the regulars provide something.would be to look at the entire portfolio of the borrower, in this case, mercy housing of california, and we looked at that. but mercy's portfolio itself is so deeply affordable, and it has so much soft debt on it already that we couldn't get there by going that direction. we also looked at reducing the scope to a much lower level to again try to meet this requirement. we weren't going to be able to do that and still obtain the state and tax credit money. if they come in, they put the building way over the 95% ratio. looking at this smaller scope proved to not be feasible. the building is fairly old. it has been owned by the st. vincent paul society for a long time. we have a plan to bring it back into full service with long-term assistance from the public health department. the smaller scope we could have done would only prolong its life four or five years. the basic systems, in addition to seismic upgrade, it needs new plumbing and ventilation services. it is an old style who tell wit

we provide. but some of the other things that probably are less well recognized is homeless people wind up in the emergency room, lots of times, repeated times a year. that's very expensive for society, because we all, as taxpayers, pay for that. they wind up in jail, and to incarcerate someone is very expensive. so the costs of a homeless person just being allowed to continue in homelessness is very high for society, and some studies have estimated it may be 30-to-40-some thousand dollars a year per person. and some people, if they're repeatedly hospitalized, are costing society tremendous costs, well over $100,000 a year. and, conversely, you know, if we were able to assess, as dr. clark has mentioned, find them some permanent housing, and what other aspects are necessary. employment? well, we haven't talked about that, and i think that is important. i think many homeless people have the potential to get back into the workforce. in our studies, most of the people, on average, have been employed

the regulars provide something.uld be to look at the entire portfolio of the borrower, in this case, mercy housing of california, and we looked at that. but mercy's portfolio

the regulars provide something.would be to look at the entire portfolio of the borrower, in this case, mercy housing of california, and we looked at that. but mercy's portfolio itself is so deeply affordable, and it has so much soft debt on it already that we couldn't get there by going that direction. we also looked at reducing the scope to a much lower level to again try to meet this requirement. we weren't going to be able to

we provide advocacy, we provide case management, and we provide homeless outreach. all of these services are provided by people who have come through the system themselves and experienced the system. we-many of the people who come to us are interested in getting basic services: housing or treatment. they're not that interested in the fact that we're peers. we'll disclose that when it's to the benefit of the client, but we understand what it's like to have gone through the system. i went through the system. i was on medicaid, medicare, ssi-all of those things. and so our insight into having been in the system is able to help us help them to do what they need to do. even if it means sitting in a cinder block office for five hours in order to see an examiner, we will assist them to do that because we understand what that's like, but we also understand the potential benefits of doing that, and that's what you have to do. do you go with the client to their service delivery location? in advocacy, the clients basically come to us. it's like a form of per diem case manageme

, since we are providing the same service to both agencies. but since they are separate federal agencies they have separate requirements. we negotiate overall the fee of $4.30 million. they came back to us and told us what their payments were going to be. that distribution was decided from their standpoint, the federal government. it was not decided on hours. we just figured out the fixed price combined, and move forward from there. to tell you what one pays 70% or whatever it might be, that would be a question for the national park service or presidio trust. chairperson avalos: but the total combined fees on an annual basis is what you were trying to achieve and was provided by the federal government. >> that is correct. chairperson avalos: thank you. we can open this item for public comment. any members of the public that would like to comment on these three items, 8 to 10, please come forward. >> my name is jeff dice. i am the chief operating officer at the presidio trust. we look forward to the day when the san francisco fire department ca

although you could say that they'd have to provide it offsite. if you're going to alou it to be residential streets, then we could actually ask for it to be offsite, not be on the property, right? i think that would make a lot more sense. nobody wants them to build a garage for a car share space but if there's a concern that there isn't readily accessible cars in the area, maybe we we would want to deal with it that way by saying that you don't have to provide it or the option was to provide it in the neighborhood, notting in. >> -- not within the building. something more attentive so you can deal with both. >> yes, they would be -- currently now you could allow the car share requirement by providing a car share space within a quarter -- quarter-mile radius. sometimes it may be difficult to procure that sight. commissioner borden: would it make sense for this legislation to say if it's a preference that we conet want to require car share but should the building want to have car share, then do it within a quarter-mile radius not with property? i'm

