information, compiled for the 2015, point-in-time, homeless count. >> thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in time homeless count here in san francisco. as many of you are aware, the homeless count occurs every two years, in order to receive, federal funds to address, homelessness here locally. back? january, i joined the city staff and the non-profit partners to participate in the count and the white house, chief of staff came out as well and the results were just released publicly in july. and the results of the count, which we will discuss, in detail, today, provide some optimism, but also, show the way of a much more work to do ahead of us to reduce the homelessness here. and the stats in july shows that we continue to make the progress in the homeless, and we are on the way of achieving and 2015. but the count revealed that the population is older and a higher rate of substance abuse and more behavior mental health as well. and 71 percent. and today, we are going to hear from the director of the human services, and dufty or director of hope and our research firm, partnering with the city, has for years, and to produce this count, she looked forward for the discussion and the work ahead of us. mr. roar, if you are ready, we have trent here who is the head of our human services agency. >> and thank you. >> findings for the homeless count. and you know, you touched on supervisor farrell m of the points that i was going to mention that back that, that we encountered on the street and getting older, and we are seeing the higher incidence of the behavior health issues. and we are also seeing something interesting about the point or the length of most of the recent homeless that i am going to touch on as well but let me take two steps back and give you a little bit of context. and so we do this homeless count, at the point in time, koupt count and it is done on a single night, once every two years and it is a requirement from the federal department of housing and urban development as a condition of receiving or continuing of care funds and the continuing of the care funds, support and a whole range of interventions and targeted at homelessness and notable for us is the funding for the supportive housing and we get over 20 million a year from the feds through the continuing of the care process and so the count is geb, again is a condition of that, but it also helps us to measure our progress, clearly and also gives us a much richer understanding every couple of years of the population on the street and we couple our point in time count, which is done by the volunteers. and i think that we had over 500 volunteers span the entire city and you walking or driving to attempt to encounter those who they see on the street that appear homeless. and in addition to that, we follow the count, with a survey. and we get a fairly large sample size, and so we can generally draw the conclusions from that representative sample and that gives us things like age and length of time that we have been on the street. and issues of behavior health and a lot of other really, interesting data that helps to inform our system, as we continue to see it evolve and continue to think of new interventions targeted to the folks who are on the street and in our shelters. so, over all, the total number counted, in january, of 2015, was 6686. and this represents about a four percent increase, from two years ago or the number was 6436 and again, it is important to note that this represents the entire number of folks who are defined as homeless, which includes, not only the individuals and families, who are on the street, but those who are in shelters, and transitional housing and treatment and hospital and jail. and vehicles, and many of the others sort of temporary living and the situation. and the number of unsheltered homeless, and now in 2015, was 3505, which represents about a three percent increase from 2 years, before. where the number was 3401, and these are actually folks who are counted on our streets. and on that single night. we also for the second time did a separate youth count, which is which is counted at night and the numbers there went down from 914 two years ago to 853 in 2015, which is a 7 percent decline. so, we sort of first reaction as one of many, and the city officials overseeing the system of care, is why did the numbers not go down in the context of the really, the significant numbers of individuals, and families that we have either housed or reunited with their families and support structures in their home communities. and so i want to talk a little bit about that. so you understand kind of really what we have been able to achieve over the last two years in changing the lives of thousands of people. and yet, the over all net number is, you know, essentially is the same. and so, what it represents the progress, since, january of 13 to try to get a sort of similar time frame and so since january of 13, we added 348 units of supportive housing and 93 that are targeted to transitional aged youth. and you know that we have initiated very long, rental subsidy program for family and particularly through our cal works program where we housed 120 families. where it is really the supportive housing that i want to touch on. but we did add, 348 units which compared to 6600 homeless may not seem like a lot. but it is important to know that we have an existing portfolio of housing of over 4,000 units between the human services agency and the department of public health and those units do turnover and so we place, individuals in those units as they became, vacant and so over the last two years, of the human services agency, we placed 1391, individuals or individuals and families. and then, the department of public health who is the direct access to the housing program, placed another 627 and that is the total number of individuals and 2018 who were placed over the last two years, about 450 of them were in families, and so when you take the single adult piece and you take the families out we placed almost, 1600 people in two years, 1569. and in addition as you know and supervisor you know well because you helped secure, funding for 8 additional home ward bound caseworkers and home ward bound is a program that we started in 2004, that helps the homeless individuals, reconnect with, their typically their families but it could be another support structure in their home communities. and over the last two years, through that program, we provided transportation, and resources, to reunite, 1614 individuals in all 48 states. and cities and in california as well as cities in other states and so when you take those numbers together, that is, 3632, folks that we have placed in housing, either in san francisco or outside of san francisco. which is quite an accomplishment in two years. and i often comment when getting questions you know, why isn't the number going down? why aren't you making progress? the answer is we are making significant progress. and we do know how to house the people and how to end homelessness at the individual level. and feeling, and it is demonstrated and shown you that the successes over the last two years and it illustrates over the last, 12 years, since we have been tracking and since 2003, we have placed in the housing or reunited through home ward bound, over 21,000 people from san francisco. and which is an astounding number and you look at it and you say that this cannot be possible and yet, that is the progress that we have made. so we are helping, you know it is important to keep this in mind that we are, you know, you look at the street and you see the individuals on the street and you look at the noise and you have got the lot and it is important to keep in mind that the human level is significant progress that we have made and the significant number of lives and family, and individuals and families, that we have improved. and looking forward, beyond january, 15 in terms of the pipeline of housing. 54 units of the housing and transitional housing that we anticipate coming on-line and another 324 units for homeless single adults, and that will be coming on-line very shortly, within the next few months. and so, we will continue our approach as supportive housing again, being the corner stone of our strategy to end the homeless in san francisco. and we do have and i think that devon the director of hope will talk more about this. we are and have piloted a what we will define as a low threshold or intervention to the people on the street to whom the shelter may not be the place sxment this is in the navigation center which devon will talk about. and i was recently in new york two weeks ago looking at their front end and their not only, the street out reach, but, what they do, sort of in conjunction with the street out reach for the individuals who for the shelter does not necessarily work. and they have, similar to the navigation center, they are smaller and they have the safe havens which are the low threshold environments and the physical health barrier and not necessarily navigate a very large and complex shelter system and that is the resources that the out reach teams have and they have had significant success and there is slippage recently and they coupled it with the low threshold and the folks on the street in two years and this is about six years ago in terms of the time frame. >> those interventions do work and we are pleased with the out comes that we have seen so far at the navigation center and devon will talk more about that. in terms of the interesting, subpopulations and i will turn it over to him. and there are two groups of homeless individuals, largely individuals that we have been focusing on. and we have been focusing on the chronically homeless for, since really, the mid 2000s. and recognizing that these are the sickest and down the street the longest and the folks most in need of interventions and so we have been targeting them. intentionally, for housing and for interventions. and the second subpopulation is veterans and you know, we have been following the directive from the white house to end veteran homelessness and we have really, taken that as a community, taken it very seriously with the partnerships with the non-profit agencies like the serve to plow shares with the leadership from my staff and on addressing the veteran and just to speak to the numbers there. and starting with veterans in 2011, 17 percent of our homeless population, were veterans and 20 is 3, that dropped to 11 percent and in 2015, count dropped to 9 percent and so we are, we have had, cut in half the number of veterans who are experiencing homelessness. and i think that it speaks to the success of the strategy and if we are targeting the populations with the support of the housing and the other strategies and we know that those are working and among the chronically homeless in 2009 and almost two-thirds of folks who are counted, were defined as chronically homeless and again, these are folks and there is a formal definition of chronic homelessness, and you know, the layperson's terms is someone who has been homeless for over a year and with the multiple spells of homeless, making progress in those two areas is important, and particularly among the chronically homeless which tend to be again not only those most in need but tend to be the largest strain on the city in terms of the use of emergency room, and inpatient, hospital stays. and other non-homeless service intervention costs. another piece of data that we bring to the survey is the length of time that an individual has been homeless, and i think that this is important. because, it speaks to the need to have the different types of interventions. whereas someone who is more longer term and chronically homeless and typically the intervention will be supportive housing to address his or her behavior health and other needs. in addition to their homelessness. >> but, a shorter term stay or the folks who are homeless, it really speaks to a different time of intervention and maybe the home ward bountd and maybe the short term rental and the placement of a job and getting that person back in the housing through the rapid rehousing effort. >> it is the length of time for the most recent spell of homelessness, and over half, 51 percent of the most recent spell has been over a year. but interestingly, 35 percent of folks, that the most recent spell was less than 6 months. and ten percent of whom less than 30 days. and so when you, you sort of pull that out, of 6600 folks, on the 6700 folks, 670 of them have just been on the street less than a month and that is really defined as low hanging fruit and those are the folks that we will get quickly rehoused or reunited with their families so that we don't fall into a pattern where homelessness, becomes more chronic for them and i think that you have got to even extend that out from the ten percent who have less than a month to those who are less than 60 months, and the third of the 6600 people and then lastly, i will speak to the age and the supervisor farrell you did noelt that the aging population and this is not a surprise or a new, phenomenon and there is research out of ucsf that follows the homelessness and sort of the age, and increase, but, i am going to give you the real numbers. and in 2013, 17 percent of folks were over the age of 50. or over the age of 51. and in 2015, 30 percent, or over the age of 51. and then, even the older, 3 percent, over the age of 61, verses 8 percent in 2015. and then, of course, if the proportion of the folks are older then you are going to see a decrease on the younger side which is what we are seeing and in fact. 29 percent of the folks in 2013 were aged 31 to 40 and that number dropped to 16 percent and cut in half of the most recent year and again these numbers, you don't take them in isolation and you look at them and say is our service system equipped to handle the more aging population? and you know, i think that when you look at our supportive housing certainly that can is equipped to handle a more an older population that tends to have more physical health needs. but when you look at the intervention, and the shelter system it may not quite be, the right, place. to have the folks who are older, and maybe, more frail, and again, maybe, that speaks to looking at a front end response, that is more, either low threshold or more medically centered for a larger segment of our homeless population. >> i will pause for questions. and then we will turn it over to devon when you want. >> thank you. >> one thing that i think that we will get into it with some and the applied research, but you know, as you think about, and in your experience here that you think about the number stayed static for the last two years, generally speaking and that is pretty remarkable and the amount of people that we have helped is 21,000 is unbelievable. and also look at it relative to other jurisdiction and what they are seeing and this is not a san francisco phenomena, obviously. but then, also we need to talk and we need to talk about what is next and because, obviously no one thinks that even maintaining these numbers are okay and we all want to strive to do better. but how do you think about that? i mean that, is it hey, we are doing, or we are doing compared to other jurisdictions but we need to do better? >> yeah. >> how do the folks think about that and especially the folks that are on the daily working on this issue? >> sure. i appreciate the question, supervisor, portland was about the same and la increased and new york although it dropped by 5 percent, the street numbers have increased recently, and so, it just gives you a sense and sort of, this problem is not ours alone. and it does not make us feel any better and we know that we have work to do. but, our path is correct. and there is numbers growing, and in large across the country, and it really is, and it gets the question a lot, and the way that, and the way unlike most of the public assistant systems that the human services agencies that are federally funded that the system for the care of homeless is locally funded and we get 20 million plus, from the feds, and we have the section eight program that can help some but when i am talking about supportive housing and shelters that is largely born on the general fund and so we have a national problem with millions of homeless individuals, and even a directive from the white house, that we should end the veteran's homelessness and what is coupled with that and even a more recent directive and that should seize in communities across the country, what has not fallen is that influx of federal resource and so we are fortunate, i think in san francisco to have a system of care that has 150, or 170 million in general fund and because we have the political will and commitment. and the value of the human lives to that extent. but it is a national problem, that is not you said a word that i think that i would not use which is static. and the number one, similar, but, not static. and in fact, this is a very, very i dynamic population and the numbers that i talked about and i don't mean to, and disrespect your word. >> no, no, you are actually completely right. and half of the folks that we counted in january and we didn't count in january of 2015, we didn't count them in 2013, because they were not here, right? and 49 percent of the folks that we counted there is most recent spell of homelessness was less than a year and so we are seeing this, and sort of this long term and then we see this episodic and a new face and a new person and whether they will become homeless in san francisco or they are coming in from the community and whether they are formally homeless or came here for a new opportunity and we know that does not matter. but what matters is that we are seeing the people on the street and it is really important, and i think, for the layperson and for the reader of the paper or someone who sees the homeless on the street to understand. half of the folks that i see are new. we are not seeing that net change and a couple of what is the public policy response? and ours, and yours and the mayor has been, you know, twofold, which is to continue to support and expand the supportive housing which is the right way to go, and the subdies for those whose income is the problem and continued to support eviction, prevention and this is the next step and intervention and to comment from the director, and sort of my counter part in new york who said that when they look at his system for homelessness, they see two systems and a shelter system and they have the right to shelter, which is manifests itself at 12,000 beds which we don't have here and would not want to have here. shelter population and they can navigate, and making a reservation and meeting a curfew and sort of being able to survive, in an environment that could be kie on the i can at times in a small area and a population that really can't, function in