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send them u.s. postal service to our office in city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california, 94102. items acted upon today are expected to, peer on the board agenda of march 14. madam chair? >> thank you, for a reminder for everyone we have budget and legislative analyst reports for both item and for those items for these items zoel department presentation first. immediately followed by budget and legislative analyst reports and then question and public comment. mr. clerk could you call item one and 2 together? >> yes, items 1 and 2 are resolutions approving amendments to grant agreements with office workforce development and the programs to be approval of the resolutions and authorize the director of office and of economic and workforce development enter in amendments to the contract prior to final execution by parties that don't increase the liabilities to the city and necessary. 1 approves amendment 2 mid market foundation for management of the mid market tenderloin community based safety program. to increase the grant amount by 3.1 million for a total not to exceed of 23.5 million with no change to the grant period of july 22 through june 30 of 23. gentlemen 2 approves amendment 4 to the san francisco tourism improvement district management corporation for the downtown welcome ambassador program to increase the grant amount 3.3 million not to exceed 13.2 million with no change to the grant period of july 22 through june of 23. members of the public who wish to comment on the resolutions should call 415-655-0001, access code: 2497 903 8774 ## if you have not done so dial star 3 to lineup to speak. the prompt will indicate you raised your hand and wait until the system indicates you have been un muted then begin your comments. madam chair. >> before we start i want to say that you know i think this is a body that has different idea and opinions. but i think that collectively we understand that -- we want alternative to law enforcement, and we want -- public safety for our city. we want -- to make sure that each district and our constate wents can view safe and we all understand that clone and safe streets is the core value and city services that our city can responsible to deliver for all our constate wents no matter where they are. and you know, i think both for the mid market and downtown areas, we are mindsful the challenges that our clothes board president aaron peskin representing part of the downtown area as well as supervisor matt dorse and he supervisor dean preston who is out redistricting the representative of mid market tenderloin area. we want to support our colleagues and you know the mayor and our city departments we most important low we understand that collectively we really are here to serve san franciscans. we want to deliver clean and safe streets. is the reason i didn't believe had we may have difference of opinions wheno can agree on is that we want public safety for our city. and ambassador programs can probably it is part of that solution. and i think that most us agree. and so with that said, we have questions you >> i think that is when this conversation is about today. originally before us today is the item that was read off by mr. clerk, that we see that is an increase of these 2 contracts one for mid market and one for downtown ambassador programs. so, i think without further adue we want the presentation today from our city departments and today i think we have catherine daniels director of economic recovery initiative from the office of economic and workforce development. i do believe that there are others that are here to help answer questions including doctor miller. chief executive officer and cofounder urban alchemy. louie ham upon offend director of tality uponent and training. mandy hull, director of san francisco welcome am bas dover and sam dodge director of coordination department emergency management. i think everyone is here buzz we upon understands that besides the 2 contracts before us there are a good handful of programs city wide what we want to have a discussion about. but with that, let's start with the presentation. thank you. and thank you vice chair mandelman and members of budget and appropriation's committee. i'm cathlisten caniel for oewd we are here to talk about 2 ambassador contracts. per charter section 9. 118. a contract that exceeds 10 million dollars or ma'am over 500 thousand dollars requires approval of the board supervisors. and so we are here to seek that approval and your recommendation to approve today. i do want to confirm the out set that this is not a supplemental request. we are seeking your approval to amend contracts with funds that were approved in our 21/22 budget. to add to the grants. there are 2 items one the resolution amend the grant with mid market foundation for the mid market-tenderloin community, safety ambassador program by 3.1 million. through the end of this fiscal year. the second is a resolution that would amend our grant with the san francisco tourism improvement district to increase the downtown welcome ambassador contract by 3.3 million through june of this year. in addition, oewd is proposing amendments to the resolution which you should have in your packet. the first is to increase the mid market foundation grant. by 10 million dollars. and will -- through december of 2023, the second is to amend the downtown welcome ambassador grant additionally million through december 31 of 23. these funds also were approved as part of oewd's 2 year budget through last year's budget cycle. and the ij tent of these amendments is to ensure this upon confirmation of our budget, at the end of the budget process, that as of july one we can amend contracts and continue programming without disruption. so that the table in the presentation gives you an over view of the current grants with both these organizations. what the amendment for this fiscal year would do in terms of adding funds to those grants and then what the amendment for the next fiscal year would do in terms of adding funds to the contracts. and -- with that i will just give review of what the grants are funding. so starting with the mid market, tenderloin community based safety program, this is a program that is really aimed at supporting the economic recovery of mid market and -- of the tenderloin communities. it supplements public health and safety services in the district and ambassadors are -- providing a constant presence in those communities to deter negative behavior and really active low provide support to people in need. as well as offering assistance to visitors to the district and working close coordination with city agencies in order to responded to situations that are arise in real time. you see from this map that am the coverage area of the ambassadors and the bright green is what was expand. the geographic area that the 3.1 is paying for. all told it is 80 block space. about 100 posts and these ambassadors active 7 days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the mid market foundation is the lead applicant to the rfw that oewd released represents coalition of organizations that collectively provide this service with the lion share of the grant funds going to urban alchemy to provide those direct services on the grounds with mid market foundation really playing a coordination role to design the program, work with upon community, work with city agencies to make sure it is responsive to the needs of the community. and then to do also the on going evidence and quality control of the program. urban alchemy again has the is the entity employing ambassadors. i donning that there are questions about the training of ambassador and how they are prepared to offer the support service than i do. and i would like at this time to bring up doctor miller and lou ham onlied to talk briefly about their approach. >> hello, supervisors. good to be here today. thank you. urban alchemy prioritize hiring long-term offenderers people who had decades in prison. and because of the different level of discipline and life experience, that -- it is what allowed us to expand our program and to have the quality and get the results. i think -- what happened the phenomenon we seen is that people see our people and say, i can do this. i want to do that. we get stopped on the street. when i get clean or i want to join urban alchemy and people who are not. we hired a lot of people living unhoused by our areas. you know and now even young people from the community who have been disconnected from the works force see people likeelders and they see themselves in our family member and say i want to be like you guys. because you know, they almost like heros. they are holding down the block and series and all of that. and so we tried to and we have. we accommodated it. so -- and it is great because so many people have hope they did not have before. from and -- but it is also changed our mix a bit. it is not all incarcerated not for long periods. it is a mix of folks. the most important part of when we are doing is creating a new model. across the country we heard this demand and desire for somebody other than the police. to 71ed things that don't require police response. i think that i know we have done a great job in develop thanksgiving can san francisco and los angeles we are the largest community based public safety in the count reach we have other cities going there and start it. and but i think the important part to remember about that is this is like new. this is a brand-new model. and it is not easy to put that together. but we have been we have been good so far. and one of it we brought in really super dynamic people on the back end to build our infrastructure to meet when we have been doing on the programmatic side. we worked around training. we than is what what is your training like? okay. you know we gotta get this codifyd and work hard. how do you connect people to services? get being that you know what is our data look like? and we really had to do a tremendous job on the infrastructure piece and the quality control. where we are at is getting the quality to a certain standard and making sure that the training is topnotch. we have training that i said as a psychologist, based on science and also based on democracied of lived experience of when works and does not. louie will talk about our training. in a minute. bring nothing university professor and others who have worked for the city and positions we are attracts people. people are like, man, this is where the work is now. i want to be a part of this. we know what we have to do. and we are doing it. the most important part is we created jobs and contraries with benefits for people who have been completely locked out of the economy. we are talking about vulnerable san franciscans. we have shattered the first source records. we are 50% of the next person behind us in the 20 years that first source hen there. we are putting san franciscans to work and giving them hope and dignity and he purpose. and a sense of the future. our workforce in san francisco is 835. where would the 835 people be if they were not working for urban alchemy? now the one thing that again before i hand it over. one thing we really need what i would love is this we gotta get better data in the communities we are for the times and really show the impact we have been able to make. we have stuff from mid market. surveys and stuff. you know we have that you will to show 78% they have a good impression. i think 76% or something, they had a positive engagement. what we really need to look at is look at the stats and data from the police. you have the investment what is the impact. i'm asking because i know it will be good. that's going to give me a leg to stand on when we come to this thing. so with that i will hand it is over to lieu. it fortunate on me as a long-term offender the opportunity to