Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use And Transportation Committee 20240712

Please type your name and your question exactly as you would like it to be read. Submit before the last speaker is finished. We will read in the q a portion. Thank you for joining us. Today we have doctor grant colfax, the director of the office of economic and work force development. Cheryl davis, james executive director of collective impact. Member of the Latino Task Force and Stefani Garcia. With that i will turn it over to dr. Colfax. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us before this long weekend. I just have a brief statement to make with regard to where we are in the covid19 pandemic. It is a Public Health message that is really that we need to send across the city, across the region, across various neighborhoods and communities. This fourth of july, th the saft thing to do is stay home. In San Francisco we have had an alarming increase and significant increase in covid19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have soared. We are in a situation where we could we seeing early signs of a surge. Our increases reflect across the region as increases across the state. As people know, we have put a pause on reopening. It is vital that everyone take the steps that we know stop the spread of covid19. Slow the spread of covid19. This means wearing a Face Covering, social distancing, good hygiene measures, and really limiting outings and staying home as much as possible. We know this works. We saw this work in the spring with our response in San Francisco. As we hit pause, we need to ensure we are doing everything we can to slow the virus spread. This weekend stay at home if possible, celebrate with people in your household. Use as much as possible a way to socialize virtually, socially distance, wear Face Coverings, keep your family and your neighborhood and community as safe as possible. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. Now we have the director from the office of economic and work force development. Thank you so much, dr. Colfax. I want to make a few brief comments about the importance of moving to this weekend. Like many of the Small Businesses and Community Members who were very much looking forward to a more aggressive reopening. We are thankful for the leadership of the department of Public Health keeping our Health Interests real and grounded during this significant time we are in right now. I think we are excited about the long three day weekend and what benefit that may bring to our struggling Small Businesses doing everything they can to provide a healthy experience and safe experience for those who visit them and patronize them, which is very much needed right now. It is important to remember the virus doesnt take a holiday, it may force one upon us if we dont take responsibility as Business Owners and Community Members to ensure we are adhering to the Public Health guidelines. It is important the progress we worked so hard to create in phased reopening, through our office, mayor breeds leadership, we want to continue to see the progress being made. It is only possible if you, as the public and Business Owners, do your part to be responsible during this week end as we continue to mitigate the Public Health crisis we find ourselves in. We have been doing such an extraordinary job ensuring to get to this place of having many Small Businesses begin to see light at the end of a tunnel to enjoy a little activity and seeing liveliness come back to our neighborhoods and commercial corridors. It is only possible if we Work Together to take care of each other, practice social guidelines. It benefits our health and economic health. We need to keep an eye on that. We all have a part to play in that. Over 153,000 residents in San Francisco sought unemployment. We have a rate of well over 12 . Our job is to add here to these Public Health guidelines to continue to battle the economic crisis we want to successfully address. Together with all of you, we know that we can do that. When it comes to the additional work to be provided, we have signage to be provided. Make sure businesses know there is collateral to collect and gain access to to help them Work Together with their patronizers and those who come in and patronize their businesses retail or otherwise. We want to thank the public for being patient with Business Owners trying to do their part to be successful in this environment. With that, i will take questions later on. I am looking forward to a safe july 4th weekend in San Francisco an and across the bay area. For more information about resources or tools available to you, reach out to our web site. Oewd. Org. Also if you are curious about the phasing going on and what plans we have, please visit sfgov reopening and you will find the information there. Thank you for the opportunity today. We look forward to working with you towards continued success and reopening. Thank you, director. Our next speaker is cheryl davis, executive director of San Francisco human rights commission. Thank you. You know, the director talked about the virus does not take a vacation or holiday. Dr. Colfax and i have been having conversations it is not equal where it is impacting communities and neighborhoods. We have seen the map where the virus is impacts greater numbers matches maps for red lining to highlight disparities in terms of economic and Health Issues and challenges. We realize in some ways we are battling two issues at this point in time. One is the pandemic and one is racism. These two things are very much closely connected. We are seeing a surge within latin x communities. Most recently the Africanamerican Community and challenges with folks in sunnydale with younger pops. We are trying to make sure folks are staying healthy, working with communities. The role of human rights is to engage with community and raise community concerns. We have heard from young and old people. There is a concern folks will come out this weekend and think everything is fine. They will be worse off as we go into next week. We encourage people to talk to their family and encourage them to stay home, healthy and be aware of the idea someone could have contracted the virus and not know it and be spreading it to others. As the human rights commissioners we have been working with collective impact to distribute Face Coverings, pass out sanitizer and pass out collateral that says stay home, stay safe and remind people to get tested. I am grateful for the partners here today to share and encourage others. Grateful for the work of the Latino Task Force. We have to think about making the messagthe mess o the messag. Those with Health Issues are more likely to contract the virus and have a harder experience or be harder impacted by that. We are trying to work with messaging around that so folks realize they are not mandated, we are encouraging people to stay home for safety of themselves and their communities. Our next speaker is a member of the Latino Task Force. Good morning everybody. I am with the Latino Task Force. Since the beginning of this pandemic we are working vigorously to ensure the Latino Community continues to thrive in the city. As director davis just indicated, there are a lot of challenges the Latino Community faces in San Francisco that run parallel with covid. Covid in many ways makes i would worse and highlights. One of the big pieces of advice to anybody that is listening out there, that is writing this down, ensure if you have the ability to shelterinplace this weekend, do that. If you have a need to go out because there is an essential thing you have to do, wear a Face Covering and face mask. As we saw in a mission study, we found 53 of the people who tested positive had no symptoms. People could have covid19 and not understand that they do and be fine and not have symptoms. They could give it to somebody they love that could have an adverse effect. We are reminding our people in the community to ensure that you stay home if you can. If you have to go out, wear a face mask and ensure you are keeping social distance that is appropriate. If you are listening to this message, then you are an ambassador of this message to those that you love and you care about. It is important for all of us to take ownership of this. It is only with all of us participating we will get out of this. If you are absolutely have to go out because it is essential, please use social distancing space or face mask. Cover your face and enjoy this as safe as you possibly can. Thank you. Our next speaker is the executive director of collective impact. I am not sure if you can hear me. Yes, we can hear you. I am working at the community center. I want be the community to understand. I am in the community to tell everybody to come to my community and ask where is james, nobody would know who you comcome to. Uncle stink they know who i am. I knew from day one when this pandemic started that we were opening the doors to the community. The resources were going to be hard for the community to get ahold of. We want our community to have a place to go, ppe, face mask, sanitizer and we did hot lunches here. I want to make sure the community knew that the door is open, they didnt have to go look for anything, it was right here. I have been all over San Francisco and hunters point, the mission, we are supporting everybody with ppe. I know everybody is feeling a little cramped up with the fourth of july coming up. Keep your butts at home. Please stay home. This pandemic and this covid19 is for real. I dont want you to be the person that carries it home. I know a lot of us go home and we have family reunions to get together during the week and go do the fourth and do the fourth of july and you go home and you have a mom, grandparent at home. You know, you dont know you are carrying the disease. Really as young people, you are the carriers. It is like looking out for the people around you at the time. It is not about you. It is everybody else. It is bigger than me or you. It is protecting the elders and seniors and our family around us when we think about it as we go out. Basically if you do have to go out wear a face mask. Make sure you have sanitizer with you. I think about social distancing at all times. Make it a habit that people keep their distance from you. Make sure that you take it serious. This is serious. I am saying this because when you think about it is a lot we dont know about this virus. To be safe just make sure you are taking care of your loved ones and your community. Make sure that you actually let everybody know that i dont want to get sick, i dont want you to get sick. I will stay at home. I will not be part of that. We are going to recover from this. Stay at home and be safe for this weekend. Please stay home and be safe. The last thing we want to do is sacrifice your family. The last thing i want to do is go to another funeral. At the end of the day it is for us to look out for our community to make sure the community is safe at the end of the day. Please, please, please, keep your butts at home. Stay home, you all. Another fourth of july will come up. We will be there next year. This year, please stay at home. Thank you. Thank you. Up next we have Stefani Garcia who is our final speaker, please submit your questions. Good morning, everyone. I am here to talk to young people specifically. I have a message for young people in San Francisco and around the nation. We the young people are intel get anchor intelligence and we can lead by example. I urge you to continue to practice social distancing and only go out for essentials, wear facings and plastic good hygiene. Covid19 affects all of us, especially those we love. Our moms, dads, grandparents, great grandparents and others with underlying conditions in our community. We as young people have the responsibility to act responsible and to leave our pleasures and fun behind. Coronavirus is real. I have had relatives test positive and lose their life to covid. I know what testing positive does to the family financially. In some situations we live in multigenerational homes. We live with the elderly, parents and grandparents. As young people we must remember we are not spared from the virus. We have seen how serious it could be fou for our loved peop. I urge you all to take action and practice social distancing, practice good hand hygiene and continue to wear Face Coverings. We all have the power to flatten the curve and stop the spread. Thank you. Thank you, stefani. We will begin our q and a. First question with rebecca. What percentage of cases tell contact tracers close contacts . Has that changed over time. Do they say why . That question is for dr. Colfax. Could you read me the question again. I didnt hear all of that. The question is what percentage of cases tell contact tasers close contacts . Has that changed over time. When they dont tell the investigators close contacts do they say why . Contact tracing is one of our key interventions that we employ as a result of pandemic. We have 100 contact tasers in the field working with people diagnosed with covid19. Right now we are reaching 82 of cases. Of the people that the cases report, we are reaching 88 of their contacts. We are doing relatively well there for our indicator in yellow there. The goal is to reach 90 . With regard as to why people do not necessarily tell people about their contacts or perhaps refuse with regard to engaging with a contact taser, we have qualitative information. There is understandable concerns about providing information and how that will be used. That is why we have worked very much with multiple Community Partners to the train efforts by communitybased organizations to function as trusted contact tracers. It is about the information that is given. It is also about providing support for people diagnosed with their contacts. Across the city people are offered hotel rooms if they need to isolate and quarantine. Families are offered social support services, food and other key things that help people if they are diagnosed with covid19 if they are at risk and to help them get through the two week period that is most acute with people diagnosed. The other thing to emphasize is the information gathered is 100 confidential. It is only used to get people tested during covid19. The second question. How have moved to reopen San Francisco complicated Contract Tracing efforts. We are working in a cultural appropriate way to engage people who are diagnosed with covid19, to support them and their families, and to support the contacts they have had. It just emphasizes the need to continue to strengthen this work across the city. Next questions from ktsf for dr. Colfax. How do we celebrate the fourth of july with our families safely . I think as i said at the beginning of the call and my partners also emphasized. Best thing to do is stay home, celebrate with members of your household, and to be able to celebrate virtually with others. It is really a key right now we present the spread of covid19. If people go out to emphasize wearing Face Coverings, maintain social distancing which i know it is hard for me to do, but we need to emphasize that. As director about seized in the commenters, even if you feel okay that doesnt mean you dont have covid19. If someone looks like they are not sick, up to half of the cases can initially be a symptomatic. We have got to continue to prevent the spread, wear Face Coverings, social distance and good hygiene. Second question from angelina for dr. Colfax. Other counties allow social bubbles. What is your position on small gatherings of close family and friends . The safest thing to do is stay home with members of your immediate household. If there are times when people decide not to do that, it is very important for people to meet outside, wear Face Coverings, social distance, hygiene measures that i talked about. Be thoughtful how we engage outside of our immediate house old with people highest risk of dying from the disease, people older with chronic conditions. Given what we are seeing in San Francisco and across the state we are having increasing cases. San francisco knows how to do this. We did it and i am grateful for everyones contributions. We did it in march, april, may. We can do it for the fourth of july. Thank you. Next questions from cathy novak with k cbs for dr. Colfax. How willin how many patientsn quentin are treated in San Francisco hospitals . 