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2019106927cwt for Downtown Park aloe caution, turk, hyde minimummy park and woowoo park renovations, this is the special park allocation. Great. Good morning. Im with the Department Staff and great to have you all together today. Before i begin, i wanted to note one correction to the planning commissions packets, the first attachment illustrating the turk hyde is correctly labeled as attachment b didnt should be attachment a. The item before you today is the approval of an allocation from the Downtown Park funds for two recreation and Park Department assets. The first is an allocation of 550,000 from the Downtown Park fund for the renovation of the minipark and the second of 600,000 for the renovation of willie woowoo playground. They will continue to upgraduate the crucial neighborhood assets. The funding allocation considered today will withdraw 1,150,000 from the Downtown Park funds. Attached is the staff report for rec part and the draft resolution that you all will be voting on today. With that, you would like to hand it off to the Deputy Director of planning at re rec k to provide Additional Details for this allocation. Thank you, pa patrick. Im Stacie Bradley and the item before you, as patrick mentioned is the allocation of funds for two of our parks and ill walk you through the park area very quickly and then the two park renovations. If i could have the screen. The Zoning District is where the sea is levied and it can go towards parks that serves this district. We have circled turk hyde and willie woowoo wong is in chinatown. For hyde, were redoing the entire playground. This is in coordination of strengthening the existing parks. The park is expected to be opened in the end of the year and the renovation includes playground improvements, landscaping, irrigation, improved amenities and the current budget is 2. 25 million and we had provided bridge funding until we were able to come to the join commissio join. For the second park, its in chinatown and its a full park renovation. If yo. There is a new playgroundd new courts. The funding for this is to address unforeseen site conditions and close the budget. I am joined by our capital and planning director and our Capital Planning finance manager. If you have any questions about the project details or the financing, thank you. We will now take Public Comment on this item. I have one speaker card, full pp vitalli. Im with the trust republic land. Were a national nonprofit. Weve been doing a lot of work in San Francisco for the past 45 years and a strong focus in the tenderloin area for the past five or six years. We helped with the renovation park which opened five years ago and has been a model around the renovation in hyde turk. I want to support this fund to make sure this park is open on time. Its truly an asset in the community. Theyve been deeply engaged and will reflect their needs. Theres a limited open space and getting this open on time is critical and we hope that you can support this allocation and make sure this renovation is completed on time, and open to the community, thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. On behalf of the committee for parks and recs in chinatown. Our committee advocates and preserves open space in chinatown for the last 50 years. As you know chinatown is the most crowded town in the city. 400 to families are living in singleroom occupancy buildings. Chinas playground, th was builn the 1940s and the only playgrounds in chinatown for 80 years and the most popular. In 2012, many of our constituencies have worked with mr. Ginsburg and the parks community, advocating for open space securing the funding for the chinas playground and a lot of the families attend the Committee Meeting with the incredible design firm of cmg and were looking forward to the opening next year, hopefully around Chinese New Year and where we create the plaza, where we call it the heart of the new design. With dozens of exercise machines and were anticipating that will be the heart of the new design moving forward, where it will benefit a lot of the families and seniors in chinatown. I hope you can support that from the funds. Thank you for your support for chinatown and open space. Next speaker, please. Public comment is close. In, i believe it was 1992, i recall joining the Citizens Group in the allday tour of a potential openspace site across San Francisco. One of which was the turk hyde site. And the question that came up, and i sort of would like to ask staff whether the accessibility of that particular site or any site, where there is not a control component, whether its a social Service Organization or are they related to it . Is accessibility substantial within suppose open spaces . Obviously when we do park renovations, sometimes the motivating is to improve mobility, accessibility. Not ada. With regards to the safety of the space . No, the amount of time thats available to the community. I mean, this is a playground. So for the sergeant mccaulley piece, there are to permitted activities that happen in a playground. For willie woowoo wong, its the community that will be doing the vast majority of the programming in the building itself. Commissioner moore. Ive been with the california bus for over 35 years and im looking at the willie woo owoo playground, im