participation of a city and of downtown san francisco. that's what is important about it to me. . >> the this is a meeting of the san francisco port commission for february 25th 2025. call president kimberly brandon here. vice president gil gilman present commissioner willie adams. commissioner steven ingram here. commissioner steven lee here. item two is the approval of minutes for the february 11th, 2025 port commission meeting. >> so moved. circuit we have a motion and a second all in favor. all right.

any opposed motion passes? item three is the land acknowledgment for san francisco port commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the raw material owning who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw materials we 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. 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 raw material only community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item four is announcements. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission

adopts a shorter period on any item. public comments must be in respect to the current agenda item. the commission will take in-person and remote public comment on each item beginning with commenters in person. for remote public comment dial 14156550001 and enter access code (266) 364-1341 4 pound pound. then dial star three to raise your hand to comment on the item being discussed. an audio prompt will signal when it is your turn to speak. if you are watching this meeting on tv there is a short broadcasting delay to not miss your chance to comment. please dial on the item you want to comment on as announced . mute your device and listen to the meeting from your telephone which has no delay. item five is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. thank you. we will now take public comment on items not listed on the agenda. is there any public comment in

the room? if not, do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes there is one call for public comment. opening the first line now. thank you. >> hello commission. this is great shampoo. i was hoping you could comment on the current status of the courts in the us. ac is drought san francisco flood study. there were two points. my understanding was it was to go to congress in the fourth quarter of this year for approval and possible funding. and then since then given sb 272, both bcbc and the california coastal commission issued the what they call rcp, which is a sea level rise planning guidelines which may impact what was our flood study recommendations. could you comment on that at all please? >> thank you for your call but unfortunately because it's not

on the agenda we cannot comment on it but i'm sure we will have an item on it in the near future. thank you for calling. thank you. are there any other callers? there are no other callers for public comment at this time. thank you. public comment is closed. next item please. item six is the executive directors report. for callers who wish to make public comments on this item, please dial four three to raise your hand to comment. good afternoon president brandon vice president gilman members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. i am elaine forbes, the executive director. over the past few weeks the port has been the center of dynamic and high profile events that have not only showcased our incredible waterfront but also demonstrated the hard, hard work and dedication of our team. i'm excited to share the latest updates on our economic

vitality, equity initiatives and key sustainability projects . first on economic vitality. earlier this month the nba all-star tournament and chinese lunar new year celebrate brought hundreds and thousands of residents and visitors. and the port was able to shine. our waterfront was safe, clean and vibrant thanks in large part to the terrific preparations executed by our maintenance and security staff in the days leading up to the events held at chase center and pier 48. port staff collaborated internally and with our counterparts in city departments to ensure permitting and safety needs were handled and that everyone was welcome to our waterfront. as you know, big crowds can bring unpermitted and unpermitted activity and our security department with the s.f. pd worked very collaboratively to ensure that unpermitted food and sales of counterfeit items were handled and tackled and that we had a

very safe waterfront. there are many hours put into the event and the eyes and the region were on san francisco and our staff stepped up. we will continue this momentum with coming events too. we have the 47th lunar new year run that will take place on the embarcadero on sunday march 2nd. this is an annual fundraiser benefiting the chinatown ymca physical education program and community center which serves 1600 youth and families in chinatown. the run will begin at grant avenue in sacramento street at 8 a.m. but the route crosses the embarcadero at north point street and at washington street and our streets will be closed for 30 minutes prior to the race time and open when the runners and walkers have finished. another exciting event is sailgp and its returning to san francisco for racing on march 22nd and 23rd. sailgp is a global sailing

championship where national teams race and high tech high speed 50 foot catamarans with speeds above 60mph. the race takes place in iconic international venues around the world and it's no surprise that they've chosen san francisco again for the race. we continue to be a wonderful location to enjoy sailing. we will also be hosting a base camp the fourth year in a row on our southern waterfront and this base camp saw approximately city kids 60 kids per day last year in a program called inspire learning. this this learning program is emerging as an educational program that teaches sailing and also teaches stem science technology and engineering art and math. with the goal to leave a positive legacy on local communities and build a sustainable future. thank you to our maritime team as they ensure that

opportunities for our youth and for all are at the forefront in all events and efforts that you lead. and more great news for economic vibrancy in our fisherman's wharf neighborhood . on tuesday, february 18th i joined the mayor's office for a tour to see firsthand the changes that the port and our partners specifically the community benefits district have accomplished in the area. we're excited to showcase the progress of the area and look forward to working with the mayor's office to continue our efforts to a vibrant and economically strong fisherman's wharf for generations to come. one last item on economic vitality. commissioners upon request from president brandon at the last commission meeting you were offered a briefing of the port's two year capital plan i'm sorry ten year capital plan and we are happy to report that commissioner angouleme had excellent input on how to refine the document and we are working on those refinements

and port staff requests to bring an updated plan to march 11th for review and final approval. beyond economic vitality we are continued. we are committed to fostering an inclusive waterfront. let me now turn to our efforts in advancing equity. i like to highlight the black digital art collection collective in partnership with hudson properties art exhibit on the second floor here in the ferry building. we are also excited to host the eighth year of our renowned port contract open house which is an annual event and excellent opportunity for diverse small businesses to learn about the opportunities we have in contract ing and also to meet other firms that they can partner with. as we look ahead to the future we're deeply engaged in projects that will shape our long term resilience and sustainability. i'd like to report on offshore wind today.

michael martin, assistant port director and chief operating officer, has returned from an offshore wind conference in long beach that took place last week, thursday and friday. he joined lieutenant governor kounalakis former port commissioner and david hochschild, chair of the california energy commission and many others at the conference. the conference was an opportunity for ports, state and local governments and private industry stakeholders to come together and reaffirm the state's goals to 25gw of offshore wind floating energy generation and to further mitigate air admissions and climate change impacts of california's energy portfolio. while there is some uncertainty, the conference attendees expressed broad support for the public and private partnerships that will be collaborating on addressing the many challenging aspects of this development. during mike's panel discussion he expressed our interest in moving forward and what we will take what it will take to

pursue strategies to bring the investments we need and the capital upgrades to our marine terminals to prepare for offshore wind. the write off policy commissioners consistent with the write off policy adopted adopted pursuant to resolution 22 dash 11 port staff provided a report summarizing three accounts which are recommended for write off this month. you will have 30 days to review before we process if anyone has a concern. please let me know. in closing it was a it's with a heavy heart that i report that ethics crowley passed away february 11th. commissioner francis x x crowley was a labor relations consultant helping labor unions and businesses collaborate on resolving differences. he spent 30 years with the international alliance of theatrical stage employees

local 16 in san francisco. he performed valuable service to the city serving on three commissions including civil service, our port commission and the sfp. u.s. across 15 years. commissioner crowley served as our port commissioner from 2010 to 2012. many of us had the privilege of working with him specifically on the maritime preservation policy which continues to protect critical waterfront assets and jobs. today i respectfully request that we adjourn today's port commission in his honor and as we move forward commissioners, i'm inspired and dedicated by the dedication of our team, the vision of our commissioner and the resilience of our waterfront community. thank you for your leadership. it remains an honor to serve alongside you during this pivotal time for the port and san francisco. that concludes my report. thank you. thank you. great report. we will now open it up for

public comment. is there any public comment in the room on the executive directors report seeing them? do we have anyone on the phone ? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. thank you. >> commissioner lee nothing really to say other than i'm glad we're moving along as spring time is coming. i just you know with the new ferry dock, you know, to bring more busses down there i think is going to be quite fun to catch it at the ferry building and go that way or catch it at the. at the blue and white. i mean will they be able to pick it up down at the north site as well to head over to chase it? maybe in the future. >> does anybody know? may we get back to you on that? >> okay. yeah. but other than that great

report. thank you, lily. thank you. commissioner englander. thank you, director forbes for the report. i struck by you know how when we talk about these events are really great reminders that how we're delivering for the city's priorities? and i think what would be very helpful i think i read in the chronicle that that just that single mba event added $350 million economic impact for the city and drew 10,000 people to the city. so i think just as a good reminder for ourselves like just like every time anybody reads anything about stuff happening at the port that we remind ourselves like right now in a time of economic you know, priorities we talk about impact, we talk about job creation and visitor accounts, that sort of thing because i think if we help people understand that we're the headline you know that this this is this is why it's

important, right? so that's the only thing i would say and i don't know about the sailing event like if there's a way that we can, you know, highlight that whenever we're putting out digestible bullet points about that kind of economic impact. and and thank you for letting us know about commissioner crowley. it's a good good bit of history. thank you. thank you, commissioner evans. president brendan no comment. vice president coleman thank you for your forbes for a great report and i want to just echo commissioner emlen. i think it's really important that we remind you that as an enterprise department we actually every day contribute to the economic base and the general fund in san francisco by having a clean, safe and vibrant waterfront and bringing visitors. and i actually think we should be punching that up wherever we can. it's not every enterprise department has that direct throughline and how it contributes by having its own enterprise perform well within

its envelope or dollars. it then generates dollars out there in san francisco and i think with everything in the mayor's priorities that's something that we should always remind the citizens of san francisco about. and i just do really also want to commend you on our ongoing equity work as someone for the six and half years i've been on this commission. it's something i know that president brannan championed early on when she joined and i just think it is so important particularly in these times that we continue to focus on that and to have a place both for our contractors through the open contracting house that we're having but also for our staff that they feel heard welcome and included. and so i just really want to commend you for all your work on that. that concludes my comments. thank you, elaine. thank you so much for a great report and i agree with my fellow commissioners that, you know, the port does an outstanding job in helping the city prepare and execute events

but we really don't get a lot of the credit and just the fact that there was so many people here for the all-star game for the new year's eve, the lunar new year parade and so many other events and i think it went flawlessly. i thought the city just did an outstanding job overall managing that many people at one time and so many of them were here on our waterfront and enjoying our waterfront. so again, i want to congrats to staff because they do an amazing job in making the city look good along with our beautiful waterfront. i think it's absolutely wonderful that we're partners that mike participated in the offshore wind conference because i think that would be a big opportunity for us and i think it's good that we have to let the state and everyone else know that we're interested and

we're ready and we're prepared. so thank you so much for your participation and it's so sad to hear about x. i did have an opportunity to serve with him and he was a great commission. i'm definitely going to keep his family in our prayers and well we definitely want to close the meeting in his memory . thank you. next item please. item seven is the consent calendar for callers who wish to make public comment on the consent calendar. please dial star three to raise your hand to comment seven. requests authorization to issue a request for qualifications for as needed environmental and planning services for three contracts each in an amount not to exceed $6 million with a term of five years and creation of a pre-qualified pool for a term of two years. this is resolution 2508 item seven b requests authorization to issue a request for qualifications for as needed engineering and related

services for four contracts each in an amount not to exceed $5 million with a term of five years and creation of a pre-qualified pool for a term of two years. this is resolution 2509 and item seven c requests authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract number 2878. mission bay ferry landing phase two a marine demolition and mattress for an anticipated contract amount of $8,500,000. this is a resolution 2510. thank you. is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? i move the consent calendar second. thank you. we have rebecca gross. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is rebecca groves. i'm a resident of dogpatch, a board member of the green benefit district and an active member of the dogpatch neighborhood association. i want to express my deepest

gratitude for you for building crane cove park. i and recently opening the public restrooms the ymca and dogpatch paddle in building 54 making not only the shoreline but the water of the bay accessible to rec creators in the southern waterfront. i have a seven year old daughter for whom crane cove has been a life long favorite destination and where she's learned to scoot bike roller skate hunt for crabs and accompany me on paddle board rides. this year she's finally old enough to learn to paddleboard herself at dogpatch paddle summer camp and she couldn't be more thrilled about that. we're also thrilled about the addition of the new electric ferry terminal in mission bay which will open up many more shoreline adventures to our family and we hope might even allow my wife to commute to commute across the bay by ferry on her teaching days at uc berkeley. >> i realize that planning for the mission bay ferry has long been underway and represents a tremendous effort by the port over many years. >> however it is greatly concerning to me and to many other parents and local business owners i've talked to

that the terminal and path of the high speed ferry is currently planned to be within a couple hundred feet of the agua vista public fishing pier and less than a quarter mile from the crane cove on water recreation area pier 54 roughly equidistant from chase stadium on the north side as agua vista park is to the south has recently been vacated of the businesses occupying it and would offer a superior location for the new ferry service from multiple perspectives. >> it would one avoid endangering kayakers and paddlers in and around crane cove to respect and preserve public fishing at our vista pier. three restore the existing bay fill structure at pier 54 to public productive public use. and four as pier 54 is much bigger than the proposed structure at agua vista. it could also provide additional space for business opportunities fees to service ferry passengers and bayfront park visitors. i understand that relocating the terminal to pier 54 would require adjustments to existing plans. however, the long term benefits

to safety, recreation, access and commercial opportunity justifies this reconsideration. i respectfully urge the commission to conduct a safety and feasibility assessment of the pier 54 alternative and present these findings to the public before proceeding with construction. thank you for your consideration of this vital community safety and access issue. >> thank you. is there any other public comment in the room? do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. public comment is closed. okay. we have a motion and a second. is there any comment or request ? we already have a motion. yes, we have a motion. sorry.

can you i must have missed the motion. we made a motion to move the consent agenda which opened it up for public comment. oh, okay. got it. it's okay. i was listening to the comments so i wasn't sure if that is related. >> thank you. all in favor? i i i i. the mission the consent calendar passes resolution 2508 2509 and 2510 are adopted. i would like to ask. yes i was thinking when i heard the public comment that i wanted to connect the commenter to david beaupre, our planning director who is here who has done quite a bit of work on both the park and the ferry and to have further discussions and you can look at the work we performed to date and we'd like to be in dialog with you. thank you. next item please. item eight a request for approval of a proposed new

lease with everett and jones barbecue a second for national llc, a california limited liability company for approximately 4363ft2 of a two story restaurant space located at 300 jefferson street for a term of ten years with two five year options to renew subject to board of supervisors approval. this is resolution 2511 and for colleagues who wish to make public comment on this item please dial star three to raise your hand to comment. hi commissioners. i'm don cavanaugh, senior property manager for the port of san francisco. i'm bringing the next evolution but not the last i hope of the of a new lease at fisherman's wharf with everton jones. so a little bit of history ever 300 jefferson street was lou's crab shack. they closed in 2020 in the pandemic and in august of 2023 we terminated that lease by

november. can you fax the slide? thank you. by november of 2023 we hired marvin commercial to list not only lou's crab shack but also the next door restaurant palm pays for 90 jefferson and eight alioto. today we're focused on lou's crab shack. so by early 2024 marvin undertook an extensive marketing campaign which involved sending out three more than 2000 email solicitations to the retail brokerage community operators and others. they proactively reached out to more than 100 restaurateurs who they have contacts with. there are social media postings and they ultimately conducted about 35 tours of the property where some people come in more than once. as as as of the end of this

process we received five viable letters of intent. one was everton jones. one was for a fast casual chicken restaurant. there was a nightlife venue with theater and full bar southern cajun cruising and an entertainment bar with robots. so we convened a panel in may of 2023 which was comprised of two port staff members, neither of which were involved in the process or the portfolio and an outside consultant that was recommended by alain. so that panel convened reviewed all the proposals and and unanimously selected everton jones as the leading prospect. so next slide. thank you. >> so there's more information about ever jones on the slide but but generally everton jones is a well-known barbecue restaurant in jack london square. they have another location in oakland and another one in

antioch. and and the flagship location in oakland is jack london square as well known as a community gathering point. in jones awful also offers music at that location which brings a sense of community. so then everton jones satisfies several strategic plan elements including economic recovery because there's new revenue economic growth because the improvements in the property will add value to the asset equity because everyone jones is a black owned business and it's bringing a new food concept with music that we think will attract tourists and locals alike. the essential business terms of the lease. so this is going to be a ten year lease with two five year options. they have 180 days of free rent . the first year is 5% of gross revenues or $10,000 but are no less than $10,000. it goes up in year 2 to 13,000 and the percentage rent goes to

