Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

Hospitals and even deaths. But theres only so much we can emotionally handle as human beings, so ktell us how were supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in our city, and it could be much worse. Mayor, i have some numbers, and id like to give them. May i give them . The hon. London breed yes. So our warm number is 8558457415. And then, we also have mobile crisis, so for acute situations. Our number is 4159704000, and the last thing is if you see businesses that are violating the Health Orders around social distancing and good hygiene, please let us know. Please call 311. We will send inspectors out, and if people are violating those orders, we will take steps to aggressively make sure that they do. The hon. London breed and also, i want to push back a little bit. Outdoor activities are permissible in certain circumstances with guidelines, and i do think with regards to religious services, if people have the ability to have Outdoor Services or if there are ways that we can get creative with allowing other things to happen because i know your religion plays a role in things like this. I think its going to be important as we see changes in the number, we want to provide people with opportunities to deal with the challenges of what were facing over the next 12 to 18 months at least. Just think about whats going to happen with our kids and the schools and a number of other things. The fact that we have all of these playgrounds, and kids cant even play in playgrounds. It is heartbreaking for me that we cant even provide these opportunities, so i do want to think of these creative ways that we can support people. If youre one of these people that need help, mental help, testing, please call 311. We have a lot of city resources. Weve developed a lot of publicprivate partnerships to provide support you want. We know its not going to be everything that you want, but we do our best to support folks that are struggling in San Francisco. And the sad reality is its not just San Francisco, but its all over the country where we see this impacting our country, we see it impacting our economy, and the goal is to keep everybody safe, so this is our new normal. So thank you, dr. Colfax, and hopefully, well be able to have more conversations in the future. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at 311. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, mayor. Growing up in San Francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and its still that bubble that its okay to be whatever you want to. You can let your free flag fry he fly here. As an adult with autism, im here to challenge peoples idea of what autism is. My journey is not everyones journey because every autistic child is different, but theres hope. My background has heavy roots in the bay area. I was born in san diego and adopted out to San Francisco when i was about 17 years old. I bounced around a little bit here in high school, but ive always been here in the bay. We are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. We dont turn anyone away. We take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. The most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you dont seem like you have autism. You seem so normal. Yeah. Thats 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. I was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. They split up when i was about four. One of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. Very queer family. Growing up in the 90s with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. I was bullied relatively infrequently. But i never really felt isolated or alone. I have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. The school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. One of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what its about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. When i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. I was a weird kid. I had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. When we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when im looking away from the camera, its for my own comfort. Faces are confusing. Its a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. At its core, autism is a social disorder, its a neurological disorder that people are born with, and its a big, big spectrum. It wasnt until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. Supervisor fewer the meeting will come to order. This is the july 15, 2020 rescheduled budget finance and committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer chair of the committee. Im joined by supervisors walton and mandelman. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. Id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. This precaution is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on the agenda. Theyre streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Public comment period, there will be a phone call by calling 415 6550001. Access code, press pound and, again, 1464585924 and press pound twice. You will hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and only in listening mode. Only when your item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly, slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the ways email to myself, the clerk. If you submit Public Comments via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to be appear on the board of supervisors agenda july 21st unless otherwise stated. Supervisor fewer call item number one. Item 1, resolution amending the citys ten year Capital Expenditure plan for fiscal year 20202021 to amend the proposed government Obligation Bond program. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. , then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Supervisor fewer you may remember we continued this item. We approved the amendment, but the amendments were substantive, so we have already heard a presentation on this and already heard from the b. L. A. So are there any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none. Madame clerk, open up number one for Public Comment. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system has indicated you have been unmuted. Are there any callers . I have two callers in the queue. I will queue the first one. Hi, my name is ken. Im assistant director, Property Management with t. H. C. From my experience, there is really no organization that provides more essential services to more people in order to support San Franciscos effort to end homelessness. We are built specifically to address the needs of chronically homeless people, many whom have been without shelter for over 10 years. The 16 buildings supported by this funding provide permanent, Supportive Housing to over 1500 formerly homeless people. Through this contract, t. F. C. Can continually provide these services to the most vulnerable and marginalized people. Im here to recommend the funding for t. H. C. Be continued to support this essential service. Any cuts to this funding would be detrimental to t. H. C. s ability to successfully operate our programs and severely impact the program our residents rely on. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer the the member is commenting on item number 8. Supervisor fewer this is item number 1 and this is about the amending the 10year Capital Expenditure plan. Are there is there any Public Comment concerning the 10year Capital Expenditure plan . Please call for that Public Comment. Hi, im the t. H. C. Director of support services and im calling today to recommend that funding for t. H. C. Supervisor fewer excuse me, public speaker. That is item number 8. Were on item number 1 now. So, please wait in the queue to comment on item number 8. Is there any members of the public to comment on item number 1 . Could we check the queue . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer item number 1 is closed. I would like to move this to the board with positive recommendation. Roll call. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer can you call item number 2 . Resolution approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the Citys Department of Public Health to lease Real Property located at 333 valencia street for initial term of 15 years anticipated to commence on february 16, 2021 from 333 valencia owner llc at a base rent of 2. 2 million per year with 3 annual increases and authorizing the director of property to execute documents, make certain modifications and take certain actions in furtherance of the lease and resolution. Members of the public who we shall to provide Public Comment on the item, should call 415 6550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and you can begin your comment. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, we heard this last week. We had to continue it because we added amends. Are there any comments or questions . Seeing none, lets open up two for Public Comment. Clerk if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. Please continue to wait until the system says youre unmuted. Let us know if there are callers to comment on this item. Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment for item number 2 is closed. Id like to make a motion to move this the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have roll call vote clerk walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madame clerk, please call item number 3. Resolution approving modification number 1 to contract number 50178 general Airport Security services with Covenant Aviation Security to increase the contract amount by 6. 2 million for a new contract amount not to exceed 11. 7 million and extending the term through june 30, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001. Enter i. D. