emergency is no longer in place and i guess i would ask whether the end of the state of emergency or population of emergency, does that and your commitment and mister powers commitment to the board not to use the authority of the emergency to leverage morepolice ? did that change once the emergency is over? >> first of all, the declaration. we did not use, we have not used the declaration for any kind of increase in law enforcement and i believe the wording of it was to request more resources for additional funding for police in the case

of the tenderloin. so we are not asking for the police presence to target drug users. in any way. we're asking, we and when i say we, on behalf of the community to help us in our efforts to reduceharm in the community . and this is an emergency. it's dynamic. the nature of an emergency means that we are going to request the resources as we need them as this develops. i don't see thisbeing a backtrack in any way . quite frankly we could use the increased police officers before this week. there's no connection to the timing of this.

>> wouldn't you agree based on the statements for the board gaining approval that you felt bound not to be increasing the police funding and surging the number of police officers in thetenderloin ? that was the commitment at least during the state of emergency. >> i guess i would turn the question back to the board. what do i say as the lead of this initiative to members of the community, parents, elderly people who are seriously ... >> this is our time to ask questions and i think it's fair to ask for a response for the president. it's a significant to make sure we're on the same page i'm not debatingthe wisdom of policing with you .what i'm saying is that you've gained approval for a state of emergency based on

commitments that that state of emergency would not be used to increase the police presence in the tenderloin and increase funding. we now learned through the chronicle, not through anyone in the administration but from the newspaper a day or two ago that suddenly at theexact time when there's now up prominent surgeon policing that the state of emergency will no longer be effective . thereby basically making the commitment that was previously made go away. that may be coincidence but i guess what i'm asking is for more clarity. one, do you agree that during the state of emergency that you made a commitment to not leverage that for increase in policing and number two, are you no longer bound bythe commitments in your mind once the state of emergency ends ? >> again, the declaration had nothing to do with policing.

the declaration did not help me or give me any power to say to chief scott i need moreofficers . that request has been made based on what we have faced in this communityfor the last 90 days . i have to be able to, so number my answer to you is i don't see a problem with this. i am asking for the resources that i need to address the problems that arein front of us . and this also, i need my understandingalso but this is not a huge surgeon policing . this isn't to look like what we saw as i understand it in union square. this is just to help us address

very serious problems of crime, of drug dealing and violent crime inthis community . >> thank you, i am just going to wrap up with comments because i know other colleagues have questions and thank you president walton for the time. really, for all of us just to dive in. but i want to say that my concern and it's been a concern from the start andunfortunately the concerns have largely been proven to be well-founded . it's that we have certain things that have happened here in standing up the linkage center and offering basic dignity and basic services and necessities forpeople in the tenderloin that were long overdue .that should be happening to supervisor ronen's

question, should be happening pursuant to a citywide plan with an obvious focus on the tenderloin and other communities in consultation with the board of supervisors and advocates and these would be unanimousvotes or very close to it . and there have been positive things to come out of this and supervisor ronen i appreciate your pushing for the hiring of sf. i don't think anyone can look at it and see there's not been progress but that's not the controversial part. that's the part we should be asking how do we do that at a much bigger scale, wrap it up quickly and ask for support for the resources to do that and make ithappen . but at the end of the day i continue to have concerns about the use of police particularly threatened unhoused people and those concerns have grown .

and unfortunately, the declaration began with what i see as a lot of theater during a press conference. we talked about this before in which the mayor is surrounded by police department and the sheriff, department leadership threatened to makelife hell for drawing drug users and for unhoused people in the tenderloin . i consistently stood and others have as well against the resurrection of the failed war on drugs and against harassment of unhoused people inthe tenderloin. when we want our neighbors to feel safe that includes people living on the street . we have repeatedly asked the mayor's office to set parameters that would in writing make a commitment not to use police to enforce the law or criminalize drug

addiction in thetenderloin but to no avail. we've never had written commitments around that . i think initially dem and the mayor's staff initially tried to walk back some of the mayor's comments and assure this board that the next organization had nothing to do with increasing sfpd presence and activities in the tenderloin. the recent quotes i think were probably problematic on director carol to the chronicle that the city would start using policeto try to be push people into treatment . comments that werenot distanced or disowned or said to be a mistake . you can either engage services or go to this place or move along and if you do things illegal police are going to intervene and this is what we were told would not happen and the type of approach that we put people in greater danger from overdosing and i think

given these kind of comments and conflicting frankly information from the mayor's office or dem, our office has worked to monitor sfpd operations in this state of emergency. we issued a letter of inquiry to get data and after some time sfpd sent us aresponse after our last committee as a whole . and i'd be remiss if i didn't mention some of the troubling information that we uncovered through the response to loi. we had a lot of information but i'll highlight a couple of things. black people made up about 33 percent of the people arrested or cited in the tenderloin during this period. hispanic or latinx committee made up about 39percent so we're talking over 70 percent .

