it funds the expansion of existing navigation centre cents well as safe centre. we believe once cuir given the go ahead, we'll be able to put most of this online within six months. thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors, greg wagner, acting director of department of public health. to express grated fo gratitud. we've been in the process of doing evaluation of key gaps in our system of behavioral healthcare services. focused on the epidemic of homelessness and homeless individuals on the street. proposed funding in this legislation addressed two key areas of need. the first will be to purchase additional 14 beds at the st. mary's healing centre. this program has been -- facility was open in 2017. at that time we purchased 40 of the 54 beds available. it will allow us to purchase the remaining 14 beds that's needed. the second component, which is also very optimistic it would allow us to add 72 residential step-down beds. this is a newer model of program. after people go through residential treatment program for substance use, often, that's a productive

we are very close to having site for the navigation centre. that one is more challenging because the population are concentrated if specific neighborhood. we've been very specific about where we want to place that site which makes it little bit harder. with safe centre, opening quite few navigation centres, we're going to start with the basic structure and then do bring in the utilities afterwards. for example, division circle, it took us quite a lot of time to bring the utilities in. it was the hardest part of the job. we'll get the structure set up and bring in generator and temporary water and seasonnatio- sanitation facilities. should allow us to open up the sites. >> supervisor ronen: is that because of the pg&e se shenanig. >> the issue with the centre is trying to find a location. we are looking at one specific site now. because we're looking specific neighborhoods, it's harder to find an appropriate location for that facility. >> supervisor ronen: the safe centre, you're feeling confident of the various locations you're looking, you'll

where our staff will be building community garden beds at the navigation centre, and we will be planting and kicking off community garden beds in a centre in the bayview which we will then keep an eye on with the folks who are staying there. so we are all in on this program. >> thank you, sir. commissioner anderson? >> could i ask you a question? i have a business in the bayview, and i have seen a couple of corner gardens that i think are not recreation and parks gardens, but are not getting attention anymore. is there a process where that can be identified, and maybe we could get some advice from recreation park whether it is something that can come under our offices? [please stand by] comment? ok. public comment? >> yep. >> ok. on an item not on calendar. >> right. >> ok. >> thank you. hi, commissioners. thank you so much. i don't know if i was supposed to get on the docket, but ok. happy to be here. >> you are on the docket now. >> thanks. my name is buka alone, six-year veteran on the friends of jackson park board and i'm also hired by a school nearby, a private school as

when we open up to the bryant street navigation centre earlier this month, i met a woman who had justng addiction and breast cancer. on the streets, her medication kept getting stolen, she couldn't get healthy, now she is inside, and she is working on getting housing. at bryant street, she gave me a hug, and she said she is hopeful , and so am i. if she has hope, others can too. that is the difference. she is excited about the future, and i'm excited for her. if she can have a hope, and others can too. i've already announced my plan to add 1,000 shelter beds by 2020, enough to clear the shelter bed waitlist. [applause] >> we also are declaring a shelter crisis so we can get these shelter beds builds now, and i want to thank supervisor supervisors brown, haney, mandelman, supervisor stefani and walton, for joining me in recognizing our bureaucracy shouldn't stand in the way of one single thousand beds. this is a huge step, we know, but it is not enough. we know we have around 4,000 unsheltered people in our city, sleeping in our streets, in our parks, in the doorway is, or in vehicles.

last but not least, i want to welcome our navigation centre residents who are here in the room. the folks who are on the front lines who are experiencing or have recently experienced homelessness first-hand. as you probably know, conventional homeless shelters have been around for a long time , but navigation centers are pretty new. less than four years ago, in march of 2014, we were instrumental in opening and operating the very first navigation center in the united states over on mission street. since that time, five additional navigation centers have been opened, and today, a sixth. the navigation centers in this town have become a national model for removing barriers to housing for high need individuals who are dealing with complex issues and two as a result, have experienced homelessness. along the way, ecs has continued to operate two of the navigation centers, but has established itself as an innovative thought leader in the field, providing expert consultation to sister agencies both in san francisco, and across the country, and early-stage planning, set up, and ongoing

where to locate a navigation centre? how to create and maintain a sanctuary for immigrants? how to keep the plaza safe and clean, how to keep our families from being displaced. in each case, she argues her position persuasively and clearly, while at the same time listening carefully to the other voices and moving the conversation forward. she is not too passionate or too ambitious for the job. i cannot believe we are still having conversations like this. right now our city is under attack by the current white house. not only are they not working for us, they are working against us. they are coming after us. given this, is it possible for anyone, male or female, to be too passionate clot maybe you saw a tweet this morning in which he quoted dr king. the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. will we be extremists for hate or love? supervisor ronen is in an extremists of love and i strongly recommend her for board president. thank you. >> to the members of the public gallery, please hold your comments until after the president pr

