Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

Slide 7. This is whether othis is what ty looked like. They did this for each Community College in the system. This shows number of participants. I wont go through this completely. There is a lot of really good data. This gives an idea. This is how much experience they had previous with distance ed. You can see the majority had at least one class they had taken remotely. This question which is the following challenges faced right now and this is in response generally to how students are reacting to the shelterinplace and how it is impacting their education. The biggest thing right now is for our students they were not able to concentrate on school. We have a large number of parttime students in our college. You can see it drove down to some of the details. Fortunately, a majority of students but slim majority are comfortable using canvas. 40 are not that comfortable. We have a lot of work to do not only with faculty but with students. Again, you can see it starts out with drilling to the detail. Then if you keep scrolling there are questions about their comfort level, similar to what was asked of the students, challenges and so forth. If you want to go to be information. As we started the return to campus efforts, we sent a survey out in preparation for two things. One is getting campus ready as well as making and anticipating those employees who were on High Risk Group themselves or caring for somebody in High Risk Group. This is the breakdown who responded to the survey. How comfortable do you feel returning to work. The majority of the folks between somewhat comfortable and uncomfortable. They are hesitant about returning to campus. Then we asked what initiative would make you feel more comfortable coming on campus . Check all that apply. Their concern to coming on campus was getting exposed to the coronavirus. Getting exposed to the virus and potentially spreading it. What would make you feeling more comfortable given these concerns . The leading response was Wearing Masks on campus, limiting the number of people that are within the area, hand sanitizing stations. It is consistent with what we were already planning to follow based on the cdc guidelines and Citys Department of Public Health. We continue to put into place training and protocols for employees that are faculty, classified, returning to campus, same for students as well. Such as requiring all employees, all students to do a symptom check online every day before coming to campus. They are also agreeing to abide by the protocol such as wearing Face Covering while on campus and they must whether they are an employee or student take the Safety Training which is about a 15 to 20 minute video before coming on campus. We are also working closely with aft and fdiu to ensure employees are safe. That concludes my presentation. Thank you so much. Trustee randolph. Thank you. I have a couple questions. I think they tag on to what supervisor fewer said earlier around the support for High School Students. Supervisor haney and others know we have been discussing dual enrollment for several years now and have seen a pretty positive Partnership Growth in support for High School Students and access for High School Students at city college of San Francisco. My concern is how are we ensuring continued access to city college during this weird time and new way of doing things because i dont want to lose momentum. I understand we might have to lose some of that momentum that we built and the strength we built. I dont want this year plus to be a lost year. A lot of students graduating from high school over the next year still need access to affordable education. As we know Higher Education is getting more expensive every year. If you have a year or two under your belt when you graduate from s. F. U. S. D. That is thousands of dollars our students wont have in Student Loan Debt to inflate them for most of their life. I have 80,000 worth of Student Loans to pay off for years. My question for both is to go into detail is the support for dual enrollment students in the new world. I dont think you touched on that specific piece that we are interested in. I dont know who wants to take it. I can provide you with an answer right now. The Pathways Program which is between the Unified School District and the college will continue regardless of the remote situation of learning in place right now. That path was programmed the dual enrollment and current enrollment will continue and students will be encouraged to keep taking those classes. As you mentioned earlier on with the College Credit they will be earning they are in path for the transfer to San Francisco state university. This is what the legislature wanted to happen and what the faculty have been doing. We have been working closely with the Unified School District to make this a reality so the students will have access to that education. They dont have to pay for it. When you complete those units they are good for your whole educational career. You do not have to worry about those classes again. I just want to make sure and the question asked was are we maintaining the same level of classes, cutting back in changing the type of classes we are offering or no change in the schedule of classes . I will turn it over to the senior vice chancellor. She has it. If we dont have it we will provide it. Chancellor gonzales. We are continuing to focus on classes that provide more access to s. F. U. S. D. And other high cool programs. During the summer most classes were for the Credit Recovery and classes we partner with with San Francisco unified. That was 90 of the classes. We have also restructured between academic and Student Affairs. The dean of dual enrollment who used to be in Academic Affairs is now part of Student Affairs to focus on efforts for outreach. The dean is responsible for dual enrollment and High School Programs and outreach to ensure that we have solid pathways. I dont mean by way of the program the doctor spoke of but access. Providing access in these challenging times to those students. Similar to the free meals, a fair number of students used to have access to food banks and Farmers Market on campus. A lot of students are food in secure even before covid. It has made it worse. Some of the students lose their jobs and now with the federal and State Government ending in a couple weeks or a week from now potential eviction our students or families are facing because they wont be able to pay rent, how are we shifting our support in a Digital World to those students facing Food Insecurity who dont have access on campus and facing potential eviction . Are we strengthening the outreach to make sure they know there might be some programs or things the city is offering around eviction protection and preventing them from becoming homeless. The worst thing to happen now is losing your job, healthcare and Food Insecurity and homeless. I want to do everything we can to prevent that from happening and partnering with the supervisors who have done incredible work around emergency legislation to protect tenants. Are we plugged into those resources . Yes, we are. We received 3. 