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And have made the recommended changes with the Committee Last month. The Committee Also voted to forward this to the board for their approval, so were asking the board for their approval to the amended document. Based on the clerk composition committees recommendation, and weve spend exhaustive time reviewing the guidelines. I would like to move the item. Theres a motion. Is there a second . Second. Why dont we call for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission on item 19 . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Commissioner driscoll . Just a comment that yes, the committee did spend time on this, but the majority of work was done by the manager. Yes. Also, the attorney of the City Attorneys staff helped, and im sure mr. Huish was looking over their shoulders at all times. Yes, and they also had outside counsel. And can i say, a majority of the recommended changes were over seen by city of moi, who is a member of my team. Okay. Any discussion . There was a motion, there was a second, can we take this item without objection . Great. Item number 19 passes. Can we just move onto 20 or do you want to move . We need item 15, which is the review of van berkom issue. Do you want to put 20 and 21 together or do you want to push them to another meeting. Whatever your pleasure, mr. President. I feel like number 20 is the Investment Performance for the second half of the year. Theyve prepared a quick one, greg can do a quick summary for you, if youd like, or we can also hold it. Its entirely up to you. We can accept it. We can accept it as submitted. Why dont we call items number 20 and 21 together, please. Yeah. Okay. Unless there was something you wanted to point out. No. Its a very good result. Yeah. Across the board. So were calling items 20 and 21 together. We will take the Investment Performance for the second half as submitted, and for the deferred compensation manager report, is there anything youd like to highlight for the board. Nothing that hasnt already been communicated. Okay. Great. Why dont with you open e open Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission on items 20 and 21. Seeing none, well close Public Comment on items 20 and 21. Thank you very much for your presentations. Now, do you want to go to 15 . Great. Mr. Chair, while youre assembling, i think greg will be moving onto a new assignment from cal and so i wanted to acknowledge and thank him for his support in working on this sfers account. I know hes getting promoted, but hes off the account . Are you being promoted . Yeah, but im not off your account. But youre getting promoted. I have to acknowledge that. Thank you for all of your hard work. Also, paramet wick was delighted to come see us today. Theyre from minneapolis. A long way. Item number 15, please, mr. Secretary. Okay. Folks you have a copy of the vba guidelines in front of you. [ inaudible ] if you have any questions on the guidelines, were here, and we can address them. Weve had vba before as a b sub manager, basically. This was approved at another meeting. So basically. [ inaudible ] just going where were going direct. These guidelines. Approve guidelines for any of the managers [ inaudible ] hired. This is something that has to be adopted. Yeah. Just a direct relationship. Questions, commissioner driscoll . I think we approved that, 200 million. Where will the funds come for that . Theres a little over 60 million from bibian, and then well take the rest from the u. S. Investment small growth value. That leaves bibian with 16. Were taking bibian to zero. So where . To what . To zero. Zero . Zero . Thats the plan. Yes. Thats been approved, or are you doing it you dont have to ask us for that one. I think staff has the authority to take money down from our managers. Okay. Great. Thank you. Okay. Are there anymore comments or questions on item 15 . Seeing none, did i already call for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to address the commission on this item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion . Motion. Is there a second . Second. Is there any discussion on item 15 . We take this item without objection . Yeah, please. Does that mean were still employing bibian in our portfolio to make collections for us. Not calendared, but yeah. Okay, but it hasnt been done yet, we havent voted on it, right . Its not within the growth of this yes. Its just the specific yes. And thats going to be another calendared item. I think thats going to be a separate calendar item. So well take item number 15 without objection . Okay. Seeing no objection, item number 5 passe15 passes. I think we only have a couple other items. We made up some lost ground. Item 16, please, mr. Secretary. [ inaudible ] very good, commissioners. Ill be three minutes. Another great month in january , up almost 2. 5 . It was driven by pretty much one asset club. Public asset was up for the month. The market was down about 10 , peak to trough. The market has recaptured more than half of that decline in the last three days. Fiscal date, at the end of january , we were up 10. 