Welcome to the Building Inspection Commission for december 18, 2019. Happy holidays. I am Vice President filling in for president mccarthy who is away dealing with a family matter. I spoke to him this morning, and as i will get to later, this is the last meeting for many of us, and he has some he asked me to pass along greetings, and i will when i get to that matter. I would like to thank the Department Staff who have been and still are attending the California Building officials Training Classes this week. Every year our Staff Members almost all of them are required to take classes and be up to speed on current code and issues in the building industry, and our staff attends these trainings at least once a year to refresh and enhance Technical Skills to continue to provide excellent customer service. Everyone in the city benefits from these continuing education opportunities. Our opportunities that we on this commission enthusiastically support and encourage. It is important to stay up to speed because so many changes happen on a daily basis here in this industry. Thank you to david letta of plumbing inspection who assisted a customer in resolving an issue with a sewer line. That is an issue for many as the rains come. We are in the final months of quarter four of 2019. It is time for the staff, supervisors and deputy directors to send in nominations for employee of the year. Those who have performed outstanding service, please email nominations to john patrick murray, all separated with periods at sfgovtv. Or to patty lee at sfgov. Org to select quarter four winner. President mccarthy will announce this at the january 2020 meeting. Finally, as i was saying before, if i get teary, i will talk through it. This is my final Building Inspection Commission meeting. I would like to express my appreciation to the director. We worked together for many, many years and done Amazing Things in this department. I also want to express my appreciation and warmth to all my commissioners, many of whom we have sat on this commission together, done really important things. In my now more than 20 years of serving on this commission, i know, time flies. I continued to be impressed with the dedication, hard work and professionalism of everyone working here. They perform vitalling Safety Professional Services every day of the year, and our city and communities benefit tremendously from their commitment. New commissioners will be taking seats in january, i believe a lot of us will be leaving. I wish each and every one offellow commissioners every possible success with the boroversight responsibilities you will be assuming outside of this commission and the folks remaining on this commission. I also want to express my appreciation to bill strahan, he has been our communication director at d. B. I. For 13 years, i believe, not an easy task. I am sure whenever your phone rings and it is the newspaper your heart beat goes up. Mine certainly does. Thank you so much for representing our department and our commission and our city to carry the message out to the public. There are so many wonderful staff folks, deputy directors, and especially the secretary who actually i have said this. She actually runs the department. No, i dont, dont get me in trouble. She certainly makes sure we are dealing with the issues that come before us and Carry Forward ideas. Members of the public present, someone, our friend, jerry dratler, we need to commit do to keeping our department accountable to the city. We are here to serve, to make sure that when projects come before us and folks building them need our help that we are here to serve, and we need to do it in an equitable, fair, even way, consistent and transparent. One of the things i want to put on record in public. I have been obsessed about the permit tracking system for the last actually 15 years. Who is counting . I am still committed to making sure that the point of it, which is equitable, transparent delivery of service and maintenance of data so that not only those doing the work but those in our city who want access to it can find it and know what is happening here. We need to be trusted by our city. I think we are getting there. It is one of the reasons i have been committed to that. I want to thank you. I want to thank the commissioners for serving. This is sometimes not an exciting commission, but it is so important the things we do here. I value having been here. I feel honored to have been able to work with all of you to Carry Forward this message, and i look forward to the next steps. I will probably come back but i will be out there. Just warning you. I think that is it for now. Thank you very much. I am sorry. When i was talking to president mccarthy, he wanted me to echo his appreciation for serving with you all. The work that we do in support of him because the presidency does require a lot more attention, and he really appreciated the support from commissioners and the commitment you all have to our city. He will be back. He is away with family. Our thoughts and prayers are with him. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Seeing none the next item. Go ahead. Department of building inspection. It is my honor to work with you for the last i worked with the city 30 years, 23 years in the department of building inspection. In 2012, you know, you appointed me as inspection director. We have a lots of charge with all of the commissioner support. I think we dont make that many calls. I cannot guarantee you to make sure it works, but i would like to stay as long as i can to make sure that thing will run. Hopefully we have an alternative way. I am not a computer expert. I have the department of technology and controller to help me. There is a problem with the consultant. Fortunately they dont cooperate with us. That is why we have trouble right now. Hopefully, once we move to the new building, then we will sit down to see how to move forward. You are welcome to come back to guide us. We worked together for so long. All of the commission helped me, you know, to do my work, you know. Hopefully in the future, our department will be improved, but i feel since 2012, our department is moving forward with Strategic Plan and everything, but, of course, a lots of areas to improve. Maybe now is the time you have a second eye to look at how we can do better and call me anytime and we can Work Together and the other commissioners to help me to see what we can do, you know, or the other president mccarthy can tell me. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner walker very clearly stated the feelings that i share when she called out all of the same people that, you know, have made my service, you know, short that it is compared to hers, one of the most wonderful experiences i could have asked for. Not only thanking the staff, my colleagues, as she pointed out, the public who show up regularly represented by mr. D ratler today. For their reminders, the information they give and passion they bring. These are all critical things that helped us to try to do the best job we can, and i know you will continue to be here to help on that. As she said, we will probably be out there doing the same thing. Obviously, i would also like to thank mayor breed, wh who as president of the board did my original appointment and reappointed me and gave me this opportunity. Really what i wanted to focus on today was really thanking debra walker for the most Extraordinary Service to have given this length of time with such passion, such commitment, such dedication really is the model that i think we all look to in trying to see how we can best serve our city so if we can, you know, i am sorry we dont have one, water or whatever to toast her to thank her for her absolutely Extraordinary Service. Where is the camera . There we go. Thank you. Commissioner walker, i count you as one of my friends. I know you were appointed by the board of supervisors and i was appointed by the mayors office. We see each other supporting different candidates. I know you remember that. We remained friendly and i appreciate that, and when you came back on the commission, i got to say you helped stabilize this commission. I will take you back 15 years. You remember how difficult it was, but when you came back on, i really appreciated what you did. You were a partner in getting the department to where it is today. I thank you for that. One more. Debra, as you know, i am not a great public speaker. We talked about this. Them of an engineer, though. What i want to comment on is maybe a bit specific, but i have found when we have the aab meetings and we are stuck between a rock and hard place, which way do we go . I am amazed how you come up with a third way to save the day. I appreciate that. It goes well beyond my capacity to understanding issues. You understand them quite well, and i want to acknowledge that and commend you for that, and you will be missed. Thank you. I appreciate that. That really makes me cry. Next item. Thank you for your comments. We are going to bring our commissioners back next month for some comments. Next is item 4. Commissioners questions and matters. A sorry. Item three. General Public Comment. I apologize. We will take Public Comment on matters not part of this agenda. I would like to thank all commissioners for service. [ inaudible ] i am jerry dratler. [ inaudible ] the revocation to the board of appeals. It was heard on december 4th. I will not read d. B. I. s responses. Question one. How many violations were Public Safety issues . This was asked repeatedly. Why did d. B. I. Revoke the permits versus suspend . Question three. Building permits were revoked on same day the two novs were issued. Why was there no 30day period before they were revoked. Last question. Did the Building Code violations at 3426 22nd street rise to the level of severity of past permit revocation cases . Moving to 25 17th avenue. On november 18th. I submitted a complaint that Building Permits be revoked due to numerous violations which resulted in the house occupying two properties for las last yea. They closed it on november 27th stating the outstanding issues had been addressed when they had not been. The very same day, november 22, the project manager showed up at d. B. I. And you approved a 300,000 remodel permit overthecounter. He approved the permit denied by two d. B. I. Employees. First over counter denial occurred on november 19th. You have a copy of a december memo inquiring into the unusual set of events. The second employee who does not work in the area denied the permit and issued comments for the whole description on the december 12th copy of the permit. You have a copy. As of december 17, 2019, the second denial of comments have been removed for pts. This is a plug forgetting acella working. You have the facts. It is up to the Inspection Commission to decide if Senior Management acted correctly and if policy changes should be made and internal controls over permit revocations and overthecounter permit approvals need to be approved. Thank you very much. Have a great holiday. Thank you. This will be passed along. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none. Item four. Commissioners questions and matters. A. Inquiries to staff. At this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies and practices and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. I believe that the 9 00 a. M. Meeting time is not most equitable time to have the Building Inspection Commission. I want to know what we can do to consider having it at a different time. The planning being the afternoon. The overwhelming majority of my generation can make meetings in the afternoon. We have complicated, frustrating generational land use issues that are coming up to a boil in the city, and to be frank, i would like to give our citizens the biggest opportunity to attend and comment. That said, i have no idea what to do past that. Is there a mechanism for that . You are doing that. That will be an agenda item to discuss. We can put it on the agenda for next month. Any other commissioners . I would love, since