Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Appropriations Committees 20240713

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Please read items one and two together on the budget and finance committee agenda. 1. Resolution authorizing the director of property to exercise lease amends for leases of Real Property at 3119 Mission Street and 3120 Mission Street for office and Service Space with klw investments as landlord each for fiveyear terms to commence on july 1, 2020 to expire on june 30, 2025 at the combined Monthly Base Rent of 203,231. 60 for a total annual base rent of 2438779 with base rent increasing 3 per year. Two. Resis solution authorizing the director of property to exercise an option to extend a lease of Real Property located at 2 gough street for office space with rachris, llc as landlord for fiveyear term. Call us to line up to speak. Thank you. You may remember the two items one and two were continued from last weeks agenda. We heard these last week. I believe last week we had supervisor peskin also joining us. You might recall that last week we heard these items and asked the director of real estate to go back to the landlords and ask if we could renegotiate at a lower rent. I believe you are joining us today with an update. Thats correct. Good morning, chair fewer and supervisors, i am the director of real estate. As you just stated. I was before you last week seeking positive recommendation on these leases. You asked that i go back and talk to the landlords because you were concerned that the rate that was proposed did not reflect an anticipated downturn if option in the market. I am pleased to announce we had those negotiations. The landlords are not very happy, but we were able to achieve a 15 reduction in the proposed rate for each of these leases due in large part to the willingness of the landlords to continue the partnership with the city. As it relates to 2119 and 2120 Mission Street, the current rate is 46. 75. The proposal before you last week was 48. 45 per square foot. The new proposed rate is 41. 18. I would note in this case, the new proposed rate is below the current rate and represents an almost 20 reduction. 2 gough street it is 39. 40 per square feet. New rate today is 44. 78. This concludes my presentation. I am available to answer any questions that you may have as well as robert walsh from hsa. Do you estimate the total cost savings is over the time of this rent, how much we are safing total . I do not have that figure in front of me. I believe in the resolution it gives the annual rate, but it doesnt give the annual savings. I would be happy to get that to you. That would be great. Any comments or questions or congratulations and our appreciation . Supervisor mandelman. I want to extend congratulations for taking this back to the lessor for willingness to have this conversation. It is a weird moment to enter a lease extension. That was correct last week and i think this is clearly an improved result to the city, allows the space to be used for important City Services and also recognizes the fact that there has been this economic downturn. These coffers will be strained Going Forward. Thank you. Seeing no other comments. Could we have Public Comment on items one or two, please. Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. If you have not done so press one and 0 to be added to the queue. Madam chair, no callers are wishing to speak. Public comment is closed. I just want to say thank you for negotiating on behalf of the citizens of San Francisco. I would like to mention as budget chair i would accept before we are looking for any extension of leases that there would be a conversation about reduction in rent so we know we are in economic downturns. Thank you so much. I appreciate it very, very much. I would like to make a motion. If supervisor peskin is listening, thank you very much. I would like to move to the full board with a positive recommendation. Could we please have a roll call vote. Thank you. Due to the new rates, i want to ask if the resolution is to be amended . Yes, could we have the City Attorney weigh in, please. Good morning, chair, members of the committee. I expect the resolution would require amendments to reflect new terms of the lease. I have not been sent amendments. To the extent be they would reduce the amount of the money the city is approving they wouldnt be substantive. As suggested by the clerk i would expect the resolution approving the leases would have revisions to reflect changed terms. Would we be able to vote today or have to wait for the amendments . Madam chair, we did provide red lines and clean versions of the amended resolutions to the clerk. If those are available and you want to continue this item to later in todays meeting, i think we would have a chance to look at them so the committee would vote today if they are available for review. Okay. Madam clerk, have you been able to find that legislation . Yes, madam chair. My apologies. We do have the amended legislation. I will forward it to the members of the Budget Committee now. We can take item 3 and come back. Would you please send a copy to the City Attorney. Lets go to item 3, madam clerk, please read. Resolution approving modification number 14 to airport contract for the San Francisco International Airport Terminal One Development program with t1 to increase by 6 million for a new not to exceed amount of 38 million for services and extending the term through july 7, 2023 to commence following board approval. Members who wish to comment on this item should call us at 8882045984. Press one and zero to line up to speak. Thank you. We have cathy wagner from the San Francisco International Airport. Good morning. Cathy wagner from the San Francisco International Airport. The item before you would approve modification to an existing project Management Support Services contract with t1 partners for the airports t1 program boarding area b project. The modification increases the contract by 6 million for a new total contract amount of 38 million and extending the contract through july 7, 2023. The original contract was the result of a 2013 competitive request for proposals and was approved by the board for the current 32 million not to exceed amount. T1 partners provides Program Management services to the terminal milk project including Program Planning and Program Costs and schedule controls, cord nation of Program Management with Construction Management and other program services. The original Contract Term was one year with nine one year options to extend. The airport previously exercised six of the nine oneyear extension options through july 2020 within the originally approved 32 Million Contract amount. This proposed modification would increase the final three one year options to extend. The second phase of the t1 program opened last week with nine gates in boarding area b as well as south side tickets lobby. While the airport has reevaluated Capital Improvement andy layed projects based on the covid19 crisis. The harvey milk project is a priority and will continue as scheduled. The airport has 1 billion of capital im provement Funding Authority and we have adjusted so this will blast for 18 months with the hope that it goes through a recovery period. The budget analyst has reviewed this modification and recommends approval. I would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Could we hear from the bla, please. Good morning. Budget legislative Analyst Office. This approves the 14th amendment to the existing contract between the airport and t1 partners to provide Program Management services to harvey milk terminal renovation project. This would be approving the final three one year extensions of the contract. It was a 10 Year Contract to 2023 and increasing amount by 6 million from 32 million to 38 million. We summarize the 6 million increase in the contract on page 15 of our report. We also did have discussions with the airport about the cost of the contract, cost of the project and funding sources. There are some Revenue Bonds that would pay for the final part of this project which would cover the cost of the contract, also, as you look on page 16 of the report we do note there is cares act funding and passenger facility fee Funds Available to the airport to meet the revenue shortfall at the airport which is estimated at 200 million in the current fiscal year. Because the program is ongoing and this has been a performing contract that we do recommend approval of the resolution. Thank you very much. I see in the queue supervisor walton. Thank you. I have one question in terms of with the decrease in revenue for the airport, does this have any effect . Do we continue to monitor this . Just to clarify. Do you need to continue to monitor the capital plan or this contract specifically . Capital plan, this contract specifically, i know this wont be the last similar request we have. I am wondering with decrease in revenue how does that affect item three, and quite frankly Going Forward items that are going to be similar . This contract will be the final modification. This 6 million will closeout this contract for terminal 2 project. You will see some ongoing Capital Project items coming before you. As i said that entire project has been reevaluated with some projects delayed or removed so we can make our existing 1 billion authority in Capital Spending last for 18 months. I would be happy to get you some updated information on what projects we will be moving forward with andy laying if and what projects we will delay if that is helpful. Thank you very much. I will provide that to the committee. I have to say the airport did not reach out to us about this before. I didnt have an opportunity be to voice kernels. I am concerned about this contract. The airport is going to be in a slump more than 18 months. You have the buffer. We dont know how the economy l bounce back. We know if you need funds that most of the time happens that there are layoffs of workers. Actually, i think i would like to see that information before we actually have a vote on this. I would like to open this for comment and make a motion to continue this item into the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Can you please call for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers ready please be added to the queue. Madam chair, no callers are wishing to speak. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Ms. Wagner, i would like to learn a little bit more about how the airport is going to meet the shortfall. I would extend a shortfall to even after 18 months. We are looking into the next two or three fiscal years to get an understanding, deeper understanding how you are going to meet these shortfalls because airports have been hit very hard and also the airline as. We dont know which airlines will recover financially. I dont have any idea on what your plans are. If you could provide some information to us that would be great. Supervisor mandelman. I want to make sure there is no client sensitivity acting on this rather than next week. No, that is fine. I would like to make a motion to continue this item to the next budget and finance committee and could i please have a roll call vote. On the motion supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Three ayes. Item four ordinance amending ordinance 17019 the annual salary ordinance fys 20192020 and 2020221 to add active military Service Related to the covid19 pandemic to the enumerated events that qualify for supplementary military pay. Supervisor stefani, i think you are the speaker today. Thank you. Good morning. Before you today is a minor amendment to the annual salary ordinance which i have put forth to make sure everyone who responds to covid19 is adequately compensated. The annual ordinance provides the city to pay employees on military leave the difference between the city salary and military pay. The city pays the retirement contribution while on leave and other benefits to about which they are entitle if it is over 30days. This only applies to terrorist attacks. These do not apply to unit training or similar events. My amendment expands to include members of the military called into active duty for covid19 response authorized by the federal government in march. This came to me after i heard from two individuals who are currently served in this capacity with diminished pay and benefits. They are doing the work, most vital in our country right now. I dont believe it is right they suffer additional Financial Hardship for doing so. As the budget and legislative analyst pointed out this will cost approximately 55,000 for employee deployed. San francisco has a very low number of individuals deployed. I have identified only two individuals in San Francisco. There may be others. We know only about 1,000 people actually meet this definition statewide which is only. 2 of one percent or two people per 100,000. This will have a tremendous impact on the lives of the individual families but small impact on the county. I want to thank those who drafted this so quickly. Thank you for your consideration. Members of the committee, supervisor stefani. In response to what is presented this would amend the annual salary ordinance for 19202021 for those called up for military pay. Based on information provided by the department of Human Resources we estimate the cost for individual 55,000. This is generally paid out of existing City Department budgets, not an additional budgeted cost to the city. The number is not known at this time how many San Francisco employees would be eligible, however, as supervisor stefani pointed out based on data from the state legislative analyst only about 1,000 individuals have been called upstate wide as of early april. We consider approval a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Any comments or questions . I am sorry. I am on by phone. Hi, supervisor yee. Do you have a question or comment . Yes. I know that in talking abou ther day when the numbers that San Francisco had that were deployed, i think they were saying 2018, 2019, somewhere around there were out of the whole year there were 23 deployed from San Francisco. I dont know what the number states on there, but right now they have deployed about 1,000. Is that the same ratio you are seeing for those whole year deployment in which a small number of San Francisco residents were involved . I think 23 or something. The two that supervisor stephanie seemed reasonable in terms of the sort of the ratio San Francisco versus california . That is a question. Is that a question for supervisor stefani, is that correct or the bla . Bla. Reasonable percentage. 