Thank you very much, director kosinski, and your staff. I think these mostly addressed the concerns. The question whether it should be an ordinance or in the charter, to be clear. All of the commissions are in the charter. If we would create this by charter, it wouldnt be a Charter Commission that has all the responsibilities and duties defined in the charter. So we think its important that we have something that has. I think this is in many ways recognizing that this department is here to stay. One of the reasons why this this department maybe the main reason why this department doesnt have a commission currently is because its a new department. Its only been around a couple years, and the advisory structure that we have is here from a time when we didnt have a Single Department with the authority that your department has, had a single director and all of that. So i want to be clear that one of the things that were doing here by having a Charter Commission is recognizing the critical importance of this department and its continued role that its going to have in leading our response to homelessness, and for that reason, it should have the same strong and clear and codified commission as any other department. Chair fewer thank you. And with that, well open up Public Comment. Youll have two minutes to do so, and mr. Wright, do you want to start us off . You know, i object to all these programs. Every time we turnaround, youve got another program. You oversupervise. You spend over 400 million on programs. You spend more money on programs than you do on permanent housing, Apartment Building complex to hows the people who you always campaign and act like you want to help. Gavin newsom got upstaged last week by an Apartment Building being built by a nonprofit developer. He tried to flex and counter by saying that developer doesnt produce. Hes going to fine them 600,000. How you going to fine them when theyre providing lowincome Affordable Housing for very lowincome and lowincome people without going through the bullshit that this administration has been going through the same as the last two or three generations . You spend over 400 million a year and got shitty results. You only got 133 beds for people whos got mental disabilities, and its been studied by professionals is the best way to serve the homeless problem is to built permanent housing and then services for them. Youve got 8,000 Homeless People out on the street and only 2,000 shelter beds. But yet, you want to produce all these programs and pretend like youre helping me. Its disgusting. I came in and showed you ways to built two towers instead of a Navigation Center with 700 million leftover, and you ignored it. Hes charging you 700,000 for nothing. When i finish my thesis, im going to charge you 600,000 for not helping anyone. You let other people speak past the two minutes. You let other people chair ronen okay, im going to clarify michael, please. Thank you, next speaker. Youre insulting my god damn intelligence. Like president yee last week. The color of your skin, the more time you get to speak. Michael. Its mr. Wright. Good morning, committee. How are you . Good morning and supervisors. H. S. H. Has been in business two or three years. We run very well. Have a wonderful director, very qualified director, but its 2019. The most important issue in this city and nationwide, but especially this city is homelessness. Homeless people should be treated fairly, and being treated fairly is a commission so they can be treated like everyone else. People are unhoused citizens shouldnt be treated different than anyone else. Im an e. D. Of two different nonprofits. Id rather do Something Else so i can get much more done. Our citizens our homeless citizens i have a right to build influenced policy. They cant do it right now. I can share the local homeless board, and we i sit on the local homeless board, and we can sit there and say yes, maam, yes, sir, but we cant do anything else. They brought us hsoc and i know were going to do this. As we come to do this, we need to see where hsoc is going to fit. Our homeless citizens, the only thing they see is hsoc pulling their tent down. So please do not lose the sight that this commission will have direct oversight over hsoc. Thats the only thing, and thank you all. Hi. My name is mallory, and im speaking for San FranciscoHousing Action coalition . I think our only opposition is efficiency. Were a proud supporter of prop c, and were very interested in delivering services to people experiencing homelessness, and we want to do that as quickly as possible . And also, we havent seen the their the opportunities for additional public input would provide more opportunities to more time. Thats an equitiable increase in opportunity. We think if we want to help solve these crises, we need to remove bureaucracy, we think this oversight would do that. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. My name is malia chavez, and im here as chiair person for the homeless advocacy organization. We are here in support of proposition c. Im also here to represent that we support the commission as a way to Balance Power and for facilitating Decision Making around complex and difficult issues which should not be the purview of just a few. Again, weve heard highlights around the policies that are impacted by these departments. A few examples that weve experienced as supervisors are pregnancy and the definition of families for access to coordinated entry and Housing Resources as well as policy for individuals fleeing domestic violence. Theres still a challenge as to individuals being able to access coordinated entry when staying at shelters. Again, another polish to be addressed. Budget priorities such that supervisor haney already mentioned around not having any input or oversight around what the departments are thinking in prioritizing. And another one is the definition of homelessness, which weve moved way. The more inclusive definition of homelessness families include those living in s. R. O. S or doubled up. The defense collaborative, they strongly support this, and martina couldnt be here today, but she wanted me to make sure that you knew she was pulling for this, as well. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. My name is natalia, and i am the director for homeless prenatal programs. Several years ago, our organization invested in an Evaluation Department in order toen hans transparency and accountability of our work, and we as an organization wanted to make sure that we had realtime reflection of how we are serving our clients and to respond to their needs. And this was incredibly powerful because we were able to focus our efforts and strategically innovate and improve our services on a weekly basis, and this is exactly the commitment and investment that i ask that we as a city make, to create a commission that will enhance transparency and accountability for how we serve our homeless families. Looking and reflecting at the data of our clients that are coming to us for services over the past few years, i have noticed a disturbing trend. I have noticed that both the proportion and actual number of families that are living in horrendous conditions with their children such as outside or in a vehicle is on the rise. This is exactly the type of data that i would like to present and discuss with an Oversight Committee, and i look forward to the ability to do so. Thank you. Hello, supervisors. Thank you so much for having us here. My name is jay cheng, and im representing the San Francisco chamber of commerce. As you know, our 1,000 members are regularly impacted by homelessness every day. Transparency and solutions are important when were tackling such an important problem as homelessness. First, we want to posit that committees can sometimes be a block to progress, as well. Were all familiar with the Planning Commission and how the Planning Commission schedule works and is impacted on a regular basis. And were all familiar with d. B. I. And how the d. B. I. Commission which has existed since eternity has spent several years trying to build a universal permit database and failed despite a very robust commission. Commissions also come at their own cost, and every dollar that we spend on a Commission Secretary is obviously money not being used on Homeless Services. We would ask you consider a chartered commission versus an ordinance commission. As supervisor haney brought up, the department of homelessness was just created in the last year or two. As we think about homelessness going forward, flexibility is best regarding jurisdiction. Thank you. Good morning. Jordan davis here, a main member of San Francisco chapter of d. S. A. Which will be considering this should it go on the ballot. As a matter of disclosure, im on the s. R. O. Board. This is my first appearance since my 21day Hunger Strike over h. S. H. Housing, which may not have been necessary if h. S. H. Had made sure the underlying issue got worked out. I want to thank supervisor haney for working on this issue and supervisors ronen and walton for helping out. Last year, h. S. H. Introduced a Wellness Check policy for housing that although theres a lot of different opinions on that. The complaints by so many boot legers about this measure have no merit. On every other commission in this city, 90 of matters get approved, and the others have so many issues that will bite us in the ass later, the make decisions really lie because of this network of different committees. From my perspective, we think with of an h. S. H. Commission. We think it makes a lot of sense that the our city, our Home Commission will be reporting to the commission the status of our unhoused neighbors, and the people who work closely with the department of homelessness. There is strong support, and while this will slow this down, i think everybody can agree that the department is already quite slow. If you are pregnant and homeless, you should be considered high risk, any way . And its taken three years for the department to include a highrisk policy and it still doesnt include a lot of the policy recommendations. So we think that this would speed up things more quickly, and that more things would happen in the span of three years, so thank you so much. Hello, supervisors. My name is kelly cutler. Im an organizer at the coalition of homelessness, and she took my talking points this is an advisory board, and so just going over the last year and looking at the meeting notes, its like yeah, theres an issue there. It was interesting that hsoc was brought up because this is the citys coordinated response to homelessness. For oversight, were told to go to the police commission, thats an issue. Thats a huge issue. And so we were trying to write a letter and went to the board and were told to go to the police commission. Basically done. Im cracking up that the chamber of commerce is here, like, prop c, hello . Okay. Thats it. Thanks. Good morning, supervisors. Joe wilson, executive director, hospitality house. We are proud to support the commission for the department of homelessness and supportive housing. At least a couple of points. A commitment to democracy carries a couple of risks. So it may be that things do get slowed down, and there are those of us in San Francisco that have some recollection of the Redevelopment Agency in the 60s and 70s. The fillmore acted quickly and without input, and we know the results there. I actually have a Feasibility Study that was done out of flint, michigan, and they said to act quickly and without input for people of color. And with policies that dont get fixed, so we have an opportunity to fix that. And i am proud to support that, very gratified with your leadership on this, and im confident there are folks to do that. Thank you so much. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak on this topic. Im here on behalf of the ed lee democratic club, and im here to speak on behalf of this measure. Were worried that this will create an unnecessary and costly commission. Creating a costly bureaucracy will eliminate an issue in providing services to the public. We encourage you to reconsider before moving towards the ballot. Thank you. Hi, supervisors. My name is jonna, and im with the coalition on homelessness, and i just wanted to come and add my support for creating this commission . Ive been hearing a lot of concerns about efficiency which i think is really important to talk about as things are already moving slow and the problem of homelessness is not progressing, but the way i look at it is solving these solutions require multiple input, and it is more inefficient to get plans that wont work and have to start over than do our Due Diligence on the front enter, crafting initiatives on the issue of homelessness and having to go back because we redid it wrong the first time . And i also think its important to weigh the pros and cons. If slowing down things by a few weeks will help more people, i see those few weeks for Community Consideration and Better Outcomes as incredibly worth it. I dont think we need to see it as a negative for our community, i think its a positive for making our efforts go forward. Thank you so much for this issue. I hope we can pass it and change the way that were doing Homeless Services in the city. Thank you. Hi. Im a district six resident, an s. R. O. Resident and formerly homeless. Im personally in support of the committee on homelessness. Theres intersections with labor, health care, and community integration. I think its really telling when my formerly homeless neighbors and people that i work with that are experiencing homelessness have solutions to the issues that arent being trickled up to the decisionmakers and so i see that its essential that we have this homeless commission. Thank you so much for your support. Good morning, Board Members supervisors, im sorry. Im here to support the legislation. We appreciate the work thats been done by supervisor haneys office and the department and the collaboration thats happened to evolve this over time, and we look forward to the deeper work after this where we get to establish the bylaws and the processes that happen with the actual commission that gets seated. Thank you. Chair ronen is there any other member of the public that would wish to speak, please come forward. I guess i think hopefully, you can add the s. R. O. S or Something Like this for the s. R. O. S. Its very possible that we have the worst s. R. O. Stock in the country. Now, the other situation is im in support of this legislation, but i feel like the cause about emergencies should be removed. You might have removed it because somebody can just declare an emergency and override the rules and regulations. Were having a major problem where you will open a Navigation Center but call it a safe Navigation Center or call it Something Else, and right now, the San Francisco administrative code 2400 is being violated basically across the board in that no one is monitoring it from the city and county of San Francisco. The Navigation Centers, theyre getting a free pass to violate the 2400 no one in the city is monitoring it. They shove it off on the shelter Monitoring Team committee, and they dont have enough authority or resources to investigate when were getting abused. So its a perfect storm. The contractors will hire felons and drug users, and then, they go work at the shelter with no type of bedding. And then, when we go abused, we go to the Shelter Committee where they dont have enough abuse oversight authority. The controller, the city is continuously ignoring and pretty much going total opposite of what the comptroller is saying and what National People are saying about homelessness. Were going opposition, and you cant see it. Were spending millions of dollars, and the homeless is still going up. Were spending 300 million, and its going up. Clerk speaker time has elapsed. Chair ronen thank you for your comments. Any other members of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair ronen supervisor haney . Supervisor haney i want to thank everybody that came out to speak. I want to thank the members of the advisory committees who do such important work. I realize this is an awkward thing to be coming out and speaking in support of oversight over a department that you work so regularly with. So i imagine that, you know, i just want to appreciate your courage and your partnership on this. I think it says a lot that the people who are on the front lines of serving our population thats experiencing homelessness believes strongly that there should be more accountability, transparency, and public input. I think that says a lot. Yes, i talk a lot about speed, and i dont think this is going to slow things down, but theres nothing more wrong than getting it wrong and having to do it over and over and over again. We have to listen to these folks not just at the beginning but throughout the process to make sure that we get it right. And when we deny them that opportunity, we are going to create so many delays throughout the process because were going to have to spend money to fix our mistakes, were going to have to repeat things over again. So fore the homeless p