Expensive or its not that nice or too small. And mallia showed me his studio apartment on 1606 jones, i was very excited. I said oh, thats perfect for me and my son. However, he told me that its not been approved, and i was i dont understand. Its all very, very nice. Everything is all brandnew. I dont understand, and if you can give me a chance to move into this apartment, it would be greatly appreciated, and it would really for improve me and my sons life, and thank you for your time and consideration. Commissioner honda thank you. And cameras house has an a camerons house has an amazing story of what theyve done. Clerk thank you. We will now move on to rebuttal. Mr. Paul, you have three minute. Thank you, miss rosenberg, commissioner swig. There was no doubt that the kitchen was finished beyond the scope of issued permits. This would be legally active space under the permits that were active at the time and completed. So it is was the clear understanding of this contractor and owner that he was sticking his neck out in a way that he might be cutoff. But the economies of scale when youre doing a large about renovation like that, in tenants and trying to keep costs to as low as possibnarro so you can keep rents as low as possible, it made sense that he purchased those cabinets and put them in. It was a justifiable risk at the time. Its a cost that hes willing to assume to remove them. If this kitchen has to be removed, this scare will be altered this stair will be altered, and people will still be living there, but it wont be part of a dwelling unit, and it wont be part of a dwelling unit that people wont use very much. Where you have an option to give it to their tenant and son who really will make good use of their space. In with due respect to the Zoning Administrator and his position, i dont think that theyre able to really reconsider how they determine the quantitative vaulqualities exposure, although this board can take and make a de novo determination on this issue. There is the exact same scenario up four more floors above this, so it is an exceptional and extraordinary circumstance. It is a matter to create more housing. I would ask this board not to continue something for something thats going to be Housing Stock in one way or the other. I think its the best move for this board to approve it as a separate dwelling unit and allow rosina and her son to occupy it as quickly as possible. Commissioner honda so i just told you im willing to continue. I think if i vote this evening, i would be in support of the department. Lets continue it. Commissioner honda thats what i was thinking. Clerk thank you. Okay. Well now hear from mr. Sanchez. Thank you. Scott sanchez, planning department. Its good to know the board was still tough on variances. Commissioner honda its commissioner fung. Come on up, we have an empty seat up here. So to correct something that the appellant stated. Its incorrect that each of the floors has the same situation. Each of the other floors get their exposure to the front. Theyre all four flats that face through, so to correct the record there. You know, i will take the information about the, you know, really nice, new, illegal unit and those photos if the appellant can email them to me, and i can discuss that with the Zoning Administrator and also review the Zoning Administrator and appreciate that to facilitate that, if the appellant would provide the proposed plans that show the required set of stairs within the required rear yard, and all the improvements that they show, including the habitable space in the back yard. Certainly reconstruction of stairs within the required rear yard can pose certain requirement code issues. I have a question going back to what you stated before. This variance was applied for in 2018 and heard in 2019. Is that correct . Im going to doublecheck that. It has a 2018 number. It has a 2018 number, but i believe do you know when it was submitted . I believe it was december 2018. Okay. So the end of 2018. Last question, and Everyone Wants to leave here. But so im not making light or giving approval of developers that that do work beyond the scope of permit and without a permit, just to be very clear. But at the same time, i am supportive of housing, and ive seen quite a few illegal units that are just horrible that have been legalized. And so i find it kind of a shame that someone has gone through such great energy to make a nice unit, albeit without the proper permits, be denied. Just going forward, right . I mean, this is a problem that when david chiu initiated this legislation in october of 2014 or 16, we knew what would happen. The city was based on many granny units that were based on improper plumbing, didnt have lights, improper ingress and egress. And in light of that, the city still proceeded to legalize these units, and not only dont ask, dont tell, and it made all those units legal units, and those units are now 2500. So i would love for the department to take a further look to see if we could do something. If that includes multiple penalties for doing work without a permit, im fine with that, too. And just to correct the submittal dates for the record, it does have a 2018 case number. It was submitted at the very end of 2018. The case was created on january 7, 2018, and the case was heard on january 7, 2019, and the case was heard on january 8, 2019. Clerk okay, commissioners, this matter is submitted. I will make a motion to continue this. How much time do you think the Department Needs its on the Department Rather than the permit holder. Its when the appellant can give us the materials including the approved plans and the photo. The review of the Zoning Administrator would be relatively brief. If they could do that this weekend. Do you think you would want to make a site visit at all to inspect the unit in person or is that not necessary . I think the photos speak for themselves, but we can we would need a little bit more time to maybe