An emergency housing if anything of forgiveable lien for 8,978,000 to open a homeless shelter that is next to mother browns kitchen. Its located mother browns kitchen is on the corner of having an dike and kitchen. The Resource Center is located on a block that has several industrial warehouses well hear today. I want to rewind about 2 and a half years since supervisor cowen talked about this. It was late in the summer about 2011 i went out to visit with mother browns kitchen and what i noticed when was simply not acceptable. Really not acceptable from a view of humiliate. I saw 70 or 80 chairs in an upper crowded space with no ventilation. I saw Homeless Individuals with their heads down in the cafe because they had no place to rest. I asked about the chairs and i was told folks sleep upright in those chairs. Its not what it was designed to do. The architecture work was not designed for sleeping but those folks had no alternative. I walked next door and noticed a vacant warehouse. The
Well be releasing just before thanksgiving the proposals will be did you before the christmas break and returning to you probably in midapril in budget and finance for you to have a chance to review all our funding recommendations and we do every year okay. Thanks many chu colleagues, any questions or comments . Lets open this up for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, we have a motion to move this forward. Okay mr. Clerk call item 3 have the Human Relations Agency to enter a Loan Agreement to renovate the bed for a homeless shelter. Okay. Colleagues that has been introduced and were joined by our colleague in district 100 so supervisor cowen. Thanks everyone for coming out and i you appreciate you inviting me. Im not able to stay for the entire Public Comments i wasnt prepared for f this to be called before item 3. This is first came to my attention when the human agency and hope asked me to offer a resolution for a state grant fund. At the time i expres
Concern is that listed as an opportunity for a violation to be written up or did you ignore it its not my job to write up those things nor am i aware of the codes of sleeping in chairs or what the codes are for occupancy. This is a nonresidential occupancy so sleeping in chairs is not acceptable. Has the department done an evaluation be more specific that were you point to the Homeless Count by the way, have we evaluated the other sites. Supervisor theres only one shelter in the bayview and its not a 24 shelter. Its on the floor of the church with mats where folks put their stuff in herself i didnt bags and leave in the morning. Theres 12 hundred and 74 people on the streets have others provided temporary beds for this location. No, this pro dense can you be halfdozen years ago. Thats the processing process for managing the shelters. Well draft proposals that will lay out of the proposals and well solicit from nonprofit agencies their description of what they hope to provide the budget
Interested and all the documentation that charley mentioned in order to sponsor in and to introduce this. Im asking for supporting documents and this is dated in november 6th of 2012. Theres very little conversation. The last time i heard about this was when the mayor speak about in january of 2013. I wanted to acknowledge that you yourself invited a site at mother browns kitchen and noticed people were sleeping in chairs is that a cause for concern is that listed as an opportunity for a violation to be written up or did you ignore it its not my job to write up those things nor am i aware of the codes of sleeping in chairs or what the codes are for occupancy. This is a nonresidential occupancy so sleeping in chairs is not acceptable. Has the department done an evaluation be more specific that were you point to the Homeless Count by the way, have we evaluated the other sites. Supervisor theres only one shelter in the bayview and its not a 24 shelter. Its on the floor of the church with
The owner is the same owner who owns the drop center. I said theres money coming in 3 months lets make this a shelter. This was probable july or august of naivete. The application was did you august 2012. So i made the decision to move forward and recognizing theres no time we had to put together the grant and the cost estimates would it would do to rehab it. Sometimes humanity has to trumpet the process and i made the decision this time it needed to be. We applied for the grant and received the grant. Im calling it a grant. We ieshtd conversations about the lease. Thats the story of how it evolved. When we look at the need for the shelter in the bayview theres clearly one. We do a bio analysis and what we found was we count both shelter homeless and unsheltered homeless so folks who are living on the street as well. We found for the first time there were more individuals living on the street can i there were more individuals living on the street in bayview we counted 12 hundred and 74