That were out of control, i was told by Jeff Kaczynski a year ago, they are not focused on r. V. S. That is not something they are working on. And im watching the mayors own staff nodding their head right now because they know that is the truth. It is great because supervisor brown and others fought and fought to open the first of its kind 30 vehicle center, and it is finally happening, but the one to the department to ask for it year ago, they told us they had no plans to address r. V. S and they werent going to do anything about it until, low and behold, it is up 60 in the city as a whole. I did not want to ban parking but i did because i couldnt get the department to act at all. So what is going on now and every other street in the portola, there are r. V. S lining the streets and the residents are complaining once again. We have no oversight or accountability for this department and it has got to change. If you dont have a lot of homelessness in your district, i am so happy for you, i am so happy that people dont have to sleep in the streets of your district. Im so happy you dont have to answer these emails on a daily basis, but i dont know what else to do for my constituents. I have done everything that i can think of. It is time that we have oversight over this departments our constituents can learn about what the city is doing, if you have noticed in this email, they say what is the city doing . I dont know. I call 311 every day and nobody responds. They can learn about what the city is doing, and they can have a place to weigh in on the solution and to demand action from this city. This is a well thought out, reasonable policy. Our constituents are demanding it. The three supervisors of the three districts, they are the vast brent of Homeless People sleeping on the streets and the services that serve those residents, and i can show you the statistics right here if you dont believe me, they are begging you to help us provide some oversight and accountability for this crisis that we and our constituents can no longer take. Thank you. Supervisor fewer . Yes, i want to thank supervisor haney for bringing this forward. As a supervisor that actually has 60 of the homelessness in his district, he absolutely should have a voice in policy, but he also, i defer to him to know what is needed, and he has brought forth this legislation or this ballot measure, actually , to address some of the real issues that really need to be addressed that havent been addressed. So i think i agree that everyone with everyone that homelessness is a crisis in our city. I do not have 60 of the Homeless Population, a supervisor haney does. So supervisor haney, i want to commend you for working with the providers, people who are really on the ground doing the work every day. I know this was a very thought out it was actually very participatory with all of the providers, and i just want to say that for bringing a solution that you felt was really needed to help us with this homelessness crisis. I defer to your judgement, quite frankly, because as i said, you have the bulk of the homelessness in your district. I want to thank you for your leadership on this. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I wanted to echo that supervisor supervisor fewers comments and thinking supervisor haney and your staff, and also all of the Community Advocates for working on this really important measure for creating a homelessness oversight commission. I fully agree this is a common sense and incredibly important Good Government measure that we need to move forward, or at least put before the voters and allow them to decide on, and even though, you know, like supervisor fewer, i represent a district that is an extension isnt experiencing homelessness to the intensity. Homelessness is a problem that affects all of our districts and every community here in the city we have a persistent and growing homelessness on the west side of the city that we are struggling to address with the department and our constituents, and we also constantly i constantly get questions and communications in communications from my constituents about not just what i am doing around the continuing number of Community Members in the sunset district that are living in shelters, but what the city is doing to solve this issue. One of the two biggest issues confronting our city and our communities. I think our constituents and people on the westside want to see more oversight, or transparency, and more effective strategies on how we are addressing this problem. I fully support this measure. Thank you so much. I encourage my colleagues who are on board, too. Supervisor walton . Homelessness is heartbreaking it is definitely a complicated issue to solve, and we have worked very hard as a city to come up with strategies and policies that actually address the systemic issues that exist with our Homeless Population. But more and more, i think that we need to come up with solutions and come up with a strategy that provides for a government structure that provides policy support, as well as the transparency that is needed for people who are affected by homelessness, and by the things that are connected. Therefore i am in support of supervisor haneys Charter Amendment. I. I also want to applaud the mayor s office and my colleagues for a lot of the work that everyone is doing to address the homelessness crisis that we have in the city, and it is a crisis. I want to thank the supervisors for all of their work on finding a place for people who live in vehicles, because just from the last homeless count, we know the Homeless Population has increased about 17 here in San Francisco, and even more so in district ten. The biggest increase in district ten is People Living in their vehicles. So with these great increases, and despite our efforts, the current structure of delivering Homeless Services in