Community camera project, but in addition to that, its just the care they provide and communication that they provide stating to all members of the tenderloin this is truly a community that matters. So we think its critically important that this is renewed. Our assessment will go up and we think theyre capable after efficient stewards. We look forward to seeing what they do and we strongly urge your support. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Im with the larkin Street Merchant Association and cova hotel and i serve on the board of the cbd. I cannot express enough what a critical partner the tenderloin is to everyone that comes into contact with the neighborhood. I cant imagine where the neighborhood would be without the services that the tenderloin cbd provides. We see a lot of imminent. I urge you to support and back the renewal of the cbd and we look forward to partnering with them for the next 15 years. Thank you. Next speaker. Supervisors, what struck me when i was listening to our friends at tenderloin safe passage was kind of the idea that weve created a cbd model that is different than other cbds in the city. Its a cbd that grows from the community, that some of the initiatives that they have incubated and work with and some they have taken on like safe passage have been communitylead. Its being able to know what community theyre in and who theyre working for. So like many said before, it brings joy to my heart when i walk through and see my friends at safe passage and i see, you know, folks really enjoying what is my favourite neighborhood in the city. So i urge you to, you know, support the renewal of the tenderloin cbd for 15 years and really dig deep to see how we can make this model of Community Leadership and Community Empowerment a part of every cbd that we pass and that we strengthen and lengthen in the years going forward. Thank you very much. Thank you, networks speaker. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im here today as a member of the Tenderloin Community benefit District Board of directors, giving my enthusiastic support to the renewal and expansion of the tldbd. Like many here, my introduction was through the Safe Passage Programme, working on Street Safety projects in the neighborhood. I quickly realize ed this nobodd their finger on the pulse than the captains. Really they serve as stewards of the public realm, keep tender tenderloin residents safe and away from drug feelin dealing. This is a communitybased state programme reducing psychological and physical harm through building and culture of safety and engagement. Really,. Ththis is the type we nodebe. As someone who walks, bike and eats daily in the tenderloin, im urging you to support the renewal today. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im a sometimes friendly and sometimes cranky neighbor of the cbd. All of these growing stories come from a lot of hard work on part of the staff member and leadership of the cbd. You know, this kind of Community Collaboration doesnt come without hard work or conflict. In this process of renewal, i watched simon and the rest of the staff go through hard conversations. Some of the things we talked about, ha harm reduction, making sure there are to harmed securities, those conversations were not easy conversations because those are things not assumed to be a part of the cbd in their process. As we had those conversation, i watched this staff work through what their values are in aligning them with their neighbors. I would like to give them credit and know we have a long way to go but we have a strong begin manage a relationship thats founded in friendship and in conflict and weve been able to remain good together through that process. So as a sometimes cranky but often friendly neighbor, i want to encourage you to vote for the renewal. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hello, supervisors. Im Vice President of the board of Christian Science church on farrell street. I am here representing the church as we get towards that goal. The benefit we are among the people that are assessed for this and we are more than happy to have that renewed and expanded. Weve experienced the gentleness of the individuals that come around and help with us removing graffiti, cleaning our sidewalks and we are supportive of this project. And i have a letter of support from our church. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Members of the board, thank you, richard hanham, representing forge. Were a Development Group bringing forward 500 new Housing Units in the tenderloin. Weve been work on this project 35 years and one of the great advantages that has occurred during that period has been the initiation of the cbd. Were being assessed for a nonsettlsignificant contributih projects inside of the expansion map and these are places that have not been served, nor pratting in the assessment and we strongly encourage both the approval and our continued and expanded participation with the cbd. Please remember that the cbd does not exist in the overall map. It exists in the space of community and the place in between the buildings. This is where their work is done and where all of us live on the street. So be encourage them and thank you for everything his team has been doing to help everyone in this neighborhood to be successful. Thank you very much and please support this initiative. Good afternoon. Im with the Senior Center and one of the challenges our seniors have is safety. We did a survey of them four years ago and they said safety on the sidewalks was number one. I made the mistake of thinking safety on the sidewalk meant groups of drug dealers. They said yes, theyre in our way and the safety on the sidewalks is were scared to walk, step in poop, glass and everyone else. So seniors, they dont want to come out because the sidewalks are dirty. Cbd cleans sidewalks. I spent 2500 to put the camera systems in and i buy flash drives and im glad i could spread the work around with the help of the cbd. So i urge you to support the cbd from those 15 years. