In order to protect city employees, the board, and the public during the covid19 emergency, city hall and the board room is closed. Committee members will participate remotely in the conference to the extent as if they were physically present. Sfgov is streaming the public calling number at this time across the screen. Your opportunity to provide Public Comment is available by call 4156550001. Once prompted, enter the meeting i. D. For todays meeting, 1461470836. You will then dial the pound symbol twice to be connected to the meeting. When you hear the discussions, your line will be muted and in a listening mode. When you hear your item, press starthree and wait until the symptom indicates you are unmuted system indicates you are unmuted before you begin your comments. Speak slowly and clearly, and make sure that volume is turned down on all your devices. Alternatively, i invite you to submit your Public Comments could you please call item 1. Clerk item 1 is an emergency ordinance to temporarily protect workers from adverse action if they test positive for covid19, are isolating or quarantining or have previously isolated or quarantined, due to covid19 symptoms or exposure, and to protect applicants from discrimination if they test positive for covid19, are isolating or quarantining or have previously item owe lated or quarantined, due to covid19 symptoms or exposure. If this is your item of interest, now would be the time to dial starthree. Mr. Chair . Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Id like to welcome paul monge, whos a legislative aide for supervisor ronen, to present on this item. We also have regina dickendrizzi, chairman of the Small Business commission, to answer questions if needed. Hi, supervisors. Im here to speak on the s. A. F. E. R. Act, which stands for safeguards against employee firings or restrictions. Here in San Francisco, widespread testing has been critical to the citys response to the pandemic, but our opportunity to offer widespread testing to the city prevents further transmission of the virus. Unfortunately, for some of our residents, a lack of adequate covid protections created barriers from accessing this testing. While a covid positive worker whos quarantining cannot legally be fired or be forced to use unpaid leave, wosome workers are still vulnerable at being fired just because theyre quarantining. The s. A. F. O. R. Makes it illegal to demote, suspend, or reduce benefits or in any manner discriminate against an employee whos off work because theyre quarantining because of covid19. What really motivated supervisor ronen to introduce this ordinance was a recent study of residents living in the mission, and that study was illuminating and revealing the fear of losing ones employment really discouraged a number of workers from taking care of themselves or feeling force today go to work in the first place. [inaudible] who have no alternative access to income during the period of quarantining. So by expanding employment protections for workers who test positive for covid or quarantining, this ensures that workers can confidently pursue income without losing income or the risk of losing employment. Were hopeful that this legislation will empower citizens to get tested. Lastly, we would [inaudible] capacities and understanding of this legislation, as well as with Worker Rights organizations and the office of labor standards and enforcement themselves. So just to quickly highlight those four amendments, which you all should have, the first is amending sections three of this legislation, which provides a more precise definition of an independent contractor who would be protected under the provisions of this legislation, and it does so by creating a clear threshold to this. Second was 4c, and that is an adverse action taken against an employee was established by a separate independent basis, which could be a workers performance or misconduct. The next would be adding section 4d as a replacement to 5a, allowing employers to require workers to identify the general basis for their absence or inability to work, but it wouldnt go as far as having an employee to provide medical Health Records providing the status of their Health Regarding covid, protecting their health privacy. And last, adding section 4d as a replacement to 5a, affording the affording the department the ability to act upon a potential violation while the due course of an investigation is still ongoing, which means its a little bit longer. It would support a worker being reinstated in the interim period until that incident is fully conducted. So those are the four amendments that we would like to bring forward in partnership with the sponsors here today, and im here to answer any questions. Chair mar thank you, mr. Monge, for your work on this extremely important ordinance to protect workers rights and especially the rights of essential frontline essential workers and particularly low wage workers in these really challenging times right now. So and i think this is just another example of really important legislation that as a board have worked on and moved forward to support workers and support workers rights during the health and economic crisis. And even on for this committees agenda, you know, items 2 and 4 are zoo examples of that, as well. So thanks again, mr. Monge, and supervisor ronen, for all of your work on this, as well as the workers rights organizations on moving this item forward. Im proud to cosponsor it and support it. Colleagues, do you have any questions . Supervisor peskin mr. Chair, i have read the amendments and support those, and thank you, mr. Carroll, for sending those around earlier this morning. Chair mar supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. And i agree, this is such a critical protection act. I was out at one of our testing sites a few weeks ago, or maybe its been a couple months ago now. And i was out there with a couple of people out there to be tested, and they were terrified if it came back positive, they would be required when they were forced to quarantine, and they walked away. So this is why i think weve had some challenges in addressing the spread of covid among some of our workers because they dont have access to basic protections in some cases. And so this, along with the p. P. O. Laws and the sick leave laws that youve let on, chair mar, i think is critical to protect our workers and also to protect everyone from the spread of covid in our city. So im not sure that im on as a cosponsor, but i would love to be added on as a cosponsor, and thank you, supervisor mar and mr. Monge, for your leadership. Chair mar okay. Why dont we go to Public Comment . Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Well see if there are any callers on the line. For those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press starthree if you wish to be entered into the queue to speak on this line. For those of you in the queue, wait until you are prompted, and then begin speaking. For those watching through online or on cable channel 74, call 4156550001. Enter todays meeting i. D. , which is 1461870436. Press pound twice, and then starthree to be entered into the queue to speak. First speaker, please. Hi. My name is tyler and i attend city college, and im a courier for doordash. Youd be surprised how many customers request no Contact Delivery and open the door and hope up any way. Its very important for my safety and the safety of all of those people that im in contact with that i would be able to be tested for covid19 if im concerned is that i may be exposed. Please ensure that this ordinance is unambiguous about protection for gig economy workers, and it sounds like one of those amendments maybe is doing that, so that is great to hear, but i havent actually seen the amendments yet, and, you know, i just want to say, you know, that these companies will do everything to say that oh, were not employees, youre just independent contractors, try to claim the law does not apply to them, so try to make the law as unambiguous as possible. