Mayors office and department of building inspection, Fire Department and our Human Services agency and City Attorneys Office all who have worked on this fund. Back in the beginning part of this year as many of you know but this is also just for the general publics knowledge we discovered a hazardous situation and we had 30 individuals leave in dungeonlike conditions. They were in an old converted garage with no windows and no light and one way in and one way out exposing electrical wires and pluming and essentially little coupe cal cubicals built underground that were very small, tiny Living Spaces for almost 30 individuals and the reason this was brought tour. Tonimarie our attention we got a call from a tenant that said they were in dispute with the Master Tenant and many of you know a Master Tenant would be in one persons name with many people under one person and the Master Tenant dispute resulted in pg and e being shut off and there was an individual with breatheing support or ventilateer support that could not get it along with all the other tenants that needed electricity and it was a Master Tenant situation and we were extremely perplexed by the call for that particular address because we couldnt imagine where anyone would be living and Building Inspections along with the fire marshal were called and went out immediately inspected the space and discovered what i described in the beginning of the remarks and individuals living in dungeonlike conditions. For the first time in our citys history there was an order to vacate by the Fire Department but with that vacation, the City Attorneys Office was able to negotiate a relocation money two months rent and utilities for the tenants that were documented at that space over 4,000 per tenant and then working with the City Attorneys Office and h. S. A. And my staff and ben ames along with the department of homelessness and the support of housing we were able to negotiate some space in the existing building upstairs while an unauthorized church vacated individuals stayed there for a short amount of time and we got these individuals in to salvation army, light house, for a few months temporary temporarily again h. S. A. Stepped up to support those tenants and in the meantime we had this conversation that there was a warehouse working group that was then evolved in to this hazardous Housing Working Group and that is what is before us today and weve create aid new piece of legislation and we have a new program that will essentially treat individuals that are living . These conditions that are essentially asked to move or evicted at no fault of their own very similar to a fire and so we looked at the Fire Victims Assistance Program and essentially made a sub section under that program that would be dealing with individuals living in a hazardous housing situation and so this is designed to be transitional subsidy for those individuals six months primarily at discretion of the director of h. S. A. To extend more no more than two years to find more permanent housing so we again appreciate my colleagues sitting in a special rules committee meeting, we want to have this sent to the full board of the Committee Report because we want to take the first vote before the holidays and also to finalize this program when we return from our wintery sets so that we can begin to set this up and some of the things id like folks presenting today to think about is i know we did some initial thinking about how this money would be utilized and how much people might be able to avail themselves for this program but we might think about properly funding this if theres going to be more individuals identified as well as based on the discovery of more individual s living in substandard housing that might be asked to leave and the difficulty with this versus our Fire Victims Assistance Fund is in a situation of a fire, very often tenants have a place to move back to when the work is completed or theyre giving that option in this situation, its not as clear cut in terms of the ability to move back for five mesh a there was no option there was no way to make that livable space, if it were a above ground theres windows and air and light and maybe the upgrades could be made to make the housing more permanent and again thats why we put the discretion at the director and working with h. S. A. And Supportive Housing to make that final determination but in the situation of five persia theres not the option of making that permanent livable space so those are some of the things were going to think about today. So for unless you would like to make an initial comments ill call up jeff buckly from the Mayors Office who worked with our office hand and hand on createing this program. Interview thank you, i appreciate the opportunity to speak and so the legislation that you have before you as you mentioned i think the goal is to help relocate tenants who are displaced from their homes bit administrative orders to vacate by d. B. I. Or the Fire Department and this was created as a result of the five persia case just to kind of crystalize what supervisor said earlier, it was very clear from those of us who responded to the five persia situation we were dealing with a gap in the way that the city would respond to residents who are faced and living in this type of situation and we lacked the resources in really the system support to be able to work with those residents and find them habit able, suitable housing in particular i want to point out the heroic work of your staff because she jumped in to that situation and on the ground and really helped make what could have been a much more chaotic situation far more manageable but the reality was is that we needed to have a much better Response Network in spaces like this