5 on the year. As of yesterday, were still up about 8 on a fiscal year basis. We do have a couple of things, hows keepi housekeeping things that we have to go through just thin terms of requirement. On page 3, ventures, we asked for and were granted approval for two strategies totaling 75 billion. We actually got a total of 45 billion between the two. Broad river, which is a private creditor strategy. We asked for 50 million, and we got 50 million. Orby, we asked for 50 million, and we did get all of that, so i was plaechbly surprised by that. Patrium, 50 million in a buyout strategy, and we got all 50 million. In this safari strategy, the absolutely return strategy, we asked for 100 million to perceptive. We actually got 75 million. Sycamore, which you recall is a consumer buyout strategy, we asked for 75 million, and we got 50 million. You see the returns on item item number nine for absolute return and inception to date, were running at 8 annualized. I do want to introduce if hes still here, is alistair. Hes joining us from came brbr, so we have one liability on our books from cambridge, and an asset for ourselves. Welcome to San Francisco, and hes assisting han on the public strategy. We do have three open recruitments right now, one for a senior Portfolio Manager for private equity. We actually have good news on that. Somebody has accepted our offer of recruitment. I dont think i have a start date. I think this was just accepted yesterday, so well be announcing that here shortly. Did you bring him from hong kong . He is coming from asia. So can i just [ inaudible ] there was a manager we approved. It was kind of a focused [ inaudible ] but was that an individual owned the firm himself . Yeah, same one. What was the name of that again. Perceptive, founder, joe edelman. Yeah. And we have gun recruitment for a director of social responsibility investing as well. Weve already talked to three people, i believe on that. We do have an Investment Committee meeting on march 21st, its a big agenda item, talking about the Strategic Plan for the portfolio as a whole, including presentations by each asset class head, so the whole pretty much the whole staff will be on stage. With that, ill turn it over to the board. Can i ask for next months report. Can you get us a daily analysis of narcotic returns as compared to our absolute return portfolio so we can see how that responded . Oh, certainly, for february. You want to see how it performed daily or just ago regate. No id like to see it one by fun, just out of curiousity. Is that too hard . Well, its a portfolio. Okay. You dont see each fund on its own. Well, we dont think of it as a portfolio. I know. I know. Im just curious to see how they performed during that week. Okay. Just to see if anything was really not what we thought it would be or understood the volatility a little more. Okay. I think that issues a really interesting moment in time for us to understand what that portfolio did when the market went down. Thank you. Other questions, comments from the board . Seeing none, well open it to Public Comment. Is there anyone from the public whod like to address the commission . Mr. Furland . [ inaudible ] 30 seconds. [ inaudible ] time. Thank you, mr. Furland. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Why dont we go to item number 22, and why dont we take item 22 as submitted, and well call for Public Comment. Seeing none, we will close Public Comment on item number 22. Discussion only item, and where would you like to go from here . Executive directors report, item 28 . The only thing id like to highlight is to remind you that form 700 season is here. I provided you the link to file online. If most of you recall, you need to file online as commissioners, and youre able to. If youve forgotten your password, theres a way for you to reset your password, but the deadline is monday, april 2nd, for all of you to have filed your form 700. Just as an aside, we provided a copy of the senate bill, and we had a discussion with the City Attorney, and its the City Attorneys opinion that should this become law, we are exempt. San francisco employees retirement system is exempt from the coverage of this this this bill, but well watch it and continue to track it because it is a trend, obviously, that we automatically keep track of here in california as to whats going to be impacting us as well as other plan. And that change as it applies to existing retirees, thats the intent . It would be for any any cost of living adjustment that would become payable after january 2019. It would forbid a public plan from paying that adjustment unless they were at least 80 funded. I mean were 89 funded, according to the formula, so we would still be paying, but what theyre saying is you must be at least 80 you cant have unfunded liability of greater than 20 , so really, theyre saying 80 funded. Going forward, any kbraer that youre below 80 funded, even though they were promises or payable, that it would prevent you from a public plan from paying those. Sounds very similar to another recent proposition that was in the courts. Yeah. Okay. All right. Anything else . No. All right. Thank you very much. Why dont we call for Public Comment. Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. That was item 28. Do we really only have items 29 and 30 . Yes. Okay. Item number 29, does anyone have anything for good of the order . Okay. Public comment on item number 29. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Item 30, board member reports and comments, why dont we take those as submitted. Public comment . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment on item 30. Can i just adjourn the meeting in. Ill make a motion. Meeting adjourned, thank you. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, february 13, 2017. Madame clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, madame president. [roll call] supervisor safai present. President breed . Here. Supervisor cohen . Present. Supervisor fewer . Present. Supervisor kim . Present. Supervisor peskin . Present. Supervisor ronen . Present. Supervisor sheehy . Present. Supervisor stephanie . Present. Supervisor tang . Present. Supervisor yee . Present. Madame president , all members are present. President breed please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisiblindivisibl and justice for all. Any communications . None to report. President breed colleagues, today were approving the minutes from january 29, 2018. Are there amendments to those minutes . Seeing none, motion to approve . Moved by supervisor tang. Seconded by supervisor yee. Can we take that without observation . Those minute meetings approved after Public Comment. Madame clerk please call the first item. The first item is the special order at 2 p. M. , the appearance by the honorable mayor mark farrell, there being no questions submitted by the districts, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. President breed the floor is yours. Good afternoon, i appreciate the opportunity to address the first question time as mayor. For seven years, i served in this chamber as supervisor, proudly representing the residents of district 2, while i have been sad to walk away with those duties, i do it with full faith knowing district 2 is in great hands with the new supervisor, catherine stephanie. I look forward to working with you on district 2 and the city. I want to say for our former colleagues that supported me in the vote, i am honored by your support and the trust you placed in me. And for the supervisors who didnt support that vote, i understand very much and respect that decision. And please know that regardless of how anyone voted on that day, im looking forward to working with each and every one of you to address the issues of the city over the next half year. Were all acutely aware of the Public Safety and homeless issues facing the city of San Francisco, these are issues i focused on as supervisor and will focus on as mayor. Were confronted with the scenes of drug addiction, Mental Health challenges and homelessness near feet from where you conduct business here in city hall. When tourists visit, they return to a car that has been burglarized. We cant have this as the new norm. Not running for office is a unique opportunity. We dont have to conduct business as usual because the Mayors Office is not campaigning and we can do what is needed and what is right and what should happen and you have my commitment to do so. In terms of priorities to focus on, first and foremost are the conditions on the street. Now is the time to double down on measures that are successful and have been proven to work in the city, such as the homeward bound program. We increased the budget and i will continue to do this year. The people who took part, have been reconnected families. There are elements of controversy with the plan, but you cant argue with a measure that reunites people with their loved ones and keeps people housed over a year later. Im working to prevent homelessness in programs, provided resources that prevent people from becoming homeless to begin with. We know when a person is left without home or shelter, a whole new set of problems have to be dealt with. Weve created 700,000 Supportive Housing units, which is more capita than any other u. S. City, but weve not seen a reduction in the homeless population. Im confident we can reduce the number of people on the streets, as we double homeward bound and other initiatives. Second of all is the issue of property crimes. While were going to work to address homelessness, i am committed to reduce property crimes that are plaguing every neighborhood that we serve. As i said before, car breakins should not be the price to pay to live or work in San Francisco. Assuming office a few weeks ago, ive had numerous conversations with police chief bill scott. Ive been encouraged. Ive asked him to conduct a staffing analysis as to the true needs of the officers on the streets. And other city agencies. The men and women of the San Francisco Police Department are the finest Police Officers in the country, but we need more of them. We should not be hemmed in the archaic officercharter commitment. Its a false summit. And its not representative of the everchanging city. These are major commitments and i know i have a limited time to accomplish the goals, but theyre what is right for the city of San Francisco and i promise to work to see them through. I hope everyone will join me in those efforts and i look forward to working together. Thank you, everyone. President breed returning to our agenda. Madame clerk. Items 1 through 11, consent. These items are considered to be routine unless a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President breed madame clerk, call the roll. On items 1 through 11. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Stefani aye. Tang aye. Yee aye. Breed aye. Cohen aye. Fewer aye. Kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. There are 11 ayes. Those items are adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Item 12, ordinance to create Second Street from bryant street and see ceqa. Item 13 is Charter Amendment third draft to amend the chart other of the city and county of San Francisco to issue Revenue Bonds for Power Facilities when approved by ordinance when receiving twothirds vote and clarify the scope of the commissions Bond Authority with regard to the citys water and clean Water Utilities and election to be held june 5, 2018. President breed supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i want to thank my cosponsors on that Charter Amendment. Supervisors tang and safai, as well as the general manager of the Public Utility Commission and his staff for this long overdue change to public policy. For those of you who do not know, in 2002, the board of supervisors passed very similar legislation to allow the Public Utilities commission to issue Revenue Bonds for water delivery facilities and that program over the last 15 years has allowed us to rebuild our water Delivery System not only or San Francisco, but 29 other communities around the bay