Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

I would like to thank our colleagues from sfgov tv for broadcasting this. Clerk any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted. Would you call item number one. Clerk 1. Resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 300,000 from the California Department of housing and Community Development to provide funding the west side of San Francisco districts 1, 4, and 7 for i am the sponsor of this particular item. And i just want to also really thank member ting to have worked closely with us to secure these funds in support of our neighborhood in the west side of San Francisco growing our capacity to get rental buildings. In my district over the last ten years, ive last 400 units of Affordable Housing. On the east side of San Francisco, there are several amazing nonprofit organizations that help stabilize these buildings through acquisition and property management. On the west side, we simply do not have the organizational capacity to meet this need. This funding will help us change that and im so appreciative of phil ting to his commitment of preservation of Affordable Housing on the west side. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisor stefani and mandelman. Supervisor fewer provided the context for this grant, so i wanted to talk a little bit about the timeline for implementation and awarding the grant. So the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development released a notice of Funding Availability for small sites on september 13, and as part of that we included a portion of funding for capacitybuilding grants. The west side Planning Grant was included as part of that nofa. So applications for the capacitybuilding grants were due on november 1st. We conducted our Proposal Review Panel for reviewing the application. We expect to notify grantees of their award by the week of december 16. From there, well enter into a Grant Agreement for the west side Planning Grant. And the Work Associated with this grant would start in january 2020 and the grant term would be one year. Thats the timeline for implementation. Were really excited about this opportunity. This is the first time weve had capacitybuilding as part of small sites, and were excited to support our sponsors and growing their capacity to engage in this program. Im happy to answer any questio questio questions. Thank you very much. I am thrilled also. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 1, seeing none, this is closed. I would like to make a recommendation to move that to the board with a positive recommendation. Clerk would you like to send this to the full board with Committee Report . Yes, please. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. Clerk 2. Resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the california debt to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 38,700,000 for 53 colton street; thank you very much. I believe we have joyce flen he here. Good morning, supervisors. My name is joyce flen. Im here to present on item 2. This item relates to the resolution for proposed bond issuances for 53 colton. The purpose of the resolution before you is to approve the hearing the city conducted to comply with the federal tax equity and financial responsibility act, or tefra, and enable the project to apply for bond financing. The proposed bond issuance will be conduit financing and will not require the city to pledge any of its funds to the repayment of the bonds. This is a 96unit affordable new construction project located on colton street between goff and 12th street. Approximately 35 units will rehouse permanent tenant leases from the neighboring civic center hotel, which is a singleroom occupancy building. All units will serve formerly homeless adults. This will be subsidized with the citys current funding program. It is currently a parking lot. We anticipate the project will Close Construction financing and Start Construction as early as september 2020. Here with me today is serena calloway a representative from the Community Partnership and katie strather. We would like to thank you for your consideration today and look forward to your support for this project. Thank you very much. There is no bla report on this. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 2 . David elliot louis. Im a resident and a board member. I get to observe the organization from the bottom up and the top down. This is an organization ive been involved with for over a decade. Its really well run. They do remarkable work. This particular project will provide almost 100 units of permanent Supportive Housing in the high 90s. For hitting a population thats less than a quarter of ami and a population thats unhoused. They will be again saving lives. People will be placed through coordinated entry, the department of homes, Supportive Housing. Its a really good project. This agency has a good track record of success. Theyre well respected in the field of permanent Supportive Housing. Theyre fiscally sound. I hope you will support this ask. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. There is no bla report. Any questions or comments from my colleagues . Lets move this to the board with a positive recommendation. We can take that without objection. Madam clerk, can you please call item 3. Clerk 3. Resolution fixing prevailing wage rates for 1 workers performing work under city contracts for public works and thank you very much. I believe we have pat mulligan with us. Good to see you. Good morning, supervisors. This is the annual submission before the board for San Franciscos prevailing wage standards. It includes the ten classifications Service Sector under 21 c as well as the 60plus with hundreds of subclassifications that are recognized by the California Department of industrial relations. Its frequently a consent item. Just so everyones aware, there is some controversy over 21 c 3 as related to the car rental facility at the San Francisco international airport. There is some pending litigation related to that. That should have no impact on the submittal before you today. Its worth noting that 21 c 3 has not changed from the previous years. It reflects no change in that item. Could we have the bla report, please. Good morning, chair and members of the committee. This is just the annual approval by the board of supervisors of the prevailing wages for 2020 for covered classifications. We talk about page 3 of our report shows the various categories of workers that would be covered, and attachment 1 gives more detail on some of the classifications to be covered by this. Catchment 2 summarizes some of the changes for each of the categories of workers that would be covered. In terms of the impact so the proposed prevailing wages based on collective bargaining agreements and was approved by the Civil Service submission. The potential impact to the city is unknown. It would really depend on how much of this is passed through in contracts to the city, but because the board has discretion over how they choose the wages and doesnt have to take these recommendations, we consider this a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Thank you very much. Any members of the