Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Govt Audits And Oversight C

Good morning and welcome to the may 5,2016 regular scheduled meeting it of the all of audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor peskin and joining me is supervisor norman yee and supervisor london breeds. Mdm. Clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence any cell phones or Electronic Devices and the items on the agenda will be discussed as stated. Can you please announce the 1st item . Marmotion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct a performance audit of the citys Real Estate Division in 2016. Are there any members of the ublic that would like to comment one item number 1 . Seeing none i will close Public Comment. Are there any supervisors that would like to comment . Yes supervisor breed . Whether or not we are actually helping individuals out of homelessness. Also more importantly and i think that many members of the public believe that we are spending this money only to basically serve and support Homeless Individuals when in fact, a lot of this money is actually going towards prevention including programs like Hamilton Family resources and homeless [inaudible] these help the individuals in our neighborhoods that need help paying their rent. This helps us to know where to direct or redirect additional dollars and it does make an impact and im really grateful that we are coming to a conclusion on that and i knew it would take some time but im looking forward to holding a hearing hopefully in gal and make some reports hopefully in time with our coming fiscal years budget and i want to thank you for your work on this report. Thank you supervisor breed. If there are no other comments on Committee Members is there a motion to send this motion to the pol oard without objection. Mdm. Clerk can you please read the next item . Legislation committee and city lobbyist when lobbying on behalf of the city and transmitting the citys official policy positions to external bodies and agencies; and requesting the City Attorney, the city lobbyist, and the mayors legislative liaison to report. Thank you mme. Clerk and colleagues. I call this meeting to see where we are at in respect of local policies and our state budget in the legislator. As you know every year we take lead audit on the legislation of many of these committees and as you know supervisor breed works in the City Attorneys Office as well as a treasurer in the City Attorneys Office and i thought that we should probably have a hearing to see how that committee is going to ascertain how they work to make this process transparent and as a policy body to make sure that our will is known by our city lobbyist in sacramento. We have a very good city lobbyist and as i was speaking with the representative from the Mayors Office, Nicole Elliott and i want to welcome as she is that mayors liaison to the board. One thing we can do internally to ourselves is to make sure that everyone of these resolutions actually requires the clerk to directly communicate that not only to the Mayors Office but directly to the citys lobbyist i spoke with karen lange and paul yoder i spoke with them this morning and they are unable to speakat this meeting because they are doing work for us this morning but they are able to, and meet with us this committee f or a special meeting on a friday so i would like to consider that in the future. With that i would like to introduce supervisor yee. Good morning supervisor peskin and Committee Members and members of the public. I am here [inaudible] unfortunately, they are unable to be here with us this morning but is for good reason and im happy they will be here to be able to speak with you and to answer any questions you may have and to enjoy a giants game. I would like to discuss what this does and to communicate the role of a state lobbyist. I will try to be brief but bear with me. I will start with our state Legislation Committee and 1st of all at the enabling body is found inbudget and finance supervisor. When it comes to items that are considered by the committee we require that the department bring bills to us that can demonstrate the welfare of the city and county and at the meetings we asked Department Representatives to speak to those items and answer any questions from Committee Members. A typical Legislation Committee agenda includes one to 2 bills on specific legislative areas. When i took this role in 2014 this was not a role that i was aware of or that my predecessor was aware of but thanks to your calling of this meeting supervisorl receive that for all future Legislation Committee items. As you know the Mayors Office is responsible for coordinating allatters according to the charter and he is responsible for these priorities and we use these priorities throughout the year. These are often end up as bills there is a concern that dpa highlighted in their policies. And we support the citys advocacy through a d 74 and 77 and this was referred by the board of a passage of a resolution earlier this year. Supervisor peskin, since you coordinated this meeting this year i have had the opportunity to spend some time with your secretary and i was able to come to the conclusion that you drafted these resolutions that the board could sharethese resolutions with my office. After speaking with ms we can keep the citys priorities defined by the mayor and the board and in the meantime when it is defined in some recent positions of the board i can receive to the prior to the committee on the subsequent day and share that information too. We are very proud of our dedicated team in sacramento Affordable Housing. Much of this happens out of the local spotlight but it is critical. If i can just run through some examples of work that they accomplished in sacramento so that you guys are more wellaware of that. They have advocated for state efforts for affordable funding for appeals on the governors veto for the budget and bond financing that allowed preapproved bond financing in the hunters bay and shipyard in that area and this allowed nearly 3300 units of Affordable Housing in the city. This was instrumental in the bill of success for the timeline and passage of this implementation. As you guys are well aware they haveadvocated very hard in sacramento. They have worked with legislative leaders looking to reef purpose legislative housing funds. They have helped San Francisco to secure millions of dollars in affordable hhousing and finally they have helped the city to develop and secure more housing for k12 teachers for the senators a p 13 and 14 and this is one of the reasons that they are not able to join us today because they are in current legislation between the Mayors Office and the district to ensure smooth passage through the appropriations committee. They have advocated on the citys behalf to increase the citys minimum wage by 2021. They have advocated a license to help support Small Businesses and vacancies and supervisor yee i believe your district is benefiting from that bill. On behalf of the city county they are working on a bill ab 2180 ab 2182 release surplus of caltrans 10 of the current market rate and if that space can be used for open space, green space or recreational purposes. In addition San Francisco would have 1st right of refusal over those spaces. Supporting life saving safety issues on our public roads and under our direction they are assuring ordination with securing a sponsor for the next legislative session. They have also worked closely with the fat lobbyist on this priority there continue to working with the chc while these bills are pending passage and signature. In the interest of time i will stop there but i would be happy to provide your office with reports of all documents regarding this and since i took the position in the office in sacramento. We are proud of our efforts and we hope that the mayor and the board of supervisors have brought about by this hearing. Thank you supervisor peskin we will make our work even stronger. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you miss elliott. I agree that this is doing a great job for the city but how does the contract process between the city and the outer city lobbyistin terms of the competitive bid, how does that work . Excuse me, im looking for the overall review of the contract but i know it was competitively bid and it was in 2012. It was a contract that was competitively bid in 2012 with 4 separate additional options for renewal each with one year and it has been renewed 3 times through. This year. So, this is the end of that contract. . I believe it is eligible for one extension. And that contract does not come before the boardbecause its not eligible for an additional extension . Correct. I am in no way trying to assert that they have a conflict but in as much as they have many clients the Treasury Association in the state of california is one of their clients and i believe that is correct and the reason that i raise that is for instance that you mentioned that the required bill and we also discussed abe 2521 and ab 2522, how do we resolve those issues or how does the state legislative committee look at that . Are you asking me in relation to the contract with our lobbyist . Yes. I would say as far as the particular mechanics i would say that we have a primary lobbyist and that is paul yoder and i believe you said you spoke to, and i believe that they go to Great Lengths to avoid conflict by creating walls within their office so there is not conflicts with in the legislation here. Now are these meetings publicly noticed . Can the public attend these meetings . Yes. In the height of legislative session do you meet more often . We could and that has been done in the past but what we have seen in the past is there is an enormous number of bills that come to state legislation in the legislation season and that tapers off. And then internally lets say there is a piece of legislation that is near and dear to a department but less so to an administration how do you administrate theres things . Are you asking how we prioritize those advocacys . That is something that guides our lobbyists throughout the year and we do flag bills that we believe that departments would be interested in viewing and we do it send them back to those departments to do a review and they send them back to us. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item . I see mr. Planteholt i if there are no others i know mr. Planteholt that you have a lot to say and you have been looking at this for many years so we will give you a little bit of extra time. Go ahead. I am bob planteholt part of my black ground that had may be helpful is that i have had 7 1 2 years on the Sunshine Task force and i was 2 years on as an officer on the ethics committee. I am using all that background but in addition, my advocacy at a state level i was cochair of a group that got 2 bills vetoed after being passed by 2 separate departments. Take a look at the Legislation Committee. Look at the website. You will look at 0 posting of minutes for months and months and months and months it is clear violation of the sunshine ordinance. At the same time i had to remind you folks as well as informed the public that there is a requirement that Public Officials and city staff take a recurring training in sunshine and ethics and certify that they have done it. One member of the state Legislation Committee has been on there for years. Years and years and years and years and nobody has called attention to the lack of the posting of minutes. You may think it is minor but when you look at the agenda you also see there is no report back from the formal major city lobbyist. Now, contrast that to the metropolitan Transportation Commission has a state Legislation Committee and there are constant reports back from their state lobbyist. Here you do not see anything so we will not see how well they did for advocating for the citys legislative agenda after the session ends. I went back to look at the agenda going back a far distance and there is no report back and the you have no report back and you do not know what they did other than specifically push a billdid the lobbyist have an agenda. Is there a bill on the automated Speed Enforcement committee. What information are they giving the lobbyists nd are they supposed to address broad topics that arent specifically addressed by the specific legislation or are they too got and amend the process of the state legislature. There often times i discussed bills and they say to talk to lobbyists and i say will who are they and they do not know. Apart from the city lobbyists i will tell you there is a separate lobbyist hired for some technical stuff and i raised questions with the City Department because i see a potential conflict for that lobbyist for that area and nobody seems to follow up and nobody bothered to ask about that possibility. So, there is a lack of accountability. Thank you. [timer dings] thank you mr. Planteholt. Next speaker please. There seems to be no advocate for the people for example low Income Housing in proposition a. In the city of San Francisco you actually provide 12,536 apartment housing for people that are above the Income Housing. Whereas you are providing only 4000 for those in low income brackets. What this means is that you are provide a more opportunities for people that are not in the low income bracket when it is supposed to be designed to help those that are in the low income bracket. You deliberately set the median rate of 55 and call that Affordable Housing when in reality that income is 49,300 per year. That is not low Income Housing. You people that are veterans or on Social Security benefits your people that have Retirement Benefits and their incomes range from 17 18,000 per year to 30,000 per year. It is not fair. And then about these project developers, you claim they have to make a profit will why dont you use what mercy housing is using where you they nonprofit to build these were not backed in a corner and then also another example is the building downtown where you have 60 million of [timer dings] thank you. Seeing no other Public Comment Public Comment is closed [gavel] im seeing this is already bringing forth some issues thati was hoping that it would. I would like to bring forth some issues where the lobbyists can come and have an open session where my colleagues can, and members of the public can see and meet these lobbyists in a formal or an informal setting because i think its important that the lobbyists have a direct relationship with the lobbyists in sacramento as well. And i will see that this is on the roster. Thank you supervisor. Peskin i think its important to have an opportunity to listen to our lobbyists. Myself being the chair of this particular committee i never thought of this and i should have so i give you a lot of credit for bringing this topic to our attention. As mr. Plantehold mentioned today we would meet with the lobbyists so often and they would tell us what the priorities were and that was on the school board a these would be set on the school board annually and this could help us understand what the legislation is putting forth and how we could impact that so i would love to see the type of things that our lobbyists and the cities lobbyists especially are fighting for. So, i will support your motion. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor peskin. I know that when things come the list for things that we need to lobby that is not always brought to our attention. I know in the Transportation Department they do thisopenly and i think that we should find some ways to do that so that the members of the board are aware of the legislation that is on the horizon and we can take positions and what we can keep an eye on him a board level in addition to other responsibilities. The other thing that i wanted to bring up that i thought was interesting in Public Comment was the fact that there are requirements of all members to take certain classes to keep them in compliance and i do think that we have a responsibility to make sure that that happens and we should followthrough on that as well. With that, i am happy to move nd colleagues for our next meeting i think that we should follow up on these as well to make sure that this meets any update at the dawn of the 21st century. What that we will continue this item number 2 to the call of the chair and we look forward to getting our city lobbyists to come down from sacramento to San Francisco to meet with this body. [gavel] mdm. Clerk can you please call the next item . Item 3 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the city to open and operate no fewer than Six Navigation Centers within twelve months of the Effective Date of offering comprehensive health, Mental Health, and other services to Homeless People, and moving Electronic Devices<\/a> and the items on the agenda will be discussed as stated. Can you please announce the 1st item . Marmotion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct a performance audit of the citys Real Estate Division<\/a> in 2016. Are there any members of the ublic that would like to comment one item number 1 . Seeing none i will close Public Comment<\/a>. Are there any supervisors that would like to comment . Yes supervisor breed . Whether or not we are actually helping individuals out of homelessness. Also more importantly and i think that many members of the public believe that we are spending this money only to basically serve and support Homeless Individuals<\/a> when in fact, a lot of this money is actually going towards prevention including programs like Hamilton Family<\/a> resources and homeless [inaudible] these help the individuals in our neighborhoods that need help paying their rent. This helps us to know where to direct or redirect additional dollars and it does make an impact and im really grateful that we are coming to a conclusion on that and i knew it would take some time but im looking forward to holding a hearing hopefully in gal and make some reports hopefully in time with our coming fiscal years budget and i want to thank you for your work on this report. Thank you supervisor breed. If there are no other comments on Committee Members<\/a> is there a motion to send this motion to the pol oard without objection. Mdm. Clerk can you please read the next item . Legislation committee and city lobbyist when lobbying on behalf of the city and transmitting the citys official policy positions to external bodies and agencies; and requesting the City Attorney<\/a>, the city lobbyist, and the mayors legislative liaison to report. Thank you mme. Clerk and colleagues. I call this meeting to see where we are at in respect of local policies and our state budget in the legislator. As you know every year we take lead audit on the legislation of many of these committees and as you know supervisor breed works in the City Attorneys Office<\/a> as well as a treasurer in the City Attorneys Office<\/a> and i thought that we should probably have a hearing to see how that committee is going to ascertain how they work to make this process transparent and as a policy body to make sure that our will is known by our city lobbyist in sacramento. We have a very good city lobbyist and as i was speaking with the representative from the Mayors Office<\/a>, Nicole Elliott<\/a> and i want to welcome as she is that mayors liaison to the board. One thing we can do internally to ourselves is to make sure that everyone of these resolutions actually requires the clerk to directly communicate that not only to the Mayors Office<\/a> but directly to the citys lobbyist i spoke with karen lange and paul yoder i spoke with them this morning and they are unable to speakat this meeting because they are doing work for us this morning but they are able to, and meet with us this committee f or a special meeting on a friday so i would like to consider that in the future. With that i would like to introduce supervisor yee. Good morning supervisor peskin and Committee Members<\/a> and members of the public. I am here [inaudible] unfortunately, they are unable to be here with us this morning but is for good reason and im happy they will be here to be able to speak with you and to answer any questions you may have and to enjoy a giants game. I would like to discuss what this does and to communicate the role of a state lobbyist. I will try to be brief but bear with me. I will start with our state Legislation Committee<\/a> and 1st of all at the enabling body is found inbudget and finance supervisor. When it comes to items that are considered by the committee we require that the department bring bills to us that can demonstrate the welfare of the city and county and at the meetings we asked Department Representatives<\/a> to speak to those items and answer any questions from Committee Members<\/a>. A typical Legislation Committee<\/a> agenda includes one to 2 bills on specific legislative areas. When i took this role in 2014 this was not a role that i was aware of or that my predecessor was aware of but thanks to your calling of this meeting supervisorl receive that for all future Legislation Committee<\/a> items. As you know the Mayors Office<\/a> is responsible for coordinating allatters according to the charter and he is responsible for these priorities and we use these priorities throughout the year. These are often end up as bills there is a concern that dpa highlighted in their policies. And we support the citys advocacy through a d 74 and 77 and this was referred by the board of a passage of a resolution earlier this year. Supervisor peskin, since you coordinated this meeting this year i have had the opportunity to spend some time with your secretary and i was able to come to the conclusion that you drafted these resolutions that the board could sharethese resolutions with my office. After speaking with ms we can keep the citys priorities defined by the mayor and the board and in the meantime when it is defined in some recent positions of the board i can receive to the prior to the committee on the subsequent day and share that information too. We are very proud of our dedicated team in sacramento Affordable Housing<\/a>. Much of this happens out of the local spotlight but it is critical. If i can just run through some examples