The committee to continue this item. Next speaker. Good morning. Now it is afternoon. Peter cohen. The pdas at a technical level, i would like to step back and think about this item in contrast to the last item sb50 and the conversation about local community planning. It is very encouraging to hear your Planning Department staff and i am thinking about supervisor browns comments early about the staff being helpful. It is not a technical resource. You didnt see the Planning Department staff taking a position opposing sb50 based on the amendment the board put forward. Frankly, that is what a Planning Department should be doing. Unfortunately they were silent and it took the board to do that technical work. Now the Planning Department is coming forward with a pda proposal saying this is not dictating zoning or telling you your process is taken away from you. This is the short of music to a lot of folks ears about doing the planning right. Of course, all of the details matter much. It seems to be a contradictory narrative. The state knows what is right and the right process and knows where the geography is. I would encourage you to think about this, frankly, as a positive signal as the planning staff has used about how to do things right and how to have local participation that is grounded in local control. I think in San Francisco we have used that term responsibly. In contrast to an earlier speaker that said the paternallism of the state telling the neighborhoods and leaders how to do your job. I support this in concept. It is a great contrast to what you heard earlier. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Susanna parsons with spur. We confirm to create new Priority Development areas, conservation areas and Priority Production areas as part of plan bay area 2050. We appreciate the proposed areas are in areas with highquality transit. This is the right place to put new growth and helps the city meet its goals for sustainability and supports new transit investments. We appreciate the pdas are geographically distributed. All parts of San Francisco are a role to play and to create an inconclusive city and region. Next speaker. Catherine howard. This is a summary of two page analysis i have submitted yesterday. I am very concerned about the impact of the proposed new Priority Development areas will have on the city. The public has had a short time to review this and i suspect these to come in during the christmas and thanksgiving vacations. I ask you to postpone a ves voto there can be further discussion by the communities affected. The Planning Department insists the areas are being designated for planning purposes, the factory mains they are called Priority Development areas, not priority planning areas. In october 2019, a memo from the Planning Department defines the pda as a signal from a local government it has considered planning for housing growth in that area. M. T. C. A planning document further states that quote the pda planning programming provides Financial Support for planning processes that seek to intensify land uses end. Planning processes with the greatest potential for resulting in land use zoning and policy changing leading to new development will be most competitive and emphasizing zoning updates to facilitate and streamline the development process. We want a communitybased development process, and yet this and i will use the word paternalistic as imposed on the Planning Department. In the interest of full public process postpone a vote and schedule meetings in the impacted neighborhoods to let the neighborhoods give impact. I will submit a copy of my longer analysis for the clerk and the board. Thank you. I am barry hermanson. I want to ask a brief question. Priority development for whom . We need affordable housing. I am very clear that even with the requirement to build 25 or 30 affordable, it is exactly the reverse of what we need. We need 75 to 80 to 90 to 100 affordable. Otherwise, we are facing massive displacement, gentrification. Priority development for whom . I ask that be defined a little more before this goes forward. Thank you. Good afternoon. George wedding, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. Just a couple of thoughts and comments, not a real ask. It cant override whether a Citizens Group does in the pda. Planning can do that right now. The funding and grants are welcome for the planning for its sens, but they are also very minimalistic. I was told that from 2007 to now on transportation and that kind of thing, we spent about 12 million. You can do the math. You can see we are not talking about huge grants here. We are not fixing problems. I think what is troubles is to hear what irene said. We are in the process of planning on the west side. Already it is slippery slope. Definitions might be changing, we have no control over what is going to happen after we do a pda in terms of density. There is no parameters. We approve an area, but we have no idea how much density we are approving. We could be approving massive amounts of density. I do welcome that the citizenry is being asked to review this, but i also. Next speaker, please. Corey smith, San Francisco housing action. I am in support of the Planning Department and thrilled to hear that supervisor mar and others are taking this on to move forward. I totally agree with peter earlier. This conversation in conjunction with the sb50 is interesting. The city