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 a second language and to hold job for two years, to keep housing. all that because from the streets, they went to a navigation center and they went to a permanent housing. they are coming back to get engaged in the work and work is work. they are living a productive life. yes, i am in the shelter system for the last seven years, on and off. our next speakers, please. come on up. >> hello. good evening, commissioners and hello neighbours. i live a little less than a mile from the navigation center in the mission and i work here in d6. i would like to echo the concerns for the children and the families this neighborhood. i am deeply concerned about the example we could set for these children by denying these humane opportunities. we do an incredible disservice to thei

that's including the navigation centre which we have funding for the gelani transition housing facility for women who are homeless and pregnant as well as the expansion of the existing navigation centres as we presented and the site at the seawall will get us through phase one goal of adding 500 beds before the end of 201. >> 2019. >> what about the new housing units? >> they've been funded with eraf. >> ok. could you give me a sense of how much it costs when someone remains homeless, to the city. >> that's difficult to say. but various studies have been done. i think the one that is the most comprehensive and close evidentn francisco cost $80,000 per person in services such as medical care, shelter, food and other services and putting someone in supportive housing showing a reduction of costs, depending on the person's medical needs, anywhere between 25 and $50,000 per person, per year, depending on the medical services and how much that is reduced by placing them into housing. >> have you quantified now, you know, sort of the comparison in terms of how many people are seeking housing

i'm hearing from your answer around the navigation centre that one of the issues in opening that centre has been that you have been trying to find a location for it within a limited geographic area. i'm wondering if you can talk about the challenges around equi equit arequitably navigating are city. >> some of the information has been public and there's just not the same number of large vacant lots or large buildings in every part of the city. it creates what needs to be sited on the land available. i heard you all speaking previously about boarding care facilities which are really, i think, incredibly critical and diminishing casuadiminishing cre we provide and those do well in six to ten residents and i think maybe we need to be more creative about. and realistic that is available and what community and what's the appropriate -- but i will say we are looking in every single district for sites and we've got -- we are looking at sites on the west side of the city right now. i believe we're probably going to get traction, i would hope, on at least one of them, but this has been an incred

i'm here to express my support for the navigation centre and say that the navigation center ought to be voted on today and built asap and that's the result of value judgments i have made. i'll clarify what my value judgments are. i think a person's right to sleep in a bed with a roof over a head is more important than a parking spot. i think that the overextended processes by which wealthy owners, could reject bike lanes and navigation centers, that is less important than the fact people are dying because of these things. i'm the child of an immigrant from al salvador and she came here in the middle of the civil war and a plausible threat of death, she came here to the united states for refuge. i came here to san francisco for refuge. there are many hundreds, thousands of lgbtq children coming here for refuge and they don't have networks. they've been alienated by their families. i have a job and there's no system in place for these lgbtq kids to go to to find support without these massive bays navin centers. i'm honestly quite tired of the talk of delay and further process and furth

this came up with the last administration where people were complain about the navigation centres and some of the interviews were complaining. you are retraumatizing the homeless people by letting them stay there for 60 or 50 days. you kick them out and put them back on the street again. another example, how homeless people don't need no homeless program. they need permanent housing just like you. i went down there to that hearing and both sides is like little kids. you raise $100,000 on a go fund me page to try to combat each other views when you should be putting that money together to provide apartment building complex. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. now there's streamlining force vaccines by politics. further destroy the constitution with this gun thing. gabby giffords, i invite you all to look up these two names. judge john wall was a target that day. he was murdered. here it is, shamrocks, fires in california so to notre dame will be the will all mighty, long both p maligned. the eagle, the lion, the man, takes full flight of fire, the eagle takes

one thing i didn't mention is the navigation centre also have disposal opportunities there too. >> chair fewer: the 62% of the 5.8 million that you distribute? they are telling people, these pick-up they're approximately 4 million needles that are picked up on the streets. i agree that i think 62% you could approve upon. we're seeing unprecedented numbers in san francisco of people who use injection drugs. can you tell me how that scope has changed throughout the last couple of years?

