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You may send written comments Via Postal Service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on october 24th. Thank you. I like to excuse supervisor walton from todays meeting. We have a vote . On this motion. To excuse supervisor walton from the meeting vice chair mandelman. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. We have 2 ayes with member walton excused. That pass. Read item 1 item 1, a resolution retroactively authorization public hasnt accept and extend a grant 100,000 from Purchaser Business Group for a program calhive Behavioral Health collaborative july 1 of 23 through january therein of 27. Member who is wish to comment press star 3 to enter the line. A prompt will indicate you raised your hand. Madam chair. Rachel is online . Perhaps . Im here. Grit. Thank you. Welcome. All right. So i can share a bit about calhive. It is i 3 year improvement collaborative focused on integration of Behavioral Health services and primary care. That is when we are all about, trying to treat Behavioral Health services as routine medical care by the california equality collaborative it started this past july. We are one of 8 organizations within california serving 650,000 members that have been selected to payment of this collaborative focused on supports us improving how we integrate the services to primary care now. And it will help us with expanding our screening and referrals for patients with mild to moderate conditions. Fantastic. And i will also yes. Add, i dont know if sure, direct benefit is increasing Patient Access to Behavioral HealthServices Part of the proirm care setting and improving the out come this patients are presented with. Well is access and out come. Sounds great dont think there are questions if we can open this up for Public Comment . Member when is wish to speak item 1 and joining person line and up those remotely press star 3 to enter the line. For those in the queue continue to wait until you have unmuted. No in person speakers here. And just checking. We have no one in the queue. Public comment is closed. I like to make a motion to send this to the board with positive recommendation. On that motion vice chair mandelman. Ayech chair ronen. Aye. We have two with member walton excused that passes unanimously. Thank you. Mr. Clerk read. Item 2. Item 2 a resolution approving the Grant Agreement with pick Episcopal Community service for the cova a shelter extending the term by 10 months a term of december 18 of 21llow august 21 of 2024 increasing the amount by 5. 1 million for a total not to exceed 15 million. And authorizing hsh to enter in amendments or modifications to the agreement not increase the obligations or liabilities or decrease the benefits to the city. And we are in receipt of a memorandum from your desk this item be referred as a Committee Report for the october 17 board meeting. Members joining remote and wish to comment press star 3 to enter the lionel. Thank you. And emily cohen from hsh will present. Thank you. Good morning vice chair mandelman im emily cohen with department of homelessness and Supportive Housing im before you today with a resolution that would approve the third amendment to the Grant Agreement between the d. Homelessness and Supportive Housing with the Episcopal Community service for service the cova shelter located at 655 elis street. This amendment would extend the term by 10 months to the end of august, 2024 and alignment with the booking agreement for that hotel. This amendment would increase the not to exceed amount by 1. 5 million a total of 15 million for 10 months of service at this shelter. The site has the capacity to serve 109 adults across 89 rooms. A couple are larger. Can fit multiple peopleful operations like service, daily management. Janitorial, meals. Case management and all of the service involved in operating the shelter. The cost of the agreement for fy23 24 is 144 dollars per bed per night, includes 2 hot meals per day. The other cost associated with this project is the 75 dollar per night booking agreement approved by this committee. Jot program accounts for 89 units of our over 2460 bed adult shelter system. 568 of these beds including the cova are noncongregate. We have been growing the noncongregate of the system since covid. As october fifth occupancy was 95 . Open nothing december of 21 and the end of last fiscal the site served 255 people. And continued to be popular site for folks living unsheltered in the community. This site has a high acceptance rate when offered in the community. I will stop there and take questions. Before questions well hear from the budget and legislative analyst. Good morning. Nick from the budget and analyst officer. A resolution approved the third amendment to hsh grant with Episcopal Community service it extend its through august of 24. And increases Spending Authority by 5. 1 Million Dollars. The grant alighthouse hsh to fund to operate a shelter at 6 55 elis street the capacity of 109 adults. There was a performance monitoring site visit in april of 23. By hsh staff. Which found this ecs failed to comply with the most of the Major Contract requirements. And you other than under take activities they were paid to do this year. They were some significant operational findings including not providing train to staff or wellness checks in the keeping a log of maintenance requests of guests and 91 of the service out come or service and outcome goals in the agreement turning over rooms referring clients to services or clients document red for housing. Were complete. So, i think this is a very significant set of findings and in fact hsh did require a corrective action plan for Episcopal Services to remedy the findings and the department has reported to us that than i are going to go become to the site, mid year in january of 24. To do another site visit. Buoy do think that another check in before it is less