over 70 percent of the arrests of the citationswere against black or brown people . and meanwhile the use of force almost doubled during the tenderloin emergency in comparison to the numbers from last year. and half of those subjected to use of force bypolice in the tenderloin were black . so i think we have to remember that the tough on crime talk is easy but policing does not take placein a vacuum. it has serious repercussions to communities and particularly for communities of color . that's why we fought so hard to make sure that the policing aspect of all this remains out of the conversation and why we're alarmed to be learning of plans to address what is honestly a public health crisis with the surgeon policing and

policing. so the emergency declaration is expiring i hope advocates and city officials will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that the activities there don't result in a revival of tactics that we know do not work and actually make things worse and i appreciate director carol statement around that were onl successful when we work together. i agree with thespirit of that . i would like to see that be a reality .and that includes closer consultation between the administration andthe board and frankly , not dictating our statements for how they look in media headlines particularly conservative headlines and showing how toughwe can be but instead letting our department of public health lead , staffing up department of

public health and at hs age and launching programs like it's not a mystery that it's going to be a successful path forward. we have some good and indications fromthe center and reviving some of these hotels . but we need to do far more of that so i will leave it at that and i again thank you colleagues for the time thank you supervisor preston. supervisor peskin. >> i want to reach out a bit into the sfpd role and just get some hard, fast numbers. so captain canning, i don't think we've had the pleasure of meeting you inperson but i loo forward to getting to know you . i wanted to know how many full-time how much full-time equipment are there and tenderloinstations .

>> a number of our officers are , we've got more than 90 full-time police officers. >> that includes the 20 additional officers that you have received or is your normal compliment . >> that's our normal i think assignedcompliment . >>and that is that standard ? be a central station that i'm most fiddling with which is a larger geographic territory has a fte count somewhere around 120, so is that your normal complimentor is that a reduced complement , 90. >> we experienced i think the same consistency in the number of our officers as therest of the district station so i would sayconsistent with other district stations based on those factors . size, calls for service volume . things of thatnature . >> so themoment you learned

about were received yesterday is approximately a 20 percent increase in staffing . >> yes. >> and have you been told how long that additional staffing is expected to last? regardless of? >> thosedetails are stillbeing worked out . >> understood . >> and out of that 90 assume that is not just q2 but sergeants and lieutenants as well ? >> those are our officers. we got transfers so 17 or 18 sergeants that in addition to that number. >> and what, three lieutenants? >> we've got lieutenants on dave's and also some civilian staff as well. >> so 90 two jews and the rest are 17 sergeants plus lieutenants was some psa's .

>> yes. >> andthen relative to the 90 q2 , do you have and i'm sorry it's not meant tosound dumb, it's just ignorant . how many beads do you havein the tenderloin station geography ?>> we do have the good fortune of having the most 50 officers out of all the district stations are beats. they shift,supervisor, quite frankly . we are able to move and when i tried to do is shift the beats wheresome of the more significant issues are occurring . i'm going, deployment has been quite fluid. in terms of foot the officers wehave approximately 24 beat officers at the station . >> got it and you spoke to daily deployment plans but is

there relative to the so-called emergency, is there a block by block response plan? is there a larger plan or does it consistof the daily deployment plan ? >> there's a little bit of both supervisor to the question about the emergency initiative as doctor carol said. our role has been one of support. in termsof daily deployments, that also includes our patrol officers . the sector car assignments and other obligations on a day-to-day basis. yes, those deployment objectives shift based off of declining trends that we read about in reported crimes. and also observations, the officers onpatrol as well as their sergeants and dependents . >> and just for ouredification,

you report to the metro commander or how does that wor these days ? >> there's once of chiefs nowadays . >> so there are 10district stations, tenderloin is one of them . i report to the commander of the metro division who reports to the deputy chief of the ceo of operations bureau. >> who in returnreports to assistant chief redmond, ? >> yes. >> relative to the emergency period senseless december has there been any change in support from the command staff, has there been any change in the wayyou deployed your resources , any support that additional support that you've received have things, what's beendifferent in the last

almost 90 days . >> thank you for the question. one thing that is significant that i've been gratefulfor his support from a lot of our auxiliary units . officers around the traffic division are motorcycle solo officers, the honda officers. on their bikes. we've had officers from the tactical company that have been really assisting us with our visibility, ourpresence and patrols . and that has been a significant shift that has been helpful in the tenderloin since the declaration. >> iq captain, i look forward to meetingyou in person and working with you . >> i want to thank you supervisor. >> supervisor melgar.

