Will submit the d. G. O. Change form that will lay out the actual changes to the d. G. O. Specifically. And then that bulletin is valid for two years, and then the d. G. O. Has to be reopened i imagine the commission would want to adjust at that time. Otherwise, just a reminder this is the document in front of you. It first came to the commission january 2018, approved in february of 2018 and then we revisited it in january 2019. Talking about adding m. O. U. s to the scope, we made a small additional change related to this matrix and the written directors annual work plan. Written directors will develop an annual plan. We have this fiveyear plan, as you see it tonight. The annual plan will solidify each year, which d. G. O. Needs to come up we have to adjust the fiveyear plan according to d. G. O. s, or bulletins that are about to expire. Such that we have to change a d. G. O. So we will have to address that in the annual work plan as well. The idea being the Commission President would approve that plan, and then we will make the current fiveyear plan available , its available tonight, as you know. In addition to that, the annual work plan would be posted to our website. The final series of changes related to the m. O. U. s that Impact Department general orders you have existing agreements, as referenced, to the type of m. O. U. That would come in front of this body. With that, i dont have any further comments, or information for you. If you all have questions, im happy to try to answer them. The chief and i will address them as you have them. I have just one comment, and that has to do with the m. O. U. s there is language here that says an m. O. U. Which modifies a general order, et cetera. A m. O. U. Cannot really modify a general order. A m. O. U. Has to be consistent with a general order. I think that word may not be the best word. We need to come up with something where it touches upon, affects, whatever the word is, the department cannot modified a general order with an mou. That was also a point that i was going to focus on, the m. O. U. What i remember working with the department of justice when i go back to the bulletins for a moment, there were a lot of bulletins that had changed their general orders, even though there was a requirement that they had to come theres a timeframe. When i look at the m. O. U. , that was one question i had. The second question i had, there should be a timeframe when they have to bring in front of this commission. It just says it will be submitted for approval, doesnt say when, within 15 days, 30 days . It should have a timeframe. And i was wondering why it had all of these old memorandums here. Thank you for explaining that. I was concerned, when you mentioned i know there has been discussion that potentially makes the backup. That is certainly one that i think should come for approval with this commission. In terms of timeframe, that may not be a bad idea. The m. O. U. Cannot go into effect until it is approved here. If the Department Takes two years, that is not our problem, that is the departments problem. I mean, that is one way of interpreting it. They cannot sign it without our approval . You can sign it, but you cant enforce it. It cannot be enforced until it is approved here, if it affects policy. I just want to be clear, that somehow is that your understanding, chief . That is. Hopefully that is clear. Those m. O. U. s that fall under the commission, i cannot sign them until the commission approves. They cannot be executed until the commission approves. It is subject to interpretation, but thats okay. I would like tighter language in their. I dont want some other chief saying that i did not have to come before i signed it. The problem with the time limit though, if the time limit lapses, do they start over . Its creating an unnecessary bureaucratic problem, i think. Before effective, we could say. Guess my issue, to i am sorry, you dont . Yes, i am done. The wording in terms of who can agendized and item, we can request that an item be agendized. The way that it reads, i understood it to be that only the president can place it on the agenda, when all of us have the ability to request that something is agendized. I think the wording is a little i dont think this is intended to change any policy we currently have in place. Members request agenda items, they go on as i am able to put them on. This is no different. If you can come up with better wording, we can suggest it. I would like a better word than modified, may impact. Can we agree on impact . Yes. You already covered it, commissioner. Okay. If the commission wishes, in terms of clarifying the language that these m. O. U. s that are subject to Commission Approval have to be approved before signed by the chief. All right, thank you. We will make a clarification that m. O. U. s that impact the general order, have to be approved by the commission before signed by the chief of police. How about if we change the language about putting it on the agenda, submitted by the chief of police to the Commission President , i am sorry, submitted to the Commission President to be placed on the agenda for full Commission Approval, in accordance with commission policy. We would get rid of the chief of police. The chief is entitled to submit. Yeah, but to be what . To be placed on agenda for full Commission Approval in accordance with commission policy. I agree, the wording is confusing here. The way it reads now it is only submitted by the chief. Either we can request it be agendized, the chief can request it be agendized, you determine what is scheduled. At the way it