of San Francisco had the opportunity to do this for a long time and hasnt. If you are at the Planning Commission hearing for this item, hearing the vial comments in opposition. Jake mcgold rick said vaping the west side. We couldnt do it because families live on the west side. Insinuating families cant live in apartments. We encourage Community Conversations so people can figure out the best way for the city to grow on the western half of San Francisco. We dont see that in conflict with the more homes act. Sb50 says San Francisco height limits 45 feet. We are not going to touch that but allow density controls. Then the city can come in with a planning overlay and we can make our own requirements for demolition and everything else. You know, i wholeheartedly hope everybody that comes up here saying we need a local plan leads. If not, it is just talk, and it is spinning our wheels and saying things we dont believe we are going to fulfill and saying we need more affordable housing. I am exciting. Thank you for your work on it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Rick hall. I would join what says we dont know enough about this yet. It should be continued. There should be a lot more involvement by the communities in what this is. You can see by the lack of turnout here, most communities dont really arent engaged at this level. Yet Planning Works with us in the mission a lot. This one even came up and surprised us. Why, arent there Community Meetings throughout the impacted communities east and west working with their supervisors to get in put on this before it is just, you know, sort of waved forward . What are the implications . What are we getting out of taking this bribe of a very small amount of money to send a signal we are open for market rate business . We need to consider these things. You guys need to figure out what are we saying and what are the implications when, you know, the next version of sb50 says and pdas we are going to do x . Why arent we taking out other pdas where we have on the eastern side of the cityover overdone and overbuilt. We havent answered the questions that need answered. Next speaker. San francisco coalition. I want to make a comment about the startling difference that i notice between what the pda allocation is for San Francisco and the areas in the suburbs. I think the slide was indicating that is 13,000acres of pda designated versus the suburbs in the thousands. My only question here is, and not so of an objection, it is a good idea for us to plan for areas that will be developed in the future as long as we are not going to demolish what is existing there to displace to develop. My question is this. If we are increasing the pdas, does that mean the rena obligation is going to increase . If that is the case, what can we do to get the suburbs to pull their first share. That is it. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I want to ask you to come up and respond to the points made during Public Comment, in particular, i think there were a number of people that were concerned about the lack of time and process for Community Input on the expanded pda designatio designations. And the request for more time for the community to weigh in on this. Certainly. We have been this is a board action. Planning department has talked to all of the supervisors over the last two or three months. To get feedback and outreach at the direction of the Board Members who shot it was necessary for their districts. I have been out at Community Meetings in g7 and spokeker to d4 and d1 and the supervisors havent asked for further outreach. I made myself available to answer questions as need be. We do have the timeline laid out. We all recognize it is a tight timeline. They have the process to undertake the regional plan within a certain timeframe and put this out giving cities a number of months to carry this out. That is what has been laid before us. I want to respond and say that i first got the first communication from you about this may be a month ago. I cant remember exactly when it was. I had to reach out and request a meeting about it. I do think a lot more work could have been done by the Planning Department to not just work with the supervisors on the expanded pda proposal but to make it more known to the public. Given that we are facing a january 15th deadline for the board to pass the resolution and forward it . Thats correct. I think we are under a realtime deadline on this. We need to continue this a week and not vote on it today. The amendments that the attorney or can you comment on the amendments that i proposed . Are they substantive. Deputy city attorney. They are not substantive. The committee could pass it out today or if you continue it, you could pass it out next week. Then t to the full board on the 17th. Can you respond to a number of comments raised of concern about how the expanding the pdas to the west side neighborhoods could lead to the kind of concerns that folks have been raising about sb50 and the west side. If you can respond to that. I would be happy to. There is not a direct correlation between the pdas and sb50s. The pdas is voluntary framework to tap into the resources for planning processes. It doesnt presuppose any particular outcome. Ultimately, if the city chooses not to do planning in those the consequences are the pda by the region in the future if they dont see action by the local jurisdiction