>> i have a couple questions. i wanted to start with this: if she still here with hhs. are you still here? >> i believe she is. let me make sure. yes, she is. >> it seems like the numbers that you gave were impressive and that we have found in this whole thing that having low entry, low barrier access to both of the services including shelter works. and it works fast. i am wondering if this is something that can be replicated without an emergency declaration. why can't we do this the way we putpeople into shelter all over the city with our existing systems . >> thank you for the question

supervisor. you're absolutely right, that declaration and the state of emergency was incredibly helpful at getting the linkage center so making shelter available and doing the outreach and placement works is a part of our ongoing operation and we can absolutely learn lessons from the linkage center and apply them across the system . and having a through no wrong door a single point of entry, nested behind her access points . that's a lot of the work we do is to try to make access no barrier. one of the things we've had a lot of success with throughout the pandemic is having the team workers equipped with direct access to the shelters and that's what we've seen the pandemic and that is what we're duplicating here in the tenderloin initiative.

our outreach teams are significantly more successful when the resource they have to offer is tangible and immediat . that sort of pre-tenderloin emergency that has been the case for the outreach team. they fill them every day. so it's what we're trying to do here iscollaborate with the departments and make more available on the streets . >> thank you mrs. cohen. my next question was forcaptain canning . you said that in the last few weeks we have seized twice as many drugs in the same period last year. i've also hard in a different partof the presentation it's about the same number of arrests. can you talk about that ? >> thank you supervisor for the question. one thing we've learned in the

ecosystem of issues that are challenging in the neighborhood is that there's just not a lot of uniformity. i think out of the narcotics that are seized by drugdealers that we arrest , nor by the drugs that we see in a patrol capacity when officers turned the corner and a group disperses without the officers being ableto identify who actually was carrying the drug , is not uncommon to find a bag of drugs . so incorporated within our utter withinour enforcement strategy is that as well . so toanswer your question , i don't know the reason. all i know is that the more we

focus on the areasimpacted by drug sales, the more drugs we are seeing . sometimes it's on a suspect with our arrested and as indicated beforesometimes and that enforcement action , there are items found that basically are concealed narcotics so just demonstrates i think the quantity of narcotics out there and very mindful of the fact that we are seizing a lot but there's still more out there. and that i think goes to part of the strategy of applying to the very challenged areas where we are seeing an increase of drug sales, a very visible presence to do 2 things. provide some relief and service to those areas and also identify and see if we can find where the dealers are moving t . as indicated before and as you

all know , there tend not to be drug dealers where there are uniformed police officers . there is a shift i predict so our coordinated outreach specifically with our narcotics detail colleagues will i think be very telling to see what kind of ships we notice the quantities of drugs that are seized compared to the number of arrests . >> captain, what if any coordination do we have with federal lawenforcement agencies on this ? >> thank you for asking that. i know the deputy chief this morning, that is more in his wheelhouse . there are ongoing efforts with our federal partners. >> i can tell you most of our cases are state-level. until we get to that search warrants to the larger

quantities and repeat offenders where we are able to take the cases to a federal agency. so we do work with our federal partners just like our state partners and we try to use the type of resource we can including at the state level, the doj. >> just to clarify now that we've seen a doubling of the amount of drugs it has risen to the level of getting to the point where we are board meeting with federal law enforcementagencies ? >> we're going to coordinate with the federal law enforcement agencies. some of the dealers that have guns on them, they are prohibited it really goes case-by-case . it depends on the dealer, how manyarrests they have .the quantity and it really varies

from case to case. but we look at every single case and we tried to see what would be themore appropriate avenue . >> thank you verymuch. colleagues, i want to make a couple of comments . i think we took a leap of faith in this declaration of emergency and i think we've learned somelessons . i am really glad to hear director cohen say that because advocates have been calling for low entry barrier access to shelter and also drug treatment for decades. i am glad that when we did it we saw such good results. i also want to reiterate that i do believe that there are times when there is an appropriate use of police and increase in police presence. i think i as you guys know i'm

from el salvador and ispent a lot of time in central america . i have families ties and the connection between human trafficking and drug sales is real and nothing good comes of it. nothing goes to the victims of human trafficking or the people or exposed and have their families threatened to engage in something that is harmful and poisonous to others. i do think it's appropriate for us to deal with it through enforcement while at the same time we are shifting resources from the things that don't require risk. so i am dismayed we still don't have that up and running. it is something that would shift some of the things that do not require police presence to deal with annoyances that people just donot know how to

access . so i think that we have learned some lessons. i hope that we can continue to respond to the residents of the tenderloin, who are still living in conditions that many of us wouldn't stand for. and at the same time, learn from what works. and continue to hold people accountable to not just promises but the metrics that we have all identified wanting to make better for those residents . thank you. >> thank you supervisor. supervisor safai. >> thank you president walton. thank you for thosecomments supervisor . very much appreciated. and that particular insight.i just wanted to state for the record at least my understanding and the

supervisors understanding when there was initial commitment made from the departments and others that there would not be , they would not use or not use theemergency order to reallocate resources . i never heard commitment that there was not , there was not any intent to increase police presence particularly around criminal activity as relates to dealing or other crime that happened on the street. my question to the president, to mister paulino or anyone from themayor's budget office . has there been any reallocation of resources to deal with this most recent increase in police presence and is there any intention to do so and if there were, would you stillkeep a commitment to come back to this body to seek approval ? >> thanks for the question. the funds in the existing budget, there are no new resources and as my colleague mentioned previously if there

were it would be out of appropriation. >> thank you for that mister paulino through the chair. my understanding is that this most recent increase in presence as supervisor eskin said, 25 percent increase the staffing is not putting any additional strain on the budgets. and i for one am happy to hear there will be additional police presence and hopefully with it will be done in coordination with other groups todeal with the type of crime . this is the promise that was made to this community. this was a commitment made to this divinity over and over again to deal with some of the criminal activity particularly the drug dealing at so i want to clarifythat for the record . thank you misterpresident . >> it's pretty obvious that they're going to be pulling police from other places.