5 million from the cares act and federal funding. One of the reasons why we were unable to join in the lawsuit was because unless we received the funding we distributed funds to those eligible students by way of grocery cards, gift cards and other means of getting more direct support to them, and we are also looking at partnering with a couple of the food banks to provide we used to have a food pantry on campus. We havent been able to do that. We are looking at in addition to continuing with the gift cards for groceries is partnering with food banks to provide not just for students but surrounding community. For the homeless we were talking about still making our facilities accessible. Especially for the students. We are working on that. Showers and locker rooms so they have access to a place to come in and clean. I know that we have pretty much spent the 3. 5 million quickly. That is demand for gift cards and other grants. It far out paces the funding we have available. Are there plans for us to see and i know that the supervisors would like to support efforts around the covid emergency. Do we have an estimate of the budget needs to support these students moving forward . This was spent for the last half of the Spring Semester and part of the summer students. Fall is starting next month. They will need additional food gift cards and other grants. Is there an opportunity or do we know how much money we might need that we can ask outside entities for that support . Yes, we can get that information you. You are spot on with respect to the basic needs. Food and security, homelessness. Some of the moneys from the cares act was spent on chromebooks and hotspots for students. As you may recall, the cares funding was initially we were not able to use it for daca students. That was a challenge. The other thing to point out the state Chancellors Office eliminated hunger free campus funding for the current fiscal year. The expectation is that the student equity funds, the student equity funds support that. It is not enough. We can get that information for you for the committee in terms of the financial need for those programs. Last question through the chair. It would be great to have some type of Digital Resource fair. We cant do it in person any more where people can go meet with city agents and nonprofits helping students in housing and food. It would be great to figure out a way to partner on Digital Resource fair where students can log into and learn about the resources the city has available to them to prevent eviction and homelessness and connect our students with resources they might need to prepare and be successful over the fall semester. We partnered in the past on physical resource fairs that were really helpful to students. There is a way to figure out how the committee and different agencies can do that as we get ready for fall. It can happen in the near future. In the interim, if we are not able to provide the service, we, mening city college, we river students we refer students to the closest food pantry. Along those lines is communication is a challenge to get the word out. A lot of the information i am sharing is on our website. It may not be easy to find or if the students dont have access to a website. It is a great idea. To broaden the communication and let folks know where they can go for additional resources. I think you make a good point it is available on the website usually only in english. We have a lot of limited englih speakers facing these situations. Having a translation or digital conversation with these groups is more helpful. Seeing if the Key Resources could be translated to other languages. We have done that including what i mentioned earlier. Engaging in out reach to students, phone calls. We have identified rigs. Vietnamese, languages that we need for esl and non credit classes. We are find full of the reach diverse population in the city and make sure we are accessible to them. Thank you. Thank you very much. I will be quick. I appreciate you bringing forth this survey. I would love for us to talk about it during a City College Board meeting as well. Some of the things that you werent able to mention because you were trying to go so fast struck me when i was looking at this survey. First is request number 26. How often in the past week have you been bothered by the following problems. Anxiety to no sleep to worrying to becoming annoyed andirtage. What shocked me about it and mirrors my own Mental Health state is that a large percentage of people out of the 1300 surveyed are feeling a lot of anxiety from several days to every day on the 70 to 80 of the students who responded. I want that out there. I am sure the students at s. F. U. S. D. Are suffering from this. It is something piggybacking on to commissioner collins comments. Mental Health Assistance through the Public Health department and finances is something we could all Work Together on. Something else that i know students have lacked. That is jobs. We were able to continue their jobs in the spring and continue to pay them even though they werent working. I dont belief all of those on campus jobs but i would be curious if those jobs will continue and financially we are not able to do that. Is there something we can do to help 25 of the students who are essentially homeless as far as i can tell. They have different issues with housing of the ones surveyed. That is pretty high. Anything to do to help students who are able to work on campus or get some sort of tie penned during covid to help them to be able to continue. The last thing i wanted to point out was request number 30 which is given my current understanding how safe it is, i am most likely to reenroll at the college if. The results are certainly people want hybrid or in person much more so than they want to be clear about this. This is a survey that it says fully online, you have people okay with it. Do notary open campus 37 . Hybrid and in person is 63 , i believe. I think that is something that we really have to think strongly about. Of those not continuing the number one reason was because the clas class is online and tws safety. Number one is because the classes are 100 online. I want to just put those out there recognizing that we are in a difficult situation. We also need to figure out a way to help our students ability to learn. Recently the members of the federal group of Community College and trustees came to us and asked us to help at the federal level. I would like to present a resolution. Community colleges dont receive the right amount of funding. The way funding is done at the higher ed level is ftes. Ftes assumes that students are going to school fulltime. Many of our students have family, multiple jobs and dont go fulltime they go as much as they can. We missed out on felt ker federg we will miss out if we dont allow Community Colleges to be counted by head count as opposed to fte. I would like to have a resolution to that effect. I would love it if the board of supervisors and perhaps s. F. U. S. D. Could join in support. What will hand is Community Colleges, the backbone of the economic recovery, are going to see less funding than the c su and sds. It is being used instead of head counts. If there are comments on the Mental Health and jobs, i would love to hear it. I want to note that supervisor mar is here and will take over for the next 30 minutes as chair. We do not need to pause until supervisor mar