Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180211

Marketing and promotion materials, finalizing the programming calendar and knowing when to hire park attendant staff. With pearl of note this month, pearl supported the tjpa and lincoln with designing, building and maintaining a temporary web site to bridge the gap until Marketing Consultant can get on board. Pearl will be here in march to present to the board. Aside from the basic aspects of the content Management System that provide transit and waistlining information, they will give an overview of the Revenue Generating program to include a discussion as to the timing of when the pjpa can start to see the advertising xhim commitments. And there will be a discussion on media players, the brain of the content Management System, arriving later than anticipated. The bulk of them is expected later in march. Originally anticipated in december, so pearl will be discussing potential impacts and workarounds if needed. I dont have anything more specific on that aspect today because pearl is still working through the issues. Pri, a preliminary plan was provided in january to the tjpa this week, including estimated revenue projections, including nine units of farmers market, 49 food trucks on the ground level in the park one location and on the bus deck four locations and they need time to absorb and understand the plan. At this time, a major vender for food, Beverage Vending Machines is interested but not committed until the locations of the electrical outlets can be confirmed. Indications on a plan are not sufficient. The outlets need to be installed and this is what ron was talking about earlier, to have the electrical in place so that the pop up vender can make the final placements. The vender wants to see them in place before theyll make a commitment. Additionally the date is needed for the start of main Revenue Service for this vender and others to make commitments. So these two aspects need to be worked out as the web core schedule solidifies. Even so, a walk around the site generated a request for additional electrical outlet locations on the bus deck, lincoln is doing a costbenefit analysis. We need to decide if the additional Revenue Generation will justify the cost of the outlets. The weekly transit meetings with the agencies are continuing. In january they focused on muni the first half and ac transit the second half and dennis talked about this earlier. They have included the executive director of planning and executive director of security and planning and cio called in this week. Last week dennis talked about this, rather than a call, the team met on the bus deck to talk about the best method for testing buses. To director harpers earlier question, we have a meeting with the transit operators in a couple of weeks to talk about the specifics of the hours and just to make sure were understanding exactly what theyre doing so we can drill down on the details. With the agreement, progress is being made as noted with each set of agreements in various stages of completion. Sfmta is nearly complete. We had another call yesterday to tie up loose ends. The target date for this board is march and then sfmta march board presentation will include the ac transit agreement for the bus deck. Ac transit licence agreements are set to be presented in february to the transit board. Talks with amtrak commenced last year, but were suspended pending their receipt of the licensed agreement from ac transit because they wanted to consider it in conjunction with the second floor lease with the tjpa. Now that that is in hand, talks for the second floor can move forward. I hope thats not too confusing. Ill turn it over to sydney and then close with the schedule. Good morning. So last month the board awarded the private security contract. You approved the Law Enforcement with sfpd. The code of conduct is under development and well bring it in march. Standard operating facilities for the facility and prior to the start of bus operations. In the schedule you see that has slid, we need access to the facility and if our contractor hires too early, were bringing on too many people and were idling them or might lose them. And then First Responder agencies, thats work responses being done. Okay. So this is the master schedule slide showing overall readiness compared to the construction timeline. It was updated to reflect facility and security readiness progress in blue. Independent of the construction timeline with the green with the completed taking into consideration the construction timeline. Transit readiness is at mid june. Anticipating that is the start of the Revenue Service. Greyhound amtrak tis, noted in the april may time frame, at this point were thinking it is going to be middle of may taking into consideration the web core. Maintenance contracts mid march and the start of Revenue Service Digital Media and the popup is extended to mid june. Retail leasing indicated as ongoing activity and sydney discussed her security timeline just a few minutes ago. So thats the end of the presentation. Any questions. Chair nuru questions from board members. One question on the pop up retail, the slide seems to suggest theres no pop up retail at the muni bus plaza. Is that correct and why which one . Slide six. Ill have to look at the plan. We had originally looked at that youre going to have a lot of foot traffic. I remember we talked about a coffee kiosk. Thats the plan we got this week. I need to