Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Public Safety And Neighborhood Services Committeee 20160512

My name is jean alexander. Im an attorney in the San Francisco City Attorneys Office. I supervise the tax team, giving tax advice to the treasurer, tax collect or, drafting tax legislation. The thing i remember my mother telling me as a child is that you need to be prepared to take care of yourself and i knew that i wanted to be able to do something that i enjoyed. I didnt expect anybody to give me anything because nobody ever gave her anything and i also i always saw her fighting for the things that she wanted in life for herself and for her children. My name is jasmine flores. I am working as an Admin Assistant in the City Attorneys Office. I have always enjoyed the tasks that i have been given. On the days i show up and work on my own is empowering. For me, happiness in being more involved in a persontoperson interaction. My dream jobs includes being a physician, paramedic, firefighter, working with animals with the public. On a personal level with self improvement. My sister is the biggest influence in my life because she taught me to go forward with what makes you happy rather that what makes you the most money. I graduated from law school in 1972 at a time when there was a beginning to be an influx of women in the Legal Profession and tried criminal cases for about 10 years, treatment for delinquent operating programs, government budgets, analyzed fiscal legislation. I came to the San Francisco City Attorneys Office and i have been here for about 12 years advising on tax matters. I did just about anything you can think of. Some things that lawyers do and some things that lawyers dont do. Im from the mission in San Francisco. I have grown up there and i have lived there pretty much my whole life. Living there, i do see other women, some of them older, some of them look just like me like my age and a lot of them work nanny jobs, child care jobs, retail jobs. I dont know, it seems kind of like a reminder that you are kind of lucky to be where you are, i guess. Just when you havent gone so far at all. I want them to go on maybe go on an interview thats more challenging that they think that they cant get that job. You know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. There had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadnt really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair assignments and in the Decision Making and working with law firms. I consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way. Test test test number 12, no more than percent of the Square Footage of the premise will be used for display of alcoholic beverages. All sales of distilled spirit should be done from behind the counter. At no time should a customer have direct access or self service access. Sth applicant agrees with all the above conditions. Thank you very much sergeant. I dont have in my notes the applicant is here so will open up forpub Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment Public Comment is closed. Colleagues we have a motion to move this forward with recommendation and do that without opposition. Iletm 3 is hearing 250 consider the transforof type 20 off sale beer and winelysin from 5903 street to 644 Mission Street for 711 store. On this item we have the inspector here. Hello once again and thank you supervisors. Good afternoon, im inspector nely gordon with San Francisco police. You have before you a pcn report for 711 located at 644 Mission Street. They applied for a type 20 license which allows beer and wine for sale. At this time there is 2340e letters of protest. They all oicated in plot 212 which is considered high crime area. They are located in census tract 615 which is considered undo concentration area. The alu approvewise the recommended condition. Sale och alcoholic beverages is permitted between the hours of 9 a. M. To 12 midnight daily. No more than 5 percent is used for alcoholic beverages. No noise is allowed by the area. Loiting is definedideally about is prohibited on sidewalk or property asaisant to the premises. No person under the age of [inaudible] no Malt Beverage is sold with alcoholic content greater than 5. 7 percent by volume. Beer or Malt Beverages in quantities of 16, 20, 32 or 40 is prohibited. No beer or malt is allowed in prepackaged 6 pack per sale with exception of wine coolers, beer coolers which is sold in manufacturer prepackage multiunits of 4 or more. No wine shall be sold with a alcoholic content of greater than 15 percent by volume accept for dinner wines which have been aged 2 years or more and maintained and cork bottles. Wine should not be sold in bottles or containers smaller than 750 ml and powered alcohol prohibited and should be noted the applicant agreed to the above listed recommended conditions. Thank you very much inspector. We do have Surinder Singh with his Legal Council present so if you like to come up to the podium to make a presentation please do im jenniferodeen and represent mrs. Singh. Good afternoon madam chair and honorable Board Members. Thank you inspector gordon for the presentation. The Police Department is recommending approval to [inaudible] the restriction of hours of sale squz floor space and no singles only a minimum of 6 packs for beer and 4 pack for wine coolers. There is overwhelming support. I believe the Board Members there are petitions with about 150 signatures in support. There is no abc protest or objections. The Police Department is recommending support with conditions imposed which the applicant agrees to and there are about 10 customers of mrs. Singh in support and if you can raise your hand, to show they sporept mrs. Singh and the operation she puts on 711 so requesting the public convenience and necessity be found board of supervisors, my name is Surinder Singh and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak regarding the beer and wine license for 711 store. I have been a 711 fran chize ease for 4 [inaudible] operating 5 storesthality sell beer and wine. [inaudible] every day trainic and coaching me associates overlooking the operation of all my 6 fran chize stores. 711 provided Computer Base training i use to train all my store staff for the sale of products which include cigarette tobacco beer sw wine and do undercover for shops 711 provides service where they provide undercover people to see [inaudible] i also take lead training which is license educational alcohol and drug training, responsible retailer training at different locations with my staff. With the training im happy to tell you that none of my license have been revoked or suspended. Im a responsible person and deour best to make sure the alcohol is only [inaudible] two are doctor is one a attorney. Raising 3 children has given [inaudible] i donate thousands of dollars and my time for community service. In San Francisco we support [inaudible] families of children undergoing treatment for cancer or life threatening illness. Other activities we are involved is give scholarship to High School Students going to college and donated food and time to food banks and [inaudible] give great sense of certification as we believe we must give back to the community that shorets our livelihood. One of the most important thing customer certification providing their needs and wants. We are open 24 7 [inaudible] they are not able to buy beer and wine in our store. They come to other shopping and time sensitive people and buy other stuff they also look for beer and wine as well so they are here in the store and see we are not selling beer and wine they dont buy anything and tell us, what type of 711 is this . They get disappointed and walk away. Some tell us get the license. [inaudible] 5 percent of floor space for [inaudible] carry high end beer and wines [inaudible] set by the Police Department and [inaudible] have been the goal of my life [inaudible] 2 oclock in the night, medicine for a sick child or beer and wine for customers over 21. Today i seek your approval for the license [inaudible] thank you for your time and concentration. Thank you for your very nice presentation and all the hours you volunteer in the community and congratulations for raising such an amazing family as well. At this time well open up for Public Comment on item number 3. Seeing no Public Comment , Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion . Motion to move to the board with recommendation and do that without opposition. Item 4 amending the health code to [inaudible] current with state and federal Drinking Water quality laws. Thank you and thank you to the members of the public that came for the previous items. I understand andrew [inaudible] of Water Quality Bureau Management or kenneth pane, chief Water Quality inspector will be here to present. We are joined by joseph [inaudible] from department of Public Health and available to answer any questions, thank you for being here today. My name is kenneth pane and chief Water Quality inspector. Great title. Im not surethere it goes. Today im going to talk about the Current Article 12 a helths code regarding Cross Connection control and backflow and back siphonage. State regulation require that the water have a Cross Connection control program to protect the water system from contamination. Essentially, a Cross Connection is unapproved connection between Potable Water or non Potable Water or other substance. Other Cross Connections occur through unprotected without backflow protection. The two major reasons the Cross Connection occur is back pressure and back siphonage. If you look at the ilgration on the screen, the one on the far right, you have a chemtually fed boiler system that has a pump on a multistory building and the red represents the non Potable Water and that system is fed by our potable system which is indicated in blue. What happens is the water in the boiler is being heated and the water expands and pressure can overcome the pressure in the city system that is supplying water to that building. If there are no back flow protectors on the ist ism the non Potable Water will backflow into the the potable system contaminating the building interior plumbing and make it to the water meter and water main potentially contaminating the Drinking Water system. What we require are backflow presenters at the point of connection here or to isolate the boiler from contaminating the interior plumbing or the cities Distribution System. If you look at the illustration on the top left corner, that is a example of back siphonage. What you have a building that has water supply and here is a fire hydrant that is hit by a vehicle. All the potable hydrant in San Francisco are connect to the Distribution System so when smnl goes over a curb and hit the hydrant we lose precain the Distribution System. When that occurs the water inside the buildings if there are no back flow protections will back siphon to the Distribution System and potentially contaminating the water main. That contaminated will stay in the main until the repairs are completed and repleasureize the main. Once that happens the contaminated water can go back to the building or contaminate other buildings or homes on that block. The bottom left corner is a example of a asperator effect. These are commonly seen in you know, like miracle grow or if you have a garden that you want to fertilize your garten or lawn you see people go and get these sprayers they connect to the end of the garden hose and use fertilizer to fertilize their lawn or their garden. The way it works if you look here you see the blue water is basically moving at a high velocity creating a low pressure. That low pressure will then suck whatever substance, liquid out of the container and mix with the water and go out into thein this example out to the garden as the fertilizer. What will happen though, if we lose pressure in the illustration and gave before, that can reverse and now that substance in that container is back siphoned to our water main and can potentially contaminate our Distribution System and publics water. Also of note, mortuarys use asperators during the embalming process so this isnt just garden youz have to worry about. Examples of Cross Connections in San Francisco. Ecolea was detected at a Residential Hotel in tenderloin when [inaudible] residents have to drink bottleed water until the buildings plumbing could gee disinfected. At city college a back flow failed on the treated boil er contaminating the buildings Potable Water system. All the Water Systems in the gym were posted not to use. The San Francisco Fire Department connected the potable system with the non potable supply system. We had a 5 alarm fire in the mission bay areain 1984, the San Francisco board of supervisors proveed the article 12 a. At that time there was a Single Source of potability water supply and that is San Francisco water department. There is mixed use development and only a few [inaudible] prevent back flow. Since 1984 there are significant changes in water supply and building plumbing. San francisco now requires developers above a certain threshold to use non Potable Water in these buildings. These are required to use recycled water, ground water, black water and rain water and large or high Density Mixed Use Development in San Francisco. Currently you have mission bay, downtown, south of market and Hunters Point with proposed development in candle stick point and treasure island. The state health code titem 17 identified the San Francisco Public Utilities commission as the lead Agency Responsible for Cross Connection control in San Francisco. The Current Article 12 a incorrectly gives the San Francisco department of Public Health overall and ultimate responsibility for preventing back flow to the water supply system. The Current Health