i started this, again, in september, because i feel that if there are ever any unspent dollars in our budget, they should be dedicated to public works and to street cleaning. in the long-term, we must address issues of homelessness and of course substance abuse that may be leading to some of the additional litter and behavior that we're seeing on our streets. but in the meantime, our residents are begging for relief. it's just not okay to have to step over human feces or dumping of litter on the ground when we know that with additional resources and with additional manual street sweepers that we can address this problem today. the reason why we are also asking the board to support this today instead of in july is that the sooner we appropriate these dollars, the sooner we can spend down our dollars with these community bases organizations that provide street sweeping in our neighborhoods or hire more street sweepers with our budget. we know this often takes two to three months for the city to do, and frankly our residents cannot wait. colleagues, i thank you for your support and i tha

i started this, again, in september, because i feel that if there are ever any unspent dollars in our budget, they should be dedicated to public works and to street cleaning. in the long-term, we must ades

they want to see that funding today, as quickly as we can provide it, and these are unspent dollars that every year this board decides to determine how to spend down every given year, depending on what thwe think is the most important issue of our time. i think the condition of our streets have really reached a crisis point. we see it according to the data, with you see it on our walks, we hear it from our merchants. there's no ifssue i hear more about than the status of our streets today, and i think that any money we provide to public works will help alleviate some of the conditions we're seeing here today. so egg colleagues, i am had he whoo -- happy to amend the supplemental down from 1.5 million to 1.1 million, and colleagues, i'm asking for your support. it will provide a tremendous amount of relief, and it is not inconsistent with the positions of this board of supervisors. >> president breed: supervisor kim has made a motion. is there a second? seconded by yee. colleagues, can we pass the amendment without objection? without objection, the amendment passes. supervisor safai? >> s

particular, i've been told that less families are being served and that funds for rapid rehousing are left unspent. can you address this issue? >> yes. so, i think there are a couple of issues there. one is -- and this is fully on the department and our sort of growing pains of becoming a new department, you know, we're just now probably as of last week fully staffed in our back office funkses around accounting -- functions around accounting and contract staff and have been slow to move money out the door which is really frustrating for my nonprofit colleagues, although i believe the money will move more quickly. i don't believe the inability with moving the money, had more to do with a staffing capacity issue. i want to apologize to our nonprofits and hope we quickly get to where we need to be, most perform because homeless people need the services and we need to provide as much as we can. as far as coordinated entry goes, as we discussed and i discussed with some of your colleagues before, this is a new way of doing business in san francisco. this idea of not having waiting lists but really air

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