Chief scott and director henderson. Im jason sawyer, lieutenant at northern station, coming here to talk about the general order, revising for underwater diving operations. We currently have a general order, 6. 03 which we are seeking to replace the prior general order, it goes back to at least 1999. There have been no revisions since then. If you review the prior general order, virtually none of it other than the concept of water applies today. The old system has virtually no its a page and a half where our divers used to use their own equipment. There was no real chain of command or any type of medical protocol. Ive been diving for over 30 years. Many of the years with the department. And i wish Something Like this would have been revised for all the time ive spent in the water. This goes very well hand in hand with what the sergeant was speaking about regarding the r. O. V. And the concept of there are so many ways a diver can get injured in black water or overhead diving. This new general order at least laze out a general policy qualifications, training, medical requirements, the personnel, basically who is in charge, the equipment, again, which is now purchased and maintained through the Police Department. We have so much highquality equipment now and spelledout dive operations. And one of the key advances that ive noticed in my time with the dive unit is go back 20 years ago, we did not have a very robust marine unit. The marine unit and dive unit were separate units. Now our marine unit is extremely robust, one of the best on the west coast. Our dive unit and qualifications of our divers is also the same. If you go back to one of our most famous incidents with scott peterson, if you remember, and lacey peterson, i was one of the primary divers in that incident, and we were not consulted initially, but the other departments did not have the capabilities of doing the dive. We were consulted, and we went down instead. Many days of time in the water to ultimately find and locate lacey peterson. Because our unit is so robust, we are called upon by many other outside agencies, both in San Francisco and outside of San Francisco just because of the capabilities of our divers. We ask that we can just get some type of policy put in place to help protect the divers and the department. Does anybody have any questions . No questions from commissioners . Move to adopt. Second. Thank you for what you do. Getting in those waters i can tell you, its a lot different than going to cozumel. Any Public Comments before we move for a vote . I dont see anyone. All right. Want to vote . All in favor . Aye. Anyone opposed . All right. The motion passes. You get to play with the mini submarine too . I tell you what, we used a piece of equipment like that in locating lacey peterson. It was phenomenal because like the sergeant alluded to, instead of having us down there, if we were trying to search an area the size of this room, it would take days. Like you are on your hands and knees crawling, because you have no visibility. To use a piece of equipment like that while the divers sit on topside is a tremendous asset as opposed to you drop a diver in, they stay in 30 minutes, they are cold, they have to stay out of the water for a certain amount of time. By the time you come out your core temperature has dropped so much and you have to come back the next day. Its an incredible amount of divers you can put in. It takes time when but it saves the fatigue on the divers. One last question about the equipment. What happens with the old piece of equipment . Do we utilize it for training . No, you cant have it. Do we use it in conjunction so we can send one out . You cant afford that. Optimally it would go to an inland agency that can use it because it still has a usable life. So whatever the procedures and protocols would be, ideally, if we could transfer it to an inland agency that doesnt have the current issue. The time ive been down there, weve gone from mutual aid as far up to lake shasta to assist them with drowning victims because it is hundreds of feet deep. We can send a piece of equipment down. And theres almost zero risk other than maybe an entanglement hazard. But hopefully we can give it away to somebody, whatever the policies and procedures would be. That was more of the question. In lieu of the question that phil asked, also ensuring that as it is an investment that we really get the entire life span of it. And it was purchased through grants funds as well when we did receive it. All right, cool. Free federal money. Thank you for your time. Next line item. Line item 5, general Public Comment. Public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d. P. A. Personnel. Under Police Commissioner rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners, the police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. Good evening, commissioners. Chief scott, director henderson, im deputy public defender brian cox. Im here to raise two points related to sb1421 records they have a legal mandate to produce. I would like to thank the Commission Commission for its wisdom in asking both departments to report on the progress of complying. I think thats a great idea and is going to help add clarity to our process. The first point i want to raise is about tracking mechanisms. D. P. A. Has created a tracking