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Have a policy subcommittee i will be on resess in august so if we can have it scheduled for september and if you want to come in septwell talk about this report and want you to share high level highlights but if you can give us a sense of any differences between what the system reported is what is presented in december that will be great ya beforeanother questionmy next question is a high level take away is from your last Quarterly Report. You have 2 staff you said now yes how will staffing change from we have drop in hours for clients to come in and make complaints about shelter conditions so when we had one stafffirst there was casey and jeff and they worked on compiling reports and complaints and working with clients and drop in so for 1 person it is a lot of duty. Now we have 2, one is a policy analyst who is main purpose or one of the primary purposes is make the reports and compile the data and help with the token surveys and information request and the other worker works with clients and does training in the shelter. [inaudible] they are both dph staff if you can just talk about high level take aways from the last Quarterly Report and what it says in terms of twends and how sheltererize meeting the requirements that they operate under in this report and think the trends are similar to the pest ones. Again, thetypically we generate a lot of complaints when we go to shelters and find they are missing Something Like towels or sheets so a lot of the complaints in this Quarterly Report in front of you will have less complaints because we were not able to go out and do so many site visits because we didnt have np Committee Members to do so. That is something well see in the future report is more data around what we see when we go out there is one vacancy now . There is 2. [inaudible] if anyone can help get that filled that would be great and there is one Committee Member that leftthere is 2 vacancies maybe there is a way that we can get [inaudible] so in september when you come back we can review the seats at that time it is probably a rules seat, yes because the woman who left was appointed by rules. [inaudible] the one skity is the mayor and one is rules appointment so we have to find someone for that. It has to be someone with a family who is homeless so that is why it is difficult you feel because we didnt have the robest level of Committee Members necessary to do the assessments our assessments are not as accurate as they would be i think quantly of reports [inaudible] complaints there is less in this one than in the past but likethis is old data from julydecember so lots of things have changed in terms of the committee so the next reportswell probably change the format so theyll be different for sure with different data. I have another question. What are some of the worst things thatworst complaints you get from shelter s and how we meet the closing of the complaints the number one complaint every month and every quarter is clients feel they are being treated unfairly or disrespected by staffer or client so they come to us as a outside agency and that is consistent since i have been on the committee the last 2 years. The standard of care is the clients want to be treated fairly. There is a lot of factors in my mind that lead to that and training is a main one but there are a lot of other things such as 100 to 1 on the floor at night. It is difficult to deescalate. How are issues on supply . We enforce the standards of care under the legislation but it is Unfunded Mandate so we require shelter tooz have sheets bedding towels soap, hand sanitizerthey get funding from the city but not for the standards of care, they get it for the typical budget when you say there is a ordinance saying there is a standard of care but not corresponding level of budgeting to cover that . Correct. Okay. And then in your monitoring do you look at capacity and people turned away . Is that that is a good question. We do havewe are suppose today do a turn away report. It isnt in our legislation but we looked at how many are going from beds and how many are turned away from getting beds. We havent done that in a year. Last month was higher than typical, average 58 shelter beds we have in the system so like there are 1190 beds but 58 are typically empty on a night it is good to see a report on that in septand if you can at that time report on if there is any skew of where the vacancy are. If it is across the whole system, if it is in a certain area, that is important to point out squand what you might think are the causes we have a policy subcommittee established and that is one of our main agenda items because it is important to a lot of knhity members to fill had vacant beds because it is travty we have 60 vacant beds at night thank you. Supervisor tank i look forward work wg your committee and yourself. I know well have a meeting later this month mainly around potential victims of Domestic Violence who may need to access shelters in a shorter time frame and not be kicked out from housing or temporary shelter so i look forward work wg you on that. Hopefully the next time you come around weal have updates yes, that is part of the subcommittee. [inaudible] it should be helpful. Another question and then well go to Public Comment. Any member who would like to comment. Housing [inaudible] the gentlemen should guarantee [inaudible] human rights for shelter and housing. [inaudible] Domestic Violence [inaudible] okay any other member of the public who would like tocomment, please come forward. Im scott walter representing joint [inaudible] hsa and normally we make comment and also offer our sevl tooz answer questions about thesis reports. One thing i do want to say that is that the committee does provide us individual complaints in a timely fashion so this report is very delayed, complaints go directly to the shelter squz there is a whole communication process of back and forth to help make sure the complaints can be addressed in a timely fashion. I also just want to make sure you are aware that since the last presentation to your committee, we have had some expansion of the shelter system rchlt we were able to take the womens winter shelter operating just during the winter months and if ask extended year round so we have nurt additional beds. And also there was a lot of press around this, but last month we were able to finally open the 24 