Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Quarter of 2019. There is slight increases in expenditures, about 2 at zuckerberg, but at the clinics, there is about 16 jump, primarily because we had Maxine Hall Health Center with a bid that came within budget. That is why its jumping from 20 in march to 36 currently. I hope you can see some of this detail. Sorry. I was going to do [laughter] 11 by 17 and my printer got crazy. But let me tell you about the framework that we have here. And what id like to do is have terry salts from zuckerberg and talk about how the team has been able to navigate a lot of risk on the project. This represents bringing both programs at zuckerberg and the clinics into black in terms of budget balancing. So on the chart, what we did, we broke the projects so that you could see basically most of the money that zuckerberg is going into clinical. Thats the bulk of the money. Then as you move down, we have categories for infrastructure, seismic, et cetera. So you can see where the variations are happening. Oops sorry. So the first project that was the original budget with little or no detail that went into the 2016 bond. The forecast second column project tells us where were at today with all the available information. And then the four variation column tells us how we varied. So ill just touch on this, because i think terry can give it more detail. In the terms of the clinical, what we didnt anticipate were like 200 enabling projects of moving people back and forth to get access to columns for seismic strengthening, other areas. So those projects had to be complete before we come in to do dialysis, Public Health lab, et cetera, so were constantly moving around in a very complex building that is open 24 hours a day, 365. Almost similar, but on a huge scale, to grant when we did h. I. V. Bridge at 25 van ness, but that was a lot easier than building 5. So we also, the team assessed the risk level which is the column to the left of the comments. We went medium, low, high. So if there is low risk level, that means we already completed the project or were in construction. Likewise, if were still in design or we havent had a permit, the risk could get higher. Ill terry talk about that. This is how were balancing. We had a grant or no, a donation from zuckerberg. So we put all the monies together to balance the project. Were kind of doing the same thing here, the same strategy. So these nine elements are things that we bring to the table. There is a Program Contingency of 5 million. There is a grant that cathy jung was successful in getting for Castro Mission. There is interest earnings on the bond were calculating and so on and so forth. So some of those assumptions are very conservative, so we know we could get some funding from San Francisco general hospital. Dr. Susan irwin is working on that, but i included it as a zero for now. There are other things in here where we dont have a firm grip on how much money is coming in, so we just put a zero out. Totalling out, though, these nine sources give us an additional 20 million. And then were committing about 14. 6 of that to balance both the clinics and zuckerberg. And that gives us 5. 4 million going into the future. Let me just go to the if you notice on zuckerberg, that we actually balanced most of the issues within the projects. However, when we get to the clinics, we had to bring in additional money we had applications in for state money. I mentioned the fema grants. Were bringing all those sources to also balance here. Primary drivers, why theyre going over here is originally we had we didnt have evidence that both Castro Mission and maxine hall had horrible seismic vulnerabilities, so those two aspects along with the historical nature of how city planning was treating the buildings, those costs rose because of those two elements. I want to go back to, if i could terry, do you want to talk about how you navigated risk. Good afternoon, commissioners. Capital programs. Terry salts. Mark did a good presentation about the high, low, medium. As we progressed further down the road of the project, the risks get lower and lower. Every once in a while we sit down, go through the project and forecast how we feel the risk is. One of the biggest ones you see, is seismic. So im going to focus on seismic. Im going to give you a couple of examples how we were able to mitigate some risk, but we have more out there. We have 7 million built into the risks. There was several areas of risk that we were looking at. We know that the pharmacy was going to be a tremendous impact to operations. We knew that the Clinical Labs, the impact of Clinical Labs was going to be large because the big open space is hard to confine it and contain it to the work and not disturb operations. The dental and oral surgery section, big open space, too. It doesnt have walls to segment the work. So that is going to be impact to operations. Another one, were going to be cutting down between the outpatient wing and the main hospital, expanding the expansion joint from six inches to 22 inches and that is going to disrupt operations. Its going to basically, like i said, like a seven layer cake, down the side there. That is to prevent the buildings from bumping into each other on the upper levels. All of this has impact that wasnt taken into account when the engineers were dividing the project, but were fortunate now to have a strong team. We have a Structural Engineer assigned to the internal its actually joint dpw, d. P. H. Team. Project engineer, resident engineer, project coordinators. We have a tight team right now that is peeling this onion and discovering things within the project. And its either confirming assumptions, or debunking them. We are doing, as you may recall, previously we explained we were doing phase one as a mockup or Lessons Learned. Its a smaller scope, just the south side of the building. For two reasons, to get the lessoned learned and out of the way of the projects coming. Youll see we started the work this past quarter. And weve learned a lot actually. We learned that the exterior work to the building is not as terrible as anticipated. That we can actually get it done in a faster time. So thats really adjusted our ability to kind of gauge some of the impacted areas. For instance, our fear about the dental and oral surgery area, where we thought we would have to impact operations greatly. It turns out from our Lessons Learned, we can get the work done in the twoweek period they schedule off. So we can schedule that and not have any