the questions that i have is how much more is being in the new operation or new location at 49 south van ness, how much more is it than when you were in the mission street location than in 2019? thank you. >> are there other callers? >> two more callers. >> good afternoon, commissioners. land use coalition and i am calling in to raise serious questions about the proposed d.b.i. budget. there are numerous issues that cannot be summed up in my few minutes of public comment, but i am hoping that these issues that i am bringing up to your attention grab your attention. d.b.i.'s operating reserves are down to about $40 million. how can the management forecast a reduction in revenue without reducing expenses? what happens when there are no operating reserves left? the d.b.i. current expense and staffing levels of 270 full-time employees are not sustainable. forecasted total revenue of $52 million does not cover the forecasted $52 million of salaries and benefit expenses. this is the question is, are these grants relevant to d.b.i. mission and operation? should the grants be charged to the general f

safe sleeping site, whether it's division circle navigation center, whether it's the shelter on south van ness, we have always welcomed the services. i always promised my neighbors that we would keep conditions around those resources extremely clean, extremely free, tent encampments free of illicit activity in the street. we haven't been keeping that promise in the mission. i honestly don't know what to do. i don't know what else to ask. sam dodge is another one. we find him on the street of the mission, personally cleaning up trash on the street and personally talking to people in mental health distress from 4:0. something got to give here folks. i'm a little at a loss what we supposed to do. we need more staff. we need more leadership. we need a plan that's comprehensive. we need to keep these promises to the neighbors that accept these services in their neighborhoods. we need many more of these services. we need them in every single one of your neighborhoods. i will continue to work on this day in and day out. we're at sort of the height of a crises like i've never seen it before. that's be

can talk through the next slide, a big reason for increases has been our increased cost at 49 south van ness compared to our previous building. salaries and fringe where we spend our money, so it's us, the people, and we are looking at bringing that down a slight amount from 40 to 38, and so that is a significant part of the 2.5 reduction in the fees. this overhead number is set by the controllers office, it will not change until after you have hopefully approved our proposed budget. we don't know what that number will be, and they put it in our budget and then they take it out of our budget once next year starts. so that we don't have any control over. nonperson al services includes everything from software to leases on photocopiers, contracts, a whole variety in there, and the change here is related to both software and contracts. not a huge change if you look at the overall dollar figure. we are proposing that we will not change the budget, we are hoping to be in-person more and so bringing that down or picking it up is not something that we can predict right now, so leaving it as is is o

city that are beautiful and that are worth looking at, so california department of sciences, 1 south van ness, and [indiscernible] are just a few. so that concludes our portion. we're happy to answer any questions, but we want to thank the creativity and innovation of the b.a.r.t. so we have a commitment from b.a.r.t. that we're going to move forward with our project development. >> thank you, amber. >> you're welcome. >> clerk: you have time. >> so the idea is to work with tracey everline and other c.b.d.s to help with the funding for maintaining trees that will be replaced as part of this pop-up nursery also in collaboration with d.p.w. if we could have the presentation shared again for mark dana, or mark, will you share? >> thank you very much. thanks, amber, for that presentation. this first slide is from the city, and in red, you'll see the trees that the -- the 11 trees that we ended up deciding could be removed. it was in blue, or the 15 trees that we would be saving. so if you can go to the next slide. this is the public works order, where each of the canopies identified several trees

safe sleeping site, whether it's division circle navigation center, whether it's the shelter on south van ness, we have always welcomed the services. i always promised my neighbors that we would keep conditions around those resources extremely clean, extremely free, tent encampments free of illicit activity in the street. we haven't been keeping that promise in the mission. i honestly don't know what to do. i don't know what else to ask. sam dodge is another one. we find him on the street of the mission, personally cleaning up trash on the street and personally talking to people in mental health distress from 4:0. something got to give here folks. i'm a little at a loss what we supposed to do. we need more staff. we need more leadership. we need a plan that's comprehensive. we need to keep these promises to the neighbors that accept these services in their neighborhoods. we need many more of these services. we need them in every single one of your neighborhoods. i will continue to work on this day in and day out. we're at sort of the height of a crises like i've never seen it before. that's be

raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. the city. >> if i could have your attention. thank you. the look around the room, it is wonderful to see your