by for the san francisco homelessness and behavioral health select committee meeting of may 12, 2023. >> good morning. this is may 12, 2023 homelessness and behavioral health select committee. i'm hillary ronen and joined by supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. the clerk is stephanie cabrera and like to

thank michael and (indiscernible) at sfgovtv for broadcas casting the meeting. >> the board and committees are convening hybrid meetings. while providing remote access, public comment will be taken on each item, those in person will be allowed to speak first then take those waiting on the telephone line. for those watching the call in number is streaming across the stream. enter meeting id 25950226493 pound twice. when your item comes up those in person line up to speak and those on the telephone dial star 3 to be added to the queue. if on your telephone please remember to turn down listening devices. you may submit public

comment in written form in either of the two following ways, e-mail to myself, the homelessness behavioral health select committee clerk. stephanie.cabrera @sfgov.org. or send written comments u.s. postal service at 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place room 244 san francisco, california 94102. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 23 unless otherwise stated. thank you madam chair. that concludes the communications. >> thank you, please read item one. >> item 1 is grant agreement betweend third street youth center and clinic for serving to transitional age youth navigation center

extending grant term by 36 month to end date of june 30, 2026 increasing agreement amount by approximately $10.7 mill crn not to exceed approximately $20.7 million and authorizing hsh to enter into additions amendments or modifications to the agreement. for those joining remotely, if you haven't done so, dial star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will indicate you raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you may begin comments. >> thank you. i believe emily cohen is here from hsh to present. >> good morning chair ronen, members of the committee. emily cohen from department of homelessness and supportive housing here before you with a resolution that authorize hsh to enter into the first amendment to the grant agreement with third

street youth center clinic at the transitional age youth navigation center at 888 post street. to give you a sense of how this navigation center fits in with our system, these navigation centers, one of hsh8 navigation centers with capacity of 920 households. the lower polk navigation center is the only youth focused navigation center and offer services tailored to young adults. the navigation center is one of eight youth shelter sites with total of 261 beds. the site open in 2021 with 43 beds and are expanded to full capacity of 75 beds. the proposed amendment would extend our contract with third street until june 30,

2026 and increase the not to exceed amount by $10.8 million for total not to exceed amount of $20.7 million. the grant agreement includes supportive services and shelter operation. a little more detail about the program itself, the program serves young adults experiencing homelessness befween the ages of 18-27 and services provided on site by third street include case management, benefit navigation, wellness support, wellness support groups and activities, referrals and coordination with other services, three meals a day, storage, and 24/7 support. we had a very productive and i think very strong partnership with third street with this site and really excited to see us move-extending the operations here. in terms of cost, the cost

breakdown is about $134 per night per bed. this includes meals, operations and staffing at the site. what is not included in this budget amount is our partnership with dph for shelter health, which supports many shelters and the shelter transportation services as well. there are no property coast -cost associated with the project. the city owns the building it was purchase for (2) 900-0000 in 2021. i'm joined today-sorry, one more slide. just want to share a quick client success story and you'll see we have a lot of youth from the navigation center here who can share their own successes, but this program has served 407 people since it opened. 46 percent of the young folks who are stayed in the shelter are black

or african american, 11 percent native american. (indiscernible) 7 percent transgender and gender non conforming so the demographic of the community served at the site are very reflectivef othe community of young adults experiencing homelessness. we had the story of a young person who we are calling anatonia to protect anonymity. she is 19 years old. she is a queer youth who had challenges with her family and left home after being rejected and after a lot of time with distrust and not embracing any supportive services, she found a trusted service provider at the lgbt center who referred to the navigation center where she is

accessing medical treatment and has plans to reunit with her family. she is a inspirational story and so all are the young folks who came out today. i want to thank joy (indiscernible) for being such a tremendous partner. she is here today and available to answer questions. >> thanks. before i turn to b all rks a, can i ask a quick question? what is the estimate of unsheltered youth? >> about a thousand. >> about a thousand? >> yeah. it is 16 percent reduction over the last few years but still about a thousand youth. >> thank you. >> hi. nick monard from the bla. >> nick monard from the bl

arkts. item 1 is resolution that approve the first amendment to department of homelessness and supportive housing grant agreement with third street youth center to operate a transitional age youth navigation center. extends the agreement through june 2026. this navigation center has capacity of 75 beds. the beds are in a congregate setting. we showed the budget for this agreement on page 4 of the report which shows this is a $3.7 million a year program. 87 percent of which is fund bide gross receipts tax with the remaining portion funded by the city general fund. as we do are all grant agreements we look at the non profit fiscal governance and the most recent assessment of that did not find any issues. we also looked at the program monitoring the department did on this program, which found they were generally

in conformance meeting the units of service. they did not do all the surveys they need today do during the period due to covid and also did not create service plans for all the participants but that has since been resolve d according to the department. we feel comfortable recommending approval of item 1. >> thank you. were there questions? supervisor walton. >> thank you chair ronen and thank you so much for the report director cohen. because a example providing it sounds like all the other cbo's are connected and have the information and well informed about the nav center. is that the case and how are other cbo informed and know about making referrals to the nav center? >> thank you for the question. so, yes, we try to insure especially in the youth serving community it is relatively small community and want to make sure folks are

aware of all the resources available and then each of the access points can refer-the youth access points with refer people to the shelter so the lgbtq center is one of the youth access points and able to make a referral directly to the navigation center. >> got it. just want to give kudos to third street youth clinic and jay jackson morgan for able to operate the nav center and get ramped up in a short period of time and heard nothing but good things from the residents and the provider network so just want to say, appreciate that. >> thank you. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you chair ronen. i am curious-the thousand unsheltered

tay. how does the unshelteredness of the tay homeless population compare to the unshelteredness of the adult population? >> thank you for the question vice chair mandelman. young adults experiencing homelessness are far more likely to be unsheltered then the general population. the general population of adult is about 57 percent unsheltered and the youth population is 16 percent sheltered, so very small percentage. we have 261 beds dedicated to young adults experiencing homelessness within the shelter system we have far more housing and we expanded adding 400 additional placements in housing and shelter for young adult said within the last 2 years so this is a area where we have been very successful leveraging state home key dollars. we purchased two permanent housing buildings, really expanding services for young adults now. >> do you expect the 16 percent

should be going up or that the 84 percent should be going down? >> yes, and i expect that more so that because we have been investing heavily on the housing side for young adults we will see the overall number reduces as well. >> are you tracking exits? is there any effort made to track exits from the tay navigation center to see where people are going? >> yes, we largely don't track exit site by site, we track through the overall system but i did pull data based on what we have before this hearing, which i have hear. joy will tell you about it. >> good morning. thank you so

much for having us. first i want to correct we actually have seen 553 young people come through our doors as of yesterday. in terms of tracking exits we do internally dont have to report to hsh but we track because we want to know where our young people are going so when they leave the nav, majority of them do go into housing. i wanted to state that the average stay-there was a article this morning around how long adults stay in the shelter. at the tay navigation center the average stay is 72 days so this is without a time limited stay, but we are trying to get youngal housed as soon as possible. again, if they are exiting the nav, majority are going to housing or a safety transfer somewhere else, but our staff works diligently to make sure that once young people leave they are going somewhere and we know where they are going. >> do you is a sense of what kind of housing it is?

>> permanent. >> but city provided? market? somewhere else? here? all of the above? >> all of the above. there is a lot of rapid rehousing we do. we place a lot of young people with emergency housing vouchers provided during the time of covid along with other providers to supervisor walton's point about how we are interconnected as a system and so a lot of the young people are referred by our partners and so we work with them to place them in the various programs that our partners have as well. >> great. i'm excited about this item. i know there had been a lot of work over many years to try to get a tay navigation center up and running and glad to see it is up and running. it seems we need a good bit more to get more of the kids who are on the street off of the street into something safer and better but for now we have this and like

to be added as cosponsor and glad to see the lgbtq center doing its work and getting people referred and into shelter and housing. thanks. >> thank you so much for your work. one more question for mrs. cohen. thank you for your incredible work. is there any tay housing or shelter in the pipeline? >> so, we have proposed a new acquisition for permanent housing for young adults at 1174 folsom street. the application to apply for home key dollars will be heard at the board next wednesday at budget and finance to and the authorization to acquire the property is to the board by the end of the month so we are really excited about 1174. it is a newly constructed 42 unit beautiful building in soma with retail space on the ground

floor, community space, private bathrooms, it's exactly what the youth have been asking for so excited to bring that before you in a couple weeks. >> great- >> that is the new acquisition. there is also youth flex pool so tenant based vouchers already funded in the process of being administered so those will be hitting the streets soon as well. >> how many of those? >> i have to look those up, don't know off the top of my head. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we'll open the item for public comment. >> any members of the public who would like to comment for item 1? please line up along the wall to your right. remote members press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. all speakers are allotted 2 mntsd and must remain on topic. thank you. you may proceed.