impact to operations. Thats a major win. The other win is pharmacy. If i had come to you three weeks ago, i would have told you we have to build a whole new pharmacy to produce the project, because the work is so invasive, the way it was outlined by the Structural Engineers, it was cutting across the entire pharmacy. So we had in there about 4 million of risk, because we thought we had a pharmacy to build. Not only in money, but also probably 23 years in design time and buildout of a new pharmacy. Since then, weve we went back to our Structural Engineers, not once, not twice, but three, four times, and finally came to an understanding, that, yes, its going to be more design and its going back again, but the 70,000 its going to take to do that is mitigated by the 4 million were facing to build a pharmacy. So we went back and we think we have a solution that is go back to osh pod, but we think we mitigated that risk to the pharmacy. Basically were going down instead of across. Those are two examples how were mitigating risk to the project. As we peel back the skin of the projects, well discover more. So. Which leads me into the accomplishments page. So page 10. Accomplishments. You can see that we started the seismic work that i just explained and talked about. We took out sun shades. We exposed columns. We grouted and we prepared the columns for fiber wrap. And in june, well be applying the fiber wrap to the columns. We have submitted to osh pod, weve submitted i. T. Infrastructure and we submitted a back check, so were already a second round on the infrastructure. Thats going to provide for a whole new network of structure in the building. Weve advanced the c and gc contractor. And we have a short list of contractors. And the as i said before, the seismic retrofit is moving along. There is pictures there of what is going on. And the inventory care. We had three Different Community meetings, Castro Mission, maxine hall, and Health Center had meetings in the past quarter. We had three submittals to dbi for design documents. We had one permit approved for maxine hall. Actually, its for yes, its for maxine hall, we issued notice to proceed. I think mark alluded to the contract, the uptick in the budget because we awarded that contract. And thats what i have for accomplishments for both ambulatory care and zuckerberg. Ill pass this on to joe to talk about milestones in the future. Thank you, terry. Good afternoon, commissioners. Joe chin, San Francisco Public Works Program manager for the 2016 health and safety bond program. Ill focus on two topics. Upcoming milestones activities, as well as the overall view of the program schedule. Let me first go through the upcoming activities. Overall, on the building, five components, we are tracking 19 core projects and of the 19, were working on 15 of them. So when they say 15, the projects are in various phases of the life cycle. Either completed or in construction or in the early phase of program design. With that said, let me give you an overview of some of the Construction Projects in Construction Projects in construction right now. Were kind of in the process of wrapping up the work, were 80 complete and were on target to finish the work by end of july. So there are photos up there that shows kind of the current status of the project. Rehabilitation department, relocation. Thats about 35 construction completed. The contractors focus on finishing up the framing. Thats about 85 complete. And then just continue with the m. E. P. Installations in 3p and 3g. And one key work here that were doing to minimize impact to the operations, is working in the kitchen. Were working with the facility staff to ensure that the kitchen is not impacted and a lot of the work is being done at nighttime and its broken up into five phases. Let me just quickly on the seismic retree fit. I want retrofit. This shows the before and after picture. This is a picture of what weve been calling the removal of the contract sun shade. So above, its a little piece of horizontal. Its the concrete above. As we remove it, its gone. You dont see it visually, but that is a major impact on the seismic performance of the building. Another scope of work that were going to be the project will proceed next, is one we keep calling concrete or the column strengthening. On the middle of the slide is the column. What you see in gray is the existing column. What were doing is the area that is highlighted in yellow. Thats what were doing, adding reinforcing steel and making the column larger and stronger. Thats putting into perspective what were facing with and the efforts in making that happen within the occupied facility. So other than that, i wont spend too much time on the 10 projects that are in design and programming. I can answer any questions you may have later on. Just moving onto southeast Health Center. This project, the team is focused on moving the project from design into construction, which is currently on target for starting at the end of this calendar year. November, december. 2019. Weve already submitted the drawings to dbi, so that will initiate the plan review process with dbi. Ongoing focus on continuing our Community Outreach to make sure the Community Stakeholders are aware of the project as were getting closer to start of construction. And then on the community Health Center component, there is two projects that weve been tracking what i call comprehensive scope. It includes the seismic retrofit of both clinics as well as a substantial interior renovation of the two buildings. The maxine health centre, weve been awarded the contract, were just in the process of selecting the n. T. P. Date and the supersede date for the start of construction. Some of the hurdles, or challenges were facing is better align the construction start date with the alignment with epic implementation, because we know the golive date is august 3rd. And pretty much that day is holding and we need to work around that date. The other effort is getting the temporary trailer in place our temporary clinic, which is trailers and those are the two sites that have been selected. As well as a temporary office for the west side clinic in front of the building itself. In the Castro Mission, were in the process of being submitted the drawings to dbi to initiate the plan review and likewise, were trying to find the right time to Start Construction and most likely will be after the august 3 date of golive for epic. And then the next three slides are the overall, youve seen this before. This is what weve been showing and