Think as we close. First, nicole, the Senior Adviser to the mayor for helping us put together today. Give us a wave. Secondly, and finally i want to thank elise of the the department of the status of women. Please waive. She held she helped put all of todays logistics together. I want to thank all of my staff at the department. Please join us for a very Large Group Photo which we want to do really quickly. Everybody come on up. Francisco. My name is fwlend hope i would say on at largescale what all passionate about is peace in the world. It never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. One man said ill upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act gods love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the Network Ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed Memorial Services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of San Francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution ive seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. Special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who ive become and you made that possible life didnt get any better than that. Whove would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in San Francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. I dont want to just so women younger women become a part of the the Current System we need to change the system we dont need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and theyre out there. We get have to get to help them. 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, then lunch, and we listen to their story. Then we become their advocates and connect them to city resources, detox, drug treatment, mental and medical healthcare, and if possible, a pathway to housing. Most people we engage and help dont need this bill, but perhaps youve seen that person in stoolsoiled clothes that hasnt moved from their location in hours with skin red and swollen with infection, that is wholly dependant on the kindness of others and the Emergency Response system for survival. You might have rightly asked, why doesnt someone do something . But what if that person refuses everything the city has to offer, including housing, what then . To allow this person to publicly deteriorate and die is not acceptable. Mayor breed, senator wiener, supervisor mandelman, thank you for listening and for acting. Sb1045 and sb40 provide a tool to help those who cant care for themselves get on a pathway to health and a pathway to housing. Thank you. [ applause ]. Thank you. As you can see, here we are and this is an incredible step forward. We have a lot of work to do in San Francisco, and it just brings me back to really why i felt like i wanted to do this more in the first place when i served as a member of the board of supervisors. There is an individual who was one of my constituents in the community, a senior who was s z sitz schizophrenic, who has drug challenges and who those in the community have tried to serve, in and out of Navigation Centers and treatment centers, has gotten violent with Police Officers who know him and have tried to help him instead of arrest him. Just a number of challenges. When hes in a good place, hes the greatest person and such a swe swe swe sweetheart. He needs help when he gets social security, he would get robbed. This one person and what he has gone through and the challenges that exist, i was so determined to do something more to make sure that he is getting the help and treatment and support that he needs because everyone is wondering why and im not going to mention his name, but if you live in the area you probably know who he is. Now we have an opportunity to do more. This is really about not trying to hide people or move them off the streets because we dont want to see it. This is about trying to help people because that could be you, that could be your grandmother, that could be your father, that could be your brother, anyone in your family, and then what would you do . What would happen if there was nothing you could do to help get them the help and the treatment that they need . This is really the most humane way that we could propose to make a real change in San Francisco. All roads lead to housing. We have got to be sure that we have safe and affordable places that people can call home when we provide them with the help and support they need. When it is all said and done, that is one of the most critical things we need in San Francisco to address the challenges that exist. This is why all of us are here today to fight for the people who deserve that right in one of the greatest cities in the world. Thank you so much for being here and all the incredible support that we have gotten for this effort. It is truly, truly a village that has come together to address this challenge and we will one person at a time. Thank you all so much. [ applause ] we spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San Francisco Sheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work Together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. Having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. We are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. Agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. Collaboration is good for the department. It gets us all working in the same direction. These are complex issues we are dealing with. When you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to Work Together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. We have done it very, very well. The model of care where police, District Attorney, public defenders are communitybased organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. Nobody wants to see drug users in jail. They want them to get the correct treatment they need. We are piloting lead in San Francisco. Close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. Our goal in San Francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the Racial Disparity we see. We want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. It goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. Case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. I have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flatout on my own. I witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. Transgenders getting beat up. I saw people shot, stabbed. These are people that have had many visits to the county jail in San Francisco or other institutions. We are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. All of the referrals are coming from the Law Enforcement agency. Officers observe an offense. Say you are using. It is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. The officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. Are you ever heard of the leads program. Yes. Are you part of the leads program . Do you have a case worker . Yes, i have a case manager. When they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. Ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. Primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. If they were violent they wouldnt qualify for lead. You think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the Substance Abuse issues i am dealing with. They would contact with the outreach worker. Then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. We can take you. Lets meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. Bring them to the Community Assessment and Services Center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of Public Health staff to assess the treatment needs. It provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. They go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. Someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. Then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasnt shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. They can offer Services Based on their needs as individuals. One of the key things is our approach is client centered. Hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take . We are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. It is a Program Based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. We are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. It opens doors and they get access they wouldnt have had otherwise. Supports them on their goals. We are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. Because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. It is all on you. We are here to guide you. We are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. It is you telling us how you want us to help you. It means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. They pick up the phone. It was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. No matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody elses phone by calling them they always answered. In officebased setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. This has been helpful to see the outcome. We will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. First to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. Can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. It is all part of the home reduction model. You are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. This is an important question where lead will go from here. Looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. If it is for five months. Hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. I want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. It can be somebody scaled out. That is the hope anyway. Is a huge need in the city. Depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. We all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide. I think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. More importantly, it will save lives. 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 ] [ cheering and applause ] [ ] working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and worldclass style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. Our 28,000 city and county employees play an Important Role in making San Francisco what it is today. We provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. It had been rain for several days. At 12 30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. We opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call Diversion Dam upstream of moccasin. The water floods the Drinking Water reservoir. We couldnt leave work. If the dam fails what is going to happen. We had three objectives. Evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. Second was to monitor the dam. Third objective was to activate Emergency Action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. The time was implement failure of the dam. We needed to set up for an extended incident. We got people evacuated downstream. They came back to say it is clear downstream, start issuing problems and create work orders as problems come in. Powerhouse was flooded. Water was so high it came through the basement floor plate, mud and debris were there. It was a survey where are we . What are we going to do to get the Drinking Water back in. We have had several emergencies. With each incident we all ways operate withins dent command open. Process works without headache. When we do it right it makes it easier for the next one. We may experience working as a team in the different format. Always the team comes together. They Work Together. Our staff i feel does take a lot of pride of ownership of the projects that they work on for the city. We are a Small Organization that helps to service the water for 2. 7 million people. The diversity of the group makes us successful. The best description we are a big family. It is an honor to have my team recognized. I consider my team as a small part of what we do here, but it makes you proud to see people come together in a disaster. Safety is number one through the whole city of San Francisco. We want people to go home at the end of the day to see their loved ones. We dont want them hurt. We want them back the next day to do their work. There is a lot of responsibility the team members take on. They word very they work hard. They are proud of what they do. I am proud they are recognized. When i open up the paper every day, im just amazed at how many different Environmental Issues keep popping up. When i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. It was really easy to sign up for the program. I just went online to cleanpowersf. Org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. Now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg e and i dont see any difference in paying now. If youre a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, its not going to change your bill at all. You can sign up online or call. Youll have the peace of mind knowing youre doing your part in your household to help the environment. Good afternoon. I would like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco public utilitys commission. Today is tuesday, october 8th, 2019. Roll call, please. roll call