code also caps the Liability Insurance carried by the testers at 100,000. Since 2005, the number of back flow prevention assemblies increased to 25,000 assemblies. Compliance dropped to 92 percent. For 2015 24is represents over 2,000 untested back flow assemblies thus 2,000 risk to the public water system. In order for them to be compliant they need to be tested at least once a year. The article puts the responsibility for cross correction control with sfpuc per state regulations. It provides new enforcement tools, chapter 100 allows us to impose fines and leans up to 1,000 per violation per day. Unpaid fines can become a lean on the property and the sfpuc can correct deficiencies in rare cases. Rare cases is the landlord refusing to test the assemblies or refuses to test a dedicated fire service. Shutting off the dedicated fire service poses risk to Fire Fighters as well at the tenant. The new regulation also removes the 100,000 cap carried by Liability Insurance. Could you explain that so when you remove the outidated Liability Insurance limits, what does that mean when and remove that limit . If the back Flow Assembly the tester is repairing a black Flow Assembly and during the course of that repair begins to leak and floods the bulding the Liability Insurance is capped at 100,000. We want toremove that cap up higher i believe to a million dollars. Is that what this amendment does, it changeathize insurance limit from 100,000 a million . I believe what the change does is the limit would be in our rules and regs and in the Cross Connection control manual. Hat is where the changes would be opposed to capping it. [inaudible] on a regular basis. Yes, so we dont center to continue to come to the board every time the cap needs to be raised and the proposed cap for the current rules is . I believe it is a million dollars. Right now it is 100,000 and push for at least a million dollars. In the new rules, okay. The ordinance also specify the citing of back flow presenters limiting the distance from the point of connection or the water meter. Add requirements for fire hydrant protection. Add requires for companies employic back flow prevention testers and cross control specialist and give the puc entry to the paurpt with a Water Service line. The team consisted of San Francisco Public Utilities commission, department of Public Health and City Attorneys Office. The article will be implemented by section g of the San Francisco Public Utilities commissions rules and regulations. Revise city and county of San Francisco cross control manual for stakeholders. I have with me joseph [inaudible] with the San Francisco department of Public Health if you have any questions. So, are there questions from members . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you vaer much. At this time we are going to open up for Public Comment on this item. Any comments on item number 4 . Seeing none, comment is closed on this item. Thank you mr. Pane for coming to present on this item. Actually it was a issue i know nothing about so this was educational for me. Colleagues can we take a motion on this item . Motion to move Forward Motion to move forward with recommendation and do that without opposition. Thank you. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item number 5 is hearing on imprubing city safety monitoring of ocean beach and reest quing Fire Department, Police Department, National Park serviceess Golden Gate National recreation and United States coast guard to report. Actually the author of that item is not here yet and so maybe we can move on to the next item. Nevermind thrks author is here. Thank you supervisor mar who is here to speak today on this hearing on ocean beach safety monitoring. Thank you chair kim, i biked to work today from ocean beach to city hall and ran from my office to get here but pleased to be here for this hearing on safety and ocean beach and i wanted to acknowledge that victor lim from my office put a lot of effort into this important hearing and it comes spurred by the tragic events from about a month ago on saturday april 16 during a heat wave and wanted to take a moment to repeat my condolances and support to the families of wayne elsa, 17 year old Vallejo High School student and [inaudible] both were swept away on ocean beach by dangerous rip currents. I also hope the 3 other teens involved are making a full physical and emotional recovery. Some know a surfer and senior were also rescued in the past couple weeks as well at ocean beach. I want to thank you supervisor katie tang for sponsoring this and believe she will be here later. We assure communities that access ocean beach meeving forward with these amazing city departments and leaders and experts to immediately take action which is why we called this hearing and will be monitoring over the months. As we know warm weather will come in heat wave and summer will come as well. We worked with the National Park service, the federal government, the department of Emergency Management for the city our San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco Police Department marine unit, the United States coast guard, the [inaudible] Foundation Present today and many members of the community to put our Heads Together to strengthen the safety of our beaches. I first want to thank the department and representatives that are here today and who will be presenting in a few minutes. Well hear i think goal frz the hearing are learning about the current procedures various Department Said already have in place to respond to situations and dangers at ocean beach, but what we really want to focus on is how to improve education on safety, what are rip currents and protocols people get in danger when they are at ocean beach. I think focused also is on prevention and how we can improve as people access the beach especially since the warm season and heat waves that bring sometimes thousands of people out to ocean beach. We also want to take the time to discuss over other ideas whether it is changes in better signage, how to improve educational campaigns, ideas to reach the message to young people and youth for example beyond the city from vallejo or others that come out to ocean beach to help visitors stay safe. I want to say ocean beach master plan process is moving forward as we try to seek better funding to make ocean beach more of a destination spot for people so whault we do today is in line with the ocean beach master plan in making it safer. The hearing is a conversation to strengthen safety and improve education. Thanks to victor lim for pulling this together and thank you to everyone for being here. I want to acknowledge first that we have a number of speakers that will be presenting today and im not finding my list of the speakers. Here it is. From the National Park service and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, director of communication and partnership howard lovet and chad marron. Department of Emergency Management Kristin Hogan. Government Affairs Manager and Carol Buffington the training supervisor of 911 dispatch. Mark gonzalez and rudey cas allano and want to thank you vicky scanlen. Frathe San Francisco Police Department marine unit alvine yee and Sergeant Daniel [inaudible] from United States coast guard captain greg stump and steve schultz. Max urnt will also be presenting. With that i want to hand it over to howard lovet from National Park service and Golden Gate National recreationair ai. Thank you very much supervisor mar and thank you very much to the committee, the cochairs and thank you very much for holding the hearing today on this important topic. Eric we would like to thank you for your Ongoing Partnership and support on all matters having to do with the park including in the ocean beach corridor. So, im glad prevention was mentioned because event like that occurred on april 16 where we lost two young people, the lives of two young visitors, these are jenual tragedies and they reinforce the message the waters off ocean beach are tresherous i potentially deadly for all those experienced trained and equipt to enter the water. We try to reach visitors first before they arrive through social media and well publicized media events like rescue drills we conduct with agency partners, many of which are here today and press release on high surf warnings and other general warnings. We try to make the point to prevent drownings you have to keep people out of the water at ocean beach. At the beach we have signage at each of the stairwell squz the signage is graphic and describes the fact people have drown and shows what rip curts look like. The message really is stay out of the water. Despite all our efforts tragedy still occasionally occur and when they do they spur us to redouble our efforts to keep people safe at ocean beach. At this time i like to invite chad and aaron to give a presentation on the operations around safety at ocean beach by the National Park service. Good afternoon. First i want to take a couple of minutes and highlight two parallel programs at Golden Gate Nationally recreationair aia. We have a life guard program. Sten son beach is a designated swimming beach. That in stark contrast to it ocean beach beach patrol program. Ocean beach is not a designated swimming beach. There are no permanent or temporary towers for beach patrol personnel to be in and that requires them to rove back and forth in their 4 by 4 patrol vehicles. The ocean beach Public Safety personnel drove from kellys cove all the way down to [inaudible] boulevard and focus on providing proactive visitor contact squz what they do is go out and identify and contact at risk visitors. Folks in or standing next to rip currents, parents not in graphic grasp their children. People attempt to swim and they contact those folks and contact folks trying to enter the water without wet suits on. I want to highlight statistics from 2015. The Public Safety beach patrol folks attempt 52 acotic rescues and those are people in life threatening situations. Additionally, they effected 7 aquatic assists and they catalog an aquatic assist as someone not in dire or imminent threat but could be there in a short amount of time. In addition to providing the aquatic rescue they provide [inaudible] Major Medical is med cg situation where the patient is transported off site to a care facility. Additional to that they had 26 minor medicals and that is something that doesnt require transport. Could be a cut finger or bee sting or transport via personal car. It also reunite lost children and did that on 5 occasions last summer. If you areyou may not be familiar with what a rip current is. If you look at the right edge of your screen there is green dye approaching the right side. What that is it is a biodegradable dye pack. This was during in the Training Exercise last summer. They use this to highlight what a rip current is and that is when water comes from the ocean and pools alodge the shore and if you look at the center the stream there is a river running away from the beach to the ocean and that is a deep channel of strong current moving you immediately away from the beach and it is ever replentished by the surf as it rolls back in. Over the course of 2015, they made roughly 21,000 safety advisory contacts, so they would drive up and down the beach and talk to peoplet that were standing in front of a situation like this. In addition, if you look in the center of your screen you see a person standing thigh high and made 14,000 for people entering the water in situations like that last year. Number 1 is get them out of the water and explain the situation they put themselves in. This year we look at Staffing Levels to be from midmay to october. Two supervisor beach personnel in addition to 4 additional beach personnel. So, there is a very rigorous training standard all the beach patrol folks undergo. 40 hours of a refresher or recertification from United States life saving ocean and. American red cross life guard training and this is qulaut you normally thing a life guard at a pool would undergo. They are registers emt. They have very specific resources to draw from and each specific resource has a task book. I got 3 examples. The rescue water craft or rwc, last year they participated in 23 rescues and get 24 hour training. In addition inflatable boats undergo 24 hours of training and because they do so much driving on the beach additional 20 hours of training. The daily tools in the tool box, they equipt and gear and [inaudible] on busy holiday weekends or during special events on the beach that is launchable from the beach through the surf and on the beach. In addition to that they have the inflatable rescue boats. Can i ask a question, when there are heat wavesi see the picture there are a couple people on the beach. When there are heat waves like the middle of april there were thousands of people on the beach and wondering are there efforts made when we know heat waves are coming and more people on the beach to have all of the deployed staff out there or even better messaging . As far asyes, if we can anticipate that we will have a weather event at the beach not only do we have as many of our available rescue ocean rescue personnel from ocean beach but can also draw from those other folks at sten son beach and bring them down for weather event and special events, yes. Thank you. There is a continuing ongoing [inaudible] pleased to report as of yesterday i talked to the chief of maintenance and this is a example of one of the projects undertaken now. The numbering of the sea walls so if you stand with your back to the it ocean you can see the example. The numbers are facing the ocean as a point of reference and that project and pleased to report should be completed this afternoon. That is a overview of our program. Thank you very much chad. Before we relinquish the floor i want to acknowledge and thank the incredible partners. It takes a village to keep a resource like ocean beach safe and lucky to have partners with city can county affSan Francisco, the coast guard and surf rider representative here and of course skilled volunteers come into play as well and we are very pleased that we have this type of a coalition looking at a problem like this and consider the loss of one life to be one life too many. Thank you mr. Lovet. The next department is Emergency Management and have Kristin Hogan and Carol Buffington. Just as it is getting set up, mr. Marron mentioned the span of ocean beach mentioning kellys cove. I live on stair well 10 t like my front but kellys cove is the north most part of ocean beach i believe. Mrs. Hogan. Thank you. Good afternoon supervise rers. Consisten hogan government Affairs Manager with department of Emergency Management and joined by careal buffington who is Public Safety dispatcher. Thank you for inviting us here and for the opportunity to explain how 911 calls for ocean beach are handled. [inaudible] leads the city in planning, preparedness, communication, response for daily emergencies for city [inaudible] and major disasters. [inaudible] vital link between the public and First Responders and provides [inaudible] stakeholders residents and visitors so we organize we manage the every day emergency calls to 911 and [inaudible] emergencies like a earthquake or world series victory parade. Emergency communication is San Francisco 24 [inaudible] every day emergencies include calls that involve police, fire emergency can be major power outage, traffic disruption and so forth. 