take a look at it. Thanks for noting that. Chair nuru director harper. You mentioned you are getting difficulties coming up with respect to no solid grand opening date. Correct. And then you mentioned how the roof top park is sort of moving into june as well. And i took a tour last week or Something Like that and i have no expertise but to me, the roof top park was probably the level that was needed the most work in my opinion but i dont want to put that out there, but at some point it seems what youre facing for not having a grand opening, it may make more sense to set a grand opening at a safe date where we know the roof top park will be in. As much as i like to think all of San Francisco will turn out to see the buses in the building, i dont think thats the case. What all San Francisco will turn out to see is the park. And one of the things that we might think about is just saying okay, there will be a grand opening in july, mid july or whatever just knowing that everything is ready, especially what everybody wants to see. I can speak for ac transit in this respect, were not insistent that the grand opening needs to take place right when the first bus rolls out. Youll see of course, the june 17th is on a sunday. So its not like were saying were going to blast in there the first bus for the sunday service. So, i mean, i could check with ac but if you decide, if the board decides that what youre saying is something that needs to be paid attention to in terms of lets get a grand opening date to tell the people you have to deal with, then lets do that. It would be my suggestion that is really staffs choice. I think director harper, marthas issue is the venders need to know when they can start. They cant start until the facility is completed. What she is showing, the blue bars is that should be done with her work, like vrd will be done with the work and ready to implement in the park. Obviously the park is not ready so they can only implement that in june. So shes basically trying to tell us that shes ready to go but waiting for it to be open. From my personal perspective, i would never celebrate without the transit bus in im not saying that, the bus service can come in without having a grand opening to do so. As long as we can safely put people in there and make it to the bridge and back and everything, you know, were nitty gritty about that and well do that. As we get closer well start to see if it can be done at the same time or afterwards. Chair nuru any other questions . Okay. Thank you. Chair nuru thank you. Item 10, agreement with Pacific Howard corporation to pay 1,348,000 over parcel g. Director schwartz is here to answer questions. Permit easement which is underneath the bus ramp. Andrew schwartz for the tjpa. This item is for the boards consideration of an easement agreement for the grant of 10 permanent easements to the developer of a hotel and residential tower adjacent to the future under the park between howard street. The developer would pay the tjpa 1,348,000 for the easement with the lump sum payment at closing which would have to occur by august 1, 2018. The attorney is in agreement and much of the fees have been paid by the developer. The 10 easements are the permanent are six permanent and four temporary. Element easement that extends 1. 33 feet into the air space above parcel g and i should note that the bus ramp is 14 feet from the Property Line here. All of these per nate easements would not be close to the bus ramp except for antiram barrier that extends out closer to the tower. But all of the permanent easements would be under on the ground or much closer to the building from the bus ramp so theres no danger of interference with the bus ramp. The second is a building sway easement in event of high windy vent or earthquake to allow space for the building to sway. A window and Building Maintenance easement, cafe zone easement that allows the developer to put a cafe on the ground adjacent to the hotel for use by the hotel and public. A landscape and hardscape easement west of the zone easement that would relate to the cafe. And be coordinated with ocii that is developing the other improvements on the park and fire separation easement that would restrict any construction within 21 feet of the building under the bus ramp that would cause the developer to have to close off windows or make physical changes to the hotel and residential building. The three year construction access easement, would only extend 20 feet above the ground, so that would not interfere with the bus ramp or get close to the bus ramp. A crane easement that would be used to build the hotel, we we were able to negotiate an agreement with a developer that instead of using a boom crane that would be horizontal, they would use a crane that could be which would not have to swing over the bus ramp and only be limited to swinging loads that are within an easement which is to to the east of the bus ramp, it would not swing over the bus ramp. And then a curtain wall installation easement six feet into the parcel that allows for the construction of the curtain wall of the hotel from under ram park and 18 month easement for an underground shoring wall to allow the developer to extend space out four feet. And the none of the easements would interfere with the development of the park. A work plan agreement between tjpa and coordinator for the improvements. Chair nuru any questions. Thank you for the update. Quickly, i probably missed it in the staff