takes over and then i will return and continue at 12 30 p. M. Excuse me i have a meeting at noon. I may be able to return would that upset the quorum . No, as long as supervisor mar can be here and chair for 12 00 to 1230, i wil i will be back ad would love you to join us. As long as there is no gap in between you will be okay. we have received clearance to be able to hire students again. Were working with the supervisors and primarily the Department Chairs in each of those areas to be able to hire lab aids and so long as they are able to work remotely. In the Mental Health, one of the areas were looking to bring back in person is the Student Health center. They are working to get that started august 16th and students will be able to get Mental Health services through our student helming center. Either online, zoom appointments, but the Mental Health will be available. thats wonderful. And my question really then is is this something that we have funding for . I mean, we can be completely transparent here city colleges are in dire straights. One of the reasons to have these joint meetings is to see if theres something we can pull or supervisors can maybe pull some money out of city funding to assist sfu and city college funding. The students who are suffering from a variety, according of that survey, anxiety, sleeplessness, enab inability to relax and all of these things, would it be helpful to potentially Work Together on this to try and make sure that theres funding for it . the short answer is yes. We can all agree that education as a whole is under funded whether its eu unified k12 or Higher Education. We can work with our office of research and Student Affairs to identify the unmet need. Well get that information to you. thank School District. Maybe we can move onto the third presentation. That is frl the departmen is frf Public Health. i do not have a slide deck. I was asked to come and answer any questions so i do not have a presentation. Im happy to answer questions. commissioner kol inns. its critical to maintain social distancing. Parents are worried about what they are going to do in the fallhang on one second. Sorry. Im working from home. This is a struggle for a lot of families. Some of what families are doing is whats called pods. When they are saying that theyre talking about a variety of Different Things. Some of them are talking about nanny shares. Thats families sharing a nanny. Theres parents talking about joining park groups. And hiring teachers to actually just teach a group of six to ten kids and rotate. Im hearing about them in garages and also in peoples homes. Its a National Phenomenon that educators are dealing with. The department of Public Health im not seeing that. As a parent that is concerned for spread and concern for families i wanted to know if the dedepartment of Public Health hs any recommendations for this activity. thank you, commissioner collins. We are aware of this National Phenomenon and seeing National Headlines related to this. We dont have any recommendations at this moment in time but are discussing it internally. We just received the state guidelines for schools last friday and are revisiting all of our guidance as a result of what the state has issued into the state as to whether any guidelines they will be releasing on the micro School Dollars or pod pods. Its a phenomenon thats not occurring just in San Francisco but throughout the state and nation. We are experiencing community spread. We are in the middle of a surge. Were definitely working on this. The Health Officer is considering it and whether and how it can be done safely. We dont have any recommendations at this moment in time. great. I have one more question aroun aroundfirst off, micro schools is what im learning is the actually nawm for these groupe actually the name for these grouped kids in families. Time thinking they can set up day care and liability issues. As educators were all mandatory reporters for sexual abuse. Im just wondering if some folks may be handling those logistics but families thinking they can do their own thing. As an educator im fully aware theres a lot of requirements that relate to taking care of other peoples children as well as for Young Children there are even more requirements. I was wondering if you were pre vieding goidance o guidanceprovu are the agency or maybe not, ad hoc child care that is shared among groups of families. i think what we can say is we can inform on the health and safety aspects of these micro schools. Whether or not we have the governing authority on reporting asereportaspects such as child. I can find out and get back to you unless anyone else on the call has a better answer. perhaps when we have the presentation from the dep of children andepartmentof children hear a response to that question. i had a couple questions. Is dph and c yf working in collaboration or folks in their own departments to support sfusd. Im just trying to get some clarification to prepare the rest of the questions i have in place. were working with the School District and representatives from city college. okay. Thank you for that. My question is then what is dphs ideas and will they sup or sfsup orof sfusd. Do you have a plan or are you only fielding questions today. today were only fielding questions. Were building the health and safety aspects of covid 19 prevention and mitigation for San Francisco Unified School District as well as the Community College. what do you have going on specifically out side of what you just mentioned . our department has many initiatives with the san fan sis koa Unified School District and im not sure i know all of them to be honest with you. specific to covid 19. the guidelines that were released in early july, the states guidelines have superseded those. Also developing and giving Technical Assistance for testing, Contact Tracing and case administration, what protocols need to be in mace if and when schools open in order to be safe. my last question before we move own in terms of communication, i wanted to followup with things weve had discussioned around in the School District. What a partnership would look like when folks use these recommendations and policies so we can have a dialogue on what folks are seeing on the ground versus Public Health. Is there an opportunity to tighten that communication process up and make it more transparent but so the parents and School Leadership is aware of it. yes, of course. great. im sorry. Can i piggy back on that. I field a lot of questions from families and district leaders and i dont even know how to contact your department. I dont know where to go sm i do want to representif you are getting information and guidance, i want to support that. I dont knowif i doapt know im assuming most parents and families dont know how youre reaching decisions. I think its important to pre vied the basis on which you make those decisions. Todays question and a are dprait. Agreat. Things are rapidly changing, if we have opportunities to engage with you in the public so we have transparency and people can see how we are collaborating and how were being informed by yourthe work you are doing and forming our planning. Do you know how we mieg be able thaveconversations about that. not that we can discuss right now. We want to be on top of everything