helped so the city was clean and energyed and safe. the residents in the community and businesses benefited from beautification and safety measures but it required patience resulting from limited access, transit change, protest. we want to be fair to that. our businesses in the community we have diverse ecosystem of businesses. it was feast or famine. some did well and some did not. a ying and yang occurred during this event. our help as the cbd and i think feel we are trying to stay neutral. there is positive and negative with every situation and there are very positive impacts and solutions that are beginning to be formed. we want to find a way to have the solutions last well beyond apec and that's what we are headed for. i'll leave with one final thing, yerba buena community benefit we are partners with

the city, partners with large and small business, convention center. everybody worked really hard, but i think this event turned out to be different on the ground in one location then we expected it to be. lots of positives. we are here with you, here with supervisors, mayor office, office of workforce development to make great partnership is solutions going forwards. that is high level. >> thank you. you mentioned a couple times throughout the presentation about before the event, outreach and after i wonder if i can invite you to make generalizations how people responded before the event and afterwards and feedback? >> our board of directors started in may talking about the event. people were getting prepared.

we knew it would be complicated and heavy security zone. i think the realty is people knew there would be challenges and security fencing and secret service closure, they take over. secret service took over. secret service tried to be amenable. they worked with the city very hard in pre-meetings, yet what ended happening is different then what they said would happen. they anticipated a 3 day closure and the was a 10 day closure. the meetings that occurred, there were lots of community meetings to the board, stakeholders and saeftd and security and community was anxious, concerned, expressed opinions pre and everybody said let's do a wait and see and see what will happen and we made sure it was safe, but i think are result showed at the end. people were at all different places and depending if you are

resident or small or large business, but those meetings happened but there was a lot of feedback and again, kudos to oewd stepping in and the assessor office stepping in but it was challenging. >> i know this hearing is really to consider financial impacts and undue hardship and think there will be a point where we think further on that what can we do to mitigate it. maybe i'm jumping ahead, but i do want to just put it out there thinking creativity. do you have any thoughts or have you feedback from people--we are going into a difficult budget time, but is there thoughts you have on things the city might consider to mitigate hardships some of the small businesses encountered? >> our board began to speak about it. we had a board meeting last week to brainstorm different solutions.

there are financial measures or marketing compains put in place. we think it probably needs to be a suite of different opportunities, but there is restitution that can be found and others. we are not advocating one way or the other. we haven't placed a position because we think right now we are in the fact finding stage, but we do think we have the creative people at the table between us, our community, the city, office of workforce development, there are solutions out there and the mayor office. let's find a solution that works for everybody and we'll be at the table and support and get facts and have to do it equitably. >> thank you so much. colleagues, i don'ts know anybody else has questions or comments? >> thank you for being here today. supervisor dorsey thank you for calling this hearing.

chair chan. i just are want to express sentiment that i heard across the city particularly ibareas immediately impacted. many small businesses said they saw their revenue sales for traffic drop by 80 percent or more. they essentially were asked to foot the bill for something that they would have no benefit for. it was no thought put into helping small businesses in particular, community organizations that serve many seniors, low income, after school--so, it was intentional to be an invitation for world leaders but there was no consideration given to the people that are in community and those immediately impacted by this. this isn't directed at you by the way, this is directed at the mayor office and the ones

in charge of leading this conversation and how it impact community directly. there other thing i heard, clean and safe, everyone said if san francisco can make this work for this summit, why can't we do that consistantsly. i haven't heard you speak about that. just your opinion. that is a biggest thing i heard in every corner of city i have gone to. everyone is saying, if we can do this, why can't we do this consistent and where is the leadership from the mayor? that's what we heard over and over again. i like to hear you comment on the impact of community small business and how that was a direct impact and general sense if this could be done in short time, why not a consistent basis? >> lots of questions. i appreciate that. i'll start with--

>> you didn't think this would be easy hearing? >> not at all. i figured you might ask that question or somebody would so don't worry about that. from where the cbd sits and think that is important, we have stakeholders that are on all elements side to small and large business. there st. no question that it was a high level thinking that at the 30 thousand foot level this is what was going to benefit san francisco as a whole. ited with tourism, et cetera. that was the priority and it was successful. i do believe we as a cbd tried to information to the community and nake them away, but dont think we adequately supported the small business enough through this process. normally they do extremely well. most of them, not everyone. not every day, but through conventions. this was a an normal situation because of the barriers. we hoped it would be good.

oewd when we met with them and entertainment commission in september and october, they presented that it is going to be good for communities. stay open. everybody believed that, but i think we understood differently when we started to understand the security plans and that changed. i don't think it was a lack of challenge on oewd side, i think they tried to get the community, and moscone center but realty of the closure and scrurt zone coupled with the media campaign that said it isn't safe to be downtown. stay away and keep the streets clear. it was semp fulfilling prophecy. small businesses wouldn't have been successful with security perimeters put in place no matter how we tried to do it and that isn't the city responsibility, it is federal responsibility. >> can i jump in one second? i know this is around the security zone. the problem is the message that

went out also impacted other parts of downtown. >> that's correct. >> i talked to multiple businesses in union square that said we had no foot traffic because everyone got the message dont come--it became don't come into san francisco. that was the message and one of the big est failures. i are understand we don't know where the different events are going to be, where the president and heads of states are going to go. we knew where the security zone was going to be around yerba buena but the message of staying away from san francisco it isn't safe, that trickled to over corner of the downtown and city in general and had tremendous impact and that was not fair eve n to those businesses not near the area. i thrink if we are looking at lessens and reflecting that was a biggest short-coming >> i can only speak for my lens and for our community, but i will tell you that our data

tracking show the rest of the city and in conversations with piers and other cbd there is no question it was quieter throughout the city. people did heed the warning. yerba buena and moscone had probably 25 percent deeper because of the nature of the security zone, but it did impact entire city. but it was--people listened to the media and fallowed this is a great city of people listening and they did listen. >> what if the feeling if it can happen in this time-- >> sure. it is a vital question. we hear every day about clean and safe in the neighborhood from our community, from conventions, from visitors. we invest as a cbd in partnership with the city and

we supplement the different cleaning services and different safety services. we partner with the police. there is no question this was a whole level that could happen and many of the efforts that we have been talking for years collectively as a cbd and community did get completed in this period from murals to cleaning and beautification. it shows it can be done. we did it, it is still there today, it is still clean, still safe there, it isn't perfect and never will be, but i think we made great progress. the cbd in general us, and my peer cbd are great partner s and partner with the city more and really we can be nimble and flexible and work with everybody to really continue to find solutions on clean and safe. so it can be done, we have shown it can be done, done for special events and this took it from x to y, no question about

it. >> that thank you. thank you scott so much for not just your presentation but also for the work you put into this. there was a lot of work before and after and it is valuable and there is more work to come, so i look forward work wg you to see what we can do with next steps. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you so much. next i like to call up raquel director of soma pilipinas cultural district and manuel from [indiscernible] unless youpt to come separately. thanks so much. welcome to the budget finance committee. >> good morning. thank you for sponsoring this hearing and supervisor chan and members of budget committee to-all of you also supported

the uninanimous resolution in october that basically stated that the $10 million put on budget reserve should be utilized to address harm that came from apec. small businesses and cultural institutions. we serve the local community in south of market specifically seniors families small businesses cultural institutions and artists. we have been here at the board since summer time expressing concern regarding apec not just the impact globally and locally as soon as we heard it is hosted in the soma neighborhood. i think one thing we do want to underscore is we are very happy to be part of the yerba buena area and work closely with yerba buena cbd and small business to try to revitalize the area.

everyone is talking about the doom loop and how we need to revitalize downtown. yerba buena is a great model what people are talking about the future of downtown. you have a neighborhood full of residents from affordable housing serving seniors do market rate housing. we have small businesses, big businesses, we have cultural arts institutions, museums big and small and so what we are hoping is that through the hear ing not only is there the interest in political will to really learn and address the harm that came from apec, and also just double down on our neighborhood and invest long-term in the neighborhood. can i have the clerk share the presentation? i'll be joined by manuel the owner of [indiscernible] and manuel has been a great leader in our community. before apec manuel partnered with cultural district to get

the state recognized cultural district as one of the few cultural districts recognized at the state level. manuel has not only survived a pandemic but actually be opening a new restaurant there opening up one of the storefronts vacant for 5 years so excited not just manuel but also his colleagues many small business in the neighborhood has come out today to advocate for themselves and our community. this is focused on small businesses, but i want to say that our community was very much impacted, seniors. we have 5 to 18 year builds in the perimeter. thankfully because of the advocacy of the community and seniors here in the chamber there was effort to try to mitigate harm. a lot of effort to make sure that they would not miss doctor

appointments or have to forego care or not have to starve because they couldn't go to had the senior center to have lunch. the aftermath there is a lot to be learned in terms of experience of the residents in the area. in terms of the small businesses, it is loud and clear. next slide, please. am i moving it? sorry. this is the photo a letter that the community and stakeholders wrote to the board in october. again, want to underscore, while there was-the leadership of the community to sound the alarm in terms of impacts.

i think in the beginning we were all hopeful that apec would bring about the reverse of doom loop, but it was the community that first saw what would be the negative impact coming out of it and thankfully the board responding by passing the resolution. it was supervisor safai who suggested to the mayor office to put $10 million on reserve. they surpassed the goal of 20 $20 million so we have $10 million there and hope you listen to everyone here to make sure that the $10 million is used to recover some of the financial losses from the small businesses. next slide, please. sorry, that's me.

again, even before the actual apec week, the small businesses already rang the alarm and want to acknowledge their leadership. many took their own initiative calling the press, educating the public, working with the city to really alert them to what they knew would be coming. and i think as soon as the perimeters went up it become clear that what was promised in terms of a boom to small business would not happen so these are headlines you may have seen already in terms of impact on the small businesses. as a result in the aftermath manuel and the couple other small businesses took the initiative to put together a petition. this was sent to all of you, as well as the mayor office and

office of economic workforce development and the office of small business last night. this petition was signed by over 50 businesses in the yerba buena area and beyond and there is lot of people here who will be testifying to their experience, but these are the list of businesses on the right that signed to the petition. the petition itself hopefully have it in front of you basically calls for the board to tap that $10 million in reserve to mitigation for small businesses and cultural institutions and community groups that suffered financial harm. second is to do a public hearing on how the 20 plus million and more was spent in terms of apec just to have accountability in terms of the use of public resources. third, also to do an audit of the $58 million or $53 million

that was supposed to come to the city so hopefully that is something the budget legislative analyst report or controlling controller can share with the public. want to also share a quote from the children creativity museum. you will be hearing from the executive director carol tang today. traditionally that friday veterans day would be their bigest attendance with 700 families and kids attending and as a result of apec it was the lowest and suffered 23 percent drop in business. here are just some of the other quotes from small businesses that came from that petition. again, the city only-small business feeling like the city was only cleaning up for the heads of states, versus really

to support small businesses all year round. at this point i want to bring up manuel who is one of his quotes. he will be sharing his words and his experience. >> thank you. just read a quote. the city is hoping international investment will come out of this, but with the small business owners in soma who tried to ender the pandemic will we be alive to see it? i prepared a short statement to give a personal account of what it was like for a small business operator in the epicenter of the perimeter. good morning supervisors rchlt i'm manuel ramirez. resident of district 7. i stood before you three weeks before the apec conference along with others warning everyone of the grave impacts

the perimeter fence would have on operators. sadly enough, i stand here with several owners and many others not present to proclaim that san francisco hosting of apec was exactly what we said it would be for small business, a complete disruption of revenue stream and ability to operate. from november 13-19 made only 20 percent of weekly average for 2023. two middle days of the convention we made for the entire day what we do in one peak hour of weekend operation. our valued staff of 15 employees sadly had only 20 percent of their regular hours income to work with for that week. my wife cheryl and i are attempting to open a new restaurant at the exterior. the first exterior tenant the center has seen in over 5 years. and now that project is in jeopardy. we placed our balance for

architectural service on payment plan with understanding local small business architect based in chinatown. our funds for storefront signage and other essential items have been depleted supporting the losses. the ripple effects are numerous and real. we are fortunate the board responded to the initial outcry and unanimously approved $10 million impacted commune ity fund. we were fortunate the oewd approved volunteer gift card program that provided revenue support to businesses located at the epicenter of the perimeter. these actions show a willingness to work with us, but they will have little impact unless they are fallowed up with decisive urgent efforts by the mayor's office to mobilize a $10 million funds into a program that gets impacted operators a damage based cash subsidy within 100 days.

