From the department outlining the plan for their shelter in place rehousing and site demobilization plan. This response to this request has been forwarded to everyones office today. We are still in a pandemic, and just today, mayor breed and dr. Colfax announced the rolling back of our reopening. We are concerned about the process and timeline of shelter in place rehousing and demobilization of our shelters. I want to acknowledge the work that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the department of Emergency Management have done in collaboration with our Service Providers during this pandemic in keeping our people safe, but we [inaudible] is transparent and ensures that no one, especially our most vulnerable populations, exit back onto the streets. Today, we have, as explained, the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, department of Emergency Management, some of our Emergency Management and controllers speaking otoday, ad i think its very important that we understand, and i hope we get a further explanation from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, that the numbers havent matched in anything that ive received or seen that says that as we move folks from s. I. P. Hotels, that they will be going back into shelter and not back on the street, which is a commitment weve made as a city, and we must make sure that we dont do anything that would put folks back on the street. Thank you so much, president yee. I believe youre on mute. President yee thank you, supervisor walton. Now, we will go ahead and have a presentation from ben rosenfiel rosenfie rosenfield, director, and director of the department of Emergency Management, mary ellen carroll. And ive asked them to be precise about their presentations so we can move quickly, so mr. Controller, ben ro rosenfield. Hi, actually, this is mary ellen carroll. Im going to kick it off for this evening. President yee my script says youre last, so, you know, hey welcome, mary ellen. Okay. Yeah, im happy to very pleased to be here this evening with you, honorable board of supervisors. Again, im mary ellen carol, and im the director of the department of Emergency Management and here representing San Franciscos covid19 command center. The covid command center, which is physically located at moscone south, its structured to manage our overall Emergency Response to this global pandemic. This includes the shelter in place hotels and the operations associated with them and with citys reimbursement commissions to fema, the federal Emergency Management agency. Since july, we have been in this what we called unified command structure. The departments that represent the command organization at the open are department of public health, department of Emergency Management and Human Services agency with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. So the city in addition, the citys administrator office, the Controllers Office, and other departments play major rolls in this roles in this unified command, and today, im joined by my colleagues, ben rosenfield. So at this time, im going to turn it over to ben rosenfield, who will talk about the operations. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors and president yee. I was asked to provide some very high level overview on the budget for this program, so i thought i would run through a couple of highlevel comments, and then, after abigail presents, id be happy to answer any questions on the boards mind. As you know, the s. I. P. Budget is roughly 178 million, and its heavily reliant on federal services. [please stand by]. Second, the budget assumes that placements of clients in other Housing Alternatives p predominantly in the second half of the fiscal year would allow the city to ramp down this s. I. P. Program as the other programs are ramped up, and thats essential because were planning for our world in unknown timing where the city will work to have these individuals housed but without the fibenefit of fema reimbursements. Our latest projections, which we published earlier today and which you all have, indicate that some early costs with some modest delays in the implementation of the project, its projected to go beyond its costs by approximately 75 million. The plan is heavily heavily re fema, and id be happy to answer any questions that the board has after abigail presents. President yee abigail . [please stand by]. Many who come from all over the city as well as our nonprofits have our deep gratitude for rising to this occasion, and our commitment to rehousing of everyone is stronger than any community that we are aware of in the country. This has not changed. These were always intended to be temporary, and i will be candid, both one of the biggest opportunities and challenges that the city has ever faced in the homeless face. Im going to continue to underscore that this is the first that any locality has tried to do a massive rehousing during a pandemic. As you heard from the controller, h. S. H. Has some, little, no control over many of the key funding resources, and we do know quite a bit about the Economic Outlook in the city, as well. Were subject to the will of the pandemic, and so while were put approximating our best foot forward based on National Best practice, plan, and guidance, were using our data to guide along the way. So from a big picture perspective, the s. I. P. Hotel was successful in protecting the public during this pandemic time. Thousands of people were able to shelter in place and be kept safe from the virus. As the pandemic continues, they have become a nonsustainable portion of the response. They are not housing, they are shelter. As we respond to the early crisis of the pandemic in anticipating this, we simultaneously developed a plan to bring on more short, medium, and longterm resources for