we have two inspectors handling roughly 500 sro's. they are investigating complaints and doing some room by room inspections. these have been designated as family sro's or where the city has the master lease function. for the apartment inspection program, we have 10 inspectors distributive citywide. supervisor kim: 10 for apartments and two for hotels and shelters. you say that is roughly 530 hotels and shelters? but there are roughly about 500 sro hotels. with tourist hotels, is 800 total. supervisor kim: these two inspectors are responsible for 800 hotels? >> that is correct. we're managing by the complete response to complete response -- we are managing by the complaint response. at the service level we are providing, it is adequate. i mentioned we're doing the pro- active inspections in only a subset of the tesoro -- of the sro's were the city has the master lease responsibility or where we have assigned families. i think we would be welcoming of being able to do a preventative function. it would need additional resources. we are

it has tremendous effects on the children living in sro's. because the bedbugs bite them at night, they cannot sleep well and they do not have good performance in school. for now, bedbugs may affect families in sro's, but soon, it will be a widespread city problem. today, a lot of our families wanted to come to the hearing but many had worked in the morning, so they could not come. i have a lot of faith in the city of san francisco and our supervisors that they will come up with a good solution to this problem. and also, she agrees with what tina was saying, that there was more language capacity in both departments inspectors so that we can regularly communicate. lynn would also like to speak for a little bit. >> [speaking chinese] >> my name is lynn, i am 13, and i live in an sro. having bedbugs for a long time, we have caught many people, thus control companies, and they said you need to not be in the room for a couple of hours. we come back and the bedbugs are still here. sometimes i go to school, i scratch my head, and a bedbug falls out,

if they got permission, they did it in residential hotels or as a rose -- as sorrows -- sros. for years we have talked about in law apartments and secondary housing. i remember supervisor thomas shea wanted to implement more housing. he found so many problems that nothing happened. but the idea of exempting certain people from some of the rental projections to rent out a better room may be a good possibility. seniors are strange about sharing housing. if they expected to be home care or make money, that usually fails. i think it is a good idea to try this. also, i think the idea of providing staff for all these volunteers is good. i have found people say, volunteers are sustainable, but not necessarily, not without some staff back up. that is one of the ideas presented that should be looked at. >> thank you. next speaker please. anyone else that would like to comment on this first item on the budget analyst report, please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is michael. i am representing san francisco organizing project named in memory of dan ryan. i got involve

to give this report an excellent, but it was able to touch on the specific conditions of seniors in sro hotels, recommendations that this parallel group will also be giving you in the future. i would also like to briefly mention an alternate group to the village model called the community living campaign, who are also working with seniors, helping other neighbors in their community. this group is very similar to what the village is doing. the only difference i am aware of is there is no membership. i personally know about the group because i live at st. francis co-op where there is a branch of the campaign working with our seniors, many of whom are aging in place at our community. i wanted to mention our group, seniors in sros, and we will be giving you a report on that with potential legislation in the future. thank you. >> i have one more card before you start. >> my name is linda. i would like to urge the board to look into the hud housing. it has become big business for nonprofits to run these operations. i am at one that is not senior housing and the corruption is shocking, frankly

hoarding -- sro units are so small that tenants do not have any place to put their belongings. so while we are treating, it is best not going to work. there are a lot of new procedures coming out. supervisor mar: i think we are going to hear testimony from a woman from around the corner where i live in the richmond district. i think it is not just south of market, tenderloin, sro's, but also in other units in many of our neighborhoods throughout the city. for people that have not experienced bedbugs, why is it different from mosquito bites, flea infestation, other kinds of tests? why are they more of a problem? >> imagine if you went to your home and every time he went to sleep, all these bugs would come out and bite you. there is nothing you can do about it. i have never experienced it, would never want to, but i have had tenants call us crying. they call the city, property manager, social workers. dealing with this over 10 years, i do have to say one thing. there was one tenant, after informed that he had bedbugs, he shot himself because he was afraid of losing his house. we

i do not live in sro, i live in an apartment. one wall of the apartment building is adjacent to an sro. i don't know if that's where the bedbugs came from and i don't think i care where the bed thought -- or the bedbugs came from. i had a boyfriend number of months ago and we broke up a while back. he had bedbugs in his apartment and he dealt with it quite effectively. i believe today he does not have them anymore. there is a possibility maybe when he came to spend the night he brought the bedbugs with him, but i don't know and i don't care. i'm not interested in putting blame, i'm interested in expressing what i go through. i appreciate the gentleman who asked about what is the difference between mesquita as? the difference is you get these bites on you and these bikes do not heal because every night -- you get these bites on you in these bites' do not heal. they go back to the night before. they go back to the same hole because it is easier. there's already a scab there and it's easy to get to that and get through the blood. i

