Before we take action to response to what may be some concerning biased. So the answer is, we dont know because we dont have the full data and we need to do better in the meantime because i dont want to be here a year from now saying now we have full data and its the same and we havent done anything in the meantime. So we have to work in parallel process to train, to reduce biased, to partner specifically with lgbtq plus organizations who have trust with the community, to build the trust with our other partners and those are all of the steps were taking now to try to improve at the same time we try to improve our Data Collection. I think you know and would agree that in San Francisco in 2019, whatever the reason, this is troubling. We look forward to the full data and to the continued conversations with your office and with all of our partners and the board of supervisors. I think the way forward here is really, as ive said on a couple of small projects, is really about community and were really looking forward to our partnerships both with the board of supervisors, the mayors office, oti and much broader than that, were going to need the help of the full community to improve these numbers and we look forward to receiving that feedback, that reflection, that input, so that we can do better. The two other sort of subcategories of lgbtq that im curious about are the number the 16. 43 assessed for coordinated entry, do we know what percentage of lgbtq people are assessed as priority, as tier one or priorities for housing . We know some answers to that question. And i think it is probably the most important question to ask and so i thank you for that supervisor. This is a bit of a vicious cycle. If people arent in, we cant understand why near not in. And again, every time i talk about numbers, i really want to underscore that we have the experience of single people who are struggling with the tragedy of homelessness and so thats not lost on hsh and i want to note that any time i talk about data, we talk about individuals on a daily basis in our department and we need to be able to pull up the big picture to use data to drive better policy. In this case, not that we have an expanded data set with coordinated entry for youth coming online and setting targets in the adult population, we have some early analysis that lets us know the following. So for all populations for lgbtq individuals, we see that theyre scoring 7 higher than their nonlgbtq counterparts which would indicate they are 20 more to be prioritized. And this is a positive early data point. And for tae, for tgnc young people, they are 53 more likely to be prioritized than peers. Say that again, please. Say both of them . Lgbq people all lgbq people experiencing hopelessness, if assessed are 7 more likely to make it into are 7 likely to score higher. And then i want to get to that, because thats a fundamentally complicated thing. It means theyre 20 more likely to be prioritized. The issue here, supervisors, is that very, very few people get to prioritized for housing. And so obviously thats what we are all working on together. But in your transgender and theyre 20 more likely to be prioritized. So for tgnc young people theres a sample set to answer that question. In that case, they are 53 to be prioritized than theyre young people peers. But for the t . We dont have the analysis for t. How about lgbq youth . Were actively conducting that analysis, yes. So one thing i think is hard to explain, certainly, were not allowed in our coordinated entry assessment to prioritize based on lgbq status and we have to build equity and thats why were doing the constant looking and analysis. Thank you. Victim. Thank you. Lets hear from brian shue with moss cd. We didnt prepare a slide for every aspect. Thats good. My colleagues are grateful. Ill go through it quickly and happy to answer any questions on the larger support also. So for our soji Data Collection, as you know in july of 2017, expanded the selection to all of our clientbased programs and that includes our services programs, as well as our housingbased programs. We updated all of our Data Collection forms. The one aspect that i think we have to update is the portion that includes the preferred pronounce and clients preferred name, which were prepared to do now. We just want to look at a few aspects as it relates to some of our housingbased programs where we have to correlate the application name with the legal name because we look at a lot of the bank record and w records ao link it up with bank records. The next item is what weve done overall. You can see that its a little bit of a mixed bag. I think if you look at the overall lgbtq numbers, you can see it ranges from a low of 1 l7 to a high of 55 . Its those applying to hiv positive Housing Program. Its not too surprising the number is that high. If you look at the low number, 1. 77 for the affordable multiple Family Housing portfolio residents, part of the reason that number is so low is because if you look at the home at the far right, we have 84 of folks that we dont have information. Those are people that were preexisting. They were in the portfolio before we started this program. So were struggling with how we are we going to effectively reach out to those folks for all of the people that are now coming through our housing lotteries, were able to ask that question upfront. We have figure out if we can work with our Property Managers to go back to those people that have lived there for a long time and figure out how to get that information back out to us. And that being said, if you go down further, we had some discussion about the numbers, for example, our downpayment assistance program, the city second loan applicants. The numbers tend to be much better on the lgb side, not that high on the transside. We had some discusses with some of our preferred providers, such as lg bt center to support our home program and one of the things they mentioned to us was because they felt strongly they wanted to focus their outreach on the most vulnerable