Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Land Use Committee 20160509

All right. Good afternoon, everyone id like to call this meeting to order the regulars meeting of the Land Use Committee my name is supervisor cowen the chair of the committee to any right is supervisor wiener the vice chair of the committee and supervisor peskin will be joining us and sitting on the left clerk victor young thank you, mark and phil jackson from sfgovtv for brovrt this meeting marry mr. Clerk, any announcements . All Electronic Devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the may 17, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you call item 2. Carrying on the first sewer place property to the transferred to the Mayors Office for identifying the properties under loyalty for the department of real estate under the requirement of the administrative code and rigging the port San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and San Francisco public works and the San Francisco Unified School District to report. All right. Thank you very much i want to take a moment and thank the dozens of neighbors that written my office and those who joined us this afternoon in the committee and thank you for your time so colleagues what we have here today ill recognition and received a packet from the letters from the clerk from the neighbors for the outlet Castro Police department a beautiful building has quite a presence on the corner on third street i wanted to go on record and pubically acknowledge i chair that the castro station on third street centers is no the most feasible site more Affordable Housing development the current site a occupied by the dog patch will historical district and that the building needs substantial investment in order to a restore it to restore it and also to 0 so the recess Central Station will be back to the historical lose take care additionally the building it occupies a large lot not an opportunity to build housing adjacent to the Police Station it is highly unlikely we demolish a high building in other words, to have a High Development and due to the historic nature not likely well spend the Affordable Housing resources to renovate it so the dog patch as you may know is a community doesnt the building more than its fair share of the Affordable Housing inside of San Francisco and it is a provided of mine and the community that developers in the dog patch that dispensaries in the dog patch develop projects that have onsite affordable units which is why the vast wrarts will be building onsite Affordable Housing and additionally the community worked with the department of real estate and the Police Department on the possibility of transforming this buff site into an asset for the community that includes Community Serving spaces like the media space i know the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and the city administrator will vault but look at this and hear in Public Comment this afternoon and youll recognize the realistic constraint that site has i ask you move it from the list of properties transferred to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development at this time ill call that naomi who will shed light on the beautiful building thank you. Absolutely good afternoon, supervisors naomi kelly city administrator i want to kickoff this presentation it is myself and john updyke director of real estate and the hoechlz today, i want to give you insight of sewer place by prop k in 2002 impacted by the board of supervisors and amended by the volunteered in 2015 prop k with the city administrator to report back to you on the march first, the Surplus Property that we have identified as the city and mohcd is required to do the Feasibility Analysis by june 1st, the short timeframe a quick overview how well since 2002 and the amendments from the november 2015 real estate were collecting the data from the department that identify the Surplus Properties and they will provide that information to reality the realty will report and produce a report that report came you on march 46 and 46 Properties Located in the city what is new this year is a new prop k standards further independence what Surplus Property is and size requirement of 10 thousand plus one quarter of on acre that xmths spaces that were demonstrated open space and that became operative that reduced the list we that list is being reduced to like 8 properties now that is reviewed by mohcd were thinking how to clean up the process in the future to get this this is new and we want to incorporate the future reports into the capital plan process because the new amendments to the Surplus Property ordinance is ask his to address the schematic and hyphenating needs things of that nature the capital process is better to analyze than just the selfrecorded data from the Department Im going to turn it over to to mr. Updyke to go through the remaining items remaining properties well discuss today. Thank you city administrator john updyke director of real estate good afternoon chair cohen so take into account the first set of properties where no study been performed by the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development ill briefly note those the first group are zoned po s is open space designation with the prop k language the amended ordinance for chapter 23 those will be exempt so this is the perry tool and clipper and those parcels along bos worst youll recall prior board action 2012 a specific requirement relative to the potential sale to the mohcd and a sale to nonprofits to preserve open space so if once again didnt necessity a study and the omits the surplus assets under the definition in the code were moving quite nicely with a proposal process and intern activation that began before the end of last year and continues today so then those parcels left for review that are above the threshold of one quarter acre are simply as the supervisor noted on Castro Police department take to heart the neighborhoods concern i personally heard concerns and in dog patch over the last couple of years in conversation with the Police Commission that had affinity with the respect to the older use and connection with the community and lastly a proportionality at assemblage of 55 and 240 van ness those 3 lots when combined with we have a map up steady the minimum quarter acre site are not designated historically as an Due Diligence object our department in collaboration with the Planning Department an opportunity for further study and could perhaps when we look at the next slide thank you, john afford an opportunity for a joint venture with the two properties sort of book ending the citys ownership on van ness i want to entertain the discussion with that, im going to turn it over to to amanda Mayors Office of housing next steps forgive me i want to give supervisor kim whos the author of this hearing an opportunity to speak if you like supervisor kim. Thank you. I believe that april i didnt see her earlier but district 6 is represented. Thank you this is my hearing i appreciate april was here to give my talking points in november of last year the voters passed prop k that the surplus Land Ordinance more Affordable Housing measure it makes ava priority when a Public Agency worries about to sell or lease unused sites appropriate for housing and sets the Housing Affordability when public land is very old all from homeless families and senior and transitional loss to workingclass and sfoolgz that are struggling to stay in San Francisco to pay marketrate rents in this legislation we put in more details in terms of the types of housing and development we would like to see in parcels that we believe have the capacity to hold more than 200 units not less than 1 3rd 33 of the residential unit must be be affordable for any rental projects that means we expect a minimum of 15 percent to be affordable to households aribnb 55 percent of ami and blow and home overflow room not less than 15 percent for households for 90 percent of original medium area income this is feasible go feasibility but like to see 50 percent has passed by voters in 2014 the residential unit on the property to be affordable to workingclass and middleincome household all restricted Housing Projects should be affordable for the Youthful Life the project the measure set forth a measure for the citys requests and many of what we found since the passage of the surpassed ordinance of 2012 of the 15 sites identified that only two have been development into Affordable Housing and in fact, departments were often not Listing Properties in the Surplus Property report because they didnt want to see it utilized for other uses and want to expand the west the projects we look at so we werent looking we looked underutilized properties or opportunities for example, there might be a public use for plus storage but we can build on top of the bus storage for audible and marketrate housing i want to thank the department of real estate and john updyke for issuing this report since it passed the voter in 2015 that was distributed to the board on march Senior Citizen second this is a public resource and should go for being used for the public good and without this measure much of our pubically owned land is underutilized this is sold for manifest development with that, a discussion of inclusionary housing on site thats the first hearing annual hearing to provide the board and Public Feedback on the Surplus Property list i should add during this process we want San Francisco make sure were getting the full list of real estate by our departments not only ones that are deemed surplus this is something that so go examined by the board of supervisors, the Mayors Office of housing and the department of real estate to determine which ones are underutilized given this jurisdiction the departments themselves often leads to little land and potential sites more Affordable Housing and finally ill mention why this ordinance is too important we know in the development of any housing in San Francisco that land is often a single contributor highest line testimony of any development here in the city if we take it cost away because the fellows own that land we should prioritize the things our voters made 2 clear they want the city to produce affordable and raishg housing we want to look at the balance of the opportunity this is an opportunity to look at the reality Opening Statements to see if a there are sites the board wants to move forward and have the Mayors Office of housing do more work we had a presentation given by our department of real estate and next, we do have the Mayors Office of housing we have teresa to comment on the feasibility methodology. Great, thank you supervisor kim and supervisors teresa from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development we wanted to briefly talked about the feasibility well be utilizing to be able to look at these sites to see if their feeble for the development of housing. So first, we would look the housing use including historical use and how long as a Community Garden if Community Historical use whether that be for Community Purpose for open space if there is Community Support for conversion to Affordable Housing next would be looking at the size and configuration of the lots is it oddly shaped meet the criteria to truly have a financial project and look at the zoning the housing loud will it recur a laborious process important housing what the zoning and even though height and density how many unit can be built and open space required kind of open space and how much eve in a commercial district the opportunity for commercial veblth development with the Affordable Housing we use the revenue will have gone for retail to supplement the population next well look at site conditions is it occupied by buildings what the topography for example, the corbett site in 2004 prior to the transfer over to dpw a steep site and physically not costly for us to build housing with retaining wall and such and accessibility both by Public Transit or is it a site not assessable because of a lot of ramps will be required andville and toxic site a lot of remediation will be required that adds costs what are the surrounding use and the neighborhood like schools and Grocery Stores and, of course, access to transit especially for housing for the homeless and low income families they need cars for transportation lastly the Development Well look at the physical site to see how many units we can build and sufficient space for developing not only the housing when you support services and Community Rooms and offices for consulting and support and commercial use again, ive mentioned when we have commercial used and the potential for revenue and alternate used can it be used for housing if not housing can we gain from the economy of scale from the site is small sometimes, it facts and circumstances into our feasibility will it cost us a lot of subsidy and a outdoor Capital Resources is it feasible for other source of funding and how much capital money required to with that, ill turn it back. Yes. I have a question. Of course. So over the last 14 years the district plus ordinance is if place prior to the update in prop k a few months ago and since 2004 only 2 of the 15 properties transferred to the Mayors Office of housing were actually are converted into housing for the formally homeless and supervisor peskin district on broadway and samson we recently opened last year and in my district on otis street which we converted to housing for formally Homeless Veterans i love to hear our recommendations how to improve the distribution so land can be expeditiously sold for the usage of Affordable Housing given this rate of production. Both can we what can we do to actually implement this this. One of the recommendations looking at the property that are given to us a lot of the properties from 2003 were small or they were sandwiched between other Residential Property that have not physical benefit depict for the Neighboring Properties or ram amenities of paralyze that mother viable again, a gain from the economy scale we found cumbersome but that was useful to a certain extent the Advisory Committee that we had to form and had to actually go through a laborious progress with the feasibility in the process. How many years was the cac in place im aware the cac in place required by the ordinance. Right so the cac was in place for at least 3 years so. So the last time they met in 2013. No, it was back in 2008, or 2009. The last time the cac met was 8 years ago. Exactly. Eve it was required by the ordinance to continue. We were innovate necessarily getting properties to evaluate a. So and so these 15 buttonup were evaluate in 2008, you mentioned one of the challenges there are no go back through the feasibility with the somewhat cumbersome cac they did then examine the properties since 2008 whats been the holed up or challenge to building Affordable Housing on the remaining properties. We remember not getting a lot of properties to evaluate we were still im asking about the youve developed 2 out of 15 that were transferred otis and brautd. Ill let donna talk about that. What im asking about the disposition those lands were transferred to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development so when did it transfer what is preventing the Mayors Office of housing from building housing on the remaining parcels. Supervisor kim in 2004 there was a mass jurisdictional transfer of assets pursuant to then in effect the zone requirement from various Departments Library public works to the Mayors Office of housing and as teresa mentioned what were happy this prop k has corrected the crossing process is now in the right orders in terms of well do the study for land for the proper 2, 3, 42004 the properties were transferred and then mohcd contentions with the Advisory Committee and my staffs help as well a review the of the property and that frankly is why a number of properties signatures as eld mri and vermont, ecchymosis of those were to small or possibly sold to the adjoining owner were hostage, if