(gavel) good morning i'd like to call the meeting to order thank you, good morning i'll try it again to everyone. >> good morning. >> it is good morning the sun is out we have a long agenda we'd like to get started on time i know other commissioners are on their way in >> welcome to the city & county of san francisco homelessness oversight commission regular meeting this morning at 9:00 am., thursday, may 2, 2024. as our custom starting off with the ramaytush ohlone the ramaytush ohlone land are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush

(rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. i'll turn it over to the madam secretary and policy call the roll and . >> thank you, mr. chair and thank you for joining us this is in-person at city hall and broadcasted live and members of the public tairnd in-person have an opportunity to provide public comment specific to each presentation as well as general public comment. >> members of the public who

wish to provide public comment remotely will public school heard in the order in the queue and commenters to come remotely the the phone the phone comment via telephone: dial 1-415-655-0001 access code: 2664 795 0640 # # to join the meeting. press *3 to be added to the speaker line. please wait until the host calls on • turn off the sound on tvs, radios or other devices near you • address the commission as a whole, not an individual commissioner. commissioners it is on item two roll call, please. >> respond. >> chair butler present. >> vice chair dufty present. >> commissioner albright here present. >> commissioner evans is not present commissioner guerrero

present. >> commissioner laguana not present please note sorry. >> i'm here. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> laughter. >> sorry commissioner evans the deputy city attorney and commissioners we have quorum. >> this places you on item three. >> 3. announcement of sound producing devices. please be advised the chair my ask for removal 6 - thank you for your confrontation item 4. >> 4. announcements by the chair. >> thank you i want to death this meeting to williams who passed away. >> you all know he was the the

american - for especially for those in the city on the marginalized opportunity especially the homeless and also the lgbtq community and so i um, as a preacher myself and certain a reverend i was to honor him and celebrate his life and with the black community. >> this places us on item 5. >> 5. for action: approval of the april 4, 2024, hoc meeting minutes. any questions or comments from the commission regarding the meeting minutes. >> move approval. >> it's been approved and seconded and open up for public comment if there is none in the from this meeting. >> no members of the public

(coughing) on remote call commissioners. >> no callers in the queue. >> okay. let's. >> all in favor, say "aye." >> aye. >> opposed? the i see have is on item 6. >> 6. announcements by the commissioners: communications. >> open to the floor. >> commissioner evans i want to share a study from portland university action collaborative an analysis of the shelter types thought that was an interesting read to think about the outcomes and organization and others i afforded a copy of link to that study to the commission secretary to share. thank you. commissioner. >> commissioners any other announcements? >> none.

>> wonderful. >> well it is good to see you all. okay. so this places us on our item no. 7 before we go there ask for public comment any members of the public wish to make a public comment by the commission commissioner anonymous please do so at this time. >> okay. >> thank you. >> by way of announcements speaker card on the table so at any time you need to make any public comment place our name and writing your names is optional but we want to honor those who want to make public comment. this places us on >> 8. for discussion: director's report/executive director shireen mcspadden• homelessness prevention. open to the floor. >> item 7. >> i'm sorry are we on item 7

oh, the most important practitioner part of our commission the employee recognitions and hsh honors swati pande and executive director mcspadden divisions of administration and - a. >> (laughter.) >> (clapping.) and congratulations. >> all right. >> so swati pande is our may honoree and got an award so

swati pande title is one system analyst this is in our admin and finance division and nominated by candy's that got flowers from her and swati pande the heart and brains of one system team no one cares more and devoided to benefit from people with the families we serve and unparalleled customer service to anyone seeking help and guidance with teenagers and our community partners and her supervisor said the most challenging spat is trying to prevent her from every projects especially the complicated ones. as the longest serving member swati pande her

technical expertise make her dedispensable and desire to learn more about the technological capacities of one and the programs that people track from the system swati pande trusted and adhere contributions mirror the impacts of one system it and worked to make sure our state and federal requirements are met and swati pande has tools and reports to hsh staff can monitor the programs and she finds ways to design workloads that - swati pande champions privacy practices in the one system project that fascinates connecting individuals and families to programs and

services help them object stable housing and extremely modest and not seeking recognition a lot ofable and with a wicked dry sense of humor to lighten the load and the proud mom to two rebellious folks and swati pande makes everyone she mets feel comfortable and welcome and responsible for quietly recruiting many of the colleagues and swati pande congratulations and i will say - (clapping.) congratulations. >> so i want to say over is expecting too much we want to pull every data point out of it and swati pande and candice and

the one system team we are fortunate to have you and swati pande this is your day so congratulations staff employee recognition recipient for may 2024 congratulations (clapping.) (laughter). >> [off mic.] >> congratulations again swati pande and the entire one system thank you so much for all the work you do do entire staff of hsh and seems to be a family so definitely congratulations.

>> okay. this places us on >> 8. for discussion: director's report/executive director shireen mcspadden• homelessness prevention. in the hands of our capable director executive director mcspadden. >> good morning. i want to start sorry the presentation is coming up um, chair butler thank you for recognizing reverend williams this morning i was on the boards and working closely with janice a big also to the city but we're fortunate he did all of the amazing things he did for us so - >> thank you. >> so i'm going to start by giving an update of response system and corresponding

problematic updates. >> so outreach in states study with two thousand plus engagements in march. >> our corresponding sgriz with consistent with one hundred plus conducted in march. >> and we do is new corresponded demographic data to show the percent in the system that is a good - shifted from last fiscal year and black african-american have less and seeing a significant increase in latino americans. >> as you may know the local homeless krovrpd board hosts subcommittee meetings on the second tuesday of each month in

the forum where design work it regularly done and reported we continue to have a process for corresponding redesign and the work is new governance chapter approved in january of twenty-four hour and mission statements to be present at the homeless public meeting in moa and one upcoming milestone identifying changes we'll be sharing with you. >> mrs. we have an update of people at risk through the prevention program a reminder we now have this prevention database and a part of this this is our new database moving forward and this is clients served by hsh, july 2023 and march, 2024. during this time

1,000 plus households were served with the total of $7.7 million allotment in financial assistance and nearly 50 percent for back rent and for housing. as you can see on the database was a significant increase in the number of households served number march this is due in part to one procedure processing they're applications toward the hsh funding due to the delays this increase led to the increase in resources an outlier in march. and then problem solving resolutions increased slightly with one hundred and 7 resolutions so far in fiscal year seven hundred and 61 households assistance with $2.5 million in financial assistance. >> so relocation assistance i think as you can see hsh and the

human services partnered on the public database focused on the relocation a subset of this secretary in the previous slides this database is the realization and problem solving assistance is offered by the department of homelessness & supportive housing started in 2022 with the long-standing homeless program. the county adult assistance program is offered by the him services agency for folks this program was launched in april of 2023. the journey home is offend by hsh and hsa for unhoused people and people with disorders this program start in 2023. >> and on the database so far

this fiscal year the city has helped three hundred and 13 people reunite with family and friends and outside of san francisco the problem solving program is a serious of assistance. >> the database it on the website we invite you there. >> as a reminder we also have an line our database tracking inventory and hsh funds over 13 thousand plus units and including supportive housing and rapid rehousing and the hours lottery program. housing placement we're consistent in march with one hundred and 82 placements for adults and 16 percent were transitional youth and 15 were families with

children. updates the flexible housing rent agreements with community s f and t gi were referral to begin and hsh is awarded grant agreement for both services and housing program for adults, the 60 slots and families and scoffing slots respecterly and for women and 50 slots contracted for sf i want to say i got a few questions from commissioners about community one thing request the staff to make sure that community forward has the

expertise to serve the transcommunity a question that came up a couple of times in the few weeks i want to say our staff will preside the resources to community forward if they don't have that just to be clear. >> hsh inspection of policy and in april covers the policy for housing inspections of locally funded this policy is part of a hsh strategies to insure the quality hoifrz across the portfolio. along with the pool hsh has distributed and anonymous in an updated participant role for subsidies eligibility and compliance for the environments. i want to

provide an update on the rehousing work that of the hope house program participants. as you know, we have offsite our contractor relationship with the services and have been gradually winding down the housing for veterans program and eligible tenants were offered a union in the supportive housing portfolio they can use in the private market and where the you want tenant qualifies and they meet the standards of government in a vast majority of cases the tenants - a total of 84 clients enrolled as of april '68 tenants have been rehoused 29 in rehousing and 29 in radical rehousing and one in family and four outside of our system. two

housed with problem solving assistance and two others have been unable to track they're currently 16 households in the process we're also working with the landlord and active in the program to see if they're interested in participating in another one of hsh subsidy programs and then hsh continues to make progress towards all entering housing crisis with the u.s. department of housing and urban development this is a one time opportunity for nine hundred vouchers for people that are unhoused or at risk and partnership with the housing authority has issued 1,000 plus vouchers and 1,00015 households and again, 1,00015 households a

third of households have a voucher for families with children and had to focus on serving district 10 for allocation of the community in the bay and three three percent of referrals went there and three 4. >> across is shelter system on april 23rd hsh has 3000 plus shelters and 92 occupancy rate and last month the commissioners asked us to talk about the shelters and hsh measures the stacy for response system and the data how many people move out of homeless this is a better measure of impact for the responses oh, overview in 20233,000 plus people moved out

of 14er89s fund by hsh this represents an offer one hundred percent since 2019 we were able to look at an existing definition for shelters not the strongest indicator for several reasons that under reports and for some people have multiple-generational shelter stays this is reported as multiple negative access for when the person has a exit in the process it not limited people come back a few times. as part of the the holdings shelters accountable that is essential to our work and to the functionality we have to recognize the shelters do many important things for the guests. and this includes a safe place for people to get off the street and begin the healing process,

connecting people in income and much more and in an effort to answer the question from the administration we - our current shelter data thirty percent of emergency shelters transitional housing and restless statistic for hsh, rapid rehousing has rental units and a pathway to housing solutions within the homeless response and 17 percent problem solving and have access to the financial assistance and case management to remove this and 41 are not active and two percent are not yet in the system and the remaining 2 percent have issues we have to resolve and part of reports performance management we're reevaluating the performance

measures of services across is portfolio to help to guide the improvement work and reporting and shelter data will be included in that process for referrals. >> i want to say slide 14 which was for the public i know- >> (multiple voices). >> sorry i didn't notice it got ahead of us. >> so we're move on to lake merced shannon. >> we condition the process from lake merced to move people out of shelters and to control and we moved 21 households into housing and previously the reporting methods, however, due to variations in information on household member by these have

transition to reporting outcomes by totals households instead and anticipate changing the parking but hosting the final service in the area prior to the change in regulation. this will better help us to connect with people who didn't connect earlier. hsh continues to see improvements with waiting lists the total number of people have not diminished but the people on the list shapiro are dropping to keep the beds list updated. and then the mission cabin launched

on april 15th only monday san francisco hot team has been preparing and recruiting in the mission since january and working closely with the community on our booichd list to make sure that people are homeless had first dibs for the mission cabin and agreed by the neighbors of the city recruiting people homeless in the brackets and the elementary schools worked with the elementary schools. and since launch on april 15th, the homeless team has been getting people in cabins and several of the clients are on the public health and hsh means they are are incredibly vulnerable and a case management has been trying to get them services. years and clients on the shared priority list have mental health

challenges we are delighted that so many people agreed to come inside since the - the operating contract were approved by the commission at the february 15th meeting and the total construction/capital across projects was approximately, $6.7 million and the press has reported three 1 percent cabin but the budget paid for guess construction of cabin but the memorable and electrical system by permitting the architectural design system for the projects this aspect was managed by the department of public health that issued a bid and selected the lowest responsible and responsive bidder the operating costs are approximately