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments, tyler. Could we have the next speaker, please. My name is john wong, and i currently live in the city of oakland, but i do gig work on doordash in the city and county of San Francisco. You know, as a carrier, like tyler said, i also come in contact, you know, with multiple different customers and restaurant workers every day, so there is a high level of risk, and, you know, its i try to get tested, you know, for covid19 fairly regularly, you know, you know, especially when im concerned that i might have been infected, and, you know, hopefully, i can stay home if i test positive without worrying that my account has been deactivated. But from what ive heard from other gig workers that are organizing say that they have been deactivated if they test positive for covid19. We as gig workers are denied the most basic of safety nets, and we just want to ensure that all of us workers, regardless of whether we are w2 employees or misclassified independent employees, that we get the protections that we need. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments, mr. Wong. Operations, could you connect us to the next caller, please. Operator that was the last caller. Chair mar thank you so much, clerk and operations. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is closed. You know, actually, i did just want to respond to the two Public Commenters who are dig workers and drivers, and to your points, and just reemphasize, per mr. Monges presentation, one of the amendments that was introduced does establish the definition of a worker that does provide at least two days of labor, and the prior definition does not establish any threshold for independent contractors, so the 16hour threshold provides greater clarity for enforcement of the legislation. Thank you for your comments, and yeah, would just like to move that we adopt the amendments as presented by mr. Monge on behalf of supervisor ronen. Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll. Clerk on the motion to amend as offered by chair mar [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are l three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. And then, i would like to move that we move this forward with a positive recommendation. Clerk on the motion to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number 2 . Clerk yes. Agenda item number 2 is reenactment of an emergency ordinance, that being ordinance number 7420 and also ordinance number 11020, to temporarily require grocery store, drugstore, restaurant, and ondemand Delivery Service employers to provide health and scheduling protections to employees during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the Public Comment number, 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. For today, which is 1461870436. Press pound twice, and starthree to enter the queue. Finally, mr. Chair, im in receipt of your memo to agendize this item to entertain a motion to refer this item to the full board as a Committee Report for consideration. Chair mar supervisor haney . Supervisor haney yes. If youll recall, this emergency ordinance took effect on may 1 and was already renewed once before but will expire on august 31. This legislation strengthens Worker Protections that are covered by the Health Officers office by giving workers an additional level of protection by giving them the right to file a complaint with olse and ondemand delivery must be reimbursed for purchasing masks, hand sanitizers, or other supplies. It requires that drivers and shoppers offer the option of noContact Delivery. It requires an employers providing [inaudible]. Supervisor haney obviously, we are still very much in this state of emergency under this pandemic and protecting our workers that weve seen under some of the spikes have been put at risk, and some of the cases have been connected to workers being unsafe at the workplace. So this will help with that, and i hope for Even Stronger enforcement and outreach to workers to know that these protections and these rights exist, and i want to thank the Committee Members for their support and sponsorship on this ordinance. Chair mar thank you, supervisor haney, for all of your work on protections for workers during the Health Crisis. Why dont we go to Public Comment on this item . Clerk yes, mr. Chair, the moderator will check if there are speakers in the queue. For those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press starthree to be moved to the queue to speak on this item. For those of you already in the queue, stand by for the prompt, indicating that your line has been unmuted and providing Public Comment. For those of you that would like to call in, call 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. , press pound twice, and then starthree to enter the queue to speak. Could we get the first caller, please. Hi. This is tyler again. I wasnt planning to speak on this item, but since it was on the same agenda, i just wanted to call in and mention the way that the Gig Companies have interpreted this. On doordash, if you work in San Francisco, you now get, i believe its. 78 extra per day, and that is their way to complying with this. Thats about 3 or 4 a week, and i dont know that thats enough to comply with the risk of masks and sanitizer and wipes to wipe down your car. I dont know if it makes sense to amend this or anything like that, but it might be good to clarify how much that reimbursement should be, and i think you mentioned something about outreach to workers. I think that would be important to let people now how they can take advantage of this and how they can file a complaint if they feel like theyre not being reimbursed enough. Clerk thank you very much again, tyler. Could we connected to the we be connected to the next caller, please . Operator that was the last caller. Chair mar great. Seeing no more callers, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney one, thank you for bringing it up to the Public Commenter, tyler. Additionally, we heard from some of these companies that it didnt apply to them at all, which obviously it does, and the way theyre complying with it is obviously subject to enforcement and regulation, so i would theres a hotline where you can call to report this, and its one of the reasons why enforcement is so critical here. They obviously have to actually reimburse the cost of or a o were explicit about this in the ordinance the cost of gloves, wipes, masks, and hand sanitizers. Chair mar thank you for that clarification, supervisor haney. So yeah, why dont we we move this forward . I would move that make a motion that we move this item forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a Committee Report for the august 25 meeting of the board of supervisors. Clerk on the motion offered by chair martha the item be recommended as a Committee Report [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number 3 . Clerk jaent item number 3 is a resolution receipt owe actively approving a third amendment to an emergency agreement between the Human Services agency and 1231 Market Street owner l. P. , for the citys continued use of 459 hotel rooms and associated services, increasing the contract amount by 25,618,54, for a total amount not to compete 35,608,542, and extending the booking period for a potential total term of april 8, 2020 through july 1, 2021. Once again, mr. Chair, this item has been agendized by the board of supervisors for consideration on their august 25, 2020 meeting. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Rhorer . Actually, chair mar, ill start this, and director rhorer will come along. I do have a brief Powerpoint Presentation that i would like to share with you and the watching public with your permission. Chairman chairman ye. Chair mar yes, please, thank you. Supervisor peskin and chair mar, i do want to thank director rhorer and mr. Pennick for taking time out of their busy schedules to brief me on that. Thank you. Hopefully, you can see the screen. Chair mar yes. Perfect. Ill quickly walk you through the the original contract, some administrative amendments, and the third amendment, which is the topic of todays discussion. By way of overview, the Wickham Hotel is at 12931 Market Street, with 459 rooms. This is the largest city shelter in place hotel, and the issue that brings us before you today is the city will soon exhaust the 10 million allowed under the charter. Were not able to exceed that Budget Authority without board approval. H. S. A. Is requesting authority to increase the contract sum in order to allow the city to potentially remain at this hotel through the end of the fiscal year, june 2021. However, the contract amendment, which we will walkthrough in a moment, does allow for the contract to be terminated by the city prior to its expiration on 60 days notice should the need not continue. Under the original contract, the term began on april 8 and ran through august 8, 2020. Four months, or 122 nights. The city sent a notice to extend on a monthtomonth basis in july, indicating its desire to extend beyond the august 8 deadline. Again, the total number of rooms at play are 459. The room rate is 99 per night again, h. S. A. Did not want to mingle the covid population with the general population. Budget for linens is 75,000 per month. Budget for food is 750,000 per month, bringing it to 9,675,000, which is just shy of the charter limit. We had two administrative amendments that have taken place since the original term. This was done administratively under the emergency ordinance. The Second Amendment was done in july 2020 to increase the contract amount to 9,990,000, so basically to bring us to just below the maximum to give us some breathing room in order to bring the third amendment to this committee and to the full board. The third amendment, which is the topic of todays conversation, opposes rates, terms, and conditions imposes rates, terms, and conditions to remain the same, except the term is extended to give the city site control until june 30, 2021. Again, we have the ability to terminate with 60 days notice should the contract not need to continue. You can see the breakdown on the next line. Basically, were adding 25 million to the almost 10 million, for a total not to compete 35,608,000. Again, this is a maximum not to exceed. That amount would be reduced if we were to terminate the contract early. This is basically the outline of the key business points that makeup the third amendment. Director rhorer from h. S. A. Is here to answer your questions about the programming and the continued needs for the space, and im happy to answer any questions you might have regarding the contract terms. Chair mar thank you so much, director pennick. I did have a few questions either for you or director rhorer. Actually well, the first question is around the the folks that are being housed at hot hotel whitcomb. Are there stable have the rooms been occupied fully, and has had been a pretty stable population there or has there been a lot of turnover there in the use of this hotel . Ill go ahead and take this. Trent rhorer, Human Services agency, director. So currently, we pulled these numbers a couple of days ago. Of the 459 units at the whitcomb, 359 are occupied with 417 guests, and there are some roommates, which are typically spouses or partners. The reason the 66plus units are offline, 30 of them are actually for staff, so at any given time, we have 22 to 24 site monitor staff plus security, so its, you know, a place where they can be arrested from, from their work. We have 20 rooms that we keep vacant intentionally for a buffer. So if a room comes offline, a toilet breaks, or Something Else where we need to move a guest, we keep that room vacant where we can move that guest. 16 of the rooms are offline for cleaning. Because we hold to the c. D. C. Guidelines, it takes a little longer to clean the room. Its not just house keeping. In terms of the population, i dont have actual turnover number does, but its been numbers, but its been relatively stable. We have 16 offline for cleaning now, which is 3 of the total rooms. Supervisor haney, i believe you spent a little bit of time there as an h. S. W. Supervisor peskin hes not allowed to divulge that. Thats a hipaa violation. There were fits and starts. Its much better now, much smoother. We have our incidents just a couple of days ago. We had a gentleman who had a weapon and was threatening security, but we were able to get that taken care of. We have disaster workers monitoring the situation, as we shifted to hiring workers through a c. B. O. Contract. There, they get better training not better training. They have better use working with the population, and i think thats helped. Chair mar great, thank you, director rhorer, for that, and yeah, thanks for all of your work on this particular hotel, and also to director pennick, and its an extremely part of our good use response to the crisis the whole Health Crisis. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney yes, thank you, and thank you, director rhorer. I am definitely familiar with this hotel. This is our largest shelter in place hotel, and now we are extending it potentially through july 1, 2021. Is there a an active transition plan in place for moving folks out of that hotel and how soon is that happening . And are you when somebody has moved out of the housing, leaving that room vacant or are you filling it . How are you thinking about the capacity of the hotel . Thanks for that question, supervisor. So the winding down, i guess well call it, of the shelter in place hotels, were going to begin that in november, and thats going to be led by the department of homelessness and supportive housing. The budget thats before the board actually funds a whole host of solutions to ensure that we meet our policy goal, which is to not discharge anyone who weve housed under covid to the streets. So were using the Covid Program as an exit from homelessness, and the mayor has supported that with her budget. So thatll begin around november, and itll look different, depending the needs from the guests. So it could be transition into permanent supportive housing, could be transition into a rental subsidy. Could be rental deposit, could be homeward bound, could be reuniting with their family, any solution thats presented in the budget for fiscal year 2021 and beyond. To be honest, supervisor, we are still backfillng, so what im using as an example, 16 off offline for cleaning, as soon as theyre ready to go through the use of the hot team and others, they are ready to go. We are continuing to lease rooms. We signed into contract three hotels totaling 207 rooms, one of which is coming online today, 101 rooms, and then, the other two over the next 1. 