Conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Regarding the publics participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting Public Comment, there are three public hearings on todays agenda. Two of which are expected to be continued. Item 10, the public hearing on Law Enforcement staffing and items 11 through 14, the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review. Both items are expected to be continued to the near term. The public hearing that is expected to [inaudible]. Please utilize this information. We will also display it once those items are called. And please feel free to submit your written comments to board. Gov. Supervisors sfgov. Org. Thank you, mr. President. Ok. Thank you. We have a we will be having supervisor fewer sharing an update from the Emergency Operations center. So we will come back to this after our 2 00 p. M. Special order. So madame clerk, before we get started, just a friendly reminder for all the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking and to avoid audio feedback. Ok . Colleagues, today we will be approving the minutes from the february 25, 2020 and march 3, 2020 regular Board Meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Mr. President , just so move. Thank you, supervisor. Just for the record, supervisor preston just texted to indicate he is having some issues to get on to teams. So, if possible, before we take the vote on this item, could we wait one moment until he is connected . Ok. And were not votings on this item, but were doing the motions. Motion by supervisor walton and the second . Second, supervisor peskin. Ok. Seconded by supervisor peskin. Without objection. Just out of curiosity, what was that motion . This is a motion to approve the board minutes. Thank you. [whistling] ok. Then, without objection, these minutes will be approved after Public Comments as presented. Madame clerk, lets go to our 2 00 p. M. Special order. For the record, supervisor preston, or his staff, if you would just let us know when he is able to come online. The special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the appearance by the honorable mayor, london m. Breed, there being no questions submitted for supervisors recommending districts 9, 10 and 11, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. Ok. Welcome, madame mayor, mayor breed. There were no topics submitted by supervisors today. We welcome you to share your remarks. This is really important times and im glad you are here to be able to share your remarks. Thank you, president yee. Thank you so much for having me here today. This, as we know, has been a very challenging time for all of us and i really appreciate that san franciscans are staying home and grateful for the level of compliance that we have seen. We still know that we have work to do and were not out of the woods. So, as much as San Francisco has been a model for flattening the curve t curve is not completely gone away. And so we cant let up. We cant get complacent. We have to continue to focus on what we need to do in order to get through this. I really want to take this opportunity to thank our essential city workforce. A special thank you to our Health Care Workers, our muni bus drivers, our para transit operators showing up to work every single day. The Grocery Store clerks, they are doing incredible work. They are putting their lives on the line to really serve and protect and support the public. Our public works department, the folks who are out there cleaning the streets. Yesterday i went to the Disaster Service worker training for employees who are stepping. Up and leaving their homes to work in hotels for homeless individuals. This is a tough job for anyone. But for people who we know are not necessarily the ones who are responsible for working in this capacity, we really appreciate the work that they are doing and the training that they are taking to learn about whats necessary in order to be a Disaster Service worker. We asked hundreds of our City Employees across 41 departments to leave the safety of their homes and step up into a role that is well outside the scope of their normal jobs to help provide a safety net, including our librarians delivering food to residents and providing care and education to the children of our essential frontline workforce and those who are going doortodoor doing Community Outreach to help our residents, especially those in Public Housing understand the challenges of the Public Health order. I just want to really take the opportunity to appreciate our city workforce. Any City Employee including the staff that work for all of you are considered Disaster Service workers. If any of your staff want to help and support our effort, they can sign up for the training to be Disaster Service workers and help us so we can move faster as weve been asked to staff up our hotel room so that we can move more of our vulnerable population into hotel rooms. I want to really take this opportunity to appreciate president yee and supervisor fewer and supervisor peskin for being on the frontlines here at the Emergency Operations center, staying on top of things, working with our office collaboratively in order to address the continued challenges that we all face, im grateful for your service and your partnership. I also appreciate the many employees that are working here at the Emergency Operations center for your hard work and showing up every single day. This has been tough for many of us and, as we face what we know is a considerable challenge, we also have to keep in mind that, as fast as we want to