$2.7 million for cabins with 58 beds $45,000 per cabin. and each bed will serve two to four people every year and those operating costs are consistent with other adult shelters operation that story was miss reported may think of the cab i think from the way it was building and said to make that clear for everyone. >> and got additional updates i'm on the legislative a lot side 9 pieces of legislation for grant agreement in the legislative progress and 6 amendments before you in march and april will be heard by the board of supervisors in may. your honor, 7 long branch of 11

and subsidy pools and ma hotel and three of the agreement in the introduction process with calendared for may and subsidies pool programs and housing navigation and meals-on-wheels. and additionally hsh presented at three hearings called by the board in april and department of homelessness & supportive housing owe more than thattion and the homeless responsive members and is upcoming legislation for hsh to intraer a grant agreement for housing and homelessness and accepted for

homekey and have a - and then workshops from the other advisory both sides we're making progress thank you, commissioners three open seats on the board that the commission that must take care of and on the grants guide and continued care of the project portfolio the monitoring committee is focused on the staff to make sure they focus on the videos and the advisory committee has the next meeting on june 18th. the equity office is focused on building up the framework for home by the bay and through this we're building a road map to

that fundamentals and all activities by the bay plan the racial equity three exponents are now digital available in learning for hsh staff. 86.5 percent of hsh staff have completed all three modules and the partnership with the office of transgender is oh, the transhousing and have trainings and over 250 people have attended two more trainings on the horizon (laughter). >> we have 200 and 47 ftes and 49 vacancies and that includes positions filled and recruiting for permanent roles as of

march 2024 and hiring and appreciate your support with the candidates they are posted and with that, i will i'm here to answer questions as my executive team thank you. at the executive director mcspadden and before the commissioners offer questions or comments open up for public comment at this time. >> a caller in the queue. >> go ahead caller we hear you. >> commissioners my name is jessica this is my third time in a row hsh (clearing throat) have continued to not relocate the program. this march hsh have

not paid totally $2,000 not - and refusing to move until they receive 5 thousand dollars i have suggested many times to hsh about utilizing the (microphone distorted) and travel lodge who are only willing to relocate and spoke to hsh and asked them to meet the residents and (microphone distorted) why can't they move in too other residents and hsh (microphone distorted) were not paying the 12 three 9 and stopped the garbage i notified they reinstated the

service i'm concerned hsh (microphone distorted) with those unethical actions and she was part three 9 have been rehabbed and what happened to the 16 related tenants i think that is (microphone distorted) and the public. however, the only thing hsh has done with (microphone distorted) check in (microphone distorted) - motivational we recognize provide (microphone distorted) and provide an update and commissioner asked what happened to (microphone distorted) let me update i (microphone distorted) on i'm not sure on april 25th

for hsh to provide a rate information for a rental agreement cricket miller for commission of transparency she ignored my communication and about the discriminatory treatment (microphone distorted) and continue to see a sub tenant and should be thank you, for your time. >> i have a couple of questions so i was going to start off so i

think a couple different concerns still with hotels. one is for those households that are um, not yet housed that director reported were in the housing placement process. um, i wanted to understand if they've been connected with um, eviction prevention resources represented? and how those people might be added risk for evictions are being connected to the appropriate services. >> i also was interested to learn more about the do scattered sites vouchers whether or not those are considered for whole house residence i understand they're not eligible for the hud program they're

eligible for some city services and so did we not consider using scattered sites vouchers to have people remain in place. >> i i'm going to ask chief deputy director sanders to get up here. >> yes. we're au every single report possible to try to relocate those folks and the residence particularly at at jessica middle to location are flexible vouchers which are scattered sites vouchers. so every option has has been exhausted and again, i indicated last month includes a help with transitioning and helping with the moving costs and storage and transportation everything

associated with that we exhausted every single option we possibly could and take a look at it and decided that we can apply the flexible intervention we're doing everything we can. >> to clarify why would the sflebl vouchers not eligible to keep them in place? they're offered to vouchers to relocate what is the issue with the location they're at? >> so the details i have to get back to you with the transition they have a - have to establish a relationship with the landlord, etc. that was something i felt they wanted to continue that relationship with the particular landlord. >> understood so as i

understand the scattered site vouchers are intended they're totally uncritiqued and costs money have an opportunity for allowing for flexibility and the person has been offered. >> voucher they accept that voucher we can engage for the search so they could potentially work to secure the place they're currently in with that voucher and want to make sure we're finding what is the diameter with that actually happening? >> and you said i'll get back to me. and then around the eviction ares people connected with um, people that can evaluate them in terms of the of managing the eviction process? have they have been connected with the prevention resources. >> yes. our folks everyone has been kicked with all the

available resources we have and is details of cases i'll is a to ask any team by, yes. >> so have the participants engaged with the attorneys to hope them navigate an eviction are they accepting that service. >> again, i need. >> (multiple voices). >> thank you. i really appreciate that. >> i all continue to want to see an update on this situation. um, and make sure we are doing everything we can my finding i've not spoken to those people i'm hearing second and third hand people that would like to remain where they are. and are going to great - and they may be

putting themselves at potential risk and make sure we're insuring that people are connected with tested resources and people that, you know, they feel like they can help them navigate this difficult situation. >> let's see - i had some questions if i can move on to that r v. >> i thank you for the memo that clarified that there are um, a plan to do some additional outreach in may and i'm my understanding the signs maybe going on sooner than that but is enforcement is not happening i'm not sure a commitment is still about the enforcements begins people are

additional levels of outreach and and building the memo indicated some people are at locations and went there a week and a half go i counted 40 vehicles i think this will capture everyone and specifically can we kind of learn more about the challenges have been with the parking i think we have been talking about the safe parking areas for that area and since maybe december or before i know there were a mention of one or two sites examined and looked at it and wondering can we better understand where the challenges on what those sites. >> sure so yes our staff is committed to making sure that there is another outreach event

and we'll be conducting that in the first part of june. my understanding is that that while the signs will go up the enforcement weighing in close contact with the agency and making sure the outreach efforts happen well before the enforcement starts and we continue to work with supervisor melgars office and that is a small site and i think only could accommodate about 20 r vs and the other one is a bigger site we're running into challenges because of the way it is and the push back or that we're getting from the particular place we're in so we can't we're trying to move forward and trying hard to move

forward and the second site is bigger and the firefighters site will be only be available to us for a short time and it is unfortunately, getting shorter we are delinquent and meeting with the supervisors office weekly at that point to try to work through the barriers but challenging. >> so i saw we're going to be talking about the candle stick plan will that be a possible location those individuals will be placed? the process only have people from the district so to the site. >> yeah. we had a lot of conversations with the communities in by the way, we have a number of people in r v and we're going to focus on the nominees of people that are

there. >> that makes a lot of sense and we'll get into the conversation b around the candle stick i'm wanting to understand the candle stick model applies our continuum of care those individuals might be lower. >> cults and we're on an expensive shelter and i'm wondering there is maybe a way to think about guess particularly housed and parking spots don't need to have fencing and cameras and skirt especially

the individuals have not other reported concern other than their needing a place out of sight and there is a lot of conversation around the country r vs are increasing everywhere as are cars and parking r v sites are the big topics we're working with the colleagues across the country to exclusive execute this people have different nominees. >> uh-huh. and i'm wondering on the west side parking site in redevelopment maybe some lower threshold model like the parking area that is designated for the people for a couple of months so that site can be accomplished. >> we're trying to find the

sites and, you know, if we can get anything we'd be happy people have told us what they want and trying to find a place. >> thank you i have um, two more um, items one was around the mission cabin i appreciated the additional data i was jotting is down as you're reading it allowed the uk global attendance the californians and san franciscans. and the $6.79 million was that a contract that is approved by the board of supervisors? >> is so not like a public document that. >> i'm going to ask our chief

of finance and administration to cancer that. >> good afternoon so under the administrative code do department of health has the authority under chapter 6 to construct hsh sites along with other public sites and so that is the entity that did the bidding and entered into the contracts for $6.78 million. the calculation and the press dividing by the number of did he narments understates what it takes to have the installation and utilities and water and additional fees, etc. all of that was managed by the department of public works didn't meet the charter

threshold or the board of supervisors approval but a public document. >> it is public document? >> how will one locate that. >> put in a request with the department of public works if we is where that in our file i'll be happy to share that. >> did that whose budget. >> hsh funded the project. >> so that million dollars came. >> not prop c but hsh used funding including general fund dollars and um, what is the expected - so you're evaluating the costs the operating costs of executive director mcspadden described $45,000 here 8 point 9 thousand per bed is the operating costs that we looked at specific contract with side

keys in february and approved what you're looking at the cost expenditures whether or not that was a smart investment you kind of look at the exceeded lifespan of that capital investment do we exponent - obviously this site is exponent to last longer one year what is the exceeded lifespan of the site and the california lose to understand the. >> when we cite and project it is on the cd owned land we i'd like the city-owned plans not paying the cost for lease for the lands we have an opportunity to wait for the predevelopment

that hsh partners with mpdu and have to confirm when our anyhow with the and given how the mou projects there is a year or two extension the developers feel, you know, deciding what to do in terms of the full project. um, you know, we would like the cost to be cheaper but really in the part of department of public works. and how they are able to deliver projects for the city that beyond what hsh can control. >> i think that might be two years or three years and um, it

is mayor bill de blasio my understanding some of the value of the investment and purchasing the cabins cabaret located to others sites i was wondering what portion of $7 million might have a life pan i know that site design you can't transport that to another site per say in terms of the investments and maybe like i don't know if there are investments in toilets and showers and the kitchen cabinets with the $7 million to be relocated to another site. >> it takes some time i think just the best guess we have done that in the past with other short term navigation centers to repurpose the trailers and cabins, etc. but reality we can do that on the margin and sites get a lot of wear and tear a cost to storage and recognize so

not a lot of long term use but we look at that and what we can reuse or move to others sites not that simple as some of the facilities can see a totally appreciate that as wearing evaluating this model and trying to get our hands around the costs but to give an estimated life for the cab i think a 10:30 year life and trying to - i think we need to have a practical realistic answer to best estimate further investments. >> after we get the three three projects that was privately delivered with the

dollars states hcd and at&t all required a cost to comply with the state requirements and commissioner evans not a straightforward to the vendors. >> i know that navigation search centers were a trendy thing is now cabins have trendy as wearing thinking about that model i want to make sure we're getting our hands around the costs to make sure our dollars are used effectively and one hundred thousand dollars plus in terms of what are the alternatives that might give a compatible experience we appreciate you're answering my questions. the last area of the discussion i want to talk about

what the shelter exit data i appreciated the additional information provided about how many people in our shelter system as part of this i jotsd detain thirty percent and 17 percent of problem solving data. and 49 percent not yet coordinated entry i look forward to also digging more into the housing data that the outcomes we housed 36 hundred people which is 100 percent less increase over the prior year. um, to monitored that as we have biggest challenges and unlocking more housing for exit and at some point i think of spoken with our data commissioner laguana how to get our hands around the um, data to marry we

are making investments and shelter that focus on objections of people exiting to housing. and that i think commissioner laguana brought up we should be looking at outcomes for people leaving the city housing i love that we're thinking that direction and i look forward to getting our hands around the data on an ongoing basis. thank you. >> thank you. next xhbts. >> thank you so of and in reverse order like commissioner evans said to line the conversation. could you explain the data on page 17 the wait list a significant decrease in the afternoon on the people on the wait list from december to february i'm curious what is um,

