We have part of our engagement was Junior Deputy program. I mentioned earlier and we try to get out there to do clinics related to interest. We went up to Juvenile Justice Center a few months ago. Myself, captain stanford and another captain and provided basketball clinic for juveniles up there. It was part of our process to reach out not just for recruitment but to engage with people to just really message out that we are here for them in any other ways other than being just as involved. I think those efforts that we engage with the community. The organizations i am looking forward to meeting with you. I have spoken to director davis about that. Thank you so much. Colleagues. Any other questions or comments . Thank you. I am good. Thank you, sheriff. All right. Maybe we can move to wrap up this hearing. Thanks, supervisor safai and your legislative aid for organizing such an important hearing. Do you have Closing Remarks . Yes, i would like to make Closing Remarks if that is okay. Thank you. Thank you, chair, for allowing us this leeway. I know this was a long hearing. I want to say since i have been supervisor and this is my fourth year. I can count on one hand the number of hearings i have called. I am very selective. That doesnt mean i dont believe there i is a necessity o have hearings. I will cosponsor hearings with colleagues. One of the most important roles as supervisors is the power of inquiry. My purpose today was not to embarrass anyone. It was not to make anyone feel as though they were singled out. It was to learn as much as we could and to highlight an important issue in the climates we live in. People talk about ideas but for me this was one of the ones i not we could have Lasting Impact here in San Francisco in how we are represented in our First Responders. Those First Responders are the ones that are here today are the ones interacting with our communities of color that experienced a historic racism and oppression. If we are going to have a representatives body that is more of what we see in the Society Today as director simms said we cant use the demographics of San Francisco as the yardstick. San francisco is going through a major gentrification, for lack of better word, for historic communities and others have been displaced and not a good example. The demographics of the bay area or california or those interacting with the community that have the most interaction might be better. Who you are interacting with Community Members and represents that work force it is important to be reelective of that. There are many yardsticks we can use. We knew the audit was hiring within the Police Department. We wanted to do compare and contrast. It was telling today. I learn a lot and i appreciate the teams for sharing that information. Director simms and the Human Rights Commission and director davis for allowing the energy to be put in to this from the local 98 and for participating. I want to give a special thank you for putting in tremendous effort. I feel bad i amsor rye i am sot quick enough. Recruit men and hiring of women in the Fire Department. I apologies for that. I do want to make a moat i am going to ask i am going to ask this hearing be continued to the call of the chair. We can then set a specific date. I dont want a date off the top of my head in the next three or four months. We will ask the office to look at the data they have here today to simply come up with recommendations and see areas for improvement in all three departments. Today we compared Police Department to Fire Department and sheriffs department. I think there are lessons to be learned and we have to be more creative within each department. There were discussions about increasing budgeted and the rank. A diversified work force in different areas is extremely important. That is more important given the times we are in. We cant use the budget process as a reason for not making that firm commitment. We have to affiant creative ways. They can use existing resources. Lastly, i want to underscore. It was telling the to hear those in the police and Fire Department that the testing mechanism when it was changed had a Significant Impact on the outcome of a diversified work force. That is something that i want to specifically under score for the office of Racial Equity to look at in terms how we are going to continue to do that and use that moving forward. That is a major impediment to some of the goals told. I want to thank you supervisor marfor ifor sitting through theg hearings. It is amazing because you do these all of the time. I appreciate your input today. I hand it back to you, mr. Chair. Thank you for this important discussion we had today. On supervisor safais motion to continue this hearing to the call of the chair, mr. Clerk, please call roll. Small amount of housekeeping. The house did change with return of supervisor haney to the committee. The appointment was effective until haney arrived. If we could get the usual pan telpanelof three. So moved. Vice chair peskin mover to call of chair. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Thank you everyone. Can you please call items 6 through 16 for closed session. Sure. Agenda items 2 through 16 . Yes, 2 through 16. Various ordinances and resolutions settling lawsuits against the city and county. Members of the public should call the Public Comment number. 