to take some action to increase housing capacity. It is a reflection of the fact that ultimately the land use controls are up to the city and not the region. It is really up to us to do something or not do something where these pdas. There is no real direct correlation between sb50. It doesnt reference this in any manner and the controls that would impose. The pda framework is bay area specific framework that was created a number of years ago. Not something any oregon in the state uses. There would be no reason for sb50 to reference it in any manner. One of the previous Public Comment statements that other cities havent stepped up to nominate pdas. That is why they wont recognize the pdas. That is as much or nor trying to get the cities to allow housing when they are not doing it themselves. The pda provides an opportunity to do planning and helping the city. Those are the carrots available to influence what happens. Do you have any questions, comments . I would like to move that we accept the amendment that i presented today without objection. I would like to move we continue this item since we will have a special Board Meeting special jo meeting next week to allow the publish to review. The more is to continue the item as amended to the special Committee Meeting of december 11th. Can we do that without objection . Yes. Mr. Clerk please call items 4 and 5 foreclosed session. Agenda items 4 and 5 are for settlements of lawsuits against the city and county of San Francisco. Any members of the public who wish twish to testify on the ito be heard in closed session . Public comment im sorry. Sue hester. This is the settlements academy of Art University of the first and only hearing the Planning Commission was right before thanksgiving. I believe that there is going to be a landuse Committee Meeting next monday to hear this. It has not been advertised, bullet i was told that. It is now advertised. Well, i am here. I just want to tell you that sometime there needs to be serious discussion about the academy of art. If it is like last time, we will be through with the hearing in under two hours, and next monday. It will come to the board for the first hearing on the 17th, and the second hearing right after the first of the year. Both hearings in january. I cant hear you. I will let you finish then i will respond. When people raise questions about housing buyout and price of housing in the development agreement, which was only made available at the very, very end of october, people had no ability to plow through the complicated thing because it was confidential. People raised questions about ad accessibility and people raised questions about transit and the concentration on van ness avenue. Basically, the only people that were listened to buy the Planning Commission were the the immediate neighbors. Housing, ada and transit were shit canned. We had no ability to get in put. Thank you. Next speaker. When you dont speak. Supervisor peskin. I want to clarify that on monday, december 9th, the Landuse Committee will hear this matter. That will not be forwarded to the full board until our first meeting in january for a possible first reading, and the second meeting in january for a possible second meeting. It is not going to the full board of supervisors on the 17th of december. Thank you for that additional comment, supervisor peskin. I have been following the academy of Art University. I think there is quite a bit more here about the proposed settlement be that needs to be sunlighted. Too many parts of this complicated agreement havent had public scrutiny, and a lot of it i am not sure that we can see even now. There seems to be some parts of it that you have to approve before there can be any amendment. Then there can be no amendments. Please, do what you can to help San Francisco and the residents who have been evicted from their housing and who have gotten no compensation, but the city has also suffered. Please do what you can to put more sunlight on this. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in the public to speak on the items foreclosed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to convene in closed session . We are now in we are now back in open session for government audit and oversights december 5, 2019. During the closed session the committee acted to first remember agenda item 4 to item four to the january 7th Board Meeting without recommendation for consideration on january 7th. Agenda item 5 will be a Committee Report to the decembea recommendation. Mr. Clerk, any further business . Clerk no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Take a seat. Good morning. I am the c. E. O. Of health right 360. Welcome to our Recovery Residence Program. It offers help to people who are transitioning from residential Substance Use treatments into independent living. We opened a soft open in april and filled up by september and we were able to house 72 people here on Treasure Island for up to 24 months. We could not have done this without the support of our mayor mayor breed to, please welcome to the podium today. [applause] thank you. Thank you for your work and the work of health right 360. Im excited to be here today and be joined by supervisor haney and dr. Grant colfax from the department of Public Health to really express my excitement about what these new beds due to provide an opportunity for people who we know need this level of support. As