One, and then zero. [inaudible] clerk speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me at linda. Wong sfgov. Org. Thats lindadotwong sfgo vdotorg. Chair fewer thank you very much, miss wong. So i want to say before we move into the agenda, i want to acknowledge the incredible work of the Clerks Office in coordinating three Committee Meetings today and for accommodating this special budget meeting. Colleagues, we have one hour for this meeting, and must conclude the meeting by 12 30 p. M. In order not to jeopardize the start of the Building Committee meeting. No matter where we are, we must stop at 12 30. Madam clerk, please call item 1. Clerk item 1, emergency ordinance to require the city to secure k8 250 private rooms by april 26, 2020, through Service Agreements with hotels and motels for use as temporary quarantine facilities for people currently experiencing homelessness, people released from hock will hospitals with covid19 exposure or exphex, and frontline workers in the covid19 crisis, waive the requirement under charter, section 9. 118, that the board of supervisors approve the Service Agreements for private rooms, require daily reporting to the board of supervisors on the citys progress in procuring and providing the needed room does, require congregate care facilities for the hockless to comply with social distancing practices and implement covid19 screening protocols, and direct the city to use best efforts to enable people from leaving congregate care facilities for temporary rooms provided by the city to subsequently return to congregate care facilities. Chair fewer thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen today, supervisor haney, peskin, walton, preston, and i are introducing an emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure 8,250 private hotel rooms by april 26, which is the anticipated peak of the pandemic in california that will serve as temporary quarter te quarantine facilities for people suffering from covid19, and frontline responders responding to the emergency. When we talk about people currently experiencing homelessness, that includes people that are doubled up in s. R. O. Hotel rooms and do not have a safe place to quarantine in place. San franciscans have been ordered to shelter in place since march 16. Nearly 3,000 people experiencing homelessness in congregate shelters. 5,000 individuals and 19,000 People Living in s. R. O. S across the city are still unable to selfisolate and face a much greater risk at contracting the virus. For weeks now, my colleagues and i have stood alongside medical professionals, community activists, and faith leaders in urging the mayor and City Departments to temporarily house residents of congregate shelters and the individuals living on our streets in hotel rooms where they could safely shelter in place. There are over 30,000 vacant hotel rooms in San Francisco right now, and Homeless Service providers have told us that they are ready and willing to staff up these facilities immediately. But instead, the city has held onto a backwards policy of waiting for individuals to first become infected before finally placing them in a private hotel. Last week, we reached a new level of urgency, when the city confirmed the first covid positive case in a homeless shelter. Once they are exposed, Homeless People have a much higher mortality risk due to community exposure. As members of the board, we have done everything in our power to move residents out of congregate shelters and into temporary housing as soon as possible, including supervisors preston, haney, and waltons efforts to secure private hospital rooms through private funds and securing every available resource to us as supervisors. Every hour we delay puts more Homeless People at risk and endangers our collective Public Health as a city. We have no moment to waste, and we will stop at nothing until every person that needs care is brought to a place where they can comfortably shelter in place. This city requires at least 8,250 hotel rooms for parents who do not require hospitalization, quarantine units for our First Responders and health care workers, and units where our infected homeless can safely quarantine. Finally, the legislation establishes standards of care at existing shelters, Navigation Centers, and other congregate care facilities for people experiencing homelessness that ensure proper social distancing, regular health screenings, and covid19 procedures pursuant to Public Health guidelines. If there is one thing that we have learned during this, is that it is our health is inextricablely link inextricably linked to all of our neighborhoods. So far, our City GovernmentPublic Health response has failed people in congregate settings, and people who are unsheltered and put all of us at risk. With this emergency ordinance, we will correct our course and move Homeless People into individual shelter like those of us that are blessed enough to have a home. I am happy to answer any questions. I can get into details, how we reached that number. I can compare that plan with what the city is currently doing, and i can talk about cost if you have those questions. But first, i wanted to turn it over to any of my other colleagues who had comments. Cha chair fewer i supervisor fewer, you are on mute. Chair fewer thank you. I want to turn it over to Severin Campbell for a b. L. A. Report before i hear anything else. Thank you, chair fewer. Severin campbell from the budget and legislative analysts office. We show the types of beds and people that would be covered under the ordinance in our report. Table 2 outlines the cost. We estimate a onemonth cost for rooms and services of 58. 