lesson. i'm from the great state of arkansas and when i say good morning. >> good morning. >> welcome to the homelessness oversight commission special meeting. we acknowledge that we're on the unseeded homeland of the

ramaytush ohlone community, and by affirming their soverne rights as first people. and now we turn to our public comment policy and call the roll. >> thank you, chair. good morning, and thank you for joining us. this is being held both in hybrid format and in-person in room 416 and broadcasted live on sf gov. tv.

public members who wish to comment remotely will be added to the queue. commenters will have up to three minutes to comment. to comment remotely, the phone number 415-6655-0001. afferenting the access code press pound twice to enter the queue. when your item is called, press star-3 to raise your hand. please wait until the host walls you to speak. best practices is to turn off any tvs or computers around you. this places you on roll call. please respond with present when i call your name. >> butler >> present. >> dufty. >> here. >> albright. >> here. >> evans.

>> present. >> guerrero >> >> present. >> laguana >> present. >> commissioners we have a quorum, this places you on item 3, devices silence devices during the meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person's responsible for the use of cell phone or similar sound producing electronic devices. thank you for your cooperation, this places us on item 4, announcements by the chair. >> thank you, commissioner secretary. i want to say hello to every one again and also just want to say happy black history month as we great black history this month and every month and also

happy lunar new year, this is the year of the tiger, oh the dragon. who is a dragon. >> i'm a dragon. >> i think i'm a tiger. >> just want to celebrate our rich culture and heritage and the city and nation. i also want to give an opportunity for our commissioners to provide their reflections, or any komentz. i was not able to participate because of a family emergency but i want to hear certain response frz certain commissioners just so the public can be aware that you did participate and how it wept. let's start with, vice chair. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i had the opportunity to go with a group of both hsh and specifically lead by brenda who i long admired and enjoyed and we had the sort of census track

around valencia and in our situation, much of na is area is quite busy at night and so folks would not likely set up there, because it would be interrupted, but once we got to other parts on the fringes of it, there were more people out there. but i would definitely say that i think on the eastern the southeastern portion of the commission there is a lot more folks sleeping on the street. so it was, we had a reporter from the examiner join us and wrote a story about it, it's very inspiring because we've shifted overtime from having citizen volunteers to having individuals that work in the wide range of discipline that's interact with homelessness. so the knowledge base, the ability to really look and identify people who, you know, who are moving around, so you might not orderly know but

there were signs that the participants and others could have. so it was very worth while. i've done several of them over the years but it was nice to go back and see people who i have enjoyed working over the jazzer. >> thank you, vice chair. any other commissioners feel free any comments, responses? >> sure, yes, and are we able to log on yet, bridget? >> yes. >> if anyone was not able to, i will call until we -- ~>> i tried to again and it didn't work. >> it does not seem to let me log in. so we went, we had a great group with us, a bunch of people from cotenderloin, i think i saw her walking in cricket from department of scatter sites. scatter site division, okay, getting the terminology right.

high level, i felt like the app was very confusing in terms of being able to enter counts in. there was an awful lot of verbiage on the page that you interact with. it seems extraneous to the core mission which was to enter the numbers. i heard from others that entering multiple people at once was challenging. and that, often many people were entering in large groups with families just because it was more convenient to enter it that way. so the if we see an up tick in family numbers, when the, results of the count are released, i think it's worth examining whether that might be a result of how the app is constructed and sort of en

couraging people to go down that path. the other thing that was confusing for our group, was the map, so sometimes you're only counting one side of the street, sometimes you're counting both sides of the street. that's really unavoidable because of the way the census boundaries are drawn, in many cases, the district runs down the middle of the street. but the challenges when you're when you're trying to get through a large count in our case, our group had two whole sectors--sorry? , we were in so ma, so when you're trying to get through whole areas, you run into this problem like what is the optimal round, and nobody in our group had a pen so we were going to quickly i am pro mice where we were going to mark off where we had been.

that being said, the group that we were with was excellent and extraordinary, and thorough, we looked behind every dead end, dumb per and that end that ended with the chain link, we investigated every block thoroughly, but clearly, there was also questions about, there were in our district a lot of vej cases, was this person actually homeless? or were they just sitting there with some stuff? you know, if they didn't have a sleeping bag, it would be hard to ascertain if they were homeless or not. we were not advise today talk to people or interview them. we had to guess and we had to guess age and make other

guesses, and it left me with a feeling of i'm not sure how reliable the final results are, overall. but i did see opportunities for improvement in the next count and i think some of that is around apt design and design. >> thank you, commissioner. laguana? >> yes, i can share. it was so great to work with you, we had a great time and so much care and presence put into the work that was being done. we were doing the hate, so it was, i thought the system was actual pretty skeptical, it was my first time doing the pit count. but i thought in the heat, i thought, okay, i see in a neighborhood that looks like this, this is a pretty

affective system in that situation because it was a larger area to a smaller density of population. it was easy to kind of drive around, you know, try to identify and use the app in that sense, but i could see why commissioner was saying, if we were entering more people at the same time, that would have been more challenging. i thought it worked pretty accessably in the district that we were in. but i did have the same feeling oh we were in a different district like somo, it would be more challenging. i also wondered if there was more clarity, like identifying sleeping gear, like tents were obviously the easiest thing to identify but a few situations we were like we just don't know, but we don't want to assume and be like maybe that person is sleeping outside and

they get in a very nice car. or they go into a house. so it was, i just want to be transparent about my learning around that. so yeah, i feel like in certain districts, or in other ones, i would be more interested in seeing like more cleared guidelines around what exactly is trying to be identified. but yeah, we had a great time. >> thank you, commissioner. any other responses, if not, we should move forward. this places us on item 5 which is adoption of january 4, 2024, meeting minutes. >> mack a motion to approve. >> second. >> motion to approve by vice chair seconded, all those in favor. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye.

>> any opposed? ayes have it, so ordered. okay, this moves us to our item 6, which is are there any communications from the commission, which i think we have a exhausted that. but if there are any other communications at this time, please do so at this time, commissioner? >> i just want to thank our secretary bridget for giving us new name plates with our pronouns. >> thank you, thank you, plus one on that, they look nice, thank you. >> any others have communications? okay, so we'll move forward, go to item number 7, which is our employee, i always like this agenda item, certainly moves us forward in our meetings and sets the tone to recognize an employee.

i do not want to butcher our the name of our recognized employee today, so i ask sherene to introduce. >> we are going to recognize angelie remy today. >> wonderful. angelie remi. [applause] >> okay. very excited for you. i'm just going to start by saying, when anthony told me that angelie was coming to the department of homelessness, i said what, but she is so famous.

everybody knows her around town. she is a wonderful advocate for queer people and non conforming people particularly. and i was just so pleased that she chose to come to work with us because her reputation really precedes her. angleli is our equity officer and anthony bush nominated for this employee recognition. and i'm going to read to you what he wrote. so over the short 8 to 9 months that angeli has been with the department she has gone above and beyond for the he quit officer, to transform the hsh for the better. upgraded the quality of our diversity celebrations by bringing in subject matter experts to discuss the under represented communities and the impact they face at the intersection of homelessness. two days into her time, she

lead the curation and facilitation of staff retreats and our racial equity training. conducted over 20 racial equity training, increasing response system for over 95% of our staff while centering local issues that continues to add to our disparity, age and other marginized groups. angly--to the community to which she belongs and serves. now as the lead facilitating. she is building the infrastructure to improve our cultural humidity for tgi clients and for how our providers serve this community. she continues to provide all staff with our comprehensive

overview both staff and in external facing. there is a lot that we can say but i would like to add how exceptional angeli is, big and small ways. she continues to be a beacon of light for our staff. a champion of intersectional justice and a force that has improved the quality of our work within the equity office and at hsh. so angelie congratulations for getting our employee recognition in february. and i think you're our the first recipient of actual plaque. people have gotten it after the fact but you're our first one. so it's heavy. [applause]

>> thank you, all, this is such an honor and this belongs to each one of you here, particularly my hsh staff, community, you mean so much to me in welcoming me in such a powerful way. respected, commissioners, chair butler and somebody i know in community, this is my home, being in san francisco brings me to believe that there is a tomorrow for so many that might be experiencing homelessness or once was homeless like me. i'm deeply humbled and immensely grateful to stand before you as the recipient of this award. it's no surprise but a shocking

truth, that at 44, which i'll be tomorrow, i'm still here celebrating and this means so much to me to be able to serve the people and to be given the opportunity. so as a testament and resilience of the human spirit, which is embodied by every single person that i've worked in homelessness and supportive housing. so you have to give yourself a round of applause for that. you've worked tirelessly to inspire us. in this lifetime in a journey, when i was once in a city knowing no money and kicked out and then came back to be belong, homecoming maybe not the 49ers.

as a transgender immigrant, my an m challenges. but this is one of those mild stones that i will always cherish and the unwaivering support of this community particularly the tireless leaders at our cbos and nonprofit and the black leaders particularly those that lead the city, and to many more queer transgender activist, or ancestors who are here with us in this room and who will continue to show world that each one deserves the equal opportunity and once given, we can smash the status quo. >> beautiful. [applause] >> this award is not just a reflection of my efforts but inclusive environment hosted business hsh particularly the equity office lead by human

being who himself stands at the margins and yet took an opportunity to trust, transgender immigrant women who otherwise would not have been able to braekt glass ceiling. it is your testament anthony that i deserve that you chose to give me this opportunity and to believe that i can make sure that more people are housed and out of homelessness, working in an office two to three miles where i was homeless in this city. thank you, anthony. [applause] i'm profoundly grateful to those who supported me. the leaders who embraced me for my loud mouth and wicked math skill and also presentation skills and to whom i recognize and provide this as true valley

to my contributions that i'm able to continue. your unwaivering and belief in my ability have humored my ability to excel and made me believe that we as black, brown people can truly and fantastickly break down and kick out white supremacy from this world. to the city and county of san francisco, thank you for providing me a welcoming and inclusive space where diversity celebrated to a leader like shareen who makes sure that voice right side heard, your commitment to creating an equity and justice inspires me everyday and so many of us in this commission as a testament of that. that this community is tireless leaders who will do everything they can to keep people housed and make sure that homelessness is not going to be repeated for any individual. finally, i want to say to my

fellow migrants who may be treated like strangers from another world, but they belong here in the san francisco and u.s.a. and in america, where else can they go whether we are trans, queer, black, brownsinger latinx, women x, we belong here in san francisco this is the sanctuary city and know that your journey is--your love that you share through your passion will always help you overcome any obstacle and achieve greatness. and i want you to know that you're not alone and i want to you believe in tomorrow where you have a roof over your head. thank you once again for this incredible honor, i'm truly blessed to be part of a compassionate and supportive community. let us continue to work, there is a lot of work to be done so

i will wrap up soon to gather to build a future where every one has the opportunity to thrive, living a full life and this one is dedicated to our indidgous ancestors who came before us, to the black leadser, we need to continue to celebrate not just month but every month. to those that scene o phobia and asian hate. this will one goes to my mom, she has stood by me. i would not be stand here if my mom did not take stones to her back to keep me alive. i wish you the speedy recovery and to my kinder groom ma who

has shown me what it means to go back to your roots and to each one of you who is a trailblazer, thank you. >> thank you, congratulations. >> now, wasn't that beautiful? [applause] give her another hand and a happy birthday and i like the statement, by our director bush who described you as one who brings their whole self to the work and that is something that we should all embody and the work that we do in this hard work, but necessary work. thank you once again and congratulations. >> this places us now on item 8

which is our direct's report, so i hand it over to my director. >> shireen. >> okay, i'll give a moment to have the presentation come up. so good morning, commissioners. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> happy monday. not our usual day to be here. i will have data and updates with you and i'm going to move right into out reach. 250 out reach engaged on january 30th, and we leaned heavily on provided partners and sf hud to conduct the count. i want to appreciate the out reach team for all the work

they've done during the resent storms, there was a lot of engagement and the weather was particularly harsh, so they really went into over drive to help make sure that people had things that they needed. so they act vaitd their wet weather protocol to help clients during and after the storm. that includes wellness checks, handing out emergency blankets and panchos and looking for symptoms relate today hypothermia. provided transportation assistance to shelters as needed. the moving on to coordinated entry assessment dropped slightly down to 902 assessments in december. we also have data for the most resent quarter for demographic for the coordinated entry and housing process. the interesting trends in the

last quarter, 45 of% of households were black while making the 30% of enrolled entry. and in order to raise racial equity that's what we want to see, we want to see move-ins and housing among our black people experiencing homelessness at a higher level than they are represented. so it's good to see that that's happening 27% of total households were latin a or hispanic including multi racial people. 45% of people families were latin a while only 21% of housed . so we know we need to do a lot of work there. and we know we've seen in up tick in system. some of this, in this data point that i just said, some of

this discrepancy may be due to the influx of newcomers. these people are at the beginning of the housing process. so we'll continue to monitor the trans forward and if we need to make adjustments, we will and we probably will. this slide shows the same data for entry broken up bisexual orientation and gender. no identity data in this last quarter of 2023, for example, 6% of household are identified as lesbian and gay and 5% of households housed identify as gay as lesbian, we see a similar gender data as well. this information gives you a sense of population that we're serving throughout the stages of the coordinated process.

