Tenderloin has foot patrol north of market. So this is a big commitment thats met and i think it will have an impact. Its actually something asked for, i think, before this Navigation Center was there or will be there. Great. Any other questions from any of the supervisors . Seeing none, i think its now giving an opportunity for those that are in opposition to please come forward. You have two minutes. So this is an opposition to the appeal or support of the project. Come on up. Im going to ask the appellants if any have. Homeless for a considerable amount of time to raise your hand. You have to consider passing this bill. Its very important to the 200 people out there. I commend supervisor pe secondsr standing up and i want to ask each of you to stand up to get buildings in your district. So what im hearing tonight in the previous testimony has met a lot of antimayor. Is this an antimayor campaign or what it is about, Property Values . So i would have a suspect of motives here tonight. They talked about traffic. There was no opposition to the chase center down the street. There was to opposition to at t down the street and no opposition to ucsf down street. Homeless, we dont drive cars, so were not going to be an impact. And earlier someone said, i heard a joke, steelhead fish . Really . Homeless are being blamed for the fish in the oh ocean . Thats a new one. We talked about alcohol and drugs, where theres 26 alcohol licenses within walking distance of this center. I dont think thats an issue. Im a citizen board member at the local homes coordination and we oversee the department of hsh. We unanimously supported this issue for the center and the last thing i want to say hear, people were talking about citizens and homelessness, those are the same thing. Once you are on our streets for 24 hours, you are a citizen of sanfrancisco. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, board of supervisors. Im john ortanny, the director of interim housing shelters at the centers of San Francisco. The Community Services partnered with the city to open up the first Navigation Center located at 1950 Mission Street in march of 2015. Ecs manager manages central andy opened up 125 bayshore. Ecs manages the next door and sanctuary shelters for a total of 534 single adult shelter beds. 13 Supportive Housing sites, ecs is the lead agency for the single adult coordinated entry system and we manage a Senior Center and healthy agent planning across all of our programming and Workforce Development and programming. Benefits of Navigation Centers, they are an important component of San Franciscos homeless response system. These centers take people off the street giving them needed respite. Many street homeless will not enter additional city shelters for many reasons. Navigation shelters offer 24hour staf staffing with no curfews, and minimum rules and high operations staff to client ratio and room for pets and partners to stay together. Its space to accept all belongs, outdoor space. Since they are a much smaller Living Environment than the legacy single adult shel shelte, people find this easy to adapt. Next speaker, please. Im the associate director of bryant and Central Waterfront center. Im the both the services at these sites. The Navigation CenterServices Include onCase Management for all guest,e, on site medical clinic, access to treatment, Housing Navigation for those that have the highest needs as assessed by the coordinated entry team and Supportive Housing, problemsolving for those not prioritized for housing, legacy shelters. Some of the Navigation Center benefits include decrease in incantments. Theres close communication and relationship between the city and providers such as ecs with surrounding neighborhoods, protocols and procedures regarding how navigation leadership deals with complaint, addressing the impact that the center has is having on the surrounding community. They have a higher staff ratios. Case management will work wit person to get them ready for housing or if not prioritized for housing, work with the problemsolvers to end that persons homelessness. Navigation centers provide the left of Case Management required to get people off the streets. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is kathy and im the director of programmes for episcopal Community Services. Ecs is a Strong Partner in support of housing as we Work Together to plan and implement innovative programmes to address homelessness. As recently as july of 2018, we were chosen as the lead Service Provider for the citys single adult coordinated entry system. Our teams of problem solvers, navigators assessed nearly 5,000 single adults across access points, navigation centres on the streets, in the emergency room, at the centers. The importance of the use of assessments in the one system is that we now have a deeper understanding of the people were serving. Navigation centers are one piece to ending homelessness in San Francisco and nav centers are Triage Centers where we determine individual roadmaps out of homelessness which is different, be it housing or problemsolving. We provide services, treatment for Substance Abuse and benefits enrollment. Ill end with a tor story as ret as yesterday. My director of coordinated entry left me a message. He said, kathy, its working. I share with you, within