We spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San FranciscoSheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work Together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. Having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. We are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. Agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. Collaboration is good for the department. It gets us all working in the same direction. These are complex issues we are dealing with. When you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to Work Together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. We have done it very, very well. The model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are communitybased organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. Nobody wants to see drug users in jail. They want them to get the correct treatment they need. We are piloting lead in San Francisco. Close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. Our goal in San Francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the Racial Disparity we see. We want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. It goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. Case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. I have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flatout on my own. I witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. Transgenders getting beat up. I saw people shot, stabbed. These are people that have had many visits to the county jail in San Francisco or other institutions. We are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. All of the referrals are coming from the Law Enforcement agency. Officers observe an offense. Say you are using. It is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. The officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. Are you ever heard of the leads program. Yes. Are you part of the leads program . Do you have a case worker . Yes, i have a case manager. When they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. Ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. Primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. If they were violent they wouldnt qualify for lead. You think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the Substance Abuse issues i am dealing with. They would contact with the outreach worker. Then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. We can take you. Lets meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. Bring them to the Community Assessment and Services Center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of Public Health staff to assess the treatment needs. It provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. They go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. Someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. Then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasnt shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. They can offer Services Based on their needs as individuals. One of the key things is our approach is client centered. Hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take . We are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. It is a Program Based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. We are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. It opens doors and they get access they wouldnt have had otherwise. Supports them on their goals. We are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. Because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. It is all on you. We are here to guide you. We are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. It is you telling us how you want us to help you. It means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. They pick up the phone. It was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. No matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody elses phone by calling them they always answered. In officebased setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. This has been helpful to see the outcome. We will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. First to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. Can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. It is all part of the home reduction model. You are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. This is an important question where lead will go from here. Looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. If it is for five months. Hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. I want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. It can be somebody scaled out. That is the hope anyway. Is a huge need in the city. Depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. We all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide. I think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. More importantly, it will save lives. Francisco. My name is fwlend hope i would say on at largescale what all passionate about is peace in the world. It never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. One man said ill upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act gods love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the Network Ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed Memorial Services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of San Francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution ive seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. Special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who ive become and you made that possible life didnt get any better than that. Whove would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in San Francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. I dont want to just so women younger women become a part of the the Current System we need to change the system we dont need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and theyre out there. We get have to get to help them. We are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came we had a good time. Made a lot of friends here. Crisises part of the 2008 clean Neighborhood Park fund, and this is so important to our families. For many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. This is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. A reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of San Francisco. They took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert American Airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. I would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping pong, so i accept your challenge. It is an amazing spot. It is a state of the art center. Is beautiful. Quarkrights i would like to come here and join them. Clerk item number 1, call to order. [roll call] clerk we do have a quorum. Let me take the opportunity to those who may be up and running this morning, welcome