portions of the community and they tended to reach people that did not necessarily qualify for any of our ownership programs yet. Oftentimes they werent at the 50 ami. Were struggle to reach that balance and reach out to the most vulnerable folks. At the same time, we know ownership is the best stabilizer of the community. But it can be a stretch for some of the folks were reaching out to. So were going to try to continue to figure out how to balance that out. Its not here on the slide but since you mentioned the different areas in particular for our services program, i think what we found most particularly is Certain Program areas are particularly difficult to get information out of. We have an area called Service Connection and an area called housingbased services and a large number of individuals in those areas choose not to respond and we found that the majority of those folks are People Living in our current Public Housing residents, where they dont feel comfortable declaring their Sexual Orientation or identity. We have to figure out how to work with those folks. The role of Property Managers, in particular, for our housing is one in which i think we need to look at. Because when we receive complaints of people feeling harassed, sometimes its by their neighbors but oftentimes because they feel the Property Management staff is not sensitive to what they need to do. So i think we have to figure out how to reach out to those folks, also. Ill go to the next slide. You can see the difference in the results when we fund an organization that targets those communities. So access to Housing Program with lgbt center, 50 lgbtq and again, the firsttime Home Buyers Program from the center and youth advocacy through lyric anlyricand a womens place droph cats and Transgender Health and is ucsf program. With that, the overall lgbtq folks averages 38 and the transpacific goes up to 9 . So you can see the stark difference when we reach out to that program. Right below that, we included just for reference what it looks like when you have a very specifically marketed lgbt friendly permanent housing site. This is 95 laguna. Its not included in the overall numbers, because its technically closed in august of 201, bu2019, but i thought it ws helpful to what those numbers look at and you can see number higher numbers for that kind of project. It does require intensive outreach. Again people knew that this program was coming online for years and years, just like 55 laguna. But it does show that there are some possibilities for moving this forward. On that line, because at the last hearing we really focused on the transHousing Needs, i wanted to talk a little bit about the Current Program that we have as folks may remember we received dollars through eraf to fund a transgender rental Subsidy Program and were working with st. James i infirmy on Market Street to launch that to address the Housing Needs for transfolks and realize that many of them dont have the income to qualify for our traditional permanent housing. They often come in from incarceration or off the street and really dont have even the 50 area income and that has been used to launch a combination of some permanent rental subsidies and a unique program that we can talk about later, if you like, that is really creating a kind of a transitional Housing Program, or we can create a master lease where people can move into those units, receive intensive case management, oneonone help to move back into the employment world is then move out, hopefully with a lesser subsidy into a more permanent housing range. And then provide housing and then we go through our own training and we would be, i think, open to learning from our fellow colleagues who have developed more extensive so generic i training for our own employees. And then, lastly, in terms of underrepresentation, i think we really have wanted to do specific outreach this year and we are in the beginning of a new fiveyear cycle and so, we did a number of outreach effort to the lgb and ttranspacific to encourage them to come to our programs because we find thats the most effective way to reach out. We talked about the rental Subsidy Program and for us, i feel like on the housing side, its really much more intensively focusing on what we can do for the Transgender Community. I think thats lgb, also, but i think the transexpect i transs what weve heard their incorporatincorporateabilityto o engage and figure out what is the reality. In general, you know our ability to provide permanent housing for very poor folks that are below 50 ami but not homeless is difficult. And many of our Transgender Community falls into that area. We hope this will move forward in a successful way. I want to touch on the relationship in a chart in your report and in one of your slides. So on page 12, theres a chart on affordable Housing Programs, i think. Uhhuh. Which suggests that at least for 1819 tell me if im reading this right. For 1819, you know, close to 14 of the applicants for the citys affordable Housing Programs were lgbtq and close to 50 went on to be tenants 15 wept owent on to become tenantsd that all seems good. Now that includes 95 laguna, right . It does not include that. Its just because of the timing. 