report, the duration for cafe . Its permanent. Versus 25 years and renegotiate is that pretty nice rent forever. Lets do the math. A permanent easement allowed us to charge more money. Two questions. To the extent that permanent easement on the ground doesnt cover the full footprint for temporary easement for construction. Can you confirm theres language that requires them to restore or improve whatever part of parcel g they would be temporarily encroaching on . Well, the construction access easement extends with the footprint of the cafe zone easement and land easement. It doesnt extend beyond that. Any of these any procedural or logistic issues with regard to construction will be dealt with in the work plan agreement well negotiate with the developer. The second question is were these revenues anticipated and where do they go . I knew you were going to ask. Sarah, can you answer the question, its consistent with caltrain, this particular parcel, caltrain not giving us the power of termination on it yet. Sarah, where does the money go . It goes into the account and be spent for park construction costs. So were these anticipated revenues . They were not. It increases the land sale revenue from cash proceeds from 516 to 517 some odd million. Less that we have to borrow. Yes. Great. Chair nuru yes, director harper. I was glad to hear how the crane works. For the last year or so my office is overlooking this big construction 30 story thing at 17th and broadway and that crane is horizontal and swings out over broadway or 17th as needed and about three yeah, about five weeks ago it lost a big bundle of rebar and hurt some people, not on the street. It didnt lose it over the street. I was concerned when i looked at the drawing and saw that what it was. But i would like to first of all i have a question about these cranes. Is it i know a lot of the crane movement is automated now so the computer knows the crane is not supposed to do something in the way and lift up. Is this is it possible that this crane will be set so it cannot go over the bus ramp . Yeah, with a load it will not be it will be programmed in the way it cant go over the bus ramp. Thats something we can check on. We made it clear theres never opportunity to have a load over our live bus ramp. But the operator can probably they can program that in. And and well be out there monitoring it. Im sure oakland never intended for the crane to swing over broadway and 17th but it does fairly regularly. You get the pressure on the job and then these things happen. What i would like to see in here is ac transit have the ability to deal with the Construction Company we do have cameras on all our buses. We can verify when the crane does go over the bus ramp and say here it is. But i dont like the idea of having to go through first ac transit and having to go through its up the chain and whatever we just did this and then tjpas chain and having to go up. I was thinking that one of the paragraphs in here, that is standard i know in contracts, no Third Party Beneficiaries, paragraph 9 and 10 benefit ac transit. No question. Its the limitation. Its for us and our passengers that that crane cannot go over the bus ramp. So we are Third Party Beneficiaries of it. I dont know if it would hurt or anything but i would like to be able to at least as a practical matter, work it out in practice if it really occurred. I would like to have a foundation for it in the agreement which says that with respect to paragraphs nine and 10, ac is the Third Party Beneficiary so we can deal with the Construction Company without hassle. The whole standard clause of no Third Party Beneficiaries in the agreement kind of works both ways. You could eliminate the clause or just name ac transit as a Third Party Beneficiary. I dont want to get into three years of seeing problems with that crane or other things. I just point out the crane because of my recent experience, but and that would just say i dont see harm of it, yes, were Third Party Beneficiaries, paragraphs 9 and 10. I want to make it clear in regards to mixing up the live load and the boom. There is never a live load that will be over the bus ramp. There is one situation only addressed in the language is in there, in the situation of a major storm event, what happens with cranes, they put them into a weather mode and thats the only time and depending on how the operator feels, at how far down his boom needs to be for safety, we have allowed that type of language in there. But it would never include a live load. Its strictly for safety mode for the weather of a crane. I want to make sure its understood. So the question i have for you, is it possible to put language it doesnt hurt in here, to enable at least the contractor not to push back at ac if we want to set up a direct line to the supervisor on the job saying look, go check your crane thing because it came over with a load. That can be done. I think that the only easements of the 10 easements that could affect the bus ramp or possibly ac transit are the crane easement and the curtain wall easement that is going to extend over the antiram barrier. If its damaged, its not going to affect ac transit operations. So its really only the train easement were talking about here. Paragraphs 9 and 10 deal with the easements and theyre below the bus ramp or to the east between the building and dont affect the bus ramp. So i think we could add a provision to the agreement that provides that ac transit is a Third Party Beneficiary of the requirements that the crane not extend over the bus ramp and that would probably address your concern. I would appreciate that. Okay. Chair nuru is the board able to approve with that provision so we dont have to come back next month. I think the motion is to amend the resolution to make approval of the easement agreement subject to amendment to name ac transit as a third party of beneficiary for protection of the bus ramp easement. That is fine. Second. No one objecting. No members of the public wanted to comment. A motion and second on the amendment. The other item thank you. calling the roll item 10 is approved. Call next item . Chair nuru yes please. Executive director to execute amendment to services with jones day to provide Litigation Support services from 301 Mission Street in 2. 