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commissioner to commissioner asianian-williams certainly we welcome you first to our commission and grateful you are giving your service to the city and like to give you an opportunity to share some welcoming words. >> thank you, chair butler i am honored and pleased to be here thank you, for the warm welcome and look forward to a relationship with all of you in favor of the city thank you. thank you and look forward to working with you and no commission secretary public comment policy call the roll call this meeting is held in hybrid and he in-person at city hall and a broadcasted live

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item 2 roll call. >> please respond with a present. >> exempt present. >> vice chair dufty here. >> commissioner albright here. >> commissioner evans present. >> commissioner guerrero present. >> commissioner laguana here. >> commissioner asianian-williams here. >> please note the city and county of san francisco department of homelessness & supportive housing and commissioner kwooum that places you on. >> 3) announcement of sound producing devices. be advised i commission may order a person resolve. thank you for your coordination. >> places you on item 4.

>> 4) announcements by the chair. >> thank you commissioner secretary i want to make some recommendations around public comment so we can all be in the on the same page and i'm to read some that recommendations regarding public comment. the purpose of public comment is objective to give the public an opportunity to state their opinions on items on the agenda and then a place on the agenda whether mr. is public general comment with a said once a melbourne completes their comment i'd like to urge the commissioners not to respond to the public comment to allow for all of those who are commenting the opportunity to comment and to make sure that our public comment goes smothering smoothly so this includes the recommendation for the commissioners to refrain from our opinions own the individuals

comment and avoid back and forth between the commissioners and members of the public and oftentimes through we we were good intentions best not to resolve any types of issues from the members of the public to follow up and then um, also recommend us not to call any member of the public back to the podium for additional follow-up. and not to allow question and answer time outside of three minutes to make sure that everyone has ample allotted time in public comment. i think the equal timing is allows the members more time other members might take offense with a allocated time situation will be persons that will need time for various reasons and my determination to allow them the time to make their comment. and

one of the other things happened in previous meetings that um, it is not standard to call public comment on two agenda items together the reason is that the commission secretary has a record all of the conversations and statements made 2wb the commissioners and so in doing so maybe some confusion minutes maybe reported incremental and a comment on two items some members of the public made multiple comments in the last meeting we want to make sure we're efficient and the commission secretary has i created peculiar cards the members of the public will be can do to give mayor name and a letter symbol and the items in i

public comment wants to make comments we have a complete more than one card and once the melbourne have completed three minutes with the determination of myself as chair will allow an additional minute for various reasons the chair will thank the speaker and the secret will turn the public speakers mic off and in terms of being fair and assuring that everyone has their equal allotment of time those are my recommendations was we proceed in the public comment and hoping the goal to first of all, making sure that everyone has an equal amount of time and the efficient of speed i also want to give the opportunity commissioners to make announcements i know we do a lot of good work throughout between

our meetings so i want to give in opportunity for commissioners to share some of the good things have happened as a result of your individual work as that relates fee the commission at this point up, up to the commissioners. >> the arena this system i realized when i pushed the request to speak i came up as vice chair dufty. >> and i came up as a different commissioner as well. >> the commission has you all in order so- >> you can also let me know if you want to speak. >> i guess today that won't work and who wants to go fir. >> ladies first. >> thank you. >> so thank you, chair butler can we get a copy of had you read in the record and i wanted

to also say that these meetings are also an opportunity to context with the members of the public and make sure we understand people's experience with the system may or may not servicing their needs right now not an easy way to assess contact information in a situation someone that making a might want to follow up with a followup question or offer my information that is one of the expectation we should allow for public engagement. i think that our meetings are long four and a half hours i expect someone will make a public comment and wait three hours for the to get the opportunity to have a face time one-on-one is not realistic so create a seat at the table for ourselves to make pro go on the

issues. >> as someone made public comment i know that too minutes is often really inadequate to get out the full story of what is going on in the situation. so i think we have to recognize that is the stress we put on ourselves but at the same time to do our jobs effectively and members of the public helping us to be better stewards of oversight site we need to have that. >> thank you for that. >> yes. >> so at our last meeting the gentleman came up in public comment and talked about someone that was in shelter that he's been working on getting out of shelter for um, you know, kansas city, missouri to him i don't know had exactly happened over several years this person was in

shelter i wanted to pub commend the director who reached out to in that person and was able to help them resolve the issue 0 the gentleman was called in or came in for public comment reached out to me and thanked me i said you shouldn't thank me i didn't do anything but i want to pass on that public thanks to deputy director chin. >> yeah. yeah. >> well, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you commissioner laguana for ad litem some of the things we share the same sympathy to make sure the public we'll be thinking about creative ways to maintain that. any other

announcements? >> okay. this places us on item. >> 5) for action: approval of the august 3, 2023, meeting minutes. i make a motion to approve the minutes. >> approval for minutes for august 3rd. >> all in favor. >> public comment? any members of the public wish to make a public comment on the meeting minutes? >> just want to make sure that um, i oven remind the public we're madam chair public comment on the agenda item in which we have just stated on the meeting minutes. >> any members of the public wish to make public comment.

>> anyone on the line and no callers in the queue. >> take a vote the i's have it. to places us on item >> 6) for discussion: director's report/executive director shireen mcspadden. executive director mcspadden will provide us with the report and have a discussion a executive director mcspadden i want to welcome commissioner asianian-williams to the commission the commissioners a realtor and a leader in her neighborhood an active member and president and vice president of the in between peaks council and for someone has 3r5r79d in small business or neighborhoods

association. so we very much look forward to having your previous periodic on the commission. >> i want to startup with the demolished are linked own the slide and available in the data had you been own the website. so we'll begin with outreach no july increased with 2 thousand plus engagements. sore i'm i need this slide to move forward. >> to coordinated entry assessments. there we go. >> so coordinated assessments stayed consistent in july ask the had and 92 assessments i

want to note that conducted both new and reassessments not the number of people homeless in the community. next slide, please. >> so looking at fy2022-23 we have some figures visited 11 sites with one add plus and gaejt i got the first reassessment one hundred guests applied for the adult assistance program are cap or state benefits. thirty guests enrolled for nursing and p.s. h both of the those are partnerships with the human services and 60 plus guests take offender 2023-24 the team went to the - and then we

decreased the guests by 43 percent and increased of how are you? referrals we about a third, that team has been effective. problems solving resolution luxuries from 2023-24 at a similar event with 75 households resolving that homelessness the most common form of help in the homeless assistance. next slide, please. housing placements stayed consistent with one hundred an 81 placements the entering voucher and the end of august issued the nine hundred plus emergency vouchers with referral with expired vouchers and 6

hundred and 50 household in housing we'll come back with a comprehensive report after the fall for the program. moving on. as a reminder we have an online dashboard that tracks the inventory the figures have not changed since we presented last. next slide, please. as part of this months report commissioners requested additional information about the housing this map delays the housing sites from the 2022 count all site based housing musculomost is the cluster of outdoor neighborhood and in near the bottom of map demonstrating our push for anymore dbi graphic he areas outside of central san

francisco and about the neighborhoods we have more information about the ownership in our permanent housing about half of you are units are unfortunate and 35 are lease by the nonprofit. 13 percent are own owned or master leased privately operated by nonprofits. so. next slide, please. also want to update you on the fy2022-23 supportive housing h s h the good news on the other hand, evictions are low at 1.2 percent the this year of the nine hundred households plus 6 hundred and 78 issues were receiving evictions and illegal filing and one hundred and 10

households were e vishthd this is 2.22 household evicted see a decrease in the supportive housing since 2018 by the dot trendline on this slide. the percent dipped to point 63 percent in fiscal year 2021 because of covid that data point to be the out liar. we have. next slide, please. have simply initiative for the reduction of households first recent changes to our tracking one system to improve the tracking of data to look at other things not just at annual report. second, we issued non-payment to h those are guidelines not requirement for the guidance from the city attorney a procedure with the

tenant. third, we have expanded opportunity for services for investments in this year's button don't want to have people required to use that looking forward to support more tenants a as b they goat what can into the habit of pcia rent we want that as a a tool and final to get people in unit that work well, for them a h s h can have support for tenants no longer need this and free up unit for another tenants. moving to heirs vacancies vacancies picked up this month leading to a 91.5

occupancy rate in our protocol in a grass period started to be counted this month had 800 and 40 vacancies and 20082 of the vacancies are available for referral or 3.2 percent of protocol and mostly off-line for maintenance and repairs. so on moving on to the. next slide, please. on the shelter side used is hotel vouchers and launched that for domestic violence victims and to pro cure advocate. the durlt are shelters reservations is operating in full force and additional data for the second month of operation the 16 wait list like last month 76 percent

are online and this by phone own afternoon two people are receiving rarpt as 4 hundred and 47 people were on the list. so as we kind of evaluate we know obviously, we don't have enough are shelters and beds prioritized for - and hospital discharges and have kings in the system that we are working to fix 78 so it's kind of and combination of things we don't have enough shelter but see what the wait list will yield but not have a wait list, you know. we or only housing so many people a day so the staff is trying to fix 13469 challenges we're

having in the system. and we will reporting open that regularly and hoping see an uptick in the number of beds available and our ability to connect people with a bed that is a real challenge we're working on it so we can provide more detail about that. as we moved in this program. >> and then moving on to h s h shelter 1rir7b9 a reminder the dashboard is will and the end of august 92 percent occupancy of three thousand 91 beds. and then moving on we also have a map available to show you the location of our emergency shelter and transitional programs similar to public housing those sites are center in the city but resources in the

outer neighborhood a smaller program that h s h benefits ourselves and just we also have additional updates. so (rustling of papers.) um, so contract to the commission i believe that we talked about (microphone distorted) is that better now. >> yes. >> okay. >> so contracts will be coming to the commission i know you all will be approving contracts as to come and what we want to do is get in front of contractor offer a certain amount to the board but be able to bring them here first. and the public library can see them and we'll

have a chance to make or make comments and go to the board the first month is november. is that correct?. okay. >> so that's what we're looking for and get this process started in november and we will be then bringing the contracts that um, we laid out up with the requirements to you starting that most. and then our goal really is to be heed of the board to bring them first to the board invested here and have a sense of what, you know. of the nuts and bolts and what over and over agreements look like with the providers. next slide, please. so um, local legislative updates. can you move back

shannon you're ahead of me there we go this september have several hearings with the homeless committee at board of supervisors on september 8th. tomorrow will present be 4 grant agreements corners and 5 keys and the tenderloin housing clinic on september 22nd present choogsz of 42 otis to the 2023 care program and hotel permit financing. we also anticipate on the strategic plan and on care court. and then we also plan um, to introduce other legislation this fall including ordinance shelters of care advised by the monitor committee and three grant agreements for the

services and that's accidents henry hotel the first hotel and the covid shelter the grant amendments market street and 5 keys. we have a new contract for the san francisco homeless outreach team at 77 gerald and for the parking place. and then the next slide so finally we'll present on the expectation for the mia for the embarcadero center an forgotten hearing on september 12th in an anticipated action on the october 10th. on a stateside continuing to track to the end of elective cycle and forming the budget priorities this month. some updates in the

other villagers boards deep dots continuing care for board of supervisors for approval. four open seats on the homeless board the commission must consider appointing of the shelter monitoring committee staffing moved to h s h and introducing the care program in the fall. the shelters advisory committee having all meetings no person starting on september 12th a vacancies on that committee. and then moving on we have an update in the equality applications for the bye park fund closed this summer and we'll avoid the decisions if october the fund is intended for organization with

