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it is all on you now. these young ladies would like to present you something on behalf of this entire organization. we hope and pray that it will adorn in your office for your next 6 years as the mayor of san francisco. mayor, if you could, please, come up. >> my goodness. why they would like to present to you! your framed jersey the number one sayer of the san francisco brown bombers. give it up for mayor london breed! [applause]. you got it. i don't have any other jerseys or sports framed like this! so tell have to go up in my

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the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based

partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe,

clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.(music). >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to

me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for

us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had

to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by

the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and

everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the >> good morning. meetal meeting will come to order. welcome to the february 2, 2023 of the government audit and oversight committee of san francisco board of

supervisor. i'm supervisor preston the chair joined by our new vice chair and welcome to the committee. supervisor catherine stefani who is remotely with us today on teams, and also supervisor connie chan. the committee clerk is stephanie cabrera and thank our team at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, any announcements; >> the board are convening hybrid meeting. style proiing remote access the board recognizes that equitable public access is essential and will take public comment as follows. first, public comment taken on each item. those joining in person will be allowed to speak firsh then take those waiting on the telephone line. those watching 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgovtv.org the public comment call in number is streaming across the screen.

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supervisors and part of the official file. you may also send the comments to city hall at 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda of february 14 unless otherwise stated. thank you. >> before we call the first item, we have a new gao member, so really do want to welcome you vice chair stefani to the gao committee. i also want to thank supervisor peskin for reappointing me as chair and thank him also for reappointing supervisor chan to the committee as we continue a lot of our work and strengthened by the addition of supervisor stefani so welcome. we will go ahead madam clerk and call item

number 1. >> item 1 is resolution receiving and approving the annual report for great union square business improvement district for fiscal year 2020-2021. members who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001. when prompted enter meeting id, 2 (499) 524-8697 and press pound twice. if you haven't done so please dial star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will indicate you riseed your hand. please raise for the system to indicate you are unmuted and begin your comments. >> thank you madam clerk. for this item, i want to welcome mimi (inaudible) and chris corgas of economic and workforce development and hear first from looks likeplace rocky and then executive director of the union square

alliance. the floor is yours. >> good morning. my name is mimi-a project specialist with oewd and provide oversight to san francisco community benefit district program. today we are covering union square report for fiscal year 2020-2021. (inaudible) two pieces of legislation, the first being the 1994 act also known as california streets and highway code section 36600 and article 15 also known as sf business tax regulation code. oewd is charged insuring all cbd meet the management plan and providing services as out lined

and spending assessment funds accordingly. the findings are detailed in a memo in your pact and summarized in the presentation. this is a overview of the cbd we will be reviewing today. union square alliance is (inaudible) expected to expire by 2029. the benchmark are covered in the slides. benchmark one compares the current year budget to management plan budget. the benchmark 2 confirms the non assessment revenue obligations met. three, the budget to actuals are within 10 percentage points and four is whether the carry forward is identified and if projects have been designated. union square met all 4 bench marks. we have also found that union square continued to identify needs and solutions to bring both local and international visitors to the

area to support local businesses such as forming an economic recovery task force. they have partnered with community city stakeholders to activate and improve public spaces including streets alleys parks and (inaudible) great examples are union square park and holiday plaza. no reported violations of the are brown act within the reporting period and complied with the memo regarding surveillance technology, they have active board and community member jz well positioned to carry on their mission. that ends oewd portion of the presentation. if you have no questions for me or chris i like to invite up marisa to the podium. >> thank you. welcome ms. rodriguez. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors. thanks for having me here chair preston and madam clerk as well and i want to say good morning to the community here

with us. my name is marisa rodriguez the ceo of union square alliance. today we are reporting on a time period 2021 where i wasn't here but joined october 21, but i know great things happening during this time. the business improvement district our mission is to certainly provide best we can a visitor destination and environment that is inclusive and environment that is enjoyable and really supports our city economic vitality. we do that through a number of mechanisms, our largest charge and will speak to that in a bit is clean and safe providing the direct service. we are 27 city blocks (inaudible) work tire ltssly to insure the community feels supported. the assessment methodology during this time period and to this day is