and minimize the amount of confusion that the public is experience. All of you have mentioned earlier in the call. We can take this conversation of offline and figure out how to do that. supersizor mark can you help with that as well. I dont know what is the next step. i just would like to piggy back and say city college would like toif you figure out a system, we would like to participate. id be happy to participate and say we havedid you have a question . thank you supervisor mar. I wanted to make a quick comment if i may on the recent discussion. Just by in a way vouch for the frequentsy of the conversations that do take place between sfusd staff and our partners at dph i dont have a whole lot to say about the specific question that commissioners and truste trust d people of the public are facing. In the meantime, many of our staff work rally closely with the dep of numbe departmenti do leave anyone with the question that there isnt frequent contact because there certainly is. i apologize if i was implying that. That whole process is not transparent. That makes it hard for Community Members to understand. And its difficult for me because its not transparent for me. Were all public servants. I think our public processes should be visible. People should be able to understand how we all Work Together. If meetings are happening and no one knows when or how they are happening. Folks are really anxious. Part of what helps is this all calm down. People need to know who is making the decisions and how its being decided. They know who to knoll up with and who does what. Thats hard for public, is understanding all the roles and how we Work Together. thank you, commissioner. This meeting, this committee since there has been discussion of meeting frequently. This does seem like an opportune place for that discussion to take place. thanks. If addition to make sure its in language, whatever is out there we need to make sure that the message gets out there, thats it. thank you. I did have one question oni understand on the dph data dash board today that if you choose 10 of individuals under 18 years old sm this number is this number is prizing. Rising. Do you have the demon graphics of those cases race, age, zip code, neighborhood . the most that i can share at this moment in time is that we are definitely seeing a risewere seeing evidence of community spread. We have seen a rise in cases for ages zero to 18. Were taking that as evident of community spread. Four hours of praik down i doapt have that data readily availabl. if you go to our data tracker, it shows you a breakdown of the demographics. Its not broken down by age, i would have to go internally to get that data. it would be helpful to understand especially if the numbers and percentages are rising. Are there any other comments or questions . i just have to say, i mean, i dont know, maybe this isnt a normal thing. You know, this is really important and this is an opportunity to communicate with the public and for us to ask questions publicly. I guess i was hoping to interact with some type of information. I really appreciate that the public of health is here but im also kind of disappointed. This is an opportunity for us to react. You referred to things you are working on or trends you are seeing. Im really hoping that next time we can have a more robust conversation based on information that you can share. absolutely. thank you commissioner collins. Let me move on from the presentation from youth and families. it has been really great working really closely with dph on all things related and services for children. Particularly her entire tea teamCommunity Learning hubs. What these are are neighborhood based centers, hubs that will be available for sfusd families, i have a slide here on rational and youve heard all of these things shared already by our School District partners and before i jump in further about this, i just want to recognize that working with sfusd has been really good. We have regular conversations all the time. I fully recognize the heavily lift they have to do. Not only are you thinking about the children and families and how to support teachers to do their best in Distance Learning and all of these other things as well. I know how difficult it is and i just wanted to make sure on the city side we were there and available to provide whatever additional supports that we could offer. The other things wefor the rational why were creating these learning hubs. We know for the most part teachers work really really hard this past spring to do Distance Learning. A lot of our children had a really hard time with it. We wanted to make sure that, once again, we did our part to support Distance Learning. Regarding a lot of the reports around the American Academy of pediatrics and reports under the importance of in also considerig social emotional support and think about how we move into the fall. And of course, on the city side, as were working with dph opening up industries, we wanted to make sure as we open up industries and parents have to go whac back to work there are e places for children to go to as parents go back to work. Our own Public Transportation infrastructure will not be at 100 at the fall. It will be closer to 30 because of a number of things. So what our Community Learning hubs exactly . They are neighborhood based facilities. Were very intentional with the neighborhood based piece. We wanted to be sure that children could walk to these places primarily because we dont want to increase congestion on our streets and having parents deal with these things. These are rec centers. Public libraries, cultural centers, hopefully city hall facilities and other city owned buildings that provide in home support for chiropractor in youth. We are thinking hubs will open from 8 00 a. M. To maybe 6 00 p. M. Hub rs are operated by rec and park facilities and staff. Hubs will be providing children youth and families access to technology and will be aiding the Distance Learning that are very capable that teachers will be providing. Theyll be providing social emotional support. Main components. I do want to emphasize that we are doing this in full partnership and guidance with dph. Right now were only standing up the hubs for kindergarten t to fifth graders. We understand how difficult it is for our sixth graders to transition going from a small school to a middle school. Theres lots of Different Things going on. We wanted to be able to provide some additional supports for them. Once again, business learning supports. Well also be providing meals and Family Support and Mental Health services. These hubs are operated by both rec and park ep surensure that they dont experience that covid 19 slide on the academic side as well as the social emotional side. Which for me as a psychologist is really important. I want to continue to support our childrens well being and social emotional development. The next couple slides are School District slides. These are data that we received from our School District partners regarding number of students. Number of students in each cohotter. Because of our limited facilities were only projecting upwards of 6000 children total. However sfusd has close to 56,000 children that they serve. Were go to go have to make some really hard decisions as we are standing