with wraparound services for two years, $6.4 million for expansion of navigation centers, 4.4 million for san francisco healing centre beds, 5 million for substance use recovery beds, $10 million for one-time wage credits and reimbursements for the early child heard workers, 5.6 million for public power, utility acquisition to prepare for the next steps in pg and he bankruptcy debacle that i just referred to, $10 million into the funds that you will hear from supervisor ronen about relative to power independence, 13 and a half million dollars to fulfil the ends of the u.s.f. teacher and paraprofessional contracts, and make our teachers whole. colleagues, i know that this too it shall morph, but as a legislative body, this is legislative body's vehicle to negotiate with the executive branch. i hope that we will come to a consensus. i do not want us to look like the dysfunctional congress in the trump administration. i know all of us are mature enough to do that, had to do that in conjunction with the community so that was going to be my second item, but after hearing from you, i made it my first item. my second item i

dog, trevor, and i'm about to try soundscape, a navigation at that uses no visuals, just 3d sounds. 0k, so i'm hearing voices. the over lake transit centre. as iturn around, transit centre is 200m that way. as i turn around, the phone are just the stereo sound so that the speech appears to keep coming from the correct direction. having it in 3-d space in that way makes it really effortless to know where things are. you don't have to do calculation is in your head, and engage with them. you can just hear where in your head, and engage with them. you canjust hear where it in your head, and engage with them. you can just hear where it is. this 3-d you can just hear where it is. this 3—d audio is called dynamic binaural sound, and we are now going to use it to find our way to our destination. now, instead of giving you step—by—step instructions, the way that soundscape works is it will place an audio beacon, a virtual audio beacon, on the destination. so you can hear where it is, and we can decide how to get there. beacon, 210 metres. i am hearing it. which side are you hearing? and it really is quite instinctive, just head in the rough dire

easy to cut back on those health centres and visits from health visitors and all those kind of things that help young families, young parents, as they try and navigatething to do. that's right, yes, it is. if you are struggling you need some kind of safety net and it is, as you say, those are the kind of things that lose out during periods ... but kind of things that lose out during periods but also for those families who can afford it they can afford to put the child into nurseries or childcare that in theory get children to school ready, whatever that means. whereas those families who have not got the funds, they will not do that. i think it's about momentum, you start off with good momentum then you can build on that as you go through your school education. let's bring in some tweets, i've been looking at those and we've had a lot of response to this. caitlin says there are more important things to do with young children and make them school ready, my skin grows thinking about that phrase. i don't think it's about being ready for school, it's about life skills like being able to go to the toilet, recognise how to eat properly, things like that, b

centre. and as well, if there is an emergency in and around that area, how we will navigate through. it will be congested back, but all the planning that is being done ahead of time will be paying off. on the 22nd, the assistant deputy chief and deputy chief nicholson and i attended an event that we were guests at the asian firefighter association, which was the coalition of asian-american government employees in chinatown to celebrate the year of the bore. we attended that events. then later that afternoon, and i know commissioners responded when they got back into town, it was a lengthy response out to the area. we had a large response. it was a very tragic event where there was a woman that was walking on the beach with a friend and her dog, and the study cliff above her gave way and trapped her and her huge amounts of sand. valiant efforts of our members were unsuccessful in trying to locate her. we had one of our own k-9 teams come in at south city and works that incident for a number of hours. the assistant chief was the working -- the i see working closely with -- and chief ni

mission neighborhood centres youth programs will provide monthly workshops for older adults and adults with disabilities to increase their skill and comfort level with technology and navigating the interstate. the second component is a class called "each one teach one" this is a percussion and singing exchange class under the direction of music educator older adults will learn songs and musical skills during the first half of the class. in the second half of the class, the participants will engage the preschool children on site and their parents to teach and share with what they just learned. the third component is a class called "la vita comita." this class will bring teenagers enrolled in program, bring together those youths and the older adults and adults with disability to cook traditional healthy meals together. the cooking class will use the professional services of a nutritionist to ensure that the recipes are healthy. the tech and cooking components will be monthly and the music component will be weekly. mission neighborhood centre will provide all average of eight hours of programming a month and will engage at least 80 consumers annually. thank you. i'm happy to an