someone who grew up in San Francisco and especially now as mayor, i do spend a lot of time in the neighborhood. And the consistent theme of people, who in some cases that i grew up with, or the parents of people who i grew up with, who unfortunately have had challenges with Substance Use disorder, they are maybe getting the kind of help and treatment they need to, but then once they go through the 90 day program, thats when the struggle really begins. They dont know where they are going to go. And the truth of the matter is, in many cases, there are challenges around trust with some of their family members. So they cant always go home. So what do we do to make sure that they stay clean and sober . How do we provide an opportunity for them to rebuild those relationships with theres front with their friends and family members so they can continue to focus on their sobriety . This is an opportunity to do just that. What an amazing place. Seventytwo new beds for the sole purpose of helping to make sure that people are able to get back on their feet with dignity. Thats what today is about. Theres not a one size that fits all in San Francisco and we know that there is a real need to reform our systems of care. Whether it someone suffering from Substance Use disorder or someone suffering from mental illness. How do we, as a city, start to remove the stigma attached to the challenges that people face and incorporate it into how we provide healthcare in general in our city and in our country . We have come to a crossroads where there is a strong need to ensure that we are making the kinds of investments necessary to build up on all the Amazing Things that we already do in San Francisco to increase our capacity and the remnants. I am grateful to supervisor haney and supervisor ronen for working with me on Mental Health s. F. To do just that. A commitment to san franciscans to ensure that we completely reform the Mental Health system in a way that is responsible, in a way that delivers a level of support necessary to help people and meet them where they are. To have a clear understanding of the data and who actually needs the help that we are able to provide and how we expand upon those that we are not able to reach. Dr. Colfax and his team at the department of Public Health have done an amazing job with identifying 4,000 individuals that we know we are not providing sufficient care for. And the only way we are going to do that is increase our capacity , provide Additional Resources and we couldnt do this work without organizations like health right 360 who since the days of the three clinic of walden housing organizations that emerged to create something so powerful that it has truly delivered an opportunity for people, who in some cases, have lost hope to find a new way of living, to find a new life and to thrive again. So i am grateful. I am grateful to be here. I am grateful for this opportunity. In this past years budget, we committed to opening 212 new beds. These 72 beds that we are opening here today, we reached almost half of that goal and overall, our commitment is to make sure that we are adding to our already 2,000 Behavioral Health beds and an additional thousand. Of course, we need more. Of course, we know it is expensive. Of course, we need to expand our workforce and provide wraparound supportive services. We know what we need and now it is time that we get there. We are almost, maybe not almost, but close enough because these 72 beds need a regular basis. This means that there are people who will have a place to move forward, a place to grow, a place to really thrive in our city where we know anything is possible. I want to say thank you to everyone for being here and a thank you to health right 360 and the work you continue to do. It means so much to have you all here with us. And i see sherry young from one Treasure Island. Thank you for the work that you have done and we the work we did together. Many years ago, when i worked for the Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority in San Francisco, and it was the Treasure IslandHomeless Development initiative, which is now one Treasure Island, doing great work to make sure that formerly Homeless People and veterans and families have access to a safe, affordable place to call home. This is an amazing community. This is an amazing opportunity. This is what happens when we come together to do what is in the best interest of the people of our city, especially those who are most vulnerable. I am so proud of each and every one of you for participating in this amazing opportunity. Thank you all so much for being here. [applause] thank you so much, mayor breed. You should know that 90 4 of the people who come here for Substance UseDisorder Treatment come to us experiencing homelessness. Most of those people are unsheltered. They live outdoors. We all know that San Francisco, if you are unsheltered when you come into residential treatment under 90 days, you will leave without housing. That is a tragic, tragic circumstance. It is impossible to maintain the benefits of treatments if you dont have a safe place to live. It is common sense. We are so grateful to the mayor s office in the department of Public Health that worked with us to work with us to house people so that they will have a safe place to live, continue their treatment with work, get job training, and go to school. We thought this was a good