reads now it seems we would go through the chief. Right. We can say request a member of the police commission, or the chief of police, m. O. U. Not coverage shall be submitted to the Commission President. Sounds good. If i may, the intent there was to make sure that the m. O. U. s go through the chief of police desk before submitting to the commission. It wasnt meant to circumvent the commission to direct that, it was meant to make sure that it goes to the chief of police before submission to the commission. That was unclear. [laughter] it says to president to determine if the item will be placed on the agenda. We are going to strike that. [inaudible] after review by put chief of police. M. O. U. Not covered by general order shall be submitted to the Commission President to be placed on the agenda pursuant to commission policy. Does that work for you . That sounds clear for me. Is that brilliant . Can you repeat that slowly . Hold on. After review, or upon review, by the chief of police and at the request of the member of a police commission, an m. O. U. Not covered by general order, or city charter, shall be submitted to the Commission President to be placed on the agenda pursuant to the commission policy. Or upon request. Upon review by the chief of police, or. You to be able to see it first. See what you missed . Got it . Got it. Does that work for you, chief yes, thank you. Okay. Any other issue by the commission . Let me ask for Public Comment on this item, before we vote on it. Any Public Comment on 3. 01 . I make a motion to adopt a new language . Is there a second . So moved. All right. I disabled my fearsome device my name is john jones, may my comments please the Commission Just weekly. Briefly. It was my impression, from the getgo, way back when, the department of justice of in the affairs of this Police Department was a my review of the department of justice report when it came out, indicated to me that there was little, or nothing, in that report that could not have been worked out among people of goodwill that were working lunch at tommys joint, and memorialized on the back of an envelope. I know you have to put up with it, and you have my sympathies. Thank you. While you may be right, the fact is i was not done until they came in. Okay. Can we have a vote . I think we need a roll call vote all in favor . Any opposition . It carries. Thank you. Cal doj and heinz will be very happy. Next item, please. Line item six, presentation regarding healthy streets Operations Center, hsoc, discussion. Good evening. I am commander david lazar of the Community Engagement division. Tonight, i am pleased to be joined by many of our partners and city on the healthy streets Operations Center. I know we have been here before and talked about the collaborative work we are doing. Tonight, we have a presentation to make and i think the Homeless Coalition is also going to make their presentation and give you a full picture. I am joined by cary abbott from the department of homeless assistant housing. Mary Allen Carroll from the department of Emergency Management. Sam peoples and larry stringer from the department of public works. Laura marshall from the Controllers Office, and emily from the Mayors Office. Our first presenter will be from Carrie Abbott from the department of homeless supported housing. Thank you. Carrie is on her way in, but i would jump in and her place until can you please identify yourself . I am emily cohen, with the Mayors Office. Thank you for having us here today to discuss hsoc. I want to start with an overview of the challenges that we are facing, in our communities. This is not a secret to anyone. I think we all understand we face a crisis of homelessness. Our most recent. In time identified over 8,000 people in our community expensing homelessness, about 5,000 of whom who living unsheltered. About 3,000 staying in shelters or other residential programs. What folks dont always see every night is the successes that we have. Last year we exited over 2,000 people from homelessness, and to housing. A very successful year. 2018 was the year we had the most exits out of homelessness of any year in the recent past. It was good in that way. The Outreach Team serves over 400 people each month. We provide housing and shelter up to 12,000 people every night. 12,000 people who fought for the services, provided by the city, unfortunately were not have a roof another good success. Four the department, of homelessness support housing in the city as a whole is we have the most permanent Supportive Housing per capita of any city in the united gates. Im going to turn it over to carry, who is going to continue. Sorry, how to run to the bathroom. [laughter] thank you for listening tonight. We serve over 1400 people each month and those are unduplicated contacts. They provide about 1200 actual engagements on the streets every month. We provide housing for 12,000 individuals each day, and about 8,000 of those arent supported housing, and the remainder and shelters on traditional housing. We have tremendous info. In flow. That is the explanation for the ongoing increases in the homeless population. Good evening, commissioners. My name is mary ellen carol, the executive director of the department of Emergency Management. I am here talking to you, because a of Emergency Management physically host the Operations Center, healthy streets Operations Center at our emergency Operations Center, we also provide Coordination Management to the overall operations. We have been doing this since january 2018, and currently hsoc is operational. Our. [roll call] on the city is