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You can submit Public Comment. It will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be century a u. S. Postal service through city hall, room 244 San Francisco 94102. Finally the item after is expected to be sent to the full board as Committee Reports for consideration on may 5th, 2020. Thank you, maam add clerk. Call item number 1. Clerk y. He is madam chair. Item number 1, emergency ordinance to limit the spread of covid19 by requiring the city through Service Agreements with third parties to provide that equipped with handwashing facilities as a purpose and shelter people within three weeks of the Effective Date of this ordinance. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the 888 2045984 access code 3501008 and press one and then 0 to lineup. Thank you, very much. Our speakers today are supervisor matt haney and inaudible . Im sorry, if i butchered your last name. Also public works ca caro short, bruce robinson. Supervisor haney, do you have opening words . I do. First of all, thank you so much supervisor fewer for having this emergency meeting. I really appreciate it and i know that this is an issue that youve been very vocal on and very committed to as well. I really appreciate your leadership and really facilitating this emergency meeting and thank you also to supervisor walton who has been very supportive, i believe is a cosponsor of this legislation. Weve got folks from public works here. I just want to say, at the outset, its been really refreshing to have your leadership, and your department has been very responsive on this and the ceta action and partnership has really been impressive. I want to thank you for your support and your leadership in working to get this right. The need for this is probably pretty obvious and clear. One of the most important things that we can do during this pandemic is make sure that people have access to basic hygiene and this was an issue before this pandemic but during this crisis, its so critical that people who dont otherwise have access to basic hygiene have it. Its available very close to where they are and its immediate. Its accessible and at longer hours and the danger, if we dont do that, is that this pandemic spreads and the crisis goes on much longer. Of course, we are concerned about a number of populations in particular. One is obviously are many people on the streets who continue to be unsheltered who are living without houses, who dont have a bathroom of their own and their ability to access bathrooms when they need it is critical. And that includes handwashing stations as well. There are also a lot of other populations. Folks who are out on the streets all the time in district 6 and district 10, nine other parts of the city, who should have access to handwashing station and bathrooms who are not homeless as well. There are also people who are out working like delivery workers and taxi drivers and need and deserve access to these handwashing stations and if you are out there and come across someone or had to touch someone or something and something happens, you need to modally beo wash your hands to stay safe. We have introduced this ordinance, which would significantly increase both bathroom and handwashing station access to meet the International Crisis guideline of one bathroom per 50 unhoused individuals during the state of state of emergency. This will help people keep safe and prevent the spread of the covid19 for all of our residents. The un also states in an emergency, ultimately, one bathroom per 20 people is the post emergency standard and the American Red Cross and fema have cited the more robust one bathroom per 20 people guideline during a crisis. We think its important to set this standard. I do want to say theres been movement on this towards this goal from the department of public works. We introduced a resolution and unanimously passed a resolution in march around this same issue and since then the department has added 15 new pitstops which is really appreciated. It has now responded since this ordinance has been introduced, by adding additional toilets. So they will be able to update us on that progress. I still dont believe that we need to go further and we need to make sure these bathrooms are where people are. If they are ive heard and were going to discuss bathrooms being open in parks, which is really fantastic and a way to increase access. I want to make sure that the bathrooms are where people need them and where people are living on the streets and congregation of people and were committed to and need to work much quicker to get people in hotel and inside and make sure everyone has a room their own and a bathroom of their own during this time and we know tonight there are people, thousands of people who are still living on the streets. Many thousands more who lack access to bathrooms. The cafes are generally closed and the restaurants are generally closed and the people and places people used to go to the bathroom, like the Public Library and other places are all closed. So we have to step up and do more. And i know we have, i believe a presentation at least some comments from the folks from public works and again, i just want to thank them for their responsiveness and their partnership on this as well as in my office, honey mahagney. We have amendments but it would be great to first hear from the department. Thank you, very much, supervisor haney. I believe we have a presentation from the department of public works. Let me see if i can share my screen with you all. Sure. So, good morning supervisor fewer and supervisor haney and supervisor walton. Im a acting and director of the public works department. You know, i