and then coordinated entry is hoping slots this month. they will come through in partnership with the hot team. behavioral health services and multi disciplinary team. the multi disciplinary team is scheduled to visit shelters, this winter and spring with the scheduled in february. and then moving on to prevention, this includes clients served by both our department and mayor's housing of community department, between march 2023 and january 2024. during this period, 20248 households served with an average of 6382 in assistance. this lead to a total of 14.3

million distributed since the program reopened. of the household served 83% were below 30% of median income. 66% had experienced homelessness. 72 were at-risk of displacement and 12% had received an eviction notice. while 77% identified as people of color. and problem solving state with 78 resolutions. we have 420 households assisted with over 1.4 million dollars in financial assistance. i also wanted provide an update on the various city relocation programs you may be hearing a lot about those. there are three main programs that have helped household located outside of san francisco where they can be

stablely housed. and we're tracking that 11,000 since 2005, hsh offers relocation through our problem solving division. this used to be a stand alone program called homeward bound that offers bus tickets and that program sunset in 2022. hsh integrated relocation assistance with offers of problem solving in 2022. this program serves people experiencing homelessness and coordinate with network elsewhere and provides flexible assistance for people to move into their new community. people access this through entry and family shelters and family community locations. in the first half of the fiscal year, the program served 114 households. hsh started a program called homeward bound in april 2023 to

supplement hsh's program. the program serves all cap clients including people without an active file, ien application process or old file. one access the program, and in the first half of fiscal of the fiscal year, 10 people were served in this program and hsh, and hsh, also coordinate on a program called journey home which is the lowest barrier for relocation. for people experiencing holelessness on the street, the program offers pretravel and a shelter day if necessary. referrals through law enforcement and help systems, they, people can also self refer and the phone number to self refer is on the screen. this program served 13 households in the first part of the fiscal year.

so all of these programs together, basically achieve the same thing but they're designed a little bit differently, for different segments of the homeless population. and then moving to our housing inventory dashboard, as a reminder we have inventory housing programs. we're still at 13,200 units of housing. housing placements, takes back up to december to 190 placements. just on a related update, we continue to see emergency housing vouchers, we issued 161 vouch wertz housing authority. leading to 903 households being housed. hsh received 906 vouchers originally. we planned to provide more details but we're really excited about the number of

people that we've been able to house through that program. and then 180 jones starts moving this month. that's 35 studio units for chronickly homeless adults. construction was funded through the community of continue of continuium bonus award and owned by the tenderloin corporation. also opening a new psh site with 150 units at 950 kearny and beach street, this is a sober living mod toll support portfolio as part of housing first. this is opt in model for those who want to transfer on a community on supporting sobriety. this item will come to the commission on march 7th, so at our next full meeting at the

tenderloin clinic is proposed to be the provider of the services. and thn moving on, for procurements will announce awards for flex pool for women and subsidies providers in february. proposal for qualifications rfq number 114 for services, are due february 27th. and then we received our 2023 continuum of care award. 53.8 million dollars in total, all renewal projects are funded including 29 perm al supportive housing sites. and one transitional program refunded. and we received funding for one new supportive housing project at 4200 street and i want to thank our staff for that, because it's incredible amount

of work to do, to put together these proposals and it was really a great job by salvador and team and contracts and admin staff, so thanks very much for that. and then moving on, we have continued progress at lake merced, we're working with sfmth before enforcement of regulations, we focused on providing multi lingual language. we moved 25 households and enrolled 33 households and programs ei on the program to housing with 12 additional households awaiting referral. and i got a question about there is a little bit of discrepancy between the numbers that we reported last month versus these numbers. these numbers are correct and our staff are working, they've made some tweaks in the reporting, so these are correct. and we will, i think, i think

that you'll see that they will all tie from here on. next slide. so vacancies continue to drop in january, decreasing to 7.1 percent. we're getting closer and closer to our goal of 7 percent which we expect to hit very soon. so 7.1 percent is so close that we wanted say 7 today but this month there were 183 vacancies available for referral or 2 percent of all of our units. off line and referral pending units have continued to decrease. while we're very close to achieving our goal we're also in the process of launching our inventory to track vacancies more efficiency. we want to wait until the new systems are up before celebrating this goal. so hopefully in the coming meetings, we'll be able to tell you that we have reached that 7% goal.

and as requested, we're up dating online vacancy. we're up 2% which our team considers a healthy rate. normal for turnover or necessary repairs. our policy outlines how long units can be off line. for example, a unit on acorner hold should be off line for no longer than 30 days but we don't always have control over that. we don't currently have data in system to track time, we report our data team is working on that report. and it will be available in future months. and then our across our shelter system on january 31, we had 3276 capacity and we were at 91 occupancy rate.

we're glad to see more beds coming online and high occupancy rate going into winter months. on shelter, we're seeing an increase in family shelter after implementing same day placement policy and eliminating the online shelter verification. the family shelter was hovering around 95%, sorry, well the capacity was at the 5%. preparing to open mission cabins in march, we have 60 cabins with 68 beds and 5 keys is the provider. we closed out the peer 94 program at the end of the mobsinger this is a program that we raised out during covid to provide rvs trailers for people who were living outside and in, at-risk during covid. for the 114 guests who were in the program last spring, when

we started winding it down, the outcome right side included on this slide. 72% went to housing. and we offered every one housing and worked very closely with people on the housing plans. i also want to thank the hsh housing team, to expand shelter capacity for people living unsheltered. 9 following programs expanded beds or hours and took walk-in guests throughout the storm. the interface sherlt, dolores shelter, the baby drop in center and mission neighborhood research center, thank you so much for expanding and being really nimble to help serve people who are at-risk of, you know, weather related issues. throughout the storm, we made a number of additional shelter beds available on top of our existing capacity and thank you all for your partnership. i know a number of you are here today, so thank you.

and then as we requested, we also have an denial of service and shelters. when somebody is issued an immediate dos, denial of service, they can seek shelter again through channels. the denial of service is only valid at the program that was issued. for non immediately, households can stay through the duration, immediate denial of service or typically just for acts or threats of violence. non are for habitual break in of the rules. the denial is on this slide and on the next slide. clients are giving these rules and information of about in take. and then, i've got a few

additional updates start withing legislative, looking ahead to 2024, we have lots of legislation at the board of supervisors. we've got the streamline contracting ordinance that was originally heard in december and heard again in budget in finance on february 7 thing, it was continued between february 14th that was this week. and accept and extend, baifsher program, multiple grant graoementz that will go to the commission and the board by the end of fiscal year 23-24 and on the state side of things, february 16th is the deadline to introduce new bills. we'll come back to you next month with an update on new legislation. the govern's state budget was proposed 291 billion dollars worth of significant cuts to

accordable housing butmi cuts. defers all spending decisions to legislature for key decisions. and two key items, homeless housing assistance and prevention program or shap, 1.21 billion dollars state fund. this delays, the top priority for hsh is to make sure that this is in the final budget. and then kelum implementation, 2.4 billion dollars in fiscal year, maintained for transformational calium initiative. and the budget maintains 24.7 million dollars in fiscal year 25-26 for six months of rent or

temporary housing as a county opt in benefit. this is positive and shows where the govern's priorities are with respect to homelessness. and then some updates from other advisory bodies, five open seats that the commission must consider appointing soon. as discussds the final 2023 continuum award has been, four vacant seats and will hold their next meeting in city hall. nameem little is the new secretary. and then the point in point and time count took place on january 30th. thank you to the commissioners and staff and volunteers who supported this process. and just a reminder that the release will have a release in may for initial numbers and in summer for the mull support.

moving to office equity updates. has extended these through june 2024, hosting community engagement for provider feedback on how to better provide affirming care. they have started the trauma informed systems 20-24 to apply a lens to our racial equity work. in the bipoc are in the final phase of execution, we're very very excited about that program. as always, hsh is hiring, we have 247ftes and 48 vacancy with 56 active recruitment. these includes positions and recruiting for a permanent role. as always, we are hiring. we appreciate your support directing any good candidates you know to hsh, positions are posted on the department of human resources website. and in closing, because i have

really spent a lot of time introducing our exe team. i want today know that, chan is no longer with the department and we're looking to fill the position very soon. here to answer any questions for you. >> thank you, and before i turn it over to commissions for questions, i want to let the public know that we are trying a new process, we're providing you with name cards to as you're getting ready to provide public comment, that you would fill out your name to make sure that your voice is not only heard but that we have a record of it, please do so before you provide your public comment. i also want you to know, there is a lot on this agenda today and so i ask that the comments be, i'm going to strictly

enforce the 2-minute rule and the comment be directed to the agenda item. and i'm letting you know, if they aren't, i will respectfully interrupt and then i'll recommend another time where you can make that public comment. to our commissioners, i respectfully ask that providing high level questions, obviously, there is room for follow-up but to let you know, there are many things that we need to vote on today so i want to make sure that we're cognizant of our times, commissioners. >> point of order, we don't have that log in. >> yes. as we normally do, i'll shout out names and raise your hand or nod and i'll definitely give you time to talk. vice chair. >> thank you, director for this excellent report and a lot of good news that has to be shared. just a brief question about the

hsh probably relocation problem a component has been following up to make sure that the connection that has been made to family and friends that are willing to take somebody in is not reflected here. i just wanted to make sure that's still an element of the program. great. >> yes, that is an element of the program. >> and each of the program is different, that's an element of the hsh program, both ones that were involved for sure. i'm not exactly sure how cap is doing their program. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you, commissioner dufty. any other commissioners? >> thank you very much. director, i really appreciate the description between the data from january to february from the winston lake merced figures.

i just wanted confirm in the interim from our last meeting, has there been additional out reach conducted? and is there concern that the signs and enforcement may be implemented prior to those housing placements? being made? >> we're continue to go work closely with the mta, everybody is very aware of, you know, the urgency in trying to get people into housing as quickly as we can. the staff are very clear that they have out reached to every one. we cannot completely control for people moving around a little bit. but, they have spent, a number of hours out there so they feel strongly that they have. >> thank you. and then i was very appreciative of the data provided on pages 20 and 21 which are the denial of service data for our shelter system by site.

i did total the number of denials of service in the prior year and it appears to be close to a 1,000, about 958 and that is about 7 and a half percent by my calculation of the shelter population, served. that seems extremely high to me but then it was also eye opening to see particular sites that had denial service as high as 15% and higher. in particular, i took note that two of our shelters next door and embarcadero safe, providers are not listed but i believe both of those are run by five keys. and i, my questions for you were, do we have a targ get of what is the denial of rate should be? do we have that as a performance metric in the

shelter contracts? and what are your thoughts on how we may further improve the reduction of denial of service rates for people that are not housing referral status, the shelter is there besinger shelter of last resort, it's emergency shelter and to be in a position where they're regularly denied service is extremely concerning. >> thank you, for the question, i'm going to ask chief deputy sanders to answer. >> there are multiple parts. maybe i'll start with the last one first. in terms of, is there a target in the contracts, as of now, no there is no target in the contracts. as it relates to the denial of services, you have to figure out a complete concrete system for that process in general. i appreciate the, the things

that you've pointed out and we can look at what the policy and procedures are as it relates to the denial of services and come back in a couple of months, with a better response to what that process actually looks like and what our plans are. >> thank you and to consider, there is no target? >> that's something that we can look at wha. we understand from our providers, as i said, is that the immediate denials of service are due to behavioral issues that make it unsafe to other people.

and providers feeling that this is long enough, we need to hold the line here. and to find out if there is issues that we need to help support them with. >> and i want today clarify, that i'm not saying that denial service is not appropriate at times, and there is situations there are situations when as you point out, it's unsafe to the population of the shelter for the person to remain, so i'm not arguing that we try to hold the shelter providers to you know, unsafe conditions by retaining people that are unsafe to other folks in the shelter but rather, those folks who are being denialed service are exited to the street? instead of to, a facility with a higher level of care so. my

certain is that, if there is not a safe for the other residents to the shelter, they're not safe for the people that are in the street as well. >> yeah, i mean so we have on going conversation about this and it's one of the things that we've been talking a bit with the department of public health because our providers don't have the resource to see handle that. but it's on going conversation. and we don't want to be exiting people to the street if we don't have to. we donough that they can go to another shelter, but if there is an issue it needs to be addressed. >> thank you. >> just, i want to make sure that it's clear that our providers are, they're goal is to preserve housing as best as they can. and for the reasons why folks are being denied service, is the lowest barrier that we can

possibly provide is acts of violence and serious issues and things like that. i think over archingly there has to be a a city response also includes parallel systems of care that helps us provide care that are necessary that are experiencing these high barriers and that's what we're working towards. >> thank you. >> commissioner, albright? >> i didn't, i didn't originally have a question but commissioner evans question and discussion prompted one. just as a first step, it may be help tofl dis aggregate the data in terms of the denial of service for the nearly 1,000 folks, i appreciate you aggregating the data. and i think just aggregating the system on some simple terms, if it's injury to self

and others, mail you're to pay and then we may be able to look at the data as opposed to setting targets. >> so just on the dos, that was the main thing, it's just a very loaded topic for me personally. i feel disappointed to be honest with the response that i just heard because, you know, what happens is not just people being put back out into the streets, we can expand services but some of these, you know, i support the providers, i want the providers to succeed. but what is happening, the approach is karsral, we can count every d.o.s.but that would take forever. the fact that the paperwork is

not accessible. so sometimes that works against the providers, because they didn't fill out the paperwork properly so then the person stays inside.