creating that decrease data. >> if folks knows if they don't happy to have an answer after the meeting. >> so i'm going to ask lisa who is our interim program director for the shelters. >> hi, everyone thank you. um, it is really a variety of issues as to why the number of the folks on the shelter wait list have gone done one of the significant elements with our partners that is overseeing the wait list and process has been trying to um, put a lot of staffing resources and time and experiment trying to do a few strategies to see what can work to help improve the connection with folks on the wait list one

of the biggest champions is trying to connect with folks are on the wait list to get them into - >> thank you. >> hopefully the trends continues and the other question in reverse order to individuals to lake merced i know that of those who came to the commission were speaking and hoping that though not one of san francisco's translated languages that is but would hope that mta will translate other languages and appropriately to everyone has access to that at the and then (rustling of papers.) again director recognizing on page 5 under the coordinator demographics you indicated there

was a decrease in madam chair, african-americans community members and then latino and hispanic individuals and noticed a multi raurnl decrease i'm curious what i know so many - i'm curious what you think it is one month or one year had is causing that and maybe too preliminary to make a judgment. >> okay. >> all right. miriam. >> i think a number of factors newcomers is one of the major factors that causing that increase and shifts in the demographics i think that access as well access to our access

points and engagement being directed into those points and also who is accepting the services i think a variety of things sew is it a trend data you're planning to change or how are you? looking at it in terms of learning from the data? >> i think the number of things including culture conferencing and competencies how we gave folks when we make available and how we're able to connect people to services available in realtime. and um, and, you know, what is available at the time, you know, we are engaging folks in the system. i think the other thing is just under spending widening what is

available and then community networks and support vested outside of system to help people to gain access to services. >> and um, you mentioned no more questions because executive director mcspadden mentioned it i appreciate we changed the numbers and increasing the vacancies that said and i know that commissioner guerrero and commissioner evans agree no applications to fill the remaining slots so if you know anyone? interested on serving on the grievance advisory committee friend community colleagues, please apply we need to fill those positions. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner

albright and commissioner guerrero. >> sorry (clearing throat) yeah. i have one point and thank you for bringing this up in hispanic; right? that's what you're talking about; right? >> yeah. you yeah i'd like to know will not right now but circle back is that i live in the mission and it is an interesting point to mow. and good deeper with that in the future or keeping your eyes on the ball on it to see if we can see that go back down commissioners, i wanted to kind of echo with commissioner evans said about you candle stick we're going to be voting or reviewing one of those citizens advisory committee i lived in my car and worked in the shelters so i feel similarly i'd like to looked at deeply how to extend

those dollars i think so that is like a national process of, you know, finding best practices but also think that a one-size-fits all is generally not a good idea and also, if my experience in experiencing homelessness and working in the shelters like really doing more local assessment i know the department will do anyway because a lot of times it is established community and they can feel like kind of over monitoring and can actually case for trauma i think in housing in the vehicle it is sensitive moment because you're close to exiting homelessness i think that is bringing in staff to kind of over supervisor can actually lead to more consist you're letting people from outside the community in with

culture difference and other practices that is a common occurrence but can have more conflict and harm in the unhoused communities my concern that leads to experiencing homelessness and making that for challenging to escape the experience but to kind of look at how we, you know, provide monitoring for those spaces. and different services maybe more case management and less like monitoring site monitoring things like that. so i maybe that did to talk about deeper nohow the organization is using that fuvenz and whether that funding is excess and that's all. >> i have a quick question. >> one second.

>> i'm happy to let the commissioner go first with a quick question. >> the cab i think the mission can i think so have they counted as sheltering. >> part of shelter system. >> okay. thank you. >> i didn't hear the answer. >> shelter. okay. >> (laughter.) >> shelter. thank you. that's a good question. >> i know but i'm an "x" musician i'm deaf a few questions. direction. on slides 14, first of all, thank you, commissioner evans for highlighting the subject of great securing for me not just

exiting from sheltering to housing but exits into san francisco sustaining housing which i think we all agree is the you want um, on slide 14 this is the designation section on the far right a category for permanent housing that includes other counties voucher reported i assume is other counties providing their vouchers and that is not happening somewhere else but for permanent housing how is permanent housing assigned supportive housing is they've they're now in a place that is self substance or a combination and i can take a picture of it, it is pretty

small. crickets walking up a perfect. >> thank you. >> can we verify the other vouchers from other consensus we tried to do the best we could with the database and reporting what the counties you can report to another county but that county can bill for that we didn't get vouchers back you can report to another counties that means we get a new voucher that voucher count towards their voucher allocation; right? and every county was trying to meet as quickly as potential for the voucher programs so counties were counting but san francisco didn't do that we wanted to take

as many vouchers and report here we um, fwildz for all of those those didn't count so the county vouchers reported are talking about those absorbed in other counties but not counting towards the nine hundred and 6. >> when you say nine hundred and 6 which help me to find the number. >> in 2021 san francisco was awarded nine hundred and 6 emergency housing voufrjz the total allocation. >> i got it. >> we have more than one hundred and 6 vouchers with the emergency housing and the other providers that helped to port this program. >> we exceed nine hundred and 6 that comes out of the hsh funding. >> the federal government so the federal government administers this like the

flexible housing program we administer and pay that subsidies the voucher program subsidies is administered by the federal government currently, we paid for the ongoing support services we paid for housing stabilization is cheaper housing opportunity for san francisco so go federally-funded vouchers and we're allowed 906 what happens when we exceed that. >> so the federal government i believe was back in office of emergency services of 2023. >> uh-huh. >> told all county if you are getting close to over utilizing and over using they're vouchers this is the housing authority that e-mails to the hyde office a differently office than technically our office sorry and

therefore it if i are about to over lease e-mail them a spasmic e-mail we're to offer lease and they'll work out to see in the funding is available, you know, ultimately hud was expecting communities to not use all their vouchers so so the vouchers from. >> (multiple voices.) >> the over lease of other communities so any one of the community took advantage of over leasing with hud said we could do that and we've been able to overlease. >> and no issues with that they have not said oh, everyone overleased so we don't have enough money. >> we can go to the website it looks like they're going to come in and break even with the communities have overleased vouchers. um, and the housing

authority communications with their hud office. um, and so we will be in close communication with any issues with that. >> so since you know so much about that answer any followup question. >> those households with the housing authority 12 61 and 15 moves in over who period of time? >> actually thank you for asking almost the three year anniversary with over one hundred and 67 vouchers in may we were required to go into a memorandum of understanding with the housing authority by the end of until 2021 and they only this is a that's what's problematic administration started there about 2 1/2 years we have every

nine hundred and 6 people we housed. >> so that's helpful one hundred and 21 people are left the program though some have in some cases 64 actually didn't reduces our allotment. >> correct prior to september 30th a voucher xirtd expired we get that voucher back and it's been a long time coming. circumstances hindered did imply facility we'll refer them in one case we did that when it did need it rereferral. but, yes prior to september 30th those vouchers come back into our system. >> got it and september 30th we'll not be able to refer those

households we're going to start to see at the end of this month vouchers will expire and we'll for the goat those backs you're housing people are working closely and kudos to the program manager on this very closely to make sure that every single voucher person gets one and make sure the households complete the recertification. because this is a federally issued voucher not a lot of control over someone loses a voucher but doing everything we can that's where is the housing retention comes in to make sure that every household to completing the annual recertification and repayment vouchers. >> so if they don't reserve is that voucher freed up we can rewarded it or - >> it's gone forever. >> okay. so if i think so this

correctly this program the emergency housing voucher program sounds like it is flu subscribed no more vouchers to award at at that power point distinguishing returns as people either exit out of program for, you know, whatever the reason we can expect the number of people receiving folks keep in mind the city also does housing vouchers (coughing) a federal program we can expect the number to steadily decline. >> hopefully not manipulative because the funding will be put those those programs and not many existing. >> uh-huh. >> in case the housing are not able to stabilize we help to that concludes my report. them in other avenues we have

helped direct households not to return. >> okay. thank you very much. cricket. >> my next question on slide 10 and 11. >> and by the way, apologize for running late i had to teenager that was not getting to school on times. >> so - um, in the housing inventory dashboard so in past directors reports had there was a vacancy report that gave us a sense of vacancy rate i didn't see the interpreters this director's report so first, i'd like to ask if we have reunite that. >> commissioner, i on you misses is last meeting we are shoring up that so we're going

to brake bring it back. >> you're right. i missed it and the next question - so this vacancy rate gives me an idea of how much the inventoried was opted out i see placement for example, last month, we the do the math n my head - 43 hundred and 70 placements it looks like in march? what i cannot see is folks do we have the ability to say how many people are left housing placement and, you know, what similar to what we're doing with the federal housing

vouchers - >> so we can add that to the report. >> and some explanation why did they leave or leave to in that, you know, were they deceased or do they move away. >> we'll add that and then. >> the last question was going back to commissioner albright slide 17 the wait list. you know, i saw an article in the press yesterday i'm trying to reconcile it said an increase in families and then said was a total of three hundred and 72 families waiting for shelters on tuesday and in december another

amount but trying to understand what that is referring to because that article seems to be for waiting for shelter and - but the numbers don't match up. and so i want to - i'm sure an explanation that makes sense. >> miriam can answer that request. >> i think you're asking in case why is there an increase in the number of families. >> no about the increase but finding of like what this press report is referring to versus what i'm looking at now the press report in an - according to hsh representing a drama leap

in december 2, '00 and 38 families on the waits list and the current dashboard is only - >> so not the same thing. >> i's >> i did not know. >> so go ahead if i want to say something. >> i'm doing a family presentation at some point so illustrate will what is going on. >> that's a complete different wait list thank you, that would be great. >> in the future with that slide 17 we say adult shelter thank you, you. >> thank you i'm done. >> would you have been a great conversation. >> certainly have lots of we look forward to your presentation right now and so

move on to our item number >> 10. for discussion: spotlight on family homelessness hsh chief deputy director, marion sanders. >> through the chair. i still have bone more person on the speaker list. >> i saw williams did you have another comment. >> i have quick examine. >> and it is something that commissioner guerrero brought up regarding the parking spaces for the r v particularly on the west side and i totally understand the kind of the challenge between over monitoring and having people feel comfortable and safe sharing not under so please state but the challenge is familiar with people on the west side the challenge for both executive director mcspadden and melgar to appease the

neighborhoods would be probably some high-level of monitoring. so this is a challenge walk they have to walk to any site on the west side where it is i don't know where they are but anyway, just a comment they might have to have some kind of challenge some kind of a line to walk to make that work. >> honestly that is in any part of the city. >> got it all the increase in case management something to think about. >> getting the communities trust. >> thank you. >> thank you. deputy director sanders with presents on the spotlight. >> hello commissioners. >> hello. >> so miriam sandy's pronounce

deputy for hsh and today on the homeless family system interest the lens of four major categories the landscape of family homelessness and family correspond entry and is code effect and the system changes and a couple um, minor edits to the slides from the presentation i submitted last month but make sure we get the updated copies to so commission secretary about one hundred slides i'll check if with you at slide 50 (laughter). >> oh, 25 i'm going to still check in with you. >> all right. >> (multiple voices). >> next slide, please. all right.