monthly rental rate per square foot paid by the city ranges from 91 cents to $3.17 in the six other sro hotels der the dph's direct access to housing program. this monthly rate of $1 4 cents per square foot is approximately 23% less than the $1.35 a weighted average monthly rental rate per square foot paid by dph at the other six sro hotels. we recommend you approve this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you very much. why do we open this item up for public comment? are there members of the public who wish to speak on this item, item one? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have that a request -- we had a request from the sponsor to fix a typo. city attorney, is that substantive? >> it is not. there is also another typo i noticed on page one, line 7. i think they mean to say "aka" and it says "fka. supervisor chu: do we have a motion to make those two amendments? ok, and on the item itself? supervisor mirkarimi: motion to approve. supervisor chu: we have a motion to send the item forward with recommendations, and we can do that without objection. let's go to item two. >> resolutio

the mission article said about 3/4 of the sro's were interested. i am wondering if other areas have extremely high infestations. do you know? >> we did not break down this information by regions of the city. i will tell you anecdotally that the mission definitely has a high infestation. the tenderloin and other areas have high infestations. a lot of that has to do with the operation of the hotels. in the cases we have referred to the city attorney, we have had discussions with operators to encourage them to be more sophisticated in dealing with the bed bugs and migration of personal effects throughout the building. we're not completely there yet. that is something the department of building inspection has been working on. the other thing i would like to show you has to do with the number of inspectors dedicated to this. for housing inspectors, anyone could be dealing with bed bugs. i have sectors based on geographic areas throughout the city. i have an inspector completely dedicated to doing room inspections within residential hotels. we do have th

so just try to put it all together, like a stream from possibly employment to the sro task force and other things. >> [inaudible] supervisor kim: thank you very much. next, we have deborah muise. i believe you spoke with us last -- >> i will be very brief. since i last spoke, i have continued with the homelessness on six, and going through church street, trying to feed the homeless. i still continue with my work in the community. handing out clothing to the homeless as well. it is pretty much the same, i just wanted to say hello. supervisor kim: thank you so much for being here today. we appreciate it. kathy, we know you were here last week as well. >> i manage the next door shelter with 334 beds. sanctuary shelter with 200 beds, and an additional 60 to 100 beds. the two main points i would like to make an reiterate is that my view for the shelter monitoring committee is not only to police and to monitor the shelters, but also to increase communication, problem solving, and collaboration. secondly, what i would challenge the committee if i were to become part of it, would be to look

but it is kind of alarming, given that i've put in so many volunteer hours doing data entry for their sro system that no one on an upper level really came to my defense when i was being attacked by the different people, including judy kerns >> greater than [inaudible] -- kerns. >> [inaudible] supervisor kim: you will have your own time to speak. >> when i got the 90-day referral, they found their own way to dos me. it's alarming that you would have a person staying at a shelter, and doing the care not cash, using a different address and collecting the full amount of welfare. it is alarming you have drugs being transferred in and out of the bayview. it is alarming that you would have a crack cocaine be sold and used within the next or shelter. there is a lot of these things that i bear witness. i have their witness to one act of violence that put me in a position where i had to write up what i observed in order for the woman who was supposedly the perpetrator to be removed so that she could be protected. you really have a lot of kind of gangland violence going on at shelters, and it appear

to make sure that our asian american brothers and sisters, and grandparents who are still living in sro's, i want to thank you for the work you are doing for them. the work we are doing for asian- american brothers and sisters who still today may not have health insurance or child care. for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparents who may not have access to the prescription drugs or senior services that they need. we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. i just wan

to make sure that our asian american brothers and sisters, and grandparents who are still living in sro's, i want to thank you for the work you are doing for them. the work we are doing for asian- american brothers and sisters who still today may not have health insurance or child care. for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparents who may not have access to the prescription drugs or senior services that they need. we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. i just want to thank you in this year of 2011 are coming together as a community for the work we have done, the work we are doing, and the work we will continue to do. [speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim. >> one of the most happy experiences growing up as a chinese-american was always getting days lece red envelopes. usually, there

she was a sro , school resource officer. during that time, she worked with middle schools throughout the district and in many areas where they were experiencing violence. she has been an invader. i would like to acknowledge captain masha ash. captain ash has done a tremendous amount of work. she worked on protocols that would work with children taken to the youth facility. during the parent's arrest and from trauma. thank you very much officer pri lo and captain nash. i am going to go over the panel discussion. we are try find solutions which includes violence to and from school and on the site. our goal is to move forward solutions. we ask that all questions be reserved today end. please feel free to jot down questions you have. those questions we are not able to get to, we are interested in collecting them. we are going to collect information with respect to solutions as well as action items that they are going to take back and work on. so our first topic is violence to and from school. jeff will moderate this piece. >> we

