Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, april 30, special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am joined be i vice chair he is, kin and thank you to the clerk and sfgov tv for hosting this meeting. Do you have any announcements mr. Chair . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members to the employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members of the committee will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfg tv. Org are streaming the number across the 2013. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are available via phone by dialling 882045984, and once you are connected to that phone number, use access code which is 3501008. 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Org. Again, that is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be included in the legislative file z a part of the matter and i will ensure that members of the committee receive the commune case. Written comment cans be sent to the Committee Via u. S. Post. You would address your letters to city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlet place, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. Finally, items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on may 12, 2020, unless other wise stated. Mr. Chair . Thank you so much, mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number one . An ordinance amending the administrative code to close jail number 4 on the 7th floor of the hall of justice by november 2, 2020. To require the Sentencing Commission to establish the safety and justice subcommittee, to plan for the reduction of the citys daily jail population, and the closure of county jail number 4, and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. Also, mr. Chair, i am in receipt of a memo from yours reing this ordinance be requesting this ordinance be heard as a Committee Report to be heard next week on may 5, 2020. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the 8882045984 and enter the access code 3501008, press the pound symbol twice and 1 followed by 0 to enter the queue to speak. Mr. Chair . Thank you, mr. Clerk. Supervisor fewer, thank you so much for sponsoring this ordinance and bringing it forward. The floor is yours. Supervisor thank you very much, chair mar. And first of all, i want to thank president yee for waiving the 30day hold and to accommodate this meeting today. I want to recognize that each of the members of this committee is a cosponsor of the legislation. And i am appreciative of your support and collaboration. In particular, i want to acknowledge supervisor haney who called for the closure of county jail number 4. We have been tag teaming this issue for some time now. I than began exploring this issue as chair of the budget and finance committee. I was seeing lease after lease to move city departments and their staff out of the hall of justice. I asked about the plans for county jail no. 4 and then asked the city administrator and many others, and the answer i received, again and again, was that incarcerated people would have to be transferred out of county in alameda county. At this point in time, santa rita was in the move for the unprecedented death rate. 45 deaths in five years, and it was inconceivable to me that this would be our only option. I was presented as it was presented as an intractable problem and i refused to believe it. I met with the sheriff in september of last year as my office began to explore this and as we continued to meet with every Justice Agency multiple times over the course of several months. We watched the Violent Crime rate consistently decrease and watched the jail count consistently dip. In fact, it is at 696 today. This is truly a result of the work being done in the safety and justice challenge working group and each of its partners with the District Attorney office and Sheriffs Department and the Public Defenders Office and adult probation, superior court and the department of Public Health and pretrial diversion. To shows departments, thank you for your hard work. Today i held a Virtual Press conference with the District Attorney, public defender, Public Health professionals and formerly incarcerated people on the dangerous conditions at cj4 and why it needs to be closed as soon as possible. The legislation before you does three things. First, it requires the closure of county jail no. 4 in six months by november 1 of 2020. Second, it states in order to close the jail, we must reduce the population to no more than 90 capacity of the remaining jail facilities a goal that is stated by the safety and justice challenge working group. And interagency collaboration that was formed when the city received a grant along with more than 50 other localities to work towards a fairer and more effective Justice System. And third, a formerly recognizes this is an already existing working group and the existing structure and requires that the subcommittee consider multiple strategist and measures to meet the objective of reducing the population so we can safely close county jail no. 4. The subcommittee will be required to submit who reports to the board of supervisors. In august and in october with progress made and data points and policy recommendations. I realize there have been questions about the reduction of the jail population but i want to acknowledge a few things here. The month before covid19, we were at under 92 of the jail capacity for the remaining facilities. Literally only 20 beds away from meeting our goal of 9 0 or under. And for months the number has consistently been dropping. The numbers are dropping because of the hard work of our justice partners and also because Violent Crime rates are going down. Down 6 from last year precovid19. The people who are being held in cj4 include people like terry who is recently featured on a american podcast who is a 64yearold veteran who has been in jail for over a year with burglary charges. Member that 60 is there pretrial meaning they havent been convicted of a crime. Too many of the jail population are people awaiting treatment or transitional housing who really should be in other programs and facilities rather than being incarcerated. And finally, covid19 has forced us to expedite releases in ways and we should be evaluating and learning from as we plan for the closure of county jail no. 4. As of last friday, the jail population was 699, and as i mentioned today, it is 696. Almost 345 or more under the threshold needed to close the jail. Now with covid19t jails are implementing Public Safety measures to create physical distancing to the extent possible in this kind of congregate setting, but this is all incredibly hopeful for the ultimate and inevitable goal of closing this facility safely. All of that said, this legislation is going to be creating a mandate to close the facility that everyone agrees needs to be closed. Only on a more aggressive timeline, but it has been 24 years since the jail was deemed to be site unsafe and slated for demolition. And the conditions have only gotten worse. This mandate is long overdue. Administrator kelly wanted the jail closed by the end of 2019 and informed the sheriff to call the facility depressing, decrepit and an embarrassment. Every city leader agrees this Facility Needs to close, so lets do what needs to be done, permanently close county jail number four. Since january my office has been working closely with the sheriff to address issues with the legislation as well as reaching out to labor unions, my colleagues on the board, and i have worked hard on the amendments to address concerns that have arisen, and i am confident that we have been able to make this a thoughtful and responsible piece of legislation while still bold. Colleagues, i present to you a summary of the amendments i am sharing with you today that i hope you will accept. Changes inmate and offender to person first language and in alignment with prior board resolutions. Remove the deadline for meet and confer based on advice from the City Attorney. And upon request from the sheriff, adjust key language to acknowledge the legal authority. Upon the request of the sheriff, add language that expressly says the renovation of county jail number two is not prohibited. Upon request of the sheriff, direct the Sub Committee to develop plans in the event of the jail population spike above the 90 capacity once county jail no. 4 is closed. Upon request from the sheriff, direct the subcommittee to take measures to protect Public Health and prevent the spread of covid19 in the jails including building into the two required reports and an assessment of the impact of covid19 and related policy recommendations for physical distancing and temporary housing. This also includes a clause that speaks to the intent of the board of supervisors to prevent layoffs and job loss as it relates to the jail closure. I want to take a moment to acknowledge the hardworking staff at county jail number four. I realize legislation like this will trigger a meet and confer process, but i want to say on the record that i will do Everything Possible for those workers to retain that their jobs and i hope my cosponsors had the same commitment. Further more, the sheriff has told us he believes existing staff can be incorporated into existing organizational structure. With that, id like to acknowledge that we have some speakers that we have invited today. Sheriff niamoto, the District Attorney, and public defender to represent the meeting and share comments as they have been each engaged deeply with my office as we try to craft this legislation. We have dr. Lisa pratt from the jail health, and ken from the Deputy Service association and also in attendance to answer any questions. With that i have speaker sheriff paul niamoto, and the District Attorney and the public defender. Thank you, colleagues. Perhaps we can hear from the commissioner first. Sheriff . Hi. Good morning. I dont know if i have appeared on the video here yet. Can you see me . You are live. Awe thank you. We can certainly hear you. Okay. Thank you. Good morning to everyone, members of the committee. Members of the board who are present and also everybody here this morning. I appreciate the time and consideration given to some comments on my part regarding this legislation. I want to make it very clear for everybody that i support the closure of county jail 4 for housing of justice involved persons. I am very grateful to supervisor fewer and her staff for working with us on the changes and the edits that she referenced that will ensure we have flexible to accommodate the capacity needs we have should the population count change in elected months and as elected is our responsibility to remain thoughtful and measured plans and i truly appreciate the opportunity to make sure that this will be crafted as responsible legislation. As a sheriff, i have the duty to provide housing for justice involved to make sure that ensures a meeting the needs of the constitutional standards that are required. And to provide those constitutional standards, i am appreciative of the effort to alter the legislation language. I cant ignore the needs of the people who are just as involved that are incarcerated. Parameters are always changing including providing a safe Living Environment, not limited to the reduction of risk factors such as the potential for physical harm to otherses, not limited to some of the limitations we have in regard to medical risks, not just related to Infectious Disease but also some things that we have experienced historically at county jail 4 such as sewage spills. There is also litigation involving access to sunlight and other needs for those who are incarcerated. Needs that were not met by county jail 4, its structure, or content. I am very happy having worked with the department my entire career to have the opportunity to be a part of this change in closing county jail 4 as a facility we use z a referenced by supervisor fewer earlier. We all feel that it is not a humane it is an out of date structure which we have for years now worked on moving out of. Moving us forward in with respect with this legislation is something that we support and we continue to support. I reference the risk of Infectious Diseases in our congregate setting and i want to point out that weve always had that concern z. Now in light of a new concern with covid19, one of which our entire community has experienced the effects of, we require some changes in the way we do things. Such requirements such as physical distancing personing from each other. I do want to point out right no that as of time thanks to the efforts collectively of all the people referenced by supervisor fewer, our partners in the Justice System, we havent had a single outbreak of any justiceinvolved persons in our congregate Living Environment with a positive case of covid19. Weve had two instances where those coming into the testimony were tested positive and both were isolated and released under the protocols to prevent such an outbreak in our jails. Although we have had five Staff Members tested positive, they successfully quarantined and were kept separate from the population and did not result in any outbreaks. Its only possible for us to achieve this success with the reduction in the count as referenced by supervisor fewer as well as the flexibility in where we have people if their living housing arrangements in our system. Even at the historically low count that we have, cj4 has been utilized as a potential resource, and i appreciate the changes to the language where we have included the ability to be flexible in where and when we house people in the event there are changes in the population count, although we share the goal of keeping our count at the 90 capacity for two and five, we do recognize that such is the emergency created by covid19, there may be the need to house in a different type of medical setting. I want to thank supervisor fewer and her staff for helping to alter the language which is more minimal to meeting our needs there. I do want to point out at this time that there is some ongoing work that i believe and my staff believes still needs to be done in relation to the utilization of space to address the need for the construction of or the renovation of the kitchen at county jail two. Currently county jail four has the kitchen which is used to make sure that we have meals for not just county jail four but also county jail two and county jail one located at 850 brian and the hall of justice and 425 7th street. And that need while we are moving forward with construction plans on the cj2 renovation, we are concerned and want to make sure there are assurances that the language could not prohibit us from being able to keep the kitchen open at county jail four if the need arises and we were working on this a language and i know that we continue to work on these things, and i appreciate that. I do want to mention that our one advantage in regards to covid19 crisis and space and effectively distance people who are incarcerated and we are concerned because the november 1 date that we are trying to reach with the plans to move out of the jail are contingent on the belief we are going to move out in june of next year, but as i stated earlier, we are working with everyone to move out by november 1 and i think with the slight adjustment for the kitchen use and assurances that language will be in there that allow for us to take that into consideration if there is a problem or change in the conditions at cj2s construction project is not going to finish by november 1, i just want to make sure that we have language in there that is flexible for us to maintain the operation of the kitchen past the november 1 date. I actually feel, too, and this is not something that weve talked about with the supervisor, but i feel confident because weve already worked towards changing cj4 population and incorporating it into the rest of the population, i feel confident that we can move people out prior to november 1 date if there are no external factors that affect us in terms of the surge in a covid19 outbreak or pandemic in terms of an outbreak in the jail. While i am very proud of and very happy for the successes we have experienced in keeping it out of the jail, i am also to be prudent and have to plan for the worse Case Scenarios and in the event we have an outbreak, we need adequate spacing needs addressed for the population. In closing again, i want to mention that we are here to work and continue to work with everyone to ensure that we have the language necessary for that flexibility. I do know that there are some additional meetings coming up that we discussed this and i apologize right now for my lack of experience in the legislative process, but i do feel that i no ethat this is going to i do know that this is going before the committee for a vote today, and i know there is an interest in accelerating the timeline as evidenced by the waiver of some of the threeday things that supervisor fewer referenced for president yees assistance. I wanted to at this time just state that if we have an additional two weeks to work on the language or that additional time, i dont think it will affect our ability to pass this legislation and move forward with meeting that november 1 date just as long we iron out the one thing left regarding kitchen use. Thank you for your time, supervisors, and thank you for the opportunity to present this. Thank you so much, sheriff. And we can just move to the other presenters and then we will have an opportunity to comment and engage and discuss the overall presentation. District attorney chase boudin. Im sorry i am not able to get the video link work. We are having technical difficulties, but i hope everyone can hear me via telephone. I want to thank supervisor fewer for introducing the proposed legislation to close county jail no. 4. I want to thank supervisors haney, walton, peskin and mar for joining as cosponsors and the justice sponsors who have committed to the work to close this inhumane and seismically unfit facility. Research experience has shown us that careful, deliberative can support Public Health and with jail mental status and the reentry partners and staff who work to safely and quickly reduce the jail population is down by over 40 since january of 2020 when i took office. These efforts included early releases for 42 people in response to covid19. Of those 42 individuals released, 93 stayed arrest free through their originally scheduled release date and 86 have no been arrested at all. These numbers are far louer than typical recidivism rates and across the country. Crime rates are down. That validates the careful and deliberative approach all of us have taken in determines which people to release from condition and under which conditions. Now, to safely close county jail 4 we need to not just reduce the population but maintain the jail reduction, the population reduction that weve seen in the last several months. To do that, we need solutions that address who is sitting in the jail and we need to invest resources to get them out and keep them out. That means upstream interventions. It means reentry planning. San francisco has done a great job to slow the jail population to the hardest to treat population. We see in we look closely at the drive in the current jail population. According to the Controllers Office and associates, the key drivers of the jail population fall into three main categories. First, those booked and released within a few hours or under three days. Second, those released more than once in a year with multiple short clinton lengths of stay in the jail. And third, those who spend many months or many years in some cases in custody before their cases are resolved or their sentences completed. Solutions to address the first category include providing First Responders with the resources to direct individuals to access treatment, care, and support 24 hours a day, seven days a week as an alternative to jail. The citys made steps in this direction, but there is much room for improvement in expanding treatment on demand and resources and tools available to our First Responders as alternatives to jail. Solutions to address the second point and multiple bookings in the year and with the support that alternative and collaborative courts and into the options available to the traditional with the nuanced understanding and to do a better job of providing the services, supports and supervision from that report over and over again. And with the superior efforts and Defense Council and my office that expedite case resolutions and with the backlog of cases and with the next opportunity and several years and more sufficiently in the past. And no single collusion will maintain a safe jail population with the multifaceted approach from the justice partners and with the relaxing the jail population. The safety with the restorative under the leaderships and to with the strategies and releasing the least restrictive form and while reserving the Public Safety and to do with the california constitutions and work with the concepts to focus on myths and the headlines and to have the efforts of rehabilitation to provide support for the auspices of the sentences communication and in the criminal Justice System and the people necessary and in a way that is consistent with those whose lives are caught up and with the the Public Defenders Office, adult probation and the reentry council, the Family Violence council and many communities and with the impact and this broad group is prepared to the mantle forward and take on the responsibility of developing the plans and reports outlined in supervisor fewers bold legislation that is being considered today. And county jail number four as outlined in the legislation and are complimentary to those funded by that areas and with the safer and more effective system and prearrest and predivergent strategies to emphasize with the reduction and that are involved in the Justice System and rooting out disparities, particularly Racial Disparities. Each of the strategies is designed to emphasize fairness and income protection. We know that we can do a better job at keeping the opportunities safe than simply having the jail serve as a revolving door and simply using each arrest to put someone in jail again for an ash rare length of time. We can do better by focussing on root causes of crime and investing in prevention and healing and do better by giving victims a voice and with the root causes of crime to the not warehouse human beings and rather than rush to up end or delay Justice Reform furing this pandemic with a deep structural change to a Justice System that values healing over retribution and devotes resources that are data tested, empirical and healing the most vulnerable members of our society. Thank you for your time and leadership on this issue. I am joined by tom anderson from my office and to respond to any questions. Now i wanted to share some perspectives if interested and our public defender such as supervisor fewer and public defender. Go ahead. To share your perspectives. We also have other we also have a member from the Public Defenders Office as well. And the Public Defenders Office before we move into questions from colleagues and Public Comment. I think he was planning to be here so let me try to find out. I apologize for that. And i will be available for any questions if anyone has questions from our office. For our office, i should say. We