2 million. I can answer your questions if you have them directors. I move approval. How are we when do how do we get a longterm big picture of these expenses along with all the other expenses that we can foresee because i know some time ago i mean, i give budgets in litigation im involved in, to the clients, just as a matter of courtesy, this is where i think youre going and i would like to see one eventually. It doesnt have to be public context, thats deborahs call, but i would like to see some sort of litigation budget sometime that we could say okay, that and then what margaret wants to do and all that sort of stuff and everything, i just want to see how it all fits together with the money well have and doing more engineering for phase 2 and all that stuff. We can provide that. The next time the attorneys are here they can present. All right. I heard a first. No members of the public wanting chair nuru to comment . No. Call the roll. Second . Second. calling the roll item 11 approved. Item 12 is approve the last agenda. First and second. All in favor . None opposed. The minutes are approved. And at this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. We have not received indication that the member of the public can address you on the item. They have the opportunity to do so. So we are back in open session, this is the board of directors meeting of february 8th, 2018. The announcement of closed session, there is nothing to report and that does conclude the agenda for today. Chair nuru thank you, our meeting is adjourned. Mayor farrell first i want to start off on this amazing San Francisco day by thanking phil tinge in securing the 10 million funding allocation for the state and overall support for the homelessness initiatives. I want to thank seniors ronen, cohen and kim. And their willingness to open these crucial centers in their districts and be part of the vote to accept and expend the 10 million of funding. I want to acknowledge david chu for his commitment to tackling californias issues up in sacramento and homeless issues as well. Were honored to have great leaders just as tinge and chu up in sacramento representing the members of San Francisco. Were all here because we understand that our city like our cities across the state of california, is undergoing a homelessness crisis. Our streets and sidewalks are filled with people who are struggling with Mental Health challenge, drug addiction and poverty. This cannot be the status quo. It cannot be the new normal and it is not something were going to accept here in San Francisco. Homelessness is a complex issue that requires a full gamut of solutions. We have to prevent people from losing their homes and were doing such great work as a city, when you think about the move assistance programs, the eviction prevention programs and the grants we have that remove barriers to housing. Were doing that work here in San Francisco. In the unfortunate circumstances where people do lose their homes, we have to pursue measures that are successful and proven here in the city of San Francisco. Such as our homeward bound and Navigation Centers, truly working to save the lives of people on the streets every day. These centers are a crucial part of the program in San Francisco, compassion. But commonsense in addressing homelessness. We cannot allow our residents, those that are living on our streets to live in unsanitary, inhumane tent encampments. Nobody is Getting Better sleeping in a tent at night. We have to do everything we can to get people off the streets and into better lives. Since our first Navigation Center opened, we have taken 2000 people off the streets. With the help of this funding, were going to open two new Navigation Centers that will provide 250 new beds, helping our goal as a city to move one thousand people off the streets this winter. These are impressive numbers, but our Navigation Centers and our efforts as city are not about numbers, theyre about individuals, about helping those individuals on the streets. As i said before, these are our mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, we need to do everything we can to help get them onto better lives. Were lucky to be joined today and im honored to have standing by me,up. I want to tell you about johns story. John was served here at the dog patch and this morning got amazing news, since moving in the bay area 19 years old, john has experienced homelessness and drug abuse challenges, but last year he was put in touch with the Navigation Center and his life has turned around. Hes been a model resident. Acquired all the documents, Social Security card, Mental Health certification, his birth certificate. Applied