that environment and that is, the folks who are trying to address the navigation, and the folks that you see. who is so significant that they need the environment where they can bring their stuff and they can bring their companion animal or their partner. and again, with, getting 200 of the what we will call the homeless into the navigation center and 70 of whom have been housed and 75 percent who are home ward bound is really an impressive number in a fairly short period of time and we opened it at the end of march. and so we want to replicate it and you know, the mayor had an announcement last week around looking at redirecting the money internally and the dph, to expand the model and we are going to be embarking on that shortly. >> we are a city without boarders and how to deal with it is challenging at times and we have to go at it and thanks for all of your part work on it. >> supervisor tang? there is a lot that has been done and more that will be done and in looking at the report, and also, from the information, and you know that we get from, you know, whether it is the officers or whoever else, that are encountering the homeless individuals, and you know, the report says that, over time, it really shows, those who don't want the government assistant, they just refuse, the help, and it has and it looks like it has steadily increased so for example, 7 percent said that they didn't want the government assistance back in 2011, and now in 2015, 40 percent said that the reason that they do not receive the government assistance is because they don't want it and how do we, i know that it is a complicated question, how do we go about addressing those kinds of cases? >> the government assistance like the shelter system is harder to navigate. and you got to make your appointment and you have to fill out your forms and you need the id. which many folks don't have and although we try to make it easy and we have the multiple modes of access and phone and walk in, and it is difficult. and which is why, the sort of front end and navigation center where the folks who may be, just distrustful or think that it will not work for them, or can't deal with the 40 percent and we have been able to show with 200, that it does work and i think that the word is getting out on the street that this is, you know, an environment where, you can come in doors, and be safe and what we have done is had the human reforces people on site, on the site and especially in the appointments to get the cash assistance and getting a california id through the dmv and sort of bringing the services right on the site, and making it as easy as possible. to navigate that and not only providing the shelter and the navigation center but the things like the home ward bound and the 8 new caseworkers that we are in the process now, and a lot of folks that come here, not just homeless, or the low income and in san francisco it is historically a city of refuge for a lot of population and sometimes the things just don't work out and they find themselves stuck. and stuck in can lead to a lot of things and can lead to the increased substance use and it can lead to other sorts of activity and behaviors that are not healthy and if we can be there and say that hey, you are stuck and where did you come from? and do you have a support structure and we can help you get back there and work for over 8,000 people and less than 1 percent who have returned to san francisco and i think that is important. and so to have 8 caseworkers who are having the shelters on the street, and who are at the navigation center and to offer, sort of that real time, and hey, i can get you transportation in a couple of hours. and to get there before they take the step backwards on the street >> good morning everyone and i want to say what an excellent job that trent did in outlining the count and talking about the efforts that are going on during a two year period that do house people and help the people. >> he talked about the difficulty of navigating systems and the complexity of applying for affordable housing and the necessity for the people to apply to multiple lists and the fact that someone that i supported and was probably the single reason that i got elected supervisor here in san francisco, does not touch people in ssi like it touches people on ga. >> the people who i encounter say that i don't want to stay in the shelter and to go to the effort to sign up and get $65 a month >> we look at nashville with what they have been able to do and what phoenix has done and a different housing market than what we have. but in, salt lake city, the involvement of the mormon church and really just the setting that we are not going to have the people, who are struggling to access housing. we are foeg to develop housing. and that is a difficult thing to do, and we have a housing bond here, and it is going to take time and it costs, and he has been strategic because we have the hotels and the housing which is appropriate, for low income individuals in particularly, single adults and the mayor has been, aggressive, both in asking the tech community to come forward and help which is how we started the navigation system with the $3 million donation which was given to the san francisco, inner faith, council and it is a big part of boosting our effort. and now, and supervisors that are here and participated and supported and identifying an additional 3 million as trent pointed out, within the existing city resources but the legislation that is going to specify that we can't spend that money, unless that money is matched. and, certainly, some of the housing that was referred to in trent's comments that are coming on-line this year, that is housing that is matching, this effort, and with the navigation center. >> and one of the most important things happened recently with leader, where she helped the hud approve a much heighter payment standard given the coast and i think that is the big overlay, is that how expensive housing is in san francisco. these number show that the new people becoming homeless, and i think that it is parcel to the same struggle and you that and the mayor have been addressing and the different initiatives are addressing and i think that trent touched on the point that one of the numbers that brings a lot of energy is the people that are homeless and have been in san francisco, prior to becoming homeless, and verses those that came here for a job. and the partner or a relationship that did not work out and didn't have a safety net. there is 700 or fewer individuals identified in the count, and 800 additional individuals who are identified, in district six. and so, i am not suggesting again because the chronic number has come down, from 2,000 and these are not fesly the people that picked up the possession and walked from the bay view into the civic center or the neighborhoods but the numbers are dramatically different. and i think that it will require a recalibration of our effort and a real focus on the neighborhoods like the tender loin where the homelessness is endemic to that neighborhood and we need to do more, i want to point out that, and sam, can talk about this, but the respondents also identified people always ask me this, to what extent are health issues and mental health issues a factor in individuals homelessness, and in this count, 37 percent of the individuals identified as having a substance abuse issue, and 35 percent, were i do want to say that the individuals could have more than one, issue or challenge, but that does remain a big factor. and so, these numbers are hard and the city does work, diligently and we do make the investments and a lot of individuals that want to change, and homelessness and not have it be as present for the people >> i think that without the curfew and respecting where the people are and combined with the really focused effort that the mayor and others are making around and maximizing the use of sros are really the path that we need to pursue in the near term to try to address the street homelessness. >> >> okay. thank you. >> and sorry. >> and colleagues, any further questions? >> okay, so, up next, we will must have peter, and thank you for being here. and the work with the city and look forward with having this discussion with you. >> thank you supervisors. and members of the committee. and first off, i would like to thank the great number of people who participated in this effort. that we are going to talk about today. and i would also like to thank, bev and trent for their comments and the entire team, and the, this participated as well as my project director samantha green who is sitting behind me. and i am going to review, the summary, result of the report, and some of the data points have been discussed already. but, in the interest of being, methodcal i will go through those again and i apologize in advance for any redundancy. >> they are done every odd years and they are required as a component on the application, for the homeless funding and that is part of the 20 minutes that san francisco receives. and all continuing of the care. and are over quiet and conducting the counts over two years and in the last ten days, of january, and in a single 24-hour period. and then in san francisco, that was, of course, january 29th of this year. >> it is scrutinized by hud and the data presentation that is made every year, and the definition of the shelter used in the san francisco study, individual, or family living and a supervised and a public or privately operated shelter and designed to provide the temporary living arrangements, and the examples, are fairly straight forward, and the individual. we also collect the data at the people staying at resource centers and stabilization rooms and the residential programs and jails and hospitals. the unsheltered definition, is an individual, or family with a nighttime residence that is a public or a private place and not designated for, or orderly used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, and setting apart of the building or the bus or campground and i spend a little extra time on the definition, because, it is, it is really a guiding principal and it, it excludes a lot of the persons who many, many of us, in the, and in the community think that may be literally homeless and that includes, folks that are doubled up. and in other words, living with a friend or a relative in an existing shelter. >> and informal shelters such as the church basements and the bunk beds and the rec rooms that have been converted to a nightly shelter, sros, and other private property locations which are inaccessible to the teams. and also, some folks in unsafe areas that were not considered suitable for enumeratio n. >> the point in time counts do not include the persons in the permanent support of housing, because that is not considered, part of the shelter definition, within the point in time, rubric as given to us by hud. >> so, methodology that was used in san francisco, in 2015, is very similar to the methodologies used since 2009. when applied survey research began to come and similar to some previous years, with some improvements from the periods before we helped out. and we follow a hud guideline on counting shelter and unsheltered persons in the method that has been selected in san francisco is an observation based street count and combined with a survey, and in the obligation based street count is mentioned the community effort included roughly, 500 volunteers, and which was similar to the number that we have had every year, that we participated since 2009. >> as trent mentioned, beginning in 2013, we added in a dedicated youth count, which was an overlay, or afr extra layer to the count, in response to growing interest, in concerns about youth homelessness, and certainly, its prevalence here in san francisco. and so that was, that was counted as well and there were 75 youth guides, that were recruited and participated in that, with the support of local youth homeless advocates. in addition, to the street effort on the 29th, that was followed up by an indepth survey of roughly 1027 currently homeless persons in the shelter and unsheltered locations. and that is was a sample which means that we tried to, we tried to administrator survey and locations where the folks who were observed. and the quarter was based on the neighborhood location. shelters and status and age. >> peers were recruited to administer the surveys on the streets. and shelters staff have administered the surveys in the shelter, subsequent to the completing of the survey element and the street, data collection, from the day of the count, and analysis, was conducted, which you see in the final report and then, several months ago, that data was submitted to hud, as part of the over all national effort to collect homeless data, which has been subsequently included in the annual homeless assessment report to congress. so, now for the fun part which is the results as we have heard already, the count found 6,686 persons, in the general street count that we did with all of the community volunteers, in 2015, and that was supplimented with the youth count result, which was 853 persons. so, for reporting standards to hud, there were a total of 7539 persons reported in or on a single point in time in san francisco in 2015. which represents an increase of 4 percent. 205 people. and as both trent and devon very accurately noted, this number and this relatively small change does not reflect the level of turn in a population. it often in terms of number and characteristics. and there has been a lot going on, in the last two years. and the data reflects some of that. the youth count and there was a slight decrease of 7 percent. and then the over all count when you add both the youth and the general count, there was an over all increase of 2 percent. >> as mentioned it is not always tremendously informative to know what other communities and jurisdictions around the county and state are doing, but within california to just give you an idea, we work at a number of these counties, and in the count, and santa clara went down over all 14 percent, as trent mentioned, san diego is down, and los angeles is up 12.4 percent and sonoma we want down 27 percent and santa cruz went down 44 percent. and salano went down 18-.6 percent just as a comparative in where we stand. and the vexing thing to us as researchers many of the economic and the housing scarety issues and the affordable issues exist in all of the california, coastal communities and yet, each community showed odd changes, that are not necessarily consistent with that. >> and so, it just as a reminder, that there is a tremendous number of issues which effect the over all numbers, and them going up and down. >> the single adults and 25 years and older, represent 71 percent of the count. >> youth under 25, and 21 percent, and persons and families, 8 percent. >> here is a little geographic distribution, of home sness, within the city. as mentioned there has been some changes. some things have not changed in the district six remains are the most by far, the most significant area for homelessness in the city. and district ten as well. and district 6, increased from 2013, by 29 percent. >> this increase in the districts where we are seeing some of the high concentrated homeless areas are getting increased infment lux of persons into those areas. and as homelessness, tends to be more and more consolidated in many, many urban areas. >> question for you, are you finding that in larger areas, or in every, jurisdiction that you do? >> even in the semi, urban rural areas, and so on. >> as trent mentioned it has escalated for our perspective throughout the country in the last couple of years and hopefully that may change. 20 percent of adults and 25 and over, 74 percent. these are the efforts and the planning all over the country. and that, and there was, in the very good success in addressing this in san francisco, from 2013, to 2015, and as a, and maybe a repetitive reminder, chronic homelessness, by definition is being homeless, and continuously for one year. or having four episodes or more of homelessness, over three years. and a disabling continue as present as well. >> and so, there were 1745. homeless individuals in 2015 that were found and that is in comparison of 77 founded in 2013, and chronically homeless families. and there were 58 families to be found homeless, and that number was 116 in 2013. >> >> veteran homelessness and this is an important area. and it is, as many of you, who are involved, in homeless services and read the paper, the addressing and the ending veteran homelessness has been, one of the top priorities of the, or of the hud and the inner agency. and the council on the homelessness and a lot of funding efforts in putting in the aggressive out reach and vouch programs. and so there is great, great progress made on this. in san francisco and a total of 598 persons, had veteran status, and it is down from the 716 found in 2013. >> chronically homeless vets, which was kind of a subset of this, the veterans who are also, chronically homeless, and that number was 208 persons in 2015. and that is a decrease from 260, chronically homeless vets in 2013. >> pushp >> and this is a decrease of 7 percent of, or where from 2013, or 679 family members were found. and again, very importantly, this does not include double up persons where double up is the most common sleeping location for many homeless families. and however, it is excluded from the pit definition we need to work with. >> unaccompanied youth, and 128 individuals, and unaccompanied children. and that is, children under 18 years of age. and they total of 1441 transition aged youth or youth between 18 through 24. and if you combine the unaccompanied children, and youth, number, it represents close to 21 percent of the over all homeless population. >> i flow that the definition does not include the children that live in fros for example and, my understanding is that the definition, of the homelessness is a problem because there are so many people that are coach surfing and to and outside of the definition and so it is way higher, i know since the first census count and others were challenging the huge under count. and how many, children are within the estheros that we can add to that 128 that are below 18 years old, do you think? >> that is a great, question, and unfortunately, i have not seen the sro data that would, or that i could share with you. >> and from to profile that. >> from the friends and family members and others, and stories, it seems that there is the cramming in of even more people under the tiny, 8 x 8 srorooms now that is going on. and my hope is that we have and i am really, pleased with the work and 300 plus volunteers and i am hoping that we can refine the way of giving accurate data and so the 1441, transitional aged youth that were identified, and my understanding too, is that many of them and there is probably way more