area. And make it earthquake resilient and seismically sound. It is time to do the same thing with the power infrastructure. I commend this to you colleagues and look forward to a Robust Campaign to get this passed in june. Colleagues, can we take this item . Same house same call. Without objection, its submitted unanimously. Ordinance to authorize public works. To enter into contracts by suspending portions of the administrative code or the environment code that pertains to Competitive Bidding and other requirements for construction work procurement and work related to specified shelter crisis sites, to provide additional housing and the director of property to amend leases or licensees for shelter crisis sites. I am suspending provisions of the administrative code to add sites to the list of shelter crisis sites, subject to expedited processing with conditions related to Environmental Review, neighborhood notice and approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and to affirm the ceqa determination. President breed same house same call . Roll call. Sorry. Madame supervisor peskin, if you can put your name on the roster, if anyone has comments or questions about an issue, that would be appreciated. My apologies, i would like to make amendment at page 7, line 21 and 22, which reads the board of supervisors approves for resolution the shelter crisis site. I would like to add to that, provided however that no resolution shall be required if the additional shelter crisis site identifies under subsection 4a is located in a district that does not already have a crisis site within its boundary. I believe the amendment is acceptable to the author of the ordinance. Supervisor cohen . Supervisor cohen thank you, i definitely support and accept the amendment being proposed here. President breed does that mean you second the amendment . Colleagues, can we take the amendment without objection . Without objection can, the amendment passes and the item amended, same house same call . The amendment passes unanimously on the First Reading. Item 15, resolution to approve the license of building within 25, the equipment room at zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center with at t mobility at the base rent of 5,000 to be waived and providing Cellular Services to the staff, patients and visitors. President breed same house same call. Without objection, passes unanimously. To accept up to 500,000 of inkind grant from the trust for public land for the sgt. John mcauley play area for the project term, december 30 through july 1, 2018. President breed same house same call . With that objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item 17 and 18 together. Item 17 and 18, two resolutions to approve second mod aifications to two separate leases for the exchange of certain land at plat 40 of the super bay hangar to accommodate the demand for the contractor parking at the San Francisco International Airport for item 17, its between American Airlines and the city, and reduction in the annual rent by 20,000. Item 18, lease between United Airlines and the city and reduction in annual rent from 3. 78 million to 3. 86 million with no change to the length of the term for either contract. President breed same house same call . Without objection the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Next item. Item 19, which is a resolution to approve a Second Amendment to the contract between the city and allied universal security for the provision of security services, extending the term for five months through june 302018 and for revised total contract amount not to exceed 26 million. Same house same call . Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Items 20 and 21, two ordinances that authorize the settlement of two lawsuits. It was filed by donald spadinay for 121,000. This involves alleged negligence of doctors, nurses and staff. And item 21, the lawsuit was filed by david zeller against the city for 290,000, the lawsuit involves alleged medical malpractice and plaintiffs acceptance of the probate allocation of funds, the California Department of Health Care Services to disgorge 65,000 paid for medical lien to be paid to the plaintiff. The university of california is a party to the two settlement agreements. I was employed at aids research institute. Because i continue to receive pension and Retirement Benefits through uc, i must make this Public Disclosure on the record before the vote. President breed same house same call . Without objection, the ordinances pass unanimously. Item 22, ordinance to amend the public works code to update provisions on street encroachment to waive the right of way in lieu of the waiver for permit, modify the street encroachment process, and to create a temporary street permit for maximum period of 30 months, to establish encroachment Maintenance Fund for the permits where the permittee is not adjacent Property Owner and to affirm the ceqa determination. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin last july this went from committee to the board, it was amended at the board and actually passed on the First Reading before all heck broke loose and it was rereferred to committee. I want to thank the Mayors Office and office of economic, that will allow members of the public to have a route to appeal major encroachment permits. I want to thank tang and safai for their support and recommend this to all of you and hope we pass it unanimously. President breed thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item, same house same call. Without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously. Nexttime. 23 is ordinance to amend building code, 107 a and table 1 ab of section 110 a to allow recovery of costs of Third Party Experts and other permit related expenses and affirming the Planning Department determination and make other findings. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame president. This is outgrowth of the hearings that have been held with regard to the millennium tower, where one of the things we learned was that we should have independent Third Party Experts who do not work for the developer, but work for the department of building inspection. I want to thank tom, the head of dbi and his staff, bill strong, for working with the office to produce this piece of legislation that will allow independence where theyll be able to contract directly with Third Party Experts. President breed thank you, colleagues, can we take this same house same call . Without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the First Reading. Madame clerk, lets go to. The next item we can go to. Roll call for introductions. President breed all right, roll call introductions and at 2 30 well be able to call the commendations. Supervisor safai, first to introduce new business. Supervisor safai thank you, colleagues, im going to do two in memoriams, we had our clean team meeting kick off in district 11 on saturday. We had some very sad news. For those of you that see the workers and the teamsters on the front lines doing our waste in the city, it is a job that they put their lives on the line. In this 24year veteran of the teamsters died. So supervisor cohen will talk about that, but i wanted to highlight that and that was really sad. The other person id like to end in memoriam is dr. Jack mcconnell. On tuesday, february 6th, he passed away at 93 years of age in north carolina. He grew up modestly, one of seven children to a minister whose father said, what have you done for someone today . After achieving the height of success directing the development of tylenol and inventing the first commercial mri, he founded volunteers in medicine, recruiting retired doctors, nurses and medical individuals to insure the uninsured. Today, they operate 93 free medical clinics in 27 states. Clinic by the bay, which was helped to be founded by janet reilly is one of the things that he operated and helped to begin in San Francisco. Operating under this model. Clinic by the bay has served over 2000 patients during the past eight years. Many of whom do not qualify for medicare and medical due to immigration status. May we have eyes to see those rendered and excluded and in the process heal ourselves. Jack was a wonderful individual and our district in the excelsior and the city is at a great loss. But his memory will live on in the free clinic and the clinic by the bay and all those they continue to serve as they were just awarded the house, which is a city site and theyll have a permanent home for many years to come. Thank you. President breed thank you, supervisor. Supervisor sheehy. Supervisor sheehy submit. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madame clerk. Colleagues, its no secret that Public Safety is one of my number one concerns. Today, i am introducing legislation to make it clear that when you are in San Francisco, you are free to exercise your First Amendment rights without intimidation or fear from those carrying concealed firearms. Last august, a proposed demonstration in my district, by a far right wing group, wreaked havoc through this entire city. Coming off the heels of violence in charlottesville, there were concerns about concealed handguns at this rally due to a 2010 federal firearm law that allows guns in our national parks. Many officials went on record at that time expressing their concern about the potential for violence. The United States gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than other developed nations. Over 90 americans are shot dead in this country every day and hundreds more are injured. Let me be very clear. It does not feel like a free country when our children and our loved ones can be shot dead at a concert, in church, at a movie theater, a nightclub, at a rally, at work, or anywhere else. It doesnt feel like a free country when our children huddle beneath their desks as they practice lockdown drills for mass shootings. San francisco is a beacon and has led the way on many issues. Like the right to marry whomever you love. I saw that every day as the county clerk. Our First Amendment rights, the freedom of speech, and the right to peacefully assemble to protest should not be infringed or suppressed by the presence of guns at public events. There can be no peace when the threat of concealed weapons are present. To make matters worse, the house of representatives approved and the senate is now considering what is called the concealed carry reciprocity act. The nra number one priority bill that would allow people with out of state tt permits to carry a concealed gun if San Francisco which could dramatically increase the number of people carrying concealed guns in our city. Imagine the Chilling Effect that would have on events like the rally we had in the castro, after the pulse nightclub shooting or unite against hate rally we had in august. And most recently our womens march. Not only did the Patriot Prayer rally send our city into chaos, costing millions, it struck the fear of violence in many and that must end. The entire presidio practically shut down. Museums were closed. My sons camping trip was cancelled. Sporting leagues had to cancel games. It is time for San Francisco to lead the way, again, and protect our residents and visitors from the threat of gun violence in our publicly owned spaces at public gatherings and other First Amendment related events in our beautiful city. Thanks. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Supervisor tang thank you very much, today im introducing request to our Controller Office to provide staffing analysis over the last 15 years, this is designed to build upon the work that supervisor safai and peskin have begun, but i know all of my colleagues here share frustration when it comes to customer service, transit system. So this request will ask our Controllers Office to include information on growth, and any major shift that occurred in staffing within each division of sfmta. We hope to have the information by the 23rd. I want to thank the Controller Office and the sfmta on working together and i hope it will feed into the work other colleagues are doing to improve internally our sfmta. President breed thank you, supervisor tang. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee colleagues, today i am introducing resolution accepting the findings contained in the fiscal feasibility report for the proposed Housing Project at the balboa reservoir. Since 2014 when mayor ed lee announced the public lands for housing program, the balboa reservoir site has been the focus of much hope as well as concern in our community. Some view it as a critical opportunity to utilize public land to help address the citys housing crisis. And others are concerned about the impacts that a large scale Housing Project will have on our district. We are now at a critical juncture. We have had years of Community Discussions and input, created a detailed set of Development Principles and parameters, which serve as a Guiding Principles for the selection of the development team. And have seen the preliminary designs from the developers. During this time, i am proud to say that even though it requires 33 of the housing in such developments to be made permanently affordable to low and moderate income households, i was able to push this project to 50 affordability. I would like to thank the members of the balboa reservoir, avalon bay communities and Bridge Housing corporation, Mission Housing development corporation, Pacific Union Development Company and habitat for humanity for the hard work of getting us to this point. As part of the project, review process, the city hired a Third Party Consultant to produce a fiscal Feasibility Analysis to provide the board of supervisors with information for its consideration and evaluating the fiscal feasibility of the project. In accordance with San Francisco administrative code chapter 29. This is a necessary step before we can do an even deeper analysis of the project through the state mandated Environmental Review and the project entitlement process. The feasibility findings do not commit the board of supervisors. Or any other Public Agency with jurisdiction over any part of the project to approve the terms of any transaction or grant any entitlement to developer. It will have to undergo Environmental Review under the ceqa act and be subject to public review in accordance with the processes of the city and the other Government Agencies with approval rights over the project before any binding agreements, entitlements or Regulatory Approvals required for the project will be considered. This means that all components of this project, including the one 1100unit that was analyzed in the report, can be changed as the process moves forward and as we continue to refine the project and its mitigation. As a matter of fact, as a matter of transparency, we had a Community Meeting yesterday, attended by almost a hundred people to present these findings. So i look forward to your support on this item. The rest i submit. President breed thank you. President breed. President breed colleagues, today im introducing legislation and submitting a drafting request on the topic that has been plaguing our city for far too long. Mental Health Substance abuse and chronic homelessness. At any given moment you could walk from the steps of city hall to civic center bar and encounter an individual who is experiencing a psychiatric episode or grappling with drug abuse. You likely encounter someone arrested multiple times and hospitalized multiple times, but has been unwilling or unable to receive the help they truly need. Individuals who cannot care for themselves and their basic needs. In these cases, we must do more as a city. What we need is to comprehensive an individualized approach to support these individuals. One that is consistent and compassionate and focus on ensuring theyre stabilized, healthy and housed for the longterm. Not one organization or City Department or Family Member will achieve this goal alone and no one policy change will be able to account for every personal struggle. But we must do more and we must be creative. We as a city have so many amazing resources and programs to help those with Mental Health issues, but there are too many hurdles to get people the help they need quickly and consistently. I personally tried to help individuals in my district and its been incredibly frustrating to run into the limit of the state laws and city system. For example, there is an elderly homeless man who resides in t for privacy purposes i wont use his real name, lets call him bobby. He is schizophrenic and suffer was severe trauma issues. When he cashes his paycheck, he gets robbed afterwards, a beat up and harassed on a regular basis and he becomes mentally unstable. When he gets like this, he becomes a harm to himself, his rage festers and he is uncontrollable. Hes unable sadly to take care of his basic needs and what he really needs is support services and someone to look after him. To make sure that his basic needs are being met and hes on a regiment and a plan toward stabilization. He just cant do it alone. I personally tried to help him and when getting him into a navigation center, he refused to stay. Weve had numerous