when and if they consider the city has the ability to step in there and have a more manageable process and i think a big driver of that concern for having this more managed process was the concern we would have people either evaporate in to a difficult Housing Market or find themselves homeless or on the street as a result of having, not having the necessary response. So a couple things that went in to it when we were looking at the legislation was, what i think is somewhat different than the citys fire response is in these situations what appears to be the clear culpability of the Property Owners and so what i think this legislation besides deploying the funds necessary to help rapidly rehouse people in safe Living Conditions, it also allows and puts on the hook the Property Owners who the city you know, knowingly contends have rented to people in substandard Living Conditions and so it has two effects. It both deemploys a resources and deals with the situations where the Property Owner mayor the Master Tenant may be culpable in the Living Conditions of this situation so i feel like it handles both of those situations. You have before you many of the different departments that responded who can provide you the information you may request and we enjoyed the partnership of working with you on this issue and i think weve seen it deployed in a situation since then to largely successful resulting but i think its also safe to say that this is a learning process and i think the city has to get better at its response in each instance so thank you again supervisor. Thank you mr. Buckly yeah a couple points that you added on we will have an annual report and well be submitted by h. S. A. To the board of supervisor and the mayor on the use and the he have ka see of this program as well as one of the things that we wrote in to the legislation was the ability to have if landlords were culpable and some of the money from the lawsuits would then go in to help fund this program so that would also be an additional stream of money to help fund this program and next individual id like to call up is ms. Olivia scanland from the Fire Department to say a few words. Good afternoon, thank you very much. Olivia scanlan government liaison for the Fire Department. So, we worked collaboratively with your office and we enjoyed it very much to try and, as jeff buckly articulateed come together as a city to be the safety net for these individuals and this began for the Fire Department and ill have the fire marshal chief speak to this , pretty much after what happened in oakland we got more calls and complaints for our fire members to look at these properties and see what people were living in and they were living in hazardous and dangerous conditions. The fire marshal will speak to 5 smear but we look forward to making this legislation, it will really help these people and in times of need when they need a safety net and they need the city to step up and be there so thank you very much and ill have the fire marshal speak. Thank you very much for your offices assistance, you were very helpful along with the fire marshal helping to respond in an aggressive manner. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors fire marshal so just briefly on 5 persia, it was an illegal change of use to a residential use which was the facility was designed for storage in the basement there and it was changed to a more hazardous use meaning people were living and sleeping there. It was changed to a more hazardous use, it didnt have exits and it didnt have rescue windows and so the fire marshal position when we had to make a determination of imminent hazard as it relates to enforcing the fire code is if theres an illegal change abuse to a more hazardous use to a residential in this case and theres exiting and rescue windows it rises to that level of imminent danger and we issue an order to vacate as we did on persia. Just a little background, weve had up to state 50 complaints on illegal use of which weve given five orders to vacate meaning 10 of those rose to the level where it was changeed use to residential and it didnt have adequate existing. That is this year . A little over a year. Including 5 persia . Correct. Do you know how many individuals that is . How many individuals were effected by those orders . Well, i dont have it committed to memory the last one its about 30 as well and we had one that was only three or four people but yeah, the most has been persia and its the most recent one about 30. Where is the one that was also 30 people. On 24th street. Oh, ok. If you have any questions . Just first of all i want to clarify one point that i made in the beginning that it was you the fire marshal and your agency that required for the first time in the citys history that the landlord would have to pay those relocation money to the individual tenants so that was really helpful in this situation over 4,000 per individual that was living in these situations and the order basically said that in many ways it was about taking advantage of those individuals and putting them in harms way so that was something that had not been done and it was an order that your department let on. My second not a statement but this is more the question, in those five that rows to the level of hazardous, were there any that seemed as though in your opinion that could be modified to be more habit able or safely habit able . Not without extension i have work, no. Obviously five persia no but some off the once were they above ground . They were above ground but without going in to too much detail some needed extensive work for change of use and it would have taken some time and you couldnt get accomplished in the year were talking significant amount of work to make the building