>> the next few slices is a presentation homeless landscape in san francisco with a specific attention to the democrat garlic data what was homeless and preliminary causes of homelessness and including strategic investments for families homelessness and according to the count ii hundred and 5 families are experiencing homes in san francisco and 13 your honor, sherltdz it is believes system wide this number is higher given is 4 hundreds families on the wait list has ballooned and our entry system data power point to a similar increases here in assessments completed and last efficient if march to february

family access points completed 15 hundred assessments comparing this time period over nine hundred assessments for families next slide, please. as you can see from this slide and the next slide this demonstrations four and a half years of data families homeless tends to be black, heterosexual all and ages of 25 and three 4. so the next slide is the age democrat garlic data for your reference next slide, please. >> this slide which is not included in the packet so - highlights the major language needs for families served through the homelessness response system. by and large

the hispanics is needed we see an increase at the mission catholic charities accommodate the new comers in the system with the ports hsh gives providers through the operational line items in the budgeted to address language barriers more work to make sure we address fully language barricades through translation and humility and good afternoon services and under shout out to the school district for their competency training to better except staff throughout the continuum to support newcomers. in our system. next slide, please.

unfortunate hsh didn't have the data when the population is experiencing homelessness but this tablet from the count reports helps to visualize of households experiencing homelessness by council indict is district 5, 6 and 10 with the mission bay and bayview rounding out the top three indicts with the highest districts of homelessness in the city and districts 1, 2, 4, 7 and offline of 11 people in those districts are predominantly unshertdz next slide, please. this is a snapshot of the average monthly income in families with active

coordinated industry system enrollments most families wearing serving in the system are receiving cal w an average monthly income of $918 people make a little bit over $2,200 the average income is about a little bit more than $1,500. next slide, please. >> housing affordability. according to the study conducted by the national protecting housing coalition the state of california has the highest housing wage in the nation at $42.90 scents to afford a too bedroom rental making an minimum wage people have to work one hundred see and 9 housing to

afford a too bedroom architecture and 61 dollars and three 1 consequence a household will have to work over 4 minimum wage j.p. morgan to be able to afford a two-bedroom agreement rental and still able to meet their basic needs this brings me to a statement 6 obvious an affordable housing crises. specifically in the metropolitan bayview one hundred plus one hundred and 96 thousand 4 hundred and 75 extremely low income renters households, aye. >> a little bit more than 61 thousand affordable housing units available. for clarity

accountability no more than thirty percent of income should be spent and more than 30 percent is considered unaffordable next slide, please. area medium income this slide will help the commissioners visualize who extremely income and in comparison to the area medium income so if you're looking from left right on screen the third column the middle container is what we're talking about with extremely low income and three 9 percent of families serviced there the system have extremely income and in 2022 san francisco homeless counts revealed that

the most frequently cause of homelessness among other things the respondents in families were job loss at 23 percent and 15 percent reported an argument with a family or friend when asked them to leave and 8 percent of rontsz and family members contributed to domestic violence at twice of rate of single individuals. this slide provides a quick snapshot of the families served through the family system so three access points two are non-congressional that are impressive and accommodation programs and three transitional programs and 200 and plus and 63 rapid as low as

and one hundred and 70 flexible as low as are moving on posts ph s and 200 and 59 emergency vouchers for families and nine hundred and 7 units and other auxiliary services next slide, please. snapshot of hsh budget for 2023-24, seven hundred a $13 million this slide attempts to show you one example how we determine can be seen with the programming for access problem solving and budget by population reflect how we can by

itself attack the population budget and includes the budget not the total departmental spends for each year next slide, please. recent investments and family there are significant investments in the 2023, 25 fiscal year budget for support and continuing programming and services for youth and families. many of those investments were made possible by hsh leveraging $80 million in state grants to support the family housing through homekey and highlights includes the continuous of operations and services or less or recently and it hundreds and 40 unions of supportive housing and 60 subsidies and long terms commitment to continue the

operation of the oasis family hours and shelter and in the 24, 2016 hsh budget we proposed $20 million for 85 to within hundreds rapids subsidies to line with the committee, however, the final decisions would be part of mayors proposed budget to be readily in june. next slide, please. so the next few slides dampens about the definition history and access of family coordinated system. >> no, no there it is. >> cute how the arrows are

holdup on the screen i apologize for that and family history. hud requires care to establish and operate a centralized system as correspond or coordinated entry process with the goal of increasing the efficiency of local crises response systems and improving fairness and ease of access mainstream resources about the programs require the use of co c corresponding process that meets hud requirements entries system preys are intended to help prioritize people who are most in need of assistance and provides information to co c and other stakeholders about the gaps to help communities strategically allocates their

current resources and identify the needs for additional resources. the newly forms department of homelessness & supportive housing helps with the family coordinates and was the first of the three sub population system to launch in 2017 and in 2021, we launched an evaluation of the system and currently wrapping up the redesign phase um, and we're anticipating that will be wrapped up by the end of calendar year next slide, please. so just a kind of delve into the definition for families. we have a 4 prolonged approach in the city so prong one wleets child

this this includes pregnant persons and the exemption 40 those going through the reindemnification process and children will be returned to their care within 90 days and a connection to san francisco through a period of time spent homeless in the city a child are an active enrollment in the unified school district or an award of court and meeting the hud definition categories one, 2, and 4 soliciting homeless at risk of homelessness and domestic violence and is fourth prong are families living in single-room occupancy. >> family access .4,

components to the coordinated entry prosecutes access, assessment and prioritization and referrals access refers to how people gain empty and access to crises response services. assessment is processes of gathering information including what caused them to be heels and also vulnerability prioritization a process of ranking for families services, by their vulnerability and referrals is the stage of progress that links the month vulnerable to the housing and supportive services. focusing on the access point components of this system which is referred to as the front door of the system in san francisco families can access services through a brick-and-mortar site or through

low access units for outreach teams. through access point households are assessed and linked to services that cater to their mediate nominees. next slide, please. the covid 19 effect. we're going to unpack the impact of covid in the next slide just to state that doing so i think across the country will be with the unpacking of covid for a long time an important indicator with regards to the increased episodes of homelessness. next slide, please. >> covid impacts homelessness

the homeless response system across the nation we're trying to understand some of the highlights for san francisco are that hsh paused the length of stay for everyone. who was shredded at the time? this includes families to this day not restated the length of policy to shelter and having impacts to create our system notedly the 2022 relatives indicated that thirty percent of count surveyed identified as hispanic that is a significant increase from the 18 percent in 201978. next slide, please. system commissioner tang the next few slides round out with the focus of system change system gaps in our strategic

plan next slide, please. no secret that there are reforms needed how we operationalize in san francisco. as some key policy changes that my team exhilarated me to be prioritized who were mriktd shifting to realtime shelter in lieu of holding beds off-line waiting for families to decide if they wanted a shelter placement and from other families from having immediate access to 80s and the second policy reform was not requiring verifications helped to reduce of barriers around unlimited shelters for families homeless and those are bringing our

shelter to functional capacity. this means that they are not beds sitting open while families are um, exercising homeless on the streets, aye. >> currently personally leading a process to revolve key points related to shelter elected of stay and shelter prioritization and streamlining the planning staff of families to permanent housing facilities i anticipate that those point in the policy associated with them will be resolved by the end of fiscal year. lastly the long-awaited corresponding redesign we're anticipated that process will wrap up by the end of calendar year next slide, please. system gaps. i like you to give you guys a moment to look at that on this

slide. >> at the point i joined the department the family system appeared to be on fire and stakeholders in all sides wanted to get homeless off the streets into temporary shelters and solve for people are at imminent risk of homeless? a community priority the department priority and the mayor's priority. i began to listen and think what made families system the priorities. and it becomes - what part of the homeless system is just simply untolerable. there is a fact that no one wants families with children to be homeless on the streets. period. it is

outlined can be debated back and forth row are to revolve the root causes of homeless as identified by the families experiencing them and san francisco is a sanctuary city newcomers are for the turned away but the response system is not the ideal safety net for all the strategy requires a multi city departmental response. prevention is a key weapon to fight the inflow into homeless for everyone exit from homeless in san francisco there's a estimate 4 new households that enter the system how do we help

the families stabilize? well before necessary hit the front doors of the access points the shelter wait listed or literally homeless we need a comprehensive approach it addresses this caused by creating career planning and job placement pipelines and a health strategy to help to heal the family figure is trauma causes to disrupt the system and lastly, we feed to close is gap around the fracture to serve the entire family not just the head of the hollers he experiencing homeless we need to have a robust support throughout our continuum and in

parallel systems of care in support of buyer family it is important to mention that cost of living in san francisco and the lack of affordable housing in the bayview is crucial the data supports that to be able to pay rents and meet our basic needs adequately a household must earn a 6 figure salary no wonder my families are not currently experiencing homelessness this is their ability to do whatever it takes to remain housed and point to a wage gap that exists within our procedure workforce. this means is households of the people doing the work on the ground to support families experiencing homeless are also in the same

boat next slide, please. from late 2022 to april 2023 worked with over three hundred people that experiences as well as community-based organizations staff members and other cities departments to field the home by the bay strategic plan home by the bay is to prevents homeless and it is centered burn is equity and justice and equality and nomination and contains over wood had the activities for 5 strategic action areas. the earth's for the home by the bay to change the population within the homelessness response system. >> the details might look

different for homeless families than for youth and dulls but the approach is generally the same. for the next few years hsh center home by the bay activities and (bell ringing) that you see above each of those will be applied to resources in the family system and in addition home by i see bay prioritized how families resources come together as alignment in the system of care. next slide, please. >> and that's the end of my presentation if i have any questions. >> thank you deputy director sanders before we ask the commission open up for public comment to provide a public comment or have any comments around this particular item so - any members of the public who wish to make public comment on this item?

>> any members of the public wish to make public comment on this item? >> anyone in the remote. >> wonderful let's extend it to commissioners. >> thank you deputy director i have several requests one for this meeting if you could go to the slides on permit causes for homelessness on families i think that was essential number ten i have a different - but it focuses on four loss jobs and argument with family and friends and mental health or others asked to leave because of arguments and based on that of the work i've done is often when

families in domestic violence situations are in that situation go to others families and friends and integrated borrow a room or couple and after a time leads to conflict or reason to leave that situation. so i would have you ever been to guess 15 percent is the undermining cause is domestic violence in which case if you add 15 and that equals lost jobs the reason i mention that i love our approach thinking about multi disciplinary response and thinking about multi-generational response and if this is the case, then as a city as a county we should

really be thinking about prevention around domestic violence and interpersonal violence and other kinds of violence i urge you the council, i think an opportunity to join the family violence counsel if you're a member of that and really and what the other department in the city around how to think about prevention long term if we look at this return on investments for prevention mostly in the domestic violence in a much longer than term r o i to the immediate responses i would venture to guess or have a curiosity we some put more of our resources into the family deal relatives to the other deals less than 25 percent with the r o i and month ago it in

about going forward my question to you with all that it is that you're finding the argument with family and friends that some underlying cause. >> an argument in me i wouldn't disagree with you but a number of things families are too many families in the household or can be only a few folks or one running the household and securing all the resources that can cause conflict and february of family trauma factors that is you are to factor into the causes of o arguments. but i think ultimately the lake of resources and trauma all and the same

thing. >> we saw that in covid more people left the households i think. thank you.. thank you. commissioner, i side agree with that and also just to the way the question is asked i believe there certainly misrepresent layers to this you can have all 23 experience all three and capturing that information. >> commissioner. >> thank you. >> (clearing throat). >> to deputy director sanders at the the work it is incredibly informative and a wonderful job. thank you. >> thank you. >> first question permit cause for homelessness when families following up on mentioned the source for the homeless 2020

reports a s r what is the time and a s r referring to. >> a s r our vendors that does the fiscal analysis by yeah. things that - >> is this report available on the websites? >> yes. >> yeah? i'll go hunt it down and a quick question again on the same thing. so i think we know from our work elsewhere with others homeless populations that substance plays a factor i don't see that on the top 4 reasons was that an option or is that considered part of one of the other categories or just not