6%. year three the rent goes up to 14,005 still at 6% at 3% increases thereafter. the 3% increase increases we continue into each option period. we also have what's called a minimum gross sales threshold because we want to ensure that the restaurant succeeds and if they don't succeed we want to have the option of shaking hands and and being able to go our own ways. we don't think that's going to happen but we built it in just in case the port is going to survive an $800,000 tenant improvements allowance which is a dollar $183 a square foot. the bulk of that money is going to go towards improvements that are required by the department of public health for a permit. the allowance will be paid directly to the tenant upon receipt of copies of invoices from the contractor. so we're providing the money to

everton jones to then pay the contractor. aaron jones had to go through a process to become a city vendor to be eligible to receive payments. so next slide. so our report staff recommend support commission accept everton jones as the successful proposal for 300 jefferson authorize the executive director to forward the lease to the board for approval and upon such approval authorize the executive director to execute the lease. and so i also want to note that both santino de dee rose from avon commercial and dorsey are white from everton jones are here in case you have questions for them. but now i stand ready to answer questions. thank you so much, tom. do either one of you want to say anything before we open it up to public comment? excuse. >> hello i'm dorsey, a white

third generation legacy business. >> my grandmother started this business 73. my mother took it to another level when she opened the first sit down in 1999 and i've been her right hand woman from the time she opened up four years ago. my beloved mother passed away. she passed the torch. i'm ready to take it to the next level. i feel like san francisco would be a great fit for us. we were here in san francisco in 89 right before the earthquake happened in 89 and that's how our building was destroyed and we left san francisco. i'd love to be back here and just continue my family's legacy. thank you for the opportunity. thank you.

thank you very much. okay. is there any public comment? can i have a motion? i have a motion to move the item second. thank you. is there any public comment in the room scene and do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner adams i support this resolution and it could even be more fitting that as we're in the last week of a black history month and black history is every day but to have that and to have you here and to talk about your lane and your legacy and you're going to continue to pass the torch on. you have my full support and best of luck. thank you. commissioner lee. well, i think the lease it's a very good opportunity. i think the best kind of deal

i've seen, you know, for small businesses on the port and i think you're very lucky. this is something that i've been, you know, wanting staff to encourage other small businesspeople to do. but i have some questions for the operator. can i ask a few things? >> so you have a couple of other restaurants outside the city. are you going to be here on site a lot of the times to get it ramped up and kind of greet your old customers from 89 to come visit? >> great question. so it's a me along with my four and three sisters who'll be running it. i currently run the jack london location and they've decided that i'd be the person to run the san francisco so i'll be here day to day. okay. >> and i mean the food and the food concept is perfect for that look, especially the building the way it looks.

are you planning to bring entertainment also? >> yes. we we our concept has always been barbecue beer and blues music. perfect. and so loses are really blues. when we went into the building it just felt like earth already. so i was actually perfectly in the i used to go to lose a lot and one of my employees loved it there and it has such a reputation but i think it's been gone so long that you're going to have to rebuild it all over again. i think with the food and everything. so i don't really have any other things other than if you need some support from me because i'm an entertainment guy, you know? wow. yes. so and a small business so if you need some help for me i love to give you some hand if you need some local you know people to help you with the sound or whatever because when i when i walk through the place when it was empty i mean some things were still there. i don't think you have to do a

whole lot. some things are there right? so i wish you a lot of luck and and again you are very lucky. this is a very in my opinion anyway far beyond poor and i would love to have this kind of deal but and i hope more people out there will come up and talk to staff to get let's get let's get that area going again. i think you're going to have a great, great opportunity. >> so i support this. thank you so much. thank you. commissioner ingram. i just have one more question before you sit down. i think for sharing your family history with us. i'm just curious where was your restaurant in 19 before the earthquake in san francisco on the third little girl but it was on third i think kind of by candlestick because i remember there was a middle in the middle right there. yeah. the third. okay, thanks. i don't have any other questions but good luck. thank you. vice president gilman i just

want to say i think we're all really excited for this opportunity and i really just want to also say it's so exciting to see that our broker policy is really bringing in businesses like that. you know, i think with the panel with the fact that we had a slate of folks that the commission was able to give you parameters and we were able to do this in a process that was probably less intensive and more friendly to small local businesses which is exactly what we want to get on the waterfront. we don't need you know, another i don't know do they even still have applebee's? we don't need that on the waterfront. what we need are these local homegrown bay area businesses and i really think our leasing strategy of using brokers with guardrails is really achieving that. so i'm really wanting to congratulate the real estate team and even for for bringing us this opportunity and to the owner i think we will all be there for you when on opening night you know we have i'm i don't think they call it i know in the south they call it you

know i want three bones and a slide so i can't wait to have have that and we anyway we can help elevate your business or announce it to the public. i live on the northeast waterfront and you're near that area. i think people will be locals will be really, really excited . there is nothing like that in north beach or that section of town. so i wish you lots of luck and we're excited to see you open. thank you. thank you so much for the report and this is an exciting opportunity. i think this is our first restaurant opening and i don't know how long but definitely since the pandemic. so for you to take the risk to move to the waterfront and expand your locations i think i've been to every one of them so i can testify how good everything jones is. but for you to come to the waterfront is an exciting opportunity for you and for the port and so we all encourage you to do well and will be

there of course on opening night plus afterwards and wishing you much best. all in favor? i any oppose some resolution to 511 is adopted. item nine is new business i recorded one item for new business which is an update on the flood study which goes over in particular and the impacts from the sea level rise planning work that bccdc is doing among other updates is there any other new business? i just kind of from my own personal information in the future when when we do these scoring you know i see the breakdown but i don't know if that's even necessary but just for my own thing maybe to add like i kind of like to know you have four different restaurants here and where were their

strength was was it less an operation? what's it less an equity? i kind of kind of like to know where the operator is coming from as far as somebody is not just financial is whether or not they run a good business or not. i kind of like to know that so i don't know in future reports we could have a little paragraph on that. any other new business. i was hoping that we could possibly schedule two. i know we have to work around my schedule commissioner lees and fisherman's worth revitalize but i think with all this action happening at the waterfront in nicer weather i think we getting up early. commissioner lee i think we had pledged that we were going to go see i don't know when when salmon season starts i want to hit it when there's actually a lot of work happening but we're going to go tour and see the fishers at work i think at like 5 a.m. or something so we could see the impacts of it so i just wanted to remind the maritime staff since i saw them in the audience that we wanted to have

that talk. is there any other new business that's not can i have a motion to adjourn in memory of ex crawley so moved second all in favor i the motion passes i think this is the shortest meeting ever but a great meeting so thank you. thank

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the

9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships.

also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's

gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the

discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> some of the neighborhood in d8 are the castro and glen park and noe valley and diamond heights and coal valley. >> hello, i'm supervisor mandelman the supervisor representing d8 the board of supervisors. >> i had also been interested in politics and puck life and group in san francisco and when i was in high school i had a 13wrir78 with periphery on the board of supervisors. and as i got involved in um, in local affairs hi was grown up at the some point make sense to run so i did. >> so you had i was running in no charge back. focused on homeless and the mental health issues as priorities for me and

the district. my mom suffered from mental illness for a big county executive of hero adult life got sick when us very sick my was 10 or 11 years old i move to san francisco she was not able to take care of of me by my grandmother i followed her life and try to help her anti she on the other hand, she lived institutions and board cares in homelessness shelters for a period of time and i thought there are folks with those sits needs have informed my governance and priorities as an office official. >> last year the governor newsom and senator egg that man and the pushed proposition one on the ballot in march this is a

big involvement in um, in housing and treatment for people with serious mental illness proposition one it is a very large bond 6 nature billion dollars for housing, and bed placement and wake facilities for people with severe mental illness we have utilized to have stated hospitals we closed those for this is the most significant involvement california made in replacing the state hospitals with something better and more community-based organizations and anyone on the streets of san francisco schizophrenia see folks with really needs and i hoping that prop one with implementing it in san francisco will help us to better meet the needs of some pretty sick folks

i think the country clubhouses the castro is known for a number of things a place where camera shops and where the queer civil rights movement and the political rights started in the decades and known for a study session for queer people a lot of that is about bar the great night life that's great a darker side to that there is a lot of addiction in the queer community. and overflow room when we were founded in 198 three were a coffee house was helping folks to recover from the especially department of defense of aids crises over time the last 41 years has changed and now we are be a nonprofits have the focus on the queer recovery community that's our focus but the center is on to

everybody. we hosted 46 in-person board groups a week raping if crystal clear collaboratives anomalies and overeaters and undocumented children of alcoholics recovery and smart recovery we try to cater to the entire community and all the things they meet needs welfare from folks need a community of support to heal from substance abuse given the circumstances folks will need a place to go and meet forensics and hang out and get supportive services and then have a place where we can just be that's the magic that happens here the magic of san francisco

community-based organizations small and mighty are doing work to help people move forward. >> i benefit from this because when i have questions about substance abuse disorders or tilly chang the challenges i can turn total folks at the country club have lived the experiences with the addictions and will tell me what will work or likely to work. >> with variety is another

great castro institution. 1ur7 commitment for the neighborhood. at a time when retailed is struggling not only in san francisco but around the country a beloved it store provides jobs for folks in the neighborhood a if a family has seen is transitioned in the neighborhood were here when it was, you know, more issuing working class a neighborhood and then they saw and welcomed all the queer folks coming into the neighborhood and really changing the neighborhood and embraced now- >> (multiple voices). >> we started it was started in 1936 by my grandfather and evolved with the neighborhoods over the years my great grandfather in the tenderloin and while i was recovering fixing stuff in the back of his

hardware store and the, fix anything. >> when you walk into my store you're walking into the most fantastic you've ever been in creative by board games and toys and when all of a sudden you're in hardware and hours ware and you're greeted by ice lashes and fabric and every gift. >> (laughter) a throw back to a time a general store go to one store for anything ranging from our drag state you multi-family dwelling unit need for some party or performance to um, something you need for 6 to fix our sewers or

walls or to repaint. or maybe just a gift to thank someone for a holiday or birthday all the stuff and (laughter). >> we are an improvement of we don't have if you don't need it limiting we have everything except for food and cloths and every neighborhood in san francisco is struggling somewhat with the impact of our failures to successfully address the millennials of our people i look 10 or 20 years into the future i think it will be right is about e will be brighter to the extent we found a way to meet the needs of people with addicts to the mint mental health that impacts people walking around the neighborhood and i hope today, i

think walking around in in san francisco neighborhoods people have to been, you know, why are we not doing a better job of caring four those people my hope that 10 or 20 years in from now my work and others would have to constantly ask that question that will now allow for a flushing of those neighborhoods. >> those are beautiful neighborhoods with beautiful buildings and views and we just have to might the needs of human beings kind of left behind on the sidewalks and in the carrier >> i used drugs from the age of 15 till 29. i had no friends. i had no family.

i wanted to quit because i didn't want to die. since i have been in recovery i could write a novel. i have finished college and held great jobs. by dad was back in my life. [indiscernible] it is never too late to forward/hospitality. >> heart of san francisco an aide so important diverse culture in the name for remarkable individuals like carlton b goodlett a man wheeg legacy is at the iconic lashed not just a man of intelligent his journey was far from san francisco good had studies

earning a mountain lake cut off road in child psychiatric a city that is is campus for staff's contributions a city with a very different place when dr. good let was around and you would see him on streets like the fillmore and what he did he mrs. minority healthcare to people who that did not have insurance or an ability to pay for that. >> dr. good working hard around city hall meaning he would load boxes with people and they would go to san francisco state mainly and other places as well and protest these unjust

treatments and unfairness of their system. >> dr. good was a america civil service activity with naacp and protested for the discriminations against blacks and public transportation and public housing and the reporter as most people come into the building today don't know who he was was district attorney know that not only was a physician, a activity but also an incredible cardplayer. in his spare time. >> and the won a number i published and the also ended edited another newspaper wells fargo willie brown and dr. good

had a close relationship in the early 90s several groups got together to his own dr. good and put together petitions and worked very, very hard to have the official address changed. >> dr. king's day of the celebration is in january, i got to call from mayor brown which i've known for in many, many years to ask me to change the street sign this is remarkable. okay. >> in january of 1999 right after the building reopened, mayor brown and i went outside at that moment it was still cold street we shut down the word on the sign that read polk.

>> put up the sign that said number one, dr. carlson carlton b goodlett white. >> i think that he earned a certain place in respect of all poem he was just a remarkable individual. unfortunately, we didn't live long enough here to see the street sign he ballot

because you're not dealing with the most specific exactly. >> but yes members of the public and commissioners we are now on item number 11 a and b and c which is our consent calendar. and just a reminder to the audience, our consent calendar are considered routine matters and typically we would vote them in aggregate. but commissioner our vice chair evans would like to pull out 11 a and 11 b for discussion and so i'd like to entertain a

motion to approve 11 c through f so moved second it's been moved improperly second to approve the consent items 11 c 11 f let's go and i want to open up to public comment before we take the vote. any members of the public who wish to make public comment on the consent items 11 c through 11 f please do so at this time . >> any remote call no callers in the queue. okay let's call the roll please. >> sorry, can i just clarify you said 11 c through 11 and c b yes 11 c 11 1111 thank you everybody. >> 11 or 11 we're going to pull those out for discussion. >> okay? thank you. commissioners, please respond with irony. chair butler vice chair evans i commissioner all right i i commissioner aslanian williams

i commissioner dufty i commissioner guerrero high commissioner lackawanna i your consent calendar is approved. >> thank you so much. commissioners now will have our vice chair to and we'll have you to discuss a line item 11 a first and then 11 b sounds great. >> the henry hotel is on sixth street. i've been there. >> it's single occupancy hotel 121 folks and i it's it's been in the city's portfolio for some time and so this is a renewal of that contract and it specifically has 4% of the prop c funds that are being included in this round of the renewal and i wanted to just get a response that i had a written

response but have it entered into the public discussion here that the 4% of funds to be used from prop c, i ask the question can you confirm how this meets the criteria for how prop c funds must be used? which of the ocho buckets of funds will this come from shelter prevention, housing or behavioral health and has this been reviewed or recommended by the ocho committee? >> so i got a written response that the 4% is made up by a when the city added funding in fiscal year 2022 to reduce tenant rents to no more than 30% of monthly adjusted income for the master lease program that previously had different rent amounts in compliance with the ordinance passed by the board of supervisors in january 2021. this shallow subsidy program was funded out of the prevention section c section of the ocho fund. the prevention funds typically

being used to keep people housed and funding from this program was part of the ocho spending plan approved by the ocho committee meets the criteria for the ocho funding. the second part of the the 4% is in fiscal 2223. the city added nearly 19 million in case management wage equity services enhancements across pch support services agreements approximately 6.9 million of this was funded through the ocho adult housing fund. this includes a small portion of funding for this grant agreement funding for the case management wage equity and service enhancement were part of the ocho spending plan approved by the ocho committee and meets the criteria for ocho funding. >> but just to clarify it's coming out of that housing housing bucket as my understanding. so i just wanted to acknowledge that you know probably it was initially sold to voters as a

way to house more people. right. and to provide more beds and to create more solutions. and this is an actuality helping to support an enrichment of an existing site . does that make sense? so basically instead of create ing more beds, more solutions, it's actually going towards enhancing services that we do have in place. and i just wanted to acknowledge that there's there's a there's a risk that if we not really focusing on creating the solutions that we communicated to the voters that we wanted to see that we have the risk that they won't see the solutions or that we didn't use the money the way we said we were going to do it right and it makes it less likely for them to be interested in reauthorizing them or allowing for future enhancements to that revenue source. so i just wanted to put that on the table that you know i'm just conscious of every time i'm seeing the property funds

used in a way that might be a little bit inconsistent with what the voters intended and i think you know, that was essentially what i want to just put out on the record. thank you. any other commissioners would like to make comments on 11 a okay. thank you for that. 11 b so 11 b is tiny cabins at 33 goff there are 70 cabins there and 70 guests there and i asked if there was any vacancy and there's currently no vacancies so that's great news. i asked just to confirm because as you might recall the cabins solution in particular was one that was looking like it was a more expensive option, that this was one of the first sites that was created using the cabins and it was done with some private public partnership . but the the response to my question is that the new annual

cost for participant from april 20th 2025 to march 20th 2026 will be $49,406 which is an annual budget which we're about to approve of 3,458,000 sorry not 3 million 458,000 and 404 divided by 770 units so out of 15,000 about 50,000 per bed. thank you vice chair evans any other commissioners have any comments on 11 b and open up to public comment if any members of the public who wish to make comments on consent items 11 a and 11 b please do so at this time there are no members of the public any remote callers? >> no remote callers. yellow. yellow with three minutes given

i believe you got to take advantage of every opportunity and this is specifically on live on this i heard you. thank you. thank you again and it goes back and reiterate some questions that were spoken earlier about assessment how are these allotments going to be facilitated? what is the management to security level because again it's it goes falls into the non congregated specified case and how we maintain the security because people are i've been in prison so i know i know people when they want to be slick they can be slick so how are we going to maintain and make sure that this is for the proper people, the proper assessment that that people are getting and making sure that hygiene is up kept with with again with tenant education all of these things matter as a whole before we began to set people out. is this a transitional stage for people who are already in shelters?

