Relationships were respected and pets came and very different from division street. Instead of utilizing new resources like on king street pea 80 which was meant to be a rain shelter for the 700 people waiting for shelter in San Francisco and the general population and taken away and given to the folks at division street. No communication, no relocation plan. Half of the beds we had 300 people at division street and 150 beds at pier 80 so moving forward were looking at Navigation Centers which are highly anticipated. We must also remember we have 6800 people passing through the traditional shelter system last year and they are stuck without exits of the system and in between stays on the streets. On division street we spent a lot time dialoguing with folks and didnt meet anyone that wouldnt jump at the chance to go to the Navigation Center and around the services and the housing that needs to be replicated not just the new Navigation Centers but for the entire shelter system and move people along and want to see a sustained commitment, progressive revenue that we can move forward with this. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Hi. My name is laura flat erty and the executive director of the grub i dont project and its an independent space and not a shelter. Its refuge and safe place to stop and get service. When i started there were 60 people each day in the tenderloin sleeping and today there is 150 and another hundred coming for services. Were full. We opened up site in the mission, saipt johns about a block half from the Navigation Center. Yesterday there were 40 people sleeping there during the day. 90 of the people staying with us say they sleep on the streets at night. 85 self identify as having a disability. We have a guest staff ratio of 1 60. Why are people staying with, sleeping on the pews of a church which believe me are not comfortable . They dont go to the shelters because they cant get in because theres that waiting list of 700 but they feel it ends. Supervisor farrell i wanted you to say my folks. They want housing and drug and alcohol treatment, want Mental Health. Everyday we have requests. How do i get to the Navigation Center . How do i get to pier 80 . They have heard the hype. They want to be housed. If they could go to msc south or next door they would go and put on the name on the list so what i want to advocate for instead of more Navigation Centers lets have more Navigation Centereffect services. Lets have the staff guest ratios and the Navigation Centeresk exits for folks. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning. I think its now afternoon real quick so we know so we can get through Public Comment. We have a tradition that clapping is not allowed in the board chambers. You can wave your hands or signs. Thats fine but we want to get through and have everyone have a fair two minutes. Good afternoon supervisors. Thanks for the opportunity to talk about this important issue. Im bill herch with the aids Referral Panel and its not terribly surprising when there are Additional Resources directed at a service like Emergency Shelter that there are greater successful outcomes. Were not surprised. I hope youre not surprised. We need to resource the entire system. I want to express my frustration that there has been a lack of dialogue with the city around solutions to homelessness. The homeless Emergency Service providers has been working for years with some comprehensive solutions and has had very little transaction with the Mayors Office to advance the solutions. I want to say that we need to put more money into prevention. There are Many Legal Services providers who are completely overwhelmed with the number of evictions that are coming into their offices. We could do more to keep people in their current Affordable Housing with resources, and the final point is around exits. The city needs to establish its own equivalent of a section 8 program where we use local dollars to subsidize people who arent really not able to afford housing on the open market. Its not too hard to understand that people cannot afford housing, and the federal government is not stepping up so we need the city to step up. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is daniel hill and thank you for hearing us. I am here from Korean Senior Center and here to support in the luxury of strategies that were employed at the Navigation Center to be spread throughout the existing system. We serve approximately 675 homeless seniors today. Out of that number we have one into the Navigation Center. We have 674 to go. But we offer medical clinic, Case Management, Substance Use and Mental Health programs. We also have a dining room. We believe that we like many other clinics and drop in centers and shelters and neighborhood agencies are already to a great extent Navigation Centers. We do tremendous work for the people in need. Lets see. I wanted just to pull out one example. The week before christmas i sat with a homeless client of ours in the clinic and the rains were coming and lost the shelter after two days in the hospital. We couldnt get him to a senior bed shelter and was too fragile to go to a shelter and went to a hotel and spent 200 for the night and when i told him what hotel on the corner of eddie and polk was charging that . And asked the elder it must have been the bulk of the money and it was all he had and took six months to get all of the things that he needed and into a Substance Abuse program. We got him on one housing wait list. We were notified yesterday he was number 2224 on the sceern wait list thank you simplt i appreciate it. [inaudible] thank you very much. Were limiting this to two minutes to everyone so were fair to everyone. Thank you. The true and correct way to take care of the Homeless Program for people on low income and fixed income problems and first we have poor management and supervision of the taxpayers money. Hightech Companies Like twitter owe the city and getting tax breaks and twitter and other hightech companies cost the 33 over 33 million in the year 2014 and this information comes from the Tax Collector and says it costs the city 6. 1 dollars in previous years paused . From the Twitter Organization because twitter has their own in house tax payroll company. More over the city spends a Million Dollars a month for the shelter system at pier 80. Homeless people dont need more shelter Homeless Programs. They need permanent housing and about the 310 million housing grant that the mayor hand odd when you asked where the money is going. That money is going for proposition d and 5m projects and those projects where the Land Use Committee is advertising [inaudible] low income housing. The truth of the matter is 10 of the 40 pie is going to income people in high brackets making 122,000 a year. Since when does a person making that much money needs to be part of a low income Affordable Housing program . And 2 of that overall pie goes to people thats just making 36,000 a year. More over the mayor is talking he wants all departments to focus in on the budget because of the negative cash flow thank you sir. [inaudible] thank you sir. Next speaker sir. Im going to call a number of other speaker cards and you can line up. [calling speaker names] good morning supervisors. I wanted to speak with supervisor campos because he hit it right. We need the programs right now and the longer goes the worse it will get. I am homeless myself. Im not using the services but i know the people on the streets and the thing of it is you dont know what homelessness is until youre out on the streets. Go sleep on the streets for a week and a half, two weeks. People treat Homeless People like theyre not constituents. This is not russia. This is the United States of america. Navigation centers resocial them. Thats why they work. These shelters its like i would rather be in prison than a shelter and there are so many rules and obligations and hard to stay there and they need to put them in habitable housing and not sros like the henry and settle for 2500 and not habitable and theyre taking advantage of people and Mental Health issues. You know its against the law to take advantage of people with Mental Health issues. You can go to jail for it and they take advantage of them. You need to get it together. Youre the supervisors, go ahead and supervisor. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good morning. My name is wendy click and from hospitality house. I am excited about the success that the Navigation Centers is doing. If we had the funding and resources for other agencies and organizations that were established in the city where could we be . We wouldnt be hearing about the tent city sweeps. We would have people housed and hose that dont have homes. People that come to San Francisco dont come to sleep on the street. They come here to get escape from violent environments in the homes or be part of the Lgbt Community but instead theyre passing out home ward bound certificates for them to go back to the same place they came before so what are we doing as a community saying its safe to come to San Francisco but were going to give you a certificate to go back to where you came from. By expanding the resources and giving 16 housing slots for one Navigation Center bed we would have so many people off the streets and people that are in shelters and funding for housing Case Management already established agencies we wouldnt be hearing about any of these homeless beings so please stop the vicious cycle and give resources and funding to the ones that are already established in the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Thank you supervisors. My name is julie and i also work at hospitality house which you know is a drop in. We also have a shelter. We work with folks in the tenderloin and i am encouraged by what i heard today. I am really glad this issue is moving towards a priority and i heard a lot of the solutions in the presentations today. Staffing was a huge one. That was more staff the Navigation Center could help more clients more quickly and exits and also housing. Thats what we need is Affordable Housing in the city and i heard the question asked how could the board of supervisors help . So i think that is more of a longterm solution so looking at the policy you all support that includes not allowing the police to sweep people off the street when there is nowhere to go. That includes supporting Affordable Housing. That includes funding nonprofit workers. I think another big key is i hrld a lot of frustration about where we will have the next Navigation Centers . And i want to remind you all that we have shelters and we have drop in centers that already have space. We have clients and what we need is more resources so we can do better by the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good morning and thank you for holding this hearing. My name is jordan davis and im just a local concerned citizen and i was exited from the Navigation Center so i have experience here. First i think the Navigation Center should be emulated everywhere and the old model be dispensed of. The fact there are no ridiculous rules and laid back atmosphere drove me to accept shelter after six months on the street coming from the east coast and i believe one should be set aside for women only. Men out numbered women three to one and resulted in complications including harassment. Women are under served and high better the were more likely to economically deprivileged and especially transgender and women of color and there is a bias in the systems. The other concern is lack of stable exit options other than the tenderloin housing clinic. A person living in my dorm was on the street for years after unfairly evicted and they were trying to get the individual back in the agency. The concerns of the tenderloin housing clinic are not limited not pay by check, shortage of bathrooms, pets and problems and a lot of convicted rapists live and violence against the Lgbt Community. We need more options for exits. There should be more options for exits, Better Options for exits and of course i was like removed from the Navigation Center because i wouldnt go into a thc building and i just want to conclude by saying to all the stakeholders here and especially those running hope are you for the people you serve or for lining randy shaws pockets . Thank you. Thsh. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. Im matt and the Program Manager at the [inaudible] Referral Center on larkin street and say thank you to supervisor breed for expanding the program and the Daily Program and outreach and supporting a Housing First program called taking it to the streets. I would like to highlight the need for continuing progress of the Navigation Centers. Theres a definite need for Navigation Centers specially in the haight that prioritizes Homeless Youth and we have el nino shelter beds theyre actively using and once theyre used to be housed they want to expand their surroundings and engage in the programs. I want to emphasize the programs and finding a spot for the Homeless Youth alliance and operate on the street and homeless themselves and youth specific programs and addressing behavior heal and Mental Health programs and i would like to have services with pets and the population in the haight and there is a value in understanding the trauma one experiences while being homeless and not punishing clients and work with a Restorative Justice model approach and emphasizes the community and value and respect and from Trauma Informed Care and i want to remind everyone that Homeless People are Community Members as well and they can be someones old roommate, a son, a daughter, a brother, a mom or a dad. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is jose and im at bilingual Case Management at the shelter program. I want to commend and applaud the success of the Navigation Center. It certainly is something thats needed in the city and i applaud everyone on the ground and behind the scenes. I want to advocate for the shelter residents in the shlter. At our shelter we have a number of senior citizens. We have transitional youth. We have members of the Lgbt Community. We have refugees. We have people with dual diagnosis and severe Mental Health issues. We have all these things and we have but one case manager assigned to work all of that. As much as i advocate for them, as much i get on the phone and write letters and utilize and tap into the resources that we have available the resources are scarce. And i am literally watching people die in front of me, and the only thing they want to encourage you to look into is to allocating some of the resources at the Navigation Center that is utilizing and putting those over to the existing shelters, the drop in centers, the existing organizations that have been on the ground for a long time. You know i just want to really, really encourage that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Hello. Im standing here today really baffled. With the success of the Navigation Center its beautiful. I heard that but everything the last two hours has been like listening to Charlie Browns teacher. I am wondering do i have to go climb into a tent and hope that the hot team finds me before going to a Navigation Center . Is that the only way i will get help . Can i go to work or school and still get support in this city . I mean i do have to be completely homeless on the sidewalk . Because thats all i am hearing this morning. There are street