as a prevention provider, we're spending a lot of time looking at cost improvement strategies for providing these prevention services. we're looking at evidence-based practices that we feel will be strong motivators for families to continue to thrive within the community. and speaking on behalf of a lot of families and a lot of youth, there is a lot of support for this bill out here. whether or not families can leave work and come and provide public comment and testimony, we speak on a lot of youth and families against, i believe that the families will continue to support local businesses. but this is money that's desperately needed. there is not enough money in these budgets for us to provide based on the demand for these youth that need these types of services. so we want you to look at it carefully. understand that we're doing our part to provide these services. and with a little bit more help we'll be able to provide a lot more needed and vital services to the youth and families in our community. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is charles mcintyre. i'm here once again. i represent

indeed, while best it can provide that rate, it -- while respite can provide that break, it also provides a transition where the caregiver gets accustomed to have someone else being involved in that. another comment was, "i broke my back for my dad, and when i had to put him in nursing care, i felt like i had failed him." this is common. despite all they had done, at the end of the day, they felt like they have not done enough. one of the things i want to talk about now is the importance of support for care givers. the research indicates that you can reduce care giver stress and improve outcomes for the individual with the mention it if you promptly delivered comprehensive care giver assessments, education and information, and coordinated easy access to community services and caregiver support. caregiver assessment is most often overlooked entirely, and indeed, provision of an assessment provides information about the care giver's capacity to provide the kinds of support that are coming, that are going to be needed, and in the absence of that, the care giver's phone system a breakdown. in

to provide more information if i may, i would like to through the chair call mr. phil lesser, who is the chair of the district, to say a few words. thank you for the work you have been doing. >> thank you very much for sponsoring this reauthorization of the business improvement district. it is the heart of the mission miracle mile. it is between 21st and 22nd. if i may show a couple of pictures -- the supervisor completely articulated what we are doing. it does not really show it completely, but before we formed the business improvement district that is what the block would look like. this is what it looks like today. that is the removal of debris twice a day. but on top of that, when people say, "where is that block," i do not have to say the block on 2500 anymore. i can just say the block with all the chloral baskets. everyone knows it now. people who stand on the street now realize they have surveillance cameras. they no longer stand on that street. it is a safe, clean, green some stretch of mission street. we hope to one day come back and as you for authorizat

-- i hope that you consider the providers. >> yes. thank you. ok. we do not have any opinions in this audience at all. [laughter] >> thank you so very much for this hard work you have done. i am a full caretaker 24-7 to a recently-diagnosed patients who is my only sibling, my sister. she is 53 years old. all of this is new to me. i am overwhelmed by the support i see in this room. [applause] i want to share a personal story, and i would like to underline the need to educate. i particularly would like to stress the medical provider aspect of this. before my sister's diagnosis, i had a professional career in advocacy, so i came to it as a professional. no other time in my life did i try to apply my skills in a more vital way than what i saw my sister beginning to fail. she had been under a psychiatrist's care for four years, being treated for severe depression, up posttraumatic stress, and the possibility of bipolar illness. in my gut, i felt there was something more going on and i comfortably rang the alarm. i did all the things that i

you have the sort of average family day care providers, the small home providers that are not impacted like -- and by this. i think they're deserving of some protection. the way they work is that it was going to place temporarily will work with the affected parties and the community to come up with permanent controls. we really do think that the child-care industry needs the protection because of some of the economic pressures. it is a necessity for workers who have young children to be able to go john's with both small and large businesses. a number of providers are actually small business owners themselves. on the one case we have been working, [unintelligible] they're running it as a business operation and it would give them some protection. finally, a conditional use does not prohibit a change in use, it just creates an additional step where members of the public can come to the planning commission and weigh in. >> many child-care operators are in private homes, you know, in units and residential units. these controls, are there guidelines with time for those units? >> this is why

that is not provided to the indigent defense providers. federal grants are almost all directed toward prosecution and law enforcement. so the problem to have vast resources that i'm facing right now is that you have grant funding the police department, the sheriff's deft, the district attorney's office. there is a share that -- etc., etc. that share, which for them is a portion of their funding is almost my entire funding so when you say you're going to cut 13% off everybody equally. well, 13% for us is more than 13% of their entire budget than for the other agencies. now the problem is that's the ripple effect we just had here. now they still have their investigators because they have other agencies that provide the investigation. we don't. our investigators are the ones that have to be trimmed off because we can't pay for them. our attorneys, again, they are paid for by the county. we have to cut back our attorneys. meanwhile, the prosecution, yes, they may have to cut back the attorneys. there are a lot of attorneys still being funded b

