any than i have been a part of and over 2 decades. in the excelsior and outer mission a thousand participates. we asked controltory audit that in the end. it was well received with work with supervisor walton we ruled that out and expanded the bayview.

they did not have electricity they never impelemented in the site or expand to capacity and it hen a lot of frustration, i know and i know supervisor walton has been involved in trying to make that work. falls on the department to deliver and if we have ideas we have examples and we have the data and have policies we have -- things we can expand, the charge of commission ensure oversight and implementation of the ideas can you talk about this in your experience. over seeing implementation and, countability for this policy. why thank you very much. supervisor for that question. and -- i would say a couple components around that -- and i'm grateful this the community was listened to. and how do we think as we go to scale on projects that we condition to set collective expectations. and this we measure against those expectations. i think this it is important as we think about complex problem

this is need solutions we ensure we are bringing all departments in the conversation. hsh. d. public work in this instance as well as the department of public health and others. we all need in our community to be on the same page to understand this is the number one priority for everyone and we have to move together. i would recommend as we continue to learn from both successes and we learn from opportunity for betterment going forward. we develop shared agreements. shared expectations and shared measurements and go back and review the measurements. this is the upon opportunity for the future with this commission. i wanted to recognize we are work nothing a trauma impacted

system. those who we are helping our experiencing trauma and the system within which we are working. therefore thshg it is important that we increase transparency, communication, compassion and understanding as we go through it together. thank you. >> thank you very much. seeing no further questions from my colleagues mr. clerk can we open up items 2, 3 and 4 to public comment. >> y member of the public who wish to peek on items 2, 3 our 4 and joining person line up at this time. listening remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2489 884 3434 ##.

for those in the queue wait until the system credits you have been unmuted that is your queue to begin comments. first in person speaker. good morning board and candidates here this morning. i'm del semore for the last 7 years i have been chair of the local homeless coordinating board the reason why this meet suggest important to me my boil have to work the candidates i'm not here to endorse anyone they all look great. i want you to ensure in your selection process you will do in a few minutes consider background in this field. this is very important. we talked about oversight this morning. oversight you know your budget committee is a primary oversight of this department. the city controller primary oversight of the department where we electric oversight at

hsh the relationship with the provide and ares the department of the i want you to consider background when they do for us. keep the politics out. don't matter who you know on the second floor it matters you know on the street. do you know hi robe and sheila. have you been working with them. this job to know on the local coordinating board i spent felony to 20 hours a week related my position you need to be ready for that. if you are not willing to come out go to the shelter and providers talk to people. go to meetings and sacramento

and washington men this may not be for you this . ain't nothing to have a business card in the city this is people's lives. we are dying on the streets and starving and freezing on the streets and had statute position to keep that as your number one consideration. as you go through the process. >> on behalf university i'm pleaseed support nomination of this outstanding member of our faculty doctor butler. to the homeless oversight commission. doctor butler shares his credentials at d. family and community medicine as well as our centers for the staffed adversity and cardiovascular disease and a leader on black

health initiative we're an academic membership center known for research and education. doctor butt leer has thez missions and his commitment and activism in the community. holdses lerredship role in the naacp the faith based coalition and other programs and a master's. divinity focussed on relation and health and minster at third baptist church. during covid-19 doctor butler was a member that we asked to film a public service have to be a trusted voice to respect people's concerns about safety. vaccine and assured them off safety.

doctor butler's work access to our faculty in district 6 at the journey outstanding candidate and in full support of the university. we urge your support for his appointment to the commission. thank you. >> good morning, i'm jordan pronounce she, her, they, them. i voted no on this bull-commission as a tenant worked with the reporters on the chronicles and lead i major campaign to improve the lives of fellow tenability and served on an advisory commission i don't think having a mirj mayor commission will bring f -- oversight i will not speak against them but you w for us. current and currently homeless people who are experiencing the

footwork-up policy decisions of the steel you are not the major's footwork-puppets. brawl whores tell you what you need hear about stele funded trespass house rather than what you want to f-hear. and f-the contract they are f-homo phobic and sexist. i'm a disabled person who has nothing to lose. you know that no matter what happens today with this item you will all hear my thoughts about hsh prescriptions at this commission. by the f-sh-language. i yield my time. f-you. >>y wool move to remote public comment we have 2 parties in line.

supervisors, i'm francisco decosta. we cannot address the homelessness issues unless we do a need's assessment. if you look at public housing all over san francisco department of defense. who thes going on in our neighborhoods and public housing. is the attorneys over to -- bridge developers. and there are supervisors who are hand approximate glove with mercy housing. pretending to help the homelessness but [inaudible]. previous speaker may have used some foul language but actually he is being a homeless person he realliness how y'all treat them.

look at this. i'm addressing the board of supervisors and 2 supervisors are having a talk among themselves. this tells you about our supervisors. our supervisors talk the talk and do not walk the walk. so -- we will not be able to solve the homelessness problem unless we have people who really want to help us. even those the people wanted something to happen with prospect c we had the mayor herself got other way. and we have some supervisors right now there sitting down who are hands and glove with the developers. not for the poor people. i would say in order to help the african-american community, we

need real leader help. no other way shorter way and got way >> can we have our next caller please. david pilpel. i am impressed with the mayor's 3 appointise today and i support their appointment. i think they will serve our city limp i think you will have a more difficult time with the board appointments given the number and i will leave that to you. >> i support the 3 mayors nominees today. thank you for listening. >> thank you. can we have our next caller. >> good morning. i'm one it make [inaudible]. the [inaudible] board of

supervisor's [inaudible] i heard talk about the mayor's candidates. hello. this is public comment and you can make your comment regarding the appointments however this is in the a time for question and answers. >> correct. good. yes thank you very much. good morning i'm francisco community member also work for the approximate [inaudible] of the leather street community services and part of the latina [inaudible] need's assessment mittee. it important for us to name tracie mixon and ja neta johnson. i he to interrupt we are not on this item yet. we are >> if you don't mind wit to item

6 we'll be happy to accept your comment at that time. okay. double checking that was our last public comment on the mayor's nomination for appointment. >> thank you, public comment on 2, 3 and 4 is closed. i will echo the sentiments from one of the callers that i think this these are impressive folk who is are endeavour to serve and i would like to move to amend the motion to strike reject from each motion and send these to the full board with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk? yes. on the motion to delete reject and recommend the matter with for approval for 2, 3 and 4. vice chair walton.

>> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion to amend and recommend is adopted without objection. >> thank you. on a unanimous vote items 2-4 go to the full board with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerkil ask we call item in consideration of time call 6. >> yes. item 6 hearing occur appointing a member and 2 members to the homelessness oversight commission. regarding the seats seat 5 shall be held boy a person who experienced homeless knows. seat 6 by a person with

significant experience providing services to or engage nothing advocacy on behalf importance experiencing homelessness. seat 7 a person with experience working with homeless families children special or homeless youth. >> thank you. mr. clerk. i know we are excited hear from all applicants this will be the hard part my office had the opportunity to meet with whoefrn applyd and i'm impressed with all of the applications. i think any of you are would be valuable additions to the commission. we are of course with tasked with choosing only 3 in many ways our pool is an embarrass am of riches to use an over usedityium but i want to encourage those not selected to this commission to consider serving on our department's other bodies or other commission

or way this is our city affords opportunity to serve. one other point about the job as policy makers are tasked do is it is in the necessarily about you. in fact i think general low the less personal low one takes things the better off you will be in public life am per of our decision making responsibilities is to evaluate individual conditionaledidates. and another responsibility is it stand back and look at the entirety of the commission to which we are making appointments and ask ourselves as city leaders whether or not the commission reflects the city's diversity or issues the commission will focus on during its tenure. so i hope there are no hard feelings know your willingness to serve is appreciated and this is trough from mow approximate my clothes. the grounds rowels for the hearing today. we will hear from everyone who

aployed starting with seat 5, 6 then 7 if you aplayed for more we ask to you spoke for the lowest number which they applied. il call individualsum come up and speak for 2 minutes. on your qualifications for this seat or seats if you are seek multiple. to which you applyd and interest in serving on the commission as supervisor safai discuss in the the left couple items. we may have questions following your statements. stay through until you are sure we have concluded then i will call the next personal witness we hear from everyone we go to public comment and the clerk will give you instructions and after we will discuss and vote on whom we recommend assuming we do and we will adjourn. with that let's start with seat 5.

i'd like to ask my understanding that i was just furthermored that janetta johnson is with druing and like to ask to have come up joaquin gerrero. >> before we begin the comment i like to ask anybody join happening via microsoft teams turn off your camera and mute you're microphone until we call on you to speak >> good morning, supervisors i'm joaquin gerrero. i was recommended apply for seats 5 and 6 to bring transleadership to the homelessness system. born in mexico and raised in canada working with the homelessness system in the downtown east side neighborhood that is compared to the tenderloin. like many transleaders came here to access trans services and where i could be myself and

experience safetyism responsiblesed homeless ness and 2020 secured housing in the peek of the pandemic worked at an hsh funded program upon providing serves to homeless in the bayview. reversing over dozes. lost a lot of cowork and staff number members to suicide and over dose who were african-american and well tino. the following year i became the director of our transhome sf. and over saw 15 room transitional homes in the commission and subsidy program this now providing provides housing and stabilization to many unhoused san franciscans. i then lead the opening of the first transupon center novembergation center. the mayor's plan toenldz trans homelessness and roach zero for the trans population in 5 years.

and i work as a certified mediator for bar association providing conflict resolution to landlords and tenabilities i serve on the monitoring committee. and i served on office of transinitiative committee. i'm here i feel a sense of duty as a transgender person. as our community is under attack and well it is a crisis aims to e readicate our existence. making transpeople renoouj refugee in their own country and billsod data shown the population of unhoused transgender people in san francisco is increasing. having transrep centation on the commission is critical to how the city will responded to the crisis. and i will stop there and i would like to answer your

questions as far as dressing racial equity and he for the black community the way i came in my position at the home was there were series racial equity issues in the services provided buzz there are so men more well tino people this need the service black trans were not access being service we had to pause and recreate mou's and change policies. sometimes the term bipoc is in the enough. you have to go and do out reach as black indigenous people were traumatic typed by the system they no longerment to access services and mr. laguana stated the answer is simplify. focus too much on data credited press that make it longer for people to be housed once they enter the system. when i worked the shelters it was clear there were people live nothing a 30-day temporary

shelter program for over 2 years. is she in the providers the bureaucratic system this slows everything down this is the thing i learned about the one system. and -- i want to talk about data as well. i have a mission to aid in the ending of homelessness. i worked on this in veteraning cower and have been able to transfer skills here. so you know won't understand this homelessness is i problem created right nile data point and between 78 and 83 the housing budget sclafrng today it is risen to 60% of had it used to be. during the time mental health facilities slowed down and increased the population by 500 drs the government defunded husband and invest in the prisons. so my answer is to

acowboyability we need to invest in front line workers who are african-american well tino and form upper low incarcerated under paid and over worked. the people are who tells us the solutions. you can go dun to any homeless community mote and timed out this some would rather live on the street than accessing service from the city and peopled rather live in a unit

with their own bedroom approximate wit and stay in shelter than in an sro. these are data points that are documented by city and irrelevant not this hard to timed out if you know how to talk to the community. any further questions. >> i appreciate you anticipating my clothe's questions. i would just ask you i know we touchod this i bit. but i would welcome the opportunity for you to talk a bit about the disprosecute potionate rates of violence that. members of transgender upon community and transgender people of color. fits had than i insurance unsheltered homeless knows. where absolutely. we lost a black transstaff worker. it was a huge loss to our community he was a lead and very young and very an angel. that is to common.

we understands black transwomen are on attack murdered and miss and does in the make the news. just last week, a building that was subsidized that house the 21 black women burnt down after people were try to disaccomplice them from it. so. this is i stated an initial crisis right? basically i could be incarcerated for a male impersonator in the state of tennessee. people are refugee in their own country. on transinitiative we met with rachael levine or from the health department of the federal government and coined the term transrefugees. >> thank you very much. you anticipated them all.

thank you for coming appropriated. >> all right. >> thank you. >> now hear from robert paul mc closky. >> i believe he is remote. >> the floor is yours. for you with occupancy pliant you can unmute your mic and turn on your camera? we can move on. here i am! here i am! hello >> the floor is yours

>> good morning sorry i contfind the mic thing. thank you, chairman dorse and he vice chair walton supervisor safai and mr. young. i'm honored be here i heard a lot of stuff. i originally decided to do this because i had been homeless. back a few years ago. i was amazed how easy it was to get used to this environment. my qualifications. i have been homeless. when i stop being homeless i bipartisan a councillor and worked with methadone clinics. and i just i saw the homeless problem increasing every year. had amazed me is i was doing investigation the other night and in the 2021-22 the budget for homelessness was 1.1 billion

dollars. and -- it still got worse. i could not figure out why. i did not understands why it was getting worse. when hay -- i heard about the homeless commission i decided it would be a good thing because i know like -- i forget her in a minute woman the last mayoral pinnee she believes this problem can be solved i don't believe it can i continue can be. i know how to solve it. there are plenty of ways that within.within billion dollars can being pent it get rid of this prospect but don't see where it is being done. i made notes last night. one of the ways is increasing the funds to affordable housing. one of the main causes of homelessness in san francisco is electric of affordable housing.

therefore i think it is significant foergz of the budget. this being be achieved providing financial incentives for developers it build more and increasing subsidies for low income families to make payments. expand. in addition to building more affordable housing common rental assistance programs to help rent. the funding visible for the program system expanding eligible criteria. to include more people this are gift nothing [inaudible]. 3 increase the access to meth and, diction treatment. many experience homelessness in san francisco have mental health and, diction. i hassard to say all of them.

available of treatment is it does in the match the problem. mr. -- we i appreciate it mr. mc closky we are trying to keep folks to around 2 minutes. i want to have been i could ask my clothe fist than i have questions and you expand on q and a. >> supervisor safai. >> mr. mc closky anything tolls add. i appreciate your willingness to serve and thank you for your time now let's hear from ennis johnson. >> hello, supervisors my qualification for seat 5 is that

i'm here. i have the livid experience. being out there. i come here to city hall this morning my wife and i she worked for creditive management we have been in housing for 2 decades between my going back and fourth out there i told her no, i would wuk i walked down sixth street andum sixth to mission. i used to live on [inaudible] on sickth street. did in the pay rent i was there 4-5 mont and wuked counsel market throughout other areas. i know homelessness and i know substance use i'm a recovering addict. i locked at willie brun's picture and renovation i remember and they were renovating city hall it was like new jack city i have been in the stele awill who i.

got out of the navy in 1979. born and raise in the seattle but been here the last 4 combreers is my children got murdered here in the bay your. so i hear -- i -- love all the conversations before me and i hear about ending homelessness and one things this is difficult about homeless this we have to deal with the core. lot become homeless for different reasons diverse, domestic violence and different reasons. 2 of the main are mental health and substance use. and until we deal with mental health and substance use we'll not keep people housed. i was housed. you will not stay house federal youor drugs. i mean i got 18 secondeds. again i work in the the field. i worked for the different

agency here in san francisco. i if cross the bay and so i know addiction and worked in other housing here around. and i thank you for your time and i will -- step back. >> thank you very much mr. johnson. vice chair walton >> thank you, chair dorse e. just same question who how would you hold the department accountable. not only in terms the number of black people and experiencing homelessness and also the issues and concerns of the southeast as well. of >> live instead southeast if you lived up on the hill in hunter's pointful i'm familiar with district 10 i lived there.