you will, to accounting a transaction we cant dispose of anything less than marketrate or not developableable and they remain in the mohcd jurisdiction weve not retransferred them to the departments. I get it and im hoping this process will provide transparent and move forward with some entering depositions or alternative ways. Of the 13 remaining properties transferred to mohcd in 2004 how many were sold as you said to adjoining Property Owners. There were no sales effected of the adjoining it is was outreach in 05 and 06 but at a point if you on of the Market Dynamics in 06 the peak of 07 before the great revision not a way to structure it make sense with the city and the potential buyer. All 13 properties are within the jurisdiction of mohcd all the remaining 13 and there awaiting transfer back to the departments that originally had jurisdiction because none of the 13 sites are developable. Or with new outreach will be coming on to my staff in the solicitation process for designation for the Surplus Properties an agents whos sole purpose to deal with those properties and structure agreements not to transfer them into private ownership and put them on the tax roles thats our goal. Okay. It was that would be great so get an inventory of remaining 13 properties and what the department of real estate is suggesting we put them for sale go into the fund for building for middleIncome Housing and you know maybe some other proposals for the others i should ask because i walk in the Mission Street of our presentation mr. Updyke and the question has come up several times but how you identify underutilized sites and an example you know a hearing held over the summon summon thirty van ness the property youre familiar with a site that currently is used by the city but, of course, is proposed for sale to convert into office or potentially housing bylaw but north yet no noticing not oxens the Surplus Property talk a little bit about i see naomi kelly the city administrator here to answer. Supervisor as i state earlier this is a whole new process what im proposing is move this to the Capital Planning their 2, 3, 4 a much better position working with department of real estate 0 close in hand and mr. Updyke is getting a staff member to focus on this issue working with the capital plan well address the size and the historic needs and many more to determine if this is a appropriate site. Thank you, ms. Kelly. Im happy to add for this particular report those underutilized sites rather thano consensus this and look at what we uncovered from the two civil grand jury and the lyric report looked at over 5 hundred report and identified questionable properties underutilized not vacant but underutilized we began our process with that list and directly with the departments when we were convinced through observation and or reports provided that utilization was stepped up sympathy didnt make the list for the properties not the case theyre on the list i hope that background is he felt. Thank you complooup. Next, we have presentations by your Enterprise Departments not within the jurisdictions of the ordinance so we do understand those departments have significant land holding that maybe appropriate more Affordable Housing development a good example the site on 12r50er9 and fulsome that is owned by the puc but well be built more Affordable Housing next to the brand new park that is under construction and that area under eastern neighborhoods with respect to our enterprise and sfusd and city college the board of supervisors may make recommendations of Surplus Properties and transfer but ultimately our Enterprise Departments and education district have a right to determine if 23 that property is underutilized we wanted them to work with our department and thank you to the departments and sfusd for being here to present and we do have the selfand fold by christen and sfusd i saw david golden that will be presenting on behalf of the School District thank you. Thank you to the Committee Members michael with the San Francisco public works we have quite a few bit of Land Holdings in San Francisco but the majority with outside of San Francisco we do look at 0 the properties ones an annual basis how their utilized and underutilized we like to call them and repuncture r purchase with the hetch hetchy and the waft department to see if they will be lied by one of the utilizes this was the Water Department parcel that we actually traded with the city college for and we did he will that to the rec and Park Department and to the Mayors Office of housing so will be development into housing in the future we conditioned to look at ways we could utilize some of the property that are not needed by the utility and worked with the office of Economic Workforce Development and other entities as we move forward but the majority of our focus has been property outside of San Francisco where we were looking at some of the remnant property the Legacy Properties from the purchase of the Water Company in the 1930s we can answer any additional questions but it is something we continue to do within the personal Property Department looking at the dollar utilized properties. Thank you. I was incorrect been a lot of on behalf of selfmta. My apologies. Ray no problem i have a quick presentation ill pull this up. On behalf of the real estate this is something the idea of users Public Housing is a goal we support and i know as a city agency with the land throughout the city in addressing the housing crisis one of the challenges we face is the fact we have a different property in different locations and first step is reilly coming up with crepe to determine which properties are culpable that teresa discussed and for ourselves given we have such a core important function providing the Transportation Services the first criteria we had was the current function and operation of the site not from a and in certain that instances looking at did potential to enhance the transportation and the ability through substance from the development on those sites we looked at the potential for that new generation as well as others site constraint zoning and from the transit use facility those were outlined in 2013 there the division report implemented in 2014 some of the candidate sites were the upper generated that is adjacent to the park and mta muni station that property is in the process of transferred to mohcd so Development Process is underway there for first and fulsome adjacent to the Moscone Center there is parking garages not operating we have parking garages on 50 percent occupied were looking at those and 20 surpass parking lots may some of the developments sites this present the poeblths and complex some of the muni yard were looking at we have as an agency 2ke79d question and answer want to effort and ask the managers like myself come from the avenue background we hired an analyst to support in and continuing cooperating with oewd and ncd and meeting on a monthly basis on a formal call and speaking with them expertise and skills to the effort a number of Feasibility Analysis a quibble ill go through the upper yard with the geneva and san jose with the Affordable Housing development we have excused with the mohcd was recently updated and in the process of working with bart on a lease option a portion of the facility into the bart station and mohcd actually issued a developer goal in late june at the fourth and fulsome at the northwest of intersection with the ultimate use of family and seniors 85 unit to one hundred and 5 of Affordable Housing we have to work with mta because the federal Transit Administration the funding was involved so the custodial in charge review and received an updated proposal with the federal funds because theyre involved in the Affordable Housing site and continue to negotiate the in terms of the mohcd and done pulmonary outreach as the process move forward and after moh is excused with mohcd there will be outreach and other things to follow surpass parking lots 20 and procured the Architecture Services as well as the Financial Consultant and weve completed this month and theyll recommend the housing and Public Parking for 5 sites one in the market octavia area adjacent to the garage there are two lots in the castro and two in the west portal neighborhoods and do primary Public Outreach as the draft study is released with the outcome being what affordability levels and feasible and whether or not it is feasible given the size of the sites and then finally the muni yards really the critical piece is the operation needs and constraints of the agency all the sites are very much functioning with storage and maintenance and the fleet and facilities are expanding the services, of course, weve done Service Expansion in the past year and all the projections with the light rail vehicles and buses increase the site were landmarking is currently evaluated as the overall update in the Capital Improvement plan and taking this facility offline enduring the construction from to years fits within the Capital Needs in terms of providing Transit Services so following the assessment of how these developments will fit into that Capital Program followup with the Feasibility Analysis and look at it everything from the financing to how like the residential use or mixed use will help with the facilities and to various code and architectural considerations so with that, that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you and first of all, i do want to appreciate that sfmta has been working closely with planning and the Mayors Office of housing and our office to build Affordable Housing on the fourth and fulsome site we really appreciate that collaboration and partnering over the last couple of years and it is great to see that sfmta is really looking at the portfolio to identify sites so far Affordable Housing given that mta has amenities so it is appreciated i think that is were looking at surpass parking lots and actually interested in the moscone third Street Garage and some cases building on top of the lose like the kirkland bus yard in supervisor peskin district so really use the full possibility of the sites by potentially Building Sites on top of i know that sfmta has hair it process of identifying the sites that are underutilized talk a little bit about that. They were old as part of 2015. Im sorry. A study done for basic the entire sfmta facilities and the criteria i was not part of the discussion as they were reviewed it preceded my time in the department but the first criteria and one of the most important is the use of site and talking to our transit folks whether or not the site woke potentially taken offline was critical and the continued use was critical and another factor for the need of upgrades where the yard theres a need we know the older facilities substantial upgrades so we know at some point those facilities will have to be shut down for an upgrade for major Capital Investments the idea of very well investment is part of that rebuild to make those candidates those sites for candidate sites and other factors are location within the neighborhood zoning, and again size and Development Capacity similar to the alice in the mohcd they have not all properties are create equal so, so those are the criteria to look at the sites and the fact that has we have development and some of the sites are transitioned so a mixed use with the mta uses well do another tasks at the Land Buildings and see if there are other candidates to be added to that list. You may be users one hundred percent but building on top of that use. Yes. In the case with the all sorts of engineering challenges and the complex Development Sites but actually there is things we can look at. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Next we have David Goldman in the director of real estate at sfusd thank you so much for being here we appreciate the School District being here to present on this item regardless of whether or not the ordinance as jurisdiction. My pleasure im david the chief facility over for the School District. As you may know were one of the major landowner in the city we own about 9 million square feet over one hundred and 50 sites the interesting thing about us temporary to public prospective most of the sites are pretty full these days if you look at our Surplus Property list weve created about 9 years three of those sites are returned to active 1k8 sites some of the properties have in fact, resulted ill talk about that in a minute were actually now pursuing new locations for new schools because we projection over the next 20 years were going to have anywhere from 6 thousand to 14 thousand new students in San Francisco Unified School District out of by a eve bayview and mission bay and other areas an existing time for us you should know were an agency you notice of the state how we dispense it operationally is governed by the Education Code and set up to protect go School District from fireside sale so it makes it difficult to Sell Properties need to declare property surplus and once you sell the property the School District can only use it for facility purposes so the continued the School District might want to build a school but if you want to buy textbooks you have to find another way what is not used in the portfolio ill pleased to say were working approving for the first time in many years with mohcd and the Real Estate Office you may know three or four years we sold a major piece of property back to San Francisco state on font street last year we close swore for 1950 mission with mohcd with an affordable project in the works and last month one of the properties we closed escrow with mohcd in real estate 110 is connecticut and part of hope sf and were currently working collaboratively with the Mayors Office of housing on a joint workforce and future Housing Project where we sort of have a site in mind were not ready to go public but hopeful that will come to pass as well so the collaboration is strong if you look at our portfolio of empty land we have only one lot left 7 and lock ton we sell Christmas Trees and pumpkins. Pumpkins. Id like to do something weve not made that much money from Christmas Trees and pumpkins but our community sees it as a preservation of open space with that, ill open up for questions if all the housing gets built were hopefully, well have a lot more kids in the schools. Uhhuh thank you, mr. Golden a different conversation we were on the board of education we were looking increasing enforcement and not quibble growing population it is exciting to talk about building schools versus closing schools that was a conversation 10 years ago so i want to be cognizant of the fact that sfusd needs to consider conserving the sites for population growth and one of the questions maybe not a question but for dissolution with the Mayors Office of housing to look at the you know multi use on a single contributor site were restricted by the 7 by 7 bound so identified a site mission bay is not a great example but other sites we look at schools and housing or maybe other uses that benefit the School District as well i also appreciate the tremendous work our department is currently collaboratively with the Mayors Office of housing and how we increased housing for our teachers who we learned i think in september through the defendant there is not a single contributor home that is affordable to a 40ur8d where both income earns are teachers in San Francisco i think that is stravrl data for the board to hear in the fall and we certainly need to do a lot more to address that crisis for quality teachers here in sfusd we want them to be able to afford to live here we looked to working with you and able to be more creative about the limits existing lands here in San Francisco thank you for the presentation. Thank you, supervisors. And finally our office sat down with city college of San Francisco they were not able to present today but had me clear they were only 3 parcels in their surplus this is the the campus on eddy and balboa so all the other sites are utilized for education and certainly Affordable Housing is slated for tsites. Madam chair thats all our presentation we can open up for Public Comment. Thank you very much. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, i have a few Public Comment cards 5 im going to call them if there is anyone else that wants to speak on the topic item number 2 have not filled out a card feel free excuse me ive been bring to your attention are art is joining us are you speaking on item 2. Are you speaking on item 2 please come up and john youll be following the mayor and calling names mr. Mayor, thank you for being here and i want to thank you for your leadership on the issues and our collective leadership but do you think the two minute going on. You have a soft gong. Ill remind the clerk a rare and not often uses rule that former marries get an extra minute for every year in office and we may of followup questions mr. Mayor. Thank you, again i dont think i would respectfully suggest my history was Affordable Housing and both low middle and affordable of all kinds it has been shared with you with of course, my career will be aware of the acute problems your discussing im here to lend the credibility and respect open an Theodore Roosevelt high school woman a leader in the Dog Patch Community as well as the great castro hill thats been one of the most structural Community Leaders ive ever experienced indeed was with three and four when i was anywhere mayor, i would still be the mayor youll hear here talk about work in the community the old historic Castro Police station and hospital which we need to convert to a Community Facility and open space while protecting and preserving its historic facade this is a balanced needed facility what im were properly adding to the stock of the Affordable Housing and housing in general in this part of the city with enormous projections and continue in the pipeline for the next 10 years were keeping pace with the other kinds of facilities so say you listen to here her i want you to know the entire community is following her leadership in this important project thank you very much. Next speaker calling names . Greetings my name is john a Business Owner that has a corner to the site and wanted to reiterate the initiative of dog patch neighborhood and other communities members will advocate for community e risk nonprofit uses of space regardless of what direction it goes in wed like to ask the city to consider expediting any type of solution so that the property will at least urban design utilized as opposed to ive experienced for 5 years as a Business Owner across the street and definitely want to reiterate the importance of the historic fabric of the neighborhood and specifically retaining that property and the building restoring it as opposed to building something new. David. Greetings david of the castro hill and spend in dog patch a veteran part of my Immediate Community and to urge you to not use the Castro Police station in oswald for Affordable Housing ask you make it available for another purpose when i was a boy and teenager my family and i would across the street from the and the kids in the neighborhood knew we had a safe place for pingpong and billboards and arts and creativities attended event with any patent with low budget musicals prepared by children and adults in the community and exactly how this location will be used in any context will be determined San Francisco is in spite need of Affordable Housing but probably should not turn every square inch of space into housing only people of economic braushld we need places to keep us safe and make life interesting to share with each other and create time together and supervisor cowen piloted out quite a bit of Affordable Housing still coming in dog patch and also especially appropriate given the historical communities nature of this the Police Station and hospital used for Community Purposes like the Community Center thank you very much. Thank you, david good to see you captain and calling names good afternoon horrible Land Use Committee were asking the castro hill should be removed from the conservations for the following reasons dog patch has an making xheerms contributions to the Affordable Housing we agree needs to be addressed navigated the eefrment planning doed code is riskier in our neighborhood any development larger than 5 units have to provide 5 percent of the units belowmarketrate lets go do the math of the 25 hundred units that are being built or scheduled to be completed by 2020100 percent their transbay between 2 will the and 50 Affordable Housing land or funds and as supervisor cowen mentioned earlier the dog patch association encourages the developers to build onsite for the desegregation so despite this robust pipeline of development in dog patch were miss teller lacking the Public Benefits that were promised in 2008, eastern neighborhoods that led to the sonoma of development i quote each plan proposes to provide a full array of benefits including open space and public transportation, improvements, straight improvements and facilities but to date the city made little progress the community did the work themselves in 2008, the boys club built a basketball and built a new preschool and open space 2012 Progress Park and many others so my point being this property especially due to the historic status been a tremendous Affordable Housing in the neighborhoods should be dedicated to the community and we have done a lot of work on the property ourselves. Did you want to speak. Good afternoon, supervisors im angelica im with soma thank you supervisor cowen youre leadership in having this item on the agenda today you know San Francisco is a small city 7 by 7 mile and land is definitely extremely precious its been adopted by the development thats why a nobrainer that city and county city sites comes back to public goods this is right now, were in a housing crisis it is important that Affordable Housing is built for san franciscans and remind the public at this housing crisis crisis like Fourth Street and van ness and other sites are very important to be dedicated back to the Community Land is more valuable for the long term public good than the money from selling at soma weve seen evictions and tenants getting hazarded but people begging to find housing like one family who was forced to live in an sro and due to the sro units have maximum amount of people being able to live there here fame had to divide itself and move into two or three other buildings therefore their family is not together and the children are away from the parents and the oldest children are watching the siblings this is not the kind of families we not to see families grow in San Francisco how county look forward look forward to working with mohcd on transferring the site of 4 children for investigating the thank you. Thank you. Jerry. Was not faster enough good afternoon members of the public thank you for your time i want to continue on what carting republican was seeing with the italian building it could be fabulous it is mirandize into we in the 15 years weve lived in dog patch nothing has been done to help that building other than a fence up and reactions to fires set by Homeless People living in the building and it is definitely a building that needs to be saved and the time is well past for it to be done we have funding lines weve identified and think we can get this done and ask you remove it from the surplus list i have two letters one from the dog patch and another from a neighbor who was not able to get it in. All right. Well take those letters and put them in file. Perfect, thank you. Next calling names . Good afternoon, members of the land use im charley with the viral and economic all rights thank you for holding this hearing weve heard over the course the ordinance has been relatively modest over the last decade but learned it is successful that results have been impactful over the last 6 months the Mayors Office of housing has been in a unique position compared to the last decade with the issuance the public land in the xhoishg and 1950 mission a formally School District you site a puc Commission Sites in the balboa that is formally an mta site this came about after years of advocacy efforts to win the city as a partner to develop new Affordable Housing open space now that that is happening it feels weight that is exactly what we should see more howe how to keep the momentum doing we need tools to make that happen the city to reours like the Planning Efforts and candidates that the city for the privatize the lands keep them in the public realm and turn to the mission and expertise to develop the Affordable Housing and the city to land bank eve we dont vote resources a prime example the balboa reservoirs why not the reservoir on the list 17 pubically owned Public Education facility with many work families severely impacted by is the housing crisis is once in a generation yet the city is proposing manifesting development on the site we understand the policing requires the fair market value but not fair market Value Housing and make sure it is considered as public lands thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you for your time im jessie and id like studio say im excited to be able to move on the Development Sites so far Affordable Housing much needed Affordable Housing not only for the opportunity for the housing of people like teachers that cant afford to live in the city but the parents of children in my area of work in district 11 an immigrant and low income with a lot of families with children that be going to the schools and from the housing that is development not assessable and affordable to the families we risk a lot more than we risk losing the culture diversities it is under attack by the housing crisis in fact, according to an article in the examiner weve exceeded the marketrate housing and way, way below the hours assessable for low income and moderate earns one sites i want to highlight piggybacking on what the previous speaker the balboa reservoir this is going to have potentially hi impact on the ability to provide Affordable Housing for protecting very protecting folks in San Francisco but to date the process is double theyre not regretting the Community Pressure i want to highlight the high profile of this pubically owned site and echo as development of the Affordable Housing assessable to protecting and moderate income earns and not marketrate thank you. Thank you, supervisors and thank you for hearing this item thank you also to the Enterprise Agency represents for coming forward and speaking about properties under their jurisdiction i wanted to give my name is fernando with the Community Housing successors e organizations we working closely with the supervisor kim office and worked on the prop k one thing from the folks from dog patch as advocates more Affordable Housing we want to respective the work youre doing to preserve that building as a Community Center one thing ill add if you want to see fantastic work the affordable workers did ill invite you to look at the third church of science it is run by tndc with the work as a compensate lyric for having the Community Check out booker t. Washington in the western edition i think one of the things about prop k it talks about prioritizing Affordable Housing but talks about other uses and one of the things weve heard is how critical across the street if as a indelible opportunity site for developing Affordable Housing right here in the vicinity of city hall we need to look at alcohol what i think ill hearing as well as the mta put for the tremendous resources that are available under the mta in both bus yards and parking garages and parking lots that might be codeveloped as Affordable Housing while maintaining the critical uses been the ground floor a lot of work to be done finally want to reiterate what we wrote in the capillary mrs. Dont prioritize public lands please keep public lands public land. I want to give you a foul and reiterate the fact that every time supervisor kim and the Land Use Committee talk about Affordable Housing you set the rate for protecting and protecting housing the percentage of medium at 55 percent which is a total of 41 thousand plus a year in order to be eligible to apply for the Building People in protecting brackets range from 18 thousand to 30,000 a year were not eligible to move into those apartments you did the same thing with the civic building that is about two blocks next to the department 9 Public Housing the Percentage Rate is 40 thousand plus a year people in the income brackets are not below protecting housing rates and you did that would be 5 m claimed as protecting and Affordable Housing and the lot income at 4 and mission is 71,000 a month and the seniors and females from the Filipino Community accompanying her for 5 m and have them thinking because of this measure theyll be able to move both Affordable Housing you built that building after completed the same seniors filipinos deaccepts that applied to move in and told not enough income that was 71 thousand a year its not fair im still upset and disappointed you advertise protecting but you set the in case for accessibility at that high rate its disgusting. Supervisors im jim im on the board of the civic center i want to make a couple of comments and in the Civic Center Historic district now the Historic District is not a bunch of buildings but includes the 1912 plan by john howard and has restrictions it calls for all the buildings facing city hall to have a 70 foot cornice line above and architectural requirements what im getting at that property cant be used inform build a cheap building because of the requirements of the Historic District so that is a concern so i want to bring to your attendance safety theyre growing in the area and includes the housing people many of whom or older and some from out of the town and the area at night is insurer secure and that corner is trouble so many it is dark and your honor, development later in the evening a criminal syndicate operational a facility they pay cash for cans and bottles that property need to be developed in a way that accommodates all the different requirements including housing our nblgd has written a letter because of the odd configuration of the private and public lands and other things that is a tricky situation you cant impose any particular percentage of what you you require there it requires working through the design. What not and coming to a consensus of what can, appropriate in terms of affordable i urge you to get on with this project because that corner sits there vacant and insecure and needs attention thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors peter cohen, San Francisco council of Community Housing organizations. I too just want to remind folks great leadership supervisor kim you had that measure last november and passed 75 percent folks like the idea of using the resources for Public Housing under the nuts and bolts of implementation certainly what were looking for a current list of sites not recycling it repab habituates the department go through a process of comping through the vicinity and make sure that list is updated and current and thorough and not just recycling as we go into this next cycle we hope it is done but the kraeltsd of underutilized site i like to hear the departments talk about that about but we need to be creative we are in had 49 course of the trial city we have to maximize the efficiency so lets figure that out we have two properties we have Affordable Housing an bart illegal let over the garage it fits nicely and a third point get the enterprise agencies to work with us to do the annual reporting if we can sink that up wee bit were doing the same with the same process that treats all the departments and enterprise is not only part of family but the Civic Project and lastly the public needs to know what is going on one of the things in working on the measure we treated more transparency it is a bureaucratic process that people dont follow having a notification list it is automatic sent out