Heard there yet. Chair fewer okay. So are there plans to bring it to further Oversight Committee . I think wed be happy to. It has not been requested of this legislation yet. Chair fewer okay. So mr. Law is on the line, is that correct . Good morning, chair fewer. Thank you. Chair fewer hi. When is the next cannabis Oversight Committee meeting . It will be in the next two weeks. Chair fewer okay. Yeah. And on this piece of legislation, theyve been made aware of the committee member. However, it has not been formally discussed during the meeting. During our meeting for the last 12 months, we do plot out time to bring up all pending legislation to the committee members. As i mentioned, this item has not been formally discussed and recommendations from the Oversight Committee. Chair fewer okay. And then [indiscernible] on behalf of the office of cannabis, i can imagine that you are in agreement with this proposed ordinance, is that correct . Yes. And this is correct. Were continuing a Racial Equity meeting now. She apologized she cannot make it to this meeting. But she especially wants me to thank chair fewer for your support to the cannabis oversee the committee, Oversight Committee and theyre contributors to this new industry. And to provide a status update on public process, under the leadership of director regans office. Theyre pleased to report that we have the approximately 160 equity applications submitted since may of 2018. That processes our backlog and equity applications are currently being processed, which means all equity applicants actively engaging with the permitting process. As of today, we have permitted 11 businesses, with the 12th coming the end of this week. And a come more next week. We are looking forward to reaching a parity and this has been incredible to see true intention with equity coming to fruition. And we all know that opening any business can be a challenge, especially during a during these challenging times. Therefore, this piece of legislation would greatly be appreciated by these equity operators, as they are navigating uncertainties during the current pandemic situation. Chair fewer thank you very much. Mr. Soprano, im wondering if i can request and, supervisor mandelman, that this item i am happy to pass this on to committee. But then i would really appreciate the that you would bring this before our cannabis Oversight Committee, just because i also think this is something, not only that we should that they should be made fully aware and have discussion about, but also that the breadth of sort of jurisdiction around cannabis, that i want them to also be aware that they would have a voice in this part, its not just about the everyday logistics, you know, opening up and, blah, blah. Its really about this piece of it also that they can have a voice in. And so if you wouldnt mind, thats the one request that i would have going before this body, just so that they can have discussion. And i cant imagine not approving it. But just to get their approval. That would be great. Supervisor mandelman, yes. Supervisor mandelman we are happy to do that. Because we delayed in bringing this to this committee, because of, you know, trying to figure out wanted to see what happened yesterday. I think we are a little bit under the gun to get it to the full board. Because i think we do need to have two readings of the full board this month, in order for it to take effect before januar. Chair fewer sure. Supervisor mandelman so were happy to go to the commission with it and discussion it with them. And im grateful for your willingness to move this to the full board as well. Chair fewer i think then we would have sort of the answer before the second meeting, second final meeting of the board. I think it would fit in the timeline okay. I dont want to state that we made a discussion without consulting them first. I feel like our final decision also can also include their opinion, too. Supervisor mandelman great. Chair fewer thank you for that. And with that, madam clerk, could you please open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operations, please let us know if callers are ready. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if callers wish to comment on item number 2. I currently have five callers in the queue. Chair fewer okay. Lets start Public Comment, please. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. Can you hear me . Chair fewer yes, we can. Caller goo good morning, supervisors. Can you hear me . Chair fewer yes. Caller thank you. My name is david goalman. Im also on the board of california normal, statewide medical cannabis advocacy organization. Ims on the board of directors of the green cross, a medical cannabis dispensariary, cannabis dispensary at 4218 mission near silver, in the excelsior district. Im here in support of this legislation. We feel that, according to the accountants of the green cross, there would be a 7 to 11 increase for medical cannabis patients, because prop d not only taxes retail adultuse cannabis sales, but also taxes rental cannabis, cultivation, manufacturing and distribution. Right now medical cannabis patients pay combined taxes of around 59 , including state sales tax, excise tax, cultivation fee of about 10 and about a 25 testing fee. Thats passed down to medical cannabis patients. Delaying the tax increase on medical cannabis, cultivation, manufacturing and distribution, as well as retail sales, many medical cannabis patients never renewed now under the adultuse prop 64. It would help tremendously for them. Im a senior on fixed income. I understand what it means to not have much money for cannabis. And right now the illicit market is thriving. And the way that this legislation the increase will do a great deal to help the further increase in the illicit market. I urge you to support this legislation. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good morning. Caitlin oneill, director of government affairs. Here to support this legislation. We appreciate supervisor mandelman bringing it forward today. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Chair fewer yes. Caller okay. This is nina park calling and representing the equity trade certification, as well as im the chair of the Oversight Committee. So supervisor fewer, thank you for suggesting that we hear this at the oversight meeting. I know that theres an update about this. It seems like something that was moving along. So we didnt take it on as a conversation, because we had to get the take grants out first. We took that as priority. But we know this is important as equity operators. We definitely would benefit from seeing this tax suspended until 2022. However, there are some things that we would like to discuss further about cannabis tax with our cannabis equity businesses. Moving forward we are in support of pushing it to the full board. And then being able to talk about it at the cannabis Oversight Committee for further discussion. Thank you guys for taking the time to talk about it. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller hello. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. You can hear me. Yes. Good morning. Good morning, supervisors. My name is michael cohen. And im a 50year resident of San Francisco. Im a senior in my 70s. And i strongly support this legislation, with the high taxes, extremely high taxes on cannabis in San Francisco, and my being on a limited income, it would significantly impact me. So i ask you to please i support this legislation by supervisor mandelman. And i really want to continue to buy and use cannabis legally, with the system that has been set up and not purchase any cannabis on the illicit market. Thank you so much for your support. Byebye. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller good morning, commissioners. Supervisor walton, fewer, mandelman, thank you for this item. Happy wednesday, everybody. My name is rudy corpius. Im a native of San Francisco. Im also the executive director of the united players, an organization thats been pushing to save lives and stop the violence for 26 years. Im an Equity Partner also. Ive been waiting to open my store for over a year now. The cannabis tax will take half of my projected profits before i even open my store. This tax hurts the equity program. And it needs to be delayed. It needs to be put on pause, or even eliminated. Real equity is not possible without the chance to start strong without a head start. And so we need equity benefits to open before we get taxed. So please delay or eliminate, you know, us so we can thrive wet better in the future. I support this legislation that you guys put up. And one more thing. Congratulations to tom soprano. Thanks. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Superviso madam chair, that s the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Yes. So lets take a recommendation, supervisor mandelman, would you like to make a motion. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. Id like to move that we move this to the full board with poison recommendation. Chair fewer okay. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk chair fewer. Chair fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. This is for the Small Business relief legislation, supervisor mandelman. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 3. Clerk yes, item number 3. Ordinance appropriating 126 million of series 2020 D Public Health and safety general obligation. In fiscals 20222019 for facility upgrades in Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, southeast and other Community Health centers and neighborhoods fire stations. 260 million of series 2020c Affordable Housing general Obligation Bond proceeds to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development for public, lowincome, preservation and middleincome and Senior Housing projects. 102. 5 million of series 2020f Affordable Housing, preservation and seismic safety, general Obligation Bond to mohcd for preservation and seismic safety projects and making these funds on controllers reserve pending sale of the bonds. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 146 291 7707. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to indicate you want to speak. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. I think we continued this item from the last meeting, right . Madam clerk, can you remind me. Did we have a b. L. A. Report already . Did we hear that already . Clerk yes. I believe you did. Chair fewer thank you very much. Today we have lydia eli from mohcd to answer some questions. Also whole slew of people to answer some questions. Ms. Eli, do you have a powerpoint . Yes, there we go. Yes. Very brief today. Since you all have seen this item indepth, at the last meeting, we just wanted to take this opportunity to clarify some questions that came up from the committee around the geographic equity initiative. And the distribution of the project that is proposed for funding, with the bonds across the city. So youll remember that this item is requests appropriation of funds. The first traunch of the 2019g. O. Bonds for Affordable Housing. We wanted to show you a distribution map of the project, just to start. And well give you a little bit more information about the actual list of projects that are proposed to be funded from this first tranche. But did i want to call to your attention