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i m sorry, commissioner foley. did you have additional comments that you wanted to make? no, i m done. clerk: okay. very good. if there s nothing further, there s been a motion that s been seconded to approve the modification made by board members and staff. on that motion [roll call] clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, and concludes your ever-so-brief agenda today. thank you for joining us, and apologies for interrupting your afternoon. thank you so much for joining us. good morning, everyone. this meeting will come to order. this is the april 21, 2021 budget and finance committee meeting. i am matt haney, chair of the budget and finance committee. i am joined by community remembers and is miss linda wong with our clerk. i want to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting and madam clerk, do you have any announcements? to protect board members t legislative and committee room are closed and will be participating remotely. thi
processes costs. and i m available for questions you may have. chairman: thank you, ms. campbell. i have a number of questions and comments, but i will defer to my colleagues, and i know there are probably a lot of folks who are going to call in as well. and i want to make sure we get to them. so why don t i open it up to colleagues first for any questions or comments you want to have before we hear from the public. supervisor mar? thanks, chair haney. i just wanted to start by thanking supervisor mandelman for your leadership in developing this proposal to create a safe sleeping site policy and program in our city. i share your goal to provide safer, healthier, and more dignified shelter for all of our unhoused community members. and i do appreciate your efforts, really, to find new solutions to the most vexing problem facing our city right now. so, yeah, i do have some questions around the cost, and i guess the relative sort of cost of supervised encampments, compared t
this is literally one of the scariest things we have to do, build a whole new world, build strong relationships with people, and it is hard when you don t have a foundation to do that, and often, for many of us, it leaves us with more trust issues than we started out with. but that s a really human tling. thing. to want a supportive community, or a supportive family, so people who will hold you at your worst, and these types of support systems are interesting because they also activate sort of the same receptors that a lot of in your brain, that drugs can also activate to make you feel connected. so in this way, drugs often act as sort of a balance to our lives unpredictability, and often pushes us to try another day when life often seems meaningless. so in this essence, i want to say that harm reduction, which is now sort of a buzz word that i m sure you guys have heard a bunch of times now, in essence for me, it is sort of this acknowledgement that simply that life is co
this is literally one of the scariest things we have to do, build a whole new world, build strong relationships with people, and it is hard when you don t have a foundation to do that, and often, for many of us, it leaves us with more trust issues than we started out with. but that s a really human tling. thing. to want a supportive community, or a supportive family, so people who will hold you at your worst, and these types of support systems are interesting because they also activate sort of the same receptors that a lot of in your brain, that drugs can also activate to make you feel connected. so in this way, drugs often act as sort of a balance to our lives unpredictability, and often pushes us to try another day when life often seems meaningless. so in this essence, i want to say that harm reduction, which is now sort of a buzz word that i m sure you guys have heard a bunch of times now, in essence for me, it is sort of this acknowledgement that simply that life is co