18 patients transferred from san quentin to San Francisco hospitals. Second question for dr. Colfax. Are San Francisco hospitals preparing to receive more patients from san quintin . Is that going to affect Hospital Capacity. Right now it is good for indicators. People can find it on data sf website if you want more detail. Now the Hospital Capacity is green. We have a capacity to accept patients from other regions in the state. Obviously, we will balance the ability to accept with what is happening locally. We certainly want to support regions where there is an acute need and people are in dire need of care. We are in close contact with the state which is determining how patients from san quentin will be transferred to other counties. Next questions from christian with ktvu for dr. Colfax. Can you speculate about what is leading to the recent increase in coronavirus transmission rates in San Francisco . It is combination of factors. We dont have the precision to identify any one thing. This is not an outbreak in one specific facility or region. It is really what we know spreads the virus, which is people unfortunately in closer contact with people who may be a symptommic but can transmit. Covid19 the people who choose not to wear facial coverings which we know dramatically decreases spread of diseases. Then i think per the conversations and data from the past there are people who essential workers who need to work in settings. There is certainly a transmission risk in the workplaces even with proper precautions. The social distancing, stable coverings facial coverings, hygiene, access to testing, contact notification are all things to prevent further spread. We think over the last few weeks probably just a combination of more activity in the city. The more we move about and the more interaction there is socially in gatherings, the more likely the virus will transmit. Especially indoors if women dont if people dont take precautions we are talking about. Second question. Did we reopen too fast or too early. Are we likely to see restrictions reimposed . As we reopened in a very cautious and datadriven way. We followed the data and facts how to reopen gradually. We know the numbers would increase in our city and region. The goal is to slow the spread. We packed because the rate started to increase dramatically. We talked about flattening the code. It is really about the rate. Too early to tell whether we would need to potentially reverse any steps that have been taken with regard to reopening or taking a pause. We are looking at the data over the next few days and make a determination on next steps based on the data. Thank you. We have the time two questions from joshua at sf examiner. Question one. Please discuss the latest data raising concerns inlooking exact number of cases on wednesday. Most important data causing concern are around the increase in hospitalization rates. And in the rate of case diagnosis. Our goal for seven day average of new cases is 1. 8 per 100,000 residents. We are now at a rate of over 6 per 100,000. That pushed us into the red zone. That is one of the key indicators. The other key indicat indianadis are to keep hospitalizations in the green hospitalizations in the green zone. It is now at 61 increase. The key piece is our hospitalization rates overall for covid19 are low in the city. Thanks to the incredible efforts of san franciscans doing their best every day. The hospitalization remains relatively low, but that rate of increase means the curve is steep. We need to ensure we are doing everything we can to flatten the curve. As we saw this in china, italy and now in floridian arizona. Once this virus takes off at a high rate, it is very aggressive. We need to take this pause now and as much as possible stay at home for the fourth of july to get the curve flat in San Francisco and in our region. Question two from joshua. Can you provide any more specifics what trends you are seeing in terms why there is increase of cases and hospitalizations. Such as demographics location or other causes. I think it is a combination of factors. The data reinforce the continued and ongoing needed as others have spoken to on this call to focus in our approach to managing covid19 to supporting communities where covid19 is disproportionately affecting people, including latin and black african communities and we will do just that. Thank you. This concludes our press conference. Thank you to our speakers for joining us. A recording of this press conference will be available shortly. Thank you. [applause] [applause] wow, i got to say, i am really honestly overwhelmed with gratitude to all of you. This has been a tough time for our city. We know that every single day when we are out there talking about the people who are really putting their lives on the line, those people are all of you. Showing up to this hospital, doing the important work, reassuring people that things are going to be okay, putting yourself and your families at jeopardy. Its hard to really put into words what you all have done to help save lives for people in this city. I think i am a little overwhelmed right now because i never expected when i became mayor to be dealing with the pandemic. Im sure that none of you ever thought we would ever see Something Like this happen, ever. We read about it in the history books. We know that San Francisco and with ucsf and the technology and everything that weve done to combat Infectious Diseases in the past, theres no way that Something Like this could have even been possible. Here we are and here you are showing up every single day, taking care of people that cant take care of themselves. I know that in some ways its been more difficult because there were a lot of things that we couldnt provide you with that you needed. We remember the early conversations around p. P. E. We remember the things that you asked for in order to take care of and support your patients. It was so difficult that fight to get you the resources you need in order to not only support and protect your patients, but to protect yourself. You still came to work everyday. You still showed up for the people of San Francisco. Im just again a little overwhelmed right now because when we talk about essential workers, there are a lot of folks that we have been thanking. You all are really the front line workers. You all are really the people that we are counting on to help guide us through this pandemic. In addition to what we see happening all over the country. You know, after George Floyds death, every time there is a death of an African American man at the hands of law enforcement, it keeps taking me back. It takes me back to my cousin who i lost. It takes me back to kids i helped raise in the community. It takes me back so on top of this global pandemic, we have this uprising like something again i never thought i would ever see as an African American woman. I never thought i would see the day when people could really understand the level of racism that we constantly deal with and i still deal with as mayor of this city. [applause] the fact is through all of this, through all of this stuff that is hard to deal with, i still have hope. I have hope. I have faith. I have hope and i have faith because you all show up to support people who need it the most. I have faith in people. I have faith that out of this talent, out of this struggle, the very best of us is emerging. Because of that, we are going to be a better city. Because of you, we are a better city. Because of your support, your love, your advocacy, everything that you bring, your heart and soul to the work that you do for people, we are a better city. So i know this is a tough time for all of us. I know this was more, suppose to be more of a pep rally as an expression of appreciation to all of you for what you have done to help this city get through this. I know that because of you we are in a good place. I know that we still have a ways to go. Im sure some of you see the numbers recently and the surge as we try to reopen and get back to the normal. Just yesterday, we seen an increase in the numbers by over 100 new patients. What that sadly means is that our plans for monday to reopen a number of businesses and places that we have committed to. Those plans will be put on pause because what we dont want to happen. What we dont want to happen is we dont want this hospital to get overwhelmed with patients. I know the last thing you all want to see is somebody walk up to that door and get turned away because you want to help. The last thing i want to make the last thing i want to happen is to put you in a situation where you cant help. So were going to have to dial it back. Were going to have to dial it back because of what we see with the data. Were going to have to dial it back because i want to make sure that if we have to help somebody, we can help somebody, that were prepared for that. I know that, that is the most important thing to every Single Person here. So with that, i want to again express my gratitude. Thank you for hanging in there for us. Thank you to the people who can retire, that have not retired because you want to help us. Thank you to so many of the African American employees who we know are dealing with challenges and struggles and as i said to you brenda, we are committed to making real change to support the African American community in this city. [applaus [applause] thank you to the doctors, the nurses, to the clinicians, to the people who are cleaning the halls of this place, to the people who are the social workers, to all the outreach workers, to the h. R. Folks, to the various supervisors, to the technicians, to those of you showing up everyday for the people of San Francisco. When we talk about gratitude, words are inadequate. They are all we have at this time. So i want to express my deep appreciation for the work that you have done and will continue to do because we are not out of the woods yet. We need you. So we need to do a better job as a city to up lift you and support you in the work that you do every single day. That is why im here. Im here to express my support. Im here to express things will be really hard for us both as we deal with this pandemic and other challenges that our city faces, but i appreciate you all being there. I appreciate your commitment. I appreciate your support. Were going to get through this together. So thank you, thank you, thank you, to all the essential workers. Thank you. [applause] i also think i had a certificate i did i have a certificate no . Good. Last but not least, let me just Say Something that is really important. Its important that you take care of yourself. We put in place a number of resources. Take care of your physical and your Mental Health because that is so critical. When i think about what you have to do everyday, sometimes you have to take a moment and pause, even if you need to go in a quiet place alone. I am doing the best i can to take care of myself. I get my sleep. I drink my water, i get my exercise. If im not in a good place, if im not healthy physically and mentally, then i cant take care of the people that im here to take care of. So i want you to take care of yourselves because this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. After we get through this, were going to look back and were going to tell some stories about what we experienced in the police myst of all this and how we came through. Some of you were around during the aid crisis. Some of you worked at a time where so many doors were closed to San Francisco. This became the epicenter of that crisis. Look at where we are. Look at how far we come. We have been a leader in getting to zero. We have seen the numbers decline to levels that we never anticipated possible. So if we can get through that, we can get through anything. Well get through this pandemic. Well get through thisening whi which this challenging time and as a result we will emerge stronger than we ever have been before. So again, thank you all so much. Enjoy your workday. Stay healthy, stay safe, and thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you mayor breed. Im the director of health for the city and county of San Francisco. I wanted to thank the mayor for her leadership during these unprecedenteded times and for making San Francisco a leader in how we address the covid19 pandemic. Early on as we first saw the frightening and fast growing effects of this new virus, we immediately started making preparations for what we knew would need to be an enormous and Critical Response here in San Francisco. The s. F. G. Emptied beds to make room for a coming surge. The patients we knew, you knew would eventually come. I. C. U. S were readied, supplies ordered, staff prepared. This hospital, the s. F. G. Led other San