hopefully its a fairly simple graphical representation of the schedules. I wont go into the details, but i wanted to point out for zuckerberg building 5, there hasnt been much significant change in the schedule. So i think the dates and the graphic will speak for itself. I do want to point out that we did have one extra project added, which is the poison control office and that project is now being added as part of the phase 2 of the space. So well have a better schedule for the next presentation. And then other than that, the last slide is scheduled updates on the community Health Center, ambulatory, community Health Centers. These are the same dates i had talked about previously, so i wont go into much detail unless there are questions later. With that said, that concludes my presentation. Let me at this point turn back to mr. Primeau. So actually id like to ask, commissioners, would you like to hear the u. C. S. F. Building before you ask questions or would you like to break it up . Go forward . Go for it. Michael, associate chancellor could not be here to give the presentation, but his chief, project manager, alan owens ellen owens will give that presentation. Ellen . For the record, this is item 9. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to present the ucsf research and Academic Building at zuckerberg update to you. I believe you may i have seen this slide before. This is a site plan. It shows that the building will be located in the Southwest Corner of the zuckerberg San Francisco general campus along 23rd street and vermont. This slide shows a schedule. Last fall, we selected and procured our Design Build Team made up of the bold company and the architect, the skidmore company and merrill. Were in the middle of design right now and well be finishing design and permits with an eye toward starting construction in early 2020. We plan to finish the roadway portion of construction by the end of 2020. And the Building Construction will go until the summer of 2022. And then we will move into the building. We have recently been engaged in Community Engagement and approvals. In march, we had we participated in the Quarterly Community meeting with other city agencies at zuckerberg San Francisco general in building 5. On march 28th, we had orientation meeting with dr. Grant colfax to present the project to him. On may 14, we had an informational presentation with the boosters design group. And they were pleased with the project. And on may 20, we presented to the San Francisco Arts Commission for an approval for the Exterior Design of the building. Today, june 4, were here at the Health Commission committee. We will not be going to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Design Committee tomorrow. They actually cancelled the june 5 meeting. It appears well be on the july 17 agenda. And we will be presenting to them as well, because of the historic nature of the campus and the responsibility our project and building has for fitting into that area. We will also be making an informational presentation to another local community group. And we will be having another Quarterly Community meeting with the u. S. F. G. Zsfg. The approval happens in september as is shown here on the slide. This slide shows the first floor of the building. And what were showing here is that the major entrances are on the northwest corner by the turnaround. So across from building 5 and caddie corner from the new hospital building. The area in yellow is the lobby and the most public part of the building. The red areas are the Patient Research centre. Its part of the clinical research, if patients participate, theyll come in and having meetings and maybe have exams. This wont be clinical work, but it will Research Work and its where well engage in the research. The green area in the south is the educational area. There is large conference room. Surgical training. Bio mechanical testing. As we get toward the east end of the building which is buried in the hill if youre familiar with the site there is a slope that goes up to the northeast and up to that top right corner. And well have storage and Building Services in that area. There will be a green area between the face of the building and the historic wall and fence along 23rd street which we are preserving. This is a 3d rendering of the building. And besides using materials that sit in historically, there will be glazing and well be using terra cotta and masonry. You see they have an h or ushape. We have a threepart building like the other buildings. To the west and facing the drive aisle that enters the building is the lobby and what were calling town centre. Thats the area on each floor where people gather to get coffee, activities. The center of the building which you see that has the vertical orientation is where the work stations and labs would be. And to the right or to the east is where we have the back of house activities in the most private activities. And this is a rendering from across the street, probably about where the parking garage is. And you can see that this west public end is more translucent. It will have more glazing. And then the work areas have the terra cotta and masonry. Im open to take questions. Public comment. I have not received public comment. Commission . Commissioner chow i dont have comments about ucsf, but its nice to see its going to start earlier than perhaps anticipated. Maybe this was probably the schedule, but we always anticipate something delayed, so thats very nice. And so this public entrance. I was just trying to clarify. Thats just as youre going off the street then . Youre not going up into the circle of the hospital, right . The building doesnt extend that far into the circle, but the dropoff area could be utilized and what i did not focus on and ill go back to it because i should have i think the slide shows it best. To the north is a new road. Right now the turnaround does not connect to vermont street. Were building to the north of this building and the south of building 5 a road that will connect the turnaround to vermont. So there will be more circulation through the site and out. Commissioner chow okay. Thank you. My other question is actually in regards to the schedules for the other two buildings, i mean for the clinics and for zuckerberg, it appears were on schedule as had been in general as had been the baseline, is that an accurate reading of the chart . Thank you for the question, commissioner. Yes, in general, we are on schedule. Obviously for working in the old building we have encountered