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Im john carroll, the clerk of the oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Our office is room 244, city hall, one dr. Carlton b. Goodlet place, San Francisco, california. And items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 19th, 2020 unless otherwise stated. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk, for all of that and can you please call item number one . Its ordinance amending the planning and building codes to grant legal status to existing dwelling units constructed without required permits and extending the waiver through december 31st, 2024, requiring annual reports on the Fee Waiver Program and making findings of consistency with the plan, the priority policies and finds for necessity under 302. Colleagues, i would like to continue this item to work on amendments to the reporting requirements this legislation. This is a part of my greater focus on expanding greater housing and supporting homeowners and tenants and i would like to ensure this program fits well with our larger housing policy goals. To before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Mr. Chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the cue. Please let us know if there are callers ready. For those connected via phone press 10 to be added to the cue to speak for this agenda item. For those already on hold in the cue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. For those who are watching our meeting on San Francisco cable channel 26 or via streaming link on sfgov tv, please call in by following the instructions on your screen. Enter the access code 35010008, press the pound symbol twice and 10 to enter the cue to speak. Operations, any callers in the cue. No callers wishing to speak. So thank you so much, mr. Clerk. Seeing no the callers on the line, Public Comment is now closed. And colleagues, i move that we continue with this item to the call of the chair. Mr. Clerk, please call role. rolon the motion to continue role call . Mr. Chair, there are three ay session. Es. An ordinance amending the municipal election case code to require the department of elections to expand use of vote by mail ballots at the november 3, 2020, election and to report to the board of supervisors regarding planning for that election and to report to the board regarding implementation of the voters choice be abilit act. Members who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the Public Comment number 888 2045984 and interact cess code of 35008 and press the pound symbol price and then press one and zero to enter the cue to speak. Mr. Chair. I would like to call mr. Binart. Thank you so much for hearing this item today. Im the aid to supervisor rone networks p. N. Could you speak up . We can hear you but could be a little better. Iif you could just speak a little loudly and slowly, well be able to hear you. Thanks so much. The legislation before you today is intended to ensure a fair, safe, accessible and secure november 2020 election and a path for future elections. Right now, only 70 of San Francisco voters are currently registered at the votebymail. We cant predict the course of this pandemic but its entirely likely people will not be congregating in groups, especially not in tight spaces and we will be maintaining safe distances measures and we cannot expect voters will stand in line and drop into their neighbors garage to volt. Vote. Im confident no one wants to be faced with their vote and casting a ballot and we need an emergency plan for november and there has to be a transparent process for the board and public to weigh in on the plan. What the legislation does is straightforward and it directs the San Francisco department of elections to mail a ballot to every registered voter for the november election. It highlights the roles of the office of Racial Equity and communitybased organizations in outreach, information and engagement with communities with historically low turnout. It directs the department of elections to present a plan to the board of supervisors by junt will be elected whether San Francisco is under shelterinorder and by directing the department of elections to bring to the board of supervisors of implementing the california voters choice act in the future and we want to pros somintroduce some amendmeny that were submitted to you. There is page 5, line 10 to 13 includes inperson voting options and early voting opportunities, and page 6, line 24 improves the language describing the outreach engages and page 6, line 1320 adds details to the expected components of the department of elections report to the board on the november election plan and page 7, line 3, at the directors request, it extends the report to the board on the voter choice acts to february 28th, 2021. Theres an additional amendment to establish inline voting but we were able to complete the necessary legal view to get the wording right and were asking if the committee adopt amendments presented to you that were submitted, duplicate the file so we can move on to the full board while our office works with the City Attorney to see if we can address the outstanding questions. We couldnt have done this without the input and expertise, including Chinese Progressive Association and just cause and aclu and Asian Americans advancing justice through the asian caucus and im grateful for their guidance and on behalf of supervisor ronen, thank you to the cosponsors and we hope youll support thi in this and e it forward. Thank you so much. There would be other costs to implement the Public Health protections and Disability Access and we did not have that at the time of the ordinance. We do recommend this Committee Requests the director of elections to submit any additional cost information to the may 19th, board of supervisors meeting. We also further recommend the board of supervisors consider amending the ordinance to have more information on costs included in the report backed by the department as specified by this ordinance. Otherwise, we consider approval of the proposed ordinance to be a policy matter for the board. And im available for any questions may have. Great. Thank you so much, mrs. Campbell. And i just want to mention or i understand that we have our director of the department of elections, john arnst, here with us today and mr. Arnst, miss campbells recommendation, will you be able to submit a memorandum to the may 1 19, boad of supervisors costs to implement this . Yes, we can provide more information. May 19th. It may not be a complete scaling of costs but were waiting for the governors executive order and how the november election will be conducted, which will inform us more on how to develop the cost and also to develop a plan around this ordinance. Thank you for that mr. Arnst. Before we go to Public Comment, colleagues, any questions . This is supervisor peskin. And through the chair, mr. Arnst or binart from supervisor ronens office, what im trying to ascertain is how many ontheground polling sites elections would consider even if everybody received a vote by mail ballot. Supervisor peskin, i cant answer that question yet because theyre still waiting for the governors executive order, which will provide input on how the inperson voting will occur. Were looking at the polling place in the recent elections, trying to get a sense if we could use those locations in relation to social distancing and we could move people through the voting process to maintain the sixfoot distance. Right now, we would have the same number as we had in march because the law hasnt changed. But once the governor issued an executive order, the laws will be modified or relaxed and we might have less polling places and we could have more voting centers. I just dont know yet. Now we have one polling place per thousand, is that right . Correct. I think while vca is intended on whether they opt in or not a ballot by mail is a fine thing, but for many, many reason, as we all know, people show up on election day and theyve lost their ballots and they want to drop them off in person because they dont like to put them in mailboxes, a whole host of reasons maintaining ontheground polling places is important and i would continue to check in as we hear from the governor and as you formulate your plan. Obviously, it has to be socially distanced and presumably, youll need a lot of ta staff to do itd it may be harder to obtain this cycle. Thank you. Thank you, chair mar. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor peskin. I had a followup question, when do you expect the executive order from the governor providing more guidance on inperson voting . We expect it this month and we were hoping for it to be issued this week and i dont know if thats going to happen because time is running short and so hopefully, in the next week, if not this week but next week, but were all in the same situation, waiting for this executive issue so we can start planning. Great, thank you. Supervisor hainey. Thank you, chair mar. I just wanted to thank amy and supervisor ronen and former supervisor who cosponsored this. I think this is the right thing to ensure access to voting and thank you to director arnst, as well, for your leadership. I know in is a shifting landscape in many ways, including what the state will put forward but these are critical steps that we can take right now and i saw the letter from some of the Committee Organizations and i appreciate the amendments being brought forward and i think that sending a ballot out to everyone is the right thic thing to do and maintaining some level of inperson access that is safe is essential. I know that will be both things will be critical for the district that i represent. So thank you, amy, for your work on this and, supervisor ronen. Thank you, supervisor hainey. Amy binart, do you have a response or some additional comments . Yeah, i just wanted to say that weve heard from many, many of the advocate groups can you hear me yes. About the need for inperson voting and obviously would certainly agree with that and figuring it out this year is going to be just exceptionally challenging and we want to supervisor ronen, certainly signed on to the resolution that president yee put forward earlier last week and it was voted on this week, that established a range of inperson voting ratios as a baseline, somewhere between the one for every one thousand voters that currently exist to the one for every ten thousand voters that the vca would require. But we also wanted to tie in the potential offset for if there are lots of inperson vote locations that we want to emphasize the need for early voting. And so we want to keep that the conversation and look forward to getting more of the advocatess thoughts and working with the director to make that happen. Thank you. Thank you so much, miss binart. Mr. Clerk, think callers on the line . Mr. Chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the cue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. For those that are already connected to our meeting via phone, press 10 to be added to the cue to speak for this item. For those already on hold in the cue, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. For those watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via streaming link or sfgov tv, if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions on your screen and that would be to dial 888 2045984 and when prompted, enter the access code 3501008. And press the pound symbol twice and then press 10 to enter the cue to speak. Do we have any callers on the line for this agenda item . I do have one caller in the cue. Just give me one second, please. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Welcome, caller, you have two minutes. Good morning. This is david compose and im calling in my capacity as chair of the San Francisco democratic party. I want to thank the chair, chair mar, vice chair peskin and supervisor hainey and supervisor ronen as well as preston and walton. And i think that a lot of the points that have been made and i appreciate the questions from the supervisors. While we wait for the governor to issue some guidance here, i hope that ultimately, we do what we believe is needed at San Francisco, that they can be helpful, but at the end of the day, we need to make sure that we address our needs. And what i would say about what we are asking and i think supervisor ronen is trying to do is, one, make sure everybody gets a ballot, which is critical and two, that contrary to any understanding that some may have, we actually do want to have the option of inperson voting. Having everyone get a ballot doesnt mean were against that, to the contrary. The question on that is how do we have the most inclusive inperson voting process and what i would say is that as we have that conversation that we remember that its not just a number of voting places, but its actually how long people have to vote inperson. The vca provides interesting opportunities to increase voting by certain communities including communities of color because they may have fewer places to vote and they may end up voting more often because theyll have more time to vote, as long day days, in some cases and that can be a game changer for many of the communities that historically have not been voting, as much. I think this is a great opportunity and ironically covid presents the opportunity for us to really transform how we vote in the city and county of San Francisco so that we especially concentrate on communities color and other disenfranchised communities for whom the voting process has been so cumbersome, but i think it requires a local conversation and a broader understanding of how people actually vote. And that having the largest number of precincts is not necessarily the best way to maximize community of color and others. If you do the right combination and number of days theyre allowed to vote that you, in fact, have the potential to have unprecedented engagement in San Francisco. So thank you very much for the consideration and i look forward to working with the board of supervisors, the mayor and anyone housing voter participation, especially in the disenfranchised communities. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. Operator you have zero questions remaining. That completes the cue. Thank you, operation and thank you mr. Clerk and hearing no further callers, Public Comment is closed. So i just want to thank supervisor ronen, amy binart, democratic party, chair david compost and for all of your work. The path to the future is through a stronger democracy and increasing voting is one of the most important steps to strengthen our democracy locally. We need to ensure everybody in the face of a pandemic has the ability to vote, vote early and safely and i appreciate the amendments presented today, particularly the emphasis on voter education. This is an important reform for Ballot Access and it does lead to some increases in overvoting and undervoting behaviours in improvinandwe need to ensure vor expansion is a success and i would like to add myself as a cosponsor for this item. Thank you. Thank you. Ive heard amy binart request that we nee need to duplicate ae and i would like to make a motion we duplicate a file. The file is duplicated. Thank you. And then i would move that we accept the amendment as presented. Mr. Clerk, please call the role. For my clarity, mr. Chair, are we hearing a motion to amend both versions . Or just a motion to amend the original version, leaving the duplicated version as it is right now . The motion is to amend both versions. Ok, thank you. And so on a motion to amend as offered by chair mar, to both versions of the agenda item, vice chair peskin. Aye. Member hainey. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair, im hearing three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk and then i would further move that we send this item as amended to the full board with positive recommendation. And mr. Clerk, please call the role. On the motion to send the original agenda item as amended to the full board of supervisors with the positive recommendation, vice chair peskin. Aye. Member hainey. Aye. Mr. Mar. Aye. There are three ayes and thank you to everyone. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 3. Mr. Chair, there is still the question of the remaining duplicated and amended version of the ordinance. Would you like to continue that to the call of the chair . Suddenly appearing that supervisor mar is frozen on my computer. Chair mar, can you hear me. Can you hear me clearer now . Yes, we can hear you. Great. So yes, i would like regarding the duplicated the amended duplicated file, i would like to move that we continue that to the call of the chair. On the motion to continue to the call of the share, the duplicated and now amended version of this ordinance, vice chair. role call . Please call agenda item number 3. Agenda item number 3 is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to renew and expand a propertybased business as the castro benefit district and the multiyear assessment on all parcels. Approving the plan and engineers report, setting a time and place for a public hearing for the board of supervisors as committee of the whole, on july 14th, 2020, at 3 00 p. M. , approving the form of the notice of public hearing and the assessment ballot, directing environmental findings and directing the clerk of supervisors to give notice as required by law. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this resolution should call the Public Comment number which is 888 2045984. Enter access code which is 3501008. Press the pounds symbol twice and then press 10 to enter the cue to speak. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk, i would like to invite supervisor mandelman to present on this item. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you for considering this resolution and 15 years ago with the strong support of the then supervisor and Castro Community, the Castro Community district was formed and since then, it has provided Critical Services to this neighborhood helping to keep our streets safe and clean, our Small Businesses successful and our public spaces vibrant and activated. Now and the cbd is seeking renewal for another 15 years and proposing a modest expansion of the boundaries to allow the Core Services in the neighborhood. I want to to thank the consecute director of the cbd who goes above and beyond for all of the their work to support the neighborhood and i would like to thank chris corgas and tom copmrano to bring this resolution to you today. Good morning, chair mar and supervisors. Im the Senior Program manager with the Workforce Development and i oversee the Community Benefit districts on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. Today were hearing a resolution to renew and expand the Castro Community benefit district. As mentioned, this district was initially formed in 2005, at the enact oenactment of the businese and is one of the original cbds in San Francisco under that ordinance. This will authorize the department of elections to initiate ballot proceedings to renew and expand for a second 15year term. The initial district assessment budget under this renewal will have an assessment budget of 819,403. 41 and the total budget of the cbd will be 866,274. 97. The general benefit, which is funds the cbd must raise is 5. 41 . With me today is executive director of the Castro Community benefit district to provide a brief presentation on the map and vision for the renewed district. If there are no questions, i would like to invite miss iello up for her version of the presentation. Miss iello, the floor is areas. Great. Yours. Thank you for this time, supervisors and thank you to the staff for putting this together where you can make Public Comment while were all virtual. Im sure it was a lot of work and it seems to be working, so thank you. In addition to grants, weve been able to raise 600,458 from donations and sponsorships, as well as merchant sponsorships and contract for services. So total over the past 15 years, weve raised 9,000,009 95,709. Directl 5,709. With this fundinge providing Supplemental Services, services above and beyond the citys baseline level to keep the castro clean and we hired patrol special place for Public Safety initiatives and general walking the beat and we also use the money for public Space Management and activation, most notably the Jane Warner Plaza and a limited extent, harvey mill plaza and we have spent some of these funds on neighborhood beautification efforts. All along and in line with our current management plan. Next slide, as far as the largest part of our budget is for cleaning services. We average 8,760 pounds of trash and we remove gr graffiti, bothn public and private property and so sidewalks, city trash cans, mailboxes, fire hydrants, everything and we steam clean each parcel once every other month and we have a cleaning dispatch telephone number that we have spread around to all of the merchants, Property Owners, neighbors, that people can call for spotcleaning. Next slide, please. Public safety services, as i said before, we hire the San Francisco Patrol Special Police and we collaborate with other nighttime merchants to help fund a patrol special officer who patrols on foot and in vehicles seven nights a week. Anthe patrol focus special on quality of life infractions and uniquely combine compassion with enforcement. Next slide, please. Our public Space Management and activation, as i said, is primarily focused on Jane Warner Plaza, which is the intersection of 17th castro and market, where the fline end expos flis around and between may and october, we have Live Entertainment every saturday and sunday in the afternoon and it brings lots and lots of people out. Im not sure, actually, what well be doing moving forward, but i think well be working with the city to organize and to figure out how public Space Management will work in the future. But in the past, weve had it has become a place to go on a weekend afternoon. Other strategies we provide a neighborhood beautification and we have found out that our best efforts at neighborhood beautification is when we collaborate with existing city projects, so, for instance, the streetscape widen project, the cbd came in and we funded the rainbow crosswalks at the corner of castro and 18th. There are led celebrity lights that the castro street, both blocks in the evening, and theres also a history walk that was implemented at the history of the Eureka Valley starting from the days when the American Indians were in the neighborhood all the way up to the present and we have public art. If we go to the next slide, chris, theres an example of the crosswalks and then the next slide is on the left, i believe, is your celebrity lights and then the public art that was funded through a grant in the Jane Warner Plaza in the evenings. Next slide, we move into our renewal and expansion and in year one, which would be januarf 2021, as chris has said, we will be raising 18,304 for the assessment revenue and the general benefit will be 46,872 for a total budget of 866,275 and next slide. And this is our map one of the things were doing differently in our renewal is that we will be having zones for cleaning and we have learned over the past 15 years different parts of the neighborhood require different amounts and levels of cleaning and so, the assessment rates are based on the zones in the amount of cleaning that each parcel will receive. We are expanding a very small amount, but as you can see, the zone one is where the heart of the castro Business District is. Castro street 18th and that will be receiving the highest level of cleaning services, and zone two is down Market Street from castro down to deloris. And it includes Church Street where safeway is and down to 15th. And that will be receiving a middle level of service as far as cleaning is concerned. And then, zone three is the eastern end of the neighborhood, as you come up from octavia street up Market Street and extends from deloris to oktive a and we felt this was as fair as possible and to make sure that Property Owners were paying for the services they received. And then the next slide is as chris had said wil said, asse collected beginning on july 1 and beginning july 30th, 25. Expenditures could continue six months after the end of the election. So this would be through december of 2035. And the next slide is the annual budget in year one, cleaning services are 582,483 worth of service and landscaping is very minimal, 2500, Marketing Services is at 9,000 and we have contingency and administration, 22,339 and total is 866,275,000. And then the next slide, the Supplemental Services with these funds that will be provided are cleaning services, primarily, landscaping, marketing, and then we have contingency and administration. And next slide, there are pictures of cleaning, powerwashing and graffiti removal. This is an example of landscaping that board approved will be taking place. Cbd takes care of and landscapes the planters between castro street and the rainbow flag and also, the landscaping in jane warner and then, as funding allows, we might be doing some sidewalk planters or other kinds of things and that will be board decided. And as far as marketing, the cbd has a program, a volunteer program called castro ambassadors and those are the fellows on your left, im here to help, talking to you visitors and we anticipate we will be having that program and some of the money goes into running that program, materials and uniforms, et cetera. Well still be paying for the electricity for the celebrity lights and hopefully, well be able to do some Shoplocal Campaigns. These are little welcome bagged, like the Old Fashioned welcome wagons where were distributing Shoplocal Campaign to new residents that have moved into the residential neighborhoods. And then as far as contingenc contingency next slide, please through contingency and fundraising and we have a variety of expect meetings and this is an example of one meeting and those things will be paid for through contingency and Administrative Services and thats a summary of the cbd renewal and expansion and if you have any questions, i would love to answer them. Thank you so much for the presentation. After aland for all of yourgoodo mr. Corgis for your support of the program and supervisor mandle man or mr. Corgis, anything to add . I would like to thank tom prentano that i forgot to thank. Thank you, mr. Corgis. Great work, mr. Corgis. Thats an honor coming from you, sir. Mr. Chair, i am getting delays from your microphone again. If youre able to hear me, may may hear you more clearly if you turn off your camera. Are you there, mr. Chair . Yes, im here. Sousupervisor pesk irkin, did ye a comment. Nothing that mr. Corgis beard and im delighted that the cbd is up for renewal and congratulations on their first 15 years. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Why dont we go to Public Comment. Mr. Clerk, any callers on the line . Thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the cue. Please let us know if there are any call thats are ready. Forethose connecteplease press r this item. For those already on hold in the cue, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. And for those who are watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via a streaming link through sfgovtv. Org, if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions that are on your screen and youll dial 888 2045984 and enter the access code 3501008 and enter the pound symbol twice and then press one and then zero to enter the cue to speak. Are there any callers . Mr. Chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Great. Thank you again, operation exposoperations andmr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, can we send this item to the full board with positive recommendation . Mr. Clerk, please call the role. On the motion to send the item to the full board of soup supervisors with the positive recommendation, vice chair role call . There are three ayes. Please call item number 4. Agenda item number 4 is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to renew and expands a propertybased district known as the Fishermans Wharf landside and a year assessment on all parcels in the district. Approving the district plan in engineers report and proposed boundarys map for the district. Ordering and setting a time in place for a public hearing of the board of supervisors and sitting as a committee of the whole as july 14, 2020, approving the assessment ballot proceeding, the assessment ballot itself and directing environmental findings and directing the board of supervisors to give notice of the hearing, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, should call Public Comment number at 888 2045984 and enter 35008 and press pound symbol twice and 10 and enter the cue to speak. Mr. Chair. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair mar. Like the castro cbd, this was one of the earliest districts after i originally passed enabling legislation into 2004, this came along in 2005 and it has served ably for the first decade and a half. It was the first of what is now five cbds in the Northeast Corner of San Francisco in district three and now under the very capable leadership of the relatively new executive director, randall scott, who hails from the flagship Business Union district and this is actually half of the Fishermans Wharf cbds plural. There is a landslide before us today and a waterside district coming before us later this ye year. There is a slight expansion which consists of 189 parcels in 27 square blocks or portions thereof and generates a million and a quarter dollars a year for cleaning and marketing, very similar to the work that is done by the castro cbd for the area free covid19 that generated millions and millions dollars for the city and county of San Francisco through our robust tourist industry which i know will return and mr. Scott and members of his board are already thinking and planning about how were going to reattract people from the region and around the country and the world back to the incredible tourist experience and that is Fishermans Wharf. With that, mr. Chairman, i will hand it to mr. Corgis. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors and i would like to thank supervisor peskin and his office for all of their assistance on this renewal and expansion of the landside cbd. It was initially formed in 2005 after the enabling legislation was passed into the city and countys business and tax regulations code and this item will authorize the department of elections to initiate ballot proceedings for a second 15year duration and there will be an assessment budget of the 1,223,783. 20 and the total budget will be 1,346,000. It general benefit or funds that the cbd must rate in addition to the revenue is 9. 08 of the budget. With me today is randall scott, the executive director of the wharf district to provide a services map for the renewed district. If there are no questions, i would like to invite mr. Scott for his portion of the presentation. Mr. Scott, please proceed. Thank you, chair mar, and vice chair peskin and supervisor hainey. Nice to be here before you today virtually and here to discuss and go over, you know, what the what landside cbd is. As supervisor peskin said, were a unique hybrid of cbds because of the port property where, you know, were not allowed to assess the port directly. But anyway, so this is a landside and again, the landside essentially is bay street north to jefferson street and the embarcadaro and thats generally speaking what that is. In a later slide, i have the boundary outline. So, chris, mr. Corgis, if you would like to go to the next slide, please. please stand by . So a little history. 20192020, the landside assessments were 758,600. And the 2007 and 2013 and 2006 one cleaner seven days a week. 2013 to 2018 was when the clean and safe program really ramped up with three ambassadors originally. 