our city is not getting the job done. This is not because people are not trying, this is not because people are not working hard, but there are some things we need to work on to develop a better infrastructure with all the resources that we put into addressing homelessness to get even before the count, my office alone would receive several emails, several calls a day from constituents developed demanding action and wanting us to do more to deal with this and address this dire situation. When we talk about the dollars we invest, we are making an Affordable Housing in Affordable Housing, these are great things we are working on together for solutions to make San Francisco more affordable, but homeless issues are prevalent in our communities every single day, so our strategies have to address what is happening right now. I just want to say that as you have seen the demonstration from supervisor ronen in terms of all of the emails she is getting, all of the emails we get, and then there is the issue with the fact that 311 is determining how we respond when we go out. We know surgeon communities dont call government as much as others, when we know surgeon communities dont have the time to call government and make complaints as much as others, but we do know where our Homeless Population exists because we have conducted counts and we are no where sponsors should be and where they need to be. I think the Commission Also will help assist with overseeing those types of ideas and the process by which we even decide to go out and dress address homeless encampments and address complaints because we will find it demonstrates higher populations of homelessness and how as individuals than what the phone calls may say 4311. The public has an extremely vested interest in allowing Greater Transparency and oversight over the department. We are committed to tackling the crisis head on, and people need and want to help, but we also have to do this with full confidence without structured oversight. Our residents are left to wait anxiously as a cement at least 300 million a year, was some good results, with some results that are, and disheartening. And this is really about Good Government and transparency. There is also the fact that this Charter Amendment continues to allow for the streamlining of Navigation Centers and emergency shelters during a declared shelter crisis. Supervisor haney worked with the homeless provider community, he worked with colleagues, he has reached out to everyone in city leadership and came up with these amendments to the original legislation and the original Charter Amendment because we understand that in times of crisis, we need to be able to make sure we can move fast, in this Charter Amendment also addresses that. I definitely dont have all the answers, i know we dont have all the answers, but transparency and governance, from experts who can be put on a body to help to address these dire issues that exist, disproportionately in certain areas of the city is important. I agree with supervisor mar. This is something that we can put in the voters hands of the voters decide. Im in full support of this Charter Amendment and we need this transparency and oversight, and the voters should be able to make this decision. [please stand by] the vast majority of this desperation and need is really taking place in your district. I support having a direct Service Provider at the table when it comes to setting policy and priorities for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, but i still have some concerns about the roles and responsibilities of those various advisory bodies that are already exist. I know that i mentioned this to you before and im very happy that youre looking at some of the solutions. And in a way, youre addressing it. There is other issues that i would have enjoyed bringing to the attention to make amendments to it, but i realize and this is my fault i cant really make amendments at this point, because of the our dates. So, im kind of glad the mayor and the stakeholders have reached some key agreements of both to both continue to discuss the need of the critical changes for more responsive department as well as some immediate policy changes to improve the quality of peoples lives right now. Not after november and beyond. Such as a change in the definition of homeless mothers. In support of that discussion, i really well, id like to make a motion to amend the date to march 3, 2020. This will provide us with the breathing room to get everyone to the table and develop a way forward. It accomplishes the objective that we all shared to make our citys work to end homelessness permanently more effective for the maximum number of people. So im making a motion, colleagues, i hope you will consider this motion to move the date from november to march. And i would make that motion first. Is there a second . Second by supervisor mandelman. Roll call. Supervisor ronen i would like to speak. With all due respect to you, supervisor yee because youre someone i respect tremendously, ive been working daily on this issue for close to three years as supervisor. Ive been giving it my all. I have one of my three legislative aides on this fulltime. I dont know what there is to talk about. Either were going to have oversight in the department or were not. I strongly oppose this motion. I think it is beyond time for us to act and to have oversight. And i want my constituents to know that i am fighting for them with urgency, that we need to put this on the November Ballot so we can get this Oversight Department up and running and understand what this department is and isnt doing to solve homelessness. And to react to the impact that is happening on the daily lives of both housed and unhoused residents in the neighborhoods that are impacted on this. So i do not support this motion. I think we have to act with urgency. I