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And then the actual final report which often times may be pending further toxicology testing, or may additional investigation. That has taken a longer period of time. The name standard is to issued the final determination and report, 90 within 90 days. Our goal continues to reach that. We have particularly difficult time doing that in 2018, after the department move to the new location. All of our Forensic Laboratory equipment was being recertified. We fell very behind in that part of it. During the last two quarters of the last fiscal year we are now regularly the average of completing a toxicology testing is down to 71 days. That has enabled us to be much closer to issuing that report within the 90 day window. We havent finalized all of that to give you a concrete exact where we are as a last quarter. That is part of what were doing now. All of which is to say, we are much closer during the past 12 months to being at the 90 . I would anticipate when we look at the data we would be somewhere in the 80 hike 90 range within the 90 day period. Well weve got you up, there was an issue for a while that i heard about, this is the annual reports were not available on the internet, and now they are . Can you speak to that a little bit . Yes. The department did have prior annual reports Available Online, but we did not have annual reports for the prior twoyear timeframe. That was rectified i believe in may, or june, of this year. Currently the department has annual reports up through 1718 Available Online with various statistics of department review. Somebody mentioned that some of them were longer when they were first posted and they became more truncated later, can you speak to that . The department did previously with the review back in 1112, the way the department previously did their annual reports where they were much more extensive, but they also took approximately 1824 months to complete. If you look back in history at the departments annual report, technically included data for 1112. It was much longer. So we are looking out for version we are doing now is to find more of a sweet spot in between that has a series of grass and basic data and information and additional narrative and something that is complete within six months of the fiscal year. But doesnt take a major thesis to do. What is the diffidence between what is the difference between a corner and a medical examiner . I am probably not the best one to answer that question. A coroner is under a sheriff, and other jurisdictions in the country. It could be anybody who runs for office and has absolutely no training. The medical Examiner System is set up to bring a level of professionalism to Death Investigations and how Death Investigation should be properly handled. Our office and many other major jurisdictions in california are set up in the medical Examiner System. Thank you. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I wanted to talk up a little bit about the timing of these reports, because, i know i have talked to mayor mccallie, administrator. This is really tough for families when they are waiting for this report. I went through an experience with the jessica alba family. They were waiting for the death certificate to be um released because they felt it was a homicide and not suicide. Um and, you know, the entire native American Community came out and said this was a coverup. I just filled that, and we have talked about this that the communications has to be a lot better with families um because as we know families are in um there worst times of their lives when they are dealing with this, the death of a loved one. We need to be able to communicate with them what is happening, what the process is, why it is taking as long as it does. Um because, what i have found, the board of supervisors to get that information. We are the in between um. So, i really appreciate that youre looking at this, and even having really skilled, qualified people to help with the families. I think that is so important because um, you know, it is a real issue when we are dealing with those families that are waiting for them. Supervisor, i could not agree you more. Being able to communicate with families at the time of a tragic loss is very key. This is information we are using to help with our recruitment efforts and some of the vacant positions we have. With the jessica alba situation, you know, after talking to you i went back and looked at the timing, and the report came out 52 days after the ten day determination out and then the final report came 52 days later. Had there been better trust and Better Communications the family would not feel this way right now. Especially with a community that does not have trust of this government. Exactly. When you say pending, does that mean there is a draft report that is available for people to review and then later on a final that may or may not be the same . Yes. What doctor hunter did, instead of waiting for everyone, and i think this was right for determination to happen once you have the final report which could be 52 days, 90 days, that is a long time not to know. He waited call quickly and just say pending, pending toxicology reports. Those were available . The toxicology reports were not done yet when we did the pending. Right, but the pending determination was available to the families . Yes. That is why if we build trust a Better Communications we would be in a much better situation. Thank you so much. Thank you supervisor peskin for calling for this hearing. Thank you. Um are there any members of the public that was to comment on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Can we file this hearing without objection . Great. Mr. Clerk is there any further business . There is no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. The teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. This past year, the San Francisco Public Utilities commission Water Quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the Public School system here in San Francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the Public Schools to do lead testing. And so as a result, the Public Utilities commission and the Water Quality team in particular was asked to meet with the San Francisco Unified School District to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. The team that tests, were a full Service Environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the Water Quality division and the waste water enter price. And on the Water Quality enterprise, we have to also have Drinking Water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. And lead in schools, were playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. Our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of Public Health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. The public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and its up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. I enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better Water Quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. Hats off to the Water Quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the School District for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. Today we are going to talk about fire safety. