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Engardio. Thank you for filling in today. Mr. Clerk, i like to first of all hear if you have any announcements. Yes, Public Comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. When your item comes up and Public Comment is called please line up to speak at your right. You may submit comment in writing in either of the follow ways, email my San Francisco at victor. Young. Sfgov. Org. You may also send to 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place. Please silence cell phones and electronic devices. Items are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of march 26, 2024. That completes my announcement. Motion to excuse supervisor ronan. On that motion, supervisor engardio, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Vice chair walton, aye. The motion passes without objection. Thank you. Please call item 1. Item 1, motion approving rejecting the mayors nomination of lieutenant leonard poggio to the Entertainment Commission, term ending july 1, 2026. clerk of the board charter, section 4. 117, provides that this nomination is subject to approval by the board of supervisors and shall be the subject of a public hearing and vote within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk of the board. If the board fails to act on the nomination within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk, then the nominee shall be deemed approved. Thank you so much. I believe mr. Poggio is here. You have the floor. Thank you. Good morning. Vice chair walton, supervisor safai, supervisor engardio and member ozf the public. My name is len end poggio. I want to begin by expressing sincere thanks to the mayor for nominating me to the Entertainment Commission Law Enforcement representative seat. I also want to express my sincere hope i receive this Committee Approval as part of the conformation process. You have copies of my resume that detail 22 years and counting with the San Francisco Police Department. I believe i had a truly diverse and rewarding career and most importantly, i believe i would be able to directly apply this experience to the commission to serve the people of San Francisco. I want to share just a little more about myself as well as my goals and vision if im seated on this commission. First, i am born, raised and still living in San Francisco. I am a proud product of the San Francisco Public School system. I live with my wife patricia who immigrated to the city from peru in her 20s where she was able to attend Nursing School and currently serves Many Community today as a registered nurse. We have chosen to raise our two children here in San Francisco where they currently attend elementary school. San francisco entertainment and night life industry is what makes this city a world class destination. It is part of what brings people into the city to enjoy it and to contribute to the economic footprint. My top priority would be to insure San Francisco keeps fostering this vibrant industry throughout our city. I have often been asked how i would balance the concerns and interest of Small Business with the concerns and interest of the Public Safety community. My answer is simple, Small Business and certainly the night life and Entertainment Industry relies on a safe environment to truly thrive and prosper. My goal on this commission would be to maintain this balance as well as communication and partnership. Thank you for your time this morning, thank you for your consideration and im happy to address any questions or comments you may have. Thank you mr. Poggio. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Supervisor safai. Thank you lieutenant for coming forward. This is a extremely important position on the Entertainment Commission, so ill say first and foremost, the fact you are strongly recommended by david falzon gives me the confidence i need in your ability and also based on your resume and other work. I just want to highlight a couple incidents that happened in my district to give you a opportunity to ask how you respond to that. Unfortunately in 2017, the Entertainment Commission had to deal with the situation in my district a club by the name of la facia, a Security Guard shot and killed a prateren there and later prosecuted for homicide and it had been a unruly establishment for a few years and last year another night club, there was a shooting inside, three people were injured. There was a 18 month history of violence in the establishment. Theirliances were revoked, so i just wanted to and give you a opportunity to talk about how the Entertainment Commission can better enforce safety and accountability for the Entertainment Industry. These are outliers. We have wonderful wonderful establishments all over San Francisco, but unfortunately every now and then we have those that turn into places of violence, so i want to give you a opportunity to address that. Absolutely. Thank you supervisor for that question. I feel anything certainly with enforcement there needs to be a measured approach and we need to be able to look at a establishment and if something terrible like that happens a homicide or act of violence we need to look and see okay, is it is a outlier . What caused that and what has been the history on this establishment and certainly if we have 18 months of progressive acts of violence we need to address that. We need to work with the establishment and build up the security plan and make sure they have working cameras and meet the Public Safety in the venue and surrounding areas. If we have a place that is just contributing to acts of violence and not following the rules we have to absolutely move to close that place, but one thing i want to do is if seated on the commission is, i want to actually have you know, bridge the gap between the San Francisco Police Department and the Entertainment Commission. Have monthly meetings with the permit officers. Every captain has a permit officer assigned to the station, so hopefully we can address the issues at the front end oppose all having our phones ringing at 2 a. M. Informing us of another homicide. Thank you. Thank you supervisor safai and with thank you lieutenant poggio. I dont see other colleagues, so lets go to Public Comment. Yes, members of the public who wish to speak should line up at this time. Each speaker is allowed two minutes. Othere there is a soft chime with 30 seconds left. Anybody who would like to comment on this matter . Good morning. My name is lieutenant pat mucormic. Let me talk about lieutenant poggio. I have known him over 22 years now and worked hand in hand. Sergeant at tenderloin and currently Staff Services for over 10 years now. I know lieutenant poggio very well. What he brings to the position of the Entertainment Commission. He was born and raised in San Francisco. He glanced over that but that is pretty important. He knows San Francisco. Hes born and raised here. He lives here and lives here with his wife and children. He is a product of the Public School system and knows San Francisco. That is the most important part about leonard poggio. He is graduate of schools. I wrote down a few ideas the traits of leonard poggio as i know him. He is consenss, a thinker, he is fair and impartial, leonard is Decision Maker and that is really what you want on this Entertainment Commission. Sometimes it will be hard decisions whether it is to suspend a license of a business, because they are bringing too many problems to their naerbd, neighborhood or community or maybe convene with a business, outline expectations and go forward with the outline if you dont meet the expectations you will be closed. Hes a doer. He