of work that they accomplished in sacramento so that you guys are more wellaware of that. They have advocated for state efforts for affordable funding for appeals on the governors veto for the budget and bond financing that allowed preapproved bond financing in the hunters bay and shipyard in that area and this allowed nearly 3300 units of Affordable Housing<\/a> in the city. This was instrumental in the bill of success for the timeline and passage of this implementation. As you guys are well aware they haveadvocated very hard in sacramento. They have worked with legislative leaders looking to reef purpose legislative housing funds. They have helped San Francisco<\/a> to secure millions of dollars in affordable hhousing and finally they have helped the city to develop and secure more housing for k12 teachers for the senators a p 13 and 14 and this is one of the reasons that they are not able to join us today because they are in current legislation between the Mayors Office<\/a> and the district to ensure smooth passage through the appropriations committee. They have advocated on the citys behalf to increase the citys minimum wage by 2021. They have advocated a license to help support Small Businesses<\/a> and vacancies and supervisor yee i believe your district is benefiting from that bill. On behalf of the city county they are working on a bill ab 2180 ab 2182 release surplus of caltrans 10 of the current market rate and if that space can be used for open space, green space or recreational purposes. In addition San Francisco<\/a> would have 1st right of refusal over those spaces. Supporting life saving safety issues on our public roads and under our direction they are assuring ordination with securing a sponsor for the next legislative session. They have also worked closely with the fat lobbyist on this priority there continue to working with the chc while these bills are pending passage and signature. In the interest of time i will stop there but i would be happy to provide your office with reports of all documents regarding this and since i took the position in the office in sacramento. We are proud of our efforts and we hope that the mayor and the board of supervisors have brought about by this hearing. Thank you supervisor peskin we will make our work even stronger. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you miss elliott. I agree that this is doing a great job for the city but how does the contract process between the city and the outer city lobbyistin terms of the competitive bid, how does that work . Excuse me, im looking for the overall review of the contract but i know it was competitively bid and it was in 2012. It was a contract that was competitively bid in 2012 with 4 separate additional options for renewal each with one year and it has been renewed 3 times through. This year. So, this is the end of that contract. . I believe it is eligible for one extension. And that contract does not come before the boardbecause its not eligible for an additional extension . Correct. I am in no way trying to assert that they have a conflict but in as much as they have many clients the Treasury Association<\/a> in the state of california is one of their clients and i believe that is correct and the reason that i raise that is for instance that you mentioned that the required bill and we also discussed abe 2521 and ab 2522, how do we resolve those issues or how does the state legislative committee look at that . Are you asking me in relation to the contract with our lobbyist . Yes. I would say as far as the particular mechanics i would say that we have a primary lobbyist and that is paul yoder and i believe you said you spoke to, and i believe that they go to Great Lengths<\/a> to avoid conflict by creating walls within their office so there is not conflicts with in the legislation here. Now are these meetings publicly noticed . Can the public attend these meetings . Yes. In the height of legislative session do you meet more often . We could and that has been done in the past but what we have seen in the past is there is an enormous number of bills that come to state legislation in the legislation season and that tapers off. And then internally lets say there is a piece of legislation that is near and dear to a department but less so to an administration how do you administrate theres things . Are you asking how we prioritize those advocacys . That is something that guides our lobbyists throughout the year and we do flag bills that we believe that departments would be interested in viewing and we do it send them back to those departments to do a review and they send them back to us. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item . I see mr. Planteholt i if there are no others i know mr. Planteholt that you have a lot to say and you have been looking at this for many years so we will give you a little bit of extra time. Go ahead. I am bob planteholt part of my black ground that had may be helpful is that i have had 7 1 2 years on the Sunshine Task<\/a> force and i was 2 years on as an officer on the ethics committee. I am using all that background but in addition, my advocacy at a state level i was cochair of a group that got 2 bills vetoed after being passed by 2 separate departments. Take a look at the Legislation Committee<\/a>. Look at the website. You will look at 0 posting of minutes for months and months and months and months it is clear violation of the sunshine ordinance. At the same time i had to remind you folks as well as informed the public that there is a requirement that Public Officials<\/a> and city staff take a recurring training in sunshine and ethics and certify that they have done it. One member of the state Legislation Committee<\/a> has been on there for years. Years and years and years and years and nobody has called attention to the lack of the posting of minutes. You may think it is minor but when you look at the agenda you also see there is no report back from the formal major city lobbyist. Now, contrast that to the metropolitan Transportation Commission<\/a> has a state Legislation Committee<\/a> and there are constant reports back from their state lobbyist. Here you do not see anything so we will not see how well they did for advocating for the citys legislative agenda after the session ends. I went back to look at the agenda going back a far distance and there is no report back and the you have no report back and you do not know what they did other than specifically push a billdid the lobbyist have an agenda. Is there a bill on the automated Speed Enforcement<\/a> committee. What information are they giving the lobbyists nd are they supposed to address broad topics that arent specifically addressed by the specific legislation or are they too got and amend the process of the state legislature. There often times i discussed bills and they say to talk to lobbyists and i say will who are they and they do not know. Apart from the city lobbyists i will tell you there is a separate lobbyist hired for some technical stuff and i raised questions with the City Department<\/a> because i see a potential conflict for that lobbyist for that area and nobody seems to follow up and nobody bothered to ask about that possibility. So, there is a lack of accountability. Thank you. [timer dings] thank you mr. Planteholt. Next speaker please. There seems to be no advocate for the people for example low Income Housing<\/a> in proposition a. In the city of San Francisco<\/a> you actually provide 12,536 apartment housing for people that are above the Income Housing<\/a>. Whereas you are providing only 4000 for those in low income brackets. What this means is that you are provide a more opportunities for people that are not in the low income bracket when it is supposed to be designed to help those that are in the low income bracket. You deliberately set the median rate of 55 and call that Affordable Housing<\/a> when in reality that income is 49,300 per year. That is not low Income Housing<\/a>. You people that are veterans or on Social Security<\/a> benefits your people that have Retirement Benefits<\/a> and their incomes range from 17 18,000 per year to 30,000 per year. It is not fair. And then about these project developers, you claim they have to make a profit will why dont you use what mercy housing is using where you they nonprofit to build these were not backed in a corner and then also another example is the building downtown where you have 60 million of [timer dings] thank you. Seeing no other Public Comment<\/a> Public Comment<\/a> is closed [gavel] im seeing this is already bringing forth some issues thati was hoping that it would. I would like to bring forth some issues where the lobbyists can come and have an open session where my colleagues can, and members of the public can see and meet these lobbyists in a formal or an informal setting because i think its important that the lobbyists have a direct relationship with the lobbyists in sacramento as well. And i will see that this is on the roster. Thank you supervisor. Peskin i think its important to have an opportunity to listen to our lobbyists. Myself being the chair of this particular committee i never thought of this and i should have so i give you a lot of credit for bringing this topic to our attention. As mr. Plantehold mentioned today we would meet with the lobbyists so often and they would tell us what the priorities were and that was on the school board a these would be set on the school board annually and this could help us understand what the legislation is putting forth and how we could impact that so i would love to see the type of things that our lobbyists and the cities lobbyists especially are fighting for. So, i will support your motion. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor peskin. I know that when things come the list for things that we need to lobby that is not always brought to our attention. I know in the Transportation Department<\/a> they do thisopenly and i think that we should find some ways to do that so that the members of the board are aware of the legislation that is on the horizon and we can take positions and what we can keep an eye on him a board level in addition to other responsibilities. The other thing that i wanted to bring up that i thought was interesting in Public Comment<\/a> was the fact that there are requirements of all members to take certain classes to keep them in compliance and i do think that we have a responsibility to make sure that that happens and we should followthrough on that as well. With that, i am happy to move nd colleagues for our next meeting i think that we should follow up on these as well to make sure that this meets any update at the dawn of the 21st century. What that we will continue this item number 2 to the call of the chair and we look forward to getting our city lobbyists to come down from sacramento to San Francisco<\/a> to meet with this body. [gavel] mdm. Clerk can you please call the next item . Item 3 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the city to open and operate no fewer than Six Navigation Centers<\/a> within twelve months of the Effective Date<\/a> of offering comprehensive health, Mental Health<\/a>, and other services to Homeless People<\/a>, and moving Homeless People<\/a> off the streets and into permanent housing or transitional or stable Supportive Housing<\/a> that eventually leads to permanent housing through Case Management<\/a>, social service programs, and the integration of other relevant city services; specifying programmatic requirements for Navigation Centers<\/a>; and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental<\/a> quality act. Good afternoon supervisors and members of the audience. Before i get started this morning i have a packet that i would like to hand out. The bottom line is i have not seen homelessness rise to the crisis that i have seen in the last few months. The fact is as evidenced by the actions taken by this boardto declare a crisis when it comes to shelter System People<\/a> in the city are finally recognizing the severity of this problem Homeless People<\/a> themselves are suffering in the streets of San Francisco<\/a> and residents of neighborhoods like bernard heights and the mission are dealing with the impact of having people camped out and People Living<\/a> in front of their driveways and going to the bathroom in front of their homes. What we saw on division street is not an isolated encampment. On my street alone you have encampments not only on division street but around the surrounding areas and what we saw in response to these encampments is that this did not resolve the issue it just move the encampments the smaller streets. Some in some respects,some residents have actually made this issue worse. My legislation is trying to provide immediate shortterm relief for the encampments that are coming up throughout the city. We are trying to come up with prolific effective and humane efforts to eal with these encampments. You know the Navigation Center<\/a> that we have in the city is in my district and im very proud of the work that we did and its under the leadership of evan dusty and we will see that very shortlyand our efforts are to move people off the streets and into temporary housing that eventually leads to permanent housing. This provides services of Mental Health<\/a> to the Homeless People<\/a> as well as integration of other services. The key is their low barrier. They allow people to enter with their partners, their pets, and their belongings. And my legislation we have a managed alcohol shelter which will allow residents to consume alcohol within the city and provide residents with alcohol treatment with in the shelter. For someone who has been a recovering alcoholic i can tell you that in many respects the idea of giving a space for alcoholics to drink in many respects goes against what i have been exposed to in Alcoholics Anonymous<\/a> and all of that but what were talking about is Harm Reduction<\/a> and Harm Reduction<\/a> has been proven to work and that is ultimately what this legislation is about. It is about letting facts, signs, and medicine drive the policy positions of the city. I know that one of the navigationcenters that the legislation specifies will focus on transitional aged youth ages 18 to 29 and we know that there is a need in that population and as a gay man i can tell you that many of those youth are queer youth and still see San Francisco<\/a> as a beacon that they can come to because they are not accepted at home. We know that perhaps the most ntroversial piece of the legislation is the issue of developing a safe injection site at one of the Navigation Centers<\/a> and i know that there will be an amendment around that which i will be supportive of i also want to note that a number of us will actually be visiting vancouver today there will be a delegation from San Francisco<\/a> to look at how this works and i think that the point that what we have set of that issue is that can we at least explore how this works before we jump to conclusions that this does not belong in San Francisco<\/a> . Now,let me say that one thing that this legislation does is to find and use vacant sites that are being controlled by the city and also to findsites that are being used for other purposes to be used for Navigation Centers<\/a> and also properties that are owned and used by other public organizations within the city for instance we have one that is owned by the school district. Does this mean as a city that we require more resources . Absolutely it does. But i think that in the end it will be a lot less costly to do what we are doing and to actually target populations by actually providing an opening Navigation Centers<\/a> and the studies who have looked at how cities respond to homelessness la as an example shows that if you do not do that you do not spend more time as far as resources whether it is the er or cleaning streets all of those things that come along we dont strategically respond make it more expensive. The amendments i have are amendments that come out of discussions that we have had within the last month or so. We have met with homeless providers, community leaders, Homeless People<\/a> themselves, merchants, residents, and with my colleagues to the extent allowed by the board of supervisors and i want to thank everyone of you for your comments. We take your feedback to heart. The amendments that are outlined in the document that i handed out, they do the following. They provide an outline of how these Navigation Centers<\/a> are created. And the various processes that are involved and they are thoroughly done. This is also an opportunity in our view this is very significant for not only opening Navigation Centers<\/a> but actually taking a very important and necessary step of improving and reforming our shelter system as a whole. There is urgency here and you can see it on the streets of San Francisco<\/a>. I will tell you that i thought that once there was discussion about opening some Additional Centers<\/a> that may be some emails would slow down but i get email after email after email to this day talking about new encampments. So, let me just identify the specific changes. One the legislation now says that the Navigation Centers<\/a> will be open for12 months and instead of 50 to 75 people we have extended that to 75 people to make sure there are enough beds provided. We also want to make sure that the language captures that input because that makes a difference in the level of success of the Navigation Centers<\/a> and i know that we worked very hard to make that Navigation Center<\/a> meaningful. We want to be effective at moving people out of homelessness and into housing. We are flushing out and this is actually where the input of the people that do this for a living the experts in homelessness have been critical and because of their suggestions we have done a couple of things. We have fudged out the need for equitableneeds planned and 2nd that we have a equitable exiting planned and again this is a by the navigation board and in some respects to me and the issue of how housing is allocated is somewhat of a black hole and were trying to bring transparency to that process, and more and importantly that we have a sustainable revenue plan and this is why we as the Mayors Office<\/a> to invite all relevant officers involved to support housing exits to be critical for the longterm liability of Navigation Centers<\/a> and also to identify our overall city effort to resolve homelessness and one of the things that we know that we have heard is that the mayor has made a commitment to house the hundred Homeless Individuals<\/a> and throughout the next year and also use the Navigation System<\/a> and evaluate how this works to make changes in the Navigation System<\/a>. One thing that is different is ultimately we intend to take the responsibility of making these Navigation Centers<\/a> to this soontobe created department of homelessness and services. For now, the city administrator is charged with this responsibility. The ideas that once this new department is created they will take charge. Again, i want to thank everyone for their efforts and just a couple of things to conclude. For the cosponsors on the board supervisor avalos and supervisor marr thank you very much and i especially want to thank the folks from hesbathat have given us insight on how to make the Navigation Center<\/a> successful and also improving the system and i want to thank Jennifer Frieden<\/a> mind and amy fair wise and thank you for the innovation you bring to this amy and i want to thank all of the folks from the hope offices and i know there may be some differences at some times but i want to thank sen. Dodd and his staff and julie i believe that you are one of the reasons that the center has been so successful and im thankful that we can make a thoughtful suggestions to make the Navigation Center<\/a> idea successful and then to the Homeless People<\/a> that even in the midst of their homelessness of come to these meetings to share their perspective and to share their perspective in a way that quite frankly, if i myself or homeless i do not know if i would have the class or the patience to interact with a Government Official<\/a> in the way that they have. And to Carolyn Goossen<\/a> in my office who has just done incredible work she is really amazing and we would not be here without her and with that i know we have a number of people that are here to speak but if it is okay with the committee we will turn it to your comments but once my colleagues have made comments i will call upon my dear friend brenda dusty the former director of hope as well as karen karen eason which is the former director of Episcopal Services<\/a> and i know we have comments but before we do that i just want to thank everyone that would be here today. Thank you supervisor compos. Supervisor yee. Thank you supervisor campos. What are we doing in the city to make the city safe and get people off the streets and into Supportive Housing<\/a>. We need to continue to support this model. This ordinance is fairly ambitious and i am looking forward to furthering discussion with our citys agencies. As this discussion comes to fruition sometimes as we pass these polities we have to remember that there is funding behind these projects and i think that that is essential behind these sites and also to assure that these locations make the most sense to the population that we are trying to serve. Im not fully comfortable with some of the specific requirements that are indicated in the requirements mainly a safe injection site. I understand that abuse an addiction is an issue in our community but since the discussion of safe injection site cannot be amended pragmatically i would like to ask for an amendment to remove this from page 4 and also i would like to discuss the agencies in our nonprofit community. Not one agency can do this alone. I hope we can place politics aside so that we can actually work on an issue so that we can actually work effectively and so we can boost funding where it is needed most. I want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this ordinance forward and the amendments you are hoping to get past today. And thats all i have to say. