Criminals so there is so much to be done in this campaign and she doesnt live in the city and she was in Rural Communities that is really port so im a huge part of the Financial Support so we cant have meth Health Without it and you cant have much Mental Health when thinking differently or whatever chemical disturbs are going on and its being stigma theres one in four people that seek Mental Health services if theyre lucky enough to get them so, thank you. Good afternoon supervisors haney and ronen and supervisors mar and rules committee. I would sure like to see better Mental Health that is everywhere. Looking for words and solutions. Searching but not finding understanding anywhere. I think by the way, happy halloween tomorrow. I think you lost in a massacres aid. I think youre lost in a meth health masquerade. I know you can do this because theres a spark of magic in your eyes. By the way, happy halloween tomorrow too. Candy land and. You know what you got, you got all the rain bows in your favorite shades. Make it come through because you are a Mental Health genie in the skies make it a big wonder, make it a big surprise, i bet you by golly wow and you are what ive been waiting for forever. And every will my dreams come true today. Make it happen, make it happen, make it come our way. Thank you, bye. [applause] that is a difficult one to follow. My name is ruby and i work at the San FranciscoCommunity Health center which is formally Asian Pacific islander wellness center. I want to thank you for doing what you are doing. And share a few things. I want let everyone know ive submitted 28 names to the homeless this year and all of which are waiting for Mental Heath Services every single one of them. Ex i want to make sure you include more people with lived experience and lift them up. We do not need more people coming out of schools. We dont need new teams. There are plenty of us doing this work. We need the funding and weve been derogatory that we do it and we dont need to add new people to this pool. [please stand by] interest issues such as millimeter and housing. I want to tell you my story. 15 years ago, i was a Family Caregiver for two people in my family and i was working full time at the time with Good Health Insurance the two places i went to look for coping with my Mental Health, caregiver stress, it was a lot of bureaucracy and would have loved it if there was an office of private insurance with accountability at that time to help me navigate this. Moving on, supervisor hainey, i liked what you said about a housing component in this, because you might have read the story in the sunday examiner about James Johnson who has been living in a Sobering Centre for 16 months because theres no placement for him. Theres no Supportive Housing placement for him. I have been on the board of organization providing the housing and another thing i would love to see is for the people or case managers who work with some of societys hardest clientelle who makes 45,000 a year and that is simply not enough. Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you for all that you do. I think it demonstrates meeting individuals in need, when in need and at the level in which its needed. I think the individuals need to feel safe with available and qualified First Response teaches. Teams the individuals on the Response Teams are adequate to make assessments that are clientcentered and not dictated. The blueprint also asks for wages that are adequate for Case Management and healthy providers to live and substain themselves in San Francisco. Its time to stop giving this money to nonprofits that are putting them into sros, that are turning into Containment Zones of death. Its time to put it where the First Responders are. We need people peer piers to pi. We need people with experience. I have 15 years experience. This system is taking down me. That is not acceptable. I wont call out the Mayors Office. Ill do that another time but im asking you stand independently based on the response i received from dr. Kolfax on the 23rd of september. We have time to take San Francisco back, put us back on the map and in public view as a place to visit and not to be afraid of and we need to encourage trainings to promote qualitied staff to handle the ones that are already currently being housed. Thank you. I look forward to seeing you at the convention. My name is vlad. I live in San Francisco and i just want to say thank you all for getting together and thank you to everybody for speaking. Mental health affect sals all os equally and im tired of seeing my local brothers and sisters on the streets, not having a place to live or anything to eat or any way of getting help outside of begging on the streets and turned away, so thank you all. I hope this pans out and i really hope this is in isnt anr merrygo round and lets get this passed. Good afternoon. Im a Patient Navigator at the Community Health center known asasasapi wellness and people le myself that are hiv positive need Mental Health care and a system of care for all. It is because of this didnt because i am one of those people that need it and because i work with so many others that need it that i want to thank you for taking the time to acknowledge that and for being the voice in which it is needed so that this bill can pass. So i want to thank you. Thank you so much. applause . Good afternoon. My name is andy stone. Im a San Francisco resident of d9 and im here with the San Francisco aids foundation and advocacy network. I wanted to talk briefly about the citys commitment to getting to zero. Zero hiv transmissions, zero hiv related deaths and stigma. This is an issue that impacts all of us. I particularly wanted to lift up People Living with hiv and Mental Health care needs. People who are here and around