First truly representative survey of Platform Work anywhere in the country. Were going to get some unique insights into the economic circumstances of people working on these platforms. Ill be getting into a little more detail in my executive officers report. I just want to thank rob hope and kaila at the San Francisco foundation, as well as the work force funders collaborative for their investment in our efforts to help improve the lives of ondemand workers. For early advice, when i was just starting the fundraising, i want to thank carmen rohas, and rudy gonzalez, and a big thank you to our survey team who have just been wonderful. Thank you, commissions. Chairwoman any comments or questions from mr. Global . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to comment. I see a thumbs up from mr. Brooks. Public comment is now closed. Id like to make a motion to move this with a positive recommendation. Second. Chairwoman seconded. Take that without objection. Thank you very much. Good work. And mr. Clerk, will you please call item number six. Item number six is the executive officers report. Chairwoman mar global, havmr. Global, you havea presentation for us . Yes. Thank you. I have a couple of items. I would like to give you an update on the budget and fundraising progress for our study of ondemand workers. The team is putting together a revised budget, and it is very possible that the budget is going to increase actually, were hoping it will increase and be somewhere in the neighborhood of 450,000. We have been planning and seeking funds for a budget of 300,000. Why the higher cost . It has to do with the options that theyre considering for the survey. The first option would be an online survey. And there are some pluses and minuses to it. It would cost less, but the downside is they really couldnt guarantee a representative survey. Even though it could potentially cover a larger amount of workers. The second option would be to hire survey administrators, and these would be students who would be paid 15 an hour to do inperson interviews by using the services of, say, the top 12 platforms. So, for example, they would order food on door dash, and when the food arrives, they would invite the worker to complete the survey. And the worker would get paid for their time. So the cost of this option would increase because were paying students, were paying workers, were paying for the services. And they would interview thousands of workers. The exciting thing about this option is that even though it is more expensive, it would be a representative sample. And as i mentioned earlier, based on the review of the academic literature, it would be the first truly representative survey of Platform Work anywhere in the country. So the team is going to do some pretesting, try it out, and were hoping it is a strategy that will prove affective. If it doesnt, well revert to the online survey. I am fundraising for a budget of 450,000. Im confident that we will raise the funds. As you know, somewhere e a great relationship with the San Francisco foundation. And generally speaking, the steady is garnering a lot of interest. This week i received two media inquiries, including one from a National Online publication. So ill keep you posted on that and provide an update what i think will be a significant update at the next meeting on september 20th. Im happy to answer any questions about this, if you have them. Chairwoman great. The other item that i have for you today is and update on our r. R. F. Q. This would allow lavco to add some expertise to staff for the local buildout of energy projects. Completing this has taken a little longer than i expected, but i am in conversation with s. F. P. s staff, with the advocates, and i hope we can come to an agreement on the exact language and scope of the work, and i expect to have the r. F. Q. Posted in the next few weeks. Chairwoman any comments or questions from leagues. I do. Chairwoman commissioner singh. I just have a question this might be putting the cart and horse in the wrong order, but in terms who actually in terms of who actually makes the final decision between how you envision that going down between, like, lavco and p. U. C. And the advocates in terms of where the buck stops, how are you going to get to that decision, collectively . Right. Im working with the chairs office to convene a meeting of p. U. C. And the advocates, to where im hoping there is some disagreement, and im hoping we can reach a compromise. And i will be reaching out to all of you for your input. The r. F. Q. Correct me if im wrong, but i believe the language does not come back to lavco for approval. Is that right . In general, the commission does not approve r. F. Q. S, but any final contract would come before you before approval. Chairwoman thank you very much. Any other comments . Any Public Comment . Good afternoon again, commissioners. Eric brooks, San Francisco clean energy advocates, and californi californians for energy choice. This second item is really crucial for all of the reasons that i previously stated on the previous item. Especially now that we see there is a disagreement with what the s. F. P. U. C. Wants, and what advocates like myself and jed and others are looking for that is much more aggressive. And that brings me to repeat the same thing i said about this r. F. Q. Previously, which is that the person we hire for this task needs to have as their number one job putting together the r. F. P. To hire a contractor to do a citywide local buildout plan, that will build regional and Renewable Energy and battery, so that were energyindependent 10 years from now with 100 clean flearg. Anenergy. And we need to follow t with transportation as quickly at possible. Just to drive home part of the reason, i talked about hydro. If you remove hydro to what was presented to us bibby the s. F. P. U. C. That brings out down to delivering 50 renewables by 2030, that is half of what we need. This clearly needs to be a process that is driven by the public, by the elected body, the board of supervisors, and by the agency that has done the most over the last 15 years to make sure the board of supervisors has the information and the tools that it needs, and thats the local Agency Formation commission. This commission