70 percent for people of color for financial and technical assistance and preparing for the h s h training in oversight and the sessions over the last month. we have one announcement from the providers this mom the project homeless connect day september 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and civic center please share with our folks and consider volunteering and h s h is hiring and get the word out particularly no the communities in san francisco that where people are experiencing hoelgs and the positions are poeftdz on the website we have 200 plus positions we have 52 vacancies.

our hr team it making great progress of note the housing team is staffed since this was created. >> you can say that again. >> right. >> (laughter) would you actually say that again. >> of note the supportive team is fully funded any and the department was sworn in 2016 and as usual thank my staff for the work. you know. frequently get notes from them saying i think i told you that but take play with my kids a minute and get back on line it is too much so i appreciate the incredible commitment the staff has and the

many hours we want to make that more sustainable we have a burn out and like to get away from that and fully staffed this is existing. and thanks. >> we we can move on to questions i want to say i've candidate 0 mower four of my amazing deputy directors will help with the questions and some of you may ask detailed once i want to give them a chance to get up and at the executive director mcspadden for our comprehensive report staff any questions? >> i appreciate three and want to commend executive director mcspadden above you today had kwhoend you said my team and i

really appreciate that. sentiment that you expressed and gratitude to the entire team for our incredible work to. thank you very much. i appreciate your report about the approval of contracts when i note on slide 10 the ownership structure of the p.s. h housing i think you're correct 86 percent are either going to lease by nonprofits and 13 by the city and one percent privately owned and in prior meetings in june, i asked that sort similar question how much of our budget is going to nonprofits versus the city and how many services by the

nonprofits. and if any notes are accurate i think that is 90 percent of nonprofits will doing service delivery compared to 10 percent by the the city this to me is an incredible show of public/private partnershipss in supporting our community and i think impacts how we think that grants going forward i have a request for the chair and the director to consider at the october meeting before the november approval. if we could think about criteria by which to consider those contracts. a coupler that come to mind incorporate me are focusing own outcomes in addition to output but really, you know. have we made a change in the lives we

are seeking to serve accountability and effectiveness the city providing technical assistance for building as well as continuing the initiative around trauma systems creating that so those are a few of the criteria that i think might be helpful to consider. i know that nonprofits have spent a lot of time with preparing the requests for the proposals and the department quell spends a lot of time for those qualified contractors are. and i ask for this a because i can't personally understand how i see the number of contracts coming to us without a system to understand how to just the contractors that are coming before us.

>> thank you that's a really good point and you're shifting of the department from the, you know. accounting and part of what we have done with the strategic plan through the process asking ourselves what should we will be looking for the quality and .2, better outcomes for people is ultimately what we want to do is get people housed those kinds of thing and so that is a culture shift and for our whole system to really start thinking differently you're mentioned that is helpful that is something we talked about internally but we can think about how we create - so you can make informed decisions on, you know. if it will be

transformative or housing someone those are that's a great question. and i i should say when i say trauma food system that is a whole letter of determination con and significant piece of that is focusing on compensate i wanted to bring that at the the front for those of you who don't know not working the terminology. >> any other commissioners with comments. >> i'll go after you. >> thank you for the comprehensive report. i mean, i have clarifying questions but excited a lot of the things we discussed at previous meetings are right there i hope you can exhale a little bit all of you because it is i'm seeing, you

know.. so, yeah as you know i have a very specific perspective i worked in a shelter and the leadership of h s h to open the first of its kind i've been through the challenges with you all and want to eye or constructively. yeah, i'll commend congratulations we can exhale some of the things for a lot of people in the pandemic were staying home from work is 2023 and taken three years we've been in crises and the people on the front line it is the moment we're last week. okay. we can't keep doing this this way we be

are humans and 6 months of stress after i left my position. what happens as that happens on the executive leadership of the city therefore allow for the contract hollers to model the same practices and shift their culture i believe that will trickle down and create more subsequent own the ground of positions the same way the city positions are hard to fill the those others are becoming more than hard to fill because of the overdrive work culture is not necessary working for anyone, you know. i disciplined for centering own that - yeah today can you let me know what that refers to that description?

>> i saw that number. >> the off-line exceeds they have heavy damage or long term needs this is what we're hoping the new property management funding will be added to our supportive housing and to increase the number of maintenance workers and janitors so we can turn those lower needs over quickly and some more long term repairs that's was that refers to. >> awesome. thank you very much. so basically getting you private contractors contracts with the city to get more

working on repairing the buildings did i understand that correctly? i was working for the bar that was one of the issues not having essentially in the pandemic having construction workers i'm really look forward to kind of diving both that further but glad to see it is a priority. and then the part about active rfp sorry to reproduce the shelter meals and advocacy i like it wondering if it is like similar to what was going on in the pandemic and trying to bring this back or am i understanding that correctly that part?

>> yes. yes. absolutely what we're trying to do is get back to the prepandemic services and our prepandemic numbers we're serving in regard to our meals and across the programs sheltering housing a does three look like i know the meals-on-wheels but is that producing the meals would that edited or what will that look like in our vision. >> it will be added right now most of our shelters do two meals and day and we're trying to get back to three meals but needs the budget funding yeah will be added. >> (multiple voices.) >> the amount of meals during the day. >> awesome highlighting that as

well, i'm trying to be mindful of time yeah. i guess i'm not get into that the part we talked about the shelter placements and like running into the systemic challenge if i can add that to the commissioner matters. i know commissioner evans talked about the education on the systemic challenges will help the department so people what understand some of the reaps like placement may not be sustainable and then be able to, you know. change the narrative to the public with a lot of questions why aren't people taking shelter? or going to shelter and going back to the streets i have some magical works i'll come back to that latter. >> if you can add if to the

agenda next month and have a presentation. >> okay. >> thank you. commissioner, commissioner laguana. >> thank you. >> um, the report thank you, director. really appreciate the encroachments there on the transfer policy that is the i think going to help a lot with the eviction and also with the bad kind of exits exit and go back to being on the street. but stable listing a quick question on the - are those numbers actual dollars? so - >> we spent um, for example, 6

thousand accomplice on travel and recognize support outside of this city. >> yeah. what can you talk about because obviously i think i know from some experience we get people back with their families or loved ones the likely - problem solving can you talk about what we can do to - you know. it sounds for an entire month $7,000 does go far but something we can do to improve that or this is a well, so that's a great question. i

think one of the, you know. we. >> saw that program used for a number of years during covid and saw the numbers go down part of the reason was travel was not heaping and people weren't necessary - and judge the year of covid all the things we didn't know about early on we r7 seeing people travel and able to house so many people from the streets because of the shelter in place but people want their issues resolved and problem solving with problem solving we can help them we have oppositions that we didn't have in the past. and people are ready to go and our staff does a lot of work to have services own

the other end with families or significant people in their lives so they're, you know. ended up with something without the support and not coming, you know.. so they do a lot of work. in addition what we're doing now is outside of all of that we're partnering as part of the of the e max the drug market stuff the police are leading partnering with the human services agency to offer that 20e people saying they're not ready in san francisco. the majority of people who been arrested if program say they're not from san francisco. those are dollars that are outside of our prevention we don't have status

on that; correct? >> but that is on top of um, what we're doing in our conference program. >> understood. and, you know. i think just from an overall holistic program it would be nice i think more people to be placed with their families and loved ones. you know. whatever they came from but well-taken point. >> that's not always a sustainable um, i appreciate that. um, quick we think the wait list. i know from when i read the article the standard - (laughter) that's how you get our information. >> (laughter.) >> whenever i, i guess i didn't have a chance to look at the video. i know that up and

running we objective have a wait list of plus 4 hundred we're able to place about 34 of those 8 percent placement rate obviously over the course everyone want to improve that. i know the standard a big part of the problem we'reing out to people and not able to context because they have access issues perhaps the issues has been resolved but and maybe you're team talked about this. i just thought i would ask the idea whether you guys consider flipping the script on how that works in our company we have a

wait list first come, first serve as a wait list as a back up and get all of our units they're not filled because of wait list with the units are not filled and use the wait list as an overflow instead of the front of funnel, if you will, if you're team has considered that possibility. >> yes. my colleague is the one working on that. >> we were not happy with the results i want to remind everyone so in its initial stage if you understand that. >> totally. >> so it is working or not working we have meeting and are

pretty much looking at what we can flip by to our point a probability - well we are working own that now. >> we want to house more than i'm sorry giving bed to two or three a day. the window that is on for 2 hours where there is call backs they happen for three days straight and we're putting folks or having folks from giving folks the shelter beds about to 50 beds a month we want to do better than that and a lot we can work on we can expand the days we're calling back and the accessibility piece not everyone has a cell phone or a cell phone in that moment but then not

again so there we want to look at how we communicate that they have a bed so their reservation is filled we're looking at. we just had a meeting recently this week and we're going to continue to have those. >> you know. and the one other thought i had about that is it seems to me for some percent of that cohorts we're not able to reach because they've fallen farther down the ladder. (clearing throat) and in deeper state of stress thinking about the triage limbs could be that service not getting the people actively now needing the housing

may help on the back end as well disrupts - it gymnasium another opportunity and disrupts the design ward slide i figured you guys are looking that (laughter) and i appreciate your thoughts. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> quick question of the 200 plus offline units what kind of conditions are they? someone leaves this is a realtor question for the commission. and or. >> yeah. those offline units are mostly units have been taken offline they need a large amount of work. so what happens we have

contractors come in and sometimes a small amount of work and sometimes it takes longer than the project managers want to turn those unite around as quickly as possible and because it is it is an by unit in service as well as the other commission to our population and our project managers whether those a unit community-based organization offline we know the number of units and how many units and the with this the project managers work with the owners open on site to flip three unit that is available yeah. so anything that needs to be brought to our attention that information roles out all the way up to the director. >> or regular wear and tear. >> not regular - sometimes it

is regular wear and tear and sometimes a major issues so many times those units what about offline with a good amount of damage that is done. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> thank you very much for the director's report i sent a handful the questions i appreciate the legislative agenda and one of the contacts to popped up the renewal of t h c-$108 million for a two year extension. and in particular that contract is not coming before the body the i don't think that goes into effect until mid 2024 i believe for you

to 2026 something like that. all the documents for the contract is available to the body will be reviewing that contract tomorrow. and that includes the drafted renewal terms. it included a very detailed budget and in that budget i was able to identify that the legal fees for that contract had increased 80 percent between for the attorneys and legal fees if you add those together the amount from 200 and 60 to $248,000 and