for every Program Including receiving his cal fresh benefits. He kept all his scheduled points with his case manager and complied with all scheduled Mental Health meetings. All that hard work and commitment has now paid off. Just this morning, john told me, he was notified that he has been given a place in the Supportive Housing unit here in San Francisco. [applause] and heres the notice. This is what were talking about. This is the benefit of our Navigation Centers. Taking individuals who are living homeless on our streets, people like john, who we need to embrace as a city and now we have the proof and now john is going to be into housing. That is what we need to do in San Francisco time and time again. Its the reason why we continue to support our Navigation Centers. Why we continue to thank all the staff that are here today that work in the Navigation Centers, that john has worked with so closely over the past few months. And these are the reasons why were so grateful to Assembly Member tinge for his hard work in sacramento to secure the funding for these two Navigation Centers in San Francisco. And to everybody here on the board of supervisors for working together on the initiatives. It is what we need to do in the city of San Francisco and its what were doing in the city of San Francisco. There is no better proof than hearing the stories and seeing the piece of paper with johns name on it and individuals getting into housing. With that, i want to introduce our great partner in San Francisco and worked to get the funding, Assembly Member, phil ting. Thank you very much, mr. Mayor. I just wanted to thank you personally. Youve been fighting on this issue during your entire time in office and during the entire time on the board, its been your number one issue. I also wanted to thank the three other supervisors, cohen, ronen and kim. They have been incredible advocates. Tireless advocates on this issue and every day having a laserlike focus. I wanted to acknowledge my partner in sacramento, a housing warrior, weve been working up there not just to fight homelessness, but tacking this housing crisis that has been affecting us. I know jeff sparks is here from senator weiners office. Thank you for being here, senator weiner couldnt be here. Theyre at a Senate Democratic caucus retreat today unfortunately. But as we know, homelessness is a crisis, not just in San Francisco, but up and down the state. We talked about 7500 people who are homeless today. A couple thousand people every single night on our streets in every single neighborhood. I live on the west side and the west side is not immune to homelessness at all. If you go take a walk through, run through golden gate park, you see a number of folks who have used that as their nightly bedroom. I had a homeless person who decided to sleep in my car for a little while because they were looking for shelter when it was parked in front of my house. This is an issue that has touched every one of us. I agree with the mayor, we cannot accept this as the new normal. L. A. Has a Homeless Population around 4050,000 people. That would be a mediumsized city here in the bay area. We know this is not just a city problem, its no a county problem, this is not a state problem, its a federal problem and we know in california we have to do our part and step up to the plate. Thats why i was so proud to work with the supervisors, the Mayors Office in making sure we got 10 million for Navigation Centers, for housing tied to services, for housing that is meant not just to be temporary shelter, but shelter that is going to move people like john onto more Permanent Solutions, so they dont have to choose where to sleep tonight. They can have a life moving forward. And thats why im so excited to work with the city that really gets it. This is something that is not just happening in San Francisco. We had a number of colleagues. We funded Navigation Centers in elk grove, in modeso county. People are popping up on their doors steps, in their streets, in their parks. Theyre looking for help. We hear that message in sacramento. Were going to be working hard this year to tackle this issue, which is a statewide and National Issue and we cannot accept we have people on the streets every single night, counting that as their bedroom. We have to do something about it. We cannot accept that as an alternative or as something that is ok to happen in San Francisco or really anywhere in california. So, with that, let me turn it offense over to my colleague, david chu, who has been a real partner in this effort. [applause] i had a San Francisco experience this morning, my first interview with my son, 2 years old, for nursery school, im sorry about that. But i know today is in part a celebration for john. And i want to congratulate you for what we just learned, but were here because there are still thousands of san franciscans, men, women, children, families. There are hundreds of thousands of californians who are suffering every day on the streets of our golden state. There is so much more that we need to do to address this. Phil referred to the fact this is not just a crisis in San Francisco, its a crisis in california. When i went to the legislature in 2014, we had the highest rates of homelessness in the country here in california. 