Mode of like, i guess, a real stable place to progress my supervisor peskin i think we hear you. Right. It helped me to stop what i was doing to progress back no a regular living situation. Further myself there. I also performed well in track and instead of going cold turkey and easily being drawn back into the situation, it allowed me to ease the tension into a regular living situation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your testimony. Seeing no other members of the public on item number 1, well close Public Comment. Supervisor haney and his staff have asked for an amendment that is in the long title on page 1 and the substance is subsection c on page 3. If theres no objection colleagues, i will move that and we will take that without objection. And i have been advised by the City Attorney that because ha amendment is deemed to be substantial in nature, this will require a oneweek continuance so without objection, we will continue the item as amended one week to our meeting o
Our work order estimates with particularly Public Utilities and public works, but also sfmta, planning and other city agencies to prepare our budget projections for next year. And well bring informational presence on the budget to our next tida Board Meeting as well before making our initial budget to the mayor office on february 21st. Well come back in april for formal adoption of the budget. And then the Mayors Office will submit the budget to the board on may 1st. For the board next year, at the main highlight here is were expecting to have the onisland meetings in march, july and november. And that also will be doing budget information presentations this year. Our annual contract renewal is in june. And then election of officers next fall. And then per our conversations at our december meeting, were incorporating quarterly Sustainability Committee meetings beginning with our first meeting on january 21st and then well have infrastructure and transportation meetings in march and kee
December 10 meeting of 2019. Any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. President caen any Public Comment on the minutes of december 10 . All those in favor . Opposed . Motion carries. Next item, please. Item 4, general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. President caen i have three speaker cards here. The first is dave warner. I dont think i can present this, but can i hand it out. You can put it on the overhead. Im dave warner. Im a palo alto resident. Im also a participant in the mayors water supply stakeholder group. Some of you know ive been speaking at your meetings for three years now, which is a terrific honor. The sfpuc is not sharing draws. Its more important than after as you face major decisions. Should we invest an additional 2 billion or more to develop Water Supplies and raise the rates accordingly to cover the costs . Should we implement rationing as
Right here at the abigail. Its going to make a difference for so many people and im so grateful we have this opportunity to do just that today. How the person who has helped in our efforts to move the needle on homelessness, who probably every time i call him, and i tell him about somebody, he not only knows the name of that person, with the whole story about their medical history and family, and when they came here and everything else, believe it or not, its a tough job to manage our Homeless Department in San Francisco, but Jeff Kaczynski does it because he cares and because he knows that last year when we helped 2,000 people exit homelessness, thats 2,146 people that are not sleeping on our streets tonight and that matters. Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the office of homelessness here in San Francisco, Jeff Kaczynski. [applause] thank you, mare breed, for those kind words and thank you for your leadership to expand Critical Resources that we desperately need to help People L
Help people who are formerly homeless get a great and safe and affordable place to call home without the social services , so its not as expensive as someone who might need a lot more support and wraparound services. This is what some of us call in this world step up housing because sadly we know there are people who will the goal is to understand what the challenges are. Do they need assistance with Mental Health . Do they need assistance with their addiction . Do they need assistance just to get a job and get back on their feet . Often times, if we are able to transition them out of the shelter, its usually into Supportive Housing where there is a network of people who are there to provide wraparound Supportive Services to get them back on their feet. And the great thing about the bristol in places like the abigail which we are here in today, is those people have benefited from incredible programs and are ready to move on with their lives and are not in need of the social services th