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and begin your comments. Supervisor fewer last week we heard from the b. L. A. And we also heard a presentation from Kathy Widener. I continued the item because i had concerns about this contract. Ms. Widener colleagues, any comments or questions for ms. Widener . Seeing none. I do have a couple of questions for you. And i wanted to ask, i mentioned that this is a prop j. Item is that correct . Under the provisions of prop j it allows the airport to subkratt out for these services subcontract out for these services in event of an emergency. Thats not my understanding chair fewer. Its an International Airport. My understanding is its proposition j certified bit controller that the Services Include for a lower amount then performed by a city. [inaudible] this is a prop j meaning we have to come back to the board to ask for new prop js, this is one by the board and certified by the controller during every budget process weve had for the past several years. Supervisor fewer i think weve had this discussion every year that ive been on budget about prop j. I do think the provision, it does have a provision about in an emergency that we would contract out and so it wasnt a lower cost isnt the only provision and that is my understanding of it. So my question to you, that were looking after looking at the Police Budget for the airport and looking at many civilian positions at the airport, knowing that youre going to be actually reduced capacity at the airport. I mean i think the covid thing will go on for a while now. I am concerned that there will be employees that could be doing the job instead of us subcontracting out so we can pay city jobs. Do you have a comment about that . My only comment would be this is these are services that are required by the t. S. A. They do not need to be put by badge or sworn officers. But they do involve Screening Services that are required by the t. S. A. This is, as many of the contracts that you will be seeing from us today and one next week, this is strictly on a reimbursable basis, meaning services [inaudible] passengers or operations, with that pay up to the not to exceed amount. But its helpful to have those amounts in place if and when traffic does come back so we can respond and staff up appropriately. Supervisor fewer i think that what im trying to say is that i understand it doesnt need to be done [inaudible] but you will have 236 sworn personnel with a reduced capacity. Not only that, the report showed hundreds upon hundreds of civilian employees as part of the Police Department also doing work. So i just my concern is that if we could employ these people into these positions instead of subcontracting out, we could be saving city jobs. So, i see supervisor walton in the queue. Supervisor walton, a comment or question . Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. Just a quick question. When these Security Officers also allow for an opportunity to have less Police Officers needed at the airport . Through the chair, supervisor walton, i dont believe so. Theyre very [inaudible] responsibilities. The Police Department does not have anything to do with these screening the screening of employees coming through or the goods. They do not checkpoints on the airfield, so its theyre separate responsibilities. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor fewer i think supervisor walton, what we heard last week, you know, the Police Department actually [inaudible] arrests at the airport and also we had 144 arrests and i said some of them were people that were [inaudible] so that is conversation of course. So my concern is, i think, that if you see are we able to then, if the airport decides we dont need as many civilian people that actually are Civil Service folks that are doing [feedback] because theyre part of the big policing umbrella there. Im wondering could some of those city workers be doing the job and do we have the ability to pivot once we renew the contract . Chair fewer, i believe that this is let me just double check. This is extending a modification. We could make a decision at the at the boards direction that moving forward we may not contract out. We wouldnt enter into a request for approval. We would not have a competitive bid process for these services. I believe yes, this modification extends the term, so there could be a policy decision made if that is the direction of the board not to move forward contracting out these services future budget. Supervisor fewer i would say that, its not necessarily that we wont contract out, but that we do a valuation of our permanent Civil Service employees to see whether or not they should placed in these positions instead of contracting out. I understand. Supervisor fewer thats great. So could would we need to make an amendment to this then, madame City Attorney . Ann pearson. Are you asking, chair fewer, there be some type of reporting requirement added here that would require the airport to look at staffs needs to the future . Supervisor fewer yes. What i would like is before we subcontract out, before the next contract renewal in 2022, before we contract out, we would ask the airport actually to look at the security needs and see if we can prevent layoffs of City Employees and place them in these jobs before we approve contracting out. I think with a little bit of time we could fashion that type of reporting requirement. Im not sure that its legally required if the airport is willing to undergo that process without being required to do so under the terms of this contract. Supervisor fewer okay. So if we pass this contract out of committee and its at the full board, were able to add maybe some language that just memorializes this conversation we had . I would be happy to work with you on that, yes. Supervisor fewer that would be great. Madame clerk, i see no other members in the queue. Could we open up Public Comment . Clerk you have been unmuted. If there are any callers who wish to comment on item number 3 . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer so Public Comment from item number 3 is closed. Id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Please have a roll call . On the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman . Supervisor mandelman . Fewer . Aye. Mandelman . Absent. There are two ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you. Can you call item number 4. Resolution retroactively approving modification number 3 to the professional Services Agreement between hallmark rave United Nations services and the city for airport information and guest Assistance Services extending the term for two years to commence on july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2022 to increase the contract amount by 13. 7 million for a contract amount not to exceed 41 million. Public who wishes to comment on the item please call the number on your screen, enter the i. D. Number on your screen and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star to speak. The system will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. The floor is yours. Thank you, chair fewer, committee. The proposed resolution would approve the third modification to an existing contract between the airport and hallmark Guest Services to exercise the second of three twoyear options to extend the contract from july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2022 and increase the contract not to exceed by 13. 7 million. This will allow hallmark to continue to perform Guest Service work such as queue management and our International Arrival area, assistance with entry formalities and information desk operations. Prior to the covid19 pandemic, contract staff interacted with nearly 10 million of the airport guests each year. While this work continues, hallmarks service to the traveling public has become more important in this new travel environment and services have been expanded to include the distribution of facial coverings and masks and also to ensure physical distancing within the terminals. The contract budget for fiscal year 2021 and fiscal year 202122 will depend on Staffing Levels which are uncertain due to operational adjustments. The airport will only reimburse hallmark for actual costs. The original contract was the request for proposals proper approved by the board. They approved the first modification in may of 2018. As with other airport professional service contracts, this modification is subject to an airportwide 5 reduction for fiscal year 2021 as part of the airports economic recovery plan. This resolution does have retroactive language to the first of this month due to the need to address new Quality Service program wage rates which are tied to the m. C. O. And the contractors request to negotiate increased Health Care Reimbursement cost as well as the delayed budget process impacting the airports ability to finalize budget due to the increase the decreased passenger impacts. The Budget Analyst Office has reviewed and recommends approval and id be happy to answer any questions you might have. Supervisor fewer any comments or questions on this item from my colleagues . Seeing none, this opens up for Public Comment. Oh, b. L. A. Report. My apologies. The b. L. A. Please. Good morning. Severin campbell. Just in repeating what ms. Widener had to say, item number 4, approved the third modification to existing contract between the airport and hallmark for a guest and information services. It increases the amount by 13. 8 million from 27. 3 million to 41. 1 million. It extends the term for two years to june 2022. We show projected contract expenditures of 38. 2 million over the term of the contract. Below that we do talk about the airport thinks that staffing could increase in the next two years depending on contract needs related to covid19related uncertainty. This contract is on a reimbursement basis. Hallmark is reimbursed for only Actual Expenditures and we recommend approval. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Seeing no comments from colleagues, can we open this up for Public Comment. Operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please wait until the system says you are unmuted. Are there callers that wish to comment on item number 4 . There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer okay. Public comment for item number 4 is closed. Ms. Widener, just for clarification, as we see you know, i mean, i just have to say when youre saying to me its to direct people and give information and when airports are going to be empty, i just feel as though this 13 million is a little ridiculous. However, i understand its reimbursable only for so im sure that the airport is going to do its Due Diligence in looking at the Staffing Levels that they will need and will not exceed the Staffing Levels. I fully dont expect actually that it would be the full 13 million that we would be spending, so okay. Having said that, id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote please . Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Clerk mandelman . Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you. Please call item number 5. Resolution approving modification number 2 to airport contract vanderlande supervisor fewer excuse me. Please put your thing on mute, please. Thank you. Madame clerk. Clerk increase the contract amount by 3. 8 million for new total not to exceed 13. 6 million to operate, maintain and repair airportowned passenger boarding bridges and baggage handling systems to domestic terminals and to exercise the one year option to extend from october 1, 2020 through september 30, 2021. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, call the number on the screen, enter the meeting i. D. On the screen, then press pound twice. Please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer ms. Widener . Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee, Kathy Widener with San Francisco International Airport. The proposed resolution would approve a modification to an existing contract between the airport and vanderlande industries. This would increase the contract amount by 3. 8 million. Vanderlande currently performs the maintenance on the terminal 2 baggage handling system and Three Bridges as well as oncall maintenance for 18 boarding bridges. Under the proposed modification, vanderlande would perform complete maintenance on the terminal 2 baggage handling system and all 21 passenger boarding bridges. Consideration was given during the negotiations of the amount of this extension to meet current operational downturns and the need for social distancing for staff working on the equipment. Expenditures on the contract are less than the existing not to exceed amount and the airport agrees with the budget and legislative analyst recommendation to amend the proposed resolution to reduce the not to exceed amount by 898,661,000 for a new total not to exceed of 12,847, 831. A copy of the proposed resolution has been provided to the committee and the clerk. With that, the budget analyst recommends approval. Supervisor fewer any comments or questions . Could we hear from the b. L. A. , please. Yes, chair, fewer. Members of the committee. Item number 5 approves modification to the existing agreement with vanderlande industries. It increases the amount by 3. 8 million from less than 10 million to 13. 6 million. Page 19 of the report shows the reason for the increases and as noted, were recommending proposed resolution to reduce the not to exceed amount by 12. 7 million and then we recommend approval as amended. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madame City Attorney, is that amount substantive . No, chair fewer, its not. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up number 5 for Public Comment. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you havent done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Are there any callers . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is closed. Ms. Widener, i guess i am seeing that the International Airport is deciding to actually go with sort of all your contracts renewing them sort of status quo like before covid19, but that youre making adjustments after. This is another one of those contracts that i think, you know, operate, maintain, repair, i mean, baggage handling systems. Considering that we will have less volume at the airport, i am imagining that you are adjusting those, is that correct . But just utilizing your option to extend the contract, is that correct . Thats correct. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. So id like to approve the amendment, make a motion to approve the amendment presented by the b. L. A. To amend the amount. Could i have a roll call vote, please . Clerk on the motion walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Supervisor fewer thank you. Id like to make a motion to send this to the board with a positive recommendation as amended. Clerk on the motion, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thank you, ms. Widener. Can you call item number 6. Ordinance retroactive authorizing the department of Emergency Management to accept and exspend an amount in 2 million to the United States department of Homeland Security for securing the Cities Grant Program for period of march 4, 2020 through october 30, 2020 and amending ordinance number 17019 for the granted funded positions. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number on their screen, enter the meeting i. D. Number, and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and then you can begin your comments. Supervisor fewer with us, we have the department of Emergency Management. Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee, mary landers from the department of Emergency Management. The legislation before you is retroactive accept and expend, amendment to the a. S. O. For the acceptance of 2 million from the department of Homeland Security and the countering weapons of mass destruction office. The legislation provides for four positions, totalling about 445,000 for staff and then 1. 449 million for Contractual Services that will do work within the very large area of this grant process. And which includes 48 counties in the state of california, and a county in the state of nevada. The balance of the funds totalling the 2 million is supplies and rent. This is an existing program that has already provided funding in cities such as new york, washington d. C. , los angeles, long beach, chicago, and houston. Currently this grant particular was six regions were selected for this grant year including San Francisco, including phoenix, denver, miami, atlanta and seattle. Im happy to try to answer any questions you have. Dont get too technical on me, but ill do my about best. Supervisor fewer any comments or questions from my colleagues . I have a question. Im looking at the budget for this. And i see that we there is money that is budgeted for travel and im wondering, under this covid19, because this grant is for march to october, are we going to redirect those funds . They probably will be reallocated or the other option is in the grant guidance, they allowed for extensions because some of the areas that have Grant Funding are very large. Like San Franciscos is extremely large and thats why we put in a travel budget because we were going to have to send people to the oregon border and all those counties and all the way south to the counties. But they grant extensions. Im assuming and weve been hearing from the funder that this may be subject to an extension because of no travel has been allowed and probably wont be allowed for quite a while, but then we would work with the Funding Agency to modify whatever the application was. But, yes, we know no travel will take place right now. Supervisor fewer okay. No comments or questions from my colleagues . Please open this item up for Public Comment, please. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you havent already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please wait until the system says youve been unmuted. Are there any callers . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is now closed on item 6. There is no blap report. I would like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can you call item number 7. Resolution approving amendment number 6 to contract cs15552 architectural and Engineering Services for the final design and construction of the central subway project with Central Subway Design Group to increase the contract amount by 6. 8 million for additional work necessary to provide Design Support Services through completion of central subway project for a total amount not to exceed 54. 7 million with no change to the term of 12 years to expire on april 4, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number on their screen. Enter the meeting i. D. Number on your screen. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and then you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer we have tom maguire from the m. T. A. With us today. I believe this is to amend the contract to on the central subway because this goes to designing the three underground stations, is that correct . Thats correct. Supervisor fewer were ready for your presentation, thank you. Ill just give a quick explanation. Were asking your approval to increase the special Services Contract for the engineers and designers who design the three underground stations in the subway, yerba buena, union square and chinatown. The construction is 95 complete which is great to be able to say. We expect to be substantively complete in december. The funding has specialized and unique skills with the deep underground tunnelling and construction that these stations require. Contracts been modified several times because as weve dug this deep underground, we found site conditions that were different than we expected and weve had to have those special engineers work around those. And we need a little more help for them to help us get over the finish line and get this subway done and open to the people. Supervisor fewer thank you. The b. L. A. , please . Yes, chair fewer, members of the committee. So item number 7, approves the amendment to the existing design and Engineering Contract between mta and the central subway design. As discussed by the representative from m. T. A. , this increases the contract amount by 6. 9 million. It does not change the term. It is for completion of engineering and design work on the three subway stations at union square, muscone and chinatown. We showed the increased contract budget on page 23 of our report. On page 24, we give a summary of the entire subway budget of 1. 6 billion in the Funding Sources and we recommend approval. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions to my colleagues . Seeing none, open up number 7 for Public Comment, please. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system says youve been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 7. There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is now closed on item number 7. This is a really expensive project and 6 million on to it, but were almost there. So were weve got our foot it in and we need stations. You cant just have the subway, but i see some of my colleagues in the queue. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman yeah, thank you, chair fewer. I guess im trying to figure so, i mean this is a project that has taken a good deal longer than anticipated and has cost, as chair fewer said, costs a good deal more than what was anticipated. And were i guess getting close to the end, but what is m. T. M. T. A. s and public works, at the end of Something Like that, were not going to do another central subway, but we might do another subway and might be Lessons Learned. How do we do we have a process in place to do that sort of postmortem evaluation of what happened and what was good and what was not so good . Yeah, thats a really good question. So we do so a good deal of funding for this project came from the federal transit administration. There was a structured process by which the f. T. A. Does a project management oversight team, we do post more tem, we do a look back on Lessons Learned from the project. We benefitted from looking at tunnelling projects elsewhere in the country. And well both we in San Francisco and our colleagues in other transit agencies around the country will certainly learn from this as well. And that review gets at both the technical and hearing issues. When we dug as deep as we dug, we found some things with the soil and the rock and things in San Francisco that were different. There is lessons on the technical side, but also financial and project management and one that is really close to my heart, how we communicate much better with communities about the impacts and the duration of construction. So, yes, it will happen and those are the issues to look at. Supervisor mandelman it would be great to set up a way for the Transportation Authority or the board to kind of receive that, you know, postmortem and Lessons Learned. So my office will reach out and think about if there is some kind of formal way we can have that happen when the time is right. A key role, absolutely. Supervisor fewer absolutely, colleagues. You can call for that after the completion of the central subway. I hope you enjoy that. Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I wanted to say on record, obviously, the rising cost of this project is very troubling. And i know that we have to pay fort professional services for completion of the project, but in my conversations with director tumlin and some of the team at m. T. A. , i am, you know i believe we are we have a positive path forward to make sure were not put in this predicament again where we get a Construction Company that continues to work the change order game on us as city and county. Supervisor fewer thats a whole other conversation. Seeing no members in the queue, id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number 8. Resolution retroactive approving a Grant Agreement between the city and county of San Francisco tenderloin housing clinic for master lease and support Services Permanent housing to formerly homeless adults in 1566 units, including 594 units for county adult assistance programs for july 1, 2020 through february 29, 2024 for a total amount not to exceed 95 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call the number on your screen, enter the meeting i. D. On your screen, and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until youve been unmuted. Supervisor fewer we have the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing here. The floor is yours. Good morning. Im the Deputy Director for administration and finance for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and my colleague dawn schneider will be helping me with the power point. Im here today next slide im here today to present a resolution to retroactive approve a new Grant Agreement with tenderloin housing, originally in the amount of 95 million but with the b. L. A. s recommended amendment, which we agree with, in the amount of 89. 4 million. This agreement goes into effect as of july 1st with the fiscal year and continues for the next three years and eight months through february 29, 2024. Under this agreement, t. H. C. Would continue to provide Property Management to port services, Money Management to 16 permanent Supportive Housing sites in the city for a total of 1566 units for formerly homeless adults. Many of these units were created over 20 years ago and so formerly Homeless Individuals who are county assistant Program Clients as well as those who do not receive benefits. The provider helps with Property Management including accepting referral, certifying annual tenant income, maintaining the building and providing dec coverage. On the support services side, the Services Include intake aassessment, case management, advocacy and assistance and other support services to keep our clients stably housed. The total budget which includes income as well as other revenue streams, such as laundry services, totals 112. 9 million but the citys share is lower. Last time i presented on this contract, which was in the fall, i was asked about the providers performance objectives. I wanted to share with you all their last Performance Review and give you a sense of what objectives are in all of our contracts, but most specifically in our Supportive Housing contract. Some of the goals you see here for the grantee to ensure that clients complete annual Client Satisfaction surveys. That 90 of all households remain stably housed. T. H. C. Has a very good track record in keeping people in housing one year or longer. A goal to ensure that those who are at risk for being unhoused that go into this housing remain in housing. Again, 87 of all in unstable house holds have remained housed over this performance period. Client satisfaction. How do clients feel about the service and buildings they live in and 80 of all respondents were satisfied or very satisfied. These are the performances that we monitor annually. So im bringing the contract for you for a new term, but really with a longterm provider who has been running these buildings for many years. I wanted to make sure you saw this. Next slide. These are the lists of all the buildings that make up the 1566 units throughout the city. Many of those are or all of those are singleroom occupancy hotels, Residential Hotels converted by the city into permanent Supportive Housing. The grantee to housing clinic holds the lease with the landlord. And was continued to be weve continued to partner with t. H. C. Because of their long history with these landlords and their skills with Property Management and support services. Thats all for my formal presentation. I want to thank you for your consideration and im available for any questions you may have. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can we hear from the b. L. A. , please . Yes, chair fewer, members of the committee, this item approves a new threeyear eightmonth Grant Agreement with tenderloin housing clinic to provide management of 16 leased hotels. We show those hotels on page 29 of our report. Actually page 27 of our report. Page 29 we show the budget over the threeyear, eightmonth term of 79. 8 million. The budget is 21. 8 million per year. We note in our report that the 95 Million Contract provides 19 contingency. We consider this to be high compared to the city standard for other Comparable Service contracts and we recommend reducing it to 12 , which is the norm for other types of contracts. That would reduce the total not to exceed amount 95 million to 89. 4 million. Our understanding was that the department actually was in agreement with this recommendation, though we may need confirmation of that and we recommend approval as amended. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments, questions, at all . Lets open this up for Public Comment oh, first i see supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. Take a second for me to unmute myself. Could im wondering if his whitley could talk about how t. H. C. Was selected for this contract. Sure, through the chair, thank you for the question, supervisor mandelman. H. S. H. Has been operating under its emergency ordinance to help us move more effectively and efficiently to continue vital homeless services. H. S. A. Has selected tenderloin housing clinic for this very same contract through a competitive process in 2014. Because of how the department was formed very quickly, we inherited Many Disparate time lines, formats and performance schedules. When we started the new department, we were trying to move faster to expand services but obviously be diligent about keeping our existing services and providers in place. So when we went forward with that Emergency Shelter crisis ordinance, we were very explicit we would not only use it for new programs, like new navigation centers, but we would also need it to sort of rightsize our procurement schedules and get folks on a more logical procurement path. Because this is a longterm provider who on an annual basis goes through a competitive fee of fee hud process and because there was a recent procurement back in 2014 and we had just had the contract before the board, we felt it prudent and well within the law that the board pass to use the emergency ordinance to enter into a new agreement with t. H. C. And then thats a little bit why i shared with you some of the outcomes and performance measures, so that you know that we are still looking at that as we move into new contracts. This ordinance has really helped us move very quickly one to two months instead of five or six months to get into contract. And we report on this annually and so this is one of the ones you would see in our annual report to the board. Does that answer your question . Supervisor mandelman well, absent that ordinance, would a competitive process have been required . Yes. Absent the ordinance, all 250 annual contracts would need to be procured and as i mentioned, because the previous departments which we inherited these contracts from all had different terms and procurement schedules. H. S. A. , for example, had one one series of schedules and then did annual contracts. D. P. H. Tended do longer contracts. Weve been trying to get on more of a logical contracting and procurement schedule. We are still doing procurements in our department. Were not just using the emergency ordinance, but when we have an established provider especially someone who has longer term leases with external property owners, were trying to get them through this emergency process on a more logical schedule. And so thats what we did here. Supervisor mandelman so ideally, when would you subject this contract to a competitive process . Or have you not even been able to think about that . Well, we were we were thinking about it precovid. We were looking at our time line horizon and saying, you know, where can we get to the point where we can get all of our providers to compete service by service as a package so that folks have assurance when their contracts will come up for renewal and be able to plan one to two years ahead for that process, because it is quite a process for all our providers to go through in terms of the competitive process, the application, the review period and the time line they need to wait to get into contract. [please stand by] [please stand by] it would be doing the process just to do the process. So i think it is important that we not put our providers in jeopardy to have these external contracts without some notice, and so thats what weve done here. And we did that intentionally going into negotiations about the ordinance. We were very explicit, that was part of the goal, to