it key and establish that list with automatic notification and lastly to the previous speaker balboa is an example why not to approve its on this 17 percent is scheduled for that i have housing marketrate those are precious opportunities thank you. Thank you, mr. Cohen. Seeing no further Public Comment chair wiener close Public Comment. Yes. Public comment is closed. Thank you to the members of the public coming out to speak on our Surplus Property ordinance list the purpose of todays hearing to have a Public Housing on what is recorded as surplus and underutilized by to get Community Input how they want to see the properties utilized i want to thank the different residents how they want to see the sites utilized not only more Affordable Housing perhaps for Community Center and openly small Property Owner open space i want to recognize some of the Affordable Housing advocates who did work with us on crafting the Surplus Property ordinance last year in 2015 thank you for your work this is an ordinance that is many places in 2002 and work to strengthen but also articulate some of the specifications of the process so we can have better outcome with our existing property our existing pubically owned properties we know were in the midst of a housing crisis despite building more housing since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and an vast and majority of residents all the way to middleincome san franciscans that make good income cant afford to live here in fact, 75 percent of san franciscans are shut out of houshth so administratively that earn between 80 and wofdz are not confident they can live in the city i want to address one comment in regards to this ordinance we do prioritize first housing for the formally how else so we offer a range on a property a thats the First Priority and move on to Affordable Housing at 55 percent of average medium income and middleIncome Housing in the senior in the im going to turn it over to they have seated a parcel within their ownership to be built for low income seniors and it would be available to seniors at a third of their income regardless of their income so housing for senior that see not f d e to average income and seniors on fixed income and only expected to pay a 3rd of their income for rent on the site and friendly quote if from the San Francisco Business Times that didnt always agree but an article quote Affordable Housing developers have an easier time building on public land the city what transfer the land and have Affordable Housing on privately owned now private developers have to compete end quote it is a come down we should be thoughtful in terms of how we utilize it and maximizing this use to consider multi uses on a site whether housing public purpose or Community Centers so i want to thank everyone for their involvement and the Enterprise Department and the School District for attending and the Deadly Weapons and john updyke and, of course, the city administrator naomi kelly we know as we move forward with the exempt Surplus Property owners we looked to working and making our vision a reality chair wiener may i suggest we make a motion to file that item. Well entertain a motion to file can we take that without objection . Without objection item 2 is filed and mr. Speaker, call item number one item one resolution for the addition of the street name to the one hundred with the anniversary of the turning point for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders questioning and entering sex people with the transgender women. Thank you, supervisor kim is the lead sponsor im a cosponsors supervisor kim. Thank you Customer Service chair wiener and thank you for your cosponsorship and supervisor campos the resolution that is before us is to rename the one hundred block of tucker in the tenderloin neighborhood the jean comptons cafe commending the august 1966 uprising of primer transgender leaders this sparked the remove the comptons marks the hoengs where an all knitted the jean compton with the tenderloin neighborhood where 50 years ago exactly a group of outraged transgender men and women set up and marked a transgender liberation this commemorative signage on this 50 anniversary is designed to immortalize the compton event to remind us we have much more to do how far weve come and how much to combat the thinking sufficient institutional infrastructure and lack of tradition for the trains women the staves e statistics are stalling 41 percent of transgender yields report suicidal thoughts and 26 report losing a job over their identity and 97 percent are recorded abuse and in the realm of lgbtq transgender women especially transgender woman of color the brunt 72 percent of victims of anti lgbt homicides are transgender women and 67 of anti lgbtq victims are transgender women of color and this is a statistic that is held true every year transgender people of color 6 times more likely to experience violence from the police compared to their white sister jaerndz survivors the number of states are placing protections for transgender individuals other state governments are explicit impacting laws for transgender law by preventing transgender oriented i discrimination bills passed in their states i want to recognize chair wiener for his work that dan says all of the states are not accepting our brorlgz as the compton riot approaches and as our transmark approaches in june we wanted to commemorate this event by renaming the one hundred black blocking of turk to jean way and recognize the public works in their efforts to 34e7 to expedite this in time for the transmarch in june of this year and want to recognize many members of the public in particular felicia flames here today and for her leadership in educating the members of the board on this important event and in fact, my first year in office they came with an poster to equate me on this site of the district i represent along with other members of the board so colleagues if there are no comments comes. Thank you calling names thank you for taking the lead on this rename which is really a positive step forward embracing any Community Like the present and past how the past led to today an extremely for this recognize which generations of san franciscans Going Forward will be able to see and remember and go educated is critically important i agree particularly what is going on in other parts of country in terms of attacks on transgender people it is more important than ever for San Francisco to remain in the lead embracing the transgenders brothers and sisters and we know that now that we won in the Supreme Court on Marriage Equality those who want to determine con news are that i haveing to other issues that is attacking transgender people we need to rally and show unity and this is a step forward. Open up for Public Comment. Thank you chair wiener. Hi my name is felicia im a screaming queen a pioneer a 29 year survivor the aids and last year 2015 Lifetime Achievement grand marshall and this year, the brother Kelly Collins serve award by tndc i want to thank supervisor kim and supervisor wiener for being here it is important for the Transgender Community and it would a Transgender Community but queers sister i didnt and chair female impersonates with the jean riots we were thrown out like trash we were sick we were mental and nonnobody wanted us so the tenderloin wasnt a words of mouth not in the media it was word of mouth girls could be who they were were without be screwed we were murdered and raped, beaten up, thrown in jail because of who we were meant to be and not going on millionaire but the tenderloin and very happy to be there although we had toe do prostitution they wouldnt hire us for work i wanted to jean comptons cafe we want to commend give memento all the girls and boys that stood up for all of us at one time to be who we were meant to be we were fighting for our rights and fighting for who we were meant to be and i want to honor all who died who have been killed murdered and raped because of who they were i am the only one other than tomorrow susan cook and oh, my manager i forgot her name got a senior moment i want to make sure that our history as queers sister i didnt see we were the Gay Community blacks asians afghans and latinos fighting for the right to be who we were were and meant to be regardless of who cared for us and who didnt care for us we had to be who we were meant and hopefully, i get to celebrate the biggest anniversary at city hall thank you. Thank you for your leadership and also for your leadership of the renaming of vicky in the tenderloin two years ago a historic street renaming and proud to work you and proud to present you next tuesday youll be awarded hello im jasmine thank you for hearing us i heard the one hundred block of turkey it was renamed as one hundred taylor. Yes. Im sorry this was the one hundred block of twair thank you. A friend of mine of felicia and work with john one of the vice chair and also part of community that having conference in this lows two weeks the howard elderly conference on the jean compton cafe so were getting the word out to people know about comptons and not just stonewall so we want the whole city ate bay area and the country to know about comptons cafe so thank you for getting this done for us. Thank you and thank you for your leadership on the marlene way as well vicky mary lane. Good afternoon. Im a transgender woman is lives in the tenderloin obviously a lot younger it happened before i was born and support the rich women by name a street of the compton roitsz yet riots because the Freedom Fighters has in terms of trained rights, however, transgenders women of colorfast too many initials library murdered and unemployment and criminalization of sex working, working and not asking for a Surgery Program and gentrification and incarceration and Police Violence i believe if we take a lesson from this event that it is relevant so there was a time and place for diplomacy when were pressed we are willing to put our digit over your decorum liquor jeanette did in the interruption of his speech the builders folks that will not support lgbt rights no matter but comment come to the support of racism and age of dont come to any transit marches and id like to talk about the fritz could 5 and it is happening outside those two events 50 years approved or disapproved by Police Violence thank you. Thank you, ms. Davis. My name is austin i want to get up here and is or is as as gay man that is queers and people are make up that i was able to get involved with supervisor wiener and on the more research he did there are no sfpd files on the case moving i cant they paid off the sfpd to destroy the files on behalf of what is coming in other stats but what was happening outside of city hall right now the fact that transgenders women are murdering 346r79d in the tenderloin and people in the city dont know what jean comptons cafe is representing in the Community Mission bay anything else we can do from inside oswalds we can remember the history thank you for supervisor kim and for her leadership on the com ration. Thank you supervisor kim and members of the committee. Thank you, mr. Pa did i. Im a proud transgender woman and currently a line attorney in supervisor jane kims office thank you for entertaining this proposal it is important to have a in memoriam for the site in the tenderloin because it is important to memorialize what transgender women have done and i hope you pass that thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Any is there any additional Public Comment on item one. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay supervisor peskin can i have a motion to forward item one to the full board with recommendation. So moved. Can i sorry. Sorry supervisor my apologies i didnt press the bottom i want to thank chair wiener for your cosponsorship and supervisor peskin has joined on as a cory want to thank public works for expediting this and recognize sfmta did i live on here and working closely with our office to expedite this so we can do this in time for tran march and led by supervisor peskin for renaming the Chinese Hospital and able to utilize this to expedite this and finally i want to thank bobby lopez and others from my office to make it happen we look forward to doing much more to commemorate this important event and certainly in the tonight and thank you committee for your support. Okay. On the motion to forward number one with the objection mr. Clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . Just to restate the recommendation without objection to supervisor cowen being absent tlbz theres no further business. To ford forward with a positive recommendation. Okay were adjourned thank yougo. Shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 hi in my mind a ms. Medina [gavel] good morning and welcome to the may 5,2016 regular scheduled meeting it of the all of audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor peskin and joining me is supervisor norman yee and supervisor london breeds. Mdm. Clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence any cell phones or Electronic Devices and the items on the agenda will be discussed as stated. Can you please announce the 1st item . Marmotion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct a performance audit of the citys Real Estate Division in 2016. Are there any members of the ublic that would like to comment one item number 1 . Seeing none i will close Public Comment. Are there any supervisors that would like to comment . Yes supervisor breed . Whether or not we are actually helping individuals out of homelessness. Also more importantly and i think that many members of the public believe that we are spending this money only to basically serve and support Homeless Individuals when in fact, a lot of this money is actually going towards prevention including programs like Hamilton Family resources and homeless [inaudible] these help the individuals in our neighborhoods that need help paying their rent. This helps us to know where to direct or redirect additional dollars and it does make an impact and im really grateful that we are coming to a conclusion on that and i knew it would take some time but im looking forward to holding a hearing hopefully in gal and make some reports hopefully in time with our coming fiscal years budget and i want to thank you for your work on this report. Thank you supervisor breed. If there are no other comments on Committee Members is there a motion to send this motion to the pol oard without objection. Mdm. Clerk can you please read the next item . Legislation committee and city lobbyist when lobbying on behalf of the city and transmitting the citys official policy positions to external bodies and agencies; and requesting the City Attorney, the city lobbyist, and the mayors legislative liaison to report. Thank you mme. Clerk and colleagues. I call this meeting to see where we are at in respect of local policies and our state budget in the legislator. As you know every year we take lead audit on the legislation of many of these committees and as you know supervisor breed works in the City Attorneys Office as well as a treasurer in the City Attorneys Office and i thought that we should probably have a hearing to see how that committee is going to ascertain how they work to make this process transparent and as a policy body to make sure that our will is known by our city lobbyist in sacramento. We have a very good city lobbyist and as i was speaking with the representative from the Mayors Office, Nicole Elliott and i want to welcome as she is that mayors liaison to the board. One thing we can do internally to ourselves is to make sure that everyone of these resolutions actually requires the clerk to directly communicate that not only to the Mayors Office but directly to the citys lobbyist i spoke with karen lange and paul yoder i spoke with them this morning and they are unable to speakat this meeting because they are doing work for us this morning but they are able to, and meet with us this committee f or a special meeting on a