we go to the different schools to reach out to the wellness centers and check in with sro's, i would really love to make that happen. we are offering our services to the schools, >> edy zing is a shining example. he was down for 2 decades. let's join with eddy on that. rebecca. >> would it be possible will to have coordinate with muni where the bus stops are. the bus is going to be there within 10 minutes of the final school bell so they don't have to wait 20, 30 minutes for a bus. and kids have to transfer. it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get home. if it would be coordinated between the school district and muni that buses arrive and coordinate transfer stops. that would help kids on muni and maybe have a person on the bus stop. >> we have time, sorry just one more. >> okay. all right. peer pressure. >> my name is rudy corpus. give a big shout out. i think one good solution is to focus more on elementary school kids. educate them in a way they can comprehend. if they can recite a whole e-40. you know a first grader came to school with a gun. focus on the elementary school kids. tha

we will hear from sro tenants with david. [applause] >> my name is david lewis, i am here representing the city. i am here representing -- these decisions need to be smart. treatment can cost so much more. consider these trade-offs. community health services verses domestic violence. affordable and supportive housing programs verse is homelessness spearheaded -- homelessness. it stands for a single room occupancy hotels. most of these were constructed after the 1906 earthquake. they were built to house the workers after the quake. they are home to over 500 families and 1000 children. just in the area alone. to some of the city's most vulnerable residents. after many, these are a safeguard to homelessness, and they are also a step up and they step out to people that have been homeless. please remember that the true cost of homelessness is not just found in the service issues, it is in the impact of the quality of life. helping to move people out and stay out involves a series steppingstone programs. the begin with shelters, ca

[applause] >> [inaudible] you know, we want you all you allsro -- let sro people know what is going on. we did not feel we get a fair representation. we want to have a better city. an earthquake should not have to come before we all come together. it is time that everyone in this city that brings money to the city and loves this city is a fear it will want to know what is going on at city hall. we need to let people know what is going on. people do not know what is going on. we want people to know that is not free shelter. thank you. >> thank you, everyone, for coming out. i want to thank all the speakers. i want to thank everybody who is here. i am a district 6 residents. i am a parent in this neighborhood. i am a service provider, and it is beautiful to me to see our community here. district 6 is a lot of times the overlooked community in this city. people forget that families live here, people live here, so it is beautiful to see you all he appeared on april 16, the department of public works is doing a community clean-up in the south of market, so look into that. come out and suppo

and then the other affording house -- affordable housing option, 18,000 residents are living in sro's. there is no waitlist available on the number of people that want to get into them. by the way, without all options we also reviewed a number of alternative approaches found in other jurisdictions and here as well. home sharing, where a senior could rent out a second or third empty bedroom and have either tenants pay rents or provide some sort of service for the rent. a program that sounds appealing. it has been implemented in a number, including here in san francisco. but it was run by the northern california presbyterian home services. privately funded by interviewing others what we came across over and over was difficulty in implementing programs as it was a costly process to try to facilitate compatible roommates getting them together in a way that they agree is beneficial to both of them. it takes a lot of legwork to make that happen and the payoff is not always great. the experience can often be difficult. not getting along with the roommate or having different understandings ab

part of the sro program, it offers 6 officers skills clinic. we are doing that within 9 middle schools. it's grant funded specifically for that. and so far, the funding stream is there and the school district has been supportive of that as well. that add to the other programs. project impact and alert. all very important programs. the other piece that we're charged to do is help create a saver environment for the children in school. so we, as school resource officers, wear many hats. 1 day we are mediating or siting a child. we offer classes. we have a wilderness component. we take them hiking. we do that with the school district, the boys club and the ymca. the connection is the important thing. without the connection and listening relationship, there is no trust. that's what we strive to build. >> thank you. did you want to add something, angela? >> yes, i did, i had a couple of action items. i think this is a good time to add. to officer parillo. there's a lot of great programs. i noticed these programs are sporadic. there's a couple at this

in the community of attorneys because she would send me all of the clients the were living in our sro's and struggling with immigration reform and all of the blockage is there. she had such a big heart, but i could not take on as many clients as i possibly could, whether they were single clients or whole groups of them. i selected annie chung this year that she continues her great work. you can see her senior centers all over the city servicing clientele. you can see that she has gone well beyond just senior centers, that she is in meals programs. that she has also served on various committees that help us way beyond the traditional senior programs. for example, i served with her way back when it was pacbell. then it became sbc. then back to at&t. she is advising verizon and others because she knows as well as i do that communication and the way we communicate has been evolving. and if we do not keep our seniors involved in that, they will be left behind. as many other groups are left behind when it comes to technology, says she has gone ahead of them. that is a woman who has been for s