get h. S. A. Back on track, to get our providers paid on time, and to quickly expand new services for o our clients, and to keep existing services in place. I will say that my recollection of that ordinance is that it was well, it was a year ago, so. But my best recollection is that at least when i was supporting and sponsoring it, i was thinking it was primarily going to used for bringing on line, you know, vast numbers of new shelter beds and nap centers, and that kind of thing. Im not saying what youre saying doesnt make sense or that h. S. H. Didnt need this authority to successfully move forward. The city clearly clearly the members of the board of supervisors are interested in figuring out what the right amount to require is and when and how in the wake of new rules, and, you know, i believe that one of my colleagues has proposed taking this authority away from you. And so i think were going to need to think about what i think you raised a very valid point. I also, you know, have some concerns. I dont know, maybe theyre not wellrounded, about a contract of this size not being competitively bid. But they are not great enough that i would not indescernable . [simultaneous talking] yes . It is just interesting to be contemplating this in the current environment, when there is so much focus on nobid contracts. So. All right. Thank you. Yes. Any other comments for my colleagues . I have to say that i also think that is a huge contract, and this to be a nobid contract, this is really expensive. This is a really big one. Even if we i understand you have a lot of contracts you would have to get together everyone and organize it, sort of, and manage them. But i would think that we would look at some of these very, very large contracts and actually give that more attention or precedence over these smaller contracts because this one is rather large. Deputy City Attorney, is this amendment of the amount substantive . No, chair furro, it is not. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Yes, madam. Operator, please let us know if there are callers that are already. If you have not already done so, please press star 3, and if youre already on hold, please wait until the system indicates you are muted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number eight . Yes, i have three callers in the cue. I will cue the first caller. Thank you. Hi. Good morning, everyone. My name is cathy vaughan, and i reside at the harten hotel. I came to the harten in november 2016, and in may of 2018 i became an organizer. Since coming to the hart land, i havhartland, i have hade opportunity of working with many staff. We have many outreach programs, food pantry on wednesdays, and in addition we have special gatherings for holidays, christmas and thanksgiving. I also will do a food gathering for Cinco De Mayo and super bowl sunday. I also started a quarterly newsletter with information about activities in our community, and also a personal page about a special event. Since being here, i have gotten to know many wonderful staff. The maintenance has been attending to our building, in addition to being courteous when talking to me. I have a great working relationship with indescernable and all of the case managers. I hope you will support the budget for incoming years. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Operator next speaker, please . Hello, caller . Hi, my name is kemel looper, and thank you again for your time. Im assistant director for t. H. C. Property management department. Many of you may have heard my comments earlier you know, again, i want to thank you for your time. I dont want to be redundant, but i just want to emphasize how important it is that this funding be approved. Really there is no organization that provides more essential Housing Services to more people in order to support San Franciscos effort to end homelessness. We work directly with h. S. H. , and we move people out of shelters and into housing. And in light of covid and how important this effort is, um, i really feel like you should approve this funding. Many of the people that we have house have been without shelter for over 10 years. So it is very difficult work. The 16 buildings supported by this funding provide permanent Supportive Housing to over 1500 formerly homeless people. Through this contract, t. H. C. Can continually provide these services to the most vulnerable and marginalized people. Im here to recommend the funding for t. H. C. Be continued to support this essential office, and any cuts to this funding would be detrimental to t. H. C. s ability to successfully operate our programs and severely impact the programs our residents rely on. Thank you, again. Operator thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Hello, speaker . Caller hello. Operator please proceed. Caller as i was saying, we recommend funding be continued to support this essential service. Service are provided to the most vulnerable and underserved people in our community, including people experiencing homelessness, and people of color, who are disproportionately affected by covid and poverty. They focus on identifying needs and connecting tenants to resources in the community to help them achieve their goals. That includes medical care, Mental Health, employment services, benefits advocacy. Our services are essential in supporting the stability and wellbeing, and assist the population. To reach their full capacity. Such as Mental Health, social dependency, and Chronic Health conditions, and supporting stability and a place to call home. Permanent Supportive Health is an important part of this system. With the support needed to maintain housing. Allow each department to Work Together to meet the needs of the residents in our building. Thank you. Operator thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. That completes the cue. Thank you very much. Public comment on item 8 is now closed. Id hike to makid like to maken to approve the amendment. May i please have a vote. [roll call] id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation as amended. Yes. On the motion, supervisor walton . Yea. Yea[roll call] madam clerk, im wondering if we should call items 9, 10, and 11, together. Sure, i can do that. Item number 9, the intent of the city to reinvest expend chirexpenditures and posa future bond, and organizing the director of Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit an application to permit the issuance of a revenue bond, not to exceed 30million, for the acquisition and indescernable christina apartments at 1,000 Market Street. And resolution 10, the expenditure from future bonds, and authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit an application indescernable . In an aggregate principle not to exceed 40 million for 1204 mesa street, and 1525 to 1529 grand avenue. Item number 11, the issuance and sales of market res new bond in an aggregate principle not to exceed 75 million, over 137 unit affordable rental housing, development located in the city at 4840 mission street. Members of the public who wish to post Public Comment on these items to call 415655 and i see on item 9, this is 100 Market Street, and item number 10is 2024 mesa. And that is joi joyce lynn, is that correct . And cindy heavens, is that correct for 4840 mission. So lets take first viv yanaviviana, if you want to give us a brief description of this, and then well move on to cindy. Good morning, chair furor and supervisors walton and manhandlemen. Imanhandlemen. The purpose of te resolution is to approve hearings to be conducted on may 21st, 2020, to comply with the federal tax equity, or tufra, and to ratify and approve several actions necessary to make the bond issuance possible. Including the submittal of applications to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee indescernable . The first bond issuance will be con be conduit financin. Christina, the apartments wilwill involve the project located at 1,000 Market Street in mid market, San Francisco. Al45 will are affordable to tenants yearn less than 50 a. M. I. Ani. The rehab scope includes exterior preservation and repairs, upgrades toup communal showers and systems, no vac systems, and energy improvements. No residents will be displaced, but temporary offsite relocation will be required to facilitate the rehab. They plan to return to the board for approval in spring 2021, and financing is anticipated to close in april 2021. Kevin dumler, from Community Housing partnership, which is the project sponsor is available, and were happy to answer any questions you may have. Chairwoman thank you very much. Can we move on to item number 10. Good morning. My name is joyce lynn. Im here to present on item 10, related to the proposed bond issuance for freelin apartments. The purpose of the resolution is to approve the hearing of th that the city conducted for tufra, and enable the project to apply for tax exempt financing. The proposed bond issuance will be conduit financing and will not require the city to pledge any of its funds for the repavement orepayment ofthe bond. It will involved the rehabilitation of three buildings, in total, the three apartments consistent of 88 affordable units, including three manage units. There are single occupancy units, and 100 of the units are serving household yearn less than 60 of the median income. The scope includes the mandatory seismic retrofits at 1204mason and 1525grant avenue. The Building System improvements, energyefficiency upgrades, and overall common area and unit improvements. Offset relocation will be required. They plan to return to the board for bond issuance approval early next year. Finance ar for the project is anticipated to close in spring 2021. Im happy to answer any questions that the Committee Members have about the project. Im also joined by two members from chinatown Community Development, the project sponsors. Thank you very much. Chairwoman thank you very much. Ms. Here and now . Here andvery much. Ms. Heaven . Im here to present on item 11, related to the proposed bond issuance for 4840 mission. The purpose of the re resolution before you is to approve the hearing that the city conducted to comply with the federal tax equity, tufra, and enable the project to apply for the financing with the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. The proposed bond issuance will be conduit financing and will not require the city to pledge any of its funds to the repayment of the bonds. 