than that, because of the other ways that the people find places to live that may be outside of the definition, could you comment on that? >> yeah. the again again one of the big challenges that we have to work with is that there are various strict guidelines and data auditing from hud as to who is included and who is not. and in san francisco, too, there is very significant safety, safety concerns, which have prevented us from going into, abandoned buildings? many areas we have the law enforcement and community groups and the city staff, to see, if there are ways that we can penetrate those areas more effectively and it is determined to be too much of a hazard. >> there are and some other xhupts that we have worked in, we have made some efforts to get it, and some of those double up locations, and profile that data. and the results from some of those efforts, and cost intensive have indicated that it is a huge number. and los angeles, and until this year, conducted a private property telephone survey. to profile the persons, on private property, who they consider homeless, but not to the enumerators and that represented 20 to 32 percent of the over all count. >> and we have, we have done some work, and general community assessments and santa cruz and we found that, the general community has had ten percent of the general community indicated that someone had lived in their house as a homeless person. and with the homeless status, in the last year. and so what as the researchers and one of the big unknown areas, is this fine line between precar yusly housed, and literally homeless. and in the movement that goes on back and forthwith that. and there is very little, because of a challenges, and in research, and there is very little that is known about it, but, i believe that you are absolutely right that that is a huge group. that is not represented necessarily in this data. and yet, it is a group that is regularly accessing city services. in an attempt to improve their situation. >> so, you mentioned that the numbers that the point in time numbers don't include many of the people that are doubled up in different places that were counted? and then also, you said for squaters in a abandoned building, for example, because we don't have the ability we don't even, and we are not even able to go into some urban areas, where there may be large numbers of encampments of transitional ages youth or younger that are living in encampments that are squatting in a building. >> right. >> and so there is and that is just, and unfortunately that has been the numberation teams are tip typically volunteers and i think that you have seen the efforts over the years, but there are two to five person teams of general community volunteers, that are going out, and having them go into the buildings under construction, or at some phase of demolition, and it is considered too risky from the liability standpoint. and i just wanted to acknowledge great articles by chris roberts from the examiner that looked at the methodology and tim redmonday for really kind of looking at numbers so that it is giving us a better sense of what the policies work and i know that the significant funding from the federal government, for the, and to lessen the veteran, homelessness is as significant, investment, and it might be a good example that, more investments in to, long term solutions, are the farrell and others are promoting might being the best remedy, verses the policis that we are facing the 5th anniversary of right now. i wanted to ask one other question about immigrant rights and undocumented youth and so that i know that this board and the city has dedicated significant amounts of money to really try to support, young people, unaccompanied minors who are pleaing persecution and other horrors in other countries. do we have any sense of the youth and unaccompanied minor and how many are fleeing from central america, unlike in the middle east and other places that are dealing with the similar situations? >> we, unfortunately that is a great question and it would be great data to have, unfortunately that is not something that we included in our youth survey. we have -- and the general survey, is given to everyone in the city and we added a supply mental questions that get into the youth themed data components but, where they were, if they were part of a refugee or the fleeing was not unfortunately one that we were able to capture. and as i mentioned earlier, we would love to get the better profile of the double ups and because especially with the youth, and in the couch surfing and the youth given a place to sleep on a regular nightly basis is a common phenomena. >> and just lastly, i wanted to thank you for the great work i wanted to ask later if sam dodge or devon know if we are going to continue on the sro census count that helps us to suppliment good information like this for the youth and families that are homeless as well. >> very good questions. >> the next slide is one that is one that is always, very, very, much a topic in a lot of public discourse, and it is home grown, and homelessness or not. i think that both devon and trent mentioned this. but, 71 percent of our respondents said that they had a regular, a regular housing situation in san francisco before they became homeless. and that is, that is up significantly from 2013. and in fact, if this number is fairly consistent, and with what we find in almost all of our research committees if not higher in some of the other communities. and then, first time homelessness, and this is something that trent in particular, i think was talking about and that has decreased significantly. and so, and it represents, you know, some changes and shifting in and the characteristics of the homelessness. and the next slide, is primary causes of homelessness and as you can see, there is a variety of different areas, and there is multiple reasons given in which is the primary and we have put on in the tech chart in the trending from 2011 to 2015, and the lost job is consistently there. and you might predict with the shrinking housing stock and doubling up and so on, and related to, the housing status that is a consistent issue as well as other, as well as other family, oriented things. and obstacles to getting permanent housing. and you can see, how the issues noted by the respond ants are almost all economic in nature. >> and you can't afford the rent and no job. and no money for moving costs 13 percent. >> health conditions. we still feel that health homelessness is as much of a health as housing issue for many folks out there. and these percentages of different health conditions that folks have, are consistent in the years that we have been doing this. the alcohol use, 37, and the psychiatric and emotional and 35. and the physical disability and 28 and ptsd, and 27 and general chronic health problems, 27. and tbi, ten. and aids and hiv related 7. >> which is, is, consistently higher than other communities that we work with. and the hud is very interested in domestic violence. and in, we interested of the communities, and the profile this, more effectively and in the data collection, and the history of domestic violence and 30 percent, said yes. 12 percent declined to state. 58 percent clearly said no. and just in the nature of the domestic violence, and self-reporting, is that it is typically, significantly under reported. and we have no reason to believe that this is not an under count as well. and folks, and supervisor chang has talked about the service assistance. and this is, these are the services that we are being accessed by the respondents. free meals and emergency shelter. and dish services and health services and not using any services. and you could see that there is obviously changes in this. but, generally, within the ballpark. and then, specifically, what services were being accessed. and food stamps and again, it is one of the highest. and general assistance. and devon talked a little bit about the challenges to that and yet they are still 30 percent and not receiving any government assistance, and it is still high. but, it is an improvement from 2013. and medical 20 percent and ssi, 16 percent and getting back to the health issues, or excuse me. relative to receiving benefits, 74 percent of the respondents were getting something and to maybe, suppliment a little bit, on to what trent was saying, about in addressing the supervisor change's comments about not wanting it, or any government help. and in other communities, not in san francisco, this topic is called, homeless by choice. and it is a, and it is a common belief that there is a lot of folks out there that don't want any help. and other communities have asked us to probe this a little bit. and when we phrase the question, in terms of if housing were available, to you, that it was acceptable to you, and safe and recognized some of the challenges that you phased, would you accept it? >> and it was a little, worded a little simpler than that. but the response was consistently 95 percent. >> and so there is a lot of, in a programming challenges and which, make placement, in the some of the shelter system, very, very much a concern to folks. and we think that they would like housing, but not necessarily housing the way that they have experienced it to date. >> so with those applause i will conclude the presentation and as you know, there is, almost 90 pages, and there is more data that we can, we can thumb through and address. but, i will be happy to answer any questions, but, and the committee has. >> and thank you, very much. and i don't know if we have any more questions right now, but want to thank you for all of the hard work and look forward to continuing to work together as we offer this data and so forth and appreciate your work on this on the city's behalf. >> and i don't have any questions either, do i want to thank everyone for their presentations but, also, and even though the data shows that our district has 7 homeless individuals, and which we know is much more than that, and you know our offices obviously worked very closely with whether it is dufty's office or other s to try to get services for the individuals on the street. and so, i know that this is an ongoing issue and i really appreciate that we have tried to find creative solution and trying to eliminate the barriers for the people to receive the services and so i want to see if we continue down that path and just, again, thank you for the ongoing, partnership, on this very challenging issue. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> i had a question and i think that it was by one of the reporters analysis of our data. and my understanding is that in 2007, instead of district by district, we used a census track maps that helped us to hone in, we we say the golden gate park and 5200 homeless people and that is not a good example. but district seven we will know based on the tracks where the people are and that and it is misleading to look at just, wide, 80,000 person districts to look more, specifically, on the census tracks. >> yeah. i don't know that, i would agree with that. the, and what has been developed and refined, in san francisco, with trents department has been neighborhood routes that make sense. from a canvassing and an out reach perspective and all of those, those routes and maps, are, developed and in conjunction with the jis department with the city. so it does, how or whether you define it in routes, or if you define it in census block, groups. or census tracks, you, can, mix and match the subunits very easily, either way. and i think that the way that the city has chosen to makes it work, you know, effective, for good analysis. and that, and it does, it gives the ability for the future analysis, even on subareas that have or are, more targeted, within a census tract or a block group that might be done. >> yeah, i wanted to say that, it is shocking how many people are in district six and ten and then your information about the possibility of people moving out of district ten, and into district six, and then, district five, around the haight ash bury and the parts of the golden gate park around it seem to be the key spots for the large numbers and the homelessness in the city. >> yeah, it is, and it is, and unfortunately the data does not really give us insights into the migration, or whether or not the increase of the people that we saw in 10, are actually or six, are actually from you know, another, particular district or not. we don't necessarily get that, that, level of analysis. >> and then i think that the report really shatters the stereotypes about homelessness and humane cities like san francisco that were not a magnet for homelessness and i think that out of the survey, 70 percent of the people were living in san francisco before they came homeless. >> right. >> so i think that is a really good thing about the report. and my last question is on page 14. you go through the federal definition, of homelessness, for point in time counts. and is there a possible way to work with the coalition on homelessness and the others to develop the san francisco based definition, that gets at the people that are cramed into couches and inlaw unsits and sro hotel rooms, and 8 x 8 rooms. and the squaters, in the buildings, and other places that your definition and your data is not counting? if there are key data sources that for example, the coalition, if they, and if they had great numbers, on sros. and we would be fine with including them in our final report. there is also the education numbers that are reported to the county office of education. which do include some double up of the data children. but those can be added to the report as a reference, but obviously they, they can't be reported within the hud definition. >> okay thank you, and i think that in san francisco, we have the other jurisdictions and the circumstances here and the way that people are dealing with it and being marginalized from the housing perspective and it does not capture all that we need to capture, for the future. and i know that we are bound as a city to do it according to hud standards and the federal definition is better. and they are good, but they don't capture the entire picture. >> right. and it makes it really difficult, to communicate to the community groups, some of these really, fine details definitional distinctions that we have to work under. >> thank you. >> we open up the public comment in a second. >> i want to thank everyone for participated in the hearing, in particular, devon and trent, and the entire hsa team who is here and dph, or sorry, and trent's team. >> sure. >> and devon's team. >> excuse me one second sir. i think that we need to be reminded of the efforts that we are making in the city of san francisco. and it continues to persist, homelessness as an issue. and that is on everyone's mind. and san francisco residents and i think that we should be encouraged by the progress and all that we have done today but also cannot be come play ant and we have to do more to get the people in their own two feet and off of the streets and we look forward to working with everyone in the room and everyone else who participates in this. and challenge as a city going forward. with that, we will open to public comment and everyone will have two minutes. >> (inaudible) >> my name is amy and i am the foupder developing with the mission to support, and sustainable development and here we are right now. we cannot hear right now without doing the solution and so i am proposing the solutions today and i did just talk with the coalition, on the homelessness, and was told that under ed lee's administration we have gone from a 40 percent pipeline of a percentage of affordable housing going to homelessness, and to 20 percent. and so under brown,. we need to take action to improve the lives of our homeless neighbors while building a vision to permanent solution and for better or worse, he has made the up coming super bowl a catalyst for changing policies for the treatment of the neighbors on the street, we have enough, wealth and creativity and talant and heart in the city, to improve the lives of thousands of homeless residents and in time for the super bowl and i call it the saint francis, super bowl, homelessness challenge and now it is not a game. but we could all win by taking this challenge >> we have homeless neighbors sleeping on in the tent em campsments and they became home s by life ining san francisco and we don't have enough permanent housing and this is a crisis and we must take the creativity action. what if we had $5 million and a source from the nfl or the 49ers we have under utilized small parcels of city owned property and there is a project that was done, by a cal berkeley professor called local, code, thank you >> any other members of the public that wish to comment on item number one? >> yeah i am hearing the reports. i think that we need to start with the main scenario. and i think that we need to, we need to actually partner with the homeless, so that they can actually build the better san francisco. so they can actually work and prove and hope that the other homeless. and it just seems like every time that i will try to offer something like let's have a supportive group and let's do something, i continuously got rebuffed. and the other time out, and the homeless resistance to the services. and in the government agencies, and we as a city have not really gotten past that par dime of the violent and the local sro and the sro that, and that the community has in partnership, and they could be in and i have the better quiet enjoyment sleeping outside on the sidewalk than i actually do inside of that sro. and and it is tolerated if not endorsed with having a place to live and so, and have we gotten passed the paradyme of the rat and roaches of the bed bugs of the sro stock? i think that there is definitely solutions, and i think that you just need to meet with the homeless, instead of talking down to our or about them. and i think that the, again, you need to partner with the homeless, because if there is a problem, then they are part of the solution. and lts just that there is no accountability or very, and our accountability for these violence abusive sro and the shelter workers. and i mean there is a woman intact in front of the partnership building, 650, 80, and they ran in circle and never -- >> thank you very much. >> any other members of the public wish to speak on item 1? >> i am not here as a homele, however i am one of them and i heard about the data and i do have respect for it. okay? i do know that the people have been working hard with those men who are together and however i don't think that they are representing the real. and many of the people are on the street and many of the people are destroying our cities. and i, went to one of the shelters or two, and believe me, the reason why people do not want to go there, is because they do have time, and