i'm also a member of dph must divest. the deputies at the dph and funded creation of a union representative safety team and primary care clinics. i am a social worker because i love my community. i believe that the lgbtq youth that come to my clinic are current and future leaders. from talking with my patients, i know that the ongoing presence of sheriffs and police as a dph prevents many community members from seeking care in the first place. our lgbtq youth should be protected, not policed when seeking care. i think of a former patient of mine who is terrified to disclose suicidal i'duations because of the fear someone might call the police for a wellness check or that they would be brutalized by police when seeking emergency care. my patients' fears are not unfounded the. in 2015, reports in the treatment advocacy center found that a minimum of 1 in 4 fatal police encounters and -- sorry. excuse me. and the life of an individual with severe mental illness. commissioners, i am tired of grieving my youth lost to police v

i'm also a member of dph must divest. the deputies at the dph and funded creation of a union representative safety team and primary care clinics. i am a social worker because i love my community. i believe that the lgbtq youth that come to my clinic are current and future leaders. from talking with my patients, i know that the ongoing presence of sheriffs and police as a dph prevents many community members from seeking care in the first place. our lgbtq youth should be protected, not policed when seeking care. i think of a former patient of mine who is terrified to disclose suicidal i'duations because of the fear someone might call the police for a wellness check or that they would be brutalized by police when seeking emergency care. my patients' fears are not unfounded the. in 2015, reports in the treatment advocacy center found that a minimum of 1 in 4 fatal police encounters and -- sorry. excuse me. and the life of an individual with severe mental illness. commissioners, i am tired of grieving my youth lost to police v

my dph colleagues and are also online and are available to answer any questions you may have. that concludes my remarks. thank you for your time. >> next i believe we have the department of public works. >> chair haney. >> i believe we have edmond lee. >> sorry. supervisor safai had questions for public health. sorry. i i apologize puff >> thank you. so you went through that really quickly and appreciate the part about psych emergency services in terms of the nice complement to the consideration with baker place serving more people at the psych and with the mental health facilities and talk about the number of beds that will be created with the $48 million and break them down? >> i would like to refer it to my colleague who is part of our new beds and facilities work group for the department. i think dr. peyton is online. >> all right. >> hello, supervisor safai. and i am on the new bed facility committee and so what is that called? >> it is one of the divisions of the mental health that was required under mental health san francisco. >> got it. >> so in 2019 we had an outside

we do have teams that already do this, they may be on the dph funding or expansion list, but it's not obvious from this proposal. we have clinics on the streets and they can develop new drop-in centers and can welcome people off the streets what i'd like to ask not just an high to expansion i'm asked the committee to please slow down and bring in representatives of all the people who were living and working on the streets and in drop-in centers and in shelters. proposition c is an opportunity to fund new interventions, but it looks like this proposal it's expanding to a lot of other ones. thank you so much for your attention. >> thank you so much. >> clerk: hello, caller. >> this is lauren hall. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. we can hear you. >> sorry. this is a little walk ward. chair williams and the o.c.o.h. oversight committee. my name is lauren hall and i'm the new cochair of the housing provider network and i wanted to say thank you so much for your thoughtful and inclusive process. your commitment to ensuring the voice of the people with lived experience are centered in your p

what do we do next in terms of you working with dph. how is that going to happen?continuing this pattern of coming back to hearing and not being heard cannot continue. i want to have dph to reach out to all of you so we can move forward with this in a collaborative manner. you are passionate about this. you know it saved your life. i remember victoria when you said and you had people in tears. your life got bigger when you found recovery. you were in a cell. that was powerful. nobody wants anyone to sufferin' carceration. that is not the point. we want people to find what works for them in terms of dealing with any addiction that is on their back. it is an alberttros around people's necks. there is various ways to do it. recovery the ways you spoke of. medically assisted treatment, harm reduction. we have to be united and how we go about this. we have to. look at the streets. i can't thank you three enough. i don't have questions right now. i didn't realize we had another presentation. i will stop and listen to the next presentation. thank you all. >> we will move

we started a partnership with the black healing circle, with dph.at's going to be starting up in june. we just actually last week at in preparing your pet for your return to work seminar. we've got coping with curb and beyond, self-care, resilience and action . hour of restorative yoga, two days a week for 10 minutes our team leads what we call a citywide stretch break so you get up, you stretch a little bit and on the 20th of this month we are also partnering with dph to provide a panel discussion on how covid has affected mental health. it got two individuals. we have a psychiatrist and physician that will be joining in that panel discussion. iwould like to encourage all our commissioners , there's a lot of opportunity in regards to education that are listed here on the screen in addition to the mental health first aid training so if they're interested iencourage you to reach out to holly for more information . next slide. one of the things that are eap started to implement in covid our group sessions.it's something they already do as part of thei