give back to my community. thank you doctor and the city of san francisco. it is important that anybody that steps out in what we call our community of care. they have the ability to be successful. that is based around training. i would go ahead and say that a lot of this curriculum with the doctor miller created through her city was. it no classes, no groups, nothing offered to the long-term offender in prison. we had to create our own curriculum. we had to start to self examine and understands why because the board was going to ask this question. who are then? very important. who you are now and how did you get to this place? that takes a lot of work. and study and hours of really self examining and work through the curriculum. we have most of our practitioners not all but councillors. that's who we hire because that the is lto. combh put in the play-offs what we are giving our urban alchemy practical tigzers. when it miss to the community what does this look like? why are you here. really why are you here? what we are talking about is paying people to be kinds. we are talk about do you have an investment of making the change in your community. if you do we will make sure you get every option to learn deescalation. conflict resolution, will motivational interviewing. mission and values which are in line with the drama. keep experienced the stroits not us versus them testimony it is just us. and it is being us says if i can do it you can, too. in real time where you know we are in the class room and really what are you going to do? because one thing i do really teach and train on is emotional regulation. self control is 2 of 7 values. self control and self discipline. you will have to have self control to revving lace when you are called out your name and the n word. and spit on and how do you maintain composure. we practice that. people get spit on that is wha when we are not the honorable martin luther king. before they took the freedom roadways they had freedom tests and some could not stand this and than i were not on this bus that would be ugly looking alabama. with us here we are testing you, we can't have you do this we will run the test and we will investigate and have not only in the classroom work but we have on the job training under a strong director who is realist he is -- field based. it is important when you do in the field could be the opposite then and there in a classroom and we take that serious and it it is important and i am a believer. i think that one of the most important when i say i'm a believer i'm a believer of giving back to the community and believer we as the community -- can bring back the weather relationship and others back in the fold that were ostracized and say together we can stand. and doctor mill are said it yesterday this . is a secret sauc inner personal relationships. up want to know the train happenings go to steven covey 7 habits of highly effective people. that's it. creatingin are personal relationships. genuine and sincere and affecting those in real time with real people. >> thank you. >> if you like a list of the trainings. i will be help to provide that as well. >> you are welcome and get a first hand experience and really enjoy that, i look forward. i will be afraid but you will get it wrong. and we will have fun. >> just to close the in terms of evaluating the effective think of program we get monthly reports on activities the ambassadors are engaged in and the biannual survey that mid market foundation conduct. doctor miller sold themselves short. numbers are better than the ones she said. 88% of the community from the survey are familiar with the program. you can see the overwhelmingly people feel safer while urban alchemy is active and promoting positive experience. so then lastly, as to understand the need around this, this -- amendment, the map shows the contraction th we need to implement in april if not approved this will be a significant loss of territory and coverage this is represented by urban al kemp ambassadors and 87 individuals withhold be laid off as of april. i'm going to go straight to the welcome ambassador program and we can have all of the questions you may have. the welcome ambassadors are different. this program is really aimed at supporting the economic recovery of downtown and tourism industry. it the ambassadors are really responsible for promoting a high quality engaging and welcoming presence throughout the downtown and key tour i felt areas and destinations within san francisco. the coverage area is larger the ambassadors are roasting and about 35-40 posts out in any given time and the like the mid market foundation and the uran alchemy are out 7 days a week 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. also, like mid market foundation, the sf tourism improvement direction plays a coordination and convening role in designing the program operationally coordinate with conventions and meeting planners and hotels as large events come into the city with many of the stake holders and city agencies. while block by block receives the subcontract and the employer of record and giving the direct serve of ambassadors on the street. sf travel plays an administrative and back office function. i doment to call mandy hall up to talk about when the ambassadors do on the street and the impact they are having on tourism industry. >> thank you. everyone the numbers reflect success of our program and the hard work of the welcome ambassadors. these are a few examples when our team achoefed over 6,000 welfare checks with services offered to each person. referels made over 222,000 times to businesses. which include coffee shops, attractions, museums, restaurants. many small family businesses which need all the foot traffic they can gets. program gets daily feedback about the program and also thanking individual ambassadors. we now have over 1,000e mills from locals, small buildings from visitors around the u.s. and the world. they support the program and allment it to continue. and they all say it had a positive impact on them. lot of them say hay wish it was help inspecting other cities. >> the program also has a lot of local support as you see from this sample list. includes unions, small buildings and many others. on a professional level, the program was awarded best visitor experience by the california travel association in 2022. tourism is hugely important to san francisco. of the figures from 2019 the last reliable data we have and bring nothing 819 million dollars in local taxes, tourism supported more than quick,000 jobs and 83% of all small businesses in the city. of the 10.3 billion dollars spent, more than 20% of this came through meetings and conventions. the current number of meetings are down. and planers are recommending to us this this is mainly low due to save cleanliness issues. we have 7 large conventions at risk of canceling over the next 12 months this would have a huge negative economic impact. our program is used as a sales tool with meeting planners. we let them know that ambassadors will be on the street to welcome. direct attendees and answer questions than i may have. they'll ensure this working together with the city agencies the areas walked will be kept clean and safe as possible. feedback from meetings that have responsiblesed the program has been positive and they state the need for it to continue. this program gives us a competitive edge over the cities. which we cannot afford to lose. as small businesses the jobs and economy all need this program to continue. thank you for your support. >> and as the last slide for the over vouft welcome ambassador similar to mid market foundation, if yes if we do not amend the contract, as of april the program will need to end. and -- that would mean about 100 job losses. as of april 10th. and so i think that lastly and -- one of the things i think we have all heard and i think everybody instead city really agreeos is that the city needs to support the on going coordination and effectiveness of the programs in order to really maximize their success and to evaluate the broader impact. of in communities where active. oewd is part in with dem, dem is lead thanksgiving work around broader coordination and program evaluation. i like tone end with bringingum sam dodge to talk about the plans for the future. and take all questions. supervisors sam dodge d. emergency management. i had the honor of moving over to d. emergency management to work on the projects and we built out a small team to work on the efforts and so, people may know that healthy street operation centers and the tenderloin south of the market field operations we are working on is a success. the tenderloin and emergency initiative and convene response teams and see if there is opportunity for shirring and collaborate rigz and consolidation where possible. this made sense when oewd came in the fall and said, you know we feel we should do a deep dive and see how operations can be improved. and if there is a way to get better out come to be more parse moneyius with the scarce resources and to analyze where we are, what we are doing and approximate under a basket. activities that we call ambassadorship we see in the 2 contracts could not be more differentarctivities that are tindz in the carried out this -- well is also another group of ambassador programs out there. and so00 eye was able to recruit and hire andre tory. he was at the ocn run happening the ambassador programs there and coming out of the community. work out of the planning department of workoth mission 2020 plan and others. he has deep experience and i'm excited bring him on. and you know we will look at the training. make sure that everyone is their operations are good and that they are connected to the other responses so that no one ambassador is out there trying to solve the problems but connect the to the city and our upon opportunity that is something from dell and our dispatch and emergency coordination we can be extra. with thattil pass it down, thank you. >> so with that we will open up to questions you may have or if you want top -- [inaudible]. >> thank you. jury room good afternoon. members dan with the budget and legislative analyst office item 1 a resolution approve the second amendment tom oewd grant agreement with mid market foundation to increase the not to exceed 20 know million dollars to 23 million 590, 570 increase of 3.1 million with no change to the term. in october the mayor announced increase to the sea's ambassador promise. according to staff, the 3.1 million dollars increase includes 2.6 million to expand the service area in the market and civic area develop of 22 and june 23. from the mayor's enhancement and also 500 thousand dollars to provide 20 additional ambassadors to united nation's plaza january and march of this year to off set staffing previously funded through the tenderloin center. according to staff, the 3.1 million increase funded boy 2. 6 million in oewd budget savings from mayor recovery programming at oewd including from lower spending on assistance to small businesses, activations for civic center area and other programs the remaining 500 thousand dollars funds by a work order from department of public health. also according to oewd staff the d. emergency management as ms. daniels said will coordinate with oewd approximate public will health to determine where ambassador presence is needed. this will inform decisions related to staffing, contracting and service in the mayor's fiscal 23-24 proposed budget. and one of the recommendationless we have in our report regarding that is that the board could request that the 3 departments report on how needs for ambassadors and. am will be determined in future years during the budget process. due to uncertainty regarding plans for the program and the limited pol of proposers for the rfp and resolution approval of the proposed resolution is policy merit for the board of supervisors. if the board decides to not approve the residence lugz, the fundsless being be made available for another purpose under a separate board action. and we note this would impact the provision of ambassadors in the tenderloin and mid market area and the department upon had a slide that spoke to that. they would be able to speak to what the actual impact would be on those service. one alternative that the board could consider is providing funding for the d. public works block cleaner program to address street and sidewalk conditions in tenderloin and other neighborhoods. the block cleaner program is an aprentice workforce development program this employs under ployed people and enter the aprentice program of the plus additional amounts for uniforms and splice adding 10 would cost 1.1 million dollars. . according to dpw staff. 