Question about users. We did an analysis of compensation data for fiscal year 18. We found that a quarter of Police Officers make 50 of their salary or more in overtime. Which just another piece of evidence of the exhaustion and the expense of the overtime when its not properly manage and controlled. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Before we break for little pause to give everyone a pause here. I know this is going to be a more lengthy conversation. I think we are will have Public Comment. I want to say quickly that the performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department did show increase in overtime hours for arrests and investigations that coincide to increase number of arrests. Arrests 30 decrease, arrest overtime 76 increase by your own chart, im sorry i forgot your name. Karen. By your own chart the bulk of overtime is extension of hours finishing up the watch. Having said that, i would like to open this up now for Public Comment. Im so sorry that you have to wait so long. I would ask Public Commenters to give preference to parents who have Young Children here so that they can give Public Comment. Can people line up please. Everyone will have two minutes. Im requesting mr. Wright that you allow parents children to go first. They have been very patient. I have heard children crying in this chamber. Parents with children first. Thank you very much. Everybody has two minutes. Thank you. Greetings district supervisors of San Francisco. Im here today. I was invited through our city our home coalition. I was here previously in the conversation of 181. 5 billion. For the last two years ive been experiencing homelessness brought to me by Domestic Violence for 17year relationship. I come forward today because of what i experienced and the people that ive been walking with. I have voice and opportunity to make change. Good evening supervisor ronen. It was you that i came here and able to address. I appreciate you so kindly for the time you gave to us. It gave me the opportunity and the idea that it is important for more than just my children but more than 3000 children who are suffering in homelessness in San Francisco. For the last week what i participated in meeting mothers who have come from all over other counties even out of state, i had to hold their hand and guide them. My thing is, i know whats going on with the money. It cannot go towards now the money thats being requesting for funding for the beat officers. As domestic survivor, i dont know if i can trust them. My Police Statement in regards to Domestic Violence was on my life. My abuser is sitting in the hospital now with a gunshot wound when he received good afternoon. Im here representing families united to request your support for the section 8 housing choice voucher. This is the reason why all the families of low income are uni united here requesting your help. This is my daughter. She was a victim of bully in school because shes homeless, she doesnt have a house. We were discriminated by the School District and denied help. Shes not attending classes. Shes experiencing posttraumatic syndrome. Its not easy for me to show this picture around. She was in coma for one week. Everyone in the house was feeling severe depression, in particular her and i. Were in need of housing. Its not only me, were here representing all the families who live in the motel. We dont have a space to move. Im requesting from the bottom of my heart your support for section 8 housing choice voucher. I dont know if you can see this in the camera, victim of bullying for not having housing. I dont think this is fair. Were working families, were requesting your help because were not afford the rent. In the room where we live, its nine of us. Sometimes we have to step out of our room in the middle of the night because the building manager is yelling at us and we have to sleep in the car. Im here requesting your help. They ask for section 8 voucher. Thank you. Good afternoon. I want to say thank you everybody for listening to me. I come together with collaboration for families. Me and my husband and my two kids we live in a hotel. There are only three bathrooms for 50 families. Sometimes my daughter want to take a shower before she go to school. We cant. Sometimes the bathroom is busy. Its really difficult if we want to use the bathroom. My 1yearold son want to have toys to play with. My daughter want to have a place where she can do her homework. We cannot because the place is too small. The place where i live is so bad. The door dont work and the windows are broken. Im sorry. I have to go to hospital for two days. Now i have to deal with my daughter waking up in the middle of the night screaming. Hello. Good afternoon. Im here representing families living in hotels. My case is not unique. This is the case of many families living in conditions sharing bathrooms and kitchen with lots of other people in the hotel. Theres not a part to do the salaries and the expenses that i face. Im requesting your help. We go around asking for help and help is often denied to us. I particularly sleep in the bed with my two children in the same bed. You can imagine if Living Conditions affect us. You can only imagine how it affects our children. Our children are the future of this country. We are frustrated to see them living in these