just want to say first and foremost, and supervisor haney, you are right, this is something that in public works you take seriously and the Pit Stop Program is something that we see as a vital need here in the city and its something that we take as a great amount of pride in doing. This Program Provides the city and the residents with clean and safe public toilets. It also acts as a place where needles can be disposed of and and we tried to focus these in the Pit Stop Program and the location of them in the citys most impacted neighborhoods. This is something the public works in the city could not do with our partners in the community. They are staffed with a paid attendance through non profits and these intended insure that the bathrooms are clean and safe and theyre being used for their and the Pit Stop Program at public works began in 2014 and it began in the tenderloin and grown to a total of 24 sites as across the city and totaling 42 neighborhoods im sorry, totaling 42 toilets in 13 neighborhoods. And we have the location for the pit stops, based on and the street cleaning data. If we see that wir were gettina lot of requests about human waste or animal weight in certain neighborhoods and were going to those neighborhoods very often to do and the steam cleaning and things like that, thats where we start to consider the placement a as a ay put stop. We work within our partners within the city family, hsa and hsh if we see as encampments. We consider it in those areas as well. I also wanted to mention that we collaborated with the recreation and Parks Department and they have developed, as a park stop program, which is a model after the Pit Stop Program and it provides 57 staff toilets across the city at seven locations the book that pit stops are only staffed as during the day, over the past year or so, and if theyre looking to expand the student provide 124 hour service in the beginning in progress of last year and we actually did, as a pilot program, provided three locations with 24 hour service. Those are currently in, as a tenderloin, castro and the south of market. Weve seen that the usage of the pit stops and for those in locations as increased by 76 over that period. This is obviously a good thing for us. Theres also something that we wanted to start really thinking about when we had a covid19 crisis that came up as well. I go into that later. But again, i do want us to mention with responsible to talk about it is that theres a cost as associated with this. For example, if the city were to expand in the Pit Stop Program for all of its non 24 hour sites and make those 24 hours just in the last couple months of the year, that would have a cost of about 1. 2 million. So, the cost of doing so on an annual basis would be an additional 6 million. This is something that public works is open to doing but again, there is a cost to doing so and we would be willing to have those conversations though. So, just to give you an idea of the over all uses, were looking at 300,000 uses a year which as equates to one plus every couple minutes. Weve also seen that we collect about 80,700 needles every year so the needles that are being found in playgrounds, parks and sidewalks, weve also seen the placement of the pit stops, we have a reduction at the steam and cleaning request by as about a third. This has been a very inaudible program in the city and its modeled by other major cities across the country whether its miami, denver, and los angeles and again, i cant emphasize enough the value that we get from our as attendants and they do a great job and keeping the pit stops clean and its not just the pit stop and the surrounding areas of the pit stops as well we have seen they saved lives when they they can otherwise provide help and again, they really have acted more as partners to us here at public works and i cant say enough about them. Now, as you know fortunately fast forward and covid19 and and they pinpointed out the thing we saw when we went into to shelter in place, that was the right thing to do but did have a negative impact on large areas in the community because theres no longer access to toilets in the libraries, in the rec centers and things like that because those were now all closed. So public works partnered with hsa and we were able to, as identified, for several locations across the city, based on they began popping up we began analysis with reps from a hsh and based on that we did checks to evaluate the slope of the area, and considerations if it was available face on the street. We worked with our partner to block certain parking spots if we needed to so this was, as a team effort, as across the city. At the end of the day, it resulted in us being able to secure what is now a total of 37 different toilet at 43 different locations across the city. It was rolled in april of this year. I also want to emphasize that all the of the toilets that are part of the covid19 response and are open 24 hours a day and seven days a week. And so, based on the analysis from the United Nations have provided at the one inaudible for 50 unsheltered residents, and the city has this amended target because we currently have, as 136 toilets, across 63 locations. That is made up of the 42 of the pit stops and toilets and the 37 additional that were put in place for covid19. I would want to emphasize were not done yet but theres work we can do regarding outreach and things like that to make sure that if individuals know and where they are and thats something and the public works is doing right now and working with our partners on the hot team and things like that to provide additional outreach inaudible . At the same time, were also going to be continuing our efforts to monitor and