-- regarding public works capacity. i had a conversation today regarding, you know, where we are with deputy director of operations and there is a need for some funding regarding additional equipment and staff for some of these initiatives. we're kind of stretching our budget funding because we haven't had increases. all these initiatives that are being proposed right now. i just wanted to share that and respond to that. i really appreciate you bringing that up. that's a tight spot for public works. >> chair ronen: thank you. thank you, yes, definitely going to be something we're going to laser-focus on during the budget process. so thanks for coming out and speaking.

and then, commander moran, i know you wanted to make a comment. >> good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you for having us as part of the conversation today. and chair ronen, thank you especially. i know you're a driving force in this succeeding. i wanted to bring forth lieutenant the officer in charge of the c.i.t. unit and he is the expert and he's going to speak to some of the things spoken to briefly. >> good afternoon, everyone. chair ronen, supervisor safai, supervisor walton, supervisor chan -- director carroll, thank you for having the police department here to speak a few

minutes about what is actually going on with the police department and mental health calls. i hear a lot about calls for service, but in order to understand what actually happens on the street, i think i have to give you a little perspective of what the police department has been doing for the last four years. so, if i may -- i'm sorry. can you hear me? okay. so historically, in 2018, the san francisco police department responded to 50,612 calls of people in crisis. 23,000 were specific to a person in crisis. that includes 800, 801, a person attempted suicide, 806, person

out of control. 5150, mental health and that's when someone will call dispatch and say i have my client in my office, i'm going to 5150 the person, can you send the police department? so of those calls in 2018, they were included in the 800s. with a -- in 2019, the police department responded to 50,840 calls. crisis calls 21,860. 800 calls which is the crisis calls, 16,542. there was 28,980 check on well-being. in 2020, there was a total of 49,578 cause. crisis calls in both 20,950. 800, which is the topic of this

discussion, 16,451. check on the well-being, 28,628. in 2021, i'll stop there. the calls were 47,442. crisis calls were 19830. 800 calls 15,337. and check on the well-being, 27,412 calls. as you can see, it's been consistent. the difference is about a thousand to two thousand calls. what we notice in the police department, i want to thank the fire department for keeping track of the calls. we definitely want to support them. we want all the programs to succeed, because this should be other teams responding to these calls. not just the police department. so i just wanted to make sure that you understand that. that's our goal. and the chief's goals when it comes to people in mental health

crisis. the only difference that i see, at least from the police department perspective is 2,336 calls from the year before to this year. so i'm here to support whatever program the city is implementing, but we want to be part of the conversation, because we've been in the game, we've been playing the game and we have the structure to deal with the situations. it's important that the police department has a voice in how this infrastructure that we're building now for a better future, especially for people that are afflicted by mental health in the city and county of san francisco, it's very important. there is 1 in 4 families affected by mental health. and a lot has been said about trauma-informed responding for different teams. the san francisco police department invests over 80 hours on mental health training for

our officers. and they also are -- [indiscernible] -- and the way they respond to these calls, it has changed the culture of the san francisco police department. last year we went to 47,000 health-related incidents. we only used force in 44 incidents. we went to 47,242 mental health incidents. force used in only 44. so we didn't use force in 99.4%. of the -- of the calls for service. and those calls involved suicide that obviously we have to stop from hurting themselves. officers were armed and we have to take certain precautions for their safety, the safety of the public and safety of the officers. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. >> i just wanted to make those points and make sure that everyone knows work that sfpd

has done. >> chair ronen: absolutely. we were reading the same statistics that the chief had written back to me. and i appreciate your comments, lieutenant, because i think, you know, it's a good wrap-up to this meeting in that we all agree that police should not be the primary first responders to incidents of people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder or just not having a place to live. and, unfortunately, not only here in san francisco, but all over the country the system has been set up where police have been the primary first responders. and i'm so proud of us as a city, all of us, for really trying to move in a different direction and i -- i know that

we've started that work, you know, for a long time here in san francisco, but we're ramping it up to a large systemic transfer of work from the police department, the fire department and the health department. and it's a heavy-lift. and it's one that i really truly believe we can be successful at. but we need to -- we need to have that shift in numbers and we need to see the difference on the streets. and i will just stand by also saying i know we're going to have a hearing on cart, which is the community led response which has not been implemented yet, but i believe, you know, for some of the priority c calls in these areas, we can shift that work from the police department to community. so i really do believe we can make a big difference in this

area. and that will ultimately make a big difference in people's health. and in what the conditions that people witness in the streets. so, i want to thank you, all, again collectively for your extraordinary work and we'll keep moving. hopefully in the right direction. and with that, i would like to -- >> thank you, supervisor. >> chair ronen: thank you, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair in case we need to bring it back at any time to this committee. if we can have a roll call vote on that motion. >> yes. roll call vote to motion this call of the chair. >> continue this item to the call of the chair. >> on that motion, vice chair safai? >> commissioner safai: aye.

mar absent. >> commissioner chan: aye. >> commissioner walton: aye. >> commissioner ronen: aye. >> motion passes. >> thank you so much. and is there any other items on the agenda? >> that completes our business. the meeting is adjourned.

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that.

it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will

take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here

and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most

often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can

chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular.

they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis.

>> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]

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.

i worked on the it for 16+ years and i workeded an endless cycle of people going to the emergency room. i wanted to address those unmet needs. i have a satisfaction when we make a real difference in our

clients' lives. we were getting people housed, connecting them to treatment, and seeing them through sobriety. don't be afraid of failure. i have failed at things in my career and they are opportunities to continue on. it's important for women and women and people of color to see representation matters. when i first started my career 25 years ago, there were not that many other women. so it is amazing to respond to meetings and go to meetings and see other female leaders and learn from each other. this career is my dream job from working on [ indiscernible ] to being the chief and overseeing a division. it's been challenging and rewarding and inspiring.

>> ♪♪ ♪♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. >> so first, we actually find a

table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to move through the process. >> i would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually

open a restaurant. >> i don't know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. and, you know, even taking out the track simple things there's a learning curve >> with once we're here they are helpful. >> it's an award-winning program. >> we're prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address beverage program and . >> like the oscars (laughter). >> the professional world. >> tell me about the future food. >> all the sb national leases are xooirz and we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what your passengers want. >> well, i look forward to the future

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