>> i grew up in san francisco and never heard of the youth navigation center. i was homeless 4 years in san francisco down the peninsula and never got any of that help. that would have been a tremendous help. it would have helped me out a lot and just wondering why isn't this getting the attention it needs? why are not people paying attention to this? it is always great to have a committee because you debate just $20 million. what if the sum was a lot more? this is great to have this committee here to help you understand what's going on here. i lived in a shelter that had a hundred people in there. breakfast, lunch and dinner and you know-if i have a kid he might end up homeless too.

(indiscernible) just wondering like, i'm glad you are here, because he or she comes about, they might end up on the street as well. just trying to figure that out and trying to said understand what is going on. it is great to have that help to help see what is going on with this. what is it? so, it is a very hard to understand. we see this individual here and they are talking about everything all the time, the deputy director of homelessness and are you fit to make that decision about black community? this is southeast san francisco is black. are you able to speak on that really? i know this is san francisco,ic i know you are elected and represent the city, but i think you should have somebody who is black who makes that decision.

>> thank you for your comments today. may we please have the next speaker? any other speakers in the chamber that would like to speak to this item? thank you. >> hello. how are you all doing today? my name is (indiscernible) and i'm 23 and just have 4 quick things to say. one, the staff at k nav are really really helpful, and they have-our best interest in their hearts and minds and i am from washington dc and i came to the west coast for more resources because i became homeless over on the east coast and if it wasn't for tay nav and staff and larkin inn, honesty i do know what i would be at this moment and everything is a

working process, and the housing vouchers for youth, like the ones that are expedited as you previously stated, as soon as those like come into place, that will benefit the youth a lot, because sometimes like, say if somebody were-i'm going to tell you a story. so, i got to san francisco on like a sunday, right? so, the larkin is only open on the weekdays i mean week days, not the weekdays, not saturday and sunday, so that sunday i had to spend the night at general just so i had a place to stay. the point i'm trying to get to is, with the expediting housing vouchers, it will be more convenient for youth that have immediate needs of housing so they wouldn't be stuck-say if it was a holiday and larkin, the place

wasn't open, you know? we wouldn't be able to access those services due to that time so speaking of convenience, the future resources that you stated are coming would greatly benefit us and i don't think the staff get paid enough to do the job. it is a piece of work, but they have their hearts and spirits in mind- >> thank you for your comments today. sorry to interrupt you. thank you for your comments. sorry for interruptions. all speakers are allotted two minutes today. are there any other speakers in the chamber? please approach the podium. if other speakers, you may line up so we can go in rapid succession. >> thank you for the patience. i wish to be anonymous but i can serve with eyes and ears (indiscernible) as i can say, the work-the folks here is doing is tremendous. i experienced it myself. i was a all

time low and they just ask you fundamentally, how we can help you? fundamentally they trying to help you in every way. they getting help with the (indiscernible) necessary to understand it is just basics, we need if go further. there is much things that need to be addressed. much thingz that need to be fixed, because folks here are housing is a primary, but not only issue. we need more staff, we need more allocated personnel. for example, for my life, i have a (indiscernible) i'm getting to see him one hour a week. i just basically (indiscernible) because it is only therapist that is open to us

from hrqc. so, thank you so much for opening such services. you helping us. we need to go further. >> you have 30 seconds. >> huh? >> you have 30 more seconds. >> (indiscernible) they basically (indiscernible) then they required to. they trying to help off time so they are really doing great job. i want to address it and say thanks to everyone. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> i wanted to start off to say

that the tay navigation center is a very great resource and that helping a lot of people, but i also wanted to say that we need like more mental health services, more like resources, just implemented and the centers but also the transitional housing available to the general population. more drug treatment services overall. they are really great and trying to best they can. i also feel like there should be more regulation around gun laws and things of that nature to a lot of the youth experiencing domestic violence after they transition from these housing resources, domestic abuser s need their guns taken away from them. i feel very strongly about that because a lot of the youth experiencing homelessness have a higher statistic rate of experiencing domestic violence and abuse from the community and surrounding area, and i

feel a lot of people in these housing subsidy programs need to be expected to you know, i guess have therapy and have more of that implemented in the programs. there needs to be more therapy for the general public. i feel very strongly about that and the navigation is center is great. i appreciate the tay navigation center, they are doing the best they can, but there is still a lot of issues. sorry, i woke up not expecting to be here this morning. i don't really know what to say. >> you are doing great. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. any other members of the public in the chamber that would like to speak to this item? seeing no additional speakers in the cham b we will go to the call in line with 6 people listening with 3 in the queue. may we please have the first speaker? >> hi, rb good morning. this

is (indiscernible) from larkin street and cochair of (indiscernible) fully support the extension for third street and tay nav center. the nav is a life saver for many young people trying to survive in the streets. larkin street is a long time partner with third street and see people referred from the nav. the need for clinical sport for vulnerable youth especially as we recover from the pandemic cannot be overstated. beyond the nav center has strongly advocates for city investment and strengthening clinical support for higher system of care and invest in the needs of youth experiencing homelessness on the streets in shelters, in congrugat and scattered sites (indiscernible) for peace, safety and sanctuary. thank you. >> thank you for your comments today. may we please have the next speaker?

>> good morning. [unable to hear speaker due to audio quality] >> apology to the speaker--i apologize, we can hear you but it is very mumbled. readjust the microphone so it is closer. >> hi. can you hear me now? >> yes, that is clearer, just far away. >> okay. my name is chris (indiscernible) i work for the lower polk community district. we are big supporter of third street youth and tay navigation center. we interface with the youth as well. our community

investment program. i are want to speak to the clinical mental health support for the tay navigation center, which is desperately needed and encourage the committee to ask questions of the city supporting agencies and insure that necessary funding is provided to the third street youth to provide these necessary services which is desperately needed to support the program and the youth and the center. please ask these questions and provide these resources. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments today chris shulman. may we please have the next caller? >> hi. my name is kristen johnson, and i (indiscernible) first time last month and saw first hand the need for housing and health resources for our youth. i'm grateful for third street and they understand the needs and making sure

that they have the services for mental health and substance abuse for our youth, so i'm full support of this. thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments today kristen. waiting to confirm we have no other speakers. no other speakers in the queue. >> thank you public comment is closed. i like to make a motion to send to full board with positive recommendpation? >> on the motion to send to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. member walton, aye. chair ronen, aye. three ayes. >> thank you the motion passes unanimously. thank you so much and want to thank all the residents for coming out and testifying. it is always really meaningful to hear directly from you so thank you for taking the time. really appreciate it. madam clerk , please read item 2? >> item 2 is

resolution approving amendment no. 2 to the agreement between mount st. joseph-st. elizabeth and the department of public health (dph), for behavioral health services to women, children, and families; to increase the agreement by $11,169,510 for a total amount not to exceed $20,541,061; to extend the term by four years, from june 30, 2023, for a total agreement term of january 1, 2018, through june 30, 2027; and to authorize dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution. this file is requesteds as committee record. those remotely if you haven't done so dial star 3 to be added to the queue. when we go to public comment please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted before you begin your comments. thank you. >> good morning. >> good morning chair ronen, vice chair mandelman and supervisor walton. thank you for hearing us today. my name is (indiscernible)

presenting to you today is the mount elizabeth mount st. joseph treatment center. next slide. joining me today is (indiscernible) principle analyst online and dr. (indiscernible) from children youth and family system of care. so, under this proposed contract we like to continue to continue funding for three types of program through (indiscernible) the first is residential treatment program for substance use disorder service and step down service which is a treatment program for patients who stayed longer then 30 days and the outpatient treatment program for children and youth with parents who are exposed to substance use and all reunification needs. next slide, please. the residential treatment program is part of substance use disorder treatment program.