than a year agreement. Or exception i think another check in would be the board level would be warranted. This reason our recommendation for the department on come become during the budget process and provide you an update about the performance of this grant. You know my impression is that a lot of the change, a lot of the issues here have been pinned on a site manager replaced. I you know i do it is more me an open question whether a larger organizational issue here. And so for that reason a check in in june at the budget process where the department can say, look the provider is back on track. Delivering the service or we could went back in january did in the see improvement so we switched providers and this is also significant because as we discussed on page 6 of our report. Funding for the guarantee is shifting state sources to the general nunned is a local low funded program at a time when the mayor issued budget instructions. I think it makes sense it move forward today but check become in, in june. Thank you i wonder if the Deputy Director could independent to the blas concerns and recommendations. Absolutely. Thank you, chair. You know appreciate mr. Miin regard and their work. This is as he noted we have done will Shelter Program monitoring at this site. The findings were unacceptable. And enter in the i corrective action memo which Episcopal Community service is a huge provider of social services in the community. Findings were not consistent with other Program Monitoring of other programs under their leadership. Since that time in april we had a productive, very dill gent working relationship with ecs to correct these. Replaced the site manager at the cova. And actively hiring a new care cord narrator. The dataent row is updated daily. And all client intakes and exits are updated within 24 hours of move in our move out. It was a challenge. Most rooms are cleand and ready for new guests within 72 hours which is our big findings. And only rooms with significant damage off line longer than that. The intake paperwork and program orientations are completed with each client upon move in. And increased daily room inspections and improved keeping update logs. A lot of the prescriptional issues identified did go become to a staffing issue. And and a bit of context this start during the shelter in place. It has been we dont know if we have funding keep going. There has been back and fort for the provider we have not had that contract for more then and there a year at a time. The leadership has been responsive and is now operating the program in a way that is more consistent with our standards. We will had another site monitoring scheduled in january. We will do informal needed between now and then and the regularly with provide and our shelter team to ensure operationers improving and the out come of the program continue to improve. We are happy to report become during the budget press on how that guess. We could also yea. That is a good solution. Good recommendation. Supervisor mandelman. This raises interesting questions about how we are using hotels for maun congregate shelter. The one hand. Am i understanding this, the per might cost is 140 per room plus 75. Correct the year you guest 80,000. Seems expensive for shelter. Yes. And yet may be is in the enough. To make this shelter work. Or may be it is. Can you talk b. Is there how are we using im interested in how we are using hotels or using shelter theyre is like a room. That feels very much like psh but shelter. How is this building fitting in our portfolio, when are we using it for. How do we decide who is going in there . These are all great questions. Throughout chair being supervisor mandelman, this program is more expensive on per night per bed base than our congregate shelters. This is in the as much on the operating side although some and a lot on the booking agreement. Book agreement because we enter in this agreement during the beginning of the pandemic and it was an urgent time to bring on hotels quickly. Lots of advocacy from the board and board and open hotels quickly we opened 25 and had is one and pid a promotium for the hotels we opened during the covid pandemic. We kept this and 2 other hotels to function as shelter. And they add an important component to our system in this they are attract ever to folks living on the street. Often times more than a congregate shelter. Offer more privacy. More dignity. 2 meals a day. And but what we see is we are paying a higher price. Goal for the longterm is enter in a master lease for this property or similar property so we could bring down that night lie rate and pay a flat annual cost or monthly cost for the lease similar to with other shelter projects or longterm lease. I think that would bring down the cost am noncongregate programs have a staffing and need staffing to be monitoring folks. And so providing the wellness checks. Engaging folk its is harder when they dont come to the dining room. There is a lot of proactive work on behalf of the. Staff. The Community Service system here and can answer questions about staffing better than i could. I say i dont know this we need to fund more staffing as much as ensure that every position is filled. That the site and others. This is a challenge cross our sector. To have enough staff to feel operate our programs. I would be surprise federal in the an over doze death at this building do you know how many . I dont know. We can find out while we are talking. And can you talk about how our system is who gets this . Yea. Whats the profile of the person going in the door. So, it various. We have a central shelter place am process. On a daily base every shelter report in vacancies go in the system. And those beds are allocated daily tow a variety of team usa. Include the homeless out reach. Healthy streets operation center. Street Crisis Response team. Hospital discharge and transfer. Really depends when gets the beds allocated. Why