that is a challenge we set forth to the city today. let's be clear, we are not asking to be made whole. for a subsidy that help cover 50 percent of our potentially below level losses, this subsidy isn't only justified, but required due to our circumstances. because the brutal truth of the matter is that the city should have been more honest and protective of its small businesses. before campaigning to host apec. before signing on and while working with the secret service. despite all the evidence pointing to the conttrary, we were told by many city officials the 20 thousand attendees will be circulating within and beyond the perimeter patronizing restaurants and cafes and injecting much needed revenue in the struggling soma sector. small business owners relied on those words and marched forward

despite fears, keeping our-door open stocking and scheduling staff telling them and ourselves maybe this will work, maybe this could be good for us. but in actuality if there was anything close to 20 thousand for the events they were within the conpfines of the moscone center. that was the key information withheld from us. that should have been researched by the city but we were not told and if we had all the information and decided to close for the whole events the losses would have been manageable. the city says that this is a learning experience for us all, but i personally don't buy the learning experience narrative. the city knew of these extreme dangers to businesses trying to onerate within and around the perimeter, but saw us as acceptable collateral damage.

the lambs putting san francisco on the world stage. let's tell small business it can be profitable so they stay open so we look like a vibrant city and we'll see what happens. for that mindset that callus and calculated mindset, someone needs to be held accountable. [applause] 100 days because a subsidy doesn't help if we are already closed. i think we formed this petition, there will be a lot of people giving account of things, letting you know about their experiences. we look forward working with you all, thank you. [applause] >> a few more slides. thank you manuel, and we do want to get to the public comment to hear from all the other groups here, but did want to--sorry.

a couple more slides. it has been said that if anything we learned from apec is that the city could-where there is political way there is a way whether clean streets or fast-tracking infrastructure projects and beautification, or in this case, there was i think in the news that there was something like $400 thousand fast-tracks to support two new kiosks at union square. we dont believe that was good use of it and that it should have supported small businesses, it shows there is the ability to do this if the city believes that they want to make this happen. wanted to point that out because again, there is $10 million on reserve. i have here a copy of the

resolution that was unanimously passed by the board. just want to make the copies available for the people in the public who may not be familiar with the language. what we are asking the city is, i think it is easy to accept we couldn't have have anticipated what the security perimeters would be there earlier, have such a grave impact. i do believe that the city could have provided more leadership and really looking out for the small businesses in the city could have listened to community and small business a lot more. right now we are in the aftermath and everything that we had warned has come to fruition and i think the only responsible thing to do is for the city to work

collaboratively with the impacted communities to address and mitigate the harm. we know this is a hearing, there is no vote today, but we hope this is just a start to really listening and being accountable and working with us. i do want to end oen a positive note, which is that, again, i are think a lot of people who are here who will be testifying are survivors. they survived a pandemic, they survived--and they are invested. unlike some of the big corporations who left the city the folks here are here in the city doing everything they can because they believe in the city, and so let's--in the aftermath of it, let's use the $10 million proactively, let's use it to address the harm that was caused, but also to invest and to make sure that not one

small business closes and to make sure we are able to really revitalize the area and be a model for downtown recovery. thank you. >> thank you. thanks so much. i really appreciate-there were a couple references surviving the pandemic and i want to highlight here is, this is a moment in time when the city is doing everything we can to come back economically and we can't do that without our small business and especially in the downtown neighborhoods. being a welcoming city is something that is important to get commuters back and shoppers and tourists and all that and this is something--any further thought on that in terms of the moment in time we are depending on in our post-covid recovery?

further point i think can you spell it out? >> i think the narrative among small business owners when we heard about the perimeter is the neighborhood is already on the ropes. besides [indiscernible] it is safe to say soma was the most impacted community in the city by the pandemic. there is a very little return to office, vagrancy and security isues are prevalent, and we were already on the ropes so to impose this on us was hurtful. we just got through the great reset of the pandemic. we are trying to rebuild and i think to piggy back what raquel was saying the big box tenants are gone or leaving and what people come had to for soma are

a good dinner, small business operator that takes pride in what they are doing, and we feel we are just being stepped on, and to that extent, i think surviving the pandemic and now this, it is a lot for us to all take on and we appreciate the opportunity to be able to voice that. >> thanks so much. >> supervisor safai. >> i just want to say, i know it isn't easy to come share that personal experience, but very powerful to hear that first hand validate what we are hearing out on the street, so i know it isn't consilation, but i like to apologize on behalf of the city misleading and particularly the mayor's office who lead this and did not directly get information out in a appropriate way.

to hear that-this is something i think you can plan for and are there is a--we had this debate in the city before,b if you are planning these events, if you are going to do this thing on this scale and know every event is catered and you know there is going to be food and everything provided and people are just going from one thing to another and not stopping at small businesses along the way, that should be made-information should be made available and that allows you to make a better decision. we at the board were not involved in planning this. i want to be clear. board of supervisors was not involved planning apec, which was 100 percent driven by the mayor office so that is failure on behalf of the mayor and her team. there is precedent in this chamber for fighting for small businesses. we fought the delivery companies when they were gouging small businesses during the pandemic they wanted to go as high as 30, 35, 40 percent fees. we came in myself supervisor

peskin and capped at 15 percent. first 10 and then agreed to cap at 15 percent. second thing we did is we gave a rent relief fund. i lead that effort to create a rent relief funds because many of you were forced to shut down during that time but still had to pay rent and this feels like a similar situation to that. i guess what i ask is--the last thing i say, one thing you talked about security issues and what you saw during this time versus what you are seeing afterwards , we passed legislation here that will mandate foot patrol in every corner of the city. the chief is now mandated the work with the police captains so encourage you and raquel and soma pilipinas to engage with your captain, because those plans are required to be become available january 1. police department is here, you can check in with them, but that legislation passed going

into effect january 1 and it is data driven where that is going to be. i guess my last question would be, have you done an assessment of how small businesses were impacted and what the average impact is that--you said you are not looking to be made whole, but what is a range of what you might be looking for? >> so, we have over 40 restaurants that responded and provided financial information on the petition, and i haven't looked at the numbers myself, but the people behind organizing the tech behind the petition and they said average drop was about 60 percent. that's with a few outlay rs who said it helped their business. the week of apec.

for us it was north of $50 thousand in loss. not just lost revenue but money we spent staffing teams during days with minimal sales to no sales, and we had to stock our kitchens the entire week because no supplier would do the pier 27 protocol. cisco isn't going to do that. we bought before the fence went up something that hold over for medium level conference throughout the week and operated 6 days from the 9, first day of the perimeter, through the i believe the 15. if we had all the information and looked at the possibility of closing for the week for the people inside the perimeter that should have been a risk

full risk assessment sort of situation. people should have been given the opportunity to make the decision. it would have minimized the loss to $50 thousand to $10 thousand. something we could manage. we tried to stay open and we wanted to support staff. that's the main thing. my wife bigest headache is we can't let a check bounce t. holiday season and these people need to have to their checks go through. i think hope that answers the question. that is helpful. thank you. >> you ready for that? >> yep. i appreciate all the presentations. i think now if through the chair ready to open this up to public comment. >> i think it is time for us to open public comment. thank you supervisor dorsey and supervisor safai for the line of questioning. i'll probably have closing remark once we done with public comment and just let's go to

that. >> thank you madam chair. we invite members of the public who joined today and wish to address the committee to line along the windows. please come forward to the lectern and all speakers are allowed two minutes to speak. >> good morning budget commission. [indiscernible] it is already established that if you don't push for the city-if you dont push the concept of responsibility on critical thinking, you cannot have any positive outcome. i said that several times. apparently it is unheard. now to sum up this apec gathering, all the money was valuable for this organization. if there is one thing to demonstrate that it was a total

failure, is that i don't know if you are aware, you should be with what happened yesterday at the board of supervisors meeting, meanwhile, there was a genocide going on somewhere and none of these heads of states were here present. we are sorry it was--what was going on in the world here. sorry for apec, but [indiscernible] otherwise what does it mean? it simply means these guys who were here are not work ing for peace of happiness of the people generally speaking, so these people heads of states are not the friends of our friends, which is why the way

you need [indiscernible] otherwise it doesn't make sense. that's all i have to say this morning. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good morning. happy holidays. paige scott vise president and general manager for yerba buena ice skating and bowling center which sits dectly on the roof of moscone. we were told one week before from secret service that they can't tell us we have to close, but they wouldn't let us come through security with skates. and that made things difficult, basically impossible. we lost close to $30 thousand being closed for that time and many of our programming is pre-sold, pre-programmed. now we are bombarded with people wanting refunds because we can't give back time. we are booked 20 hours a day.

we cant give that back. we had so many people petrifyed to come to san francisco. we heard it from somebody else in another county that they were canceling our hockey game because they heard apec is coming. i am like what is apec? got it. we have approximately 28 independent contractors that rely on coaching ice skating, professional instructors and trainers. they lost all they money , they will not get that back. we tried to have the staff work and clean the building and do maintenance inwe are--the night before they said no, one is allowed in the building so we couldn't keep the kids employed and food on the table and help pay rent. we believe in the yerba buena gardens. thank you for trying to help us. thank you. >> thank you much paige scott. next speaker, please. >> good morning.

david co hen, owner of oren hummus. my corner was most impacted from the demonstrations you heard about and hopefully see the images of during the apec conference. i like to thank you and make it really clear that while the city benefited financially and reputationally unquestionable from this event, businesses, me personally a member of your community a constituents did not. i lost $50 thousand in revenue at the grove that doesn't include last food or paying employees at christmas time, things as a small business owner i do no matter what. this loss was a direct result of the security zone in apec. no other factors contributed to it. apec came the sidewalks were closed, our tables went away u so the demonstrators and protesters had a place to be. the streets are delivery and catering came down, fenced off and impassable. the resident and visor its who stroll our streets were told

stay away and kept from crosing the streets and if they did come to the grove they were surrounding by protesters with bull horns. these are facts. they didn't have a enjoyable sunday breakfast. that is what happened in front of the grove. as mr. peskin said not too long ago, this was once in century event and thanks for everyone law enforcement especially, it was success, but i'm asking to be made whole. i'm asking for the fund to be tapped for $50 thousand for me and all the other businesses effected because you have the money, and to the board of supervisors, it is your moral responsibility, a political win, a political win and moral responsibility to take care of your constituents. i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you for addressing

the committee. i like to remind the audience members we have a board rule against audible forms of support or opposition, so if you want to express yourself, hands up in the air would be great, just so we can keep our proceedings going. thank you much. next speaker, please. >> hello. dr. carol tang, the exectev drcktser of the children creativity museum. you heard a little about some of the impacts we faced but as the only children museum in san francisco, we really do have a audience of some of the most cautious and caring parents and families in the country. because children vaccines were not fully developed until june 2022, we were never fully reopened until then and again, our families were the ones who wanted to stay home not only to protect their own families, but the vulnerable people in our neighborhood and again, we faced harshest impact in the

city and county. these parents heard all the news what would happen during apec before and after and during. they heard that if you were driving in across the bay bridge and parking 5 and mission that is impossible or biking from mission bay face hardship said. taking the central subway from chinatown and walk wg a stroller and 3 year old from the tenderloin or soma it would be difficult, there are safety concerns and security concerns and just inconvenience and hassle. veteran is traditionally the bus just day. we had to close even though we ramped up staffing for the weekend and impacted the week after as well. right now we are not just concerned about november and the future. when you do a google news search one of the top search is

children creativity museum with riot in the front. we hope you don't [indiscernible] make san francisco look good don't abandon when the spotlight is gone. we need long-term support for cultural organizations and small businesses. thank you. >> thank you dr. tang for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> hello, good morning. thank you for having us here. ran dell connor general manager of oren hummus at 71 third street. i want to talk impacts on our business day to day as every day we did attempt to open. every day we opened the doors, every day we went in there and went throathe security zones. we were able to plan for the things we were told about. we were not able to plan for the things that we were not, and the main thing that impacted us was the protests. we had absolute violent blood

pouring protests at our doorsteps on our windows, to the point where my employees and staff were afraid to come to work and when i decided to close the business early, we were afraid to exit and get to where we needed to get to just be safe. we are in the food beverage business but think in the people business and do by way of food and business and care about our team hundred percent and see the looks on their faces afraid to come to work was heart breaking. we lost 40 percent of sales or around $40 thousand of our sales that week because every day we did attempt to open. we wanted to believe in the conference and city, but the city just came up short with this conference unfortunately. like i said, we gave a fighting chance daily and unfortunately fell short, so extremely disappointed. i represent david and misty and ownership group and i just want

to get up here and just have you understand that it really impacted us and really impacted the people that we work for and that is the most important thing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. david cupely, cofounder of [indiscernible] based at third and mission. thank you for the hearing today. we have focus on equitable pandemic for downtown san francisco the last 3 years. been around over 8 years. apec negatively effected our work. i had to miss the opportunity in the united [indiscernible] because of the impact of the security gates. [indiscernible] involved day one going to apec briefings. we brought up the concern. it was not listened to and not brought in. we had to relocate that week outside of the city and county

because all the hotels were sold out and it cost over $10 thousand to relocate the team for the work. we lost meetings, we were not able to really recover. we had to come during thanksgiving week so two weeks of lost work and impact on work and missing the top 28 summit devastating to the non profit. apec was a nail in the coffin for small businesses and residents in the area, not just apec summit. the summit was the nail in the coffin. [indiscernible] targeted to downtown and yerba buena on pandemic recovery. that hasn't been the case. there needs to be funding on that. we urge the board to move forward with potential resolution for the small businesses in the area as well as special funding. negatively effected us and our work, had to relocate, had to

call 311 to get up to date information they got over the weekend we had to leave sunday night and not monday or tuesday. we urge the board to take action. emergency funding and look forward working with you on equitable pandemic recovery. thank you. jrnsh >> thank you. >> hello. my name is [indiscernible] the owner of fresh roll, family owned restaurant opened since 2012. also resident of san francisco. let's start with numbers. the week of apec our restaurant saw 94 percent dop in revenue. say again, 94 percent drop or business hit hard as road blocks prevented fulfilling orders. additionally, we experience more then 50 percent drop the week prior as result of unannounced road closures. it will take over 4 months to recoup what we lost for the 1 week of apec.

