Golf courses, acres and acres of land for the wealthy to sport while the poor are housed in tents and encampments. We need to change and we need this to be a real city solution. That means not concentrating it in one, two, three neighborhoods. That means around the city to all san franciscans that are committed to solving the problem and something they shrug off when they roll their eyes at San Francisco and how awful. No. Spread it around. Get it to places where people can spread out safely until we can build enough homes and actually get everyone off the streets for good. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is gail see crest. Resident of tenderloin. I was on eddy between larkin for 10 years. Now, i am on may son for the last year. All i have to say is whoever is working with this plan, it is not working, and i challenge just one of you to come spend one night in the tenderloin. Then go back to the drawing board. You dont know what you are talking about. It is so bad. It is getting worse and worse. I was out there today. That is all i have got to say. I challenge one of you to spend a night in the tenderloin and then talk to us. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am with st. Francis homelessness challenge. I am the organizer. I want to ask for organizations to work as a team. I started organizing with people and interviewing people experiencing homelessness, working for safe villages. We need to organize with people experiencing homelessness. We need to collaborate with those individuals and work on a real plan as a team. Sfhc has two proposals, one before covid and one after covid that lays out a good plan on what we can do and work as a team. I just ask that we really come together and organize as a team and leave no organizations out. Thank you. Next speaker, please. This is lydia from st. Anthonys, dining room manager. I have been working at st. Anthonys for the past 15 years in the tenderloin. I will get micro for a second there. Is an operational aspect what is happening now is not succeeding. As an organization that has to Turnaround Services and completely redo how we serve people and double the amount of services we did overnight and we were able to do that. I am confused as to why the city continues to struggle with the simplicity of things like opening up 180 jones, creating a safe sleeping space with no garbage cans or toilets. There is an operational aspect that is not getting through. There are plans and studies, what we need is people to operationalize thing. I will talk about the water. The water is great. What came was 6foot pvc pipe with 8 spigots at two foot level. When you turn them on the water comes out. You cannot sanitize it. We had to buy equipment to supplement the water. Some of the basics of the Operational Plan has to improve. We want to be part of that conversation of putting this on the ground in a way that is operational. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am rob and one of the owneroperators and board member of code tenderloin. Listen to supervisor haney and nonprofits and take care of the most vulnerable by taking meaningful action in the tenderloin. The citys response to this crisis is a failure. It is telling in the meeting the city struggled to present a powerpoint about the plan let alone taking any action. These are infuriating. 350 people in hotel rooms that is great. It is a far cry from 1400 people turned away from shelters, many are in the tenderloin because free meals and social services are available. It already was providing services to the most vulnerable now that ha has exploided. People in tents line every sidewalk. It is impossible for residents and workers to move in their own backyard. We have heard plans and there is no action. I implore you to create more sleeping sites, b, communicate with the unhoused, close tenderloin streets so residents and workers can move around. E increase speed to hotel rooms, f reopen testing sites. G do all of this faster. In closing the situation represented a Public Health crisis before the pandemic now it is dangerous and a moral blight on the city. Take action. We can and must do better. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. This is casey asbury, resident on hide street speaking on behalf of the demonstration gardens. There is a question and observations. An operation. How much of the dysfunction the neighbors are experiencing is related to d. P. W. Dysfunction . Now my observations. In our dozen Years Experience of working on building healthy green space downtown with neighbors, the mayors plan for the covid19 response has gaps. Success in mitigating the troubles will correlate to the inclusion of meaningful Decision Making and leadership from the residents of the neighborhood. Two. Emphasis on resources for healthy open spaces. The plan continues to treat this as containment zone versus a neighborhood with wide range of familieses, disables, concentrations of people with chronic illnesses. Sheltering in space requires access to nature, trees, parks, greens. This densely populated area has far less than its share. Safe sleeping villages put residents against each other for open air and trees and freedom of movement. Investment in resources for health and housing should be distributed through the city and not just in the tl. More investments in urban forest and open space cared for by our residents should be concentrated in the tl to create a healthy atmosphere for everyone. We cant keep allowing the neighborhood to be treated as a containment zone without investing in the things we need for dignity. Thank you. We need to take this opportunity to restructure and respond, especially in the vibrant part. The speakers time is expired. Next speaker, please. Thank you. I am amy fairway. I am the founder and director of Saint Francis homelessness challenge. I want to lift up the things i heard from al, robb, so many people. Thanks to matt haney for pushing for the neighborhood to really take this moment to end the crisis on our streets and reimagine how we can actually address these issues together with some best practices. Operationally i want to echo what was said from the st. Anthonys worker. 