2018 to 2020 we were able to secure the funds for four ambassadors and some partial private security to do the safety aspect, if you will. So that 758,000 covered, you know, all three areas of our budget, which is which is currently district identity and street scape improvements. Soho which is sidewalk operations, beautification sidewalk excuse me. Sidewalk operations and beautifications order. Beautification and order. There we go. I apologize. Those acronyms were new to me when i came onboard. So that so, you know, the clean and safe portion of the budget has kind of chipped away at some of the other programs that have been here in the past, while still in alignment with, you know, with the budget guidelines that are outlined in the original management plan. The next slide, please. So those clean and safe families with four ambassadors, we have some highlevel metrics here to give you from the past five years, where the program has really ramped up. Business interactions, 45,000, hospitality were tony stewartistbased 17,936. Graffiti mitigation, which is a pet peeve of mine, was 32,000 incidents. Quality of life addressed, 37,000 and pounds of trash collected, 136,000 pounds of trash. As you can see, our staff is busy and highly efficient at, you know at collecting trash and making sure that quality of life for everybody is maintained. So next slide, please. So here this is our marketing. And if you anything that you see with Fishermans Wharf on it, that is us. That is what we do. We have one of the largest Marketing Budgets out of any of the districts. That is because we are a massive Tourist Destination for now were known internationally in our we had a canada media tour that came down here last year. We gave them the full tour. Clam chowder, waterfront experience, pier 39 and they went back and wrote very glowing articles. And we wound up getting over 2 million hits on facebook and our website, as a result of that. And thats just one of them. We also had a program called gate out of the u. K. They came and did a full morning show from here at the wharf. So we get we attract a tremendous amount of tourism and visibility. And that Marketing Budget were not touching. So its been very successful. Its you know, its a very efficient and wellrun program. You know, our staff is great, as you can tell. Its a very effective area. In the upper lefthand corner, youll see thats the district in the gray. So thats the area of the city that we occupy and look after and curate for both locals, californians, americans and abroad. So thats again anything that saw see with the Fishermans Wharf or the crab logo, that coming out of the c. B. D. So briefly this is before and after renewals. 758600 broken down with the contingency, admin and thats these are actual assessments collected. This doesnt include the portion of the budget that we contribute. We received over 250,000 in grants last year. So i just wanted to keep it clean, so you understand where the budget is coming from. On the right is what were increasing the assessments to. And as you can see, the marketing so dizzy is on the left. And thats the Marketing Budget. 356,000. That was 47 of the budget. To the right i took out the streetscapes and left the marketing dollars in there. And that equites to 318,000. So i just want to make sure were comparing apples to apples here. As you can tell, that percentage drops to 26 of the budget. Although the number is staying the same. The clean and safe program, which pulled from both sobo and dizzy, because part of its identity, goes up to 550,000, which is 45 of our budget. Again we have a very robust Marketing Budget. But as i believe everyone here knows why that is. And then the administrative goes up. And thats by adding a services manager. Thats actually creating a job. And again thats 20 . Contingency reserves, those go up. And, you know, those are going to be things, for instance, if the pandemic does continue, well have the funds in reserve. For example, when this covid when the shelterinplace came onboard, we were very concerned about breakins and about graffiti and everything. So we actually, out of our reserve funds, we put on an overnight patrol. And so were actually providing overnight over watch over the district out of our own funds to protect the Property Owners and so forth. The vale of the c. B. D. Is that collective those collective dollars that you go to work to really augment, not what the city does, but what the Property Owner dozen. So last slide. That concludes my presentation. I wanted to keep it brief but informative. And as you can see, this is my staff. And we will be adding back our marketing director. We lost she resigned and went to visit durango in colorado. Well be hiring her again. So we just received a p. P. P. Loan, which will allow me to start working on that project. Are there any other questions . Mr. Chairman, i have no questions. I do want to compliment mr. Scott and his staff and his board for their years of fantastic work. Thank you, supervisor peskin. I echo your commendation and thanks to mr. Scott and everyone involved in this really important c. B. D. When we go to Public Comment, mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Clerk mr. Chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Mr. Coup, please let us know if any callers ready. For those who already connected to the meeting by via phone, please press 1 and 0. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. For those who are watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via streaming link or sfgov tv, if you wish to speak on this item, please call in by following the instructions on your screen. Dial 888 2045984. And enter the access code of350 1008, press the pound symbol twice and press 1 and 0 to speak. Mr. Coup, are there any speakers . Mr. Chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Thanks again, operations and mr. Clerk. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues can we send this item for the full board with recommendation . Mr. Clerk, will you call the roll. Clerk the motion to send this resolution to the full board of supervisors, with positive recommendations. [roll call] member haney . Aye. Clerk chair mar . Aye. Clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Before we proceed with the remaining agenda items, i did want to ask deputy City Attorney to speak to the interdependence of items 5, 6, 7 and 8, well be considering in close session item number 9 and 10. Good morning, chair mar, members of the committee. There are four leases before you that are to be discussed. And there are two settlements as well. The leases are related to one of the settlements and i understand that you have considered the possibility of taking things out of order, so that the settlements may be discussed first. And the leases taken up afterwards. Thank you. Thank you so much, miss pearson. Yes, i am going to be calling these items out of order. And well be going into closed session to consider the Settlement Agreements, before considering items 5 through 8. I just wanted to explain that, like why i think this sequence is better. There are over there are well over 500 car rental workers represented by teamsters local 665 and 856 covered by the Lease Agreements ant the related legal settlements. Imconcerned about what the terms of the Lease Agreement for the workers. Specifically the change in terms of the agreement from the prevailing wage rate of roughly 24 to s. F. O. Mr. Chair, im sorry to interrupt. But these items are not yet called. So it might make sense for us to call the items and then have the commentary. Thank you. Okay. Im sorry about that. Mr. Clerk, i guess so i will i do want to again oh, if you can call items 9 and 10 for closed session. Why dont we do that first. Clerk well handle the close session items 3 agenda items 9 and 10 are two ordinances against the city of San Francisco. Members of the community should call the Public Comment number, the number is 888 2045984. Enter the access code of 3501108. Press the pound symbol twice and dial one and zero to be entered into the queue to speak. Thank you, mr. Clerk. So im sorry. Again i did want to just briefly explain that the reason why im calling these items out of order is because i am concerned about what the terms of the Lease Agreements mean for these for the well over 500 rental car workers. And their economic security. And specifically how the change in terms of the Lease Agreements from the prevailing wage rate of roughly 24 an hour to s. F. O. s minimum wage of 18 an hour. And how that represents a loss of over 1,300,000 in annual income for fulltime workers. So this is a really significant negative impact for hundreds of rental car workers at s. F. O. So i do want to understand the circumstances of the significant change in the Lease Agreements and would like to consider the Settlement Agreement first in closed session. Mr. Clerk, lets open up Public Comment for the closed session. Members of the public who wish to speak actually mr. Clerk, yeah, can you please see if theres any callers on the line for the closed session. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Operations will check to see if we have any callers in the queue. For those callers who have already dialed in, if you wish po to speak on items 9 and 10, press 1 and zero to connect to the call. For those watching our meeting on sfgov tv or streaming online, the phone number to call, if you want to give Public Comment on these items, 888 2045984. Enter the access code of 3501108. Press the pound symbol twice and 1 and 0 to enter the queue to speak. There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you again, operations and mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. On the motion to convene in closed session, mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on motion to convene in closed session, choice a chair peskin . Aye. Chair mar . Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We will now convene in closed session. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The members will now be leaving this live meeting and will connect to the closed session. After the closed session is concluded, the members will reconnect to the live meeting in a summary of actions taken during the closed session will be reported. Members of the public may remain connected to the live meeting and await our return. Thank you. We are now back in open session. Thank you all for your patience while we were away. Mr. Clerk, please report on the deliberations. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. During the closed session deliberations, the committee took the following actions on agenda item number 9, the committee acted unanimously to recommend the item to the fuel board of supervisors. And on agenda item number 110, the committee acted unanimously for it to be approved by full bd of supervisors. I would like to make a motion to not disclose the closed session discussion. Mr. Clerk, please call roll. Clerk on the motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations, the vice chair peskin. Aye. Clerk member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 5, 6, 7, and 8 together. Clerk hang on just a moment while he reorganize. While i reorganize my script. Called together agenda item number 5 is a resolution approving the onairport ren calcar operations louisiania number 180343 between Avis Budget Rental car and the city and county of San Francisco. Acting by and through its Airport Commission for a term of five year, with two twoyear options to extend and and a minimum annual guarantee of 11,076,378 for the first year of the lease to commence upon board approval. A resolution approving the onairport rental car operations lease number 180342 between enterprise rentacar company of San Francisco, l. L. C. And the city and county, acting by and through the Airport Commission for a term of five year, with two twoyear options to extend to the minimum annual guarantee of the contract. Agenda item number 7, is a resolution approving the onairport rental car operations lease number 180341 between the Hertz Corporation, as the tenant, and the city and county. For a term much five years with two twoyear options at an annual guarantee of 16,501,462. Finally agenda number 8, resolution approving the onairport rental operations. For a determine of five years with two twoyear options to extend and a minimum annual guarantee of 3,501,004. 32 for the first year of the lease to commence following board approval. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these four resolutions should call the Public Comment number. That number is 888 2045984. Enter the access code. The access code is 3501008. Press the pound symbol twice and then press one and zero to enter the queue to speak. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Id like to welcome the Government Affairs manager for the San Francisco International Airport. Shes here to speak on these items. I also do want to note, colleagues, that deputy City Attorney general Jeremy Goldman and Christopher Stewart and trevor are also available for questions. Miss widener, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair mar. Chair mar and members of the committee, Kathy Widener with the San Francisco International Airport. The proposed resolutions would approve rental car leases between the San Francisco International Airport and the following tenants in the airports rental car center. Avis budget rental car with the minimum annual guarantee of 11,076,378. Enterprise rentacar with a minimum annual guarantee of 16,087,548. The Hertz Corporation with a minimum annual guarantee rent of 16,501,462. Sixt rentacar with 3,501,004. Each term has an initial term of five years to june 2025 with twoyear with the two twoyear options to extend these four leases are the result of the 2018 competitive request for bids proposal process, to select up to nine rental car brands to operate at the airport. The airport received ten bids from five companies, and these following four companies were awarded leases for their nine brands. Avis for the brands of avis and budget, enterprise for the brands alamo, national and enterprise. Hertz for the brands hertz, dollar and thrifty. And sixt. The Airport Commission approved the four leases. However, the leases did not come to the board of supervisors at that time, due to litigation filed by the rental car companies, about the wage rate included, which has now been settled by the courts. Under the leases, the rental car operators would pay the greater of the rent or a percentage formula, 10 of gross revenues. Based on the rent structure, the airport would normally expect to receive approximately 343. 5 million over the initial fiveyear term of the leases. However, given the current covid19related decrease in passenger traffic, the airport Standard Lease language suspending mag, when it falls below 80 , will be in effect. And these companies will pay percentage rent until traffic returns. The Budget Analysts Office has reviewed the leases and recommends approval. And i would be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Thank you so much, ms. Widener. I would like to invite campbell from the budget and legislative Analysts Office to briefly summarize her analysis on these items. Yes. Chair mar, members of the committee. As ms. Widener says, the four resolutions are for leases between the airport and hertz, avis, enterprise and sixt. The terms of the leases are summarized in table two on page 10 of our report. The initial rent over the first five years is estimated to be 343 million. However, as noted in our report, and mentioned by miscellaneous widener, the leases do provide for suspension of the minimal annual rent, in the event that passenger and payment falls below 80 , 217th level. Rent will, in fact, be less than the 343 million that is originally estimated. Wed recommend approval of the four resolutions, pending approval by the board of supervisors, of ordinance 200330. And im available for any questions you may have. Thank you, ms. Campbell. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Operation is checking to see if any callers in the queue. Mr. Coup, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. For those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press one and zero to be added to the queue to speak for this item. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. For those who are waiting sorry, for those who are watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via streaming link or throughsfgovtv. Org, if you wish to speak on the item, please call by the instruction on the screen. Dial 888 2045984. Enter the access code, it is 3501008. Press the pound symbol twice and one and zero to enter the queue to speak. Mr. Coup, do we have any speakers who have called in for agenda items 5 through 8 . Mr. Chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you again, operations and mr. Clerk. With no callers on the line, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, i would like to recommend we i would like to move that we recommend items 5, 6, 7 and 8 for the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk, please call roll. Clerk on the motion offered by chair mar, to recommend agenda items 5 through 8 to the board of supervisors, vice chair peskin. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Clerk chair mar . Aye. Clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk there is no further business before the committee. Great. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Clerk thank you. All of these amazing organizations that exist in San Francisco, its great to be here and great to talk about the incredible work that all of you are doing despite what our very challenging times for our city and our country, so lets get started and lets get to hear your questions and, also, i just want to make sure that you put in a plug for your organizations and the work that you are all doing and people dont have to sit at home by themselves. They can sit at home and maybe watch a great film thats going to be aired online by the Film Festival. Lets make sure we get the word out. Thank you, mayor breed. I want to thank the panelists and welcome to all of the viewers at home. As Asian Pacific americans are facing extraordinary challenges at this time, not only because of the pandemic, but also because the rising tide of antiasian violence. This reminds us about history when Asian Americans became scapegoats. The immigration station and the japanese americans during world war 2, the asian communities have been through it all and thats why the communities are coming together to continue to navigate through the crisis and to track the future and thats why this afternoons conversation with you, mayor breed, is so important as we continue on this journey. To that end, we have selected two special topics to talk about this afternoon and one is the impact of the pandemic and antiasian violence on youth and children. We are very concerned about how students will be treating each other when they get to go back to school. And the other one is the other topic is the impact on culture. This is what we normally would look to to bring communities, to bring comfort during times of crisis. However, we all know that the arts and culture communities are being hit very hard and theyre going to have an even harder Time Next Year when we may or may not get a tax refund. We are all in this together. So i hope this conversation is going to help us focus our thinking a little bit more about some of the topics so close to our hearts and close to the community. Without further ado, i would like to introduce the moderator, thomas lee, of this conversation. He iwere lucky to have thomas s one of our celebration cochairs and the master of our website. Everything to do with communication and all things social media and so thomas. Thank you, cla claudine. Thank you. We are bringing this celebration online virtually, like many organizations, were finding new ways to celebrate and were doing it all online. At this time, i would like to welcome our distinguished panel presenters, the mayor of San Francisco, mayor london breed, and all of the viewers on facebook live. So i hope youre watching. Tell a friend and we are on facebook live, at facebook. Com sf. You can text that to a friend. For this afternoons program, we have Six Community leaders representing civil righters, children and youth services, as well as arts. Each presenter will have two minutes to share their perspectives and have the opportunity to ask mayor breed a question. We have a lot of ground to cover and lets get right to it. Our first presenter is vincent penn, for affirmative action. For over 50 years, he has been at the forefront of events introducing civil rights and justice and providing equal opportunities for chinese and Asian Americans, caa colaunched a program to collect data of antiasian incidents in the country encouraging Asian Pacific americans to report these incidents. Please welcome vincent penn who will provide us an update on asian violence incidents. Thank you. At the outset of the pandemic, San Francisco state universities and the Asian Pacific studys gunpoint anplanning in los anget Community Members could report incidents that were happening against Asian Americans and pacific islanders. In the past month and a half, we have received 1700 reports for both harassment, bullying, physical assaults and racerelated property vandalism from across the country, including 117 incidents here in San Francisco. The data shows that women have been proportionately harassed and all asian communities are being harmed. Most is happening under shelterinplace orders, so we expect the situation to get worse as orders are lifted. In some ways, this is not a new problem, just an escalated problem, made worse by the covid19, as well as the Trump Administration to blame everything on china. We all appreciate, mayor breed, the strong, strong stance you have made towards hate towards Asian Americans and all communities, but given the difficult economic and budget situation facing the city and the community, are you able to have resources to build in the capacity to address these antiasian situations . Well, i will say that as many of you all know, its going to be a real challenge for our city financially. But, from the very beginning, before people were really paying attention to this pandemic, to the coronavirus, our Asian Community in San Francisco was already being impacted. The level was zenophobia, the attacks and other violence against ederly seniors and we were experiencing that before the pandemic hit hard and so, this is something weve paid close attention to, working with Law Enforcement, working with our Small Business community and trying to provide resources, but its knot goin not going to be h the situation were in. Ill start with, specifically, with whats happening around a lot of the attacks and the violence and the robberies. I want to just express how important it is that people report these things to the police, because this is going to help inform a lot of the decisions that we make. And we heard about a lot of incidents that have not been reported and we know there might be fear or people who are uncomfortable with that. Ill be looking to so many of your organizations to be that vehicle. Weve provided access to a bilingual act thats available, so some of our officers can call and get a translators on the phone to communicate and report crime. We need to do this now more than ever, because thats going to be important so that we can make sure people understand that not only this is happening but the work we have to do has to be started on supporting where we know the challenges are. Recently, i a nancy tong has reported on the board of supervisors and theres rumblings of not supporting her. As much as i believe in criminal Justice Reform and as much as i dont want to put people in jail, if you commit an act of crime, you should be held accountable, and there should not be a negotiation there. Having someone who believes that on the police commission, on the Law Enforcement community is important to making sure that people dont feel comfortable coming to San Francisco, committing crimes or attacking other people. So thats part of one of the challenges we will continue to face and im definitely planning to do everything i can to make sure that the investments are there to support this community. The businesses, its really been tough. Its been tough because, again, it hit our asian businesses before it even touched anyone else and already, with the millions of dollars that we allocated to support our Small Businesses, whether its a 10,000 grant or up to 50 50,00 nointerest loan, we know we need to do more. So im raising money, as well as redirecting resources to support our businesses. And again, your help and your support to get people to apply for the funding is really necessary. We have an equity team thats embedded in our Emergency Operations centre, where their sole goal is to work with communities that are usually disenfranchise. So, for example, from day one, there were a number of businesses who were supposed to shut down but they didnt shut down because they didnt understand, they didnt speak english and there had to be another level of communication to make sure that they understood and they were connected to resources. And so were going to have to continue that. Because this is going to be really hard for us because some of these businesses are not going to be able to reopen. So the question is, how do we make sure that we outreach to the community . How do we make sure that we provide them with the records and the support that they need to maybe even transition into doing something other than what they were already doing . Its going to be a partnership with all of you because we cannot do this alone. We need trusted Community Representatives who people support and respect and who will help to identify where there are holes, what we may not be doing right and how we can make that connection to support our communities. Weve made a lot of gains over the years because weve had really good budget times, but we are really in trouble. And it will require all of us to Work Together and its going to require a big sacrifice. We want to make sure were not leaving anyone behind, especially our Asian Community, which has been impacted over this virus more than any other community. Thank you, mayor breed. And you have a great bunch of allies on this call in addition to people on facebook who are tuning in right now. So are next presenter is sarah wong, the executive director of the Community Center of San Francisco. She started as an organization that focuses on addressing issues for atrisk in chinatown. And over the years, she gets involved in the citywide agency serves over 8,000 multi cultural youths, and please welcome sarah wong. Thank you, thomas, thank you, mayor. Thomas is doing the best job so ill jump right into the topic. To the pandemic has really become another reason to target asian communities a communitiese country. Its our hope to turn the table around in education. Ethnic studys courses have been instituted in all of San Francisco School District high schools to give students an introduction to the experience of the ethnic communities that are rarely represented in textbooks. We need to work with projectbased learning on Racial Justice in crosscultural relationship buildings, such as by educational documentaries, and also chinese exclusion acts. What most of our youth programming have moved to virtual settings, most of our youth are still dealing with fear, isolation and this triggers depression and other Mental Health symptoms. And many of our youth couldnt even talk on the phone with our staff to share their feelings due to the lack of privacy and space. It is crucial to prioritize the offering of cultural competent Mental Health services to students at the schools and Community Settings in this current crisis. And as the incidents of violence will continue to increase, especially after the school reopens, i would like to ask mayor breed to not only send a strong message to our young people in response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia, but to create a task force where our Community Members track incidents of antihate violence in communities and schools that target our young people. Kind of similar to the current hate campaign at the national level, and also the policy in action plans to ensure all of our young people will be able to be in a violencefree community. Some thank you, sarah, and thank you for providing that perspective. I think thats an incredible idea. I think that im happy to do whatever i can and i love the idea of as i was hearing you speak, i was thinking we needed to launch some sort of Campaign Around this, to really highlight how this is not the way. And i will touch bases with the superintendent to figure out whether or not this can be incorporated into their distancelearning strategy. In fact, as you know, as a recipient of some of the resources where youre able to help support your youth through opportunities for all and other programs, i love the idea making sure that the opportunities for all kids who are participating in paid internships, working with them to come up with strategies and ideas and outreach in order to be the ambassadors. When i was in Elementary School here in the city, my teacher, because i talked a lot and drove my teacher crazy, if someone was sitting in the corner by themselves, i would try to solve their issue and i think thats the level that we got to get back to. We have to get back to caring about whats happening with each other and we want to make sure that, especially kids who, unfortunately, may not even know better because of their upbringing or what have you, we have to make sure that they are educated about how harmful, what they do is when they attack anyone with a racial slur or anything else for that matter. I think the time is now for bridge building and for a campaign and something that could be inspired through our young people. And i know you, along with john osaki, jcyc would be two incredible resources for all programs to look at a way to incorporate that into the work we do and well touch bases with our superintendent, dr. Vincent matthews and then the director of the Human Rights Commission, cheryl davis, who oversees the opportunities for all programs and maybe theres something we can get started with now to really turn the tide on this. A lot of discussion about opportunities for all. In facebook, weve been operatinparticipating for oppors for all and this year, were looking at new ways toengage with cheryl. I dont know all of the answers and so im looking to many of you for strategies or even these kids, because kids can come up with some of the best ideas. Absolutely. And i know there are young people. Just given the opportunity, they can kind of push these campaigns over. Theyre the ones who know how to use this technology and social media and stuff like that to do stuff, right . So lets tap into that in a way that could spread like wildflowers and bring our city closer together. Speaking of opportunities for all, let me bring on our next speaker to discuss the impacts on youth and children, its john osaki, the Japanese Community Youth Council and this year jcyc is celebrating 50 years focusing on japan youth and a broad range of programs from preschool to college prep to opportunities for all and jcyc is leading many youth initiatives is please welcome john osaki. Thank you, mayor breed and thank you for being a part of this town hall. Ill focus on some of the things you were just talking about regarding building bridges. They talked about safety and education and i think that the area that i really want to emphasize is that i think its so important that we find ways to build and promote understanding