Francisco hospitals in a coordinated an unified citywide effort. These preparations allowed us to meet the needs of our communit. , hospital beds in critical care, testing, guidance, and modeling safe behaviors. Im especially happy to see everyone with Face Coverings here. The s. F. G. Also gave us early and critically Important Information about the disproportionate impact that covid was and is having on the citys latinx patients. That has helped us focus all our efforts on Effective Community outreach and testing of those most vulnerable to the virus, not only here in the mission, but in other parts of the city, including the bay view and the tenderloin. We wont let this virus or any pandemic keep us from our mission to build healthcare equity in San Francisco. It is appropriate that we would be here during essential workers week. What happens everyday at zuckerberg is the very highest degree of essential work for our city. This is true not only during the covid19 pandemic, but as the mayor said, it was true during the h. I. V. Epidemic. It was true when i trained here with many of you in the e. R. , in 5a, building 5, 20 to 15 years ago. It was true when many of our families, including my family, when i was little, got care here at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. From the bottom of my heart, i thank each and every one of you. The s. F. G. Has cared for about a third, a third of all Covid Patients in the city. Patients from other counties in need as well. Not only caring for the sick, but caring for other essential workers too. While the clinicians do so much of the work here, there are many others on the front lines, keeping the hospital and the city functioning well. Environmental service workers, food and nutrition workers, engineers, information technology, patient financial services, nor is this just an effort at this hospital. There are many other department of Public Health, d. P. H. Essential workers at laguna hospital, our outpatient clinics, behavioral health, healthcare workers working everyday in hotels to keep people safe and off the streets and the case in contacting workers. The workers who are helping us find new cases and support people who are at risk for the disease. This is truly a comprehensive, a united and effective team. While today we have the news that we have some increase in cases, our case rate is increasing and were going to need to take a pause in our reopening, again, following the data, science, and facts. Together we will emerge from this challenging pandemic stronger and unified more than ever before. I would add my sincere appreciation for all of you who work here, absolutely essential everyone. Thank you, thank you so much. [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce dr. Susan, the c. E. O. Of the hospital. [applause] it is such an incredible privilege to be here with you a all, not just since the beginning of the pandemic but everyday that ive been at this hospital, its been such an honor. I have been so humbled to serve with you and to be in this very privileged position i am in. On behalf of the s. F. G. And all 6,000 people that work here, i want to thank you so much mayor and dr. Colfax for your support. The work we do here is incredibly hard and yet its so grad gratifying and its made more gratifying by the incredible support that we have by our leaders and i dont take that granted at all. Were privileged to have it. I cant tell you how much we appreciate your remarks and the steadfast and unwavering support for all of us in the work that we do. Our staff, us, i look around and i see people who have dedicated many years, entire careers, have paused their retirements to continue work for us and everything you do for this city and the people who live here just means an incredible amount. From the very beginning of this pandemic, our staff has been on the front lines everyday, no matter what you do, if its taking care of patients, keeping the hospitals clean and safe for patients, visitors and staff, fe feeding people, testing, opening new units. The creative ways you do them has been endless in the past three months. The importance of the work, the quality of the work, the amount of work, not to mention the pace has been nothing, nothing short of heroic. Its an amazing team and again im so proud to be a part of it. This team is sporting an incredibly beautiful recognition of the work you do and i just want to thank you mayor brooed breed for bringing this to us and recognizing you. Thank you everyone. [applause] well thank you again. We will move forward together. Please as the mayor said, take care of yourself. Were in the second inning of a long game here. While we all hope there will be more effective treatments and vaccine as soon as possible, it will take a while. So please, we all, as healthcare providers, youre wired to do everything you can for everyone else. Make sure you look inside. Make sure you take care of your mind, your heart, your loved ones. Stay safe, stay connected, stay socially distant. Thank you. Byebye. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calling 408 4189388. That number is 408 4189388. The meeting i. D. Is 1467992222. Again, thats 1467992222. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and tun down your television and radio. You may submit Public Comment. You can reach me at erica. Fmjor sfgov. Org. If you see a card a email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of july 14th, unless otherwise stated. The planning code to allow the consolidation or merger of groundfloor storefronts in north beach special use district for r San Francisco Police Department functions or Space Associated with such use and appropriate members of the public who wish to revise Public Comment on this idea should call the number 408 4189388. Meeting i. D. Is 146799222, press pound and pound again. Press star 3 to lineup to speak. Supervisor peskin this is a drafted piece of legislation to allow the merger of two storefronts to merge two properties that both have been leased to Central Station to allow those twostore two storeo consolidate during the covid19 period to give a little bit of breathing room to the inspectors that habitat at that spot. This is part of a piece of property that has 34 singleresident occupancy hotel rooms above that the city has expressed center in purchasing that is by way of full disclosure and the Planning Commission waved its 90day period to review this pursuant to the charter i would like to open this up to Public Comment. Seeing no questions from members, are there any members of the public would who like to item on item number 1 . Clerk operations is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. There are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor peskin this is been without controversy in district 3. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. And colleagues, if theres no objection i would like to send this item to the full board with recommendations. Madam collect, could you please call the roll on that motion . Clerk on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin, supervisor preston. Aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Superivsor safai aye. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin aye. Could you read the second and final item. The reenacting of emergency ordinance number 620 to temporarily prohibit rent increases that would be permitted under the administrative code due to covid19 pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4084189388. The meeting i. D. Is 1467992222 and press pound and pound again. Supervisor peskin this committee voted on this legislation, which is emergency legislation that lasts for 60 days and is expiring on june 23rd. It was approved unanimously by the board of supervisors this will extend the norent increase for 60 days during the covid19 period. Do you have any questions or comments colleagues . No. No, mr. Chair. Seeing none. Supervisor peskin. I just want to thank you for renewing this and asking to be add as a cosponsor as i was on the original legislation. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor safai. This is your opportunity to be a cosponsor. Superivsor safai yes, please add me. Members of the public would would like to comment on this item . Mr. Chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in cue. There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you Public Comment is closed and i would like to make a motion to send this with recommendation as a Committee Report for hearing at full board of supervisors tomorrow, july 7th. On that motion a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated supervisor preston. Supervisor preston aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Superivsor safai aye. Clerk supervisor press kin. Supervisor peskin aye. Clerk you have three ayes. We are adjourned. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. Its really important to the city of San Francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the yUnited States, and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire population. Weve given out 2 million to over 30 communitybased organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. Weve also partnered with the Public Libraries here in the city and also the Public Schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and weve initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. So its really important that communities like bayviewhunters point participate because in the past, theyve been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasnt enough. Were going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. You know, any one of our given blocks, theres 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u. N. Of San Francisco. So its our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. You go online and do the census. Its available in 13 languages, and you dont need anything. Its based on household. You put in your address and answer nine simple questions. How many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. Your name, your age, your race, your gender. Everybody is 2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. All of the residents in the city and county of San Francisco need to be counted in census 2020. If youre not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. The committee will come to order. This is the meeting of the vision zero for thursday, june 25, 2020. I am commissioner yee and i will be chairing todays meeting joined by vice chair commissioner stefani, and commissioner peskin. The Committee Clerk is angela tsao. And the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available to you online. Lets see. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888204. 5987. And enter access code 285, 8465. And seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting a z a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 1,0 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak and calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audiovisual delays and a 30second live time during the course of the meeting. President thank you. I want to acknowledge that this is the rescheduled Vision Zero Committee meeting from march when shelter in place was beginning. Vision zero is set to expire in september and will be up to all commissioners to reauthorize the committee. Hopefully they will do so when i leave office. While San Francisco has made significant and measurable progress, we continue to have a long way to go to meet our goals. Lives literally depend on this. As of the end of may 10, 10 people have been killed on our streets, and just last week we had two additional fatalities. These are lives stolen too soon and whose family wills never be the same. As we will see in the presentations today, the lives most impacted are disproportionately seniors and those who live in communities of concern. These deaths and nearly 600 severely injured annually are preventible. It is our role to protect the most vulnerable among us and at times we are failing and missing opportunities that we should be taking. As our population continues to grow, new mobility devices become available. Ride Share Services continue to congest our streets, and newest challenges may soon be testing the driverless vehicles. We must sort of remain vigilant. We must be relentless in implementing stronger policies and accountability measures, traffic calming that creates safer streets and slow down drivers. We must have accountability written into any permits or pilots so that bad player cans be eliminated. If Companies Want to launch mobility devices, they must commit to vision zero in tangible and measurable ways. These should be implemented city wide as a city we must aggressively support the passage of automated Speed Enforcement. We must work to slow down our arterial corridors, before thinking and creating in our education enforcement strategies. I want to comment and hear updates on what has been done and what also clear and what also would be clear time lines and measurable goals for what is being planned. Please call the first item. Item one, roll call. Commissioner peskin sorry about missing that part. Commissioner peskin. A present. Peskin present. A commissioner stefani. Commissioner stefani is stuck in the psns committee of board of supervisors and i was given the short notice as chair of the t. A. Unable to find a replacement and it is chair yee and myself for the duration of this meeting. Stefani absent. Commissioner yee. Here. Yee present. We have a quorum. And mr. Chairman, i would like to motion to excuse commissioner stefani. Okay. Roll call. On the motion. Oh. Do we need let me just check with legal if we need a roll call on that. Angela, this is counsel for the t. A. You can skip a roll call if this is a motion and second. That is fine. All right. Motion passes. Okay. Now, can you please call the first item, which is item number two. A yes, of course. Consent agenda, items two and three comprise the consent agenda. These items are considered routine. Staff is not planning to present on these items but are prepared to present if desired. If a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed and considered separately. Okay. I would like to separate item 3 from the consent and invite kate bream from sfmta to speak on this item later. Roll call on item number two. I believe you dont need a roll call for separating an item as well. But no, you dont. But you do need to i would like to make a motion to i a prove the minutes. Thank you. Yes. And second it so motion passes. I do need to take