conditions. Were requesting section 8 housing choice voucher. Please help us. I beg for your support and men its not only facing the rent, were facing all kinds of needs like food and what not. Were paying rent. Were requesting your help for section 8 voucher. I hope our words get to your heart. It is quite necessary for our necessary to have dignified living. Next speaker. Thank you for having me. I like to share a story through living homeless in San Francisco. In august 2018, i took a leap of faith to escape a marriage that was riddled with Domestic Violence and sought refuge with my two children at a Domestic Violence shelter in San Francisco. We moved around until we had to go back into shelter right before christmas. My son and daughter were both part of the one in 25 children in the sfusd that are homeless. My daughter has special needs and hospitalized four finals times due it ammonia but also to lack of stable housing. She also required to be fed by a feeding tube, which you can see here. In the shelter, we benefited from weekly dance classes, trips to help us find hope in a time of despair and my son became an honorary firefighter. The firefighters had no idea they were making bill low dreame boy dream come true. They offered Mental Health services to myself. In january, we were able to get a threeyear Subsidy Program through homeless prenatal. They gave us roots. I will never forget the look on my kids faces when i brought them to their new home. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Your time is up. Next speaker please. Good evening. Thank you so much for the opportunity to provide this Public Comment and to have the voices of the community heard. I would really love to highlight the focus on the need for additional family resources. As you just heard, we provide the services around the Share Program which is needbased subsidy with documented need it remain in San Francisco. The majority of our participants are undocumented immigrant and those thats going through the process asylum seeking services. I wanted to highlight the need for additional Mental Health service for families. It is an ongoing issue. You heard number of comments from other individuals experiencing that need. We cannot emphasize enough how that is another part of the process around housing economic stability and Mental Health services. Last i love to highlight the need for Additional Resources for families living in hotels. It is a need now that is really unmet. Any resources that can be provided in addition to the subsidies that are being offered would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. How much more proof do you need about my demonstrations about those two towers . Those two towers is a total of 2070 Apartment Units. Each and every one of your supervisors structured and think its the ideal thing to build the Navigation Centre in your district. Navigation centre is only 130 shelter beds. Thats not Supportive Housing. Thats type of Living Conditions that you have when youre in jail. I demonstrated 27story apartment buildings. With 500,000, you can build 9 of these type of Apartment Units and stack them on top of each other. It looks like this. Thats not housing. Thats not housing and i dont appreciate it claimed Supportive Housing. Governor newsom wants to give 2. 8 billion. Moreover google just handed down 1 billion for housing. Is that clear . They usingmen use using tech. Instead of giving out vouchers you charge low income people 30 of their income. They also want to hand down 50 million for Homeless People. I demonstrated how you violated that contract pertaining to subsidized housing pertaining to rehabilitation. Supervisor fewer thank you mr. Wright. Next speaker please. Good evening. Im shawn buford. You stand here asking you to support the budget as submitted by our mayor. As member of our budget committee, we have taken lot of time to whittle down what we identify as hundreds of millions of dollars in immediate need to the small bake number submitted to you. If you you were to take priorities of last three mayors, Public Safety, homelessness, housing and quality of life for all. Ems6 are just a start to us going to be able to move towards a department that will both be able to support these priorities as well as support the Public Safety workers who First Responders who go through these instanceuinstances. City employees should fall into that to the point where you supervisors that also want to move forward a Mental Health for San Francisco initiative. That said, our health and safety chief needs to be assistant deputy chief because of scope of work. The scope of work is to oversee issues that serve our membership. It will oversee safety report, the stress unit, Public Safety equipment. I myself have had classmates who have died from cancer, suicide, organ failures who have quit for Mental Health breakdown just to go on. The person here will be able to help our members get the needed support they have. I welcome to you contact me. Good afternoon. Im tony montoya. Im president of the San Francisco Police Officer association. I feel compelled to convey to you although i made differences chief scott for our association to set those differences aside and advocate with him for a budget that contains Adequate Funding to address issues our city and our Department Face in