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Happy that all of you could come out and join us, you know, on this evening. My namey. The director of the night rover challenge. Im going to kind of be the moderator for tonight, as we go through this firstever challenge america summit. So ive got just a few things that, you know, i wanted to do with everyone, before we get into the program. First of all, i just want to take a minute and have everyone just look around this room. In this room, we have amazing people that are corporate, nonprofit...

Was George Moscone who shepherded the bill that removed criminal penalties between consenting adults in this state that cost people their positions as teachers, as doctors, as nurses, as lawyers in those days. It was a bill that we orchestrated together. And george did what has never been done since, and that is cause the senate to hookup in a 20 to 20 tie in the late dimely was flown in from colorado to break the tie to give us that bill. That set the stage, scott, for all the things that have ...

The city and county of San Francisco like no other. I suspect that much of my love of the city comes from my exposure to george in those very early years. George went through a considerable amount of evolutionary process politically. He allowed john burton to talk him into running for the state legislature. An unsuccessful effort for the state assembly. He went on to become, obviously, a supervisor in the city and county of San Francisco. And in those days it was a different city. It was dramati...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, february 5th, 2014. My name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisor and committee vicechair eric mar as well as supervisor john avalos. Want to thank the members of sfgovtv covering this meeting, Charles Kremenak and jennifer low as well as the clerk of the committee, ms. Linda wong. Madam clerk do we have any announcements...

Chronic homeless, the subpopulation detail thats required for local planning and national reporting. There is also important other data that come out of the survey thats been cited earlier such as the residency and so on, and thats been expanded significantly since the beginning of the point in time counts. In 2013 in particular, a big enhancement is part of the Continuous Improvement effort in the pit count has been to comply with the hud requirements to better profile youth homelessness. And i...

Violence against Homeless People in the streets. The mythology has made it very difficult to develop the Popular Support that we need to create solutions to homelessness and has, you know, kind of furthered the acceptable use of Homeless People as a scapegoat in various political races. And when we talk about homelessness and we read about it in the media, if you take out the word homeless and you put any other word in there, it wouldnt be acceptable, yet the Homeless Population is over represen...

Of our Clinical Services under one area. Were calling that the San Francisco Health Network and we have another division called Public Health difficult have i. Mobile crisis was set up many, many years ago under the single aspect of new york. We reorganized that area to become a Behavioral Health system. We have 24hour teams. One of the directions ive given to our teams, we have a childrens crisis team, mobile crisis, a Community Response team that goes out to violent issues, and two of those te...

Transiency goes. To sum it up, the magnet theory is not Something City services has to worry about as a big impact in attracting homeless. Their ability to move around and respond even within the city is limited. We specifically did a study in las vegas in 07 where there what a feeling that in the summertime the homeless would leave las vegas because of the heat and would come back in the wintertime when the weather was better. And we did a seasonal study and determined from that that theres vir...

So, madam clerk, if well start the first one, if you could call item number 1. Item number 1 is the hearing to discuss and evaluate San Franciscos 10year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, which is due to sunset at the end of 2014. Thank you. So, colleagues, our first item today is a hearing i called for a few months ago to discuss our citys tenyear plan to abolish chronic homelessness here in San Francisco, a plan which is set to sunset this year in june. Leading up to todays hearing my staf...

Remember my father and i do speak for my family in this regard. We are always and every day grateful that we live in a city that does not forget. But theres just something wrong in this notion that the day we remember our lost leaders is the most violent day of their lives, which in the case of my family was the most violent day of ours. Its almost as if were giving the senselessness of these deaths way too much respect by centering our love and passion and memory and yearning on the day the bea...