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is jennifer verano and as the director of st. Francis hospital and on behalf of the hospital were pleased to provide the assessment renewal. For over 13 years, cbd played a vital role in the tenderloin by providing services needed to the most vulnerable and diverse neighborhoods. When the neighborhood launched the tenderloin improvement project, we recognised the leadership to realize the new vision to impact the tenderloin. This vision aligns well with neighborhood wide goals to address economic and social conditions that ultimately influence the persons health. What the cbd does in terms of a safe, clean and active environment, building Neighborhood Pride and ensuring Economic Opportunities and supporting local businesses is all a part of the collective success, a recipe for success of residents, shaping the 80 of health outside of the walls of hospitals. We stand by our partnership with the c builbd and request you rew assessment but most importantly continue demonstrated track record of cocreating solutions with tenderloin residents and partners. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is kristy shirillo. For anyone who spends time in the ter tenderloin, you know itn be a little overwhelming, but this is an organization innovative and ready to help solve problem and face challenges. I believe the renewal is vital and encourage you to support. Thank you. Networknext speaker. Im a resident of the tenderloin and work for the international u. S. A. S San Francisco city center hostile on the corner of ellis and larkin. On behalf of fellow residents, the tens of thousands of guests that stay at our hostile every year, on behalf of our hostile staff, i would like to thank them for cleanliness and security of the neighborhood and would like to thank you all for voting in favour of this renewal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im representing the Property Owner in the tenderloin and we have been a strong supporter of the lcbd and would love to see it renewed. The renewed assessment and extension will allow the tlcbd to implement new programmes in the area and that will make it safer for the residents and visitors of the ten tenderloin. Please support this initiative and thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is will douglas and i work for the st. Francis foundation. Five years ago as my colleague and coworker, jennifer verano mentioned, were formed the Tenderloin HealthImprovement Partnership and its many of the organizations youve heard from. The reason we formed this partnership is that we realized the health of individuals in the neighborhood required more than just excellent care at the hospital. That an individuals health and wellbeing is dependent on social determinants of health and organizations like the Community Benefit district are necessary and an important critical part of a communitys health and wellbeing. I want to acknowledge the work theyve done in partnering with man different organizations across our community and acknowledge that its very rare for this Many Organizations to come together and agree on something. So i want to make that point and urge you to support the renewal of the cbd for another 15 years. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im the Programme Manager with the tenderloin housing clinic. Im here to support because they provide a safe and Clean Environment for the entire environment and a part of the Safe Passage Programme and we thoroughly enjoy working with them and we hope that they continue to go on for 15 more years. Thank you. Buenos tardes. speaking spanish . Im a resident of the tenderloin for more than 30 years. Shes saying good afternoon. I have been safe passage voluntary for ten years and this time, she has been noticing the importance of the safe passage and for the community of the tenderloin. Shes a captain and she sees that all of the people of the elderly seniors are very happy when they see her. The parents of the children also trust all of them because they feel that the children are very safe when they are around when they go to school. Out tenderloin itenderloin is aa lot of danger on streets, a lot of drug dealing accidents, also, you know, a lot of people that have been dying there. The traffic is the main problem there. And because people and even sometimes a car, they dont follow the traffic sign. With the new plan and your support, the tlcbd will be in the programme safe passages and stronger and stronger and we will try to have more safety in the streets for many, many years to come. Thank you for your support. Thank you. Next speaker. Initially, i didnt get too involved in the community, but you think its being in the tenderloin with other people who also had difficulties, i wanted to give back. Now i do volunteer work in the community