between communities here in San Francisco. As im sure you know, San Francisco is the birthplace of antiasian sentiment in this country. And so i think its so important that San Francisco be a leader in this area and really think about how it can promote strategies that really build understanding. I think the thing thats been so alarming to me is to see how quickly and easily asians could become a target again in this country. And so, i think one of the things that we would be very interested this is a systemic approach to putting together a planning effort thats going to address this at many Different Levels because, unfortunately, this virus is not going away any time soon. It could easily pop back up. And i think many of us are very interested in figuring out how do we come up with recommendations and ideas, such as some of the work that sarah has been pioneering in the bayview, where shes really been promoting understanding between the Chinese Community and the africanamerican community. And i think efforts like that are so critical to promote making sure we understand each others experience and can appreciate all of oppression the communities have experienced so that we can ban together push back against the tide of hate and the type of targeting thats going on right now. So i would like to know if you would support an effort to bring together a systemic approach and recommendation for house San Francisco can be a leader in pushing back against some of hate were seeing today. Thank you, john, for putting that in perspective and i think its overdue and we need to get started on something of that nature now which incorporates all of the different layers. Because again, when kids were in school, we know there were kids who were picked on about this virus before it hit. Businesses were suffering and being discriminated against and people were attacked and robbed and a number of other very violent incidents have occurred. And we know that its important to develop solutions and to start to really change the tone of folks who are a part of our city who represent the Asian Community, how they are treated. And i think that we can put this together in a way that proposes solutions that we can work towards. And i do think its important and i go back to the schools, because that Learned Behaviour that starts when youre a kid continues to develop into adulthood. So its so important that we really work with and use our kids in a way as an opportunity to bridge that gap because that is going to help to fill out, i think, the rest of the city. So im definitely open to the idea of developing a campaign, developing a system, putting together a committee, a diverse committee of folks who care about this issue. I know that folks from the nacp of San Francisco and other organizations would be happy to participate and we can work as partners in developing solutions. But i also want to say that its going to take a level of consistency unlike evacuee seen in the past. Weve seen tensions, in particular, and im using this as an example because i know that our Asian Community is being discriminated against by all races. But in particular, in this city, weve had tensions in the past, you know, sometimes between the africanamericans and our Asian Community and to our Chinese Community, in particular. And when those things happen, what we would do, woe come we we together, have these forums, try to Work Together and they would die down. So i think the difference here is that we have to maintain this effort of a coalition of people who are really consistently active in making sure that we spread a different message, that we combat this and that we not allow xenophobia to be tolerated against people in our Asian Community or any community, for that matter. And soy think there so i thinkn opportunity to Work Together to be consistent and to try to make sure that we get over this hump and that even after this pandemic is over, we have to hold steady on the work we need to do to address these challenge. Challenges. Thank you, mayor breed and thank you, john. Well shift gears a minute and well talk about the arts and culture sector and how that pandemic has impacted it. So next, i would like to bring on jay xi, the director of the asian art museum, which is home to one of the worlds finest and collection of asian art over the 50 plus years. The museum has been successful in achieving the mission of inspiring new ways of connecting Diverse Communities to both traditional and contrary art. Please welcome jay xi. Thank you, thomas, for the introduction and hello, mayor breed. I would like to thank you for your leadership and thank you for making the video statement, the owner of the ap heritage month in speaking strongly against the antiasian racism that is going on right now. We at the museum have turned our museum into a virtual museum. And we are featuring a wide range of artists, not only visual artists but performing artists and particularly Asian American artists and our programs are diverse, too. Not only offering the thoughtful meditation. At this time in the crisis, Everybody Needs time to meditate and take stock of what happened and what the future lies for all of us, but also programs speak strongly in action and in Group Discussions about the common efforts, fighting against antiasian racism. In addition to very widerange of programs which i encourage all of you and the audiences to check out our website. Follow us on our social media. And asian museums is itself a diverse workforce, having strong representation for Asian American community. And in addition to giving back artistically, our staff has been also donating hundreds of masks and spending of hundreds of hours to helping service work. So we are there as an element, a very Strong Community to navigate together through this crisis. Today is poignant because today, may 8th, was supposed to be the day we would open the transform expanded asian museum for our public. Mayor, you were supposed to do the Ribbon Cutting for all of us and sorry for me getting a little caught up here, because this is ver a very emotional dar us. We will stay on course and transform the museum to the public, hopefully in the fall. Just behind me, theres a new rorendering of our facade, turng the Museum Inside and out. You can also enjoy the museum from outside. Were also turning the asian museum into a National Leading platform promoting Asian American artists. The artists that you see are my backdrop are all featuring Asian American artists. I think the more artists amplified, the more theyre empowered. I want to echo the theme about community and how were playing an important role. I think the more artists can speak up, the better chance we will have in winning the war against the entire asian race. Racism. My question to you is that you have implemented measures to support local artists. What are the further measures that you can develop, plans you can develop in supporting Asian American artists and measures to enhance or efforts in the fight against antiasian race . Thank you for that question. First of all, one of the things that we did was to provide grants for artists, because we know, for example, those filmmakers, those musicians, performers, people who paint and do other artsrelated things, this is their livelihood and especially now during this pandemic, i think people are realizing the importance of art, because every time you hear about something, you hear about someone singing. You hear about someone showcasing some level of art and how that is what is getting people through this. And i do think its important that we pull together resources, financial resources. I think it was around 2 million or so dollars for immediate grants to artists with the goal to increase that even more, but the arts are going to take a big hit and as we lose revenue for hotel tax and other things, its going to be very challenging. And my commitment is to really focus on making sure that we are supporting San Francisco Arts Organization, that we are supporting San Francisco artists, as much as we possibly can. My goal is to make sure that and lets be honest, there will be cuts and then usually, arts is first on the chopping block and that wont be the case with me. Ill be looking for waste and places where money things that are not necessarily as valuable as making sure our kids are participating in paid summer internships or arts related functions. I mean, all of those things are important, but its going to be difficult or well continue to do what we can. I think when were talking about what john and sarah brought up in terms of coming together and developing the plan and possibly even developing a campaign of sorts, and maybe using the arts as a vehicle to support and promote that, you know, that is something that i think is important and its something that should be prioritized and so, because it does matter. It does matter in terms of whats happening in our city and if thats a vehicle by which we can supportive, we will. So it doesnt give you, maybe, reassurance that things will be great. Theyre not. And so, fortunately, as a museum, you have the ability to encourage many of your Board Members to possibly even contribute more. But there are shawler smaller institutions and other organizations that will have a much more difficult time. And so we want to be mindful of that and we also want to live within our means and i remember when i was the director of the africanamerican art and culture complex and we had a number of challenges in the western edition with violence, we could have fought for funding for our organization, but all of the organizations got together and because the Community Center and john, you remember this they were on the verge of closing. So we basically put aside what we needed to make sure that organization had its support and i think thats where we are as a city now. Because we have to remember that it cant just be us pushing for more funding for our organizations. Lets be realistic. Were going to suffer. There will be budget cuts and lets try to be mindful of the fact there will be other organizations that will need something more than others. And so, i see thomas giving me the signal. Madam mayor, i just got pinged by your staff that we are running late on time and we wanted to get through two more speakers about the arts before you have to go. Iwell make sure you get in and out on time. So next we have irene almario, the studio that was founded in 1969, dedicated to showcasing emerging philippino artists and providing access to a broad range of performing arts programs. Please welcome irene. Thank you for having me. First of all, thank you, mayor breed, for your action and early shelterinplace order. Were grateful for the people in the cities who adjusted to this crisis, the bcyf, which allowed us to utilize our arts grants for direct covid relief services. Now and so primarily, this is a expect organization and space that is dedicated to philippino american arts. We have a thriving Artist Community providing cedar workshops to seniors and youth in our local neighborhoods. All of our. Eventevents have come to ahalt. Artists who rely on contract work are finding it difficult to meet basic needs, dealing with isolation and digital accessibility. We have had to completely pivot our operations to directly address the covid crisis in our community. We are now aiding Service Organizations like up, west bay, Equity Center and comcan. However, we want to continue to create and put on productions. We are trying to shift into alternative means to engage with our community, but we actually need more support. So madam mayor, my question is, small performing arts benefits will find it nearly impossible to implement social distancing measures in a viable way. Will the city able to offer any support to small venues searching for alternative ways to present work, such as Technical Resources to move to the virtual platform . Or when we can gather once again, creating a program that allows venues to stage performances in large Public Places like parks, gymnasiums, et cetera, while still making it affordable for a Small Organization . Thank you. Well, thank you for your question. First of all, i am anxious for the day when our artists can get back to performing and playing and that is really what we so desperately need even now. And i think that im not familiar with all of the resources that will be specifically available for Arts Organizations. , bubut i do know that our plans to try to make sure that were supporting Arts Organization and make sure i mean, you have your space, but there are also expenses associated with that. We want to make sure that youre still getting your grant support and able to provide some Additional Resources to your office. And we have not im not familiar with the technical aspect of online and whats going on there, but i will check with our equity team. The director of the Human Rights Commission, she is managing the equity team out of the Emergency Operations center and i think that if you if there is something youre specifically in need of, i think that there is a way to connect you to access to the technology or resources that are necessary to get you online. I will say that, unfortunately, artists can perform on their own. But they cant necessarily come together and perform at this time because of the six feet of requirement. So i know whatever it is that you choose to do, i want to make sure that you do it within the help order and i will make sure that we follow up to figure out ways to help support you and the artists that you help. Represent. On the topic of artists, lets turn to our friends at cam. Our last presenter is steven gong, the executive director for center of the Asian American immediatmedia. Theyre celebrating 40 years this year and the leein leading present of american asian television. The camfest is right here and around the world. So welcome steven gong. Thank you thomas and claudine and mayor breed. It was a year ago when you joined us at the castro theater for opening night. And like so many others, we were ready to present a fabulous festival again and had to cancel. But we have pivoted and next week, as you can see from the information behind me on may 13th, we will kick off our camfest online and, again, thank you for doing a welcome for us and so, youve answered one of my questions already and youve shown your leadership here in support of the arts and cultural community. And i would also just want to mention that we have a National Broadcast of a fivehour series of the on history of Asian Americans broadcasts from kdtv on monday and tuesday nights. The bay figure area, so prominently in the asian area. This is a time when the asian america is coming together in a way that we have waited generations for and at a time, we know were facing such hardship. I wanted to make my turn, because i know i can count on your leadership for us. My question now from after what i have heard from all of my fellow speakers is to ask you to task us and that is to say what role can we play to help support the kind of vision that you want and that we share your vision for a more unified community and Diverse Community . And even though it is a time of tremendous risk and challenges and hardship, we also know in this is time to shift and make new things happen. Because you might as well start over and bill it th bill build. So please elaborate and give us a task. Thank you for your leadership and the work you continue to do and thank you for your work on the series. I put it out on social media and ive announced it and asked people to tune in with a message, exactly of what were talking about here. Sadly, in liberal San Francisco, we have seen xenophobia play out from our hurrican children to os in a message and to learn more about the rich history of our Asian Community in San Francisco, you know, tune into this series. I like the idea of really starting to shine a light only things that give people a perspective and part of that and what you do