move, as much as we want to provide services and support, these are different times, especially when a request to ask people to socially distance themselves from one another. Doing this work under normal times is already challenging but now its so different, people are afraid. There continue to be issues, which is why the fact fact that there are so many people who are still showing up to work and helping us to keep this city running, operating our buses, working at these hotels and continuing to do everything they can to provide service, it is absolutely remarkable. And i want to take this opportunity to truly appreciate them and their hard work. Thank you, again, supervisors and stay safe. Ok. Thank you, madame mayor, and thank you for your kind words and for join, us today. For joining us today. This concludes our special order. This item shall now be filed. Madame clerk, lets go back to communications. Supervisor fewer habitat Emergency OperationsCenter Last Week and also this week. So, supervisor fewer, would you like the share a briefly updated [inaudible]. Absolutely, president yee. Colleagues, today i will provide the senator kerry a series of updates on the board of supervisors liaison to the Emergency Operations center. And every Board Meeting for duration of the state of emergency, which ever supervisor was stationed, it will provide a brief, highlevel update on the e. O. C. s work. Since my office began our ship at the e. O. C. , the citys priority has been moving vulnerable populations into alternative housing sites, scaling up those alternative housing sites with a bidding process with hotels, going online with a comprehensive data tracker, trading a Food Security program accessible through 311 and continuing the spread of the virus. Additionally, text to 911 is now live, thanks to the work of e. O. C. We remain under both state and local shelter in place orders and all holiday celebrations continue to be canceled, including 4 20. Last monday, San Francisco had 696 confirmed cases of covid19 and 12 deaths. Today we have 987 cases and 15 deaths. Approximately 47 of our intensive care beds remain available at this point. Thanks to the [inaudible] early action taken by Public Health officials across the bay area, a total number of confirmed cases has grown at a far slower pace than other large metropolitan areas across the country facing severe outbreaks and hundreds and even thousands of deaths. We have Testing Available for First Responders and are now subject ago total of approximately 300 to 500 tests a day. We are still struggling to scale up testing due to shortage of swabs and the e. O. C. Is working aroundtheclock to open up new supply lines. We also saw our first significant outbreak in a congregant living facility this week with over 80 confirmed cases of residents and 10 confirmed cases amongst staff at m. E. C. South shelter. As of tad, over 750 vulnerable individuals have been moved out of congregant settings and into hotel rooms where they can safely isolate, including the entire population of [inaudible] south. The e. O. C. Is currently planning for the second phase of scaling up of alternative housing site which is will include moving significant numbers of people off the street into hotel rooms. The e. O. C. Continues to prioritize Food Security services and scaling up alternative housing sites that allow for safe isolation. So far we have 1754 rooms online at eight different active hotel sites, over 400 rooms at four secured sites that are currently being prepared to come online and nine additional sites in negotiation. I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to the hundreds of disaster workers who are staffing the e. O. C. And hotels delivering groceries and perform ago myriad of other tasks to mobilize every resource at our disposal to contain the spread of this virus and minimize loss of life. This is an unprecedented disaster on a scale [inaudible] anticipated. I dont doubt that were all doing our best and look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the board and at various departments, staffing at e. O. C. To ensure all urgent needs are met for the duration of this crisis. I would like to shoutout my deep appreciation for my entire staff that has been at e. O. C. Last week and this week. In addition to holding down their Office Responsibilities and i also want to thank erin mundy for joining us from the d. A. Office who joined us this week to work at the e. O. C. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you, supervisor fewer for the update. So, in the confusion, lets go back to, for a moment here, the approval of the minutes. And i guess it was an automatic approval so that we should probably resend that motion to approve and, without any objections, well just rescind it. Ok. And if i could if its ok for supervisor walton to make a motion again and supervisor peskin to second that motion. So move. Second. Ok. Then once again, then without objection, these minutes will be approved after Public Comment is presented. Ok . And lets go to our agenda. Items one through five. Items one through five are on consent. If a member objects to the consent nature, a member may reject and have it considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items . From the consent agenda. Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk, please call the roll. On items one through five [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Ok. Without objection, it finallies paed unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to our regular agenda. Please call item number six. Item six is a resolution to approve a ground lease between the city and the california barrel company, l. L. C. For approximately 1. 