my name is [indiscernible] i wanted to urge you to vote yes. currently, there are no mechanisms in place to prevent abuse or to model good behavior, to model appropriate communications. that's why this is desperately needed. i lived in an encampment near sixth and market street for about 1.5 years, and we self-organized during the pandemic as we were kind of left alone. and due to the abuses and unethical of [indiscernible] of the sfpd, i threatened to sue the city, and we settled out of court for $10,000. that's how bad their behavior was, how appalling it was, so we desperately need this system in place. even though people aren't guaranteed shelter, they need to be able to appeal these

decisions when they're in these situations, and these are my values, and these are san francisco values, and thank you so much. >> my name is christian. i'm a formerly homeless person, and i was also homeless in the castro for about 1.5 years. i also was in the shelter for a minute and was kicked out of a shelter. i'm a covid -- sorry. i'm a concussion survivor, and when i was there, they put me in a bunk bed, and i couldn't really do that. so i left and decided i would come back the next day and renegotiate my sleeping quarters at the shelter, and i was told that i had abandoned my bed, and i couldn't be at that shelter. at the time, the shelter waiting list was 90 days, and i

had already waited, so it was pretty brutal. i'm a person who believes that shelters are a solution to homelessness. i don't really believe in shelters, i believe we should be housing people, but i believe that shelter people should have due process. i'm kind of horrified to learn that this policy was let go during covid. i want to say that i support it, and i'm also against any amendments that would undermine this policy. thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is ben, and i'm one of the shelter client advocates. i work for the eviction defense collaborative, and we are

tasked with representing residents who are denied services from shelters. over the last 30 years, this policy has become known as best practice when having to resolve disputes between residents and residents, shelters and residents, and so on. and over the past 30 years, you know, the providers have utilized this policy and to great effectiveness. and during the pandemic, the grievance policy was suspended and was replaced by a shifting short of sand of various appeals processes and so on, and it hasn't made resolving these disputes any more effective. in fact, i would say it's become less effective, less cost effective, and no good, and so i am asking that you

approve or send this to the full board for a vote because i think it's important that we protect the rights of people who live in shelters and let them know that their due process is not conditional. i want to also just say that living in shelter is an incredibly hard and complicated thing. there's lots of different sites and lots of different rules, and being a provider in a shelter is an incredibly hard job, and this policy gives them a tool to use to guide their actions when they are dealing with difficult situations, so thank you, and i appreciate your time. >> hello. my name is uvaldo espinoza, and

i am also a shelter advocate. i came on board during the pandemic, because as my colleague said here, it was very difficult for me to understand why the shelter appeals process was on pause. it was there, but it was on pause during the pandemic, which was confusing. the process used to be under the human services commission, but it ended up going into the new department. the policy must be written into administrative code to protect it, so i'm just here to urge be

-- urge you all to vote yes on this legislation. thank you. >> hello. good morning. good morning, everyone. my name is tyler, long time resident of san francisco. i wanted to thank president walton for sponsoring this legislation, all the cosponsors of this legislation. i think it's incredibly important, and i would urge you to adopt this ordinance. you know, we're not reinventing the wheel here. this has been the policy for 30 years. it is tried and true. the outcomes that we see in the shelter system when the shelter grievance policy is applied is that more people remain in the

shelter. this is a policy that was developed through the shelter grievance policy group and others. yes, it is a policy that exists under h.s.h., but an individual doesn't really have rights if it's unilaterally revokable, so due process, the right of an individual to be treated with dignity cannot be revoked if it is to have actual real meaning, right? so due process is a process that enables someone to be treated with dignity. that's what we're talking

about, human beings being treated with dignity, and i think it's incredibly important that it be put into the administrative code so that we can recognize the humanity of everybody in our city. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. seeing the end of the in-person speakings, we are now checking to see if we have any remote attendees who would like to speak. if you have not already done so, please press star, three, and wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. it looks like we have approximately 11 people on the line for remote public comment. can we have our first remote public commenter, please. can we have our first public

commenter via remote? [speaking spanish language]

