Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. Before i address a set of amendments that were going to be putting forward today, i want to say a few things about what this proposal is and also what a Navigation Center is. N francisco piloted its first Navigation Center in 2015. The model was dubbed more than a shelter and was carefully crafted to be ta shelter for people seeking housing. The idea for a central lobby for front line city agencies to bring individuals to shelters and housing has been circulating in city hall since supervisors toured a Navigation Center in philadelphia. They viewed as a way to address a critical gap in San Franciscos shelter system. That is, everyone refusing to use shelters. Not only looks or feels the same, but there have been pros that make them successful like Onsite Services, 247 access, allowing pets, partners, and possessions and focuses on getting individuals experiencing homelessness permanent housing. Onsite Services Include those offered on a roving basis typically involve Mental Health care, Substance Use care, assistance with housing, employment, and other services. Other dedicated areas include space for possessions, pets, and storage. Within a week, they are identified with a care plan and services onsite, and they get the help they need. 52 of clients exiting Navigation Centers from october 2016 to october 2019 had a successful exit to permanent housing, temporary housing or being united with family or friends through home ward bound. Over 5,000 clients were served by Navigation Centers in 2019. The first Navigation Center served 212 unique clients in its first six months. A vast majority, 94 , had been continuously homeless for more than a year prior to the stay. 76 of recent clients had no recent shelter history. Since the first pilot, nine Navigation Centers have served thousands of san franciscans not previously accessing shelters and services. People in Navigation Centers are often the first in line because they have been assessed and are in process. We need more to serve the 5,000 experiencing unsheltered homelessness every night. Despite the success, the city has only built shelters in a limited number of neighborhoods, concentrated in districts 6, 9, and 10. From unhoused san franciscans who clearly are lining up for these Navigation Centers and access their services. An astounding 82 of san franciscans support Navigation Centers in this parts and other parts of the city. Ive visited all of the current facilities, and heres what ive heard and learned. One, they are good for everyone, for people accessing services and neighborhoods, and we need more. Many of my colleagues have been trying hard to identify a site in their district for a Navigation Center, and in many cases, theyve been told no or received little support. The department and mayor should be working closely with every supervisor to meet the needs of Homeless Individuals citywide. Often the Navigation Centers come with little transparency to neighbors citywide, even the district supervisor, and that has to change. Ive heard concern whether november gas station centers of certain sizes might Navigation Centers of certain sizes might affect districts. In response, i have amendments today that allow for greater flexibility in meeting the needs of specific districts, if a Navigation Center is not adequate, another Transition Center that houses at least 30 beds will meet this commitment. I believe this will meet the commitment to end street homelessness and getting people in services and shelter that they desperately need. I want to be clear about this legislation in particular. This is not about fixing the entire homelessness response system. That is not what this legislation is. It is about setting a clear commitment and responsibility for each of us, for each of our districts for citywide temporary shelter and for clear citywide transparency. It is not to establish homelessnesses because that should already be the plan. While we work on mayor breeds goal on 2,000 new shelter beds in the next few years, i hope we can agree that homeless shelters and Navigation Centers need to be placed in every district. Existing shelter beds in San Francisco simply do not meet the growing need. While we ramp up the work of growing needs, we must be equally efficient about finding safe places for people who sleep on the streets now. I want to read these amendments and just say one last thing in closing. First, the and my colleagues have copies of these. This will change the 72 hours requirement for a comprehensive assessment to five days, and will clarify the storage be for active residents, changes the frequency to frequent Onsite Services and activities, clarifies that nav centers provide access to transportation, rather than directly responsible for physically transporting clients, changes requirements to daily activities. It strikes a requirement for operator to maintain contact for 60 days after exit. Clarifies that cities and communitybased organizations can make referrals to Navigation Centers. Adds a requirement that h. S. H. Develop guidelines for communitybases organizations to send clients. It changes the reference to that hot team to outreach teams associated with h. S. H. It