Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people who cannot handle a congregate setting. There we have some solutions because our Homeless Outreach team, some of our Navigation Centers may offer lesser spaces, fewer people. Or, individual rooms that are not housing, they are a temporary program room. So, we have some of those options. Again in even in those settings, the person needs to be able to handle their daily toileting needs, and so forth. Because we do not have the kind of bedside care that comes with it. We dont say that these people dont deserve it service. We are saying that our department has limits of what its focuses. We need to partner with hsa around inhome support services and aging and Adult Services and dph with their medical services and their various levels of treatment and the options they have. Then we create a better city response. To that end, our board and aided entry effort is helping to identify that. We recently reviewed our coordinated entry with dph and they were saying yes, the people we are prioritizing are the people they would prioritize. That validates our assessment tool. The people who may need more care in an emergency setting may also need more care when they go to housing. These are people we may need to work with beyond our department. I am not surprised that when somebody has issues tied to their life, but if homeless is one of them, to assume our department will take on their issues, that is not the reality. As you state, we need to make sure as a city and county we are i think you for the question. It is important that we continue to struggle with those cases. I do want to say when those cases come up on a casebycase basis, that is how we often develop ongoing a better going forward. They have to have the ability to identify location. They cant go to the shelter if the person has inhome support services we can communicate and then they can access that care in a shelter, or a Navigation Center i dont believe they can provide inhome support services to someone who is on shelter. There needs to be an address or location. This seems to be a selffulfilling problem there. Part of our solution is the Homeless Outreach team. They are out on the streets throughout the city to try to deal with, and identify, who is not accessing services. That could be a choice, or as you say it could be somebody who has decided the services cant help me. What we try to do is figure out what can help them. And maybe reacquaint them with the services that can work for them. It is a joint effort, and then it has expanded with cooperation across city departments that is known as the healthy streets operations center. That involves Public Health, our department, public works which is out on the street all the time, San Francisco Police Officers and they have a great number of homeless and focused or trained officers. Departments of emergency management. We are trying to coordinate problemsolving that crosses departments with particularly unsheltered individuals. You may have said this and i missed it, but what is the priority system for . I remember you talking about the priority system creating it into housing, and that type of thing. What are the priorities for getting into the shelters . For the adult shelter system, anybody who asks we try to give them a shelter bed. If you know there is more need, then there are beds, is it just firstcome, first serve . For the adult shelter system, it is. Whether disabled, or not, you get on that list when you rise up, you can get a 90 day reservation, which also you can extend for an additional 30 days by simply asking. While you are waiting to rise on the list, we have Resource Centers that can provide those one night beds for people who do not claim their bed tonight. In our family system, since we have enough congregate beds for everybody, we use the assessment to determine who is going to get the individual rooms, because they are the most acute area. I understand. Thank you. Just hanging onto your question. Thank you, and again i imagine what you are describing, it is a tough job, to say the least. Trying to balance all of the needs. My question is, and i heard you say this twice. Your department is trying to treat everyone equally. I would suggest that folks that are homeless, with physical disabilities, are rightly a little more vulnerable. And as deserving of a Navigation Center, or a congregate area that may be set up for them. That can provide that extra help getting in and out of the beds. Is not a consideration . Is not a bigger nut to crack it another day . It is a wonderful question and there are two parts to my answer. When i said we want to treat everyone fairly, it means everyone has equal access, coordinated entry assesses everyone the same way. You are more likely to rate high enough for permit in support housing placement when you have challenges that include vulnerability and barriers to housing. What you are asking about, is are there special shelters or Navigation Centers that help . When i talked about five Navigation Centers that is from our department. The department of Public Health has opened up hummingbird, which is considered part of the citys six Navigation Centers. It does offer some Mental Health assistance and some medical. When we provide clinics where people can be assessed, and gets, you know, medical assistance but it is not a care facility. Hummingbird has a little more builtin care. That is a challenge that the city is trying to address. It is not our departments expertise to offer medical care. When we offer clinics, we will build the clinic but we have to partner with dph to provide the staffing through street medicine and Shelter Health staff. We are aware of that. Also dph operates the medical respites, which is a shelter step down from hospital. They have expanded that in recent years. Those are outside of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. We coordinate with them, but we do not run them. We do not do placements in them. We can talk to the department about individuals that we are concerned about who end up being placed