Access space. A third of the funds are being used to support the clients serving parts of the building which is not just the access point its also we have homeward bound staff on site as well as other staff who directly serve clients getting them access and the first will be more client facing. Im trying to get a handle and wrap myself around this concept that is this is an emergency. Mainly because in my mind, the original version of this was to build out as office space so what makes this an emergency again . I believe homelessness in San Francisco in its self emergency with 7500 people on any given night 20,000 people Year Experience homelessness and as we drive to reduce those numbers and get people access to services and theyre in their homelessness we need to have Access Points in this city so that we can better use and expand our existing programs so having our homeward bound staff on site with access to showers for people who need to get on the bus and make it more efficient and make it possible for us to serve even more people and that particular program and having Access Points coordinated entry councillors on site are going to speed up peoples access to permanent supporter but just importantly its going to let people know who are not qualified for permanent Supportive Housing what services are available to them so we can keep people from waiting on our streets hoping theyll get in to housing and rapid rehousing and other programs to get people off of our streets and back indoors. So, you identify or name two Access Points locations are you saying right now those two locations have people lined up around the block or something needed to get in. What is your emergency here . Those two sites are serving families and theyre not serving the single Adult Population we have not yet opened up Access Points for single adults. Ok. Um, any questions . I just wanted to know, i know you talked about this and your community out Reach Program was for this and it came up again and last summer and spring i just wanted to hear what process you went through in terms of moving forward on your revised plan. Im going to ask by my colleague emily cohen who managed this process to speak to this. Great. Thank you. Thank you supervisors emily cohen with homelessness and Supportive Housing and we believed this community out Reach Programs and we held two Large Community meetings with tender loin stakeholders with residents and local businesses and Service Providers in the neighborhood and we heard really mixed input about how what people saw and what they wanted and we heard some concerns about the passage on the sidewalk and front if you spent time at turke and hide that corner needs attention and folks were very concerned about what was happening on that block and we engage in these conversations with the community we convened a working group of enabled leaders and we did a lot of talking about the concerns and the concerns that surfaced for the neighborhood that we heard very clearly they did not want this site to be 24 7 and they did not want people coming in from ousted tenderloin or being brought in from outside the tenderloin use services so we took that to heart and scaled back what we planned for that and we know that any Head Quarters for the department of homelessness needs to be accessible to folks experiencing homelessness but we wanted to listen and be respectful of the community and scale back the Resource Center from there we continue to hold meet meetings and i ran ten meetings throughout the Community Alliance for a better tenderloin and met with stakeholders the mayor led a meeting with Business Leaders in the community and we discussed this framework and this plan and i think that this what we landed on here comes through with a nice compromise we had some folks calling for a big Resource Center at 440 and some folks calling for no Client Services at 440 and we struck a great ball and we found support throughout the neighborhood and activating the site providing security and a place for people to come in and not a magnet bringing people in and not having the people bringing from all over the city and that was one of the biggest concerns that we heard and we wanted to be really responsive and a Good Neighbor and were interested in working with the block the other Business Owners and other providers on the block to activate that space and we look forward to being part of the neighborhood. Thank you. Yeah. In regards to im just curious emily, in regards to those two Large Community meetings i mean, departments come in here all the time saying we had this Large Community meeting with five people and i am just curious how many people were in attendance total for the two . I had 150 signins from those meetings and they werent even 75 75 but it was 150 folks total came to both of those meetings. That constitutes large. Its not large to me. Every department has the defense. Any other questions . Ok. If i could just add to that, you know, the issue that has come up and i have received emails about this today is that there were some folks who felt like we ignored their concerns about having showers and laundry facilities on site and i want to be clear we didnt ignore anybodys concerns and we didnt grow with everybodys concerns so we understand, we made a proposal and it was not accepted by the community and we scaled it back to turn it in to Something Else after listening to folks but where we landed on this its noting going to be a Resource Center and it will be a welcoming department and meet the needs of our clients who come in as someone coming in getting a bus home or to get and go to a housing interview we need to have some very basic Services Available to those folks including showers and building and its to serve one or two people to do that so we heard the community and some people want this to be lots of showers and laundry and places to sit for hundreds of people and some as emily said didnt want, we heard everybodys concerns and we did our best to balance those concerns with the needs of the department and most importantly with the needs of people who are experiencing homelessness. Let me have about the office space for a second here. I guess again, i thought it was going to be office space and then it would accommodate your staff it seems like were cutting it in half using second floor for office space. First and second floor. Ok, primarily second floor. And then is that going to come and accommodate your exist ing staff plus grove. It will accommodate, yes t. Will at this time it will not accommodate all of our staff we had originally presented was you know two 440 turk and ninth street it would have accommodated our staff and growth and it will accommodate our staff all of our staff and plus some growth but not staff not Civil Service staff who are currently working with the hot team and were still arguing to need to find another location in order to place the hot team and we looked at possibly doing that on the first floor of 440 but its not large enough to make that possible and to be able to at least have a welcome welcoming lobby for those who are going to come in and look for services. How many would this accommodate . Where are you now . How many staff do we have . Where are we locked . So were currently located at 50 ivy street facility on Mission Street at 101 grove street at 1360 Mission Street and 1650 Mission Street. And you will vacating these places . Yes. All except for 50 i. V. So when were able to make the move we will be in 50 i. V. And then at 440 turks so well be in two locations. Thats good to know. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comments on this item come on up you have two minutes. Hi. My name is and i work for the housing clinic we oversee three programs i oversee three programs which is a thorough residents in the tender loin and latino families and Code Enforcement and we came to know about this going back on history threw a thats what the department was proposing and there was a lot of community as to there was no community in the process it would not fly in any other neighborhood this way so there was processes but i have to disagree with the department that the final plans the concrete final plans were not put out to the community and i actually gained a lot more information coming to this meeting i would not have known about this meeting if the department wouldnt have emailed me and my supervisor about coming to this meeting and im not sure to be honest with you the communitys little frustrated about the transparency as to what real re is going on we would like to the last communication that we have was october 8th i think or eighth where we got an email from emily basically saying that we are scaling back 80 of the space for office and 20 would be for Clients Services and were still filling out the Client Services and i know about the working group that would come out with a survey to figure out gnaw didnt happen so im asking for continuance because i think the Community Needs to hear about what was presented today and i hear that from the laundry facilities will be for the program but its not what was told to me when i asked so it would be that program and summary the program did not sure yet about difference services so i think what i would appreciate is this particular information was held out to the community before coming here so im asking for continuance, thank you. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon supervisors, jim, chamber of commerce we strongly support this resolution and declaration of emergency to move this project along and every City Department that deals with a constituency has to have a facility which that constituency can access that and thats what were talking about here theres a new department consolidated moving 100 staffers in to a location we need this access and we need Dropin Centers and other Access Points for other populations and this department serves and this is one small step towards putting this department together giving some access to its population that seeks its services at that location and strongly urge you to approve this and move it on tomorrow to the full board, thank you. Hello im kelly cutler with the coalition on homelessness and were located right next door and we are in support of this and we would like to see more access to other services because folks needed a shower and a place to sit down and also to connect 20 services and i did attend the multiple Community Meetings, a lot of Community Meetings there and honestly just like every Community Meeting you have in each of your districts and every district all around, theres always push back. Thats just something that were constantly dealing with. But theres a huge need in our community and in the tenderloin in that area. My concern is around what is going on with policing around there but. Any other Public Comments on this item. See none. Any comments. Supervisor safai. Thank you, chair. I just want to say it sounds like theres almost unanimous support for this but theres still confusion as to exactly how the 20 of the building thats going to be used as showers, laundry, i heard the presentation today about outward Homeward Bound Program that makes sense to me it sounds like youve heard consistently that some people dont want it as a Dropin Center and some people want it as expanded services but i guess, i would feel more comfortable support north item today if there was someway that we could then have your agency come back and give us a clear detailed plan maybe with some additional conversations on the communities so theres more support or theres more input and there might not be union nam tee on the issue but it sounds like the plan is not still 100 concrete and i am very happy having started my career in San Francisco that you will have your office there at that location and i think its a great location to have office space it will do wonders to bring more bodies and interested parties to that area and i spent almost more than half of my career in San Francisco almost 20 years eight plus more than half of my career at that corner at the corner of turke and hide within one block so i know it better than any other block in San Francisco other than the one that i live on personally and so i think that its great um be located there and i would appreciate the opportunity for your department to come back with a very detailed plan exactly how that space is going to be used and the Homeward Bound Program sounds like a great start but sounds like theres confusion of how it will be utilized. That would be my only comment. Thank you. I am not sure if this general consensus yet on this and im not sure exactly about what the plan is and i appreciate that youve had community out reach and what is really strange about this hearing today is for all the people that are so passionate i dont see anybody here that is almost telling me something in fact this was supposedly an emergency meeting to talk about emergency items for emergency issues so there was just wondering how broadly this is put out to the public. Im uncomfortable and im willing to do a continuance on this and which may then delay it a week or two or actually it doesnt matter it would be delayed until next year. Im willing i havent heard, this happened so quickly as you know this was like it was called for emergency on friday afternoon and id like to reared than continue tractortrailer item id like to send it out of committee with no recommendation so we can move forward and as of tomorrow we can look at for the rest of the colleagues to weigh in on this and maybe i would feel more comfortable giving 24 hours to give feedback from the community and stay her motion. I move to send this to the full board without recommendation. As committee report. Yes for tomorrow. Ok. Motion passes. Thank you. Mad amount clerk anything else. Clerk nothing further. Meeting adjourned. clapping. in San Francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of San Francisco from a variety of circumstances in San Francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually im christopher director for the chief mr. 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Were in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed weve had significant problems with Storage Capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if youre doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz were in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is 65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the im the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so Pile Foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. One of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and were having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and im a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. The building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly were thats a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. And as you can see weve got a lot of the interior finishes installed. In an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. 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