the renewal sustaining those higher costs through 2026 i presume that though spiked in 2022, 2021-2022 as a result of pandemic and potentially a larger percent of the folks were um, behind own rent to due to the pandemic. i was concerned that the legal costs are being built into the renewal own the ongoing basis because identifying we don't want people to be evicted from permanent housing for what often is a small amount of back rent owed. i want to present the exchange of a couple hundred thousand dollars spent to evict people for maybe and small amount of

back rent. so i just wanted to raise that up as a flag for me. and i wanted to ask the director can. >> confirm what the need is for the higher legal cost for the contracts and attorneys and share any opinion about the greater evictions for the sustained level of legal costs fund by the city? >> sure that's a great question. commissioner as i monkeys we don't have all the answers and ask emily to fill in what i can't but we manage over 15 hundred units of housing not just for evictions but cover the negotiations. they negotiate new

business when the program expand and helps with all the stuff have a rile beyond evictions we're concerned again and always concerned and trying to dba keep that eviction rate low but some light providers have barriers more challenges. so we keeping our eye on that and get more information beyond what i gave you dig in a little bit further we didn't have time between the time we talked. >> i wanted to put it into the public record and really appreciate the information was shared an slide 11 of the evictions and supportive housing. what i do know is from reading a book evicted by

matthew there is both legal evictions and e vikdz like constructive evictions the person is not taken to court i think what we're counting is legal not constructive so i think it is will be helpful have it type of information on an ongoing basis like to see the number of households for the anybody of evictions and was for the actual evictions i also a love to see see turnover in p.s. h and reasons people left p.s. h and the terms. and the percentage calculation was that while only 1.22 percent resulted in illegal evictions the 6 hundred 78, 7 and a half percent of the households received some type of informs they could be

evicted. i think very concerned based on the information at the last meeting sometimes e visions are again, very small matters whether it is, you know. blue hair dying or a small amount of rent i want to make sure we are having clear transparency too was going on and as you pointed out i think there is some procedure in p.s. h have a higher evictions rate i want to see those numbers and w0rg9d having a conversation why and certain person has a higher e vicinities rate. about what they see they're roll in providing services to the city. getting to the underlying issues. >> yeah. >> will be helpful. >> thank you. >> sure i think we have pretty much all the information we've

asked for. maybe not everything but we'll take a look at it and get you what we have. >> thank you very much. and um, i also want to build on commissioner albright comments when we get to the contract review process focusing on objections our goal to keep people housed. i'm sure that has a positive side of the percent have been successfully housed and keep their housing a long term. it is great to have a picture given that the majority of h s budget for supportive housing and for nonprofit providers arranged. i did want to b build own the presentation around the budget outcomes. i finding in my conversations with neighbors a lot of people are

focused on the dollar monument spent like has little information about the number of solutions that are created with those dollars. i think that is really important we focus think beds and people homelessness being tenant sandwich as the dollars spent on the solution and help us to be smart how we use the dollars we're not using that on shelter solutions but using it for eviction prevention or people at lower costs. and then i didn't hear you mention that but i've cut - a new pilot called the streets pilot i was wondering if you can get a little description of what that

is. >> sure street to housing homes as we call it not actually no longer in private form we launched that as a program in august and it is really small so we talk about it is exciting also very small to. i think what we really know is that, you know. there are people on the street ready to move into permanent housing we have permanent housing unit harder to get occupied because of kw0r79d entry 345i7b89 choose those lists we have in our portfolio a number of options we have people working with the operation center. and our homeless outreach team getting people from the street into housing and focusing own people

who need to get into housing mode a lot of people older we are focusing on people immediately need to access but exciting and ask i don't know if you have the numbers off the top of your head but it is small and exciting. >> thank you. >> and that's a good question. we're doing about 10 a week and starting at small we can expand it does take effort from our team in order to do that and working closely with the individual. and so, you know. there's a piece there we're kind of trying to balance the regular work that and our efforts so

and we're getting prodigal and came out of our placement team the issue came out. >> that's very exciting i know a lot of people who have done street outreach with our really reluctant to go into shelters and to commissioner, i look forward to the conversation about helping the public understand the reasons why people will not be interested in going into a shelter setting and the option of putting people harder to fill vacancies is a terrific step. >> i'm curious maybe we can include anymore information what makes someone more eligible for that triech program i want to besides that better what you're talking about. >> so when it really - the

individual wants to be housed it is making sure that we have all the documentation they need as well as for the all the work as well but really individual a lot of individuals don't want to be housed. but, you know. as when though not something else, you know. take them to our entries to make sure they have the problem solving for the individual so really if they're ready, and we can work with them and have service on site we can dots wrap around all of that and that's super i'll excited to hear more i have one more question i'll hold. >> vice chair dufty. >> thank you for the presentation. and thank you for the questions from commissioners which i really, really

appreciate. i'd like to take a mom to delve into the maintenance element the vacancies and so what i like to understand is the nuts and bolts we're funding the procedure we have like a strict team going out and i'm sort of interested in understanding sort of own the ground basis. base this is a, you know. a significant number of vacancies that there's a motion on the floor working out. >> i'm happy to repeat if i need to. >> thank you, commissioner. excuse me for next memos presentation is break part apart the janitorial and for simple city in the dashboard because jailer is for the traditional

term; right? and claim things broken you fix those those are more manager and the units torn more quickly we can direct own the janitorial side and those are generals that are provide by the nonprofits and it is heaping now. >> it is happening few. >> selling them with a more - a better wage. >> that's the reason because increase in wages for the property management staff with the janitorial i don't know the data how if breakdown but i'll bring that and the maintenance are a long term people have

collection and you can add complexity drywall mississippi's or floors ripped up and electrical sockets ripped outs more of maintenance issues those require the nonprofits who operate to bring in a contractor typically beyond what a janitor can do to bring those units back on line with challenges. and, you know. this get to the construction working contractor a little bit of a challenge. >> breaking down will help. i do think this it is smog that is broadly understood in this very engaged and ware city. i think that number recounterintuitive for the sustainable repair i

think would, you know. that would help motivators in that regard. >> sure. >> so we don't funds have a contract with with a construction company that can go out and say. okay. you're go, go to go the t h c building. >> notice opportunity by the nonprofits contract they'll have their own construction or maintenance staff. >> and have we satisfied we can look at like what are we getting from this deliver this service a different manner or - >> to be done and get an economic scale. >> i'll get back to the team and we'll add that. >> and you might as well say

because i'm intrigued about is that something someone is held for three or four days or weeks and months and help me to understand that. >> i'll look at this i think on hold for 90 days if someone has passed away in a unit. >> okay. >> it didn't make sense to me is that something we can talk to the coroners office two or three weeks or the approach is 90 days? >> yeah. i don't know where that regulation is a federal, state, and local but we can look at that. >> i think that is fairly standards and reasons for three we can check. >> i'm intrigued and appreciate the answer. on that. i do want to say one of the things about

evicts and my experience when someone is threatened with an eviction they know what is happening for years i have situations once prevented with the commissioner evans point resources to pay back and things of that sort - okay. and so that is to me an invisible number something we just don't understand and get data i really think this is a failure on the part of our city. if minor things are coming major and then someone is fearful and says you know what i'll go live at my sister's house and get better if i have an on the other hand, vision a very difficult mark to have on your record. we do not

have that information and i think that is really hard to collect because. >> the providers are watching and asking. and making us do it i like to ask the question we are not - i think we're missing a significant part of this so i do understand. >> sorry commissioner commissioner tobia. >> may i interrupt. >> and we don't know. >> i'm sorry can someone get up to the microphone. >> we - we don't have a reason if you know if someone abandoned the unit but not the

circumstances. >> there are some fields we collect but i think we don't have that level. >> but the number of exits will be helpful. >> that we have. >> okay. we and so many reasons people exit we'll take a look at. >> i'm looking trends and providers. >> thank you and some hypotheses. >> people are health issues and back and forth to a hospital things like that. >> thank you. >> sure. >> i want to point that out last month's meeting 6 democratic subcommittee at san francisco democratic party i sponsored a rise calling for

great protections for supportive housing tenants and co-sponsored by 9 other members of democratic party and, you know. had widespread support have i i have not shared that but will do and want to point out this an issue with great interest former and current public housing routine have been involved with the reservations i want to thank commissioner evans for that help. >> one thing that was really helpful to me i apologize. i reflect on my past i realize probably not a great thing to do but one thing that happened was valuable with the bash housing program at at certain point before we started the heros

program we looked at how many days from the moment that someone said hey i'm a veteran and sandy like to get a voucher and it is almost three hundred and thirty days on the ethnic that shows how long it took. and i am intrigued about getting a number like it perhaps a service auditor and that involves between agencies but whether they're on a sliding path to homelessness how many days is that something we know now? >> are you asking specifically about cap or and cash is more - cash is a smaller subset and you're asking about.

>> carrying cash not everybody is on cap; right? >> are you asking about everyone's experience or specifically being people on the cash. >> i'm in2rigd more than 20 years before it started and controversy is a defined path a responsibility for the city and you don't give someone their full gi benefits and have difficulty being safe so i defer to you. >> insure. >> are you interested in commissioner that the full path? so from sign up with cap to

permanent housing we have a papering with the human agency and have beds allocated for cap and intended to be used we have an issue in august that was inclined but well-used we have three hundred - three hundred over three hundred allocated for the cap. so like i said, we work working closely with h s h we ask them to help us. >> the public needs to understand when cash was mroementd a baseline provision couldn't spend less than the base line and quite a number of people left the system we didn't know why they decided note to go

into shelter whatever a big deal that was a dislocation of chronic homeless and a legacy of fighting homelessness i think for the public's purposes to help them understand where we are 20 years later. >> sure. i suspected three program during covid so if happen when we reopted the program whenever that was in january? so we saw similar things happening and one last question a brief one on the program i want to say my sense was that the in addition centers were women o one stop hey my

brother will take me in and one of the more vibrant elements to help people if people are ready. okay. good. >> thank you very much. at the commissioner. >> for comments and questions we've spent a lot of time unnecessary time i'd like to recommend on the process that commissioner evans submitting specific questions before the meeting and helps us to move along quickly and in the next meeting the recommendation for us to select our top two and proceed as follows: and yeah. any members of the public wish to make a comment you have three minutes for public comment we

expressed earlier each person has three minutes for the sake of making sure we have balance in terms of our comments and i'm yornd i appreciate and a supportive housing tenant our evictions p.s. h evictions is faulty how many people are evicted? i'm glad to see a movement towards started housing and necessary for those in the central city we need requirement for non-payment and nuisance evictions for the just guidelines time to work on the policy fellow equal senior partners and don't want to hear we can't have the contract. and on conducive evicts we need people on hold the outcomes