has driven the whole process. This is the commission that will get us to 100 particulars local clean energy in 10 years. Chairwoman thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, jed holtzman, 350 bay area. I wanted to provide a little bit of, i guess, context for folks who maybe werent dealing with this over the last several years. When we talk about you know this is the first time hearing that there is a disagreement. I can only imagine what it may relate to. I would just like to say that the last time the s. F. P. U. C. Was doing their intergrated Resource Planning process, which only happens every two years, and the last time they were involved in Capital Planning, they also told us we needed to delay our discussion of local integrative buildout that wed been talking about before i got involved in 2013, until that was done. Those were done. It didnt happen. And were now on the next cycle of those. And i can only imagine that were going to hear folks wanting to wait for the first s. F. P. U. C. Plan, and for them to put out their getting to 2030 i. R. P. , before we start looking at what we might like to do. You know, if we take over pg es infrastructure, clean power s. F. Wont even exist. So all of the stuff theyre doing will be for naught. We as the city, including s. F. P. U. C. , but external of silos, like clean power s. F. , we need to be looking at what we want to get to. [buzzer] and how all of the cylinders of the city can work to get there. That will be the same whether it is clean power s. F. , whether it is public power. I think it is time to break out from letting one part of the City Government to sit on this issue, which has been happening for six, seven, eight years. We need to have this happen at the 30,000foot view. Im hoping that the [buzzer] chairwoman thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, the Public Comment is now closed. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number seven. Item seven is Public Comment. Chairwoman any members of the public like to make comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Mr. Clerk, item number eight. Item eight is future agenda items . Chairwoman any future items to note . Mr. Global. I want to bring it to everyones attention that i am expecting a fairly long agenda at our next meeting on september 20th. Were going to have several presentations, including some of the work that lavcos interns have been doing around programs for communities of concern with clean power s. F. , and also some of the local buildout projects that have been previously considered, and well be bringing a presentation to you on that for background. Chairwoman colleagues, please note on your agendas that that meeting will take at least three hours, and to allot that amount of time so we can give our full attention to all of the work the interns have been doing. Any other items on a future agenda. Seeing none . How about Public Comment on this. The september meeting sounds like my kind of meeting. Eric brooks with all of the groups i mentioned before. Now i want to talk about you may need to call a special meeting in august. And that will be around legislation. As you heard, ab1054 passed, along with a companion bill, ab111. You should take a look at both bills. Ab1054 does not just outrageously block public power. What it does is even when the monopoly utility like pg e, even when its equipment is at fault for starting a fire, it guarantees that there will be a 21billion fund that ratepayers will pay half of to pay for fires. Thats not the way it used to be. The way it used to be, whenever it was pg es fault or their equipment, pg e paid, and had to work really hard to get any rate increases to pay for part of that. Thats not even the worst part. Once that 21 billion fund is exhausted, and we spent in the last two years 30 billion on the current wildfires that just happened in two years. If we go above the 21 billion, 1054 allows the monopoly utilities to do their own private bonds and link those to ratepayer increases to pay any further wildfire costs. [buzzer] so consumers, costumers, ratepayers will end up paying more than 50 of costs they are not responsible for. The reason that matters to our local buildout is that the more and to other Community Choice programs starting up the more ratepayer have to pay, the less theyre willing to do clean power s. F. [buzzer] chairwoman any other Public Comment. Any other items before us . Madam chair, there is no further business. Chairman thank you very much. This meeting is adjourned. The hon. London breed almost. Good morning, everyone. Im london breed, mayor of San Francisco, and im so excited to be here today with so many amazing people to talk about something thats so important. Just this past week, we had a big event celebrating a 600 million Affordable Housing bond that will go on the ballot this november. [applause] the hon. London breed and i want to thank the board of supervisors for passing that unanimously, and i want to say that theres something in there for everyone, for our lowincome families and seniors, to our middleincome residents, to our teachers. We know that Housing Affordability is critical to the success of our city, and im grateful to the board of supervisors for passing that ballot measure, and i am hopeful with fingers crossed that the voters will support that, and we are putting forward that housing bond without raising property taxes again, so i just want to say that over and over and over again. [applause] the hon. London breed so today, we have another opportunity. Today, we are signing the legislation to put a 628 million bond on the ballot to help with our emergency facilities all over San Francisco, and we are also doing that without raising property taxes. [applause] the hon. London breed the goal is to put this on the march ballot, and so were going to have to work hard to get voters to approve this one, as well. I just want to start by that i thinking naomi kelly, and the work of the Capital Planning committee. Because of the work of the Capital Planning committee over the years, weve been able to have a very wellthoughtout plan for investing dollars in facilities that the city owns, especially our Public Safety facilities. And in 2010 and in 2014, voters passed these