1,000 deployed so far for the pandemic. Supervisor stefani said possibly two versus some concrete data we have for the Previous Fiscal Year in which 23 san franciscans were deployed. Yes, president yee through the chair. We did not have any kind of estimate on how many San Francisco employees would be called up and qualify. 123 that we put in the report was basically we requested information from the department of Human Resources over the past two years how many have been called up and calculated the average cost. That was 123 San Francisco employees over the past two years called up or receiving military pay in an average cost of 55,000. There is no number in terms of those who would be called up for covid19 response. What we did get is state legislative Analyst Office state wide about 1,000 were called up as of april 8th. We assume if 1,000 were called up the actual number in terms of San Francisco would not be very large based on that information. We dont have a specific estimate. So i get the number i am after is for those two years in which there were 123 deployed. How many were deployed statewide . I do not have that information. I am sorry. Do you have that information . Thank you. I am not understanding the question. My understanding was 123 were deployed for active conflict. It is not statewide or for covid19. Go ahead. Can you please repeat the question. Thank you. I am trying to get a sense of proportion of the San Francisco versus statewide. What is the typical proportion. Since we dont really know if it is 1,000, i think that is in the state right now. What we dont know are the true numbers for San Francisco. We do know the true number for San Francisco deployed over the two years for combat was 123. I thought we had the numbers for how many were deployed statewide for those two years. Then we could get some idea of proportion. You are saying two out of 1,000. It could be true, i dont know. I am trying to find out if that is close to what the proportion might be. We dont know the proportion. You dont have the number, nothing we can do. Okay. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public to comment on item four . It is breaking up. There are no callers in the queue. They have to fill it out on their timecard. We would follow up. Okay. Madam clerk, is there something wrong with my speaker . Then i would like to make a motion to move with a positive motion to the floor. Roll call, please. On the motion. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Fewer. Aye. Three. Ayes. Can i ask to see if they can get how many in california were deployed over those two years. So i have a better sense on this at the full committee, full board. We will provide that information prior to the Board Meeting next tuesday. Thank you. Thank you very much. Would it be possible to go back to items one and two before the next item which is lengthy . Back to items one and two. I have the information you asked for previously. For the Mission Street leases, the savings over fiveyear term is 1,942,000,840. For the golf street lease over the 5 year term the savings 586,215. The total savings for all three leases is a little over 2. 5 million. All right. Every dollar helps. Thank you very much. Are these amendments substanti substantive . Madam City Attorney . No, they are not. I make a motion to approve the amendment roll call vote, please. On the motion to approve the amendments for items one and two supervisor walton. Aye. Mandelman. Aye fewer. Aye. There are three eyes. I would like to make a motion to move items one and two as amended to the board with positive recommendation. Roll call vote, please. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Chair fewer. Aye. There are three ayes. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, did you read item 5 already . Item 5. Resolution authorizing the Treasure Island Development Authority to execute a standard agreement with the California Department of housing and Community Development under the Affordable Housing Program Total award of 20 million to the department sponsor of 100 Affordable Housing project at parcel c31 and 6. 2 million to be disbursed as a grant from hcd to the authority for Public Transportation improvements on Treasure Island for the period starting on the execution date of the standard agreement to june 30, 2039. Members of the publicsual call the 8882045984 access code 3501008 and press one to line up to speak. Thank you. We have bob beck here from tie a and the San Francisco tda. Mr. Beck, are you presenting . Thank you, chair. Yes, members of the committee, bob beck. I have a half dozen slides to present, but eric of the Transportation Authority and mercy housing are also on the line if members of the committee have questions. Okay. Can you see my presentation . No, we cannot. Let me try again. As mentioned. We have an except and expands resolution for a 20 million grant award from the state department of housing and Community Development. The Affordable Housing and Sustainability Community Grant Program is administered by the Strategic Council and implemented through the department odepartment of housid Community Development and provides grants for transportation and housing and infrastructure housing to achieve Greenhouse Gas reductions and deliver community benefits. The nofa was issued by the department of housing and Community Development november of 2018, and in january of 2019, the board of supervisors approved resolution 3919 authorizing tida to apply jointly with mercy housing under the Grant Program. We filed an application in february of 2019, and hcd issued award announcements on july of 2019. The resolution before you today authorizes tida to execute the standard agreement and related documents to accept the fundin fundings. Of the funding and the application, approximately 13. 75 million is directed to mercy housing to help fund the development of our second 100 Affordable Housing project on the island in partnership with Catholic Charities. It will be 138 apartment units, 71 replacement units for existing Catholic Charities households on the island. 23 transition units helping tida fulfill the obligation to existing market rate residents on the island. Additional new 44 affordable units. It has a mix of one, two, three and four bedroom units. Our predevelopment loan was approved by mohcd in february of 2019, and their target start for construction is the First Quarter of next year. You can see the renderings of the proposed building that mercy is designing along with the architects and where it will be located on Treasure Island. The transportation elements which will be implemented through tida include funding that we will direct to the Transportation Authority for bike and ped elements within the limits of the recently awarded south gate hillcrest interchange project. Those elements will connect the east span bike path with bike and ped improvements by the master developer on mic collow road. A c transit buses will serve the islands and some funding to help support the construction of the intermodal hub improvements serving bus and ferry improvements at the front of the island. A small amount of funding for tod partnerships, 189,000 will go to mercy housing to support the purchase of transit passes for residents for the first three years of occupancy and 40,000 to go to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to help fund bicycle education and advocacy efforts. That concludes my presentation, but i would be happy to take any questions that you may have. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions . There is no bla report. Public comment first. Could we please hear Public Comment on item 5. Operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. If you have not done so please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those on hold waits until you are prompted to begin at the beat. Madam chair no callers are wishing to speak. Public comment is closed. I would like to make a motion. I see no one in the queue. I would like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Rolling call vote. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Chair fewer. Aye. Three ayes. Thank you very much. Madam clerk please call item one of the budget appropriations committee. Item one please review the budget process and related updates and request the Controllers Office and Mayors Office and the budget and analyst report. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call is 8882045984 access code 3501008 and press one and zero to line up to speak. Thank you very much. We have with us ashley from the mayors Budget Office and ben from the Controllers Office. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for having me this morning. As the chair said i am ashley, deputy budget director in the mayors Budget Office to provide a brief update on spending in the citys response to covid19. I have one slide. Can everyone see that . No. Now we can. Okay. As of monday, may 4th, the city has expended im sorry. This seems to have an old number. I am not sure what happened. 68. 9 million on the covid19 response effort to date. That is a 5. 4 million increase from the prior week. Much of that increase is made up for an increase cost of ppe and additional spending on noncongregate shelter. To remind you of the big cost drivers here. The city has expended 31. 7 million in salary and benefits for staff involved in the response. This is mostly reallocation of existing budgeted staff time. The second largest category we are tracking is 19. 9 million for health response, which includes additional nurse or physician staffing, supplies such as ppe. We have spend 8. 1 on noncongregate shelter and Homeless Support Services increase from the prior week. Lastly, this other category which i will resend the slides. 9. 2 in other costs that is mostly for cost related to it or maintaining the Emergency Operations center, things like that. That is a very brief update. Our office in conjunction with the Controllers Office will provide additional detail in the coming weeks with a little bit more of projection for how the city will spend through the remainder of the fiscal year and some Additional Information on state and federal revenue. That concludes my very brief presentation. Thank you very much. Does the controller have anything for us today . Hi this is reesa from the Controllers Office. We are working with the Mayors Office within the next week or so. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen. Yes, thank you so much. Last week you or kelly and ben had mentioned that the majority of these costs were going to be covered by federal and state reimbursement. I am wondering if that still continues to be the case as you prepare this report. We will get it next week and have the full picture. In terms of update from last week is that still the case . As part of this big report that reesa mentioned we are getting a lot of matching sources and uses so there is a lot of information out there. We are hopeful that fema will reimburse us for many of these costs and that we can fill other remainder gaps with other sources, but, like i said, we project the cost for the remainder of the year to see if fema and the money we received from the federal government to date will be sufficient. That exercise is very much happening. We will have a much fuller update for you at that time. Thank you. I think, also, that mr. Delarosa mentioned that they will submit reimbursement every two weeks. The actual number so we can get an update how much we received, how much has been approved and what they are submitting for. That would be a good thing for us to hear, also. Comments or questions, colleagues . I have a fewments few comments. For the last few weeks i have asked a standing weekly item for updates in realtime and ask questions. The next few weeks we will get significantly more information about the budget. It is my commitment to ensure that the board of supervisors is prepared to participate in the budget process. My office will send out the final updated calendar today and posting on the website. Colleagues there is room for additional hearings in the coming two months. I will work with your office to identify the top pressing budget related issues that we must prioritize as a committee. I wanted to lay out what the next few meetings of this committee will look like. Next week, may 13, we will go back to regularly scheduled 1 0d Appropriation Committee meeting. May 13th will be a presentation on the updated joint report from take mayors on an legislative age list will provide an update. May 20 the committee will hear the proposed new balancing plans to address the deficit in the current fiscal year and plan to hear the mayors budget instructions for the coming two year budget. In the month of july and june we will hold Department Hearings to inform the boards priority and how to engage in the budget process. This caused by the covid19 is rocking San Francisco, the country and the world, particularly our city. Incredible particularly for or city which has seen incredible Economic Growth consistently for several years. This is requiring us to think differently. I want to be clear. While we are facing tough decisions, San Francisco is still a city of immense wealth. In the previous worse Case Scenario posed the city will face a 1. 7 billion deficits over 2. 