a factor in family homeless. >> i want to say yes, but not that looking at the report was here the top ones others were listed i believe yes, but let me get back to you on that. >> sure. >> that's what i was asking if it is included commissioner guerrero wondering if it is under mental health. >> um, you answered and verse version but satisfying the significant increase in the hispanic population and across the board but pronounced do you have a sense of what is driving that, you know, the same press report it is referring to earlier mentioned that it was

positive it maybe due to immigration or occurs to me that population is particularly less advantaged from a resource startup standpoint what was the increases we haven't seen previously the x number of years and i thinks the increase is specific to new comers i think the impacts of covid as well. are a driver for the numbers. >> yeah. >> um, so along those lines on slide 23 - so i really first of all, want to commend thank you for saying that san francisco is a sanitary city we can a should

welcome newcomers i can't agree with that more it is very well said the challenges we don't have unlimited resources how do we allocate those resources and help - when we are getting more newcomers than we have resources what are our choices? you know, many times we're forces to pick from the bad options this one it is slide 23 on your presentation our sheets are a little bit different. >> the system gap? i think the system gaps we didn't get i have to go on memory but you mentioned when. >> it was slide 23 i made a note of that someone can hold

that up? >> okay. i'll keep going. so, you know, i think you identified as one of the ways to fill the system gap give newcomers of a better acceptance of what our resources are and in observation had with navigating agencies website and resources like thinking back to my own experience being homeless and very basically a different era preinternet byword how to find anything and took several weeks before i got any advise a bit of a loaner but one thought for example, 0 go to the hsh website

not something screaming at newcomers this is what you feed to do and go. one thought and pardon if? silly but have website are you homeless san francisco.com if someone went to the website identifies current what shelters, what places are vacancies and how to apply objective multi language support because folks are english second language or not english speakers at all but it seems to me an important gap in terms of be able to communicate to new comers. from what i seen do often have phones that is a plus

not always but - yes, go ahead. >> i one i agree across is board is to do better education around homeless services all the ways they are available. periods. >> have to do that outside of that i agree not an hsh alone but it is city it is intercity departmental issue we're a sanctuary city how to approach the response to new comers in a impact type of way what is the city itself going to side um - it is easy to be fault the hsh as is system of care that is responsible for now comers and not just an hsh issue i'd like

to steer away from that as the first kind of default and a lot of conversations how we approach that as a city and we are to figure out how to get there and it is multi-faceted so - >> yeah. >> i want to add that we have age online hub for now comers. >> who does as the office of civic engagement. >> okay. thank you. >> so i guess a follow-up question what would if any, you know, do violin envision a way that the commission can help to facilitate that something we in

our role can do to help, help guide that. >> we actually are working with a number of other departments the mayor's office and want to make sure we have a coordinated response we're not - we're still working through the progress and hsh has a really to play for families on the street or sherltdz would, you know, we're really trying to figure out that every department has a specific role and today is parts of this specific engagement and affairs is part of a that so we - i think we can to reporting progress on that particular effort. >> great. and, you know, objective if anything by, do to help you, only speak for myself

but interested what is helpful and the last question you highlighted on the same slide is importance of prevention you mentioned a minute ago could you help us understand here we go. >> upstream prevention for families. i think that everybody agree it it is ideal um, no question about that. so you come to this role with so many experience operated at high-level in two different large city and could i share with us any wisdom i have obtained about what effective

prevention intervention the thing we can do that a material impact to help catch before they fall as population at as a whole. >> a couple of things. um, so the homelessness is a responsive system of last resort not the first. so that means that families and other people who are on the brink of homelessness often in other parallel systems of care we have to look at who is happening in the systems of care, he resources targeted; right? so mental health and primary care and children and

family services all those things; right? have to look at that as strategy bus because those are the front door before the homeless and the second building a resource of information around places where people frequented if i go to get my hair done if i mention an issue how to equip that local business for the homeless from a data lens looking at analytics with the data is to fall into homeless; right? how to target the resources as a city to prevent that from happening and

education and career support from the data folks can't have a minimum wage and having meet housing we feel a family system to be able to really thrive i don't understand surviving it is families on the bring of homeless or experiencing homelessness then cannot think about you're thinking about how to eats and protect our family and thinking about those things so with the strategic investments hsh has made and some of the ways we're trying to target resources it is trying to push families into that position to where they're able to think about how you they're going to take their families out of 24

situation this traumatic situation 245u9s how we respond to that. >> thank you very much. i'll add in close i appreciate i highlighting the importance of cost to housing. and all the research on this topic no single data point has a higher degree of correlation between the rate of hotels and house-to-house perfectly so for the community as a whole and policymakers focus on we have to address that issue. thank you. >> thank you. vice chair. >> thank you and chief deputy sanders thank you for all the work that went both that and

thank you, last month, we couldn't have you present i want to acknowledge that and appreciate that. >> i definitely on the the elephant in the room for me is so many collaborating agencies in the city and county much less in the district. and the realize some ways the commission and hearing process is unwieldy but i think take comfort in the fact that commissioner albright is is an expert have one year at other departments to come here to offer up do they thinks the challenges and the priorities if we have. so i would offer up that would be great to explain agencies could come here and we sort of set the agendas around

those issues within the realm of homelessness that families are touched by entities and supported at school and in terms of after school and making a family thriving did i ask how are we doing with the school district? in terms of collaboration and um, because they come in contact i remember when in any son was in public school i would learn from a family member someone was unhoused and walk into a schoolroom and not know this child is in crises. um, and so it is difficult that way i

wonder if you can talk about that for a minute. >> i'll say this is a multi departmental approach we we work with the mayor's office definitely in touch with the school district and work directly with some schools because we have a shelter at - we have engaged with the folks there for sure and is principal there but we really looked at the liaison and kind of looking at this growth in the number of families more experiencing homeless we have provided that not a direct engagement if way though i meet with the superintendent to make sure - i'll follow-up maybe we can talk about this.

>> we can. >> thank you. >> thank you, vice chair dufty and commissioner guerrero. >> thank you. >> um. thank you very much for your presentation i want to say i'm personally grateful we talked about making the data accessible to the public like the two people and i can say i'm super grateful we have a variety of expertise that is cohesive and joy that and a lot of the commissioner have not been into the spaces; right? so um, i think and providers say humanizing the data i appreciate that it came through coughing in our presentation. even from the point of demonstrating the numbers in reality have a third of affordable housing units to the population that is needed

um, a really great place to start conversation and set this up for like, you know, how have you - some of the things that scam there also i do see the length of stay in shelters have x pratdz since covid by worked in shelters before covid it was an issue phone people living in shelters for two years covid x paraded - the commission with the department to continue to highlight some of the points and chip away a little bit at a time that is really what we're trying to accomplish i wanted to add and, you know, that was may i to see some of the data points only

8 percent due to the - removes the stigma around the experience of unhoused people we talk about unhoused people. um, and also just your focus on the root cause i think a lot can get on is providers and a lot of times the. >> 13. pulled consent agenda items. can get thrown under the bus i try to be sensitive i understand that part but also seen a lot of kind of things fall apart between the services the trauma i have with that but i think that continues to expand the network how they attract each other the providers are doing the heavy lifting but the contract like meals-on-wheels nothing like that that we can improve housing for the providers to improve have flow within the services so another

thing brought to mind in our presentation and again, a lot of these providers are doing things like professional development that is sensitivity having started the shelter with models i know the majorities of my staff hadn't gotten those jobs would required more services which is any think that when i bring up again about candle stick not a need for monitoring but the way that monitoring happens is another component of exonerating and generously work with the department to work with the providers to kind of improve some of those very did the i know first hand obviously not why i'm still working there you know what so i acknowledge for the like but something i hope we can just pour a little bit more

sensitive sensitivity and appreciate the cause of experience and, you know, and then as far as the latino communities i worked during covid as case investigator doing and so in hispanic spanish speaking were like 12 people in one bedroom i think that as far as the numbers and to the commissioner questions what is there i think that, you know, being i'm from mexico that's how people live sometimes this culturally translated to the point that's where i'm going to leave it. >> regarding housing cost of housing dropped and all levels

in 2023 yes, it is going up sheryl. both if the rental and even more than my staff anyone what say it is going up both rentals and that is just - it is really does that make sense? because interest rates are so hi we're finding behind the eight ball addressed mental health issues is a little bit less think that the families domestic violence and the arguments with the family and even some of the lost jobs could be directly related to the mental health issues and allocate resources to that not necessarily somebody has to have a crisis but did you and talk about that and thinks

trauma. that to me not going to say - that's a quick point and as far as the um, our stays and sanitary city do we get any help from the federal on that front? like dollars. >> no, no a okay. thank you and. thank you very much. >> job well done i have a lot to talk about and met on occasion i agree with you regarding the system changes and like to have the conversations about addressing the upstream we are addressing the homeless and issues and about talking about the total person and family i'm happy to have that conversation i like how you, you know,

uplifted it point i totally agree thank you so much and give her a hand for that (clapping.) deputy director saunders has been here for how long? >> you can't tell me, you did this in a short minded speaks to the experience you have and certainly we're certainly grateful for that. that moves us to our in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered asa separate agenda item. approval is requested. i'd like to remind the public the public the public in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered asa separate agenda item. approval is requested. open up to the commissioners who like to pull

certain items. >> commissioner evans has two items. >> four. >> four items. >> i had question here. >> you've done it before but for my - that what on the consent calendar you can talk about and which of the contracts goes to so board of supervisors. >> oh, i need help with that within the consent calendar are the contracts have been previously been funded and um, there's a commissioner. >> so the ones on consent ones renewed gone through the process and asking for the rule if we have anything new weighing putting that on a separate item and also i mentioned some of those in my report but you can

ask that there is a presentation we talk about. >> (multiple voices). >> like is there some identifying for a certain amount or types of services or something like that. >> do you want to supervisor. >> director. >> so things on the consent calendar director executive director mcspadden said we're extending time is somehow maybe at board of supervisors threshold and on the charter the board of supervisors has to review anything that is or in agreement 10 years or more or 10 millions of or more we have not broke down or taken off the consent calendar any items that

go to the board some have ones consent calendar but the charter he thresholds. >> is that 10 years or $10 million not and . >> it is an or. >> i have not items to pull. >> any others commissioners have items to pull we have 4. okay. so. >> items 19862, 8 and 18. >> items, one, 2, 8 and 18 and move the consent calendar. >> second. >> perfect. i have items too. >> how many? >> so okay. you got that one. >> sorry i'm trying to find it on here. >> oh. >> well cannot see that on there

sorry for the delay and that's on the consent calendar. >> okay. got it and the other one is number 23. thank you. >> (rustling of papers.) i amend my motion to items 1986 town of kensington 8, 18 and 23 and we'll consider the remainder that's my motion. >> second. >> yeah. now open up for public comment on the items have are remain on the consent to removed

items 1. >> commissioners responder chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner asianian-williams, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye. >> commissioner laguana, aye. >> consent calendar is passed. >> thank you and certainly want to thank commissioner evans in advance providing questions and then i believe it is 9:00 o'clock the night and see e-mails from staff you were up at night thank you, that certainly was unexpected. >> and impressive so commissioner evans bring up item 1, and 2 or combine? less combine items one and 2 and. thank you very much. so items one and two for safe parking at

candle stick item one for the rule and item hunters point and asked the question of staff if there are additional costs beyond the contracts and the provisions for the site the answer are isn't it a fact costs for showers and the least amount in total the annual amount is over $4.5 million and given is current capacity the estimated rate per night i did a little bit different calculations since we've been looking at the flubs on not a per night was but an annual like and per bed basis

