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Moderator do we have any Public Comments on the phone . For the records. There are no phone Public Comments. With our approval. Actually we cant move into that so we will actually just jump. Right into our presentations. Um and well start with, um how would you like to do . Um sure. Well actually, were going to move things around a bit and start with a presentation of shelter and hygiene and im going to turn it over to member freedom. Bach. Hi good morning, everyone. Um so um. The shelter and hygiene bucket. Um, we have a very diverse um a Diverse Group of different interventions that include some non congregate. Um options in there . Um there is not a huge amount of change from the previous years. Um in terms of what the what the, um, Investment Plan is funding. But there are some really key things that are happening that i just want to mention, um the one thing is that the safe sleeping sites are going to be, um, phasing out at the end of this fiscal year. Theres two of them. Theres one in the bayview and one in the mission. And at each of these sites, um its basically where people are sleeping in tents. Um and they were put up during the pandemic and meant to be temporary sites not permanent. So this isnt a surprise to anyone. Except that , like the timeline is now coming to an end. Um and so, um, i think its really important for the public to know. And i just, you know, from my perspective, um, we dont have a quorum yet to vote on any kind of recommendations, but id really like to see um some special prioritization, um, kind of like what we did the pandemic prioritization for people in the shelter in place hotels for the folks that are in that safe sleep site because many of them are not housing referral status , but weve already invested a lot of money in stabilizing those folks and they came off the streets, and a lot of them have a lot of challenges. Um in being able to secure permanent housing on their own, and so, um , from from my perspective, it makes sense to try to really make sure that were not moving those folks into other shelters or onto the streets but into housing. Um and so, uh, and theres not new programs opening up when these are closing. To be able to kind of in terms of other Shelter Programs. Um i think some folks were thinking. Maybe that with the, um um tiny home proposals, but theres a gap that those wont be open before. So the big new thing thats happening around the shelter stuff. Um is the theres a proposal for a new tiny cabin site and just in district 10. The department reported to us that they had, um, a site identified. Um and so thats um thats something thats added in that we havent seen, um as a group. Um and ah the, um. Other piece thats happening. There is that, um that we got some bad news . Um since our previous meeting that the rv well at the previous meeting the rv Trailer Program, um out at pier 93 which appear 94. Excuse me, always called pier 93. I dont know why im stuck on that number. Pier 94. Those are the those are the trailers that Governor Newsom donated. We were hoping to go longer. Um i want to circle back to this one. Because i do want to make a, um, a motion once we have quorum when our members come there are two members come to basically try to push to try to extend that a year. That is not a Budget Proposal. That is not in the budget. Um so we would be basically be asking the city to try try to find funds. Um alternatively, to continue that past the end of the calendar year, but we did have really positive feedback from residents that are staying there. Um and kind of the idea. Maybe in the negotiations with the ports is to scale it down. So they have space to do some of the, um, rehab work that theyre doing to make it ready for maritime use to kind of demonstrate that this is actively winding down, but to try to be able to extend some some stay there so we can keep our capacity a little longer. Um and then, um, the other news that was different. I just want to highlight again is the um the um, safe parking site referred to his vehicle triage a lot going on in d 10. We put a lot of like a lot of investments in d 10 rightfully so, and were losing some of those, and thats kind of um, frustrating. Um um, but that one is on parkland, and we need to convince the state parks to continue that, um, past the end of the calendar year, and so that is budgeted in our shelter budget to continue, and so we do have funding for that, so hopefully that happens so that those were kind of the main sort of issues. We talked about oasis last meeting, and so Everybody Knows thats thats Going Forward and going to be purchased, which is amazing for the family shelter. So that was good news in the midst of other stuff, um, but thats kind of a summary of whats happening with shelter. Um and i just wanted to kind of pause and see if there was any questions with the two members. Yeah and ill just say we do have a slide deck that we could walk through as well. But i think that if we just want to let the audience know if we dont dont reach quorum today, we wont be able to have a vote because we are a five member committees. So um, i dont know if you want me to t those up and kind of show. Lets do that. Because yeah, yeah, i wasnt sure. Yeah, okay. I mean, if thats okay, and then ill introduce and just, um, talk a little bit about our process, so i dont know jesse, if you want to. Just get the slide deck up there, but we