they stated itseveral times. that's where additional police officers are coming from. other precincts, other areas of law enforcement . boldly and publicly. supervisor stephanie. >> thank you president walton i have a question for director carol.first of all i was remiss in not thanking her for all the work she's put into this . i know she's been working 24 seven and this wouldn't be happeningwithout her. i just wanted to follow up . shewas trying to say something before she was interrupted . i want to go back to that because i think it's important that we don't forget this is not the community . and when i'm looking at the key findings of the community listening sessions because what we should be doing islistening to the community . and when the community says they want morepolice resources to reduce drug sales , not to

people to do drugs in jail but reduce drug sales probably through the arrest of drug dealers and violent crime and increase safe passage and accountability, that's somethingwe need to listento. correct me if i'm wrong but we had someone who works for urban alchemy shot in the leg around their . allegedly shot by a . also the morning i visited the lincoln center marion carol for me what happened to the 16-year-old girl found in market dead of a drug overdose insuspicious circumstances that they have not found out so yes , we need police resources and the community is askingfor it . i would like director carol to finish the thought she had from what she was explaining about what she heardbefore she was interrupted . >> thank you supervisor stefani. >> thankyou supervisor, thank you president walton . first of all i want to say that

we have been due to the incredible work of the joint field outreach team and hsoc and community partners, the entire outreach to people who are using and suffering from drug addiction has been served as an outreach. we have in no way criminalize that behavior in any way at any time during this initiative. and what we hear and the community supports that. but they also come to us and say what about us. what about us, what about those ofus , what about us walking our kids down the street trying to get to the school. having them literally attack which has happened multiple

times inlight of the fact that we createdsafe passage . what about the violence that's going on in the streets . you know, and what about parents of adolescents who are terrified for their kids because they can't walk them and hold their hand and go to schooland have to get on the bus and go to school ? what about the seniors afraid to leavetheir homes ? they are literally saying what aboutus and asked us and half me as the leader of this , please bring more presence of the police so that we can feel safer and that is all i wanted to say. that is why i have gone to police and asked whatever way they can increase their presence so that the community will feel safer. i have done so. and i just you also want to reiterate there is no additional funding for this and

i know there's other questions perhaps for pd that i'm not going to answer butthat is why we're here . i just have a responsibility to this community that has been assigned to me until that responsibility is removed , i'm going to go and ask for the resources thatwe need . just like we did during covid, we're going to ask for the resources we need thank you for letting me finish that thought supervisor stefani.>> i don't haveanything further . >> supervisor can. >> maybe i missed this but i know thatsupervisor ronan asked about the controller's letter , there was a response. >> there was, i was supposedto explain it . greg wagner was on the call but he was with his kids so i said

leave and i'llexplain it . iwant to thank greg for joining us . when the whole person care was on federal grant funding, when that ended in i think 2024 2031, when they apply for the last round of money from one person care, they applied for more money than they received but anticipating, in anticipation they budgeted it as if they were goingto receive a map and then when doing intergovernmental switch . so because they never received the money and stop the federal funding for whole person care programs, they still have an appropriate in their budgets a transfer is over two safai so there wasn't a reduction of services or work in one person care.and unfortunately the federal government stupidly in myopinion and that program

because it wasn't one of the most effective >> thank you supervisor . i was remiss, somebody did come on to answer that. we forgot to bring them back s thank you . all right. now we will go to public comment on the committee as a whole. >> the board of supervisors will now your public testimony pertaining to the proclamation of local emergency, drug overdoses in the tenderloin and we will first year testimony from president and chamber and then take those 20 us remotely to provideher testimony remotely , you mustbe connected to the remote call in system by dialing the telephone number streaming onyour television, computer screen . when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting id , 24856474435. you will have joined the

meeting, you will hear the discussion and the muted and the listening queue. onceconnected press star three. the system will indicate you have raised your hand . wait until it stays you have been unmuted. that is your cue. let'sstart with any members of the public who are here in the chamber with us . thank you mister washington for seeking it out. >> this has been along interesting read. i've been here since 2:00. it's a little after eight and i get 2 minutes. this is unfortunate for the community or people to talk on this position,particularly about this one. i stay on the 600 block of betty street only there because of my condition . so i stay at 630 any street. i walked outside.