they force the people to keep from being homeless, and they do not want the people to go to the school that is to look for a job. they have to be there by 3:00 or 4 and besides that they do have to present more information than what they can afford i heard that santa clara, went down and i did show that the facebook and the police and others are taking away the people from the street, and not because they are not homeless, but because they are taking their lasting to hide the fact that we are having much more homeless, today than before. and i am not sure how they presenting those members but what i can tell you is to go outside and see how many people there are. and how many people, that are in front of clara and how many people are hired to, and to hide the fact that we are getting worse and worse. and i just, begging you, to do something about it, and to, reflect that the real data to make changes for our country to be better. >> thank you very much. >> any other members of the public wish to speak on item number one? >> okay. and seeing none, public comment is closed. and our colleagues, thank you for being with me for this hearing and your involvement, and could i have a motion to file item one? >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang and take that without objection. >> and if you will call. item two. >> ordinance authorizing the department of human resources to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately $130,000 from the fuse corps to prepare students for the pathways into careers in science, technology and engineering and mathematics. >> good morning, donna from the department of human resource and workforce development director and i am here before you today to request the community's recommendation to authority to accept and extend a grant. and the fuse corps is part of an executive fellows program with the mayor's office with the department of human resources and fuse corp and this partner wls the career professionals and designated city departments to work on the specific, high priority city initiatives. the goals of the executive program, are to provide resources and opportunities for city leaders to learn from the experts in the private sector to address the critical issues that may require the creative solutions to provide the opportunities for individuals in the private sector and to learn about the city and make a positive contribution to the city. and to create and build the stronger public, private working relationships and recruit the individuals would may not have considered, working for the city before. >> and in the fiscal year, 14, 15, a pilot program was launched and with the success of the pilot, the program was expanded in this fiscal year to 7 fellows, and the grant from this fuse corps will allow the city to expand the program and add one additional fellow. >> this is a joint project with the mayor's office and the unified school district and focusing on increasing opportunities for the unified school district schools for the careers in stem, science, and technology, and engineering and math. and related fields. >> and the fellow will partner with the particular holers to develop a plan, to identify the common goals to put the students on the path, to succeed throughout their kthrough 12 education. and to also, work with the stake holders to maximize the opportunities and resources to achieve these goals. the fellow will work closely with the public and private and non-public partners to insure that the programs are working collectively and effectively to prepare san francisco youth for the stem careers, thank you and i will be happen xwr to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> any questions? >> all right, then we will move on to the public comment and anybody wish to comment on two? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and that motion to send this item forward with recommendation? >> and we can take that without objection. >> could you call number three. >> resolution for approve and authorizing the acquisition of one construction easement, and one permanent subsurface electrical, and one permanent and well connection, and one utility water connection easement from the coast co-wholesale to be used by the city under the water system improvement program. >> okay, thank you we have fuc here to speak. >> actually, claudia. and we do have the staff if there are questions and i will be brief and this resolution regards the water, system, improvement program. in 2012. and the san francisco, public utilities commission initiated the regional ground water storage and consisting the of construction of the water wells and to increase the capacity of water, during the regional dry years. and the sfpuc is requesting funding for the 190,000 previously appropriate ated by the board of supervisors under the project as part of the sfpuc water system to purchase four easements from the property owner, costco, and the easements will provide a temporary construction, easement area for the project, staging and the subservice, utility connections to provide power and water, and a connection easement. and the total average price which has been appraised, is $2.59 per square foot. and that is a $2 square foot appraised value for the temporary construction, easement and about $8 per square foot appraisal value for the other easements. and based upon a total land value of $60 per square foot. and the temporary construction, easement will be for 18 months with the option to extend the term up for 12 additional months for month to month. and the sfpuc is also asking that the final environmental report and the findings previously adopted last fall, be readopted as there is no substantial project changes and no new, information, of substantial importance that will change the conclusion set forth. >> and mr. rose and his office and the report, provides a informative summary of the project and this project and ultimately recommends the resolution without change and we agree with that recommendation. >> thank you. >> colleagues any question for the staff here? >> okay, mr. rose could you go to your report please? >> yes, members of the committee on page 3 of our report we note that under the purpose of the agreement and as the department is just indicated, the city has purchased the four easements from costco at an average cost of $2.69 and a total cost of $190,000, and a matter of summarizing and table one on page 3 we recommend that you approve the resolution. >> okay. >> thank you very much. >> and no other questions we will move on to public comment and you may wish to comment on this item? >> okay, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we have it in front of us. >> i would like to make a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation, and motion with tang and we can take that without objection. >> could you call four? >> resolution approving the fourth amendment to the agreement with the prwt services. for citation processing and support services to extend the agreement by one year to october, 31, 2016. with an option to extend the agreement for up to two additional years, and for a total contract amount not-to-exceed, $63 million. >> good morning, supervisors, steve leee sfmta and thank you to hearing our item today. this fourth amendment and resolution, before you is a request for one year, extension, on the third of five one year options, and the increase to not-to-exceed amount by 9.2, million dollars, and for agreement, with the prwt for the citation process and support services. and the amendment also authorizes the mta to implement the enhancements and we feel that we have the great customer service and the operations. and these improvements include, creating a residential permit and a parking system that will auto mate it on-line as well as mail in, and the improvements to the web portal that will allow the customer to view the current status of any citation and process of any protest and to create a web portal, where they can query the system to see if there is a payment on the citation and request it on-line. issuing an rfp for a new agreement by the end of the november of this year, and we urge that you approve this amendment. >> okay, thank you very much. >> and colleagues, with know questions, and mr. rose could we go to your report. >> yes, mr. chairman and members of the committee, on page 9 we report that the sfmta is arequesting approval of the additional approval of 9,250,494 which equals of to 3 million, for the july, first of 2015, 0 october, 31, 2016, and less the balance of 2 million, 45,000, and in 2015, from the original, not-to-exceed agreement amount and we also note on page 10 of our report that in the fiscal year 14, issued 1 million parking citation and received, 150 million, in parking citation revenues and we do recommend that you approve this resolution. >> thank you. mr. rose. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you and i think that this would have been in the budget analyst report as well. but i just wanted to provide for the public the information about funding that we are spending through this agreement, amendment. particularly for i guess better on-line, efficiency or processing and i think that is a really good goal and i think that the budget analyst pointed out, roughly, 400,000 dollars extra that we are spending for that and just wanted to clarify that if for some reason we are going to go with another service, and after the rfp process, what happens to the data, and the system and if you could just explain that. >> sure, what the prwt will be developing is our web pour tal and any new rendor that will come in a year and a half from now or a year from now will have to integrate in terms of the data and that is natural. and these, particular improvements are we feel, minor elements of a contract, that will probably be in the range of about, 40 to 50 million dollars. and the heavy portion of the contract, will be citation, processing and enforcement and ajudation, and so these improvements will be able to transfer to a new vendor in the future. >> and then, again, even though we are, and we could go with prwt again and another company, and do you have a sense of the time frame for when some of these new improvements especially through the on-line, web portal will be able to take place? >> absolutely. >> this extension, and authorization is from november first, and through, october 31st. of this year. we would implement it immediately and take two to four months to implement all three. >> from now? >> yes. >> because we can't start until we are authorized to start. >> okay. >> november first >> great, thank you very much. >> okay. thanks very much. we will open this up to public comment and anyone wish to comment on four? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues we have this item in front of us and could i have a motion to send this forward. >> so moved. >> supervisor tang and we can take it without objection. >> madam clerk do we have any other business. >> no other business. >> thanks, everyone we are adjourned. >> >>mayor edwin m. lee: good morning, everyone. welcome to our city's navigation center. i have this opportunity to talk about the partnerships that we've created in our latest but on going challenge of helping to house our homeless the best we can as a city. let me begin by again saying thank you to former mayor gave and articulated a plan to end homelessness in our city and got ought of -- all of us in the city to give this high attention and our city to create homeless programs and homeward bound programs and incentivized us to look at as many model as we can to housing rubric first and that's been our mantra. as i approached the challenges that i have with more people having suffered homelessness and working with our public health agencies, our homeless connect, our homeless center and leadership through the stories that they continue to provide to us about the challenges that families and youth and others face along with our human services agency, we also wanted to make sure that we formed additional partnerships to help us with this challenge. i think one of the best partnerships that we form is with our inter faith council because of their on going commitment and i know members of the board are here. i want to say thank you to our local representative here david campos and also mark ferrell and julie christensen for their leadership and the rest of the board as we look at this model at the navigation center and try to figure out in this partnership what else we can do and do better at. the critical partnership with the interest faith council is not just the leadership they have been and working with el nino but working with our human services department and all of the agencies that want to help in this incredible challenge of people living on our streets. we must do more and we must do better and learning from the very examples that we've given to tomb -- homeless connect when they are at bill gram and other parts of the city and we try to form even better ideas. the opportunity came about when the inter faith council had an opportunity to present to us a philanthropic idea to work with us and other agencies to put our best ideas forward at this navigation center. this truly is a center where people who are homeless and living on the streets can gets services at one center. it's an attempt to take on the challenges at our homeless shelters and input on the street and those that are working through the incredible services at the service center working along the streets along with working with our public works department, our police department to try to provide the highest human touch for people who have the tremendous barriers of living on our streets. this navigation center has some of it's good values as we try not to say no to anybody. that when we invite people we try to invite the relationships that they built over perhaps sometimes many years on the streets, taking care of their pets, the things that they have a sense of belonging with. identify their property and take care of that and have a place where they can immediately clean up, have immediate attention on health services of support, mental challenges that they might have on the behavioral side of it as well as just basic food and the inter faith council has been able to attract along with the episcopal community services a variety of food stock such that those can be here can have access to healthy foods 24/7 can get the shower and health needs on an on going basis on these sites with these portables that used to belong to public schools and the help of public works and againstity of philanthropic donors that we've been able to have very portable showers and bathroom facilities all in an effort to work with supervisors david campos because he was not interested basically in having the traditional shelter here and supervisor which would be responsible to do and as we talked to other supervisors, we wanted to present a model. i believe now given that some of the mayors that came through some of the conference of mayors that this would be the international model. mayors from seattle, portland, vancouver, have sent delegations here to review what we are doing here because they are facing similar challenges in their city and we are comparing notes along with los angeles, san jose and oakland. and by all accounts, our effort and our model here has demonstrated that we have done better and we can do more and better. such that, this navigation center given all of it's collaboration, the systems we put in, the non-profits that we put in. the surrounding and embracement of our clergy as well as those that are advocating for the rights of homeless to be respected in a dignified way. they have all said i think without a doubt that this navigation center is the right way to do it shouldn't surprise you with some statistics that over 200 people with the last 5 months since this center has started has been served that 60 have moved into permanent sustainable housing off site. 34 interesting enough, 34 individuals have raised their hands and said i have gotten to a point where you help me identified a support system where i can go home and be more successful. there are currently 71 persons here right now living and getting the support services, awaiting the permanent housing that we are negotiating. so all in all, the brief time that we've had with everybody's level of cooperation and with the again the housing first services being part of that, the navigation center with it's goals have been very successful to the point where today's announcement is not just to give you some background about the center in the navigation center in how it works. later on we'll have someone who has gone through the center to talk to you directly about what this means to him, but also to allow the center to effectuate in a way that this center approaches homelessness. we will begin immediately of reprioritizing of existing fund that exist in our human services agencies and public health to call for an additional $3 million to be put in both an expansion and another navigation center. the location of which we have yet to have, but we know this is a good model. and working with our budget office, working with beven's input and working with non-profits, we believe an expansion and working with the navigation center, i'm going next year of identifying two or three more of these navigation centers to make an even more impact around the thousands of people that are homeless in san francisco. i believe we can do that and i believe this model can be had. we are not doing it alone, we could not do it alone. i think we have affected this private partnership so deeply and encouraged the private sector that we want to establish a fund. we are going to call it navigation partnership fund where we will deposit our initial $3 million that the city will have and ask the private sector to match it. to match it in a way in which it's not just money. but that they will match it only when they see the use of the city money going towards a very successful program as we have demonstrated here so that their private money can then be viewed as being used very much in an accountable level to be matched up with the city money. we expect and we hope that as we introduce this model and bring more private citizens and companies in to educate them about homelessness and about the causes of it that we will at the same time say that this is part of the solution. now, i say part of it in a very deliberate way because none of the supervisors will say that the navigation center is in and of itself the answer. it's still affordable housing that is at the end result. this has also been the end result for all of our shelters, for all of our service programs. we want to have sustained housing but are people ready for it? i think coming to the navigation center and getting the support we have will get them there back up to this navigation center and certainly