wondering why it is in desire tate. This state. Im wondering why making this particular site not only fully useful with the dense population and adults who are using that particular facility but also its a visual gateway to chinatown and to union square, so its an important land m foro acknowledge the park but giving it a phase that brings it into the family of welldesigned parks in downtown San Francisco. So im delighted to support it and see it realized as quickly as possible. Im thrilled that were doing this and i think chinatown and the tenderloin are underserved communities when it comes to playground and im thrilled were moving forward on this. Did you want to chime in, commissioner johnson . Not. Any comments . Seeing none on our side, what do we do next in. A motion. Someone on both commissions will be taking this separately and you need to make a motion seconded to approve or act otherwise. Commissioner johnson . I am delighted to make a motion to approve. Second. So moved on our side. I think we wait for them and they vote on their side. Thank you, commissioners. Theres a motion and a second to approve the allocation of the special park fund. So moved and that passes unanimously 40. The chair will entertain a motion. So moved. All those in favour. So moved. Thank you very much. So were done. Short meeting. Order. Hi, everyone. I will note well, ill take roll call. [ roll call ]. So before we begin, first of all, thank you, everyone for being here. The commission is grateful for all of the Public Comment that weve gotten in the past few weeks, specifically with regard to homelessness and behavior health. There have been some announcements in the news in regard to that. In keeping with our responsibility at the department of Public Health, at our last meeting we had a presentation on the adult residential series. Today it is part of the three presentations laid out by president loyce. We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public Health moves forward. So i welcome the opportunity to serve the city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, commissioner. The second item on the agenda is the approval of the october 1, 2019, minutes. Okay. After having a chance to review, do we have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. All in favour . Aye. Minutes approved. Thank you, commissioners. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, director of health for the county and city of San Francisco. I also just want to extend my warm welcome to the new commissioner. You were just sworn in about 45 minutes ago and getting right to work. Very much appreciate that. It is with the spirit of the Health Department that we get right to work in solving problems. We are so excited to have your wisdom here to help us figure out how to do it better across the department, but especially with Behavioural Health. As you know, as we talked, theres a lot to do in this area. Im very excited. The Health Department has done big things in the past and we will continue to do big things with your leadership and the rest of the commission. Thank you for being here and look forward to working with you. Thank you. So the a couple of other things in my directors report that you have in front of you. Very exciting announcement from mayor breed with regard to launching the urgent care s. F. Initiative. This is a bold vision to expand our Behavioural Health system, just focus on the people who need it most and for who our system of care is currently failing. It really is about focusing on the 4,000 people that our director of Mental Health reform has identified as the most in need identified by their being homeless, suffering from psychosis, and also Substance Use disorder. The initiative reflects input from community partners, medical providers, and other clinicians, is informed by data and evidence, and i think most importantly reflects the publics passion for addressing this issue. At the end of the day i think from a Public Health perspective and just in general, this initiative will save lives and it will address the Behavioural Health crisis that were currently seeing on the streets. The mayor is proposing, among other things, an expansion of 1,000 beds in our Behavioural Health system from residential law facility to boarding care facilities. Thats a 50 expansion in terms of what we already have. The initiative is built around four pillars. One is creating a more coordinated system of care, reinforcing and expanding our outreach efforts and further creating no barrier and lowbarrier care. Two is strengthening and expanding our treatment options. So our programs the programs that work are expanding, and we have new innovative programs being launched and eliminating wait times for care whenever is possible. Three is strengthening our Behavioural Health Care Workforce both in Civil Service and our community partners. We know that recruitment, retention, and Career Development is a challenge for people and this will make sound investments to make that work. Number four is ensuring that people have access to Housing Options to help aid them in their recovery. Another key component is ensuring that we have evaluation and monitoring systems. So we develop feedback loops to learn what is working. We develop a system to learn whats working and adjust for whats not. We know that