mechanism as new complaints and investigations occur. We havent heard from sfpd on whether it plans to do the same. As we heard last week, identifying and locating these records can be challenging. Some of that problem could be helped by creating a mechanism to immediately identify new sb1421 records as they are created by the departments. The departments should make their systems operational as quickly as possible, even if the Technological Infrastructure is currently in development. With as much transparency as possible to save time and effort later on. My second point is about ongoing public incidents. Both departments should publish sb1421 records with new incidents without waiting for a request. Publishing on a online database can streamline disclosure. The public should hear more about both processes in the database departments intend to build. These two common sense procedures that will make future sb1421 efforts faster and make sure the public gets what it is entitled to. The public should encourage the departments to create the tracking mechanism and release new public incidents on their own. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is sean jones. My it please the commission, i wanted to tell you that i really wanted to hear out hear what the woman in the gray sweater had to say earlier this evening. The fact that she was told to sit down and shut up was rude. I think its an abuse of discretion not to grant her an additional minute or two to complete her thoughts. Think if you will, for a minute, how that incident would play out if put on tv in moscow. What would they think of the Great American democracy if they see citizens treated like that . I ask you, just think about it. Sir, i have a question. Who was told to sit down and shut up. I dont recall that happening tonight. Im sorry . Who was told to sit down and shut up. Thats what you do. What does that say . Sit down and shut up. All you had to say, not addressing you personally, madame Vice President , but all you had to say was take another minute, we want to hear what you have to say. This commission never does that. Its always, we are going to listen to you because we have to and we are going to get on to the more interesting stuff later. Thats what it looks like. Call me wrong. I could be wrong. But its terrible. Its just bad theater. People come up here because they want to be heard. Its scary to talk in public. You are not dealing with people who have the skills to organize complex thoughts into a two twominute presentation. Thats difficult to do, to develop over time. So what im telling you is you want to know why people dont come . Thats a reason. Thank you very much. Good evening again. I wanted to say thank you for mentioning the anonymous number that you do every time i come here. I need that. I need it to be continued. I know its repetitive and i keep saying it. I feel the same way when i come here every wednesday that im just saying the same thing over and over and over again, but i need to do this for myself. Its not for anybody, its for myself. And i do want the public and sf gov television to see this and to know that im hurting and that im in pain. I bring my granddaughter with me when we should be at home studying, but im not. We study but not like we should. But i wanted to thank you guys for and please continue to say that number. And im hoping that if you are no longer here, the next person will say it and the next person will say it until i get justice for my son. So thank you. Thank you so much. 415475444. Is there any additional june Public Comment . She doesnt have your skills yet. All right. Sorry. It happens. Good evening. Im wondering when and where will the information be posted regarding the meeting regarding what evidence shes going to produce about the shooting, like when and where will that be at and where will you post it . Do you want to again this coming tuesday at 6 00 p. M. On cesar chavez elementary school. If there are any changes where can people find that information . On the website. Well also post it publicly. [please stand by] closed session including Public Comment on items a seven. Vote whether to hold item eight in closed session. Is there any Public Comment online item eight moving into line item seven, moving into closed session . No Public Comment. Vote on whether or not to move into closed session . Second. All in favor . Aye. Before we go into closed session, i would like to vote on whether to invoke the attorney and client privilege for those items as well. Is there a motion . So moved. Item nine, vote to elect whether to disclose what was discussed in closed session. Aye. Is anyone for adjournment . Aye. Can i have a motion and a second, please . Second. Aye. [laughter] my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Go. Shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 good morning. Thank you so much. I am mayor london breed. I am excited to be here today joined by supervisors safai and vallie brown. This, as you all know, is a representation of a lot of the work that we have been doing in San Francisco t to come up with Creative Solutions to address homelessness. We have to understand sometimes it is not one size fits all, and trying to understand exactly the challenges that people who are homeless are dealing with and meeting them