this is the cadillac. How do you get the cadillac. Depends on the out roach and how it is going and what we want to match people who need this service. We see a high aqueuity in this building and a lot of folks coming in sleeping outside who have not been sleeping in other shelters. It is diverse. Do you have data on how many folks there are would have a Mental Health diagnose. I dont have that with me im sure we can get. I would love all that stuff. I have concerns. How long are people staying there . We dont have a limit on shelters we see folks varying in their leth of stay. Across our system about 90 to 100 day system our average what is the average. Joy dont have specific data would love that. We can get that and curious also for data on where people are going to if they are going to other shelter or the street or dsh or other. We will get that to you. And then what extent is are any of the look back, are any of the measures, they were not meeting the metrics that we had done. Any related to their management of the street outside. The facility. You know we have a Good Neighbor policy in all of our program contracts. But it has until now has not been. Not been something we had measurable bench marks electronic in the our Program Monitoring this is manage we are w to add to the programs cross the board. Tell take awhile that is manage we are look to create bench marks and deliverables on. There have been 4 over dose at this site in the last fiscal year and 2 we know were reversed and 2 we dont know the out come of. At the time the person was taken to the hospital. We might not have gotten that update. Surprisingly a delightfully low. Very positive. Transgenderic as the 2 deaths are. I think it would make sense and i think i mean supervisor robe sxen i talked about this but if we will be making the claim we need to put more. We need more facilities. Whether shelter or housing or all of the above. And i think i still believe the city does a poor job of ensure the facilities we put in neighborhoods. Supervisor ronen has been a champion of facilities. We still are in the doing the job we had be as a city ensure the facilities are a benefit in the a detriment. Im not sure what is hatchoth 600 block of ellis i know the 700 block was you know has a lot of challenges. This was a Tourist Hotel prepandemic a neighborhood that is struggling. I think we want to make sure that the use are in the making things worse. So. Yea. I dont know if anyone wants to address anything. You dont have to. Good morning. Im chris the chief Program Officers at esf. I am happy to address your questions. For context, the program started as a shelter in place hotel. Last winter it bipartisan a winter shelter. And in upon january this year it became a noncongregate shelter. We had a series of changes and each has a different operating model and expectations. So, the monitoring happen in the april and operating under shelter model since april and our staff did in the transition well from having provided several years of sip service its now providing the shelter service, which is miles an hour hands on, which is more engaged with the guests. We appreciate hsh rerue and their support and working with us to enabling improvements. Bear with us a lot. The we are happy to come back in june hsh was out scombrft went through a full monitoring and the improvements were well noted. We appreciate that and the continued support. As to the street. We pay a lot of attention to the street in front of the building. The block is dense. On the street as you know. And we dont have the staff or capacity to monitor the entire block. We keep our side of the street our plot there as clear as we can. And i think it is a whole neighborhood effort that would need to happen. We are willing to be part of the solution as well. What is your sense how many folks in the cova are experiencing disorders . I dont have i number for you i would hazzard to guess. It is similar to all other shelter environments. S i would say. More than 50 . We have shelters that are specifically you know recognizing that the folk there is have Mental Health issues and pend machineo trying to address those. I made a deal how expense than i is. Might be not expensive enough. Are you resourced to address the Mental Health, Behavioral Health and, diction needs of the people we are throwing at you. When positive in the last year the case managers to the shelter environment, this cant be under represented, it makes a huge difference to work with people one on fwhon a context outside a monitor or Holding People accountable to helping people of the upon department of Public Health has an rfp for mobile Behavioral Health teams. And we are looking forward to those Service Coming on line. We need more Behavioral Health services and the city is try to make that happen. I would pin to a recent press reles from the mayor that there is an intent to increase treatment beds which we need in the system over all. So, i cant say it is all, but we got some things coming down the pipeline that are positive. You said you think the population in covid is similar to other shelters, given what it is i would expect it might be higher but you think it is consistent. Again i dont get reports that are higher than the other congregate shelter environments. So i cant really peek to that specific i can find out. My office will follow up to get for more details on who going there. How long they stay. Where they are going. Okay. We have 2 guests that are here to peek for Public Comment. Thank you. Thank you. Photocopy we can open this item up for Public Comment now. Great. Members of the public had wish to speak on item 2 and joining person lineup along the kurt anxiety and for those who are listening remote low press star 3 now to enter the line and for those in the queue continue to wait until you have been unmuted. Step up i will star your time. Good morning. Im [inaudible]. Is it working. Im pedro vega moveed San Francisco 4 years ago. Upon arrival i was homeless. Dinot know where i would go or sleep. Luck low a ran to the hot team and brought me to the hotel. And i have been there since. Because of this i was able to get work credentials. Had a place to eat and clooep scompleep got a job in the Master Program this place has been good and full of respectful people. The cova helped me and ican help many others and wish you would keep it going. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Please. Begin. Why im leanne i became homeless i start i lost my job and i could not find another for a long time. So what losing everything i ownd and having ~esque litting healing issues. What happened i was placed in one shelter and because of my excess weight i could not get on the top bunk. I lucked out and sent to the cova hotel. Being there helped me get my life back together. Im now part time work and now trying to get my life back together to the point i can be self sufficient. Cova hotel because im in my own room. Have a room, i feel safe and better that are than when i seat people outside they are not they are probably most stressed out. So, being up in the cova hotel helped me feel safe. Huare safe you feel better and things work out better for you. Now im hope to get permanent housing and im hope to figure out may be a slot where im at give up my slot to help someone else out that needs help. My big droll is to have my own place to have my cat back. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Im ray monhodge. I have been on both sides of the table. Once upon a time i went through the shelters and the programs and all those things. I now w in the field as a case manager i love being part of the solution today. And i have to acknowledge that ecs and the programs are doing a lot in the community. They are making a big difference, you know. And without them, a lot of people will fall to the way side. I have do applaud them. The other thing the one thing i would say is especially here this morning you are going overnight numbers sometimes it feels like we are throwing cups of water at a wildfire. Because ecs has a great idea but as you asking the questions this morning they could in the answer the details, a lot of times and again. When me having that personal experience i remember coming in and raising my hand for help and this person had apathy. I remember another person i dont know and i dont care and people bring theiron personnel stuff to work. Im not saying the whole place is like that. Training on how to work with people, more vetting. More training. And i think somebody gone throughout programs in the to find out what is wrong about what we can do to help and make this better. You guys are spending a lot of money that is beautiful. You cant throw the money out there and give it to somebody who is not using that money appropriately. Who is in the hiring the right people in right place. Not looking at small details like this person is came through, this person came through and bullied 50 of our residents and now they dont want to. Thank you. Im finishing up. They dont want to be here you have to provide 2 minutes for everyone. Sorry to cut you off thank you, much. Seeing no further speakers in the chamber we have 3 members listening remote with one in the queue. Them completes the queue. Public comment is closed. I remment to thank everyone who came out to speak. I especialliment to thank the residents of the cova. It takes a lot to in out and share your personal experiences and i dont know about for supervisor mandelman but for me i learn the most from hearing directly if you. I irrelevantment to appreciate you coming out today and sharing your circumstance. Just to really important reminder on how having a safe place to be housed can change your whole life and usually a necessary first step toward getting i job and your life back together and reaching self sufficienty. I want to thank you for reminding us of that and why this is so important and why it is so important this we invest the limited dollars in Solutions Like this hotel. Thank you so much. I also appreciate that the department agrees with recommendations the bla. I appreciate the blas report. And we will look forward to hearingow ucs, i know, is a well respected organization, conditions to improve at this site. So with that. I am happy to make a motion to sends this to the full board as a Committee Report with positive recommendation. And including accepting the recommendation of the bla. For this resolution to the board with positive recommend agsz. Vice chair mandelman. Aye chair ronen. Aye. We have 2 with walton excused. That motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Mr. Clerk read item 3. Item 3 is a resolution approving the third amendment Grant Agreement with d. Homelessness property manage and want service at the hen row hotel. A permanent Supportive Housing site extending the term 20 months. Authorizing hsh to enter in any amendments or modifications throughout agreement that dont increase the obligations or liabilities or decrease the benefits of the city and we are also in receipt of memorandum it be referred as a Committee Report if the board of supervisors meeting. Thank you. Emily cohen back from hsh to present. Good morning chair. With the department of homelessness and spicht housing. Im back before you today with a resolution that would authorization hsh to enter in the third amendment to our Grant Agreement with the Episcopal CommunityServices Property management and Supportive Service at henry hotel one of our adult permanent cites. This maam extend the term by 20 months to june 30 of 2025 and increase the not to exceed amount to 14. 6 Million Dollars cover the months add to the agreement and provide increases to cost of living and copy increases for staff. And one time building upgrades for tenant quality of Life Services and adding Case Management capacity at the site. Come out to 3. 