within the short term residential treatment program we have a total capacity of 245 beds, with average length of stay 90-120days. the treatment program is funded through a blend of funding stream through (indiscernible) grant funding and also general funds. specifically, for our substance use disorder treatment service residential treatment through epipany they have about 20 beds out of the 245 beds. next slide, please. upon completion of treatment, if they need further ongoing services they can step to the residential step down program. under-this is also part of the system of care for substance use disorder service for capacity for 12 women and 10

children. client can only be referred after completion of treatment or residential treatment program where the residential treatment-they can self--refer and they will be referred through the treatment access program throughout behavioral health access center. they also have outpatient treatment program for children and youth and dr. (indiscernible) will speak to that. >> good morning supervisors. the epiphany center family treatment falls within the mental health level of xair within the children youth family system of care service for children and adolescence 0-21 and families. the target population are clients effected by parental substance abuse, separation, families in the process of reunifyication or families who experienced trauma. the majority of clients served are the babies of the mothers who in

the treatment program. they do treatment with the baby and caregiver. some of the mothers in the residential program also have older children who are in the foster care system and this program supports the treatment goals towards reunification and collaboration with child welfare and family treatment court. capacity allows the program takes referrals from outside their own programming, particularly referrals for early childhood meanting health services and they are also a provider for the educationally related mental health services. >> we agree with the bla recommendation and request approval of the proposed contract. >> thank you. we'll hear from the bla. >> item 2 is resolution approving the second amendment to the department of public health grant agreement

with mount saint joseph saint elibeth extends the agreement through june 2027. the grant agreement funds three different services. it funds residential step-down, a small out patient program, but the largest component is a residential substance use treatment program targeted towards women with young children or who are pregnant. we showed the budget for this program on page 10 of the report, which shows this is a $2.7 million a year grant agreement, which is about a third of which funded by the city general fund. we also note that there were some performance issues for this contractor in the last fiscal year according to the assessments by the department, which included plan s of action

to address administrative documentation and low units of service in the residential program due to staffing constraints within that program. according to the department, they have staffed up and resolved those issues. i also want to just note kind of zoom out a little bit, which is that this agreement is a cost reimbursement agreement and always has been from the beginning on the residential side. so, the fact they did not meet the units of service-they were able to fully bill the city for the amount of the annual grant agreement budget, but across the behavioral health portfolio, most of those grant agreements during covid moved to cost reimbursement rather then fee for service during covid as a way to keep the

providers whole, recognizing the fact that they were not able to meet their client count during the pandemic, which is-that was done-there was a process around that with the controller's office. i think moving forward what we would -the issue with that of course is it doesn't tie the city funding to the actual performance and so i think moving forward we would recommend the department where feasible return to fee for service to tie the public funding to more directly to the performance of the provider and in fact the state will be requiring that for some outpatient programs that have state funding so that will be happening on some programs going forward. i just wanted to note that. i think that is a important policy consideration here but otherwise we do

recommend approval of item 2. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions? i have a few questions. would you mind responding to the bla on the how you will fund these services? is the department thinking of returning to fee for service in the future? >> yes, currently most of the providers are fee for service schedule with circumstances when we switch over the cost reimbursement looking forward there is also (indiscernible) which is the department of healthcare service reform in the medi-cal service delivery system. also tied to that is payment reform with different billing procedures and codes, so we are looking at different payment mechanism with the providers in the coming year. >> okay, great. can you walk me through--so, the total bed capacity in the residential treatment program is

245 day beds? >> correct. >> that's for epiphany or the whole system? >> for the residential treatment service. what we are attempting to do is within the- >> (indiscernible) thank you, i appreciate that. so, 245 beds are residential treatment beds and the whole system 4 for women and families or in general? >> clarification, in general for the system and there are about 40 beds specifically for women. >> okay. and what's the estimated need for residential treatment? >> could you please repeat the question? >> the estimated need for residential treatment? >> estimated leave? >> need. need. >> got it. we do have to go through our-pending evaluation of our bed studies and bed flow

we have better data by september, late september. >> are these 245 beds usually filled? >> depending on the type of service. women bed xiskly, specifically they are mostly filled and we have available to cover for excess if needed. >> how long is the residential treatment program at epiphany? >> i can't comp rehend? >> the duration of the program? >> got it. 30 day treatment program. >> so, that's relatively short and how many- >> they can stay

between 90 and 120days. >> anywhere from 30 to 120days? >> and how many of the clients and patients that use the program are homeless? >> i don't have the data handily available. we can follow up with that. >> do you is a sense though ? >> i will call (indiscernible) to see if they have the information available. >> she's online, correct? >> yeah. >> hi. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i don't have that information handy, but in general a large percentage-i venture over 50 percent, but we have to get back to you when we get the (indiscernible) >> i would love that information. and then there is only 17 step down

beds, and 80 clients are using the service a year, and the majority or you think but will get back to us, 50 percent of those are homeless. how long are the step down beds-how long are women allowed to stay there? >> the residential step down they can stay up to a year and we can renew as needed. >> okay. are those 17 beds always filled or units? >> they are quite full. >> yeah. so, otherwise, if there is not an open space is the step down after going through the residential treatment program, does that mean that people are returned to the streets even though- >> we have another option accessing (indiscernible) which is another program available, a residential treatment program for women, paranatal women or women with children or those with or men with family and young

children. >> that's a treatment program, not a step down, correct? >> sorry, a residential step down program. >> what is the capacy of jolani house? >> laurel, could you please respond to that, please? >> sure, actually there are 10 beds at epiphany and estimated usage or unduplicated client count is 17, and then at jolani they have total of 15 beds and 4 of those can be for women with children. it is a small amount of beds with a big need. there are other programs that can be utilized outside of our system that our programs work closely with and sometime they are able to go into another type of supportive housing, but there isn't a large

amount of beds. >> i need the data asap of how many women with children or who are pregnant leave a residential treatment program and returned to the streets. that's a really important number for me, and if they are not returned to the streets then i want to really firm idea of where they are going. so, this is what i mean--when i talk about understanding this within a system of care, it isn't just giving me numbers, but describing what actually happens to people and being able to answer these questions, because i want to understand how the system works and where the gaps are in the system, and this is something that you know, we are now coming into all most 4-well, i guess we are

three years into mental health sf but the office of coordinated care is supposed to start collecting this data and knowing the a answers to the questions. that is one of the primarily purposes of the office of coordinated care so when we review contracts and go through the budget process we say we know x amount of people are leaving residential treatment and going to the streets because there isn't enough step down beds. you can all most certainly say that that's not a successful result because i don't know how anyone stays living in the streets. usually living in the streets creates the problem in the first place if not the cause of it. we need to have a firm idea of that so we can can prioritize making sure that people have a true possibility of succeeding. >> we'll follow up with that and my understanding is there

is no wait list for the step down, but we will come back with data to confirm that. >> there is no wait list for the step down even though there is only 10 beds? >> correct. we'll confirm that. >> okay. that is interesting-well, i guess we need to see the data again. for a contract coming to us to not be able to answer these specific questions on how many clients are homeless, what percentage of them go to step down, where do they go after step down? these are pretty basic questions about this contract that i would love answers for. it is a little frustrating. and then i don't only want that information for the epiphany center but i want it for the residential treatment programs in

general. so, just to clarify and make sure we follow up with this information, i want to know how many of the clients and residential treatment centers are homeless, how many of them leave residential treatment programs to step down housing, what is the wait list for that housing, what happens to them if they don't go down to a step down treatment, how many people are returned to the streets, once they are returned to the streets how many of those people have to reenter the program and start all over from residential treatment? so what is the recidivism or double usage of the programs are. and what-i think i said what are the wait list for all the programs and what are the estimated need for these programs? does that make sense? you can get that data