>> you know really providing behavioral health services. it could go different ways, it could be completely dph run. we could run a shelter with their services. it mainly is just that, that we're still working through what it would look like and what a good model would be and we're working in a year where we don't have resource to see put something like that together necessarily. so, it's an on going challenge and definitely it's an important one. >> i think; i think another concern would be because of how big the city is and how the big the departments are. it seems like one of those

things where it is potentially, you can have a tragedy of the common sense where nobody's clear responsibility and so, as you sort of outlined finding a path forward can be difficult because it has not been really well defined. but i think just for myself, i want to echo my fellow commissioners that i think we can with the department of public health and trying to come to some consensus of how we're going to perceive because it does seem the highest accuity level people, to commissioner guerrero's point, they're be just a danger to people in the shelter but in the street as well. it is appropriate that we try to dig into that as quickly as we can. >> thank you, commissioners.

yes. >> again, i didn't have anything to say in the beginning, but, just reminded me that the time i visited the shelters, and spoke with some of the leaders that are in the shelters housed and really helping manage, the people the programs, they were, they were oubt unhoused themselves and they're proud of their leadership role and i was pleased to meet them. what they asked them, and i didn't know i had anyway that i could interject on this is that, not to let people that are very troubled as you called high equity and agrecious to be in. and one example that they used after they had gotten some peaceful arrangements and really gotten a good control of the place, was this young man

that never stopped screaming in the small room next to them. and, they felt there was a lot of pressure to house to get these people in, into the place. so i just want to bring that point of view of the young man and the young woman that approached me on that and have that be part of the conversation that the people that are housed, that are comfortable that are trying to improve their lives, also have some say in the matter. >> i think you're speaking to the issue of not having enough treatment beds in the city. >> yes. >> thank you, commissioners. i do want to put in a book in that there is a lot of good happening and there is room for improvement and denial of services is one of those points

where we can all come together and move this hastely, like quick, so that we can get every issue is certainly urgent so we have to keep that in mind. but i do think that we should highlight all the good that that has taken place and commend the staff for all the work that you're doing and then, knowing that the commissioners are here to support the work to move this forward, i want to say amen. >> amen. okay, we're going to open the space to open up the public comment. we have the name cards and we're going to be strict on the time limit, so i want to respectfully let you know that i will stop you at 2 minutes. so please make sure that your comment right side concise and

clear and we will also have opportunities to have opportunity for comment with other agenda items as well. >> so the first speaker is yolanda calzano. >> and because there are certain members of the public who need translation services, obviously there will be additional time for that. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: can you give her four minutes because she is going to be using interpreter. >> that's fine. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: first i wanted to say where are all of these people going to go? where are they going to go? >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: and so i'm

remembering at this point, specifically on february 22, of 2022. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: there were 7754 persons without a home. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: and so the truth is that more than 20,000 people were left without a place to live in one year. during that year. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: and so i ask the same question, where the people from gaza going? they're being killed? where are they going to go because where ever they go they

are killed. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: so 23% of the people that were found without living, they were supposedly found in san francisco. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: okay, and so it's estimated that these people will be left without a place to live because they don't have the money or the funds state funds to prevent this. and so 40% of the children that are living below the means are in san francisco and they don't have a place to live.

so the majority of the homeless people are people of color. while 6% of the population of are not be interpreted in the city. >> speaker: [speaking spanish]

>> translator: i don't want proposition 1 to be approved. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: because they're seeing that poor people have to be put in asylum. and so what i would like to say, do not cut the funds for people that are homeless. and invest in programs for people that are homeless. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: okay and i just want to say please help the homeless people because we don't have money, we don't have checks. >> thank you for your comment. next member of the public and

if you can identify which area that our director has spoke on, please address what area you want to address. >> the next member is sheeba bendiva. >> speaker: hello i'm sheeba, i'm here in solidarity with the spanish and portuguese families living in rvs. we know these families have been waiting for a response from the city but not much support has been provided. we're have been grateful for working with hsh and our

parking restrictions. but the concern about safe parking site is still very real. these families are making do with what little they have, all they're asking for is a safe place to live and to raise their children. since we were here last, many of the residents have let us know that hsh has not lived up to what is needed nor real support is available to the system. and it's pretty sad to say that we're not really surprised. all we're asking for from you as commissioners is to continue to put pressure to collaborate and to come up with real solutions that will support these families instead of pushing them out of the community that they spent building for the last three years. as a coalition, we welcome the opportunity to work with both the city agency to see make sure that these rvs residents and families are given the best support the city has. thank you so much.

>> thank you. >> jessica hernandez. >> speaker: hello i'm jessica hernandez, i want today make a comment on rv, it's important for you guys to give you resource to see communities in rv, and specifying that we need something that is really going to match with they need and know what is available. because if you only give whatever is available people are going to end up in the same place where they started, they can lose their stability, if they're not properly matched to their needs. and it plays on implements for our parking site to please prevent this. so there is no street parking available, if there is no

housing available, don't implement anything because it does not make sense for them to end up in the streets because for our parking limitations. i mean that can wait for a little longer, i'm not sure why it needs to be implemented now, i don't know what is the rush, they have not done this in a while, i'm not sure, just all of a sudden, they want to kick these people out. that's why these implementations are happening, because they want to make it somebody else's problem. i urge for more house sxz more resources to be implemented and for you to match people's needs. thank you. >> thank you. >> miguel corsan. may i suggest that you announce the next person so they are ready to come up. >> after miguel is flow kelly

and after flo is javier. >> speaker: my name is miguel ca rero i work in the collision of homelessness. i today i come to it test and support the families that stay in rvs, or cars, because i know for sure you guys trying to do all of your best to helping these families but i really, when you trying to help in these families, you have to bring, the actions in place that really moving for work. these families need housing. so i start seeing problems with the streets, you guys identify so many places and starting pushing and pushing and pressing and pressing these peopleless people. so now we want to move into the rvs, don't want to give you the opportunity to provide permanent housing.

but yeah, decisions behind oppression, we need to stop to do this process. we need to change all behaviors. we need to study in doing real work and supporting all families. and i really want to asking for you, for this year to provide for youth and families because we need, this money for the families and the jews too. so thank you so much. i will like to hear my comments and my recommendations and make a changes in this process, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good morning, i'm flo kelly and i work on the coalition of homelessness and the stop poverty and latino task force. i commend you for allowing phone-in public comment, so many bodies of these government are not allowing it. i will address housing and

shelter, i'm here in support of the many single people and families who live in their weeks on winston street and you heard jessica and miguel talking about that. these are people not knowing whether the four-hour parking restrictions approved by mta, when will it begin? will it be this week or this month it's hard for them to plan ahead. after all the meetings, hsh needs to really establish a safe parking site on the west side of town and be transparent about it. we have no meetings about finding a location because it's suppose tore secret, so we're not able to help.

and i'm also thinking about the families who are new arrivals to san francisco, the family shelter system needs to ensure that there are sufficient emergency beds for all newcomer families, currently a public school named buena vista man has a stay over program for 69 family members, there is space for 80 family members but it has to be funded. for hotel vouchers for families are needed as well to fill the demand so that families with young children do not end up on the streets. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: good morning, commissioners, i work with the homelessness coalition, i want to thank director mcfad en for

the direct's report today and i'll also be speaking about the folks who are living on winston drive in their vehicles. just like what other folks have said, already, we've been, you know, under the families have been under a lot of pleasure specifically since september when these parking restrictions were proposed. we were able to stay it off until december and then we were told that the parking restrictions would not go up in january. well we're almost, it's almost mid-february and we've had absolutely no updates about a safe parking site or what is the larger plan about getting folks into housing. we absolutely about folks getting in the housing, but we know if we take it it month to month we're not going to get the folks in the housing, we need this commission and hsh to

put pleasure on each other to collaborate so that we can find a safe parking site, because it's not just not, it's not realistic that we're going get everybody housed. i want to urge this commission to use the power that you have the influence that you have to make sure that these families are not being forgotten, because after a while, folks will move away and this this problem will be exacerbated. i will reserve my comments for the budget for later. thank you. >> thank you. the next three is gulain julian and sergio sosa.

>> speaker: good morning, i'm hughes and i'm the manager with the episcopal services and as well as poverty coalition. we're standing in solidarity with the other comment wz those in-house holds living on win is toer. these households including children and seniors, deserve dignity. this will push them deeper into instability and homelessness. before that, we would like to thank staff for connecting households to housing, however even though some families were connected, there is still a lot more work that needs to be done to not let this community slip further into poverty.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: good morning, commissioners, thank you for having me. i'm julian i'm the policy directer with the coalition of homelessness. today i'm in solidarity with the folks on winston drive. they need a safe place to go home to. if you don't do this, this will contribute to homeless which is which is the biggest issue that san francisco is facing. there is a lot of different situation that's people are going through that nobody wants to be in. so just to save every one some time, i urge hsh to do the right thing. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you.

>> speaker: good morning, every one, i'm sergio sosa and i'm here to asking, to demand to investigate all the nonprofit organizations. because i was working on the 2020 and one organizations la raza -- ~>> may i interrupt you and ask you to specifically direct your comment to the executive director's report, if you do have a comment outside of that, there is an opportunity for to you make comment. >> speaker: it's just because this is, i guess it's related with all the organizations, my situation is asking why they are investigate how they using the money. the money you're giving to them is for helping the community, not for destroying families. they tried to put me in jail,

put me restriction order with assault allegations, take me a year for fighting for my dignity and cost me a lot of money. where they get the money to try to put me in jail, that's my demanding and asking. >> thank you, sir. >> speaker: you're welcome. >> the next three speakers. jennifer, jordan. >> speaker: good morning, housed and i'm glad to see that so much great work is going into solving this issue. and on the denial services, we should also take a look at the

minor rules as well. like what are these minor rules? i've seen shelters with such ridiculous rules and i don't know if they're here, for example, like wearing spaghetti straps, some tell you to dress modestly. those could be minor rules that people can be dosed on. i'm glad that there is a soft landings for those who relapse and i'm okay with this. and i personally am a marijuana use thaer does not drink. if it does not expand to existing sites, people are not forced into them. these sites need to allow wrao*ed. weed, it's actually not really wet housing, you can only use in your bedroom with the door

closed. and also just as a housekeeping item for the director's report, we need to make sure that items within hsh per view introduce at the board of supervisors needs to be included because there is a couple of items that need to be brought attention to. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> our next member. >> hello i'm with the coalition of homelessness. i understand that they may not oversight but as the homeless out reach, and officer services, i do want to bring up a sweep that happens with an rv site. and there was a lot of inconsistent direction given by both sfpd as well as the department of public works teams.

the residents, there was four of them all of them were at one point earlier in the sweep told that they would be towed if they do not move and later told that they would be towed, in three days and then they had an opportunity to coordinate a free tow truck to move them elsewhere in the city. this was confusing and very inconsistent and during this traumatizing time for them, there is no guarantee that if they were to call the 311 line they would have an opportunity to have a free towing. it really puts them in a unpredictable situation and i want to ensure that those policies are at least brought up to relevant department to see clarify as well as articulate so residents in rvs and 'em campments don't have

that same experience. thank you. >> thank you. >> love all the discussions and questions. i have two items in the director's report i would like to reference. the first is denial the service. we have a beautiful thing in san francisco and shelter process do have due process rights. maybe the only place in the country. and we have full transparency around these that give us a lot of detail. that gives us the opportunity and you have the committee to dig down deeper. i love the idea of doing an analysis overtime. the rules have changed, looking at the dos today, thinking

about how preexit, things around decalation, things around building community and shelter. there is just a lot of beautiful things that can happen in shelter. i think this provides us with an opportunity and it's always a work in progress. the second piece i wanted to sign on is rvs, we have also an opportunity here. we have a lot of folks in one area. a lot of them have children, a lot of them are in pretty dire situation. so really doing assessments, our rfp went up for the coordination and maybe a lot of people in the population that have not qualified for the

deeper subsidies, just thinking really hard about how to do that and then really putting the fire on getting a safe parking site. i just can't emphasize that enough, that is a great alternative, thank you. >> beatriz, christine, and monique slombehrs. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for giving me your time. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: my name is beatriz and i was always living on the streets. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: to the program

such as sidekicks and housing, thanks to those programs i'm living a dignified life. >> speaker: [speaking spanish] >> translator: and i beg please do not make anymore cuts in these programs. please continue to support people so they can have a place to live. if not, it's going to be worse and we're going to have more people living in the streets. and our youth and families are going to be exposed to drugs. i just want to thank you for your time. >> speaker: thank you. >> thank you. i got my dignity back, i like

to hear those types of stories. thank you. >> speaker: good morning, i'm maria christina gutierrez and i happen to be the executive director of child center and i come here because, i wanted to say that that report is a chain, it's a shame that we feel that we doing better because more and more people are given housing, i mean, shelters. we should be happy when we don't have to give shelter to people, when we have no more homeless people in the city. and that will not happen, if you keep giving money to nonprofits. all they do, all those executive members get a lot of money and they used to do that, and the people don't get the service that they really need and they treat it like they come in for begging for something that is not right to have.

we spend millions of dollars, millions of dollars on work, more than on children but we cannot spend money to house the people in the city. there is enough empty buildings out there. you choose, as a commissioner i'm not blaming you, but i want to make the government responsible to deal with this issue. healthcare, education, jobs that's why we need. not charity, not for nonprofits to take over the responsibility of the government. we need the government to be responsible and provide all of these that we deserve that we work for and that we created, thank you. >> thank you.