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. Its a wonderful display. A little house in the urban Center Exhibition center that shows what its like in a home in San Francisco after an earthquake. One of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. We are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. Thank you. My pleasure. We talk about the San Francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. How do we avoid that kind of problem. How can we reduce fire hazard . The construction was a lot different. We dont expect what we had then. We want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. If you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. Be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. Absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the Utility Company come in and turn it back on. Here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. Where would we find the gas meter . It should be in your garage. Everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. One of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. Yes. The crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. Okay. Lets go inside to talk about fire safety. Many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little Smoke Detector and i see you brought one here, a Carbon Monoxide Smoke Detector. This is a combination of smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector. They are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. If Gas Appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. This is a Battery Powered . This is a Battery Powered and it has a 10 year battery life. A lot of times you may have one or the other. If you put in just a Carbon Monoxide detector, its important to have one of these too. Every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. One thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. What would you recommend . If you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. This kind of a candle, you wouldnt want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesnt rollover. You definitely want to have this in a noncombustible surface. Now, here we have our stove. After a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook . Well, i wouldnt recommend cooking inside of the house. You have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. So it wouldnt be safe to use your fireplace to cook . Not at first. You should check it by a professional first. Outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. Yes. That will be fine. Here we have some alternative cooking areas. You can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. Thank you for joining us. And thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping San Francisco stay safe. My name tom hewitt. First of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. This safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. Hi. My names ed sweeney. Im the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of San Francisco to come down and meet all the experts. Weve got engineers, architects. We have builders, we have government agencies. Well, we have four specific workshops. We have the accessible business entrance. My name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. I am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. So all buildings that have places of public accommodation in San Francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. The a. D. E. Was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. One of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. And its really to help the public, the Business Community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. So on this workshop, were going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. Well also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the Mayors Office on disability. Hi. Im marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. Today, well cover the meaning of a. D. U. S, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. Well talk about the code and permitting processes, and well also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. This is the department of Building Inspections residential remodelling workshop. My name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, were going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when im upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and whats involved with the coerce process . Were going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in San Francisco. Theres always questions that need answers. Its a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors theyre working with and the product theyre getting in the results. If you have questions that arent addressed in this workshop, youre always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 Mission Street, and were happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. The program is very successful. The last piece is already 60 in compliance. Well, we have a very important day coming up. Its sept 15. Last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how theyre going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. Im francis zamora, and im with the San Francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in San Francisco. And so thats really importantiimportant. In San Francisco, its no secret. We live in earthquake country. Theres a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we dont have to be afraid. These are going to be your First Responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, First Responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. By getting to know your neighbors, youre going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. One of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, San Francisco neighborhood Emergency Response team. It teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. Information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. San francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. If theres some kind of an emergency happening in San Francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. All you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. My name is fernando juarez, and im a fire captain with the San Francisco fire department. We have a hire extinguisher training system. You want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. If youre too close, the conical laser that comes out, its too small, and the fire wont go out on the screen. If you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. So it can tell when youre too close. My name is alicia wu, and im the director of a San Francisco based nonprofit. Since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. Today were doing c. P. R. , controlling external feeding and how to do Perfect Communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. On any given day in San Francisco, were very well resourced in terms of Public Safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the Public Safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. Theres websites. We have a wonderful website called 72hours. Org. It tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. 