6 million. This is actually based on existing contracts that the h. S. A. Has for these types of services. These numbers come from h. S. A. We do estimate there could be additional costs for onsite management per month of 1. 6 million to 1. 7 million. Those are some reports that weve done looking at onsite management for other types of facilities. There would almost certainly be some sort of fema or office of cal services reimbursement. We estimate that could be up to 93 of costs or eligible costs, but what is uncertain is what these two agencies would determine as reimbursable, so we did an equation in case fema and cal health did not include a lot of our needs in their criteria. Our guess would be that the number would call somewhere in between that in terms of monthly reimbursement. We do consider the legislation to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Chair fewer thank you very much, miss campbell. I believe we also have Kelly Kirkpatrick and Ben Rosenfeld available. Thats correct, madam chair. Chair fewer okay. I have a few questions for mr. Kirkpatrick and mr. Rosenfeld. [inaudible] chair fewer than what is reported in the b. L. A. Report. Either way, i think the question that comes up for me in terms of understanding this is that if we cannot get reimbursed for all of these funds, will these also be come interesting the genercome coming from the general funds . Madam chair, good morning. Ben rosenfield, controller. I think these funds would be drawn from the general fund. Whether that would be the general fund or general fund reserves, that would have to be determined or made, but i think whatever other sources after that would be a general fund cost. Chair fewer and when will we know what that impact will be to the general fund, either . I think it would be sometime as it relates to this portion of the response in part because the fema and cal Health Reimbursement process are likely to unfold over the coming weeks and months, and it will be directly related to who occupies these rooms, and what percentage of rooms are occupied at a given moment on a given day, and then, how femas advice evolves through this pandemic, so i think all of us can agree this will be a fluid Financial Impact for sometime. Chair fewer and then, supervisor ronen, in your legislation, i notice that this does not include patients that are at laguna honda, just a hot bed for outbreak across our nation, and that 100 of those residents are vulnerable. So i am wondering, does your legislation also include perhaps the moving of patients at laguna honda, which is probably the largest nursing facility in San Francisco. And then, also, does it include rooms for our patients who are in Nursing Homes . Supervisor ronen it doesnt include Nursing Homes because were focused on individuals that can selfcare, and at laguna honda and Nursing Homes, its not very common for individuals to be able to selfcare, and so the level of supervision and assistance is greater. Chair fewer would you be open to having it include some ihss patients and nursing home residents and also people at laguna honda because these are people in this age group, 70s, 80s, and 90s, that would need more acute medical care if they test positive . Supervisor ronen sure. I would want to ask d. P. H. About that, whether or not it is safe to move individuals in Nursing Homes and laguna honda into individual hotel rooms or whether or not they need a higher level of supervision and care, but i would be happy to add them if that is considered safe by d. P. H. Chair fewer well, i think there is a range, quite frankly, of individuals that do not need extended care. We could be offering care for these patients that need care, meaning, helping with feeding, helping with clothing or cleaning, while still in a setting where theyre not with many other patients that are vulnerable. Supervisor ronen okay. Chair fewer thank you very much. So i see people in queue, but first, i want to make some comments. And i know thats unusual because i normally wait until everyone has spoken. If my colleagues will allow me this one indulgence at this time. I wanted to share my thoughts about todays legislation, and i do believe that securing hotel rooms in the thousands to prevent unhoused residents from becoming ill and to prevent the preventible death of those we know are vulnerable to covid19 is a priority. I also wish that there was a way to move this priority in a way that did not fall into the trap of our tradition Political Division because in this moment, now more than ever, i believe that San Francisco needs to be united in our approach to save lives, meet peoples basic needs, and protect our most vulnerable residents. For the past week, i have been at the Emergency Operation center as has my whole office. I understand better now how this city is torn in its response to covid19 and have deeper appreciation for the tireless work that is being done by City Department staff. Has never been done perfectly . No, and truthfully, from the local to the state to the National Level and beyond, it has shown how unprepared our systems were for a pandemic, and how already vulnerable populations are at even higher levels of this now. I understand these Community