Services. [please stand by]. Second, the budget assumes that placements of clients in other Housing Alternatives p predominantly in the second half of the fiscal year would allow the city to ramp down this s. I. P. Program as the other programs are ramped up, and thats essential because were planning for our world in unknown timing where the city will work to have these individuals housed but without the fibenefit of fema reimbursements. Our latest projections, which we published earlier today and which you all have, indicate that some early costs with some modest delays in the implementation of the project, its projected to go beyond its costs by approximately 75 million. The plan is heavily heavily re fema, and id be happy to answer any questions that the board has after abigail presents. President yee abigail . [please stand by]. Many who come from all over the city as well as our nonprofits have our deep gratitude for rising to this occasion, and our commitment to rehousing of everyone is stronger than any community that we are aware of in the country. This has not changed. These were always intended to be temporary, and i will be candid, both one of the biggest opportunities and challenges that the city has ever faced in the homeless face. Im going to continue to underscore that this is the first that any locality has tried to do a massive rehousing during a pandemic. As you heard from the controller, h. S. H. Has some, little, no control over many of the key funding resources, and we do know quite a bit about the Economic Outlook in the city, as well. Were subject to the will of the pandemic, and so while were put approximating our best foot forward based on National Best practice, plan, and guidance, were using our data to guide along the way. So from a big picture perspective, the s. I. P. Hotel was successful in protecting the public during this pandemic time. Thousands of people were able to shelter in place and be kept safe from the virus. As the pandemic continues, they have become a nonsustainable portion of the response. They are not housing, they are shelter. As we respond to the early crisis of the pandemic in anticipating this, we simultaneously developed a plan to bring on more short, medium, and longterm resources for people transitioning out of hotel. To supervisor waltons point, we dont have those at day one for all the 2,300 guests, but we have some of these new resources now as well as resources in our current portfolio, and we need to begin to move people into stability to continue to protect them from the pandemic, and we are seeking another request through prop c and other pandemic resources. In these plans, people will not be going to shelters and safe sleep. This has been misunderstood in the media, and i want to clarify that. We know that people in these hotels are covid vulnerable. If ultimately and this is really quite important. If, ultimately, the rehousing requires more bridging and time at the end, we will address that, but given the fiscal realities and uncertainties you heard from the controller, we need to begin to rehouse people now, and we need to do so with urgency. Last week, we started at three hotels with a pilot to learn. We had a series of appointments for everyone who wanted to participate in the building. If theyd done an assessment, we matched them to housing. If they had not, we had that problem solving diversion conversation, and we did the assessment. Because the pilot only wrapped up yesterday, were still digesting this data. But, for example, when the week began, this site had 45 participation in housing assessments. After a few days onsite, they had 75 to 80 . It was our first pilot housing fair, and we need to keep continuing on the process, knowing that nobody knows exactly how to do this during the pandemix, but our intention would be to short up our housing process and go week after week. My final focus is really around prop c. As h. S. H. Shared with our city, our Home Committee yesterday, we are recommending the release of prop c funds prior to 2021 to support the rehousing response and s. I. P. Rehousing. It will include the immediate expansion of Housing Resources to increase and lease new units of p. S. H. , and to sustain the plexibility housing subsidy pool and expand it, which was launched by mayor breed and Tipping Point during the pandemic with just this intention in mind. Funds from the shelter bucket, which are separate and distinction from the housing process, but we know we still have many unsheltered neighbors on the street. And finally, yesterday, as i mentioned, we did present recommendations for Emergency Response to the ocoh committee, our city, our Home Committee. This month, we intend to present a proposed spending plan to the ocoh committee with recommendations to release funding to support the emergency rehousing that i just reviewed, and in december, we look forward to preventing the proposed spending plan to the budget and finance committee, as well as a process that weve been talking to your offices about to collaborate with stark holdestark with Stakeholder Feedback on the remaining portions of fund so that in december and january, we can go out with the oc ocoh committee, with your offices, and listen to feedback. Thank you for your time, and for working to ensure San Francisco is a safe place for all of our neighbors. I do want to say that weve put our best plan in place, and as we begin the rehousing effort each day, we are subject to the pandemic, and we have a lot of work to do. No one has attempted to do this during the pandemic, but we need to do it now and course correct as our data leads us along the way. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen, did you want to ask questions now or do you want to wait for the other presenters . Supervisor ronen i can wait for the other presenters, either way. President yee yeah, why dont we do that so we can hear everybody. Supervisor ronen okay. Sounds good. Sounds good. President yee thank you very much. So let me bring up the people, i guess, from the shelter in place hotels including sarah short, from Community Housing partnership, mary kate bucala from emergency Housing Providers. Would you li providers and [inaudible] would you like to go ahead and start your presentation . Hi. Are you there . Yeah, this is christie saxton. I believe the wrong list was sent to you, president yee, and i believe that beth stokes of e. C. S. Is going to be kicking us off tonight. President yee oh, okay. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead and take it away for us. Yeah, i wasnt listed, so i wasnt sure. Thank you, supervisors. Episcopal Community Services stands in [inaudible] in the homelessness response system in urging the city to pause its Emergency Shelter in place transition plans. [please stand by]. President yee whos next . I think youre up. We are calling for the halt on the demobilization of the s. I. P. Hotel. Were very concerned about the impact that this is going to have on the residents as the s. I. S. I. Residents at the s. I. P. Hotels have been sheltering in place. The closure of these hotels would be impacting the very community, also including our staff that is majority people of color, working class rk working poor folks. Many of folks at my community on delores are latinx and working several jobs to make ends meet. And given the fact that our s. I. P. Hotel opened at the end of july and would close in february would put a large number of our staff in the unemployment line, and our s. I. P. Hotel residents on the streets. Also, one of the things that i wanted to note around equity, is the letter provided to the board of supervisors, equity was mentioned twice, and theres no mention of how this plan will of course equity. What we do see is data on rape being incomplete for 53 of our residents, and ethnicity being incomplete for 84 of our residents. How can such incomplete racial and ethnic data guide the weight, and how can it be that this plan not incorporate the True Partnership and providers who formed this plan. Without the input from other homeless providers and the data, this plan is lacking. Thank you. Good evening, supervisors, again. Im christie saxton, and im here tonight, representing the Supportive Housing network. We also urge a slow down, and i just want to highlight a few things. As Housing Providers, we have been asking for help to fill vacant units for over a year. Prior to covid19, there was over 300 units with permanent Supportive Housing which was vacant, and they continue to be. This also highlights that moveins take a great deal of coordination, time, and above everything else, the science. We cannot simply go in and move people in without fulfilling the requirements, and its not just because people say we cant, were bound to the federal, the state, and the city. Last week, there was a 24hour notice to send some of our staff to housing fairs, where we were told we had to bring our own tables and chairs and hot spots to move residents in, and there were no supports in place for our staff. To ask our staff to go to a housing fair with no notice was unconscionable. We have to comply with all of our grants and contracted. In order to do that, we are asking our partners at the city with h. S. H. To slow down and work collaboratively with us, working partnerships. Lastly, ill say that while our staff have continued to show up every day, they are first responders, they are our true heros in this pandemic right now, and they are being paid at times half of what city worker are being paid for the same work. If we do not receive the same wages and are unable to work in partnership, sorry if this sounds dramatic, we are putting peoples lives at risk, both the residents that we are choosing to serve and our se e staff, and with that, i will offer the floor to joe wilson. Clerk joe, it looks like youre muted. Good evening, supervisors. Joe wilson, executive director of hospitality house and hespa. I would request that the clerk put up the slides on our presentation, please. We should be on slide five. I see its working on getting that shared. I believe nav or brent may have it up on our computer. Ill just start talking, then, in the interests of time. I think that the take away here is that we need to stop and rethink this. Not only do we need a better plan, we need more housing to make this successful. The aim to rehouse 2400 people in eight months is just short of implausible and incredulous. We need to be clear on the language that we use to measure success. [please stand by]. Supervisor ronen if we need to keep these s. I. P. Hotels open for longer, what would be the different costs to the city . Where would be the different pots of money that we could draw from to meet those costs, etc. Its all very vague, and i just dont feel that we as the board of supervisors have been presented with the detailed information we need to weighin in a meaningful way. And ill end by saying that the law that this board of supervisors unanimously passed to obtain 6,000 s. I. P. Hotel rooms has been ignored by this administration and has been violated since day one. President yee ben rosenfield, are you still here . [inaudible]. I can speak to what we know and dont know about fema because its all so up in the air at the moment, and i will talk about some of your programatic question. Like fundamentally, the declaration of emergency at the federal level is controlled by the executive branch, so its fundamentally controlled by the president. It will remain an unknown for us, though, looking ahead, and while i will say that the majority of the way that fema has handled this emergency is to declare it an indefinite emergency, and theyll tell us 30 to 60 days before they cutoff this program, at this point, california help for housing at a noncongregate basis is continuing. But i think there is the risk that fema will fall away at some point. I share your belief that its not going to happen in the current fiscal year. I think its worth reflecting that this program so demobilize a 200 Million Program that weve set up, we need to do it at some point because regardless when we do, we need to do it, we probably will be