911 dispatch manages 1. 2 calls and dispatch Emergency Service annually. We are combined dispatch center of police, fire and medical services so all under one roof and dispatchers undergo rigorous and comprehensive training up to one year and provide life savings information to callers while maintaining constant focused calm. The Public Safety dispatchers goal is to primarily and very quickly understand what is happening and to verify the callers location. Once that information is ascertained the dispatch center begins with the caller or dispatcher will dispatch the Services Necessary as quickly as possible. The dispatch Emergency Services will be dispatched to the scene but meanwhile the caller remains on the phone with the dispatcher so until services arrive the dispatcher remains on the call to try to understand more information about the situation but also to try to provide emotional support to the caller as well as life safety instructions. The image we are looking at here is a screen shot from our computer automated dispatch screen. This is what ever call taker in the 911 Dispatcher Center using to initially take in a call. The image we are looking at is actually a image that is associated with ocean beach calls so if you look it is blurry, but the dispatcher understands the call is coming from ocean beach they put the information it is ocean beach call and information that is automatically or has been preincluded to the cast system comes up. The bottom part of the screen is numbers see walls. Once that location is verified and dispatcher understands there is a emergency situation such as the potential drowning, the services are immediately dispatched. Meanwhile the person is on the call with the dispatcher, the services are on their way. The dispatcher remains on the call to continue to find out more information what is happening whether it is personal descriptions about the person in trouble or better understand the exact location but the dispatcher will not hang up until services are on scene. I wanted to make a point mr. Marron mentioned the stair well numbers will be much bigger and facing away from the ocean so people on the beach dont have to guess what the stair wells are and that will help solve a little bit of a time and more accuracy of where a accident may be happening, but it is still only 3 to 5 minutes or something of somebody in the water the danger so it is urgent but think that will be helpful with identification of location. Let me ask a quick question. When 911 is called for Something Like this, who is sent to help . I know thatis it the Fire Department or is it it is dependent on the situation. A potential drowning who is that . It is the Fire Department and coast guard will be notified as well. So, again as the communication is happening the dispatcher is on the phone with the caller and under it is a drowning or any situation on the water the screen shot we are looking at here is the computer automated dispatch we call a prem haz and that is pulling up prepopulated information such as key agencies to call. It is blurry but you see there is instructions to call the u. S. Park police and again as the call is being managed by the dispatcher a supervisor or fire lieutenant who is always present in the dispatch center will be notifying the coast guard. The goal is all this information is automatically generated so we save as many seconds as possible to get help and get as much information we can provide. With that, i welcome any questions. I dont see any questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. Thank you for having us. The next presentation from the San Francisco Fire Department, deputy chief mark gun onzalez and rudey cast alawna. Thank you for briefing my office on the important work the Fire Department. Good afternoon. I have pio john [inaudible] assisting deputy chief cs tullano is here. He is surf rescue committee chair. I like to thank the other agencies we work with. They are invaluable. Definitely the ggnra and their teams on the beach, the beach patrol as well as u. S. Coast guard helping find the victims that have gone out. Currently the sffd have 236 rescue swimmers. 1998 ocean beach was voted the motion dangerous beach in the nation. Despite the warning signs ocean beach still attracts swimmers. Maybe we can make the signs more obvious to the danger. Not sure if your average person when they see that that placard if it is readily obvious what it. They have it in other languages and in every stair well which helps. As described by the ggnra, the rip cunchts at ocean beach are Strong Enough to pull a adult out to sea. If you are walking along the coast along where the surf comes in you have waves that can come up and hit you and pull you out so the dangers are real. The rescue members recertify every 2 years. When you call 911, Accurate Information is critical. The location where the victim was last seen or went in. That is why the stair well numbererize so important because if the stair well numbererize out there you dont have a point of reference so it is critical they are up there and obvious to the person standing by the ocean. Description of the victim whether they are male or female, what they are wearing, do they have a flotation device. The reporting party must stay on scene where they are at. Ground response includes 3 engines, 2 trucks, 2 coastal units stationed at battalion 8 and battalion 7 along the coast. One rescue squad [inaudible] when we get on scene to your question supervisor campos, we do work with the ggnra and have some of our radios so they know we are out there and do a excellent job and work with the coast guards to help spot the victims if they float away. [inaudible] surf rescue. Rescue boat 1 and water craft 1 and 2. They have Rapid Response and maneuverability to get around rocks and assist with all ocean bay operations and events. A victim requires 6 rescue swimmers. [inaudible] two of the primary team go in and Intercept Team stays on the beach if the victim is floating too far and try to intercept where the victim is going and the nob [inaudible] there for members in the water if they get in trouble so they have rescuers ready to go. As mentioned the two rescue swimmers and Intercept Team on the slide. We also send our chief coordinateed by a chief officer. That is a older chief, he is retired now. The structure is a command system used to manage the incident. The rescue Group Supervisor is assisted by it Safety Officer and on scene eyes on the ground. Proper apperates [inaudible] extracting the victim. The two pictures on the slide are the costal rescue units positioning on the shore line getting the rescue swimmers as close as possible and aerial spotters as well. Some the fire trucks for the two victims in april we had 4 trucks standsing up and down the coast line to get a Better Vantage Point obviously. Rapid deployment of the rescue swimmers are key to a rescue. National park beach patrol are a valuable resource and assist with [inaudible] and interagency drills. The United States coast guard hel copter supports the rescue operations as well. Ill turn it over to john baxter and will let you know what we have done. We have done outreach this year. Can i just ask i know that there is a couple of the fire stations, 34 at point lobes and Outer Richmond and station in the sun set as well, but how longthe 5 teams went into the water arms linked waist deep, how many minutes do they have before hypothermia set in and how long do they have while a rescue team can be gathered to save them because i think that is a critical question, how long do they have after swept in the water . I think it is dependent on how well they can swim. The hypothermia effects everyone the same. When they are pulled out the rip tide the extent is swim against it and they get exhausted and that is when they drown. As far as if you can swim and get out of it, one of the slides can tell how to get out of a rip tide and if you cant swim and have a bathing suit it will take [inaudible] 1 to 2 hours. What gets you out there is the current. It takes you far out to sea and you cant fight coming state back into it and that is natural reaction for the morning surfers in the wet suits that know how to swim can be in the water longer but the 5 teens a up couple that did want know how to swim what is the estimate of the number ofman they minutes they have . 3 of them extricated them sevl squz the others got too far into the rip tide and if they cant swim it isnt a hopefully situation. Probably within a matter of minutes, 5 minutes . I would say so. Thank you. The coast guard want tooz answer about the hypothermia question. Okay. Thank you. Supervisors good afternoon. Greg [inaudible] operational cumapder for the coast guards northern half of california. Regarding the timing of how long it takes for somebody to reach hypothermia is dependent on a lot of variables such as gender the build of the body, their weight. One of the problems with the two folks who went into the surf that never came back was i was the one who talked to the familyboth of them were described as non swimmers. These two individuals, it was probably not very long. The models that we use, there are two points. Functionality and sur viveability time. Functionality time how long they can be in water treading water. Sur viveability is the point where they are no longer living. The problem is that model assumes that they have some type of flotation. These two individuals had no flotation, no personal protective equipment. If they had a suit or dry or wet suit or wistal, a phone or radio their chances could have been better but to answer your question it is hard to say. Because they were non swimmer squz didnt have a flotation device it wasnt as long as it could have been. Thank you captain stone. Supervisor good afternoon. Jonathan baxter. January of 2016 the San Francisco Fire Department started to use twitter and face book for Public Safety. Specific to the coast line San Francisco has been and will continue to work with National Park service and United States coast guard to promote safety at our beaches. One of the events we initiated in january is when we have a High Surf Advisory initiated by the National Weather sunchs we have two coastal rescue units, one in battalion 8 which is supervisor mars district and one battalion 7 which is sfr visor tangs district. They go out to ocean beach and do Community Outreach. Two items on the left and right is a example of pamplets printed on paper our crews hand out to the public. They engage the public and ask them to assist us. If they see something, Say Something. If they say somebody entering the water with full clothing, let them knethat isnt the right thing to do and the hazards. If they are not listening call 91 1 and let us dliv the message. If they see someone with small children give the same message. That is the message we have been deliveric since jan. Our crews go out during high weather events. They will engage in Community Outreach when it is hotter with the same message. These are 2 examples that we utilize with the department. We are asking our crews to engage more efforts with our local surfs and beach goers. We have seen efforts with the surfs that all r familiar with the hazards of ocean beach letting the Community Know what the hazards are. That is positive efecktd. We see positive results with the 911 system where people called 911 and said i see somebody in the water and not sure if they are in trouble or not. We respond and plake the determining factor. Know we had one occasion where it was a emergency and another example where it was not a emergency, it was a surfer out and was fine. Never the less, that is the message we want is the community to be engaged to insure everybody is safe. Any questions for me . No, thank you. I wants to thank olivia scanlen and chief joan hayes white. I want to ask if supervisor tang wanted to make comments. Thank you for calling the hearing and all of you working hard to address safety at ocean beach. I apologize i missed the beginning part of your presentations but one thing i would like to see if we can work on additionally is addressing the issue with visitors. For example, growing up here as someone on the swim team i know i wouldnt surf in ocean beach but i think based on some of the incident that occurred visitors coming from out of town who may not understand how dangerous it is no matter what type of signage you put on there so i like the idea having more ambassadors talking to people on the beach whether it be surfers or [inaudible] or the Fire Department. That is something i encourage on a ongoing basis bought when it is sunny day you will ignore the signage and jump in. Ill say that and again thank you for all your work and trying to make sure our beach is safe for everyone. The next department is San Francisco Police Department marine unit captain [inaudible] alvine yee and as a resource sergeant, daniel luball. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you supervisor mar for bringing this important attention to the Public Safety committee. And also thank you to victor lim for pulling everyone together and agencies here collaborating with us on the important issue. We feel the preservation of human life is our core values. I have Powerpoint Presentations to look at for reference if you want. I wanted to also make a couple introductions to you. With me is lieutenant alvine yee and alvine assists on a day to day basis with the coordination the marine unitss Daily Missions and ongoing training. Also with me is sergeant dan luvolwho is the subject matter expercent oon maritime operation for San Francisco police ment. Sergeant luvolis on the water supervisor sfpd responses to these call squz know our operational capabilities better than anyone so ill let sergeant luvol take it over from here. Good afternoon. We put together a powerpoint basically to overview our assets and operational responsibilities and basically just to a little education because when i explain the jurisdictional boundaries of San Francisco county waters it blows people away because they are not familiar with how large the county truly is. San francisco marine unit was established in 1864. The first patrol boat wasnt until 1908 and operate under the special Operations Bureau under home land security Commanding Officer captain [inaudible] to get perspective, San Franciscos city and county 7 by 7 so 49 square miles where countywaters incorporate 64 square miles. That is defined by california government code 23138. We are responsible for the waters around the Farallon Islands and San Francisco airport. I discovered anything that occurs from San Francisco to the farallon if not under the coast guard jurisdiction comes back to San Francisco. This is a map of the couny waters and this is the eye opening for a lot of people if you are not familiar. The county boarders begin at candle stick point and extend to the center the bay. It continues north across the tip of Alameda Naval air station out to red rock which if you are not familiar with red rock it is the island at the middle of the san rafael richmond bridge. You cross the tip of agile island and cut across to marin county coast line under the Golden Gate Bridge to [inaudible] 3 miles west of there hang a left and go south and come to daly boarder. That is our Operational Area combined with the airport and waters surrounding the farallon island. We have a lot of assets and think the Committee Approved the home land security grants to boost our units over the last several years. This is a quick ovview of the vessels and assets we deploy with. Our largest vessel is 47 foot coast guard prototype surf rescue boat. This is their primary boat for surf rescues and rescues outside the golden gate. It is a very stable boat. The only down fall is it does take a large crew to man it. We have oprailting with that for over the last 10 years one of our more nimble boats is 25 foot safe boat marine 2. It has a fast response, extremely quick, 45 plus naughts. It has a deep draft of 3 and a half feet but can move from location to location if we have to move it for a emergency. Marine there is safe boat, a 31 foot safe boat and a very fast boat and also trailable. We have two ribs which are ridged hull inflatable boats, 21 feet and keep one at the marine units and one in dry storage. That is a boat used most of its applications are delivering swat teams if there a incident aboard a ferry or ship t is a good asset for deploying. Just a quick question if i may. What is the difference between quat you do and the Fire Department does . In the Maritime World, we overlap greatly. In the real world quh you get to the the Fire Department responsibility responsible if sunch and rescue that is very true. We would be more of recovery. In the Maritime World the Fire Department and Police Department and cost guard and National Golden gate recreation over lap including the citizens in the boating community. 23 there is a emergency on the water and the coast guard will put out a bradcast to render aid. They may be able to respond in a couple minutes where the police or Fire Department may have 5 or 10 minute response and as we talked about earlier that can greatly increase the change of survival if someone sin the water. I should mention there are two other hearings that come after this 1 and Public Comment. I love the boats but if we can focus on operational duties and ocean beach safety that would help us move this along. So, we are the only Law Enforcement response in our county waters at a full time unit. To narrow it down our duties and responsibilities overlap with the Fire Department. We dont have rescue swimmers. We respond in a support role to the Fire Department. Incident that occur in the ocean beach area we have the ability to respond but wont put people in the water. We would be a support asset to them. We do actively do search and rescue missions with the Fire Department and respond to a accident. This is just a piece of equipment we have at our disposal and dont know if the other agencies have it but it is rescue line deployment system. This has the capability we have but we cant go into the surf zone we have the ability to deploy a line up to 300 feet of line to someone in trouble in the water so it is something i throw in the slide show to give perspective as a option if they needed additional help. Our inter operability with the Fire Department, or the National Golden gate Recreation Area and any other Law Enforcement agency or coast guard is enhanced with the raid yes. We have the systems we use now give the ability to directly communicate with multiple agencies by just changing the channels versus the olds days where we had to go through dispatch so that enhances our ability to respond. One of the things that came in 2010, overlaps with the Fire Department and dem is supercode of bay pd, any incident that occurs in the San Francisco waters bay pd is triggered so police and fire are dispatched simultaneously dependent on the operational hours. The Fire Department is 24 hours and we are not on the water 24 hours. Examples, this is just examples of incidents we responds to whether someone who drops off a pier bridge, capsized vessel, rescue of jet ski and kayak. Other examples would be assistance orphthe coast guard if they needed help. Searching at night. For us people in the water. Recovery of people in the water and if there is a missing person type of call. Any questions . Thank you so much sergeant. Captain [inaudible] and lieu tinen yee, thank you. Last quick presentation is United States coast guard. There are no powerpoints. Presentation from greg stump and also here is steve sholts rr i will take a minute. I want to talk about the coast guard. We have been arounds since 1790 and wrote the book on search and rescue. Steve is our command center supervisor. Our command sener is on yerba buena island. For ocean beach typically we have two units that respond. We have the air station at sfo and they are on scene in about 35 to 60 minute and also have our station golden gate which is in south [inaudible] they are on scene in about 45 minutes as well. If we is a 87 foot patrol boat we will divert and dependent where they are they can be on scene in a hour or so. The biggest asset we bring to the table is aviation. It is all about aviation and if it is during the day that is a good thing. The case you spoke about earlier when the 5 boys wents into the water that was a perfect day. They went in 1604 p. M. The conditions, great. There were no clouds in the air and our hilo completed 2, 40s that afternoon with negative results. When it comes to the coast guard, if we are involved that is the last echelon of defense. All the levels of prevention didnt work, the great work by police and fire to retv the person did want work because they cant find them. The only hope is if the coast guard is involved if the person in the water were swept out far enough. Then we can reach them by the boats. They are easier to see, but if they in the surf line that is more in the purview oof the Fire Department and Police Department. Pending your questions that is all i have. Thank you. I dont see any questions but really appreciate you being here and all the departments, thank you. Now wellmadam chair can we open up for Public Comment . So, i know we have a number of people from the public and have a couple card but i want to call up flaum San Francisco [inaudible] foundation the current chair, max [inaudible] and have jordan davis. Thank you for having us. Max [inaudible] chair the San Francisco chapter of the Surf Rider Foundation. Thank you for being here today and great presentation. What Surf Rider Foundation advocates is see something Say Something mentality. As surfs of ocean beach and Community Residents i think that if we focus on that we can prevent a lot of these incident from happening. I think people who are going to the beach most are the best at seeing these types of incident before they happen so if we focus on that that would be great. Thank you max. Next speaker. One reason why people go to the beach [inaudible] notification and warning signs are not visible. You have a stair well more than 50 of them that have a distance of 15 to 20 feet, which goes down and leads to the beach. You need a poster billboard sign over each stair well explaining danger and warning and then explain that the rip tides are taking place and people have drowned here. By having a poster billboard sign that is just as wide as the stair well each and everybody that wants to go to the beach they see the billboard sign explaining the dangers going in the water and preventing the rip tide situation. Earlier you demonstrated one of your signs explaining the rip tides and danger, that location where that warning sign is located is area where the public isnt playing in the water and when the heat wave is taking place, you need movable billboard signs that can be anchored with sand bags in the area where people are playing in the water so you can have warning signs along the beach from the beginning to the end part of the beach that way people know about it. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. [inaudible] activist and frequent ocean beach user and like to give my condolance to the families of wayne [inaudible] two teens swept out to sea. As someone who using the many beaches in San Francisco and had a few close calls at times, i can understand the importance orphSafety Measures such as education campaigns more signage and life guard and [inaudible] as we deliberate this i just will not feel this tragedy should be used to put more police on the beach. [inaudible] sfpd heavy handed San Francisco park rageers or federal police. I believe this will lead to unintended consequences given the racial gender [inaudible] lets not bring broken windows policing city sites the beach. When i was homeless i spent a lot of time at ocean beach because there are way less police there and someone who is homeless and transwoman i went to the beach to get away from the police. Make sure we as the community deliberate the safety of beach goers. They are proving Safety Measures and not a heavy handed reaction which has been used in other locales. Life guard . Yes, no Law Enforcement, no. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is john [inaudible] i was raised on long island new york and moved to jones beach which fronts on the atlantic ocean. Jones beach the waves break much closer to shower. I was caught in a rip tide. In that experience i was unable to move at all. It was all i could do to keep afloat. It was very embarrassing and wistals all over and life guard diving into the the water and i was the object of that attention. I dont understand how you can prevent drownings from rip tide incident without life guard on the beach, i dont see how you can do. Excellent the response times might be otherwise. I like to say i was a seaman for a while and shipped on a freighter going across the pacific and clear blue sky, beautiful smooth sea the wave hit off the deck and flooded the galley way. Unless you experienced what a rogue wave is like it is difficult to imagine and describe in words. If you are on ocean beach, a rogue wave the only way you can protect people is keep them off the beach. Thank you, mr. Jones. Anyone else that would like to speak come forward. Im a grand father and have taken my children and grand children out to the beach and wonder is there a plan to make any part of the beach safe . Can you develop it with net that can catch people or something to make itany type of plan to make any part of the beach safe. Well ask the experts. Anyone else like to speak . Can we close Public Comment . Wanted to ask if the Fire Department rep can come up because i know the question supervisor campos raised was have we had life guards and mr. Jones raised that and also the question raised by sth last speaker, the man who is grand father about potentialis there potential area safer on ocean beach . Swim or be in the water. I think life guards or [inaudible] encourage more swimmer squz that is what we dont want. To be honest i say bring your grand children to a different beach if you want them to swim. I recommend not bringing any kids there to swim unless you aresome of the ideas i think more outreach is better. Supervise rb mar identified demo graphics of people that have not survived out there and tried to reach out to them. Also brought up was a idea everyone has theseif there is a way and know someone from technological area can come up with something that you get near this beach and you have something pop up on your phone and have a placard saying dont swim. That may help. Thinking outside the box. Chief gonzalez, i know supervisor tang raised the suggestion of potential ambassadors or visitors or other recommendations that came up but you do you have recommendations on short or Long Term Solutions . We will do to do so and spend the units near the beach to hand out the pamplets the pios developed to explain the rip tide and explain this isnt a beach you want to swim at. I know mr. Maren and howard [inaudible] from the National Park services mentioned i believe besides the sea wall improvements with the numbers there may be new signage that might come. To be fair to the National Park service it is multilingual and address people died on the beach and that it is dangerous and gives information about the existing rip curts as well. In every stair well i think and see those signs but believe the National Park service may be potentially as a renovate the sea wall look at different signage, is that true mr. Love et . Yes, it is and another program that intrigues us in partnership with city and federal partners is a robust volunteer effort. We all realize that thewe make the beach safe or not safe, the extent to which we keep people out the water so perhaps we can builds on the beach fire lias onto expand the scope to the volunteers to assist in educating people about safety at ocean beach. To the question about putting up fences and intercepts there are no plan tooz dethereat and the point was made in a Excellent Way by the Fire Department, putting life guard, calling it a life guarded beach would be a invitation for people to enter the water and that is formula for disaster. I want to know more about that because i understand that in some respects you send a message you dont people to think they can swim, but can you have a life guard without saying you have a life guard . It is like safe sexism people say dont give condoms because it promotes sex but if they have sex give them condoms. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg . I am trying to understand what makes sense. Without going to deep with your analogy, i will say we do have from may to october we have beach patrol and they are as chad and aaron mentioned very skilled at ris cue should that come about but they are beach patrol and not life guards and that is a intentional designation. I would feel better if there is a presence maybe it isnt a life guard and dont call it that but i think abstinence works and think i dont know if it simplyit is same logic to me. I dont know if that necessarily makes the most sense. Thank you for being here. I want to say the rem recommendation on supervisor tang on volunteer effort and Surf Rider Foundation max [inaudible] talking about the surfers on the beach that know the beach as experts, maybe there could be a coordinateed effort to develop a Better Partnership of volunteers and raising awareness. I want to just say that in coming to a close of this hearing, my hope is that victor lim and my office convene a meeting to pull together the enmit we received by email and phone call and testimony and best estpert advise and hopefully in the next 4 months before the warm weather season comes to have a list of different thing weez continue to work on, so i would like to urge my colleague ons the committee as to continue this to the call the chair and want to thank everyone coming for to speak especially departments of raising aware synchronize awareness of what done and what we can do to make the beach safer so thank you. Thank you supervisor mar and supervisor tang for this presentation. I was not aware the rescue units in the Fire Department and Police Department so great to learn all this information and work on the west side so thank you for bringing this forward. As the sponsors would you like us to continue this to call of the chair. May we have a motion to continue this to the call . We have motion to continue the call and do that without objection. Please call the next item item 6 is resolution urgeer jerry brown to declare a state of emergency on homelessness to cor nade [inaudible] provide needed support of resources. Thank you madam clerk. On march 15 of this year i introduced a resolution urging the governor to declare a state of emergency to help cities and counties like San Francisco address homelessness. Unfortunately a few oof my colleagues did notd allow this to be forwarded to the governor without full hearing. [inaudible] homeless crisis avenue day and know it is a crisis. We walk in the streets qu see neighbors, brothers and sister who have no where else to go. In requesting assistance from the governor i ask the state to recognize this is a problem that crosses city and county lines. In fact, here in the state of california, we see 26 percent the Homeless Count live and reside in the state of california. In San Francisco nearly a third our 30 percent became homeless in the city. My resolution calls on the state to work with local government on a response in short term and Long Term Solutions. Inventory of Surplus Public Properties to see what can be repurposes to transitional or emergency housing to help residents on the street get off the street. Making this available for shelters designed for specific nob nub such as individuals identifying as lgbqqq, seniors medically frail or long and long term invest in a solution that we know to end homelessness which is immediate investment in more Affordable Housing so municipalties can put shovels in the ground or refinance lower land cost so Public Properties can be used insteads of prescribet property. I want to recognize and thank my colleagues who expressed their support, supervisor cohen, compose, peskin, mar and avalos. Actually our hearing today coinsides with announcement of the mayor which is appointment of a new department on homelessness in San Francisco. This is long a discussion in the city among advocate squz among many city leaders which is several different departments provide a variety of service to members of our community that live on our streets and that there should be a Movement Towards aligning all these servicess and Staff Members into a singular department that can address the issue together providing more coordinateed responses and also potentially Additional Resources and revenue in order to truly address the issue the city is facing for the last couple decades. On a personal level im happy to see jeff [inaudible] is named the new head of this department. You are smoon who i deeply respect and have demonstrated your compassion and expertise on the issue over the last couple decades in San Francisco. Formally as the director of Community Housing partnership and most recently dect director of Hamilton Family resources. Given the recent data showing families are one of the Fastest Growing demo graphics of the Homeless Count in San Francisco, la and new york, i think your expertise only homelessness will be welcome and look forward work wg you. So, i didnt to offer a opportunity for you to speak. Not sure if this is your first day on the job or if you are here on your own time, but i want to welcome director nob nub here to our committee today. Thank you very much superizvooers and thank you supervisor kim for that warm introduction. I have not officially started enmy position so im here as the executive drether of family sent squr eye toward my job which will good gin june 1. I want to thank you for your excellent leadership for many years around this issue of homelessness and Affordable Housing and thank you for putting forward this legislation to encourage the states to take more active role in the issue of homelessness. Report was done by National Association that works on issues of family homelessness and california was ranked 47 out of the 50 states how it addresses family homelessness on the amount of money spent, the policy initiatives as well as the numbers of homeless children. 1 in every 25 student in the San Francisco Unified School District are homeless and believe that this has much to do with the fact over the years the state has with drawn its support for Affordable Housing with disaleutian of redevelopment agencies and the failure to replace the 1. 3 or 1. 4 billion dollar housing bond issued during governor schwarzeneggers term inophorous. We are on a downward arch of Affordable Housingment these things take a long time to hpen. Affordable housing is complesh and difficult to development and we should be aware of the fact the pipeline will keep getting smaller and smaller making the housing challenges in San Francisco even more difficult. So i applaud this effort and support what you have put forward. Ill take a moment to speak in the capacity as your incoming director and say the mayor set Ambitious Goals to get 8,000 people housed during the final term of office developing a single strategy to address homelessness and creating a Navigation System so that adults and families who are homeless dont sl to go through multiple doors to get the service they need, they can get plugged fl to the system and service they need immediately and look forward to help the mayor and city achieve the goals. I also want to say i come with no set agenda or strategy other than helping implement this vision and hope to listen to you and the public and many wonderful non profits and Service Providers and adhaveicates in the city before we come up with a set plan. I hope to have that within the ninetyfirst 90 days of starting this job, but our 1 20 days. I ask all of you provide this new department with the space that we need to get started. We are starting from nothing bringing together multiple programs and dont believe we have a office picked out yet. There is much work to do developing the strategy and would appreciate your patience and flexibility as we put together this new and exciting department and sure that in the coming years well see progress. I thank you very much for your support and for your work on this issue. Thank you mr. [inaudible] we have a question from the committee. Not a question. Thank you madam chair and i want to thank chair kim for the leadership on the issue and this resolution. I want to welcome you to your new role and think all of us here and know all my colleagues want to be part the solution and help you be as successful you can and hope we can Work Together to make that happen and i think that said, i will say that there has been a difference of opinion between some of us and the mayor. I believe the mayor has been too passive on this issue and not done enough and my hope is with your appointment that will change and a sign of new things to come. With that in that spirit look forward working with you and hopefully we will Work Together to make this the priority it should be. Thank you very much. I will chime in and welcome you to your new position. Cant wait for you to be here. Your work already with Community Housing partnership and Hamilton Family center has been great and you are the kind of person that can really help integrate a real strong coordinateed effort in the city something that is needed to align a lot of our policies together so we are not seeing differences between departments that have a stake in homelessness and have it in one place guided by a strong vision. For the time being that im here look forward to collaborating and seeing what my office can help in your aerfts. Efforts. Thank you very much. We have done great work in the past before and look forward continuing that we have emily cohen Deputy Director of hope also here to answer questions if we have any. Emily, thank you for being here. I mds you have a Powerpoint Presentation that highlights the Homeless Counts that was relaced for cities across california. We are not seeing increases in San Francisco, but also city of los angeles. Thats being said, this is still not just a San Francisco issue, it is a state wide and regional issue. It is great to see the data released recently. Thank you mrs. Cohen. Thank you very much for having me and thank you for your leadb ership on the issue and this important issue. Let me get this opened here. Um, i have been asked to give Background Information about the state of homelessness here in california and i have several slides with a lot of data and wont read through all but the over arching message i want to deliver is homelessness in San Francisco is problem altic and number 1 issue facing san franciscan. This is a big issue. We feel homelessness very much locally but it is very much a state and federal issue. This is our point in time count here in San Francisco. You can see we stayed rel tivly steady over the past 10 years as has our proportion of shelter and unsheltered homeless folks. Across the nation there have been drastic increase in homeless, not just the west coast but east coast as wellism San Francisco had a 3. 9 increase since 2013 and see in other cities drastic increase up to 20 to 26 percent. California represents 12 percent of our nations population and as supervisor kim stated before we have a disproportioninate number of folks experiences homelessness. 