friday so i would like to consider that in the future. With that i would like to introduce supervisor yee. Good morning supervisor peskin and Committee Members and members of the public. I am here [inaudible] unfortunately, they are unable to be here with us this morning but is for good reason and im happy they will be here to be able to speak with you and to answer any questions you may have and to enjoy a giants game. I would like to discuss what this does and to communicate the role of a state lobbyist. I will try to be brief but bear with me. I will start with our state Legislation Committee and 1st of all at the enabling body is found inbudget and finance supervisor. When it comes to items that are considered by the committee we require that the department bring bills to us that can demonstrate the welfare of the city and county and at the meetings we asked Department Representatives to speak to those items and answer any questions from Committee Members. A typical Legislation Committee agenda includes one to 2 bills on specific legislative areas. When i took this role in 2014 this was not a role that i was aware of or that my predecessor was aware of but thanks to your calling of this meeting supervisorl receive that for all future Legislation Committee items. As you know the Mayors Office is responsible for coordinating allatters according to the charter and he is responsible for these priorities and we use these priorities throughout the year. These are often end up as bills there is a concern that dpa highlighted in their policies. And we support the citys advocacy through a d 74 and 77 and this was referred by the board of a passage of a resolution earlier this year. Supervisor peskin, since you coordinated this meeting this year i have had the opportunity to spend some time with your secretary and i was able to come to the conclusion that you drafted these resolutions that the board could sharethese resolutions with my office. After speaking with ms we can keep the citys priorities defined by the mayor and the board and in the meantime when it is defined in some recent positions of the board i can receive to the prior to the committee on the subsequent day and share that information too. We are very proud of our dedicated team in sacramento Affordable Housing. Much of this happens out of the local spotlight but it is critical. If i can just run through some examples of work that they accomplished in sacramento so that you guys are more wellaware of that. They have advocated for state efforts for affordable funding for appeals on the governors veto for the budget and bond financing that allowed preapproved bond financing in the hunters bay and shipyard in that area and this allowed nearly 3300 units of Affordable Housing in the city. This was instrumental in the bill of success for the timeline and passage of this implementation. As you guys are well aware they haveadvocated very hard in sacramento. They have worked with legislative leaders looking to reef purpose legislative housing funds. They have helped San Francisco to secure millions of dollars in affordable hhousing and finally they have helped the city to develop and secure more housing for k12 teachers for the senators a p 13 and 14 and this is one of the reasons that they are not able to join us today because they are in current legislation between the Mayors Office and the district to ensure smooth passage through the appropriations committee. They have advocated on the citys behalf to increase the citys minimum wage by 2021. They have advocated a license to help support Small Businesses and vacancies and supervisor yee i believe your district is benefiting from that bill. On behalf of the city county they are working on a bill ab 2180 ab 2182 release surplus of caltrans 10 of the current market rate and if that space can be used for open space, green space or recreational purposes. In addition San Francisco would have 1st right of refusal over those spaces. Supporting life saving safety issues on our public roads and under our direction they are assuring ordination with securing a sponsor for the next legislative session. They have also worked closely with the fat lobbyist on this priority there continue to working with the chc while these bills are pending passage and signature. In the interest of time i will stop there but i would be happy to provide your office with reports of all documents regarding this and since i took the position in the office in sacramento. We are proud of our efforts and we hope that the mayor and the board of supervisors have brought about by this hearing. Thank you supervisor peskin we will make our work even stronger. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you miss elliott. I agree that this is doing a great job for the city but how does the contract process between the city and the outer city lobbyistin terms of the competitive bid, how does that work . Excuse me, im looking for the overall review of the contract but i know it was competitively bid and it was in 2012. It was a contract that was competitively bid in 2012 with 4 separate additional options for renewal each with one year and it has been renewed 3 times through. This year. So, this is the end of that contract. . I believe it is eligible for one extension. And that contract does not come before the boardbecause its not eligible for an additional extension . Correct. I am in no way trying to assert that they have a conflict but in as much as they have many clients the Treasury Association in the state of california is one of their clients and i believe that is correct and the reason that i raise that is for instance that you mentioned that the required bill and we also discussed abe 2521 and ab 2522, how do we resolve those issues or how does the state legislative committee look at that . Are you asking me in relation to the contract with our lobbyist . Yes. I would say as far as the particular mechanics i would say that we have a primary lobbyist and that is paul yoder and i believe you said you spoke to, and i believe that they go to Great Lengths to avoid conflict by creating walls within their office so there is not conflicts with in the legislation here. Now are these meetings publicly noticed . Can the public attend these meetings . Yes. In the height of legislative session do you meet more often . We could and that has been done in the past but what we have seen in the past is there is an enormous number of bills that come to state legislation in the legislation season and that tapers off. And then internally lets say there is a piece of legislation that is near and dear to a department but less so to an administration how do you administrate theres things . Are you asking how we prioritize those advocacys . That is something that guides our lobbyists throughout the year and we do flag bills that we believe that departments would be interested in viewing and we do it send them back to those departments to do a review and they send them back to us. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item . I see mr. Planteholt i if there are no others i know mr. Planteholt that you have a lot to say and you have been looking at this for many years so we will give you a little bit of extra time. Go ahead. I am bob planteholt part of my black ground that had may be helpful is that i have had 7 1 2 years on the Sunshine Task force and i was 2 years on as an officer on the ethics committee. I am using all that background but in addition, my advocacy at a state level i was cochair of a group that got 2 bills vetoed after being passed by 2 separate departments. Take a look at the Legislation Committee. Look at the website. You will look at 0 posting of minutes for months and months and months and months it is clear violation of the sunshine ordinance. At the same time i had to remind you folks as well as informed the public that there is a requirement that Public Officials and city staff take a recurring training in sunshine and ethics and certify that they have done it. One member of the state Legislation Committee has been on there for years. Years and years and years and years and nobody has called attention to the lack of the posting of minutes. You may think it is minor but when you look at the agenda you also see there is no report back from the formal major city lobbyist. Now, contrast that to the metropolitan Transportation Commission has a state Legislation Committee and there are constant reports back from their state lobbyist. Here you do not see anything so we will not see how well they did for advocating for the citys legislative agenda after the session ends. I went back to look at the agenda going back a far distance and there is no report back and the you have no report back and you do not know what they did other than specifically push a billdid the lobbyist have an agenda. Is there a bill on the automated Speed Enforcement committee. What information are they giving the lobbyists nd are they supposed to address broad topics that arent specifically addressed by the specific legislation or are they too got and amend the process of the state legislature. There often times i discussed bills and they say to talk to lobbyists and i say will who are they and they do not know. Apart from the city lobbyists i will tell you there is a separate lobbyist hired for some technical stuff and i raised questions with the City Department because i see a potential conflict for that lobbyist for that area and nobody seems to follow up and nobody bothered to ask about that possibility. So, there is a lack of accountability. Thank you. [timer dings] thank you mr. Planteholt. Next speaker please. There seems to be no advocate for the people for example low Income Housing in proposition a. In the city of San Francisco you actually provide 12,536 apartment housing for people that are above the Income Housing. Whereas you are providing only 4000 for those in low income brackets. What this means is that you are provide a more opportunities for people that are not in the low income bracket when it is supposed to be designed to help those that are in the low income bracket. You deliberately set the median rate of 55 and call that Affordable Housing when in reality that income is 49,300 per year. That is not low Income Housing. You people that are veterans or on Social Security benefits your people that have Retirement Benefits and their incomes range from 17 18,000 per year to 30,000 per year. It is not fair. And then about these project developers, you claim they have to make a profit will why dont you use what mercy housing is using where you they nonprofit to build these were not backed in a corner and then also another example is the building downtown where you have 60 million of [timer dings] thank you. Seeing no other Public Comment Public Comment is closed [gavel] im seeing this is already bringing forth some issues thati was hoping that it would. I would like to bring forth some issues where the lobbyists can come and have an open session where my colleagues can, and members of the public can see and meet these lobbyists in a formal or an informal setting because i think its important that the lobbyists have a direct relationship with the lobbyists in sacramento as well. And i will see that this is on the roster. Thank you supervisor. Peskin i think its important to have an opportunity to listen to our lobbyists. Myself being the chair of this particular committee i never thought of this and i should have so i give you a lot of credit for bringing this topic to our attention. As mr. Plantehold mentioned today we would meet with the lobbyists so often and they would tell us what the priorities were and that was on the school board a these would be set on the school board annually and this could help us understand what the legislation is putting forth and how we could impact that so i would love to see the type of things that our lobbyists and the cities lobbyists especially are fighting for. So, i will support your motion. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor peskin. I know that when things come the list for things that we need to lobby that is not always brought to our attention. I know in the Transportation Department they do thisopenly and i think that we should find some ways to do that so that the members of the board are aware of the legislation that is on the horizon and we can take positions and what we can keep an eye on him a board level in addition to other responsibilities. The other thing that i wanted to bring up that i thought was interesting in Public Comment was the fact that there are requirements of all members to take certain classes to keep them in compliance and i do think that we have a responsibility to make sure that that happens and we should followthrough on that as well. With that, i am happy to move nd colleagues for our next meeting i think that we should follow up on these as well to make sure that this meets any update at the dawn of the 21st century. What that we will continue this item number 2 to the call of the chair and we look forward to getting our city lobbyists to come down from sacramento to San Francisco to meet with this body. [gavel] mdm. Clerk can you please call the next item . Item 3 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the city to open and operate no fewer than Six Navigation Centers within twelve months of the Effective Date of offering comprehensive health, Mental Health, and other services to Homeless People, and moving Homeless People off the streets and into permanent housing or transitional or stable Supportive Housing that eventually leads to permanent housing through Case Management, social service programs, and the integration of other relevant city services; specifying programmatic requirements for Navigation Centers; and affirming the Planning Departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. Good afternoon supervisors and members of the audience. Before i get started this morning i have a packet that i would like to hand out. The bottom line is i have not seen homelessness rise to the crisis that i have seen in the last few months. The fact is as evidenced by the actions taken by this boardto declare a crisis when it comes to shelter System People in the city are finally recognizing the severity of this problem Homeless People themselves are suffering in the streets of San Francisco and residents of neighborhoods like bernard heights and the mission are dealing with the impact of having people camped out and People Living in front of their driveways and going to the bathroom in front of their homes. What we saw on division street is not an isolated encampment. On my street alone you have encampments not only on division street but around the surrounding areas and what we saw in response to these encampments is that this did not resolve the issue it just move the encampments the smaller streets. Some in some respects,some residents have actually made this issue worse. My legislation is trying to provide immediate shortterm relief for the encampments that are coming up throughout the city. We are trying to come up with prolific effective and humane efforts to eal with these encampments. You know the Navigation Center that we have in the city is in my district and im very proud of the work that we did and its under the leadership of evan dusty and we will see that very shortlyand our efforts are to move people off the streets and into temporary housing that eventually leads to permanent housing. This provides services of Mental Health to the Homeless People as well as integration of other services. The key is their low barrier. They allow people to enter with their partners, their pets, and their belongings. And my legislation we have a managed alcohol shelter which will allow residents to consume alcohol within the city and provide residents with alcohol treatment with in the shelter. For someone who has been a recovering alcoholic i can tell you that in many respects the idea of giving a space for alcoholics to drink in many respects goes against what