to manage unusual events and crises. This, as we all know, is one and this is why we were asked to come in. With any operation that we are involved and we want to have clear objectives, and a clearer direction in which we are moving forward. The core values are an important one with an hsoc. I want to move these quickly and we will move on. The core values we follow at hsoc. Lead with the services, compassion and respect. Empathize with the whole community. Develop systems and services that meet individuals where they are. Believe that every san franciscan, house or on housed should have a safe and clean environment. What is hsoc exactly . It has representatives from key departments, if a few from tonight. We all Work Together at our facility. Hsoc as an operation direct plans, coordinates responses to unsheltered homelessness and behaviors that affect quality of life on the streets. Providing the infrastructure for this coordination, and to coordinate the increased investment in addressing these issues. This is just theres about 14 key folks that are involved in hsoc, on a daily basis. I will not go through all of them, but you can see, they are represented here. And then, i just wanted to this is a work chart, anyone familiar with how we respond, how we manage events, or incidents, this is familiar type of work chart that you might see. I want to point out a few things. First we have a policy group which is made up of Department Heads that are representatives of all of those groups. That the policy group meets every other week. They direct the overall direction. On a daytoday basis we follow we use coordinated, unified command. Basically there is no one department that is lead for hsoc. But the 4 primary department set on site every day participating, in our planning an operation meetings, making decisions on an operational level are the department of public health, department of homelessness, and housing, the Police Department my staff provides the overall management for the operation and coordination. We do have, as far as information we coordinate our public information, we do not have a dedicated pil we use the Mayors Office and the department pil, and you can see under operations, all of the key departments that are involved in operations and planning, department of Emergency Management provides logistical support, and we have the Controllers Office who you will hear from more as a key partner for us. This is my final slide, these are the goals, and with any incident, or project it is important to stay connected to those goals. It is connecting individuals to care, planning, to address encampments. Responding to requests for service from the community, and coordinating acts across the departments to increase effectiveness. Thank you so much for having us tonight. Thank you. I think it will get a chance to respond for a request from service from the community tonight. Good evening. I will talk about the Police Departments response, and we will go on with a presentation. I want to echo what director carol has said about who is in charge on the way to structure. You will see another presentation that talks about how it states commander lazar, hsoc. Really we try to fill in in the beginning months of some sort of structure and internally at the department of Emergency Management, we were figuring out who would have various responsibilities. As the months went by as director carol has stated, we have evolved into a unified command. It should not be the Police Department in charge. It should be the Police Department with public health, public works and the department of homelessness that has the collaboration and various roles. I just want to clarify that. Based on the presentation you may see later. Essentially how it all works, is we coordinate the call intake that comes in, a couple hundred 311 calls come in every day from the public regarding homeless encampments and individuals that are in need. We coordinate that. There is a photo on the screen inside of the healthy streets Operations Center and what it looks like. We did not coordinate dispatch. We are excited for the first time, we have a police dispatcher, a public works dispatcher and a public Outreach Team dispatcher sitting in the same area collaborating, which is a first for our city. We have our daily planning and response, 9 30 a. M. Meeting on a 2 30 p. M. Meeting on mondays from one hike at 3 00 p. M. We have a more extensive planning meeting and an Operations Meeting to talk about what the week looks like. The collaboration has never been better. Then we respond to street behavior, we also have staff from the field making calls to hsoc. One of the things i want to point out is that we have seen consistently, over the last 1. 5 years, various agencies across the country reaching out to us about our model. Weve had major cities can see what we are doing. We have boston coming out next month to see what we are doing after hearing about this collaboration. We are very proud of the work we are doing there. In terms of training we talk about leading services. Yes the Police Officers on the frontline. We sometimes become the frontline of the city government. We get calls we are out there 24 hours a day seven days a week. What is important is for officers to be thinking about, how can i get a person into shelter . How can i connect them with drug treatment. How can i get them the resources that i need . We have made it simple for our officers throughout the department to call hsoc, one number. We are able to coordinate some sort of help for people. Our officers, every wednesday at 12, we bring