20 of americas homeless here in our state. Today, that statistic is 25 . In 2014, one out of three, chronically homeless americans live in california. Today that statistic is 42 . The crisis that has been here in our city is now all over the state. We read about hepatitis a outbreaks in san diego, but e. Coli in the american river, near the sacramento delta. We read about the pain and suffering that were seeing everywhere, every corner of our state. I want to take a moment and thank all of the men and women behind us who have come together with this, starting with phil ting. Its been amazing Partnership Working with him, trying move forward an agenda that addresses not just our houses crisis but homelessness crisis. As well as all the supervisors, the mayor, the department heads, the leaders moving this forward. San francisco is leading the way when it comes to pioneering this model of Navigation Centers and that is incredibly important. We know the work is not going to end here. Last year, we were fortunate to move forward a Historic Housing package that creates a permanent source of funding for housing. This year, half of that money is going to address homelessness around the state of california. I want to thank Governor Brown for signing a bill, housing for california which pilots the idea that Supportive Housing after Navigation Centers is the most effective way to take care and take folks off the street. That being said, the work is not ending. I know every elected official here is continuing to strive to make sure that some day we dont have anyone who is homeless on our streets. Phil and i have more things were going to say on the topic, but i want to thank all of you for being part of the compassion that is the city of st. Francis. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is hillary ronen, im the supervisor of district 9, which includes the Mission District which has been plagued by tent encampments in many years. As in johns case, the only thing that really solves homelessness is housing. But the thing that solves street homelessness, People Living in tent encampments on our street, dangerous conditions and squalor are Navigation Centers. Im so proud of the work i did with phil ting. When i got into officer a year ago and was able to security the temporary navigation sent which allowed us to reduce the number of tents in the mission from at a high before the Navigation Center opened, of 246 tents, to today, or actually yesterday, of 40 tents in the mission. That work was only possible because we opened that temporary Navigation Center. I did that together with noou ryu and jeff cosin ski. We opened that center to solve the crisis in the mission, but we know we only have that center for a certain amount of time. I wasnt to phil ting, the chair of the Budget Committee and i said, please help us get the funds to find a replacement Navigation Center for wen this one closes. He said absolutely, we cannot only have temporary solutions, we need Permanent Solutions and he went and was able to obtain a record amount of money for San Francisco to deal with our homelessness crisis, 10 million. Which is now allowing us to open not just one Navigation Center when 1515 south closes down, but two. One will be on bay shore and the other at division circle. So i just wanted to thank the Assembly Member for really stepping up to the plate in unprecedented ways. I want to thank my two colleagues on the board, supervisor cohen who had to go to another appointment, who is the supervisor of district 10. Where we are, the dog patch navigation sent. And supervisor kim, the supervisor of district 6 who hosts the majority of Homelessness Services and other types of intervention in her district. Districts 6, 9 and 10 take the bulk of this problem and offer up the solutions in our city. We do want to see more geo graphic equity and well be looking at that as we all Work Together to achieve our former mayor ed lees dream of adding one thousand new Navigation Center beds in our city. So we can truly once and for all end the street encampment crisis that plagues San Francisco. With that, i turn it over to supervisor kim. Thank you. [applause] thank you, supervisor ronen. Many of the comments have been made, but i want to thank Assembly Member ting and chu for their leadership in sacramento. Homelessness is a statewide issue, it is not just a San Francisco issue. We will never solve homelessness if we treat it just as a regional issue. We absolutely must have a statewide solution. And as was mentioned previously, we host close to 2025 of the entire nation Homeless Count in this state. I want to thank both of them for leading the first grant ever for Navigation Centers here in San Francisco, which will get us a quarter, 25 of the way there, to mayor ed lees goal of getting one thousand people off the streets into Navigation Centers. I want to thank the residents in districts 6, 9 and 10 who have been generous, understanding, that in order to get people off the street, we need to place Navigation Centers in their neighborhoods by their home. The district where i represent, where supervisor ronen mentioned, we see 50 of the Homeless Count and the vast majority of our Homeless Services and shelter beds. I want to thank our residents for being openminded and saying yes to more Navigation Centers and shelters, instead of saying no we dont want to be part of the solution. I also want to recognize the staff that do this work on the front lines every day. This work is incredibly difficult and i know we have some of the members of the Episcopal Community services behind us here today. I was reminded by two of the Staff Members