Broadcasting this meeting. Motion to for todays budget and appropriation committee. Thank you. Can i have a second please . Roll call vote, please, madame clerk. The motion . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. There are five. Supervisor fewer thank you. Welcome. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Care Emergency and to protect members of the public, the board of supervisors and chamber room are closed. However, members will be participating as if theyre physically present. All the comments will Public Comment will be available. Streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. By calling 888 2045984. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the order. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. [inaudible] and streaming. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively at [inaudible] if you submit Public Comment, it will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service. Finally, items acted upon today will be forwarded to the full board for consideration on april 28 unless otherwise indicated. Madame clerk. Thank you. Can you please call items 1 through 3 together . Item 1, emergency ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the covid19 disaster Family Relief Fund. Item 2, emergency ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the covid19 disaster Family Relief Fund and item number 3, appropriating 10 million from the general reserve for the creation of the Family Relief Fund that will serve undocumented and extremely lowincome families with children 0 to 18 years old and who do not qualify for stimulus relief. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. We continued this item to the meeting for this meeting by supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I want to provide an update and say weve been working closely with the leadership of the Human Rights Commission as well as with the Mayors Office and were going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. So i think its appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, supervisor. So we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. Before we do that, lets open up for Public Comment. Madame clerk, can you call for Public Comment . Yes. Madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready . Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is now closed. There is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please . On the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer congratulations, supervisor walt walton. Can you call items 4 and 5 together . Item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to expend a grant in the amount of 900,000 for participation in the program entitled california injury and Violence Prevention Branch overdose data to action for a period of january 1, 2020 through august 31, 2022. Item 5, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 750,000 from the California Department of Public Health for participation in the program entitled california injury and Violence Prevention Branch overdose data to action, peer to peer opioid Stewardship Alliance for period january 1, 20 through august 31, 2022. Supervisor fewer thank you. We have dr. Phillip kaufmann here from the department of Public Health. Good morning. These are a continuation of expansion on work weve been doing for years as a health department. Weve been providing services of training providers and Health Departments and health plans around california state in how to train other providers in opioid stewardship and managing opioid use disorder and clinical practice. Those efforts were supported by the cdc through the department of Public Health and the second project so thats the first project, a continuation of that of those efforts for another three years. And then the second project is expanding to provide Technical Assistance on these issues nationally. Supervisor fewer okay. And the yeah. Ill stop there. Supervisor fewer please continue. The reason for this delay is the usual reasons of the time it took to process the receipt of the award. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions for dr. Kaufmann . Seeing none, there is no on this, lets open the items up for Public Comment. Are there any people that would like to comment on items 4 and 5 . Please get in the queue and dont forget to press 1, 0. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are callers. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready . Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer its closed. I move to move these items to the board. On the motion, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you. Please call item number 6. Item 6, easy lieutenantgovernors recei resolution retroactive authorizing the department of Public Health it accept and expend a grant in the amount of 87,000 for the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2022. Is [inaudible] from the department of Public Health. The presenter is not here today. I make a motion to move this item. There is no report on this, so lets open it up for Public Comment first. Any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 6 . Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. Public comment is closed. I make a motion to continue this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Could i have a roll call vote, please . Ms. Wong, i think youre muted. My apologies. On motion to continue item number 6 to the next budget meeting, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aarti . Fewer aye. There are three ayes. Can you read number one of the budget and Appropriations Committee. Yes. Item number 1, hearing to review the budget process and related updates for the school years 20202021 and 20212022 and requesting the Controllers Office and the budget and legislative analyst to report members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number across the screen, press 1 and 0 to speak. Supervisor fewer we have the mayors Budget Office and our controller. Good morning, supervisors. This is kelly kirkpatrick. I have a brief update for you all as i provided last week on the citys kind of current operational spending since last week as well as an update on state and federal relief. As well as the state budget outlook on the l. A. O. Provided at a Committee Hearing last week, a look at the state budget. Im going to do a screen shot to give you a highlight of the topics. All right. Can you see that, chair fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, i can. Thank you very much. Wonderful. So update to our current year direct operational spending of the city from last week we spent about 42 million. The majority of which youll see is additional salary and benefit costs for city staff involved in the Health Crisis. As weve gotten to better understand fema reimburse, this is an accounting tracking as ive shared before. This is what departments have input as money that has gone out the door. So most of the costs for staffing is what i would call the peoplepower dedicated to our response. Capturing people who have been reassigned or reallocated to doc or e. O. C. Work. The majority of this is fema reimbursable. We expect them to include overtime, comp time and any new staffing added for direct Health Crisis response. But were working to just try to capture in the Accounting System peoples time dedicated toward this and were working with the Recovery Team to parse out and make sure were going to capture as much as reimbursable funding as possible. Its helpful to know how much staff time is being dedicated towards this response and the peoplepower i would say. Additionally, weve spent checks out the door of 9 million to house equipment and safety supplies. This is up about 3 million from last week. Its almost all new p. P. E. For the department of Public Health. And then notably here as well, again, this is cash out the door, bills that have been fulfilled, about 5. 7 million for a noncongregate shelter and other support services. This includes our noncongregate sheltering and it represents some initial deposits and costs for april for hotels that have billed us. I know there is a lot of other contracting in the works, just wanted to show this money has come through and gone out the door for shelter support and noncongregate needs, as well as i. T. And other Transportation Needs in the department. Last week the state announced a targeted program, a Disaster Relief fund for undocumented immigrants. 75 million represents the states direct contribution. Additionally 50 million will come from nonprofit foundations. And this represents 125 million total for undocumented adults. Its estimated that 150,000 adults receive onetime payments of 500 with the cap of 1,000 per household. Additionally, at the federal level, the Senate Passed as im sure we heard on the news another half billion dollars on Small Business and health care funding. And the majority of which is replenishing the 310 billion paycheck protection program. Its for Small Businesses to retain their workforce. The initial program for this was 350 billion and as we all know, the need far outpaced the funding available. There is additional funding for other types of Disaster Relief funds as well as 75 billion for hospital relief and 25 billion for testing and contacttracing. Thats another typo. I apologize, were working quickly. Contacttracing. And then the senate will resume in early may. Its our sense and the news is reporting that additional relief efforts will be discussed when the senate reconvenes. You know, the mayor as well as other local leaders and even state governors, including Governor Newsom are pushing hard at the federal level to ensure we have relief at the local level through the next cares 2. 0. One thing of particular interest to this director and hopefully to the council is [inaudible] we have received 150 million for the first cares act for the operation directly related to new covid spending, but it does not allow to backfill any lost revenue. That is a push. Advocacy amongst ensuring that we have support of our Small Businesses and vulnerable populations who are disproportionately impacted. Last week, the state l. A. O. Provided a report at the Senate Budget Committee Hearing on the state of californias economy. L. A. O. Reported and the governor stated that california has entered a pandemicinduced recession. The drivers of this are covidrelated costs, higher benefit drawdowns. In california, people are eligible for various Entitlement Program based on income, so we have significantly more people drawing unemployment, medicaid which is additional costs to the state and this is compounded by decreased revenues. The state is, as im sure were aware, 1215 of californians have lost their jobs which is contributing to these macro budget impacts. The budget shortfall, the upcoming fiscal year for the state to reach 35 billion. This is exceeds the state spending of 20 billion. And this revenue loss, according to l. A. O. Is on par with revenue losses during the great recession. As a result, l. A. O. Recommended that the legislature in the near term. Its kind of more messaging weve been sharing over the last couple of weeks. It will take us several months to get a fuller picture of the impact on our budget of this dual increased costs and Community Need with a rapidly shrinking and diminishing revenue. The l. A. Oo. , similar to what were planning for with the support of this committee, has moved their budget process back by a couple of months to allow both of those things to happen. The l. A. O. Has projected two different shapes to the economic downturn. In our march joint report update we provided two scenarios of recession. One was a v