81 public service aides employed on programs including the block clean are program. our recommendations for this item are that the board request that the d. emergency management office of workforce development and public health staff report become on how future needs for ambassadors and deployment will be determine in the future years 23-24 budget process and we consider approval of the proposed resolution a policy matter for the board of supervisors that is item 1. item twom is also a proposed resolution, would approve the fourth amendment to the office of economic and workforce development grant agreement with san francisco tourism improvement district management corporation nksz not to exceed 9 million dollars to 13 million, 227 increase of 3. 3 million with no change to the term of july 21-june 23. the existing grant provides fund for example deliverables due through march of this year. increase of 3.3 million dollars funds deliverables due between april and june of this year not previously funded. upon the proposed 3.3 million dollars increase would be funded by oewd's current year budget for the grant including carry forwards from last year. we have a summary of the grant budget in exhibit 3 on page 16 of our report. and we do note in our report under policy considerations on page 17, we have a discussion of the what we saw has restrictive requirements and proposal time line for the original rfp in 2021 for this contract. according to staff, the qualifications this were include in the rfp were included so the grantise would provide community relationships and perspectives necessary for successful deployment and success of the program. we noted the 21rfp was only open for 2 weeks and according to staff that was due to urgency tow start the program. we then and there time line with the minimum qualifications may have limited the pool of proposers. >> we upon note that the administrative and nonpersonnel costs total 1.2 million dollars or felony 7% of the grant scombj do not provide direct service they appear high the budget includes salaries and benefits for 2 operation manager and one general sxhrg administrative support, uniforms and equipment. we have another discussion about how the department of emergency management the be coordinating with oewd and public health. on the future need to ambassadors and have the same recommendation in this item as in item one. we have an additional recommendation in for item 2, that is to amend the resolution to claire fight term beginos july first of 21 not 22. and like item one we consider item 2 a policy matter notoriety board. we are available for questions. >> thank you the question i have now is that looking at the presentation and what was prepared, that there seems to be additional amendments for both dollar amount and terms that is additional 10 million for one contract and additional 3 million for the other. and will both to be extended for december 31 of 23. which is the calendar year not the fiscal year and i felt think the question i have for the budget and legislative analyst is that have this information presented to you and have you had the chance and the opportunity to look over these proposed amendments and able tom provide us feedback both as just similarity to what you provides funding source, where is the money come from and basic analysis. >> i have a high level understanding. we have not received the materials from the department yet. i understand this 10 million dollars is the tenderloin mid market and another 3 million for downtown. and that those funds would come out of the next year's budget i have not been able to look at documents. >> sorry the next year budget so -- i just sorry colleagues i want to make sure we are on the same page. what is before us today as schedule is roughly 3 million dollars for each mid market and downtown. which provide the analysis in the budget and legislative analyst report. we understand the funding they are both budgeted. for the existing fiscal years. and there are cost saving from somewhere else small business or civic center program or mayor's economic recovery program. these other funding sources to be augmented to added to the 2 contracts? >> that's my understanding tenderloin mid market, it it is savings within the same general bucket of economic recovery from other programs. twhan bucket. as well as 500 thousand dollars work ordfrom d ph. for the downtown ambassadors that it is currently year funding for the grant. there is no savings from anywhere else as well as they had carry overs from last year that is they could use in that bucket >> but for the 10 million dollars for the mid market and 3 million dollars for downtown, which is the additional amendments on top of what actually introduced and -- and schedule for today's agenda. the additional dollar amount is the upcoming 23-24 budget? correct. >> okay. thank you. >> supervisor safai. i have been on this committee for a couple years now. and have to tell thank you is the most convollowed proposals i have seen brought to the mittee. and this has nothing to do with the people that are providing the work. bifrg to cowith the way the department and requests in in. il review the history. so first, this grant was approved in 2021. and amended a couple time and what i don't understand why the amendments are being chosen and the dates are chosen. in such hor periods of time the first time ending in march. not very many times a contract end in merchandise and the request was already in november of 22 and bla report the board of supervisor, we approved this body already an amendment to carry through july. of of this 2022. . and now and extend today from march to june 30 we have done this one time this statute third or fourth time that we are asked to look at this contract again. and it does in the seem like well is a well thought out plan i have to be honest. it feels like this is conknow stability reaction. before i get to more criticism the way this is presented i want to say personally my inneractions with urban alchemy is phenomenonal. they did upper yard safe park. they are now on the corridor and doing phenomenonal work nothing but positive feedback from buildings and community leaders and others even though that might have been upon skelt cal they have been nothing but spicht of the work this is done. that said, we have waited 2 years to get 3-4 people on the ground. and already in this current proposal there are 225 ambassadors for 80 blocks now asked to add an additional 20 if i read that the report says. that would bring number up to 245 for that area. i understand it is not apples and orangeses. the excelsior is not the same as the upon tenderloin mid market. but the demand and the need in the city is i would say -- not equal but there is a lot of demand and need in different parts of san francisco and the neighborhoodless. i think this is also another point i would like to under score there are a lot of areas of the city that are waiting for and needing additional service. just last week 5 businesses were broken into. in the last couple weeks employees 2 pharmacy. a jeweler. 2 restaurants. consistent theme of people not feeling safe am now urban al kemp has been there for a short time we got nothing but positive feedback. ambassador i'm supportive of that. spoken to many people visiting the city. many that interacted with them. nothing but positive things to say. it is welcoming in that regard approximate i'm not trying to be funny temperature is welcome to have someone there to guide you to understand and feel better about where you are you and presence makes people feel comfortable i'm supportive of that. but back to the proposal that is in front of pus i'm prepared support the preliminary requests which is to add because it seems like there were mistakes made when the contract would end inspect march to continue it to june 30. but i'm having a harder time understanding what the final request is to extend it. and are you back again in let's say august saying the contract will end december 30 we need you to extend it to the end. the feels like a constant theme them it is not first time it it is in the fair to the organization of because this organization is stnld responds to the requests of the city. they are doing good work the way this is managed and implement side in the done in a great way. i want you to respond top that and because additional 20 at 500,000 and 10 million to the end of the year and additional 3 million to the end of this year it feels like this is a constant state of uncertainty. >> understood. i want to address a claire ifkdz we are not proposed to add additional ambassadors. let me excuse meechlt i'm reading the bl erickson report on page 4 it says. mid market foundation subcontract 2 organizationes. urban al kemp provide 225 community ambassadors to cover 80 block face in mid market/tenderloin safety program area. and every day. the proposed amendment would add 20 communal ambassadors between january 23 to march 23 a 3 mont period to provide increased services to un plaza. . supervisor. sorry. sam dodge d. emergency management. that is a unique situation because you remember in december -- we shut do you think the tenderloin center rather abruptly and one of the things that we had at the tenderloin center was 20 practical tigzers from urban alchemy there doing bag checks and helping to facilitate the experience there. and one of the occurrence that i had and others had this how do we transition people in a thoughtful way to sustainable service. this had been coming to the tenderloin center daily. sometimes mull pull times to use their services and one of the thoughts we had was to upon extend the 20 people that had a by name relationship with people that have been there. from urban al kemp tow stay in place and to help with this transition. we asked this was the contract with public health. public health said we be out of there. you have this existing tenderloin and mid market community lead safety program. what if we funded them to the to be there. i said for me it is the individuals and their experience and expert ease and relationships that will be important to maintain. and so --. upon and i didn't -- it it is arbitrary i did not want it to end in a mont. 2 months did not seem enough. we said tape are down to end of merchandise and hopeful low that will be a responsible wind down >> what is an addition. >> march for the 20. >> yea. that is we know that we couldn't go on and on and on. i'm sure. >> you can use it always. point i was trying to under score there is an addition and existing 225. and then a request for. now by the way, i don't want anyone to lose their job i want consistency and that is the things i'm hearing. we are guesting all this bit and piece of information not presentd that clearly. so testify is it is taking me 2-3 time tos read through this i don't00 eye like to transfrigz you and ask our budget director i know she is on the line. a clear response on exactly where the money is coming from. i know is there were requests the previous year for mall business support and some of money is unused small business support money and reallocated to this half a million from d ph. where is the balance and additional amendments in front of us. i think it was tuck body but i want to understand exactly where the money is coming from and how it has been allocated and will be spent. if you are on the line? yes. good afternoon and thank you for the question. so in this year's budget the mayor allocated a package of funding in budget for down town, mall businesses, upon events and ambassadors. within this package that is where this money is coming from which >> in this current year we are in? for in this current year >> year 1 or 2? >> i'm sorry. in the second year of the budget there is also funding set aside for package of downtown initiatives to support the areas around downtown including ambassadors. and what part is requesting through the second amendment is contract authority. so that say -- come july first of 23, with funding that is preapproved they don't have to interrupt service >> money -- to spend >> this is money already allocated and you want the ability to contract for it now instead of waiting but it is manage that has been allocated is this correct? >> yes. >> that makes me feel better for sure. that is positive. >> um -- the unspent small business money is not positive i had a conversation with director this morning and let her know and we had a conversation about support city ouied and the need to ensure that is something that is spread equally. okay those are my questions. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai. supervisor walton? >> thank you so much, chair chan. i want to say, thank you to urban alchemy for their work and community. they really do save lives. i have seen videos of them revygotsky folks on the street with because of the fentanyl and over dose and reviving them with nar can. they are really a true reentry program this make sure when folks come home they enter become in society and be productive. get i wage and raise a family i had conversations with several of the men and women and the staff in community and so i know the great work that urban alchemy does. i do have a question for director danielle or who wants answer. what dave week did i last meet with you? i believe it was tuesday, supervisor. >> had is today? >> wednesday. >> did you mention anything about amendments to me or my office? i don't believe so i thought we d. i have a presentation. it was not in there. dimiss it? in our conversation? i mean we sure. high, yea. the beginning of this meeting we said we have this hearing coming up and you have questions in advance we said this could be the first part and you said we have no questions. >> du mention anything about amendment sns i did not see amendments or receive anything about amendments. unless there was something i missed. talking about the additional 10 million and additional 3. i don't remember this conversation. we did not go into it this day. >> correct. what happened between our conversation yesterday and now why am i just now hear burglar this? i think with respect to the concern that colleagues are raising about, we try to get better at having prevow to what authorities we need, my team recommended and wanted to bring it before you today the contracting authority for funding beyond. the end of the year it was made clear to us by our partners if we did not have purview beyond the end of the fiscal year we would be at risk in a few months of folks being laid off it is our ability to try to bring you as quickly as we could guidesance we get from community. you did not know this yesterday? i. did not know that we were not clear and conveying that to all of you before hand. quick question for the bla. and i know you don't have much information either. do you know do you agree with the statement that we have to layoff folks as early as april if we don't include this increase? >> i do believe there would be a significant impact on the services because the monthethe funds or it the contract amendment they ask for part of it is for services provide. if it it is cut now nurred to make up for that there will probably be an out sized impact on those programs but -- again i would i would not know exactly hathat would add up to. >> seems peculiar to me that nobody knew this yesterday. and i have to finds out before i come. to a budget committee hearing. i do have unrelated question. you would say the service that urban al kemp provide through the ambassador program allow you to not need more police presence? you are about to answer the question while you ask for then million dollars or something like that. you know supervisors, i think they are complimentary roles. although these are not police functions. it is social engagement but i do think it when we had blocks that have been you know, heavily impacted by drug dealing and drug use it is police are doing their part. there is a role for am bas dovership to extend and preserve the spaces that were created. yea, i think it repolice the police from a scare crow. just standing out there. and irrelevant focus on the high competibest use and allows an appropriate engagement with people in crisis with social and emotional intelligence and interaction they get are a program. i think it does help extend what the police can do. i would say more than complimentary the relationship this is they are building in the communities they people they know. the fact they are around 24/sxeven have similar experiences and the majority of the time i see the teach working will there are no police presence. and they are doing a wonderful job deescalating, making sure crime is deterred. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor walton. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan i'm supportive of both these items and inclineed support amendments but i am i think the role -- seems unclear and even the in the presentation you just presented i almost loaned in the chair and asked, did than i present the amendments? and the just in dollar or figures the amendments are large are than what you are asking us in the under lying thing. and i feel i'm good to go through june and december because i don't see the need for either of the services going, way. we will have police staffing shortage and worrying about losing conventions. and tourism dollars. and condition to have an obligation to the tenderloin and a need to get people on the streets to keep the sidewalks safe and not a police officer to do temperature so i am pretty good with going through either of the dates and i take supervisor safai's points like yes. let's look more and be forward looking about this. let's not come back every 2-3 monthsos this. but i feel like this is confusing. and am i'm wonder figure you can explain -- clear sdpi think i get it but -- i'm -- i love to have you walk through this. will why this additional 6 months of authority is important now. why you did not include it in your original proposal? and i mean you can try to address or not address whether you should or whether how the presentations happen in the a way this were not clear. although i a lot of information come in i could have missed stuff. so mainly i like ton yet additional 6 months and -- why was not this proposed. >> i apologize for the confusion. in the original proposed amendment, we were asking for funds through the end of this fiscal year. that funds an expansion announce in the november. and so spierz safai to your question we were in front of you in november asking for the amendment to the mid market foundation grant. as that we were in front of you, and announcement and expansion was under just being designed. and will requested. for the mid market foundation that is the 3.1 million dollars we are asking for today the funds to increase the contract amount in order to pay for that expansion. debegan in december. the -- that is the funds for mid market throughout end of fitsical year and the sf tourism improve. we are asking for funds throughout end of theier a combination of the fund this is needed to be added to their contract as was original leap budgets as well as the expansion:we were focused when we were introducing this initial resolution on the urgency of funding those expansions. we realized that as of june 30, we are still going to need to continue programming and we need we'll have to come back to you because of the size of the contract. we will have to seek board approval again in order to make that amendment once we have a confirmed budget. we are asking for this contract authority today so this we don't need to come to you in august and ask for the funds when you will be on break. and ask for the funds in order to ensure continuity of service upon approval of 23-24 budget. this is the reason for the additional proposed amendment to the resolution. >> okay. thank you and to me that explanation makes sense i think it could have been clearer. i'm inclineed give that you authority but -- love to hear my colleagues. >> thank you. >> sorry before i go to supervisor ronen quickly, i wanted to confirm not with you but in general perhaps either with budget and legislative analyst or the mayor's office with directored to confirm about really contract in general. you know when we have. this is in the the only contract there are a lot of contract expiring with nonprofits city wide. expiring june 30. of is this fiscal year temperature it is typical for any city contract expiring june 30. and then when the mayor proposed her budget on june first and that's where you go for the conversation. there are nonproperties could not really don't know what will happen to them by july first? they have to plan in advanced or figure out events -- >> madam chair. i think one of the reasons why it is coming before the board is because it falls under the over 10 million dollars both over 10 million dollars not over 10 years. and the incremental nature of this will you know you have contracts that come before you all the time them go well passed a year. 5 year, 10 year, et cetera . and those are subject to appropriations but you don't hear them every year. i think this is sort of a, instinct situation where it is a contract over 10 million and incrementally rolled out. i don't know because it is a short term nature of recovery? and we don't know how long we need the service. but that's my monday everunderstanding. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. >> thank you. . trying to gather my various thoughts here. i understand the insure term nature of the welcome ambassadors. i don't believe that the urban alchemy ambassadors, hello, everyone i did not realize you were all. the urban alchemy am bas dovers are short term and so -- i don't understand the incremental sort of prop to this. i have legislation that i the be introducing heart low that will require departments to enter in multiwe're contracts with nonprofits with cost escalators for cost doing accident every year. that will take care of this in the future. y appreciate that question and the urban al kemp program begone this fall of 21. i think it was a brand-new program. it was responding to a wagz on the grounds that was evolving in role time and we originally -- the line line lincoln center did not exist. and so we originally awarded a smaller amount for an ambassador program in the mid market approximate tenderloin community based on the situation that was e involving the emergency order around the tenderloin, the tenderloin linkage center. we expanded that program and funding toward this program significantly. which is what triggered us needing us to come to the mittee originally. that was november of last year. and now we are now we do -- hope that with the dem we be able to get a much more stable handle on what are the needs going forward in the future and achieve that stability. it is just that this head happened over a year now. >> that makes sense. it feels like urban al kemp has been around for so along, it is so integral so quickly. that actually makes sense to me. i guess and this is for the mayor's office than for budget director denning. i just every have been at this points of the budget process or you know the fact that budget and appropriations committee is at this. we are in session. and -- you know we got -- a da budget supplemental. police budget is upeptal. over doze prevention supplement. dpw supplemental. we got this contract. just in the last minute extended into next year. and i don't know but everything we hear is that we have a massive budget deficit. i -- it is a weird place to be. and distinctively not make us feel as budget committee members comfortable. this we are we just started the budget process this year. we are expecting a major deficit and having to make major cuts. and we have an unprecedentsed number of budget supplementals before us and contracts that we are asking to go to next year when we have not started our budget process. it just i want to put that out and -- and to the mayor's budget director and say -- you know what is your think burglar this. this will does in the female responsible. tha thank you for your question. major's budget director. i think first on this item before you this is about funding in the current year and clarify next year it is giving the department the contract authority. there is in need to be discussions about the budget for next year. at the same time there are separate supplementals before you. that i look forward to having robust conversations had that means for next year's budget. all can i say now is that these are some of the biggest questions we have in terms balancing next year's budget is around our investments in public safety and downtown and how to balance those with the needs of the rest of the city. these are things we are taking seriously. we are just starting to look at options. and ways to balance this year's budget it it is still early and i look forward to having the conversations with you all about what it will take and where it the resources we do have. >> okay and you felt know a prevow for next week and you know i'm the press out there i'm not saying i will not support t. there has been a lot of accusations against our budget chair and are many of us who have not signed on as cosponsors before we had a chance to answer questions. but i want to note for the record -- that while urcan alchemy does not replace the work of the police. they do a tremendous job you have the street crisis response team that has diverted over 16,000 calls from the police department. to the fire department and you know public health really a nonprofit under the intrigz of public health you don't have departments receiving so much assistance. other toips of interventions the city believes you cannot solve poverty issues with police. this it is a conversation taking accomplice in the mead yea feel the mayor's office is promoting casting blame on the board of supervisors calling out our budget chair for being irresponsible for taking a week like to schedule something. it does in the feel like the full discussion. and -- like supervisor safai said, it is our job on this board of supervisors to make sure that we are fulfilling our role and it it is a relatively small role in a 14 billion dollars budget when we have about a month, one month to review 14 billion dollars of spending. to say holdup. we have questions. and then to be blamed and accused of not supporting something when we have not taken a position. i have to put that out there. holdup, everyone, we got questions it it is our job to ask questions and as we create these new programs, you know to reof leave work off the police. let us understand how all intersect. as we are asked to add more montote programs. which you know we want to do because we love when we are seeing. but it feels like you are accused of not supporting law enforcement if you have questions. about how this stuff is interacting. i want to put that out there. and -- is there anything else i wanted say? you know i'm absolutely for the items buffers that were noticed. i'm look to my colleagues about what you want to do about the proposed amendments. i not the answers and questions and appreciate them. they make sense to me and i appreciate this it is also new for all of us. i don't have vot vetted enough for you all? i'm curious when you all say i'm not sure what to do about the new amendments. >> thank you. i think that for what i'm seeing is based on recommendation from the analyst report, is here and i had the chance to with the mayor's office and with sam dodge here and long with other city departments i want to list out the ambassador programs that exist or title as ambassador. but they are ambassador. today the 2 contracts before us the mid market ambassador and the downtown ambassador. we do have our community benefits district. which they too have their own ambassador program. which do cleaning, sometimes wellness check and those also exist for both our union square community benefit districts, tenderloin community benefit district and few others. and we have our retired police officers ambassador this is another program. this is also very requested by different supervisor districts. and then we also have the d. public works. ambassador or the clean corridors or block cleaner program is referenced in here. by the budget and legislative analyst report. here their job for the public works it is clean the block cleaner's program is cleaning blocks x. we also have the office and civic engagement and immigration affairs ocl. they also have ambassador programs. the last couple years their program, which i than and learned specifically is including because of 18 asian hate senior escort program with the ambassador escorting monolingual or asian seniors escorting them for their chores. and out door activities. with this said, this is also why the budget analyst is here to say that requesting sam dodge and the department of emergency management am and office workforce develop and d. public health and everyone to come together and because also on top we have the street crisis team. and -- now knowing that all of them put together is what mr. dodge talked about as a street response effort. how do we coordinate it city wide for the upcoming fiscal budget 23-24, which the additional amendments of the 10 million and 3 million is coming from temperature is coming from the upcoming budget yet to proposed budget. i am inclined though knowing that we do need urban al kemp and he our downtown ambas dover and promoez when is before us until june 30 of 23. throughout the fiscal year? and this is, legality of our nonprofit contractors. and will that is all across the boofrmd contracts expiring and waiting and hearing and having dialogue now march. with the mayor's office. and try to figure out the upcoming proposed budget in june i'm inclineed support what is before us today and hope this we can continue to have the conversation to say how do we better cord mate it and better support perhaps a contract will be different may be the same but may be different and men a big are contract that is more inclusive with the dollar amount that tell us a better picture about how the spending will be for the up manage one or 2 fiscal year. supervisor safai. >> thank you chair for claire foiling your specification. i want to amifiy some points. this idea that this body is irresponsible, i -- on the face reject. 100%. i can tell when you we hit covid when there was a 2 year budget a lot of things were taken out. from the major's office. n. second year funding that was ewe likewised to fund so many services therapy helping in the city. and so here we are asked when we face an upon 700 million dollars short fall might have improved a bit how this money gets allocated this or next year by 50 million may be. we are sick 50 million. now asked it take monfret upcoming year before the conversations and by way i want to support the downtown welcome ambassadors and continue to support urban alchemy but we have been given a devil's choice in ways because this contract i want to highlight it has been amended 3-4 times. came back in november asking us to extend this to june 30. you have already done this. not like you done know in november that we would be face thanksgiving problem about not extend thanksgiving contract beyond june 30. i need to hear more from the department because we are being asked to make this difficult decision? when you were here a couple months ago asking for this exception. >> i don't understand why it was not thought about a couple months ago you would be face thanksgiving cliff and putting urban al kemp and he welcome ambassador in this position. i want to highlight another thing to be fair. this bid know people heard me say this a million times i'm not complaining it was a moment in this body's history when we went through a 22 hour hearing. we were call in the an emergency hearing session on christmas eve to talk about settingum an emergency linkage center in the tenderloin. on un mrs.asm talking about starts we spent millions of dollarsor that. millions. and i would argue it create said a more worse situation then and there now all the sudden we're 3 months of metropolitans from the same mayor's office asking us to consider extend and doing additional things. it does in the feel like a well thought out plan. if we don't act within a 30 second time period the clock ran out and we other twhoon is causing this >> that's not fair to this body. and to use supervisor president peskin's points there needs to be more collaboration with the mayor's office and the board on these to whichics and others. . it does not feel like collaboration i proernlt what you said, sam not want to leave un mrs.a empty approximate additional left over this makes sense to me. you want presence because there was additional issues created by the linkage enter. the way it it is done is in the thoughtful or collaborative. >> supervisor upon november second hearing my understanding is this we did ask for an option to extend the contract through december 31st this was not approved. what we are doing today is trying to amend the resolution so this we have contact so we have the authority to amend the contracts upon receiving a confirmed budget. which am help in september when the contract is about to run out it is calendar year. what happens on january 1 of 24? i am will expect that if ouril back up. in our 2 year budget, that we proposed last year and was approved the amounts that we proposed to continue the mid market foundation grant for the safety ambassadors was 12.4 million the amount that we approved proposed and approved for the welcome ambassadors was 5 million. in the budget process these numbers are like low to change and i don't know hat full funding is going to be for the next program year when we are homing for today is this we can amend. gifrn the authority to amend the contract so we can continue services in to the next program year once we have approved budget without disruption and based on when that approved budget is, we may need to come before you again in order to in the contract if the -- you are approving 10 mission today. >> i get that's my point we are in the endless cycle you will be back the folks instead of on the street or out with their families or doing whatever it may be, you will be back in here again in september or october saying this contract is about to expire we need to extend it past -- so to supervisor ronen's point. it seems like more thoughtful to the have a better time period. listen, i'm in support. i want top see this program continued i think it is doing fenomal work i know the irm picture it is having on the street. this is a separate approximate, we other fiscal agent. the budget and finance and appropriation committee. we are asked to come back and have the trade offs with other -- like to supervisor -- board chan's -- chair chan's point. there are a