95 laguna will be included in the 1920 report because it technically closed in august. So 1920 might be even better. That is correct, yes. Were hoping, yes. Good. Thank you, mr. Chu. It. Thank you. Thank you. Lets hear from sarah duffy with dcos. I havent been entirely vigilant about enforcing the fiveminute limit but if you could. Mine is shorter. Awesome didnt and i have cs here. Well, good morning. Im sarah duffy, the data didnt evaluation manager, but the departmenat thedepartment of chh and families. Were excited to share out this data. We think really critically about the demographics of the grudge we serv fund. We ask them to collect data into the Data Management system and thats where we collect Demographic Data. For soji data, we focus on the disconnected transitional age youth we serve, so that is defined in the children and youth legislation as youth aged 1824 who are homeless and in danger of homelessness, have dropped out of high school, have a disability, lowincome parents, undocumented, new immigranted, lgbt g questions or transitioning from foster care, juvenile justice, criminal justice or special education. Thats the demographic of 1824yearolds that we aim to serve and thats who we collect identified soji data from. We serve these youth in a variety of different areas ranging from educational supports programs, enrichment and leadership programs, youth work and mentorship programs, totally 85 programs that identified disconnected as part of the target population for their programming. And those are the programs that we collected soji data from. You can see Sexual Orientation by the 1824yearold participants. This is not a marched field. Mandatory field. We had responses from 1,370 young people to this question and of those that reported, 17 indicated that they were bisexual, gay, lesbian, samegender loving, questioning, unsure and another 10 declined to state. We recognise this is a low number. This is a field that we ask all of our grantees to collect data on and well be working with them to better understand what their process is in collecting this information and how we can increase the proportion of responses. So in terms of gender identity, we had a higher percentage, pretty much all of the clients reported this data and we see here that 3 of the young adults that we serve report being transgender, 2 as other. And only 1 has declined to state. Another thing that i just want to highlight is that we do really want to understand the Sexual Orientation and gender identification of the younger youth that we serve. We just dont feel comfortable collecting it on a client level, in an identified way. So what we do is we administer youth surveys or ask our ce o to administer youth surveys to the youth they serve in middleschool and high school and we ask for sexual orient attention and other demographic information from those youth and this gives us a little bit of a picture of the so generic i distribution for our younger participants. We see here, if you compare the survey responses to over 18 and under 18, that a higher proportion of middleschool and high schoolarche schoolaged sd respondents are not sure and thats thinking about how to collect the information from younger participants in our programs. So in terms of training efforts, we have partnered in the past to do different training for the cdos and for our own staff on both providing appropriate services for lgbtq clients, as well as how to do Data Collection. And we need to start working with them to do some training this year. We did them last year and were planning to do webinar and inperson of the winter of 1920. Serving the Lgbtq Community has been a major priority and highlighted in our proposals process. And so we remain very committed to understanding the needs of the community. Right now were going through our Community Needs assessment and the lgbtq youth and families are a priority plan population o understand more for our needs assessment. We do want to unpack some of thy Sexual Orientation and well be exploring that this year. We just finished analyzing all of the 1819 data and were embarking on understanding the demographic picture for our participants this year. Well be work on that and well continue to report it out and talk about it with our staff and with our cdos, weve published yearend reports for 1819 where there is Demographic Data ranging from highlevel service area where you can look at the demographics and so generatiojir all of our youth to the program levels. We look at it closely and take that seriously. We hope youll take a look at the website and you can access those reports now as of a couple of weeks ago. So that pretty much concludes the presentation. Theres more information in the report, specifically around the different programs that we fund that do serve disconnect. Thank you. Last up, we will be hearing from susie smith with hsa. Last but not least. Hi, everybody. Im susie smith, the Deputy Director for policy and planning at humidity services agency. Again, if we could ask you to stick to five minutes, that would be great. Ok. So quickly, im going to go over the scope of our data collecting efforts and ill highlight pieces of our reports, talk about what were doing specifically to promote lgbtq inclusion and talk about our training and then a new project that we have with the Controllers Office. So hsa, as you know, is compromised of three separate departments, department of aging and Adult Services which has been named department of disability and aging services, the department of Human Services didnt the office of early care and education. Together, we administer over 80 programs or contracts and we collect our data in 11 different database systems. We serve over 200,000 people in San Francisco and we have over 2,000 staff operating at nine main sites in addition to partnerships with community organizations. So were a large organization. Only until this past year have we been able to collect soji data because the state lagged behind a year inma in mandatingt we collect. Last year we werent able to say we could fully comply but now were happy to update you on that. So in terms of of the highlights of our report, again, we now are able to find quantitative and qualitative data and we have a breakdown for the fields that were served in fiscal year 1819. And so, again, encourage you to look at the full report for specific programs and we talk about what were actually doing to promote the Data Collection and talk about some of the challenges that were experiencing. Unfortunately, in the five minutes we have, we cant present the data on all programs but we will highlight data from our doscommunity programs. So again, the new programs that were able to report on now are medcal, inhome support services and family and children services, the largest programs and those are we what serve 200,000 and medcal alone is 185,000 and thats exciting for us. We saw a market improvement thanks to our partnership with oti and more reminders to contractors and compliance monitoring. 