people transitioning out of hotel. To supervisor waltons point, we dont have those at day one for all the 2,300 guests, but we have some of these new resources now as well as resources in our current portfolio, and we need to begin to move people into stability to continue to protect them from the pandemic, and we are seeking another request through prop c and other pandemic resources. In these plans, people will not be going to shelters and safe sleep. This has been misunderstood in the media, and i want to clarify that. We know that people in these hotels are covid vulnerable. If ultimately and this is really quite important. If, ultimately, the rehousing requires more bridging and time at the end, we will address that, but given the fiscal realities and uncertainties you heard from the controller, we need to begin to rehouse people now, and we need to do so with urgency. Last week, we started at three hotels with a pilot to learn. We had a series of appointments for everyone who wanted to participate in the building. If theyd done an assessment, we matched them to housing. If they had not, we had that problem solving diversion conversation, and we did the assessment. Because the pilot only wrapped up yesterday, were still digesting this data. But, for example, when the week began, this site had 45 participation in housing assessments. After a few days onsite, they had 75 to 80 . It was our first pilot housing fair, and we need to keep continuing on the process, knowing that nobody knows exactly how to do this during the pandemix, but our intention would be to short up our housing process and go week after week. My final focus is really around prop c. As h. S. H. Shared with our city, our Home Committee yesterday, we are recommending the release of prop c funds prior to 2021 to support the rehousing response and s. I. P. Rehousing. It will include the immediate expansion of Housing Resources to increase and lease new units of p. S. H. , and to sustain the plexibility housing subsidy pool and expand it, which was launched by mayor breed and Tipping Point during the pandemic with just this intention in mind. Funds from the shelter bucket, which are separate and distinction from the housing process, but we know we still have many unsheltered neighbors on the street. And finally, yesterday, as i mentioned, we did present recommendations for Emergency Response to the ocoh committee, our city, our Home Committee. This month, we intend to present a proposed spending plan to the ocoh committee with recommendations to release funding to support the emergency rehousing that i just reviewed, and in december, we look forward to preventing the proposed spending plan to the budget and finance committee, as well as a process that weve been talking to your offices about to collaborate with stark holdestark with Stakeholder Feedback on the remaining portions of fund so that in december and january, we can go out with the oc ocoh committee, with your offices, and listen to feedback. Thank you for your time, and for working to ensure San Francisco is a safe place for all of our neighbors. I do want to say that weve put our best plan in place, and as we begin the rehousing effort each day, we are subject to the pandemic, and we have a lot of work to do. No one has attempted to do this during the pandemic, but we need to do it now and course correct as our data leads us along the way. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen, did you want to ask questions now or do you want to wait for the other presenters . Supervisor ronen i can wait for the other presenters, either way. President yee yeah, why dont we do that so we can hear everybody. Supervisor ronen okay. Sounds good. Sounds good. President yee thank you very much. So let me bring up the people, i guess, from the shelter in place hotels including sarah short, from Community Housing partnership, mary kate bucala from emergency Housing Providers. Would you li providers and [inaudible] would you like to go ahead and start your presentation . Hi. Are you there . Yeah, this is christie saxton. I believe the wrong list was sent to you, president yee, and i believe that beth stokes of e. C. S. Is going to be kicking us off tonight. President yee oh, okay. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead and take it away for us. Yeah, i wasnt listed, so i wasnt sure. Thank you, supervisors. Episcopal Community Services stands in [inaudible] in the homelessness response system in urging the city to pause its Emergency Shelter in place transition plans. [please stand by]. President yee whos next . I think youre up. We are calling for the halt on the demobilization of the s. I. P. Hotel. Were very concerned about the impact that this is going to have on the residents as the s. I. S. I. Residents at the s. I. P. Hotels have been sheltering in place. The closure of these hotels would be impacting the very community, also including our staff that is majority people of color, working class rk working poor folks. Many of folks at my community on delores are latinx and working several jobs to make ends meet. And given the fact that our s. I. P. Hotel opened at the end of july and would close in february would put a large number of our staff in the unemployment line, and our s. I. P. Hotel residents on the streets. Also, one of the things that i wanted to note around equity, is the letter provided to the board of supervisors, equity was mentioned twice, and theres no mention of how this plan will of course equity. What we do see is data on rape being incomplete for 53 of our residents, and ethnicity being incomplete for 84 of our residents. How can such incomplete racial and ethnic data guide the weight, and how can it be that this plan not incorporate the True Partnership and providers who formed this plan. Without