i done a lot of things i'm not proud of there. you know the aids was a tough decade for the black people in bayview. crack came outer when the critic came out people moved or lost houses behind the drugs. you generational having homes left in the 80s. because of the drug addictions. how would i address it. againful i i'm a cat 5 the highest substance use in the state of california i'm left lanesed as a substance use councillor. and i'm going to say the same with the tenderloin. you gotta address the drug issues. the housing agencies have to have substance use counsellors in the hotels. not urban al kemp.

not ambassadors. not others. in a trained counsellors in every building that they put up [inaudible]. will put them in other buildings. if we don't put [inaudible]. they know the people. had they use they come to them and say man i have been using and you have member to talk to. before than i are policed. i figure 4-5 months i went one month because i kept using. i was next mont i willpate rent and did in the pay t. and i had no one to talk to. okay. >> thank you supervisor safai. >> thank you, you answered my questions i appreciate you coming in and putting your name forward and bringing the lens of

substance abuse it is extremely important part of the conversation. why thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> next up it is masood samereie. >> they are remote. >> good morning honorable supervisors. i'm masood samereie. and i'm the owner of arial property in cast remy 20th year as a mall business. i have been on the board of merchants since 2016 until present time. i was the president of castro merchantses tent then to 21. worked on the castro delores park homelessness project with supervisor mandelman's office since 2019.

i was the vice president of the council of district merchnt fist 22 to 21 and the president of district merchants since 22 and was reelect third degree year. i live in the castro and love this city. and -- what i'm concern body is why should we as a civilized society and the most advanced economic and learningest city in the world and deals with current street conscience. i seen the mental and streets and business corridor despite spending millions approximate billions a year and in the getting better it is getting worse. in 2019 hee we had 17

individuals and most in need of health in the castro and the latest support grown to 37. the amounts and resources we spends controlling the issue we are not seeing much impact it is time to look outside the box and time for accountability and fresh blood. these are human beings we are talking about. and we need to bir inspect mind they are all deserved to be treated with respect, thank you for your time. >> thank you, masood. . okay. questions from clothes. >> i was going to say i asked all my questions to mr. sam ear we met and addressed them. thank you for putting your name forward. >> thank you. yoch next up hear approximate

tracie mixon. floor is yours. good approximate morning. i'm -- extremely honored to be here because somewhere i never thought i would you can. i have an opportunity like that for to let you know about myself i'm former low homeless mother. daughter is then and i the home i lost was 4 blocks away temperature is bittersweet being here and knowing that the home i lost is just 4 blocks away. i have personal low responsiblesed the challenges of being homeless and this was not my first time i was homeless as a child living with my mom and her sister.

i did not realize i was homeless five-14. because i had an officer over my head. as an adult i became homeless because i did not have a lease when you don't have i lease that is how you end up homeless. i coordinatedent row system and q.ed i had an opportunity to talk to hsh i work for coalition on homeless & ness and mote with the department of hsh to talk about the needs that are the homeless population is phase being. i have been a part of that. i have been working coalition for 5 years. hi anning opportunity to be a part of that. also long with that the beginning of the pandemic i was concerned about families that were living newscast first friendship family shelter. that was the emergency family shelter in san francisco. and i was a part of helping those families get in the oasis

to have somewhere better so they did not slope on the floor and worry about getting sick. and with that i'm always on the streets i live in the tenderloin now. i'm on the streets out here talking to folks. finding out had they need and had they need most. at the end of the day, ultimately the homeless folks we are the folks that know if what will make the situations better and what hsh and the providers do to make them easier. so these service are voilths for the stability of everybody. i mentioned i live in spicht house and work in the supportive housing. i have seen the needs of of people that live there and had would make them better high turn over a high turn over in the supportive husbanding and the heller system. you have to pay people had they

are worth and have to let them know the services that they need because it is in the easy to this work. you get a hard burn out by doing this work. and they need the services to condition helping the unhoused populations and along with that i was on family advisory council for hsh a group of formerly homeless parents and we would discuss need this is homeless families need and along with that i was the communities advisory board member for tipping point and discussed the needs of upon sickle -- adults and things than i need as well. also. ive work instead tenderloin for over 30 years acorn were captain for tlcbd. and it like i'm always trying to advocate for them and see what

they need if i did not having anyone add are indicating for me i would not be able for anybody else there needs to be more advocacy. >> thank you. upon i got a fan club. i appreciate that and -- this is i normally our when we do is express our fandom we do quiet hundreds but i appreciate the y. for you and i want to say express my graduate tude for the conversation we had and the when we met. vice chair walton. >> thank you chair dorse and he thank you ms. mixon appreciate you stepping up and wanting to servement same question as commissioner what would you do to hold department of

accountability to the disproportionallity this exists. >> for me it is all about have you to get to know the people that are suffering. and -- if i would want am -- let's see how to say this. i got side. ready of myself. when i was going through coordinatedent row it was heard for mow not to talk to somebody this locked like me there needs cultural competency. and also long with this the providers providing the services to homeless than i need to have cultural comp tense and he the be patience. they need to understand what i'm going through and have an explanation on why they are asking me the questions. folks need to get out there needs to be folks from hsh need to go out and talk to the folk catharsis out live nothing the situations because you the not understand had than i are going

through unless you are talking to them because i was not street homeless but i was shelter homeless because i was i go out on the streets and talk to people and figure out their needs that gives me an understanding on when i need to do going forward as a commissioner. >> thank you. thank you and supervisor safai. >> thank you. tracie again. we had a great conversation and appreciate you putting your name forward and sharing your experiences. we talks i bit about data and how data can impact. i want to give you know opportunity to talk about this. >> my experience with the data portion, couple of years ago the coalition on homelessness we did a report stop the revolveingly door. it was concentrated on what were the reasons and the causes why

people becoming homeless and what would have change today so they would not be homeless. i was a researcher and relatable to me because i didn't understand when would have helped me it would had helped mow if i had the money to pay for my apartment and helped mode fihad the money to may be consult i lawyer to fight back against the land lords i had this was new landlord and everything. that is definitely something that would help with trying to figure out. data is important have you to talk to the people if you don't the number don't mean nothing if you don't have a conversation with people. >> thank you. thank you. tracie. >> thank you. >> thank you i appreciate your time. have a good morning. >> thanks y. next up we like to hear from gregory johnson. the floor is yours.

>> good morning chair dorsey vice chair walton and supervisor safai. this is i'm gregory johnson. and a number of years ago right around 77 i experienced homelessness as a students. usc. landed me 2 years in being a part of the world. during this time i met reverend charles and his wife claire. in west wood california.

we i was a part of the founding people a path people assisting homeless. there are component this is go in this fr. my perspective. all of important data and human element important. end of the day everybody all the component vs to come together you need machine this is -- able to bring people together. and the safety meeting i was reminded that we have all the different department this is we are asking to be on upon the same team. we are all on the same but we have to have i driver that case the [inaudible] mayor was the driver and we looked she was not there to drive the bus. does it mean everything falls apart. pretty much it is easy for this to help.

i think that to this i will bring ability to bring people together. data is personal we can't over look this. but we can't over look the fact we need the human element in this. we need hsh to be accountable for the money begin on them. we need providers under contract to be accountable for the services they are to render under the contracts. at the end of the day we need to be able to accounts to the taxpayer every time of money we spent. there is i way to solve this problem. without a doubt. i was asked a couple weeks ago by the san francisco chronicle. i would ask a request only, to house 2,000 people in one year

without exceeding the money that is already allocated to deal with this. i was it is only one this came up with an answer. do you want to solve homelessness or give people in housing. there is a difference. i want people housed and stay housed. what's the cost? i don't know. we not know until we have the conversation. >> thank you mr. johnson and vice chair walton. >> thank you for steppingum and wanting to serve. up mentioned accountability how would you hold the department accountable accountable. i don't know that -- not impossible. as a department head have you a responsibility to not just the elected efficients butt community.

i believe the pressure put in accomplice by a commission holds them accountable. you talked about the power. this this is in the possible. we have too many people and too many sxies check lists. we can't leave anything. nothing westbound left. nothing was forgotten. somebody did in the do their job. than i need do those job when is they don't other i say this we replace them with people that will dot job. we have to get tough. we can't [inaudible]. do nothing or to do guilty or to say, well that's okay. that it is not okay it is not okay my cyst and her daughter lived in their suv8 years before she got housing.

i walk through the tl's every day. i meet with stake holders and meet with people most people don't have an idea that there are resources that are available that were suspected after covid. they are still there employment people have to know where they g. i want to pink another language to get in the housing buildings where people that don't speak english i with speak their language. i'm 62 years old retire eve exxon mobile. now headed up there it f and management that was no easy job you have to talk to people in every country. i want something better. my mom did. she was a high school graduate

of mission high. she was a nurse there at treasure island my grand mother [inaudible]. it is achievable we are to be gotta be tough on it. thank you now supervisor safai ump answered my question with data. and i want to thank you for your time and the conversation we had. >> and know i'm not i don't make it to this commission i will still be there. i have been at the hearings before exit will continue to come i need to support the city. >> thank you. >> thank you i appreciate this. this is one i hope everybody embrics we got a lot of talent and approximation we are hearing from today. >> so of with mr. johnson's

marks that concludes the applicants will for seat 5. i want to say how grateful i am and the people who applied for the seat for lived experience this will be inhave you been to the commission we have folks to hear come fr now seat 6. to reminds everybody this is the seat for people with significant experience providing services to or enengage nothing advocacy. and first up is andre salina. the floor is yours. >> thank you. supervisor safai and chair dorse competence walton.

i'm andre salina for seat 6 of the director service provide and resident of san francisco for 27 years. i clinical work at city wide focus psychiatry and first clinic in san francisco establish in the 1980. across the program this is city wide [inaudible] 2,000 individuals with ment will illness and [inaudible]. the marining whom are currentlier formerly homeless. i have been providing [inaudible] to [inaudible] and homeless individuals for 25 years. and including lacasa [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [reading fast] over the years i worked with individuals of every race and sexual orientation. i worked with lettin xim grant population this [inaudible]

provide services to african and arab yenim guarantee clients. and a half gatd every facet of the housing system shelters [inaudible]. transitional housing and retain housing in the permanent housing system and interfitsed with cbo housing providers. i hold memory of what worked in the past and know what needs to be improve exclude insight for solutions andino visions to make a [inaudible] living with illness and [inaudible]. the perspective makes me qualified. i will approach my role from a public role perspective i understand am critical house suggest to have engage in medical care and necessary for sustaining progress in recovery. [inaudible] i serve on mental health sf wing group [inaudible]. to envision the [inaudible] project. and [inaudible] approving working with diverse grouch

stick holders i help my long history of working with homelessness in san francisco demonstrates my qualifications and commitment to the work required. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you mr. salineasalina? colleagues? >> just, thank you chair dorse. the same question how would you be able to hold the department accountability to addressing the disparities that exist in the system and [inaudible] cross the city. >> so i think that i appreciate data collection. i think that we need to start collecting data of who is coming in to [inaudible] and who is prioritized. once the event row system started the folk this is get housing are those who have been

prioritized. before for 2 years before for the first 2 years of theent row citizen psh [inaudible] was not within this coordinatedent row pool. we always the mental health providers refer directly to psh housing and can see coming bounce pike our clients were not prioritized. hsh credited a work around where we had to take cloinltss [inaudible] they don't get prioritized and send the same 11 page referral we sent in before. and then they get prioritized. and it makes me wonder if you are not working with a case imagine program and going solo there are folks that are not prioritized. we don't collect did thea on the folks. we are novelty collecting data -- the housing [inaudible] are not equal whom in the

getting placed where is something this we need to look at and evictions who is getting evicted. i also i also think something of huge consideration is as city ouied we work with forensic involved clients. incarceration affects african-american individuals in san francisco. and the adults can be 30% but they are at 52 or 56% of folk in jail. lots are coming home from stay in prisons and long hearing from folks becausey have a criminal justice activism. i have been hearing from my colleagues that they were understanding this folks when they knew come home from prison that were homeless were not getting prioritized. and lead me tong that probably

incars vision not considered as homelessness. i witness third degree had a client home little in san francisco since he was 13. years old and at the time they took him toent row near low 2 years ago he was 46. cycle nothing and out from the street to prison since he was then and was in the prioritized and had been homeless in san francisco for decades. so it is clear this incarceration grown this is fixed i had come plained hillary robe sxen knew she was going to bring it up but don't know. if you are looking at the disproportionality of incarceration among african-americans residents of san francisco and their history of incarceration is it included as times they have been homeless.

you are coming home xaent get housed. if you can't get housedure like low to be incarcerated. i think looking at the things like how you are counseling incarceration and also creating pregnant ways to housing for folks oust state prison federal prison or oust our jails. >> thank you. thank you. you addressed my questions with regard to did thea. i appreciated the conversation we had. thank you for putting your name forward and bringing meth and how it impacts the conversation. >> thank you. i know i wanted express appreciation for conversation we had and00 eye appreciate your institutional memory on this it is helpful to me on this thank you for your willingness to serve.

and nextum kristin evans. floor is yours. supervisor dorse, walton and safai i live in haight neighborhood and applicant for 6 and 7. our city our home gross receipt tax raised a bilgz for homeless solution in our city that money deplayed purchase housing, shelter and drug treatment beds and keep san franciscans in homes through eviction defense. but it was more then and there the decade ago i became interested in homelessness issues and city's response in 2008 the book store -- book

store i own and manage held the first of many community forums k with authors, service provide and policy experts. sought to educate ourselves to sort through the homelessness in our community. over the years as a rolfe tear i assisted people experiencing homeless knowledge. helping them to connect to shelter and services and i worked with the significant number of transificational age youth sleeping on city street in the vehicles and parks. as aville tear with homelessness i have been a direct bencher in 100 encampment resolution. learned how difficult it can be to access safe and appropriate shelter whether this be i bed in a shelter, safe sleep site or hotel room assisted young people inpatient drug treatment program and out parent service.

accompanied families to appointments to be a sezed for house and waited with them for among and years before they received an offer for a place to call home. many are still waiting. if given opportunity to serve on the homeless commission i would bring organizational analytical skills through experience sorting through data sets. i will seek to shine light on challenges and scrutinize department practices and policies which have significant opportunity for improvement and all of had for the goal to focus attention on measuring our progress to achieve real solutions. ultimate low we are a rich city and rich state in a rich country and all san franciscans deserve a safe place to rest their head and ultmitt low an accomplice to call home. thank you very much for your consideration. i can jump in the 2 question

fist you like me to. so specific low i would agree with men of the other previous applicants about the ways we can ensurety department is accountability to goals. and ensuring we are providing resources and services to people of color had are significant cannot low over representatived in the the homeless population. i agree with applying equity lens and using did thea that alone can't ensure we hold the department accountable. we have to make sure that for example, we know why people are when people get the offers for shelter hear had they accept and not and why than i are not. we have to lift up the vis of people experiencing homelessness i think this this will be a great and powerful commission to bring people with experiencing homelessness upon

to public attention to give them a plat furthermore to tell their store and he why they are struggling to achieve the outcome which is to get off the street. and in terms of the data question. so -- i mention in the my conversation with you supervisor safai, that department collect data today. so i'm a regular atendsee to the presentation the director gives a 9 page report and learn like how many water bottles and hi joan kits were distributed. they are interesting things but a lot of data that does in the cut to the chastes focus was when we need to accomplish. how do we get more shelter beds open and more accepting the beds? ensure people ever moving from shelter permanent supportive house being and not pick update

expensive shelter bed. those other things i focus on or identifying the key metrics we really get us to the solutions of accomplish when won't want to see which is fewer living without a home. >> thank you. are there other questions y. good job. thank you so much and next up is gay crossthwai. >> thank you and thank you can you hear mow? >> yes. thank you very much for allowing mow to appear remote i'm gay and in san diego on a court order inspection of the san diego jail. i will discuss my qualifications i'm a lawyer representing people with disabilities and many face

homelessness. i montort 15 billion dollars government agency called [inaudible] for compliance with plan and laws. this professional experience is directly irrelevant voluntaries to commission and the city [inaudible] use the funds wise low to end this tragic problem. as the owner of a mall business in san francisco emaccomplice 40 people or so i seat impact of homelessness daily on our financial district. as a homeowner in the richmond i won't to seat treasure and sleeping on sidewalks. if chosen to serve i would make several things my priorities. first audit. we need an outside audit. to not better or city audit use our city audit to understand how we are spending our funds and to

your question, mr. walon, are up we using those funds fair low and equal low. we need an audit and outside voices. new you know experts who can give us a second. i read the accomplice for all report and i don't understand why we need within.4 billion dollars and how it would be spent and how many the numbers would address our problem. and note the report does in the address ecwittedy or inclusion at least my read of temperature i like to see a data base. it is in the okay you have to call 311 and told there are 5 addresses with shelter and stand in line. this is san francisco. we can do a data base i would like to see more tiny homes and why our mate is 10 times oak land's. i like to see more services

maps drug and alcohol counciling sober live and we need to support the heard work hsh employees who are facing trauma throughout w than i do with this very difficult job. if chosen i will w to affect the goals of the commission. thank you for listening to me and, pol yoiz for become ground noise. >> thank you for joining us from san diego. are there questions. show aggressed my questions. thank you gwen y. thank you so much. gay and next up is jason albertson. michael albertson. thank you for the middle name. supervisors. thank you for welcome me here today.

