Opposition and during the hearing, a Property Owner who has not voted yet or who wishes to change their vote may speak with the department of elections staff. They are a table just outside at the Board Chamber and provide you with the affidavit and board plot. The ballot will be counted. Before we begin, supervisor hainey, would you like to make any opening remarks . Thank you. I will make brief remarks before i turn it over to chris corgus. But i want to say that this is a Community Benefit district that i know firsthand does a tremendous job in our community. I live in the tern loin an tends not a day that goes by where i dont walk by and see the positive impacts of all are doing. This morning i was walking to city hall down hyde street, helped across the street by the safe passage volunteers, walking down sidewalks that were pressure washed by tlcbd folks and just appreciating not just everything you all do but the way that you do it. I especially appreciate the approach that youve taken to putting people to work who need jobs, especially in our community. And also taking the approach that understands that if well be successful in the tenderloin, we have to do it in an inclusive way to make sure residents are heard. Sometimes thats Property Owners and sometimes not Property Owners and everybody has a seat at the table as were thinking about the kind of community we want. So i got to look at some of your policies around Harm Reduction and Racial Equity and i think youre demonstrating what cb ds can be in a community. Ill turn it over to chris to talk about the millions of pounds of trash and numbers and some of the exciting plans that you have, but what ill say to the board is that we established this known as the tenderloin cbd in 2005 for 15 years. I hope that you all will support this as introducing the cbds renewal. I appreciate the partnership you all have had and im excited about some of the changes and some of the goals and some of the vision that the cbd has for the impact on our community. With that, ill turn it over to chris corgus from oewd who will present. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the Senior Programme manager of the office of economic and workforce development. I oversee the Community Benefit programme on behalf of the city. This is a renewal and expansion of the existing north of market tenderloin Community Benefit district. I would like to thank supervisor hainey and his staff, particularly honth honthy mow. I would like to think you for your commitment as a model for all summations and renewals. Now i would like to thank all. And to present about whats to come in the tenderloin cbd as the executive terror, simon bertrane. Good afternoon. I will give a brief presentation on what is in the assessment renewal proposal and what are Current Services are. The proposed assessment renewal will be a new 15year term starting january 1, 2020. There will be changes to the boundary and it will be a continuation and pensio expansin cleaning, safety and neighborhood prid pride program. It will go to 1. 1 million to under 2 million a year. Here is a map in light blue with additional areas in dark blue. I the north side of west f farreell. A section of the tenderloin cbd is not going to be included in the proposed district and instead, it will be included in the civic centre cbd proposal. The tlcbd budget with that 2 million in assessment, this shows a breakdown of most of the money, 60 is spent on supplemental services. Im describe what those are. Theres a 15 spent on marketing and Economic Development, as well as money set aside for administration. We have a framework at the tenderloin cbd for what we envision for a healthy neighborhood. We mean all of the people that live, work and visit the tern lointenderloin including peoplen the streets, unhoused. Our primary focus is at the top in the clean, safe and trying to make inviting public spaces for people but we work on Neighborhood Pride, Economic Opportunity and improvements around those areas. Our clean programme, just to hit the statistics, we picked up over 350,000 pounds of trash this year, removed 22,000 needles, addressed 6,000 graffiti and stickers and pressurewashed over 3,000 blocks in addition to addressing over 3600 individual instances of human and animal waste. With the new assessment, we are proposing to bring a microneighborhood approach to the cleaning of the tenderloin. Were breaking it up into seven smaller areas and there will be a member assigned to each of the areas with multiple passes a day on the frontages there and getting to know the unique circumstances, the residents, businesses, the building managers, the people on street to do a better job of cleaning the street. Tout we also run a Safe Programme which is primarily tender loin safe passage which started by neighborhood moms to help kids get to and from school safely. We now have dozens of volunteers a day who come in morning and afternoon to help kids and seniors navigate the sidewalks and also get across the congestion and dangerous streets everyday in the morning and afternoon. We are also working with a number of block safety groups that neighborhood residents and stakeholders that are interested in a way to make sidewalks safer and more inviting for everyone there. We support training for them, as well as physical improvements to those blocks to improve the physical condition of the blocks and support them with safe passage corners and clean team. Theres a Camera Programme which is a network of cameras which we are expanding. This year we expect to double the size of the network and it is for after the fact footage that we produce we produce afterthefact footage for the police, district attorney, public defender or private attorneys. Our Neighborhood Pride programme tries to tell stories about the neighborhood. If you ride the news about