it looks like mexico. all the people on thestreet. it just looks so different . people shooting up, using paper so i say where are the police at? where are thepolice . i've seen two uniformed officers, ladies about that short walking down there by kentucky fried chicken and i say what's going on i've got some suggestions for the police department. i can't give it to you all in one minute but my question is, i out of the 1500 people you served, how many of those people are from san francisco? how many of those people that are using these drugs are from san francisco ? how many of these drugdealers come out of the country are

from san francisco ? back in the days when they had cracked, they got rid of the black dealers. they came in the tenderloin and gotrid of them but now look at it . all these foreigners here selling drugs. they don't speak english . they say what you want? i will give the police the information how to get rid of thepeople on thecorners . all they've got to do is block 2 streets off . what's going on? it's easy solutions to get rid of all those dangers. >> thank you mister washington. let's hear from our next caller please.not caller but member in the chamber. >> caller: thank you for your efforts. i am a product of the cl and i've made it my purpose to dedicate my life to this

community because the community raised me. and i'm also a yemeniamerican . yemeni is undergoing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and every 10 minutes a child dies you to food deprivation and it's a war-torn country and i say all that to say many yemenis have expressed to me they left one war zone in yemen only to come into anothe one in the co . and sf neighborhood being referred to as the war zone is quite ironic because google will tell you sf is the world's best city and clearly it's not a close companion of mine died of a fentanyl overdose . i know many mothers, children that have been spat at physically or verbally abuse walking the streets of the co and as a youngster i went to tenderloin elementary school and walking to school every day i was asked if i wanted to address and soon i was asked if

i wanted to join the drug market and while i declined others accepted which is why it's crucial we start to condemn what is wrong because what is wrong is truly wrong about and it by saying what ml told us. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere going on in the tenderloin is a threat to usall . >> thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next number of the public in the chamber . >> it's good to see you. my name iscurtis bradford and i'm a longtime tenderloin resident . i really wasn't even going to speak tonight because i'm trying to take it all in and get my mind wrapped around everything that's happening. i work in the tenderloin, live in the tenderloin andthis is my

life but what i want to say is okay. here's my point . we should put that same level of energy around emergency initiative into getting mental health sf fully funded and the place. that will help the tenderloin. we need to fully implement all the recommendations ofour city our home and move on that right away with the same emergency initiative . that will help the tenderloin. we should fullyimplement part right now. that will help the tenderloin, that will help all the problems we talked about here tonight. those things will help . those problems. even cart by itself, that frees up officers to focus on drug dealing and violent crime. so that yes, you have cart dealing with other issues and police will tell you they're not equipped to deal with those other issues. they want people like cart in the neighborhood working on those issues so let's get it done. if we really seriousabout

moving on initiative and emergency fashion ,we really admitthere's a crisis in the neighborhood, these are things we can do right away that will make a difference in the tenderloin . please . >> thank you for your comments, and the other members that would like to provide comments , carving in the chamber. mister athens, i understand we have 25 individuals listening and five colors in the queue. if you'reone of 25 and you'd like to provide comments you should press star 3. mister adkins, let's hear from our next caller . >> that evening president walton, i'm policy associate. the tenderloin emergency initiative wasreported to the strategic plan for ending the overdose crisis . if the intention is to truly approach it as an emergency should respond with an evidence-based approach that focuses oncompassion and services rather than coercion

and increased isolation . that approach should involve implementing overdose connection to scale citywide the linkage center created part of the emergency initiative has demonstrated an undeniable need for supervised consumption in san francisco. every day hundreds of people are engaging with the harm reduction services there . people who are both housed and unhoused. this reinforcement of the researchoverwhelmingly shows the promise of supervised consumption . the science behind these interventions is emphatic and they are cost-effective . supervised consumption also provides people with greater access to medical care,social services and substance use treatments along with producing public drug use . there's never been a death fro

overdose or transmission of hiv or hepatitis c at any of the more than 100 orders prevention sites in the world including the two facilities now operating it in your city . if the city commits to supervised consumption the sites will providegreater benefit because they will actually be designed to provide this life-affirming services. thank you . >> mister adkins, let's hear from our nextcaller . >> good evening, can everyone hear me ? thank you madame clerk. first since i spoke before you last understood supervisor ronan's ukrainian friends and family havebeen other atrocious attack . i want to say to my thoughts and prayers with supervisor ronanand her family . i also appreciate you standing with supervisor stephanie to demand real results to end the flood of illegal drugs to san

francisco. what is going on to the entire board of supervisors is an outrage. it is insane we are not focusing on shutting down these this network of illicit drugs going through one of america's greatest cities with some really bad supervisors in charge. we should have transit movement good humans are kind, not illegal drugs and it is past time to declare a state of emergency and allow the san francisco police to hunt down and eliminate this drug network and thosewho are carrying it. i have compassion for people who overcome addiction . especially because i have a new friend who is a state representative who is did 10 years ago. so in conclusion i just want to continue to encourage and support those voices of courage like supervisor stefani and ronen and encourage you to keep fighting the good fight and i

appreciate the hybrid meeting and want to thank the staff and keep them coming tonight. just really encourage you to fight on to save all humanlife . you are special people. thank you for your public service . >> mister athens, do we have another color in the queue. there are 10 colors ready to comments and 26 or listening . welcome, caller. >> my name is jordan davis. i really oppose the continuation of this emergency and want to focus more. there's a state of emergency here in thetenderloin and i live here and i had drug problems in my family . it's bullshit how the city tends to be focusing on morelaw enforcement .

