Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Stefani, norman yee, and the clerk is young. I want to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Clerk silence phones and electronic devices. Any copies should be submitted to the clerk. Items today will appear on july 9th supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. Supervisor fewer thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you call items one, two, and three together . Clerk yes, item one is a resolution determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand that the construction, development, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, preservation, and repair of Affordable Housing improvements be financed in an amount not to exceed 600 million. Item no. 2 is an ordinance calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city on tuesday, november 5, 2019, for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness not to exceed 600 million. Item 3 is urging the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to update and amend a 2019 general obligation Affordable Housing bond report to reflect the bond increase the bond amount and proposed funding and proposed amendments on prioritized uses. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe we have ms. Kate hartley here from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, to speak on this, and president yee, do you want to say any opening remarks at all . Supervisor yee yeah, leading up to remarks beforehand and over to kate hartley. Supervisor fewer okay, thats great. Supervisor yee thank you, chair, chair fewer. Last week last week, was it last week . I thought it was years ago. We made amendments to support a 600 million housing bond for the november for this november, that will offer muchneeded investment in public housing, low income housing, minimal income housing, Senior Housing, and educator housing. I believe the Mayors Office of housing distributed and updated bond report reflect the request be made as a Committee Last week. Colleagues, i think we should feel very proud that we were able to unite together in our mission to invest more funding for Affordable Housing across the income spectrum and across the many neighborhoods we serve. I want to recognize that this was a monthslong process starting with a working group, bringing dozens of different stakeholders together. So please bear with me as i go through my long little long list of thank yous. I want to thank our Housing Bond Committee cochairs, who helped lead the discussions on the bond measure months ago. That includes malcolm young, tamika moss, miriam malgar, and annie chung. I want to thank the organizers and advocates, who came out for many meetings and thought sessions to discuss our housing needs. I also want to thank mayor breed and her staff for their leadership and collaboration, especially director kate hartley of the mayors Housing Office of housing, amy chan, andrea bruce, and sophia kitler. I want to thank our comptroller, Capital Planning staff, and City Attorneys Office for their work in making it possible to meet our deadlines. I also want to thank the supervisors and legislative aides who worked hard to ensure we could cover the different needs of our neighborhoods and most vulnerable residents, such as our seniors. We also now have a new dedicated category for educators, a population that is getting priced out and leaving gapping holes, gaping holes, in our school community. The 600 million may seem like a lot, but we have so much work to do to preserve the communities we have left and to build new housing to sustain future generations. As a grandfather, i think of that more and more each day, about how we are helping to establish new roots for San Francisco, and that starts with being able to call a place home. With that, colleagues, i hope to count on your support to send this bond out of committee to the voters of San Francisco. Our next task is to get this bond passed so we can provide housing as soon as possible. I would like to move items one, two, and three to the full board with a positive recommendation, and ms. Hartley, would you like to make some comments . Thank you, president yee, kate hartley, office of housing development. I actually do not have a prepared presentation today, but id like to echo the thanks that you gave, president yee, we would like to thank all our colleagues at the board, at the Mayors Office, the Many Community members who participated in this process, the staff, especially, amy chan, and dan adams, the mayors staff. Were very pleased to be part of this process, and we know that upon passage, it will make the lives of so many san franciscans better, so were thrilled, ready to go, and ready to answer any questions. Supervisor fewer great. Lets take Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on this item . Every housing bond you get is for highincome bracket people only. The lowest housing income bond come from gordon and his district. You get multiquadruple trillion and billion dollar bonds for the past well over several years, and each and every bond you get is for highincome bracket people, and im getting tired of you campaigning and making it look like youre helping lowincome bracket people, the most Vulnerable People who need housing. You sit up there and testify, kate hartley, that the lowest income on your bond when you spoke last time is at 80 of ami. Thats 68,950 a