>> my name is marcella, and i am asking that you give this to people as a fundamental right in shelters. as a mother of three, i have been in homes and homes where it has been inadequate to stay with my children. so i am asking that you allow this to stay and have this. when this was under the human rights, it was better, because now we're having problems with it, so i would like you to keep this. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we hear from the next

caller, please? >> good morning. my name is jordan davis. my pronouns are she and her, and i support the shelter grievance policy being codified into law. i am formerly homeless myself. i have been a big, like, fan of supportive housing. i support what the previous speaker said, that shelters are not a solution, and i'm not a fan of shelters, but the fact is shelters are here, and until we get rid of all the shelters, we need to have a fair grievance policy. this is a fair grievance policy. it's been around 30 years, and we need to codify it. lastly, i don't want to see any

fucking amendments fucking in there. pass a clean bill, don't fuck around with the process or else you'll be hearing from the people soon. thank you, and i yield my time. >> clerk: thank you. can we hear from the next caller, please. >> good morning, supervisors preston, chan, and mandelman, my name is terry bora, and i am the chair of the shelter grievance advisory committee. i urge you to pass this legislation. for over 30 years, we have had a fair transparent process to address denial of service from shelters, and as you have heard, it is now necessary to codify this process. thousands of unhoused people are affected by this

legislation. we must protect and respect the rights of people in shelters. thank you, president walton and supervisors. please vote yes. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we hear from the next caller, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is eliana [indiscernible], and i am the policy director for g.l.i.d.e. prior to the pandemic, shelter residents were able to be heard in a fair and transparent process if they were issued a denial of service. during the pandemic, this right was revoked. this has directly led to the distressing reality that many shelter in place hotel guests,

some of the most vulnerable people, lost their only shelter. to make matters worse, they found themselves on the street with no way to easily access shelter because the city ended the shelter appeal process when the pandemic started. please support the codification

of shelter rights and support this policy. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> hi. my name is [indiscernible] our mission is to provide affordable housing and help our residents achieve self-sufficiency. our community in the tenderloin bears the name sake of the incredible community leader who originally pushed for appeals in shelter housing years ago. shelter accountability means recognizing the rights of adult decision making and the dignity of being treated respectfully

and we strongly urge you to support this and codify this legislation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please? >> good morning, everyone. my name is alejandro luna, and i am with the [indiscernible] i worked with the shelter system and homeless population for almost 13 years now, and i will urge the committee to vote yes on this legislation. i can tell you that this

improves safety tremendously, as well, and it opens up mediation and support around resources that our clients might need. i can tell you when these rights were taken away in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, we saw a high number of safety concerns. there was chaos, frustration, there was anger among the homeless population, and a big reason is because they didn't have a fair process to hear their side or to save their side when they were being put out on the street for a policy violation. as it was stated earlier, i do agree that this is the best practice, and it will ensure we are working together collaboratively not only with client advocates but our guests, as well. this is not only the way to go

about it but to earn respect. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next speaker, please. >> hi. this is kristen evans with the coalition on homeless. the ordinance was removed at the time when it was needed most. we've seen new providers, providers struggling with new facilities, and the culture of creating systems and processes for a stable, warm, and supportive environment were just totally absent. it was total chaos. we had examples of people who ended up having basic needs, like access to milk, denied if

they didn't, you know, comply with some arbitrary rules that one staffer made up. the deed for these rules for the due process is so, so very necessary, so clear, especially when people are being placed in these shelters for extended periods of time. i hope the senior citizen who was not eligible for the s.i.p. hotel who was not eligible for a navigation center, she got covid, and she had constant challenges communicating with a rotating cast of staff members. it was absolutely

heartbreaking, so we need this legislation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next speaker, please. [speaking spanish language]

>> clerk: thank you. miss villemar, would you like to provide translation on that comment? >> interpreter: good morning. i am urging everyone to vote yes on this. my name is elizabeth, and i have been twice in a shelter. shelter personnel break rules, as well, and how can we speak up? we have no resources to speak up and say how we have been treated. we don't need families on the streets anymore. these shelters should be a safe place for families and people to be. we must have more compassion, we must have more empathy for

our fellow citizens. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> good morning, supervisors. hi, my name is leatine collins, and everybody calls me miss tina, and i'm calling on everybody to vote yes on the shelter grievance process. [please stand by]