adds an options, as i mentioned, for temporary shelters, including transitional housing, and stablization less than two years. It requires that the city departments submit a list of sites that can support shelters in 60 days, and a funding plan in 120 days. This is a commitment, and it is something that this supervisor and this board of supervisors collectively commits to. All of us every day are contacted by our residents about challenges related to homelessness. Each of us are constantly call h. S. H. , constantly calling 311. Ive heard each of my colleagues talk about this in different ways, and it is critical in that context that we have available shelters to get people on a pathway to housing in our city. Homelessness is not concentrated in districts 6, 9, and 10, but we will continue to step up to fulfill our commitment to our poor unhoused neighbors. We did not have a system where someone calls 311 in the castro and the haight, that the only opportunity we have to get that person in a shelter is to tell them to go to the other side of town in soma to get shelter. Thats unsustainable, its not fair, and it is not treating this as the true citywide crisis that it is. We can do better, and we must do better, and i think we can if we step up to provide access to services and of course housing, as well, all over the city. So with that, ill turn it back over to you, supervisor mar. I know that supervisors ronen and preston also have representatives who wanted to provide comment. Chair mar thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman, do you have any open [inaudible] chair mar okay. So i guess i wanted to invite, i guess, representatives from supervisor peskins office to share remarks. Gener general Jen Schneider. Thank you. Im Jen Schneider from supervisor peskins office. We cannot agree more that permanent supportive and deeply Affordable Housing is the solution to the homelessness crisis. Its obvious, but its worth emphasizing. Nothing solves homelessness like a home. We want as much Affordable Housing in district five as possible, but right now, we have an emergency. Thousands of people are sleeping unsheltered every night with nowhere to go. And even assuming that we aal alall alall all unite behind a plan, its still going to take years. Supervisors, an unknown man died in our district just the other day. He was found, and the paper didnt write a story about it. A lieutenant told us about it. He was a wellknown man, he was 44 years old. That the ground patrol found him there on the ground. That the death wasnt suspicious, that it wasnt an o. D. Were new to this building, and i dont think im naive, but i hope we dont get to the point where someone homeless dies in a city and no one will care. On sunday, we are hosting a meeting to talk to our district 5 residents about a Navigation Center. Folks really want one in our district. The lieutenant who told us about the death are coming, as well as the Police Captains and more. People want a shortterm solution and a longterm solution, not one or the other. Its tragic to witness the homeless crisis for all of us. We in supervisor peskins Office Support the proposal, and we are proud to sponsor the legislation. Thank you so much. Chair mar thank you. Is there anyone else from our colleagues offices who wish to make some remarks . None . Okay. Well, i just well, i i i guess yeah, ill just share my remarks, and i guess ill just share my thoughts, as well. I agree that Homeless People in all neighborhoods should have access to dignified services and an access point to provide services and permanent housing. I want to thank supervisor haney for pushing this much needed legislation to the citywide strategy on housing. Over the past year, i have been working actively with the sunset community, including both housed and unhoused residents to develop solutions to homelessness in our district. Last month, we partnered in [inaudible] chair mar to identify potential sites for a Navigation Center, as well as a comprehensive plan to create new transitional housing, Behavioral Health services and permanent housing for those experiencing homelessness in district 4. As discussed in the last g. A. O. Meeting, i am introduced amendments today to strengthen the departments ability to abdecisiv act decisive in every district right now, including adding permanent Housing Options for formerly homeless persons with flexibility for piloting new models of care. Number two, requiring the department to conduct a faezibility analysis as part of establishing the fair share siteing criteria. Number three, allowing the department to offer another type of housing facility. I would like to add my own amendments, as well, adding some districts may not have parcels to accommodate Navigation Centers but may have sites feasible for shelters or transition facilities. A policy can establish vision, but a successful policy should allow us to achieve that vision. I believe with my amendments, we can pass legislation that is both bold and achievable. The unhoused residents of my district have asked for flexibility. In my house, constituents who support bringing Homeless Services to the sunset have asked for flexibility. At the same time, they are asking for