can go to my colleagues for questions or comments. I will start. I want to thank supervisor fewer and the staff for working on this really important legislation. And thank District Attorney boudin and public defender and the sheriff to make sure that we get the ordinance right. So this is very clearly needed. [inaudible] and to close county jail 4 and the inmate population there. And with the perspective puff mr. Chair, i am very sorry to interrupt. Are you able to hear me . Yes. Were having some connecttivety issues. Am i having audio problems . We are having some problems hearing all of what you are saying. I. T. Staff from the Clerks Office is coming down to your office because we see you are in city hall and they able to troubleshoot the audio, but i want to let you know we are having a few connectivity issues cutting in and out of the call. Okay. Chair supervisor fewer. Thank you, chair mar. Thank you for recognizing me. I am wondering if we should start to start Public Comment while they are working on your computer and also as we wait for the public defender. I think there are many people in the queue waiting to speak. Thank you. That sounds good. Lets move to comment and to join to speak and mr. Clerk, can you is a facilitate the Public Comment . Yes, mr. Chair. Thank you very much. And operations will check to see if we have any callers in the queue. Press 1 and o to be ahhed to queue. For those already on hold in the queue, wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. For those watching the meeting on San Francisco cable channel 26 or via a streaming link or sfgov tv, if you wish to speak, call in by following the instructions on the screen. And ak ses code 3501008 for the access code and press pound twice to be connected to the call. And once you are connected to the call, press 1 and 0 to enter the cue to speak. There are a number of callers in the cue. You have 27 questions remaining. First caller, your two minutes begin now. I am calling on behalf of president of the Deputy Sheriffs Association and will read the following statements and with regard to county jail four to close and particularly in this time of economic crisis this is of concern. To reassess the current lauchlt needs and whether its economic savings or increasing Law Enforcement for the department. And i want to thank the supervisors for the careful approach to making sure this does not lead to any reduction in our work force of 85 deputies or reduction in the 94 fulltime positions. Thank you. Thank you. Connect us to the next speaker please. You have 26 questions remaining. Thank you. Next caller, your two minutes begins now. Caller, please begin. Hello. I am director of communications and social media manager with the transgender and intersex justice project. On behalf of the name to provide supervisor fewers to close county jail 4 and with the electronic mon the organize and jail construction. And a group of transgender and intersex people inside and outside of prison and jails and with the United Family and advocate for the criminal and vulnerable community. Transagenda arenaed who are currently or having previously in prison. And with the jailing and 8 50 and to have the marginalized and to allow the community to drive. And for that to happen and lack of access to quality jobs. And health care, housing and programming. And the way we build strong and safe communities and by building the building of resources that make them thrive. I urge you to pass the ordinance and electronic monitoring for more jail construction. Thank you. Thank you, speaker. Connect us to the next speaker please. You have 26 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. I am brian cam, a Deputy Sheriff and also on the board of directors with the Deputy Sheriff association. My current assignment is at the department of Emergency Management on turk street. The other day an officer came by and mentioned that he had seen us on the street and that we had been handling police calls. The officer said that he appreciated our help. I thanked him and said it was glad that it was working out. If county jail 4 closes soon, we are at risk of losing jobs. Please consider the positions for us to fill outside of the jail thank you. Thank you for the comment. Connect us to the next speaker please. For the record, that was supervisor aaron peskin and thank you for your service. You have 25 questions remaining. Thank you p. Next speaker, your two minutes begins now. Caller hi, my name is maria and i am a resident of San Francisco, lifetime resident of San Francisco, and wanted to first say thank you for making the changes t amendments to the proposed legislation. I know many of us were highly concerned at the original proposed language, so i appreciate the changes. I do want to ask, though, a couple of questions and would like some things to be kept in mind as you proceed to revise this bill. First of all, how is this bold . And we all agree it needs to be close and moving up the timeline isnt really bold. It is, however, concerning because when you work on a much, much reduced timeline to handle a complex matter such as this, especially in the middle of a pandemic when everyone is looking other directions and trying to manage other emergencies at the at the same time, and i think that this is fraught with the risk of massive mistakes and i am just concerned. What i would like is for the public to be appraised prior to the closing of the jail of exactly what has been done and where every Single Person currently house there had is going to go housed there is going to go. I think we have the right to know, that and i think especially the victims of the crimes have the right to know that. And so i hope that that can be included in this legislation and as it proceeds that you will make public exactly what youre doing and how you are handling the removal of all of these people from this particular space. And i also do have you have 23 questions remaining. Thank you for your comments. Next caller hi, i am sell chi, the Outreach Coordinator with the coalition on homelessness. I think it is ridiculous that 850 bryant is closed and needs to be closed. Not only has it been structurally dangerous for decades and now with covid19 and mixed with the unsanitary conditions is a constitutional violation subjecting those in prison to cruel and unusual punishment. 850 hurts our community and our most vulnerable residents. I see that 40 of those incarcerated are homeless upon imprisonment, and that we annually spend 20 million on policing quality of life, resulting in unsheltered people being subjected to harassment and disruption and confiscation of their tents and personal belongings, it is difficult to not feel San Francisco criminalizes homelessness and poverty. We need to close 850 and stop the Revolving Doors that perpetuates criminalization, homelessness and poverty. I grew up in poverty witnessing this revolving door ant not only my community but my family, especially my mother whose biggest crime was being chronically homeless, mentally ill, and an addict. We need a Community Approach to healing and reconciliation, and closing 850 bryant will free up the muchneeded revenue for those programs. Housing being at the top of that list. The Research Shows that Housing First works, and unlike incarceration, drastically improves not only individuals, fizz Mental Health, but our communitys as well. If covid19 has taught us anything, it has taught us that the health of one of us is dependent on the health of all of us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Connect us to the next speaker. You have 22 questions remaining. Good morning, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller good morning, and thank you, supervisors. I am ron stickel, direct of Justice Services at sunset youth services. I do want to thank you for your time, first of all, and the invitation to talk about such a difficult issue. I do believe it is so crucial to the health of some of the most vulnerable members of the community as well as the city. In the past 29 years of working with incarcerated transitional age teens i was become more and more convinced that the Current System of incarceration our Justice System is an unacceptable amount of harm on this population. Many of those that become involved in this system do so because the trauma they have suffered through the course of their lives brings them to the point where this is survival. It is unacceptable to inflict more trauma on them so that the most likely path will simply be more of the same. The same philosophy that is corning the restructure of the juvenile probation system applies to this conversation. It is essential that instead of piling on, we get to the point where we are disrupting the damage done and providing a therapeutic environment that serves rather than, quote, handles people. An environment that is necessary for health and group. This, coupled with the atrocious conditions of cj4 that we all know about, we need to ask for your support for supervisor fewers ordinance. Or many different locations youth that i have been working with complained about the conditions of cj4. Now, i am not talking just about simple uncomfortable situations like bad lights and bad food, but multiple instances of things like backed up sewer systems that go uncheck and unhealthy, dangerous broeting conditions. And it is also well known to those that are incarcerated that it is not an earthquake safe building. This alone adds to the stress and trauma of many. I am more than happy to hear specific stories and of individuals who have allowed me to to anyone who is interested in talking about that in the future. And for now, i do thank you for your time and for your attention and for listening. [please stand by. Shift resources where needed. The alternative to jail before and after trial and programs and infra strucinfrastructure. We thank the supervisors on this committee. We ask you to continue to support this ordinance and ask any supervisors to rise to the occasion to close that jail after 24 years of inaction. Bypassing the ordinance, San Francisco has the power to close it and will take a step to close the chapter in San Francisco. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have 22 questions remaining. Good morning. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. I am emily lee, director of San Francisco rising, multi Racial Alliance in San Francisco. We support the closure of cj4. Grateful to supervisor fewer and the cosponsors of the legislation. The reason why all of us are supporting this is because we know that communities of color disproportionally impacted by policing and racial profiling. That is true in county jail 4 where 50 of the population is black. Black residents make up less than 3 of our population in San Francisco. I think other speakers have said the same thing, but i want to highlight that during this crisis, you know, with covid where is it important to close the jail now during this pandemic. We are only as healthy as our neighbor who shops at the same Grocery Store or the homeless who rely on the hospitals for care or seniors in nursing homes. It is our responsibilities to prioritize the most vulnerable during covid19. 40 of the jail population is unhoused. Jails are not appropriate. There are shelters, living on the street is not appropriate during this crisis. I want be to emphasize for those released there must be access to hotel rooms to shelterinplace. I am thankful about the legislation moving forward and making a historic act today for all of San Francisco and for all of us to be proud of. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have 21 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. I am vanessa. I am a resident of district 1 and educator with the San Francisco unified School District. Thank you supervisors for your support on the ordinance to require the city to close county jail four by november 1, 2020. My work centers with the feeling of students and families that are impacted by centuries of racist anti poverty city policies. The students are overwhelming affected by the prison industrial complex. The Detention Centers only exacerbate the Emotional Health in name of control and punishment instead of care. The system of criminalization c. The entire city flourishes. Stopping the outofcounty transfers and end the expenses through electronic monitoring are essential for caring for all San Francisco residents, especially when over 43 are house less, 50 of the jail population is africanamerican with a city of 5 population and 25 are transitional age youth. The health and dig neof each of us have bound to the dignity of all of us. As long as it is open it will be dangerous to creating Healthy Communities for all sf residents. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. You have 20 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. I am kevin gallagher, case manager with compass family services. Thank you for holding this session. I work in my Organization Subsidy program where the job is to help families transition from homeless necessary to housing. This is difficult and requires high level support. Jails are valuable resources and marginal Public Safety issues and take those away. I work with families with parents of a history of improvements. We know lack of housing is target of Law Enforcement. I have seen this in my own work. No mention of the hardships we know the jails and prisons inflict on parents and children. Closing this will not only free up resources but take an active step towards reducing harm towards the back and brown families in the city. I am supporting the families and individuals in San Francisco. I hope you continue this support. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comment. Can you connect us to the next speaker please. You have 19 questions remaining. Good morning, your two minutes begins now. I am julie and i speak on behalf of showing up for racial justice. Thank you for your leadership. We want to echo the calls to close 850 bryant without transfers to other jails. It is heartbreaking to talk with friends and families whose loved ones died. The Racial Disparities of black folks are immoral. Search sf knows the white siblings participate in the same activities and families are diverted from incarceration. Before the covid the monetary costs of keeping this open were too high. This has made it more urgent. We shouldnt have people in the hot zone for covid19 because they cant afford to pay bail. I appreciate that 80 of the folk havent been convicted. Closing this will save over 25 million per year, and we know we have much more important priorities to watch housing, healthcare, mental and Substance Abuse treatment. I come from a small lumber town. The prison opened Domestic Violence spiked among those who worked in the prison. There is important work in San Francisco that doesnt involve Holding People in gauges. We are asking the board of supervisors to protect the lives of those incarcerated and working in the jail to close 850 bryant. We dont have time to wait. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have 18 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. I am marcus. I am an organizer of the union at the college of San Francisco. I am representing them. 21 is happy to support this ordinance to close the jail at 850 bryant to make San Francisco safer. We will support those most vulnerable. 850 bryant is known for poverty and drug addiction with many of these held in pretrial proceedings. Jails do not make it better. Mental health, counseling and education do. We have worked hard to provide education for San Francisco regulationresidents. We believe education and Public Safety go hand in hand. We hope the city continues to shape the resources where they need it most to city college and Community Organizations that support homelessness and Mental Illness and addiction. We appreciate the work of the supervisors in closing the jail as well and thank you for listening to the community. On a personal note i have seen a lot of the people at 850 through different interactions in the community, and i definitely think that it is important that this jail be closed as soon as possible without moving people to other detention facilities and without expanding the jail through electronic monitoring or other sources of community punishment. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Thank you very much for your comments. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have 18 questions remaining. Good morning, your two minutes begins now. Good morning, supervisors. I am margaret sullivan, a lifelong resident of San Francisco. I am opposing the legislation as it is currently written. I do agree that jail number 4 is delapdated and needs removed. I am against legislation to prevent the sheriff from doing his job to protect the public. The current legislation takes away the sheriffs right to add other jails after jail 4 is closed. This doesnt make sense and is irresponsible. The sheriff released nonviolent prisoners due to covid19 virus. We dont want dangerous prisoners reoffending. There are dangerous people that need to be in jail. Let the sheriff and Health Officials keep inmates and the general public safe. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have 17 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. I am dillon anderson. I am born and raised in San Francisco and with the Justice Committee of the socialists of america. I want to express my appreciation for closing the jail. My fellow organizers in the Justice Committee concern for incarcerated people is at the forefront of minds and hearts. We recently worked to provide everyone jailed by San Francisco with Hand Sanitizer and letter of support. One letter describes the jail as physical and emotional abuse. No one should be in a cage. Jails and incarceration bring more harm to the communities not less. It shatters lives of those in jail and causes ripples to families for generations destabilizing the entire community. Closing this will improve live. There is no better time than right now to close the jail. We have the opportunity to show this will make our Community Healthier and stronger. Preventing the expansion of electronic monitoring is essential part of the ordinance to what will become a more just and safe San Francisco. I give my possible urgence to pass the ordinance and close the jail at 850 bryant once and for all. Thank you very much for your comments. Can you please connect us to the next speaker. You have 16 questions remaining. Good morning. Your two minutes begins now. Good morning, supervisors. I am a resident of district 8 and could chair of homeless Emergency Service providers and policy director at compass services. Our purpose is to achieve housing stability and wellbeing. We definitely do not need the facility at 850 bryant as an asset. It is important now more than ever that we safe our most Vulnerable People in the impacted communities by housing security and covid19. We support the supervisors efforts to elevate the issues and close the facility. We advocate the supervisors move this for consideration without the use of electronic monitoring, outofcounty transfers and new jail construction. It is important to note incarcerations impacts Family Finances and homelessness and income. When pair events experience homelessness parents experience joblessness it is not just the basics but all of the things to help them grow and succeed in school. Children suffer emotionally when parents who are supposed to come home for dinner dont come home. They have uncertainty about what will happen to the family. The big picture these burdens show up as behavioral problems later and huge gaps in opportunities that impact poor communities of color. I think we need to break the cycles now. Thank you for your support of this important matter. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have 16 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. I am christine mitchell, researcher at human impact partners, National Nonprofit in oakland to support the closure of 8 850 bryant. I am on the wave ways the criminal system impacts health. They are worst outcomes including higher rates of h. I. V. , chronic disease and lower life expectancies. Jails are a place of spread of disease. Physical distances is impossibility. Now in light of covid19 keeping people locked up in jails and cages is a death sentence. Prisons and jails are becoming sites of the worst outbreaks in the u. S. Extending to the surrounding communities. Public Health Experts at american Public Health, neweninw england schools of medicine and director of jailhouse services called for d de d de canceratioe only way to address it. At 850 bryant they have been concerned with covid19 we must take urgent action and close the jail immediately without use of electronic monitoring or transferring to other and sanitary jails to prevent illness and death. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. You have 16 questions remaining. Good morning. Your two minutes begins now. Good morning. I am brandy. I am an organizer with coleman advocates. I am here calling for the community t to pass the ordinane to close 850. The black and brown income families and our youth this is close to our heart. A quarter is the age where there are a large number of people that are parents. There is a Good Opportunity to break drowned on the future for ground for the future of our children. We want to make sure we are not perpetuating toxic cycles of incarceration putting it to a solution the entire community can benefit from. I think passing this ordinance will also change how we handle harm in the city because we wont be sleeping in the jails but implementing strategies to prevent harm and bring about accountability in ways that are productive to healing. It is important to note throughout the schools in San Francisco we are calling for youth to incest in just to invest in justice. We can facilitate when they leave school to the community. I think keeping the jail means we tell the youth the most support in the city if you make a mistake or struggle with Mental Health issues or black or brown is the jail system. I want to thank supervisor fewer and the other supporting supervisors for being bold enough to step up to change that and put the community first. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Can you please connect us to the next speaker. You have 15 questions remaining. Good morning, speaker. Your two minutes begins now. I am frank nato. I am happy to hear the amends today but i urge amendments to complete the renovations and allow continued use of the jail whenness. We have heard from plenty of groups supporting the jail speaking from their viewpoint today. There are no representatives of victims. I am here for stop crime San Francisco, 1,000 members in San Francisco including many victims. Of course, jail four is delapdated and must close eventually. Before that happened the sheriff must renovate the remaining jails. Other wise this means criminals will be released in the streets. Prohibits moving inmates to outofcounty facilities and engages electronic devices. Many of you mentioned the need for better Mental Health improvements. We do not know the future of crime in San Francisco. Past history says reduction in emergencies like covid19 may be called by a surge in serious and property crimes. There is a chance of riots, disturbances or violence from those opposed to shelterinplace orders, not to mention the San Francisco high level of property crimes. The risk of coronavirus in jail is real. We must allow the sheriff and Health Officials to do their job to keep inmates safe an. The sheriff must have the ability to renovate remaining jails if demanded. I support the amendments today. You have 14 questions remaining. Thank you for your comments. Please connect us to the next speaker. I am a Family Doctor in San Francisco and member of the do not harm coalition. Thank you for your hard work. I am up at night worrying what is going to happen to my patients, their family members and those incarcerated. I see what is happening in prisons and jails in ohio and new jersey. 