lot of nonprofits in the city that would love to have funding passed through the fitsicalier to the end of the year. absolutely. the line would be out the door. out the door. and i get it why wore dog this now in this area. thereupon is a lot of social ills we are trying to address. and also give wonderful opportunity for reentry and job opportunity and growth and community building. that's all the stuff that urban al kemp seabout and the welcome ambassadors. this is not thoughtful planning. i have to say i want to under score that. because of so much criticism hurled our way and i think it is in the fair. the only thing i can say we theme we'll be able to with the partnership with dem to move in a more stable -- more stable cycle. but again, because of the size of the contract, upon a budget approved we will have to come back to this body in order to get approval to amend the contract. won't don't want to have to do that in the middle of budget and risk not getting schedule, not getting the approval in order to be able to amend the contract. >> thank you, chair >> thank you. supervisor walton. >> thank you chair chan we're in the middle of budget. i adopt to say, i think we all will be better served with something more comprehensive this gets us through entire fiscal years. we ask the city departments to do this. we ask nonprofits to tell us exactly what they will spented money on and how long they need. we ask them to budget this way. so -- that is something that we are trying to get across. we need to be better at projecting what our needs the be to fund through fiscal years. i want to say that at the end of the day, it is irresponsible for us to continue to put a narrative out there we are in the most dire budget situation. our economy is tanking. we are in the most treacherous fiscal position. butment is up elemental after supplemental and project the major deficit but want to add this body to approve large amounts of money when we know city departments have cost savings. alcohol be more responsible to use cost savings. than going to general funds or going to any reserve. so -- we have to make up our mind what narrative we want out there. we are in great financial position or not. thank you prierz walon. vice chair mandelman. thank you chair chan temperature sounds like -- it the -- oewd is will have to be back at some point you are coming become in fall or try to come back before july first. and uchlt everi'm inclineed give you until fallil move your amendments. grown there is a second i doll that. >> thank you, i want top say -- can i call on director denning. i think the question is you know we have the conversation with mr. dodge about over all ambassador's program is it the major's office intention working with city departments to contain the contract and be part of the mayor's budget proposal on june first. i think that is irrelevant want everwhat i want to understand my assumption we'll continue the ambassador program and downtown program and the mayor is going to consider these programs part of her budget proposal when we come june first could you confirm for us? >> yes, part of -- supervisor chan commitment we make to you and we would do the next few mont system looking at the programs hol ~ically and determining when we can funds in next year's budget. upon to clarify the contract the next year's budget be proposed by the mayor on june first. and then you allville your deliberations and then zeal a budget size in genetics. but not officially assigned until august. this is like the actual budget time line does not lineup with the correct contract time line. so -- who i we will have an opportunity to determine the funding for the next year and then oewd welcomed that to amend their contract baseod whatever real collectively decide through the budget process, we want to give them the authoritied to keep the contract whole and go through that process. this make sense? supervisors? i mean, contract authority. another way to put it is -- what does it if the contract ends john 30. will not be time for them to come to you again, and extend the contract while we go to the budget process. sure but i think that -- we are also trying to figure out. i think part of the recommendation is that we are trying to figure out what everyone here that is listed in the budget and legislative analyst report we are trying to have i coordinated effort. and perhaps through that coordinated effort this we have an bedding about the contract all contracts for the long-term. and therefore, you could come back either in june or before june if necessary. help us better understand the terms of the contract not just through the calendar year. but perhaps that you could come back with a better contract proposal that -- help us understand. i mean i'm trying to understand is that not possible? what is time line that we will hear back from you -- mr. boj dodge for the efforts? supervisor sam dodge, i do hope in a meeting with you if you want a tight turn around, with an analysis globalally of the investments we make as a city and how this fit in and how what role can play. and i committed to do that. i felt like 6 monthses was responsible amount of time i understand that it is not possible for your budget considerations and you want a tight are time linism think tell be stunted but can work toward that. i think one things that is -- tricky with contracting near public service the issuance of fees and the process that can be extensive. there is a lot of contestation around those rfp's. the sligstating of the bodies to neutral arbitrators to read and assess those. those will not happen by june 30. we can't move like that as a city this . it is a contract that as we stated height of covid. there was an initial investment. increased with the line line emergency we will have the shifting under ground upon changes in the city with -- work from home and downtown and international drug crisis and other things this contracts are work nothing that context of and so that's why we have this emergency sort of mode with this. and so -- part of what i hope for is to have some time to dot analysis and have the rfp issued that has a longer term vision. approximate so -- i just concure with all you are bring thanksgiving is why we are looking at the same thing. i know it is complicated and i sorry we did not community it clearly. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. gi will second supervisor mandelman's motion. >> okay. all right. then -- i mean i think more me i'm not ready to support it for today. to actually extending it for a 10 million dollars and 3 million dollars. >> i -- will on the fence, toochlt what and i was going to suggest can you bring this you know extension the same time we consider the budget? your oewd budget. but i do understand the realities of issuing rfp's and plan ahead with organizations and this does in the appropriate the money it gives the ability to contract. nothing happens until we appropriate the money anyway. you realize we don't love the way this came at us last minute but i think that we are not it is not the bibbingest deal we are still not going to make the decision until we appropriate the money >> absolutely. and iment to clarify, too, though. i wanted to get a clarification from our deputy city attorney, if we move forward and say we have the votes accept the amendments, are they substantive and will we have to continue this item? >> deputy city attorney the amendments proposed to add the funds are substantive this will need to be continued. >> i want to be clear this will continue to the next week. for the 15 -- i am hope happening. i am hoping that today we will approve buffers today. and that we can have these guys go back and to the streets to dot work they are here to do. and that we can have the conversation that is -- for a longer term to allow you to really figure out -- this -- budget. as a whole. because at the same time at least we can buy us time to june 30. once we in to the next week conversation i think this the conversation next week will help us put everything together to think about public safety in a different way and along with our 128 million dollars deficit. that we have to bridge. and trying to figure out where -- the mayor will be in terms of the proposal. supervisor safai. approximate we make the amendments today tell get continued and lop in the this large are conversation. what makes me feel comfortable with accepting these amendments is as supervisor ronen said and others said it gives them the contract authority we have to come back dune during budget negotiations to finalize the allocation of the resource. we still retain had authority that was not clear to me until i came in today and heard the final presentation i feel better about moving forward with the amendments and only we only are giving them the contract authority and when we get in the budget negotiations we will finalize the final allocation of resources. >> okay. why don'ts we with that we should go to public comment. >> with the motion that was called and seconded vice chair mandelman and second boy supervisor ronen pause that for now and then we go to the public comments and today i think that given it it is already 3. . 16 for 2 items i understand we are limited with time. therefore i like to limit the public comments by a minute each. and mr. clerk, please go to public comment. >> thank you. madam chair. >> members of public who wish to speak on these items and joining person lineup on the kurt anxiety for those remote call 415-655-0001 access code: 2497 903 8774 ## if we can step and up when you start commentis will star your time. thank you. mooim amy hall and i work at trinity on 1145 market i have several thousand resident in the tenderloin and mid market and 100 employee in that part of the city more across the city. so many things have not been work nothing the city we came back to a nightmare the end of the pandemic. one of the things that made an incredible, positive impact is urban alchemy. physical presence makes a difference for us every day when i in to work i start at lombard and hide to mission and one reasons we need the cleaning is you know the aftermath of the open air drug marks. thank you. i do support. >> hi i'm daved nail 130 turk street. at the 100 block of turk on your block to be eliminated from urban al kemp. before them i could not walk the dog without going in the street in traffic. there were tents it was a nightmare. and urban alchemy cleaned that up and part of our community. i see them 3-4 times when i walk the dog around the street and they are out there to help us our block has 2 of the few businesses that are struggling to stay out there. good afternoon supervisors. chan. i'm jose with the san francisco filipino-american chamber of commerce. as i sat her listen to the dialogue you have posted. your body is getting criticized for something you have not even discussed from my point in terms of the welcome ambassador program for a number of our communities our perspective is it working. we love it. you love it let's figure this out temperature is unfair that as we build these programs it is not fair to yes it is fluid. everyone intention is doing the right thing. everything with the approach we should go. thank you. upon i have been in san francisco since 2004 i did marketing on union square and the advocating for entertainment in the city. i field social media comments from teem people saying san francisco changed and it is positive when i rebulletal the comments saying it changed in the positive way and show people visiting san francisco when we are doing to make san francisco safe and better. i appreciate what you guys have done. that do this like the ones we are talking about today. thank you. i'm robert diaz. i work for the welcome am busy dover team exit just sorry. i have been with the team for a year. and i like working with it and helping the community and i think that -- it is a good program. thank you. >> thank you. if next speaker, please. good afternoon supervisor chan and the budget and finance mittee i'm chris hoffman. i'm a native san francisco who lives in the sunset district. i worked as a welcome ambassador since april of left year and i love my work because i know that i'm the boots on the ground of bringing back genuine, positive human interaction toward vibrant districts set become from the mechanic impactless of the pandemic. i have a deep affection for the city and brings me joy to provide local insight to folks exploring san francisco for the first time and to provide convenient guidance on how to navigate the city with confidence. and to enjoy the accomplices of interests this are most well suited for their needs. my proudest moment as an ambassador connecting with a mosconi center conchs atendsee booked at a hotel on 7th and market. >> time expired. thank you. >> sorry to cut you off we are timing each at a minute. last call for any speakers who wish to provide testimony on the 2 resolutions? seeing no more in person speakers. we currently have 9 members listening to the meeting with five in the queue. can you unmute our first caller. >> hi i'm amy cleary i'm calling on behalf of the [inaudible] in spchlt welcome ambassador programs than i work to engage with people with compassion and respect and improve cleanliness. use positive interactions encourage more to visit the city supporting local restaurant who is strug toll recover. [inaudible] will support vitality of the city and continue to drive business. thank you for your time of >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> can i'm marla sandler a program manager for the civic center community benefit district. conditions in un plaza deteriorated but a welcoming space for lunch concerts arts and night markets now unsafe and threatening accomplice to be. the 2 remaining bright spots the farmer's market and the dog park. urban alchemy are crist adult protecting the 2 assettings. they have a presence throughout the plaza and prop to deescalate unsafe situation system the last safety net left in un plaza before lawlessness set in. in the indicates dog park uran alchemy have a safe and clean place for pets to play every day 7 to 7 with 2,000 visitors a month to the dog park we owe it to the community to keep it operating safely. we are hopeful. -- so sorry thank you for your testimony of the next speaker, please. >> good afternoon prierzs i'm dale sea more. they call me the old man of mid market i have been there 35 years. i. have an organization tenderloin walking tours i bring grouping 50 to 100 through mid market and u network plaza it is a different experience since urban alchemy on scene they closely go to roots and walk us through and greet us. washing us through and then when we leave mid market they thank us for coming and all of my visitors commentom when a wonderful input we get from urban alchemy. i'm sure you got it you all know i'm shocked. people had given and i appreciate urban alchemy. thank you. >> thank you. for your comments. next speaker, please. >> you know supervisors you don't have the leadership in this city. you need to call the national guard. and we need a commander who can do a need's assessment you are talking from both sides of your mouth. people are praying on the poor making 200 thousand dollars salary and you laugh and say we will extend a program. this program when you are mentioning audits and they did have the people the and most are not from san francisco they from compton and other areas. don't be [inaudible] broad daylight. we need a commander to do a need's assessment. and stop paying 200,000 salaries. >> next speaker, please. i'm cawing about urban alchemy. my issue with the organize and their agenda and transparency and training. they give street harassment training my wife have been harassed on the streets. your you okay with camouflage uniforms i can't at this time bfrns with people. [inaudible], countable no name tags. you have a complaint you walk in the office approximate bear your complaint in front of the staff i have done that testimony is in the comfortable. these are civilians on the frontline and instigate confrontations with people you seen and heard them harass homeless people and they are social mode why presence is unprofessional like i ken go in the office and interact with them but online they call mow a liar. >> again sorry to cut off we are timing a minute, thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. hello supervisors it is debbie at human service network i'm not speaking to the grants but i want to acknowledge and appreciate the comments med by supervisors today about the challenges nonprofits face when contracts expire june 30. we have health and human service nonprofit this is contribute it public safety and health in san francisco and those nonprofits continued service every year without any guarantee that long standing support will continueful some don't have condition transacts until the following spring. money tame they are paid the previous year's level without the increases that are necessary to pay for higher wages. insurance and other cost increases. they need to borrow money to remain sustainable until they can bill for the prior mons. thank you for recognizing this issue. thank you for your plans to address it in the future and thank you for your comments regarding better pleasuring with the city and our nonprofits. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello prierdzs. this is ken rich. i'm calling on behalf of the union square alliance in support moving forward on the items. urwan alchemy played an important role. which for many the gate way to downtown san francisco it connects 2 transportation modes better and muni. urban alchemy presence made a difference and adds security and tranquillity it is needs for the location. it is imper testify have a presence in the plaza [inaudible] it would be a loss for the community and the welcome ambassador program it made convention return to visitors, like to a safer and more welcomed [inaudible] positive feedback about the service and it is voilths to keep it in place to enhandles the core of our city with programs that promote safety in union square, thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. -- confirm that was the left peeshg. that was our last speaker. >> thank you mr. clerk this is great. seeing that no more public comment. public ment is closed. mr. clerk, i thank you let's call the role for the motion. >> just to point of clirification there was a recommendation from the bla on item 2 we also clarify the contract begins on july first of 21. not 22. can we there will in that motion? yea roll it in perform >> on this motion, by vice chair mandelman seconded by member ronen this the resolution on item 1 to increase the guarantee amount by 10 million and the of the period june 30 to december therein. and item 2 on for item 2, to clarify the contract beginos july of 21 dp also to increase the amount by 3 million. for a total not to exceed 13.2 to 16. 2 and end period from june 30 to december 31 of 23. on those motions to amend. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> member ronen. >> aye. >> member walton >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. we have 5 aye's >> moigsz passes and with this with the amended items this will be continued because substantive to the next week march 15. >> yes, chair chan. >> all right the motion is to continue to march 15. >> on that i will need a second. >> i need a second. >> seconded. >> [laughter]. on this motion, to continue the resolution to our march 15 meeting as amended vice chair mandelman. approximate >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye >> member ronen. >> aye >> member walton. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 5 aye's. >> thank youment motion motions passes the item has been continued to march 15th this will be a great hearing. thank you. >> mr. clark is there anything else that will before us today? that concludes our business. >> this meeting is adjourned. good morning. happy valentine's day. my name is bob, the chief operating officer at the institute and mayor breed and members of the press on behalf of the gladstones trustees, founding president and our gladstones community. we are honored to have you join us today as we talk about the expansion project that we have. our focus today is to provide you an update on the remarkable work being done here at gladstones and also talking about how we have an expanded presence here at the mission bay. over 40 years ago, the gladstones institute, the research organization was established to pursue the mission for transformative biomedical research. another part of the city the san francisco general hospital where we studied cardiovascular disease and we are at ground zero when hiv and aids broke out. we are pursuing a cure still today. now we are working everyday to find better ways to find and treat and prevent better course and heart disease, covid, and alzheimer's and hiv. back in 2004, when this particular building we are in today, it's the second building at mission bay. the other building being eu -- ucsf, it was a private institute at gladstones but both non-profits and dynamic part to what it is no in the mission bay community. two non-profits and in the development that we are now in, we couldn't have done this alone. we have wonderful partners and our civic leaders today and we thank you for your vision for what we have. like this, the symbol of the san francisco flag, mission bay is regenerated. you may know that silicon valley sparked the development of the silicon chip. the law says that every two years, the chip doubles. i postulate that there is a glad stones wall. that law is that each square footage that is added is the exponential impact of what that research does. so we are here today to announce our plans to expand, and if it goes according to plan a few years from now, we'll see a new building that be host to our research scientist. you will hear about that in a moment. we are also glad to have a representative here and was at the university and former intern who will take you to his story here at gladstones. we are also happy to have many of the representatives and executive officer of the community investment and infrastructure to join us to speak more about what this means and the impact to san francisco and the mission bay. first, mayor breed, welcome to gladstones. [ applause ] mayor london breed: all right. i'm first up, huh? many of you may not know but i was a chemistry major. i thought i was going to discover the next big elements on the periodic table of the elements, but i also thought i was going to make my own make-up line and it would basically take over the world. unfortunately i was a clumsy chemist and spilling chloride all over the lab, dropping liquid nitrogen here and there. i decided i better leave it to the professionals, the chemist who really have steady hands and patience to do this incredible work. i knew it was more about fun, but chemistry can be fun as we were talking earlier today on the tour. we are celebrating valentine's day today and it was great to be able to see a stem cell heart and on skin which is transformative. what's happened in san francisco what i have said time and time again, the life sciences and all the great things that are occurring especially around the mission bay community, it's changing the world. it's saving lives. when i think about our economic recovery it's so critical to the future of our city. i am looking forward to the work that gladstones will be doing because it includes 75,000 new square feet of the already 200,000 square feet that exist now. they will add an additional 12-15 labs and employ over 200 more people. that's more work hopefully moving towards a real cure for so many of the different things that many of us