collene [speaker not understood], deputy director of health. you for calling this hearing, and i'm pleased to be able to tell you today about our history, which is a long one with university mount ladies home. in 2008, dph responded to assist university mount ladies home, which was in danger of closure at that time. the building was in need of repair and the census had diminished. we don't have direct authority over umlh. we are, we are in contract with them to provide services, but they are licensed by the state and the state is their regulatory body. so, the way that we worked to assist them in their financial deficit was to place patients, dph patients at umlh with a patch to a $50 a day to supplement affordability for our clients and to help university mount ladies home address their financial concerns. we placed our first client there in september of 2008 and have maintained ever since an average of 15 clients per year at umlh. to date we have provided the university mount ladies home with over $1.5 million in supplemental payments. our pa

my name is collene rebecca and i work at saint anthony foundation, an organization that doesn't receive city funding but that stands in solidarity with budget justice and asks because we all are invested in making sure that san francisco is a place that works for everybody regardless of income level, regardless of where you sleep at night. there are two thing that i want to highlight in terms of asking you for support. one is the food security task force's ask. i like to use the word hunger instead of the term food security because i think that it's really important to emphasize the fact that there are people in our city who feel the physical pains of hunger every day. and this isn't something that we can't figure out how to handle or deal with. we have done some great research and have a plan that will work if we start with the 11 -- the $10 million in funding. we can start at the first day of the fiscal year in making sure that there are lots of people in this city that are going through the physical pain of hunger. we also know that we can start today in working to help moms like flo

way we amended it today and the department of public health with their leadership, barbara garcia, collene, joe robinson, these are amazing leaders that have the commitment to work on this process and to see it through. and i feel incredibly confident with where it would be. so, i hope, colleagues, to have your sub mort on this. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you again. ~ support i think there wouldn't be support for the pilot program at this board, but what i would like to continue to push back on is the outside mutual third-party evaluator. i do think it would be helpful to have them evaluate the efficiency of the program, the cost versus benefit. i have great faith in our department of public health. but i don't think it ever hurts to have an outside mutual third-party lens look at our data and make sure there aren't disparate impacts on a variety of different communities. and, so, what i'd like to offer is a motion to add to page 10 line 12 that the department of public health shall have an external evaluation performed of the alt program to evaluate the efficacy of the program, including