member of board, members of the communities and fellow candidates i note i'm an employment of d. public health and i don't represent department. required notice. i worked in the communities of poverty, substance abuchls homelessness and hiv since 1990 starting at next door shelter. i was a family support liaison. now am home rise. i helped open the center and opened the 2 building in thes early days of supportive permanent housing. i helped build i community upon process to shape the civil right's center of continuum plan and got a degree in 99 worked in south of market mental health for 8 years the first new program in the state to support

people with homelessness. new first in 30 years. after that i decide wing on homeless out reach would be a refreshing break and managed the team for another 8 year before the psychiatric emergency response time in san mateo and there was a homeless challenge there as well. i came back to homelessness and supportive housing a lead for the encampment resolution team. wod this with some success and moveed hiv. 2 envelope years in stloets and camps with covid response. i provide services in supportive house to aging sometimes physically deteriorating population. in a situation where we don't have strong outcome metrics and perception this evictions oh

well they'll ham. including one reasonable. planned for an elderly woman remaining a hermit has not [inaudible]. i bring to the task of membership on the oversight commission i perspective noot easily won except through time. seeing what workd and what has not and seeing cycles of public distress intervention evaluation sometimes punish am of homeless people and attempts to manage the problem. bring member shps in each department tasked with managing this challenge in san francisco. i bring this personal knowledge of homeless people, communities, cult urs and ways of being, i bring my understanding how homelessness affects, frustrates our residents. working on streets since 1990. there are years. excited bring niez to the task

of support. i attends every year the homeless memorial. and stood boy and crip head people died and cell brit when people got in house and thrived from the hard w now i find them prit nothing i kill zone less is thought how to passport people to live. our system needs to comprise 3 things to succeed. my hope to forward these as a member of the commission to use the knowledge i achieved of the first is residential system. one thisy evaluates without fear of punishment exposure without regret this is dmifl this entity we face.

i can request my clothe fist we are questions? >> thank you. vice chair walton. thank you. the same question how would you hold the department countability to addressing the disproporingality of black homeless people in the city and where we sigh increased homeless knows? >> we recognize we are looking at the institutional racism. and it is limited by zip codes. in this circumstance, i think well is room to manage housing preferences in an affirmative way to which remedy past discrimination not tucked about much t. is manage i think the commission can passport the department to look at. it is something that was i present idea under the previous

director and i think it let's you get around the fair housing act. but also some folks in the city attorney's office will think about this i think we can set housing for verse categories responsiblesed discrimination. i push for it. why thank you, supervisor safai. we had a good conversation and addressed my questions today. why thank you. >> and next up neil simms. the floor is yours. gi believe neil is joining remotely. >> good morning. can you hear me okay. thank you chairman dorsey walton and supervisor safai for considering me today. i first should apologize for my

limited availability to meet with you folks prior to today. this review candidate happened to over lay a vacation planned. i'm peeking to you today from the jungles of cam bowlesia. so i hope my wellingness to be available at 2:30 newscast miles an houring my time is an indication of my commitment to the chfrmg changes we face. i'm like you impressed by both the credential and it is number of folks from san francisco who have presented themselves i'm encouraged boy this wlo i'm selected. i am a 30 plus year resident of san francisco and spent years on civil right and social justice issues and affordable housing challenges. i spent more then and there 10

years on the board directors served as chairman of the board of an organization open house. we built 117 units of low income housing for lgbt seniors and provides serviceos an -- remote base to several,000 other seniors living age in accomplice in san francisco. in pair 3 my tenure with open house i serviced as mayor yell appointee to what was the d. aging and, did you tell service commission. it has been renamed i think -- now das in the daas. during that tenure i worked directly with mcfadden.

she republican that department during a portion of the time i served on the commission. and she and i pair led each other in her move to the department of homelessness. because i serve as a member of the board of directors of home rise in formerly the community housing partnership. today we housed 23 formerly homeless in 18 buildings across san francisco and provide permanent supportive housing in the with respect around service this is go with the housing itself. yes this it is sort of i think a sum row of my qualifications. i would address tht 2 questions this supervisor raise in countability and visibility around racial disparities.

and my response is that i'm an experience from of the daas commission. a great deal of the impact of a city department like this is -- distributed through third parties. and the accountability and visibility in the contract system a play-offs leverage. where the right questions can be asked by a commissioner -- to make sure that -- the priority issues are addressed. so i would recommend this both the stand point of -- upon the racial access question and accountability and performance be in part addressed through the way commissioners are probate both the population of agencies

that are funded thu the city and performance against the deliveriables in contracts. >> thank you. colleagues any questions you did a good job of anticipating the questions this would be asked and answering them. thank you for joining us from come bode why and the wee hours of the morning and i appreciate your willingness to serve and the final applicant is a former member of this body and concern director dart board mr. bevan dufty. the flower is yours >> thank you to everyone here. i we mute the other line. thank you.

okay. i'm goods. thank you, sir. i want to say that being here for the past couple of hours has been inspiring. gives me a sense of hope and how important this commission is. for the city to do a better job. the reality is people live or work in san francisco what they see is when is not working. seeing anybody on the street and using on the street. folk in cars clear. all of those things. and i think this this commission as the opportunity top really educate the public. it is important it is televisedir participated with the local homeless board and the meetings are important but bring thanksgiving lens on to hat city is doing approximate looking at the best practice others are doing is an important thing. i'm proud of the fact i started the first navigation center. in that there are a couple

lessons one is to create low barriers not to bring failure on to people that have generally had failure already in their lives. at home and school and community and complex systems that seek to have folks run in the wall that00 stereo it is not good this is manage we look at over and over again. i was happy to hear jordan davis testify today and it med me excited because the commission will be able to take folks that are anxiety row and give them an opportunity to have a voice. not that jordan would not 3 an elbow in my direction i'm not pandering in this this has not exist exclude that clients they are too busy to meet with machine this is in my day, 5 years ago.

i have gone through signing up ga for men know hillary xhith eversmith in this and i have gone through a lot of hand's on experiences to see what is not working. i will briefly say hai started the castro young adult homeless program with larkin street and lbgtq+ done focusing on young people we see more young people in san francisco and jazzy accomplice envagz stopped and 400 thousand dollars short fall i worked with david compose when fifth and harrison proposed other than youth housing i fought to make that help and i believe i have credibility with the advocate in this room. i support coalition on homelessness and tell the truth and there are other leaders sitting in the benches now i look forward to working with to make this commission a success.

apologize for running over >> thank you mr. dufty. i will say, i rememberful back when you had you were over seeing homelessness with the office in the basement hi was in the stele attorney's office we would have an everinteraction i appreciate you bring a memory and knowledge of the city government and have the heart for the individual there. >> thank you >> this is something i admire and will do my best to emulate. i will upon handled off to vice chair walton. >> thank you for being willing to serve. i have been committed to improving san francisco for years and appreciate you want to step up in this role. same question. in terms of addressing the disproportionalities in the

black population this are homeless and the fact the southeast sector responsibles homeless knowledge different and folks who are neglected by the department at times how would you hold the department countable. >> obviously. racism is at core that what has happened the black community in san francisco this city was known for the vibrancy of the community in different parts of town. i will give an example. when i worked on veteran homelessness from mayor lee whoa had hud and va meet with us in public housing authority and my office and we were focusing on the fact that one out of every 5 black veteran system homeless. and the obama administration chink third degree using section 8. we came to the meeting how to

kick things off. there were several hired lie hud and the va they were all white. i think this one thing important this you don't have to be black to call out racism we experience instead homeless service system how few organizations seek to serve this community have blk leadership within the organizations. i was proud of the fact when i had 4 in the basement of city hull that our staff was 50% african-american. myself. and christine keener. i think you can count on me being a dog with i bone like everything we do needs to be focused. and we have to recognize the latino population doubled in homelessness the lbgtq+ population i worked on in many neighborhoodless in the city and i look forward to doing things that change what is helping in

d10. >> thank you. >> thank you and supervisor safai >> yes. to build on in point. director dufty i think just to dmril i bit on your experience with the broad range of communities but the youth. i think this we talked about discrim nigz and house and incars rigz and talked about so many inld indicators that lead to this number of african-americans being homeless in our city. but what we are not talked about today is how it begins at a young age and the seat you will occupy for is for families and for working with youth. talk a bit about that and how it play in this leading into the inld indicators for those this

are hemless if we look at this some of those issues begin at a young age. not trying to lead you but opinioning we had conversations, luyou to peek on this foremost and others spoken about this. stop evictions. i think this is an penitentiary area and i think we have to also look into the organizations and had is done with kids in the foster care system and to make sure we are doing everything possible. what this question beg system it is reason i want to be on this commission is because i have been in city government for 20 years you know what makes a department head great? if than i don't ask for more money this is ridiculous thing

that goos relate to homeless knows you look at the shelters that have been under resources, upon you should staffd and obviously then have community problems and people in neighborhoods don't want services than i associate them with problems coming to their neighborhood. we have to create a merit based system to appreciate when people say they need resources to be successful. some have hung in around he were. i really particular is corroded the homeless response system. at a level people are not honest. about had they are able to do. and there is no reason we set a policy around sro's. this we want to preserve them. but not putting the service in to make them healthy building this is is total low on the city we can do a better yen and the

health department will have to be a part of the work and human service per of the w we can do. i'm straight up excited. exit irrelevant am looking forward to working with many who this have still in the this room to make to change things of how things get done. >> this is a good point to end on the knowledge of understanding this in an upon relationships with the different departments the need for hsh to work collaborative clanollaboratively. i appreciate you miling when i said it. i don't have further questions. thank you director dufty. thanks to everyone for remarks

and the opportunity to just learn a lot about this. mr. clerk, let's open this item to public comment. why members of the public had wish to speak and joining us line up to peek at this time. for those remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2489 884 3434 ##. you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. continue to wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted and begin your comment. our first in person speaker? good afternoon. board thank you for giving mote town to speak i know most everyone here this morning. i want to call out a few. first tracie mixon.

she said this she is out on the streets every day. i'm in the line scomploin see her out every day we worked on so many clients i can't tell you. jason albertson on the streets for 20-30 yers. he is a person that gave me my first door key when i was laying out in tents. 20 years ago. i reason why i got in add are kaes seat 6 i'm in now is buzz of this man. he knows that [inaudible] we served on of the first [inaudible] task force in the mayor's office years ago. christie she and i worked together and met in a resolution [inaudible] years ago ands had

the approximation for this position. bevan duff that he is mr. homelessness i can't say enough about him. they homelessness is such a nonissue than i put him in the basement of city hall and he over to being this and became -- he never refused to take my calls had i have a client in trouble. ennis johnson who has got, lot of approximation i irrelevant appreciate him. applying i appreciate thefrn came today and my regret is i wish brian epier son was still alive to apply for this seat. he should be sitting here. because he is he all love him i love him every day i can't believe he is in the here. thank you.

federal afternoon. good to see you thank you for having us here i'm stefani ashley the chair of the transgender justice project. i want to start by thanking all of the applicants today. so many phenomenonal people whom do this work every day. i'm not here to advocate for any one my graft taoist to gratitude to tric and he ennis we fought good fight us and know kristin i remember her coming in and picking up an elder after hours we did not have a place and kristin picked her up and got her a hotel room. everyone for seat 5 i have the respect and gratitude it it is

hard to fight against the bureaucracy every day. it is critical. i was sad when i found janetta was with draws but has a national fightace joaquin share lead is a real war waged against transpeople and we have a building with 21 black women and the building was set fire to overnight weekend i. to ask torn hold the urgency sudden front has to credit a safe place for transfolks who are homeless. thank you. i'm suz and he i'm a housing counsellor in the tenderloin i'm here to speak on behalf of

gregory johnson. he is passionate with projects this he works on. he is determined to see projects through. i think this heat would be a great asset to the mittee and that's it. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm kathy ron i'm a residents of the tenderloin. and i'm here to speak about gregory johnson. i worked with gregory for a year on the central city collaborative safety committee. and i have found working with him is a wonderful experience. gregory shown skill in tracking yours and this need improvement and as well as showing us clients statistic in our your.

he is well thought out. years and come approximationate when expressing the ideas. he is a person of integrity and honesty. loves talking with people and is very out going. bring him on this committee would be a huge @set to the community and the committee. thank you. >> good afternoon members of the rules committee i'm clifford gilmore. i work in the organizing department of housing clinic i run the leadership program we have 35 residential leaders and in this program, gregory johnson accepted the role the resident leader on hyde street. you have been that people who are from the homeless that come different pregnants to supportive housing.

and it is difficult to organize to have i bond and vision. greg row did this at the vincent hotel. it is challenging. and as well as he is out there in the community every day. talking to people and someone like gregory who lived the experience of homeless knows is qualified to work with people on the issue. he is a consensus person. and a team player that matters when you dpo group. he is dealt indicated, committed, does a lot of research and if you are doing this work if it is in the in your heart you will not be able to do it. his heart is there and committed. we are recommending this gregory be appointed to this commission.

