david elliot lewis. i lived last 4 decades in san francisco and lived 16 years in the tenderloin. i'm part of tenderloin people congress a resident lead organization, we have no budget, we have no staff, we have no office but we have volunteers and we do have a plan for our neighborhood. a plan that is based on surveying thousands of residents, holding dozens of community meetings, hearing what the tenderloin wants. also working with the planning department to share our plan and we are pleased to see that the planning department is now working with our tenderloin neighborhood to try to bring to realty so thank you for that. i want to give a shout out, thank you to those who work closely with us like andy nelson from planning, zachary sexton, (inaudible) who all these people have worked very closely with the residents to try to find what we need, what are our voices and why is this so important because historically the tenderloin has been treated like a containment zone like if we don't want it in other parts of the city we'll push it off to the tenderloin. sex work, drug dealing,

david elliot lewis long time tenderloin and city resident.ou for holding the critical hearing. we lost more people to overdose then covid. or most other causes. it is tragic i things need to be done. 15 years ago when i needed help with my own issues i needed recovery and treatment, i sought treatment on demand and i did not get treatment on demand but i did get treatment after persistence and if i wasn't persistent and made repeated calls and vidsts i wouldn't have got connected to a treatment program but i did and finally helped and it saved my life. i wouldn't be here talking today if i did get that the treatment 15 years ago, not on demand but after persistence. we are in 2022 and we have a wellness center concept in development at um plaza that works. it is helpful to people, but because of neighborhood push-back mainly from trinity towers, the market rate building across the street and influential members was it was not refunded for next year. it closes in december. my concern is that as department of public health plans to reopen or cr