david elliott lewis. one of the great frustrations in dealing with city hall at times is lack of opacity and transparency. i think this is a big step forward. the public hearings are immensely helpful, but the website especially will make it -- make the information useful. i think this should be a best practice for all city hall processes. i know you do it with commission hearings and minutes, but all processes should be as public and transparent as this, so thank you for considering it. thank you for your time. >> good morning, supervisors. i just wanted to echo what the other folks have said. the budget -- and i'm sarah shore with community housing partnership, and i'm with the budget housing coalition. with the folks that i've been working with in coalition, folks who have masters degrees, and in some cases, doctorates, it is incredibly difficult to find out where the money is going. that's the most important piece of this is, where the money's going, and what are the funding priorities of the city? wh

please welcome david elliott lewis. [applause] >> how are you all doing?season of gratitude. i hope when i talk about what i am grateful for you will be able to relate to it. first i am grateful for life itself, being able to wake up healthy in a home. i am especially grateful for it. community housing for giving me a home. i give back by being a board member. i am grateful for the organizations i volunteer with and i found recovery with by helping the organizations central city collaborative who helps people who live in hotels like many of the members like me are formerly homeless. we found homes through giving back to the community. i am great for full for the tender line people's congress. this wouldn't happen without the tenderloin congress. we are volunteers who come together to work together in the neighborhood to produce events for the neighborhood, to produce the plan called the peoples plan vision 2020 that matt haney has been working with us on. i am grateful for it. i am really grateful for mayor london breed and what she has done for our city a

. >> david elliott lewis here. through my volunteer work with senior disability action, i've gotten to know dr. cooper over the past year plus as we continued to work together under voluntary services plus. and i've just been immensely impressed with his work on our voluntary first coalition, on other senior disability action committees. he's been a measured and quiet voice. he's not the troublemaker in the room like he describes himself. he's actually been sort of a voice of reason and intelligence and wisdom in the room, and we're, like, grateful to have him. he provides a great perspective with his background in medicine, substance abuse medicine, and anybody would be lucky to have him. i strongly support his nomination and support. >> chair ronen: thank you. anybody else like to speak on this item? yes. and if anybody would like to speak on this item, please lineup on this side of the room. >> hi. i'm here for probably a different reason than a lot of people that come here are. they usually have a lot of very r

david elliott lewis. l-e-w-i-single-family. treatment on demand. there's been so many good ideas mentioned. i want you to applaud you for doing this hearing, for passing mental health san francisco. bravo, bravo, bravo. for the methamphetamine task force, supervisor mandelman ran. and this recommendation for more sobering centers. here's an idea, proposed solution that could be part of mental health san francisco, which is to create more peer or consumer employment opportunities to do outreach. , so the s.r.o.s and to the street. i think bringing in people with lived experience with eviction to actually do outreach makes a lot more sense. or maybe those people working in conjunction with two nurses through street medicine. to bring low threshold buprenorphine to the streets. expand street medicine with more consumer, people with peer, with lived experience, paid to do street outreach, to both shut-in people in s.r.o.s, where a lot of overdoses happen, as well as to the street, where overdoses happen. it's a cost-effective solution to do it. and i t