conversations about why this was important, but it is definitely been very difficult. I want bobby to basically get the help that he needs and the help he deserves. And we need a longterm plan that will actually stick. Despite my attempts of working with him for the past almost three years, he still out on our streets. And how can we expect him to navigate the system . We have to look at the issues differently. We have to go beyond the status quo. When our systems arent working for people like bobby, we cant blame bobby for it, we have to take a hard look at systems and identify what is not working and figure out thousand restructure how to restructure our services. Its our job to make it work for them. And thats precisely what im proposing today. First, im introducing legislation that will decriminalize Mental Health issues. It is a Mental Health issue. Not a criminal issue. By transferring the responsibility of our current conservativeship program from the District Attorneys Office to the City Attorneys office, these cases will be treated more as a civil manner, rather than a criminal issue. The same way we treat child and conservatorship cases. Secondly, im submitting a drafting request to our City Attorney that will codfy and serve the highest risk individuals, those people like bobby. Those departments including the department of public health, the department of homelessness and supported services, the department of aging and adult services. San Francisco Police department, and bart police. Its a focused effort by five agencies to identify and treat and monitor our citys highest risk individuals who are struggling with Mental Health issues. This wraparound approach will provide a full complement of services with a goal of getting individuals stabilized, healthy, and housed for the long term. This pilot has already begun moving forward a few months ago and something i worked on with mayor lee as supervisor, and during my time as acting mayor. This legislation will simply add structure, accountability, and metrics to the program. So we can ensure its actually working for the people its intended to help. We also know that there are serious limitations to scaling this impact without changes to our state conservatorship laws. Senate bill 1045, authored by senator scott weiner and henry stern will expand the definition of what it means to be gravely disabled, providing an additional tool to assist us with our Mental Health crisis. I support this legislation and glad to see its sponsored by the city and county of San Francisco. These state and local efficients are legislative efforts are legislative, and administrative reforms ive been working on for the last year and im happy to see them finally come to fruition. I would like to thank the district attorney, the City Attorney for his willingness to take on this responsibility, barbara garcia, for spearheading the Mental Health Wraparound Program and the department of aging and adult services. The department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. The San Francisco Police Department and bart police for being a part of had this multiagency effort and finally, mayor ed lee who was committed to addressing the Mental Health issues in our city and worked hard with me and hand in hand on this particular issue. The rest i submit. Thank you. And madame president , its after 2 30 so, well return to the item later. President breed thank you, madame clerk. It is not past 2 30. Were going to do three commendations starting with supervisor kim. Im very excited about this one. I want to bring up tran to the podium. Come on up. [applause] supervisor kim so many of you have probably already read about din, but were so proud to have you in chamber today and im grateful to stuart hall, your school, for letting you come during the school day. To receive this commendation from the board of supervisors, that as many of us are excitingly watching the Winter Olympics, and seeing those representing the American Team winning, on behalf of the country, we have our own champion here in San Francisco. Born and raised in the tenderloin neighborhood that i represent. Din tran is a sophomore at Stuart High School and lives in the tenderloin with his mother and three brothers. And recently, won our local championship down in san jose, the silver medal in the 2018 u. S. Figure skating championships with a total score of 199. 95 in the 4day competition, which is extraordinary. Both din and his younger brother currently train at the Center Ice Skating rink in the south of market. And his coach, jeffrey crandell, said that din has taken a lot of responsibility as he grows in his career and you even choose your own music and coordinate your own choreography which is amazing. So not only is he athlete and super skilled, but also an artist and that combination in our athletics athletes we see is malgz. He left our judges in awe with series of six triple jumps and a clean triple axel. This was the first time thaw nailed this tricky move in public in a competition. Were so proud of you. The city and county of San Francisco wants to acknowledge you for the dedicated concentration on making the city and hometown so proud. And were looking forward to you growing as an athlete. I know you hope to join our team in the 2022 beijing Winter Olympics and well be cheering for our home grown san franciscan. So thank you so much for being here today. I want to give you an opportunity to speak. But you know, he was most recently quoted i talk about this because you hail from our neighborhood and you know, people think so many things about it, but i appreciate you love the neighborhood and you said youre not afraid of where you live and you can do anything you want given concentration,