to start with to either director mcspadden or shaw.rify whose decision was it to open 730 stanyan as a drop in center? >> i will answer that question. that was a joint decision between hsh and opd. >> thank you. then was that approved by the mayor or just a decision made by two department heads? >> i want to clarify. director mcspadden we have a hierarchy who we engage. the conversations were when we realized that the time was extended for the site being available, director mcspadden and i met to say if you want to continue take use we can discuss that. that was the conversation there. it was our hierarchy is dph and hsh during covid recovery around the interim youth. a must be are offered covid testing or safe sleeping sites for the parcels we are developing right now. it was our intention to make sure dph, dph or shh had priority for youth in these plans. >> thank you for the detail. did the mayor approve that attu that -- atthe time directly? >> that site had been there before so the conversations were can we continue what is there.

to start with to either director mcspadden or shaw. can you clarify whose decision was it to open 730 stanyan as a drop in center? >> i will answer that question. that was a joint decision between hsh and opd. >> thank you. then was that approved by the mayor or just a decision made by two department heads? >> i want to clarify. director mcspadden we have a hierarchy who we engage. the conversations were when we realized that the time was extended for the site being available, director mcspadden and i met to say if you want to continue take use we can discuss that. that was the conversation there. it was our hierarchy is dph and hsh during covid recovery around the interim youth. a must be are offered covid testing or safe sleeping sites for the parcels we are developing right now. it was our intention to make sure dph, dph or shh had priority for youth in these plans. >> thank you for the detail. did the mayor approve that attu that -- atthe time directly? >> that site had been there before so the conversations were can we continue wh

i'll start with director mcspadden. i have a number of questions.o, i saw just some questions about the population and so 45% of hotel guests are over 55, which makes sense because that was the population that we were focused on. do we know what percentage of the people in the hotels were homeless for an extended period of time or were newly homeless? a percentage that potentially became homeless within the last year or homeless during the pandemic? can we track that information? >> i'm going to ask emily cohen to answer that question because she'll know if we have that data or not. >> thank you, director. thank you, chair haney. no. we don't have that level of data about the experience of people's previous homelessness for everybody. >> we do have some data. i think our data shows that the average length of homelessness is 10 years for the folks in the shelter in place hotels. >> got it. ok. >> i'm not sure if you can hear me. >> yes, i can hear you. >> this is elizabeth. so [inaudible] database and that is only existed for 24 years and so it just

to start with to either director mcspadden or shaw. can you clarify whose decision was it to open 730 stanyan as a drop in center? >> i will answer that question. that was a joint decision between hsh and opd. >> thank you. then was that approved by the mayor or just a decision made by two department heads? >> i want to clarify. director mcspadden we have a hierarchy who we engage. the conversations were when we realized that the time was extended for the site being available, director mcspadden and i met to say if you want to continue take use we can discuss that. that was the conversation there. it was our hierarchy is dph and hsh during covid recovery around the interim youth. a must be are offered covid testing or safe sleeping sites for the parcels we are developing right now. it was our intention to make sure dph, dph or shh had priority for youth in these plans. >> thank you for the detail. did the mayor approve that attu that -- atthe time directly? >> that site had been there before so the conversations were can we continue wh

i took over for shreen mcspadden the director of homelessness and supportive housing. i have been here six months. i am still learning and will be learning for some time. what i want to tell you all is before i took this position, i was the director of the san francisco in home supportive services authority. i have a fair amount of familiarity with the department and am learning a lot. i have been working in this space for seniors and people with disabilities for about 15 years. also, you should know that i do try to work very closely withmod. i think our missions are very much aligned. i look forward to working with all of you and welcome any opportunities or ideas that you might have. i just wanted to say "hello," let you know me. give you a chance to know me. if you have any questions for me, i am happy to answer them. >> this is council member orchid. thank you so much and congratulations on your position. any comments or questions from council members? alex? [indiscernable] i have questions for you. one, at this time you might mention each program. my first questi

it has been sent to executive director of the department of homeless and housing support shareen mcspadden. and we have a plan in place and that will take place in the next few -- hopefully a week and a half. to see how we move forward. >> president: that concludes your report? >> it does. >> president: okay. it was very comprehensive, so thank you so much for all of the work that went on in the last couple of months especially around this important issue and we appreciate you sending us the report so we could view it. i'm sure we all read it and we'll try to work on focusing on some of these recommendations. do we have any comments or questions from the other commissioners on any parts of the advisory committee in the last month or so? >> secretary: seeing no comments or questions there. we can move on to the next item. item eight. commissioners, item eight is the joint legislative report. also presented by advisory counsel president, ms. diane lawrence. >> good morning again. the governor has until october 10th, so i guess that's sunday, to sign bills and elect and expire. we know that m