Services provide a step down solution from arc cute setting for clients to be self sufficient in this beautiful city of San Francisco. When they reenter the outer community or community can be a solution or clients forever home. Im asked why we name today victorias house. I met a client victoria transitioning at that time. She identified as a woman most of her life and was unfortunately mistreated by the system. Her Decision Maker did not understand and did not approve of her transsxigz not allow her care to continue. Out dated Community Care licensing regulations housed her with a male roommate. When i lynched her story i learned how the system failed her, i said there will never be again a tragic situation and we will provide a community where everybody will be welcome and treated with dignity and respect. [applause] our team is proud to be providing Residential Care and Supportive Services in San Francisco residents. We would like to thank mayor london breed for her leadership, thank you. [applause] as well as all the support she provide not only to our project but all of the new Mental HealthServices Provided for resident in San Francisco. Also big thank you to governor newsome for recognizing they need to help with Mental Illness and funding needed now jc my partner in this project. Im sorry i would like it introduce john. Then jc. Good morning, thank you for being here. I like to i had a chance to reflect on our journey from the day we saw this property and tour to today with the beautiful facility. We would not be here today if the board did not pass the controls and legislation which protected board and care facilities. The protections made it difficult or impossible for developer to purchase board and care and change the use to something else. This legislation was introduced by supervisor mandelman who is here today and supervisor ronnin. Mental health and homeless issues the top of their priorities. Without the protections, we would be standing next to 2 Single Family homes or market rate condos instead of 46 rehab beds for the vulnerable. We would not be here without mayor breed willing to tackle the big issues. The citys funding of Mental Health and homeless issues. You got a tough job. And the mirs office was helpful in getting this over the finish line. I spoke to the governor about 10 days ago talked about the 225 bed facility in san pablo in 2021 the 46 facility here and 150 bed facility in southern california. I thanked him for the care courts and the state pundz funding directored to the issues. However, for most of the efforts to be successful, we need more rehab beds like the ones we are opening today in the continuum of care. These beds familiar general beds likely allow sf general and other acute settings to open beds to get more people off the streets and into care. And the [inaudible] we strife to provide would be an excellent stop for a person headed to but not yet ready for permanent spicht housing. This is where private public partner ships with make a change we look forward to the continued work with the Mayors Office and the state of california to make lives better. Thank you. [applause]. Thank you, john and beny. Thank you mayor and supervisor mandelman. A bit of background we are excited provide the frisk beds. The 46 bed facility with service john and betty referred to. We acquire third degree property over 2 years ago in january of 2020 before the pandemic. It was a neglected former boarding care vacant before we bought it. The likely aisle was condos or high end housing. We saw the potential to rehab in a high quality facility for San Franciscos most vulnerable. The challenge was preserved the buildings historical vicktoryian quality and delivering a new facility inside. I want to thank our inhouse team and open scope and mark, danny who are here. Our Construction Partners it u. And [inaudible] Financial Support as our lendser. They stepped up to support construction loan in the earth months in the pandemic when many banks had with drawn from the market. We have a license in hand and yesterday our final other certificate of occupancy. Thank you, everybody. [applause]. Thank you we would like to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] there are a lot of folk who is know that i was born and raise in the San Francisco and my grand mother raised me. I grew up in the house with my grand mothers daughter who are had a disability and constantly struggle when my grand mother developed dement why and someone needed to care for my aunt it was challenging dealing with the system. Fortunately, for my aunt she had family. People this supported her because, trust me, had she not had us looking out for her she would be on the streets. Not able to take care of herself. And in fact, what i appreciate most about the w this we are doing now is that provides an opportunity for to yous support a community that may not have relatives or support to help a system with being able to live a productive life. I appreciate so many of the great organizations in San Francisco i worked with over the years. But also we know it takes a village. When i became a member of the board of supervisors, we had a number of the individuals in our community. There was a gentlemen who i was very familiar with his family and than i watched their father decline significant low to the point where they struggled. And i tried assist them in getting a bit of conservership for their family member, it was a long process. A struggle. Sadly t did in the help and unfortunately, their father passed away and died on the streets alone. Them should in the happen in a place like San Francisco. I other than that there are a lot of people who believe in