Homeless population. So we are now about seven weeks into the shelter in place order. I know, you know, that, like so many other san franciscans that are blessed to be housed, we are getting antsy. I know this weekend, the parks were filled and people had no masks and were trying to inform them that were not out of this yet, and that in order to keep the curve flat, it isnt a done deal; that we have to continue to shelter in place in order to do that. But whats so hard for me when i talk to my housed constituents is that outside they door, they see massive, massive tent encampments where people are out in the streets without masks, theyre clearly interacting, sharing equipment, have no access to showers, no access to water, have no access to food or very little access to food. Theyre going to work, some of them, because despite the stereotypes, many unhoused members of our city are working. And ive just been frankly shocked that there has not been one health order issued yet directly related to this population. And it seems like youve operated with two separate standards a standard of protection, an expectation for the housed population, and a standard of care and expectations for the unhoused population, and its been really upsetting to me the entire time. And ill finally get to my question. Why havent you issued a health order requiring shelter or some sort of setup where people are safe and distancing and have access to showers, water, and hygiene for the massive unhoused population of this city during this crisis . And im sorry, supervisors. I just per president yee, i let him know that i unfortunately had a hard stop at 6 00, and supervisor ronen, dr. Aragon will answer your question. I do want to emphasize, though, that from the beginning, the population experiencing homelessness was an acute priority of ours. In working with h. S. A. And h. S. H. , we have housed in hotels hundreds of people that are particularly vulnerable. In doing that, weve saved many saves, and the isolation and quarantine hotels, we currently have 200, and we have a capacity of 500. I hear your concerns, very much appreciate them, but i do want to emphasize that this is a population that the Health Department and other departments have been focused on during this pandemic. So unfortunately, i do have to leave at this point, but ill turn it over to dr. Aragon. President yee dr. Aragon . Yes, thank you for that question. I know when i started looking into this, we did consult with the City Attorney of what of just the whole topic of commandeering property. And one of the things that i learned theres actually two things that i learned, and that is in order in order to commandeer property, we would have to show that persons are not cooperating in our in our attempt to secure hotel rooms. And the other thing i learned is that because of due process, it could take longer. Supervisor ronen can you repeat your first statement . I missed that. So the communication that i have from the City Attorney was that we would have to show that we were unable exhausted all resources all resources to get hotel rooms, and as long as long as the city can secure hotel rooms, that that should go forward. So that was that was my understanding. So it didnt seem to me to make sense to do an order if the city has the capacity to negotiate and get hotel rooms as the board of supervisors has also passed an ordinance, as well. Supervisor ronen well, dr. Arag aragon, i completely disagree with your statement. But second, you have a unique power to order individuals that walk out on the street and may someday need help in the hospitals have decided not to issue that order in the past seven weeks. I want to know why because it doesnt make sense to me, and it doesnt make sense to my constituents, both housed and unhoused. If you walk the streets of the city, it doesnt make sense to any of those thousands of people that are obviously dangerously camping in the street right next to each other with no access to hygiene. So i dont want you to hide behind the City Attorney, i want to know why you havent issued a health order requiring intervention on the basis of Public Health facility. You just shutdown the entire economy of San Francisco, and you were willing to do that, and i stood by you, and i stand by you in that decision. You have not been willing to do that for the homeless population, and i dont understand it. We as supervisors have done everything in our power to try to force the situation, but were not the Public Health officer. Thats you, and i want to understand why you havent issued that order. Ill explain it to you the best way i could, and thats really all im prepared to say at the moment. Supervisor ronen well, thats really disappointing, dr. Aragon. I have nothing more. President yee okay. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Ill say it mildly. I dont disagree with supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Thank you, dr. Aragon. Thank you for let me just say that you for all the questions that i have had, all the ones that i have funneled your way during this crisis, i really appreciate your accessibility and your response and your ability to explain things in a clear manner, joining us for our town halls, and for working so hard to get this information out as quickly as possible. Its been tremendous. I want to ask you, and if i missed it, im sorry because i know that theres been a lot of questions. I want to talk a little bit about our Skilled Nursing facilities. I know ive talked to you about this last time. I know weve had some conversations about when testing would begin in an aggressive manner, and when i see that new york is has issued the governor of new york has issued that all persons in these facilities would be tested twice a week, and they would be moving aggressively, and they then changed their orders that said they would no longer allow covidpositive patients to be transferred into these nursing facilities. And then, when i read the statistics in the state that over half the people that have died have been in these Skilled Nursing facilities, it makes me wonder why and how we havent moved a little bit more aggressively. I know you said youre still debating about the types of swabs and so on, but what can you do i know youve told us recently that the orders have changed, and now, all the staff in these facilities are going to be tested. But we put out on sfcity, testsf that people can get testing at 7 and brandon without an appointment, or any person can get testing on pier 32. Im just wondering how and why we havent been able to move more aggressively in our skilled facilities. This is a big concern in the entire Jewish Community yes, thank you. It is our longterm care facilities, especially the s. N. F. S, is our highest priority. And i think what youll see if you go back and look at all the orders that were done on Skilled Nursing facilities, strom screening, temperature checking, we made it at laguna honda, the residents that could prior leave, are not allowed to leave. So what we did what we did early on with laguna honda because that is the biggest location, we asked the c. D. C. And the California Department of Public Health to come in and actually develop a framework and an approach that we could provide to longterm care facilities, and weve gone beyond that, and were requiring testing for all staff and all patients. Supervisor safai i know that you guys have consistently changed your orders. It just seems that were not moving aggressively enough, given the statistics of people that have died, and i just wonder how we can move more aggressively. Yeah. So let me just real quickly tell you our goal. Our goal is to get every two weeks of testing. Its big logistically, and the Health Department has committed to making sure the testing gets done. Other places will pass the orders and then just expect the Skilled Nursing facilities to do it. What weve heard is they dont necessarily have the Financial Resources or expertise to do that. So were stepping up to do that, and if we see that it needs to be done for frequently, well move in that direction. But we agree with you and im actually getting some texts that i need to leave because i needed to leave at 6 00, and its 6 15. That all your questions . Supervisor safai well, i did have one more questions, and thats abaho sphere, and how its going to be distributed throughout all the hospitals. I know our staff is looking into that, because theres been changes how that drug is going to be distributed. Were getting instruction from the state, and i believe something may have just been distributed within the last 24 hours, ill send it to you so you have an idea of how its going to be distributed within california. Supervisor safai more specifically in San Francisco. Yeah. Youll want to know where its going and where its not going. Supervisor safai okay. Thank you. President yee thank you. Theres two more names added, but supervisor walton, do you have a quick question . Supervisor walton i know that supervisor fewer had a few questions, so ill pass it to her. President yee yes. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes. Dr. Aragon, i can say i understand the frustration. Once, when you came before us, you said early, the unhoused population, the people in s. R. O. S, they are our main concern, yet, we have not seen a Public Health order, and therefore, we dont know the plan or direction what is happening to these people. I think also in the recovery, but not only the recovery, but as go forward in the next couple of months, we dont know what the plan is. If were adopting a strategy of safe sleeping sites, thats something we should be doing right now. We cant leave it to people in the bayview, to leave it in their hands. This is leaving a whole population, and were talking about thousands of people without a direction, and we as supervisors dont have direction of where youre headed with this. I think that its it is disingenuous, quite frankly, to say. This is a population from the very beginning that weve had concern about, and not had a Public Health order, not one direction. We also say to people, thousands of people, in a very middle class way, wash your hands 20 times for 20 seconds every time. We hear from Public Health officials, yet they dont even have their clothes in their house. They have to undress before they get into their own homes. When we are saying these basic things to folks, and yet, in the unhoused population, we dont even have a place for them to wash their hands, i would say that we are looking at it through a wrong paradigm. We are looking at it through a middle class lens, when actually, quite frankly, where we are going to see this outbreak, where we are going to see saving lives of people, it is in this paradigm where they dont have these options. We dont know whats going to happen, and even when we start to loosen up the restrictions, these people still have not been quarantined. So i join my colleagues in wondering what is really happening and what will really happen . We have not been shared on a plan, we dont know what the plan is. I actually, quite frankly, think that during this Public Health crisis, that should be a Public Health mandate. So that is not a question, that is just my opinion, and im happy to have a private offline conversation with you about this, but thank you. I appreciate the honest feedback. Thank you. President yee dr. Aragon. Im going to have to im going to have to run, so i dont want to be rude, and i know that we still have to president yee well, dr. Aragon, excuse me, theres been this question over and over again, and youre not going to be able to answer it, of course, today. And youre at least, i think for next week, you should start off answering this question, what the plan is, if any, and if theres a reason for it. And i want to give at least one more person a chance who hasnt asked a question at all, even though youre way over. No, its okay. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. I want to share my concern of my colleagues. In your explanation, i heard a reason why you felt you couldnt issue an order on kmo kmo on commandeering hotels, but that is only part of the issue that supervisors ronen and fewer has raised. My question is, you came before us on march 17, you said that we could do everything right in our response here, but if we dont address our congregate living situations and Homeless People, that we could have an explosion of cases. I think you were right then and would like to see the orders that my colleagues have referenced address Homeless People. But my question isnt looking backwards as to why you havent. Id actually just like a direct answer as to whether you plan to issue any Health Orders regarding homelessness on the issues that have been raised social distancing among Homeless People, the availability of rest rooms, showers, hand washing stations for Homeless People . Are you planning on issuing a health order on those issues . Yeah. So everything that youre describing to me are really policy decisions and strategic options, and so what i want to do is i want to just convene with dr. Colfax and our executive team and really come back and decide how we can respond in a holistic way. Ill work with president yee to make sure that we can come back and discuss this further. Supervisor preston thank you. Supervisor peskin mr. President , i just want to remind all of us, and im sorry for jumping in and keeping dr. Aragon, but i want to just raise the original contention that dr. Aragon presented at the beginning. And i admit that San Francisco is unique because we are a city and county, but the reality is this the City Attorney believes, and i share this belief, that along with the other 57 counties, it is the legislative branch that appoints this position. And while it is true that as a doctor in the Health Department, dr. Aragon works for dr. Colfax and is part of the executive branch. It doesnt actually have to be that way. Thats not the way it is in the other 57 counties, and the City Attorney says that should we desire to have dr. Aragon be a completely independent person who does not have to take marching orders from dr. Colfax not that im saying that dr. Colfax is giving him bad marching orders we have that power and ability. So i think we really, for the health of the body politic and communications amongst Decision Makers and communicators and the public, we need to change the dialogue between the chief Health Officer and this legislative elected body, and i just want to leave everybody with this thought. Im really going to have to run because my wife is going to be very upset with me. President yee, is it okay if i clerk mr. President , you might be muted. I just want to be excused appropriately. President yee i will excuse you as soon as i finish my sentence. Okay. Thank you. President yee so basically, you answered some of the questions, and thank you very much for doing that, and theres some outstanding ones that were on the list that you didnt get a chance to get to. I think theres some fundamental frustration or questions that we have frustrations about thats going to come back over and over again. You need to have a plan when you come back on how to do this, because its not going to go away. The people on the streets arent going to go away by themselves, and the danger thats afforded to them isnt going to go away, and we cant come back every single time and say, were thinking about it, and we have a plan. Okay. Thank you for staying a lot later than we asked you to. Okay. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. President yee okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, colleagues, and i will continue talking with dr. Aragon and dr. Colfax to try to get to some of the questions that you have presented, and i will now adjourn this update. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin okay. Thank you. Good afternoon, welcome to the may 12, 2020 meeting to the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . Mr. President , all members of president. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one makes under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv. The special order is the appearance with the honnable mayor, london breed. There being no questions submitted from supervisors one through four, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Ok. First of all, i want to welcome madam mayor breed and there were no topics submitted by supervisors today, but before you get started, i want to take the time to address the public on what we are preparing to announce next week. I want to acknowledge how we are collectively are reevaluating the structures we have in place with the Emergency Response. Communications between the board and Emergency Operations center has been a work in progress and it has been difficult for own or constituents to understand the status of the evolving emergency and what the future might hold. We have been in discussions with the Mayors Office on how to clarify this and make sure that all policy decisions moving forward can be clearly articulated to all members of the public. As elected supervisors, we are held accountable to our extents regardless of the social economic status or their vote. As the duly elected governing body of policy make es makers, e responsible for weighing and mitigating the policies for the greater good of the city and county. It has been challenging to respond to this crisis but we are working diligently with the executive branch to make sure there is an actual plan that we can share with it general public and restore the confidence that we are going to get through this together and wont be leaving anyone behind. In the coming weeks, the mayor and board are refining respective roles towards a more coequal collaboration. By bringing the policy makers closer to the polymakin policyg operations. Everything the city is doing is improving so we can optimize how we serve all of our constituents, the great people of San Francisco. I want to thank you, madam mayor, for taking this opportunity fire collaboration by work with the board and liaison stations at the Emergency Operations center and now working with us as we try to establish a deeper level of engagement so we can provide more accessibility is responsiveness for constituents, especially as we advance into the next phase of the Emergency Response and work towards the preventing and recovery. So i thought i started off with that, madam mayor and we welcome you to share your remarks. Thank you, president yee, and thank you so much for your willingness to collaborate and partner. As you know, this pandemic hit us hard. It hit the entire world hard and i think that San Francisco has been a leader in addressing this challenge as we have seen. Rather than the focus on being whats happening in our Hospital System and being overburdened with the number of cases that people are diagnosed with, we are, of course, at a point where we are having discussions about our economy, about recovery and we appreciate and welcome your partnership and feedback in those efforts. We are all in in together and i think its important to Work Together to try to resolve these very challenging issues during this time and so thank you for the opportunity to address the board. Today i really want to focus on our economic recovery and the bond for this upcoming election. Last november i asked the Capital Committee to replace this the parks bond with a Mental Health bond. We know this has presented challenges for our city. During this pandemic, we have seen this become more difficult for those on our streets and for many of or residents. We need serious investments in the better longterm care and more support for our neighbors in crisis. But now, with nearly 100,000 people in San Francisco filing for unemployment, we also need to support jobs, to build towards recovery and to support our communities, especially in their time of need. Today, im introducing legislation to start the process for a new recovery bond. First, this bond proposes serious investments in building, purchasing and the Mental Health facilities that our city and our most vulnerable so desperately need. And we cannot wait any longer to lay the foundation for a better system of care. The recovery bond includes significant investments in parks across our city and particularly in those neighborhoods that have seen reduced resources. These parks will disproportionately serve communities of color and directing resources to these projects, we not only build a safe space for our residents, but we can invest in jobs and putting San Francisco back to work because these projects are shovelready. Finally, ive carved out some bond capacity for basic infrastructure. Repaving or roads, laying our bike lanes and even building out curve ramps. These items arent flashingy, buflashy, butthey keep the cityd ensure to deliver basic services in every corner. Given the current state of emergency, i know it feels like todays bond deadline crept up on us and that there needs to be more discussion. I want to ensure all of you that im eager to hear and incorporate your feedback. Ive already heard from many of you that you want to see more and different parts reflected and i ive heard you dont think the urgency of our Mental Health crisis is reflected in this structure. I want to say that i hear you, im listening and i welcome your feedback and we do need more Mental Health support, more care for our neighbors and at the same time, during this pandemic, we have seen the incredible importance that outdoor space plays in our communities and everyone deserves a safe space to spend Time Outdoors and in their neighborhood and this bond isnt done. We have a month to get to we have a month to roll up our sleeves, speak with extents and weigh the completin the competef our city. This will be several hard choices in a very, very tough economy. After several years of strong Economic Growth and a growing budget, this year, we will have to make tough choices in our capital plan, in our budget and in how we Prioritize Services for our city and in the last year, we were community to champion together a 6 million Affordable Housing bond and over 6 million for Emergency Response and Public Safety and i want to thank all of you for your partnership and support of those efforts. Now to be clear, weve borrowed as much as we can from future bond plans and weve soaked up all of the extra debt capacity and we have to decide on what is most important. I want to hear from you. Im committed to having those policy conversations and taking your feedback and im hoping we can work collaboratively and quickly to create a bon measuree we can all support this november. Thank you all for the opportunity. Thank you, madam mayor, for joining us today. This concludes the special order. This item shall be filed. Thank you. Madam clerk, lets go back to our communications, and do you want to start it off. Do we have any communications . Yes, since the local emergency was declared, Board Members have been participating in board meetings remotely through Video Conference as if they were physically present in their chamber. Provisions have been made for members of the public to participate remotely in the following ways. For members of the public who do not have access to the internet, the u. S. Postal service will deliver written correspondence if you address to the board of supervisors and address it to city hall, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94012 and for those whose interest is just to listen to the meeting and not speak, you may do so by dialing 882045948. When prompted enter 3501008 and press pound twice and youll have joined and can listen to the meeting in progress. If you would like to provide Public Comment when item 12 is called, thats general Public Comment, there are some best practises and you can call from a quiet location, mute your television or radio, speak slowly, clearly and each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak in the jurisdiction of the board. Election time is always around the corner. There is to be no election eeeingin this video environment. Address the supervisors as a whole and not individual members. If once you are listening to the meeting in progress and you wish to enter the cue to speak, dial 1 and then 0 and that will move you into the speaker line to speak and youll be prompted when it is your turn to provide comment. You can get in line early or you can wait until Public Comment is called. The key is to press 10 only one time. Otherwise, if you press it twice, youll be moved out of the speaker line and back into listening mode. Two last points. The director of the office of Civic Engagement has assigned three interpreters to be on stanstanby to assist speakers in language with their comment. I would like to have each of them introduce themselves and let the Community Know theyre here for them. Today lets start with fay. speaking Foreign Language . Agnes lye. speaking Foreign Language . If you do have the internet and would lic lick like to submn comments, submit them and you can watch it livestream and you can watch channel 26. Note it is cable cast and results in a 20second broadcasting delay and thank you, mr. President , and to all of the members of the board and the public for your patience wit length of this communication and we are being advised from the public on what type of guidance is actually helpful. So thank you to the public and keep your comments forthcoming. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Before we begin, just a friendly reminder to mute your microphones. Are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the motion as amended . Motion to approve made by mandleman and seconded by supervisor stephanie. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . There are 11 ayes. Ok, this will be approved as presented. So before we get started, i want to give updates and ask a few other of my colleagues to give some brief updates on some emergency situations and what were doing about it. So, as you know, the board of supervisors have been going down differento the emergency operatn center over the past two months and i want to thank everybody that has volunteered to do that. And i particularly want to thank supervisor fewer who actually stabilized it for about a month there. And supervisor mar was there for the last two weeks. So this week, we actually dont have anybody down there and part of this evaluation that i talked about earlier is to step back and to see what is the best usage of at least the boards time in regards to our role with policy making and also to keep the best communication we can with the operations down at the moscoli center. So this would give us a time to reflect and say, well, should we continue going down or not . Is it helpful or not helpful and then if we conclude that its helpful, then i would, again, ask my colleagues to step up and volunteer to go down there. So thats sort of the update, with by related to our emergency order that we have started between mayor breed and myself, we ask that a task force be created, called the economic recovery tax force and i asked supervisor mandleman, would you give a brief update. I know that you and supervisor peskin have been attending those meetings and so supervisor mandleman. Yes, happy to provide a brief update. Thank you, mr. President. So this Economic Recovery Task force was convened by yourself and the mayor and the cochairs for the task force are carmen chu, the recorder and the treasurer, rodney fong from the chamber and Rudy Gonzalez from the Labor Council and supervisor peskin and i are representing the board and folks representing different sectors of San Francisco from big business, Small Business, labor, Nonprofit Community and lots of folks and then with abled staffing from the city administrator and workforce develop, the office of resilience and capital planning, the human rights commission, the treasure Tax Collector and Melissa White housMelissa Whitee staffperson and i believe carmen reached out for feedback. We had a meeting on april 4th, a just Getting Started meeting and the staff then convened, i think nine different smaller groups to discuss what folks are hearing and what they would like to see prioritized. And those smaller subgroup meetings, i believe have now been finished, and the meeting of the larger group is this thursday, may 14th. Based on those initial conversations, i think as recorder chu an and thinking abt Going Forward in three buckets of areas. First is the developing of plan protocols and tackling issues related to safe reopening and that is through may and that would drive the task forces work in may and june thinking about what kind of ppe businesses well need and what processes need to be in place and what questions should the department of Public Health be asking and what questions will businesses theyre asking about pph. So trying to be fa sil facilatad helpful. So in july and august, the other two buckets are more about supporting Business Resiliency over months and even years as we continue to deal with covid19, thinking about some of the issues that have come up with outdoor spaces and use of the outdoor space and how to support workers and workers resilience. And then the a aspirational thinking, using the better resources we have, tackling the longerterm challenges and using this time to experiment and pilot new ideas and think about things like the greater challenges around environmental crises and how this period can inform that. So a lot of work to do and members of the board who are interested in engaging stakeholders in their districts, there is a website and folks are encouraged to fill that out and theres an email, i believe, that members can members can get in touch with melissa or carmen. And i think thats what i have. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, supervisor mandlemm man. Mandleman. Theres a lot going on in the city, trying to address the future is the media and certainly the Economic Recovery Task force is just one of many, by do have our people on the board as representatives. And another body that has been some work, thats tryin trying h for more local relief is also represented by two of our colleagues on the board of supervisors and that would be supervisors researc ronen and sr stephanie. Supervisor ronen, can you give a brief report in whats going on with how to get started and ho. Supervisor ronen. Thank you, supervisor yee, for this opportunity. I have a few updates to give to sf and theyre all pretty exciting. I wanted to start out by saying that the givetosf program was started by the mayor at the beginning of the crisis as a way for donors throughout the city to support other people in San Francisco as the situation has become more and more grave. And since then, the Mayors Office developed a committee to serve as oversight of this fund and supervisors stephanie and i are sitting on that committee on behalf of the board of supervisors. The Oversight Committee makes decisions about how much to allocate to each need and when to do that. And in general, we have there are three different buck buckets where the money is allocated and 50 of the money goes to Food Security, which is an endless need that we have all over the city. For the first time, were seeing unhoused residents in the street citing hunger as one of the Biggest Challenges to surviving and we have food banks and lines at every food give away that extends for blocks and the donors run out of food way before everybody gets the food they need. And as the mayor mentioned earlier, we have a Record Number of unemployment in San Francisco reaching 108,000 today and so, the need for Food Security is greater than it than its ever. The committee is making sure that 50 of the funds go to this need that is urgent all around the city, especially with cities and unemployed families and the unhoused. An additional 35 goes to supporting Small Businesses and the lowwage workforce. The most two important programs finished exclusively by givetosf are the resiliency grants of 10,000 to Small Businesses with five or less employees, as well as the 50,000 zerointerest loans to Small Businesses with 2. 5 million in gross receipts and under and if we want to continue to increase those resiliency grants, which i know all of the my colleagues and i are desperate to do because we know so many Small Businesses facing closure if they dont get help, weve got to raise more funds through givetosf. And then finally an additional 50 of the funds and this is all rough and can change based on urgency. Go to the Mayors Office of Community Development for household assistance. But its broad, what that means. It can be anything from unpaid utilities, security deposits, basically needs to keep people housed and to keep them safe in their homes. The last thing i will mention is that we have launched a very Exciting Campaign today. I think youve all received emails from my office and i want to give a huge shoutout to jennifer lee of my office who spent all of last week citing 150 images and i would like to share my screen so you can see really what these look like. If you could share these images with your constituencies on social media, we think that people in San Francisco will be very inspired when they see who is giving to givetosf and who is receiving the funds. This is todays graphics that depict a donor who wanted to help Small Businesses because he was born and raised in San Francisco and his parents were former Small Business owners and then a Small Business that receivreceived those funds and t be able to make it through this crisis because of it. So if you could all i sent you the toolkit and if you can share that with your community of supporters, it will be very helpful. Were asking every elected official in San Francisco to do that, both on the local, state and federal levels. And were hoping that will greatly increase the funds to this program. I want to remind you that all of the programs that are serving and supporting undocumented community, Small Businesses, theyre exclusively fun funded y givetosf and saving money in the general fund. Those of us who are very scared of the next budget cycle, we were facing a 1. 5 billion budget deficit, but also are working so hard to meet the basic needs of the constituents, this is the way we can collectively raise the funds to do so. And thats all i have for you. Thank you, supervisor ronen. And i just wanted our listeners to know that these are just a few ways in which the board of supervisors and the City Administration are working together to bring whatever relief we can and improvements we can while were facing this emergency. Thank you very much to all of you. So madam clerk, i believe lets go right into our regular agenda. Well call item number one. Item number one, ordinance to levy special taxes within the city and county of San Francisco for 20201, for the mission rock facilities and services. Madam clerk, i dont see anybody on the role, so could you call the role on this. role call . There are 11 ay session. Aye. This passes unanimously. Item number 2. The administrative code to close county jail number 4 on the seventh floor of the hall of justice by november 1st, 2020, to require the Sentencing Commission to establish the safety and justice challenge subcommittee, the reduction of the citys daily jail population and closure and determinations to the California Environmental quality act. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are ten ayes and one no with supervisor stephanie in the dissent. Madam clerk, item number 3. To amend the planning code to create the intermediate length occupancy, residential use characteristic and to affirm the seqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Please call the role. This is item number 3. role call . There are 11 ayes. Thank you. And this ordinance has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, the next item. Item 4 is a motion to approve the mayors nomination for the reappointment for christina ruki to the transportation agency, bad of directors, material termg march 1st, 2024. Supervisor ronen. Thank you, colleagues. I dont know how to get back to the screen. Can you see me . We can see your icon photo, but not you directly. Im sorry, i cant figure out how to get back to the screen, so im sorry you cant see me when i talk, but at least you can hear me. Here we go, thank you whoever did that for me. John and brent. And im back, thank you. Colleagues, i have had voted at the rules committee to support the nomination of christina rubki to the mta board because i have a ton of respect for her and appreciated her answers to many questions that i asked during committee. But something happen hasnt sat well with me over the past few weeks about this appointment and primarily, its the fact that we passed two unanimous resolutions at this board of supervisors and one was unanimous, which urged the mta to name the station and the second one was a 101 vote urging the mta vote not to raise fees on people in San Francisco during the worst health and economic crisis that this city has seen, perhaps, ever, certainly in decades. And both of those resolutions were basically ignored. By this mta board christina rubki sat on. Im thinking what we have coming up ahead of us in the next couple of years and the fact that mta is going to have to decide which services to cut with unprecedented holes in the budget and it just doesnt sit well with me, that this board of supervisors, that are closest to the constituents on the ground, that advocated based on what our constituents need for us, that that opinion, when its so overwhelming at the board of supervisors is just ignored by the mta board. It just doesnt sit well with me. And for the First Time Since ive been elected supervisor, ive changed my mind and ive decided that im going to vote no on this appointment. And i hope it sends a message to the mta board that when we speak and we speak overwhelmingly at this board of supervisors, we do not want to be ignored by that board which is appointed, by the way, exclusively by the mayor. And i just wanted you to understand why im changing my vote today. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor ronen. And supervisor peskin. Thank you, president yee. And i want to appreciate the comments of supervisor ronen. And as you know, i have a long history around charter reform as it relates to the sf mta and was the author in 2007 of proposition a that gave the sf mta more independence from the board of supervisors. And i note that it is very rare, although supervisor ronen outlined two of those rarities, that this elected legislative branch of the government signals by resolution to this appointed body what our policy desires are. And the only check and balance that we have really comes through the nomination and confirmation process. And i think that sending a message not only to the mta commission, which is, by the way, the only other body that has legislative authority in the city and county of San Francisco but to other commissions that legislative branch of this government comes up with a policy urgence, that it must be heated. We can do what supervisor peskin and i propose, which is to tinker wilt Charter Authority that we gave them and the voters gave them. But meanwhile, the best way to enforce that message and really fulfill our obligation to be a check and balance in this process is by sending that message and voting no on this nomination. Supervisor fewer. Yes, thank you, president ye. Yee. Thank you for your service on mta. I have gone before the entire board of the mta with specific questions about the budget and never once did i receive a response. And not only that, but the fact that i feel like there is a lack, in fact, theres is zero representation on the mta board and i want to say thank you for her service, but i will not be able to support her today. I had a conversation about this and so, i just wanted to say thank you for your service, and i will not be able to support this nomination today. Thank you. Ok, thank you. Anybodi dont see anybody eln roster and madam clerk, may we have a role call. Item 4 role call . Fewer no. Hainey no. Peskin no. Preston no. Ronen no. Walton no. There are fivas five ayes and s. So with a 56 vote, the motion to approve is defeated. Item 5. An ordinance to amend 17019, the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 20192020 and 20202021 and to enacted military Service Related to the covid19 pandemic and to the enumerated events that qualify for expressio sumsupplementatio. This is allowing employees calling into duty for the covid19 response to receive the same pay other active response receive. This will pay for military leave difference between city salary and the military pay when they are called into active service for more than 30 days in response to terrorist attacks or acts of conflicts. These same individuals do not get the same benefits if called into active duty for covid19 response. In march, the president authorized california to deploy the National Guard to respond to covid19 and approximately 1,000 National Guard members have been deployed statewide. My office identified two individuals who were in this situation is the budget identified five possible additional individuals after surveying our city department. Base on the low number of individuals, the impact to the budget will be extremely small and absorbed by the departments within their current budgets as stated at the budget and finance committee. But the impact really is for the individual families is extreme and they will still have to meet the living expenses, of course, and that will be significant to them. Covid19 disaster response, i think, we can all agree is some of the most important work anyone is doing right now and why the city has deployed so many of our own employees as Disaster Service workers. I dont believe anyone should have to choose between this important work and supporting their families and i want to thank president yee for waiving the 30day rule and for his questions at the budget and finance committee, i understand they were answered and i want to thank chair fewer for scheduling this is walton and mandleman for sending this out. Thank you, and i would appreciate your support. Thank you, supervisor stephanie. And thank you for bringing alert to this issue and realizing that theres the laws that govern the reimbursement is somewhat shortsighted and not seen some of the emergencies that we were activating our troops. And one of the reasons i ask questions about what the impact might be to the budget is that not knowing how many people would be activated and so forth and so the reports are not 100 accurate but close enough in terms of some estimates of what it could cost the city. Madam clerk, role call, please. Thank you, mr. President. On item 5 role call . There are 11 ac 11ayes. In has passed unanimously in First Reading. Madam clerk, call item 6 and 7 together. Two resolutions that both authorize the director of Real Property, 5 and 6, to exercise two real lease amendments at 3119 and 3120 and both are on Mission Street for Service Spaces with klw investments for items 6 and for each lease fiveyear terms to commence juln june 20, 2020, for a base rent close to 2. 1 million with a 3 increase every year and specifically for item seven, authorizing the director of property to extend a Real Property lease located at 2 goth street for a fiveyear term commencing on july 1, 2020 and expiring june 30, 2025 for a base rent of 624,000 with a 3 increase annually. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, president yee, and i want to thank the chair of the budget committee, supervisor fewer, for holding this over and giving our folks at real estate the opportunity to renegotiate this lease. I would like to thank Andrico Pennick for the cost savings that was achieved in the twoweek period when the budget and finance committee did not hear the item as originally presented or did not vote on item as originally presen presed this is a model for the citys lease negotiations Going Forward, where there has been a significant price reduction from the original negotiated price. So thank you, mr. Pennick, and mr. Fewer. Role call, please. On item 6 and 7 role call . There are 11 ayes. This passes unanimously. Is supervisor fewer on the roster . I was going to comment on the last item. It is fine and thank you for checking. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Thank you for checking. No worries. The next item . Item 8, resolution to authorize the Treasure Island Development Authority to execute a standard agreement with the California Department of housing and Community Development, hcd, under the Affordable Housing and sustainable communitys program for a total award of 20 million, for a loan to the project sponsor for 100 of Affordable Housing and parcel c3. 1 and a grant dispersement for Public Transportation improvement on torrential island for the period ending june 30th, 2039 and authorizing the authority to except and expand a 600,247,000 grant for a Ferry Terminal and pay bridge improvements and other transit. Please call the role. On item 8 role call . Are 11 ayes. Thank you. And without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please go to our next item, number 9. Item 9 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to require conditional use authorization for applications to demolish a singlefamily residential building on a site zoned as h1, residential house district, one family or rh1d, residential house district, one family detached. When the building is demonstrably not affordable and to affirm the sequa determination and make the appropriate findings. please stand by . 6789 president yee have participated in National Elections since 1986. We need to ensure that young people build a habit of voting as early as possible and continue to participate in our democracy across their lifetime. Evidence from other cities and countries that have set voting at an early age of 16 shows that the lowering age increases voter turnout among Younger Voters and even encourages people to vote at higher rates. We know that the issues that we vote on as a city dont just impact everyone 18 and older. They impact our young people, too. 16 and 17yearolds go to school but dont have a say on in a decision we make about their education system. 16 and 17 year olds can be tried as adults several times, but dont have a say in our criminal justice system. And 16 and 17yearolds pay taxes but dont have a say in how we spend tax dollars. Ultimately, 16 and 17yearolds should have a say at the ballot box in economic impacts. Im sorry. In advance of civic and human rights address inequality and reform our gun vials, and confront climate change. I have seen this over many decades decades that i have had the opportunity to work with youth. Many years ago, i was able to work with an organization to organize a youth summit. Over 275 youth participated. Not only did they participate, they provided leadership and facilitated all the workshops. What it showed me is youth in San Francisco can and want to navigate complex issues. The question is not are San Francisco youth able to contribute to society for the better, its that they can. We have come a long ways but still have far to go to ensure that everyone has been afforded the right to vote in this country, is able to cast their ballot on election day, and we have a long way to go to ensure that groups that have not been afforded the opportunity to vote but so greatly deserve to do so are extended the right. That is what this fight is about. This is about moving us forward as a city and sending a message to our country at a time when we are confronted with division, gridlock, and so many seemingly intractable problems. It is about recognizing that our youth have always pushed our city and country forward, and it is about recognizing that our democracy has struggled when everyone is informed, engaged, and able to participate in decision making. Colleagues, i hope you will all support this historic effort to extend Voting Rights to 16 and 17yearolds here in San Francisco. The second item id like to introduce is today, i will be introducing a resolution urging congress to support 100 billion for relief funding for child care in the next covid relief package. A letter signed and sent to the house of representatives called for 50 million to a shortterm Stabilization Fund and longterm Recovery Fund for students, aide as, and providers. However, previous to the coronavirus incident, child care was under funded. The covid19 pandemic has significantly impacted the Early Education and child care industry. The National Association for the education of young children, a review that only 11 of the countrys child care providers would survive without government aid. This is unacceptable. Losing the providers would not only put a centerbased and Family Child Care providers out of work, but there is a ripple effect. Families without care for the children will also lose their jobs. My office has received letters from the hispanic Family Child Care network expressing exactly this, knowing that they will have no choice but to close without support. Early educators and child care providers are the backbone of our economy. As they face increasing economic impact, we must make sure that they are not left behind in a response to covid19. We must ensure that centers and Family Child Care continue to operate after the pandemic, and that we provide support in our early educators during and after this pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must private child care to families who rely on child care services. We must advocate and demand that the federal Government Support families and these essential workers. This is why im introducing this resolution in supporting the house of representatives call for the investment of early care and education. Thank you for my supervisors peskin and mandelman. I hope that others will join in this effort. And the last thing id like to introduce is a resolution called Asian American and Pacific Islander day against bullying and hate. Today, i am introducing a resolution to declare may 18, 2020, as Asian American and Pacific Islander day against bullying and hate. I want to thank supervisors ronen, peskin, mandelman, and stefani for cosponsoring, and even before current the current covid pandemic, the Asian Pacific american community, particularly the youth, were increasingly targetland for hate and bullying crime, where certain populations, including the south asian, our muslim, sikh, micronesian, English Proficient limited youth are at greater risk than others. This time often compounded by religious and linguistic barriers that prevent these communities from seeking help. Twothirds of the sikh American Students face bullying, and half of the muslim American Students report bullying. May 18 was chosen because it is the birthday of esru chen, who would have been 65, but in 1985, he was brutally murdered in a hate crime in detroit. Since may 18 is next monday, i am asking this item to be approved as part of the imperative agenda because it is purely commemorative in nature. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thank you very much. Thank you very much, madam clerk. Today, i am introducing a resolution urging the mayor and city departments to prioritize public departments and transparency during the covid19 emergency. Since the covid emergency began, there was a state of emergency declared, and the mayor has introduced a series of proclamations given the unprecedented conditions initiated by the pandemic. These conditions and the related actions have also had an impact on Government Transparency and government access to information, including the suspension of Public Meetings and provisions of the brown act and sunshine ordinance. In addition, the seven economic recessions triggered by the covid19 emergency and following Public Health orders have had an immediate and Significant Impact on the city budget, forcing the mayors Budget Office and Controllers Office for the next two fiscal years and modify the fiscal calendar. We now have modified the schedule for the next two months, allowing the departments to revise proposed budgets, and mayor to revise her budget with relevant information. All of these are leading to questions about how to ensure public transparency within the budget process on such a short timeline, more than ever needed this year with the likelihood of cuts being considered. This allows the mayor to implement some recommendations regarding transparency from the league of women voters and urges the mayor and select city departments to put into place measures for transparency during this years trunkated but high stages budget process including a revision of departments budget proposals. Colleagues, i hope to have your support on this item. And today, i am proud to stand with supervisor yee in support of vote 16 and the expansion of Voting Rights for the youth and teens of San Francisco. I have long been a supporter of this. We have an Incredible Opportunity to engage young people in discussions about civics and social issues while they are in high school that can deepen their ownership of the democratic process. We know that the earlier that people are registered to vote, the more prolivic voters they become. Once a person votes, that person is likely to vote again. At the age of 16, a young person can drive or be sentenced as an adult for a crime. If we as a society are willing to grant such responsibility on 16yearolds, it makes no sense that we would deny them the right to vote and engage in the democratic process. If we are seriously invested in training the next generation to be socially and politically involved, this is how we start. Currently, the average age of a voter in the United States is 43 to 46 years old. If we truly want a democracy that recognizes the voices of all, it is time we add the future generation into that democracy, and we can do that by allowing them to vote. Thank you to the commission and norman yee for allowing this effort. Id like to be added to president yees legislation concerning a. P. A. S against bullying and hate. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. We will add you to that. Next up is supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Today, im urging the governor to invest in Small Businesses operating in c. R. V. Convenience zones and forgive the outstanding balances of Small Businesses who have been unable to pay fees for operating in these zones. Something ive heard in conversations with a number of Small Business owners in my district is the incredible burden that c. R. V. Fees can place on our cornerstone markets. These businesses are essential in serving our communities, especially in times like the current emergency. While many businesses are taking on the cost of implementing Safety Measures and supplying with social distance complying with social distancing measures, they are weighed down by these fees. Thats why im urging the government to waive the fees and to forgive the outstanding loans of the many Small Businesses unable to pay fees operating in these zones. I believe that relief from these fines relief from these fines at this time and for the duration of the emergency order is one important way we can support our small momandpop stores and say thank you for putting their lives on the sign as they continue to serve us during our time of need. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, madam clerk. Today, colleagues, im asking that we adjourn our meeting in memory of courtney brousseau. Courtney was 24 years old. He was walking home from dolores park when he was struck by a bullet from a driveby shooting at 14th and guerrero. The follow monday he died from those injuries. Courtney was, by all accounts, an extraordinary human being and an extraordinary san franciscan. According to his friends, he would immediately reply when someone shared their adventures in their city with, i love this city so much. Courtney was an eagle scout, a Supreme Court justice in his local ymca youth and government program. He was the editor in chief of his Student Newspaper in newberry park, california. He and his fellow student journalists defended themselves in the freedom of the press from angry parents on the school board and never backed down. They won and never aired the apology that was demanded of them. He attended u. C. Berkeley where he somehow managed to get more involved in his school and community. Courtney worked on issues like Student Housing and improving the berkeley mobile Student Resources app. He was also a member of the cal berkeley democrats and Berkeley Forum during his time on campus. Following his graduation with a degree in economics and computer science, courtney moved to San Francisco in 2019 and got a job as an associate manager at twitter, focusing on projects to make them more inclusive and less prejudicial. He was active with the San Francisco Transit Riders Union and frequently spoke about the need to improve our Transportation System and make our streets safe. He cofounded the gay for meet up groups with his friend, janet lee, providing a place for people from all walks of life to celebrate Public Transit in a queer space. Courtney changed the world and the lives of many of those he came into contact with during his muchtooshort lifetime. I am honored to have had the opportunity to represent someone as invested in his community as courtney, and i want to express to his friends and family our deep sadness for their loss. I know that supervisor haney knew courtney, and i know he has some words he wants to share with us today and some frie words from his friends and neighbors. Clerk supervisor haney, did you want to go now . Supervisor haney yes. Courtney had a huge impact on so many people who were inspired by him, found hope and joy and his connections and his ability to connect people, and above all, his love for the city and his commitment to the people. I had the opportunity to know courtney. I had the opportunity to meet courtney for coffee just a few weeks ago, and i was able to learn from him. And i remember leaving that conversation just a bit more hopeful about our city and the people who care about it more deeply. I want to share just a few short things from some of his friends. From his friend sarah, when someone dies young, we often hear the phrase, they held so much promise, as if their life up to that point was a testing ground for their accomplishments to come. And certainly, while we learn later in learn in our life that things we do can set the stage for later, it is clear that courtneys life was certain to be full of joy, volunteerism, inclusivity, and yes, promise. In his short life, courtney already showed that leading a life full of promise isnt something we need to reserve for a eulogy. Its a call to live our life with a promise for a more just world. Courtney fulfilled this every day through his volunteerism, donation, friendships, sense of humor, and other worldly empathy. May courtneys memory be a blessing and his life a call to action for all of us to live up to his promise. From his roommate, kane, we heard about his love for the city. It had taken over him, and his purpose was to make it a better place. Being lucky to witness how deeply courtney loved San Francisco will remain one of the most sacred honors of my life. By love, i dont mean he simply loved his city, he demonstrated his devotion to San Francisco through his good works. Courtney made it a daily practice to lend his time, his resources, and his standing in the community to advocate for and help those less fortunate. He is a permanent part of the soul of San Francisco, and he he had something that he would say a lot, and chris, one of his closest friends, remembers the reply that he would immediately get when they shar shared photos of adventures in this city. He would say, i love this city so much. Courtney, we wont forget your impact on this city and what you held what was possible here. So to your family and friends, our condolences. Clerk thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman, youd like to continue . Supervisor mandelman only that i received a text message from supervisor ronen, asking that this in memory memoriam be on behalf of the entire board. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, supervisor mandelman, for those touching words about courtney. I have one item. Id ask the supervisors to draft legislation while the city has extended the payment for the business licensing fees down the road, some of our businesses will not make it. The looming debt to the city makes it less likely that they will not survive. Many of our shuttered storefronts have not received a dime in local or federal support and they have no ability to generate revenue. As we slowly lift measures and allow businesses to operate, businesses will have to decide whether they open up or shutter permanently. This will allow our businesses to continue providing the goods and services we all need to thrive. Id like to thank the many shake holders who provided valuable input on this, including Small Business owners, the chamber of commerce, mayors and treasurers office, oewd, and the office of Small Business. Also as a parent of a teen with her own world view and political opinions, im proud to cosponsor the Charter Amendment read by supervisor fewer yesterdtoday. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. We will make you a cosponsor. Next is supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, madam clerk, and first, id like to be added as a cospons cosponsor on president yees antibullying a. P. A. Resolution. And colleagues, today, i am introduci introducing legislation to allow Police Commission to resume their meetings during this ongoing state of emergency. The Police Commissions in charge of overseeing the police and ensuring accountability, and theyve not been allowed to meet even virtually since february 26, about 2. 