. >> good afternoon. welcome to the march 4th 2025 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors.

madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chin chen present supervisor chen chen present supervisor dorsey dorsey present supervisor and engardio and engardio present supervisor fielder fielder not present supervisor mahmood who at present supervisor randleman present mandel men present supervisor melgar male guard present supervisor sadr sadr present supervisor sherril sharon present and supervisor walton walton present mr. president you have a quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk. supervisor fielder is stuck in jury duty so can we have a motion to excuse? supervisor fielder moved by sherril is there a second second by chen and i think i'm going to say excuse her until she arrives. if she arrives and we can take

that without objection. >> okay. all right. >> the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the romita aloni who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the romita colony have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the dramatist aloni community and by affirming their rights as first peoples and colleagues. will you join me in saying the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. and on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at s.f. gov tv particularly today kaleena mendoza who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> yes. thank you, mr. president. the san francisco board of supervisors welcomes you to attend this meeting in person in the board's legislative chamber room two 52nd floor in city hall or you may watch the proceeding on as of g of tv's channel 26. you may also view the livestream at ww w dot s.f. g o vtv.org if you'd like to provide comment in writing you can do so by sending an email to boost s.f. gov dot org or use the postal service. >> send the letter to the san

francisco board of supervisors the number one dr. carlton should be good place city hall room 244 san francisco california 94102 if you need to make a reasonable accommodation request under the americans with disabilities act or to request language assistance, contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, madam clerk. let's go to approval of the meeting minutes. >> approval of the january 28th 2025 board meeting minutes. >> colleagues, we are approving the meeting minutes from the january 28th 2025 regular board meeting. are there any changes to these meeting minutes? i don't see any of them. is there a motion to approve move by walton? is there a second seconded by melgar? and madam clerk, will you please call the roll on the minutes supervisor mandolin i

mandolin eyes supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chin chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor engardio and engardio i and supervisor mahmood mahmood i there are ten eyes then without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented madam clerk let's go to our consent agenda items one through 16 items one through 16 are on consent. >> these items are considered to be routine unless a member objects and would like an item to be removed and considered separately. >> and colleagues does anyone want to sever any items from the consent agenda? i don't see anyone see no one on the roster. >> madam clerk, can you please

call the roll on items one through 16 supervisor mandolin hi randleman i supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sauder sorter i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton walton and i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chen chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor engardio and engardio i and supervisor mahmood mahmood i there are ten eyes without objection the ordinances are passed on first reading and finally passed and resolutions are adopted madam clerk can you take us to our regular agenda unfinished business item 17 item 17 this is an ordinance to amend the planning code to exempt certain types of projects in the downtown area that replace non residential uses with residential uses from development impact fees and requirements to include the

inclusionary housing fee. remove the application deadline from the commercial to residential adaptive reuse program and to require periodic reporting to the inclusionary housing technical advisory committee and to affirm the second determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> madam clerk, please call the roll on item 17 supervisor randleman hi mandolin i supervised for melgar melgar by supervisor sartor sadr i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton walton no supervisor chen chin i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor engardio engardio i and supervisor mahmood mahmood i there are nine eyes and one no with supervisor walton voting no the ordinance is finally passed madam clerk will you please call item number 18 item 18 this is an ordinance to retrofit actively authorize the

department of public library to accept and expend an approximate $1.9 million grant award from the andrew w mellon foundation for the jail and reentry services program term november 1st, 2024 through december 31st, 2027 and to amend the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2024 through 25 and 2526 to provide for the addition of three positions one grant funded full time position class 3630 library and one one grant funded full time position in class 1822 and add mental analyst and one grant funded full time position an 1823 senior administrative analyst at the public library through june 30th 2026 please call the roll in this item on item 18 supervisor mandolin hi randleman i supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sartor sadr i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton walton i

supervisor chin chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor and engardio and engardio i and supervisor mahmood mahmood i there are ten eyes without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call items 19 and 20 together items 19 and 20 are two resolutions that authorize the recreation and parks department to accept and expend grants. item 19 enters into an agreement with b p embarcadero plaza lp the downtown san francisco partnership and the office of economic and workforce development pertaining to potential improvements and renovations at the embarcadero plaza, the sue beerman park and to accept cash and in-kind grants from xp of approximately 2.5 million for design and art project management services and to

accept potential additional grants of approximately 10 million which could include cash grants from the downtown community benefit district or in-kind grants of construction services from b xp for the term through december 2028 seeing no one on the roster madam clerk let's take these items same house, same call without objection these mr. president i apologize i'll just before you gavel down i will say item 20 this is a resolution that accepts an expensive grant retroactively from the california state coastal conservancy for the great highway promenade planning project in the amount of 1 million. >> all right, now let's take that out now let's take these items same house, same call. >> without objection these resolutions are adopted. now let's go to item number 21. >> item 21. this is a resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to

execute the first amendment to a contract for engineering services for an all valley water treatment plant as a nation with cdr smith inc to increase the contract amount by 9.6 million for a total contract amount of 24.6 million and to increase the contract duration by four years for a new term of ten years through february 2030. and let's take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. and let's go to item 22. >> item 22. this is a resolution to retroactively authorize the office of economic and workforce development to accept and expend a $675,000 grant from the james irvine foundation for the northern california apprenticeship network sustainability grant for the term through october 11th, 2027. >> and we'll take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted.

>> madam clerk please call her next item item 23 this is a resolution to approve and authorize the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute loan documents for the permanent financing of 1135 1155 and 1175 illustrate with 1155 lsb llc pursuant to the small science program and the preservation and seismic safety program for a loan amount of 50.6 million and to confirm the second determination and let's take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, let's go to our next item item 24. >> this is a resolution to authorize the department of hhs the homelessness and support of housing to execute a standards agreement with the california department of housing and community development having anticipated revenue to the city in an amount of approximately 8.2 million of project homekey

grant funds to retroactively accept and expend these funds for the acquisition of the property located at 42 oda street for permanent supportive housing and to support its operations for costs incurred march third, 2021 through june 30th 2026 and to approve and authorize sage to commit approximately 8.7 million in matching funds for acquisition of the property and a ten year minimum of operation subsidies to affirm the secret determination and to make the appropriate findings. and we'll take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, please call item 25. >> item 20 five is a resolution to approve an agreement between the city and new flier of america inc to procure for 40 foot and three 60 foot battery electric busses along with spare parts special tools, manuals for training and telematics licenses through a

cooperative purchasing agreement established by the state of washington for 13.4 million and a five year term. >> and we can take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call our next item item 26. >> this item was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee. it's a resolution to approve the third amendment to the grant agreement between the city and brilliant corners to administer the flexible housing subsidy pool program to increase the agreement amount by approximately 19.3 million for a new total amount of approximately 59.54 million to extend the grant term by 12 months june 30th 2025 for a total term through june 30th 2026. >> supervisor dorsey thank you president mandela and colleagues i wanted to provide additional context on why we referred this item out without recommend.

dacian at last week's budget and finance committee we had a robust discussion about this contract with the department and my committee colleagues chair chan and supervisor and gado for background brilliant corners provides housing location coordination subsidy administration and landlord liaison services to support scattered site permanent supportive housing for up to 500 adults in private rental units. however, it has consistently struggled to meet its 75 day placement target averaging 140 days instead. and despite serving more clients it has also significantly underspent millions in funds allocated over the past three fiscal years due to staffing shortages and slow placements. now some of this contractual underperform commences attributable to the contractor. however, it also appears that some underperformance issues are also attributable to the department at least in terms of setting goals and objectives that were apparently never realistic for these types of services. but either way i think this is

unhelpful to us in our role as supervisors to make prudent budgetary and policy decisions. as of last week we are informed that brilliant corners is at full capacity for enrollments with 90 households actively searching for housing. importantly hca is also in the process of re procuring this agreement for this this spring of 2025. as we discussed during the committee meeting, they will be standardizing agreements to maintain consistency across all flexible housing subsidy pools, providers including adjusting the timelines for housing placement. although this contract was moved out of committee without recommendation i will be voting for it to approve it today given the forthcoming procurement process as well as the near-term progress we have seen since the committee meeting. however, i did want to flag this as an item of concern for me borrowing a page from the playbook of budget chair connie chan who i always appreciated for occasionally highlighting similarly worthy matters that are attention worthy of attention for the full board.

>> i think this did merit further explanation. supervisor chan thank you president benjamin. i just want to express that my sentiment and concur what was expressed by supervisor dorsey ,our vice chair on the committee i regretfully want is to say that i think the committee actually has a chair sentiment and that we have a consensus of how we're going to approach items like as such. so colleagues, i urge you to to evaluate in. feel free to ask any of the member of the committee questions should you see any items that come out with our recommendation? it really is actually still a indication that we are in consensus as this item is coming out with that recommendation. >> i hope that you will see less of it but regrettably i don't think that's the case because we are going to be tougher and tougher days ahead. thank you.

>> supervisor sherril i want to add my voice to my colleagues supervisors dorsey and chan whose remarks i will not repeat but i wish to echo these contractors require adequate resources and support to be successful but there must also be clear accountability when agreed upon performance metrics are not met or one of agreed upon performance metrics are not realistic. supervisor dorsey mentioned very clearly that this contract has a 75 day target when in fact the results are closer to 140. based on my personal work in the past i know that those results are driven almost entirely by the fact that individuals who do not actually get placed are languishing longer and longer. in my mind it is difficult to appropriately judge contracts where we have performance metrics that are in some ways impossible to meet and which do not look entirely at the population they are looking to serve. many people do in fact get

housed before that 75 day wait. many people never get housing. they drive these average numbers up. does that mean the brilliant corners is doing a good job? does that mean they're doing a bad job? it is almost impossible to see because of the lack of thoughtfulness in putting together some of the performance metrics in these contracts. we need to have an in-depth conversation on all contracts both new and soon to be renewed and amended going forward. and i want to thank my colleagues on the budget committee for their thoughtfulness in bringing this to a head here today. >> thank you. supervisor sherril thank you supervisors for your comments. it sounds like we can take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. and madam clerk can you please call item 27 and i'm 27. >> this is a resolution to affirm san francisco's commitment to birthright citizenship as a constitutional right and to oppose president donald trump's executive order that attempts to unconstitutionally limit birthright citizenship. >> and we can take this item same house, same call without

objection, the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, can you please call item 28 item 28 this is a resolution to authorize fundraising for services related to immigration lgbtq rights, environmental protection, reproductive rights and racial equity. >> notwithstanding the behest id payment waiver and i think we can take this item same house, same call without objection this resolution is adopted. madame clerk, can you please call our next item item 29 this is a resolution to support the s.f. mta the san francisco municipal transports and agency's joint development program goals and policy to set a citywide policy on the joint development of transit and housing projects to address the s.f. mta's budget deficit and advance san francisco's housing and equity goals. >> supervisor melgar thank you so much colleagues. >> this is a resolution supporting the policy that the mta has developed and passed

recently. as we all know muni is facing a $321 million structural deficit every year in the next couple of years threatening service cuts, fare hikes and the loss of essential programs like school crossing guards. >> this structural deficit is due almost entirely because of the loss of parking revenue. >> over the past decade people have been driving their own cars less parking in mta parking lots less and taking uber, lyft waymo's more. the pandemic has accelerated this trend but it did not start it. >> the joint development program goals and policy unlocks new income streams possibly for the agency in the future by developing the real estate assets the agency owns for revenue generating uses are new underutilized s.f. mta owned land without burdening

taxpayers. this means more of the things we need like housing, affordable housing services for riders, shops, a stronger transit system and a boost to our local economy. major cities around the world have all done this. anyone who has ever visited grand central station knows that riders can drop off their dry cleaning, pick up their dinner, do any number of things that interact economically with the train station and it is really wonderful. >> the s.f. mta owns dozens of properties across san francisco including stations century old backyards, parking garages in lots. these properties are valuable assets that can serve more than one purpose. under this framework we can develop housing on s.f. empty on land helping us meet our housing goals while securing a stable revenue stream for public transit. it's a win win and it will help

our city's economic recovery. by doing this we ensure that muni can continue to serve the public without resorting to fare increases or service reductions. remaining the vibrant, accessible, affordable system that it always has been. and just as importantly we can activate land to create vibrant transit oriented communities. thank you supervisors at soldering engardio dorsi and mahmood for your early support. i want to also thank my committee vice chair for the land use committee supervisor cheyenne chen for her assistance and the in her her amendments to the resolution. thank you so much and i hope to get your support. thank you. much for seeing no more names on the roster can we take this item same house, same call. without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call our next item item 30 this