5 weeks, and we are looking at the department of real estate who, i must say, have been fantastic partners throughout this process. We are negotiating for the final 75 to 100 rooms, which would bring us to our budgeted count. Supervisor haney thank you. Got it. Okay. That makes sense. Great. This is a great building with a rich history in our city. It was used as a city hall in the aftermath of the earthquake and the fires. Im guessing they dont want to sell it. Have you opened up that conversation with them as part of project homekey . Well, obviously, supervisor, we wouldnt want to discuss any pending real estate transactions in a public forum, but wed be happy to brief you offline. Supervisor haney okay. Fair enough. Thank you. Chair mar why dont we go to the presentation by Fred Brousseau from the budget and legislative Analysts Office . Thank you, chair. Fred brousseau from the budget and legislative Analysts Office. This would retroactively extend the existing agreement to rent 459 rooms from 122 to 449 nights, so an increase of 327 nights. This agreement was originally executed april 8, 2020, for four months, and this amendment would retroactively approve an extension from august 8 of this year through april 7, 2021. The room rates would all remain the same. Theres a contingency of 15 on each room rate. Theres food and linen charges. The contingency rate is fixed, so thats paid, regardless of the occupancy. The food and linen costs are variable. Theyre based on actual occupancy of rooms. The nottoexceed cost is currently 9 million, would increase to 35,608,542, so its an increase of 25,618,542. What is still unknown, of course, the budget for the current fiscal year, fiscal year 2021, has not been adopted, so we dont know how all the costs related to the Emergency Shelter program and covid19 relates services by h. S. A. And others will be appropriated and how the revisions will affect us next year, but some still to be determined by the budget and legislative Analysts Office. Going back to the ordinance adopted by the board of supervisors in april of this year, which required 8,250 rooms or units to be made available for the homeless largely for the homeless population, and that expired after two months or excuse me, the rooms were to be obtained by april 26. That did not occur to the extent detailed in the ordinance, but we do have details on the number of rooms that have been procured in the report. Quickly, whats been called active rooms or units, there are 3,003 as of august 10, of which 2,239 were occupied, so an occupancy rate of about 74. 6 . H. S. A. Has reported that they assume about a 90 occupancy rate to account for cleaning, transition of rooms, and some of the things director rhorer mentioned earlier. But the actual occupancy has been we will i the 90 rate to date. So below the 90 rate to date. And also, theres some recreational vehicles and congregate settings included in the mix of units being made available. The cost in fiscal year 1920 are also detailed in our report, and theyre for all the program, not just the 1231 market, and that was 51. 9 million, and again, that was covered by fema reimbursements and is expected to be fully covered when the c. A. R. E. S. Funds are added to the mix, along with some state funding. We do have two recommendations in our report. One is to approve the contract amendment as proposed, but we also recommend that the board require that the agency come back in six weeks to report on progress, identifying and removing barriers to ensuring that more homeless san franciscans are being quickly housed, and that progress is being made in securing additional units, and expediting the process of bringing these units into active service. Thats the summary of my report, and im happy to answer questions. Chair mar thank you very much, mr. Brousseau for how the program would come and also the broader housing program. I dont have any questions. Colleagues, do you have any questions for mr. Brousseau . Supervisor peskin no. I think theyve all been asked and set forth. I have no questions. Chair mar okay. Well, great. Thanks again, everyone. I would move that we send this item to the full board as a Committee Report with positive recommendation. Clerk mr. Chair, we should hear from the public who may have called in for this item before we entertain any motions. Chair mar why dont we go to the public. Thank you for the reminder. Clerk of course. While the moderator is queueing up the first speaker, i will just go through our regular routine another time. For those of you waiting by phone, press starthree to be entered into the queue to speak for the item. For those already in the queue, wait on the line and you will hear a prompt, indicating that your line who has been unmuted. For those watching our meeting via cable channel 78 or streaming online, dial 4156550001. Enter todays meeting i. D. Of 1461870436. Press the pound symbol twice, and then star, followed by three to enter the queue to speak. Miss frias, could you present us with our first speaker. Operator there are no callers in the queue. Chair mar great. Seeing there are no speakers, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll on the motion to recommend this to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation clerk. Clerk on that motion [roll call] clerk thank you, supervisors. You have three ayes. Chair mar mr. Clerk, please call item 4. Clerk item 4 is the reenactment of emergency ordinance, ordinance number 10420, temporarily creating a right to reemployment for certain employees laid off due to the covid19 pandemic if their employer seeks to fill the same position previously held by a laidoff worker or a substantially similar position, as defined. Members of the public who wish to call in, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. For todays meeting, which is 1461870436. Press pound, and pound again, and then starthree to be entered into the queue. Chair mar colleagues, this is the board of supervisors passed the original ordinance on a 101 vote back on april 23 to protect the tens of thousands of workers laid off due to covid19. It simply requires employers to offer jobs to workers laid off from the covid19 emergency before offering them to other applicants. Since then, tens of thousands have more have lost their jobs, and our reopening is further delayed by an increase in covid cases. We need this policy to remain in effect. Ive introduced a separate ordinance to codify this separate work of protection going forward, and this work will provide continuity so there are no gaps in coverage between the amended ordinance and the upcoming original ordinance. Many employers intend to bring back their workers, but this makes it a requirement to rehire rather than replace their original employees. Colleagues, i ask for your support of this emergency ordinance. So why dont we if theres no comments or colleaguquestio colleagues, maybe we could go to Public Comment. Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. I will review our routine one more time. Please press starthree to be added to the queue if you wish to speak on this item. For those already on hold in the queue, please wait until youre prompted before you begin. You will hear a prompt indicating your line has been unmuted. For those watching via cable channel 78 or streaming, dial 4156550001, enter 1461870436, pressing the pound symbol twice, and then pressing star, followed by three, to enter the queue to speak. Moderator frias, could you please connect us to the first caller, if there is one . Operator sir, there are no callers at this time. Chair mar great. Thank you, operations. Public comment is closed. So again, id like to move that we send this item to the full board as a Committee Report to the august 25 meeting of the board of supervisors with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll. Clerk on the motion that this item be recommended as a Committee Report [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, theres no objection; there are three ayes. Chairm chair mar item 5 was actually scheduled as a special item for 12 noon, so why dont we move ahead to items 6 through 25. Mr. Clerk, can you please call items 6 through 25 for closed session . Clerk items 6 through 25 are to be held in closed session. To enter Public Comment on these items, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. , 1461870436, press pound, and pound again, and starthree if you wish to enter the queue to speak. Supervisor mar why dont we go to the Public Comment for the closed session on items 6 through 25. Are there any callers on the line to speak to any of these items . Clerk moderator, could you please let us know if there are any callers to speak to the items on the agenda . Operator there are no callers on the line. Chair mar Public Comment is closed. So on the motion to convene in closed session, mr. Clerk, could you please call roll. Clerk on the motion to convene in closed session [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar great. Thank you. So were going to now convene in closed session. Chair mar we are now back. Mr. Clerk, please report on the time away. Clerk thank you. On a motion offered by vice chair peskin, agenda item 6 was recommended by a report to the august 25 board of supervisors meeting, and the balance of the agenda items were continued to the september 3, 2020 g. A. O. Meeting, to be also heard in a future litigation agenda. The motions were approved unanimously. Supervisor peskin mr. Chair, i make a motion not to disclose. Chair mar thank you, supervisor peskin. On the motion to not disclose discussions in closed session, please call the roll. Clerk thank you. On the motion not to disclose discussions in closed session [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are two ayes, and member haney is absent. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, our only remaining item, number 5, is a special order item for 12 00 p. M. , so were going to take a brief recess and reconvene the g. A. O. Committee at 12 00 p. M. Supervisor peskin okay. Mr. Chair, as my staff indicated to your staff earlier today, i do have to speak at a noon event with regard to uber and lyft and will get back to the meeting as quickly as i can. Chair mar supervisor peskin. Thank you. So so now, we shall recess. Clerk well be in recess until 12 noon welcome back to the government audit and oversight committee. I did want to announce that supervisor peskin did not is not joining the meeting right now. But supervisor haney and i are here. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number 5. Yes. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. Agenda item 5, an ordinance amending the administrative code. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinary should call the Public Comment number, as before, it is still 415 6550001. And for todays meeting i. D. , thats 146180436. Enter the queue to speak. A system prompt will indicate that youve raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. That will be your opportunity to begin your comments on agenda item number 5. During this Unprecedented Health emergency, we have also been confronteconfronted with an unpd emergency in unemployment, with more workers having lost their jobs and income since the great depression. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, black workers are more likely to be out of a job or lost income or have left the labor market all together. Economic data shows 1 in 6 black workers are out of a job. And the Labor Department reported in early june that the black Unemployment Rate continued to rise, as the overall Unemployment Rate started to tick down. Since the shutdown started in march, nearly 200,000 san franciscans have lost their job or had hours reduced. To put the numbers in perspective, in the 2008 recession, unemployment figures peaked at 45,000. Unfortunately of many of these workers, lowwage workers and people of color, will not be able to return to previous jobs, because their employers have reduced their workforce or shut down entirely. So theres compelling need to invest in education and workforce training in this moment of crisis for so many. This is central to our citys economic recovery. City college provides the most comprehensive offering of vocation callal training, and tuitionfree thanks to the free city program. Our ability to provide quality public education, including the vital training our citys residents need to get back to work in the wake of covid19 is in serious jeopardy. Restructuring at city college, enrollment loss during the accreditation crisis, ongoing chronic underfunding of the city colleges and the new state funding formula has caused the reduction of over 600 College Classes since 2017. This trend is being aggressively worsened by the challenges of covid19 crisis. And without more funding, city college will lose at least 1,000 more classes in the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters alone. City college is an essential part of San Franciscos economic recovery. And the highest enrollments the city college has ever had during the 2008 recession. In this new recession, we can expect demand for the support city college provides to spike as san franciscans try to get back to work or get back into the workforce. In order to help them, city College Needs more resources. So through the workforce education and recovery fund, city college will be able to provide tuitionfree job training and professional development, sustain highdemand vocation cavocational programs r lowincome students of color additional supports and Wraparound Services for enrollment, counseling, academic support and job replacement. Investing in education and workers training pays dividends and we have a responsibility to ensure that our economic recovery includes unemployed workers and lifts up our most vulnerable communities, communities that cant afford to be left behind. My cosponsors supervisor haney and supervisors ronen, safai and wallto wall walton and the chancellor and Diana Gonzalez from College Board of trustees, and City College Students and faculty, as well as my legislative aides ellen and levi for all of their work on this ordinance. Finally, i will be making a motion to continue this item until the next g. A. O. Committee meeting on september 3rd, ever after we complete the boards budget process. This will allow time to consider potential amendments for this ordinance and the administration and structure of the fund that may be needed, as a result of the final version of the work Budget Proposal thats currently being considered through the budget process. So, yeah, thanks again supervisor haney, for your cosponsorship and support of this. And i dont know if you have any questions or remarks. Ill save my remarks for when we hear it in a couple weeks. But i just want to thank you for your leadership, chair mar. And huge support of this. I think city college is more essential maybe than ever. I know thats probably been said before. We have so many people out of work right now. And our economy is changing very rapidly here in the city. And having this fund to reinvest in our pathway to jobs and Workforce Development and education is so critical. So ill save further remarks. But im proud to be a cosponsor. Thank you, supervisor haney. Why dont we go to Public Comment, mr. Clerk. Are there any callers on the line . Clerk thank you mr. Chair. Well see if there are caller in the queue. If for those already connected, please press star followed by three to be added to the queue for the item. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until youre prompted to be begin. For those who are watching our meeting on cable channel 78 or via streaming link at sfgovtv. Org, if you wish to speak on the item, please call in by following the instructions, which should be crawling across the screen at this time. You do that by dialing 415 6550001. Enter todays meeting idea 1461870436. Press the pound symbol twice and then star followed by three to enter the queue to speak. Could you please connect us to our first speaker, if there is one . Sir, there are no callers at this time. Okay, thank you, operations. Public comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, will you please call the roll on the motion to continue this item to the september 3rd g. A. O. Committee meeting. Clerk on the motion offered by chair martha this item be continued to september 3rd Committee Meeting of the government audit and oversight committee, vice chair peskin . Absent. Member haney. Aye. Haney aye. Chair mar . Aye. Clerk there are two ayes. No opposition with member with vice chair peskin absent. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Great. We are adjourned. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Were here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. We have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why dont we capture that to support the mission youths going to college thats for the food for thought. We didnt have a signature font for our orientation thats a 40yearold organization. Mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual theyve helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need i feel successful in life their core above emission and goal is in line with our values. The ferraris yes, we made 48 thousand they were on top of that its a nobrainer for us. Were in and fifth year and be able to expand out and tonight is your ungrammatical truck food for thought. Food truck for thought is an opportunity to eat from a variety of different vendor that are supporting the mission graduates by coming and representing at the parks were giving a prude of our to give people the opportunity to get an education. People come back and can you tell me and enjoy our food. All the vendor are xooment a portion of their precedes the money is going back in whats the best thing to do in terms of moving the needle for the folks we thought Higher Education is the tool to move young people. Im also a College Student i go to berkley and 90 percent of our folks are staying in college thats 40 percent hire than the afternoon. Im politically to clemdz and ucla. Just knowing were giving back to the community. Especially the Spanish Speaking population it hits home. People get hungry why not eat and give San Francisco parks, Golden Gate Park transforms into one of the greatest Music Festivals of all time, lets journey, inside, outside land. To this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with San Francisco, rec and park. And we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have San Francisco and we have Golden Gate Park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. And it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. I love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. They have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. Celebrating, and that is really hot. 36 local winerries in Northern California and 16 brewers out here. And you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. And literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. And come and follow, and the field makeup the blueprint of the outside land here in Golden Gate Park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks. Org. [ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see grocery stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually really helped me. They will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. They are very knowledgeable. Very friendly. I think they are here to serve not only the Asian Community but to serve all communities in the Richmond District and in San Francisco. [ ] what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [ ] amount of money we arespec Health Crisis and where do we go from here. Today im joined by our department of Public Health director. Today we have six thousand ninety two cases and sadly sixty seven people have died from covid. Until we have a vaccine and until we are in a better place, we know that we need to continue to socially distance ourself from one another. Wear our mask as much as possible and follow our Public Health guidelines. We know that for months to come, this is something that we are unfortunately going to be living with and the fact is, there is still a lot of work to be done. I just want to say a few things before we get into the details of the budget. The fact is, weve come a very very very long way. Many of you remember even in january where we declared a state of emergency and we Start Talking about the crisis and whats to come, and when we shut down the city, that was back in march and here we are. Its august. We thought that in august wed be in a different place. I think whats happening with san franciscans as hard as weve worked to contain the virus, its gone up and down, and up again. We still have a long way to go. As tired as we are of doing what we need in order to keep one another safe, we have to start getting comfortable with it. We have to start changing our behavior. It really is whats going to make the difference because we notice that recently we had to basically put a pause on our oopenning. Reopening. We saw the numbers spike. Once we saw the numbers spike, behaviors started to change again. Now we see the numbers declining. That doesnt mean we dont have several people every single day testing positive for the virus. That doesnt mean that some of those people, sadly, have lost their lives. We anticipate seeing more. Only we can be the solution to this big challenge. Just think about it. When we first started off, the big conversations were around ppe and testing and other things, weve definitely come a long way. Although, its clear that due to, what i believe a lack of federal response and coordination with our state and cities, its been very difficult for so many of us. We didnt let that stop us. We prepared, we worked hard, we redirected resources, we