by the end of this year are over 500 units of housing primarily in affordable residential hotel units that the city and the private sector are mass releasing. that is an incredible part of the answer and that by this mid-september, we will have about 150 of those units identified so as people move in, they know where they are going to be ending up. by mid-october, another 150 units have been mass released by the mayor's office of housing and the housing coordinator and all the other agencies working together. now, the big difference and of course we will have the target of 500 by the end of the year. the big difference is this: i know cecil knows this, episcopal knows this, inter faith knows this, it is never ever about just the brick and mortar, is it? it's about the people. it's about what they need on an on going basis so they can more than survive. they have to be successful. they have job training programs helping. we have support systems for our transitional age youth that they can not do without because they have got skill training. they have to get back on education levels. they have to get to jobs that they can use the earnings of which they can afford to live here. for so homeless population it's no different. in an around the south of market area or tenderloin, we know that if we don't do more than just the brick and mortar, that they will be no different than those that are living there. we have to have services on site. where we mass released these, we made an agreement with the residential hotel owners and i want to thank them for being great people and working with us because we are going to invest in the building and management of those buildings and we are going get the ability to have a number of those residents to appeal to a certain council to keep track to make sure people are being taken care of. and continue to refer them to services and many of those will have services on-site and those will invest in the elevators and sro's and things that they do in massive affordable housing on a daily bases. they operate very low income affordable housing just like our non-profit sector that we are working deliberately on that are passing this incredible bond that we have that they though that they have to have asset management as part of that system. so, we have this model of a navigation center that begun with some great philanthropic ideas but also worked reality with our supervisors and our homeless advocates and service providers in the homeless connect to cause a center that had not only an enriched level of services, but we also have the end result which is housing at the benefit that we are taking care of as well. it not to say and i'm not going to promise 100 % for all of this, as a matter of fact some people decided it wasn't for them and they are back in shelters and 17% said i want to go home. there is strong enough of a system of support i want to have. i think this is humanity we want to have in our city. we do have voices that are formally homeless individuals that keep advising us. we want to keep our ear open to those that we help so we that on the long-term we have the long-term answers. it is not just about announcing 1,000 or 2 or 3,000 units. it's about how we do it as a city. it's a story i want to tell to take the opportunity to say that more people will be off of our streets not because we want to move them to another part of the city. supervisors don't want to hear that either. they want answers and i think we are providing them with the collaborative answer that people are seeking the longer and more sustainable answer and allows people that are form erly homeless to allow the ability to get some support to be job ready or they can access services they are not -- able to to live a richer life in the city of san francisco. i think we are already acknowledging how expensive this city is. that is why the city government is stepping up to cause this to happen but we are also going to say that we need the private sector to step it up as well. we will ask all the businesses whether it's the chamber of commerce, the tech companies, the hospitals, take a look at this model. come down here. visit, talk with the individuals and if you agree with us, with our best step forward, i want to make sure that those who have been involved in the challenge of homelessness see our city's commitment as deep as well as is wide and that we want to make sure we have all the foundational answers for this. and if it's the only way you can do that is to interview those that come to the center and talk to them about whether their lives are changing and whether we are doing the right things or not. it doesn't end with just the the center, but it does an on going basis to have a lot of partnerships to continue to recognize this is an on going thing. i want more of our people living on the streets to be off the streets for the right reasons. this incredible weather that we are having has caused a lot of people to be on the streets at night and the lifestyle of things that happen on our streets are very dangerous to them, to their health, to their well being. we have to have these kinds of answers that allow people to have long-term homes. this is the work of the navigation center. i'm proud of the people that staffed this place from episcopal to public health, behavioral, mental health, staff, neighborhood center, mission center, remind me of everybody that's down here. they smile when they have visitors because they are proud of work that they are doing. i want to give kudos to all of them and human services. this is a model that is working well and i want to be able to expand it. with that, let me proudly introduce supervisor mark farrell who has been paying a lot of attention to this and what it means to us here. [ applause ] >>supervisor mark farrell: thanks, mayor lee. homelessness has been a serious situation for decades. there is no solving this issue. what it does say is staying commitment on behalf of the city and on behalf of all of our residents. housing will always be our first priority, always. but also look at creative new ideas over a period of time that will make a difference in the lives of those living on our streets and all of san francisco residents. to me this navigation center represents not only an embodiment of new creative thinking of how we are going to take people off our streets in an environment that will bring them on a volunteer basis in this navigation center but also represent the ability of allowing the private sector to get involved to really address something that is more attractive to our city and how we are going to help them. whether it's homeward bound that mayor lee mentioned whether it the laws we passed last year or navigation centers. this is what we need to be doing as a city. we need to make sure this is a top priority for our entire city of san francisco. i want to congratulate not only mayor lee for this, but our budget committee and i want to share with you the 1st hand this administration has had and to all of those that are involved in this city not just citywide but in particular, i want to talk deven duffy, it is your vision here. [ applause ] with the coolest sun glasses that exist in san francisco right now to bobby garcia, all the other providers that worked with us in our community and michael and rita here as well. thank you to all of my colleagues, supervisors campos and christensen. it's a great thing when we come together with new ideas and to benefit all of our residents and to bring the private sector in. i'm proud to celebrate with the mayor this navigation center and also the future to continued bringing of the private sector into continuing to work on our city's issues. to me it represents an incredible step in the right direction. where we need to go with the city. i'm excited for the future. i want to congratulate everyone today and the work and the best is yet to come. i want to introduce a true friend who cares about this issue as well supervisor david campos. [ applause ] >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mark. working on the budget specifically on this issue. mr. mayor to supervisor christensen welcome to the mission to district 9. i want to just be completely honest. we are not going to solve the issue of homelessness today. i don't know that this city or any city for that matter can really completely eradicate homelessness. but what i have seen since my not only tenure as a supervisor but as a police commissioner and someone who has lived in san francisco for a long time that when it comes to homelessness, we really have to be smart about how we deal with the issue. and i think that we need to get away from some of the extremes that we have seen in the past. the idea that somehow the status quo is fine and we deal with homelessness by not looking at it and not thinking about it and the other extreme that we somehow deal with homelessness by criminalizing the homeless. those strategies do not work. when beven duffy first approached me about the navigation center and i talked to the mayor, it was important for me that we in district nine and specifically in the mission that we stepped up to make this happen. my experience is that whenever you talk about homelessness on the board of supervisors there is always apprehension about bringing into the district anything that has to do with that population. it was important for me that district 9 and the mission approach it differently and say you know what, we will tackle that issue. so, before anything is said, i want to thank the people with district 9 and specifically the people of the mission that helped to make this happen because [ applause ] because a navigation center like this does not happen over night. before even the concept was something we could talk about, beven and i had to meet with community member and community member with school parents, with the principals, teachers, merchants association, with the residents with anyone we knew that would be impacted by this. it took months to get to that point. it wasn't only until we did all of that work that we were able to bring this to what it is today. so, my message to the rest of the city is as grateful as wonderful as i think it is that district nine did this, other parts of the city also need to step up to the plate. we in district nine and we in the mission in particular are proud that we have been carrying this responsibility. but this is something that to really address it, other neighborhoods have to do the same. because what's happening right now, i can tell you is that the numbers of homeless folks that are moving into this area are increasing. i think to some extent maybe that if they are in this neighborhood that somehow they can get priority to this navigation center. there are some who feel that. so what's happening is is that we in this navigation center do not have the capacity to really address all the need that's out there, not only the need in this neighborhood but the need throughout the city. there are people who are trying to get in here and we have to do a better job. i am very excited and i want to thank the mayor for the fact that we will be opening another center. i personally think that we need 5-6 navigation? san francisco to really begin to address the level of need. also the navigation center as critical as important as it is is only part of the equation because the ultimate solution has to be permanent housing. so, mr. mayor, i look forward to continuing partnering with you and looking forward to working with my colleagues and decided where else these navigation centers will go we will make ourselves available to share with you the lessons learned and our thoughts and i think it's only fitting that this council and city is so involved because the city of frances should be the city that gets this right. with that, i'm proud to introduce one meef colleagues on the board of supervisors, the supervisor for district 3, supervisor christensen. >> so lots of people to thank. lots of history. i would like to confine my remarks to three things. to the citizens of this city get it and people who have been living on the streets because they have no home and no leg up. we understand their plight in our community is an important issue and we are on it. secondly, to this particular place, to beven duffy and his team and i think parks and recreation had a hand in this. thank you. i have been watching this center since before it's opening. i think i toured with deven. i was proud to be in south of market for the first people that moved out of the center into housing and i was especially happy to be here with senator diane feinstein a week ago who took a very particular interest in this program and in its opportunities. so it is wonderful with an issue that seems so intractable and often so lacking in hope that we have come up with at least one step that provides a chance that we can do something about this. but thirdly and this is the most important thing i would like to say today, to the person whose contribution made this possible. who may even be among us today, i don't know. thank you. your money has been put to good use. wonderful things are happening here. and secondly, an invitation to people who are out there that haven't stepped up. to the companies who have not discovered philanthropy yet. to people who want to help, this is a good place to put in philanthropic system to make a real difference in people's lives and in the lives of our communities as a whole. come join us. come make these new centers happen and we'll be looking for possibilities in district 3 and we'll make many more of these happy place an i hope everyone will help to that end. thank you. [ applause ] >> our jewish sisters and brothers are about to embark on the holiest time of their year, and a time of season of new beginnings. i draw from the sacred text of the jewish people, the book of proverbs that say the without the vision the people will parish. it's a vision of action and we are blessed to see this. i want to share 2 stories with you about how we came to this day because in order to get this up and running in the time constraints that we are -- were given us we want to make sure at the inter faith council's part that we can get the funding mechanism placed within the year. we were so grateful to be able to partner but it took a little work to get there. the meeting of our board took place on the second thursday of december. i don't know if you remember what that day was like here. it wasn't as beautiful as it is today. there's no power this this city and all the schools were closed. there were torrential rains. we had done all of our due diligence and to just get a letter to talk about the significance of this and the staff said no, we won't give that to you and i said why? because the mayor wants to come himself and impress upon your board the significant of this project and he did. he made a little reference to el nino. and in his statement to our board which i think everybody will remember because we met by candlelight. there was no power. he says we are here today to pass resolutions because the people that need this shelter the most are the ones that are out there getting wet now. and i remember that like yesterday. and we felt very blessed unanimously to have embraced this project and to stay active with it. we were asked often by the press, is this going to work? is this going to be a success? people of faith can talk prophetically. i can tell you why, having an opportunity to tour this site with the mayor and owner. the mayor new every inch of what was happening here in this building and that vision i can see it was going to work and the genuine confidence in the done or and it allowed it to be created. and the creativity to be able to create coalitions with the board of supervisors, the neighbors, the city department heads and the non-profits. that was a sign that this was going to work. we are very thankful to have been at the ground floor of this pilot project and we so pray to see this replicated and continue our commitment. we've been in the business of the inter faith winter shelter for over 25 years. mr. mayor, thank you for allowing us to be involved in this. i actually get and i want to recognize human services agencies commissioner rita soems who is here. she's the president of our council and she has a very important vision. i'm proud to be here to present our client. victor and his partner cynthia on the street for 25 years. it wasn't until entry into this place where they can see a road to hope, a road to possibility. victor, would you come and share with us a little bit your story. [ applause ] >> this is a story about empowering me. it took a strong woman to give me that vision, that believed in myself. that means a lot to me. this woman right here. [ laughter ] you know, that is what is really great about this place because as you know, these streets can tear you down. you can be out there fighting and running the streets and using drugs, whatever. it is what brought you to that point in our society. in this society you need hope and believe and everybody that deserves a chance to have a life, to be a part -- productive part of our society in this world. she gave me that hope because i was living up under a bridge. i went to el nino as you talked about last time on a tarp with safe way baskets. it not what you want to go through. torrential rain, everything wet, alone. this woman inspired me. she seen something in me just like deven who said i'm coming back to get you. for a city official to tell somebody that and to come back to get that person no matter if it was a day or 2 months later. he said believe in me and i did. i'm here to testify to it. that's important to me. for the next place to have a place to come to. it's not easy to be in the streets. this is a great thing. to take you off the street and put you in a living environment is a shock. i know many people that went in off the streets and just went right back out. because they weren't ready for it. this place here. it teaches you the life skills which is so important. it makes you feel good about yourself where you can go to have a place to wash your clothes. a place to take a shower everyday. a clean environment. not just some hotel where everybody just comes off the streets with whatever. this is a clean environment. it's teaching you. you have a kitchen. you have staff, the support. they support us in getting our drivers license, marriage license, domestic partnership. it all factors in to giving that person a sense of being. that is what is so really important to have a sense of being of accomplishment and they help you on that way by giving you wake up calls. you can't have someone that lives moment to moment on a whim and expect them to go, okay, i have an 8:00 appointment today and after that i have another 2:00 appointment and it's difficult for that person to meet that because it's living outside. every minute, it can change. your