after evictions notices we need the tracking the current data collection law was written by comprehensive be mark farrell for the purpose of political feel or something like that and seems like addressing we can't forget about new evictions and a as a result of housing not the right fit i think that all contract can be delayed and tomorrow i'm a can are for the grant amendment will be continued until next july and especially, since commissioner evans said they're problematic items and the illegal fees maybe poor housing sites is an issue 78 and also on vacant unit is 2

worst filling that unit we're changed with labors generations ago and challenging for us and also to the new commissioner, i oppose die to the fact with the realtors and - both actions to exacerbate homelessness and, of course, the only reason the supervisor approved her, she says the right things i think the make up and qualifications need to be changed. thank you. >> good morning. mr. chairman and members of commission i'll brown. i'm

senior pastor the first baptist church and 48 years. >> and also president of national association for the advancement of choroid people are you have a task as one been around this 48 years i don't know all things but i know many things. number one, i am the one two that authorized care not cash on that board of supervisors what happened the so-called progressive liberals. killed it. people didn't need cash about comprehensive services. not having reckless compassion but responsible compassion. that is what we need this this city and come out of

city lose and talk to each other with all the millions of dollars we have not had the outcomes we deserve but would just talk with each other and reason with each other. and hold each other accountable we will be able to take care of that and finally, tents who knows where that came from. when mayor agnus took martin luther king's thunder of tent center in washington. and not put it in context the tent city was for one period demonstration called the public attention to the crisis not for a long range measure. what did

we do? we set the model by putting those tents in front of the city hall. we did not make a commitment to yes, ma'am powering people that's where we went wrong and halfback, half done job and have i considered the beauty of that. let's talk to each other and particularly with the service we need quality and pairist the black community is not getting a fair share. and no group has an monopoly and those black churches have been broken into we have been broken

into three times and the catalyst converts stolen many times and for god sake come together and talk to each other and reason where each other but stop that stopgap measure of just having reckless compassion. >> reverend brown. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> allen i don't know how i'm going to follow that because the reverend is one of my favorite people. and i hope that each of us can listen to that a few times when in read into the record and thank you, reverend

for that. i just have a few simple comments we heard about the solutions and all the damage second lots of talk about tenant protections for eviction many would like to hear more about long term stable tenant protections from the disruptive tenants. those two things that come to mind that's all i have to say. >> thank you members of the public wish to make a comment? >> take your time. >> i'm the president of c i u i represent the janitor of the beautiful skyline i want to

point out a few things i want to thank all of you for taking other than the task of a huge undertaking across the city you're positions are not easy and this room will be filled by a lot of 6 my members. but i want to and be able to thank the folks have been supportive to our members in their journalist. i have 6 families of mine come forward and needed help in the system. they're experiences have been close to a nightmare i understand why folks rather pitch a tent rather than the difficult programs. so i want to thank a staff and jennifer and others i want to thank the hotel

staff from the moment i drove any member the case manager was on it the entire staff as welcoming and took care of the folks he was impressed and want to hear the good things happening and want to thank executive director you will have his staff trying to help working families get childcare while they're going though the progress of being unhoused there are good ones and have a bad ones i wanted to point out contacting is the director chlopek hamilton house next to our youth threaten our members for separate time if they don't sign documents 99 not in her language and one thing i want to

ask urtsd commissioners that throughout all the different organization that i will be funding that you also expect not demand expect because they're i get it funding the they're that homeless should be expected to have a copy of any document signing in their language none of you commissioners would sign a document worth a copy director fei tsen and my members have been refuseed a copy they're not going to sign it unless you give them a copy in their language and we have been treated in the shelters not well we have educated our members prominentlying no matter not to sign the documents until in their language i'm sorry we need to say those things. i also have

been member a child 4 years old that the shelter does not have tolerance to prepare the staff there is had been education for shelter staffing for children are special needs since day one she's been her kid by other mothers actually your kid to shut the fuck up in tolerance to treat the other families are different but has to be more empathy and ask someone mentioned letter of determination connie commissioner had you have folks in our audience you have cheat sheet of acronyms you use (laughter) we can follow our language and also an educational component about how what the fiction of

the commission will be; right? i will i'm here asking phenomenon on behalf of my 6 thousand members who are facing everybody from unhoused to please begin the audit and i'll be here next month and the month after that and any more members of the public wish to make a comment at this time? >> we will take public comment remotely members of the public. >> no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. i want to wrap this. i do i know we had a conversation last month about how we presented data and numbers i and present the data

we don't say acronyms for the public awareness thank you. >> this point in time we. proceed to the next agenda item which is >> 7) for discussion: nomination committee report/nomination committee chair christin evans. like to thank the neededing committee for due diligence to make sure we get those vacant seats filled. >> i prepared a written report for item 7 the committee report by nomination chair i'm going to read it for the public's

educational following online and in the room we home depot hella meeting on august 24ik9 the secretary commission proposed the agenda deputy city attorney was present and the bodies above i report the draft meeting minutes will be prepared for all actions and presented at the next committee meeting the purpose of nominating committee to identify commitments for the homelessness oversight commission to the local coordinating board and the shelter grief and commissioner albright and myself and on the committee reviewed little questions own the candidate form the deputy city attorney had the

cloeshz is city clerk's office requires a list of all ongoing boards and committees for the three bodies no longer be constituent on their main website with the information. and wanting to keep in the specificity transparent we offer see the filaments and vacancies requested do secretary to create a one page on the hoc website for the councilmembers website as quickly as possible to make clear built committees and the opportunity to serve at instructions for applicant and the commission discussed way to improve accessibility to a pool of candidates to make the application forms for schedule and forms at access points shelters and the main library

and the branches among other locations and the possibility of having our application translated in spanish and filipino and other languages and schedule a special meet for last week of accepted the meeting time and location will be posted on the hoc website and we plan to meet monthly until progress has been made in filling the three vacancies and going to pace and ask the exhibit if we set the date. >> we have not yet. >> i saw in the drovrt are vacancies on the l ac b sheriff committee is there an issue with quorum like how quickly do i

need us to help fill those vacancies and as i understand i wanted to make sure we have the speed i require us. >> i think we're fine on the l ac b we have quorum and refer to secretary badasow i'm not sure. i believe we have quorum on the shelter monitoring committee not on the shelter grievance advisory committee. >> brake lights application is available is there a way to entertain applications um, like just simply people we might consider filling a vacancy or

two to get it build up to quorum. >> or - >> are you saying just create. >> i'm trying. >> for the lactation or applications to be made available to the public. >> you want me to answer? >> sure. i think we can do if. >> we can create the application form and then we can take people in time. we have interested parties we'll doe that and how would people interested in doing that? >> we would post the application online and talked about the application in shelters posting that and other of our shareholders. so should be able to - interested people should be able to get the

application. >> do we have the application form available yet. >> i guess the question is it okay to have people reach out. >> absolutely. >> and are we able to have people without the application ready guess that's the we want to make sure that the two bodies can meet and have quorum. >> i think there is policy decisions need to be made by the nomination committee whether to delay the candidates until the application is finalized to allow the candidates to submit like a statement and ask the secretary to begin to schedule interviews those are all policy calls that the nomination

committee will make and, of course, those the decisions of nomination committee will go before the homelessness oversight commission actually 4589 homelessness oversight commission. >> if i may a possibility because the 23450e78s committee was concerned about filling all positions effectively as possible. as perhaps will be okay if people are interested in applying in advance the application can send an e-mail to to at - forward it to you directly and something commissioner evans in september based on a letter or something

like that and the city attorney did mention the progress has been initially discussed with that the full commission will have the benefit of full analysis and at city attorney said it is really based on the full commissioners rule so short of an application the full commission can decide to move forward own a candidate on this october meeting no application at present so this is somewhat not right conversation but if commissioner evans and chair butler were in agreement we can

move forward with that and advance the processes and procedures of the committee. >> sounds like a motion do i hear a motion? >> not noticed for any possible action we can take that as a consideration or agenda item for the next hearing if that's what the chair and vice president wants. >> the issues around we need to fill the vacancies sooner potentially in the next meeting so given the nominates committee an opportunity to do a flyer to be able to have the authority to move forward with the process. >> i believe we're an advisory body wherever the full committee cars the authority lies with the

full commission until it does didn't i building the question for the city attorney that all the full commission needs to do is agendized it and list the candidates with the brown act needs it kind of specificity but have it as a place holder on the agenda such this committee can vote if asked. >> that is appropriate. >> from a legal standpoint it sounds the greeven committee that didn't have quorum we're interested in all parties for the grievance party and entertain candidates to next special meeting. >> thank you. >> to the tent that you are interested if feedback from your

fellow commissioners the process i find it agree being an appropriate way to move forward but sounds like the right way to address that pressing matter and like to see this position filled as quickly as possible as well. >> can i make one more statement. i know that the commission is going before the board of supervisors on contract. from my perspective the big concern if we don't have any applications a real opportunity to generate and have a really to play next year four city and county and help together solve that and serving on the bodies will lead to that

i stronglyly building in our capacity and professional capacity as well as the department to any time have an opportunity to share there is a nomination process available we'll begin getting qualified candidates. >> thank you. >> even through social media. >> is that possible to have that listed on the social media. >> we'll be able to. >> i want to open that up. >> thank you very much. and for that report and i just wanted to say that like in terms of like getting the word out there and notification i think notification needs to be also 9

all permanent housing sites they don't deal with the permanent housing but over has been in shelters have some experience to draw on of stated also i was actually approached by joining applying for the local homelessness board i'm actually undecided whether i want to go back to serving the city. also on another like matter like i guess this is kind of a question i know you can answer that but follow-up hoping it is potential for advicey boards other than the three there i'm hoping three can happen their needs to be a virus advise /* advisory board.