bonds without raising property taxes but with almost 80 of the vote to support rehabilitating facilities all over San Francisco. And just this year, i was really excited about cutting the ribbon on station 5, which is my home station, where i used to get my toys as a firefighter. Our firefighters and our police officers, fixing our buildings and making sure that they can sustain an earthquake is so critical to protecting the lives of our citizens. In fact we are all reminded from last week, the major earthquake that happened in Southern California and the devastating impact it had on that community, we are reminded that we have to be prepared. Its not about if, its about when a disaster strikes. So what are we going to do to make sure that our Public Safety personnel can focus on the work that they need to do to save lives and not necessarily the challenge that exist with the buildings that house them and what could happen to people that we need to shelter in a disaster. Kezar pavilion is not seismically safe. It is one of the facilities that could qualify for additional revenues so that if necessary, we can use that as a shelter facility in case a disaster hits. We have to be thinking ahead in not only repairing the buildings that we know need to be repaired, like park station, which is currently undergoing some renovations like police and fire stations and Public Safety buildings, and 911 buildings where we send our dispatchers, all of these places matter, so when a disaster hits, their only focus is on saving lives of the citizens of San Francisco and not worrying about the condition of their buildings and whether or not theyre in a bad place themselves. So today, we are announcing a 628 million Public Safety beyond for earthquake safety and Emergency Response for the march ballot, as i said. And i am just so excited and so proud of the work that we did collaborating with the board, collaborating with the Capital Planning committee to do this in such an incredibly responsible way. And i just want to thank all of you for being here, joining us, because this is exciting for the future of San Francisco. We know that there are challenges in our city, and we have to make the right kind of investments, not only the issues that we face today but for the issues well face tomorrow. This is just taking one step further to doing just that, and so im really excited to be here with so many incredible people, including the supervisor who represents district 5 [applause] the hon. London breed many of you all know vallie brown. Shes been a Community Advocate in this district for so many years. Not only does she spend time cleaning it up, i mean, personally, literally in the morning, picking up track with her own picker, but she also spends a lot of time fighting for resources in this community. Whether its our Public Safety locations or our community locations, shes been a real advocate, and some of you know the work that was done here, also, the track that was repurposed. And commissioner buell, what was the location over here by the triangle . What is that called . Yeah, with public and private dollars, were transforming this area. And when i served as supervisor, the person who was really actively engaged in working with the community and helping to bring together public and private resources to get these projects done for this community was no other than your current supervisor for district 5, vallie brown. [applause] supervisor brown thank you, mayor breed. Im really happy to be standing here today and to be talking about this. Just a few months ago, we were at fire station 5, brandnew opened. Not only is it absolutely stateoftheart and beautiful, but it is going to be a hub if anything happens in this city. And when i think about we have so many other stations and buildings that we need to have this kind of bond money to be able to fix them up so if we do have earthquakes, if we have things that happen in this city, that were prepared. When we look at i know that mayor breed was talking about kezar and other places, but when we have a major earthquake, and if we think about the earthquake that just happened in Southern California, and how strong it was, but it was in the desert. But think about what if it was here, and what it could have done to our city. I think about that every day, and what i would do if my place was flattened in the city. I probably would be camping in the park unless i had someplace to go that was safe, right . I would. I know the notent rule, but i think they have a cot there for me. I asked them, can you put a cot . So i just feel that its so important that not only is this city ready for anything that could happen, unfortunately and we know it will someday, but we have to be ready individually. We have a responsibility. I actually just went to a fire in my district a few weeks ago. Everybody ran out of the building. There were, like, 12 people. The things they forgot when they ran out they forgot their i. D. , they forgot their medicine, all of those things, and it keeps going into my mind, am i ready . Am i ready for an earthquake . Am i ready for a fire or anything any other kind of emergency . So i went home, and i remembered an emergency kit that i had put together probably 12, 15 years ago, when i did nert, and nert was first starting. My water was expired, the batteries expired, the food expired. Im like, im not ready, and i didnt have the emergency little pack that youre supposed to have by your door to grab and run if something happens. I wasnt ready, and i think about that because i think about what about my neighbor thats elderly, and she has a hard time getting down the stairs . We should be going out, talking to our neighbors. We should be going out, training with nert. Please sign up. If youre not a member, its kind of fun. We need to start thinking about our neighbors and what we can do individually. Are you signed up for the alert, emergency alert, everyone on your phone . Your neighbor . This is the kind of thing that we need to do because it really takes us as an individual and our neighbors to really protect each other if this happens. And believe me if we have an earthquake, im heading down to cafe revelry, and if his coffee machine is working because these are the places were going to have to go to see, are they left behind . Do they need help . I say that because i appreciate all the work in this city that everyone does. Our police chief, fire chief, naomi kelly, and especially our mayor to say we need to look at this, we need to do this now, and being so creative for doing this. I want to thank everyone for coming to district 5. Its nice and foggy here, but cool you down a little bit before you go back to your job. So thank you, everyone. And the next speaker are you going to bring him up . All right. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, supervisor brown. And just a reminder, anyone can go to sf72. Org if you want to get prepared for any emergency situation in San Francisco. A lot of great information from emergency management. Sf72. Org. Now i want to introduce someone whos ae be whos been a 25year veteran of the San FranciscoFire Department and has a very thorough knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations and is why she is currently serving as the chief of the department. Please welcome jeanine nicholson. Good morning, everyone. I love our San Francisco summer weather. Speaking of nert, as supervisor brown just mentioned, i want to recognize, we do have some nert volunteers right here, and nert is going to be critical in the event [applaus [applause] in the event in the event of a disaster. We know its not if, its when. I want to recognize mohamed nuru. Hes been a great ally for us and working with us. In the event of a disaster, our Fire Department needs to respond immediately. Our firefighters and e. M. S. Workers work 247, 365, and we need to be able to respond immediately. And this bill will provide the funding that we need to invest in our Public Safety infrastructure so we can continue to bring the city and the citizens the best service that we possibly can, but especially during a disaster. So thank you all for being here today. Good day. [applause] the hon. London breed all right. Our last speaker for this program before we finally sign this legislation is the chief of the police department, bill scott. [applaus [applause] thank you, mayor. Ill be brief. I just want to reiterate what the mayor said. We have 13 San FranciscoPolice Departments and 14 other buildings. Many of our stations are over 25 years old. These stations, from the day that the doors open, they are open 247. They have always been in use, and many of them are in need of seismic improvements, significant seismic improvements. And we dont want in the time of an emergency, we dont want to have to worry about whether or not the station is going to be standing, even though we plan for that if it happens. Thats the last thing we want to worry about, so i, too, want to thank you all for being here. The vision of the mayor, city administrator kelly, and the vision of our city for looking forward so our city has the proper infrastructure to respond properly, so thank you for the leadership, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you. And again, i want to thank all of you for being here. Again, this is only the beginning. The real work beginning when we have to begins when we have to campaign to get this ballot measure passed. We have been successful in 2010 and 2014 in getting almost 80 of the support of the voters for a previous eser bond, and i want to make sure that we top that, so im going to need your help. Its incredibly important that we shrine a light on the measure that will be going on the march 2020 ballot for voters to support. I appreciate you all being here, and also dont forget to vote for the housing bond on the ballot this november. All right. Lets get this signed. [applause] the hon. London breed 7, 11, 19, done. [applause] hi. I am cory with San Francisco and were doing stay safe and were going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. Were here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and joined by carla, the Deputy Director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why its important to San Francisco. As you know the bay area as 63 chance of having a major earthquake and its serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in San Francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us . Part of what it means is that potentially 25 of San Franciscos building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people cant stay in their homes after an earthquake. They may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we dont want that to happen. We want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. Thats right so that means the Housing Needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former Building Official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it wont kill you but doesnt necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house were in now and this shows what its like to be in a place safe enough to stay. Its not going to be perfect. There maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. Whats it going to take to get the Housing Stock up to this standard . We spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are very vulnerable buildings. Very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. And time to. Retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. What do they need . Do they need information . Do they need incentives . Mandates . Thats a good question. I think it starts with information. People think that New Buildings are earthquake proof and dont understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake . Is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured . So developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in San Francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. We want the system and not just mandate everybody. Thats right. I hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. As youre fixing your knowledge youre adding to the city wide resiliency. What does that mean . Thats a great question. What spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining we are so excited i am cheryl lynn adams, director of Market StreetYouth Services, and we work with young people to 24 who need laundry or place to hangout or come in from outside to get the tools they need to begin to resolve their homelessness. We