100 people incancervated died from covid19. In some facilities 80 of the people are infected. Prison is not a place where the transmission can be prevented. It is scarier when i think about the terrible conditions at cj4. It is filthy and falling apart. How can people protect themselves from the virus when sewage starts leaking again. This has been a Public Health nightmare before the pandemic hit. Incarceration is a Public Health crisis longer. The threats of increase the urgency of getting people out of jail as quickly as possible. I am glad the District Attorney has shown leadership and progress on this. It is irresponsible to leave anybody inside cj4. We have known that is building is not safe. In the time of crisis, i it is critical the city shut down 850 bryant once and for all. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have 13 questions remaining. Good morning your two minutes begins now. I am freddie. I am a member of sky watchers, and i am also a native of San Francisco. I do organizing specifically with senior and disabled communities. Thank you for your support on this ordinance, and i agree that it should be closed. County jail number 4 should be closed without outofcounty transfers, electronic monitoring and jail bed construction. I am speaking on the most Vulnerable People in the population. It is so unhealthy and unsafe in so many ways. I cant imagine the fear and deadly things that incarcerated folks must feel now with the covid19 pandemic. Imagine if one of your loved ones were there . How would you want them taken care of . As one of the deputies said earlier, it is inhumane. I just feel like we need to accept and close down 850 bryant, jail number 4, for good. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have 12 questions remaining. Welcome. Your two minutes begins now. I am kelly. I am with the family who has been incarcerated. 30 year resident of San Francisco and former worker of the jail of San Francisco. The speakers are opposed to incarceration in general. Violent crime is increasing in San Francisco. They dont enforce crimes committed. I agree with the letter that was written to supervisor fewer. The sheriff asked to propose any action until this has ended. The sheriff needs flexibility to keep inmates safe during the coronavirus epidemic. Make it clear that the creation of subcommittee is advisory in nature. We cannot have legislation to restrict the sheriff from doing his job. Jail 4 is rundown and must close. The sheriff says this is irresponsible and threat to Public Safety to take away the ability to add beds to current jails. This law will not allow extra beds. Why does it say the sheriff cant add beds to other beds . The sheriff has released prisoners. The sheriff cant release every prisoner and needs flexibility. This law ties his hands. He must let the Health Official deuce their job to keep the general public safe. We should listen to experts in the field. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have 11 questions remai remaining. Good morning. I am with the resource and organizing center representing arab communities in the San Francisco bay area. We urge the Jail Committee to pass the proposed ordinance to not only close jail 4 and provide d de canceration and Community Safety for not only california but the entire cut be tree. Arabs in the San Francisco bay area are no strangers to incarceration. Jails and prisons make streets less safe for everybody. Tearing families apart apdraining resources and encouraging violence. They punish the poor, immigrants and people of color. These are starkker in the economic crisis. They are subjected to cruel punishment and nobody should belong in a cage. This provides a solution and path forward to a new vision of Community Safety. We oppose attempting jail four or displacing the violence through transfers and new jails. Policing in prisons are not the answer. De canceration and healthcare and nutrition food and Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment are the answers. This is he strong vision of de canceration in the city and model for legislation for the state and the country. Thank you for your time on this ordinance today. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have 10 questions remains. Good afternoon, you have two minutes. I am olivia parks. I am a medical student as member of the do not harm coalition. I was born and raised in San Francisco with loved ones incarcerated. As i enter the world with a masters in Public Health. The work deals that is insurmountable. This would reduce the jail census to transfer to sandra reda. Closing the stark humiliating past giveses San Francisco a opportunity to right the wrongs of history by investing in the histories burdened by inequities rather than subjecting to inhumane conditions. It is the no surprise incarcerations worsens underlying illness. It is impossible for those in custody to not experience trauma. As we know, stress and trauma have long lasting impacts. The soul experience of incarceration is a risk factor for chronic decisions. They are 10 times as likely to be homeless. We need to invest in the healing of the community not making them sick. We need to start attending to wounds of slavery. We can model what is possible for the rest of the nation by closing cj4 and reducing jail sentencing. Thank you supervisors supporting this legislation for the opportunity to right our wrongs and for imagining a place safe for everyone not just privileged, white and wealthy. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am meredith sarah, a long time resident of San Francisco. We have heard from a lot of impassioned people in favor of the incancer rated. We can agree county jail 4 must be closed. I am glad the supervisors were able to work with sheriff and reach the amendments to the legislation. I would ask that you keep the safety of San Francisco residents in mind as well as th incancer rated. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. You have eight questions remaining. You have two minutes. I am angela jenkins. Thank you, supervisor fewer for the resolution to close 850 bryant. I support this resolution. I little thank all of the organizations that have worked to make this thing come together. Thank you for allowing me to address this item. Thank you. Thank you, speaker. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Good afternoon, speaker. Two minutes. I am a director with a National Organization that challenges the idea of imprisonment of surveillance and control and the complex to keep it safe. Part of the coalition have been a working on this for a while. I really want to start by thanking supervisor fewer for the leadership and action to finally close 850 and to thank each of the supervisors for cosponsoring the legislation. It has long needed to close. No better time than now. Keeping 850 open despite what some will argue is not going to help litigate covid19. Public Health Experts have warned that jails are petri dishes. It is impossible to social distance in jail. The way they are built are to confine people in close spaces. The solution is incarceration. Three things in the movement that should be important lessons to us. One, if there is anything this pandemic taught us, there was nothing stopping us before from lowering the jail population. Covid19 has compelled us to stop caging as many people we could have not camed as many people before. Second, it has shown that i am prisonment does not create more safety. Our jail population today is at the level of the 1950s. The city is not less safe, contrary to what some of the people have said. Lastly what it taught us we should prioritize healthcare and housing all along. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Two minutes. Good morning. This is debly from the San Francisco Human Services network. We support the ordinance to close county jail four. It will address the disparities in criminal justice, develop nonjail alternatives to vulnerable individuals and ensure safety of those incarcerated or working there. It will save millions of dollars we need for Vital Services as we recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Thank you supervisor fewer and all of you who expressed support and worked towards this goal. Thank you. Next speaker, these. You have six questions remaining. Good afternoon. Two minutes. Hello i am alice. I am a lifetime resident of San Francisco. I want to thank the board for their changes to the legislation, and i will ask you to allow the sheriff to make the renovations to the jails as needed. Today speaks on behalf of victims of crime. They are lost in the shuffle here. I am not opposed to closing the jail, but i am concerned about rushing the process of closing the jails. We cannot solve the Public Health crisis at the expense of victims and Public Safety. Another concern is that rushing the closure ever 85 850 will not allow time for reentry of inmates into the communities. Already the nonviolent are released waiting court hearing, some with gps and many without. We must not release dangerous inmates to the communities. We trust the board of supervisors will honor the obligation to protect the lives of those in our communities from becoming victims of time. We depend upon you to fulfill this obligation. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have five questions remaining. Good afternoon, speaker. Two minutes. Good afternoon. I am tony, secretary with the San Francisco Deputy Sheriff association. I appreciate the opportunity to speak and share that the president of the dsa is available to check in today. There is there is organized lab. The Committee Supports that concern. It has been expressed to you. Understanding the closure of county jail 4 potentially in the future does provide some really bright potential for the city and our members that would be displaced if the closure were to happen in other areas of service to the city. Enterprise apartments. Those directors may have a need for services that have been provided by the Deputy Sheriffs Association absheriff department under the sheriffs leadership. Really to know we are available to meet and speak with this committee around the process has always been the case. Wanting to thank on behalf of our president to the supervisors and all those supportive of the Deputy Sheriff association and labor in San Francisco that we look forward to working with you in this area and anything else dealing with betterment protection of san franciscans. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have five questions remaining. Good afternoon, speaker. Two minutes. I am cassidy. I am a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Human trafficking crusader. I understand closing on this condensed timeline will hurt the general public and we are not thinking about the victims enough. Opposing incarceration is not the issue here. The issue today is that this is not a safe way to close this jail. The sheriff said this jail has no cases so it is much, much safer to keep them in the state while there are no covid19 cases. Of course, yes, this jail will close, but all of the awful people inside these prisons who committed horrible crimes will stay in prison, just not this one that could pose a huge threat to their health. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have four questions remaining. Good afternoon, speaker. Two minutes. I am elainena, 38 year resident of San Francisco and mother of four and concerned citizen of the city. San francisco is bustling under the growing lack of keeping crime under control. The crime has made our city a joke and tragedy. People incounty jail 4 are not there inappropriately or accidentally. It is undown there is a growing intolerance toir reverence to Public Safety. This is frightening and confusing for those concerned for our childrens safety. If the Alternatives Solutions made by the active organizations were effective we would have scenery deduction in crime rather than increase. Safety must be the priority. As a citizen i would like to know where the people should be placed should the facility close. I agree we postpone the action until the state of emergency in california ends. The sheriff fields to house inmates. I agree that the language make it clear the creation of subcommittee to reduce the jail population is advisory. We cannot have legislation to restrict the sheriff from keeping the inmates and the general public were safe thank you very much. Can you please connect us to the next speaker. You have three questions remaining. Two minutes, speaker. I am lydia. I live in district 10 and work in district 9. I am a survivor of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. In the past i have been involved in the criminal Justice System. I am here not to just talk about myself but i am representing an organization. I am the coexecutive director at the Community United against violence serving h. I. V. Affected survivors with Domestic Violence be and hate violence and violence through the police. We explore healthy relationships and healthy communication skills. Aas the organization i support closing 850 bryant. Outofcounty transfers or electronic monitoring on the basis it will harm many more in the community. Thethey are more likely to have encounters with the legal system. Many of the folks who are formerly incancervated which adds trauma. Tageinwe cannot incarcerate oury out of safety. It comes from the transformin transformingtive justice practices. People having what they need to survive and thrive. Thank you for supporting this legislation to close 850 bryant. You have two questions remaining. You have two minutes. I am tony lee educator and i have a family in district one. I am counci confused. I care about getting rid of crimes and jails. Criminals are real. They roam our streets. Victims include women, children and families, many of us live here and just trying to get by. It is difficult. When you release criminals on the streets. I dont know if they are given masks or to know what to do about sheltering in place. Do they know what it means. We rely on the police. We have not found a substitute for jails. This could have been replaced with a modern facility five years ago when the city was offered 80 million for funding. I understand the justice seem needs reform. That cannot be done piecemeal getting rid of important prison facility that we have. We see very little being done to reassure safety. We feel more and more every year. Look at the quality of the data. Meet with the citizens like ourselves. There is fine details. Quantitative stats cannot describe. Go to next door, posts have to do withins stances where citizens have crime incidents in their lives. They fear leaving home is real. They dont know what to do about this. I do not support the release policies. I am concerned why nothing was done before now. This is short sited. I do not support it. I support an idea policy to build on or Institute Current levelses safety. You have one questions remaining. Two minutes. I am kim. I support the closing 850 bryant. It will save not only money but lives. A solid argument can be made it would be cheaper to teardown and rebuild than to restructure old and weak. Jails are dangerous. I can speak on a personal level. I had the experience of a Police Officer deciding to laugh while prisoners took turns assaulting me because i had a bad experience in my ptsd and disturbed them in the night so they taught me a lesson. It was authorized by the prison officers. If it hadnt have been they would have experienced the discipline. I have been unable to share the story. I knew it would never be believed. I experienced many others that should not. When the child enters the system their lives are destroyed. The s society is prejudiced. We have to help youth. It is enacting that we fail. There needs to be a place for youth to come to go to be safe. Places in hotel rather than jail. Bullying in a disease not a crime to the victims. They can knot defend themselves. It is for all traumatized to be taken care of so they are not killed because of misunderstanding. The hospitals are abusive. We have to help them and not lock them up. Programs of healing not incarceration are needed. It is proven the possibility of abuse is continual. This needs to be a safe plays with out bars. We need to change thinking and system to follow principal of healing instead of punishing. You have zero questions remaining. Thank you. Are there any further speakers . That completes the queue. Mr. Chair. Thank you, operations. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. Supervisor fewer, do you have any remarks to make . Or colleagues . Yes. I am very glad this ordinance is moving forward. My office is part of a Community Coalition that helped draft this ordinance from the very beginning, particularly Daniel Harris and caroline from my staff. I want to sincerely thank supervisor fewer and chief of staff for hard work in this legislation. This is truly an historic moment. The former reincarcerated members of the Community Advocates and activists really should take pride in what we have done. The work, will, effort and skilled thinking that has gone into getting us to this point. The covid19 crisis has shined a light on how important it is for us to look at all of our systems, everyone ever them including public safe through Public Health lens. This symbolizes a way to reimagine Public Health and safety. On behalf of our office, all clients and families, we are grateful for this. County jail number 4 has not been safed for a long time. The city settled a lawsuit filed by over 200 people subjected to raw sewage at cg4. Amid the coronavirus emergency several deputies and it shows that the virus knows no barriers. How this works most resent person there less than 48 hours tested positive was there approximately close do 30 deputies quarantined as a result of one person in the jail. That says something about the number of deputies physically in comment with one. 8 or 9 people, there were 40 that were quarantined because of one person who they didnt file a case on because the proof wasnt there and not serious where the person should be charged. That is why we have to be crucial at this point about who we decide to put in this. Jails are only one way to deal with Public Safety. There are other options to protect our community and take a much broader and longterm view of what safety is and what is needed to achieve it. We have a big opportunity to lead the way in reimagining what Public Health can look like. We have made Great Strides in the right direction. I am glad i heard the Public Comments before making my comments. The reality is the crime rates are down now. When you look at the people who it is in San Francisco county jail, 30 receive Behavioral Health services. 30 are house less. Over 50 are africanamerican, despite our population is in Single Digits in the city. As public offenders we are aware to inequities that lead to people being incars rated or not this. Is a wonderful opportunity to contemplate more investment on the front and inform in areas of housing, employment, environmental justice, and he had you case. It costs 2. 50 a day to lock them up. What value does that reflect . Could we use Community Support systems to keep our communities safer. People wonder about where people will be going. I encourage them to do Something Like attend a young adult graduation where you see transitional youth and families and how much progress can be made in several months of a focus program with social workers really committed. I encourage you to go to Treasure Island where people are learning financiallisterra turand developing stills and securing jobs in construction. Check out sunset youth service. [please stand by]. Mr. Chair, i believe your mic is muted. Thank you so much, public defender roger. I am so glad you were able to join. Supervisor fewer, did you have reflecting remarks . I believe there are two supervisors in the queue to speak. Supervisor haney. Thank you, chair mar. I think most everything has been said, but i do think that i want to take a moment to thank supervisor fewer for her leadership and her chief of staff chelsea boyard for the extraordinary work on this ard the partnership. We have been working on this together for several months and our public offender, District Attorney, the sheriff and the m many dozen of organizations that have come forward to provide comment and input into this. This jail has been slated for closure since 1996. Couple months ago i spoke with the city administrator who told me that the department of inspection could go in and red tag this building at any point. This is a building that has not just been unacceptable, but literally dangerous for the people who are confined there and work there. An earth could bring that entire subject down and is the subject of a lawsuit and the building is literally falling apart and the safely of confined there and to to provide with training and education and reintegrate them effectively into the community and that doesnt keep anybody safe. We should have Public Safety as the goal. It has to be the central focus and we can do better. And without the building that is not safe to be confined in or work in and definitely not a writes were able to effectively ensure that when people come out of there [inaudible] so i want to thank you, supervisor fewer, for your leadership and the incredible of the work of the folks at cj4 and that their voices continue to be included and central to this as well as well as our sheriff as we think about how to do this and make sure we do this right. I know that we want to make sure their roles and their jobs are p protected as well and you have been fully committed to that as part of the process. I want to echo that and thank everyone for their work on this. This has to be done right and is over 20 years we have known we had to close this jail, so lets bring all of the experts to the available. And lets make sure we do this effectively, smartly, and in a way that protects Public Safety. Thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chairman mar. And many of the things have been reflected that i also wanted to say, but let me start by commending supervisor fewer and her staff. When supervisor fewer asked me to cosponsor this, i did so with the understanding she would collaborate from the sheriffs in good faith. She has done that every step of the way, and the amendments that are before us today are a reflection of that. To sheriff niamoto, i know this is not easy, but let me say that one of the things that we are committed to and many of us are going to be on the board during the period of the economic downturn and i want to express this publicly that we are making a commitment