a roll call on the minutes. Sorry. So there was a motion from peskin and second from yee. And commissioner peskin . Aye. Peskin, aye. Commissioner stefani . Stefani, absent. Commissioner yee . Aye. That is passed. So is ms. Bream online . Yes, i am. Im ready. Go for it, then. Thank you, commissioner yee, for which this was planned for the march agenda which would have been the heels of that prort. I am kate green and in february, the California State Transportation Agency released the final report of the zero Traffic Fatalities Task force and with the past updates on this work and enacted enacted by 2016 by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman and other steps that can reduce traffic and fatalities. And the traffic was comprised of 25 members representing government agencies, advocacy groups including representatives from arp, aaa, the california hawaii patrol and represented by the task force and represented on the Advisory Group in the room and at the table and incredible support provided for our staff and the work with the recommendations of the task force and speed limit is complicated and the team we worked with was integral to helping the task force development that recommendation. The final report which there is a link in the item that included the summary in your packet is a long report. And it summarizes the current approaches to setting speeds, describes alternatives to the current 85 percentile method dolling and summarizes recommendation on making strategies safer and the task force explored automated Speed Enforcement and reduce speeding and save lives. As a reminder and the 8 ath percentile and i find myself in place and volunteers and speed limits are set in the californiabased behavior and the 85th percentile motorists and free flowing traffic environment and dense urban environments and other modes such as bicyclists and pedestrians and the antiquated speed setting and i would note as an aside and put through if you are interested in the history and ucitf and the institute of transportation studies and supported the work of the task force and goes into the deep dive which is interesting. And many states around the u. S. Have developed new approaches to balancing the safety of the road users and the report identified the states as models for new approaches that can save lives on our street. With the primary focus on speed limits and i will say that great majority of the discussion while there are engineering improvements and recommendation, education improvements and education and great focus and on speed limit setting and the recommendations in the report include interim approaches that work within existing speed setting methods and contact sensitive, safetybased approach as an alternative. And all the recommendations around speed limit setting and statutory change and with the state level and include local jurisdiction on the High Injury Network and on streets near vulnerable population and Traffic Survey and drivers are at lower speeds. And as part of the report and importantly for this and the automated Speed Enforcement and to reducing fatalities and cities in california and for enforcing traffic laws and the report summarizing to enforcement and use of revenue. And i will say that the great majority of what was included in the Task Force Report and San Francisco and done leading up to this on 8342 and Assembly Member chiu and having said that, it recognizes the controversy around using enforcement and that conversation will now evolve in the environment around policing and where does enforcement fit in the vision zero context. And cities and Vision Zero Network are initiating that conversation to figure out how to have that discussion and certainly you all are very involved in the citys overall efforts around enforcement and policing. So prior to states shelter in place order and the covid19 legislation to advance specific recommendations from the report as it related to speed limit setting were introduced in january and barely begun and due to the measures shelved because of covid19 and made a clear directive that was not directly related to covid19 and we anticipate that the changes in the report in 2021. And to provide two short other updates that occurred with the release of the report. And importantly, we are continuing to engage with the state partners on vision zero and in communication with secretary kim and other administrative officials on Task Force Recommendation and specifically acknowledging the alarming rate of speed on the highways during the pandemic. We have seen Message Signs and during this time as the state to encourage obey speed limits and slow down. And we continue cowork in partnership on activities such as slow street programs with the vision zero goals. And the update and the partnership we have continued to build with the state around this and feels like one where we have a true partner in hoping to support change all the way from the secretary of transportation david kim and the new director of caltrans and his staff including the appointment of chief Safety Officer who staffed the work and provided assurances on vision zero. Lastly, i am pleased to share that yesterday the metropolitan Commission Approved adoption and vision zero and the ongoing the region to take action and this new Regional Policy and to support vision zero action and to build support for vision zero initiatives and i would say as part of the new effort to consider m. T. C. Making a presentation for the body on the important new Regional Policy. That is my report, and i am happy to answer questions. Thank you. And that was a breath of fresh air and positive news in terms of business efforts and made up to state level. It is indeed very good news and for m. T. A. To adopt this regional vision zero policy is i think that will add a lot of momentum and one of the things we try to do and indeed try to schedule them as you suggested for the next meeting. I want to thank over people that are involved with this. And getting weird on Health Equity and sustainability and d. P. H. And thank them for their work on caltask force. And the plan for the march Vision Zero Committee and acknowledge for the acknowledge and advocacy and commitment and passion for vision zero work. She has been an incredible partner and so much of our accomplishments are because of the work. It is a loss for us and certainly a gain for oakland. We hope to continue the aligned goals and vision zero and the report recommended more flexibility on speed limits and i know sfmta changed the timing of the lights on some of the arterials such as pine and bush. And slowing is there anybody to answer that . I will give a moments pause to answer that specifically and if not, we will respond to you following this meeting and puts the mic on here. I know ricardo is out and i dont know if you have one of the traffic engineers and left the agency recently and integral to the work as well. And commissioner yee and following this meeting to respond after this meeting. And that is an important feature. And has it been your experience as far as feedback and how has this report been received in sacramento . And i think we have allies within the administration but when we first initiated conversations with Committee Staff on ab2121 and to allow for flexibility on lowering speed limits and we definitely encountered more status quo preservationist point of view. And it really was a reminder on that call and was a clear reminder of the work we have to do and educate the priorities and the findings of this report and truly to take it on and with interest and by no means say that it was embraced as there is still a lot of entrenchment if you will around the 85th percentile. And its a long game. Yeah. And the focus of the legislator and focus the legislature on do you see any next steps to push the recommendations . And maybe you already answered that. What we are doing is staying in communication with the folks within the administration who are able to socialize the recommendations from the report and we have an understanding and i wouldnt go so far to say support from organizations like the california highway patrol. And continuing to do that work along with the partnership as we told you and the Vision Zero Network and we have a collaboration and the cacti and the california transportation and is a great opportunity for us to raise the big city void in the legislature and we are continuing to work with the other jurisdictions and try to find ways with a nexus of covid as well. And gets you something about that if i am driving 65 and everybody is zooming by me, and not talking that and really in high speed and 90 to 100 and something commonly seen these days. Thanks for your report and work on this. Commissioner peskin, do you have any questions or comments . Can we go to Public Comment . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. There is no further questions. This is an informational item, we will move on and close this. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Please call item four. Item four, 2019 fatalities report. This is an information item. And this is going to be presenting from d. P. H. Sharing my screen now and let me know and to this slide. And you can see it. Thank you for inviting me to speak for the vision zero archaeologists working for the San Francisco department of Public Health. And 2019 traffic fatality report. I wouldnt be able to present this work without collaboration and in d. P. H. And work closely and to do the Crisis Response and get this to you. And here we have the data back to 2005 and take that as the Higher Quality data in the traffic trends. On this chart you can see the blue locking and every year and yellow and killed while cycling and green and you can see that in 2017 and 2018 with lower numbers historically and traffic fatalities. We breakdown the mode of travel and as i mentioned, pedestrian that were attributable and died in vehicles and the combination of driver and passenger and in 2019 and in addition to one person killed while biking and one was a motorcycle. We use data to inform our vision zero High Injury Networks. And represented in blue on this chart. And of the fatalities and 2 3 of them occurred on the High Injury Network. And the other thing with the red shaded areas of concern and a proxy measure. And the transit systems and lower levels of english as a primary language and so forth. And disproportionate amount. And anything else . Playoff all right. When we break down the proportion of the traffic fatality by age and age 65 and older and that is particularly true among pedestrians and last year half of those and almost 3 4 were people age 50 and older. And also bears saying that last year we saw one youth fatality. And to break down by race and ethnicity and died on the San Francisco streets and compare to the census breakdown in San Francisco. The majority of People Killed in 2019 with the white or asian race and compare that to San Francisco numbers and people of hispanic numbers are represented. And next is another helpful way to breakdown the data and for 2019 and the first time in the e. R. And more females than males died on San Francisco streets and you can see this is unusual and going by since we started looking and one cyclist death and the majority of 55 were female and 100 Motor Vehicle passengers who died were female and on the flip side and you guys are male. We have an increasing focus on homelessness and relating to traffic violence. And no one without a fixed address was killed and the category on the medical examiner reporting and struggling and no one was killed in that group and the prior year and 22 were people without shelter. And something we are continuing to look at and in another category, a lot of people who die on freeways included in San Francisco vision zero numbers and of those that die and freeways in 2019, 27 . Experiencing homelessness. So in general less of the population and there may be a particular vulnerability to injury and illness. Can i ask a quick question and people that are on the freeway and in the cars and what . They tend to be pedestrian. I would say off the top of my head exclusively pedestrian. On the freeway. We think there is probability a various and related to that mobility. Thank you. I am trying to advance here. This appears frozen. I am going to unshare and share and get to full screen for the system. And the next topic is because of the partnership with the sfpd and to what they have for the death that occurs last year and the top primary with unsafe speeds and change in order from that area and pedestrian and Information Available and 75 caused by the driver of a vehicle. Two fatalities and visions and collisions and caused under the driver by alcohol. And among driver characteristics and the fatal character ins and the motorcyclists span the age spectrum and the Trend Movement and with that car going and straight from the collision and 30 and one pedestrianmotorcycle and with the collision. And we are also able to look at involvement of large vehicles and larger than a pickup truck and four crashes and in 2019 involve such a vehicle. One is a golden gate transit bus and another a paratransit vehicle. Transportation company and taxis and neither were determined to be at fault last year. As well as a different crash and neither of the vehicles were an impacted vehicle and not a collision. And two vehicles were hit and run and while this is a decrease from the prior year and that is something we continue to watch. Tate i would like to read the names of lives lost to traffic violence in 2019. Those names are lucy morales, nancy ng, phil chang, and sal ghan, jose currasco. And ella mills, pablo ramirez. Grace chang. And alexander reyes. Michael evans and ramona lang. Jesus campo. And john griffin. Thank you very much. I was on silent for a moment. In closing, why the fatalities arent declining and to the region and more vehicles that are driving for miles and increasing aging resource and including deaths and in a serious crash and to increase homelessness and being at risk of the collision. And able to present speed and the leading predictor of a collision or not. And focus on urban and state level as well as the vehicle travel and the ability to graduate. Thank you for your time and u i am available for any questions. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, any questions from you . No. I consumed all that data and it is very, very good and i have no information, but i have no questions. Prouf my question is about data reflecting 2019 with what we are seeing today, and i get probably more complaints now than ever in terms of even during this shelter in place and there is an uptick in collisions and during this three months or so. And then a little disheartening and population and to see the same pattern of fatalities and yet from this area and fewer vehicles and people sheltering in place and you would think not at high injury corridors. How do you explain that . Is there any explanation . I want to welcome and invite input from sfpd on the line. And there is also a lag in the data and we dont have the data for the time period for the regular injury monitoring that we do on an annual basis. I dont have the hard facts to respond. So a lot fewer vehicles on the road in the last few months and what is happening. And this is commissioner yee and we did the initial analysis and beginning of shelter in place and saw there was an uptick in the initial period and looking to do some additional analysis on collision reports for the past few months as well. With the increase in speeding and we have collected some data to compare key corridors and ground that anecdotal information in what we are hearing. And to collect that data. I would be really interested to see if there is any conclusion for this. I am guessing that our analysis of it might feed into the strategies and it could point to the fact we might be taking the wrong strategies and to relook our strategies and analysis. Madam clerk, is there anybody for Public Comment. I will make this announcement again in case someone missed the dial in number. If you wish a make a Public Comment on this agenda, please call to the phone number i am about to read now. Since there is a lag time between the broadcast and live meeting, dial 8882045987, and entering access code 2858465. And following the prompts. Dial 1, 0 as soon as you are prompted in order to speak on that item. Are there any Public Comments . There is one comment. You have zero questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello, caller. It appears that the caller has hung up. Then Public Comment is now closed. And since this is an informational item, we will move on to the next item. This item will be closed. Okay. Can you go to the next item, clerk tsao . Item five, daylighting Program Updates and this is an information item. Ryan from sfmta will give this information. Let me get this ready. And that slide. Good afternoon. And with the daylighting work and to join today. To may of 2019, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution from behind the network and removing parking approaching intersections and is greatly improved. We appreciate that the board has issued this resolution and thank commissioner yee for the leadership and to reinforce the importance for achieving from the Injury Network and the first daylighting of the standard policies for the Capital Projects and third, the daylighting and in district four. And through the approach, and from that network. And in terms of daylighting and the Standard Capital project and evaluated as part of the Design Review project moving forward. And to standardize daylighting on the project. And the difference here is to complete about 20 intersections from the embarcadero to division street. And from and we have continued to make progress and from Taylor Street and a comprehensive approach and that area. And through that project and from the daylighting goal and in terms of work outside of Capital Projects and we continue to make progress through the work shown here in district four. And identified location and did not have daylighting and with the supervisors completed and we expect that all 94 will be implemented by this. So moving ahead we continue to make progress on the daylighting through the existing quick build and to identify funding and we wont be able to continue making progress on this work and fill that unenforced and much of this is the responsibility of the Operations Team and balancing the responsibilities around the covid response. And so we are cognizant of the other responsibilities they have taken on. And with the additional funding that we hope to back fill, we expect to continue to make progress on this work in addition to the capital work and projects as well. So thats the brief update on daylighting and happy to answer any questions. Am i on . Because i cant tell anymore. Am i on . Yes. Okay. Thanks for the presentation and thanks for the progress of daylighting. And sort of lost you said that there was work to move forward because of the and the pandemic situation and now having to back off that work. And the funding and identified last year to allow us to do more of the proactive work like the d4 work that i showed as an example. And that funding is no longer available as part of the budget repriorization that is happening and we are looking to back fill that Funding Source. Once we have that, we expect to continue to issue work to district four like we have done. That is not something we have right now. Okay. And any chance that some of the funding for transportation that is coming down for due to pandemic situation could be used for any of this . So we are looking to back fill that funding and i am not sure what the potential forces are and are you saying that Funding Source was money that is i know used in the what was the original Funding Source . What is the amount of the funding that we are talking about . I believe sorry. I believe the Funding Amount that we had identified was around 300,000 and i want to give a minute to ask my colleague to weigh in. Hello. I am with sfmta and Pedestrian Program manager and the funding that we have allocated was the acronym with the Educational Reimbursement and i cannot tell you what the latter two letters stand for. Without having full information and my understanding is that source is a part of the broader part of the state and asked not to spend it directly. And we had planned on using it and identify different sources. We havent had the opportunity to do that deeply in the last month. We are committed to doing this work. And the executive director also notes that the recently past proposition b and with the finance team to identify the best source. Would any staff like to comment on that . Sure. We will be glad to follow up and report back to us to potentially use the prop d funds in either our pot or m. T. A. s pot for the quick build type actions. Good. Thank you for asking the question, commissioner peskin. Thank you, chair. Okay. Thank you for your report. I think what i would like to do now is see if there is any Public Comment on this. Yes, chair, there is Public Comment. Okay. Go ahead. Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller hi. May name is Steven Bingham and i am a member of families for safe streets. I tried to comment on the last item as well and never got called on, so this is a learning process. But specifically on this particular item, my daughter was killed in 2009, not in San Francisco, but each of the items is critical. [please stand by] i lived in france for ten years, and the speed limit is 18 Miles Per Hour in most towns. Its unbelievably clerk thank you, caller. Thank you. Your two minutes is up. Thank you. And were sorry for your loss. President yee thank you for your comment, and i totally agree. We need to push this a little bit. Okay. Any other Public Comment . Clerk there is no on our. Can you see the slides . President yee yes. All right. Fantastic. All right. Vision zero Traffic Calming Program, and heres an outline of what i will be presenting today. Quickly go over the history, outline the programming goals and purposes, discuss a little bit about the tool box, and discuss our strategy for Community Engagement and look at the current as well as future projects in the program. Just briefly, this Program Began in 2018, it was called at that time Proactive Traffic calming. The name underwent a few iterations. Since then, it went to safe streets for vulnerable populations and then a brief stint at advancing equity through safe streets, and finally, we have settled on vision zero Proactive Traffic calming. I hope that will be the same going forward. The name may have changed over the last few years, but the goals and intent remains the same. The goal remains to enhance safety for all residents, but in particular seniors and those are disabilities, and we do that by reducing speeding along residential streets. The secondary goal in the theby by focusing on seniors and folks with disabilities, we make every safer. This program, as everyone understands now, does encourage slower speeds on residential streets in San Francisco. It includes the implementation of physical improvements on our road ways to cause people to slow down and, in turn, that helps to increase visibility in different situations. Its important to note all of these measures have been shown to reduce speeding and increase safety finally, this traffic calming effort, the proactive effort, is not the same as our applicationbased program. That program is sort of the overarching Traffic Calming Program at sfmta. It is put forward and is application based, but this, instead, is proactive, and its based on prioritized neighborhoods where seniors and people with disabilities are more at risk for severe injury or fatality. So the prioritization, the neighborhoods selected for this program are based on criteria led by the department of Public Health and its specifically to address safety for seniors and people with disabilities, and the neighborhoods are prioritized based on the following three factors they look at attractors for seniors and people with disabilities, such as Senior Centers, libraries, Public Health facilities, etc. We look at the density of seniors and people with disabilities by using census data, and finally, the severe injuries and fatalities of people by using the crash data. What this all once this is all put together, what is created is a map that looks like this. This sort of seat map overlays all of these efforts and identifies where we can target our efforts through this program. The tool box of mitigation measures or counter measures, as we call them, its consistent with what we use for our standard Traffic Calming Programs, and again, it includes measures that have been proven to be effective at reducing traffic speeds below the posted speed limit and perhaps more significantly reducing the incidents of egregious speeding. Supervisor peskin could you just go back to the last slide, please . Sure. Supervisor peskin and the orange road segments mean what . I was afraid you were going to ask me that, commissioner. I whoa, geez. Supervisor peskin i assume the purple segments are high injury corridors . Correct. The other three items, i dont know which of those three factors, each one represents, but i want i can certainly get back to you after this meeting with a quick answer on that. Supervisor peskin okay. Thank you. So the box, as i explained, it consists of our default devices and have been shown to be the most effective at calming traffic. We also have [inaudible], however, they have cutouts for transit and Emergency Response vehicles. We have crosswalks that are deployed at uncontrolled pedestrian crossings. They provide an additional level of safety for pedestrians crossing the street at an uncontrolled location, and then, we can move into our community management. So just due to the nature of this program, its designed to serve seniors and people with disabilities. We recognize and have a commitment to perform a deeper level of engagement for each project community that we select this gives us an opportunity to engage in addition to vulnerable populations, we get an opportunity to engage with others who might benefit from these improvements. Each project again will fulfill a higher degree of Community Engagement than the standard traffic calming project thats advanced through our regular applicationbased program. Current projects in the fiscal year, we have projects in the inner richmond. That project is fully complete. It was completed actually september of last year. You can see we installed two refuge islands and 23 traffic calming devices on 12 blocks. The central richmond, phase one, installed refuge islands, and phase two, which is 23 traffic calming devices, those are the speed humps, speed cushions, on a dozen blocks. Those are being pushed through on a contract that will move forwa forward on a j. O. C. Contract that will move forward supervisor peskin excuse me, mr. Turner, whats j. O. C. . I believe it refers to job order contract. Supervisor peskin thank you. Sorry. Supervisor peskin no problem. And finally, the excelsior, and we are currently in progress of developing phase two, which will install another 38 devices on 27 additional blocks in the excelsior. To looking forward to next fiscal year, weve identified ingleside neighborhood as well as visitacion valley, and that is directly coming from that heat map that we discussed previously and targeting those locations where we can get the biggest bang for our buck and where the most need is. Beyond next school year, we are looking at potrero hill and other neighborhoods as that map gets refreshed and updated by d. P. H. Thats the last of my slides. One thing i didnt include in the slides is funding for this program. We have included funding through fiscal year 25. Its still my understanding that we must undertake the every d effort to work with our partners at the t. A. , and that work will be coming in the coming weeks and months. President yee okay. Thank you, mr. Curtis. Is that it . Thats it, thank you. President yee okay. So just because you mentioned the budget a little bit, so what are we talking about next year . In the coming year, we have projects totaling approximately 750,000. President yee and that doesnt include traffic calming projects included outside of this project . Thats correct. All of the other traffic funding projects are funded separately, and that will also continue. President yee okay. So this program is more of less of an application based and more of a planning based by m. T. A. . Its not application based, its more based on the planning done by department of Public Health to create that heat map in regards to where the traffic accidents occur. President yee and when youre planning this, what communities have you or the planning process been working with . Good question. The usual suspects. Let me reach out to the Supervisors Office and get direction from him or her on which Community Groups to target. We also do a variety of outreach tools. We employ a variety of outreach tools, including things like neighborhood meetings, mailers, and things of the sort. Im not as knowledgeable, so if somebody wants to bail me out, feel free, but we engage with the Supervisors Offices to make sure that were reaching the communities that are most vulnerable. [inaudible] so as david mentioned, he used [inaudible] for open houses, but i think its really Community Groups, so in Richmond Senior center was really critical for the work that we did, and so we worked really closely with them, so i think it depends on what our Senior Centers or Community Centers or food banks or libraries in the neighborhoods that were working in that well find the seniors and people with disabilities and be able to talk directly with them. President yee okay. So you answered the Community Planning piece of this, that this is the area that youd like to do some work in, correct . Yes. Wed look at the overall heat map and identify a neighborhood that wed focus on and then figure out a targeted outreach plan with the District Supervisor at that point. President yee okay. That makes sense. So the questions that were tracking, its really are we studying these calming devices . So this particular program, things are i believe, as ive shown on the last slide or secondtolast slide these things were implemented just last fall, but we do have a Robust Program embedded in liveable streets, and as part of that program, we have a strategy to study the effectiveness of traffic calming measures in general, and these will be included in that study, and thats an ongoing process that were conducting. President yee okay. I think we need to really look at the impact of what were doing and making sure that the course that were taking is really the right course, so thats really important to do that. Okay. Madam clerk, is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk yes, there is Public Comment. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller, your two minutes begins now. Thank you again. Its stephen bingham, families for safe streets. I dont speak for all members of f. S. S. , but i do speak my mind. I have a question. There are a lot of traffic calming measures that arent included in the powerpoint toolkit, and im wondering if theyre being considered, such as the types of bulbs that can be put in. In quickbuild kind of spirit, you can just put out cones at dangerous intersections for almost no many, and again, i think theres things like that that can be done now in the midst of the virus, the covid virus, that people are going to accept, people driving cars, that then eventually become permanent. I dont quite get the sense of urgency of this being an exciting time to move much, much more quickly than people were moving before, and to adopt traffic calming measures so they can be done with very little cost. As it is, its only a 750,000 project, and i think if you rethought things, you could do twice as much with the same amount of money, so i urge you you to rethink or think outside the box in terms of covid19 and how quickly these projects are designed and how they move forward. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. Im Richard Rossman, and i live in the excelsior, and i was wondering why the last gentleman didnt mention this area. Theyve been implementing the Safety Measures for over a year. Apparently, its going to take another six months. It had to go to the Transportation Authority and the m. T. A. Why cant they have a joint meeting on these projects where both agencies are involved to speed up the process, and when they have the meeting, have the engineering folks who have come out and had meetings and speed this up . M. T. A. Needs to have a faster process and processing these safety improvements. Its just taking too long, and with the closure, more cars are traveling on folsom and lincoln way, and i dont know why it takes so long to implement these changes on folsom street. Thank you. President yee okay. Any other speakers . Clerk no additional public speakers. Supervisor peskin mr. Chair, id like to utilize ana to speak with funding issues. President yee okay. Thanks for helping me out, supervisor peskin, because my screen doesnt show anything. In 2019, the board approved 750,000 over the fiveyear period for this program, and the first of the project i believe we funded is central richmond. I thought we had funded excelsior, as well. It might not have been from this place holder funding. In addition, there has been discussion of the funding of this program for 2021. There has been a discussion of bulbouts at the fulton mall, and that the sfmta would be coming in during the construction phase of the project, asking for approximately 200,000 for that pr project. As far as the 2021, and the ingleside and visitacion projects, i am not aware that m. T. A. Is planning to use the place holder funds, but im pleased to hear about what will advance, and i look forward to hearing more. President yee thank you for that report. So where were we . We just finished with other comments. I guess theres no other comments or questions, so i will go ahead and close this close this out. Madam clerk, lets go to [inaudible]. So what number lets go to item 7. Clerk item 7, introduction of new items. This is an information item. President yee okay. No no introduction of new items unless i said earlier to have m. T. C. Come and give a report on their report that just came out, okay . So i guess lets go to Public Comment, then. Clerk okay. There is one Public Comment. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Good afternoon, chair yee and commissioner peskin. I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak. This is jodi madeiras, and im the executive director of walk San Francisco. Im here to speak on behalf of 20 organizations on the Vision Zero Coalition who sent this body as well as mayor breed a letter yesterday to encourage our city to invest in alternatives to safe policing on our streets. We need a stronger and committed investment in fair and proportionate policing. I want to thank kate breed for discussing this citys work on the automated Speed Enforcement because we need to pilot life saving speed Safety Cameras now. We also are asking as a group for a greater investment in our camera program. We currently only have 13 cameras in the city with only 2 million committed for the next five years, and this is an incredibly underutilized highly technological solutions. We need to provide alternatives to punitive inequitable fine systems in relation to traffic infractions because we know that traffic infractions should not disproportionately burden African American, black, brown, and people of color. These are the places where people of color are much more likely to live, walk, and bike. Clerk thank you, caller. Thank you. That is your two minutes. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Wethis is Steven Bingham fo the third time now, and i just want to second what jodi just said, in particular the comment in the letter she mentioned to provide alternatives to punitive traffic infractions that cause lowincome people to lose their drivers licenses and have their cars towed. I worked on this issue now, and i was a former legal aide for 20 years, and ive been working on this for a couple of decades, and one of the things that i think that m. T. A. Can take the lead on in terms of getting a conversation going is having nonpolice officers to handout tickets to reduce the kinds of interactions that the police have with people of color in particular, and i think it would lead to actually safer streets because the police could focus their resources on real crime and not minor kinds of tickets they spend a great deal of time doing. Its been in new zealand for a couple of years, where traffic tickets were handled by a different agency. There are a number of cities around the country that have decriminalized part of the vehicle code, and all of us city advocates would be happy to work with the city to make it happen. Clerk thank you. Thank you, caller. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. This is Richard Rossman again. I wish youd have a hearing on why muni staff has a veto power over safety improvements that the neighborhood would like to have. I think that 225 fee to appeal a decision of traffic engineers are a little too high. Maybe instead of appealing to the board, decisions should go to the m. T. A. Board before it comes to the supervisors and not let one person have a say over safety improvements that the neighborhood wants. Thank you. President yee okay. Any other Public Comments . Clerk that is it for Public Comments. President yee okay. Public comment is now closed. In terms of what jodi mentioned in the letter that she sent, id like to have a discussion between sfmta and maybe the Police Department on that issue of who should be how can we do things differently, in terms of enforcement, should be on our agenda also. Okay. So is there anything further . Madam clerk . Clerk next item is item 8, Public Comment. Supervisor peskin no, we had that. President yee just had that. Supervisor peskin next item is adjournment. Clerk item 9, meeting adjournment. President yee meeting adjourned. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, chair yee. Please type your name and your question exactly as you would like it to be read. Submit before the last speaker is finished. We will read in the q a portion. Thank you for joining us. Today we have doctor grant colfax, the director of the office of economic and work force development. Cheryl davis, james executive director of collective impact. Member of the Latino Task Force and Stefani Garcia. With that i will turn it over to dr. Colfax. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us before this long weekend. I just have a brief statement to make with regard to where we are in the covid19 pandemic. It is a Public Health message that is really that we need to send across the city, across the region, across various neighborhoods and communities. This fourth of july, th the saft thing to do is stay home. In San Francisco we have had an alarming increase and significant increase in covid19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have soared. We are in a situation where we could we seeing early signs of a surge. Our increases reflect across the region as increases across the state. As people know, we have put a pause on reopening. It is vital that everyone take the steps that we know stop the spread of covid19. Slow the spread of covid19. This means wearing a Face Covering, social distancing, good hygiene measures, and really limiting outings and staying home as much as possible. We know this works. We saw this work in the spring with our response in San Francisco. As we hit pause, we need to ensure we are doing everything we can to slow the virus spread. This weekend stay at home if possible, celebrate with people in your household. Use as much as possible a way to socialize virtually, socially distance, wear Face Coverings, keep your family and your neighborhood and community as safe as possible. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. Now we have the director from the office of economic and work force development. Thank you so much, dr. Colfax. I want to make a few brief comments about the importance of moving to this weekend. Like many of the Small Businesses and Community Members who were very much looking forward to a more aggressive reopening. We are thankful for the leadership of the department of Public Health keeping our Health Interests real and grounded during this significant time we are in right now. I think we are excited about the long three day weekend and what benefit that may bring to our struggling Small Businesses doing everything they can to provide a healthy experience and safe experience for those who visit them and patronize them, which is very much needed right now. It is important to remember the virus doesnt take a holiday, it may force one upon us if we dont take responsibility as Business Owners and Community Members to ensure we are adhering to the Public Health guidelines. It is important the progress we worked so hard to create in phased reopening, through our office, mayor breeds leadership, we want to continue to see the progress being made. It is only possible if you, as the public and Business Owners, do your part to be responsible during this week end as we continue to mitigate the Public Health crisis we find ourselves in. We have been doing such an extraordinary job ensuring to get to this place of having many Small Businesses begin to see light at the end of a tunnel to enjoy a little activity and seeing liveliness come back to our neighborhoods and commercial corridors. It is only possible if we Work Together to take care of each other, practice social guidelines. It benefits our health and economic health. We need to keep an eye on that. We all have a part to play in that. Over 153,000 residents in San Francisco sought unemployment. We have a rate of well over 12 . Our job is to add here to these Public Health guidelines to continue to battle the economic crisis we want to successfully address. Together with all of you, we know that we can do that. When it comes to the additional work to be provided, we have signage to be provided. Make sure businesses know there is collateral to collect and gain access to to help them Work Together with their patronizers and those who come in and patronize their businesses retail or otherwise. We want to thank the public for being patient with Business Owners trying to do their part to be successful in this environment. With that, i will take questions later on. I am looking forward to a safe july 4th weekend in San Francisco an and across the bay area. For more information about resources or tools available to you, reach out to our web site. Oewd. Org. Also if you are curious about the phasing going on and what plans we have, please visit sfgov reopening and you will find the information there. Thank you for the opportunity today. We look forward to working with you towards continued success and reopening. Thank you, director. Our next speaker is cheryl davis, executive director of San Francisco human rights commission. Thank you. You know, the director talked about the virus does not take a vacation or holiday. Dr. Colfax and i have been having conversations it is not equal where it is impacting communities and neighborhoods. We have seen the map where the virus is impacts greater numbers matches maps for red lining to highlight disparities in terms of economic and Health Issues and challenges. We realize in some ways we are battling