facing a World Without fema. So your question about kind of the programatic costs, one way to view this is we currently have a 200 Million Program in place for the current fiscal year, and we have 300 million in general fund money supporting it, with the vast majority of the rest supported by fema or other emergency resources that come from the state. So emergency continuing that program indefinitely without those Financial Resources would be crushing for the city. Supervisor ronen but what i i want this i want to see the i want to see the projections. I cant do this kind of math in my head. I want a spreadsheet that says, you know, this is what weve spent so far, this is what assuming the fema reimbursement continues, this is what it will cover each month, this is the gap that we have, these are the potential places that gap money to come from. If we cut the program by half over these period of times, these are the continuing costs. Were just not presented with enough information to be able to weighin in a meaningful way right now. We have been told, as a board of supervisors completely contrary to the unanimous legislation passed by this administration, that this program is being imminently shutdown between now and february, with no opportunity to weighin before now. And i find this irresponsible and extremely frustrating, especially given the fact that the crisis rages on as do the People Living in dire straits on the street. So i hear your doom gloom economic project doom and gloom Economic Projections here, but we dont have them on paper. I appreciate your comments, supervisor. Wed be happy to follow up with you for the kind of information that youre looking for. President yee thank you. I think thats a good idea, because im curious, also, about the projections, and if we and theres a lot of scenarios to play into these projections. You know, we could say if this happens, we need this. If it doesnt happen, we dont need this, so we have to understand that, so i agree with supervisor ronen about that, and we need some better, you know i know everything elses sort of guessing, but we dont even, i dont even have the information to guess, you know, at this point. Supervisor ronen, im sorry. I didnt mean to cut you off. Supervisor ronen no, i appreciate that. I mean, i feel out of this, this is what this committee as a whole hearing is for, and so i dont were basically being asked to take your word on it, you know . And, like, i we have had significant disagreements between this board and this administration on how to ad the homeless crisis during this pandemic, and taking your word for it is not something im willing to do. So i would think, at a committee of the whole, in front of the entire board of supervisors, that wed have some meaty information to discuss, and i dont feel that im armed today with the information that i need, so maybe what im going to ask from you after this is over, president yee, and supervisor walton, is if we can continue this hearing and reschedule it for another day because, i mean, we can all pontificate here, and i dont have all the details before me today. Supervisor walton and we did ask for this to be presented tonight. President yee so supervisor ronen, i will, later on, entertain that motion, okay . Supervisor ronen thank you. And im wondering if we could hear and i know that many of my colleagues could speak, as well, but from abigail, her response on that. There are no alternatives. The shelters are filled to capacity, in their limited capacity. The shared spaces are filled, so where theyre going to go . President yee so the question was asked of abigail. Would you go ahead and answer. Thank you, supervisor ronen and president yee. One of the things that i want to clarify is were not closing them just to make sure we all have the same information. This rehousing and wind down process is anticipated to run through the end of june, and what i want this committee and this committee of the whole to hear very clearly, if we get to the end of the first phase or the end of june, and we havent successfully rehoused people, we are going to need to make an adjustment at that time because the commitment to rehousing is peel. However, if we pause now, we just get farther behind schedule. And so while i do understand we would like to have sort of a perfectly delineated plan before we launch, where we keep everybody in housing, and we keep people well, kind of in limbo, whereas opposed to having permanent Supportive Housing available now, and as youve heard, it does take time to move people into permanent supportsive housing, so Supportive Housing, so we need to begin now, and that is my suggestion to the committee of the whole. We will make adjustments as we go. We already know what worked well and did not work well at our first housing fairs. We know what information we need to get to s. I. P. Hotels and providers. We know we need to drive up advancements before we started at a hotel. We needed to start somewhere, but i wanted to reity raerate,s not february, its june. President yee supervisor ronen . Renaud thank you, president yee, and i will pass this onto the rest of my colleagues who want to weighin here. But even if we get everybody in s. I. P. Hotels in a permanent sort of housing, which would be all of our dreams, okay . We want everyone to have permanent Supportive Housing, we just cant build that housing fast enough to accommodate everyone that needs it, so we have to have [inaudible] for people, and theres not mean options. Theres shared sleeping, theres shelter, theres the street, and theres s. I. P. Hotels. And what really concerns me im not saying you shouldnt wind down some or we shouldnt have this dialogue and i am very aware that we have significant physical challenges in front of us. What i am feeling frustrated about is that this decision was made without consultation of this board in complete contradiction to legally passed legislation by this board without full information so we can have a meaningful dialogue on it without any consideration with what happens to the people that are still on the