i call up suzy smith from human service agency as well as dr. who also lead and spearheaded robust powerful discussion this morning about the guaranteed income. >> good morn chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. thank you again for calling this hearing today. suzy smith deputy director at san francisco human service agency and honored to represent hsa on the guaranteed income advisory group which includes stakeholders with lived experience, foundations, practitioners and advocates. i want to speak briefly about hsa role in this work and on a couple recommendation that touch on implementation. one of our goals in the gi space is help protect guaranteed income payments from negatively impacting people public benefits. proud we partnered with the california department of social services early on to identify legal pathways to exempt gi income from certain public benefits. since we work to help establish the legal authority and regulatory pathways and process actually exempt income san francisco we applied for through the exemption author

i call up suzy smith from human service agency as well as dr. who also lead and spearheaded robust powerful discussion this morning about the guaranteed income. >> good morn chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. thank you again for calling this hearing today. suzy smith deputy director at san francisco human service agency and honored to represent hsa on the guaranteed income advisory group which includes stakeholders with lived experience, foundations, practitioners and advocates. i want to speak briefly about hsa role in this work and on a couple recommendation that touch on implementation. one of our goals in the gi space is help protect guaranteed income payments from negatively impacting people public benefits. proud we partnered with the california department of social services early on to identify legal pathways to exempt gi income from certain public benefits. since we work to help establish the legal authority and regulatory pathways and process actually exempt income san francisco we applied for through the exemption author

i'm suzie smith and i'm deputy for public affairs at the san francisco human services agency.it is mentioned i'm here to present the agency strategic plan. before i start. strategic plans are months long projects and work. this project has been wonderful collaboration between our planning team lead by rose johns and communication's team lead by teresa young. >> i want to thank the members of the team that put work in this product. via hillman. joe, mariah. and christian from our coms team and christine from planning. most all rose johns and teresa young because they put so much dedication in this plan, which i think you will find accessible to the public and the first time presents the human service agency as one agency with 2 core departments. thank you, rose. this plan sets fort our goal and priorities for the next 5 years. excellent. thank you. okay. thanks now you see the slide. it is the first ever integrated framework across many programs and departments. in the wake of covid-19 racial unrest and economic up heavel we feel our work is more important than ever. the vigsz.

(inaudible) >> suzy smith. good morning deputy director for policy planning and public affairs human service agency and want to echo the urgency. over the last couple years our department which includes department of benefits and family support as well as department of disability and aging services has either directly received grants from foundations or influenced foundations on the grant making upwards of about $25 million over the last few years, and as mr. cobbs shared, we want to apply for the state grant that is now just released and we have 5 weeks in order to put the application together and they want written commitments that we are able to provide the match and tipping point foundation is interested in supporting the project and is very engaged in advocacy for pilots that work, so they are interested in piloting invasion to complex social problems that then if successful advocate for sustaining those initiatives. so it is really important in terms of stifling work on a day to day basis how we are trying