4840 mission will be a new construction building located in district 11, located at 4840 mission street, the former valante mortuary site. It will be 137 Affordable Housing units, and that total includes two staff units. The building will include a Community Health committee and commercial space, along with offices for Property Management and residential services. The building includes a mix of one, two, and threebedrooms for extremely low to low income families, and the income average is 60 of the San Francisco area median income. 35 of the units, thats 26 , will be set aside for house holders vohouseholds voluy relocating from peturra and peturo annex. It allowed the project sponsor to submit tax credits available to the project that would otherwise expire at the end of last year. The project is now ready to submit a final application for bond financing, which will occur in september. They plan to return to the board for bond issuance approval early next year. Financing for the project is anticipated to close next spring. Im happy to answer any questions the Committee Members have about the project. Im joined by sarah white, Housing Development director at bridge housing, the project sponsor. So thank you. Chairwoman thank you very much. So there is no report on these items, and i see no members of my committee on the cue. So can we have Public Comment for items 9, 10, and 11. Options is checkin operationg to see if there are any callers in the cue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have to mute it. Madam chair, there are no callers in the cue. Chairwoman Public Comment for items 9, 10, and 11 are now closed. I would like to make a motion to move items 9, 10, and 11, to the board with a positive recommendation. Can i please have a recall call vote . Yes. [roll call] chairwoman thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 15. Item 12, on behalf of the city to execute a an application indescernable . For funding in the amount of 52 million. Members of the public should call 5156550011. Chairwoman thank you very much. So we have sarah from indescernable . Hi. Hi. Good morning supervisors. Im here to property to you item number 12, a resolution authorizing a c. D. To execute a Grant Application to the state of california, department of housing and Community Development, Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program for funding in the amount of 52 million. The permanent loan Housing Program was directly created out of the building homes and jobs act, approved to the California Senate in september of 2017. That act secures funding for Affordable Housing by imposing a fee of 75 on all real estate transactions in the state. To apply for the 195 million. The citys share is approximately 52 million in the course of five years. It is estimated o on the total amount of fees collected over the year. It is based on eligible uses for the funds specifically to secure Permanent Operating securities for a total of 216 households at 15 and 25 , San Francisco a. M. I. Over the next five years. Once awarded, they will return to the committee to allow a motion to accept and extend the award. Thanaward. They will complete the application by the deadline of july 27, 2020. This includes staff presentation, and were available to answer any questions you might have. Chairwoman any comments or questions from my colleagues . I have one question. So when would these funds be if we would to secure these funds, when would they come in . Good question. Applications are due at the end of july. It is a noncompetitive application, which means we just need to meet thresholds, which we have being a local entity. We would expect that we would be back at the board to accept and extend and to sign the standard agreement probably before the end of the year. November, december the latest. Chairwoman oh, great. So come back to this committee. I understand this is about 52 million, but youre targeting the populations for these to be rental subsidies for which population . Seniors . There is not weve written the application to be pretty broad. So we specifically are reaching out to populations that are at 15 a. M. I. , and 20 a. M. Oxy. Thaa. M. I. That could be disabled families, homeless families, anything. Chairwoman got it. Can we open this up for Public Comment, please. Yes, madam chair. Im checking to see if there are any calls in the cue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3. Operator i have one caller in the cue. Chairwoman hello, caller. Caller hello. My name is caron taylor. Im a registered voter. Ive lived in San Francisco since 2005. Please forgive me, i had a heck of a time getting into you. I want to thank you for passing for supporting tenderloin housing. They saved me. I believe it was 400 people in 2019 who died, homeless on these San Francisco streets. So tenderloin housing saves lives. Supportive housing saves lives. It builds community. Its very important. I thank you all so much forgoing ahead and funding it. And i wish you would double the funding. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you very much, caller. Are there any callers in the cue . That completes the cue. Chairwoman okay. Public comment is now closed on item number 12. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Can we have a roll call vote, please. [roll call] there are three yeas. Chairwoman can you please call item number 13. The resolution authorizing the San Francisco school board indescernable in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 280 million dollars. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment to call 4156550001. Chairwoman thank you very much. We have eva monki with us today from the San Francisco unified School District. Caller hi there. Hi, supervisor. My name is eva monki. Since 2003, we have received voter approval to issue a general Obligation Bond, to repair our facilities, including the 2016prop a, which was approved by 79. 8 of the voters in november. Projects have been progressing on the School Modernization bond program. It is under 2016s prop a. This bond issue will fund the next two to three years of expenditures for modernization. It is under the california Education Code indescernable on behalf of requesting local School Districts. [inaudible] to take action and provide the board with an appropriate resolution. Through our discussion, we developed this resolution that is in front of you today. Their district is interested in having the city and county act as soon as possible, for a practical number of reasons, including that modernization is going on, and available bond policies are diminishing. The board of education has approved our issuance. Market commissions continue to be indescernable . Most importantly, the proceeds are running out. We are offering a document by the end of the month so we can receive the funds in august. We want to thank supervisor furor office for allowing us to come in front of you for approval of this resolution today. Chairwoman thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, can we please have a report from the b. L. A. . The proposed resolution approves the issuance of 280 million in general Obligation Bond. As we note in our report, the city will cover debt service on the bond, to levy and collect property taxes. These bonds are not considered a debt of the city, and the city is not responsible for the issuance of the bond or use of the bonds postings. And the response does not count against the citys debt service limit, and it is not constrained by the citys capital plan which sets limits of the impact of debt to 12 yeah, 12 of 100 assessed value. We consider approval to be a policy matter for the board. Chairwoman thank you very much. Could we open this up for Public Comment, please. Yes, madam chair. Operations, please let us know if there are any calls that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3to be added to the cue. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item 13. Madam chair, there are no Public Comments in the cue. Chairwoman i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i please have a roll call vote . Yes. [roll call] there are three yeas. Chairwoman thank you very much. Could you please call item number 14, madam clerk. Item number 14, to consider the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted for the november 3rd,0 election indescernable administrative call to repeal the annual tax in the living watch for educators in 2018, as of july 1st, 2021, will be 320, plus a oneyear Consumer Price indexes index adjustment, and replace it with a 288 partial tax to be spent. For the purposes related to educators compensation, and educational improvement, and increasing the citys appropriation limit. From november 3, 2020. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3, and a system prompter will indicate you, and you can raise your hand. Chairwoman thank you very much. We have someone from the Mayors Office . Hi, sofia. Hi, supervisor ass walton and mandelman. Is that full screen . Chairwoman we can see it. Very quickly, this is an Initiative Ordinance that has been placed on the ballot that will repeal the 2018 wages for educators act. It is expected to generate about 50 million for San Francisco public schools. Really quickly, this is, as you may recall, the living wage for educators act for 2018 did pass at a ballot with a little less than 61 of the vote, and has been tied up in lawsuits ever since then. So the funding has not been available to the School District to use. So this would repeal that measure, replace it it was at the time, a 298 tax, a cpi increase annually. So this coming year, this would be about 320. So this measure would replace that with a slightly lower tax, starting at 288 per parcel, and it would have the same annual cpi increase. The expenditure outlay is identical to the previous measure. It extends through 2028, and has the same exemptions as the previous measure, but it has a little bit of a tax reduction, and we do hope that that will help put it over the 66 threshold. It is written into the ordinance this will require a twothirds vote to pass, so we will not find ourselves in the same lawsuit situation. Im happy to take any questions. Chairwoman thank you very much. I see no questions or comments from my colleagues in the cue. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. This is open for Public Comment. Yes, madam chair. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3to be added to the cue. Please ret us know if let us knf there are any callers who wish to comment on item 14. Madam chair, there are no callers in the cue. Chairwoman thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. This hearing has been held, and we have called for Public Comment on this. And so i see no questions or comments from my colleagues in the cue. I would like to file this make a motion to file this hearing. Could i please have a roll call vote. Yes. [roll call] chairwoman thank you very much. Does that conclude the business for today . There is no further business. Chairwoman we are adjourned. I will see everybody back at 1 30. At 1 30. He is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighters because there werent any in the 1970s. I didnt know i could be a fire fighter. When i moved to San Francisco in 1990, some things opened up. I saw women doing things they hadnt been doing when i was growing up. One thing was firefighting. A woman recruited me at the gaypride parade in 1991. It was a perfect fit. I liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. In terms of coming in after another female chief, i dont think anybody says that about men. You are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. I understand why it is asked. It is unusual to have a woman in this position. I think San Francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. Be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. I worked my way up. I came in january of 1994. I built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. Working out of firehouses. The Fire Department is a family. We live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. When i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. I didnt want to talk to any of my civilian friends. They couldnt understand what i was going through. The firefighters knew, they understood. They had been there. It is a different relationship. We have to rely on one another. In terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. That hasnt been there for a while. Part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. I worked there. People know me and because i know what we need. I know what they need to be successful. I have known Jeanine Nicholson since we worked together at station 15. I have always held her in the highest regard. Since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. She is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. I appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the Fire Department today. There is a retired captain who started the Cancer Prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. He started looking into it. In 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the San Francisco Fire Department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. It was a higher rate than the general population. We were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didnt have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. The turnout gear was covered with suit. It was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. The dirtier you were the harder you worked. That is a cancer causeser. It casser. It is not cancer causer. There islassic everywhere. We had to reduce our exposure. We washed our gear more often, we didnt take gear where we were eating or sleeping. We started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. Going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. I have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. It is not if or when. It is who is the next person. It is like a cancer sniper out there. Who is going to get it next. One of the things i love about the Fire Department. It is always a team effort. You are my family. I love the city and department and i love being of service. I vow to work hard to work hard to carry out the vision of the San Francisco Fire Department and to move us forward in a positive way. If i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. You never know what door is going to open next. You really dont. [cheers and roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after sorry about that. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Just a friendly reminder for those who are joining us for the first time. This platform is only for members of the press. If you are member of the public, watch the live stream on sfgov tv on the youtube channel. Keep yourselves on mute and also keep your videos off as well so we dont distract from the remarks. If you have any questions at the end, i do want to let everyone know we do have a hard stop at 11 30 to be mineful of the directors to be mindful of the directors time. If you have any questions, please submit them to us by chat and well receive those questions and try to submit as much as we can with the time that we have. Please remember to give your full name and outlet and no more than two questions. And depending on time and the type of question we might take it offline as well. Thank you, all, if for your patience, and i will pass its on to you director colfax. Well, good morning, everyone. Im dr. Grant colfax, director of health for the city and county of county. Tos today im going to provide an update on the covid19 pandemic in San Francisco looking at health ind kaytors and other data. Unfortunately, we are experiencing a surge in covid19 infections that is affecting our communitys health and our reopening plans. As a result, we are forced to continue to pause our reopening plans until conditions improve. We are, we have been, and we continue to be in a period of uncertainty, and i want to acknowledge that is a really hard place to be. We all need to continue to do what we know works. We can flatten the curve and we can do it again, but if we do not, the consequences could be dire. In terms of where we stand today, both locally, regionally, and nationally, in San Francisco we have 4,696 cases diagnosed of covid19 and sadly, 50 deaths. In the bay area region, approximately 37,500 cases and 667 deaths. Across the state, 346,000 cases and over 7,000 deaths, and across the nation, cases and deaths continue to rise. 3. 4 million cases and nearly 137,000 deaths. The virus is not only still out there, it is out there more than ever before. It continues to spread locally in our community and throughout the bay area region. We are working with researchers who are seeing the reproductive rate of the virus continue to claim above 1. Right now we estimate that that number is now approximately 1. 3. That means that each person who is infected with covid19 is passing the virus on, transmitting the virus on on average to more than one person. It is key that we get that reproductive number to 1 or lower. It is key for us to move forward. Now, 1. 3 doesnt seem that different from 1, that far from 1, but if we do not do better, we are looking at major problems by late august and september with an average peak an average peak of 900 hospitalized patients by early october. And just to put this in some frame of reference on the last surge in april, we peaked at 94 cases. This average scenario of 900 cases is nearly 10 times worse and it is certainly not the worst Case Scenario that we have by that time. Models show that we could have thousands of hospitalized cases by then. Todays tracker show that there are 92 covid positive patients in San Francisco hospitals. That includes 76 San Francisco residents and 16 transfers. Lets look at the Health Indicators we are using to monitor our covid19 response in the city. These are available on the San Francisco data tracker, and you can reach them from our departments website. They are scored by color. Green, yellow, orange, and red to make it easier to see at a glance where we stand and theres detailed Data Available for people who want to dig a little deeper. Right now the indicators show that we have reason to be concerned. Our cases per 100,000 and the case rate has increased to 7. 7. That is in the red zone. Our goal is to keep the case rate around 1. 8. We are red. In terms of our Hospital System, the rate of covid19 infections which really represents the slope of that curve that we work sod hard and successfully early on to flatten, that rate is now increasing at a 33 rate. That is red. That is cause for grave concern. Our goal is to keep that curve increasing by less than 10 . Our other hospital indicators are thankfully still green. Black is our capacity to take care of people across the nine Hospital Systems in the city. Right now we have 27 of the acute care beds available and 28 of the intensive care units available. With regard to testing, our testing indicator is green. We are coveraging 2,950 test day across the city. With our that is far exceeding our goal of 1800 tests. Certainly as we are seeing across the region, across the state and nationally, our testing system is experiencing delays in access and getting results both within our city system and with private providers. Our numbers are high at 20,950 in the green range. With regard to Contact Tracing, we are at level yellow reaching 85 of cases and 85 of contacts. We expect that that indicator to turn orange this week due to delayed test results reporting and our increases in cases. The Contact Tracing team is working hard to catch up and will continue to expand staffing of that program. In terms of our personal protective equipment or ppe, we are on level orange with 78 of the Health Department having a 30day supply of ppe. Im sorry, let me rephrase that. Across the Health Department, we have our ppe supply is 78 . Our goal is 100 . We are experiencing some issues in terms of obtaining ppe likely due to the increased National Demand for ppe supplies. San francisco and the challenges across california the virus is spreading at Dangerous Levels and this week the state announced a roll back with additional restrictions for counties on the states watch list. Approximately 30 counties are on the monitoring list as of today including several in the bay area. We know the bay area region is an interdependent region where they live, work, and play across and covid19 knows no county lines. If any county in the region is in trouble, we are all in trouble. That is why a regional approach has been key ever since this pandemic started, and we continue to be in touch with the hub area officers sharing data and solutions to keep all the communities as safe as possible. And it is certainly possible if our conditions do not improve, a roll back may be necessary in San Francisco in other parts of the bay area as well. Whether thats a roll back through local action or through state determined access rules will continue to be watched. But this is a tool to control the situation and we have always known that this is the possibility given the unprecedented situation in the uncertain situation we continue to face. No one wants to be in the situation were in. And as we look at the rise in cases, many of them are because the people have started to gather with friends and family and others to socialize. And i realize how hard these