Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, february 5th, 2014. My name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisor and committee vicechair eric mar as well as supervisor john avalos. Want to thank the members of sfgovtv covering this meeting, Charles Kremenak and jennifer low as well as the clerk of the committee, ms. Linda wong. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all phones and electronic gao vices. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 11, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. So, for those of you in the audience, we have about four regular agenda items as well as two hearings taking place. So, madam clerk, if well start the first one, if you could
Chronic homeless, the subpopulation detail thats required for local planning and national reporting. There is also important other data that come out of the survey thats been cited earlier such as the residency and so on, and thats been expanded significantly since the beginning of the point in time counts. In 2013 in particular, a big enhancement is part of the Continuous Improvement effort in the pit count has been to comply with the hud requirements to better profile youth homelessness. And in particular, the development of a new reporting category which is transitioning age youth, which is roughly 16 to 18 through 24 which is a separate reporting group, and was not previously profiled effectively in the county and which arose out of a National Observation that the typical count logistics and methodology excluded certain groups such as families and especially children in their Data Collection efforts. So, thats was resulted in just under just around 00 additional persons found in th
So, madam clerk, if well start the first one, if you could call item number 1. Item number 1 is the hearing to discuss and evaluate San Franciscos 10year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, which is due to sunset at the end of 2014. Thank you. So, colleagues, our first item today is a hearing i called for a few months ago to discuss our citys tenyear plan to abolish chronic homelessness here in San Francisco, a plan which is set to sunset this year in june. Leading up to todays hearing my staff and i spent significant amounts of time meeting with city, nonprofit and Community Leaders as well as outside organizations who tackle homelessness issues in other jurisdictions to find out whats been moving the needle on homelessness and what is not. We have accomplished a lot in the last 10 years, but despite our successes, the facts are that our Homeless Population count in San Francisco has remained flat for the last 10 years and i do believe the new ideas and policies beyond and including
To take policy makers into the streets with more empathy, the situation of the Homeless Population . Im considering how i can i understand it youre a staffer, you do that. I work with clients almost every day. Who interacts with clients in special shelter directors, meet with them regularly, they have a very good understanding and empathy of what is a. M. ~ whats going on on the streets. And really, its solving this issue is bigger than the level of empathy, which is there. It calls for a lot more than that, which is funding and systematic changes in some areas to better serve folks who are on the street. I think what i saw at least within the food access open groups, project had almost a Leadership Team taking a snap challenge and have changed the culture i think of how they looked at the issue. For me personally that helped a lot. Im trying to look into what other ways we can be policy makers to be the issues. Working with clients and Community Members is one thing. But for a short t
I am proud of is focusing in on the Economic Opportunity and insisting that the lgbtq center offer an array of programs from transgender employment and the workforce and the housing programs and the services for Financial Planning and recognizing that as was stated that being lgbtq does not mean that you are afluent and i do believe that some of the projects that i have had the individual of working on now at hope and working with brian and tommy and supervisor campos to close the bed for the shelter and the first for the Homeless Youth alliance and i have come to appreciate how many of the young people are lgbtq and the attitudes that i experienced when i represented the castro that seeing these young people who look different and may respond differently but they are not different. Most of them are us. And that way that we responded to them and said go back to the hate or go back to Golden Gate Park is really disgusting. And i think that it absolutely has to change, and i challenge me