Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240713

Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the may 20th, 2020, rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Im joined by Committee Members Shamann Walton and rafael mandelman. Our clerk is miss linda wong. Id like to thank Lawrence Bryant from sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcement . Clerk yes, maam. The board of supervisors, legislative chair and Committee Room are closed. However, members will participate in the meeting remotely, at the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available both channel 26 andsfgovtv. Org are dreaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 888 2045984, access 35010083501008. Code 3501008. And then press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial one then zero to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the system in the order you dial one and zero. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for the same time delays and speaking discrepancies, coverage and streaming. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly. And turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me at linda. Wong sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment esaw email, it will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service through 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place. Items will be forwarded to the full forward for consideration on june 2nd, unless otherwise stated. Commissioner fewer can you please call item number 1. Clerk yes, madam chair. Resolution authorizing the Human Services agency to execute a Grant Agreement between the city and county of through the Human Services agency. In the am of 144 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item shoulded 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. And today we have with us our guest. Im sorry if i mispronounce your name. Director of ihhs. And then we also have mark burns, executive director of homebridge. And we have joe nielsen, h. S. A. Deputy director of programs. And david, h. S. A. Contract manager. And i believe christa is up first. Hi. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman. Im the director of inhome services, the program of disability and aging services. Today im here to present for your consideration a request from the Human Service agency to enter into a contract with homebridge for the provision of contract mode ihhsbeginning julh june 20th, 2025. Ihhs is a medical benefit, San Francisco general fund will cover 27. 5 million. Please note that we originally submitted a resolution for 144,160,580. But agree with the recommendation to amend the legislation to reduce the contracts not to exceed amount to 142,000,265. Commissioner mar ihhs is a critically important entitle program that provides home care for lowincome, older adults and individuals with disabilities. In San Francisco, our ihhs Program Assists nearly 23,000 consumers and living safely in the community. The department of disability and aging services operates this program on behalf of the state. And our department is responsible for carrying out standardized assessment with ihhs recipients to offer as program elgibility and allocate home care hours for household assistance such as laundry and meal preparation. To support all San Francisco, ihhs is utilizing the program, we operate a robust range of supports designed to meet the tiered needs of our consumer population. This is the ihhs continuum of choice and support. Contract mode is an essential part of this continuum. If the services help some of our citys most vulnerable residents to live safely in the community, specifically homebridge provides supported and supportive home care to roughly 4 of the ihss consumers, who cant direct their own home care. Consumers of contract mode often do not have any other support systems in their live. And without services from homebridge, would be a significant risk of eviction, hospitalization, and longterm institutionalization. During the covid19 emergency, homebridge has further demonstrated their value role, through the implementation of the caregiver Response Team or as they call them sert. The rapid creation of this team required great flexibility, ininnovative thinking to ensure worker and consumer safety and effective provision of services in an everevolving team. The team is operating seven days a week in emergency site tallahassee are supporting homeless residents to shelterinplace in. The duties range from supporting wellness checks, emergency oncall. I want to thank you for your time and consideration of this resolution. In addition to contracts and budget staff from the Human Service agency, as you said, mark burns is the executive director of homebridge is available to answer any questions you might have. Supervisor fewer colleagues, any questions or comments . Seeing none, well hear from the b. L. A. , please. Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee. This the resolution would approve a new contract between homebridge and ihss for services for the fiveyear period from july 2020 to june 2025. Homebridge was selected through a competitive process, but they were the only responder to the process, as i recall. But they also have been providing these services for a number of years now. We summarized the contract expenditures on page 4 of our report. As youll see, this is a budget we were provided by the department. The expenditures are about 142. 2 million, which is less than the amount in the resolution, so we do recommend a reduction to amend the restore deuce to the amount provided in the contract budget. And we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, lets open up item number 1 for Public Comment, please. Clerk yes, madam chair, operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. If caller ares ready, if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Id like to make a motion to move this item to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk clerk, could i have roll call . Clerk excuse me. Supervisor fewer yes. And i can make a motion to approve the amendment brought forth by the b. L. A. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion to attend item number 1. Supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . I three ayes. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Clerk the ayes ayes are thri ayes. Colleagues, well move to item number 3 first. Clerk item number, approving and updated conditional property change agreement for property change agreement. Under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department, in exchange for a portion of the property at 425 to 439 washington street. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the 888 2045984. Also available to speak are San Francisco Fire Department communications and Outreach Coordinator olivia and mark from mohcdand jonathan. So right now were going hear from our director of real estate, mr. Endrico. Good good morning, chair few, supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. Again my name endrico and i am the director of real estate. Im seeking your positive recommendation on the updated conditional Property Exchange agreement or cpeafor the potential exchange of cityowned property located at 530 sansom street for a privately owned parcel, which is a portion of 425 to 439 washington street. This exchange is part of the new fire station 13 project. I have a presentation, if i can share the screen . Hopefully you can see that . Supervisor fewer yes, we can. Just a bit of legislative history. In june of 2017, the board authorized the use of the air rights at 530 sansome for the development of Affordable Housing. The board authorized soliciting a proposal to develop marketrate housing and a new fire station at 530 sansome street, with the revenue dedicated to Affordable Housing at 72 pacific avenue. In may of 2019, the board conditionally approved the original cpea again conditional Property Exchange agreement, to facilitate the new highrise development and the new fire station, both at no cost to the city. Since that time, the project has been redesigned to better meet the needs of the Fire Department and the anticipated demands of the marketplace. These changes are substantive enough to warrant a new conditional approval, which we are before you today seeking. The changes from the original proposed cpa are as follows. The four station has been increased in size to 20,300 square feet. The original size was 19,266 square feet. This marks an increase of a little more than 1,000 square feet and a land partialel allocation increased by 26 . The developer is now swapping out 35 forsale condos for 40,000 square feet of office. In addition, the developer is adding a voluntary fee of 1. 6 million. The fire station delivery cost has increased to 31. 2 million. And we also added an additional apparatus bay for the fire station. And ill walk through the details of those changes. In the fee structure, the prior proposal included both the job housing linkage and inlieu fees. With the removal of the condos or office, switching to j. H. Fees would result in less fee revenue. In order to offset this decrease, the developer has agreed to add an additional fee to capture those reduced revenues of 1. 6 million. Thats making the city whole for that change. The developer is also agreed to cover the increased cost for the delivery of the firstclass, nextgeneration fire station. The cost increase was 5. 7 million. Fees allocated to 772 pacific Affordable Housing project will exceed 5. 9 million, which is sufficient to complete the financing gap of that project. Originally budgeted 4 million for this project. Now were at 5. 9 million. Again there are no fiscal impacts to the city, due to these changes. The condition of project Exchange Agreement is also subject to the board and mayors ratification post. Thats the action that youre taking today is not the final approval of this project. With you will you will have another opportunity to review and approve the project, after the process. The efficient delivery of the new fire station, be it private delivery at no cost to the city, is currently estimated at 31. 2 million, which as i said before is an increase from the original cost. Private delivery put the risk of those cost escalations on the developer and not the city. Upon completion of the project, any cost savings in the station delivery are realized by related, except that any savings below the original cost of 25. 