are we communicating in depth with caseworkers to know is there is there a form for grades up on hygiene and and punctuality and initiative to to to flow with the process of things that you need this goes into in depth i would appreciate if we can get extended time or have a better form where the public can speak more because there's more questions that there's more comments with this being said, i really just want to appreciate you guys your questions. it's valuable also i've come to learn some new information within the last past five minutes. i'm grateful for and i want to give a shout out to robert hill who's over at as c working endlessly about the complaints trying to make sure that a lot of these things are established. i just believe we need to work forward more communication, initiating more time towards communication literally not just figuratively on paper

those things are very important to me also again with the to stay on topic with the cabins and i believe it's 2060 cabins and 20 rv that i heard hsa speak about in the last committee meeting. but these things are of course going to be funded. is this the best appropriation for the allocation of the funding? are we really knowing for sure that these are not people who are suffering from substance abuse problems? what would initiate and endorse the recidivism rate? thank you. thank you. any remote callers? >> no callers in the future i so i just wanted to give my name because i didn't give my name earlier. i'm calling white and in my opinion i think we need a lot

more money than this. i know that's probably asking for a lot but i just wanted to go over and discuss some winter shelters and the lack thereof. >> i think that that getting all of this done like within june and july we're going to have a lot of cold dead bodies on the street. >> i also wanted to talk about the lack of shelter beds and all around all this back up but the delay service for mental health and drug crisis within these programs i believe that there is a a blatant and disrespectful delay in helping a lot of these people within these crises. i believe that there are a lot of lgbtq i a people who are in need of of a lot of these

services as well a lot of single adult youth. i used to be in a youth program i was let go. i've been divorced from many programs and i also wanted to talk about a more permanent solution to to a lot of these issues and cleaner streets if we could possibly discuss it because there are a lot of problems that we do need to we do need to seek out but we also need to be working on a more permanent solution instead of using these problems as things which i understand we need these problems in order to get more funding but we also need to be a bit more realistic in the approach as to how we can prevent a lot of these situation needs. and also i wanted to talk about

the workers as well the workers within these programs because they also need funding and they also need a job. so and this is a lot of their expertise so a lot of it becomes this cyclical thing of trying to make money and trying to find people who are in need instead of looking at the permanent solution. >> and we i wanted to suggest that we need a lot more expendable funding. i don't know how much that would be. we need to look at things a bit fairly but i wanted to also touch on dose and mental health and differences and and different rules because there's a lot of that within these programs because i have been in them myself. >> so i can say that not not every shelters like the other shelter and i think that there needs to be some clarity and some more more education within be within the within the

group of people who who need help and assess me and so on. >> thank you, sir. sir, we will have an opportunity for you to come back and let you know when that is okay. thank you. and just just just just a general statement to the public . there's opportunity for general public comment that's not related to anything on the agenda which i would actually i'm kind of hurrying to get there so you can also provide comment generally about your experiences. so that's that's what we are now i'm just come but i do appreciate the comments that have been raised. >> commissioner evans you have a follow up question. >> i have another speaker here. i'm sorry. oh yeah. go ahead. i guess i guess the situation is is i feel like you have a process problem. i think we need to see what type of complaints and how well they have been following the contract, you know, and so it's i mean this is a clear process

problem. i mean just give people more money or renew the contract and we don't know how they have been following the contract before and then sort other thing is is who's monitoring them to make sure that they're following it now do they fall under the shelter monitoring committee? are whatever because for the longest time you know the navigation centers they weren't under the navigation show to monitor committee so there would be no type of monitoring you know so the navigation center that i went to with had overflowing toilets and stuffed things that were overflowing so it's like it's kind of like you had a sewage problem and these navigation centers and it was like nobody was coming in to monitor them. so you know, i guess i'm definitely remembrance of urban alchemy and them pulling out a

machete on somebody and their staff was in full support of it. so it's like how do we get how do we get some more monitoring and what's going on? thank you. in remote callers there are no callers in the future. >> thank you. >> um so i just wanted to clarify for the 33 golf site is is there any other private money still coming to help support in the operations of that site? so it's now 100% city money that's just one company, correct. okay. thank you so much. >> and i'll just note that when we are reviewing these contracts were provided with a packet of material that includes for those that are being renewed the compliance against spending. >> we also provided information in a section called performance history where it details any deficiencies in a performance

monitoring that was conducted by the department and any corrective action that was requested and the status of that action. so i just wanted to make sure that people knew that when we are looking at these contract renewals there is quite a lot of information usually about 20 to 30 pages of performance and compliance type information that's included and that information is available to the public correct as well. >> yes. okay. so so if you are interested in looking at like for example the 33 golf packet this group received, you can see that document is available there. >> yeah. >> and you can request it from the commission secretary if you'd like as well. >> yeah. yeah and i think everyone has a packet is that correct or no. correct everyone has a packet so i think that's on the table there for them. i think what's there is maybe the the summary the three page summary the memo yes right for

consent but it's also online. >> yeah but the longer packet is available online right thank you. is there a motion to approve i motion to approve items 11 a and b second and it's been motion and probably second to approve that 11 items 11 a and b roll call please items 11 and a and 11 b chair butler how do you vote? >> all right. vice chair evans i commissioner albright i commissioner asllani and williams i commissioner deputy commissioner garrow i commissioner lackawanna i item 11 a and b are approved thank you so much just places us on item 12 which is new business. it's an action item that requires a vote by the commission. i'd like to invite our acting acting manager of shelter's louise greco who will present this item.

all right. good morning commissioners. my name is lewis bracco. i'm the acting manager of shelters at h. >> s h. today i'm here to present agenda item 12 a i'm kindly requesting the commission's approval of a new contract agreement with glide foundation for the provision of health and wellness center services for an initial contract term of june 1st 2025 through december 31st 2027. this is a new agreement for new services that was awarded competitively through hhs request for proposals number 147 the budget for this contract agreement is 7,800,000 in new funding plus a 20% contingency of 1,560,000 for a total not to exceed budget amount of 9,360,000.

the funding source for this budget is 100% state hap for grant funding which stands for homeless housing assistance and prevention grant funding. the purpose of this contract is to provide drop in center services at a dedicated health and wellness center for transitional age youth experiencing homelessness the health and wellness center which will operate 24 seven will be located at 888 post street in the lower hill neighborhood of san francisco and will be co-located in the same building as the t navigation center. >> the goals of this program are to provide to ages 18 to 27 access to a variety of basic needs including restrooms, showers, lockers, food and laundry facilities to

support personal hygiene and maximize the ability of to to successfully live and work in the community through on site connections to case management assessments and job development. glide find a glide foundation will have a budget and staff of 28.4 fte is which will include monitors safety and de-escalation staff case management a job development specialist as well as a problem solver slash access point specialist. >> amenities at the site will include bathrooms, showers, lockers, laundry extensive community space for entertainment and programing a kitchen and dining area with access to healthy snacks, mailboxes and outdoor patio a hair salon, a clothing closet, a digital literacy center, hygiene services and supplies a

medical clinic in partnership with a shelter health private case management offices as well as 24 seven cbo staffing the program is expected to serve approximately 75 per day. >> i respectfully request approval of this new contract agreement and i'm happy to take any questions at any time. >> thank you so much for the condensed version of the presentation and i'd like to open up to the members of the public first they choose to make public comment on this particular item. >> so commissioners and director mcspadden my name is eliana binder and i'm the policy director for glide. thank you for your consideration of this contract. we deeply appreciate the opportunity to support

transitional age youth who are experiencing homelessness. in the latest point in time count we saw that youth homelessness increased from 2022 to 2024 of those youth 93% were transitional aged and nearly 70% of these transitional age youth were unsheltered. so there is a need for drop in spaces especially for these unsheltered youth. we are grateful for the chance to assist these youth in accessing shelter, housing, medical care and workforce development as well as all the other services that were just described. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> good morning. my name is jessica hernandez. i am a policy associate at compass family services and i'm here in support of the contract agreement with glide foundation for the provision of additional drop in centers for transitional age youth health and wellness. it is very beneficial to have

expanded access to support services for youth that can help support their needs as well as additional spaces for them to congregate congregate this expand that support helps them in the past in their path towards stability and growth. thank you. thank you commissioners. >> marnie regan she her pronouns i'm with our country youth services. i'm also co-chair of hasbro and on behalf of larkin street and hasbro we are in full support of glide and this contract as you know third street youth and clinic runs the nav. we have an mou with larkin street as an mou with third street. of course our drop in and our services are a few blocks south of the tina so we have it's a youth community in our partnerships. we're we're a partner with glide. we are really, really stoked to see this happen. the teen ave is great.

it's 75 beds. we have the larkin shelter which is additional beds so we have really great cross referrals and it's a fantastic use of that bottom space the wraparound services and being able to refer to youth right upstairs into those beds or into our beds and send them down to our drop and it's going to be fantastic. so really supportive of this and thank you for your support . thank you. my compassion is is being drawn and focused on on the intent these things sound good and i'm all for it if it's in truth and entirety going to be done as spoken of. so i believe with with with focus in on what we're allowing in a proven it should be in the

minds to and my opinion to expand as some sees and i'm not advocating for them but expand their oversight because we need to focus on what is the invoice and the invoice that gets here a large number with the invoice so we can determine if it's valid and audits for for those of these contracts that we're hearing about like like what would interest me i heard about earlier comment that a machete was pulled out by one of the by one of the program's employees now is the whole program irresponsible? no, but we need to have checks and balances closer closer to what we have now about the results review based upon a grade given upon what you said you were going to do and is it valid? are you meeting what you said you're going to do because that's why we keep coming to here. we keep coming to different boards and meetings because it's an issue of you're not

meeting what you said you're going to do and that's just what i focus on right now. thank you. thank you. any other members of the public who wish to make public comment any remote callers? so we welcome commissioner dufty. thank you, chris. yes, i just wanted to speak a bit more on the mental health services. i also wanted to speak about the placement of shelters as i heard mr. guerrero say earlier about their concern as to where shelters would be put. and so if i can just interrupt you and give you an opportunity to do that once we finish this item. yeah, i'll let you know. so it sounds and give you an extra minute to you. thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you, chairman. i simply want to say how

wonderful this is. i really appreciate glyde being here and speaking and the support from compass and larkin street. i've been to the youth navigation center on many occasion and it's a wonderful program and i think that it will only be enhanced by providing the ability to provide you know, on the on the spot whatever time of day food ,laundry, other things just to enable people to just to feel human in that respect. and so i just want to say i look forward to this unfolding i think it's june of this year when it's going to hopefully have the opening and i hope we get invited will certainly come . >> thank you, commissioner guerrero. yes. i also want to express my support. you know when i was chronically unhoused glyde really supported me a lot and lots of people i know including my my mentors

and i really considered them sort of the sweetheart of san francisco social services and third street is just absolutely an exemplary model of providing services culturally competent so and and to say that as far as public comment talking about prevention the best way to prevent more increase in adult homelessness is to house house youth. so thank you commissioner. as antonio williams a quick question, mr. bracco, you said 75 you hope to serve 75 youth per day. >> are these unique 75 or the same 75 you have any idea? >> tentatively we're saying unique individuals for the 75 this is just a projection. obviously the site's not open yet so we're going to use this first year to really get a good sense of the traffic into the program. >> and how many do you anticipate what the breakdown

to be between male and female or not there? >> i mean how do you see the whole thing? >> we don't have a good sense of that yet so i can't really speak to will be interesting to know thank you very much thank you. >> thank you commissioner dufty yeah i just want to say that donated clothing good clothing is really a high priority. i certainly having a teenager i'm able to channel things to the nav center and i think the same there'll be a clothing bank at at this facility and so i just encourage you to think about that because it makes a huge difference. >> you know i've got someone at home that will like wear a pair of sneakers twice and then be like no, not my style. so it's a good way to to recycle and repurpose green and that's a great community service project for us. thank you so much and i'm just ready to vote so let's entertain a motion to approve this contract. >> i make a motion to approve

this funding for glide second spin move and probably second we're ready to go on agenda item 12 a chair butler how do you vote? vice chair evans high commissioner albright i commissioner asllani and williams high commissioner or deputy commissioner guerrero high commissioner right item 12 a is approved thank you so much. >> thank you. regrets okay the moment we've all been waiting for at least myself i'd like to open up the opportunity for members of the public to wish to make public comment on items that are not on our agenda and now's the time to do so. >> high commissioners and director mcspadden my name is lucas miller. i'm with the coalition on

homelessness as well as the end poverty toes coalition. i just want to express excitement and want to extend, you know, the offer of collaboration between ypsi which is a collection of over 80 community organizations as well as you know, unhoused people themselves who live in vehicles who are trying to end the cycle of poverty toes and of course end the of homelessness and hearing that the department is exploring options to kind of reimagine safe parking is really exciting and we would love to be in collaboration with that as well . you know i want to express some you know of what i have been hearing from folks on the street from folks living around lake merced said around the bay view and in the mission of fear is when they see that the bayview vehicle triage center is closing ten months prior to its contractual and in the same

week that there is an announcement about gerald commons you know the potential for no rv spots or no safe parking spots to be slotted at that site anymore. that leaves us you know, potentially with no safe parking sites and again this is a population that is the fastest growing homeless population in our city. the v.a. really housed 93% of all unsheltered families live in vehicles. this is an intersection of, you know, immigrant rights, a family homelessness rights and we need to, you know, be, you know, in lock step with community around, you know, envisioning solutions and thankfully we can look to really well articulated programs elsewhere in the state and in the country that prioritize the needs of residents and the wants of residents and designing it in a way in which folks feel safe their shared governance structure is even where they have buy in and that they have abilities to guide their their

stay and have direct autonomy and in their safety and in their comfort at these sites. and so again, i just really want to encourage this commission and as well as sage to continue i know that the path for finding safe parking sites in the city has been incredibly bumpy and i just i don't want that to be the reason that we don't continue looking towards progressive solutions. and so again, thank you so much for your work and really exciting to hear that the department is is thinking about reimagine ing things so thank you. >> thank you. >> hello i just wanted to continue on my discussion with the neighborhood issue. i think that it's a good idea to to have like these shelters and in historically in mainly

black and latino like communities but also touch on a bit of my concern like if we were to put shelters in a more majority higher income places and and majority white neighborhoods like what would be the how could we have these people be safer because historically san francisco there has been some anti homeless rhetoric surrounding a lot of these neighborhoods and how could we keep these people safe? >> there has been architecture made park benches taken out of places so what are some things we could do in order to solve a couple of those things? >> and then i wanted to talk about are there any ways we can make crises prevention a bit less predatory because there there is there seems to be this some favoring and there's

there's no issue with that but of drug users in the situation i'm in i've seen a lot of people and a lot of people who think i can be a bit more independent but it's still difficult trying to establish like shelter beds and finding things on my own. so i just wanted to see maybe like how can we make these things a bit less predatory, you know more more for everyone. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. you have one more minute if there's anything comes to mind please feel free to come back up. anyone else has any public comment at this time? hello again. i didn't give them a formal greeting because i was waiting until now. my name is justice jones. i am a servant and son of the most high god which is a force