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With the help of good will and other businesses San Francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. We believe that Government Matters and cities matter what we side in San Francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. Whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the Greater Community will benefit. Thanks to sf environment San Francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us afternoon. Welcome to the october 1, 2019, regular meet ongoing meeting of the board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the roll . Brown present. Fewer present. Haney not present. Mandelman not present. Mar present. Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee on behas of of the board behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee please call the Consent Agenda. Clerk items 1 through 21 are on consent. Considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, madame clerk, please call the roll . On items 1 through 21, safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. Fewer aye. Haney absent. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Haney aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading. Or finally passed. And the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Lets go to our regular agenda. Please call item number 22. Item 22 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to set forth the drugdealing task force, to address harms related to the street drug dealing in the tenderloin, mid market, south of market neighborhoods. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 23 through 25 together. Items 23 and 25 are three department of technology resolutions that authorize the office of Contract Administration to enter into market place purchases for item 23, to enter into a first contract amendment between the city and cct technology, doing business as computerland, to increase the contract amount to 23 million, to expire on december 21, 2021, with two oneyear options to extend. Item 24, entering into a first contract amendment between the city and extech j. V. For a new total contract amount not to exceed 44 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 2021. For items 25, a resolution to accept 750,000 inkind gift during the fiscal year 201819. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, these are adopted unanimously. Item 26 is resolution to recreation and Park Department to accept and expend approximately 111,000 grant from the San Francisco Parks Alliance to Fund Community events, staff development, recreation programming and other activities through june 30, 2019. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, the next item. Item 27, a resolution to authorize the department of Public Health to apply for onetime housing funds for the whole Person Care Pilot Program from the California Department of Health Care Services in an amount not to exceed 8. 1 million from january 1, 2020, through june 30, 2025. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Items 28, resolution to authorize the office of economic and Workforce Development to accept and expend 400,000 grant from the bay provincial Regional Planning unit, the north Valley Consortium workforce board for expansion of incustody job center and coordination of post release job training and Workforce Development programs through march 31, 2022. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 29. Resolution to authorize the department of the environment to accept and expend 160,000 grant from the California Department of pesticide regulation for the purpose of evaluating pest prevention efforts in Affordable Housing through september 30, 2022. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Item 30. Resolution to approve and authorize the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development for a Loan Agreement in an amount not to exceed 18. 5 million for financing for predevelopment activities for the construction of a 137unit multifamily rental 100 Affordable Housing project, known as 4840 Mission Street. President yee supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Ill be brief, but i wanted to say a few thanks. Thank you, supervisor fewer for asking really good questions, allowing this and the process to move forward in an expeditious manner. This is a very Important Development for my district. This would represent the first ever family Affordable Housing constructed in district 11. This is over 130 units. Weve been able to 137. Weve been able to take an original proposal that would have built 20 town home, market rate townhomes that would go over 2 million apiece, thats 80 affordable units and transfer into it 137 units of Affordable Housing, doubling the size and footprint of an existing health clinic, Mission Neighborhood health centers. Along with additional retail space. A beautiful paseo connecting al maine and comMission Street. Were super excited. What is before us is an 18. 5 million loan. The project is an 83 million project. We changed the construction type weve changed the scope. Weve added Additional Units at different income levels. I wanted to underscore and thank Bridge Housing and my staff. Were closer to getting this done. And Mayors Office who has committed to filling the gap to get this project done, saving us almost a year time on the project. We look forward to breaking ground this time next year. This project in the upper yard will represent the two first 100 Affordable Housing in district 11. Just wanted to say that quickly. And appreciate all the hard work that everyone has put into this. Thank you, mr. President. President yee okay. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, item number 31 . Item 31 is a resolution to declare the intent of the city to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness to authorize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage bonds in an amount not to exceed approximately 47. 