>> speaker: hello i'm a former social worker at tndc, i'm here to demand a investigation of hsh contracts misuse of funds, violation of nonprofit laws and workers rights to organize. and the corruption at nonprofit agencies as i guess we're saying now, cbos, it's your duty to investigate these nonprofit and how they're using city funding which you approve. the one i'm calling out mission housing, la raza and reading partners for the illegal expulsion and harassment and intim nation of workers of campanero del barrio. it is your duty to investigate for the wrongful termination on 18 employees. 80 percent of those laid off

were workers of color and half seniors and youth workers. this is anti asian, anti black hate and action for tndc and needs to be investigated. on the afternoon of wednesday june 18th, they laid off four staff. funded by hsh, that included the tenant and community service directer i quet, the only black woman in the executive leadership team after 30 years of her service. they laid off our urban staff and shut that program down. that program runs community gardens, no notice was given and even know tndc has yet to say why this program was closed. many have contacts that state a garden program is part of

required amenities. also violated the sunshine ordinance and only held one public board meeting in 2023. katie lemont one of the directors has completely stalled all equity conversations despite higher rates of eviction among black and brown tenants. tndc is also guilty of selling out city workers who are unionized as they plan to layoff nurses with the private healthcare companies. they're currently in negotiation with cadera health to work the a building that already has services. please investigate what is going on at mission housing, la raza community, center reading partners and tndc, thank you. >> thank you. and give yourselves a hand for staying under the time limit and most of us stayed within

the frame of agenda that our director has provided. we do have one remote commentor and then we will move on to the next agenda item. >> go ahead, caller, we hear you. are you there caller. >> speaker: hello, can you hear me. >> yes, we can. >> speaker: i'm pauline levinson, i wanted to be there in person but it's been a difficult time for me. i'm calling in, this is a really loaded meeting, there is a lost items on the agenda. so the dos of services is a really, very difficult issue, a lot of times when a person is being addressed in these shelters or and many times, the

reason for the dos themz sefz, is the person starts to record and devote what is happening and being told in order to address it later or in a grievance that is extremely traumatic, because that will continue to be, the point of pain and you get discharged and you cannot deal with that issue anymore, because now you have bigger problems. we can try to find way to see connect with this commission. i wanted to bring up an access issue.

so, which, is actually. >> you have 30 seconds. >> speaker: 30 seconds. yes, i think that a lot of these buildings, hsh should provide a community room that has a set up so that people can participate in a meeting like this from the building directly. thank you. >> thank you, speaker. >> thank you all, this places us on item 9 old business, and we don't have old business. so we move on to 10 a, i would like to announce the next two items, one item presented by salvador and lauren, provider network building stanlt and housing. and our second presenter is,

gigi whitney. we will have discussion and possible comment and we will have a special meeting on friday to vote. i wanted to let everybody know and we'll discuss that in a little bit more detail in commission matters. >> i have a brief new business item. i just wonder there is a whistleblower program through the controllers office. since there were allegations, how do we address. >> yes, that is a good point, there is a whistleblower program through the controllers website. so if people have specific concerns about nonprofits, they are welcome to make the, make a report fill out a report there and those are definitely followed up upon, we get a lot

of whistleblower complaints throughout the year and respond to them, the controller's office responds to them, and asked, the correct the appropriate departments to respond. >> and the controller's office on this building, if people wanted to go and make a connection, thank you. >> and just briefly share with the public, what the whistleblower means if you can. >> yeah, 9 controller's office began the whistleblower program really to respond toxer to make sure that the city has a response when people in the community has concerns about things that are inappropriate. it could be nonprofits it could be individual staff but that's the place to take the complaints, and like i said, the controllers office tracks all of them and very much followed up on all of them.

to figure out if they have merit and to make sure it happens. >> can i have administrative question, i just understand that there is a meeting on friday, i don't see notice. >> so the meeting, i'm going to let the secretary answer that. >> the time has not been decided, we're waiting for the commission to let us know when we're available, the time is from 12 to 5. so after you decide what time the meeting is, i'll notice the meeting. >> so essentially, we're using this time to discuss the budget. this will give you time to observe it a little bit, unfortunately we have to come back and have another meeting for the vote. so and we're under some time constraint because the budget has to be loaded into the

mayor's budget system by tuesday and monday is a holiday. so we don't think it will be a long meeting, we think it can be done within an hour, we're holding the secretary is holding all afternoon on friday and we'll poll all of you to make sure that we're going to be able to have a quorum. >> it is friday, before a holiday. >> yes. yes. let us table this to commission's matters to have a discussion. >> of course, thank you so much. >> thank you. we are ready for the presentations. certainly welcome lauren hall and salvador, i don't want to miss pronounce your last name, so if you pronounced it for the public. >> menjivara. >> okay, i'll get better, thank you for you two and i like the

partnership for presenting this. >> thank you, for allowing us commission. i think that this is going to be one of the most important topic house, i'm the director of housing dwi, sal val dor, i've been with the department for about five years, partnering with nonprofit organization to see provide housing for unhoused people. many are resident, residents that just a few days ago, used to be homeless, some of them have been homeless for five, ten years, many of them, face many challenges from, medical health, physical health, mental health and because of what the philosophy of san francisco, housing first, we move people into housing right away. there is no waiting period, people toent have to go anywhere

, people go straight to housing and we're proud of that. i believe that one of the most important things about in this topic, when we talk about permanent housing, there is a great level of agreement between the department and providers. i feel extremely proud to say that providers have demonstrating an incredible commitment to keeping people in-housing. and they have gone beyond what should be asked from housing providers given the resources. given the entry, is that we have been able to target and place, people who have been chronickly homeless for many many years with many challenges. so the level of accuity has increased over the last since entry came about.

i just want to provide that as a context because i think that is important that we realize that. because this is such an issue with people of housing, this presentation was put together by the department with, with our providers. so i'm going to let lauren explain the information and then we're going to share the presentation, but most of it is going to be lauren. >> thanks. i'm lauren hall housing co-chair. i know that we all participated in supportive housing tours, and review in the last commission meeting. so our hope today is dive deeper on some of the challenges and sort of threats to stability in supportive housing since we want to ensure that this model is able to do what is intended to do and to

really make homelessness a an issue and once you're in that paths out. the next slide has our member list. we are, represented of the majority of supportive housing providers in san francisco. our goal is to create a supportive system where all are equally seen and heard and we believe that addressing homelessness requires access to opportunity particularly for marginized populations. i think housing retention is like the number one goal of all the supportive providers in the network. but the transition to supporting housing can be challenges, it's a new environment, there is new people and there is a lot of expect as including paying rent, managing a household, preparing meals and moving away from a daily survival mode and into living for an community.

for some people it's an amazing experience, people are ready and for some people it's really traumatic to change to leave the circumstances that you're accustomed to, to engage with services to have neighbors as commissioner, aslanaii-williams mentioned. to have a place for people to recover and grow it takes an incredible amount of work for the staff to be successful. i think you're going to share a little bit about, these. >> yeah. commissioners, one with reasons we wanted to put this presentation together for you, is to let you note that right now, we have what we consider a very low rate of evictions given the population that we have. about 1.2 percent.

now, there is one aspect that you take away, we're worried about the future in 2023, so i want to share with you some of the what we see, some situations that we have to taken some measures to address. but it's important because we're going to need your help. in 2023, for example through our new system to report critical incidents, we have over 500 incidents where there were threats of violence, or physical violence against other residents or during the calendar year 2023. during that period of time, we had 224 property destruction

happening in our 150 buildings and we had 10, situations where there was sexual assault. over that period of time also, at this point as lauren mentioned, we have about 30% of residents have not being paying rent so if they can incredible toll of number of situations. and about 40% of residents who are in the segment of not paying rent, have not have decided not to apply for rental relief, meaning that the manager have gone to them, you can apply for a program where you can get rent relief but for the 40 of them said, i'm not interested. so we think that, you know, we have done an incredible job keeping evictions very low but we have concerns about the risk of increasing of he vixz and we want to make sure that you're

aware of the information. we're going to tell you some of the steps that we're taking to be proactive and to decrease that possibility. >> thanks. i think we wanted to walk through the process, not be laboring this process too much. eviction is as salvador is a rare outcome but there are a lot of folks who end up in a housing retention challenges way or opportunities for them to kind of learn how to live more independently in supportive housing. so folks the role of this onsite housing staff is to note these challenges and do out reach and then if all elz fails we get to the point where there is a legal process. there is a lot of work that happens, it sort of starts out,

you'll see with some informal reminders, there would be by desk clerks or witnessing behavior that may be in violation of the lease or, you know, against what that resident may be indicated or their goals. so the goal is really to engage with folks at that moment, whether it's through community out reach, one on one out reach to get people engage on how you curb that behavior. there is a lot of rules around the visitor policy and people need to need time on how that works and that kind of thing. and then, if the behavior does not change, it can sort of process, can escalate to a lease violation, one of my staff members calls it a love letter, she goes, i just want to make sure the resident knows what is going on. to they connect with resident

to see talk, property management is also trying to out reach with folks and if we're not successful there, it can escalate to higher levels of enforcement. maybe the resident does not want to engage we're still trying to find more creative ways, can we get them to participate like in a morning breakfast where somebody can say, hey, we want to communicate with you. it takes time to get that rapport, so they have long enough time to be able to pay them adequate wage. i think we made a lot of progress but still a fairly high level of turnover and these jobs, they can lead folks to a better opportunities maybe with the city position so we do see people moving on from supportive housing. we are trying in those conversations to really not only address the individual system but look what the system

challenge may be. the hsh staff is participating with us to talk about the more systemic challenge that we're seeing. if we're seeing a lot of folks getting into issues of housekeeping. are there other resources that we can bring in to help support residents and i think sort of individual one size fits all model where people are trying to understand what will motivate the resident and what support they need to stay. we do monthly housekeeping visits so that people don't get into situations where they're unit is in violation of the lease and it's been a long time since anyone has seen it, we're trying to get in there. we offer fix it tickets, we say these are the three things that we want to you clean up. there are times when the property destruction may be different. we often relocate people to address things in their unit. a lost ways that we're trying

to engage with folks in this process. sxl unfortunately, there are times where the majority of the time it works, just to wrap your arms around folks but there are times when it needs to go legal in process, and that there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. so we can go to the ten-day process which i think starts on the next slide. and again there, the goal really is to figure outweigh to see get the resident clear on what the expectation is and get the services that they need. we're often trying to be creative. mediation services make sure that the resident is fully aware of consequences of behavior.

if the ten-day process does not work, it goes to a unlawful retainer and then the process goes to the courts from then on. one of the things that we all try to do, if we see a resident that is we don't believe is going to be unable to respond or not willing to respond, we can contact the social work team and say, if it's my team, i cannot give you any details but we're going to be serving a summons, we really want to you engage with the service folks so you can do out reach, because there may be some residents that maybe does not want to get a team--but partner with the social team.

and then our ultimate goal typically almost i would say at least, the majority of these cases we really want to get a stipulated agreement out of the court so the resident goes to court and there is a negotiation between their assigned attorney and house attorney, our goal is almost always to come up with some kind of agreement where the resident will either engage with hsif origin to pay their rent or stop doing behavior that is negative and be able to retain their housing. the process takes a number of months so there is a lot of twists and turns, there is a time when the resident gets a

level of support and the settlement is easy. there is a time when resident is not engaging with the important. soy guess just to say, there is a very, i think comprehensive process certainly if a resident does not engage with their own attorney, there is an attorney on their behalf. there is somebody there in court that can put the resident in a top position if they don't have the relationship with them. we try to make sure that people have every opportunity to stay in-housing. and sometimes the settlement agreement is a good way to balance, in supportive houses services are voluntary. so you don't want to take somebody's autonomy, so we try to think is there anything that we can put in the stipulated agreement, can we talk about them having services money services.