Advocates who are fighting and cheering for these people. Unhoused, those in s. R. O. S, and those in shelter and care facilities. So many have been struggling for so long and now are at risk of major Health Impacts related to covid19. As a former community organizer, i understand the need for the city to be better and to move faster to address that. I want us to be both responsive to that push but also rise above the temptation to tear each other down during this crisis. We have to help our entire system to be a success, which is why my whole office has been helping out, and i call on every office to help out. In terms of this legislation, and im going to be forthright, this is an incredibly short timeline. And i agreed to hold this meeting only six days after this legislation was introduced, and i urge to pass this out of Committee Without recommendation as a Committee Report so that it can go to the full board for a vote tomorrow, allowing an additional opportunity for every member of this board to read the full legislation. So i make a motion to move this legislation as approved out of committee with no recommendation. With that, i turn it back over to supervisor ronen. [inaudible] chair fewer supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. And i want to thank the Clerks Office for being so prepared and ready to conduct an emergency meeting and also chair fewer for being able to do this in an atypical manner. I do want to say that we are 100 in a pivotal time for us to be working together as city leadership, and that goes for our executive branch, our city branch, and our entire bureaucracy. In my opinion, it is a little disheartening that we are forming legislation that goes against our health department, who told us we could shelter in place. There are just three things i want to emphasize. I dont want to belabor the point and supervisor ronen did a good job of telling you why this legislation is in place and what the purpose is. One, we have a shelter in place order. It is confimperative we do everything we can. As weve seen within the last week recently, once we had one case at a particular shelter, it spread almost overnight dramatically in terms of when we were able to test and when we were able to find out the number of Homeless Individuals in that particular shelter who had contracted the virus. So as we know, as we look at all of our Navigation Centers, all of our s. R. O. S, the opportunity for spread is tremendous. Third, i just want to say as we work to be fiscally responsible during this crisis, im glad we got a b. L. A. Report on this, we do know there is a possibility we could be reimbursed up to 93 of costs, but our b. L. A. , as amazing as they are, they made sure that they gave us the most conservative numbers and figures in terms of what we think we could get for reimbursement, which still, in a time of emergency, is an advantage for us. This is a matter of life and death. And as we look at being in an opportunity to actually use resources to save lives and prevent the spread of the virus, that is something that we are fortunate number to be in a position to do that. I truly understand were going to have so many concerns and Economic Impacts and so many things that were going to have to mitigate as a result of this crisis. But the reality is this legislation, this focus does save lives, and thats what we want to do during this crisis is make sure that we keep people alive and keep people from contracting the virus. So in the spirit of working together and in the spirit of doing whats right, this is why we put this forward. And again, i want to thank chair fewer for allowing us to have this conversation so quickly because this legislation is something that needs to move forward immediately. Chair fewer thank you, supervisor walton. Thank you also for being available for this meeting. Supervisor haney, thank you for joining us. Supervisor haney thank you, chair fewer, and i also want to thank you for having this emergency meeting, and i want to thank supervisors ronen, walton, preston, mar, and ronen for authorizing this legislation. We delayed for weeks actually bringing forth legislation. We did a resolution. We, a month ago, had a hearing where we brought up our desire to see this happen and the urgency around it. Weve had dozens of calls with mayors leaders and d. H. C. , and we didnt feel like we had any other option as supervisors and make this a full legal requirement by the city. A month ago, we had a hearing, and director rhorer and others were there, and they made it clear that this was not part of their plan, to actually put the number of homeless in hotels to shelter in place. So over the past few weeks, we had tried to work in partnership. We had calls with them that said, let us know how we can help, yet during that time, there was a failure to move people quick enough, and the 70 people in my district who contracted it who are unable to shelter them in place, that is putting them at risk, and that is putting all of us at risk. So i would respectfully say that we did everything that we can work in partnership. This was never about politics, this was about saving peoples lives, and that is how we peoples lives, and that is how we approached it from the very beginning, and a lack of working together is what led to the biggest outbreak in a homeless shelter in the country last week. We have a duty as elected supervisor to protect the public and protect them from