Customers. We went through the alberta utilitys commission to provide a payment flexibility. The bottom line, we have asked and they agreed that they will not cut off service if people do not pay their utility bills over the next 90 days and i believe the Utility Companies will be communicating directly with their customers on that. Well review where were at after 90 days and ill leave it to the municipalities to comment on whether they match some of th exactly whos eligible . Quite frankly, its an estimate, a bit of a shot in the dark and we dont know how many test test test test test. Thanks for the introduction. Good morning. I wanted to say a few quick things. Why i love bicycles. Bicycles represent many things to many people. It is inexpensive, freedom to travel on your own schedule, great way to get exercise outside. Especially today it provides transportation with social distancing allowing people who are not comfortable on Public Transit to good where they need to go and opening up space for those that rely on it for their needs. I am excited for the opportunity to provide safe enjoyable way to ride bicycles. I look to support more shared spaces, more open streets and Safe Enforcement for bicycle advocacy in the city. Thanks. Thank you so much. If there is no questions from colleagues, i will open this up for Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public. Do we have any Public Comments for this item. There are no callers in the queue. Public comment is closed. Supervisor stefani. Thank you, sarah for willsness to serve. I with like to move with a positive recommendation so sarah may it is on the Advisory Committee in seat two. On that motion. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Congratulations. Thank you for your willingness to serve. Item 4. Resolution authorization San Francisco care and roll to enter into use with big fish to develop and produce documentary series about sfatc Animal Rescue calls and animal control officers and grantingness trademark rights and exclusive rights for one year to digital networks. Thank you so much. I will just say i am very excited about this item and this documentary. I rescued my again m guiney. It is great to have you with us today to share any information. Thank you. This is our first time for the shared screen. If it doesnt look right, please let us know. I am the executive director of San Francisco animal care and control. Today i am asking for positive recommendation on the resolution authorizing animal care and control to enter into a film agreement with big fish entertainment. To be featured they do live rescue. Animal care and control is the citys taxpayer funded shelter. We enforce state and local animal control and welfare laws. In existence since 1989. Provide housing, care and medical treatment to wild, exotic, domestic, stray, lost and injured animals. From addition to enforcing state laws we are First Responders for animals in natural disasters and other emergencies. Big fish entertainment are a production company. They have the live rescue show which we would participate in with your approval, animal er live, top dog. It is run on Major Cable Networks like discovery, a and e, national geographic. The live rescue series follows firefighters and paramedics. Some of the work our animal control officers were doing they saw and asked if we could participate in the series. Health and safety are a top priority during row individual. We are working closely to make sure that the proper rules are in place regarding that. Is there any questions . This is captain corso. They were the two officers had captured the Mountain Lion in june. Sorry to interrupt. We are not seeing your presentation at this time. It is a bacit is a black screen. We got the first half. The last minute we had a black screen for your presentation. Okay. Let me see if i can fix that. This is an interesting resolution and exciting to think about our animal care and control being featured or on a documentary series, Animal Rescue. Or live rescue. I was wondering if you could speak a little bit to how you think this furthers the mission and the work of animal care and control to be able to have this visibility. Frankly, this is always a position difficult to recruit for, so if i can get any kids on tv or High School Students watching animal control and say, hey, thats what i want to do when i grow up, that would be phenomenal. But i think, also, it just encourages the public to understand wildlife issues. People are informed about dogs and cats, but in terms of wildlife, thats an Important Message for us. The officers are so jazzed. In the Mountain Lion rescue, i think one of the best moments was after they had scooped up the Mountain Lion and had him in a container. All the Police Officers rushed up and said, oh, my gosh, that was the greatest thing weve ever seen in our life. Really, how often do you see two women wrestle an 80pound Mountain Lion . [ laughter ] thank you, thank you so much for all of your work and we will now open this item up for Public Comment. Yes, members who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 146 6702563 and then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until youre unmuted and you may begin Public Comment. Are there any speakers on the line . No callers in the queue. Chair i am very excited and very happy to make a motion to submit this resolution forward with positive recommendations. Can we have a role call vote on that. On the motion role call . The motion passes without objection. Chair thank you and well see you soon. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number five. Item number five is a hearing on the department of elections reports submitted to the board of supervisors on june 30th, 2020, pursuant to ordinance 8820 on plans for implementation of municipal Election Code 1102, expansion of votebymail by San Franciscos november 3rd, 2020, consol consolidated election and elections to report. Thank you so much and i am appreciative of the director of elections for being here today. In early june, the board passed legislation requiring to submit by june 30th. Its required to vote by mail to all registered voters and safein person voting, ballot drops and robust plan for education and outreach, including coordination to engage in historically low turnout communities. Director arntz, i believe the plan you and your team have prepared is both impressive and ambitious and a lot of work to be sure people are educated and informed and supported to adjust to the new way of voting. I wanted to hold this hearing to be sure that the public has a chance to learn about the plan and to weigh in. The november election may be the most important of our lifetimes. During the state of m. P. And during this state of emergency and more important that we keep us safe and secure. Welcome, director arntz and thank you for being here. I just wanted to mention to my colleagues and the public that shikars miley, the director of the office of Racial Equity and director gerald davis from the Human Rights Commission with her chief of staff are also here and available for questions. And with that, director arntz, i dont know if you have a presentation or just want to describe what your plans are. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Good morning. I do have a presentation, but even though i joined the meeting, i cant open it up to present to the meeting right now. There we go, ok. Can you see the presentation . Yes. Today ill give a pregnant, an overview and this isnt everything were doing for this election. This is an overview of our efforts in relation to the ordinance the board passed earlier this year regarding election planning for the november election in relation to covid19 responses. And so the topics that ill cover in the presentation also relate back to the ordinance and the topics are voter outreach and education, universal votebymail, inperson Voting Services at the outdoor Voting Centre outside of the bill graham auditorium, polling places and compliance with health guidelines, health and safety protocols and service to voters in hospitals or homebound and so on the voter outreach piece. So the departments objective for the november 3rd election to inform City Residents about expanded votebymail voting, safe inperson services and key dates and to provide focused outreach for vulnerable and hardtoreach populations. And to reach these two objectives, they applied no contact strategies, increased use of official elections mail and direct and indirect digital and print and election materials. The Department Also intends to engage inperson outreach for in election as long the groups are small in number and meet all of the health and safety protocols that the dph has put forward. And then regarding election mail, this summer, the department began sending City Residents a series of outreach print and email notices, highlighting information about the november 3rd election. First in june, we sent 7,000 email notices regarding Language Preference. They registered to vote or are registered to vote and nod indicated a Language Preference and were born in chinese, spanish, fill pe philippino and japanesespeaking countries. We told them how to request these details. With new people registered to vote in San Francisco, we noticed that theyre born in these countries and speak these languages listed, they will reach out and indicate that there are materials available in those languages regarding the election. And the vote options noticed in august, the Department Mail the qadralibera alinual and people e to become voters three ways to access voting in the upcoming election and to check the registration. We reminded voters they have an opportunity to return ballots back to us by email or fax. Now, the return of ballots by email and fax is only available to people who are living overseas or are in the military. So i want to put this dont wanl emaiits for all. During the stayathome period, it continued to update and monitor the Voter Registration information that we have and many people now register to vote online and so were able to process that and do our work, our maintenance offsite but then on a regular basis, we had people coming into the office to scan the hard copy registration forms and also any notices or information that voters sent to us. And so weve never stopped the processing of information regarding the Voter Registration database. And then for future outreach notices, Going Forward, well distribute additionadistribute l College Students whose residents might be impacted by covid19 and so, people whose addresses are on college campuses, were assuming theyre College Students and if we have email addresses for these voters, then were sending them information about updating the mail address so they can get their ballot, mail it in and receive it and cast it in time to be counted for this election. Were also sending emails to voters experiencing homelessness, informing them that they could benefit from providing us with a Mailing Address where we can actually mail a ballot to them for the election and some people