might have to do this again if we dont make warm today, um so lets just start so ill actually start with the budget intro slides. Yeah, yeah. All right. So just to give folks just overview of where weve been and how we got to these recommendations today. We want to talk a little bit about our process. Um so you know, this is for fiscal year 23 24. Its really exciting to say that weve been through this process now. I believe its been a few fiscal years that weve made recommendations to the board of supervisors into the mayor and ive been working with the department. So were now in our third year of recommendations. So today, the liaisons will be proposing their recommendations for committee discussion. Um hopefully therell be some, you know, voting as well as modification. If need be, um the committees approved recommendations will be delivered to the mayor and the board of supervisors. Um, the departments have already provided their budgets to the mayor. And at this stage of the departments are communicating with the Mayors Office answering questions but can no longer revised proposed are revised their Budget Proposals and weve been in significant conversation with all of the departments who are here today. Our liaisons happen so the mayor will issue her proposed budget for fiscal year 23 24 fiscal year 24 25. On our before thursday, june 1st 2023. And just to speak again on the process on the lays, ons have developed their recommendations between january and where we are now in april of this year. Um the recommendations are informed by the Needs Assessment which you can find all of this on our website, um, on homelessness that was published in december of 2022. Weve had listening sessions and liaison meetings with city departments and i will say those listening sessions were very robust, with hundreds of folks and participation. Um weve also engaged in Participatory Research that was conducted by the citywide homeless Strategic Plan and they presented at our last meeting. And again if you would like more information on all of this good work, you can visit our website sf dot gov slash o c o h cocoa and you can click on the blue button labeled recommendations process. So with that, im gonna turn it back to member freedom back to kind of walk through her shelter hygiene slides. Yeah so the slides are focused on the recommendations that would be motions. And so im not really sure chair williams how we should um if. Do you want to wait . I mean, i could review him. Um but with yeah, whatever is your preference just so folks can see him just quickly. Okay . Yeah, um yeah. All right. So um , so this one is kind of building on our previous recommendations. Um ah last year where were trying to carve out money for Hotel Vouchers and the idea here. Is for when the shelters are full, um for folks families who are fleeing Domestic Violence or pregnant folks, etcetera that there would be a hotel room to, um, be able to place them in, um, the Hotel Program has taken a while to get up and running. Its just now getting in place, and so the idea is just to add a few more for next year. So that we can we can expand the capacity just very modestly, um, by 50,000 to, um have 10 more Hotel Vouchers available for folks when, um, when, uh, when these things happen, and i just want to remind people that, um the shortfall. So lets say the Domestic Violence shelters, for example, is so acute and we talked about that at some of the previous meetings, but were talking about, you know, um hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of, um of women in San Francisco, fleeing Domestic Violence that are that are unable to get into shelter. We continue to have, um you know, pregnant people without having a place to go in this really effects. And, um, you know, chair williams can speak much more eloquently to this than i, but it really affects preterm labor, and that will come the birth. So we did. We want to be careful and just make sure that we have we keep building on these and making sure that this this important safety gap is in place, so no one ends up. In a stressful situation of sleeping out on the streets or that they are, um ah they are in a situation where they have to return to their batterer of last year. We had, um in compass. Just one program there was about 4000 households that saw that went there to seek shelter. And so, um, and so its theres a much larger number than whats reflected in kind of the shelter. Wait list. Um and so its just its a bigger group there. So thats the idea. We cant vote on this, but i would love to return to this, and the idea here is to basically, um, this is in the shelter category. Weve got the Cabin Program thats coming up. Thats new. We feel like our i feel like we could carve out 50,000 by just it would be just like a week. Delay of the start up of the cabin like we dont have that site, all set and ready yet, and theres always delays with this stuff, so just carving out a little bit from that. We would be able to add these 10 Hotel Vouchers, so thats the idea there. I dont know if theres questions have one question, which is . I dont know if you have this information, or maybe the department does, but how many Hotel Vouchers are currently budgeted for like, whats how much would this add to the i believe we funded 100 last year, um, g and noel that just got up and running right . Mhm. Yeah this years budget includes 2. 1 million for Hotel Vouchers, and that was 40 for tae 64 for pregnant persons and families and 20 for survivors of violence. 