to the San FranciscoTreasure Island information and development committee, and let me give a shoutout to myeesteemmy esteemed commissioners this morning. Next item, please. [agenda item read]. So please, you dont have to have a card, so you can please come on. Okay. It seems there are no public comments. Clerk item number 3, conkent agenda. Proofing the items of the november 5, 2019 meeting. Okay. All in favor . Clerk okay. Item number 4, parks and future events. So Martin Wiggins will give a presentation of the future open spaces. Good morning, chair richardson, members of the committee. For the record, my name is Martin Wiggins, and im presenting on parks events andand programming. I felt the need to start a conversation with the committee on looking forward to park programming and events with an eye to some of the recent events that people are familiar with, so ill run through the presentation and im sure therell be time for discussion and questions. Ill start with events that people are familiar with. The Treasure Island music fe t festival has been here for a few years. In dark pink is the area itself and then staging and parking areas are shown. Its a large event, 10,000 to 12,000 attendees. And then, the duration, while its just kind of a long weekend, theres some set up involved and some takedown. Treasurefest is an event were probably all familiar with, taking place on the west side of the island, 15,000 to 20,000 attendees, and breakdown and set up, and you can see some areas that extend outside of the actual event. And then thirdly, the dragon boat festival. This was a rather large event, 30,000 to 60,000 attendees. It takes up a large amount on the island, and then certainly takes up space in clipper cove, as well. So what weve done for references, overlay those events in terms of the area they take up and also the staging and parking areas and overlaid it over the future parks and open space diagram. And i think the maybe one observation is potentially an inpatibility with a lot of projects. We know there are a lot of active and sports uses plans. We know generally where theyre going to go. Theres passive events, such as in city site park where there is not an active plan but large open spaces. So i think its important to look at the between of those two, what are some events, what are some special events that can occur and where might those occur and just use those as a starting point with a conversation with the committee. So in terms of larger events, ill just run through them. Events greater than 10,000 people, sports do have venues for sports competitions or concert venues. It just shows what could be accommodated in terms of events or potential people attending. 30,000 for the event or 60,000 standing. Comparable to the stern grove festival inside. Events larger than 1,000 people but not up to contemplated to be compensated for in the design thus far, so similar to the yerba buena gardens festival. Smaller events, less than 1,000 people, smaller festivals, art walks. So places you could stage booths, a couple smaller stages, and then several hundred people attending and walking through there. Again, the retail street, city side park, particularly some of the plazas there, and cultural park. Outdoor movie nights, performances, i think, again, cultural park, city side park are places where we could fit up to 1,000 people sitting on blankets with a stage. And then one last group large exercise is that were seeing, so city side park is a place where you could accommodate that, and you could have several hundred participants. So with that, that concludes the presentation. I think its just intended to spur conversation. I expect questions of things that we can look at and come back to. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much for your presentation. Make sure that we would like to have a copy of that presentation so we can go back and use that information for subsequent discussions. There are certain items there that we would like to really go back on. I think for the public and people that are hearing this for the first time, we do have an elaborate plan, and i think theyll unroll this in a few months. We are looking at the parks. We are going to have over 300 acres of open space, more than the golden gate park, so we have all the programs that we need to really look at. We are not the only city doing that. We had some models when we visited new york, and we also know we need programming to allow that open space. Not only are we looking at the area, but the things that will allow that. So there, commissioners, if you have any statement now to add after this before i open that to the public for comment. Commissioner . Thank you so much for that report. Im glad that the team is looking at how the spaces that we are going to be created are going to be used and programmed. You know, the parks and the open spaces are one of the reasons why we are even doing a whole 8,000, you know, Unit Development on Treasure Island. Its also its because of the public spaces that were creating thats going to be open to everybody, not just the residents what are on the island, so we have to pay particular tension to how those plans are going to evolve and how those spaces are going to be used, so thank you very much. I think it is the first time ive heard about the detailed spaces that are going to be at Treasure Island and how they will be used. And i think that its great that theres all these Different Levels of spaces. Theres wide open spaces such as along the waterfront park, theres small spaces that can be used for more intimate events, and im glad that youre exploring how those different spaces will be used and programmed. I think incomeproducing, you know, looking at the spaces, how they can produce income to fund the operations and maintenance of those parks, is extremely important. I think thats something which oftentimes is neglected at the front end of how those spaces can be used and provide income for the continuing plaoperatiof the park. And i think lots of parks around the country are starting to realize that they start tapped into the potential of those public places, and how can they make them more vibrant, how can they make them more active. One of the questions that i have is in looking at the various concerts and music festivals, for example, one thing they missed in salesforce park, which is one of the most recent parks opened in San Francisco, is they looked at things such as music to be performed, but they didnt allow the back for those performances for real concerts to be done, and that seems to be such a glaring example of, you know, not planning ahead of time and not bringing in people who have that expertise so that we can expert be able to use those spaces as we planned, can you tell me a little bit that and what are the practicalities of having musicals as an example . Yes. So in locations where those sort of events have been cont