180 jones, as you know on this call if you live in the tenderloin, our organization tried to activate that site a year and a half ago working with emily and brandon was on a panel when he got into d. P. W. We were trying to work to activate it, and then it got blocked by emily cohen with the idea putting the 18 months 6. 8 million project there. We didnt want to stop the project. It is a case study of mismanagement. Lets be honest. For two months that site was blocked off and 50,000 was wasted on a Security Guard at 180 jones when our organization asked jesand emily and the mayor and the community and matt haney can we offer services there . I love the people that live there. We have organized with a lot of people in the tenderloin. We have organizing work and would like to build on that. That is what i would like moving forward. Cheryl davis you had mr. West come. Please protect your speakers and light bearers, cheryl. Mayor breed, have a come to jesus moment. Show me dont tell me. Do this altogether. Your time is expired. Next speaker, please. This is angela barren resident 500 ofarrell street street. I am astounded matt haney wasnt consulted on the tenderloin plan. Considering he lives here and walks through our neighborhood every day. We talk to him. There are some unique things that happen in the tenderloin that concern me when it comes to the plan. Outside of the presentation you showed i saw online specific blocks identified as blocks at higher risk. I am glad to see you are prioritizing things. I hope you understand when those blocks are targeted with plans and the plans usually call for Law Enforcement and relocation and cleaning. You are just moving or not you but the people in those spaces are moving into the untroubled spaces of the tenderloin. Now we have created a problem in another space, which leads me to a fine are problem that i feel like should be addressed and you really need to it has to be like a True Community ambassador to lead you into exactly what is going on. On the 500 block of ofarrell street, there are three properties that have hired a private security company. Now this gentleman has no problem coming out wearing his black mask and bulletproof vest and sunglasses and bulgelying Homeless People in tents properly socially distanting, following rules at the curb of the street, two old ladies. He bullies them across the street. Now they are across the street and two other Property Managers are bullying them. It is pushing the problem from one space to another. There has got to be a way to overcome that. You cant just like coral people to certain corners as the tenderloin with the plan. More outreach at an equal level might be more appropriate. Thank you. Before the next speaker. Just reminder. Public comment is the opportunity to speak to the members of the Public Safety and neighborhood services. Put remarks to all members of the committee. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. This is delaware see more, a member of the tenderloin. For change in life i will be brief this afternoon. One thing is for the elc, for some reason the office is not getting the proper communication from what people at city hall and the Emergency Operations center are doing. We go to the Supervisors Office to get information about what is going on. They dont have information. Any supervisor district should have. I dont know what is going on and maybe you all know what is going on. We have to change. That makes no sense an at all for not disseminating information about daytoday operations to the supervisor. The supervisor is in charge of this community not elc. The Supervisors Office is in charge. Some of the youth. You have great slides, but a couple places criminal and drug activity was too close to homelessness. Those things are connected a hell of a lot and disconnected a hell of a lot. Being homeless did not mean drugs or criminality. Those should be in two different ways and not the same. Thank you. Have a great day. Next speaker, please. This is curtis. I am a long time tenderloin resident. I am calling in today. I am frustrated. We have been going to meetings, talking to the city, telling what we need for months now. They come up with the tenderloin plan and i am telling you i havent seen any real change or action. We are not asking for anything major, but they are not providing anything. You know, i have my unhoused neighbors on the street that are suffering as much as the rest of us. We are all victimized by a system not doing anything to help us. We feel completely abandoned. It is tragic because it doesnt have to be this way. Letting folks stay on the sidewalk in a tent is not a solution. That is not a good way to treat my neighbors. They deserve better than that. They have shelters but cant get them in it. Let the Community Organizations work with these folks. We can move those folks to the hotel rooms. Getting police to deal with this is only going to make matters worse. Why havent you been able to provide open space in the tenderloin for social distancing . They have been promising that but here we are, still none. I still cant get to the corner store. I am a high at risk person held hostage because it is not safe to travel. No room to social distance. It doesnt have to be like that. People are out on the streets. Your time is expired. Next speaker, please. I am a tenderloin activist. You know you arent going to threaten those. I think it is part of the strategy. Without anybody to vent frustration at, nobody can take the failure of the blame of the absolute failure for what is happening in the neighborhood. If anybody from the elc is listening in on this case, i am curious what you do in your job every day. What are you doing 8 hours every day . Everevery single week the neighborhood comes to you with questions, not difficult questions. You have no answers. Week after week you cant answer basic questions about what stations are working. Director carol, this notion that there has been a lot done for the neighborhood is insulting. Half the staff you have done in the neighborhood does