Former clients of us. I come today to show my appreciation to your support to save the beds at the arf and save our clients from being moved away from their homes for many years. Thank you, supervisor ronen and mandelman for coming to see what a Great Program we have at the arf and the buildings in general. Thank you for taking time to listen to their stories as well as how the program works. I look forward to work to improve the working environment. I am eager to cooperate with management and staff and residents to form a safe and healthy working place as provide the best care for our residents. Thank you for your support. I am amy wong. I am a Mental Health specialist and member of ifpte local 21. I have worked at the Health Center for 20 years. 18 of our clients were suddenly given eviction notices. Many would have been put on the path to the streets at a time when the city is in the Mental Health and homelessness crisis. Our union gave me hope for this change. After months of fighting, i am here to celebrate good news for San Francisco. We have stopped evictions. We have saved the arf, and when the eviction notices were given, management refused to negotiate. They tried to blame the workers, but we knew the truth. We fought, we got organized, nurses, meaningtal health workers, residents, Community Members came together. In a few weeks we collected over thousands of signatures for our petition. We shut down the Mental Health commission meeting. We won. Now there is a new law to give us, the staff, a voice. The agreement includes checks and balances and reaccountability over management from th the board of supervisor, yeah, hillary. This can be a model for the rest of the city. We can get the proper training, staffing to make sure we can give our residents the care they deserve. My workers and i are extremely grateful to Hillary Ronen and matt haney for standing side by side through us throughout the whole campaign. We have a voice and we are respected and we have value. Thank you. I am sarah larson, Mental Health treatment specialist. I have been working here since before it opened. We have accomplished a lot to keep it open, our work isnt done yet. The budget for is so closely guarded not even the Program Directors know what is in it or where it goes. I have seen how under funding the program under mines the services no funding for activities, clothing, shoes, basic things people need to get by every day. Where is the money going . Lack of resources and staffing put more and more on the staff to make sure the vulnerable residents are taken care of. We are expected to fundraise to pay for activities in a publicly funded program. I personally have to recycle trash. This is an outrage. It was able to happen because our facility has been flying under the radar for a very long time now. Clients and workers voices have been ignored by management and i look forward to discussing this in the works group which gives staff a voice. I want a recommitment to rehabilitation. As we step forward the dph sent the unions a notice to contract out 192 million of Behavioral Health services work. We have requested Background Information and we know San Francisco is not broke. We are surrounded by billionaires. We deserve better and the clients and citizens deserve better. We are only able to get it if we hold management accountable. Thank you for all of the support you have shown us so far. Good morning. I am deana chan and president of the rehab professionals of local 21. Amy and sarah are chapter members. I am here to support our members who stood up and fight the unacceptable practices. We are grateful that the director colfax showed the workers the respect they deserve by sitting down to negotiate a mutually acceptable solution. Local 21 is concerned by the lack of staffing and training and unfilled positions. We are concerned as the positions are unfilled the union received constant requests worth millions of dollars to contract out to people not trained to handle the diverse and challenging patient population. We hope the director can sit down and have a conversation with city workers to discuss why contracting out city jobs is a bad option for clients and workers. Thank you to supervisors ronen and haney for championing workers rights and thank you to our brothers and sisters at 1021 and the Labor Council and Union Workers for coming together to help stop evictions of mentally ill patients. Remember that Union Workers and Health Care Professionals are prepared to fight to make sure our patients come first. Thank you. Next speaker. Can i also thank supervisor mandelman. Your time is concluded. You have to go to the next speaker. Next speaker, please. I am with the Community Housing partnership as community organizer. We are leading the treatment on demand coalition. I want to mention that it is hard on people like myself with mental illness. It is important that we work together, not against each other. This whole process out in the public and our newspapers where the decisionmakers battling against each other, not working with each other can be difficult on people with a direct impact. The treatment on demand Coalition Supports this resolution as part of the whole towards achieving treatment on access. We understand Supportive Housing is crucial towards community stability. The root causes of most Mental Health is poverty and unequal access. Economic and Racial Justice must be part of all dialogue and broadbased