bedset aside to target the Lgbt Community which which is a expansion at deloris street. We thank the city for funding support. When we talk about a Unfunded Mandate there is some funding but the shelter budgets were not expanded to fully cover everything. Just 2 examples on tokens we pay full price for tokens we distribute and have a allotment each month and those go out which is a reason we have a policy about targeting those tokens to specific purposes which nick [inaudible] did cover. Rathder than just giving tokens to everybody but we make sure clients are aware of life line, reduce cost or if they are eligible for transportation via the other benefit programs such as county adult system programs we make sure they link up that way and funded a shelter system which provides transportation between the reserveivation sites and the shelter in the morning and evening. It doesnt cover on demand. Sheets are mentioned, we have short term shelters open late at night and close in the morning because we utilize spaces that during the day are Something Else and the way we provide clean lynnens and provide multiple blankets which are provided and laundered every day, but the standard of care, sheets so the committee does Due Diligence and rights it up. We dont have the ability to fund sheets and blanket service so that is sth way we try to kaess this things. Im pleased the Committee Meets with dph and Human Services meets with the committee roughly quarterly just to try to explore these details in a more productive way. But i wanted to make sure you werea weir individual complaints were reported in a timely fashion and there is a response mechanism which doesnt come out in the reports when you see them there are 2 departments in dph hsa is the entity that funds the shelter system including Resource Centers and adult and family shelters. Dph is the funder of the staff position for the shelter monitoring commit jealso fund [inaudible] such as Behavioral Health roving and Case Management and adult shelter system so it is joint partnership. The primary funding is from dph what do you see is possible to help streg strengthen the understanding of what is needed to provide sufficient level of funding for the Different Services in the shelters . Probably Case Management and Mental Health may be associated as well. When you mention Case Management and those kinds of services that isnt part of the standard of care t is always a concern. Dph has expabded the nurses they made available to work in the shelter system and that made a big difference. We try to reduce the emergency calls and treat people at the lowest thresh hold and early as possible. In terms of Case Management, our shelter system doesnt have a Case Management outside of dph and some shelters when they open at 9 in the evening and close enthe morning Case Management submit something we can utilize because we try to offer full 8 hours of sleeping and access to meals and bathroom facilities so we havent done a specific studee of what is needed mpt i think it is a combination and not assume all services are ichb the shelter. I think more will be learned in the Navigation Center which is looking at new models of how to address peoples needs. We have work to do there. On the tokens issue on the work looking at how to put real meat behind standard of care in the budget it is great if next time you can discuss and provide us with a menu of how we might be able towhere are the gaps in meeting the standard of care and what mechanism do we sneed dethat . Each year we apruchb the budget but if we approach the budget process knowing what that menu is it will help to meet that target with the launch of the legislation that is something we did at the beginning so we can go back and explore the cost and training and filling behind so the shelters continue to operate while people are in training. Tokens because of the number oaf people we haveif we gave everyone a token the allotment would be gone in a way of what we are currently funded to provide. We can look at some of those things. I dont know if quickly we can have all sth answers but we can begin to answer the question and revisit the shelter providers that is great for the next shelter monitoring report. Any other member of the public would like to comment . You already commented. Thank you very much. We heard you loud and clear. With that well close Public Comment and this is just a hearing. We have live item before us . If is just a hearing do we agree to continue this to call of the chair . Make a motion to continue call of the chair supervisor cohen and take that without objection. Okay, next item please item number 2 is hearing to answer appointing one member term ending jan 21, 2018 to the Mental Health board. There is one sheet and 3 applicants we have 1 seat and 3 applicants. We heard from mr. [inaudible] im not sure if mrs. Gomes is here, but toni parks is up first. Toni parks . Here we are. I have 3 minutes now . Yes thank you for seeing me today. My name is fony parks. Im a long term resident of San Francisco and i love it here and that is why i want this position. I want to give back to the city that has given so much to me. I moved here in 1974. One of the migration of gay people here and it has been wonderful the whole time. I spent most of my life as a health care worker. You name the orgz i probably worked there. What i would like to point out of that is that i worked for the Sheriffs Department in the jails here giving a Health Education class in the womens jail and also doing hiv testing. So i am familiar with prisoners when we get release jd the Services Connected with that and that is a special interest. Im here because ofi have now a different life. Im livering in a board and care [inaudible] so im now a consumer orphMental Health services. A few yoours ago i fsh evicted from my apartment of 25 years and found myself homeless. I lucked out big time and landed where i am now and that is why i want to be on this board. I feel like i know about issues of being the provider and being the consumer and so knowing the city very well and having many opinions but what should be done i would like to serve on this board. Thank you very much. And so have you astended any of the Mental Health board meetings . Yes, the last year what do you see is the largest accomplishment of the Mental Health board as far as approach to people with very impressed with the connections with the