>> money members of the jury, wish to make a public comment? >> no callers in the queue. >> thank you for your process much appreciated i know that also be a smooth process we have the right people on the committee. >> our next is the. >> 8) for discussion: data officer report/commissioner sharky laguana. >> great. i'm going to try to get this done in 5 minutes respectful of the time. first of all, thank you, fellow commissioners who are here for

electing me a new role the burden is open me to figure out what this needs. and spent a couple of weeks thinking about that and k4rub8g9d at the outset develop a sense of tough line numbers that can help guide this commission conceptually the three things i'm focused own this staffing and budget. we have utilization on the website a number large number of dashboards 10 or 11 and all of those very grandular details i

couldn't which had anywhere i was trying how many people came in system ore expert how many people are currently in the system and how many people are left us this is a high-level what actually we're doing globally i had an opportunity to chat with the director she shed a little bit of light on that i had an opportunity to chat with executive director people coming in the system we don't always have good viability in staff those people have left within the systems of those served

providers. but i think it is i think about our work we have to find our way to get a sense of what those numbers are that ultimately is the true measure how many people went in? how many people have left? and objective want to improve all. the other thing i thought about was staffing. we heard the director's report and got great answers lbe i heard the service procedure have if not higher vacancies 20 to 40. this begs the question should we or could

h s h ask providers what they're current - the thing three numbers what are the current fte and what is that vacancy rate we should know that cross the nonprofit segment it seems to me we should it is 91 percent of where all the services come from and if we don't have the people to provide the service, how on earth will we efficiently manager the - any talk of the expanding the button or serviced will immediately break because no one to provide it. and last, is budget i think about this

small business owner but just, you know. i think which we're looking at a contract its hard to understand con tushl a small contract? is that a what is that even mean it is hard to - keep the whole in mind where you're looking at a piece of that. so commissioner evans sent an e-mail to the director and well said about the cost per unit. i think you also in345789d a followup question. and some sort of finding. i had again and opportunity to chat with deputy director who by the way, is excellent what an asset to the

city thank you for your service deputy director and have to help educate me and i hope to educate the public and commission. so a really important part of that cost per unit equation is the effectiveness of um; right? a higher cost per unit can could be a sitting less cost per certified if it is more effective in stableing the individual nevertheless, i think as stewards of what percent of the budget what percent of

allocation? but have to simultaneously keep in mind what is the effectiveness in business terms return on investment. what is the return on the investment? of those dollars that we're spending? so those - this framework i've laid out here probably occupy me for quite sometime and going to do my best to chase it down but want to solicit our collective thoughts about that framework and also anything i'm missing here and something else the commission think is a better way. >> no other questions to take this roll in any my estimate.

>> thank you chair butler you're absolutely on the right track from mile-an-hour perspective thank you for that. will be a piece that ties into like the more data driven systems approach that ties into the thing i said i want to bring to the discussion on like up and running how can we talk about i guess - yeah. the effectiveness of the placement and how to meet people's needs; right? we like people want to talk about pouring money into shelter not the best use of the money but cost more to put people into the shelter system than to house them and sat with the board of supervisors they're saying why are we putting in money in p.s. h that is important practical financially

responsible to end homelessness like let's come up with the data to show three to the public but that ties into i want to discuss further why it is that that is currently functioning in that way. i think the approach you're taking is absolutely going to get us this thank you for taking that on. the part you nailed i've been feeling strongly about yes. exactly how you said that mentioned by the staff the staff is working on the one of the programs in accountability for the contractor holders they're management is abusing them most people getting the money from the city. as far as like how can

there be less after a divide from the departments to improve they're systems and kind of translate that into the relationship with the contractor holders to create that transparent, create it accountability and be able to support them in their programs designed to, you know. sustain their services and staff that is what i'm getting at by providing clarity whether a place where the department needs to resource itself to have the capacity to do the legwork in that relationship i'm not sure make that is a question for the director, you know. is that something, you know. like is there - that something will realistically take a lot of time i want to be realistic and not

over taxing all this and, you know. that's why. okay. we're here now but like, you know. if we just got here, you know. like we're going to have to go with the department to correct the contractor own there and. >> i'm still the co-host so the only options we have - yes rays hand is checked i checked that earlier. >> (laughter.) >> so - yeah. >> commissioner to your question yes, we are constantly

work together the contractor to get both the culture change and that's the other piece of that. and we really the way i like to approach and thankfully our team is the same we really think of our providers as partners and so we have to work with them to remove barriers; right? and that takes longer but works better ultimately. that's what we're in the process of doing and have gotten better data collection. and, you know. we can - we have a number of proibdz that deeply care about people a number of providers that are good at tracking their

open data they to know was that cost; right? we'd like have everyone be there but, you know. we work own that and will continue to. and, you know. part of deputy directors agenda all the work and with us on the plan really translates into us getting better; right? we are laying out the outcomes and the department has to bring the providers with us, we have done a lot of conclusion and discussions and continue to and continue to have them beside us ultimately it gets better. >> right i had the privilege of being at some of the meetings i experienced the level of the engagement i think just beyond that just like creating the system for the accountability so

thank you for that i will say to commissioner laguana yeah, we can't haves conversations without looking at 9 human experience behind it; right? you, you know, i think that 350is around, you know. just one example i'm sorry. i'm not trying to take too much time there was a need for a congregant living people are more standardized and less stabilized the reality has to be better assessment yes we want to consider the point of the population where they want to live and the assessment as a the member of the public feel unsafe by their neighbors. have similar with the history of domestic violence in a shelter bed and

someone individually a behavorial episode next to them and have to sleep outside will not feel safe, you know. some of the underlying threats for training professional training for the providers as well like better assessment system for san mateo people we'll come back to that but - as 1106 we do have to leave early at 1 o'clock so we are going to move along quickly. >> thank you chair butler i'll be brief. >> and appreciate the work being done by commissioner laguana as well as the long term commitment to it and going take time to get to a decision proposed. i want to underscore

would pieces one, what chair butler in several meetings said the importance of qualitative data recommended and suggested. and commend executive director mcspadden. >> i shared this in the board of supervisors economy in the room i observed as executive director the organization for more than 16 years and understand well, how complicated it is to partner with the city and our community in terms of development of petitionerly the pales in comparison and move forward and not work i also want to say to commissioner guerrero point in the work and not only

holding - two things are going on one is our contractor with community-based organizations have a low indirect rate of depending on the agency 10, 15 sometimes 20 very infrequently up to 25 percent that is complicated in order for organizations to develop a structure they need to hold the kind of data and develop the training programs. in addition when contracts are budget are passed by our board of supervisors oftentimes the board of supervisors i know the city at large oftentimes with the specific requests about

investment and infrastructure are not approved so investments data system investment in training, capacity building and asked for that indirect request for the evaluation are not opportunity. funding goes to service delivery preliminarily that is an important policy decide our lawmakers are making and will impact the division you're trying to create. so i think in addition to the division issuing trying to create commissioner understand the barriers are important and we can bring the barriers forward in terms of changing the potentials made thank you very much for your commitment. >> i know your short on time. we hear you own qualitative data. i think separate down the

road we're supporting a high-level quantitative data for the director and staff and the nonprofits keenly aware of thinking a lot about the capacity resources departments i don't want to consume the resources in fact, i've had a counterintuitive thought perhaps will be better served with less data. and focusing on the data that is important critical to our decision making progress and like to mention i'm completely supportive of framing all that in an outcome oriented way and given a lot of thought that that and deputy director highlighted that. and last, my mind set

going through all of that is absolutely in support of the department and supportive of the nonprofits this is how i treat the employees i'm proud to work about how to coach them to be better and how to guide and alone to them and become he better myself. so it is partnership and the completely respect that part of that and it is a mindset i hope the commission adopts that as well. >> thank you commissioner laguana any more department comments so thank you very much for the thoughtful physicalness this is process and the commissioners we are here supporting and hoping you and

turn to the public comment. >> for the officer report. >> hi there allen two quick comments with regards to commissioner laguana i totally support of ideas of dramatically reducing the amount of data in the dashboards and finding what data is meaningful that is for. and then commissioner guerrero stepped out i had a comment about one of the comments was he's coming. >> sorry - >> i'm sorry. >> his - >> he's coming. >> that's fine. >> i'm going to make a comment about um, commissioner guerrero.

yeah. >> thank you for that. >> sure, of course. >> something for us to think about. why is that that it is cheaper to put people in shelters rather than public housing. comments like that are important for the commissioners; right? i think we shall stash a basis for make broad sweeping comments they are stable. when that commissioner comes back hoping we can get an answer for that all right. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> any other members of the public wish to make a comment and i feel this is important pronounce you're last name for

me and. thank you very much. vice chair dufty is commissioner laguana. >> thank you and my apologizes. >> i've gotten to wrong before. >> with a name like mine i long ago care how anyone pronounces it. >> as chair like to make sure that we respect each other's name how it is pronounced so do my best commissioner laguana to pronounce all names correctly. >> i was going to correct you afterwards. >> that was in my mind (laughter). >> any other members of the public wish to make public comment on this particular item? >> any members. >> no callers in the queue sir. >> moves us along in the next.

>> 22-9000 approve appointment to fill the unexpired term of the city assessor. the city assessor. raised at public comment. please see page 2-3 of this agenda for information regarding instructions for making public comment. >> to reiterate we're end this section at 11:30 one.

>> please proceed, sir. >> my name is brad, i am very concerned about the drug terrorism issues we have in san francisco. we become a go to city for drug addicts that come here they feel supported and causing very serious problems in our city we have to walk 2 blocks and, see the drug dealing that is going on. the millennium 6 drug addicts we are seeing a lot of shoplifting in our stores consider that those are the drug

addicts trying to sport their habit and talking about the damage in the shelters i'm sure a lot of the shelters are seriously disabled as a result of drug addictions and august peta i passed out a flier talking about the people that came here that are not from san francisco they come here because of the easy access to drugs and the support they get. we are a city with the enabling drug addiction i'll behind the morale obligation to support people down on their luck. i also feel we have a morale obligation to support people that have some

sort of defect they can lead the productive life but think that is immore roll for us to energy drug addiction we need to be cognizant the city is supporting drug addiction and the nonprofits are are behind doing that the example three 60 given $3 million to run their center and the whole idea was to link addicts into support they can get off of drugs and they end up having a drug den drug addict went in there and got were able

to do their drugs in an environment that was supportive. that is enabling drug academy of art university addiction this is what we're seeing a lot of those cases they're getting rich 2 and three hundred thousands of salaries. and the ceo published an article in q e d said we shouldn't do anything to slow down the supply of drugs to the addicts that will be upsetting this is not - how is that not

enabling drug addiction the commission need to address this find out why we're attracting drug addicts and how we can stop that nuisance problem. >> thank you for your comments. >> good morning i'm richard i live in district 3. i a lifelong san franciscan and the last 60 years i've been advocating and volunteering with the low income citizens of our city that are less fortunate than me and went with my father

and washed dishes as a teenager was one of the founding board members have experienced many wonderful experiences as a volunteer and seeing how the nonprofits succeed. unfortunately, last time i alternated i told you a lot of sad stories where we've not succeeded and michael has been in a homeless shelter for 5 years and had been passed around michael is 74 years old. commissioner laguana took notices and the director - healthy 5 years he told me the

first night was the first night in 5 years i got a decent sleep those are things we take for granted commissioners and here's a 75, 75, 75 on december 1st, i thank you for your effort on behalf of the michaels of the year and for funding the programs that allow him to pay 200 and $45 the rest is funded by your peers. i can now live in a decent and wonderful remodeled sro with his own bathroom and kitchen and peace and quiet a good nights sleep thank you all

that is a sad story we should put out that is what makes san francisco the city of saint. >> and thank you. >> thank you, sir. and comments like those deserve a response (laughter) and a handclap of the work we're able to do if we come together and do the work i appreciate that (clapping.) my name is i sometimes do the right thing what to say that limited time i do better conversationly. as of late i moved and 12r589d two different projects one h s h. (clearing

throat) there's within two different approaches to advocate for workers rights. problematic needs in both projects. one was going to the media and doing a media one. the other was an attempt to leverage conversations through the system whether that making friends with certain folks and levenlg in there i was struck by the first meeting i came to here when - necessity was acknowledged when there's media pressure the example was given about that and