is an ordinance to amend the campaign and governmental conduct code to update the conflict of interest codes form 700 filing requirements all rights. i think we can take this item same house, same call. >> without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading. >> and madam clerk can you please call item 31? item 31 this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to authorize the tax collector to refund property taxes to the assessee or latest record owner of the property if the amount of the refund is less than 10,000 and there has been no transfer of the property during or since the fiscal year for which the taxes to be refunded were levied on a 31 we can take this item. same house, same call without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading. supervisor jan present

amendment and colleagues my apologies i have overlooked my vote and if i could request that you may indulge me to allow me to rescind our vote for item 28 which i can explain further whenever president vandeman see fit. >> okay. do we need a motion in the second to rescind a vote or we just he motion to reconsider recess that was moved by chan seconded by walton. we can take that without objection. >> yes. all right. so the the vote is rescinded and then supervisor jia thank you, president domain. colleagues, i am going to be voting against item number 28 for the reason previously i voted in support for for this waiver granting to our mayor and city attorney but i am voting against this particular

waiver for assessor recorder. first and foremost assessor recorder walk him towards has been a great elected but also formerly as our great city staff has done really tremendous work during the pandemic related to same costs as a mayoral staff during a very critical time. i don't. now does view his role as assessor recorder again very different role as a independently elected and in a process that is critical time as always but more than ever that he will oversee he and his team will be overseeing a lot of. potentially a lot of appeals from corporation and other entities through the appeal process involving property tax and related matters. so with that i feel uncomfortable to see that he receive and he and his team to receive. pavement waiver that i think

there's even though there's i do not think that in any way there's no allegation of inappropriateness just a perception of it and with that i will be voting no against item number 28. >> all right, madam clerk, please call the roll on item 28 an item 28 supervisor. >> randleman high and i supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sardar sartor i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor wilton wilton eyes supervisor chin no chin no supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey eyes supervisor and audio and video i and supervisor mahmood mahmood i. there are nine eyes and one no with supervisor chan voting no all right the resolution is adopted and then madam clerk do we need to revote on 29 since we took that same house same call? >> or how do we do that?

mr. president, can you repeat that question? my apologies. so we had taken i think we had taken 29 same house, same call . do we need to revote on that or no? no, we do not. great. >> can you call item 32? >> item 32 this is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code to remove the requirement that parking operators certify and report periodically to the city the ratio of their unaccounted parking tickets to total issued tickets for each parking station for the reporting period. >> madam clerk, please call the roll on item 32 supervisor mandolin hi mandolin eyes supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sartor sartor i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey eyes supervisor engardio and engardio i. and supervisor muhammad mahmood i there are ten eyes without

objection this ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk please call our next item item 33 this is a motion to reappoint clinton laufman to the citizen's committee on community development term ending february 23rd 27. >> all right, let's take this item same house, same call. without objection the motion is approved and madam clerk, can you please call item 31? >> item 30 four this is a motion to reappoint cindy f lopez chastain to the early childhood community oversight and advisory committee term ending october 8th, 2026. >> let's take this item same house, same call without objection the motion is approved and madam clerk let's go to our 230 special order. >> recognition of commendations. yes. the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of san francisco supervisor sartor thank you president

benjamin. colleagues today i rise to celebrate samuel a treasured cornerstone of san francisco's chinatown for over 100 years i think we all know there are restaurants in san francisco that are more than just restaurants and samuel is one of those. it represents the preservation of cultural heritage. serves as a bridge connecting many generations in our city through authentic chinese cuisine. many of you may be familiar with the renowned barbecue pork rice rolls with hot mustard and many of you probably have spent some late nights at samuel. during 2020 i had the honor of collaborating with samuel through our north beach deliveries initiative where we distributed meals to those sheltering in place during the pandemic.

samuel has been a second home and a community gathering space to so many throughout our city . this has all been made possible because of the longtime chef david how i want to extend my deepest gratitude to david for his remarkable over 40 years of service to our community. he leaves a legacy of hard work of hospitality and dedication to a craft a very delicious craft. joining him today are his family and his friends jason fong excuse me jane fong, jason julie and stephen lee, our former entertainment commissioner and now port commissioner. and i would like to invite stephen first to make remarks. afternoon supervisors welcome new supervisors.

i just want to say samuel has been a mainstay for us all the way in college. i remember going there that's all the rudest waiter in the world. >> mr. holt took over after that so passed away i had a chance to be with the whole family back in 2012 when the restaurant was shut down. i helped the stave it. >> at that time and i had the chance to work with mr. hall and i'd have to say the reason why i support a lot of the small businesses in chinatown and the hard working mom and pops is because of this man right here. this guy works 12 hours a day. he doesn't stop. he loves the legacy of sam wall and what it means to the community and this is why we support him. i met julie and jason. julie worked there at nine years old after school and jason with their team same time. so during covid when we had the

shutdown and at that time we were running three shifts at sam wall we were still doing the late night dining to in the morning but when covid hit we had to lay everybody off and we were stuck either losing the restaurant again or doing takeout or what we did later thanks to the board and the nonprofits to help feed those seniors that couldn't go out. mr.. hall actually was supervisor then of other what, three shifts and he didn't have to do a whole lot then but then he came back and worked 12 hours again for two years because pandemic lasted too long and we as investors who helped save town will again we really are proud and dedicated and thank you mr. hall and the family. >> it is sad that he has to retire and that we're stuck

looking for a new chef. hopefully. >> but i want to introduce jason hall to julie who is also a nurse and of course mr. hall, a good friend of okay. okay. go ahead. thank you supervisors. all right. and i have the second commendation here.

i'd like to invite rob connolly to come up and i would note that we have been joined by our former city attorney and general manager dennis herrera as well as our former police chief greg sir and i think they may be here for rob. >> so as i was as i was handing out the the certificates to get my colleagues to sign today, they got worried that you might be retiring. >> that is not what is going on here. rob connolly is not retiring but it is the 25th anniversary year since he joined the boys and girls club of san francisco or bgc s.f. where he is president rob received his b.a. from yale university and attended oxford university as a visiting study fellow.

he began working for the boys and girls clubs in 1998, serving two years with the boys and girls clubs of america's relations team in washington dc and then he joined the organization's san francisco chapter as executive director a quarter century ago and then was named president in 2005 during his time with the boys and girls clubs of san francisco, rob has focused primarily on expanding the reach of the clubs to serve more youth and more communities while modernizing the programs and services they provide. he is a prodigious and constant fundraiser for the organization bringing in the money they need to attract and retain top talent and renovate facilities to ensure that youth have safe spaces where they can learn, grow and succeed. he and his team have developed and implemented programs and services that measurably improve the lives of young people focusing on academic success, healthy lifestyles, good character and community

engagement and job readiness with earning potential as president rob currently oversees bgc s.f. eight traditional clubhouses, five school based clubs and camp mendocino, a 2000 acre residential summer camp in the redwoods of northern california . he manages an operation of over 300 staff members under his leadership the clubs have raised up ten winners and six runners up for the esteemed national program excellence award. 16 club youth have also reached the state finals for california youth of the year three three were named california youth of the year and one was named national youth of the year in 2021 rob was recognized with horizon award for his outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the clubs in the pacific region . last year he was recognized with the masters and mentors award one of the club's highest honors. rob played the lead staff role in raising more than $60 million through the club's brighter futures capital campaign and in 2018 under his

leadership the boys and girls clubs of san francisco also launched a $50 million capacity building campaign and they've raised 49 million. so almost there. >> each campaign included new clubhouses, important upgrades at existing clubhouses and at camp mendocino and an investment in competitive compensate asian rob is the former board president and current board vice president for the california alliance of boys and girls clubs which advocates for funding and public policies that support the success of clubs in urban, suburban and rural communities around california. i want to thank you rob, for your service to our youth and our city and to wish you a very happy 20th anniversary of the boys and girls clubs of san francisco and my colleagues are lining up to sing your praises so supervisor welcome. >> thank you so much, president melman and i'm going to be brief but rob one i just want to thank you for your decades of leadership of our clubs.

most of our young people within community have gone through the doors of boys and girls clubs and one way or another whether as has been as members or as young people that you have employed. and so i want to thank you for continue ing to focus on leading our young people to success even so many years later you could go on to do so many different things but i appreciate the fact that you stay there steadfast within our communities and i just want to mention before our schools had the innumerable amount of afterschool programs that they have now located on our campuses, there was the boys and girls club there from the very beginning. and so i appreciate your steadfast, steadfast and committed leadership and of course just looking forward to to continue work with our young people through boys and girls clubs. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. supervisor one supervisor dorsey thank you president randleman and i just i was

actually the supervisor when i saw that there we were signing something for you. i just thought oh no, no i please i'm not retiring and i'm glad that that that you are you are not the only one. >> the other the other thing when i when dennis herrera's name was mentioned and i didn't see him here i thought i might have to step into the role that i'm familiar with of being spokesman for dennis herrera. but apparently i didn't i don't have to do that because he is here. i just want to express my appreciation for the work that you did when i was in that office we had a case that the aimco case where we were able to after a lot of contention find a win win that was great for all the parties. but the boys and girls club were such a part of that and it became the willie mays clubhouse and it was just an honor for me even 20 years ago i remember how proud i was and how proud the office was to be a part of that because of your leadership. so thanks so much. thank you. supervisor dorsey supervisor melgar thank you.

i was also one of the folks who was just like oh no worries me going so i'm glad we're just celebrating your time. so before i was elected supervisor i was the executive director of the jamestown community center and collaborated with your staff and i have to say two things about your leadership that are so amazing and important. one is a culture of collaborative ness that you have instilled with everyone in the agency so we had tournaments for girls got goals inside your gyms. we had all kinds of you know, trainings for youth develop ment and trauma enforced practices and everything. it was just such a wonderful thing to see all of the people in the community working together for the young people in our community and doing it with collaboration and love. so that is something that comes from the top in you have like created that culture and i am

so thankful. and the other thing that i always admired was the amazing training that your staff had. so it was always that full and intentional, culturally competent and deeply community rooted and for that i also thank you so much and i'm glad you're not going anywhere so congratulations. so well-deserved to have this recognition. >> oh, all right, rob, it's your turn. this one and that one. this one. all right. >> well, supervisor thank you. that was super kind of of all of you supervisor amanda and thank you for thinking of doing this does sound like it's something that happens when you retire so now i'm not quite going anywhere yet. i do there probably are some that are ready for me to move out of the way so they can move in to the seat but i am grateful to be recognized in front of you all in this steam chamber and i just want

to thank all of you. there's several of you have been out to events at clubhouses recently including board president abandonment supervisor field supervisor chan supervisor walton. we've had these clubhouse youth the year events and then we are main youth of the year event downtown president and thank you for coming to that. the mayor came to that as well as well as supervisor jen so we love it when supervisors come out our families love interacting with you all at the clubs and seeing the support that that leaders like you all extend to the community. you know, i think a lot about the the type of services i deal with boys and girls clubs across the country and there aren't many cities that invest in young people the way this city does. so kudos to all of you and your predecessors who sat in these seats for the work you do to empower dcf to do the work it does the collaboration. it's really been through a lot of mayors in those 25 years. but but as much as you know,

there may be you know, back and forth bickering on this or that between between the mayor's office in this chamber it's not about kids and i feel like there's pretty good alignment around the fact that like there should be a city in which we we have great services for young people and opportunities for for kids to realize their full potential and that of course aligns very closely with, you know, what we're after so thank you for your investment in young people. thank you for that. how that investment shows up so that boys and girls club can do the work that it does. supervisor dorsey, thank you for calling our attention to the willie mays clubhouse. supervisor walton's been up there many, many times. that is a project that i too am very proud of for now. we've been there now since 2000 late 2005 the building was finished renovated in about 2008 and and really has had a strong impact on that community. and then this year we opened up a new club in sunnydale. supervisor walton, thank you for all your support and making that club happen. the transformation of sunnydale community, the housing in particular for people there is truly impactful but our

partnership with mercy housing and and with wu yi out there and the opportunity to provide services so that it's not just housing but it's services that can help young people learn, grow and succeed is is so important. >> i'll switch to some some remarks that i wrote down here. i'll say that running boys and girls clubs of san francisco in this city has really been one of the blessings of my life. >> the work has never been easy but i've loved every day of it. >> i feel lucky and proud to have served this storied organization which i'll talk a little bit more about in a second. >> i feel lucky to be able to open doors and build bridges and expand horizons and exponentially grow kids confidence in the skills that they have. speaking of which, i should introduce this little girl right here. this is my youngest daughter amelia who would probably rather be any place in the world but in front of you all. so if you want to go back to mom, feel free to all right, stick with me. >> i'm i feel lucky to be part