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor yee has offered a motion that we will consider after Public Comment<\/a>. And supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor compost. Ive been in the city all my life and unfortunately homelessness has always been a problem. What i see now is there seems to be a lot more people on the streets and a lot more money being spent but not making an impact on the impact who need us to make sure to do everything that we can to make sure that the services that we are providing actually work for the individuals out there that are homeless. Our housing policies from my perspective are a complete failure. We pretend that if we build more housing in the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> that somehow there will be a connection between those individuals that are living in the streets and getting access to Affordable Housing<\/a> and we all know with our lottery system that anybody any time can apply for Affordable Housing<\/a>. A lot of people that are homeless are not aware of the process that is required to apply. We rely on hsa so that they can have access in terms of Affordable Housing<\/a>. We finally the city through my efforts pushed and passed by this board neighborhood preference legislation that gives the residents of an existing community 40 of the new units that we build Affordable Housing<\/a> will go to residents 1st in that particular neighborhood. And, we have to do more to make sure that there is a direct pipeline between our shelter system and between our Navigation Centers<\/a> and how we get individuals actually housed into the Affordable Housing<\/a> that we build. This is a real way that we can ensure that that can happen. We have to make sure that we not only have the shelters in these Navigation Centers<\/a> but we also people that are there helping them and getting them on the right path. People that are there helping them to apply for Affordable Housing<\/a>. We also have to give these individuals priority so that they can get into this housing. I am tired of going through this process with people only for them to be rejected because of something minor. Because of something minor. I know that devon dusty for a family there was at nema an Affordable Housing<\/a> unit that he had to cosign for to get the these Homeless People<\/a> into the Affordable Housing<\/a>. I know the neighborhood and hide has hud has really fought us on getting these people into Affordable Housing<\/a> and if we really want to make that change happen we have the change or step significantly. This is a step in the right direction. This is an ambitious plan and i think were looking at a creative way to try and repair what i see as a broken shelter system we have a family shelter in my district and because of bevon dusty we were able to bypass and do some of things we needed to make sure theres a direct pipeline between homelessness and housing and this is the most important thing. I appreciate supervisor campos hearing my concerns about a Community Process<\/a> and making sure there is a Community Process<\/a> and make sure there is a process of communicating our shelters into Navigation Centers<\/a> and also tying these Navigation Centers<\/a> to homes and making sure that these individuals in these centers have a priority to access the Affordable Housing<\/a> that we are building. So, i am excited about this and i think it is long overdue and i know that this is not going to fix the problem i know that we still have challenges with our Homeless Population<\/a> with people that have mental illness, with people that have Substance Abuse<\/a> issues, and there are still challenges, there and we have to keep working correct this issue and i thank you for my colleagues for stepping up to the plate and providing solutions to do so so i thank you supervisor campos again. Thank you supervisor breed. A few weeks ago we [inaudible] if this could turn into a Navigation Center<\/a> but if you folks want to clarify that we welcome any comments or any changes and we can either do it as the item goes to the board or what ever the pleasure of the committee is and then the other thing with respect to supervisor yees amendment. I welcome that amendment and if that amendment passes what we would do is implement a separate ordinance to make sure that we deal with that issue. If that amendment is changed we will introduce a separate ordinance to make sure we continue to tackle that issue. Thank you. Thank you. Just one question supervisor can you expound on the statement that you think the existing ordinance would allow the Navigation Center<\/a>ordinance model would be applied to our existing shelter system . A couple of things there was question about language that actually talks about how and i wont go back to the specifics if you look at the language that was included at the suggestion of hisba. Ic language in the 2nd to last section but this is the implementation section and this doesnt really apply and this is chapter 106 that the controller will submit to the board any Lessons Learned<\/a> by the Navigation Centers<\/a> and how these Lessons Learned<\/a> can be applied to the citys shelter system but that seems very perspective. I understand. Maybe we could ask mr. Dusfty to come up and i will identify the specific area that addresses this concern and again, if there is further languagethat is needed we are open to that. And with that i will call on bevon dufty and i again want to thank bev and for all of the work that he has done and ive learned a lot from him on this issue. Good morning supervisors. I just want to tell you how wonderful it is to be able to come in and modify this best practice and its also wonderful to see supervisors willing to step up and make this successful. And i want to thank supervisor breed and i also want to thank judy ledbetter. One thing that makes these Navigation Centers<\/a> successful is data and i think that something that needs to be carried forward. I would say that the Navigation Centers<\/a> and have questions from the people on the street with our homelessness. The Partnership Around<\/a> making Housing Units<\/a> departmentalized for those who are entering these units out of homelessness. And i want to thank those that have helped me to make possible these Navigation Centers<\/a>. The care and control and the naudible] unit. I think it is time to move it to an environment as a city service. And to move it to these other elements with in the City Government<\/a> and to take a leadership role it is clear that we need housing and in my opinion we need a single occupancy hotel in the city. And why is it to determine whether a hotel owner can ent out 200 or 1000 units. There are thousands of units that are empty within our city and you can provide services on a scattered basis that you could serve people and you can also have a repair crew that could go around to different apartment buildings and hotels and making repairs so theres not so much wear and tear on landlords. Im really excited to tell you that this morning i participated with the 1st meeting with Salvation Army<\/a> Harbor Lights<\/a> and they adopted a statement saying that within Salvation Army<\/a> they want to be involved in the Navigation Centers<\/a> and they are willing to look at Harm Reduction<\/a> and to embrace that as a best practice and their intention has always been to meet people where they are. I saw a budget Analyst Report<\/a> on the cost of Navigation Centers<\/a> and can we finally get a cost on what we are ticketing people that are homeless on the street . I think this sets a path Going Forward<\/a> that depoliticizes these issues and takes it away from any one of the of select official and i see the Community Coming<\/a> forward and saying we want to do this we want our shelters be more robust and have Navigation Center<\/a> components and we are ready to come forward and to tailor these. Certainly there is a methamphetamine pproblem within our city and maybe we could have a Navigation Center<\/a> that really meets their needs and also in district 10 i am sitting here with my family from london browns and im hoping that we can get together and provide something meaningful for those that are homeless in that area. I am really appreciative that all the city has done to make this navigation project successful and i just want to thank you again. Thank you. I will turn this over to the director of episcopal family services. Thank you and incredibly High Percentage<\/a> of homeless moved into temporary housing or treatment bed within 90 days. This helps to implement this because this is a complex process and to get people off the streets while these are given and most importantly the Affordable Housing<\/a> unit. This legislation provides the needed next step to transform our system into the one that supports all the people from San Francisco<\/a> moving from the streets or shelter into permanent housing and how this legislation helps that is through the housing revenue plan and upon. Lara thomas,amy bramis, amy fair weiss and alex palse. Where is supervisor breed . It she gone . I will wait for. Okay, next speaker lara thomas. I am lara thomas with the Homeless Alliance<\/a> and i want to thank supervisor compos with his Navigation Center<\/a> legislation and i understand supervisor yee with his concerns with the supervised Injection Services<\/a>. One thing that we have found with the supervised Injection Services<\/a> as they are an extremely successful intervention method. As supervisor campos had mentioned he will be going to vancouver and they have used these supervisedInjection Services<\/a> they are recognized as an effective method for those that are using ingested drugs and they help to reduce hepatitis and other injected drug use connections. And this helps us to supervise treatment and leading to cessation of drug use in our population. [timer dings] next speaker. Supervisor breed you made a statement that we keep building these brandnew apartment buildings and you want people to have an opportunity to move into these brandnew apartment buildings and the way to take care of that problem is to lower the right to be a median that is a medianthat make these people eligible to apply. That is an imbalance. That is an imbalance. Im out there and im talking to the people. You siit the medium at 55 of the hud income scale and that is 49,000 per year and the people cannot afford to apply for them. You did that with proposition d. That is 45 of Affordable Housing<\/a>. If you look at that only 2 of that 40 pie makes up to 36,000 per year the remainder that 40 pie is people making from 36,000 the remainder that 40 pie is people making from 36,000 up to 120,300 per year since when does someone that makes hundred and 20,003 in her dollars per year need to be part of an Affordable Housing<\/a> problem . You all never take care of the problem if you dont make Affordable Housing<\/a> buildings. You need to occlude a nonprofit Construction Company<\/a> to make this so they can move off the street. [timer dings] i want to call a few more names. Before we do that i know sam dodges here. Mr. Dodge i know you wanted to speak