Dont know i will talk with maria what could be agendized if something has to be done about that in november but i am certain we have to see how much because we have to have something to back that up. If we dont have something we can rely on the revenue stream in my mind to pass the budget we have to say okay if that doesnt happen heres some ideas about what we can do, but i dont know. Its going to be a big number in any event and going to be conceptual and i dont know that the project can be adjusted to that extent at this point. Okay. Call the next item. Next item. Item 13 is authorizing the executive director to amend the professional Services Agreement with Thompson Coburn for this. Motion and approval. Would you call the roll please. Director kim. Aye. Director lee. Yes. Director reiskin . Aye. Director. Aye. Next item is approve the minutes of the meeting. Motion and approval. Pick your choice guys. Take your choice. All right. No objections call the roll. Director kim. Aye. Director lee. Yes. Director reiskin. Yes. Director nuru. Aye. Chair harper. Aye. That is five ayes and the minutes are approved. That concludes your agenda for today. [gavel] were adjourned. Good afternoon. Were going to get started. This is the meeting of the city and School District select committee, for thursday, september 24th. Im the chair and supervisor kim will be joining us shortly. She is in another meeting. So i want to acknowledge the clerk, who is covering todays meeting is Derrick Evans and i also want to let you know that sfgtv staff Charles Kremenak and jenn lowe are covering todays meeting and the recordings will be available to the public. So any announcements, mr. Evans . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phone and electronic devices. And that is the only announcement that we have today, mr. Chair. Thank you very much. Then can you please call item no. 1. Item no. 1 is we need toe to take roll call or anything . No, mr. Chair we have commissioners matt haney, sandra fewer and jill wynns and supervisor david campos joining us today. Thank you, mr. Chair. Item no. 1 is hearing regarding updates on the work of the Hamilton Family center and other organizations and city departments to address family homelessness and requesting the housing opportunity, partnerships, and Engagement Office and Human Services agency to report. As you know, this is an issue that we have been covering off and on whether its in this committee or through our Supervisors Committee or at the board of education and were happy to have a discussion around these issues, because this hasnt gone away and certainly we know were trying our best to address children that are homeless. That is part of the San Francisco unified School District. So im not sure who will be coming up to speak. I dont have any script for this. I assume okay, im sorry. Can you just come up and announce it. Good afternoon, commissioners. Supervisors, my name is jeff the executive director of the Hamilton Family center and happy to be here today to present on some of the work we have been doing with the School District around family homelessness. I have a slide i dont know its not up on the screen and im not sure you are seeing it, but it was a handout as well with the same information that looks like this. Okay. So as you know, last year the Hamilton Family center entered into a partnership with the San Francisco unified School District to address family homelessness in the schools. The way the Partnership Works we have created a hotline and School District staff, teachers, parent liaisons, social workers can contact us, and let us know a family is about to lose their housing or has recently lost their housing. We will go out to the school within three days and register those families in one of our programs. Either to help them keep their housing or to help them find permanent housing. The purpose was to build on the relationship that School District staff have with families in need. Trusting relationship, i know as a parent with children in the unified, the School District is one of the most trusted institutions in my life and its been great to work with School District staff. It helps us get to families much more quickly than in the past given the current way the Service System works in San Francisco. We find out much more quickly with referrals from unified, were finding families within days of them becoming homeless as opposed to months. Its been a Great Success so far. This is a Pilot Program, its funded entirely from a grant from google and greatly appreciate the work that they are doing. We would like to report on the outcomes 69 of the partnership so far. We started this in ernest in january, 2015, through the second semester of the school year and so far the first month of the school year. We have worked with 45 day schools and received over 125 phone call or emails on the hotline we set up for the School District. 52 of the calls, really all we needed to do was provide consultation and staff just needed to know what resources were available and they were able to assist the families without hamilton intervening. However, 73 families needed assistance and of those 73, 26 were about to be evicted and we helped to prevent those evictions. 28 we were able to provide with rent subsidy and eight familis are currently searching for housing and were confident that the familis will find housing in next month or so and 21 families didnt follow through or for whatever reasons were eligible for our program. In addition, though this work we have attended four different Staff Meetings of unified employees and we have reached over 200 People Services staff. We have produced three educational videos for staff that are available on our website, if you are interested in seeing those and related handout that we give out to all of the schools. I should also point out in addition, to the partnership we have funded through google, we housed an additional 174 families, who have children in the San Francisco unified School District, who came to you through other means. But in total, during the past year or so, we have housed over 200 families with students in the San Francisco unified School District. For 201516 school year our goal is to rehouse at least 32 more families through our partnership with the School District and with google, and 24 additional evictionpreventions. Were planning on working with the School District to continue staff not only understand how hamilton can be of assistance, but understand all of the Services Available when a student becomes homeless . And also to identify five schools to do more indepth work and were currently working with kevin trueett on that. A little bit on the outcomes as you know from 20072013, homelessness in the School District increased dramatically by over 95 . There were 697 families who are homeless in the School District. It peaked at about 1400 families. 1460 or 1470 during the past year, since we began this partnership. It has reduced to its lowestlevel it has been since 2010. Decreasing by 163 students and that tracks closely with the number of students that we helped housed. So excited about those outcomes. Just looking at the Bigger Picture and homelessness on the other side of your handout talks about ending family homelessness by 2019. You will see the blue line on the graph is waiting list for family shelter, which isnt the only indicater of homeless in San Francisco, but kind of the canarry in the coalmine. Since Hamilton Family center and sister organizations and the city provided housing we have seen a dramatic decrease in the number of families who are waiting to get into shelter from a high of 287 to a low of 122. That is really great news. That is over 50 reduction. There is still a lot of work to do k. Hamilton Family Centers goal is to end homelessness in the city by 2019. It means when they do become homeless it will be very brief. 