we need affordable housing in sanfrancisco .we need to provide people with a safe place to live so that people don't have to live in ... [inaudible] you must approve the million immediatel , preserving housing that we desperately need . >> thank you for your comments richard . mister smith, next speaker please. >> speaker: good afternoon supervisors, committee. i want to thank you all for holding this hearing today and urge the board and mayor's office to support the recommendations of the housing stability fund oversight board. proposition k and i was really a mandate to try new things for affordable housing in san francisco. our current models for creating housing and affordable housing are not working and with this funding we have the opportunity to invest in land acquisitions and that's a non- tax credit project to invest in much-needed upgrades to our affordable housing dock of seniors for people with disability and bigger projects like municipal social housing as one of our speakers spoke to before so i urge the committee

other issues, we see them in a way that we deferential see the 3000 homeless children in our san sanfrancisco unified school district. we don't see them. those folks also need to be moved from the street to a shelter to permanent housing. many of them don't need permanent supportive housing. they need affordable housing. in my district there are lot of folks who are living in cars and rvs just like in supervisor safai's district and president walton's district. i'm grateful that we included safe parking sites in this new policy as it should. i want to headache -- i want to make sure we define those things. i do think it's a spectrum. i want to make sure that we address everything along the way. many of the folks living in rvs and cars are just poor. many them are latino. many of them are single mothers with kids. not a lot of mental health and substance abuse issues in that population. they do need services. they need financial capability training. they need workforce assistance. they need lot of things. not necessarily those that are provided in permanent housing but are provided in affordab

other issues, we see them in a way that we deferential see the 3000 homeless children in our san sanfrancisco unified school district. we don't see them. those folks also need to be moved from the street to a shelter to permanent housing. many of them don't need permanent supportive housing. they need affordable housing. in my district there are lot of folks who are living in cars and rvs just like in supervisor safai's district and president walton's district. i'm grateful that we included safe parking sites in this new policy as it should. i want to headache -- i want to make sure we define those things. i do think it's a spectrum. i want to make sure that we address everything along the way. many of the folks living in rvs and cars are just poor. many them are latino. many of them are single mothers with kids. not a lot of mental health and substance abuse issues in that population. they do need services. they need financial capability training. they need workforce assistance. they need lot of things. not necessarily those that are provided in permanent housing but are provided in affordab

we do very well cleaning the streets of sanfrancisco and we do it over and over again . so as much as we want these additional resources to help us stay more on top of, street behavioris one of the fundamental challenges that makes it difficult for us to be successful . >> that gets to another question which is similar to supervisor safai's question. it is not intuitive from someone looking from the outside that you would put these enforcement duties in the sort of engineering permitting sites because the people out in the streets who know what's going on in the streets who see the violations every single day when they're clearing the streets you know, how do they communicate that so it's not all reliance on san francisco residents to do those complaint based onenforcement ? that's what i hope there's some internal communication between the two apartments so that we're not wasting that opportunity. i would imagine that the workers out in the streets, cleaning the streets no city that are than anyone and know exactly what's going on on every street corner andwhat violatio

at least have the opportunity to find out what the right number it's for the city and county of sanfrancisco and allow the city to provide shelter beds to meet everyone's needs . we know there's a need but we haven't had the political will i believe in the city to address this inan aggressive manner . i have amendments today, some of them supervisor mandelman talked about, supervisor melgar reference and their similar to what supervisormelgar talked about and that's nice because like minds think alike . i think it's important first and foremost that when we're thinking about the right number we also incorporate into the fact that there are a reasonable number of people that will still accept permanent supportive housing or affordable housing so we make that amendment and put it into the first conversation about the estimate for an sheltered individuals. we had in the line that says excluding individuals that accept an offer for permanent supportive housing and i think that's an important piece in the conversation to say because there's a reasonable number of people that will continue to acce

they're not going to tolerate this because quality of life issues in sanfrancisco have gone to the dogs . drug dealers are coming from the east bay and doing what they please. and they cannot be monitored because we don't have a police force that should be doing what they are supposed to do and are hampered. so i don't want to hear anybody trying to gang up on the police chief. i'm going to defend him with all my might and with my brigade. i'm a philosopher, a theologia . educational psychology, worked for the army. thank you very much. >> thank you caller. goodevening caller , you have 2 minutes. >> i'm a resident of district 1 and i volunteer for the black community. the following is a quote from the office of disparity in black community founder felicia jones. there's anurgency to address the injustices ofblack san franciscans . i'm going to call it what it is , anti-blackness and form of trafficstops by sfpd. i've grown tired of talking to the police commission, to sfpd and thisboard of supervisors . where is the urgency ? if the table was turnedand the statistics represented white