of moments where families are kind of bursting with pride when they see their kids achieve things that they perhaps didn't think were attainable. and i feel lucky to work with an outstanding group of staff members who are smart and talented and hardworking and passionate about making the world we live in a better place . >> while most people know boys and girls clubs of san francisco, not enough people truly understand the depth and breadth of our services boys and girls clubs is a rock solid organization with a passionately held set of core beliefs that keep the bow of the ship pointed in the right direction no matter how much the political social or economic winds might blow. the organization was founded in 1891 south of market street. we hold the unique distinction of being two of the original 53 clubs in the country. we're actually older than boys

and girls clubs of america. our mission clubhouse and supervisor fielder's district is the first boys and girls club built west in the mississippi river back in 1928 was rebuilt in 2010. this organization is stood shoulder to shoulder through all sorts of things two world wars and you know, two global pandemics great depression, the great recession just one thing after another september 11th this organization has stood with kids through that time. this club this organization is one of the very first to serve kids across the country, one of the very first to open a club in public housing, one of the first to have a computer center back in the early 1990s we reached 14,600 kids a year and as you heard we serve we have 13 different locations across the city and we have a summer camp up in mendocino county. >> so while i appreciate the personal recognition of my contribution to the city, this

has always been a team sport the smartest and the best thing that i have ever done is to get and keep talented people around me. >> staff like maxine wilson, lisa rossetti, harold love, heidi colfer, joanie lockman, aaron gutierrez and colton eichelberger have all worked alongside me for more than 12 years and i have been fortunate to work with a talented and generous board and trustees and i'm honored today. ready attention has been called to some of them to be joined by my friends greg sir dennis herrera, derek brown and david know yola who all have been tremendously helpful the boys and girls club and have served this city with distinction. >> and i'm also honored to have my friends rocky freed and fernando aguilar and sanjay banker who all serve on our board here with us today. >> finally, i'd like to thank my wife and her two daughters, one here for all their love and support. as you all know from your own roles, this is a demanding job and they sacrifice so i can do

this work again. i want to thank you all for the honor. i particularly want to thank you president amanda lemon for calling attention to my service . i truly appreciate the recognition and i look forward to working with you all to continue to advance opportunities for young people in this city. >> thank you. i can do this great.

all right, colleagues, let's go to roll call first member up to introduce new business businesses. >> you mr. president my goodness. >> all right. i have an ordinance and two in memoriam first today supervisor walton and i are introducing an ordinance to amend the healthy airport ordinance which was passed by this board in november of 2020. since the healthy airport ordinance passed, thousands of san francisco's airport service employees have gained or improved their ability to provide for the health care needs of their families.

>> these improved benefits have helped attract and retain high quality employees whose work impacts safety and security improved airport safety and security for travelers in the public by promoting a healthier workforce and minimize the potential for contagion to spread from the airport which is a major worldwide transportation hub to other environs. the purpose of the amendment we're introducing today is to preserve the improvements made to airport safety and security through the healthy airport ordinance while providing covered employers expanded flexibility to determine how best to provide health care expenditures to their employees. i want to thank seiu, u.s. ww local two and teamsters local 856 for their feedback on the legislation. i want to thank city attorney in the last off for his work to draft the legislation i want to thank supervisor walton for his ongoing partnership in getting high quality health care to our airport service workers and i want to thank on hire in my office and natalie g and

supervisor walton's office for their work on these and on this amendment. first in memoriam i have is for david hagan who died in a car crash on february 9th at the age of 72. dave was born in san francisco in 1952. one of four children he attended the st theresa's school archbishop reardon high school, the university of san francisco and he earned his mba mba at golden gate university where he remained actively involved in alumni activities. >> he started his career with a job at chevron usa where he worked in the retail marketing and training division. later he launched his own business the castro street chevron which is still in operation today. dave later opened gas stations in westlake and pacific heights. he was active in his community serving on the small business commission and actively participating in the san francisco chamber of commerce, the merchants of upper market and castro and the friars club . castro merchants president terry austin bennett remember david as someone who was

passionate about the community and quietly did everything he could to support it. he was only allowed when he needed to be notwithstanding all of his community involvement, dave made time for his family and friends. some of his favorite activities were dining out with his wife lynn coaching his children's sports teams, traveling the globe, cheering on the giants and playing with his granddaughters. rest in peace david sagan may your memory be a blessing. >> then secondly, i'm asking that we adjourn our meeting today in memory of charles phan, the founder and longtime owner of the slant door who passed away unexpectedly on january 20th at the age of 62. >> charles was born into light vietnam in 1962 at the age of 13 following the fall of saigon ,he and his family came to san francisco as refugees as he grew up watching his mom and aunt cook, his interest in food and cooking also grew. he studied architecture and clothing design at uc berkeley for three years before opening a vietnamese restaurant. despite never having cooked professionally prior to that

in 1995 the bay area had already been established as a global destination for california cuisine dishes that focused on simple preparations of seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers. >> however, while there was an abundance of italian and french inspired restaurants that popularized this approach, there were no vietnamese restaurants that specialized in farm to table. then charles opened the original slanted door on valencia street inspired by restaurants like shape in east and zuni cafe. charles created iconic dishes like his cellophane noodles and dungeness crab grapefruit and hikma salad and fish and sauce . carmel claypot chicken made boneless chicken made with boneless skin skinless cuts to accommodate a western audience. the combination of the slanted doors bay area farm to table approach with traditional vietnamese comfort food and its upscale westernized style the service was an immediate hit. in 2004 slanted door moved to its grand waterfront location at the ferry building. it quickly became one of the most celebrated restaurants in all of san francisco and for

a number of years was also the city's single most lucrative restaurant. both charles and the slanted door one james beard foundation awards and charles published two cookbooks vietnamese home cooking and the slanted door. which one international association of culinary professionals awards. during the pandemic the ferry building location closed down. however the slanted doors remaining locations in napa san ramone and and bone france, france, france continue to operate during the pandemic. charles also opened a casual san shop chuck's takeaway in the mission he had planned to bring the slanted door back to valencia street later this year. rest in peace and power charles fan may your memory be a blessing and the rest i submit . >> thank you mr. president. supervisor melgar thank you, madam clerk. >> colleagues happy women's history month. at this month we will be celebrating the contributions of women to our city state, our country, our world in highlighting and fighting

against all the ways in which we are still unequal economically, politically, socially and now face new threats under this current administration. i look forward to this board weighing in to make this a memorable march for women in our city. i also wanted to bring to your attention that this morning the supreme court of the united states handed down a decision in favor of san francisco in the san francisco versus epa lawsuit that was the subject of a resolution i authored last year and we passed the decision as folks in the environmental movement feared was not narrow. >> today's supreme court ruling has confirmed what we feared this was a misguided effort that has resulted in a pyrrhic victory. so while the city and county of san francisco prevailed, the decision will have an enduring and damaging loss for the environmental protection agency, the clean water act and the american people.

>> it is deeply troubling to me to see san francisco, a city known for its environmental leadership, play a significant role in weakening the very protections that safeguard our water and natural resources not just for us but for the entire country. this decision aligns with president trump's broader rollback of environmental regulations and i fear the long term consequences for the environment in the united states and it will be severe. so despite today's ruling, the san francisco public utilities commission still has a responsibility to uphold the highest standards for water quality and environmental stewardship. combined sewer overflows continue to discharge millions of gallons of wastewater untreated into the bay and pacific ocean every time we have rains and we're having more of them more often because the climate crisis is real. we must do better regardless of this decision our commitment to

protecting the environment in san francisco and in our country must remain steadfast. and the rest i submit. thank you. supervisor sartor submit thank you. supervisor sherril collins. >> today i'm introducing three pieces of legislation. first i'm introducing legislation to create an entertainment zone on union street. i am extremely excited about the possibility not only of just allowing businesses to have a little bit more flexibility to serve their customers, to serve their community and just frankly have more fun but also to increase the vibrancy of both district two and san francisco throughout this city our restaurants, bars and small businesses are still fighting to recover. and i think it's incredibly important to note that 2024 was perhaps the hardest year for

restaurants since 2008. and we need to be doing more to help them thrive. entertainment zones work. we've seen them introduced recently by president mandell and we've seen them transform places like front street and thrive city and now it is union street's turn. >> this legislation builds on the success of our union street festival an annual event that brings thousands of visitors to district two and now by establish an entertainment zone during the festival. we want to encourage these visitors to eat and drink at our many lovely brick and mortar restaurants on union street which is going to massively support these shops bottom lines. >> now i've spoken to business owners who are ready and eager for this for this zone and i'm grateful to have the support of these shops and the support of regan company, the head of the union street merchants association who's been a great advocate for the health of this corridor and frankly more energy on the streets benefits everyone. these activations make our

shops a destination and encourages more opportunities to inject energy, energy, energy into our merchant areas by expanding the number of entertainment zones. and i'm looking forward to being back talking on this same topic again soon. san francisco continues to lead the way in supporting our small businesses. this is a simple step. it's a simple step but it's an effective step towards making our commercial corridors stronger, more vibrant and built to last. we simply need to make it easier for to succeed in san francisco especially for our small businesses. and i look forward to working with all of you to make this a reality and to continue to finding ways to bring life energy and vibrancy back to our neighborhoods. next i'm calling for a hearing to examine how the department of homelessness, the support of housing is structuring and managing its contracts. now this is not just a bureaucratic exercise. this is about accountability. this is about transparency.

and this is about ensuring that taxpayer dollars are driving real results. right now hca has roughly 300 contract contracts in place but we don't have a clear picture of how many of these contract include specific performance metrics, specific accountability measures and what the outcomes that those contracts are intended to do drive towards. >> we need to understand whether we are holding contractors accountable for delivering those outcomes, whether those outcomes are the ones we want, whether these outcomes are even set up for success with realistic funding and whether we're issuing contracts competitively or defaulting to sole source agreements that limit oversight and efficiency. we need to invest in programs that are actually moving the needle because quite frankly homelessness as we all know is one of the most pervasive issues in san francisco. every district, every san franciscan, whether it's individuals who are experiencing homelessness or otherwise are impacted by this

crisis. not to say our perceptions of safety or economic recovery and the overall health of this city. if we're serious about solving this crisis and i think we as a group are very serious about solving this crisis, we have to be just as serious about how we manage and evaluate the services we're paying for. i want to thank the mayor's office. i want to thank and the comptroller's office and the city administrator for being willing to join this hearing to answer key questions about the contracting process and performance tracking. the goal is not just to identify issues. frankly, we already know that many of these contracts are being scrutinized. we want this goal of this hearing to be to work together to establish a new and consistent contracting standard moving forward to deliver real results for san franciscans. this hearing needs to be about not having gotchas for the public servants who work so hard for us and for all san francisco. this needs to be about starting a conversation and driving towards a shared success not only on the board of supervisors but with sage as

well. i also want to credit my predecessor assembly member katherine stefani who has long championed this kind of fiscal oversight with a focus on efficiency. without her leadership we may not be in the position to hold this hearing. and i'm grateful for her continued focus on these critical critical issues. simply put, we need a contracting process that matches the urgency of the crisis we're facing. >> and this hearing is a step toward that standard. finally, i'm introducing a resolution in support of the assembly bill five 458 excuse me introduced by assembly member katherine stefani. she and i share deep focus on safety regarding gun violence and preventing gun violence our communities. this this measure will bring much needed transparency and safety to california's firearm procurement process. a recent investigation by brady united against gun violence revealed that california law enforcement agencies lack a

rigorous vetting process when choosing firearm vendors. this means that public funds are being funneled to businesses with documented history of violence violating federal firearm regulations. i want to give assembly member stefani an enormous amount of credit for being create time and time again for pushing the boundaries on preventing gun violence and ensuring that firearm related safety is not just the standard but a priority for all of us. if a firearm dealer manufacturer fails to meet these compliance standards or refuses to disclose their history of federal trace requests, inspection records or compliance appliance violations, their contracts will be canceled. their bids will be rejected. thank you to assembly member stefani for your leadership. this is beyond just sensible gun policy. this is about keeping our families safe. and i am incredibly grateful to you. >> the rest i submit. thank you supervisor sheryl supervisor walton thank you so

much, madam clerk and colleagues. >> today i will be introducing a resolution urging the mayor's office and the department of homelessness and support of housing to explore locations for unhoused shelters throughout san francisco. san francisco has been in a homeless crisis and while the city has expanded shelters and supportive housing, the reality is some districts are carrying way more of the weight than others right now. districts ten, nine, six and five have the majority of shelters and services while other neighborhoods especially in the western parts of the city have very few or none at all. >> this isn't equitable especially considering the concentration of our unhoused neighbors in other areas of san francisco the same communities many of which are lower income and home to people of color keep getting asked to do more. while other areas haven't

stepped up in the same way homelessness is a citywide issue and like my colleagues supervisors sherril just shared a few moments ago a san francisco issue and every district should be part of the solution not just a handful and not just the east side of the city. >> our office has been working with hhs each the last year to implement a 2.25 acre industrial site on girard avenue to build a village of 68 tiny homes with 20 rv parking sites. but our office was informed by the mayor's team that instead of the proposed plans vetted by and discussed with community they now want to do a bait and switch and build a homeless shelter with 200 plus homeless beds and eliminate the safe parking. >> this site was supposed to be hybrid a mixture of folks living in tiny homes and in vehicles and with a much smaller footprint. we also have four other

homeless shelters in district ten including 128 bed navigation center on bayshore boulevard. >> if you could show me the data and the plans for homeless shelters throughout the city as promised then we will be having an equitable conversation. this resolution is about making sure we distribute shelters and provide services for our unhoused neighbors more equitably across san francisco . it's not about forcing something on neighborhoods. it's about asking every district to do its part. we need to have an open community driven process where new shelters sites are placed in a way that makes sense and serves people effectively. if we're serious about addressing homelessness, we have to stop overburdening the same neighborhoods and make sure resources are shared across the entire city. this is about fairness, equity and making real progress on one of the biggest challenges we face here in san francisco.