5 million will be paid to the city at the close of escrow. , in other words, this risk is bracketed. The city in any event will certainly get the value and benefit of the original 25. 5 million price. However, if there are savings between 31 million and the original 25 million, those savings go to the developer. On the other hand, if there are Cost Increases over the 31. 2 million, that risk is born by the developer. All housing job linkage fees, which were estimated to be 5. 9 million, will be dedicated to the 772 pacific avenue Affordable Housing project. This project will also require Transferable Development rights, which will be purchased by the city, which will generate an additional 5 million in general Fund Revenues. The project also requires prevailing wage and other city requirements, that would apply not only to the building of the new fire station, but the hotel and office development. The developer is increasing its financial participation, while at the same time our updated appraisal shows that the citys Property Value has actually declined. The project would next proceed with entitlements. So if the approval is obtained, we anticipate permitting in 2021, 2022 after the final agreement is ratified and the ancillary documents. Construction will begin in early 2022 and a new project should be completed by the end of 2023. Just to give you a visual of what the project looks like in your orientation. What this picture is, its not a very good one, i apologize. What its intended to show is the pink box in the upper right lets go back. How do you go back . One second, please. There we go. The pink box is the Current Location of the fire station and its on the corner lot. The new fire station will be located in the block that is bordered in blackout lines. Just to give you an orientation from the neighborhood. You see that the new project will be facing sansome street, it will be bordered by washington and merchant street. This is a diagram view of the stack of the project, as currently envisioned. Youll see the fire station in the lower righthand side. The Highrise Hotel office tower sits to its left. And you can see that portion of it is over the fire station. This is a rendering of the North Elevation on sansome street, facing the project. You can see the fire station in the lower left. And the highrise tower above it. Again noting the cantilever over a portion of the fire station. Youll also note that there are four bays in the fire station, when the original proposal only had three. Next steps. The developer has made significant design changes. We believe that these changes favor the city and they produce a better project for the fire station. It is also in favor of the developer, because these changes deliver a better project, that is positioned to be successful in tomorrows marketplace. And specifically switching out the office for the condos. That concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any of your questions. I also have with me jonathan, the Senior Vice President for related california. I believe mara from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development is also on the line. And Olivia Scanlon from the Fire Department are also available to answer your questions. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Mr. Pinnic, i have one clarification. In your presentation, you mentioned about a couple of facts. You mentioned that our City Property has the value has decreased. And and i think you gave a verbally you said a some of i think it was before that. The page before that one. Yeah. You said 5 million and you have 3 million plus. So is it, indeed, 5 million . Im sorry. Could you repeat the question . Supervisor fewer on the second bullet point, when you read it out loud, were reading, resulting in additional general Fund Revenues of 3 million plus. And you gave in your verbal presentation 5 million. Chair fewer, i must have misspoken. We anticipate that the sale of t. D. R. Will generate a little more than 3 million. Supervisor fewer okay. Shucks. Okay. I thought it was the 5 million. No. The linkage fee Prime Minister 5. 9 million. Additional 3 million in t. D. R. Supervisor fewer thank you very much for the clarification. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, there is no report on this. So madam clerk, can we open up this item for Public Comment, please . Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until youre promised to begin at the beep. Yes, madam clerk, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. And thank you, mr. Pinnic, for your presentation and all of your work on this. Colleagues, id like to make ha motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk yes. To enter an agreement between the city and the county for microsoft Cloud Software and Enterprise Products for a 39month term from june 1st, 2020, through august 31st, 2023, in an amount not to exceed 40 million. Members of the public who want to provide Public Comment, should call 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And. Supervisor preston press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer today we have linda from the city and executive director from the department of technology. Good morning, board members. Id like to share my screen. Ready . Were ready to go. Thank you for your time this morning. And thank you also to the financial team, policy team and, of course, sfgov and the Clerks Office for the virtual meeting. Of course, this is new for all of us. But its working well. Thank you for this opportunity. D. T. Is requesting authorization and approval for a threeyear, citywide Enterprise Agreement for microsoft products. And ill talk to you a little bit about what that includes. This Enterprise Agreement is a contract with for the purchase of microsoft products, software licenses, maintenance and support and training. These products include our productivity tools, office 365, server and server for our databases, as your Cloud Storage and server processing and cybersecurity. This was a competitive solicitation. We are piggybacking on the riverside contract, which means were leveraging that contract with microsoft. And it was negotiated on behalf of the state of california. Its negotiated at a governmentlevel d. Importantly it also includes a minus 2 discount. There is no other state in the u. S. That has received a discount over and above the level d pricing, let alone the extra 2 discount. We created a pool of 10 qualified microsoft resellers and conducted an r. F. Q. For these resellers and zones was selected as the lowest responsive bidder for this procurement. A bit about Enterprise Agreements and why theyre so important to the city. This Enterprise Agreement represents basically 26 contracts for 26 departments in the city. All in one contract. The departments can order licenses immediately and pay annually. D. T. Maintains a pool of licenses available to the departments and even order, if handled separately, would have required a procurement process, as opposed to this pool of licenses, that is available to our departments. This Enterprise Agreement really helps us with transparency and visibility on the total city spend for this contract and for this technology. So we have much more efficient procurement and vendor management. And, of course, theres savings as we negotiated better discount, because we had a volume purchase. So the savings is definitely in the work that it takes to bring through procurements much more efficient. We are able to control total spend and we definitely have savings through our volume and similar terms and conditions. The term of our contract with zone is 39 months. Its a minimum commitment of 32 million. The previous contract cass was 32 million. It includes 4 million projected annual products, for additional products. So based on historical usage, we know the amount will go up or down. Were projecting 4 million. And 4 million reserved for email enhancement security. About the security enhancement. That serve is would be dedicated to the threat protection product line from microsoft. The Enterprise Mobility security suite and both of these new capabilities, with the microsoft lines, would allow us to replace some current products that we have right now. Of course, this procurement would be subject to future appropriation by the mayor and board of supervisors. So a bit about how this contract was negotiated and the savings thats in this contract. First, of course, we pooled all of the microsoft licenses to obtain that volume discount. Again each department used to purchase their licenses individually. So they have this allows us to be much more efficient in our use of licenses and minimizes that license use. We also have successfully negotiated a lower contract price. The governmentlevel d, minus the 2 , which resulted in the 700,000 contract savings. Also this includes unified support, which is the support, training, troubleshooting from microsoft, which was a 15 of Contract Value and we reduced it with negotiations to 7 . Thats a 1. 2 Million Contract savings. And also most importantly, again is this management of our licenses across the city. So we monitor the usage of the microsoft licenses, and were proactively with our departments to deactivate licenses that are not being used. We were able to reduce over 6,000 licenses, which resulted in a 1. 5 Million Contract savings. Key benefits of the microsoft product line. Of course, were all familiar with the productivity tool, the use of power b. I. For our dashboards and visualization, teams, which has been so critical to our telecommuting for filesharing, chat, video conferencing, share point for document management. I just looked at some new statistics. And for over the last nine weeks, as we have been in our emergency, we have saved over 1 million documents into over 200 new 200,000 new sharepoint sites. So weve been very busy. And, of course, accessibility. The microsoft product line provides closed captioning, speechtotext, dictation, and various integrations with pointing devices. I would like to point out microsofts role, as we have partnered with them in our Covid Response. Definitely our Virtual Meetings are all possible because of microsoft teams. It has been used in the department of technology for our the vision meetings, every meeting, keeping in touch with our clients, as well as our staff. They were very helpful when we had a security problem that needed to be resolved quickly, like in 24 hours. And they put their very best engineers on it immediately to work with sysco and oracle, which enabled our Virtual Private Network to over 15,000 remote workers. So we appreciated that support. They have been providing free training workshops and webinars on microsoft teams, sharepoint and one drive. And that has helped all of our workforce come up to speed quickly on these tools. And other initiatives such as security a security application that we built with power apps at the e. O. C. D. P. H. Covid dashboard was built with power b. I. A shared application for inmate exposure tracking has 100 users and was built with power app. So all of these tools help us be very effective and efficient and serve our community during this crisis. Sop im ready for any questions and i also have on the line mike, who is our chief information cybersecurity officer. Brian roberts is our senior policy advisory analyst. Our d. P. Contracts manager is on the phone and our soft contract leads is on the line. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have the b. L. A. Report, please . Yes. Good morning, members of the committee. This contract this resolution approves the 39month contract between d. P. And zone l. L. C. , as was said. It was selected through a process. Because of timing, this would not actually go to the board until the after june 1st. The amount of the contract is 40 million. We summarized spending by department over the 39 months in page 9 of our report. Youll see that the amount is 32 million. And theres a 15 toolup for changes in the number of licenses required by City Departments. All of this spending is subject to board of supervisors approval and the city budget. Theres also an additional more than 3 million set aside in the contract for enhanceed cybersecurity, that is discretionary and would be subject to board approval. We recommend approval of the resolution. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, ms. Campbell. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, can we open this up for Public Comment, please . Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, mr. Cue. I wanted to say i think this is good work. It is much more efficient, it is much more effective and also saves us money. So thank you. And thank you very much to your team for this good work on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. Having said that, id like to make a motion to move this to the board for a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we have a roll call vote . Clerk supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, lets go back to item number 2. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. Clerk resolution retroactively to accept and expends a grant in the amount of 190,000 from the California Department of Public Health and participate in a program, for the period of december 1st, 2019, to june 30th, 2020. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Today we have with us katie from the department of Public Health. Ms. Berg. Hi. Thank you very much. My name is katie berg, im the Viral Hepatitis coordinator with San Francisco department of Public Health and the Population Health savings. Although im currently activated for the Covid Response in the Community Engagement and mitigation branch. Wed like to ask for the approval to accept and expend the total 190,406 budget from the California Department of Public Health. This is to support our hepatitis c activities. Weve made significant progress in hepatitis c in treatment, hepatitis c testing and Treatment Access efforts in San Francisco. These additional funds were awarded by a noncompetitive grant from the California Department of Public Health, based on a formula that was at several different epidemiological points. Wed like to allocate money going to a communitybased organization that will support microelimination of hepatitis c, among People Living with h. I. V. , by doing care and navigation and support. Wed also like to allocate 38,753 to l health for a temporary research project, that assesses perry natal hepatitis c and vulnerability in San Francisco. And an additional 86,223 that will help support both our hepatitis c surveillance infrastructure shift to be able to collect negatives, hepatitis c r. N. A. Results and supporting planning with our communitybased initiative on adapting our models to the covid era. Thanks very much for your consideration. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, ms. Berg. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, there is no b. L. A. At the moment. Madam clerk, item number 2 for Public Comment. Clerk madam chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if callers are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please wait to be prompted at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, mr. Cue. And id like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk their fewer . Aye. There are three ayes. Thanks very much. Supervisor fewer madam clerk, can you please caller item number . [reading agenda item] members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call the 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today we are kimberly from mohcd. Good morning, supervisors. Im kim, a Development Specialist with the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. The resolution will authorize the issuance of up to 449,132,841. This project is located within the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan area, administered by oci. The project sponsors are Bridge Housing and Community Housing partnerships, block 9 will provide 141 units, including one dedicated managers unit of affordable rental housing for formerly homeless households and onsite supportive services. Units will be studios and resident amenities will include a large Central Court yard, community garden, bicycle parking and a Community Room with kitchen. The project will receive operating support through the citys local operating subsidy program. And this bond transaction is conduit financing, which does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bond. Additional financing sources include both state and federal lowincome housing tax credits and award from the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing program and a loan from oci. The boards approval of this bond issuance will keep us on track for a close of Construction Financing and a construction start this july. The project would be ready for occupancy in december of 2021. That concludes the staff presentation. And im happy to answer any questions that you might have. We also have sarina callaway, representative from Community Housing partnerships on the line and available to speak. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . There is no b. L. Report on this. Madam clerk, can we open up Public Comment for item number 5. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operations is checking to see if callers are in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press one and then zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. I just want to say hurry up and build this, because we need it. [laughter] id like to make a motion. A positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Clerk item number 6, resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multif. M. Housing revenue note in one or more series in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 67 million. 104unit m Housing Project at 1049 golden gate avenue, known as the Frederick Douglas haynes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call the 888 2045984, access 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. We have christina with us today from mohcd. Hi, good morning. Im christina moon. Im with mohcd. Before you is the proposed bond, to fund the rehab of Frederick Douglas haynes apartments. Its an existing 104unit family Affordable Apartment complex, located at 1049 golden gate avenue in the fillmore. The project, since youve seen it last fall, has not fundamentally changed. We presented you the inducement in september. Its a conduit financing with no recourse to the city. 95 of the units currently serve households earning less than 80 of s. F. A. M. I. Serving households less than 150 a. M. I. The substantial renovation includes replacement of roof, structural and dry rot repair, windows, a little replacing the heating and Plumbing Systems and provide new finishes for tenants. No residents will be displaced. However, there will be temporary relocation for up to seven months. And considering the current conditions, the sponsors are preparing relocation plans, that incorporate safety precautions for tenants under covid19, including protocols for the moving company, pre, and postoccupancy moving, extends the move schedules to reduce risk of exposure. Relocation team is actively working with d. P. H. On best practices to ensure residents are safe. The sponsors secured the allocation from the state for 47,760,000. The project expects to close in late june, with construction starting in july and running through december of 2021. And the financing and legal team have prepared the final documents you see before you. The project will also continue to comply with all of our city requirements, including paying prevailing wages. With me i have the sponsor representative Michael Simmons on the line for any questions. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Therapy is no b. L. A. Report on this. Madam clerk, well open this up for Public Comment on item number 6, please. Clerk yes, madam clerk. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if callers are ready if you have not done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Madam clerk, can you please call items 7, 8, 9 and 10 together. Clerk item number 7, approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 housing opportunities for persons with aideses hopwa program and authorizing the mayor to apply and expand the fiscal year 20202021 hopwa program from the United States department of housing and urban development in the amount of 7 million and to expend Program Income and reprogram funds in the amount of 3. 2 million for a combined total of 10. 2 million. Item number 8, resolution approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 Emergency Solutions grant program, and authorizing the mayor to apply for, accept and expend the citys fiscal year 2020to 2021e. S. G. Program entitlement from the United States department of housing and urban development, in the amount of 1. 5348. Item number 9, resolution approving the fiscal year 20202021 Community Development block grant program. In an amount of 18. 