where they are and getting them the help and support they need to transition into a more permanent stable housing situation is something that we care about. This is why we have been fighting so hard to build more shelter beds, to look at places that are under utilized space to identify weighs in which we can have temporary or permanent space for shelter to allow for a situation like this where we are taking a parking lot slated for 100 Affordable House anything the near future and using it when it is not being used for a place for people to safely park, get supported services and resources and make sure that we are able to help people transition into a permanent situation. I will say that i am really proud to work with two individuals who have been the leaders in this effort. Starting with the board of supervisors and understanding there are so many people before the Homeless Count was released that showed we had an increase in the number of People Living in vehicles. These two supervisors led the efforts around solutions around safe parking for those who unfortunately are sleeping in their vehicles. As a way to provide a safe place like where we are standing here today. In october of 2019, the city counted over 700 occupied vehicles in San Francisco, both passenger cars and rvs so we know that this is something that we need to provide a solution for. I want to be clear because the first thing you hear from folks it is not enough. It is better than what it was. There was nothing in the past. Now this is an example. This is not from my understanding what we are trying to propose here today is not something that we are familiar with anyplace in the United States where this is happening and actually has a track record of proving successful. We are stepping out to be the first to try something different, that we are hoping could work to support people that we know need support. I want to thank not just the supervisors but i really want to thank urban because they are the ones that you will hear from them in a minute. This program is absolutely incredible in the Civic Center Area and other places throughout San Francisco working with so many vulnerable population of San Francisco, helping to keep the neighborhoods and civic center and downtown area safe and clean and accessible and treating people with respect and dignity. I appreciate the work they are doing. I also want to appreciate the lake view omi community. Mr. And mrs. Harris are here and steve and others. This is not something always popular to do. Not only did supervisor safai lead in this effort to have Community Meetings to talk about this location used for this purpose, he really took a lot of hits from the community and, fortunately, so Many Community members were open and willing to allow this use to take place, and we truly appreciate the neighborhood for allowing us to do this on a temporary basis. This Vehicle Triage Center is something, i think, that can be potentially duplicated throughout San Francisco. Ultimately, the goal is to get people into safe Affordable Housing that is really the goal of this. This is a way to bring people inside, to provide showers, to provide restroom facilities, to make sure that we are doing it in a way that meets people where they are and treatings them with respect and dignity. I am grateful to be here today to kick this off. I do want to say that a lot of work through the Mayors Office on homelessness has gone into identifying all over San Francisco people who are living in their vehicles and trying to create, you know, a way to know what already exists. I want to make it clear that this is not an open invitation to people in other counties to come to San Francisco because the fact is we have a long waiting list of people who we have identified and they will be our priority along with other unhoused individuals who sadly are sleeping on the streets. We, of course, invite other counties to look at this as an example and to do their part in addressing this issue. This is not just an issue unique to San Francisco. This is an issue that impacts the entire state of california. We are hopeful we will partner in the near future to talk about ways to move forward with Solutions Like this and others to make sure that San Francisco is not the only city and county bearing the burden of the expense of doing unique things like we are doing today. With that since the rain is coming down and you guys know i dont like to get my hair wet. We are on dangerous territory here. I would like to introduce the supervisor safai. [applause] we will pause for mayor breed to have an umbrella. laughter you know, i want to say i think this is historic day in San Francisco. I know that people have been talking about doing safe parking in one form or another for over a decade, but truly we are standing here today because of the individuals that stand behind me. We had a situation where i went out and told the story a few time also. I went out on Christmas Day with my daughter. Santa had gotten her a bike and we went to the playground and the street was lined with People Living in rvs. I thought what is happening . So i called s. F. M. T. A. , got started getting calls from neighbors. They were saying they wanted these cars removed. I think that the knee jerk reaction in these situations is to just think about the vehicles