now the non quantifyable metrics. event like apec take a toll on restaurant moral which caused severe disruption for staff and families in a environment where hiring is difficult. cancellations to orders due to road closure have short-term financial and long-term reputational consequence to us. in other words, as bad at the numbers are from apec to normal operational week, we are yet to realize the true long-term impact to this event. solutions, use of $10 million reserve in the form of financial reparations help mitigate the financial impact. long-term financial support of tax and rent support help keep businesses alive during the trying time. to close, we think of san francisco as a food cultural epicenter we think small food businesses that used to sprinkle the beautiful city. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you. >> before you leave, can you just if you have a quantified

how much revenue you lost? it is helpful if anyone is in that position. >> $40 thousand. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is carla mays. my business is may civic invasion. we have been in the district 13 years. i also serve as the san francisco lead for the american planning association. this was a devastating hit. i live at the paramount. what hasn't been told is us entrepreneur, micro entrepreneurs and people that work from home and folks laid off from the tech industry that still live in our community that are trying to make rent by working at home and doing various jobs. we rely on gig workers for uber, lyft, all these different things. we had to-everything we were not-we came to the meetings and we were told that these gates were going to come.

we were not able to live and be able to live as we normally do. that we were going to be fenced off. what is not told is a lot of people couldn't get to work or school so they have trouble making rent this month. they are having worried how they make their rent going forward. it is a different-micro entrepreneurs, folks that couldn't get to work and the mental health problems that will come, a lot of people had to be at home 10 days straight. they had no food they could rely on and i think that there needs to be a talk about what happened and then the rent subsidies, we need more rent subsidies and the same pandemic relief offered in district 5 and 10. thank you. >> thank you carla mays.

next speaker, please. >> my name is mitch park, been working downtown for like 20 years. i work at tequila mockingbird between market and mission and we are a bar. we lost $10 thousand my boss said. everything we do down there is about supporting the community and bringing back the culture and the arts and just being--i love downtown san francisco. that's where i have been and it feels like we alone out there since the pandemic. everything we do is to bring back the love, bring back the art, bring back the culture. a lot of support we get from the bars are people that work in the neighborhood. they took the whole week off. the people. they didn't want to come downtown and see the fences up. it was a ugly sight and they took the next week off too because it was thanksgiving so

two weeks of like love not being there. we lost $10 thousand. we are a bar and care about the people and the community. a lot of people lost more, so we are in this together and i know--i lots of things to say to the mayor office about this, but so happy we all came out here and thanks for hearing us and hopefully we can get something done. thank you so much. >> thank you mitch park. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is [indiscernible] san francisco. human rights group activities and initiatives primarily in soma. before and during apec saw negative impact the community specifically the working class community in soma. when we talk about the small businesses, we need to know we are talking about working people who rely on jobs to

provide for families. jobs difficult to get to. the $10 million reserve should support these people who the city relies to make it run. migrant working class people the backbone of the city. i want to stress how the funds should [indiscernible] there is clear documentation of police sergeant jensen who sexually asaultded one of the members and ihave lns and women experience from police like shoving and choking. the funds need to go the community apec stole from. corprisions and dictators benefited from apec, however it is san francisco the community we need to understand and invest into instead. thank you. >> thank you much for addressing the committee. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is [indiscernible] member of. advocate for filipinos,

particularly soma. thank you for the hearing. [indiscernible] apec represents and even though it was said it helped san francisco as a whole, the local small businesses local communities and working people will be barely benefited by the crumbs. the small business and security zone expressed concern ahead of time on the loss of business and expected protest, yet the city did nothing. vast majority of apec attendees were not going to eat at [indiscernible]. i think the gay apec attendees went to [indiscernible] we cant wait for promise revenue for future conventions and big event will happen if apec was successful. we need to support small business now as they already have been battered by the pandemic and post pan demic world. [indiscernible] we know are seniors they complained the

information they got was not helpful because they were given in small prints that i could barely read. we came prepared with information in large founts and readinable map. i spent a lot of time at the mta board meetings and made a point this year to create a culture of care. let's immolate that culture and care about the local communities, local businesses and everyone that needs that care the most. finally, as my colleague mentioned, during the atiapec demonstration one of the members from chicago was physically and sexually assaulted by a police sergeant named jensen and if we think funding the police and using reserve funds for them, we should not do so until they are held accountable. thank you. >> thank you much for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >>

>> hello. back again from last night. i'm brandon lee with the san francisco committee for human rights in the philippines and no to apec coalition. we brought up with the small businesses before apec was launched, the doom promises apec brings supporting corporations ofern over people and plundering the planet instead of supporting the resiliency of the environment and indigenous peoples. i just want to bring up that mayor breed recently said we have to cut $1 billion from our budget and she promised that apec will only bring $53

million back to the city, but like we heard, we is that money going? going back to the corporations. not to small businesses, not to the workers, and what is missing here from the dialogue today are those workers and the residents from the south of market area. they are not able to make it here because they were trapped in that zone for more then a week. like what a previous speaker mentioned, there is a hyper-militarized zone during the apec. we don't need more spending on police. we need the spending to go back to the small businesses. thank you. >> thank you much brandon lee. next speaker. >> good morning supervisors

chan mandelman, safai and dorsey. thank you for calling for this hearing. i am here today as a lifelong san francisco resident urging you to fund the local it community small businesses and workers who face hardship during the hosting of apec summit. as a child of parents who own a small business, i know very well the anxiety and uncertainty that goes along with the unpredictable [indiscernible] that effect small business. these oprations have very small margin for error and can make people miss rent or late on bills. apec was a over-price affair that costed local financial hardship particularly downtown and we don't want to treat as collateral damage. there are reports heard it all here, 6 figure losses and to restaurant bars and not to mention the impact on workers who live pay check to pay check. if small businesses local community centers and service that make up the ruch culture

tapestry in san francisco and feel the livelihood of so many. i also want to bring to your attention that others have, if the committee is considering using any of the city $10 million for the police strongly reconsider. as mayor breed talked about pay [indiscernible] assaulted multiple members of our community sexually harassed-groping one protesters, there is video and put baton under her chin and lifted and choked her. we are really disturbed and unacceptable that targeting of small asian women by the police that happen during the protest. it was more then one person. these officers were three times the size of the people they attacked. please don't give the city apec funds to police overtime,

especially until they are held accountable for these. let the federal government or state pay for it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker. >> hello. david wu, soma pilipinas. i will read a letter. like other north beach small businesses the [indiscernible] had been working with telegraph hill dweller association. films are played at venues in north beach the third wednesday each month jooun to november. the plan was have a big blow out evend. the events had been building month to month growing each month. before knowing the impact of apec, we had been preparing and investing for a huge event for november 15. we invested in the film rights

to killer clowns from outer space to show at our venue. we worked with two actors in the movie to get them to come out. we invested in decorations, marketing food and up grading the av system to support the events. when we read about possible road closures and security barriers we became concerned about the [indiscernible] we are adjacent to the most impacted areas and security zones so hoped for the best. unfortunately the road closures impact the security zones had on traffic and impossibility to get from one side of the city to other resulted in bizmal week of business including big event day. people gave up. no one left home. the actors couldn't walk to the show and confrontsed the only realty the only on the street that nighter were police officers. this is what the whole week was like.

we ask any money available to the city go to reduce the negative impact of apec on small businesses and to be quickly allocated and released and we dont think that the impact for apec should have a lasting effect on small business. thank you. >> thank you much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is manuel ramirez. [indiscernible] the apec say they bring 20 to 30 thousand attendants to the city, suppose to be make money. i spend a lot of money on marketing and make [indiscernible] i prove i ordered double in my food--rude

with me. [indiscernible] what does it have to do to me? i feel we need support for the small business not for the police this time. thank you. >> thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker. >> hi. my name is alley goldenbering

partner at mare posa, 825 mission street. revenue loss was 40 thousand and d that doesn't come into what we owed to our employees and i thought i start by--i don't have exact quote but setting the tone london breed did not want to commit to funds going to small business for apec because she wanted to see the outcome because she was very optimistics how the businesses would do and so with that lens in mind we ordered a lot of food, did a lot of advertising only to come in the first day with fencing. i will read the letter i wrote to supervisor dorsey and if i go over quoyou can stop me. city recently hosted the apec conference that brought in a large number of visitors and attendees. we understand and appreciate the economic benefit that such events bring to a community, myself as many as well as so

many in here experience unexpected and severe down turn in revenue. despite expectations provided by mayor breed and [indiscernible] decline in custper base to tune of zeeree patrons. not workers were able to get in the building. this resulted in loss of $40 thousand over two weeks. several factors contributed, lack of cars on mission, secret service calling ground zero, no foot traffic, harassed employees who did not speak english. speak was not their first language and when the employees expressed they need the job the police shut them down and had zero respect. they closed the only parking garage to use for secret service parking and they never used the parking garage at all. as a business this loss significantly impacted our

financial stability and ability to cover operational expenses. >> speaker time elapsed. thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> thank you good morning. thank you for having this hearing board of supervisors. welcome. usually on the other side of the speaker room as a public official in the state of california. i think the corporations were [indiscernible] this the most tangible loss. we loss a hundred thousand dollars in a week. we had 20 people cancel reservations because you couldn't get through because [indiscernible] were told it is 30 minutes, 45 minutes, hour. people can't wait that long in the rain so they canceled. again, like most said here, we knew there will be concerns with deliveries so ordered ahead and scheduled everyone.

they said by saturday morning you will have fences. wednesday night 10 p.m. fences down, street closed and people coming in. there wasn't communication about the changes. i hear a lot about high level, but high level is great because i tell all my paul tgz friends in instagram and facebook with great pictures andert paies within the [indiscernible] it is tangible when we survived covid. i was here three and a years before covid, i opened the restaurant and other restaurants in san francisco knowing we needed to come back in order to keep the city vibrant and the city failed. we strove for three years to get here and what no one mentioned this happened the week before thanksgiving which is usually the slowest week in the city for all businesses. not only you have compounded loss and the loss to recoup is

lost the next week so restaurants 200 thousand in the whole and you ask them to pay taxes you said you would forgive and didn't forgive. please do the right thing, do a different hearing, tabulate the loss of the restaurants and do reparations. >> thank you. >> good morning. i'm the owner of [indiscernible] . we had zero revenue. the epicenter for the event. we would like to request all the support you could give to the businesses. most of us are small business owners two people, four people, six people operation and appreciate all the help we can get. thank you. >> thank you much for addressing the committee.