i also just want to briefly state that i'm continuing to co-sponsor the healthy airport ordinance with president malaman. i want to thank our labor partners who have been in this process with us to make these changes. and i also want to thank president randleman for acknowledging our staff for their hard work on this and the rest. i submit. >> thank you. supervisor walton supervisor chan submit. thank you. supervisor chin. submit. >> thank you. supervisor dorsey thank you, madam clerk. colleagues in preparation for legislation i am working on with board president rafael millman. i'm today submitting a letter of inquiry on the resources necessary to implement a wastewater drug testing program for the city and county of san francisco. we're seeking responses from three city agencies our department of public health, public utilities commission and office of the chief medical examiner to offer us one an estimation of resources and staffing necessary to implement

such a wastewater based epidemiology or wbe program. two additional policy or resource considerations we should be aware of as we legislate this program into existence. >> and three any available results from san francisco's participation in a bio bot analytics pilot that the national institute on drug abuse started as the wastewater surveillance program in 2023 and 2024. this kind of program would enable us to measure progress in our fentanyl and methamphetamine crisis and also to monitor for deadly new drugs and drug adulterants like tranq measurement metal modine and others. although relatively new in north america, wastewater drug testing has been used successfully in europe for the last 15 years and i look forward to the forthcoming information and partnership from the relevant departments and colleagues in this effort. and before submitting i would ask that i be referred after supervisor maclean's introduction.

>> thank you. supervisor dorsey supervisor and gaudio submit. thank you. supervisor mahmood. >> colleagues today i would like to introduce legislation to help bring our into the 21st century. >> i firmly believe that city hall should work for the people and that is elected officials. it is our duty to do all we can to make our run smarter, to better serve the public. >> that's why i'm introducing legislation today to tackle archaic bureaucracy preventing key city departments from accessing data and information subscriptions that would benefit their work. >> with the support from the city attorney city administrator, assessor recorder, treasurer and city librarian, the data and information subscriptions legislation peels back unnecessary approval layers and lengthy procedures that have delayed city departments from securing the essential digital subscriptions needed to ensure city operations run smoothly.

>> this legislation provides simple software access for city departments and empowers them to save time, access more vendors and ultimately serve san franciscans better. >> if we look at the current code this legislation is amending we see it was written in the 1990s when physical book manuals were in vogue. as a result certain departments like the treasurer and assessor recorder are delayed for months every year in purchasing the software they need while others like the city librarian have to provide outdated paper manuals instead of digital content subscriptions to residents who rely on their public resources. >> the current contracting bureaucracy is so cumbersome for vendors that some tech companies won't even bother selling their product to the city. putting our at a very serious disadvantage it doesn't have to be this way and this legislation is simply table stakes. if we want to bring our city into the 21st century and this is just the beginning with this new administration city hall and a collective will for

collaboration legislation such as this demonstrates the public that we are making strides to improve efficiency, modernize archaic code and foster collaborative forward thinking solutions. >> i'd like to thank my colleagues board president mendelsohn and supervisors melgar sadr and sheryl for co-sponsoring this legislation. i'd also like to thank our department head city attorney david chu, city administrator carmen chu, city librarian michael lambert, treasurer jose cisneros and assessor recorder joaquin torres for their steadfast support of this ordinance and for collaborating with my office to address this issue. i'm deeply thankful to the public servants in our city hall colleagues in this city administrator's office, city library assessor recorder and treasurer's offices who provided exemplary service to residents and came together to help bring the solution forward to our office. >> specifically sophia hayward simon j. >> jackson. holly lung. molly peterson.

joe spice teasel shaw. eric manky. angela yip. >> mike fernandez marcus lynge alex barrett shorter and amanda freed. and a special thank you to sam logan and my chief jessica gutierrez garcia in our office for their hard work on this ordinance. second, i'd like to today introduce a resolution that is deeply personal to me as the first muslim elected to the board of supervisors. it is my absolute honor to introduce a resolution honoring the commencement of ramadan and recognizing the contributions of san francisco's muslim community. >> the san francisco bay area hosts one of the largest and most diverse muslim populations in the nation with over 250,000 residents from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. >> in my own neighborhood the tenderloin has been long been a hub for immigrant communities including many muslim families ,small businesses and faith based organizations that provide critical services such as food distribution, housing support and workforce

development to underserved residents. >> it's a home for a significant population of muslim and swanson children who deserve meaningful investment, supportive resources and safe spaces for growth, education and well-being as well as a broader sense of security that allows all residents to thrive without fear or harm. >> in recent years there's been a wider acceptance and awareness of muslim holidays. for example, in august 2022 the san francisco board of education passed a resolution recognizing eidl fitr and as district holidays. and this is important because muslim students in california experienced bullying at twice the national rate underscoring the urgent need for inclusive policies and protections within our schools. >> the islamic center of san francisco has evolved into a multifaceted community hub addressing religious, educational and social needs and local muslim owned businesses including halal grocers, restaurants and service providers contribute to the culture and economic vitality of san francisco.

>> and many of them offering free iftar meals when we break our fasts every day for the next 30 days to those in need during this holy month. >> it's important to recognize and name the policies that target unfortunately during this national times muslim individuals and families which is having a lasting impact on those who live in our city and at this time reaffirm san francisco's stance against islamophobia and all forms of religious discrimination. >> there's been a rise in these concerns regarding immigration and this resolution seeks to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to supporting these immigrant communities especially the immigrants and refugees during this holy month of ramadan. >> ramadan is the ninth month of the islamic lunar calendar. it's a sacred time for fasting reflection, spiritual renewal and communal solidarity. the observance of ramadan 2025 commenced last friday, february 28th and will continue until the evening of saturday march 29th during which time muslims will fast from dawn to sunset

engage in prayer and participate in charity. >> this resolution commands the contributions of local muslim led organizations and community groups and reaffirms the city's unwavering commitment to being a safe and inclusive space for all muslims and all marginalized groups in this district and in the city. >> it recognizes their essential role and our essential role to immigrants and refugees in shaping our history. it acknowledges the increased investment that we should be doing for the well-being and education safety of the muslim and swanson children in the tenderloin. and it welcomes all san franciscans to join in this honoring this holy and blessed month of ramadan. and i'll close on this note by mentioning to my colleagues if i look hangry or tired over the next month it's not personal. >> i just haven't eaten since sunup. so lastly i'd like to introduce an in memoriam. >> and colleagues i'd ask that we adjourn today in today's meeting in memory of mark ezra who passed away in january

after a life of musical storytelling and devoted passion for the japantown community. >> his wife is his wife. brenda is in the audience. she will need to stand while we read the in memoriam. >> mark was born across the bay in vallejo in 1954 and attended san francisco state university. he worked as a van driver for japantown senior organization committee while becoming immersed in the fillmore music scene of the 19 70s. >> mark would go on to be a pioneer in the asian-american jazz movement combining the spiritual and improvizational elements of jazz with east asian instrumentation. in addition to the upright bass, he became a master of the show a mouth organ more commonly found in japanese traditional music that sounds right at home on mark's jazz contributions. >> he toured internationally and frequently collaborated with his wife brenda wong aoki on multi-media pieces that weaved together music dance theater and spoken word

storytelling to share the asian-american experience with generations including the history of japanese internment in san francisco and the redevelopment of the western tradition. >> while his musical influence can be felt across the world, he was a thorough through and through san franciscan. >> his love for the city inspired his music and he was proud to hail from georgetown and the fillmore. he served as director of the san francisco asian american jazz festival helping cement the city's place at the heart of the genre. he was also generous with his time to the japantown community serving as a founding member of and contributing artists to the japantown cultural district and teaching third graders at rosa parks elementary school. >> i first met mark and brenda at the cherry blossom festival parade last year. they march every year with the japanese american religious federation or giraffe. >> a coalition of christian, buddhist and shinto spiritual leaders j r f began in the japanese prison camps because

in realizing the challenging nature of the times spiritual leaders concluded it was better to all work together. >> the darkness of those times was reflected meaningfully in mark's music as its theme is recognize not only the deep history and trauma of the time but celebrates and honors the enduring resiliency and triumphant spirit of the japanese-american community. mark is survived by his wife and frequent artistic and life collaborator brenda. their son k.k. and granddaughter lucy and his two brothers. >> rest in peace marcie xue. may your memory be a blessing. >> thank you. thank you. supervisor mahmood. supervisor dorsey you asked to be referred? >> yes. thank you, madam clerk. and thanks especially to my pioneering colleague supervisor mahmood. it is an honor to add my voice in support of his resolution declaring the commencement of ramadan here in the city and county of san francisco. ramadan is a sacred time observed by millions around the world and right here at home a month centered on prayer, reflection and fasting but also on deep community recognition,

generosity and compassion. in san francisco we are privileged to be home to a vibrant and diverse muslim community that contributes so much to the fabric of our city. whether it's through small business ownership, civic engagement, public service or simply being good neighbors, our muslim community enriches san francisco in immeasurable ways as we mark the beginning of this holy month. let us also reflect on the ways all of us as a city can embody the spirit of ramadan by extending grace, mercy and understanding to those most in need. whether it's through feeding the hungry, caring for our unhoused neighbors or simply showing kindness in our daily interactions. the lessons of ramadan are a call to action for all of us regardless of our faith. in a city that prides itself on inclusivity and compassion, ramadan offers us a welcome opportunity to recommit to those values and to affirm the dignity of all san franciscans. although my personal stake in this resolution is not as a member of the muslim faith myself, i am blessed to have on

my team the board of the board of supervisors only muslim legislative aide johannes ebadi who is a standout community leader in multiple respects including elevating recognition for and celebrating ramadan across our city. when we honor the traditions of our neighbors, we strengthen the very foundation of who we are as san franciscans a place where everyone belongs and where every faith and culture is embraced and uplifted. ramadan kareem to all who observed and now the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor dorsey. mr. president, seeing no more names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business. >> all right, let's go to public comment. at this time the board welcomes the general public comment of members of the in the audience. please line up to your right hand side of the chamber alongside the curtains. you may speak to the approval of the meeting minutes as presented. other general matters that are not on today's agenda but are within the board subject matter jurisdiction. all other agenda content has been reported out to the board

by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement was satisfied. >> let's hear from our first speaker. we're setting the timer for two minutes. >> welcome. >> hi obsidian. even if these unfortunately included the genocide, this nation was created by christians with a protestant or catholics this tradition must remain for balance. >> before i forget the black history month is racism in disguise. >> like any community you want to celebrate because you create divisions which we don't want. >> sorry. you understand? we won't have it. >> no specific z y x w v utc occupy and mlk g i g w use it. >> hey b c d. >> okay so you get the alphabet reverse very league c google reverse alphabet you see?