and they also confirmed there were one hundred and 22 total clients served at the location do date 86 exits that is my math 36 people are currently on the site and if the do the market over 4.5 millions approximately, one hundred and 25 thousand plus dollars per person annually and above the desired level who is considered um, the model that is attempted here the temporary shelter model i additionally asked more information and clarification about the length of time that people are staying on this site and um, the number that has been housed. um, so the number of people that have been

housed um, to supportive housing to transitional housing have gone to live with a friend or family approximately like a 20 percent or 22 percent success rate and from the fabulous people that existed to stable housing. some left to a shelter or voluntarily there was a pretty significant 38 percent of exits unnoeven where people exited too, so generally have a pretty high concern level about the success rates on this site and i did take note one of the contracts mentioned they have a goal of a 50 percent or great exit rate to housing i wanted to

clarify is that goal 50 percent of the exit annually or of behalf 50 percent or is that for the site like lifetime when you had a full valuation how it is medic 50 percent what time period is that looting lying when you shut down the site to make sure that 50 percent exited or an annual goal. >> good morning circumstances commissioners normally for the - we look at the outcomes. >> is it true that on a - if you look at the numbers of exits for a period of time that the site is operating you look at on per um, annual basis that

success rate look higher than two percent are they containing their 50 percent. >> i've not done the math. >> i think that hard to obtain that goal that is a question about like what is the best and higher purposes of our limited resources and, you know, there is a agenda item coming up later that we're going to discuss the garland hotel that is 80 sf zoo studio parliaments we're paying $80,000 comparison on the extreme; right? and the reason why i ask is lengths of the number of people are staying i

had the impression people are remaining in our vehicles in the r v and that maybe temporary emergency shelter model has a high-level of intensive wrap around services two meals a day and laundry services twice a week has um, hot showers provided for four times a week that um, dollars essentially a lot of wrap around expenses put into what people may want to stay they site longer two years but stay indefinitely so the model if we look at it on a continuous basis didn't make sense we're not seeing to their

own and people leaving we have to factor in that is a longer term and not a short-term solution for the people that um, are being served so i guess i wanted to call to your attention the renewals the u a contract only until november of this year with a october 31st go 2024 end date and the the bayview those contracts renewals are for a short-term. and why see there is an issue with going ahead and

approving them currently but really want to think hard about whether or not the site is going to be leading our obviously meeting our objectives what we wanted to accomplish on an ongoing basis and whether or not this is a appropriate model given the costs associated with that. i wanted to bring up a couple of costs i took note of probably excess costs one in particular there is less than one hundred and $30,000 for wifi and cameras the residence don't have access to the wifi is high cost per bed and have this intensive surveillance i think we're

having a conversation whether or not it is necessary to have this ongoing twenty-four hour a monitoring and additionally costs forever fencing that is spent and there is really full-time staffing 24/7 monitoring of people coming and going on the property so, you know, again, this is is the populated we have established in terms of the temporary emergency shelter model that we obviously have a slightly different model when we move to a longer term permanent solution i'm not sure this makes sense for this population. um, and before i conclude my remarks staff for

clarification those are two variations those citizens advisory committee i want to clarify the next opportunity to look at it and elevate this program and ask to potentially renew for example, what happens after the october 31st expiration of the contract? >> we have tried to line both agreements with the term of lease a short term with the extension it end in january of 2016 and will we wind down in advance preliminarily planning that is the end of program at the site given the lease is due to terminate in january. so the

bayview hunters point services agreement aligns with that and the reason that is urban didn't because of optimistically conversation points city attorney's office about the requirements in the grants and whether those need tobacco in another form of agreement we're doing short term agreement and continue the operations while we work there the details with the city attorney's office and likely be back before you in early fall extending the agreement under january 2026. >> i appreciate we're we'll have some - and costs in line with the overall goal and objectives. >> thank you for the times and

alert the commissioners you know we're pressed for time and have to vote on that too contracts. should we vote on items one and two open up for public comment and public comment may want to provide public comment on items one and two? is there a motion? >> move items one and two. >> the motion seconded take a vote. >> 11 point-to-. point one and two chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner asianian-williams, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero and commissioner laguana the tim 11

point one and two is approved. >> thank you and item 8. >> so item 8 is the extension of the existing grant agreement with brilliant corners for emergency housing vouchers there was um, a handful of items think is consent item where the providers was has not in - i was hoping to have more and more context from the staff about the issues that came up were not in conformance how for the public they're addressed. >> hi, everyone cricket miller for housing programs thank you. i'm ceqa chair butler on those and i e-mailed the idea letter

of the program monitoring and then mrs. brilliant corners response to this so the key of these are administrative finding and they didn't raise any scorns that corners was providing inadequate services so we don't have a lot of corrected action. i can dive into those if i like were a lot of data compliance were maybe missing move in days arrest service nose in the information system and in the one system the the other thing is is the files were the lease information was not updated or something that was extremely for that vice chair dufty raised last month the procedures need to be in every system to report

deprives to the organization those are some of the finding we really want to partner with brilliant corners on improving for the ongoing and took note missing contact information and have not been able to responds to surveys; is that correct? >> two things you're talking about we require is a survey is administered on a annual basis if it is what you're talking about- >> (multiple voices). >> writer all our skrertsdz sites for a annual safer is a gain feedback on the system and brilliant corners does a good job programs they administrators

none for the emergency vouchers we're looking at that and tail administer it in the future it was just launched but making sure that is done i met a transwoman chevrolet chasing i had first hand direct feedback about the ongoing in support of her challenges and seen some of the e-mails it is frightening and think we can we can do better i'm not sure we

understand who is given the emergency housing vouchers we're accepting someone for supportive housing and sometimes that makes sense for scattered vouchers folks don't fit the current portfolio, aye. >> i would put this person in the category that she probably needs additional support and not receiving it and so i was concerned about the things i was seeing if report. when do we get an update how things have improved. >> absolutely thank you for the only room is not full the room for improvement. with the

staff built out a matrix and track the finding to make sure there is essentially closed out and the end results we often check back on a quarterly basis and it depends on we're check in more regularly so we work on overcoming those fiscal year issues and . >> at any given time how many contracts are under performance? >> i would say and maul is finding like i seen in this for a procedure tobacco that would be helpful is unlikely no one is really hard to be pest in serving the population is a difficult population to serve and i'll highlight on the

initial oven in this report as well and there aren't referrals to the emergency voucher program, however, we kind of looked at that tars the other program agreements brilliant corners to providing to make sure there are outreach for in the timeline that are desired timeline a fair number of finding to be transparency around administrator of these like this again, it didn't raise any concerns that you are rearview mirrors are not providing adequate services but want to make sure that no one falls there the gaps rights or the cracks. but took completely transparency we want to - for a majority of providers? >> okay. um, thank you. i think that makes sense i'll bring it up with the future

squanderers to understand how many providers are under monitoring and the level of stages of monitoring and we're going twlo the process of improving providers where we have identified issues we understand the scheme of system. >> motion to approve item 8 can i make one comment and based on my experience with contract with the city and county of san francisco not with hsh in particular but i'm familiar with the monitoring process and particularly with the department of public health and a regular monitoring process and organizations are um, part of accountability you get the regular reports and astrology

monitoring and corrective action and do form a range around understanding there's room for improvement and also an opportunity to train and provided special involvement staff so i actually looked at it extensively as a former of communication within the government partners rather than a punitive action. and there are times it rises to a concern and it is good we have eyes on those concerns but normalize it for the purposes of my experiencing partnering with the city and county and we look at this as partnership to improve services the only time to a corrective action of serious concern when it was for the fixed over time;

right? we monitored last year and we are seeing this as a finding that would show us that it is not being corrected and we are not providing adequate services but the things we are finding in the providers not in. >> i agree with it would be nice - i appreciate the concern about year foyer a report around is the concern around individual department or versus systemic or causing multiple cost centers or an individualized moment. can raise the issue around that.

>> thank you, commissioners. and thank you. >> motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and second. >> are any members of the public wishing to make public comment on 8. >> no callers. >> on item 11.8. >> chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye. >> commissioner laguana approved. >> thank you, commissioners. we have i'm item 18 and 23 and skip 23 at the items 18 and approve two any contracts as well. >> item 18 a reuntil of garland's hotels of which one .48 about 75 is the actual rent

for the building and the space the master agreement. um, i wanted to comment that is a particularly attractive contract with the cost about $25,000 per bed aly eviction rate wanted to also point out when we have those options to move forward with that that makes sense to actually grab them and, you know, wanted to highlight the good with the bad. >> thank you. >> no problem. >> thank you, thank you >> a possession commissioner guerrero devices to skip item 23 so we can combine 18. >> so i move we approve item 18 and 23. >> second and open up for public comment who that wish to make public comment on either 18

and 23. >> good morning. i'm george i'm glad to see this a basically a we're doing and getting more for um, a lot less and one interesting fact about the garland's it is like 80 studios like got much better but the thing is you know what if commissioner evans pointed out it out but actually like a lot of people at the garland's were referred in the baldwin hotel a smart environmentalist had tiny rooms and no bathrooms and based on that unfortunate things sometimes to run this by america airlines but guess why would he need to move and offer a

permanent quality not only are - delivered under budget so thank you. >> thank you. >> any the members of the public wishing to make comments on item fyi or 23. >> remote callers. >> no callers in the queue mr. chair and on item. >> commissioner dwight, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner asianian-williams, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner evans. >> commissioner guerrero and commissioner laguana places us on items 12 a and b and invite hsh. >> invite hsh director of outreach & temporary shelter,

lisa rachowicz. talk about that and offer a presentation. >> all right. good morning, commissioners again. >> my name is hsh director of outreach & temporary shelter, lisa rachowicz. >> today, i'm here to presents on agenda item 12 a for meals-on-wheels and the action item to kindly a new grants between hsh and meals-on-wheels of san francisco. for the provision of meals for navigation centers and shelters and hot meals for sites for the term of june 24th to 29 the few agreements for now services for rfp. >> there in this agreement

there are two types of meal services included the meals for navigation centers and shelters that covers is provision of frozen meals the frozen and hot shelter meal program for the first one the shelters that began with the opening of san francisco first navigation center program. the navigation center model it is to provide meals on demands for shelters guests any times of the day versus a meal times that they don't have to adhere to we utilize a meal providers that prides meals 2509 program and currently 11 navigation centers and temporary shelters using this model for the hot meals for alternative shelter sites began request the program during the

pandemic and thousand the covid individually packaged meals have no longer in effect hsh has continued to make hot meals for certain programs they lack the appropriate facilities to store frozen meals. so instead those are delivered twice and day and ready to eat. >> currently two cabin programs and as you can see they're using hot meals. >> the meals-on-wheels of san francisco provides services for $2,008 important hot meals owe respectfully ask the approval and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have we extend

it opportunity for commissioners any members of the public wish to make a public comment. >> roll call. >> no callers in the kind. >> commissioners. >> commissioner guerrero and i have a really quick question um, on 12 a have a 20 percent contingency and on 12 b a 30 percent contingency. do you know why different contingency how do i determine the contingency level. >> you can respond to the 20 percent i know that director will presents on the thirty percent if you like to respond. >> that would be helpful in our report that would be great and the 20 percent is a typical contingency we tried to establish in our agreement.