>> [indiscernible] >> with that madam chair, we have no more speakers. >> thank you and seeing no--okay. >> i'm the owner from [indiscernible] inside merchant mall. so, i think everybody already told about the situation for us, so i just are do the [indiscernible] we just want to tell the city we need help. the real help, that's it. >> with that final call for those whopt to address the committee regarding the hearing, madam chair, no more speakers. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. supervisor dorsey. >> thank you chair chan. i just want to express

appreciation to everyone who took part in this and also join colleague in expressing apology on behalf of san francisco. one thing that i came up in the presentations was that what happened with apec is a unique animal. this is something that in law enforcement national security circle called a national special security event and occasionally when i talked to people exploring what options we might have, there's been concerns about is this setting a precedent for big events and one thing i feel about this is, we have had in the last hundred years two national security special security events. one right after world war ii, signing of the un charter and then one is apec.

to give a idea what this is, i had to introduce at a community meeting describing what the events are. it akin to presidential ainauguration and secret service agents--it is more involved because a presidential inauguration is only two heads of state, this is 21 heads of state. i don't have a lot of concern that we are setting a precedent if the precedent is something we have to do every 75 years. this was a extraordinary unique thing that caused extraordinary and unique hardships, so i really appreciate the leader ership of chair chan on this and i'll continue as district supervisor to be a full partner. i appreciate everybodys par tisitation. thank you so much. >> thank you supervisor dorsey. i just one quick follow up question that is going to be

for director. a little bit about how is everybody doing now overall and just right after thanksgiving? this is the week after and it seems to me everyone is still trying to recover from what happened the last two weeks of november, but just moving forward, what are the thoughts and next steps and survey that has been done and conducted? >> thank you supervisor and thank you everyone again who spoke. what we heard is that there is a urgency to act from the city. we heard of people at the risk of not making rent, not making

their bills. i heard businesses who vendor accounts were frozen because they couldn't pay the bill so the urgency is how to prevent anymore loss. the city is investing so much money to try to encourage small businesses to open up, but why don't we actually prevent small businesses from leaving the city? just wanted to share some specific proposals for next steps for the city in terms of what you can do. as someone who worked at city hall 15 years on the legislative branch, sometimes there is hearings and lots of policy things and then taking years to implement and i think what we heard today is there is a urgency to make something happen really quickly. i now working in the community also seen how the city can act

quickly, right? the city cleaned up the streets, the city expedited beautification projects. i talk to people in dpw and they said we have never seen infrastructure project get approved so quickly. we know it can happen if the political will is there, specifically for small businesses. if we could follow the same way that oewd was able to get $400 thousand to tyler florence is if an appropriate of the $10 million could be made to address these harms. oewd can reopen a contract with for example yerba buena cbd that has relationship with small business and make the funds available. already administer grants so if the fund were there they could immediately administer these losses. the small businesses that

[indiscernible] have access to information for over 50 businesses in terms of revenue loss. i think that that's shared with the city, we want to make sure that the individual revenue losses would be protected, so we provide aggregate or work with the city to really identify what the need is, but $10 million can go a long way and also want to make-like to propose it is not just small business but immigrant workers who may have lost money. moscone members if they refuse do a background check they were not allowed to work so imagine there is local 2 members who lost wages because they didn't want to risk doing a security background check. cultural suffusion lost a lot of money. sf moma last over $300 thousand

and we just want to make--again, the micro businesses and the local entrepreneurs as well we heard about today. we want to propose that this be done in a thoughtful equitable way and that the city really partner with the community and small businesses to design it and not just give lip service to we will support you in the future and help you revitalize. there is a lot to be done if there is political willingness to do so, but it requires true partnership and not just again, these are public tax dollars and i think what you heard today too is, we want to make sure there is transparency and accountability how it is spent and make sure it goes back to the small businesses and communities who are the heart of the city. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you chair.

thank you for that reflecting on some of the experience you have. that's why i pointed to the example of the rent relief fund we have done throughout covid. i think there are models. i like the fact you pointed to a existing contract because that can help facilitate the work that happens and move in a quick manner. i agree, i think there should be a opportunity for relief fund set up. broadly state that it is for small business and cultural institutions and find a way to monetize on the worker side something to consider, but we have the existing model helping cultural and small businesses and what we did is did a rent relief up to $50 thousand per

business but they have to show the financial loss and that was part of the process we did before, so i think it is harder to aggregate and then that information is all kept private with the office. i think there is precedent for that. i would be happy to work with supervisor dorsey and chair chan to help and follow the process, but i am in support of setting up type of relief fund per business or per cultural institution or so on and impact. the good news is, everyone keeps highlight iting, we were thought enough to put the money on reserve and it is there and a matter of this body working with the mayor's office. mayor office has final decision on spending authority. you all probably saw the other day that things we negotiate in the budget process have now been identified that have not been spent, identified as part

of money that has to be cut in the upcoming balance the budget about $75 million. you talk about some of the cleaning and greening projects, we put we took $25 million out of reserve last year this time. mayor office decided to spend $16 million of that $25 million. reallocated 9 in other areas and are dedicated the $16 million on top of monies within the public works department so we have precedent and it is a matter of the board working with the mayor to set the final spending decision making, but the good news, there is money there and precedent for some type of relief program. appreciate you highlighting all that. thank you chair. >> thank you supervisor safai. i don't mean to put you on the spot director, just wanted to

at least have the opportunity to give to the mayor or the-of you to just at least articulate what are your initial thoughts on this? i think the mayor was ask about this already ask. if you want to restate where you are at? >> good morning and good afternoon members of budget finance committee and everyone today for public comment. as noted, this was a unique once in a century twice in a century high security event, so it really was different from anything else we have seen before in the city. we also talked about the broad economic benefit as well as benefits to san francisco international reputation of apec. that said, not here and mayor office isn't going to dispute

the particular impacts on those businesses that occurred during those 5 to 6 days in which there was lot of security and hard to get to those businesses. we are glad to hear the feedback from community and look forward working with you and the board to understand how to move forward. >> thank you. thank you for the willingness and commitment to work with the small businesses and the community groups here. the mayor just announced the midyear budget cut and very soon the mayor will also announce budget instruction for the upcoming budget year and budget process. the question is not just about the fact that the city needs to ring in the budget deficit, the question really is about who's backs are we balancing the

budget. to date the mayor's proposed cut which i stand is impacting our most vulnerable black and brown and imgrant communities and i see also for the approach i think apec is a really good example of the approach that the city has taken when it comes down to local economy, local communities that we are looking to the corporations instead of thinking about our small business looking who can pay and have access and means and those who don'ts. this is the moment i urge everyone from the community side, but i seek commitment from my colleagues which i'm grateful for, especially supervisor dorsey and

supervisor safai for doing this, and i think i myself and vice chair mandelman will be working together and identify ways with the feedback we receive today with director for it next steps. we understand that there were winners and losers in the event and many lost out during apec and that is the city responsibility to step up to the plate to make sure that we have winners all around for the city, because when our small business and communities win, the city wins. with that said, what is your will supervisor dorsey with the hearing? motion to be heard and file and then begin next step? >> why don't we--there might be-do you think there is a

opportunity for iterative process? >> absolutely. >> why don't we continue to call of the chair. >> wonderful. sounds to me supervisor dorsey will we continue this item to call of chair so that we can continue to make sure that we evaluate the next step, hopefully we will do so as soon as we return from the recess, but i think meanwhile this is time to get to work and then we will hopefully have results. have discussion about the $10 million on reserve. i want to articulate the steps about the reserve. the mayor put the $10 million on reserve and so has the board of supervisors. if we work together we can find ways to allocate that money in the way that makes sense and be thoughtful in the way we process that. i think supervisor safai had articulate a mechanism that we can approach to do so, so i

urge that the community circle back with supervisor dorsey and then go from there for the next step and if with the sense of urgency as soon as today. with that said, i would like to make a motion to continue this hearing to call of chair and may i have a roll call, please? >> yes, on that motion the hearing to call of chair, mandelman aye. member safai, absent. chan, aye. two ayes with member safai absent. >> thank you, motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> item 3, ordinance retroactively authorizing the police department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $15,326,301 from the board of state and community corrections organized retail theft grant program to fund personnel, training, equipment, and other activities in furtherance of combatting

organized retail theft and motor vehicle accessory (catalytic converter) theft in san francisco, for the period of october 1, 2023, through june 1, 2027; and to amend ordinance no. 145-23 (annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, file no. 230645) to provide for two grant-funded full-time positions in class 1823 senior administrative analyst (2.0). madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have patrick the chief financial officer from san francisco police department. thank you. >> good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman, members of the public. my name is patrick joined by ryan, he's our director of crime strategy. we have a short presentation today and we are requesting the committee recommendation for accept and expend ordinance for

organized retail theft grants. background, we applied for a grant from the board of state and community corrections to help address organized retail theft the past summer and received award for approximately $15.3 million. next slide. for our grant objecive and activities, there's 3 primarily goals. the first one is to increase deployment of police officers to help reduce org understanded retail theft and address catalytic converter theft. the next goal is help enhance police effectiveness through technology including the use of automatic license plate readers. the last goal is to help improve the use of data analytics to help support the department community policing strategies. next slide, please.

in this following, we provide a overview of the budget for our three year grant program. major categories include personnel which help funds two crime analyst to help support data analysis during the grant performance period. overtime is another major category that help fund police operation and high visibility patrol. there is other smaller categories for services, supplies, data evaluation. the next big category is for equipment and this is to help purchase alpr devices and vehicles that support the grant operations. the last two categories are travel and training and indirect costs. in total, the grant budget is $15.3 million and again, this is over 3 years. so, what are alpr cameras?

they read license plate and vehicle descriptors and the camera s that will be funded under this program would be installed in high traffic intersections to detect stolen or wanted vehicles. how the cameras are funded. with this grant, we will be able to fund 400 cameras overthe three year period and the cost will include instillation, maintenance, repair and operation and data storage for these devices. approximately the instillation cost is $335 thousand. this is a one time cost. we expect operational cost to be appreciately $1.2 million. in total during the three year period the total cost for the al px r cameras is about approximately $3.9 million. the camera placement we will be using a data driven approach

and consulting with engineers, subject matter experts and crime data reports to determine where these are installed. >> good morning. ryan, the director of crime strategy for police department. i like to shift and start discussing how these cameras are going to be utilized by the police department. going to be used in 4 categories. the first is it would be used in our efforts to reduce stolen vehicles used in crimes as well as reuniting stolen vehicles with the victims they were stolen from. the international association of chief of police estimate that over 70 percent of crimes are committed using a vehicle, so this will be an effective way for us to reduce crime in our city. particularly relevant to organized retail thift see we

instances where offenders take a stolen vehicle and ram to a store front to get through a security gate and use a second to carry goods away so directly relevant to our ort reduction operations. second major category is use in amber alerts and recovering missing persons or kid napped persons. third is criminal investigations so used to identify and track vehicles used in crime and in particular organized crime like burglary or robbery. while this grant was written with ort focus and this technology is very useful for us as we work to reduce ort in the city, i like to highlight this network is secondary benefit to the police department and the city in the ability to be used to combat all kinds of organized crime in san francisco. the last major category is

other type of emergency events such as critical incidents, terrorist attacks and other life threatening situations. as directser leung mentioned, our camera placement will be data driven and made in consultation with engineers and subject matter experts. the way we size 400 cameras for san francisco, each of these stationary cameras covers 1 to 2 lanes of travel in one direction. given that we are placing in high traffic areas for average san francisco intersection with two lanes of travel in each direction you need four cameras to cover the intersection. 400 cameras divided by 4 is 100. that is approximately 100 intersections in san francisco and we have 10 supervisor districts so expect average of about 10 intersections per district. the cameras will be

distributesed for broad coverage that insure that we aren't placing in a way that could be seen as focusing on certain populations. the camera network must be distribed and insures we have a fair equitable distribution of police resources throughout the city. one example how we would use data in order to drive the camera placement is looking at the heat mapping for catalytic converter theft for 2022. the next thing i like to cover is that we aren't the only award winner for this grant and not the only award winner who included this alpr technology in the grant application.

i have a list of the awardees from the state who are also incorporating alpr technology as part of the grant. i think this should be taken to mean a couple things. one, the technology is recognized by the state as a important technology they want to fund in its efforts to reduce organized retail theft as well as the opportunity for us to collaborate with our other sister agencies throughout the bay area and the state of california because we all know that ort is not confined to county lines. we do often have jurisdictional cross-over so able to collaborate with our other ort grant awardees is important component of this technology deployment. we all heard about oakland and how unfortunately they missed a opportunity to apply for this grant. opportunity they have a serious ort program and not--don't mention this as a way to cast

blame on them or paint in a negative light, but as a way of addressing their i guess the missed opportunity there, they are remied by putting 300 cameras based on a loan from the state. it is that important to them and oakland is a key partner in fighting organized retail crime as well as organized crime in general, so they are putting in 300 cameras without grant funding, it is that important. if we are able to do that here in san francisco as well, we'll be able to work hand in hand and link the cameras together and work together with them to combat this. then the other thing i'll mention is that, we will be able to coordinate with all the other agencies in california that already have alpr technology. it is a long list and i think

this list should be taken to indicate that it is a widely used and effective technology. it is not new or novel and we will be able to work with all these other agencies. as i mentioned, 70 percent of crime is committed using a vehicle and currently san francisco is one of the last jurisdictions in the state to not have this money-not have this alpr technology and now have the money for it so can close the black hole of alpr that is san francisco. of course, we couldn't think about and discuss the use of these funds to install the type of technology without addressing the very important task of balancing public safety and privacy. the way we implement these cameras does i think achieve that balance. it is consistent with our

community policing model. it will be distributed throughout the city, not just specific areas. it focus on vehicles, not people. it is compliant with 19b, also in public places with traffic. it won't be pointed to anyone's house in a area with low traffic where you might expect less vehicle traffic. it will be compliant with 19b. no facial recognition possible by the system. there would be no selling of data. the data belongs to the san francisco police department. it will not be shared for immigration enforcement. will not be shared for health related enforcement, so we won't be compromiseing our san francisco values by implementing these technology. last two things, won't be used for traffic enforcement. you will not get a ticket in the mail as a result of the system . only used for crimes, locating missing person and other type

of serious investigations that the police must respond to. then the last and most important thing is there is a strong audit capability to prevent misuse. it isn't a generalized surveillance. for a officer to use the system and search a vehicle it must include a case number, so connected to a crime or other legitimate police purpose. >> that concludes the presentation. if the members have any questions, we would be happy to answer them. >> we do, but we'll go to the bla first. >> thank you. item 3 is a ordinance that does two things, accept and expend $15.2 million grant from the state board of community corrections to the police department and also amends the salary ordinance to add two