provide cross streets as their residential addresses and so we cannot mail so just a cross street and if we have a maildrop address, we can send these folks ballots. If we dont receive a mailin, they are assigned to polling places, just like any voter in the city. They can go to the assigned polling place or to the Voting Centre outside of the bill graham auditorium. And about half of our voters, 250,000 voters provided us with the email addresses and well be sending them notices Going Forward in an email regarding online selfhelp tools on our website. The voter information pamphlet, really, the book, its rather large and one of our main ways of providing outreach and information to the voters before the reelection, the november 3 edition will discuss voting of courses and draw voters attention to key dates and resources. We create four versions of the voter information pamphlet, and if people indicate a Language Preference, then we also produce and send the information pamphlets out in those languages and then we have an accessible version of our voter information pamphlet on our website in hthl, xml and we work to provide formats that people can use so listen to the pamphlet, as well. Other outreach media, if addition to direct mail and email, the department produced digital is print voter materials and so for this election and all elections, we distribute the print and email materials to City Residents with those in low income or vulnerable communities. The department is collaborating including communitybased communications, local businesses, local Government Agencies and departments such as the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs and how the office of Racial Equity. And educational videos, the department created two education equal videos for this election, both of which are available in chinese, pil philippino and spa. The second video covers rankedChoice Voting and how to mark rankedchoice contest. Both have been place on the other hand our website for a few weeks now and weve provided this to our Community Partners and well push this out more as we go forward in the election cycle. So the department is currently developing a Public Service announcement, 15 and 30second spots, the psa will be translated to spanish and chinese and the chinese spots will be translated to both mandarin and cantonese and well air these starting in september and then, through election day, essentially. And the print materials, we included fliers, posters and door hangers highlighting key dates regarding the election. And just distributing the material, for the last few months, weve been working with the covid command center, distributing materials to residents in several neighborhoods that have tended to have a turnout lower than the citywide average and one of the items are the door hangers. So thats been ongoing for the past few months. One thing thats new for this election im ahead of myself. We also have a lot of information about the election and one key tool that we have is the voter portal. The voter portal allows voters to access information thats specific to their record. And we also have an election, my election navigator which can take someone from the point of regular straightening to develop to sidin deciding how the persos to vote, how to get the ballot back to the department so its counted in time. And so, the budget that the board just approved allowed us to expand 250,000 on grants to community organizations, to get information out to vulnerable and hardtoreach populations. The department has issued the rfp, completed the contracts with these organizations and weve conducted the training with the groups and supplied them with multilingual, multiformat materials. They are using our materials and they will continue through election day. And also, one component that was in the ordinance and also later in the governors executive order and legislation passed in august is universal votebymail and for this election, every voter in San Francisco, every registered voter in San Francisco will receive a ballot in the mail about one month before election day, which is around the first week of october. So voters should see the votebymail arrive on october 5th. If people have not received their ballot by october 9th, we ask they contact the department. If people need a replacement ballot sent, thats through october 30th. Anyone receiving a ballot early in the cycle, misplace the ballot or need a replacement plot, whatever the reason, they have until october 30th to contact us and request we send them that second ballot. To prepare for universal votebymail, weve been a part of our budget was that we got additional equipment to procure, the extraction machines and we have relocated much of our ballot processing activities over bill graham specific auditorium. And weve been in contact with the usps through the summer. The information has come out about potential problems with ballots being made to voters and mailed back to the departments of election. And also just with the impact of covid19 on mail stream, not just in this country but worldwide, weve been in contact with the usps. Weve provided the usps with the artwork for our voter guides and they know what will be coming their way and to approve the artwork so theres no confusion with emailing it out to users. Weve provided the usps for the envelopes, with the votebymail ballots. Both envelopes go to the voters and return envelopes back to the department and we provided that over to the post office so that they have a chance to review and verify and also to in