shape, meaning it was a rapid decline of revenue and a quick snap back. The l. A. O. Provided two scenarios and theyre different letters. Our high end scenario was the same as the one that includes a ushaped downturn. So it was a more prolonged kind of impact, but there is a pronounced recovery kind of snapping the economy back. Theyve also presented something theyre calling an lshaped downturn. Which is a sharp downturn with a slow resolution to the covid response. Inadequate as they framed it and creating a protracted recession. As i said, it will take more time to understand the shape of this, but just trying to help people understand the potential or the magnitude that could come as result, depending on what the pandemic looks like in the coming months. In terms of expenses, the state is estimating at least 67 billion of additional spending related to covid response. This does not include entitlement spending, for programs like medicaid or cal works or unemployment, but just like weve been saying at the local level, current federal funding will cover some covidrelated spending, but not revenue losses. Similar kind view of how this is impacting the State Government like were viewing it for our local budget. I just wanted to highlight that yesterday the mayor and the treasurer announced additional deferrals of various businessrelated fees. The newest one that we announced yesterday and that the mayor is introducing in an executive directive amendment this week is extending the Business Registration fee deadline by four months. This is 49 million of deferrals that impact almost 90,000 businesses, the majority of which are Small Businesses in San Francisco. Weve also further delayed the unified license bill which includes many different departments such as food safety and fire safety permits and businesses will not be penalized by individual departments for not having paid these. It feels like a 14 million relief to our local businesses. Well still ensure there is safe food and fire safety, but its just the fee part by businesses providing that relief. And of course weve done a lot at the local level to help support our local businesses. I know there is a lot of need out there. But weve done weve done taken many different angles at trying to support our Small Businesses, Small Business community. With that, im happy to answer any questions. Or take any feedback for subsequent presentations that would be helpful to you all over the next couple of weeks. Supervisor fewer thank you. I see president yee in the queue. President ye president yee thanks for the update. Just curious, we have some information about the state unemployment. Just wondering, do we have anything local . Does San Francisco in particular how badly this has hit the unemployment . Thats a great question, president yee. I dont readily know that. That is an indicator that tends to lag in terms of our ability to receive it. I can get something for you all next week. President yee thank you very much. Supervisor fewer any comments or questions . I actually want to comment. We had a conversation, my staff and the Controllers Office about how were filing for reimbursement. And i just thought it would be good information to share with the rest of the budget committee. I was concerned that the reimbursements will be lump sum coming in after we hit sort of the first wave and we wouldnt get reimbursement in a timely manner, but perhaps the Controller Office can explain the reimbursement and how were filing for the reimbursements . Sure. Hi. This is the Controllers Office. I can speak a little bit to this now. Were happy to provide more information at next weeks meeting. In general, for our fema reimbursements, were submitting a request every two weeks. I believe weve submitted at least two at this point, but we can confirm that. And there is a number of pieces of information that come into that, so it sounds like that would be more of the details about what were collecting and how were submitting that would be helpful for the committee. And we can definitely get that for you. Supervisor fewer i think that would be great. Im wondering, are we able also to know ament 0 amount of reimbursements were actually filing for every two weeks . I can tell you that the first one was for 26. 5 million. I need to check on the subsequent. I dont want to tell you the wrong number. Supervisor fewer sure. I just meant ongoing for the budget committee. Were keeping close watch on because of the budget deliberations in august about how quickly were getting the reimbursements and an idea how were replenishing the costs were putting out. If we could have an update. And when you are submitting those requests for reimbursements, the amount of reimbursements. And then later on if were receiving those reimbursements and reimbursements to date. Sure, well definitely have that. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other comments or questions for the Controllers Office or the mayors Budget Office . Seeing none, this is open for Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 1 of the budget and Appropriations Committee . Madame chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are any callers ready . Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Id like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. Could i have a second, please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you, supervisor. Madame clerk, roll call vote on the motion. On the motion to continue this item to the call of the chair, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. There are four ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you. Is there any other business before us today . No further business. Supervisor fewer were adjourned. Thank you very much. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now
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