7 million. For 1049 golden gate. Laguna street, 900 mcallister street and 1010 buchanan street. Supervisor brown thank you. Colleagues, this is a resolution to allow the Mayors Office of housing to issue tax exempt bonds to assist in the renovation of the gardens. This Housing Development is located in the soma western edition. Frederick douglas gardens is 104unit project that serves lowincome africanamerican and african residents. This Housing Project a couple of years ago, like a lot of our cooperative housing in the western addition, fillmore, that was cooperative housing in hud that developed in the late 60s and 70s, a couple of years ago this Housing Project paid off their hud loans. And then the board with zero residents put it on the mls to sell. And we actually found out because someone called us and said, hey, this Housing Development was for sale on the mls. So we actually moved fast to get it back into the city to get it back to make sure they werent going to sell and jeopardize a lot of lowincome africanamericans. These tax credits will allow for new amenities and ada accessible units. Further, no one will be displaced and the project will remany affordable forever. It is so important to stop the displacement of africanamericans in San Francisco. We need to keep fighting to keep people in place. We are losing and have lost too many families. By working collaboratively with our coops, our africanAmerican Community can stay and age gracefully in neighborhoods they have raised and nourished. Our families, elders and youth will have a clean, accessible home for years to come. Thank you. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 32 through 35 together. Items 32 through 35 are three resolutions and one motion that responds to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 201819 civil grand jury reports. Item 32 is the report entitled act now before its too late, expand our High Pressure emergency Fire Fighting water system. Item 33 is for improving continuity review. The 2018 through 2019 civil grand jury continuity. For the report Pedestrian Safety in the era of electric mobility devices and urge the mayor to cause the implementation of the findings contained in those three reports through her Department Heads and development of the annual budget. And for item 35, the motion to provide a status update on the boards response to recommendation r2 and r3, contained in the 201718 report mitigating the housing prices, accessory dwelling units and modular housing. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, the resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, call the next item. Item 36 is ordinance to accept the street and the irrevocable offer of improvements and to dedicate acachia street for public use and declare it as open public right away and adopt the ceqa determination. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 37 imposes interim zoning controls for 18 months to require a conditional use authorization and specify findings for proposed change of use from a Residential Care facility and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item number 38. Item 38, ordinance to amend the administrative code to change the name of the Mental Health board to the Behavioral Health commission, to include in the definition of a consumer, one who receives Substance Use services and to permit a consumer who is an employee in a private agency, public, who does not have interest, influence or authority over any contractual manner considering the employer to be appointed to the commission. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Item number 39. Was considered by the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 26. And was forwarded as a committee report. Resolution to determine the premises to premises transfer of a public premises Liquor License to 32 third street l p ship, will serve the public convenience. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go the beginning of the roll call for introductions. Before we do that, just for the audience listening, the public, item 40 was considered by the rules at a regular meeting on monday, but was not forwarded as a committee report, so its not before the board. First up to introduce new business is supervisor safai. Supervisor safai submit. Thank you. Supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, madame clerk. I recently held a hearing on Food Insecurity in San Francisco which is a dire and growing problem among lowincome pregnant women and families. Access to food should be a basic human right because its a fundamental human need. Food insecurity is limited or uncertain access to adequate food. It affects every neighborhood and every community in the city. Almost 30,000 San Francisco children live in households earning below the poverty line. 50,000 for a family of four. 12,000 of those live in households earning 22,000. These families are food insecure. Children need adequate nutrition for health, wellbeing and proper brain development. Pregnant women who face Food Insecurity are at high risk for preterm birth. The cost of not being able to eat today can have permanent negative health consequences. Despite the programs available to address the issue, Food Insecurity remains high and continues to rise. In a survey of San Francisco families on wick more than half were food insecure. In the face of this growing problem, its important to prioritize the issue and take stock of all the available resources. As a follow up to the hearing i held, im submitting a request to the Budget Office to do analysis of our current resources in programming and to assess what our departments are doing to track this increasingly important issue, including assessing what data is collected on Food Insecurity and ascertaining what further data we need. Analyzing what other cities are doing. Understanding what the tools the city is using to measure the success our current of our current Food Insecurity programs. And determining what program and resources it would take to make all of our families food insecure. I look forward to the results and for making any changes as needed. Also, colleagues, i want to thank you again for your unanimous support of declaring the nra a domestic terrorist organization. Words i will not shy away from. The resolution as we know is nonbinding, but still calls them out for what they have done to this country. I want to thank the Mayors Office clarifying for the nra what we already know. I want to thank the mayor for her support and taking seriously our sentiments on this subject. Since we passed this resolution, the times reported that the chief lobbyist offered Financial Support for the president s impeachment defense and asked trump to stop the games on gun control legislation. A new Senate Report rio vealed that the revealed that the nra was a foreign asset to russia. Another report revealed that the nra board benefitted insiders. Theyve continued to block the u. S. Senate from taking up house bills on gun reform that will save live, including universal background checks on all gun sales, something that 96 of americans approve of. Today happens to be the twoyear anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in this country. The Las Vegas Shooting left 58 dead and 422 wounded, not to mention 20,000 who ran for their lives, the hundreds that witnessed death, the ones who attended the dying, who attempted and failed to save lives. Most, if not all of them, will live with ptsd, nightmares and depression. Most of them will never feel safe attending a public event again. It will affect their work lives, their relationships and the way they raise their children. We hear about the 36,000 americans killed by guns every year, but we dont hear about the 100,000 gunshot victims who survive and the family lives that are shattered. We dont hear about the life long