>> stop messing with the guys i told you. yeah. you need to address the problem of laser manipulation. weather manipulation not only include the poisoning of food. you need to address this before i declare officially that you are part of the which is fake and that wants to kill the people. >> so there is nothing to celebrate at all except the revolution which is going to prison. yes, but to taking care of our fellow creatures every living species. >> okay. meanwhile no qr codes. you need to get rid of your cell phones. >> no qr codes boycott totally . no digital i.d.. coming. sorry. if you insist. >> there would be no idea at all.

>> okay. 13 seconds. what did i forget? >> people don't want the great highway to be closed. yeah. >> no, we don't want it. we want to have it. >> there is more. okay. are you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to the next speaker. >> hello. my name is liam mckeever. i live in d6 and i am convinced i am a political target of my supervisor matt dorsey. i wrote this poem on march 1st, 2025 for the board. war warfare there is no fair war. did i ever imagine imagine i'd be a target for war? my deploys men to attack me psychologically bordering on physical. when will that border be ignored? did i ever imagine latinas would go along with it? ones too. what an unco aided bitter pill to swallow. >> did i ever imagine as a child who grew up on military bases whose father was deployed to war that i'd be in one with

you? no. no i did not. am i paying for that sin of my american father? how can this war be fair against a nobody like me, against the souls i fight for abused souls who have nothing but cold liberal smiles pledging support as they deploy more men to terrorize us on the streets. no war is fair. indeed i appreciate that no one looked at me during that. you all looked at your screens instead. you prefer me in two dimensional instead of me and three dimensional. you don't want me to be a human. i don't know what you want me to be but i'm not that. >> i'm not a two dimensional object. i was raised catholic. >> i'm not anymore. i'm an atheist. i have a lot of problems with the church but i never had a problem with the teachings of jesus christ. love thy neighbor. that is all i am guilty of is

loving my neighbors. and i don't know why you allow me to be punished for it by your colleagues. i wish you did feel shame. >> thank you for your comments. welcome. >> good afternoon. board of supervisors. for the record, my name is chris ward klein. yesterday i spoke at the health commission and i've been here about 20 plus times and i'm starting to realize why i shouldn't be because there's a watchdog within the san francisco and it's the city attorney and dennis herrera and everything that i brought up should have been brought up to each of you every single time. but it hasn't. and my main concern is to 50 kearny street and this was reported to the mayor and other key leaders within the last 12 months there have been over 12 deaths of veterans, multiple arsons, violent incidents and staff members who have been targeted as well with injuries, health issues and other issues that were caused by one system gang surveillance, health surveillance call it whatever you want. these veterans have already been at war living at 250

kearny street is like living through vietnam. the gulf war or iraq all over again. the bigger issue here is that after during or after all pandemics people use health surveillance, gang surveillance, whatever you want to call it and the manner to attempt to write their own ticket and always ends with a scandal. for example, during the 1918 pandemic led to the black sox scandal and baseball the ccny point shaving scandal in 1951, the dixie classic scandals in 1961 boston college point shaving scandal right after the swine flu of 1976 and the russian flu of 1977 and the tulane men's basketball point shaving scandal in 1984 all during or after a pandemic. and if you're not aware there is a massive point shaving investigation happening right now by the fbi reported by sports illustrated and it's going to topple all of those combined. it is a massive investigation. this is why the nfl has mandatory protocols for injuries and concussions. they force players to sit out for certain number of weeks as they know of health

surveillance and the illegal advantage it could give your team, for example. magic johnson was not allowed to play not because of hiv but because he would have been on health surveillance by l.a. and that would have given him a potential advantage over other players not that he needed it. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to the next speaker. >> good reading. board of supervisors. my name is richard sd peterson . >> i am 82 years old and i've been waiting and waiting waiting. seven and a half years ago i applied to build a house on three lots in lower valley. yes. first i had to combine the lots and divide the lots and that process was taking all of this time i need to get this entitled before i die. in fact i had to put my my

property in a revokable trust just because people thought that i wouldn't make it before the house was built. >> so why is it taking so long? well, i know why it takes long. this i have in my hand is a 1099 form from the federal that all small employers must fill out. >> you can't replace it and that starts a long journey. >> well surely they must you can type into this and and it comes out on the page. no you need carbon papers. where do you get carbon papers? where do you get a typewriter and impact typewriter? the big companies all have impact machines that they can comply with but the little guy is left in a compliance nightmare and that i'm afraid is what's happening with this city and trying to comply with the planning department and the

building department. >> it's sad but i hope i get my dream house built one that i can't afford to live in or afford to maintain. but i would like to see it built. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. like speaker. >> my name is jim mcafee and i'm the domestic partner of a victim at laguna honda hospital and rehabilitation. and several times i have given testimony to the board of supervisors and the health commission that does not report the share of cost from patients at laguna honda hospital. >> what they do report on is patient services revenue. >> they never report on patient share of cost revenue. it is fraudulent to not include all revenue that laguna honda gets. i have the documents right here

and it's by drew moral the chief financial officer to the health commission. >> can you guys make a copy of this for the board of supervisors? >> thank you for your comments . >> welcome to the next speaker . >> good afternoon. president of the board supervisors i'd like to speak on item 37. good afternoon. my name is nick colina. i'm the cfo of ankle iron and construction and one of the founding members of the sfl bba and build out california. i wanted to take this time to personally thank supervisor walton, supervisor mendham and supervisor dorsey and in sponsoring the lbw e resolution. >> l b e's are the economic engine of the city. we provide union paying jobs and lobbies hire locally. >> we spend our dollars with

local suppliers as well. storefronts are often supported in regards to the rebuild of san francisco but we believe that local contractors play a huge part in the in the revitalized zation of our beautiful city. by creating generational wealth with these union paying jobs. i wanted to take this time to talk about the lbe program during the 2009 recession my dad drove me around bayview and showed me how many for sale and for lease signs that were posted on many of the warehouses. these were rlb eas many of which are fellow business owners and friends. >> after chapter 14 b passed that changed and turned the water on just a little bit for us from the data provided from cmd. we found that our collective of lbb spend over $77 million in wages in san francisco. many of these are good paying

union jobs that go to workers who live in underrepresented communities like the mission excelsior and the bayview. so when the lv l b program is referred to at the budget committee as a social handout that's offensive and simply not true. what we are is the an economic engine and the economic engine of the city. so let's work together to come up with solutions to strengthen our lp. >> thank you for your comments. welcome. ms. brown eddie in afternoon i'm here. you know as usual as i come to talk about my son arbor albert castle who was murdered august 14th and i heard you saying that the brady campaign and all the gun buyback acts are successful. but if they're a successful, then why aren't these homicides being solved? >> i've been coming to the police commission every

wednesday and prior to this here every tuesday. >> it's been a while back but we i show all these pictures of all the unsolved homicides of the young man, the cases that aren't being signed. >> people are walking around with boys are walking around with bullets in them. they're just not dead. >> okay. so what do we do as a board of supervisor? i'm also asking, you know the resolution approval for the resolution urging the board of supervisors to amend the san francisco homicide reward policy. i'm still waiting for that to be implemented and i'm praying that you know, i've talked with you matt darcy on getting this done and i'm waiting for this to happen because it would help us mothers if you find other ways to pay tipsters to come forth about these murders and homicides and so mothers like myself and others mothers can heal somewhat heal. you know i mean i'm having a

street named after him but you know, the case is unsolved. my child still lives and with wealth he's never going to be with me again. >> but i do urge you please to to prove this. approve this resolution and that march quarter over stone brought to the board of supervisors and i'm just praying this happens. i will never stop fighting for my child. i love him. he was my only child. >> and if you have children please understand what i'm saying. don't let this hit your home and then you're going to want to help. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. let's welcome our next speaker . >> good afternoon, president and the board members. my name is darryl and davis and i'm a small business owner in san francisco. since 1996 i sit on the j c advisory committee and have

said so for quite a number of years and i'm here to support the resolution of supervisor walton resolution 37 and i'm urging you to support this resolution because for small businesses and san franciscans to succeed we need equitable fair opportunity to bid on contracts that are in san francisco. there is a lot of money that runs through san francisco through contracting and it's oftentimes small businesses who are get the short end of those contracts and the lbb program 14 b is the only resource that ensures that small businesses get a fair share of equitable contracting in san francisco. go and we urge you to be on the right side of this issue. the we are facing incredible crisis in our country around equity and inclusion and participation and we are depending on you as elected

officials to stand up and support and continue to support small businesses in san francisco. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. welcome to our next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. president randleman my name is tricia gregory. i'm also a member of the lp advisory committee and i am a micro l.b. i own a trucking company in district ten for the last 22 years and i'm still a micro lp so that says a lot. i do also strongly urge you to approve supervisor walton's resolution in affirming the san francisco lp a's and 14 b you'd like the supervisor here said earlier you guys will do everything to support the businesses the i mean the restaurants, the bars but we need more support with local contracting. i also would like to thank

supervisor walton and his office and president management for being champions of the l b e community. it does mean a lot to us and we do appreciate all your hard work in supporting us. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. let's welcome our next speaker . >> good afternoon. our board of supervisors and thank you for your all your work. i'm samuel adams, executive of construction and community development for baines group inc. we're a general contractor local san francisco contractor. >> i'm in support of item 37. i want to give you some facts of why we're in support of it and why it's important for the city or county of san francisco . as a san francisco l.b. contractor we are able to provide opportunities for sfb trade partners and subcontract commitments. this entails opportunities for local workforce that creates community empowerment. so for example two of our

affordable housing, housing construction blocks and sundials are a combined approximate $100 million gmp. and so with those dollars we're about 30% of contract dollars going to lbe east 33% going to local san francisco workforce and about 8% of priority zip code san francisco local workforce the same and a half point shipyard that's a combined blocks two blocks approximately 90 million dp gmp dollars above 20% of subcontract dollars going to lbj is 14% of par a priority zip codes going to san francisco local workforce 36% of local san francisco workforce. so these are really good numbers. these are dollars going right back into the community. >> simple fact as a gec we've been able to sit at the table a larger gcs and cut some of

these deals and continued to filter money down to our local businesses. so thank you for listening to me in support of this item. >> thank you for your comments . >> welcome. shalom in hebrew means peace. >> my name is aliya chandler and i am a abolitionist and a social justice fighter for my people, for my nation and i'm also a hebrew woman. my son was murdered on january the 9th 2015 the san francisco quadruple homicide four young men shot to death in hayes valley i fall for almost ten years to get a trial date and i finally got one on september the 18th two weeks later on september the 28th i had a stroke hospitalized for two weeks. >> i shoot and i had a stroke to fight for the injustice of making sure that the trial went forward according to the $250,000 reward that was

assigned to my son case three requirements to find the person who committed the crime it must be a conviction and you must be a witness. i was the reason the arrest took place a year and seven months later i was supposed to be a witness on the stand. the d.a. took me off two weeks because they didn't want me to speak that the trial should not have went according to count number seven. count number seven was you was not supposed to try this court in a rico act. they decided to do it anyway. that's why i took three three. it took ten years. however, the jury made a statement and told the judge after the conviction that they had to drop kill seven which now the case is on hold if it's found out that the appellate court three judges allowed this court this trial to go forward, it's going to be an investigation.

