and welcome to the victoria's house or beautiful community in san francisco. we will like to welcome our am mayor london bride. supervisors and department of public health. thank you for joining us all. y victoria's house an arc dull residential community is supportive environment for clients that need assistance dealing with mental health and coping scythes. offer a process that delivers services, life skills and social programming supporting daily

living, medication management, moles and housing. >> our all inclusive on site services provide a step down solution from arc cute setting for clients to be self sufficient in this beautiful city of san francisco. when they reenter the outer community or community can be a solution or client's forever home. i'm asked why we name today victoria's house. i met a client victoria transitioning at that time. she identified as a woman most of her life and was unfortunately mistreated by the system. her decision maker did not understand and did not approve of her transsxigz not allow her care to continue. out dated community care licensing regulations housed her with a male roommate. when i lynched her story i learned how the system failed her, i said there will never be again a tragic situation and we

will provide a community where everybody will be welcome and treated with dignity and respect. [applause] >> our team is proud to be providing residential care and supportive services in san francisco residents. we would like to thank mayor london breed for her leadership, thank you. [applause] as well as all the support she provide not only to our project but all of the new mental health services provided for resident in san francisco. also big thank you to governor newsome for recognizing they need to help with mental illness and funding needed now jc my partner in this project. >> i'm sorry i would like it introduce john. then jc. good morning, thank you for being here. i like to i had a chance to

reflect on our journey from the day we saw this property and tour to today with the beautiful facility. we would not be here today if the board did not pass the controls and legislation which protected board and care facilities. the protections made it difficult or impossible for developer to purchase board and care and change the use to something else. this legislation was introduced by supervisor mandelman who is here today and supervisor ronnin. mental health and homeless issues the top of their priorities. without the protections, we would be standing next to 2 single family homes or market rate condos instead of 46 rehab beds for the vulnerable. we would not be here without mayor breed willing to tackle the big issues. the city's funding of mental health and homeless issues.

you got a tough job. and the mir's office was helpful in getting this over the finish line. i spoke to the governor about 10 days ago talked about the 225 bed facility in san pablo in 2021 the 46 facility here and 150 bed facility in southern california. i thanked him for the care courts and the state pundz funding directored to the issues. however, for most of the efforts to be successful, we need more rehab beds like the ones we are opening today in the continuum of care. these beds familiar general beds likely allow sf general and other acute settings to open beds to get more people off the streets and into care. and the [inaudible] we strife to provide would be an excellent stop for a person headed to but not yet ready for permanent spicht housing. this is where private/public

partner ships with make a change we look forward to the continued work with the mayor's office and the state of california to make lives better. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, john and beny. thank you mayor and supervisor mandelman. a bit of background we are excited provide the frisk beds. the 46 bed facility with service john and betty referred to. we acquire third degree property over 2 years ago in january of 2020 before the pandemic. it was a neglected former boarding care vacant before we bought it. the likely aisle was condos or high end housing. we saw the potential to rehab in a high quality facility for san francisco's most vulnerable. the challenge was preserved the buildings historical vicktoryian

quality and delivering a new facility inside. i want to thank our inhouse team and open scope and mark, danny who are here. our construction partners it u. and [inaudible] financial support as our lendser. they stepped up to support construction loan in the earth months in the pandemic when many banks had with drawn from the market. we have a license in hand and yesterday our final other certificate of occupancy. thank you, everybody. [applause]. thank you we would like to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] >> there are a lot of folk who is know that i was born and raise in the san francisco and my grand mother raised me. i grew up in the house with my

grand mother's daughter who are had a disability and constantly struggle when my grand mother developed dement why and someone needed to care for my aunt it was challenging dealing with the system. fortunately, for my aunt she had family. people this supported her because, trust me, had she not had us looking out for her she would be on the streets. not able to take care of herself. and in fact, what i appreciate most about the w this we are doing now is that provides an opportunity for to yous support a community that may not have relatives or support to help a system with being able to live a productive life. i appreciate so many of the great organizations in san francisco i worked with over the years. but also we know it takes a village. when i became a member of the board of supervisors, we had a

number of the individuals in our community. there was a gentlemen who i was very familiar with his family and than i watched their father decline significant low to the point where they struggled. and i tried assist them in getting a bit of conservership for their family member, it was a long process. a struggle. sadly t did in the help and unfortunately, their father passed away and died on the streets alone. them should in the happen in a place like san francisco. i other than that there are a lot of people who believe in you know just people having the rights to decide what they want to do with their lives but this is complicated. there are people who can't necessarily, i will tell you from experience about my aunt, can't even decide how to pay her rent. and to figure out the basic

things when she needs to buy. i would sends her to the store to pick up things, yes, then she would spends the money on things she was not supposed to. it was a constant struggle trying to take care of her. it is so much more complicated. when i became mayor, it was important to me that we look at mental health and start to talk about it like we do any other challenge. and we look at our portfolio and behavioral health beds. what will happen is someone in the past before the street crisis response team someone get a 911 call. there was someone going in and out of traffic. taking the general and released walking around weapon no help or support and people wonder. what are we doing wrong. why are we not transitioning them to a place so they can live