year, okay, thats how much you got to make in order to be in the apartment buildings that she made reference to. Then you turn around and you got a contradiction on your ami. You said very low income is at 50 of ami. 50 of ami is 43,100 a year, whereas on this same document pertaining to the same year on your ami document, youre saying that the income is 56,450 a year. You got two contradictions there. Thereby, the same response, you talk about youre helping very low and lowincome bracket people, those incomes are at 20 and 25 of the median. Thats 17,250 a year. Those are the very same people whos out in the street with the mental disabilities that each and every one of you campaigned and claimed that you want to help. Youre only helping people in highincome brackets. Thats price fixing. And i dont appreciate you putting out three of those issues together at one time and only giving me three minutes to talk about it. You have approximately 8,011 people homeless out in the god damn streets. Youve been doing this from one bicentennial to the next bicentennial. Supervisor fewer thank you, mr. Wright. Thank you, mr. Wright. Any other Public Comment . Mr. Wright, mr. Wright. Your time is up. Mr. Wright thank you, michael. Mr. Wright, thank you, mr. Wright. Thank you, mr. Wright. Okay, Public Comment is now closed. Theres a motion. Can we have a second . Supervisor mandelman second that . Supervisor yee chair fewer . Thank you for the Public Comment, and i just want to make sure that the public understands that in this bond measure, that theres several other categories where the income eligibility actually starts from zero, and we made sure that were putting legislation through to make sure that some of the Senior Housing will actually reach those that are on fixed income, which is around 15 . Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, mr. Wright. Public comment is over. All right. We have a motion and we have a second. And i think we can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, can you please call items no. 4 and 5 together . Clerk item no. 4 is the budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments of the city for fiscal years ending june 30th, 2020 and june 30th, 2021. Item no. 5 is the annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for fiscal years ending june 30, 2020, and june 30, 2021, continuing, creating, and establishing these positions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. So now we will have a presentation by Mary Ellen Carroll on our healthy streets Operations Center. Good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. Thank you very much for having me today. Im very happy to be here today to present to you on the healthy streets Operations Center. As i believe you all are aware, the healthy streets Operations Center is hosted by the department of Emergency Management, and we provide dispatch services and coordination and support. The hsoc, as we call it, launched in january 2018. It coordinates the efforts of city agencies involved in addressing unsheltered homelessness and unhealthy street behaviors. The core values of hsoc are to lead with services, believe that everyone can change, empathize with the entire community, and that safe and clean streets can be maintained for everyone. The healthy streets Operations Center has representatives from key departments working together at the department of Emergency Management, and representatives from those departments, my colleagues are here today. Hsoc directs, plans, coordinates responses to unsheltered homelessness and unhealthy street behavior and provides the infrastructure to coordinate the increased investment in addressing these issues. For 2019 impact data, we have some data here to share with you. Our homelessrelated requests for service have gone down over the last year about 33 . The average call Response Time was 123 hours. That has decreased to 90. Our citywide tent counts have decreased from july 2018 to january. Its a 40 decrease, and sites with six tents or structures or more have decreased 65 from 17 to 6. As far as expansion of new Shelter Services services and shelter, weve added beds, 691 new beds, temporary shelter, 390, and permanent Supportive Housing and Behavioral Health beds have been increased by 99 between 2017 and 2018. The Operational Results, engagements by dph outreach are close to 8,000. Needle collection since july 2018, over 90,000 syringes collected. Encampments resolved by hsoc, 28 sites have been resolved, and individuals linked to shelter or centers through encampment resolutions are 365. And then finally, the budget investments, which i believe were here to talk about today. So the different categories, the first category is maintaining our existing services and improving coordination. That includes five new fte and one substitution. One of those is at the department of Emergency Management, and then we have positions in other departments. These positions are liaison coordinators. They help streamline processes, coordinate meetings, track projects and deliverables, engage with hsoc operational staff, and it adds a dispatcher to maintain the public works call response. For hsh field response, the budget request adds four positions, repurposes two existing positions in order to create a deployable team that can respond to urgent calls working across both day and swing shifts. So this helps us extend our hours past just regular