up for these programs. Administer information and data around the populations that i referenced earlier. This is data that shows the number of students in each of the zip codes and are broken down by age group or school grade. Time lines. We announced the hubs yesterday. We are planning to have registration start on august 15th. It will close on september 4th. Between now and august 15th anyone who is interested in these hubs want to learn more about the hubs please go to d c ys dot org care to fill out an Interest Form to let us know where you are, where your address is. Also how many children you have or what grade you are interested in. Were going to go after these hubs and meet the needs of our families. That is the end of my slide show. thank you so much for the presentation director. I noticed supervisor had haney is back. Im going to have to hand this off because i have to leave for another meeting right now. Thanks everyone. im here so we can continue. Commissioner collins, i see thank you so much for your presentation. I really appreciate it. Ive been hearing your name and youre like on the other side. I mentioned before, our c bo partners, rec and park, ive always been a really big fan of the park system before i was an advocate. Library programs, now that my littles are big i missed the fact that we couldnt do the Summer Library kind of thing. Im happy to meet you and got to hear your presentation. Im excited you guys are thinking about this but i didnt know anything about this. Im the curriculum chair. Im really excited that you want to partner with us because we need help. Youre that connector in a way for us. I alsoone of the things that weve been doing and were trying to be really intentional about it and i do really want to celebrate our district is weve been having a lot of town hall so that as we were reflecting on plans, we were working on really taking input directly from families and sharing out plans sm for many families it may have solvedsome people want to know now and how to include everybody. Build a labor plan. Im struggling to understand how we fit into your plan thats supposed to be supporting us. Does that make sense . Were the educators, i know youre talking educators sm the commissioners are also helpful in setting policies and directing staff so they can work in alignment with you. Im just wondering why nobody reached out to me personally. Theres also two other commissioners that are also educators on our school board. once dpen, this is the citys desire to support our most Vulnerable Children i totally support that. I think thats awesome. Im asking why didnt you communicate with us while developing these plans. i guess i am now. in the future i gres i would appreciatguess iwould appd text me. Commissioner lopez has been holding meetings. Were all really in the community. It would be really great if we could know what you guys are thinking so that wewere also fielding a lot of questions and we can inform and share that, us as commissioners can november also what were thinking and hearing so we can work more collaboratively together. d c yf works closely with our c bos. We have regular conversations with our c bos. We hear from them we talk to parents though, directly. We all just have to be communicating together. Same kind of question. What kind of structure, i think were waiting for these meetings were not going to get into the nuts and bolts, were pressed for time. What is the structure to have regular meetings to talk through what you are planning to do. conversations with chair haney he suggested for this body to meet and have a higher frequency of meetings. I committed to him that we would come and provide regular updates on what is happening with d c yf. He sz bb amaz has been amazing f this as well. were really nuts and bolts on our side. We like to talk really specifically about what were hearing from staff about how c bos can help us expand our out reach and support us. Would you be willing to come to a Curriculum Committee meeting and havewe run meetings less formerly and listen directly to families and talk abouttalk directly with our staff but its all public. Families have an opportunity to see how those conversations happen and they can come and peek during Public Comment. Those are opportunities to make those opportunities transparent. One more opportunity for families to share their concerns, thoughts, and questions. sure. Thats perfectly fine. Deputy superintendent lee is here. We are not providing teaching or academics. We fully acknowledge that teachers will be doing their best in Distance Learning. We want to help with that. Thats it. i have one more question if thats okay. I guess the other thingmy question is a lot of the materials in your slide presentation you show a bunch of kids together in the presentation. None of the kids are socially distancing. i will remove those pictures. one of the questionsits concerning there was a news story and there were news photos and mini love play ground. I shared that. If were messengering out where the communityim an educator and we learn most through modeling. What we say is what we do. What we show folks, im really considerate about are we six feet apart and wearing a mask. I want to make sure were communicating to folks in the images that we share of children and staff that were also doing that as well. noted. i dont know if supersizor haney im here. Did you want to jump in to make a comment . i just wanted to sayjust to give a tiny bit of background to conversations that we did have and commissioners apologies if we should have been giving you more information about this, but i just want to share that dr. Sue and a couple of her colleagues at the city county did give usi think it was fairly recent but did share information about these, the concepts and some of the plans about ten days, a week, ten days ago. We had some discussions and i know dr. Sue had a conversation with dr. Matthews as well. Were notwe werent comeetly cy caught off guard by the announcement yesterday. We will note that we could have done a better job of sharing that information with commissioners. Apologies for that. We were surprised and impressed by how quickly the plans were, you know, were designed because weill speak for myself. The one or two conversations i was in did not anticipate the speed of the public announcement being ready so quickly. Credit to dr. Sue an the team for doing a lot of work quickly just in the interest of operationallizing. I just wanted it provaid that typy by of pacprovide thatbit on initially. first of all, i want to thank you dr. Sue for mentioning something im particularly concerned about which is the Mental Health. I would love to know if you are considering something and i understand the need to start with k through five and six through nine. There are a lot of students who are coming from similar back grundbackgrounds sfusd studentsy may be in worse positions. Not getting the support they normally would through fak you. Online learning has a different cosine of ko contact. Im wonnerring if you have any plans on including city colleges. I know we dont need after school prodprams sm you mentioned mentaprograms. Im wong to be keeping the other students in a different parteverything. Those are two questions and i have a followup question