i am not going to be here to bring it up later, i think it would be good to in the tenancy have that voice be heard. We have a robust Code Enforcement outreach to work with nonprofits from the landlord and tenant side to resolve issues so tenancy is not disrupted in the process of Code Enforcement, and i would love to have the commission discuss the program. The goals, how to do better at reaching it. There is a lot of construction that involves older rent control buildings in general, and i think it would be really good to get a presentation from all of those partners about the work and how they feel they are doing and maybe what is needed. I would suggest that. Clearly it would be good to agendize updates as much as possible in our move into the new building and the appropriate Business Practices and tracking systems. You know, our permit tracking system process as we move so that the commission is involved with it. I would just leave that as markers. I think all of these things help to some of the issues we deal with constantly about keeping track of projects, access to the data. It is good it is happening now in terms of the building. Better updates. That is what i would suggest for the agenda. Hopefully, somebody can approve it when i am not here. Thank you. Next item 4b future meetings and agendas. At this time the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and or derm those items that could be placed on the agenda. The Committee Appointments for the commissioners comes up so we have the Litigation Committee, Appointments Committee that you factor that into the new group of folks coming in and make sure we dont lose track of that. We definitely will and february we will vote on Committee Members at the february meeting. Is the litigation in january . There is one scheduled in january. It would be something to consider. Maybe we have to move it up. I didnt think about that. The election of officers. I know but it is important because litigation is an Important Committee to not skip. Maybe you have to talk about doing that in january when we have new people in. Maybe talk about how that works. That is a good idea. I will follow up on that. Is there any further commissioner comments . Jim. Is anybody who has been to these knows, one of my deepest concerns is that we build a close relationship with our colleagues and the planning commission, and i know that in response to prior request to have some additional joint sessions that president mccarthy is working with president melgar to do so, and just this one last time i would like to have the marker down to be sure that such a session occurs, and, hopefully, that we almost formalize it to either semi annual calendared event. I believe that is a critical piece of making our reach effective, coordinated, and certainly goes in step with our now sharing physical facilities together. To that the only thing i would add, mr. Dratler brought up a couple specific cases. While the direction of the joint session that i proposed was to have a comprehensive evaluation of all of the kind of problem child cases to understand how they have been resolved, if they are still unresolved or not, i do feel that the specifics of the two cases that mr. Dratler has brought forward now several times do warrant to be calendared and to have a specific response. I would urge that it get on an agenda early in the new term. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on item 4a and b . Seeing none the next item is item 5. Directors report. 5a. Update on d. B. I. s finances. Good morning, commissioners. Deputy director for the department of building inspection. Before you is the november 2019 Financial Report providing revenues and expenditures for the first drive months july through november 2019. I will go over the highlights and they sound familiar. I have been saying the same thing every month. Revenues are 28. 7 million compared to 29. 3 million last year. Pretty much revenues are pretty much stable. A slight decrease is due not because of lower collection from permits but because last year at this time the Controllers Office had entered interest. Expensedyters 27. 2 reflecting an increase in salary that went up this work in salaries and work orders that is where you see th increase. We have an increase in expenditures from the cb o. They are turning in invoices earlier. Other than that we are remaining on the right path. Our revenues are stable. We are always keeping spending within our budget, and i am happy to answer any questions. Commissioners. Seeing none. Thank you for being consistent. That is what we aim at. 5b. Update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. Good morning, bill strong legislative and public affairs. As you know, we completed the trcode revocation and adoption. That means come january 1, we will have a new set of codes for the next three years. That part is on the correct path. We have also taken a look at supervisor peskins modifications for the housing code for heat improvements to make sure tenants are getting the heat that is required legally. That was passed at the board yesterday. It will go into effect in the next 30days. I guess the only other item that i wanted to mention was on the state Energy Commission having passed unanimously the recommendations on a number of cities around california are making to switch away from gas appliances and to have all electric. As you know, berkeley and a few other municipalities have voted for New Buildings to do that. San francisco is actually passing an ordinance on municipal buildings. It was very clear from the public testimony at the board a lot of people are ready for addressing the carbon and climate situation by stepping away from gas. How that will play out with building remains to be seen, but as we know we have a lot of homes in San Francisco using mixed fuels. I think that is something that will be engaged with for some time to come. Other than that, i think if you have any questions, i am happy to take them. Construction has to be gas . Well, that is what they are proposed at the state level. In some municipalities like berkeley the city Council Passed the ordinance already. It is a matter of implementation. I think it is at least a year away before they start implementing it. That is new construction . On new construction, right. Nobody addressed the retrofitting that will also be an issue. Thank you. We will be gone, bill. Next item 5c. Update on major projects. Good morning. Department of building inspection. Compared to last reporting period is increase 3. 