6 Million Dollars per year to operate the site. And this is funded in the combination of continuum of care federal funds as well as local dollars and tenant contribution. The agreement was originally procured Human Service agency in 2047 and transferred to hsh from the department was credited. The site serves adult his have exhibited homelessness and ecs proviced Supportive Services and subcondition transacts the Property Management out. The services this are provided include housing Stability Support of wellness and emergency safety checks and groups and events tenant selection and lease management. Building and Case Management for this property. And tenants. The Program Includes 121 units. I said before this is for adults and one of men program this is make up our over then,000 units of supportive house nothing our community. The property is 92. Upon 7 occupyd and overnight last fiscal year served within threat tenants including 27 now who move in the this year. The demographics reflects the population of people experiencing homelessness with 37 africanamerican and 18 latin x. We have had earlier in the fitsical year and previously below avenue occupancy at the site and w with ecs to improve that. Gone from 87 occupancy up to 92. 7 occupancy 10 vacancies. Improvements and i way its go but appreciate the collaboration to get that challenge addressed. And of course following the bl areport, happy to take questions thank you very much. We hear from nick anyonard. Hello this is a resolution that approved an amendment with the hsh Grant Agreement with Episcopal Community services. Extends through june of 2025 and increases not to exceed by 14. Sick Million Dollars. This site has 121 units of permanent Supportive Housing and on page 14 of our report you see that this is april 3. 6 Million Dollars a year operation, 2. 7 Million Dollars funded by the city. There is also tenant rent contribute to operating costs. We the performance on this Grant Agreement was good and the condition transact met requirements except for in fiscal 21 22, the site had a 76 occupancy rate, 97 target in the agreement and units did in the turn over that they were required in the agreement. There was also the monitor report noted insect infestation. In the building. Which has been resolved cording to monitoring in the department. Did in the most recent fitsical we felt comfortable recommending item 3 for approval. Thank you. I dont have questions, do you supervisor mandelman . I guess i could. Why what accounts for the occupancy vacancies at this location . This site . It is a thank you for the question. A combination of factor the location on sixth can be a challenge for some folks. The rooms are small at this site. And i think our processes within the event real system of delays and referrals a challenge. We improved our processes and ecs has been working with us to take back referrals and press people we have been able to see that occupancy challenge. Get addressed. We are move negligent right direction this is a system wide challenge not peculiar to this property but do find propertyos 6 or dem deep tenderloin it have more of a challenge. What are the income source of people in the building . Are there cap recipients . Fsi . Anyone working . Im sure there are people is largely continuum of care funded folks eligible no matter the income some on sfi and cap everybody pace 30 . Some are employed we dont have dedicated veteran units there might be some. And everyone paid 30 of income toward rent. What i guess also the terms of who is in the building. Do we think they are going toy building like this is there a goal of employment, for how many and how do we work on that i guess how do we measure the progress might be making on treatment or employment . Or any of the other things, the narrative that is some folks think that i wonder about is you know the extent which folks are brought in and left there. And not necessary low getting treatments. Working through a plan to get employment. In in cases that is in the appropriate and other case its is find and may be thats who is in this building. Im curious what the expectations of goals for folks in the building like this are. You then and there building is other spicht housing silents are intended longterm housing the goal of the programs not move people on although will some take an active troll help folks do this. Based on their missions. The intent this can be your longterm housing and of course if you increase your income this wonderful if you get treatment that is wonderful. But you are remeasure based on Client Satisfaction and we measure based on turn over. And eviction. We want to make sure people remain stable and housed this property does a good job of that the program does a good job consistent with other project and how having low eviction and turn over. Our goal to have 85 of folks in Supportive Housing remain housed. Sxf that could be moving on but that is not the goal of the programs. I get that. I am interested in our goals for the people in the buildings are i think at some point the department has talked about the motion that there were people have been people who did not necessary low need to stay in psh forever and like to transition them to other appropriate housing. And i feel like that gets talked about less than 34 years ago. I dont know because we decided that was bad or inappropriate. Yea. To peek to that a bit. Moving on or the housing ladder is an important part of our work. And it is00 autoway we have done this program we have some project based building this is are Affordable Housing that less social service. Right. Idea is folks move 32 move on from spicht housing or from supportive to affordable. We also in the past use third degree to fill vouchers. People can move in the private market. To like out of a project based setting. We utilized resources this program ebbs and flows as resource from the federal government