justice has what we need my strength my grounds are founded in the god of the body. >> this is the banner that i choose and i openly waive. i love everyone. love is a constant. we need to focus and truth and what's inevitably our biggest concern which is in my opinion substance abuse. i've heard i've seen i've walked the streets. it's it's creating a brain disease and brain rot for someone to utilize our open public and and release themself relieve themself. we if we don't focus on that we're beating our feet. hmm. somehow we need to work with

joint efforts. we need to work together to focus on that if we building new institutions and and we're using faith based organizations that don't offer faith based treatment. >> yes, substance treatment can be adjusted or acknowledged by by some form of medical prescriptions. but accountability is what we're talking about response, disability. no, you cannot sit here and do your dope in the public where everyone may be exposed to your cloud and see your error in the comforts of your home. so we have to address these things and stop beating our feet because yes, we're spending money and that's fine sometimes for some people but if we're not going to really help the people that we say will help and then are we beating our feet again going back to the issue earlier about the approvals, that was basically to ensure that the people who need growth, the departments who need growth are not rewarded with further

funding and again that's been a reoccurring issue. so to prevent that and really address the people us myself who need the assistance that that's one way of directing and clarifying those areas. >> lastly i just like to say i appreciate everyone who in truth devote their time we're humans. we can do anything we choose to do with with with respect to law. um um i appreciate everyone who takes the time to truly focus on someone else's life and the expansion thereof. with that being said, god bless you all and thank you for your time. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. that was good. thank you. anyone else who has any comments to make public? >> remote callers? no remote callers. thank you to the members of the public who came to raise your

voice certainly appreciated its places us on items number 14 a nominating committee report by our vice chair evans i'm sorry i didn't put together a formal report for you but in your packet you have this candidate gabriel bellman for seat ten for the shelter grievance advisory committee. >> this is seat ten is a is a slot that is for somebody let me just read the requirement. thank you. >> thank you. shall be held by a person serving as an arbiter of shelter grievances under the shelter grievance policy as

described in article xv111 of chapter 20 of the administrative code i guess that's 18 article 18 chapter 20 and in our conversation this past month commissioner albright and i confirmed that this candidate meets the criteria as somebody that is providing arbitration services to two clients referred to them through the department and we recommended thank you and we recommend that he be confirmed. >> thank you so much. i'm happy to make a motion to approve the committee's recommendation so yes, thank you so much. and i think carson in public he's he could not attend today any members of the public who wish to make comment on this

item. >> no remote callers. okay. ready for the vote on motion to nominate gabriel bellman to seat ten on the shelter grievance advisory committee chair butler how do you vote? >> all right. vice chair evans high commission. all right. i commissioner asllani and williams high commissioner deputy commissioner guerrero high commissioner lackawanna high, gabriel bauman is approved for c ten on the shelter grievance advisory committee. >> thank you and thank you to the nominating committee for the hard work that you've been doing to fill these seats is actually impressive and i want to extend a warm gratitude to secretary about islam because you have been extremely thoughtful in terms of communication with all the nominees and bringing us all together and pulling all the paperwork together. so we're super grateful that we're at this stage. >> thank you. thank you, commissioner, would

we be able to just inform the public of what the available seats? yes, thank you. there's anybody here that would be interested? >> yes. let me read that into the record. >> do you have it in front of you too? it was in the direct, is it? yes, it is. let me grab it from there. >> what's in just for for members? we typically will do this in the directors report but it's also available online as well. but it's a good note to to read it out. >> thank you so much. the local homeless coordinating board does just have one vacant seat that is typically held by somebody that's providing services to people experiencing homelessness or works for a provider of services. additionally, we have one vacant seat which is seat seven for the shelter monitoring

committee seat seven for the shelter monitoring committee shall be held by persons nominated by one or more nonprofit agencies that provide advocacy or organized services for homeless people. >> and then we have a three vacancies now on the shelter grievance advisory committee and that includes seats. here we go two and four two and four shall be held by a person who is homeless or has been homeless within the last three years praying prior to being appointed to the committee and who has a disability and then we have also seat ten that's one we just filled. >> that's it then then maybe we're we're actually three

vacancies and serve yeah so just two vacancies left and if people are interested they can thank you any interested people can contact our commission secretary bridget bateson there's also information on the homeless oversight committee nomination a homeless oversight commission nomination committee website that includes information about how to apply and also has the contact information for our commission secretary thanks. thank you vice chair and we'll move to our next agenda item the our data officer report moved to continue to next month. thank you sir. okay this will place us on item number 17 which is our commission matters any commissioners who wish to propose agenda items for our

next meeting? >> yes. thank you, commissioner dufty. >> thank you. i saw this morning's chronicle had a story about the whistleblower program through the comptroller's office and i thought if possible under the directors report if we could just have a brief report on the whistleblower program and just ensuring that in our role as commissioners that we feel confident that referrals that have been made have been taken seriously. thank you commissioner. any other commissioners wish to propose items for our next meeting? >> i'll just reiterate my interest in engaging in a further conversation about, you know, this potential use of 1500 new shelter beds to ensure that there is a place for people to be relocated to when transferred to when they are destabilizing whether it be in

housing or a shelter. >> thank you. and i would just follow up on commissioner deputy's recommendation around engaging tipping point in terms of what their work has been and to make a suggestion that we include the provider campus in that conversation so that we're understanding from their perspective what the services are going to be which i'm sure is what your intent was. >> thank you. okay. >> any public comment relating to commissions matters? okay. any remote callers? no remote callers and just commissioners. i just want to let you all know in the public know that we are and i think i thank you commissioner albright for making the recommendation. we do have plans to open our meeting in the community and we're looking at some sites and i'm hoping we can plan

something for may just to give community members enough time to prepare and to be present at glide. i believe so, yes. yes. so we'll be in communication with you all on on that that item and last check out my next comment. >> unfortunately i just had a senior moment i feel pretty good yet don't say that and i'll say that you're maybe not senior moment i'm sure. okay well it's nothing too pressing i'm sure but certainly thank you all for your time and especially to members of the public for coming out and speaking your truth and so and also to the commissioners for your engagement and dialog. and at this time i will ask for a motion to adjourn. >> so seconded.

>> okay. meeting is adjourned. thank you so much. thank you. thank you order. good morning to everybody. every month i go through this. good morning everyone. good morning. >> i'm of the persuasion when someone says good morning you say it back. good morning. and welcome to the march 6th, 2025 homelessness oversight commission regular meeting. certainly a great to see

everyone who's here today and good morning to our commissioners. >> as our custom we start with the acknowledgment that lending knowledge the san francisco homelessness and oversight commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the roman jewish aloni who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land in accordance with their traditions the roman tisha alone we have never seated lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all the people 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 roman tisha, loni community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. now we'll turn over to our commissioned secretary to advise the public of our public comment policy. call the roll and read out read a sound producing device statement. >> thank you, chair. good morning and thank you for

joining us. this meeting is being held both in hybrid format and in person at city hall in room 416 and broadcasted live on s.f. gov tv. members of the public attending in person as well as remotely will have an opportunity to provide public comment specific to each presentation as well as general public comment. members of the public who wish to provide public comment remotely will be heard in the order that commenters add themselves to the queue. commenters will have up to three minutes to comment after each agenda item unless otherwise noted by the chair. to comment remotely the phone number to use today is (415) 655-0001 access code 26616209159 that's 26616209159 press pound twice to enter the queue when your item is called press star three to raise your hand please wait until the host calls on you to speak and speak clearly and ensure that you are in a quiet location. best practices are to turn off

any tvs or computers around you . thank you for your cooperation commissioners this places you on item to roll call please respond with present when i call your name chair jonathan butler butler present vice chair kristin evans present evans present commissioner katie albright is not present yet commissioner jeannie deena as lonnie and williams present as lonnie and williams present commissioner bevan dufty here deputy present commissioner joaquin guerrero present caruso present commissioner sharkey look want to present on a present please note this is san francisco department of homelessness and supportive housing executive director shereen mcspadden is present. commissioners we have a quorum . this place is on item three announcements of sound producing devices during the meeting the use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or similar sound producing devices. thank you for your cooperation.

this places you on item four announcement by the chair. >> thank you commissioner. secretary this is the month of march. i want to highlight and recognize all the women who do the great work especially in our department on commission. as you can see this commission is gender balanced and so we certainly highlight and recognize the women who make an impact even on our commission but also in our department with the history mcspadden and all the chiefs that are women which is certainly representative of this department. and so i just wanted to highlight all those women who work in this space to do the good work for our community and want to recognize you for this on this month i'd like to also open it up to commissioners to provide any comments if they wish to do so . >> any communications from the commissioners? >> i kind of just want to clap

for the women if that's okay. >> of course i can certainly then like thank you. okay we will now turn to item six is adoption of the february 14th, 2025 meeting minutes. are there any comments or questions from the commissioners regarding the february 14th 2025 meeting minutes i move to approve the minutes and then move and probably second all those in favor please indicate by the sign of i i not oppose the ayes have it so order in this place is item seven and the house each employee recognition today for this month of march we will recognize rayna mackinnon from the hca office of administration and finance for the month of march 2025.

i'm sure i, i mean try it now just to just 15 testing, testing, testing. >> go. all right. well, this is this is the favorite part of the meeting for me too. i know it is for chair butler so so our march employee recognition goes to rayna mackinnon who's our city our home budget manager. rayna was nominated by christine rowan and cricket miller and rayna works on the budget team so rayna, i'm just going to read what people said about you which i know you've heard this already, but it's it's really wonderfully worded . so rayna plays an essential role in ensuring the financial

stability and planning of our department as a key member of the budget team, she provides critical support in managing complex funding streams including the our city our home prop c budget of over $300 million. her expertise allows program staff to navigate financial planning with confidence ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximize impact. she plays a pivotal role not only in managing the budget process for this fund but she but also in analyzing and drafting programmatic budget proposals researching program models and working closely with program teams across the entire department. she brings clarity to a highly technical and confusing area of work making budgets more accessible and actionable for the department. >> raina's work has significantly improved the department's ability to develop and manage budgets efficiently, reducing the burden on programs, staff and leadership she really values collaboration and partnership and this is evident in the relationship she

has developed with program staff before she stepped in the team often found themselves fielding endless questions about financials but thanks to her guidance, questions and meetings are now more streamlined. her ability to understand and deep knowledge of multiple funding sources particularly prop c has been invaluable in aligning financial resources with strategic priorities ensuring that programs can focus on service delivery without financial roadblocks. raina's contributions go beyond just numbers she creates a sense of stability and support in an area that can often be overwhelming to program staff. her ability to translate complex budget details into understandable insights has improved our decision making process overall is a team is truly dedicated to the mission of sage and she uses her analytical and technical skills as a tool for reporting out that on that mission her dedication, subject matter expertise and support have been

instrumental in the success of our team and in maintaining the fiscal sustainability of sage programing. she brings patients expertise and a collaborative spirit to her work making a tremendous difference and i just also want to give a shout out in general to the budget team, to christine and her team because this is really timely, rayna, that you're getting this honor because the budget team just finished the budget and well the work is actually never done but the budget was just submitted to the mayor's office and then we continue the work. but i know it was a real haul and big lift to get that in. it always is and so i just want to thank the budget team in general for the amazing work that you do. and rayna, thank you so much for the work that you do for hsa and congratulations on being our limelight awardee for the month of march and you get the actual award later but

today you get this really nice certificate so that's right. >> yeah. yeah. okay. here you go. congratulations. you want to say anything? you should. okay. congratulations again to rayna for this recognition. >> now this place is us on item eight directors report and so i hand it over to our executive director mix better. thank you, chair. >> good morning, commissioners. it's good morning. i will get started as soon as it is. >> so as usual my presentation today will include our regular update information on our collaborations and we're going

to focus in today on our collaboration with the human services agency in our series of kind of giving you a little bit more information about our collaborations and then we'll have some updates on mayoral initiatives and priorities. and while we are going to give you some deeper dive information about our work with different departments, i want to say that i'm very aware that you you know even though we did a deep dive last month on our partnership with d h i think we heard that you would like to have a deeper conversation and so we will work with them and hopefully get some folks from here to give you a deeper dive presentation on the work that we're doing with department of public health. >> so i'll move into my updates on the data related to each component of the homelessness response system and some corresponding programmatic updates. >> so in january the san francisco homeless outreach

team or hot conducted 227 housing assessments connected nine households to long term housing made 203 placements. the shelter conducted 3545 engagements and distributed 8241 engagement tools and resources including food, water and hygiene materials. h s h is also working closely with other city departments to achieve mayor laurie's vision of streamlining streamlining the city street response team s.f. hart plays a critical role in the city's outreach strategy and provides key staffing for multiple multiple multidisciplinary street teams. we look forward to working with our partners to develop a more, more effective way to develop more effective ways to use our resources and i look forward to sharing more information at future commission meetings. probably the next one will have a pretty big update for you in january and february. osage activated our inclement

weather protocol five times over nine days during these activations the homeless outreach team is responsible for conducting increased wellness checks, handing out emergency blankets and ponchos and checking for symptoms related to hyper hypothermia also offering available placements into shelters and drop in centers providing information to unsheltered individuals on where and when walk up shelter can be accessed ,assessed sorry access and then offering transportation and vouchers to clients in need of transport as needed. also referring people to additional respite centers if available and adding staff shifts as needed and then of course letting people know about the availability of journey home. why does my slide look different from that one? it's the same. it's the same content. >> okay. one of mayor laurie's

priorities have been has been to address conditions particularly on sixth street. i'm sure you've heard about that in the news this is a multi departmental effort coordinated through the drug market agency coordination center or d mack h. s h and the homeless outreach team play an important role in the collaboration and in our work really is focused on dedicating resources to the area and making sure that people have access to shelter, dedicating shelter beds daily to that zone, co-locating journey home at the triage tent which is on sixth street and then working with our shelter and housing operators on sixth street we have quite a few there to live up to the good neighbor policies in their contracts and that means really making sure that the perimeters of their of their properties are clean. >> the city next slide the city is effectively connecting people on sixth street with services daily. on average the collaborative

group is making 432 outreach encounters daily making 9.5 shelter placements daily and making 61 health connections daily. the number of coordinated entry assessments conducted in january was 1231, which is a record high for the last 14 months 75% of these assessments were for adults, 15% for families and 10% for young adults. >> there will be another project homeless connect event on march 26th at the bill graham auditorium where homeless service providers will be available to the public for problem solving, coordinated entry assessments and for general triage as coordinated entry develops its communication materials direct household feedback is critical to ensuring information is person centered and transparent in coordination with the various access points. coordinated entry is planning to hold focus groups with

adults, families and youth on their experience with the coordinated entry system and in january hca and its partners provided homelessness prevention services for 149 households so far this fiscal year 1481 households have received homelessness prevention services funded by the department. one of our key present day one of our key prevention tools is the san francisco emergency rental assistance program or sap erap that is a partnership between hsa and the mayor's office of housing and community development this past month we served 308 households with an average assistance of $5,244 per household 90% of those who received assistance identified as people of color and 70% had previously experienced homelessness. our early attempts to analyze outcomes from our prevention

assistance are very promising for clients provided prevention assistance from hsa and in fiscal year 22 only 12% saw homelessness response system services within 24 months of receiving prevention assistance. we look forward to continuing to analyze this data and also look forward to including measures of recidivism in our new performance measurement plan. >> in the last six months we've resolved homelessness for 458 unique households through problem solving with about $1.4 million in financial assistance . we have seen the number of problem solving resolutions declined significantly in the last few months and this is largely due to the narrowing of eligible uses of the funds in november 2020 for problem solving providers experienced significant budget challenge challenges because they overspent their resources earlier in the year problem solving providers were on track to exhaust our yearly budget

before the end of the calendar year december 2024 the program was restructured to ensure problem solving funds were available for the entire fiscal year. this consisted of restructuring problem solving to focus on funding travel and relocation and moving assistance for prioritized populations. since the change in prioritization sage and provider staff have been continuously evaluating the provider spend down and the impact clients due to the close monitoring of spending in the problem solving portfolio we will be updating our guidance to providers as per the mayors executive order travel and relocation assistance will continue to be offered prior to all other interventions travel and relocation resolutions will continue to be a prioritized funding category for the remaining problem solving funds problem solving financial assistance for transitional age youth will resume funding the full scope of problems problem solving interventions h s h is also updating our guidance for