>> hello i loic to say hel low to all 3 of you. thank you for all you do. i'm cheryl shanks a community organizer at the tenderloin and cofounder of slowlies food co-op hub opening this summer i'm here on behalf of tracie mixon she is a dedicated person to the community. has live experience. we need live experience on the street. she works with the homeless coalition. she has great opportunity to -- develop further in her work in the community. she is out in the communities.

she knows -- what people i'm sorry this is my puppy. she knows what people need. she will prioritize people in the streets. you know i hear let of people speaking but on housing but have not heard anybody speak on behalf of 5 percent of black people left in san francisco and prioritizing them in housing. high majority of the black people that are here are homeless. and pushed out. so -- that needs to be locked at by hsh and it is is not. when i speak to people now who are on the committee. and i ask them about vouchers than i don't know. they don't have numbers or who is getting in or know how to get

i voucher. that is outrageous. tracie does her research. she does research. >> time is up >> and live responsibles. ive can go on and on. please consider tracie mixon. thank you. >> good afternoon now i'm jordan she, her, they, them. ive oppose the commission but i got to support tracie mixon has a powerful life story of lived experience add have kaes and works hearder than i will we need strong community based black woman leader ship and she does not care about what you want to here she wants you to hear had you need to hear and i think ger oro should be

[inaudible] with the other states and what i heard about this sro catching fire that pisses me off. i don't want to give a third endorsement there are too many i don't want to piss off i will piss people off anybody with ties to the sro giving big dollar contracts to provider. and building and i have to deal with bull -- including opposition this is make [inaudible] [inaudible]. which is why supervisor ronen bring up the budget left year tenderloin sro collaborate tifs obstructionism on commission i served on with respect i cannot trust anyone to bring oversight

that is needed for people like my land lord and i said before i'm a disabled tenant who has nothing to lose. i will be at the meetings giving comment on hsh operations with foul language and you have to listen. i yield my time. f-you. why sarah hor with home rise. and first this is xoiting this we are seat thanksgiving commission and props to supervisor safai. for for making this help before i tell you the folks i worked with and support i wanted to say this i continuing it is important to consider the equity and he diversity and inclusion issue around the composition of

this body as well. and so -- making sure we have accept centation of the key communities that are highly impacted boy homeless knowledge the black and brown communities and lbgtq+ and disabled folks. is also important. the people that i have had experience working with around homeless knows were kristin upon evans. she blue my mind on sip holing. not a housing in the field but grasps the policy issues easy 3 and push things forward and on top of this spendses time helping individual case. jason of bert son hips experience is incredible the perspective he has in this for the longhaul. tracie mixon, hopeful it is i strong advocate for those on the

street and live in psa now and connected to the community. and will bring that voice to the mix. bevan dufty i don't vice president to say much about him. but his leadership skill this is we know he has with his knowledge of homelessness would be an asset and final low i worked with salinea on the mental health sf wing group examine provided leadership y. time e lapsed. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello supervisors i'm eon james organizing director at the coalition on homeless knows. i think there is great candidates for the board today i like to poke in favor tracie

mixon. i think this commission has a lot of work this is needs to provide accountability to the homeless response system and -- we need commission members with experience of the issues. and know how the system works and does not work. tracie has experience and sloping on mats in the friendship family shelter. has experience helping adults and families and youth navigatent row and making the services this are available. and i think the other thing this makes her stand out is her ability to use her lived experience and the importance show's seen on out retch to create solutions and improve the system for everybody. her irrelevant in opening oasis and making sure families don't end up on the street come from her experience. alost others to the committee

necessary low have. and the other person i worked with is kristin evans. a person seen exact low when things are going wrong on the street level. thank you.

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can the department do? this is the lowest type of behavior that can come from a representative. data have you heard of [inaudible] garbage this and garbage out? and the other guy have you heard of him not being opinion in his own districts? there are people at pier 94 who are live nothing trailers. there are activities going on including prostitution. and how can a person ask candidate how they will fix a department and the departments are corrupt. need an outside audit and want to have been yet supervisor ss use

urban al kemp learning sums of money and talks with supervisors are talking and the city administrator and the supervisors among themselves you don't want to listen to the community. and that's going the downfall of san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. can we have the next caller? >> hello i'm chelsea and i w as a service provide in home little prevention field i'm calling to endorse joaquin ger oro and trace i mixon. i believe that we need trans and black represent tipgz and their experience will be very have you been for the commission. compassion is evident committee w they have done and do every day and i hope they are both ash

pointed. thank you for your time today. thank you >> double checking. can we have the next caller. >> hello i'm [inaudible] i am on the development people at saint james i want to encourage you to consider both wukeen and tracie. for the seat. and as everyone is well aware we are in a national federal crisis this is demonize and harming specific low trans people and transpeople of color. this is a white supremacist offense on trans people throughout the country and san francisco has been a strong advocate and can continue to by

prioritizing transrep centation and black and people of color representation add vo indicating against homeless knows. thank you. >> thank you. just checking this was the left caller >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment. public comment on this item is now closed. . supervisor safai. >> thank you. may be i will let supervisor walton go first. >> voice chair walton. >> thank you supervisor safai and chair dorsey. i want to thank the applicants for coming in and showingum today and putting your name forward. this is commission this i want feel was in accomplice. it is important the work of the commission and so i just wanted to say, thank you all for coming

out. this is -- obviously going to be a very hard difficult decision for us as a committee to actually pick the right 3 people we do have so many qualified candidates and we have to take so many things to consideration. but i want to say to any candidate that is not selected go forward, please continue the work please say appropriated. a lot of things happen with commissions and we can't pick everyone but we have a lot of qualified candidates here. i wanted to make sure that everyone knows how excited we are you chose to want to serve in this capacity and remember, the work continues if you don't get selected. i left a couple of election in my life and than i are doing the

work and fortunate to serve. don't get discouraged if you are in the chosen today. we have heard decisions to make. . thank you. >> thank you vice chair walton. supervisor safai. du want to make comments first and i can wrap it up? >> i'm informed by our deputy city attorney that a motion to expand this commission would not be something that was doable. so as much as you wish you one could. seeing all the heart and the expertise this is here. i will say just adding to what people vice president said about don't give ump i can say -- i will be reaching out to people and i had conversations among the people i met with that i will be turning to folks buzz of

how impressed i was with so many meetings i had. and i dent want to say one but i then and there andre salina was informative and when we met went over 30 minutes or long are then and there the meeting was scheduled. all of that said i think i will tell you where i'm grappling with and i mentioned this earlier one thing that is heard to do in this policy making role is stands back and look at the make up of the commission. my feeling is as a moefbt lbgtq+ plus community myself aware this the additional lbgtq+ task force in 2021 did a study and found

41% of transgender people of color experience homelessness in their lifetime. and this transgender community members face 5 times the rate of homelessness than the general population. one thing i have seen throughout my career and in a couple year when is i served as civilian exclusive in law enforcement that -- the kinds of violence that targets mfsht transgender community and transgender -- community of color, i think in light of -- san francisco's ambitious plan top end transgender homelessness for the reasons. tell be important i want janetta

there i'm impress with the wukeen ger oro and the support tracie mixon who is somebody i would support and i will say that -- either of you i will say this i will say bevan as somebody who i don't know how we say, no with that expertise and the heart i add moire and say to all of them they will get phone calls with questions.

i want to thank horn came out. irrelevant appreciate putting their names forward and spending time with the office and colleagues. when we started i have to tell you i was heartened by how much peopleed to continue to enengage on this issue. this is the issue. that inference france care about the most. and -- as much as we might think tlldz be fatigue in this area there is not. people irrelevantment to serve. than i want to come forward with good solutions. and they want to be part of the way in which we trans form this issue. one of the people said they made

it their mission in life to end homelessness and want to be part of this. i know this so men people have. we did a full fledged campaign we did not need to do this but we did and i tell you i was heartened to feel the response inn gagement and the over all excitement ofmenting it try to do something positive with this issue for san francisco. on the major's side speaking to the director of the department she told mow 80 people expressed interest to be ash pointed boy the mayor. over 80 people. having been furthermorer chair of rowel this is extraordinary. and the number of people this row received on the board side was also large. and people really are engaged. we have not easy decisions ahead of us today. i think that this so people

understand we have to take a brood perspective when we decide how to seat a commission like this. i think this may be other than the police department or planning department this is going to be the most high profile commissionless in the entire city. because of the perjuries of this issue. buzz of the way in which we need to address this i know i said this a million times but a department this started about 100 million grown to 700 million dollars. people want to see that money spent effectively. they want it it remain people driven community driven solution department of but than i typeset see better results. than iment to see better results on the street i appreciate the people here today. and we have difficult decision. but not something this am i think we can go one way or the other and -- we have so men

talented pep that are in forward in the end. as supervisor walton and chair dorsey said sometimes people move to other commissions and other opportunity. if you are not upon chosen today remain engaged. i will say that i think this looking for a broad range of responsibleses wlp private sector or business or nonprvt or with the community or providing or lived experience. aloments of people that come forward had lived responsiblesful understanding how the departments w and how all of the pieces come together. and to highlight manage the chair said long with what -- supervisor walton said. there are communities that are disprosecute portionate low impacted by homeless. one is the transcommunity. one of the communities is the

lbgtq+ community at large and so having chosen and recommended earlier and african-american. appreciate the perspective of this doctor butler bruexit think we made the right appointment there children and family with ms. 'll bright and someone this is bringing the business community and also their own experience sharkey laguana that is the budget on the mayor's side there is still one seat and we hear this soon. on the board side and i think mrs. chairit tick a stab at making my recommendations but i think joaquin ger oro for seat 5 am kristin evans for seat 6 and bevan dufty for upon seat 7 would be the right mix.

and gwen this it is not mean for the people this i'm not recommending or putting forward this there would not be other opportunity but given all of the things worst trying to balance out i thank you is the right move today. and in terms when this board can do. >> thank you. this supervisor safai. mr. clerk. roll call on this motion? or any further? >> i don't have complete recommendations on each seat or was this a motion. why my motion is amend the motion to accomplice joaquin ger oro in seat 5. kristin evans in seat 6 and bevan duff in seat 7 and move this to the full board. >> on is this motion, on this

motion voice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> no. >> the motion passes. with chair dorsey decent nothing committee. >> thank you mr. young on a 2-1 vote then. the item guess to the full burden with recommendation. >> and miwe now go become to item 5. >> item 5 is a motion approving the major's nomination for vikrum aiyer homeless submission. mr. aier has with drawn. >> thank you i think the present motion is to table this? >> yes. >> item. >> i like to move to table item 5. >> yes.

>> and open to public comment y. on this motion member of the public are gin nothing person line up to speak. for those remote cull 415-655-0001 access code: 2489 884 3434 ##. first in person speaker? i'm sorry to speak so much i foal like it is my duty it hen a busy day i to being it to be the nomination and asked

>> nominee who has been here today and other days had have the right to be just and not commented on by this board or this committee proposal to him or her appearing. and -- hopefully i believe the nominee is has made other options that's not a concrete option i would like you to consider this -- nomination again. because if i said before here he has been public low noted he is done indiscretions but so have a lot of us. and the business of the board

for the transgressions in the past we put our arms around him this is the city of st. francis. we don't hold people for things done 5 years ago if we did there would be few are members of the board. consider your fairness selection process this -- it is in mind i would like to you opinion the continue the nomination for this seat. >> thank you. >> no other in person peeshgs we have no callers on the line. >> thank you. public ment on this is now closed. and i will would pick up on the comments that mr. semore made i will say to that i will say this i admire mr. aiyer knowing he

was going to believing facing a screw no in the prisz for his past conduct still brave low sought out a public service role. and with this mr. clerk a roll call on the motion to table y. on this motion, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> sproirz safai. >> aye. >> supervisor dorsey. >> aye >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. young item 5 is tabled. >> >> clerk. any further business >> this come pleaes items for today. why thank you we are adjourned. for force items for today. why thank you we are adjourned. for force

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state.

and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought you know we gotta make sure the next generation contains for

generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else.

there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are

richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying.

it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they

lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an

immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature richmond

is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel

welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music] >> 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 a ploy 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. [♪] >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique,

successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language]

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[♪] please stand by for the san francisco public safety and neighborhood services committee meeting of march 9, 2023. >> this meeting will can come to order. well which to the march 9, 2023 regular meeting of public safety neighborhood service committee. i'm supervisor stefani. the clerk is john carol and like to thank at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. >> the board of supervisors and committees are

convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and public comment. the board recognizes that equitable public access is essential and will take public comment, first comment taken on each item. those in person lrb allowed to ecspoofirst and then hear comments from those waiting on the telephone line. sfr those watching cable channel 28, 26, 78 or 99 or watching through sfgovtv.org, the public comment call in number is streaming across your screen. the phone number is 415-655-0001. enter meeting id for today's meeting is 2 (489) 364-5476. after you entered the meeting id, press pound symbol two times. you will be connected and know you are connected because you will hear the meeting proceedings through your telephone but your line will be muted and in

listening mode. when your item coming up on the agenda, dial-first you will hear from folks connected to our meeting physically here in the board chamber room 250 and are those connected by the telephone should dial star 3 on the phone. if you are on your telephone remember it turn down your tell tell television and listening devices. you may sib mitt public comment in writing to me the public safety and neighborhood service committee clerk and my e-mail address is john-send written comments to the committee by our office in city hall. that is the clerk's office room 244 and city hall address is 1 dr.

carlton b goodlett place. if you submit written comment i will add your comment to the file and send your comments to members of public safety committee for consideration. we retain those comments in the public record. for today's meetic we had special request for interpretation service and we have both remote consecutive interpretation and in-person simultaneous interpretation of today's discussion for those who may need interpretation in spanish or cantonese. we have (indiscernible) and marty dickenson from lando associates provided interpretation and-[announcing interpreter names] in the back of the chambers for those who may need interpretation of today's proceedings. i like to check in with

(indiscernible) in order to provide access instructions in cantonese and spanish respectively. >> thank you. my name is tom- [providing instructions for public comment]

>> thank you very much both of you for being here and for your services to our committee today. finally, madam chair, items are expected to appear on the bord of supervisors agenda of march 21, 2023 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk. will you please call the first item? >> issuance of type 20-off sale beer and win liquor license to dapper nob hill llc located at 1198 pacific and serve public convenience and necessity of san francisco. >> thank you. i believe we have san francisco please department here. >> good morning members of the board. you have before you a pcn rort for dapper nob hill. applied for type 21 license and

if approved allow to operate a beer and wine premise. zero letters of protest, zero letters of support. located in plot 136 considered high crime. census 108, high satchuation. central station as no opposition and recommends approval with no additional conditions. >> thank you. are there representatives of the applicant present? >> is paula hortado or jim to represent the applicant? >> good morning members of the board. my name is (indiscernible) one of the partners at dapper. i'm also a neighbor. i live in the neighborhood and i find it really hard to sometimes just get a fresh sandwich,

fresh groceries. it is just a food desert around there, so our purpose at dapper is to be-to serve everything local and have fresh coffee, be a stone wall to the neighborhood and we just want to better the neighborhood and i think it is crucial and we are so excited to be there, so yeah--thank you so much. >> thank you very much. i understand this is in district 3 and president peskin has no issues with this particular liquor license request, so do my colleagues have any questions before we go to public comment? no. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> is there anyone here in the board chamber room 250 who wishes to provide public comment on item 1? if we dont have any, lets turn our attention to remote public comment queue. we have one caller listening to our meeting. if that

caller wishes to provide comment on item 1 dial star 3. delaying for a moment so they have the opportunity. madam chair, no callers for item 1. >> thank you mr. clerk. i do not see any other individuals here in chambers to testify at public comment, so seeing none, public comment is now closed. any other questions or any questions at all from colleagues? no. okay, great. i would like to move the clerk prepare a resolution making a determination that the issuance of type 20off sale beer and liquor license thoothe applicant serve the public convenience or necessity. >> on the motion offered by chair stephanie r the resolution prepared to support the applicant- [roll call] >> madam chair, there is no opposition. >> thank you mr.

clerk. motion to send to full board with positive recommendation? so moved. >> who is the mover? >> supervisor dorsey. >> okay. >> on the motion offered by member dorsey the resolution recommended to the board of supervisors considered march 21- [roll call] >> madam chair, there is no opposition. >> thank you. mr. clerk, will you please call the next item? >> item 2 is hearing to consider person to person premise to premise transfer of general beer wine disstilled spirits to save mart supermarket llc3801 third street serve the public convenience and necessity of city and county. >> thank you, and i like to welcome officer samalson back to the podium.