become available. In terms of the goal we dont prescribe the client level goals this is worked out with the client and case manager. My goal might be treatment. And dylans may be health care or. Ment. It varies by the person and try to make a menu of Service Available but dont prescribe what the 10 act needs to set as their plan and w toward. Case managers do work to engage folks and set the service plan and w through them. And we collect high level did thea but not the Program Level building level data on it. I get the importance of the individual folk us and i also appreciate and understand that the more data you collect the less you do. So there is a trade off. I think it would seem a system level we would want to be in the aggregate think burglar and this requires more data but understanding who is going in the buildings. When in on average is the nieced are the needs and then you know we would want to be relatively aggressive about trying, i think measuring although again data collection. But america what services folks are getting. And whether they are successful. How many people are successfully completing a treatment program. If this is appropriate. How many folks are successful low finding employment and how many folks are being transitioned to manage not psh. Absolutely. On the demographic of had we serve here, given the care funds nothing here and the local funding, we are serving adults with chronic homelessness. Longterm homelessness with a disabling condition wlchl that is methal, physical or both and they may prohibit them from having full time employment. Although there are plenty daily living that folks engage in constructive. This silent prosecute file. Okay. Thank you. We can open this up for Public Comment. Yes. Members of public joining person wish to speak lineup now and for those remote press star 3 to enter the line. Again of chris, chief operating officer at ucs. I want today add manage this emily said. The coordinated intro system from 2018 to now has ensured were housing chronically Homeless People when we look what used to be with people not needing psh this is not as true today as before 2018. The system as a whole is making surety people coming in need them. So. How people move on and enrich their lives that is the w we do with them over time and i understand supervisor mandelmans questions about data. He me the work and we would love to do this thank you for the questions. The folks we serve and come in are ensureed have longterm homelessness and disabling condition changes the dynamic pre2018 to post. There are no speakers here in the chamber. Double checking. We have no one in the queue. Public comment is closed. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you. I appreciate the Public Comment and i recognize that for a lot of folks like a roof over their head for the rest of their live system success and i like that as good as we will get. And i total low get that. But the left meeting we contemplayed the hsh Strategic Plan the next 5 years imagines another 3,000 plus units of psh. And we have seen now have 1112,000 we are headed to 15,000 and a number that does in the seem to have a cap on it. It raised a question what is the right caring capacity for a municipality like San Francisco. Of that housing for folk who is are actually mostly not going to get better in some sense like are going to may be san some just going to chase a need for that housing. We are doing it in the most Expensive Labor market and real estate land scape in the state and the country. But this is raises policy occurrence about where we are going. When there a host of needs for people. And you know. Whatever to be continued. Okay. I would like to make a motion to sends this to the full board with positive recommendation. As Committee Report. And on this motion forward with positive recommendation as Committee Report vice chair mandelman. Aye. Why chair ronen. 2 ayes with member walton excused. That motion passes read item 4. A resolution approving the First Amendment grant amendment with ecs and hsh Property Management and Supportive Service 5 Supportive Housing buildings extending 68 months from january of 24 to january 1 of 21 through june 30 of 25. Increasing the amount by 20. 8 million. For a total not to exceed 47. 1 million. Authorizing hsh to enter in amendments or other modifications to the agreement not increase the obligations or liabilities or material low decrease the benefitings of the city. We are in roach memorandum this the item a commit eye report for october 17 board of supervisor meeting. Members when wish to comment press star 3. Thank you and i think emlow is coming back. Ecs day. Thank you very much. Emlow cohen with d. Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Item before susimilar to the last. This is a resolution that would authorize hsh to enter in our First Amendment to our Grant Agreement with pick cal Community Services for Property Management and Supportive Service at 5 permanent housing cites across our community. The amendment would extend the term by 16 minutes to june 30 of 25. And increase not to exceed aim by 20. 8 million for prison. 1 million to cover additional leth of the condition transact. Higher Staffing Levels for the ratios. 1 time funding Capitol Improvements quality of life and increase to the cost doing business and living for the employees. The sum come to 11. 7 million per fiscalier to operate the buildings. With the tenant accounting for part as well as 10. 