Call. Actually, first you take Public Comment. Moderator, any Public Comment . Any Public Comment, moderator . No. No, so i will do a role call, commissioners. I will show my face so we can look at that. [role call vote] commissioner, if you want to end this item gore to see if the commissioners have any more comments or do any personally thanking. I would like to offer the opportunity for commissioners to offer comments. First, i would like to begin in addition to acknowledging the people of San Francisco for the sacrifices they have made in order to comply with the orders that have been placed, that are literally saving lives every day. We cannot express in an appropriate depth of gratitude that we feel to the employees of the San Francisco department of Public Health, so many of whom are working 24 hours seven days a week in order to protect all of the people of San Francisco, particularly those who are most vulnerabled a at risk nor pandemic. All the way from director colfax throug
And the commissioner knows our i will say baseline Behavioral Health challenges within the city. Those are only reinforced again by covid19. We are looking to use the hotels now and then we are also working with h. S. And h. S. H. To set people up in a shelter with broader support and more capacity to take care of people who are covid positive who are also lean towards developing capacity and facilities to care for people who are covid recovered. And once people move through the covid positive recovery and it is important to emphasize 80 of people do okay. So in the congregate setting, this percentage will vary depending on the population. The bottom line is we need to also support people who are in the covid19 recovery past the infectious period. And that is something that we have been keeping hard on with the Housing Agency and those are support questions and those questions. I have two questions with the manpower of the Contact Tracing and when you stated that you are hoping to get
Departments dead line itself, to determine bed capacity and covid19 testing. Bob, i know you were listening to that press conference. Tell us a little more about it. Reporter well, the county says its expandible and elastic when i comes to thi beds opened and available in kante scholar ra county. Is that number going to be enough if we do see a surge of covid19 cases . The county Operations Emergency Center wrapped up this News Conference about 30 minutes ago. They announced two new dashboards on the Public Health we believe site, you mentioned, which lets the county know in terms of bed capacity and covid19. Heres the latest numbers as of march 31st. You can see they have over 9 aqueued beds available, just over 90 icu beds, close to 1,500 surge beds. These are beds that theyve added because of this crisis. That includes 250 of the Santa Clara County convention center. They have just under 400 ventilators. Again, thats as of march 31st. As of yesterday, the county labs, commercial lab
Who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. Before i address a set of amendments that were going to be putting forward today, i want to say a few things about what this proposal is and also what a Navigation Center is. San francisco piloted its first Navigation Center in 2015. The model was dubbed more than a shelter and was carefully c
Our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. Before i address a set of amendments that were going to be putting forward today, i want to say a few things about what this proposal is and also what a Navigation Center is. San francisco piloted its first Navigation Center in 2015. The model was dubbed more than a shelter and was carefully crafted to be ta shelter for people seeking housing. The idea for a central lobby for front line city