6 acres of shoreline property add jay sent to the potrero power station site and a 1 annual base rent and to adopt the appropriate findings. Ok, madame clerk. Can you please call the roll on this item . Hold on. Mr. President , my name is up on the roster. Its supervisor peskin. Ok. Just showed up. Go ahead, supervisor peskin. Sorry. I think i hit the button too early and it showed up at tend of the consent agenda. I apologize for not having a moment to mention to this you earlier, mr. President. But yesterday it appears the Land Use Committee of the board of supervisors forwarded three items that appears as items 24, 25 and 26 on todays agenda as Committee Reports that are inextricably linked to item number six on todays agenda. And i was wondering if you want to call those items out of order so we can do the entire potrero power station together and then if you are willing to do that, mr. President , i would then like the say a few comments and defer to the district 10 supervisor. There any objection to this request . There are none, then lets take item 24 through 26 together out of order. Madame clerk . Items 24 through 26 are three ordinances that refer to the petrero power stationful it amends the plan to revise the Central Waterfront plan, the commerce and industry element, the recreation and open space element, the transportation element, the urban design element and the land use index to reflect the potrero power station mixed use project, item 25 amends the zoning map to establish the potrero power station special use district and item 26 approves the Development Agreement between the city and the california barrel company, l. L. C. For the potrero power station mixed use project at the approximate 29acre site with various public benefits. It makes the proefpt findings including public trust findings in accordance with the approval of portowned land and approves specific development impactees and suspends conflicting provisions in the planning code, administrative code, confirming compliance with or suspending certain provisions of the administrative code, the planning code, the public works code, the subdivision code and ratifies certain actions taken in connection as defined herein with these items. Thank you, madame clerk. Supervisor walton, would you like to make some comments . Thank you so much. First, thank you, supervisor peskin, for putting all these items together. It makes sense for the flow of the meeting. The first thing i just want to say in terms of item number six, this Lease Agreement would allow us to have Additional Space needed in a dog patch area in the community, but also provides [inaudible] allows access to the water. As you know, we should have water with the [inaudible] waterfront but we dont have the same level of access in district 10 so this is important that we make this possible for the entire community to benefit from him. So i want to thank the Budget Committee for realising this and passing it forward to with the prior recommendation to Land Use Committee which was heard yesterday. We also have items 24, 25 and 26, which comprise of planning approvals for potrero power Station Development project and this represents the last of the outstanding puzzle pieces connected in neighborhoods of the southeast sector of San Francisco to its waterfront. We will be providing almost 800 below market rate residential units for a total of a little over 30 of affordability, no less than two thirds of these affordable units will actually be provided on site. They also include a robust Workforce Development program, a range of new recreational and open spaces and tens of millions of dollars for transportation improvement and the area that are all featured in this project. Also all the items have been shaped by Community Input over the course of a planning process, a Dog Patch Community is excited about this project. The potrero community is excited about this project. And in short, and to summarize, this project will be transformative, turning a former power plant site into a vibrant new neighborhood with the decimation of the waterfront. I would like to thank land use for forwarding this with a positive recommendation and i look forward to voting in support of this at todays meeting. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, president yee and thank you, supervisor walton. As i said yesterday in the Land Use Committee, this has been many, many decades in coming. This was originally a pacific gas and electric power plant that was subsequently transferred to a number of different power providers, last in the hands of the morant corporation. It was one of two of San Franciscos most polluting power plants located in the southeast portion of San Francisco that contributed to elevated asthma rates and other Health Impacts in that part of our city. It has been a struggle that took many, many years to shut the plant down under two mayors. Mayor willie brown and mayor gavin newsom. There was incredible work done by the then district 10 supervisor Sophie Maxwell and the board to have first they actually had a proposal to eke panted that power plant with an additional unit. The board of supervisors and the administration fought that and won. Supervisor maxwell was profoundly important, that site, as was the office of the City Attorney, dennis herrera, and Teresa Mueller and i wanted to acknowledge that history and then, as part of their agreement to decommission that power pl