1823 analyst positions. we detailed the use of the funds on page 9 of the report which shows it is used to fund over the 3 year grant period retroactive to october 1 through december 2026 little less then half of the funds will be used for sworn overtime to increase patrol to address retail theft and stolen goods and catalytic converter theft. there is $6 million in equipment purchase, including $2 million for vehicles and $4 million for cameras and other spending as well. because the grant retroactive overtime that is consistent with the grant plan can be expenseed to the grant back to october 1, but purchase of the equipment cannot occur until the board approves the surveillance policy on first reading yesterday at the board

full board and approves the acceptance of these funds. there are ongoing costs from this grant plan once the grant fund [indiscernible] end of calendar year 2026. the two positions and cost to the camera add to $1.7 million starting calendar year 2027 that likely will be a general fund cost and there is another funding source identified. so, the grant does not require matching funds. this is a-good for the city financially, but there are couple of i think unresolved policy considerations to consider which we point out in the report. one is that, the grant-less then the half grant is spent on

[indiscernible] $2 million set aside for vehicle purchase. that is about the amount in their budget this year for vehicle purchases for the entire department, so the grant is used in some sense to accelerate vehicle replacement plan and also used to purchase cameras the board has not approved surveillance policy. the board could work with the police department to perhaps modify the grant plan. it would require approval of the granting entity and this is the first time that the state provided this grant. it isn't clear to me how willing and flexible they would be to change the grant plan, but would require that approval. i think the other thing i want to point out is that the grant--any change to the grant plan requires state approval. the grant itself, the application of the department submitted that is part of the grant agreement mentioned specific vendors for vehicles

and equipment and so what that means is the police are locked into using flock for their surveillance cameras and then the specified vendsers for the vehicles mentioned in their application, and talking to the police department about their thought process around that, they are [indiscernible] they told me flock is use in the region so there is network benefit on the same system because of another-if a crime occurs in a vehicle involved elsewhere and comes to san francisco that a immediate flag. i did review all the other grants awarded by the state to law if had forcement agency around the state and there are other vendors. some of the applications did not mention a vendor which allow them to do a competitive

process, so it is not clear there was a analysis around complete analysis around functionality and cost you might get from a competitive procurement so that is important to highlight here as the board considers approval of item 3. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> great. thanks. this is a little different presentation then we got in the rules committee, so i appreciate little more detail. i are think you answered the question at the end. i'll start from the end. this technology is never used before in san francisco, is that correct? >> we haven't installed any of our stationary cameras before, no. >> can you tell me why? this is a issue for the last number of years but particularly over the last 3 years, why was this not prioritized?

just curious. >> couple factors. part is funding issue and then another part is 19b there is a process that has to be-- >> i understand the process. we expedited that. chief said the reason we are here now is because this was delayed on your end not our end so we accelerated that and i understand that is a process you have to go through, but the bigger question i'm trying to get at is, this has been an issue, the chief and i chaired the last 3 years the organized retail theft working group and discussed the issues and prioritize. you have overtime to fund blitz operation that has just now got into effect. we gave $25 million last year to the police department and reserve money from the mayor

office requested specifically designed to fund overtime funding, and the other thing we heard that recruitment funds stayed the same flat quarter million i guess since 2007 and over the last 5 years and i know you all have money in your budget so just curious why this was never prioritized and you were just waiting for a grant to fund this. >> stepping in to provide a response for asking for the policy on the decision making. my name is [indiscernible] director of policy and public affairs for the san francisco police department. just to address your question, one of the things the department is responsible for is review ongoing technology and enhancement so just to answer briefly, the last alpr technology we utilized, we did request for the budget process

and it was done inside vehicles. the automatic license plate reading-- >> i get that. that was the--like we have at muni. muni has the ability- >> correct. >> i'm speaking specifically about this is extremely effective tool as presented to deal with organized retail theft because you are able to put these in strategic location. curious why this was never pushed before? >> it isn't it wasn't pushed, like any other technology we have to make sure it is viable and produce the results we needed for san francisco. we also want to make sure we comply with 19b process as director leung mentioned to insure we ended moved forward the appropriate way to move forward with the grant application and--and 19b is instituted after the request. viability is page 10 when you look at all these cities around the bay area and sure that

isn't the complete list that are already utilizing alpr. the reason i ask because i thought the question-i wasn't intending to ask the question that we never used the technology before so it strikes me as something that-you said one of the most effective tools, this has been hitting our city and been impacting our city in a dramatic fashion over the three years at least, probably more then that but in a dumatic way. happy we got the grant and working with the chief and others on the issue and ringing the alarm, just shocked that we have never fought for it. we haven't-you answered the question the best you could. the chief isn't here to answer it. we can talk to him later. the second thing i want to ask is page 8, data driven camera placement and i see you based on catalytic converter.

one thing they do a lot of major cities is have these in locations where they can absolutely capture people come in and out of the city, so are we doing this at the-on the bay bridge and 101 south and 280 because i think that's a lot of where particularly a lot of car break-ins that get on the bridge or drive south, it would be good to know in terms of placement where the--i see general idea. you will put them up, but want to hear more about people coming in and out of the city contributing to the organized retail theft. >> it will be both. controlling ingress and egress from the city is important because as mentioned earler a lot of crime occurs cross jurisdictionally. people come into san francisco to commit crime so should expect to cameras placed at

strategic locations to capture entering and exiting and placed throughout the city because people move throughout the city to commit crime. >> i got that and see that on the map. it is in city as well, but i was speaking specifically to the in and out of the city in particular and it sounds like, yes? >> that is part of the plan. >> how many cameras do we get for just under $6 million in this line item? how many cameras are you intending to purchase? >> we are funded in the grant for 400 cameras based on a quote. the total cost is 3.9. >> this says 5.9. that includes the additional equipment. okay, got it. is there any--is that enough cameras in terms what you are trying to do to deal with what's happening in the city?

>> compared to similar jurisdictions and jurisdictions well funding we think this is sized appropriately for the city currentsly. as we go through the grant period and start to use these cameras we will be able to assess whether we need more or if we got surplus. >> okay. and then some of the other line items besides the camera,ioahave the blitz operation, which seems to be going pretty well. it started before the grant was awarded, so assuming you are using existing overtime for that and this now allows you to supplement that. >> yes. when we were writing the grant and looking at grant opportunities we could funds, the san francisco police department had been piloting these blitz operations and so we have as proof of concept and the whole point of ingrant is kick that into overdrive and just do more of them, because they are very popular in the

community. >> how many officers are dedicated to this type of work? >> it will vary. the grant currently has four sergeants in burglary detail who lead the effort and then they will supplement with volunteers as needed. >> volunteers for overtime? >> correct. the way it is sized in the grant is we wrote it for 10 officer deployments at rate of average of 2 per week for the 3 year period. >> the reason i ask that again just to reflecting back on the work we did in the working group at the time when we started in 2020 there was one person really inside the police department focused on retail theft it sounds like this allows uto add to that team, is that correct? >> san francisco police department has already

dedicated numerous resources to it for the 4 sergeants that is their subject matter expertise. >> okay. good. and then i heard you say this, but this isn't just happening in one location of the city, this is happening the retail theft happening all over the city. how do you intend to--obviously the cameras will be all over the city based on data, but in-terms of blitz operation, how is it determined where those operations are? >> that's also data driven, which underscore the need for additional analyst support. we look at crime data and which stores are hit hard est and when getting hit hardest and that guide our operation to be efficient in our deployment. it will be city wide. >> when you were choosing the vendor for to work with on the

alpr that was something you put in the grant so didn't have to go out for rfp, just a predetermined choice on your part on the part of the department? >> if i may answer that-- >> yes. >> for the way the narrative was written it was partly based on conversation with jurisdictions we partner with retail theft and i think probably in hindsight we would be a bit more responsive on leaving out specific vendors. we are working with oca on procurement process- >> who? >> sorry, the office of contract administration. >> that is what i thought but wanted to make sure. you did predetermine the vendser when you applied? >> it isn't predetermined, it was more we were trying to provide a compelling-- >> what i mean, listen it-we

have people that put grant application forward and choose the vendor with the department on behalf of that. it is something we questioned in terms of what the actual agreement ends up being as a benefit to that vendor. you understand what i'm saying? in this instance it sound like you chose a vendor based on their prior track record working in other jurisdictions, is that correct? >> we specifically sought one particular vendor which is flock and written into our grant because it is a competitive grant. there were many agencies that were not selected and so you are scored based on your need for equipment so based on that technology and network we are the only bay area county that doesn't have it. we wanted to link with that particular network, so we

thought that makes the most compelling argument to secure the grant fundsing. >> i get it. the reason i ask, we had this come up over and over again in multiple departments. department of environment, mta, i are understand quhie you say it because it allows you to tap into networks using a similar, but in terms of ongoing competitiveness, it sounds we are locking into the vendser. it is their technology, correct? >> yes. i would ntd consider locked in. it is three year subscription based model and there is reoccurring cost and add it ends of 3 years we produce a report mandated to produce so we are able to asesh the efficacy and since it is subcription we are not buying and locked into a particular device.

>> you have to switch all 400 camera snz >> yeah, we wouldn't pay for thatd though. >> who pays for that? >> if we terminate the contract with them because there is a better technology or find it doesn't work, we just don't pay the reoccurring cost. >> i understand, but thinking implementation and what the cost is to the taxpayer. you now--is this particular camera proprietary to this vendor, right? >> that's correct. >> my point is, if you go in the future and say we don't like-they are not performing well, we want to continue this because it is a important tool but now have to get all new technology with a entirely new vendor, that takes time to install all those cameras, correct? >> if i may add narrative to this. we haven't started any of this work. we are in active discussions with office of contract

administration on the procurement process and on moving-finding appropriate procurement model for this in order to have a system in place as soon as possible and i think any--i don't want to provide a response that is not--that still hasn't been finalized and what i will say is that, we can't provide a update after we have further discussion with office of contract administration and we get their professional opinion, but i think for our responses, we can't really say-can't provide a adequate answer because the

discussions are still ongoing. >> now i'm more confused because i thought you chose the vendor and put in the grant so already have the vendor. >> i wouldn't call predetermined we have that vendor. we wrote our narrative in a way to take advantage of technology, but the procurement rules still apply and we are not saying we are locked into doing sole source. the procurement that director leung is working on is still part of this and if it doesn't work we need to file a budget modification, so we are not locked into that sort of technology. >> if i may interject on this one and i would like to call on vice chair mandelman too for line of questioning. i think there seems to be--i want to make clear, i think there are-also based on budget legislative analyst report i think there is question about ongoing cost and also are we

actually more-i think supervisor safai and i is a two different--same question around this, but two different perspective. i think for me are we following the city procurement rule? are we going as ongoing cost and how do we make sure that we follow all the charter rules that we were supposed to follow and so we are working on how to figure out by accept and expend this grant and saying yes, we want these equipment and technology. we want to accept this money from the state so we can move forward with these retail crime strategies that i recognize that today we have amendments that before us today at least to talked about that with this we are really is to approving this based on charter 9 .118

that meaning that because this is $9.118 that meaning that because this is over $10 million, this is the reason this is coming before us, we aret nohere waiving the sole source, which is what it is indicated in your grant application as articulated by the budget legislative analyst. because of the grant application indicated very specific type like flock as a brand and vendor, therefore, this just resulted in a sole source dilemma and make sure that we are having the best way to approach this without any type of violation of the city charter and regulation, we want to make amendments to clarify that that you will also if in the event that this becomes a sole source accept and expend

agreement, you receive approval from--also have approval from the board as well. i think what supervisor safai i don't want to put words in his mouth since he isn't in the chamber, i think what he is questioning is it had technology itself about what the existing technology of--we do in our possession have a different type of license plate reader. there are different technology, different vendors for the similar technology. now we commit ourselves to flock very specific vendor for these plates. since now he is not here, i am going to go to vice chair mandelman. i was trying to clarify. his line of questioning--i see what you were answering. you answering my question. i don't think you are answering his technology question, but i

am going to-vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan and thank you for your work on insuring we keep our procurement according to our rules. i guess i want to step out from this and thank the department pulling down funding for a problem that we are and sure department is hearing increasingly about from walgreens in my district to various-the most recent incidents relate to walgreens in noe valley but we have heard about insane levels of property crime going on and seeing the department trying to respond is

something that is good. i'm a little bit-i think there is a need for context why the department might have been somewhat reluctant to-not making you respond, just going to say that i was on the rules committee as last year that we were considering live surveillance and there was significant skepticism on the board i think, but certainly in parts of the community about any use of surveillance by the san francisco police department. that may be changing and think a challenge for the department is getting between the policy directions of different folks who feel very differently about some of these isues, but glad amist all the noise you moved forward trying to get this technology because i think that