what do we do next in terms of you working with dph. how is that going to happen?inuing this pattern of coming back to hearing and not being heard cannot continue. i want to have dph to reach out to all of you so we can move forward with this in a collaborative manner. you are passionate about this. you know it saved your life. i remember victoria when you said and you had people in tears. your life got bigger when you found recovery. you were in a cell. that was powerful. nobody wants anyone to sufferin' carceration. that is not the point. we want people to find what works for them in terms of dealing with any addiction that is on their back. it is an alberttros around people's necks. there is various ways to do it. recovery the ways you spoke of. medically assisted treatment, harm reduction. we have to be united and how we go about this. we have to. look at the streets. i can't thank you three enough. i don't have questions right now. i didn't realize we had another presentation. i will stop and listen to the next presentation. thank you all. >> we will move onto

i live from district 9 and work for the dph as a physician. i represent dph. i am asking you to take bold and brave action to invest in our community, not cops. [indiscernable] police do not keep us safe. i think removing face from doing harm by taking away from behavioral crisis responses is the minimum of what to do. i ask you look at the statistics and also look at the documents that have been provided to you by the jail coalition defund sfpd now. there are so many alternatives to having our health, safety and well-being in the hands of police who do not keep us safe, actively cause harm and traumatize community members. especially black and brown community members and those of us unhoused. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am melissa hernandez. member of the sf jail coalition. invest in the community not cops or cages or surveillance. we must divest from electronic monitoring which take $1 billion of the city budget. i want to mention something that chief scott said today. policing will not get rid of drugs. that is absolutely true. police do not so

i live from district 9 and work for the dph as a physician. i represent dph. i am asking you to take bold and brave action to invest in our community, not cops. [indiscernable] police do not keep us safe. i think removing face from doing harm by taking away from behavioral crisis responses is the minimum of what to do. i ask you look at the statistics and also look at the documents that have been provided to you by the jail coalition defund sfpd now. there are so many alternatives to having our health, safety and well-being in the hands of police who do not keep us safe, actively cause harm and traumatize community members. especially black and brown community members and those of us unhoused. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am melissa hernandez. member of the sf jail coalition. invest in the community not cops or cages or surveillance. we must divest from electronic monitoring which take $1 billion of the city budget. i want to mention something that chief scott said today. policing will not get rid of drugs. that is absolutely true. police do not so

even if it is not dph's job to provide the housing unit that goes without patient treatment spot, wecan't know the gap, what the problem is, how to solve the problem if we don't know. gee whiz, we think there are 300 people if we could have given them housing unit and gotten them into treatment the next day, 100 of those would have stuck. to meet that need, madam mayor, board of supervisors you would have to cough up hundreds of millions of dollars. why wouldn't we provide that gap analysis for the mayor and the board and the world to see? that is, i think, the spirit of prop t. maybe it doesn't go to that detail. that is what i would like to drill down on with you and other cosponsors and anybody else interested, treatment on demand coalition on figuring out what people would like to see in these reports. again, i am not the expert. i know this is not a useful gap. this is an advertisement how you are complying with medi-cal requirements. this is not useful to shape and how we approach substance abuse. why our intuition might be wrong about some of these things. the other things tha

member of dph must die investigation. invest in the community not cops, cages surveillance. i am bound by the code of ethics. responsibility to my clients to fight for a community that is just. i have seen the skilled workers escalate violence and policing in the community serving decades of incarceration and trauma and grinding violence of police surveillance. we must imagine something different. as long as law enforcement are public in the health care system patients are not safe. $1 billion budget steals funding my patients are not safe. what will keep them safe are cart and mental healthcare. you have the power to change this. we need bold action to keep our community safe. i am in full support. >> your type elapsed. next speaker, please. >> i live in district 9. after working with them for two years. there is little to no room many times the factual conversations about the role racism placed in the evolution of law enforcement. black people as criminals by nature. this illustrates limitations of anti biased training. the increase of foot patrols. biases are ever growing

these questions are for the chief and dph. i think it might be -- it is not clear but maybe i can start with the chief. i mean i will start with an overall question. chief, which is i know it is a brand-new project, and i know that the crisis response team is only responding to 25% of the 800 calls. just in general, how is it going? how is it impacting the department's work? i am curious of your overall impressions so far. >> first of all, chair haney and supervisor ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar, we have -- let me start with your question by answering, first of all, as you know we totally support the concept and where we are going with scrt. totally support it. rollout started with one team now up to two with plans to expand. in terms of percentage of the calls, and i am getting the data. it is a small percentage of the call load that we get called on. we are still getting those calls as nick stated. we are getting many of those calls. let me put this in context. as we talked about last year in the budget hearing.