>> thank you. >> yes. >> i lisa i know you know i feel compassionately i've been talking about since i starred in shelters from 2020 you have no issues with the are you until but that give you an opportunity to talk the food safety that is a huge issue i'm a - very happy to see see hot 35e8z the frozen meals are a huge issue not a second layer of accountability it is relying on the staff to rotate the meals and i've known people to goats food poisoning from frozen meal north side of that and hot meals are happening to go in the direction up to the communities appraiser what we want but i want to put in my experience around that or to not

get rid of them but insurance around the frozen meals that's all i have to say. thank you, thank you for your feedback and i didn't. >> it starting with the safe program during the pandemic we have - there is a lot of interest from gifts (coughing) to have the meals-on-wheels demands and no way to fulfill that. >> right. >> with those coming in and out of program 24/7 can vary a lot of input if shelter guests around that i will say we have depend on a lot of work offer is

last fiscal year. we did the program manager patrick did work with the meals-on-wheels procedure to and the nutritionist to do utilities undergrounding districts upgrades and share a few things to support and annual monitor in coalition are hsh and evaluate food safety including reviewing logs at the point of service reviewing meals tracking sheets

with temperature of the food after delivery and they're new since you reading with the team we partners ever say last year the indicttion they review and approve menus for too weeks at a time and they also help the investigation of food related issues. >> thank you. >> sorry this is helpful you're working with a new trust ev there is logs in tracking i wish another layer of monitoring

that the food is not safe too long or things like that so we'll check back later. >> in addition what you said again us working with the did i tin we want to have meals when people need them and the best delivery method and continuing to look at those. so more later. thank you. >> that's great not up to me so, thank you. >> good points good safety, good quality and nutritionists are involved and obviously.

>> okay. >> motion. >> i'm sorry. >> yeah. >> i'm sorry there is. >> sorry. >> commissioner and i added myself later i had a few quick questions about the contract the usage rates varies between bayview triage and mission cabins the navigation centers 96 percent versus 70 percent can you clarify why a variance. >> for the navigation centers user a frozen meal model and um, their utilization is pretty exact once a meal heat it up in the moment they district attorney dr. a lot of meal wastes that is happening but utilize every site so they can match the needs for hot meals the program has to estimate what

meals they need and unfortunately, sometimes there are girlfriends not there during that time and don't seek a meal so sometimes have to order to accommodate the folks so we expect they ordering rate is closer could the site capacity they can order a lower amount. >> the 96 percent they're ordering a different meal type of. >> those three sites are ordering hot meals. >> (multiple voices.) >> and the can i think and is b cc. >> thank you. >> commissioner laguana. >> yeah. >> i had a question about the, you know, i was looking at the sheet and looks like each meal that average is $7.15 sew that

is correct for is frozen meal model. >> what is the average cost of hot meal model. >> it is $8. >> and then what is the currents mix between those two things. >> have three programs using see hot meal and 11 programs using the other models. >> if it does mention 715 but suggested a million meals for the fiscal year is that only for the cold meals or will cold and hot. >> i'll have to look at that information i can get back teu on that. >> that's fine and lastly, i just wanted to know when i lived

and worked in an sro for 5 years. this is in the early 90s and i would see meals-on-wheels and what is - is there a relationship between meals-on-wheels and meals think hands. >> that is separate. >> you 2450u9 about how deeply the residents relied on that and just, you know, clearly parts of our budget but also clearly just absolutely critical the services we provide so thank you for presenting on behalf of this and the work you do on behalf of - it has been something has been ongoing since lease the early 90s. since the sros.

>> is motion to approve item he 12 a. >> second. >> so moved. >> moved and properly seconded and ready for the vote. >> i think we the public comment prior to the veto. >> agenda item sxhment h chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner asianian-williams, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye. >> commissioner laguana. >> approved. >> happy to present hsh direction of hsh director of contracts, edilyn velasquez. >> i'm requesting approval for

the new agreement between the city and hasler enterprise dba abelian for management system. >> since the creation of hsh in 2016 the department has expanded to have a higher volume of agreements and the feasibility of funding for the model acting more complexity to the set of purchase orders and to measure performances and procedure agreements and make sure compliance with the state and federal and appropriate use of funding in june 2023 hsh had a bidding process. and of the 10 bids we received um, hsh uses a two stage valuation process

before short listing is top were from the demonstrations and with an was the top award between the city and it is for a 5 years term starting think may 15th the total term is $2 million plus which includes this cost of project and training, licenses and maintenance and operations in the thirty percent contingency it is instead of of higher is like potential change oversees we don't know it is critical we start the work timely to avoid any delays for the city that's why we padded it

and part of award one billions will work working closely with hsh for the available systems and preside data port building and with the following system one presentation the city management system to restore and manage records we use to collect troon signatures and to execute agreements and um, the city the departments homelessness management are additional reporting purposes a bicycle lane will - and will develop and comprehensive training program and material to be used for training for all users and ultimately the system one billion provides maintenance and technical supports this project is fully funds with our

commissions approval hsh gave me internal and external stakeholders and configure comprehensive and functional contracts system that will streamline the departments contracting workload invoicing and revisions and the system will support hsh in a timely deadline and adhere to regulations and providers in a delivery of ongoing critical services for the city and county vulnerable population i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >>. thank you. >> before we ask commissioners any members of the public wish to make a public comment on this item? >> any remote callers. >> no callers chair. >> commissioner albright thank you. i appreciate putting in

place i appreciate the work and said to ask two questions. one is you feel like you have the administrator staff within hsh to carry had it forward within 5 years and is second is what is partnership with the city department of you know what the initial the department of whatever it means. >> sure. >> i mean over knows we're really strapped for staffing capacity but that is important it is long term in the making so we have um, in the process of forming a steering committee's and identifying the experts for the program division and like internal stakeholders like budget and finance data as much such and it is important we support this endeavor is very

um, lengthy and how the process is but the department has made commitment to support this issue and the second question and the city has the department of. >> d ti s information services does the department or the city have the technical capacity to implement anything like that or you talk about change orders i want to make sure we have an understanding of the kind of dependant x fabulous of months down the line are you make the determines you don't or do have the capacity and we partner with the- >> (multiple voices). >> they have reabandons over the years this was a prong we

brought with before the citywide information technology approval process and so it is took several years to get approval and joined by wayne lee our new it director for hsh. and under his stewardship i'm confident we have the technical capacity to deliver the project we have a short-term agreement with a biology but our staff will take-in is agreements for the site and hi, my name is wayne lee the new director with hsh and this prong is pondering with partnering with the vendors and we're going to take ether this and support it. >> that's exactly what we need

to do. thank you very much. >> to another commissioners have any comments. >> entertain motion for item 12 b. >> motion and seconded. >> readies for a vote. >> chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye. >> commissioner laguana, aye. >> 12 b is approved. >> thank you and make use of this (gavel) >> yeah. yeah. >> we now are moving to item thank you, your honor. thank you, your honor. commission that are not on this meeting agenda. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is the commission from taking action or discussing any item not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items

raised at public comment. >> i attend to make full use of 80s three minutes good afternoon last media i 19 had a delays i'd sick and tired either actuating for my check it is inconvenient people are comparable to pay rent they should pay by personal check and that implemented through the all the p had h s portfolio but the main reason to that's what it's all about. talk about last week with the two year anniversary of the brethren home investigation by the chosen not much has changed we have this commission unfortunately, not as powerful or not willing to take on the issue the housing has been used in pier cities yet not an expansion of such and

which is eligible is mucky and running frontier airlines ain't as cheap and the baldwin hotel had their transitioned how the out but whatever the hotels likely more expensive and also elevators that was implemented and at similarity issues and shit would get done we have a crisis and we must do more and then also is piece whether evictions in august of 2022 believe me there was a lot of robber multiple people argue on suspended shit and i contractors issues why cannot we have standards and deal with the fact

that despite hsh are sros they're run by landlord and have to have an internal process that receivables the catholic church and prisons frankly i'm tired and the pushing 40 and getting back pains (bell ringing) seriously two years this city has to do better we don't want right wingers to and stalk people like me what do i have to say more get our shit together thank you for your comments. >> i'm kelly and honestly i appreciate all the questions you

see where and all the expertise you're bringing to the commission. so um, i've been working with the coalition on homelessness and really focusing on people would live in their vehicles and um, for years about 5 years. >> so today, i will uplift and chapter in history something that occurred at candle stick but representative witt for the folks that live in their r v in winston and constantly getting moved the police were telling people that lived in they're vehicles in the - park think candle stick park circles the candle dell stick stamped they'll not be towed the

important part foot towed for for a year people lived for the candle stick street and during the 1306 east second street should not and during that time on candle stick roads the city provided them safe parking and meals were provided and when the rcs were parked and people i'm sorry people are able to go come owe help each other and getting appointments and no fencing. just as if parked on another street in the bay by together. they knew not lose their homes

or being towed that was truly a safe parking pace why are they not there now in october 2020 a series of huge storms occurred in our city. the storms resulted in a lot of flooding of candle stick roads some doors were not able to open and the city came to the rescue (bell ringing) and opened you were a temporary pace before they were encouraged to move to the candle stick and encouraging people that live only winston is helping each other and for now a safe parking space until until first. as soon as people know they're not twoedz they're revved can go to work and not coming back and not finding their home

(bell ringing) >> summit your comment to our secretary. >> any other members of the public wish to make comment remote callers. >> no callers mr. chair. >> well, we will ppf to the next agenda item that is. >> 14. for action: the annual nomination and election of hoc officers (chair and vice chair)/chair butler have three options to continue with the same officers and 23450e789 new officers or month to month basis until we decide on the next. >> i'm on the queue mr. chair. thank you. commissioners make a motion for the chair and vice chair we've seen chair butler do on it's been a long time coming. job and keeping us together and

calm and respectful leadership and which extends to the public and staff. i think he's done an exceptional job when you think of all those responsibilities and in the meantime, commissioner evans asked questions that needs to be asked and make sure we get answers and her evan climatic commissioners appreciate and second. >> any other members of the commission wish to make another option. >> through the chair. do we vote on nominations vote for the election but not.

>> (multiple voices). >> no. you don't vote on the nomination but vote in accordance with to see he motion pass or didn't pass and goes to the second nomination. >> so forth. >> that was a little bit unclear that was formulated as a motion. >> open up for public comment who wish to make any comment? >> remote recalls callers chair butler, aye. >> vice chair dufty, aye. >> commissioner albright, aye. >> commissioner asianian-williams, aye. >> commissioner evans, aye. >> commissioner guerrero, aye.

>> commissioner laguana. >> aye. >> thank you. >> can i make a comment? >> yes. you. >> i want to thank vice chair dufty for serving as vice chair and a stall worst in our community about homeless and learns a great deal of from you and want to express my gratitude. thank you very much. >> yes. (clapping.) and certainly ditto that the vice chair is a we've become friends i believe he's sensible and i'm honors to be able to i'm met him and worked him and learn more about him and his family this is a family environment i appreciate this opportunities.

>> oh, have a couple of yeah i have to remind myself commissioner guerrero. >> echo commissioner albright thank you, a leader in the community and know you were on the democratic what is it called; right? >> and all the phenomenal work for the city and transhousing a new concept in the city um, that resources um, just you being a champion for the transcommunity i appreciate it so few of us out here representing that and know that is dear to your heart really, really grateful to have worked with you and comfortably to you around (laughter). >> at the.