>> save mart supermarket applied for type 21 license to operate off sale general premise. zero letters of protest, zero letters of support. loquated in 348 a low crime area. in census tract 612, which is considered high satchuation. bayview station has no opposition and recommend approval with the existing conditions already in place. >> thank you. any representatives of the applicant present? >> madam chair, we do have the applicant available online reggie chund on line and beth (indiscernible) >> would they like to say a few words? >> mr. chun, your microphone is muted. >> good morning members of the board. thank you for having me here today. for the last 5 months we have been

service the district 10 neighborhood and our commitment to our community is provide a full shopic experience for our customers. to provide the neighborhood more variety we are investing into a (indiscernible) with many more items tailored to our customers and we have been offering beer and wine over the last few months the question is when are you bringing liquor so here today to ask we approve for transfer of type 21 license to provide full alcohol for purchase with groceries instead of having to visit another shop for grocery needs. the alcohol display will be located in the front of the store behind the check-out and less then 2 percent of the square footage. i sincerely hope today we receive a positive recommendation to provide our customers with our full shopping experience we are

promising. >> thank you for those comments and as you mentioned, this is district 10 and my understanding that supervisor walton is supportive. are there any questions from colleagues? mr. clerk, may we open up for public comment. >> anyone in chamber have comment on item 2? if so please line up against the wall. seeing none, turn our attention to callers who are on the telephonic public comment line. if you wish to speak dial star 3 to be added to the queue. there is one listner and that listner is not indicating desire to speak. >> thank you mr. clerk. seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. at this time i would like to now move the clerk prepare resolution making a determination that the person to person premise to premise transfer of type 21 general beer wine disstilled spirit to the applicant serve the public convenience

or necessity. colleagues, may we take this motion without objection? great. and is there a motion to send the resolution to full board with positive recommendation? that is made by supervisor engardio, vice chair engardio, and can we get a roll call? >> motion to recommend to the board of supervisors considered on march 21 offered by vice chair engardio-on the motion- [roll call] madam chair, there is no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. will you please call the next item? >> agenda item 3 is ordinance amending the police code to allow holders of temporary cannabis business permits to transfer aggregate ownership interest of 50 percent or more in the business to pirns not owners at the time to

temporary permits issued so lodge as 5 years or more passed since the office of cannabis director first acknowledged receipt of the business application. for temporary cannabis business permit. regardalize whether the business received a permanent cannabis business permit. >> thank you mr. clerk. i understand we have jacky thornhill legislative aid to supervisor mandelman in chamber jz also the director of office cannabis with us virtually to alsoprint on the item. welcome mrs. thornhill. >> thank you for making the time to consider this item today. this ordinance would allow cannabis business owners with temporary permits to sell more then 50 percent of ownership interest provided it it has been at least 5 years since they apply frd a permit. temporary permit holders are supply side cannabis businesses that were operating prior to legalization including cultivators distributors manufacturers and testing lab.

following legalization of cannabis, these business spent working for years to comply with laws and regulations waiting for the city to process their application. the office heard from owners of business that applied for permit in 2018 yet still prohibited from selling the shares because the local cannabis regulations temp orary permit holder (indiscernible) 5 years elapsed since they applied for the permit. the office of cannabis made progress in addressing a severe backlog of permit applications they are still just beginning to process the applications of the temporary permit holders because they were behind equity applicants and incubators in the prioritization required by article 16 so it will likely take years to finish processing the applications leaving business owners over stuck in a state of

limbo unable toic a ses the value created some over decades in the industry. these temporary permit holders are seeking to engage and same business deals every other industry in san francisco is allowed to engage in and ultimately allowing them to function as normal businesses in as many ways as possible is critical achieving --this ordinance would make a very miner change to the restrictions to allow perm r temporary permit holdsers to sell more then 50 percent before they receive a permanent permit and also clarify enforcement protocol should trajzfer more then 50 percent of the ownership sooner then 5 years after they applied for permanent permit so if a business owner makes this mistake they would have 6 months to unwind the new ownership deal under supervigez vision of office of cannabis. this allow a handful

of stalled ownership deals to go through providing a relatively small amount of relief for struggling industry. thank you. >> thank you for your presentation. any questions colleagues? great. i think we can go to director patel. >> thank you so much for the opportunity to speak on the proposed legislation. as mentioned it is narrow in scope in that it primarily impacts those businesses operating with a temporary business permit. as mentioned article 16 section 1608c5 the legislation as it stands prohibits temporary permit holders selling 50 percent or more of the business to an owner that want listed on thep aication at the time it was submitted back in 2018, and what we heard from operators who have experienced that 5 year lapse between

when they submitted the application for temporary permit and now that they are looking to sell 50 percent or more of the business who wasn't on the application when they filed and unable to do so until the article 16 permit is awarded for that particular location. this impacts temporary permit holders differently then our other types of permit holders, mainly permanent article 16 and those operating with article 33 permits for medical cannabis. they are not able to make changes in their ownership, whereas where the permit holder (indiscernible) this proposed change would be relatively targeted in it folks on the temporary permit holders of which all are about 55 right now. >> thank you. colleagues you have any questions? i

think we can go to public comment mr. clerk. >> thank you madam chair. reaching out to board chamber room 250 to see if anyone wishes to provide public comment. seeing none, turn our attention to the remote telephonic public comment queue. we have one listner. if that listner wishes to speak on agenda item 3, dial star 3. and it appears that we have no callers in the queue, madam chair. >> thank you, public comment is now closed. i would like to now entertain a motion to pass this item out of committee with positive recommendation to the full board. i have been briefed on this ordinance and am very supportive so unless my colleagues have questions, you have a motion anyone? >> i move. >> motion made by vice chair engardio. >> on the motion

offered by vice chair engardio- [roll call] madam chair, there is no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call the next two items together? >> agenda item number 4 and 5 are two ordinances authorizing the district attorney and sheriff to enter into agreement with united states department of home land security under which dhs facilitate patrol entry and agree to notify dhs if the dependent post bail or otherwise to be released from custody during or after the criminal proceeding. agenda item 4 is crimial defendant. 5 is for criminal defendant for prosecution in san francisco on a charge of murder. >> thank you mr. clerk. so, these items are going to look

different then today then we thought they were. i do want to mention we have tom paul ino from the mayor office if we need him. i had a conversation with district attorney brook jenkings and she asked to table these items. the da she told me she recently met with victims of these crimes described in the ordinances and also met with community leaders and understands the need to support our sanctuary city policy. as i said, the sanctuary city policy enhances and protects san franciscans while promoting public safety and seeking justice for crime victims which is something i'm focused on. the da did assure me she is working with the federal government to extradite the apprehension and extradition of the

wanted alleged domestic violence murdser and child rapist who fled the country and their assistance insure we are able to live up to our mutual commitment to the people of san francisco, the state of california and united states. i just want to mention i really appreciate the da willingness to work with the board and listening to the community and with that, do my colleagues have comments or questions on this matter? vice chair engardio. >> just want to say that we must uphold san francisco commitment to be a sank yae city. it is a important concept for public safety because it allows undocumented residents to report crimes and testify as witnesses without fear of deportitation. the sanctuary city kwon cept is sacred and should not weaken it. being a sanctuary

city does not stop arresting anybody breaks the law. i urge to extradite the individuals sought for crimial prosecution as soon as possible. they need to be brought to justice, but we do not need to pass an ordinance to bring the criminals to justice. we faced a similar situation in 2019 and the feds extraditing the suspect then and can do it again. in san francisco we must hold individuals accountable and urge home land security to do its job and extradite the individuals accused of the heinous crimes in our city. >> thank you. i would second those comments. i was here in 2019 when dhs asked us to do the same thing and turned out we didn't need to do it at all because they brought the individual back without amendments and that is our point all along is they should be getting these individuals without having to go through any type of legislative process because it is

absolutely not necessary and they should be working on bringing them back to san francisco to stand trial for the crimes they are accused of. so, where that, if there are no other comments or questions from colleagues i like to open up for public comment. >> thank you madam chair. reaching out room 250, the board chamber for anyone in person who wishes to provide public comment on items 4 and 5 called together. seeing none, before we open up the telephonic public comment line i want to one last time ask for assistance from interpreters on the line to provide brief instructions for accessing today's meeting for those who may be watching the meeting on television. can we hear from tom first? >> hi. [providing instructions for public comment]

>> thank you. can we hear from marty dickenson next? >> thank you. [providing instructions for

public comment] >> thank you. >> thank you both very much for being here and assisting us with speakers of cantonese and spanish. delaying for a moment to see if we callers in the queue who wish to provide public comment on item 4 and 5. not seeing any.

>> thank you mr. clerk. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i would like to move to table both of these items. >> motion is offered by chair stefani to table these two ordinances. on the motion- [roll call] madam chair, there is no opposition. >> thank you mr. clerk. are there any other items before us today? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> the meeting am come to order welcome to the march 15 meeting of budget and finance i'm supervisor connie chan chair and i'm joined by vice chair mandelman and shortly by supervisor safai. our clerk is brent jalipea. i would like to thank colleena

mendoza from sfgovtv. make sure to silence all cell phones. the board and committees allow in person attendance and public comment and remote access via phone. the board recognizes that equal access is essential and take public comment first on each item. those in person allowed to speak first then those on the phone line watching 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgov.org the call in number is streaming the number is 415-655-0001. again, 415-655-0001 and enter access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. when connected you will be in listening mode.

when your item come up those in person should lineup and those on the phone should dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on your phone turn down listening device. each speak will be allowed up to 2 minutes. you may submit in writing e mail them to myself. brent brent. japipa sfgov.org tell be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the file. also to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. items today will appear on the board sproirz's agenda march 21st unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk. before we call item one i would

like to reminds whefrn we do we will have the department presentation first and for any items that have budget and analyst report we will have the department presentation. the bia report then questions then public comment. items flow 4, 6, 9, those items have the budget and legislative analyst report. mr. clerk, call item one. >> item upon authorizing the mayor and employees of office of the mir and officer s and employees of the department of public health donations to support the opening and operation of of safe consumption cites for foundationings. not with stanltdzing the ordinance. member who is are joining remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491

751 5889 ## thank you. today we have mr. paulino from the mayor's office to present on this item and i believe we have doctor jeffrey homelessness from d. public health to answer questions. thank you, the floor is yours >> good morning, tom paulino from the mayor's office i have a remark on the item before you. it it is the second of its kind the second waiver to the behested payment ordinance allow the mayor's office and upon department of public health to solicit funds from various contractors for safe consumption site. first of the behested payment waiver was for the bridge program in january.

and you noted d ph is here for questions. >> thank you and vice chair mandelman? i know you are a cosponsor do you have remarks otherwise we will go to public comment. i want to thank supervisor ronen for this legislation. and the. mayor's office and i think that this is an area it is appropriate to be soliciting private donationings to help pay for this and it is important and looking forward to hearing more from supervisor ronen and dorse from their trip at safe consumption site models. >> thank you. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> thank you. members who wish to speak and are joining in person lineup now. for those remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ##.

seeing no in person speakers here. can you unmute our caller, please. >> good morning chair and committee members [inaudible]. and a member of [inaudible] and coalition. the organization supports this resolution and we are grateful to have the support of the board of supervisors and understanding [inaudible] [echo]. our city is facing an over doze crisis and do everything you can to allow the opening of prevention centers as soon as possible this is a step toward a reality we have the service.

due to [inaudible] marginalization [inaudible] [echo]. increased use and isolation resulted in the over dose mortalities we see today. because of peer to peer reversals and the efforts of under funded and volunteer harm reduction. vulnerable niches and lived once black indigenous people color. experiencing the brunt of the consequence of over dose. consumption saves lives of people who would otherwise die alone [inaudible] criminalizes and [inaudible] to the vulnerable. the science behind the interventions are cost effective. the programs work. please pursue [inaudible] acknowledge humanity of people who use drugs provide them with

evidence paced compassionate care and pass this resolution and impmrement the programs city wide and to scale. >> thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. >> thank you, public comment is closed. i want to recognize supervisor peskin. move item one with positive recommendation to full board and i'm sorry that supervisor safai is stoy his way but let's call the roll on that motion to forward with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai, absent.

>> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 2 ayes with member safai absent am >> motion passes. call item 2 >> item 2 is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation's code to expand through fiscal 27-28 temporary suspension of the business registration and fee requirements to transportation met york drivers and taxi drivers. member who is wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line a prompt will indicate you raised your hand. when you have been unmuted that is your signal to begin comments. board president pes pel would you like to make comments before we call for presentation. >> thank you for your

cosponsorship. i don't have much to tood what is set forth other than to say half a decade go the uber and lyft basically bought off the state legislator and got rid of our local business license requirements for tnc's except for those drivers who were domiciled in san francisco as a matter of fairness that brought the original piece of legislation in 2018 to create a level playing field by waiving requirements for our local taxi drivers. that sb1 upon 82 legislation was litigated, did in the result favorablely for the city to extend that level playing field i have offered this legislation to continue to extend to 2028.

upon the requirement waiver for business registration fees for tnc's and taxis in san francisco. >> thank you. president peskin and today we have a verbal presentation bay amanualeda chief of policy and communication from office of treasure and tax collector. but i see that you are not a mandza. president peskin covered things beautifully. i'm here for questions >> mr. clerk call public comment. why members who wish to speak lineup now, remotely call 415-655-0001. access code: 2491 751 5889 ##

access code: 2491 751 5889 ## there are no in person speakerers here or in the queue >> thank you. public upon comment is closed. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you. with that want to acknowledge that supervisor safai is stuck he is on his way. he is having challenges with traffic. so with that, like to move item 2, to full board with positive recommend a recollection. mr. clerk, call the roll. >> on this motion to forward this ordinance to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman.

>> aye. >> member safai. >> absent. >> member chan. why we have 2 aye's. >> the motion passes. mr. clerk call item 3. >> item 3, is a resolution authorizing office of assessor recorder to execute amendment number one to a contract with sapient corporation for maintenance of the property assessment system replacement project and increasing it by 5.7 million dollars total not to exceed 27.1 million and reducing the duration from 12 to 9 years november first of 2030 to december 31 of 27. members remoted and wish it comment call 415-655-0001. access code: 2491 751 5889 ## access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. press star 3 to enter the

speaker line a prompt will indicate you raised your hand when you system indicated you have been unmuted you may begin your comments. in dam chair. you want to welcome joaquin torres to the chamber. i wanted to acknowledge this is item sponsored by board president aaron peskin. wanted to see if the president has a remark before we come to you. >> in dam chair you may recall years ago under the leadership of the previous assessor now our city add administrator carmen chu this comprehensive package for redoing and replacing our entire property assessment and tax system was to the tune 72 plus million dollars under taken. i sponsored this original piece

of legislation as with many complex computer replacement programs. there are aspects of the project are taking longer and costing more. if there is good news here it is the costs are being absorbed within the department and not requested from the upon general fund. i have met with the assessor recorder and his team and be that they are stewarding this project carefully and appropriately and would turn it over to assessor recorder joaquin torres. >> please. >> thank you president pes pel for sponsoring this legislation and thank you chair chan and to you supervisor mandelman at budget and finance. >> joaquin torres assessor recorder the contract amendment is related property assessment system replace am project the

resolution before you increases the contract capacity from 21.4 million to 27.2 million. president peskin mention third degree is a long-term technology improvement project. and we have been working to replace the 2 legacy stick nog systems in accomplice in our departments for 2 democracied. the successful completion is had is necessary on ensure the ultimate rolization of the 3.9 billion dollars in ref now that come from property taxes. objective from the city is to modernize our size. transparency efficiency and integrity in everything we do and ensure witness we go thrive is a quality system that addresses the complexities of the assessment tax business processes. we have experienced success the controller's office completing their project in 2020.