you know just people having the rights to decide what they want to do with their lives but this is complicated. There are people who cant necessarily, i will tell you from experience about my aunt, cant even decide how to pay her rent. And to figure out the basic things when she needs to buy. I would sends her to the store to pick up things, yes, then she would spends the money on things she was not supposed to. It was a constant struggle trying to take care of her. It is so much more complicated. When i became mayor, it was important to me that we look at Mental Health and start to talk about it like we do any other challenge. And we look at our portfolio and Behavioral Health beds. What will happen is someone in the past before the Street Crisis Response Team someone get a 911 call. There was someone going in and out of traffic. Taking the general and released Walking Around weapon no help or support and people wonder. What are we doing wrong. Why are we not transitioning them to a place so they can live a product of lifelike everyone else. We added more besd. We reached 2, 200 beds in 2019 and made a commitment to add 400 more in our portfolio a 20 increase we identified the challenges and needs are and how we can provide these opportunity for people who are struggling. We appreciate so much partners like a arc Health Service because we cant do this work alone. We need partner and need people who will make this place a home. So that when someone who is may be provide service through our street crisis sponse team they ends up at general, they may end up at hummingbird but what is next. This is next. This gives stability. Gives support to people who need support. And it helps to map out hat next stage s. Is it programs like golden gate regional. Like the art. Is it programs that help them to sustain their lives with dignity sne i appreciate being here and in fact, this is one of the most beautiful Behavioral Health homes i have seen in San Francisco. So, i know that the people here are going to appreciate that. And they will appreciate also not only where they live and how beautiful it is but that they are treated with respectful you know this they are able to maintain their dignity so we can help get them to the next level this long with the other great things we are trying to do in San Francisco, are going to be a game changer. Again, we thank you for being here and thank a a Health Services and the department of Public Health and Behavioral Health team for all the w they have done and will continue to do to make sure that we are not leaving people out on the street in crisis and giving them the care and support they need. Thank you so much. [applause]. Next we would like to welcome doctor colfax from department of Public Health, please. Good morning and thank you, everybody i say when i was driving here and parkoth street i thought, well, not sure where the bodiesing is it looks like the realtors have an open house. This is just a beautiful spot in an incredible environment. We know from the science that the requirement the physical environment in which people live during their journey of heeling really makes a difference. Realliment to thank our partner who is helped spearhead this project. Mayor breed thank you for your leadership and supervisor mandelman thank you for being here with us today. I wanted to thank a arc Health Services. This was something differents for the Health Department to do this partnership really is promising for more working together with you and others on a private partnerships in the future. I thank the dth Behavioral Health team in the back. Lewis, thank you for your leadership and work in this and our behavioral healing director comings is here today. These new beds will increase our capacity to provide on going medical treatment for people throughout the city. And as the mayor mentioned, we are making progress in the commitment to adding 400 new beds. And with this newarkdition, we are 2 thirds of the way there. And in fact, we obviously, got delayed a bit bite pandemic but in 2021, we added 89 new beds alone. And we anticipate adding additionaling 90 new bedos line soon with 70 new bed this is month alone in august of 2022. Great progress there this issan a model of care not only a way of figuring out how to get this done on the ground but [inaudible] and it it is this type of state of the art facility allows us to meet people where they are and new way and addressing the challenges that so many people have on their journey to recovery. This is a part of the system that we are building the system of Behavioral Health care. From the acute needs of people to stabilizing them to the journey of independent living and having the Resources Available for people thshg is a chronic relapsing cannot Resources Available to meet people where they are treatment on demand and ensuring people get when they need when they need it and the appropriate level but it is also the appropriate environment. And this environment here today is so exciting for us to see 46 more beds. Im thrilled. Thank you again for having us here today. Thank you for the partnership and with that i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. Thank you. [applause] thank you, doctor colfax. And to all the folkos your team the department of public healing thank you for your work every day. Thank you mir for your commitment getting folks indoors with Behavioral Health needs and addictions. She struggled with Mental Illness and electric therapy and every treatment known and never really stabilized she needed to be in place like this for this time. I fear that if she had been in San Francisco in 2022, she might not have been in a place and