solution. Thank you. Jennifer with the coalition on homelessness. We could only have Effective Solutions when they come not from the distant top but the true experts, those living and working this. I appreciate the victory and work that went into it. This is not done. Our system is truly in shambles. We have nowhere near enough want and those lucky enough to get a bed are released back to the streets and end up in worse shape. We have a need and empty beds in every part of the system there for political or bureaucratic holdups. We have overdoses on the streets and have the dangerous Counter Measure that not only has a poison pill but calling for return to the failed drug war. You know, to slam hard on possession, refill our jails, it is going to lead to fatal overdoses, not address the Mental Health issues. We reject the idea there is only two choices we tolerate on the streets or lock people up. There is a huge amount of area in between those two things. We can set out a blueprint to rebuild this system positively to pull away from the politter cam games, stop using folks for political fodder and make a difference. That is what we are calling on you all and the Mayors Office to do. Thank you so much. Before we go to the next speaker to the honored members of the public. Please respect board rule 1. 3 in prohibition against applause and other vocal support. Thank you. Bryan edwards with coalition oned homelessness. In the last month i learned a lot about a lot of things. I have an aunt who is very right wing. She lives in philadelphia. She said you are on fox news. I said what . And she said screaming at a hearing. I guess they were talking about james loyce. I want to thank you. That was fun but it showed me direct action does work some times. That is not my experience. That is not what i am comfortable with i dont like shutting down Public Meetings but if that is what it takes, that is what it was taking at this time. In the last month none of it is good. The people that work for the department of Public Health are fing am macing. What they are prohibited from doing. It doesnt make sense. It is very San Francisco and we have a ton of money and we do things really dumb and tend to over rely on law enforcement. I also found out this month if someone wants to get a shelter bed at 2 00 a. M. On a sunday and doesnt want cops to be involved, they have to be in psychosis. Ems doesnt have access to the h beds. I called 311 and said can you send anyone beside cops. They sent a fire engine that almost hit a gentleman in a crisis. They said are you going to hurt yourself . He said no. They went by. We need to get priorities straight and let the professionals when it comes to addressing homelessness it is needing professionals, not law enforcements. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am marcus heisman. I lived at the arf since 2010. I am glad that we had a victory to save the beds. However, i dont think that the hummingbird should have one blasted bed at all. Get another property and leave us residents alone. I am very comfortable at the arf. It is my home. Dont take it away from me please, as an openly gay man. Thanks, goodbye. Next speaker, please. Michael lions. As part of this program and this demand that homelessness and Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment be treated by the experts and not the police, the biggest one of the biggest steps is to close 850 bryant but not open up some new jail. This can be done. We can see that with that the proposal to proposal to have some kind every placement jail either santa rita, god forbid, or sanbruno or electronic shackle bracelets, those are all following this Mayors Initiative of having the drug wars and having police and having aggressive district attorney. That is part of criminalizing homelessness and Mental Health, and we wont put up with it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am daniel. I am a field representative for 10 to one representing the workers. I am here to support members at the bhc, and also our sisters and brothers from local 21. I just want to say that this whole fight over the past few months could have been prevented if dph just acted right. Dph tried to hide the plan to close the arf from the union. They did not want to put anything in writing. They told the members to lie to the residents. This should not happen. When we reached out to dph five different times, they refused to negotiate with us, refused to engage with workers. They went around and blamed workers for this. This is unacceptable. Until dph starts getting their act right and starts respecting their own workers, these issues will keep happening, the workers will keep fighting. The patients will keep suffering because of this. I thank you for helping us with this campaign. I am afraid it probably wont be the last time because dph if they are going to keep acting like that it is not the last time. Thank you to all of the workers. Next speaker. I appreciate the fact there are far fewer homeless visible on the streets these days. I appreciate that is city has taken so many into the new navigation centers. I applaud the Mayors Initiatives. I have volunteered at a homeless shelter a long time ago. It is a trying population as many individuals experience cpsd, it can make personalities difficult to be around. I would like to know that they are and will receive the psychological counseling they need and require not simply be medicated. I