trying to keep all san franciscans safe. This is i want to express my support for mayor breeds Budget Proposal for the Police Department. The proposal contains funding continue to provide Police Officers with crisis intervention training and to assist them in managing those with Mental Illness. As well as staff the Traffic Bureau so we can continue to work towardings our goal of obtaining vision zero. Our city must address our growing homelessness and main street criseMental Health cri. Safe for San Francisco is something we can agree on and mayor breeds Budget Proposal is a step in the right direction. Soon, the sfpoa will be unveiling a safer San Francisco agenda that will offer solutions we believe will augment the initiatives being proposed to place our city on a safer path for the future. I appreciate the opportunity to come here today and offer our support for the mayors Budget Proposal for the Police Department. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Im the secretary of the San Francisco Police Officers association. Lot of numbers being thrown out here. I wanted to im not controlling the lights. Lot of numbers thrown out. One of the numbers talked about was arrests are down but overtime arrests are up. The thing that people forget, in 2016 when bodyworn cameras were introduced, this is a big learning curve. When they go to a call, they have their camera activated, they have to come back, they have to download the footage to be able to write the report. When in the plast when there was no camera, it was taking notes from the notebook. Now involves more time. I know that number gets thrown out there why all this overtime going up for arrests. The arrests are low. That should tell you something. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Im homeless advocate. Ive heard from many city officials over the years that homelessness is the number one crises and the number one priority. The city is not treating it that way. There are an estimated 8000 unhoused residents in San Francisco, many are actively on shelter waiting lists that number was 1222 as of yesterday. The city can spend millions on beefing up sfpd departments. The money being used to target unhoused neighbors could be used to prevent homelessness and bring real housing opportunities to these individuals. Supervisors please move forward on the eraf Budget Proposals. 14 million in funding and 84 million in eraf funding. Homelessness kills. Homelessness hurts our youth, our future. S. F. Can afford it fund these initiatives. I pray that you do the right thing. Thank you. Good afternoon. Today, i want to ask you supervisors to support the budget 14 million for Homeless People and families. The mayor weeks ago, shes released in the media she wants more millions to clean the city streets. When already city spending 21. 7 million to criminalizing Homeless People. The Fire Department and Police Department and they get 11 billion of the city budget, about 3 billion. What are they doing with this money . Its so much money to spending for Police Officers. They asking for more money . No. We need money for housing. We need money to take care of the people from the streets. We have about 2300 hopeless units in San Francisco. We have 700 homeless families living in really bad conditions. We have about 211 families on the waiting list for housing. Im brian edwards. I live in district 5. Were at a point now in San Francisco where we are going to be judged by history on what we do with homelessness. We are beyond the point of no return. We are not going to be judged by the quality of our Police Cruisers. When kelly cutler and i were doing outreach, we saw five or six Police Cruisers doing just fine bringing about dozen officers out. It was unclear what they were doing with the homeless youth. They werent leading with services. Theres nowhere for them to go. I believe its a gentleman from the poa said theres a lot of numbers. Heres a really big number. Theres going to be 6000 people that cannot fit into the capacity we have for shelter for treatment for anywhere. Its just not there. Thats 6000 people that we dont have any infrastructure to do anything with. Were branding them as service resist. Resistent and they dontt help or change. Weve been saying that for years. Its time to make a real firm commitment. Thats why i support it. History isnt going to judge us, they will judge us how we handle our homeless crises now. Thank you. Good afternoon. Were talking one hand overtime and on the other hand people life. Is that really a thing for San Francisco . Theres 20 million allocated for overtime when theres hundreds houses people outside on the streets. Homelessness kills like someone else said. Just imagine yourself all of y you, living outside with no season tea sanitary servicesd being exposed to disease or bad conditions. How would that be for you . Think about the worse that you ever faced in your life and now compare that to being a senior or a person with disability living on the streets. I bet you will laugh at yourself thinking that was a bad time for your life. Please do the right thing and support the hespa act. This city are not be asked on the condition of the troopers. How you treat your humans, how you treat people that are living on the streets including children. Including the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities. Thank