public like to comment on item 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, that is closed. I would like to say prevailing wage is important for our workers in San Francisco. It is as bla said, it is negotiated agreements about how much people should and need to be paid actually for fair wages for the work performed. It ensures equity and sets a standard for what workers should be paid in the private sector. While i did work on the school board, i ensured that our workers were being paid at prevailing wage. Having said that, id like to make a positive motion to pass this to the full Board Committee report. I can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Please call the next item. Clerk scloipt 4. Ordinance amending the administrative code to establish Mental Health sf, a Mental Health Program Designed to provide access to Mental Health services, Substance Use treatment, and psychiatric medications to all adult residents of San Francisco with Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders who are homeless, uninsured, or enrolled in medical or healthy San Francisco. Thank you very much. And i believe we have supervisor ronen here to join us. Good morning, everybody. Im sorry for being late. And im so incredibly excited to be here. After two years of studying and planning how to fix the growing Mental Health crisis in San Francisco, supervisor haney and i reached an agreement last month with mayor breed to implement Mental Health sf in collaboration with her and the department of public health. Just on behalf of supervisors haneys behalf, he is out of town and couldnt be here today and sends his regrets, but would pretty much not want to miss this for the world but happened to be out of town. Im absolutely thrilled to be moving Mental Health s. F. Forward today. The legislation before you reflects our joint commitment to solving our Mental Health crisis on the streets, with particular attention paid to the intersections between homelessness, Mental Illness, and Substance Abuse. San franciscans will soon have access to a comprehensive Mental Health care program. We designed the system to provide access to Mental Health services, Substance Use treatment, and psychiatric medications to vulnerable residents, specifically those who are homeless, uninsured, or enrolled in medcal with severe Mental Illness. This includes a number of components. A 24 7 Mental Health service center, a 24 7 street Crisis Response team, a drug Sobering Center, an office of coordinated care, increased beds at every level of the system, as well as case managers for everyone who needs them. An office of private Health Insurance accountability for those residents who do have private insurance but are unable to access timely care. I want to thank you to the hundreds, the literally hundreds of frontline workers, labor unions, and advocates, including nurses, Mental Health care workers, social workers, family members, consumers of Mental Health services, and Community Agency leaders for believing that we can do better. A very special thank you again to my colleague supervisor haney for fighting alongside of me every step of the way and to our incredible Mental Health s. F. Committee who worked so hard on every detail of this legislation, many of who i see here in the audience today. I also want to thank the other supervisors who worked on this. Finally i want to thank mayor breed and her staff for her willingness to work with us to find unity and to dr. Colfax and his staff for their collaboration. Now that we have developed this program, i want to thank all of my colleagues for their cosponsorship. We hope to move forward with the appointment of all members of the Mental Health s. F. Implementation working group as soon as possible early next year once this legislation becomes law. The mayor has then committed to hiring the director of Mental Health s. F. By next summer and to expediting major renovations to the citys current Behavioral Health Access Center so that it can be transformed into the new 24 7 Mental Health service center. Most other aspects of Mental Health s. F. , however, cannot move forward until we have identified a longterm Funding Source for the measure. I am thrilled to have a strong commitment from mayor breed to work with us to identify at least 100 million per year in new funding to fully realize Mental Health s. F. In efforts to reform the business tax or through other reform measures. I will not rest and i know supervisor haney will not rest until we have the funding that we need to fully realize Mental Health s. F. We will continue to explore every possible option for funding, including the idea of an excessive c. E. O. Salary tax, if necessary. Needless to say, we have a lot of work ahead of us, but today i cant be more thrilled to officially launch us on our first step of that work by introducing a few amendments on the current draft of the legislation that im asking my colleagues to send and asking to be sent to the full board with positive recommendations. I wanted to go over the few small amendments. I believe we passed this out ahead of time, but if you need more copies i will be send those down. The first thing that we have done is made two small edits to the definition of harm reduction. On page 8 replacing the term self harming twice, the first with the word harmful and subsequently with the term specific. Second, we have added two seats to the Implementation Working Group. It now has 13 seats instead of 11, six appointed by the board of supervisors, six appointed by the mayor, and one will be appointed by the city attorney. As it states on page 20, line 20, the additional mayoral seat will be held by a Substance Abuse treatment provider. As it states on page 21, seat 13 will be held by a person with expertise in the field of health law appointed by the city attorney. Finally on page 23 we state that the Implementation Working Group will work with both the controller and the department of Human Resources to conduct a staffing analysis, not just the controller as previously stated. I see that dr. Colfax is mentioned and i want to thank you for your collaboration and work on this. I see behind you dr. Nigusse bland who has put time into this and will be very much a part of implementing Mental Health s. F. I wanted to acknowledge you. There are several other members of the incredible Behavioral Health staff. I want to say this has never been about the work of the frontline individuals in the Behavioral Health department. You are all the most Extraordinary People that i have ever had the pleasure of needing and your work on a daily basis is the most difficult work that requires fortitude and love and commitment and hard, hard work. This is about creating a system for you so that your work can be easier, more sustainable, more longlasting, and ultimately more effective. I also wanted to acknowledge the Labor Council and several unions. Ken from the sheriffs association. Your commitment to this legislation is honestly such a major part of how we got here. I see steve fields, the executive director of the progress foundation, whos part of the committee and is much of the brain behi

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