by department of Public Health. No one is ignoring this population, but we are very focused on our charge to reduce homelessness in general. In part of that when we identify people that we cant serve with our programs, we raise it to the city who have some of the expertise to do that. Any comments to the chair, can i im going to get to staff. I just want to compliment you for the work you are doing. I do some work with and for ihss. I am delighted to hear that Public Authority or people you are working with. I know they do have quite a large number of providers. Some of them are oncall providers which i think would be the ones to come to your centers and facilities. It is great that you are doing that. Nicole, what do you have for us . Thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation. I wanted to offer briefly the Mayors Office on disability would be happy to work with you, especially around technologies that the city is using for communication. That is one of the takeaways from some of the council comments. I think we have some things i can work a little better, than what we are using right now. Another thought that i have, is maybe we can work on a way to think about how to talk about our coordinated entry approach, specifically for folks who have disabilities, or are a little more vulnerable in a way that is more visible to folks. I know we are addressing things casebycase. I also think that we can work towards some centralized messaging about our process that might help folks understand questions like the ones that have come up today. Thank you very much. We welcome that. As i say we have had a Great Partnership between our two departments. Prior to this department coming three years ago, when i worked for hsa and the department of homelessness, we were in touch regularly. Its always been very helpful. I also want to thank you, because when we are faced with a particular accommodation challenge, ive often called the office and said have you encountered this . That is our best teamwork to try to address this. I think you. I will have the appropriate people follow up with the technologies and the warden aided entry message. Thank you very much. Anyone else from staff . I would like to thank you for making your presentation. That is all of the questions we have for you. You can take a seat, if you like area now, we need to see, i understand there is one Public Comment card . Yes, sorry. Carol from faithful fools, which i want to hear what that is about. Hello. Thank you. This is my first meeting, it is a pleasure to be here. Zach invited me from faithful fools. I appreciate scotts presentation on the department of homelessness in Supportive Housing. I remember 4. 5 years ago, when the Navigation Centers were first announced, the huge excitement about lowering barriers of her people in the street to be able to come inside everyone wanted to be inside. Every wondered how can i get in there . About a year ago, department of homelessness and Supportive Housing Navigation Centers, how most people were choosing to leave, or getting kicked out of, i think, it was the one on van ness. Just kind of wondering how this low barrier that is really allowing pets, possessions and partners really changed, for people who are living with disabilities, all of the barriers that come up can make it more challenging. I remember when the department of homelessness was created 3. 5 years ago with the idea that it would gather from all of these different departments and there would finally be one place to go to for homelessness. Now with it seems to be a complete operation. This sweeps they are doing including in on of golden gate, that is generally by the community, a place that people are allowed to sleep at night. Having sweeps in front of their that take peoples medications, and take peoples walkers and supplies like that. I think, in terms of training for the police, more awareness of people with disabilities, in the Training Police are getting. Eight days ago there were a couple of women in chairs, sitting in front of the many part they had been sitting there weekly for over a year, their therapists and ministers who were just sitting there for anyone to sit down and talk, and the police came by and made the move. When they asked why they had to move, they were told they needed to find somewhere inside to sit so people could join them. That is just an example of homeless resistance services. The idea of forcing people to go inside who may not be comfortable in that moment to go inside, a new strange place to meet with somebody. To conclude, i have been down there multiple times with people, and even people who are not living with a disability going down to this barren place without clear signage, with barely a bench space to sit to sit for hours, if you get any of your belongings back. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Do we have any more cards . Okay, lets go to the bridge line. Are there any people on the bridge line . Yes, hi. I would like to leave a Public Comment. Go ahead. Thank you. I first want to say, the fact we have only had one Public Comment on this so far is a problem. This is a problem that affects 9784 disabled people in San Francisco. 