two issues at this point in time. One is the pandemic and one is racism. These two things are very much closely connected. We are seeing a surge within latin x communities. Most recently the Africanamerican Community and challenges with folks in sunnydale with younger pops. We are trying to make sure folks are staying healthy, working with communities. The role of human rights is to engage with community and raise community concerns. We have heard from young and old people. There is a concern folks will come out this weekend and think everything is fine. They will be worse off as we go into next week. We encourage people to talk to their family and encourage them to stay home, healthy and be aware of the idea someone could have contracted the virus and not know it and be spreading it to others. As the human rights commissioners we have been working with collective impact to distribute Face Coverings, pass out sanitizer and pass out collateral that says stay home, stay safe and remind people to get tested. I am grateful for the partners here today to share and encourage others. Grateful for the work of the Latino Task Force. We have to think about making the messagthe mess o the messag. Those with Health Issues are more likely to contract the virus and have a harder experience or be harder impacted by that. We are trying to work with messaging around that so folks realize they are not mandated, we are encouraging people to stay home for safety of themselves and their communities. Our next speaker is a member of the Latino Task Force. Good morning everybody. I am with the Latino Task Force. Since the beginning of this pandemic we are working vigorously to ensure the Latino Community continues to thrive in the city. As director davis just indicated, there are a lot of challenges the Latino Community faces in San Francisco that run parallel with covid. Covid in many ways makes i would worse and highlights. One of the big pieces of advice to anybody that is listening out there, that is writing this down, ensure if you have the ability to shelterinplace this weekend, do that. If you have a need to go out because there is an essential thing you have to do, wear a Face Covering and face mask. As we saw in a mission study, we found 53 of the people who tested positive had no symptoms. People could have covid19 and not understand that they do and be fine and not have symptoms. They could give it to somebody they love that could have an adverse effect. We are reminding our people in the community to ensure that you stay home if you can. If you have to go out, wear a face mask and ensure you are keeping social distance that is appropriate. If you are listening to this message, then you are an ambassador of this message to those that you love and you care about. It is important for all of us to take ownership of this. It is only with all of us participating we will get out of this. If you are absolutely have to go out because it is essential, please use social distancing space or face mask. Cover your face and enjoy this as safe as you possibly can. Thank you. Our next speaker is the executive director of collective impact. I am not sure if you can hear me. Yes, we can hear you. I am working at the community center. I want be the community to understand. I am in the community to tell everybody to come to my community and ask where is james, nobody would know who you comcome to. Uncle stink they know who i am. I knew from day one when this pandemic started that we were opening the doors to the community. The resources were going to be hard for the community to get ahold of. We want our community to have a place to go, ppe, face mask, sanitizer and we did hot lunches here. I want to make sure the community knew that the door is open, they didnt have to go look for anything, it was right here. I have been all over San Francisco and hunters point, the mission, we are supporting everybody with ppe. I know everybody is feeling a little cramped up with the fourth of july coming up. Keep your butts at home. Please stay home. This pandemic and this covid19 is for real. I dont want you to be the person that carries it home. I know a lot of us go home and we have family reunions to get together during the week and go do the fourth and do the fourth of july and you go home and you have a mom, grandparent at home. You know, you dont know you are carrying the disease. Really as young people, you are the carriers. It is like looking out for the people around you at the time. It is not about you. It is everybody else. It is bigger than me or you. It is protecting the elders and seniors and our family around us when we think about it as we go out. Basically if you do have to go out wear a face mask. Make sure you have sanitizer with you. I think about social distancing at all times. Make it a habit that people keep their distance from you. Make sure that you take it serious. This is serious. I am saying this because when you think about it is a lot we dont know about this virus. To be safe just make sure you are taking care of your loved ones and your community. Make sure that you actually let everybody know that i dont want to get sick, i dont want you to get sick. I will stay at home. I will not be part of that. We are going to recover from this. Stay at home and be safe for this weekend. Please stay home and be safe. The last thing we want to do is sacrifice your family. The last thing i want to do is go to another funeral. At the end of the day it is for us to look out for our community to make sure the community is safe at the end of the day. Please, please, please, keep your butts at home. Stay home, you all. Another fourth of july will come up. We will be there next year. This year, please stay at home. Thank you. Thank you. Up next we have Stefani Garcia who is our final speaker, please submit your questions. Good morning, everyone. I am here to talk to young people specifically. I have a message for young people in San Francisco and around the nation. We the young people are intel get anchor intelligence and we can lead by example. I urge you to continue to practice social distancing and only go out for essentials, wear facings and plastic good hygiene. Covid19 affects all of us, especially those we love. Our moms, dads, grandparents, great grandparents and others with underlying conditions in our community. We as young people have the responsibility to act responsible and to leave our pleasures and fun behind. Coronavirus is real. I have had relatives test positive and lose their life to covid. I know what testing positive does to the family financially. In some situations we live in multigenerational homes. We live with the elderly, parents and grandparents. As young people we must remember we are not spared from the virus. We have seen how serious it could be fou for our loved peop. I urge you all to take action and practice social distancing, practice good hand hygiene and continue to wear Face Coverings. We all have the power to flatten the curve and stop the spread. Thank you. Thank you, stefani. We will begin our q and a. First question with rebecca. What percentage of cases tell contact tracers close contacts . Has that changed over time. Do they say why . That question is for dr. Colfax. Could you read me the question again. I didnt hear all of that. The question is what percentage of cases tell contact tasers close contacts . Has that changed over time. When they dont tell the investigators close contacts do they say why . Contact tracing is one of our key interventions that we employ as a result of pandemic. We have 100 contact tasers in the field working with people diagnosed with covid19. Right now we are reaching 82 of cases. Of the people that the cases report, we are reaching 88 of their contacts. We are doing relatively well there for our indicator in yellow there. The goal is to reach 90 . With regard as to why people do not necessarily tell people about their contacts or perhaps refuse with regard to engaging with a contact taser, we have qualitative information. There is understandable concerns about providing information and how that will be used. That is why we have worked very much with multiple Community Partners to the train efforts by communitybased organizations to function as trusted contact tracers. It is about the information that is given. It is also about providing support for people diagnosed with their contacts. Across the city people are offered hotel rooms if they need to isolate and quarantine. Families are offered social support services, food and other key things that help people if they are diagnosed with covid19 if they are at risk and to help them get through the two week period that is most acute with people diagnosed. The other thing to emphasize is the information gathered is 100 confidential. It is only used to get people tested during covid19. The second question. How have moved to reopen San Francisco complicated Contract Tracing efforts. We are working in a cultural appropriate way to engage people who are diagnosed with covid19, to support them and their families, and to support the contacts they have had. It just emphasizes the need to continue to strengthen this work across the city. Next questions from ktsf for dr. Colfax. How do we celebrate the fourth of july with our families safely . I think as i said at the beginning of the call and my partners also emphasized. Best thing to do is stay home, celebrate with members of your household, and to be able to celebrate virtually with others. It is really a key right now we present the spread of covid19. If people go out to emphasize wearing Face Coverings, maintain social distancing which i know it is hard for me to do, but we need to emphasize that. As director about seized in the commenters, even if you feel okay that doesnt mean you dont have covid19. If someone looks like they are not sick, up to half of the cases can initially be a symptomatic. We have got to continue to prevent the spread, wear Face Coverings, social distance and good hygiene. Second question from angelina for dr. Colfax. Other counties allow social bubbles. What is your position on small gatherings of close family and friends . The safest thing to do is stay home with members of your immediate household. If there are times when people decide not to do that, it is very important for people to meet outside, wear Face Coverings, social distance, hygiene measures that i talked about. Be thoughtful how we engage outside of our immediate house old with people highest risk of dying from the disease, people older with chronic conditions. Given what we are seeing in San Francisco and across the state we are having increasing cases. San francisco knows how to do this. We did it and i am grateful for everyones contributions. We did it in march, april, may. We can do it for the fourth of july. Thank you. Next questions from cathy novak with k cbs for dr. Colfax. How willin how many patientsn quentin are treated in San Francisco hospitals . 18 patients transferred from san quentin to San Francisco hospitals. Second question for dr. Colfax. Are San Francisco hospitals preparing to receive more patients from san quintin . Is that going to affect Hospital Capacity. Right now it is good for indicators. People can find it on data sf website if you want more detail. Now the Hospital Capacity is green. We have a capacity to accept patients from other regions in the state. Obviously, we will balance the ability to accept with what is happening locally. We certainly want to support regions where there is an acute need and people are in dire need of care. We are in close contact with the state which is determining how patients from san quentin will be transferred to other counties. Next questions from christian with ktvu for dr. Colfax. Can you speculate about what is leading to the recent increase in coronavirus transmission rates in San Francisco . It is combination of factors. We dont have the precision to identify any one thing. This is not an outbreak in one specific facility or region. It is really what we know spreads the virus, which is people unfortunately in closer contact with people who may be a symptommic but can transmit. Covid19 the people who choose not to wear facial coverings which we know dramatically decreases spread of diseases. Then i think per the conversations and data from the past there are people who essential workers who need to work in settings. There is certainly a transmission risk in the workplaces even with proper precautions. The social distancing, stable coverings facial coverings, hygiene, access to testing, contact notification are all things to prevent further spread. We think over the last few weeks probably just a combination of more activity in the city. The more we move about and the more interaction there is socially in gatherings, the more likely the virus will transmit. Especially indoors if women dont if people dont take precautions we are talking about. Second question. Did we reopen too fast or too early. Are we likely to see restrictions reimposed . As we reopened in a very cautious and datadriven way. We followed the data and facts how to reopen gradually. We know the numbers would increase in our city and region. The goal is to slow the spread. We packed because the rate started to increase dramatically. We talked about flattening the code. It is really about the rate. Too early to tell whether we would need to potentially reverse any steps that have been taken with regard to reopening or taking a pause. We are looking at the data over the next few days and make a determination on next steps based on the data. Thank you. We have the time two questions from joshua at sf examiner. Question one. Please discuss the latest data raising concerns inlooking exact number of cases on wednesday. Most important data causing concern are around the increase in hospitalization rates. And in the rate of case diagnosis. Our goal for seven day average of new cases is 1. 