march 10th is supposed to be the sentencing february that was supposed to be the sentencing because mr. lee finally realized that he should not have had to trial in the name of the rico act number seven account number seven. i'm trying to just rush our request in for the 250 thousand because i'm the reasonable for arrest took place. >> i would thank you, ms.. chandler are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment? mr. president all right. >> seeing no other speakers public comment is now closed and i believe we have been joined by supervisor fielder who i believe would like to be referred for roll call. >> thank you so much. president randleman good afternoon colleagues, city staff and members of the public. today i'm announcing a hearing focused on a comprehensive and proven approach to our city's

drug crisis. >> the four pillars strategy san franciscans deserve real solutions. we know that the status quo is not working. the mission like many parts of the city, is experiencing the highly visible impacts of public drug use and these impacts are not just about what we see. >> they're about the lives lost to overdose the families grieving and the communities trying to hold it all together. since taking office i've met with small business owners, community based organizations and countless neighbors neighbors from across district nine. >> their message has been clear they want to see an end to fatal drug overdoses. they want an end to open air drug scenes. and they want to feel safe and supported in their own neighborhoods. >> the four pillars strategy offers us a path forward. it's model is with a proven

track record based on four key areas prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement . >> and it's proven to work not just in theory but in practice. >> in the 1990s zurich, switzerland faced a crisis very similar to ours. >> deplorable street conditions is soaring addiction rates and an overdose epidemic. >> but after implementing the four pillars strategy, zurich transformed into one of the safest cities in the world. >> and here's the most important part according to our own budget and legislative analysts, it is transferrable to san francisco's fentanyl crisis. >> but to make it work we have to go all in. up until now we've only deployed parts of this strategy and we've done so unevenly. the result has been temporary improvements in some areas of the city while other neighborhoods like the mission

feel the displacement of drug markets and the same cycle of harm. >> one of the key lessons from zurich is the deep collaboration between law enforcement public health officials and social service professionals working together side by side day in and day out. >> this is not about choosing between public safety and public health. it's about bringing them together. >> we cannot continue to push the problem from one part of the city to another. we cannot keep relying on 1 or 2 strategies when we know that it takes all four working together. and so at this upcoming hearing that i'm calling for, we will hear directly from our city departments that contributed to the four pillars report commissioned by this board and published by the bill last november. >> we will learn about what it would take to implement the strategies citywide and how we can build the infrastructure to make it last through ongoing inter-agency collaboration and

regular oversight. >> we have an opportunity right now to move beyond piecemeal solutions and take bold comprehensive action. >> the four pillars strategy gives us the roadmap. and now it's up to us to follow it. >> i want to thank supervisor dorsey for being eager and willing to co-sponsor this hearing. i look forward to working with him with the mayor. >> my colleagues on the board, our city departments and most importantly our communities to deliver lasting solutions to this crisis. >> thank you. >> i submit thank you. supervisor fielder. with that madame clerk let's go to our for adoption of that committee reference agenda items 37 through 40 items 30 seven through 40 were introduced for adoption but without committee reference. a unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first reading today. alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first

reading to go to committee. >> supervisor what? thank you please for item 37. okay. anybody else? all right. on the remaining balance of the items madam clerk, can you please call the roll on items 38 through 40. >> supervisor randleman hi randleman i'm supervisor melgar melgar i supervisor sutter sutter i supervisor sherril sherril i supervisor walton hi walton i'm supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor engardio and engardio i supervisor fielder fielder i and supervisor of management mahmood i there are 11 eyes without objection resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved and then madam clerk we go to item 37. >> item 37 this is a resolution

to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to the administrative code chapter 14 be local business enterprise program supervisor welcome. thank you so much president mellman and colleagues, i just wanted to thank all the co-sponsors of the resolution supervisors mound of men chan mahmud dorsi and gaudio sauder and melgar for your co-sponsorship and i just want to shout out to our l.b. and our labor community for coming together in their work and supporting this. thank you. and i think that is it. we can take this item same house with the same call without objection the resolution is adopted. madam clerk are do we have any imperative agenda items? >> no imperatives to report. mr. president, could you read our in memoriam? >> yes. today's meeting will be

adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of president randleman for the late david sir hagan and restauranteur charles fan and on behalf of supervisor mahmood for the late mark israel. and i think that brings us to the end of our agenda madam clerk is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. thank you, madam clerk. >> as there is no further business we are adjourned

all right. >> all right. well, good morning everyone. we're going to get started. welcome to the our city our home oversight committee. it is tuesday, march 4th, 2025 and we're going to call this meeting to order starting with roll call. >> thank you, chair williams vice chair de antonio is on the way. >> member freedom book here member haddix sent member jackson here member preston here member shifrin. >> absent member martinez here member walton here chair williams here. >> thank you. you have a quorum. all right.

thank you. so we're now going to do our material on a land acknowledgment. so we acknowledge that we're on the unceded ancestral homeland of the rama to challenger who are the original inhabitants of san francisco peninsula as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the rama to challenge we have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as a caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the martyrs community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. all right. so we have a couple of general announcements before we get started. i just want to state about excused absences so members may not have more than three unexcused absences for regular meetings within a six month period. if you know that you will miss a meeting please either contact the controllers office staff are mentioned at a prior meeting so the committee may vote to excuse the absence. we also have announcement on

public comment so members have an obligation to allow two minutes to public commenters and they should not interrupt unless necessary to prevent harassment or violence. and we also have the good government guide for folks that we can distribute around that people want to read about that. all right. >> so we'll get started with i'll turn it over for public comment. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to provide in public comment in person, please line up at the podium now members of the public who wish to provide public comment over the phone please call (415) 655-0001 enter access code 26644202198 then press lb and then lb again dial star three to line up to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments . each person will have two minutes to speak before moving on to in person and over the

phone public comment we would like to acknowledge receipt of a written public comment sent to the our city our home email inbox from michael taylor. this message has been shared with and reviewed by the ocho oversight committee members. we will now begin with in-person public comment followed by a public comment over the phone. >> for the record there are no in person or over the phone public comments. >> this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item. >> all right. thank you. so we're now going to move to item three the ocho fund revenue forecast. i'm going to turn it over to radhika. >> okay. can you bring everybody. and thank you again for making the time for this special

meeting. we have a couple of important by related presentations today. the first is about the revenue forecast or the most recent revenue forecast that we have for the ocho fund. and typically the bad team offers this presentation which is the comptroller's office budget and analysis division. but i'm presenting their information today so i'd be happy to take any more detailed questions that you all have and take it back to to that budget analysis division. but hopefully the presentation should cover most of your questions and great. so why is revenue forecasted? the city projects revenue at various points throughout the fiscal year. so this is just the most recent update that we have.

and that happens several times between january and june. and these revenue projections are really important for budget planning. this is our opportunity as a city to align spending with where we think revenue might come in. and that also applies to the ocho fund. >> so a city department so that sage h will use this forecast to create their budget proposals. meaning aligning their expenditures across the various service areas to the projected revenues for the next two years. departments will then submit those budget proposals to the mayor's office in march. we are officially in mare phase of the budget process. and and that's the sort of context of what is going to happen with this information. >> so just to sort of regroup on how this forecast fits into

your process currently many of the liaisons are meeting with department partners to sort of get a program in fiscal understanding for each of the service areas. at the committee meeting later this month in march, departments will present that budget proposal that i had just mentioned that they will have shared with the mayor's office. so the departments will come and present that proposal to you all the committee and then a month after that at the april meeting. and liaisons will come together with you all the other committee members. and that will be when you all make your budget and policy recommendations about those proposals to inform the mayor's budget which will come out in june on june 1st. >> so just as a reminder, a lot of that decision making happens in may. so we'd like to get all of your recommendations over to the important stakeholders by the

end of april allowing time for any of those to get factored into the final mayor's budget that comes out on june one. >> and then after june 1st we go into the board phase of the budget. and so once we have a sense of what the mayor will propose, the committee will regroup and figure out if you all want to make any recommendations to inform the board's process of the budget process which then makes the budget final in july . >> okay. >> so what are all the considerations of this forecast and just forecasts and general forecasts are of course just our best thinking at one point in time. we won't know how much actual revenue comes in until after fiscal year end in september. that's when the city sort of tallies the real revenue that

will come in. so this is a projection. you probably have a pretty good sense of this but the economy is coming back but pretty slowly. and the growth rate assumed in this forecast is 3% annually and office vacancy which of course is a big part of the city's economy but also particularly related to gross receipts peaked at 35% in 2020 for muni part exits. this is all sort of these are all indicators of business activity and muni and bart exits in downtown are increasing. >> and of course as always a reminder that our business taxes are really sensitive to national and local economic conditions. they are increasingly complex and very volatile. we all know that high interest rates have had a particular

lower impact on the startup ecosystem in san francisco and of course remote and hybrid work. and our primarily driving those high rates of office vacancies resulting in lower gross receipts. >> and of course there's an increasing number of disputes over the city's business taxes. so i'll talk a little bit more about how litigation impacts revenue. but there's just a lot of disputes over it. overall, the city's business taxes and homeless gross receipts is not immune to that . >> you all heard from our treasurer tax collector at the last meeting about proposition and that passed in the fall which has made significant changes to our business taxes including the homeless gross receipts tax which funds our city, our home and the fund. >> and these are all sort of

what we think should happen based on the changes that proposition m will be implementing. and so of course there's been a shift from payroll to sales and ostensibly that should reduce the revenue risk associated with a business leaving. >> in addition there's a sort of reduced threshold exemption threshold which means that we are projecting to add an estimated 400 additional tax payer additional taxpayers and you all probably remember just from multiple presentations before that a very small percentage of taxpayers were previously paying into this source which made it highly volatile. so hopefully our projection of increasing the additional tax payers will come to fruition. >> and in addition and the

filing extension has been moved around from april to november. this one is a little bit of a question mark because this sort of shifts the money that will come in across fiscal years. >> so not exactly sure where this will land but it's likely to cause some additional revenue uncertainty which might eventually have an impact on how we project revenue for the fund. >> and then just to acknowledge the risks to this forecast, of course we won't know the full sort of force of prop and the impact until november 2026. so we're quite a ways out from that and almost gross receipts tax is progressive which means that the more groceries seats you have the more you are

taxed. so that means that individual taxpayers can have a pretty significant effect on revenue. now again, prop m is trying to stabilize that by adding more tax payers to the base but it's still likely a risk. and then litigation which is what i had mentioned in the previous slide. >> so the city holds back revenue to account for litigation risks. >> so that means that as the risk of litigation is increasing as suits lawsuits against the city are increasing, that means less revenue is actually available to the fund. and this is a citywide practice but particularly salient for our city, our home. >> having said that. >> so we have the forecast that really covers the next five

years. >> but i think the first two years of that forecast are most pertinent to our budget process given that we are now in the budget process for fiscal year 2526 which will be next year. and fiscal year 2627 which will be the following year. and you can see that revenue is around 300 is projected to be around 325 million for the first year of the budget and 336 million for the second year of the budget. just if you could keep those numbers in mind as we move forward in the presentation, i'm happy to refer back to them but roughly approximately 330 million. >> so how does this forecast compared to previous years? >> so this i think is a really key takeaway from this presentation and here we are showing you in the budget

starting from 2021, the first full year of the fund where we projected and therefore budgeted $335 million. and the actual revenue that came in so that september timeline that i was mentioning earlier that we won't know until we fully created an expenditure plan and came in at about 279 million creating a gap of $57 million the following year. again, based on the projection we budgeted 313 million. >> so we're sort of aligning to expectations a little bit more . and that year the revenues came in at you know, $248 million creating a $66 million gap. >> so these are really big jumps and really are sorry

really big gaps. and when that happens, when less revenue comes in than we budget because now we've created a spending plan based on that projected revenue. departments have to rely on program savings that you'll hear about in the next presentation and reserves to help fill the gaps so that we don't cut programs that have already been put in place. >> and so that's sort of what's happened historically early last year was the first year that we had a slight higher revenue come in than we projected by about 5 million. but you all can imagine the sort of structural deficit that this has created in the fund. >> so we have budgeted for this current year that we're in 274 million and i'll talk a little bit more about this in the next presentation. and the current projection is saying that will land somewhere

in the 268 million ballpark. >> but of course we won't know that until september. >> so there's a chance it could be a big swing. there's a chance it could not be but at best fiscal practice of course is to be prepared to make sure that there are other funds available so that we are not having to make any cuts to programs. >> so how to think about this forecast as you all are getting ready to make your recommendations? just some historical context. so i showed you all that table. and that really speaks to when departments created spending plans. >> we thought that revenues were going to come in around 330 million each year and actually continue to grow and

that was the sort of assumption . and now we all have been working departments you all to implement those plans. that means a majority of those program teams that the committee created through the investment plan etc. those are in progress. those are ongoing programs that the fund is carrying. and of course since 2020 this is true in so many other facets of business that there's been significant cost growth. there's just operational across cost growth across every facet of the work that the city does . and so we haven't been able to sort of catch up to that because we haven't even had revenue come in to where we thought spending was going to be. so we haven't even begin to sort of catch up on the cost growth. >> so to date when revenues have come in much lower than projected levels, it's created

shortfalls that departments have bridged with just one time solutions. that means that whenever there are program savings in one year or reserves that a department is able to set aside, they have used that money to bridge that gap. again, as a reminder this is the first time that we're projecting revenue to come in. you know this this projection says that revenue might come in at that 330 million level. but again, we'll have to kind of wait to see what that what that looks like in september. >> so really the thesis is until revenues consistently catch up to the spending plans and increase to sort of align with the cost growth that the city has experienced in doing business over the last several years, departments will have to continue to rely on savings on program savings and reserves to

make sure that those programs remain operational. so something for you all to think about as we kind of get into the recommendations process. and that's it for me. >> thank you so much, rod. we're going to open up for committee discussion. any questions or comments? all right. remember freddie mac? >> yeah. just on the comparison year to year the. just wanted to note that the projection the project the projected revenue in 2324 is about $20 million less than the actuals in 2324. and in all of the you know, other kinds of things that we've seen, we were projecting growth in the fund after the dip during the during covid you know like a lot of this stuff

is like coming out of covid where we had those big dips and so i was just wondering if you had anything to add on on the the thinking there. >> sorry. remember freddie mac i'm not following the projected income in 2324 was $20 million less than the actuals in i'm sorry and 2425 is 20 million less than the actuals in 2324. and so and i had thought we were kind of more on an upward spin so i was just wondering why the projected is so much lower than the actuals in 2324 for 2425. >> yeah. i can't speak to any further detail than the sort of inputs i described and these are all economic factors and so just what was true in september of 2024 is not necessarily going to be the same set of factors that are also true than when we

make the projection for the following year. so a lot can change. and as you all are probably tracking the news just in the last few months our economic picture has drastically changed. >> so that's that's the level of which i can speak to if you'd like for additional details i'll have to go back to the budget and analysis division to tease out the exact differences. >> but these are just a few months can make really big changes can can have a big impact on how we think about what's going to happen to the economy. >> yeah. and then in the the so in you're saying in november of 2025 we're going to have the actuals for 2420 5th september 2025. that's right. so when we budgeted that 274 that was last year in july.