110, okay . Great. Thank you. Um okay. Any other no , ill just say that this is a really important priority. And i know that myself and member of freedom but have worked closely with folks who are providing Service Direct service to this population, pregnant folks, and we just really want to continue to move the needle to make sure that you know, emergency access is really readily available, and its like low barrier and folks really know where to go and how to get that support. And i know that vice chair dantoni would also talk a lot about the you know the Domestic Violence. Of this. I know thats something that weve been talking through over the years and so just really glad to see that there is that recommendation in the departments budget, and we want to continue to expand on that, because i believe the population that were looking at is pretty relatively small in terms of pregnant folks who are spent experiencing housing insecurity about 300, per you know, per year and so as much as we can do to kind of meet that need, given the Health Impacts and that population we want to continue to push for that. So thank you. Member freedom, bach. Alright so next slide. Um so. This one i mentioned on the Trailer Program and kind of talked about this a bit, but um, this is also going to take some advocacy with support. Um and probably going to. They were originally talking about this going on the agenda to the Ports Commission on the 25th of this month, but it got delayed to may. Um but basically trying to, um, extend this for another year. And so this is more of a policy recommendation and a budget recommendation because we dont have space in the shelter bucket to do this if we also do the tiny home, and i think it doesnt make sense to kind of put our eggs in an unsure basket, but this is the you know, in terms of the Investment Plan, but so this is a policy recommendation. And again, that was, um pier 93. Any questions about that one. Okay . And then the family shelter. This is this is not emotion. I dont think this needs to be emotion because i think were good. Um but, you know, its really, um well, we could make it a policy. Um policy motion if we wanted, but we really want to make sure that the oasis is low threshold and continues to have low threshold access. And what that means is, people can just show up, and if theres beds they can stay in them. That theres not a lot of rigor more or, um, bureaucracy to go through. Um so, um, this is something that im really like. This is really dear to my heart like im really, really happy about the oasis being able to continue, and i think for a lot of the families who worked on this campaign, um to save it, and for the city folks who worked on this so hard everybodys feeling really. Great about this. So, um yeah. So and thats um, a 59 room hotel. Um so the safe sleep. I dont think this needs to be a motion either. But its basically you know, we given the high costs and physical hardship and the need to find new sites and all of that combined. Um um for us, the shelter liaison. I was comfortable with closing these sites, of course, with the caveat that we really want to make sure that the folks are moved into housing and not back to the streets. Um or other shelters. Alright, i think. That is the end of our shelter and hygiene portion. Do we have any Public Comment . Members of the public who wish to provide in person Public Comment on this item. Please line up at the podium. Now each person will have two minutes to speak. For the records. There are no in person Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550. Access code 2482. 2372791. If you havent already done, so please dial three to line up to speak a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. You will have two minutes. Moderator do we have any Public Comments on the phone . For the records. There are no phone Public Comments. Jerry williams did we want to give them the departments a chance to ask clarifying questions about those last recommendations . Absolutely i want to recognize the advice chair. Dantonio has arrived. We still dont know how quorum and well open it up to the departments if theres any questions on the shelter, li, uh, shelter hygiene recommendations that have been put forth, so i want to recognize gigi lately. Director ridley. Okay thank you. Gigi ridley with the department. Um uh. I wanted to have an opportunity to just clarify the rv recommendation because as a member of freedom box mentioned this is really in the hands of the Port Commission and i mentioned this at the last meeting but wanted to sort of reiterate the departments plans. So we are expecting that the ports will be amenable to approving the lease through the end of the calendar year. Um we are in active negotiation, um, to lisa site very close to pier 94. As part of that negotiation , the site would accommodate at least some of the trailers. And so our proposal, you know, before you is to build out cabins there, but those funds could also be used to relocate and support. The trailers on the site, it would not accommodate a 1 to 1 replacement, but were hoping at least 60 of the 103 operable trailers could move and then some of the remaining trailers could move to the candlestick site, so i just wanted um, that clarification to be part of your deliberation, and i appreciate that advocacy with extending the lease. Thanks thank you so much. Director whitle