but not think about the individuals that are occupying these vehicles. These are folks that are human being just like you and me. They are working, often times students, often times they are veterans, they are people who are productive members of society and want to be respected like you and me. I will tell you, my knee jerk reaction was to call and say where are the signs, we need no overnight parking signs up. S. F. M. T. A. Said we are going to pause, we are not going to keep doing this. It just pushes people from one block to another. Then i got back to my office and there was a photograph of a young woman living in an rv, and it was a handwritten note from supervisor brown that said lets work on this together in a humane way. That really caused me to pause, and i walked into her office and i said dont blind side me like that again. We kind of had a laugh, but the truth was i said you are right. We have to do this the right way. We buckled down, the staff buckled down and wrote a piece of legislation. We went around the bay area and looked at best practices. We crafted a piece of legislation. The reason that this is able to happen is because of that piece of legislation. We also march would into marched into may or breeds office. Mayor breed you walked. There were two of us. We marched. We had an uncomfortable conversation. By the end, the mayor committed money, and she challenged me. Are you going to put one of these in your district . I said i absolutely am. I know where we can go. I called Mission Housing development. They had gotten control of this site. I called jeff and we had a conversation to say can this be the first place where we do safe parking . Fast forward. It looked like once the census came in that there really was a justification for doing this. Out of the increase in homelessness, 70 of the increase and i think it was 13 increase in homelessness, 70 are living in vehicles. If now, was not the time then it would never be the time. We did that. The mayor allocated over 1 million for this effort. We engaged the community. As the mayor mentioned, steve and the reverend. The improvement association, 45 individuals in the room and we took a vote. After that vote it was a unanimous vote to proceed with this. We had a Community Meeting and 600 people showed up. By the end an and mary and i wil tell you we never have 600 people show up for a meeting. It leaned towards support. We wanted to be the first and share in the responsibility of dealing with the homeless crisis. I want to thank the mayor and i want to give a special thanks to the department of public works. We would not have been able to move as fast as we would if they hadnt been able to get this ready you see the solar panels, security cameras, lighting, privacy fencing, restriping, bathrooms, office space and urban will be here on site 24 hours per day, at least two individuals. We have the captain, liaison with the bart police. Wwe are working with s. F. M. T. A. Yes there will be tough loved involved. When we go out to proactively move people out of the streets where they are living in vehicles, we are not going to invite more individuals to occupy those spaces. S. F. M. T. A. Will put up the signs to encourage people to omentalis these spaces. Myself and soon pe supervisor bn called for a meeting. President yee is looking for a location. Supervisor walton is looking for space in his district. It will be a humane way. I want to thank everyone today. I want to thank the individuals that made this possible, and we are going to continue to look to expand and make this model a successful model. As the mayor said, in one year we will break ground on 100 Affordable Housing on the site. We will see what works, what i am provements can be made and how to do it better and how San Francisco can lead throughout the bay area. I will introduce supervisor vallie brown my cosponsor in this effort. Thank you, supervior and mayor breed. It was over a year ago that i did send a photo to his office of me living in a van when i was 13. As some of you know, my mom had odd jobs. She was always struggling to make ends meet. There were times she didnt have enough money for the next arent. She would borrow a van from a friend and we would live in the van until she was able to get money for the next apartment. As a child of 13 living in a van, there is a lot of struggles. There are things you have to wear a bathing suit all of the time. Why do you wear a bathing suit . Because you went to the gas station to rest up. You couldnt be naked. You had to have a bathing suit. You had to do homework before sundown because there was no light only a flashlight. You had nowhere to cook meals. These things that we dont think about are things that you think about when you live in a vehicle. You have to plan your life so carefully when you live in a vehicle. And i have to say the things sometimes are meant to be. As a child i dont have many photographs of myself. We move so much and you lose things. I found this photo of me living in the van at 13. I felt like it was meant to be of me moving forward to say why arent we thinking differently about housing people . Helping people that are struggling . Iit is a thin veil from from being homeless on the street. I never tried t to do a this wih you. You never know who lives in these vehicles. Thank