Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco and youre not from here or known to our system of care, you are not going to be able to move in quickly to a hotel room in San Francisco. Thats part of the honest city thahonesty thati need to provid. Its not that we dont want to help you. It will take a tremendous amount of time and we need you to return to your Home Communities and get the resources there. So we will be placing people in our system who are known to our system who are vulnerable. To the specific question around gegeography. Are they in our system and have San Francisco roots and where are they located . This is similar and we know where people are experiencing homelessness and know where its increasing. Its increasing in the bayview, and increasing in the tenderloin and hence our focus on the tenderloin to move people from that community who have been unsheltered in that community historically into hotel rooms and we will be looking at impacted neighbors across the city with the same lense. Thank you. That concludes or questions for todays press conference. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 28th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. President yee thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer, fewer, present. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney . Okay. All right. Supervisor mandelman. Present. Clerk mandelman. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin, peskin present. And supervisor preston. Preston, present. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, present. Supervisor safai. Safai present. Supervisor stefani. Stefani, present. Supervisor walton. Present. Can we confirm that it was peskin . Clerk im worried about him. Supervisor walton, walton present. Supervisor yee. Yee present. And supervisor haney, were you able to join us . Okay, haney not present. Can one of my staff check on him, please. Thank you. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. So somebody needs to cut their mike. Its sounding like theres a lot of bass clerk it sounds like supervisor peskin is trying to speak but his voice is changed for some reason. So, supervisor peskin, if you could stand by, a staff member will check on you. Sounds like a boar. indiscernible . President yee supervisor peskin you have a new voice. So, okay, thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, be you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of america. And to the flag for which it stands, indivisible,. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Ongoing Health emergency Board Members will participate through Video Conference to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely in this meeting in the following ways if you do not have internet, written correspondence can be sent by u. S. Postal service, please address the envelope to the San Francisco board of supervisors, room 244, city hall, San Francisco, california, 94102. Without internet you can listen to the meeting on your phone. The telephone number is 88820 8882045984. And when you are prompted, enter the access code 3501008. Press pound and then press pound again to join and you will be able to listen to the meeting in progress. If you do not have the internet, submit your written correspondence via if you do have the internet, excuse me, correspondence can be sent via email to board. Ofsupervisors sfgov. Org or watch the livestream meeting online at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Alternatively the meeting is being cable casted on channel 26. And please be aware that theres broadcast delay. If you wish to provide Public Comment, please call in early to the meeting to get situated. Public comment is item 14 o on e agenda and its up to two minutes of live comments with items within the subject jurisdiction of the board and the number to dial is the same telephone number stated earlier, 8882045984. And once Public Comment is closed i will repeat this information again. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, turn down any television or radio around you and address the board as a whole and not individual members of the board, and, mr. President , i would like to offer a giant thank you to director adrian pond today for assigning three of her staff to join our Board Meeting who will conduct language interpretation for us. And to the interpreters, id like you to as i introduce you to please share in your language that you are here to provide Interpretation Services and to which community. Well begin with agnes lie. indiscernible . Clerk supervisor peskin, if you could hold for one moment, were just going to have the three interpreters announce themselves and that theyre providing Interpretation Services to the public. To my operation staff, is agnes lie on the phone . Yes. [speaking Foreign Language]. [speaking Foreign Language]. Clerk thank you, miss li. And now for espanol. Arturo, are you available . Yes, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Excellent. [speaking spanish] okay. Clerk thank you. And for filipino we have fay lacani alou. Hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. [speaking Foreign Language language]. Okay, thank you. Clerk thank you so much. Mr. President , that concludes my communication. President yee thank you, madam clerk, and thank you for the three people joining us to give the Interpretation Services to our viewers. So before we get started just a friendly reminder for all of the supervisors to mute their microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Next we will have supervisor safai to share an update from the Emergency Operation center. Supervisor safai, are you here . Supervisor safai yes, i am. President yee all right. Floor is yours. Supervisor safai thank you, president yee, and thank you, colleagues, for allowing me to give this update. Today ill provide updates to the board as the board liaison who worked with supervisor fewer last week at the Emergency Operations center. Tim holt from my staff and i had the honor to be there with supervisor fewer and her team. And as you all know shes been stationed there for the past three weeks. Along with her entire staff. To start off, the citys priorities have not changed. We have been moving vulnerable population into alternative housing sites, scaling up those sites through a bidding process with hotels. And continuing to create and scale up our Food Security programs accessible to the 311, and containing the spread of the virus the best we can. The data dashboard available on d. P. H. s website is updaded to provide new metrics for all ofous a daily basis. As of today, San Francisco has 1,458 confirmed cases, and 23 confirmed deaths. As of this morning, 29 individuals are in i. C. U. And 58 are in acute care. And yesterday mayor breed announced her plans to extend the stayathome order to the end of may, as many of you know. I know this has been a hard time for so many of our families and individuals living in the city and our numbers show how well the city and the bay area are responding to this crisis compared to other major cities in the u. S. And around the world. So we have to continue to stay strong and continue to show resolve. Thank you to everyone out there listening today for your patience, your endurance and all of the hard work that its taking to continue to keep our numbers low in this trying time. Since last tuesday, weve moved 54 First Responders and 132 vulnerable individuals into hotel rooms and we have a total of 2 excuse me, 2,156 rooms available. And 1,130 that are unoccupied. And we continue to scale up our capacity for our vulnerable population to be housed as safely and quickly as possible. They will now provide covid19 testing for all nonsector and nonprofit employees in San Francisco. And any San Francisco resident who cannot access test category go. As of today were also doing mass testing at Skilled Nursing facilities in the city. The city launched a Pilot Partnership with the Salvation Army to make and to deliver meals to people experiencing homelessness and those living in encampments. The goal of this program is to provide food to the unsheltered community and minimize covid19 exposure. Through the program the Salvation Army will make and deliver more than 1,300 meals daily to about 365 People Living in unsheltered or encampments across 40 locations in the city. In addition to the meals the Salvation Army will distribute hygiene materials and dog food for those with animals. The city also launched another partnership with the Salvation Army to make and deliver meals sorry lastly, this past week mayor breed and sfmta director jeff temlin announced the program that many of you are aware of, slow streets, to limit the through traffic on selected areas of the city. Slow streets is to give walking and biking for essential trips while still allowing the local vehicle traffic. People walking or running will be allowed to be in the street as permited by california law. Implementation will occur in phases and will be based on the streets that could supplement the reduced or suspended routes with improved bicycle access to essential services. As of today a portion of j. F. K. Drive in Golden Gate Park and the drive in mcclaren park is closed to vehicles 24 hours a day throughout the duration of the stayathome order. Like all of my colleagues before me, i want to offer sincere gratitude to the thousands of disaster workers and Service Workers staffing the e. O. C. , the Emergency Operation center, the hotels and to deliver groceries and the outreach teams passing out personal protective equipment and safety signs all over the city. And the numerous tasks to mobilize every resource that our city has at its disposal to contain the spread of this virus and to minimize the loss of life. While those of us working from home and at the e. O. C. Are able to maintain relative comfort and safety, many essential employees do not have that privilege. We thank you for stepping up and for helping to make our city safe. Finally, i look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the board and the staff in the e. O. C. To ensure that all urgent needs are met for the duration of this crisis. Thank you, supervisor fewer and her team and supervisor mar and alan wong for being present there this week. Thank you, mr. President. President yee okay, thank you, supervisor safai. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes. Supervisor yee are we allowed to comment on supervisor safais presentation . President yee no, its just an update from him. But you could comment on the roll or something, okay . Thank you. President yee thank you. So, again, were going to be approving the minutes from march 10, 2020. The regular Board Meeting. And the march 10, 2020, special Board Meeting minutes. Are there any changes to these minutes . Supervisor peskin, is that supervisor peskin, do you want to speak on something, on the minutes . We cant hear you. Clerk i know, mr. President , my staff is trying to work with him to get his equipment working. Sorry, supervisor peskin. All right, my staff are reporting that it sounds as though the speakers on his system are not working at this time. Perhaps he can call in, john, if youre listening to me, help him to do that. We can hear you slightly, supervisor peskin, yes. Hello . Supervisor peskin indiscernible . President yee supervisor peskin, did you want to make any comments on the minutes . Supervisor peskin no. President yee okay. Then seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion to approve made by supervisor mandelman . President yee mandelman. And seconded by supervisor walton. Without objection those minutes are approved after the Public Comment has been presented. Madam clerk, lets go to our regular agenda. Presiden clerk okay. Items 1 through 3, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk items 1 through 3 pertain to the special tax district number 20201, and the rock facilities, and to declare the results of the special election and the direct recordation of the notice of special tax lien and determine other matters therewith, as defined here diagnose in. And item 2, to ratify the issuance and the sale of bonded indebtedness and other debt in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 3. 7 billion and to determine other matters as therewith, as defined here diagnose in. And item 3, to levy the special taxes within the city and county of San Francisco special tax district, number 20201, the mission rock facilities and services. President yee so as madam clerk just said, items 1 through 3 are related to the special tax district, number 20201 for mission rock. The special tax district allows the city to levy special taxes on property in a special tax district for possible infrastructure and services. The board previously called a special landowner election for the special tax district to be held on april 27,2020. So i will first ask the clerk and the board to report on the election canvass. So the committee to the board by the director of the department of elections. Clerk yes, mr. President. We received from the director of the department of elections a canvass for the april 27, 2020, election for the special tax district. All votes were in favor of the ballot measure. President yee okay. Then the results unanimously in favor of the ballot measure, the board will now consider a resolution declaring the results of the election, the resolution, authorizing the issuance of bonds and other debt for the special tax district. And an ordinance levying special taxes in the special tax district. So, madam i dont see anybody in the roster. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton , thank you, president yee. Id like to continue items 1, 2, and 3 into our next meeting on may 5th. President yee okay. So motion to continue. Any discussion . Second. President yee seconded by supervisor safai. Okay. If theres no objection, then well continue it to the meeting on is it may 5th, madam clerk . Clerk it is may 5th, mr. President. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets go to our next item and call items 4 and 5 together. Clerk okay. Items 4 and 5, are two resolutions the first, retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a 900,000 grant from the California Department of public hit, a recipient of the grant award for the centers of Disease Control and prevention, for participation in a program, entitled, california injury and Violence Prevention Branch overdose data to action academic detailing, for the president of january 1, 2020, through august 31, 2022. And item 5 is a retroactive authorization to the department of Public Health to accept 750,000 from the California Department of Public Health, from the centers for Disease Control and prevention, for a Program California injury and Violence Prevention Branch overdose data to action peer to peer opioid stewardship alliance, for the period of january 1, 2020, through august 31, 2022. President yee supervisor peskin, nod if you can hear us. Can you hear us . Okay, thank you. Just wanted to make sure that you dont miss anything. Supervisor peskin if you can hear me. President yee okay. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll on this item. Clerk on items 4 and 5, we can see you hello. On items 4 and 5, supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. And supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Clerk supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. And supervisor peskin, we heard you loud and clearly when you said aye. So it seems that were making progress now. Supervisor peskin i got a new computer. President yee okay, youre clearer now. Clerk thank you, john. President yee madam clerk, call the next item. Cloik an ordance to settle lawsuits against the city with the Millennium Tower litigation out of settlement and the tilt of the tower located at 301 mission street. The citys contribution to the global settlement to convain an easement necessary to construct a seismic upgrade of the Millennium Tower. And the citys obligation to convey the easement and our contingence on a number of events, including Court Approval of a classaction settlement. And this adopts the proper environmental findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on item 6, supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading. Please call items 7 and 8 together. Clerk item 7 is a resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of one or more series of special tax bonds for the city and county of San Francisco Community Facilities district number 20141, the transbay transit center. In the aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 90 million to approve related documents, including an official statement, second supplement to the fiscal agent agreement, the bond purchase agreement, and the continuing disclosure undertaking and determining other matters in connection. And item 8 is the resolution to approve the issuance of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority not to exceed 315 million in aggregate Principal Amount of tax allocation bonds to finance certain costs relating to the transbay terminal project as defined herein. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on items 7 and 8. Supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. And supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Clerk item 9 is a resolution to approve the levy on the secured role of ad valorem and special taxes on possessory interests on secured roll, and areas 1 11 excuse me, thats i1, and through roman numeral i through 13, of city and county of San Francisco infrastructure financing district number 2 for the port of San Francisco, city and county of San Francisco special tax district nobody 20192. Pier 70 leased properties and the special tax district 20201, the mission rock facilities and services and making the appropriate findings. President yee supervisor walton . Supervisor walton id like to move to continue item 9 to the may 5th Board Meeting. Second. President yee seconded by supervisor peskin . Excuse me, president yee. President yee yes . Deputy City Attorney ann pierson. I just wanted to relay some information that im learning from counsel for the port, which is that this item is time sensitive and that in order for bonds to be issued this year, the taxes that this resolution would allow president yee thank you so much. I have a motion on the floor seconded by another supervisor. I didnt ask for clarification indiscernible . I understand that completely. Shes trying to pass it today and he wants to continue it a week. The motion is made and seconded before the board. The City Attorney has not been recognized. President yee let me recognize her because i want to hear what she has to say. I apologize for the interruption and i sincerely apologize. I was just receiving information from counsel for the port who asked me to relay this to you that. Theres a time emergency to this and in order for these taxes to be put on the roll for 2021, they require that this be passed today. And, again, i apologize for the interruption. President yee okay, so thank you for that information. Supervisor walton does that change or change your supervisor walton just for clarity, why today why is today the deadline . President yee youre asking the deputy City Attorney supervisor walton the deputy City Attorney or the City Attorney that she was in consultation with. President yee okay, deputy City Attorney, would you like to answer that . I dont know the answer to that question. Im happy to consult with counsel for the port. I literally heard from her 45 seconds ago about this item and the time emergency. So shes explained to me that its related to the timing of issuing the bonds which requires putting these taxes on the 2021 secured roll which needs to be done today. I dont know more information about that timing or that deadline than that. President yee supervisor supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman and whats the reason for the continuance . Supervisor walton part of this item is in my district and there are some things that we still need to iron out. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin so through the president to the deputy City Attorney pierson who is contacted by a party and im willing to wait to later in the meeting, but are you saying and representing, or is your fellow counsel for the port representing that in this environment that these bonds are going to be sold in this market imminently . Is that the representation . President yee deputy City Attorney . That is not. Im being told that this is a matter of state law. But for me to give you a more indepth answer i would need a couple minutes to confer with her and were happy to do that. Again, this has been brought to my attention only a minute ago. President yee supervisor walton, would you entertain delaying the vote on this for your motion to continue until we can get more information . Supervisor walton i am, but i want to make sure that it stays on record and when we come back to this item that it is continued upon the fact that we have a first and a second. President yee yes, none at all. I mean, thats still the proper thing. Its just that were going to delay a vote on this at this point. Just move it into our next agenda item. So i have not yielded the floor, mr. President. So presumably what the representation is that well hear later from counsel who is a specialist in this area, is that insofar as these are possessory interest taxes, they would have to be on the secure roll and that would be a function of timing as to when they can get on the secured roll. Is that the issue . That is my my limited understanding of the issue related to timing. But once this item is continued until later in the meeting i will consult with her and get you a fuller answer. So then i really think that im less interested respectfully through the president to deputy City Attorney pierson who is supposed to be this bodys advocate in hearing from couns counsel, and id be more interested in hearing for the counsel for the assessry reporter or the treasurer Tax Collector than from the Interested Party that is a quasi city agency. President yee so theres a request from supervisor peskin. Can we see if we could get these attorneys from those offices to come into our meeting at some point pretty soon . The meeting is probably not going to last very long. Clerk mr. President , we will certainly endeavor to reach someone in the City Attorneys office for the Tax Collector. President yee okay. And at that point when we have this item come up again, if they happen to not be here or present, then we will continue not continue on it but we will proceed with the vote of the motion. Clerk okay. President yee okay, lets go to item sorry, i lost track number the next item, 10. Clerk item 10 is a resolution to declare the intention of the board of supervisors to change the street name of Willow Street between buchanan street and laguna street to earl gage jr. Street to honor earl gage jr. s legacy and the impact on the San Francisco firefighting community. President yee okay. I see supervisor indiscernible . Thank you, president yee, and i want to thank my cosponsors on this resolution, supervisors peskin and ronen and walton and safai. And i want to recognize the San Francisco black Firefighters Association and especially their president Sherman Tillman for his leadership on this. And for working so closely with our office to move this forward. And also thanks to some folks who spoke up. Its been supportive of this, including in committee, and that includes local 798 president shawn beauford and the firefighter, and the representative keith baracca, and member gloria barry and the many other firefighters and the Community Leaders who have spoke publicly in support of this effort. I also want to recognize jen snyder and Preston Gilmore on my staff who led the community outreach. Were very eager to move this forward and we hope to have your support. And earl gage jr. Moved to San Francisco in 1945 and graduated from berkeley and was drafted into the army. And he was hired by the San Francisco Fire Department and he at that time became the first black firefighter for the city of San Francisco. For 12 years he remained the citys only black firefighter and he continued in service in the department for nearly 30 years. Throughout his tenure at the department, earl gage jr. Diligently worked to have inclusive and equitable processes for the San Francisco Fire Department recruitment and the integration of the department. Prior to his department from the Fire Department in 1983, he served as a Department Director of Community Services and adopted progressive hiring policies that increased the racial diversity within the department. He passed away on july 30, 2017, at the age of 90. And his legacy of staunch dedication to the defense of civil rights and the people of San Francisco continues to shape our city to this day. The resolution before you today will memorialize this local icon by changing the name of Willow Street, and between buchanan and laguna street to earl gage jr. Street and it has Strong Community support. I urge the members of the board of supervisors to join me in honoring the memory of this civil rights hero by supporting the resolution to rename Willow Street for earl gage jr. Thank you. President yee supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you. I am a cosponsor. President yee supervisor mar. Supervisor mar i thank supervisor peskin for bringing this item forward and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Clerk thank you. President yee madam clerk, can i have the roll. Clerk yes, on item 10, supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani aye. I would like my name on the roll to be 5ded as a cosponsor, thank you. Clerk stefani, aye. Supervisor walton . Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer aye and please add me as a co should have sponsor too. Clerk thank you. Fewer, aye. And supervisor haney. Supervisor haney i would like to be a cosponsor. Clerk thank you. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. And supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please go to our next item 11. Clerk a resolution to approve the list of projects to be funded by the fiscal year 2020 through 2021, road maintenance and rehabilitation account funds as established by the California Senate bill 1, the road repair and accountability act of 2017. President yee okay. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on item 11, supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our committee report. Clerk item 12 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on monday, april 27th, and it was forwarded as a committee report. It was recommended as amended with a new title. Item 12 is a motion to approve the mayors nomination for reappointment of cristina rubke, for the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors, term ending march 1, 2024. President yee please call roll. Clerk on item 12, supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton redirect. Clerk okay. Actually you cannot do that, supervisor walton, when your name is called you have to state yes or no or aye or no. Supervisor walton its moving too fast. Im sorry, dealing with all of this technology. I would like to move to continue this item to next weeks meeting. Im sorry. Seconded. Seconded. Clerk mr. President you can rescind the vote. Theres a board rule which the board has not yet suspended which is that the roll call vote may not be suspended, but given the fact that we have new technology and we are working to provide a grouping of rules that we would like to retroactively suspend, i am happy to write the motion made by supervisor walton, seconded by supervisor peskin, is that correct, okay . President yee so theres a motion made and seconded. The roll call on the motion. Clerk just to be sure that i have the date right, supervisor walton is that may 5th . Supervisor walton that is right, madam clerk and thank you so much. Clerk okay, thank you. And youre welcome. President yee hold on. Before we take the roll call, supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman this is item 12 that is being were talking about continuing now . President yee yes. Supervisor mandelman if i could just ask the maker of the motion briefly why are we continuing this . Supervisor walton i havent had a chance to get information and i have a meeting with the candidate. Supervisor mandelman got it. President yee okay. Go ahead and call the roll. Clerk okay. On the motion to continue to may 5th, supervisor stefani. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee so the motion to continue this item to may 5th is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to roll call for introductions. Clerk supervisor stephanie, you are up first. Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. I have a few things today. With my cosponsor peskin, im introducing a resolution to recognize the 150th birthday of apgne and to declare may 6, 2020, apnge day in San Francisco. This is what i hoped would become a beginning of a renaissance in the understanding around the life and legacy of this incredible man. Hes a giant in the community and in San Francisco history. Many people may already know that he founded the bank of italy which would grow to become the bank of america. But most people, myself included, did not know the depth of his support for women, immigrants and all San Franciscoians. He started the bank of italy in 1984 and from the start he welcomed people who had been excluded from the banking system, including immigrants, farmers, Small Businesses, minorities and women, to tremendous financial success. Shortly after women won the right to vote, he started a womens Banking Department which was directed and staffed entirely by women. This is 1904 and provided women with blending no not 1904 but a long time ago. With the involvement of their husbands and checking accounts for women had not been in the United States. This anniversary is special and not only his 150th birthday but because his life held so many lessons for exactly the kind of crisis that were experiencing today. Just two years after founding the bank of italy the great earthquake of 1906 struck and the fire that ensued destroyed much of the city. He rose to the occasion and put a wooden plank across two barrels on the van ness avenue so that customers could make deposits and withdrawals. For weeks after the disaster he was almost alone in refinancing the rebuilding of this city. Without this, San Francisco may not exist as it does today. Its exactly this moment when our city has been paralyzed by yet another disaster and we all struggle to rise to the occasion that we most need to consider the lessons of his legacy. How do we emerge from this disaster and learn from it so were more resilient than before . How do we make sure that the benefits of our actions are felt by everyone, even those who are hardest to reach . And how can we build a city today and go through a crisis that 8 still be here in another hundred years stronger than ever . One last accomplishment that i want to highlight is the creation of the foundation which he founded on his 75th birthday in 1945. The foundation was created to support Innovative Research in medical science and has funded over 900 postdockedoctorials n research. And its the very best that the next generation has to offer. And he had the foresight to know that we would need their help. I want to thank this idea for being brought forward and i want to encourage everyone to take the opportunity on may sixth to explore the life and the lessons of this tremendous San Francisco historic figure. Also today im submitting a letter of inquiry to the citys Administrators Office to ask for the status of appointing a county veterans officer for San Francisco. And each state in california has a veteran Service Officer who advocates on behalf of the countys veterans and is often the first point of contact for accessing senses. In San Francisco, however, this position has been vacant for over a year, though the Veterans Affairs commission asked in february that this position to be filled on an interim basis. The citys response to the covid19 pandemic has necessarily slowed all unrelated city business. But it would be a mistake to consider filling this role unrelated. The veteran population in San Francisco is represented in confirmed cases as well as deaths caused by covid19. And our veterans, health care and service providers, have been strained by a lack of personal protective equipment and an increased need for services. We need greater coordination to track and plonittor the spread of the virus among our veteran population and we absolutely must make sure that our veterans have access to every resource available to them during this difficult time. At the very least, we must fill this position on an interim basis to help our veterans to navigate, local, state, and nonprofit resources as we gapel with the covid19 while the city works to recruit a permanent veterans Service Officer. I look forward to looking forward to work with an individual of the highest calibre to fill this position as soon as possible. Our veterans deserve no less. Finally, i want to recognize that our community has stepped up to help the most vulnerable among us in many ways. In march, for example, my neighbor ryan reached out to ask how his company could help to stop the spread. We worked together with mayor breed to coordinate a delivery of 60,000 surgical masks and 34,000 gloves and 2,000 surgical gowns and 50 thermometers to support our Frontline Health care workers in response to the coronavirus. These along with texts and calls and emails from other neighbors asking how to help inspired me to launch a virtual callin program to reach out to district 2 neighbors directly and to check on everyone. I want to thank all of the volunteers who helped with that project and as we Work Together as a city im also asking myself what lever i can personally pull to confront this pandemic headon. And some of the most harmful aspects have been the severe and lasting impacts on our local economy. This has hit the independent contractors and Small Businesses especially hard. And federal support has quickly dried up. We combat this issue today and i have reallocated 49,000 from my resiliency and Economic Development fund to buy food from local Small Businesses for those experiencing Food Insecurity and for our Health Care Workers and First Responders. Our Small Businesses are struggling more now than ever and this will give a lifeline to those corridors that desperately need more business. Ill announce more details in the coming weeks. This is an extremely difficult time and its affected all of us in different ways but were in this together and well get through it together. And the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, madam clerk. Colleagues, this afternoon i have two resolutions to present today. In light of the new data that has been provided about covid19 cases, by zip code and deaths and by rates its become more imperative that we concentrate on areas where the most cases exist and how to address them. Today i am introducing a resolution calling for the department of Public Health to prioritize populations most affected by covid19 and to step up the care of our people of color. We have been working hard to give Realtime Data in San Francisco on the number of covid19 deaths by district, zip code and by race. From the department of Public Health and from the Emergency Operations system. The data demonstrates that there have been 23 coronavirus deaths in San Francisco. And we know that out of 23 deaths that over 78 of them are people of color. Why is this important . This data provides insight as to how people of color may not be proactively receiving the information and the supports they need as the more vulnerable populations. In addition, we want to save lives and to be proactive about the spread in our community. We know that the most vulnerable communities that are susceptible to the virus should be prioritized and protected. Therefore, we demand that the city provide us with implementation of popup testing sites throughout the zip codes with the highest rates of covid19 cases. These sites should test asymptomatic residents to avoid the spread and to prevent the increase of cases and deaths. Two additional field care clinics in the areas with the highest numbers of covid19 cases in order to provide necessary medical treatment and urgent care supports. Three, the deployment of proper personal protective equipment for employees and the members of the community and areas with more vulnerable and susceptible to contracting the coronavirus. Four, increase the resources for outreach and education in areas that need a more concentrated and culturally competent and effective strategy to inform people about the latest Health Orders. And imperative updates in order to increase compliance in hotspot areas. Five, immediately provide testing to our Homeless Population and congr conagree ce systems, and to test unhoused people. Six, to place Homeless People who are capable of caring for themselves into hotels to prevent transmission in an already vulnerable population. Secondly, colleagues, today im introducing a resolution urging the San Francisco Sheriffs Department to implement virtual visits for children with incarcerated parents. I would like to thank my cosponsors, supervisors haney and peskin and ronen and preston, fewer and mar and safai. We applaud the work that the District Attorney and the sheris department has done to decrease the number of inmates in our county jail in light of the covid19 crisis. And as of today we have 728 inmates in custody. All county jail visits have been suspended in order to protect people in custody and this includes suspending children from visiting their incarcerated parents. Children with incarcerated parents already face a wide range of challenges with very few services, specifically designed to support youth with this unique but widespread experience. The maintenance of family ties during incarceration is one possible means of lessening the negative impact of incarceration on families and children and most incarcerated parents. They need to and they must maintain a relationship with their children, including with their education. And in 2003, the San Francisco children of incarcerated Parents Partnership published the parents rights which includes a right to not be judged, blamed or labeled because of a child or a parents incarceration. And a right to support childrens struggle with their parents incarceration and a right to a life long relationship with their parents. The San Francisco Sheriffs Department currently operates a program called one family in which inmates are required to enroll in Parenting Classes and then assigned a case manager to work with the family to ensure a therapeutic and meaningful relationship is built through parentchild visitation. This program currently serves about 40 incarcerated parents in our jail system. During this covid19 crisis, the San Francisco Sheriffs Department has systems and technology in place allowing the Virtual Court appointments and virtual visits with attorneys. Extending this to allow the virtual visits between children and their incarcerated parents will allow our children to continue to build on their relationships that were established prior to the pandemic without further interruption and the fact that we are conducting visits for Court Appointments as well as visits with attorneys, we know that we have the technology to provide visits for families to come and see inmates. On behalf of the board we would like to urge that the Sheriffs Department implement virtual conferencing for inmates to have the opportunities to connect with their children and continue to strengthen the parentchild bond in accordance with the childrens bill of rights. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor walton, please add me as a cosponsor to your virtual visitation with the inmates with children. Supervisor walton thank you, president. President yee today im introducing a resolution urging support for Assembly Constitution amendment 5, which is also known as aca5. To place a measure on the november 2020 statewide ballot to repeal proposition 209. For those of you who may not remember, in 1996, our governor at the time pete wilson spearheaded the help behind 209 to get ready of affirmative action institutions. In comparison with other states who continue to have further action policies we have seen women and people of color in california fall further behind losing out on the government contracts and Job Opportunities and dropping to the system. And it is important that the Community Stands strong behind this effort and i want to thank my colleagues, supervisors fewer and supervisor mar, for their cosponsorship. In 1996, the campaign for prop 209 used the Asian Community to drive a wedge between the communities of color. As we have seen in our current pandemic, this community of color suffer a disproportionate negative impact. If we are to have an equitable recovery, we must be able to respond in a race and gender conscious way. Prop 209 hinders our ability to direct resources to the communities that need the most help. Now more than ever its time to repeal proposition 209. I urge all of my colleagues to join me in sending a strong message to our california legislators now to approv appro5 to place a repeal of proposition 209 on the november ballot. Two, im introducing a resolution to reopening the treasurers office. So coa colleagues ill introduce this along with supervisor safai, a resolution on reopening the treasurer and the Tax Collector office to the public. Property taxes were due on april 10th, but theyre not to the shelterinplace order, but due to the shelterinplace order and the subsequent closure of the city city hall to the public we closed the treasurer and Tax Collectors office. The city administrator will be amending the previous order allowing members of the public to access city hall for specific purposes, including essential businesses with the treasurer of Tax Collector. Therefore, the treasurer and Tax Collectors office will be set to reopen on friday, may 15t 15th, 2020, for regular for regular business hours. So that the taxpayers who have not paid yet and they may do so online, by email or in person at city hall by this date. May 15th, will be the new deadline. If the taxpayer has any challenges due to covid19, they may request a penalty waiver for later payments after may 15th. And we are working with the treasurer with the treasurer to ensure that taxpayers receive notice and assistance. I also am introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen, fewer, walton, peskin and mar, that urges Governor Newsome to have a universal set of election reforms in advance of the novembers president ial election. I think thathank the coalition f organizations including San Francisco rising, who are leading this advocacy effort. While the cautionary measures need to be taken to ensure Public Safety during the election, we cannot allow democracy to be undermined by counties and by county discretion. We need a universal statewide votebymail option and also alternative ways to vote in person that are substantial and equal across the state for people who are unable to vote by mail. We urge for more protections for voter access, especially those who have been infrequent voters in the past. And Massive Public education on how to vote in november and ensuring that the equity in any model that we implement so that elderly people, and people with disabilities and young voters and others have fair and equal access. We want to provide that for everybody. And, lastly, i will be introducing a series of resolutions or ordinances regarding the balboa reservoir legislation. Today i introduced the legislation to initiate the citys review process for the balboa reservoir project that has been in discussion since 2015. And with ordinance on the Development Agreement and the establishment of a special unit district. Im sorry, a special use district. This project is located on 17acres of p. U. C. Land adjacent to city college of San Francisco. And with proposed with a Housing Project that includes 50 of affordability of the units, which is a huge really a huge win for the community. Nearly four acres of the publicly accessible space would be included and there will be buildings of a Child Care Center that would accommodate 100 children. When discussion first started, there really was not a process as robust as the one that weve created here for this project. And this is because we had created a balboa Community Advisory committee that helped to really shape the principles and parameters and the guidance for the potential project. Im really commending the work of the committee members, the staff, and the Economic Workforce Development and planning and the Community Members for making this possible. Todays introduction is a start. In order to allow the public and the community to fully engage in this next phase its important for us to have the department or the Development Agreement, and the special legislation available to the public for review. By no means are these final documents. It is a starting point. And i want to emphasize that to the community thats been engaged. I am also introducing legislation to extend the life of the committee, the Community Advisory committee, to july 1, 2021, so that it can continue serving throughout the process and beyond the projects potential entitlement. I think that Community Engagement is key and i look forward to ongoing public discussions about these ordinances as they go through the Planning Commission and back to the board of supervisors. This will take place over a few months so i do want to emphasize to the public and to you, my colleagues, that i welcome your feedback and i look forward to working with you to bring the best possible project forward and to bring muchneeded Family Housing to my district. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Next up is supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer yes, thank you, madam clerk and president yee. We are grappling with the challenges of housing for our unhoused population, even before the emergence of covid19. While we continue to prioritize that theres more hotel rooms to house our most vulnerable, we recognize that all of our unhoused neighbors are vulnerable and need a safe place to shelterinplace, even if theyre unable to obtain a hotel room. I thank supervisor mandelman for bringing forth the resolution which i cosponsored in support of safe encampment sites. To build on this resolution, supervisor mar and i are working with the city attorne attorney n up suitable sites, including land owned by rec and park for the purpose of establishing safe encampment sites. 70 of the Golden Gate Park is in my district. And i have identified specific areas which would be perfect for safe encampment sites. These sites would have bathrooms and enough room for tents to be placed up so that residents have access to the hygiene and the social distancing practices necessary to prevent the spread of covid19 which is a top priority. Though this is not a permanent solution to homelessness and not as good as a hotel room, it is certainly better than leaving our unhoused folks on our sidewalks. Look forward to exploring this further with supervisor mar and the City Attorney and i hope to have resolution ready for introduction by next week. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney already. I have one item on resolution that im introducing today in support of our resident physicians who are on the front line of our Hospital Systems testing, treating and saving the lives of our communities that have been diagnosed with the covid19. As were all aware, the National Shortages of p. P. E. Have left many of our frontline workers exposed, but in addition to that the resident physicians and their Residency Training dont always enjoy the same rights as fulltime staff. Nationwide they have been fighting for child care, Mental Health services, paid leave, as well as Disability Insurance and protections for especially vulnerable physician whose may be immunocompromised. And theyre fighting to make sure that there are not any changes in rotation or missed time due to covid19 that could lead to the extension of the Residency Training and for them to complete their time as a resident. Last week the Union Representing resident physicians, the committee of interim and residents, sent a letter to the Accreditation Council for graduate medical education through the Accreditation Authority to hold the leverage to ensure that the hospitals and employers are taking appropriate precautions to keep the resident physicians safe while they are treating covid19 patients. This open letter to acgme asked for 10 points to ensure that the hospitals put measures in place to promote safe and healthy working conditions so that the resident physicians can continue to help patients and communities. It expressed solidarity with resident physicians and strongly urges the acgme to create standards that address the 10 points in the open letter of our resident physicians. As you all know, resident physicians play a Critical Role in our hospitals here in the city. And theyre asking for our support. And i hope that we can have their backs. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman submit. Clerk okay, thank you. Supervisor mar. Supervisor mar submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk and colleagues. Today on roll call i introduce a suspension of the vacancy tax. As you all recall a very short time ago on march seventh, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a tax throughout the city and districts. As an odd marker of time that less than two months ago that the coronavirus was not even part of the conversation because just one week after that election, our way of life was fundamentally flipped on its end. So today im introducing legislation that would suspend enforcement of the storefront vacancy tax for the entire calendar year of 2021, but i want to be clear that the impetus for the legislation that the voters voted for by a super majority remains intact, and that were expecting the best behavior from the commercial Property Owners relative to helping stabilize Small Businesses. And if we get the hint that these Property Owners are using this pandemic as an opportunity to evict and displace residents and Small Businesses, we will change our tune with regard to the vacancy tax accordingly. Secondly, im also introducing a resolution opposing Assembly Bill 2261, which would permit the governments almost unlimited use of facial Recognition Technology which flies in the face of the groundbreaking legislation that this board overwhelmingly passed last year to prohibit the use of that technology. Not only does this undermine our local law and the work of a vast coalition of groups across the area but it undermines the residents and the visitors here in the city of San Francisco. This also has no basis in response to the current emergency. We continue to have powerful Interest Groups exploit this Public Health crisis to insidious ends, whether its Big Oil Undermining environmental protections or in this instance, big tech trying to expand into mass surveillance. I look forward to your support of this resolution when it comes before us next week. And i want to thank my staff lee hepner for his constant work on this and feel free to reach out to me or him if you have any questions. We will, of course, submit the text of ab2261 with this resolution, the rest i will submit. Thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. And now supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today im introducing a resolution in support of representative ilhan omars rent cancellation act 2020, and along with supervisors ronen, supervisor haney, mar, walton and fewer, and im calling upon californias leadership at the National Level to join us in support of this critical measure. We know that even before the coronavirus state of emergency, thousands of San Franciscoians were struggling to make ends meet with estimates showing that the average renter was already paying nearly half of their monthly income on rent. And as we enter this seventh week now of the shelterinplace, we know that this already dire situation is only getting worse. And i know that many of you, like me, have been responding to calls and emails from constituents who are deeply worried about how they will survive the coming months and years as we weather this crisis and its aftermath. This is a time for elected leaders at all levels to step up and to take bold action and i know that my colleagues on this board have heeded that call. I want to thank in particular supervisors ronen and haney for leading the charge with their resolution to urge state and federal governments to cancel rent and mortgage payments, a resolution that passed unanimously by this body on march 31st. Representative omars bill introduced on april 17th is in part a reflection of the growing grassroots call across the country for rent and mortgage relief. Activists nationwide and particularly across california have been working tirelessly to make this happen, including organizations and alliances like right to the city, homes for all, homes for all california, tenants together, the democratic socialists of america, housing as a human right and pico california. Particularly across california they have been working tirelessly to make this happen, including organizations and alliances like right to the city, homes for all, homes for all california, tenants together, the democratic socialists of america, housing as a human right and pico california. The rent and mortgage cancellation act of 20 [no audio] is for renters. It is imperative that we urge our representative at the National Level to locally to support this measure, particularly Speaker Pelosi whose support will be so important to make sure that this legislation moves forward. And i want to encourage all of my colleagues to approve this legislation without delay. In closing, i want to thank representative omar for sponsoring this old bill. Also i thank the democratic socialists of america, both the San Francisco and the national, for their organizing and support of this effort. In particular peter gowan of d. S. A. For his work in drafting this measure with representative omars team, and jen snyder of my office who have been working with them and advocates on this effort. And all of my colleagues who have joined as early cosponsors of this resolution. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen today im introducing a resolution urging mayors and the department of Public Health to the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to adopt five specific actions to address the disproportionate incidence of covid19 in the Mission District and within the latin population. Last week when we received geographical data it confirmed what my office had been hearing. The Mission District in particular the latin ex community is suffering disproportionately from covid19. Up to 1,424 confirmed cases in San Francisco, and d. P. H. Reports that nearly onethird of those in the entire city are identified as latin, and that the 94100 zip code where the mission is located has 182 covid19 positive people, the highest of any neighborhood. There are shocking and sad numbers when you consider that the latin ex community after years of displacement now comprises only 15 of the citys total population. Latin x San Franciscoians are affected at twice the arrest of the population in the city. And Current Conditions with the extreme cost of living in San Francisco has forced many latin x people, newly arrived immigrants, into congregate living settings, where often multiple families share one or two rooms that are unsaf unsafe. And the people who also work in essential industries such as food cultivation and production and retail shops with food and supplies and transportation are unable to shelter in place increasing their chances of exposure. And, of course, it doesnt help that the Current White House administration has made its central focus to restrict the rights of immigrant and their access to covid19 relief and it has created a climate of fear and distrust where the immigrants question whether to seek medical care at all. In response and in conjunction with my office and the latin x task force on covid19, im urging the city to have a fivepoint plan to, one, to establish a communication and outreach programs specifically to reach the Mission Latin x community. With a special messages regarding immigration, consequences or the lack thereof if they avail themselves of public assistance during this time. Number two, create a robust food and miscellaneous expense Security Program that allows for flexible purchases at local markets and shops to support families with positive covid19 cases. Number three, develop a rapid referral and Response Program to monitor and to assist covid19 positive patients and their families to ensure that quarantine and isolation are quickly and safely obtained. Number four, increase covid19 Testing Capacity within the mission by resourcing trusted Community Clinics and Health Care Providers with tests and personal protective equipment. And, finally, number five, to commit to relocate any San Francisco resident, given there are so many homeless People Living in the zip code where the majority of covid19 cases have been found in the city, to safely isolate in hotels immediately. This past weekend my office partnered with the Latino Task Force on covid19, along with an Amazing Group of Community Volunteers to launch a comprehensive Testing Program open to all in one system. And to understand the extent of the virus spread in our community. But even with the data that we have so far we know that we cannot afford to wait any longer to protect this community. I also just wanted to make a few comments about supervisor prestons resolution supporting the new legislation authored by ilhan omar and i thank supervisor peskin for taking a lead on this resolution. As you all know several weeks ago we unanimously passed a resolution that supervisor haney and i authored calling upon the state and the federal government to take action on rent and mortgage cancellations. Since then we have been working with other progressive electives and advocates and its a relief to see the momentum that is building on this issue around the country. Thankfully representative omar along with a number of new progressive leaders in congress have the heart and the guts to take on this fight. With much of our economy shutdown, the reality is that people simply cannot pay rent and mortgage. There are reports that Something Like a third of renters didnt pay on april 1st. With may 1 approaching we know that number will grow. Its clear to me that rent and mortgage cancellation must go hand in hand to protect the homeowners and the landlords and renters. We cannot have people paralyzed under crushing debt. If we do not tack them now were heading to a humanitarian crisis. Its the responsibility of government to act and im relieved and impressed that representative omar is showing the strong and responsible leadership that we need right now. I urge all of my colleagues to add their names to this resolution so that we can send a strong and united message to our own congressional representatives. And the rest i submit. Thanks. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai. Supervisor safai thank you, madam clerk. I have a few things they want to clarify. First, i definitely want to be added to president yees urging resolution repealing prop 209. Thats a wonderful piece of legislation. I would also want to be added and i have already let them know for the votebymail and clarifying the voting process for the fall. To not have impediments to voting getting in the way of that during this covid crisis. And then also i want to say thank you to supervisor walton for introducing his legislation on urging the department of Public Health to implement additional measures, particularly about looking at the zip codes. This is building on what supervisor ronen just talked about, but we have the second highest number of cases in my district by zip code in the city. One of the highest populations the second highest population of the Latino Community in my district that needs that extra level of testing, that extra level of engagement, and resources. So i really appreciate supervisor walton for putting urging resolution forward and absolutely a cosponsor of that. The other thing that id like to talk about, and thank you supervisor ronen for your words and your legislation, we look forward to working with you on what you just introduced, so it can also encompass my district, the second highest population that you just talked about. And then, finally, im asking the City Attorney and asking her today, our City Attorney and their office to focus on nonjudicial closures. We found out about a nonjudicial foreclosure happening on the backside of city hall, on the steps of city hall, in the midst of this crisis. To the point that many of our colleagues have made today, there are a lot of individuals that are dealing with so many different aspects of financial crisis. The idea that we would allow under a very narrow area and, yes, it is the emergency order allow for Residential Real Estate transactions to take place. But we want to close that loophole. My office, my staff went outside, we helped to break up the foreclosure proceedings that were happening. An individual came on behalf of one of the clints trying to get the court to temporarily to enjoin the sale of their property, but because the courts are shut down and so backed up they were not able to do that. I believe that its unconscionable at this moment to alloallow foreclosures to happen individuals, particularly under this condition. Well ask the City Attorney either we do it through our own emergency resolution or we will work with the Mayors Office to amend their upcoming next emergency order so that we would not allow under any circumstance during this Health Crisis, whether its in person or via remote nonjudicial foreclosure and the foreclosures that are happening in this county. And the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. And mr. President , i dont believe that there are any names on the roster. That should include the introduction of new business. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Why dont we go back to just check on item i think that it was item 9. Clerk item 9, yes. The possessory interest on secured roll pier 730 and special tax districts. I believe that a ann pierson and ready and available. Yes, thank you, madam clerk. Thank you so much for continuing the item to give me the time to consult with my colleagues. As i indicated, i have been advised by port counsel that this resolution needed to be passed today in order for the or to implement the boards decision to place the taxes on the secured roll within the time required under state law. Which is required to make the bonds marketable. If the bonds were to be pulled before any time before march 31, 2021. And we had time to confirm with the assessry office to still comply with the oneweek continuance. This actually does not authorize the city or the port to sell bonds and only places the taxes on the secured roll in preparation for those bonds. President yee who from the Assessors Office . Its deputy City Attorney carol rore. President yee could we could we get her on the line . She is not connected to teams, so she has dialed into a number that was provided to her. And i know that shes dialed in and i think that theres a time lag for those who dial in as opposed to participating on teams. But shes advised me that she has dialed in. President yee is there anyone from the port . Wyatt from the port is available. President yee so we have deputy City Attorney representing the i guess the city Assessors Office, carol ror hello, can anybody hear me . President yee yes, but hold on. Were not asking for you yet. Thank you. President yee we have wyatt, what is the last name, wyatt . Donoway. Available from the port to answer any questions. Does anybody have any questions for these two . Im trying to figure out who has their name first. Supervisor walton, is that you . Supervisor walton yes, thank you so much, president yee. And thank you so much. please stand by okay. Tand by and mr. Donald . Are you concurring with that . As long as the Assessors Office is able to place the taxes on the secured role in a timely manner in accordance with state law to get them on for july 1, 2020, then we would be able to move forward with bonds next fiscal year. President yee thank you. There has been a motion made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor peskin, i believe. Continue this item to the may 5th meeting. Madame clerk, can you take the roll . On the continuance of item 9 to may 6, stefani no. Walton yes. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. There are 10 ayes and one no, with supervisor stefani in dissent. President yee there is 101 vote to support the motion to continue the item to may 5. Madame clerk, lets go to item 14, Public Comment. Clerk item 14 is Public Comment, is the opportunity for the public to provide their live comments for up to two minutes. If you dialled in early and you havent already done so, then please press 1, then 0, to be added to the queue. You should only do that one time and wait for the system to prompt you to speak. For those of you just now calling in, the telephone number is displayed on your screen. 1 888 2045984. And when prompted, enter the access code, 3501008 and press pound and press pound again to join the meeting. Dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue and wait for the system to prompt you. Once your two minutes are concluded well move you out of the speaker line, but youll still be able to listen to the meeting. We have individuals on hand who im going to ask to present themselves and they are standing by from the office of Civic Engagement and will be able to interpret your Public Comment for you. Miss lee, can you begin . Hi. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking Foreign Language] president yee madame clerk . Clerk thank you. [speaking spanish] thank you. Clerk thank you. And next. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking Foreign Language] clerk great. Thank you very much. And now to our callers. For those callers who have already dialled 1 and then 0, are there any callers ready to speak . We have callers in the queue. Let me queue the caller. Clerk all callers are welcome. Thank you. Youll each have two minutes to speak. You have 14 questions remaining. Hello. Id like to take this opportunity to endorse adam cocash, the head of the party. Former San Francisco District Attorney famously remarked the First Casualty of war is id like to use my two minutes to fame to speak to power because the [inaudible] were expected to believe there is a Health Crisis the same day they furlough 14,000 Health Care Workers. What is really going on . The chronicle isnt going to report that china reported an ultimatu ultimatum. Theyre not going to report that there is currently a fleet of oiler tankers idling outside the golden gate. The chronicle is not going to report that the u. S. Generals have not gone to the bunkers. Theyre not going to report that the reason the bay is targeted for stayathome is the reverend amos brown and others are being paid directly by the department of homeland security. There is a shortage of jail staff because of the activation of pentagon reserves. The chronicle didnt going to report there is a rollout and there is was a black out. The real reason for ventilation is the casualties on west coast. Will you please be honest with us . Thank you. You have 13 questions remaining. My name is francisco. I strongly feel that Public Comment should be taken in the beginning. You all need to adhere to the people, because as i have said many times, maybe two or three of you all are really concerned with the pandemic and have your hearts in the right place. Our citizens and others shouldnt be living 14, 15, 16 in a onebedroom. You all know what happens. And we need to bring, dr. Grant colf colfax, harland kelly, and others who no nothing whatsoever about insulin management. In fact today we dont have a toxicologist, a well qualified toxicologist. We do not have, as i said many times, an experienced incident management commander. We have lackeys. It started with somebody saying, im from the board of supervisors and we do this and do that. Thats all b. S. Our people are suffering and our people are dying. I think the time has come like the previous caller stated for us to have this city charged. Crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity. You supervisors by large measure are not educated on issues. And only one or two or three of you have your heart in the right place. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. You have 12 questions remaining. Good afternoon, president yee and supervisors. A couple of comments. First off i wanted to thank you for the remote access. I hope when you get back to city hall, it will continue. This has been very helpful. I would agree with the previous caller that Public Comments could happen at a set time so we dont have to sit here for an hour waiting for our turn. And then secondly, i want to thank mayor breed for her leadership in this pandemic. Its been amazing and an inspiration. I wanted to talk about the safe sleeping sites. While i support the notion and the idea of getting these unsheltered people off our sidewalks and befuddled why we allowed them to pitch their tents there to begin with, that said, i do support collecting them into some safe sleeping sites which i guess could be urban refugee camps. But i also am concerned that this needs to be done carefully. I know there is a ton of in support of middle school, as a reminder, there are People Living around middle school, so we might be taking them off the front porches and putting them on the back porches. I get woken up in the middle of the night by the four or five tents out from front. If there is 50 or 200 in the back, what about yard views and music at night . You know, concentrating these people outside our homes is problematic, so i would suggest we look at this carefully and make sure we select sites that are appropriate like Tennis Courts and inside parks that dont have residents. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. Announcer you have 13 questions remaining. What a happy surprise to hear i have so many reasons to be proud. But i was really proud to hear you all assert that we needed to get all of the people who are living in the streets out of the streets and into the vacant hotel rooms. As you know, cara, strongly supported your doing that. I was really alarmed to see what the administrations response is, and particularly these ludicrous notions of making it a you know, a huge profit making things for the empty hotels. I checked in with our legislative director today, who is one of the other people charged with getting our positions known to you, got her letter and so did the mayor, and we agreed it makes no sense whatsoever to do the kind of contracting that was proposed. Im a federal employee. I realize its not that the people in the city are stupid, its just they havent done this kind of contracting before. I said we needed to get the controller involved and the City Attorney. No Government Agency pays 79 to keep rooms on hold let alone when you dont expect to have hoards of japanese tourists to arrive by plane. Even i used to arrange conferences, they held the rooms. The federal government had a certain amount they would pay, even in the best of time, take it or leave it. And the hotels that normally would pay a lot more to charge other people, thats what they charged us. We also not i contractors pardon me contracting offices leased entire motels and so on, especially when i went through courses in the army and so on that might last for weeks or months. I suggest you get a federal contracting officer you have 11 questions remaining. Hi. Just a momentum. Im going to start my timer. Hello. My name is michael. Im a public advocate and i have three items to discuss. The first is again i plead with you, supervisors, especially those who say youre progressive, make Public Comment before your roll call introductions. It would be great if we had a fixed time for Public Comment. It would show respect that i feel is lacking right now when you put yourselves first to ramble on without any time limits for roll call introductions while we, the people, are waiting to offer Public Comment. I have to say one good thing that has come out of this terrible covid19 epidemic, we no longer have to spend all the time to come down to city hall and wait in the hallways to make Public Comment. Now we can do it from the comfort of our homes. Please make Public Comment at a set time and make it before roll call introductions. My second item is, i am calling on the four supervisors who currently moonlight in the second Elective Office as members of the dccc. It is really outrageous that you four supervisors are taking time away from our city hall duties to engage in partisan politics. I want you to resign from the dccc as soon as possible. My third final item is im asking that you pass a resolution calling on our member of congress, mrs. Pelosi, to immediately start remote voting and virtual hearings for the house of representatives. It is terrible that the house is not in session during this epidemic. Thank you. Announcer you have 11 questions remaining. Yes. Hi. This is peter warfield, executive director of Library Users association. Thanks for all the work youre doing. I want to point out there is a very unfortunate assumption that seems very widespread in City Government and beyond, that everyone has one or more computers with access to the internet. This is simply not true. The best information that we can get at the moment from the Library Based on Census Bureau information is that 14 of san franciscans do not have access to the internet. That means 123,000 . And we believe that minorities, the poor and the elderly are the hardesthit. It is a huge mistake therefore to treat libraries as anything but essential to the public. Both for those who have no access to the internet and for those who do have access. Of course, we would like all people and Library Workers to be safe. Thats a given, but we do think that you supervisors and san franciscans should see to it that our well financed Library Works toward safe and if necessary alternate nonelectronic service for the public. This could include limited entry, books by mail, phone request pickups, expanded Reference Service and not the shrunken time now provided from 10 to 5 only on monday to friday. We, now more than ever, need the benefits of the library, the value of services, including trusted and reliable information. Thank you. You have 10 questions remaining. Hi, supervisors. District 8 tenant. Im so happy to listen to roll call and hear that supervisor dean preston has introduced a resolution to support the federal rent and mortgage cancellation act. And that supervisors haney, mar, i believe fewer and ronen are among those who are supporting it. I think everybody should get on board and support this resolution. In fact, i sent a onepager to my supervisor mandelman. He read it. I also sent a copy to scott wiener. Supervisor mandelman answered me back and said, sounds great. So i hope he signs on because this would be wonderful to have this kind of solution. There are 44 million renters in the United States and this is necessary. Thanks. Announcer you have nine questions remaining. Hello. I am a parent of someone who is incarcerated inside San Francisco county jail and im also a grandmother. The situation of not having access to Video Conference has affected my family on many levels. My 3yearold grandson has not seen his father in twoandahalf months. You can imagine what that young little boy is going through, being very confused of what is going on. It was already hard enough to parent for my son who is suffering severe asthma. I urge you board of supervisors to urge the sheriff to make these visits happen. Every surrounding jail in the bay area is doing it. I dont know why San Francisco has to continue to be behind. They have to come up with a solution to support having these visits with children. There are 40 inmates like supervisor walton said. Lets make it happen. I urge you to support. And lets stop this. Give opportunity to men and women to continue to parent their children while theyre inside. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Announcer you have 8 questions remaining. My name is the charles head. Im the president of the coalition for all San Francisco neighborhoods. Not some, but all. We have watched the homeless crisis develop for a long time and now were watching the covid19 crisis develop in conjunction with that. Unsheltered people cannot shelter in place. Were under shelter in order places excuse me, orders. The fact is that we have herd immunity, none of us do, but to ask people to shelter in place on streets is unconscionable. Its like telling covid19 to call the herd and kill as many people as they can. The mayor has resisted the ordinance to take care of the problem. It was mentioned in the chronicle today. Supervisor haney was quoted saying this was a unanimous vote, this is big, this is huge. Two of our groups have held Public Meetings to form a coalition of rescue s. F. To take care of this problem, which is great and we look forward to suggestions about Everett Middle School for places where people can shelter in place. But this is going on for the end of may and what about after that . Are we going to shelter in place . What is going to happen to the people who are in hotel rooms, who are in Everett Middle School, whatever . What has to be done . You need to think about that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. You have 7 questions remaining. This is randall sloan. I was born by your body 2019 to represent on the San Francisco department of Building Inspections s. R. O. Task force. Tenants to be board of supervisors, the s. R. O. Task force has been an hiatus for six months. Id like to raise the issue of mayor breeds eviction moratorium, written notifications. Im lucky enough to have consistent access to a smart phone, while i know that many s. R. O. Tenltsz do not. To issue written notification with supportive documentation to invoke the moratorium is an undue burden on s. R. O. Tenants. Id like you to shift the burden from tenants on the landlords and operators and off the shoulders of s. R. O. Tenants. Respectfully, randall sloan. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Announcer you have six questions remaining. Hello. My name is im speaking on behalf of direct action everywhere. First i want to thank all of you for continuing to ensure that peoples voices are heard. Also, i want to applaud all of you for your efforts to protect individuals at this time. We know that the covid19 pandemic has upended each of our lives, but despite this, we have hope. We have hope that our community is coming together and making drastic changes to help our neighbors out. Sadly, we do know that covid19 is only one example in a long history of human interactions leading to pandemic disease. Three out of every four new or emerging Infectious Diseases in humans are from animals. We know that additionally, domesticated animals are bridges where wild animals can transmit. And we know that factory farms are providing ideal conditions for these to mutate and spread rapidly. While we dont know that this is going to be the only pandemic, we know that its imperative to address immediate issues happening right now, but we must not forget that its really important that we are proactive in trying to prevent future pandemics. We can be certain that our Current System of animal exploitation is creating opportunities for viruses to jump from animals to human. And the flu viruses have the potential to infect billions of people in a short period of time. So its clear that to prevent future pandemics, governments and institutions need to lead the transition to a kinder, safer food system. And one way that we can do that is to change food policies. Thank you for your comments. You have five questions remaining. Yes, this is David Elliott lewis. Longtime tenderloin resident. Trying to see what we can do to facilitate the implementation of putting our unhoused residents in hotel rooms. I know the board passed unanimously. The mayor has not signed it, or is not willing to implement it. Maybe something the board can do to further encourage the Mayors Office and city to accept this, is to add an additional component of sort of house rules and work requirements for gaining these free rooms. So on occupant, in addition to the rules already provided by the hotels, would have to agree to additional goodneighbor agreement. Not partying in the rooms, things like that. And maybe even give back time to keep the building clean, protected, safe. And that kind of stewardship of the space has been advocated by other groups and i think it might make the Mayors Office more willing to implement, if they feel that the property will be protected. I see it every day, the worsening conditions on our streets, the increasing tents. Anything we can do to encourage the city and Mayors Office to move homeless into hotel rooms i think will benefit everybody. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Announcer you have four questions remaining. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is rocky chow from the Animal Rights organization direct action everywhere and im a resident born and raised in San Francisco. I would like to thank the board of supervisors here managing and providing us the updates we need to weather this covid19 outbreak. Especially in helping our vulnerable propositions. I populations. Although management is great, what is missing from this conversation is how we can prevent the next pandemic from happening again. According to the United Nations Environmental Program they said 75 of emerging diseases such as ebola, h. I. V. , zika, sars, covid19, comes directly from exploiting animals. This is due to the continuation and extension of animals encroaching into forest or other habitats of animals. Managing this crisis is essential, but prevention is key to ensuring we do not have to face the economic and Public Health crisis were facing today and in the near future, or in the future in general. As ben franklin once said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I as a constituent call on you to join the environmental public rights and Health Organization to develop a link between animal culture and outbreak. I thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Announcer you have three questions remaining. Hi, my name is curtis stanford, im a longtime tenderloin resident. There is so much i could talk about, but i want to raise a couple of key issues. One, you know here we are, another week has gone by and there is no testing going on in the tenderloin neighborhood. We already know it disproportionately impacts tenderloin. Even the folks from the shelter got counted as part of a different neighborhood. I know were being unrepresented. Folks in the tenderloin, we dont have the getting a test and running up there. We dont have Health Insurance or little Health Insurance. Were more likely to sit in the room and weather the sickness and never get tested. So we need wider spread testing in the tenderloin. Secondly, the government needs to social distance, but provide with the appropriate services and Hygiene Services especially, and food. And we have the resources and the means to do that. We could do that tomorrow. There is a chance i three is right now 75 tents on the street in front of city hall. No rest rooms or handwashing stations. Its remarkable how little help is provided to our inhouse residents. The street on j. F. K. , in the middle of the park, the wide open space, you need to close another street so folks have room to social distance, yet they refuse to close streets in the tenderloin where its overcrowded. And there is absolutely no way to practice any social distancing. Yet you have two questions remaining. Hi, my name it cheryl. I moved in San Francisco district 8 for 40 years. I support resolution of supervisor mandelman asked about to create sanctions, safe shelter options for those persons, many who are currently living in tents on city sidewalks using public areas like city parking lots is a solution during this emergency. We need to recognize that the ongoing situation of tents and encampments cannot be tolerated. Its putting all of us in danger. We cant walk down the street without and practice our isolation that we need to, our sixfoot, because all of the tents in the streets. This is just disgusting. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Yeah, hi. My name is jill. Im a nurse at city emergency here in San Francisco general. I want to thank you guys for doing all the work youre doing on the Public Health outreach. Its pretty amazing. We had a meeting at the g. A. O. On march 5th, about eight weeks ago, a bunch of you supported it because disaster and violence training. Unsafe and ultimately questioned the management practices. Weve had eight weeks of planning [inaudible] one nurse for 100 people and a few other staff. A little bit more now. But there has been very Little People what theyre expected to do. And how to do it. How is one nurse going to help people sent there rule out Covid Patients . 100. Um, stories im hearing are pretty horrible. The other thing im having a problem with is people in the emergency department. Theyre either complaining of the calls, they come to the e. R. , they want to go to p. L. Its a tragic on this people. 3 budget cuts actually a month ago with a big fat budget and trying to cut a lot more staffing and theyre already short staffed and the community is going to be in even greater need. So i beg of you to the help the covid hotels and also to Emergency Rooms or San Francisco general [inaudible]. Thank you. Thank you. Announcer you have two questions remaining. Hi. My name is jessica layman. We have a lot of concerns about seniors and people with disabilities facing this crisis. We want to see our unhoused people moved into hotels room. And given p. P. E. And the ability to selfisolate as needed. And i wanted to comment specifically about Nursing Homes and other congregate facilities where news is starting to come out of the huge impact of covid19 and we fear that disabled people, disabled seniors, are being neglected. And there is a lot of questions from the department of Public Health, around what kind of p. P. E. Is being provided . What testing is happening . What is the number of cases and deaths . Why arent these reported . The county website is not including these currently. And why are people who are covidpositive transferred to nursing home and putting other people at risk . So ive never seen this level of lack of transparency in San Francisco. And we hope that you all, as the board of supervisors, can act and make sure we get answers and that we protect our folks. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Announcer you have one question remaining. Yeah, this is marshall action i really have to say outrage at this situation in Nursing Homes. Doing a lot of lot of about it and its happening here in San Francisco. There is so much uncertainty about how much testing is going along, what kind of testing is being done, who is being transferred where . How much of people who are vulnerable being put into hotels . But the one thing that is absolutely certain is that the transferring Covid Patients into Nursing Homes. And this is outrageous. Its like putting a match in fire. The Nursing Homes are already filled. They cant ensure there is complete separation between this covid that is devoted to Covid Patients. There is staff that goes in and out. There is no way its possible to have them really isolated. And i think the Bigger Picture is that there is Still Hospital space that could be used for Covid Patients, but hospitals are out to make money and the acute care is always pays more. San francisco is neglected smiths and others congregate facilities for senior for people with disabilities. And theyre also made to have more home care for people. So the board of supervisors really needs to you have four questions remaining. Hi. This is action. [inaudible] also michael ryan, we worry about what is happening right now. Especially at the facilities that hello . That are being that are being, um um accessible now for, um, people that are, um, covid positive. I think that is very high risk that we need to make sure that skill facilities are a priority in getting tested. And they should not be receiving patients that are recovering or in danger of being infected with this. So, please, do more for our seniors and people with disabilities. Thank you. Announcer you have three questions remaining. Hi. My name is small and im an organizer at senior and disability action. I live in district 9. Im also very concerned about the high rate of covid19 infection in Nursing Homes and congregate living environments for people with disabilities and elders and the high rates of death. There was a recent article in the guardian that highlighted how many people have lost family members, that havent even been able to say goodbye to them, didnt know they were even near death. The horrible working conditions that a lot of the workers in Nursing Homes are working under, that are also deadly for patients. With lack of p. P. E. And lack of even time to wash their hands between patients at times. And i would really like to see the city of San Francisco be transparent about who is getting tested, to demand that if a person at a nursing home tests positive, that everyone living and working there is testing. And not to have people who are positive with covid19 into a nursing home as long as there is troom treat them in the room to treat them in the hospital where theyre less likely to pass it on. Please do what you can and ensure that adequate testing and reporting is undergone immediately. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. You have two questions remaining. Hello. Im an organizer, senior disability action as well. So im also calling about Nursing Homes and other congregate facilities, because im really concerned about underreporting which is putting disabled people and elders at risk. And even broadly, its having a serious impact on whole communities of people and theyre losing their loved ones. People are dying right now and they have a right to be known and remembered because their death should prevent further deaths. By not taking action around nursing facilities and longterm care facilities and other congregate settings, living settings, the city is basically doing the same injustice as what is being done to unhouse people for a very long time now, ever since the beginning of the pandemic. And saying with people and prisons and jails who are in so much danger right now. Same. This im hoping there is going to be more information and more direct action from the city around this issue. Thank you. Thank you. Announcer you have two questions remaining. Good afternoon, president , and members of the board of supervisors. My name is Caroline Kennedy and i chair the neighborhood association. Im here to endorse item 20. With increasing numbers of Homeless People in the castro delores park areas, Community Group leaders have worked with supervisor mandelman and city representatives on alternatives to camping on our sidewalks and other spaces. Camping on our streets is not safe, not healthy and not compassionate. And even more so during the covid19 pandemic. Homelessness is a terrible human tragedy. Its complex and difficult to solve. So i focused on implementing commonsense changes in my own local area. The resolution before you today is just that. Using areas like the parking lot to shelter those sleeping on the streets. Today there are 3040 tents within three blocks of that school. Its a simple proposal. Set up a safe site with bathrooms and other services for those sleeping nearby. Its a relevant and urgent need. Right now we have people in encampments who need protection theyre the lowest priority for hotel rooms. This is another alternative to on the sleep treating during the pandemic and beyond. I ask you on behalf of my neighbors and those sleeping outdoors, to vote yes on item 20. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Hello. My name is and im a volunteer with Animal Rights organizations, compassionate bay and direct action everywhere. And i was wondering if City Council Members would be willing to consider initiatives that demonstrate not only our willingness of citizens to help animals, to take some action, but understand the pandemic, also acknowledge that a big contributor to Infectious Diseases is animal agricultural. Bacteria that are antibody resistant, theyre in factories, farms and the country can have a next epidemic and there is a bird flu that causes 60 for a bird flu strain. However, that bird flu strain is not easily transmittable from human to human, but im highlighting the danger of animal agriculture. We know it also contributes to climate change. So i was wondering if we can do something on a city level that will show we as citizens want to take action in all these areas. And have some sort of commitment to become more of a plantbased city and that way its a model later for california because San Francisco is so progressive and be a leader in that. And perhaps leader all of the United States and hopefully, eventually, all over the world. So im just asking to consider these big broad questions. And we, in our Animal Rights groups, were actually a leader approach the members of the board of supervisors with more concrete suggestions, so hopefully we can have dialogue about the issues. Thank you so much. Thats all. Thank you for your comment. Announcer you have two questions remaining. Hello. My name is betty trainer. I live in district 5. Im just one block from Central Gardens, the Convalescent Home where there was at least four deaths and over 60 residents and staff that were positive for the coronavirus. And im also urging that there be testing at all Nursing Homes in San Francisco, both staff and residents as well as the other congregate facilities where we have seniors and people with disabilities living there who are truly the most Vulnerable People for the virus. And i dont know what i know other people have brought this up earlier and i dont feel that it is has been that transparent. We really dont know what facilities have been tested, but my main concern is that all of these facilities should be tested as soon as possible. And only positive cases should be especially as theyre getting more placed in the hospital. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. You have three questions remaining. You have two questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. Hi, good afternoon. My name is terry lewis and im calling in support of the measure by supervisor walton for the custody sorry, the online visiting for the inmates in the county jail right now. I currently work there and im just i just want to say it makes a huge difference for people to be able to connect with their children and for the children to connect with the parent as well, even in that situation. It makes a big difference. And im completely in support of that and i hope we can pass that. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Announcer you have one question remaining. Welcome, speaker. To the speaker, if you can hear me, press 1 and then 0 to be entered into the queue. So, if you can hear me . Is the individual needing assistance on the line . Welcome, speaker, if youre there. Appears that caller has hung up. That concludes the queue. Clerk okay. So mr. President , in case the individual is going to dial back in to provide comments, i would just like to say every week we do look at our Public Comment procedures. We sprint from meeting to meeting to make sure that we are improving our processes and bringing Better Service to you and members of the public. I want to thank director adrian pond from the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs to provide language access. Although its possible the individual dialled in and mr. Coup will let us know. We may not have used their services this week, but its possible well be able to do so during future meetings. Were grateful for their attendance here today. Did anyone dial in . Yes, i have two additional callers in the queue. Okay. Please move them into being able to provide their comments. You have two questions remaining. Hi, my name is angelica. Im from San Francisco and i work with the community. I wanted to just say that i support the Virtual Meetings with those who are incarcerated and the Virtual Meetings with their children. Its very important, especially during these times that they still get to interact with those children because its good for both the parents and the you have one question remaining. Yes, i live about two blocks from Everett Middle School and i fully support the resolution that youll vote on later. I would like to link that with the registration that was passed several weeks ago which has not yet been implemented by the mayor to fully adapt the empty hotel rooms and use them. The thing about the resolution is that it is another tool in your quiver to fight the devastating losses that well see with the shelterinplace ordinance against the whole community, but especially for those homeless. The Everett School proposal seems fine for me. I think it is worth getting a unanimous vote from all of the supervisors in support of it. I thank you for the time. Great, thank you very much for your comments. Announcer you have zero questions remaining. Okay. Mr. President , thank you so much. That concludes Public Comment. President yee seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is closed. Lets call for adoption without committee, agenda items 15 through 23. Clerk okay. For items 15 through 23, these items were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. A unanimous vote is required on those resolutions introduced on first appearance today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution to go to committee. President yee okay. Colleagues, anyone like to sever any items . Did somebody supervisor peskin thank you, madame clerk. Id like to sever item 15, please. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, president yee. Id like to sever item 20 and 22. President yee okay. For the rest of the items, madame clerk, could you take the roll . Items 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 23, supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor yee aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So those resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to item 15. Item 15, resolution to urge the disclosure of Additional Data sets related to the wellbeing of homeless san franciscans and residents of single room occupancy hotels. The number of hotels rooms, the geographic origin of confirmed positive covid19 cases, zip codes of residents for each covid19 death, and the date of the covid19 test specimen collection and commending the interdepartmental collaboration which resulted in the publication of the covid19 data tracker. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. And thank you, colleagues, for adopting last week and continuing it. As you know, for the past month, actually longer than that, ive been pushing for as much transparency as possible with regard to the citys response to this pandemic. And weve all advocated for additional information, not only for us decisionmakers in the media, but particularly for the public who need to see the same level of information that were seeing. I want to thank data s. F. And d. E. M. , department of Emergency Management director carroll and the controller for the progress that has been made on april 7. We reached a significant landmark by publishing a public data dashboard which people can find at the website with information about the numbers of confirmed cases, the numbers of deaths and limited amounts of demographic data. And as youll recall, in the early weeks of the pandemic all we were able to receive was the number of confirmed cases and deaths, so this is greatly expanded information. The resolution before us requires Additional Data sets to be added and im pleased to say that the city has already made some progress by adding information about Hospital Capacity and occupancy, but particularly were looking forward to Additional Data in what will be a housing tracker on the same website which will show the number of confirmed cases originating in the homeless shelter network, as well as in single resident occupancy hotels. Inasmuch as this data is already available, i think all of the members of the board are receiving the hotel data every morning as to what is occupied, what is not occupied for First Responders and covid19 cases getting that up as quickly as i see feasible is very important. And then id also like to note that we can, without violating patient confidentiality, do even better by showing s. R. O. Cases, by zip code location, and that data has been available to us as well. As a matter of fact, the chronicle tweeted about that today. And hopefully we can do better than zip code data. At least we should get to census track geographic data, because the zip code data is large in size. The information that d. P. H. Has is much more specific. I know this will improve in time and thank you for your unanimous support. President yee madame clerk, can you take the roll. Clerk sorry . On item 15, supervisor stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to item 20. Clerk item 20, resolution to urge the city to establish safe sleeping sites for unsheltered people, to encourage social distancing, improve sanitation and slow the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019, covid19. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar request to be added as a cosponsor . President yee okay. Supervisor preston, you want to speak on the item . Supervisor preston i do. I wanted to thank supervisor mandelman for bringing this resolution forward and with the city failing to provide temporary shelter to so many folks homeless on the streets, weve had increasing calls from neighbors urging the city to act. These calls have grown ex exponentially over the last couple of weeks. And homeless advocates and housed neighbors have raised really wellfounded concerns i think regarding sufficient hygiene and social distancing during the pandemic for those living in tents on our streets. And you know i think folks know, many of us have been banging the drums trying to demand that unhoused neighbors be placed into hotels during the pandemic. We have literally tens of thousands of hotel rooms with owners ego torrent them at eager to rent them. Despite that, the city has moved at an inexplicably slow pace and just this week, the mayor announced she will violate the law. I want to be clear that our first choice remains moving unhoused people into vacant apartments or hotel rooms where they dont need to share facilities. But hours matter and we need to minimize all risk to the best of our ability as we work to get people into individual rooms. So, therefore, out of compassion with the support of homeless advocates and housed neighbors who for weeks have been demanding safe sleeping areas, im happy to support this resolution and ive already been in active discussions with h. S. H. About a number of possible sites in district 5. And were committed to making one or more of these work on terms that are acceptable to the community. Thanks again to supervisor mandelman for moving this forward so quickly. President yee please call the roll on item 20. Supervisor stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee so this resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item 22. Clerk item 22, resolution to urge govern newsom to pardon and stop her deportation. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar i just request to be added as a cosponsor to this item as well. President yee okay. Madame clerk, please call the roll . Clerk item 22, stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer i think fewer said aye. Supervisor fewer i said aye. Thank you, fewer. Can you please mute your mic if youre typing. Supervisor haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar mar . Mar aye. Peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, can you please read the in memoriam. I have no in memoriams to introduce, to mention that im aware of today. President yee that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madame clerk, any other further business before us today . Clerk this concludes the noticed agenda, mr. President. President yee okay. Thank you, colleagues. Were receiving a briefing from the Deputy Health officer dr. Susan phillip right after we adjourn this meeting. Members of the public, youre welcome to continue watching or tune in. This is occurring under the authority of the governors executive order which allows policy bodies to receive updates from local officials relative to the declared emergency and to ask questions of such officers provided that the members of the policy body do not take action on or discuss amongst themselves any item of business that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the body. This option would allow the board to be fully briefed by the Health Officer or someone that asked that can come and answer questions with a little more authority. So, with that, members, the board please continue to stay online as there is no further business, we are adjourned. Dr. Phillip, before you get started, i just wanted to note to the public, i think everybody received the email correspondence i sent to dr. Argon regarding him back to answer questions. Lets focus on testing and that we had actually i had sent some questions ahead of time so that one could ask the questions. They were listening to them with concerns around this particular issue. They had some other issues also, but the majority of my colleagues thought this was a good topic to focus on. So i spoke to every single of my colleagues to say, do you have any questions . So what you received or what you should have received, dr. Phillip, was really a summary of the questions that i sent forward and, again, most of these questions should be able to be answered and some of them certainly in terms of what the thinking is behind some of the actions that weve done in the city are pretty answerable. So with that by the way, colleagues, i realize also that were having different formats to ask these questions. We have, i guess, emailed questions in. Getting as many answers as possible. Well have the briefing monday, wednesday, friday, of the Board Members to ask specific questions. And so i actually heard dr. Philip do a briefing. Im glad you made time to come and answer these questions. By far, i felt like from listening to your presentation, i wanted to thank you. You seemed to have the most authority and was articulate about the issue of testing. So, dr. Phillip, would you like to get started . What i ask, at least a 45minute block of time where you can do the presentation. I know everybody is trying to get do a lot of work during this emergency, so well try to be as focused as possible. And within those minutes, the presentation, plus whatever additional questions that might give us a better understanding of testing in San Francisco. Dr. Phillip, youre on. So thank you very much. President yee and to the board for having me. I am happy to speak with you about testing. Its a very important topic. Im glad you were able to make the time to listen. I have about probably a 15minute presentation just to give an overview of testing and some of the background around how we have been approaching testing in San Francisco as the d. P. H. And then, yes, i know there are several questions, many questions we want to discuss and im happy to do that, but ill get started with the presentation. Im susan phillip, one of the Deputy Health officers at the San Francisco department of Public Health. So heres just the agenda. We said we were going to cover briefly some of these areas today and then leave plenty of time for q a. Just as background for testing, to recall that in the very beginning of this epidemic, before it was a pandemic, we were sending specimens from San Francisco to the cdc lab in atlanta and waiting anywhere from 47 days to get a result back. Weve been trying to expand our testing capability ever since we started testing at our own health lab, grove street, on march 2, 2020. Then between march 2 and april 26, 15,610 people in San Francisco have been tested for covid19 and our Positivity Rate is 11 of those tests returned positive. There are right now 26 locations that a person can go to have a specimen collected throughout the city and this includes city test s. F. Sites. Well talk about d. P. H. Alternative test sites and sites run by private providers and others. And then our vision overall and i think this is really important is for everyone in San Francisco to have access to testing. Universal access to testing. But, of course, were not going to get there overnight. And this is going to be a process to build up. And quite frankly, its only been in the last week that our supplies of some of the essential equipment that is needed to test, the swabs and the media that are needed for the collection have stabilized. Well talk about that as well. Happy to answer questions there. So when we think about testing, what most commonly comes to mind are the molecular tests. These are the direct tests that look for the genetic material of the virus. Viruss genetic material is r. N. A. , so these tests are looking for that genetic material. These are molecular tests looking for r. N. A. Of the virus. This is collected by a flexible swab that goes deep into the nose, all the way to the back of the nose near the throat, or are collected through the mouth, the back of the throat as well. Those are the most common sites of collection. There is a whole serious of processes that have about happen in the laboratory with these specimens. Basically, first to separate out everything that is virus from what is human. Get rid of all the extra material and then are machines called pcr machines and others that amplify, that take the specimen that might have a couple of copies of that r. N. A. And amplifies it to the point, and that is how the infection is diagnosed. These tests are very helpful if theyre positive. They tell us if a person has covid19 at the time that theyre being sampled and that leads to cascade of care, support services and identifying how we can support the person and isolate themselves at home so they dont infect other people. And then to find out about their contacts so those people with quarantine to prevent transmission. A negative test of this kind, however, is less definitive. There are a couple of reasons why. One is that there is no test that is completely perfect. This test or any other laboratorybased test. Meaning there is a potential that the test itself, because its not 100 sensitive to pick up every single infection, might be false negative. Sometimes its because of the specimen, or sometimes its early the infection and people are going to develop a viral load, but they dont have a sufficient amount at the time the sample is taken. Another reason a negative test can be misleading and not give us a full answer at one point in time, these tests are again just telling us what is going on in the body at the nasopharyngeal at the time the sample is collected. It doesnt tell us what is happening in the time between when the sample is collected and it may be in that interview, the i could have been exposed and received transmission. A single negative test shouldnt be reassuring. It is somewhat, but it does not tell us a lot of information going forward. For negative tests, that requires repeated testing, so that raises a whole area of questions which have not been fully elucidated. Thats a whole set of questions that need to be addressed about repeatedly screening people who are negative. Our capacity in San Francisco is quite good at the laboratory level. Wed always like it to be better, but right now, between our own lab tories and the Public Health, we can analyze up to 4300 specimens. The laboratories are 101 grove street, the zuckerberg General Hospital and then partnership with the laboratory. But this doesnt include the 4300 number, the 1500 a day that can be collected at our city test s. F. Site. These are done in clab wags collaboration with our s. F. This includes kaiser, sutter, brown and toland, 1 medical and there are others as well. The average number of tests returned that we can see, has been running about 500. Its gratifying to see in the last number of days, that number has increased, but there is a gap between that number and the capacity that i just talked about. That is a gap were trying to close. Were taking several approaches to trying do that and making sure were taking advantage of the laboratory and collection capacity we have. As i said, the supply chain for the products that are necessary for testing, the swabs that are necessary to do the nasopharyngeal and the oral sampling, the media we have to put the swabs in, has been very unsteady to get those supplies. Its only been in the past week that those numbers have stabilize and we feel what comfortable that for the moment we have the supplies necessary to try and ramp up testing to meet that laboratory capacity. There is no guarantee in the future this will continue. As we all heard, were competing against every other health department, every state in the country, because there is not an organized federal response to this. We continue to be hopeful these issues will resolve and we, right now, are doing everything we can to collect the specimens and buy the inventory out we have and we have great people working on doing that. Who are we testing . From the beginning, our goals for providing tests and doing tests have been to do several things that you see here. First to protect vulnerable populations and our essential workers. Health care workers, the city staff that really provide a Public Safety, the officers for fire and for police, for sheriff. And then also to understand there are other essential workers that are critical. City workers that do transportation through mta, but also the essential workers that make sure we get our groceries and deliveries come. All those are essential. Mitigating outbreaks, so trying to prevent outbreaks in vulnerable populations. Testing people we find as contacts as a result of talking to people. To identify their contacts and make sure theyre can be tested. And to make specific efforts to understand how much may be in the area. Because of our limited testing supply capability, we havent been able to fully branch into all of these groups as were doing now and planning to further do, but those have been the goals. And the testing has been to really prioritize those efforts. To protect those most vulnerable of sickness themselves and to protect those who are essential for health and safety of all the residents in San Francisco. So, in addition to those core groups, we have in the past week expanded our testing criteria. Previously we thought about symptoms as being sort of the core being fever, cough and shortness of breath. Thats what cdc said and we were following. Were learning more and more about the virus. I cant emphasize how much of a learning process this is. In the past 23 months weve learned a tremendous amount and well continue to adapt and refine our policies based on that. But there is much broader range of symptoms that warrant testing if a person has them. You can see here the list. Ranging from body aches to a loss of smell or taste. Fever and fatigue, congestion, runny nose. Theyre broad symptoms. Were encouraging people with these broad symptoms to seek testing. Weve always emphasized contact. But in the past weve emphasized symptomatic contact. Were expanding that. If youve been in close contact with someone who has covid19 for more than 10 minutes, we want to test you even if you dont have symptoms. This is understanding reports from other jurisdictions, looking at medical literature and the updated guidance from cdc and our Public Health colleagues. Congregate living is appropriately a concern. I know of this body it is a concern of d. P. H. And the doc as well. I dont have National Clear guidelines for testing in congregate settings, but as i said, as were gaining more experience from colleagues across the country and from our own experience here in San Francisco, were learning more and more about what that should look like and the need for thinking very broadly about testing. We have conducted mass testing as you all know in these environments as dictated about Case Investigation and Contact Tracing. And then were developing strategies. Were in the process of doing that in response to incoming data and the stabilization of our supply chain to meet the needs of the different communities who do live in congregate settings as listed there. So i want to talk about general testing sites and access and how were looking at this. I heard several times during the meeting today that emphasis on equity and emphasis on looking at where the infections are and making sure that there is low barriers allowing people to be tested, we completely agree with that and those are principles were following as well. There are 26 locations that a person can go to have specimens collected throughout the city. This includes city test s. F. , s. F. G. , u. C. S. F. , kaiser, chinese hospital, dignity health. And then d. P. H. Has Community Testing sites open to the public. A as z. S. F. G. , Castro Mission Health Center, Southeast Health center and maxine Health Center. San francisco residents and essential workers who are experiencing any of covid19 symptoms who arent able to get into their own provider can make an appointment online at city test using the link below to get a test. And just to show you, there are two sites now for city test s. F. And its a great collaboration between many parts of the city, the port and the company of color and Carbon Health and one medical in order to do this testing. So heres a photo of the sites at piers 30 and 32. We can test a thousand people a day. Soma site is 500 a day. I want to emphasize that testing is so important. Weve been spending a lot of time and energy at the doc and e. O. C. To thinking about testing, improving how people can access it and ramp it up, but it alone is not sufficient. It is one part of an entire strategy. In fact, we can sometimes think of testing as telling us how good a job are we doing at preventing infection in the first place . Those things include staying at home as much as possible. Distancing, staying six feet apart, covering our facings, washing our hands frequently. All the core things we need to do. And i think that testing tells us, are we able to do those things . We know its much harder for certain populations to do those things needed. We need to think about how we enter and exit public places. How are we supporting environmental cleaning . How are we supporting spacing . In a way, testing tells us how good have we done at those things to support prevention for populations in the first place. And we have conducted mass testing as indicated by contact investigation in the past. We do believe there is a key role to testing. And in fact, testing, again, is one part along the continuum of response. After testing we want to have a robust response in terms of Case Investigation and then reaching out with Contact Tracing and we are actively working on building that capacity. We think that is going to be another key core requirement that is tied into testing in order for us to be successful. The next phase of our testing will be to expand to people without symptoms and that is going to include testing in congregate settings, testing of Health Care Workers, First Responders and essential workers and testing in communities impacted by disparity. I want to pause to note that what i said before is important. One of the things we dont know here is how often should we test . So as we do this work, we want to work with u. C. S. F. And other partners and staff, Research Staff and epidemiology staff, to be able to evaluate different intervals and find an optimal interval for testing. And then finally, its important to understand that our discussion about testing will be evolution, just like testing on the whole response. Im certain in two or three weeks from now, if we had the same conversation, id have additional pieces of information to share. We do incorporate feedback about the ways in which the city is doing its work, particularly communities most impacted. The testing science and technology is rapidly evolving. Wed love to have rapid tests for covid19. And that technology does exist, but its incredibly difficult to purchase and get those tests, although were continuing to work on it. We think of congregate facilities, such as the hospital where it would be incredible to have that technology. These things are going to continue to inform our response and strategy. I want to make one quick note about serology tests. I didnt speak about them in the slides for the sake of time. These are the tests that are not a direct test for the virus, but theyre blood tests looking for antibodies to see if someone has been exposed to the virus and potentially recovered from it. There has been a lot of talk about this potentially being a way to understand if someone could have what people have called immunity passports or ways they could go back into the workforce or public safely. I want to make it clear that the f. D. A. Had said that these tests, the blood tests, cannot be used to diagnose covid19. And its very unclear what having a positive test would mean in terms of it being safe for a person to go back out in society. W. H. O. And other Public Health and scientific bodies are warning that not its not clear that having antibodies are going to clear us for immunity from a second infect. Where they can be useful is understanding what has been the exposure of the population to covid . Who has seen the virus . I think it will be helpful in describing what might have been going on, but i think well get a little bit of that information from testing. And the large Testing Program that supervisor ronen described in the mission is another way, another type of evaluation to get at some of that same information. All that is really important, testing is important for individual care, but its also important for planning and response as well. So i think that is all i had for prepared remarks. I know we have questions to talk through. Happy to do that. But i wanted to turn it over to you all to lead that discussion. Im happy to participate. Thank you for your time. President yee thank you, dr. Phillip. I have questions. But go ahead, supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you. And thank you, dr. Phillip. I have a few questions. Just so im clear now, were not, as a city doing asymptomatic testing i think somebodys mic is on also were not doing asymptomatic testing except as part of Contact Tracing or in more oneoff ways . There is not a larger effort to do asymptomatic testing currently among any populations . You didnt speak that much about the mission project, but other than the mission, have we taken on any largerscale asymptomatic testing . And when do you believe that we are going to start to do more testing that is asymptomatic. I listed priority populations. What will that look like . Yes. Right now, consistently, who we are testing is asymptomatic is our contacts to cases. And we do have plans to roll out asymptomatic screening and we know that phase that out to make sure we do that in a responsible way and we have everything in place for really supporting that work and supporting the ongoing work. Because as i said, if we find people are negative, that means we have to plan for repeated waves of testing. That requires thinking in a different way, building a large infrastructure. All of these things we can do, but our first area of focus in thinking about that big picture, is looking at which populations are most vulnerable to dying from covid19 if they contract it. So were trying to focus first on Skilled Nursing facilities and what it would mean to do that for staff and patients there. Supervisor haney im not finished. Sorry. There is a cdc report that suggests that if testing is easily accessible, regular testing in shelters before identifying clusters should be considered and testing all persons can facilitate isolation. Other cities have tested all or most of people who are in shelters, including people who are asymptomatic. When will we have a similar effort to test everybody who is in a congregate setting like a shelter, Navigation Center, Mental Health, drug treatment . Thank you, supervisor. Yes, i think those populations are also priority and we will have to again think of how we phase in, how we do that work. They are populations we know will turn to, will be screening. And were going to have to sit down. As i said, its only a week since weve stabilized our supply chain to understand how we do that and not fear if i dont keep testing in reserve were going to not have testing to deal with large outbreaks. So now that happened, we can really turn to these other sorry about that echo. Supervisor haney so, as i read, the Testing Capacity, we have a capacity of at least 5800 a day ourselves, likely many thousands more than that when we include the private hospitals. And yet were testing just 500 a day as a city. What exactly is the barrier to testing much more larger numbers of people quicker, for example, everyone in the shelters, people in vulnerable neighborhoods, look the bayview or the tenderloin or soma . It seems we do have a Testing Capacity for that. Where is the barrier to do that immediately . Well, we could do that immediately if people are able to access the sites. I think some of the challenge has been making sure that we have people that could go and do the specimen collection. We have a core group of nurses, field nurses that have gone out and done this work and done the bulk of it. Were building that capability and that team, but for people who can transport and go to the site, such as city test s. F. , those are options and were hoping we see utilization of those sites by anyone who meets the criteria which is very broad right now. That they are able to use those and we see the numbers increasing. Weve seen the number of tests increase in the past few days, but youre correct, there is a large gap still we need to try to close between the number of tests were doing and the number of tests we could be doing. So i agree with you. And for the tests where were going and trying to provide assistance to the site, thats where we need to figure out, where do we put our power and were did starting with nursing facilities, but there are other important sites as well that you mentioned. Supervisor haney right now, people are still hearing they need to have symptoms to be tested. They have to make an appointment that involves before it involved having a health care provider, now it involves the city test site which requires having Internet Access and all of that. People in shelters, on the streets, in soma and tenderloin, this is not yet accessible or widely known about or broadcasted, they can have these opportunities. Even in the city test sites, my understanding is theyre greatly under testing their capacity, so we seem to have an outreach issue because there are a lot of people who want to be tested but dont yet know about the opportunities and are able to access them in the opportunity. In addition to what i talked about with the congregate sites, communities that are having a hard time like you mentioned like keeping the six feet, avoiding large number of people, need to have onsite accessible Testing Available to people beyond people who are only symptomatic. Thank you. Yes. President yee supervisor preston i believe. Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. Thank you, dr. Phillip for our all work. I wanted to just follow up. You touched on some of this, but just go into the nursing facilities a little more and try to better understand that. My district includes Central Gardens Convalescent Home where four people died and as you know there was an outbreak there. And weve been struggling to get more information from both the state the department of Public Health and locally about that. So in terms of testing, i understand that there is no protocol nationally it sounds like for testing in congregate facilities. And i also understand some of the practical limits around the supply chain and being able to do testing, but im curious if either from the state, d. P. H. , or locally, is there a proposal or plan for how one decides when and whom to test at Skilled Nursing facilities. Again, assuming that you dont face the supply chain issue . Is it the Contact Tracing or is it universal, every so often . What are we striving toward in those facilities . Is there a plan that exists or a proposal . Thank you, supervisor. I think that the key thing im glad were talking about Skilled Nursing facilities. Again as i said, this is a key priority for outbreak prevention work at the doc and the e. O. C. I think the key thing, i know we want to talk about testing, we will get there, but the key thing we found from experience at laguna honda and having our cdc team coming out and work with us, the key things that make a difference are really try to prevent introduction of virus into a facility like a Skilled Nursing facility. And doing a lot of environmental controls, really making sure that staff dont come when theyre sick. There are ways of doing environmental cleaning and separation, having a plan to be able to isolate people. So all of those things have to be in place. So really working with Skilled Nursing facilities starts prior to testing of being able to understand all those things. And i think youre right, by the time there are cases, thats the point at which we generally will need to test everyone because were not sure what is going on. That speaks to a need of upstream interventions to try to support the staff, the administrators, the residents there to be as protected as possible. Before that is needed. And your question of how often should testing happen . Is it a result of testing investigation or done on a regular interval . We dont know that exactly. We dont know what the optimal approach is. But given the vulnerability of the residents and the likelihood of it to spread inadvertently through staff and other contact, most likely it will be some type of a regular routine screening of residents and staff. Now what frequency . We dont know. We have 21 Skilled Nursing facilities in San Francisco. Our efforts are to reach out to all of them, assess where they are on the spectrum of doing the preventative work and the best practices and supporting them as we try to gear up and think were the testing and screening efforts. Again, the outcomes of those also have to be managed, of trying to safely identify places where we can house people who are positive until they cover recover. Make sure the facilities stay staffed safely. There is a lot of consideration so no one is scrambling at the last minute. Supervisor preston who makes the decision right now like just as a hypothetical i run a Skilled Nursing facility, i have one positive person there, i Call Department of Public Health and i report that, is the current protocol either from the state or locally to do universal testing . Is it to do Contact Tracing . What would happen right now if i ran one of these facilities and reported that today . What would happen is we have skilled Public Health nurses, we have skilled m. D. S and people that do outbreak response and theyve been doing this even prior to covid, so we have relationships with the Skilled Nursing facilities because there is a flu season every year. And a lot of the protections were trying to do now are done then. Its very different because weve got flu vaccine, we have an intervention there we dont have now. But to say that people are used to doing this. What they do is talk with the administration, talk with the Infection Control that they are required to have. And understand where was the resident housed, who are the safe that took care of them and were the facilities following the best practices and guidance that has come out from the state around trying to limit how staff roam meaning how are things situated . Is that person rooming by themselves . Rooming with other people . It wouldnt necessarily lend to screening and testing. It might. But in the instance of laguna honda, theyre blocked off into neighborhoods and they have a staffing regiment that means that people are really only on one or two neighborhoods. And they really tightened that up even since covid. So there are lots of things that are facility dependent, so it requires a strong amount of engagement with the subject matter and the facility to understand how to proceed. But we have a very low threshold for saying, lets just do this, test all the staff and the residents. Supervisor preston so all of those decisions are made locally . Im trying to understand the interaction with California Department of Public Health. The decision would all be made locally . We generally will were on the ones on the ground. We have the jurisdiction. Were there to assist and have the relationship with the facilities. Most of the time what were doing is talking with the state as well. The administrators are also talking about their state contacts and licensing. And were talking about the Health Care Associated Infections Group at the California Department of Public Health. So were making sure that the state is staying informed and theyve been supportive of the actions around these things. Supervisor preston thank you. What im hearing is that its still a Contact Tracing approach from what you described. I understand that when there is a severe lack of supply of tessing. I just hope our policy keeps up with the growth in tests so were able to perform universal testing when we have a case given the deadly consequences in these facilities. One last question which was about if someone tests positive, are people who test positive being transferred into Nursing Homes . And if so, are there additional weve heard reports there are and im wondering if there are additional precautions or testing that is occurring for folks who are covidpositive being transferred into Nursing Homes . Are you saying they didnt start out in a nursing home, but were newly admitted to the nursing home . I believe thats the situation. I know from senior advocates had raised the concern about the possibility where folks who were positive that someone who was positive was being transferred and i dont know if they were a previous resident. What i would say to that, the state is really helping take the lead there on which facilities have the capability, the staff, the plan, the space set up to be able to potentially do that. And there are potentially facilities that are able to safely house a person who has covid19 in their period of recovery if theyre medically stable and dont need to be in acute care hospital. I think were going to have to balance the factors and make sure its never done in a way that poses a risk to other residents, to staff. And that facilities that take the responsibility of caring for covidpositive patients are fully supported to do so. We think this plays an Important Role in our Overall Health care infrastructure, because we want to make sure our acute care beds, that someone does not acquire acute care, we need to make sure theyre available for people who need that level of care. This is something were thinking about. And were doing this in conjunction with the state. And making sure that its done safely when it does happen. Supervisor preston thank you, doctor. I see many colleagues have questions. I will wrap up. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. And thank you for indulging me last week and thank you, dr. Phillip, for being here today, not only from the board but any member of the public who wishes to partake of this. I have four questions. Ill try to ask them as quickly as i can. Our public Testing Capacity is 5800 a day . Our supply constraints have been lessened, we dont know how long, but it will become less constrained. And the constraint youre speaking to is a testing is a constraint around staff capacity if we cannot actually deliver people or people do not selfpresent at the testing sites. Do i have that right . Because right now were using about a tenth of our total Testing Capacity . Do i have that right . Youre correct, were using about a tenth of the capacity, yes. Supervisor peskin and you indicated that there is a universal desire that im sure we all share to lessen the barriers to entry for testing and that those barriers have been liberalized and im now looking at your slide. And they expanded the expanded criteria, its kind of everything. Why, if we want to lessen the barriers, why not just say anybody who wants to come down can come down . Well, i think that we are doing this incrementally. Thats a going question. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Thats a good question. Were trying to do it incrementally because were not 100 certain of maintaining supply chain. Its unlikely if we just opened it up to anyone to come at any time for a test we would be overwhelmed as youre pointing out, but what i dont know is the ability to maintain that over time. I dont know our ability to enhance preferentially for the population that we feel most need the test. So i think that will be a balance. Were taking a trial approach. As you said, those symptoms are very liberal. I dont know any of us that are not experiencing some level of fatigue at this moment, so people would be able to get a test if they really wanted one. And we want to see what the uptake is at those sites using those criteria. I think the other thing is that, you know, this is the start, but were thinking about other sites in conjunction with the state that would be helpful. Were always thinking about placing sites where priority population can access them with minimal barriers as you said. And were thinking about what it would take to have mobile sites. We know that is an interest of the board, its an interest of us as well, in trying to see what we can do to have access more freely available. The city test s. F. Sites are wonderful and theyre there now and there for people to access, but we know theyre not sufficient. Supervisor peskin so this is not one of my questions. Does that mean that would be less constraint in the supply chain that were continuing to accumulate more swabs and apply caters on a daily and weekly basis . Yes, our stockpile is continuing to grow. I think we have to expand and we have to see what the reaction of the public is. We have to continue our plans for expanding other sites for access as well and our routes for access as you said. Given the delta day to day, which is about 5,000. I mean basically on a daily basis, are we accumulating 5,000 a day . How many swabs and am caters. Previously, when it was a much smaller number, we were concerned about a large outbreak at laguna honda or other settings that might need a large amount of testing and keeping things in reserve. Trying to be conservative. We dont have to conservative in that way, but i think we have to expand responsibly and see what the uptake will be. Understand the characteristics of the people taking advantage of testing and augment to make sure were reaching priority populations. Supervisor peskin that leads me to the second question. As it relates to priority populations and areas that are higher in transmission, is it safer from Infectious Disease stoint, do you think, to live in and test in s. R. O. Congregate settings where restroom and Kitchen Facilities are shared or in populations that live on the street . And the Health Orders are unclear about that. Were trying to expand. We think both of those populations are a priority. I dont know that we would pick one over the other. I think both population are ones that need access to testing and to screening when needed. So those are both populations that were focused on. Supervisor peskin what are the nearterm plans for that focus . I think the nearterm plans are to really now again that weve stabilized the supply, that we have these other sites in place, to see how we can increase testing in other populations is to really understand what is it that will be needed in order to scale to do more screening . What are the barriers . What is required in order to do that . And what type of testing mechanism would be lowest barrier . Is it on site testing . We cant test as often, is it better to have neighbor located facilities . I think there is planning around how this looks. In parallel, were trying to think about nursing facilities, which are a priority, but require a different approach to supporting staff screening and testing. And sometimes requires our nurses to go there and do it physically ourselves. Supervisor peskin and if there is interest in a community that has volunteer and organizational and logistical resources that want to replicate what is being done in the mission where asymptomatic people are being tested, and the university of california is participating, say in like chinatown, is there interest at the department of Public Health in replicating that setting in the Community Like chinatown, that obviously has a disproportionate number of congregate living situations . I think were always interested in gaining more information. A project that happened with ucsf was largely organized and staffed and maintained by them, which is what made it possible, but were certainly interested in gaining information about epidemiology of covid in our city. And were particularly interested in understanding more vulnerable populations and more vulnerable living situations as to what epidemiology might be so we can better serve the public. Supervisor peskin my last question, not to drag you into the friction that is existing between the executive branch of government and legislative branch of government around the acis zigs of hoe acquisition of hotels for vulnerable populations and isolation for people who cannot otherwise selfisola selfisolate, is there any concern that if these types of asymptomatic testing studies are undertaken that it will lead to containment strategies that require isolation in hotels or other settings that the city doesnt currently have sufficient access to . Is that any way of a part of d. P. H. s consideration. That has not been part of the discussion that ive been a part of. Not as a reason to not do testing. I think those are important considerations. I think that the ability to do Case Investigation and Contact Tracing on very large numbers of people as we are trying to build up the workforce and that capacity is another situation, but neither are reasons not to test people that would benefit from testing. Supervisor peskin what do you think the best containment strategy in s. R. O. S is . Now youre asking me to go outside of the testing approach. I think that there are best practices. I know there are specialists and subject Matter Expert teams working closely with management and with Community Leaders to think about ways of structuring the environment, the physical environment, the ways of doing cleaning, the ways of trying to give people as best tools as possible to try to stay safe in their own environment. We know that many people want to stay in their homes and stay safely in their homes. Those are important approaches. As i said, were continuing to learn about this virus and what is and is not sufficient. Well have to continually evolve in the face of that knowledge. The resources are one issue, but i think the science and what we understand to be the Public Benefit of the approaches is also evolving over time. Supervisor peskin thank you, doctor. If you have a point person as to who that is who is linguistically and culturally competent as it relates to s. R. O. Settings in chinatown, i would love to know who that point of contact is. Thank you very much, supervisor. Dr. Phillip. Were fast approaching the 45minute mark, but there are several more of my colleagues that i can see on the roster. Would you be open to getting to these questions . It would be helpful if you can stay beyond the time. Yes. President yee okay. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee and thank you so much, dr. Phillip, im going to be brief because a lot of questions i have you covered. The one thing you said first of all, let me thank you for being responsive to some of the questions weve had and some of the demands made to the department of Public Health because i have not received response from other leadership for the department, so i do appreciate you. The one question i do have, you showed a slide talking about you will start providing asymptomatic testing in communities affected disproportionately. And i didnt get a clear sense of a timeline for that. And would love to know and try to lock in a date, something more specific, because this is important to community and i know that testing does not solve our problems, but it does tell us whether or not people need to be quarantined indefinitely, separated from other human beings . Thank you, supervisor walton. Yes, i agree with you that testing is a hugely important piece of the overall response and overall way we have to respond to this pandemic and this Public Health crisis. I have listed the groups that were going to move to. And i want to iterate again reiterate that its going to take us a while to get to the vision of universal access to testing for everyone. But were focused as we think about next steps. I talked about this idea of where additional sources for testing might occur. Were thinking as we think about what would potentially mobile sites in San Francisco look like . Starting to have those conversations. So the areas that represent 10 other areas that are disproportionately impacted president yee excuse me. Can somebody can people mute their mics . Would be the Priority Areas for those types of additional services, in addition to what has been laid out already. An improvement what we have before in terms of access, but not nearly where we need to go. I dont have an exact date for you, because this is relatively new. In the last week, we think we have a stable supply of the things we need to test, what is it going to look like to expand testing . We started just now with saying, you know, any of these symptoms will allow us to test. And we know we have a ways to go in that and its going to require planning as i said. And particularly for the asymptomatic test and getting the right message. And giving them information about when they should come back. The way were going to be learning about that is starting first with Health Care Workers because they have among the highest risk of being exposed to covid in their work and understanding in that way. Starting there and going out to be able to offer that to other people as well. Supervisor walton for the second time, i want to state its disheartening we dont have a time line and when were going to provide asymptomatic test fogging testing for the vulnerable population that have demonstrated higher numbers. Especially since weve already admitted to having over 5,000 capacity and not testing more than 500 or so a day, but i wont belabor the point during this conversation and will continue to reach out to the department and push for us to do the right thing for people of color and for communities of disproportionately effected by the virus. Thank you, supervisor. What i would also say, with the revised criteria, there likely are more people that would be able to be tested and the Health Center is a site where people can go and get testing. And there is capacity for testing there. Thank you very much. I am taking to heart what youre saying and will take that back and continue to think about that and try to commit to time lines. This is very early in the process of thinking there. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor mar thank you, president yee, and thank you also, dr. Phillip, for joining us for this important discussion about testing our citys testing strategy. Ill try to keep it brief as well. Just had some questions around the vision our vision for all san franciscans to have universal access to testing. I was wondering if you had any thoughts how far off we are from that . And what are some key benchmarks that were going to need to that work towards in order to have that universal access to testing in San Francisco . Thank you very much, supervisor, for the question. I think it is a goal, it is a correct goal, its also a large goal. Its a challenging goal. Which it should be. And i think that we are a ways off as weve heard from the conversation. There are still many populations, many settings in which we want to be able to expand testing and screening. We dont have all the information about the best way to do that in asymptomatic people. And we dont want to do harm. There is a risk, as a medical doctor, one of the first things were taught is dont do any harm. We have to think through how do we message what a negative test means . We can do all those things. We need to understand that a negative test today doesnt mean theyre at less risk tomorrow or less risk of transmitting if they develop an infection in the time between the specimen was collected and the time they got the test result back. I think there is lots we have to learn and figure out, but there are things we know that we need to be able to make sure, if people are not accessing the sites that we have, we need to understand what the barriers are. And make the testing continue to work to make the testing more successful. Everything weve been doing to expand testing has been done with an eye to reduce the barriers, improve their access to it and make sure the populations disproportionately impacted and our essential workers, throughout the city, many of whom i want to say are lowincome people, people of color, think being staffing of grocery stores, delivering packages, that type of work, we have been taking steps and had a equity lens throughout all of it. We need to start looking at our data and measure the number of people coming through. Weve seen increase of the number of tests over the last couple of days. We really need to see how can we continue to increase those numbers of tests that are performed . I think there is going to be a data feedback loop. Its so early in thinking about how to expand, i dont have concrete benchmarks. I dont have concrete time lines, which i know is challenging. I will tell you that were committed to continuing to work on that. And every expansion, even though its seems incremental, every expansion is done with the eye to maintain that expansion and build on it for the next group of people. Again, keeping an eye on making sure were putting our personpower and our resources and supporting the people who are most vulnerable to severe illness and death if they become infected or most vulnerable to congregate settings and outbreaks and populations that are disproportionately impacted throughout the city. Supervisor ronen thank you. I just wanted to start off on a comment. I dont know if you had the opportunity to talk to dr. Have leer, but the test done in the mission was done with a lot of volunteers. So it was the Community Coming forward and partnering with ucsf. They dont even have a defined budget for the project because it was done so quickly and in such cooperation with my office and community that they were able to make it happen without a budget. Im not sure if youve had a chance to talk to her. I would encourage you to, because i think its an important test that is making the community feel like theyre cared about and being given attention. It was right in their neighborhoods, the outreach that happened. It was a model that should be replicated in chinatown, soma, tenderloin. Bayview. There is no question in my mind. We encourage you to talk to her if you havent already. Thank you. We have been talking with her and were eager to hear more about what their experience is. Its great to hear that from you as well. Thank you. Supervisor ronen i dont know, just aside from the data, well have access to all of these strategies. The impact of the community being focused on and how that makes people feel cannot be calculated. I mean its had profound impact on the mission. So ill just leave it at that. I still dont understand youve given the best explanation to date on why for so long the entire division, Navigation Center wasnt tested after there were positive cases. So i appreciate that, but i still dont understand when people are using shared shower and bathroom facilities, and given what weve learned about how covid is passed through the community, how they cant be considered in close contact where theyre already a Vulnerable Community and they werent prioritized for testing. I still havent gotten that. Can you explain that a little more . Previously at division circle, we can view that as an example, the feeling was that in talking with the person that was the case, there was an ability to understand who was in close contact at that time. And so that and that there were environmental controls and other ways that the facility was set up to try and limit the contact that might occur with other people. So that was a decision at that time. But as you know, with the more recent case, there was a different decision to actually move people out to do a thorough cleaning and to offer testing more broadly to people. And i know that seems like it doesnt make sense. I think some of it is, again, we are learning about the virus. Were learning about what is and is not necessary as we are learning from our experiences at division circle, m. F. C. South here and colleagues in seattle and elsewhere across the country. I think that there will be an evolution of how we look at response to this. And i think we will not always be perfect in the approach, but were working with the best data we have. And we need to take into account the opinions of advocates, Community Members. So i dont know that im giving you a better explanation, but im telling you that i think that thinking evolves as the overall understanding of infection and transmission, what is and what is not a best practice evolves over time as well. Supervisor ronen im not asking this to belabor the point, but what is close contact for tracing purposes . How that is defined and understood by the department. If the individual just arrived at division circle, maybe never took a bath or shower. Maybe every time someone uses the bathroom, its so thoroughly cleaned before another person that is the reason. But to me, the shared bathroom scenario alone i mean division circle, very close you know facilities, people use the same chairs to hang out on and eat their mails, et cetera. But that shared bathroom, is that considered in and of itself a risk for Contact Tracing . I know you said being within six feet of someone who is positive for 10 minutes, right . Is what youre considering. So using the bathroom that someone who is positive uses regularly is not considered a person that should be tested for Contact Tracing purposes . Not necessarily. I cant speak to the particular case. I i dont have all of the details of that, but the situation you described, if there were hypotheticalfully, if there were environmental controls in place where the resident or the staff were wiping down surfaces between uses, et cetera, then that would potentially not constitute a risk of using the same facility. I dont know if that was in place. But weve had very experienced m. D. And nursing experts sort of ask these questions. Do these interviews and try to understand what was going on, we are very interested also in trying to minimize ongoing transmission. That is our whole reason that we exist as a department, the whole reason we do this work. So, again, i have to trust in the investigation that happened at that point. And i will say to acknowledge your point, i completely agree. I understand why it would be a confusing thing. I think there could be specific pieces of that particular investigation that led to that decision. And i think that were evolving our understanding over time about how we should think about testing or screening or offering that in those situations. Supervisor ronen again, i just want to be able to share this with my constituents, so im trying to get clear, accurate information. Sharing bathrooms and showers, then, is not something that would lead to someone getting tested through Contact Tracing if someone who was positive used that same shower and bathroom . It possibly could be. Im giving you a very unsatisfying answer. It depends on the situation. I think in a congregate living supervisor ronen in a congregate living scenario. I think we have a lower threshold now than we did several weeks ago because our knowledge is evolving. Which is appropriate. I think we should worry if our Public Health knowledge was not improving. We should consider testing the people in contact there. I dont want to spend a lot of time defending what wassed decided before, because i dont know the information and second because i think we have a different mindset now and framework now. I think that is incorporating scientific information and also incorporating feedback from you all as a board, feedback from community, all of which is important and valid. Supervisor ronen two more questions. In congregate settings, where do people wait after theyve been tested before they get their results . Thats a good question. So we want people as theyre being tested and awaiting results, we want them to be as much as possible in a safe setting. Thats why in congregate settings, Navigation Center, we have moved people out to await the test result. And we prioritize getting their tests done in the fastest way possible. Luckily, weve come a long way in waiting for commercial laboratories to get results back. Its generally not a long amount of time we have to have people wait, but youre correct, wed like them to be in their own space while waiting. If were worried enough to test, we should consider them a potential person who has covid until we can get the test. Again, its not a complete relief when we get the negative test. Its only guard that point in time good for that point in time, but we have to make a plan for how we repeat this. I want to say to the board, its not a simple matter of testing everyone once. Its a plan to do this repeatedly and support the people necessary after the test comes back, which is what we need to do as a city and will take work. Supervisor ronen last question. Who is making decisions about who to test . There is a policy team o. E. C. And doc. I am part of that, dr. Baba and some of the other e. O. C. , dr. Bennett, the commander flight. There is a group of people that think through the issues and think through what are the policies that incorporate the Public Health data, the science data and what we are learning as we go through this pandemic and incorporating new evidence and new data. We will make recommendations, but clearly its dr. Colfax, the director of health, hears these things and he a has a group as well of his leadership that he works with. There is process of getting input from all levels and bringing it up to have the discussions. This is no different than what d. P. H. Usually does in terms of trying to have a data focused approach as dr. Colfax says, looking at the data, facts and science and also having a Strong Equity focus in how we try and increase our access to testing an response capability. Supervisor ronen one more question. Have you tested anyone on the street . Meaning being able to just collect the specimen on the street . Supervisor ronen yes. You know any doctor gone to were probably getting close to 100 camps that are growing on the streets. Has any doctor gone and tested anyone in those encampments . I dont want to say know, because were working with street medicine and others. I dont know the exact answer to that, but i will find out. Supervisor ronen okay. That would be great. Its hard to get answers when there is not a group. It doesnt seem like there is a clear i dont know place to get all the answers. But appreciate it. Thank you. President yee supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you. I just wanted to end on the conversation around longterm care facilities. We have the second largest longterm care facility in the city and our district at the jewish home. Weve been in a couple weeks, a long conversation about testing of front line staff. Can you talk to me as you said about the changes and the think being testing staff and front line workers in these facilities . Can you talk about that . And then secondly, can you talk about, is there training happening for the people that are actually doing the testing . We say testing as though we all have an agreed upon standard, but is the d. P. H. , are you training your nurses, are you having people doing the training going through a proper quick procedure to have them understand what the procedures are for train . Those are my two questions, but mainly wanted to start with the longterm care facilities. And we had dr. Louie come to a town hall. Shes been in those conversations. And to answer supervisor prestons question, the jewish home has been ordered by the state, a lot of the longterm care facilities, have been ordered to accept covidpositive patients that are not current residents and its currently happened and theyre licensed to do that in a different wing, different staff, but is the city changing its thinking around testing the workforce there . Thank you very much for the question. Yes, stilled nursing facilities as ive been saying is an emphasized area. Its a priority. And we are trying to think through ways of what would it look like to increase screening . Of residents and staff . And because there is 21 facilities and several of them are quite large, laguna honda and jewish home being the largest, it will take some operational and logistical thinking in collaboration with the facilities to see also what works best for them in doing this. But we do think this is a priority area. Its a focus area. So were working to do work in that area. Dr. Louie, who came and spoke to you, is one of the leaders in that work. Supervisor safai that sounds like the answer is yes, youre changing your thinking and testing is going to happen, its just matter of how its going to happen. Yes. Big picture, were moving to doing that to support the residents and the staff. And, yes, it is more of a question how its going to happen, not if. Supervisor safai my second question, are you training people that are doing the testing . When i talked to front line understands nurses and different people, you get a broad range of the testing. Whether its one swab, three swabs. Is the department thinking about doing a simple training to have the people that are actually doing the testing understand the process and kind of standardizing that . Yes. And it is confusing because there are lots of different ways that the cdc says we can collect the swabs. And nasopharyngeal is the preferred, but if thats not available for whatever reason, people can do oral swabs, they can do midnose swabs, they can interior nostril swabs as well. So it can be confusing. Weve had guidance since the beginning of the epidemic how to do the collection, which evolved as the cdc has evolved. And there are written documents for providers to look at on the website, the health department, the communicable disease, prevention and control have those instructions. But could we do teaching . Thats a really good one. I think as were thinking about going to Skilled Nursing facilities and doing screening, it would be great to have the provider there do their own screening for their residents and staff. They have medical staff, so there is no reason. Thats a good place to start in supporting staff to get comfortable with the procedure for doing the screening. And then we would support that testing in our Public Health laboratory. I think that is a really good idea. Well have to think of other ways to support providers. Perhaps a video or Something Like that, inperson instruction is not possible right now. Supervisor safai i think thats kind of the subset. I just want to overemphasize that i think it would be really important for d. P. H. To have standardized testing in the way that you all are training people do to do the test. The second part, we are going to need more people to be involved in that and to volunteer and participate. So then having standardization of the process and whether its video, that will also be very helpful. Thank you. President yee okay. I think thats it in terms of my colleagues having questions. In terms of the questions that i sent ahead of time, you seem to have covered everything on there. Really appreciate it. I know not one person will have all the answers, but you have most of the answers in trying to explain the thinking, rationale behind every decision that you guys make. And it sound like youre the the rationale you have may be different next week as we see things evolve, in particular, the capacity to make sure that the supply chain is going to be stable. One quick question. I heard that the soma site was a walkin and that had a closed dome, so was is closed down. Was it closed down. It is open now. It was open as of yesterday. And i think it was there was no particular reason other than just trying to stand up a new site quickly and the logistical kind of opening issues that had to get worked out. There were no problems that were insurmountable and they were able to quickly resolve them and open it again for people to be tested again yesterday. So we really want people to try out those sites. And we hear and understand and completely agree with the concerns this may not be accessible to people who cant sign up online. So were trying to figure out ways to support people and being able to access the sites even if they dont have access to the online resources to sign up. President yee are there any plans right now and this is my last question are there any plans to work with h. S. H. In maybe some of the workers that generally interact with the homeless on the street . Whether or not they could go around with computer or laptop or something and maybe perhaps sign people up . They could assist them in signing up in the meantime before you figure out other ways do this . Yeah. I think that is a really good idea to consider. We have been working really closely, as you know, with h. S. A. And h. S. H. And want to continue that work. And employ the people or rope in the people on the hot team and others that know communities well, know populations well that might be unsheltered and offer that service to them as well. Well definitely explore ways to get a lot of people access. I think thats a great one to explore. So thank you very much, president yee. President yee sure. I want to thank you again on behalf of all my colleagues for coming here today and getting to everybodys questions. At this point id like to let you go. And i know you have other things to do. And deeply appreciate your time. So i guess, colleagues, im going to go ahead and end this meeting. Thanks for the questions. I will be in contact with you to see what we could put together for next week, okay . Thank you very much. Byebye now. Is the sanfrancisco public utilitys commission. At this time, i would like to call the order. The regular meeting of the San Francisco utility commission. Today is tuesday, april 14th, 2020. Madam secretary, role call, please. President king. Here. Vice president viatore. Here. Commissioner moran. Here. Commission maxwell. Here. Commission paulson. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you, before we begin, i would like to make this announcement. Due to the virus Health Emergency and given the Public Health recollections issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the restrictions for teleconference. This meeting is being held with all members and staff participating today via telecommunications. 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