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Ear clerk is john carol. I want to thank folks at sfgtv and it for all of their support as well. Mr. Clerk do you have any announcements. success. During the covid 19 Health Emergency the Committee Room is closed. This precaution is taken pursuant to all federal and state orders and directives. Public comment will be available for each item on this a agenda. San francisco cable channel 26 are streaming a call in number across your screen. To provide public it is available by call in. Once connected and prompted into the meeting i. D. After youve dialed in press pound followed by pound a second time to be connected to the meeting. When connected youll hear the meeting discussions but be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star followed by three to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until youve been unmuted to make your comments. Best practices are to make your call from a quiet location. Turn down your television or radio. Time delays we may experience in coverage in streaming. You may submit your Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me, john period c arroll dot gov dot org. Your written comments may be sent by u. S. Postal service. The a address is one dr. C arlton at goodlet place. Items will appear on the board of supervisors special agenda of august 112020 unless otherwise stated. thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call our first item. the hearing to consider the issuance of the type 57 beer wines Liquor License to do business as the four seasons on the private floor of the mission. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on the item should call in. Inner the meeting id. Press the pound symbol twice and press the star key followed by the no. 3 to enter the queue to speak. The system will prompt that you have raised your hand. great. This first item, i believe we heard before on march 12th. We heard from the alu and applicant at that time. We continued it to allow the applicant the opportunity through the District Six Office the opportunityi understand that has happened. Unless colleagues have any comments or questions and unless the applicant has anything further theyd like to say or the alu has anything further theyd like to say, i will open this up to Public Comment. All right. Not seeing anyone has anything to add to our 12th hearing on this, lets open the Public Comment. thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if any callers are in the queue. For those who have already connected to our meeting. Please press star followed by three to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please wait until prompted to begin. For those watching our meeting on cable channel 26 if you wish to speak on this item please call in by following the instructions on your screen. Have any speakers raised their hands . yes. I currently have two caller nz the queue. can we take the first caller. i can say a few things about the Public Comment before we do. Speakers will have two minutes. We ask that you state your first and last name clearly. If youve prepared a written statement, we ask you leave that with the clerk. Due to time we ask that you not repeat any comment. Do we have another caller . good morning. Im waiting for item three. I have pressed star three. Id like to speak at that time. thank you for calling to participate in our meeting. What we request that you do is wait until agenda item no. 3 is called. At that time press star three to be entered into the queue to speak for that agenda item. In the meantime well move to the next caller if there is another caller. mr. Chair, that completes the queue. great. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, would youno further requests that im seeing. Support issuance of this license. I think we can collect our clerk to prepare a resolution determining the issuance of this license will serve public convenience and necessity. I recommend we move that with positive recommendation. on the offer motioned that a resolution be forwarded for this service premise. roll call mr. Chair, there are three ayes. great. Motion passes. agenda item number two is a resolution declaring anti black racism as a crisis in San Francisco. City and county departments and agencies promote Racial Equity and local state policies advance efforts to dismantle systemic racism. If you wish to make Public Comment please call the number and enter the meeting i. D. Press the pound symbol twice and star three to wish you indicate to speak. Please wait until the sit em sym indicates you have been unmuted and may begin to speak. thank you, so much. Thank you supervisor stephanie. I just want to appreciate all of my cosponsors for this resolution. Supervisors ronanwe all know anti black racism is and has been a Public Health crisis. If we look at the negative outcomes for black people as a result looking at depression and ways its spread in different areas in life. Its important to call it out. This resolution which has also been presented at the Human Rights Commission provides a pass to address anti plaque blak racism. Youll see a series of laws and passages. I want to thank everyone for stepping up. Today we have a few presenters. Were going to start with brittany. Now we are going to bring up the Human Rights Commission. thank you, supervisor. Good morning supervisors. Thank you so much for that introduction and thank you all for your cosponsorship of this very important resolution. I serve as the acting chief of shaf bustaff im also a proud mf mega black ssf. Were a group of proud black individuals. Were fighting for sovereignty and justice for black individuals. Black people comprise only about 5 of the city but are 10 of all covid 19 related deaths. This item hasnt