would be interesting to see whats happening inside the unit. Dangjeremy, id be very nic. The Zoning Administrator does not like to be sacked. Clerk november 18. Were going to have a tight, busy schedule on the 6. We can test our new oneminute, twominute rule. Clerk would that date work for you, november 13 . Commissioner honda, if i may make a comment . Sure. I dont believe there will be a need for any further testimony on the matter when it comes back. Okay. It will be fully submitted before the board. If you have questions, well be here, but i wont have further presentation for you. Yeah, exactly. Can you provide the dimensions of the rear yard area when you return, the one the depth is not dimensioned on the plans. Yes. Thank you. In other words, wed like to know, i mean, if you include the stairway. When the board comes back, they would have to arrested clayton the find articulate the findings under 305 c. I will provide the dimensions of the rear yard, the characteristics of the open stair, and the five findings for your consideration. Thank you. So we have a motion to continue to november 13. November 13, whos making that motion . Commissioner honda . Were doing a joint. Okay. On the motion to continue to november 13 [roll call] so that motion carries, 40. Well see you on november 13. Thank you. This concludes the hearing. You know ive always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i wasnt i did not think twice about that. 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Mayor breed sean richard who is with us today. Hes a part of brothers against guns has been on the ground on a regular basis. So Many Community advocates, big rich and others, working with our community. We were in this community in the trenches working hard to deal with this issue, james and michael, without a lot of help and support. You know what . Not anyone else thats in this race for District Attorney, not one of those folks is none other than susie lawson. [ applause ]. Mayor breed susie lawson came to the table. She was working with us to try to figure out what can we do as a neighborhood prosecutor, what can i do to help make this community safer. Not this is what im going to do. What can i do . And working with the previous District Attorney helped to create incredible opportunities, including the [ applause ]. Mayor breed giving people a Second Chance. Giving people a Second Chance who needed a Second Chance, but also Holding People accountable who are holding our community hostage. We can do both. We can have fairness in our criminal Justice System. We dont have to choose as susie lawson was saying, one versus the other. It requires a balancing act. Yes, we need criminal justice reform. The fact is disproportionately africanamericans do get higher sentences than others. We know that africanamericans are arrested in higher numbers than other races. We know what the numbers are. We are determined to make the kinds of changes so that we have fairness in our criminal Justice System. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed thats right. We dont have to live in fear to do it, because when people commit crimes and we are trying to provide an opportunity for a Second Chance and then they continue to do the same thing, accountability has to kick in. We have to do them both. [ applause ]. Mayor breed we have to make an investment in the programs that are necessary to help prevent the crimes from happening in the first place. [ applause ]. Mayor breed guess what . Susie lawson understands this more than anyone because of the work that shes done on the ground, because of the work that shes done to help support the violence victims. The work that shes done to help with elder abuse and other things in the District Attorneys office. The compassion she has demonstrated even when she served on the Police Commission here in San Francisco. Looking at the fact that the decisions that we make have consequences on peoples lives. And understanding and validating and making sure that we are recognizing people and how we make things better. So, when i received the letter yesterday from the District Attorney announcing his resignation, i couldnt help but get excited about the future because i know that susie lawson is the right person to do the job. [ applause ]. Mayor breed let me also be clear there is no way im going to leave this Office Vacant for the next three months. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed when you have someone who is qualified, when you have someone who works for years in the District Attorneys office and knows many of the staff who work there and know what to do, whether shes in there for three months or four years or four days, someone in the office who knows what to do. We can build confidence that on day one, no matter the results of what happens november 4, 5, or whatever the day is [ laughter ]. Mayor breed no matter what happens, we know that we still have challenges in this city and we need strong leadership to make sure this office is doing the job it has committed to do, serve and protect the residents of the city and county of San Francisco. Thats why i couldnt think of anyone better to step in at this most critical time than suzy loftus. So she is my choice to point as the next District Attorney [ indiscernible ] [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed suzy loftus, ladies and gentlemen. [ chanting ]. Hows everybody doing today . [ cheering and applause ]. I see you, San Francisco. I see you. I see all of you and i love this town. Ive got to tell you on my way over i had a beautiful walk through chinatown. Some folks wanted to say things, and i got a text message from my eldest daughter and im going to bring you in on this because when you have a high schooler you get interesting texts. She said, mom, dont be mad at the protesters. You know why . Thats how i raised her. We are San Francisco. [ applause ]. For anyone who trusts i have yet to earn, i