and what interests of the mayor or the sfpd or in the interest of the people of sanfrancisco or however when you make that decision . i think i'm asking pacifically how do you make that decision between the director of communications and media staff in the event especially in the event there's discipline. >>disagreement between the mayor's office and apartment . >> what informationyou'll be committing to the general public . >> to the public we would communicate accurate information if they're saying happened at whytime we would communicate that happened . as far as any policy disagreements as far as i mean, as far as my understanding. familiarity with our policy has been working there's been a disagreement and policy the department but the department towards the mayorsupports the mayor's policy in making her agenda and her vision a reality . >> what i'm specifically drilling down to is really feedback to what chair preston was kind of getting to a total set policy protocol. it's sort of a decision-making tree in the event this happens, this is how we communicate and i think that out of

and what interests of the mayor or the sfpd or in the interest of the people of sanfrancisco or however when you make that decision . i think i'm asking pacifically how do you make that decision between the director of communications and media staff in the event especially in the event there's discipline. >>disagreement between the mayor's office and apartment . >> what informationyou'll be committing to the general public . >> to the public we would communicate accurate information if they're saying happened at whytime we would communicate that happened . as far as any policy disagreements as far as i mean, as far as my understanding. familiarity with our policy has been working there's been a disagreement and policy the department but the department towards the mayorsupports the mayor's policy in making her agenda and her vision a reality . >> what i'm specifically drilling down to is really feedback to what chair preston was kind of getting to a total set policy protocol. it's sort of a decision-making tree in the event this happens, this is how we communicate and i think that out of

she moved to san francisco in 1988 to attend sanfrancisco university . with the fire department since 2002 and is currently a captain at station 12 in haight-ashbury district . [applause] she has worked hard. she's moved up the ranks from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and is currently on th list for promotion to the rank of battalion chief . [applause] she has trained over 250 firefighters as a training lieutenant in recruit academy and continues to organize and provide ongoing training and professional development for firefighters . she's an incredible advocate for positive change in the fire department having worked on the department's racial equity action plan and a coleader for outreach and recruitment for this departmentsdiversity equity inclusion office . she's the president of the united fire service , a nonprofit organization and an affinity group of the san francisco fire departmentthat supports and advocates for the welfare of women in the fire department . she's also involved with camp blaze in north california fire service, to agencies

we remain committed to advancing equity and ensuring sanfrancisco's black communities are able to prosper in the city where we belong, where weare worthy of . and we thank the city and our departmental partners for sharing that commitment with us.>> thank you doctor . i do want to start off just by saying that surely i would hope that no one expects for us to be able to address for the black community and address all the negative outcomes, the structural racism. i hope no one thinks we would have not been able to overcome that in less than two years but i do think it's important for us to highlight the first ever investment of this type of frankly anywhere so i think we should be proud of that here. obviously there's a lot more work to do but most certainly we do, it was important for us to have this hearing to your point chair to make sure that we're transparent about where these resources are going and how they'regetting spent . doctor davis talked about the monthly meeting of the accountability committee, making sure we're doing everything as a city to provide that transparency for eve

she moved to san francisco in 1988 to attend sanfrancisco university .'s worked with the fire department since 2002 and is currently a captain at station 12 in haight-ashbury district . [applause] she has worked hard. she's moved up the ranks from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and is currently on th list for promotion to the rank of battalion chief . [applause] she has trained over 250 firefighters as a training lieutenant in recruit academy and continues to organize and provide ongoing training and professional development for firefighters . she's an incredible advocate for positive change in the fire department having worked on the department's racial equity action plan and a coleader for outreach and recruitment for this departmentsdiversity equity inclusion office . she's the president of the united fire service , a nonprofit organization and an affinity group of the san francisco fire departmentthat supports and advocates for the welfare of women in the fire department . she's also involved with camp blaze in north california fire service, to