i have been exposed to in Alcoholics Anonymous and all of that but what were talking about is Harm Reduction and Harm Reduction has been proven to work and that is ultimately what this legislation is about. It is about letting facts, signs, and medicine drive the policy positions of the city. I know that one of the navigationcenters that the legislation specifies will focus on transitional aged youth ages 18 to 29 and we know that there is a need in that population and as a gay man i can tell you that many of those youth are queer youth and still see San Francisco as a beacon that they can come to because they are not accepted at home. We know that perhaps the most controversial piece of the legislation is the issue of developing a safe injection site at one of the Navigation Centers and i know that there will be an amendment around that which i will be supportive of i also want to note that a number of us will actually be visiting vancouver today there will be a delegation from San Francisco to look at how this works and i think that the point that what we have set of that issue is that can we at least explore how this works before we jump to conclusions that this does not belong in San Francisco . Now,let me say that one thing that this legislation does is to find and use vacant sites that are being controlled by the city and also to findsites that are being used for other purposes to be used for Navigation Centers and also properties that are owned and used by other public organizations within the city for instance we have one that is owned by the School District. Does this mean as a city that we require more resources . Absolutely it does. But i think that in the end it will be a lot less costly to do what we are doing and to actually target populations by actually providing an opening Navigation Centers and the studies who have looked at how cities respond to homelessness la as an example shows that if you do not do that you do not spend more time as far as resources whether it is the er or cleaning streets all of those things that come along we dont strategically respond make it more expensive. The amendments i have are amendments that come out of discussions that we have had within the last month or so. We have met with homeless providers, Community Leaders, Homeless People themselves, merchants, residents, and with my colleagues to the extent allowed by the board of supervisors and i want to thank everyone of you for your comments. We take your feedback to heart. The amendments that are outlined in the document that i handed out, they do the following. They provide an outline of how these Navigation Centers are created. And the various processes that are involved and they are thoroughly done. This is also an opportunity in our view this is very significant for not only opening Navigation Centers but actually taking a very important and necessary step of improving and reforming our shelter system as a whole. There is urgency here and you can see it on the streets of San Francisco. I will tell you that i thought that once there was discussion about opening some Additional Centers that may be some emails would slow down but i get email after email after email to this day talking about new encampments. So, let me just identify the specific changes. One the legislation now says that the Navigation Centers will be open for12 months and instead of 50 to 75 people we have extended that to 75 people to make sure there are enough beds provided. We also want to make sure that the language captures that input because that makes a difference in the level of success of the Navigation Centers and i know that we worked very hard to make that Navigation Center meaningful. We want to be effective at moving people out of homelessness and into housing. We are flushing out and this is actually where the input of the people that do this for a living the experts in homelessness have been critical and because of their suggestions we have done a couple of things. We have fudged out the need for equitableneeds planned and 2nd that we have a equitable exiting planned and again this is a by the navigation board and in some respects to me and the issue of how housing is allocated is somewhat of a black hole and were trying to bring transparency to that process, and more and importantly that we have a sustainable revenue plan and this is why we as the Mayors Office to invite all relevant officers involved to support housing exits to be critical for the longterm liability of Navigation Centers and also to identify our overall city effort to resolve homelessness and one of the things that we know that we have heard is that the mayor has made a commitment to house the hundred Homeless Individuals and throughout the next year and also use the Navigation System and evaluate how this works to make changes in the Navigation System. One thing that is different is ultimately we intend to take the responsibility of making these Navigation Centers to this soontobe created department of homelessness and services. For now, the city administrator is charged with this responsibility. The ideas that once this new department is created they will take charge. Again, i want to thank everyone for their efforts and just a couple of things to conclude. For the cosponsors on the board supervisor avalos and supervisor marr thank you very much and i especially want to thank the folks from hesbathat have given us insight on how to make the Navigation Center successful and also improving the system and i want to thank Jennifer Frieden mind and amy fair wise and thank you for the innovation you bring to this amy and i want to thank all of the folks from the hope offices and i know there may be some differences at some times but i want to thank sen. Dodd and his staff and julie i believe that you are one of the reasons that the center has been so successful and im thankful that we can make a thoughtful suggestions to make the Navigation Center idea successful and then to the Homeless People that even in the midst of their homelessness of come to these meetings to share their perspective and to share their perspective in a way that quite frankly, if i myself or homeless i do not know if i would have the class or the patience to interact with a Government Official in the way that they have. And to Carolyn Goossen in my office who has just done incredible work she is really amazing and we would not be here without her and with that i know we have a number of people that are here to speak but if it is okay with the committee we will turn it to your comments but once my colleagues have made comments i will call upon my dear friend brenda dusty the former director of hope as well as karen karen eason which is the former director of Episcopal Services and i know we have comments but before we do that i just want to thank everyone that would be here today. Thank you supervisor compos. Supervisor yee. Thank you supervisor campos. What are we doing in the city to make the city safe and get people off the streets and into Supportive Housing. We need to continue to support this model. This ordinance is fairly ambitious and i am looking forward to furthering discussion with our citys agencies. As this discussion comes to fruition sometimes as we pass these polities we have to remember that there is funding behind these projects and i think that that is essential behind these sites and also to assure that these locations make the most sense to the population that we are trying to serve. Im not fully comfortable with some of the specific requirements that are indicated in the requirements mainly a safe injection site. I understand that abuse an addiction is an issue in our community but since the discussion of safe injection site cannot be amended pragmatically i would like to ask for an amendment to remove this from page 4 and also i would like to discuss the agencies in our nonprofit community. Not one agency can do this alone. I hope we can place politics aside so that we can actually work on an issue so that we can actually work effectively and so we can boost funding where it is needed most. I want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this ordinance forward and the amendments you are hoping to get past today. And thats all i have to say. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor yee has offered a motion that we will consider after Public Comment. And supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor compost. Ive been in the city all my life and unfortunately homelessness has always been a problem. What i see now is there seems to be a lot more people on the streets and a lot more money being spent but not making an impact on the impact who need us to make sure to do everything that we can to make sure that the services that we are providing actually work for the individuals out there that are homeless. Our housing policies from my perspective are a complete failure. We pretend that if we build more housing in the city and county of San Francisco that somehow there will be a connection between those individuals that are living in the streets and getting access to Affordable Housing and we all know with our lottery system that anybody any time can apply for Affordable Housing. A lot of people that are homeless are not aware of the process that is required to apply. We rely on hsa so that they can have access in terms of Affordable Housing. We finally the city through my efforts pushed and passed by this board neighborhood preference legislation that gives the residents of an existing community 40 of the new units that we build Affordable Housing will go to residents 1st in that particular neighborhood. And, we have to do more to make sure that there is a direct pipeline between our shelter system and between our Navigation Centers and how we get individuals actually housed into the Affordable Housing that we build. This is a real way that we can ensure that that can happen. We have to make sure that we not only have the shelters in these Navigation Centers but we also people that are there helping them and getting them on the right path. People that are there helping them to apply for Affordable Housing. We also have to give these individuals priority so that they can get into this housing. I am tired of going through this process with people only for them to be rejected because of something minor. Because of something minor. I know that devon dusty for a family there was at nema an Affordable Housing unit that he had to cosign for to get the these Homeless People into the Affordable Housing. I know the neighborhood and hide has hud has really fought us on getting these people into Affordable Housing and if we really want to make that change happen we have the change or step significantly. This is a step in the right direction. This is an ambitious plan and i think were looking at a creative way to try and repair what i see as a broken shelter system we have a family shelter in my district and because of bevon dusty we were able to bypass and do some of things we needed to make sure theres a direct pipeline between homelessness and housing and this is the most important thing. I appreciate supervisor campos hearing my concerns about a Community Process and making sure there is a Community Process and make sure there is a process of communicating our shelters into Navigation Centers and also tying these Navigation Centers to homes and making sure that these individuals in these centers have a priority to access the Affordable Housing that building. So, i am excited about this and i think it is long overdue and i know that this is not going to fix the problem i know that we still have challenges with our Homeless Population with people that have mental illness, with people that have Substance Abuse issues, and there are still challenges, there and we have to keep working correct this issue and i thank you for my colleagues for stepping up to the plate and providing solutions to do so so i thank you supervisor campos again. Thank you supervisor breed. A few weeks ago we [inaudible] if this could turn into a Navigation Center but if you folks want to clarify that we welcome any comments or any changes and we can either do it as the item goes to the board or what ever the pleasure of the committee is and then the other thing with respect to supervisor yees amendment. I welcome that amendment and if that amendment passes what we would do is implement a separate ordinance to make sure that we deal with that issue. If that amendment is changed we will introduce a separate ordinance to make sure we continue to tackle that issue. Thank you. Thank you. Just one question supervisor can you expound on the statement that you think the existing ordinance would allow the Navigation Centerordinance model would be applied to our existing shelter system . A couple of things there was question about language that actually talks about how and i wont go back to the specifics if you look at the language that was included at the suggestion of hisba. Ic language in the 2nd to last section but this is the implementation section and this doesnt really apply and this is chapter 106 that the controller will submit to the board any Lessons Learned by the Navigation Centers and how these Lessons Learned can be applied to the citys shelter system but that seems very perspective. I understand. Maybe we could ask mr. Dusfty to come up and i will identify the specific area that addresses this concern and again, if there is further languagethat is needed we are open to that. And with that i will call on bevon dufty and i again want to thank bev and for all of the work that he has done and ive learned a lot from him on this issue. Good morning supervisors. I just want to tell you how wonderful it is to be able to come in and modify this best practice and its also wonderful to see supervisors willing to step up and make this successful. And i want to thank supervisor breed and i also want to thank judy ledbetter. One thing that makes these Navigation Centers successful is data and i think that something that needs to be carried forward. I would say that the Navigation Centers and have questions from the people on the street with our homelessness. The Partnership Around making Housing Units departmentalized for those who are entering these units out of homelessness. And i want to thank those that have helped me to make possible these Navigation Centers. The care and control and the naudible] unit. I think it is time to move it to an environment as a city service. And to move it to these other elements with in the City Government and to take a leadership role it is clear that we need housing and in my opinion we need a single occupancy hotel in the city. And why is it to determine whether a hotel owner can ent out 200 or 1000 units. There are thousands of units that are empty within our city and you can provide services on a scattered basis that you could serve people and you can also have a repair crew that could go around to different apartment buildings and hotels and making repairs so theres not so much wear and tear on landlords. Im really excited to tell you that this morning i participated with the 1st meeting with Salvation Army Harbor Lights and they adopted a statement saying that within Salvation Army they want to be involved in the Navigation Centers and they are willing to look at Harm Reduction and to embrace that as a best practice and their intention has always been to meet people where they are. I saw a budget Analyst Report on the cost of Navigation Centers and can we finally get a cost on what we are ticketing people that are homeless on the street . I think this sets a path Going Forward that depoliticizes these issues and takes it away from any one of the of select official and i see the Community Coming forward and saying we want to do this we want our shelters be more robust and have Navigation Center components and we are ready to come forward and to tailor these. Certainly there is a methamphetamine pproblem within our city and maybe we could have a Navigation Center