6 million and to expends Program Income and reprogrammed funds in the amount of 6. 9 million for a combined total of approximately 25. 6 million. And item number 10, resolution approving the fiscal year 2021 to 2021 Home Investment Partnership program and the extend the citys home program from the United States department of housing and urban development in the amount of 5. 4 million and to expended Program Income in the am of 2. 4 million for a combined total of 7. 8 million. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a comment after we have the presentation from mr. Brian chu . Yes, chair fewer. I just wanted to state ill have specific questions for item number 9. Supervisor fewer thats great. Thank you very much, supervisor. So mr. Brian chu is here from the hes the director of mohcd. Good morning, chair fewer and Committee Members. Brian chu, director of Community Development for the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. So i will take you through the four accept and expand resolutions we have before us. The first is our h. U. D. Resolution, accept and expend our hopwa dollars. These are dollars that come to us on a formula basis. Again we are now asking for permission to expend approximately 10 million of hopwa. The hopwa program has been a consistent program, which focuses on providing longterm rental subsidies to individuals living with h. I. V. We wish to maintain that ongoing obligation to those individuals. We have about 180 individuals that receive these permanent subsidies. We also provide ongoing support to our five Residential Care facilities for the chronically ill. That is peter house, leyland house, the richard cohen, marketplace. We also provide support for san mateo county. Our formula allocation covers both San Francisco and san mateo county. So we then give a portion of our dollars to san mateo county, based on the percentage of People Living with h. I. V. , both here in San Francisco and in san mateo. So that is that continuing hopwa program, that is largely maintained from what weve done last year. On the Emergency Solutions grant program, we have a spend of approximately 1. 6 million. Those emergency solution grant funds are actually administered now through the department of homelessness and supportive housing. They will be maintaining their support for emergency shelters essential services. And a small amount towards homeless prevention services. Again that totals about 1. 6 million. Focusing again primarily on homeless shelters from Domestic Violence shelters, from rapid rehousing services, and then small amount of homeless prevention services. On item number 10, which is the home dollars. Home dollars are federal dollars that are allowed to be used for the construction of new housing. Thats what weve asked for in total. The Community Development block grant funds can only be used for rehab and not for new construction. So we put all of our home dollars into a pool, that we can then use for future new construction for projects. Lastly on item number 9, we have our Community Development block grant dollars, the combined total of about 25 million. These dollars are allocated between our department mohcd and the office of economic and Workforce Development. As you see on the expenditure schedule, a portion of the funds goes specifically to a variety of Workforce Development projects, occupational skills training, Sector Training that are selected through economic Workforce Development. A separate portion is set aside for Economic Development purposes, Small Business assistance, and commercial corridor work. You can see that listed there under the different priorities. And then the majority of the grants, that go through the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, are focused in the areas of primarily the eviction prevention and housing it placebased services. So this might look a little bit different from cdbg schedules that we have presented to you in the past, where we have block grant funds spread out across a broader vate of variety of agencies. As we look forward to how we best wanted to manage these funds, we had realized and were responsive to a number of organizations about the heavier reporting requirements attached to the Community Development block grant program. So we chose to consolidate those grants with a smaller number of groups that had the administrative capacity to oversee these funds. And then instead allocate our general fund dollars, that have less onerous reporting requirements, to a number of those smaller communitybased organizations. Thats why you can see on our expenditure schedule, we have approximately 3. 7 million going out specifically towards our eviction prevention work, trying to keep people from being displaced. And then we also allocated about 900,000 under our housing placebased services. Those go largely to organizations that are serving people in sunnydale, Alex Griffith and hunters view and some of our work in the s. R. O. Areas. We also needed to make sure that our cdbg funding qualified for services under the h. U. D. Neighborhood revitalization strategy area. Thats why we needed to make sure that their clientele, fit within the six priority neighborhoods, which are bay view, midvalley, chinatown, mission, soma and tenderloin. Those are the strategy areas. So thats a quick overview of our funding strategies. This would allow us to move forward and have it approved by the board and submitted with our initial action plan submission. The plan is due to h. U. D. By june 15th. It would have been initially due by april 15th and we asked for a short extension, in view of covid and some of the challenges with the budgeting process. But the actual plan will now be due on june 15th. So those are the four resolutions were asking for proposal and happy to answer any questions you might have. Supervisor fewer thank you, mr. Chu. Id like to call my on my colleague, Shamann Walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. I just have a few questions. And this is in regards to item number 9. Can you share with the committee the process for selecting and distributing resources under this pot of money . Sure. So the procurement for these Community Development block grant dollars was part of a larger request for proposals that was put out in the fall of 2019. That included both Community Development block grant dollars, as well as general fund dollars and Housing Trust fund dollars. Its part of that comprehensive process. We put it out, you know, in august. It went through a review and evaluation process. The initial recommendations were issued i would want to say perhaps back in february. And while we are moving forward now with the federal portion, because those dollars were not necessarily affected by the citys own budgeting process, we have another set of recommendations that will be coming out at a later date, with the federal fund dollars. So although it was all one large procurement, we are moving this forward, based on the federal deadlines. And then the other general fund recommendations that were part of that same procurement will be finalized later on in this year. Supervisor walton is it true the r. F. P. Yet only 20 of 2 of the 4 42 million went to organizations. There was a focus on equity and wheres the equity in that . I think the r. F. P. , as we designed, included a number of targeted communities that were in alignment with our overall consolidated plan. That did include africanamerican communities, as well as immigrant communities, limited englishspeaking populations, the transgender communities. So, yes, africanamericans were a part of that target population we did receive, during we have a public hearing after we issue our preliminary recommendations. And as youre aware and your colleagues may also be aware, we did hear from a significant number of organizations, including a large number of blackled organizations, did feel as if the investment in their organizations was insufficient. Separately from this request for proposals, and in discussions with the mayors Budget Office and with that coalition, we agreed to identify an additional 2 million that we would have that would have been part of next years investment strategy. And we realigned those 2 million in a specific supplemental r. F. P. , focused entirely on organizations that primarily serve the Africanamerican Community and or are led by africanamericans. We issued the first r. F. P. For that about a month ago. Those proposals for that first 1 million were received just this past friday. And we hope to make our final decision on those proposals at the end of june. We also have an additional 1 million that is going to be focusing on Capacity Building within the Africanamerican Community, that will be issuing once we get through this first initial process. So the fashioning of that first 1 1 million was done in close collaboration with a coalition of blackled organizations that had initially approached us and working with the director of the Human Rights Commission and we anticipate working with those organizations again, as we issue r. F. P. For the second 1 million. The other portion of our general fund dollars have not yet deny weve not made a final decision on that. The committee is aware that our Department Just received our budget instructions on tuesday. And we were asked to not finalize any decisions regarding our general fund portfolio, until we receive those budget instructions. We just received those yesterday. So we will be working with the mayors Budget Office to determine how do we best implement those budget instructions, as we move forward with finalizing that other set of recommendations. Supervisor walton and i know you say you heard me say this before, i think its an absolute disgrace the way your Department Works to allocate resources, specifically because you prioritize certain populations in your r. F. P. And stated this is what you wanted to prioritize. Yet very small percentages of resources went to the organizations that you stated you actually wanted to see as a priority. And now were in the middle of a health crisis. A major pandemic, which is going to affect us economically. And even according to what you just said, organizations may be even impacted at a higher disproportionate level, because they didnt receive resources on the front Enterprise Agreement. Now organizations of color, because were in the middle of a crisis, theyre going to be more isolated and disenfranchised. I have to say this on record again that the racism that exists from