6 . I think it is due to if new code changes and also somebody talking about indexing of the planning, but that is major thing is the code change to meet the permit. Any questions . Okay. 5d. Update on Code Enforcement. Good morning, commissioners. Ed see sweeney. 5338 Building Inspections performed. Complaints 413. Complaints with the first notice violation 51. Complaints received without no nov253. Beta complaints 34. Second notice of violations 38. Housing inspections performed 714. Complaints received 292. Complaint responses within 24 to 72 hours 284. Complaints with notice of violations issued 112. Beta complaints 261. Number of cases cents to director hearing 30. Routine inspection 63. Code enforcement cases 165 to director. Abatements issued 40. Cases under advisement 13. Cases abatessed 179. Code enforcement 321. Number of cases referred to bic Litigation Committee two. We didnt send anything to city attorney. Code enforcement outreach total 16,663 reached out to. Counseling 1050. Community program 2502. Cases resolved 313. These are the numbers for november. Thank you n. Public comment on the directors report. Seeing none. Item 6. Review approval of the minutes of the regular meeting november 20, 2019. Move to approve. Second. Motion and second. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Are all commissioners in favor . Any opposed. Okay. The minutes approved. 7. Discussion and possible action on the annual performance evaluation for the director. Continued from the october 16, 2019 meeting. Any Public Comment . Seeing none. Is there a motion to go to closed session . Moved to go to closed second. Second. Motion and second. All commissioners in favor. Aye. We are in closed session at 10 10 a. M. We will we are ready to reconvene. This is the Building Inspection Commission continuing our closed session item number 7. This item d reconvene in open session to vote on whether to disclose any our all discussions held in closed discussion. I move that we do not disclose. Second. There is a motion and second to not disclose the items in closed session. Any Public Comment . No. All commissioners in favor, aye. Next is item 8 adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn . Move. Second. All in favor. Aye. We are now adjourned at 11 0. Mayor breed thank you for being here. I am london breed, mayor of San Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of 1,000 shelter beds by 2020. This brings us to 566, and we have an additional 224 beds in the pipeline and the Bayview Hunters Point Community with ththe safe center. I want to take this opportunity because, you know, it is easy to say we want to do something, but sometimes it is harder to do it. In this case it was challenges, but it did take a village. That consists of partner the state to the local to the community levels. I want to start with senator scott weiner for passing the legislation to streamline the construction of Navigation Centers across the state so people experiencing homelessness throughout california have reasonable access to shelter. People ask how did you get this built so fast despite a number of obstacles . It had everything to do with the legislation scott weiner helped to pass in sacramento. Thank you to assembly man phil king because time and time again as someone who has been the chair of the Budget Committee in sacramento he prioritized not only San Francisco for a lot of resources but especially focusing on homelessness and Navigation Center. Because of his work, San Francisco has seen additional revenue to help support and move these projects forward faster. In fact, with his leadership, the state has invested 500 million to address homelessness in 2018 and 650 million in 2019. To be clear that is said wide. San francisco got a decent chung of that support. Thank you to supervisor haney for helping engage the community. I especially want to thank the neighbors of south beach. I know thi this this hasn hasn. We are committed to making sure that we fulfill the promises around safety and other challenges that people were so concerned about. We appreciate the work of the Advisory Group and the folks who have dedicated a lot of personal time to seeing this place succeed. Thank you to the port of San Francisco and the commissioners, president brandon is joining us today. Thank you for your work in allowing the opportunity for the Navigation Center to be from this location. We are grateful, we are excited. We know that this wont solve all of the challenges we have with homelessness in San Francisco, but it will help a significant number of people who we know need support and services. I also want to thank five keys. They will manage the Navigation Center. They have a lot of great experiences with helping people who are involved with the criminal Justice SystemReenter Society and be successful, and we are grateful for their leadership, work in the programs and opportunities that they will provide to the people that we want to serve. Ultimately this is about helping people not only off the streets but helping them into housing, helping them with opportunities to succeed in life. So we are grateful for their work. Now, i want to take this opportunity to introduce our state senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you, mayor. I want to thank and commend mayor breed and supervisor haney for standing their ground to make sure that this Navigation Center could open. As a former local elected official in San Francisco, i understand first hand what it is like when you have neighbors who