like is there something that we can put in there and have a little bit of teeth on it so folks can stabilize in-housing. again if people, use that opportunity and are able to stay, there is really not a problem after that. but just to say, every organization has like a pretty comprehensive process here. but it goes by a standard legal process. so i think there are a lot of opportunities really for residents to get that support. and given all of that, i will say, if the residents will not engage, it's tough. and i think that's where we see this percentage of folks that, are very system disconnected usually for very good reasons. so those folks that take up the majority of our time, we're really trying to wrap our arms around those folks and figure

out how do we trust those, really feels like, there is nothing that any of you can say that is going to resonate with me and i am. and community leaders that live there. how do we think about people feeling safe enough to engage with the service team but there are times, where we feel a little bit like our hands are tied and we see there are times where a different setting is different for that person. so we try to, be as creative as we can and there is a number of strategies listed here, i've talked about, but i think, sort of the, i know i'm talking a lot about that but it's hard to emphasize how much we're work to go try to get folks to stay. and i know residents feel they're unfairly put out and i have residents who feel i don't evict people enough, you got an earful that we were not doing

enough to get people to leave. so it's balancing the community need and the limited to have that imagine ikt wand. so i think we've worked directively, could we think things, could we get, we did a lot of great work where we have social workers embedded in the services team, so that people can apply, they can really build sort of building closer relationship to a system where in the path, they didn't have that service. >> just to do a little time check, this is great check we have 28 slides, we have a robust conversation. >> absolutely. so challenges, you've got a long list here, i'm going to focus on 3. heightened accuity, we talked about that. the conditions of supportive

housing sites. that's another issue that we want to chat briefly about and the financial challenges that the providers are holding right now. so the other issues are all worthy of discussion but we do not have time. so when we talk about meeting the needs with resident of high levels of accuity, there is a lot that you know, a lot that we've talked about, but i will say we've seen that number increase which is a sign of success. but it also means that the model has to shift and so, we have the same structures in many cases in supportive housing. more amenities and able to see more robust service teams so we have to think about how we do that. because we don't want it to be a disservice. if we don't have the services to be able to work with them, how do we engage differently.

and i think, the these i'll talk a little bit about particular resident, and i want to sort of put a face on some of this. this happens to be one of my tenant elderly african-american women, first moved into supportive housing in 2006. moved from another provider to my housing in 2017. suffers from severe hoarding, she can get pest infestation in her unit. she is incredibly intelligent. aware of her challenges, she has used all of those peer program, she can give me a masters class on all the services for people who collect. but she does not utilize the services. and for her to keep the unit. she does not trust hish.

she does not want to work with those folks. if we're really worried about the condition of her room, she refuses services. so we end up doing deep cleans of her unit which she is not happy about but will at times allow us to do that. at times, it costs 3 to 5,000 a time so it's not in my budget. i'm concerned that she is at the end of her rope. so i think she is aging, her health is getting worse, these are really the folks that they don't really show up in the numbers in a real way, that is there is a significant of amount of folks that are living like that that if you saw their unit, this is not where they

should be. but the tools can be limited to where it gets to, if i get her 5150, what do we do with this person. so we end up having a legal remedy when that is really not the answer. these are the kind of situations that we're trying to deal with. in a voluntary service model where they don't have the type of service that they use. i think you were going to talk briefly about these additional. >> yeah.

and as you may be a wai, permanent housing was developed with the idea that people can live independently. obviously with services, the hsn, has been able to create a partnership with public health and also with that, in order to have ihss services in many of our buildings, for example, there are 17 buildings where we can easily get services fo' for workers. that's huge, it used to take a lot to get,. it's just because how the communication was structured. now that can be done, you know, really fast. we are deploying the permanent clinical services team for facts. which will provide medical

services, you know, at a lower level medal services, behavioral health. even though this lifetime that rehave allowed the services in 69 buildings, it's actually over 100 sites where we now have those services happening. but even then, we don't have the level of services that we need for some of the people that are in the site. and this is a challenge that we face, right. so we want to make sure that you are aware of that. >> so i think quickly what the folks need, as we talked about, new residential service where they can have daily housekeeping meals things that they may need, we need to

increase the specialized onsite behavioral support and treatment that is available for folks. we talked about a data sharing across providers, you know, this is just a laundry list and each one really requires for discussion but i feel like we're making advancement. but the most important is to think about how do we expand our engagement with residents, how do we get folks with lived experience more involved in developing some of these systems to support them. we want to make sure that this housing can meet the needs and we're trying our best. there are sites that are all brand new and sites that you

know, over 100 years old that are not where we may want them to be. i think there is beautiful community happening in both of those as i operate many of legacy sites myself. i had a resident that was living at the cam lot and really struggled with the shared restroom and he was able to transfer to a new property with his own bathroom and kitchen and i got an email from him, and he said i'm finding the place to find the peace that i'm looking for. so i think thinking about really the impact of this, inequity system of housing, we are really excited that we've been able to invest in the legacy site, there has been funds that have come out through hsh, as we talk about, we think there is probably, you know, much more needed that what we're seeing, so i appreciate that hsh is trying to do that.

we're really thinking more that it would be get something 25 million a year as opposed the 10 million or 5 million, i think there is an incredible amount of unmet maintenance needs that we cannot cover in our budgets. and i think it's on us and the commission to think about what else can we offer for the folks that are living on those sites? can we think of diva nemities that become standards. when we had to move folks, even something as simple as providing a tv in that unit has had an impact from people. i come into a single room where i have a shared bathroom how do i actually kind of find a way to rest and heal when i get in there. the other issue, i think salvador you're going to cover around the vacancies and challenges with that. >> yeah, so quickly, i think improvement, we invested 5 million dollars last year, we

are about to invest an another 10 million focusing on a lot on the next building and ten million to fix elevators. the department is also implementing inspection quality, inspections in all of our units that should also help. even with everything that we're doing. let's see, we are, trying to finish this, so can you forward to the payment of rent, highlights. this is an important piece of information the department issue, non pavement of guidelines to providers. this is important given the fact that we have over 3000

residents that are not paying rent. guidelines are not policies because after consultation with labor, with rent tenant lawyers and city attorney, the city hsh cannot replace the relationship that providers of landlord tenant. there is that relationship between the city or hsh it's between the property manager that this lease agreement between the property manager and the tenant. so the recommendation from all legal experts ask you can issue guidelines, and that's what it is, we collect information from best practitioners and how to go about improving the rate of collection of rent in permanent super housing. go ahead, we got to finish. >> sure, i sorry, salvador, i'm trying to be as quick as i can.

if you can go to back to the high vacancy rate 21, previous one i believe. so just as i i think with the mentioned at the beginning, with 90 days with arrears, providers facing over 9 million in losses which we're holding and that's a real threat to the sustainability, the high rate of vacancies which we made a lot of rate of progress, but there is another 10 million dollars in loss that's providers are seeing from having vacant units. we're seeing property damages and drastic increases. and i think these financial challenges are threatening the sustainability as a whole, sort of need for staff reduction, that can exacerbate the

losses, how do we fund it to sustain. there is one more slide on the recommendations around a dressing the financial instability of providers slide 23, so i think we've been talking about sort of not only like we have a financial challenge but what are the policy changes that we can make. can we require household that's are over 30 months in arrears, hsh expanding the money services right now through an rfp how can we get folks to engage in those who really need it the most. can we look at tenants to maximize their benefits. i have a lot of folks who moved in 60 people in the last month or so, yet many of them are not enrolled in benefits, they've been pulling to have a more

expedited way but how do we make that systemic, so that everybody is getting the funds that they need to be able to pay rent. thinking about damage mitigation polls so, if there are residents that hard on their units, are they alternatives to eviction ?z we would love to be able to make repairs and work on these issues while somebody makes a behavioral change. how can we think more creatively. how can we get the vacancies filled and work with the residents on this does not mean you're here forever. just to wrap up and thank you for your time. i know i talk a lot but this is important for folks to have a good understanding and i think there are a lot of providers

and residents who would like to share more with you. i will say that, the good news is that we're all walking towards the same solutions, we may do it differently and we may, some of us may wish that we have more power. our goal is to really focus on these issues and not put it against each ao, provider versus city, resident versus providers we want to work together. we're concerned about the budget process, for us not getting more funding, really feels like a cut because we're operating without fully funded programs, how do we work together on how to do more in supportive housing. and how do we have on going collaboration with the commission hsh providers and residents? so how are there other way to see do that together. one of my other co-chairs that does not talk as much as i do, but i appreciate what we're

working on. >> thank you. thank you what a fantastic presentation, it was comprehensive and, i actually echo the sentiment of the willingness to work together. i think this is something that i appreciate, that hsh and provider network coming to present together, says a lot about the, the focus on really coming together and finding a solutions instead of always identifying problems but rolling up our sleeves and i can speak in saying that we want to work together with all, who are on the table to go this work and so, that is something that we look forward to doing. >> commissioners, if there are any big pictures items, questions, please ask at this time.

i think there is room to have additional conversations in our future meetings as well. but certainly, if there are any big picture items, please ask. >> i have a quick question. from lauren and thank you for your presentation. in the entire presentation, and you know, again, excuse my ignorance on the subject. i know you talked about the department of public health, i know you talked about behavior health but somehow the elephant in the room for me is mental health. and i don't know if that's a topic we just don't touch? i apologize, if it is. but it seems like, it just needs to be separated, that you're trying to do all of these services for people that are really want the services, that are appreciative and want to move their lives forward and getting together and there are

people that just can't. and they can't, not because they don't want to they just can't. and i don't see the separation. >> i mean i think, just, i'm not a clinician but when i think of behavioral health, i think of mentd al and physical health all of those service that's are needed. for the facts team, for example, the first element of their team was a medical component and now they're bringing in behavioral mental health sort of focus team. we do social workers onsite so it depends on the site of the level of service. that's been a service how do you keep dph at the table while, i feel like sometimes it's something this person got housed and now they're good. and i think so, we really try to collaborate and hsh can

speak to how they collaborate. we try to make sure that we're, still saying like this is not just a homeless issue, it's a mental health issue. how are these folks able to access services. how can we see the data. one of the challenges we've had is there are times when folks move in and get data my service teams may not know the care they're getting, the issues that they be supported on. there is, there is, we make progress but there is still so much more to do to support folks and i think what we really see is sometimes folks who are don't want to engage in the service. so how do we also balance residents rights around new rules of conservativeship and new way to see compel people to get treatment. there is such a sensitive issue and i'm not saying that's simple but there are folks that are hospitalized and they're

doing so much better, i'm glad you're 5150, i hope ooh you can stay with your treatment so you don't end up in that place. so i mean i would say, i think that's a really good point, it was a little, it would be great to have these dph in these conversations and saying how to ensure they're getting the services that they need. >> thank you. >> thank you for the presentation, on page 18, i took note that the big bold lettering, it says shpn estimate that's approximately 27 million is needed in fy24-25 to address urgent life and safety concerns across the portfolio. 27 million is quite a lot, especially if it's increase to line item that is, you know, in

the year that we're looking at cuts. and i want to challenge this group to think about how we're going to tep address that those life and safety concerns? particular. i know some were approved the prior year. they're not in practice release yet. so even the money that had been set aside, has been really slow to come out. i'm wondering if we can maybe, even consider putting a committee together to really focus in on some of the stuff, especially if it's one time stuff that we can maybe put in a request to try to get over hurdle here to really aggress some of the issues that are really on the provider's minds.

>> thank you, i want to say that it was 15 years ago that i met you for the first time when i started to work with mayor lee on homelessness initiative. and a; i can listen to you from the beginning to the end of the day, the way you present, it's refreshing. so i want to thank you for that. and i wish that perhaps, couple of public comment speakers could have appreciated that we do have tremendous leadership in the nonprofit sector and the out liars, are out lieers, the police can easily had some oversight on what was going on over there. i think that we're fortunate to have you leading in the nonprofit sector and really laying out some of these very

serious issues that we need to get attention on policy makers and decision makers actually and the mayor and board of supervisors. i would agree with commissioner evans that some sub set of this body could work with staff in a more informal basis. i was going to ask about ms. johnson, would care court, would that be something that of all offices something that could be part of a solution for ms. johnson? >> you know, i don't know enough about care core, i think the challenge it's really that she needs somebody day keeping and somebody to prepare meals, if she had service that she would be okay.

i think care court is dealing with more acute population, that is unhoused. i'm sorry, i'm not as familiar with that. maybe salvador if you know about the care court piece. >> i can also say. >> or you can tell me. >> i know judge michael beg art is the judge established for the care court trial here in san francisco. and so maybe, we could put something together for him to sit down with us hbn to help us understand. >> we have. >> commissioner. >> we have some coming our meeting this week, next week, so we can understand it better but i appreciate it. were you going to jump in? >> so we'll talk off line. >> thank you, though. and really anything, i understand there is resources associated with care court for additional services, that's what we want to tap into it.