broken down into linear sidewalk frontage, lot square footage, building square footage, type of land use, zone with total assessment budget of 6 million 20. linear frontage is the majority, about 70 percent is what we consider for assessment so primarily the linear frontage and the service area we support through power washing, cleaning. with respect and cleaning and safety service include a 24 hour 7 day a week staff dispatch so we call the member services. we provide support around the clock to our members to address cleaning needs, security issues and any support our members feel they need throughout the night. you can imagine when there are insdantss like the one experienced in november, this came in great

handy. we provide service to the park, union square plaza. we also provide additional security with our camera system and then we also provide legion private security, patrol service. now 24 hours, at that time was overnight and in the later half of the day. we have sf police department community ambassador program started in union square and we provide additional safety and security staffing with our ambassadors. i was given 5 minutes and want to speak more about the pandemic time, so i do have the stats here. i will address a couple of them. if there are question afterwards happy to go into more detail. we collected 385 thousand pounds of trash during that time period. removed 18.634 hazardous waste

units, primarily fecal matter and syringes. graffiti tags (inaudible) quality of life insdants addresses and the private security addressed 8345 incidents. happy to go into more detail. so, during this time, we were still very much deep in the pandemic, and so marketing, engagement, activation in the community became very important. it was a time when our organization rebranded, so you'll see the colors, the flags, the beginning of the slide acknowledges the new color scheme for the bid and new name, union square alliance. the saturday music series in union square started so we offered music and perfomances and consorts for those who could not perform indoors . we had that outside for

all to enjoy and john's grill hosted a number of outdoor activations, ballet and fashion shows so we thank them. embarked on communication strategy trying to engage the community and those accounts have been quite successful. i believe at this time we garnled about 85 thousand followers and continued to communicate and close to hundred thousand fall ers on instagram and that speaks to a destination trying to support the district and not just the district, city wide. street scape, if you recall there was a lot of borded buildings in light of the social unrest happening in the square and a lot of businesses shuttering so we embarked on a mural project and art cock through paint the void and the art walk was something

we engaged community and members and stakeholders and it was a successful opportunity to understand what was expressed through art during that time. we also continued with our flower basket program to continue to beautify the district, despite all the shuttered businesses. and the signage you started to see the flags go up with our branding and other beautification efforts and then repaired the gates at madem lane, we also started the holiday lighting program. you started to see the palm trees lit and when i came on decided that should be year round. adding signage banners, planting and create a transtore area into something people can enjoy and use. the community could use. the advocacy occurred around covid-19 and recovery. we

embark ed with one of the contractors on a economic recovery task force effort. we worked hard to bring back the cable car. that was something really important to the district and supersupporting tourism and maintain that element when a lot of other businesses and other-i guess destination experiences were close . we also launched the sfpd ambassador program and the first location for that program and i mentioned the holiday plaza revitalization and additional work around the economic recovery task force. what we did is purchase lunches and food from local businesses to provide to first responders to keep the businesses going and supportive of the first responders. you see carrying pizza and believe that is the nursing staff in perhaps st. francis hospital. lastly, in april of 21 my

predecessor karen flood retired and a search was conducted. it would be octwhen october when they found me and she stayed until then. i didn't start during this time period but that happened so we wanted to acknowledge that. thank you. >> thank you very much and thank you for your leadership and presentation. i are just want-you outlined a lot of different work. i want to commend you. it has been a very very difficult time for businesses in the area and you stepped in trying to rebound. appreciate some of the work was before your time there, but i know you are continuing it and so particularly some of the things you outlined around the art and murals and music and things that really i think have been bringing the area back in really positive ways and also the cleaning work and the 24/7 nature i think of some of the

service is really important because that is one thing as we made progress around street conditions in some areas we have not had the 24/7 so in my district in the tenderloin we have seen areas dramatically improve during the day but when the ambassador presence and ort things kind of sunset in the evening it is a different scene at night. i think taking that 24/7 approach in the area is really important and important to continue. i did have questions. i'm not sure if there are for you or oewd particularly about the police ambassador program; which is coming out of this period was a new program as you said. i just wanted to get a better understanding first off of how that program came into being. we obviously have a lot of