will work every day to earn your trust. I will work every day to build safety that is not predicated on anything else. I will work every day to build a Justice System that is not for the privileged few, but that works for all of us. San francisco is where im from. Its where i went to public school. My mother came to this country when she was 19 years old, and she raised us up on her own. She raised me to be a fighter. [ applause ]. She raised me to stand up she didnt raise me to do that. Its okay. [ laughter ]. She raised me to stand up and fight for my community. You might know about my background. You might know that ive been a prosecutor and a Police Commissioner. You might know some of my friends from bayview are here, that i built the center for kids exposed to violence, but you might not know why. I devoted my 15 years to building safety for a very important reason, and its because as a kid growing up in San Francisco, too early, violence touched my life. When i was 3 years old, my mother was violently attacked when she was leaving her place of work to come and pick me and my sister up from daycare. She wasnt from this country and didnt know how to navigate a criminal Justice System. I grew up knowing not everybody gets justice. Is that right . What i know for sure is everybody is entitled to live and work and play somewhere they feel safe and were not there yet. We can get there. We need to do better for everyone in this city. My youngest and all the rest of the family is coming up and my mom. [ applause ]. My mom knows how to make an entrance. [ laughter ] [ applause ]. So what my life has told me and what this beautiful woman getting up on the stage has taught me is when we know not everybody gets justice and safety, we have to build it together. I will work hard every day with all of you to build a worldclass system that protects our civil rights and enforces our consumer protection, that fights for our environment. When your car gets broken into and youre broke in San Francisco, its even worse. We can deal with that. We can deal with the merchants in chinatown who have to close their doors because of 100 of theft. I love this city and with your help ill get elected to be your District Attorney and it will be the greatest accomplishment of my life. [ cheering and applause ] [ laughter ]. [ indiscernible ] i am [ indiscernible ] [ cheering and applause ]. I am so proud that im able to be here today supporting my mom, suzy loftus. We have all heard of her numerous accomplishments, but she will also be the first mom to be d. A. [ cheering and applause ]. And moms get stuff done. [ laughter ]. Soccer practices and three games in a week is not possible for an average mortal. Most would baulk at making 30 quesadias for my class the next morning. Not my mom because she cares about her family and doing the right thing, not the easy thing. She cares about safety and justice. She loves s. F. Its hard not to. The city is awesome. And she has the experience our city needs. Most importantly, shes ready to get to work. This is a new era for San Francisco and its going to be awesome. Thanks to all of you for coming out here today. Thank you. [ laughter ] [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you and thank you everyone who is here today. Thank you, suzy, for stepping up to the plate and your willingness to serve San Francisco during this transition. It is going to make a world of difference, especially for the folks that we know in the District Attorneys office. [ applause ]. Mayor breed let me just say i understand some of the challenges that you face and we hear you and we are here to work with you to make sure that you have the resources that you need so that we can truly, truly provide justice for all san franciscans. That is our ultimate goal. I want to thank each and every one of you for being here today for your love for San Francisco and suzy. And now its time for everyone who works for the city to go back to work. Thank you. [ cheering and applause ] [ ] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat to the public right off their boats in San Francisco. Its not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but its evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. But how is it regulated . And what does it take for a boat to be transported into a Floating Fish market . Find out as we hop on board on this episode of whats next sf. Were here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. Its no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because its doing just that. Its the first boat in San Francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. How did you establish your boat into such a Floating Fish market . Well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. When you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. So being able to do this is really its a big positive thing i think for the entire community. A very positive thing. As a thirdgeneration fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. Since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. Right now were just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. So we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. Theres the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. And then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. Joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. We had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. Its incredible. I know, its hard to imagine. But this wasnt always the case for joe. The markets that we have left in california, theyre few and far between, and they really are restrictive. Theyll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. A lot of times its rough weather and if you cant make your delivery you will lose your rotation. Thats why theres hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. My boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldnt do anything with it