you may or breed for putting the money forward because it was 1 million to say lets try this out. Thank you to this community for stepping up to say let us be the first. I absolutely feel we are going to need more through the city like we need navigation centers, homeless centers, we need more. This is the beginning. Thank you everyone for coming and for sharing and supporting. Lets move forward. Thank you. [applause] the folks that will manage this is urban. They are the wantings who have been doing an incredible job with the civic center, ambassadors of the community. Managing the public toilets or overseeing public spaces in other areas and trying to get people help and support, and in some cases connectedded to the Homeless Outreach team. This are an invaluable resource in San Francisco. The person in charge is lana miller. [applause] thank you, mayor breed. Thank you. I want to thank everybody who allowed us to be part of this effort. It is very, very important. As we see homelessness is continuing to increase all of the time. We are tasked with continuing to find ways to deal with it. A lot of people, sometimes people get frustrated in the city and there is a lot of that. What i see from my perspective because as mayor breed said we are all around the city in every intersection where you see a mix of homelessness and Mental Illness and addiction, there we are. From what i have seen from that perspective and talking with people from all over the country is this situation is only getting worse. We are not in a position to say we dont want to deal with it. We cant deal with it, we must deal with it and we must find creative ways to address people with love, with respect, with dignity. As supervisor brown said, that used to be her. It used to be and is a lot of our family members. It is not going anywhere. It is up to us as human beings to find ways to scale up. What we saw with the fires recently is that a lot of people are now living in their vehicles. I think when we see more and more people displaced through Climate Change we are going to see more and more people who are living in the streets. Now we have to get in front of this. I am really, really honored to be part of the thought partners who arent saying it is somebody elses problem. We need to find a way to get people out of here so people feel comfortable, but people putting their headins together o find creative ways to address this with love and dignity. Eventually we all have to scale. Thank you very much. We are really great full for the opportunity to be part of this. [applause] thank you. Our last speaker today is a person who grew up in San Francisco in the bayviewhunters Point Community and one of the first clients that we will work with here, sandra youth. applause hello, i am sandra hughes. I was born and raised in San Francisco. As a child i experienced a lot of trauma. As a result i have struggled most of my life with trusting anyone. Even those who want to help me. I am currently home less and i live in my rv. The neighborhood around me has changed. Where i used to ride my bike as a child, there are businesses. The Community Members yell at me not to park there, to move away. They treat me as if i am less than human. I wish they could understand i dont want to live in the rv or have to park there either. I want what everyone else wants, safety, dignity and a community. I dont feel safe living in my rv. It has been broken into five time also. I am scared every night when i try to sleep. I dont feel safe around people. Shelters are not an option for me. When the team told me about the vtc opening up and gave me information, i thought the opportunity to move into the Vehicle Triage Center with my rv would offer me safety and security. Maybe i could learn to build trust with people until i can find stable housing. I want to have a key for my apartment, i want to connect with my family. I want safety. This would be a first step in the feeling of safety my allow me to heal and rebuild my life. Thank you. applause thank you again for sharing your story. As you can see we have a lot of work to do in the city. Part of it is the opening of this parking lot as a safe place for people to park, but ultimately it all goes back to housing. You feel like i repeat this over and over again. It is not just the money necessary to build housing. We know San Francisco is one of the most expensive places to build housing in the first place. It is also about having the courage to cut back on the bureaucratic red tape so we dont have to wait years to build housing so that people like sandra and so many others sleeping on the streets have a place to call home. This is what we will continue to work on. Yes, we celebrate a milestone that we have this parking lot for people to park safely, but, ultimately, they nehousing. We have to do a better job as a city to build it. Thank you to the department of public works, the hot team and be the work you do on the streets, thank you to the San FranciscoPolice Department and the folks who work with us. Wrap it up. It is time to go. Thank you. [applause] [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ ]. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the december 6, 2019, special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair fewer. I am joined by supervisors stefani and