Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Ok. Good afternoon, and welcoo the april 7th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] [roll call] mr. President , all members are present. Supervisor yee thank you, madam clerk. Just a reminder, if you are not speaking, please mute your mic. Im hearing a lot of echo. So, at this time please place your right hand over your heart and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee ok. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who will record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Mr. President , i have a communication that ive been providing during this covid19 Health Emergency to the public that the Board Members will participate through Video Conference to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting for the publics reference, item 18 is general Public Comment. That is the opportunity to contribute live comments for up to two minutes by dialing the following telephone number 8882045984. Thats 8882045984. When prompted, enter the following access code 3501008 and press pound. 3501008pound. Press pound again to joining meeting as a participant. When you are connected, you will be able to hear the meeting as a participant. Best practices are please make sure you call from a quiet location, speak clearly, slowly and turn down your television. And when Public Comment is closed, i will provide this information again. And if you would rather submit written comments, you can use email or us postal service. Email is board. Of. Supervisor board of supervisors or room 244 at the number one dr. Carleton. B. San francisco, california, 94102. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Just to remind also if you are speaking, dont forget to unmute your speaker and your video. On behalf of the board, i would also like to acknowledge the staff that has been working hard to make these meetings possible. Linda, director of the department of technology for green lighting Microsoft Teams and providing us the best Team Possible to work with us. Jack chin and his staff, tom from Media Services who have provided a Program Framework and created answers to all of our questions. From the office of clerk of the board, john c. Who understands this board so well and has been indispensable to us. Lisa samora whos skills have been remarkable. They chase around board policy and structure helped us in thinking through Microsoft Teams could function. And arthur cool and Eileen Mchale from the Clerks Office who are behind the scenes right now to make sure the public is able to engage with us. Of course to our clerk, angela, for being so organized in leading us into this new territory. Im going to take a moment here to break away from our usual agenda. Theres been request from different supervisors, especially supervisor fewer and i agree that it would be a good idea that we can give a brief update of what is going on e. O. C. So that people would understand what were going through. The weekly updates will be given by the last supervisor that was there the week before. So since i was there the week before, i will give some kind of update. I want to provide an opportunity for every Board Meeting for this to happen and the board team that is stationed at the operations center. First, i want to thank the supervisors who have volunteered their staff. Heidily and andy from supervisor stefanis office, percy birch from supervisor waltons office was from the Clerks Office and this week we have supervisor fewer and her entire team, chelsea, angela, yan and jackie are going to be down there along with john carole from the Clerks Office. And this week and this has a direct connection to the center of all the operations revolving around the covid19 Health Emergency. We are all able to help elevate issues and concerns within the team to the department of publichealth, Health Services agency and the department of Emergency Management. I know that there needs to be more coordination around Food Security and housing. We have been in Constant Contact with those designated to see how we can be more responsive and to leverage our Community Resources so we can better serve our residents. Today, the city launched a data tracker for the public so we can better gage how we are doing around cases testing and acquisition of alternative housing sites. This should be available on the Sf Department of publichealth website. The department of Emergency Management will be providing standing briefings with the supervisors so that we can get direct updates moving forward. This is something that we started a while back but we it away with it because of concerns with the brown act but we, have since then answered that question so we can do this. This will start happening throwe times a week starting tomorrow and you should be getting an email from madam clerk to give you the information you need to get on that line. I really urge this to be on there or have it staffed to listen in as this is important work that is changing everything. You want to get the latest. I want to thank all my colleagues for the innovative ways you have been reaching out to Vulnerable People in your own districts. This week, we were able to launch an automated Driver System in district 7 so that volunteers from the homes can check on elderly neighbors through the technology. I want to thank supervisor stefani for helping to create that framework and commit all of you for the way you are trying to ensure no one is alone during the emergency. Next, as i mentioned, supervisor fewer will provide an update from her time at the e. O. C. So thank you. Before we get started, just a friendly reminder to all the supervisors again, to mute your microphone when you are not speaking. So madam clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda. Clerk items 15 are on content. Considered to be routine. If a member projects a item may be removed and considered separately. Supervisor yee ok. What are is it 15 . Yes, 15. Supervisor yee ok. Would anyone like to officer any items from the Consent Agenda . Ok. Seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, please, call the roll. Clerk on items 105. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the ordinances are passed in the First Reading and finally, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Lets go to the regular agenda. Clerk item 6 is an ordinance to amend the Building Code to extend the time for existing buildings with a place of public accommodations to comply with the requirement to have all primary entries and pads of travel into the building accessible to persons with disabilities or to receive a city determination of equivalent to solicitation technical and feasibility or unreasonable hardship to extend the period for granting extensions from those deadline and to extend the time for the department of Building Inspections report to the board of supervisors. Supervisor yee can you please call roll . Clerk on item 6. Supervisor preston. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ok, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk on item 7, an ordinance to amend the planning code to correct typographical errors, update out rated cross leverages and make non substantive revisions to clarify or simplify code language to amend the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Can you call the roll. Supervisor preston . Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 16 committee reports, mr. President . Clerk item 16 was considered on monday april 6th and was forwarded as a committee report. Its an emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide publicHealth Emergency leave during the publicHealth Emergency related to covid19. And mr. President , pursuant to charter section 2. 170 the vote threshold would be eight votes. Supervisor yee supervisor mar would you like to speak . Yes, thank you, president. San francisco was ahead of the curve in sheltering in place and im grateful for the early leadership of our Health Officer and taking action that is saving lives. To keep flattening the curve, we must continue to shelter in place. So while we take shelter, we must also take care. We as Public Officials need to take care to help reach our security guards on furlough and take care of parents trying to work a fulltime job from home and also being full time care takers. We node to take care of seniors and People Living with diabetes and people that are h. I. V. Positive or immuno compromised and im asking we take action to help people stay physically and economically healthy. If we adopt this leave, over 200 san franciscans will access two more weeks of paid leave to take care of themselves and their families as soon as its signed into law. Hundreds of thousands of people who will have more Economic Security when they most need it. Our current economic crisis is something weve long known. Economic justice and publichealth are we are only as healthy as our neighbor, our Grocery Store clerk, our front line essential workers and if they cant afford to stay home when they need to, were all worse off. Under this law, if you work in San Francisco, for a large private employer, any company who nonprofit with more than 500 employees you are eligible. Even if you are the only employee in San Francisco, even if you started working a month before shelter in place, even if you are a temporary worker or furloughed, with publicHealth Emergency leave if you are sick or cant work or need to take care of your kids, or you are over 60 or have a compromised immune system you can take paid leave. I want to clarify the process. I know this ordinance has moved quickly. Why apologize for that because we cant afford to wait to act and we have worked with dozens of stakeholders from unions to businesses to make this as strong as possible. This ordinance will go into effect if passed today and signed by the mayor. Theres also a duplicated version of this ordinance we will be voting on next week. That will additionally expand paid leave for Healthcare Providers whose employers cannot have the current version of this ordinance. We made that substitute amendment to a duplicated file because we didnt want to wait to slow down this benefit for the 200,000 workers who covered by the ordinance before us today. I would like to thank my co sponsors supervisors haney, ronen and mandelman and our drafting attorney who worked latenight, Early Morning to bring this before us. I want to thank the coalition we worked with in writing this legislation including job a justice with San Francisco and the Labor Council and United Service workers and legal aid at work and San Francisco chamber of commerce. I wants to thank the frontline workers this is all about and every organization that work in support of this legislation including the California Association and San Francisco state, chinese progressive association, coleman advocates for children and youth, daily labor program, days in action bay area, harry milk, lgbtq democratic club, housing rights committee, pte21, job justice of San Francisco, labor and community studies, college city of San Francisco, National Union of healthcare workers, San Francisco rising, senior and disability action, siu101, siuusww, south of Market Community action network, united educators of San Francisco, united food and commercial workers local 5, and united for respect. And thank you. Supervisor supervisor safai. Yes, thank you president yee. I think this is timely and i think its appropriate. I think the speed with which it moved was absolutely necessary. Just want to be added as a cosponsor and appreciate all your hard work along with your co sponsors. Supervisor yee call the roll, please. Clerk supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Without objection this has passed unanimously. Lets go to the next item, roll call. Clerk supervisor preston, you are first up. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today i want to provide an update on our efforts to protect tenants after the current public healing crisis and let you all know about legislation that i planned to introduce. Since the mayors declaration of a state of emergency in february, my office in conjunction with many of my colleagues worked quickly to bring evictions effective low to a halt in San Francisco in that initial effort, weve been successful stopping evictions for nonpayment of rent and most elective evictions having the San Francisco spirit courts suspend eviction proceedings and getting the Sheriffs Office to agree to pause serving writs ex this swift action has put in police a stopgap on displacement during this very uncertain time and i want to thank everyone for coming together on those protections. We all know there remains a palpable anxiety among tenants particularly low income and communities of color. My Office Hosted a virtual roundtable last week on tenant protections with more than 80 attends and one of the most common questions and im sure many of of my colleagues are getting the same questions, were is what happens after the state of emergency. For those that are losing income through no fault of their own, how will they make up a months rent of after a moratorium has end and what is to stop a wave of displacement down the road. This is the question my office has been working on with tenant advocates and the City Attorney office with recent days and weeks and im announcing next weeks Board Meeting will be introducing the strongest protections for tenants to deep folks if their homes, not just during this crisis but beyond and to prevent tenants from being penalized for an ability to pay rent during this time. This will include longterm eviction protection and protections against late fees. I want to thank my colleagues, supervisor haney and ronen for spearheading efforts to call on state to implement rent and mortgage payment moratorium, a resolution i was proud to cosponsor which was passed unanimously by this board last week. I believe it will take a coordinated effort at all levels of government to ensure that no one is left behind. We must do everything within our power to ensure that this publichealth crisis does not add yet another dimension to our housing and displacement crisis. While we work on the rental burdens and obligations i want to acknowledge we are, as is the case in many as respects of this crisis, in our uncharted territory, we want to extend a thank you to monu for his work from the City Attorneys office for his work on this effort and look forward to saying the details of our legislation with you next week. I also wanted to announce that i will be co authoring, along with many of my colleagues, emergency legislation today addressing the issue of acquiring hotel rooms for Homeless Individuals and i believe my colleagues will be speaking in more detail to that during roll call. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen. Yes, colleagues, i want to followup on what supervisor preston just spoke about and together with supervisors haney, peskin, walton and preston, we are introducing emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure 8,250 private hotel rooms by april 26th and anticipated peak of the pandemic to serve as temporary quarantine for people experiencing homelessness, people released from local hospitals with covid19 exposure or infection and frontline workers responding to this publicHealth Emergency. While san franciscans have been ordered to shelter in place its 3,000 people in shelters, 5,000 unsheltered individuals and 19,000 People Living in f. R. O. S are still unable to selfisolate. This is a much greater risk of contracting the virus. We have stood with leaders to urge the mayor and city departments to temporarily place residents of individuals living on the streets and hotel rooms where they could shelter in place safely. There are more than 30,000 vacant hotel rooms in San Francisco right now and Homeless Service providers have told us that theyre ready and willing to staff up these facilities immediately but instead the city had doubled down on its backward policy of waiting for Homeless Individuals to become infected first before placing them in private hotel rooms. Last week, we reached a new level of urgency when the city confirmed the first covid19 positive case in a homeless shelter in my district. Now there are four other confirmed cases within city shelters. With several other shelter residents showing symptoms. When exposed, Homeless People have a much higher mortality risk do you to preexisting Health Commissions and compromised immune systems. As members of the board we have done everything in our power to move unhoused residents out of shelters and off of the streets into private hotel rooms as quickly as possible. Including securing hotel rooms from the city using privately raised funds and offering every resource to us available as supervisors. Every hour we delay in getting people safely sheltered inside puts more Homeless Peoples lives at risk and endangerers our collective publichealth in the city. We have no more time to waste and we will stop at nothing until every person who is able to selfcare is brought into a safe room where they can properly shelter in place. This emergency ordinance requires that the city procure 8200 hotel rooms and provide recovery units for covid19 patients who do not require hospitalization, quarantine units for First Responders and Front Line Health Workers and private units where unhoused can isolate. Its critical in our effort to prevent further transmission of the virus for unhoused san franciscans and our entire community. Right now, in response to both mayor breed and h. S. A. Director reasoning on why theyre not moving people from the streets into safe hotel rooms, weve heard many things but the most recent excuses we have heard is that unsheltered People Living on the street wont want to go in and wont stay and canting forced to stay in hotel rooms and that it wouldnt be fiscally prude ant tprudent to do so. This shelter in place operation for the city and county of San Francisco one could argue is not fiscally prudent. Our entire economy has come to a standstill but we recognize that saving arrives and the publichealth is more important than money in this instance and we should hold that same belief and that same set of standards for people experiencing homelessness. My colleagues and i went out this weekend and this week to talk to Homeless People sleeping on the streets of our district to ask them, would you go and quarantine a hotel room and would you be able to take care of yourself and i wanted to see if i can share their answers with you in this fiveminute video we made. Hopefully you can see it from my home. We are not going to just be able to take over every hotel room in the city and provide staffing for every hotel room in the city and be able to move people into hotel rooms and force them to stay there. Thats just not going to happen and the reality is people who sadly have drug challenge this is Mental Health issues are not going to take a room and stay there. Balancing that need with of course the fiscal prudence we need. Do you believe that you are able to take care of yourself . And sir if you were put in a hotel could you promise me you would not trash this hotel . I swear, ive never done that to any hotel. I always been very. Do you think are given a hotel room you would be able to take care of yourself . Oh, yes, certainly. Youve been sleeping here mostly by yourself although theres another individual that is about 10 feet from you. If you got a hotel room and the city were to put you in a hotel room, you could take care of yourself . That true . Ive done it. They got this new thing and print. If you had a chance to get a hotel room, especially during this coronavirus thing, would you take it . I would take it in a heartbeat. If you were moving inside would you have any difficulties like managing yourself, figure the how to get food or take care of yourself and all that kind of stuff . You are in a warm place and a place where you can lay your head . You can workout the problems that are up on your self . Most of the problems that are upon yourself, they dont get harder they get easier because now, they think. If people are offered a hotel room, would you stay . I would. It would help me immensely. Dealing with my ailment is hard on me. What illness do you have . Di die a bet i di die bet. Would you be able to take care of yourself . Yes, i take care of myself out here but it would be so much better if i could put it in a fridge and keep it fresh. Thank you, supervisor ronen. I think your point is well made. Can you please stop the video. I would ask we watch the whole video. Supervisor yee we get the point, im sorry. Lets move on. inaudible . Please, supervisor ronen. We get it. We get it. I will just say right now that its very rare that we get to hear from Homeless People themselves and what you dont see from the video unless you watch the whole five minutes, is the age, race, marital status and the people are literally dying on the streets with illnesses and we have no policy in place to put them in the 30,000 empty hotel rooms. The least we could do is listen to what they have to say for themselves, thats all im asking you. Theres no time limit on introductions, im playing a fiveminute video and i would ask for that maud modicum of ret supervisor yee you are so passionate, go ahead. Thank you, president yee. We are not going to just be able to that right there is inaudible over the next two days. Would you be able to take care of yourself if you were in a hotel room . Yeah, because i take care of other people. Right. So i mean, the thing s. I want a hotel for basically two reasons. Number one, a bathroom where i can take a shower, and inaudible . How long have you been sleeping on the streets . Five years. About five years . And if you were offered a hotel room would you move into the hotel room . Yes, right away. Right away. And would you stay there to make sure and would you be able to take care of yourselves if you had a hotel room . Yes. How long have you been unhoused . Well, years over 10 years. All in San Francisco . Yes. And would you rather be living here on the streets or right now or in a hotel room . In a hotel . Yes. Would you be able to take care of yourself in a hotel room. Yes. We have a room for you, you would be able to take care of yourself and take shelter in place . Would you rather be here on the streets or would you rather be in a hotel isolated . To stay safe from the virus . Why would you rather be in a hotel than out here on the streets . Its safer . Theres been dangers out here or the Health Issues . Thank you, president yee. We have talked to our residents in every single district on the eastside of the city. And in the pouring rain, while theyre taking their insulin and doing their best to survive on the streets, they all begged for a hotel room. They said they would go immediately, they said they could take care of themselves and not only that they offered to take care of others. Why, why has it taken five weeks to get people inside of 30,000 empty hotel rooms. Its so deeply wrong and we must fix it and we must fix it now. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Mr. President , did you want to speak . Supervisor yee i realized your calling. Supervisor safai. Hello. Thank you. Thank you supervisor ronen for sharing that video with us. That was very moving, i really appreciate that. Colleagues im introducing a resolution urging california governor to use his executive authority to expedite the procurement production and disbursement of p. P. E. Or personal protective equipment and ventilators, which are essential gear and equipment in our on going fight against the coronavirus. Youve seen the president evoking the defense protection act and encourage industries, we have Many Industries here in california and i know some of you might have seen some of the work thats being done to adjust the production of p. P. E. And ventilators, but as someone that is monitoring the daily numbers of i. C. U. Patients at sf general and San Francisco and the number of people on ventilators, were very fortunate at this moment that we have not seen a significant spike but if we were to see a significant spike, we need this additional equipment and additional ventilators. The governor has his authorities in his executive powers to re district industry and we want him to supervisor that and ensure that our Frontline Healthcare workers, many of them not just nurses but doctors, environmental Service Workers and many of those on the frontlines that in many cases right now, although theyre being asked to follow the c. D. C. Guidelines which allows fort reuse for some of the equipment, on this not necessarily the safest and best practice and so wore putting this forward and im putting this forward with my colleague, supervisor ronen, thank you, and supervisor mar, thank you, along with the support of jennifer and those from local 1021. And more importantly, the front loin nurses in particular at sf general that have been keeping us informed and letting us know about the situation. I think weve did not a good job of being prepared as we can. This would allow San Francisco and other areas to be even that much more prepared if and when theres a spike. So, that is all i have. The last thing i do want to say, supervisor peskin and i have been working over the weekend to try and get many of the private sectors janitors back to the table with some of the companies that are out there that are laying janitors off and their companies in this city that are treating their janitors as and many of their employees as they are their frontline employees and paying them. There are some that are deciding theyre going to use this opportunity at this moment to lay janitors off, were very hopeful this week will bear some fruit and there will be some further conversations. I think well hear from some janitors today during our Public Comment. I just wanted to highlight that. Thank you supervisor peskin for his leadership and work on this issue with me along with local 87 and were really hopeful well be able to keep people there. As all of you know, janitors are essential frontline workers and play a big role in ensuring that our buildings public spaces and private spaces are clean and free of coronavirus. Everything else, the rest i submit. Thank you. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor stefani. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor walton. Thank you, madam clerk and first of all, i just want to thank my colleagues for working to be very proactive as we are in this crisis and understanding that there are times where we need to put lives before focusing on money and it is very important that we continue to push to eliminate settings for our unhoused and vulnerable populations that are living on the streets and s. R. O. S and shelters and Navigation Centers and so, im excited about the legislation that was introduced at this meeting. I would also like to be a cosponsor to supervisor mars emergency ordinance that he introduced at roll call today and last, i just want to thank everyone for working to hear direct low from people who are on our streets and having conversations, aside from just having a video to present, it really did provide in sight as we got out and talked to some of our folks who are living outside and who are unhoused just hearing their stories approximate hearing how they are effected by this crisis as a whole and i want to thank all of my colleagues and city leadership for continuing to work to address the issues and concerns that come up minute by minute and hour by hour and day by day basis as we are dealing with this crisis and i have nothing to submit. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee. Thank you, madam clerk. I apologize to supervisor ronen for interrupting her. What i saw was the video part of the presentation and realized wasnt seeing anything for a variety of reasons. That was my main reason why i thought it would be good to stop it. But the voices were there. So, i just wanted to remind everybody about our census. I want to remind everyone to fill out their census and remind their constituents to do the same. Theres still time to do the 2020 census. Either those census day has passed, the census is still live and will still have a lot of work to do to make sure the city, residents are common. The Response Rate is below the national. Below the state and below the regional averages. Census responses are co confidential and representation in congress. These results also determine how federal funding is distributed to schools, how schools, roads, social services and more. Everyone should do the census online at mine2020census. Gov. Or just call 8443302020 as soon as they can. Vis et the website for support in 14 other languages. It wont take long. I know when i filled mine out, it took less than five minutes. I want to say we all know how much our Small Businesses are struggling while the federal government, Small Business administration wrote out their 349 billiondollar Payroll Protection Program last friday to provide emergency loans to americans Small Businesses devastated by coronavirus. It has been nothing short of chaotic. We are hearing from Small Businesses, Business Owners being rejected by lenders who are refusing to participate in their program. We are hearing from people frustrated by the application process itself. As a city, i commend us for stepping up to provide local grants and loans but this federal program has been necessary and i really hope we can find a swift resolution so were not leaving our Small Businesses hanging. I will urge Small Business administration and our congressional delegation to lift restrictions and to provide additional assistance so that applications can move forward and to provide better provisions to for loans it more businesses. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Next is supervisor fewer. We refer, bless. Thank you. Clerk supervisor haney. Thank you, madam clerk. Today im introducing emergency ordinance for increased employee protections for Grocery Store, drugstore, restaurant and on demand delivery employees. There are so many people who are still required to show up to work to make sure that the rest of us can still put food on our tables and have medications to survive. A cashiers, bakers, deli clerks, pharmacy clerks and on demand food delivery Service Workers put their lives at risk of getting covid19 so that we can safely shelter in place. They help provide fresh meals to our families, replenish gross resident to shelves and deliver food and grow grocery to senior. The emergency legislation and co sponsors mar, walton, ronen, president ton, fewer, peskin, safai and yee addresses the needs of this Critical Group of workers who are not getting the level of employee protection they need to safely do their jobs during this pandemic. This is scary and challenging for all of us and especially our frontline workers making sure we have access to food, medicine and essential goods. Requiring workers to have access to these protections and also not face retaliation for it is essential for all of us to remain safe and healthy during this pandemic. This legislation strengthens Worker Protections that are covered by the Health Officers orders during covid19. It gives workers a level of protection, mechanism to foil a complaint with the office of labor standards of enforcements. The legislation requires one that employers provide workers with personal protective equipment such as gloves, masks, sanitizers, soap and water and it includes on demand Delivery Service employees who would have to be reimbursed for purchasing these items. On demand Delivery Service employees must be paid for time spent cleaning vehicles or driving to handwashing facilities during the shift. Third, on demand delivery platforms have to offer drivers and shoppers the option of executing a no Contact Delivery during the state of emergency and a work schedule for any reason under the citys paid sick leave ordinance and a fifth on demand Delivery Service employers must keep their employees uptodate with the latest social distancing protocols and how to com ploy and lastly and very importantly, no retaliation. Employers cannot just charge or threaten to charge suspend any person in retaliation for supervising their rights under this ordinance. I want to thank my staff, my chiefofstaff, abigale for reminding mesa and City Attorney, jim from uscw local 648 and uscw local 35. Rudy gonzalez and the many advocates with the jobs justice, human rights committee, uesc, Chinese Progress Association and all of their work pulling this together and moving it forward. Secondly, and many of you have spoken about this, about our emergency legislation to require hotel rooms for unhoused neighbors and im just proud of the work that weve all been doing together. I want to thank my colleagues preston ronen, walton and peskin and also supervisor mar of signing on as a cosponsor and to the entire board for supporting unanimously the resolution last week which really this legislation builds on what weve already put forward in the resolution and really strengthens what were asking for and the accountability around it. Weve had support and i want to and all of our staff who have been working so hard on this according for her work. And leadership and at a basic level, we want to underscore we cannot wait until people get sick to move them into private rooms. Just like were doing for everyone else, we have to prevent people from getting sick in the first place by giving them the ability to stay physically and socially distant from others and protect themselves. Our emergency legislation puts forward a preventative and commonsense strategy that wires the city to procure 8,250 hotel rooms which 730 workers of this crisis and 500 for medical quarantine per the advice of the d. P. H. Director and 7,000 for homeless. We know we cannot be reactive. We have a ticking time bomb on our streets and we have a responsibility to protect everyone, including people who are on our streets, shelters and Navigation Centers, we are not doing that right now and this legislation will provide the solution which is giving people a place where they can stay isolated, shelter at home, be safe and healthy, and as you saw from the video, there are so many people right now who dont have that and who are beg put at risk because of it and i very much look forward to continuing to work with all of you. Our Community Partners with the mayor and her administration to implement this legislation. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you, madam clerk. First off, i would like to ask to be added as a care sponsor of the state shelter sponsor to acquire of hotel rooms to not sure people experiencing homelessness have a safe place to shelter in during shelter in place and thank you so much to supervisors ronen, haney, walton and peskin to interes introduces today. Colleagues, today im announcing that i asked the City Attorney to draft legislation to ensure that laid off workers are the first ones offered their jobs back when businesses reopen and return to regular service. In the midst of the growing health pandemic, this urge in layoffs and unemployment in our country, state and cities has been nothing short of staggering. Businesses are hurting and so are the people who work or worked for them and we will get through this together. When businesses are again able to expand service, its imperative that we move as quickly as we can to bring back jobs for those current lo curred off for the health of our economy, businesses and workers. Our right to return to work ordinance will mean a quicker hiring process for the workers and businesses and for many, your healthcare is tied to your job and more certainty in rehiring means more certainty in health coverage. As i have said before, Economic Policy is and it will lead to better publichealth outcomes. I look forward to hearing more as we prepare this ordinance and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk and inaudible . Im sorry, im having a hard time hearing you, supervisor peskin. You sound very limited. Hold on, let me put in head phones. One moment please. Its best if we all use head phones. It reduces the echo. How is that . Much better, thank you. I started by asking not so much better. Just for a moment it was better. Supervisor peskin. When you move like three inches closer to the screen, we can hear you better. How is that . How is that . That sounds better. We do get to see you. I first asked to be added am i going through ok . Supervisor, peskin, you may want to turn off your video. Lets give that a try. The bandwidth may be weak. How is that . Give it a try. No. We can barely hear you. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer, are you ready . Yes. I was going to actually do introductions after supervisor peskin but im happy to give him a little bit of time to adjust his volume. Supervisor yee lets do that and supervisor peskin, can can someone go off line and see what we can do. We will work with him, mr. President. Supervisor yee thank you, mr. President. Sorry mr. Peskin. Thank you. How is that, guys . Im sorry. Supervisors. Is that better . That is better. Would you like to troy now, supervisor peskin. I am happy to defer to you supervisor fewer as you were first in roll call or happy to proceed. Either way. Supervisor yee you are really clear right now so go ahead. Why dont we take advantage of it. So, first of all, id like to be added to supervisor mars items that we voted on earlier and it was a cosponsor item number 16. And then colleagues, as supervisor fewer alluded to last week, today, together with supervisor preston, all three of us are introducing an emergency ordinance that would freeze all rent increases during this emergency period and this ordinance would freeze what would otherwise be permissable rent increases under chapter 37 the rent stabilization ordinance which would include bank rent increases, normal annual rent increases as well as any past increases and would be effective as of introduction today april 7th, and it would be heard in committee on the 20th if the president is willing to wave the 30day rule and could be heard at the full board of supervisors on april 21st. And i want t to note that supervisor fewer has been really a leader around legislation to curtail certain times of pass throughs to tenants and i was proud to lead the effort last year to create a hardship exemption for tenants unable to afford bond pass throughs which in turn, i think incres support for last novembers 600 milliondollar Affordable Housing bond. And i know that everybody is under a lot of pressure, businesses, some small landlords, but tenants have rarely been under the kind of intense pressure that theyre seeing now and i want to applaud the efforts of the board mayor to provide relief during this precarious time. Secondly, i prepared an ordinance that i was working with supervisor safai which in fact we are not going to introduce today but we will still work on because were both very pleased to learn our mayor will put forward a supplemental declaration of emergency as early as tomorrow and i understand that the fourth coming supplemental order would put a hard cap of 10 on total fees that third party food Service Providers like grub hub, door dash, uber eats and others can charge to restaurants during the emergency. And as my colleagues mandelman safai are well aware this issue pro dates the emergency and weve seen some of these providers charging as much as 30 in fees for taunts that have been operating in margins and under the current emergency these businesses are of course doing quite well and im talking about the apps, not the restaurants and i wants to thank mayor breed for appreciate north in policy and i want to acknowledge supervisor safai and mandelman for their work on this issue as well. And with regard to the urgency ordinance a number of my colleagues have spoken to earlier, i want to thank them and community for the work over the last several days on this collective ordinance to ensure our homeless are brought indoors to safely comply with the shelter in place mandate. The reality on our streets, shared about the reality on our street, its time for us to really debunk the excuse for why Homeless Individuals are incapable of selfcare. The vast majority of our Homeless Population living on our streets that we encounter all the time, are over the age of 60 and or have multiple Underlying Health conditions. There are currently not being admitted no shelters which we know and while we have made incremental progress moving some individuals who have tested positive out of shelters and into quarantine, we are leaving thousands of individuals exposed to viral transmission. Today, a group of doctors released a report entitled a medically plan to stop the spread of covid19 among unhoused people which a firms the widespread publichealth opinion that created more mass shelters does not provide suffice laying fo for sro and qe opposite is true. It endangerers everyones health and well being and threatens to overwhelm our Hospital Systems that we are working to decongest. As the chief Health Officer told us last month i quote, from a disease transmission perspective, having your own room is the best. In addition to mandating sufficient rooms for homeless and shelter residents, our urgency ordinance would require accurate data reporting and tracking of s. R. O. S and homeless and shelter populations. The lack of transparency is concerning given that this information is not confidence shall and its data the public has a right to know and it should be public data and its critical as policymakers to understand. And finally with respect to cost, we know that much of this cost will be reimbursed by federal and state Emergency Response efforts. All of us have been asked to help fundraise private donations into the give to sf fund and we should also all know how much money has been raised and what we spent today and what weve spent it on. This information also should be reported to the board and the public on a regular basis. We all want the same things. We all want to flatten the curve and stop the spread of covid19 so that we can move on and focus on a recovery efforts. But in a crisis where every hour counts, we are really he, and this is been said before, not moving fast enough. So i hope that this ordinance will help us move quick low towards the same goal in time for the surge. And colleagues, i would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting in the memory of jerry adams, a reporter at the San Francisco examiner and later on at the chronicle from the 1970s through his retirement in 2005, mr. Adams covered San Franciscos urban Planning Issues and the implications and had an impact on the city for decades. His work as an Award Winning journalist on the beats of land use, environment, Real Estate Development and architecture was essential essential and help catalyze poll sew changes that shape the city as we know it today. Born in 1928, he was raised in marine and graduated from uc berkeley and served in the army before moving to california. He landed at examiner in the 1950s. With incredible detail and analysis, jerry covered the transformation of downtown after the freeway was torn down he wrote about the radical transformation and he walked and reported on the redevelopment of the rail yards into a bio tech hub and most importantly for me, he was remarkably helpful in covering the neighborhood efforts here to save the building number one columbus avenue from demolition. He loved sailing on the bay with his wife and she survives him along with a sister, susan in new york and two brothers and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i wish them all our condolences and the rest i will submit. Thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor fewer, you asked to be rereferred. Thank you, madam clerk. Access to informed has been a challenge for many residents in San Francisco but it is increasingly urgent with an uptick in residents that are home bound or sheltering in place and those who are economically vulnerable and cannot afford food. Because this need is increasingly urgent, we need immediate action in ensuring no Receipt Department goes hungry. Sfusd has been providing meals for children and families since the week after schools were closed to paint a picture the number of meals increased from 9,000 to 24,000 over the course of one week. Nearly tripling the numbers provided. Still, unable to meet the full need. San francisco is also fortunate to have the San Francisco industry to thank and a network of Community Organizations who run food pantries as well as home delivered gres reece and meals, not to mention meal programs for a no pivoting to deliver those meals to homes with seniors and people with disabilities, we have restaurants who have stepped up the city to provide meals for residents in public housing, sros and more. I and my office are working closely with the Food Access Team at the Emergency Operations center to build a program that leverages our exiting assets, access growing needs, work with restaurants and each of our districts, leverage Public Sector workers and volunteers to build capacity and ultimately get through quickly to people who need it. The Food Access Team is also developing a food locater 311 coming on online soon. So that everyone everywhere and anywhere in the city can be connected to resources that they have to subsidize they need. I am happy to work with anyone who has resources to bring to the table and will share more updates as this program is built up. I am proud to introduce an emergency ordinance with supervisor peskin to freeze rent increases during this covid19 emergency. As supervisor peskin mentioned this emergency ordinance would a ploy to any rent increase that would otherwise be allowed under San Francisco rent stabilization ordinance including anything increases or pass throughs. This policy is compliment tree to the mayors moratorium on evictions and other efforts by my colleagues to keep people inn their homes. We also call shelter in place while we all follow the shelter in place order. I want to thank the mayor and my colleagues on this berdyc boardr stability for renters during this trying time and recognize that on going efforts of tenant and Affordable Housing applicants will push our state and federal governments to do more. While we continue to push for these bigger policy changes, around rent and mortgage payments we must also do everything we can at a local level to prevent renters from being burdened with rent increases at a time when so many are losing their jobs and their income. Thank you supervisor press kin for your leadership and your yor partnership. Im proud of moving this forward today and i look forward to working with you and the rest of my colleagues to do more to protect the most vulnerable. Clerk im looking at the roster and i believe that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor yee thank you, colleagues and now i think its passed 3 00 so lets go to our 3 00 special item there. Special order. Ok. Clerk the First Special order is item 8. On february 25th, the board of supervisors approved a motion m20024 to convene a committee of the whole for a public hearing for the board of supervisors to sit as a committee of the whole for a public hearing to receive an educational training for their legal obligations under the federal Securities Laws with respect to any official statement approvals. It was scheduled prior to the health and emergency the San Francisco debt requires the board have training on their legal obligations under federal Securities Law when approving city disclosure information and connection worth the authorization of bonds. We will continue this item to a later date with the understanding that this will be continued when we now understand that were going to continue and well now take a Public Comments on the continuance. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this continuance for item 8. Mr. Coup, are there any members of the public in the cue who would like to speak . Who have pressed the code and addition to 1 and 0 . Hello madam clerk, please allow me a minute to check. Clerk thank you. Clerk ill just provide the telephone number in case there are members that want to speak on this item, its 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Press pound and pound again and then dial 1 and 0. And mr. President , wore going to be slowing down all of these Public Comment opportunities to give the public an opportunity to get to the phone and to enter in this information. This same information is also on or website. Madam clerk, there are no callers waiting to speak. Clerk ok. Well give it a few seconds more, mr. President , and well move on to we understand that the controller is on the line if there were any need to speak with the controller. Supervisor yee i dont see anybody on the rosterment. Clerk ok. Thank you, mr. Coup. Supervisor yee ok. Seems like theres no one that can be speaking on this item. We will have Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to continue this item indefinitely . So moved. Seconded by supervisor haney is it . Yes. Ok. Without objection then, can we take this motion and continue this item indefinitely and without objection. Item 8 is continued. Madam clerk, lets go to our next three p. M. Special order items 915. Clerk ok. On february 25th, 2020 the board approved resolution number 8420 to convene a committee of the whole. To hold public hearings to consider legislation to form a special tax district number 20201 known as the mission rock facilities and services. Item 10 is the resolution to propose the formation of the special tax district and a future annexation area. Item 11 is a resolution to determine necessity to incur bonded indebtedness and other debt not to exceed 3. 