understand that many individuals in prisons are mentally ill. I dont know if they were mentally ill before they entered or became mentally ill in the system. I dont know who is making that diagnosis. If this system is corrupt people are being diagnosed as mentally ill to have a captive audience or market. Any other members of the public to testify on these items . Public comment is closed. Thanks again everyone for all of your work on this important issue and coming to this positive resolution to the arf situation and highlighting the many ongoing needs to address our gaps in our Mental Health and Behavioral Health system. I want to acknowledge we are joined by supervisor peskin. I am going to make some motions. First of all, can we file item one without objection . Can we table items 2 . And items 4 without objection . Can we accent amendments to item three without objection and recommend it to the full board without objection . Thank you. Mr. Clerk please call item five. Resolution eve receive receiving the annual report for tuism submitted by the property Improvement District law of 1994 and Management Agreement with the city. Thank you. I would like to welcome chris. Thank you. Oawd Senior Program manager. This is the fiscal year 20172018 report for the tourism Improvement District. As you know the Community Districts are governed by the 1994 act and local law. The resolution covers the annual report ensuring the bids are meeting the Management Plans and conducting the annual review and provides a board of supervisors memo in your possession. This is a business based district. It is assessment placed on businesses and in this case hotels, motels. There are two zones. Zone one in the red zone you see downtown in the core of San Francisco and zone two which is the outer neighborhoods of San Francisco. Both are business based districts. In official budget was 27 million. In fiscal year 20172018 it was 23,600,000. They are to expire on december 31. It was p. M. 19 mill i dont see and the fis Million Dollars. They are to expire on june of 2045. For the owd there are three benchmarks what is the variance between the management and fiscal year budget. Two. The variance between the amount and expenses. Three whether the tid and med indicate the funds carried to the next fiscal year and designating projects for future years. I would like to thank the Audits Department in determining these benchmarks. The tid are run by the executive director. Lynn is not here. Cassandra, the Senior Vice President at sf travel will present the operations. The tid Service Areas are marketing and promotions, service to the convention center, administration costs. The expansion of themu the markg fund and future capital as well as administration. For 20172018 they met the first fiscal year budget benchmark as did the mascone expanse district. For checking for actual the tourism district did meet the benchmark. Mosmoscone melt this as well. Then met the Carry Forward. They did meet this benchmark. The moscone met the Carry Forward and met the benchmark. In completing the annual reports and financials we set forth the following recommendations. First, the districts were successful in implements the Management Plan and met the benchmark requirements. They successfully remedied the violation of the brown act. The Management Organization implemented the recommendations from the Previous Year regarding website maintenance and ensured the links were working with uptodate information. It is to expire in 2023 abseeking early renew. They have received Technical Support regarding this. If there are no questions for the staff i would like to invite ms. Costello up to present on the accomplishments. Thank you. Thank you, chris. Good morning, supervisor, San Francisco travel. I am here to present a few highlights to comment chris presentation. On the convention side, we had over 1,400 meetings. Our sales team booked 1. 7 million room nights. We had missions to washington, d. C. And chicago reaching 240 meeting planners and attended over 50 trade shows. Our leisure visitors were 60 of visitors. Over 62 of the 10 billion spend is from our international market. Very important to continue to attract those international visitors. We have a number of Visitor Information Centers including the brand new one. If you havent been, check it out. It is gorgeous. They served 600,000 visitors to San Francisco including Convention Attendees. We have an incredible staff comprised of paid and volunteers speaking over 12 languages. That is a big asset to international visitors. We have my sf which trained 400 people to be tourism ambassadors. San francisco saw 25 million visitors. We hope that continues to climb. We will continue to try to make that number climb. We 4,375,000,000 3. 7 million visitors and that is over 1 21 Million Dollars in impact. Our twitter had 215,000 followers. Our facebook over 500,000. I want to note for context that our destination Management Organizations were in the top tier in terms of social impact. These are impressive when you look at other dmos around the country. Our moscone expansion had 500 million project. It was completed on time and on budget and opened earlier this year. We had a phasedin portion of the construction so we allowed the building to stay open to accommodate Convention Attendees to continue to come through the building. This was challenges with construction noise and impact. We were able to mitigate the impacts