us with over 2 decades of law enforcement management and he and denny and i have been working to reenvision parking control we have about 24 ftes we have a lot of vacancies at the moment which gets to the need of additional resources to hire staff which we're in the process of attempting to fill. the currency staffing will allows us to have somewhere between 25 patrol folks. we have formula last day a proposal that will shift park proposal and assign folks to each park it will call for 0 doubling of our park resources. we've had conversations with the mayor's office. i'm not sure based on all the priorities that the mayor has to balance how long it will take us to get p there in addition to the park patrol enhancement we'll move to our previous park patrol that will add two or three 0 more park patrol officers. it's not all we need we have the issue we have 80 teaspoon talking about shifting of priority but we have lots of needs and we tried to category our needs and balanced our investment in those four priorities and also for us is the urban forestry the lack of staff really another impor

will look at the additional issue like the studies to date but more importantly to explore and reenvision this area and look at a better city for tomorrow i'm going to turn it over to susan >> good morning directors i'm susan i'm from the city of san francisco of san francisco's planning department. i'll talk about the feasibility will study. i want to state and thank those involved in laying out the caltrain's and tjpa and high speed rail and california harriet authority and the various departments in the city. myself and the planning department will continue to engage with those individuals throughout the project to insure the best outcome. i'm sure our aware of the infrastructure plan many the area and in addition to those plans you better than that anyone else understand the hole in the ground tasseling called the tjpa and we're happy to have that going on. as this infrastructure continues to process through application those projects will layer themselves upon each other and create a spider web it effects the opportunities of the others to date understanding the impacts have on minim

reenvisioning, what are you going to use those dollars for permanent supportive housing. what is the obstacle and here we are 10 years later we're not even close. >> it's a numbers game. it's hard to justify closing a shelter when you know you have 3,000 people on the street. but there's been a lot of -- dph is really kudos to barbara and her team, created about -- whether it's the sobering center, medical respites, sort of these short-term models get folks admires they might be not suitable for different alternatives. : we have the facilities. should we provide them in a way with short term [speaker not understood] needed? these are all rhetorical questions here. honestly, we did close shelters over time. nothing was a policy. it was theerithv of losing the facility. and, so, we do have fewer beds now than we did in 2000, 3, 4. i just think again, it's really justify closing we know we have folks on the street. >> the homeless count, how many folks are on the street? >> homeless county identified 264 folk. the same we had in 2011. 6400 -- the definition of homelessness,

it's said to be a crucial first step in mayor lee's public housing reenvisioning plan.'s just part of keeping people in housing and off the streets. the san francisco examiner reports the city also plans to make it easier to apply for public housing and offer credit counseling. another idea came from new york to expand the homeward bound program which provides a free one-way bus ticket to someone if they can verify that a family or friend is available to meet them on the other end and can help. san francisco has provided tickets back home for nearly 8,000 people since 2004, but unfortunately the homeless population has not gone down by that much since then. now, this afternoon mayor lee also scheduled to make another announcement about the city's housing, and he's going to tour the new site at 1600 market street that has 23 below market- rate homes in the hays valley neighborhood. reporting live in the newsroom, pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thanks, pam. >>> 7:49. only on 2, ktvu news has learned a convicted sex offender taken into custody in san francisco this week