the usage of the toilets in place and trying to revise the locations of those toilets as the needs change. Like, for example, the thing were also looking at right now and working with the e. O. C. And setting up state sites across the city for our unhoused residents and if thats the case we will also be providing toilets and those locations as well at handwashing stations and this last slide gets a look at cost that are associated with the Pit Stop Program with the covid19 toilet. As you can see, this is not necessarily as a low Dollar Program and its the right thing to do and again we did want to share these costs with you and this cost you see are only the cost that are related to and renting in the toilets and us paying as the monitors in the attendants if you will. Is this does not include the cost of the people here at public works so it does not cover the cost for our people that work on a Contract Team and as a fantastic job and managing these grants and the finance team of helping us to manage these costs they come in and the Government Affairs and Communications Team that works on the flyers and the other outreach materials so again, this is only the cost we play as our outside vendors if we were going to expand the Program Beyond the current Pit Stop Program and we would likely need to start adding staff they are stretched thin and the size of the program has grown and quickly which is say good thing but again, were at a point where we have probably needed to reconsider in the staffing that would be needed to add expanded programs and beyond this. So that concludes my presentation and i will be happy to answer any questions. Thank you for the presentation. President yee. Supervisor yee thank you, director. Is wave 2 already implemented . Is wave 2 representing what you need to get to the ratios that this legislation is asking for . Thats a good question. President yee, wave 2 has already been put in place. I believe it wouldnt be in place in the third or first week of april. So the numbers that are in the presentation, are the numbers that are all in place now. So, my question is, how many more can we need to put up if we were to reach that goal that is asked in this legislation and how much more would they cost . Were inaudible . The goal with the work. So, the legislation calls for 102 toilets and were currently at 136. Were over what is called for in the legislation but we may need to still respond to, for example, if we dont have enough toilets in the tenderloin or the mission or in the bayview just because there could be, as a hotspot that we see a group of encampments opens up and well need to reevaluate the need as based on that. Ok, thank you. Thank you for the information. Thats helpful. Supervisor walton. Thank you, chair, fewer and again thank you director alrich. I dont want to mess up your last name so i apologize for not calling you by your last name. I appreciate the presentation and i want to reiterate how important our pit stop restrooms are and the fact that theyre more than just toilets because of the practitioner and because of the cleanliness around our pit stop sites and the way that they work with the surrounding community. Its very important. Theyre trained in c. P. R. As you talked about directors, they are savely saving lives and ive witnessed on video pit stop practitioner administers narcan to individuals and providing c. P. R. They do more than monitor toilets. They are part of the community that theyre participating in. We have seen a major increase in encampments and where theyre con agree gating so its very important that we do have pit stops and handwashing stations increasing the spread throughout. I was on the phone yesterday with some constituents about everie encampments that have grn and so i want to say of course im fully in support of this legislation and fully in support of the pit stops program and what the providers actually benefit to the community. So thank you. Supervisor haney. Thank you. Thank you for those comments and the presentation. I have a few questions and comments and amendments that i have that are intended to address some of the things im going to bring up. I appreciate that the pit stops have been added. And the commitment to bathroom access. I want to underscore related to president yees comments. Nearly half of the bathrooms that you have right now that are being counted are in parks. I think 57 of the 136 that you mention there. And in addition, weve added a number of bathrooms recently, less than a quarter of our bathrooms are open past 8 00 p. M. And so i want to ask about access. The purpose is for bathrooms to be near where people need them during this crisis. I believe 20 of the toilets that are being counted as meeting our bathroom access needs are in Golden Gate Park, for example, when i believe especially in the evening and nights that people are supposed to be camping there. Obviously, in many cases, parks are were not allowingen camments there, et cetera. Can you speak a bit about the bathrooms in the parks and whether you believe that those are accessible and what the bathroom counts look like right now in the parks. Im having a hard time seeing that as something that we should count as part of this when those toilets are really generally for times in which the parks are heavily used for exercise and i mean we have, for example, we have one in days park in south of market. That park, as i understand it, has been closed so can you clarify a bit the role of the bathrooms in the parks and how we count those of meeting the goal and intense of this ordinance . Yeah, i mean, i would have to speak to my colleagues at a recreation and Parks Department to truly understand the accessibility of a