in january of 21 we completed the first phase. staff is saying it is user friendly and straightforward it allows them to work more efficiently. this saturday second part the most complex part because it deals with off the real property and interests in the city. there is in off the shelf system to address of this. on the market for large county assessors. we with sapient are documenting and recoding the entire business process. important ton the rfp in the conversations that we issued in 2017 include 2 thousand system requirements and assuring each are completed to the highest standard. as mentioned this resolution does not ask for appropriate more funding but the increases in costs shared by the upon vender and our offices. and finally on the risk mitigation side which is important based on confirmations, we have several

mitigations you see out lined here they reflect tightening in our project management to complete the project under the time line that is our goal and intention. and speaking to the policy recommendations of the bla we are happy to come back in sick among for an update on the process. thank you again for considering this item and i'm here to answer questions. i want to thank my assessor for finance and administration. head of public affairs working with us long with our teach at the assessor recorder's office. >> thank you. >> good morning chair chan nick from bla, item 3 resolution to approve an amendment to the contract safety organization from 21.4 million to 27.2 million dollars. and so the background is this the board in november of 2018 approved this green light with

sapient for an overhaul of the assessor's property tax management system and provide 10 years of maintenance to that system. this project was supposed to be done in 2021 but now estimated to be complete in february of 20 it 24. it was part of a larger project this included it overhaul of controller and treasure tax collector system. and those projects were completeod time and under budget this is the project this is delayed. we showed the detail of the change in the amendment for the project budget 4 and 5 of our report. you can see tht implementation costs of the original project gone up sick.9 million dollars in part off set boy decrease in maintenance costs driven not because of the maintenance costs are going down annually but

because the maintenance term is going down 10 to 4 years. net change like i said is 5 opinion 7 million dollars. and this is to do what they were supposed to do in 2018. for this reason this is a policy for the board the city paying more and getting less. than it contracted for which we believe that the assessor should consider meeting with the contractor more than once a month to ensure the project continues to move forward and the board should have a hear nothing sick months ensure the deliverables are met. there is deefficient spending authority on the contract to not approve this today and delay it for approval for 6 months if you wanted to have a stronger accountability mechanism. happy to answer questions. >> that was the budget and

legislative analyst recommendation i would strongly encourage to you meet more than once a month given the situation this we are now in. and i would like to flag this for mr. clerk. that we will come back and circle back to schedule you perhaps in our first meeting in september. when we return from the summer recess and so if we can come to an agreement to the that date, i believe it is like the first wednesday or we can like let's go back and meet the first wednesday or second wednesday of budget and finance we appreciate your return and report become you to the progress you are making. >> absolutely. and for a matter of clarification we are meeting once everyly weeks based on work over that time the reason to have information around that body of work and sevenls what adjustments need to be made. that is on one team that meets.

every week we are meeting with executives. directly every single week and the end of this month a steering committee as we do regular low. i appreciate the intent around oversight and take that seriously and look forward to reporting back in sick months hopeful low you will bring good nows the fact i are expected to complete by february of 24. am i think that 6 months is reason tom say to help us understands whether you will complete on time. >> hopefully what is given today. >> thank you. >> any other questions or comments. none and let's go to public comment. thank you. >> members who wish to speak on this resolution and are in person lineup now. remotely call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. press star 3 to enter the queue.

no in person in the chamber. and we have none on the queue. >> seeing no public comment testimony it is now closed. mr. clerk i would like to move this to full board with positive recommendation. and of course with the notes reflect return in the meeting on the agenda in september. >> thank you. why on that motion to forward this to the full board positive recommend aigszation mandelman. >> aye >> member safai. >> absent. >> and chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 2 with member safai absent. jot motion passes. call item 4. >> item 4, is a resolution stake the appropriation limit established at 10. 6 billion dollars for fiscal 22-23

pursuant of the california strugz article 13 b due to the addition of nonrential new construction and the percent change in population in the metro area from the previous year for the purpose of computation of the appropriation's limit. members who are remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. we have mr. michael mitten from budget and controller's office, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. i'm here to present the appropriation limit for this year the limit is called the

[inaudible] limit. it is a limit on appropriations from tax proceeds t. is limited on the amount of taxes we can collect. this guess back to 1986 when we took the appropriations and inevery year for a population increase and cost of living increase. for the population this pastier in 2021 the city's growth was decline of 8-10th of a percent. ouz third degree in our calculations. and the cost living the options were 7. 55% the california per capital personal income or 10.65% the contribution of commercial value to the roles.

>> we are able to raise the limit for up to 4 years. and 7 of our tax measures passed in the last 4 years included this increase. they am gradually phase out. now they are able to raise the limit by 1.4 billion dollars this will come down in future years. so prior limit was 8.4 billion and 2 adjustments for population and cost living and 1.4 for temporary increase the limit 10.6 billion. and our estimated tax prosecute veeds 6.1 billion we can exclude debt capital and in the mandates knelt is 5. be 7 billion leaves 4.9 below the limit. here here to take questions if you need to. >> thank you, we will have the

bla report. >> thank you. item 4 a resolution approving the appropriation limit. the limit is 10.6 billion dollars. we detailed the calculation on page 12 of the report and recommend approval. >> thank you. colleagues any scombes thank you we understand this is a routine update and report. we appreciate all the w we thank you is not if easy. so thank you for being here no question and we dp to public comment. why thank you. >> members who wish to speak and in person lineup now. for those listening remotely call 415-655-0001, access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. if you are in the queue wait until you have been unmuted and

this is your signal to comment. no one in person in the chamber. and we have none in the queue. >> thank you, seeing no public comment temperature is now closed. >> colleagues i would like to move this to full board william recommendations. mr. clerk. call the roll >> of this motion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye >> we have 3 aye's >> the motion passes. mr. clerk call item 5. >> item 5, a resolution of intention to establish san francisco enhanced infrastructure financing district number one. power station. to finance public capital facilities and projects community wide significance related potrero power station

project and other authorized costs and other matters in connection as defined. members of the public joining remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. then star 3 to enter the speaker queue. gi kwndz this is a projected will have i presentation by lee department director joint development from the office of economic and workforce development as well as anna decknafrom public finance director if the controller's office public finance. why good morning, supervisors. i'm lee from oewd joined by anna

if office of public finance with the controller's office. why we are here to describe the proposed enhanced frequent financing direct for the power station project. the power station is a 2980 are site on the central waterfront south of pier 70 and the site of the former power station it was developed in an agreement in 2020 and trans form the site with mixed use residential, commercial and new public space. 30% of housing affordable includes a host of other benefits that will support the community. the project experience has initiated significant cannot site work you see in this photo, showing the new elevation of the future road. given the contraction of financial markets and escalating

costs the project is at risk of stoppage. the proposed e isd is a state authorized public financing tool this municipalities can employ to fund public capitol improvements using incremental property tax from a defined project area. the power station e isd complies with guidelines supplemented this year. and developed as a fiscally intentional and effective policy tool that aims to accelerate master plan projects to unlook the housing and community benefits they will provide. the key point was framework, as you see, limit isd's to large scale projects and must maintain a net fiscal benefit to the city. projects can act up to 50% of

the tax increment generated by development. our policy limits debt across all districts the total debt payments don't exceed 5% of annual property tax ref new and use it or lose it clause provides the option for the city to dissolve a district should mile stones not be met this expires once debt is issued. >> for the power station e isd to date the city engaged a fiscal consultant to review the report for the project. and has concerned it will generate a net fiscal benefit to the city after incremental revenues this shoes the tax increments at full build out 50% dedicated to the e isd and 50% to the general fund the

infrastructure financing plan, will be developed and reviewed by this committee prior to final adoption of the e isd. >> and finally in addition to the resolution before you, there are companion legislation at rules that would steb a public financing authority to be the legislative body for the e isd this will consist of 3 members of the board of supervisors and 2 public members. we expect the full e isd formation process to take another 8 months including a return visit to the committee to review the ifp as i described. in that time the power station project is committed to advancing site work with the goal to begin the first housing project before the emend of this year. thank you, supervisors and anna and i are available for questions. >> thank you very much this one

this item does not have a bla report. i want to double -check to see if colleagues have questions. i want to say not directly relevant to this item today i have expressed that previously you know thinking about this project as a whole and thinking about just the what we are doing and taxling in terms of climate crisis understanding the ground water level rises and how it could impact clone up. at different cites including this one. i believe the open public comments was last year

december. i look forward to you tracking the progress and understand you know to make sure that this is a truly environmentally sound and sustainable and it is safe. for the further development. it is not directly about the item today i'm in support today and moving forward. life to have your partnership and continuing conversation to make tour sure this project is successful for sudden fran and generations to come. >> thank you. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, chair. i want to say how excited i am about this project. i think that utilizing this tool in this market is essential. sitting as a president of the retirement funds for the city i can tell you how finances have changed and lending has changed pertaining to development all over the world. . for us to access this tool to

keep a project going that i believe as i understand has project labor agreement will create good union paying jobs for working families along with the phenomenonal mix of commercial residential and accessing the water upon front i think generations have not been able to access in san francisco. i think this is a model project. i'm happy to be a coexperience of that and essentially would like to see this move fast as possible to help our economy and help this region of san francisco. and vice chair mandelman. >> i think this makes sense. i want to thank everyone for their work and like to be add as a cosponsor. >> thank you. i want to acknowledge i have

received a letter indicating the clone up effort and so i want to acknowledge that from the california company. i appreciate the continued effort. woman this said, mr. clerk, let's open thumb item to public comment. >> yes, madam chair members of the public who wish to speak in person lineup now. if you are remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ## and press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. continue on wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted then begin your comments. no in person speakers here there lamb can you unmou our first caller, please. good morning i'm john corso. i'm a member of ua local 38 in

san francisco. i'm calling on behalf business manager [inaudible] and all the members of local 38. we represent skilled and trained journey men in the public and private sectors. stand with the building trade echo our support for this item. item 5 the infrastructure finance director for power plant station. projects already under way approximate financing taking on massive infrastructure investment that will benefit the community. proof is in near by projects pier sfefrt continue to bring economic activity to the sector which is still struggling to recover if the opinion dem tick. we have 300 workers unemployed now and more uncertain about their futures this . strategic investment will allow the project to continue and get workers become to work.

thank you for your support. >> thank you. mr. lamb our next speaker, please. jury room good morning i'm [inaudible] a long time potrero hill resident and active member in several neighborhoodses including friends of jackson clark i'm peek nothing support of the furthermoration of the e isd at the potrero power station >> our community has been w with this developer for years to credit a project that will serve our neighborhood and the city at large. as a green open space advocate tell have 7 acres of green space and opening statement waterfront and as a bike rider there is infrastructure. e isd facilitates the construction of streets, foou sue and other things necessary.

i urge you to vote in support 230168 and thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good morning chair approximate members of committee i'm with the san francisco building and construction trade counsels. full support for the resolution. we thank you is a strategic investment and council and present public sector members in the city and i think in this important pointful construction can be the primary economic engines. . not only for skilled trids that work and the communities, is this can be a faster and steady return on the investment for the infrastructure to this point has been private low financed. the controller estimated this

megaproject once online and even incrementally will return a positive yoeld for the city and funds need public service. the final note is the power pleasant meets all of the standards woad apply. they have community support. comp henceively. spchlt supervisor waltonful labor harmony under a project laurel agreement and commitment not to do manage in the future but continue to builds they have douching the pan dem and i can create opportunity for workers in the community. we support it is ask you to forward it to the board.opportunity for workers in the community. we support it is ask you to forward it to the board.create opportunity for workers in the community. we support it is ask you to forward it to the board.

i stand with the san francisco building trades and supervisor walton. thank you for your time >> thank you for your comments. >> mr. lamb do we have more speakers? hello i'm ed's reyes pedestrian local 377 located in the area. walton is our supervisor in this area. we stands with the san francisco building trades supervisor walton and cosponsors in supporting item time infrastructure finance districts are effective tools to invest in good jobs responsible development and return future tax ref now to the city, budget faster. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you for your comments. >> do we have more in the queue.

that completes our queue. >> sorry. thank you. i was reading something. seeing no more comment its is now closed. no questions from colleague i would like to move this to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, call the roll >> on this notion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> ayech >> we have 3 aye's >> thank you the motion passes and mr. clerk call item 6. >> item 6 a resolution approving the second amendment thot grant agreement of 5 k schools and programs and the department of homelessness and supportive housing for supportive service embark defero safe enter extending for 9 be months through december first of 2023

increasing the agreement through december 31 of 23. by 4.2 million for amount of 14 million. thursdaying hsh to further extend the guarantee termum to december therein of 27 if the port commission extends permission to condition to operate on port property through december of 33 not to exceed by 26.8 million. to a total not to exceed of 36.6 million and authorizing hsh to enter in aadditional amendments or modifications this don't increase the obligations or liabilities or materially decrease the benefits to the city.

>> welcome to the fourth grade of claire tin elementary. they are boardering district one. >> welcome. that's the sdrishth i represent my son is i fourth grader. fourth grader welcome i know you have a lot had w to do. keep up the work. >> [laughter]. thank you. we have dillin schneider for department of homelessness and

supportive housing. i understand this is a second amendment time for the amendment of this contract. and we have the presentation from you and zeal the bla report. thank you. >> wonderful. good morning members of budget and finance committee. you introduced me alcoholic beveraging chair chan. i'm the manager of legislative a faris at hsh i'm here with i resolution that would authorize to extend the agreement with 5 key schools service at the embarcadero safe navigation center. this was transferred to budget and finance it has a time sensitive start date of april first. thank you all for accommodating in item am today. why and i believe we do have a slide deck.

i'm happy to move forward with the presentation as long as members have a copy of the presentation. and for the public we have it online with the legislation file. >> there it is. next slide, jordan. >> the resolution approve a second amendment to the grant agreement with 5 key for the safe navigation center the current term if september first of 2020 through the end march of 23. this amendment would extend this through the end of 2023 and hears to alua further extension through the end of 27. if the port commission extend permission for the program to continue to prit on port

property beyond the end of theical dar we're the amount increased 4.2 million and increased by a total not to exceed amount 36. 6 million if the agreement would be extended through the end of 2027. a bit about the program the embarcadero provided shelter for homeless. 5 key provide services since it opened in 20 then. site served 120 guests and will expand up to the site's full capacity of 200 beds. this spring and summer adding bedss they become available. 5 key provides 2 daily meals. laundry, showers. case management and other, wellness checks and activities.

and before i close and turn it over to chair chan, i want to thank 5 keys for their excellent service at this program of i have the honor to serve as hsh representative at the advisory group we submit written monthly reports and meet quarter low with the community and i'm impressed with the dedication and commitment this 5 kyle hes and how closely they w with clients. we had 16 guests move to permanent supportive housing since january of 23. let of that from 5 key staff making sure guests are engaged and working with staff toward housing. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. chair. item 6 is a resolution approving an ma'am to the existing

agreement to the d. homelessness and supportive housing and 5 keys to operate the embarkcadero navigation center through december of 23 and provides 4 options to extend through 2027. we show the budget for the green light on page 17 of our report. and you know when we look at a grant agreement we look at financial condition of the contractor. the performance against the contract and the budget to see if it is reason. we did not see issues and recommend approval >> thank you. >> vice chair mandelman. thank you, chair chan and thank you mr. snied and hsh for your work and on this particular location that was that has was so fraught at the start and proven to be so successful.

i am wondering a few things -- where so -- is the facility full? >> the facility is 120 guests. 200 would be full. and you are working toward this. and you remember coming from under this because of covid. >> exact low. during covid the site wasrous ed 91 bed capacity. we expand upon to 120 last year and this is supplies available we work to get up to the 200 capacity wrchlt what supplies? >> beds. gee are having supply chain. the physical bed is the barrier y. we expect that to begin soon in the next couple months. >> okay. and how are people get nothing there. what is the pregnant way for someone landing at the

embarcadero. if is part of the referel process as beds become veil they'll be allocations given to teams. >> and we will talk more next week. are you gathering information from folks about their history where they come from. like that stuff as folks come in the door? >> certainly we are through coordinatedent row in terms of where you were living had you became home and wills other information. i would have to check with this program to see when they if than i take additional information on intakes and guests. but we do try to understand from guests where they are coming from which hug they have been homeless and other questions that you know especiallied be important to understand in

accepting housing such as vulnerability and chronicness of homelessness and et cetera. i'm help to get a sense of questions we ask intake at the shelter or others and get them to you and help to discuss more next week. >> and on average how long are people staying? heard to have an average nought size is changing. >> i believe this the average time is about 100 days looks like 2126 to 185 days is the average now. we are seeing that decrease. as we see more guests moving throughout housing press fist this program. >> and are you or 5 keys keeping track. how much of your guests are going to housing. how many have homelessness resolved and how many are dis, peering? >> for this site submit a monthly written report to our community advisory group.

we have a dash board this shows how many exits are per month and where the exits are to. permanent supportive house to another shelter to the hospital or unknown location. >> how would we acskesz this dash board t. is not live i'm happy to sends you the archive or a snapshot. >> interested in that. and the last thing i wanted ask about is we will talk about this next week but -- 2 related questions one question is -- what type of shelter should woe stands up facilities like the

embarcadero and a half center are expensive to set up. but -- relatively affordable on the operating side. this is a 32 thousand dollars a year per bed cost. the department in thinking about estimated costs of expanding shelter felt like costs would be 70 to 80 thousand dollars a bed. it is distance with 32000 the annual per bed cost approximate built in accomplice for all. and the other assumption in accomplice for all is that we ought to do morion congregate shelterering. we don't appear to have trouble filling beds? >> i'm happy to speak to this as

much as i can and i know weville more on the cost break down of the estimates this went in the accomplice for all report when we come next week. butch you raise good questions wrn thing with the embarcadero is it is the lower than average cost even as congregate shelters in 2019 first safe navigation models took the navigation model low barrier with more surfaces but scaled up it i learning are size which brought costs down. precovid aim to are safe navigation center beds to around the 80-90 dollar a night per bechld you mentioned supervisor under the agreement the annual cost per bed is actually about 25 thousand dollars. when we add in the lease and

meal costs the other costs that go in the aggregated place for all that goes up to 32 thousand. this is low again it is a lean operating model because of the will state navigation model carry over. we know that the will lose with the port wore luck tow have it is not the market rate leases we look at for other sites and you mentioned the noncongregate models are more expensive staffing unit care et cetera. we seen embarcadero successful but we do hear from the community this folks are hez tanlts with condition agreeigate shelter especially after covid this . site has been successful we hear preference from the community for those noncongregate options.

>> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you dylan is there someone from 5 keys today. >> wee have meaghan on the line to give public comment. >> some of the questions supervisor was asking would have been answered bhoi the contractor. for a project of this size. i appreciate you giving the information as much as you could but to talk about the way they are manage the site and taking information. the way they are look at like to me, i understand that it is a supply chain with the crisis on the street have beds vacant as long as they have been. i mean we vice president to come up with a better solution. we have to figure something out to get people off the street s and in the spaces. i understand the supply chain is role. that does not feel like an acceptable answer. i would like to hear from 5

kiests that is going on. who is on the line sf i mean i think the 5 key is call nothing as public comment. i wanted reminds the supervisors that all across i think for grants or contract we have not call in the contractors for to answer questions. unless we are prepared to do that. i wanted to acknowledge like i think typically the way we have been arranging for department presentation we have not call in the contractors to a the questions however like i think that i want to acknowledge that supervisor safai's question is legitimate in try to have an understanding on the upon groubldz operation. how can we arrange it today will the. i know they are on the listen they are call nothing i don't know if we are can arrange this. will this be your preference

supervisor. >> ma damp chair. i think that it motive not necessary low always be part of the presentation but often we do have the contractors show up and than i do come and they are available for a question. and if we ask in advance. i'm saying that for this type of contract for this level urgency and he to hear that approximate when was it is last time the site was at capacity? thank you supervisor for your questions. i want to try to answer the best i can. first of all we always want top have contractors here that's why we invite them to provide comment or be in chachlers perform i want to be clear we are always happy top have them here to answer questions especially today i asked meaghan

to be on the line for public comment and excused her from being in chambers. in terms of the bed this is is hsh responsibility to procure the physical beds to add to the cites. not like beds are empty. the site has 120 physical beds those are all full. >> no we remember at the top of the agreement when covid hit. we decreaseed covid gooit guidelines to 91 beds an influx of bed and worked expand up to 120. and then waiting for additional beds to add thenning and we have been working closely with the communities advisory group to thaik make sure they are tracking as beds come online

there have been occurrence the site has not ever operated at 200 beds >> never at full capacity for the reasons you have given what is daily census are all 120 beds. i don't know how, are they full? all the time? >> i will say from writing the monthly report its is usually at capacity or a few beds under. this is very popular. we have between 95% and 100%. >> and to supervisor machine man's point. again for i contract of this size and you are the department this over sees it is important top have detailed information on where individuals are going. once they leave. how they are referred had is the demographic of the person is all that information captured you

say well air dash board but they have that information. the dash board is publish in the the month low report and shows average length of stay. occupancy for each month and other details. come then we have been working hard on our public reporting as a department approximate part of this focus has been through supervisor mandelman's place expanding our temp refer shelter dash board and part of the future evolution is looking at incorporating the details as well. jot disc details are not being incorporated now y. they are electroniced but we don't have them on the dash board. supervisor. i could reminds you and correct mow if i'm wrong we can confirm this according to board rules during public meant in the event a supervisorments to ask a

question to the commenter we could be exempting from the time limit of the public comment and we for the following commenter return to the time limit n. event a supervisor wants to question the public commenter, the board rowel can be suspend for a time limit of >> is this correct? >> yes. >> supervisor safai if we are done questioning we can always come back. go to public comment and if we can have meaghan? why yes. >> meaghan fallon. can identify as themselves as meaghan from 5 keys and start making comments then supervisor safai you can ask questions and have them answered and witness we supervisor safai is done we return continue to being public comments with the time limits. and complete the public comments would you like to do this.

>> yes. i was not done with my questions, to hsh. no problem. >> thank you for clarifying that. so how long has this site been at 120 beds? >> the site at 1 since end of august of 2022. >> and how long have you been

try to procure an additional 80 beds? last fall reinflitting the and a halfgation centers. we have been looking at spreading besd out krsz our navigation centers since last august. >> most of the other cites are already completely at capacity this . is the last ones we are waiting on. >> you have a supply chain issue on beds. >> we do. why or waiting on reinflation or waiting on beds. >> we are currently waiting on beds. what we did is took all of the beds we had visible to reinflate last fall and because embarcadero never above 120 we wanted start there and reinflit up to 200 in a second phase. is it a decision to not populate this site because you are waiting to spread the reinflation? or is it you are witting for beds had have the beds been ordered? >> i'm sorry of >> how long have you been waiting for the additional 80 beds you said a supply chain have than i been ordered. gi believe they have been

ordered or working on this now. i have to double -check. i know we were always planning start getting from 120 to 200 in spring 23 we hope that would happen a month ago and now we are a couple months delayed. we will get to more of this on tuesday. there was a decision in the fall to repopulate and reinflate the shelter beds cross the city that is an on going process. prior to that they were not at full capacity am is this right? yes. prior to last fall many shelters all of them were pritting in a covid capacity. this was based on public health guidance. as this guidance evolved we were

able to look and reinflating to capacities appropriate under public health guidance. we started with navigation centers and const. tried efforts there first given this and a halfgation centers have more out door space, roomier dorms and more spaciousness in general for bed space. that is why we started with the navigation centers and at this point in time we are close to being at the new capacities of all of the shelters. >> i guess we can talk more about this on tuesday. i have more questions on this. but that's fine. thank you. what position is meaghan. 5 keys? meaghan is a -- i know she is listening, i believe the director of housing. she has been with the our 5 key represent at the group with the

embarcadero for as long as i have. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk let's go to public upon comment. >> to clarify madam chair, to prevent like a setting president become and fourth during public comment. take public comment. close it and if member safai wants to ask questions give the speaker privilege and that point identify which. >> meaghan fallon. >> sounds good. why thank you. >> so -- with that members who wish to speak in person line up now. those remote call 415-655-0001, access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. press star 3 to enter the queue.

unmute our callers. please. >> good morning it it is alice rogers. i'm vice chair of the add rise we group for embarcadero navigation center this item has not come up for discussion before [inaudible]. my comments are my in person comments i do want top say that based on a history of working with 5 key and the navigation center they have consistently worked [inaudible] in meeting upon bench marks set up by our mou. and i think evidence of the success of the program is that reduced our [inaudible] to quarter low. however, in the backgrounds between the quarter low

meetings we have lots of [inaudible] conversations to do any [inaudible] [echo]. and issues that have nothing to do with the novembergation center but the general homelessness in the area. i believe when we discussed this there will be a sfroujdation to support the [inaudible] occupation should the port not be [inaudible]. thank you. of supervisors the way i electric at this is stay away from all of these notalities

that deal with the congregate situation. and one of the elements when you y'all agreed to spend huge amounts of money 36 million, 50 million. which adds up. we have no element where the health department goes in the facilities and gives us a report. it is tuck about quality of life issues are we talking about the taxpayers? or are we talking about paying 80,000 the beds for the homeless person? 32,000 for mickey mouse operation? i knew 5 keys and thank you they

were [inaudible] now they are coming to like you know making money at the expense of our indigent population. we have to wake up. we have 71,000 homes vickant in san francisco. we have a lot of that vacant and the budget analyst the city attorney the controller the mayor, and you supervisors have no idea how to do a need's assessment. and some of the questions that were asked were relevant. we need people here to question. not this mickey mouse how this

has no clue. sorry to cut you off we are timing 2 minutes. mr. lamb next speaker, please. >> hi. in is megan an fallon from 5 keys. thanks for take our comments today. i was wondering would you like mow to answer or give my comment first. why i'm pausing your time. meaghan. during public comment we are accepting your testimony. witness we close public comment if the members have a question we can unmute you and then identified your accomplice in the queue. >> stay on the line. >> yes, >> please. >> okay. if you want to provide your public comment i will present. why sorry. >> thanks. sorry i was moued.

>> i'm meaghan fallon one of the codirectors for 5 keys. and i have the humanor of being hired as the assistant director of embarcadero in 2019. we opened the last day of 2019. most of our guests brought in the following week. and covid happened and life as we knew it changed. homeless services changed. and our guests who would have been exited buzz of time limited stays, got to stay. right. for near low the left 3 years built i community of folks at embarcadero and able it work with them and red for housing and documents ready. and give them skills than i need. right to be red for house and in the last few months had the opportunity to see most of our guests that started with us 2-3 years ago move to housing. it has been awesome. we partnered with the joints and

the stadium employing our guests and i bunch of our folks got housed in the new china basin units you in they work it's the giant's stadium and live in the neighborhood. really building a community. dylan mentioned we offer case management. behavioral health activities with guests. movie night, yoga art class harm reduction group and our goal sell this we treat our guests with respect and that the leave better then and there when they came. i'm thankful for this opportunity and we hope to continue to support our guestings moving toward husband and whatever they miwant to pursue in their lives. thank you. why thank you for sharing your comments. do we have more speakers in the queue? >> that completes our queue.

public comment is closed. supervisor safai would you like to ask meaghan from 5 keys questions who is now on line >> that would be great. >> mrs. fallon. >> hello. >> so >> good. >> just a few questions. so upon one of the question supervisor mandelman asked and i philidelphia occupy regarding what information 5 key system electronicing on individuals as they in in to the facility? and how you collect data. >> to walk you through the intake process we are referred like dylan mentioned through different avenues of the

hospital. hot team. we get basic information when folks come in. every guest does not intake with the coordinator we go through questions like where du slope last night. basic personal demographics. and then we do a warm hands off to the care coordination team that is where they ask in depth questions i can sends it it dill afternoon and she can sends it over like the actual sheets we go through. but we ask dwoes get an understanding where folks have been. if they stayed shelter before am. why did they leave previously? and what are your goals while you are here? what can we help you work toward? do you have your documents? we ask a series of intake questions to everyone that come in. everyone needs a care coordinator and we follow up. in the following days. >> are you. -- are you collecting data on

how people are referred? after their stay and had they are length of stay is? >> yes. we try to dot one system this gives us an understanding of length of days they have been ator shelter. we do case management assessments and that upon procurious the other information you are asking for. one thing this came up here was the not being at full capacity and 120 beds. so how long have you been witting for beds? and what is the plan to get to full capacity? jop yea. great question a complicated question because had we started embarcadero we had an agreement with the neighborhood we would not go to full exclusive we would wait 6 months reevaluate folks concerned about hait would

be tloik have the centers in the neighborhood. once covid happened we reduceed 88 bed and when mosconi closed become up to 91. and then like dill know mentioned up to 120 in august. so we are at the 120 mark we were supposed to get to before covid. we are working with the neighborhood right. we don't want to surprise anybody. we have good reps with the upon communities. we are taking our time and also we work with hsh so -- i understands that there is a delay with the actual bed this is is the same across the city. witness we get the mattresses and bed frames i believe we doll a slow ramp up. not like we have them and waiting. we physically don't have them. >> it sounds like it is more of

a decision to keep them at 120 and less about the beds. where no that's not what i said. it is 2 things. 2 things can be trough at the same time. we are doing a slow ramp up to work with the community and we understand that folks need shelter and move in shelter are as soon as possible and witness we actually get the physical beds our numbers will be increased but don't want to surprise the neighbors once this help and we cannot increase the beds until we get the beds. >> okay. >> got it. >> have you started the press of talking to the communities about increasing the beds? >> yes. >> yes dylan and i and our program manager from hsh mote with the community and we you know we 39 their occurrence. have a hot line folks call and try to you know navigate this process so there is no other hiccups down the road.