100 of applicable programs are reporting soji data as of our last report and, of course, theres still some programs that are in the fields or declined to state but the first time to say we can report on all programs. And the next slide, we dive into the doscommunitybased services and were joined if you have questions specific to dos. But here we see, communitybased programs, Sexual Orientation, we see that they are serving 4 gay or pleas lesbian and 1 bi and questioning. please stand by . There are some contractors on staff that are reluctant to ask so we have to continue doing that kind of capacity building. Continuing to expand on Quality Assurance and review of the data to identify where we do have packets of noncompliance. I just wanted to briefly talk about about the efforts. They really been at the forefront of this work. Supporting the development of the lgbtq aging task force. They were the ones to first recommend that we collect sogi. They were the first ones to provide data of training, and they have the highest compliance in all of hsa. Its also part of the distinctl. The indepth Equity Analysis to look at the lgbtq data in a more detailed way to understand the gaps. What we found is that not surprisingly when you expand services tailored specifically to this community and found lgbtq focused organizations to combat the underrepresentation, you get better results. It is not Rocket Science but we are seeing that in our data. One area that they need to improve on is being able to serve lgbtq people of color. Theres an underrepresentation of people in the area. Development Taylor Services specifically to meet the needs of aging and disabled transgender populations. In the area, daas has been working with oti. Weve had roundtables to learn more about the older adults and people with disability transgender population to learn about their concerns and their needs. Daas recently issued an rfp for hundred 50,000 for services that promote Community Protection and isolation in the community. Our next focus is going to be meeting with leaders and stakeholders to discuss people of color that are lgbtq, aging or disabled to first understand the needs before we issue additional funding. On the next slide a little bit more on agencywide efforts. We have lgbtq contract specifically around employment with the community center, transgender employment program. Weve done cultural competency training to all of our staff and our local Service Providers. Daas in partnership with the alzheimers partnership. They have done specific word for legal and life planning for lgbtq older adults. Really showing all of the work and leadership. Ellipsis apartment has pushed around the issues. In terms of our efforts to promote lgbtq inclusion and address underrepresentation. We are implementing the mayors gender inclusivity, and including removing gender language from all of our forms and using clients chosen name. We have converted all of our at all of our sites at all gender bathrooms. Making amendments to make them gender inclusive. We have been providing ongoing support to San Franciscos lgbtq aging task force. On the next slide, lgbtq cultural sensitivity training is required for all of our over 2,000 employees. Part of our induction now through our learning and development team. The contractor annual training that i mentioned is mandatory. In terms of training best practices we have been working with open house over the last couple of years having an organization that really has expertise that can answer questions of how do we ask these questions on how do i respond when someone is not comfortable. Having the expertise and house to train our cbos has been really important. We have been partnering with them. We have been sharing our expertise and materials that we have gotten from open house of all of our divisions. Finally, because i know i have been beat, we are partnering with the Controllers Office the goal is to establish sogi metrics and desired outcomes for sogi clients. We want to go a little bit more in depth for some of the areas we have not had as much compliance and understand what are some of the resistance and how can we have recommendations to better understand the denominator. We dont have data on lgbtq q people in San Francisco that are under 100 of the population. We are trying to understand the gaps. It is difficult because we do not have a good denominator. Working with them to see how we might be able to better assess those gaps and then make recommendations, the city of how we can better report and analyze and use the state in the future. Under our initiative we decided it would be a great opportunity to bring him outside entity and a partner with us and see how we continue to do even better. A lot of information. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, i think we can do public comment. Thank you. Thank you for all of the departmental representatives who are really informative on the update presentations. We are going to move to public comment. For folks that are here to speak on this item, please sign up on the side of the room and step up to the mic. You have two minutes. Please state your first name in your last name clearly. Morning, supervisors. Kevin quick, state of Affairs Officer for the San FranciscoYouth Commission. Just a brief report from the Youth Commission on this last monday, november 4, they voted unanimously to support this hearing with the following comments. While we applaud the continued implementation of the sogi Data Collection. We urge committees and departments to consider concrete takeaways and action points to improve services for lgbtq populations add foz with the city, based on this data, we would also like to highlight the Youth Commissions history and the past work we have done with the department of Public Health and the Human Rights Commission on the previously unimplemented