back to me? great. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you chair ronen. there is a lot of overlap between the different efforts i think to get a handle on need, mental health sf is one, the decades old treatment on demand work is another. we have been having a conversation with dph how to update the reporting and i do think that it would be useful in addition to knowing what the front door looks like, which is what the treatment on demand reports have been focused on, also to know what the exits look like and where people are going to when they complete programs and if they are you know-well, first of all, how many people are completing the programs because not everybody does. then for the people who do complete, how many of them are going

on to a step down, how many are going to a housed situation that isn't a step down facility and how many do we not know or think are going to the streets and think the much harder information is what is happening with those people later on and how many are circulating back to the system and back into treatment. not that is a bad thing, could be a good thing coming back to treatment at a later point, but think we had trouble with dph figuring out what the right additional metrics to be requiring you to come up and think i hear some of the same things from chair ronen that i think would make sense in the context of treatment on demand, so in the context of mental health sf or treatment on demand or maybe both, i think we want to know more about what is actually happening over time and rather then just--san francisco will fund treatment programs, we want the stuff to be available but we also want to make sure that our

pathways make sense and that people-it is good people have a place to be not the treatment however long they are in treatment. it is better if the treatment leads to a place where you are not back out on the street and very likely to start using again. concuring with the chair. >> thank you. who is responsible for maintaining data related to the need and the demand for these programs? >> so, we do have now beds and facility team who has been reviewing the demand and supply for these beds. we are also in process doing our beds optimization study to renew the data with (indiscernible) >> sorry, is there a director of data or someone within dph who is responsible for

understanding the system? the systemic needs? clearly there is someone looking at whether or not this contractor is meeting their contracted needs, but is there anyone looking system wide and also as we have been mentioning looking at results? >> so, we do have a quality management team that helps with our data and evaluation and also ability to review data in our data sets. >> but there is it not a director of data? maybe like the director- >> we have a director of quality management that reports under our director of behavioral health manage care plan reporting to dr. (indiscernible) >> and who is that? what is the name of that person? >> the director of managed care plan is emo momo and director

of quality management is alicia martin. >> who is the director of the office of coordinated care again? >> (indiscernible) she also reports up to emo momo. >> okay. i would just ask because again the whole purpose of the select committee is to start to understand the system of care and how each of these individual contracts relate to that system of care, and so i would expect to have when these contracts behavioral health contracts come before this committee to have someone here who is able to answer these type of questions and these are pretty basic questions that this board has been asking for -how long? long-many many many years. i've been

asking for the 6 years i have been here and to still not have the answers to these questions is not okay. we ask emo attend the meetings or someone able to answer the questions about the contract in relation to the system of care. thank you so much. that's all. thank you. we'll open the item up for public comment. >> thank you madam chair. any members of the public who like to comment on item 2? line up along your right. remote call in members press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system ind itcas you have been unmuted. all speakers are given two minutes for their comments. if you are in the chamber the first chime indicate you have 30 seconds left. the second chime is end of allotted time. you may proceed.

>> contract amendment it says mount saint joseph to $30 seconds left. the second chime is end of allotted time. you may proceed. >> contract amendment it says mount saint joseph to (indiscernible) 20million. just wondering like, is this fraud? it could be fraudulent so you should look into it. we need to be a committee that looks at it and -how are they able to keep going? you have to wonder. (indiscernible) it just doesn't sit right with me. if you are going to amend this contract, you have to think about that. it is incredible. blows my

mind. i want to tell you to take your time and are look at it really, because it is fraud. these are very very powerful people. they are very very big people. they are giant people. they are all the way up there. i dont see if they see or hear me if i know them. don't know if they are in the room or not. but they have enormous power. they have enormous power. i have never seen somebody wield this kind of power in the mystery of the world because you supress somebody, that takes enormous power. you have to have everybody helping you, so that's what they got. (indiscernible) just crazy to me. i missed out on so much. i missed out on so much. you can never replace that with money. never ever.

>> thank you for your comments. may we please have the next speaker? >> good morning supervisors. i'm here to discuss a issue. not entirely sure in front of the right body but i'll go through it. here to discuss a issue of loop hole in tenant protections that fails to protect- >> i apologize for the interruption. we are speaking today on the contract. >> only on the contract? >> correct. there is no general public comment. >> i can go somewhere else then. thank you. >> just so you know, at our regular board meetings on tuesdays, there is general public comment where you can speak on items that are not on the agenda. >> okay. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. you can always e-mail us as well. thank you so much. thank you. >> thank you chair.

any other speakers in the chamber that would like to speak to this item? seeing no other speakers, our phone line we have two listeners with zero in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to send this item to full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you. will that be as committee report? >> yes. >> send item with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. walton, aye. ronen, aye. you have three ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, can you please read item 3? >> item 3, resolution retroactively approving an agreement between the san francisco department of public health and the san francisco unified school district having anticipated revenue to the city of $1,000,000 or more for students with disabilities to receive special

education and educationally related mental health services; and to authorize the department of public health to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. for those joining remotely please dial star 3. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and may begin your comments. thank you. >> thank you. good morning. >> good morning. i believe there are slides that will be pulled up. >> thank you. >> thank you chair ronen, vice chair mandelman and supervisor walton. (indiscernible) director of children youth family at dph. this is collaboration between the department of public health and san francisco unified school district so with me today remotely is dr. mantan director of school base mental health service in the system of care and here in the chambers with me is jean robinson special

education service at the san francisco unified school district. next slide, please. this is a resolution retroactive approving igrument with between thesuch department of public health and san francisco unified school district for students with mental health difficulties receiving educationally related mental health service as part of a individualized education plan. this contract continues existing services provide bide the department of public health for prck approximately a decade. background on the work, funding for the educationally related mental health service is provided to the special education local planning areas and school district and in san francisco county that is the san francisco unified school district. the school district contracts with us and children youth family system of care to provide the services and the treatment services

include individual weekly individual and group therapy, case management and consultation with parents and educational staff. next slide, please. the services fall within the outpatient intensive level of care within our system. the majority of the services fall within the outpatient level of care and delivered by outpatient providers at the school to youth in regular or mainstream education. smaller amount take place outside the school with the mental health clinic or in the community. (indiscernible) receive them in more intensive settings, such as self-contained classrooms within san francisco unified school district for youth who have severe social emotional difficulties. as well as separate day schools. there is 18 contracted providers and 7dph county run clinics delivering services. next

slide, please. next slide, please. the erm agreement represent a portion of the partnership between the san francisco unified school district and the children youth system of care and dph request approval of the proposed resolution. >> thank you so much. could you-you said there were how many providers? one more time. >> there is 18 contracted so we have 18 contracted community based providers that deliver this service and then 7 of our own county run clinics deliver the service. >> and i just-you

tried to explain this so many times and feel i haven't gotten it straight. erm supports student with severe mental illness. is that correct? or is it students who are of lesser severity as well? sort of the regular post pandemic increase in mental health issues at the schools. most of those youth wouldants go into a erm type program, right? it is more like what falls on the wellness center in the high school, correct? >> there is a spectrum of service but i will allow jean speak to how erm students are identified. >> thank you. >> good morning. we start a level of service. we also have dis counseling services that we can start with and that could be a 30 minute session

every week but with a school psychologist on site. the next level is the erm service and that requires an assessment. a very specific goal team meetings, more focused and that kicks it in. with the erms,ioacan you can have once a week mental health therapy, bring mom and dad guardians or collateral therapy but sometimes it goes deeper and we have to do more. our counseling enriched educational programs, ceep are at mccally and independence high school and they get a higher level of erm services as do kids in the programs. we have a counselor, therapist on site throughout the day.