36 percent of homeless are in california and 86 are unsheltered. 21 percent of the Homeless Population, 28 percent of unacomanied youth. 24 percent of the nations veteran jz 11 percent the nations homeless families. One thing that is a stand out in this problem, one thing that is a major challenge in california and San Francisco and along the west coast is our unsheltered population. For Homeless Individuals california has a 73 percent unsheltered. Nation wide that is all most entirely the inverse of what we see across the country. You see the graph here on the left shows nation wide the vast majority of people are sheltered while in california it is the opposite. California also has the 5th highest rate of homelessness in the nation. You see the rate per 10 thousand people. Hawaii having the highest rate and california coming in at 5th. Just a little perspective across california, this is thal 5 major cities in the United States that have the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness are all in california. These are not the 5 highest cities in california, these are the country and happens to be in our state. This is where we have the updated numbers with a couple 2016 counts in here but we can see drastic increase in homelessness and large homeless numbers across california. Los angeles stand out with 44,000 people experiencing homelessness. San francisco you can see honolulu large populations of folks experiencing homelessness. We can talk in detail about the actual data, but i wanted to echo what jeff said about this being a state wide problem and really due to a lack of investment in Affordable Housing and permanent Supportive Housing at the state level and really wanting to call our whole community not just San Francisco. This is regional and west coast. Homelessness increased along the west coast and joined with the west coast mayor alliance to develop strategies to address this and can use the state buy in to help push us forward. There was a idea i heard that was interesting and that is about 10 years ago woo lowered the threshold needed for financing for schools for a super majority to something less than that, 55 percent. Maybe we can look at that at the state wide level for housing to put it out there, it is a interesting idea. Thank you. That is great. Thank you. Thank you so much mrs. Cohen for the presentation. Actually, it is super interesting to see all the numbers and think constituents ask me all the time how San Francisco rates in comparison to other cities and while it is nothing to celebrate that we have the smallest increase to the Homeless Count, it shows this is a figure larger than just any one city. This is a National Issue of course and something we have seen since the federal government dramatly slashed funding for public and Affordable Housing in the late 1970s and 80s and we are reaping the consequences of the major and very drastic decisions from 30 years ago and see it on our streets. It is helpful to understand how this impacts all of us. 36 percent of the homeless call california their home and would like to see the state do more. I know the mayor of los angeles called to ask for a state wide emergency on homelessness. This is something we need to tackle as a broader and larger group. In San Francisco we have dedicated leaders that want us to make a difference and hopeful with the unified department and unified focus and team that may be that we will be able to address some of the long term and stubborn issues we are facing in the city. We believe that the state needs to chip in more for funding Affordable Housing and shelter and making sure where there are counties that dont have a 365 day shelter that we are many ways mandated to provide that for our residents. Thank you so much mrs. Cohen. Seeing no comments from the committee im sure we will have more later. Ill open up for Public Comment. I have one speaker cards, jenny freedenbalk and any other members that would like to speak on this itemi apologize, i thought your card was for the next item but it is for this item as well. We would love to hear your thoughts on this as well. Thank you. Regardsless if your proposal is granted per taining to the the emergency or not, you still have a problem. In the event that the proposal is granted, you still have to include homeless low income people to extremely low income people and the calculation on all the New Buildings you are billing. One reason why we have this homeless problem, each building you build you set the medium at 55 percent of income bracket on the scale that is produced by hud. All the Homeless People on the street have a combination of mental and physical disabilities and permanent incomes based on the disability check whether from the job or Social Security. We have veterans in the same conditions. I have veterans on Social Security benefits to get them income. No mat r what i do and you do as long as you keep opening the door to higher income brackets and act like you want to rescue the problem but dont give them a opportunity tew ply. Below market rate you do the same thing. A good example is civic buildings next to department of public helths. You claim Affordable Housing and that is 55 percent so people making 49, 480 year can apply. I had a conversation with prezden breed and thinks below market rate the income below that income can apply for the job. That is not true. I demonstrated miars office of housing states it clearly, if you are not making that much money you cant apply. That is one reason why you have this homeless problem. Thank you. Can i have one more minutes . Ill chat with you after. I have to give everyone 2 minutes. I like to express my support for the resolution calling for Governor Brown to issue a homeless state of emergency for all of california and like to thank you the supervisors to introduce this. This makes sure supplemental funding. California has a high Homeless Population and though a good chunk relates to lack of Affordable Housing and all these evictions all are a lot och people that come from else where weather reason. When cold cities graup draup the ball on homelessness, warm weather cities pick up the slack. When social services are not lgbt comptent [inaudible] Harm Reduction or religiously based the west coast has to pick up the slack. I was homeless in philadelphia i forced to move here to get the services i needed. Other locations really need to step it up, this is the state of california is dept and Governor Brown can no longer sitideally by. Finally, i like to state when you are the only one living on the street you are in a crisis than the neighbors that complain about us. Thank you. Thank you, mrs. Davis. Jennifer [inaudible] coalition on homelessnessment want. California is the slacker state on the issue. It is outrageous the state of california has done so little it is on all fronts t. Is the housing front, it is awful and pulling redevelopment money which is part of it, the lack of action is also huge. We alsohuge part of why the Mental Health system is in disarray is several realignments that happened at the state level that pulled away the funding. On Substance Abuse treatment the state has been absent. On a whole host of things they could have taken action on that they have not taken. We have right now moving into the budget process where the board of supervisors and trying to get the mayor to fund 13 million proposal for subsidies and 255 subsidies fundsed last year to get baselined and trying to get that money to go to prevention to keep san franciscans house. We have massive suffering and want to talk about one family that visited supervisor campos office last week. His is mother carrying for a extended family who last several members to Gang Violence and child with cerebral palsey. Facing the prospect where the family of 10 probably share 3 mats on a floor where there is no bathing facilities. This is what we are doing in San Francisco and it is outrageous. Thank you. Thank you mrs. Freedombalk. Good afternoon supervisors and thank you for moving along this motion on the declaring emergency on homelessness for the state of california. Ken tray and represent the united educators of San Francisco and there is a number reasons why San Francisco teachers and school staff are concerned about the state of homelessness in San Francisco and california but the single reason is the report ish oo aed last year which stated there are over 2,000 homeless students in the San Francisco Unified School District. That calls attention to the it low number presented today there are 6,000 and few hundred homelessness. We know the number is much greater. San francisco is a city thats claim to be dedicated to exwuty, opportunity for all the citizens and residential, but 2,000 homeless student entering the classrooms puts that a lie. This is important measure and hope the mayor puts more efforts into ending homelessness in San Francisco. I know that teachers following at the end of my career many years from now will be asked by the students why did San Francisco allows thousands of people to wander our street without a roof over their head and meal in their belly and without the type of programs to get them back at active parts of society. Thank you. Go warriors. Loud and proud. My name is john jones and distressed by the individuals wandering the streets. Many remine me of my ship mates. Nob [inaudible] the people i see on the streets are put on a ship and would not revert to that lifestyle. I wanted to say im also distressed by the way it tent cities have been handled and dont think the city and county of San Francisco is responsible for the homeless situation, i think you can handle the tent city situation better possibly allocating places in Golden Gate Park rather than along the freeway along division street. It is important to allow people initant cities to organize themselves. The problem is the criminality and predation. You need to allow these folks who live in the tent cities to organize so they can exclude people who would prey upon them. You may call about 15, 20 years ago [inaudible] chunch brought in large concrete pipes and deposited them in a lot south of Market Street along 6 and tried to offer that as a facility for the homeless and that project broke down because of the level of criminality that developed. Thank you. My biggest question is, when we recognize that the homelessness is caused by greed, talking about building huge Affordable Housing, the majority the people on the street from gentrification living in buildings built in the 20s and 50s these are Old Buildings the landlord jacked up the price. Building housing those can afford and give back the neighborhoods taken from the poor. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Burr niece casey and came to speak about the substitute teachers. I got here early enough. Im the former policy analyst for shelter monitoring committee. For 8 years i worked in that capacity and saw homelessness increase from when i started in 2004 and the resources decrease. As a parent that have a child in the Elementary School with a high level of homeless ness is a challenging issue to explain to a 8 year old why the people that work in the building cant take care of people. It is a huge challenge for both of my kids to understand why peopling are tearing down peoples home in the mission and potrero where we live. It has been a opportunity for me to teach my son about compassion and what he can do as he gets older and to take up the job that needs to be done and that is why im happy to see supervisor kim pushing this forward and applaud your erfts. Efforts. We can only take Public Comments once but ill chat with you afterwards about the rest of your comments. Anymore Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. I do want to thank members of the public for coming out today in support of our resolution urging the governor to issue a state wide emergency. While we continue to dpoo the work we need to do locally and thank local advocates who work every year to insure we fund appropriate and adequate services to house neighbors and brothers and sisters who live on the street. We want to ask the state to chip in more to help us further resolve the issue of funding housing and in particular here in the city but across the state of california. Want to welcome soon to be director jeff [inaudible] in his new role. I look forward working with you and i feel some hope in terms of the work that we have set out to do over the next year under your leadership. Colleagues, if i may can we entertain a motion to move forwards with recommendation to the board. So moved motion to do so i do that without opposition. Item 7 is lack of hearing of lack of available teachers requesting the San Francisco Unified School District to report. Thank you and the sponsor is supervisor campos. This committee and many ways was also supposed to incompass the role as the School District select committee so many school issues will be heard at this committee as well so thank you supervisor campos for calling the first hearing in regards to the schools. Thank you madam chair. Feel like im back at board of education. Colleagues, i call for this hearing to have a better understanding of what is happening in our Public Schools when it comes to issue of substitute teacher. I want to say the purpose of this hearing and focus of the hearing is how we collectively can work in a collaborative fashion to help Public Schools deal with this issue. Recently constituents in my district contacted my office to inform us of this issue, the lack of sufficient substitute teachers in some of our schools and this is something that happens. Peopleteachers like anyone else get sick and sometimes they call in sick. What we see here is when this happens