i think we saw a big effort put forth by a covid command center and folks at hsh and dph of course. but a lot of that was community mutual aid that stepped in to fill the gaps. they made sure meals and grocery bags and gift cards were delivered. and we have to think about how a lot of our food programming dollars are concentrated in the hands of just a few nonprofits and contractors. which means that we're not able to be more flexible with some of the community based interventions. hunger is a poverty problem. we should look at economic injustice as a driver for inequity and trauma and violence, it may not be safe for folks to actually be able to have the means to feed themselves. we need to think about that when it comes to how folks are able to be food secure. next slide please. a policy goal for the office of racial equity for the city is food sovereignty versus food security. food security is about reducing outcomes of malnutrition and hunger, i'm a firm believer you cannot solve for structural solutions with individual solutions. so if we're going to take a structural approach,

dph and i say this gently did not inform us of that and, indeed, those designations are not set forth in the law nor are they set forth in the mate act. so we were not aware of that informal practice. we did appoint every api person who applied to serve on the body. al beit we moved around the seats so we could get as many folks involved as possible. so it is true there's not a person in the api seats. so there's nothing we can do at this point but i do want to acknowledge that confusion and gently admonish dph staff that while we appreciate and encourage as being resolved for specific groups. so that's all i have to say about that and, with that said, i'd like to return to the matter at hand and here from ms. cavagnaro for seat 15. >> thank you chair peskin and supervisor mandelman for having me today. i was unaware when i originally applied for this seat that i was to be nominated by sfusd pack. in the meantime, i did reach out to them and for better or worse, the person that was originally appointed to the position was unable to fill the seat and so i spoke with the leadership over

i live from district 9 and work for the dph as a physician. i represent dph. i am asking you to take bold and brave action to invest in our community not cops. [indiscernable] police do not keep us safe. i think removing face from doing harm by taking away from behavioral crisis responses is the minimum of what to do. i ask you look at the statistics and also look at the documents that have been provided to you by the jail coalition defund sfpd now. there are so many alternatives to having our health safety and well-being in the hands of police who do not keep us safe, actively cause harm and traumatize community members. especially black and brown community members and those of us unhoused. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am melissa hernandez. member of the sf jail coalition. invest in the community not cops or cages or surveillance. we must divest from electronic monitoring which take $1 billion of the city budget. i want to mention something that chief scott said today. policing will not get rid of drugs. that is absolutely true. police do not solv

these questions are for the chief and dph. i think it might be -- it is not clear but maybe i can start with the chief. i mean i will start with an overall question. chief, which is i know it is a brand-new project, and i know that the crisis response team is only responding to 25% of the 800 calls. just in general, how is it going? how is it impacting the department's work? i am curious of your overall impressions so far. >> first of all, chair haney and supervisor ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar, we have -- let me start with your question by answering, first of all, as you know we totally support the concept and where we are going with scrt. totally support it. rollout started with one team now up to two with plans to expand. in terms of percentage of the calls, and i am getting the data. it is a small percentage of the call load that we get called on. we are still getting those calls as nick stated. we are getting many of those calls. let me put this in context. as we talked about last year in the budget hearing.

we started a partnership with the black healing circle, with dph.ve a new cohort that's going to be starting up in june. we just actually last week at in preparing your pet for your return to work seminar. we've got coping with curb and beyond, self-care, resilience and action . hour of restorative yoga, two days a week for 10 minutes our team leads what we call a citywide stretch break so you get up, you stretch a little bit and on the 20th of this month we are also partnering with dph to provide a panel discussion on how covid has affected mental health. it got two individuals. we have a psychiatrist and physician that will be joining in that panel discussion. iwould like to encourage all our commissioners , there's a lot of opportunity in regards to education that are listed here on the screen in addition to the mental health first aid training so if they're interested iencourage you to reach out to holly for more information . next slide. one of the things that are eap started to implement in covid our group sessions.it's something they already

