my name is bevin dufty, and we're so excited your your for the public launch of the san francisco home for heroes campaign. let me introduce some of the individuals who are here with us. we do have several speakers. we have several veterans who are here and bad recipience. you will be able to talk to them -- bagehot recipients. you'll be able to talk to them after the ceremony. michael and thomas and joseph -- have a touch, the veterans here with us right now? i just want to say, this is an incredible partnership jump started by our friends and the veterans administration, but we could not be successful without some of our partners. i would like to say the san francisco association has been incredible. also, peter weiss is here, and i would like to say a part of this story has not been known. we want to acknowledge this. we're so pleased with some of the leaders of the chinese real- estate association are here. archer woman is here. we also have our president elect. cvs and visa are providing gift cards. i would also like to say that our representatives from hud have been incredibly im

bevin dufty, thank you very much for taking this from the san francisco boot camp and making sure h

. >> i want to thank the mayor and bevin dufty for inviting as. as someone who represents the tenderloin and 150 otis, which i am so excited about -- we can fund subsidies. we can fund services. but we need partners and property owners. shelter is an issue our office has been prioritizing. we are trying to figure out what we can do to improve our situation. it is men and women who have served our country in homeless shelters and on the streets. that is unacceptable. thank you very much. >> i would like to echo as well to thank former supervisor dufty and mayor lee for making this possible. as the son of a veteran, this is not only personal, but it is a moral obligation we have in government to do everything we can to support our veterans. with a data some -- whether that is on a local level or a national level, there is nothing we can do that is more patriotic than to help our veterans. this is such a big step in the right direction at a local level. i want to thank our local a administration and all the public and private partners that are here t

i know that bevin dufty is here to speak as well, but before we do that, can we accept the budget analyst recommendations except for the areas where they have articulated a change. on page 67, the specialized service reduction has been withdrawn. on page 69, it has been increased by $150,000 in terms of cuts. the budget analyst has articulated additional cuts on the current expenses worth 50,000. and a later start date for psychiatric workers that would result in savings of 848 -- i am sorry, $98,000. >> is $9,840. in the psychiatric work is just a starting time and the other expenses are $40,000. supervisor chu: do we have that motion? without objection. >> if i may talk a little bit about the staffing of the whole office. these positions are really essential for the department of public health. i can tell you that since he has been in this office, i speak to him if not bailey, multiple times a day to try to coordinate with so that staff is important. i hope you know my support for that. supervisor chu: thank you, director garcia. another request last week, so in regard to these, if you

bevin dufty, thank you very much for taking this from the san francisco boot camp and making sure this happens. to our landlords, thank you very much. it is so important to have those landlords, and we could use more. and have so many homeless veterans to come to this city. it is very important to make sure they are housed. our shelter system. i can say enough about that, joyce. they are the first line in defense in getting those veterans of the street and getting them housed. our community partners. i have been working with them for 20 years. for me coming it is so important to have that community partnership. they have been so instrumental in getting them housed. clothes, jobs, training. it has been an incredible thing to have this city team working together and collaborating to end homelessness. and we will do it. so, thank you very much. i appreciate it. [applause] >> jake used the word remarkable to describe the san francisco housing authority. i will introducehenry alvarez from the san francisco housing authority. >> i am the son of a veteran as well. bevin told me to think about