right now, i'm actually very embarrassed to be from san francisco i feel we got mad but actually getting to brace takes and doing something about that is no a motivating factoral all the optics seems to be the lesson from the whole broken system. which we're dealing with bureaucracy on systemic chain link fence anyone seize the front line people are broken and in the end using tokens to valve dad a system really, really is just reflective of optics i know

i get philosophical but rather be given tools to advocate because at three point we are reacting upon the culture trend that is the whole problematic at the end. so i would like to advocate for more self auditing in terms of creating internal metrics will represent not success but failure. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> we have three minutes that is the last comment and we'll go

on. >> anyway first of all, thank you to vice chair dufty for mepgs the type c resolution and about the three sheets with the blue hair - in the sheet i want to bring up something not just about evictions by generally what is going on or some landlords malfeasance grievance policies. the department yes has a policy like within itself to field grievance before you that we have to file internal grievances with the procedure i think that frankly bullshit the procedure gives the procedure more incentive to harass like the internal process to get anywhere else. for those who

have been incarcerated it is for the prison reform activity i say this because if we're modeling like the grievance policies after the systems and it is not a good thing and something i touched own in the report. anyway, i mentioned like the idea like creating a supportive housing advisory committee i want to say i actually sketched irritate an idea what the committee looks like take it or leave that look the permanent housing appointed by the homeless hoc hoc with the shall i call the question? of policies that protect the as well as policy that further the

digit and 9 seats for the paid by the providers and three supportive services and people nobody can be from the same agency molthd after my task force made the task force a fucking failure to make sure good people serve on the committee take it or leave that that's my recommendation if we have like all like support for shelters we need it for p.s. h doesn't make sense it's not there. >> thank you for your comments one more comment. >> let me say that is the last comment we do have at the end of agenda but sense i sense

everyone has made a comment on this agenda stem we'll forego that last public comment unless there are members of the public on line. >> thank you. >> please proceed with your comments. >> i want to but i forgot to change dennis conklin listen schneider part of work on the website for the services and the success rate and permanent housing i think that is helpful to know in advance where folks are being placed. i speak of our own personal experienced one of my members finally got a place

in the philadelphia more like winning the lottery, however, she have murdered by here neighbor was murdered earlier this year was stabbed. and left in the floor. there was no staff after a certain time it is for that there also be emergency like we have 9 universities alarms on each of the stairwells so i would ask took part of it transparency on the success rate and the department wants to uplift the partnerships of nonprofit it is also very for all of you collectively in our commission roles that is also. okay. to let some of them go if they're not performing this is why the audits are important and transparent not want to take someone up with you if they're

to the providing do service has to be language exasperate across the nonprofit serviced or budgeted. family shelter has to be access for hot water and the ability to put groceries whether you're historically specific things your children can't eat for religious reasons at liberty to have access and an audit how the family shelters is families should not be rationed for 4 times and day and only given for diapers a day and not okay and can't bring in any food bringing this in your experience our members are going through this is terrible and i know the data will be important again, i ask please tell the public who will

tart the audits and when they'll start. thank you. >> thank you. >> let me for the sake of the public library. everyone is given time to make public comment once. okay. >> only once and to be fair with everyone i'd like to have that going forward. >> i have not people and i have public comment. >> okay. >> it is my apologies you made public comment all the time i don't know if you spoke. that's the last public comment. >> thank you apn allen i spent a lot of time when i accompany here i expect not to be

interrupted notice to be interrupted by someone on the pane. we just heard today from chair butler about speaking out to public speakers we just heard it today and to have i speak out to me like that is outrageous. okay. i don't except that to happen again, you can smile you interrupted me after i carmel valley considered what i wanted to say in a respect if you way it is outrageous. >> thank you for your comments. >> okay. let us move forward with the next agenda item this is i want to do a time check that is 11:305 we have to leave at 1 o'clock may be one agenda item we can't get to in any

determination i'll determine that as we proceed. next agenda >> 10) old business. >> 10a) for action: review and approval of the draft rule of order/chair jonathan butler. >> i'd like to motion a motion to approve the rules of order. >> second. >> motion to approve and segmented as printed. >> can i make a comment. >> let us would you like to do it now and so this i really appreciate everyone working on the rules of the order and maryanne opportunity for members of this commission to oppose agenda items. the current draft allows for they're to be a standing item called commission matters where any member of this

xhithd or member of the public can make a recommendation for an agenda item for further meetings. if there were a situation in - possible situation might happen at some point in the future where a digester of the commission that wants to agenda did you see an item and the chair fails to agendize there is a process to add the item i want to briefly describe that. in the can i case where the commission members can are a discussion about calendaring an item during the commission matter the chairman in the scenario any one of us can contact the city attorney to request a special meeting for the topic to the schedule. 9

majority of commissioners were here than the agenda item can proceed. >> any discussion? >> does the commission vote to proceed on the item? >> so unilaterally any commissioner can call for a special meeting - i want to make sure i understand. >> a quorum is many understanding the special meeting. >> oh, through the chair. >> yes. the brown act in the ordinance allows for the majority of the commission to schedule what is called a special meeting and have that - in the context it is clear that the majority would like to have

a special meeting on the topic and not and the chair is not receptive to that kind of they can reach out and with the city attorney and indicate f that the majority of the commission would like to have a special meeting where a particular item it noted and agendized for discussion and possible action this is a rarely used tool but a tool nevertheless, to check have not chair and majority of the commission as a whole or the present. >> need to be the majority of the commission as a whole that - though need to also be present in order to adopt that as well. >> okay. understood. >> in the rare occasion

(laughter) and they rarely rarely do. >> anyone wishes to make a comment on the rules of the order? money own line. >> there are no members on line. >> let's do a really. >> please respond when i or nay and chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye. >> commissioner laguana. >> tell you have that. >> thank you, commissioner

(laughter). >> >> 11a) new business: strategic plan "home by the ba”" and the projected annual action plan/deputy director, cynthia negendra. a and b are informal and we will welcome action plan/deputy director, cynthia negendra. who will present "home by the bay” and action plan and followed by the deputy agenda have a presentation by chief equity officer, anthony bush. will present own the agency on the end trend initiative so we have it is 1140 if you can present more than 20 minutes each and have time for follow-up conversation that will be

appreciated. thank you. >> (no audio). >> sorry. >> introduction. >> um, my name is action plan/deputy director, cynthia negendra. for department of homelessness & supportive housing and i'm overseeing a new development at h s h which is exciting called the strategies that is self expansionary and have - those are driving our

policy designs and lineing with the other shareholders weer trying to make sure and excavation to make sure where we are putting your investment. we're giving i a continuous update on the annual action plan now more members we had a chance to look at the budget and for the strategic plan and come up with some annual targets i'll talk about. that has a 5 year goal published in the spring and began july 2023 and goes to 2028 a 5 year plan across those led by h s h across the city and

involves stakeholders and providers and people with expertise the "home by the bay” has a number of target that are system target and need to look at explains of inventory. we came up with those targeted we looked at the current target in 5 years will be accomplished if we can do certain types of expansions and make sure we are driving on the things we talked about like equity, quality innovation so talk about the annual action plan where we're going to be in one year. >> the objective the action plan communicate to the partners. so communicating progress prolonged at the end of

the year one that breaking down the comboeldz and asking what are the outcomes we talked about those earlier trying to go from to look at how those outputs what impact in outcomes across the system are you reducing homelessness and making sure that people are staying housed and how are we moving towards the things we need to. our data has been, you know. we've been able to collect a lot of data we have work to do about direction and have now open annual action plan and more comprehensive measurement plan with the systems and pragmatic measures will go into our contracts eventually along with the support providers. so how does

the new investments also impact all of those goals i'll talk about that in a he can is he what strategies will go make an impact what kind of things they'll impact at the mechanisms we are thinking will have public reporting in progress, partnership with the experience to make sure we are accountable to the people experiencing homelessness and not engaged by the system right now and the commission. other bodies that are accountable but just to be clear, different buckets of other accountability one of the communication on the annual action plan community action

reports that makes sense to measure quarterly and some annual we'll need to wait a year to see what the progress was. the annual reports. next slide, please. . thank you. >> the annual summary reports will be on coachella the progress on the inventory expansion and key priorities. we are also focused on equity equity is something we are looking at across measuring in different ways the measures in all those areas will be analyzed identified which inequities exist and making sure we are not only looking at disparities but how we're advancing how we're restoring the disparities and analyzing things in a certain

way to know where we need to improve things and where the disparities are showing up in the system. so i'll go to the 5 goals with the - we have nailed down target and forecasted the 4, discrediting homelessness by 50 percent and the overall number by 15 percent. the progress will be reported to fy2022-23 pause we have a point in time at the end of january it is hard to precinct we'll wait for that account to happen it happens in january in san

francisco experiencing homelessness and we'll be able to get that data analyzed by spring and bend we have the report out at the end of the year we'll see how we need the and able to say where we need to adjust in the future years. >> and reported with any of these goals by showing the data where we are at a monthly or quarterly but talk about how we're going to get there and chief those inventory target and measure the performance to look at how many outputs and in terms of how many things on line it matter but matters how it impacts our um, what are we doing with the data? are we

keeping it to look at the disparities. the goal two is racial inequity and being thoughtful about looking at qualitative data people experiencing might not be showing up in our qualitative numbers we have looking at most of data in supportive housing and different program sites have our community liaisons with people that are experts in the system and they worked in our system and the our strategic planning with us they are continuing to work with you to be able to help us interpret how we move forward and really need to make a impact and doing that

outside of numbers qualitative numbers as well. there are some ways to measure that. >> i think the slides are ahead of your talk. >> back one. thank you. >> thank you. chair butler and measuring equity some steps we want to take and considering the data already on racial equity that is meaning to people and using this in a responsible way do we have really need to formulate work groups we're not just - but improving own the pieces have some experts we have

an internal equivalent group meeting and also looking at the other things supporting this we want to have medics baseline medics this is the goal once that goal is quantitative goal we want to track over time to make sure we are making progress on those issues. goal three is the one we can already start reporting we have the data and the number of people experiencing homelessness we need to support thirty thousand people into the housing over 5 years building new housing for thirty thousand people but not just h s h but looking at all of those other departments right now starting with the data and make sure we are making the progress on a year by year this

year will have a slower ramp up and looking at past performance and where we, do the newly funded inventory and 45 people should be able to move into a house all the housing the problem solving and rapid housing and making sure that we are tracking that reporting on that in a regular way. and i understand of fiscal year say how we need the and maybe some adjustment if programs don't open for for whatever reason and have issues we'll report on on that and adjust. based on what we're looking at the performances we think this is a bold goal by something we can adjust we are hoping to make ourselves able to issue that. goal 4 about making sense of housing really where quality

comes in the quality of housing. this is what helps people sustain their housing and part of it is staffing and training all those things we are trying to bring to bear i think we have control of we can bring to bear and just as progress to make sure we have 85 percent of people are not return to the homeless this is a benchmark and see what the gap is and hoping to figure that out baseline by the end of this calendar year this is where we are at and how to get there and the final goal we are preventing homelessness and this is part of our system decrease this entrance to homeless we can't - we know that over 5 years have to get 18

thousand people - we are looking to make sure that 17 hundred people receive prevent services by the end of this fiscal year. >> this next chart shows what we have at top line in the strategic plan on the consumption what we think will happen over 5 years we worked to - we're for the totally sure of the budget but our best guess will be adjusted we need it top line for 5 years for the prevention services over three 2200 permanent housing over 5 years year the current line is the inventory and the three row,