may have been impacted by personally. i can't wait for the expansion and excitement of what this will bring. we are talking about a company that has been here in san francisco since 1979, in the height of what we were dealing with in terms of hiv/aids epidemic. when we think about how far on what they have done and what they will do, it is transformative of this city. the area and including ucsf and just dropped off 25,000 square feet of new space for biotech and lab at the mission bay, i can't help but get excited. i want to put a little bit of a perspective here as a mayor, i want people to come back to the office, but this is not a field that you have the luxury of working from home. you have to be there, you have to load up all the different samples and testings and work directly in this location. from my perspective, this is the future. this is the future of san francisco. we see an office vacancy rate of over 22%, but as it relates to to the life sciences, it's not even at 5%. we know there is a need for this kind of space, so we as a city are going to be making it a lot easier to not only expand, but to also transform other spaces throughout this city so they can be used for the same purpose. this life breaking science or this ground breaking science life saving, i'm trying to figure out the right words, but, ground breaking life saving sciences developing here in san francisco, is going to make such a tremendous difference and we all know that. today i'm really excited about this expansion and the work we are doing together, and i look forward when we are able to come back here to cut the ribbon and open this space. who knows, maybe a cure for alzheimer's or some of the other great things we are working on in this lab here, will be introduced at that time. i also want to say that i'm really excited to know that two nobel prize winners are out of gladstones. they are based out of gladstones for chemistry which i deviated from, as well as medicine. i know there is a future in life sciences where we are going to see ground breaking transformative work that is truly going to change lives for the better right here in the heart of san francisco. you so much. [ applause ] >> >> >> thank you, mayor breed, we really appreciate your leadership throughout this city and especially for science and medicine. my name is depac and i have the privilege of serving at the gladstones substitute. what the mayor said is really important because we often refer to this time as the biocentury, and that's because with we are at a moment in time today where we can imagine finally not just accepting the diseases that we suffer from across the world, but actually think about curing those diseases once and for all. and we've never had this opportunity before, but we do today because of advances in our knowledge and advances in technology. so at the gladstones institute we are at the forefront in this transitional moment in time where mayor breed mentioned who have made transformative discoveries all over the world with stem cell and biology and technology and we have built sciences in heart disease, alzheimer's and other brain diseases like parkinson's disease and covid and cancer. we have the ability to kill cancer cells and cure diabetes and other illnesses. it happens through deep partnerships that we build. so we have that with ucsf in san francisco across the street and we have developed that across the bay area and with stanford and to really take our discoveries and not let them sit on the shelf as we make them but have them get into people through partnerships where we launched companies with our discoveries and in fact over the last five years we have launched nearly 15 companies from gladstones based here in the bay area. those companies have raised over nearly 3/4 of a billion dollars in venture capital for the sciences and those companies have employed hundreds of people. the work we do will not only transform lives over time but it's having an economic impact right here in our city. we've had a great partnership with this city for many years since we started in '79. initially based in sacramento. we were just the second building here and the city partnered with us to do so and we are delighted that we are partnering going forward with this opportunity to really make, seal this impact that we have on science, medicine and human lives, not just here in san francisco, not just in the united states, but really across the world. so as you heard we are going to be building right here on the patio as we sit and by adding more space to our building, we'll be able to bring in the talent to make these dreams a reality. we'll come back some day and with we look at the cures for alzheimer's, heart disease, finally getting rid of hiv, you will find those fingerprints of those course right here at gladstones, mission bay and in our city of san francisco. when part of our mission at gladstones is not just to do great science, but also to train the next generation of leaders, and we take that very seriously. so we have, we developed a program where we take people who have already gotten their phd degrees and md degrees and we teach them how to be scientist and also teach them how to be leaders in a very good intentional way. one of ours trained here in the 1990s, and obviously went on to change the world. our trainees sometimes start their own labs, sometimes they go into industry and we have a former trainer here in the audience and they launched one of the companies here at mission bay to make eggs out of stem cells so they can have their own eggs and their own children. we have never done this before and they are going to do that and they are young women and men entrepreneurs in science. when we train the next generation, we want to train people from all walks of lives especially those that have been under represented in signs. we have a number of programs across all aspects of the training program from high school, college to graduate degrees to do exactly that. one of our programs who we termed for promoting under training and science and many have gone on to training in stem and many plan to study in stem and we are very happy to have them part of this group. we have someone here who worked two programs at gladstones and got a leadership position and a championship award here at gladstones and now applied and accepted for a phd program at stanford and is off to a fabulous career. you are going to get to hear about his journey directly from him today. ernest, please share your experience with the audience. [ applause ] >> thank you. when i was in high school in virginia, i loved math and science. i got mostly a's in my class, but english was hard for me. i came from the philippines to the u.s. when i was 10 and only had three years to learn the language. i asked my teacher if i can go to college and not only did he say no, but he laughed at me and wasn't much help and tried to dissuade me and discourage me and said i should go to the military instead. i wanted to be a doctor. i wanted to help people as much as i can. i found my own way. not having enough money, i started working odd jobs, after 11 years, my dream to pursue science has only grown stronger. in 2014, i decided to move back to the bay area where i had lived when i first immigrated here in this country and go to college. then my son was three and his mother was sick and couldn't care for him so i brought him with me. i enrolled in community college, and at the same time i found a job as a recycler to support my son and i was informed about the puma program and she told me about her son who was a scientist. it helped me find new ways to be a doctor. i was 30 years old. i thought it was a great program. it gave me an inside look of how real biology operates and i learned some of the fundamentals used today and i enrolled in the program for the second time. i was going to college, working as a puma intern and the regional park at east bay. all the while continuing to take care of my son. it wasn't easy, but it was worth it. i was in the pac to reach my dreams. my hard work paid off because i was offered a job at gladstones and while finishing my master's degree in biology. i got into the master's degree program at ucsf and from the national institute of health to help me continue my education. while i was at gladstones in the lab, i was studying the interaction between proteins to find new targets and i knew that science was the right path for me. today, joseph is 11 and his mother lives in texas. my parents come around to see the value of my scientific career. i was accepted at stanford and started the phd program last fall. i was able to transfer everything i learned from gladstones. my professors today are amazed that i already have lab skills. i also discovered how to think like a scientist at gladstones because i was surrounded by them. i figured out how to frame an experiment and think about the larger picture. which is something that i have not learned through my education. my role here is to help as many people as i can. a few years ago, i shadowed a doctor of oncology treating cancer patients. i noticed that patients who are immigrants are affected by hepatitis first and they weren't able to access vaccines in their own country. these are people i want to help by researching diseases by affecting overlooked and under represented groups. i also want to inspire others who look like me. this is why i'm sharing my story today. i'm sure many of the young people and older are interested in pursuing a career in stem, but are told like i was, it's not for them. that they can't do it. they are made to believe that they can't go to college. i want them to know that they can. one day, hopefully, we'll see many people that look like us. not only working in science and academia, but in leadership positions, and high school teachers won't laugh at these students who dream of college but instead help them reach their goal. now, i would like to invite executive director of the office of community investment and infrastructure to say a few words. >> thank you. i hope you know that you are an inspiration to so many folks out there who are looking to achieve these skills as you heard from our very own madam mayor. she was going to college for this and others that are looking to people like you and to gladstones as a place for future careers. thank you for all you do. i'm the executive director of the office of community investment and infrastructure. i'm just going to say a few words to round out the program. mission bay was designed from the ground up to be a place, an innovation capital, a hub for life sciences. gladstones was the first private company to take that risk and lean into that vision in 2004. since then, mission bay has grown a lot and lots of new housing, over 6,000 homes, approximately 40% are affordable and office space and biotechnology space and 25 acres of parks. this gladstones expansion will ensure that in san francisco we can continue to make advances in research in hiv, alzheimer's, and heart disease and cancer right here in san francisco. once again the innovation of the bay area. this project has also created many new jobs. and while we will still say international hub of this vision. i would like to thank the team and supervisor dorsey, who is not here but for his tireless support and would like to thank the gladstones team, and karen johnson from hms, and lastly mark, the project manager and niki henry who is not here today. that's it. thank you for coming and thank you, madam mayor, for [ applause ] >> >> >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces. please stand by for the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of march 7, 2023. >> good afternoon and welcome to march 7, 2023 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, would you please call the roll? >> yes, mr. president.

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