to sheriffs 85 or so to reemploy them and there are plenty of places to redeploy those individuals, so i want to put that on the record. And thank you for having the fartude to engage in the fortitude to engage in the discussions that have not been easy. When i first became a member of the board of supervisors, the daily consensus in our jails was over 3,000 individuals each and every day. After governor browns realignment that cans dropped by 1 3 that dropped by 1 3 and with the coronavirus pandemic, it is now 1 3 of that 1 3. In other words, we have dropped from 3,000 to 2,000 to 700 a day. And the numbers are the numbers. The amount of crime both Violent Crime and property crime have dropped markedly. It is our collective responsibility whether we are the d. A. , the public defender, the entire criminal Justice System to do that in a smart way and invest our dollars that we will be saving to do that. So i welcome that discussion and going forward. I am honored to be a cosponsor. It is kind of amazing to me that when i first became a supervisor exactly 20 years ago we had an imperative, a seismic safety imperative to close the entire facility at 8 50 bryant and thank you, supervisor fewer, for making that come true a generation later. Thank you, supervisor peskin. I would just add and echo the comments of both of my colleagues. Actually, first i wanted to thank the folks from the community who spoke on during Public Comment and sent communications and there are different perspectives in the community and with working on this to be a cosponsor and this and we urgently need to close the county jail number four and accelerate the timeline for that to health and safety reasons to expand Economic Opportunity for everyone and that is the more strategic area to acknowledge the staff for the 94 Deputy Sheriffs that are there to thank them for the review and the Health Pandemic to put them at risk and to insure we find other positions for them on the roles ahead to thank sheriff niamoto for working with the supervisor and set of amendments that have been presented today in a way that is responsible and doesnt undermine from the remarks. I want to agree with the legislation that said this is not this is necessary and a Public Health mandate and is the morally right thing to do to the Police Records out of a dangerous and sick building and one described as a ticking time bomb, it is the right thing to do and the open lack of light and air are a public crisis and the questions about covid19 and distancing is being addressed in the legislation and the group will come up with solutions to serve the sheriff and the jail system after jail no. 4 is no longer available to deal with the covid19 virus to meet this crisis and in relating to county jail two and i hope that the people who have called in have heard about the amendment that we have added and that the sheriff himself has requested and we accommodated and adds the language to have the renovation is not prohibited. This legislation is silent on the renovation of the rebuilding of another jail that is not the concern here to have the review that the mayor, stake holders and the board of supervisors. With the callers that asked about building the new jail, this is silent about it and to hear concerns about county jail number two with the extensive conversations about remodelling the kitchen and i know it is necessary and to be in conversation to hound them to start this construction and the money is there and i was just told by the chief of staff that construction will start immediately. Happy to have advocated for that on behalf of the jail system and the sheriff. I have already direct my staff and the jail being renovated and the kitchen to work on that immediately. I want to thank the Deputy Sheriff. I have worked at the hall of justice br and i know that most of you know my husband is real estate tired Police Officer and worked 35 years and knows and the hardworking Deputy Sheriffs as Law Enforcement officers in another part of our City Government and to thank the speakers and the partners for holding this special meeting and to thank my fellow supervisors and to say to everyone who has thanked me for this legislation and to transfer everything to you and to my legislative worker who has been working so hard on this legislation and to shelter in place with the young child a many of the conversations have been over the voice of her daughter wanting attention. And this has been complicated legislation in an absolutely labor of love driven by commitment to inclusiveness and responsible legislation and accommodating the concerns of our sheriff. And to be sure, the legislation also sets with these amendments that it acknowledges the sheriffs legal authority. I understand that a democracy is hard and that to listen to different voices and work collaboratively is sometimes seen as threatening. But this is a democracy. And a democracy demands that we have other peoples approval that after they give input and advice pvr and so we close in closing i want to thank the committee again and encourage all of the board of supervisors to task this you nonmousily because we know that county jail number four can be closed safely and we know for the safety of all all the people who are incarcerated that it is important we close this sons possible. Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, i think you are muted. Thank you again, supervisor fewer, for your tremendous leadership and work on this along with chelsea. Colleagues, before we go to action on this item, i did cant to ask deputy City Attorney pearson to present her assessment on whether the amendments that supervisor fewer are substitutes and would require a continuance of the vote. Thank you, chair mar. I have had a chance to review them and they are not substitutes so they do not require continuance. Great. Thank you so much. Colleague, i would like to move that we accept the amendment as presented by supervisor fewer. Mr. Clerk, please call role. [role call vote] mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. I would like to move that we send this item as amended as a Committee Report with positive recommendation to the may 5 meeting of the may 5 supervisors. Mr. Clerk, please call role. To be amended as to the may 5, 2020 board of supervisors agenda, vice chair peskin. Aye. Peskin, aye. Member haney. Aye. Haney, aye. Chair mar . Mar, aye. There are three ayes. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. So we have a special order item scheduled for 1 30, so we will be calling for a recess and reconvening at the time. Colleagues, are there any comments before we move to recess . Okay. We will see you a thank you. Chair mar . Good afternoon, everyone. 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Just as a further reminder to the members of the public who wish to provide, press 1 and 0 if they have already called and that will put them into the queue to provide comment for this item. Thank you. Great. Thank you, supervisor haney for sponsoring this hearing request. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair mar, and thank you for scheduling this hearing. I will give some brief opening remarks so that we can quickly get to questions. As we all know since mid march, the procurement of hotels to ensure that everyone in our city can shelter in place and thereby reduce transmission of covid19 has been a huge and overwhelming priority for the city. Over three weeks ago this board unanimously passed an ordinance requiring the procurement of 8,250 hotel rooms. 750 for First Responders and 7,000 for Vulnerable People including those experiencing homelessness, living in sros which are bathrooms and exiting the jail system. To be absolutely clear this, ordinance is now the law. All of this, of course, is a huge undertaking, and we understand the challenge logistics of procuring this many rooms and moving this many people, but we also know that our city is capable of moving mountains, especially in the name of Public Health and protecting our most vulnerable during the crisis. And it was no easy task to create additional Hospital Capacity to test thousands of people for the virus, convince many and in fact, our entire city to stay home. And to close countless businesses, bars, restaurants and parks. We can do this, too, and we have to. The alternative where thousands are left vulnerable to t. Ing the virus and spreading it to others is unacceptable and unthinkable. The goal of todays hearing in addition to receiving a detailed update on the progress that is been made to procure and get people into hotel rooms and abide by the new law, we also want to hear what is being done to overcome the barriers that we have heard from the departments who have been implementing this. How are we improving the way we are staffing . What is the changing Funding Landscape . How are we speeding up rather than slowing down . What is the anticipated date that 8,250 rooms will be procured as required by the law . And how are we making sure that the Hotel Environments are safe for both guests and staff . I wont go into much detail on why getting those who are experiencing homelessness exiting the jail system and living in sros into hotel rooms so they can shelter in place like the rest of us is the right thing to do for our collective Public Health. This is now something that this board of supervisors has unanimously made clear as a mandate, but i do want to underscore the urgency of protecting the Homeless Population specifically as something that has become more clear in recent days and weeks. Earl yer this week a tenant in the tenderloin sro died from covid. Msc south and Division Circle center and compass family sherlt, over 20 sros have seen cases that should have been prevented. Not to mention we have yet to know the truex tent of the virus in the shelters, on the street, and sros because we are not testing everyone. In fact, we are only testing a small fraction of the vulnerable population. At a time when most of San Francisco is able to shelter in place and stay separate from other people, thereby preventing them from contracting the virus or spreading to others, there are very large populations in our city who are still unable to do that. This puts them at risk and it puts all of us at risk. The data is not completely clear as to us to despite repeated asks for more detail, but it appears that at least 25 of the cases confirmed cases in San Francisco of covid19 are people from shelters, srs of y, or unsheltered on the streets. The result is that people in those categories are in much greater danger, but we are putting our entire city at risk and putting the sacrifices that folks are making right now at risk of being a reversed as well in terms of the progress that we have made. I want to thank all of the Department Representatives who are here today and i look forward to the discussion and i certainly have many questions myself. I am looking forward to hearing from everyone and getting answers. And i just underscore one thing as well. The board of supervisors has been very adamant about the need for this, but weve also from the beginning wanted to and continue to want to be part of the solution. We want to help overcome the staffing challenges and we want to make sure the funding is available and we want to make sure this gets done and gets done quickly and effectively. And so i also want toing a knowledge and thank all of the volunteers but especially the staff, the Disaster Service worker, who have already been deployed to the hotels. Thank you so much. We know this is a challenging thing. Its a thing that i think obviously comes with some degree of risk. And we want to thank you for your service and your selflessness during this time. I want to also recognize the unions who have been a part of this process, local two who are the staff from our hotels and hospitality industry, local 21, local 1021, and opiu local 29 in particular for their partnership, for their feedback, and for everything they have done to make sure that their staff are protected. Thats critical and essential for making sure that this works for the people who are guests there as well. It has to be safe and effective for both the people who are being employed there as staff and the people who are there as guests who need to be protected. I want to thank the San Francisco Labor Council as well who have been incredibly integral as a partner in making sure that we do this right. Thank you, supervisor haney. Since you are sponsoring this hearing and arranged for the i know we have a number of different presenters from the city departments. Do you want to go ahead and introduce them . Supervisor sure. I believe that we have i dont know if they have planned to go in a certain order. I didnt have an order planned. I will defer to them on who wants to start and may make sense for h. S. A. To start first. Yes, we can start. This is dan kaplan from the Human Services agency. I am going to describe where we are in many elements of the excuse me. Can we go up to the second slide . Thank you. Okay. Going to talk about where we are in the Hotel Program and other elements of the program. Just to start off to focus on three broad types of isolation and the First Responder hotel. The isolation and Quarantine Hotel is for people who are either under investigation and known to be infected by covid19 and this is meant to be a safe place for individuals who cant quarantine at home to be able to quarantine in a hotel. And these could be people who are people who are experiencing homelessness, people from the shelter system or from sros or from other congregate systems and in a few cases may even be people who are living in a crowded family situation and who want to shelter alone and not expose their families. And this second element of this system is what we call the shelter in place system. This is primarily for people who are experiencing homelessness and its for people who are coming off the street directly or potentially coming off the street but going through the Hospital System or from the isolation and quarantine system, and it could be people out of shelters who are covid19 negative. This is really the largest part of the system or will be the largest part of the system when we are finished building the system out. And then the third component part is the First Responder element of the system and this is for people who are working in the response or who are other First Responders who are at high risk of exposure and to really basically dont want to bring covid19 home to their families. So those are the major pieces. As were moving through the development of this system, we are trying to work our way into figuring out what is the right amount of bed in the isolation and quarantine system. This is a fairly complicated modelling process, and really we are looking on a daytoday basis at people who are coming forward and coming into the containment branch of the dph doc. They could be people coming in from the street, as i said, therefore, from shelters, from sros. They could be people who are detected as covid positives through testing, as i am sure you all know that we have a big testing project going in the mission now. The state is funding some additional testing sites which should be open next week or possibly the week after. And of course, the city is testing as well. To all are sources for people who will come into the isolationquarantine system. By and large, people dont say in the isolation and quarantine system for longer than 14 days. In general, thats how long it either takes to run the course of the illness or to be determined to be asymptomatic and not infected. And when people come out of the isolation and quarantine system, depending on what their Housing Status is, they may go home and they may go to shelter in place hotels or they may go to postcovid positive con dpre congregate sites, and we are beginning to set up those sites as well. If you go to the next slide, you can see we are beginning to work on hotels. Hotels are people who are able to isolate for up to a 14day period. We are opening a trailer site at pier 94 in the bayview in portland. And this is a site comprised of 30 r. V. S that the city has rented for this incident. And 91 trailers that the state has funded and the site is being set up and will be able to open the week of may 4. As i said before, we are working on some congregate sites. We will need to continue to build out what we call postcovid positive sites. As i said before for people who are experiencing homelessness and to have gone through the imq system and we will need to final a longer term spot for them so that they are not in the imq system any longer than they need to be but certainly do not want them to go back to the street. And post covid individuals at the present time and one site open and it can serve about 100 people. And then another site open at msg south to serve about 110. Again, i am sure you all remember, mse south was the site of the large outbreak and several weeks ago. We moved quickly to get the clients autoof that site and test them and into imq sites or shelter in place sites, and then we reopened the site after it was sanitized. The site is up and running as a positive site and another kind of congregate site is what we call a covid positive site. Many or most people can isolate or come close enough to isolating during the course of their illness in a hotel room. For some folks because of health needs and possibly Substance Use needs, other complicating medical needs, they are less able to do that and we had an outbreak in the Division Circle, nav center last week, i believe, and we have again disinfected that site and cleaned that site and we are ready for the site to be used as a covid positive host for folk who is will do better going through the course of the illness in a congregate setting than in an isolation setting. Can you go to the next slide please . So we are working our way through the growth of this system. As i said before, we are working on our estimates of what amount of capacity is needed in each area with the initial focus very heavily on imq. We have 11 hotel sites active. I should say the way we handle this is we have entered into purchase of Service Agreements for the rooms in the hotel and in all cases weve purchased the use of all the rooms in the hotel weve worked in. So that we effectively have control of the whole building. We have 11 buildings up and running, and as i mentioned before, two congregate sites up and running. Of the 11 buildings, we have 1329 rooms, 890 of which were occupied as of yesterday when i provided the numbers for this slide. Today were up to 906. So new people come in every day. Obviously from the inq sites we discharge people every day. Discharging either to the postcovid or to the sip sites for the most part. We have an additional four hotels under contract with 476 rooms among them. Those hotels are being readied for opening, and they will all be opening over the next several days. And then we have about 700 rooms spread over eight hotels in what we call the active negotiations stage. This is where basically we have strung enough interest from the part of the hotel here and strung enough understanding of the program so that we are basically negotiating about price and the services to be provided by the hotel. Our Site Acquisition Team indicates that they think that these deals will be made over the next several work days. Typically when we get close to the end of the negotiation process, our site planners start working on the site plan so that once we get control of the building, we can open up in three or four days beyond that. And then were always kind of look at the next step in the process to start working with hoteliers or talking to the program, start getting to the place where were convinced on our part that the hotels are willing to work with us, and that the hotels actually meet our needs and from the side of the hotels, understanding our program and being comfortable with the use of the hotels. So in that stage, we have in either six hotels at the moment with 1453 rooms among them. So, certainly it to have a number of hotels that are between 100 and 150 rooms and we have one larger hotel which has presented Management Issues to us that we continue to work through. So, certainly between the hsa dock and its partners in the we make sure they have hvac systems that work for us and we move into the negotiations stage. And the negotiations stage is a process where we sort of move closer and closer to having a deal. You know, it can take a week or two, it depends on the hotels. The ownership of the hotels is different from hotel to hotel, some are local and some are part of National Organizations. Some have an easier time making a deal quickly. Some have to bring in larger organizations, corporate offices, lawyers from out of state and so, all of that have can speak to the amount of time it takes to actually make an agreement. As i said before, we go into a Site Planning process. We make a decision with our partners as to whether a particular building will be in isolation or quarantine site or shelter in place site. And our site planners work on developing a sitespecific plan per staffing and for feeding and for security and for equipment that needs to be brought into the hotel. As soon as we have a deal they implement that site plan. You go to the next slide. So, this slide is really, i think at this point, i was going to turn this over to dhr. Micky, are you able to come in on this. Yes, i am. I hope people can hear me. This cuts off, please let me know ex ill tur and ill turn e video. Did we ask questions of each speaker or do you want us to hold them until the end . I think it seems like it would be good to allow for questions and discussions after each sort of section of the presentation so supervisor peskin, did you have some questions for mr. Caplan . When i was working with trent moore and mike martin, my understanding of the Business Structure as it relates to what we put out in the march 19th request for qualifications, was a structure that was actually predicated on a minimum guarantee of the number of rooms that was available or that was akin to the vacancy rate at that time which was about 5 . So you are telling me that ultimately what the city did was enter into purchase agreements as to every room in a single property. Is that correct . I thought some of these deals were structured differently. For the inksip sites we have entered into purchase agreements for all the rooms in the building. So relative to the full portfolio, are there any hotels where we made, were the city made a minimum guarantee and then agreed to scale up and pay by blocks of rooms . No. On these rooms, we have taken the hotels. And you know, we have basically filled the hotels. I think if you were to look at daily census, rooms are either filled or are being used for staff uses associated with the programme or in the cleaning process. I would say in each of these hotels, we try to leave a few rooms vacant because with fairly great regular tee, we need to move clients from roof to roof and that involves us emptying out and readying it for the next client. In all the situations so far, for inq and sip we are using the whole buildings. I will have to check on the deals. One of the deals is for the whole building, the other i will have to check on. So the 11 hotels that you are speaking to, do not include the 936 rooms for First