the funding allocation is something that we cannot let continue. And i am aware of the Additional Resources that are being allocated, that are coming from the general fund, by the way. But i havent heard from your department and i have talked to you about this. I have talked to gordon when he was there. I havent heard anything about from your department thats going to tell us how youre going to address the systemic racism that exists. And continues to exist at o. C. D. , particularly in regards to how its in your funding allocation. Were the budget committee. Were going to approve were being asked to approve resources that are not going to be distributed equitably. And were going for know that as we approve this. So what are you doing to address the systemic racism . You dont necessarily have to answer that now. We do know that its been a problem for a long time. Yet theres been nothing that ive seen or heard that is going to address the systemic racism. All youve done is allocate more resources to populations that you disregarded on the front end. The last thing ill say, and thank you for the time, chair fewer, if we look at the area of Community Development. We know we have an obligation to support a smaller organizations, our organizations of color. And we just cannot have this department continue to ignore the equity focus of our city, the proposed priorities of its own of its own department and looking at crisis like this, the inequity of our priority really rises to the top. We cant perpetuate the gaps, the dont impact of our community and organizations of color. The inequitable of resources can never, ever happen again in San Francisco. And they should be ashamed as a City Department to allow this to continuously happen from r. F. P. To r. F. P. Thank you for the time, chair fewer. Thank you, chair walton. Supervisor mandelman. I would simply ask like i would simply like to ask to be out of the cosponsor to item number 7. Thank you very much. Theres no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets, madam clerk, lets open these items up items 7, 8, 9 and 10 for Public Comment. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking for see if any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, i do have one caller in the queue. I will queue him now. Supervisor fewer thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. Dr. Mow nobody, executive director. A member of the executive leadership of the s. F. Black, the San Francisco blackled organizations. We fully support supervisor waltons comments and join in demanding accountability. And equity for africanamericans and how they get funding and how mocd and ask the question of how theyre going to address systemic racism. Additionally, we believe that blackorganizations and the black Africanamerican Community, its unconscionable that on an equity platform, less than 2 of the funding went to blackled organizations. We are still waiting to learn about funding for our communities and that theyve continued to keep us waiting, even while promising to address the need is unconscionable. We are here, we are watching and we will not be silenced. Our communities are in crisis. And we demand action and response and thank you so much, supervisor walton. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller . Hello, caller . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, lets take these items separately. And so id like to make a motion to move item 7 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. That motion, supervisor walton . Yes. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk supervisor fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Id like to make a motion to move item 8 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion on item number 9 . Id like to move item number 9 without recommendation. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. A roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Neuroid like to make a motion to move item 10 forward to the board with a positive recommendation. A roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton. Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, is there any any more business before us today . Clerk there is no further business. Supervisor fewer thank you, madam clerk, we are adjourned. You can find out more information about this data and on our data tracker, on our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, this past monday dr. Colfax and i had a monday was yesterday, right . It feels like monday every day, but yesterday dr. Colfax and i, along with dr. Susan phillips, had this great conversation about what it would take to reopen, and we talked about the indicators and the hospitalizations and a number of other things and the various phases. It was a very good conversation, and i think it is needed. What we found from that conversation are, of course, a number of questions, and many questions centered around when will we will able to get child care open, summer camps, schools and other things centered around children because i know many parents are anxious to not just get a break from their children but to get back to work and to get their kids involved in activities, and i know kids are anxious to play with their friends, and so this friday at 11 30 i, along with bill ginsburg who is the director of park and rec and others will have a conversation around some of the options that we have available and what you can expect for the future. It will center around opportunities mostly for the summer and transitioning kids into, you know, a place where we can allow in some cases some summer activities, and we will be able to speak to more details about that on friday and hopefully get to some of the questions that so many of the parents have. So we appreciate you all tuning in. We decided to cut back on some of the press conferences and really focus on the conversations with a lot of the leaders who are leading around Public Health, who are leading around support for children, youth and families, folks who are helping us to make the decisions about economic recovery as we move in our new normal of covid19 this provides us with an Incredible Opportunity to really get to the heart of, you know, what is of most concern to the people of San Francisco and answer your questions so that you are able to make plans or arrangements as information is provided to you. So we know that its been probably very challenging that we have not been able to provide you with specific dates or times around the things that you want to know the most, and as we have said before, this is a fluid situation and things can change at a moments notice, but because most san franciscans have complied with the orders, people have been wearing their masks, socially distancing themselves, and again i say most people. I didnt say all people, but most people have complied, and because many people are taking this directive seriously, we have seen a decline in the curve, and that is something to be proud of, but our goal is to get rid of it entirely, and thats going to take continued work. Yesterday was the first day that shops were able to open for Curbside Pickup, and some offering delivery. I stopped by green apple, a bookstore, in the inner sunset, and they have another location further out. I was so happy to buy a book. I just didnt know what to do with myself. It felt good to go out to the community and to support this incredible institution. This past friday i picked up dinner at the golden mira. I stopped by, you know, the garden center, and it just you know, to be able to support these businesses was really incredible, and i think that its important i know that we are all sheltering in place, going out to run errands and do essential things, but heres an Incredible Opportunity. We want to support our businesses, and this is a way that we can do that. So rather than making that next purchase on amazon, maybe consider finding a place in your community and trying to shop at the local stores that may have availability for pickup and delivery. I am really i needed a cord, and so i made sure that i checked in with the local Hardware Store. They didnt have the cord at the Hardware Store that i called, but i found it at another place. So i like the idea of making sure that we are purchasing things from businesses in our city that are able to offer their services, but i think its going to take a lot more effort so we can make sure that after we get through this hump those businesses are able to open they are not able to bring back their entire workforce. They still have to pay their rent and bills. Its been a really challenging time, even though they are raising private money and were putting public money together and were trying to support our Small Business community, and there have been a number of other initiatives, its not always reaching the people who need it the most because we still have our hair salons, our nail salons, our barber shops, our masseuse, people who do services that require direct contact with people, they are still not open, still not in business, and this is a really challenging time for so many people. So whatever we can do to support our local economy, our local businesses, i really want to strongly encourage you to think about supporting the businesses in your neighborhood and just maybe seeing whats available, going online and doing some research to see whats available to support Small Businesses in San Francisco. Another way that we are able to help some Small Businesses in San Francisco and help our seniors is through this great plates food program. And im really excited about this because we know that, first of all, when we first issued a before we issued a shelterinplace for everyone, we specifically asked that vulnerable population, our seniors and those who have Underlying Health conditions, to stay home. And what we found, of course, you know, there are some seniors, for example, who qualify for calfresh, some concerns who qualify for meals and wheels and are lucky to have those opportunities, but there are a number of seniors who are just above that threshold. They may even own a home but are on a fixed income and can barely take care of themselves and take care of their home. And i do think its important, regardless of whether or not you have the means to make sure that all of our seniors are taken care of. And so this program is a program that partners seniors with local restaurants, and what were able to do is provide three meals a day from local restaurants. So it not only