different ambassador programs and trying to understand why this one but also whether this is just another ambassador program similar to others or offer something different. >> absolutely. happy to speak to that and also want to acknowledge your first comment which i appreciate, thauj thank you very much. at this time this was deep in the pandemic and there were not a lot of people coming to work or in the community and it was the union square ambassadors that were front line there ready whatever was happening kwr there was a lot going on. in the night time, certainly during the day time so not a easy time for everyone so thank you for acknowledging that. it is really interesting because i hear a lot of questions around ambassadors so you are not alone in this and i think when i reflect on it, i start to think we are all using the term ambassador and that is

making it confusing but they all function differently. it is all most as it if we all have staff just hap toon call ambassadors but all different organizations doing very different things. ambassador, a term coin probably firsted with cbd and bids, the support staff they have that provide that direct service usually contracted out with block by block and other organizations. maybe streets plus. hospitality ambassadors and mostly serve in capacity of cleaning, power washing, providing those eyes and ears to support the community as they are in the district maybe calling in with a emergency, supporting someone with a flat tire. saw that the other day. that kind of support and that staff that work with our cbd. then you have tourism hospitality ambassadors and those are supported through sf travel and their

function is to support our convention business, tourism business, people coming here perhaps looking for directions and other support. i can't speak to it entirely, it isn't my program, but i get the sense is that is really it and again additional eyes and ears and the feeling of support especially since we don't have all our workers back in the office, the downtown area in particular, a little less populated then it has been in the past. and the police ambassadors and i think that can be-it is a separate function really policing function, one i actually really appreciate because i have eyes and are ears and the police someone who is retired-retired police officers we would have otherwise lost and know the attrition rates are high and challenging with staffing with the police department. it is nice to be able to maintain these individuals who have experience over 30 plus years who i noticed are

really good at community policing. they engage people go in and talk to people, not on their cell phones, a different generation of people who feel comfortable with community policing and are de-escalation tactics. they are not armed, which i also appreciate and they can support the community many know the commune-many have been police officers in the districts they serve, which we appreciate. (inaudible) higher rank because they are retired and in the district a long time and know the businesses and feel comfortable and provide a level of support that is really different and allows for the police department to do what they need to do maybe more serious crimes and things like that to support that. those are the police ambassador and i think maybe we are at a loss of naming convections like what to describe or call these things but they are very different functions. >> thanks for clarifying. i think it is important as we had

so many different ambassador programs and agree the term covers a lot of folks who's functions can be very different. i would just add to the sort of background that you laid out around the cdb's and bids doing-having ambassador programs and also the long-standing city program through office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs which i believe were the first ambassadors that go back a decade over the city and provided directly-not through the cbd but that office. ambassadors that overlap in a lot of these areas and we have been big supporters of that office and their efforts as well. i think one of the-what is interesting is at first i wondered if there was

a limit-there is a a demand on ambassadors through the program i wasn't sure if this was coming from a place of not able to obtain ambassadors through another program or different programs, but it sounds like less of that and more that these folks are performing all be it unarmed more a community policing function which is different. i don't think most ambassadors are viewed as doing policing. >> that's right. >> it sounds like the expectation around what they are doing and how they engage are different then other ambassadors. >> i think we do support and hope all ambassadors serve as eyes and ears and would report a crime if they saw one or incident or someone experiencing trauma or situation, but yes are, there is that dist tinction. >> so, how many sfpd

ambassadors are operating now? >> in this time period in the beginning my sense was about 4. i don't have that number. i have to get back to you on that but there were not very many. i understand that we were one of the first locations this was launched as a test market and i think at this point we may have 6. >> full time? >> no, this is part of the part time-they are not 10b, they are retired officers and can only work on part time certain number hours per week, so i wish but they are not

-their staffing is a issue so don't always have access and not always able to staff that position. >> thank you for clarifyingism . i had a question for a oewd folks. curious following up on this. for this model of the police ambassadors how many cbd are now using that and if there are plans for further expansion of that program. >> thank you supervisor preston. to my knowledge oewd is not involved. that is more appropriate question for sfpd. >> (inaudible) >> the only one to my knowledge that has them in their

area is union square, but if others have them now they may or may not, i'm aware of any but i'll double check and get back to you. >> thank you. i think-i want to flag i think it is interesting area and one that is worth us discussing and reflecting for a second. we had a move starting in 2020 of trying to move away from heavy police presence if direct policing services were not needed a shift towards ambassador model. we have seen explosion in the number of ambassadors and different types of programs. we are all sorting what makes most sense in most neighborhoods and entry of sfpd ambassadors is a hybrid that i understand may be viewed by some as opportunities to have more