makes sense. i also think it is worth pointing out the police commission drives your priorities so if the police commission is asking you to do a bunch of things, we better hope those things are aligned with what the residents of san francisco want you to do and not sure that is always the case, but in this case, i think addressing the problem of retail theft and using all available technology is absolutely what my constituents want you doing so like to be added as a cosponsor but where fully expect the chair will make sure you follow the rules. >> i do. thank you. >> were you done? >> we are done. >> i just again i want to be hundred percent clear. i'm super excited we got this grant. this grant is long overdue. i was little surprised we had want been using and there is big difference between live

stream and license plate readers because i have been hearing from organized retail theft point people for three years that this is a really important tool and i thought we had already been using it in some areas, but i'm glad. let's put that behind us. we have the ability to do something that is absolutely going to make a significant impact. not just on retail theft, but also property crime theft with the crar break ins in the city and the numbers are going down. the police department has been focusing on that and think they will have a dramatic impact but this will be more dramatic coupled with foot patrol and community policing. this is significant jump because you can't put a officer on every corner, but this adds 400 cameras to read and you said in the beginning which was very good statistic, 70 percent

of those type of crimes of this nature property crime involve a vehicle, correct? >> all crime. >> all crime. >> 70 percent of all crime involve a vehicle. this is going to have a impact on all crime in san francisco and that's not hupurbally. i want to be added as cosponsor. this is something i have been working on with your department collaboratively three years to elevate this issue. particularly around retail theft. these are the things we talked about adding additional officers, looking for strike teams, looking for cameras, looking for ways to coordinate outside of the city, so think it is good. the sole source wasn't intended to trip you up. we had other departments put a vendor in as part of the grant and grant chosen and are it was competitive and try toog ask to think in the future if you are now-if something goes wrong and you answered it. we can switch it out and go with another vendor and that

satisfies me. it is very different having mta having one internal operating system for their entire agency. it allows them to upgrade technology and then they only have each and every vendser has their own technology and if things go wrong it is a millions and millions of dollars of change. this is 3.9? >> 3.9. >> $3.9 million is a lot different then $500 million, so that is good news. i also heard the chief say in the rules committee that the intent and i don't want you all to slow down, the intent is move as quickly as we can to implement this because we are going into the holiday season, so hopeful you are able to begin to use the technology as quickly as you can. following all the rules insuring we are following the guidelines and done 19b and

done internal review, now approving the grant. the district attorney will come and ask in a separate item for the dedicated--pertains to retail theft and what we have been asking for. we asked for it in the budget last year, it was denied but now awarded the grant for it so this will couple with the work you are doing. thank you. thank you. >> thank you. with that said-- >> you have amendments. >> i do. in the case public like to speak on the amendments, it is that i know that the department is police department will work on the sole source contracting language. we do want to therefore that with the support of our deputy city attorney that we are going

to amend today to clarifying that this is-the board is approves this accept and expend grant under the charter section 9.118, which is the board authority to approve any contract or any grant agreement that is over $10 million or over a duration of 10 years, and then with that we also going to duplicate a file, we are moving forward with one version, the amended version and then the duplicated version will stay in committee unit ilwe have the final language which i hope soon enough from the police department that we can actually put it on the agenda next week, so it will be only trailing the first reading or origversion original version by two weeks and that starts the step to purpose the equipment. i think for me what i--also

good it hear couple things. i think first it is that the des apartment is actively going out to sought after grant money that is beyaunds our general funding to be able to get yourself equipment and also that it is in the second thing is good to hear also there is a consistency from now on and commitment for either ongoing cost or even the change of technology and updateing of technology we utilize grant money or make sure we continue to utilize grant money outside general fund. given the fact we experience deficit i urge all city departments and especially when it comes to equipment to with the consideration of any type equipment or capital improvement to seek grant

funding and state and federal bond dollars if and when available. with that, that is going to-just going to quickly read that. it is my motion to amend colleagues page 1 indicating in the long title line 10 approving the associated grant agreement under charter section 9.118. it is very simple and straight forward and that it will be throughout the entire legislation to indicate that is it case, which is just so that will be including amendments on page 2, line 23 associated grant agreement, copy of which is on file with the clerk of the board and then again page 3, line 4 and then again line 13, again it is just indicating we are making these amendments and accepting this grant agreement under charter section 99118 and i rike like to go to

pub wlck comment. >> we invite members who like to speak on the ordinance. >> crime and technology work together. organized crime- you need have enough crimes to justify the technology mpts yes, that is how it works. there are many reasons why this what you want to use is not-the goal isn't to arrest the criminals, it is because you don't feed the technology to do it. but, now you do, because you let the crimes build enough to justify the use of it, so but it is still doesn't change the problem that it is not used for what you say, it is used to have implementation of different cameras to control

everything. basically to affect people's freedom. not the criminals. [indiscernible] not the real criminals. everything is [indiscernible] technology i said before, because it has been weaponized. i don't know what we do, because you are doing a better job safai [indiscernible] okay. i hope you pay attention again. technology because it has been weaponized, especially encommunication surveillance is [indiscernible] to yourself, it is your enemy. >> thank you for addressing the committee. just a reminder to those who wish to speak in public comment

to direct your comments to the body as a whole and not a individual member of the committee. >> thank you. public comment is now closed and colleagues i like to make the motion to amend as i read out loud before public comment and with that may i have a roll call, please? >> on the motion to amend as stated by the chair, vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. with that, i like to make the motion to duplicate the file -amend the file and move to full board with recommendation and then the other one to continue to next week. our next budget and finance

committee meeting. with that, roll call, please. >> yes, madam chair. on the motion to forward the original ordinance as amended to the full board with positive recommendation, and to continue the duplicated file to the december 13 meeting of this committee, on that motion--vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have threei ayes. >> thank you the motion passes. let's call the next item, 4. >> item 4, resolution

authorizing the human services agency, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to apply for and accept the county allocation award under the california department of housing and community development transitional housing program for an amount of $2,091,240 and housing navigation and maintenance program for an amount of $291,098 which provide funding to help young adults secure and maintain housing. madam chair. >> thank you. we do have--sorry. we have human services agency here. >> good afternoon. david with the san francisco human service agency and policy planning and public affairs team. i am here presenting oen agenda item 4 resolution to apply for accept funds from the california department of housing and community development for the transitional housing program and housing navigation maintenance program. the state of california department of housing and community development issued two funding opportunities to help young adults in child welfare system secure and maintain housing. the first opportunity is up to 4 million, 182 thousand for to

support transitional housing program for youth 18-25 years old and the currently in the foster care system or that were former foster youth. the other opportunity is for up to $582.196 to fund housing navigation service to help child welfare involved young adults 18-21. please note this funding was anticipated in hsa fiscal year 23-24 budget and approved by the board so do not seek accept and expend. however, in order for san francisco human service agency to access the two related funding streams, the board of supervisors must approve this resolution come gives us the authority to apply and accept the funding. dhcd sets this amount based on the number of foster youth in

san francisco and child welfare system and also based on the number of counties that apply for these funds. as many know, young adults face specific challenges relating to homelessness and housing instability especially in san francisco high cost housing market. the goal is eare deuce homelessness for foster youth and will work with homelessness and supportive housing and san francisco housing authority. services provided include support finding applying for housing, lease up [indiscernible] move in deposit, rsh housing subsidy, housing support and navigation, housing stabilization and retection and linkage to youth homelessness response service and access point and navigation centers and anticipated these

resources support up to 70 foster youth. we ask the board answer and approve the resolution. >> thank you. i don't see questions on the-don't see questions or name on the roster. with that we can go to public comment. >> we invite members who joined today and wish to comment on the resolution to line up along the windows. madam chair, no speakers. >> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and like roll call, please. >> on the motion to for ward with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes.

>> thank you. >> thank you. let's call item 5 and just to be clear, item 5 was continued from last week and so i don't think there is any different from the bla report. let's call item 5. >> yes, item 5, resolution approving amendment no. 1 to the agreement between chinese hospital association and the department of public health, to provide subacute skilled nursing and skilled nursing facility beds for hospital overflow or emergency needs, to increase the agreement by $10,746,960 for an amount not to exceed $20,638,800 effective upon approval of this resolution, to extend the term by one year, from november 30, 2023, for a total agreement term of december 1, 2022, through november 30, 2024, and to authorize dph to enter into modifications of the agreement that do not materially increase the city's obligations or liabilities and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. madam chair.

>> thank you, and with that, let's--i think we already had a thorough discussion last week. the budget legislative analyst report has no changes to that. the reason why we continue it because the dollar amount was change from roughly $18 million to $20 million because of the increase all amount-it was considered substantive and require one week continuance to today and let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this resolution and joined today line up now. madam chair, no speakers. >> no public comment, public comment is closed and like to move the item to full board with recommendation and with that a roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. safai aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes.

>> thank you, the motion passes. just want to announce i'm call ing items outs of order from the agenda so we can have a smoother presentation today. mr. clerk, please call item 6 and 15 together? >> 6 and 15 is-item 6, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to submit an application to continue to receive funding for the ryan white act hiv/aids emergency relief grant program grant from the health resources services administration; and requesting $15,945,695 in hiv emergency relief program funding for the san francisco eligible metropolitan area for the period of march 1, 2024, through february 28, 2025. item 15, resolution approving

amendment no. 1 to the agreement between the regents of the university of california and the department of public health (dph), to provide outpatient/ambulatory hiv health services to increase the agreement by $16,483,383 for an amount not to exceed $26,481,255; to extend the term by five years and eight months from june 30, 2024, for a total agreement term of march 1, 2020, through february 28, 2030; and to authorize dph to enter into modifications of the agreement that do not materially increase the city's obligations or liabilities and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have the department of public health and will let you introduce your team. thank you. >> thank you. the government affairs manager on behalf of department of public health. before we get started through the chair the board clerk lap top seems to be frozen and trying to bring up the slides and might need a little help. >> while we are on that, let's have item 6 presentation. item 15 presentation then the budget legislative report for

item 15, then go to questions and public comment for these two items.

item 15 also have a presentation? do both have presentation? >> we could maybe talk about that verbly. >> if we can start verbal presentation and want to flag for the public that both presentation are actually on the-if you click on the link on the agenda it is within the

legislative file and why i always appreciate having the presentation to be submitted early so in a case like this, there is still access to the file. i think we have the presentation, so please go ahead. >> accept and expend or the contract? >> item 6 apply for grant application. >> okay. good morning. my name is john. [indiscernible] he is enjoying a beach in mexico. good for him. i hope i can address questions you have and none should be new. we do these a lot and do this presentation annually around this time of year. this is request accept and expend for [indiscernible] we have to do this retroactively because the funder come up with this non competing application process but never come out the

same time. we only have 30 days in order to get the grant in. the process [indiscernible] sources help us speed up with less duplication. three different parts we receive through ryan white part a, b and sliver of part c. the funding is split between three counties, san francisco, marin and san mateo. we used to receive all most $40 million, cuts for years and leveled out. receive about $15 million per year now. [indiscernible] partly in the strength of the application and mostly to do with living hi virks cases ibcounties. a simple calculation basically. might see the funding cuts. it is going to the south where cases are increasing and less local support. services delivered to 5 thousand clients about 700 receive primary care through the funding.

also receive medical case management [indiscernible] these services have been an operation since 1990 and the services are working. in 2010 or [indiscernible] 73 percent. every year it has gone up. we are 88 percent. not sure the process here, but open to questions or public comment. >> you can go to item 15. >> okay. this will be for [indiscernible] a program down there. [indiscernible] i'll explain what center of excellence is in a bit. we are here because proposed contract goes overthe $10 million threshold. i do speak fast so if you have questions, do cut me off.