so july 2024 that kicks off july 1st is the start of the fiscal year. >> so we made that determination about the economy, about almost gross receipts then and we won't know exactly how much revenue will come in until september of 2025. so yeah, there's a big lag in when the city has to budget for through the budget process. and then when we realize that revenue. >> yeah, i just want to make the comment that you know we and i appreciate like being you know being careful about this and looking at these you know, early years where it was projected way over at the same time kind of balancing that with the fact that there's like emergency situations that people are facing on the streets and kind of a consistent underspending of the fund. and so it's it's i mean one

could say we've been maybe a little too careful given the level of need that's out there and you know, part of that is just been you know, the first two years of the fund we weren't able to spend. and so you know, we collected gross receipts for those first two years and then in 2020 did like an emergency mid-year sort of, you know, intervention that was very kind of covid focused and we had like we supported the sip hotels and did a whole bunch of stuff and tried to get resources to underserved communities like the bayview, etc.. and so just kind of thinking forward, you know, we may want to think about a fall like supplement if the revenues come in much higher once we get the actuals and then we have money sitting in the fund, maybe there's ways to kind of expand resource. i know that that would have to go through the board and the budget process and all of that but but i just it's like we

want to be careful and not overspend but we don't want to have money sitting there. so yeah, just wanted to kind of kind of make a note about that and i think you know the forward projections are looking really good and and like there is a lot of unknown with you know a lot of tinkering with the economy that's happening right now in probably very irresponsible ways. so of course there's a lot of unknowns but i think with the diversification of the fund and a lot more people paying into it that that helps us as well. and so yeah, things are just anyway just wanted to make those comments. >> yeah. i just want to reiterate one thing member feedback when i talk about on this slide that departments relied on program savings that is the underspend that you're mentioning. so it is through that

underspend and through reserves that departments were able to bridge that gap. >> so just want to align on kind of vocabulary here. oh well there's program savings but there's also the one time money that was that has been sitting since the beginning that has you know i mean if you look well we'll go into the next slides but when we have a poor amount of money when we have $700 million in the fund in our annual income is roughly 300 million. that's obviously there's a lot more money at play there. so just wanted to but we'll get into those details. but if there is money that's sitting there i'm not talking about just underspending on the program. i'm talking about other like what's in the fund or generally. yeah. thank you member friedman any other committee discussion? i wanted to add my self to this talk with the folks had member walton all right i just want to i mean appreciate this and then as we look forward i remember earlier this year we had budget projections that also looked at

the following two fiscal years where there were shortfalls. and so we want to keep that in mind in terms of what we've generally focused on the fact of keeping programs going that are productive and vital. so i don't disagree member frydenberg with what you're saying but i also know that we've had these projections that say following 25, 26, 26, 27 the next two years there were quite large shortfalls when we start looking out that far. so and that was the fact that the departments were using savings and one time money to fill gaps for the 2526 and 2627 years. so i think we have to take a longer view than just what the budget cycle is for two years just to make sure that we're not faced down the line with having to consider which vital programs we can't afford to

continue. so it's a balance of those two things getting the money out and useful and looking at these programs where we want ongoing and long term productivity. >> yeah. thank you. remember walton and for you and for the rest of the committee the departments will speak to the magnitude of those cliffs and when they are projected to sort of impact in in the coming months both through liaison meetings and then through the presentation that you'll hear at the end of the month. >> thank you. member preston i just have a question on that. so when we were looking forward at some reductions in receipts, did were those numbers taking into account prop m and what reductions are you referring? well the shortfalls in the no because prop m just passed. >> yeah. so we might need to get that re

bill so the latest projection accounts for prop m but that was one of the inputs that i mentioned. but of course we won't know the full impact of prop m because there was an implementation process, right? the business community needs to learn how to pay into this tax and so we won't know the full impact of that until november 2026. so again that's another sort of lag to consider. yeah, but that assumption is sort of built into this current forecast because we created the city created this forecast after the passing of prop m in november. >> yeah. >> remember walton did you just speak to the that's why we need to look beyond the two year budget cycle because with that information sort of becoming clearer and clearer as we move towards november of 26 we'll know better what to do.

so we just have to be both aggressive with how we use the money as effectively as possible and thinking long term . >> thank you member walton i'll just jump in here and wanted to make a comment about staff capacity because i know in the earlier years that's something that came up as to why funds couldn't get out just in terms of staffing within the department just to be able to carry out this large influx of dollars that are being injected into programs and i don't know if anyone can provide an update on that like where h. s h is in terms of increasing their infrastructure capacity to be able to take on this program because that came up significantly in the earlier years and i can't speak to that directly. chair williams but departments are here as we kind of talk about the mid-year report today and yes, staffing has been an issue both in the city side but also on the cbo side. so capacity to consider on both ends. thanks for raising that.

>> thank you. is there any further discussion? i know we have our next item if there. we'll get into more of this. >> all right. so i think we'll go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment in person please line up at the podium now. members of the public who wish to provide public comment over the phone, please refer to the instructions posted at sfx gov slash o c o h. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. each person will have two minutes to speak. we will begin with in-person public comment followed by public comment over the phone. >> for the record there are no in person or over the phone public comments. this concludes the public comments section for this agenda item. all right, so we'll transition to item four which is the ocho fund fiscal year 2425 mid-year update and i'll turn it back to robert. sorry i'm running the show

today. >> great. well, hopefully a nice seamless transition into talking about the mid-year update. and just as a reminder, we're in fiscal year 2425. this update represents where the fund sits after the first six months of spending and as well as departments do an exercise of projecting what their spending will look like for the second half of the fiscal year. so i'll get into it. >> so we'll talk about the sort of as spending ability which represents the revised budget. and we'll talk about expenditures and projections at the fund level. and we'll dive into some details of each of the service areas spending and balances. we'll talk about reserves in the fund as well as potential risks and policy environment

which will sound quite familiar to the presentation that i just gave. >> and there is a glossary as part of the presentation and i hope you all have a copy in front of you. and please feel free to refer to this. there's a sort of a lot of information in here so and happy to clarify at the end. >> so please to let me know. >> great. so the revised budget in the fund is $785 million. and this represents unspent budget from prior year as well as that 274 million that was budgeted last year. >> and so this represents the total authority that departments have to spend ocho

dollars. >> and again, just as a reminder we budgeted to 74 we're looking at 268. >> i don't want to i know i've hammered in this point a bunch but so far the projection is really based on the economic factors we talked about as well as tax payments that have already come in so far what's pending? and of course the litigation and claims that this particular source is facing. >> so and sorry this hopefully it's a better view on your screens and but at the fund level departments have spent i'm sorry before i get into the details. and the way that the presentation is organized is that there's a chart for folks that want to read a chart. >> there's a table for

everybody that wants to read a table. and then there's a text slide for everyone that just wants the takeaways so choose your flavor and process the information as you'd like. >> so feel free to kind of flip through your physical copies as is most helpful to you. >> all departments have spent about $167 million in the first half of the fiscal year. that's primarily driven by permanent housing which is our largest service area. it's where most a large share of the funding goes to permanent housing based on those percentage allocations. and so that's sort of in line with that. >> and the departments are projecting to spend an additional $247 million in the second half of the fiscal year. and we'll talk through the details of that. >> there is $99 million in what are called obligated funds.

>> and these are earmarked funds for future use and in particular this new 100 million is earmarked for the safer families program that was part of the budget process last year. it's a plan to provide emergency shelter and rehousing support for homeless families in san francisco as well as take housing expansions within permanent housing. so these are earmarked dollars for future use for those two buckets say for families and housing expansion. >> the fund includes about $158 million in reserves and that money is really to address gaps between revenue and expenditure was the projected remaining balance of 115 million represents one time program savings and is primarily driven by the mental health acquisition fund.

about half which of course is a pot of money that is intended to support acquisition for the mental health service area sort of ongoing excuse me. and when you say acquisition do you mean facility acquisition? okay. >> so we'll get into the service areas starting with permanent housing operations. >> here are the expenditures. those are driven by of course ongoing services and operate ins for the nine total permanent supportive housing sites that the ocho fund supports. in addition, as you all heard through the annual report in the liaison meeting so far this is also due to the scattered site housing program expansions and that hhs is leading.

and of course i talked about sort of operational cost growth but this is a particular example of increasing costs for capital and rehab job costs for sites. >> the balances in permanent housing operations are driven by the fact that the department received state homekey dollars for two sites 685 alice and 42 otis. this means that money that was previously programed in the fund because the state and the state awarded the city funding for those two sites. that frees up elko funding for other uses. >> and there was a mid-year opening of 1174 folsom street and as well as 42 otis street both sites for a day. that means there is only partial you're operations for both of those sites.

>> in addition there is ongoing program implement ation of several housing programs which means that not all of that funding will get spent in this current fiscal year. >> the obligated funds that i've already spoken to are mostly in one time are mostly one time funding for a day and families for rapid rehousing and shallow subsidy expansions that will be spent over the next 3 to 5 years. >> if we want to look at the population view, this view shows very similar information but breaks out that program level information by population and shows that most of the projected spend for the rest of the year is within adult programing. and of course obligated funds are only for youth and family. as i mentioned earlier and

balance of course is also primarily driven by adult programs which is the largest allocation within within permanent housing. >> so it aligns with that. moving on to mental health operations. expenditures for mental health operations as are driven just by the continued expansion of beds, mental health, substance use, residential care and treatment beds. and there's ongoing operations of course for the behavioral health street response and outreach teams. that department opened a 33 bed residential program for justice involved women her house in early 2024. that's driving the spending. and of course the facts program that we have been talking a lot about now serves as site based sites and will offer expanded

behavioral health services through a cbo partnership later this year. >> in addition, the department has added several staff to expand case management within mental health substance use disorder and tae programs. the balances in mental health are the unspent acquisition at facilities acquisition funding that we were talking about. and this includes projects that are under negotiation which include the addition and relocate portion of treatment beds and a new service center. >> moving on to homelessness prevention the expenditures in prevention are primarily driven by the fact that there is full implementation of programs including s.f. erap which is the s.f. emergency rental

assistance program problem solving as well as eviction prevention and housing stabilization programs. in addition, programs that were previously funded by other time limited sources and primarily around eviction prevention are now leveraging funding. >> so that's driving the expenditure. the balances here are pretty small and mostly driven by some underspend in the emergency rental assistance program as well as some case management programs. >> the obligated funds in homelessness prevention are the one time funds that are necessary to bridge the structural gap between the available revenue as well as the expenditure plan for problem solving. and this is hopefully familiar to folks on the that have been on the committee before this year. but the department is here to talk a little bit more about that if there any questions.

>> for shelter and hygiene the expenditures are driven by navigation centers, emergency shelter and case management for justice involved adults programs that are fully operational and projected to spend their entire annual allocation. the department also opened a new cabin site in the bayview the commons. there are demobilization costs here for the kendall steak vehicle triage center that closes in march, but there are ongoing costs throughout the remainder of the fiscal year to demobilize that site. there's also in progress the one time expansion of the temporary hotel vouchers for families. and then the obligated funds in shelter and hygiene are the continued expansion of those vouchers into the next fiscal year of fiscal year 2526. the department will continue to

expand those going to reserves. >> there are four different kinds of reserves that are laid out here for you all. >> there's the funding that's on mare reserve which was a policy choice made during last year's budget process by the mayor's office. there is unappropriated revenue reserve. this is the revenue that in the previous presentation i had mentioned to you all came in higher than projected. so it has not actually been appropriated through the budget process. so it's sitting in an unappropriated revenue reserves sort of bucket. >> there's the f y 26 reserves. >> this is the funding that was budgeted last year during the budget process to address those f y 2526 shortfalls that member walton was mentioning earlier.