because we had no market. The ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldnt take them off your boat. That was until the Port Commission of San Francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a Pilot Program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. The purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall Fishing Community at the port of San Francisco. We have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. Crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on Taylor Street and jefferson street. So this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. Its to basically to lift up the whole industry together. And if joe the program has been doing just that. It was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. And that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. Once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. Because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from San Francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. Because we really didnt think or know that wed get such a positive response from the public. And so were getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so thats pretty cool. They like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. And when they come down here the one thing that they say is that theyre so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and its still fresh all week in the refrigerator. So thats really cool. The fish is very fresh and the price is super. I dont think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. I can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. I just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. This Program Supports the Strategic Plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. Because its helping the fishermen to make ends meet. They have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. How does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did . When i was a kid and i used to work in my dads fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. So i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l. A. So its kind of cool that were still dealing with the same families. And this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. One of the advantages of this program is the Department People that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. The feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. And theres a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. In fact, theres people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at whats happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. So its generated some conversation down at the wharf and thats a good thing. As you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the Pilot Program has been a huge success. For more information visit sfsport. Com. Mayor breed my name is london breed. Im mayor of San Francisco. I am so excited to be here. I have been talking about this legislation since even before becoming mayor. Im so grateful were at this point. I want to start by thanking state senator scott wiener for his incredible leadership on this important bill that finally got signed by the governor and one that were going to be putting into action right here in San Francisco. I also really want to thank supervisor Rafael Mandleman for his leadership and getting it through the board of supervisors so we can move forward on an act that we know is a critical step to help us address Mental Health reform like never before in San Francisco. Thank you to the Episcopal Community services for hosting us today. The bishop here provides permanent Supportive Housing for over 100 people in this building, an outcome that we want for all people who go through conservatorship. Thank you to the department of adult and aging services, the public conservatorship, the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. It does take a village and it takes all of these departments in order to accomplish what we know is an important goal to help people who we know are suffering on our streets. Were here today because we know that compassion and kindness play a role in addressing what we know has been a real challenge. We know that some of the people that we see on our streets who are dealing with homelessness, Mental Health challenges, and Substance Use disorder on our streets are people that we need to come up with new solutions to help. For people who are experiencing just one of those things, its hard enough, but just imagine all three. The reality is sad. Its a repeating cycle where people are in and out of our jails and hospitals. In the same areas that they once were with no help and no plan in sight. The biggest challenge we have is that in some instances, people are refusing what were offering. Its not just its not humane to just say that someone has the right to be out on the street dealing with the same challenges over and over again and allow them to do that, especially because we know what happens in San Francisco with the challenges that people are experiencing. Thats why we need in some instances to conserve them, to help them stabilize, to provide wraparound services, and to get them on the right path. For example, el laguna honda hospital, we know that is a rehabilitation center. There are some people who have been given help and support and transitioned out of laguna honda into situations where they can not only live on their own but be provided with support from healthcare workers and other social services in order to live independently. We know with a physical challenge its possible, so why not with someone suffering from mental illness. Thanks to this legislation written by senator scott wiener and signed into law by our governor, we can get started doing just that. As i said before under the board of supervisors, under the leadership of supervisor a mandelman, we are moving forward and taking the necessary steps