the blue circles, which is a project proposed for funding in this bond, compared to the distribution of purple circles, which is our first 2015g. O. Bond. And youll see that there is quite a difference in terms of the concentration of projects in 2015, primarily in the central city, as compared to the 2019 project that youll see distributed across a wider geography of the city, specifically the western neighborhoods. Next slide, please. So the definition of geographical diversity, this is a new concept for the bond, really identifies those neighborhoods that have historically had limited Affordable Housing production or and or those neighborhoods that are facing a loss of affordable units. So thats really the framework that were working in when we talk about geographical diversity. So for this first tranche, for the first batch of projects in the 2019 bond, youll see were proposing to Fund Projects in eight of the 11 districts. This is a much wider distribution of projects than i believe we ever funded before. So youll see we have projects in every district except 2, 3, and 9. We have youll at the bottom. Of the list, a project for which were requesting Million Dollars in funds, we have not yet identified what that project is. Otherwise we have addressed that we have districts for all of the projects that are proposed to come out of this first traunch. Next slide, please, thank you. Its a little early to say what the future traunchs will be asking. This is the list as we know it today. Were adding projects in district 3 and district 9. That leaves only district 2 as the only district that were not going to be putting a project in. Things are changing a lot. If we go to the next slide, i can tell you some strategies that were continually using to pursue greater geographical diversity in our projects, like many city departments, were undertaking a Racial Equity initiative, through which well be looking at how we procure developers, how we identify sites, with the goal of having of targeting underserved communities and also bringing a larger group of developers to the table to participate in this work. And we reckon that doing so will result in greater geographical diversity. And, secondly, as i mentioned with all of the unknowns in the community, additional opportunities may arise that were not aware of now or adapt and reuse of other buildings. Were keeping a close eye out for the opportunities now. That is my presentation on this particular topic. Im happy to take any questions. Chair fewer thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman, i see you in the queue. Supervisor mandelman not so much for a question. Just a quick statement. I mean, i do want to thank the staff of the Mayors Office and the Community Development for their meeting with us over the last week. And frankly over the last couple of years. I know, supervisor. Supervisor fewer , you have engaged in similar conversations with them. You know, im prepared to vote for this item today. And i appreciate that mohcd understands that it is not good for San Francisco to be concentrating all of our Affordable Housing in a few neighborhoods. And, of course, my particular concern is with the district that i represent, which has had among the highest levels of eviction and displacement and yet has not seen, you know, commensurate production of new Affordable Housing. We do have some, you know, former Public Housing and some Affordable Housing from past efforts, but certainly not keeping pace with the evictions that weve seen over the last 20 years. And so i am you know, im willing im comfortable, though, voting for this. I dont know comfortable might be overstating this. I will be voting for this. But i do expect that in the future that we will do better in figuring out ways to create a more affordable Affordable Housing in other districts that have experienced or are experiencing displacement and eviction. And have not historically seen significant preservation or production. Chair fewer yeah. Thank you very much, supervisor. Thank you for your presentation, ms. Eli. What i intended to see in this presentation was not just about the sites, but really about how many units each is going to produce. And what is the allocation of the funds to each of the projects. And i think that also we get that type of information, this is this is drilling down i think also about an equity issue. I also want to say that i dont think that were looking at geography equity. I think what were looking at is geography balance. Because there are neighborhoods that have been harder hit than others. And they were hit actually much earlier than some other districts. And so, of course, i advocate for my own district, which is getting hit now. And were just maybe a little later in the game to experience this exstream gentrification and displacing many of my lowincome tenants. But i will say that unless we have an accounting, and i think this is what would be requested at the last budget meeting, was sites, but also an accounting of the funds. And so how much is being allocated to each of these projects and are we seeing some balance in the allocation of the funds. And so where a project might be giving us 50 units of Affordable Housing and another district could be giving us 250 units of Affordable Housing. That in itself is actually an imbalance. So i think for us to actually see and drill down, is to see really those numbers and quite frankly thats a little bit of what i expected to see today. I see that we have a whole bunch of people that are available for questions. Is there anyone in this lineup, joanne, benjamin, valerie, marissa, or any of these other folks that are able to answer those