and as jay mentioned, the arts is a vehicle for that. Filmmaking is a vehicle for that. Performance on stage, all of those things can be used as messages and i know i remember there was a play because in the western community, we grew up and it was predominantly african and japanese and there was this relationship that existed with our communities of just respect and trust and that relationship has carried over the years and someone did a performance, a play about i think you might remember this one, john. When the japanese americans were placed in internment camp and how there were africanamericans who occupied their housing. When they were released, they turned their Housing Units back over. There was this very informal relationship. And i think a lot of it had everything to do with the fact that there were two communities living next to each other that were both treated poorly and were discriminated against and they, in some ways, we talk together. And we supported and respected each other. I mean, john osaki and his organization has helped more africanamerican kids than any other organization in the city. And i think part of what will be important is how our we using the vehicle we have to bridge that gap . Whether its in the cam Film Festival and providing, of course, films featuredpy Asian Americans, but how do we begin to broaden that and make sure that they are maybe an africanamerican filmmaker who has asian people playing various roles in those films and featuring those films . I think the charge is, how do we begin to be together more in what we do . How do we start to Work Together to really make sure and again, it starts with the schools. It starts with the kids because i learned about the various asian cultures because of my school, because of the different festivals that highlighted the different times of year that were significant to all of us. Thats how i learn. And so part of this is really going to be a learning experience. How are we going do a better job around our communication strategy of promoting and supporting and helping people to understand and learn about the asian experience, not just in this city, but in this country and in this world and the value that is not only placed on your community because what makes us an incredible place is because we all have values. We all have values because of our own cultures but also our shared experiences. And so i think the call is really to remind people of that, how much alike we are and now more than ever, with this pandemic, what we see, it does not matter what color you are or matter about your socioeconomic status. It doesnt matter. This virus does not discriminate against anyone. Anyone could be affected at any given time and it shows that we are all on the same playing field. So how do we emerge out of this crisis stronger and better than ever . I think is really how we communicate, a consistent, positive message around the Asian Community and how we come together, whether its a task force or a group. Weve put together people who care about these issues with various races and we put out the right messaging and an implementation strategy to support our communities and our kids. And either consistent iand wer. I would like to continue working with you all on just that because its so important, especially now, because it just makes me crazy that people are targeted because of their race. And as you know, as an africanamerican woman, as someone who gets targeted myself, like the last thing i want to see is this happen to anybody. It is the worst feeling in the world to be treated a certain way because of your race, to be discriminated against or attacked. It is the worst. Lets turn the tide with our positive energy, our positive reinforcement, our positive solutions of coming together and really focusing on the things that we know our organizations can do and collectively what we can do to really turn the tide. Thats what i would like to see us do. This is the beginning, i think, of it, because i know this is apa heritage month in San Francisco and im glad that we are celebrating in this way, but it gives us also an opportunity to have this very important conversation and shine a light on this. And i think the next step is, lets put a Team Together and lets start to move forward on some real solutions, especially with our young people. Thank you, mayor breed. Thumbs up. On that note of togetherness, lets turn it over to claudine for closing remarks, the person who brought us together in the first place. Thank you. I feel very uplifted from your message, sharing your thoughts from us and i feel there is hope seeing all of us together and i think that many more out there that we need to expand this circle of discussion and im very happy to hear about the campaign. This is a positive energy. In fact, i know that many of educators are listening to us and hearing us, this program online. And i think we can view that alliance and network and have a multicultural solution to all of this and bringing people together and thank you so much, mayor, and we are here to roll our sleeves up and Work Together. I think this conversation is started in this month, but i hope we will regularly have our other conversations and keep doing on and engage all together. Thank you so much. Thank you, claudine. Thank you to everyone. To everyone in the public, go to apa sf. Org. Thank you. Todays special guest is claudia dume. Hi. Today, my guest is claudia gorham. Shes the deputy managing director of the real estate dri division at the city and county of San Francisco, and shes my special guest. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. I know that your department is the department for managing and renting properties, and also cleaning for the city. How has your department been preparing for the crisis . Well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and city departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. So we still have to do the cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. And the other thing is all our workers are Disaster Service workers, so we have been providing the Emergency Operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. Have you obtained Additional Space for the city to use during this crisis . Yes. The crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of Public Health, the department of Human Services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. So, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a building a vacant building to put supplies or if they need to put some trucks, we will help them locate that Office Building or that property based on their factors that they need. We will then contact the landlord or the Property Owner of the space or the Building Owner decides they want, and then, we negotiate the terms that they need, whether its a permit or a lease, well help the City Attorney draft that agreement. Nice. So can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic . Certainly. The city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to Moscone South Convention Center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. We have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid19 crisis. All of the department of Public Health and the departments of homelessness and Human Services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. They need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. So weve been assisting them with places to stay. You mentioned the palace of fine arts. It has over 100,000 square feet of space. It could it we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, were going to use it for different needs. Were going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can use it for this crisis. Were using the bill graham Civic Auditorium and tfor the deployment of ambulances. The Fire Department needed additional supplies, so were using it for that service. Thats great. I also understand you have a staff of custodians, electricians, janitors and other support workers. How are they helping the city . We could not be more thankful for our civic and engineering staff under our real estate division. They have been working 247 since this crisis began, not only doing their daily responsibilities to keep the public buildings open and operating for the city staff continuing to go into the office but also because once the crisis started, several memos came down as to additional cleanings and how to do disinfecting, and we have to do the c. D. C. S recommendation does. So not only do they do recommendations. So not only do they do their regular cleaning, they are also doing deep cleaning and disinfecting in places like the Public Safety building and the haul of justice. But theyre also going in and doing a deep cleaning and disinfecting after we had a suspected case or a confirmed case of a person having the coronavirus. So theyre going in and doing this every night since this started. Our workers are continuing as laborers to make the buildings safe and secure and maintained. And however we help or however we can help the e. O. C. , we do that. Well, thanks for coming on the show, claudia. Id like to thank you and your entire team on behalf of all the residents of San Francisco for all the work you continue to do. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure. Thats it for this episode. Well be back with another pandemicrelated episode shortly. This is coping with covid19. Im chris mathers. Thanks for watching. I want to thank all of you for joining us here today. We know that this is a very challenging time during this pandemic, especially for many people who have not only lost their income, but have had their hours reduced at their various employment sites and also lost their jobs completely. As of today weve had over 83,000 people in San Francisco apply for unemployment. What that says is that even though we locally are doing everything that we can to provide resources to the public, we know that theres so much more that needs to be done. We cant wait for a federal stimulus check in many cases, people who are living paycheck to paycheck and need money to pay their bills. And we know, especially our hairdressers and our nail salons, our barbershops, theyre probably suffering the most. Because if they dont work they dont have any income. So this is a very challenging time for all of us. And as we deal with the protecting of Public Health, we need to always protect the Financial Health of our families and communities. After were able to reopen what is that going to look like . And how will we be able to continue to make sure that everyone has a decent paying job with benefits . Thats the foundation of our city and its necessary for us to figure out ways in which we can help to support one another and uplift one another. Just a few things that we have been doing here in San Francisco include providing additional sick leave for private sector employees and also making available funding that employers have paid into our fund that establishes the support for Health Care Benefits and were able to give that back to the employees to use for important things like rent or food, finding Creative Solutions to give to s. F. , where were using those resources to help to pay for food for lowincome families and undocumented families. We know that may not qualify for other benefits that are available. Making sure that people who are very concerned and will not be able to generate revenues that theyre able to get some resources and some relief to help to pay rent. For their ability to stay housed, our Small Business community is the foundation of our city and we know that, sadly, whats happening now is that people are impacted financially, but we know that theres going to be a real challenge in the future. And its important that we make smart decisions, that we make investment in the people who work so hard for our city so that they are able to get over the very challenging time and are able to emerge from this in a way that moves our city forward. So today what we wanted to do was to take this opportunity to have a webinar specifically for workers. Because even though we have made a lot of announcements here in San Francisco about various programs that are available, it can get quite confusing because there are local programs, there are state programs, there are challenges with unemployment and other things. And we wanted to provide this as an opportunity to reach directly out to workers. And to talk to the community about ways in which we want to be as helpful as we possibly can. And also to solicit feedback because we may not have all of the answers, we may not know exactly whats going on in every sector of every part of this city, and we want to be a resource to make sure that were investing the dollars in the right programs that are going to directly impact peoples lives. So today im joined by a number of folks here who are here to serve employees of San Francisco. The workforce director josh arce works for our office of workforce and Economic Development. And for more information about what were doing and if you have any other questions or concerns, not only can you call josh directly and hell answer your call. But go to oewd. Org or call 311, and he is available. He is very dedicated to helping workers and to helping people find Job Opportunities. So thats one of his roles here with the city. And were so grateful for his commitment and service to the city. We are also joined by rudy gonzalez, the executive director for the San Francisco Labor Council. And as you know the San Francisco Labor Council represents all organized labor here in San Francisco, but they dont just fight for the groups that are part of their collaborative. They fight for better wages, they fight for Better Benefits so that people have can live with dignity and can take tear of their family take care of their family. I have a uni union family that m blessed to be part of and we know that organized labor in San Francisco is critical to the safety net of many of our lowwage workers and people who make San Francisco strong. And i want to thank you, michelle, who michelle lenardbell who is agreeing to moderate this conversation. And they have been my goto for Employment Opportunities since i mean, its been theyve been around longer than this, but its been over 20 years. When i have someone who is struggling and needs an employment opportunity, and they provide the wrap around Supportive Services and the training necessary to get people on their feet and back to work. So were glad to have an incredible network of people who are here to help to guide this conversation, help us to answer some questions, and the goal is to make sure that we are connecting our resources to the people that we know that need it the most. That is why were here. And we want to thank you all for joining us. At this time i want to join it over to josh arce, with oewd. Thank you, mayor breed and thank you for convening us here and for everything that youre doing for workers. I want to say at our department under our director, we are a team of 54 men and women who are committed working with at this point 48 communitybased organizations to support workers out there at this time and to prepare for our recovery. So as you said, so we can emerge from this even stronger. Thank you. Mayor london breed so, thank you, josh. And rudy gonzalez, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council here in the city. And also i want to mention our Economic Recovery Task force, because not only do we need to help workers now, and what happens in future when we start to reopen the city, hes a cochair leading that charge on the San Francisco economic recovery. So, ladies and gentlemen, rudy gonzalez. Thank you, mayor breed and director arce, and michelle, its great to be in your community. Were grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discussion and bringing together not only organized laborer but as you said, mayor, ways to lift up all people. So were happy to get to work on our recovery right now. Mayor london breed all right, michelle, we can turn it over to you so we can get started. We probably have a lot of folks on the line who have a number of questions and thats what were here to do, to answer the questions. And also to take feedback on just suggestions that people who are in the middle of these experiences might have. So ill turn it over to you. Thank you so much again. Thank you, mayor breed, thank you. Im michelle leonardbell and im the general manager of mission hiring call. We have been putting people in San Francisco to work with quality employment since 1971. So were going to get started here. Mayor, thank you so much for everything that youre doing. We believe that lives here in the city and the region around the city have been saved because of your Decisive Action and your administrations work. Thank you to all of the participants who sent in questions. We received many, many questions around workforce. What were going to try to do is to select the questions that were asked more than once. And also to request the diversity of the things that you would like to know. Our first question was one that was very common. And ill share this one with mayor breed and then with josh. So many people are frustrated with the challenges of applying for unemployment. What is the latest status on the state and federal unemployment resources . Mayor breed . Mayor london breed well, ill turn this over to josh because he has a lot more detail. But, you know, again, weve had 83,000 people in San Francisco alone and over 2. 