>> so last year during the two year budget process departments created a budget for f y 2425 which is the year we're in right now as well as 2526. and just to talk about the budget process for one second, we'll come back to that f y 2526 budget again as part of this this year's process. so during the process last year there were shortfalls in the fund. and so and there was funding that was budgeted to address those shortfalls and that's the reserves for f y 26. >> then there are department reserves. these are the unspent funds from prior year that are put on reserve to protect programs against shortfalls. again, kind of going back to that previous presentation when i was mentioning the tools that departments have available when revenue comes in way lower than projected, this is one of those tools. so in terms of the context and

implications, we all know that there's a structural deficit in all service areas of the fund which means that the spend plan that we created the annual spending in the fund is much higher than the projected annual revenue. >> historically i've already mentioned to you the volatility that the projections themselves have caused in the fund. >> and so to date departments have relied on these reserves to keep programs running. and so in the upcoming cycle at the funding that's on may, a reserve can be used for this purpose if needed as well as the use of the unappropriated revenue reserve will also be a choice for the mayor's budget. and then just to reiterate the

risks and the policy environment that we're in because a litigation affects the revenue that comes into the fund. this is a big risk and there's a pretty good example here that gm sued the city for $40 million of gross receipts almost gross receipts tax and lyft sued the city for $48 million. so you can think that that is $88 million that needed to be paid out to or i don't know that it was paid out exactly. i don't remember but that the revenue had to be held back for that amount of money when the litigation was happening. and again, there's slow economic recovery and office attendance in the metro area is still only half of what it was the pre-pandemic and very little increase in the past year.

and again structural gap between the spending plan levels and revenues collected and savings reserves those are the tools that the departments have available to them to fill that gap and avoid any program cuts. and i'm happy to answer any questions about the presentation but the departments are also here to help answer any questions that you all have. >> thank you so much, robert kirkwood. if hca staff is here, could they refer to the question i asked earlier about staffing capacity if that's possible. hi. good morning. yeah, good morning, christine ryan, budget director at ihs h. we have been staffing up so i think that our past vacancy rates i don't have them in front of me but they are we've been able to fill a lot of vacancies. i will say at the same time we implemented a lot of new initiatives which we were able to receive some support staff

for which is amazing that we're getting staff to help with the expansion that we're doing. but because of that expansion it does mean that we end up with similar vacancies as we promote from within and other things. all right. and i think you should probably stay there because i'm sure the committee has other questions for hca. >> so i'll open it up in bulk. yeah. i was wondering if for the housing liaison meeting we could get a break out of the type of housing by population with that same and thank you so much. comptroller's office and hca for all the work on it and my city for all the work on this. this is i love the visuals by the way. yeah. but just wondering if that would be an easy thing to do. i'm not trying to overburden i know you guys are so busy i'm not sure i understand the question. >> you want the breakout of housing by population and in separates in the so on the slide that has the ocho fund expenditures and projection that has actuals projected obligated reserves and then the

year end balance we've got it for all of the housing and then we've got a breakdown by category but we don't know like for family or for adult like that 20 million of projected remaining if that's in support of pch or scattered site or you know the different types of housing. i think that would be really helpful because then we can kind of see what what's going on there a little better. >> yeah, i think that we were planning to present on the budget and kind of explain what our gaps is that gaps are because as a part of kind of this available balance i mean we can tell you what categories it's in but it's really going to be balancing across the entire authority because that's where we have the gaps at the authority not necessarily within an activity. so i think we can provide that

support. but overall when we go over the budget in our liaison meetings we were really planning to present the overall revenue and expenditure plan deficit. what that amount is and then show you that the reason we have these available balances and reserves are to help us bridge that gap in the future years. >> okay. is it possible maybe to get it from the if not at the liaison meeting before the liaison meeting to just get this graph fully broken down? i don't know if that's a huge hassle or not. >> member feedback we can try to talk offline about that but i think the point is that there is $20 million available at the at the housing sort of service area level or the you know the full balance that's available is 32 million across housing and not necessarily tied to specific oh yeah i know we can

move it around for sure but i still think it would be helpful to kind of see because if for example one of our interventions we have a particularly larger end to the year for example scattered site maybe it's a situation where we end up at the end of the year with a lot of unspent funds because individuals are unable to find landlords to rent to them or maybe it's you know it just it just kind of informs our decision making and kind of kind of shows what the i'm not meaning to create but if it's a hassle then i think i think let me let me see how the data is structured. >> okay. anything i think we can speak to like you're right scattered sites does have underspend. i wouldn't say it's necessarily always because of the intervention structure but you know every year we've invested in scattered sites and i think that the projections and how fast we've been trying to grow the program has actually led to a lot of that underspend, right? >> and so there's things like that helpful because like if we

wanted to move money over for if we're saying okay we've got unspent money and adults and scattered site is working fabulously and all the money that we allocated is totally done then we think okay then maybe some of that money should go to scattered site because you know but if scattered site has a whole bunch of unspent money maybe we think well moving more money into scattered site may or may not make sense anyway so i just think it kind of helps inform what's happening there and and then you guys of course you know know the reasons why which may or may not lead to whatever decision but yeah so i think that would be helpful but like i said i'm not trying to create more work but if it's an easy thing to do i think it would be really helpful and then i think yeah that's oh well one other question and i know that a lot of the prevention piece is in the mlh cd side.

i'm wondering because we've been hearing a lot from community about the loss of problem solving funds specifically for well on a couple of different things but i'm going to speak to this one particular thing problem solving funds were used effectively to keep families who were approaching the homeless service you know, sites in their housing because they had homeless prevention funds to just kind of pay rent for three months and they were able to stay where they were at. i've heard that a lot from the family providers maybe the same case in single adults and early this year the prevention funds kind of went kaput which people probably may or may not be aware of. but i'm just wondering on the intersection there if for example if there was money in the prevention category for targeted homelessness prevention, i believe some of that money is going through mhc

d but was any of it going to problem solving or is there a way to kind of connect those those systems? >> yeah. so we do have problem solving in our budget. you're right it was very successful and so we've we've spent a lot of the money. i think that one of the things you might remember is that problem solving was never funded ongoing in our budget. it was funding as a one time investment in i believe f y 21 and so we've been able to sustain a $10 million annual investment in problem solving through underspend from things like most cd's work orders when they had additional funds that they were able to utilize and didn't have to rely on so that money would come back to us, we would use that to kind of balance problem solving but as we talked about during the budget process last year, some of those one time funds that mo cd had been utilizing for their srf erap and prevention programs have gone away and so

we fully expect most cd to be reliant on their prop c funding now that leads us to this structural shortfall in prevention and that makes it a lot tighter on something like problem solving that was never actually built in as something that could be supported by revenue in the beginning. so all the numbers that we kind of are showing for problem solving and the investment we've been able to sustain is above and beyond what we actually have revenue to cover . we haven't been adjusting that number. sometimes when we have one time underspend we're able to make additional investment but it's on a one time basis for problem solving and it's one of those categories that you know as we have one time underspend it's easy for us to put it into that because it's not something that necessarily has to be sustained ongoing it can fluctuate. >> yeah, yeah. i think that would be an important part of the and i'm sure you all are thinking about this but an important part of

the prevention conversation if there's you know the more significant savings it's really tight but more significant savings in case management and maybe that could be moved those monies could be used for you know, scooted into the category of targeted homeless prevention. >> yeah. thank you so much. >> thank you member of freedom park and i'll just second a member of freedom comments in terms of when we're making these decisions having some of that additional information in terms of what's happening with the programs if there's a building not to scale up definitely want to know that and just so we can definitely inform our thinking. so i really agree with that. anything else from members before we go to public comment and i have a vice chair dantonio i know we probably won't have time to answer them but maybe like over email or an okay so can you can you hear me ? i think if we can maintain quorum we have a couple of minutes it was just a quorum issue so oh go ahead vice chair okay cool. one question i had a couple questions but the first one was

are the legal fees covered under the fund administration or like what bucket is that going to you're talking about the litigation. >> i'm talking about no. that money is held back from the fund just in general from all the fund category. >> correct. so before the funding becomes available it's held back by the city. >> got it. and so yeah, that's what is very closely watching the litigation risk. okay. yeah. what is the like average amount year over year so i don't know and i'm not sure that we could know that because a lot of that information is confidential so we don't but we don't project how much like we think will go towards litigation of the projections. so when the budgeted analysis division gave us the forecast they are accounting for litigation in that for can we know how much that is? >> i mean we can backtrack with

math but it would be helpful if i could try to figure out maybe like a magnitude and as a yeah kind of like to you would have in like a ten k or something. >> yeah, yeah. okay then my other question was around if we could also get a projection of like the accrued interest year over year for the reserves. i'm also curious on this kind of falls into what member freedom park was talking about around emergency rental assistance. i think you mentioned that there was an underspend and i think is see rental a small amount of underspend. >> let me and i think you shaking your head no yeah because i know that there is there was a very cool program that most ed had described to us around prevention. if you try to access the funds a certain amount of times they would just give you a subsidy and there was like a waitlist for that subsidy. so i'm wondering if there is a waitlist how do we have leftover funds?

>> and i think that's a really great program that i'd like to expand next year. >> so i just want to hear a little bit about that. welcome, director hill ellen hill director of housing services. so and the most needy side in terms of emergency rental assistance we expect to spend down our local funds entirely. we also do have i mean again s has their programs to i'm just speaking about mostly we did have we did have some revenue that continues to be coming in a few little remaining droplets let's put it that way since considering the big pot that's been going. so we're still putting in a few things as we've recovered some money. we also have some other you know, federal dollars are a little bit iffy right now. so let's just but we do have some federal dollars that are probably not going to get spent within the time frame that federal dollars need to be spent. so we are earmarking some money for next year toward emergency

rental assistance to increase the amount of money we have just as a backup plan because we know by the following year we need to spend that money. we currently have the money so we need to spend it. i don't like to give money back to anybody not internally within the city that's fine but like federal government nope no return. so i said that publicly but in terms of subsidy programs in general because most of our subsidy programs are actually ongoing general funds and not local a few the sro one has some local money in it but not all of them do in general right now they're all flat. we are not adding folks in the way what we're doing just because we don't want to get into a situation where we're giving somebody an annual subsidy and we don't have the money to continue to do that on an annual basis are subsidies. there is rent increases that happen as well as different kinds of moves people need to move because of ada or something like that.

so we'd like to keep a little bit of a buffer to be able to respond to the needs of the households are getting subsidies. we do see subsidy programs in general as a path forward and we do want to as you described when folks have run into a problem with say a landlord and be able they're getting rental assistance are just not able to stabilize, we would like to move them someplace where they can be stable rather than having them cycle through the homeless system. so that is a part of the strategy that we work very closely with hca on. but right now with sort of the way the budget is within the city where we're trying to be very strategic with those types of ongoing programs because we don't want to create instability within the folks that are currently receiving them. i hope that makes sense folks. it's not a complete answer but it least gives you a little general idea. know those folks are nodding so i'm feeling like that that might be good. thank you so much. i had one more last question or just more comment or question comment just about the mental health acquisition reserve fund

if we could get a little bit i know for negotiations we can't get too much information but if we could get information around like what kind of programs we're looking at funding, what kind of beds, what are the subpopulations, what are the treatment centers that are under negotiation for that? >> i think it was like 30 million or something sorry. vice chair you said mental health acquisition reserves or sorry yeah mental health but it was maybe it wasn't reserves. >> it was like the light blue 56 million where can you go to the other chart like yeah which chart? >> the color coding what's are you looking at? >> what's the title of the slide i can oh i don't i don't even have the the slide in front of me. >> hold on one second i'll tell you what slide i think it's

slide eight so yeah what is what is this the projected year end remaining balance that's under negotiations like what kind of sites are those? >> those are all the treatment beds and the additions and the relocation of them. and then there's a new health service center that is sort of in negotiation. >> okay. >> do we know how many slots like how many beds? >> i don't have that information. i'm not sure if it does. but we're also at time so maybe something i can flag. >> yeah, that would be good. i would just like more information on that. >> sure. thank you, vice chair d'antonio at this time we're gonna go to public comment members of the public to wish to provide public comment in person please line up at the podium now members of the public who wish to provide public comment over the phone please refer to the instructions posted at sfd gov slash oc0 wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your

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