questions . Well, supervisor, i can i apologize that we didnt prepare that information. We do have it available for each of the units. We do have an estimated number of units that will be yielded by the development. I do want to clarify that for most of these projects, if not all, we are very, very early stage. In fact, were going to be issuing a nineproject r. F. Q. , a request for qualifications, within the next few weeks, to identify developer teams to lead these projects with us. And its only then that we can start the design work and the entitlements and determine exactly how many units will be built at each site. So for the moment, as we develop the allocation plan for the bond, were really assuming a very blanket number of city commitments per unit. And it doesnt vary by neighborhood. It really just assumes the certain number of units and then just plugs in in terms of what our commitment will be. Chair fewer so ms. Eli, let me ask you this then. I think what were looking for is sort of an accounting of it. We are not i think i mean, i think that you know we understand that its by project, many things when you scope out the project, also the site of the project, what will it accommodate. The zoning, all of those kind of things we understand. And what kind of units youll be building also, about that. But i do think that there should be a mechanism or a vehicle in which to actually analyze this information periodically and maybe on sort of a regular basis of reporting. So that not only when these issues come before the budget and finance committee for approval, but that actually supervisors are able to see in a clear, elusive and concise matter of where the funds are actually allocated geographically in the city. And the unit the amount of units would be super helpful too, so we can sort of see where the public dollars are actually going. And if we could if we could see sort of where the allocations are going. I just also want to say that, you know, i am leaving this committee and this board within a couple of weeks. Well, more than a couple of weeks. But i kind of feel like its a couple of weeks. So that is something that i am asking for future Board Members, or Board Members that continue to sit on this committee. Supervisor mandelman, since weve had so many discussions together privately and publicly about this issue, would you mind working with mohcd on a sort of just sort of how we could get a report or be kept abreast of . Because when we see these allocations, they come to this committee piecemeal. Were not able to see collectively. So today we approved this. But two weeks from now, we may be approving another set of funds. So the things that we dont ever see in the big picture, we only see it when it comes to us in a committee very piecemeal. Its hard to see sort of the collective impact quite frankly of the monies and the public monies. More than that its very difficult and impossible for the public to see how these public funds, that they have voted for, actually are being put to use and geographically where. And so in a response to not only a responsibility of the board of supervisors to our public, actually who voted for these funds to be allocated, that i think that its a responsibility of our city and county to actually have this accounting, you know, doesnt have it could be an an annual basis quite frankly. I know those things take some time. But if, supervisor mandelman, can you could work with mohcd on this. Its some information that youre very interested in. But whoever should take my place, would also i think be very interested and also i think many of the supervisors of the board would be interested inle this information, too. Having said that, i am happy to pass this out of committee today. But i just wanted to ensure that there was some sort of mechanism and we could keep track collectively. Having said that, madam clerk, can you please call for Public Comment. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added for the queue. For those on hold, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if callers wish to comment on item number 3. Madam clerk, there are no callers in the. Chair fewer Public Comment for item number 3. Id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. May have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes, madam clerk. Also i just wanted to note that i believe i saw mr. Confetti raise his hand. Im not sure if he has any questions or would like to ask him. Chair fewer yes. Is there something youd like to add to this conversation . I wanted to chime in and say i believe the specific unit counts for the project that were intended to be funded, by this particular issuance of the bonds for the 2019 housing bond, the First Issuance and the past bonds, they were listed in the project presentations that were heard on the 6th of october. Originally. With the sale resolution. And so that was broken down by street address, that can be correlated to this. So we can definitely mohcd can follow up with information on this before it goes to the full board, if thats something youd like. And also, of course, the project all g. O. Bond makes quarterly reports to the committee and theyll be able to be present that information to the public in that form as well. Chair fewer okay. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And miss eli, thank you very much for your presentation. And for joining us again for the passage of this item out of committee. So, madam clerk, roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On the motion, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk chair fewer. Chair fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number 4. Clerk yes. Item number 4, authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expand the grant in the amount of 6. 