idea. It has exceeded our wildest expectations. Our wildest expectations. It has been amazing. I have thought that maybe more clients would actually access treatment if they knew there was housing on the other end, and if you dont have a house or a place to live, why go into treatment if you are going to be in a tent on the other side of that . One day i am walking to my office, and i happen to work in the Mission Street location which is where our central intake is and i hear one guy waiting to go into intake telling another gay another guy going into intake and he says, hey, if you come into treatment, they will house you for another year or two afterwards. He said really . Anecdotal evidence, but i think that its exactly what is happening. I think that more clients come into treatment, they stay in treatment because they know there is housing on the other side. So it is our deepest gratitude to the mayors office, to the department of Public Health, to supervisor haney for helping us secure this space. I thank you to one Treasure Island her being a supporter for us. I also hope that this is im so glad you have this here. I hope this holds up as a beacon of what treatment should look like for low income people throughout california. This is not just a San Francisco issue. This is an issue that is oakland and san jose and los angeles, and all the other counties where we work. People come into treatment and they need to be assured they have a safe place to live on the other side of it. I thank you all for your support i would like to i also have to acknowledge our amazing staff the programs are staffed by people with lived experience because they are there to help coach the client and help build optimism and to show that it can be done. We can do this. It is working. People get jobs, people are moving out into independent living just as we projected. Thank you to amazing staff. I would like to bring up one of our amazing residents. [applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is daniel. I go by danny. I live here at the Recovery Residence Program on Treasure Island. Im very grateful to be where i am matt today. This program has prepared me for my future and bettering my life and the Endless Possibilities ahead of me. Like many of my peers here, my journey has had its shares of ups and downs. I was selling drugs and eventually developed a problem with drug use which led me to a cycle of incarceration and drug use. I have had experience with other treatment programs, but none were the right fit for me with their strict rules and judgement i even completed treatment at walden house a few years back, but my heart wasnt in it since i was court ordered. Eventually i relapsed. Fastforward to march 2019 where i realized my life was passing me by and i wasnt where i pictured myself to be at 28 years old. I decided to cut out the negative aspects of my life and make an honest and heartfelt decision and put the past behind me and move forward. Move forward towards a cleaner and healthier lifestyle. I know i needed help so i turned to health right 360 for the skills and guidance i needed moving forward in my life. The Recovery Residence Program has given me an opportunity to get away from the drugs and the craziness i created in my life. It also has given me a place to clear my head and a healthy and supportive environment which allows me to see things in a new , positive perspective. With the help of the staff here at the program, i have learned about addiction, recovery, in healthy ways to cope and deal with life. Most importantly, though, i have found my authentic self again and learned to love myself again and live a sober and healthy lifestyle. Thank you, guys. [applause] thank you, daniel. We really appreciate you sharing your personal story with us and we are rooting for you and we are here for you. Thank you and congratulations. [applause] now i want to bring up supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney and i worked with supervisor ronen to come together in an effort to address Mental Health reform in San Francisco and which we all know is critically important to the success of so many people who are suffering on our streets. I really appreciate his work and his leadership around Mental Health reform and i know he also is the representative of Treasure Island so he is your supervisor, whoever is living here. Ladies and gentlemen, supervisor matt haney. [applause]. Thank you. We were able to come together and announce Mental Health s. F. Just last week and there are some big changes that will be coming, some systemic reform that we are working together on and i am really appreciative of the mayors leadership and dr. Colfaxs leadership. People have to know what the solution looks like. This is what the solution looks like. One people make the commitment for a change in their own lives, we as a city have to make the commitment back to them. That means not just a 90 day treatment program, although that is sometimes where it starts, but it also has to mean a commitment to housing. I think that they painted this picture that if people are going to take that big step themselves in their lives, many folks who maybe living on the street, maybe have been suffering with Substance Use disorder for some time, they need to know they will be off the streets. That journey will be one that they will carry with them over a much longer period of time and is not