but we want to make sure that we give you an opportunity to speak at the onset but if you wanted to make sure that you do that so i just saw your name and i want to make sure we were respectful of your Important Role<\/a> here and there is no time limit. Thank you supervisor peskin. I did want to speak there are a number of questions that i have with this legislation. The 2 to 8 months thing would really undermine the ability to take the learning that we had and convert existing shelters into navigation like systems. And to really work on opening up the whole system using this idea of coordinatedand tree and i just dont like the timeframe and the sense of urgency to get that done i think thats very important. Part of the work of the department is that it shouldnt wait. Instances like the Navigation Center<\/a> really bring that forward for us. You know the Navigation Center<\/a> is representing a Culture Shift<\/a> in how we are working with people that are homeless and how we are helping them resolve their homelessness and we know that different kinds of interventions work for people that are homeless in different ways. We need this sort of intensive intervention of Supportive Housing<\/a>. So, you know we want to serve a certain volume of people that have these challenges in their lives and we really need to work on building that Supportive Housing<\/a> and you know, this has been part of our struggle here in San Francisco<\/a> that the cost of it and how to make it work requires pulling down maximum federal dollars and we were able to do that in this cycle but we have a certain pace and i understand that there are many people on the street and we have a shelter waitlist that is extremely long and we can serve people much better by bringing this learning from the Navigation Centers<\/a> into our shelters and expand our shelters to be able to accommodate people that are in there and they are on the waiting list and need those shelter services. So, i worry about somewhat codifying some of this stuff without worrying about some of the tradeoffs. I hope that we can sit down with my office and see how this fits in at a more global sense and there is a tremendous amount of agreement between the work that we are doing and what you are proposing and some of this would take us off course and i just want to make sure that when we codify these issues that we do it right because there are real lives at stake in real options at stake on how we spend our dollars and how effective we can be and i just really want to emphasize that and it is one year old the Navigation Center<\/a> and we are over 30 years in this crisis of homelessness in our community and across this nation and i understand that is very exciting and im also very excited about the progress that we have been seeing with Navigation Centers<\/a>. I think that sometimes we all have maybe in this field have personal definitions of what a Navigation Center<\/a> should mean and i think it is very important that the homelessness be able to afford our Affordable Housing<\/a> access stock. So you need your ids and you need access to get in there and you need your priorities and their people that are living under bridges all over the place in San Francisco<\/a> and we need a place that they are able to get out. We also have a Broad Service<\/a> of people in the middle of rehousing and we need shortterm supportive services. We call this rapid rehousing. This with the Episcopal Community<\/a> services is just getting off the ground. This really helps people in that Middle Branch<\/a> that maybe cant come to friends and family but maybe they dont need Lifetime Services<\/a> that Supportive Housing<\/a> can provide. Lets think about this together and put our best Heads Together<\/a> and lets actually talk facetoface about this which we have not been invited to do and were just seeing this legislation today with substantial changes which is like really great and informed by i think theres been great suggestions by hesba and i think the 8 months to 2 years is part of thing that kinda makes me worry. I have seen this for a half hour now so we should really take some time to look at this before becomes law. Thank you very much for hearing me. Thank you. Supervisor breed . Supervisor died i thank you for your comments and i do think its important to weigh in on this with the board and make a policy with this matter and work toward a specific all that all of us want to see happen. With that, if there are changes or there needs to be amendments clearly we started with 12 months and were looking for 24 months to try and implement a plan to try and open 6 new navigation ctr. Locations which can actually include our existing shelter system. I know that is ambitious but i think that is important to begin to think about the dollars that we can put behind this particular effort now as we approach budgets issues and we have the implement c and we realize its ambitious and if we need to make changes in the future im open to doing so at that time. I just think to not do anything is not a solution. I just want to make sure that the Mayors Office<\/a> is put on notice that this is what we expect and this is important and we want to see it implemented sooner rather than later and we are not asking you to deviate from your process we are just asking you to move full speed ahead and do it and do it right. Thank you. Thank you pres. Breed. If we could continue with Public Comment<\/a>. Next speaker please. Good morning. I have worked in San Francisco<\/a> for 15 years. The Navigation Centers<\/a> work because they enhance [inaudible] for homeless folks. The crisis is here now and it is massive. Theres all kinds of things happening to Homeless People<\/a> that do not happen simply by having them in Navigation Centers<\/a>. We can enhance Services Available<\/a> to those in Navigation Centers<\/a>. My Program Provides<\/a> hiv services and testing for Homeless People<\/a>. And i did want to mention that something popped up in this legislation called the safe injection facility and Harm Reduction<\/a>. I think that is something that is real actual Harm Reduction<\/a> and the rest of the world is embracing and i would be really slow to respond to the needs of the drug addicted populations needs are in the city. This has been research to death and i would urge all the supervisors to give that a good look and start thinking about Drug User Health<\/a> and set of political all decisionmaking. As thank you. [timer dingd] thank you paul [inaudible] jennifer evans. Good afternoon my name is paul [inaudible] as i travel down all the streets in that area i see the same camps that were there on division street are just dispersed around the neighborhood and i think additional Navigation Centers<\/a> is a real like i said solution or step towards a solution for this crisis and it is a really smart move that the city can make and i applaud their efforts and i hope they continue. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. High supervisors my name is amy fairway i am the founder of the fairway Homeless Coalition<\/a> and i just want to thank supervisor campos, for her all of their steps to come to a resolution and supervisor breed wow what apowerful statement that you just made. This is the moment. This is the generation that can say wow, reagan actually really messed us up to taking steps to be part of the solution. Mayor lee said that in his 2nd term he would like to see 800 people transferred off the street and into temporary housing. And what can we do to make that happen because this is the part of the legislation that we can be part of and i appreciate that supervisor breed because we can tie this to permanent housing and this is the time when we need healing and just being someone whos operating from the outside looking in and trying to enter into San Francisco<\/a> leadership in a shared way i see there is a lot of political issues right now between the board of supervisors in between the Mayors Office<\/a> around this issue and this is a time to heal. [timer dings] supervisor breed, yee, and peskin i would like to take leadership to see what can be done in our neighborhoods to initiate that process for Navigation Centers<\/a> by our leadership. Thank you. Next speaker please thank you so much supervisor camposand supervisor breed and this is not going to goanywhere in this i we get som some Navigation Centers<\/a> and some Affordable Housing<\/a> in our neighborhoods and i feel we have failed as a community. We failed them them through ppolice services we failed them throughthe city. While the city does not here is we are coming more and more to the city. For days i stayed with the frisco 5. 0 and we experienced homelessness. I had the lecture he of going home and i left the strike when my body could no longer do it for them they were protesting black and brown lives and i was doing it because i didnt know what else i could do. I do not know what else it takes for the city to wake up and listen to me. [timer dings] these legislations that are being put into place they really need Case Management<\/a> and care management. [timer dings] thank you very much. Next speaker please. Hello i have been conducting research on people that are taking and Homeless People<\/a> for the last 23 years we have written papers literature on and the success of Safe Injection Sites<\/a> and the type of supervised injection facilities that we had thought of using in San Francisco<\/a> and one question is whether the should be integrated into existing services or standalone and the majority would like them integrated into existing services and that i think that would be perfectly aligned with these Navigation Centers<\/a>. I think its a great idea to integrate those. I am sad to hear this will be segregated now because i think this will then become less effective. Weve also done research on care holders and whether they would like this or not and most of them that werent quite sure about them wanted some more information about them. And were certainly willing to provide that so that you understand that im happy to meet with you are be able to meet with you and discuss the process and the feasibility of the services once they get a past. Thank you very much. [timer dings] good morning i am an alumni at the Current Mission<\/a> Navigation Center<\/a> and there is a lot good about it. The Harm Reduction<\/a> in the Case Management<\/a> and its also trans friendly and also we need a womens only Navigation Center<\/a> because we are not a very well served community with our Homeless Services<\/a> and i would also like to bring attention to the Housing Access<\/a> and these need to be not run by crooked profiteers like robert schall. Nobody wants to address issues surrounding thc being the only solution and i just want to remind everyone in San Francisco<\/a> that you reap what you so. If you do not get people off the streets then your streets deserve the feces and tiered filled sidewalks of Homeless People<\/a>. I would just like to state my support for the frisco 5 because if he had at least been sheltered he probably would not have been killed. So, if we had supported