administrative code chapter 12 and on lgbtq Youth Services sensitivity training which was enacted back in 1999 but remained unfunded through 2,000. While we commend city departments that are gathering sogi data, which was actually one of our first step recommendations back in 2015 on implementing chapter 12. We note that there is still work to do to properly serve vulnerable lgbtq youth across departments and Service Providers and to work is long overdue. We think supervisor mandelman, for calling this hearing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, district eight Youth Commissioner. I want to echo what my fellow colleague, commissioner quick has just said on the Commission Support of this hearing. I want to think supervisor mandelman, for supporting this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. Thank you rafael for your leadership on this. I want to let you know, many people know that i have been dogging this for a very long time. It is working. Down here on the ground, i am experiencing a lot less steeri steering, we have to provide so many ways that providers are steering people away from the services they were qualified for. People and organizations are now more welcoming. Theyre looking for solutions. It is working. I want to drill down, because there are so many things to talk about but its little time. On the legislative intent. That was really looking at the disparities. So, i would bring peoples attention, i know they did a really good job of that. That is the Gold Standard in measuring disparities. I saw that type of analysis was missing from some of these reports. We want to look at outcomes, what we are looking at here is a lot of processes. Some of the outcomes on the goals are missing. Rafael was sort of alluding to that. I love outcomes. Im in a contractor at i love them. We have to actively ensure that the departments are identifying what the outcome goals are for serving lgbtq people. We need carrots and sticks. Organizations are not going to change until they are forced to change. One of the things i would like to explore is lgbtq testing, especially in housing so we can send in testers to all of the Affordable Housing providers. Looking for disparities there. The department of homelessness and Supportive Housing has never done any outreach for lgbtq adults thank you. Next speaker, please. I am karen, the executive director of open house. We serve lgbtq seniors and Community Building in San Francisco. Supervisor shanti thank you for your leadership on this issue. Have things i wrote. But heres what have to say. Thank you daas, youre doing doing an amazing job. Lgbtq seniors survive outside of dos. It is to tell you that lgbtq seniors exist. When you look at your data and you see there is no lgbtq seniors, the conclusion we cannot come to is that they dont exist. This is why seniors feel invisible in the city. So, when we open the only welcoming housing, weve only done it once, that was open house. I hope we do it a lot more times. I hope we include youth. We had 15 units of Supportive Housing and we only placed three lgbtq people into those units. I am ready to work with the department of homelessness, we have talked about, i know they feel disappointed about this, too. Proactively we could have looked at the data, no lgbtq seniors have gone through Access Points. We should look at that data and say there is a problem proactively not wait to where we miss our chance. At the one shot we had at lgbtq welcoming senior housing. Weve got work to do. Seniors exist. I want to hear the word seniors and departmental reports. They are important to the city. They cannot be invisible. Open house cannot do this alone. We need your help. Departments and supervisors together for us to make a difference. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is courtney, im here from the San Francisco aids foundation. Thank you for holding this hearing. It is encouraging to hear all of the progress that has been made. We do remain concerned as karen mentioned around the number of senior spots that were made available. Looking to more for the department from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing around lgbtq homeless issues. More generally, i would like to see a plan for how we make sure that situation does not happen again. Also our focus on lgbtq homeless population, in general. While i have the microphone, i have to say that we remain concerned about the People Living with hiv who are homele homeless. The fact that of the 582 that have been screened for formatte0 have received prioritization, despite the fact that those people do have multiple. [inaudible] and are very, very sick living on our streets. Thank you very much. Take care. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is shane. I am a Community Member and i work along with the o. T. I. I want to thank you for your time, and thank the presenters today. Just to reiterate on some of the points i heard today. We need a lot of help in our community. I want to thank you all for your time, because this meeting, last year, helped make efforts to move forward in that initiative. Data collection allows us to take collection. With the data we will be able to make more informed decisions. I like to think about the Community Members who are suffering right now. I have a lgbtq sr. Front, samantha, and because it is going to get cold outside. The fog is coming in and winter is coming. I am concerned that while we are waiting to take data that we need to make sure that people like her feel safe in the services provided, and also that there is room for her to exist in San Francisco where she has been ousted in other communities including family. We want our community to be safe accessing these services. I just want to reiterate again, training is really important in these services so they know how to communicate with our communities. And also the data is important, but we need to do work simultaneously so we can get our people off of the streets and feeling safe. Take you so much for your time. Thank