have lots of programs and lots of educational and Behavioral Health supports that are here throughout the city. We are excited to be here with our partners to launch or to be a small part of the effort to address child trafficking. Larkin street started years ago with huckleberry to fight youth trafficking. We know without intervention on the streets, children are at high risk for trafficking if we dont get to them soon. I think the most wonderful thing about this partnership is the prevention and the Early Intervention and the collaboration and us bringing together so many partners to work on this issue in a very profound way. Were excited to be here and excited to be a small part of it. And i am always honored and delighted to get to introduce our our mayor. Mayor breed has been in office for just about a year now, right tomorrow . Wow. [applause] she has been an active supporter of homelessness, of youth homelessness, of diamond youth shelter, which is one of the our part in this project, and so much more in the city to support young people to help all to help so many of us so many residents in San Francisco thrive, and i am deeply honored to introduce you this morning, so welcome. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you. I am excited to be here. Thank you, cheryl lynn, and thank you to larkin street for all the work that you continue to do to support young people in San Francisco and huckaberry, im excited to have this organization as well as other organizations for partnering what we are announcing today, which is a 9. 3 million grant from the department of social services for the state of california, which is absolutely incredible. [applause] the hon. London breed this was a very competitive grant, and it was awarded to ten partnering organizations who helped to deal with the challenges that we know sadly so many of our young people face around Sexual Exploitation. In fact, in 2017 in San Francisco, we had over 300 reported cases from young people of Sexual Exploitation. And in most cases, they were women of color and women from our lgbtq community. We know that just last year, cheryl lynn and the folks from larkin street, we announced the rising up campaign where we are determined and committed to End Youth Homelessness in San Francisco, investing millions of dollars in providing the kinds of support and Wraparound Services that young people in order to get their lives on track. We know that all young people may not have that safety net, may not have that support. I did not have that support in my family. In fact, i was so lucky that i had a grandmother that took in my brothers and me and raised us. My grandmother was very strict, very focused, she determined to make sure she did everything she could to protect us. When young people dont have that safety net, when they dont have that support, when they dont have that protection, sadly, thats when they turn to predators and do things that they never thought theyd do. And this 9. 3 million grant allows us to provide services and housing, and to track and find out what we can do better to keep this from happening in the first place. So im excite todd to see how is going to change the lives of so money youany young people i city. We are well on our way to addressing so many challenges that we know we face one at a time. It takes dedicated partners, it takes dedicated public servants, it takes dedicated people from the Public Community who care about addressing these issues, and so i want to thank each and every one of you for being here today. This is an amazing, amazing grant, and i am looking forward to the implementation and changes that i know are going to come forward as a result of this funding. Thank you so much. [applause] the hon. London breed and with that, id like to introduce the director for the commission on the status of women, emily murase. [applaus [applause] commissioner murase thank you so much, mayor. I wanted to recognize the mayor for empowerment of youth and her focused commitment to housing individuals who are homeless. As you know, commercially sexually exploited children are mostly homeless. Its really one of the root causes of this problem, and now, its my great pleasure to introduce the executive director and founder of freedom forward, alia Whitney Johnson and doug styles, my second grade classmate and director of Huckleberry Youth Program. Please give them a warm welcome. [applause] good morning. Thank you, cheryl lynn for hosting us this morning, and thank you, mayor breed and commissioner murase for the work that you do on behalf of young people in our community. I realize that commercial Sexual Exploitation is a story of failures. Times that we have failed to meet young peoples needs, and these young people have taken their needs into their own hands. Times to fail to respond with compassion when they needed us has added to their story. But within this story is a story of incredible youth brilliances, a story of navigating the system, a hustle that is purposely resourceful, resilient. Knowledge that is absolutely critical if we want to build a vibrant, Healthy System that works for all. These are the voices that we are centering in this continuum. They deserve choices, and they deserve a system that works for them and a voice in what that system should be. By ensuring young people are a part of our design process, and that we build in feedback loops to honor their input, we believe we will build a more effective system of care for all. So what is this collaborative that were building and here today to announce . Through this grant, were bringing together 11 Community Partners to develop a continuum of services that we hope will meet youth where they are, recognizing that meaningful change is rarely linear and needs to meet youth when they are ready. This continuum includes five major components as well as a protocol for navigating those components and a rigorous evaluation. We hope to openly share our successes learned, and if effective, to replicate what works across the state. The five components of this continuum include first, a Dropin Center where youth will be able to Access Services under one roof whether or not they identify as being exploited or currently being housed in the continuum. Second, a launch