the frisco 5 and not the thc probably were not of been killed. Thank you. Thank you miss davis. Next speaker please. Good afternoon i am a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco<\/a> drug efforts unit. I want to tell you im support of the proposal of the Navigation Centers<\/a> and obviously im in support of that but i also want to talk about the safe injection issue. This has been studied and it has very high rates of success and i a dont know why this has to be separated out. I wish we would be less timid about treaple like human beings and these are people for god sakes and we need to treat them like that and do whatever we can do help people regardless of whether they are homeless or whether they inject drugs or smoke drugs or however they ingest drugs please accept this proposal. Thank you very much. Thank you next speaker please. Good morning i am sandra and this is jeff besno we are with the San Francisco<\/a> oh hepatitis task force. We are in support of a safe injection facility. Such facilities provide medically hygienic places for addicts to use these drugs safely. There are over 100 worldwide. These can reduce hepatitis c and hiv transmissions these can reduce public drug use and syringe letter. Detox and Syringe Services<\/a> are often available on site or nearby. Cost savings due to reduced disease and infection along with less hepatitis surfaces are needed. Opioid and methamphetamine use is growing and drugs like fenton all are found on the street. Ive witnessed Drug Trafficking<\/a> and it is a drug related crime. It is time to try something else. We need a new tool. We do not have to invent something when we know of something that has success in operating and we can reduce drugs and improve the health and safety of San Francisco<\/a>. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. My name is johnson and i think we need do is equal out all of due processes and and put these processes into low Income Housing<\/a> and build easier limits in the housing that were building. The association with the Health Department<\/a> i asked them to help us control by letting me know are giving me an Escort Services<\/a> on this to where we wouldnt have any [inaudible] and we talk about the legislation over and over again and all thats going to happen is that people are going to die and people are going to get shot and the drug problem is overwhelming and i think this once an Escort Service<\/a> and this is one of our major problems and this could be a solution and we can equal out all of our building processes and things that didnt make any sense. Things that would level everything out and what we do in our [inaudible] and fork aggressions congress is really concerned and i think that they figured it out already. Drivers license being [inaudible] help please. Next speaker please. Can we have help with the projector please . We in that hate have a desperate need for resources. I have had meetings with neighborhood associations to a line around the possibility of 8 navigation ctr. In district 5 it will be really powerful. I have been pleasantly surprised that there is an appetite for doing something. We have a situation in hate asberry where people are in the streets and at night they come outoff and sleep on the streets. This particular locations we identified with sem dodge and mary helm as a possible location. Again, thank you mary frieden box for everything you do. You are welcome and again mary friedenboch i really appreciate the discussion this morning i think each of the supervisors have really brought up some thoughtful suggestions that are taking the time to do this right. We have a situation in San Francisco<\/a> where homelessness and Homeless People<\/a> are used as scapegoats. Because of our politics being the way they are in San Francisco<\/a> other traditional scapegoats like immigrants and muslims and members of the Queer Community<\/a> are not used as scapegoats successfully. And so what the powerful interests in San Francisco<\/a> have found is that this population can be used in politics in a way that is really horrifying and has really led us down the road to the system that we have today where it is a system that in its fundamental a and believes that if you can make it is uncomfortable for people as possible they will simply disappear and that really is what we have been doing with homelessness in San Francisco<\/a> for the past 2 and half decades. So, part of what is happening in this legislation which is really important is taking it out of that political sphere and have Community Process<\/a>es the real Community Process<\/a>es and have these consensusbased processes that have smart people in the room and Homeless People<\/a> that know exactly what is needed along with Frontline Service<\/a> providers that know exactly why it needs to be done to provide that work and it also we need to make sure that we have people within the Housing Services<\/a> to make sure that this is done and its a very important part of that legislation. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon i am the director of the hesba group. And i thank you supervisor compos on taking that input and expanding that input. I am here to in particular have a Navigation Center<\/a> including a focus on 18 to 29yearolds. Included in that taking the equitable process out and having Supportive Housing<\/a> and rapid rehousing and transitional housing for young people and we need to population specific services and supports to address the needs of various homeless folks. I think that the Navigation Centers<\/a> building on the Navigation Centers<\/a> and looking at existing shelters quite frankly it is how we would like to operate in our shelters and we have sometimes been limited by city roles and being able to accomplish that. We really believe strongly that having a better engagement and way for folks to come in off the streets and have access to Important Services<\/a> and supports the bill to transition into housing. And for those folks that are able to leave housing to have exit strategies there as well. So thank you for your support as well with this legislation. Thank you for all that you do. Next speaker please. Thank you. My name is mack allen i am a member of the dogpatch organization and i am a member of dogpatch with in the cove and i think it is an exciting opportunity for our neighborhood to truly contribute to Better Outcomes<\/a> to the homeless in our city. I am proud to say that dogpatch has contributed directly to this exact type of outcome and i hope that throughout this year we can have a Navigation Center<\/a> in our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you dogpatch. Next speaker please. I speak on behalf of small landlords in the city and we are unanimous and in support of Navigation Centers<\/a> i think its an conscionable that people are arrested and incited have in their belongings confiscated in the middle the night. We believe Homeless People<\/a> should get the r same benefits as b and b should specifically have task forces that are designed to not solve the problems. I love of the city would approach it. I think that you should consider that and not call for a separate hearing. In regard to Safe Injection Sites<\/a>. If we were told that they were given a prescription of zoloft all of the homeowners would embrace it because that is a very familiar activity. But i would like to say that the dream house in st. Francis woods i saw it has 9 bedrooms i saw that it looked very good i like to the recommended allisons house in Beverly Hills<\/a> he is several houses he can stay in. Willie allen i would like like to say that his house is empty just like his heart and soul was and also the opera house no one likes opera so thank you very much [laughing] mr. Green i believe mr. Dodds ears perked up when you were talking. You may want to speak to him please. I am the employment. Next speaker please. I am the employment [inaudible] at hacc. I am sad to say that sometimes they cannot get to their jobs because they didnt get a sleep or they werent able sleep at all they couldnt get a shelter bed that day. I support the legislation i want to thank supervisor campas for suggesting it and we support the mayors support in this Affordable Housing<\/a> and also counseling is absolutely crucial and important for these Homeless People<\/a> to be able to maintain their jobs. Thank you. Good morning my name is emily cowin and i am a Deputy Director<\/a> of hope. I want to thank the hesba Community Providers<\/a> for all of their hard work i believe that the Navigation Centers<\/a> will be successful they are the heart and soul for the specific populations through our entire system and that is the backbone of the work of the new department and im excited to see so much alignment on. As we look at expanding Navigation Centers<\/a> i think these are very exciting opportunities and we will need support from the board of supervisors in order to have funding to make these successful as well as citing. And as we look at implementing more and more Navigation Centers<\/a> im concerned that the length of time from entry tax it will continue to increase i we do not continue to bring on a supply of appropriate housing placements both permanent supporting housing and rapid rehousing so that we are really matching the right resource to the right person. And i just want to make sure we provide counseling so that we can continue to work with them. When we talk about citing were working on the civic center as well as the dogpatch proposal we hear lots about what about the other neighborhoods in the other districts so as we move forward with expanding this i look forward to working with all of the supervisors to find the most appropriate locations at the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please hi good morning i am jackie jenks the executive director at hospitality house and the executive director of hesba. I want to thank you supervisor campos. This really addresses what we deal with every day. We know that the Navigation Centers<\/a> have been successful because of the tremendous amount of Resources Available<\/a> for residents there. We appreciate the amendment to qualify existing centers to be enriched as Navigation Centers<\/a>. I also want to say that hospitality houses almost 50 years old and we were around back in the early 80s and we were one of the 1st responders to the homeless crisis and we opened one of the very 1st shelters and i just want to say and i think its very important to remember that many of the shelters began as low threshold Navigation Center<\/a> like places it was only over time that more restriction or rules or structure was imposed on this program. Another thing that we know is that the Navigation Center<\/a> model cannot be successfully scaled. And less we have more housing exits most of the housing exits have been provided to [inaudible] the critical piece for the equitable housing plan is simply not fair for people that are in a specific program to get priority to specific housing exits and their people that are lingering in our shelters. So we appreciate your time and we thank you for your