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HANC wants you to vote Yes on California Proposition 15.

The November 2020 elections is going to be different than any past election.  Although the election date is officially November 3, with Covid-19 still raging, the number of people actually voting at the polls is expected to be unusually small.  This year, California will send a mail-in ballot to every registered voter.  Ballots will be mailed to San Francisco voters beginning October 5, and mail-in ballots will be counted if they are postmarked by November 3 and received by November 20.  We encourage you to 1) ensure that the Elections Department has your current address on file, and 2) mail your ballot early.  If you do not receive a ballot by October 15, you should contact the Elections Department, online at https://sfelections.sfgov.org/vote-mail or by telephone at 415-554-4375.  Although the State has extended the time for ballots to be received from 3 days after the election to 17 days, we still encourage you to mail your ballot early, as the post office has already been slowed down.

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By Calvin Welch, HANC Board

July's general membership meeting focused on the topic of the coming budget crisis and efforts at the local level to cushion the impact on our most vulnerable neighbors. 

While Governor Newsom is still wedded to the notion that President Trump and the Republicans will pass a "bailout" for state and local government, and as yet has offered no new statewide revenue measures, Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors have made the more realistic assumption that we will need new revenue if we are to lessen the serious impacts of the looming budget deficit.

Our two July meeting guests, Debbi Lerman of the Human Services Network, a coalition of many faith and community based non-profit health and human service providers and a long-time participant in the city's "budget wars" and  Matthias Mormino, Director of Policy for the community-based non-profit affordable housing developer Chinatown Community Development Center and past legislative assistant to Supervisors Kim and Yee, laid out the depth of the budget crisis facing us locally and emphasized the need for new revenue.

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By Christin Evans, HANC Board

It’s my pleasure to report that the CAMP ‘safe sleeping village’ has been an overwhelming success in its first month of operation at 730 Stanyan.  With the exception of a few small obstacles, the campsite has provided approximately 40 campers a safe place to pitch a tent, three meals a day, toilets, hand washing stations and showers.

The CAMP faced some early issues responding to the weather which posed high temps, raging winds and even a late Spring rain.  But sandbags, well anchored tarps and canopies, donated by neighbors organized by the Cole Valley Haight Allies (CVHA) all helped make the parking lot a bit more comfortable. There have also been visits from nearby park wildlife including a raccoon family and a skunk (the CAMP is staffed 24 hours and these visitors are sometimes spotted in the wee hours of the night).

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Vice President

Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code (https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_admin/0-0-0-19477) includes the Sunshine Ordinance of 1999 and a description of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force (SOTF).  The purpose of both is to protect the public’s interest in open government.

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” ~Louis Brandeis

Pandemic! How much do you know about what’s being decided while City Hall and nearly every government office is physically closed? And, where are those decisions being made? Public or private or secret meetings? Are you able to obtain public records or easily participate in public meetings? Where are meeting agendas posted? How about access to virtual meetings? Special software? Complicated to install? Won’t work with web browser? Will it work with your computer? Wait! Do you have a computer?! What about Internet access? If so, is it fast enough to watch or listen? Uh-oh! No Internet access?! Is there a place to go to watch or listen to a meeting? And, if the Public Library and branches are closed, then what? Feel your rights are being violated? Is there a place open you can file a complaint? What about getting a response or a hearing? What if you needed to go to court? Are they open?

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By Tes Welborn, HANC President

On June 23 and 24, the developer team for 730 Stanyan introduced themselves to the greater neighborhood via video conferencing. The builders are a team of well-known non-profit housing developers, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Chinatown Community Development Center, TNDC and CCDC. Both have considerable experience with housing families, seniors, youth, and people formerly homeless. They also manage the properties that they build. Visit their websites(https://www.tndc.org/ and https://www.chinatowncdc.org/ )  to see examples of their work. A site for 730 Stanyan (https://www.730stanyan.org/) has been created, as well, and should be updated soon.

CCDC and TNDC were selected by the Mayor's Office of Housing to jointly develop the site. Both developers have built for people down to the lowest incomes, and with an understanding of racial and social inequities. They plan considerable community involvement, both before design, during construction, and during property management. They introduced two architectural teams working with them, YA Studios and OMA, and showed some photos of their local work. There was some discussion of the site itself, proximity to Golden Gate Park and the Skate Park, and to neighborhood Victorians.  They saw the three street fronts of the site as very different, calling for different treatments. The developers want this to be a project that folks can feel good about.

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Here are two separate thought on sheltering in place:

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Sheltering in Place with 2 kids under 7 isn't easy. For the first 3 weeks, strep throat ran through our house multiple times, and my wife had an infected tooth pulled. I visited Kaiser 4 times to pick up medication; I was nervous, but by the 3rd time realized it was probably the safest Kaiser had ever been. For the first 6 weeks our oldest kid had a cough, so we pretty much were hypochondriacs and were convinced half the time that we had COVID. We stayed away from my mom, who lives 3 blocks away, until Memorial Day, and this was tough on her and us.

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HANC announces that it has donated $500 to 48 Hills, the official publication of the non-profit San Francisco Progressive Media Center.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, shelter in place, and the drying up of commercials, many news organizations have shrunk or disappeared.  HANC is glad to support 48 Hills' local news coverage and service to our communities.