Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that video as well . [inaudible] hold on, please. Denise can we pause for a second. The captioning doesnt seem to be working with the video. Can we put the microphone closer . Lets start again. [inaudible] thats okay. I dont want to log jam the schedule. You can find our video on our website which is a lava may. Org. Basically it just frames the problem. The number that was listed in the video lis
Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10minute timers. They will be on 10minute timers and another 8 minutes to allow people to do something else. In the shower area and toilet and changing areas and a bench for shoes and socks. 1 2 of those facilities will be ada compliant . Absolutely. Wonderful. Great. Thank you. Absolutely. All right. Any Public Comment on this item . Believe it or not. Larry juicy. I went to city college to shower. When i was homeless, i knew i can be a student and go to cook school and take a shower in the mens l
Ask le ah to come up and i will conclude when shes finished. Good afternoon councilmembers. My name is leahes guerra the social worker for the Sf Public Library and Public Health employee and member of the Homeless Outreach team. Being the first full time social worker to be assigned in a library setting. The real challenge i had was this has never been done before for how to be a social worker at the library. My initial challenge was how to serve needs and meet the needs of the homeless ofand indigents at the library and its a safe place when they dont have a place to go to and many find a place to sleep and rest even though people at the library the homeless are not really enjoyed and mostly the homeless enjoy the programs that are offered such as reading and borrowing movies. The librarys goals is to connect the homeless and indigent and basic resources such as food, access to medical care and sometimes abuse can be addressed. The San Francisco Public Library became the first in the
Public comment . All right. Thank you very much. Next we are moving on to item no. 8. Lava mae. This is denise sandoval. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that video as well . [inaudible] hold on, please. Denise can we pause for a second. The captioning doesnt seem to be working with the video. Can we put the microphone closer . Lets start again. [inaudible] thats okay. I dont want to log jam the schedule. You can find our video o
Training programming. They walk the library floors and share their story about how they recovered from homelessness and other issues and how they have utilized the services in San Francisco. Some were Library Patients who were outreach at the library and gone through a Homeless Program in San Francisco and come back once they are stable and address their issues with homelessness and other issues often associated with homelessness and such as Mental Health and abuse and they say i would like to give back. When the program was first implemented the initial plan was for the outreach patients in the Library Bathroom who might be inappropriately using the bathrooms for bathing or drug use. They are not security staff. They are using those interactions to be able to talk to the patron and say, you know there are Actual Community places where you can take a bath. There are places where you can sleep today before the shelter opens up and i have been in your situation before and i can tell you