Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Special Rules Committee 20240712 :

SFGTV BOS Special Rules Committee July 12, 2024

Sixty one percenthousing is not to allow treatment enforcement. If no one will do enforcement, it will also be a waste of time and money. how many callers do we have in the queue . i understand there are five callers left in the queue. Actually theres six. okay. hi thank you for the thought that was put into this revised presentation. Today the coordination across all services for the unhoused is a huge gap resulting in too many unresolved interactions. City personnelif theres a problem with the number of beds available or the number of resources, we want to make sure the resources are available. Please make sure neighbors who regularly see an interact with on the street are a part of that process. Ensure that all groups that are working towards this attained goal and vision work at innovating budgethave the special outcomes and street crisis teams work with other agencies so things that can benefit from Behavioral Health services actually use the services. Thank you so much for all your work, we know its hard. thank you. Next caller. We are reaching the end of our agenda. This is basically last call for Public Comment. If you are interested in giving Public Comment on item number four please call. coordinated care obviously is an important issue here. I want to emphasizewhen the system that by law is set up where we were supposed to ensure that people who were mental little ill and not able to hanle their money to get housing to have their basic needs met or who were addictsthen they are allowed to live in the street. They dont have rent to pay. Nobody except well paid workers has the amount of exposable cash. When that money is supposed to be going for their housing instead. They are not capable of managing that and it goes to drug dealers. People who are mentally ill, self medicate. People who are drug dealers victimize these people. Again, we need to have practic practical thank you. Next speaker. good afternoon chair and supervisors. Im a leader of rescue sf. I urge you to support and fund the crisis response. This doesnt work for people in crisis, it needs to use important city resources. It frawf fuft frustrates neighbe people suffering and wandering the streats everyday. Streets everyday. Im distraught over conditions on our street. As supervisor walton noticedwe feel sadness apri sadness and fd like to help people on our streets. The violent behavior makes it unsafe for neighbor it assist them. This iwe dont see the city addg the crisis. Thats why theres a grass roots coalition. So you can hear our voices in a conductive manner. Our department of Public Health failing all of us. Its failing our homeless rez hs residents an neighbors. Lack of resources is not an acceptable answer. E ph needs to rethink where its placing its resources. Department of Public Health, you are chartered to ensure our Public Health. You rapidly pivoted to deal with covid 19. You need a Rapid Response deep. We see people dying on our street. thank you. Next speaker. hello. Im from the association for[indiscernible]. I think a lot of the citizens of San Francisco dont know is that the only housing available, the only Service Available for people with homelessness is if they are insane or drug abusers. Mental problems and drug abusers. They do not help people if they have medical problems. People have been on the streets a long time before covid 19 s c. I think people have no criminal violent history should be sproa providing housing during a pandemic. Its an actual medical thing that needs to be addressed. There are certainly a lot of nut cases out there and dangerous ones. I have no idea how many Homeless People died of this pandemic. Homeless arm gedon. Lower people on drugs on the street. hello. I will make this brief since i am chiming in on this agenda item as we wrap up. The focus is on the mentally ill population. I support the viewpoint as expressed by rescue sf and a couple of the other callers. Im against defunding the police. I view the police as essential in this effort. Thank you for your time. thank you. Next speaker. supervisors, when it comes to quality of life issues, over the last 15 years today in San Francisco, we are the lowest. Weve tried dumping those that we should be helping in our jail ses. And so called navigation centers. None of these places have wrap around services. The people that we have living in the [indiscernible]. How many people of color are there to help the most needy, the most surferrinsuffering. San francisco charge, the mayor, supervisors rk the ssupervisorst humanity. Shame on yall. thank you. Next speaker. hello. I want to echo the comments of so many speakers. Yes, we need to sup or th suppot teams. We need to embrace sleeping villages. This is in addition to more permanent Affordable Housing. This is an interim tool for us to help people get off scary unsafe sleeping situations and more supported sleeping villages all over the city. There was an article done a while back about 42 sites in the safe sleeping villages. I think every district including district five should seriously be working with our supersizors an thsupervisorsand the board ty advocate with these sites in the district and neighborhoods. We should not just decide that the tender loin and bay view are containment zones. Every neighborhood need to step up and volunteer in our neighborhoods. Thank you very much. thank you. Next speaker. my name is victor. Im someone who lives with a serious mepta mental illness. Fortfortunately im able to accs prey goopretty good care. I wanted to raise the concern around conservatorship. Sometimes people are not able to make the decisions for themselves. In those cases i would say they could use some conservatorship. However, i want to point out that we already