that really meets their needs and also in district 10 i am sitting here with my family from london browns and im hoping that we can get together and provide something meaningful for those that are homeless in that area. I am really appreciative that all the city has done to make this navigation project successful and i just want to thank you again. Thank you. I will turn this over to the director of episcopal family services. Thank you and incredibly High Percentage of homeless moved into temporary housing or treatment bed within 90 days. This helps to implement this because this is a complex process and to get people off the streets while these are given and most importantly the Affordable Housing unit. This legislation provides the needed next step to transform our system into the one that supports all the people from San Francisco moving from the streets or shelter into permanent housing and how this legislation helps that is through the housing revenue plan and upon. Lara thomas,amy bramis, amy fair weiss and alex palse. Where is supervisor breed . It she gone . I will wait for. Okay, next speaker lara thomas. I am lara thomas with the Homeless Alliance and i want to thank supervisor compos with his Navigation Center legislation and i understand supervisor yee with his concerns with the supervised Injection Services. One thing that we have found with the supervised Injection Services as they are an extremely successful intervention method. As supervisor campos had mentioned he will be going to vancouver and they have used these supervisedInjection Services they are recognized as an effective method for those that are using ingested drugs and they help to reduce hepatitis and other injected drug use connections. And this helps us to supervise treatment and leading to cessation of drug use in our population. [timer dings] next speaker. Supervisor breed you made a statement that we keep building these brandnew apartment buildings and you want people to have an opportunity to move into these brandnew apartment buildings and the way to take care of that problem is to lower the right to be a median that is a medianthat make these people eligible to apply. That is an imbalance. That is an imbalance. Im out there and im talking to the people. You siit the medium at 55 of the hud income scale and that is 49,000 per year and the people cannot afford to apply for them. You did that with proposition d. That is 45 of Affordable Housing. If you look at that only 2 of that 40 pie makes up to 36,000 per year the remainder that 40 pie is people making from 36,000 the remainder that 40 pie is people making from 36,000 up to 120,300 per year since when does someone that makes hundred and 20,003 in her dollars per year need to be part of an Affordable Housing problem . You all never take care of the problem if you dont make Affordable Housing buildings. You need to occlude a nonprofit Construction Company to make this so they can move off the street. [timer dings] i want to call a few more names. Before we do that i know sam dodges here. Mr. Dodge i know you wanted to speak but we want to make sure that we give you an opportunity to speak at the onset but if you wanted to make sure that you do that so i just saw your name and i want to make sure we were respectful of your Important Role here and there is no time limit. Thank you supervisor peskin. I did want to speak there are a number of questions that i have with this legislation. The 2 to 8 months thing would really undermine the ability to take the learning that we had and convert existing shelters into navigation like systems. And to really work on opening up the whole system using this idea of coordinatedand tree and i just dont like the timeframe and the sense of urgency to get that done i think thats very important. Part of the work of the department is that it shouldnt wait. Instances like the Navigation Center really bring that forward for us. You know the Navigation Center is representing a Culture Shift in how we are working with people that are homeless and how we are helping them resolve their homelessness and we know that different kinds of interventions work for people that are homeless in different ways. We need this sort of intensive intervention of Supportive Housing. So, you know we want to serve a certain volume of people that have these challenges in their lives and we really need to work on building that Supportive Housing and you know, this has been part of our struggle here in San Francisco that the cost of it and how to make it work requires pulling down maximum federal dollars and we were able to do that in this cycle but we have a certain pace and i understand that there are many people on the street and we have a shelter waitlist that is extremely long and we can serve people much better by bringing this learning from the Navigation Centers into our shelters and expand our shelters to be able to accommodate people that are in there and they are on the waiting list and need those shelter services. So, i worry about somewhat codifying some of this stuff without worrying about some of the tradeoffs. I hope that we can sit down with my office and see how this fits in at a more global sense and there is a tremendous amount of agreement between the work that we are doing and what you are proposing and some of this would take us off course and i just want to make sure that when we codify these issues that we do it right because there are real lives at stake in real options at stake on how we spend our dollars and how effective we can be and i just really want to emphasize that and it is one year old the Navigation Center and we are over 30 years in this crisis of homelessness in our community and across this nation and i understand that is very exciting and im also very excited about the progress that we have been seeing with Navigation Centers. I think that sometimes we all have maybe in this field have personal definitions of what a Navigation Center should mean and i think it is very important that the homelessness be able to afford our Affordable Housing access stock. So you need your ids and you need access to get in there and you need your priorities and their people that are living under bridges all over the place in San Francisco and we need a place that they are able to get out. We also have a Broad Service of people in the middle of rehousing and we need shortterm supportive services. We call this rapid rehousing. This with the Episcopal Community services is just getting off the ground. This really helps people in that Middle Branch that maybe cant come to friends and family but maybe they dont need Lifetime Services that Supportive Housing can provide. Lets think about this together and put our best Heads Together and lets actually talk facetoface about this which we have not been invited to do and were just seeing this legislation today with substantial changes which is like really great and informed by i think theres been great suggestions by hesba and i think the 8 months to 2 years is part of thing that kinda makes me worry. I have seen this for a half hour now so we should really take some time to look at this before becomes law. Thank you very much for hearing me. Thank you. Supervisor breed . Supervisor died i thank you for your comments and i do think its important to weigh in on this with the board and make a policy with this matter and work toward a specific all that all of us want to see happen. With that, if there are changes or there needs to be amendments clearly we started with 12 months and were looking for 24 months to try and implement a plan to try and open 6 new navigation ctr. Locations which can actually include our existing shelter system. I know that is ambitious but i think that is important to begin to think about the dollars that we can put behind this particular effort now as we approach budgets issues and we have the implement c and we realize its ambitious and if we need to make changes in the future im open to doing so at that time. I just think to not do anything is not a solution. I just want to make sure that the Mayors Office is put on notice that this is what we expect and this is important and we want to see it implemented sooner rather than later and we are not asking you to deviate from your process we are just asking you to move full speed ahead and do it and do it right. Thank you. Thank you pres. Breed. If we could continue with Public Comment. Next speaker please. Good morning. I have worked in San Francisco for 15 years. The Navigation Centers work because they enhance [inaudible] for homeless folks. The crisis is here now and it is massive. Theres all kinds of things happening to Homeless People that do not happen simply by having them in Navigation Centers. We can enhance Services Available to those in Navigation Centers. My Program Provides hiv services and testing for Homeless People. And i did want to mention that something popped up in this legislation called the safe injection facility and Harm Reduction. I think that is something that is real actual Harm Reduction and the rest of the world is embracing and i would be really slow to respond to the needs of the drug addicted populations needs are in the city. This has been research to death and i would urge all the supervisors to give that a good look and start thinking about Drug User Health and set of political all decisionmaking. As thank you. [timer dingd] thank you paul [inaudible] jennifer evans. Good afternoon my name is paul [inaudible] as i travel down all the streets in that area i see the same camps that were there on division street are just dispersed around the neighborhood and i think additional Navigation Centers is a real like i said solution or step towards a solution for this crisis and it is a really smart move that the city can make and i applaud their efforts and i hope they continue. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. High supervisors my name is amy fairway i am the founder of the fairway Homeless Coalition and i just want to thank supervisor campos, for her all of their steps to come to a resolution and supervisor breed wow what apowerful statement that you just made. This is the moment. This is the generation that can say wow, reagan actually really messed us up to taking steps to be part of the solution. Mayor lee said that in his 2nd term he would like to see 800 people transferred off the street and into temporary housing. And what can we do to make that happen because this is the part of the legislation that we can be part of and i appreciate that supervisor breed because we can tie this to permanent housing and this is the time when we need healing and just being someone whos operating from the outside looking in and trying to enter into San Francisco leadership in a shared way i see there is a lot of political issues right now between the board of supervisors in between the Mayors Office around this issue and this is a time to heal. [timer dings] supervisor breed, yee, and peskin i would like to take leadership to see what can be done in our neighborhoods to initiate that process for Navigation Centers by our leadership. Thank you. Next speaker please thank you so much supervisor camposand supervisor breed and this is not going to goanywhere in this i we get som some Navigation Centers and some Affordable Housing in our neighborhoods and i feel we have failed as a community. We failed them them through ppolice services we failed them throughthe city. While the city does not here is we are coming more and more to the city. For days i stayed with the frisco 5. 0 and we experienced homelessness. I had the lecture he of going home and i left the strike when my body could no longer do it for them they were protesting black and brown lives and i was doing it because i didnt know what else i could do. I do not know what else it takes for the city to wake up and listen to me. [timer dings] these legislations that are being put into place they really need Case Management and care management. [timer dings] thank you very much. Next speaker please. Hello i have been conducting research on people that are taking and Homeless People for the last 23 years we have written papers literature on and the success of Safe Injection Sites and the type of supervised injection facilities that we had thought of using in San Francisco and one question is whether the should be integrated into existing services or standalone and the majority would like them integrated into existing services and that i think that would be perfectly aligned with these Navigation Centers. I think its a great idea to integrate those. I am sad to hear this will be segregated now because i think this will then become less effective. Weve also done research on care holders and whether they would like this or not and most of them that werent quite sure about them wanted some more information about them. And were certainly willing to provide that so that you understand that im happy to meet with you are be able to meet with you and discuss the process and the feasibility of the services once they get a past. Thank you very much. [timer dings] good morning i am an alumni at the Current Mission Navigation Center and there is a lot good about it. The Harm Reduction in the Case Management and its also trans friendly and also we need a womens only Navigation Center because we are not a very well served community with our Homeless Services and i would also like to bring attention to the Housing Access and these need to be not run by crooked profiteers like robert schall. Nobody wants to address issues surrounding thc being the only solution and i just want to remind everyone in San Francisco that you reap what you so. If you do not get people off the streets then your streets deserve the feces and tiered filled sidewalks of Homeless People. I would just like to state my support for the frisco 5 because if he had at least been sheltered he probably would not have been killed. So, if we had supported the frisco 5 and not the thc probably were not of been killed. Thank you. Thank you miss davis. Next speaker please. Good afternoon i am a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco drug efforts unit. I want to tell you im support of the proposal of the Navigation Centers and obviously im in support of that but i also want to talk about the safe injection issue. This has been studied and it has very high rates of success and i a dont know why this has to be separated out. I wish we would be less timid about treating people like human beings and these are people for god sakes and we need to treat them like that and do whatever we can do help people regardless of whether they are homeless or whether they inject drugs or smoke drugs or however they ingest drugs please accept this proposal. Thank you very much. Thank you next speaker please. Good morning i am sandra and this is jeff besno we are with the San Francisco oh hepatitis task force. We are in support of a safe injection facility. Such facilities provide medically hygienic places for addicts to use these drugs safely. There are over 100 worldwide. These can reduce hepatitis c and hiv transmissions these can reduce public drug use and syringe letter. Detox and Syringe Services are often available on site or nearby. Cost savings due to reduced disease and infection along with less hepatitis surfaces are needed. Opioid and methamphetamine use is growing and drugs like fenton all are found on the street. Ive witnessed Drug Trafficking and it is a drug related crime. It is time to try something else. We need a new tool. We do not have to invent something when we know of something that has success in operating and we can reduce drugs and improve the health and safety of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. My name is johnson and i think we need do is equal out all of due processes and and put these processes into low Income Housing and build easier limits in the housing that were building. The association with the Health Department i asked them to help us control by letting me know are giving me an