that the night that i stayed at next door shelter, they were staffing the night i was there. And i have to say that everybody treated we with dignity and respect. That i was a member of the board of supervisors. And how important it is to create an environment that creates more trust and respect and not less. Because people wont accept services if we dont do it the right way. Finally, as supervisor ronen mentioned, i want to thank my two sister colleagues in 9 and 10 who are accepting more shelters and services. Not just accepting it, but fighting for it and asking for it. We cannot solve this issue if the entire city isnt a part of that. And we have to make sure were addressing homelessness both as an economic issue, but also a Public Health issue as well. We have to continue to serve our population, providing medically appropriate services, so that we can help more folks end up in Supportive Housing like john here today. Thank you very much to everyone. This is a really major effort and this is going to go a long way toward us meeting our goals. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everyone, jeff can the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Thank you for being here today. And i just wanted to point how difficult it is to get these centers open and how difficult it is to operate them. And it really does take this entire city coming together to make this happen. I want to thank the neighbors of the dog patch. I dont know if anybody is here. The Dog Patch Community Neighborhood Association has been incredible and helpful and i want to thank the staff of ecs and providence foundation. Providence is here on site providing service, cooperating the site, along with ecs, as well as the partners from the Human Services agency, and the department of Public Health, who i believe are here today. Theyre also providing services, enrolling people in benefits and providing them with medical care. I want to thank the port. This is on porlt property and the port was gracious to work with us to make sure we were able to secure the property for the next three years to operate the Navigation Centre and the folks standing up here, the department of public works, helped identify the site, made sure it was going to work, designed it and this is a beautiful facility. Really, really well thought out and then built the site and made sure it got built fast. Probably in record time despite multiple challenges we had with utilities and other things. They did an amazing job and also their ongoing work lepping to keep the helping to keep the streets clean. Supervisor ronen has been just a fierce champion for Navigation Centers in her district and citywide and helped make this funding possible by working with assemblyman ting and to make sure it got used in the best way possible. In terms of the size of the sites. I dont know how to thank you, 250 new beds, going serve thousands of people a year. Thanks to you and your advocacy. We would not have had the funds to do this without your advocacy, thats a thousand people were going to be able to help thanks to you and your leadership and muhammad and supervisor ronen. Mayor farrell has picked up the torch from mayor lee. Normally, we serve about 7,000 people in shelter every year. Were housing 2000 people a year and now were going to assist an additional thousand above that thanks to mayor lees vision and mayor farrells support. And pushing us to move this forward. Assemblyman chu is also really doing the important work as homelessness is about housing. And he has taken incredible leadership at the state level to building Affordable Housing and housing at all levels, because tend of the day, Navigation Centers dont solve homelessness, housing solves homelessness. We have del up here, he is the head of the local coordinating board that oversees the funding that we have in the city for homelessness and director and formerly homeless himself. And supervisor kim i believe had to leave. She has been supportive and really amazing around the issue of women experiencing homelessness and have had us expand for women who are homeless. That nav center will have a special section for women, and a new program that are serving women who are homeless and pregnant. And certainly not least, supervisor cohen who is the chair of the Budget Committee and has been supportive of facility opening in her district. This one and another one opening up. Has been working with our department to ensure we have the funding we need to move forward and achieve our goals as a city. Thank you all very much for being here tonight. Today. We appreciate you all being here. I think we can, folks want to take a look at the nav center, a few at a time, we can do a walk through if you want to see the site. [applause] ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make San Francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of whats next sf sprech of Market Street between 6th is having a Cinderella Movement with the office of Economic Workforce Development is its fairy godmother Telegraph Hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of Economic Workforce Development work to support the economic vital of all of San Francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as its moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the Affordable Housing in general people want a safe and Clean Community they see did changed coming is excited for every. 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