Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off wit
Units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you
Doctor, weve got your back. Thats the end of my 30 seconds, mr. President. President thank you. Time is up. Thank you, dr. Aragon, for being here, but i am a little disappointed that we had general question about the same issues that we talked about and my colleagues just talked about, and there was some commitment by you to come back with some overall idea of how you would get to a plan if not a plan. So i will talk to you or contact you in the future to see if we need anymore briefings. But today i am going to go ahead and end todays briefing. Again, thank you, colleagues, for hanging in there. And thank you, dr. Aragon and thank you, dr. Baba for being here today with us. Good night, everybody. You can out more information about this data and on our data tracker, on our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, t
Mayor london breed we are on day way too many of this covid19 shutdown. I want to just start by thanking sf gov tv and those who are participating in this Virtual Press conference today. I am joined by the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, as well as the police chief, bill scott. The director of the Human Services agency, trent rohrer, the director of housing and homelessness, Abigail Stewart khan, and im San Francisco mayor, london breed, here to provide you with an update on what is happening with covid19 in our city. As of today we have 1,994 casis of those san franciscans who have been diagnosed with covid19, and sadly weve lost 35 people and about 70 people have been hospitalized, and as a reminder, we want to ask folks to visit datasf. Org covid19 for more information. I have a number of announcements today, and i am excited to announce some good news for a change. I know that last friday we made an announcement that on may 18 there would be a number of businesses, i
May 15, 2020. The meeting will can the order. This the is the may 15, local meeting of the local agency formation. I am sandraly fewer joined by gordon marand cynthia pollock. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Due to the Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, staff and public, city hall is closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order and local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. You may participate in the meeting to the extent as if physically present. Public comment will be available on each item. On channel 26 and sfgovtv will stream the number on the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Communities or opportunities to speak are via by calling 408 4189388. Pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the discussions but you will be muted and in his senning mode only. Listening mode onl