>> -- or people returning to me and i return to the homeless coalition. so i urge the committee to vote yes. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller. >> caller: hello, how you doing? my name is rose johnson. and i was homeless for 10 years prior to becoming a shelter

client advocate. i just kind of want to chime in, you know, that the board of supervisors vote yes on this critical legislation. i have experienced firsthand living in shelter and historically we just don't hold that much power in shelter. but, you know, having the grievance policy in effect, you know, i do believe that it's creating a power balance. and the shelter policy, it has due process, right, and we do see more positive outcomes to the lives of shelter guests and to shelter staff alike. i just want to kind of say in the three decade long policy was mobilized like really on in the pandemic, we had to turn around so many houseless residents away. and not because we wanted to, but because the city took away such a valuable resource, you know, from under our noses and left these people with absolutely nothing.

you know, they were forced to have to revisit the streets without being able to access, you know, a resource they have been able to use, again, for three decades. so, yeah, i just really urge that the board of supervisors vote yes on this, because this is a protection that like we can't lose again. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hello, good morning. my name is megan fallon and i'm calling on behalf of five key schools and programs and i'm calling on the committee to vote yes on the legislation. i have worked in navigation centers and shelters in san francisco for the last six years. folk comes into shelter with all different needs, struggles and barriers to getting them in care and ultimately housing. the shelter grievance policy is critical to provide due process for shelters to follow, to make

sure that our unhoused neighbors are treated fairly and humanely their stories and experiences deserve to be heard. there are numerous reasons why denials of service happen, mostly for safety reasons. however, the guests need a space to be able to challenge the decision made by the shelter and to have people to advocate for them. i have worked closely with the advocate program and i can't express how vital this is for our shelters. all systems need checks and balances. i have experienced many second chances in my life, which i imagine that most of us have here as well, and folks living in shelter deserve that same kindness. thanks. >> clerk: thank you. can we have our next caller, please. >> caller: hi, everyone, i am with the community services. i'm here calling to support the shelter grievance policy. as a shelter provider it has

provided us with the ability to have good conversations with clients and practice justice, and also to be able to build community with clients and the staff, with the shelter advocates. i think that it has worked for a long time and it's really disheartening seeing the situation that is currently occurring, and where folks are not able to advocate for themselves or even knowing how to advocate for themselves. so, again, i'm for this, and i have mentioned that he is resting in power and he's ruling from his grave right now for all of the things that have happened. thank you for your kindness. >> clerk: thank you. i'd just let the audience know that we're down to our last few callers and you if have you not done so, press star, 3, to be

added to the queue to speak. can we have our next caller, please. >> caller: good morning. my name is samania, and i am voting to vote yes on the legislation. the shelter grievance policy is a critical piece of protecting the rights of people staying in our city shelters and for resolution of disputes between shelters and residents and shelter providers. i myself have experienced homelessness since i was about 17. it wasn't until about 10 years ago that i was able to have permanent housing. so i do ask that you guys please vote yes on the policy. the shelter grievance policy has been in effect for about 30 years. and it is a procedure that says that the public's interest to ensure that all sides are heard,

that people's rights are respected, and to reduce the number of people living in the streets. we don't want anymore families being homeless. please vote yes. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have our next caller. >> caller: hello, my name is mary mckeever and i'm a public interest attorney who served as the interim managing attorney for the eviction defense collaborative shelter -- shelter advocacy project. and i was serving as the managing attorney during the time that the shelter grievance policy was essentially pushed to the side. it was shocking to see that happen. it was shocking to see that the city that believes in fairness and due process decided to no longer institute those rules. and for that reason i think that it is imperative that you please vote in favor of the shelter grievance policy.

it provides due process, it provides fairness, it ensures that homeless folks are treated fairly. and it exemplifies what we all believe in in san francisco and what we expect our city to do in terms of working with people in great need. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that was the last caller in the queue. mr. chair, that completes both queues of public commenters. >> thank you, mr. clerk and seeing no other members to comment on this item, public comment is now closed. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair preston, and thank you president walton, for your work on this legislation. i am not prepared to vote for this today. it is clearly well intentioned and i appreciate the spirit behind it.