70 are San Francisco residents. We are talking about a large portion of the population. The fact that this was only announced 72 hours ago has made it impossible for me to include more people . Fortunately, i was able to give a great Public Comment. I want to say, when scott is done with those rosecolored glasses i would love to borrow them, there is such an incredible disparity between his perception of what Homeless Services look like in the city on the reality. I dont even know where to start. Ihss providers are extreme and hard to get. Not available on call, most of the time. I actually am someone who has been on the streets with a ihss provider, extremely difficult to have a provider from support services without. I agree with helens comment about that being a selffulfilling problem. If you dont have an address you cannot get a home care provider. If you dont have a home care provider, you cannot get to in shelter. Thats crazy. The other idea, that scott said something earlier, some people cannot handle congregate setting, i am paraphrasing. As far as people with severe disabilities. That is ridiculous. A lot of shelters do not have adequate areas for wheelchairs and people with disabilities. Also, this might shock everyone in this room, there is something called guidry. Many people, in shelters are extremely bigoted. The staff does nothing about it. I witnessed an africanamerican being kicked out of the shelter because the color of their skin was upsetting people in the shelter. The shelter staff will just agree with the majority. If the majority is upset about a person with severe disabilities, who has a site seeing dog, or has a different skin color than people. They will get kicked out. The person who is a minority will get kicked out because of the bigotry. I have known someone who has worked in the shelter system directly. I visited him, and his work, and saw the appalling conditions of shelters in the cities and how people are treated like cattle. They are treated like criminals. These shelters require many, many hours of waiting, superlong lines of ticket systems that are really hard to get into. You have to spend half your day getting a bed, by the time you get there you dont even know if youre going to be kicked out for your disability, or not. We need to come up with a better system for people with disabilities, not just Homeless People in general. This is a crisis. Everyone people that shelters are not trained to handle people with severe disabilities. Thats not our problem, go somewhere else. Thats ridiculous. People of San Francisco voted for to provide a lot more money to solve this crisis. The mayor should be doing something solve these problems. We can do something to provide more services of the voters of San Francisco have voted for. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else on the bridge line . Hearing none. That completes our first item for today, informational item. Very excellent presentation, and lots of good comments. We are running a tad behind schedule. Lets see, we have a 15 minute break now. Please be back and ready to go for the second half of our our presenter today is, i hope i am pronouncing this correctly adrian . Executive director, office, Civic Engagement, and immigrant affairs. Welcome to the council. Thank you. It is an honor to meet with you today. We have a strong relationship with the Mayors Office of disability and director adrienne pon and her staff have been important partners on a great resource to us. I am here to present on the 2020s census. My name is adrienne pon and im joined by my colleague, our Civic Engagement fellow. The 2020s census is fast approaching. We are once again, our our offices once again charged with overseeing the Outreach Campaign in 2,009, we were a start up operation at the time, a tiny staff of three. Obviously with a lot of help from our community partners, and city departments we were able to conduct a highly effective campaign. San francisco was the only county, in 2010, in california to meet and exceed the mail in response rate. Today we have much better capacity. But the 2020s census will be even talk or tougher. We need to work as a unified city to ensure that all san franciscans are accurately and completely counted by the Census Bureau. Why is the census so important . Our fair share of over 800 billion in federal funding for a central needs and Services Like transportation, education, programs like medicaid, disability support, chair giver programs, special ed. The Political Representation of voice, and reliable data for planning in supports of the civil rights law. Most important though census is about counting and recognizing all of americas people, not just some, or the ones that want counted, but everyone, it is a sign of our democracy that we all matter to the government that is here to serve and represent all of us. We have a short video. This was produced by the ford foundation. It does a much better job of explaining the importance of the census than i can. I apologize. This is my very first assessable presentation. I want to thank heather, of your staff for guiding me. I did the best i could in a short amount of time. We were not able to download the online version that is captioned of the video. We did provide transcripts. I believe s. F. Tv will take care of the rest. With that we are going to start the quick video. Every ten years, the census tells a story of america. That three and a 28 million of us, and counting. It tells us about newcomers, and new arrivals. How we are living, where we are going, and what we are learning. From the time of thomas jefferson, the census has tracked growth and change in our country. Serving as a pillar of our democracy, transcending party and try. Including the census in our constitution marks a turning point in world history. In the hands of kings and emperors, a census has been a tool of oppression, a ledger using property and script script , but the founders lived that model in the head. Our senses is designed to empower the government. Granting a set political power based on the population of our communities. Census data serves as a basis of a staggering 800 billion in federal disbursements to state and local governments. It is the Gold Standard of demographic information for businesses, researchers and government. With the 2020s census fast approaching, we have a problem. Congressional appropriations have fallen short over the past decade. Which will lead to a projected 50 drop in the number of local and regional census offices and a 25 reduction in field staffers. That means many communities are at risk of being undercounted. On the program serving them underfunded. Affecting groups, and services all across america. An inaccurate census count has cascading consequences. Regions that are growing will not have fair Political Representation in congress and state legislatures. Businesses will not have the data they rely on to expand or refine labor. Natural disaster planning and