Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of
I have my name tag here. I am a public employee. I am a union delegate for government employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for california for the grand jury for the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to you at the commissions with other government employees, many times. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last time i was here was november 15, 2019, which is last month. I came before you demanding as a commission to investigate corruption within the commission department. Between april 2017 to july 2017, six Public Employees reported bribery, extortion and retaliation with the Ethics Commission department, but no record was found, and they never got back to us. I was one of the eight candidates for mayor, june 2018 election. I just finished my mayor run for the november election. I was one of the six mayor candidates for the last months election. I was bullied by democrats and Democratic Leaders from city hall and from different departments and different leadership
Clerk that completes the agenda for today. We are adjourned. Thank you very much. [gavel] thank you. Are we good, madame clerk . Good. Good morning, everyone. My apology for arriving late to the chambers. The meet willing come to order. This is december 11, 2019 regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the funds and finance committee, joined by katherine stephanie and rafael mandelman. Our clerk is ms. Wang. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, complete the speaker cards to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 7, 2020 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Please call item number one. Resolution approving an updated Emergency Declaration of the San Francisco Public Utilitieses commission to re
Casualty someplace in the united states. Its really quite distressing so what is the plan to update these units . One thing i would say is these units, theyre not used all the time. Theyre still in good shape. Commissioner covington im sorry . Theyre what . Still in good shape . Yeah, theyre still in good shape. Trucks for Certain Companies are our highest demand. We have to always put priority for the engine trucks so we have use for every day and as the budget functions and the money allows from city hall, we see items here on the list that we can update, so were working with the chief here and mark corso, we have some updates that we can identify, and were going to put in the request. Commissioner covington okay. What you have outlined is a logical plan, okay . And i agree with the plan. So when the plan is put on paper in january, i suppose we have a plan to come for that. We have a plan in the budget that were going to ask for. For the fleet update, we have a plan for the one that
Online in other languages, but we didnt have it in other languages at that time. One of the things that im sure you all read about, which was connected to the flooding, but if the house wasnt flooded, some of the houses experienced sewage coming up through the houses. We had residents asking our office was it safe to clean up. I actually dont know if we this is something well discuss through the hearing, but is that d. B. I. , department of public health, p. U. C. , where is the appropriate contact for residents to find out if its safe for them to clean up. So, yeah, i just wanted to share some comments here. Well get more answers at the hearing, and i do think this is an opportunity because it was 12 hours impacted or if this was a larger disaster. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uhhuh. Just wanted to give kudos to some of our personnel from our Homeland Security unit. Captain chris put together an exercise that basically involved the station being incapacitated. We had an opportunity t