i am not sure that it makes sense to codify this policy. and i'm not sure that it makes sense to codify this policy by ordinance in the way that this -- that this proposal does as i understand it, and many folks have spoken to this today, our shelter grievance policy is a long-standing policy in our shelters going back to 1992. i have heard that it goes far beyond what any other communities do with their shelter system, and there are some who say -- and i don't know if this is true -- that it exemplifies san francisco's ability to overrepresent, and to have exorbitant costs and inefficient results. many folks have pointed to the pandemic as evidence for the need for this policy. i guess that my question is -- and i don't know if it's a

question -- i would imagine that in future emergencies this policy might need to be suspended again. and i think that it is noteworthy that the city was able to stand up so much shelters so quickly, and i think that it's worth looking at how the city did that as we try to figure out how to do a better job of meeting the shelter needs of our unhoused, unsheltered residents. from my perspective, it is catastrophic for an individual to lose a spot in a shelter, but it is catastrophic for hundreds, maybe thousands, of folks who remain on our sidewalks in our public spaces right now that we don't have shelter to offer them in the first place. and so my priority is as i have made clear in lots of ways is to get anyone currently living outdoors on our streets into something safer if they're willing and able to come.

we know that those experiencing unsheltered homelessness suffer three times the mortality rate of those living in our shelters. and many of them have to wait years and years, getting sicker and sicker, before they finally get the permanent supportive housing that we have been talking about for decades. and while i agree that consistent grievance procedures make sense, i fear that this legislation is unnecessary and redundant, or worse, that it actually could make it harder to stand up the new shelter placements that we would need to stand up if we were going to move those hundreds or perhaps thousands of folks indoors. so those are my -- those are my concerns. i think -- i'm not saying that the current shelter grievance policy is a bad thing and it may be a very, very good thing, but

i'm not ready to codify it into law and i'm not ready as i said to do it with the changes proposed here. >> supervisor preston: thank you, supervisor mandelman. chair walton. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor mandelman. it's puzzling how we could violate someone's due process at any given time. and that's exactly what is happening during the pandemic. there should never be a gap in due process. never. and speaking as a supervisor with three navigation centers and a vehicle triage center, a safe sleeping site, r.v. site, who is doing everything that he can to make sure that folks are not having to live on the streets, working very hard to build the maximum amount of affordable housing possible on every project, i just don't

understand how anyone could be against this common sense policy. the data that was discussed in terms of even how many people ended up on the streets during the pandemic as a result of something as well intended and most certainly necessary as our shelter-in-place hotels, that should be something that also gets people to understand the importance of the due process. and i'm not saying those 500 people were kicked out of shelter issue but i am saying that we need to do everything that we can to make sure that folks' rights are not violated, particularly our most vulnerable population. so i just want to say to my colleagues and most definitely to the public that it is never okay to violate anyone's right to due process. it is always appropriate. and most certainly this policy does not slow down our ability to create emergency shelters, slow down our ability to keep

people sheltered, and to make anyone's life harder. what it does do is guarantee that we provide an opportunity for someone who may be in a position where they may end up on the street to have their day in court, just like all of us in any situation. and so, again, colleagues, i hope that this is something that you support. we have a wide range of support from shelter providers who are experts, from folks in the field and advocates who are experts, from everyone who understands how devastating being homeless can be, and, most certainly i 100% agree that we need to do everything to get people off of our streets. and this does nothing but help us to make sure that we avoid folks being on our streets. so, thank you so much, chair preston and thank to all of the advocates and i appreciate your support on this.

>> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton. vice-chair chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair preston and i want to also thank president walton's leadership on this legislation and i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of this piece of legislation. i think that the legislation itself, i actually agree with chair preston, that it wasn't codified long ago. it should have been all this time. and, frankly, during a time of need, during a pandemic, especially under a present public health crisis, to think of suspending the policy just doesn't actually make any sense in fact, i think that the legislation is well written and it is really spelling out a process for accountability, transparency, that prevent abuse. of any kind. and it is allowing both the people that are serving homeless individuals, as well as the

individuals themselves having an understanding and having a process that they can agree on that is the set process that there's no confusion, and allowing a conversation. i think that far too long of what is happening in our shelter, oftentimes has not been transparent. we cannot get the data that we needed and to set up a good public policies to make sure that we really help problem solve. i think that for one it's always good to have transparency and accountability and it is actually our job to set policies and codify and to make sure that we hold everyone involved accountable. and i say this not just in this setting but literally all settings as to why we're elected, it's a job that we must do. so i'm proud to support it today and it will again, in the event that this made it out of the committee and to the full board

thank you. >> supervisor preston: thank you vice-chair chan. i want to echo some comments from my colleagues, in particular vice-chair chan, your comments about the oversight, the need to have these rules in place and to have transparency around them, we are the government audit and oversight committee and i think we should be welcoming this codification of these rules and the accountability. i do want to say in response to some of the comments that have been made, i bristle at what creeps into so many of these dialogues with somehow an assumption that some level of government regulation and/or oversight is an impediment to us actually providing a good service. i really reject that argument. it sounds to me unfortunately -- and i know that it's not

intended in this way -- it sounds to me very similar to the arguments that we hear from business when they say they can't unionize their workforce because they wouldn't be able to open, sounds to me like every argument that we hear against accountability oversight and due process for whether it's for workers or for folks that are by government programs. personally, i think that deregulation is done a lot more to cause the homelessness crisis than to solve it, and i think that in this situation where we have a set of rules that i think that it is not a dispute that the even-handed enforcement of these rules prevents homelessness. and that's really the bottom line that there are people who are made homeless if these rules are not applied, and these -- and the recourse for appeals not

provided. and we need to make sure that we're extending those kinds of protections in a uniform way across the board to folks who are in any types of shelter in san francisco. i also want to note that i very much appreciate all of the folks who spoke up in public comment. folks who are advocates for people who are unhoused. folks who themselves have been unhoused. folks who are both formerly homeless and now advocates and taken the time to be here. and i also note who we did not hear from. so in sharp contrast to some of the other situations i described, like when you are talking about unionizing a workforce and using union labor, and usually you hear the business folks come in and say we can't do that -- we can't afford this project if we use this labor and argue that. what i didn't hear was a single provider come before this body and say somehow that we cannot open this additional shelter.

we cannot do this if we have the sechelt grievance policy in place. that was not part of the public comment at all. so i think that it's really speculative to suggest that this would interfere with some of the efforts that i know that my colleague is working on to broaden the number of folks who have access to shelter. and i think that if any way that proves to be the case, we certainly can come back and, you know, and look at whether -- and some time in the future -- i don't know that it would happen -- but if some provider said that this was somehow a barrier to them providing shelter, i would question that claim even then because i don't see any way that providing this basic level of due process and codifying that would interfere with providing shelter. and i think that if it does, that says more about problems with the service being provided than it does about these rules. so i'm proud to support this,

and i appreciate your leadership on it, president walton. and we'll conclude my remarks. and i look forward to hopefully sending this to the full board. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: not to take us off into a big -- i actually think that it is unquestionable that additional regulations slows the production of the thing that is being regulated. i think that -- i agree that you and i often agree that that is well worth doing, particularly in cases where a private actor is making money on something and the regulation that we are adding is protecting vulnerable people. i think -- i do look at these questions a little bit differently when we are talking about things that are being provided by government through public workers or through non-profits and i think that there too, whether it is requiring that we only buy products from certain states, o,

adding additional due process rights, the folks that otherwise would not have, or creating appeal rights for neighborhoods around whether shelter should be located in their neighborhoods, there are arguments for each of these regulations, but as we add them and layer them on to the delivery of public goods, we make less of those public goods, in my view. >> supervisor preston: thank you, supervisor mandelman. we will agree to disagree as to how that applies to this ordinance. it will not be the first nor last time that we will respectfully disagree or agree on a policy matter. but i would like to go ahead and to move this item, unless there are further comments and not seeing any on the roster. i would like to move this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, on the motion to recommend the matter [roll call

vote] the motion passes with supervisor mandelman dissenting in committee. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. clerk, the motion passes and thank you, president walton. mr. clerk, call item 2. >> clerk: yes, item 2, signing of petitions for city parcels for formation of the proposed excellsier community benefit additional, with respect to certain parcels of real property owned by the city that would be subject to assessment in said district. members of the public, who wish to provide public comment on this item may line up to speak when we do call for public comment at a later time. and those joining us remotely, please call the contact comment number 1-(415)-655-0001 and i.d.