you. Good evening. I work for homeless prenatal. Specifically the Share Program. The Share Program is a solutions to end homelessness for the families that are part of it. We see the people in the community. Ive worked for other organizations. This program just teaches the families the tools provides housing, provides all the things this they need to stop this from reoccurring in their children. There is not a small thing that it provides. It provides a Wraparound Service for everything that were talking about here. Everything from Mental Health to financial lit literacy to life skills. For these families it stops the cycle. It stops homelessness for the future generations of these families. This is also a program and also i speak for the hespa funding to spend the money now to prevent the future problems, to solve the problem instead putting a bandaid on it. Putting a bandaid on deep wound. Thank you very much. Im the Community Housing Partnership Community organizer supporting the Budget Justice Coalition and Supportive Housing providers network. Our budget is a reflection of our values and messages of city priority. The mayors Budget Office added over 6 million over two years for the homeless of Supportive Housing. The 6 million listen used across the departments to include Navigation Centres, shelters etcetera. We agree there are deficit most likely across all the sectors. We are representing the specific need within the city to address the most critical individual and social impact of homeless trauma. Homelessness causes Mental Illness through trauma. We cannot support individuals and Bring Community to fold while funding gaps remain. Our workers underfunded and underresource. We urge the board and mayor to understood homeles home de fs housing. As a former homeless person in district 6, no one living i livn s. R. O. Should be paying over 30 in shared living spaces. I support the ask of capping s. R. O. Rent. Were grateful to the Mayors Office for adding the 6 million funding. We want to note that doesnt really fulfill all the needs across contracts. We want to have places that are really suitable and great places for them to live. San francisco had an increase of homelessness about 17 in our sector is really pushing for this funding so we are not adding to that number. Supportive housing is there to keep folks who are most vulnerable in housing. We need to do that by funding these contracts so we have adequate staffing. Thank you your time. Hello. Im doug gary. Im the other lesser cochair Supportive Housing network. Thought supervisor fewer for your inclusive pross and your long days. Thank you supervisor walton for being present. I want to speak to the m. C. O. Issues within Supportive Housing its fantastic legislation if its funded. We encourage funding well beyond whats in the mayors budget. The wage compression issues are very real and our capacity to hire case workers, desk clerks, janitors and firstline supervisors really limited unless theres more funding. If we can get that funding up into the 25 or so an hour, it will make a huge difference for us to cover vacancies. We encourage you to increase the m. C. O. Funding along with the other asks you heard from the network. Thank you all for your time and support. Good afternoon. Im sheryl adams. Im here to speak about the Supportive Housing network ask and hespa. Ditto to all the great comments. I want to thank everybody the mayor and mayors budget staff for your diligence and attention and all the work youre doing. I know it takes lot of time and appreciate diligence and the way youre going about the process. I want to speak whats going to happen if were not able to fully fund the Supportive Housing network ask. That will be that there will be eight beds lost to underaged youth. Theres 16bed shelter that we operate. We will make that 8 beds. Will will be 14 beds for young people under 18 who are homeless or run away. That mean well be turning people away. Minors. The other thing that will happen is that our 35bed Transitional Living program will go from 35 beds to 23 beds. That means that we will have less beds for young people going to the school that are getting a job and working their way out of homelessness and into building the lives we want all our young people to have. Lastly, the relatively new program that we opened for lgbtq youth will go down from 38 beds to few less beds. It will be probably. 4 to 6 beds. That will put the trans Housing Program at risk. 50 young people who are homeless are lgbt. This is an equity issue. We cannot lose these housing beds. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Im curtis bradford. I want to support the hespa ask and our city our home eraf fund. I still do support that. After hearing the testimony, i changed what i had to say. I was listening about the huge increases in the police budget. Every year we come here and we hear the same thing, the priority of this administration is to safe of our community and homelessness. Do you feel safer this year than five years ago. Do our streets feel safer . We keep increasing the funds but no results. Homelessness has increased. Our drug sales and use gone up, overdoses gone up. Were putting money in the wrong place. These two things are tied together. Were putting in the money in the wrong place. With all due respect with the hard work they do, its just the wrong tool for the job. This money could be used to make a difference. It needs to be spent in the right place. Things like providing money for mobile outreach teams. We could have Community Staff teams with our residents doing it. Funding Mental Health s. F. What a great place it start to make a real difference with the challenges. Street medicine. Things will get far better results. 