life can change. somebody can come in, someone can interact with your life and change the whole, everything that you have planned to do and it will change. this place gives that you buffer and opportunities to sit down and think about it, no pressure. they are here for us. that's what's made my. it hasn't been an easy road. i'm used to getting up every morning thinking about how i'm going to eat, how i'm going to take care of her. what i'm going to do to take care of her. that's on the top of my head. put you in a basket. whatever, recycling, whatever. a few dollars to do that. if i had to pick her up and put her in a basket and put her in there and got pulled over for it. our police department said this woman coma toes in this traffic cart is getting pushed. they were worried. [ applause ] >> that officer that pulled me over cared enough about seeing something like that, a person with another human being in a basket. that's what it's all about. that's what beven showed me. he cared enough about me for meeting me and we all do. everybody. we love a chance. thank you. i won't say anything more. [ applause ] >> thank you, victor. we have more people to serve, more people to come through. >>mayor edwin m. lee: one significant thing that i know supervisor campos mentioned. when we talked about this idea, we also talked about it being temporary. the reason is this is a site for now and hopefully less than a year construction will start in 160 affordable units, that this mission and community deserve and need yesterday. we are moving very quickly on that. but it also says to all of us that, we only have a certain period of time to show what we've got. we do have time pressures because we need to get people off the street before they encounter things they can't handle. this is where the time frames are important to the accountability and the use of the public funds as well as the private funds. so we are dedicated not just to ideas, not just to the programs but on a very deliberate life changing transformative time changing for people to get their lives in order and this is what is part of the discipline in the navigation center. i want to assure that the supervisors as we promised it would be temporary and it is in fact temporary because these sites don't run off very often. we are already identifying other areas of the city and we need the similar cooperation that we fortunately had here by community representative, residents, the school district and everyone here watching what's going on they have been supportive of the pets and the property and the level of activity that's been here. we are on a quest to create more navigation centers. we are on a quest to use the city's money wisely and to create more partnerships with our religious community, our residents, our non-profits that are incredibly important to this. thank you for visiting the center and thank you for listening to the speeches and there will be more folks to ask more questions and we anticipate that our approach here will cause more people to come and take a close look at this model and work with us. thank you very much. >> as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> hello good morning and thank you for being here i'll ben the principal of monroe elementary school excited to have you here and nancy pelosi joining us we have wonderful staff a wonderful students at monroe we have 4 do hundred and 4 students and china's literacy program your goal to really prepare our students to succeed in life and go to college we're college bound school i'm proud to be the principal and video you here i want to introduce the to the treasurer jose cisneros. >> thank you, principal solace good morning at more and more o monroe elementary schools i'm the city treasurer i want to give you a brief background on the kindergarten to a colony program and the success we started the kindergarten college program we saw research that says if a clorj colony groups that will go to sclej without a similar account only 8 percent of kids born 0 into low income families complete colony minimal we launched did cubed college in the last four years opened 20 thousand accounts automatically for kindergarteners in the it is $50 to start those children start with money saved for college we do those account opening absolutely automatically no parents signatures the kids start school and the account is open we know that model works we've seen the families engaged have saved to date over $1.3 million of their own money for their kids college education we believe this is the first program that gets low income families to go to college we couldn't have launched this without for the most part the mayor and budget leaders in san francisco set aside the money to make that possible it is absolutely, of course, (clapping.) and the incredible is unified school district helps us make this program possible as well as outreach partner the castro and the family connections in the great partner city bank they hold the accounts for the students we're joined by bob did gloriously dwrshgs director of public works for community depth and the joseph for the region and we'll celebrate this without their hard work thank you very much (clapping.) and city bank started accident mravm policeman that made the families into the formal financial system and city bank is trshtd to the financial education component of kindergarten to college insuring this isn't just angle accountants resource but having that with the financial education to families know how tow to save we want to make sure the children safe their, their economic success i want you to hear about this program from a parent i'm pleased to introduce the parents of two children to the monroe elementary charles your experience about kindergarten to college. >> thank you jose cisneros my wife sabrina works at monroe my children in second grade and my daughter in kindergarten we're proud today to represent this vibrant and diverse community family to be striving to have their children go to college frequently the first generations to go to college i appreciated how to work are these to make that a reaching of arraignment for all children general public comment start for our family and outline e all families whether we begin to plan for college or not kiddie college is getting our children to college at the starting line for dlej this may find us with their matching program incentivizing and rewarded benchmark amounts we have friends with kids in college we recognize the college funding that if placed we know how much college cost and the 20 years since mooifrns e my wife and i went to college any college costs 2 and a half times we wonder what the cost of college that will be for our children we want to make sure we can do all we can to insure if college viable for them we appreciate how they partner with the san francisco ethics commission in the community to make that more tangible to our children and all children in the city beyond financial backing at katie credulous that is very generous it give us the opportunity to talk about college with our children that is why we're saving for college we know from research we wanted to talk to our children about college having them know that college is in their future increases the likelihood of kids in college we appreciate how college gives us the resources we know friends my wife and i went to rival university they know how the songs but they know we began savings cologne for their cologne so we're grateful for the sunset they've got of the future for them and we're grateful far the assurance and this program provides our children and all children in the city and now it's my pleasure to introduce our wanting of our school board emily. >> (clapping.) thank you so much ken you and your family are an example of what pa makes our school so great i want to thank the president for being here more monroe it is a gem in our school system i wanted to share one parent's review of the school and incredible bunch of devoted loving intelligent people run monroe my son is lucky to get here he gets to be surrounding by university and learn in a nurturing environment thanks to the staff at monroe you had a wonderful, wonderful job (clapping.) and i want to ask the boy and girl how many of you got to visit city bank? >> great and how many of you have piggy banks our putting money into we really want to acknowledge the strong partnership with city bank and lucky to have innovative leader honorable exam of publics unify heard from jose cisneros and this is a remained over a hundred its we can't thank you jose cisneros enough he's not going as the purchase man (laughter). >> and this incredible partnership railroads our cologne boundary culture that is very much is part of our vision vision 2025 i'm shortly here from the house leader napping nancy pelosi who was the first woman speaker of house (clapping.) and remains one of the most influential woman in american politics today, i'm so proud here exceptional granddaughter is among our san francisco students through a very strong partnership with mayor ed lee and middle-income and the school board the school district has by a preponderance from the initiatives through the mayor excluding the mayor's middle grade and circling the schools that brought in inbe prientdz amount of benefits through city bank it is with great appreciation and introduce our next speaker it is mayor ed lee our education mayor with a capita e. >> mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) thank you, dr. well, you know learning and earning cvs have often been the very secrets to success and certainly for san francisco but you know with formal mayor naichl jose brought to us made it less secret and plentiful to the families we knew more challenged than other families and make sure they will be successful in the city as well so with the person in the true partnership are city bank and our treasurer and school board and government with our private seefshth we've made earning and learning less secret and the a foundation of our success this is why the kindergarten to college program is to attractive i've had the providential of traveling to national meetings and the mayor's conference to introduce this to other mayors across the country with city bank they ask how do you have a bank account for families that simply enroll in kindergarten and a promise is made their kids have that opportunity to go to college well, i think we take lessons from most apartment just like i was 31 years ago when we had our kids we made a promise for our family our kids go to college we started that 3wk9 on the day did he they were born the same sentiment in our city embracing the families and city first, this city for families we've work hard to expand and make sure that got matching incentives you should see the incentives created it more than a fifty-dollar start when kids enroll in the lunch program they, in fact, the parents put melon into the account so it grows like something is earned and this is why it is so valuable to teach those values right now you we're doing everything we can to make sure that families are groping up here and qatar spoke lontd about his family i went and recruited him nancy pelosi on our ssi he will help obvious advise all the advocates in the city how to make those partnerships work (clapping.) as active parents engage we have universal preschool restore exploring and after-school programs as dr. murase we're working with involvement with with private sectors and the benioff's and all the 2 thousand 4 hundred technical company cooling even good snacks and crossing guard phenomenon the principal i know that principal a is on his list when copies visit and say make sure we never ask the plans and teachers to reach into adhere pockets when we need something into make those campuses successful education is a huge thing i have a great pleasure of introducing something on the helm of an innovate movement to make sure that college is variable and education a great partner under is less secrets to connect and more in our democratic values we have an open agenda to make all of our families across the country successful i'll introduce democratic leader nancy pelosi (clapping.) thank you, thank you very much mr. mayor when president of the school board emily murase she introduced him as an education mayor and the e mayor the housing and the jobs mayor and the list goes on the mayor for keeping families in san francisco with affordable housing and job opportunities and education education education i want to thank him for his leadership and acknowledge i think the kids want to get back to class i want to talk about the beauty of the mix of the diverse class the beauty of the behavior are they not well boofrd alonzo to the speeches matthew we call him rocket i want to tell you one thing i got this package of letters from the third grader one the questions says i want to know what gongs at the capital do you play spokesman in the rooms (laughter) do you play parking control officer could man, i love parties that kind of thing in any effecting event one day to welcome you to the capital remember when i said all the beautiful smiles i'll should that picture to president obama and say this started in san francisco i'm going to college with a big smile on our face. >> thank you to jose cisneros his imagination to create something wonderful for you (clapping.) have a great day in school i'll talk about when you go two but i think you've been beautifully boofrd we'll try to follow our lead in that regard (laughter) the principal solace knows how to time things with his students he says i want them to go back to class (laughter). >> (inaudible). >> well congratulations for your leadership of monroe elementary school and our hospitality letting us in today to make that point thank you and emily thank you for your leadership on the school board in terms of implementing this important initiative i'm going to hold this up this the rabble kindergarten to college to jose cisneros a leader the person you saw the connection between the nationalistcy that's what we're teaching those kids they in turn will be dealing with their siblings and the parents the connection between the competent to have the resources to college and the incentive to have to study is so thank god kids we've changed that and set a model for the nation so thank you for this initiative a national admission more importantly ever personal sixth to every single child that was made clear by your wonderful presentation so where's the competition oh, i see the big game every night laura (laughter) but you've spoken well, from the families prospective and congratulations to you on our future involvement in terms of are nevertheless, of the city's the mayor said private-public in time partnerships to make that with work work and the private side of city bank thank you for your important role those kids having the confidence saying i'm going to college is a beautiful statement that the mayor said about everything in our future in addition to that is important 0 our country the most important investment in the people a family da can make in their children people talk about the cost of education the fact nothing's bring more money to the treasurer than the investment in education that's the investment and it reduces it the earliest child education higher post grad education learning this is a start and since having the key a new way to open that door to college for those young kids it is remarkable i'm telling you the kids i'm taking the picture of those smiling to show the president and bring that brochure as well and i thank you, again, for all of you for your leadership and representing san francisco because ideas come forth here and people act on them we have dreams and plans that's what makes it special the private-public in time partnering helps and the joy of the children so thank you, mr. mayor and thank you, principal solace and madam president murray race and thank you dad for (laughter) sharing our family story with us and making other parents proud thank you very much (clapping.) a >> do you want to do it here? >> yeah. >> i was wondering i'm not real familiar (inaudible). >> sure. >> be happy to. >> sure. >> (inaudible). >> we'll work on that (laughter) so we start this program 5 years ago the city launched a number of empowerment programs to help 9 low income folks and keep their money save connected people who didn't have bank account to rely right hand the cashiers check and ongoing financial education programs we want to reach out and support our youth we were spurred on if a child groups it builds ass prirgz and helps them get to college we work hard with the scapegoated with our partner city bank to make that successful question build it from the ground up every year we get a set of information and listing all this kindergarten and the demographic information to open a account affordable health care ensue kids enter kindergarten and a few weeks later we open up on account in the child's name and we tell that family here's our 6th district at large and account card and id number and here's how to make deposits and go online and go online the city has put an initial amount of $50 the child has money saved for the college education we know that $50 is not going to pay for college but find a way for the child to be successful and offer incentives to match the savings we'll match dollar for dollar up to the first $100 and match the steady saves every month for six months in a row another account and participating families savings over $1.3 million that's family money not city or matching incentives that is all family money and half of the families are families ref fry and reduced april's lunch programs so we know we're reaching families across the income spectrum in the security guard and finding a way to save there is a cost to the city i'm pleased to have the city leaders success the city pays for the administration of the program we have a great kc staff manage an incredible program with an incredibly small amount of people but have great partners the city's cost is $650,000 a year to fund the kc program we add to this private money some donations in city bank to make the program a reality it is every income kindergarten in the security guard that's correct. >> from the stand point sorry. >> (inaudible). >> yeah. >> well, i wanted to go to the point you asked on the back end the college end our focus on making college more affordable the initiative to contain the cost of college education while we put more money out there we don't want it to be used for other purposes more opportunities available for that young people that's why we're fighting the fight when we put u cut the pell grant and increase the interest you see initiatives to under those there the pell grants but also to incentivizes states to do more important higher education and when federal money comes along not to underwrite but to do more important the kids in terms of what the