(inaudible) push back against police (inaudible) triggering supersome folks it is like having the ambassador come who is not sfpd can often de-escalate a situation and so i just don't think there is a easy answer, i just wanted to identify that it seems we are in a time where i will say it is my hope we are not phasing out the model of the non-police true community ambassador in favor of extending the police department into this realm and that's why i ask the questions and- >> i appreciate that and i certainly feel like we don't feel over-run by support. we appreciate it. we need it, especially now more then ever. the police ambassadors are wearing khaki pants and jacket. they don't look like police officers. they look

like ambassadors. they are not-they don't have guns or any of that, they just have radios so less triggering. >> the photos in the report- >> it says sfpd ambassador on the jacket just as it says union square ambassador. people know they are distint from my ambassadors or anybody else's. i will just call them support staff so we can distinguish. it feels-i would say an ecdotally it feels community would like to see more. i would say more police presence to be honest. traditional police presence is what i'm hearing, but really do appreciate as i mentioned before the community policing model of these ambassadors. it has gone over quite well. i understand they are in china town. i understand

they are in i believe north beach but fisherman's warf and west portal. i think other communities are wanting them. you mentioned where are these? this time period it was new and since expanded and starting to see in other districts throughout the city. again, staffing shortages,er we don't have i think oo lot of police officers are certainly burned out, especially after events like we experienced in november with the looting and other things and trying to protect the community. it can be challenging and so to have these retired police officers staying on which i think is helpful for them too because it is a very stressful taxing job and nice to be able to (inaudible) versus just quick cold turkey and plant flowers in the garden. i think it is challenging for some of them and nice to give them a opportunity so think it serves multiple purposes. >> i think it is

helpful. i wasn't sure from the report whether it was replacing other services or additive and sounds additive. 10b presence sound it is constant. >> when we can staff it and unfortunately it isn't all the time. >> you haven't scaled down other ambassador programs. >> our ambassadors are part of-it is contracted and part of the commitment of the district through this program so we can't really scale that down. we have to maintain our contract and that is the clean and safe or cleaning and hospitality in that regard. >> thank you very much. unless my colleagues have any questions before we go to public comment, we will go ahead and open public comment. supervisor chan. >> thank you. i want to make a brief comment on just the ambassador program in general. i appreciate the union square alliance. interesting rebranding and appreciate it none the less. great

to see ms. rodriguez you taking the helm of this really challenging time in a very difficult space to try to balance. i think ms. flood retired on a high note, the best she could managing that space. look forward to seeing now that central subway completed construction bringing more vibrancy back to the area. look forward to seeing what the macey's space will look like at the future. noted you mentioned union square alliance ambassadors really is serving the members of the alliance and trying to coordinate that with sfpd ambassadors, i think this is more for oewd to bring it back-i think i have raised the questions last two fiscal years. i will continue to raise that just to see what are the coordinated efforts that among all the

ambassador program jz the most cost effective way to deliver the service. spimes i don't think that quantity-i think quantity makes efforts easier to keep streets clean and people safe, but i also think that at some point we ought to be able to figure out the quantity with the quality, so we got to figure that out. thank you so much and overall i wish you all the best for union square and we really look forward to seeing it to come back live now with central subway completedism ism thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan. let's open public comment. >> any members of the public who like to comment for item 1? please line up along the right, the curtain wall. remote callers press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicateess you have been unmuted.

each speaker is allotted 2 minutes for comments. seeing no in person public comment we will go to the call in line. currently three callers listening and zero in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on this item is closed. want to thank all the presenters and thank you ms. rodriguez for all your work and also just urge the public to go enjoy-don't believe everything you see on twitter and-every time i am in the area i-my mind iscompletely blown how different what i see on the news, the national right wing media and social media is from the filled with music filled with art and filled with businesses and residents and others trying to do the best for their community, so a lot of positive changes.