5 million in state of california, of people who applied for unemployment. I know that the Governors Office is working to increase the capacity in order to try and be as responsive as possible to people because we know that people need their money now. We dont have direct local control over Unemployment Insurance in general but were definitely partnering and working with the states to be as aggressive as we can to get unemployment in the hands of people right away. It has definitely been a challenge. And ill turn it over to josh. Yes, thank you, mayor breed. And we work very closely with the state Employment Development department, or e. E. D. And they have an unpri unpreceds only 50,000 who had applied for employment and three million ever since. And so as the governor and the labor secretary julie siu increased staffing to the unemployment phone lines and emails, what weve been doing is running a hotline. We have been working closely with the Human Service agency, Community Partners including selfhelp for the elderly, and the Mission Economic development agency. And a whole lot of the staff to answer phones. Our team takes calls seven days a week in multiple languages. And its really around whatever supports that we need during covid19 and, of course, most of the calls around unemployment. Many of our Community Partners are doing the same. So in nearly 2,000 calls that have been received to date since march 16th shelterinplace order, and independent contractor questions, and what we do is that we gather information from those callers and the staff works directly with us. Were grateful for that to get the answers and to call folks back and email them with those updates. We do twiceaweek Rapid Response virtual online webinars to get a group of folks and workers laid off in a room to share those resources with the state, with the Labor Council, with cover california. And thats about an hourlong process that we do twice a week. As the mayor said, were just here for you and we want to stay connected. Our website is www. Oewd. Org. And the phone number is 41570 4157014817. And go to our website www. Oewd. Org and thats a great way to get the number and all of the resources that well talk about today. Thank you again, mayor breed. Thank you, mayor and josh. Of the nearly 350 calls they recently provided services to, unemployment questions were the main questions. So thank you again for this. Oewd. Org and you can get assistance around unemployment. And the next question here is for rudy. Rudy, before people go back to work, they are understandably concerned about the safety and ensuring safety for themselves and their families. Will the city be providing guidelines and giving back to the office back to the office to ensure that people are safe when they return to work . Thank you for that question, michelle. The short answer is yes. The department of Public Health, the county Health Officer have been working diligently to provide clarification and guidance where weve needed it. I think that a good example of this came to the City Administrators Office and the mayors administration with respect to industries and the construction sector. So, yes, the city is providing that guidance. Its something that is a top priority for the Economic Recovery Task force in our effort to support not only jobs and jobs and businesses and Small Businesses, but we also want to support workers by collaborating around what those safety protocols are. Theyre going to look and feel a little different in various industries. But we trust that the department of Public Health is going to provide us, you know, timely guidance on those things. And i think that its also important to recognize that the situation is fluid. And so we have to be dynamic in how we respond to these concerns. This is an area that im particularly interested in developing feedback through the Recovery Task force, their Community Engagement team. Im very interested in what some of the specific needs will be from some of our small and mediumsized businesses along these lines. But, yes, well continue to work with the City Partners and the Industry Partners to develop clear guidance that allows people to get back to regular work, to continue the essential work, and to do so in a way that promotes Public Health. Thank you for that, rudy. Our next question is for mayor breed. Will more people be eligible for testing as more people return to work, mayor breed . Mayor london breed oh, definitely. The only way that were going to be able to get back to life as we knew it in some capacity is to ensure that testing is available to people. And the good news is that we announced that all essential workers for the city or even in the private sector, you are considered an essential worker, whether you exhibit symptoms or not, you can be tested. So, please, reach out to us. You can go on to sf. Org citytestssf. Or call 311 if you would like to be tested and youre an essential worker. But the other thing is that we will test anyone who exhibits symptoms, whether you have insurance or not. I think that is important. Because we never want testing to be a barrier. If you are not an essential worker or just a San Franciscoian or anyone, you know, from our immigrant community or anyone you dont have to have insurance to get tested. If you are exhibiting at least one symptom, we will test you. So you can go online or call 311 and we will get you tested. So i think that the good news is that we expanded our testing casity. Scapacity. So were able to provide the opportunities more than we ever had before. So theres no reason for anyone in San Francisco to not get tested right now if they need to, if they exhibit at least one symptom of covid19. And i also want to be clear that our essential workers can get tested in general. So what we want to be able to do is that we want to expand that even further. Because ultimately the goal is to make sure that as people get back to work that we have Testing Capacity to get people tested. In general. Because even if i get tested today, its negative. Well, im around people tomorrow, and the possibility of me getting the virus is possible still. So it doesnt just go away because of a test. So we have to make sure that testing is readily available at any given time for anyone. So im really excited about our Testing Capacity. So, again, no reason that anyone cant get tested who exhibits symptoms or our essential workers for any of these reasons. Thank you so much for that, mayor. One more followup question as well with schools remaining closed through the rest of this academic year, will more Child Care Services be available as more people return to work . Mayor london breed yeah, and i believe so for sure. The good news is that were offering child care for essential workers right now in our Health Care Industry and our Public Safety industry. And our goal is not only to expand that as we have space available, but it also is to expand it as we have more testing. And so right now were having conversations with our Public Health department about what does it mean for summer camp. What does this mean for things that we want to be available to kids but we also want to not only protect the children that we want to have these opportunities, we want to make sure that the workforce and their parents and others have access to this testing. Testing, Contact Tracing, those sorts of things are going to be key when we start to allow various industries to reopen in San Francisco, along with the guidelines, just like what were doing with construction, just like what were doing right now with Outdoor Services like a number of flower shops and nurseries and kiosks and outdoor businesses, setting guidelines in place and allowing those industries to open. We want to do that with more industries. But that happens as we have also more testing capacities which we are seeing occur. And im really excited about that for the future. Thank you, mayor breed. Director josh arce, would you like to add anything . You know, i thought that, mayor breed, this might be a good place to say to any students or parents that might be watching that you can apply for the mayors opportunity for all Summer Internship Program which is preparing to launch again in june and taking applications for online internship through the Human Rights Commission. Should we share that link with everybody . Mayor london breed i hope that you know the link. [laughter]. And from director davis its www. Opps4allsf. Org. And well have these links posted at the end of the video feed. Mayor london breed and then also i think that, you know, if you have questions and theres a lot of information overload, you can always call 311. Thank you, mayor breed. We have had several questions around skills and Training Programs which are going to be essential to getting folks back to work who have lost positions in this crisis. Lets start with this question with rudy and then josh. How are we preparing people who have lost their jobs for Employment Opportunities when the city reopens . And its going to be such a tight market. Thank you for that question. The first thing were doing is identifying where the greatest needs are. And in some industries the road will be longer to recovery. So its important that we get into those workplaces and identify who needs reskilling or upskilling and different forms of training. And i think that its important to note that some of the existing models that the city has worked very closely with organized labor and our Public Education institutions Like City College and departments like joshs and city build, provide a good framework for us to start modeling this. In fact, just recently director arce and i were part of a collaboration and the city was able to directly address some workers at munch sconi center that will have a longer road to recovery in the trade and show sector. They accessed funds through the state of california and set up a collaborative model where well be partnering with a high road Union Apprenticeship training to help hundreds of workers at musconi to transition into viable career paths in the construction industry. So i think that unique to this recession is that we are going to have certain sectors of the economy continue. Some will even thrive. And its going to be up to us to collaborate to make sure that we deliver those Training Programs directly to the workers who need it. Im particularly excited about this opportunity of musconi, because i think that it shows a Great Partnership not only the city and organized labor who have these Training Programs already set up, but it also highlights the importance of San Franciscos role with respect to the Governors Administration and the e. D. D. Without those partnerships, these kind of models wouldnt be possible. So were really excited to think through how do we provide some of those skills in a new virtual setting and how do we model then so they can be rolled out at scale. While some workers are just kind of waiting for the next round of orders to come out, we know that others will face a much tougher road and will have a longer ways to go. So we want to get into that segment of the workforce and Many Industries so that we can provide not just new skills or certifications, but real career paths. So that people can recover, you know, in their own family life. And, thank you, michelle. This example that rudy mentions, because mayor breed has in so many ways primed the workforce for this moment. And i think back to not much more than a year ago when the chariot drivers lost their drivers and mayor breed convened our office and m. T. A. , Teamsters Union and mission to meet these workers who had been driving private shuttles and to train them through a new program, city drive, to become muni Bus Operators and commercial drivers. When we got the call from rudy its a logical next step to have that coordination and to connect with the Workforce Development board and e. D. D. And to really think of options here. Its only at the end of last week that we i think that 10 days ago is when we started this conversation and just at the end of last week, as rudy said, the state e. D. D. Announced theyre awarding one Million Dollars to train several hundred of those men and women to become Union Construction apprentices through city build. So that kind of work with labor, Community Partners, to think of new Training Programs is something that i know that were focused on every day, Nonprofit Service provider partners are out there. And most Community Partners that we support are still operating virtually. Neighborhood job centers, i have mentioned some already, as well as Success Center and the young developers, and hospitality house in the tenderloin, and the inner city youth, you can connect to these great organizations through oewd. Org. And theyre working through the Service Agencies right now to hire onsight monitors at 24anhour each which is a great opportunity and our hospitality is working with one fair wage and the state of california to support high roads to kitchens and working to support restaurant workers in partnership with our Human Services agency. The cannabis industry is hiring and they really need our help, but, again, its just about most importantly that were connected and that our website is oewd. Org, as mayor breed said, you can call me, call any of us, were just here to support you and stay connected as we have been charged by our mayor. Yes, thank you so much. Another thing that id like to add is that during this time is that you felt that you were underemployed or just existing in employment, this could be a perfect storm for you. And when we say underemployed we mean if you were working fulltime and partners in your household were working fulltime and you were not making ends meet with the employment that you were in, this could be a great time to go to oewd. Org and check out the training. Most of these trainings are not over 18 weeks and it will land you into quality employment. Next question ill ask of josh. Given the changing landscape of work, what sort of retraining and reeducating programs is the city developing to equip people for jobs . Thanks, michelle. Mayor breed has spoken of the need for us to adapt our workforce to the new normal. And the fact is that we get notices from employers laying off workers. And since march 1, we have received nearly 300 of such notices of companies laying off employees in San Francisco and that impacts more than 33,000 