involved in going back out onto the streets. Daniel, we are proud of you. We are inspired by you. I thank you represent what is possible and what is happening, and what health right 360 does every day. I want to recognize and thank the leadership of health right 360 and all of the staff who are here for your extraordinary work i have the privilege of not representing this area, but many of your other facilities as well i am so grateful for everything that you do and for your commitment to expanding and partnering here on Treasure Island. I want to thank sherry and everyone from one Treasure Island who has been a close partner in identifying this opportunity of housing here and expanding the Amazing Things that are happening on Treasure Island. If you are here, some of you live here, some of you spend time here, isnt this a beautiful place, a Beautiful Island . The weather seems to be better out here. It has a great view, but if you look around, what is even more beautiful are the things that are happening in the lives of people who are here. The commitment to help people get back on their feet. A path to have stability in their lives, the compassion and the hope that is here on this island, and through health right 360 and the other organizations that are part of one Treasure Island really reflect that. This is part of what the solution looks like. Helping people with a longterm commitment to get on their feet, to stay on their feet when people are concerned about whats happening in our streets and the people who are suffering , they should also think about whats happening here in the things that we are going to continue to do together thank you, mayor breed. Thank you to everyone who is part of doing this. We appreciate it. Lets do more. Thank you. Last but not least, the director of the department of Public Health who has not even been on the job for a year. Not even a year. He has already hit the ground running and doing a great job. Dr. Grant colfax. [applause] good morning, everybody. And other treasure on Treasure Island. Thank you, mayor breed for making investment for Substance Use treatment and Mental Health. Thank you for making a priority from day one. As a clinician, this really resonates with me because i have seen many patients who have come to me asking and they are ready for Substance Use treatment and usually we can get them to a crisis treatment, we can also even get them to 90 days, but 90 days is often necessary but not sufficient. I have had many conversations with patients, whether they are using alcohol, meth, opioids, and the question comes up, what happens after 90 days . Today i think we have a very important answer and a solution for so many people. I really want to thank h. R. 360 for making this happen. Supervisor haney for your commitment to the health of our San Francisco community, and the partners in innovation. They are really helping us move forward with reforming our Mental Health system. Daniel, thank you for sharing your perspective, your history, your story. We are here to support you as the department of Public Health. I am a big believer in programs. The department of Public Health deliver services to thousands of people every year including key Mental Health and Substance Use treatment services. We know, both from the clinical perspective and from assistance perspective that housing is health. Housing is a key part of health. From most people, it is the most Important Health intervention you can do. We cant expect people to continue in their recovery. This is a key part of that work. We know from research that clients are twice as likely to maintain their ongoing outpatient treatment if they have a stable place to live. It is common sense. And we know that data makes a difference. Im proud that h. R. 360 is such a key partner for many years now with the Health Department. We focus on the data and you listen to clients and ushaped programs according to peoples needs. You are increasing not only the number people who continue to use outpatient treatments, but also the length of time that they stick with it. We will continue to invest in programs like this as we, the Health Department and the director of Mental Health reform work on a major expansion in Behavioral Health. We heard today Mental HealthMental Health s. F. And with the support of supervisor haney, ronen, and our fellow Board Members, and with the Health Departments of h. R. 360, we will transform the behavioral Health System to serve the people in greatest need. We do big things in San Francisco and we do big things in the Health Department and we will do big things Going Forward we look forward to having more days like this today as we continue to build San Francisco where wellness and recovery are possible for everyone. Congratulations h. R. 360, congratulations to your patients and clients. We look forward to working together. [applause] all right. That is it. Lets get back to work. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you. [applause] [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [. Good afternoon. I would like to all order of the regular meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, november 26, 2019. Roll call, please. Yes, madame president. I would like to let the audience know that item 7, the update on Disaster Recovery and resiliency planning has been rescheduled to december 10. So that will not be heard today. [roll call]