Responders. The 11 hotels that we are talking about were the active ones for sip and inq. You indicated all 11 of those transactions were purchases of services. Its my understanding that actually the first transaction that i was involved in was actually a lease. There was yes. There was a building right at the beginning, excuse me, supervisor. There was a building right at the beginning for a building that was essentially an s. R. O. Type building. That we did take over as a whole building. I think that was at least. I stand corrected on that. Im not trying to be argumentative. This is a subject of something that we spoke about yesterday at Budget Committee as it relates to money and i want to drill down a little bit no dollars and cents in the Business Model is that relative and they havent talked about and im not even sure they are part of any presentations and weve leased close to a thousand of them and the average vacancy rate, as we scaled up from 880 to 936, has been a 90 vacancy rate that is based on the budget and legislative annalist report is about 40,000 a day that we are paying for unused rooms. Can you, and im not trying to catch you off guard, theres just too much stuff going on, can you address that or can someone from hsa address that . I did talk to trent about it and i know he wants to get out of those two deals or three deals. Can you talk about that . Only to say that i think that you are truly describing the directors position on that and we have a meeting scheduled this afternoon, quite frankly, to discuss our next. Zahra steps osteps on first. We entered into two agreements very early in this process. On a believe that there would be much greater interest and need by First Responders in hotel rooms and that has not proved to be the case, as you correctly state, supervisor peskin. And so, we do need to regroup on that and that is something that were scheduled to start working on this afternoon. Through the chair and im sorry supervisor peskin, this is supervisor ronen. Can i return the back to the chair. Theres a important point i dont want to get lost. Is that ok. Dont let me forget my next question. Ill hang on to my next question and try not to forget it. Im sorry. I just found out yesterday that nobody at msc south or the Division Circle and the Navigation Centre staff knows these hotel rooms exist and available to them. They are being asked to run these shelters. Theyve been through the outbreaks and those shelters now and in many cases theyre being asked to come back and work in a covid19 positive shelter and they do know these hotels are available to them. Before we break those contracts, can we actually let people know that theyre available for people doing this frontline work. I turn it back to you, supervisor peskin, thank you for letting me chime in. Ill defer to answer that question with regard to informing other First Responders. Certainly we can do that. I believe we have actually housed at least one person from mse south but that came from my office directly filling out the application. We did it at the time of the. Can i speak to the notification process about that that has been going on for several weeks. That would be great. Sorry to interrupt, everyone. Hsh, good afternoon, supervisors, chair mar. So, thank you for flagging that, we want to hear about that and you know how to reach us. Everyone one of our providers has received written notification and verbal notification about their access to their hotels. Our staff and providers have created lists of people who are city who are eligible for those rooms, a front line worker in our homeless response system. If theres a breakdown in that communication, were grateful for your identification of that and we will followup with that provider. Although i know that for Division Circle, all of those individuals have been offered it specifically and i heard that directly from the leadership of that organization so there may be a little bit of disconnect within organizations, these are gussy times and so again thank you for notifying us of that. We have 15 nonprofit organizers that have access to childcare, to hotel rooms and other things acting as First Responders, essential workers and were grateful for the citys support on that. That is not the case. Its not happening. The workers did not know its available to them. One worker in the hotel room, i filled out the application and informed him of his rights and made it happen. So, we need to do a lot better job of maybe not just giving it to the c. E. O. S of the offeringization but the frontline workers. Theres a call where everyone was asking questions about this new plan for the Division Circle Navigation Centre which after supervisor peskin has done i have a lot of questions about and on the call, no one, they were saying well how are we supposed to go home to our families after that and there was no mention that these hotels were available to them. And no one knew about them. And one worker at the hotel has been afraid to talk about the fact that he has had the hotel. So theres some really severe problems. I would i found this out yesterday otherwise you would have heard from me a lot sooner but maybe were at a 90 vacancy rate and before we give up those leases i want to make sure weve done a good job making sure everyone who is doing this work is available and knows this is available to them free of charge and in they dont have a place at home they feel safe to come back to. Thank you, supervisor, i will followup and reiterate those offers. Thank you. Thank you chair supervisor ronen and i think everybody should jump in and i wanted to circle bark on the fundamental issue about the Business Structure and whether we break these agreements or terminate them and im still struggling with the notion at the beginning of this every do you ever, about five weeks ago, the Business Structure that hsa and this structure talked about was predicated on a minimum guarantee based on the occupancy rate that was then extend in the market which was about 5 and predicated on the city, whether they were First Responders, hotel rooms, or whether they were lack of a better word covid19 vulnerable population would be scaled up by blocks of 100 rooms. And im trying to understand particularly given this frankly startling vacancy rate in the First Responder rooms, why that Business Model concept was abandoned and how that came to pass. I dont know mr. Caplan, if you know the answers to that but im quite troubled because were spending by my calculation besides 40,000 a day for about 800 vacant hotel rooms and while maybe supervisor ronen is right that we could occupy them with other city contract and First Responders, can you tell me how we got here . Supervisor peskin was it the department of real estate . Who flu that . I want to go back and look at the appeal for the inter continental hotel. That was originally structured as one where we could go up and down in blocks of rooms and i node to go back and refresh my memory about the structure of that deal. The other hotel which is running a similar about 90 vacancy rate and i cant believe that were renting the entire hotel the entire Business Model that i, not that i get to grow to this as 111th of the board but my support was that we would pay a minimal guarantee and then could scale up. As not as though anybody else would rent their hotel rooms, this seems like an outrageous give away respectfully. I want to go back and relock at the deals and as i also said, we are scheduled to meet this afternoon to evaluate the First Responder hotels and to talk about restructuring. Certainly weve heard supervisor ronen and her concern that we also would be able to provide First Responder rooms to the people working in this response. So well take that into account as we develop it and we will get back to you with information about the structure of those deals and the thinks and recommendation about moving forward with the First Responder. Finally, this way be something that you cant respond to im not exactly clear as to why transition have to be negotiated and and Public Information and chief Health Officer and chief executive of our city have the unfettered power to common deer these hotels and were do you have any in sight into that . Weve not explored this as a process where we would commondeer the buildings. So theres been no discussion within the higher ranks of the Human Services agency about recommending that and were all aware of of that. It was a privileged, confidential piece of advice from the City Attorney to the board of supervisors and the mayor that i requested. Eventually, it became the subject in part of a Public Opinion that is available on the City Attorneys website and theres you are representing no discussion about that at hsa nor any recommendations to the Health Officer or the mayor that that provision be used. That is true. We have not considered using it. We have approached these as deals between hotels that would be willing to work with us and the city. Thank you, mr. Caplan. Thank you supervisor peskin. Supervisor ronen, do you have any questions when were on the hsa presentation . Yes, i do, thank you. Has there been any consideration of using the empty First Responder hotels for the unhoused population and if not why not . So, i think the answer to that is its premature in our discussions. Certainly, repurchasing the use of the hotels is one of the things we will have on the table when were discussing what to do here. That discussion hasnt really got started yet as. As i said before, it will get started this afternoon. Repurchasing is a absolute possibility. It may or may not be the best possibility given the structure of the deal. We will have to look at that. What about the structure of the deal would make it not a good possibility . We need to go back and review the deal that we made with the hotel. Its un i am not sure that we didnt specifically indicate that we would be using it as a First Responder hotel. I know it was our intention with this hotel and im sure that we told the hotels ownership that. We would have to figure out what it would mean to repurpose the hotel. As i said, its one of the things that we intend to consider. Its frustrating. You have your whole team here and were asking questions that are absolutely related to the subject of this meeting and theres been a lot of, ill have to check on this and get back to you. You dont know whether or not those hotel rooms have been empty as supervisor peskin talked about for quite a long time and theres not been a discussion yet about repurpose repurchasing those rooms for quarantine. That is really disappointing. Im asking the whole team, here. Supervisor, you know, as i said, we have been moving very quickly to get inq buildings and sip buildings up and running. We have also not been sure what the up take of First Responders would be for the use of these rooms. Weve been watching their use on a regular basis, and weve seen it not grow as quickly as we initially expected. Our response is growing day by day and we wanted to give First Responders some time to make sure of these rooms. It hasnt happened at the level that we thought it would and as i said, we acknowledge that at this point and we are talking, start being today, about. Its one of the things on the table we just need to figure out the best way to handle this situation. Im just respond back and we can move on. Its been six weeks. 900 plus rooms being empty and part of what were upset and frustrated by, on the board of supervisors is how snails pace this is all going during a serious pandemic and here is the yet another example of that. Converting that into a covid19 positive con gra grant living site. My understand is there is a proposal going back and fourth and i did email abigail about this yesterday. I want to understand this. I was told that for any covid19 positive individual who is unable to care for him or herself and highly Trained Medical professionals and that are extremely educated, knowledge and have practise in dealing with people with Mental Health or serious drug disorders and it would be a medical facility and now the city is considering having it staffed by the same staff that ran Division Circle beforehand yet its a new population of people many of its a population of people that dont want to be in the sight and it is guarded by sheriffs and people wont be able to leave 24 hours a day and this staff is supposed to watch, take care of and perhaps entertain people who dont want to be there who you have determined cant take care of themselves and thats why theyre not in the hotel rooms yet have no training to do this. To say im concerned is an understatement. Can you speak in detail about that . Let me ask if my hsa partner would like to come in because hsa has been heavily involved in discussions. Im still waiting for the written report. If i understand the question correctly because there are several. Let me make sure i am answering them. One is about the staffing plan for that satya nadella. Was there Something Else in there . If you could start out at explaining what are thinking of and what your design is and why are we not staffing with highwayly trained individuals that know how to work with individuals serious addiction and Mental Health and who are compounded by being positive for this dangerous disease. You said in many meetings that weve had prior, that this concept of a covid19 site for individuals that cant care for themselves, would be considered medical sites staffed by doctors and nurses. And now were contracting with Saint Vincent depaul and regular case managers who, prior to this, helped people find housing and now expect them to be guards to individuals that are very ill in many, many different ways and dont want to be there. It sounds like a recipe for disaster. I want abigail to answer that question. We have multiple additional presenters from d. P. H. And hsa and others who will present. In much more detail on staffing so just as we think about our questions, just that i hope these will be addressed by further presentations. Lets address this question. The Division Circle site is some of what you are saying and it is sort of a yes and, supervisor ronen. From a design perspective, this is a site that is shared and im going to tap dr. Boren in a little bit who is also on the line to speak to some of the medical questions. Its a site that is being kind of jointly set up, not kind of. Is being jointly set up by hsa as responsible for mass care and shelter. The traditional shelter operator and the department of publichealth as the medical Behavioural Health provider for the city. I would prefer having a sight for people with covid19 and we no the capacity of the inq site that stan talked about is a challenge so, we want to make sure were maximizing every resource in the city. From the staffing operational staffing the site, they asked to find a provider who is willing and able to operate that site alongside the department of publichealth. Staff will be do the medical and Behavioural Health work there. If that is what i means by yes and. The department of publichealth doesnt know the site and is not a shelter operator. Last weekend, i had many phone calls with the leadership of Saint Vincent depaul and asking them if they felt their staff and they would want to take this on and it was absolutely optional. They thought about it and talked with staff and came back and it was a moving phone call where they said that these are their people, this is their site and mission. They were giving their staff choice and whether they would be on there and they had some specific requests which were already in the works in terms of training, cpe, we will be negotiating a new contract with them because its a different sufficiently different piece of work and we want to make sure all of their needs are taken care of as they step up to the plate. Theres significant Training Provided around any new roles they have. Most of their roles will be site monitoring and feeding peoplement they will not be doing the medical and Behavioural Health work. And they will be provided with all the p. T. Expired be. Requirh h. S. A. And the Emergency Operation centre. We will not open the site until those pieces are in place. That is the case for all of our sites. We care deeply about our providers and our own staff. Our staff goes into that site and take care of it from a facility perspective so we have all of those interests in mind and id like to ask did borren to speak about around the medical questions that you have. I wanted to mention one other thing to you, i feel like theres not good communication between the departments and the providers. I was told by a worker is that the staff was told if they didnt accept the position, that they would be ineligible for unemployment because work was available and they chose not to take it. None of them new about the First Responder hotels that were available to them and that its not that people didnt want to help, if they have dedicated their lives to working with this population but they did not feel safe after the call. They have a ton of Unanswered Questions and feel that they dont have a choice. Thank you for that loop back. Im on daily communication with that provider leadership and its obviously on this and the hotel sites, we cant communicate with their staff. Its their h. R. Decisions to make but its not the conversation that the leadership and i had and so i will make sure the leadership is aware of any questions or concerns that you are flagging their staff may be raising so we can close the communication gap. Both on the hotels and on the option to work elsewhere in the care. The skills are needed as we will talk about in my slide. Certainly we want to make sure thats communicated and i trust very much the leadership. People are moving quickly so its always good to catch these things. Thank you. Supervisor ronen, do you have anymore questions . Yes, so for a population of shelter providers that have not bee cleaned and serious drug addiction and certainly havent been trained to deal with peoplt is safe for them in this facility when the individuals are not allowed to leave and are not really given a choice whether or not to be there. I will say they have been doing a phenomenal job operating Division Circle Navigation Centre where it was unknown if people had covid19 and they knew residents well and they had relationships with them. They were not residents with severe Mental Illness or drug addictions and im concerned if theyre able to make this jump with minimal training. I want to echo your statement that the Division Circle did an outstanding job and we got the results back from the mass testing dew and theres no, theyre all negative. Every result is negative. That is a testimony to what prevention does and facing an incredible work of the Division Circle we know that prevention work and people for covid19 negative so when you ask me can they work with this population, 100 . What we need to remember is that none of us on this planet know what life was like and we all had life before covid19 and were all changed and different. These are extraordinary times and each of us can find that Extraordinary Part within ourselves and no staff would be asked to do anything they dont feel comfortable with. So, every single residents that goes into the Division Circle would be the same residents or kind of residents that the staff would work with and everyday before their existence and as a covid19 positive shelter. So, if people do not feel comfortable, working in that position, its what abigail was saying, theyre not going to be asked to work there. Were going to do a lot of training on pte, none of the staff will work directly with patients. No one will be asked to get within six feet of anyone. The staff will be asked to deliver food. This model is based on a model done in pos ton seattle and other locations where they have over hundreds of people and large sites. Well have medical support staff and they will be the ones that would actually be having any direct contact with the residents. I know we have a lot and we can talk about more off line and its not the same population of people because all 120 people and the Navigation Centre have been housed individually in hotel rooms because they are able to selfcare. This is a population of people that would be in hotel rooms if their ablthey were able to selfo its a mistake if its the same population. Its the same population but not the same people. They meet the same criteria to go into a Navigation Centre. Before covid19, they had a rapid turn around and staff did a great job. But what the Saint Vincent staff will do is not doing the Behavioural Health services. That would be done by the department of publichealth. Theyre just doing the maintenance, and abigale can speak better of this of the shelter so its the same kind of people and it might not be the exact different but no one would be the same before covid19. How many people in ink or s. I. P. Rooms are from the streets. They have been moved into those rooms . I actually dont know the answer to that. We are reaching out to the streets. At first we started working primarily with people coming in from the shelter. We were doing shelter thinning and then moving people out as we had the first two outbreaks. Im happy to answer that and you are so good with the numbers so im happy to answer that. Please. We have a hotel for families that is sheltered and unsheltered and we have people, as mr. Caplan talked about, coming through the hospitals who were unsheltered into the hospitals into a s. I. P. Site. Who have moved from the streets by our teams is approximately between 60 and 100 individuals at this time. As dan talked about, the thats the focus now. And if the chair or supervisor haney would like me to move on but i can talk about the next steps. Lets move on. Sounds good. Some of us sorry, sorry. So, im going to focus on a few things related to acquisition for mr. Caplan and i want to move on. We have four more presenters. At least three. So, on acquisition, this is for mr. Caplan, i know that the mayor had publicly said that. We will need to house about 1500 First Responders. This is supervisor peskin through the chair. That was actually a really late number and i dont want to argue but the two weeks at the eoc and it was from the first day the eoc opened at months coney to two weeks later, those numbers were actually very early on. It went from 3500 to 4500 to 7,000 in the first couple of weeks. That number has been around to over a month. Im just saying. I mean, this is just a matter of fact. Im not disagreeing with you, supervisor. What is that number was composed of . So, yes. Early on in our process, we made some testaments about what this system would look like. As i said, we were thinking about 1500 First Responder rooms as weve discussed the need for that has not materialized yet. We were thinking about 2,000 to 2500 rooms for p. U. I. And covid19 positive and we were thinking about 3,000 to 3,500 30 rooms for folks who are vulnerable populations off the street. That was the rough component of that 7,000 room number. Weve been refining the numbers everyday. We talked about the First Responders. The demand hasnt been as high. We have to continue to collect information about pui and covid19 positive folks. We are now thinking that the number we probably need in that part of the system is considered and we thought it was and with regard to people who