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Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that video as well . [inaudible] hold on, please. Denise can we pause for a second. The captioning doesnt seem to be working with the video. Can we put the microphone closer . Lets start again. [inaudible] thats okay. I dont want to log jam the schedule. You can find our video on our website which is a lava may. Org. Basically it just frames ....
All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th supervise real district in addition to conflict happening at that time. There were several very high profile crimes against asian americans. I think they were on youtube. They were very high profile events that led to outcry in the chinese immigrant community in the southeast part of the city and they didnt feel the ....
The program. They keep activity logs of the programs they do as ambassadors and they really bring with them a tremendous wealth of personal experience. A lot of them have experienced homelessness and a lot of them have varied levels of ability and a lot dealt with Substance Abuse and other kinds of personal trauma that allowed them to have that compassion that we work for as community ambassadors. Behind me is the office from the Central Market community team. And two of our other ambassadors are joining us along today and jennifer. In terms of what we see on Market Street and they can speak to this as well if need be, we know that the midmarket area is very high need and there is a lot of negative undesirable street behavior on Market Street particularly in this are ....
Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10minute timers. They will be on 10minute timers and another 8 minutes to allow people to do something else. In the shower area and toilet and changing areas and a bench for shoes and socks. 1 2 of those facilities will be ada compliant . Absolutely. Wonderful. Great. Thank you. Absolutely. All right. Any Public Comment on this item . Believe it or not. Larry juicy. I went to city college to shower. When i was homeless, i knew i can be a stude ....