5 years. The San Francisco budget last year exceeded 12 billion annually. Yes, we will need to make sufficient decisions. As the city will be okay. As this pandemic pulled back the curtain on the disparities. Iit is important to protect our residents who are hurting the most. How we prioritize will be telling what kind of city we want to be. We could be a city that continues in the great inequities precovid19. I will be asking with regard to spending in the coming weeks. Some of this will come through the updated joint report that will be heard at this committee next week. The Controllers Office will compare how this compares to the two prior recessions so we have historical context. I will be also working to ensure the most transparency on the budget for departments to consider service in the coming years. I am asking the office of Racial Equity to help provide analysis of any proposed reductions in services or staffing. Colleagues will continue to be in the process in the coming weeks and months, dont hesitate to reach out to get ideas or thoughts how to spend our time as a committee moving forward. Any comments or questions, if not we will open it up for Public Comment. Can you see if there are any people in the queue to speak. Operations is checking to see if there are any callers. Please let us know if callers are ready if you have not done so please press one and zero. If you are on hold continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beat. Madam chair, no callers are wishing to speak. Public comment is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue to the call of the chair. Second, please. Second. From president yee. Roll call vote, please. On the motion. Supervisor walton. Aye. Mandelman. Aye. Aye. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Chair fewer. Aye. Five. Ayes. Any more business before us today . No further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for monday, april 27, 2020. I am the chair of the committee i aaron peskin joined by vice chair staff fieand dean preston. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency to protect board members, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting room only as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on channel 26 and sfgovtv are sharing the number on the screen. Each member is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code 3501008. Then press pound and press pound again. Dial one and 0 to be added to the queue to speak. While waiting the system will be silent. It will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for timely days between life coverage and streaming. Call from a quiet place. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment by emailing me. If you submit Public Comment it will be included in the legislative file. Written comments may be sent through the u. S. Postal service to city hall. Thank you, ms. Major the let me thank our backup house staff brent and john and all of the folks from the Clerks Office for doing the incredible work that you have been doing since the shelterinplace and Virtual Meeting started at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, could you please read the first item. Item 1. Ordinance amending the planning code to create the occupancy residential use amending the code to clarify the existing law regarding enforceability and controls to conduct a study to analyze the impact of the units in the city and firm appropriate findings. Members of the public who wish to comment should calm 888 2045984 access code 3501008. Bless one and zero to line up to speak. Colleagues an supervisors. This is the seventh time it has been to the committee. It is a long road and very complicated. I am not the first supervisor to deal with intermediate length occupancy or corporate rental issues in San Francisco. It dates back to the 1980s and days of Karen Callanan and later at the end of the 1990s with supervisor mabel tang, and we were actually scheduled to have this hearing right when the covid19 crisis went into effect the last set of amendments were adopted on march 9th and as you will both recall, based in a large part on the comments of supervisor preston with regard to land use entitlement project that occurred at the board of supervisors last tuesday, i felt it important to bring this back and get it passed once and for all. I really want to thank my chief of staff who has done the hard policy lifting. We introduced this last year in october. It has been before the Planning Commission twice, and i just want to give you a brief recap. We have met with countless stakeholders from the tenants community, from the short term or the intermediate length Occupancy Committee that comes in a variety of different buckets. Here in short is what the legislation i will remind you although i know you are both familiar does. First, clarifying the law around the prohibition of corporate rentals in rent control Housing Stock with very specific tailored exemptions we have discussed that are subject to earlier amendments. As the legislative digest says, that was already part of chapter 37 of the administrative code but not as clear as it could have been. This will clarify that. We are creating the middle bucket of housing not covered by price controls but covered by tenant protections and creating conditional use process. That planning will have two years to approve up to 1,000 conditional uses for permitted ilos, intermediate length occupancy units based on the cry criteria the Planning Commission and stakeholders offered as guidelines previously adopted in amendments. We are directing the Controllers Office to direct what future controls we undertake as the board of supervisors to regulate and evaluate and monetize future ilo development. I want to thank a host of different organizations ranging from the tenants union, housing rights committee, the tenants association. San francisco apartments association. Senior disability action. Eviction defense, asian law caucus. Local two and representatives of the industry that have met with myself ranging from sander to zoos and any other number every sent entrants into the ilo field. We have also, as i think i joked at an earlier meeting, i dont think i have ever introduced in my 20 years one piece of legislation that has activated every single lobbyist in San Francisco, but i also want to thank them for their time and the suggestions that we have made in part as amendments in february and in march. Then finally, i probably should have started with this. I want to thank my cosponsors, supervisor preston and supervisor fewer who have both been fierce advocates around this issue and around tenant protections and Affordable Housing. Supervisor safai raised some very good questions about defi defining the 25 cap for less than 10 units. We have long since adopted those, and that is now very clear in the legislation. That will not be subject to Zoning Administrator interpretations and appeals of interpretations. Thank you, supervisor safai. As to buildings of 10 or more and Owner Operator to establish the ilo can do those and for buildings with more than 10 dwelling units, 20 of those units may be permitted as ilos until we deal with the results of the study up to 1,000 unit cap. We have heard from planning and the Planning Commission at several earlier hearings. I did ask Robert Collins from the rent board to be on the line in case we have any questions for him. Finally, i am aware that the San Francisco day school who we met with has expressed interest in some amendments. Because this has been kicking around so long, i do not want to entertain those amendments today because i do not want to kick this can further down the road. I am open to considering amendments and cleanup legislation in the months ahead. I do not want to be in a position to rerefer this to the Planning Commission or to further delay the legislation, but you have my word that we will certainly entertain be reasonable amendments to this, i think, quite important piece of legislation. With that i would like to turn it over to my colleagues for any questions. I am going to press on the chat to see if your name is on there. Supervisor would either of you preston like to add anything or have questions or comments . Thank you, and i do want to talk about the issue you just raised about the San Francisco head of School Michael walker was in touch with our office as well. That is here in district 5. They are looking at some faculty rental of two Small Properties they own right near the school. As you noted they had questions about application of the ordinance. Before i get into that, i want to recognize and thank you, chair peskin, for your work on this ordinance for really talking with such a broad range of stakeholders. I want to thank the bla for the report to lay a Strong Foundation to deal with as much data as we could in terms of shaping the proposal. This is extremely important. I will note. I talked on other issues in committee about my background working as tenant rights attorney for a long time. This issue in a different form has been around a long time looking at the effectively the conversion of a lot of property to different forms of corporate rentals with everyone banking their head against the wall how to tackle this. This is not a problem that is new in the last year or two years or since there was a new website to facilitate this. This is a longstanding issue, complicated to address, and i want to commend you for all of your work in, hopefully, being on the verge of bringing this home to law. I did want to ask around the issue with day school. I certainly do not want in any way to slow this down and fully respect the need and agree with the need to move this forward and if cleanup is necessary, i will do that separately. I am curious for the City Attorney or the chair to address when the situation, my understanding the situation is a rental by a school. To a faculty member, and i think there is a possibility that can be for less than a year if the person leaves employment, basically. They would then be able to use that unit for a different faculty member. That seems like a reasonable request from the school. I am not sure if that is prohibited. I have been trying to wrap my brain around whether that requires an amendment or not. I was curious to hear the City Attorneys view or chair peskin as the sponsor here whether you have any thoughts on the application. The schools are struggling to maintain teachers and wants to offer the units to those struggling to be in San Francisco. I am curious if either to chair peskin or to the deputy City Attorney pearson whether the ordinance would preclude that kind of rental. Thank you for that question. I will take a nonlawyers run at that. In many ways what you just said is akin to the provisions under chapter 37 of the administrative code as it relates to on site Property Managers who have units as a term of employment. Deputy City Attorney seemed to think that was also the case here, and i dont want this to be about one particular school. I will keep repeating the outfit that hired a lobbyist who has been calling all of us. My understanding it is very different when it is a term of employment as opposed to what is set forth here in the ilo ordinance. I will defer a real answer to competent council, ms. Pearson. Deputy City Attorney ann pearson. It would make it unlawful to use it as a nondent use. Nontent use is defined as renting to corporate entity or housing for ones employees or licensees or independent contractors. I do think that to the extent that the concern is raised if schools want to rent housing to their employees and to condition occupancy on continued employment as a teacher in the school, that it would be prohibited by the current draft. It makes exemptions, one of which pair peskin noted which was an exception which they are providing to the employees as condition of employment to assist with maintenance or management of the building. We have made that exception for those types of employees. To address the issue you have raised here, you could make a similar exception for the employees of schools who are providing housing for their teachers. Thank you. Through the chair, would such an amendment require this to go back to planning or delay in any way the proceeding or is that the type of amendment if we were to desire to do that we would be able to do here without delaying the process . That amendment would be to the administrative code. Would not require referral back to Planning Commission. It would not require a continuance. Would that be the language at section 37. 9f 3d 3 where in the d would be submitted where an organization with tax ex emstatus under 26 united code section 501 c3 or 4 providing access to unit for the mission to provide housing . I think that is where we would propose to add the language to address this. The language you could add would be or in furtherance of the primary mission of education by providing housing to teachers. That does not require referral and could be adopted today . Thats right. All right. Mr. Chair, just so we dont think it is about one school. I got a call from the representatives of the school that straddles mine and supervisor yees district. They have housing for teachers they were concerned would not bible to access under this ordinance. I favor that amendment as well to help out. I am sure there is more than just two educational institutions that would be providing housing for teachers to further the mission of education. Sounds good. Do you have any other comments . Actually not on that issue. If we are in agreement, can we ask the City Attorney to come up with language we could do between now and when this goes to the full board so we can addd adopt that. They may have dapted drafted something simple. I am happy to read the proposed language now. As chair peskin said on page 16 at line 21. Amendment to subsection cfd an organization with taxexempt status is providing access to provide housing, or in furtherance of the primary mission of education by providing housing to teachers. Now that i know this does not require a continuance or referal i am entirely happy to adopt those 10 words. Great. I make a motion to adopt those. Would you like Public Comment . Yes. I still have comments and questions before we do that. We will hold that motion subject to Public Comment. Supervisor safai, the floor is yours. I want to commend you and your team and the interested parties that helped you work on this. This probably dates back to your first time on the board of supervisors. It is years in the making. This is a monumental lift. I just want to commend you on that. I appreciates you incorporating the clarifying terms of dwelling units impacted. One question. It is silent on units of size one to three. I wanted you to talk about that so i understand it clearly. Hold on one moment and i will get the appropriate language. Basically, you can do ilos in one, two, three units. A four unit building would allow one ilo. Eight or nine units two allow