Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Michael batazar and colleen a memendoza who make transcripts available online. Are there any communications . Clerk i have none to report, mr. President. Supervisor yee we are approving the minutes from the july 30th, 2019 regular Board Meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve ok. Then these minutes will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the 2 00 p. M. Special order. Clerk item number 1, formal policy discussions with the mayor. There was one topic submitted by the district 6 supervisor, supervisor haney regarding drug use and overdose treatment. Supervisor yee welcome madam mayor breed. Do you have any opening remarks . Thank you president yee as well as members of the supervisor and public. Earlier today, along with the department of publichealth and supervisor mandelman, we announce San Franciscos annual report detailing new h. I. V. Infections in our city. Im proud to report that from 20172018, new infections dropped by 13 declining below 200 for the First Time Ever in our citys history. While this is incredible progress, we still have a lot of work to do, especially among certain populations like our African American community. We are committed to doing that work. Still, its worth recognizing that weve come a long way. This kind of progress would have seemed impossible in the 1980s when aids first ripped through our Lgbt Community and our city. Decimating a generation. People were dying at astonishing and frightening rates. People who just, months before, had been healthy and vibrant. But thanks to the actions taken in San Francisco by the community and organizations coming together under the leadership of the department of publichealth, we turned the tide. Together, people did not work to heal our city. Well, today, we are confronted with another publichealth crisis. We are seeing people with Mental Illness and addictions suffering on our streets and today we need to come together again. Just last week, i joined the department of publichealth and others to announce the launch of a new initiative. To heal our city by focusing on those most in need. Our focus will be the 4,000 people we have identified who are homeless, who are suffering from both Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder. Guided by data, the initiative will be a multiyear effort which will enhance healthcare for the most vulnerable and expand hours as the citys Behavioral Health Access Center which is a single location where anyone at any time can go to get the help that they need. And let me be clear, these three elements of the initiative are just the beginning. Over the next few months, we will be recommending more ways to improve transparency and efficiency in our system and enhance services and Innovative Solutions and improve the case for the citys most vulnerable residents. Our department of publichealth, under the leadership of drop grant coalfax and anton blan is ready to take on this action with the community, with our state and federal partners and its really going to take a collaborative effort working on a number of things in order to get us to a better place with its very complex problems but weve done it before as we have proven in the past and well do it again. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you, mayor. Madam clerk, can you please call the first topic. Clerk the first topic by district 6 supervisor haney regarding drug use and overdose treatment. Supervisor yee supervisor haney, please ask your opening question. Supervisor haney thank you for being here and taking my question. My question today is related to your opening comments about the drug use, Drug Overdose and drug dealing crisis facing our city. I want to thank you for your hard work and advocacy for safe infection sites along with experts and Community Advocates you champion this initiative and continue to advocate for this Harm Reduction approach despite push back from the federal government and were grateful for that. As you are well aware over 70,000 people died of overdoses nationally last year and making overdoses the leading cause of death for people under 50 and in San Francisco, 259 people died of an overdose in 2018 and a rate higher than the national average. This is over five times as many that die of touchdown homicidesc deaths in our city. The overdoses went up and will increase this year. I recently walked the streets at the tenderloin with Harm Reduction Services Team and visited their clinic. I was impressed and inspired to people in our community who are experiencing drug addiction. They believe, as i think we all do, every death from an overdose is a tragedy and is preventable. Narcan saves lives but is not accessible to be there to ensure that overdoses are reversed and lives are saved. Providers and First Responders have told me programs are not available for the people that need it most, where and when they need t even after someone experiences an overdose they release without treatment or follow up. Treatment options or out patients are rarely discussed or offered in the course of street outreach. I also see myself in here on a daily basis for my constituents about the impacts of extensive open air drug use and street level drug dealing on a residents, businesses and neighborhoods. In many parts of the soma, mid market and the tenderloin, deadly drugs are dealt with impunity everyday. The crisis of Drug Overdoses are getting worse and the preventable tragic deaths are increasing. If the city has a plan to reverse this deadly drug crisis and save lives, my constituents and i are not aware of what it is. There is a clear urgency to do more and im personally committed to working with you and your department to develop the departments and implement a plan to immediately address the crisis. So my question is, what commitments and plans can you share with us on how your administration is proactively addressing the crisis of drug use, overdose death, street dealing of deadly drugs and what more we can do to support these initiative. Supervisor yee mayor, you may respond to the opening question. Thank you. The overdose death rate involving methamphetamine in the city has tripled from 1. 8 to 5. 8 persons per 100,000 san franciscans. Opioids overdoses were essentially flat for many years in San Francisco but saw 17 increase in 2018. A single overdose death is unacceptable but this growth is clearly, especially alarming not just in San Francisco but all over our country. We are saving lives by ensuring that city staff and Service Providers are trained and prepared to address overdoses. Our outreach workers, our shelter staff, our hsoc officers are all trained in Harm Reduction, including narcam administration. Our Street Medicine Team provides mor teen to help Homeless Individuals start treatment on the spot. Weve invested in additional 6 million and a grown our Street Medicine Team to 10 additional people. In response to the growing rise of methamphetamine use in San Francisco, supervisor mandelman and i launched the Methamphetamine Task force in february of this year and next month, the task force will release a report with recommendations on Harm Reduction, strategies and policies to reduce the impacts of methamphetamine used and to help people who need our help. We also know that we really need to reverse this trend of overdose death and part of that is providing safeinjection sites but sadly the federal government is a challenge but i am still committed to doing just that. We need to have we provide as a steed to hold accountable for those dealing