have a aot in place which is a strongly designed system of care and its staged and it allows the person who is living with Mental Health illness to be empowered along the process. It doesnt take away the process from them. It does not need to be disped expedited. Yesterday i had a friend that was in crisis and suicidal. The only option i had was to call the police. The police went to her aid. Im strongly in favor of non police staff twenty four seven to go an help folks rather than taking ourmy population into the jails. I would ask you all who want to conserve people at a quicker rate, where are you going to put these people . We have seen a drastic drop in beds in San Francisco. Some people need long term care. Youre going to bring very very seriously menially ill folks thank you. Next speaker. i guess its my turn. Im really disappointed in th thein this program. I live in the tender loin. People need help. This is the fact that black lives movement is across the country. It should not be the police that are doing this. We need an alternative. It should be people who are trained in Mental Health and Assistance Available as an alternative to the system. This is exactlymaybe the wrong slogan, defun the pleas. Defund the the police. But maybe reassign under the purview of professionals. The reform that was made hasnt been making. The police are not the appropriate vehicle. can we be connected to the next caller, please. hi. Id like to make a couple of comments. One, i am strongly opposed to the idea of having safe sleeping sites at middle schools. I presume at some point these schools will be used again for studentsall adults must be accompanied with a child. Why would you have a bunch of individuals, adults and parking lot and middle schools living there. I have a bunch of safety concerns around that. As far as safe sleeping sites. I would personally love to have a safe sleeping site at a diane finfein steins house that woule great. They need to be useful in places where they are going to use them. Yeah, i think thats pretty much all i have to say. Thank you. all right. The Public Comment is now close. If thr was closed. There was a comment abouti believe that the sick hotels are creating a staffing challenge and the need to focus on resources. This was partly in response to eup visosupervisor waltons que. The persons call was saying why would having folks in the Hotels Create greater staffing needs, shouldnt it be reducing your staffing need because people have a room are presumably its generating less need or having less need. Secondly, isnt it more efficient. If you could talk a little bit about the staffing challenge posed by the hotels. a lot of the staff that we are providing close to the shelter in place hotels as well as the isolation and Quarantine Hotels as well as the covid 19 response across the board come from our existing clinical programs. We are tapping the capacity a considers all of our clinical programs, out patient programs, Childrens Program it staff those hotels sm the staf hotels. The staff we had precovid 19 they are all tapped, were stretching everybody. the other thing that ill add is that we are doing comprehensive assessment of everybody we d mit we admit to s and the isolation hotels. When you have people concentrated, newly housed, its really striking how much need you upcover. As we mentioned before, weve been concerned about people in crisis in the hotels about overdoses in the hotels. Its quite disruptive for people to be manufactured where they are living with community an others they trust living close to them and put them into a individual hotel room. There is kuwait a lot of need in the hotel. all right. If my colleague doz not have any other questions or comments. I want to close by thanking dr. Hammer and director simons and mr. Wagner for all of the work youve done in preparation for the june hearing. I think youve given the mayor an board of supervisors a gift in terms of a path towards implementation oaf thimplementat year. Youve shown us the cost of what it would take to make some of these investments if we must make these investments on the streets. Think it is now a question of political willing on th will ons that get made in this building. The budget is currently with the mayor. I have asked she prioritize these investments in her budget. I spoke with saw with supervison and she very much wants to see Mental Health prioritized this next year. I serm wan certainly want to the folks that called in and under scored the tremendous need. I want to thank my colleagues for being willing toif youre not one day of hearings on this but two. Im going to nowthe work hear at Public Safety and services is done. It will continue at the Budget Committee in august. I hope that the people who called in to make themselves heard as the board finalizes the budget. I will move that we file this hearing. We do a roll call on that right . roll call mr. Chair, there are three ayes. great. The motion passes. Thank you mr. Clerk. Thank you d ph for continuing to deal remarkably with our covid 19 challenges as well. Mr. Clerk do we have anymore Business Today . that conclaweds our business foconcludes our busine. then we are adjourned. Thanks everyone. examing potential vehicles and capabilities for a three month deployment. Just a short deployment and next slide please. Its important to recognize the federal and state regulations that are working in the safety standards. Approval is required if we intend and are able to carry passengers and public pangers. Those are the four types of critical approvals that well need moving forward. An area where were demonstrating without the public. Were recognizing the cd nineteen issues here. In all cases were looking at safety as paramount so working through those type of discussions with the regulatory agencies and with that hwa. Next slide, please. Lets talk