that they would go ahead and let those 12 to 15-year-olds get vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine at a dph-runciated vaccination site like this one as long as they had a proper consent form from a parent or legal guardian. they were worried if they told children and their families to get a vaccine yesterday or this morning before that cdc meeting that they wanted to come back in 24 or 48 hours that they might not come back at all. they figured out they'd want to get vaccinated in the age range get the proper vaccine. we spoke to a parent that could not come soon enough and based on the polling, families, vaccinating their children is not an easy decision and for this family, it was a no-brainer. >> we talked to liz and her son ben and he's 13 years old and he's been doing virtual learning and he starts high school next year. he wants to be back in the classroom and his mom wants him there, as well. she felt in order to feel comfortable sending him back to the classroom. he says he wanted to get vaccinated as well and when i asked him when he's looking forward to most he said being social and n

i think we saw a big effort put forth by a covid command center and folks at hsh and dph of course. lot of that was community mutual aid that stepped in to fill the gaps. they made sure meals and grocery bags and gift cards were delivered. and we have to think about how a lot of our food programming dollars are concentrated in the hands of just a few nonprofits and contractors. which means that we're not able to be more flexible with some of the community based interventions. hunger is a poverty problem. we should look at economic injustice as a driver for inequity and trauma and violence, it may not be safe for folks to actually be able to have the means to feed themselves. we need to think about that when it comes to how folks are able to be food secure. next slide please. a policy goal for the office of racial equity for the city is food sovereignty versus food security. food security is about reducing outcomes of malnutrition and hunger, i'm a firm believer you cannot solve for structural solutions with individual solutions. so if we're going to take a structural approach, we ne

we have dph checking on the callers. if you'd like to speak for item number two rest star 3 to be added to the speaker line. for those already in q continue to wait and we have 1 color. we have 4 listeners with one speaker. ifyou could unmute the speaker please . >> caller: anastasia again from san franciscotenants union . i support supervisor peskin's ordinance to prohibit the removal ofcommunity kitchens from group housing facilities . people are living in tiny room . they have barely enough food, heat, water and maybe a microwave in the room so these kitchens are really important especially when you're looking at the new design at 468 turkey street and 470 farrow street. the planning department last week, even the commissioner sue diamond was calling for those communitykitchens so they are really important . thank you supervisorpeskin . >> chair melgar: thank you for your comments. dd has confirmedthat was the last caller into . >>chair melgar: you madam . public comment on thisitem is closed . i want to again thank s

will indicate to you that my staff just sent a quick e-mail just indicating that they are working with dph to identify and perhaps if it's necessary to update the vacancy notice, but if i need to just say thank you for bringing that to our attention, but it's nuanced. it's not exactly correct, but we will look into that. thank you, sir, for your comments. okay. operations, do we have another caller, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm calling today to ask as we return to normal or normal reference in this yellow tier that we might also permit people to gather in our parks for a long time, we've had events in closed spaces and only available indoor spaces where there was revenue involved and i'm asking that the outdoor spaces that are obviously safer for everyone to gather in from the cdc recommendation is all of our own department of health recommendations be allowed to be utilized in a more galtary apmanner. i see private venues being open as sort of elitests. to gather and if we permitted people to be able to listen to music in the park and gather in the parks at night, we would

need to look at long-term solutions if we don't get changes that we can anticipate from our cdc and dph guidelines. we can't predict the future but we can definitely plan to ensure we don't have the chaos that is trying to make it work right now. thank you. >> thank you. hello, brandy. >> hi, i just wanted to respond to a few of the public comments iheard so far. first of all, if you're here upset as some of you parents are about the schools not being open for in-person instruction five days a week, upset about the district not having adequate sub coverage, i want to tell you you're at the wrong meeting. you should be going to the board of supervisors and demanding that the city, especially the mayor allocate more funding for our public schools. that's going to yield a lot more results than just continued demands because we're not going to get to the capacity where we can have things like better staff wellness centers and things like that if the city doesn'tal owe locate the money. this city is one of the wealthiest cities in the state and the planet. if your advocacy or your groups are

eric grafton, chief information from dph. this morning we seek the recommendation to accept and expend the $90,000 from the epic charitable fund to honor those who operate safety care organizations with the low xhk and vulnerable populations. as a refresher, epic is the electronic health recorder provider. the epic charitable fund is the source of this gift distributed through fidelity. the safety net gift is not what we apply for but a donation to many safety net organizations that use the epic system. we may or may not receive the gifts in the future. we confirmed on march 27, 2021 that the electronic funds was the safety net gift with no accompanying gift letter and fidelity did not alert us of the transition of funds, both of which were unexpected and worked quickly that the package could be presented to the committee today. to deploy the epic system which is underway right now. i am pleased to answer your questions. >> thank you for your presentation. colleagues, any questions or comments on this item? you may have cover