are experiencing homelessness, as we all know, there is a very large number of folks. So, what we have been doing is weve been building up our i. N. Q. Site so that we have the ability to take what is coming in now and so that we have the ability to handle a surge and as we are still expecting probability and all of our capacity will be shelter in place room for people who are we are adding rooms at a rate of 500 a week and our goal is to stay as much ahead of demand as we can and bring people in as quickly as we can. Wire going to be reassessing on an ongoing basis, do always be ahead of the rooms. We will keep bringing people in. The goal will be to house people who are in a vulnerable populations and who are willing to come. It was a growl before and now theres no new goal. We believe there are between 3,000 and 3500 folks on the street in vulnerable populations. Were going to continue to be working with those folks to bring them in. Well push our numbers up as there is demand. Are we participating in the state efforts. Can you explain the local efforts and the state efforts. We are, room key is a Funding Source for our effort we report on a regular basis we have weekly calls with project room key staff and project room key is the Funding Source and its talking about ways of funding this programme and non federally funded portions of it. Ive seen the conversation the mayor said this publicly as well about purchasing hotels or longterm leases of hotels. Are you considering purchasing hotels or longterm leases as part of your negotiation and how we entered into any negotiations that are intended to lead to purchasing of hotels or longterm leases that could provide i did not hear the end of your comments. Have we entered any negotiations with a goal of purchasing a hotel or entering a longterm lease and how is that being integrated into the negotiations with the hotels that we already have . Ive heard now the mayor said publicly that is something she wants to do. We are beginning to explore the longer term. As i said earlier, we started this very quickly. I know you have noticed you said that it feels like its been going on for a long time. It really has been seven weeks that weve been working on this. The goal has been to get capacity up and running very quickly. To state the obvious, this is an incident that will go on for some time and at the end of the incident, we will have a significant number of people who will be in our hotels. We need to work through our approach to that will be. We havent made Firm Decisions and we talked about how the best way to deal with that situation. Were cognizant that we will be bringing people in, which is a great thing and that we have to figure out the next steps are. Do you have additional questions before we moved to the other one, supervisor peskin . Move to d. H. R. I apologize. I just have one last question with regard to my earlier question. About the 780 800 unused First Responders hotels. Is there a reason that we have not reached out to other firstline responders. Im having trouble with the 800 rooms, 90 capacity at 40,000 a day. I just cant let go of that. The answer is yes. Among them are ihss workers. You know, and i think we may have one or two who are actually in our hotels. Most ihss workers are local and people need to want to use those sites. I mean to come back to the point, supervisor ronen made before, its responsible people in the First Responder community who want to make use of the hotels who will explore that and the flip side of that. Why cant those hotels be shared with people who are not covid19 positive or p. U. I. . Right. Lets say that one possibility to explore is part of those hotels be used as sub sites. Thats what im thank you, sir. Ill turn it back over to the the chair. Lets move to the next part. Supervisor haney, sir, are we moving to the next generation on is ta on. Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors, board chair mar. Im going to talk about our to support for cal site operations. As you know, all Public Employees in california are considered Disaster Service workers. I will note in my, i dont know 25 years of public service, ive never seen a deployment on the scale that we are engage in right now in the city and county of San Francisco. We currently have, on a daily basis about 575 individuals doing different jobs in their own department or they are doing jobs in a Different Department entirely different from their normal roles. I would say 225 of them are deployed to the hotel sites, many of them from hsas own staff but also from a variety of city departments sources to the dhr department of Operations Centre and the remainder of the deployed Disaster Service working are working on the feeding programme and Contact Tracing ordealer centers some of the largest deployment areas. What we have when we receive a request from the Emergency Operations centre for deployment Disaster Service workers as we have begun for the success for the hotel site operations, we source, we look first to people for whom we have no work but whom the city is paying. And these are people who are on paid furlough. At this point theyre a small percentage of employees who do not have work to do because the work they normally would do is not conducive to tele commuting or technology allowing them to do it and thats the primary reason. So, we look first to people who are on paid furlough. Were down to 900 employees city wide who are on paid furlough and we are sourcing through people who are telecom uting who are non essential functions. An example would be some of my investigators and structural trainers have been deployed so theres the places that we are sourcing Disaster Service workers. Also, the this is very quickly to get people into the hotels given the emergency nature of the situation but i know that other staff are recruited from the communitybased organizations and site monitor contract and overtime as the city reopens up for business, which we hope it will at some point, then we anticipate shifting away from sourcing employees from across the city to do jobs other than those we hired them to do. The process we use is that we have a staff at Emergency Operations centre where we have our Department Operations centre and we are looking to see who would be available in the situations that i described. We are contacting the departmental personnel officers would do an initial assessment of talking to the employees to make sure they would be available. Many people do decline, typically its for health reasons. If they do decline and they say theyre not available to work, they are removed from a paid furlough and they will go on to sick leave and we have provided a lot of extra sec leave and if they simply are a afraid we allow them to take vacations because it wouldnt be productive to force someone into the role. We are trying to describe the duties and make sure that they are understanding of the support theyll be provided and theyll be provided the personal protective equipment and the length of time of the assignment. Its a twoweek deployment. So, they will sign up and we will be deployed to the Emergency Operations centre for a dsw orientation and further training through the Human Services agency for the role and in this case were talking about the role of a site monitor. We are not we are very clear with our employees of organizations and we hope through all the training they were not going to asked to do anything we have not prepared them to do or that would be unsafe for them to do. Thats all i was prepared to say up front but im happy to answer questions about our deployment or employees or related issues. If you for that presentation. Did you have some questions supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin, we cant hear you. Mr. Chair, i see supervisor ronen in the cue. Supervisor ronen. Yes, i had a couple questions. How are you working with the labour unions to ensure that workers feel theyre in safe and well managed environments . Thank you for the question. We have a so Employee Relations director carole, who is available if we need to speak with her directly is having a daily call with us and the largest laboringization ends up being of course the source of the largest number of Disaster Service workers by virtue of its size. He has convene private and Public Sector union call which were having weekly to ask the personal protective equipment assignments and asking for their support and were doing a lot of problem solving in that regard. As im sure you know, they have explained there are members that are concerned about the situations theyre facing. As can you imagine, you know, when i would describe Disaster Service worker in the past, i envisioned you are making sandwiches for people or you are filling sandbags because of a flood not that it would be a pandemic. Theres a lot of fear. So, were trying to be sensitive to that and also reminding that so, we are, i think that if we get to the point that we are not able to find enough people, and so far we have been able to find them, then were going to need to really look at what other options particularly if we are moving to back to reopen the city. I think that, obviously, people are going to be more willing to take these assignments if they feel comfortable and they have sufficient p. P. E. And they know what theyre encountering. Its inevitable. We spoke to people who concluded their assignments. Its a mixture. They feel great that they could be a service and step up to their city and need. But also theres a lot of fear and there have been some unfortunate occurrences. This is a population which many of of the people have a lot of Serious Problems and needs and the unions want to make sure that the people we deploy are a primary consider, for whom we are responsible getting the assignment they are safe and they feel comfortable in the worksite. Im not going to understate that challenge. The first question s. I was contacted by a dph employee who is a nurse who was on furlough im not exactly sure. He had worked at the cohen residents in the past and its an h. I. V. Cooperative living site in district 8. And, he had volunteered early on and was very excited about working with this population and working in a hotel and had experience working in living sites and he was waiting to his assignment to the southeast medical centre and that interim month, was offered jobs through the state and even the state of new york was willing to fly him out and he was considered leaving because he wanted to use the skills to participate and kept calling and volunteering and asking to be placed and was not placed until yesterday. Or the day before. At the southeast medical centre. We have learned that the d. P. H. Is holding back a huge portion of its workforce who have specific screening to work safely and who want to do this work in the hotel. I understand we would have done that maybe a little bit towards the beginning. Where we werent sure we had flattened the curve. Why has it taken so long and why arent we first going to employees to have more training in this area and might want to do this type of work . Without knowledge of the specific circumstances, what the d. P. H. Needs locally. Thousands of dph furlough workers who have not been deployed to these sites . There are only 900 furloughed workers across the city so i think i would be happy to find out i would be happy to dig into that number we have. We only have 940 maybe i mistake that. Maybe theyre nonessential. That would be different. Nonessential employees are working in their jobs. And so, dph has to make a decision they want to move the employees from one spot to another. Theres a staffing model at the hotel site and if we have sufficient nurses at the hotel site we wont pull people from publichealth duties. Im not the best person to speak to publichealth decisions about deployment but i would be happy to get the information on the individuals that you are mentioning or followup with publichealth a little more directly after the call and determine how they have deployed their staff. As i mentioned, people are deployed internally and i think its what you are talking about and why a department may not have done that is going to be a departments specific decision based on their needs and we are deploying to the Emergency Operation centre. We get a request, here is what i need. It could be a oneoff. We need industrial hygienist to go out to train the people and adult probation on how to work with the clients or we need, 50 site monitoring for hotels. And so were reaching out to the department to assign these individuals. So, i am happy to pursue that matter off line so i dont have the answer to that. Ill give you the information on the employee and then i would love the exact numbers and reasoning behind dph not freeing up more of its workforce for this purpose. Finally, i know at least supervisor haney and i offered to help both on the front end of recruiting workers and talking about the importance what this work was like and to appreciate the tremendous, incredible work that all these workers are doing. We offer that, i dont know, for a few weeks now. We havent been asked to participate in anyway. Weve had meetings where weve had suggestions on staffing plans that included more volunteer opportunities and outreach and recruitment and efforts for City Employees who might just be more inclined to want to do this work as opposed to the format that you have which has Department Heads just choosing who they randomly want to offer up as dfws. I havent heard any feedback or response back to those plans, finally, supervisor haney on tuesday finally gave over a written plan, since we had no feedback back. It just seems like were not using best practises and to protect our city and it would certainly at least be nice to hear back about our offers to participate in health. Same here. Ill try to address the various points and please remind me if i miss any of them. I do want to correct what seems to be this impression that Department Heads are randomly offering up individuals who believe they can do without to be Disaster Service workers. We request by classification certain numbers of employees based on who is on furlough or who is identified as a non essential telecom utter. We are not accepting departments saying you cant have this one. We have a high level person if we ask for a manager to come to the eoc. Its not left up to Department Heads and who gets to go to the Department Site in that regard. I also want to mention that we have tried to hit the balance of choices and its something on the order of 30 of employees who sort of who are willing to take the assignment and the hotel sites and that is because we are not trying to jam anybody up and force them to come in and make them afraid theyll lose their jobs. Wheel people did sign up of it being a Disaster Service worker, we have provided sick leave and you are unavailable and we have an addition to the two weeks of federal leave, we have two additional weeks weve provided. The deployments are only two weeks long so its enough to carry you over. If you feel like it would it would be create an illness and expos you or your family to illness based on the conditions you have in your life or your home. We have it and we also have sick leave advances, vacation advances and we are open and i absolutely explained that im not going to be in the position of trying to defend a addition implant ary action for someone delining to take this duty. We are through our process. We are finding people who are willing to do it. Its just that it is, once they get there, theyre surprised by what theyre encountering and theyre talking about their unions and trying to problem solve the issues that they raised to us in terms of people possibly, for example, theyre concerned that the persons experience of homelessness, the site might not be wearing p. P. E. And theyre afraid of that. These are on going issues or problem solving. We have our team led by our Workers Compensation director to visit the sites and give an extra eye on the site and theyre reporting back to me on what they find in terms of whether people use p. P. E. And whether the site is staff have shown up and people feel comfortable so we have an eye on that. I know that supervisor haney was in a site and they email him about when he would be available and looking at doing that. I know that we even had Department Heads come out and deploy in that regard as well. I dont think the main problem we have is we havent kept up with the demand so far. We have been able toll source the department the Disaster Service workers that are desired for they are reporting sometimes theyre surprised and even though we prepared them and even though frankly they are stepping forward willingly. The annalists from the airport had challenges when they were problem solving with hsa and homelessness and Supportive Housing to figure out how to remove those and increase security and make sure people are comfortable. I appreciate you said that and that has not been what weve heard and out of the Mayors Office and its been one of the rolling excuses weve heard from being unable to house the thousands of people that are in massive encampments that are literally dying on this street right now so im glad its not a staffing issue like weve been hearing thank you for clearing that and im done. Thank you. Supervisor haney. Thank you directour calla lan and i appreciate your work on this. So, just so im clear, are you and your Department Responsible for staffing the hotels completely or just responsible for the dsw piece of it . Supervisor haney, we are sourcing Disaster Service workers as needed to Disaster Response across the city which includes site monitoring for the hotels. There are also Human Services agency as sort of internal Disaster Service workers and there are Community Based organizations who have staffed the sorgations. My understanding is just that they were not enough available in the short term which is why we have stepped up our recruitment. To supervisor ronens earlier report, weve been able to meet the needs for sourcing people as we open the hotels so far. They have to be trained. Its not an immediate turn around. We have sent a memo on how to increase the number of staff from homeless shelters, Community Based organizations, medically trained volunteers, other types of volunteers to supplement the amazing work the dsws and support the work the dsws are doing. In terms of the over all breakdown around that in the hotels, who would be responsible for that and how can we get access to those numbers . Like how many are working in the hotels that are not dsws for example . It sounds like thats something that is not within your purview . Right. Were filling in the gaps is the way to think of it. I know that i would recommend that we circle back to hsa on that point. I know that they are engage with the Community Based organizations as a hopeful source for staffing. As i mentioned, those happy to do this work, ultimately well reopen the city and theyll need to return to the work they were hired to do. We have to look at longterm plan. In terms of the dsws, how many total dsws have been deployed not just in the hotel . I would say on a given day, i can get kate howard to correct me, total were in the order of 1600 or so and on a average day were 575 and about 225 of tho those. Around 200 or so which includes people that we have deployed and we have been in the homelessness and support housing. They have their own staff and they didnt ask us to find them and we found additional staff and theyre all disaster workers. Thats on any given day. Its not total. 225 . I think apparently the next slide, someone is texting me its the staffing model. It may be helpful if we move one slide ahead. Sure. I want to ask another quick question before we look at that. I know that there have been a lot of concerns about p. P. E. For hotel staff as well as testing for hotel staff. I think these are two things that it seems that an up front, transparent, clear commitment to the potential d. S. W. Or the d. S. W. S who we want to place in hotels could go a long way. What sort of commitments are we able to give people on that front end and how are we ensuring that we are upholding our commitment to them on those things. So, we are following publichealth guidance on the pre pre aappropriate p. P. E. Andr two weeks ago there was an update from publichealth. It was issued to all the sites and people are taught how to use the p. P. E. And its explained to them before theyre deployed. We have testing testing is now continuingly being broad happened. We have Testing Available to anybody at the total sites or anybody in a frontline workers whether theyre City Employee or not and its free and fast. We have continually reduced the barrier testing, for example, now you just go online and you just say, i have one symptom it could be fatigue even. Which anybody in this duty you would think would be likely to be fatigued. They sort of yes i have a sim toll and we do emails and and we reminded them of the availability of city test sf for them so we certainly are we want to make sure that people are taking advantage of the testing. And i know that the city administrator told me she had 1. 