Homeless Outreach officers from throughout the city we have training on various topics. For example, shelter services. We train them on crisis intervention and remind them of the escalation in time and distance. About the Navigation Center. About our Harm Reduction process , about narcan grade we have saved a couple of lives using narcan. I want to thank you, director henderson, because the accountability came and addressed the officers on presented on the mediation process and the officers engaged and liked the presentation i really bought into the process. We will hear the numbers shortly about the number of Homeless Individuals in our city, and the folks waiting on the shelter list every night. That is not lost on us. We also know that we need to be responsive in addressing some of these issues. If you look at our statistics momentarily, you will see that the citations and arrests are down. We would rather get someone connected with the Navigation Center, there is 15 beds for us, generally speaking. We would rather get someone connected to the Navigation Center then take them to the county jail, or otherwise. We are using a coordinated outreach strategy, homeless Outreach Team, public health. We try our very best to get them to advance the work that the Police Department and public works is doing so that we can spend a couple of days for the larger encampments trying to get individuals connected to shelter prior to the Police Coming along. My last two slides, an example of the graph based on our data as to the decreases in citations that we have written. In august of 18, we were about eight months into hsoc come as the months went on you can see the number started to decline. Same with the next slide. Decriminalization of homelessness, those numbers have gone down. A little spike, in february, but they continue to go down. As we work to get folks connected with help rather than issue citations, or taking people to jail. Can you tell us, what does this slide show . This slide that you see here, is a number of quality the first one was citations. These are bookings. If theres an arrest during an encampment resolution it is because an individual has an arrest warrant. Absent that, it is either citation come or no citation. Just to be clear, we are following the ninth Circuit Court court of appeals case where we are making sure that there is a shelter for individual who wants it, prior to enforcement. If a person is in an encampment, they will ask if they want shelter, we dont issue a citation. We connect them with the Navigation Center. We try to play with them to go to navigation. We have a bed waiting for them. A in that case, we have the ability to issue that citation. That is when we do that. That has been a last resort if you look at our statistics, as of late. I would like to turn it over to the department of public works, sam peeples, to continue the conversation. Good evening. I am sam peeples with public works. Liaison to hsoc. Tonight i will be covering the tent encampments, going over thats on the quarterly. 1 time. The point in time we do regularly every three months or every quarter, and then i will cover the demographics as far as the Police District stations what is going on in each Police District station as far as the number of tent and vehicles. You jump on the site here, you will see that back in july of 2018, we counted 568 tenths, and then it decreased there in the subsequent quarters, all the way through to april of this year. Roughly about 19 from the last count we did in april, this year. The light lou boxes with the numbers in it represent the number of large encampments. A large encampment to hsoc is any location that has six or more tents. You will see here, we have been hovering around anywhere from 810 large encampments per quarter with the exception of being in january of this year. People attribute the winter season being the reason why or in other words, people are taking advantage of some of the services we have here. This life here is the structures and vehicles. This is based on the Police Districts. Im not going to go to my in detail, you can see that the bayview seems to be leading in all of the different districts. [please stand by] is. Ease stand by] is are aligned with anyone coming in through the 311 system. So a couple of things that we wanted to highlight today was the way that hsoc translates from a 311 system into our care, into our services. So during the hsoc operation, staff were actually deployed through 311 system. And just for privacy, ill use the pseudo name, angela. She was homeless. She was sleeping on the streets and using multiple substances. She had stopped going to multiple groups that she was attending and wasnt going to prenatal care. We placed her in a Navigation Center and then our outreach through straight medicine went to outreach her and went with her to appointments and gave her Treatment Options. Fortunately, angela is stable and shes moving into permanent housing shortly. And so the coordination thats a demonstration that weve been able to come in, see someone thats dealing with issues living on the street and dealing with a Serious Health issue. So what weve done is looking at the 311 system basically feeding into the department of public health. We have four case conferences basically that have been organized, and what weve tried to do is really not only do the daily hsoc triage, weve actually tried to organize a weekly d. P. H. And h. S. H. Weekly confidential meeting to look at anyone coming in through our 311 system, that given the privacy, we only have entities that are protected