gotten the air time it deserves. Housing, economic, power, police accountability, and Public Health. The resolution before you is an extensive but not exhaustive list of the many structural barriers that many san franciscans face. We want to call out anti black racism in particular because that is the hostility towards prejudice of black people and culture manifested towards institutional or systemic interactions, processes and outcomes. Im proud to be here with my coauthors. We really want to highlight the truth that racism, not ones race is the greatest determinant to the atrocious outcomes listed here. Many they are attributed to individual behavior, these indicators are informed by structural and institutional decisions. This provides a bit of sorry for the interruption. as supervisor walton mentioned theres a list of steps the board of supervisors can take to really address the indicators that we listed here. We hope to continue working with you and others on everything to improving the Mental Health outcome and tangible recommendations for reparations and continue a conversation on police accountability. Ill pass it over to my colleague, thank you. good morning. Thank you supervisor walton and supervisors. I lead our quality improvementquality improvementsmy Branch Programs for Community Equity and promotion grants. I ledthis resolution was born out of the group mega black sf is made up of a lot of different subcommittees of which the Public Health subcommittee is one. I colead that subcommittee. What happens is we put forth policy recommendations that wed like the city and county department to putto work onto unlift. It was important for us to act on this right of way because of the climate right now with the pandemic and Police Brutality of which effect black people gravely. Were dying at disproportionate rates of both. As was stated, this resolution pertains a lot of data pertaining to the social determinants of health. We know racism is a driving force behind the Health Determinants of force. We dont want this resolution to be just rhetoric. Wed like this resolution to stand as a way to hold our city and county departments accountable. To do better by the residents and the city and county of San Francisco and be intentional around opportunities, around funding, and around housing care, and treat the black people of the city of San Francisco. Now ill turn it over to lydia. thank you so much. I come to you as a black resident of San Francisco. A former dph employee and a u c sf medical student. Offering this resolution was not only disheartening but incredibly infuriating. As somebody who worked for the city i know we funnel millions of tax dollars into policies that are systemically contributing to these outcomes. They are intentionally producing these outcomes. In the same way these outcomes are systemically produced, they are not going to simply disappear. Its unacceptable for the patients to have to bear the brunt of the failures. Id dedicated my career to bettering the outcomes of black lives. We need to stop failing our black residents today sm thank thank you. thank you ladies so much. Supervisor at this time i would appreciate if we can go to Public Comment unless of course you and supervisor stephanie have some comments. i do not have comments. Thank you for this resolution and giving us the opportunity to consider it and vote on it. I will open this item to Public Comment. thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if theres any callers in the queue. For those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press star three if you wish to speak to this item. For those already on hold, please wait until you are prompted to begin. You will be prompted that your line is unmuted. For those watching on cable channel if you wish to speak on this item, please call in by following the instructions on your screen. Do we have any callers that wish to speak on agend speak on a gem number two . there are no callers in the queue. great. I will close Public Comment. I will move that we forward this resolution to the full board for recommendation. We have an amendment. we do have a proposed amendment that you all have. Im just going to read them out on page three, line six replace health with heart disease. Add 5 of the citys covid 19 cases and 10 of covid 19 deaths on page four, line five leading San Francisco Public Health and replacing it with San Francisco Public Health commission. Page six, line six, including within the city and county of San Francisco sif em. System. Page seven lines six through eight adding a new clause whereas on july 212020 San Francisco Health Commission unanimously passes racism as a human rights stif rights system. I do know they are pretty substantial. We can come back on this next week. okay. I will move yes city attorney. i just wanted to say that i did hear the amendments that you read into the record. I dont believe they are substantive for purposes of the brown act. I dont believe you require a continuance. thank you. I should have asked council to weigh in. My apologies. thank you. I will move the amendments that sawp visor walton just read into the record. Please call the roll. roll call . motion passes. I move that we move the motion to the full board. i just want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership and passion and commitment on this issue. Im sorry happy to be able to support it. thank you. mr. Supervisor. I will move and amend that we forward the amended resolution to the board of recommendation. recommended as amended. roll call . Mr. Chair, three ayes. great. Motion passes. Thank you. if i can thank you so much. I just wanted to thank many members and particularly want to thank mr. C lauda under wood as taking the initiative on plaquek racism. The outcomes that have ledthis is our continued to hold everyone accountable and come up with tangible policies that effect black people here in San Francisco. Im glad we know what we need to do here in San Francisco. Thank you ladies for presenting this morning and bringing this resolution to us. Thank you. thank you. Mr. Clerk. Can you please call the next item. i can. Agenda item no. 3 is to discuss the housing preliminary evaluation report. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call. Enter the meeting id press the pound symbol twice to scect to o the meeting. The system will indicate that you wish to speak. thank you, mr. Clerk. This hearing iswe started with conversations back in june on the 25th. Its been just over a year since the board has opted in so the sb1545 the Conservatorship Program, to just quickly go over some ground we covered then. Some moderate expansion. Not clearly the solution for all folks who have Mental Illnesses on the street. But the solution perhaps for some who are repeatedly over the course of the year interacting and being involuntarily detained at least eight times over the course of the year. Cycling in and out and never getting longer term stabilized in a longer term way. Theres not a ton of these folks out there. We heard as there may be as many as fifty that meet that threshold criteria. Not all of those fifty would qualify but i do think this is a Small Program that is given the amount of attention that it has received that we really do have to try it to make work. I know there are folks try to go ding todo that. When we left off last month, we asked to come back today a month later and update us op how we are doing. Today we have the director of forensic Behavioral Health at dph. I think were going to hear from director almeda . correct. okay. good morning. take it away. again, good morning to the supervisors and the members of the public. I appreciate being back here today to give an update on this important issue. As we discussed at the last hearing, we haveat that time weve been able to start moving forward to serve individuals as we discussed some of the amendments in senate bill 40 that they are on the potential pathway to a conservatorship with the goal of helping to intervene and engage them in other voluntary services. We have begun that process to serve individuals. With the limitation that covid 19 provides for us which highlights the collaboration and preparation that we had before we were able to move forward with this. We have not yet submitted paperwork to move forward with housing conservatorship. We have a couple of individuals on the pres cusp. We want conservatorship to be the last report for an individual and if theres other ways we can engage them, we want to do that. Mental illness is siclicle there are times where there are intense pers of crisi periods od less periods of crisis. We anticipate well be moving forward with paperwork depending on the individual and likely in the next week well be moving forward. okay. How manydo you know how many folks have received notification that they are hit their fifth. thats a good question. I believe there are five individuals that we are working on serving. I dont know if all of them have received a notice. But i know that there are a couple of individuals who have had more than five. We talked about those individuals and around care coordination in much more intense and collaborative ways. at this point what do you see are the primary obstacles if you do identify, once you serve them on the fifth and theyve still gotten to eight. Previous interventions have not engaged them and kept them from coming back from the city eases voluntary detention. What do you see are the primary challenges to moving these initial few people towards conservatorship. at this point were not anticipating any obstacles. There were certainly challenges and frustrations for the amount of time it took us to move forward. Weve used that time to engage with our partners. We have a really good collaboration to be able to move forward. I dont anticipate any challenges. We really dont know how the court will proceed with these cases. I think thats more of the own known at this time. We will need to see what happens when we move forward with our first case. I think moving forward what that will help us identify some of the challenges and what the barriers are supporting this program to be able to pivot and adapt as needed. okay. Do you feel like you may be within weeks of moving forward with a petition. yes. Unfortunately as hard as we are to try to avoid that for individuals, i think we may be moving forward in the next couple of weeks. supervisor walton. thank you, chair. Just a couple of questions. How do we notify individuals that have more than five . thats a great question, supervisor. Theres documentation that has been created by the City Attorneys Office and public defenders office. Individuals get a notice of what 5150 they are on. If you have three more conservatorship is a potential pathway for you. At six those numbers will change. Theres very detailed information on what fiv five 51y are on. Other services and access to services and how we can support them in accessing those services. what is the individual breakdown . i can get you more information. Most of the individuals on the immediate more potential pathway are caucasian. I can get you more detailed information of what that looks like for the totallality of the population. i would definitely be interested in that. its something we would want to be more mindful of. my last question from the cases of individuals with more than five 5150, what is the particular illness thats been identified . Do we have that information . yes, i can also get you more detailed information. Looking at that data my