two ilos. I just didnt see it. Maybe i have the outdated version. You inkorporated in one through three are okay . If you look at the fourth legislative digest, you will see that is set forth in the fourth legislative digest. I am looking for the exact spot. At the march 9, 2020 Land Use Committee hearing legislation amended to clarify the three buildings nine or fewer dwelling units. Ilo units not permitted. I said it reverse. Buildings three or fewer. Four and nine you can have 25 . That would be one in a four and two in an eight or nine. I apologize for my misstatement. Okay. Still not permitted in three or less . Correct. Okay. We had a few people that came that day that actually had two Unit Properties and they had spent money to incorporate those into their buildings, and i know we had an open conversation about that. What is it . Are you finalized in terms of your position in terms of three or less . That is our a. D. U. Policy which is very clear a. D. U. S we want to incentivize not for Short Term Rentals or for intermediate lent occupancy, permanent housing. That is Housing Stock that lends to longterm membership in a community. That was my thinking. I apologize more my earlier misstatement. I see that. I think is that right. I think that in many ways we have put legislation forward that says we want to encourage a. D. U. S. What i was saying for the ones that are i dont know how many there are. If there are a handful of people operating in that space i guess i had landed on the two or less. If they were operating are they going to be nonconforming, have to stop i wonder if there was consideration for that. After the effective date, 1a ilo occupancy ceases because they are intermediate length, the new tent would have to have a lease of a year or longer. Okay. And remember these are relative to the four to nine they are principally permitted. No conditional uses required. I got it. Thank you. Other than that i think we have done everything we can to make this a really great piece of legislation. I appreciate the amendment for the educational institution. Thank you. If you have no additional comments has we open this up to Public Comment . Seeing no objection, we will open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public to testify on item one . Checking to see if there are callers in the queue. There are three callers. You have two minutes beginning now. Yes, i am andrew long. I am an owner occupier of a three unit building. I have a problem with this legislation. This is a solution looking for a problem. These intermediate tenant sees are not a problem at all. In the past i had tenants that requested sixmonth leases because of hard times, because they werent sure how long they were able to stay in the bay area after september 11th. I rented out places on six months to give flexibility and peace of mind rather than forcing a 12 police. Some stayed a long time and some didnt. Students only need a place nine months. You are creating a situation only offering on a 12 polic 12 r the lease. I dont see the point of the legislation with people offering something less than 12 police. 12 month 12 months. These are empty units. Regarding the this is going to cause fewer units to be offered actually. As far as noticing in advertisement and marketing. That is off putting to people. Rather than having in the advertising, loo look at the disclosure about rent control in the lease similar to ad1482 rather than in every marketing piece of information. That is it for my comment. You have not already done so press one and zero to be added to the call. Next caller, please. You have two minutes to speak starting now. Good afternoon. This is mike walker. Head of the San Francisco day school. I want to thank all of the supervisors and specifically supervisor peskin and preston. I am overjoyed that the amendment passed. I want you to know you just made a group of teachers very happy. I can go to the staff and offer apartments to two teachers. Had a statement prepared to thank you so much for your attention for what you just did for the city. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Walker. Next caller, please. Linda trap man. [ inaudible ] Short Term Rentals like a hotel. [ inaudible ] i am not sure how well you protected the rentals. [ inaudible ] when i went to washington, d. C. There were apartments for three or four months or Something Like that on that basis. You know, it is troubling. They are part of the building and instead of the lease for six months for Something Like that, what they do is make it impossible for people to come. I am not in a position to make good comments. I havent had a chance to discuss it. You know, i just want to make sure you dont grandfather in buildings in some way. If somebody is grandfathered in they had nothing as a right. The fact they rented the place and leased it doesnt mean they have an investment to use. [ inaudible ] thank you. I am allen mark. I have a two unit building and i live in one of the units and i do a rental in the other unit. This legislation the way i understand it is proposed would be a big detriment to people looking for hotter term housing short term housing. My primary tenants rent two to six months. They are doctors for Short Term Research studies or traveling nurses working at various hospitals or people divorcing where one of the parties needs to immediately move out of their house on a short term basis. People coming for surgery who need a short term two to three month recoupperation period. I am wondering where all of these people are going to go who dont want to stay in hotel rooms. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Do we have another caller . You have two minutes to speak starting now. This is gary briggs, a member of the San Francisco Apartment Association and also member of the San Francisco association of realtors. I am in opposition of this legislation for a lot of very good reasons, some of which have been discussed, others havent been. I live in an Owner Occupied building. We have a lot of people that are seeking rentals for short term, sometimes it is because they are looking to relocate, and they are only needing the rental for three months then monthtomonth, which we allow them to do. They can find more permanent housing. They are searching the neighborhoods they like best. We have traveling nurses. They only need a place for two or three months then their contract is extended. There are a lot of reasons that people seek Short Term Rentals, and it is a natural process. By denying this processor limiting the number of rentals, doesnt make sense. To make owners go through a c. U. To collect their rental units short term is more bureaucracy. That makes no sense. Why would you have owners go through that type of condition to try to get a unit so they can continue to do what they have be denning . I have been doing. I urge you to seek input and guidance from the San Francisco association of realtors and Apartment Association. In the current straight this is not something that they signed up on or have all of the. There are no more callers wishing to speak. Thank you to the members of public who testified on this item. I just want to offer to a number of the speakers some high level suggestions. One is that if you want to engage in the short term rental business and you qualify under chapter 41a of the administrative code, you can rent a unit out as a short term rental and people are welcome to do that under a piece of legislation that the board of supervisors passed and was then enacted into law. The broken leases and i say this as a small land lord my selfs there is nothing the required a landlord to go after a tenant who has moved out short of the term of his or her lease. Finally, i want be to say one of the things that is really important in this legislation is the fact that this differentiates between natural people ancho and and the core people. That is long overdue. In many cases these are not rented out by people. They are rented out by corporations, United Airlines who uses units as Revolving Doors for flight attendants instead of using a downtown class a hotel, i have watched buildings in my district that have been hollowed out that used to have a steady longterm community that now neighbors dont recognize neighbors any more. This has been exploited by a number of online platforms, many of which are actually from San Francisco as we speak. I appreciate the words from the San Francisco day School Supervisor safai made that motion earlier subject to Public Comment. We can take that without objection. Is that okay . No, i am sorry. We have to call the roll. Madam clerk please call the road on supervisor safais motion. Supervisor preston. Aye. Affisee. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Three ayes. On the item as amended can we send this to the full board with recommendations without objection . A roll call, please. On the motion as stated supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. Next item. Ordinance of the planning code in if urban mixed use district all office uses prohibited except a special Financial Service or medical Service Allowed as conditional use on the ground floor when primarily open to the general public on the client oriented basis. Members of public should call 888 2045984. Access code 3501008 and one and zero to speak. This item was brought to us by supervisor ronen. Her staff amy joins us now. I think is working on some amendments that might not be ripe for introduction today. The floor is yours. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. Legislative aid on support of supervisor ronen. This planning code amendments were to promote new housing and uses in the citys neighborhood specifically this legislation was permitted use on the upper floors and would allow neighborhoods serving offices on the ground floor. No change to any other uses including arts and Light Manufacturing as well as housing which continue to be permitted. The legislation was heard last week at Planning Commission. Several recommendations came out of Planning Commission, and on behalf of supervisor ronen i request today a one week continuance to consider the recommendations and to come back to you with amendments next week. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number two which we intend to continue for one week and will be subject to Public Comment next week as well . Is there anybody in the queue. We are checking for callers in the queue. Two callers. Press one and zero to be added. If you are on hold please continue to wait. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. Corey smith on behalf of the San Francisco Housing Action coalition. This has been a topic when this has come up in previous discussions and hearings, and we just want to continue to reiterate our grandfathering for this piece of legislation. Having the rules throughout the process is critical to creating certainty and more uncertainty in the Development Process to add to the overall cost of building housing in a significant way. Specifically requesting a grandfathering clause for projects with this piece of legislation. Thank you. Is there another caller . You have two minutes to speak. Good afternoon. Representing the project sponsor for 200 harrison. 2300 harrison. We are asking for a grandfathering clause. We understand it is continued to allow revisions. We hope the grandfathering clause is one of them. We will hold comments today. We respectful lie ask for grandfathering so 2300 harrison can go through normal appeal processes. Instead of the legislation introduced after the first approval. We look forward to the next time this comes up and hope you will include a grandfathering clause. Thank you. Is there another caller . Hello, you have two minutes starting now. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am amad principal of the associates architects. Offices in the umu district. I have been here for 15 years. Heard of this accidentally. I will leave most of it to next week. We have moders december 8,000 square foot building proposing adding 4,000 square feet of office. I am located there. I humbly as the previous caller said as well ask for you to make a provision for grandfathering projects submitted. We spent a year with the neighbors and negotiating with planning in preapplication with neighborhood associations and we spent a great deal of money on this. I really appreciate the sentiment behind this, but i love my neighborhood. I love the vibrancy in the daytime as well and i dont want to see it go away, but most important i would ask for a grandfathering clause even if you adopt this legislation, please give us the opportunity to continue with our project. Thank you very much. Next speaker. This is colin, senior advice adviser with the housing coalition. This is a project of importance 2300 harrison. I wont listing the many benefits. Two things. If the legislation is for the project the city would preserve offices legal nonconforming use and surface parking lot for many years to come. Is that intended . If the city rejected 3. 5 million fee at the time it is facing a budget blood bath . I believe the legislation would be approved with an amendment to allow grandfathering. In my 15 years of land use legislation i am not aware of a proposal affecting Housing Production didnt include one. I would commend supervisor peskin for the times he has incorporated grandfathering in earlier proposals. The principal is this. Not fair to change the rules when a project sponsor has for several years been in good faith followed the rules and done everything asked of them. The reasonable expectation of getting project approval. I would say that i dont think the sponsor is asking for special treatment of concessions rather requesting what is customary and part of the previous land use legislation before you. Thank you very much. Next caller. I am john. I am one of the sponsors of the project at 2455 harrison street. I agree with the other callers on the need for a grandfathering clause. This would adversely affect the project we have put the Financial Resources in since 2018. The change of the code would be unfair. I disagree with some of the statements or perceptions as it is currently written. As it was introduced by supervisor ronens office, she referred to the code allowing office use on the upper floors. As it stands it is only allowed on the second floor. I could go on and on. I will speak more next week. I certainly support the grandfathering clause. I think that it needs office space and there is a demand for it. To promote more housing we should look at increased height restrictions. That is all. Next caller. Two minutes. Thank you. Assistant director for the regional council. I want to make sure we express our support for the commissions recommendation to add a grandfathering clause to the current ordinance. I want to make sure that the commission is well aware the partners are in support of that amendment. I will save my comments for next week. Thank you. There are no further comments. Seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment. Public comment is closed. If there is no objection, colleagues, we will continue this item one week to next monday. Seeing no objection, that will be the order. We have to do a roll call. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Motion to continue to may 4th Committee Supervisor preston. Safai. Aye. Peskin. Aye. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. See you all tomorrow. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a Community Ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the Community Ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a Community Ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. Have this project approved and then complete the seismic work. But in other words, in other steps of work for the mill, the contracts are in compliance. Thank you. Human services, trent roar, the director of homelessness and housing, Abigail Stewart khan, and the director of our healthy streets Operation Team, jeff kazinski, people who are consistently working on the front lines to help us deal with many of the challenges that exist as it relates to covid19 in San Francisco. As of today, we have 1,754 cases of covid19, and sadly we have had 31 people pass away as a result. Currently there are 84 people that are hospitalized, and for more information, please visit datasf. Org covid19 for details. I want to just start today on a little bit of a lighter note in recognition of so many of the First Responders and Health Care Workers that are on the front lines doing the incredible work to keep us all safe. Monday was International Firefighters day, and i had an opportunity to drop off lunch to our firefighters at station 6, and just express my appreciation for their work. The firefighters and the paramedics and the people who are called to so many very challenging scenes continue to work very hard for our city during this pandemic, and we appreciate the work that they do. And as we know, in the age of social distancing, they dont have the luxury to socially distance themselves when they are trying to save someones life, and they still put their lives on the line, so i want to express my appreciation to the firefighters and paramedics in San Francisco, and also today is the oneyear anniversary of our fire cheer janine scott. Janine nicholson. Got my police and fire chiefs fixed up. Janine nicholson has been on the job for about a year now. Today is her anniversary where she was sworn in. Shes been doing an amazing job, and again, i want to express my appreciation to the men and women of the San Francisco fire department. And today is also National Nurses day, and this is an incredible opportunity. I know so many of you have done really amazing things, whether its coming outside and clapping or singing songs or sending messages to our Health Care Providers as well as our nurses in particular who are doing the hard work, who are directly in contact with people who have the virus and those who are dealing with a number of other health challenges. I want to take this opportunity to especially send a heartfelt thank you to the nurses here in San Francisco and all over the country for the work that you have been doing to help us throughout this pandemic. Those are the real unsung heroes, the folks who have to put themselves on the line, the folks who are asking us to make sure they have ppe so that they can help support the patients that they care so deeply about. So i just wanted to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for your work. I want to talk a little bit about our Small Businesses. Governor newsom plans to announce the next phase in the statewide shelterinplace order tomorrow, and we are working to understand the exact details of what that would entail. And as i said on monday, its important that we work hand in hand with the state on guidelines to reopen, but we need to do so responsibly. And what that means is we the governor is providing the guidelines for the state as a whole, but the reason why our counties have control over whether or not we implement some of those suggestions has everything to do with whats happening with the facts, with the numbers, how many more cases, how many more deaths, whats happening on the ground in our cities so that we can make good decisions to continue to protect people. As much as i want to see so many Small Businesses reopening in San Francisco, i want people to get back to work, i want these places to thrive, i want people in San Francisco to have access to things that they know and love, the challenge we will continue to have in San Francisco in particular is making sure that and dr. Colfax will talk more about this, but the numbers are still going up. The number of deaths are still going up, and we have not lowered the curve, so we have to be mindful of that and we have to be responsible when we look at ways to bring various industries back, implementing the kinds of guidelines that are going to continue to limit direct contact with one other. Already we saw in a study that was done in the mission with the number of people who were infected, many of the folks primarily who were infected are people who have essential workers who have no choice but to go to work to make ends meet and also because they are essential workers. So we want to keep that in mind. The more that people have interactions with other people, the likelihood that other folks will continue to get infected. And so as difficult as i know this has been, we need to keep that in mind when making decisions about reopening. And so im really excited that weve allowed construction to occur in our city. Its not only important for the Job Opportunities for those who work in construction, but its also important for the desperately needed housing thats under construction in San Francisco. In time for mothers day, the flower shops are able to provide deliveries, just in time to send your mom or your loved one or someone you care about flowers, or just maybe order some for yourself. The things that we are doing to try and get these businesses open, we will continue to use facts, use data and get them back in business as quickly as possible. And i will tell you we are working very hard to come up with the kinds of guidelines that will continue to protect Public Health. This is really a longterm plan. The fact is, without a vaccine, we are going to be living with concerns around the covid19 for months to come, and so its time that we started getting creative and providing solutions and making sure that were working around that while still allowing people to open their businesses and to make sure that our economy is not even more damaged than we know it will be as a result of this. And so we will continue to work with the department of Public Health to make good decisions about how to get our city going again, and its going to take time. Its going to take patience. I know were asking a lot of all of you, and i just want to, again, express my appreciation to so many of you who have followed the order and done your part, and its definitely appreciated, and there is Additional Support in that arena needed as well. I also want to express my appreciation for what has been happening in dolores park in particular. We know that there were some challenges this past weekend, in sunday in particular, and as a result of the announcement that i made on monday, people are following the rules, and weve been monitoring the park, along with other parks and other areas in the city, and we want to really express our appreciation. Today is a beautiful day. Im not suggesting you go out and have a picnic and meet with your friends. Those things are prohibited, and we know this weekend is probably going to be nice, so when enjoying the park space and the fresh air, please, please, please make sure that you are only doing it with the people who are part of your household and you maintain six feet distance from all other parties, and you dont invite friends in to have a wine party or a picnic or anything of that nature. This is really about making sure that you have the benefits of our park, but also we have to be very, very careful, because the coronavirus is here in San Francisco, and people are impacted, and this is the last thing that we want to see happen as a result of our hard work and maintaining our distance for all this time. So please continue to follow the order. We will be monitoring dolores park and other hotspots very, very carefully, and if necessary, we will make a swift decision if we see that the park is overrun in a way that we cant necessarily control it. Its for your own safety, so thank you again for your cooperation so far and please continue to follow the order when enjoying our parks. Today i want to just announce a plan, and jeff kazinski who is here from the healthy streets Operation Team will talk more in detail about it, but they have been very, very hard at work. Many of you are familiar with the healthy streets Operation Center which is hsoc, and its part of a group that stands various city agencies where we work with the Homeless Outreach team, the hot team. We work with the San Francisco Police Department. We work with the department of Public Health and a number of other organizations in order to address the challenges with healthy streets in San Francisco. We know that continues to be a challenge, but the reason why weve been able to make gains before this pandemic had a lot to do with this team of people who are working collaboratively to address the challenges on our streets. And so the Human Rights Commission under the leadership of cheryl davis created a Tenderloin Community round table with stakeholders from the neighborhood, and they came up with a comprehensive plan. Part of what they wanted to do, like theyve done, as we said, we embedded in our Emergency Operations center here in muscony, a team that focuses on equity and underserved communities. And as a result, what these what the Human Rights Commission has done, along with a number of other Community Volunteers and folks, they would go out into neighborhoods, like the tenderloin, like the bayview, like the western edition, pass out food, pass out maps, educate the public about coronavirus and challenges, make sure people know how to get testing or other resources. Again, these are a group of people, a lot of volunteers, a lot of people from the community, who were putting their lives on the line to really support and serve the public and to make sure that no one is left out of the equation. And what they notice, the biggest challenge was, of course, sadly, the tenderloin. And so part of the work that came to be as a result of this round table, they distributed thousands of face coverings in this community. They partnered with code tenderloin and the boys and girls club to distribute computers to youth in the community and identify where we need to put internet hotspots so that kids are not they dont fall behind in school. They mobilized Community Resilience care vans with the Police Department to remind people about the importance of social distancing and to and they distributed face coverings, and they educated people on the fact that you dont need a mask. You can also have something thats a face covering, like a scarf or some other thing to cover your nose and your mouth. They distribute learning kits and books and activities to youth and their families. You know, in the tenderloin. So they have been hard at work, but we know the conditions remain particularly challenging. And we sadly have seen a significant increase in the number of Homeless People who are on the streets, which is concerning from both the health of those who are unsheltered and for the health of the residents who live in the community. So to address these challenges, weve developed a plan for responding to the issues of the tenderloin on a block by block basis. Now this plan was informed by ontheground assessments of the tenderloin and numerous meetings with members of the community, nonprofit organizations and businesses in the area. And to start, we identified 13 blocks that are our first priority, and as i said, jeff kazinski will talk a little bit more about that in detail, and i want to really recognize the hard work of everyone who participated. The conversations centered around the need to, of course, clean the sidewalks, clear the sidewalks, have sufficient trash, have access to resources, make sure that there are the streets and the community is a lot more safe, especially because there are a lot of children and elderly people who live in the tenderloin, and so this is a conversation that have been happening for a very long time, and before the pandemic and has gotten even worse since. I want to really recognize that this is going to be a targeted plan. Its going to be a challenging one, and we are set to be as aggressive as we can with implementing it so that the people of that community can notice and see a difference. Thanks to urban alchemy, we have some Community Ambassadors that were bringing on board on a parttime basis. Those are the people that you see who are oftentimes managing the restroom facilities. They are familiar with people in the community, and i want to thank them for their hard work and their dedication because they are showing up to work every single day in these very challenging communities, again, putting their lives on the line. I want to also thank the department of public works and what they do every single day. Cleaning up feces and needles and urine and trash, and i know on monday i expressed a lot of frustration because as much resources as we continue to invest in