2488 337 7338 and a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand and wait until we take public comment on this item and when the system indicates that you are un-muted that is your cue to begin your comments. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. clerk. and this item is sponsored by supervisor safai and i believe that we have -- i see bill barnes from supervisor safai's office, and also chris corgis who are both here to speak on this item. >> thank you, chair preston and the members of the committee. bill barnes, chief of staff in supervisor safai's office. we have been working to establish a community benefit district in the excelsior as folks know that community benefit districts allow property owners to assess themselves to

improve the local community and in the excelsior there's three city owned properties and there's one in the 4400 block of mission and another on anadaga that will soon be occupied by a health clinic and an arts business. and as you know that 30% of the property owners must elect to form the district and then there's an election if that threshold is met and we have and the city has a commitment to be part of this. and the estimated cost to the city is about $7,000 across the three properties and so we respectfully request your approval of this resolution and this would authorize the mayor to cast a ballot for the formation. in addition, we'll come back later once the election is being conducted to ask for a vote on

the -- on the election itself, and then chris corgas is here to answer any technical questions that you may have about how the process works. thank you, members. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. barnes. and mr. corgas, do you have a presentation or just available for questions. indicating just available for questions. >> just available for questions, president. >> supervisor preston: colleagues, any questions on this item? vice chair chan. >> commissioner chiu: mr. corgas, because i see that the parcels that include city parcels like the library and dph, so just education for me -- trying to learn about this -- and so how would that work for the city itself to try to collect tax, i guess, or, you know, survey itself, so to speak. >> so in this case, supervisor chan, the city properties are considered like any other

property -- same with the state, and the same with the federal government. if they have properties in there, i believe that the federal government does have properties in there and they typically don't respond. depending on the state entity, if there were state properties in there and they may or may not respond. for the city properties, if this assessment was put on via special election, special assessment bills would be sent to the director of the real estate division under the city administrator's office and sent for appropriate payment. >> supervisor preston: thank you, vice chair chan. and seeing no other questions let's move to public comment on this item. mr. clerk. >> clerk: yes, there do not appear to be any members of the public in the room for public comment. we are -- members of the public who wish -- for those listening remotely please call 1-(415)-655-0001. and enter the meeting i.d. of

2488 337 7338, and then press pound and pound again. once connected you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been un-muted and that will be your cue to begin your comment. at this time we have four listeners but nobody in line to speak. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. clerk. seeing no public comment on this item, the public comment is closed. and can i have a motion to send the item to the full board with positive recommendation? moved by supervisor mandelman. mr. clerk, please call the role >> clerk: on the motion to recommend the matter moved by supervisor mandelman. [roll call vote] the motion passes without objection. >> supervisor preston: and thank you again mr. barnes and

mr. corgas. mr. clerk, any further business before the committee? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor preston: we are adjourned. thank you.

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and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize

the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite

we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few

of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can

you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing.

>> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the

tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse.

>> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a

conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are

pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't

really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for this is the third event we've done this year and the other two, the bristol and the abigail are some of the best in the country. and at a time when people all around the country are complaining about homelessness and saying what are the solutions. we're acquiring permanent supportive housing and that's the only answer because people need housing, they need a roof over their heads and this particular project as i said earlier, tenants from the baldwin hotel will be moving here and they've been in very

tiny rooms on 6th street with no private baths.' this is the first hotel ever acquired by the city that has not only all private baths, but microkitchens in every room. they have microwaves, entire kitchens set up. a giant stove for people who really want to cook right around the corner and this is what i call s.r.o.2.0. this is what we want to see as the future. you know dpock and then cathy. cathy's late husband enrique used to team with d-pock and then they turned it over to the city for us to run. mary's done a great job here. no further adieu. we'll let you speak. [ applause ] >> well, so first of all, let me just say, i want to

