Of management. They have been languishing in jail. When their public defender got fed up and said this is ridiculous, i cant get answers, i am going to sub the department of Public Health. All eight are in beds out of jail. Some lang winninged for 8 months. This is a scandal of the highest proportion. People are waiting in jail so desperately i ll we cant find a bed for nine months until they come to Court Everything i am angry. This is the most humane i have seen. All i have seenence i called the mayors office. We it is by our plan. We have staffing issues and blame the workers. It is not good enough. We have got to do something to get those beds up and running. We are talking about hiring 12 more workers. In two years the department of Public Health doesnt have that capacity so that mentality i ll people can get the care they need. Is that the department we are running in the city these days . I have brought copiesna i introduced when this was happening. Directs the department of Pub
Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. I am John Mccormick in the Community Organizing office. I am here to tell the story of cheryl china coworker and member of the tenderloin peoples congress. On wednesday of this week cheryl was attacked on the corner of golden gate and leavenworth across the street from my office. A whole can of mace was unloaded to her. She ran across the street and was briefly pursued by the gentleman who unloaded the mace on her. He unloaded a whole can of mace. Under no circumstance is that okay in any circumstance. Cheryl is very traumatized by this. She is not feeling good. She is in the condition i havent personally seen her in before, and she believes like i did that if we had treatment on demand, this never would have happened. Treatment on demand if it was implemented years ago, the Mental Health of the people in the tenderloin would be better and this never would happen. Cheryl isnt here because of the trauma she is facing. We talked be
Good morning, everyone. This is october 9, 2019, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov tv for broadcasting. Can we excuse supervisor fewer. Please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the next minutes. Can you please call item number 1. Clerk lease amendment lexington lion San Francisco, lp 350 rhode island streetnorth 2,600,000 rent credit. I would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. Before that i will take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none, that item is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16. Clerk item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health, Behavioral Health services to enter into a
Received eviction on august 19. We have an established program serving the needs of San Francisco Adult Mental Health population for the last 14 years. Instead of building on the program and increasing beds, the program has been losing beds. Not because of the care we are provides. I ask you to consider the individuals you are affecting before making changes. That will have a negative impact on the more helpless clients. Displacing the Mental Health and taking their home are not the solution to the homeless issues. Lets address the facility issues and Work Together to solve them so we can all retain our beds and continue to serve the members of the community. Thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you. I am Theresa Palmer a long time san franciscan. Usually i talk about longterm care. This whole thing is extremely upsetting, and my hope is the department of Public Health can improve from the fallout of this fiasco. Keeping longterm care beds empty because of what amounts to dphs lack of
Cheryl is very traumatized by this. She is not feeling good. She is in the condition i havent personally seen her in before, and she believes like i did that if we had treatment on demand, this never would have happened. Treatment on demand if it was implemented years ago, the Mental Health of the people in the tenderloin would be better and this never would happen. Cheryl isnt here because of the trauma she is facing. We talked before this so i can tell her story. This is something we can fix if we get some Mental Health services. Please join the community with us and enact this and help us pass treatment on demand. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, supervisors. I am here to support treatment on demand. I am denny smith. I lived in San Francisco 45 years. Three were on the street. I am so proud to be in San Francisco today because so many people have great ideas and are working so hard to make this a better city. It is not a lack of ideas or lack of initiative.