8 per 100,000 residents. We are now at a rate of over 6 per 100,000. That pushed us into the red zone. That is one of the key indicators. The other key indicat indianadis are to keep hospitalizations in the green hospitalizations in the green zone. It is now at 61 increase. The key piece is our hospitalization rates overall for covid19 are low in the city. Thanks to the incredible efforts of san franciscans doing their best every day. The hospitalization remains relatively low, but that rate of increase means the curve is steep. We need to ensure we are doing everything we can to flatten the curve. As we saw this in china, italy and now in floridian arizona. Once this virus takes off at a high rate, it is very aggressive. We need to take this pause now and as much as possible stay at home for the fourth of july to get the curve flat in San Francisco and in our region. Question two from joshua. Can you provide any more specifics what trends you are seeing in terms why there is increase of cases and hospitalizations. Such as demographics location or other causes. I think it is a combination of factors. The data reinforce the continued and ongoing needed as others have spoken to on this call to focus in our approach to managing covid19 to supporting communities where covid19 is disproportionately affecting people, including latin and black african communities and we will do just that. Thank you. This concludes our press conference. Thank you to our speakers for joining us. A recording of this press conference will be available shortly. Thank you. [applause] [applause] wow, i got to say, i am really honestly overwhelmed with gratitude to all of you. This has been a tough time for our city. We know that every single day when we are out there talking about the people who are really putting their lives on the line, those people are all of you. Showing up to this hospital, doing the important work, reassuring people that things are going to be okay, putting yourself and your families at jeopardy. Its hard to really put into words what you all have done to help save lives for people in this city. I think i am a little overwhelmed right now because i never expected when i became mayor to be dealing with the pandemic. Im sure that none of you ever thought we would ever see Something Like this happen, ever. We read about it in the history books. We know that San Francisco and with ucsf and the technology and everything that weve done to combat Infectious Diseases in the past, theres no way that Something Like this could have even been possible. Here we are and here you are showing up every single day, taking care of people that cant take care of themselves. I know that in some ways its been more difficult because there were a lot of things that we couldnt provide you with that you needed. We remember the early conversations around p. P. E. We remember the things that you asked for in order to take care of and support your patients. It was so difficult that fight to get you the resources you need in order to not only support and protect your patients, but to protect yourself. You still came to work everyday. You still showed up for the people of San Francisco. Im just again a little overwhelmed right now because when we talk about essential workers, there are a lot of folks that we have been thanking. You all are really the front line workers. You all are really the people that we are counting on to help guide us through this pandemic. In addition to what we see happening all over the country. You know, after George Floyds death, every time there is a death of an African American man at the hands of law enforcement, it keeps taking me back. It takes me back to my cousin who i lost. It takes me back to kids i helped raise in the community. It takes me back so on top of this global pandemic, we have this uprising like something again i never thought i would ever see as an African American woman. I never thought i would see the day when people could really understand the level of racism that we constantly deal with and i still deal with as mayor of this city. [applause] the fact is through all of this, through all of this stuff that is hard to deal with, i still have hope. I have hope. I have faith. I have hope and i have faith because you all show up to support people who need it the most. I have faith in people. I have faith that out of this talent, out of this struggle, the very best of us is emerging. Because of that, we are going to be a better city. Because of you, we are a better city. Because of your support, your love, your advocacy, everything that you bring, your heart and soul to the work that you do for people, we are a better city. So i know this is a tough time for all of us. I know this was more, suppose to be more of a pep rally as an expression of appreciation to all of you for what you have done to help this city get through this. I know that because of you we are in a good place. I know that we still have a ways to go. Im sure some of you see the numbers recently and the surge as we try to reopen and get back to the normal. Just yesterday, we seen an increase in the numbers by over 100 new patients. What that sadly means is that our plans for monday to reopen a number of businesses and places that we have committed to. Those plans will be put on pause because what we dont want to happen. What we dont want to happen is we dont want this hospital to get overwhelmed with patients. I know the last thing you all want to see is somebody walk up to that door and get turned away because you want to help. The last thing i want to make the last thing i want to happen is to put you in a situation where you cant help. So were going to have to dial it back. Were going to have to dial it back because of what we see with the data. Were going to have to dial it back because i want to make sure that if we have to help somebody, we can help somebody, that were prepared for that. I know that, that is the most important thing to every Single Person here. So with that, i want to again express my gratitude. Thank you for hanging in there for us. Thank you to the people who can retire, that have not retired because you want to help us. Thank you to so many of the African American employees who we know are dealing with challenges and struggles and as i said to you brenda, we are committed to making real change to support the African American community in this city. [applaus [applause] thank you to the doctors, the nurses, to the clinicians, to the people who are cleaning the halls of this place, to the people who are the social workers, to all the outreach workers, to the h. R. Folks, to the various supervisors, to the technicians, to those of you showing up everyday for the people of San Francisco. When we talk about gratitude, words are inadequate. They are all we have at this time. So i want to express my deep appreciation for the work that you have done and will continue to do because we are not out of the woods yet. We need you. So we need to do a better job as a city to up lift you and support you in the work that you do every single day. That is why im here. Im here to express my support. Im here to express things will be really hard for us both as we deal with this pandemic and other challenges that our city faces, but i appreciate you all being there. I appreciate your commitment. I appreciate your support. Were going to get through this together. So thank you, thank you, thank you, to all the essential workers. Thank you. [applause] i also think i had a certificate i did i have a certificate no . Good. Last but not least, let me just Say Something that is really important. Its important that you take care of yourself. We put in place a number of resources. Take care of your physical and your Mental Health because that is so critical. When i think about what you have to do everyday, sometimes you have to take a moment and pause, even if you need to go in a quiet place alone. I am doing the best i can to take care of myself. I get my sleep. I drink my water, i get my exercise. If im not in a good place, if im not healthy physically and mentally, then i cant take care of the people that im here to take care of. So i want you to take care of yourselves because this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. After we get through this, were going to look back and were going to tell some stories about what we experienced in the police myst of all this and how we came through. Some of you were around during the aid crisis. Some of you worked at a time where so many doors were closed to San Francisco. This became the epicenter of that crisis. Look at where we are. Look at how far we come. We have been a leader in getting to zero. We have seen the numbers decline to levels that we never anticipated possible. So if we can get through that, we can get through anything. Well get through this pandemic. Well get through thisening whi which this challenging time and as a result we will emerge stronger than we ever have been before. So again, thank you all so much. Enjoy your workday. Stay healthy, stay safe, and thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you mayor breed. Im the director of health for the city and county of San Francisco. I wanted to thank the mayor for her leadership during these unprecedenteded times and for making San Francisco a leader in how we address the covid19 pandemic. Early on as we first saw the frightening and fast growing effects of this new virus, we immediately started making preparations for what we knew would need to be an enormous and Critical Response here in San Francisco. The s. F. G. Emptied beds to make room for a coming surge. The patients we knew, you knew would eventually come. I. C. U. S were readied, supplies ordered, staff prepared. This hospital, the s. F. G. Led other San Francisco hospitals in a coordinated an unified citywide effort. These preparations allowed us to meet the needs of our communit. , hospital beds in critical care, testing, guidance, and modeling safe behaviors. Im especially happy to see everyone with Face Coverings here. The s. F. G. Also gave us early and critically Important Information about the disproportionate impact that covid was and is having on the citys latinx patients. That has helped us focus all our efforts on Effective Community outreach and testing of those most vulnerable to the virus, not only here in the mission, but in other parts of the city, including the bay view and the tenderloin. We wont let this virus or any pandemic keep us from our mission to build healthcare equity in San Francisco. It is appropriate that we would be here during essential workers week. What happens everyday at zuckerberg is the very highest degree of essential work for our city. This is true not only during the covid19 pandemic, but as the mayor said, it was true during the h. I. V. Epidemic. It was true when i trained here with many of you in the e. R. , in 5a, building 5, 20 to 15 years ago. It was true when many of our families, including my family, when i was little, got care here at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. From the bottom of my heart, i thank each and every one of you. The s. F. G. Has cared for about a third, a third of all Covid Patients in the city. Patients from other counties in need as well. Not only caring for the sick, but caring for other essential workers too. While the clinicians do so much of the work here, there are many others on the front lines, keeping the hospital and the city functioning well. Environmental service workers, food and nutrition workers, engineers, information technology, patient financial services, nor is this just an effort at this hospital. There are many other department of Public Health, d. P. H. Essential workers at laguna hospital, our outpatient clinics, behavioral health, healthcare workers working everyday in hotels to keep people safe and off the streets and the case in contacting workers. The workers who are helping us find new cases and support people who are at risk for the disease. This is truly a comprehensive, a united and effective team. While today we have the news that we have some increase in cases, our case rate is increasing and were going to need to take a pause in our reopening, again, following the data, science, and facts. Together we will emerge from this challenging pandemic stronger and unified more than ever before. I would add my sincere appreciation for all of you who work here, absolutely essential everyone. Thank you, thank you so much. [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce dr. Susan, the c. E. O. Of the hospital. [applause] it is such an incredible privilege to be here with you a all, not just since the beginning of the pandemic but everyday that ive been at this hospital, its been such an honor. I have been so humbled to serve with you and to be in this very privileged position i am in. On behalf of the s. F. G. And all 6,000 people that work here, i want to thank you so much mayor and dr. Colfax for your support. The work we do here is incredibly hard and yet its so grad gratifying and its made more gratifying by the incredible support that we have by our leaders and i dont take that granted at all. Were privileged to have it. I cant tell you how much we appreciate your remarks and the steadfast and unwavering support for all of us in the work that we do. Our staff, us, i look around and i see people who have dedicated many years, entire careers, have paused their retirements to continue work for us and everything you do for this city and the people who live here just means an incredible amount. From the very beginning of this pandemic, our staff has been on the front lines everyday, no matter what you do, if its taking care of patients, keeping the hospitals clean and safe for patients, visitors and staff, fe feeding people, testing, opening new units. The creative ways you do them has been endless in the past three months. The importance of the work, the quality of the work, the amount of work, not to mention the pace has been nothing, nothing short of heroic. Its an amazing team and again im so proud to be a part of it. This team is sporting an incredibly beautiful recognition of the work you do and i just want to thank you mayor brooed breed for bringing this to us and recognizing you. Thank you everyone. [applause] well thank you again. We will move forward together. Please as the mayor said, take care of yourself. Were in the second inning of a long game here. While we all hope there will be more effective treatments and vaccine as soon as possible, it will take a while. So please, we all, as healthcare providers, youre wired to do everything you can for everyone else. Make sure you look inside. Make sure you take care of your mind, your heart, your loved ones. Stay safe, stay connected, stay socially distant. Thank you. Byebye. [applause] the meeting is being called to order at 2 00 p. M. The Small Business commission thanks sfgovtv for televising the meeting. Members of the public who will be calling in, call 888 2733658. The access code is 3107452. When prompted dial 1 and 0 to be added to the speaker line. This is the Public Comment period. If you call in before Public Comment you will be added to the queue. 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