8 billion and item 12 resolution, to call a special election for the special tax district number 20201. Item 13 is the resolution to declare the results of that special election and item 14 is the resolution to authorize and ratify the issuance of bonded indebtedness and other debt in an principle amount not to exceed 3. 7 billion and item 15 is the ordinance to levee special taxes for the special tax district number 20201. Supervisor yee ok. The items related to the mission rock special tax district will node to be continued to next weeks meeting on tuesday april the 14th, 2020. With the understanding that item number 915 will be continued and we will now take Public Comments. Clerk mr. Coup, are there any callers on the line . Interested in making Public Comment on items 915 . Madam clerk, bless please ae to check the cue. Clerk thank you. There are no callers wishing to speak. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. Supervisor yee ok. Hearing none, Public Comment is now closed. Can we have a motion to continue this item 915 to next tuesday april 14th, 2020 . I move accordingly. Supervisor yee motion made by stefani and seconded by supervisor preston. That is the date of april 14th. Supervisor yee correct. Without objection, items 915 are continued to next tuesday april 14th, 2020. Lets go to our Public Comment right now. Clerk at this time, the public may contribute live comments for up to two minutes by dialing the following telephone number 8882045984 and when you are prompted, enter the access code of 3501008, pound and then press pound again to join the meeting. When you are connected, you will be able to hear the meeting as a participant and when you hear Public Comment, you will be able to when you are ready to provide your Public Comment, you will dial 1 and 0 to be added into the speaker line. And mr. President , i want to just apologize to one speaker last week. He tried to dial in and we ended Public Comment a little too quickly and wanted to apologize to him and we are learning every week what the bugs are in this system. So, i just want to provide the public the telephone number now. Its on our website but its 8882045984 with access code 3501008, press pound and press pound again and when you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be added into the cue. The system will notify you when you are in line and waiting and all callers will remain on mute until their line has been opened please call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television. Mr. President. Supervisor yee ok, well wait a couple of seconds here. You have one question remaining. Clerk hello caller. You have two minutes. Caller if you go online and check wikipedia for my great grandfather his name is fed. He has the distinction of going down as the most corrupt mayor in the history of chicago. With that in mind id like to state something. All right, we got that. We pay to play here. Were the best at this game. Better even than new york. We do it a bit differently than the new yorkers, we do it more sophisticated and we do it without the mafia. So what went down with nick bovis was not sophisticated. What goes down with Ben Rosenfeld is sophisticated. If you are going to look for pay to play, you look at Ben Rosenfeld. I got some thoughts on mohammad because i gotten into the e. R. General and theres nothing going on. Anybody who is, would go healthcare who has seen a bad here nowfluseason knows what. I live across the street and nothing is going on. Theres no health crisis. Weve got a task with 87 falls positive rate and the hand of intelligence in the become ground. What i think is going on was a shot across the co. You are all entrapped to play nice is what is being pulled off. Something else i noticed, tell guard. Shipped off to guam. Its not a mistake. How are you going to enforce stay at home order without the National Guard in the state of california . They shipped the new york National Guard to poland. That doesnt make sense. This whole thing seems to be covered for something else. And you are all playing along well it going along with lies from the public deserves better answers for the complete destruction of their livelihood. I got tipped off about this before this happened. It happened security clearens and go and figure . Do know were getting lied to and its unfair and its unproductive. To be constructive, how do we get out of it. The business one problem. Clerk thank you, sir. You have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller this is linda chapman. Do you hear me . Clerk we can hear you, yes. Caller because for the last throw meetingthree meetings i td couldnt be recognized. First i want to say, im very grateful for the recognition of jerry adams because he did so much for all the knob hill battles we fought for for a decade or mor. My concern ive been trying to bring in is getting people off the streets and housed. The myth that trent put forward i thank god i worked in federal service in better times. It was against the law for people to live in the street if they were receiving federal benefits. It couldnt happen. And then the laws changed. Now one thing the laws can be changed back and afbc grants required the state to pay for the housing they didnt hand money to the women and expect them to go out and find housing no matter what it costs. You know. That was what the National Welfare Rights Organization that i organized for fought. That was one thing. When i worked for Social Security, if people received federal benefits from v. A. Or Social Security and this is still, it is still the law, that we have to see that they get representative if theyre not capable of handling the money themselves and those people will find them housing. Not that money goes to non profits to give them 3 a day to stay in the street or whatever. Another thing was the law said that they could not receive federal benefits after the first check unless they came and brought their rent receipt. They lived in s. R. O. S or rented in another persons flat. There was a Court Decision about that that said they could stay out but that was on the assumption that they couldnt find anywhere to live and we saved all these Residential Hotels and now theyre being converted by people like rudy and so fourth and you know, that is where people used to live who are now living in the streets and of course they lived on their own. With representative pay in some case and those people of course need to be in support of housing but most people didnt need subpoena or the tive housing they needed a room they could afford. Clerk thank you for your comments. You have zero questions remaining. So while we wait just a bit mr. President , to determine if there are other callers who are going to call in, i will apologize to mrs. Chapman if she tried to get out and get through to the system. So, to ms. Chapman, were happy to email the information directly or anyone if they need to know ex lo exactly how to gef the website is not readily available for them. Of a few other callers waiting in the cue. Clerk great. Please send them through. To callers on the line, please press 1 and then 0 t 0 to get o the cue. You have four questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller yes. Clerk bless provide your Public Comment. Clerk hello caller, wore ready for your Public Comment. Perhaps that caller hung up. If there are other callers on the line, please, press 1 and then 0 to get into the cue. You have five questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller thank you. Thank you. Im a resident in the tender loyal neighborhood and chair of the peoples congress. I just want to say the situation in the tenderloin is a disasterment folks on the street are not able to shelter in place. Its simply going to be a Health Disaster in addition to being a humanitarian disaster. Honestly, inaudible its so slow on this its frustrating and ago va rat rate aggravatingy thank you to supervisor ronen, preston and walton for moving forward and peskin for moving forward for this legislation to compel the city to get these folks in hotel rooms and off the streets. It should have been done weeks ago. The fact that the city has had no plan for how to handle this situation for this long is baffling to me. And i hope that we can move this legislation forward. I hope we can get these people housed asap. So all of our lives are not hanging in the balance. If one person out here is not safe, then none of us are. [please stand by] from the stimulus bill. The second item an appeal to all joggers in San Francisco to jog in the streets. We need to get the sweating, breathing joggers off the sidewalks when there are any people. Since there is less traffic, joggers run in the streets. The third item i have is and my husband and i are doing this. Tip generously to every delivery person and to all of the places where we are getting takeout food. These essential workers are risking their lives to provide Delivery Services and food. Please tip them very well. My fourth item is my husband and i are boycotting thence take cart and whole foods until they meet the demand of the workers. Items five. I want to thank all of my fellow citizens for helping to flatten the curve of covid19. We citizens are doing a terrific job and we will continue to flatten the curve. Finally, item 6, i want you supervisors to practice two minutes of roll call. You go on and on. We wait as you ramble on without time limits. I would like for Public Comment for one week to come before your roll call introductions. Thank you very much. Thank you. There is another caller. Welcome, caller. Is there a caller on the line . Hello. Please provide your Public Comment. I am jonathan. I work a deli that cleans the headquarters. We boycotted yesterday that we need wages or work. We are essential to the company and the building. This coronavirus has been a big epidemic that we had nothing to do with. We are leaving all of the disgusting and filthiness in the building still. They are leaving it there for weeks. I feel like we are essential to our company and we are essential to their company, also, and i just feel that we should get wages or get back to work to clean it out. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, sir. Welcome, caller. Yes. I am richard emerson. I would like to address the board of supervisors regarding a request to suspend nonessential discretionary Planning Department permit hearings until the meetings can occur in person, especially the discretionary ones for several reasons. Ineffective notice. We cant see signs on the street because we are shelterinplace. We cannot have neighborhood meetings. Conducting the business through sfgovtv is ineffective. Secondly, our meetings will be ineffective. Videos and dialing are no effective. Nobody to show exhibits or to access information that the Planning Department cant deliver the information to us in time. We cant get together with neighbors and with skype with the premeetings. Third, it is going to be a legal issue. Under both the i have a jd from stanford. I lectured on corporate ethics. I am a former executive committee member. I understand the technology. I went through the brown act and the sunshine act. Under the brown act 54953b3, you cant have these meetings teleconference unless they are accessible to the public, the location itself. That is not enabled. The server rushes to judgment here. In each case we have to ask ourselves the balance to comment versus appeal. I am particularly addressing it because there is a mills of National Landmark 31 here. Your time is up. Your two minutes are concluded. Good afternoon. I am brandon burke. I am calling in regards to the fact that 75 of the muni bus lines have been eliminated. I live in twin peaks. Supervisor mandelmans district. We have been effectively shut in place. The 33, 48, 52 are no longer running so effective tomorrow, we know longer have bus service to get to the hospital or a super market or pharmacy. Our bus line, which is a priority line, the 3 37 is eliminated tomorrow as well. This line needs to be put back in to handle the people who are coming from twin peaks to have now no bus access. Thank you. Thank yo thank you for your , sir. Welcome, caller. You have two questions rema remaining. Welcome, caller. Hello. My name is miranda. I am with local 87. I want to thank you for continuing to take care of not just your district but i want to thank you for ensuring all of the families are taken care of in San Francisco. This is the most important time for all of you to come together to be united as a city and lead it. Yesterday our janitors are working for Service Medallion that clean lift headquarters are considered essential workers. We have been working. Unfortunately lift, who is a billion Dollar Company is refusing to pay janitors, whereas competitors uber are paying and taking care of families. Lyft decided not to pay. We are asking the board of supervisors for your support in demanding that ly ft do the right thing by working families and pay what they are owed. I hope we can have your help. They dont think this is an opportunity to exploit covid19 and thinking this is an opportunity to layoff workers, which is what we are seeing. All we ask right now that is multibillion Dollar Companies should not get away with these actions in the city. The values we have are important. They should all understand working families if we are essential, dont exploit us. Thank you, supervisors. You have one question remaining. Is there a caller on the line . Hello. Your comments are welcome, sir. Amendez. A i work for lyft. Yesterday we boycotted lyft. We are asking them to pay us. They are a billion Dollar Company. We are essential. We have families to take care of and rent to pay. We count on your support. Thank you, sir, for your comments. Welcome, caller. I am francisco. All over the city we need to have testing. Without getting the data we cannot address the situation at hand. Again, all over the city we need to get testing. Once we get the data we can follow the trend and address this virus, covid19 virus. Thank you, mr. De kos costa. There are no other speakers. Hearing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call for agenda items 19 through 29. Items 19 through 29 were introduced without reference to committees. Unanimous vote is required for resolutions today. Alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Colleagues would anyone like to sever any items . Supervisosupervisor mandelman. Thank you, mr. President. I would like to sever item 22. Supervisor fewer. I would like to sever items 20, 21, 24 and 26. Supervisor peskin. I would like to sever 23 and 29. I could not hear you. 23 and 29, i believe. Correct. Mr. President na leaves 19, 25, 27, and 28. We still have more. Supervisor mar. I was going to request no. 13. Supervisor peskin already did that. Supervisor safai. Item 25. Okay. Madam, clerk, please call the roll on the remaining items. 19, 27, 28. Items 19, 27 and 28. Supervisor preston. Aye. Rose nan. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee psy. Fewer. Aye. Haney psy. Mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 eyes. Without objection the resolutions are adopted and motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk call item number 20. Item 20. Resolution to urge public works and department of Public Health to increase access to Public Restrooms to meet min standards as set forth by the United Nations high commissioner on refugee and red cross and federal Management Agency to include sanitation for the unhoused and slow the spread of coronavirus. Supervisosupervisor fewer. Please add me as cosponsor. Please call the roll on 20. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. This is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk call item 21. Item 21 a resolution to urge the United States food and Drug Administration to end the federal ban on blood donations by gay eye bisexual men. I want to ensure i was a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisorvo nan. Can i be added as a cosponsor, please. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Yes, please add me as cosponsor as well. Thank you. Supervisor wall t walton. Please add me as cosponsor, also. Okay. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Item 21. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item 22. Item 22 a resolution urging the state legislature to immediately spas bill 82 will as proposed 828 as proposed and 939 to prohibit foreclosures and eviction of residential and commercial tenants during the state of emergency related to the covid19 pandemic. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you. I want to thank colleagues who reached out to my office about this item. I am hopeful that we will be able to unanimously support or pass a resolution to support the legislation that itences. Ence that it references. To give us more time to work with those office i am going to move to continue this for one week. Second. Who was that . Do you want to speak on this supervisor peskin . Yes, sir. A motion to continue this item second by supervisor peskin. Can we take this motion without objection . Without objection it passes to continue this item. Madam clerk please call item 23. Item 23 resolution to support the covid19 orders by Civil Authority interrupting and prohibiting access to businesses as necessary due to physical property loss or damage and urging the california insurance commissioner to consider it a material misrepresentation to deny in any public filing that the coronavirus does not have the proposthethe propensity to y loss. I want to thank supervisor marfor this resolution. Okay. Roll call on this item, madam clerk. President yee, i would like to make some brief remarks. Yes, i am sorry. Go ahead. Thank you. I want to make brief remarks because we all have received quite a few communications about this resolution. First of all, i would like to acknowledge all of the business stakeholders working with my office including leadership from the San Francisco chamber of commerce and Restaurant Association and district merchants. As well as dozens of Small Businesses in sunset and throughout the city. I would especially like to recognize above fee mcgrier for bringing this troubling issue to my attention at our initial convening of district four in response to the covid19 pandemic. At that time i was appalled to hear that Insurance Companies were denying claims from Small Businesses who had purchase Business Interruption insurance. Many of these mom and pop storefront businesses and restaurants have been paying to the pockets of Insurance Companies for decades. Accident interruption insurance was meant for times like these. When the businesses are suffering great losses, the Insurance Company hit them with a denial letter. We are demanding accountability from the Insurance Companies. They sold the policies promising to cover damages and losses when the government seems it necessary to interrupt businesses to protect the public interest. They absolutely should payout for covid19 impacts. As regulation of the Insurance Industry is the center of the State Government i am following up with state representatives and insurance commissioner to push for the treatment and payment of Valid Insurance claims. Thank you for your support in adopting this resolution today. Item 23. Supervisor prison. Preston. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney psy. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 24. Item 24. Resolution that continued operation of ice detention facilities during the covid19 emergency is inhumane and urge california Governor Newsom to take immediate action to suspend ice detentions in california. Supervisor fewer you asked for this. I want to ensure i am a sponsor. I said i would be a sponsor but i didnt see my name on there. I want to make sure. Okay. Please call the roll on this item, madam clerk. Item 24, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer yes. Supervisor haney. Aye. Mandelman aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 1 11 11 ayes. This is adopted unanimously. Please call item 25. Item 24 a resolution 25 to encourage the Municipal Transportation Agency to work with the muni operators for additional policies and protections during the covid19 crisis. Supervisor safai. Thank you, president yee. We spoke about this last week. Actually there has been some significant progress. We talked about ensuring and working with the Transit Worker Union local 250a and the leadership of the s. F. M. T. A. , jeff tumlin. We were able to work with them to ensure there would be front door boarding only if someone was disabled or needed the ramp, that there was appropriate spacing on the muni buses themselves and that ensuring that there was a limit to the number of people. All of this being done to first and foremost protect the operators in ensuring their safety. There is a few operators that have contracted covid19 and ensuring the safety of the passengers as well. They have increased the amount of cleaning through out the day which is a positive outcome. Then giving the drivers a bit more discretion in terms of when and how they are operating certain aspects of the bus in terms of insuring safety. The other thing we did last week through executive order, we worked with the mayor to ensure we expanded the amount of sick time to all City Employees on top of federal government sick leave and administrative leave for those that might have coved systems or had contracted code. All of those added up to ensure the safety of all city workers. In particular in this situation the safety of muni operators and transit workers. I want to appreciate the work that has been done to prioritize that safety, the final thing there was the delivering of ppe equipment, not necessarily hospital grade but ensuring gloves and masks were there and operators were safe and felt safe on the job. I appreciate supervisor preston and marand i hope we can all vote on this unanimously today it has the support of transit workers 258 and support of the Labor Council as well. Madam clerk. Can you please call the roll on this item. Item 25. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Interview safai. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 1 11 11 ayes. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk item 26. Item 26 is a resolution to urge county Health Officials from the six bay area counties alameda, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara to evaluate the Public Health threat of panic buying weapons and warn americans of the danger of panic buying weapons. Thank you. I want to be added as cosponsor and thank supervisor stefani in helping us to fight the gun lobbyists. Thank you. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Please call the roll on this item. Item 26. Supervisor prison. Preston. Aye. Roneaye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 29. Item 29 a motion to concur in actions taken by the mayor on march 27, 2020 and march 31, 2020 to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the covid1covid19covid19 pandemin february 25, 2020. Supervisor peskin. Thank you. I just want to say in this period looking at all of these very carefully is paramount importance in the role that the board plays as check and balance. I reviewed with my staff the 6 and 7 deck declarations. I had a issue with the clause in the seventh specifically item 9. In discussion with representatives of the Mayors Office they will amend that tomorrow. I have no objections but i want us all to keep our eyes on each and every one of these. I want to thank the mayor and the mayors administration for using these incollaboration with the board. They have incorporated things big and small to address the emergency, and i want to express my thanks to the administration. That concludes my remarks, mr. President. Item 29, mr. President. Thank you. Clarification from either our deputy City Attorney. If that is the case where the mayor is planning to amend tomorrow, do we take no action on action number nine . I think if you choose to concur in action number nine it will be replaced as soon as tomorrow by a new order. Alternately if you wish to make a motion to amend this motion to remove that, you can do that as well. Mr. President. This is supervisor peskin. I am not making that. Merely i wanted it made abundantly clear item nine could be amended by ordinance of the board of supervisors and that language will be included tomorrow. I am not making a motion to strike clause number nine. Okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Item 29. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai e. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. This motion is approved unanimously. Thank you, colleagues. Letmadam clerk, please read thm memorials. Todays meeting is adjourned in following of the following individual on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. Jerry adams. Okay. Colleagues that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any other further business before us today . That concludes business for today. Thank you. We are adjourned. Good afternoon, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed and i am joined here by a number of departments who will be talking later on during the press conference. We are joined by department of Emergency Management director Mary Ellen Carroll as well as department of Public Health director, dr. Grant colfax. The director of Human Services, trent rohr, the director of Homeless Services for the city, Abigail Stewart kahn and our police chief bill scott. We have a pretty lengthy press Conference Today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with. So i want to first start with city test s. F. And we know that every single day there are people who are working, City Employees who are on the front lines. Our police officers, our firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need in order to really put people at ease and ensure them that they are safe. This means that so many of our workers are have a lot of uncertainty. And uncertain that theyre exposed and that they have the virus and thats why its important that we do everything we can to ramp up locally, but to provide an option for them to be tested. Today we are proud to announce that we are opening city test s. F. , can which will serve as a drivethru testing site for our frontline city workers. It will be located at peers 30 and 32 and we will be able to ramp up to test hundreds of city workers each and every day and i really want to thank the color companies color and Carbon Health for partnering with us to undertake this incredibly important project. This has really been a team effort and i especially want to thank support of San Francisco, the director lane forbes as well as dr. Colfax in the department of Public Health for their work in making this happen. The initial focus will be on First Responders that i mentioned earlier and as we ramp up, we will begin to expand it for some of our shelter workers and nonprofit workers and those other essential workers that are also on the frontlines. Access to the expanded testing means that frontline staff who have become infected can be identified earlier and get the care that they need. It also means that frontline workers who are currently in quarantine, but not infected, can return to their families and keep doing the critical work that we need them to do. They are taking care of us, as i said. So, it is important that we do everything we can to take care of them. We also have been working to secure hotel rooms for our First Responders and today im proud to announce that, because a collaboration between our Emergency Operation center and hotel council, we secured our first Hotel Lease Agreement to provide rooms for our frontline workers with more rooms on the way. The First Hotel Property will provide 383 rooms for city Frontline Health care workers, people who work at General Hospital or people who work at laguna honda. We anticipate finalizing a second Hotel Location this week for an additional 500 rooms. This weekend, 30 Health Care Workers moved into the first hotels. These hotel rooms allow people to do the incredible work they are doing to save lives without having to worry about going home to infect their families or folks in their community. They provide the relief for frontline personnel who are working long hours and commuting far distances and we will continue to add more hotel rooms to our frontline workers as well as for our other priorities. Which include covid19 patients who need to be isolated but dont need to be in the hospital. And our vulnerable seniors and people with Underlying Health conditions in our shelters and on our streets. Today we announced that we had two positive covid19 cases at one of the shelters and Abigail Stewart kahn from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing will discuss that in more detail. These hotel rooms are essential in our work to proactively move Vulnerable People out of our shelters as well as to quickly get impacted people into isolation when cases do occur. And we will continue to add more rooms as we continue to prepare our city for a potential surge at our hospitals. We also learned today that two individuals that tested positive for covid19 at m. S. C. South have been in contact with 19 residents who had so far moved into the new location at musconi west. All 19 individuals at musconi west are moved into quarantine, into hotels as a precautionary measure. And we also realize that we as things move quickly, there are although that we set up musconi west initially to assist in thinning out many of our shelters throughout San Francisco to practice social distancing and, to be clear, musconi west does meet c. D. C. Guidelines for providing shelter to those who do not carry the virus. We also realize that we need to think about making changes to avoid having an outbreak or situation in places like musconi west or any place elsewhere we know there are large populations of people, regardless of our c. D. C. Guidelines being implemented. Moving forward, as a result, we have made some changes to musconi west. The musconi west facility will now be used to house people who have been in quarantine and recovered from covid19 or people who had been quarantined and test negative for covid19. This will allow us to free up hotel rooms. We dont have when people no longer need them. Just as the hotel rooms provide an exit for people from hospitals and shelters when someone needs to be quarantined, musconi west can free up a space in the hotel when they no longer need to be isolated and were also going to be making some changes at musconi west, including decreasing the capacity so we can allow people to spread out even more, adding partitions and a lot more. We already have 24hour bathroom attendants, we have shower facilities and outlooer locations in places for people to go outside and smoke cigarettes. Because we have people who live in our shelters who smoke cigarettes. We are thinking about food and where they eat and how we dont keep those places clean. A number of adjustments will be made and trent will talk a little bit more about that. In addition to more hotel rooms to create space in our system, we need more hospital beds. In places like new york and italy, we have seen what happens when we dont have enough of the facilities and equipment we need to handle the surge as we talked about. We have seen overcrowded hospitals and doctors making choices about who to treat. We never want to get there in San Francisco and we have to do everything we can to protect Public Health, but to make sure that when people need a doctor, when they need a hospital bed, that we dont turn them away. Today governor da Gavin Newsome will be leading an effort to open up 290 beds at the cpmc pacific campus on california street. We have been in close contact with the governors office, with sutter and cpmc over this issue over the past couple of weeks and were deeply appreciative of this effort to expand our Hospital Capacity and we look forward to working with the governor and cpmc and sutter to make sure that we have the capacity, that we are fully staffed with the equipment and the resources that we need to make sure that this hospital is able to support the people that we know need it the most. All along that we have said that no local jurisdiction can do this alone. We need support from the state and the federal government and im truly great to feel the governor for his leadership in getting this site up and running. And well continue to need the states support as we Work Together. As i said, to plan for staffing of the facility. Again i want to thank sutter and cpmc for their work in helping us expand our capacity. The site will need minor improvements before its operational. But we anticipate opening it within the next 10 days. Along with the 48 covid19 beds that opened at st. Francis hospital today, we are continuing to do the work to prepare our medical system for the surge we all know is coming. Our entire medical system is united and focused on doing what it takes to get through what is an incredibly challenging time. And we are truly showing that when we come together, we can really deliver for the people of the city. I also want to provide an update with muni and we have the director, jeff tumblin of sfmta to provide more details. We know that there are going to be some changes with muni and