the spread of this virus, and that has not been done. We should have introduced this legislation weeks ago, and any further delay will put people in danger, and the idea that we havent try today Work Together with the mayor and tried to Work Together with the mayor and others is frankly not true. I am now representing a district where thousands of people are still on the streets, where thousands of people are still in shelters despite the fact that a month ago, we told them if they did not move the people from the shelters, and we would do everything we could do to help them, that did not happen. Every minute that we wait to fulfill our responsibility not just as a city but as the board of supervisors, we are failing San Francisco, and we are putting Vulnerable People in much greater risk. So i just want to make sure that people understand that we started this process a month ago. The shelter providers have reached out to me nearly every day in my office, saying that people are at risk, and so what were doing here is putting forward a plan, and we certainly home that its implemented fully and in partnership with the mayor, h. S. A. , department of Public Health and everyone else, including the Public Health officer who, a month ago, said this should be the approach thats taken. So i hope that we ultimately unanimously pass this as a board, and i hope that we have the support of all of the supervisors because people in my district, people throughout my city are being put at risk unnecessarily, and if we dont change how slowly this has happened, people are going to die. Chair fewer thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer, and thank you for your suggestion. I think it does make sense to get this to the full board so that everyone can vote on this tomorrow. I think i dont think there is a member of the board of supervisors who does not believe that we need to use as many hotel rooms as we can to address this crisis. And, you know, i think theres clearly a lot of that anxiety and fear right now throughout San Francisco. It is a challenging moment for everyone, including the people who actually have to do the work of unlocking these hotel rooms. And one of the things that i kind of wanted to dig in a little bit if we have the time, and maybe well do this tomorrow at the board meeting, as well, i wanted to understand i seem to recall this administration a month ago talking about how they were hoping and intending to use hotel rooms as part of the response and committing to move on that. I also note from my history, having worked in the city attorney, anything that involves lawyers and contracts is complicated, but i think ensuring safety for the people that have to staff those hotel rooms, and how we are using those hotel rooms. So i think everybody on the board nobody wants to let up or say that we shouldnt be moving as quickly as possible to get thousands and thousands of these hotel rooms used, and i think we have an obligation to understand what some of the challenges are along the way. If were going to be telling people what we think they should be doing, i think we need to search for the people that may be watching at house we need to explain for the people that may be watching at home why it took as long as it took. A week ago, we got a letter or president yee got a letter from trent rhorer, kind of explaining as of that time where they were in making hotel rooms available, sort of broke down for tenplus hotel rooms, where it was in the process, contract negotiating, contracted, and how many beds were available. Id like to hear kind of an update, and as i look at the list of rooms that has actually been contract executed, one of those contracts was 30 rooms for laguna honda. So to the question that chair fewer raised earlier, it actually appears from that and again, we are not the implementers, we are the legislators, but it appears that the implementers at least had in mind that some of the services that they are trying to acquire for folks coming out of Nursing Homes thats at least laguna honda, and i assume that would be a particular hotel room that would be at. I would love to hear because people dont always tell us all the work that theyre doing. I would love to hear an update on what were doing in terms of people moving into hotel rooms this weekend. Where are we . Chair fewer okay. Weve had some people that have joined us. I think maybe d. P. H. About the laguna honda patient question, and then maybe danielle taplin no, h. S. H. About where we are on the sheltering the unhoused people in hotel rooms. Sure. Im on the phone. For laguna honda, we did do an assessment to see if they could selfcare in a hotel room as you mentioned or if they would require some ihss support or stay in a hotel room. There was a small group of people, and i believe the last i had heard about half of them had been moved. I do believe that laguna honda wants to respect patients autonomy, as well, so they wanted to try to work with them on that move, but i can check back on the final numbers. Chair fewer thank you very much. And then, Abigail Stewart kahn from d. S. H. Thank you, chair fewer, for allowing us to speak about the population that we care about, as always. I think in terms of projecting numbers and where we are, that would be great to get from dan taplin. What i can say is of the prioritized populations that were shared a month ago before i was interim director and included many of the