a fourhour period, there was a man on streets, on Mission Street, that was wrapped in a blanket, that had limited engagement, that we mobilized our mobile team to go out and they went out with their lap tops and assessed him and right then and there realize edhe reae scored for housing thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is cal con conroy. Im here to speak about building more centers in San Francisco. Ive had the privilege of being able to visit the Navigation Center and taken on a tour. I feel a lot of people have never been inside one. They are at least the one in the dog patch is amazingly clean. All residents there were very happy. They seemed to be extatic they were not on the trees an street. We should be building more massivNavigation Centers in San Francisco. Next speaker. My name is danny drysdale, the Community Liaison at music city cf, where a hostile and ongoing construction project to provide resources for working musicians. As City Resident and landlords, we fully support the proposed Navigation Center at the lot discussed today and urge the board to move forward in establishing a Navigation Center at that location. Puover 1600 different people coe through the door and many of whom are low income or currently Homeless Individuals due to purposefully low prices and, in fact, our hostile has been the first step in achieving a place to live for many formerly Homeless Individuals. So we would like the city to do much more in supporting them and helping them to get off the streets. It would be disheartening to see the city above towards abandoning this site with potential as the one now. Iwe welcome the nav center in or own neighborhood soon as theres a house of fans location discussed. So were fully supportive and happy to have one to our location soon. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, evening, supervisors. Im corey smith and certainly as the deputy terro director as. Both organizations are in firm support of the proposal to reject the appeal here today on the simple facts this is not a single issue, that this is not a quality issue and that in and of itself should be enough to reject the appeal. The rest of my comments ill be making as an individual. Ive been to enough of the meetings, thank you to everybody that is over there, work on this and spending the time, as well as supervisor hainey and trying to do what you can to have all of the conversations with everybody. I know thats not easy. I know you take the full brunt of all of the crap thrown at you and its difficult but i appreciate it and its difficult to do. I was at the Commission Hearing and there were 88 people that spoke in support and 39 people that spoke against it, almost 21 support for this proposal because we fo know that people d places to live. We need option and solutions around the city. Ive spoken with my supervisor, supervisor brown. We need one. We have people sleeping on the street every single night. And anything we can do to save one life at a time is worth it and its why all of you do public service. Its why youre on the side of it. So its not forgotten and all of those people dont show up and give you the thanks and kudos that you deserve, but it is absolutely deserved. Lastly, i have to believe we have better ways of doing this and figuring out how to provide homes, especially for the most vulnerable neighbors than having people come out on a tuesday afternoon, at this point quarter to 6. Theres a lot of issue that are facing the city and just want to be speaking about that. Next speaker. My name is Brian Edwards if district five. One of the things i learn today is that this isnt a sequa issue. But what this is is a San Francisco issue. Another thing i learned today is that the San Francisco version of, im not racist, but is the claim that you care about Homeless People right before you make some bullshit augments to o keep a Navigation Center being built. The gentleman before me talking about a 21 support ratio. I was at the first one where there were five that spoke in favour of this Navigation Center and everyone else was against it and not a Single Person could tell a story about a neighborhood homeless person who they knew, who they related to, who they spoke to on a regular basis and that is not San Francisco. I dont know how you do it out there. I know in district 5, we know our homeless neighbors, we talk to them and feed them and Call Emergency Services if they need help. Thats San Francisco. This is not a sequ issue and we need to build this. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisor. My name is robert fucman. Homelessness is a crisis in that neighborhood as its is in mine and in a Navigation Center will address that issue. It i shoulthere are many expenso buildings with double paned windows around that proposed Navigation Center so i do not share concerns. Much more noise and pollution comes from the multiple i80 ramps nearby. Ive seen and heard them and i eagerly have a concerted effort to oakland and east bay. All of the data about Navigation Centers shows they are good for the city but ive been to several meetings at the delancey about this project. So many neighbors refuse to believe this. A resident at the dog patch Navigation Center is a success and a few months ago, a Neighborhood Association even voted to support an extensionful their Navigation Center nearby. If anything, the fact that its taken months to approve this is a sign that the current process is not working. Why should we have months of meetings to approve something that we know is both necessary and morally correct . Should we repeat this arduos process . Is this good for people to leave work and say, it must be painfully obvious . Because it is painful to watch here o and on the sidewalks. Good afternoon. I used to live off of second and king street. Im a support of the navigation safe center. What about ballgames . They all cause traffic. Im in support of the Navigation Center. Its funny how peoples values change when it comes to your property value. I thought the pil bible says toe your neighbor. We need to support people in need. Everybody is working about parking, 911 calls and crimes but nobody sounds concerned about all of the People Living in unsafe on the streets. It is a center to help people in need, a Navigation Center and we need people. Its Homeless People, people need help. So i sport. Thank you. I support it. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. I live in district 6. I live more or less around the corner from the Episcopal Center and i have lived there since 1996 and i come home late and guess what . Im female and im not terrified of poor people. Im not terrified of my neighbors. Were talking that this happens to be George Orwells 600t 600th birthday. I think some of you read books and it might help to think about treating people decently in shelters as well as providing shelters rather than sticking people outside. Not to be scared neighbors, but to be scared for neighbors is a pretty good thing, who are, incidentally, hardworking taxpaying citizens. Ive always been worried going by episcopal sanctuary that there were ambulances. The answer is oh, not get this thing out of my neighborhood but help people to be in better shape. Dont take their property, dont take tents, dont deny them sleep, dont deny them peace of mind or a right to own property or dont deny them hope. And, basically, i am uncomfortable supporting a Navigation Center where people are going to be mistreated if the citys record holds true, but this is a minimum. Anyone who genuinely believes that they want folks to be treated decently doesnt say get if center out of my neighborhood but say make this center in my neighborhood and make it well explained, provide people with due process and also im just astonished the director of Homeless Services says safe and clean free without seeing a contradiction. We need to meet people where they are and not hurt them. Thank you. Next speaker. Im kelly with the coalition on homelessness. I dont know about you, but im so tired of this going to endless meetings. Its just ridiculous. Because you know what, we need to be providing shelter and housing for people that are often forced to sleep on our streets. Im offended by the bad data and trolling on social media and wasting everyones time and so many people that are working so hard to be helping folks who are living on our streets. And who are dying on our streets. And im glad that were not having port meetings any more because net were horrible and all of thawful and i walked oute it was grow gross and things tht were being said were gross. But so often, the humanity of people has been lost in the discussions. And thats what we have to get back to. We needed to be doing we all need to be doing what we can to be helping our fellow San Francisco neighbors and not demonizing folks like that. Thats it. Hello. As many times have been brought up tonight, there is issue with a Navigation Center on final and bryant. Fifth and bryant. I live across the street and it is a fabulouslyrun establishment. And they are quiet neighbor, and most of my friends that come by think its a storage facility. That is how quiet it is and wellmaintained it is. My issue here isnt the fact that we should im not trying to argue for this explicit Navigation Center. Im frustrated because weve made this discussio decision may times. The mayor has made this decision. The Port Commission has made this decision and how many times are we going to come up here and argue with shelter . How many times are we going to deliberate . Will we have to do this for the next 2,000 shelter beds across the city . Look at all of th all of thee spending on the issue. I know you guys are debating expediting bills right now and they dont address the specific issue, but we need to approach those issues. We need to take hold of the issue that we give voice to a dozen people to splock a whole project. We have people sleeping on the street and were more concerned about people walking dogs. Three, please support this Navigation Center. I live in the tenderloin of constituent 6. Everyday, when i walk home in the evening, i see my own neighbors and i want to remind you that is the terminology we should be using. These people are our neighbors and they are your constituents and many are supervisor haineys constituents. They deserve to be taken care of and as long we have a shortage, no neighborhood should get to say no to building more of them, especially one that is a mile away from any existing shelter, particularly one in the same district. Like a lot of the previous speakers, im tired of h