the bus service in the coming days and that is why it is critical we get this city test s. F. Site up and running. Once the site is fully implemented, well be able to provide tests for muni drivers so if they have questions about any illness they feel is covid19, they can get tested. If theyre not, they can help keep our critical Public Transportation system running. But right now one of the main reasons why we have had to reduce our service, has a lot to do with a lot of uncertainty around testing and around keeping our muni drivers safe and this is why its so critical and so important. These drivers work really hard for us. They are people out there every single day. They are essential workers to our workforce. And people who do not need to use muni, please dont. I know that director tumblin mentioned this before. This is the last thing we want to say. But we want to make sure that people who need muni the most, that they get it. Buses have been crowded when they shouldnt be and what that means they have to make some major changes to ensure public safety. If you see that a bus is crowded and you cant necessarily practice certainly distancing, do not get on the bus. If it gets too crowded, exit the bus. The fact is, we dont want to reduce service any further than we need to. We dont want a muni driver to stop moving its bus because it is too crowded to move because the people on the bus are not practicing social distancing. So we need to take steps to keep our drivers safe and keep the bhaoem rely on muni safe as well. I want to say a special thank you to all the drivers out there. More than ever, you are so essential to us and well do everything we can to keep you safe. And so busy times in our city. A lot of real challenges. And, again, this weekend i want to thank people here in San Francisco for continuing to practice social distancing, for just really taking the order seriously. Although we know we continue to face a number of challenges in particular areas throughout the city. We have been very active out there with our police department, with our Homeless Outreach team and others to try to continue to educate people but also hold them accountable because were all connected. We all need to make better decisions about how we continue to implement social distancing as time goes on. Its going to be harder and harder for us to stay at home and continue this practice, but were counting on all of you to participate and maintain social distancing and everyone here in the city to look out for one another as we continue to get through this very challenging time. So at this time, id like to ask the director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, to come up and provide us with a update from Public Health. Dr. Colfax. Thank you, mayor. I am grant colfax, director of health. Today, i want to thank everyone in San Francisco and in the bay area region for their cooperation and everything they are doing to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. You are leading the way. When you stay home, when you keep six feet apart from people, when you wash your hands and when you cover your nose and your mouth with cloth, you are literally saving lives. I would like to update san franciscans today on a few developments in our ongoing work to respond to the coronavirus and protect our community. Today, there are 583 San Francisco residents with confirmed cases of coronavirus. 38 of them are 83 of them are in the hospitals across the city and nearly half of those 83 are in the intensive care units. We know that three of them are among people experiencing homelessness, including two at the m. S. C. South shelter and one who spent time at the Division Circle Navigation Center. This underscores the need for us to continue to focus on the most vulnerable populations. Including those in longterm care facilities, shelters, people over 60 and those with Underlying Health conditions. Sadly, nine san franciscans have died from the disease. Covid19. I would like to send condolences on behalf of the entire Health Department to their families, loved ones and friends. And as we continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic, i would like to remind you that our top priority is to continue to be slowing and reducing the spread of the virus in our community, protecting vulnerable populations, Health Care Workers and First Responders, preparing our Health Care System for an expected surge of hospital patients and expanding testing capacity. In all this work, we will continually seek to do better as we incorporate the latest science, data and facts into our action as and recommendations. We have all known from the start that this is a rapidly evolving situation and that will continue to be true. We will adapt our response accordingly. We are working quickly to integrate new information all the time and adjust our recommendations so that were providing the very best and most uptodate advice that we can give. As san franciscans know, we are working to prepare our hospitals and Health Care System for an expected surge of covid19 patients. We have seen this happen across the world and this country and we need to be as ready as we possibly can. We are making progress in surge preparation and i would like to share a few highlights today. As san franciscans know, our Surge Capacity to increase. And today we have reached a significant milestone. We have successfully expanded our bed Inventory System and exceeded the states ask that all jurisdictions expand their capacity by at least 40 . By working together since january, San Francisco hospitals have managed to increase the citys intensive care unit beds from 277 to 530. A 91 increase. A 91 increase. And our regular acute care beds, socalled medical surgery beds, have increased from 1055 to just over 1600. A 52 increase. We accomplished this by opening previously closed units and by repurposing areas normally used for other functions, such as outpatient surgery. These extra beds will make a big difference. However, there are still plausible scenarios that a large surge could overwhelm even those additional resources. And yet we have made progress by decompressing hospitals so they can be as empty as possible and ready for the surge and we have canceled, by health order, elective surgeries and routine procedures. I am happy to report that today, st. Francis memorial hospital, plans to open its newlydedicated unit for coronavirus patients. This unit will have a capacity eventually of 48 additional beds, including eight intensive care unit beds. Additionally, with partners across the city, we have moved 150 patients who have confirmed coronavirus or who are awaiting test results but who do not need hospital care into hotels where they can safely isolate. We have also sped up testing so that patients have a shorter wait time for their results. There are several other surge plans in progress, including expanding clinics throughout the city that we will be able to provide more information about soon. In addition, as the mayor mentioned and the governor announced today, the state has reached an agreement with cpmc to make its vacant pacific campus hospital available for our coronavirus surge work. These additional beds are not included in the totals i just covered. Every day that we can prepare is a good day. It is so important that people continue to stay at home and to practice physical distancing, hand washing and face covering. That is how we will slow down the virus as much as possible and ensure as much as possible that we have the beds we need in our Hospital System to care for those most in need. Now i would like to talk briefly about data. As i have said many times, San Franciscos response to the coronavirus emergency is grounded and will continue to be grounded in data, science and facts. We are able to use what we know from other parts of world and the country to guide our decisions and inform our interventions. Data is, and will always be, an important tool to help san franciscans see the whole picture of the coronavirus pandemic in our community. This knowledge can help us all do our part and see over time how the situation is changing. So today i am pleased to announce that we will be sharing more data about San Franciscos coronavirus pandemic. Our data analysts have been working hard to collect information from across the city, to create accurate, reliable and timely reports to help guide our decisions and inform you, the public. D. P. H. Has been working and will continue to work with the Controllers Office and the department of Emergency Management on a new data tracker that will be posted on our website very soon. The tracker will feature more information about cases, the demographics of patients, hospitalizations and testing. We will add more Data Elements as we gather more information and continue to improve. Now i would like the provide an update on the outbreak at laguna honda hospital and the steps we are taking to protect health of residents and staff. This weekend, we identified four new positive cases at laguna honda hospital, bringing the total number of cases up to 16. 12 of the informed of the confirmed cases are among staff and four are among residents. Of staff, nine have been in patient care positions and three have not. The four new cases are from an impacted unit. The south five neighborhood. Two are residents of the south five neighborhood and two are parent caregivers on the south side neighborhood. With regard to testing at laguna honda, to date, 290 staff have been tested, either directly by the departments of Public Health or their own provider. 98 patients at laguna honda hospital have been tested. This weekend, we completed retesting of all patients on south five on the south five neighborhood. Results are pending. The retesting of south five staff is happening today. We will also retest the staff and test all patients on south four. To date, south four has no residents who have tested positive for coronavirus, though of course that situation could change. As part of our ongoing outbreak response, we continue to test staff and patients throughout the hospital that have been identified as being exposed through contact investigation or who show symptoms of the virus. Unfortunately we do expect more positive cases, but it is crucial that we know the facts so that we can take evidenceinformed action to preserve health and mitigate the spread of the virus in that institution. We are continuinging to work very closely with the centers for Disease Control and prevention who have been at laguna honda for the past week. They are joining our team of some of the most foremost experts of San Francisco department of health to guide an informed response. I am thankful for the support and expertise of our federal, state and local partners and our response. And the c. D. C. Has recommended and we have rapidly adopted multiple Infection Prevention and control strategies to combat the coronavirus at the facility. These include limiting movement throughout the hospital to only essential movement. Restricting accesses to two entrances only where all staff is screened upon entering the hospital. There is mandatory masking for all staff and there is enhanced personal protective equipment or p. P. E. That is being provided for staff who are in quarantined or isolated areas or treating isolated patients. These are in addition to the steps that the department of Public Health with the support of mayor breed, has already taken to limit the spread, including placing the entire laguna Honda Community a prevent civ quarantine. This prevents Community Spread by having residents remain on campus and limits opportunities for the virus to be brought on campus. We have stopped the rotation of staff to various units and limited impacted areas to only the most essential personnel. We have made the very hard but necessary decision in early march to restrict visitors at the site. At our request, the c. D. C. And the state Health Department have provided additional clinical and epidemologic leadership and well dont test staff and residents based on these risk assessments Going Forward. The c. D. C. Is also providing expert knowledge to our clinical teams on improving the collection of data. This will not only inform prevention and Response Strategies for laguna honda hospital, but also for Skilled Nursing facilities throughout the bay area and perhaps even the nation. Laguna honda is, and continues to be a top priority for the Health Department and the city. We and i will continue to do everything we can to resfonlds the changing situation and i will keep the staff, residents, families and public updated. Now id like to move to First Responder testing and a brief mention of the hotels that director rohr will talk about. As we all know, Health Workers and First Responders are crucial to San Franciscos battle against coronavirus. I am grateful to mayor breed, the port, our d. P. H. Staff and our private sector partners for creating if new testing site for Health Care Workers and First Responders. These talented and dedicated professionals are courageously working on the frontlines every day. By providing them dedicated testing, we can assuage anxiety, answer uncertainty and speed the recovery so these First Responders can be with their families and continue to support the health of our city. Now director trent rohr of the Human Service agency will provide an update on another key aspect of supporting our Health Workers and First Responders. Temporary housing in hotels to keep them and their families safe. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Im the director of the human Services Agency. Thank you, dr. Colfax, for teeing up my discussion about First Responder hotels. So, we knew from the be beginning of this that we were going to need to accommodate our Frontline Health responders, our Health Care Workers, our nurses, our doctors. Its critically important that they be able to remain here and not potentially infect their families or others going back home. Many of our Health Responders have long commutes after working long shifts. In addition, we dont want Health Responders going home and potentially being infected in their communities. So, to this end, we have secured two hotels, totaling 83 rooms for this purpose. The first 383room hotel is currently under contract and will receive Health Care Responders immediately. The second has already opened up 150 of their rooms of which 30 were occupied by the first group of Health Responders who took advantage of these hotels. Well continue to identify hotels for this population should the need grow. Again, right now it is 2883 rooms and we continue to assess both the numbers of Health Care Workers, nurses, doctors and others, plus other critical First Responders, me cal social workers, Law Enforcement to see what the numbers need to be. There are two other areas id like to address today. One is our shelters, particularly the shelter activation at musconi west and the sect as an update on the hotel rooms we have secured for individuals who needable to be quarantined, isolated or protected from other congregate areas. Last year we opened up the shelter west to thin out our existing shelter system. If you remember four weeks ago when we activated our operations center, we were using the best data and information at the time and continue to create and design our system using the best information available. We also said four weeks ago that this is a very fluid situation and will continue to be. The c. D. C. At the time recommended that shelters achieve thinning of three feet between beds, subsequent to that the state department of health increased that to six feet between beds and the latest from the state of california, as well as other counties, are now shifting gears away from congregate sites entirely and moving toward hotel rooms tom themed, we are now shifting gears at musconi west and rather than that being a shelter to achieve the reduced population in our homeless shelter system, that will instead serve as a shelter environment for individuals who have either tested negative for covid19 or who are considered post covid or have cleared the 14 days and are no longer covidpositive. This will be staffed by the appropriate medical and social work staff. The population will be reduced from a total of 394 down to 200. The shelter will be partitioned off into four areas of 50 patients each and each individual will have their own partition creating that necessary physical distance as well as a wall or partition pa create additional privacy. This will help us really provide a relief valve on the back end of our system, allowing individuals who were quarantined in hotel rooms to exit out