5 months, and that is unacceptable and needs to change. The important of allowing the Police Commission to meet was made very clear by an incident that occurred about two weeks ago in response to a peaceful protest. Police officers were photographed with masks that depicted a black and White American flag with a blue line, a reference to blue lives matter. In addition to being insensitive, its altering a police uniform. The body involving Police Matters needs to respond. The fact that the commission hasnt been able to meet is unacceptable, and its necessary for the board of supervisors to step in to restore oversight and accountability. And let me be clear, colleagues, this is about more than one incident, troubling as that incident was. In a letter written by commissioner commissioner John Hamasaki and commissioner petra dejesus, they write that its one of many incidents, including officer involved shootings and a study on the adequacy of Police Patrol staffing. This motion to allow the Police Commission to meet is about restoring and ensuring when it come allowing Greater Transparency and oversight is more critical than ever. I want to specifically thank commissioners hamasaki and dejesus for their leadership on this for bringing it to my attention, and their commitment to making sure we have ongoing oversight, accountability, and transparency when it comes to Public Safety in Law Enforcement during these difficult times. I also want to thank public defender noah ajun for requesting that they resume meetings and for the content contained in that letter. Thank you to my sponsors peskin and haney, and thank you for allowing me to move this forward. We heard just before todays meeting that the mayor may be considering an order to allow one or more Police Commission meetings to be held. We look forward to hearing the mayors plan and looking to get this done as quickly as possible so the Police Commission can get back to work. Thank you. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen today, im introducing several amendments. Today, the first inquiry is about deaths among unhoused residents in the city of San Francisco. Im asking for the department to report if there have been any deaths have coronavirus among people sleeping on the street since the stayathome order began until today. I want to know how many people have died on the street during the shelter in place order and how this compares with the number of deaths among unsheltered Homeless Individuals in the same time period as last year. And then finally, what the protocol is from the medical Examiners Office to discover whether people dieing on the streets are positive or were positive for coronavirus. The second inquiry that im submitting today is together with supervisor sandra lee fewer. This is regarding access to shower facilities for unhoused residents, which is becoming a crisis on the streets. I want to know how many public showering facilities there are in the city of San Francisco, where these facilities are located, which if any of these facilities are accessible to unhoused residents, and during previous pandemics where shower facilities were immediatneeded residents, where those facilities were located in the past, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai yes, im here. Clerk yes. Present your new business. Supervisor safai yes. I have a few items on the agenda, one of which is a resolution in which im introducing in partnership with president yee, urging governor gavin newsom to release 350 million from the c. A. R. E. S. Act, to provide support for Early Childhood and care providers. As i said last week, we talked about having a support from the Mayors Office. I know supervisor ronen and others are working with gettosf. Were hoping that this will be a subset of support. But this is urgent support that we need to provide at the end of the day if people dont have a place to put their children in when they go back to work or as they start to go back to work, its going to be an additional barrier, particularly those in my district that have been affected the most, those in the Hospitality Industry who rely on child care. Per the s. F. Child care council, theres an estimated 77,000 children sheltering in place. Further, child care employment found that 63 of the programs would not survive another month of sheltering in place absent financial assistance. We have thousands of Early Childhood care providers, and almost 90 of them reside in south San Francisco. Colleagues, i ask for you to support urging Governor Newsom and the California Legislature to take immediate action to release this money of 350 million of c. A. R. E. S. Act so that we can provide that Early Childhood care support. I want to thank president yee for his years of leadership on this. President yee, if it wasnt clear, please add me a cosponsor of your resolution at the federal level, and thank you to the Child Care Council and the Court Coalition of family Early Childhood care providers that have been working with us, advocating for themselves and their families and working families in San Francisco. So id hope, colleagues, youd all support me on that. And then secondarily, i want to thank supervisor fewer for bringing forward the ability to vote for 16 and 17yearolds. I think its wonderful that we would be encouraging in a time and a place with so many barriers, even in the last election cycle, there were reports of barriers being created for voting in this day and age in 2020. We want to be doing everything we can to encourage the next generation of leaders and voters and those participating in our democracy, so im absolutely happy to support promoting an early agenda of early voters. Thank you, everyone, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i just briefly want to report on you all out on the county Services Veterans Service Officer position was vacant, i introduced legislation to the Human Services director, asking for more information about the vacancy. We also heard from a number of members of the Veterans Affairs commission who were troubled by the length of the vacancy because this position is affecting veterans of our county and the benefits and services to which theyre entitled. I am pleased to report that the position was posted yesterday, and qualified applicants are encouraged to apply through may 25. Im looking forward to this item moving forward in a timely fashion, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton submit. Did you catch that . Clerk yes, thank you, supervisor walton. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. Clerk are there any other members on the roster i might have missed . All right. Mr. President , seeing no new names on the roster, that concludes the items for new business. President yee okay. Thank you, and thank you to my colleagues who have cosponsored some of the items that were introduced today. Madam clerk, lets go to Public Comment. Clerk at this time, the board of supervisors will host remotely Via Teleconference Public Comment. Each speaker will have up to two minutes to provide Public Comment. At the beginning of the meeting, i provide the telephone number for those who may have just wanted to listen to the proceedings, and if anyone in that early group would like to speak, if you havent already, press one and then zero to get into the queue to provide your Public Comment. The key here is to press one and then zero only one time. If you press it twice, youll be moved out of line and back into listening mode, and once in the queue, please stand by, and the system will prompt you when you are next to speak. For those of you calling in now, the telephone number is displayed on our website and crawling on channel 26. Its 18882045984, and when prompted, enter the access code 3501008. Press pound, then press pound again to join the meeting. Then, youll be added to the queue. Youll then dial one and then zero. The system will prompt you when its your turn to speak, and while the speakers are queueing up, i will note the best practices for your location. Your location should be quiet. Speak slowly and clearly so we can understand your message. Each speaker has up to two minutes to deliver your comments. If youre using an interpreter, the interpreter will be timed for two minutes. Remember to keep your subject matter appearanto subject matt jurisdiction by the board. You may oppose an item on the agenda, but there is no electioneering at these meetings. Please do not ask for support of anyone or oneself on a ballot. If anyone has to continually be reminded, they will be moved out of the line and back into listening mode. Address the board as a whole. Do not address individual members. Once your two minutes have concluded, you can the system will just put you into listening modes. Two last points. Director of the office of Civic Engagement, adrian pond, has assigned two staffers to be on stand by for assistance with language in Public Comment. This is the opportunity for members of the public to speak. Well just start with the interpreters. [speaking Foreign Language] interpreter thank you. Thats it for me. Clerk thank you, miss lee or miss lacanalial. Now well go to miss lee. [speaking chinese language] interpreter thank you. Clerk thank you, miss lee. And mir. Cosenza. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thats it. Thank you. Clerk thank you, mr. Cosenza. For those of you that do not have access to the internet, you can use the usps to deliver your comments to the board. And if you do have the internet, you can submit your written correspondence via email, board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. Org. You can watch the meeting on sfgov. Org, and note that the online broadcast results in a 20second delay. Okay, mr. President. President yee okay. I guess, lets get started with Public Comments. Clerk operations, send the first speaker through, please. Operator you have 16 questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Hi. Good afternoon, board of supervisors, everyone. Kelly torres, portola resident, San Francisco native with deep family roots in this neighborhood. Im calling today to add input on the idea introduced by supervisor ronen last week. I am in no way insensitive to the situation of the homeless, however, mclaren park is finally receiving some much needed attention. Please dont reverse the progress and efforts that your constituents have made to shed the negative memories of mclaren, and please dont use my taxpayer dollars to reverse the positive attention mclaren is finally receiving. As a steward of the natural world, more importantly and specifically my city, my place, i am online today to oppose this idea of using our city parks as homeless encampment areas. Our neighborhood is already plagued with excessive amounts of garbage, hypodermic needles, panhandlers and residents that spit on you if you dont give them money. It is time for San Francisco and her neighboring cities and counties to come together and solve this issue. It is not a one city, one county problem. Breakdown those silos. Work together. Put construction time and money into repufurbishing those big x empty structures. We voted for a board of supervisors we believe have vision. Please dont disappoint us and make this damaging decision. If this idea is allowed to move forward, our parks, and more importantly, the urban wildlife that depends on them will never recover. Thank you. Operator you have 15 questions remaining. Clerk welcome, speaker. [inaudible] former libbertarian party. A Face Covering should not be used by any person who has trouble breathing. I rise in support of people with asthma and copd. Under hipaa, i shouldnt have to disclose my medical condition, but ive had asthma my entire life. I have cpap, i have a nebulizer, i cant breathe. A Face Covering causes me to have an asthma attack. Ive already been to the e. R. Eric gardner didnt die of a chokehold, he died of an asthma attack. You probably dont know this, but his sister did, as well. The enforcement of this current Public Health order and the lack of communication is causing a racially disparate problem. The conditions of asthmatics is addressed in numerous articles [inaudible] even the California Air Resources Board says it is junk science, so people who take the time to study the science and take the time to understand that it is government, it is organized crime masqueraiding as government does exist, and supervisor fewer doesnt care. Supervisor stefani doesnt care. Ste supervisor peskin doesnt care. None of you care. [inaudible] clerk you have 14 questions remaining. My name is jayan dacosta. I think this would be the right time for some of you supervisors to pass a resolution and a commendation for our [inaudible] thats the right thing to do. Also because many of you all were not informed about the pandemic, and i still see that that youre not educated on issues when it comes to supplies and knowing what has to be in place in the pandemic. Its a