90 days or less and they will be back into permanent housing. That is sort of the naturallyrecognized definition of what it means to end homelessness. We to get there we need to some more things need to happen. We would like to see the city set aside 30 of all affordable Family Housing for homeless families. We need to continue scalingup our eviction prevention and rapid housing efforts and we have a cityfunded program to provide rent subsidies to family that starts in july at the beginning of the fiscal year and we are full. And its not even the end of september and we have fully subscribed into that program. We can only take new familis when other families exit. And so that is concerning, because what i have seen in the past month is that as hamilton and other organizations are running of our the slots, the waiting list is going back up again. It dropped to a low of 122, the lowest it had been since 2008 and now the waiting list is back up to 134 and i think it will keep creeping up unless we find ways to invest in these programs. The good news is that we know it works. We have proven it a couple of times. If you look at the graph in 2010 we had an infusion of federal dollars for about a year or so and the waiting list went down briefly, but when the money goes away, the waiting list goes back up again. Supervisor kims office and the Mayors Office and the Human Services agency have been working closely with providers on this and just all praises to everybody. There was significant money from the state from a program that joyce will talk about shortly. I feel if we can just continue to add more resources we should be able to address this problem by the end of 2019. I also want to thank i cannot give the School District enough praise and thanks. The staff have been amazing to work with. Kevin trueett has helped deal with bureaucratic hurdles and line staff is just fantastic and go out of their way helping families in crisis. Calling us saturdays and sundays and really at all hours, its really great and as a parent with children in the School District, its great to see this institution that is a big part of my life does such a great job in the community and such a great partner. Ip hope this will continue and with that i will open up to questions that anybody might have on the work were doing. Thank you, jeff. Are there any questions . I have a quick one. I mean, i know its only been about a month or so into the school year. Have you seen any trends one way or another in terms of calls you are receiving for the first month of the school year . Unfortunately, were still sort of working some of the kinks in reporting with the School District, and actually have been meeting with the folks from stanford, who work with the school on datacollection. So right now its sort of difficult to see trends on a month by month basis. More like a quarter or semester basis. But what we saw last years with a decrease in the number of students who are homeless. But cant really say yet this year one way or the other how things are going. Are the referrals coming from things that teachers notice . Counselors notice . Principals notice . Great question. What im finding the patient les parent liaisons usually know right away if there is a problem with a child not showing up to school and the second most common calls are from School Social workers. Were getting many more calls from Elementary School than middle schools. So that has been a significant trend and its really even though every Single School in the district has at least one homeless family, were generally getting calls from the same 2025 schools. My last question would be with regards to the families with the children, are there kids coming from a certain age or just spread all over the place . That is another great question. We did take a look at that and its actually evenly distributed across grades. Its really interesting, like 78 in each one of the grades. Then we also have data on the prek and k as well. Okay. Commissioner fewer. Yes. So thank you for this presentation and for your praise of kevin truitt and his team. I agree they are quite fabulous. My question is do you keep any other demographic information . For example, the ethnic background race of these families . The income of these families . Also, i am just concerned that if we are seeing a decrease because families have left San Francisco, and left their district, i was just wondering, because i feel like there should be a correlation between the students we see that are leaving our district and also if it correlates with your demographic information . We have a drop in enrollment with africanamerican students quite frankly and wondering if our demographic information would correlate with yours . We can sort of, i guess, formulate a picture of what is happening with our families in general in San Francisco. Thank you very much for that question. We do collect all of that data. Earlier this week we met with the folks from the Gardeners Center at stanford to work out a datasharing agreement, so when we have the same issues around confidentiality and hipaa requirements that im sure the School District has to address. Were talking about how we can marry our two data sets and i think anonymize is the word to look at those trends. I can tell you anecdotally we havent seen a difference in terms of the referrals were getting from the School District. Its really no different from the referrals were geting from the general population. I would tell you also that the highest in terms of ethnic groups that we serve, that the Largest Group that we serve is the latino population. Especially around the evictionprevention program, but i think it would be worth looking at what is happening to the families . And where they are getting placed . Most of them will choose to keep their children in the San Francisco unified School District at least until the end of the year, but we do have least half of the students that we are serving in Rapid Rehousing Program out of San Francisco and that is unfortunate. Our stance is right now there are over 2000 students without a stable place to live and our Community Priority is to have those kids stably housed. We look at the bay areas a region, as opposed to sort of it being defined as San Francisco, oakland, al made. Alameda. Many of our families continue to work in San Francisco and are working in places like richmond and alameda county, contra costa county, and even as far out as vallejo. Were very conscious of making sure when we give rent subsidis to families that they are able to increase their income during a twoyear period of time, so they can be selfsufficient in terms of paying their rent. So were careful about not but although families make ultimately make their own choices, but most choose to go to a place that is more affordable. Recently due to changes that we have made internally and hire a bunch of Real Estate Brokers to work with us on our staff, they have sort of rattled the trees or whatever shane the tree shaken the trees and found Affordable Housing in San Francisco and increased from 1314 to 1415 we increased the percentage of families placed in San Francisco, which has been great. That is great. Im wondering also, if because normally what happens when a student leave ours district, they then have to to apply for out of district transfer and many years homelessness is so disruptive to a family and a students academic career. So im sort of formulating in my mind and i have been thinking about some sort of exception for the students that have suffered homelessness and that is why they have move out of San Francisco . If they could continue their Academic Year at that School Without disruption, its something that i think we should work within with educational commissioners pushback if you dont agree or have other ideas . I was thinking through no fault of their own, it wasnt the familys choice to move, but forced to move because of homelessness