helps support our seniors, it helps support our restaurants. And it provides a nocontact delivery. It makes it so easy for them, and i am so excited that along with all the other programs that are available, including the food bank, the San Francisco food bank, meals on wheels and a number of other initiatives and people who are doing it on their own, the fact that we have even another program that will provide food to our seniors and also support our restaurants is really great and i want to thank governor gavin newsom for his support for this program. I want to talk a little bit about testing because i know that comes up. The great news is weve come a long way. The fact is, if you are a san franciscan and you exhibit one symptom, you could have a cough, you could have a temperature, call 311 or go online to sfgov. Org and sign up and youll get sent to a Testing Center to be tested, any san franciscan. But we also will test any essential worker, whether you are a San Francisco resident or not. If youre an essential worker in San Francisco and you dont exhibit any symptoms because youre on the front line, whether youre selling groceries or driving muni or out there as a paramedic, those are the people who are in contact with folks on a daily basis, putting their lives on the line to provide us an essential service, so we wanted to make sure that you know that testing is available for you. Weve expanded the number of sites, and in addition to a site in selma area, in the Western Addition and bayview and a few other sites scattered throughout San Francisco, we wanted to make it a lot easier for communities where we know testing is needed. We specifically announced a few mobile sites, including the mobile site in the tenderloin, a site in ocean avenue and the omi, the lakeview area, and another site in the bayview Hunters Point community, and the site in the bayview Hunters Point community, the testing will be over the course of a few days, specifically in hunters view. But anyone from the bayview is definitely welcome to receive a test. We did this in collaboration with a number of communitybased organizations, similar to what was done in the mission, because we know that there are high rates of covid19 in the bayview Hunters Point community, and we know that people need access to testing, and we also understand that sometimes they may not call or they may not go online to figure out whether or not they should be tested. And we also want to make sure we detach the stigma associated with getting tested, and so on friday, myself as well as supervisor walton, we will be going to the bayview Hunters Point. We will be tested, and the goal is to show people how easy it is and to make sure that folks feel comfortable and they feel safe, that they can be tested whether they have insurance or not, whether they are documented or not. The more that people know they have access to testing and they feel comfortable when they exhibit a symptom or if they think theyve been exposed, the better well be. And so our goal is to get to a certain level of testing in the city because its gonna be critical to our ability to reopen. And thats why we want to make sure we set up these mobile locations. We hit all of the neighborhoods and we make it easy for people to get tested, and this is another opportunity to do that. So with that, i just want to, again, thank all of you for your patience and your cooperation. We have come a long way, and i just want to appreciate how far weve come. There was a time where access to testing was very, very limited, and now were at a place where we have expanded testing, and this is absolutely critical to reopening. There was a time when we were having discussions about requiring everyone to stay home, and now the pickup and deliveries and other things are available. Were going to have a conversation, as i said, this friday about the options available for families because i know that there are so many parents who are anxious to figure out what is gonna happen for their kid this summer. We want to make sure that kids have, you know, a great experience. It has been challenging and will continue to be, but its important that we make sure that there are options available, and so our goal is to have an indepth conversation on friday at 11 30, so i hope you will tune in, and with that, i know dr. Colfax has an update of where we are as it relates to Public Health overall, as well as some information, the latest on laguna honda hospital, and so, again, thank you so much for your cooperation, and with that id like to introduce dr. Grant colfax with the department of Public Health. Dr. Grant colfax good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank mayor breed for her leadership, and mayor was just a great experience to have that conversation with you yesterday on zoom, of course, about where we are headed and the phases of the potential phases of reopening and the key indicators we are going to be looking at Going Forward. So id really encourage people to watch that. It is available. It was recorded. Ill allude to a few of those points today, but if you really want more detail, please go to that conversation. And certainly well be sharing more information in the future as we move forward together. So as of today, as the mayor mentioned, there are 2179 San Francisco residents who have been confirmed with covid19. Sadly, 36 san franciscans have died from the disease, and again, my condolences to their family, friends and community. And as we move into a new phase of our response and recovery, i would like to thank you all for doing your part. Everything that you have done has truly saved lives and slowed the spread of the coronavirus in our community. You have protected each other. You have protected your families, and you have protected your community. And most importantly, you have protected the populations that are most vulnerable to this virus, the populations over 60, people with comorbid conditions who we know, both on our local data and from our national data, are unfortunately most likely to die from this disease. Today there are 62 patients with covid19 hospitalized in San Francisco across our nine Health Care Hospital entities, and while this is an increase since yesterday, the curve has been remarkably flat for many weeks now and steadily declining since may 5. Although, of course, and youve heard me say this many times, but its i will continue to say it, this could change at any time, but we must acknowledge that big accomplishment that, again, all of us have made major contributions to. You have all been a part of this, and for this i thank you. And lets continue to flatten and push that curve down together. We are certainly making this measurable progress in our fight against coronavirus, and because of that, we are starting here locally under the mayors leadership and across the region with regard to the gradual process of reopening. Yesterday we issued new Health Orders that allow Curbside Pickup for most retailers in the city, and we are taking steps in this regard with caution as our focus on Community Health remains a top priority. We will need to watch, continue to watch for the effects of increased movements that this opening will bring. We know that before the shelterinplace went into place, order went into place, the more we moved, the more the virus moved. And we are certainly hoping, based on the data, the science and the facts, that as we continue to take the precautions necessary, the masking, the social distancing, the intense hygiene that i think weve all adapted to over these last few months, i dont know about you, but my hands are a little red from the washing, and ive used a lot of hand gel recently, but as we adapt, we are hoping that as we move more we will not see increased movement and transmission of the virus. And remember the virus has no timeline, and our new stayathome order reflects that reality. We are in the second inning of a long game, and most scientists expect that this long game is going to be with us for 18 to 24 months. So the new updated health order will allow for future expansion and the reopening of additional businesses provided, again, we continue to flatten and even see a decrease in that curve. And again, the Health Indicators need to continue to look good. This new order doesnt have an Expiration Date so we can act with maximum flexibility and not be penned in, literally, by artificial deadlines. And i have hopes, and i think we should all have hope and good reason to believe, as i said, that if people continue to take precautions we will continue to make progress. But at the same time, if needed, we will dial back. If that curve starts to go up, if we start to see indications that the virus is spreading in the community at an alarming rate, if our intensive care unit numbers start to go up, the hospitalization numbers over all start to go up, we will need to take a step back and decrease our activity in our community. I hope that doesnt happen, and again, the more vigilant we are in our preventive activities, the more likely it is that we will be able to make incremental but sustainable progress Going Forward. It will take resilience. It will require that we stay nimble, and it will require that we continue to monitor the evolving health situation, you know what i say here, using data, science and facts. So in terms of our reopening phases, and i think we have a slide up to show this, this is the focus of our steps will be aligning generally with the states plan that you see on this slide. We are currently in stage 2 a , which is really, again, focusing on that allowing Curbside Pickup and then having the manufacturing and supply chains to support that Curbside Pickup in place. So again, this is just the beginning, and over the next period of two to four weeks, we will continue to watch the data to see if we can enter into that next phase, the 2 b phase. Again, if things go well, we would then be, over time, moving into stages 3 and ultimately into stage 4. But this is, again, an iterative process. Its going to take nimblism, and its going to take a lot of vigilance on all of our parts. We are working locally with the Economic Recovery Task force, the office of economic and Workforce Development, and the community the Business Community and other stakeholders to design smart ways, to design smart ways, ways that are informed, again, by the science, to help businesses come back while protecting Public Health. These things can go and will go hand in hand. I look forward, we look