think it is high time we have an oversight body for a department that has ever expanding budget. Ironically, it was the mayor who didnt support prop c because she said there wasnt enough oversight over the department. So how all of us are not supporting this department right now is absolutely beyond me. So i would encourage all of my colleagues to not support the motion to delay this to march and to act with the urgency that our constituents demand and deserve. President yee supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, president yee. I want to echo thanks to supervisor haney for the leadership youve provided on a number of issues, and particularly on the sea wall Navigation Center. I think that was a courageous act and the leadership that you provided there is something i think everyone in city hall should be grateful for. I would be grateful for more time on this, this commission. And although again with great respect, i do disagree with one of the things that supervisor haney said about this commission. He said it is like commissions that exist throughout the city bureaucracy overseeing any number of departments. And this proposed commission is different in at least one very significant respect in my view, which is that every commission overseeing a department over which the mayor is ultimately going to be held accountable, has either an entirety all of its members made up of mayoral appointees or a majority. If you look at any of the commissions you named, from health, which is entire mayoral, to police which is 43 with the number of three folks pointed by the board of supervisors, but four people on that commission are appointed by the mayor. So the mayor has the ability to direct what is going on in departments that she is going to be held responsible for. I know who is accountable and responsible right now for what happens in the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Their names are jeff and london breed. I do not know and will not know who will be responsible for the activity that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing if this Charter Amendment passes, because three people will be appointed by the mayor. And three people will be appointed by the board of supervisors and one person will be appointed by the controller to direct this department. I appreciate having a controller who exists above the fray, who mayor, and board of supervisor folks can turn to as an honest broker. The notion of 33 contest playing out at the homelessness and Supportive Housing commission where the controller is called upon to direct homelessness policy in this city strikes me as a profoundly bad idea. So i think that there may be a need for more sunshine and i think there were a number of issues that drove this proposal, some of which may be able to be solved without a commission, some not. But i believe that we need more time on this and i think giving this until march makes a great deal of sense. President yee supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, president yee, and thank you for your comments and your leadership. I first want to respond to that now that its being brought up. I appreciate your defense of the mayor and her power, but i think there needs to be important shared responsibility here in terms of our role. As you heard particularly with the emails that we get, the responses that we get from our constituents. You also understand were also accountable to addressing homelessness. And for us to have that shared responsibility along with, i think, the greater commitment to accountability, the power of the audit that the controller has, i think that this balance which is very similar to the balance that was put in the proxy Oversight Committee is a more effective balance for checks and balances. I think there is a lot of concerns about some of our current commissions, because if you have a director that works for the mayor and commission that oversees that director, that puts a lot of power in the hands of one person. So i do think we have shared accountability here. I do wish i will say that some of these concerns coming up today were brought to me earlier. We actually changed to have the 7th appointment be from the controller because of feedback from the mayor and took that forward. And nobody said that was the red line for them weeks ago when we had the power to amend it. So i do want to be clear that we have had months now of working on this for the Mayors Office, for working on this for the department of homelessness, taking amendments, and ive unfortunately not received these kind of responses which we could have addressed before until today. So i appreciate the comment that we need more time, but i would have liked to know this was your bright red line and you would rather have a stronger Mayoral Commission, a majority Mayoral Commission and that is what you would have preferred to have your support. As far as the motion for march, i do want us to be able to develop consensus here and i think its important were united. I also believe that is ready to go for november and would prefer it goes for november, but i want to hear from all of you, and obviously, if we dont have six votes for november, then we can continue to Work Together and ill be committed to bringing it back next year if thats the direction we go. President yee supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. Getting involved in public service, i understand that we have to deal with several bureaucracies as we try to get the work done. And all of my experience in working in leadership and working with the city, i have never seen people excited for some reason about addressing issues right away. There is always people who feel we need more time. And that we should be given more time. And i am grappling with the more time thought process and the word crisis, because i know that they dont belo