and i really its helping me as a person. So i would like to say that these things that bring the community together, its almost a necessary thing for peoples health, i think. Put because people if youre really down and out, having people who have your back or willing to help you, its can be a powerful thing. Thats the key to giving back. You may have had a dysfunctional family or just had a hard time making friends, but when people, you know, share and communicate with each other, theres a lot that can happen. So keep the tlcb going. I think they are a good role model and we all need to clean up after ourselves in our lives. Puto do that in the community ia real positive thing to see. It reinforces, maybe, brings hope hopefully brings hope to some of the people you dont see a way out of their situation. But there is. There are ways. Ok, thank you. Put. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, my name is kristen dialobos. Ive lived in the tenderloin for years. Some people have spoken well about the programmes, the street clean, both of which are important and remuc very much n. But what they give they is a sense of expect. My neighbors and i began to organize a few months ago to combat the 24hour open air drug mark and the folks met with us and helped us organize and point us in the right directions. They inspired us and what started as a group of angry neighbors cleaning about the situation out front, they turned us into a positive force for good. I dont think we would be as far along and our neighborhood wouldnt be as improved as it is, if it hasnt been for their support. They have inspired all of us to keep going. Ive been looking for more opportunities to get involved in the tenderloin and in all of the neighbors in San Francisco and im familiar with a lot of different neighborhoods, theres no neighborhood more in need of a benefit district than the tenderloin. But also, a neighborhood that just has such a strong sense of community and i feel that theyve been a big part of that. Their ads and they are focus on the other hand aledon all of th. Its not just about cleaning up the neighborhood but making the neighborhood a safe neighborhood for everyone who lives there. Now thank you. Next speaker. And i support them. Hello. Im with the Tenderloin Equitable Development project our organization supports Community Businesses in the tenderloin, businesses who are often striving and struggling in silence and on their own because their very real problems are lost in the face of the much more visible human suffering and tragedy that we see in front of their storefronts. However, the tlcbd has been a critical partner in assisting our organization in elevating the voices of the unheard Community Businesses and helping to provide the attention and the resources of the Greater Community to help sustain these businesses and allow him to thrive in unjust business conditions. The leadership of the tlcbd in particular, not only through that programmatic work has been able to provide us a platform to assist and invest in businesses and to keep the Small Business owners in the neighborhood, in the communities that they serve and know. Without the tlcbd, we have not been able to increase our assistance to the neighborhood and would not be able to consistently provide the services and the support that the neighborhood and Small Businesses need, strongly support. Thank you, next speaker. Pout. Dan williams, owner of piano fight. Even onim one of the businessee tenderloin and i have to say that one of the most amazing resources from a Business Owners perspective is the tlbcd. Not only do they support really impressive cleaning services that round out what the city does in a fashion thats really working well for the tenderloin but they provide Community Organizational services. These things the tenderloin has a myriad of issues. I know most neighborhoods do in the city, but the tenderloins the tlcg is a specific issue to specific challenges that the tenderloin faces. I would like to point out youve heard from an incredible spectrum of voices from Housing Developers to Hotel Operators to homeless advocates to business operators and i dont know that you get to residents, low income, senior, acrosstheboard and i dont know you get this on many issues you face, but i would encourage it to influence your support, as well. Thank you. Next speaker. Joel wilson, hospitality house. I would like to voice my opposition to the renewal of the tenderloin. Joe, excuse me. This is in support. In opposition . Yes. Speakers will be after everybody in support. Ok, thank you. So i yield the eminderemaindy time. [ laughter ] good afternoon, supervisors. Im the executive director of the lower poke cbd. We are on the northern border of the tlcbd and ive witnessed day inand day out, the hard work and dedication the staff brings to the job. Its easy to quantify the bags of trash and feces and needles but whats hard to quantify is the sense of connectivity and support for the neighborhood that they bring and it is intangible but without it, things would fall apart and so, i urge your support in extenting the tenderloin cbd for 15 years on behalf of the lower poke neighbors. Were thrilled theyre extending to the lower, lower poke, because that will only help strengthen all of our neighborhoods. So i urge your support and thank you for your time. My name is eric rosell and thank you for having us. I want to express my support. As a longtime