redirected staff from all over the city. We adjusted to our situation and because of that San Francisco has been a model for the rest of the country. I want us to be even better than that. Its up to us. Its up to us to change our behavior. Its up to us especially because when you think about it, sadly, what we see in terms of businesses not being able to open. Some of our favorite restaurants and retail shops and places where we get our hair and nails done, they may never return. People who need to send their kids to school because we, regardless of the achievement gaps and equipment were providing for low income students were still seeing problems and increase in the achievement gaps. We have work to do. Im asking people in San Francisco to just really change their behavior. I know its not easy. I know we want to enjoy ourselves. But its up to us to make a difference. Today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget thats working its way through the legislative process as we speak. Part of why we are investing 446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that were going to be living with this for some time. Thats money that i wish we could divert to other things. But unfortunately this is the reality of today. I hope thats not the reality of our next budget cycle. Were committing about 93 million directly from the general fund. Again, thats money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, its going to be important that were prepared and doing whats necessary to keep the public safe. Today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and whats being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. So lets look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. It includes 16 point five million for operations. Health response. 62 million for Food Distributions and housing and shelter programs. Its important to remember that this funding really assumes that we dont see any major surges. If that happens, we will need to divert even more resources. Thats why it is so critical that everybody does their part to stop the spread. It assumes that well continue to be reimbursed by fema. We all know how the federal government has been. This is only through june of 2021 for the next year. If this stretches beyond june theres even more of a drain on our budget next year. The funding for communications and operations is critical to not only staffing our Covid Command Center but also providing communication in the many different languages and cultures in San Francisco in different ways. 50 of our cases in San Francisco have been in our latino community. Visitation valley have the highest rates of cases in the city. Communication is key in a Public Health response. Thankfully we have an Incredible Team of people doing this work every single day. One hundred eighty five million for Health Operations is a lot of money. Its important to understand in the context of all the things that were doing as a city. Were talking about testing, ppe, surge capacity, preparations, Contact Tracing, community out reach, out break mitigations and Everything Else required to fight this virus and keep our re residents safe. We have massively expanded our Food Distribution to people in the si city and will continue to this for as long as needed. Keep people fed and increase sanitation conditions on the streets. Pit stops we chose to expand city wide for an additional 16 million. As you can see from the slide, this is a significant investment. In short term options to keep people off the street. Continuing to fund hotel rooms and shelter in place. We also know we need more housing for people which is why this all feeds into our homeless Recovery Plan to create six thousand replacements for our homeless residents. These are absolutely critical for our plan to work. Building on some of our existing programs as well including our waste replacement, meantle healtmental health programs. Educational efforts to support our schools. Mobile testing for neighborhoods that are disproportionately hit. These investments in our budget this year as we know, are absolutely critical in order to get us through the very challenging time and i cant reiterate enough the need to make changes to our behavior. I dont know about you, but as i said before in some of these press conferences, i was a very challenging kid to deal with for my grandmother who raised me. I can remember time and time again, when you tell someone to do something over and over and over again. Dont touch that fire, dont touch that fire. Youre like, i wonder what the fire feels like. You touch it the fire and youre like, ill never do that again. Thats the kind of kid i was. It feels like im a parent telling people in San Francisco over and over again wear your mask, socially distance, do this, do this that. Really, this is about protecting Public Health. This is about getting us back on track. This is not just a problem in San Francisco, its a problem all over world. When you think about it theres some countries in the world that have reduced the virus and gone back to normal. Thats where we want to be. The only way were going to get there. The only way were going to be able to open the gyms and nail salons and visit our parents and grandparents in senior homes and places they are housed, is if we change our behavior. We listen to our Public Health expert. Especially in places like dolores park. Especially in places where people continue to gather and not socially distance. From our contact tracers, we know that many people who are contracting the virus are contracting the virus because they are having gatherings. They are having family gatherings and birthday parties and other events. You know what . Today is my birthday. Im going to socially distance myself and talk to people op opn zoom. If we all did our part rkts wher, where wewould be today. I know youre tired of hearing it from me. I say it time and time again. I cant reiterate enough that we need to do our part. We can be a leader and crush this virus if we all do our part. With that, i want to ask the director of the department of Public Health dr. Grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. Good morning. Im dr. Grant colfax director of Public Health. Happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. When it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. Our investments in testing, Contact Tracing and Food Security among other items have helped San Francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. Thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. Here is an update of where we are with the virus. As of this morning. Six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. Were currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. Thats a slight drop from last week. Its a 20 reduction from our peak in july. Because of our efforts. Because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. The effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading. Its the average number of people who become infected by an infectious before. If its above one, the virus will spread and it will spread quickly. When the re factor is below one, its slowing. Our best estimate is that re has been just below one, between point nine eight and point nine five. We continue to exceed our daily testing goals and lead the state and nation it testing. In this next phase of our testing strategy, well be more targeted in our testing even as we expand Testing