not work. Two feet apart. Water everywhere. You just put a bathroom at the site. That took months to get people into. It is insanely frustrating. Open streets all over the city. Golden gate park. A month in the shelterinplace. That is not going to make this happen. The tenderloin has to protest to get a slow street. It is drivinglus. It is rational it is ridiculous. When it comes to this your time has expired. Next speaker, please. I am tom flores, 20 year resident of tenderloin, not member of any organization. Give perspective of life in the tenderloin. I will sherr share experiences. This morning walking dogs we were on the streets because sidewalks impassible. One person naked going through trash, one passed out with needle in arm, tents not separated, two incidents of few man fee fees sees. I have been hit in the head by two Homeless People with Mental Health. My husband was almost stabbed with a dirty syringe. We live in a third world city where nobody in city hall cares. I have not experienced any im im movement. These are not new but amplified with covid19. Iis this racial issue . Majority core in the neighborhood . Maybe both. Please help our residents to live a healthy normal life and treat the homeless with a level of humanity. It kills me to see the kids walking on these sidewalks and being outside is me mentality draining. What is the plan post covid. This is not new for us. Please, please, please help us. It is unbearable. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am cathy her nandez, tenderloin resident. I would like to express my discontent with the way that the public positions in office has handled the homelessness crisis in San Francisco. I feel there has been advocation of responsibility with various offices. It is infuriating watching the head of department of public works accused of bribery and scandals affecting our neighborhood and wellbeing. We dont have trash cans or restrooms that are needed to keep sanitary conditions in the tenderloin. That is all i have to say. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. I am kelly cutler. I am a resident and organizer of the coalition of homelessness. I was surprised to hear when i hear talk about such an increase in homelessness when really the reality is that we ar we are seg visible homelessness. The city is taking peoples tents or survival gear. That doesnt fix the problem. It is the lack of resources and lack of housing. Since shelterinplace i have asked numerous occasions where can people go . We are told where they cant go. But what is left out is where people can go. We do not have an answer for that. We are getting some of the areas where people can set up for safe sleep. It is a parking lot. We need to be doing more. The Community Process of involvement. We need past this idea that we can police our way out of this crisis. Supervisor man den man. You have been out to the encampment and you know the truth. There are no alternatives for people. That is what we need to get real about. We need an honest conversation about what the needs are and not try to hide it again. We need to respond like the crisis we are in. We have a crisis on top of a crisis. That is where we are right now. The city is failing to care for the must vulnerable in the community. It is a city of extreme wealth and resources. It is shameful and wrong. It has been going on for some years but also there is a pandemic. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. I am justin. I live on post street. I am not in the tenderloin but in the tender knob with the same issues of the tenderloin. I want to echo the frustrations of everyone else. The residents of this area i have been attacked with a metal pipe and chased into the building. Police never showed up. We had a trash fire a few weeks ago. They did get rid of the fire. Encampment remains. Behaviors encouraging the fire are still there. They were setting off fireworks launching three feet away from my neighbor who was pregnant. Above my living room for 20 minutes. We call police. They show up after people left. Adding restrooms doesnt help. We need people put into Scalable Solutions like camping sites outside of the city. Let people camp where they want is not a solution. Next speaker, please. Thank you. This is David Elliott lewis. I live on ellis street. Why ideas for improvement. The safe sleeping site and hotel spaces. I want to suggest to look at ways to make those more effective by engaging the guests or residents in helping to actually maintain their environment. If they are getting the benefit of services, hotel or safe sleeping village. Give them parttime assignments to keep the place clean and safe abwork off the benefit. There are a lot of benefits to work. It provides more longterm solution for helping unhoused with work assignments. To learn more about this. Saint francis website has ideas to engage unhoused residents in participation in their community. It should be a village wherever body participates. Again, visit st. Francis for ideas. I hope you will consider this to improve safe sleeping villages and i hope they are not temporary. Thank you for your time. DaviDavid Elliott lewis signing. Hello, i am steven tennis. I live at the bristol hotel. I worked for San Francisco collaborative and gl cbd. One thing that i heard her is that i dont think anybody, not just board of supervisors from the mayor on down, city hall knows what to do. If they did, how to implement it in a timely manner. If they did we wouldnt have what is existing here in the tl. I cant walk out the front door without seeing what everybody talked about. Tents, filth and people that dont care. With all of the tents, i think it would be an ideal area open and free of clutter. Another point is stop being so nice. We have got to start being aggressive. I dont mean mean or vindictive. When people dont care about where they are on the street, on the sidewalks in tents or not, they dont care. I think half the people dont because you can look and see that. That is unfortunate. We somewhere to get aggressive with how we deal with that. Nothing is working. I am 71 years old. I dont need a