problem solving financial assistance for adults adults may seek full scope problem solving services at hospitality house given the overspend issue the adult access points will continue to offer a more limited scope of problem solving under their fiscal agent agreement with the abode. based on our existing prioritization and categories for families, family access points are able to use problem solving funds to support families with lease resolutions . family access points will continue to offer a more limited scope of problem solving under their fiscal age an agreement with abode based on our existing prioritization categories families and shelters can access problem solving funds for moving assistance through their shelter care manager. >> and just moving on to housing now h s h funds 13,442 units of housing across our system of care including site based supportive housing scattered sites, supportive

housing, rapid rehousing and the housing ladder program . the overall inventory is available on our website via the link included in this slide . >> in january we moved 146 people into housing within the homelessness response system 102 were adults. 21 were families with children and 23 were young adults. so far this fiscal year 1301 households have moved out of homelessness and into hsa funded housing. >> as of february 16th, 2025, hca which has an 8.5% vacancy rate in our site based supportive housing portfolio of the 739 vacancies 2284 have move ins and process 386 are offline and only 69 or 0.8% are available for referral. the low number of vacant units that are ready for referral is a reflection of the work that

hca and our provider partners have done to improve the housing placement process and reduce barriers to placement. over the past several months we've been very focused on bringing online units that have been offline for 90 plus days since issuing the corrective action letters to housing providers in december and offering up to $10,000 per unit in repair funds. 133 of the original 447 units that had been offline for 90 plus days have been brought back online with plans for the remaining 14 to be online by the end of march. the ongoing challenge though is that during the same time period more units fell into the category of long term offline i.e. offline for 90 plus days. while hca and the housing providers have done important work to bring many of these long term offline units back online, we need to do more to ensure that units never reach that 90 days threshold in the first place. turning over vacant units more efficiently is increasingly critical as we have significantly reduced the

number of available units that are offline to less than 1%. and we need these units for people that are coming off the streets and out of the shelters and then moving on to shelter across the shelter system on february 25th. hca had 3641 shelter beds and a 92% occupancy rate overall. if you look at the interactive tool on our website, you will also see that adult schulte shelters and now centers have a 96% occupancy rate higher than the systemwide average. as you probably know, hca closed the vehicle triage center at candlestick point state recreation area this week . >> hca in partnership with urban alchemy and baby hunter's point foundation has operated the vehicle three hour center since january 2022. since opening the site this since opening the site has served 132 households living in their vehicles. as part of our support for

guests in the program, the onsite provider offered case management, housing assistance, benefits advocacy, employment assistance, medical referrals and vehicle repair. when hca began the process of closing the program, everyone on site was offered permanent housing rental rental subsidies ,alternative shelter and or relocation assistance. prior to the closure of the site, as we began to wind down the program in december 2020 for the hca shelter team and the onsite providers worked closely with guests to plan for the next steps in track where guests were exited to. there were 42 guests on site when we began the wind down this week. all but two guests left with their clear plan with a clear plan and destination. >> all other guests either completed an intervention or are continuing to work toward their housing placement. >> specific exit destinations 11 guests left after receiving vehicle repair.

five guests went to shelter while waiting for their housing placement and that's either rapid rehousing or permanent supportive housing. six guests left directly to permanent housing. four of those two project based permanent housing two to section eight housing 15 guests declined a shelter offer upon exit but are continuing their housing placement process and are in the queue for rapid rehousing or permanent supportive housing. two guests went to stay with friends or family while waiting for their housing placements. one guest exited to jail. two guests declined offer offers and exited without a clear plan without a clear follow up plan. we'll continue to work with the former guests to support their transition to housing shelter journey home and other paths to stability. many of the guests were referred to the vehicle triage center by the homeless outreach team and the and hot therefore has strong relationships with those individuals. the opening operations and wind down of this project has been tremendously challenging

and while we have learned a lot we've also learned that we need a multi-pronged approach to addressing the vehicular based homelessness and that safe parking alone can not solve the crisis. and we really want to thank the hca teams involved with this with the vtc and the providers for their work on the project. our learnings will greatly inform future strategies for vehicular homelessness. >> and then mayor lori has established a goal of creating 1500 interim housing beds to address the immediate needs of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. >> the vision for this effort is to improve the short term homelessness response system by adding 1500 interim housing beds to provide immediate support for the unhoused community and to improve the city's ability to move people off the streets into a safe location and ultimately on a path to secure housing. to do this we are assessing

seeing the needs of the unsheltered population relative to the existing inventory. we are determining the right mix of shelter types to meet the needs of the community. assessing the site options for these beds and building consensus and implementing a detailed action plan with clear milestones under the leadership of the mayor's office at sage and the department of public health are embarking on this effort under the guiding principles of aligning services and program types with the need and existing resources to manage maximize impact in integration and emphasizing geographic equity by strategically distributing services across neighborhoods to foster vibrant, equitable communities. optimizing operational efficiency to ensure responsible stewardship of public resources and building transparent accountable partnerships between the city and service providers to strengthen service delivery. and so just to give you a little bit of flavor of this, we are meeting weekly so we have a weekly meeting with kunal mody who's the policy

chief for the mayor on homelessness and public health and a bunch of other things. we're meeting with the department of public health and we're actively in partnership going out to look at a variety of sites and and you know just looking at options for the shot for this interim housing and i think it'll i'm really excited about it because one of the things that we've wanted to do for a long time is really work on street homelessness and get people off the streets. this is very much aligned with our home by the bay plan and we'll have more details about this plan as it starts to roll out. so we'll look for that in the next in the coming months. and then city departments are actively conducting our site visits as i just said to evaluate properties for use as interim housing based on the criteria list listed on this slide.

we're also using a set of site parameters also listed here to narrow in on sites that could function as shelter. we're taking a deeply analytical approach to identifying possible sites for an interim housing expansion and that means looking at our populations and really trying to think about what our various populations need you know, what what interventions work the best for those specific populations and then trying to match that up with what's available across the city. >> the mayor's vision for expansion will help us meet the needs of our community include sorry including those waiting for shelter as of late february 2020 as of late february 2020 for what? >> okay. as of february late 2025 there were 535 people on the adult shelter waitlist a significant increase from previous months. last month it was 390 and 20 and 248. the month prior in january 543

adults joined the waitlist. the average time on the waitlist was 11 days for people who accepted placement offers no change. that's no change from the last three months. in january 102 people were placed into shelter from the reservation system on the family side. on february 24th there were 318 families on the shelter waitlist in january 132 families joined the shelter waitlist in january 32nd families were moved off the waitlist and into family shelters while more data on our shelter waitlist included in the appendix slides which you all have as you know and we talked we've talked about this multiple times now that in december the department rolled out a series of reforms to the family homelessness response system. the purpose of the reforms is to improve efficiency and better meet the needs of families in our community.

these reforms will help increase the flow of families through the system and connect them with long term housing solutions more quickly. as part of the reform package, h. s h changed the shelter waiting list eligibility and prioritization to focus on families living in the dire situations including unsheltered homelessness. h s h has also reinstated the pre-covid shelter length of stay limit of 90 days the department will be tracking families shelter data closely to re to evaluate the impact of these policy changes on family homelessness since the implementation of the policies the department is already seeing some improvements in the system and are happy to report that families are not being exited from shelter without viable housing placements prior to exit. the public narrative on the policy change has been negative and challenging yet the early data we are seeing on the impacts does not support the narrative. in december 2020 for the first month of implementation 44 families moved off the shelter waitlist and into shelter. this is more than double the

number of families that moved off the list each month from july to november. >> looking at the early data from five family shelters or programs from december 2024 to march 2025, no families from these shelters have been exited from family shelter without housing because of the 90 day length of stay. we know that some families have received notices that the end of their shelter stay will be in march. we are working closely with the providers to ensure that all families eligible for extensions receive them. hhs collecting the data from family shelter providers and will be systematically tracking tracking the impact of these policies on families experiencing homelessness and on the families shelter system overall. and we look forward to sharing this data with all of you and also learning from it. and i just want to say, you know, we know that while we see this data we still hear from families that there's confusion and so we're continuing to work

with all of the providers, all the family providers to make sure that the case management case managers are really engaging in the way that they should and that families are really getting the right information. so we understand that we're not there yet. we feel very strongly that this is the right policy and we also know we still have work to do in terms of the communications because we continue to hear that families aren't understanding how to access the extensions and you know, obviously they're fearful. >> so we'll continue working on that issue. >> i wanted to move on to denial of service. last month commissioners asked for an update on shelter denials of service and how many of these exits can be attributable to mental illness or substance use disorder. while we cannot specifically attribute denials denial of service to either mental illness or substance use disorder, we wanted to provide you the most common reasons that providers deny service at our shelters.

this data is for the 24 adult or transitional age youth shelters. as you can see here, most the most common reason a shelter denial service is due to acts of violence. with just under half of instances relating to this or other common reasons for denials of service include making threats of violence disruptive behavior that presents a clear risk of the to the safety of the facility or property destruction. and you know, i'd also just want to say as i said earlier, that one of the one of the things that i'm very excited about that mayor laurie is very focused on is really this kind of lockstep relationship between hsa and age. and so i think as we see that roll out, we'll start to get better information about that not only denials of service but just general issues in shelter and start to really be able to be a little bit more nuanced in terms of our responses, our proactive and reactive responses to issues in the

shelters. so again, like we look forward to bringing you more information about that and kind of how we're thinking with you about how to how to really address some of these issues because we know that just exiting people from shelter back to the street is not the response and we also have a situation where often where our providers are not you know, can't focus all of their resources on one individual at the expense of others. so we want to continue figuring out what the right approach is there. so we've got some additional updates for kelly. last month we were excited to detail some of the ways we partner with the department of public health to provide services across our homelessness response system. today i'm happy to announce that through our collective collaboration with the department of public health we are now able to build certain hsa services to medi-cal through the san francisco health plan. this is something our team has been working on for several years now unlocking more funds

for housing navigation services and homelessness prevention efforts is really important to the work we do. kathleen stands for california advancing and innovating medi-cal. and while it sounds like sounds great i mean those of you who've worked with claim it all know that improvement is an innovation is in the eye of the beholder. >> there are a lot of things there that are great and exciting and promising and it's really challenging and and still complicated as the medicaid system is. and so i really want to thank our staff who've worked so hard on this and i also think that and and the housing i'm sorry the health plan so housing supports programs recognizes housing as a major to determinant of health which actually is a big new step for the medicaid program and and stable housing for all means a healthier california. so there are a number of ways that we can engage with kellum and we're really working to

maximize our access to the claim resources. >> and then in last month's presentation i highlighted our collaborations with again the department of public health this month i really want to talk about the ways that the department collaborates with the human services agency. so we've collaborated with hca and the department of public health to do form to form the multi-discipline area team to bring an array of public benefits services and housing directly to clients at temporary shelters. these linkages connect clients to county services such as cal fresh and medi-cal ssi advocacy, coordinated entry and in-home supportive services among others. our successes include 252 shelter or navigation center guests enrolled in the mdt, 195 guests enrolled in ssi. 21 guests awarded ssi 47 people connected with home safe

and 535 mdt clients that have been housed. the average mdt client has an average of 171 days from an rollman to housing placement and then the collaborative caregiver support team program began in 2022 and is a partnership between the department of homelessness and supportive housing and the human services agency. the program is embedded in permanent supportive housing. the program was born out of a growing need for support for formerly homeless people who need home care as they oftentimes have complex health issues that could have an impact on their housing by helping patients with performing daily tasks meals and house cleaning. the program seeks to support residents at permanent supportive housing sites and to prevent the reoccurrence of homelessness. >> the collaborative care support team caregiver support teams are currently in 72 permanent.

>> just last may in 72 permanent supportive housing sites and in nine in-home supportive services social workers are assigned to the teams. together they are serving 1662 supportive housing tenants and have enrolled 588 new people into in-home supportive services. >> and then our access pilot program ihs serves low income medi-cal eligible older adults and people with disabilities who are at risk for premature institutionalization. ihs is seeing a growing need to support formerly homeless san franciscans who struggle to maintain their housing. ihs promotes both housing stability and the overall well-being of formerly homeless residents by focusing on room habitability, helping pch residents maintain their units and therefore potentially prevent their eviction. complex health needs the ihs assistance helps tenants to remain independent by

supporting their health and self-care needs before launching the pilot. ihs has served roughly 30% of the city's single adult pch residents. >> however, data suggests that many eligible pch residents were not accessing ihs despite being eligible. perspective ihs says clients struggle with navigating what can be a bureaucratic eligibility process due to federal regulations and assessments. requirements for ihs. this results in a higher rate of denial of service of ages to services 26% of pch applicants are denied access services as opposed to only 15% of non pch applicants. ihs says is a win for the clients because it supports their dignity and allows them to remain housed. it's also beneficial for the city as well because the program is heavily subsidized by the federal and state governments and allows us to reach more clients in need. in an effort to overcome these

obstacles to enrollment and support housing stability started with a small pilot program that created a specialized ihs, a social worker unit targeting clients relocating from cip hotels into permanent housing. our hope is that this integrated service delivery model will help stabilize older adults and those with disabilities who reside in pch sites with needed services and in many cases help prevent eviction. we started this partnership with a small pilot program that served about 150 clients across a handful of buildings. >> in june we expanded the pilot pilot to dozens of housing sites and then the home safe program provides adult protective services clients experience experiencing or at imminent risk of homelessness with intensive case management and other supportive services to help keep them safely and stable housed in the community. the program works to stabilize tenants and prevent eviction through intensive case management and other services

to support housing stability placement and long term care facilities for pch residents and individuals living in private residences who can no longer safely live in an independent setting with available support. intensive case management focused on housing readiness, temporary housing and stabilization in room with wraparound services, transition to pch or other permanent housing including long term care placement as appropriate with ongoing wraparound services until stabilized home safe services can include purchase of goods and services like deep cleaning, pest abatement or home modification. financial assistance such as payment of rental deposits or arrears utility bills etc.. legal assistance to prevent eviction referral to other social and housing services that promote safety and stability in the community. and long term care placement in an assisted living facility or skilled nursing facility. if determined that they can no

longer live safely in an independent setting with available support. >> commissioner dufty i'm looking at you because you and i have these conversations for over a decade maybe close to two. so that you might be excited to hear this. >> and then despite all of the rhetoric out of the federal government, sage remains deeply ,deeply committed to our diversity equity inclusion work within the department and throughout the homelessness response system. as we know, people experiencing people of color and lgbt people are way over overrepresented in the homelessness response system and we continue to work on our efforts to advance equity in our system. the hrc equity team is looking for submissions for speakers at our monthly intersectional diversity talks. if you or you know anyone who would like to submit or speak please email the hrc equity office and we would love to

hear from you and just want to shift over now to our legislative update. we've got a lot going on at the state, local and federal levels that we are following closely in regard to state laws legislature. and last month i shared that assembly member bonta introduced assembly bill 315 which would expand the availability of a medi-cal waiver program that allows the department to provide in-home care to residents of permanent supportive housing with intensive medical needs. at the state legislation committee last month, the city confirmed it would be submitting its support for this bill. another bill assembly bill 804 would make housing supports a covered medi-cal benefit in recognition recognition of stable housing as a determinant of health and then local legislation. now until sorry this month we will introduce five grant agreements to extend and expand our housing programs. later in april april we will have three other similar pieces

of legislation moving. we also have legislation going to the board of supervisors this month including two leases for non congregate homeless shelter at a downtown the monarch the behest and payments waiver which authorizes the department to solicit donations from private organizations to support the expansion of temporary shelter and other homeless services. a memorandum of understanding with the port commission for the waterfront navigation center and interim housing ordinance which would allow private hotels that are temporarily use the shelter to retain their tourist status after the shelter program closes. and then some updates from the other advisory bodies the local homeless coordinating board has one vacant seat most the most recently met monday of this week where the ccb went over the new anti-violence and weapons policy among other topics. the next meeting for the alleged will be on monday april