in sanfrancisco when the epidemic first hit experienced a lot of trauma and lost a lot of their social support networks and to this day, they have a lot of really complex pyschosocial needs, including access to Mental Health services. They fought for future generations to be able to survive. And now, its our turn to fight and to support them. We cant get to zero unless we address this crisis. Part of that is acknowledging there are dozens people who die every year by suicide and thats unacceptable. I wanted to talk briefly about people who use drugs and how they deserve nonjudgmental services. Many experience a lot of trauma on the street and oftentimes use substances to survive. Every year we see hundreds of folks who die from overdose. Its in our state, city in psychiatry wandwe have to addre. With Harm Reduction services, they respect dignity and im super excited and in full support of Mental Health to support universal access to Mental Health services and also Substance Use services, right . We need more of both of these and they have to be harmreduction based. I stand here strongly in support of this initiative and i am excited to see this. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im ken tray, retired High School Teacher and today im representing the us united educators of San Francisco. Youve heard from other uesf voices but we cant say how important Mental Health usf is. San francisco has at least 2500 students who are living who are homeless or in housing duress. We know those families are under economic pressure, obviously housing pressure, and teachers and paraeducators see that and feel that in their classrooms. And just like we need Wraparound Services to bring our schools up to the place they need to be all of our students, our kids also need the kind of Wraparound Services for their families and often themselves that will give them a fighting chance to succeed in life. On a personal note, theres a guy named bob who lives on the corner of my block and he has sought services from the city and he got into an sro and he said it was such a hell hole of fear and just an outofcontrol atmosphere he prefers living in the street. This is a guy who sits around and reads dashel hamet and he needs help and allows bob to be living on our sidewalks. Hello and good evening. Im michael blakemoore and im here with tara. You havent heard her yet. Im here on behalf of road dogs. We tried very much to try to help the homeless artists, but i would like to put forth putting up housing for the workers here, stop having them come from far away just to come here to work. The homeless, they need housing. Were piling up everywhere, as far as i dont know if i should, but i had a situation with st. Anthonys not too long ago and rather than look at the camera and Pay Attention to what was on the camera, were they cake and piled up on me. And there still hasnt been anything about that, because they made sure to state that they i mean as far as workers helping the homeless, that made sure to state that they were doing better than the homeless. And thats no way for st. Anthony or christians to present themselves. Look into it. While changing healthcare, not handcuffs are part of the Public Policy and Community Organizing and the president of American Federation of teacher 12121 were arrested outside of this hall and could not speak here today. I urge you to support Mental Health sfc so all can access care they need when they need it without the care of income. Treating the Mental Health crisis without income is cruel and costly. We must support our frontline workers and delivering healthcare to all who needs it. Th,and our students in support f making Mental Health sf real for our city now. Now sarah short says, and i quote, healthcare, not handcuffs. Thank you, any a member of the public who has spoken that wishes to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you for your beautiful inspiring words. Thank you for having been in this fight a lot longer than i have and for sticking with it and thank you for teaching us so much about what we need to do right and how to be a model, not only for our region but our state and for our country. We are 100 committed to seeing this through. Hopefully, we like if any of you had asked, we can Reach Agreement with the Mayors Office and get it implemented sooner rather than later. I think thats something we would all love to see. But like others have said, it has to be the big bold vision, the universal system that we allallall need and want. Hopefully we will get there and one way or another, well be passing this or put it in the hand of the voters with this measure thats officially placed on the ballot. We can always take it off but before november 27th, but as of today, this hearing has been heard and were about to file it, but i wanted to see if my colleagues have any other comments before we close this hearing and, really, in order to put this measure on the plot, matt and i needed two other supervisors to sign on with us and supervisors marr and walton stepped up to the plate and didnt hesitate or waiver. They said we know what this needs and we trust the community and labor and we trust our colleagues who have been working nonstop on this. So please just express your extreme appreciation to them. I certainly wanted to express it publically. Thank you, supervisor marr, for being there every step of the way and thank you so much. Any other comments . Seeing none, i will make a motion to file this hearing and without objection, that motion passes. [cheers and applause] madam clerk, any other items. That completes the agenda for today . Then the meeting is adjourned. [ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see grocery stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out