1,000 plus households and 34 percent of our way to 5 years and 49 more shelter goals which is great. 200 and 35, 75 we knew that was in the year also so have a lot of housing coming online and housing a butch those this what we get added the housing in this year's budget and the last bit i will just focus on is that the strategies we will be employing we have those advanced advancing all of those actions areas 5 action areas emancipation proclamation canvas the strategies we need to be driving on to make sure that those tashts are meant and

equitable and right now we are prioritizing the impact and. next slide, please. equity versus quality innovations have to be measureed and tracked we have deputy seeing none, and make sure they makes sense and they are the right matrix we know that quality is in the center we're trying to improve on and again what is in our control to help that we really are trying to make sure - we also want to make sure we are thoughtful about tayloring. >> specific things and make

sure we are not just one model but making individualized response and culturally responses how we serve people and the last thing i'll say mentioned earlier system flow one of the programs are performing well to keep people housed and slowly up and bottle in the case and that's another way to look at how are we looking at at the system not just h s h by come to to bear our strategic plan calls on different partners to support this. >> and finally, but not last but not least with the expertise is a huge the way we're looking

at the progress and what you're priorities were named by people wanted to really center the issues are driving what we are thinking it is important also. thank you. >> what a wonderful presentation. i thoroughly enjoyed that it was clear we all come together on those goals and have conversations so allow the conversation to point back to the goal is helpful. >> any other commissioners have any comments? >> yeah. >> we'll start just to connect the dots. thank you very much. to commissioner laguana i think the data you're looking at lines well, i appreciate that and three, when i heard you say direction to those goals one

through 5 will be embedded in the contracts selection and i think that will be meaningful i heard that correctly meaningful in terms of analyzing the contract we have moving forward and are they helping the city and county to meet those 5 year goals? i will say the way to describe it short answer yes we're looking at the 5 years goals and breaking down both component goals so for each intervention soouven those standardized measures will be put into contract we need to make sure cve we have the time to collect that data. to make sure we providing technical assistance and training to

understand what the measures mean and why they're different some are the same and some have additional measures that programs have their own internal for compliance reasons so not the only measures but trying to keep the consistency of those goals. >> on page well my page 8 by the end of 2023, 2024, 85 percent of people that experience homelessness don't experience that again and working own stacey a baseline goal 4. >> i'm guessing i'm understanding we don't have a

baseline to clarify what we've been using at augural prior to documents power efficient lee helping people exit homeless and how that new baseline will be developed? is there a difference in expectation of people that have touched the permanent housing in particular i think we're talking about eviction a low percentage so it seems to me a strategic goal to have only 85 percent of say permanent housing tenants not reexperience homeless again, i'm not maybe i'm wrong (laughter). >> is the distinction between evictions and return to homelessness for other reasons? and would hope that is not a big

deal but people are - not evicted in some - the numbers of that i would say is probably in addition to people who might have folks. we are looking program by program. so in the person leaves we know where we exited to they left for some reason the shelter program and comment on shelters. and we would only if they come back to the system. okay. through various programs or we can do that in the system. if someone is coming back limitation for all homeless. i think though come back we will record that and the other piece they might be able to at least the program

has some medics are they have been in the homeless situation how - are you maintaining housing and the benchmark on that have to report on sexual offender programs federally-funded we have term and a lot of data points have to come up with the methodology and calculate how many return to homeless whether the - how many years are we are talking about one year, two years. >> start looking forward okay. once - at the end of 5 years who come back into homelessness looking back is trickier but use that to build and methodology. that is kind of wonky i did

defer to the data folks but the methodology. >> thank you for that clarity and through the data office eerie got a mess that the live stream end with technical difficulties. with the meeting we shared. >> is the live stream than interpreted. >> yes. it has. >> we're back. >> should that paused or can it be restored. >> we're working own that right now. so i think we can proceed take a break prior to chief equity officer, anthony bush.

presentation. >> you want to finish this item and any second question was (no audio) thank you, on my slide 14 titled plans for coachella performance goals it lists a number of populations veterans use and family and children and sciences and transgender and people experiencing chronic homeless i want clarification that comes up

with the individuals not succeeding is people have quote/unquote higher ambiguity how do we think that acuity does that makes sense that people are higher acuity need shelter is that a queue we try to improve the system. >> i talk about that acuity with privatization the city prioritize more acute more housing barriers and less likely to exit homeless on their own but higher on the list you are

matched to more support. that is across all programs it is not specific to one of the population. but people certainly why would he try to look at the responses. where people go into services and people are enter acting but acuity is across all populations not just one population we are not targeting individual acuity. >> that's hopeful. so bear with me. shelter is not the permanent solution we have a lot of people in shelter have high and i kit and certain people in and out of shelter or frequently because of high acuity i'm thinking about

we're expanding and improving the system it makes sense to talk about acuity have we thought about i think from 12 hundred from three thousand beds do we try to reduce the challenges. >> that's a great question. we think about acuity in different ways commissioners so many different types some of them are are students and some of the populations the deputy director mentioned; right? we as you recall talked about the need for different types shelters for some of them with people with disabilities and older people and they're needs and think about we have actually need to reconvene our regular partnership and conversation with the department of health

and so we've had a lot of conversations around that and definitely want to get there we know that not everybody does not everybody has the same success rate in congressional shelter or in a shelter with the stress support like we think about supportive housing and what will be the right place for making transfers better, you know. trying to provide a choice trying out different things to make sure that people get to the right place a yeah, we not thought about acuity it cynthia mentioned that's a great question. and we continue to grasp with that definitely how we're thinking about that but we

certainly have had a lot of conversation. >> i want to share an experience i 4 during the pandemic had a lot of opportunity to learn because we had unprecedented reservoirs were unlocked because of pandemic and in the haight ashbury by about 200 transitional i don't doubt not - a homeless - the executive director had taken an initiative approach how they established the culture of camp and she did that by first bringing in people in the first wait with lower acuity and establishing the processes of the shelter. and giving the staff an opportunity to learn and develop and the

second way with second acuity and the third was the higher than acuity but allowed them to prioritize their services and attention twenty-four hours during the pandemic. and i do think this idea of, you know. what i've seen with this we've basking come up to someone and offer them a bed whatever bid is available that day not a thought process didn't have great outcomes for anyone. >> thank you for that and thank you for the examples have to follow up with her. >> eye heard that worked really well. i think you're right part of the problem not enough; right? we have on a given day not a lot of choices in terms of what that looks like and that is

an ongoing exchange in the system and - having said that, of course, we want to continue to get better and think about or i do anyway, about the shelters versus the populations and we will continue it is that and up and running love to hear about examples that work. i think while we can't because we don't have enough, we can't tell the providers all the time how to do that but lift up some of the works and have the providers work with each other and train each other and, you know. we're happy to do that and play that role and i can recall there was like what the spreadsheet 25 hotels one hotel had a higher level of staffing and medical care treatment. so i think a similar thing with a shelter with a higher level of care and the person that been in and out

of shelters would be a candidate for such a shelter. >> yes. that's part - so part of the process i said in may when he met we can't hold all of that but what we hold is the relationships with the department with people experiencing homeless one of those with the public health we have a lot of work to with that relationship and really make sure we are thinking how best to serve people we serve jointly. >> one of the things we try to balance is not putting too much assessment and eligibility barriers into a homeless shelter that is a likely resource and in an immediate way and to be available for people but absolutely want there to be

appropriate services to for someone to be safe and comfortable in a way they need in their particular shelter trying to balance not building up too much before someone get. and just trying to find the right balance. thank you. and commissioners limit our questions and follow-up and e-mail to the secretary for additional questions will be helpful. >> great. actually, i'm going to ask a quick question. do we have a unique idea for people we serve that has crossed programs and cross procedure like city workers have, you know. even on a commission we get the d f w number tracks the people in the

city a cross procedure number for all the people who are served through all the different programs and if a procedure is able to enter a person into the r-1 they get a unique identifier to idea the number and have a particularly for core sciences of - different so different requirements an identifier, however, not every department is entering data into the r-1 system and the h s h providers are entering data yet for the most part but coming from

another outreach team but it is smog that is not necessarily able to cover all the programs. >> okay. that's helpful. thank you. >> thank you. a couple of quick comments. you know. i think that just to touch on the comment that commissioner evans about placement i agree with you dwoshg a population specific especially, when it comes to congregate it is the direction that are preventing people from coming in and using the shower but not wanting to stay indoors 240e don't feel safe and how to navigate the situation people want to assess self referral is something i've advocated for

like program to be able to, you know. have some support of space in which someone you may have reserved beds to come in and refer them and have them enter the system once they arrive and have intact in longer than hours than is currently happening i want to decide in the future with the referrals and continue to have the discussion about populations specific spaces in general. um, you know. so and then the woeb so it is on record to work with the department on the specific the liaison piece that data is critical and maung the stream and to tell the story to the public of that data. one

example that it is not just with that community project but with many other ones common knowledge you ask them what they're looking for necessary want they're on space to navigate and maybe having behavorial problems or have a problem with sharing with tenants i live in a studio with a bathroom and small kitchen considering it it be a small space what is most commonly appealing to people they district attorney want to live in a space that reminds them of a prison cell but want to sleep outside those are examples and data you have to draw in the specifically engagement i think is powerful and excited to get to that place and the last thing, you know.

the assessing to shfrlt beds to improve that system i think that having providers open doors two soon it creates a scenario which you really can't come back from that you know what i'm saying all this 0 political pressure for for the politicians will highly recommend as the some point for the department or some sort of city or collaborative effort among other things the procedure to create and template and maybe unique to the h s h program but have a starting place a recommendation how to design they're programming. so, you know. start there with road map and not everybody about do it the same. >> understand by trial and error sorry my comment is

getting longer i'll try to wrap up. that is i forgot my last point i'll stop there. thank you. >> you remembered that (laughter). >> i was going to mention one of the things is expendable the procedure is a population so they were programming the site based on what they knew about the population. when our starting a new shelter it fills up by referrals; right? no knowledge of the population. so i do think that has been a challenge. >> thank you very much. for the presentation. >> thank you. >> and a question. >> prevention is a big part you said 18 thousand people you're providing services so your goal

to provide service how today prevent that? specific how homelessness it prevented by someone that is already housed. >> in the future we can - essentially you are - we are targeting resources to people close to homeless. and criteria that is used and has been to say this person is more likely to fail to homelessness if they don't receive assistance people might be further upstream maybe gotten an on the other hand, vision notice but a long time before homeless and trying to target those at risk to provide financial assistance and sometimes takes the form of rental arrears and utilities for

a person but don't want to talk too much about that program and target resources to someone who could stay housed if they have that assistance and how do you find them and oat things involved. >> do they reach out to you. >> a lot of application portals and providers that have prevention procedure and in partnership with the mayors officer. >> can i make an agenda request that we have deputy director present both on what we do to prevent people from entering the system in this the first place and present on how we help people completely exit not just exit homelessness but p.s. h i will be interested but we're out of time on that topic.