to start the process of conservatorship. The citys Attorneys Office is working closely with others to bring these cases to court and get the help that they need. We all know that San Francisco has a long history of providing compassion to people, but when people dont accept help and the alternative is they may die on our streets, we have an obligation to step in. Senator wieners law requires that we form a working group charged with assessing the new conservatorship and making sure were meeting the needs of those who qualify. Ive appointed three members of the working group and two of us are with us today. Simon pang is the department of the San Francisco Fire Department and has experience with outreach on the streets every day. Thank you for joining us. Kelly dearman is the executive director of the San Francisco in Home Supportive Services public authority. Thank you, kelly, so much for your work in this effort. Rachel rodriguez is the cofounder and director of the Community Payee partnership. She wasnt able to join us today but will be part of the committee. There will be a larger working group that will meet later this month and ensure this group meets the goals it intends to do. This conservatorship is not going to solve all of the issues on our streets, but its better than what we had before, which was absolutely no way to compel people to accept help. But thats why were continuing to invest in Behavioural Health beds. The citys budget includes 50 million for Substance Use and Mental Health treatment beds. Weve launched a comprehensive Behavioural Health initiative to help the approximately 4,000 people that we have identified who are in the most need of Mental Health care and Substance Use treatment. Our city departments are working diligently to create Personalized Care plans for the 230 people of this group who have the most acute challenges. I want to thank dr. Naguseblan for the work that hes done to get us to a place so that we understand what we need to do to start to make smart efforts so that we know the programs that are working and were investing in those programs and making sure that they work for the people that were trying to serve. The fact is for the programs that arent, we need to make a change because we know that there is a need to move forward and address this issue appropriately. Were also expanding our hours at the Behavioural Health Access Center and were opening additional new beds at our hummingbird west beds thanks to Tipping Point community. All of these things combined are going to help us achieve what our goal is, and that is to address the crisis. People use that word and throw it around freely, but there is a crisis with Mental Health in our city. Not just what you see on the stre streets, but in general. We need to get rid of the stigma attached to it and we need to make sure we have the tools in place to address it in the most appropriate way. We are committed to making the serious changes necessary and we are so lucky to have a very thoughtful legislator who understands these challenges and who is willing to develop partnerships in order to fight to deliver them so we can make the appropriate changes and investments right here in San Francisco to make them work for the residents who need them the most. At this time i would like to introduce our state senator scott wiener and thank him so much for his incredible leadership on this issue. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I really want to thank the mayor for her extraordinary leadership on the really severe Mental Health and addiction challenges we see on our streets every day. This is a problem that has been many, many years in the making and has to do a lot with statewide and National Failures around our Mental Health and addiction safety nets, around housing and having enough of it. Its hard at a city level to grapple with these issues, but the mayor is really taking tangible steps to do that. This legislation has been a twoyear process, as often is the case, with hard issues. Sometimes you have to go back a second year, and this is what we did this year with sb40. I want to acknowledge the mayor, when she was a candidate, was the only candidate for mayor who supported what were doing here. I think the people saw that. Regular residents of San Francisco understand that there is a real problem on our streets and that we cant have business as usual. Because business as usual has not made things better. We have to be willing to try new things. This legislation, i was told when i was sworn in as a new senator, never try to expand conservatorships in california. Its impossible politically. Youll never be able to do it. What we learned is of course its hard and it concerns Civil Liberties, which is something that we have to be very mindful of and very cautious when youre depriving someone of Civil Liberties. But ultimately if you do it in a smart and a focused way, people get it. In the legislature honestly this was overall not a controversial bill. It was controversial in the advocacy community, and we of course respect our devote advocates and worked with them. This is a bill that got almost unanimous support on the floor of the assembly. The biggest criticism i received from colleagues, including some very liberal democrats, is why isnt this program in my area because we have people dying on the streets as well. Part of what this legislation and this Conservatorship Program is about is that it is completely unacceptable for us to sit by while people are unravelling and dying on our streets. Its not good enough to say we have voluntary programs that people can accept. When someone is sleeping in their feces and has open sores all over their bodies that they are not having treated, when someone is running in the middle of the street screaming at cars in the middle of traffic, to say that person should simply be expected to accept voluntary services and take control of their life in that condition, thats