one thing i didn't mention is the navigation centre also have disposal opportunities there too. >> chair fewer: the 62% of the 5.8 million that you distribute? they are telling people, these pick-up they're approximately 4 million needles that are picked up on the streets. i agree that i think 62% you could approve upon. we're seeing unprecedented numbers in san francisco of people who use injection drugs. can you tell me how that scope has changed throughout the last couple of years? >> 5.8 million syringes distributed in the last year. can you tell me from the years before what your distribution rate were and pick-up rates were? >> i have 2017 right here. 2017 was 5.3. our pick-up was little bit less than 62%. i'm trying to do math. probably around 60%. but similar. prior to that, it was lower. i don't know if i have that. it's true that districts of syringes has increased of the last several years since the program began. this is the most we've ever distributed. i think this is -- i can't say the return rate if it changed. it wasn't such a similar problem in the previous years. in the

when we open up to the bryant street navigation centre earlier this month, i met a woman who had justng addiction and breast cancer. on the streets, her medication kept getting stolen, she couldn't get healthy, now she is inside, and she is working on getting housing. at bryant street, she gave me a hug, and she said she is hopeful , and so am i. if she has hope, others can too. that is the difference. she is excited about the future, and i'm excited for her. if she can have a hope, and others can too. i've already announced my plan to add 1,000 shelter beds by 2020, enough to clear the shelter bed waitlist. [applause] >> we also are declaring a shelter crisis so we can get these shelter beds builds now, and i want to thank supervisor supervisors brown, haney, mandelman, supervisor stefani and walton, for joining me in recognizing our bureaucracy shouldn't stand in the way of one single thousand beds. this is a huge step, we know, but it is not enough. we know we have around 4,000 unsheltered people in our city, sleeping in our streets, in our parks, in the doorway is, or in vehicles.

interestingly enough, when i was reelected in 2015, for a brief moment, it was the potential site for a navigation centre, but subsequently was sold to the current owners, who have agreed to lands marking. the case reported believe was prepared by paige turnbull, and they received a certificate of appropriateness for some internal changes, and i want to thank the project sponsor for accommodating the communicating staircase in an appropriate location, and think staff for bringing the interior lands marking of some character defining features pursuant to article ten of the planning code , and with that, miss smith, the floor is yours. >> thank you. >> i will say one thing, i was first elected in a runoff on december 12th, of the year 2,000, and i started that morning in a rainy morning on a runoff election in the senate kristi of that church. i am a jewish guy, but when this little shaft of light lit up that incredible stained-glass window and some old latina woman said to me, you are going to win , i knew i was going to have a good day that day, so i have very special association with that church. >> tha

the city. we have a city-wide crisis and what we need is a city-wide solution. we need to keep more people from becoming homeless, more supportive housing, more mental health care, and more navigation centreso get people off the streets and connected to the services they need. we know that the city, through our mayor, has already committed to building a thousand new shelter beds by 2020. so today i'm introducing a plan to address one part of the puzzle, along with supervisors ronen, walton, and mar. it will do two things: one, make a commitment to build navigation centers all across the city in every supervisor district in the next two and a half years. secondly, it will standardize the process for choosing sites, and make sure it works for the community they're in. each community has its own challenges when it comes to homelessness, whether that be greater population of seniors experiencing homelessness, greater populations of transgender and transgender non-conforming individuals who face discrimination at shelters. i recognize wil there cannot be one solution that will work for everyone. the ordinance makes room for population specific navigation centers that maintain a high standard fo

two, for the veterans who are already on the streets here we have failed to reach, we need homes. we don't need navigation centres , we don't need beds, they're not the chronically bet less, they're not struggling with the navigation, they don't need compasses, they need homes, so we should start with transitional services, two we actually need to give them homes , and some people that are doing this is a veterans community project in missouri. they have ended homelessness in their cities. we can copy and paste some of these programs. some of them have been effective and we can take them and implement them in san francisco. so that is some of the policy, i guess, tips i would give if i were selected. >> professor wilson? >> quick question, what is a top class? >> it is a transition or class when you get out of the military when i got out, did not get the top class, but it was a free date -- three-day court -- course. it tells you what resources are available to you as a veteran, but there are some things like a myers-briggs test that you might take to discover who you are now when you are exiting the military. ho

last year, the board submitted a resolution with their budget priorities and we looked at where those are. there was a request for navigation centres that has not yet happened and that would find a site not appropriate for a navigation centre. there was a move towards having problem-solving initiatives. one of the things that we talked about with the department was that they did get a private grant that helped in terms of providing rental assistance and other support services at risk for losing housing. a request for an outreach increase and that expanded in january of this year and then there were increased funding for housing. so going back to where homelessness is and where services are in thecy the city, because that was a request. if you look at district 6 has the most intense concentration of homelessness and district so also has a large number. if you look at services, this talks about where the emergency beds are compared to where the percentage allocations are, but to be clear about looking at it, is that the point in time counts people in shelter beds. if you have a high concentration of shelter beds, you'll count a lot o