Sheriffs Department and how mental hemth board is connecting the services with that. I am also pretty more impressed about the overall structure of the health department. Also, i know they need hear the voices of people like me. Colleagues do you have questions . Thank you mrs. Parks thank you is mrs. Gomes here . I didnt get a conformation if she will be here. Seeing not. The third applicant, mr. Porfido isnt going to be here either so we can open the item up to Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment . I have spent 21 years in county jail prison. [inaudible] i have been in prison for 21 long years and came out to Mental Health system [inaudible] thank you very much. Seeing no other membersplease come forward. Hi. Thank you supervisors for putting this ajundsa on the item. We have done well with quaurm but it is good to have full of membership as we can. Im huleana brook executive director of the board and say toni has been coming to meeting for literally the past year. She mized fewer meetings than some thof board member jz always makes very appropriate comments after Public Comment for different issues and such so i just wanted to put that word in about toni. Ue gene has also been coming to meetings quite regularly and i dont know the third candidate but it is tough decision but i encourage you to make one so we can continue to have a quaurm. Thank you mrs. Burkes i have a couple questions. In the last couple years i known you you did a lot of good work. Im curious to know, one thing i know is there seems to be a consistent struggle for quaurm. Is there something we can do to help you meet your quaurm . Are we not selecting the persons with the commitment . Is itim just trying to understand better how i can help you we havent had a consistent struggle. We went flow a period where we were down. We have a total membership of 17 members, which means we have to have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people who are complinets who go through periods where they Mental Health issues and cant show up to meetings and the other is Family Members so they have a client in the family that goes into the crisis on the day of the meeting. Some of the nature of the board but maybe i emphasize we need quaurm too much. I have actually done very well. Terri, a board member, we havent missed quaurm in a year. My apology maybe just me saying we always need to keep quaurm there is 17 members is there a reason the body has to be so large . If you condense oo 7 or 9 . When i arrived in 1999 it was 17. I believe we are acchel the largest membership in the state and so i donti havent been able to find history that explains why we have 17 members. The advantage of the large number, i think we get a diverse board from all aspects from age, ethnicity, experience and you can be a Family Member with a child or with a parent or a brother or sister so that can be 3 seats there and a very different experience and for the consumeratize is a very different experience. Im actually okay with 17. It is a lot to keep up with but wree fortunate in San Francisco to have staff many boards and counties dont have full time staff how many Staff Members do you have . 2, there is myself and a assistant not very mun many . No that is a 2 person staff for 17 member board we only meet once a month. You have a Committee Structure for the body . How many committees do you have . We have 3 committees, a executive committee [inaudible] how often do the committees meet once a month too thank you so much. So seeing no other member of the public come forward well close maximum amount of leave [inaudible]3 4 f1 election to be held on november 3, 2015 i want to start by saying thank you to all my colleagues, all 11 members of the borebd cosponsored this Charter Amendment so just by way of background, back in 2002 the voters adopt the first paid parental leave in San Francisco and im very proud that we took the lead on that and so under the current paid Parental Leave Program employees received 12 weeks or if employees are disabled by pregnancy they get up to 16 weeks of leave after the first adoption or fostering of the chooild so this supplemented state disability, paid sick leave, compensatory time and orelt types of leave. I would like to thank department of human resources. The Charter Amendment we are proposing today we wish we could have done it via ordinance but we have to go before the voters gaen to amendment. [inaudible] allow 40 times of sick hours on the book. Currently city workers must exhaust all sick and vaiication time before beginning paid time off so the change allows parent to address Health Related needs when they return to work or if they get sick which i know happens. Secondly, if there are 2 city workers in the same family each is entitled to equal share of benefit. If there are 2 city workers in the same family they must splint the benefit. If one partner takes 4 weeks off the remaining gets aithd weeks time off. Requiring employees to exhaust all accrued paid leave especially sick leave has the unintended effect och shortening the rate to sickness benefit during the time when it is needed the most come is when they first return or there after and allowing the city workers to be entitled to the benefit if they are married or in a Domestic Partnership with oorlt City Employee is a fair thing to do. So, when we first announced the introduction of this Charter Amendment we announced this is the first step in another year long process that our office will be engaging in with the city departments, advocates even the private sector to figure if there are other way tooz make the policy more family friendly. I would like to thankthere are many people involved. The Hr Department of labor and womens bureau the department of status of women, [inaudible] dhr, our controllers office, Public Partners include San Francisco Family Support network, the healthy mothers work Place Coalition [inaudible] our Wonderful Police Commission President , seussy lofts. We have private partners who decide oo join the task force including gap and google who all have set their own examples in the private sector with paid parental leave policy. Again, i ink the changes we propose to make this november are basic but there is a lot more work and discussion to be had about the other things we can doompt im proud to say during the last budget process

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