that has nothing to do with this. yes, i would love to talk about partnerships. Its been amazing to work with dr. Gonzalez over the last couple months. She has been very helpful to making the college initiatives. Thank you for this offer. I would love to followup and figure out way it support. We do acknowledge that particularly our higher age transitional age youth for students have similar problems in terms of connectivity and access to devices. We want wabt to figure out weighs to provide Public Health. Jfor each is city its going to be so important in this upcoming year. Related to funding, could have. Were hoping it can both funnel students in a way of learning that doesnt break the bank as trustee randol ph alluded to earlier. All the skills building classes that we have including city build that was refer to before. We want want to ensure people have access on that. we think its great profrm sm we appreciate his leadership in making sure we continue that program. We had an oversight meeting with the board of trustees there and we can followup with you. i can followup with trustee will yans sm that will. Thats fine. Thank you for continuing. great. Anymoreany other folks have comments. I know we held director sue over her time. Appreciate that. Do any of the other comightsers ocommissioners have questions . I apologize for having to step out quickly. thank you very much. do you have anymore final comments director sue. no. I look forward to working with you and the select committee. I guess ill see all of you more frequently now. Thank you. Take care. thank you. I think what is clear that we need a lot more conversations together. That was something that came up again. Director sue, you and i can Work Together to make sure the city schools and college are working together in the partnerships. You offered to meet with them directly as well. We can facilitate that in some way. The next meeting is august 14th. I hope we plan to meet every two weeks essentially keeping this hearing open. Madam clerk, whats the right process to keep this hearing open and continue to the next Committee Hearing . mr. Chair. I believe erica should be there. She may be muted. I do believe we need to take Public Comment still though. oh, okay. I wasnt sure if that happened. Okay. Can we open it up for Public Comment. yes. thank you folks who are waiting for your patience. We will make sure to prioritize Public Comment in the next set of meetings as well. I apologize for that. okay. For members of the public who are waiting on the line and interested in providing Public Comment for this hearing. The phone number is 415 6550001 meeting id press pound and pound again. Once you are connected please press star three to be queued up to speak. We have four individuals listening and two on the line. If there are any individuals who would like to speak, press star three now. Could you please queue up the first speaker. hi this is julie roberts. I appreciate having this hearing at this time. Its really become clear that our families exist across the various systems and for communication and coordination and open democratic public ways are really important. I want to appreciate everyone that presented today and echo the sentiment p having more on going and public communication. Especially appreciate supervisor marks question. Ive opinion watching the zero to 18 infection rates for covid 19. They have been increased. If were talking about learning hubs, or school restating or families trying to figure out how to support themselves to understand the age ranges and demographics of children under 18 getting covid 19. Neighbors that are impacted and Contact Tracing to understand where these cases are being initiated. To understand if its safe at all. Im a little concerned with c bo staff who has been terrific. I want to encourage folks to look at the tender loin as you come up with these plans. We have the second highest rate of covid 19 in the city but have continued speakers time expired. thank you. Next speaker. If you would like to line up to speak, press star three. Youve been unmuted and may begin your comments. yes, hello. This is peter with equity for older students. We can be reached at equity for older students. I have three main concerns to bring up for the meeting and im sorry there isnt more time for you to consider theming. Policies and services that covid 19 has impacked. Impacted. Theres a disenfranchisement for remote meetings. Anyone without a computer. Surveillance capitalism. Libraries. All the city libraries are closed with maybe opening in august for only curb side pick up. The only thing thats available for people to have access to the internet and therefore the Library Programs online is a shrunken Telephone Service hours. I appreciate all of you working on and discussing how thats going to be. thank you. Next speaker, please. mr. Chair, that completes the queue. thank you to the Public Commenters. We agree about the importance of these meetings s. We will have our next meeting august 14th and expect to have more regular meetings. Thank you to all the departments and special intuitions. Do we need a motion to continue this hearing is that correct . yes, youll either need to continue to call to chair. as motion as stated. roll call you have four ayes. all right. Thank you again so much for your time and well see you in a few weeks. Ill followup personally on making sure some of those other meetings happen. Madam clerk, are there any further items . no. thank you. This meeting is adjourned. thank you. We have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. thank you all for joiningu. As of today we have four thousand sixty nine confirmed cases in San Francisco and sadly people have lost their lives. We averaged testing three thousand two hundred twelve people each and everyday in San Francisco. This exceeds our goal of conducting eighteen hundred tests per day. We also know we need to do more. Now especially with people facing longer wait times to get their results and also to get tested in the first place. Covid 19 in the bay viewpoints and in the valley and mission demonstrate that we clearly have a real disparity. Early on in our responses to covid 19 we created a field care clinic at the Community Health crepter to bring testing to people. Recently we announced the opening of a testing site of a latino testing hub. Im excited to announce an expansion that will bring test to go areas of the city that have been especially hit hard. To do this, were going to make three major expansions. First, we will expand our city tests site by adding four hundred new slots a day where we can continue to on focusing on essential workers who need testing the most. Our fire fighters, police officers, Health Care Workers and people who are taking care of San Francisco. We will launch two mobile pop up sites that can test up to two hundred fifty people per day. One will start this week, the other next week. They will rotate to different neighborhoods in the city that are seeing high rates of covid 19 and need more testing options. Third, were creating a third city test sf site at the south east of the city. The location is still being developed with community input. It should launch in august with the ability to begin tests five hundred people per day. In total