through the health through obviously the Health Protection laws that participate. But we talk about cases on a weekly basis and really make sure that were very clear what type of Treatment Options need to happen, what type of primary care options does an individual have, and then how do we end up making sure that theyre assessed for coordinated care and then making sure theyre walking into the shelter system for coordination and h. S. H. On a daily basis, weve been able to have a clinician on staff and working with colleagues. Weve been able to work really closely with anyone reported in the 311 system. Obviously, this is in addition to what we do. We obviously do carry out our normal strategies of street outreach to be able to reach this population, but the 311 system adds an additional outreach mechanism for us to be able to discuss these cases. And again, the cases that we review are organized on a weekly basis so that we make sure that were on top of any High Priorities or anyone thats come in through that mechanism. Ill jump into just briefly describing one of our successes or one of our strategies that weve been able to couple with hsoc. What weve been able to do is back in 2016, d. P. H. Organized health fairs, and with the hsoc partnership, we started looking at high priority places, and we started organizing a lot more health fairs, and thats part of the strategy that weve been able to coordinate with the department of public health. Weve been working with 311, the department, and weve isolated certain areas that do need treatment. We have providers come into the area and what youll see is just the reflection of being able to host these events. And d. P. H. , we offer through our Population Health division and some of our colleagues, like eileen loughren. The benefits are we can get in a Creative Space in kind of a handson way to reach individuals on the street. What youll see here is individuals from january 2019 to july actually benefited from the health fair. They received h. I. V. Testing, narcan, bupenorphrine, and then we use a straight outreach like a health fair to try to get this collaboration. The next piece we collaborate with at hsoc is hsip. It stands for healthy street intervention program. It tries to target individuals that may be using on the streets. Sfpd officers typically with the Adult Probation Department go into different areas and they encourage adults to come into our services. Weve been able to utilize the cass to have our clinicians onsite, and whenever a case is available, we make sure were available because we need to capture as many cases as possible at any given time. What we wanted to highlight out of the 51 cases that did exist through hsip, d. P. H. Was able to receive 216 individuals. There were about 240 individuals that were brought to the cass, so you can see the ratio there that its really important to highlight. We welcomed all individuals. Some individuals decided to stay and utilize treatment. We never force anyone into treatment. So out of the individuals coming into the hsip, we were able to offer the lead program and additional longterm assessments through lead, and youll see there that that completed about 44 individuals. So ill pass over to my colleague at the Controllers Office to explain a little bit more. Hello. My name is laura marshall, and im with the Controllers Office, and we were brought in to hsoc to help measure the impact of this initiative, and the next few slides are largely pulled from a report that we produced this last spring to largely document the first year of hsoc, 2018, and some of the data and operational changes that occurred from this initiative. You can see one of the biggest impacts from its first year was related to the reduction of largescale encampments throughout the city. Prior to that, we didnt do record keeping, we didnt have any data about what the city was. 2018, we did reduce 25 large camp tents. Another piece of that was the sort of engagement that goes along with the encampment resolution teams work, so a. One of the other big pieces was the streamlining and enhanced coordination across departments. I think commander lozar was commenting on it earlier about how departments working together earlier, but there were also significant changes how calls are routed, how theyre responded to, how theyre dispatched, so those changes help create certain improvements. The request for services over the course of 2018 did decline, but along with that was also the response time, so the time it took to respond to 311 and 911 calls for service. Some of this was due to an increase and expansion of bed does available to individuals. So what were working on in 2019 with hsoc is expanding, how do we measure the impact of the work, and a lot of that has to do with how were measuring, how were engaging with people on the street, how were outreaching with them, how were providing them with certain types of care and support. So a lot of this is still being developed. Were working with hsoc to see how were going to do that over time to show the work. Thank you for your patience. I will be quick here, but i did want to point out as we close our presentation that hsocs ability to be successful in linking people with services in shelter is directly related to the services were able to offer people. Weve had an incredible expansion in the services we offer in the last few years. I just want to highlight, 2018 and 2019, weve opened about 400 shelter beds. 2018, 100 new Behavioral Health beds and over 100 permanent housing slots over 200, excuse me, permanent Supportive Housing slots, so people who are in Supportive Housing could move on, making room for the persons exiting the Navigation Centers, so really expanding solutions to what we have to offer to homelessness. And going forward, over the next 2. 