populations that you have talked about, as of yesterday, we have moved a total of approximately 750 into various kinds of hotels with more in motion as we speak and more hotels coming online. Those will be questions for dan kaplan. These are all vulnerable folks in shelters who are moved before significantly before covid positives have occurred. The thing to note before i have to jump off and then youre in expert hands with emily cohen is that the process here is really significant. Were optimistic and creative, and our nonprofit partners are coming to the table every day. Our divestment individuals are coming to the table every day, and they have complex lives and potentially more complex. We know that supervisor mandelman understands the work very, very well with all the work that hes been doing since coming into office. Theres amazing work that dan kaplan and his team have been doing, and then, theres enforcement checks, thinking about isolation and quarantine and peoples selfrespect and liberties. Managing crisis, managing Behavioral Health issues and Substance Use issues, providing care coordination and access to care. Transportation is more complicated than it would be, say, after an earthquake when i imagine it would be pretty complicated. You think about a bus or an ambulance to transport people, and the fact that people need to be 6 feet apart in a bus would mean that weve moved between 750 and 900 folks in a short period of time. You can imagine how many times that trip has happened, and in between, everything needs to be cleaned, everything needs to be disinfecte disinfected. This is all for us to wrap our minds around, but because they have a community and are in a congregate setting, some have declined, and well go back to them and help councsel them to go to a hotel. I think by the end of the day, we will have succeeded in moving all of the people in our shelters and Navigation Centers into hotels and motels, so our next step will be going back to the people that werent ready to go. I really want to can commend the supervisors who have done this work in other locations. Your philanthropy, i think thats a fantastic cross section, and they are doing that with work contracted by the city. And thats maybe okay, but these places have to be staffed, and these individuals have to be cared for in their hotel. Chair fewer excuse me. I wanted to say we have to be done with this meeting by 12 30. Okay. Chair fewer okay. Now dan kaplan. Chair fewer, sorry for the interruption, there are members of the public wishing to speak. Could we open Public Comment at this time . Chair fewer so sorry, supervisors. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public wishing to speak . Please remember to speak what is that, again . Clerk one and zero. Chair fewer to be placed in the queue. Clerk madam chair, operator is checking to see if there are any comments in the queue. Please let us know if there are any callers ready. Caller i have four callers at the moment. Please let me queue the first caller. You have five questions remaining. I am with yimby action. I think what they say is potentially a really important thing for the full board to be considering. We do need to be getting people off the streets as quickly as possible. I think the question about fema reimbursement is probably top of mind. We will probably have to spend this money out of our current reserve. It is likely that fema will not be reimbursing for those who have not been found to be testing positive, and those who are not in an atrisk group, and therefore, we will need to think about this, especially in the budget, the longterm implications of this. It doesnt mean we should go forward with it. I think we should, but it does mean that a larger budgeting thing should be held over the longterm. I hope that you can join with other City Governments and councils to demand that fema reimburse for that. I think if we can get a larger group of people demanding that fema reimburse for that, well have a greater chance because we know that testing is not happening in our homeless population, so i hope that can spur an advocacy for fema reimbursement. We have a loud voice at the federal level, so i hope that the board can use their voice to call for that policy change. Thank you. Chair fewer next speaker, please. You have eight questions remaining. Hi. This is sonia charo. Hello . [inaudible] speaker . All right. Can you hear me . Yes. We can hear you. All right. Hi. Im here. All right. We dont have to take the hotels word for it. This is sonia trout. Other cities seem to be Getting Hotel rooms around the world half as much. The other thing is s. R. O. Rooms will be empty. Im looking forward to everybody getting together to show the mayor that she has the widest support possible. Thanks. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Hello. My name is sarah ogilby. Im with yimby today, and im in full support of the ordinance. If we do not house people immediately, we risk losing all progress made in flattening the curve and conserving hospital resources. Supervisors, please make a well articulated argument to the federal government to cover this need. We can both spend our money now and demand federal reimbursement, ask federal representatives to priorityize this, and use your political power. This is an unprecedented Public Health emergency exacerbated by a housing emergency. Decades of substandard policy are now having an impact on our state. We must accelerate housing productions of all kinds to put thousands of workers in an Industry Position to deliver San Francisco from economic cata strophy. Housing will become a key component to restoring and rebuilding our city. If were going to have to overcome the age of covid19, were going to have to agree that housing and production in the medium term become our mandate. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Hi. Thank you very much, supervisors. My name is mary indicakate ape. I support the ordinance. I think its important to get people inside, not merely those who meet the established criteria, but those in vulnerable situations. Those who cannot get inside, families are being discharged from the hospital for reasons unrelated to covid, and they have to live in their cars and shower at truck stops and are in a medically trfragile situations. I would like to see the legislation expanded to include pregnancy . Finally, i want to say that a lot of logistical and physical difficulties are being referenced, and some of them are important for consideration in this city process . I think its essential that the e. O. C. And h. S. A. And h. S. H. Profit with the Nonprofit Community . Were operating essential services . Family providers are collaborating services to hotel rooms. Weve located a site and a block of rooms, and were crowd sourcing money which is flexible. At the same time, millions are available from the state, and there are federal funding extremes. I think we need to put our heads together, decentralize the process, and maximize the funding streams to help the most in shelters. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Linda chapman. I dont know if you have received the letter from current action team yet. I was one of the people who prepared the letter, and i thought it was absolutely essential to get people off the street and into hotel rooms. But equally important is not to use the hotels that were originally found to be Residential Hotels and that have been converted most illegally or through various tricks because they should not be rewarded with extra money, and then, you would be putting yourselves or the city, rather, of being in a position from almost being estopped from taking action against them. May theyre the ones that have alrea [inaudible] now im speaking for myself. I am surrounded by the kind of hotels that people have illegally changed. Apart from the fact that i was on the, you know, the committee that passed the Residential Hotel controls back in the first place, and in one of the neighborhoods in nob hill in order to have that passed in the first place, i worked more recently with sue hester to try to make the art academy restore its buildings, some of which were Residential Hotels aon no hill, so im very sensitive to this. I worked with supervisor peskins office when he was doing an incredible piece for technical corrections to convert rooms in other venues. Certainly, s. D. A. Is in favor of it, and c. A. R. A. Supervisor peskin got a quick and dirty version of what changes would need to be made. You have to get these people off the street. I did work for social security. These were our clients, and we worked in an office building, and the other people who used the elevators to get to other offices were not too happy with our clientele in some cases. Obviously, many people just because theyre not living in a house because theyre in a shelter or something are not going to be a problem. But the people that are drug addicts, and they got their checks, instead of having it put in an account, money management, they would be youre going to have some problems to deal with. Chair fewer speaker . Clerk operations, could you please set up you have five questions remaining. Chair fewer okay. We are very short on time now, so could we please have two minutes on speakers . Good morning. My name is francisco, member of united season the mission and member of San Francisco day labor and woman united save the mission and member of San Francisco day labor and women united. We are a program of delores Street Community services which houses mission as our collective collaborative where we have already had participants of the program be sent home after being diagnosed positive and then infected family members because there was no other place to keep them. Our membership is among the most vulnerable during this crisis, exposed to the weather, sleeping under bridges, sharing spaces where they can only rent a sofa from a neighborhood, and the sofa is only for sleeping without the ability to shower on a regular basis. One of our members got permission to shower with buckets under a bridge last week. At least 50 of our members face shelter insecurity and covid19 infection unless they can find a place to stay in shelter. California Health Departments already given us a directive, and given this reality for our health and safety of our entire city, together with the delores street commission, i am asking the supervisors pass this emergency ordinance and that the city and mayor act immediately to sign agreements to secure rooms for our most vulnerable neighbors or use commandeering power to secure rooms which cannot be secured through trade agreements. This can save lives. Thank you for your vote. I know that los angeles had the power to move thousands. Please act swiftly. Vote for this emergency ordinance. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thank you very much. You have four questions remaining. Hi. My name is olivia park, and im a graduating medical student from ucsf, and im in favor of this much needed ordinance. Supervisor haney was right in that this outbreak could have been prevented. [inaudible] San Francisco is one of the most well resourced cities in the country economically as well as the services for the homeless community, yes somehow we manage to allow the kind of humanitarian disasters to happen before our eyes. We need to move 1,000 individuals from shelters every day, and if we dont, were going to see greater than 64 of the shelter population, including city staff, contract covid19 by next week. The mayor needs to use her commandeering status now to move 1,000 people into hotel rooms a day. I want to see the power of political will. We are San Francisco. We can do this. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have four speakers remaining. Hi. My name is juliana morris. I am a family care doctor in San Francisco, and i care for many people experiencing homelessness. Its been heartbreaking to support this population at this time. They know theyre going to be discharged to the streets, they know that theyre going to be unable to protect themselves, and my heart goes out to this population and other people that are vulnerable. I just want to reiterate the call to house all people, nin addition to the most vulnerable. This is to stop the spread and get them the care that they need. The medical Service Providers and organizers that work inside the congregate setting, they know what they need to stay safe and to care for themselves within the hotel setting, and they should be able to be directed into those settings and not spread out so that we can make sure that everyones needs get accounted for. And then, in doing this, we need to be housing people before they get sick, not just afterwards. I also want to mention how afraid i am how this delayed and inadequate response is exacerbating illnesses within the city. The African American population and latinx population are experiencing much higher rates and morbidity from covid19. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have three speakers remaining. My name is mike chen, and im a member of yimby action. We imagine a future where everyone has access to Affordable Housing. The big thing that im concerned about is making sure that we have the funding to do this. We need to make sure that my understanding is that fema guidelines only allow for housing people who test positive. We need to use our power as a city to make sure that we get more clarification from fema such that this is funded. At the same time, we need to make sure that in case fema funding does not come through, we should be leveraging all funding sources, including private donations. We need to learn how to balance the budget to fight a major crisis. For housing, please consider that thats how we can use construction jobs to jump start the economy, creating a saferer and more Affordable Housing for safer and more Affordable Housing for everyone. Chair fewer next speaker. Next speaker on the line . You have two questions remaining. Hi. My name is lina core, and im a fourthyear medical student at ucsf. [inaudible] and continue to do the social and Public Outreach in the face of this pandemic. Weve seen studies coming out of ucla, university of pennsylvania, and boston university, theyve projected that Homeless Individuals that contract covid19 are two to three times for likely to be hospitalized, two to three times more likely to require Critical Care in an i. C. U. , and two to three times more likely to die. When people who are experiencing homelessness are in congregate living situations like shelters, theyre unable to take the necessary precautions to shelter in place and social distance. Ive talked to folks who are sharing bathrooms, living in close quarters and are failing to social distancing, lacking the care that they need. Its critical that all homeless persons be offered a hotel room before they test positive. I urge you, the board of supervisors, to save lives, and move people experiencing homeless chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Is the speaker there . You have one question remaining. My name is anabel, and im a nursing midwife and a student at ucsf. Im speaking related to problems with depression and post partum. I want to make sure that pregnant and birthing people and people with newborns are being considered especially in this crisis . Its covid19 is unlike any of the other coronaviruses that we have seen, and women are going to be more likely to be impacted by this illness. We do know there are very raptly changing guidelines around social distancing. [inaudible] chair fewer thank you very much. Any other speakers . You have zero questions remaining. Chair fewer seeing no speakers, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, i apologize. I know your name is on the roster. We want to get this to the full board to vote on it, and we are already past our time. The Clerks Office has allowed us to be here until 12 30, so i am going to ask my colleagues to save their comments until tomorrow. I made a motion, and its on the table. I make a motion to move this to the full board. Roll call. [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you. Is there any further business before us . Clerk theres no further business. Chair fewer thank you. This meetingss adjourned