complication. We dont hear about those who survive the loss of a loved one. The grieving parents, widows and those left behind. The media rarely reports on the trauma experienced by the witnesses, the emt, the police, the people who clean up the blood. We dont hear about the marriages that crumble, the parents who die of heart attack, suicide. We dont hear about the more mothers who give up their lives to care for an incapacitated child. Gun violence is an epidemic. A monster with tentacles that reach far and wide. It is a Public Health crisis to which our nations leader and many legislators have turned a blind eye. All with the blessing of the National Rifle association who doesnt give a damn about the terror i just mentioned. That is why i will not shy away from calling them out for what they are. That is why i will persevere in spite of any criticism hurled my way. That is why i will never stop fighting with everything i have at my disposal to keep communities safe to live in a country free from gun violence. The nras reckless assault on america will come to an end. We will make certain of it. The rest i submit. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton colleagues, this afternoon, im proud to introduce more preference legislation along with the mayor, supervisor mar, supervisor safai, supervisor ronen, supervisor haney and supervisor stefani that will allow the right to return to anyone who has lived in one of our hope sf Public Housing sites. As we continue to create ways to fight displacement, to help migration and bring black people back to the city, it is important to allow people who have lived in dilapidated, inadequate housing. This is just one strategy to bring back communities that were once hubs for people of color. As we look at the unfinished agenda, the outmigration report, this is one step we need to continue to right our wrongs. Our Public Housing communities in San Francisco were neglected and isolated for decades. And we want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity, who has lived in squalor, isolation, to have opportunity to return into the new housing that is going to exist for us in our community. And this preference will do just that. Allow people the right to return to a brand new Public Housing replacement unit for former residents of hope sf sites. Which includes hunters view, alice griffith, sunny dale and petrillo hill. This is regardless of what time period they resided in the housing communities. I also want to thank theo miller, sigh eata and akeys gray for all the work. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. President yee. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Supervisor walton, please add me as cosponsor. Supervisor walton my pleasure. Thank you, president yee. President yee so, colleagues, im introducing a hearing on San Francisco foster youth status, placement and future. Under governor brown, a major Child Welfare initiative was developed called continuum of care reform. In 2015, california passed Assembly Bill 403, which i intended to phase is intended to phase out group homes for foster youth. With the phasing out of group homes, the intention is to place children and youth more quickly into foster families. Not known as now known as resource families. This is critical step as studies show that children have Better Outcomes when placed in home environments. However, in San Francisco, more than half of our foster youth are placed out of county and 25 of those are placed more than 100 miles away. The very act of being placed in foster care is dramatic, but now more than more often than not, these children and youth are being taken away from their community. Their schools, their friends, and their support network. In San Francisco, we need to commit to keeping our children and youth in the city. And in an environment that are very familiar with them. We talk about being a Family Friendly city, but when we are literally shipping out more than half of our foster youth, we are failing. When less than 50 of the foster youth graduate from high school and only 3 graduate from college, we have failed. Today, 50 of the youth who have aged out of foster care end up homeless or incarcerated. This is a tragic and unacceptable. These are disturbing statistics, but more than that, these are young people, children that our city is failing. It is our responsibility to support and nurture stability for Vulnerable Children and youth. We have a desperate need for resource families in the city. This is why im calling a hearing. As a city, what is being done in order to promote stability for these youth, what resources are being allocated to promote residents becoming certified as resource families so that our children can remain in their community . We must remove barriers from our residents to become certified resource families so that our children can stay in San Francisco and the community. These are just some of the questions that need to be answered so that we can do the right thing and be our citys foster and be our citys foster youth and families who are interested in supporting them. The rest i submit. Supervisor brown. Supervisor brown yes, could i be added onto supervisor waltons preference legislation . And supervisor stefani, the Food Insecurity hearing. And then the rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer can you please add me to supervisor waltons legislation and the rest i submit. Thank you. Haney. Mandelman. Mar. Peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you. Colleagues, last year this board of supervisors by unanimous vote created a scooter permit requirement for the sfmta in response to the dumping of thousands of scooters in San Franciscos public rightofway in wanton disregard of Public Safety concerns and regulations. The City Attorney filed several cease and desist against the companies, the department of public works gathered up hundreds of them. And i think all of us heard thousands of complaints and testimony as to the disproportionate harm to seniors and disabled people and other pedestrians who use our sidewalks, which is to say nothing of the resulting injuries to scooter riders themselves. Those complaints, thankfully fell off after the sfmta limited the number of scooters to went to lengths to ensure that scooter providers were educating the riders on how to ride them, namely keep them off sidewalks, and to wear helmets when using them in the streets. Last week i dont know whether they consulted with any of you, but they did not consult with me in spite of specifically requesting a briefing in advance the sfmta announced it would be expanding its Scooter Permit Program from the existing approximately 1425 scooters to 4,000 on october 15 and ultimately to 10,000. And this came in the wake of mtas assessment of the Pilot Scooter Program that revealed that the companies are providing to provide outreach. Theyre failing to account for how many of the scooters are ending up in the way stream. Individual riders continue to illegally ride them on sidewalks and many of the riders continue to get hurt. This is not to say