the clinic dph, we held a soft reopening of the clinic in its new location atthe gymnasium yesterday . they will be open on tuesdays from 2 until 6 goingforward . they will be able to offer beginning june 5 covid vaccines. but it's nurse consultations, they treat minor injuries and illnesses, provide some testin services for blood pressure, sugar , blood sugar, urine tests and other screenings. and to make primary care physician referrals. onapril 30 , the resident group treasure island residents supporting community invited supervisor haney to the island for a outdoor town hall at the playground at 13th and e. i attended along with representatives from the treasure island mobility agency the sfpuc. topics included the proposed toll, power outages and the variety of housekeeping and quality of life topics on the island . kids that were in attendance requested the swings at the playground be replaced and requested more field access to the recreation fieldson island . following up on that , we have new swings on order and we will also be preparing the rubberized surface of the plate an

how difficult and traumatizing this experience has been for not only our team and our family within dph but throughout the community. people do what is necessary to take care of themselves and that we support everyone within the department and the community. thank you very much. we can continue with the director's report. >> thank you. the director's report i have many details on covid-19 updates. we will be presenting that after the minutes are read. i did have a couple announcements. just to say that the mayor announced on april 13th the least of a site for drug sobering center. this is something that is continuing to be a co-focus of the department because of the covid-19 pandemic. we are delighted to release 1076 howard street for the first sobering center in san francisco as we continue to strengthen behavioral health system. a note to the commissioners on that. announcement that is wonderful for the state and for the individual and for the health department. sad to see this individual go. christine shador, acting director of population health division has been capped by governor n

of course, our department dph and emergency management have all been modernizes business systems. it is an exciting time to see the new systems online. even during the pandemic. that is remarkable. >> results. data sf departments are continuously creating data analyzing, models, looking at outcomes, presenting dash boards to the public. nowhere have we seen the impact as with covid which clearly communicated to our residents the status of the pandemic in our community, how it was affecting populations, and i think it is a hi, high standard that dashboard set on communication and use of data. resource models. we continue to evolve procurement and specialty enterprising the license agreement to allow the city to buy technology, combine purchasing power to buy in large volume. we use those contracts to drive down costs and saving $3.7 million this year from the enterprise agreement. we look at shared services and enterprise systems. what are we uses for technology today? can we leverage that drive down costs? getting as much value and use out of technology is a way to maximize our re

of course, our department dph and emergency management have all been modernizes business systems. it is an exciting time to see the new systems online. even during the pandemic. that is remarkable. >> results. data sf departments are continuously creating data analyzing, models, looking at outcomes, presenting dash boards to the public. nowhere have we seen the impact as with covid which clearly communicated to our residents the status of the pandemic in our community, how it was affecting populations, and i think it is a hi, high standard that dashboard set on communication and use of data. resource models. we continue to evolve procurement and specialty enterprising the license agreement to allow the city to buy technology, combine purchasing power to buy in large volume. we use those contracts to drive down costs and saving $3.7 million this year from the enterprise agreement. we look at shared services and enterprise systems. what are we uses for technology today? can we leverage that drive down costs? getting as much value and use out of technology is a way to maximize our re

where we'd want to allocate those resources towards violent crime as opposed to, you know, helping with dph and homeless calls. >> that's an excellent question, commissioner hamasaki. we do do that when there's a need for officers to pull off of whatever they're working on to address spikes in violence, we do exactly that and that's what i said earlier about stability and deployment, but the other side of this equation is we have tens of thousands of people still calling the police department because they have nobody else to call to respond to what they think. there's a person saying i can't get out of my driveway. we're so supportive of this, but we do have to address the needs of the public and i know the commission helped us write a resolution to get out of that. we can't call other entities to do that. you know, the staffing is not there for h.s.h. to do it. and i know that's a work in progress. the structure's not there for s.e.r.t. to do it. it's all about pushing this work forward and transitioning, but to your question, absolutely, we'd rather be putting officers in mogss to prevent

will indicate to you that my staff just sent a quick e-mail just indicating that they are working with dph to identify and perhaps if it's necessary to update the vacancy notice, but if i need to just say thank you for bringing that to our attention, but it's nuanced. it's not exactly correct, but we will look into that. thank you, sir, for your comments. okay. operations, do we have another caller, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm calling today to ask as we return to normal or normal reference in this yellow tier that we might also permit people to gather in our parks for a long time, we've had events in closed spaces and only available indoor spaces where there was revenue involved and i'm asking that the outdoor spaces that are obviously safer for everyone to gather in from the cdc recommendation is all of our own department of health recommendations be allowed to be utilized in a more galtary apmanner. i see private venues being open as sort of elitests. to gather and if we permitted people to be able to listen to music in the park and gather in the parks at night, we would