>> do you think you we have enough services to meet the need at the erm-for students with iep that meet the mental health needs of a iep? >> no,er i do not. we have seen a big up tick since the covid pandemic. we had a waiting list and somebody waiting for mental health therapy is tough. it is hard to swallow, so we are in over-drive looking for clinicians to build out our mental health arm in the district. typically our psychologist supervisors manage erms and other mental health programs in the district, but the uptick requires a more focused effort so we created a position for the year ahead of program administrator, specifically to build out our mental health arm. we know that school social

workers can also provide services, so we are working with our unions to try to build out job descriptions and programs where we can sort of codify that because we do currently have two social workers providing dis services right now that is pre-erms, but we benefit from 10 in our district, and getting erm providers is a ongoing struggle. we work closely with our partners at dph and in our programs to get these clinicians up and ready and in the schools because there is a very big need. i'm glad you have this committee. very important to us. >> me too. thank you. you oversee work with the erm clients, but you don't necessarily see the needs at

the wellness center and at the school psychologist level? >> no, a school psychologist has been the best staffed group throughout the pandemic. i don't know if you remember scott (indiscernible) the supervisor of psych services for years and advocated heavily proir to pandemic we need more psychologist so we baked in (indiscernible) we have a good number, i think we are in a good space for psychologists, but they are burden is heavier because they are providing more dis services so that impacts the other work that they do at the schools during the day, notably assessment and keeping up. it is a shared list and we have to find the right marriage between social workers, psychologists and clinicians to wrap around the mental health needs in our schools. i think the wellness centers typically are

well staffed. >> looks like no other questions. we'll open up for public comment. >> any members that would like to comment on item 3? line up to the right. remote call in members press star 3 to be added to the queue. those on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. you may approach the podium. >> as a product of san francisco unified school district, i'm very familiar with erms. f i was labeled a special needs child in school. they said you got to go to special education. you could take many years to complete a class. (indiscernible) i flunked the 4th grade and said you are special education and can't be with regular kids and i said i want to be in

honors and ap class and are want to go to college and fought and fought and got to berkeley. that's not the point. i'm here to combat the air - (indiscernible) that you belong to this class and not class. that pretty arrogant. without consulting a committee maybe. (indiscernible) consut consult the committee. (indiscernible) you can't make any decisions at all. we have to do that. we make the decision. otherwise you are dire consequences. (indiscernible) okay. but, what i want say is, we are immigrants and came off

sfo in 1990, just got off the air plane. we were not here to reach the highest uppermost levels. we would have, but there is no need. no need for it. we just want to survive. we just want to make it. we just want to live. we want our freedom. (indiscernible) where we come from, freedom. so, the way it is, what can i say? thank you. >> thank you for your comments. is there any other member of the public in the chamber that would like to speak to the item before we go to call in? seeing no additional speakers in the chambers, we currentsly have three listeners with one in the speaking queue. if you if n tend to speak dial star 3 to be added to the queue. may we please have the first speaker? hello

speaker. >> good morning supervisors, chair ronen, supervisors mandelman and walton. this is carolyn kennedy a community leader and i just want to make a comment that while i think the program is valuable, public health is supposed to be a system where we understand the population health needs, we develop services and programs to respond to them and more broadly, it is disappointing to learn public health isn't collecting the data at the service level and population level to determine the gaps. i really appreciate this committee asking those questions. we can all agree san francisco current mental health and homelessness programs are not having the impact we all want to address the longstanding issues that are only getting worse. so, it

is just- (indiscernible) in 2019 and are now still hearing we are waiting for a study. i can't believe that this is where we are with a department with a $3 billion budget and supposedly world class people. we have done this well for covid and just asking this committee to continue to ask these questions about the data and the outcomes. this is why san franciscans are frustrated with our city services. san francisco receives a lot of money for these programs. we have great needs, so please please keep asking why we aren't learning the information we need to improve these programs at the system level as well as continue to provide again, best in class services to our people. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments today. are there any other speakers online?

checking now. there are no additional callers, chair. >> public comment is now closed. like to make a motion to send the item to full board with positive recommendation. >> will that also be as a committee report? >> as a committee roreport. >> send as committee report with positive recommendation to full board, mandelman, aye. walton, aye. ronen aye. you have three ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, any other items on the agenda today? >> no additional business ahead of the committee. thank you. >> meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and

does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an

outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

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approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school.

even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef

had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet,

and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street,

it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that

have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service.

we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college

of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french

cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there. >> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now.

george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot.

some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with

apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared.

they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as

well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him.

i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have

successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san

francisco. [ music ] >> today's special guest

michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks, music and other developments. mr. ginsberg, welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question, how can will park's system play a part in the economic recovery? >> well, our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic. parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for

mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role >> people are out and having a good time. there are special events happening in parks. concerts and the weather is good. the best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate -- people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves >> exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. what is special about the 2 new projects? >> sure. san francisco is going through, i think, a park renaissance. we opened the francisco park, which is just magnificent

property that sits on top of an old reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the golden gate bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. a cool play ground to bring dogs an amazing dog park. a meadow to watch the fireworks. fog willing. fleet week, community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. we are proud of it. >> and then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1.7 miles of waterfront that until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most.

india basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of san francisco. it is going to be san francisco's next great and one of the most important parks >> that's fantastic. now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. can you touch on the year's highlights? >> upcoming and on going. this is something i'm particularly excited about. i don't think there is ever have been more music in san francisco parks than there is right now >> so, let's go around the city and talk about music. stern grove, is in the 85th concert season. back after the pandemic. in this just fabulously treasured meadow. free concerts all summer long. in golden gate park, at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week.

wednesday, friday, saturday and sundays. we have sing are song writer wednesday. jazz and seoul on friday. communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is extraordinary. and of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. as we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. on june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city in park in civic center. on the marina green. again in golden gate park. it has been a great time for

music and ties into the recovery and the tremendous energy where we are feeling and -- you know anybody who says san francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. where well is joy and beaut and he inspiration every day. >> so, the san francisco board of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will golden gate park car free. how have residents responds. >> the san francisco residents responds positive. families. bicyclists, joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of san francisco have discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. it enhances the parks so much. imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head

to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and

tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. it does not matter what you score t. is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a beautiful day in nature. >> exactly. well, thank you. i really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the time you have given us tuesday. >> thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. get out and play in san francisco's parks.

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of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things

are made and produced in san >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work

here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade.

>> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process.

and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other organizations such as hospitals and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a

small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this

big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to

join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to toby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.

>> first off, i want to of course welcome all of you to san francisco, my name is carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. i hope as you have all come to san francisco, i believe monday was the first day that many of our folks, our partners across the country have come to san francisco, that you've had a chance to take in the breathtaking views of san francisco and the wonderful food and the people and community that is here. a monthly jiez, i'm a little bit under the weather -- i apologize, i'm under the weather. this is resilience from my three-year-old's germs and i want to welcome you from across

north america to san francisco. we're here today along our partners and cities from houston so montreal to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to building a stronger and more resilient san francisco. it's no secret that san francisco grapples with some of the most daunting challenges that face cities of our time. we have challenges around affordable housing, it is not unique to san francisco. but lasting impacts of a global pandemic, the shots and stressors of climate change and our seismic risk in the bay area. san francisco has never shied away from these challenges from the great earthquakes and fires of 1906 so the loma prieta earthquakes to the boom and bust of past economies, we have proved that we can rise up and come back stronger when we face these challenges head on. in the coming years, of resiliency of our cities will be tested by our ability not only to respond quickly but bounce back from climate related events. that's

why it's so important we are investing in strategies and programs that improve our resiliency and capacity to extend climate emergencies while strengthening our economy. i'm grateful for the work of elaine forks, the director of the port who you'll hear from, with preparing our waterfront ages to the challenges of sea level rise and flooding. i'm grateful to work of brian strong who is our chief resiliency officer for overseeing, yes, applause is great. [applause] for overseeing and coordinating citywide resiliency initiatives including our earthquake city implementation program. in a few minutes, we'll be here signing a letter that affirms san francisco's continued commitment to the resilient city's network, a global network of committees committed to urban resiliency. this signing underscores our pledge to build a city that meets the demands of the future, and we value the opportunity to share our knowledge and best