>> okay. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai. seeing no questions of course i think like we will reference by vice chair mandelman and prierz safai we look forward to having this confirmation more comprehensive as a committee this next tuesday march 20th i think. so with this i know we closed public comment and prierz safai. i think had you have condition tracts of this size and i you know said you have tried in the past would be important to have the actual condition transactors here so we can peek to them. and get an understanding. would have been helpful to have a presentation. from the department or the provider on the data collected

and the average number. all the things we asked are straightforward in terms of what the capacity is. . am what the intake is the what the plan has been. how ape xhument advisory committee. all of those things are important piece of information for the public. so it is in the just verbal but we have a documented record of what the plan is in each site. some things we learn today. was in the aware of. that we have not necessarily ramped back up to full capacity for shelters city wide. we heard about supply chain issues we had noted heard that before. and important low that the data collected is important to be able to tell a story on had is work and not working within the department and how the folks in the site how long they stay and where they are referred to. because one thing we heard over

and over is a strong criticism the coordinatedent row system and how long it takes people to get from referral to housing. and then the number of besd housing, shelter or that are significant vacant now t. is a big concern for me and a lot of my colleagues and the city with the crisis on the streets the initial empty ownership underute lived beds is important. we'll talk more on tuesday. thank you. why thank you. with this i will like to move this item to full board with positive recommendation and mr. clerk please, call the roll >> on this motion to forward

this to the full board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member safai. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 3 aye's >> thank you the motion passes. and mr. clerk call item 8. >> sorry. item 7. >> okay. item 7, a resolution retroactively authorizing economic and workforce develop want to extend i grant 900 thousand from the james irvine foundation november 7 of 22-november 7 of 24. members who are joining us remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ## then star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. a prompt will indicate you raised your hand. had you have been unmuted you can comment. madam chair y. thank you.

and today we have willis tech sf manager office economic and workforce development is are they online? >> i am online. >> thank you. go ahead. >> thank you very much supervisor chan, mandelman and safai to present. [echo] i got my colleagues charlie paisley and alexander legislative and government affair's manager from our office as well. can you pull up the slides? the slides visible down there? if not i can share the screen if you give meet opportunity.

do y'all have the slides available? >> we [inaudible] yourself and charles paisley have the privilege. >> okay. thank you. are you able to see that. >> yep. >> so so -- backgrounds here. this grant is an extension of a california workforce development

accelerated guarantee we got 2 years ago. and -- so today wore here to ask for you know a long except and extend the james irvine funds is a continuation of service that have been funded for the past few years and funds the customer partners. you see on the screen. in 2021 april, the partners of the grant launched the northern california aprentice network which provides a set of services for local businesses training partners and education institutions and job seekers. we have been successful in helping grow the ecosystem in the last few years. any looks in funding for the partners w would limit service able to provide job seekers and

local businesses. these other core grant goals of the james irvine grant that we received. it is again you know to advance high quality apprenticeships for businesses and new sectors. mainly tech and tech adjacent occupations. sustainable path ways for local job seekers and key attention to equity. we really are very intentional serving under represented in tech populations of people with disabilities women, people of color. veterans et cetera . and then to help businesses of all sizes meet objectives. there are investmentless the last few years to scaleum

intermead areas for registers aprenticeship focus on larger koerngzs we made a name around the state and locally and able to serve small and mediumern prizes. and so any lapse in services that we provide realist disproportionate low impact you know under represented in tech and small and medium businesses we support. again. a grant was award in november of last year. and it is set to go through november of 2024. so the service are already under way but without us able to retroactive low invoice for the services and get into contract with the departments; based on

carbflow limitations there will be a disruption in service that impacts local and small and mead yawp sized businesses. today, you know as a founding member of the northern california aprentice network and primary grantee for this james irvine foundation funds or grant. we are asking for your approval to accept and extend this grant retroactively. and charlie alexander and i are available for questions if you have any. >> thank you. i don't have any names on the roster at the moment for questions or comments. mr. clerk let's go to public comment. >> members who wish to speak in person lineup now. for those remotely call 415-655-0001 then access code:

2491 751 5889 ## and star 3 to enter the speaker line. knoche in person speakers here in the chachl ber and no one in the queue. >> thank you. no public comment it it is now closed. >> mr. clerk i like to move this item to full board with period recommendationation call the roll >> on the motion vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye y. we have 3 aye's >> thank you. the motion passes. mr. clerk call item 8. >> item 8, is a resolution authorizing the execution and deliver of a multifamily revenue note in an amount not to exceed

36.3 million for providing financing for construction of the 73 unit multifamily rental housing project, huntersy point ship yard block 6 and authorizing the execution of loan agreement and providing term conscience of the loan if the lendser identifyed the city and for the execution and delivery of the note. authorizing the execution of a borrow loan agreement term and condition of the loan from the city to borrower and authorizing it is execution of an agreement and decoloration of cover nance approving of the form of authorizing the execution of assignment of deed of trust and documents and the collection of fees approving modifications and additions to the documents. approving action taken in connection with the become to become loans. the note and the project granting general authority to city officials to take actions

necessary to implement this resolution as defined and related merits, members joining remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ## and star 3 to enter the speaker line. madam chair >> thank you i want to acknowledge jazmin the development specialist from office of community investment and infrastructure. is here to present. i see she'll from mayor's office of housing sheila from major's office of house and community develop the is here to assist. i want to acknowledge both and thank you for being here and go ahead with your presentation. >> thank you. good afternoon chair chan approximate members safai and mandelman i'm jazzin a develop

will specialist with office of community investment and infrastructure or ocii i'm horsepower to present on item 8 the affordable housing development at hunter's point ship yard block 56. the purpose of the resolution before you is it aproust issuance of tax exempt multifamily revenue bounds for block 56. it is kondz wit financing does not require the city to pledge funds to the repayment of the

bond. >> ocii as 3 remaining affordable housing cites on the hill tol tol top the blocks 56 project before you today. for a brief history on the block 56 project in 2018 released a request for proposal offering block 56 for development in 2019 mercy housing california and sudden front housing development were selected codevelopers for the project. in 2022 the permanent loan from ocii approved by the city affordable housing loan committee and commission and in november of 22, the project awarded a bond allocation. >> block 56 will be a new 73 unit affordable multifamily housing development sponsored by mercy housing and san francisco housing development corporation. of the 73 new units 72 available earning 50% or less. area median income and one for manager's unit. the residential mix is designed for fells. more then and there 25% of the sizes are 3, for you and 5 bedroom units. >> development cost is expected to be 70. 7 million dollars. resolution is for 36. 3 million

dollars. construction of block pick will begin next month and expected to be completed boy winter of 2024. so i'm joined here by reilly jones from mercy housing online via teams. we are happy to answer requests with your approval the project is on electronic to close on construction financing and begin construction immediately after next month in april. we thank you for your consideration. am >> thank you. >> any questions. no questions. but -- i'm glad to see this project and would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> thank you. good to see this moving inquired

inquired -- i'm glad it is funded by tax credit. for the remaining of 71 million dollars. and the fact it is 4, 50% median income for fell it is needed in the area. i appreciate having this project moving forward. with this open this item to public comment. >> members who wish to speak in person lineup nouchl for thez remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ## then star 3 to enter the queue. seeings no in person speakers and mr. -- we have no speakers

in the queue. thank you, seeing no public comment it is now closed. i will like to move this item to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, call the roll. >> on this motion vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 3 aye's. >> the motion passes. mr. clerk call item 9. >> item 9 is an ordinance deappropriating 1. 7 million from rec and park department upon general service agency city add administrator and appropriating approximately 1 opinion 7 million at this time major's office of house and community development for uses in the mission street funds in fiscal 22 to 23. members when are remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001

access code: 2491 751 5889 ##. madam chair. why thank you i want to acknowledge the return of president peskin to the chamber and this is the item that which he is the sponsor of and thank you. the i'm here to poke to item 9 and change chair chan for cosponsorship as well as matt dorsey for his cosponsorship. a decade ago, the successor agency to the redevelopment agency known as office of community investment approximate infrastructure enter in a

purwhich is approximate sale agreement for property at 706 mission home of the mexican museum with the millennium corporation purchase sale agreement required the develop termake a number of different payments to ocii. for cultural and other purposes. last year i held a hearing on the status of those subventions and -- found out that one in particular had been delayed as a result of covid. and i amming pleased report that oci icon firmed yesterday that payment would be forth coming by

april the third. so is that was worth having a hearing on. we awfuls looked into some of the other source of funding and intended uses and as a result to adhere to the original purposes of the purwhich is approximate sale agreement. which purposes were community involvement and recommendations how the funds had flexibility would be spent. credited the 70 sick mission street funds with 2 subfunds the board of supervisors unanimously passed. this measure would -- deappropriate monies this would then have to go through this community process enemy particular the within.74 million dollars of open space funds go

through the soma cac. cosponsor dorsey asked for a week continuance which i am happy to honor. so he can have further conversations with the department of rec and parks. who has despite lack of consultation with the community parties. program that money to the gene friends recreation center capitol program. those funds as entebldzed bit sale agreement are flexible. than i can be pent to the or operating ultmitt low the purpose of this legislation is to make sure the soma cac has a say. if their say is they would like to spends funds on the capitol project, that is farfor the

sproirz to tell them otherwise. in the interim, colleagues i have i don't know substantive or not. but as far as it would be continued i week it does in the matter. amendment to item 9. which i can forward to you right now. half going to the mayor's office of housing and community development subfunds and half to the rec and parks subfund. in either event does not obate the soma citizen's commito from

recommending where the totality of the funds go. upon can forward you the amendments and i am happy to answer any questions >> thank you, president peskin i think we need make the motion and for the record and onned record and able to put them on the file. is it the well of the the department (today or have them present next week. as an in the interest of time next week is fine. and i will forward these

amendments to the clerk and all of you right now. one moment. >> sorry. we have them now. and which your copyil now. thank you with this entertain a motion to continue to next week and mr. jalipea will clarify the date. but it is a week continuance and with that mr. clerk call the roll. >> on the amendment. >> my apol gees. >> on that city attorney. i was going to say the same. the motion for the amendments first. >> thank you. >> i would like to make the motion to amend.

>> before that motion we should open public comment. >> yes. let's go to public comment. member his wish to peek and in person line up now. for those remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2491 751 5889 ## then star 3 to enter the queue. there is no one for public commentful >> thank you, public comment is closed. could i make this in one motion and amend. >> before. i guess what i -- have not been explain today me before i sept amendments why are we doing the amendments?

>> the answer to your question and ms. sandler and deputy city attorney can certainly jump in. is the way the controller's office drafted the original peeves legislation was unclear as to whether it went to one of 2 subupon funds under the 70 sick mission street fundsful we needed to clarify that. and then i came up with the notion of splitting it in half between the 2 subfunds. in any event the way it was drafted was not clear. as to where it was going. it can't00 autoeasy thing in my moindz to put it in i general 70 sick fund but that conditional be done boy virtue of the way

the upon 706 fund was credited. has to be one or the other. i made the decision in clarify to split it between to subas you understands. deputy city attorney feel free to jump in. >> so i'm clear. the way it was written is that you were proposing to take 1. 7 million from rec and park and gsa and move this money to the mayor's office of housing to a specific fund. genetics way it was originally drafted higher within.22 the open space subfunds but the way written that was not clear. and the city attorney said this morning that needed to be clarified. >> got it. >> is this fair >> that's fair.

there is the board create third degree mission funds has 2 subfunds. one is the open space funds the monies are directed by rec and park and the other by ocd. as introduced the appropriation was confusing it would sent the within.7 million to the open. space fund but indicated in the title it was sending the machine tow ocd was there inconsistency the amendment would send the money and play it in 2. half television to each of the 2 subfunds. >> a matter of policy is this both departments have the option and ability to fund open space programming. or capitol? >> right >> got it. >> okay >> sounds good. >> we will talk about this more next week. >> sounds good. i guess not. i do, i agree this let's have a

detailed confirmation next week. we have the diplomat want to acknowledge mr. aims from san francisco rec and park department is here. in case you have questions right now. i want to make that acknowledgment. let's have a detailed conversation about how the funds will be used and allocated next week since we have to continue anyway and give supervisor dorsey a chance to dive deeper. >> i was think when you coexperience something you understand when you are cosprngs but with this said let's go to public comment. >> we closed public comment the motion to continue this amend and as discussd and continue to

next week. wednesday budget and finance committee. with this motion mr. clerk. call the roll. >> on that motion to amend the ordinance splitting appropriation amount of described by supervisor peskin and the city attorney. and to continue this ordinance to the march 22n't meeting of this committee as amended. voice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member safai. >> aye >> chair chan y. we have 3 aye's. >> thank you. >> the motion paddles. do we have other business today. >> that completes your business. meeting is adjourned. clear clear

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$7, the tour is two floors, (inaudible) so, each one of these frames that you see here, you can-you are and look into the story of that act, band, entertainment and their contributions to music. affordability is what we are all about. creative support. we are dedicated to the working musician. we are also dedicated to breaking some big big acts. we like to make the stories around here. ultimately

legends. when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals graffiti store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun.

that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and

hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops the firemen, you know i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15

years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years.

i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in.

i shot the supermarket. you know and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant it's 50 years old. i said yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive

it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it who cares. but, you know i care. >> last september of 2020 i had a minor stroke and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said hey you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak

properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years.

i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20

years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p p

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asfgov.org/dpa or (indiscernible) in person at the office located at 1 south van ness on the 8 floor or any district police station. there are key pieces of information that anyone filing complaints should provide, including your contact information, so we can ask for follow-up questions, the location, time and date of incident. officer name and star number, and specific details including words and actions by all involved parties. it is important to remember anyone can file a complaint and you do not have to be a witness or victim to initiate a complaint. this next slide provides a overview of dpa mediation division. mediation is alternative to dpa investigationing a complaint. the goal of mediation are improve the relationship between the community and sfpd. mediation allows both parties toprint perspectives that resulted in a

complaint. may request mediation when you file a complaint or referred to the mediation team. mediation is voluntary for the person making the complaint and officer. both must agree to resolve through mediation. unpaid volunteers not dpa employees trained and experiences in helping people resolve differences in a conductive manner. because mediation is voluntary, there is a greater chance of parties want to resolve the problem mutually agreeable fashion. not every complaint is eligible for mediation. cases can go to mediation include those involvingcocts and not (indiscernible) that concludes today's >> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california.

they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of

science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms orchards and

vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil

amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean foryes, sir and so forth. -- forest and so fors. we know that our largest

corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food

donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older concepts that

keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health climate health

human health one conversation. if we grow our food differently we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your

life. maybe saying you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the

environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola.

>> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to

people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san

francisco and finish my school which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪] [♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is

the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website i've got time i've bp got with 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in san francisco thank you thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first

summer 6200 jobs and been building. >> i'll high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a large part of the jobs it did manual resource center started off a a youth program and our first year 35 percent of the young people working full-time we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the city and the greater bay area. >> we have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea have the city staff so the airport is here starbuck's is here we've

been retail we have restaurants, we have offices and so the young people will get an opportunity to partner search warrant with so many of the great champions for jobs. >> for the past 5 years we've hired over 3 willed youth to work as business traces they have been promoted to supervisors. >> if you're doing a job at starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire working at anothers architectural firm understanding debris or a media to understand reading and writing differently those are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young people that the resumes a it pulls them to the career opportunities and building inspection commission

make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skills by the time many of them leave they'll leave with jobs and new relationships building their network of the opportunity to thrive and i think i could focus and i check around the booths to see had is available i'm hoping to get a job but have employers you know employers give practice. >> i feel this will be a great way to look for jobs we can do this like you get paid. >> when our young people walk we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a room that has a our computer lab an opportunity for them to do cover letters and talk about updating their profile and i think how you do things on the

internet we help quam and they can update tare resume and can look in interviews and on the spot job officers we hire about one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting out of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk out with a job. >> we'll rock and roll i guess in the job interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 builds a great foundation gymnasium a positive outlook and more importantly confidence. >> we really want to do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility of what we can be and do we have them go home i want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately got on the

path. >> good morning good morning caitlin i'm caitlin lopez 23 years old i moved out to california and san francisco california had i was about 8 years old and actually put in foster care at the age of 9 or 10 had a baby at the 16 years old so i've kind of had this crazy like youth experience. >> despite the challenges she faced caitlin finished high school and take advantage of program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was matched walking sweet spots office i thought imitated not been in that type of office ones

i got into the office with my supervisor we boptd and i got a call from h.r. i got the position and i'm in. >> i have. >> we hired merry for 8 weeks and saw how she did she was only going to work 8 weeks but at the end question offered her a position part time. >> i have those traits it has been great working here my term of 5 weeks was pretty much like family supporting each other i feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in job without the jobs plus program i - i probably would have not even had a job. >> in her case she's a mother of two now going to school

full-time and making it happen so if she can do it differently anyone that has a willingness to try at least try to make it can do it. >> those programs are amazing they're so important for young adults to really go out there and make a better future for themselves and despite not having a traditional - you can go out there based on the programs that's what they're for they want to help you succeed. >> we'll be committing to 25 jobs in the tech. >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 3 and 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me is a network of the community that made the difference no way i'll be with

united way this network was here for me this was personal and professional so important we create the opportunities who know the next ceo or champion of the community is coming today to find their path. >> that's the roll in san francisco we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) >> the goal for 2017 to create 5 thousand jobs for youth if you want more information invite them at sf youth.org

>> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite

thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me but i've been able to get out weekly and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really

enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center this is the covid command center or

the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management the department of public health and our human services hughesing partners so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now of course in this final phase it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of

air quality. we had in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic super scary for people. you know all of those things people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources

or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days more than what we're used to most of us. honestly i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months and i also speak about myself. every day i have to sort of have that moment of, like okay i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had

personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see hadin myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on schools and daycare and sharing, you know being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job but that's

unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than

ours. other women see me in it and i hope that they see me and they understand, like, if i can do it they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out

[music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was

yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history.

establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or

hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of

the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

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