Capacity in the city. Last week, we brought mobile testing to communities with highest infection rates of covid 19. Including in the bay view, sunny dale, mission and omi. We are indeed following the day awe to identify the communities where testing can have the greatest impact to identify and slow the spread of covid 19. As you saw in the budget presentation, the mayor is proposing a nearly 56 milliondollar budget in testing next year. That number has started to drop from the high point a few weeks ago. Its a cause for great concern and could easily go up again. This is one of our key health indicators. Anything above 15 new cases per day puts us in the red zone on our highest alert level. Were been there for the past few weeks. Weve seen our numbers improving. Lets stay vigilant. Weve seen issues with the state reporting system that may have caused issues with cases. We see many many san franciscans covering their faces. Recent Research Indicates if 80 of a population is regularly using face coverings we can prevent out breaks of covid 19. Please, be one of those 80 . Thank you to everyone who is doing their part to reach that critical mat. Why dont we make it ninety. Why dont we make it 100 of people wearing face coverings in our city. We know unfortunately some people are not covering their faces complicitily. I see some people trying but maybe they dont know both their nose and mouth need to be covering. Maybe they dont know that face could havings are required in San Francisco for everyone age ten years and up. If you have any questions or doubts, wear a facial covering. Its right thing. Its the safe thimg t ting to t. Its like remembering your wallet or keys. Its a habit were going to need to develop and have with us for some time. My mask protects you. Your mask protects me. This is something we can all do and indeed we must do for each other. We must keep up our momentum and stand our ground and sustain our gains and continue to make progress. Were seeing some hopeful signs. As weve seen before this virus is persistent. We cannot let our guard down. Please, again, continue to do your part. Continue to take caution and care. Take care of yourself. Call your friends and family. We are all in this together. We will get through this together. Together we have the power to save lives and again, crush that curve. Thank you. Thank you dr. Colfax and madam mayor for your time. Well begin our q and a portion. First we have Health Care Related questions for dr. Colfax. What specifically is the city doing to shorten the time it takes to get test results and boboaster Contact Tracing. The turn around times have averaged general 48 to 72 hours. We did fall behind because of the great surge in testing. We have caught up on that. Were increasing looking to expand our city test sf capacity. Those times will hopefully continue to be shorter than a few weeks ago. Weve trained three hundred people in Contact Tracing. Were try to go catcing to catcm the flood of cases. Making great progress on that. We continue to expand our capacity and Contact Tracing. As you see in the budget theres investments to strengthen that work going forward. Thank you doctor. Have any out breaks been traced to a gathering in dolores park. Where are the out breaks happening. We know that out breaks occur when people gather. Indoor gatherings are more at risk than outdoor gatherin gatheringpeople doing essential work and need to work in close proximity, we need to have that happen. Lets not gather for things that could otherwise be delayed or be done on zoom or in other virtual ways. With regard to specific out breaks, i cant comment on drawing conclusions from the gathering at dolores park except to say thats behavior that were very concerned about it. Our message continue continues o not gather unless absolutely essential. Do not gather out side your immediate household. If you do, wear those face masks and use good hygiene and socially distance when possible. Look, when i walk or drive around the city, we know this is still not happening to the degree it needs to be. We need to hit that 80 mark. Lets go for 90 or one hundred. We need to crush this curve. Thank you. The next set of questions are from the associated press. How have the states problems with cal ready effected San Francisco effective reproductive rate. Its based on the number of hospitalizations. Our data is not part of that calculation. Were confident in our ability to estimate based on the hospitalization rates in the city. How can we be sure cases are going down if there is under reporting by the states system. The number of hospitalled cases are going down in our city. Thats what we base the reproductive rate on. Its on those numbers sm the nu. The number of cases diagnosed with covid 19, that number could change based on the correction from the state. We hope to have tha that tha th. Thank you, doctor. What are the major factors contributing to the numbers leveling off . What wewe cant draw any one action with regard to cause and effect with regard to the decline in the number of cases. I do think a few weeks ago our recognition that we were in the midst of another surge and the reproductive rate was going up rapidly. We worked with comeupit communiy members, key stake holders and people in neighborhoods most effected to work to really get the message out that everyone needed to be aware of this. Access testing. If you were in an area experiencing out breaks to wear those facial coverings and not gather. I hope people heard this and people are doing their part to flatten and hopefully crush the curve. I will say that the reproductive number is just about at one now. We need to see that trend continue so we get much much lower. Im hopeful that we continue to go in the right direction. Thank you, doctor. Have you considered further restrictions or enforcement measuremeasures foreplaysesmea. We need to give people thank you, doctor. The next question comes from sf examiner. Business owners from the small industry and other personal services have been frustrated that they cannot fully reopen even after sanitation guidelines. What is your level of concerns. Right now we are on the state watch list and have been since late july. No further reopenings can happen until were off that watch list and receive updated guidance from the state. And what might be plausible going forward. Thank you. Our next question. If the reproductive rate is not below is only based on hospitalization and not positive tests it does not include asymptomatic people. How is that viable. Its an estimate. Its an estimate that we have been working with u c berkeley and u c sf and cal San Francisco researchers with regard to developing a model that takes exactly that into account. Uses the hospitalization number and extrapolates that to the broader population at large to come up with an estimate of the reproductive rate. Its publicly available with regard to what the reproductive rate estimate is. You can dig deeper into that on the website which we can certainly provide to you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. There no further questions at this time. This concludes todays press conference. Thank you madam mayor and dr. Colfax for your time. President caen im the president of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. At this time i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, september 8, 2020. Roll call,
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