practices with our partners cities around the globe and hear what everyone else is doing. in only that way will we build a stronger community. so i want to thank the resiliency partnership and supporting this work and bringing cities from around the globe together and for being here and choosing to be in san francisco. so thank you for that. i'd like to bring up elaine forbes who will share a few remarks with you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator chu and welcome, climate experts, resilience folks from around the city and public officials trying to build a safer and resilient community. we're happy to host you at the port's waterfront today. it's really an honor to have you here and i thought my comments to uplift what our city administrator has provided to you, would be to say, what it's like to be an agency that is in a city that is totally dedicated to resilience. so, here you are

at the port. we have 7 and a half miles of waterfront property and about ten years ago, we began a journey of figuring out we have something very, very challenging to solve in a hard place to solve it and we had to get to work. we got our seawall put into the city's assets and ten years ago the city said, what's under there and protecting our shoreline and provides flood protection to the downtown and city administrator's team and the mayor's won a grant called the city administrator's award and we went to other cities to see how we would insure flood insurance along this important shoreline. we started investigating very deeply, learning about all layers of mud down to the bottom, down to the top, how this, how this shoreline is stable and then, the city family decided we would go out to our voters with a general obligation bond, now six

years ago, i believe or yes. to say we know we have a bad problem. look at all this earthquake risk. we know the tide is rising and we know the waterfront is important and protects all the city infrastructure and what we love about this town but but we don't know what to do. can we have a ten percent down payment to figure it out. i was shocked the city officials were willing to be that proactive and aggressive to say this is a problem to solve. and amazingly, 84% of the san francisco voters agreed with these city officials, so where are we now? now, after this long journey of forward planning, we know all of the soils of the 3.5 miles of the historic shoreline that projects so much city infrastructure, transportation systems, et cetera, and we know how to prioritize city improvements and we have a study we're doing with the army corps of engineers and we're months away of figuring out a plan for flood protection, that the city and our city family will engage in. it's the

long-term vision and such an honor to be an agency that serves the city completely committed to our future and so i'm very proud to be here and i see my resilience team members are here, brad benson and adam barrett and others on the front lines of working on these challenges so excited to be here today with you all and excited to see an exchange, great ideas about how to make our community stronger in the face of climate change and the resiliency challenges we face and i would like to invite brian strong, the resiliency officer and he'll remember everything i described to you. with that, brian strong. [applause] >> thank you, elaine and yes. it has been a long journey and i remember every step. there's more to go. yeah. i'm brian strong, the resiliency officer of the city and county of san

francisco. i want to echo what carmen and elaine next pressing gratitude for the resiliency networks and the partners coming to the bay area. we were in oakland yesterday and learning this knowledge sharing, it's so important. these are really difficult and difficult issues and the more we can work together, i think the better it lifts all of us up, right, in ways we can't think about now. the synergy that gets formed. so, i oversee citywide programs and initiates to bring city departments and community partners together in san francisco to strengthen our resilience. we've been a long-time champion of coordinated citywide resiliency planning and initiatives because we know meeting the challenges of today and the future requires working and innovating together. that's why we really appreciate and participate in organizations like the resiliency network.

yesterday and today we're learning from these cities like norfolk, miami and miami-dade who are experiencing their sea level rise challenges and working closely with the army corps of engineers so we're learning and working together and learning from vancouver, los angeles and berkeley and other places where they have similar challenge was seismic risks on top of climate and sea level rise risk we face, that we know are somewhat unique to different regions of the country. san francisco is the first city in the 100 cities network in the globe to hire a resiliency officer. we released our first strategy in 2016 and completed 90% of the objectives in that strategy. to date, we are now following through on a next set of action items and a lot of those are really focused on and

has resiliency climate action planning effort and around our retrofit programs that we're successfully completed but we're moving to vulnerable buildings in san francisco. we are also doing a lot of work in passing critical bonds, elaine mentioned seawall bond, we've done a significant, over billion dollars of housing bonds because we understand affordable housing is critical to resilient and focused on equity to make sure our most vulnerable communities are also being lifted up and not left behind. we know there's more to do and we need to continue to push forward with the various programs that i've talked about. ultimately, you know, resilient is about improving structures, processes, to make sure people's lives and communities more equitable, and safe and able to respond and thrive is what i would say, thrive -- you know, benefit from the challenges we're going to be

facing. with that, i would also like to thank my boss, city administrator carmen chu, again, for taking on this mantle and being a champion in san francisco for this work. i would like to introduce my very good friend and someone i've been working with for several years, laurian farrell. she's the global director of the knowledge, transportation, of knowledge transformation, sorry for the global cities resiliency city's network and oversees the north america chief resilient officer who's are here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, brian. good morning, everyone. thank you, city administrator chu and elaine forbes for your words. through your examples you have shown the examples that all cities can take to move toward a resilient future and we're joined by 189 cities from -- 18 cities from across the united

states and canada. when we started our regional convening and chose the bay area, we did it in part because of this amazing beautiful geography of the area, of course, but also in part because of the breath of resilience activities that you are all undertaking across the bay area. but i would say that we truly picked this area to come and visit because of the people that are here doing this work in resilience, and you truly are leading the pack in resilience. you see building a resilient city is extremely hard and it takes technical know-how across many disciplines, but it also takes people with holistic mindsets with coalition building skills and the optimism and belief that it really is possible for us to build urban resilient cities that serve every member of our communities. and we know we must do this because the shocks and stresses

that cities are facing are inevitable. we must deal with them. we recognize the leadership of san francisco and fine strong and thank you for supporting the work of the network, since it was originally formed in 100 resilient city days and reinvented as resilient cities years ago. it's vehicles for knowledge sharing and cocreation. personally, i'm a water resources engineer by trade from toronto canada and i started thinking about resilience when i was work nothing the city doing flood risk management, so i'm happy to be beside the water this morning. i feel comfortable here. i worked in, i was a person drawing the flood lines, the person telling people where the risks were. i was issuing flood warnings to get people to stay safe and stay away from the rivers and i was the person trying to figure out mitigate

plans for flood risk. along the way, i realized there has to be, there was something missing in my practices in engineer and it was the people element. i've spent a lot of time looking at maps and drawing lines and doing budgets this led me to resilience and how did i bring in my scope of practice and become a better engineer. in resilience, i have many people who are different discipline was the same mindset, how do i become a better economic person? how do i become a better politician? how do i become a better person working on social coalition? and we come together to form resilience, to build resilience. brian strong was one of the first people that i met, when i started this journey. bryan exemplifies why we need cro's working on resilience. bryan was instrumental in shaping this network from its

inception. he embraced the idea that our network is city led, meaning our cities tell us what they need help on and we help to bring everyone together to share ideas, to share knowledge. yesterday, brian spoke about how the city established funds to implement resilience actions, something that many of our cities sought up in their seats and said how did you do that and how can we learn from you? during the pandemic, when cities were really struggling in the early days, brian came to our group and talked about the economic recovery plan that the city of san francisco was developing and many, many cities took lessons away from that and applied them to their cities and these are practical tangible solutions that's not easy but san francisco found a way to get things done. we want, in this network, to share our knowledge in a way that transforms action so changes the way we can build

cities, so we can build stronger and resilient cities when we work together and brian said that word along much i want to thank brian strong and city administrator carmen chu for your support and the continue support of this network and global community of resilient cities. and with that, i would like to thank you all for joining us this morning and i will turn the mic over to city administrator chu, thank you. [applause] >> i think often times as we do the work, we are doing our work in front of au a computer and planning documents and meeting and i think being out here, which is a rare thing for me to be able to come out of my office, but to be able to stand out here at the waterfront with all of you, serves as a reminder of what is at stake here and i want to thank the team who is here for all the work they are doing because what is at stake is the city, right. what is at stake are the people who live

and work here and the economy that thrives here and it's this beautiful place we call san francisco and the cities and we need to do right and do the right thing and plan and prepare for the things that may not come tomorrow, but we know surely are coming. we know earthquake risk is real. we know that climate change is real and sea level rise is real. and so, these are things we can't just pretend don't exist and we don't plan for. what's at risk is making sure we have a city that's resilient and that can withstand all of the shocks that will come. and that's our responsibility, that's all of your responsibilities. so, again, i want to thank all of you for being here and again, on behalf of the mayor, we are very, very excited to have you here. we're glad you have a chance to see our city. we hope you have fallen in love with the city as much as we love our city and will come back again. with that, i would like to i object viet our chief resiliency officers, all the folks who joined us here to come as we

sign now. thank you so much. come on up. [applause] we're not going to sign until you're up here, okay. [laughter] >> all right. are we all ready? >> yeah. >> okay. i wish my signature was longer, but.... [laughter] yay! [applause]