the input from other homeless providers and the data, this plan is lacking. Thank you. Good evening, supervisors, again. Im christie saxton, and im here tonight, representing the Supportive Housing network. We also urge a slow down, and i just want to highlight a few things. As Housing Providers, we have been asking for help to fill vacant units for over a year. Prior to covid19, there was over 300 units with permanent Supportive Housing which was vacant, and they continue to be. This also highlights that moveins take a great deal of coordination, time, and above everything else, the science. We cannot simply go in and move people in without fulfilling the requirements, and its not just because people say we cant, were bound to the federal, the state, and the city. Last week, there was a 24hour notice to send some of our staff to housing fairs, where we were told we had to bring our own tables and chairs and hot spots to move residents in, and there were no supports in place for our staff. To ask our staff to go to a housing fair with no notice was unconscionable. We have to comply with all of our grants and contracted. In order to do that, we are asking our partners at the city with h. S. H. To slow down and work collaboratively with us, working partnerships. Lastly, ill say that while our staff have continued to show up every day, they are first responders, they are our true heros in this pandemic right now, and they are being paid at times half of what city worker are being paid for the same work. If we do not receive the same wages and are unable to work in partnership, sorry if this sounds dramatic, we are putting peoples lives at risk, both the residents that we are choosing to serve and our se e staff, and with that, i will offer the floor to joe wilson. Clerk joe, it looks like youre muted. Good evening, supervisors. Joe wilson, executive director of hospitality house and hespa. I would request that the clerk put up the slides on our presentation, please. We should be on slide five. I see its working on getting that shared. I believe nav or brent may have it up on our computer. Ill just start talking, then, in the interests of time. I think that the take away here is that we need to stop and rethink this. Not only do we need a better plan, we need more housing to make this successful. The aim to rehouse 2400 people in eight months is just short of implausible and incredulous. We need to be clear on the language that we use to measure success. [please stand by]. Supervisor ronen if we need to keep these s. I. P. Hotels open for longer, what would be the different costs to the city . Where would be the different pots of money that we could draw from to meet those costs, etc. Its all very vague, and i just dont feel that we as the board of supervisors have been presented with the detailed information we need to weighin in a meaningful way. And ill end by saying that the law that this board of supervisors unanimously passed to obtain 6,000 s. I. P. Hotel rooms has been ignored by this administration and has been violated since day one. President yee ben rosenfield, are you still here . [inaudible]. I can speak to what we know and dont know about fema because its all so up in the air at the moment, and i will talk about some of your programatic question. Like fundamentally, the declaration of emergency at the federal level is controlled by the executive branch, so its fundamentally controlled by the president. It will remain an unknown for us, though, looking ahead, and while i will say that the majority of the way that fema has handled this emergency is to declare it an indefinite emergency, and theyll tell us 30 to 60 days before they cutoff this program, at this point, california help for housing at a noncongregate basis is continuing. But i think there is the risk that fema will fall away at some point. I share your belief that its not going to happen in the current fiscal year. I think its worth reflecting that this program so demobilize a 200 Million Program that weve set up, we need to do it at some point because regardless when we do, we need to do it, we probably will be facing a World Without fema. So your question about kind of the programatic costs, one way to view this is we currently have a 200 Million Program in place for the current fiscal year, and we have 300 million in general fund money supporting it, with the vast majority of the rest supported by fema or other emergency resources that come from the state. So emergency continuing that program indefinitely without those Financial Resources would be crushing for the city. Supervisor ronen but what i i want this i want to see the i want to see the projections. I cant do this kind of math in my head. I want a spreadsheet that says, you know, this is what weve spent so far, this is what assuming the fema reimbursement continues, this is what it will cover each month, this is the gap that we have, these are the potential places that gap money to come from. If we cut the program by half over these period of times, these are the continuing costs. Were just not presented with enough information to be able to weighin in a meaningful way right now. We have been told, as a board of supervisors completely contrary to the unanimous legislation passed by this administration, that this program is being imminently shutdown between now and february, with no opportunity to weighin before now. And i find this irresponsible and extremely frustrating, especially given the fact that the crisis rages on as do the People Living in dire straits on the street. So i hear your doom gloom economic project doom and gloom Economic Projections here, but we dont have them on paper. I appreciate your comments, supervisor. Wed be happy to follow up with you for the kind of information that youre looking for. President yee