we all know we got work to do but appreciate your efforts. i like to go ahead and unless there are other comments from colleagues or questions, i like to make a motion forward this item with recommendation to full board. call the roll. >> motion to recommend the item to full board with positive recommendation-- [roll call] >> 3 ayes. >> thank you madam clerk. the motion passes and madam clerk please call item 2. >> item 2 ishering to des decuss the findings and recommendations made in the 2022 city wide non profit performance audit report entitled the city should more effectively evaluate the impact of services provided by the community based

organizations and requesting the city services auditor and city performance division to report. members of the public who wish to comment on this item call 415-655-0001. when prompted enter id, 24995248697 and pound twice. if you haven't done so, please dial star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will prompt you raised your hand. please wait for the system to indicate you are unmuted and you may begin your comments when we go to public comment. >> thank you madam clerk and my understanding is the intent is have this item actually heard on february 16. this is sponsored by vice chair stefani and so we will entertain a motion to continue the item. vice chair stefani i don't know if you had comments or want go directly to publux public comment. >> sorry this ended up on the

agenda. it was not intended to so we would like to have this on february 16 and look forward to a very robust hearing then, so i like to move to continue the item to february 16. >> thank you very much vice chair stefani and madam clerk, why don't we open public comment on the continuance? >> thank you. any members of the public who would like to comment on the continuance of item number 2? please line up to your right, public call in members press star 3 to be added to the queue. those on hold please wait until the system indicates quou are unmuted. first speaker, welcome. (inaudible) >> good morning supervisors. debbie lurman from san francisco human service network. i just want to say it has been 20 years since group of non profits and city departments-been about a year and a half in a non

profit contracting task force spearheaded by supervisor maxwell at a time of the first dot com bust when we were struggling with resources and that report had 13 recommendations to streamline the city contract and monitoring process. a little history some may not be aware of. there is some success from that effort. notably the jonet monitoring program that the controller office created, but most of the recommendations were never implemented despite the fact everybody in the room agreed. many departments reverted to their individual processes and a lot of those problems are still here today, so i just want to take this minute to thank the controller for publishing this report and supervisor stefani for her attention to this

effort. we are very excited the city is taking a fresh look at reforming the monitoring process and we are looking forward to a robust discussion and hopefully a collaborative process between the city and its departments and non profit sector to make these recommendations a realty. i'll have more to say in a couple of weeks. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning to our board of supervisors. thank you for hearing our voice to madam clerk, thank you as well and rest of the government body to help move this wonderful city forward. thank you for your patience with us this morning. my name is (inaudible) community relations manager at san francisco community health center. as a health center in the tenderloin we

define our role of safety net insuring the most valuable marginalized communities are provided with the highest quality of health and support services. for decades we have been a contractor with the san francisco department of public health and we have multiple of contracts that fund us through providing critical life saving services for the homeless individuals living with hiv transgender community and people who use substance, those with chronic mental illness and so on. for decades we have been accountable for the work that we do and partnership with san francisco public health department. to insure that we report on our work and objectives and outcomes we are extremely serious about this matter. what is also essential for us to share with you is for

many years hiv contracts with no increase-sorry, only recently did we as a community advocate for the minimum cost of doing business increase in our contract, but for years being flat funded-sorry, for many years being flat funded, minute we were under funded in our hiv organizations. organizations like ours have faced increase of demands and we to keep up the increase expenses and personal cost whether a contract remains static. >> your time has expired. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisor. julian johnson health policy analyst at the san francisco community health center. i like to add for all the contracts the rates are capped at a level not covered the cost that need to support

our organizations infrastructure. this under funding necessary to keep compliance data and monitoring activities. what this means is all the organizations have to engage in other ways to raise private funds to insure we can continue the contract with the city and remain viable and sustainable throughout time. we have always supported accountability and transparency for non profits receiving cityfunding but hope the conversation lead to broader discussion surrounding how non profits and city government can hold each other accountable and mutual commitment to support funding maps service expectations and compliance requirements. we look forward to continuing the conversation on the 16 and welcome questions from supervisors on the matter. thank you. >> thank you. >> knan anyone else in the chamber that would like to address the committee? we'll

go to the phone line. there are 6 listening with three in the queue. please forward the first caller. >> good morning. this is (inaudible) calling from larken street youth service. i just want to thank the committee for taking a really critical look at the monitoring oversight process. i think there is tremendous (inaudible) for improvement and streamlining larken street contracts with (inaudible) every single one of these departments has a different way of doing business, a different way of monitoring our performance, different invoicing process, different portal and larken street is fortunate in that we have infrastructure and teams of people dedicated to managing our relationships with