treasurers cisneros a long time ago which i went to college and initiative to encourage families to start bank account but it wasn't automatic the way it is and families trying to reach for the hardest ones to reach it the other ones had bank accounts to it is not a decision to make to do it is done now they take it from there so it is really quite a beautiful thing and again, you'll secure a lot during the presidential campaigns about college education to add community college for the college as well to it is a budget we say you increase the deficit if you don't invest in education to, in fact, there's a loss so we're again at the other end when this model travels there the country it could create an approach where the federal government can participate as a parent and at left or level we're not at that part yet thank you to jose cisneros for education in our country once again san francisco is leading the way. >> there are initiatives that we're having congress to have features the program in terms of assistance to state predicated states containing the cost of education in terms of cost of education it just being frugal just fiscally sound in how the institutions are run i'm not christ the institutions we're getting more back for the students for that initiatives that reduce the cost of student loans or initiatives we've had in the congress for a while we're proud that is part of the initiative that is a good initiative more things we've been working on for a while which is proposing the next idea others that want to go further the consent of money the $350,000 berry new sanders says the cost for the country has already been we want to make that affordable and have qualify of the education and have public-private partnerships do their really understand that we have to pay the bill at the end of the day and go into many anything we do for education enhances our country aspirations the people the conceiveness of the people in the world i've seen the invests in education all do more to bring money to the treasury we need to know what it means for people to reach their aspirations and education innovation begins in the classroom and have it is all succeed beautifully this way (laughter) maybe time for one more and everybody needs to get back to school. >> (inaudible). >> well, first of all, let me say i don't know if any one of us can express our they to kate it is a sad life beautiful and all the prospects of the future of this person insufficient funds out so how we treat and value every single leave is important to us in san francisco and california and in our country kate steinle law says you have a 5 year minimum sentence for re-entry into the country that didn't really address the prop at hand the person perpetrate of that tragedy spent a long time in jail and the 5 mandate minimum didn't add to what we need a better communication amongst the intermits whether the immigration service or law enforcement we should be putting focus judges come to me over time in congress when necessary come in inform their appropriations they say give us appropriations we don't need a mandatory sentence but the discretion to address the case my climate change in this case i don't see i think we can do something but more than that and i support the sanctuary city i think that this horrific crime as terrible as it is is not a reflective of the sanctuary city to do the answer the comprehensive immigration reform this will address some of the issues and the minimum sentence of re-entry to the country and secondly, we have to have background checks in how people are access to firearms this is a background checks whether or not that into have stopped this it stopped millions on the books but now extend to other things online sales and those kinds of that emerged with the advances in technology so there is plenty we can do and shouldn't just think about it but having mandatory sentence of re-entry what seasoned happened in san francisco i'm sorry mayor. >> i happen to agree i'm focused specifically on the circumstances as well as to what agencies did in discussing to bring somebody back that didn't have to be brought back that's another area to come to an agreement and again i don't think that those cases law the way i've read it addresses that circumstance but i'm very much for more communication among the law enforcement agencies in my opinion is less to do with sanctuary city and more to do with communication among the law enforcement you can't have a good communication if an agency device spot to communicate we need to correct that locally as well as regionally. >> (inaudible). >> well, we made the discovery the memorandum with an the sheriff's department prevented people from communicating once you start it, it is a sleep slop not to communicate this is wrong when we are engaged with people with a criminal record history you've got to have more communication of the circumstances around that i'm a true believer that communication will help people to understand what we face today. >> (inaudible). >> yeah. you know, i think that is the private claim and again, i take this position officially on behalf of the city the people of san francisco in those circumstances need more communication a good policy for all law enforcement officials. >> thank this is september 14 the meeting time is -- this meeting is being televised soon to be live tonight and the small business commission thanks sf govtv staff for televising this meeting. please turn off your devices. the public comment during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes per speaker. speakers are requested but not required. completion of a speaker card while optional will help ensure proper spelling of speakers name of the meeting. applies fill out speaker cards before approaching. additionally there is a sign in sheet to be added to the mailing list. mr. president, i will start with item no. 1. it's call to order and roll call. commissioner adams, here, commissioner dooley, commissioner dwight, here, commissioner ortiz cartagena and commissioner white and commissioner riley is absent. mr. president you have a quorum. shall we move to item no. 2. general public comment >> let's do it. >> general public comment allows the public to comment on matters on today's purview and not on the agenda and for future consideration. >> do we have any members of the public that would like to have public comment or anything that is not on today's agenda? >> so, if you will just, public speaker: i'm gail ball an vice-president of the hayes valley merchants association and we oppose the goes at the district that bans retail. i will forward our argument to the commission for their review instead focusing on brick and mortar stores for their store count. there is definitely room for another interpretation of formula retail to meet maximum. i will be happy to discuss with them. that's not why i am here. which leaves me why i'm here before you. i want to strongly recommend this commission can view this commission can protect themselves to compete with larger more well funded corporations that want to move into san francisco's district financing options to ban formula retailers. here is the current situation. the planning department's current procedure to fill and title space does not fill the component of the community outreach. particularly the district where formula retail is banned. in the same way developers is required to reach out to the community as they build their projects. 2, there are an estimated 150 commercial spaces coming into the market octavia plan and you can add to the bayview, the south of market area where they are going to be tremendous numbers of commercial spaces coming that need to be filled. this formula retail ban will continue to come under increasing pressure for the housing units that are coming into the surrounding areas. developers put will it thought into the type of retail and put in larger spaces of 2025 for their usual space size. commercial brokers have little interest in the needs of neighborhoods preferring to large spaces on affordable smaller business. in large transitional corporations that higher rents than the smaller business that continue to remain there. i have some suggestions for your commission to consider for it's future planning. we have already recommended to the zoning administrator for it's planning approval process of a retailer filling an entitle rethailand -- retailed space for current merchants and neighbors in a similar method that is required for developers in new buildings. developers of new spaces and also for remodeling requiring developers to build-out spaces that are small are. -- smaller. i call it micro retail. most importantly commercial brokers require you to go for this communication. >> we have to end your presentation. however, i will say thank you very much. we are quite familiar with the case that you are referring to and it regrettably met a procedural requirement and so there is certainly some discussion of whether that original application was in good faith or not knowing they had an expansion beyond our formula retail limits probably already planned. that being said, this formula retail current legislation is quite concise and in fact we specifically made it that way so that there would be very objective rules. and here we have a case that has met the objective rules of engagement. if you have selections we would be delighted to hear them and the purpose is to put things on the agenda for the future so you have time to talk. i would not make the complete case but the appeal to hear it. we are always interested in issues regarding formula retail. if there are ways that we can augment the current legislation and we can get a sponsor for that, we are happy to hear that. we would be delighted to have you submit your suggestions to us for a meeting in the future to have an appropriate amount of time. >> got it. this is appropriate to bring it up. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. any other public comment, anything that is not on today's agenda. thanks for coming out today, by the way, and please let us know specifically if you would like us to agendaize a more detailed presentation. >> what might be good, for your written comments if there is anything you would like to expand on it, forward it to me so i can forward to the commissioners to -- >> yeah, we don't mean to be abrupt, it's a matter of procedure. thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. let's move on. >> the next item is item no. 3, approval of the august 24, 2015, regular minutes. >> i motion to approve the minutes of the august 24th, meeting. >> anyone want to second that? >> second. >> all right. city clerk: motion by commissioner adams, second by commissioner white. and shall we do an all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? >> let's move to item 4. city clerk: discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on file no. 150758 public works code, public right-of-way occupancy fee exemption. this is a discussion and possible action. this is an ordinance amending the public works code to provide that flood water management project that are located within the public right-of-way requiring minor encroachment to the san francisco public utilities commission grant right-of-way occupancy fee. we have a presentation by carolyn goesen legislative aid to supervisor campos. >> welcome. >> thank you commissioners for having me here today and thank you, gina, as well. the legislation before you is essentially to help small business and residents in the folsom area, the lowest part of our city and therefore experiences the worst flooding. specifically the legislation amends the public works code that amended to the grant that will not charge this public right-of-way occupancy fee. to give you a little background, campos has a hearing as we have issues for major small businesses and other residents. out of that hearing a working group formed local businesses and mga of infrastructure is going to be speak here if that's okay as part of our presentation have been working together for many months to find a way to addressing this persistent flooding problem. two ideas have come out of this working group already that we are working forward with and one is to fund the program to encourage property owners to install improvements on properties that lower the risk of harm caused by flooding and originally only types of projects could be covered and the puc has been great of working with small business owners and residents to make sure the project has helped them instead of them trying to fix their properties in the specific confines of the original grant. so that's been happening and residents and small businesses are very happy about that and second to wave the fees if the projects involved a minor encroachment. that's what our minor legislation is doing and essentially exempting these fees will make it easier for small businesses to apply for the grant program if they know there will be no fees related and will also further the incentive provided by the grant program to encourage property owners to lower their risk of harm. already i know for example there was one small business owner who he had applied that he had to pay a fee initially. he was told he had to pay a fee. in fact his case, the water over the years had pressed this sidewalk lower than what had been an he was restoring it to the level of the sidewalk had been and because he changed the sidewalk it would have forced him to pay the puc. so the puc worked with him and had to do a lot of paperwork to get the bureaucracy changed so we are trying to avoid having to did that. if you are getting that grant money, that fee is waved. thank you very much. and we would love to have kathy speak briefly to that. they have been wonderful in helping our community. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. the puc just to give you an example of what happened in that situation as the sidewalk did settle and it settled an the small business owner raised the sidewalk and he was assessed a fee of about $2500 which he would have to pay into perpetuity as long as he owned that property. so we worked with dpw to see if he could look at the situation because they had looked at it narrowly as raising the slope so we said it's not a curb ramp at an intersection and so they reassessed it and they are still having to reassess the fees of a minimum amount of $100 because he had a gate that opened onto the sidewalk. so what this legislation would do is if someone put a movable barrier that was attached to their home, if it per intruded over the sidewalk they would face an encroachment fee and they would still be applying for a permit. >> okay. sounds reasonable. >> i know they are really trying especially with this winter everybody is trying to get ready for this. this is a very good piece of legislation. so i really appreciate everything that the supervisor is doing in this area neighborhood. >> commissioner white? >> yes, i believe i heard it. the c assessment is $100 that would be waved or is it different? >> under the current code the minimum they would assess is $100 but that could go way up depending on the improvements and how far is the encroachment. if they base the sidewalk back to its original to where it was raised. that particular owner had to pay about $2500 in fees. and he would have to pay that annually every year. >> finds it in the provision there is no provision currently to allow the waiver. >> correct. >> this is to allow a waiver subject to review? >> yes. >> commissioners, to the present example with the small business legislation that we do for the sidewalk permit temporary occupancy, the departments have to account for the number of permits they issue and the revenue that comes in, right? so they need legislation to account for the fact that they have not collected revenue for the permits. so another example is that supervisor tang annually had been doing the awning replacement and they did that in may so they wouldn't have to do that every year. >> generally the legislature avoids the response, we just can't do that. so commissioner, sarkissian? >> i just want to confer. when you talk about property owners, are we talking the leased owner. you talked about the property owner as well as the business? >> it could be, it has to be the property owner, so the business owner could be just the renter. it would benefit the renter because it gives the property owner the incentive to apply for the grant. right now, if they have a residenter, -- renter. the business owner has to get the property owner to apply for the grant. but the property owner won't apply for the grant if they have to jump through as you of these hoops. >> the business owner cannot apply for these initiatives? >> not unless they make the improvements to the property. >> if the property owner was the business of the property. >> that's why it was confusing to me. >> that particular case it would also be the owner. >> that legislation refers to property owners. >> yes. >> thank you, any other questions or comments, commissioners? great. seeing none, we'll open to public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have an action item here if we choose to support this. >> i have a motion to approve this. this is a very good piece of legislation and i think it will help with property owners in that neighborhood and not only that neighborhood but other neighborhoods too that will definitely benefit from this piece of legislation and get this stuff done. i totally support this. i second the supporting of this legislation. >> okay. can we have a roll call vote. city clerk: commissioner adams, yes, commissioner dwight, yes, commissioner sarkissian? yes, commissioner white? yes. that motion passes with approval to recommend to the board of supervisors to approve file 150758. 4-0. >> thank you very much. it's a success. it's happy hour time now. all right. moving on to next item. >> item no. 5. presentation discussion on the small business commission meeting schedule to facilitate legacy business registry program. i thought it was appropriate for us to have a discussion around the meeting schedule prior to for what's currently in place. there is no criteria as to the number of legacy business applications that you are required to hear so the meetings can be scheduled as the commission's seen fit and the schedule. i just wanted to give a little bit of perspective that should the ballot measure pass, the commission would be obligated to hear a minimum of 300 applications a year. this roughly divides out by 12 to 52 applications a month. a safe proclamation for each year would be 25 minutes in terms of the business providing the presentation commission asking questions and providing comments and any public comment and for the commission to make it's final determination. so that average about 8 hours hearing time each no. it -- month. it gives you the idea considering that and using that towards a metric. did i do that incorrectly? 