months have been for us and the sacrifice that all of us have made. These visits are really hard to resist but the truth is that they are spreading to covid. The birthday parties and visits with parents or grandparents, cousins, the barbecues, they are contributing to a delay or rollback in reopening of businesses or even the first day of school. Another key behavior that we all need to do is cover our faces indoors and outdoors when people are around you who are not part of your immediate household. This is critical. Research shows that masking significantly lowers the rate of transmission and 80 of people wear them. Adherence to facial coverings and masking is so key. One cannot tell by looking at someone if someone has covid19. We know that people are asymptomatic at some stage of their disease and they can transmit it when they are asymptomatic and being safe and wearing facial coverings and social distancing and using good hygiene is key to our success. And the simple act of wearing a mask will slow the spread of the virus and lead to lifting shelter in place restrictions. For those who are wearing masks, we are truly saving lives and those who are not taking precautions, you are not helping. The situation is becoming more serious every day. Please wear a mask and do not gather. Stay 6 feet apart. And wash your hands. These basic acts will make a huge difference if we do this together. We have flattened and we even crushed the curve before and that curve is now escalating and we all need to do better. And until then, our real thing is on pause. And until then, our reopening is on pause. We are not able to open up personal services, indoor museums, aquariums, outdoor swimming pools, Indoor Dining, outdoor bars without food, real estate open houses, and other activities that encourage people to gather and make it harder to wear a mask and social distance. And while it is hard to slow down the reopening and that we all want so badly and the price we pay for moving too quickly is very high. Remember, this virus has no timeline. That is why it is up to us and now is the time despite very curious numbers that i reported to you in terms of our hospitalization. We have a window to make a difference. We can still drive that number to one or lower that reproductive number by the interventions i just went through. We have a window to do this and it will make a huge difference in our hospitalization rates and the number of lives saved. We have shown that we can join together to make a difference, and we need to do it again. Truly, the power is in our hands. And even in the Uncertain Times we know for certainty what are the right steps that we need to take. We can have a thriving city with the healthy population and a renewed economy if we Work Together. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. This should be better. The first question and i do just want to say to everyone joining us today that we did receive another question and we will take them in the order they were received. And any others that we cant take in time we will simply take offline. Thank you for your patience. Dr. Colfax, the first question is from christian captain. Can we please explain the role schools could play in the state of covid19 infection rate . The School District announced that students will be Distance Learning when School Resumes august 17. Theres been a lot of talk on federal and local level about local kids getting back on campus. What will it take to get San Francisco kids back. One thing it will take is for us to be confident to reopen schools safely for the buildings to reopen, and certainly we are going to need to see a decrease in that reproductive rate and continue to follow the data and science to ensure that the support systems are in place and that people are able to physically distance and that the most vulnerable are protected in the settings and emphasizes the need to have the safety protocols in place and followed using the best evidence we have in terms of transmission. So we will make the decision about whether it is safe to reopen the physical spaces depending on where we stand with the virus and where with our surge in the city when the time comes. Thank you, doctor. Next question, the governor issued new order this is week to try to wrestle the california surge back under control. The order includes statewide closures of bars, Indoor Dining and other activity but those werent happening in San Francisco anyway. What places or events are currently the main source of infection and how are you in addressing the sources . We think it is a combination of factors and increasing the number of cases in the city. And there is clearly increased activity in terms of social gatherings that people are having and we really need to insure that people are taking the precautions and not making those and not having those birthday parties and barbecues moving forward as much as possible. And focussing on the prevention, education, and neighborhood by neighborhood and street by street and going to be so critical. And we are reinforcing the work with Community Partners to insure Community Champions that people have the resources and the knowledge they need to be safer. The other key components of this are that we continue to see infections among essential workers and we think that may be do to certain work place conditions that safety precautions are not being followed. We will be looking at that and enforcing and increasing our oversight and enforcement required precautions and the Health Orders that have been established and we will also be looking at the existing businesses and looking back at the data and potentially what is on the table for that. And i will also add that we have known since the beginning of the pandemic that crowded conditions that promote the spread of the virus and really again working with Community Members and multigenerational households to ensure and getting people tested and taking precautions to protect themselves as well as their family members. Thank you, doctor. Is the country considering the Outdoor Dining and reverting to takeout only as a way to reduce gatherings . Are there plans to cite businesses for Health Order Violations in your counties . We are taking one thing that is clear from the data is indoor activities are riskier than Outdoor Activities overall. We know that the virus spreads more easily and more quickly in indoors than outdoors. And we are taking a look to determine whether this increase in cases is driven by some of the Outdoor Dining and Outdoor Dining and we think this is more due to the noninsurance of some of the businesses rather than rather than the risk thats taken and the relatively smaller risk that is there and if the proper precautions are taken. And outdoors and dining and drinkings and not adhering to the masking and social distancing rules and is at a higher risk. And looking at increase in enforcement and in businesses and institutions and focussing on individual enforcement and enforcement of individuals but really looking at the potential enforcement of institutions and businesses that are not complying and doing the enforcement and the institution and right and Small Businesses are not able to necessarily comply at baseline and what can they do to improve their compliance and support and workers to be more safe during the challenging time. Thank you. Next question, doctor, are you ordering residents to stop gathering outside with masks if groups are keeping to under 10 or 12 people . So at this time we are encouraging people to minimize gatherings as much as possible, to wear a mask if you are in close contact with others and to socially distance whenever possible and certainly if people do better in these small groups that they gather outside is much, much safer. So those are the key components to this right now. And we know theres a lot of need to improve that appearance to the facial coverings of the social distancing. I think we know and we have seen particularly when people know each other and good friend or family members but not members of the immediate household, it is ward to wear a mask and keep socially distant. We want to hug people and we want to engage. We dont want to think a loved one who is not a part of the immediate household or good friend may be infected with covid19 which is why we really need to get the messages out and support the communities most affected by covid19 to drop this reproductive rate below 1. Thank you. Next question. How will the Current Situation effect decision to reopen indoor pools for summer camp . So we have put a pause on any additional and include outdoor pools at this time. Thank you. Next question, and what surge sites are ready to be set up and the Hospital System reaches capacity and when will that be done . Right now we have Hospital Capacity per indicators and again you can go to our website and see that capacity across the nine Hospital Systems and we are in the process as we have been a number of weeks preparing for a greater surge and i want to be clear here. We all need to do our part so that we dont get to that point. We have seen when this virus overwhelms Health Care Systems such as in new york city as it is now doing in arizona, florida, and the southern part of this state the outcomes are poor. Theyre much poorer while we have had 50 people die in San Francisco of covid19 and that is too many and one death is too many and our death rate is significantly and bend the curve here again and not overwhelming the Health Care Systems to move forward. Thank you, doctor. How will the city enforce the latest orders . Im sorry. I missed the first part of the question. Last question from San Francisco chronicle. How will the city enforce the latest orders . So we are working across the city to strengthen our enforcement capacity, and that will be a culmination across different cities and Department Agencies including the Health Department and the City Attorney. If people see violations the violation of the health order and businesses and call 311 and make a report and send people out to investigate. Thank you, dr. Colfax. This concludes todays press conference. For all of you joining us today, we took the questions in order and the number that they were received and all other questions will be taken offline in the interest of answering them. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. Were here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. We have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why dont we capture that to support the mission youths going to college thats for the food for thought. 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