Emergency Services are compromised area traffic gets worse. Health programs miss the mark. Funding will drop for public libraries, School Lunch Programs and Early Childhood education. Fair housing and other civil rights laws will be harder to enforce. Public transportation will fail to meet demands. At the same time we face a technological challenge. The 2020s census is the first day but can be completed online. That could make it easier for many people to respond. But, only if the technology works. Experts say an online senses can be vulnerable to crashes, and other interference. Another challenge is the current Political Climate which has stirred fear in immigrant communities and a proposed question about citizenship status of being fought by two dozen states, threatens to scare people away from the count. These are urgent challenges, and we are mobilizing to overcome them. Join us. If we work together, we can ensure a fair and accurate census. Join us and stand up for the count. Stand up to support your neighbor and all of the people who call this country home. Stand up to defend fair Political Representation. Stand up to protect economic opportunities. Stand with us. Stand up for the count. Council members, just to summarize we with the 2020 census. Politicalization of it. For the first time in u. S. History someone who should know and do better has politicized what has been nonpartisan and just about counting everybody in the United States and its territories. There is always been a historic count of hard to count populations, i will go through that in a minute. Mostly communities of color and immigrants. There is a fear factor. Even though they have resolved the citizenship question, for the moment, but there is still a year to go. Many more surprises to come up. The damage has been done. People are afraid to participate. You add that to anti immigrant rhetoric and threats, almost on a daily basis, not just to immigrants but are communities of color. To our disability communities, its such disrespect for americas people. This census is the first time that people can go directly online and fill out the form electronically. Which is great if you have mobile and internet access. Many of our residents, in San Francisco, as you know are not wired. They do not have smart phones. They may not have computer or internet access. If you have a disability, or you communicate in a language other than english, this would even be harder. The Technology Used by the Census Bureau has been underfunded and untested. That also poses cybersecurity risks and privacy risks. Finally, we do not know what the u. S. Department of commerce is going to do with our private information. Although the constitution provides protection for your privacy, we know that census information was misused in world war ii to wrongly incarcerate 120,000 u. S. Citizens and residents of japanese descent, who were placed placed in concentration camps. That all adds up to a lot of distrust in federal government. However, like any other challenge, also comes a lot of opportunity. We have a message to every San Francisco resident at they count they matter and they have a right to be counted and participate. There are Job Opportunities with the u. S. Census bureau. I heard that mentioned unlike in 2010, if you are not a citizen, a u. S. Citizen you will not be able to apply for those jobs. We need as many San Francisco residents to apply for those openings as possible. It makes a huge difference. We can as a city stand up to hate and intimidation. We can call to action and energize the next generation of voters. Many of whom will be eligible to vote for the first time in the 2020 election. And we can test the field for future Mass Mobilization efforts. Just very quickly i wanted to run through the who and where are San Franciscos hard to count communities . San francisco has a lot of people jammed into a very small city. We have one of the highest density rate falls with the u. S. We are very diverse. There are a large number of people who are historically hard to count because they may lack access, they are difficult to locate. They dont live in traditional dwellings. They face many barriers to participating. They may be scared they may be unmotivated or they may distrust government at any level, local, state, and federal. The hard to count in San Francisco, besides large numbers of people, color and imprint we have other populations that are very hard to count. The lgbt community, seniors, people with disabilities, you can check me if im wrong with this. Almost 11 of the population is noninstitutionalized. People with disabilities. That we have youth and veterans, the most surprisingly undercounted group in the 2010 i mean, the 2010 census wasnt children ages 05. Often times their parents, or their guardian did not count them as members of the household. We have a lot of educating to do. If you look at households. The Census Bureau counts households. We have a big challenge, we have a lot of renters, a population that moves around a lot. There are multiple unrelated family members in a single dwelling. There are a lot of unrecorded nontraditional housing and individuals would no housing. Lots of households where no one over the age of five speaks english well enough to understand or navigate a largely english system. This map was created by Robert Clinton who was not able to join us today. As you can see, the southeast sector where, south market and tenderloin, these are our hard to count areas with the lowest response rate. The bottom line is, in San Francisco we have so many hard to count people, over 25 of our population might be considered hard to count. They are spread out all over the city, in almost every neighborhood and district. You cant just go to one area. They are everywhere. Here is the challenge. If everyone is hard to count in San Francisco, how are we ever going to get the job done. Job done . We have to make sure every San Francisco resident is included, and formed accurately county. Accurately counted. While april 1 as the official census data. The efforts actually started