Escort Services on this to where we wouldnt have any [inaudible] and we talk about the legislation over and over again and all thats going to happen is that people are going to die and people are going to get shot and the drug problem is overwhelming and i think this once an Escort Service and this is one of our major problems and this could be a solution and we can equal out all of our building processes and things that didnt make any sense. Things that would level everything out and what we do in our [inaudible] and fork aggressions congress is really concerned and i think that they figured it out already. Drivers license being [inaudible] help please. Next speaker please. Can we have help with the projector please . We in that hate have a desperate need for resources. I have had meetings with neighborhood associations to a line around the possibility of 8 navigation ctr. In district 5 it will be really powerful. I have been pleasantly surprised that there is an appetite for doing something. We have a situation in hate asberry where people are in the streets and at night they come outoff and sleep on the streets. This particular locations we identified with sem dodge and mary helm as a possible location. Again, thank you mary frieden box for everything you do. You are welcome and again mary friedenboch i really appreciate the discussion this morning i think each of the supervisors have really brought up some thoughtful suggestions that are taking the time to do this right. We have a situation in San Francisco where homelessness and Homeless People are used as scapegoats. Because of our politics being the way they are in San Francisco other traditional scapegoats like immigrants and muslims and members of the Queer Community are not used as scapegoats successfully. And so what the powerful interests in San Francisco have found is that this population can be used in politics in a way that is really horrifying and has really led us down the road to the system that we have today where it is a system that in its fundamental a and believes that if you can make it is uncomfortable for people as possible they will simply disappear and that really is what we have been doing with homelessness in San Francisco for the past 2 and half decades. So, part of what is happening in this legislation which is really important is taking it out of that political sphere and have Community Processes the real Community Processes and have these consensusbased processes that have smart people in the room and Homeless People that know exactly what is needed along with Frontline Service providers that know exactly why it needs to be done to provide that work and it also we need to make sure that we have people within the Housing Services to make sure that this is done and its a very important part of that legislation. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon i am the director of the hesba group. And i thank you supervisor compos on taking that input and expanding that input. I am here to in particular have a Navigation Center including a focus on 18 to 29yearolds. Included in that taking the equitable process out and having Supportive Housing and rapid rehousing and transitional housing for young people and we need to population specific services and supports to address the needs of various homeless folks. I think that the Navigation Centers building on the Navigation Centers and looking at existing shelters quite frankly it is how we would like to operate in our shelters and we have sometimes been limited by city roles and being able to accomplish that. We really believe strongly that having a better engagement and way for folks to come in off the streets and have access to Important Services and supports the bill to transition into housing. And for those folks that are able to leave housing to have exit strategies there as well. So thank you for your support as well with this legislation. Thank you for all that you do. Next speaker please. Thank you. My name is mack allen i am a member of the dogpatch organization and i am a member of dogpatch with in the cove and i think it is an exciting opportunity for our neighborhood to truly contribute to Better Outcomes to the homeless in our city. I am proud to say that dogpatch has contributed directly to this exact type of outcome and i hope that throughout this year we can have a Navigation Center in our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you dogpatch. Next speaker please. I speak on behalf of small landlords in the city and we are unanimous and in support of Navigation Centers i think its an conscionable that people are arrested and incited have in their belongings confiscated in the middle the night. We believe Homeless People should get the r same benefits as b and b should specifically have task forces that are designed to not solve the problems. I love of the city would approach it. I think that you should consider that and not call for a separate hearing. In regard to Safe Injection Sites. If we were told that they were given a prescription of zoloft all of the homeowners would embrace it because that is a very familiar activity. But i would like to say that the dream house in st. Francis woods i saw it has 9 bedrooms i saw that it looked very good i like to the recommended allisons house in Beverly Hills he is several houses he can stay in. Willie allen i would like like to say that his house is empty just like his heart and soul was and also the opera house no one likes opera so thank you very much [laughing] mr. Green i believe mr. Dodds ears perked up when you were talking. You may want to speak to him please. I am the employment. Next speaker please. I am the employment [inaudible] at hacc. I am sad to say that sometimes they cannot get to their jobs because they didnt get a sleep or they werent able sleep at all they couldnt get a shelter bed that day. I support the legislation i want to thank supervisor campas for suggesting it and we support the mayors support in this Affordable Housing and also counseling is absolutely crucial and important for these Homeless People to be able to maintain their jobs. Thank you. Good morning my name is emily cowin and i am a Deputy Director of hope. I want to thank the hesba Community Providers for all of their hard work i believe that the Navigation Centers will be successful they are the heart and soul for the specific populations through our entire system and that is the backbone of the work of the new department and im excited to see so much alignment on. As we look at expanding Navigation Centers i think these are very exciting opportunities and we will need support from the board of supervisors in order to have funding to make these successful as well as citing. And as we look at implementing more and more Navigation Centers im concerned that the length of time from entry tax it will continue to increase if we do not continue to bring on a supply of appropriate housing placements both permanent supporting housing and rapid rehousing so that we are really matching the right resource to the right person. And i just want to make sure we provide counseling so that we can continue to work with them. When we talk about citing were working on the civic center as well as the dogpatch proposal we hear lots about what about the other neighborhoods in the other districts so as we move forward with expanding this i look forward to working with all of the supervisors to find the most appropriate locations at the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please hi good morning i am jackie jenks the executive director at hospitality house and the executive director of hesba. I want to thank you supervisor campos. This really addresses what we deal with every day. We know that the Navigation Centers have been successful because of the tremendous amount of Resources Available for residents there. We appreciate the amendment to qualify existing centers to be enriched as Navigation Centers. I also want to say that hospitality houses almost 50 years old and we were around back in the early 80s and we were one of the 1st responders to the homeless crisis and we opened one of the very 1st shelters and i just want to say and i think its very important to remember that many of the shelters began as low threshold Navigation Center like places it was only over time that more restriction or rules or structure was imposed on this program. Another thing that we know is that the Navigation Center model cannot be successfully scaled. And less we have more housing exits most of the housing exits have been provided to [inaudible] the critical piece for the equitable housing plan is simply not fair for people that are in a specific program to get priority to specific housing exits and their people that are lingering in our shelters. So we appreciate your time and we thank you for your hard work. Thank you miss jenks for your invaluable work that you do on this. I would like to call miss ledbetter up to speak and the next thing that we need do is to clone miss ledbetter so we can have other Navigation Centers but thank you for all that you do. I really just want to say that this legislation hits on all of the pain points that we are experiencing in navigation. It focuses on getting both bigger and better. I want to talk about it Getting Better because i think in a rush to get bigger and to expand we also have to remember how to get better and what that requires. I also really want to thank hesba and the others that have been amazing partners in this and what this does is bring our wants to the table. Without so far for the bodies to be here to do the work and i think that we cannot do this without the providers thinking and working through these problems with us. We cannot do this without the board of supervisors we cannot do this without the homeless board. We need a place where we can have that written dialogue and theres so much richness through that navigation and we really need to focus on this. Is really good to focus on the exits. It is great to focus on the equity with coordinated entry and we also need to continue to push reforms on the things that are at the table. We have the county Adult Assistance Program critical to work for doing with dph and their medical services. Some of the issues with the safe injection site are really pain points for us. Were doing alcohol treatment already but how can we support a providers to do that better. I really think these are great next steps and in order to get better we also need to staff for Getting Better so the expansion is great and more people need to get inside and im very supportive of that and we need to have all these dialogues but we also need to really staff for these hard, hard, reforms and why does it take 88 days to play somebody . We all say that is a great number but why does it take 88 days. We have control of that. So, we need to get better. Can we cut that time down. We need to get better at cap. All of these are things we learned navigation and if were serious about taking this across the system we need to staff for that and we need to find places where we can all sit down and talk about these things. Again i want to really thank hesba for pushing for this and going to the table moving forward on this. Thank you very much thank you very much. Is there any other members of the Public Comment that would like to comment . Seeing none i will close Public Comment [gavel] we had a suggestion from supervisor yee of an amendment to take the injection sites out of this legislation but i want to make it very clear that me and my office are very committed to moving this Program Forward and everything needs be done to make this Program Successful and we will be introducing this as soon as we can to the full board and as i mentioned a number of us today are going to see the program in vancouver. The 2nd point is that i would ask that this item be forwarded to the board but also one of the things that i requested the City Attorney to do is to draft language between now and the time that this goes to the board of supervisors that makes it clear that one of the concepts that is key to this legislation is an existing shelter could in fact become a Navigation Center which is something that a number of people noted that pres. Breed noted,tthat supervisor peskinbreed note that i want to make it clear that he did not want us to bring this forward but i believe along the lines of what me and pres. Breed have said we need to be more prescriptive and not along the lines of we are committed. We are committed mr. Dodd with working with you and your staff and the thing about legislation is i know enough to know that there is a lot more that i can learn so we are ready to make whatever tweaks or changes are needed so with that colleagues i want to thank you again and i want to thank all of the providers for the amazing work that they do i want to thank our city atty. s office for the very quick changes that they have made to Carolyn Goossen and my staff and again to my colleagues and to Carolyn Goossen for making this possible to move forward. Thank thankyou. Thank yousupervisor compost we want you to know that we want to make this successful and this leads to successful programs for you to move these programs forward and we also want to make sure that we can work with individuals to move this forward and that we change some of our housing policies so that we can change the priorities in order to get them into these homes. Im committed to that. I know that many of the individuals that spoke i appreciate the dialogue i appreciate your commitment and wanting to help us work through the right kinds of policies in order to make sure that we are making a difference and were not just creating more red tape and more bureaucracy that is going to make the problem even worse. And so with that i would definitely would like to move forward with a proposed amendments suggested by supervisor campos that were distributed today and the existing shelter cyst in will be used as an opportunity to work with the Navigation Centers and i hope that we will consider that in addition to the amendment regarding the change that would allow for shelters to also be used as Navigation Centers. So, we now have 2 1 2 amendments on the floor. The 1st one made by supervisor yee regarding moving the language to Safe Injection Sites. Colleagues can we take that without objection . [gavel] then we have the amendments that were introduced by supervisor campos and seconded by supervisor breed. Can we take that without objection . [gavel] and then if there are no further comments with, the items to moved with the amendments forward without objection this will move forward [gavel]. Mdm. Clerk can you please move the next item . Yes. Item 4 isag hearing on the below market rate housing policies and procedures utilized throughout the city and county of San Francisco; and requesting the Mayors Office of housing and the Community Development to report . Are there any Public Comment on this item . I see one. Hello my name is maria ramose and i am not sure who can afford this. Even an activist can barely make that. We cannot afford to be in the city and we are thinking about how can this be revised . How is this determine . A lot of people cannot afford this . Not only that, in the last 2 years the housing list is been completely thrown out so anyone that was on the list has to reapply and they have to reapply through a case manager otherwise they will know there is no public announcement of posting anywhere and pretty much if you are a Service Provider you have to look for all of these things they are not provided in any kind of packet to any cbo, any communitybased organization or any shelters or Service Centers put on the list and am asking that this be seriously revised. Thank you. Thank you. If there are no other members of the public here on this item Public Comment is closed and colleagues can we have a motion to move this item to the call of the chair . And if there are no other objections we are. 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