43 beat officers in 10 blocks of the Market Street and 4 in the 49 square blocks the tenderloin sounds like a containment zone. Its not using the right tool for the problem. Mayor, your comment about no line for services, we heard. 6000 people seeking services hello. Im an employee of con art house. I support the Supportive Housing network. Im here to support our ask. It is very important to address our structural issues that weve had for a long time. We have presented to our departments and to you for consideration. This deficit have been going on for a while. I want to echo what all of the other commenters said. I beg that you keep the support services in Supportive Housing. I want to say we do work with vulnerable resident. We work with them. We dont have the luxury of utilizing a lot of overtime or Offering High wages. Our Mental Health providers make about 50,000 a year. Were having a huge recruiting problem which has a very direct impact on the services and the Mental Health of our residents and our employees were making about 50,000 a year dealing with very traumatic events such as finding someone dead because they overdosed. I understand that the Fire Department and the Police Department want to increase the budgets. They have acknowledged the Mental Health of the employees. As a Mental Health professional, i dont have that luxury. I need to on limited income, still be traumatize and experience that. Please keep the Supportive Housing. They do have a direct impact on the residents. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Im karen flood. Im here to speak in support of the Police Departments budget as submitted. I know you have very tough decisions to make today. I appreciate a. Were very much in support keeping the 2. 8 million. We need beat officer on the beat. The Police Department is understaffed. In particular this Ambassador Program as proposed, this is a creative and Cost Effective solution to provide Public Safety, to our residents and visitors. Union square is not to be about the merchants. It is everyones Downtown Centre all the residents, all the taxpayers in your district come to union square. They expect a level of safety. What we have retail staff that is off the charts. We have street behavior thats becoming so much more aggressive. Our ambassadors have been threatened and assaulted. We need support. We have two beat searches you heard today inconsistent. We have our own Police Officers. We pay dearly for. 1000 a day we pay now for that Police Officer. We can count on that person being out there. We are proposing renewed bit second Police Officer. Thats 730,000 that our merchants are contributing. The city needs to meet us half way. We are positioned really well. Were organized. We got a Public Safety network there. Good relationship with the police. Please believe in this program. Please dont cut. Thank you. Im bridget duffy. I want to say the police are not underfunded in San Francisco. This is a fact. I will say homelessness issue is not underfunded. We know there are millions of dollars in the budget weight to be spent and unfortunately, corporate entities have decided to commoditize the homeless issue. This is a model for a lot in the tenderloin. It has composting toilets. No plumbing is necessary. Theres tent living, theres showers, theresma theres Mental Health advocates. We can put it up today. The problem is, this isnt happening. I would also like to say, how about a moratorium on eviction. How about moratorium on rent increases . Theres 30,000 units in San Francisco held off the market by realtors. How about some tax reform where theyre not getting a tax writeoff for same amount of rent theyll be charging for keeping an empty apartment. These are simple direct things that could affect the homeless issue. This is ridiculous. U. N. Decided this is human rights violation. Theres e. Coli showing up in our Drinking Water because human waste has no place to go. I prey that this Supervisor Committee can look at some of these things and really actualize some thing. We can build these camps on empty lots all over the city and get people off the streets. Why isnt that happening . Can we make that happen . Thank you. Hi. Im here it talk about the homelessness issue. I believe that have responsibility coordinate our efforts that have the least amount of resources. As so many people brave enough to share toad, people are surviving on so little. We need to support fully the 14 million homelessness Emergency Service Provider Association Budget Proposal and the 84 million our city our home proposal. We can afford it. The city of San Francisco has 11 billion, less than 3 of that goes to homelessness. I strongly urge the supervisors to fully fund those budgets and continue to fully support homelessness efforts. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Im here representing the s. R. O. Family united collaborative working with families in four different neighborhoods. Were working over 700 families living in the small 8 by 8 rooms with no kitchen and no bathroom, living in sub standard conditions. Their children dont have any space to move and theyre not meeting their development am milestone. The collaborative started in 2001. For the first 15 years of the collaborative, we only served small group of families. That is until the housing section 8 housing choice voucher. This vouchers were frozen. Were in full support of the hespa, particularly with 75 section 8 housing choice vouchers. We believe the most city in the united states. We have lot of People Living on the streets. Most of the families were working with, in 2015, s. R. O. Report, 88 are working. 50 families are having Health Issues directly related to standards of the hotel. Im not here to speak about homelessness. Im here it thank you for your courage to close juvenile hall. We are thrilled about that. I want to address the budget youll be hearing about shortly. We have 2 1 2 years to figure out what well do. These budget cycles will be crucial to figure out to set up to succeed. Some will be to help not fill positions that are not empty. Theres a drop in arrests. We do not need all the staff. Any new positions will be highly questionable. There needs to be tremendous amount of scrutiny who is at the hall now and request from board about who is up there so that we can really celebrate those numbers shrinking and think about where they could be. Youll notice there will be nonviolent felons there will be youths on misdemeanor charges. I look forward to working with you on this. I think its an incredible time. I wish there were way to celebrate a more that arent as many youths occupy up there. So thank you so much. Good evening supervisors. Share thank you for your service and thoughtful discussion today. Im here to talk about the Police Departments budget. I wanted say we cant ignore that we have 25 million visitors to come to San Francisco every year. One of their top concern is safety and security. Thats one of the reasons why they say they may not return. As you may know, it brings 770 million to the general fund. You want to touch on the Ambassador Program. When think about union square and how many people bring in 120,000 people a day. We need more support. This is a Creative Program to try. Its Cost Effective. I know you have other priorities. I hope that you prioritize this and give it a try. Additionally, police will be patrols. We all love them. We hope that you support the additional 1. 2 million in our neighborhood and additional 400,000 in our transit station i want to urge to you support the Program Citywide as good example departments coming together to serve our most vulnerable population. Thank you again for your time. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you. Im denise coleman. Im a member of the huckleberry youth program. Im here to speak on the universal pro juvenile probation budget. The department of youth continues to shrink. We dont need to fill vacant current position nor do we need to add new positions. We need daily status report that speaks to who is in the hall, how long theyve been in the hall and why they are there. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you guys for allowing me to speak. You work with the homeless prenatal program. Im asking for your support and helping fund the project for the homeless. One of the programs is our Share Program. Our Share Program is needbased subsidy that is in the hespa ask. That program is one of the only programs that will help anybody that has a need in San Francisco including undocumented families. This program is a shortterm subsidy, its a threeyear subsidy. It leads to permanent housing. Were able to within the time period theyre in for the three years, were able to provide Case Management services for the families and were also able to help them become where theyre able to sustain on their own and be able to obtain permanent housing. We also help them not just obtain permanent housing, we help them look for income to become selfsufficient. We help them with their children, to help them to have a place to stay so they can have place for their children to get up and get ready to go to school. Some of those children have been traumatized by having to live on the streets. Because of the traumatic experience by going to school, theyre able to get i. E. P. S and extra help. Im asking you guys to support hespa and support the Share Program and fund that program to help keep families in their homes. Otherwise if you guys dont support it, some of the families thriving within that period will end up losing their home and kicked off the subsidy. Thank you. Hi. You guys, lot of people worked really hard to get this progressive board elected. Really want you all to look at this through an equity lens. You got pretty clear decision you got a really small pot. You can increase the Police Department budget, that means youre increasing the numbers of people in jail. You just moved to close the juvenile justice centre. This is not in alignment. You heard from a woman earlier today whos 11 year. You saw the paiges of her on life support tried to commit suicide. Police would not have prevented that from
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