this is a scarry problem. drug use is scarry. homelessness is scarry. mental illness is scarry, the despair it creates is scarry. i see it everyday in the tenderloin. but it's also a reality in our city and it's a reality for all of us in the city and we're all responsible for solving it. every neighborhood is responsible for solving it. people are always going to disagree and we won't get the consensus. someone earlier said to slow down. if you reject this proposal or delay this proposal, you embrace that fear. i'm here to say speed up. the crisis is now. if you take a bold step tonight and help take steps towards building this navigation centre, you open the door for change in the city so that every neighborhood can take responsibility for solving this crisis. thanks. >> thank you. >> i'm here to speak about the navigation centre. i'm still in the shelter system. i never thought i would get to 62 years old so i could get senior citizen housing. my friends, people went to the navigation centre and they'll be able to graduate from high school and speak

it is scarry and it was not always like this. it has absolutely been the last year that we've been experiencing a highly organized situation in front of our building. it was said earlier there are shifts and i will add we see teslas pulling up and bmws pulling up, people with lots of money that know they need to come to our block. i've been looking forward to my opportunity to speak here. i've been for weeks looking forward to it and then last night, there was a threat passed from the dealers to one of my neighbors and it gave me pause and i almost didn't come today, but we're regular citizens and now it feels like we're sticking our neck out there. sorry. i don't think it should be us sticking our necks out there and putting ourselves in danger. so thank you for this. i highly support the task force. help us. thank you. >> i'm a single parent. i would not allow my son growing up to come through the tenderloins. my son is part black. 15 years ago, i found myself on the the tenderloin raising a daughter in her 20s. i've been a sin

invoking in terms of this crisis is this crazy term the inspect apocalypse which is incredible and scarry. if you look at the guardian, which is a great source for environmental news, tons of articles about the collapse of insect populations, most notably here in california. just in the last year or so, according to data collected in the end of 2018, there was an 86% drop in the monarch in the wintering population in california. the largest drop ever recorded, the lowest numbers ever recorded. so i know it's gloom and doom, but we're here to talk about the truth and try to address it. so this is a slide of san francisco and just to represent the biodiversity here in the city, it's remarkable how much we have considering 95% of the city has been developed, concrete, steel, streets and the developed parks, those are not our original landscapes. so there's little left but within what we have left, we have incredible diversity. and so this is just kind of a snapshot in time of the cities n the city. throughout an entire year, 365 days, you could see 400 species of birds in sanfrancisco which