acknowledge many of the people who are outside and working in our various places around the tenderloin community from sciu and many of the workers who even during the pandemic still showed up to work. thank you for your service. thank you for supporting the community in this neighborhood despite the challenges of a pandemic. we were able to still push for an expansion of many new hotels and affordable housing and i know it hasn't been easy. and so i hear your request and i am taking them very seriously and i just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the various employees of not just the garland, but many of the supportive service housing locations throughout the city because we couldn't do this work without you. we know this work is important. we know there are people who are getting back on their feet. you know, it could happen to anyone at any given time.

anyone could fall unfortunately victim to challenges around behavioral health, around substance use disorder, around poverty. and the ability to do what we're doing here today is so important. and d-pock, i just want to thank you so much because i feel like we continue to do these great partnerships, but most importantly, i appreciate how much care you take into making sure these places look good for the people that are going to be here. how you've gone out of your way in addition to another location that we've workeded together on and provided even a television in a congregate room where people can come and gather as a community and it means a lot. it's the little things that make a difference and so we appreciate you and your family and your work to help us get san francisco's most vulnerable population housed. and the thing is, we set out in

2018 or 2019 to increase the number of shelters in san francisco and what we set out a goal to do was to add 1,500 new shelters to our portfolio. the fact is we're almost there and i'm really proud and excited. it's the largest expansion of shelter in san francisco in over 20 years, but in addition to shelter, what we've learned from this pandemic is people need their own space. people need their own bathrooms and their own food prep areas. i mean, these are things that many of us are so blessed to have in our lives. things we take for granted every single day when we walk through the doors of our home, it's what other people sadly don't have, the people who unfortunately are sleeping on the sidewalk, are sleeping in tents, are sleeping in some cases in many of our single room occupancy hotels where they have to share a bathroom

and have no control over the whole cleaning situation that occurs in those locations. that's why this place is so important. 80 new units where you have your own space where you have dignity. where you don't have to share your space with people that you may not even know and people that you may not even get along with. that is so important and this is direction that we need to be headed in. now, i know we built navigation centers and a number of other places to provide support for people living on the streets, but i want us as a city to move away from that model. to move towards those small homes, the cabins we just opened at 33 goff. i want us to move towards places like the garland and focus on places that will allow people to live in their own space and live their lives as i

said with dignity. this is so important and we were able to do this because of federal support from h.u.d. because of the state support through project home key and because of the resources we provided in our budget through the city and working with randy shaw and the tenderloin housing clinic and the work that they continue to do to manage these facilities to provide the supportive services, to work with the city and what we have available to make sure that we are not only getting people housed, but we're keeping them housed, and then we're thinking about the challenges that they might face with their mental health or their personal care or just basic hygiene. and let me tell you this quick story because many of you know that i grew up in the city and i remember there was this gentleman who i knew all my

life. and he with the older guys would hang out in this location. and we all lived in plaza east. this was public housing, and, yes, people didn't go there unless they lived there, but we didn't have people sleeping on the sidewalk. everybody had a place to go. and so just imagine you fast forward and this same gentleman who i'm not going to put his business out in the street, but he's sleeping near safeway at webster. and he was homeless we found out for five years. he lost his housing. he had challenges with his social security. he didn't know where to go or what to do because he did accept when plaza east was torn down. he accepted a section eight voucher and he just struggled from that point forward and he was homeless. fast forward, we built the willy b. apartments we used

neighborhood preference and we were able to not only get him housed, but we were able to provide the services to ensure that he stays housed because it wasn't -- he had his social security, but he had trouble in terms of balancing things and making the right decisions because he used to have someone who helped him to do that and he no longer did and that's why he ended up homeless and that is the tragedy. we can't just take for granted everyone knows what to do and how to do it especially in an expensive complex city like san francisco and that's why services are so important and that's why it's so expensive. people are wondering why you're spending so much money and we don't see changes on the streets. john will disagree with you because there's a change in his life right now and it's a blessing. it's a blessing that he is here and our goal is to try and do everything we can in this city