after having been, again, tested and tested negative to allow for those rooms and to be activated for additional people who need to be quarantined. It will help our Hospital System for Homeless Individuals who may be in that system for a noncovidrelated illness. Those individuals will also have been cleared by the hospital and could choose to go to that shelter as well. We still have the imperative, however, of reducing the populations in our existing shelter system. The plan moving forward now is to adhao ef this reduction through placement into hotel rooms exclusively. We will continue to focus on the population in our shelters, individuals age 60 and above as well as individuals who have Underlying Health conditions that make them more vulnerable to covid. The current estimate of the number of rooms in order to achieve that reduction in shelter census is 500. Which brings me to the data on the hotel rooms that we brought forth to the present. We currently have 945 rooms in eight Hotels Across the city, to be able to receive individuals who either need to be quarantined or isolated or individuals who are going to be moved from the shelter system in order to reduce the population or moved from the street. The individuals moving from the street, again, per the c. D. C. Guidelines, per the fema reimbursement guidelines would be individuals who are over age 60 or individuals who have Underlying Health chance make them more vulnerable to the coronavirus virus. We continue to move individuals as we speak. So far we have admitted over 150 individuals into these rooms with another 40 vulnerable adults being moved from the shelter system today. We will continue to do two things. One is remove individuals from the shelter system and to the street in these rooms but we continue to work with hotel owners and negotiate further contracts to bring additional rooms online. Again, when we started this four weeks ago based on the best guidance from the c. D. C. And from our partners at the state department of health as well as the department of Public Health here in San Francisco, we our target was 3500 hotel rooms and 2500 shelter beds. Based on the best information, evidence and data we have now, were looking at more like 4500 hotel rooms and the shelters that we had planned to activate to create thinning are now no longer going to be used for that purpose. Moving forward, were working with our Public Health partners to identify potentially smaller congregate sites to serve as medicallybased shelters and this is for vims who are vulnerable or older and need extra support that cannot be provided within the confines of a hotel room. The lead on our movement out of the shelter system into hotels as well as the identification of vulnerable ij individuals on the street and moving into hotels is led by the departments of homelessness and Supportive Housing. The director of that department, Abigail Stewart khan, is here to talk about how were going to achieve that reductioner in our shelter and on the streets as well as to talk to you about our system response to the covid Navigation Center as well as at the m. S. C. Homeless shelter. Abigail stewart kahn. Thank you, director. Thank you, mayor breed, and to the guests, h. H. S. Staff, City Partners and owl of those in San Francisco who care so deeply about people experiencing homelessness during this crisis. H. H. S. And our nonprofits hear you. This reminds us day in and day out that housing is health care and relationships are the best form of treatment. Those without these suffer the most. Today, three shelter guests have tested positive for covid19. Protocols have been implemented in response to both sites. First, supplying the shelter with additional masks and that all shelter guests and staff wear masks at all times. This is advice being given to all of our shelter sites as we speak. The department of Public Health initiated Contact Tracing with these patients when they came into contact with them. This allow us to understand who at the shelter and in the rest of the community positive individuals have come into contact with. This is the same process that happens with housed and unhoused neighbors who test positive for covid. The department of Public Health is deploying a physician and Health Workers to the shelter site to conduct symptoms and temperature screening for all guests and staff. They will be relocated to staff isolation rooms if testing positive for covid19. Guests considered close contacts will also be relocated to Quarantine Hotel rooms. Guests over the age of 60 and those with preexisting conditions will be placed in hotel rooms to shelter in place. Staff at the shelter will also be provided medical support and First Responders. Were grateful to our system of care for viewing our nonprofit and city workers who work with the Homeless Population as First Responders. The city is deploying a professional cleaning crew on site to thoroughly disinfect the shelter and the domestic of Public Health will be on site to answer staff and guest questions. They will continue to implement Shelter Health and social distapsinging protocols. As more individual move off site, that social distancing will be accomplished. Director rhorer also spoke about social distancing now moving to be focused in hotels. Top priorities for the use of the hotel rooms are to provide quarantine and isolation rooms for cov irk dpositive people or people awaiting testing results living in crowded settings or rooms in highrisk populations such as people experiencing homelessness. H. S. H. Has opened a hotel to provide shelter in place for high risk people experiencing homelessness in our existing shelter system. This new capacity brought online very rapidly will allow for greater physical distancing at existing shelters and will protect the health of seniors and people with preexisting conditions in our shelter system. Now the challenge is scale. H. S. H. In partnership with h. S. A. Plans to continue to expand the use of hotel rooms for shelter in place for people experiencing homelessness. Excuse me. Homelessness, who are both sheltered and unsheltered. There are many factors that go into Opening Hotel rooms that include hotel staffing, meals, transportation, security, cleaning and i want to thank our departments at h. S. A. , the department of Public Health, the Emergency Operations center run by the department of Emergency Management and the Nonprofit Community for helping us move forward as rapidly as possible. Thank you. Im going to introduce jeff tamblin, the director of m. T. A. Hello, my name is jeffery tamblinful as a lifelong advocate of transit and as the director of the sfmta, i never thought i would say this. But please, if you have any other option for getting around, please do not ride muni. For the duration of the public Health Emergency, muni is only for delivering essential workers to work and allowing san franciscans to access essential services. If you need to get around for some other purpose, please find another way. If you have the ability to drive or walk or ride a bicycle, please choose those modes. In order to ensure that there is adequate Space Available on our muni buses for the people who need it the most. Many of our Bus Operators are in specific, vulnerable population categories. As a result, they are needing to shelter in place in accordance with the Public Health order. As a result, over the coming weeks, we are expecting about 30 to 40 of our Bus Operators to not be able to show up for work. As of last week, although our ridership is down by over 80 , were still carrying about 100,000 passengers a day. And as a result of that, were experiencing significant crowding on some of our key lines. Lines like the 14, the 38, the 8 and the 9. We have right now, during the Public Health crisis, two essential priorities at muni. One is protecting the health and safety of our operators and two is protecting the health and safety of our passengers who are essential workers keeping the city running. In order to meet those priorities and address the fact that service is in decline, it would be terrible for us to simply cut 30 of our Service Across the board that would result in extreme crowding on the most important lines. As a result of that, we have made the very painful choice to, instead of doing across the Board Service cuts, to streamline our service into an essential network. What this means is taking the 15 highest ridership lines and beefing up service on those lines in other words for our passengers to maintain essential distance. And as a result of that, cutting a ul of all of our low ridership lines. We did not do this work lightly. We looked carefully at all of the data of where our ridership is, segment by segment, and where were experiencing crowding. We also looked at locations of essential services all over San Francisco. Wh that is hospitals or important neighborhood commercial districts or supermarkets. We then applied the muni equity strategy, making sure that we were adding extra service to neighborhoods where there are people who have the fewest choices. The result is a map of 15 lines plus two rapid lines that serve every neighborhood and put all san franciscans within a mile of a bus stop and most san franciscans within half a mile of a bus stop. The cuts are painful in every single neighborhood. And if the response that weve goten from the public is any indication of success, weve made everyone equally unhappy. It is terribly painful for me to do this. And we are working quickly on ways in which we can provide additional taxi service to parts of the city where weve had to make the deepest cuts. These changes are going to be rolling out starting tomorrow, tuesday well be losing about half a dozen lines and then go full into effect on wednesday. We are making these changes up as we go along in response to the rapidly changing conditions as a result of the Health Emergency. So, i urge you to to be patient. I urge you especially to be patient with our operators. Please feel free to be upset at me for being late for work or a longer walk to your bus stop, but recognize that your Bus Operators are frontline workers. They are accepting some level of risk in order to keep this system running and in order to deliver essential workers to work. Please thank them. They are heroes here in San Francisco and i could not be more proud to work for them and be advocating on their behalf. As always, please keep up with the details on our website. They will be rapidly changing. Our website is sfmta. Com covid for all of the latest updates as we move along. Now id like to turn the stage over to the San Francisco police department, chief bill scott. Thank you. Good afternoon. Id like to start this afternoons message with an a update on what happened over the weekend by way of social distancing in our Public Health orders. Overall, we saw a lot of good social distancing over this weekend. The rain probably helped as many people were not outside who probably would have otherwise been outside. However, those that were, we saw very good cooperation with our Public Health orders and our social distancing. Our crowds were pretty light across the city. Places that normally are populated with people, they were not out this weekend. For the most part. There did not seem to be a lot of people downtown, areas of Mission District that weve had some challenges in. Areas in other parts of the city. It was just probably because of the rain but nonetheless, the news was good overall. We still have some challenges in certain parts of the city and in the tenderloin and other districts where we have unsheltered and unhoused people. Were still working with that population, particularly with the education piece and working with the departments of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the human Services Agency to try to rectify some of the challenges that we see there. That work is ongoing. Over the weekend, we have basically stepped up our patrols as we have talked about since this Public Health order started. So, hopefully you were seing as i have, many officers on the streets and on foot, particularly in the areas where were trying to spread the message and educate the people to social distance and stay six feet apart. Im going to give you the statistics and were in the process of updating what occurred over the weekend o. So, that easy statistics are actually good as of this past friday. We stills have two citations confirmed and i want to correct information that i put out last week or last friday that one of those citations was for business. That business was actually worn and admonished and closed so it was not cited. But to date, we have two citation of two individuals. There have been 26 total warnings or admonishments, 22 of those were with persons who were not found to be social distancing and four were with nonessential businesses. And as we have said over and over again, this is a matter of life and death. So, were asking that the public please comply with these Public Health orders. Stay at home, and if you have the go out for an essential item or essential shopping, please be smart about it. In terms of our crime statistics, we are still seeing decreases in crime when compared to the prior week. Last week we saw 24 decrease in violent crime. We saw a 32 decrease in property crime and overall part one decrease of 31 . And that was compared comparing the weeks of march 23rd through the 30th. Weve seen some burglaries and vandalisms of businesses so, again, our offices are out. Theyre going to be paying close attention to businesses that have closed to make sure that we can do what we can to not allow that to be a trend that our Business Owners have to deal with. Were focusing on portions of the citis to safeguard bored up businesses and so far the owners sheltering in place, we dont want them to worry about their businesses. So we will be out in full force for that. We are encouraging the public to continue to report crimes when thae see them. If its a violent crime, please call 911 and we will respond as we always do. If its a property crime or a crime of a nonviolent nature, particularly those crimes that have already occurred, please call our nonemergency number, 4155530123. You can also call 311 or utilize our website to file a Police Report or request an existing Police Report if you need a copy of it. We also want to alert the public to be aware of scams. Were seeing a lot on social media about people knocking on door in residential communities, pretending to be city workers or public Health Workers or the centers for Disease Control workers. Weve also heard information that some people are issuing masks. Those are not city workers. Those are not c. D. C. Workers nor are those folks public Health Workers. So, if someone knocks at your door in a residential area, please dont open it. Dont let them in. Do not accept a mask. Call 911. We dont want anybody to be taken advantage of and we know that even in times as unfortunate as what were facing right now, there are people out there that will take advantage of or who will take advantage of other people and we dont want that to happen to anybody. So please do not let anyone in your home t city is not sending workers to issue masks, nor are we sending workers to residential areas to inspect homes. So, if you do get a knock on your door regarding that, it is not a righteous person just doing that. So call 911. I also want to update on hate crimes. Theres been a lot of talk about whether or not hate crimes have gone up in our city, particularly hate crimes against members of our asian community. We have not seen that trend and what we ask is that if you are the victim of a hate crime, please call the police. Call us. Just to illustrate the trends that we are seeing. Im going to talk about the last four years of hate crimes yeartodate. 2017, we had a total of seven. 