>> i was going say, i worked with his personnel and they're not all the same. so sometimes, if you get the right establish it really establishes the rapport and trust, that, i don't think if finding the right ihs person is key here. >> yes just second to what commission' dufty said, thank you both, so much. just healing to wit this presentation and how thorough and really human eyesing the data, what does this action mean daily. i really took that away, and i feel, lauren as somebody who has been envious, everybody that you put in here, if i can express it, was made perfectly accessible so i'm grateful for that collaboration. and i want to touch briefly on what the commissioner was talking about. and i regular last time, you

said if if this is a slum lord, they cannot get involved, i mean, in an ideal world because i know it's not that simple, what it would mean for it to actually move out, it's such a mess of different issues that cost money in different areas, it's not really financial healthy, you know. i know that's like a huge undertaking, so i don't want to take it off the table like something that could be possible if we're not grinding gears on things that continue to be the same issue like the larger kind of systemic building issues because, at the end of the day, people are exposed to their environment and that is what influences their mental health? right, if i'm living in a moldy

department, i'm going have more issues, i then become more dangerous to my neighbors. so i want to link all the things together when we talk about data and what is going on and the funding. what we can't do is have conversation that disconnect the things. and the ability to connect staff has to do with everything with that environment and reducing the what is causing the accuity to go up. and sometimes it's the building itself. >> thank you. commissioner laguana? >> thank you very much, there is a lot of stuff to reflect on. clearly we need a strong partnership with our providers because without our providers, we're not in a position to provide to the community, we're hoping to serve.

i think all of who engage in this work can certainly feel that heightened accuity level. but i'm wondering, maybe from the providers lens, is there a way to measure this? and i'm not asking to you come up with an answer right now, but linking back to the director's report, i noticed that most of these units that are off line are due to maintenance from repairs

sustainability is overwhelming crush of expenses, keeping the building in shape and up to, health and safety codes. it may be, useful to be able to articulate in an objective way. >> i think in particular around unit damage, my facility staff would be thrilled if we took into consideration, the way the conditions some units are coming back. they send me pictures a lot, so i think if we could track, how many days how many dollars it was take to go renovate some of the units it would be constructive. we have a for person, now instead of taking two days to

turn a unit, it could take two weeks. i would like to look at that, around the individual accuity, i think with the substance use issue, fentanyl has changed the way. substance use has always been using, but the risk of death is so much higher that we need to change how we address substance use in the sites that we really need to think more about aggressively around safety and how to ensure that people survive. we don't support if anyone has removed all of their drywall and we're going to do a whole renovation.

we can expect to feel ex amount more and there is--which is predicting what is going to happen in the future. >> i think, you know, for us, just speaking from where i'm most familiar with, i'm sure my colleagues have. particularly the legacy portfolio, so if you come up with like a major problem in one of our units, there is it feels like it's much more imperative to get the resident out of the building because we cannot afford to continue. and i think if we had a little

bit of discussion, if we had five or ten residents would were a little bit higher on the damages side, can we get in there, can we repair more drywalls could we think about different, accommodations that we can make but not have it come out of our operating funds because that fund is very stable and does not really go out much year to year. and i think, it would just be nice to not have to think about, i have to evict this person because they're costing so much money because of their mental or substance use. that's the trade off, how can we have the flex pool, like if there is a flexible pool that people can tap into. we need to be able to accommodate, but to accommodate and the level of damage that is happening in their unit, we need to have other resource as opposed to going through the city budget modification process. >> so just to make sure, --

~>> we cannot even claim those. if we claimed everything that was eligible, we already can't. >> so just to make sure that i'm understanding this right, you're imagining a pool that is a pool of money that is funded by the city specifically for dealing with damage, regardless of who the provider is? a separate budget item. >> i think that would be interesting way to try it. i don't know that there is enough resources for every building to get a reserve right now. again, i don't know. i would be curious if we looked at it and if everybody can tap into it. that may be more complicated on how you get the money out the door. i do think just having a reserve for, i don't know you tell me how it can be structured. >> we have had those mitigation funds for private landlords. so that has happened before. so there is a chance that we can potentially at least study

the possibility of doing that for housing. for now we have in our budget line items to fixing units and also in case that's it exceeds x amount, you are insurance. insurance are going up. this is a solution that we can look at. >> thank you. and to be continued. this conversation. i appreciate your time. >> can i just ask really one last question. >> okay. >> i'm so sorry. do you know the status of nonpayment of rent issue by chance? >> on the funds? >> yeah, like with what is happening with the nonpayment of rent? >> we've been in conversation with hsh, i'm not sure what the status. >> we're still exploring options and looking at different alternatives, but as you heard today, over 3000 people, several million dollars

we're still trying to figure out how to proceed. >> thanks. >> thank you. we're going to open this space for members of the public to comment on this particular item and given two minutes and then following that with a brief three-to-five-minute break and then we'll have deputy director to come and present the budget. >> so we have yolanda, oh no, this is not this particular item. sorry, this is for 10b. >> okay, any public comment for 10 a? 10 a? and we will move on -- ~>> jordan davis has public comment for 10 a. >> so we have three people standing up we're going to take the three comment sxz then move on to 10b. okay. >> sorry for the awkwardliness, we're getting used to speaker

card which has some issues. i wanted to share since from edc attorney there is a process that the most sinister. what happens is once you're under a behave and stay as they call it. even if you stel staffer to fuck off, you'll be out the next week. also there is no fucken reason why we cannot have uniform policies to balance tenants rights with financial stability. i have to call bull shit and wonder if they have power on the situation. we have situation where they're very inconsistent on how they handle various issues. you should only evict for agrecious shit. but disable gay black man that was evicted. and they cast the shadow and

then you have thc who has tossed me a do sil stoner for my blue die being a fire hazard, or you think one that somebody who thinks they're a drill garjt inspecting magets. maggots. we did it and most of hsp was behind it even when they had to be dragged kicking and screaming. they need to not evict us for bull shit reasons. also i don't engage for tchs, the same way that i don't talk to fucken cops. anything that can get me evicted, thank you.

i was going to come up here to kind of support lauren and salvador and fill-in some gaps, but they did a really thorough job at presenting everything today. just to highlight some of the challenges and you talked about these, staffing challenges, there was a huge investment last year in and staffing and the number of staffing but we're still having a hard time hiring for our services positions. we talked about turnover and that really hurts engagement with the tenants. it's really hard to develop the relationship and develop trust which is really important. one of the big challenges is there are services out there, we talked about facts, but engaging tenants in both on our

onsite and those services has been challenge, a part of that is relationship building. if you told your story once, twice, three times, you're not going continue to do that as you get a new case manager in. that makes it tough. we talked about capitol improvement, excited about investment, the release of the 10 million dollars, i am seeing in terms of what we're plan to go put in, there is not enough money at least for us and that does not include the other providers, so more is definitely needed and i want to see continuous investment in the capitol improvement funds. it came up about the elevator funds, we keep hearing these are coming. we really need those. i think it was two years ago that the funds were, released and we still don't have an rfp, we have elevators that really really need help. thank you. >> thank you.

>> speaker: good morning, commissioners charles director of dcf. i don't restaurant to be labor the points. evicting goes against counter. high accuity and our ability to recruit and train staff to address our capitol needs, of course our portfolio, all make it a challenge to deliver our services that they need to be successful and remain in psh with the cost of non rent payment rising, we find ourself in a situation here. i also want to encourage you to ensure that this item remains a priority. and i also want to say that we

tend to focus on adult portfolio. myself and a few other providers have asked for a meeting to look at units that are vacant and have been for a long time. we have a lot of conversation buzz the need. there is capacity and let's figure out how to get that process speeded up and get adults moved in. >> thank you, thank you. you have a comment, come on. >> speaker: hi i'm caren i work with homeless people, thank you for the preparation for this presentation and for you guys asking for it. as a former housing provider i'm speaking from that experience and as somebody who works with chronickly homeless used who have high accuity, i didn't come fully prepared to say this. but i just want to bring in to the conversation the levels of

accuity and the violence that is being named to the experience in the housing portfolio. it's something to be expected. often violence in these programs and what i experienced in my program, is trying to communicate an unmet need, to which there were many that we were able to provide. and this has to do a lot with ratio, and these are all things that contribute to what we're seeing. and as we start to figure things out, residents are, going to be penalized in the meantime. so i really want to, acknowledge that violence is a reasonable response to experience mental health needs.

what would it mean to towards that to hold it instead of others want to go police it, want to go private security it, what would it mean to turn towards that response, there is fight, can include violence. how do we embrace and help these people heal that choose, yeah. those behaviors, thank you. >> thank you so much. thank you for your comments are there any remote? >> there is no callers in the queue. >> thank you, we're going to take a three-minute break. three minutes to stand up. >> how about five? some of us are old. >> okay, five minutes says my vice chair and then we will look forward to our chief of finance and admin to present. thank you. we'll return how >> okay, all right.

>> good morning, commissioner, i'm gigi chief of finance and administration for the department and i'll be walking you through this discussion item to the mayor's office for the fiscal year 24-25 and 25-26 departmental budget. i wanted to start by thanking our finance and budget team lead by finance director lisa agustan and christine roland, our principal analyst reyna and our grants compliance analyst emily, thank you to all the staff, program staff, and he quit staff and every one cila for all the input and great ideas on what has been a challenging budget process so far. and i expect we'll continue so

but i really appreciate all the creative thinking. so, what was the budget development process that was before you in january, we held since then, a meeting stakeholder input meeting on february 7th with our provider network i'm here to present the budget and we'll have on going discussions with providers and advocate throughout the budget process. as i presented last time, i'm not going to walk through the slide again, where are we, the city has a significant two-general fund deficit, revenues are conditioning to decline and we have slowed a no-growth in our major tax areas, the city has been balancing with one time solutions and those are anticipated to be exhausted, we also are seeing increase cost for healthcare workers and many of our unions are in labor negotiations this year.

so with that, the mayor's budget instructions were to propose a 2-% general on going reduction for hsh, that equates to 27 million dollars and a 5% contingency reduction equivalent to 13 additional are needed. hsh are trying to keep our current programming in place, we have been prioritizing you know, under spending within the department to see what we can reallocate within the department also looking at our federal and state resources to see what we can leverage as well as continue to go collect and prioritize request, even if we're not able to fund it right now, that if additional funds are available, that we are

going to continue to prioritize funding for critical services. one of our largest revenue, sources in the budget about 30% of the departmental budget is the homelessness gross receipts tax known as our city our home fund, that tax is also forecast today have a significant shortfall, the november forecast by the controllers office showed 134.3 difference from what was budgeted between fiscal 23 and fiscal year 26, hsh share of that is about 75% or 1100 million over the three-year period. this budget proposal assumes you know, no programming reductions right now, we are anticipating updated revenue projections from the controllers office and we'll be

presenting our final balancing plan on march 28 to the ocoh oversight committee. next slide. so our proposed budget shows year over year reductions, most of that is due to as you can see, declining revenue sources. so the adopted was 113 million that is being reduced to 189.8 million and then the subsequent year of the budget it goes down to 26.5 million. as i said most of that and i'm going to walk you through a revenue slide, because of declining one-time state revenue sources on the order of 32.6 million and then growing to a 69.7 million dollars reduction of the year two of the budget and oocoh revenue

decline. you see a decrease 8.8 million and 5.8 year in the second year, our funding is relatively flat but i did want to note that this increases is really a reflection of the cost of doing business for the community base providers that was done in the budget and we have assumed the cost of doing business increase for all providers in the year budget both in 25-26, excuse me, 24-25 and 25-26 so both of those three percent reductions, 3 percent in one yae, another 3 percent increase in two years, costs the general fund about 14.7 million. so we're trying to propose a departmental budget that meets target, balances a lot of revenue short falls, not just general fund but also doesn't, you know, further impact some

of the comments you heard earlier from our housing providers network about, you know, not continue to go keep pace with cost of doing business, i'm proud to be able to say that today. next slide our proposed budget, we're still in final balancing, we'll be balancing up to through the weekend, so these numbers will shift in the final balancing but you'll see sort of the year over year changes and our expenditure sources. so a small increase to benefits, that are being fully bunded in this year's budget. the reduction in hsh programming is the resources falling out, pretty much status quo for professional service

sxz capitol. capitol sources for materials and supplies and a small increase in what we call work orders and departmental services. this shows you the proposed budget by service area, you'll see most of our resources are contracted to cbos and 60% of those really go to, you know, increasing housing but also maintained people maintained in their housing. our shelter and crisis interventions are about 19%, about 9% of our budget is homelessness prevention, 2 percent out reach and 1 percent coordinated entry and about 1 percent is department wide cost including these work orders and 8% is salary and benefits.

and this budget is not showing, we're not proposing new services or service enhancements per se i think so in the past there has been how much of our budget goes to families, youth, adults, and those percentages are what they were in the adopted percentages, 9% youth, there is a blend of services like out reach that served all populations, but the majority of our funds are concentrated on the adult homeless population. next slide. so as you saw in the previous slides, our revenue right side declining significantly there is budget to budget 19.8 million and prop c funding and 13.4 reductions. you saw on the previous slides,

we were talking about magnitude, that's really because the budget is being balanced by a revenue target so some of that is revenue loss is assumed when we start entering the budget in. the, we also have been reliant over the past five years or so on the state's homeless housing assistant prevention grant. this is our youth expansion, overdose prevention, equity goals, planning, we put a lot of thoughts into this. the hf4 grant is going away in our budget. we do anticipate our state, 43.5 and each have funding but that revenue source falls out in year two of the budget. i do want to clarify that does

not mean that all programming is going away, they're on a five-year period so we expect the h happen fund to go last through fiscal year 26-27 with this new grant. we're also, we have applied for a third resolution fund grant. and these have been really critical in standing up new emergency programs expanding our out reach et cetera. we're hopeful that we will get the encamp resolution fund grant and are going to program that for the new site out at gerald. the last piece of revenue sources, sort of flag for you is everything what is called cal aim which is a bit of a so.