our public funders, our data, our finance and invoicing team so we can remain in good standing and perform on a contract so very very few costs are covered by the contracts that demand we have this infrastructure in place. we are large enough organization to be able to manage contracts successfully but we are (inaudible) who don't have that infrastructure because it is just so much work to do business with the city. i think this is a opportunity to invite more folks in and improve the system for everyone. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. may i please have the next caller? >> hi, everyone. can you all hear me okay? >> yes. >> hi. my name is

vitta, and i am the director of education at the chinese cultural center. i am here today to say we really support accountability for non profits receiving city funding and also recognize we are subject to extensive reporting site visits and audits and over this time the decade we have been funded by the city the cultural center has been in compliance (inaudible) over 13 years now. funded by the oewd and as a culture we keep our community thriving by building out the eco system for our creative-to work intergenerationally and contribute to community development. right now i'm here to say that right now the department understanding on it true cost of services and impact we have on our

community and in doing-having these extensive reporting measures it really provides unrealistic expectations for non profit ability for adequate funding from other sources. i want to urge you all to provide an opportunity for us to standardize, streamline and improve monitoring process and work in collaboration with the non profits. thank you for listening to me. >> thank you so much for your comments. may i please have the next caller? >> hello committee members. my name is andrew tan and i work with several community partnerships. i support accountability in non profits. i to share there are measures we engage in with our current government partners including quarterly reports monthly

invoices and regular audits. engaging in government contracts can cost more then the contract provides and challenges to (inaudible) requirements with limited staff. i know accountability is vital and taxpayers funds but i want to give additional context to (inaudible) thank you for your time. i look forward to continuing the conversation on 2-16. >> thank you very much for the comments. we have 6 callers in the queue with one caller in the speaker. may i please have the speaker? >> good morning. nattily (inaudible) director of community engagement and government relations with richmond area multi-services. thank you so much committee and community providers who are participating this morning in the call. i along with the other speakers prior

to me-the community based organizations and non profits in our city. we have the arms of the (inaudible) and the necessity of our services to our community members are very necessary and need continued funding. we do support accountability for non profits receiving city funding and we are subject to extensive reporting, site visits and audits. most of the non profits are in full compliance with requirements. we also support holding departments accountable in their dealing with not profit partners. we do understand that there are a lot of regulations that are part of receiving funding from the county. the county also in its own process there is a big delay in our non profits receiving our funding from the county, so an example

i want to give, our contracts starts in july but our funding do not most of the time at least in my organization we do not receive our funding until april the following year, so this means we have to carry a lot of reserves and a lot of other extras that we have to make sure that our services are still provided so the deliverables in our contracts are met by the end of the fiscal year. we look forward to ongoing conversations with the city and county and your committee to insure our non profits are taken care of. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much for your comments. looking for any additional callers on the line. no additional callers. >> thank you. public comment on the item is now closed, and on the motion to continue this item to february 16-

>> chair preston? >> yes. >> can i say one thing? >> please. go ahead. >> i just wanted to thank everyone who called in and debbie lurman and i have met with a number of non profits and we continue to host those meetings. also i just wanted to say thank you to (inaudible) julian coming to public comment. my chief of staff was in the chambers and hope she reached out to you. we definitely want to hear from the non profits and what they are experiencing, so and working with larken street youth service. they were in the meeting with debbie with (inaudible) please reach out to my office at stefanistaff@sfgov.org. we want to hear your point orphview and one thing said in public comment i can't agree with more is accountability goes both ways. we are looking to hold not only non

profits accountable but also ourselves and departments in how we maintain this relationship. very important relationship between what our non profits are doing for our city and then how we treat them as well, so i'm very excited for this work and do want to acknowledge supervisor maxwell and all the work she did back then kwr and look forward implementing that and having a great hearing on the 16 so thank you to all who called in and all their great work. >> thank you vice chair stefani and your leadership on this and i'm also looking forward to the hearing on february 16 but to get there let's do the motion to continue to february 16. madam secretary, call the roll. [roll call] >> 3 ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes and will see everyone interested in this on the 16. looking forward to

that. madam clerk, do we have further business before the committee? >> no further business before the committee. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]