the tenderloin, its full of negativity and theres incredible people and businesses and energy in the tenderloin and we try to connect with those people and make sure that some of the stories out of the tenderloin are the positive kind that really showcase the strengths as one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in San Francisco. Last slide is about the details of the assessment formula. The assessment in the tenderloin is calculated on three factors, lot size, building size, length of sidewalk frontage and each of the factors is multiplied by a number to produce, as you see at the bottom, different rates for the square footages and linear footage. The Economic Development is not assessed against the nonforprofit meaning theres a 20 lower assessment than on the forprofit Property Owners. Ill conclude the presentation and thank you very pitch. Much. Well open testimony on item number 50 and we will start with supporters of the assessment district. So if you are here to testify in support of the assessment district, Public Comment will begin. Are there any individuals who would like to speak in support . First speaker, please. If youll line to your right, my left. Go ahead, sir. Steve gibb sosteve gibson. I was the interim executive director for two and a half years in january of 206. 2016. I have come at this from a couple of different directions. I would like to speak from the point of view of past executive director. As you know we, the tenderloin s lacked the Financial Resources to properly addres address the qualityof life issues. They address the tenderloin issues and this renewal of the cbd addresses those issues. They have agreed to double their assessment, double their investment in the cbd and programmes. I strongly urge you to support the renewal of the cbd so they can continue to improve the quality of life for the families, the children and the seniors that call the tenderloin home. Thank you. Next speaker. P. I want to renew the area, too and i want to redevelop it, too and get the 8,000 and 11 people thats homeless out in the street and 90 is in the tenderloin. I want to spend that money t for this. Im real upset pup can build a threestory Apartment Building complex of 144 unite 144 units a million dollars. You can build a 27story tower with that amount of money than any building complex than you built. Theres a threestory building, too, and cost just 1 million more, 57 million. So you talk about redeveloping the area of the tenderloin, imi move you have use these types of towers for the 8,011 Homeless People countedp counted by the s bureau. Is that clear some and by the same response, i want three of these buildings to be for people who need rehabilitation and need the behavioral selfservices and who are suicidal and calling in and want to commit suicide. By the same response, it further flows with my demonstration, you have a homeless rate thats increasing at 8,011. Ok . The population is still growing as far as homelessness is concerned. By the same response, theyve got nowhere to go because you keep building programmes with nothing to do with housing. You all you want to do is having housing programmes. It say youve got Shelter Services and mental services, you short there, too. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Im curtis bradford, im a longtime tenderloin responsibilities to speak in support of the lcbd. They provide Great Service for the tenderloin neighborhood. Like matt was saying, i work and live in the neighborhood and i walk to work and safe escorts across the intersection to get to my wont be. Job. Theyre there and they greet me by name and these are Community Members that live in the neighborhood, as well. Pothey provide a Great Service d i appreciate them being there. You know, ive gotten to know the clean them team that cleansy block and its great to have that relationship. So theyre providing more than just the cleaning. But i want to say for purposes of disclosure first of all, im proud of the fact that i think the tlcbd is, perhaps, one of the, if not the most progressive benefit district in the nation. Tou. Thats not an accident. There was a lot of intentionality around thinking about and stretching the plan of what cbd can mean in a community. And servings as a low income sro resident of the tenderloin on the board, i would like to think i played some small part in moving them along. But the truth is, theyve been work wig Community Organizations robustly to try to think about and envision what cbd can mean for the whole community. So i really appreciate their effort and i hope you can support them. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im dale seymour from the tenderloin. Ive been here 35 years. Ive have two businesses that total about 15 years. So im familiar with the tlcbd. You know, theyre just a tailly organization. Daily organization. The good thing, these folks are tenderloin residents. So we get to see our neighbors at work. We get to see our neighbors making money. Because of a grant that i got from the tlcg about ten years ago, i was able to get my Organization Start and now we employ five people from the community. So there are a lot of things he didnt present in his recommendatiohispresentation. The people are friendly and its just a way of life. Tenderloin could be worse without this organization and i think the tlcbd is the model for all in the city. It was one of the first and the most challenging neighborhood in the city and because of them, that neighborhood is n nowhere s challenging. So i implore you to support this assessment. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is steven genes for st. Passage. If it wasnt for them, i won be wouldnt be standing here before you. I want to talk about vision ze zero. Im not sure how many people have died because of being hit by a car in San Francisco, but it is outrageous, the number. Its three or four in the last two, three months. Now we have st. Passage set up foupto help children gave gate e through and we have st. Passage that helps seniors in the morning. Why not have them to help not get hit by cars where the amount of people hit is at the highest risk. Weve got an organization set up. It wouldnt take a lot of money or a lot of effort to switch gears and have a certain part of safe passage do that. I mean if were concerned about human life and if we want to do Something Like vision zero, to obtain vision zero, its in play, safe passage. So i would urge you to spend a lot more than just 2 million. If you people are serious about vision zero, then do something about it. Safe passage is the thing to do. My name is renee colorado and i operate the restaurant group. We have four and a final one opening in a month along larkin street. I can say personally, i was a Community Organizer and advocate in the tenderloin and i myself am overwhelmed at times. Having the organization with a group of people that care so much about the entire neighborhood, not just the residents, but the businesses there. I myself just based on the tlcbd and the services they provide and hope they bring to the neighborhood, we locat advocatee other businesses to open on my recommendation and this was due in part because of the support tlcbd is providing. The improvements that have been made in the tern loin. Tenderloin. E they not only clean streets but come into our businesses and they bring our street patrol, our Police Officers by and introduce them and theyre kind of theyre the glue that bind the tenderloin together, everyone. Announcement im here to implore you to renew them for another ten years. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im mike, the Club Director for boys and girls club of San Francisco and thank you all for your time today. I was first introduced to the tlcbd through the Safe Passage Programme. Coming in, i understood some of the situations that was already here in the tenderloin and to see safe passage out after school everyday with volunteers really invested into the safety of our family and kids was inspiring for me. As i continue to work here, i saw other organizations out there doing amazing work. Watching them clea clean the sts and picku pick up needles. As i continue to look at how we can make imminent improvements e neighborhood, this is really possible. Theyve been a great connector of multiple agency, of organization. They work closely with different city departments and able to do with the renewal of the assessment is off the charts. Im definitely here in support of the tlcbd. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name a raymond gonzalez. We are i an organization that helps adults experiencing homelessness by providing a sense of community and meaningful daily community. Our team members learn life skills and do this by creating a vibrant community. They have about 80 team member who have come from the tenderloin district. Since weve been there, weve picked up over 250,000 pounds of trash and 22,000 needles and employed 19,000 individuals and have housed six individuals, as well. And so i just want to say that we support the tlcbd and renew it and without that, we are now able to restore and frida bringr unhoused individuals in. When i was talking to a team lead, i said why do you like being part of the tenderloin district. He say it gives me and sense of purpose and me and my crew a sense of purpose and we support the renewal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im a corner captain with safe passage for three years now. Im one of the many corner captains who help cross our residents of the neighborhoods in the morning and afternoon. We are giving back and making it safer for everyone and we love our job. I would not be here without their help and being a part of this community. And i strongly urge you guys to please renew the agreement with the tlcbd for another 15 years. We did mistake work as previously mentioned and will be mentioned after me. So please let us keep doing the job were doing of making the quality of life in our neighborhood safer and better for residents and Business Owners. Thank you. Next speaker. I work for safe passage and i am the tenderloin and ive been on both sides of the fence. If youre having trouble making decision, go there and rent one of those room and youll see how important it is, how much help is needed. The gentleman mentioned shelters and shelters are fine. They need clean, too, because people sleep on the street than the shelter. So you need better support. Human kindness is what it take. If we show human kindness and remember these people are people, too, you know, you dont kick them why they down. We do what we can for our people. We are the tenderloin. Go se see the grease pot that ws just cleaned. Thats all they got. Next speaker. I will remind the good people if you want to show your support, give us your silent hands. Thank you. I live in the tenderloin for three years and also i am a tenderloin resident for five years. Without the tlcbd, this is not only a safe passage in tenderloin and not only creating the culture, its not only elderly people safe on the street. This demonstrate as mom to kids, i feel its very important not for only today but important for our future, for our kids. Thank you so much. And support the t colleglcbd. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am the Community Organizing director for the tenderloin housing board. Im the president of the board. In my day job, i work closely with tlcbd because a lot of our values and work insect with each other in terms of block safety group or many leaders of safe passage have come from various programmes in our work in tenderloin. I just want to urge and hope for your support for renewing