cal. aim is the program that is it's called california advancing and innovating, the state is making to transform medical, making the program a more client centered and on health and, you know, helping is healthcare. so we continue to be a partner with anthem and the housing san francisco health plan. this cal aim funds are not yet covering our costs the city is still subsidizing our costs but you'll see h ship which is one incentive program and i hip which is another cal incentive program, we have been aggressive in going after those funds for things like ada improvement and our psh, we're replicating the oak dale model from alameda county which will

allow people in psh to better place. that contract will be coming before you in april. and so, there may be more small pots of money from cal aim out there. but right now we're trying to implement if we're going to get to a level where they're going to start covering our cost. we have launched navigation services and we plan to launch housing stabilization and housing deposits as a way to serve our community better. okay, i'm almost done. next slide is how we met target. general our general fund reduction was 27 million with additional 13.5 million in contingency reduction. the first line is, and we were

instructed by the mayor to not close shelter beds to try to keep our expanded shelter system open. so the first strategy is to try to get the cost down and this 295 congregate beds and going out with rfi to have a master lease model and we think that we can reduce ten million by plugging this into a more traditional model of funding. we've identified some one time, it's called eraf but it's general fund savings in our budget. i mentioned the encamp resolution but also some of the

care court funding is assumed in this budget. and then we've been thoughtful and precise as we can with identifying general fund budget savings without impacting, current programming and service levels. so that means trying to move some contracts into other funding sources or money has not been spent down year after year, let's say a three-year period trying to align those to the on going funding level we think can elicit 4 to 8 million dollars. we have not identified specific agreements but just looking at the structure of the budget, we would be looking at more of those three alignments, again, we don't want to propose programming reductions and we do see a higher level of higher spending year after year. how can we continue to right

size contracts to match the current levels while we're maximizing the other funds. it will be a conversation with the mayor's office if they want us to reduce further. and year over year, these are partial potionz funded this year, as a very large attrition card. it's the position of the department that we need to these positions to be able to rollout programs as quickly as possible. i think there is been a discussion there is a direct direction to our staffing level and vacancies and some of the tolls we need to be able to work efficiently. this time last year, we were

before you with 4 vacancies, rereduced that. we have a real world impact, we also needed to identify salary wavings as part of the mid-year budget targets and we identified 765,000 in the savings. and next slide. just briefly we did put in a proposal to the capitol planning committee, we've been working with the committee for many years on renovating and rehabing our legacy shelters, 1005 polk, we're gearing up for the november 2025 bond where we would put the projects to rehab those. this is to keep some of the predevelopment work going until the bond passes.

so i wanted you to be aware on that. and timeline, the budget is due on the 21, we'll start engaging with the mayor's budget's office, we will be having a separate process this year with our city our homes funds with the up dated revenue projection and then we'll be presented where we are on both spending at the of the end of the committee and later in march we'll be presenting a budget to the oversight committee, june the mayor releases her budget and then we go into budget hearing until the board adopts a final budget sometime in july. so i know time is short but i'm happy to take questions and thank you for your time. >> thank you for the

comprehensive presentation. commissioners, i know there is questions. >> i was going suggest can we take public comment before we ask our questions? >> public comment is in part on our questions, so procedure al, i'm pretty sure the questions. >> let's move forward with the questions, public comment if you have additional follow-up, we will proceed. >> at other bodies, we do listen to public comment, because it informs the actions that we're going to take. >> sounds like we're going to have another meeting on this topic on friday and we'll have opportunity for questions on friday too. >> absolutely. >> take public comment after public comment, i'll have additional rounds if there is any burning follow-ups. >> i have two questions. thank you so much for this and for your work to get us to this

place and to the entire team, i have a question about, the slide entitled proposal to maintain mayor's initiatives to see if i understood it. you have a general fund target which includes five different strategies to get to an overall cut in each fiscal year of 27,000, overall projection in year. and if i understood it right, three of the line items are about to reduced costs and two are about leveraging funds. so there is about 16 million, in this concept of reduced cost to align, non congregate care, shelter beds and first one at 10 million identified eraft savings and then the leverage dollars are, the cal aim funding and the new stage grant funding.

is that an accurate way of thinking about the strategies? >> yeah, one small clarification, the new hf grant yes and we're not assuming new calium dollars but the encampment resolution grant as well as the well care funding. >> thanks so much, that's super helpful. and then in the terms of the reduced costs areas, what i heard you say, is that there is actually no, you're able to do all of this without any problematic service costs. is that accurate. >> correct. we're going to engage with the folks who's contracts we need to realign. there may be additional feedback, but in general, these are funds that have not gone into funds yet.

we set the programs up at a certain budget and level and we think we can continue to deliver service wz a haircut in that contract. that will give us general fund savings. but a lot of solutions here are really right now one-time solutions, one-time savings. there is some, that general fund items that would be on going. but we have been challenged to meet the mayor's instruction, we're doing our best and we'll, we'll continue to work on this as we move into the second year of the budget. >> one last question thank you, when you talk about the cost of

business increases, it's my understanding based on past practice so i'm curious about going forward. is that the 3% increase is 1.5 each year. i don't know if that's the same for this year, that may be 3 percent for each year. and this is just on general fund dollars that nonprofit receives, not on the entire contract. so a contract may be much larger, but they're getting additional increase on the general fund dollars. >> yes and no. so yes, when we talked about the cost of doing business, that 14.7 it is just on the general fund contracts, 3 percent and 3 percent. that said, our department has been at the for front of the conversation. we built in a 3% escalator as part of our budget planning so we have been providing that.

we've been trying to match that 3 percent, but it's not perfect across the board cost of doing business. it particularly hurts our c o.c. funded providers where they have some federal money, maybe a little general fund money. but those are not seeing the same cost of doing business increases. so we're trying to be creative and where we have flexible within other revenues sources like prop c or state funds, we're trying to build that into the planning from the get go. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> >> so my comments go back to what i said in january, voters have been clear and voting data indicates that homelessness is the number one priority of the resident of san francisco to address. so i think, again, we should not be looking for cuts, we

should be looking for making greater investmented as compared to wide resources that the city has at its disposal. i want to reiterate the request for the detailed line item updates on what money has been allocated and allocated and unspent as well as you know allocated dollars. when we look at our see our home data, that most resent information that is available to the public is on our city our home controllers website. and it shows that the last year was 295.7 million expenditure. but the fund itself has over 462 million remaining balance. that's a huge balance. i know that those numbers are out of date and i'm asking on

updated number. i would like to know by each of the bucket and it sounds like i may have to wait until march 28. again, i think has a body we should be looking for way to see make a persuading argument to the mayor's office that this is an area that we need to be making investments sxn cuts. thank you. >> thank you. >> if i can respond because you will get the information sooner, commissioner evans. we're finalizing our six-month projection thz week with the controller, it's their projections, so they'll be presenting for both us and dph this will be presented publicly at the february 27th o.c. oh meeting. so you'll be able to see both six-month numbers and how we have it at least in the current year programmed that savings to really mitigate what would be

cuts so we've used, the savings you see in the year-end report to have a two-year balancing plan. our issue is really a structural issue, how do we maintain that when revenues are going done. down, so that's what you'll see in march. what decisions does do policy makers need to make now to make sure we can sustain what we're rolling out. >> thank you, let me say thank you for your creative i appreciate you leading us and you getting through the budget process. i wonder if i can ask, how does hsh proposal align with the stay spending plan approved by our city our home commission? >> great question. so the tai spending plan approved by our city our homes

oversight committee was adopted i believe in september had a meeting, i want to say earlier this month to adopt the family recommendations and sort of what i said at the time and what you heard me in our department say publicly as well as conversationed we've had with providers is that we have not been in a position to delay those additional our city our homes fund that is recommended by the committee, we have a very large backlog that will be before you and contract approval just to maintain what we're doing. and in addition to that, we had worked with members of the board of supervisors earlier this fall to extend our emergency waiver to better streamline our procurement process so that we were not holding on to all of the, different requirements of

chapter 21 which are enormous and require--and that has been stalled at the board of supervisors. it will be heard again this wednesday but we're not able, you saw in the director's report, we hope to make award, we want to move forward we're doing that as best we can. but i don't anticipate the contract funds getting out the door this year, unfortunately. sthoez those what may be watching, can you summarize chapter 21. >> sure, regulates all procurement in the city. hsh for the last five years as well as the department of public works has had a waiver for homeless services, so not everything we do, like an it contract but really for homeless services, we can enter into a sole source agreement or

do a more a briefed cross, so on our public website, you see that we try to get the money from the board of supervisors, and then move as quickly as we can to do informal solicitation, we can look at past performance but at that as is very different not just what is in law with chapter 21 but the rules requires in terms of so that authority we've known is going to expire in may. and unless we're in contract by that date, you know, we will be out of compliance and need to get back into compliance without this waiver. again i don't want to give you

the impression that the department was not planning ahead, knowing all the needs you hear every month and the need for the department to move faster and unfortunately, that's been stalled. >> thank you. >> i gist want to take a moment, that focused on youth and family homelessness and just to say that according to the san francisco controller's 2023 benchmarking report san francisco has the second highest homeless rate in the nation. and solving homelessness is an inequity, and 37% identify as transgender plus. 37% latin a and hispanic. 40% black community. and increase risk of experiencing homelessness again

as an older adult. solving homelessness is up stream measure that will strengthen for many years to come. this is a deep concern for me and i know for many of you, but i think that i'm going to be as pleasant see pugnacious as possible that we're driving and not let iting go, because it's just too important. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> yes i have a couple of questions, how much are you investing in dps. >> i'll be happy to get that for you. we have many many partners with dph, some are slower rolling out i'll get back with that.

>> that would be great. i'm just going back with the presentation with salvador and lauren beinger that's a theme that has come through. how much, yeah, i don't see, i would like to learn more where dps is at. so just another question, so, you know, if the mayor were not to not accept the 27 million in proposed cuts, how would the department spend that money? could any be directed towards in of the needs that came out of the presentation as well. >> definitely. i was reflecting when i was hearing the comments, because every year, i've been trying to get capitol planning to fund

this, what we've been able to do instead is identify money, you know, that is saved and reprogram that, we finally got some intention alt to fund it with real dollars and but last year and this year, but definitely we have a list of requests short falls and priorities that are not being met. this does not get us further along in our strategic plan. so yeah, we would love the opportunity to sort of reprogram some of these dollars. >> also, thank you so much. yeah, i want to reflect salvador said, being concerned about the future, and i imagine this is one of the places where it's the most strenuous. and root back with all the work that they put in the home by

the bay and acknowledge that we want to stay centered in that vision and how much heart went into that document. so definitely sektding what they said about food. >> can i add a plus one to your first comment about undering of the department of public health funding extremes. >> thank you, commissioner laguana. >> yes, two questions for you. one is, does the budget for salaries and benefits the 45.3 what was adopted and the requests going forward is 28.8. i don't know how, does that include the vacant positions?

>> yes, we do have a attrition assumption in our budget. like i said, it was increased drastically by the board to be equivalent to 18 positions but always about a 5% attrition. so this is, this is the funding to fill the, what is on our staffing plan essentially. >> okay, so if we filled the 247 vacant positions, we would not expect this money to go up? >> if we, this assumes that we fill the 47 vacancies in our spending plan this year. >> 247. >> 47. >> i stand corrected. >> there are 247 funded ft,s in the budget.

>> but the vacants, this also includes the 47 vacant positions. >> yes. >> all right. >> and we've had to, you know, as part of this, we have to share the controllers and the mayor's office, how realistic is your spending plan and ask questions like that. like i said we're interested in prioritizing the stuff. >> so my next question is about o.c. oh the concern is that the controllers projections routinely optimistic versus what we get at the back end.

so i guess, the question i have is can can you realistically, what can you realistically plan for with respect to prop c funds? how much do you realistically plan for. at what point do you become uncomfortable allocating the funds? >> so we are, projecting, the controller's office is projecting 250 million dollars fund and so, you know, we have

been planning for another $100 million on top that. that will be the policy question going forward, that there looks to be enough one-time savings again. but is this the time, our strategic plan says yes, we need to keep rolling out prevention and rapid rehousing services. are we going to prioritize the things. the ocoh committee has with their proposal and what can be scaled down if it needed to be, but that is going to be the conversation this fall.

that is true on the public health side and if the fund is not able to cover that, what is the strajly? >> how much are we signed up for? >> every has a 30-day no fault, the city has the the contract within 30-day notice given their own labor contracts. i think what it says in the contract is different than reality. if we house people and we have a provider running thousands of units, it's not as easy as saying, we have no money, we have commitment to the tenants. so it's really looking at those

areas of the budget where we have not made the long term commitments and that unfortunately can mean, you know, ending programs. but we're not there yet. and there is a lot of more work to be done. >> well thank you, for grappling with this and i appreciate all of your work and we're grateful to have you. >> thank you and amen goes there. and there is a lot of work to be done, as you suggested and we'll continue to have these conversations in our next meeting. i want to open up the floor to the public. just to let the commissioners know, we will not have time to address item c through i and we'll table that to our friday meeting. we do have those, i know our nominated committee has candidates that we need to vote for today and we need to get to

those. we go to public comment and we're restrict today two minutes. >> speaker: hello direct charles direct of dps, there is a lot of work ahead, and it will up to us as commissioners, providers, staff to holdup the needs of the people that reserve and housing, and have the resources necessary to succeed, we're already seeing need in the conversation around here around housing investment, food programs, staff wages, all critical. deeper longer term interventions for homeless and at-risk families who can't be supported by light interventions.

