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Within 24 hours it was the first website where we invited people to tweet out nominations. I nominate and our site with full that in, and 24 hours after launching it became [indiscernible] on twitter. We have a moment where people are going to want to come to this thing, so we dropped everything and organized the first ceremony in months. It was at that ceremony we saw before twitter was all that big, it was on a huge growth spurt, but a fraction of the size it is today. We saw journalists were on social media before anybody else. At the knight foundation, we made an amateur mistake and ran ou...

Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for ...

Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10minute timers. They will be on 10minute timers and another 8 minutes to allow people to do something ...

Ask le ah to come up and i will conclude when shes finished. Good afternoon councilmembers. My name is leahes guerra the social worker for the Sf Public Library and Public Health employee and member of the Homeless Outreach team. Being the first full time social worker to be assigned in a library setting. The real challenge i had was this has never been done before for how to be a social worker at the library. My initial challenge was how to serve needs and meet the needs of the homeless ofand indigents at the library and its a safe place when they dont have a place to go to and many find a pl...

Public comment . All right. Thank you very much. Next we are moving on to item no. 8. Lava mae. This is denise sandoval. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be ...