day hours. The team also creates and manages resolution plans related to unsheltered homelessness and negative street behavior. And these funds will also add an additional mode of transportation, which is a resource that is very lacking for the operation. Enhancing central dispatch at dm, so part of the hsoc operation includes two fulltime dispatch supervisors. They actually sit within the Operations Center, which is in the emergency Operations Center, so they are off the 911 floor and dedicated to answering and directing calls specifically for hsoc. The dph Sobering Center, so this request expands resources at the 24 7 medical respite and Sobering Center to expand services for the operation. And finally, theres funds excuse me, to allow the Community Assessment Service Center to expand after hours as a place where folks can get off the street and access to services. That concludes our presentation. I am happy to answer questions or my colleagues are here also to do so. Supervisor fewer sure. Supervisors, anyone have questions . Yes, supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, chair fewer, thank you, director carroll. I have a quick question about expanding resources at the Sobering Center. What exactly does that look like, and what is the demand and the need . Ill have dr. Barbara come up and answer that. Good evening, im from the department of Public Health. So our Sobering Center, as you all know, theres been an increase in opiate and methamphetamine use. The Sobering Center originally was created for alcohol so the needs are different, so were looking at kind of the whole supervisor fewer can you speak directly into the microphone, please . So were looking into the whole model to improve the Service Capacity there. Supervisor stefani okay, and what resources will we be expanding . What will this money be going towards . So it would be towards things like monitoring, you know, the monitoring for alcohol is very different than any other substances, so the medical equipment around that, as well as the pharmaceutical needs, as well as kind of the safety issues in the Sobering Centers. Supervisor stefani okay, thank you. Thanks so much. Supervisor fewer thank you. So i have a question. I see that we are adding or proposed to your budget includes 4 million over the next two years, and there are 11 new ftes and three substitutions or reassignments. So how many ftes total does the hsoc have . Do we have the orb chart with all the ftes . Well pull that up for you, if we can. Because we do have this, and we did present it with our budget. Im sorry, i dont have the orb chart or that number in my head, off the top of my head. Supervisor fewer because we are just seeing here, i think, how many is being added to it, but i think for us to fully understand how big asoc is, we have to see the entire budget. Correct, the whole orb chart. Well, hopefully, be pulling that up. What i can speak to is the ftes are to so basically, since hsoc came together over a year ago, almost 18 months ago, the resources were reallocated, so we repurposed, pulled folks off of other responsibilities in order to address hsoc. So in the case of dm, i have an Emergency Services coordinator. Ive been rotating every three months a person to basically manage the Operations Center. That means those folks are not available to do emergency Services Coordination for the city and the main mission for San Francisco. So one of the requests is to permanently create a position to manage hsoc. And thats a similar case for other departments. Supervisor fewer so when im looking at this 2018 Operational Results summary, and it says needle collection, is that the needle collection that we contract we have a huge contract with the aids foundation for needle collection. Needle collection supervisor fewer does that include that . Im sorry, can you repeat the question . Supervisor fewer so the needle collection on your data here for 2018 Operational Results, you say youve collected over 90,000, almost 91,000 syringes. Is that through our contract with the aids foundation . Yes. Supervisor fewer okay, so the aids Foundation Money is part of hsoc . No. Supervisor fewer okay, then why are you claiming it as your Operational Results summary . It started around the same time and part of hsoc, so they are connected. Much of the department, we integrate all our services into hsoc, and so a lot of the 311 calls that do go to hsoc are gets deployed for those. Supervisor fewer sure, but actually, i dont think, though, you can claim youve collected over 91,000 syringes, because we have a very hefty contract with the committee actually approves to do this collection, so actually i dont think thats accurate. I can see that you help facilitate maybe where you might get a call and they say theres a syringe in a playground and the aids Foundation Goes out and picks it up, but, quite frankly, it is not the hsoc operation that is doing the pickup of it. So i just think its a little misleading to add that type of information in. Pushback on me and also my colleagues, but when were trying to get to the impact of it, of hsoc, and all these dollars that are going to it and also in addition of millions of dollars that are going to this operation for the next two years, i think that we should have Accurate Information on the impact, because we might be collecting maybe 91,000 syringes wit

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