>> thank you vice chair dufty for your work and service and like everyone else have learned a tremendous amount working with you and looking forward and thank you for putting yourself forward as the vice chair of this commission and commissioner evans a pilgrim and enjoy to work with you several conversations the original commissioner i've talked with you the most of the we have a former lasted a good relationship and excited about our partnering together. >> i as well, an placed us on item 15. >> 15. for action: nomination committee meeting report/commissioner evans. >> so the nomination committee did not meet and 2004 applications for consideration. um, we have vacancies available and i encourage members of the public to take a

look at all three of those bosses the shelter grieves and is monitors and the local homeless corresponding board i'm here to answer any questions. if i want to have a conversation i'm also very welcoming of my conversation about what those both sides do through the commission secretary bridget and additionally wanted to provide an update the grievance committee has challenges in reaching quorum wanted to acknowledge that is the case my understanding that our deputy city attorney had worked with the clerk to identify a case of objection a example for identifying when someone has met a thresholds of too many absences automatically vacated

their position so vacancies on the fourth coming weeks and most. thank you, most certainly owe a debt to you and the nomination committee for the extraordinary job i folks have done making sure we - >> can i ask one question. >> yes. >> given commissioner evans not the vice chair will be the vice chair she's also is chair of nominee committee i hope you can maintain about roles but we have both roles we did dr. to address it as that committee but a need for a change and in raising this i'm hoping she's remains there. >> we'll a take a look at that. >> i'm sorry any others commissioners wish to make a

comment like to open up for public comment and members of the public like to make a public comment on this item any remote callers and this places us on item 16. >> 16. data officer report/commissioner laguana. >> oh. >> so hope to have a big discussion soon a lot happening commissioner evans alluded to but at that time continue to the next. >> thank you very much. and any members of the public wish to make comment an item um, 16? >> no callers open up to the commissioners to make additional comments. >> sorry thank you for that. >> yeah. any was talking to commissioner evans about, you know, i brought it up also with

director presentation and just all those conversations about like making the data marrow assessable, and i know just worpdz if you have any thoughts you said you want to wait but anything like different years for how to continue on this course? >> (multiple voices). >> maybe flush out that question. >> i know you're having conversations i'm curious we're continuing. >> yeah. you know, i think is - there has been staffing changes and has i think led to um, you know, understandable level of delay with the dope derrick is leaving and in the process of taking on board - i think

interesting and useful question what we want from like a perspective and i would say that the work that i've been doing in the background has benefit trying to and i heard speak of my questions. it is pointed at um, oriented data that twlulz what is useful about the intervention and policies and strategies that we're deploying part of our role as commission to advise the director and advise the department on appropriate policy. um, putting all of that together and then doing it in a way that is thoughtful and coherent and actually didn't leads us down a

blind alley is more challenging man maybe it looked like from the outset it takes a bits to get all the pieces lines up and then when you're presented with something that raise more questions. when you have a question you're back to the queue and have to wait a process working with the departments identifying has self other priorities to attend i want to underscore that in this role i'm keenly aware i'm not representing any interest only but i think with respect to our what i say to you i'd say to all my colleagues if you think as a body as commission or in our individual perspective as a

commissioner there is something that with he should be zeroing in on that is not currently equal roped in the data? proentdz to us. i'm i'd be do delighted to add that to my list of things i'm pursuing. right now from my perspective i'm pursuing lie level items who is coming in and currently in and who is gouts; right? i want the high-level view of what is happening. and dollars a variety of reasons that is challenging anybody to get to and the preliminary to get back can be misleading with that said, each the commissioners from my perspective i'm here with you ever month and listen to your

expertise you bring to the role and something that is particularly pronounced er what you're focused on and you're thinking about or you're trying to chase down a thread. why think question decide enough human nature i can potentially facilitate it and, you know, i have things giving reports we've not had those discussions only my intention to provide reports and guess. >> thank you for your thoughtful question lets you know that is parts of my roll as data ethers to facilitate that. and should you have anything want me to pursue feel free to reach out to me.

>> yeah. i mean, i want to say i don't have anything were you should be at but more just the throughout around where making the presentation more digestible. >> i'm in complete concordance and happy to are offline discussions i think we are overwhelmed with people a lot of data that didn't give us a very good perspective or insight what happens and i'm not saying we should stop presenting in terms of what we put forward first but well pretense data leave the

viewer tars the right communication how to address the problems that is the one of the important priorities and work of this commission how we want to formulate the data for a public and department work towards solutions that actually work tars interventions and solutions we are looking for. >> thank you. >> certainly a rich discussion and certainly to be continued as well thank you, commissioner laguana places us on item 17. >> 17. general public comment (continued if needed) move to item 18. >> 18. announcement on future agenda topics. commission matters/chair butler. >> commissioner evans and um. thank you. >> in terms of future meetings i will reiterate my

interest in maybe forming on ad hoc budget committee i have the pleasure of working with as vice chair we'll have conversation about that soon. i did tune into the hearing that i believe executive director mcspadden attend at the board of supervisors budget committee on the proposed budget for the navigation fiscal year. there was a presentation request requests to c rap funding i was quite concerned about some of the information they provided and we know we had not have a thorough discussion what the implementation of forwarding did recommendation would cause of e

rap budget for the next week i'd like to for this body to be informed the proposal that, you know, we put to the mayor's office had some significant consequences in terms of impacts will be of the of the 5 thousand people could be impacted by the estimate so would a lot of - a budget conversation will will be intense as mayor releases her budget and supervisors start to hold meetings in june about finalizing the budget. >> and second i wanted to make a needed that is drrts didn't include an update on the vacancies and permanent housing.

and i took note the dashboard data has been freshen as of february 24th i wanted to make a request for the next meeting to have an update on the vacancies. >> i addressed that commissioner. >> sorry i missed that. >> last month, a capture of months before wale have a up and running with the report with the new we're revamping the way question show that report until we get to strained outer least another month before we bring it bad actor but a meeting in june we will sflot a ready but end of july. >> thank you. >> vice chair.

>> sorry would is perhaps be good we extend our resolution on the budget and reaching reaching these goals have it for the commission secretary for the commissioners to open up the dialogue they're aware hue we weigh in on the issue. >> i was listening on that hearing and i don't think any of our statements were shared with the budget committee so i'm not sure they. >> we should send it to the budget analyst to pros a lot of information and moving forward and want to send that to that office as well.

>> thank you. >> this not agendized but about there ad hoc budget committee and i think that we should agendize that question i'm not confident that is something we need based on the information we have right now. um, so before we create something i think full commission should have the opportunities to weigh in on that. >> thank you. >> commissioner laguana. >> just a point of curiosities secretary that was i thought we drafted resolution discussing the budget that was included or i would have based on an best practice i lived in any prior commission i would have erupted or it was my understanding that the letter was included in the

packet of materials that of provided to the board of supervisors. is that not how that works or what happened with that resolution? >> that resolution went to the mayor's office. >> to the mayor's office? >> i don't provide a docket to the board of supervisors. >> it makes sense because the mayor is the one that determines the biggest i will say sending it up to the board of supervisors my prior sxhags for whatever it is worth they don't allow that to be included in the package unknown to what degree to review is perhaps a former supervisor could shed some light on that. >> sorry i have a question for the city attorney ask him we are

having this conversation and it is not agenda disso put it on the future agenda. >> i was roondz ronding washington d.c. what the process is when he ask a question i was under the assumption it went to the board of supervisors and i was responding to vice chair dufty not an agenda temper say and we did receive clarification where it went. >> and by other means of

communication. >> vice chair dufty. >> the way it work is you send plus a 10 percent contingency and then i reach out and by the way, did you see so that's - i think between the 7 of us, we have great reach to see 11 supervisors that is where he kind of bump that up. >> thank you. >> very helpful. >> any at commissioner mares items? >> extend to the public. >> then remove callers any remove callers. >> no callers in the queue. >> all right. and okay. a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> this meeting is adjourned. thank you very much.

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has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise y francisco rising with chris manner today's special guests i'm chris you're watching san francisco rising the rebuilding and reimaging and our guests the executive director of the homeland security and today to talk about the city and solutions and welcome to the

show. >> thank you an honor to be here. >> let's a start by talking about people traeld don't consider that much the business programs what does the city need to have that. >> most people think of homeless they think of people they see on the street in the tenderloin and many people experiencing homeless have not visible to the average person and a lot of those people are children or older adults and families that is what we see at the department of homeless on top of homeless among the black community we don't realize there. 40 percent of our homeless populationist with the african-americans and only 5 percent of the population today the with the african-american and the same thing about the

communities that over represent and we we try to make sure there is equity in the system and reaching the goals not seeing by the public as much we know that housing is essentially what everyone needs to thrive in the community. >> quite correct some of the solutions often vulnerable or smaller scale how do we expand those solutions as we go about. >> a attended in the homeless he roman numerals seeing none, three interventions need presentation for the people experiencing homes in the first place and pouting are ways for people to get to permanent housing on their own and need shelter so really need all three of the intefrjz for people to

assess one the things we often don't understand meet people where they are and sometimes did have the documents or other things to move into housing. they maybe waiting on disability income or themes so we have to be prepared to have things ready to use the sheltered are reality important. we know that ultimately preservation ask one of the most important toltz we can put into our systems if people don't have that mri better off for many reasons but way cheaper to have someone out of homeless in the first place and the permanent housing is a wonderful tool for many people can't get housing on their own and needed case management or other services to be able to assess the other part of their

life employment and things. >> so the home by the bay plan can you explain the basics and how to address the needs? >> sure the home by the bay the strategic plan the 5-year plan to prevent homelessness i want to do what at mayors said homeless is not just owned by the department of 40e789s but the responded didn't has to include a number of stakeholders what that requires is really a collaborative approach we're really continuing to work very close with the 0 department of public health and law enforcement or the department of - aye. >> by linking to the voices of people exercising homelessness need to create programs without listening to the people

experiencing and finding what is like for them to go through the system we're not going to make that better and ultimately will not be successful. your first goal really to produce inexacerbated in our system remarkably equity and also want to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 5 years and over all address homelessness by 15 percent your offer arching goals for us and some people said that didn't seem like enough or didn't seem bold enough to given where we are not just a a city but country wiring proud of that goal and look forward to implementing the work that it takes to get there and hoping will be can he have in 5 years.

>> we are here the property interrupt trip to the lovely agreement can you talk about that and then maybe talk about how public housing will be a solution? >> one of the very exciting things about that building it accommodates names families in a neighborhood with grocery stores and transportation a little bit out of the tenderloin when we think of families with children finding places in the area that are enacted by homeless. so very again community space and actually have a partnership with the housing authority the housing authority has different kinds of vouches they have available and in case with the vouches we use those vouchers with the unit and help to cut the cost we have homekey dollars

that provide money to the counties our acquisitions and able to leverage that. >> can you you, you talk about the voucher programs how they help public housing and help landowners into the whole thing. >> sure we have a few voucher emergency vouchers from the federal government during covid and dispersing those with the housing authority and the programs one they can help prevent people from 0 becoming homeless and people are in danger of becoming homeless with a necessity they can stay in the place they have and people are experienced homeless and in a shelter and kwobtd with the system the best way for them to

find it themselves with the help of a case manager or a housing locate our that makes sense in san francisco we will have a number of buildings in certain neighborhoods in san francisco and a number of places in san francisco we find people experiencing homeless across the decide but don't have an easy option with a number of neighborhoods so emergency housing voucher program we partnered in bay view and been successful in making sure that people from that neighborhood and that neighborhood kind of a proximity for people who have experienced homelessness with born and raised in bay view and, you know. instead of putting them in a place across town a unit available able to work with

them to find their units in the neighborhood eventually and we hope when lvrndz will see the value got a number of landowners buildings with a lot of vacancies we think that it is really um, helpful for them and hopeful for us we can work together and see the number of units in partnerships we can get people housed with a steady income from the rent. >> thank you i appreciate you coming into here today. you know. this is great. >> thank you chris appreciate that. >> that's it for in episode and for sfgovtv i'm chris thanks fo >> [music] in the town inside

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