throughout the city, that it has reached a point where there is a real problem. San francisco as we know is facing a crisis in termoffs the number of educators and teachers that are available to our schools and a lot has to do with the high cost of housing, evictions and fact we are living the most expensive city in the country and when you have a substitute teacher paid 150 a day that is all, can you imagine . No wonder we have a problem at our hands. We have been told subsitute teachers are not available to fill classroom when a teacher is absent. When a teeper is sick no substitute is available to come to that school this means that classrooms are split into two groups and each group is crowded into a already full classroom so imagine that impacts the type of education provided to those kids for that day. We want to know more from the School District what is happening, what they are doing and we want toknow what we as the city can do to help this agency. So, we have asked the School District to come and present data and information to explain to us some of the strategys the School District is following and again, to ask city agencies what we as City Government can do to help this sister agency. We dont have control over the School District but have a long history in City Government helping our Public Schools and people like tom [inaudible] i like to thank the constituents in my district who made this issue a pritorty and want to thank our School District partners for being here today. [inaudible] books who help us coordinate. I want to thank the city agencies that are here, the county Transportation Authority and m ta and special thanks to entity we work with all the time on different issues and do incredible work for members and families in San Francisco and that is united educators of San Francisco especially ken tray and liz conly. I also want to acknowledge the work orphsandy fewer, she wouldnt be here today but has been working hard on this issue and then i think more importantly to the substitute teachers that do this work in San Francisco unified. With that i know we have speakers from San Francisco unified, but before i turn it to those speakers qu know some of my colleaguesp to make a couple points. Supervizesor avalos. Thank you for bringing this forwards. I have to leave by 5 oclock so can only be here 10 minutes. I have been hearing from families at San Francisco Community School in my district and kids use today atten that school about high use of substitute teachers and with a small school it creates a huge amount of havoc within the classrooms where they are bundled up and hoping to see if there is a way to help resolve this. I know it is a very challenging problem, but it is something manifest ed in one school in my district and sure others as well. With that i will call on Steven Gordon who is workforce analyst manager for San Francisco unified. Thank you for your patience and well hear from [inaudible] who is executive director of [inaudible] division at San Francisco unified and someone i have known for many years. With that, mr. Gordon good afternoon supervisors. So, today we will first address the substitute coverage rates and taking a look at the results we were able to gather from last years first substitute survey we launched to receive feedback from about 390 substitute all that we valued and appreciated considering this is a demo graphic of folks we did not have direct access to. From there ill turn to [inaudible] who will talk about the strategies we called to action and from there well summarize our findings. So, the first set of data well look at is the current substitute pool numbers from last year compared to this year just to get a sense of the volume of substitute teachers we have. I will turn to the survey findings. It was a fairly large comprehensive survey and so i will only be able to identify key fineings. I will turn to covererage rates of teacher substitute k12 start ing from august of 2014 through april 2016 to review the up and down trend. We will take a look at the bayview cohort of schools to see how we compare to all schools compared to this cohort of schools. We will also look at Mission Cohort and from there [inaudible] which are schools that experience the highest rate of attrition year over year. So, from august 2014may 2015 we had 823 active substitutes who worked. August twen 15 to may 2015 we had 846. Now we understand these are not substitutes that work every single day. They can work a minimum of 36 days in a given year if they start at the beginning of the year but this highlights we did have increase in substitute pool from this year to last. It is still small number, we do need to increase that size. We did not see a decrease in the volume of subsitutes from this year compared to last. From the survey results which we distriblted last may and hope to deploy again this wreer. 380 individual responses, 700 substitutes we sent it to. We found that the mode of transportation, 58 percent use a car to get to the school site. 27 percent use the bus. 10 percent bike or walk. When asked about the top challenges substitutes face daily at school, lack of parking, pay, Cost Management and disrespect from student. 59 percent oof substitutes worked part time and 49 full time. Full time 39 percent reported wishing to be able to work more. There is a opportunity there that i think we need to address to be able to help support substitutes in wanting to work more. I will then turn to some of the data captured on coverage rates. So, this graph represents a few thingsism as a mentioned the data is captured from begin of august 2014 through april of this year. This data set captures all schools for all k12 absences during that time period. The top row, all the dots represent the coverage rates for each of those months so in august 2014 we saw 95 percent coverage rate for all theat the bottom you see the green bar graphs represent the volume of absences so 95 percent coverage rate. You can see the middle bar graph which shows the latter ends of the chart show the respective increase or decrease in the percent of coverageerate from this year to previous year. September 2015 we saw a 3. 8 increase in substitute rate compared to the previous month. We saw a overall trend of upwards improvement, however, the goal as a district is to be able to cover 99 to 100 percent of absences. We are not there. We had a average of during this time period of just about 91 percent. If we were to capture the latter i think that is a little higher but overall up until last april we saw steady improvement over each month and hope to see that continue to twen upwards in the right direction. Ill turn to the bayview, which is a area where we have had clearly some more challenges that we face deploying substitutes to this specific neighborhood and region of San Francisco. We were inconsistants with the abilities to improve compared to last year. The achb average rate for these schools is 81 percent. There is clearly a issue of equity we allocate substitutes for all of schools compared to bayview. For the mission we saw ovall a positive increase for all thes schools for each month compared to last year with a average of about 90 percent but i think that will be quite a bit higher if we look at 2015 and 16 months. Again, you see at the bottom the spikes and volume of absences for every month. Some is attributed to testing or certain holiday months where teachers take more time off and capture that data there, but there are issues that [inaudible] reference arounds the volume of absences attributesed to professional development. We hadnt had control or Management System in place and many of these months you can see the high spike in volume of absences attributesed to professional development. I want to look at [inaudible] this is connected to the the internet now and if it is inconsistent the data wont pull up. Similar to the bayview, compare today all our schools we do not achieve a high rate of subsitutes. We did see steady improvement but not enough to say we are comfortable how we are able to deploy substitutes overall. So, that is the conclusion of this brief data analysis. I will turn to [inaudible] who will discuss strategies we used to address these areas och concern. Thank you very much mr. Gorin. Mrs. [inaudible] good to see you. Good to see you. Good afternoon supervisors. I am a native san franciscan and been in the School District for quite a while and have experienced changes on a very personal way because i remember when hiring substitutes was as easy as putting a application out, people were going to come and apply and work. Those days are over. The lean years gave us a sense of security that we can no longer look back on. What we are finding and have been discussing but a year ago we decided we cant continue business as usual so are looking at 4 areas of attack and i use the words attack because this is a critical situation for our students and teacher. The first one is recruitment. As i mentioned, not enough to just have a application out there. We need to look at that data and capture what our applicants are telling us and what they are telling us is it is hard to travel across the city on the bus. It is hards not to have parking permits. Im not getting paid infer. We are starting to get the information and see if we can say these are the schools close to your home you mayp to go to. As part of our collective bargaining our substitutes can pick and choose where they want to go and in many cases substitutes dont have the transportation ability to do that and may not pick up work because it is too far away. For us, recruitment is vital. We are strengthening our higher pathway and captures data we havent in the past. We also need to develop our pipeline. We need to go out andwe have always been doing this but there are less candidates out there. We have gone out to our institutions hof Higher Education and gone to studsants that may want to substitute while going to school and city college, we need to target these institutions and start working closer with the department heads. We need to advertise more. Again, i still see the lean years because i livered them a long timeism we have it ability to advertise and ability to use the internet so much more, website emprove it, those are thethis we need to do but already focused doing them. The other thing is the subsitutes said you send us out but we are not prepared. What type of training can you provide . We are looking at that and provided training in one area but have to have a system where i bring you on board and hire substitutes every month. Every year for the last 3 years we hired over 200 subsitutes. It is resolving door and think it isnt because they dont like the job, it possibly because they can make better money in another area so a substitute is no longer where they want to stay. We want to train the substitutes so they stay with us longer and not shocked when they gelt to a classroom and we started that. We also institutedwe need it provide training for substitutes we praid for our regular teachers because this is a potential pipeline. We hire approximately i say maybe 10 percent of our substitutes become regular teachers with us so woe want to leverage that. In terms of communicating with our subsitutes, we didnt communicate with them in years gone by. We really didnt. Thrfs a sur plus of them, that is so not true in todays market place. Last year we were able to set up a specific website for the substitutes and did a survey and we were able to start saying, it will be a high leverage do you want to work monday and friday . We went out and said what do you want from us and how can we make your experience better and it did pay off. Communication has been a very important concept that we should have been doing many years ago but we were not. The last thing is streamlining our daily operations. We are looking at a vendor now that we think can offer us much more in terms of making it user friendly and better for our substitutes. We are also looking at a system that will be easier for our school site and have been discussing this for about a year now. We mentioned very briefly that part the conflicts we have and problems we are having that our Small Schools are not getting enough substitutes and have to provide emergency coverage for the teachers, we are tracking our professional Development Calendar much better than years gone by and this coming year we will be tracking the need for substitutes for special assignment. I want to reassure you we are very much away of the needs of our school sites the stud chbts and teacher squz substitutes and will focus on that. We just finished hiring a new supervisor for our paraprofessional and substitute area and this will bring concentrated focus and it will expand on the things i have spoken today. I thank you so very much. What i would like to say isi can barely read this. I would like to admit that some of the substitute coverage is unacceptable for the hard to staff school squz bayview and Mission School squz that is a challenge we face constantly and have a total obligation to improve upon. The last thing is we are working on infrastructure, transportation and cost of living continue to make it difficult to higher and retain substitutes and will look at a better and more solid professional development for the substitutes. Thank you for the opportunity. To be able to reach the percentage of substitutes you can hire, i think the goal is 99 percent, given where you are how many more are wedo you need to hire to fill in we need to hire at least 300 more substitutes to be in a position where we can provide 94 to 9 fiver percent. 95 percent. 