forward to bringing the next steps together and will continue to provide updates in this regard. And again, we will continue to study these indicators over a two to fourweek cycle, which will give us sufficient information to determine whether we can gradually open up into these next stages. So one of the key things we will be doing in this, the vital statistics, as it were, for this staging, is looking at the five indicators that i have mentioned before, but we have another visual for you to see here. As we move towards this reopening, the five indicators we are going to be looking at are cases, the number of covid19 cases, our hospital capacity, testing, Contact Tracing, and p. P. E. , or personal protective equipment. The mayor mentioned these indicators earlier, and as i said at the beginning of my remarks, we had a very good conversation, along with dr. Susan phillip, about how we will be determining and following these indicators as we go forward into these new phases. So again, i would encourage you to watch that session, and we will be coming back to these indicators during this next phase of reopening and onwards. Many of these indicators are also represented on our data tracker, and so i would encourage you to follow along, if you havent already, particularly that hospital curve that i continue to look at every day. I know many of you are doing that. You can also look at our testing data. As the mayor mentioned, we have dramatically scaled up our testing over these past few weeks, and that information is, again, available on our website. So those are the slides, and im going to talk more specifically around testing in one of the most vulnerable populations in a setting in our Health Department, which is laguna honda hospital. And one of the most important testing expansions we have launched is to require universal testing of residents and staff at all Skilled Nursing facilities in San Francisco, including, of course, the largest Skilled Nursing facility in the region, and one of the largest if not the largest in the nation, laguna honda hospital. Id like to provide a Progress Report on how our universal testing is going at laguna honda hospital, and well have final results next week on this. But we were as we initiated the universal testing order, laguna honda was the first Skilled Nursing facility in the city to begin universal testing, and that started on may 4. Resident testing, so the people who live in the facility, the residents, resident testing is now complete, and staff testing will conclude next week. So far we have of the approximately 2500 staff and residents of the laguna honda, we have completed screening, the universal testing of 2,087 people. So just in this facility alone, over 2,000 people have been tested, screened if you will, tested on a routine basis because they either live or work there. This testing allows the hospital to proactively protect residents and staff from exposure by identifying covid19 cases among people without symptoms, and we know that many people have covid19. They may not show symptoms, whether its because they dont show symptoms at all during the course of the infection or whether they are in the early stages of covid19 disease. As of yesterday, 718 residents and 1369 staff have completed the universal testing, and weve had just four positive results, two among staff and two among residents, as, again, a result of this universal testing. That is a less than 1 Positivity Rate for in fact, to be very specific, i know im throwing out a lot of numbers today, but its a 0. 19 rate. That said, with increased testing at laguna honda, we do anticipate additional covid19 cases. We know these institutions are highly vulnerable to infection with covid19, and while we are being extremely vigilant, we know that it is likely that there will be more cases. The key thing is that we do as much as we can to prevent cases, to detect covid19 cases when they are in the facility, either amongst staff or among residents, and then take aggressive action to limit the outbreak and, of course, care for both the staff and residents who are found to be infected. The people who have followed up who have tested positive, excuse me, we have followed up with Contact Tracing and so far have tested additional residents and staff based on the possible exposure from these four cases. This past weekend that followup enabled us to small a outbreak in the south two neighborhood. These neighborhoods are historically been you may think of them as hospital wards. Its a neighborhood because these are longterm residents and certainly goes beyond sort of the traditional hospital ward, but its an area of the hospital where residents live together and where staff Work Together. So we did identify a small outbreak on south two precisely because we implemented this universal testing, this universal screening process. We had found two cases there through the universal testing in that neighborhood, and Case Investigation led us to test additional contacts as a result of that. This additional testing resulted in four positive cases in residents who had previously tested negative. So again, because of our vigilance and repeated testing, we were able to identify four positive cases of residents who had tested negative before. This is an example of the systems that we have put into place working in the way that they should and in the way that they must, enabling us to take action quickly and to move quickly in response to testing results. Staff who test positive are immediately sent home to selfisolate and provided with supports. And residents who test positive are immediately transferred to the new dedicated covid19 unit at laguna honda where all best practices and best medical care is provided. All staff and residents who have tested positive, im thankful to say, are in Good Condition, and we have quarantined south two and continued to monitor, test and investigate contacts. So these new cases bring the total confirmed covid19 cases to laguna honda to a total of 29. Again, thats going all the way back to march 22. Eleven residents and 18 staff. Several of these cases have fully recovered, and im thankful to say that the rest remain in Good Condition. Im also thankful that to date there have been no deaths from covid19 at laguna honda hospital. And im really just so personally grateful to the residents and the staff at laguna honda who have worked tirelessly to continue to contain the spread of covid19. This universal testing, which will now become routine at laguna honda, a huge lift, something that took really a great amount of investment and time, and im just so grateful to the leadership at laguna honda and the staff there who are not only doing the work that they did so well before this pandemic but now being resilient, being flexible, being nimble and ensuring that they are protected they are continuing to take the best care for residents possible. I am proud of our work and really want to thank the ongoing collaboration with the cdc, the centers for Disease Control and prevention and the California Department of Public Health. The improvements that weve made at laguna honda not only benefits the more than 700 residents of laguna honda and the workforce there, but we are also sharing what we learn with other Skilled Nursing facilities across the city. In San Francisco, approximately 40 of all Skilled Nursing facility patients and residents have been tested through universal testing to date. Five facilities have completed universal testing. Four are under way with our support, and the remainder are planned in the next coming weeks. So in conclusion, over the next weeks and months, we will continue to focus on vulnerable populations and expand universal testing to more congregate settings, including shelters. We will continue to focus on the five indicators that i and the mayor have emphasized. We will continue to Work Together with Community Businesses and other stakeholders across the region and coordinate with the state to accomplish as much restoration of activity as we can. And we know that the coronavirus is still here. But we are going to find a way to protect each other and enter a new era for our city, for San Francisco, for our community. We continue to rise to this occasion. And San Francisco, i cant thank you enough for your dedication to the entire health of the entire community, and i look forward to moving forward together. Thank you. Good afternoon. The first questions are for dr. Colfax. The first question is from mel baker, San Francisco public press. When will San Francisco residents and staff of all San Franciscos nursing facilities be tested for coronavirus . Dr. Grant colfax so as i detailed in my remarks, this effort is going well. I dont have a specific end date for you, but i can tell you that with our health order and with the aggressive actions that we are taking and supporting in Nursing Homes across the city, i expect that it will be done soon. And again, this is an iterative process. Its not as though we do one round of universal screening or testing of all residents and staff. This is a process that will be ongoing because we, again, want to support the staff and respects in the Nursing Homes in Early Detection of covid19 to prevent it from spreading through these communities. I would also add that the Health Department is supporting many of these institutions. They havent had the technical expertise, the capacity to test residents, and as we enter this new normal, one of the key things were working with them to do with support and engagement of the state, is to make sure that they make the investments necessary so that routine testing becomes part of their model as they support the communities in their Nursing Homes. Next question is from joshua sabotini, on testing at laguna honda, you mentioned there was an outbreak at south two but there was also an but was there also an outbreak in north four . So that was a prior situation which has been contained, and again, i think in that earlier outbreak one of the key things that we did was bring in our own Infectious Disease experts, experts from the state and the cdc who helped us provide the best techniques and monitoring efforts to contain the infection. That did contain the infection in that neighborhood, and so now were using that evidence and those guidelines to now mitigate the outbreak in this new neighborhood. And again, these Lessons Learned will be applied across nursing facilities, not only in San Francisco but i expect across the state, if not across the nation. So