5 million from the center for Disease Control and prevention, through the California Department of Public Health for participation in a program entitled coronavirus epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity enhancing the detection funding for the period of may 18th, 2020, through novembe. Members of the public who wish to comment on this, should call 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 146 291 7707. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Chair fewer thank you very much. So we have susan phil ils from the department of Public Health joining us today. Good morning. Thank you, chair fewer and supervisor walton and mandelman. So this is a request the department of Public Health to accept and expends 6,540,000. Im susan phillips. Im one of the Deputy Health officers here to speak about this item. So this is the result of funding from the congress, via the cares act, that went then to c. D. C. And then was distributed via the California Department of Public Health to local Health Jurisdictions in california and San Franciscos share of this funding is shown here. The reason that this is retroactive, even though the project period began may 18th, was because the award came to us from the California Department of Public Health on august 11th. And then we were working with the department to propose what we would spend this funding on. There were six large strategy areas that were determined within the funding, that we had to work within. And then we had flexibility and availability to really tailor the proposals that will we have to match both what is already being propose and done within our Covid Command Center it aligns with our city work to date and aligns with our efforts to address areas of heightened concern for outbreaks or for poor disease outcomes, if people become infected and also to move funding towards communities to enable them to have resources to do the work, as they know best. So just as an example, within this funding, 1. 2 million of this funding is going to a partially fund some of the Community Wellness initiatives and request for applications that will be coming out shortly. Another 275,000 is going to be allocated in partnership with ucsf and the Latino Task Force to try to pilot of mobile testing and tracing, to allow people to actually go workers to go to homes, in order to do some of the followup thats needed for testing contacts. So this is these are some of the ways in which we are trying to use these resources for innovation. Other large areas include improving our ability to do Laboratory Testing and there are multiple routes that we are taking to increase Laboratory Capacity, but also the speed with which people get their results. So within this amount of funding, one of the things thats being done is some remodeling of our laboratory, of our Public Health laboratory at 101 grove to allow the setup of some machines that were given to us by the state at no cost. And allow more rapid handling of specimens. We are also looking to invest in some mobile testing vans, that would carry some Rapid Testing equipment that we could move throughout the city. Then we are also looking to have a few additional Public Health nurses. And two physicians to work specifically with schools, with workplaces and other sites that could use Additional Resources to prevent infections and outbreaks. Thats the general overview that i wanted to provide. Im happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you again for curing considering this, the item. Chair fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions for ms. Phillips. I have one. I wanted to know have you decided where you might do some of the mobile testing . Because actually i would love a mobile testing site in my neighborhood. Yes. We have not fully decided. But i think, supervisors, youve been hearing a dedicated group of experts that are devising a neighborhood strategy, in combination with community, looking at both of our data as a city, about where we continue to have disproportionate infections. But theyre also looking at geographical allocation across city broadly. So i think that those conversations are still to come. And i think there is a desire to ensure that every san franciscan has access to testing when they need a test and to follow our recommendations. Chair fewer okay. Yes. I only just mention it because i think that when we look at whether there are outbreaks, we are able to know the outbreaks, because actually people have been tested. So, for example, in my neighborhood i think we have detected a lot of outbreaks. But also we havent had a lot of people tested. So i think so its necessary all throughout San Francisco, and just wanted to put a plug in there. All right. So we understand why it is retroactive. And just to let you know, supervisor peskin may be contacting you about that retroactive aspect of it. Seeing no one in the queue, can we open this up for Public Comment, please. Clerk yes, madam chair, operation is checking to see if any caller are callers are in the queue. If you have not already done, so please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Mr. Coup, please let us know if any callers wish to comment on item number 4. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment for item number 4 is closed. Thank you, ms. Phillips, for joining us. Id like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i please have a roll call vote. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk chair fewer. Chair fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please item number 6. Clerk would you like to skip item number 5 . Chair fewer oh, yes. So sorry. Number 5. Clerk yes. Item number 5. Resolution approving amendment number 3 to the agreement between color girardins and the department of the Public Health for covid19 testing services, to increase the agreement by 74. 4 million for a total not to exceed amount of 84. 3 million and to establish a specific term end date of march 31st, 2021, for a total Agreement Term of april 6th, 2020 through marc march 31st, 2021. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. So today we have with us a doctor for s. F. Department of Public Health, and another member of public gallon, greg wagner from Public Health and carolyn and we also have available for questions, Heather Littleton from the Controllers Office. Sir, we start with the dr. Baba . Good morning, chair fewer. This is drew morale, deputy finance officer. As you say, dr. Baba, Deputy Director and greg wagner, chief operator officer are here today. I want to thank you for hearing this item today. Its retroactive, third amendment to the citys contract with color genomics, providing emergency Covid Testing Services for San Francisco. Contract was entered into in emergency contract procedures on april 6th, 2020. Its subject to a 12month term. Its explicit in this third amendment, which would end apri. However, d. P. H. Intent is to end the contract, being managed by the Controllers Office. In this amendment, it includes a modifying the term to 12 months per mayor declaration number 13. Increase the budget to cover the services that really were provided since, you know, going since august. And as projected through the end of march to april 5th. As well as adding capacity to embarcadero site and increasing employee testing for universal testing at laguna honda and adding two new mobile teams. And finally, it adds language explicitly to the scope of services. And includes language to have color, seek reimbursement from insurers, wherever possible. And happy to take additional questions on the amendment. Chair fewer okay. Any comments or questions from my colleagues at all . I have a few questions. So i wanted to know what is the process on the ongoing r. F. P. And what is the timing on this . And ill defer, chair fewer, if thats okay to the Controllers Office to speak to where we are in the r. F. P. , to the extent possible. Chair fewer absolutely. Good morning. This is Reese Sandler for the Controllers Office. What we can say about the r. F. P. Is that its in process. If you have other questions, were happy to collect those and confer with the City Attorney and then respond to those after the hearing. Chair fewer so youre in the process now, the r. F. P. Is in the process now, is that correct . That is correct. Chair fewer and you cant give us any information about timing at all . I cannot. But im happy to collect your questions. Chair fewer okay. So i guess the question is what is the timing on the r. F. P. . What are we in the process. And and then theres modification number 3, this is about 9 million, is that correct . Well, modification 3 explicitly adds about 75 million to the overall contract. The existing through amendment 2 had about 9. 9 million in the not to exceed a budget. Chair fewer and, you know, before i ask my next question, i just realized that supervisor walton is in the queue. We have not heard from the b. L. A. Would you mind, supervisor walton, if i called on the b. L. A. First and then we can ask questions . Okay. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair fewer b. L. A. Report, please. Sure. This is nick menard from the budget legislative analysts office. So this proposed resolution approves the third amendment to the citys agreement with color genomics for covid testing, which would increase the contract amount by 74. 5 million. This amounts to approximately 22 i 22,700 covid tests per week through april 6th, 2021. As we discussed on page 24 of our report, the amendment would pay for 12. 1 million of testing that has occurred since july 2020. And for testing through april 5th, 2021. The contract, as mr. Mario said, was a solesource contract procured on an emergency basis. There is an r. F. P. Process underway to identify other covid testing. So we do have three recommendations. One is to amend the proposed resolution to correct the end date of the contract. We also recommend that the board of supervisors request an update to the r. F. P. Process, prior to april 2021, when this amendment ends. Finally, we recommend approval of the resolution, as amended. Chair fewer thank you so much, mr. Menard. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton i did request the question already. [indiscernible] can you hear me . Chair fewer you are kind of breaking up a little bit. Kim what about now . Chair fewer youre kind of going in and out. Maybe turn off your camera. And then just speak . Supervisor walton is this working . Chair fewer thats better. Supervisor walton sorry about that. My apologies. I did ask the question about the potential for the third site. And the response i got was inadequate. It just said its not determined. Whats the timeline . Why would we approve this if not knowing where the third site is going or have no idea of where the third site may go. I dont get how your answer is not determined and that was that. So im happy to take this question. So the third site we are looking at the southeast sector, because it is the most heavily impacted. I think people on the call know were moving the soma site to allegheny. We want to do this in a mindful way. First, and see what kind of uptake we and improving testing rates there. And then determine where disease is still occurring in the southeast sector and where we might need to do coverage. I dont understand why that couldnt have been a response that we received when we asked the question. I apologize, supervisor walton, if it was confusing. If you got a confusing response. The response was very direct. It said that the third site has not been determined and that was that. It wasnt confusing at all. I appreciate you is what im saying. I just wish i wouldnt had to ask you that question right now. That would have been the answer when we inquired on the email. Got it. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. So im wondering i think my question is also so other vendors that can do this work. And i know this was a solesource and we have an r. F. P. Out. Can you give me sort of an idea of the scope of vendors that could accurately do this work . Are there many of them and [indiscernible] generally agree that color has been a good service. Anyone can answer that, that would be great. I can say that there are other vendors and part of the thinking on doing an r. F. P. In the first place is based on the assumption that we will be able to find other vendors. That being said, these services have already started by virtue of medical necessity. So in some sense the services in this amendment, there are no other vendors, because theyve already been provided, to some extent. Chair fewer yes. So we had never had covid contracts that had a term of the duration i mean, did not have a fixed date, is that correct, in we just said during 60 days, right. Why in this case do we have a fixed date . I think the in the budget legislative analyst may speak to this as well. With the mayors declaration in may, that covid plus 60 or the term of the emergency plus 60, changed to be 12 months and not longer than 12 months, if it was entered into pursuant to the emergency clause 2115. Chair fewer okay. And i wanted to know is there a time constraint on this . As far as approving the amendment . Yes. Yes. To our mind, d. P. H. Is actively pursue being deployment and as dr. Baba said trying to find areas of the city most impacted by covid, given what we know currently, which changes daytoday. Passing this amendment will continue to provide testing resources, that really need to be able to change deployment and redeploy on a pretty frequent basis. So we do view it as urgent. Chair fewer so were doing it already, right, retroactivively . We are doing it already. We have been engaged in this since july, right. We can continue what weve been doing for another week or to, if i continue this agreement back to committee with more information from the Controllers Office, is that correct . I can say that we worry about the impact that the further delay would have on our ability to continue making the necessary changes to testing. And that it is absolutely true that this amendment covers services that have been provided since august. Chair fewer sure. Okay. Supervisor walton, did you have another question or comment . Supervisor walton i do real quick. You stated that you this gives you the ability to deploy or redeploy on a pretty frequent basis. Can you define that frequency . I may ask dr. Baba to talk more about the ways that we deploy the mobile teams in particular. Supervisor walton yeah. I would love for our definitions of frequent. And i havent seen the frequency from the department. Its basically a mobile team. Were in conversation on a regular basis with community partners, as well as internally with the c. C. B. To see census tracks and areas that were seeing a lot of disease. And we are constantly updating our Community Testing sites based on that. So, for example, you know, recently in chinatown and in portola, were looking at testing in another place. Thats just the ability to move the tales around, as were seeing disease and as the community is manufacturing us about the informing us about the needs. Supervisor walton dr. Baba, youve been moving the sites, been able to move them weekly, biweekly, monthly . Whats the frequency . The current goal is to at least have a site be in place for a couple of weeks to ensure that weve gotten out adequate outreach and weve made the right, you know, attempts to get people to the testing sites, before moving it. And the testing site actually ends up being a very highfunctioning testing site or i should say a place where a lot of people go, we tend to try to extend that time. But its at least for a couple of weeks. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair fewer so are you saying to me that if this that the nonapproval of this contract now, would prohibit you from continuing the work that youve been doing since august . I dont think we would draw that firm of a line. But it would impair our ability to continue to deploy, as dr. Baba said, the popup resources and then continue to plan for the anticipated november 17th go live on the almaney site. Chair fewer okay. You could continue to plan for this and youve been doing this since august. So if we were do delay this for a week or two, you could still do these functions, is that correct . Are you telling me that if we dont approve this today or take it out of committee today, that you would actually not that you would have to cease the operation or extension . Is that what youre telling me . I think i would clarify in that in just that, chair fewer, its not so much d. P. H. As color has performed these services for three months without being paid. And at some point their ability to continue to engage proactively with the new needs for the city is where were as d. P. H. Are leery of continuing without this amendment. Chair fewer so is carolyn here from color . Yes. Hi, everybody. Thank you for hearing this this morning. Chair fewer yes. Hello. So so what im hearing is that d. P. H. , the concern is that if we dont do this, that there may be a i guess a noncontinuance of a service from color. Is that true . If we were to continue this for a week or two, to have another discuss about the r. F. P. With the controller. Are you telling me today that color would actually not perform for us . I appreciate the question. And just taking a step back, you know, weve been really grateful to have the opportunity to work with the department of Public Health, the Mayors Office and the city over, you know, these many months in april and performing this work and we consider it to be a great privilege to be involved in this. As it relates to currently, we are in a position, as a company, where we have been performing an extensive amount and actually expanded amount of testing on behalf of the city. And really refocusing a lot of those efforts in communities across the city as well since july. And unfortunately because this is out of contract, we have not been paid for those services over that three months. As you can probably appreciate, that presents a number of challenges from a cash flow perspective, et cetera, to our business. And so weve been trying to work pretty diligently withdrew and others in d. P. H. To figure out a path to resolution of that. My concern is just that we have the more that the weeks go on and expanded Services Come into play, and were outside of contract, it does present legal and business challenges for us. But we have continued to perform in good faith throughout, including with the planning of the relocation to almaney, which is currently targeted for the week after next. We continued to do that as we go through the process. Chair fewer sure. So youd continue to work in good faith with the city if we were to delay this decision by a week or two . I think thats my question. Yeah. Id love to discuss that further withdrew as well. And i think one consideration and question is if theres any questions currently, that i could be helpful in answering, that would support not delaying for further discussion, if theres any question that i can help answer now as well. Chair fewer i think that is the only question i have before you today. And apparently youre the only one that can answer that. So i guess my question to you is could you still partner with us in good faith, if we were to delay this decision by a week or two . , considering that weve had a working relationship with the city and county. I think that the city and county has been very pleased with the work. But also i think that the specific time of a pandemic and that actually human lives are at stake here. Of course. Chair fewer and we appreciate that color has been assisting us in such an efficient manner, but i guess my question to you, if we didnt approve this today, is color telling me and this board of supervisors that you will not act in good faith . I dont think i think throughout this program, weve continued to act in good faith throughout. And again continue to expand services. Wed just appreciate the ability to have the dialogue i have giving us the confidence that well be compensated for the three months, plus the work that weve continued to perform, particularly as, you know, weve actually also made enhancements and improvements in our actual operations. Just within the last month alone, weve been returning 98 of all of the test results in under 33 hours from the time of sample collection. We continue to actually expand services, as well as really expand and improve the way that the results are being returned to individuals. So were were we will continue to operate in good faith, but we also appreciate confidence that, you know, that operating outside of contract for this significant period of time, given the nature of it being a public emergency, that that will be appropriately dealt with at some point. Chair fewer sure. Okay. Thats great. Thats great to know. Could we open this up for Public Comment, please. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if any callers are ready. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. I think personally yes. Oh, sorry. I wanted, chair fewer, thank you. I wanted to make sure to add explicitly we agree with the budget and legislative analysts report, with the proposed amendment to the resolution. Just to make sure thats on record. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. So, colleagues, i actually this is a very expensive amendment. I think i am personally uncomfortable without having, first, more information from the Controllers Office and what weve heard from the Controllers Office is that they need to confer actually with our City Attorney before theyre able to give me any answers. So, colleagues, i would like to continue this item into the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. I understand there is i think we heard from a representative from color and from d. P. H. This is very this is necessary work that needs to be done in light of our current situation. And i understand the urgency of this. But what i also am hearing is color is willing to actually work continue to work in good faith with us, as they have for a couple of months and that if we were to delay this by two weeks, that actually, because were not meeting next week, that it that they would still work with us in good faith. Although it does delay the payment. So i am i am happy to approve the amendments from the b. L. A. I would like to continue this until the to the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. I would love to get your opinion and have discussio