>> good afternoon everyone, i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm joined here today with commissioner shawn dureof the california highway patrol, major (indiscernible) national guard. our district attorney, brook jenkins, our police chief bill scott, and president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin as

well as a representative on behalf of sheriff miyamoto. he are here to talk about the partnership that will be established between the state and our federal law enforcement agencies. let me begin by expressing my appreciation to governor gavin newsom for answering the call for taking on this problem head on and his willingness to be a partner in the work that he knows we need to do. as a former mayor of san francisco and someone who grew up in the city, he understands the value of partnership and also understands the value of san francisco as it relates to entire state. here locally, we have been doing i think a extraordinary job between our police department and our district attorney's office. they have been working hand in hand as partners to help us address the many

challenges around public safety, but more specifically, the challenges related to this fentanyl crisis, which includes the large number of people who have died from overdose deaths, as well as the open air drug dealing, the violence associated with this, and how it impacted the tenderloin and soma communities considerably. time and time again, we have you know, reached out for resources to try and get support and the fact that this is finally happening and it is something that is never happened before will be significant for our city and will send a strong message to those who are perpetrating these crimes that are holding communities hostage, that we will do everything we can to work together to make sure that there is accountability. some of the challenges that have

recently been highlighted that you may not be aware of, just this past tuesday, the san francisco police department made an arrest of someone who five kilos of fentanyl, and just today our district attorney announced the charges associated with that arrest, and the point i want to make is, this is something that was not happening previously, and the fact that our district attorney and our police chief are working hand in hand and just between january and march this past quarter, the amount of drugs seized was over 150 percent from even last quarter, demonstrates to the public that we are doing everything we can. we are making the arrests, we are bringing charges, we are being aggressive as we possibly can to hold people accountable and i want to

appreciate the leadership of our district attorney brook jenkins and leadership of bill scott and the teams that they represent, because it does take a village, it does take partnership and now that partnership is expanding. expanding on a state-wide level. so, we are appreciative to have our state representative here to talk about some specifics of what they plan to do, but we will not provide all of the details of what we plan to do to the public, just the basics. we know when this plan was first mentioned when the governor came to san francisco with the attorney general and they did a walk in the tenderloin, they heard the pleas and cries of the community asking for help, asking for something different. this is something different and i'm looking forward to a real change in our city. separately from what we plan to do around law enforcement, people have

consistently tried to say really horrible things about san francisco and the challenges around safety, and i say like any other major city, we have our challenges, but there are so many other wonderful things happening in san francisco right now. just this morning i was out at mlk middle school with kids who were scooting and biking to school and i was at fort mason with a number of high school leaders who all are public school students who are thinking about ways to change the future. all over the city, there are communities coming together for various reasons and loving and enjoying our parks and open space,b the public schools, the warriors will be playing tonight and the championship and concerts and activities and we just hosted one of the biggest conferences here over 40,000 participant desnded upon san francisco and many had a really great

experience and there opponent i'm making is, it is time for us to write our own narrative about what san francisco is, because we live it and breathe it every single day, and part of adding to the value of our amazing city will be the fact that we will continue around our reforms and the work we need to do and the criminal justice world, but there will and must be accountability associated with that. with that, to talk a little bit more about the plans, is commissioner shawn dere of the california highway patrol. >> thank you madam mayor, good afternoon everyone. my name is shawn, the commissioner of the california highway patrol. the chp has a mutual interest insuring the safety of california communities and we are committed to collaborating with partners here in san francisco. under the direction and leadership of

governor gavin newsom and mayor breed, state agencies partnered with city officials and we have identified specific action items we can take immediately to improve the current issues in san francisco. beginning may 1, next monday, the chp will deploy officers to work side by side with san francisco police officers to enhance public safety within the city, with a focus on specified high crime areas. this will be accomplished through three main objectives at the highway patrol. first, we'll assist the san francisco police department increasing uniformed officer in spirfck area with intend to deter and disrupt criminal activity. second, provide specialized training to sfpd officers to assist those officers in the ability to detect, deter and prevent drug and alcohol related crimes, and finally, we will use the highway patrol existing resources from our specialized units to provide

investigative support to develop crimial cases that disrupt illegal narcotic traffic. the chp mission is provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of california. we are proud to stand with the california national guard, the california department of justice, the san francisco police department, and the san francisco district attorney's office in a collaborative effort to address these public safety issues. i'm happy to turn it over to major general matt beavers. >> matt beaver of the cal guard and what i want to do up front is spell out rumor, the california national guard presence in this is not boots on the ground in san francisco. the support that we will provide really consists of very talented and dedicated soldiers and airman that do essentially criminal analyst work and that

is taking a look at all the information that we-gets generated by law enforcement agencies, taking that information, senticizing it and into actionable information we can map, cartel networks inside and outside the city, understand those networks build a common picture of and dismantle the network. we have 14 or 15 folks working on the ground today supporting the northern california high intensity drug traffic area and we have proven success in the area. in san diego, dug traffic area where we support, in the last month in march alone, all most $50 million of fentanyl seizures that our soldiers and airman supported so we can do it in san diego and intend to do the same work here in your city. with that i'll be fallowed by district attorney brook

jenkins. >> good afternoon. i first want to say thank you to governor gavin newsom as well as general beavers from the national guard as well as commissioner dere from the california highway patrol for offering their assistance with tackling the open air drug market in san francisco that chief scott and our departments have both been working vigiously to address the last 9 months together. what we know is that this is not a problem that is easily solved and the more support and collaboration that we have allows us to address this problem more expeditiously so i'm very excited about the prospckt of this collaboration and this new partnership. this was an opportunity that at least from the vantage point of the national guard that was offered to my office about a year or two ago and declined. that was not in the best interest of san francisco. what is in the best interest of san

francisco and particularly communities like the tenderloin and south of market, they deserve to make sure that they get to walk down the street without the situation that we currently see. an additional benefit of this collaboration is how it will assist us in the prosecution of these cases. more recently, we have experienced many criminal defendants in narcotic dealing are asserting a umhooen trafficking defense. it requires significant evidence on our part in order to robut that defense so i'm excited at the prospect of having additional resources to be able to dispel the notion that people are not here dealing drugs of their own accord, because that is clearly what is happening. today we announced charges against an individual as the mayor pointed out in

possession of 5 kilos of fentanyl that can kill more then this entire city. that individual we argue should be detained based on the public safety risk he presents and the judge at this point agreed to that. we are moving the ball forward in trying to keep san francisco safe and as i said, this part nership will only allow us to do that on a higher level and at this time, i will bring up police chief bill scott. >> thank you district attorney jinken. i like to start by thanking our mayor london breed and thachck governor newsom and all the partners here today. as well as our board of supervisor president aaron peskin who's here with us today and is a supporter of making our city a safe city. i will fill in some of the blanks with some of what you heard here. the tenderloin and the

epicenter of the crisis with fentanyl is a very small area, about a square mile. generally. about a square mile. san francisco police officers have made 269 arrests in a very small area in the course of 4 months. think about your own community and think about a 10 block radius where you live and think about 269 drug dealers dealing poison on the street taken from your community. that is what the people who live and work in the tenderloin have to deal with day in and day out and that has to stop. our police officers have confisicated 39,000 grams of fentanyl year to date. a conversion is about 85 pounds of fentanyl. that's a lot of

death and destruction. think about it for a second. that is higher then what we have seen this time last year. we are working very hard as a city to address these issues, but it is not enough and that is why we have partners here. that is why we have commissioner dere and general beavers and their respective organizations here to help us and we need the help. i want to make a few things very clear, this city is committed to policing the right way, to policing with dignity and respect. to respecting the people who live work here and respecting the people who commit crimes here and our partners are here to enhance that. nothing short, nothing more, nothing less. they will enhance the values of