7 million in operations. The agreement was procured by Human Service agency in 2047 and transferred to hsh when the department was created. The cites similarly to the henry serve homeless adults leaving homelessness. This includes people with longterm experience of homelessness and disabling conscience. Ecs provides the social services and subcontracts out for the Property Management at all 5 sites and the package is somewhere to the henry including housing, wellness and emergency checks Case Management. Support groups and social events. Tenant selection and building management. Across these 5 buildings we are talking 464 units. Which represents 4 of our site based Supportive Housing portfolio. This has done a good j. W. On the occupancy rate we are 94 . Alined with our system wide goals and you see what it sloit low with the alleder at 98 occupied. Happy with the work that we have been doing to maximize every unit. The buildings served 526 attentives in the last fiscal year, including 75 new folk who is moved in the demographics mirror in the homelessness response system which is 3 africanamerican and 15 latin x. And ecs is here and im happy top take questions. Nick . Item 4 this is sorry. This item is wren what number we are on i know what is is a resolution to approve an amendment to the Grant Agreement with ecs and hsh. This guarantee funds episcopal upon Community Services to operate 5 building permanent housing 464 units of permanent Supportive Housing. Extends the agreement from 25 and increases not to exceed by 47. 2 Million Dollars. We show on page 21 the impact where you see the cost of the program is about 12 Million Dollars. And this fiscal year. City funding 10. 7 Million Dollars of the costs. Mostly that is care not cash funding. We cannot see performance issues here. We recommend approval of this item. Thank you very much. Any questions supervisor mandelman. Why none. We will open up for Public Comment. Why members of the public when wish to speak on item 4 line up now and for those remote press star 3. No one in person here. And no one in the queue. Public comment is closed. I like to make a motion to send it forward to the full board with positive recommendation as a Committee Report. On this motion to forward vice chair mandelman. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye we have two ayes with member walton excused motion pass unanimously thanks for the amazing work. Mr. Clerk read item 5. Yes item 5 a resolution authorizing the office of mayor and the d. Homelessness and Supportive Housing solicit donations from private entity and organizations to support the expansion of temp refer shelter and Homelessness Services to support people experiencing homelessness not with standing the behested payment ordinance. We are in receipt that this is item 2 the referred a Committee Report for the october 17 supervisor meeting. Members who are remote press star 3 to enter the speaker line. In dam chair. Why thank you very much. Director cohen. Left but not least. Thank you all changing subjects slightly. Again emlow cohen with d. Homelessness and Supportive Housing and before i provide a quick over view i want to thank chair robe sxen vice chair mandelman for cosponsorship had this legislation. The resolution buffer today authorize the office of mayor and the d. Homelessness and Supportive Housing to solicit donations from various patriot entity and organizations to support the spansion of temporary shelter and homeless service. In the past hsh and office of the mayor established successful and innovative per inships to meet critical needs of people experiencing homelessness. Mayor funds for the homeless exists and a category 8 fund established receive donations for homeless service. Which existing reporting requirements to the homeless over Site Commission and reporting to the board of supervisors. To provide context on why this waiver is critical for hsh to address homelessness in our community. According to the 2022 point in time count there were 7700 people experiencing homelessness. In our community with 56 unsheltered as of september of this year. Hsh had under 3,000 temporary shelter beds with 91 occupancy rate across our community. And our home by the bay plan calls for overly significant expansion of shelter over a thousand new units of shelter and Prevention Services to reduce unsheltered homelessness by 50 over 5 years. We in the last budget cycle the board and the mayor fund hsh to open 600 new units of shelter toward this goal. We have significant need as cited throughout the meeting today the needs of people on the street and community this would after a tool for pulling the resource. We talked a lot about the importance of state and federal resources in addition to local. And soliciting donations does limit our ability to development reps. Cord nay funding and maximize private investment in longterm solutions. Whether those are housing or shelter. Im happy to take questions and appreciate your cosponsorship. Thank you very much. I dont have questions. I have a comment this in an i deal world we would not need to ask for funding housing. Which is i basic human need. We have a federal government in ideal world, well is a right to housing and every person living in the United States have i safe place to live. Unfortunately this is not our reality not only this is in the a reality we dont have a fair taxation system on top of that. So. A much better way of conducting government business and providing proper social safety net is fair tax system that tax the rich at a certain level and less the poorer you become. You know destroyed under the trump administration. Tax reform. So given the reality of the westerlied we live in. We dont have a choice but to ask for private donations to help fund the basic needs of the poorest residents among us. I philosophically hate this item but practically believe we need it. And so i am cosponsoring but it is not without a lot of heart fwhaurn i do that. I. Ed to express this. Supervisor mandelman, comments . Yea i mean i concur with all of that. I think we talked about here in other forums. We could really use help. San francisco cant solve the probable cause our own. We are blessed with wealthy folks here and wealthy businesses and if we can prevail upon them to out of the kindness of their heart or their self interests understood or whatever, whatever the base for it, to help us address the social needs; we should do this. And i am theme coexperience this. Thank you can we open up for Public Comment . As there are no members here in the chamber if you are worn of the of 2 listeners in the remote meeting and you wish to comment, press star 3 now. I dont are in speakers. Public comment is closed. I like to make a motion to sends this to the board with positive recommendation as a Committee Report on this motion, vice chair mandelman. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. We have 2 ayes with member walton excused. Motion passes. Do we have other item sns this concludes your business the meeting is adjourned. music . The Ferry Building one of San Francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. One of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding San Francisco is how young the city we are. And nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. There was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in San Francisco. And then the gold rush happened. By 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. By 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. With sand the way that San Francisco was and when you look at a map of San Francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. But by 1875 they know they needed more so the Ferry Building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the Ferry Building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. But by the late 1880s we needed Something Better than the Ferry Building. A bond issue was passed for 600,000. To build a new Ferry Building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in San Francisco they thought that was a grand Ferry Building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and San Francisco had grand plans for this transit station. So he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. Than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. But it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but Market Street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and Mission Street up to nob hill and the fishermans area. And then the earthquake hit in 190 six the Ferry Building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. And 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a Dennis Herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and were going to get on top this. Take 10 years for the city to rebuild. Side ferry use was increasing for a International Exhibition in 1950 and people didnt realize how much of a Community Center the Ferry Building was. It was the center for celebration. The upper level of Ferry Building was a Gathering Place. Also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or World War Two had a parade on Market Street and the Ferry Building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a Gathering Place in that Ferry Building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our International Exposition 18 million living in San Francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 San Francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and San Francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what were supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. The way the Ferry Building was originally built the lower level with the Natural Light was used for take it off lunge storage. The second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and were talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the Ferry Building and the embarcadero on Market Street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have San Francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. As the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach San Francisco. And automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. The dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. Take the care ferry and to San Francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. When the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our Sales Force Transit Center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. What happened in the 40 and 50s because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a World Trade Center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of Ferry Building and completely impractical. After the cars the Tower Administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the United States. So they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout San Francisco. And so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. The plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the San Francisco saw had Human Services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. Which cut us off from the Ferry Building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. And that was the renaissance of Ferry Building. That land was developed for a new Ferry Building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didnt want that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. The San FranciscoFerry Building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the Ferry Building will be there to surface. We have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. You can see us on the website youre unmuted. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 12th, 2023, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am catherine stefani, chair of the committee and to my right is vice chair engardio and to my left is supervisor lee dorsey. The clerk is mr. John carroll. And id also like to thank Kalina Mendoza at sf. Gov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes thank you, madam chair. The board of supervisors and its committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. The board recognizes that equitable Public Access is essential and we will be taking Public Comment as follows. First, Public Comment will be taken on each item on tod