they help create safety because when people are helped they don't make people feel unsafe. furthermore i'm actually originally from new jersey which is a veryvery hot on drug place. lots of harsh sentencing, no seat program . you know what? some of the citiesin new jersey would make the tenderloin looks like child's play . so basically what it means is the harm reduction and fund all this type top on crime rhetori . that's just bullshit. i want to close by saying the reworking of aclassic song. tlc . we know we hate you. we know we hate you. london breathing, london bridge, fuck you and fuck you matt haney.

>> jordan, please do not make comments towardsany pacific person . any public commentor. make your comments to this body as a whole please . >> thank you misterpresident. operations, let's hear from our next speaker please . >> my marcus maine and name is mark nagel. the tenderloin emergency initiative has produced tangible benefits for the residents of the tenderloin and many staff members have indicated themselves to this crisis . at the board of supervisors meeting committee to improve reporting on the tenderloin initiative and revise reporting structure wasreleased there some improvements but the weakness remains . we have no idea if the cities achieving the results residents care about the city has successfully reduced 34 overdoses but as for over all

overdoses have fallen . the city has 394 on housekeeping theshelter but how many people in other neighborhoodsare still on shelf ? the city has seen 16,200 grams of narcotics . asthe city limited open or drug dealing . the city's recording has not answered these questions . here is an even scarier question is the data to show whether the initiative is failing cemented all resources devoted to the it would be helpful for the city to provide a clear explanation of the strategies are being pursued each of the eight goals . during the session was heartening to hear something members of the board of supervisors orimprove metrics on the city . i hopethe board will work with the city . for better data, evaluate progress, provide strategies andhopefully achieve real success with .>> was here from our next caller please.

>> caller: my name is procedural law, and director of community organizing and resonant voice at the tlc beauty and i live in the 10 one since october 2021. the tlc only supports the work that has been done through the emergencydeclaration . while the rapid development coordination of the linkage center is usually successful we would like to see service expanded and turn a more meaningful connection to services for people using the linkage center. we also believe there is improvement needed comes to ensuring the safety of the children and families and small businesses on 10 one emergency declaration focused on public health and the in response the database. for most residents have not changed. the open air market range problematic andthere is no discernible long-term plan or strategy for safety . we look forward to the day families can safely walk their children's school or do their laundry. thank you.

>> let's hear from our next caller, we have six colors lined up tomake comments . welcome, caller . >> caller: evening supervisors. [inaudible] >> sir, can we ask you to turn you downyour television or computer ? >>. [inaudible] >> operations can wego to the next caller please ? >> that evening madame clerk, president walden , board of supervisors. thank you for having this hearing. my name is gilbert criswell. i want to show my support supervisorpreston's line of questioning and supervisor chance line of questioning .

as well as visor peskin's line of questioning. theirquestions have informed the publicon what's going on with the state of emergency . what we need is testing . testing in the marina, testing innorth beach and testing on polk street . people need to know what's in their drugs so pretesting kits to be available citywide so that these people don't do drug overdoses. if they know what's in their drugs, maybe it would prevent the drugoverdose . as part of the transparency, on the drug overdose we didn't hear anything about who whose lives were saved or how many drug overdosesthere were during the state of emergency . we need transparency .this was supposed to be the most transparent state of emergency

and yet there is none. so we need better testing so people don't do drug overdoses. thank you. >> thank youmister criswell. mister atkins, next caller please . >> caller: this is tom wolfe, and the recovery advocate. i'm calling in to voice my disappointment and an incredible missed opportunityat the lincoln center . this is a real chance to promote recovery and treatment options for those bundling with drug addiction and reduce deaths while working to get people off thestreet . instead in the two months since the center of an open two percent of those who have visited have been connected to treatment of that percentage we do not actually know how many enter drug treatments but we know it was less. moses the on thefailed experiment in which those running the center have been

secretive , defensive and ultimately reluctant to provide transparent data outcomes. it is worth noting on the street the linkage center is referred to euphemistically as the smoke clouds i know this is not the message eph or dem or the mayor intended to send that is the message that has been received by people on the street used in addition to meet this problem for term life with organized drug dealers operating in the tenderloin and while much of this for me has been placed on sfp there are a nearly million drugs off the streets. we know there'sorganized drug dealing, we know they are . two thirds of them have previous arrestsyet we still are asking a question or the right people . what prosecutorial outcomes representatives from the das office in superior court this meeting ? whyare they not be asked the tough questions about outcomes . thank you. >> mister atkins, next caller please.