recovery is possible for people who have Behavioural Health issues. We know the system is working for most of the 30,000 people who are already in our system. I think its important and well timed for the department to start thinking beyond that number of people and look at where were failing. We need to expand and have the resources to do better using evidencebased ways. From helping San Francisco to addressing the aids crisis, weve done great things and im confident on this initiative and the support of you in the public, we will be able to move forward. A few other things on the directors report. Im proud to announce that mayor breed and a few other supervisors announced the adult residential facility that we talked about a couple of weeks ago at commission. Im pleased to say theres a balance that we agreed to where there will be a continuation of the adult residential facility. The final state after april 2020 is we would be running 41 beds in that facility and maintaining 29 lowbarrier hummingbird beds. In the interim, five people will be moved, provided its clinically indicated or they agree to move to other facilities, to open up a 14bed hummingbird that would last in april. People would be moved from that hummingbird to other hummingbird options and we would reopen to the state of 41 beds. Really pleased that we were able to come to some agreement. I think the staff input and the collective problemsolving let us move in the right direction. The governor just another key piece of news in our rapidly developing Behavioural Health field, the governor signed sb40 into law which helps strengthen our conservatorship and will help more people in what i consider lifesafing conservatorship. We will be able to help people for up to six months, provided they meet a number of criteria with regard to what these bills regarding we see the multiple offers of care. So we are working on this. A work group has been established. We expect to enroll people starting the 1st of the year. Those are my key updates. There are a number of other things in the directors report, but in the interest of time and with the respect of the commissioners, i wanted to stop and take additional questions of what i mentioned and answer any questions that answered you in the report. Commissioner green. Thank you so much. These are wonderful announcements and wonderful news. Do you have any sense for when the plan to reopen the rf beds might actually occur . Is because we have to address the Patient Safety and quality care issues. I think it was uncertain when we could accomplish that and if you had a sense of that Going Forward. The current state of the r. F. Needs improvement. While we dont think at this time any patients are in acute danger, we think things could be better in terms of strengthening our quality of care. Ive asked for a root cause analysis Going Forward to determine what are the staffing, what are the resource, what are the cultural issues that we need to fix in order to improve that. I think one of the key things that will help us understand that better is the working group that this agreement reached. So there will be a working Group Problem solving on a wide variety of issues while we continue to make significant improvements in the r. F. Going forward. The thing is, the r. F. Is not closing. We will have the r. F. As we in the interim between the final state. We will have the r. F. Afterwards, right. So we need to continue our current efforts to make the r. F. Better, but this working group that will be meeting soon and establishing a process for root cause analysis will really, i think, hold the deeper answers. In april when were ready to go to the 41 r. F. S, hopefully, well be able to do that in a way that is optimal for patient care. Thank you. Other questions . Okay sorry, dr. Chow. Im actually quite excited about the Mental Health plan, first of all, because i think it offers many specifics that are really right on the ground. It addresses our workforce problem, allows us to have resources to do what the mayor would like to have as the program for our Mental Health and substance disorder. So its very specific. Do you have an idea within this is there a time frame that some of these will be coming on that we could also be monitoring with you in the Mayors Office . Im glad theres an outcome component at the end, but as some of these come online, would we get an update on these . Now were going into these other units or were in the course of hiring this or were now working. I know were going to talk about the wholeperson program today. So thats one element. Im wondering if we sort of have a map of how were going to work with this, knowing that these details are still in flux probably. As we get more specific, it would be really helpful to understand the road map of this. You certainly put together, and so have with the supervisors the adult facility use and you have a timeline for that, which i think is really good. It would be nice to know how we would be looking on, as best as we could, what we would be expecting in now called urgent care San Francisco. Is that unreasonable . So absolutely not, commissioner. Just to also provide a little more perspective. Urgent care s. F. Is really a continuation of things the mayor has already started investigating in. If you think about the hiring of the director of