not reality. So we as a city, we as a state, need to do more to save these peoples lives. These are our neighbors. These are members of our community. It is not progressive to just let them die because theyre incapable of accepting voluntary services. I acknowledge that there are people who have concerns about conservatorships. Like i said, im very mindful of the Civil Liberties implications. Thats why this legislation is very focused. In fact, some of the critics of the legislation have said its narrow. Yes, it is narrow. This is narrow and designed to really help a small percentage of Homeless People who are so severely addicted and so severely mentally ill that they are dying on our streets. We know that twothirds of Homeless People have no Mental Health or addiction issues. Theyre simply poor and cant afford housing. Even of our Homeless Population that have Mental Health and addiction issues, a large majority are capable of accepting voluntary services. Thats what we need to focus on. But for a small percentage of our Homeless Population, voluntary services are not enough. What we need to do is to help them, and a conservatorship can do that. This legislation, like all conservatorships in california, has strong due process protections. Youve got a public defender, a judge oversees it. You can have essentially a trial. It ramps up and starts out with 28 days. If it continues after a psychiatric evaluation and a court hearing, it can go up to six months. The judge will have continual involvement so that if the person gets better sooner than six months, that it can be terminated early. This is really about saving lives. I want to again thank the mayor and supervisor mandelman for their extraordinary leadership in San Francisco, to convince the board of supervisors to opt in. I want to thank our department of Public Health and dos and the Fire Department for working closely with us in sacramento. And captain pang in particularly repeatedly over a twoyear period drove to San Francisco to testify and and give reallife examples of the people his team was responding for who were in such deep crisis. It geled what was going on for my colleagues. Thank you and its my pleasure to bring up our champion on the board of supervisors, supervisor mandelman. [ applause ]. Good morning, everybody. When you speak after scott, you have to adjust the microphone. This day has been a long day coming, but its an important one. The mayor talked about the crisis that we face, we have a crisis, but we have a significant drug problem in San Francisco. We see it on the streets. You can walk out onto the sidewalk in my district or pretty much any district in this city and see it, but we also see it in our emergency rooms. I know simon is going to be speaking shortly. Roughly half the folks that go to these places are taken in with nothing in their system. We have a system of meth psychosis and inebriation. That spills over into other emergency rooms. It places a tremendous challenge throughout the Public Health system to have so many folks struggling with these issues. Then we see it in the morgue, honestly. One of the largest predictors of whether a homeless person will die on the streets is whether they have a meth use disorder. This is a moral imperative to address these issues and it is critical for the future of San Francisco. I want to express my tremendous gratitude for the backbones of steel in the form of senator wiener and mayor breed that have made first sb40 happen. I am absolutely confident if the mayor had not made this a top priority, this would not have passed the board of supervisors and we would not be implementing this locally. It was her threat to go to the ballot that got sb45 implemented here in San Francisco and gives us the opportunity to take advantage of sb40. I want to express my thanks for that. The fight for sb1045 was harder than it should have been. This is a Small Program and a pilot to test out the approach. The vehemence to it was unwarranted. Pointed at a larger disagreement, senator wiener talked about the folks that championed voluntary services as an alternative to these two bills and that was a man practice we heard over and over again. It is to the mayors great credit that she has been a leading proponent of expanding voluntary services and has put in the money to expand access to housing to lowincome folks and making the Mental Health beds available and the work that she addressed. It is not an either or. It is a both and. As was said, we are not going to get there if we ignore the sickest people on the streets, the folks who do not know that they need help. Those people have to be our highest priority. There are fiscal reasons for that. Financially they are a huge challenge for the city, but more importantly it is a moral imperative. I am excited to see the department of Public Health and the office of the conservatorship to implement this project and see if it works and go forward and implement more Pilot Programs. Senator, we will be coming back to you and asking for more legislation because we have a crisis, as the mayor said, and we need bold, persistent experimentation until we have it solved. Thank you. I think i am now introducing a hero of mine, simon pang with ems 6. Thank you, mayor, for your extraordinarily good appointments to the working group. Kelly dearman is a constituent and amazing and Rachel Rodriguez is fantastic. And simon pang sees these challenges and problems every single day and is tireless and amazing. Simon pang. [ applause ]. I am a member of ems 6. A San Francisco Fire Department team that together with the Homeless Outreach team, the Health Departments street medicine, shelter health, and medical respite teams provides care to the most atrisk, highestneeds population of our community. People we engage have untreated mental illness, severe Substance Abuse disorder, chronic and acute medical illness, and are largely homeless. We start with a cup of coffee,