in early 2018 with the Census Bureaus local address verification operation. In other words they have master list of addresses in San Francisco and that is how you get your census notification and your pin number to go online. So the question must be finalized and we will all start hearing Census Bureau messages. We are already started to hear a few. You will get saturated with ads in the fall. Meanwhile cities and counties are launching a full on outreach and education efforts which will probably kick up steam in september all the way through october 2020. The period for residents to self respond and jump online, will be from mid march to the end of may. It is not a long time. After that, the Census Bureau will start contacting people. They will send a paper format by mail. If they do not respond and some but he knock on the door. We have a lot of people in the city who may be vulnerable they may be dont want somebody knocking on the door. Thats very intimidating to them. Heres a snapshot of the plan. Im going to run through these quickly. The mission is to remove as many barriers as possible. Make sure every resident has information to participate and make sure our residents are not afraid to participate. It is increasing access, fostering trust and then motivating our residents. The strategies that we are going to use that work in 2010, and we think will make a difference in 2020 is a coordinated Citywide Campaign, relevant messages coming from trusted voices, such as yours. Boots on the ground. Grass roots community, these are residents and volunteers that can educate and inform our residents. We just processed over 200 million in community grant. We are looking at some areas where we have gaps. We are looking for your advice and your guidance on that. And then ensuring assessable locations on assistance, so at 27b van ness, where it is not a former mortuary, but it is next door to one, the assessable center will be set up and i believe that used to be the Veterans Service center. It already is assessable. We will have someone there all the time helping people jump online. Our San Francisco library beacon centers, community spaces, public spaces. Finally, we also have our secret sauce which will make our campaign a little bit different and that is that Creative Arts overlay. Its going to take a partnership of just about everybody to get this done. I wanted to run through some of the accessibility priorities. I have to think nicole for always giving me such great advice and opening our eyes and trying to make accessibility something we do all the time is not something out there, but it is something you naturally include in everything that you do. Some of our priorities would include census questionnaire accessibility. Outreach accessibility. Physical accessibility. Auditory, captioned videos, as we learn from our presentation today, really important. Visual accessibility and different formats. And then language and cultural accessibility. I think somebody earlier mentioned that when you are accessing services you also need to have people who provide linguistically, culturally competent services. So people feel welcome and they feel included. This is just an outline of some of our accessibility priorities. We could definitely use your help in identifying any gaps or anything we have not thought of. With the Disability Council could help us with, we are currently in training and organizing. On thursday, july 25, the state of california is partnering with the city on an Implementation Plan workshop on the census. This will be our complete count committee, computing partners. The meeting will be held at the county fair building. From 1115330. As you know, you are all welcome to attend. Please let the office staff know so we can get you registered. We need your partnership. We need to council to advise us on strategies and approaches to reaching the Disability Community. We ask that you and your network and incorporate census into your regular work, just make that a part of your natural outreach. Identify Key Community touch points so that people can get handson assistance, help us identify how outreach gaps and opportunities. Leverage your network. Educate people and then call people to action. We need to work on encouraging residents to complete the online census questionnaires. In closing i wanted to touch on using creativity and imagination what the power of arts, word and images that reflect all of us can have. Starting in the fall we will be be inundated, as i said with repetitive messages about the census coming from the u. S. Census bureau, the state of california, advertisers, organizations, and elected officials. Our San Francisco campaign will use a more creative overlay using arts and images that reflect all of us, everybody in this room. I want to give you a couple of examples of what that might look like. These are actual art exhibits around the city from 2018 and more recently. Courtesy of the San Francisco arts commission, one of our other partners. The inspiration of our Campaign Came from the powerful use of these images, and words, and communications that reflect all of us. The image in the middle is not a photograph. It is a largerthanlife charcoal graphite drawing by an artist named joel daniel phillips. It was an exhibit on displacement of people who might be migrants, our Homeless Population. When you are standing in front of a podium and behind you is a largerthanlife drawing like this, you cannot help but notice it just captured our attention. Imagine that on buildings, billboards, you know, something that says something about our values as san franciscans. Finally, you mightve seen this last one. This is a recent work by a french artist, a 65foot image of an immigrant child. You will notice the two Border Guards on the u. S. Side. A powerful image with a message about our humanity. That is really what we want to reflect in the 2020 census. Thank you again, very much, for inviting us. I will be happy to answer any questions. The final image, for those of you who could not see the image was the border wall, and then there was