you. Anyone else i would like to speak on this item. Public comment is closed. If i could invite you back up for a couple of questions. So, can you tell us what happened at 95 laguna and why its never going to happen aga again, that lgbtq sr. Housing again and why we will never end up in a situation where we have these lots. Thank you. Thank you to open house for highlighting that today. For context for everyone here who is not as close to this issue. The 15 units opened and the individuals who were in coordinated entry and documents ready at the time that those units came online who self identified as lgbtq did move into did get placed in that project. Unfortunately, at that time there were only three. That is 100 accurate what was shared. We need to do better. One of the things i mentioned in the presentation is our commitment, and an ongoing way, while we cannot designate under fair housing law for this population, we can markets and provide outreach. The first goal here is that we need to ensure that lgbtq seniors are coming into coordinated entry. We need to make sure they are assessed. We need to evaluate our tool and making sure they are being prioritized effectively. And, when we have that Larger Population as people move out of the permanent supported Housing Units and they become available. We have a larger group of individuals to draw from in order to place a higher proportion of lgbtq seniors and that and other similar projects which we all hope are in the citys. I do want to think open house done, but particularly, one of the things we have learned from these hearings is if we dont have a specific focus on trying to serve lgbtq folks, we do not do it. I think having open house, being a full partner in the 55 and 95 laguna projects, notwithstanding the kerfuffle that around the 15 units, having open houses part of that project i think is the reason why 55 laguna and 95 laguna have been able to have the lgbtq representation that they have. Going forward as we try to do more lgbtq sr. Housing, whether or not karen is willing to do it. [laughter] could be cajoled and coerced into it. I think it is critically important that there be lgbtq serving organizations involved in lgbtq housing projects. So, just for a big picture perspective, total seniors are comparative to the homeless point and time count in our coordinated entry system. Lgbtq seniors are underrepresented. That is a great concern to us. We have seen improvements since this issue in august, since august 21 when we sent our targets and started host our meetings. We are actively seeking support from everyone here to have lgbtq seniors connected to Access Points. They are named Access Points for a reason. We need to have people coming in, or come to buy our mobile Access Points in order to access the rest of our system. We really look forward to improving in this area. I would just like to underscore the alignment of different city priorities. We have priorities around housing folks. We also have a strong priority around there are more hiv positive individuals than we have the hope of providing shelter, or Supportive Housing in the imminent future. It does seem like as we look at the priorities for getting people indoors and off the streets, the viral load as sort of a goal might be a thing to look at that there are people who are not successfully maintaining treatment, maybe not even being treated at all. For their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people in their lives and for the cities over all Health Policy goals. Dot that is kind of thing, i know, i have raised this with director fisk as well. I dont think it is a binary, you know, we should make necessarily positive status the first thing that cooks you into a priority housing. There are ways of looking at Different Health needs, sometimes they are overlapping. Sometimes people that are having difficulty with viral suppression are having difficulty with other health needs that might actually be a proxy for some of those. Anyway i think that is really important feedback, supervisor. At the moment in our coordinated entry system, the hiv positive population is with relative parity to the homeless count. And you are suggesting that we need to look beyond that, is that correct . Im not saying were not going to get to zero if we dont have recognition of that priority. Somehow as part of our prioritization for getting folks into sheltering and permanent Supportive Housing. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you chair sfgovtv team. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you to and the advocates. I think, you know, the departments are continuing to make progress and improve in the information that they are providing in the ways in which they are using that information and i think there is a lot of room for additional progress. You know, i am reminded though of the Great Success that was achieved to the lgbtq aging task force. I see tom owen here. I think some of that had to do with having not just, you know, silo departments looking at priorities around, that have been identified by the task force, but actually having a working group that was looking across departments to kind of think about how the whole city was responding in a cross departmental way. I think we are going to circle back with director farley, and her office and think more about takeaways from this hearing. I do think, going forward, it may make sense to sort of have some kind of working group, or other body, between our annual hearings on this work with the departments, to make the changes i know well want to make. Thank you everyone. Thank you, supervisor mandelman, and thank you everyone for their support hearing and discussion. I would like to have it filed. We will move to file this hearing without objection. Thank you. Any further business, mr. Clark . That concludes our business for today. We are adjourned. Still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees, but Public Safety has to always we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came