5 million pieces of p. P. E. Recently so i believe that theres a fraud availability and then with our safety staff stopping by the hotels, the remind people to see and ensure they have the p. P. E. And ensure that theyre using it, i think, that is another positive on that point. Our labour partners have been very clear on and concerned about the p. P. E. As well. I know the labour partners have also brought up the question of testing for the guests at the hotel and that that is a priority as well to know if the folks who they are interacting with who may not always have p. P. E. On, they also have regular access to tests and i dont believe thats something that would be under you necessarily but is a serious concern. Last thing i wanted to ask around this, can you describe a bit more what the training involves . Is there on going training and support for folks you know, i know that many of these individuals the d. S. W. May not have experience and some do and working with people experiencing homelessness and some of whom have duel diagnosis with Mental Illness or Substance Use. Especially i want to know whether the training includes training around Substance Use and Overdose Prevention and its something that is unfortunately obviously something weve been dealing with as a city for some time before this and we really want to make sure that adequately prepared and they have access to narcan as they staff these hotels. Yes, in fact, i have been discussing the narcan situation because it came up because one of our Disaster Service workers felt that she should she was surprised that people would think that she should be trained to administer narcan. And so, i spoke with dr. Bob this morning who is following up with their nursing staff who ensured that everybody is getting the correct direction about that. Narcan so, my understanding is its available and no one will be required to administer it if they dont want but theyre getting training. Im sorry, i may have missed the first part of that question. Can you give a little more clarity what is included in the training . Every staff placed into the hotels will have some narcannery lated training and access to it . They will be they will be in a position that they could administer it or they will certainly know what they should do if they encounter the situation to either refer to someone else to do it or call 911. I dont think that many of the individuals would probably not feel like theyre in a position to do it even if trained. The training they are doing, they are getting site monitor training. When people are first deployed they come to the Emergency Operations centre and get a general Disaster Service if you call in sick who do you call and how do you coach your time and some general training and theyre getting site monitor training and here is the you have the description here. Theyre told what to do and its something we called homelessness 101 and working with persons experiencing homelessness because they may be in a job thats unrelated and they never encountered them and their work before. They are trained how to use the right p. P. E. For those roles and theyre provided what they need and then as they mentioned the dsw training which is how do you report what do you if theres a problem, et cetera. I hope that answers your question. And then, on going training or on going support or is it a onetime hour or two . I know its about two and a half hours total at least, when they come in. The deployments are for two weeks. We do not ask people to come back again. We would rather rotate and share the experience with others. If a person wants to they can. Human services or hsh can expands on this and theres a binder at every sight and who to call if you encounter a problem this is what you do. We have not heard that people desire additional training after the first week. So its a twoweek deployment and thats it. Two weeks . Were look at two mh370 weekwek deployment. Im done questioning. I believe the next is hsh or the dph. I did have a few questions. First of all, thank you directour callahan for this presentation and for all your work. Quickly putting together a system to deploy Disaster Service workers to fill such an Important Role in the hotels and i have heard from city workers and directly themselves as well as from the unions about concerns around the staffing. For the site monitors in the hotels. I have heard improvements in the training and getting access to p. P. E. And theres still on going concerns about Staffing Levels and inappropriate roles in the hotels for the staff and security issues. So i know you are meeting regularly with the unions and trying to address these concerns on an ongoing basis so thank you. I have a question around the capacity we have in deploying disaster looking ahead. You did say that so far, weve been able to meet the need so its been great and looking ahead, do you anticipate any challenges for the dsw or site monitor roles in the hotels especially after bringing more hotels online. Yes, i would say that [please stand by] ill just walk you through this. While many nonprofit have given a willingness to hope, most do not take on management at the kind of top level and if you look at the slide and thank you for going back t, you can see te sight monitors are the dsws and the Behaviour Health clinicians are the dph and then we have security and Shelter House and so on and the site leaders and site counselors are coming from hsh staff and as many of you know, we have a Small Department and then also through contract with our providers and thats what i want to talk about. And so we want go forward, back to the original slide. So most dont have the capacity to take on Hotel Management on top of the critical programs theyre running. Just to claim the reference, the entire homelessness response, we are housing people faster and we have to change their use sometimes and coordinated entry is open. Although, through physical distancing and from the beginning, the job market being so tight, we had a lot of employment gaps for our nonprofit providers and so, while some, and im going to talk about how weve been successful, and opening as many sites, when we ask for more help, many nonprofit providers arent able to take on the roles that are needed from those nonprofit providers. They might be able to send us a monitor or two, but not able to lead a hotel and bring that expertise. Theyre requesting to negotiate existing contracts which could lead to increased costs and its something we are looking at with each site. In addition to the goodwill concept that mr. Kaplan talked about, we knew many people would need go home to take care of children in our nonprofits and we split up the ability to mass recruit. Thanks to the philanthropy, were bulk screening and backfilling existing nonprofits with the staff who are nonprofit Service Workers albeit in a different wield bu field. Were interested in having that role is expand to this project of good will to rapidly deploy as dsws become the source of the open. So luckily, we have things up and rolling ahead of time questioand weknow that the orgae to spread and stretch with the site leadership have been able to do so because theyve been able to backfill or maybe they have a branch of their organization that is furloughed and be able to pull those folks into their existing force to take their leadership to the site. And so hsh, in many cases, have stepped on to take the employees and their current nonprofits. So contracting, i know a lot of nonprofits are in touch saying they have a few staff here and then but we found its complicated to have one building have five different nonprofits in it. And so were work on that. We are working with one organization that may be able to back zone so that the organizations that have a few employees but not ready could be subcontracted to those and all of those things are in the works and actively discussed. And its also important to keep in mind that as the city ramps up additional hotels, we do need to do a competitive procurement for the nonprofit to assist with this effort. This is something to note. And so, i can talk with you about the actions weve taken to recruit the nonprofit leadership. We did a survey and we have five organizations and immediately, they were able to help. My deputy directors, the deputy directors at hsr are calling every organization and weve worked our way through many saying, can you do this or what would it take to do this . And some of that has lead to organizations that are going to be opening up our next set of hotels with them and were really grateful for that partnership. I want to thank by name the organization who stepped up early to help with this process, the urban a alchemy and the catholic charities. And forgive me, nonprofits, if youre opening a future site, thank you. So going to the next slide well pivot off of the workforce and im sure youll have questions. The First Priority for hotel utilization is people who are discharged from hospitals and dont have a place to isolate their quarantine because of their living situation and if we dont do this, then were sending people from the hospitals theyre staying in the hospitals and then the hospitals cant prepare for medical surge or going from the hospitals to the streets. And this is something, weve taken people from hospital to shelter and so theyre going from hospital into hotels. Also Vulnerable People experiencing homelessness staying in vulnerable shelters and Vulnerable People and the results of that are really meaningful, so its not a research study, but as dr. Warren talks about the difference that that made, the Division Circle was tremendous. We are now moving to Vulnerable People who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Within that population, were prioritizing People Living in the high density areas, including the tenderloin, mission and bayview and theyre in many of your districts and thats what we want to start. That vulnerability as youve heard dr. Kolfax heard about and others from the department of Public Health is over 60 and people with certain and specific Health Conditions that makes them particularly susceptible to covid. And its important to note that our definition of susceptiblability or the department of Public Healths definition of vulnerability doesnt perfectly align to fema is additionally, fema does not consider or recognise Mental Health as a Behavioral Health disorder as making you vulnerable to covid and so, theyre not necessarily on the list unless they have some other existing condition that makes them vulnerable. Additionally, people have to have the ability to selfcare. So we talked about the vulnerability, and just like in shelter, people have to have the ability to selfcare my light is going off. And sool so the ability to selfe in a site like a shelterinplace hotel and were grateful for the partnership with ihsf so people can be therf there. If you cant selfcare in a hotel room, that doesnt mean you dont go to a hotel but it means we need to know what other resources need to be put in place and what other acceptabilities. Equilibrium spokes to the six by fix feet, but also that we have infighted out of congregate settings people who are vulnerable to covid and we obtain that very quickly and there are people considered vulnerable covid who may have declined the first time. If you said no the first time, we want to make that offer. And so that helped to protect the congregate sites and the individuals who are most at risk and so, we are also moving families and youth from the shelters and from the streets because we feel those populations do well together as opposed to putting families in an adult hotel because theyre both from the streets and were going by population. And so our department has expanded our Hotel Placement now and were focused on the unsheltered and one thing i want everybody to keep in mind, because i have to constantly remind myself of this, is that as shelter testing goes up, which is a wonderful thing and we need it to happen, the pressure to open and the need for more isolation and Quarantine Hotels and dr. Boron, please feel free to correct me, but the pressure for isolation and quarantine goes up and so hotels need to be pivoted or as a hotel is brought on board by hsa, we need another isolation and Quarantine Hotel because testing has increased and so thats some of the sort of dynamic validity of these sites and were doing that on a daily basis. And so as these hotels become available for the unsheltered, were looking for people 60 or older with preexisting conditions who maximize that placement and we are relying heavily on data from the data system and so people known to our system of care and are experiencing unsheltered homelessness and meet that criteria and the Outreach Team will use that to guide their outreacoutreach efforts. This has happened already for one of our sites and happened increasingly and theyll assess that persons ability to selfcare and they are partnered with ihsf to make that assessment. Again because youre on the street and you cant selfcare doesnt mean you cant come to a hotel and we need to know what you need so we can prepare it for you. Based on that, people will be transported to the correct place and the most appropriate hotel room. And there are hundreds and hundreds of people in our data system to meet those criteria and so we havent yet taken community or public referrals with those hotel rooms, but we anticipate opening that process up in the future and we really appreciate peoples interest in helping our unsheltered neighbors to help with the expanding sites. And so we will be piloting a referral process in the tenderloin which is our first focus or the rv site so that we can use the cbo knowledge and addition to our network regime to match with our data systems and go and look for our people who are there. And thats the end of my slide. Im happy to take questions. I do need to note that i need to step off at 3 55 or 3 57 to join another call. Thank you so much. Supervisor. Yes, i do want to before you leave, abigail, i have a couple of quick questions for you. I know that we still are leaving people who are vulnerable sorry, considered to not be vulnerable in shelters and can you speak to what exactly the thinking is behind that and why arent we expanding who is being placed into hotels and why are we continuing to leave so many people behind in shelters . Yes. Thats a terrific question. And so we want to really make sure that the hotel rooms and the guidance of the department of Public Health are used for people who candidly are more likely to pass away from covid and we know that theres tremendous spread of covid across the entire San Francisco community and the Homeless Population and people arent getting all that sick with it, some people, some of us. But others are. And so the department of Public Health has been very clear that the vulnerable need to be going first to the hotel rooms. We are looking site by site and saying, for example, at Division Circle, there were people not considered vulnerable and are negative, yay, for covid and they stay there as it becomes repumped arepurposed. We need to look for the most Vulnerable People with covid first. And i guess weve been clear that we have some difference of opinion on that and some part relates into how many hotels rooms we have and sounds like were operating from some perspective, not whats best for Public Health, but out of some level of scarcity, because were assuming we ar we have limitatid we cannot move people who are not in the most vulnerable period. Supervisor, were not operating from that principle. Were operating from a sensation of vulnerability first is as we get more and more hotels, we want to make sure that were starting with the most vulnerable to covid and working our way through the rest of the population. So, then, ultimately, the plan will be to move everybody out of shelters, not only people over 60 and when will that happen . This this is what i was trying to talk about as the testing increases and people need to isolate in quarantine from across the city, its impossible to predict which hotels which go for which purpose and how quickly we will open hotels for people experiencing homelessness. There are thousands of people on the street who are unsheltered and considered vulnerable and we need to start there, as soon as we open up hotels and thats my main focus. Is to give people unsheltered and how many hotels do you expect to have for people who are unsheltered . Again, its not possible. And im happy to turn some of that back to you, mr. Kaplan. We could start a week thinking theres five hotels for tremendous work and partnership with many departments has brought into this and we control the site and we begin to plan and when we start the week, we could say four of them are for hsh folks and then we have a need for isolation and quarantine, for my number of reasons and so we need to share that hotel across the entire system of care. Now, lets be clear, the isolation and Quarantine Hotels are people who are almost exclusively people coming from homelessness and they might be coming out of a hospital. They might be coming from the lots of different places but they need to isolate or quarantine. Whereas our sheltered hotels dont meet the same purpose. We have a different understand of what scarcity means, because if we know that people are vulnerable right now in a shelter and we know that people are vulnerable right now on the street, we dont know yet when well be able to get to those folks because of the level and the pace at which hotels are coming online and then we are operating out of scarcity because we would like to get everybody out of hotels and we would like to get people off the street much quicker, but were not because we have to operate at a slower pace because we dont have enough hotel rooms right now and then, we need to focus where we put people in the hotel rooms, based on the most vulnerable pa because we dont e enough. We need to focus from a Public Health perspective, supervisor. Yes, but we agree housing is healthcare and not shelter and we want to move as many people as we can to hotel rooms as quickly as we can. We are moving people back into congregate sites, in terms of Public Health perspective, why arent we keeping people in hotels once they are or as they are still in recovery . Why are we bringing them back into shelters. So ill speak to the shelterinplace sites and i would like to ask dr. Borne to speak to the other. We dont know their status and people are stay there and not moving from there, unless they become sick and they need to go elsewhere. Dr. Borne, are you Still Available to take questions about supervisor haineys questions about coming from inq to other settings . This is to dr. Confidentia kahn . Right now this sounds like hot referral and were getting contacted with people, constituents, organizations, et cetera, around getting access to a hotel and what is the best process to bring in people who are unsheltered into hotels . Yeah, its really important and thanks for the opportunity to clarify that. Thats why i tried to speak about that a little bit. So i want to make sure, the hot team if you see someone with a hot team jacket, they dont have access to a hotel room right now. Thats important to understand. They might, but the list that has been created that verifies that somebody is vulnerable to covid and is in a certain neighborhood and things like that. The list is whats in control. I know youre not asking about that, but i want to make sure our partners of the hot team as the place you fine one of thosee people and get inside. This is what the nonprofit workers who were doing rapid work out there. And so what the process is is that we create a list that is a combination of hsh data and ems6 data and we look for the vulnerable individuals and we know with all of our partners where they are and we go is we find them. As i said in the tenderloin, supervisor, which i know is both where you live and where you represent, well be partnering with some nonprofits and Emily Collins is on the line but i think we can talk with your office about what that looks like in the next few days. With the nonprofits who know the folks on the ground and asking them to help us locate people and sort of check our list to make sure that data and good Clinical Knowledge are combined. And so thats the Community Process that exists now. People let the hot team know how to fin find someone and thats t were piloting and would look forward to your feedback, via our office, how that works after a week or so and would welcome your input on that. Ok, thank you. Are there any other questions for me, chair, and i apologize i have to step off. Youre in terrific hands. Yes, i dont have any further questions and i dont see any other community members. So thank you so much. Thank you. Supervisor hainey, do you think we could move to the next presentation. Yes, we have one more from dph and then i dont know if theres anybody for Public Comment and then there might be some set of questions to round out. Dph. Thank you, supervisor hainey. So ill answer some of the questions that have been presented to us, to the department of Public Health about sro and right now, theres about 500 that have had environMental Health and were categorizing sros in different categories which have to do with how much support they might have at their site and so hsh, supported housing and then were looking at them in terms of how much shared space and the risk of the individuals that live there. And we would also we have a low threshold testing, this we talked about on tuesday, where almost any symptom, headache, fatigue will allow you to get a test in San Francisco and we are also testing any asymptomatic person with contact. And there is a very easy online and onthephone referral to the inq site for anyone including folks of the sro and currently, we have about 68 residents that come from an sro and an inq site out of our 229 that we have. And we are working across the department with the eoc, as well, about different ways to actually communicate and do outreach in the sros. We were doing ontheground assessments and for the pad one, two or three covid cases. Theres a Community Branch and the Community Hub has been working with the buildingingses and doinbuildings andonline trae working closely with the train training. And im deborah borne with the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. If you have any questions, i can answer them. I dont, thank you for that. Sousupervisor hainey. Who is still with us and is dan still here . And i want to make sure there are final questions that could be answered by a number of different people. Yes, im still here. Ok, great. So i have a couple of questions and im not entirely sure who would answer these. So weve had questions about the Housing Needs of people who might be existing the jail system and we know that our jail population is declining fairly rapidly during this crisis for the purposes of Public Health and that a significant percentage of the people in the jail are homeless. And how is that process being handled and do we know how many people have been placed into housing or shelter or hotels, who have come directly out of the jail . Certainly people out of the jail and homelessness would be heap who would be among the folks we would be trying to house in this system. This is emily cohen from hsh. If somebody comes out of jail and on the street, we may very well be tracking them as unhomeless shelter rather than coming out of jail. We have not figured out a way to track them as a distinct population because were looking at their last known place which is often the street or the place or the shelter by the time they get into our system. One thing is if theres a direct handoff so that were not releasing people back on to the street and they cant come into the shelter and they become a part of our shelter population. As weve heard, somewhere between 60 and 80 people have been brought into the hotels and so the prospect these folks would enter into hotels or other types of housing seems unlikely or at least a long amount of time before we we ge would get y of them. There are some shelters moved to hotels directly by nonprofits, either with the support of supervisors or on their own. For nonprofits that have done that, for example, st. Anthonys moved a bunch of folks in, if they are in the vulnerable category, would they be eligible to move into a cityfunded room . Dan, i dont know if you want to take this one or if you want me to. Go ahead, emily. We are trying to figure that out right now. I think as philanthropic hotels are members that the board brought up on and filled up, we werent sure how to absorb that into the existing system. We dont want to obviously punishing anyone experiencing homelessness and were working on either a rightofreturn policy and how well support those folks best so they are not returning to the street immediately when either the private funding for this expires. But given this was done out of amazing intention and Gate Community partnerships, but outside of the citys system, we are retroactively needing to go back to figure out the best way to work with these folks in the hotels, so we do not have an answer but its something were actively working on. As the system came together, it was to move people out of shelters and off the streets. And one of the things that has become very obvious is that there is a broad range of ability to selfmanage among the folks who are in our hotels, certainly our subhotels but inq sites. And as we move forward, we have begun discussions around whether it