7th at 11 a.m. at room in this room. and then the shelter monitoring committee has one vacancy seat which is seat seven. the next meeting will be march 19th 2025 at 10 a.m. in room 28408 in city hall and the topics will be reasonable accommodation at shelters. the complaint process and annual and quarterly reports. and then the shelter grievance advisory committee has four vacant seats. their next meeting will be tuesday, march 11th from 230 to 430 and bridgette, is that at hcr? okay. topic the nominations of a new chair and vice chair finalizing bylaws and filling vacant seats and then our human resources update we have 256 ftas and 19

vacant positions. on january 9th mayor laurie announced an immediate citywide hiring freeze and hsa vacant positions were frozen. 19 of our position vacancies were unfrozen in mid-february which we're very thankful for and this is a testament to the importance of these roles in reducing homelessness and achieving the mayor's current priorities. >> and i just want to thank you and we can move on to questions . >> thank you. thank you to our executive director mcspadden for the comprehensive of report and before our commissioners ask any questions or provide comments i want to open up to our public general public comment around the items that just were mentioned by our director. if there are any members of the public who wish to make public comment at this time so grant

rosin the better part of me knows better than to laugh for the entire three minutes that i've been given to respond for about 30 minutes of things to digest. but i want to start off with ms.. mcspadden and thank you for not responding to my emails or my calls, sir. >> so you can you can direct your comments to me as a chair. but i will i would express to everyone individually so no one feels left out with equality. yeah. okay. well, she was speaking so i'm responding to what she spoke about, that's why thank you. um, inevitably i understand with speaking to a lot of the

captains there would be a big shift to the shelters. the guidelines that you said that would be that were spoken about to be updated. oh, we should we should hear more from the people who reside at these shelters. i've taken on upon myself many case loads at the shelter where i reside at on the back of it it says we see the unseen and i don't know why because there's a lot of things that's intentionally being neglected. i all i hear is money, money, money and numbers. i will be back to respond about more of this. i see a minute and 26 seconds but the access point that i went to told me that unless someone dies is evicted or is arrested where months behind time. so i question that with all of this being said, are we really

ready to address the output for the input that's coming? there's many things again officers are moving people from the streets. and my point my biggest point are we really assessing do we have the proper place for the people? do we have the proper training for the people because there are people who need to be uplifted in the mind and brought back and outside of our personal preferences in our lives we need to instill a sense of godliness. i've talked to many people who say demons are attacking them. i'm scared to go to sro and i would never go to sro because i want a one bedroom apartment as personal 29 seconds. >> so i've heard and talked to many people that theft is on the rise so we need serious security. i've seen my friend who's in the hospital a second time because there's a big bug going on in our shelter that's being not attended to. he denied the sro because it stank and there was just

infestation of drug abuse so we need serious security to to prevent the drug abuse that we allow. >> i'm done for now. >> thank you. any other members of the public who wish to make public comment ? yeah, he's in part also making reference about the shelter training manual. of course that document how many years behind is it? i'm guessing ten. the other thing too is i guess i'm going to like the housing ladder. what happened with the housing ladder? i'm last i heard it was closed but we need to figure out how to get that open because it's like i'm wondering how many people will leave there housing

and go back to the streets because they don't like the area sales when there should be an opportunity to move up the housing ladder and i guess my other issue is is we're talking about like how people leave the shelter system. you're going to the streets dying, going to jail. but what about the turnover for the housing? i mean so what's what's happening with that? are they are they dying or going to jail? they just don't you know, something's going wrong where they want to move back to the streets. i knew one person who they just chose to be homeless because the place was infested with bedbugs. so i think we should just get more information as to why people are leaving the the housing.

>> i'm also wondering how the city contracts are being are monitoring the housing units in part i'm thinking about the 12 l section of the san francisco administrative code where the service providers are supposed to have meetings with the community i was told by i was told by a tenant that glyde blocked them from a public meeting regarding oh like their board meeting. so it's like when do these boards actually take any time will voice from the community so i just seen it is like there's contract violations that are happening and it just seems like they're not being monitored. thank you for your comment.

i just wanted to say that i've been going through homelessness for a for about three years now and it is not been easy trying to establish stable housing and i think that there's a bigger issue a larger issue, a bigger picture that we're not seeing here not only pertaining to drug abuse but also mental health and that there have been a lot of unfair i would say people using their power, people who work within the homeless system that have been unfairly painting people out to be aggressors and everything and i think that that's wrong. >> i think that there has been a lot of just disadvantages

and not a lot of clear things going on. it's not only a drug crisis, there's also been a mental health crisis and a lot of just pointing the finger and i believe that more people should be able to to voice themselves and their concerns and also should not just be kicked out on the fly because of those things. >> and i for one suffer with immune system issues. >> so so a lot of these gentlemen were right that a lot of these places are not very clean or not very cleanly and hygienic and i think that there should be more put into these programs. thank you. thank you. >> any other members of the public who wish to make public comment and just be reminded there would be an opportunity for general public comment later on in the meeting and so if there are any things that

are not on the agenda that you wish to raise as well, i offer the community to stick around and offer those comments. i like to open it up to our commissioners for any comments or questions. commissioner dufty thank you. >> thank you. director mcspadden and definitely the the presentation slides as it relates to you know, getting more coordination in terms of high need older folks that it is something that we've we've wanted to see for a long time. i thought i would just bring up the issues that were discussed at the last commission meeting by megan raw and marni reagan about the problem solving situation and and you talked about the fact that abound had sort of accelerated disbursements and that it it caused some problems and so i, i was kind of wondering like how are we dealing with that

and what possibility is there? i mean we agreed as as commissioners to go and talk with the board of supervisors is we i want to have a meeting with the president of the board to show respect for his new role and to see what advice he would have about it. but you know, from a dollars and cents standpoint it just seems like taking our foot off the gas so to speak is is problematic because the results of what we've seen with problem solving particularly for a youth and for families has just been so spectacular. and so i just wondered as as we try and look at how we can get this moving for the remainder of this fiscal year, what thoughts there might be and as to how we can approach that. >> sure. i think we can have somebody come up and answer speaking to them. mike moore okay. sorry high commissioners

marianne sanders chief deputy with h. s.h. thanks for the question. as director misspelling mentioned in her report, we're going to be having a meeting with our problem solving providers related to just budget availability for problem solving in general. specifically i don't want to go into too much detail but i want to make sure that everyone would say more detail is better yes for me. >> so yeah, i want to just make sure that everyone understands that we've been monitoring our budgets very closely. we're going to be opening up the threshold for take specific usage of all funding categories because we do have some budget available for that and so we're going to be having a meeting with the providers to actually discuss the process in in the changes. but so that's one piece of it. and then families were kind of still under the same threshold that we were.

but those are the the most latest updates related to problem solving. >> and so for today you sort of have a path where you're hoping that there may be reserve funds for other purposes for the remaining of the fiscal year. >> yes. okay. and how soon will that be happening? when how soon is the meeting within the next next week. next week? >> yep. great. thank you so much. i appreciate that. >> so don't you have commissioner? yeah. i just wonder if you could add you said that you were just talking about something specific and you said it was spectacular. can you say more what you were referring to except when i'm sure i understand what? >> yeah. so i actually asked the providers to share some perspective on what was happening with problem solving that if you know that folks have barriers and yeah i'm happy to to reflect on that yeah because i think if there's good things happening i would love for the public to really kind of hear about it as well and for me to know a little bit more about what you're talking

about. >> sure. >> so if you need a minute so commissioners so so as was discussed this is a response to barriers that are coming up and so it's 2% of the families who receive problem solving support remain stably housed 12 months after services were provided, compass family services provided problem solving support to 128 families spending an average of 4346 per family 4864 for move in and 1337 for relocation. so examples are 2830 and move in assistance enabled a parent and their child to move out of a domestic violence shelter and then to market rate housing $506 in relocation funds helped a parent and their child moved from living on the streets into housing with their family 5685

and move in assistance enabled a parent with two children who are fleeing domestic violence to move from the streets and a car to market rate housing 7454 and move in assistance enabled a family of six who were sleeping on a friend's couch to move into the market rate housing. so you know that's just on the family side. there's you know quite a bit of support that's been provided on the t side and i think that the most important element of this is that, you know, when when you solve these problems you're removing barriers that are keeping folks from being housed in the system can be very complicated and there can be small things that cause big problems. >> and so you know, i think we all feel like this is a very good program and you know, it's encouraging to hear that that we are looking internally. but it may also i guess i'm also wondering about the initiative that was in the press this week about sam cobb

and tipping point and some of that sounded like it could be for problem solving and i guess maybe that's a question to ask or are we in discussion with tipping point as to what their funding and what the relevancy could be to help with immediate problem solving? yeah, i think so. it's very exciting. that tipping point announced the $11 million i think there this is a pilot and they want to see how you know obviously compass family services is the lead there and they want to see how this works and and part of what they're trying to do is think about nontraditional partners. and so the partners that compass will be working with obviously they're a more traditional partner with us but i've also been a partner with tipping point for 19 years. they you know, it's really an attempt to see if there are other ways that people access the system. right. and some of the community organizations that really serve different specific populations

. and so i think it'll be exciting to see how that works in terms of how the dollars are used, i don't think we have that information yet but but we can certainly find out could we invite maybe a tipping point to come and do a presentation because we really haven't have funders come to us and we'd be nice and sweet and you know just to give them an opportunity to come and talk with us a bit about it just sure that's something we can look into. >> okay. and then and the last point i just want to bring up is from the public comment speakers i don't know if this is something we could talk to the comptroller's office. i've always been, you know, very focused on them because they are the city services auditor. you know what sort of mechanisms could come to play in in terms of housing quality and for me healthy buildings what separates buildings that that are healthy that people would want to live in versus those that are more problem you know, just problematic and almost less safe than the streets are so so i i think it

would be interesting i can say like one time i had the jay church audited. it's something you don't think about like a train that just doesn't show up. you know, you have to figure things out. and i think that this notion of what makes a healthy building and looking at you know, how do we survey and get the feedback from individuals that are in the system because i think that that's really important. so i think we'd be happy to help. >> yeah, i mean i think there's an opportunity to look at the whole portfolio and really understand you know, which buildings are sustainable over time and which ones are not and that's i think what you're asking i mean yeah. thank you, commissioner. second commissioner guerrero's next and then yeah, thank you so much commissioner labonte who did check in with me to see if you could ask clarifying questions so go ahead commissioner dufty those were some very powerful numbers that you just said very like

impactful. i'm wondering if there's an opportunity here as we explore this and expanding this. i would imagine the resources are you know, clearly not as large as we would like them to be and they're not able to serve everybody that we we would like them to be able to serve as we move forward on this. i guess a question for you and for the department and for the providers would be can we identify the cohorts that we would like to serve and then the ones that we are unable to serve, can we also track outcomes with them so that we can gain an understanding of the efficacy of these these interventions? i think that's a really important input in terms of being able to make a an argument for scaling these these interventions up because if that's even right 5% of the

time that is a remarkably efficient and wonderful intervention that will have a huge impact on people's lives and i would like to see that be expanded as much as possible. >> so mr. chairman, i, i don't know if i could invite ms.. reagan to come up and speak. she was the speaker last month that was here. i don't know if the things that you would want to add in response to commissioner laguardia's points and then i know the director will want to weigh in as well i commissioners marni regan larkin street youth services co-chair of hesburgh yeah it's the non lease resolutions the restrictions on that that are really disproportionate the impact take a lot of the youth who have been getting problem solving they just don't have

names on leases because they're so young so you know they're staying with friends or family. couch surfing doubled up but they don't have a rent bill to pay. so they're using things they've have been using problem solving for things like utility bills or chipping in cash to to whoever they're saying with gas cards, grocery cards. some of use it for furniture and household items when they get a roommate. but the as commissioner dufty said in november when they changed the restrictions resolutions among t dropped 82% like it just they just fell off a cliff so i really appreciate this discussion it's a it really is a cost effective prevention intervention. we're literally keeping youth housed and out of the homeless response system and being able to focus on getting basic needs met so they can work their way

to a situation where they get a lease in their name and that's staying in school or being employed and working with their case managers and getting to a point where they now have their first this to mr. reagan a question i would have is do you think it's possible to identify folks that we would like to provide services to but we don't have the resources to provide to or there's something about the regulations that prevents us from providing those resources and would it be possible to essentially do a longer to do no analysis right like take a look at what happens to the folks that we don't make these interventions with because i think that would help bolster the argument potentially if the data supports it would help bolster the argument for increasing the resources that we we give to these interventions and that was a long question but the short version is do you think it's possible to track the people we don't provide the services to in addition to the

people we do so in other words who could have gotten problem solving resolutions but didn't because of the lack of resources or because of a you know, some regulatory burden that that is you know, you mentioned the drop off like you know, look at elizabeth for or the data team. it's a good question. i mean, you know youth who just got referred to our shelter or on waiting list for tops i don't know how we would i would i would love to work with the data team on that to know to actually get that data. >> i appreciate your openness. >> yeah, let's let's just keep talking and thinking about him. yeah. thank you. thanks kevin thank you commissioner albury actually i wanted to give the director i don't know if you wanted to say anything more about i mean we agree with larkin that this is a really important intervention and the you know, we were sorry that the money got spent down

so quickly but i'm glad that our team was able to identify funds for the youth system to continue using these because it really is important and we'll continue to try to figure out how you know, how we can maintain problem solving dollars in general and i think we're going to go and meet with president randleman next week. so if maybe it lines up that we can get some feedback on the meeting that's held with youth providers. so that's something we can revisit next week. mr. albert thank you so much. i appreciate this conversation about problem solving. i think this is a question for director mcspadden the example that was just discussed in public comment where you have a youth who is sort of couch surfing and that there are a series of problem solving

opportunities that can be provided or is that sort of a one month thing or does that kind of thing happen month over month? >> and here is my question if it is happening over a month over month for a long period of time, i would imagine that there are other departments that can provide the support to that young person and this doesn't all have to fall within hsc age and so it would be a way of conserving are problem solving dollars by we've talked about this before bringing in other departments to help solve we have talked about that before and that's it's a really important point. i don't know that i have an answer for you right now in terms of like our partnership with those key departments but it is important. >> thank you. i appreciate it and a sort of along that vein going in from problem solving, moving a little bit more upstream to prevention on page ten there is really interesting chart that

talks about return to homelessness within 24 months to six months and the the outcomes that are achieved both by cd and by hcv. what i noted is while there's a lot of success in both of the numbers that the m cd numbers are if i'm reading them right are have a have an improved outcome over the h numbers for all for six months, 12 months and 24 months and i'm curious why you think that is and is it a different nature of is it a different target population, is it a different type of service you may not know the answer now but i'd be really curious to understand the answer in the future just again as we think about like how to be more effective and efficient in our services i think deputy director loker can hopefully thank minute have asked the question before but it just struck me looking at it not at

all and i think we'll work on our presentation of this moving forward to it is a little complicated what we are doing here is analyzing for and my name is sarah locker. i'm the deputy director of planning performance and strategy. so so what this represents is clients that were served with prevention that return in our homelessness response system data within these time frames what you're seeing i believe for most cd is in part due to the fact that we have a little bit less direct matching of the most cd applicants. so applications for prevention come in centrally and then are served by h. s h versus most cd in the case of h s h client we always ensure that those clients also have a profile set up in our administrative data system for most cd that is less consistently the case and so we do matching but but i think what we might be seeing here as a result of most cd served clients not reappearing and homelessness system data at the same rates potentially

because we're really not matched more on fuzzy matching. >> yeah okay that's that's super helpful. i missed that last thing to pull that apart. >> i'm sorry just the last thing you said. i just that we're relying more on fuzzy matching of the most cd clients to see if the same person is returning in our data systems so we're matching across two databases here and with h h clients we we have kind of a shared client linkage . >> got it. okay. thank you. so if there isn't a matched client it would be under like a do not know category or something and therefore these numbers may be the same. >> it's just that you're not able to have done a match. exactly. there's a larger pool of unlinked clients between the two systems for for those served by ms. cd that's super helpful. i won one last question i am so happy to hear about the information around kelly congratulations. thank you. it's a ton of work and really