numerous unforeseen conditions, whether its designside or just finding things that we would not anticipate finding during design. So weve worked with the contractor to mitigate that. When there is a change that is warranted based on what is in the bid document, we are working with the contractor. [please stand by] each of those five or six things i mentioned, we will work through them. We have two positive outcomes so far. We are looking for others to reduce the risk and deliver the project on time and on budget. And i thought, im interested how our other commissioners feel that the way that the budget is being displayed is really quite helpful, and where the additional funding is coming from, as i assume that and i assume that the project budget itself doesnt actually show whether or not you are on the targets that you wanted, and that is probably more a question regarding the project budget pages, and is this about what you were expecting in terms of the process of recovery, and i know that you forecasted this i believe that our expenditures are we were a little bit light on our expenditures. Would you agree . Yes. We expected there to be 60 or 70 span, but because of the thing that we encountered, enabling projects, some of the seismic issues that drove those projects, we are spending less because we cant get them to construction, and i went over the last two reports and we saw huge spike in the money expended because we will get more projects under construction. You indicated there was a complication of moving everyone from one place to another and then back to wherever they belong. Do you anticipate that even know now you are drawing that there are no delays in the project, you have worked out this part of it so that we wouldnt anticipate too many. It is a process in the making. We have a lot to figure out, we have a lot of negotiations to make with each operational area. We will do our best to stay on target. That is our intention. There is a lot of hurdles that we came across and we are learning more about them as we go through them. That is the next quarterly report. Absolutely. You will be hearing more about this. Thank you. Thank you. This is so interesting and intricate. I was curious to know how often you reforecast project costs, you probably already told us that, but i was wondering if you could refresh us. Also, some of the things you just spoke about, the seismic upgrades, for example, it is a small some relative to the whole project, the clinical improvements are much larger. Can you give us context, in other words, the increase in clinical improvements is a lot worse than 20 on the seismic, in other words, are there areas of vulnerability where you can even project costs, and the bigger bucket items . On the clinical side, a lot of it is what terry and i have been talking about. No one anticipated all the things that had to have been in the sequence before we could get all these new things into a building that is 50 years old or older, so on the seismic peace, i believe, because of the way we are doing it on the southside first, we are taking all the Lessons Learned that we encountered there, and we will apply them as we go around the building. I am sure you guys have seen the congestion. They took the entire corridor all the way down to lombard, ended encountered and it encountered so many difficulties and utilities issues, that they actually stopped the job, it was twice as long as it should have been in the first place. Were doing it this way so we can apply the intelligence that we learn on the south south side to the other elevations. Do you feel you have accounted for these issues were unforeseen previously and the projected costs. I think so, they will get adjusted. To be completely transparent, all these numbers will change. Little things affect them up and down, and i think the key is to get these projects into construction in a bidding climate where we have five or seven bidders where we can force use competitions to force costs down. I think the theme is looking at things in a smart way. For example, the pharmacy is dodging a four and a half Million Dollar problem and doing it for 70,000 just by pushing three times that in engineers to come up with a creative solution would you agree . I wholeheartedly agree. There was a long discussion along around canopies for people who are vulnerable to weather conditions coming in for their care. It is important to build communities and build relationships that we care for so it is not just about the healthcare, but helping shape the fabric and structure, the architecture of the community as well. It really has been great to see that. I want to acknowledge mark and terry and jones on the contributions and support in this, and others. You some 90 different projects under this one piece. It is an amazing amount of detail to keep track of to keep it on time and keep it on budget thank you all. Thank you, gentlemen. Commissioners, item ten is other business. Commissioners . I will note that the august 20th meeting in chinatown world be at the ymca and it will begin at 5 00 p. M. Due to the room availability. I will email that all out to you all. We can move on to item 11 wishes report back from the may 31st may 31st meeting. Yes. As you know, our may 28th meeting was not able to be held because we did not achieve the ability to actually opened the meeting, and so the committee met on may 31st to do the closed session work, which was principally looking at the credentials report. We are pleased to say that we completed that without disruption. Now we will adjourn. Motion to adjourn . So moved. Second. All those in favor . Aye. Thank you. Good morning, everyone how are you all . So, welcome. Im with the Hotel Council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. Its the second love our city event but its the first one that is a tourism and Hospitality Industry have helped organize. So today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] im joined by our chair of our board, mr. James lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the Hotel Council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of San Francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco. We have far too many People Living on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco and many of our Community Partners to do tour part to keep San Francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to Work Together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ adjourned. 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