this is hard work. Its challenging work, but as we expand our testing and our ability to care for people and detect the covid19 virus early, im hopeful that we will be in a much better situation than we would have otherwise been. Since the patients who tested positive are outside of the initial outbreak detected in south five, are you concerned about how widely the virus may have spread throughout the facility . Dr. Grant colfax well, this is exactly why we tested all the residents and why were testing all the residents and all the staff. So you heard, this is exactly why we issued a health order to require this testing and, you know, needed to make sure that we were following our own orders, which is why we started with laguna honda. Its also a very large facility. You heard me say, you know, we found a relatively small number of patients and residents on im sorry, of staff and residents on that routine screening, but the system worked because we found a few and then that helped us focus our efforts in a specific neighborhood where we were able to detect more cases and take aggressive control actions, as well as ensuring that the residents who tested positive who were in Good Condition and might not have otherwise been detected get the best care possible. So you know, yes im concerned that we need to be vigilant and this vigilance is paying off in terms of ensuring that were protecting the health of the residents and the health of the staff to the best of our ability based, again, on the data, signs and facts. The next question is from ron lynn, l. A. Times. Can you update us with the percent of people testing positive for coronavirus in San Francisco compared to the worst point . So i think if you go to our data tracker, you can see the percent of people testing positive in our system of care, and that percent that test positive varies depending on how testing is being scaled up, whether there may have been an outbreak at a facility or in a setting where theres likely to be more positives. What i think we really need to focus on in terms of i think the gist of the question is how do we know that were doing better, thats really best reflected in the hospital data. Those are the people who are living with covid19 who are the sickest. Thats the curve that we really need to be looking at. That curve, again, is flat or going down. As we expand our testing, and i think this is a key point, as eexpand our testing, we will surely detect more cases in the city because if we test more people we will get the numbers will go up. We will be watching that percent, that Positivity Rate over time. The last few days that Positivity Rate has hovered around 7 per cent. The next question is from jamie har with the associated press. The governor floated the possibility of having live sporting events without spectators as early as june 1. Is this in any way possible for San Francisco . Well, i think we need to, again, look at the data and monitor carefully work with the sports Business Community and determine whether that is something that could be done safely and commensurate with best practices. I cant speculate on a date, but i would say that i know many of us are looking forward to getting back to watching sports, and its certainly something that weve been discussing. The next question is from sf chronicle. Given sfs grim budget projections for the coming fiscal year, is the department of Public Health bracing for big cuts to its own budget . Dr. Grant colfax so, look, were in a situation where we have an unprecedented Public Health emergency and we also have a major fiscal crisis. And were looking across the department to figure out how can we accomplish the goals of ensuring that the pandemic that our Pandemic Response is robust while also looking at how do we continue to provide as Many Services possible for people in our clinics, in our hospitals, Behavioural Health services and so forth. So were taking a hard look of where we can make adjustments. I will give you a key example of where things have accelerated, for instance, because of the pandemic. Our telehealth work has accelerated in primary care and Behavioural Health services. So we are looking at how do we shift our response and whether there are commensurate cost savings in that work. So a lot of work to do Going Forward with ensuring that our budget goals are met, but also ensuring that our Pandemic Response and that our ability to provide care to the safety net populations is continues. Specifically this is a followup. Specifically, should programs within the Behavioural Health care system, like drug treatment programs and Mental Health facilities, prepare for reductions in service they are able to provide . Dr. Grant colfax im sorry, could you repeat the last part of the question . Ill read it again. Specifically, should programs within the Behavioural Health care system, like drug treatment programs and Mental Health facilities, prepare for reductions in services . Dr. Grant colfax so you know, i think its too early to speculate on that. Right now we are looking, again, at multiple factors that will help determine what our proposed budget will look like in the future. I think that certainly as we look at the intersection of the covid19 pandemic and the Behavioural Health challenges that we already have in the city, we will certainly be looking at what programs need to be supported that intersect with both the Behavioural Health needs and the covid19 response, and increasingly, you know, as we enter this new era, one of the key things we will be looking at across the Health Department is how do our services not only continue the strong work weve done in supporting health, but how do those intersect with our ongoing Pandemic Response, and those will be particularly those will be services that we will particularly focus on adjusting and maintaining and in some cases i think strengthening. Thank you, dr. Colfax. Our final questions are for director Abigail Stuart khan, homelessness and supportive housing. Dr. Stuart khan, your question is the mayor tweeted on friday about the newest safe sleeping site and said the city is looking for new sites. What are the sites that are currently still being considered . Thank you. So as the public may be aware, and just thanks for the opportunity to revisit things that are happening for residents who are unsheltered on our streets, when the epidemic began, the healthy streets Operation Center, which hsh is a part of, paused shelter encampment excuse me, encampment resolutions. This is because moving people into shelters was no longer possible given that congregate sites are a difficult location for people during a pandemic caused by covid. And so we know that this means that there are more People Living unsheltered than there were before, and we know that even before the pandemic we didnt have enough space for people. We also understand that in a crisis people, unhoused and housed, want to be together, that community is what makes us feel safe during times of high anxiety, and so similar to the physical distancing that i need to create with my colleagues or people who are not in my close family, we worked through our partnership to provide education, outreach, access to hand sanitizing, access to sanitation, access to food, and we continue to work in an ongoing way with the unsheltered population. Its become extremely clear that that is insufficient given the number of People Living unsheltered and how difficult it is to physically distance on our sidewalks. And so as you note, kathy, the mayor tweeted about the first sanctioned safe village in San Francisco. This is not something that the department of homelessness or the city has ever approved before, even though many, many cities across our country have done so. And this is really related to the pandemic and the need to provide safety for People Living unsheltered during the pandemic. So to the specifics of that site, it opened last week. It is seen as a shortterm solution. It is run incredibly well by urban alchemy with our deep gratitude and all of the partners working together. The intention at that site via our hsoc partners is to move people out of it as quickly as possible, whether that is into our traditional housing, if they are housing referral status, or into a hotel if they were known to our system of care before april 1. And then to find other solutions and resolutions for other individuals so that that location does not remain long term or even longish term. There is another location that has been identified thats been talked about publicly in the hate, and we are looking forward to its opening in the next couple of weeks, and to our partnership with larkin around that site and their subcontractors. Each site needs to be taken on a casebycase basis. Based on the needs of the unsheltered individuals, the community, the community input, and we look forward to that. The healthy streets Operation Center and the Emergency Operations Center Remains point on evaluating and looking at future sites. For example, we are looking at a site to serve the mission and the castro districts, and we look forward to that partnership and the role that hsh will play. And other sites will continue to need to be evaluated based on the need in the community, Community Resident input, and the specifics of each location. Followup question how can local residents participate in discussions about the site . Yeah, thats a terrific question, and for those of you who know how we do our Community Process around navigation centers, you know that it is robust and it is extremely time consuming before the covid pandemic. And so we will not be able to do that we cant come together in meetings, Community Meetings of 100 people and share all the details because we cant all be together. But i know that the healthy streets Operation Center and the emergency Operation Center, as they look at each site, partners with local leaders, takes a look at the neighborhood, tries to understand how to mitigate the impact if, in fact, a site is important. Listens to the residents and reaches out as quickly as they possibly can for that engagement, understanding that given the crisis that were in we need to move in an expedited manner. Thank you, director stuart khan. That concludes our questions for todays press conference. Francisco. My name is fwlend hope i would say on at largescale what all passionate about is peace in the world. It never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. 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