5 years or so, well have about 700 new beds as part of the mayors 1,000 new beds program. And then an expansion of our outreach resources, so really wanting to couple as were coordinating better, also ensuring that we have the resources to offer people. And that is our presentation and were all here to respond to questions. Thank you very much. I would also like to recognize San Francisco paramedic captain whos part of the e. M. S. 16 and Fire Department center, an integral part of what we do at the healthy streets Operations Center. Thank you for being here tonight. President hirsch thank you all. So im wondering there are several commissioners who have questions. I dont know whos going to address them, but i think itll be easier if youre all ready. Im sorry about the air in this room. I guess its august and they shut it off. They turned it back on. Whoever that is, it was nice of them. Vice president taylor . Thank you very much. We all know as a nation, were in the middle of an epidemic crisis, especially in San Francisco. It certainly takes collaboration and coordination to do what we can in a compassionate way. One of the things that we have heard as a commission kind of on and off is that the police should not be involved in dealing with homelessness at all. So what i would like to know, perhaps conveniently, commander lozar is at the podium. What kind of training do you receive in its not a policing job and shouldnt really be a policing job. Give us more background about what it is, how youre trained . Well, my thought process has actually evolved over the years. Our job as Police Officers is to help people, so when we define the policing job, i think about how having a large Police Department of course were short officers, but a department where were out there in the community, were interacting with everyone, were responding to calls for service. Our goal is we train up our officers. First on a Department Level and were training our officers on all the services that have been presented here this evening, and making sure they know what to do with those individuals in that calling hsoc and getting the referral and information. So i mentioned earlier, we really pride ourselves on getting all the officers in one room every wednesday, giving them the latest updates on how to get people drug treatment, how to connect the nonprofits with us, how to get the officers narcan trained, etc. So were doing that. And the other thing i think thats really important is were in the Public Safety business. When were responding to someone thats in mental crisis, our officers have to be there to protect the safety. We find ourselves involved in that quite often, so there is a Public Safety element that comes with that sometimes, so weve become a part of that. Again, we tried to step back and work and tried to have other agencies lead. This is an Incredible Team of people that do that, but sometimes were shoulder to shoulder with them. And the last thing i want to mention is information i received this week. Sometimes when it comes to encampments on a small level, there is a criminal do this work, theyd much prefer to call hsoc and say, i have a homeless person. Do you have a bed, versus issuing a citation and all that stuff that we do as kind of a last resort thing. But as Police Officers, we do use that from time to time depending on the circumstance elias. So small percentage. And then, my last question is this, pretty much. I was looking at your presentation, and you mentioned hsoc as a metaumbrella houses 12,000 people every night. Thats shelter. Houses houses 12,000 people every night. And then, elsewhere in the presentation, it says 8,011 people experience homelessness every night. Im just trying to marry the math up. It seems like there would be a lot of extra beds. So we have over over 8,000 people in permanent housing every night, and so those folks stay many, many years. Our turnover is a few Percentage Points every year. And then, we have a couple thousand in shelter and some in transitional housing. Those turnover more frequently . But even the shelters have a 90day reservation. Transitional housing is up to two years. Rapid rehousing is typically 18 months to three years, so the number of Slots Available like today, the number of Navigation Center beds we had was under ten, so thats thats why. So just to kind of tease that out, to meet the challenge of 8,011 people every night, give me a sense of where you are on that. Given those figures, it seems like a huge 8,000 are homeless, and that was based on one night in january. And on that night, you know, a few thousand were in shelter or other facilities, and the rest were unsheltered. Our facilities, theyre almost full every night. Even when even when, you know, maybe our missed reservations, we do fill those the same day. And so our hot team notifies every morning how many rooms they have or how many beds they have to fill, and its typically not very many. President hirsch commissioner elias . Thank you. I remember, commander lozar, when you came here and gave the presentation, and i think its your outreach and coordination thats made the program what it is. Thank you very much, but its a team effort, team. Yes. I remember going to the first hsoc meeting and having all those people in the room was extremely exciting. And i think it was the first time that everyone was in the room, and you had talked