>> we don't provide stipends per se. what we do provide are what we call income support or other support is hises for folks. through the citybuild program and other areas, we provide things like child care assistance, growth card and assistance, gas cards and or transportation vouchers depending on the mode of transport that folks use. we shy away from actually paying for -- you know, sort of a cash payment while folks are in training. but we do recognize that is a hardship, particularly when folks are out of work. some folks in our training programs are working part-time, but recognize they need some additional income support. so we try to provide those through the supportive services which we know they will utilize effectively, and which frankly, our students and clients have told us those are the areas where they need additional income support. the one exception to that which is not actually affected by any of the items before the supervisors today is the ramp program, which is a program for at-risk unadults ages 18-2

we provide all-gold rescue, all ambulance service, and all fire service. the initial term of the contract is from october 1, 2010 through september 30, 2020. with that contract -- that is a 10 year contract with 35-year extensions. they want to proceed. -- with three five-year extensions. they want to proceed. this runs through december 30, 2011. that is for 4.3 to $5 million. -- $2.32$4.325 million. that schedule will be adjusted each year which allows you to recoup any costs to the fire department. if we notice that there is an overage for one year, there is a maximum amount of payment from the national park service as well as presidio trust. that money is not lost. that is carried to the four years and can be picked up as review the contract. we not only came up with these estimated numbers -- we look at the cpi. the cpi. it

they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol

the regulars provide something.would be to look at the entire portfolio of the borrower, in this case, mercy housing of california, and we looked at that. but mercy's portfolio itself is so deeply affordable, and it has so much soft debt on it already that we couldn't get there by going that direction. we also looked at reducing the scope to a much lower level to again try to meet this requirement. we weren't going to be able to do that and still obtain the state and tax credit money. if they come in, they put the building way over the 95% ratio. looking at this smaller scope proved to not be feasible. the building is fairly old. it has been owned by the st. vincpa

and we provide said for the better street plan project and access ibleible curb ramps and stops. and one thing that we want to communicate, these are not stand alone elements, they are building blocks placed in the public right-of-way. and we encourage these to be integrated into the pedestrian environment and not as isolated elements. how do you do that? that's through what we call universal design. and we have a board in the back that talks about the seven principles of university design. and equitable use and that it doesn't disadvantage any group and flexible in use and it provides for the widest range, and simple and intuitive and perceptual and it communicates effective information to the user. and tolerance for error and minimizes hazards or inverse accidents. and low physical effort that makes the use comfortable, and safe and within minimal fatigue. and things designed for the proper space and size for approach and use. basically what one gets out of universal design, is not just design for people with disabilities or elderly, but it's designed for everyone, it has cross

>> we have provided training. some of them have allowed us to go in to their schools to demonstrate the program. almost all the schools in the city are visited at least once per year. they talk about the online program and what it can do for the students and how they can use it. supervisor avalos: every school has a library as well, hookups for computer technology. it seems like the librarians and the schools could find a good place for those as well? >> yes. supervisor avalos: great. supervisor chu: are there any members of the public that wish to speak on item number one? >> good morning. my name is douglas shepard and i have lived in san francisco for 15 years. i would like to speak in support of this. i think it is something that is noteworthy and i would like to make a suggestion that four students who are kind of close to dropping out of school, i think that this sort of program should be offered in writing to the parents of students and that the school should get a written reply as to whether that student i