learning curve, but i will ask you all to be educated on issues. Now, our nurses have a whole year that we decide to honor them. But the World Health Organization has gone even deeper, even further, and set aside the whole decade to honor our nurses, and i want each one of you all to read something about it, and take time to honor our nurses and craft a beautiful resolution and still better commendation for our nurses, our doctors, our janitors, our medical technicians. We need to respect those clerk thank you for your comment. Operator you have 13 questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Linda chapman. Im going to follow up on my comments on the special hearing that was called by supervisor haney concerning the response to the supervisors resolution or ordinance, actually, to get people off the streets and into hotels or motels and so forth. I happened to see an article in the paper in which the officials that have done this disgraceful thing of spending millions of dollars for hotel room and holding them empty, and they respond by well, they thought First Responders would be coming from other areas, and they thought they would need them. I mean, just covering up what they actually did. They said that they wanted the local First Responders to use them because they wouldnt want to go home, and then, when they discovered they didnt want to use them, well, they just left them empty because the people who were living on the street were considered to be suitable to move in there. You know, i am appalled. Now were talking about putting people in tents in the park. The people in bayview who decided to set up an encampment did what they had to do because there was no government response. But you have the power, together with the City Attorney, to get the people into rooms where they belong. When there are other disasters, it would usually be the job of the army or fema to get people housed, and normally, in those circumstances, there are not habitations available. Where my grandmother when the chimney fell through in her room, people went and lived in the parks because there were no habitations. But now, in the city, were swimming in thousands and thousands of empty rooms. Obviously, it would be a benefit to the hotels and their employees to have people housed in them. The federal government would never pay the rates that are being paid by the city here or in oakland. Clerk thank you, caller. Your time is up. Operator you have 12 questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Hi. My name is dr. Teresa palmer. Im a geriatric doctor and i have a 102yearold mother who lives in a longterm care home. Im calling in support of item 16, which proposes financiacti all longterm care homes concerning Sexual Orientation and gender identity. L. A. County has a great website that lists all congregate living facilities, including jails, and other living facilities, including Nursing Homes. We need public data where Covid Infection deaths are occurring if we are to avoid more of a first wave and a second wave. And families need to know where the infections are occurring in order to make Intelligent Decisions about taking care of themselves and their loved ones. So please, board of supervisors, support the legislation for data collection. We need accountability so resources can be directed to the people who need to be taken care of. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have 11 questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Yeah, hi. Im ray allen. Im a long time portola resident, and this is in regard to the legislation introduced by supervisor fewer last week, the use of public parks. I use our parks in the city about every day. I walk the dog, i volunteer, i play ball at the big rec down at Golden Gate Park for the last 40 years, and ive seen the homeless ebb and flow over those years, and ive cleaned up after them, and watch the drug abuse and alcohol abuse, and watched the wild rants, and had my car broken into. But ive also been friends with them. I dont have any illusions with the situation with the homeless. Id like to end with the proverb, the road to hell is paved with Good Intentions. And the board of supervisors, to use San Francisco parks for homeless tent cities has a really Good Intention but a really bad outcome. Operator you have ten questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Peter warfield, director of users of libraries coalition. I wanted to use this as a means to clarify and repeat some of the points that i made last week. The minutes have left out some of the important aspects of my comments and actually completely misunderstood the major comment that i was making, and that is that theres over 100,000 people in the city who do not have access to the internet, and that those people are being left almost completely behind by the library, who has dropped almost all services to those people. What am i talking about . If you look at the San Francisco digital strategic equi equity plan to 2024, there are very disparate impacts to the usage of internet. For example, Household Income over 25,000, 59 have access to high speed home internet. Whereas 200,000, its 98 . Bloc blo blacks, 78 , latino, 72 . The library has dropped all access. Theres no curb side delivery, no mail delivery, which other libraries are doing. I said that Library Services and hours to accommodate those who do not have Internet Service and may never have it, and you put it as those who require Internet Services. I also commented on city colleges open government violations, which was completely left out. Thank you very much. I hope you can fix those things. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have nine questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Welcome. Hello. My name is mckenzie tobin, and i just wanted to say thank you for everything youre doing during covid19. As A Santa Clara student and resident, i thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have eight questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Welcome. Good afternoon. My name is kevin rose. Im from the law firm reuben, junius, and rose in San Francisco, and speaking on item 19 concerning property taxes at 364 birch street, i would ask that you consider postponing the motion of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole to a future date 30 to 60 days in the future. My office has been working on behalf of the taxpayer to get this delinquency paid. Theres some questions with regard to the value of the property, and the taxpayer just received notice of this delinquency on march 4 of this year, which was about two years after the closing date in 2018. At that closing, a change of ownership report was filed with the assessors office, so theres some concern on the taxpayers part as to why it took two years to issue this delinquency notice and the associated penalties and interest. Given the timing of the notice, just weeks or days before the covid19 crisis, its been very difficult for the taxpayer to obtain equity or new financing to pay this debt, and as i mentioned, there are some factual issues that need to be resolved, and legal issues. So i do ask for an extension of this date, and i thank you for your time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Operator you have seven questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is kylie, and im a member of the San Francisco youth organization. Thank you to everybody that has cosponsored, and thank you, board president yee, for introducing this. On a personal note, its my fouryear anniversary at San Francisco Youth Commission, and my first week on the job was when the supervisors held a joint meeting with the Youth Commission to vote it on the ballot. Its wonderful to see this coming to fruition four years later with young people that are passionate about this issue, and were going to win, so thank you for introducing this legislation. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Operator you have five questions remaining. Clerk hello, and welcome, caller. Hello. This is anastasia ionnapolous. Im asking you to deny senator wieners sb bill 2. It will threat 902. It overrides local plans and policy while imposing infrastructure costs, upzoning to allow ten units on city lots with no value recapture is simply a bonus to developers. Next, i support supervisor fewers resolution supporting ab 2058 for a Housing Preservation tax credit to provide a 50 credit against the state and Federal Capital gains otherwise owned by the seller if they sell to a nonprofit entity who will operate the property as an Affordable Housing for lowincome housing for 55 years. And finally, i support resolution opposing ab 1261, sponsored by peskin, safai, and mandelman, which would preempt San Franciscos precedent setting prohibition on government acquisition and use of facial Recognition Technology. Thanks. Um. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Operator you have six questions remaining. Clerk welcome, speaker. Hello, board of supervisors. My names terry mckuhn. Got two things. One, the pandemic virus is obviously spreading in high density areas, and i thank miss wieners position on San Francisco and the state of california. Identity is not our friend anymore. I think the citys overbuilding anyhow, but regardless, identity is going to hurt us because this is where pandemics spread. Secondly, on the homeless issue, we all want to try to take care of issues before they spread. But ive spoken to the Police Officers down there, and theyre not treating the rooms down there as they should. Theres a lot of damage going on, and whos supervising that . The board of supervisors should know that this is an issue, if this is a correct statement or not. But we need to have a plan as to how youre going to when this is over, how were going to get the homeless back out of those rooms and back off the streets . And we know that theres been people coming from all over the place to come here. Thats been well documented in the newspapers, and its an issue that needs to be thought out right now. If it hasnt been, it should be, and put out to the citizens of the city what the plan is going to be and what the cost is for all those hotels and everything thats going on. If damage was done, what im sure the city is going to have to pay for that, so thats going to be an extra cost that we cant do and put into other things. So please discuss that, and i appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Byebye. Clerk thank you, mr. Mckuhn. Operator you have five questions remaining. Clerk hello, and welcome, caller. Thank you. This is randolph sloane. I was appointed by the San Francisco board of supervisors to the department of Building Inspections s. R. O. Task force as an s. R. O. Tenant representative back in 2019. I just want to share some good news today, and that is a new program called s. F. New deal. Theyve started delivering meals, three meals a day to s. R. O. Tenants in the city. And i express my thankfulness to the s. F. New deal people, and i just want to read this into the record. I just needed to thank you, Episcopal Community services San Francisco and the new community partnership, s. F. New deal, for the korean food delivery. As we know in past, people have had to routinely wait in line after line after line to participate in means testing, etc. , to get what they need. After waiting in line for applying or support, the next line awaits. After appealing another decision, more time goes by. They spent a lot of their hard time screening and waiting to be judged by institutions, local, state, and federal. We need local addition and primary supports immediately, not at some unpredictable time in the future. And after all of that waiting, there comes the annual renewal process. More forms, more scrutiny, more shame. I thank you for three meals while sheltering in place today. I wont soon forget the authentic kindness today clerk thank you, sir. Operator you have four questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Hi. My name is cliff barton, and i live on potrero hill. Im calling to express my extreme disappointment for failing to reappoint director rubke to the transit board. [inaudible] clerk mr. President , could you please mute your microphone. President yee no, im sorry. Were pausing your time, mr. Speaker. Has this item been heard . Yes. President yee so madam clerk, could you remind speakers, that items that have been heard they are not to be speaking on. Clerk so speaker, if an item has been heard in a board committee, it has had its item satisfied. You are speaking about the rubke appointment . That item has already been called and is not before the board right now, so thank you for your comments. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Okay. Im very disappointed. Thank you. Clerk thank you, sir. Operator you have three questions remaining. Clerk hello, speaker. [inaudible] from senior and disability action, and im calling in support of item 16 which would greatly increase the tracking of covid cases and covid deaths. [inaudible] we all have seen the great and tremendous cases of deaths in Nursing Homes, and its been a tremendous struggle to get reporting and testing in those facilities, which is just now being [inaudible] doesnt have complete compliance, but item 16 would extend this demand for adjusting and reporting to other types of facilities that could be affected even worse than Nursing Homes, so please support it. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello and welcome, caller. Hi there. My name is tim kingston. Im a representative of the San Francisco public defenders Racial Justice committee, and im calling in support of Aaron Peskins resolution approving ab 2261 which allows facial Recognition Technology to be used in the state of california. And it endangers people who are liable to be confronted by i. C. E. It allows the facial recognition to be used in Health Care Systems and other basic necessities by the use of this in private and government agencies, and it also seems to allow the use of clearview a. I. , which is a known reprobate company in the use of its facial resolution technology. I strongly support his resolution, and thats all i have to say. Thank you. Clerk thank you, mr. Kingston. Next speaker, please. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, and welcome, caller. Good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you for your time. Just to reintroduce myself, my name is ariana nisterie, and im the chair of the San Francisco Youth Commission. I had the privilege of seeing a few of your cases this afternoon at your covid19 press conference, and i just wanted to thank president yee and all the other sponsors for the sponsoring the legislation for the november 2020 bid. And should it come to pass, we look forward to implementing these youth franchises across the city. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Clerk mr. President , if there are, in the next second, no other callers, i believe that would conclude Public Comment. President yee okay. Lets give it five seconds. Clerk okay. Operator madam chair, one caller. Clerk all right. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, and welcome, speaker. My name is leslie burke, and i live in the excelsior, which is called the excelsior heights at the moment. Ive had the privilege to work the excelsior in the past few weeks and gone up to mclaren, and was blown away at all the improvements that have been done to that facility. Its a very secretive park. Most people on the other side of town have no idea such a park exists, and theyve done a lot of work to create such a beautiful park. The condition in the tenderloin, it hasnt changed, its almost gotten worse. This has gone on for years, and i didnt walk the tenderloin, knowing that there were problems. Solutions, put up showers, put up bathrooms, you know, well move the centers. There seems to be a lot of ideas but no follow through because of the population, which is very, very hard to work with and accommodate and deal with Mental Health, etc. My concern is putting these individuals into parks within the city will not solve the problem, itll just move the problem. Because parks are more in an isolated area, and when you isolate people, they tend to mentor among themselves. When you dont isolate people, they tend to learn where they live. You all remember 1906, when there was a fire in San Francisco, it was almost to Golden Gate Park, almost the center of the city. You have them almost in the center of the city, and also, they have the security to make it a safe environment. The other suggestion i have is when you said today that you granted 20 million passed for Affordable Housing on Treasure Island, what a beautiful, large site that has the infrastructure built in and the building clerk thank you, maam. Your time has concluded. Operator thank you. You have one question remaining. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is sarah chong, and i just want to say how thankful i am to president yee for introducing the legislation to vote at 16. Were excited to have it on the ballot in november and hopefully get it passed, and thank you to everyone whos cosponsoring and endorsing, and we thank you for this next step forward. Clerk okay. Thank you for your comment, speaker. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Clerk thank you, mr. President. There are no speakers in the queue. President yee okay. Then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets go call the for adoption without committee reference, agenda items 13 through 20. Madam clerk, youre muted. Clerk thank you, madam deputy. Items 13 through 20 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. A unanimous vote is required for those items on First Reading today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution to go to committee. Mr. President , your mic might be muted. President yee sorry about that. Thank you, madam clerk. Would anybody like to sever any items . Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani yes. Items 13 and 18, please. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar item 16, please . President yee any others . Okay. Seeing no others, then, for the remainder of the items, then, can we call the roll, madam clerk. Clerk yes, on items 14, 15, 17, 19, and 20, supervisor yee. President yee wait, wait, wait. Did you say 15 . Clerk yes. President yee supervisor mar, did you say you want to sever 15 or 16 . Supervisor mar 16. President yee thank you. Clerk okay. President yee okay. My handout doesnt have 16 on it at all. Clerk okay. Okay. So for the record, ill just restate. Items 14, 15, 17, 19, and 20. [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So these resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 13. Clerk item 13 is a resolution opposing California State Assembly bill 2261, authored by Assembly Member edwin chau, which would preempt San Franciscos precedent setting prohibition on government acquisition and use of facial Recognition Technology and there by imperil the Public Health and safety of San Francisco residents and visitors. President yee supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani yes, i would simply like to ask for a roll call vote on this item, please. President yee okay. Madam clerk, roll call vote, please. Clerk on item 13 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. President yee okay. This passes with a 101 vote. Lets go to item 16. Clerk item 16 is a resolution urging the inclusion of Additional Data sets in the San Francisco covid19 data tracker for Sexual Orientation and gender identity, and additional congregate residential facilities. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar i introduced this resolution because we can and should do better. We can and should do more to inform the public on covid19 transmission rates for some of our most vulnerable populations. While the board already adopted a resolution authored by supervisor peskin that justly and rightfully pushed for the resolution of covid19 transmission data for s. R. O. S and shelters, residents in other kind of congregate residential facilities are also vulnerable and deserve better data. Just this past friday, the chronicle reported nearly half of covid19s deaths are from nursing home residents and staff, nearly half, and yet, San Francisco is not reporting on data from Nursing Homes and similar congregate facilities. In addition, the Lgbtq Community disproportionately experiences incarceration, homelessness, and housing insecurity, and where they have disparate Public Health outcomes. If anyone can and should lead on this, its San Francisco. With this resolution, we are saying loudly and clearly that Health Outcomes for lgbtq people matter. We are saying that Health Outcomes in jails and other congregate facilities matter. With everything going on today, people deserve data on this matter. Im grateful to terry palmer in my office for working on this resolution, and want to thank cosponsors supervisors walton, r ronen, and haney, and colleagues, i urge your support of this resolution. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 16 [roll call] kroez crozier clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 18. Clerk item 18, resolution to commend captain Brett Elliott kroezecrozier, united navy, for his courageous leadership as Commanding Officer of the u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt. President yee supervisor fewer, this is the second time ive missed you. Supervisor fewer oh, i just wanted to be added on as a cosponsor of supervisor mars resolution. President yee supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani captain crozier is a bay area resident, and he had a long, decorated career, culminating as the Commanding Officer of the u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt. The captain identified a covid19 outbreak among his men. He was met with an inadequate response from navy leadership. He outlined a letter as we all know, detailing actions to limit the spread. He leaked the letter, and as you know, he was removed from his position because of the leak of the letter. Ultimately, acting secretary of the navy, thomas v. Modley was ultimately forced to resign in the wake of publicly berating capp captain crozier. I would like you to join me in recognizing him for his role. President yee okay. Lets call the roll. Clerk on item 18 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the imp imperative item agenda. Clerk okay. The imperative item called by president yee is a resolution recommending asian and Pacific Islander day against bullying and hate in San Francisco. President yee colleagues, earlier today, i had introduced this item as an imperative item, and its an important item that i wish to have pass on time, and but, you know, we can make arguments one way or other that it may not be imperative. But as a supervisor, as the president of this yee, i feel i need to discipline myself as the president to to actually watch what im introducing in terms of what im calling imperative, and since this is sort of very borderline, whether it is imperative or not, ive decided that im going to withdraw it as an imperative item and remain disciplined so i wont get into the situation where people might question why did you approve one thing and not the other. So we will take this as a regular item and have a vote on this next week and hopefully well consider this retroactive. So given that, then, i think we are in memorial, i guess. Clerk thats right, mr. President. Todays meeting will be adjourned today in memory of the following beloved individuals, at the request of supervisor mandelman, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, courtney brosseau. President yee okay. That brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, do we have any further items on the agenda today . Clerk that concludes the items on the agenda, mr. President. President yee okay. I will conclude the meeting, and colleagues, there was no call back from dr. Aragon or colfax to give us a high level briefing, and so well do that in give ourselves a fiveminute pause to do president yee okay. Thank you, and welcome back, everybody else and colleagues that are listening. So we are going to be receiving a briefing from the chief Health Officer, dr. Tomas aragon, and the director of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, at this moment, and this briefing is occurring under the authority of the governors executive order, which allows policy bodies to receive updates from local officials relevant to the declared emergency and to ask questions of such officials, provided that the members of the policy body do not take action or discuss amongst themselves any item of business that this is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the body. This will allow the body to be fully briefed on the Public Health, and to ask questions. So i just wanted to ask questions that i want to thank all of you for submitting questions that