[indiscernible] second slide basically a template we share each time. basic overview of health service. the purpose of the map to show where the service providers are loitcaed. woo edo best to meet clients where they reside. other services in the mission castro and southeast. we receive variety of funding federal funding mentioned in the last part and funding focused on persons low income and severe need and fund the variety of services. next slide are the services. federal funder has a variety of funding categories. fall into two categories, core and support p. basically the [indiscernible] this program has 3. medical case management is drives the program. the glue that hold these

programs together. next slide. so, [indiscernible] sure you are familiar with them. been around for ages, located within san francisco general hospital. subset of war 86. i been working in hiv17 years and these programs predate me. 20 or 21 years. they are conceived to be one stop model of care with each different centers of excellence program focus on different funding group, sometimes the group is demographic and others [indiscernible] referred to

different program or another program at war 86 like pop ups for example. next slide. people following along. this show s numbers, $2.5 million per year. the partners are [indiscernible] ucsf alliance health project and san francisco aid foundation in place for 15 years or so give or take. the clients are typically [indiscernible] identify as white. no clients in the age of 24 with most over the age of 45. those who are under 44 but in that over 25 bracket i can say they are far closer to my age then 25. nature of the program long-term survivors demographic no surprise and 600 persons seen a year. that is the presentation. >> thank you. >> through the chair, sorry--we

have miner amendments we like to read into the record. >> hold on one second. let's go to the bla report and then the amendment. >> item 15 is resolution that approves the first paement to the agreement between the department of public health and ucsf. it extends the agreement from june 2024 to february 2030 and increase not to exceed amount to $26.5 million. this agreement funds ucsf homeless aging and long-term survivors program. it provides primary care and behavioral healthcare to people living with hiv that also funds a drug treatment program provided by the aids foundation called the stonewall project. we did not see any performance

issues when we reviewed this contract as discussed on page [indiscernible] primarily funded by the general fund. we recommend approval of item 15. >> thank you. please go ahead to discuss your amendment. it will be helpful-is this amendment for the application or this amendment for the contract amendment? >> good afternoon. this is for the grant application for the ryan white act hiv/aids relief grant program. >> hold on one second. let me-you are amending the legislation itself? >> yes. >> i am pulling up the legislation and great if you can indicating page number and line and then--i don't think-maybe i do. wait, i do actually. great. go ahead. >> thank you. we like to request approval for

following amendments to our resolution. line 16 page 1, the word, current is to be incirted before the words, round of funding. on line 17 page 1, the words, non competing opening bracket ncc closing bracket program report in [indiscernible] application. line 17-18 page 1, the word requesting a grant inserted before the words, in the amount of. line 2 of page 2, substituting the words, the in place of it and ncc program report in place of application. line 6, page 2 rjs the word application is to be stricken. >> understood.

looks like technical amendments. that's great. thank you. and then with that, i don't see names on the roster. i don't think we have anymore questions on these two items. thank you for the work you do that is critical service for 600 something people you serve within the $2.5 million budget. this is going to be through february 28, 2025? okay. with that, supervisor safai. >> i like to be added as cosponsor. i appreciate the work department of public health has done for years on the ryan white act dollars and the leadership we provided. it is important people need to understand this is still a issue in the community so appreciate the hard work of staff. thank you. >> sponsoring both 6 and 15 the contract amendment and the-- >> yes. >> okay.

>> yes, thank you. >> sounds good. with that, let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. we invite members of the public who wish to speak on 6 and 15 to line up now. madam chair, no speakers. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan. i like to join supervisor safai as cosponsor of 15. >> item 15 only. >> [indiscernible] >> sorry. yes. with that, like to first amend item 6 as read by department of public health for technical amendment. i feel i can just probably do it all in one motion and then after that with within the same motion then to move amended

item 6 or to move item 6 as amended and item 15 to the full board with positive recommendation. roll call, please. >> on that motion to amend the resolution as item 6 as offered by dph and forward the resolutions in items 6 and 15 to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you the motion passes. with that, please call item 7 and 9 together. >> yes. item 7 and 9. resolution

retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $2,225,000 from the centers for disease control and prevention for participation in a program, entitled “strengthening san francisco overdose prevention collaborations (ssopc),” for the period of september 1, 2023, through august 31, 2024. >> my name is emily the overdose quality contract manager within the office of overdose prevention which sits within behavioral health. today here to present on two federal grants we have been awarded for overdose prevention. as mentioned the two grants we have been awarded is from the substance abuse and mental

health service admin sthraigz building city wide capacity for first respondereds and overdose response and second grant for strengthening san francisco overdose prevention collaborations. to give a overview of the grant of scope for buildings city wide capacity for community and traditional first responsoreds and overdose response. department of public health will partner with the fire department to train over 400 paramedics [indiscernible] this is a retroactive accept and expend. we were awarded or given the notice of the award for the grant august 7 for project start date of september 30,

2023, so three weeks later. this start date predetermined by the granter and then once we received the notice we had gone through the city process for the accept and expend. the second grant is from the center for disease control and prevention. this is san francisco overdose prevention collaboration grant. to give high level over view, expand treatment navigation through countywide navinator program. prevent fatal overdose and supportive housing sites through tenant peer education program, improve timeliness and quality of substance use and overdose data and strengthen community partnerships with the focus on racial equity. this is also retroactive accept and expend. we were notified of the award just 9 days prior to the start date and then we went through

the city process for accept and expend. any questions and thank you so much for having me today? >> thank you. i do have a question just trying to-could you elaborate more about the tenant education that is on permanent supportive housing sites about overdose education and out reach? how would it work? >> yeah, so the office of overdose prevention collaborate with hsh or department of homelessness supportive housing to develop a tenant peer educator cohort where they will be providing ongoing support and training to tenants that reside within these sites to teach them how to identify and respond to overdoses. in a effort to prevent fatal overdose within the housing sites. they will also be paid for their participation in this program as well. >> is there a limit or

projection for how many sites? >> yeah, right now we are proposing 15-25. again, it is-this is the first time we doing something like this so unsure what the scope will be. >> i see. what is then the-if-about roughly 15 buildings or 15 sites, how would you prioritize to identify which sites will qualify ify? >> most likely work with department of homelessness and supportive housing to identify high priority sites with previous instance of non fatal or fatal overdose. >> my assumpson meaning that the department of homelessness and supportive housing is tracking overdose along with you about the--basically the rate of overdoseing and then

prioritizing those highest overdoseing rate? >> i can't personally speak on department of homelessness and supportive housing but look to colleagues if they have anything to add. no? >> so we don't know if that's the case or we think that will be the case? >> i believe the department is of homelessness and supportive houseish tracks critical incident reports. i'm not familiar what those have shown but the aim is partner with them to identify high priority sites. >> i just--it perks my interest because during the budget process it was clear to us that time and time again that tenants came out from some of these sites that have been articulating the needs for overdose training, overdose

like narcan and equipment and supporting each other, so-the peer education work is watt we or i was told and informed. i think that that makes sense just wanted to see if there is a threshold and building block and information that we are establishing for that we can actually scale up to scale up the tenants education, but also try to understand how we prioritize the needs. i will need follow up on that. j thank you. >> thank you. >> with that, go to public comment for these two items. >> thank you madam chair. we are calling for public comment for items 7 and 9. if any members who wish to speak on these two items. no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed.

supervisor safai. >> thank you. i would like to be added as a cosponsor to item 9 and--wait, 7 and 9. >> 7 and 9, yep. one is first responder and the second one is for community building. >> for both. 7 and 9. appreciate the work you are doing with our first responders and paramedics. it is super important. imagine they have a level of training in that area and this enhances that, but super important of the nature of the drug crisis on the streets. >> same, add me as cosponsor to 7 and 9. thanks everyone for your work on a heart-breaking san francisco problem. >> yes. thank you. with that, i like to move item 7 and item 9 to full board with

recommendation and with that a roll call, please. >> on that motion forward both as item 7 and 9 to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. with that, please call item number 8. >> item 8, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,044,792 from the patient-centered outcomes research institute (pcori) through the university of california, san francisco for participation in a program, entitled “pure-tone audiometry versus otoacoustic emissions for preschool hearing screening,” for the period of july 1, 2023, through june 30, 2028. >> thank you.

we have child care health program here. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is katie a nurse manager with health department with the child care health program office of childhood hearing and have several staff from the department including jj birch handling finance and greg wong who helped as a grant analyst. our current state-i will talk about hearing loss in children and also hearing screening so we have a program existing in the health department to support the hearing screening of preschool age children. hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder for children and it can lead not only to the loss of hearing and developmental delays and we do well screening babies and also children when about to enter kindergarten but the gap

between 0-5 there a long period of time children can go unscreened for hearing loss. what we do is try to serve the most vulnerable children in the city, so low income families, children from marginalized neighborhoods and go out and serve them in the preschools and provide hearing screening. we are a team of just two, we are small and highly in demand and when they go out to preschools they do two type of screening on each child. one you put the head phones on and if you hear a beep your raise your hands or the kids drop a toy in the basket to show they heard it. there is a new technique where a ear bud in the ear and the computer tells us if the ear is functioning. we did about a thousand last year. 7 percent of kids need to be referred on and we help connect to the pediatrician and oddology and half of those kids

do have hearing loss or hearing problems that need medical care. the program works. this grant we can do lots of great things with it. we are able to increase the size of our program from 2 to 3 full time staff and going to study the effectiveness of the two types of hearing screening because everyone in the industry believes the new modern type is just as good and faster and more accurate but we have to study it to know that is true and key can skip to the second method and use that one and screen more kids. also able to enroll more preschools in the program. able to double the number of children we are serving going from approximately 1,000 to 2,000 kids annually and able to partner with head start preschool across the city and help them with their hearing screening and we also will be able to do training with san francisco state nursing students to train them how to do the hearing screening. with that, our retroactive is

due to delay in the budget preparation process. we also want to find matching funds for that one position we are adding and had delays due to staff transition. dph personnel were hired to support future grant so we request your approval of the proposed resolution. if you have questions, i'm happy to answer. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> i like to be added as cosponsor. we did something similar with vision in the middle schools. we didn't get a grant so did it through our budgetary process and it had tremendous impact, so thank you for this phenomenal work. >> thank you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. i think we-i tell you this body loves the program. we are grateful and grateful to

also learn the fact with the million dollars we can double our effort and for 2,000 children in san francisco that is amazing. i definitely think hearing loss--today learning that hearing loss is the most common in among children is interesting fact so glad we are able to partner with ucsf and having a grant from them. i look forward learning more about the new technology and what you find and whether it is good long-term investment to be able to identify hearing loss or issues with hearing faster and with more kids in the long-term so thank you so much. thank you so much for your work. let's go to public comment. >> thank you. we invite members who joined today and wish to speak on the resolution on item 8. madam chair, no speakers.

>> thank you. public comment is now closed. i like to move to full board with positive recommendation and roll call. >> on the motion to forward resolution to board with positive recommendation [roll call] we have 3 ayes. >> with that, motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 10. >> item 10, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $180,000 from the san francisco general hospital foundation for participation in a program, entitled “behavioral emergency response team (bert), human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) (hiv patients experiencing homelessness), and the women's options clinic,” for the period of july 1, 2023, through june 30, 2024. madam chair. >> thank you. we have someone from the

zuckerbering zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. >> my name is rosa lee the nursing director at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. today it is my honor to present the both patient care grant the purpose of the grant is fund projects to support patient care at the zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. the award amount is for $180 thousand. three san francisco programs will get benefit from this funding. one is behavioral emergency response team. the second one is hiv patient experiencing homelessness and untable housing and third is women option center or 6g. let me tell you about what these programs are all about and what services they provide. the behavioral emergency

response team program is our 24/sev clinical team that provides behavioral health for patients throughout san francisco general hospital. strives to provide trauma inform approach to care while maintaining workplace safety. also responded to 1095 calls during fy2022-2023. 81 percent of those were completed without law enforcement involvement. the second program is hiv patient experiencing homelessness and unstable housing. in the city san francisco disparity in hiv exist between housed individuals [indiscernible] developed models designated to engage people living with hiv and who experience homelessness or

unstable housing. the third program is is women option center. serve 1200 patients each year as a hospital based clinic saifly serve patients with acute our chronic medical conditions. our physicians and nurses provide sedation for patient comfort and counseling team is nationally and international recognized for pre-abortion counseling program. the funding will be used for the following:the patient care grant will allow bert to provide patients with coping mechanisms to sporetd patient behavioral health while in the hospital and after discharge. this include items such as food baskets, clothing for patients who don't have clothes to be discharged and also other items that help to de-escalate or provide them with comfort and

care. for hiv patient experiencing homelessness and unstable housing, this grant support clinical programs with direct patient care, including initiation of antiret [indiscernible] for the women option center this grant support relevant medication and food basket that includes assistance for transportation to get to their procedure as well as get home. this item is retroactive because dph received notice of award august 8, 2023 for start date of july 1, 2023. the project start date was predetermined. we respectfully request approval for the proposed resolution and happy to answer any questions if you have any.