2018, a total of four. 2019, total of six and this year, yeartodate a total of five and this is specifically hate crimes against members of our asian community. So we have not seen an increase, but that is not to say that these things are not occurring. What we ask the public is to please report hate crimes if they are occurring. These type of crimes are unacceptable at any time and particularly during this Public Health crisis and this pandemic. So, please report that immediately if that has happened to you. Lastly, i will end on note of the same messaging as the mayor and the other city leaders that have spoken to you. We really need the publics support and help on social distancing, staying at home. Please do not go out if you dont have to. We know this will save lives. We know they will be in force to do our jobs and those that stated, those who have been warmed will be cited if we have to go back and warn them again and deal with that situation again. And with that, well open it up for questions. Reporter is San Francisco considering implementing a suerer curfew. If so, could you provide details . No. A sur few has not been discussed at this time. A curfew has not been discussed at this time. We are comfortable with the Public Health orders that the mayor and the director of Public Health has issued and we believe that if we have some success with that, there is no need for curfew. That is not on the table at this time. Reporter a followup. Exactly how many citations have been issued at this point to businesses or individuals and specifically to whom were they issued and for what exactly . Two citations, both to individuals. As i said, the information this past friday, while the business was incorrect, those two citations were both to individual. Dwrof their names. But they were both individuals and they were in violation of the Public Health order, social distancing type of issues. Reporter thank you. Question for you from Michael Barbara of the San Francisco examiner. What were the circumstances of the two shelter in place citations issued by sfpd so far, and to follow on that, do you believe the District Attorney should file charges stemming from the citations your officers have issued . Let me answer the second part first. Ive had conversations with our District Attorney about the Public Health orders and i will say that he has been extremely supportive. Weve talked specifically about the need to if the need arises, he is supportive. I dont have those cases in terms of the details to discuss the merits of either of those cases. So, i dont think thats appropriate for me to go into detail that i dont have. But i will say they were both of the Public Health order violation nature. And those eventually will make its way to the proper authorities and the prosecutor and well see what happens. Reporter thank you. The next questions are for dr. Grant colfax. Thank you. Reporter dr. Colfax, the first question is from kate wolfe. Is the San Francisco medical Examiners Office testing for covid19 in people who have died . So, the medical examiner is following c. D. C. Guidelines with regards to testing for covid19 in people who have died. That would include people who die suddenly who have a known contact with somebody whos covidpositive. Reporter thank you. Followup question have there been any fatalities involving people that were not tested while they were alive . Im aware of at least one case. The deceased was tested after unfortunatelies paing away and that person had a close contact with a covidpositive case. Reporter question from the San Francisco chronicle. Why has the department of Public Health decided to retest patients and staff in south five and four at laguna honda . As we have investigated the outbreak at laguna honda hospital, let me emphasize again that we have some of the very best people in the nation, if not in the world, helping us with this investigation. Physicians from the centers for Disease Control. And since they arrived here, starting a week ago last sunday, they have done an outstanding job and a very thoughtful and careful job of looking at the outbreak in 5s and 4s and they based on the people who have already tested positive, the staff, and the patients at 5s, they have made this recommendation and with regard to 4s, they have made the recommendation to expand our testing there. I also want to emphasize that, of the patients at laguna honda, the positive patients have been concentrated in the 5 south neighborhood. Reporter and a followup to that. What condition are the 16 infected people from laguna honda in and have any been transfered to San Francisco General Hospital . So, of the 16, 14 are in Good Condition. Two are in fair condition and have been transferred to motor acute hospitals. I will say that over the past few days there was one patient who was transferred to zuckerberg hospital, thankfully stabilized, and then was returned to quarantine at laguna honda hospital. Reporter question from the San Francisco examiner. Does the department of Public Health plan to move any patients from laguna honda hospital into hotel rooms or has that been placed on hold, given the outbreak . We are continuing to explore that and our r seeking the advice of our c. D. C. Colleagues with regard to moving that forward. I want to emphasize that from the beginning that was a small group of patients, numbering no more man between 20 and 30. Reporter and a followup from josh sabatini, do you have any details on how covid19 was introduced to laguna honda . K i think when we look at how covid19 has generally been introduced into Skilled Nursing facilities and other similar facilities across the country, despite multiple efforts to prevent and just slow the spread, unfortunately the one of the key factors is that people who work at the facility, despite their own efforts and others unintentionally appear to be the source in many of these cases, if not all of these cases. Again, right now we are working to ensure that staff are following all proper Disease Control procedures, including greatly reducing risk of transmission through masking, personal protective equipment wherever required and, again t c. D. C. Is working very hard to ensure not only are these recommendations being applied, but theyre also being adhered to. And i just really want to express my deep gratitude to the staff at laguna honda from the chief from the leadership, managers but especially the people on the frontlines who are taking care of patients every day. They are doing inced work. And i think that all of us owe them a huge debt of gratitude. This work is always challenging. Even without coronavirus. They are some of my personal heroes and more so than ever during this pandemic. Reporter thank you, dr. Colfax. The next questions are for Abigail Stewartkahn. A reporter first question is from jamie harp, associated press. To date, how many people experiencing homelessness have tested positive for covid19 . Thank you for that question. Im only aware of individuals who have tested positive at sites in the homelessness response system. Its a large system of care where people experiencing homelessness touch many different aspects. In the homeless responses to date, there are only three who have tested positive for covid. Those are the individuals that i discussed earlier. Reporter a followup to that where are they now . Those three individuals are in Good Condition and are either receiving medical care or at an isolation quarantine site operated by human Services Agency and staffed by the department of Public Health. Reporter thank you. Question from john king of the San Francisco chronicle. What is the status of the Vehicle Triage Center on geneva . Right. For those who are unfamiliar, we have a Pilot Project that allows people who live in their vehicles to come inside and receive access to our system as they work to end their homelessness. As of late last week, there were 25 vehicles on site, which is essentially full for us, and we have pivoted, as we pivoted our entire homelessness response system to be addressing that in the system of covid. People are receiving the education they need to follow all of the social distancing guidance. Reporter and a followup to that. How many r. V. S are in place and is the ramping up on schedule for the r. V. Sites . For future sites . John, i will assume that you mean your future question. So its on its on schedule for the pilot. Its working really, really well and we learn add tremendous amount and i was very pleased to speak at a hearing about it coordinated by supervisor safais office, feels like a long time ago now, honestly, and i think we need to look at everything Going Forward in the context of what the coronavirus will do to the citys response system to the citys budget as the mayor has discussed and so we have looked at every aspect of our system and what is planned for expansion and were continuing to evaluate that on a casebycase basis. Reporter final question from brian howie of San Francisco public press. Does the city plan to place into hotel rooms unhoused people who do not fwlong vulnerable populations or have not been exposed or tested positive coronavirus . That is a great question, brian. Thank you. For all of you who care so much about our unhoused and particularly our unsheltered and sheltered neighbors living in public settings, as i said, the priority for city is to move people out of hospitals and also out of congregate settings and people who are vulnerable to covid19 that are living on our streets. That is a significant portion of our unsheltered population and well be working to include them in hotel rooms first and then continue to evaluate the situation. Reporter and followup to that. Where will those currently in musconi, who are not post covid or tested negative, be moved . Those who are thank you for that question. I understand now. Those who are currently at musconi west who moved there as part of early shelter thinning as opposed to the adjustments that weve been making over the last couple of days, those individuals are being relocated to hotel rooms operated by the human Services Agency and staffed by the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and our partners. Reporter thank you. Concludes our press conference. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after the goal is simple. Its to raise womens voices. Learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. We had own over 300 over 300 people who signed up for the oneonone counseling today. I think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. The Assessors Office is a big one. There are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. Our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in San Francisco. One of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2. 6 billion worth of revenue to the city. Often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. For every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. But i think what most people dont know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. So it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. So this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. Its an interesting place to be, i have to say. My colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. In my daytoday life, i dont think about that role, being the only Asian American assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of San Francisco well. By being the only Asian American assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. I hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. I grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the United States. When my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the United States. They had very little money, and they didnt know how to speak english very well. They came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i cant imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. So my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. As we grew up, we eventually had a Small Business. I very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. We went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. It really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing Public Service the way that i do. One of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. We lived in Southern California at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. I can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. It was incredibly scary because we didnt know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. And i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. It stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. Make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. And then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why youre doing what youre doing, you know, i think you cant go wrong. Its funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. I became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, im shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, im sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. For many of us who are going through our Public Service, its very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. Sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. And i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with out ways to work with people to get things done. I hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of City Government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. Take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the oneonone counseling. I wouldnt be where i was if i didnt have very strong people who believed in me. And even at times when i didnt believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. If there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether its being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think its really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful. What were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the United States. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The policemrogram is very, ver in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready this is a huge catalyst for change. It will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. Now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to Work Together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. One of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for permit center. Special events. We are a one stop shop for those three things. This has many different uses throughout if years. In 1940s it was cocacola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. The permit center is little working closely with the Digital Services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. The Digital Services team was created in 2017. It is 2. 5 years. Our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. One of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. We have 58 Different Department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. We are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. It is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. Our goal is you dont have to know the department. You are dealing with the city. Now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. Here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to Work Together to make it easy to comply with the rules. There are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. There is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. The first project is allowing people to apply online for the a. D. U. It is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. It is a very complicated permit. You have to speak to Different Departments to get it approved. We are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. Some of the next ones are windows and roofing. Those are high volume permits. They are simple to issue. Another one is restaurant permitting. While the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. People struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. The city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. When people arrive they canshay what they are here to. It helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. If they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. We say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. We want it allinone location across the many departments involved. It is clear where customers go to play. On june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. Six months later construction is complete. We will be moving next summer. The flu building the new building will be building. It was designed with light in mind. Employees will appreciate these amenities. Solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. When you are on the higher floors of thing yo of the buildt catch the tip of the Golden Gate Bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. It is so exciting for the team. It is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. It is allowing the Different Departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. We hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. We are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a highquality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling iin forms. They will have good conversations with our staff. Ok. Good afternoon, and welcoo the april 7th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call]