an oversized drawing of an infant peeking over the edge of the border wall. The previous images were of various multi ethnic individuals, and then a representation, a very detailed drawing of who we would assume would be a homeless person. Very artfully rendered. Thank you for that. All right, do any of the councilmembers like to ask any questions . Just a brief comment. It has been interesting, the comment you had about the third tactic of coming to a home and knocking on a residents door. I live in San Francisco. I know there has been a scare lately with people posing as public work individuals, electric workers and so forth. I think there is a trust issue, especially in my neighborhood. In the bernal hill area, it has been happening quite a bit. You know, places where this has been, people have taken advantage of posing as a service worker, or city worker. I understand, if people dont have access to the internet and theres an issue, and youre trying to get counts. How do you get them into a place to be counted . It is something that, you know, we cannot force people. I understand it is a desire. Just thinking about looking at the northeast, there is a sign Language Group under the u. S. Government sorry, in the Northeast Area of the United States has a person who is skilled for her census county. That is in that region of the United States. I know we dont have that here in San Francisco. Im putting that out as a possible way to get the Deaf Community involved. Especially when you are talking about deafness and immigration status, if thats an individual situation i can be more challenging to involve them in account for various reasons stated. Thank you for your comment. Alex. Thank you for coming. Im not sure if i heard you correctly. Can you tell us how would you reach out to the Homeless Population . Just clarify very good question. The Homeless Population are one of the hardest to count, because the the Census Bureau is not going to recognize their own city council. Although, i think our citys is more accurate. We are going to utilize places for Homeless Individuals where they might go to get their services, could be project homeless connect. The plan is to have a booth there. We are going to be working with our Broad Network of community partners, and Nonprofit Service providers. We also have city departments who identifying natural touch points. If we have caseworkers on their working on something, for an individual, theyre going to encourage them and help them jump online and fill out the form. If you have other ideas, this is why it is important for us to have this conversation. Just trying to think of every opportunity that the city can leverage to get to people. We have our own community ambassadors. People who do the day outreach. I know participating in the census may not be somebodys number one priority when youre trying to survive in the streets , and just figure out where you are going to be, sleep or get some services. You will be survive surprised how many individuals once they understand how the census participation translates to funding, and decisions, and services and support for the things that are important to them. Thank you. Next we have sally. Is the hot team the Homeless Outreach . Is that what you were talking about when you say the hot team . We also have our own team of community ambassadors. Was going to suggest, that the Outreach Team would be a good one because the disabled homeless are apparently not in the shelters. Also, just as a side note, i dont know where i heard this. In texas, there is no funding for the kind of work you are doing. Whereas california makes it a priority. Texas has had rapid growth, i mean, all the people in texas that would be in your position are going to lose out. California does such an excellent job of this, as a whole. San francisco does, as well. Texas is going to lose out on representation and those services because they do not put a priority on it. You are spot on. If you look at california and texas where the majority of our immigrant population is in the country reside, we have 25 of all immigrants live in california. You think about the intent to intimidate individuals from participating. So fearful that they are afraid to fill out a piece of paper with information that frankly the government artie has. That is the intent. We leave people intimidated so they wont be participating. You hear words from our leadership saying you dont matter, you dont count. If youre not a citizen, you are not contributing. Its just so, i think, detrimental to our democracy. You are right we are lucky in california that we have leadership with people who really care about this. We are working right now with a network of cities all over the country that do have large immigrant populations and we are all grappling with the same issues and trying to share resources. One other suggestion i would have for the disabled community, maybe you already do this, is to include the schools of San Francisco unified. Maybe nobody else is getting to them. A lot of kids with disabilities are immigrants in all of these hard to count populations coming at you from all angles it seems like. That is a great suggestion. Not just to see if we can get to the parents of the Service Programs but also in the school curriculum. I think the youth are best ambassadors. We are hoping to start a Youth Ambassador Program for the census. Students teaching other students, and parents, maybe even their teachers about the census. My name is kate williams, i know my question is going to be selfserving. I run an employment program. You mentioned there are Job Opportunities for individuals. My research has shown that most of those jobs are out to in the field which may be a challenge for visually impaired individuals. Since i have you as a captive audience and youre not online, are you aware of a resource where i can find jobs that are not online. They could be available for people who are visually impaired and are not able to drive a car or maneuver throughout neighborhoods. Is there a place where i can find other types of jobs that you