have been out on the sidewalk. It is person for a lot of us. I know like once you have the conversations with people this is in the an unusual experience. And i then and there some folks involved with a a have personal experience this drives them. And you know i think that it is a critical need in San Franciscos critical need today. You know the backgrounds we lost 500 board and care beds the last dvenlgdz 50 facilities the market has not been helping us. And the same time, we have tremendous human needs and really fundsamentally we need better responses on the street and appropriate for accomplices for people to land you know when we engage with them on the street. We want more of those to lead to coming off of the sidewalk and insdpoors cant do that without facilities like this. Im optimist thick is a great morning im optimistic about San Francisco and want to thank jc and john and betty for having the vision and for you know i love our nonprofit partners they are critical to us. We need all hands on deck. Having a player that is interested and figuring out whether they can move from the elevator care space to this space and take care of the nonelderly adult who is need help is exciting and it was a joy to which tour the facility and a joy to help in the little legislative ways we can. I hope this works limp i hope you are down for doing more. Thanks, everybody. [applause] sdwroo okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 welcome, welcome, hi issue everyone ip San Francisco mayor london breed and i want to welcome phil mo to city hall. To honor uncle monty a long over due honor. And you know who you have to thank for surprising you like this . Uncle monty . That woman right there. And your that concocted this idea because this community is one that loves and celebrates you. I want to just take it back i know we got your family here today. Scooty here. Thanks for coming out scoot and he everyone else. It is good to see you all at city hall. I want to take us back to 1989. When uncle monty before 1989, we all remember some of you were in the born yet. But most of us remember the picnics the activities and events. And the things that uncle monty did to bring the community together. It happened regularly and it was a great time in fillmore. Things change, though, there were challenge and so many lives were lost to gun violence. And often times the ability to afford to pay for a funeral was not always possible. And low and beholds, people would turn to uncle monty. Can you help me. And uncle monty would help with helping to bridge that gap when there were challenges. He was the go to before there were all the new programs and things that exist that now are part of our city function. The victim of Violent Crime fund uncle monty startd that thatneatia was the first recipient we remember that after the 89 quake. And what was going on and we were seeing our community really fall arc part. Today we celebrate. Even though we have beenllow so many challenges, today is irrelevant a happy occasion. It is unfortunate that uncle monty had to spends so much of his life doing work for the community. Being there for the community. And lets be honest, the community not always there for him. Today, we are here for him. Today we lift him up. Today we honor his work and legacy. Will [applause] and let me say that he should be proud. Because the fruits of his labor have not gone unnoticed. Started the victim of Violent Crime fund and guess what is happening now. There is a fund to support victims here in San Francisco that is a part of the city. This was a part of the community and it is now a part of the city. The Street Violence Intervention Program the people who go on the streets and help to address some of stuff and do the things he was doing that stuff is now a part of our city. It is embedded in when we do to help address the issues know the issues have not gone away. In the way we hoped. But they would be a lot worse had it not been for the work of uncle monty, his legacy and everything he has done to continue to bring us together. To continue to pray for us, support us and continue to show up when there was no one else. Thats why today, we are here to honor him and recognize his work and commitment. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, we are officially declaring today uncle monty day in San Francisco [applause] now, now before we ask uncle monty to say, hi to everyone and speak, i wanted to you know take them opportunity to ask you know another really important part of our community. Someone who is an amazing person. She really is the mother, the god mother of fillmore. Show is always bringing us together. Holding us together and lifting us up. Utay come up and say a few words. [applause]. Thank you so much mayor, i want to give an honor to god and uncle montys beautiful family i love and care for. Uncle monthy might not know this but i learned everything i am doing with nile nonprofit in helping the community and feeding and taking care of people i learned from him. I watched him take care of our community and take care of us. This man went to every single persons funeral. Did not take a funl sticker out of his car he kept it in. Cadillac. Kept it in there because he supported everybody. He gave us picnics. Im telling you, he tried his best to keep us together. As a family. This man prayed for us. This man loves us and loves his community. I want to let you know uncle monty, everything that me and rodney is doing we are doing it because we learnt it from you. I want to thank you. For teaching me how to take care of the community. I want to thank you, uncle monty, you dont know i learnt it from you, watching you. Me and r