hard work. Thank you miss jenks for your invaluable work that you do on this. I would like to call miss ledbetter up to speak and the next thing that we need do is to clone miss ledbetter so we can have other Navigation Centers<\/a> but thank you for all that you do. I really just want to say that this legislation hits on all of the pain points that we are experiencing in navigation. It focuses on getting both bigger and better. I want to talk about it Getting Better<\/a> because i think in a rush to get bigger and to expand we also have to remember how to get better and what that requires. I also really want to thank hesba and the others that have been amazing partners in this and what this does is bring our wants to the table. Without so far for the bodies to be here to do the work and i think that we cannot do this without the providers thinking and working through these problems with us. We cannot do this without the board of supervisors we cannot do this without the homeless board. We need a place where we can have that written dialogue and theres so much richness through that navigation and we really need to focus on this. Is really good to focus on the exits. It is great to focus on the equity with coordinated entry and we also need to continue to push reforms on the things that are at the table. We have the county Adult Assistance Program<\/a> critical to work for doing with dph and their medical services. Some of the issues with the safe injection site are really pain points for us. Were doing alcohol treatment already but how can we support a providers to do that better. I really think these are great next steps and in order to get better we also need to staff for Getting Better<\/a> so the expansion is great and more people need to get inside and im very supportive of that and we need to have all these dialogues but we also need to really staff for these hard, hard, reforms and why does it take 88 days to play somebody . We all say that is a great number but why does it take 88 days. We have control of that. So, we need to get better. Can we cut that time down. We need to get better at cap. All of these are things we learned navigation and if were serious about taking this across the system we need to staff for that and we need to find places where we can all sit down and talk about these things. Again i want to really thank hesba for pushing for this and going to the table moving forward on this. Thank you very much thank you very much. Is there any other members of the Public Comment<\/a> that would like to comment . Seeing none i will close Public Comment<\/a> [gavel] we had a suggestion from supervisor yee of an amendment to take the injection sites out of this legislation but i want to make it very clear that me and my office are very committed to moving this Program Forward<\/a> and everything needs be done to make this Program Successful<\/a> and we will be introducing this as soon as we can to the full board and as i mentioned a number of us today are going to see the program in vancouver. The 2nd point is that i would ask that this item be forwarded to the board but also one of the things that i requested the City Attorney<\/a> to do is to draft language between now and the time that this goes to the board of supervisors that makes it clear that one of the concepts that is key to this legislation is an existing shelter could in fact become a Navigation Center<\/a> which is something that a number of people noted that pres. Breed noted,tthat supervisor peskinbreed note that i want to make it clear that he did not want us to bring this forward but i believe along the lines of what me and pres. Breed have said we need to be more prescriptive and not along the lines of we are committed. We are committed mr. Dodd with working with you and your staff and the thing about legislation is i know enough to know that there is a lot more that i can learn so we are ready to make whatever tweaks or changes are needed so with that es i want to thank you again and i want to thank all of the providers for the amazing work that they do i want to thank our city atty. s office for the very quick changes that they have made to Carolyn Goossen<\/a> and my staff and again to my colleagues and to Carolyn Goossen<\/a> for making this possible to move forward. Thank thankyou. Thank yousupervisor compost we want you to know that we want to make this successful and this leads to successful programs for you to move these programs forward and we also want to make sure that we can work with individuals to move this forward and that we change some of our housing policies so that we can change the priorities in order to get them into these homes. Im committed to that. I know that many of the individuals that spoke i appreciate the dialogue i appreciate your commitment and wanting to help us work through the right kinds of policies in order to make sure that we are making a difference and were not just creating more red tape and more bureaucracy that is going to make the problem even worse. And so with that i would definitely would like to move forward with a proposed amendments suggested by supervisor campos that were distributed today and the existing shelter cyst in will be used as an opportunity to work with the Navigation Centers<\/a> and i hope that we will consider that in addition to the amendment regarding the change that would allow for shelters to also be used as Navigation Centers<\/a>. So, we now have 2 1 2 amendments on the floor. The 1st one made by supervisor yee regarding moving the language to Safe Injection Sites<\/a>. Colleagues can we take that without objection . [gavel] then we have the amendments that were introduced by supervisor campos and seconded by supervisor breed. Can we take that without objection . [gavel] and then if there are no further comments with, the items to moved with the amendments forward without objection this will move forward [gavel]. Mdm. Clerk can you please move the next item . Yes. Item 4 isag hearing on the below market rate housing policies and procedures utilized throughout the city and county of San Francisco<\/a>; and requesting the Mayors Office<\/a> of housing and the Community Development<\/a> to report . Are there any Public Comment<\/a> on this item . I see one. Hello my name is maria ramose and i am not sure who can afford this. Even an activist can barely make that. We cannot afford to be in the city and we are thinking about how can this be revised . How is this determine . A lot of people cannot afford this . Not only that, in the last 2 years the housing list is been completely thrown out so anyone that was on the list has to reapply and they have to reapply through a case manager otherwise they will know there is no public announcement of posting anywhere and pretty much if you are a Service Provider<\/a> you have to look for all of these things they are not provided in any kind of packet to any cbo, any communitybased organization or any shelters or Service Centers<\/a> put on the list and am asking that this be seriously revised. Thank you. Thank you. If there are no other members of the public here on this item Public Comment<\/a> is closed and colleagues can we have a motion to move this item to the call of the chair . And if there are no other objections we are adjourned. Hello and welcome to this presentation. Im San Francisco<\/a> purrs since that time weve helped people clean up their criminal records. We created this to help you understand how this worked. Well plan or explain all the steps. After watching this program youll know what to expect after completing the process. Hi, there are im deputy and im part of the clean slate team. The first thing we will need to know whether your despicable to have our convictions dismissed cant be on parole or currently charged with a crime or serving a sentence and it must be from San Francisco<\/a>. While your colleagues will get to know your circumstances there are 3 steps. Getting the clean slate process started it simple you can get them done in the same day. First fill out an application and they can be opinioned on sf defender. Org. Next youll obtain a copy of your rap sheet thats a rap sheet going 80 the hall of justice at 850 bryant street on the fourth floor. The bureau is open monday through friday from 8 to 5. Its located one block away from the Public Defenders Office<\/a> youll need to bring our photo id. Finally, theres your our own your rap sheet to the front desk. Youll receive a letter from 2 to three weeks explaining the next steps. Lets review the 3 steps if that fillist the Police Station<\/a>s and on your Police Station<\/a> and 3 deliver our rap sheet and application 0. 40 to the defender. It can help with Financial Aid<\/a> for colleagues. I want you to meet a client who did the Clean Slate Program<\/a> he refunds a nonprofit literary series. Please meet joe. Peep at the Clean Slate Program<\/a> worked with me today, i i am an author of 3 books a husband and a father would you recommend clean slight to another person i would definitely recommend that. So, now you have a better understanding of the gibt address benefits of the Clean Slate Program<\/a> as well as highway to get started. Lets hear some common questions. Keep in mind those are general questions youll you may be seated with an attorney who be provide more information based on our circumstances just to be clear i dont have to tell my employers will my ejections. Yes. As well as convictions that have been dismissed. If someone runs a criminal background theyll see the charges but its dismissed. You will be able to legally tell your employers person never convicted i dont to tell anyone is there a way to rears them. Theres some cases you can. Maybe youre arrested because police thought you were someone else. Wound our arrest record is sealed you can say you were never if i wanted to clear my record if i was convicted of a felon. It is also known as a one letter officer the clean stating hit. May be able to get it raersz but if i went to prisoner you may quality for a correspondent certified document saying youre a lay abating citizen are. You had should be aware for some state jobs state agencies are allotted to consider our criminal history. Those jobs are private security jobs Health Care Workers<\/a> and other careers involving the children the i can sick or elder. It will benefit you Human Resources<\/a> heres some of the things clean slate cant do it doesnt prevent an old conviction to there the sense of a new criminal action. The court might connotes more sentences even if it been submit you cant own or polgs possess a firearm. If it bars you from carrying an firearm eclipsing our record wont change that. Submittal doesnt rove a sex ejection. If youre required to register as a sex offender that process will continue even if your record has been cleared, however, other forms of royalties maybe eligible. We look forward to helping you move forward with your life so, now you know a little bit more about the program we encourage you to apply go the sf purifyi purifying. Org or stop by any place for our Clean Slate Program<\/a>. 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