Good morning.

These meetings will both come to order.

Welcome to the October 20th 2022 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of San Francisco Board of Supervisors as well as the October 20, 2022 special meeting of the same committee, which was scheduled at 10 05 a.m.

I'm Supervisor Dean Preston, chair of the committee, joined by Vice Chair Connie Chan and Supervisor Raphael Mandelman.

The committee clerk today is Stephanie Cabrera and our thanks to the team at SFGov TV for staffing this meeting.

Madam Clerk, do we have any announcements?

Yes.

The Board of Supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow in-person attendance and public comment while still providing remote access and public comment via telephone.

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Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of November 1st unless otherwise stated.

And that concludes my announcements.

Item one is a hearing on the 2021 through 2022 Civil Grand Jury Report entitled A Progress Report about the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing.

Item number two is a resolution responding to the presiding judge of the Superior Court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 2021 through 2022 Civil Grand Jury Report entitled A Progress Report about the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through her department heads and through development of the annual budget.

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Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Um today we'll be hearing the last of uh this year's civil grand jury reports to come before the committee.

Um I want to really thank uh my colleagues on this committee as well as uh President Walton uh for all the work um on the various civil grand jury uh reports um and want to especially thank the members of the civil grand jury uh for all of their work on these these various impressive and important reports.

Um everyone has really approached these, I think, with thoughtfulness and and flexibility in terms of timing and scheduling as we move through the process.

I also want to specifically recognize and thank uh the folks from the budget and legislative analyst office in particular, Severin Campbell, uh Rulin uh Ruben Hulliber, uh, and Nick Menard at the BLA, and also our city attorney's office in particular Deput City Attorney Ann Pearson, who have been very uh I will say patiently working with all of the supervisors on each of these reports and members of the committee uh in ways that are not always visible to the public, but to make sure that our board responses um are complete but also comply with the very detailed parameters uh for responding to to civil grand jury reports that are laid out in state law.

Um for this report uh in a uh a moment we'll be hearing um from Will McCaw, the uh President Pro Tem of the Civil Grand Jury, and also Court Gross, uh an author of the report that's before us today entitled A Progress Report about the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing.

After that, we'll hear uh from Deputy Director of uh HSH uh Emily Cohen, who will be presenting um uh on behalf of uh the administration.

Um so I I will not go into the report's details too much because we have the presenters who will be doing that, and we've all had a chance to look uh at the civil grand jury report.

Um, but I will just say that that it is um obviously the civil grand jury looked at an issue that really is top of mind uh for many, if not most, if not all San Franciscans.

Um homelessness remains a persistent issue in San Francisco, thanks in no small part to failures at the the federal and state level.

Um I think one thing we can all agree on is that nobody should be without a roof over their head uh in San Francisco or anywhere, although we may often uh disagree about the uh exact approach to to getting to that uh to changing that situation.

The city still has a lot of work to do to address homelessness in a constructive and effective way.

Uh during this year's point in time count, as I know we'll hear uh more about the uh the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing found that an estimated 7,754 people were experiencing homelessness, and that's at the time of the pit count.

So uh our understanding is that the the number is significantly higher if we're looking at the total number of people over the course of a year who experienced homelessness uh in San Francisco.

Uh the data shows ongoing racial and gender disparities in the number of unhoused and unsheltered people within our city and disparities also in the people who end up going through the coordinated entry uh process in San Francisco.

So we know that we still do not have enough permanent uh or truly supportive housing to offer people who are homeless, uh, although I will say that I've been encouraged by um seeing the progress that the city has been making, specifically toward acquisitions uh over the last couple of years.

Um so uh I want to reiterate the thanks to the civil grand jurors for all of their work um to shine light uh on how we can continue improving our work and transparency uh around this crucial issue, and uh would like to go ahead and call on our first uh presenter um or presenters from this uh civil grand jury, uh Mr.

Macaw and uh Mr.

Gross.

Welcome.

Through the chair, actually we have Spanish interpreters for items one and two.

If we can make a quick announcement of course, please items.

And we have support from OCA.