>> thank you. i don't see name on the roster. let's go to--i request-love to learn more about women option clinic for separate briefing to help me understand about the operation, particularly after if we assist women with their abortion what is the after-care look like for them? i like to learn more about that. i will not take your time today, just like to request thats. let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. if we have any members who wish to speak on this resolution item 10 now is your time to line up. no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. like to move the item to full board with positive recommendation and roll call, please. >> mandelman aye.

member safai, aye >> please add as cosponsor. >> chair chan, aye. madam chair, three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes and please call item 11. >> item 11, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $272,000 from the california department of public health for participation in a program, entitled “california home visiting program,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through september 30, 2024. madam chair. >> thank you. also again department public health. >> yes are. good afternoon. mia [indiscernible] i work with nurse family partnership. we are in part funded by the california home visiting program which is subsidary of it california department of public health.

we are requesting accept expend for this grant. i'm going to tell you about nurse family partnership. we are evidence base nurse run community health program with 45 years of research behind us showing significant improvement in the lives and health of first time parents and their children effected by social economic inequities. in our program our nurses are public health nurses do home community visits to the clients during preg maensh to provide support linkage including medical and community linkages and education and this continues through the child second birthday. this grant is coming from the american rescue plan, which was created following the covid pandemic to address the impact

on our communities at a federal level and this is funding came from hrsa to california department of public health to the california home visiting program and now to the county level. funds designated to support maternal infant early childhood program came because covid health emergency and the funds were intended to support activity related to immediate and ongoing needs of families so included things like emergency supplies like gas cards and taxi vouchers, prepaid grocery cards and staff training for our programs. this item is retroactive due to delays in finalizing the budget. we receive notice of the award from the cdph april 4, 2023. there were delays receiving budget template from the cdph but once we received our san

francisco department public healths receive the template to finalize the budget in july and the dph went through the city process for the accept and expend grant. we request the approval of this proposed resolution. >> thank you. if this program or funding come from because of the covid-19 pandemic, do we know what-this is through june 30, 2024 and so will we be seeking or actually have the opportunity for continuing grant opportunity? >> i believe it is through-extended through september 30 of 2024, and yes, we will do our best to expend as much as we can. >> very impressive statistic in

your slide and it makes a lot of sense for having nurses visiting these homes. would love to see what department public health. let's go to public comment. thank you. >> we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed and like to move the item to full board with recommendation but before that i call roll call-let's call roll, please. >> on the motion to forward to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. member safai, aye and noted. chair chan, aye.

we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. please callite item 12 and 13 together. >> 12 and 13 are resolutions approving amendment number 1 to respective group organization agreement between mckesson corporation and department of public health under administrative code. each extend of the term by 4 years and 5 months from february 1, 2024 for. item 12, increasing the agreement by $596 million for not to exceed $977 million. item 13 increase agreement amount by $1.1 billion for not

to exceed of $1.5 billion. >> thank you, and let's have the item 12 and 13 presentation together then go to the budget legislative analyst report for these two items together. >> david smith chief [indiscernible] department public health. i want to go over this contract. the structure of dh contract, who it effects, the role of the vendor in the contract and fiscal responsibility given the large sum of money cited in it. first the contract two contracts one for total $1.4 billion and the other $977 million both align with the department of public health to improve the quality of care and experience of care also improve overall health of the population of san francisco as a whole and then really reduce expenses related to medication. the table below you see the two

contracts broken down. the first time this approved by the board was 2019 for respective amounts of 149 and $235 million and this proposed amendment what we are asking is for increase of $742 million and $445 million respectively. the other amount that make up the gap between the total amount are basically the hold-over year, the contingency and initiatives and the hold-over unique item that is 12 month period at the end of the contract that lows if we need time to negotiate with new vendor or transition we are able to access the medications without interruption. the contingency is standard 12 percent in all the contractss to allow small changes. the initiatives is catch-all term for new projects that come up. the treatment of hepatitis c

when new drug classes came out in primary care and jail health. who this helps in terms of population of san francisco. this is how dph gets all the medications for everyone we serve including the san francisco health network as well as community based events. one example is doing covid vaccination happening now. also the m pox response that started about a year and a half ago is starting to rear its head again. it used to prevent and treat hiv and hepatitis c. also everything at zuckerberg san francisco general, jail health, laguna health, behavioral health with substance use disorder and mental health, all these are purchased through this contract. with regard to people it serves, this is the san francisco health network is one of the largest parts of who we serve. over 125 thousand enrollees.

this is the people we serve and people you represent are doors they can walk through and the goal is make sure they have access to medications. the numbers around the volume of medication, sometimes i think a good perspective we purchase 269 thousand antiret [indiscernible] [speaker speaking too fast] all in all, in a year we do about 20 million doses of pills packets tubes or viles which is kind of mind-boggling to think about. mckesson role, they are wholesale distributor, so they

are one single efficient place only where we get 95 percent of medication. they don't determine drug prices or negotiate on our behalf. that is done through programs we participate in. they work with those programs to load the prices in and then they get those drugs to us. what they do is allow us to be nimble. if there is a drug shortage so a hurricane strikes in the south they have contracts in the north, bring the drugs to their warehouse in sacramento and get them to us quickly. there was a huge shortage of key chemo therapy, they worked to make sure it effected as our patients as little as possible. they are established company. they call big 3 in the u.s. 1/3 all medications in the u.s. in

north america. there is no public or private health system that doesn't utilize the distributor because it streamlines the process so don't have to manage the 580 contracts they do to purchase the medications so support a nimble and flexible approach. counter fit medication making the way in the drug supply is one of the key players that helped support we can maintain and track in the medication from manufacturer to the patients. large key points is this is amendment to contract already approved and those numbers are large. the spend is approved annually as part of the line item within dph and the contract budget is to allow the budget authority to react to the circumstances like covid that hit and new

novel treatments coming out and already approved. one example is one time gene therapy for hemeophelia which cost $3 million for single dose and some patients are seen at institutions like dcsf so we want to be prepared if that happens. the others thing anytime the amendment that we got better terms compared to first 4 years so projected to save $2.1 million compared to first 4 years. that highlights this isn't just a spend. dph is reimbursed through their insurance so that leads to talk about our fiduciary responsibility to both manage how we spend and spend efficiently and recoup the cost. so, they don't negotiate prices, we usually get the lowest prices by being part of a group purchasing organization. we also and one reason most

proud to work with dph, those that don't have insurance to get high cost medication through patient assistance program. --switching sides in terms of recouping and trying to be good

stewards of the city money is you can see on the graph on the left side i think probably shows the best. there is a blue line and green line. the blue line is how much we spend and green is how much we take in. there is a gap as we spent significantly more in the last 4 years you see that recouping of cost matched that and this allows to minimize drop in the general fund dph has. given the amount of money and volume we care very much how they are doing of monitors as a vendor so meet quarterly to go over the cost of good discounts they provide to us. we also have on demand interface where we run reports at least weekly if not more to make sure and the next thing anything that goes into their system before we buy it we know the pricing and approve it and nothing is in there without our

approval. mckesson has been a strong partner around medication shortages. navigating access to other programs that allow us to get the lowest price for our medications. with that, we agree with the bla recommendation and kindly request approval and happy to take questions. >> items 12 and 13, these are rez solutions that approve amendments to dph contract with mckesson corporation and mckesson plasma biologics together the amendments increase not to exceed of both contracts together by $1.8 billion. we discussed the expenditures in our report. we did review in detail with the department and pharmacy director. believe that they are reasonable and also were able to review data provided by the department at least for a third

of the spending over the past couple years which only incompass non acute settings. the city is getting close to hundred percent reimbursement so apply the percentage to determine what the net cost of the city of $1.8 billion extension ends up be $88 million over the next 4 and a half years. those cost would be funded by the general fund. we recommend aal proval of these items. >> thank you. i don't see any questions. i appreciate the work. it is certainly interesting. i do have oo question. you mention mckesson is one of the big 3. which are the other two? >> amarea source and cardinal, so in that process we reach out to both of them. amira source was unable to work with us in the contract

negotiation. cardinal we look ed at bids and it bid wasn't anymore competitive compared to mckesson we worked with for a long time so the cost of switching can be significant and so we looked at all that and looked at how they performing as a company and serving us and so those are factors we considered. >> great. thank you. we appreciate it. we appreciate the reduce of $88 million cost to the city. that is always good news. with that, let's go to public comment on these two items. thank you. >> invite members of the public who wish to speak on the resolutions in items 12 and 13 to please line up if you choose so. we have no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. would like to move the item-two

items to full board with pause ositive recommendation and flag it is our first time having billion dollars contract coming out of this body. thank you. i mean together it is like $2 billion. no one has reaction. i do, but okay. [laughter] we are about to approve $2 billion in contract. >> on the motion to forward both resolutions to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. safai, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. thank you. with that, and then let's go to it-we heard item 15, so go to item 14. >> item 14, resolution

approving amendment no. 2 to the agreement between a better way and the department of public health (dph), for mental health outpatient treatment services and optional specialized mental health treatment services; to increase the agreement by $3,799,272 for a total amount not to exceed $13,579,299; to extend the term by three years and six months from december 31, 2023, for a total agreement term of july 1, 2017, through june 30, 2027; and to authorize dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution. madam chair. y >> thank you. dph the department of public health and i think we have updates today. go ahead please. >> thank you chair chan, vice chair mandelman and supervisor safai. also with me today over in the back row in case there are

questions is leader ship from a better way including president and ceo david chaner, chief program officer warner graham and sf mental [indiscernible] i thank them for their time as well. under the pr opposed amendment better way san francisco continue to provide outpatient behavioral helt to children and youth 0-21 and care givers. this is delivered through two contracts. one focus on early childhood and include family treatment and case management for up to 24 youth age 0-5 and out patient contract delivering individual family therapy and case management up to 80 children and youth 6-21 and caregivers. better way particularly focuss on the foster care population and we work closely with the human service agency child

welfare division around this collaboration. one important thing to note we are currently working the fiscal year to combine these two contracts into one contract and program that serves the foster care children and youth 0-21 and families while retaining specialization for the 0-5 staff. these services are contracted within the children youth family system of care and behavioral health and given the population they serve which is foster youth and nature of intensive service it falls within intensive out patient level of care within our department. a better way contracted to serve about 11 percent of all intensive outpatient service for children youth and family in the system which total 9 furt 940 and serve about 104. these numbers take into account

all intensive outpatient contracts and important to note that within the if tensive service portfolio a much smaller subset focus on foster care youth such as better way. clients referred from foster care mental chelth is dph clinic to coordinate all referrals from the social worker the human service agency department child welfare. the service are culturally responsive and trauma informed and intensive. aligned with child family team pruss and focus on family centered care. these services are similar to target case management but for youth involve in multiple child service system or more intensive needs or who treatment requires cross agency collaboration. using this program can be referred to other service or level of care as clinically

indicated. in closing dph agrees with the bla recommendation and request approval and take any questions you have. >> thank you. >> item 14 approves a amendment to dph contract with better way which is non profit that provides mental health service to children and youth in foster care. we detailed the spending for this agreement on page 29 of our report, which shows this is a $1.2 million year program about a quarter of which funded by the general fund. this amendment extend the agreement from december of this year through june 2027. we did review the performance of this provider. it did dip in 21-22 due to vacancies at the provider and low referrals from the human services agency, but it has

apparently bounced back based on client and unit of service data that was provided by the department of public health for fy-22-23 so recommend approval of item 14. >> thank you. according to the bla report though, specifically on page 29, indicating about the under-spending and the under-spending was actually from quite a--it unspent balance from 2017 and then 2022. with that, is that it is really not due to the reduce needs for services, but the fact that the

reduction referral is due to under-staffing from the city. is that correct? i just want to make sure? >> there is a couple things that contribute. one, you're correct, 21-22 the invoices show they drawed down on 96 percent of the budgeted contract for the outpatient 6-21 and 71 percent for the 0-5 so bouncing back and numbers for the fiscal year to date and on track in terms of deliverable for the fiscal year, but yes, all our agencies are really still bouncing back from the pandemic. there is significant staffing shortages across the system and there was staffing shortages that impacted a better way as well. in addition, during it had pandemic nation wide there was reduced rate nationally of child welfare referrals,

kids--less eyes on kids in the school and other places so less referrals. there was dip in referrals, but now it has to do with the fact there is a lot of turnover in the child welfare department as well as in terms of child welfare workers were working to sortd of build up efforts to better collaborate and coordinate around service and referral to get kids into care. it is a combination of staffing shortages as well as staffing changes within the human service agency child welfare department and turnover in staff and education to build back up. >> the an ticipation you have the staffing you need and staff in place to process the referral? >> i would have to-i don't

think there is shortage of referrals now. we are working on those pipelines and right now in terms of vacancies there is one clinician vacant in 0-5 program and a family partner position, but otherwise i believe all positions are filled at a better way, but i will say if there--that's correct. getting a head nod. >> what is anticipation that those position-what is timeline for those position that will be filled? >> if one want to come up to speak. >> thank you for being here. >> good afternoon. thanks having us and thanks for the opportunity to speak. david chan, been there since beginning of san francisco contract. now we have the one vacant

clinician position we got a verbal offer so hoping to fill that within the next few weeks. we also have better system for retaining the staff we have. we lost that period you mentioned from 2017 on we began to see a lot of people coming to a agency, we offer extensive post graduate training and then getting snatched by kaiser or something like that once they have license. we responded to that with some initiatives that we get just underway when the pandemic hit but feel we have our feet under to both attract, retain and compete with kaiser better, so the family partner position is harder to hire. we are committed to workforce that has lived experience integrated into it and have programs based solely around that but we are having a hard time in san francisco filling the family partner position so cant give a exact date but we are working diligently. >> could you articulate to me

just kind of help me understand what the role do? >> family part snr ner? >> yes >> family partner navigated systems such as mental health, special ed, juvenile justice on behalf of their own child and enter the workforce as a member of the mental health team to spoert the family, help them feel understood and seen and also to help insure that our discussion and narratives around how to help families has voice and choice of families and family experience at heart so to just help our entire system sort of attune better to true needs of families and keep cultural humility and attunement at the forefront. >> very very specific i ust am say in terms of the job and the role. job description and role. i appreciate all the work