all of these things that we're advocating for and i encourage you to engage with our various providers coalitions we like to work together on the budget piece. >> thank you. >> thank you, and every one is standing up, wishes to make public comment f we do that, if we extend two minutes, we'll run out of time. so i ask that you take one minute, if somebody has said something else, just add to somebody's else comment. one minute. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, i'm xavier blonde i'm with the coalition of homelessness i want to echo what has been said, we know homelessness, i don't have to tell the commission, that it's the number one issue that san francisco care about. and now is not the time, i know people have to make really,

important budget decisions. so yeah, we don't want cuts to homeless programs, we want additional funding for emergency hotel rooms, we don't want these prop c funds to not be spent. we want to put that money to work today and in the way that it was intended. yeah, we want to invest in the programs to solve homelessness and not make cuts. >> thank you very much. >> speaker: hello jessica hernandez, i just want to say what has been said already, not cutting on homelessness. homelessness is a big issue and you know that, and we're trying to try to solve that situation let's work on something that will help people in the future and not, you know, just exit people on to homelessness

again, it will have the same conversation over and over and over and that will be a cycle where you'll see my face here everyday. and i'm going to keep telling you that you need to do something that will help the community and not put them at-risk again. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: i'm mercedes, i work with the coalition of homelessness. i think that we should not cut homeless programs and we need to invest programs that promote generational instability. i entered the foster care system 30 plus years ago, but i was bless today have strong roots in the western addition and that gave me a sense of belonging and now that i'm raising a 14-year-old, it's sad that we're losing our the family structure. we need the structure to

maintain our values in raising good citizens. i'm born and raise here. i want my daughter to understand how well san francisco can collaborate together and support our citizens, the most vulnerable ones. >> thank you. >> speaker: good morning, hespa opposed and extremely concerned about the proposed cuts to hsh budget. they remind san franciscans that homelessness is one of our top priority. so it makes zero sense. how can service providers continue to make real progress if our programs are diminished or cut. it translates into less people shelters, less people housed. less people working and getting well and thriving. this city faces a billion dollars budget that our poorest and most vulnerable residents

did not cause. downtown is not balancing back because tech workers want to come from home. please--not--hezpa providers know ha as a city know we can do better than this. let's start with police and sheriff overtime. >> thank you. >> speaker: so me again, miguel carrera from the coalition of homelessness, yeah, so today, i want to speaking about the budget cuts and budget proposal this year. we working two different directions and it's a problem. because the funds, they want to fix how many homeless and youth. and the budget proposal this year, how we want to working when the mayor is cutting and

we have no enough money to willing to do more housing and supporting the families. would i like to ask in you, to really focusing on this year and building more housing and give you housing to youth and families. so we need to end the homelessness, it's time to do something about that. with san francisco and the budget. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: [speaking spanish >> translator: good afternoon, again. what i wanted to ask is please don't be taking money away from our budget. apec was a big expense.

and from that, they took money out from the funds for nutrition. and what we really need to do is take the people off the street. just like you did to me, not have more people go to the street homelessness. it's hard to live in the streets and a young person and family should not have to go through that. >> thank you. >> speaker: thank you, you service. >> speaker: hello commissioners, i'm selena with the coalition of homelessness, despite the budget, it's hard to make sure that there are no cuts to homeless.

40% of children living below the poverty line are homeless. prop c was intended to be spent on homeless funds. the stop the instability of unhoused population is facing. there are families and children suffering as we speak. i highly urge you all to raise the funds and use it the correct way by funding more programs and supportive services. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: hi jennifer freedom brock on coalition of homeless services. the funds for families and youth housing on ocoh and you willingering that the money hit the streets and that we put it to work. we have a 14 billion dollars budget in san francisco, it's a massive budget. yes, we have a deficit this year, it is not the biggest

deficit i've seen and there is also a tremendous amount of waste in that budget. that has grown exponentially in way that's have not, addressed the core issues that san francisco is facing. so homeless is an issue, and say, we need to put this money in the street and do more than we're doing today. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: karen again for home alliance, i want to you stand tall and stand brave fight back for any budget cuts to the homelessness. at homelessness alliance we have a memorial wall that we have put up this year, to honor those young people. and many young people, why

saying, help me, help me before i end up on that fucken wall, we cannot cut, we need to invest more. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: thank you, i heard a lot today. and i want to talk about the budget, do whatever you can to go ahead and save the budget for the homeless, we cannot operate without it. i'm a homeless guy, i came here with my back back today. we need to make it safer for people like me. we need to make it safer, we've got to get security, we've got to get in line, we've got to get in agreement, information you know what i'm saying? so i want to encourage you to my, you know, however i can, you know, just go ahead and work on that budget, make sure it's a lot, make sure it's

good, it's tieded up and deliver, deliver and let's see the end results. let's not just talk about it. >> speaker: hello i'm kelly, and i want to talk about item 11, general public comment. but i had to do with budget as well. >> this is strictly budget. okay. >> speaker: i know, but this also has to do with budget honestly. anyway in response to what bevin dusty was saying about va lens a and the count,; nor people who lived on that street and, a three-block area of 26, where the sweep was also

suppose to be. to sweep the three people and their things, six police members and one fire department person and incident commander a total of 14 city employees, the three people who are being pressured to hurry and sort and move things as quickly as possible said that dpw was going to take their things. better way to save their money. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much for your comments. commissioners there is a lot more conversation that we will have around this and we will table a lot to friday, so i don't think you to think that nothing is going to happen but we do need to move forward,

just to respect people that have come to be nominated on these commissions. commissioner evans do you want to introduce. >> do we need normal approval. >> we're going to go c through i and table it to our agenda for friday. maybe i shouldn't have asked the question. >> can i ask a question about friday. are we continuing this meeting or scheduling a new meeting. >> special meeting that was strictly for the budget but we do need to review and approve contracts. the reason i think i ask is i

think it has different requirements but i differ to other that know the brown act better than i do. >> if you continue this a agenda, this agenda still describes what we're discussing. i never went to law school, we can get back to it. we can go ahead and move to our action number 12 and then our attorney will follow-up with us. i do have four minutes and i do have an item. >> i will go ahead and specifically say that we have four candidates before us, hopefully you had a chance to look at their application materials in the backet. charles seat 5, pastor doaner,

seat 7 for the shelter grievance advisory committee. and then two candidates for the local homeless homer and daniel mchave a for seat 8. i urge you to act on the last two as we're having difficulty meeting quorum. >> can i make a motion to approve. >> make a motion to approve. >> i second. >> there is a motion to approve the candidates as described by commissioner evans, and it's been seconded, can we take the roll cal. >> i think we need public comment. >> yes, and we need public comment but we have two minutes left. i'm certainly, i would like to have both comments. >> i just as a member of the nominating committee, i want to commend chair evans for rebust public comment throughout and participation in the community. >> wonderful. >> seeing none,. >> seeing none can we proceed with the vote.

>> and there is none online. >> commissioners please respond with na or aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. n.commissioner evans. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> motions pass. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. >> look forward to working with every one who has been nominated and approved. commissioner dufty, commissioner laguana for going your report. >> yes. >> okay, so this leads to us our commission matters and i want to turnover to commissioner. >> thank you, so much mr. president. i submitted, i shared with colleagues a resolution that i'm going to introduce today's meeting. i welcome cosponsors, to the points that were made by the members that testified.

our city budget 4.6 million dollars and as you know there was a mid-year budget 200 million that was provided to homeless and transitional youth. this is not to start a new program it's to allow, and hasba has reached out and identifying three providers that could provide pantry services and meals to individuals who are young who cannot meet their own food needs. we know that the snap program emergency allotments were ended in 2023 which created a hunger cliff. and again, i think it has been seen, i would absolutely welcome cosponsors and i would ask these decisions with made in realtime right now and i think it would be really important that young people that we show that this matters, that this really does matter and this is truly decimal in

the overall conversation of a 14.6 million dollars last year. >> i would urge the chair to agendize the proposed letter for action on friday. >> yes, thank you. >> duelly noted. >> thank you. >> turnover to our attorney, is there any updates on our friday meeting in terms of our agenda, et cetera? >> okay. special meeting, 72 hours. [speaking away from mic, low audio] [inaudible]

>> noted. okay. >> noted. >> can i ask a follow-up question. can a special meeting or continued meeteding, is there any provision to allow commissioners to attend remotely? >> [speaking away from mic, indiscernible] >> unless you have covid. >> understood thank you. >> okay, let's discuss friday a time, we have the time frame, can you remind us of the time frame. >> between 12 and 5 p.m. >> okay.

>> we're still on commission matters, so we'll take public comment, so, i will say that i will not be available on friday. i do have a travel, i will not be a available on friday, i have arranged travel but i'm, i yield to you all, in terms of the best time for friday. >> i could be available at after 2:00 p.m. >> i'm available anytime friday. >> so at 2:00 p.m., i can go with 2:00 p.m. >> i'm available anytime. as long as i plan it. >> thank you. >> i'll respond to the commission secretary, it's a little complicated for me. >> so 2:00 p.m. is on the table now and just,? >> yeah, i'm available between 1:00-5:30 so yeah. >> we'll have quorum, okay. >> so 2:00 o'clock on friday is

the time, i just want to open any other commission matters items? is that need to be discussed? i'm going to agenda eyes our contract approvals and also vice chair's letter resolution for vote. any public comment and also, i think that's it. i think that's it. >> i just wanted to clarify, since we had a lot of public comment that we oppose any kits could we have recommendation to advise against budget cuts? >> yes. however, do the other commissioners think about it? >> can i talk about timeliness about the jend. i understand there is urgency around the budget item, is

there similar urgency on the other items that were not on the agenda? >> yes. >> contracts. >> i would say to commission evans point as i understood it, i'm completely in support of what you outlined in your letter, commissioner dufty, but going straight to a vote without an opportunity to amend or upgrade is recommended. >> there would be no reason why you couldn't amend it on friday. >> i can work with the secretary but as long as there is sufficient enough notice that there would be discussion around such a resolution, it could be phrased in a way for the body to amend the wordings at the next hearing. >> great. >> okay. >> but i think that we're talking about a place holder as well for the overall budget.

>> right, so differentiate between the letter that commissioner dufty, vice chair dufty mentioned that is similar to the nutrition program versus the overall budget. >> yeah, at least from my perspective what we heard from so many different people across so many different areas of support, they want to hear that their budget is not going to be reduced. and i think it would be my proposal and i'm going to say it now, to give you time to consider it, it would be my recommendation that we expand the request to the budget as a whole. i understand the particular focus that and the attention that you're trying to draw to tay, that food program but you

know, there are other aspects that are just as important to those people. given the amount of time that the commission has being that grandlar we may be missing an opportunity to go bigger. >> i understand the sentiment all of us, why don't i talk to the attorney and secretary to agendize in a way that incompasses all that we discussed. >> thank you. >> i would like to turn public comment. anybody that would like to make comment. wonderful. >> no callers on the queue. >> thank you, commissioners. i need a motion to adjourn. >> general public comment. >> we already. >> yes. >> no. yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> motion to adjourn. >> okay. >> amen.

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by most people who live here, and it doesn't just affect neighbors without a home, it affects all of us. is real way to combat that is to work together. it will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members all coming together. [♪♪♪] >> the product homeless connect community day of service began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. what we do is we host and expo-style event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. there's over 120 service providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5% -- to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting,

showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> i am with the hearing and speech center of northern california, and we provide a variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. to follow updates when they come into the speech center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. if they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. >> san francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of

waste. bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medi-cal, what you need identification, you don't have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d.m.v., you go across the hall to the d.m.v. to get your i.d. ♪ today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for follow-up service. >> for a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. we have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that today's event can ensure they stay house. many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medi-cal or learning about d.m.v. services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. >> i am the representative for the volunteer central.

we are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. on a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they

find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. we do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. they can bring them into the event as well. we also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. we also have a bag check. you don't have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we

are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [♪♪♪]

>> i came here to san francisco the day after september 11. i have been here since and homeless since when i met erika and claudia and them, my life changed. for the better. why they got mow in the navigation center. >> good morning! >> >> hi. >> this is claudia and aircraftasm how are you. hi. >> they are working doing out reach t. is building trust. and -- finding out what their needs are. everybody who i should be housed that is true. a lot of people don't know how to live indoors and how do we fix that? the number one service this we need to do that is the new vision of the team, is to be a familiar face that is consistent

and reoccur nothing the community. >> behavioral health starts with us and other coalitions that relate. just building the friendships and the resource this is go with that. >> once hi near i better place they will be able to help and support someone else. peers and inspire someone based on the hard work. like a lot of people around him in the castro. >> y'all saved my life getting me up off the streets. thank you. >> if you see someone experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis on the streets call 911. for nonemergencies use 311. you can learn more about the street2024.)

(gavel). >> >> welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am., tuesday, february 13, 2024. >> i'm chair mandelman vice chair of the board and supervisor melgar and thank you, sfgov and our clerk is yvette madam clerk, call the roll. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> domineered supervisor dorsey present and supervisor engardio present chair mandelman present. >> supervisor melgar