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She joins us now. E joins us now. Good morning to you. Ou happy thanksgiving. Nksgivin reporter good morning. Happy thanksgiving to you, too as well. As wel yeah, you know, people here, per are definitely getting a workout with their wallets. It doesnt feel like the black k friday craziness or grayra thursday that some people callpl it. Take a look behind me. Ook be m its kind of a normal average aa everyday feeling in kmart feen this morning and thats and thas probably because when we many years in the past, theret,e was pretty much no line. Right before the store opened o at 6 00 a. M. A couple people,e , about 10 or so, showed up and walked in, but really theyhe crowds were not anything likeini they have been in years past. P is that because the deals are not as good . Dea no, that is non ue. E. Actually the deals arehe d a fantastic and one of thetic things i wanted to show you y that is a really good deal dea here today on the grayra thursday is christmashris decorations. Take a l
Before. And also contract with good people, people that are professional. Im happy to see bevan dufty here in the audience. Thank you for your leadership on this. That we contract with professional people that are able to manage not only their shelter, but the occupants. I have constituents email me today of a homeless man peeing in front of their business. So, we have a lot of work to do to get to address the challenge. Thank you. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, president chiu. And colleagues, i want to thank everyone for their comments. And quite frankly, the discussion as well. They werent here when i first started talking, but i want to acknowledge bevan dufty, [speaker not understood] who runs the outreach team. Thank you for all your efforts in this regard. And for working together and offering to continue to Work Together on what were discussing here today. So, thank you both. You are indisposable for our city, and thank you so much. I also want to acknowledge something i believe
Safe places for people to live. And once we are able to showcase that to a lot of folks on the street, a lot more people are going to be willing to accept the services and help that were offering. But frankly, some of the things that weve been offering in the past are just not places that i think any of us would want to spend a night in. So, thats one thing. The second issue with the medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming spaces for people . A lot of concerns that people have who are struggling with Mental Health is that they actually know that theyre struggling with Mental Health and they actually want support and services, but the way that we provide the support and services are often in these very cold mandatory like were forcing you to do this, this, and this. And none of us in this room want to be forced to do anything. Like if we were in that situation, we wouldnt want to walk into an environment where we kn
Medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming spaces for people . A lot of concerns that people have who are struggling with Mental Health is that they actually know that theyre struggling with Mental Health and they actually want support and services, but the way that we provide the support and services are often in these very cold mandatory like were forcing you to do this, this, and this. And none of us in this room want to be forced to do anything. Like if we were in that situation, we wouldnt want to walk into an environment where we knew against our will these are the things we had to go through in order to get services. So, how do we provide a different type of environment thats more opening and welcoming thats a 24hour center that can be a respite where we can build relace ship and trust with people on the street that are struggling with Mental Health and know that theyre struggling with Mental Health . I think t