would consider hiring . Yes. If you go to the Census Bureaus Job Information section, youre not going to find the information youre looking for. Im just being honest. But, if you will give me your Contact Information i do know the area representative for the u. S. Census bureau who bugs us all the time about do we have people to send to her who are looking for jobs, i would be happy to open up a conversation and forward your name to her. I am so i spoke up. Her name is leah bowden. Thank you. Thank you council members. Lets go to staff great are there any questions from a staff this is nicole again. Thank you adrienne pon for coming. Thank you so much for being here. I know you reiterated it in the video, but i just want to say again how critically dependent Adequate Funding is not an accurate count. Im wondering if you can speak for a minute on how we would anticipate, San Francisco in particular would be impacted by some of the funding choices if we do or do not have the that we need. If we have an undercount like we did in 2,000. In the year 2,000 the city was undercounted by an estimated 100,000 people. Which, i forgot with the number was, but at the time, you know, if you look at the current estimate for per person who participated, per capita, each person who participates in the census translates to about 2,000, per person, per year in federal funding that comes to the city and county. Imagine 100,000 people were undercounted. It took us a decade to recover, and get those numbers corrected. That is one of the reasons why this census is so challenging, because it is going to be online. People only get their information this time by being in the Census Bureau master address file. Our San Francisco Planning Department has been doing a fantastic job. They submitted over 80,000 unrecorded addresses that were not on the master file of the u. S. Census bureau. They did this in the beginning of 2018. There would be one more opportunity. The other thing that we could use your help on is identifying if you think there are places where our Disability Community resided, but are going to be particularly hard. You know, they are not may be located, they are not registered in our database. They may be an accessory dwelling. Please let us know so that the Planning Department has one more opportunity later once the census kicks off to add those addresses. You absolutely right. It is so easy to miss so many people, in the city, and we figure out a way to have a unified, Citywide Campaign where every San Francisco person feels the urgency, and understands why this is so important to all of us. It is our neighbors, friends, family members. It is everyone that we care about. You dont have someone in your family that has a disability, still a San Francisco resident should care about this community as well. We have a big job to do. If we have an undercount that is going to cut into it, you know the administration already tried to cut into a lot of services earlier this year. Medicaid, cuts and home care services, that kind of support. Imagine if the actual federal dollars that are dependent on a census count get cut. That is further going to be a detrimental situation for our community. Thank you. One final comment, i know we will continue to work on our outreach strategies. As we are talking to our colleagues at the federal level, through the Census Bureau, i just want to make sure we are continually bringing up the need for both having an accessible online version of the senses that is accessible to assistive devices, and also having any asl specific video of the census information. Specifically for folks where english is not the first language, their first language is asl. I would like to pitch to the council that we are going to find resources and create our own San Francisco version of a census video which i would like your advice on how to make that fully accessible. I learned a lot from heather and the council on how to do this. Hope we did okay today. I think we are going to have to customize some things. Also, i would recommend that you contact the city attorneys office. They actually had a Litigation Team working on the citizenship question. You know, its amazing that they would go to bat for all of our people in San Francisco make sure we get a fair count and that we are included. They are not free to litigate. Thank you very much. Can i ask one more question . One more. You mentioned something about an implementation workshop and you said to sign up online. Do you have an address for that . I consented to the staff and they can forward it to you. Just register. If you cant do that, if you just give your name to heather or nicole, and then they can send it over to us, i would just have my staff register you. I thought i had it in my things i announced earlier today, but the actual link is on my document. We will make sure to for that. Any other comments from staff anyone on the bridge line . Hearing none. Anyone in the room for Public Comment . Okay. Thank you, adrienne pon for your presentation. Great information. All right. Running a little bit behind schedule, so lets move on to our third presentation the Affordable Housing bond. Presentation by amy chan of policy and legislative affairs the Mayors Office office of housing and community development. Welcome to the council. Good afternoon cochairs on councilmembers. My name is amy chan, im from the mayor office of housing and community development. Thank you so much for having me present on the Affordable Housing bond that will be going before the voters in november. Im going to go into a presentation that will describe why we need this bond is so badly and what the eligible uses of the funding will be and why we are so excited to have a go to the voters. So, we are incredibly excited to be put in board of supervisors in the mayor to be putting forward a 600 milliondollar general Obligation Bond to the voters in november. it is currently in the legislative process of the board of supervisors, pending two more votes. Once that is completed it will be on the ballot in november. This is really incredible