about how we were going to breakdown silos and have conversations and people in the room because Police Officers are trained to be Police Officers, not necessarily social workers or clinicians, so its a great thing to have those trained professionals working side by side with you to give those individuals the sort of care that they need. So and im glad to hear that there are actually now resources that we can send those people. I remember at the first meeting, that was a huge issue because there was all these services because they couldnt sort of place people or put them in shelters, which was a huge issue and a complication for the program. The i have a question about the bookings. I wanted to make sure i understood that correctly. On the bookings, those were those were actual bookings, meaning its not just those individuals that have arrest warrants. Those were actual people booked, am i understanding that correctly . Yeah. So the overwhelming majority has to do with arrests. If officers come in contact over and over again with an individual, so the officer may decide to arrest and book that person in lieu of a citation for the fact that its articulated as a continuing offense. Those are very, very rare circumstances, so overwhelming majority, its because of an arrest warrant. And my second question is with respect to page 15, the numbers on the tents structures and vehicles, and im seeing the disproportionate number in the bayview, why is that number so high compared to any other district . Well, the bayview right now, the bayview has the highest number of structures in tents. I think a lot of folks have gone from different parts of the city and made their way out to the bayview. I know that many areas are industrial in nature, so just talking with individuals, if im parked out here on a particular street, no one is going to call, whereas if they park on other streets, theyll be called on. Every week, were trying to wrap our heads around what our strategys going to be to address that issue. I know the citys been proactive about having a vehicle triage site, and thatll happen in district 11, and were thinking about the individuals that are in the bayview, so its a work in progress but therell be quite a few. Will there be more resources given to bayview, given these extremely high numbers chaired to some other areas of the city . Well, i do think some of our plans occur in the bayview. For example, in addition to just cleaning up the site, were having these two week encampment meetings out there, the encampments are so large, we need to place people in shelter or navigation prior to cleaning it up. We subscribe to that model, especially to the bayview, the amount of people that are there. Because if we just clean it up, they just go to the next block and start this over. Most of our work has to do with the bayview, and again, its a work in progress. Thank you for that. The bayview, were really excited to announce last week that were going to be opening a new Navigation Center in the neighborhood. President hirsch thank you. Commissioner hamasaki. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. So first off, commander lozar and all of the hsoc Member Organization service providers, you know you know, ive lived in the city for 25 years now. You know, homelessness has always been a crisis here. I when commander lozar presented about this about seven or eight months ago, i was really excited. And im really glad to hear from everybody. I think a lot of good work is being done out there, and i think all of their organizations working together is key to making a difference in moving the needle. But the question that i have tonight and the kerconcern tha repeatedly brought up with me theres a lot of concerns of the people in the city, the community, tourists, businesses, working people that take a look around us and say, you know, why do we have, in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, have this inequality and why are people being forced to live on the streets . And then, the other concern thats been put to me is this is a work in progress, and it sounds like everybody is working together now to make change, and some of these statistics i think are heartening. But on a daytoday basis, the concern that i have, it keeps being reported to me that peoples shelter is being taken away without any other option. And you know, its its like, all of us, you see somebody living on the street in a tent, and its, you know, there but by the grace of god. Those are our brothers and sisters, and no matter what state theyre in, its tragic, its who a its horrifying to see people live under those circumstances. But when that last bit of shelter and those last pieces of clothing and belongings are taken away from them, i i find that cruel and inhumane and it shocks the conscience. And commander lozar, you and i have spoken about the hsoc program. We went out with some of the officers, and i thought that the two officers that i was with were genuinely good people. They cared about the individuals they interacted with, but i never saw any of the other social service departments. And i did see department of public works, and i did see shelter being taken away from people. And again, you know, the officers, good people, believed they were following what they were being told to do. So i dont know how we how we thread this needle where theres a lot of public outcry about the homeless crisis. But were taking away from the least amongst us the last bit of dignity, the last bit of humanity, the last bit of shelter. How do we avoid doing this . How do we avoid taking