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SFGTV Mayors Press Availability July 13, 2024

Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Thank you, dr. Aragon. Thank you for let me just say that you for all the questions that i have had, all the ones that i have funneled your way during this crisis, i really appreciate your accessibility and your response and your ability to explain things in a clear manner, joining us for our town halls, and for working so hard to get this information out as quickly as possible. Its been tremendous. I want to ask you, and if i missed it, im sorry because i know that theres been a lot of questions. I want to talk a little bit about our Skilled Nursing facilities. I know ive talked to you about this last time. I know weve had some conversations about when testing would begin in an aggressive manner, and when i see that new york is has issued the governor of new york has issued that all persons in these facilities would be tested twice a week, and they would be moving aggressively, and they then changed their orders that said they would no longer allow covidpositive patients to be transferred into these nursing facilities. And then, when i read the statistics in the state that over half the people that have died have been in these Skilled Nursing facilities, it makes me wonder why and how we havent moved a little bit more aggressively. I know you said youre still debating about the types of swabs and so on, but what can you do i know youve told us recently that the orders have changed, and now, all the staff in these facilities are going to be tested. But we put out on sfcity, testsf that people can get testing at 7 and brandon without an appointment, or any person can get testing on pier 32. Im just wondering how and why we havent been able to move more aggressively in our skilled facilities. This is a big concern in the entire Jewish Community yes, thank you. It is our longterm care facilities, especially the s. N. F. S, is our highest priority. And i think what youll see if you go back and look at all the orders that were done on Skilled Nursing facilities, strom screening, temperature checking, we made it at laguna honda, the residents that could prior leave, are not allowed to leave. So what we did what we did early on with laguna honda because that is the biggest location, we asked the c. D. C. And the California Department of Public Health to come in and actually develop a framework and an approach that we could provide to longterm care facilities, and weve gone beyond that, and were requiring testing for all staff and all patients. Supervisor safai i know that you guys have consistently changed your orders. It just seems that were not moving aggressively enough, given the statistics of people that have died, and i just wonder how we can move more aggressively. Yeah. So let me just real quickly tell you our goal. Our goal is to get every two weeks of testing. Its big logistically, and the Health Department has committed to making sure the testing gets done. Other places will pass the orders and then just expect the Skilled Nursing facilities to do it. What weve heard is they dont necessarily have the Financial Resources or expertise to do that. So were stepping up to do that, and if we see that it needs to be done for frequently, well move in that direction. But we agree with you and im actually getting some texts that i need to leave because i needed to leave at 6 00, and its 6 15. That all your questions . Supervisor safai well, i did have one more questions, and thats abaho sphere, and how its going to be distributed throughout all the hospitals. I know our staff is looking into that, because theres been changes how that drug is going to be distributed. Were getting instruction from the state, and i believe something may have just been distributed within the last 24 hours, ill send it to you so you have an idea of how its going to be distributed within california. Supervisor safai more specifically in San Francisco. Yeah. Youll want to know where its going and where its not going. Supervisor safai okay. Thank you. President yee thank you. Theres two more names added, but supervisor walton, do you have a quick question . Supervisor walton i know that supervisor fewer had a few questions, so ill pass it to her. President yee yes. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes. Dr. Aragon, i can say i understand the frustration. Once, when you came before us, you said early, the unhoused population, the people in s. R. O. S, they are our main concern, yet, we have not seen a Public Health order, and therefore, we dont know the plan or direction what is happening to these people. I think also in the recovery, but not only the recovery, but as go forward in the next couple of months, we dont know what the plan is. If were adopting a strategy of safe sleeping sites, thats something we should be doing right now. We cant leave it to people in the bayview, to leave it in their hands. This is leaving a whole population, and were talking about thousands of people without a direction, and we as supervisors dont have direction of where youre headed with this. I think that its it is disingenuous, quite frankly, to say. This is a population from the very beginning that weve had concern about, and not had a Public Health order, not one direction. We also say to people, thousands of people, in a very middle class way, wash your hands 20 times for 20 seconds every time. We hear from Public Health officials, yet they dont even have their clothes in their house. They have to undress before they get into their