to make sure that people like john and his friends are not ending up on the streets. we have a lot of work to do in this city, but we're also committed to doing everything we can to make sure places like the garland become the norm and not the exception. thank you all for joining us here today as we really celebrate this milestone. so much more work to be done. as you can see with all the folks that are here today, we are committed to that work and we're not going to give up. thank you. >> i want to thank the mayor for acknowledging our workers because one of the problems we have is that this proceeded mayor breed by years is that

the salary levels for the workers in these hotels have not kept up. so all our jobs in the tenderloin housing clinic and all these jobs are in-person jobs, can't work at home. we've got to get the salaries raised in the next budget to make sure we can hire people and staff the hotels. i also want to mention, i was talking to a reporter and they said, well, you know, we have so many homeless people. is 80 units going to make a difference? some people have that attitude, but that's how you solve a problem by doing it building by building and that's what this mayor is doing and the mayor made another great decision when she named her ahead of h.s.h. and ever since shareem's team got in there she made it better. so why don't you give some talk as well. [ applause ] >> so, thank you, randy, and

thanks so much for inviting us today. this is really exciting. and i want to just start by thanking mayor breed for her leadership and i think you can tell from what she just said that this is a deeply personal issue for her and that she cares very much about san franciscans being housed and the garland is exactly what she said. this is the wave of the future for us. it's really nice to be in a building where people have their own bathrooms. where people have kitchens. i got to talk to john a little bit about how exciting it is to be moving in here from the baldwin and he got to see his room this morning which is just amazing and so i'm just very excited. i want to also just welcome you, john, to your new home. yeah. and i also want to thank del semore who is the mayor of the tenderloin. love working with del.

he's also a lead are on our local homeless coordinating board and is just everywhere and he pushes us to be a better department. through his lived experience and his wisdom. i also just want to say this building which is master leased and operated by t.h.c. will have on site staff and critically on site support services for people exiting chronic homelessness. and, yes, we absolutely need to support the work force. the lease of this building is part of the mayor's historic homeless recovery plan and a demonstration of the department of homelessness and the housing mission to make homelessness rare, brief, and one time. currently, there are 1,490 active units and an additional little over a 1,000 extra units in the city's pipeline of new supportive housing. this puts the mayor's recovery plan at 99% of the goal today, but we are on track to reach

170% of our goal by the end of the fiscal year, which is only a few months away. permanent supportive housing such as the garland provides stability and hopefully a path out of homelessness permanently. we believe strongly that housing is a solution to homelessness and this property is the newest home we can provide for the community. i'm going to now turn the event back over to randy shaw and randy will move us into q&a. [ applause ] >> i know the mayor's schedule is tight but do you want to look a room. >> okay.

>> my name is kamal lane, and i've lived in san francisco for 30 -- let's say 31 years. i lived there a year february 29, 2017, my grandma's birthday. the thing that's cured my home is the mayor's office. when my number was called, i was excited because my number was number three. to rent a home in san francisco means that i'm able to be with my family to support me, me to support them. then, the opportunity for my daughter to get a good paying job. my favorite thing of my new home in hunters view is the view of the bay bridge,

oakland, and a piece of the golden gate. it's peaceful and quiet, and they have a lot of activities for families. they have art class, where you can paint, they have trips, where they take the children. we went to a black art museum, we went to a jazz festival, we went ice skating. there's a lot -- they have a lot of activities up here, and that's one thing that i really love about it, i love my bedroom. it's peaceful, it's quiet, where i can think, play, and just have my quiet time. i love my bedroom. this is my home because this is where i live. me and my children, we love in here, we -- just being with my grand kids and loving somewhere and having somewhere is home. we love being together, and

your heart -- wherever your heart is, that makes it home for you. san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area.

[sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier

22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current

tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed

with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate.

>> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

. >> clerk: okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hybrid meeting for thursday, april 14, 2022. we are requesting that those persons in the chamber to distance as much as possible, taking seats possibly in every other row. you must wear a mask while in the chambers, and you must keep it on even when you are speaking. hybrid hearings are going to require all of our attention, and most of all, your patience. if you are not speaking and you've logged in remotely, please mute your microphone. tona