drugs on our streets. We cant let it a occur in neighborhoods like the tenderloin. The San Francisco Police Department, along with the u. S. Attorneys office has really launched an Incredible Program to really hit this particular issue in a way to address the higher level drug dealers and really focus on removing drugs. Its an ongoing effort. What we know is people are arrested and i believe in a Second Chance and in this particular way. Ultimately there are a number of things that we will continue to do and to provide a Additional Services to address this issue. It will continue to bal challenge and i hope that the work were doing with the Methamphetamine Task force will provide some recommendations to better coordinate services similarly is what were doing with people who have duel diagnosis around Substance Abuse disorder and Mental Health. Supervisor yee supervisor haney, you may ask a question related to the opening question. Ok. Supervisor haney one of the challenges i heard a lot about is having dropin centers and Detox Centers for people to be able to go to either after theyve used or when they experience an overdose. Is that something you considered or thought about. Its something ive heard from First Responders and providers and something is that i would love to talk to you more about. Supervisor yee mayor. The hon. London breed weve been expanding our location so that people who are expressing center and getting clean can have the environment where they cannot only get clean what but what will be the next step to get help and support they need. Health right 360 and their locations are a perfect example of people who get treatment, get the support they need and then when theyre clean and sober and ready to get back into society, the biggest charge is you know is housing and providing access to Affordable Housing so that they can continue to maintain their sobriety. Its an issue that i am definitely committed to as someone who, sadly, has had family members impacted by the drug epidemic in this city and im happy to work with providers and others to look at new solutions to this real challenge. Supervisor yee mayor breed, you will ask your first question to supervisor haney or any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic. Not necessarily related to the previous question. The hon. London breed thank you, president yee, i dont have any questions at this time. Supervisor yee in that case, with no question from the mayor, this concludes the mayoral the hon. London breed whoah o supervisor yee thank you. The hon. London breed thank you. Supervisor yee madam clerk, can you please read the Consent Agenda. Clerk item 2 and 3 are on consent. They are considered routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. Supervisor yee colleagues, would anyone like to officer any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee they are passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our regular agenda. Clerk item number 4 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to revice the tables of the chinatown mixed use districts to make them consistent with those in articles two and seven to apply the use definitions and section 102 to set an abandonment period to allow general entertainment uses with conditional use authorization to affirm the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee the ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Next item, please. Clerk item number 5, is an ordinance to order the street vacation of the entirety of seawall lot 337 and portions of terry aim francois boulevard along with Public Service easements in connection with the mission rock project to reserve temporary rights to adopt the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call. Without objection, this ordinance has passed unanimously. Please call the next item. Clerk item number 6 is an ordinance to order the vacation of streets in the sf project phase 2 allow a reservation of rights for electric utilities access at 25th and wisconsin streets and require Pedestrian Access authorizing the city to quit claim its interest in the vacation areas to the Housing Authority to affirm the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take this same house same call . Without objection, this ordinance has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 7. Clerk number 7 is an ordinance to wave the banner fees under the public works code for up to 300 banners placed on cityowned poles for a period beginning september 24th, 2018, to celebrate the culture and visibility of the filipino Cultural Heritage district. Supervisor yee same house same call. This is passed in First Reading. Madam clerk, call the next item. Clerk an ordinance to appropriate 11. 5 million to fund balance to the port for the San Francisco seawall, earthquake safety and disaster prevention in fiscal year 20192020. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call . This ordinance is passed in First Reading unanimously. Call the next item. Clerk item number 9 is an ordinance to levee property taxes for the city, San Francisco unified school district, San Francisco county office of education, San Francisco Community College district, Bay Area Rapid Transit District and bay area air quality mackment district establish a pass through rate for residential tenants for the fiscal yearending june 30th, 2020. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer. Thank you, very much. Colleagues i bring fourth amendments to update the property tax rate based on the final rates set by the bart board. A amendments are reflected on page one line three and 19, 24 and 25 page four line 1, 2 and 15. I believe that you have three happened outs in front of you, one are the amendments of the legislation and the secondly legislative digest, third bart resolution. Second. Thank you. Supervisor yee motion made by supervisor fewer and seconded by supervisor peskin. To amend as stated. Without objection, these amendments are passed. Can we take this item same house same call as amended. Without objection the amendmente ordinance has amended. Passed the First Reading as amended. Madam clerk, call the next item. Item number 10, is a resolution to retroactively authorization a Police Department to accept an ex pend and enkind gift of 768 units of naloxone estimated at 58,000 through the naloxone distribution project funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and administered by the California Department of health carhealthcare services for the m of february 1st, 2019 through may 30th, 2019. Can we take this item same house same call without objection. This receipt solution adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, calling the next item . Item number 11 is a resolution to authorize the execution and delivery of a multi Family Housing revenue note in an aggregated Principal Amount not to exceed 23. 5 million for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 55unit multi Family Rental Housing Project known as bernal gateway apartments. Supervisor yee colleagues, same house same call without objection. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the next item. Clerk number 12 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Arts Commission to accept and expend a gift of art entitled larose distance from the julie lepnard foundation valued at 390,000 authorized installation of the art work in front of the conservator of flowers and Golden Gate Park and authorization the Arts Commission to accept and expend 190,000 donation for a total gift value of approximately 580,000 for the purpose of maintaini