resident, ive seen over nearly 23 years of working in the area and ive never seen a group of people who are hard working in transforming a community as i have this community and this organization putting forth this effort. I remarkable to see how present and visible they are everyday. As a Community Group organizing and building in my block, theyve been supportive and helping us make the community better, too, and i hope you support their renewal. Thank you. please stand by . And we will stay a little bit longer well the lights countdown too fast. We are there to help people who move slower than others and children to be safe. Thank you. Any other speakers in support i definitely in support. I have been at my house 28 years i have lived here in the city long before that and i really am grateful for the improvements that have been happening these last few years, to see that this program is working. Im sitting here and observing it and hearing the support of it has definitely got me on the side of wanting to support it, and developing and blossoming to make everything a lot safer for everybody. So thank you. Okay. Supervisors, my name is francisco. I support the Community Benefit district. I think it is a little bit different. In 1989 when we had the earthquake and i worked at the presidio, we formed a team to address those concerns in the tenderloin. You have heard many of the people who live in the tenderloin express themselves as best they can. We have a budget of 12. 3 billion dollars, and i didnt know in your mind how you can do a Needs Assessment with all the things that the tenderloin needs and you give them a dollar. You must be ashamed of yourselves. More after hearing the concerns of all the organizations that came here to give the tenderloin and the neighboring neighbors addons. Supervisors, you must have empathy and you must have compassion. If you go to the tenderloin, you see practically every nation on this earth represented. So why cant we set aside 500 million to improve the tenderloin . And we have an example of some people that are giving a dollar and they spend thousand dollars and most of it is coming from their own pockets. Think about it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other speaker in support . Hello. I have a studio in the tenderloin that i could comfortably afford, but i chose to live inside of my car outside the tenderloin instead. This was simply because of the ongoing level of drug activity and availability in the neighborhood. He is an addict, drug fleet drugfree and seriously dedicated to his own recovery. I noticed in my own neighborhood that basically just purchasing seven gallic 7 gallons of paint for 70 to base to paint a lamp post eight months ago, if you were to visit the neighborhood today, you would notice attractive new trash cans , water pipes being replaced , streets being resurfaced, at t replacing the aging overhead wiring and d. P. W. Has extended the Color Palette to the public are no longer limited to various shades of green. A long time ago, i prepared several miles along the highway abroad by moonlight, headlight and by hand held lantern. It was part of a social experiment for very practical reasons as well. It was to help facilitate Doctors Without Borders and activity in the area. I noticed that two months after the work was complete, the country announced and embarked on a nationwide nationwide highway repair and resurfacing project. As they say, and as we heard today, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. I am neutral on this. I think the neighbors can get a lot of work done without the homeowners being taxed heavily to support this. Any other speakers in support seeing none, then this will be closed, and now if you are in opposition and you would like to say something, please come on up i am opposed to reauthorizing the Business Improvement district for several reasons. Is that Public Policy first and foremost. We have four former members of the school board involved and it is all parallel with the discussion of Charter Schools and lodgers. Im sure there are plenty of examples of good Charter Schools around the country. Im sure there are multiple examples of good voucher programs around the country. The schools and vouchers have the intent of dismantling public education. This is a policy matter that dismantles public oversight of public lands. You are ceding control of the commons to Property Owners, of which hospitality house is one. That is intrinsically bad Public Policy, so im urging you to think carefully about this, and the issue of lowering the approval threshold while also extending the period it is antidemocratic and nothing else. So one possible remedy and i hesitate to mention remedy because it means i am agreeing with the premise, which i absolutely do not, but you could break up the extension period, the 15 year period into five year increments, force a public hearing every five years at a minimum to make sure there is continuing public support. You could expand the number of Community Seats on the c. B. D. , the b. I. D. , and make them not subject to internal approval. Now we could devise some other seating process for that. I would also say, and im just thinking about the longstanding argument the late jane jacobs had with robert moses in new york about this very thing, about what constitutes community , what constitutes local control. That is what we need to concern ourselves with today. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, kelly cutler with the coalition on homelessness. I am not even here for this item , but im surprised were talking about Business Improvement districts, and i feel like we need to do a lot more education on this. What is connected right now within the tenderloin, which is such an amazing community, and they know everyone else is jealous because the tenderloin is awesome. Right now we have the healthy treats Operation Center that is going through and doing massive sweeps and they are brutalizing our community and it is not okay they even hit out in front of Saint Boniface when there was a Community Agreement from 6 00 p. M. Until 6 00 a. M. Not to be doing the cruel and inhumane sweeps, yet they were doing it. It is out of control, absolutely out of control. So not only shouldnt you be giving more funding to it, but it is really bad, and we can provide more info about it but it is just really going in the wrong direction, but right now they are really targeting the tl , and the tl has a Great Community and it will not put up with it, it is just really bad. Next speaker. Hello. I live south of market. I was in opposition to the commission of the community district. I want to endorse all that joey kelly said. They go very well and they wont repeat it. They are both right and i just wanted to also that, well, i really encourage the members of the board to look at the opportunities for private profit , not necessarily on this Community Benefit district, but in the industry of creating Community Benefit districts, and that could really use some oversight. I have just done a little googling around, but it is relatively easy to find topics that could use a little oversight, and im not sure they are getting enough. That actually is the problem with having Community Benefit districts that are not fully subject to public oversight, you know, government really should not be privatized. Even if it does some really good stuff sometimes. Thank you. Wr duffy, i just dont think, i get very nervous when the tenderloin is this united, so i wanted to back joe wilson on the left, you know, if this c. B. D. Starts to work too well, then all these yellow journalism articles and occurred chronicle but have terrible the tenderloin is, then they will start realizing it is a beautiful place with all the service agencies, and also, one other point of opposition is the expansion of the c. B. D. I would like to see possibly it expanded a little bit further because the general organizing area of the north of market goes from pearl street to van ness, that corner and if we could get more into this c. B. D. , that is my opposition, and also, i dont think that sam dennison was cranky enough and i want to be crankier. [laughter] are you speaking . Yes. Good afternoon. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Are there any other speakers in opposition, please line up right now or otherwise she will be the last speaker. Thank you for your patience. Go on. Can i have one minute, please i know everybody talks about the tenderloin. I know the answer, the answer is [indiscernible] i guess she is done . Okay. Seeing no other speakers for this hearing, the hearing has been heard and is now filed. We will now adjourn from the committee as a whole and reconvene at the board of supervisors. Just to remind people, the department of elections will count the ballots cast and will return with the final tabulation later in the meeting and come back to the item. When that happens, we will come immediately back into item number 50. For now, i will ask that there are some speakers. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I did want to ask a question of chris porter, but i dont know, he just left. Okay. So he is okay. So there was a point that was brought up about the voting threshold and that they had been reduced. Can you clarify that in the amount of time that it would take and whether that had been a change . I think mr. Wilson had brought up the concern about the voter threshold. That is a great question. Sorry had to go close the election. The voter threshold worked for the state of california for the petitioning and it is 40 of the wait of the assessment of the total district. Her article 15 of the transportation code, using the city statuses a charter city, the state code was augmented by article 15 for San Franciscos purposes, since we have a lot of mixeduse neighborhoods and it lowered the threshold to 30 of the wait of assessments to authorizing election and also allowed c. B. D. To form initially for up to 15 years. But that has been in place in the case since 2005 . 2004. 2004. There isnt a special situation . No, they have the ability to go up to 15 years, but some choose to form for ten years or less. Great. Thank you. I just want to thank everybody who came out today. Everyone from the Tenderloin Community, it is extraordinary to see such diversity of our community and all of the leaders and organizations and different Business Owners and i just want to thank the staff and the board and everyone who is involved with this organization for what you have done to really bring this community together, to do it in an inclusive way, the corner captains, thank you so much for all that you do every day and i will probably see you tomorrow morning as i do every day and i hope that my colleagues will support this organization for all of the reasons that you heard today from the community. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Actually, mr. Quercus said a little bit of what i was going to say which i was the author of the enabling legislation in 2004 the state law was really created for cities that are not like San Francisco, they were created for places that that had solidly business districts, and we had, in those days, in 2004, one bit one Business Improvement district, and no Community Benefit districts because we dont look like other cities because we have housing up above , groundfloor retail, but when we constructed this, we constructed it in no way, and i say this to the chair of the government audit and oversight committee, and to every member of the board of supervisors, we constructed it in a way that the board of supervisors can disband any Community Benefit district, pretty much at its will, and we get an annual report, so to my friend, mr. Wilson, to kelly, to auto, i concur with my colleague from district six that it is extraordinary to see a Community Come together like this, and i also believe that this has not been, but could become a gentrifying force for a remarkable neighborhood, the tenderloin a national forest, a some people call it, and when that happens, and when simon is not doing right, you have an opportunity to petition with the body, which can disband that c. B. D. At any time. That has not happened yet. We have had a couple that died natural deaths, mostly because they were too small, but hopefully, this will be an agent for good that takes care of the people who need to taking care of and if that is not the case, i will be the first person to team up with supervisor haney to make sure that that is the case, and i just wanted to say that for the record. Okay. So now we will reconvene as the board of supervisors. Before we move on to the next thing, i would like supervisor brown . Would you like to make a motion to rescind number 41 so you may cast your vote . This like the third time we are voting on this. Is a motion to rescind item 41. Is there a second . Supervisor peskin. No objection, this is rescinded. Roll call again on item number 41. On item 41. [roll call] there are ten aye. Okay. Imacs. Okay. It passes. Okay. We will now continue with the remainder of the agenda. Madame clerk. Please call the 3 00 p. M. Special order for item 45 through 48. Fortyfive through 48, comprise a hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act issued as a categorical exemption by the Planning Department on april 19th, 2019 for the proposed project at sewall lot 330 which includes installation of the 200 Safe Navigation Center, removal of a proximally 155 surface parking spaces, installation of two portable structures and additional demands of the structures of approximately 6,000 square feet which includes community, dining and bathroom space, placed in 12 shipping containers onsite for client storage needs and an outdoor gathering space. Item 46 is the motion to affirm that the proposed project at sewall what 330 is categorically exempt from further review. Item 47 is a motion to conditionally reverse the departments determination, and item 40 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Okay. , colleagues, we have before us the determination of exemption from Environmental Review for the proposed project at lot 330. A Safe Navigation Center project for this hearing, we will be considering the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency, and completeness of the Planning Departments Environmental Review determinations for the project at sewall lot 330. There are two appellants for this hearing, but they have conveyed their desire to present through one representative while objection, we will proceed as follows. The appellants representative will have up to ten minutes for presentation, up to two minutes per speaker in support of the appeal, up to ten minutes for presentation from the Planning Department, up to ten minutes from the project sponsor, which will be represented by the department meant department of homelessness and supportive housing, then two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project. And finally, a total of four minutes for the appellant or appellants representative to provide a rebuttal. Colleagues, are there any objections to proceeding in this way . Seeing no objection, the public hearing is now open. Supervisor haney, would you like to make any remarks . I will say my remarks save my remarks and questions for after the presentation. I wont think the i want to thank the appellant, i want to thank all the departments were here. I had the opportunity to meet with the appellant and they want to advance thanks all the residents were here and participating in this, and i will look forward to hearing the presentations and asking my questions and making comments, and i also want to thank my colleagues for participating in this district six double feature here today. I appreciate you all being involved in taking these issues seriously. With that, you may begin. Thank you, supervisor haney. I will now ask the appellant or their representative to come forward and present their case. You have a total of ten minutes. You may start. Thank you thank you. I am the managing partner of the San Francisco law firm of a San Francisco law firm. Im here representing the nonprofit Community Organization safe emarketing for all. Save embarcadero for all. I would like to thank the board for hearing our appeal to support this decision