25. that's still ten hours10 hours >> okay. so 25 a month. so thank you for that correction. so the city attorney has confirmed, just being respectful of the meeting time and hearing concerns about adding on an additional meeting time which maybe something that may have to be considered down the road, but currently in terms of we can soon start taking applications. there is nothing preventing us from taking applications once the application is set and we can get it up and going on the website. so the city attorney has confirmed that the commission president can establish the committee to the initial hearing. then but the final approval or disapproval to take place at the full commission and you would still have to hear, you would still have to allow for public comment to take place. so unlike the board of supervisors where there are committee meetings where public comment takes place, but at the full board, public comment cannot take place with items that are heard at the full board. that is only allowed at the full board of supervisors. we would still have to allow for public comment, but the key amount, the large amount of the time taken for each hearing could possibly take place in a committee setting and then it would be to the discretion of the president to determine who is on the committee and perhaps committee members can rotate over time to vet applications and kind of sort of relieve some of the requirement of the additional meeting time. so currently right now before brian's departure, he checked in with our building management and if to simplify it and we did meetings with our regular schedule, there is no limit to the amount of time that the commission can stay here in a meeting after 5:30. >> that's awesome. >> i love it. but the commission can start it's meeting at 3:30. so from 3:30 to 5:30. there is some flexibility there. and to have some on the front end and back end. this is facilitating. once we start to receive enough on the application, this is to facilitate the current law right now. then for the fourth meeting of the month, 4:00 is technically our cutoff time because the ethics commission meets after us here in room 400. but we can start the meetings as early as 11:30 on the fourth monday of the month and there is also available meeting time for on friday. and we would just need, if the commission is amenable to friday meeting we would just need to let the building management know if we want a two our block, 3-hour block or 4-hour block and they will let us know if something is available and i can get back to you on that. so, feedback thoughts we don't have to do anything to sent it to. >> so my comment is good to know that we have flexibility. i would say we wait and see attitude because we do not need all of those 8 hours. i'm sure steve will be happy to chair that committee. >> i have a question. is there a deadline submittal on this? >> i'm going to finalize the application and make the modifications made to simplify the application. i would like to have that finalized by the end of the week. there are supervisors very anxious to start making their nominations . >> that's fine. >> their registration. >> that's fine. so i would say that there are supervisors that are that have nominees that they would like to get submitted and get to the commission before the hearing. >> i think we have the flexibility to respond to the application. >> i have a question about the timing assuming that your application is finalized. it is submitted and publicized so to speak. what is your vision about these applications coming back before the elections. is that going to happen in october? is this activity before the legislation is voted on? >> the thing is that in the original legislation it did state kind of a september 30th time for a delivery of implementation of the program as to what was passed by the board of supervisors. with that the schedule is predicated on when an applicant -- application is completed and we are able to get it to you in time for review and agendaized. >> my other question is assuming that this legislation new legislation passes circulate a mooting or does it affect the application that we have submitted prior to that date? >> no. >> so these applications would be filed and eventually we would get to them and depending on the number of applications you decide how to spread that. >> yeah. >> and we actually, the office of small business has the is ultimately blesses it as a legacy business or not or does the board of supervisors do that? >> again, the procedure is that and the procedure that we are going to follow at this particular point in time as we discussed at the last meeting because of staffing is that right now the office will only facilitate the application, the registration application with businesses that have been nominated by the mayor or board of supervisors. >> right. they get nominated and they submit their application, we the commission, who blesses? >> you bless. >> there you go. we finally have something that we get to bless. >> the small business commission makes the determination as to whether the business meets the criteria. >> we are graduating from an advisory body to a decision making body. how about that? as i say we have plenty of runway to determine how we need to respond to this based on the response we get in terms of nominations. >> correct. but it would be good in case there is an indication or an i hear from building management that we might need to sort of put some reserve on. some direction from the commission. in terms of preference. >> i would recommend that we plan a back end to this meeting because i think it's clearly a challenge for all of us to get here at this meeting time and making it earlier is going to make it more challenging and we are all with these small business owners themselves and it's a struggle to do that. if we just make and we are unlike to have any conflicts for this space after our meeting. >> correct. >> it would be pretty gone after we are done. that gives us the greatest flexibility if it maybe perhaps the most onerous time slot. we'll deal with it as it comes. >> all right. great. thank you for that discussion, commissioners. then just behind the meeting is i want to highlight through some additional discussion with on page 2, just to make it a little easier to read i have sectioned out some of the criteria section for the businesses to follow and that follows the criteria set out in the legislation. and then on page 4 of the official application, adding a section that list who the nominee is and a signature of the nominee. and that is, those are really the only essential changes. >> this is online? >> i am working to get it to be a fillable pdf. >> this is a document. >> we officially cannot do that. that is one of the projects that jane is working on with the office of contract administration to do online signatures. >> so for now you can fill it out online and print it out and sign it. >> yes. and regardless for section 3 they do need to do a more expanded narrative and so, and then of course submit any sort of you know supplemental documents or memorabilia. >> okay. sounds good. all right. >> was there a question? >> i think there is no further action required. >> there is no action required. >> all right. let's move on. directors report. city clerk: item no. 6 is directors report. update on small business assistance center and the 2016 calendar. so just to highlight. i have mentioned it a couple times but i have not done a written report in a couple meetings. i wanted to reconfirm the week of small business week for 2016, and that is may 23-28. so tomorrow night at the council of district merchant's meeting i will make an announcement requesting the merchants association about making may 21 or may 28. >> where is that meeting? >> it's at -- the dates are correct. the year is not correct. >> okay. so, the shop and dime by local campaign, commissioner dwight has been involved with these meetings and i will let you expand upon that under your president's report. i just have it on here because it will be something that come the holidays will be program an initiative that will be launched. and i'm currently not participating in the meetings. we have president dwight there and oewd is leading the initiative. so there is plenty of things for other things to be doing. the el nino. the city has started to have meetings to discuss preparation. i just wanted to bring it to your attention in case you would like to have a presentation from the city, from the department of emergency management and the department of public utilities commission and what they are anticipating and what are they planning for and is there any outreach to businesses especially those that have subbasements in flood zone areas about what they can be doing, what to prepare for. so, since it is starting to a topic of discussion . in the media i wanted to bring back to your attention in case you want to bring back a presentation so i can prepare for that. >> i would just think it's all about flood response, right? so do we need a formal presentation on this? >> okay. and then i just wanted to next bring to your attention that we did not have a retreat last year. so do you want to think about having another retreat coming up for 2016. ideally would like to schedule it before the end of the year if possible. but we'll be taking a look at schedules. but i have some hietd items in terms of what our priority items that are already part of the commission and the offices responsibilities. just to give some thought. so, i will be meeting with the president, vice-president and our past president to take a look at this and start scheduling and preparing for a retreat. >> okay. we can consider that. >> legislation and policy matters. so supervisor farrell ended up going ahead and moving his original legislation did not include the recommendations that the commission had recommended due to timing reasons. so that at last tuesday's full commission, full board of supervisors meeting it passed it's first reading. so jess and i will discuss what to do with the next recommendation. the paid sick leave, ochllsc is putting a more refined rfq for the state and the local. there is some delay in getting the faq's completed. but it is due to some information from the state and determinations that they are making based upon the last set of amendments that were made to the law. so, we are hopeful that there will be able to have a presentation to you in the next 3 weeks, perhaps. but again waiting for the state for some final information. >> i wanted to, i had an interesting call from a merchant on divisadero who has long hours. as we know many of our service sectors are living outside of the city and having them come to work with very early hours or have very late hours and dealing with the reliability of our san francisco transit, bay area transit and or the amount of time it takes to travel, they are driving into work. up until recently there wasn't an issue about parking because there wasn't much residential permitted parking in that area, but recently both around alamo square and panhandle parking this has created a parking problem. this has created problems for employees because people that are driving they are having to ietsd move their car every 2 hours so it's affecting scheduling breaks, causing stress and a ticket you know is $75. so that's a big chunk of change for an employee's daily wage. currently with the residential parking permit, a business sits on a neighborhood commercial corridor that is in a residential parking permitted area. that business is able to have up to three permits for their working vehicles so their delivery vehicles. so i did reach out to the sf mta and they are actually under, they had actually had this slated to start looking at the redevelopment permit and they are advised the office to be a part of this and will be working to bring in some businesses to be part of this but i want to bring it to your attention because i think to me this is very much at the time and many businesses are going to be facing with their employees and more it's a cost of housing continues to go up more and more will be moving outside of the city. >> the sf mta as to acknowledge the only practical solution is to improve public transportation. there is no parking and there is an act to reduce parking. there is no way there. there are no parking places. so we have to facilitate people getting to work by public transportation. it's all there is. there is no other solution. we don't need to waste a bunch of time on moderating rpp because the residents have as much right to park there as much as the businesses. this city has to get public transportation to accommodate the needs of both residents and the employers. there is no resolution. we can talk about it all we want. >> and i think, >> you can make it fou hours, it will make it half as bad. >> i think there is there is short-term and long-term because we can deal with our own transportation and deal with sf mta because the intersection, it's not just bart, it's am tram, the transportation in the outer area as well. so it has to really be looked at regionally. i'm just bringing this to your attention because i think this is a pressure that businesses are going to feel and exactly what the small business commission you know does with this information that you may not yet determine but there may be some policy direction that you may y want to provide. >> there is an appeal that we can make with the city improve it's transportation system and that we have a reasonableal plan that improves the mobility of people inter city. >> we should look at immediate solutions. so this seems to be kind of an remedial solution to these areas. at least try to fulfill their needs and then make a policy and statement in general. i tell all of my employees to adjust our schedule. i can't stand it when i hear someone who got a ticket who if they are making minimum wage. a $75 ticket black and white -- oh black bliterates what you made. you can't buy lunch in san francisco for $5. if you got a ticket everyday, that ain't going to work. >> right, for our retail businesses it's not possible to leave the floor when you have customers standing in line to move the car. >> actually when it's difficult to man those positions you have two people on the floor so 1 person can watch while the other person moves their car. we can't have people running outside every 2 hours to move their cars and turn off the factory it's absurd. business owners will have to be adaptable to allow their employees to deal with the inadequacy of public transportation and the employees will have to do their part to compensate for that. sorry, but there is no two ways about it. i don't see any short-term or remediation to this frankly. we are going to talk about it until we are blue in the face. there is long-term solution and short-term solutions are going to be accommodations by employers and the employees and your 8-hour day is now a 10-hour day and you spend an hour on either end commuting. >> thank you for that discussion. then i just want to also bring to your attention that if i'm getting a few calls or similar calls from businesses. so recently i did receive two calls regarding coverage for businesses that are having to close while the retrofitting work is taking place. so fortunately the landlord is not, they are closing, fortunate for them the landlord is still going to continue to lease to them, but the unfortunate element is that they are having to close their business for 3- 4 months to do it. so, just they called to check to see if there is any sort of resources or assistance that was thought about for businesses for having to close. so >> and the answer is no? >> there was nothing planned. >> they would not be paying rent? >> likely not. >> if they are employees. >> they have to pay the store. and you know hopefully some businesses will have business interruption insurance that they maybe able to rely on but not all may. >> and then i just provided a list of some future presentations that will be ahead. and then that we will be receiving the super bowl presentation from jason tremu at the next meeting. and then a list, a calendar list looking at 2016 meeting schedule. i have it here. just for your information. may because of small business week we will be canceling that meeting and it will be to your discretion as to whether as we get closer to have a meeting on may 30th or just the one meeting a month. >> okay. awesome. is that it? >> then lastly, i want to mention that i did attend a panel presentation to discuss minimum wage and other employer mandates at people wear and apparel manufacturing organization and it was a very interesting discussion regarding workforce. and dealing with the local and regional issues and as you are acutely aware of commissioner white about the reduction of manufacturers in san francisco and also it was an opportunity to sort of begin to have some discussion about property owner ship as well. so i think that will be a program that we can develop through the legacy business as an initiative but i think property owner ship in general will be a good program whether there is anything behind it other than just packaging the how to will be something that will be a benefit to our businesses. >> the best form of rent control. >> so that concludes my report. >> okay. thank you. >> item no. 7 is president 's report. >> i only have to report as you mentioned that i do attend the shop local meeting which is the collaboration between oewb and the chamber of commerce and it's focused primarily presently on kind of a business to consumer more specifically retailer to consumer communication effort and an attempt to garner some fund to campaign around the holidays. it's not clear where that money is going to come from. on the business side there is a meeting or sort of a meet and greet planned as promised. that's being organizeded by the chamber of commerce on october 22 nd and they are looking for a venue and asking me what recommendations i have for 80-120 people. i'm in big time in favor of that. other than it was a quiet month with everyone on recess. city clerk: item nor 8. vice-president's report. >> nothing to report. >> commissioners, got any reports? >> no. nothing to report. >> no demerits for having no reports. >> item 10. new business. none. seeing none. >> all right. commissioners we are now onto item november 11th. adjournment. >> here it comes. >> i motion to adjourn. >> second that. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? . >> we are adjourned at 6:25. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> transportation director borden is anticipated director heinecke director nolan director ramos director rubke directors please be advised director brinkman will not be here phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. do cause micron

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