all the work that the county is doing with respect to kelly and our and our state is incredible and as we read the papers it does look like there may be cuts in medicaid and so not asking for a question now but i am curious it's hard to project what what may happen in the future but what would the impact of a cut to just the homeless pop you know the the population that you're serving that we're serving in terms of medicaid cuts as well as layoffs and other unemployment for for veterans in terms of what we think the impact of federal action will be on on our hcv population. again, you don't have to answer it now i'm just really curious as we're doing so much good work and support what those impacts could be and and most importantly how do we think about the scenario planning

and problem solving for ourselves as a as a system? >> yeah, this is a tough exercise for many reasons. i mean i think because you know medicaid feeds so much of the services across the board that we have across the city departments and so you know we're definitely aware that there's a challenge there and i think we're continuing to kind of work with other departments in the comptroller's office to to evaluate what kind of where risks lie and and ultimately what that means for the populations we're serving. but yeah, we don't we definitely don't have an answer today. we're concerned for sure because that would have an incredible impact. you know it's not just the 250,000 people on medicaid in san francisco right. alone. and so any hit to medicaid is a hit across the board. >> thank you. thanks. >> okay, commissioner guerrero, thank you so much and thanks

everybody for all that information. so i'm i have three main questions for myself and also touching on some of the public comment. but i do want to share with the public just in response to some of the the public comment that happened earlier i hold this seat of lived experience so i was unhoused for four years couchsurfing living in my car and then in 2020 i went directly from the month that i got housed in a friend's house in oakland who got a had a room open up to working in the bayview and a navigation center as well as in the embarcadero for five keys and then i so i got to see really kind of a lot of the challenges that you all are talking about and might know some of the same people. so i mean that's really why i'm here. so i want to say a couple of things. one, you know, my goal here is to really make the language that is used here accessible to the public. >> this is one of the few

forums that the department has to engage the public and so many people who are accessing these services who these conversations are about who these lives are about that we're addressing have not had access to understanding sort of the bigger picture of what we're talking about here. so i encourage people who are coming for a little experience come to these meetings monthly you will start to see keep asking questions. you'll start to see you know, we we keep people who are accessing services in sort of in this blind spot of day to day what you're living out. but then as this education happens and these commission meetings are really the place to come and get that, you start to see, you know, kind of what's really going on and what's really throwing sort of jamming the cogs of like really trying to be able to address these issues. and i will say that the director has definitely heard a lot from me as somebody who has had these experiences and then i in this five years that i've been really working within the shelter system from the inside

up and in 2022 i actually helped open with an apartment shelter in the soma so i also got to see the challenges of what it was to be sort of the director of the shelter trying to say hey like i really didn't enjoy this experience as an ambassador. let me see how i can reinvent this with help from people who have lived it because as much as there's other marginalized experiences you can draw sort of the tools to work with uplifting or providing services to people in shelters the specific kind of scars and cultural care that you need to support people in homelessness you have to understand because you've lived it like i can't say anything beyond that. there's a really specific lasting sort of psychological emotional impact that is what it takes to really get somebody to stay in housing and someone brought up the ladder out of homelessness.

i mean the most effective thing i experience providing services to unhoused folks was when we had the ladder from shelter to transitional housing to the subsidy because what it allowed was people come off the streets and they need that time to understand like this is what it is to live sort of collaboratively with others and get along to follow rules because there's a need for tenant education because after you have not lived as a tenant like you have to learn sort of the responsibilities of taking care of a space, the responsibilities of being a neighbor, the responsibilities of what the relationship with your landlord is like you don't get to just expect the landlord to do everything for you. >> it's a mutual relationship but i have friends who you know, have been on section eight their whole lives because their parents passed away when they were children and they came from poverty and they you know, in their 30s have yet to fully understand and comprehend that they have a responsible as

a tenant. >> so there's just so much there and i really want these meetings to be accessible as i've said so many times here it's not that i don't think that data matters. we cannot solve homelessness without data we can't even see what's going on. we can't even have accountability if we don't have data. however, homelessness is a human issue. it's a relational issue and solving it is a human relational issue. so i just want to affirm that because i hear the public and i feel like i have a personal responsibility as the person holding the seat with lived experience to break that down and to talk to people as they're my colleagues, as they're my neighbors, you know, in my personal life because we are and i can say that so so that's yeah, that's something i wanted to provide to too and i and i always you know the director knows like a lot of these things we're talking about like the director knows like we've had these conversations and i do want to i actually did want to thank you this time because i feel like i had a couple crunching

meetings in the past. but you know, i want to acknowledge that like especially in the last months i think you you have been in credit be responsive. any questions that we have as you have put your team to it and you come back with the information and you've taken the steps to sort of integrate that into your processes and i really do see that. and so i want to say thank you so much. it's really i personally grateful like as we see sort of ultra wealthy people taking control of government and then bringing their friends in who have no experience in government some of which you know i'm in favor of some of which i'm not it's a complex issue. >> i'm always an advocate for change and i think there's been some change in leadership that's been critically needed. however, it's moments like these when i see sort of predominantly white wealthy people entering government that i say, you know, thank you so much for your leadership especially as somebody who really understands the experience as a person of color, as a woman and other experiences that you have like i really want the public to hear from me as someone with lived experience that i am very

grateful for this leadership in this department and and even just that we can align on sort of integrating what equity means and the commitment to diversity inclusion within your department who you've brought in people with lived experience, people of color, people, women are represented in the department and that's really valuable to me. so i really want the public to hear that we're very fortunate to have that. >> so just let me get into some of these questions because i know time. >> so on the shelter expansion, right? so this is going to be a big thing and i did speak to the standard and one of the articles they put out about sort of asking about the mayor's plan to expand shelters and you know, i said i think, you know, as long as it's aligned with like you said, the strategic plan which it is you know, it could be a great thing but it has to be done properly . it can't be a one size fits all. it has to really think about cultural competency. it has to really think about equity isn't like who it's

provided for. >> how so? so let me get into that. so so what what kind of shelter is at this point in its early stages? you know, we looked at the deo as data right? which is i've always said because i've experienced it like the percentage of deo is predominately because of physical violence threats of violence, weapons and so for me conversations about his concern around congregate shelter because although some spaces are relevant you know we've you've talked a lot about moving towards non congregate so i guess i'm just curious with the guiding principles that you're working with mr. modi if the yeah where the conversations are around congregate versus not congregate shelter so i think we're looking at a mix of things and i don't know that we're moving away from congregate as much as trying to make sure that we're using all the vehicles available to us, you know, or the types of shelter available and types of interim housing available.

so it looks different i think based on sites and based on population and we're really you know, we're trying to think about the sites. we're trying to think about geographic equity and some of those sites are better suited for certain models than others. and so it really is being driven i think simultaneously by the populations that we need to serve as well as the sites that we're able to like look at and hopefully access. you know in some cases it's a lot in which case we could say we could do congregate, we could do cabins in some cases it's a hotel generally the ones we're looking at or non congregate but it really is going to depend on different factors that go into kind of each site and and the populations that we're serving and i think that's why i said i think in the next month or so we'll have a better plan to share with you. but like right now we're still in that fact finding and siting phase. >> yeah. and i think i think it is

really good for the public guess people especially people staying in shelters to hear that the department is taking an approach of diversifying shelter types so non congregate meaning as you said cabins hotels and then everyone knows kind of what congregate is which is you know multiple beds in one space and so from there, you know we've also talked a lot about sort of the data around warehousing so you know, situation where you know the stay is supposed to be short maybe 90 days and people end up staying in shelters for up to 2 or 3 years. we know that this is happening. it's no secret we want to address this. what is the conversation like again with the mayors represent representatives about the issues around warehousing as this expands? obviously we know that if we still want to get people off the street maybe there's not adequate housing for them to go to. okay. we're looking at this with sober eyes. so so what is a conversation about warehousing and when to and for the public when i say

warehousing that that's the language that's used around people staying in shelter much longer than they really are supposed to. >> but yeah, so if you want to comment on that well i mean i think one of the things that the mayor's office is very interested in is flow. so yes, we're looking to really add to the portfolio in terms of interim housing and interim housing can mean different things. i mean that can be a short term shelter stay it can be longer term while we're looking with someone for some for permanency, whatever that looks like. as we know a lot of people in shelter don't go on in our system and that's good because you know, we have a limited supply of long term housing but it really should be like a focus on the flow. so we don't want people to be warehoused. we don't want people to be in housing in that kind of housing forever. we want to really like beef up case management and in that approach in working with everyone on their housing plan

and that's definitely been what we've heard from the mayor's office. it's like let's focus on the quality, right? so in addition to getting people off the street it's really about what are the supports that are important to add to the system. i mean, you know some of the people who've spoken in public comment are right. i mean that the system is very far from where it should be, you know, and our constraints are very for varied reasons but if we're really partnering with the department of public health like we should be if we're really thinking about the needs of the people in the system, you know, we want to be able to add those resources that are going to help create the flow that we need. so ultimately it's not about warehousing. it's about like having somebody come in and immediately having a plan with them and then being able to work with them on that. i mean obviously they're going to be challenges there are and there will continue to be but that is our focus awesome

and great. >> so yeah, so and again just transferring to the public so you know we have a new mayor not for very long so for some really exciting things that he has talked about in various issues not even related to homelessness but the other areas in which the public has engaged the mayor is about sort of putting a new focus sort of a bit of a change in structure from our last mayoral administration to really put an emphasis on sort of the departments talking to each other more which is what the mayor sorry what the what the director is referring to. so we have who's handling mental and behavioral health. right. which is what a lot of people are talking about not on house people are substance users not on housing. people have mental illnesses. however because of the enmeshment of not having sort of the adequate resources to as you said place people and as

people said we know this is happening. we do need that. we need talking to sage and then there's ammo cd so shelters is under hsa and then there's a which is housing is part of homelessness department. then there's a mayor's office of housing and community developed which is another government entity so were what this director is talking about is moving in the direction of there needs to be more communication between these departments in order to really get to be able to address some of the issues that you all are talking about which we want to do and it's taking steps in that direction. >> so i want to make sure that the public is aware of that and then the last thing i'm going to touch on and i apologize this is a little bit of a controversial racial subject but there was there was an article that came out about supervisor shimon walton, you know, having pretty strong feelings about shelters opening and the bayview and i see that your guiding principles talk about equitable neighborhood placement so what is there kind

of to say about like are are these resources going to be disproportionately affecting black and latino communities? the bayview in the mission or you know, we're talking about opening shelters in white neighborhoods as well and making sure that we're not punching down on already marginalized communities. >> so i mean i think there are a couple of different ways to look at it. i mean i think the biggest thing is yes, we want to look we're looking all over the city for sites. i think the other thing that we're looking at is the the you know, the percentage of the population who are unsheltered and where they are. and so we know that there is a pretty big percentage i think it's about 18% of the total popular unsheltered population is in district ten. and so and we've got about i think 6% that that district ten holds about 6% of the shelter 12 six, six, 6% of the of the

shelters. so of the of the yeah of the shelter population so we have some room to grow there we actually have a site there that we have had and so we're looking at potentially investing more into that site and that's what we've talked about and so it's a site that we already have control of and we we are not talking about moving beyond that site. we're talking about more capacity within that site. and and you know, just to reiterate, we are looking across the city. you know, it's a challenging exercise we have we started i think with 350 sites that real estate had identified. we're now down to few because you know when you start to look at them and you look at the you know, the criteria that we that we've put out that just say like in you know there needs to be a certain size, it needs to have power, it needs have water access.

if it doesn't that's an extra cost like there are a number of of things that our real estate team and the city's real estate team look at together and that's what we're doing and we're you know we're going through and touring and then making a list of of all of the possible sites and then thinking about like what is the best use for that site and once we have that in place we'll be able to share it. but we are looking pretty much everywhere we can at this point. thank you so much. sorry one last thing which is and just again for the public and this is the last i'm going to wrap it up is so one of the issues we see getting in the way of addressing some of these things that even if the department is really in favor of saying we hear you, we're trying to do this, one of the things that we have to make sure that those of us who care ,you know, are going to the supervisors meetings monthly having a voice is that the politicization of homelessness is an issue and you may have the department heading in the right direction and all of a sudden a supervisor of the

district or the mayor says oh well i pledge to doing x, y, z and maybe it's no longer relevant. maybe it's no longer what the community needs politicians are going to try to do the thing they said they did if it's right or wrong. hopefully they will listen to public comment. but i'm just going to be totally frank that we need to depoliticize homelessness. we need to make homeless is about the people that are on house getting help not about politicians going out and saying this because they want to get voted in. that's a big issue. so use your voice. go to the supervisors, go to protest, join a community of organizers of providers that works and just keep keep fighting. >> so i'm going to wrap it up. thank you. thank you, commissioner. commissioner, as laurie leaves thank you. thank you for the report. director expected and sorry chair quick question in your report the waiting list for both families and adults has

gone up more people on a waiting list. what do you attribute that to? >> a commissioner is attributed to capacity in general. i just you're talking about shelter beds, right? >> yeah. we just need more people are waiting for the the inflow and the capacity of our shelters just being practically at max so there's not enough beds available for people to come in in the center but it's gone up dramatically in one month. that was the question because it was 300 something to 500 something hot on one second it according to the report. i was just wondering if it maybe has to do with those with the sixth street clean up. maybe it has to do with you know, some external thing that created a little more it's it's basically attribute to seasonal demand for shelter. >> oh it's when not specifically sixth street etc. it's just the ebbs and flows of

the inflow into the system. >> understood. thank you. >> thank you. i understand congratulations on bringing more units online that were in 90 days and more and i'm sorry that they're more going that way. but thank you for working on that. >> appreciate that question regarding public comment and guess i don't know how this reporting happens so i'm just asking a question. let's say i'm in a shelter and i find that it's infested with bedbugs. who do i complain to to the shelter management to the shelter grievance community committee or the shelter? what's the other one? shelter agreements in the shelter monitoring committee or do i come here and tell you? or is there a place since we give we meaning you give the money to these centers and you just follow the money. do they just are they way to

complain to on a website and say i live in such and such shelter? these are what we've experienced sort of if it was a company that's what you would do right? you would complain to on the website or somewhere to that the person that was managing it so high commissioner then yes we want our clients to be lock in step with the shelter provider and so if there is any issue that happens at the shelter, bedbugs whatever we want to make sure that they're reporting it to the shelter staff and then after that following the grievance process and escalating it if they're not getting what they need and that means they can, you know, obviously follow the grievance process and also reach out to us, it is directly related to these issues if they're not getting what they need or the issue is not being resolved, how do they directly communicate with etch-a-sketch ? yeah, there's an email address on the website that they can

reach out to us. they can, you know, contact any of the program staff that they've worked with directly and they can reach out to me directly. it just great. yeah, great. >> and i'll add they can also attend a shelter monitoring committee meeting that was okay. >> yeah. and just also so if i can add the shelter monitoring committee goes to shelters and does assessment so monthly so if they go to one and they see bedbugs someone tells them they're tracking it. >> yeah great. this seems like there's many ways for people to communicate into the system. >> thank you very much. you got it, secretary. so did you want to say something, commissioner we also have staff available at hsa that where clients can walk in and talk to our staff and make a complaint. >> great. great. thank you. thank you very much.