a product of lifelike everyone else. we added more besd. we reached 2, 200 beds in 2019 and made a commitment to add 400 more in our portfolio a 20% increase we identified the challenges and needs are and how we can provide these opportunity for people who are struggling. we appreciate so much partners like a & arc health service because we can't do this work alone. we need partner and need people who will make this place a home. so that when someone who is may be provide service through our street crisis sponse team they ends up at general, they may end up at hummingbird but what is next. this is next. this gives stability. gives support to people who need support. and it helps to map out hat next

stage s. is it programs like golden gate regional. like the art. is it programs that help them to sustain their lives with dignity sne i appreciate being here and in fact, this is one of the most beautiful behavioral health homes i have seen in san francisco. so, i know that the people here are going to appreciate that. and they will appreciate also not only where they live and how beautiful it is but that they are treated with respectful you know this they are able to maintain their dignity so we can help get them to the next level this long with the other great things we are trying to do in san francisco, are going to be a game changer. again, we thank you for being here and thank a & a health services and the department of public health and behavioral health team for all the w they have done and will continue to do to make sure that we are not

leaving people out on the street in crisis and giving them the care and support they need. thank you so much. [applause]. next we would like to welcome doctor colfax from department of public health, please. >> good morning and thank you, everybody i say when i was driving here and parkoth street i thought, well, not sure where the bodiesing is it looks like the realtors have an open house. this is just a beautiful spot in an incredible environment. we know from the science that the requirement the physical environment in which people live during their journey of heeling really makes a difference. realliment to thank our partner who is helped spearhead this project. mayor breed thank you for your

leadership and supervisor mandelman thank you for being here with us today. i wanted to thank a & arc health services. this was something differents for the health department to do this partnership really is promising for more working together with you and others on a private partnerships in the future. i thank the dth behavioral health team in the back. lewis, thank you for your leadership and work in this and our behavioral healing director comings is here today. these new beds will increase our capacity to provide on going medical treatment for people throughout the city. and as the mayor mentioned, we are making progress in the commitment to adding 400 new beds. and with this newarkdition, we are 2 thirds of the way there. and in fact, we obviously, got

delayed a bit bite pandemic but in 2021, we added 89 new beds alone. and we anticipate adding additionaling 90 new bedos line soon with 70 new bed this is month alone in august of 2022. great progress there this issan a model of care not only a way of figuring out how to get this done on the ground but [inaudible] and it it is this type of state of the art facility allows us to meet people where they are and new way and addressing the challenges that so many people have on their journey to recovery. this is a part of the system that we are building the system of behavioral health care. from the acute needs of people to stabilizing them to the journey of independent living and having the resources available for people thshg is a

chronic relapsing cannot resources available to meet people where they are treatment on demand and ensuring people get when they need when they need it and the appropriate level but it is also the appropriate environment. and this environment here today is so exciting for us to see 46 more beds. i'm thrilled. thank you again for having us here today. thank you for the partnership and with that i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, doctor colfax. and to all the folkos your team the department of public healing thank you for your work every day. thank you mir for your commitment getting folks indoors with behavioral health needs and addictions. she struggled with mental

illness and electric therapy and every treatment known and never really stabilized she needed to be in place like this for this time. i fear that if she had been in san francisco in 2022, she might not have been in a place and have been out on the sidewalk. it is person for a lot of us. i know like once you have the conversations with people this is in the an unusual experience. and i then and there some folks involved with a & a have personal experience this drives them. and you know i think that it is a critical need in san francisco's critical need today. you know the backgrounds we lost 500 board and care beds the last dvenlgdz 50 facilities the market has not been helping us. and the same time, we have tremendous human needs and really fundsamentally we need better responses on the street and appropriate for accomplices

for people to land you know when we engage with them on the street. we want more of those to lead to coming off of the sidewalk and insdpoors can't do that without facilities like this. i'm optimist thick is a great morning i'm optimistic about san francisco and want to thank jc and john and betty for having the vision and for you know i love our nonprofit partners they are critical to us. we need all hand's on deck. having a player that is interested and figuring out whether they can move from the elevator care space to this space and take care of the nonelderly adult who is need help is exciting and it was a joy to which tour the facility and a joy to help in the little legislative ways we can. i hope this works limp i hope you are down for doing more. thanks, everybody. [applause] sdwroo okay.

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as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for

about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it

back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it

okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot

of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric.

families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also.

that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists has responded so that call is

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good morning and welcome to the august 8ed, 22 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i want to thank everyone for being in attendance. this morning. we have supervisors here in the chamber and remote and again, this is a very important meeting i want to thank you for coming together during recess. mr. clerk, will you call roll >> yes. supervisor chan. >> present. >> supervisor dorsey. >>