>> can you hear me?>> welcome. >> caller: this islisa strong. you can google my name, you'll find out who i am . i work and i live in the tenderloin and my job is to keeppeople safe . i've worked 33 goalies through the city around 10,000 people and i've been responsible for right now i'm sitting here at my desk looking at cameras and i'm watching 13 drug dealers in front of this building around here every day all day. these same people have been here sinceseptember . the same people have been here. let's that's the facts. the linkage centeris a great idea. i've been homeless, i was in prison . i'm probably one of the best success stories in the city of san francisco google me again why i'm here to tell all of yo , not this will change overnight

you have to stick with it . put your politics to the side and work together. work together. everything will work out but you have to be work for the people of the tenderloin. here them and respect them and you haveto go by their wishes . that's really all it is. it's really simpleit's so simple, thank you . >> thank you for your comments operations, let's hear from our next caller please . >> is green, can you hear me? okay, board of supervisors my name is john wofford and i'm employed at the pharmacy department, inpatient at the san francisco general hospital. i'm currently on approved leave of absence related to a work

injury and disability. i received numerous calls from city workers throughout the city about workers fromseveral unions to include local 21 and 1021 . i'm here as the city worker advocate, as my local union 1021 will notadvocate for these members . some have medical exemptions. some have a hippa position. the city is not allowing exemptions to gain approval and possibly 1000 city workers may lose their jobs april 1. please consider setting aside this current april 1 deadline while the restrictions are on a plan and projected phaseout with mister newsom within june. other companies and organizations are legitimately granting exemptions.

>> i'm pausing for a moment. this meeting is about right drug overdoses in the tenderloin. are you making perhaps general public comment? >> yes i am. >> if you wouldn't mind pressingáthree, that will put you into the queue and we will get back todrug overdoses in the tenderloinhearing . thank you for your patience. mister atkins, do we have another color in the queue . >> this is sarah short, i'm calling from the treatment on-demand coalition and wanted to say i think most of the lessons we learned from the tenderloin plan so far were easily predicted. a lot of us expected these results . so they include the fact that there's simply not enough resources to link people to the

care they need at the linkage center. we seen the center is a great thing for what it is. it's the drop-in center and it's the space for people to get some of their immediate needs met and i'm notknocking that . but it is not, there's no linkage at the linkage center and that's because for this plan to have been successful trulywould have involvedan increase in actual resources . mental health treatment beds , substance use treatment beds, actual housing and also it has met, what's that's meant is that there's been divergent of resources citywide to the tenderloin so even good results we've seen which we've seen some. it's great to know that 65 people got housing but what did

that mean for all the other houseless people on the list and the other thing we learned is the need for a safe consumption site. the center showed us there's a huge demand for a place for people togo and safely use drugs . for people to be in community and have monitoring and be in the space where overdoses can be reversed. 35 overdoses reversed in the last four or so months is a big deal. >> we have about four colors lined up to make their comments, 27 you are listening. if your one of the 27th would like to provide your testimony press star three rightnow otherwise we may take this group to the end .

welcome, caller. let's move on to the next line. welcome, caller. >> leaving supervisors tonight i'm calling for an end to the drug war . we know the outcome of these police actions. we've known it the entire time. it has beenobvious. it has been predictable. it has been predicted . we can see in the tenderloin as we did an increase in violence. an increase in the potency of substances . and as we see an increase in police action, we see a corresponding increase in overdoses. i'm asking the supervisors tonight to read the science and

read the publicpolicy and bring our failed drug war to an end . there is no policy that supports police action as a reasonable means to reduce the availability of drugs . the science is consistent. reliably, this causes exactly theproblems we're seeing on our streets . we've had decades for the war on drugs to have worked. if it was going to have worked. it's not going to work for the tenderloin. we've seen even with renewed focus and renewed brutality has been no decrease in the availability of these substances. this is yet another case study on the fact that the war on drugs reliably causes our society to be less safe. supervisors, follow the scienc . bring an end to this failed war ondrugs. our society .

>> thank you foryour comments. mister atkins, let's hear from our next caller . >> i like to call and support tom wolfe and his comments earlier. we need to get drugs off the street. in addition to using all of the tools in the toolbox to help people get off drugs and stay off drugs and we need to getthe drugs off the streets . thank you . >> mister atkins, next caller. >> caller: in the last five monthsi've not heard homeless women represented here . dignity stripped from her, when she's been raped menstruating has edema from compelled walking or pregnant and needs

to sit down without men with guns or criminalrecords reentering . paid money to mind her data which point she's labeled set. ignoring latin next women when it comes to bias in san francisco housing protocols towards those they can endure the gladiator contest where the winners are able-bodied men and convicts able to jump through hoops and a homeless women cannot compete . the screams forhelp go through the night ignored bypolice and policymakers alike . homeless women are victims of crime . without a criminal record what is their entry system? it's is disabled chemically sensitive or anyone to be married customers compromising access points which increased death and human trafficking. ever since in recent policewoman's giggling voice