well have an a additional fourteen hundred testing slots per day. Thats nearly a 45 increase over what weve been averaging over the last week. This new testing along with the requirement for private partner it do their part will help us make testing more easily available especially for symptomatic or high risk individuals. Resources for people to test positive, right to recover, hotel room it isolate. Those are all the things we need to go hand in hand with our testing capacity. To find out more information on how to get tested please go to the website or call 311. Im really proud of the work were doing to expand testing in San Francisco. We know that we cant test our way out of this pandemic. We need people to be responsible. To keep their distance from others to avoid gathers, and to wash their hands. Getting testing is not a passport to do whatever you want. You can still get infected at any moment. When i see people acting irresponsibly or on some of our busiest commercial corridors, im really disappointed. What youre doing when you gather with friend friends and t waring a mask. Youre making our recovery longer, youre making it more difficult for kid it go back to school. Youre making it more difficult for folks to visit senior homes. More difficult for people to get back to work. Our nail salons and barbershops. Massage and tattoo parlors and things like that. You are making things more difficult for others not just yourself. I know its hard. Im tired of living in this covid 19 world just like you are. The sooner we can act responsibly, the sooner we can get back together in a more real way. At this time id like to introduce dr. Grant c olfax. good afternoon, thank you, mayor. Im dr. Grant director of health for the city of San Francisco. As the current surge continues our reopening plans must remain on pause. Last week, we told you that it took us 38 days to go from 2000 to 3000 cases. Its taken thirteen days to go from three thousand to four thousand. We are averaging seventy nine new cases everyday diagnosed. We know there are more cases out there as the virus continues to spread. These numbers put us in the red zone of one of our key health indicators. As of tomorrow well have been in that red zone for a month. Since monday San Francisco has been on the state watch list that restricts reopening. The reason for the watch list is our rapid increase in hospitalization. We remain on high alert. Our goal is to keep the rate of hospitalizations of covid 19 patients to less than 10 . In San Francisco we can slow the spread of covid 19. We have flattened the curve before. We must do it again. Lives are at stake. You know what to do. Wear Face Coverings out side of your hous household. Stay six feet apart from others and avoid gatherings. While you do your part, the city is doing its part too. The testing expansion is one of our strategies. Its an important one and especially paired with Contact Tracing, it can help us contain covid 19. But testing alone will not bring us out of the red zone. Id like to talk today about the role of testing in our citys pandemic response. Five months ago San Francisco had never conducted a single test for covid 19. On an average day this month, we conducted more than three thousand. Building our testing infrastructure has been a tremendous effort that involves hiring staff, ordering supplies, deploying testing sites across the city. A severe lack of federal leadership has made testing a significant challenge across the challenge. Faced with limited resources San Francisco prioritized testing for the people with greatest needs. Its important to understand that the testing universe is much larger than the tests that people are seeking out for themselves. We test all residents and staff in San Franciscos Skilled Nursing facilities. We test as part of out break response in many studies across the cities. We test all people with symptoms and hospitals and clinics. Because of the strategy we have been able to slow down the spread of the virus. And we are doing well compared to other places. San francisco has the lowest rate of covid 19 cases and deaths and the highest rate of testing. I will say that again. San francisco has the lowest rate of covid 19 cases and death and highest rate of testing when compared to other jurisdictions including los angeles, seattle, denver, boston, new york, and other big cities. Therefore we have a foundation to build upon and we are doing exactly that. Today demand for testing is growing because were experiencing a surge for demand for testing and surge in cases. Its getting harder for individuals to book an appointment and taking longer to get test results. As we expand capacity, we must target our effort. We are not going to test our way out of the pandemic. This is an important point, test sg a limited resource and we must use it wisely by focusing on people who are most likely to be exposed, we increase our ability to find cases. Through Contact Tracing, we can further reduce exposure and spread. Testing is not prevention. A positive test means that the virus has already spread. And a negative test is not a passport to take risks or it to do whatever you want. We have a vision of realizing universal access to testing in San Francisco. But we cannot get there alone. A surge is making our circumstances more challenging all around. Private providers need to do their share. The city is conducting nearly two thirds of all covid 19 test tg right now. We know that many of the people seeking testing from the city have private insurance. That is why we have issued a health order requiring businesses to test people with symptoms and those with contacts and those residents at highest risk of exposure. This order aligns with the state which is requiring that insurance plans cover testing. Represent only 15 of the citys population. In addition workers must leave their homes to take on more risk are getting sicker in greater numbers. And the neighborhoods in the eastern and southeastern side of the city continue to have a higher rate of cases. The surge is making all of these disparities worse. In the past two weeks, we have expanded testing in the mission, bay view, tender loin and sunny veil neighborhood. We administered twenty two hundred tests to date. In the weeks to come we will continue to expand test inning the south east and deploy mobile testing in neighborhoods that need it most. And well continue to prioritize people with symptoms, people referred to testing by contact tracers and workers that are greatest risk of exposure. Such as first responders, disaster workers, and Health Care Workers. While the city is doing all of this, here is what san franciscans can do. If a Contact Person reaches out to you to say you might have been exposed to covid 19. Please take that call. Contract tracers can help you track your symptoms and get tests and get you resources like food and cleaning supplies if you need to isolate. If you have a Health Care Provider, please try to book your testing with them. That will help the people with out insurance, Health Care Workers and people most effected by the pandemic. And of course, if you are feeling sick, please stay at home. If youre not feeling sick and going out, you must cover your face. Stay six feet away from people out side your household and