this city. most of us who live here and work here, the mayor has lead the charge, the district charge brook jenkins, myself, chief lazar from san francisco police department here, supervisor peskin, all most every public official in this city have heard over and over again that this has to stop. people are fed up with, we are fed up with it, and our attention needs to be on the people who are causing the problems. not only each other. our attention needs to be on the drug dealers that are making all this happen and that is exactly where our focus will be. we know this isn't a san francisco alone problem, we know that these people who deal drugs in our streets have tentacles in other cities, and other states, and perhaps in other countries and we have to do everything we can

to bring every resource to bear to identify every piece of these networks that are killing people in our city and we have to dismantle them, and that is exactly what we intend to do. whether it be da jenkins and straight prosecution or whether be federal prosecution, we will do what we need to do to make this problem better. because together, we are stronger. i want to again thank all the partners for being here. i know there is a lot of questions and i think at least the general questions have been answered. what is it national guard role, what is chp role? we are blessed to have a leader who pulled this all together in the mayor and we'll do everything we can to work together to solve this problem and with that, i will open it up for questions. >> [unable to hear

speaker] >> we seize crack cocaine, powder crack, meth, we see a garden variety, but when you look at the medical examiners reporting of the last couple years and this year is no exception, what is leading the charge and killing people thin city is fentanyl by far, it isn't even close. that is why we focused on fentanyl, because that is what is literally kills us now and we'll continue to focus on that. but we do make arrests and seizures for all the other illicit drugs as well. >> (indiscernible) when you talk about cartel, how does that factor into what we see on the streets? >> i think it is appropriate place to start. the drugs that come to our cities across the state, not independent of each city, it is not independent of each county, it is

fundamentally transnational organizations that bring narcotics into the state and city, so if we start from there and look through that prism it gives a good jumping off point to do the tough analytical work to determine who those folks are, and understand the network and their associations and go after dismantling them. thank you. >> [unable to hear speaker] >> yes, ma'am, just the mere presence of the officers being with the sfpd officers we believe will help deter criminal activity. the officers are trained in crim 2348 apprehension and take action if they see it and make appropriate arrests. we are not coming in here to take over, the highway patrol will

supplement san francisco efforts and we'll complement them in the efforts. >> (indiscernible) >> that is a fair question and i think we are early in this. we are having discussions we measure the success of it and those are things we'll establish in the days to come. >> the most immediate measure of success is we have to see a change in the streets. you heard me say we have to see a change in the streets. when people-i was out there last night, 10 o'clock last night, there were people visiting our city from lands far away that for a short second before our officers cleared it could not walk down it the sidewalks. that has to change. >> (indiscernible) >> arrest stutistics tell a story and we'll keep reporting those statistics because it is

public interest and people want to see we are working and doing something about the problem, but if i came and told you-told you 269, if i told you a thousand and walked out the building and still saw drug dealing on the streets that probably would not matter to you. if you had to see that every day, you probably don't care about statistics we bring before you so we have to see a change in the streets and see a change in behavior more importantly. it isn't okay to do what people are doing and not okay not only to deal drugs on the streets but to use drugs on the streets. if anybody thinks that's okay, it's not. >> (indiscernible) >> these things take time but we expect to see immediate changes. here's the realty and our officers see it every day and many of you see it

every day-when we deploy large amounts of officers in areas in the tenderloin or anywhere in the city the problem tends to go away while we are there. that isn't the long-term solution because sometimes that is unsustainable but temporarily that will go away. we want to disrupt this behavior. we want to make it difficult for people to come in the city and county and do what they've been doing, dealing drugs. the longer term plan as many speakers said today, there is a-there is dismantling the organizations bringing these drugs to our streets. there's prosecutions both state and federal prosecutions and at the end of all this, what we want to see is some of these organizations go away and be dismantled. that is a sign of success, because when that happens you won't see what you see right now on our streets.

>> (indiscernible) >> i can't tell you. i know what the commitment is from these people that are standing here. now we'll do whatever we need to do and the mayor and the governor will get together and decide. we are trying to build this for sustainability. part of that process is putting infrastructure in place or enhancing infrastructure that already exists, so we can sustain the effort. the last thing we want to do is clean the streets up for a week, two weeks, a month and then everybody goes back to their regular way of doing things and it starts all over again. we have to sustain this effort and so that is how we are trying to build this. >> (indiscernible)

>> well, our federal partners are definitely dealing with that and that's a little of what general beavers were talking about with the work they are doing in san diego. this takes partnership. that question the answer to that question is this takes partnership and no one organization that is standing before you can do this alone. people who do this, people deal, people who distribute, people who bring narcotics to any city, they don't care about boarders, they dont care where the county lines or city lines are, all they care about is making money and kill people in the money and we are not smart enough to join together and fight this together then shame on us. i applaud the mayor for asking for this help and applaud all our partners for willing to say, we'll help. we are all impacted by this. thank you. >> how many chp

officers and national guard are there? >> i can have commissioner general beavers answer their parts of the question and then-- >> for the safety of the officers and integ taef of the operation i won't disclose. they are all coming out of the san francisco area. the chp has 75 uniformed officers assigned to the san francisco area. in june we have academy scheduled to graduate and plan to send additional 9 officers so bring up to 84. i will tell you this, the officers that volunteered to work alongside sfpd officers all volunteered for it. they all are from san francisco, they love the community, they want to be there and serve the community so i think that's a important aspect from our viewpoint. >> we have 14 criminal analyst assigned to the

northern california high intensity drug traffic area. those 14 will be assigned a multijurisdictional task force that include the folks up here on the stage today. 14. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i have more concerns about the number of people who are dying from drug overdoses. i have more concerns about the families and the people who are struggling in these various neighborhoods overrun by drug dealers who have increasingly become violent and fight over territory and number other things, so as far as i'm concerned, my plan is part of what's been missing, because this city has been extremely generous with regards to social services. in fact, when you look at our city

budget, the amount of money that we spend for non profits and organizations to help with treatment, to help with second chances and support and resources are mostly in the tenderloin, soma communities and that will not change. we will continue to invest heavily in providing opportunities for people and second chances and all of those things, which is different from what was happening in the 80 . there were hardly alternatives or nobody seemed to care about that, everything is about arrests and lock people up and in fact this is different. this is program services, second chance opportunities and also accountability and what is missing is accountb ability and that's what this is all about. i do want to also mention that measuring of success includes reducing the number of drugs

overdose deaths in this city, which we have seen decline at one point and starting to see a spike and increase and so we want to make sure that we are saving lives in the process of the work we are doing here in our city. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i hope it does and i think that you know, just recently you recall when we declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin, and we set up a link it center which was supposed to be the place we help people and officers had a alternative place to take those struggling with addiction and

it didn't quite work out that way for a number of reasons including challenges with capacity of the police department. ulimately we can't sit back and throw our hands up. we need to be innovative and do everything we can to provide all the resources so that we have the capacity to handle a problem of this magnitude, and as i said earlier, you see the arrests have gone up considerably from the police department in terms of drug arrests, not just for fentanyl but this past weekday meth. you see the da time and time again to charge people in these many many cases so we'll continue to do all we can, but the partnership is going to hopefully make a significant difference. i want the streets to be safe , we all want the streets to be safe and part of that includes all the right programs we are doing but there has to be accountability attached to this and

think this capacity will help us get to a better place. alright. thank you very much.

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you here. >> can we talk bat the history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you. san francisco heritage

started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just

buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since 1886 built this victorian mansion in the same family year after year and

one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it has been a wonderful way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our organization. during the pandemic, we have been

using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses really contributing to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first focus was bars and

restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown, the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed to get that application submitted with them and that status convinced their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent

and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as a very important

architectural monument. one thing-one of the main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming at the castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so moving to see the number of

people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so when i joined san francisco heritage i

was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most crucial relationships. we meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land

mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing legislation, and we really want to see how can that workforce be expanded to include training in

historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot. thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back shortly. i'm chris manners, thanks

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