thank you, commissioner. i think it's an important point especially for those that are dealing with issues maybe creating a list of options for them to use to voice their complaints would be helpful i think to community we'll do commissioner vice evans thank you so much. i wanted to pull up the slide on the sixth street target area and the partnership organizations that are involved that are listed there. is that possible to pull that up on mine at slide four? yeah, that's a ding ding so what i understand is that this is a specific initiative that has been directed by the mayor's office to specifically target this geographic area in

particular. >> right. and it started two weeks ago and it's expected to go another two weeks. i'm not sure about the end date but we're very much engaged because we've got hot there. >> okay. and that's what i was going to ask you so it's my understanding there's a parking lot that's there. i saw some news media coverage that people could walk up and get a coffee. >> yeah, people can walk up and get coffee. they can get water, they can engage with the journey home representative who's there and then hot is also there not just standing there but like, you know, covering the street and engaging with folks and we they have an a bed allocation every day and they've pretty much been using the allocation so people are accepting shelter and you know we because we have limited shelter are we you know we've we play around all the time with what's available every day but they people have

been accessing shelter through that yeah and i saw that on the next slide it said that about nine and a half per day so that's a high rate of access. >> we had talked i think last month that it was about six per day and so do you think that we're at the limit of where we can? i think in or at least is i think we could probably go up a few in terms of what we're offering every day. >> we just don't have that ability right now because we're stretching what's available each day across a few different systems and so you know, we're continuing to monitor it, monitor it and the staff is excited like i think at least can maybe you can correct me but i think at noon every day they've really been out of beds like they're like we got all people took up all the beds

and that's great. if we were to get more access we might see more uptake. >> okay, thank you. that's super helpful. so the same news report that i saw where they were getting coffee there was a gentleman who said that he had been offered a bed but then they weren't able to actually confirm him because he had been denied service at that shelter location and that they were still looking for an alternative shelter. so i was going to move our conversation into the denial of service data and reasons and i thought that was very illuminating and helpful to see that while we can't isolate it to the person who has experienced substance use disorder or they're experiencing mental health, we have these particular reasons that the shelter staffer citing as the reason why they're being displaced out of out of the space. i notice that two thirds more than two thirds of the explanation was actual act of

violence, a threat of violence or involved another critical to the shelter safety. thank you. critical that was the language was that would directly impact the ability to operate the shelter safely and and disrupts vital site operations so with that i know that these individuals will sometimes be connected to a 5150 if they're experiencing a mental health crisis. but more often than not it's my understanding that people are simply exited to the street and i wanted to talk through again super you know, interesting moment, right? because we have the mayor committing to 1500 new shelter beds. i'm wondering if we could have a facility that is a receiver facility for people that are

being shifted out of a shelter because of these reasons. i mean that's that's a good question. we don't i don't have an answer for you on that. i think that, you know, as though as we are moving into this process of really ramping up the beds and working closely with dispatch, i think that we're looking at in that 1500 beds of interim housing isn't just our you know, it's not just hhs ownership. so to speak. it's also and so i think you know that is certainly part of the flow conversation and it's a really important one. so it's one thing when we're kind of like well we don't have another option and you know we have one person who's making everyone's lives miserable including their own and we don't have a way to, you know, deal with that issue. and it's another thing as we're envisioning this that you know ,we we want we definitely don't want folks back on the

street and so it's really got to be part of the conversation and has been actually about you know, what do we how do we place people with higher needs and what are the what is that staffing level look like? >> who's responsible? so those are all things that we're talking about now. >> so i was going to suggest to the chair that maybe we can bring it to the next monthly meeting to discuss a little bit more into detail because i agree with you if it were just one person it would be a different situation. >> but i think we're talking about roughly about a thousand people a year about yeah, a quarter. >> we're talking about over 80 people a month. yeah and i know it's across all of the the shelter system but but i think it's a significant enough problem that we are you know exiting that many people back to the street as just part of our standard operating procedure that we really should think about. >> yeah we don't and also i'm not sure how many of those are a repeat like so we have to

exactly to me yeah no exactly may not be that many individuals but so we can talk about it next month i think we but we're really not going to have a good answer for you quite yet. i mean this is this really is part of the conversation about the the expansion and the and the partnership. >> so so we'll i know that commissioner guerrero has had firsthand experience of this from the operator side, but i also have had firsthand experience working with individuals experiencing homelessness where i have seen them successfully stably in shelter and then deteriorate right. like they did destabilize right . and so it's about getting them re stabilized so that they can reenter. right. but both of these two individuals that i worked with, you know, are cycling in and out of shelter like you said, it's the same people. right. right. and and every time they're getting basically pushed to the street. >> yeah. and we have this issue in pch

as well. right. so i mean yes. or where people are stuck in pch and it's not quite the right you know they need they they may need to go to something higher level than come back or they may need exactly their level of service. it's an ongoing conversation we're having with and i think has just been renewed right now. i mean there's a there's a new director there obviously and we've been having a lot of conversations with that exact team at on this very topic. so i think we'll have more information on what that's going to look like. and certainly we were talking chair butler i know is very interested as well and hearing from directly we've talked about doing a joint presentation here on some of this stuff and i think the question is like how soon can we answer that specific question? but we're definitely working on that that that sounds great. >> i mean an example of one person that i was working with

the case manager at the shelter site was an advocate for this person to get transferred because they felt like they done as much as they could on site with this particular site. but but that that was not permissible based on the rules to transfer to do, you know, a safety transfer. >> so i do think this idea of really just making it part of our process to transfer people rather than exit them to the street. >> yeah. and when we're talking you know, we have shared priorities a shared priority list that we look at and you know that's where we can really make some decisions jointly about the best the best way to handle that issue. >> thank you so much. so my next question was you didn't mention the in the legislative section that you were tracking that the legislation that might have been recently proposed by commissioner dorsey around recovery first legislation i

believe it's a specific statement around a policy of san francisco should be to focus on recovery first i just wanted to make sure if you're aware of that legislation, if you're looking at it and any implications for our system. >> yeah, we're we're tracking that for sure. i mean i think one thing one thing that we're excited about is that we are starting to you know, we're starting to move into recovery housing and so we have our we have we announced sober living and have we announced sober living in so yeah, so we're going to be opening up a new recovery transitional housing site in soma and i think we're going to be moving people in in april to june june but we're getting

close and so that you know, we've definitely had a lot of conversations on that and we've had a lot of people in our sites both in pch and in shelter who've asked for sober living, who've asked for, you know, a place away from all of the noise of sixth street and things like that and people who want to heal. and so we're very much leaning into that and i think, you know, we we feel like we need all of it. we need all of these tools in our toolbox. we need housing first. we need you know, to really make sure that we're thinking about the needs of people on the street regardless of what they look like. and so we're excited to move into that world and start housing people who are actively in recovery and just need a place where they're not seeing drug use and we need to continue to work with our other buildings on you know, all of the preventative measures that we that we have been putting

into place and working with them to make sure that everybody feels safe in the buildings. >> so so just specifically in terms of that legislation, i don't i don't need you to comment on it but just want to clarify that, you know, recovery first implies first before something i just want to make sure it's not in direct conflict to housing first. and so i just want to make sure that we have a clearly articulated housing first policy that is not in conflict with whatever you know, goes through the board of supervisors there. >> so makes sense. yes. okay. sounds good. last last topic for me is the closure of candlestick park. i really appreciate the information that you have there about how people have been accessing services and i look forward to a future update to see if the people that are in the housing process are then successfully housed and that we don't lose track of them. yeah i did want to make an observation that there was a significant number that exited with their vehicle. it appeared and i just wanted

to understand we don't really have a site a vehicle triage site that is going to be servicing people living in their rvs. we do not we do not we're looking at we're really trying to look at models in other places and really trying to come up with our own model in san francisco that is going to be the the best for people living in their vehicles and also, you know, we're just we have some things that we'll look forward to announcing i think fairly soon. >> but right now we do not have a site and so gerald commons we just approved that contract last month was supposed to have 20 slots for rvs and i understand that when we're rethinking this plan to expand it, we're looking to shift towards using those spaces up for cabins and congregate. >> we don't have a plan. i mean we're looking at different models there. we do not yet have a final

plan. >> okay. i appreciate that. i just wanted to bring it up on the radar that it makes sense that we also continue to think through the vehicle site and it sounds like you're working on something it's part of the 1500 plan to really address the individuals that could definitely looking at addressing individuals living in vehicles and we just don't know what what that intervention will look like. >> okay. thank you again. >> i really appreciate that information. thank you, commissioner. commissioner look warner just a real quick question on following up on commissioner evans comments and the reason for denial of services in adult and shelter, i notice that the count of exits is not unique. so it's it's the count of incidents. yeah. do we have the ability to obtain a unique count do is there one id associated with there is you know i think to commissioner evans point there

is some you know even if these numbers are modestly duplicated, we're not talking about a large population and so given the the challenges that result to commissioner evans point like i you know i really think we should be looking very closely at what are some strategies we can use for people that are high acuity with with respect to being a danger to themselves or to others? i don't know if that's if it necessarily makes sense to concentrate and have a single facility or if it's a variety of different facilities. deputy director sanders i can see you almost jumping out of your seat. >> i mean if you want to

comment on that i know well yeah, i was just going to say that that is the conversation we're having with the right now. yeah. so we will be able to report back on how we're going to how we're going to how we're thinking about this but we really need their expertise before we can answer that sounds right. that sounds right. yeah. >> thank you, commissioner. commissioners we are in round two so i hope that we can be brief in our comments like yes so definitely be brief. um yeah i guess you know i just i'm really thinking about the bayview and like i, i really hear about the department is doing everything they can to respond. i'm just thinking about the articles that came out about you know, both you know, people having to tow their trailers what is that going to do for sort of, you know, those neighborhoods that are already so disproportionate impacted and yeah, is there any way to

kind of talk about this with the mayor's office about you know, this is our black this is our historical black neighborhood people are clearly having strong feelings about this. >> i mean so honestly there are very few vehicles out there right now and you know, the folks who were there, people were continuing to engage with and that's why we're actually really happy with the numbers because two months ago i don't think we felt like we were going to be as successful as we currently are. and i'm not saying everybody has exactly what they wanted but i you know, i think we're going to see that clearing out really quickly. >> thank you and i just appreciate the response and i know this is a community that you personally really care about. so i'm not dismissing that in any way. and then my other thought was

just you know, with with what commissioner evans was talking about all this sort of movement towards recovery first is a concern and and i just want to read something from a provider that was texted to me that you know, when we say like why do one house people end up using drugs even if they didn't when they became a house and this is about somebody that that this provider was working with. so it's just she said now this person is on is playing around the sixth street which is worse than where they were before because of the way that the police are moving sweeping people. so in then she's saying they took two of my clients a couple that were sleeping in the really cold rain they finally fell asleep. they had an umbrella, an emergency blanket and they took both of those things and gave them a ticket in the freezing cold it's like a death sentence and most people just get swept and arrested for no reason. they're trying to you know,

pattern numbers. everyone is traumatized. it's terribly inhumane and they send people to jail where it's overcrowded. they're laying on the floor and it's dirty. then they throw them back onto sixth street. they're also feces everywhere. people can't stop to medicate people can't stop or mitigate their drug use like this. they need to use drugs to stay safe and awake. so i just want to share that that that's a message i received about this whole sixth street what the providers are actually seeing and putting people in jail and throwing them out is not going to help them get out of homelessness. >> so i just wanted to share that. thank you, commissioner. vice chair evans thank you. >> i was just going to suggest that we also think about the evictions due to the violence there not that many of them i don't think i think the data you presented to us it was a little over 100 people that were evicted from sage and then

maybe there was a bigger number if we included those that were displaced out of pch without an actual eviction. so maybe we can include the data of how many people could benefit from this transfer location beyond just the people that are being denied service from the shelters but also those people that might need that stabilization facility to help with the peace missions for violence as well. >> and it's not just violence. i mean i think we're what we're really trying to look at is people who are not thriving. so like i think it's more important to be a little more proactive and and not get to that point and that's you know, we agreed on all the tools to do that. but i think that's really what we want to get to with this is when we see people struggling. right? yes. and it may be because it may be behavioral health. >> that may be a variety of things. it could be dementia. it could be just could be trauma, could be the trauma a mismatch of competency with the

fighter. yeah. and so people, you know, struggle at different times for various reasons. exactly. you can you know, get a higher level of service and then maybe come back to their unit. there's just a variety of things that we really want to to look out there and again, i think the more that we're in lockstep with the better because they actually really have that that expertise and we can kind of identify folks early on hopefully and you know, try to get to the point where we're seeing a lot less so yeah and i and i totally get these are some of the toughest cases, the highest acuity is and a lot of times it is like a it's not a quick fix and so it's just about finding the solution that we're not exiting them to the street because obviously they're not going to get better living outdoors. thank you, commissioners. thank you for the rich discussion. we don't have much time on this

item but i think of all the things that i've heard and what i like to lift up the most is what we started with is community coming in and giving voice to the concerns around housing quality, shelter quality and so i want to make sure we continue to lift that up and i wanted to appreciate committee community for coming . there are new faces that showed up and spoke up. we appreciate that and i think what's going to happen in the coming months is i know i have a conversation with commissioners about making sure that we get more voices in the community to speak up and speak out and so we're going to go to the community as a commission meeting to make sure that we get multiple voices at the table so i just wanted to highlight that just to recognize you and let you know that your voice is heard and we're going to make sure that we work together to ensure that more voices are being heard. so i just wanted to highlight that and take a break because

we've heard a lot we've been through a lot. you don't want to give us ourselves a break before we go into our consent calendar. so if we can come back in five minutes. >> thank you

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streetcars and old are light trail trains not today's modern vehicles and it was noise and he prone to vibration. >> these new rails will make for a smoother, quieter ride and require less maintenance. it is much quieter with the new impresumes i livid here the entire time and plays earthquake or municipal when he it came by now we don't have to play anymore >> before when the streetcar went by i would stop talk the street cars would rumble past now i share that confirmation. i like the fact well is not a 3.4 quake every time they go by now. it is quiet temperature feels like sliding on glass. >> this project is more than rails and concrete it is people earngaging with their community. >> local residents and merchants

have told us when their community need and had than i want in their neighborhood. a quieter reliable train roadway and safer streets for people walk. gi think it is essential. i'm excited and wonderful to have a safe way it get to work i work on embarcadero i take it to the end of the line every day >> through open house, public meetings and surveys members helped shape where the stops should go to the curb plan and selecting trees and art work for the corridor. >> we relied on community feedback during construction of the project. with voting held to choose where to stow construction materials and how to sekwenls the construction. >> as a result the project was split in two segments to reduce impacts to the community. access ability is at the forefront of the design. new features ensure people all abilities enjoy seamless travel

on the taraval. these platforms and key locations have a raised boarding area level with the train to help people with walking aids or strollers board more easily. >> warning lights are flashing. >> pedestrian signal announcements assist with visual impairment its cross the street. new curb ramps are essential in providing accessible path of travel on to and off of sidewalks. the sunset district has long been shaped by transand i the qatar valcontinues linking past to present. on the heels of a new tunnelful muni tear van line opened as a shuttle from westportal to 33rd avenue in 1919. it was not until a few years later the trains used the tunnel

sparking a population boom. previously, riders transfer to the circumstance line to go east of what is today known the westportal neighborhood. by 1923, passengers could catch a one seat read on the taraval between downtown and 48th avenue. for the first time, san franciscans had a connection from the bay to the ocean tide. the taraval street cars brought development people could access the south western neighborhoods. homes and buildings sprung up from the once empty dunes. this vielth east/west corridor is the spine the neighborhood carrying over 30,000 daily riders when service last ran the route in 2019.

today, it is a bustling local business that give this area its flavor fr. cafes to quirky but teaks the taraval connects tout best of san francisco's small business scene. >> i lost fact it is not a money on cultural it is multicult rar. korean, chinese. vietnamese. french. italian. we got irish. we got a lot of good mix on this street of restaurants and businesses in those cultural veins and good ole american. helping local line help our small businesses because this is again a small community. and the traffic here is not if you have to generate big revenue. with the l train from other parts of the city to this area has help us the small merchants as well to generate more business.

>> taraval street is a reflection of the outer sunset's unique character. >> this two mile stretch of transit is not just getting from a to b it is reimagining how we move through our city to shop, dine and experience more in the places we live. >> i live in the suburbs i have to take a car or a bus that was an experience i never did again as a teen. now my kids can visit their friends cross the establishment it is a huge increase in their freedom and independent. one of the reasons we chose to raise a family in san francisco. >> it is wonderful to have a safe, clean reliable way to get to work for the neighborhood i'm excite body what it means to bring others back to our neighborhood. we have, let of interesting shops and restaurants and i'm excited to see how things become when it is easier to get here. >> a lot know each actively it

is a close knit community. in my shop i know customers by name i know what they'll order and i have it ready for them. >> what i'm most excite body the street is now unified, we have new paved roads and new rails. and new lighting. new boarding island. >> today, your new street features newrism upgrade water and sewer pipes. 5 new priority signals that hold green lights when trains approach. sidewalk extensions to make pedestrian crossing safer. high visibility crosswalks and ramps. safe boarding islands and platforms. new trees, landscaping and art. is it time you responsiblesed this corridor to the end of the line? with great food, walks on the beach and san francisco's new add upon ventures a ride away now the