have significant concern and fear about changes that are happening in their neighborhood. That is very intense, her hard. It is very hard. I want to thank them for looking at the big picture and the reality this will make the neighborhood safer and more livable in addition to helping many homeless in San Francisco transition to a better and healthier future. Thank you. When you look at the situation at homelessness in california, it is pretty stark. We have well over 100,000 Homeless People in the state. I think it is 130,000. A large majority of homeless residents in the bay area and los angeles are not sheltered, and this is not normal. What is happening in california and in San Francisco and the bay area around homelessness is not normal. This is not how it plays out in the rest of the country where far, far fewer people are homeless to begin with because they have enough housing for people, unlike in california where we have systematically made it impossible through rezoning and other means made it impossible to build enough housing for the people that need it. Our housing has collapsed by 75 as the population has tripled. We made a decision as a state that housing was not important, and what has that led to . Many problems with people pushed out of the state and evictions happening. It has pushed over 100,000 people to homelessness in the state of california. That is because of choices that we made here in california. It is not normal for it to be so difficult to build a Navigation Center. It should not take years to provide shelter and housing and services for people in dire straits living on the streets. That should be something we can do immediately because we are in a crisis. We have been working at the state level to support San Francisco and other local communities to make it faster and more streamlined, to create Navigation Centers in support of housing. I know we have all been working on that to pass legislation to streamline the process. Wwe are working to reform the california approach to housing because Navigation Centers are an incredible way to help people transition off the streets. If you dont have housing for people to end up in, they will cycle back to the streets. We are working at the state level to solve these problems, and it is hard and controversial. It violates how we are supposed to do things in california. That way hasnt worked and driven the car into the ditch. We have to fix things. Thank you, mayor, and everyone e else who made this happen today. [applause] mayor breed thank you senator wiener. Now we have remarks from senator phil clean wh king who helped gs Navigation Center built. Thank you, madam mayor. As the mayor and senator weiner have said. We know the solution to homelessness. We need more affordable housing, more supportive services, but, ultimately, it takes courage at all levels of government to make it happen. We are trying to do our part at the state level. We have colleagues that dont feel completely on the same page with myself and senator wiener with making sure we are building more housing. We have challenges at the state level. Mayor breed and supervisor haney have challenges. Iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing Navigation Centers to a neighborhood that has not had them. It takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. If we dont get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. This is the third Navigation Center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. They are the first step. The next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. Everybody is for housing, but in someone elses neighborhood, in someone elses city. I cant tell you how often i hear lets build a Homeless Center in stockton. Lets make it someone elses problem. Lets not solve the San Francisco problem here. Ship them somewhere else. That is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. Leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. We are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. You wouldnt know it by many of the issues we have. This is not a financial issue. This is not an issue of money or resources. The state is doing their part to help cities and counties. This is about our residents saying we are each going to sacrifice. We are each going to take a piece of this problem and solve it here. We are not going to wait for someone to save us or hope that someone else will take this burden. This is about having the courage to say this is a San Francisco problem and San Francisco needs to solve it. I am so proud to be here with all of the other city officials who had the guts to get this built, to work with the community and to say this community is safer, not by having people on the streets sleeping, not by having people in tents sleeping here, wandering around here. This community is safer when they have services, when we can get them the resources they need to go improve their life. As the mayor said we are proud at the state level 4 million from the state helped this get built. 70 million from the state to San Franciscos general fund to help with homelessness over the last two years, and this is something we can only dubai workinonly do while we work t. I applaud you for having the guts to get this done. Thank you. Thank you, phil king. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the supervisor matt haney for district 6. Thank you, mayor breed. Congratulations for your leadership, for your staff who we got to work with so closely in making this happen. I especially want be to recognize jeff and emily from the department of homelessness. You all did such a wonderful job listening to the community, working with us. We went to dozens of meetings together. I am looking at emily and hearing the feedback and using that to adapt the proposal and make commitments to the neighborhood. Thank you all for that and for listening. I want to thank our elected officials in sacramento, senator wiener and Assembly Member king. We are lucky to have advocating for us, bringing Home Resource goes to help us address what is definitely the biggest crisis not just in San Francisco but facing our state. One of the things that i think that we can agree on is that it is a really cold day right now. Being out here on a cold day, i think, it is a reminder, a sharp reminder of the fact there are thousands of people on the streets who dont have a home to go to, dont have a warm bed or a place when it is pouring rain or below 40 that they can go inside to be warm and safe. One of the things you will notice when you go inside here is the difference between how it feels out here and how it feels in there. Even just having a place where you can be warm, where you can be safe, where you can be away from the madness and the dangers that people face who live on our streets is such a huge and critical and essential thing. When people get to be inside and not have to worry where they are going to sleep tonight or tomorrow night and be able to Access Services and have Case Management and have one work with them to figure out how to get off the street permanently is a huge and wonderful thing for us to celebrate today. One of th the things about Navigation Centers. They make a commitment to the neighborhood. Navigation centers make the neighborhood safer, they improve conditions on the streets here. As we make this commitment to people to live inside this Navigation Center we make a commitment to the People Living in the surrounding community on the water front and south beach this will reduce the number of People Living on the streets. We have a lot of work to do for the people who come in here, the people in the neighborhood and more work to solve homelessness in the city. Housing is the answer. We know we need a lot more Navigation Center and shelter beds in the city. This is the third Navigation Center in district six. We are excited and happy to do our part. As a city we need every neighborhood to take responsibility for addressing and solving homelessness. I thank five keys, the port and everyone who is a part of getting us this far. We have a long way to go in the city. I am committed to working with you, mayor breed, to make that happen and to everyone in the neighborhood to make sure this Navigation Center is a success. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i appreciate your remarks. I would like to make it clear that as mayor i am responsible for the entire city. The fact is getting opportunities like this, finding land in San Francisco to do say Navigation Center, to do housing is a huge challenge. Wherever we have an opportunity to get a property like this whether it is here or anyplace else in San Francisco, we will take full advantage of excuse me. We will take advantage of the opportunity to do so. With that, i would like to ask for Community Member matt amy. Excuse me. We will listen to you when we are finished with the press conference, if you dont mind. Thank you. Matt carson, who is a member of this community will provide a few remarks. Thank you. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. I dont think i have done anything special to deserve to be here. I just own my home a couple blocks away and work in the neighborhood as well. I walk by this spot with my 2 yearold every day. I am incredibly fortunate to have those things. When i walk unand down the embarcadero i see those less fortunate. It is appalling in the city, region and country with so much that we refuse to guarantee the most basic standard of living. Those sleeping here are living here and they are our neighbors. When the mayor proposed the Navigation Center to help them, i raised my hand to says i support her. I want to raise my kid in a city that helps its people. My neighbors have legitimate concerns. I have seen shattered glass and half stolen bikes. I dont want it to get worse. The mayor and the supervisor and the city promised they will make it better in the neighborhood, not worse. I trust them. If crime does go up they wont build any more Navigation Centers. She does need to build more. This is what a housing crisis looks like. This is 200 beds, but there are thousands of people on the streets in San Francisco. We need more shelters and related services. We need more protection for renters. We need a million homes throughout the region. Our region also needs a single seamless competitive Transit System to have a chance of addressing the housing crisis and climate change. I thank the mayor and everyone involved forgetting this Navigation Center built so quickly. I want to say to all representatives it is time to be way more ambitious. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i want to take this opportunity to thank muhammad for his leadership in getting this built so quickly. Thank you to deputy chief from the San Francisco police department. We know Public Safety is important to the community. We know that the department has added Additional Resources to help ensure safety in this particular neighborhood. You know, it really did take a village to get this done. So many folks standing behind me and folks from the community. I want to express my sincere appreciation to everyone that has had a hand in helping to get this done. The love and care that you put into even as i just saw the landscaping and the flowers and just making it look like a home and welcoming people in with dignity. That is what our goal is, and to get clearly people to help in the support that they need. This along with other Navigation Centers in the future and eventually more housing faster is going to get us to a better place not just in San Francisco but in this entire state. Thank you all for being here. Now jeff and steve will lead a tour of the Navigation Center for those interested. Thank you. Thank you. We will call the meeting to order. Police silence all electronic devices. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Please silence all electronic devices. [pledge of allegiance] mr. Taylor, i would like to take roll call. [roll call] also with us tonight or chief chief scott and director henderson from