own homes. When we are saying these basic things to folks, and yet, in the unhoused population, we dont even have a place for them to wash their hands, i would say that we are looking at it through a wrong paradigm. We are looking at it through a middle class lens, when actually, quite frankly, where we are going to see this outbreak, where we are going to see saving lives of people, it is in this paradigm where they dont have these options. We dont know whats going to happen, and even when we start to loosen up the restrictions, these people still have not been quarantined. So i join my colleagues in wondering what is really happening and what will really happen . We have not been shared on a plan, we dont know what the plan is. I actually, quite frankly, think that during this Public Health crisis, that should be a Public Health mandate. So that is not a question, that is just my opinion, and im happy to have a private offline conversation with you about this, but thank you. I appreciate the honest feedback. Thank you. President yee dr. Aragon. Im going to have to im going to have to run, so i dont want to be rude, and i know that we still have to president yee well, dr. Aragon, excuse me, theres been this question over and over again, and youre not going to be able to answer it, of course, today. And youre at least, i think for next week, you should start off answering this question, what the plan is, if any, and if theres a reason for it. And i want to give at least one more person a chance who hasnt asked a question at all, even though youre way over. No, its okay. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. I want to share my concern of my colleagues. In your explanation, i heard a reason why you felt you couldnt issue an order on kmo kmo on commandeering hotels, but that is only part of the issue that supervisors ronen and fewer has raised. My question is, you came before us on march 17, you said that we could do everything right in our response here, but if we dont address our congregate living situations and Homeless People, that we could have an explosion of cases. I think you were right then and would like to see the orders that my colleagues have referenced address Homeless People. But my question isnt looking backwards as to why you havent. Id actually just like a direct answer as to whether you plan to issue any Health Orders regarding homelessness on the issues that have been raised social distancing among Homeless People, the availability of rest rooms, showers, hand washing stations for Homeless People . Are you planning on issuing a health order on those issues . Yeah. So everything that youre describing to me are really policy decisions and strategic options, and so what i want to do is i want to just convene with dr. Colfax and our executive team and really come back and decide how we can respond in a holistic way. Ill work with president yee to make sure that we can come back and discuss this further. Supervisor preston thank you. Supervisor peskin mr. President , i just want to remind all of us, and im sorry for jumping in and keeping dr. Aragon, but i want to just raise the original contention that dr. Aragon presented at the beginning. And i admit that San Francisco is unique because we are a city and county, but the reality is this the City Attorney believes, and i share this belief, that along with the other 57 counties, it is the legislative branch that appoints this position. And while it is true that as a doctor in the Health Department, dr. Aragon works for dr. Colfax and is part of the executive branch. It doesnt actually have to be that way. Thats not the way it is in the other 57 counties, and the City Attorney says that should we desire to have dr. Aragon be a completely independent person who does not have to take marching orders from dr. Colfax not that im saying that dr. Colfax is giving him bad marching orders we have that power and ability. So i think we really, for the health of the body politic and communications amongst Decision Makers and communicators and the public, we need to change the dialogue between the chief Health Officer and this legislative elected body, and i just want to leave everybody with this thought. Im really going to have to run because my wife is going to be very upset with me. President yee, is it okay if i clerk mr. President , you might be muted. I just want to be excused appropriately. President yee i will excuse you as soon as i finish my sentence. Okay. Thank you. President yee so basically, you answered some of the questions, and thank you very much for doing that, and theres some outstanding ones that were on the list that you didnt get a chance to get to. I think theres some fundamental frustration or questions that we have frustrations about thats going to come back over and over again. You need to have a plan when you come back on how to do this, because its not going to go away. The people on the streets arent going to go away by themselves, and the danger thats afforded to them isnt going to go away, and we cant come back every single time and say, were thinking about it, and we have a plan. Okay. Thank you for staying a lot later than we asked you to. Okay. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. President yee okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, colleagues, and i will continue talking with dr. Aragon and dr. Colfax to try to get to some of the questions that you have presented, and i will now adjourn this update. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin okay. Thank you. Welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, may 12th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin. And i am the chair. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Ms. Tsao, if you could please call the roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Commissioner haney present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Commissioner mandelman present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Supervisor safai is here. Clerk safai present. Thank you. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, i do. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. 2045987. Enter access code, as seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial one, zero to be added to the queue to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order of which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume on your television. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam clerk. Can you please read the item. Clerk this is an information item. Commissioner peskin mr. Larson, good morning. Good morning, chair peskin and vice chair mandelman and commissioners. The last time i appeared before you, at the march 10th was at the march 10th t. A. Board meeting. Subsequently our march 25th and april 22nd c. A. C. Meetings were canceled, but im happy to inform you that we will resume our meetings on may 27th through a Virtual Meeting like this one. And were going to have a practice session this friday to prepare. So im sure it will go smoothly. In the meantime, the t. A. Staff has kept themselves available to brief any of the c. A. C. Members on issues that have come before the t. A. Board in the interim. Theyve been keeping us informed and up to date we do look forward to getting back to business and bringing forward our comments and our suggestions and our points of view to you at your next meeting. So, thank you very much. Commissioner peskin thank you, mr. Larson. And we look to the results of your next meeting. Madam clerk, can you please any Public Comment on the c. A. C. Report . Clerk there is no Public Comment. Commissioner peskin okay. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] next item, please. Clerk item 3, approve the minutes of the april 28th, 2020 meeting. This is an action item. Commissioner peskin is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk there is no Public Comment. Commissioner peskin okay. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] is there a motion to approve the minutes of april 28th commissioner preston aye. Chair peskin is there a second . Commissioner preston moves. Is there a second for that motion . Commissioner mandelman second. Chair peskin on that item, a roll call please. [roll call] clerk we have approval. Commissioner peskin thank you. The minutes are adopted. Next item, please. Clerk item 4. Allocate 3,257,155 in prop k cals tax funds, with conditions, and 140,000 in prop aa vehicle Registration Fee funds for seven requests. This is an action item. Commissioner peskin ms. Laforte, good morning. Good morning, commissioners. Anna la fort Deputy Director for policy and programming. Im pleased to be with you today. Ill just start with some base remarks, as requested by chair peskin. We have evaluated the requests that we are presenting to you today, in light of the covid19 pandemic and the shelterinplace. And we have confirmed with the agencies that are requesting these funds, sfmta and s. F. Public works that these projects continue to be priorities and Staff Resources are available to deliver the projects, according to the schedules and the materials that you have. And so with that im going to pull up my presentation. And we will start with the first request from public works. This is for the replacement of street repair and cleaning equipment that has passed the end of its useful life. And these are pieces of equipment that are compliant with the air Resources Board and the service date is around this Time Next Year, at the end of june 2021. This request is a request that we see every year from public works for public sidewalk and curb repair. This is to repair damaged infrastructure that is not caused by street trees. So these are for locations that have that have been impacted because of equipment or age or poor original construction to begin with. So there are theres a backlog of locations that are shown in your packet of materials for folks watching at home. You can request a public sidewalk repair by calling 311. Next request is a funding request that we also see every year from the department of public works. This is for streets and planting. In the past, this category and the prop k expenditure plan has funded both tree maintenance as well as Tree Planting and establishment with the passage of the prop e Tree Maintenance Fund from the general fun setaside passed in 2016 street tree maintenance is now funded through the general fund. So the planting and the establishment of newly planted trees is funded by the prosecution k sales tax. And the locations that have been cleared for utilities, these are empty basins. There was a backlog of locations that was shown in the materials that you have in your packet. Theres about 630 locations or so that will be that are ready for plant. And public works prioritizes empty basins as well as areas in the city with low canopy cover. Similar to the public sidewalk repair requests, members of the public can call 311 for a Tree Planting. The next two prop k sales tax requests are from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for the residential trafficcalming program. The fi

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