makes sense to look for subpopulations within the existing hotels and possibly group people differently so that we get more Behavioral Health capacity. And some buildings, less staffing and other buildings where people are much more able to selfmanage. That is definitely something that, think, people in the hsa and hsh system are aware of and, you know, as we move through a time, i think we will be giving more attention to whether it makes sense to essentially sort people by needs. What about being responsive to folks with Mental Illness and protecting them and meeting their needs during this time and within the hotels. I was going to ask you where and thank you, supervisor. I have to give a shoutout to the team to those who have switched gears and doing support of folks in the hotels. One of our patients said its been amazing here and i feel great. So they have moved some of their staff to give medical support for individuals that might need it. Its for the same highlevel individuals and these are all individual. They have a chronic disease and theyre there for a reason and weve been connecting people with their current providers. So if people have case managers, theyre getting support. We are doing a lot of telemedicine with them, as well. Right now from containment, we still have several clinicians that are supporting the hotel. The dope project has been doing a lot of Harm Reduction support for all of the hotels, as well. Thank you. I appreciate your continued attention and making sure people have access to narcan and referring people who may have needs there. Obviously this isnt true for everyone in the hotels, but we want to make sure, people in newly individual rooms, making sure they are supported in their Mental Health and wellness is taken care of. Chair mar, i dont know if there are people who are waiting for Public Comment, but there are, we should move to that and i want to thank anyone who is waiting and thank them for time and all of you who are still here with us after a number of hours and i want to appreciate youre and your time, as well. Yes, thank you so much, supervisor hainey for calling this hearing and having this important discussion and thanks to all of the presenters from the department for the presentations and responses and for all of the the really important work that youre doing in these challenging times, with our most vulnerable population. And mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Operations is check to see if there are any callers in the cue. For those that have connected to our meeting via phone, press 10 to be added to the cue to speak for this item and for those already on hold in the cue, please continue to wait until you are propertie prompted to be beep and for those watching our meeting on San Francisco cable channel 26 or via streaming link or sf gov tv, if you wish to speak call in by following the strucks thastricksesinstruction. And when prompted enter the access code which is 3501008, press the pound sign twice and then press one an 10 to enter o speak. I have number of callers in the cue and i will cue up the first caller. Operator you have three questions remaining. First caller, good afternoon. You have two minutes. Thank you. Im the president of the local two and also part of an Ad Hoc Coalition that has been meeting with the city and thats local 2, teamsters local 856 in the hotels and ispt21 representing city workers and opu29, the nonprofits and shelters and local 87 and the janitors union. This is representing workers that would be cleaning some of these hotel properties. I want to thank you for the time here and i wanted to say that we share your concern with respect to the unhoused population, particularly in this moment and we believe the hotels very well may be the best and most viable option to address this crisis, but on behalf of members, we urge you to work with us in order to make a plan so that this is successful. And you know, its been said by some of the presenters, weve been meeting with the city departments, the Mayors Office in recent days to attempt to craft such a plan and we invite you to join us in that. Our unions together have agreed on four universal principles that we believe would make this program a success. And they are one, testing, two, ppe supplies and three, communication and four, staffing. And among those, the most challenging issue is that of staffing and that has been discussed a lot today. From our perspective, the hotels are not staffed adequately and appropriately if there are not enough staff for the assignments. If theres confusion on responsibilities, on job duties or if staff is overwhelmed, due to shortages in the number of staff, we run the risk of really worsening this crisis and seeing something get out of control here. And so well work with the city. Again, we would love it if you would join us to make a plan here and continue the dialogue here. Theres no question that this crisis demands are urgent and swift action. Operator you have three questions remaining. Thank you, speaker, for your comments. Next speaker, your two minutes begins now. Question im franci francisca dicosta. What i see, theres no representation from the people of color. And this hogwash type of discussions goes nowhere if you dont have minute wh somebody wa qualified incident management, commander type of person. You put this in the hotels and theres to standard operating procedures. We talk because th there is no e person of color who are hurting the most. I represent the first people. I participated in the 1989 earthquake. All of these people, they dont care for the poor. You supervisors, some of you dont care for the poor and you know who we are. We need empathy, compassion and wraparound services. We need to save the lives of these people and we dont need them to treat them with disdain. Thank you very much. Operator you have two questions remaining. You have one question remaining. Question i would have to agree that we dont have people who, you know by nature, these are not people from the am army or fema to deploy people. Im surprised to hear that the City Employees cannot do what federal employees did everyday in the Social Security office where i worked. These were our customers that came in and we werent asked do we want to deal with people with tb, not taking their medication, people with Mental Illness and people with lice and we did it all of the time, mandatory, because we dont have choices about that or time and a half. These people did not live in the street then didn and should noe living in the street now and theres a concept that theyre not worried to be in hotels. Most of these people did live in hotels and did selfcare up to a point. Obviously, you have people who need to be under supervision, the drug addicts and some people who are violent or terribly disordered but most of the people could put in a regular hotel. The hotels have staff and are they going to all be unemployed and the hotel staff does cleaning and cooking and Hotel Management and not doing those things in a basically way, you know, while you send in a monitor or two in the hotels where people can do selfcare or some additional Service Providers in the places where people need additional help. And why are we paying these vast amounts of money . They should be getting back those 40,000. You can commandeer the hotels and, of course, youre going to pay them. But the point is not to rescue the hotels. And i worked at the palace hotel as a city guide. It was worth every cent. Operator you have zero questions remaining. There was a wonderful yield but that is not what theyre asked to do here. Operator you have zero questions remaining. I would be delighted to talk with supervisors. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Are you going to let us know if there are any further callers to address the board . That completes the cue. Thank you very much. Thank you, operations and thank you, mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. And supervisor hainey, would you like to make a motion . Yes, can i just make some final comments here . And there was just onening that i did want to just make clear, is dhr still on . We will not be able to get to that last question and is hsa still on . Yes. Was there a particular number of staff and a unti number of ds requested of dhr . We had asked for a total of 600 by the time we got to what we thought would be full of limitation. We have been revising our numbers up and up as weve gone forward. So i dont think number would be adequate at fullblown system at this point. But that was the original number we had asked for. Ok, thank you. Appreciate that. I just again want to thank all of the Committee Members and thank you chair mar and al thank you anyone stepping up to work in staff in these hotels from the local 2 and teamsters 856 to all of our dsws from 10 to local 1021. We want to say thank you and we hope that this is a huge contribution to our city and our Public Health and so, hopefully, well have an opportunity to thank you directly some time and i wanted to underscore that. I wanted to say to all of the Different Departments here that i think it might be helpful to have a clarity around maybe one person who is accountable for this entire operation and who can answer all of our questions and help to coordinate things and it doesnt seem that we have that and its a lot of different pieces of the Department Responsible for that and i think that creates challenges in getting questions answer. Ananswered andquestions operatis well. Thank you to the committee for hearing this and to you chair, mar. Thank you, supervisor hainey. Would you like to make a motion or would you like to file it, continue internet . It . I think continue it at the call of the chair. Is that a motion from member hainey in. I move to continue this item to the call of the chair. Thank you. On the motion to continue the item to the call of the chair, vice chair peskin. I think we may have lost him temporarily. I think you might be right. Vice chair peskin will be absent on this vote. Member hainey. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. There are two ayes and no opposition. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Any further business. There is no further business. This meeting is adjourned and thank you. Thank you. I view San Francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. I just love the city. I love everything about it. When im away from it, i miss it like a person. I grew up in San Francisco kind of all over the city. We had pretty much the run of the city cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would in the summer, wed all all the way down to aquatic park, and wed walk down to the library, to the kids center. In those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. I went to high school in spring valley. It was over the hill from chinatown. 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I think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. I used to write short stories, and i thought someday im going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. When i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. I found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything id really been taught but felt very safe to me. I think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. And even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. My girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvios bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. For a moment, i thought i was me. And i turned to my friend and i said, i think im supposed to do this. I saw myself driving in this car. As a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there werent any until the mid70s, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. When i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. One of my bosses as ben johnsons had been a cop, and he i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. He said, i think youd be good. The department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. So the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. Finally took an inspectors test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. I just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didnt know if wed ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. He transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. My intuition that the job was killing me. I ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. The writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didnt know. They didnt know my story, they didnt know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. It just poured out of me. I gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. I am so lucky to live here. I am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. I am so grateful they did. That it never [ ] i just dont know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. It is an experience that you cant have anywhere else in San Francisco. [ ] [ ] district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. We have four neighborhoods that i represent. St. Marys park has a completely unique architecture. Very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in San Francisco. The Bernal Heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of San Francisco. There is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. It is as if you are swinging over the entire city. There are two unique aspects. It is considered the fourth chinatown in San Francisco. Sixty of the residents are of chinese ancestry. The second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. There is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. Not only for San Francisco but for the region. And of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the citys second biggest park after golden gate. Many people dont know the neighborhood in the first place if they havent been there. We call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. Every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. Where we are right now is the Mission District. The Mission District is a very special part of our city. You smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. They have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. And then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafe. It is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. Twentyfourth street is the birthplace of the movement. We have over 620 murals. It is the largest outdoor Public Gallery in the country and possibly the world. You can find so much Political Engagement park next to so much incredible art. Its another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [ ] it was formed in 2014. We had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. We worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. Most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. So the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. In the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the Mission District have been displaced from their community. We all know that the rising cost of living in San Francisco has led to many people being displaced. Lower and middle income all over the city. Because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. Its a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. There is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. There are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesnt completely erase the communities. We try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more Equitable Development in the area. You need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. The people on the businesses that came before you. You need to dialogue and show respect. And then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [ ] i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. So we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and workingclass. Back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. This is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. We created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. That is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. We have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [ ] [ ] 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. Im rebecca and im a violinist and violin teacher. I was born here in San Francisco to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew up surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. All types of activities happened in my house. I began playing piano when i was 4. I really enjoyed musical activities in general. So when i was 10, i began studying violin in San Francisco. And from there, i pretty much never stopped and went on to study in college as well. Thats the only thing ive ever known is to have music playing all the time, whether it is someone actually playing next to you or someone listening to a recording. I think that i actually originally wanted to play flute and we didnt have a flute. Its always been a way of life. I didnt know that it could be any other way. Could you give me an e over here. Great. When you teach and youre seeing a student who has a problem, you have to think on your feet to solve that problem. And that same kind of of thinking that you do to fix it applies to your own practice as well. So if im teaching a student and they are having a hard time getting a certain note, they cant find the right note. And i have to think of a digestible way to explain it to them. Ee, d, d, e. Yes. Then, when i go on to do my own practice for a performance, those words are echoing back in my head. Okay. Why am i missing this . I just told somebody that they needed to do this. Maybe i should try the same thing. I feel a lot of pressure when im teaching young kids. You might think that there is less pressure if they are going on to study music or in college that it is more relaxing. I actually find that the opposite is true. If i know im sending a High School Student to some great music program, theyre going to get so much more instruction. What i have told them is only the beginning. If i am teaching a student who i know is going to completely change gears when they go to college and they never will pick up a violin again there is so much that i need to tell them. In plain violin, it is so difficult. There is so much more information to give. Every day i think, oh, my gosh. I havent gotten to this technique or we havent studies they meese and they have so much more to do. We only have 45 minutes a week. I have taught a few students in some capacity who has gone on to study music. That feels anaysing. It is incredible to watch how they grow. Somebody can make amazing project from you know, age 15 to 17 if they put their mind to it. I think i have 18 students now. These more than ive had in the past. Im hoping to build up more of a studio. There will be a pee ono, lots of bookshelves and lots of great music. The students will come to my house and take their lessons there. My schedule changes a lot on a daytoday basis and that kind of keeps it exciting. Think that music is just my favorite thing that there is, whether its listening to it or playing it or teaching it. All that really matters to me is that im surrounded by the sounds, so im going top keep doing what im doing to keep my life in that direction. Neighborhood in San Francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them were in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the San Francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district Fishermans Wharf exhibit no. North beach Telegraph Hill and part of union square. All of San Francisco districts are remarkable im honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach Fishermans Wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in San Francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tightknit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, im one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the United States been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. It is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbucks exists and it created a really welcoming pot. It is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the Jefferson Starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet Lawrence William getty and jack herb man go hung out. They work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it theres a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and youd get [ ] [ ] so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m. I. T. , studying urban planning. So this is her hometown. So, we fell in love and moved to her city. [ ] [ ] i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. I was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. So it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. This is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. I mean we are the part of San Francisco. Its the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. Everybody likes to talk about how San Francisco is not familyfriendly, there are not a lot of children and families. We have predominately Single Family homes. As i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [ ] its different because again, we have little small storefronts. We dont have Light Industrial space or space where you can build highrises or large office buildings. So the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. Turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. Thats my usual. Mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. He worked in the drugstore forever. He saved his money and opened up his own spot. Were always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. Its like a Little Community gathering spot. This is the part of the city with a small town feel. A lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. There is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. I think there are some people that would embrace that. I think there are others that would prefer that not to be. I think we moved beyond that conversation. I think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and Small Businesses that we have here. In fact, its more of a mom and pop style business. I think at the end of the day, what were really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. Were the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. A lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. Im very fortunate to have that. Hi, good to see you. Just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how hes doing. Everything okay . Yeah. Good. We spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to Small Businesses. We put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. This is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a Significant Impact as you can see. What an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. For sure. We have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. So i think thats the richness of the mission and it always has been. Its what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. This is the School District for april 28, 2020. It is now called to order. Roll call please. Ms. Collins. Here. Mr. Cook. He is not here yet. Ms. Lam. Here. Ms. Lopez. Here. Ms. Norton. Yes. Are if student delegates with us . Thank you. All right
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