who was an intern that provided assistance. of those departments working hard on this project if years to deliver this great library to you all. part of what made their job, i won't say it was easy, but made it a great project to work on as we had a great contractor. and i know, deshawn is here and brian from isac, it was a great challenging project and they did a great job. please give them a hand. >> and then finally, i just want to reiterate what luis said, leena chin and mindy and the rest of the folks that are managing the whole blip program do an outstanding job are making sure your tax dollars are well spent. this project, like we strive for in everyone, was on time, it was on budget. and this is really the model library for the system. we're very proud to have worked on it. my wife, grew up part of her childhood on 17th avenue came here as a little girl for story-time. it is special to be here. congratulations to y'all and a great new library. >> when we talk about the community owning the library, there's no better exa

community-based providers also provide training to the agencies. most recently, the mayor's office of housing received a three-year federal grant which is being implemented, and they will be training hundreds of police officers over the next two years of domestic violence. based on the findings of the audit, we secured a line of contract services. all departments that use that for a telephonic translations. there were problems with the prior telephonic translations. different agencies were using different providers and some are not as high quality as others. also, at the same time, we received donations from at&t, mobile phones. these are funds that officers can use in the field if they are responding to a case of someone not having an in-person translator. then they can use the mobile phone to receive translations. all criminal justice departments have protocols for injuring limited english driver's seat language of corporate services. so these are some of the high- level successes that we have had. the report also details some of the other protoc

provide access to adjacent shopping. we work with the m.t.a. and create a bicycle network that will create what is currently a fragmented public system. connected together with the neighborhood commons which will also have bicycles available for the residents and for the public. in addition, we'll have car-share pods. there is also limited access into park merced and limited access in the adjacent neighborhoods. we intend to open this up, especially along the boulevard, which will eliminate the con jex -- the congestion that you will find at park merced currently. pedestrian safety is being specifically addressed with these cross-walks, which will be a model for the rest of 19th avenue for this part of the city. one of the biggest environmental challenges we have had in the last 20 years is that water. the water shed, natural system, it has been urbanized. much of our storm water is diverted to oceanside water plants. our proposal is to remove park merced from the city's storm harvest system and harvest rain water into n

the surface. -- provide the service. we don't know if congress will give us the funding, but that will not affect our ability to ride the service. goingon't know if you are to ask about that? >> we need to emphasize -- and speaking as an actual finances and. i've seen a lot of administrations come and go. there have been a lot of good people in various administrations, but we have some extraordinarily dedicated senior officials and i does want to make sure that while i'm wildly frustrated, i'm extremely appreciative of the dedication, intelligence and commitment your teams have brought to this question. but like to ask more about the study that was done -- what is the result? >> thevaluation is currently under review with fema. we did the evaluation in several steps. we get an outcome evaluation to see if families in fact received the services they need and were restored -- >> this is taking an extraordinarily long time and i don't understand why it's taking so long. if you couple that with the data we are finding, we ha

we need to provide connections to public transportation. we need to think about future public access along pier 29 and how the site might connect to that, the possibility of a continuation of the history walk through the piers that occur here. there is a notion that because of the vast mass of the space, which is 2.5 acres, 2 acres being the primary triangular space, that we need to activate that would public uses. some of those might be commercial. there is a great opportunity in proximity to the beltway building, which we propose to leave in its current location, to create an urban piazza that could house commercial uses that are not in the shed its. the special area planned talks a lot about usage for the site. these orange dots represent what we call activators, the idea that in order to activate this we need things going on for these three areas. the cruise terminal and its uses are one of them. last but not least, we need to think about bringing some kind of transparent buffer between the green space and gta, where we will have more a

the legislation and policy may be able to provide some updated comments in regards to this item between now and september 7 when it's proposed to be heard. because the next commission, full commission hearing will be after. unless the commission chooses to have a special meeting. vice president clyde: got it. executive director dick-endrizzi: ok. so just to maybe go through some of the comments that the commission has made and also some of the small businesses, that the intent of the ordinance and -- is that the original intent of the ordinance had been stated, was that it was to go -- that they're targeting the wholesalers as the means to go after big alcohol to, to quote their termination -- alcohol, to quote their terminology. but i think in terms of this ordinance, what we really understand is that this actually is having the impact is on small business, because small business is going to have to -- is the one that's fronting the cash to pay for this. proposed fee. and that as we often -- the commission often sees, is that when we divide legislation that is specifically targeted tow