safe and not only that, planning and zoning, et cetera, there are so many hurdles to clear to get there. Any questions on that . Ill wait for all the speakers. Ok. So thank you. Next person is william straw from the department of Building Inspections. If you wanted to say or rosemary busk. Thank you also for the wonderful work your office did on behalf of these tenants and this situation and helping us shape this legislation. Thank you supervisor. I definitely want to thank and you the Mayors Office for sponsoring this legislation and you gave a wonderful description of what well do but i want to touch on addition at points and one of the first things well do is help the Fire Department and the department of building inspection when were phased with hazards whether individuals occupying a space to help get their cooperation in vacating that space because of the i am inant hazards so that no one is injured because there will be tools to help them relocate very quickly and so the propertyen is gone after as far as the maintenance to the building but the consequences to the occupants of the building that is where we had the gap and this will also help us with our enforcement out Reach Program so when those individuals are in these spaces talking to the individuals it will be much more helpful to explain to them in several different languages if they need that and what their legislation can provide. The third item is the fact if the Property Owner then does not reimburse the city at the time that they had been told expenditures have been disbursed to make repairs and or to assist occupants and that is increasing whether or not the Property Owner has responded the first, second or third time to applied applaud that because the un intended consequences is this will then throw a much stronger message to the Property Owners who are currently as we speak, allowing people to live in these types of conditions, how expensive this is going to be for them, not necessarily as far as the code violation but for the safety the individuals and to house them while this work is continuing to try and legalize the space so thank you very much for that. Thank you. And then id like to call up now ben ames from Human Services agency and we worked to craft this in a manner use able and sustainable for the city so thank you for all your hard work . Thank you supervisors. So im going to talk about the Human Services aspect of the program so when we came on board with the persia street tenants we were down to five tenants that needed housing and were able to space them in to an s. R. O. And the next project i got called in to was the 24th Street Project and it looks to me right now my numbers are a little rough mind you that recently we had three two alarm fires in two days and ive had to operate a shelter and get a bunch of people in to housing and my research is shaky but for 24th street right now fort tenants that came forward to accept our offer of house we have 16 rooms in an s. R. O. Housing 21 people. Is that on 24th street . Now when going through that tenant population and looking at who was there and trying to convince people to come in to housing because the population was mono lingual, Spanish Speaking undocumented day labor ors except for one family we found and that was a 17 yearold girl in her 17 yearold boyfriend living with his father and she was pregnant and so i needed to split and consider that group of people as a family split them off in put them in to different housing but everybody else was fine going in to a resident occupancy hotel so in the future im not always going to place everybody in to an s. R. O. There are times its more appropriate that we put folks in to more traditional apartments but using the fire Program System we have in place we can do that relatively quickly so right now were going to absorb the cost and were happy to do so this year but in the future years were going to need to increase our budget for h. S. A. And purchase street for the five tenants for one year its costing h. S. A. 82,800 in rent and these folks were paying about 300 a month in the market rate im getting for an s. R. O. Is 1400 so its quite a gap for me to bridge. Just a point of clarification i didnt go in to that but this is a good point to make that so the way the program is designed is that you go out and do a determination find what the tenants were paying in this instance it was between 300 and 500 a month and this program and subsidize the difference between what they were paying and the rent so the difference of 500 to 1400 around numbers is 900 for one tenant spread out over a year might be more than that if its only 300 then you are getting in to over 1,000 and multiplied by multiple tenants and i believe it was eight for five and theres eight. We widdled it down to five. A couple people from 5 persia found their own housing and moved out and i thought it was encouraging. Please proceed. So for the 24th Street Project we have 16 rooms with 21 people and for six months hold on. Excuse me. You guys can whispering is echo ing and im having a hard time focusing. For six months for that project 207 thousand the family with the pregnant young woman that is going to cost us 9,972 for the year. I decided that everybody else was going to be doing six months but because of her due date would have been right at six months and we dont want to suddenly have a young family facing homelessness that i bumped that up to a year. To one year. And so originally just for clarification, originally we were absorbing this program as its taken time for us to pass legislation and its done in january and its a sub section of the fire victims assistance, how much money is allocated for that program. About 300,000. So it sounds like just with th