300 more and stay with us. Every year we hire 200, so we have to hire 500. I must be honest with you, i dont know they are out there. We will try to get them, but it is very difficult. What are the qualifications to bhee a substitute, what do people need . You need a ba or bs degree and pass the [inaudible] examination and you apply for a substitute permit. I assume if you are studying in college, that is notyou have to have the degree already . We seek out student in a masters program. If you are still getting your ba we cant bring you on board. We have substitute paraprofessional squz those are people we can bring on board as well. They make a lot thes less but it is a entry. Final question, to what extonet is transportationhousing that is the big question, right . We are doing what we can, but in terms of transportation to what extent is that a issue . I can see a substitute teacher that ont makes 150 and gets a parking ticket that probably takes up yeah. It is a real issue because in the survey they told us it is very difficult, i go on bus and it is expensive and if i take a care i cant find parking and if i do i get a ticket. You bhoo whipeed out more than 50 percent what i was making. If you are a substitute you are making 10 10 a hour and spend 5 on transportation on muni, what is left after taxes . Thank you very much. Why dont i do this before we turn to Public Comment and i know we have a number of speaker cards. I do want to ask our mta to come up and given the transportation such a big part of the equation here, just wonder if the mta has any ideas in terms of what the city, the mta as a agency can do to help. I know we have a couple folks here [inaudible] good afternoon, [inaudible] generally speaking any changes to our policies regarding fairs or parking is handled by the board of directors but can tell you about the pranls we have now that are available. Our Residential Permit Parking Program primarily it built upon residential initiatives. We do offer a number of exceptions to those including fire stations, childcare providers medical pride provider. We also do offer Educational Institution permits so schools with a minimum number of teachers qualify for permit and with application can apply for sphene more. We have a program for city wide permit for administrators and teachers that teach at multiple dool r schools throughout the day. Those are primarily the programs we have in place now through the Residential Permit program. Thank you mrs. [inaudible] have you had conversation with the School District and Teachers Union to think about strategies that could be used toif they need to hire more than double what they are hiring, what just ideas, strategies to see what we could do. So, just issues is something that was recently brought to our attention and had a meeting with folks a few days ago. I thipg the data presented today is helpful and having Additional Information about where teachers would come from and the trabl patterns and bow able to meet the needs identified through that data with forming a solution is what we want to look at. What i encourage you and happy to play the roam of facilitator, maybe we can get the brain power in the room, mta, i know the county Transportation Authority was here earlier and want to help. The School District, Teachers Union. Whatever else needs to be at the table to see if we can come up with a strategy that helps because i know that i want to do everything we can to help the School District find the 2 or 300 more substitute teachers and substitute paraprofessionals as well. Happy to participate. With that why done we open up to Public Comment. I have a number of speaker cards. [inaudible] conly, [inaudible] casey. Ken tray. Any member who would like to speak if you can please come forward. Thank you. Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to you. My name is eolith beth conly and Vice President for subsitute at the unit educators of San Francisco. I served San Francisco Unified School District as a paraprofessional and teacher and subsitute. What i heard from it School District was very rewarding because these are many thinks i want to implement so we provide appropriate education for all our students. That is there goal of the union as well as School District to have educated kids and cant have them if we dont have the appropriate substitutes. I would like to reinforce what i heard, paid proofessional development is a good goal. There is a category of emergency permitted substitutes called career substitutes and can work for 60 days in the class, not 30 which i think is valuable to have. If sfusd can assist some of the long term subs we have day to day subs that work 5 and 10 years for the School District and very reliable and if they can be assisted getting professional development which is state requirement they would probably be more happier to go to a variety of schools. The transportationthat is a real need for all of them. It has to do with our Automated System that came in some years ago. It is very difficult for substitutes to find out when they go to a school whether they are teaching kinder garten or 5th grade or english or chinese or spanish or maybe something else. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [inaudible] given by the people who affiliating with the School System further amplifys a example how the income level and requirement to move in the brand New Buildings built in San Francisco is too high. People just told me that only 70 percent of the staff of teachers live in the city. The others are outside the city. You heard about the problems the substitutes teachers and if they get a ticket half their income is lost. You have high requirements to move into the building and have working class that cant afford to live in the building. We went to 15 minutes after 12 midnight5 teachers explained they cant afford to live in the 5 m building because the entry level is 71,000 a year and you call that low income Affordable Housing. The point is not only at that level it isnt taking care of the problem but not taking care the problem at the low income and extremely low income level which is people who retired on Disability Income and veterans especially which range from 20,000 to maybe 25,000 and even 15,000. My other point that i want ed to point i call a typo. 1 billion is supposed to be for Senior Citizens and on the information you put the requirement 50 percent of the api when the truth is that is supposed to be 30 percent the income of Senior Citizen so that needs to be corrected because if the senior [inaudible] 50 percent of the api that is 49,000 49,000. Thank you mr. Wright. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Ken tray united educators of San Francisco. I think Vice President for subsitutes liz conly spoke to the important potential remedys for the substitute teacher shortage. We have to put the substitute shortage in the context of a National Crisis known as the teacher shortage. There are not enough young people going teacher credential programs nationally state wide and our local programs and that has a direct impact on which mrs. [inaudible] referred to that years agethere was not the degree of shortage of surbsitute teachers because there are many more people entering into the field. United educators agree on professional development, we advise before a School Year Starts the district have paid days for substitute teacher tooz come and hone their classroom management and academic curricular delivery in the classroom. It is a very difficult job. I was a day to day substitute for a your and going toi was a social teacher but taught everything from music class to gym, special ed classes. It takes a skill to have that versatility and encourage the district with the support of the city to reinforce powerful professional development system. There are many baby boomers about the same agas i am and we are leaving the profession. Many teachers would luchb luchb love the opportunity to keep their hands in the classroom becoming substitute teachers but in order to entice veteran School Teacher tooz x back the District Needs to [inaudible] working with school staff about welcoming substitute teach ers and supporting them and respecting the work they do. Thank you mr. Tray. Next speaker mrs. Casey and again thank you for being here and for all you have done on the prior issue of homelessness. Thank you very much supervisor. I didnt have my glasses so when i saw the chart i couldnt tell if it is broken by high school, middle school and Elementary School. This is anecdotal but last week another parent and i met with [inaudible] in the second grade and he is moved green table goes to the third grade class, red to the 4th grade class and that happened all most 20 percent of his time in spanish emergent so you can imagine my spanish is non existent this is a huge impact for a child. What also impacts when there isnt a subitute and sometimes when there is if there is no lesson plan that means no homework. For my son my partner and i create homework when he doesnt have it but not all other families are able to dothat. What is interesting for me is if when you do that analysis if you look to see if that impact is happening in Elementary Schools how it impacts middle school and high school and what is happening within the emergent tracts because i understand the challenges getting a substitute and more so in manren and spanish. What i heard today is not the experience that my family had in the seconds grade. Can i ask a follow up question . Has the experience when there is substitute and language emergent program they are put in a class where there is no language emrmance . I say it is 50 50. Sometimes when there was a subtult they did speak spanish. Half the time they didnt. In kindergarten a 8 of the class only speak spanish so they rely on interpretation from other kindergartners who can understand the teacher in english. Thank you. To all the kids out there, it want my idea parent giving homework, that is mrs. Casey. Is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this subject . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, i want to thank again the School District, mr. Gordon and [inaudible] thank you [inaudible] members of the public who are here and maybe the think to do is to file this item and like i said, i think what im hoping is that we can put together a working group and know carolyn [inaudible] i want to thank you for the work she is doing and happy to facilitate that. I think this is something we can with work to together to help the School District which is trying to do its best. Would you like to make a motion . Make a motion to file this iletm. I want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this important issue to the board of supervise rbs. I was not aware oof deficiency of substitute teachers but the issue arounds affordability in the sit a anything can deter the availability of substitute teachers gichben how little they make and how unstable and in secure the work can be. It is incredibly hard job and want to cuman anyone that goes into teaching. Teacher is already hard because they move from class to class and try to build relationships with students. You cant do that over the course of a hour or day but it is so porn to have those adults there because we are human and teachers get sick or have emergencies or have to take their chaern children to the doctor so it is important body of what we have in the city and glad supervisor campos will lead to support to make sure we adequate the teachers. I support the motion to file. I am supposed to make a motion to excuse supervisor avalos. We can take the motion to exkoos. Take a motion to exkoos supervisor avalos from items 5 and 6 and do that without opposition and file this motion without opposition. My apology, i want to ask my complity member to resend the vote on the last item. I forgot to make amendments that the [inaudible] just to clarify, for item 6 and 7, you said 5 and 6. My apology. We made a motion to excuse supervisor avalos from 6 and 7. And we can do that without opposition. And then i am make agmotion to amend item number 6 so can we take a motion to resend . We do that without opposition and made a series of amendment that handed hout to Committee Members and clerk. They are changing some of the wording and whereasclauses. May i take a motion to amend . We have a motion to amends item 6 as i articulated and we can do that without opposition. Take a motion to recommend as aminded and do that without upsition. Any other items . No further business. Seeing no further items, meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]adjourned. 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What if i dont have enough space power a think collar bolt and we have Foundation Plates made by a company where a flat plate that is bolted to the concrete foundation and screwed into this flat mechanism. If i applied to a bolt what is a it coffer what type of work should you do in my hope. Up to 3,000 funding with the collar bolts or Foundation Plates and plywood up to the top of the short triple wall that going around. What are the tips. You want to make sure the Capital Improvement plan emancipation proclamation he will the short wall is less than 4 feet tall youll use the provision to adopt it to the city of San Francisco so a contractor can use that. So if i have a typical house over a garage and did that quality for the program. That would qualify for the program you need an engineer to design the riefrt it is not specific for that kind of house it is really theyre looking for short cripple walls maybe a couple of steps up. So jen i will if i want to find out more information. 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A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. 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There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can