>> and there's a program expert. >> chair butler we hoped for we keep running out of time we hope for i mentioned in may want to spend part of each meeting going over the response system and start with prevention and homeless unfortunately, for a good reason a lot of requests from commissioners what makes sense from especially that the public is willing to go have not trench that is our program staff doing that so just want to i want to put that out there we're willing to do that if this is helpful. >> and the commissioner matters we'll layout requests for the next meeting. >> understood. >> thank you okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we have another presentation chief equity

officer, anthony bush. has stated this entire time and i respect that. we do have a limited amount of time. great. >> okay. >> so- >> i'll speak very, very quickly. >> (laughter.) >> i just want to set a timeline 1225 if you can use 10 minutes to present we can use 10 more minutes to follow up with questions or comments if we need important time we'll ask you to come back but want to get to the last agenda. >> if that makes sense i can do it in 7 let's see. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ann then i'm the chief equity officer, anthony bush. and i'll be doing a light over of the

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uphold this exploration wolf for this community for physical and emotional health and in conclusion, for the folks or physical and emotional health and help the under served population and to empower the community to strive beyond homelessness he and the fiscal year 2023, i'm sorry 2021-2022 was kind of the implementation strategically phase and now the alcoholic meeting among the transgender that is warehouse and community development and h s hr i know people are not here make sure to make sure we have a

collaborative approach and still collaborating with the equity raining a lot of this origin to make sure we be making a head way but a former of collaborative - excuse me - seeking collaboration with our partners in this matter. next slide, please. i'll speak high-level i was going to keep is that minutes and anything you want to hear but weeks ago focus on 6 key areas. increased displacement in shelters and h s h is moving barriers and again, an h s h initiative i got distracted inclusive program that with address issues that have been - and data equity support system

that accommodates the client needs and strategies to improve outcomes for the people and strengthen the infrastructure and lastly, in support of people with experience will support the city's goals to end they're homeless and on the raise your hands see the key areas and financial barriers and coordination that is providing the technical systems to cp organization to address the training and really give them the awareness they need to kind of better serve community of this nature. and equity to make sure the improvement are actually making strides and organization infrastructure for the organizations and professional pathway for the leaders to specifically working and providing services they can keep you were with the pathways within their careers within the homeless system i can speak to

the successes in more details but trying to be respectful full and in reference to you're saying in 2023, 2023-24 the $3 million one $.6 million is going to be provide to h s h and one .3 will be for the continued services. and phase one under the work streams focused on making sure there is a comprehensive nature to the field initiative as mentioned largely offer seen and on the far raise your hand column which can be talked about later on.

largely h s h are driving this official projects and leading the efforts and the planning teams we're looking be to transgender initiate for jobs setting us up with that and the core teams established as well so that work is happening in house and updates and some really great progress made already led by and office and equivalent officers - it will be a phase one i don't believe in the - i'm a former educator but how we're targeting intersection for the training

and also making sure a racial equity component and then a culture for d b o and a pathway for a program and dedicated to teaching mpi staff that provides services to better equip them to seek higher lovely positions in organization to make sure they have the ability to move in their work stream and some additional highlights are people in process one budget approval in 2023-24 and we have one hundred and 12 vouchers and as far as the project management will be taking a larger collaborative dependent on the work streams and, of course, h s h will be assigned. in the coming months to make sure we're

making strides and heavy headway for the initiative we'll be examining the project loads and necessary grandular specific questions i'll ask you to come to the office and i - i don't want to get in the way of speaking about things that we're working open but our plans in support of community to make sure they're advising i'm happy to answer that i think that is 7 minutes i'm not sure. >> very, very impressive before we move forward if you want to coke and have a many robust conversations about that important topic we will appreciate and advise that. >> i would like to request to bookmark it almost because yeah.

i feel like amazing presentation and so much i want to say i'm feeling isolated there is a lot of context i think the commission should have before going into this; right? why is that necessary and how that changing and, you know. like there is so much consent like aging transgender like to experience homeless 18 time is a lot from this is the first program of its kind in san francisco the first district in the world we need to lay the pathway to this conversation with a lot of context. as how critical it is to it component of the housing department. and just to add to that, you know. i keep losing my thoughts today to

add to that. no, i lost any thoughts i'm going to stop i know that was supposed to be at the top but now we're in the situation at the torts presentation. >> too exceedingly brief comments thank you for the acronyms about a cheat sheet thinking about that will be helpful. >> that will help so and yep. yep. >> too very impressive progress with a modest budget i commend you clearly have the right person leading this. thank you very much for your work you're doing. >> just in terms of further discussion i want to get to the budget understand the source of budget the source of funds as well as any potential constraint

and issues in discipling that but funding in the appendix like $3 million carry over sounds issues there. and yeah, i can say 2 point this that will will 2 point 20th century million dollars to continue with the service providers have been some kind of awarenesss around the organizations that were not equipped to serve in terms of continuing the partnerships and may want to readjust. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> commissioners and i want to

say to the commissioner. thank you very much. >> i want to request my pronunciation since on the plaque i heard while i was in the restroom. >> thank you vice chair dufty for coming back. >> i'm excited about your leadership to advance i think what the desire to do a good job in response to homelessness within the transcommunity i want to say you made a point about capacity an illumination to it i want to say in any days as supervisor one of the things we worked on with the trairnd empowerment initiative for the first time job placement all those things owe so no one one

of the in lgbt it is in our i now the ambitions of the city to build in the specific communicated is perhaps we can have a creative approach a joint venture so i very much looking forward to working with i'm sure all the other commissioners as well that's all i have to say. thank you. >> vice chair if i can say great presentation own what we're doing. we provided context a few months ago so, you know. maybe what we can do it continue

the item give more context to reframe it and have people ask any questions? next month if you like and i say thank you and the item three i recommend we move to the next meeting and commissioners come with your specific questions prior to the meeting so we can move. >> i'll move to pump members of the public wish to make public comment on any of those issues. >> this is for 11 ab so on the 11 b out you have order perhaps i'm glad to hear this and also saw like the government translegal name with the name change thankfully in california

it is pretty becomes easier to change your name i had to go to hell in change in a name pennsylvania /* /* pennsylvania be careful how you use birth certificates with the non-conforming bigger certificate are where were you born and not where you are living few i was actually one of them what i of the homeless in 2015 back in 20 new jersey careful how you use birthday

certificates should you, you use them at all not unless absolutely necessary and connected with the transgender person seeking surgery should be connected with services to help before and after i had to seek services myself to after my surgery it is a very big procure anyway those are things you must consider on the teaching plan i want to echo the comments about the president to have a bathroom and having a kitchenette that actually is something that needs to be i know you should make sure that all new p.s. h choogsz

have a private bathroom and and kitchen at least a kitchenette and in terms of that of like current tenants a refrigerator and kitchenette if the kitchenette can't be done have some confection item at piece of legislation need done or some type of department policy. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. >> i believe that's the only member and any members on line? >> thank you and. okay. we're going to move to item 13. >> 13) commission matters. >> any commission matters for the record reiterate. >> i'm going to reiterate for the record i think actually as a point of clarification you're

talking about a program if prevention and assess was that outside of meeting like. >> no, we proposed going through the various interventions to orient everyone had the same information and for the public and have not had a chance to start that is 4 months if we want to do that quality of life that which contracts will become a thing it's going take time. >> chair butler as you triaged what told me we should agendize having that high everyone operating from the same basis of information will to both our

questions and judgment. >> along the same lines i am curious whether or not the chair might want to consider flipping the agenda to put those items at the beginning of the agenda. i too will appreciate that kind of deeper dive on the work and requested that the packet will be changed so one member's so the pronunciations listed i appreciate that request and i also want to make public i made a request of the team to look at the provisions of indirect costs to see if maybe some of the decrease maintenance for janitorial items we talked about early will because of a cap on the indirect costs i don't know if it is something that might help in the future. i don't think we have time for an answer

but make that question public. >> um, so c not 2018 but the ridiculously prop c-3 created the homelessness oversight commission required that the city controllers conduct audits for the homeless. >> prior to the passage of 2022 battle measure was extensive audits conducted by the contractors and and said to clarify if there has been any new audits or new audit progresses have been since the ballot measure or any processes

planned maybe a question for the comptroller's office i don't know what your relationship is to the office of the controller in the audit processing. >> you want me to answer that to the best of my knowledge thanks for the question no nothing has changed i need to go meet with the controller if they're planning on changing anything to the legislation and a number of audits on a number of the departments and do our own internal audits sometimes as well. i think we need to come back with a fuller answer for you after checking in with them. >> i appreciate that that that was in response to a politician told her new audit processing

had happened as a result so i want to be food of them. >> thank you. >> i appreciate that. >> um, i also would reiterate my interest in looking at the ph contract to bring it to the body worth a discussion about the legal costs and fees and look forward to the conversation about shelter and the reasons why people are refusing shelter offers thanks. >> i guess on the suite of audits i'll be interested in possible have been worthwhile or effective report by the comptroller's office maybe post

on the comptroller's office website that would be great. >> an audit of h s h 234i67d in 2019 and have an opportunity to talk about that in a little bit. >> thank you. any other agenda item requests? >> okay. >> any comment from the public? >> around this agenda item commissions matters anybody on line and through the chair thank you for navigating that. >> one more item three this is a closed session with our executive director i ask all teams and the public to before you because we don't have any more public normally have a public comment prior to a closed session i'll ask on record any

members of the public wish to make a public comment and comment about what you like us to discuss with the executive director and members of the public wish to make a comment. >> we need to get public comment on the previous item and we did. >> we - >> all right. . i apologize (laughter.) >> anyone on line. >> okay. all right. now we'll proceed to

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>> it is 205 p.m. >> thank you very much secretary. good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the arts commission on monday september 11, 2023. may we begin the meeting by the calling of the roll? >> president collins, here. vice president shiota, here. commissioner beltran, here. commissioner benavides is absent. commissioner brenzel, here. commissioner carney is absent. commissioner ferras, here. commissioner hakimi, here. commissioner musleh, here. commissioner rothschild, here. commissioner shelby, here. commissioner stryker, here. commissioner ta