18 in the east bay, the embarcadero is not the only spot in the bay area getting a new navigation center. hayward is also building a new centrelp the homeless community that center was approved back in january and officials expect the project to be up and running by this winter crop for the show kicks to shows us more. >>there are more than 400 people experiencing homelessness in hayward but the majority of them living unsheltered and the city is now looking to change that. under whitesell road in the city's industrial zone hayward is building in navigation center. a $3 million project approved back in january the vacant city land will soon provide shelter more meals bathrooms showers and laundry facilities for about 45 people for up to 6 months. >>with the end goal of course moving them out and into permanent housing is important to me too. >>will continue to be a pure advocate and helping my friends and family that are out there on wednesday, the city held a community meeting to answer any questions people may have about the project kimberly berks was homeless for years and now dedicates her life to helping those still out

the navigation center would be at sea wall lot number 3.30 this pier pier 30 and peer 32. after listening to public comments mere breedon supervisor haney are now proposing the centre start out with 130 beds, more beds would then be added every 6 months eventually totaling 200 beds, they also agree starting out with a 2 year lease of the property amir breed also understands there is a safety concern so she would like to see around the clock police officers monitoring the property the park commission is scheduled to vote on the proposal at m% their april 23th meeting. >>new surveillance video today showing a woman and 2 children miraculously, escaping it's just a horrific scene as a car comes crashing in the family was walking out of the the occur on a restaurant in napa yesterday, driver of the car lost control crashing on to the sidewalk and the front of the store amazingly just minor injuries were reported the napa police department sharing this video saying it is a good reminder to be aware of your surroundings. >>the debate is southern california beach town over police decal some say laguna beach police cars, new design is patriotic. others say it's too aggressive. miche

the neighborhood, some changes are now being proposed to maryland and breeds a safe navigation center for san francisco which is designed to help public comments may breed and supervisor haney now propose that the centreut with 130 bids. more beds with then be added every 6 months eventually totaling 200 beds. they also agreed to start out with a 2 year lease of the property. we're breed also understands there are safety concerns in the community so she would like to around the clock. police officers monitoring the property. the port commission is scheduled to vote on the revised proposal at his april 23th meeting. >>parents from stockton you are trying to make their way to the hospital that and their baby had some other plans. he was born on the side of the road and then the new parents realized their baby was not breathing and imagine the panic and that's when an officer pulled up and he says his training kicked right in a way to shed has more on the officer when the officer was reunited with the baby whose life he saved. >>as a feel heartwarming sight in sense of relief considering the first time officer philip to be held as a kill the newborn wasn't eahing roseville from stockton last night as lab

the stairs to their home. dignity homes, again, they should be placed in all developments. navigation centres, i would like to repeat what supervisor kim said months ago, that we actually do better when they're removed from their neighborhoods where they're struggling. other california added 3% more to global climate change. our freeway, our society have become rivers of poison. this our democracy and where our capitalistic system change. thank you. >>> on another subject matter, considering teacher residency at a predominantly asian and hispanic school which ranks 2,302 out of 2,480 schools in california according to school digger. poor performance demight a despa student-teacher ratio, so as i understand this, to previous teacher or educational coursework or no cut-off score or analog test and the administrators may assess the course work. the mat thinks a anlitticcally. the city has arrived at a new-found financial windfall so i lean toward the opinion of sousupervisor kim and can be spd as a matter of priority. ipublic matter is closed. please call the committee calendar items 28-36 out o

the graph it's three stories tall. you can build 9-story apartment building complex and house more than amount of people that you want to house at this navigation centre. >> supervisor mar: thank you sir. next speaker please. >> i'm a lifelong union member. i support supervisor mar's resolution opposing sb50. i would ask my supervisor vallie brown todown i to -- join in th. the office of sb50 know what they are doing. they seek to move over development that will cripple our city ability to ensure equitable housing. sb50 not an affordable housing plan it's a displacement strategy and amounts to a state imposed transfer of wealth from the displaced. the daily model move fast and break things. unfortunately it is people and families that get broken. >> supervisor mar: we're going to be calling speakers group of 10. everyone will have a chance to make your public comment. >> good afternoon. i'm so glad that you created this resolution that so many supervisors have also signed on. that says to me that you know and understand what san francisco needs. how do we see gentrification work and what is happening actually with tenants throughout the city. we would