about the next steps right now. I already drafted and have submitted the double clickments. Concept of operations. Thats a technical term. Later this year and into early next were going to issue a question for information from potential vendors to get their, in essence thoughts and important Critical Data in terms of how they see the industry here and give us information in drafting a request for proposals. Our intent is to issue it in early 2021. Come back to this board in the spring of 2021. And employment late in 2021. We do anticipate coming back to you periodically. Well come to you in the next three to four months advise you of where we stand. Thats our thought process moving forward. Today is just an information item for all of you to understand and the public to understand where we stand today on this very exciting project. Im open to questions now. Thank you. thank you so much. Exphitioner do you have any questions . how many jobs are lost or replaced for because we have. what were thinking is different technicians are going to be required. Always be able to in essence track where the shultle is and be able to inveen in emergency situations. Just so you are clear in terms of the pilot. They are there and present. Right now thats the thought process. Well learn more as we move forward here. When we talked to potential venters and get deeper into the potential environment. thank you. I know that all of the pilots, we do have actual bodies there obviously this is long term and on going. As we enter through technology which is necessary also be mindful that there are other opportunities that we do provoie for our work force. I do appreciate that. thank you. If i could just add to the answer. Indeed this would actually supplement and compliment the Treasure Island which would continue to operate. This is just to demonstrate. In the longer term the Treasure Island is meant to provide four shuttles for distribution an access to the 25 main line. Its meant to extend the reach. Many folks are absolutely involved in how that integration would happen. got it. Thank you. Seeing no comments from commissioner. Do we have any Public Comment on this item. he wrote in the chat to speak. there are different pilots throughout the United States that have received federal grants. The technology is what allows the vehicle to see whats in front of it, et cetera. i like the most ambitious uses. You wouldnt want to put one of these in downtown San Francisco right now. In the middle of a very crowded congested dynamic environment. That would be the search place. Its being used in that place anywhere. The executive director has been to road one in las vegas, they had a shuttle in a protected lane basically in a loop im told to pick up passengers et cetera. Weve seen it on College Campuses and visited Sacramento State university to see that in play. Also in another county there has been a short deployment in bishop ranch. They are testing often the old Naval Weapons Station there. what is going wrong in an Autonomous Vehicle . really when it comes to the technology right now, whats going wrong and what we have seen is the ability, its very sensitive in terms any object that comes out in front of it. It will break and stop. The question becomes can it do that like a human would do where it recognizes the issue and understands the peril in front of it and continue it proceed. Those are the things we need to look the as part of this. You should see this definitely as a study. theres a driver that tells you what to do. When you your automatic mouse vehiclyour Autonomous Vehiclesh . the Public Utilities commission is the one that provides permits for testing and deployment. Particularlydeployments that invest testing of the public. None are able to provide any commercial services yet. Itswere so early. Most permits are of a rea search nature. We call them testing pilots. Arizona has been morefurther along in allowing more testing. The vehicles all have people in them. They are testing. They put their hands on and call it engagement or disengagement. With these early testing pilots. There are issues and they are identifying the drisks. The regulators are try to goingo ensure the regulations are thorough. This project will be mostly looking at very simple route to see how it performs on the islands. We might have some testing on the segments to see how it does on grades or the foggy conditions sm the point is we want to provide a basis for research and evaluation for members of the public to experience what it feels like and to get feedback. thank you. thank you, so much. Anymore questions . No. Seeing no more questions. Do we have Public Comment . there is no Public Comment. thank you so much. Item three was actually an information item. Madam clerk, will you please call the next item. item four bicycle path information study. thank you so much. I believe it is your show again. yes, it is. Very excited to talk about our update on efforts here. Thank you. You can go to the next slide please. Just to set the context for background. The Transportation Authority utilized two thousand dollars starting in early 2019. The intent was to study the Treasure Island existing plan bicycle net work. There are some gaps that needed to be further investigated and working in partnership with the Treasure Island authority. And other partners that ill mention. Were here to give you some recommendations to improve overall connectivity for all pedestrians and bicyclists. I want to make sure that youre clear on essence. What we see on clear connection points. Areas we believe the public would be very excited to be part of in terms of their experience on the island. The terminal right now is being constructed by Development Team sm the plan is to have that complete in about a year. Thats going to be the transit

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