the tenderloin, and as much work as a lot of people are doing to keep that place clean and accessible to folks who live there, it still continues to be a challenge, and we need to hold everybody accountable. Everyone has to be held accountable. Its not just the citys responsibility. Its the people who are a part of that community, whether they are housed or not, we all play a role in protecting and serving and supporting this particular community, and that is our commitment in outlining a plan that specifically looks at three of the most challenging blocks and puts into place a system that will allow for regular cleaning, trash pickup, food service, trash cans, restroom facilities, wash stations, water, just some of the basic things, and well continue to also through the hotels we provide, ensure that they are available to some of our most vulnerable populations and just a reminder that before this pandemic we had thousands of people who were homeless who were in our system of care, and those will be the people that will be prioritized with any service that we make available because we want to make sure that the folks who have been waiting the longest in many instances, they are oftentimes the ones who are skipped over for services and support, and we need to do a better job at making sure we stick to this system and we prioritize the people who were in our city before this pandemic so they get the support and services that they need. So with that, i want to thank all of you again for your cooperation and continue to the best of my ability, because i got to tell you, this staying at home thing is rough for me too. So i at first i said it with a lot of enthusiasm, and now probably not as enthusiastic as ive asked in the past. Nevertheless, it is necessary. And i want to just remind everyone how important it is so that we can keep our Public Health in tact, we can keep people safe and we will continue to do all we can to provide resources and to make sure that as soon as we can we get our economy going and we provide an opportunity for our business community, especially our Small Businesses that are struggling, to open and operate. So thank you again for your patience and your cooperation, and now id like to ask dr. Grant colfax to come forward and provide us with an update. Dr. Grant colfax thank you, mayor breed. Good afternoon. Im dr. Grant colfax, director of health for the city and county of San Francisco. Before beginning my coronavirus update, i would like to thank the thousands of nurses in the department of Public Health and throughout the city for their dedication and courage as they continue to serve patients and our community during this unprecedented pandemic. This is National Nurses week, and it couldnt come at a better time. All of San Franciscos nurses are demonstrating the utmost professionalism, compassion, courage and heart, as they always do. I personally give thanks to the nurses in our Public Health system as zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, as laguna honda hospital, our many Health Centers, Public Health Centers Across the city, including maxine hall Health Center, chinatown Health Center, Castro Mission Health Center and city clinic for their provision and care of services for communities across our great city. You provide medical care, but you do so much more. You provide comfort, emotional support, advocacy and, frankly, whatever it takes to help patients and their families. You get it done. I know this from my own personal experience, from working in the Emergency Rooms at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, the inpatient units at that hospital and across the city, including at the va and ucsf, to our clinics throughout the city. Nurses are the backbone of our system, a system that requires the skills and wisdom of the nursing profession now more than ever. All of us in San Francisco owe nurses a debt of gratitude, a debt of gratitude that grows every day. You are true heroes. We would not be where we are today, making the progress in the fight against the coronavirus, without your steady hands, warm hearts and Brilliant Minds on the front lines. Thank you. Thank you. Now with regard to where we stand with coronavirus in San Francisco. Today there are 1754 San Francisco residents with confirmed cases of covid19, and sadly 31 san franciscans have died of the disease. My condolences to their families, their friends and their community. I would also like to provide an update today on a few aspects of our progress and where things stand in the fight against the coronavirus. I want to start with the issue of testing. As of today, 27,334 people in San Francisco have been tested for covid19, and over the last period of months, 8 , on average, have tested positive. We are continuing to strive to reach our goal of universal access to testing for all san franciscans. As we announced monday, we now provide free universal testing for all essential workers, regardless of symptoms or potential exposure. And today at laguna honda hospital we are starting our routine testing at Nursing Homes of both staff and patients. And fortunately we have already seen a significant uptick in the number of tests conducted across the city. 700 people were tested yesterday at the city test sf site alone in the largest day of testing since we opened that service. I am glad that people are starting to take advantage of this option, but we can still do more, and indeed we must still do more. If you have been showing up to work during this stayathome order, you can now get tested and tested for free. There are several options now for testing, including your own health care provider, the two city test assess sites, and the four department of Public Health Community Test sites. These sites are open to Health Care Workers, First Responders, grocery clerks, construction workers, drivers, child care workers, workers at outdoor businesses, and others who continue to leave their homes to serve the community during this pandemic. Please call 311 or visit sfgovgettestedassess for more information and to see a map of all the test sites in the city. We know that essential workers are more at risk because they interact daily with other people and cannot easily maintain social distancing by staying at home. In fact, a recent study by ucsf in partnership with the Health Department and the Latino Task Force reinforced this fact. The study found that workers tested in the Mission District had a higher rate of positive results than residents and that many of these workers were asymptomatic. This is why getting tested regardless of symptoms is key to our response, and this is why we are moving forward in our vision for universal access to testing for all in San Francisco. We need to do everything we can to support workers in all aspects of health and safety during the pandemic. This includes access to testing, but it also means support for successful isolation and quarantine so that people can get well and limit the risk of exposures to members of their households. We are committed to working with communities to better understand the type and kinds of support that people need. The expanded testing is a step in the right direction, an important step in the right direction, and i encourage all essential workers to make use of it. And as we test more people, we naturally expect to find more cases. So this added resource is very important. Expanding testing is a key piece of our recovery plan. And now i would like to review other major elements we have in our plan. I want to make sure that everyone in our Community Knows how much we are measuring our readiness to open, how much and how. Now as much as i want, and i think everyone wants, reopening to happen, we must continue to follow the science, data and facts. Remember, the virus is still out there, and it thrives when we get together and socialize. We should celebrate our progress and the fact that we have saved lives across the bay area and the state. We have truly saved lives. For instance, our mortality rate in San Francisco is one quarter of that in new york state, and our mortality rate in San Francisco is half of the california state average. And yet we must also recognize that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic. It is not over yet, not by a long shot. The virus doesnt have a timeline. It was here in february. It was here in march and april, and it will be here in the summer and fall and beyond. And the more people move around, the more contact they will have with others, the more likely it is that the virus will spread. It is highly contagious. We know that there is more virus out there than ever before, and there are still outbreaks in our communities. We remain focused on protecting the health of the most vulnerable populations, those who live in congregate settings. In the bay area we will be watching five key indicators to track our progress. They are that the number of patients in the hospital with covid19 is low and flat or decreasing for a sustained period of time. Number two, that we have enough personal protective equipment, ppe, for all our Health Care Workers to respond. Number three, that we have expanded testing to meet the need, especially for people in vulnerable populations, essential workers and communities that are affected by health disparity. And not only that that testing is expanded, but that we have the Wraparound Services to support individuals and their families in the event that they test positive. Number four, that we have the capacity to investigate every case of covid19, to trace each persons close contacts, and to isolate and quarantine the people who need it. And number five, that we have the ability to measure the rate of new cases of covid19 to determine whether it is decreasing, staying flat or increasing. This will take ongoing effort as we are still building our Surveillance Systems across the bay area with the help of scientists from ucsf, the zuckerberg institute, and berkeley. I know that there is a lot of excitement and hope about reopening, and i personally look forward to that too. And yet we must hold steady and let the data guide us. We must maintain our gains. Otherwise the virus will quickly outrun us, and a surge will occur. And at the same time, we cannot lose sight of the fact that life will be better in may. Right now Outdoor Activities and businesses can resume with proper precautions. This is going to improve our lives and our outlook. I notice, too, that surveys show that the vast majority of the public want to continue our restrictions to keep themselves, their family and their communities safe. They know how important it is that we slow the viruss spread. The vast majority of the public support Public Health measures to slow the virus down. And at the same time, i recognize that San Francisco residents and businesses have made tremendous sacrifices to flatten the curve and protect Community Health. We must continue to Work Together so those sacrifices dont go to waste. We will keep watching the indicators and work with our region and state on the most reasonable next steps. Reasonable and responsible and driven by data and science and facts. There have been many questions this week about the governors plans and their impact on San Francisco. Let me clarify the San Francisco and Bay Area Health orders currently in effect through may do not permit Curbside Pickup from nonessential businesses. The governors guidance to retailers coming out thursday will spell out the states expectations. We will study those very carefully. However, it is important to remember that the rule of thumb is whichever order is more restrictive is the order that will take precedence Going Forward. We are working and my team is working very hard to help find ways to reopen more businesses and activities safely while sustaining the progress we have made. We are developing carefully stepwise approaches, working to mitigate risk and protect the Public Health as much as possible. We are partnering with the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development to ensure that the voices and ideas of local businesses help craft this next phase. We are hoping some pilot programs can go into effect this month, but these will be with considerable restrictions to ensure safety. Now i want to add a few remarks to the announcement of a blockbyblock plan to address the issues in the tenderloin that are impacting the quality of life for residents in that neighborhood. Jeff kazinski, manager of the healthy streets Operation Center, or hsoc, will provide more details in a moment. But i want to highlight to help departments support for and participation in this critical work. The health of the Tenderloin Community has been and continues to be a priority for us. We operate a Primary Care Clinic there and have a longstanding relationship with the community and our patients. We have participated in hsoc since the beginning, and the Health Department provides outreach, street medicine, Overdose Prevention and opioid treatment, Harm Reduction, and Environmental Health services to protect the health and safety of the people in the tenderloin who are experiencing homelessness and those that are housed. The tenderloin is a vibrant community of families, merchants, artists, restaurants, governmental and civic organizations. We know, i know that the coronavirus emergency has made life harder for the tenderloin. The department is committed to partnering with other city agencies and communities and business organizations to help improve the situation. Our Community Health Response Team and street medicine teams are on the front lines and expanding their outreach efforts in helping people protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus. Our Environmental Health inspectors conducted an initial assessment of the areas identified in the plan, which helped to form the basis of the report. These inspectors will continue to provide input and guidance on interventions that may be necessary in the neighborhood to protect against rapid spread of the coronavirus. And now, jeff kazinski will further describe the goals and activities of the citys plans to support this important community, and i would like to personally thank him for his leadership in this effort. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the manager of the healthy streets operations center. Hsoc is a multidepartmental collaborative that was stood up to address unsheltered homelessness and related street conditions here in San Francisco. Before i start, i want to thank all of the frontline outreach workers involved in hsoc, the hot team members, paramedics, Police Department, Public Health, outreach workers, public works employees and the nonprofit partners whoever day are out in the streets working with our unsheltered individuals and people who are struggling on the streets to help them shelter in place in a for people who actually have no shelter. Its challenging work. They are putting their own health at risk by doing this work, and it is such an honor and a privilege to have the opportunity to work with them. Also want to thank the staff who are working behind the scenes, both at the department of emergency management, the dispatch workers and Police Officers who are there helping guide the efforts of the frontline staff, as well as our small but mighty team here at the Emergency Operations center, many of whom helped work on a plan that im going to talk about today. Clearly the challenges of unsheltered homelessness have grown exponentially during the covid19 crisis. Prior to this crisis, we already faced challenges with not having enough shelter and Affordable Housing to meet the needs of our community. Mayor breed had been working tirelessly and continues to work tirelessly on this issue, but this pandemic has forced us to thin out the shelters, and it has also required that we follow the cdc guidance to not disrupt homeless encampments. And where is that is a challenge for some, i just want to point out that many of the fantastic results that weve had here in San Francisco that dr. Colfax spoke of are because were following these guidelines. Nonetheless, this has created challenges in our community and some pretty jarring numbers. In 2016, august of 2016, we estimated that San Francisco had about 1200 people, 1200 tents on our streets and in our public places. By april of 2019, that number was below 400. I believe it was about 385. Recently we did a count in april of 2020, and there were close to 1200 tents again in the city and county of San Francisco. The tenderloin is by far the most impacted and hardesthit neighborhood in this current situation. Theres over 300 tents in the tenderloin, 20 large encampments, and thats an increase of almost 300 since just january of 2020. This has had negative impacts on Public Health and on Public Safety in the neighborhood. And this is not acceptable. The tenderloin is a special neighborhood. Its home to many lowincome families and individuals to formerly homeless individuals, to many seniors, to families and children, to people with disabilities. It also hosts the secondlargest africanamerican population in the city. Multigenerational households, from yemen, latin america, the philippines, vietnam and other regions. It was the center of tenants rights and lgtbq activism in San Francisco. And the neighborhood has dozens of historic businesses. Its also the densest neighborhood in San Francisco, and its also a place where openair drug dealing, drug sales and use, sex work and homelessness are acute. While this neighborhood has its challenges, its also one of the most vibrant and one of the most loving neighborhoods in San Francisco, and its residents deserve better than what is happening there right now. The urgency of this comprehensive plan that ill speak about in a bit has been driven through a lens of human dignity, of equity, of Public Health and of Public Safety. And it is a high priority for mayor breed who instructed the department a few weeks ago to put this plan together, and it has been a high priority for her since this crisis started. I will tell you that when mayor breed travels in the tenderloin, which is often, my phone starts ringing almost immediately to try to address some of the concerns that the mayor is seeing as shes travelling through the neighborhood, that were all seeing as we travel through these neighbourhoods. So in order to come up with some solutions to the complicated problems in this neighborhood that they were facing prior to this crisis and now have been made worse during the crisis, many city leaders, the mayor of course, and departments and many of our nonprofit providers during the past few weeks have been working to put together a very comprehensive plan. The Human Rights Commission really served as a center of gravity around this issue. They held Community Round table meetings with many stakeholders in the tenderloin and worked closely with them to gather their input and to make sure that the voice of the neighborhood was front and center in the development of this plan. We also conducted the quarterly tent count on april 22. Dph conducted an assessment on april 22, and then on april 28, over 50 City Employees and Community Volunteers and nonprofit employees went to 49 blocks in the tenderloin, assessed everything that was going on in those blocks, looked for challenges, as well as opportunities, and did assessments, Health Assessments and housing assessments of over 300 unsheltered individuals on the streets. That information was compiled into this plan. It was reviewed by the mayor, her staff, city leadership, departmental staff, and most importantly members of the tl community. I want to emphasize that the plan that we produced is not a final plan. It will never be a final plan. Its a living document. It will continue to evolve. The situation on the ground changes sometimes hourly, and were going to continue to take feedback from the community and evolve this plan as we move forward. So let me address some of the elements of the plan for you. To address the concerns that we saw and heard from in the community, weve outlined a number of recommendations, and as the mayor pointed out, there are 13 high priority blocks that we are going to focus on first. But were going to address every block in the tenderloin. Some of the recommendations that were moving forward on right now are addressing encampments by offering safe sleeping alternatives to unsheltered individuals, other places that they can camp and have their tents that dont impact house residents and businesses in the city. To continue to facilitate social distancing compliance by closing streets, adding additional sidewalk space by closing those streets, limiting parking and taking other measures. Ensuring that all residents, housed and unhoused, have a safe passage to and from their homes and to and from the businesses that they need to frequent. Were going to improve access to hygiene stations, restrooms, Garbage Disposal for unhoused individuals, as well as increasing access to food and water for housed and unhoused residents alike. We want to increase Police Presence to address crime in the neighborhood, but not to address social problems in the neighborhood. For that were going to continue activating outreach workers and nonprofit employees to continue to work closely with unsheltered individuals to help encourage them to be as safe as they possibly can, and not to impact the safety of other people in the neighborhood. Were going to be increasing Health Services in the neighborhood and working with Small Businesses through outreach and education. I know that thats a lot of words and that may be a bit vague, so i want to be a little bit more specific about work that has already happened, because a significant amount of work had begun weeks ago. We werent just writing a plan. We were actually implementing it as we were writing it. In the past few weeks weve installed six water manifolds to provide better access to drinking water. I want to thank the puc for their partnership in making that happen and the public works department. Of course weve added additional food drops so that before there were only a few places where people could get food and lines were getting quite long and social distancing was challenging, so we added additional places where people can get food and well continue to do that. Very recently added four 24hour pit stops in the neighborhood. We also, and i think this is very significant and have been working very hard to identify highrisk unsheltered individuals in the tenderloin and helping move them to shelterinplace hotel rooms. I want to thank director roar and dr. Stewart khan for their leadership and partnership in making this happen. We are on tuesday opening up a safe sleeping village on fulton street between hyde and larkin and i want to thank our friends at urban alchemy that are willing to operate that place. It will be 50 camp sites, if you will. People can set up tents safely and services will be available to them on site to help reduce the number of people camping out on sidewalks and we will be expanding into additional locations in and around the tenderloin in the coming weeks. Were going to keep expanding pit stops and adding garbage cans. We have already been out marking sidewalks where people are lining up to show folks what six feet is like to ensure social distancing. Going to continue conducting outreach to people on the streets which in the tenderloin which were doing every day. That includes Health Assessments and also includes providing people with masks and other supplies that they need to be able to shelter in place safely. And were going to be creating a Community Ambassador program with local nonprofits, hopefully putting up to 50 people on the street every day in the tenderloin, helping remind people to social distancing, helping to keep the streets clean, but also reporting back to the city any problems that they have identified. And we have a number of next steps moving forward with this plan. We are gonna set up a more regular feedback process led by the hrc with our nonprofit stakeholders there. We are going to, as youll see in the plan, theres block theres plans for all 13 blocks. Were going to start operationalizing those plans with a specific timeline and resources needed that includes lists of lots and other spaces that can be used as alternatives to sleeping on the street. Were going to be getting a plan for Small Business outreach, and i know that this as dr. Colfax said, were not sure how long this shelterinplace orders are going to be going on or how long this that this is going to be a challenge for some time. However, we also want to start thinking about a postcovid19 plan to ensure safe streets in the tenderloin so that the work that were starting now continues into the future to continue to improve conditions in the neighborhood. Thank you all very much for the time, and we will introduce chief scott as soon as i clean up for him here. Good afternoon. As i always start my remarks, i like to start with thanking our mayor london breed and our director of Public Health dr. Grant colfax for their amazing leadership during this very challenging time. I want to start with how we are looking so far this week in the advent of the most recent updated Public Health order. Overall, we are seeing more people outside, which we expected, with all the good weather. We are pleased to see that the vast majority of the folks that we have encountered continue to adhere to the Public Health orders. As you may know, during the first week of our updated health order, the new provisions offered modest relaxation of some of the restrictions in the Previous Health order for outdoor businesses and recreational facilities. And we continue to engage and remind people that the order is still in tact and still in effect, and i want to reiterate what dr. Colfax said and what mayor breed said, during my remarks today. Please maintain a social distance of at least six feet. If you must go outside, wear your face coverings, when youre in line or inside of an essential business or other places where social distancing is required. And we know this is a challenge for many people, but we ask that you continue to stay vigilant and continue to practice those Public Health directions. People should wash their hands often, and please continue to shelter in place. People watching the news in other parts of the country, and even other parts of the world, have seen that San Francisco has been a model, and we have been successful and we have done it the right way. And i know it may be tempting to fall off a little bit. People are getting anxious. People are tired of being inside, but we do need to stay vigilant. As dr. Colfax and mayor breed pointed out, this virus is not going away. The virus is not taking a vacation, neither should we. We continue to follow mayor breeds lead, and we need to continue to follow the Public Health guidelines. I cannot emphasize that enough. Now i can tell you as the chief of police that i have received calls from departments and chiefs from around the country, and they have asked, you know, what are we doing, allow are we doing what were doing, and i think thats a testament to the fact that, number one, weve been successful and, number two, that were doing things that a lot of people are trying to emulate, and thats thanks to you all. Thats thanks to the people of our great city, and we would like to keep that momentum going. First and foremost, you know, for the San Francisco Police Department, the work that we have done and will continue to do will be with the support of and in collaboration with members of our communities, and thats really important, because our premise and our preface has been voluntary compliance from day one, and we cannot get voluntary compliance without the support of the community. So were going to continue to model the behavior and continue to work with our community members, as jeff kazinski just stated, with the tenderloin plan, and in other parts of the city, and we ask for your cooperation and your voluntary compliance. Weve had a successful [indiscernible] and i think by far im proud to say that ive been a member of this outstanding team. Lets keep up the work. Lets keep up the vigilance and lets keep people healthy, safe and most importantly alive. Ill go to our enforcement efforts for covid19 since our last press conference on monday weve added one citation to the total, so now we have 22 total Public Health order citations, and the breakdown is 12 businesses and 10 individuals who have been cited. In total weve had 103 warnings or admonishments, and again i will explain that admonishments means that these are our final warnings to these particular individuals and businesses before we move to enforcement with a citation. And the breakdown of that 103 is 57 businesses and 16 individuals. As far as our Crime Statistics, today id like to talk about our yeartodate Crime Statistics. I know i usually report on weektoweek Crime Statistics, but i think its important to let you all know how were tracking yeartodate. Our Violent Crime is down 6 from this time last year. Thats a reduction of 91 fewer Violent Crimes. Our property crimes are down 12 from this time last year which is a reduction of 1,895 fewer property crimes. Now with that, i would emphasize also, as you know, this city, our city has had challenges with autoburglaries. Our autoburglaries are down 22 from this time last year, which is a reduction of 1,647 fewer crimes. Now we do realize and understand that some of the reasons for this reduction, that there have been far fewer people on the streets which limits the opportunities. But also, i want to thank the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department, and i want to thank our community, because as we continue to ask you to report crimes, you are doing that. And our men and women of our Police Department are responding. We have arrested many of the individuals who were committing burglaries in our city, burglary is one of the few Crime Statistics in which were up in terms of burglary were up 11 over this time last year, which is a difference of 190 additional crimes from this time last year. But weve made a lot of arrests, and we will continue to respond and we will continue to bring those to justice who are insistent on preying upon particularly in this time during the public Health Emergency, preying upon those who cant help themselves, particularly our vulnerable population. The other area that were up that i am sad to report are homicides, which we are three above where we were this time last year. We have 16 year to date, and we had 13 this time last year, but we have made some arrests, even this week, on homicide suspects, and we will continue to investigate every case and hopefully bring the people that committed these heinous crimes to justice. As always, i want to encourage everyone to report crimes when you see them, particularly Violent Crimes. Call 911 to report Violent Crimes in progress. We will respond. We will be there to help, and we will do everything that we can to bring the people committing these crimes to justice. Please also note, and ive said this in Previous Press conferences, that we have our implementation of our text 911 service, and if youre unable to make a phone call, but you have access to your ability to text, please text us and we will be there. For crimes that have already happened and for nonviolent property crimes, please call our nonemergency number at 4155530123. You can also call 301 or utilize our website at San Franciscopolicedepartment. Org to request a police to report or file a Police Report that qualify for online filing. Id like to end by just saying, again, lets continue to stay vigilant. You know, there are a lot of people that are doing the essential work thats necessary for us to survive. Our Grocery Store workers, our mechanics, our bus drivers, our Police Officers, our nurses, our firefighters, the list goes on and on. When we ask you to abide by these Public Health orders, think of those people. Think of the people that are coming to work, risking their families, risking their own health so you can have food on the table. Think of them. Wear your face coverings. Think of them when we ask you to wash your hands often. Think of them when we ask you to keep six feet of social distance. We have to stop the spread of this virus, and we know in our city were able to do it and we will do it, so thank you very much, and i think were going to open it up to questions. Chief, were going to go ahead and start with you. Okay. Okay, first question is from holly mcdeed. There have been reports that nonessential businesses around the bay area are breaking shelter in place orders and reopening. To what extent is that happening in San Francisco and how does the city plan to address these concerns . Well, let me start by saying, holly, first of all weve had really good success with our compliance pathways, and were going to continue that same posture. Midnight on march 17 we said that we were going to be out in force, number one educating people when we had our first Public Health order. And thats what we did, and we have been doing that ever since. So for those businesses look, some of this is confusing for people. The orders are changing. You have a national narrative, you have the state, you have other parts of the state that are opening up, and people some people are confused about everything thats going on. Thats why we need to follow our mayors guidance. We will be out to help educate, and for those people who are egregious after weve educated them and sorted things out, we will fight those people. We have done it and we will continue to do that. So our model has worked. I think thats a part of the reason that we are that successful at this point, as we are, and we will continue that model, and we will have common sense, compassion and balance, and we do understand that peoples lives have been up ended and peoples Financial Futures are uncertain, and we get that. So were going to continue to police with empathy and balance and compassion, but we still need to do our job and keep people healthy and safe. The next question is from heth knight, San Francisco chronicle. Will the new tenderloin plan include measures to combat rampant drug dealing and drug use in the neighborhood . Thank you, heather, for that question. Absolutely it will. The San Francisco Police Department look, a lot of these issues are social issues, but crime is a policing issue, and when you talk about drug dealing, we know that people have come into the tenderloin particularly during this pandemic, and they have taken advantage of vulnerable people. We have made arrests in encampments. We have seen people go in with bags of drugs and distribute them to others to sell in these encampments, and we have arrested those people. We have confiscated their money. We have confiscated their drugs, and we will continue to do that with a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm to try to keep people safe. So yeah, you can expect more of that, and as we roll out this tenderloin plan, one of the things that im very happy with is that in my discussions with the communities, and on the many Conference Calls that weve had, the community is asking for us to be there. They are asking for us to enforce. They are asking for us to get the drug dealers away from this vulnerable population and off the streets, and thats what well do. Thank you, chief. The following questions are for mayor london breed. Madam mayor, your first question is from politico. How does San Francisco plan to spend funds received through the cares act, and are you running into frustrations on how its spent or not allowed to be spent . Mayor london breed well, for the most part we are spending the funds on testing, on contact tracing, on hotel rooms and other expenses specifically related to the financial impacts on the city as it relates to the coronavirus that are nonfema expenses. And yes we would like more flexibility on spending these dollars because that would be helpful. It is going to be expensive for us to manage this challenge, but ultimately we are going to continue to move forward and do what we can and work with the federal government to try and get a lot more flexibility than we currently have. The next question is from angela hart, Kaiser Health news. Madam mayor, what is your response to the criticism that the city is moving too slow on providing safe hotel and motel rooms for Homeless People . Mayor london breed well, first of all i would like anyone to name any other city thats doing better than San Francisco as it relates to getting people who are homeless into hotel rooms. We have over a thousand people that we have been able to get into hotel rooms, people who are were a part of our Shelter Systems and a part of our very vulnerable populations. And it is continuously a real challenge, of course. As i said before, the problems that existed with our homeless populations, specifically the challenges around Substance Use disorder and mental illness, they dont just go away, and so i do think its important that on any given day when there isnt a pandemic, it is already challenging. And we have a number of incredible organizations that are consistently working with this population. But now its a lot different, and in the age of social distancing, what we are trying to do with, again, a very challenging and vulnerable population, is provide resources as rapidly as we can. And it is not easy. It is not easy logistically, and its not just about having the resources and moving faster. Of course wed like to move a lot more faster than we are, but its so critical that when we are opening up any hotel room we have to make sure that the people that are working in that hotel, whether its the people who work for the Hotel Directly or the people who work for the city or they work for the nonprofit organizations, that we keep them as well as the people who are homeless that we are providing housing for, the goal is to keep everyone safe. What we dont want to do is create another outbreak situation or another challenge unnecessarily so by doing this wrong. There is so much this city is doing right, and i want to take this opportunity i just need one second. I forgot the list of Service Providers. Because not every Service Provider in this city has stepped up and agreed to help at this time and to put their lives on the line to manage these hotels and provide services and oversight and resources to our homeless population. I want to specifically acknowledge and thank epitch Palestinian Community services, five keys, st. Vincent de paul, Catholic Charities and larkin street. These are the organizations that have stepped up and provided the support that we need, along with a number of Disaster Service workers, including the director of our library here in San Francisco, michael lambert, who is a site manager at one of these hotels. So i want to be clear that there are so many people that are putting their lives on the line, and it is not easy to do this work, and the fact is we are trying to do it while socially distancing ourselves in the process from a population that may not always follow our guidance or our direction, but we will continue to push. We will continue to try, and i want to really thank the people who are out there on the front lines every day doing this work, despite the criticism, despite the push and the pressure from people who arent even on the front lines who have no idea what its like to be in those situations, working hard to support this population every single day. Thank you for showing up. Thank you, mayor breed. The following questions are for dr. Grant colfax, department of Public Health. Dr. Colfax, your first question this sunday is mothers day. What are the citys suggestions on how residents celebrate it this year . If we wear masks and maintain social distance, can we visit our moms in person . Dr. Grant colfax so i would strongly recommend compliance with the shelterinplace order, that you celebrate mothers day from a distance from your mother. Dont go visit your mom if shes not part of your immediate family and household on a daily basis. There are other ways to celebrate. Its beyond my expertise to tell you what you should get for your mom, but flowers, phone calls, engagements on social media, hearing your voice, pictures are some of the things that ive been thinking about. But please, i think the greatest gift you can provide to we can give to our mothers this mothers day is to stay away, to be at a distance. Please keep them safe. Many mothers are highly vulnerable to covid19, and so please respect the order, celebrate using social media, phone calls and other mechanisms, but dont go visit your mom in person this year. Thank you. Next questions are similar questions from maureen kelly. There are some who are raising concerns that the department of Public Health is blurring the line between Harm Reduction and enabling when it comes to the citys practice of delivering alcohol, marijuana and tobacco to homeless addicts in isolation and quarantine. Can you please explain the citys philosophy behind this practice . Well, look, our philosophy in terms of treating people who suffer from addiction, Substance Use disorders, is really again focused on science and the medical literature, which shows that a Harm Reduction approach, which includes the continuum from supporting abstinence and recovery to helping people who continue to use to reduce their harms. There is there are decades of there are decades of literature supporting this approach. Right now with regard to supporting people who are at risk or who need to be in quarantine or isolation because theyre covid positive, our focus needs to be on supporting them and meeting them where they are, meeting them where they are so that they can be cared for in the most appropriate way, in a way thats good for them and for our community. So whether that includes ensuring that they have access to counselling, our Behavioural Health experts are Offering Services every day. Medicationassisted treatment, including nicotine and opiate replacement, Behavioural Health counselling, and in cases where people decide that they are going to continue to use, our focus is using the best evidence to help people manage their addictions, and in some cases this will include helping them manage their alcohol use and their nicotine use so that they can stay safe and in place as much as possible to help their community and to help themselves. Thank you. The next question is from charles rain, citizen news. Does a serological or diagnostic testing passport seem likely for san franciscans who want to return to work in the future . Dr. Grant colfax well, look, the World Health Organization issue add warning last week against the use of these socalled immunity passports. We simply do not know what the utility of an Antibody Test yet is. We are obviously looking