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That. I dont want the board of supervisors to dictate what the Homeless Services should be. I take my position as City Government very seriously and we are the body that take from individuals and departments to make that happen. So with that, madam clerk can we do a roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Chairman, do we have a second on supervisor avalos . I will second it. Mr. Chairman i want to add that im supportive of your efforts to move forward on a new tenured plan on addressing the homeless crisis in our city. I feel like the Stakeholder Community based organization have to be working with ...

Budget committee in 2 weeks . I will second that. I appreciate the comments, i also will not be supporting this motion. This has been in a month 1 2 now where we have worked with stakeholders on this issue and its ready to go. Im convinced and while i appreciate everyones opinion another week is not going to buy consensus if you will. This is something to me i think should be a priority of ours as a city. As mr. Wiener mentioned the city and residents in our neighborhoods to do all we can as soon as we can to get people off the street. I wont be supporting this motion. Madam clerk can we do a ...

Okay with that. But i also think it is important that we look at our existing stock, housing authorities is not necessarily directly run by the city, but there are a huge number of vacant units and the fact that we now have a number potentially to rehabilitate those units and make Homeless Individuals a priority there, especially homeless families which there is a shelter in my district and these with no shower, with no ability for these families to get prepared for school or work or anything else. So i just think its insane that we are looking at entities with hotels that have an stock that w...