415 6550001. Enter meeting id1464783455. Press pound twice to connect to the meeting and star key followed by 3 to speak. System prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until you are unmuted and you may begin your comments. Mr. Chair. Before we go to Public Comment on the closed session, supervisor peskin do you have anything . Thank you, chairman mar. As supervisor safai indicated. This hearing has gone on for four hours. Unfortunately, i need to be somewhere else as of 2 00 which i am 10 minutes late and 10 minutes away. I think we have two choices and it is in your and supervisor haneys hands to continue these items to our next meeting or to hear it without me. I have to leave at this point for which i apologize. I had no idea we would be in this hearing for over four hours. Thank you, supervisor peskin. I would ask if deputy City Attorney pearson can comment on whether continuing these settlement agreements 2 through 16 on to the next meeting would be okay. Department City Attorney pearson. It is your call whether to continue the items. I have been prepared to be joined in closed session by my colleagues litigating hastings. They are prepared to walk you through that settlement. They would be in a better position than i am to talk on impacts on a continuance, but with respect to the other cases i am not aware of external deadlines. I leave it to the committee to decide what they want to continue. We can consider continuance in closed session. Yes. Supervisor peskin. Yes, i am not able to stay for the closed session at this point. Thank you. Sorry everybody. Thank you. Maybe we can go to Public Comment right now on the closed session items 2 through 16. Mr. Clerk are there any caller on the line . Thank you very much, mr. Chair. We will check for callers in the queue. For those connected press star followed by 3 to speak to this item the entirety of the litigation agenda. For those on hold in the queue continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. You will hear the prompt that your line is unmuted. If you are watching by streaming or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak on this item call in by following the instructions on your screen. I will repeat. 415 6550001. Meeting id today 146 4783455. Press pound twice and then star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. Could you connect us to the first caller, please. Hello. I am a resident of district 8. I am calling to ask the audit and Oversight Committee to vote no on the item on the closed agenda. It will endanger unhoused people. The lawsuit is racist and unjust. In particular the goal of the tenderloin node. [indiscernable] the visible poverty is not a crime. I vote with the other 40 organizations in the tenderloin to reject the settlement. You can avert the disaster. Well over 1600 are in the tenderloin. You can end the dangerous precedents of litigating and allow the coalition on homelessness parties granted intervention lawsuits that did not have an opportunity to participate in the initial settlement a seat at the table. Thank you for your time please vote no on the hastings settlement. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Could you please connect us to the next speaker. I am a resident of tenderloin district 6. I am calling to urge you to vote no on the hastings settlement item 12. My reason is contrary to what my colleague before me stated. It is unfair for the settlement to occur on the tenderloin and leave others. This is not a question of poverty. There are 1600 unhoused. I think there needs to be a grand solution for such people. They need our assistance but these residents here on Willow Street have been suffering with not just them dwelling on the streets but there is a lot of disturbances, noise, crack addiction and all sorts of looting and garbage eve everywh. It is unhealthy to be here. That settlement should extend to all tenderloin not just the 300 tents committed to. Thank you. Please connect us to the next speaker. That completes the queue. Thank you. Operations. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is closed. We can move to closed session. We will now convene in closed session. Could we take a roll call on motion to convene in closed session. Yes, please. On the motion to convene in closed session noting vice chair peskin is absent. Haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair will are two ayes and one absence. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We will convene in closed session. Thank you very much. A note. The members of the committee will be leaving this live meeting and connecting to did closed session hall. They will reconnect to this live meeting when it is concluded. I will present a summary of the actions taken during the closed session. Any members of the public invited to remain in this live session so you can hear summary of the actions taken. At this time the members of the committee are disconnecting from this call. [closed session. Hi. Im Chris Mathers with channel 19, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. First, im going to tell you what ive been doing, and then im going to be checking in with some friends and family. Ive been riding my bike. All i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. I try to ride my bike during the time im sheltering in place. I try to ride for at least 30 minutes. Surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. California state guidelines recommend you dont drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although im close to ocean beach, im a bit wary to go there, so im using the time to do some maintenance. Filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down. Im also repairing holes in my suit. Fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. He and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. This routine is from an online class by power yoga. Deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. Ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. It has everything she needed. And lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle, sudoku, or just by reading a good book. Heres a quick recap. Since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. For instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. Go to sf. Gov to get the most uptodate im district two e leadership of the department of Public Health flattened the curve in San Francisco. The steps we have taken together have saved lives. One of the reasons the city acted so quickly so early was to not overburden our Health Care Systems. As the state of california and bay area counties have begun to gradually reopen, we are seeing some troubling signs. We have a seven day average of ninety eight new cases per day. Our demand for acute care for covid positive patients has goan each week. Today dr. And i are announcing the establishment of our first low acuity medical site. Located a 163. It will open with twenty patients. Its not expected to treat covid positive patients. When i starred this i facility i was truly impressed at the first rate medical facility. The citys ability to confront covid 19 depends on our ability to care for those with all manner of conditions. Sprained angels to heart attacks. Other ailments are not stopping just because of the pandemic. Opening this facility will shore up our ability for the hospitals to treat covid 19. It is not a drop in acute care site testing location or shelter. Please do not visit this location if you are seeking any of those services sm as the district two supervisor i would be remiss to not note the response to local emergencies. Were an incredible resource and im grateful for the partnership with press i hapartnershipwith. A good mark morning. Im director of health. Thank you for your support during this unprecedented time. Today like if everyday, i check the number of patient patients h covid 19. Unfortunately that number is higher than ever before and continues to climb. That number dropped to just 26 patients six weeks ago. Today, its one hundred and seven. Of those one quarter are very sick and in intensive care. Across the city we have more than six thousand cases of covid 19. And look, it took us thirty eight days to go from two thousand to three thousand cases. Of half as long to go from three thousand to four thousand. In just ten days we went from five thousand to six thousand cases of covid 19. Let me be clear, we are in a major surge of covid 19. The virus is moving fast and more people are getting seriously ill. If things continue, we estimate well have more than 750 san franciscans in the hospital by october. Plausible worst Case Scenarios put us at twenty four hundred hospitalizations and eighteen hundred deaths. These scenarios unfortunately become more likely as each day goes by with the current trend. Today, fortunately all patients are getting world class treatment from the most caring professionals sm we wisals. We still have capacity to care for patients. It is good news that our Health Care System has not yet been overwhelmed as we saw in new york. Many are contributing to that by staying home, avoiding gathering, covering your faces when go ting out, washing your hands sm you are preventing more illness and spread and keep our Health Care System functioning. Our city must prepare for this surge. How many peoplethat puts us in the red zone of one of our Key Health Indicators. Weve been there for over a month. Its extremely sobering that we reached this point. Its extremely concerning. Our reopening remains on pause. The main reason we joined the watch list was because of our rapidly growing rates. Our goal is to keep the increase to less than 10 . Since january the Health Department has been planning and preparing for covid 19. We built up the capacity of our Health Care System. We added testing sites a sites. Today supervisor stephanie announced, were creating a care site that we hope we will not need. Its located in the presidio but will serve all san franciscans. It will serve patients who no longer need acute care but are not ready to go home. They would have medical medical supervision and care from staff. I hope this day wont come. We hope our hospitals will never need to open the relief that this site represents. That depends on you. All of us. Please. Please wear a mask. Its really not that hard. I want to see San Francisco open schools instead of medical sites. We want to see houses of worship open their doors. Sit in their favorite barbers chair. Hug our grand children again. We can make that happen. We still have time to turn this around. If we want those things we cant take chances and hope this virus is not as infectious as the data and facts tell us it is. Everyone needs to behave as though each of us has covid 19. Think about that. We know half as many doap donte symptoms at some period. Be careful. Every time you wear a mask, socially distance. Wash your hands. Avoid gatherings. Youre moving closer to the day we can live more like we did before march. Everyday you take a risk you move us farther away from that day. We can prove testimon works aga. Covering our faces may be the most important. On friday San Francisco updated the orders. Everyone over the age of ten should wear a Face Covering. If youre alone in a space that people might use later, cover your face. If youre handling food for other face, cover your face. Basically, cover your face. If youre passing someone on the sidewalk, your face must be covered. Other things we must do. Washing our hand hands, stayingx feet apart. If you are meeting. Meet out side if you can. Of course, please you must stay home if you can. Short of the vaccine or cure of covid 19 these are the most effective interventions that we have available to us. They work if we take them up and practice these behaviors everyday. You can do this. Its up to us to flatten the curve again. Thank you. Thank you doctor and thank you supervisor stephanie for your time. Well begin the q and a portion of this meeting. We have a variety of ques