knows exactly what makes entertainment safe, having been a Police Officer and knows what makes it successful. He is what you want on the board. He brings that voice of reason. He will add input but wontbut it is constructive input. He wont back down if it is something dangerous hell let you know and advocate Going Forward. I wholeheartedly endorse lieutenant poggio for the Entertainment Commission. Thank you. Good morning supervisor. Im brandon scale and work as a investment director affstanford graduate school of business. Today i speak to you as a individual private citizen and not a representative of the university. I was born and raised and currently reside in the sunset district. I have known leonard since first grade at jefferson elementary. Always been intelligent, hardworking, generous with his time, driven, accomplished and perhaps mow admirable, humble. Leonard is widely respected by his peers, someone who people go to seeking council or for his thoughts on community matters. He is a dedicated and caring father who coaches his two Young Children and others in youth sport. Strong moral compass, knows how to lead and listen and strongly urge you to support his nomination to the Entertainment Commission. Thank you. Good morning committee. My name iscity work er and work with leonard over 15 years. I have been in the Police Department 27 years. In that time, i have known leonard and agree wholeheartedly with the comments the other speakers made, hes intelligent, hes a great leader of our department and i can think of no better person to serve on a Committee Like this. Having been born and raised here, he knows the city and i have a few other things. I endorse leonard poggio for a position on the Entertainment Commission. I have known him 20 years. He is highly intelligent hard workinghe l [indiscernible] teaching me how to do my job and be successful. His education in public administration, master coupled with decades of services as a Public Safety professional make the ideal candidate to serve on this commission. I believe his vision and dedication will greatly benefit the commission and community it serves. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comment ers on this matter . No additional commenters. Thank you mr. Clerk. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. I just want to say thank you to lieutenant poggio for wanting to step and serve in this role. Entertainment commission, all our commissioners are important. Always appreciate someone willing to serve, because it will take a lot of your time and commitment to do well, so thank you so much and i dont see anything else from colleagues so i like to make a motion to appoint lieutenant leonard poggio to seat 7 and send to full board with recommendation. We like to amend the motion to reject throughout the legislation . Correct. Yes, on the motion to delete reject throughout the legislation and approve appointment, on that motion, supervisor engardio, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Vice chair walton, aye. That motion passes without objection. Thank you. Motion passes. Before i call item number 2, i would like to thank jamie from sfgotv for being with us and making sure that this meeting is publicized today. Mr. Chair, please call item 2. Item 2, ordinance amending the administrative code to establish a permanent Homeward Bound Program administered by the Human Services agency and the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, at risk of experiencing homelessness, or who have formerly experienced homelessness, such as individuals residing in permanent Supportive Housing, to receive paid travel and relocation support to a destination where the individual has someone to receive them. There is request this matter sent out as a Committee Report. Thank you so much. I know we have presenters from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, but i believe supervisor safai has a few words. We said a few last week. Appreciate the opportunity to hear from the department, but cant emphasize enough how important it is to really elevate and codify this program in the chapter 20 of the administrative code. 11 thousand individuals have been served from this Program Since inception. At the height around 800 to a thousand individuals were given support to reunify with their families. That is the basis of this program. Unhoused individuals that have been left here or are suffering on the streets, giving them the opportunity to reunify with their families so we truly believe this is the right step, it codifys it as a Permanent Program and asks for corpination between hsa and hsh and we appreciate now we have gotten the mayors attention. There is a stated goal of getting it going again, so we have questions for hsh about that, but i want to thank trent roar, director roar and suzy smith from hsa and dylan and emily cohen from hsh for their work and collaboration on this. Also want to thank rescue sf and the input from the coalition on homelessness for working with us on this legislation. This is a important tool in the tool kit that San Francisco has. It has gone by the way side for a number of years and we think that a lot of the holistic approach hsh has now, they offer a number of different services, but having the department of Human Services agency play a much more vital role and engaging on this program again, i think it is going to make it more robust, so because they have direct contact with many families as they are applying for general assistance. We think that is it had time. We were walking the beat last thursday with the captain of the tenderloin station. There were individuals on the street talking about the Homeward Bound Program. There was definitely interest and engagement and thats usually what it takes to get people to partake in this. I know supervisor engardio has a question, so if you want to ask that question now, or you want to wait until after the presentation. Okay. Thank you mr. Chair. Thank you so much supervisor safai. I know we have Deputy Directors susan smith as well as Deputy Director emily cohen and Dylan Schneider from homelessness and Supportive Housing and it looks like director cohen will be presenting. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Emily cohen Deputy Director department of homelessness and Supportive Housing joined by colleague suzy smith, Human Service agency. We where going to briefly walk through the Relocation Assistance program and happy to take questions how the proposed legislation would impact operations. As the supervisor mentioned, since 2005 San Francisco helped over 11 thousand households experiencing or at risk of homelessness reunit with support network and stable homes outside the city through different types of Relocation Assistance. There was a program called homeward bound. We now have multiple programs that provide this service, and under the ordinance is under the umbrella of homeward bround. There are two city programs that offer Relocation Assistance. One is the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing problem solving problem and the other is the Human Services Agency Program and well get into that in a mofement we also have a temporary Emergency Response that is a low barrier approach to Relocation Assistance being administered through the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center and that program is called, journey home and also a important part of this package. The type of programs that are currently providing Relocation Assistance is our department problem solving program,b which really is what it sounds like. Somebody comes in seeking services, housing or shelter and we have