workers out there. Nearly half of these companies are in the accomodation and food service industry. So we know that these are areas where we need to focus and we have talked about some of those ideas and well look forward to connecting with our partners to do even more of that. Health care and tech are still hiring and we think that those are going to be Key Industries that well hear through the Economic Recovery Task force where we will see opportunities. And Health Care Academy partners are signing up and theres tech s. F. , and its still taking applications to train in the tech industry. And theres free training thanks to Linkedin Learning and zen desk where you can certify for free and their platform, which opens up more opportunities for you in recovery. And opportunities for all that we mentioned is a really important way as mayor breed has said to plant seeds for our young people. Both in an ordinary economy, and certainly postcovid. And apprenticeship, not just in construction but tech and health care and commercial driving, we expect to be a key to our workforce strategy during recovery. And, again, our Community Partners are out there doing the work to support you. We have received an additional 675,000 from the state e. D. D. For general Supportive Services to support workers that are laid off to be able to do these kind of trainings and thats something that you can learn more about, again, to upskill or reskill and to really prepare for this through our website oewd. Org. Thank you, josh, for that. And also if you go to mission missionhiringcall. Org you can apply for city build at that website. And you can apply for the Construction Administration and training and professional services academy. This is an answer for folks who do not wish to put on a tool belt. You can work inside construction companies. And the training is just 18 weeks. And we also Security Guard training free of charge. And we also offer placement into hospitality positions. This question, the next question that we have here is about the impact to our most vulnerable workers. Ill ask this one of everyone. Starting with mayor breed and then josh and then rudy. How is the city helping workers in sectors like arts, nonprofits and other fields where the workers may have already been struggling before the coronavirus pandemic . Mayor london breed ill tell you the one thing that weve been able to do, fortunately, with not just our city workers, but with many of the nonprofit workers that the city has contracts with, we have been able to honor our commitment to those contracts which have allowed us to continue to pay many of our nonprofit providers. And so that has been incredible. We have not had to stop funding even though our city faces a 1. 1 billion to 1. 7 billion budget deficit. We actually repurposed i think that i cant remember the exact amount but i think that it was around 2 million or so for art support to give to Arts Organizations and to give to artists. Because, you know, these musicians and people who this is their livelihood and they dont have the ability to get by. If you, for example, play live music once a week and thats how you make ends meet, and now youre not playing live music anywhere anymore, these artists are suffering. Theres a number of Arts Organizations that are suffering. So we have repurposed some of our dollars and grant money that were not directly committed and we are digging deep to find more to support artists and people in our arts community. And, in fact, give to s. F. , they may qualify for, give to s. F. , we started to partner with both to partner with the private dollars and the public dollars for food security, for housing, and for Small Businesses. And we work with many nonprofits to try to distribute the Resources Available to get the money in the hands of people right away through some of these particular programs. But it continues to be a challenge because we have had money that we put into these pots and it runs out quickly. And we have, of course, wait lists of people who need resources, which is why im constantly not only raising money, but trying to scrap up city money in order to combine those resources to provide that to people that we know that are already struggling. So well continue to do that. Thank you so much, mayor breed. These are all great resources. Keep in mind that the small the communitybased organizations all over the city are working hard and theyre ready to go to work as soon as we unshelter to help to you access every one of these services and trainings that we talked about here today. Mayor london breed well, a lot of the nonprofits, just so you know, are still working. Theyre still helping us in various xa capacities. Definitely those managing our shelters and those working with the homeless population, they have not stopped working. They are putting themselves in harms way in order to take care of people on a regular basis. So there are some organizations, even before the pandemic really hit our city and they were out doing the work around outreach and educating people about what is what the coronavirus is and some of the recommendations and things to do or not to do and who to call for resources. So our relationships with our nonprofits is really important in not only communicating but distributing the resources that we have through give to s. F. Were working with organizations to identify the people who are most in need and who to contribute those resources to. So we appreciate that. And were hopeful that we can maintain it. But we are looking at a very challenging future for this city with our anticipated budget deficits. Thank you, mayor breed. We have time for one last question and its about economic recovery. Id like to go,a round to al, af the panelists, starting with mayor breed. How can we ensure as the city begins its recovery that every San Franciscoians has a chance to succeed in this new normal. Mayor london breed im sorry . How can we ensure that every San Franciscoian has a chance to succeed in this new normal . Mayor london breed well, unfortunately, thats going to be very challenging. Its going to be challenging, sadly, because of our deficit. Because of whats happening with our economy, and it doesnt mean that we dont try to come together to figure out ways in which we can really focus on, you know, making sure that exactly what josh and what rudy talked about is looking at people in various industries and making sure that if their industry is going under or those Job Opportunities are no longer available, and then how do we help them to shift what theyre doing. And thats going to be really important. Thats how were going to be able to ensure support for our city workforce. Its going to be tough. There are no plans in the near future. Tourism is going to continue to be very challenging. So when you think about it, the people who work at the Convention Centers and the people who work at the hotels and the folks who work at restaurants where well need to make changes to the restaurant industry. A lot of folks are going to suffer. What we have to be prepared to do, exactly what josh talked about, when the chariot drivers lost their jobs, well, they could drive one of those big vans for chariot, they can drive muni. So what a great and they get paid more. So i think that thats a lot of what were going to be doing is helping to make it easier for people to shift whatever industry they might be working in and making sure that the programs match what is available. So, for example, were not going to be out of the woods on the coronavirus for some time until theres a vaccine. And Contact Tracing along with testing will be a critical part in trying to help to keep people safe. Well, we need thousands of people to do Contact Tracing. So training people and getting them equipped with what that entails could be a stepping stone to another opportunity. But its the kinds of things that well need to do in order to try to support everyone. It will be challenging, but we are committed to this, and thats why im i have a lot of confidence in the Economic Recovery Task force with a number of people from labor, people from academic world, folks with the city departments, folks from nonprofits and from the communities and from the arts communities. Like, the goal is to come up with the right plan of action for people in various industries so that we make it less challenging on people than im sure that it already is. And thats what were committed to. Thank you, mayor. Josh, would you like to chime in . Yeah, thank you again, thank you again, mayor breed and to the panel because a few of the ideas that we talked about here and then we have heard in the questions are some cues for what we can think about in recovery. 10 years ago we had federal stimulus dollars and economic stimulus resources that we may see again, i know that were all advocating under the mayors leadership and to our speaker and governor to make the case for any resources that we can. The mayors example of Sick Leave Fund was a partnership between our office and Human Services agency. And with the 10 million fund we saw applications to support nearly 21,000 different workers giving us a framework to think about. If we could have those stimulus dollars again to implement those programs, and it could be built out again. Supporting our immigrant workers, and families that give to s. F. Dollars that mayor breed has helped to secure that will soon deploy to those workers who may not be eligible for any other form of relief because of immigration status, working with partners such as the Human Rights Commission and Latino Task Force and the Labor Council and others wh that are some of e ways to do what mayor breed charged with us each before this started to leave no one behind. We were just starting a collaborative right before this started under the coordination of hospitality house and joe wilson, his team and Tiffany Jackson with the homeless advocates and workers advocates of formerly homeless job seekers to really create a new system, a multidepartmental system working with the community that weve got to return to that too. And it was also policies and our local hiring policy for construction started 10 years ago. And ideas that we can obviously catalyze a return to the Economic Prosperity that we had, and we will have once again. But using these policies to truly make sure that no one is left behind because by the end of that moment of prosperity we saw disparities such as unemployment within the African American Community Disproportionately low compared to everyone else in this city. And many of our women of color, and Public Housing residents who are not able to share in that income and that wealth as we rebuild. And its going to be tough as the mayor said. But as we rebuild weve got all of the right partners from community, labor and businesses and mayor, and the supervisors and the agencies and everyone coming together to do this through the task force to do these kind of policies, to come together and well look forward to that hard work to get us back. Thank you so much for that, josh. Rudy, would you like to chime in with a closing statement on recovery . Sure, thanks, michelle. In terms of the Economic Recovery Task force, i think that the frame here is that we have to be deliberate. So if were going to talk about a recovery that serves everybody and provides opportunity, you know, were going to have to focus energy on that question. And the Recovery Task force framework, theres sort of three areas or three work areas around job and business and a work group dedicated to that, and Economic Development and a work group dedicated to that. And im proud that theres a vulnerable Populations Work Group to think about these questions and these issues, through an equity lens, right and to think about how do we lift people up. I dont think that it will happen on accident or by chance. Its going to happen because of political leaders, of Community Leaders and overall a level of engagement that brings everybody into the conversation. I want to say that i think that it also counts on some of the outcomes that were seeing at the federal level. Im very proud that our national aflcio is mobilizing our 12. 5 million members to lobby and to push to make sure that local government gets taken care of in the next stimulus package. All of the extraordinary efforts from p. P. E. To testing, to making sure that nonprofits and Vulnerable Community groups are being taken care of at the city level requires that the federal level of our government recognize that and then to provide resources, funding, money. So were fighting for that very hard as an organized movement. And i also want to say they think that our local government will play a key role in defining what recovery feels like for all people. Our local government really has an opportunity, not only as the representatives of the people, but as the largest employer in San Francisco, well have an opportunity to speak our values in this recovery. And i think that it starts with health care. I know that the city has been a leader on that. The mayor has been working diligently as she said with the ahcao and money and there are policies that we can look to really make sure that everybody recovers in San Francisco. So were excited and were ready to get to work on the Economic Recovery Task force and thank you again for the opportunity to participate in this panel. Thank you, rudy. And thank you all who have participated in this today. Mayor breed, thank you for having us. And one last thought on recovery. As we go back to work and everyone else joins the others now working, lets keep in mind our safety. This isnt the kind of skim over emails from our employer and advising us of policy and procedures. Weve got to keep safety as paramount and at the utmost top of our minds while we go back to work. Because weve got to keep families safe. As the mayor said were not through this yet but weve got to keep working together. Thank you, mayor breed and i turn this back over to you. Mayor london breed thank you. And let me say, michelle, i know that you have a lot of questions and i want to make sure that were able to answer them. So feel free to turn them over to josh. And hell followup. We want to be a resource for people and so if theres any questions, please reach out to us. The website is oewd. Org. Call 311, and we understand that it is probably frustrating to go through this process of applying for unemployment on your own and needing documents and not getting a response. Though we dont have direct control over this particular state agency, we want to be helpful. For example, if youre struggling for unemployment and youre waiting for a check and if we have a resource to provide support or food or something of that nature, we dont want you to have to wait for unemployment to get help. If theres something available in our city we want to help as much as we can. And so we appreciate the opportunity to be here. Well continue to do everything that we can to support our workforce. As we go through the challenges of our budget, keeping people employed and making sure that people have employment options is really so important to taking care of the people of this city and also our economic recovery health. That is so desperately needed. So were counting on all of us to do our part in providing information as well as getting information and making the decisions based on whats best for the people that were here to serve. So i really appreciate all of you and all of the work that youre all doing on the frontlines. We really are in this together. And i want to see us emerge as a stronger, better city for our workforce more than ever as a result of this unexpected pandemic. And i think that by working together we will. So thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. In meeting is called to order at 11 01 a. M. The Small Business commission thanks sf gov for viewing on livestreamed at sftv. Org. 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