here today i would like to be sure that i incorporate all of the comments that have been made to date on this matter, and those who will that will be made at this hearing in our appeal. I would also like to thank the other appellant for seating its time to me and to my client today. We recognize the seriousness of the homelessness problem in San Francisco, and the good faith of all of those who are looking for solutions, we strongly oppose the placement of the Navigation Center on the waterfront. It is the gateway to the city, its front yard. More than 10,000 people, many of them retirees and young families with children that live within three blocks of the proposed project. There are undeniable negative impacts of more homeless shelters on this neighborhood including public alcohol and drug consumption, police interventions, property crime, personal assaults, public urination and defecation and attracting additional homeless encampments. This neighborhood has given generously and supported homeless facilities in the neighborhood. We are proud to have and are proud to support the street foundation, which is considered the countrys leading residential selfhelp organization. We note that the president of delancey street has also voiced deep concerns over the mayors controversial Navigation Center here. We are concerned that the organizations attempts to get people off drugs and alcohol will be negatively impacted should this Navigation Center be built. Recently, through public records requests, save embarcadero for all has received undisclosed documents from the city that call into question the claims that the mayor and the city staff have been making to our organization, to our neighbors, to this board, board, and to the news media. Back in march, city officials were tripping over each other to tell us what an asset the Navigation Centers would be for the surrounding neighborhoods, but newly disclosed internal city emails show that the director was, at the very same time, in his own words, getting a great deal of complaints about tents cropping up around the Navigation Center and admitting that the city needs to do a better job of complying with our Good Neighbor policy. The city has not shown itself to be a Good Neighbor before. Why should you believe that it will be a Good Neighbor now with this new mega shelter, which the city has never tried before and now wants to experiment on the neighborhood . The city has also disclosed that it has received hundreds of Critical Incident reports in the last six months arising from the existing Navigation Centers. These reports report deaths, overdoses, and other daily calls for emergency services. At the bryant Navigation Center, 84 beds, 17 calls for police or paramedics in april alone. In the same month, the Division CircleNavigation Center, 126 beds, 23 calls. At these rates, the proposed 200 bed meghan Navigation Center can be expected to generate up to 40 calls a month, more than one a day. How would this affect traffic . How would it affect the already stretched First Responders in the neighborhood . How would it impact the children , the seniors, parents, residents in the neighborhood . This property is known to the city to be contaminated. This project will disturb that contamination, digging up parts of the site, putting people at risk by having them sleep on top of it. The city has recently performed soil testing but has not released the results of the proposed cleanup. Why not . If the city were pursuing any other Development Project on this property, it would be insisting that this property would be cleaned up before anything could be proceeding, but it is not. There are other Developers Interested in this property who put in documents in the record. The port is putting in a request for Proposal Development on this property. The citys proposal here puts off cleanup of this contaminated property and wants people to sleep on top of this contaminated site. Under the citys watch, under the citys responsibility. I want to focus on two additional points, both of which have to do with the public trust there is the law of the public trust. This isnt like an lot of other city properties. This used to be San Francisco bay. San francisco got this property in trust from the state in 1969, it is a very special piece of state property. Why are you putting this mega center here now and not somewhere else . The Public Trust Doctrine holds that certain important resources like the waterfront property are preserved in perpetuity for public use and enjoyment just as private trustees are judicially accountable to the beneficiaries so two so too is a city otranto San Francisco a trustee for the state to manage this public trust property. If you want to make a nonpublic trust use like this a public trust property, the burton act requires the safety to make a very specific findings, which has it has not made here, and more recent legislation, which the port of San Francisco drafted ads the additional condition that the state Land Commission was must also give its approval, what you havent gotten, unlikely cant get if we have to take this matter to court. We expect to win another how long it takes. There is another equally important issue of public trust to take care of. The public trust in the City Government of San Francisco. This public trust is based upon the belief that government and its representatives will follow the rules, comply with regulations, and be beholden to tham