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 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 fla
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
Said, with ethnic groups to get to, and our ability to outreach to them is dependent upon the ability of the community to have folks that can reach into those, into those communities and get a window to their living conditions. And then commonly, what well find in a lot of ethnic groups that they vary significantly fall into that double up category. We found that latino families and many asian families that are what are probably homeless by most common definitions. Even if we knew about them, they would be excluded from the specific reporting. So, in general, we always we dont do any adjustments of our observed count because were restricted from doing so and we dont have the certainty to be able to do it. More often than not, weve felt that the definition is probably more limiting to the count number than any kind of statistical estimations. Too much in transitional, have we seen an increase in 50 years, the love era, are there more younger people coming now or is this a common trend t
Working with the department of building inspection to open this as soon as possible and this will happen soon, and even when that opens we are talking about a limited number of beds and it is not the answer, it is part of a solution. We have to do more than just build an lgbtq shelter, we have to address the root causes of homelessness, and that is why this hearing today is so important. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor weiner . Thank you. And mr. Chairman and thank you very much for calling this hearing. And thank you for campos for your remarks. And i agree with them. We know that there is a myth of lgbtq aflu ans and that our community is somehow healthy than other communities because we are less likely to have kids or whatever else or what other narratives are out there but we know that many in our community are not afluent and many struggle particularly in a city as expensive and challenging as San Francisco. As wonderful as this city is, is challenging in a lot
Address the problems. And i think that that is really telling. Thank you. Next speaker please . Good morning, supervisor, we actually have a presentation and we are asked to do that for today, sure. And we do the slides and if we could go through briefly. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, inaudible and i work with tsf, and the transitional San Francisco and housing the department of youth and their families. And to your point, who just spoke and we will just jump ahead since we are expecting to present earlier with more time to some of the recommendations and it has been engaged in the 18 month process with over 18 individuals from the cross city departments that have spoke here and the Community Based organizations and the young people themselves, and as a result of this work, we did a Needs Assessment and a planning process to essentially identify where are the biggest priorities that our city should be focusing on, and what are some of the biggest needs . And so, to talk