please, please avoid gathering. Gatherings are part of whats driving our current surge. If you are gathering with people who dont think they are sick or dont look sick, that doesnt matter. You can still transmit covid 19 without symptoms. Even if people have gotten a negative test recently, that doesnt mean they are negative that day. We have seen increases in covid 19 precisely because people are gathering more. This is a critical time for all of us to come together as one community. Take the precautions as we have asked for many weeks now. We can all do our part. Ask your Health Care Provider for a test. If you have symptoms, have been instructed by a contact tracer or at higher risk for exposure because of your living or working continues. Lets show the world that San Francisco can flatten the curve again and resume our ohmings ops together. Thank you. thank you madam mayor, and thank you doctor for your time. Today we have a few health care and testing related questions for director c olfax. Thank you director the first set of questions are from michelle king. Is San Francisco going to start fining people for not Wearing Masks. Will they set up a test line. were looking for ways to increase enforcement across the city. We know from Public Health work that the best way to get people to comply with doing whats right in this situation including wearing the Face Coverings, its really chaifnged the social norm, the messengers are trusted Community Members who provide the support and information needed and in cases, the actual facial coverings so people can cover their faces and take the right steps. At the same time we are looking at enforcement options not so much at the individual level but looking and ensuring that were working to increase enforcement across the city of various institutions that may not be complying with health orders. We really need to protect each other so that we protect others. thank you where does the city stand on hair salons similar to people meeting outdoors such as restaurants. certain outdoor personal services. Were taking a look at that. Were reviewing the criteria and will make a derptio determinatid when those personal services can be opened outdoors and with the state guidelines. thank you. The la times. What lessons are we learning from new yorks experience with the pandemic. i think there are two things. Certainly we have learned from the new york situation how bad it can get and how rapidly it can get bad. When we look at the mortality rates when the Health Care Systems got overwhelmed. We can see sophisticated and Health Care Systems, when they get overwhelmed, more people get sick and more people die. Its impossible to take care of people in those situations. When we talk about the surge, im very concerned as cases increase, its plausible we can get in a new york type of situation in the late summer or early fall. Thats why everyone need it do their part to flatten the curve. The second part that weve learned from new york is that its possible to flatten the curve with the facial coverings and social distancing and high general staying at home that we encourage. I hope we can do that before a massive surge. New york has unfortunately had to do that after a surge. with regards to our private partners doing their part, what are we talking about . What are we asking of them . How are we holding them accountable . when talks about private partners. From the beginning of the pandemic weve been working with Health Care System as cross the city to ensure a unify response. Its really strengthened our ability for instance, to ensure people with covid 19 are getting the best care possible in the Health Care Facilities across the city. What we need to do with regard to testing is ensure that low barrier testing is provided to people per the health order from the many Health Care Systems across the si city. We know San Francisco is fortunate and most people have insurance and a provider that is covered by a health care entity. Per the health order the requirements are there so low barrier testing is provided particularly for people with symptoms, people with a known close exposure, close contact with a covid 19 positive person. For people what have been asked to get a test per the health department. There are a lots of opportunities that we hope will be opened up through this health order. City has done 60 of the covid 19 testing to date. In order to realize this vision of expanded testing, we need all providers to do more. thank you dreghtor. Director. Do you believe that private testing labs are keeping up with the ever growing need for city wide testing . part of our goal is to encourage providers an providerh care systems to expand their testing just as the mayor announced today. Were investing in more testing so do other Health Care Systems across the city. Theres the meeting demand for testing and prioritizing the neighborhoods for demand for testing. We need to do our part there. Theres the situation where labs are getting behind in terms of processing tests. To a large extent thats a national and state issue because the large lab entities that are processing these specimens are getting further and further hand. We all need to Work Together to ensure that labs are turning tests around as quickly as possible so we can flatten the curve by dpettin getting tests e quickly. thank you. What are the turn around time for test results in san fran francisco. testing turn around time varies demanding on where people get tested and the capacity of wherethe capacity of the lab of where those specimens are going. In some cases the specimens can be turned around within 72 hours but were seeing back ups especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. We are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. Thats something were seeing across the state and across the country. thank you director. Thank you madam mayor and dr. C olfax for your time. Any followup questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. thank hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about checking with your neighbors. Start off by giving your neighbor a call to see how they are or if they need help. If they dont answer, dont get anxious. Try again later. Check to see if their car is parked nearby. Are they lights being turned on and off during normal hours . If you still cant contact them, contact your other neighbors and see if theyve had contact with them recently. You can also leave a note in their mailbox, and when you do get in touch with them, ask if theyd like to share their Emergency Contact information. If youre getting groceries for a neighbor, get a mask and sanitizing wipe. Put the groceries by the front door and then move back and call them from the sidewalk. If you need to ring the doorbell, dont use your hand. Use the wipe or paper towel that you brought. When you call, stay on the sidewalk at least 6 feet away from them. As youre talking to them, ask about any other help they might need. Some might need further assistance with groceries or just need to chat. Maybe they might need you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. And as always, as soon as you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. Well, thats it for this episode. I hope you found it useful. Go to sfgov for