obfuscated as she digs into the data, refusing to speak plainly with references to tracking and metrics make it sound like dat mining poor women isn't hunting them such as a rapevictim's own dna was used against her . what about the homeless women's rights ? do not be compelled to fund raise or a man's next campaign as mandatory patron of tax contracts represent homeless women who die from exposure to the elements, represent homeless women whistleblowers are crime victims, represent to me and and invisible homeless women dying in san francisco defended by nuns. >> thank you foryour comments, citizen 22. let's hear from our next caller . all right, perhapsthat's another unintended line . next caller please.>> madam

clerk, the last caller in the queue appears to be an on and unintended line . >> thank you for your comments, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, this hearing is now filed. supervisor peskin. >> given that robust discussion and the number of discussions we had i believe we should say focused on this and i like to refer to item 25 two committee where we can further deliberate there asthe june period approaches . >> seconded by supervisor rone . madam clerk, on the motion. >> on the motion. >> my apologies. >> on sending item 25 to a committee, we don't knowwhich

committee yet . at the committee then they can continue on business with this item for public hearing. so just no longer at as a committee as a whole. >> it need not be this instrument. we can also introduce a reques for a hearing in order to facilitate the same discussion . >> in the event thatwe want to be a committee as a whole again. it could be ? >> for all of you can show up at thesns . >> i just want tounderstand . >> thank you supervisor chan. my apologies madamclerk . >> on the motion to send item 25 to theps and committee .

>>. [roll call vote] >> motion is sent to committee, approvedunanimously madam clerk, we are back at roll call .>> were going to pick it up with supervisor stefani.

>> thank you madam clerk. today i am introducing the resolution to urge president biden to close the deadly dating partner loopholethrough second adoption. although congress passed the violence against women act this week republican senators and the nra made sure the dating partner loopholewas not addressed .for those who don't know, federal law only prohibits convicted domestic abusers have from having a gun if they have childrenwith or are similarly situated to their victim . this dangerously includes dating partners . women in the united states are 20 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in othercountries and each month 70 women in the united states are shot and killed by an intimate partner and many more are shot and wounded . nearly 1 million women in the united stateshave been shot at an intimate partner and approximately 2.7 million women in the united states have been threatened with a gun and intimate partner . access to a gun on domestic violence situation makes it

five times more likely that woman will be killed. men who abuse women go on to kill others as well. we know that's true and at least 53 percent of mass shootings between 2009 and 202 perpetrator has shot at the current or former incident partner or familymember . many of whom were women and children . homicides committed by a dating partner have steadily increased for three decades and now women are as likely to be killed by their partners asby spouses . however, it is promising states that prohibit domestic abusers from possessing guns have seen a 13percent reduction in and partner firearm homiciderates . we know it works . people with dangerous histories must be prohibited from having guns.. president biden has long been a champion for gun violence and domestic violence prevention and i hope you join me in urging him to advance those goals and close the dating partner loophole through executive action and finally i just wanted to wish anearly birthday to our colleague who

has a birthday on st. patrick's day .>> thank you,happy early birthday . president walton. supervisor chan. >> i first want to add my name to the in memoriam that supervisor peskin has introduced for the late small business commissioner and i also want to add myself as a cosponsor to supervisor melgar's other bill, legislation and making it a landmark. today colleagues though i do want to discuss an item that i didn't think i was prepared to talk about. i am introducing a resolution denouncing an anti-asian rhetoricand the use of racial campaign antics . i appreciate all your support in the past to denounce acts of hate and violencetowards the api community . during the pandemic we have seen these incidences skyrocket

and sparked by the trump administration and have continued to fuel by racist rhetoric imagery and tactics. one yearago , on march 16 and asian american six of whom were women were tragically targeted as victims of a mass shooting at a spa. so today we know that chinese-americans continue to report the most ate incidents of all ethnic groups at 42.8 percent followed by korean americans at 16.1 percent, filipino americans at 8.9 percent, japanese americans at 8.2 percent. and that vietnamese americans at the present with women making up 61.8 percent of all reports.

so last week ati counsel with a number of api leaders and organizers held an event denouncing beautiful imagery. and i do want to share with you about some of the imagery and some of these attacks, especially with the proliferationof social media . these attacks are too easy to switch. i have my predecessor have found these attacks personally and with this resolution we will input the file ofthis imagery . this image where it shows myself and former supervisor sandra lee fewer, it really is imagery and it pains me greatly to share with you some of the comments made allowing these type of imagery and things like

these are specifically in response to me, things like what is your salary from china, to push communist socialist ideology in california. mind you i was born in hong kong and now a uscitizen . and other comments like my experience is don't leave women who don't marry or even don't date with males in their ethnic group. or, four, and comments online that you see. she is chinese ccp asset. san francisco has been compromised. lock her up. and while these comments that i