accountability for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Since we are considering two sets of complex legislation today, i ask that we hear from supervisors, the department, if they so choose, and then Public Comment. It would be my intention to entertain motions to amend section by sex. I believe that the amendments that are being introduced today by supervisor haney and myself if adopted would be substantive, and for that reason, i anticipate this ordinance will be continued to the next g. A. O. Meeting. For members of the public, that means there will be another opportunity to weighin on the legislation and any amendments that we accept today. So unless there are objections from my colleagues, i would like to welcome nick minard from the b. L. A. Office. You presented at the last meeting, correct . Thats correct, but im happy to answer any questions about our report. Chair mar well, thank you for being here. And i would also now like to invite julie boyer from the department of homelessness and supporting housing to make a statement. Good morning, members of the government audit and the oversight committee. I am here today to read a statement into record on behalf of director kositsky. As h. S. A. Has informed Committee Members both verbally and in writing, i was unable to attend the committee today as i am speaking at the National Alliance to end homelessnesss annual conference. H. S. A. S Senior Management are also attending the conference to share San Franciscos best practices in learning with our National Partners and colleagues. We understand chair mars scheduling for today, and i apologize that neither myself nor an appropriate representative was able to attend to provide comments and answer the committees questions. We share with the committee our concerns with this proposes ordinance as its currently written in the hearing on thursday, february 6, and we look forward to continue working with the supervisors on this amendment. We appreciate chair mars amendments, but we know there is more work to be done. H. S. A. Looks forward to attending the next meeting. Thank you. Chair mar thank you, miss boyer. Is there a representative from the Mayors Office or any other offices that would like to make remarks . No . Great. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments or questions from my colleagues . So why dont we move to Public Comment. I have two speaker cards submitted. Shelley carroll and francisco decosta. Other members of the public are invited to speak. Please lineup on the right side of the room. Mr. Decosta, you have two minutes. Yeah, i have two minutes. So i represent the first people, the ohlone. The spokesperson came up here and spoke to all the supervisors and told what she needs from all the supervisors, thats empathy and compassion. Now even before you make the amendments, they must be available to the public, not read to us at the last moment because at San Francisco, we have astute and stellar constituent taxpayers who understand amendments. Now, you may say we have 5,000, 6,000 homeless in San Francisco, we really have over 12,000, and Navigation Centers in every neighborhood is not the way to go. Putting people in small boxes is not the way to go. Now supervisors, you all know about the academy of Art University having thousands of units that it stole from us, rental units. Why dont we go over there, since we won the case . We need human beings to live in buildings with wraparound services. We dont need to have one single human being or our elders die on the streets of San Francisco. We do not know that. The legalese, he is a representative of somebody who came here who said oh, i was a representative of a committee, and i cant be here, San Francisco is corrupt. San francisco has lost its soul, so much so that the f. B. I. Is now involved in so many things, bringing up things that are hidden. You all clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Chair mar thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. My name is shelley carroll. I live in district 6, two blocks away from the Navigation Center on the embarcadero. I agree that Supportive Housing is what we need, but in the interim, i support Navigation Centers in general, and Navigation Centers all over the city. Thank you. Chair mar thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Calvin click from the San Francisco youth commission. We oppose this legislation unless amended to reinstate the hard need for a t. A. Y. Navigation center. I just want to reiterate that we are supportive of this broaden intent of this legislation to expand the model across this city, and we definitely appreciate supervisor haneys and supervisor prestons remarks. We agree it does not reflect well on the citys values if we remove the current mandate for a t. A. Y. Navigation center to be operated by the city, and there is good reason for the city being committed to address Youth Homelessness as a priority. I large a disproportionate number of people experiencing homelessness in the t. A. Y. Range, so if we support homelessness in that age range, we will be easing the burden on the alternate system and developing tools to better serve the population experiencing homelessness at large, so we bel