pad shelter for youth transitioning from life on the streets or unsafe living situations. Third, a shortterm residential treatment program. Fourth, a new model of familybased foster care right here in their community with wraparound support. And finally, 247 response and emergency services. Family first will be leading the foster and family services. We a our role will be to facilitate and coordinate services from across our community, bringing the best our community has to offer, remaining accountable to what youth want. In early 2020, we also aim to launch our familybased foster care pilot. As many of you in this room now, problems in foster care often lead teams to being moved around teens to being moved around, isolated, surrounded by only professionals, far from loved ones and the people who they care most about. All of this instability and lock of connection makes an environment thats ripe for exploitation. We plan to pilot a new model of foster care that will provide Stable Family homes right here in their community and will wrap youth and families with both the professional support that they need as well as a real emphasis on the relationship with family and friends that youth want in their lives. This pilot will engage a great team of providers in what they do best, including family builders, west coast childrens clinic, Huckleberry Youth Programs, and this pilot will also include additional caregivers, who provide what grandmas do, like what mayor breed talked about, so often, aunties and grandmas show up to support our youth. As i step back and think about building a community where every young person can experience all that it means to be free, i want to end today with a quote from a young person who grew up right here in San Francisco and was interviewed by our friends at the elements freedom center. She said, freedom is when we reach back and pull the next sibling with us because we see your brilliance, and we know that you will shine when surrounded by real love. Let us pull each other with us, and let us all move forward with love as we move forward. Thank you very much, and it is my pleasure to introduce doug styles, the executive director of Huckleberry Youth Program [applause] thank you, alia. Thank you, mayor breed. Thank you, my classmate, emily. Thank you to larkin for hosting this fabulous event. Its an Incredible Group of people for this collaboration thats been brought together. What we need to start with is that trafficking, Sexual Exploitation happens here in San Francisco. These are our children. It is a systems issue, not an individual issue. No one chooses to be exploited. Trafficking and exploitation inhibit the entire community from thriving. Thats why weve all come together to change the trajectory of lives of young people affected by trafficking and exploitation and to prevent others from becoming more deeply involved. In 1967, Huckleberry Youth Programs established the first youth shelter for run aways in the country, addressing reasons why people found themselves on the streets of San Francisco. Unfortunately, our 52 years of experience, we have seen too many young people commercially sexually exploited and too many young people at risk of human trafficking. But every day, we also experience the resiliency of young people. This project is an attempt to bring together various experts from various fields to provide the needed supports for young people to heal and to provide the chance and the necessary tools to reduce the risk of further exploitation. As one of the partners in this project, Huckleberry Youth Programs will provide case manager and Mental Health support to divert young people to a safe and healthier life. Our experience, working with adolescents in challenging situations, whether its Mental Health counseling, Juvenile Court diversion, we know that young people thrive when they direct their own future. Our process is to listen to each youth, hear their hopes and dreams, regardless of their current situation, to traem thtraem treat them as human beings and become a catalyst for changes. Huckleberry Youth Services will be part of the crisis team to provide services to young people when are they need it the most. Well be able to work with young people to maintain their current living situation, and for those with less permanent housing, a placement coordinator will help determine a safe Living Environment for their future. We will provide Residential Counseling staff. Finally, if Emergency Shelter is needed, huckleberry house will provide temporary safe home environment. As a native san franciscan myself, raising my daughters in this city, i am very proud to see this collaboration come together and very excited to work with this Incredible Group of people. I look forward to a future where we no longer need these services or these programs. When all of our children are safe, healthy, treated justly, and are well educated. But we have a lot of work to get there. By working together with the support from the California Department of social services, i believe we can build a stronger community. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, doug and alia. In closing, i want to introduce the San Francisco continuum team, the department of the status of women, just give a wave. Huckleberry, youth and family services, family builders, west coast childrens clinic, Edgewood Center for children and families, claires house, learning for action, berkeley human rights center, and of course larkin street Youth Services. [applause] finally, i want to give a shoutout to the Mayors Office of human tracking. Through these bodies, San Francisco has odd voe indicated for critical services. Through this grant, were going to be tackling Homeless Service and housing options. I want to thank the housing Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Committee for putting this all together. Thank you for joining us. [applause] my s. F. Dove government t. V. Moment was when i received a Commendation Award from supervisor chris daly. Then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing] happy anniversary San Francisco government t. V. Happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary San Francisco government t. V. Anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [ ]