Transcripts For SFGTV Commission On The Environment 20240712

We have part of our engagement was Junior Deputy program. I mentioned earlier and we try to get out there to do clinics related to interest. We went up to Juvenile Justice Center a few months ago. Myself, captain stanford and another captain and provided basketball clinic for juveniles up there. It was part of our process to reach out not just for recruitment but to engage with people to just really message out that we are here for them in any other ways other than being just as involved. I think those efforts that we engage with the community. The organizations i am looking forward to meeting with you. I have spoken to director davis about that. Thank you so much. Colleagues. Any other questions or comments . Thank you. I am good. Thank you, sheriff. All right. Maybe we can move to wrap up this hearing. Thanks, supervisor safai and your legislative aid for organizing such an important hearing. Do you have Closing Remarks . Yes, i would like to make Closing Remarks if that is okay. Thank you. Thank you, chair, for allowing us this leeway. I know this was a long hearing. I want to say since i have been supervisor and this is my fourth year. I can count on one hand the number of hearings i have called. I am very selective. That doesnt mean i dont believe there i is a necessity o have hearings. I will cosponsor hearings with colleagues. One of the most important roles as supervisors is the power of inquiry. My purpose today was not to embarrass anyone. It was not to make anyone feel as though they were singled out. It was to learn as much as we could and to highlight an important issue in the climates we live in. People talk about ideas but for me this was one of the ones i not we could have Lasting Impact here in San Francisco in how we are represented in our First Responders. Those First Responders are the ones that are here today are the ones interacting with our communities of color that experienced a historic racism and oppression. If we are going to have a representatives body that is more of what we see in the Society Today as director simms said we cant use the demographics of San Francisco as the yardstick. San francisco is going through a major gentrification, for lack of better word, for historic communities and others have been displaced and not a good example. The demographics of the bay area or california or those interacting with the community that have the most interaction might be better. Who you are interacting with Community Members and represents that work force it is important to be reelective of that. There are many yardsticks we can use. We knew the audit was hiring within the Police Department. We wanted to do compare and contrast. It was telling today. I learn a lot and i appreciate the teams for sharing that information. Director simms and the Human Rights Commission and director davis for allowing the energy to be put in to this from the local 98 and for participating. I want to give a special thank you for putting in tremendous effort. I feel bad i amsor rye i am sot quick enough. Recruit men and hiring of women in the Fire Department. I apologies for that. I do want to make a moat i am going to ask i am going to ask this hearing be continued to the call of the chair. We can then set a specific date. I dont want a date off the top of my head in the next three or four months. We will ask the office to look at the data they have here today to simply come up with recommendations and see areas for improvement in all three departments. Today we compared Police Department to Fire Department and sheriffs department. I think there are lessons to be learned and we have to be more creative within each department. There were discussions about increasing budgeted and the rank. A diversified work force in different areas is extremely important. That is more important given the times we are in. We cant use the budget process as a reason for not making that firm commitment. We have to affiant creative ways. They can use existing resources. Lastly, i want to underscore. It was telling the to hear those in the police and Fire Department that the testing mechanism when it was changed had a Significant Impact on the outcome of a diversified work force. That is something that i want to specifically under score for the office of Racial Equity to look at in terms how we are going to continue to do that and use that moving forward. That is a major impediment to some of the goals told. I want to thank you supervisor marfor ifor sitting through theg hearings. It is amazing because you do these all of the time. I appreciate your input today. I hand it back to you, mr. Chair. Thank you for this important discussion we had today. On supervisor safais motion to continue this hearing to the call of the chair, mr. Clerk, please call roll. Small amount of housekeeping. The house did change with return of supervisor haney to the committee. The appointment was effective until haney arrived. If we could get the usual pan telpanelof three. So moved. Vice chair peskin mover to call of chair. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Thank you everyone. Can you please call items 6 through 16 for closed session. Sure. Agenda items 2 through 16 . Yes, 2 through 16. Various ordinances and resolutions settling lawsuits against the city and county. Members of the public should call the Public Comment number. 415 6550001. Enter meeting id1464783455. Press pound twice to connect to the meeting and star key followed by 3 to speak. System prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until you are unmuted and you may begin your comments. Mr. Chair. Before we go to Public Comment on the closed session, supervisor peskin do you have anything . Thank you, chairman mar. As supervisor safai indicated. This hearing has gone on for four hours. Unfortunately, i need to be somewhere else as of 2 00 which i am 10 minutes late and 10 minutes away. I think we have two choices and it is in your and supervisor haneys hands to continue these items to our next meeting or to hear it without me. I have to leave at this point for which i apologize. I had no idea we would be in this hearing for over four hours. Thank you, supervisor peskin. I would ask if deputy City Attorney pearson can comment on whether continuing these settlement agreements 2 through 16 on to the next meeting would be okay. Department City Attorney pearson. It is your call whether to continue the items. I have been prepared to be joined in closed session by my colleagues litigating hastings. They are prepared to walk you through that settlement. They would be in a better position than i am to talk on impacts on a continuance, but with respect to the other cases i am not aware of external deadlines. I leave it to the committee to decide what they want to continue. We can consider continuance in closed session. Yes. Supervisor peskin. Yes, i am not able to stay for the closed session at this point. Thank you. Sorry everybody. Thank you. Maybe we can go to Public Comment right now on the closed session items 2 through 16. Mr. Clerk are there any caller on the line . Thank you very much, mr. Chair. We will check for callers in the queue. For those connected press star followed by 3 to speak to this item the entirety of the litigation agenda. For those on hold in the queue continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. You will hear the prompt that your line is unmuted. If you are watching by streaming or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak on this item call in by following the instructions on your screen. I will repeat. 415 6550001. Meeting id today 146 4783455. Press pound twice and then star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. Could you connect us to the first caller, please. Hello. I am a resident of district 8. I am calling to ask the audit and Oversight Committee to vote no on the item on the closed agenda. It will endanger unhoused people. The lawsuit is racist and unjust. In particular the goal of the tenderloin node. [indiscernable] the visible poverty is not a crime. I vote with the other 40 organizations in the tenderloin to reject the settlement. You can avert the disaster. Well over 1600 are in the tenderloin. You can end the dangerous precedents of litigating and allow the coalition on homelessness parties granted intervention lawsuits that did not have an opportunity to participate in the initial settlement a seat at the table. Thank you for your time please vote no on the hastings settlement. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Could you please connect us to the next speaker. I am a resident of tenderloin district 6. I am calling to urge you to vote no on the hastings settlement item 12. My reason is contrary to what my colleague before me stated. It is unfair for the settlement to occur on the tenderloin and leave others. This is not a question of poverty. There are 1600 unhoused. I think there needs to be a grand solution for such people. They need our assistance but these residents here on Willow Street have been suffering with not just them dwelling on the streets but there is a lot of disturbances, noise, crack addiction and all sorts of looting and garbage eve everywh. It is unhealthy to be here. That settlement should extend to all tenderloin not just the 300 tents committed to. Thank you. Please connect us to the next speaker. That completes the queue. Thank you. Operations. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is closed. We can move to closed session. We will now convene in closed session. Could we take a roll call on motion to convene in closed session. Yes, please. On the motion to convene in closed session noting vice chair peskin is absent. Haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair will are two ayes and one absence. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We will convene in closed session. Thank you very much. A note. The members of the committee will be leaving this live meeting and connecting to did closed session hall. They will reconnect to this live meeting when it is concluded. I will present a summary of the actions taken during the closed session. Any members of the public invited to remain in this live session so you can hear summary of the actions taken. At this time the members of the committee are disconnecting from this call. [closed session. Hi. Im Chris Mathers with channel 19, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. First, im going to tell you what ive been doing, and then im going to be checking in with some friends and family. Ive been riding my bike. All i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. I try to ride my bike during the time im sheltering in place. I try to ride for at least 30 minutes. Surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. California state guidelines recommend you dont drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although im close to ocean beach, im a bit wary to go there, so im using the time to do some maintenance. Filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down. Im also repairing holes in my suit. Fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. He and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. This routine is from an online class by power yoga. Deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. Ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. It has everything she needed. And lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle, sudoku, or just by reading a good book. Heres a quick recap. Since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. For instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. Go to sf. Gov to get the most uptodate im district two e leadership of the department of Public Health flattened the curve in San Francisco. The steps we have taken together have saved lives. One of the reasons the city acted so quickly so early was to not overburden our Health Care Systems. As the state of california and bay area counties have begun to gradually reopen, we are seeing some troubling signs. We have a seven day average of ninety eight new cases per day. Our demand for acute care for covid positive patients has goan each week. Today dr. And i are announcing the establishment of our first low acuity medical site. Located a 163. It will open with twenty patients. Its not expected to treat covid positive patients. When i starred this i facility i was truly impressed at the first rate medical facility. The citys ability to confront covid 19 depends on our ability to care for those with all manner of conditions. Sprained angels to heart attacks. Other ailments are not stopping just because of the pandemic. Opening this facility will shore up our ability for the hospitals to treat covid 19. It is not a drop in acute care site testing location or shelter. Please do not visit this location if you are seeking any of those services sm as the district two supervisor i would be remiss to not note the response to local emergencies. Were an incredible resource and im grateful for the partnership with press i hapartnershipwith. A good mark morning. Im director of health. Thank you for your support during this unprecedented time. Today like if everyday, i check the number of patient patients h covid 19. Unfortunately that number is higher than ever before and continues to climb. That number dropped to just 26 patients six weeks ago. Today, its one hundred and seven. Of those one quarter are very sick and in intensive care. Across the city we have more than six thousand cases of covid 19. And look, it took us thirty eight days to go from two thousand to three thousand cases. Of half as long to go from three thousand to four thousand. In just ten days we went from five thousand to six thousand cases of covid 19. Let me be clear, we are in a major surge of covid 19. The virus is moving fast and more people are getting seriously ill. If things continue, we estimate well have more than 750 san franciscans in the hospital by october. Plausible worst Case Scenarios put us at twenty four hundred hospitalizations and eighteen hundred deaths. These scenarios unfortunately become more likely as each day goes by with the current trend. Today, fortunately all patients are getting world class treatment from the most caring professionals sm we wisals. We still have capacity to care for patients. It is good news that our Health Care System has not yet been overwhelmed as we saw in new york. Many are contributing to that by staying home, avoiding gathering, covering your faces when go ting out, washing your hands sm you are preventing more illness and spread and keep our Health Care System functioning. Our city must prepare for this surge. How many peoplethat puts us in the red zone of one of our Key Health Indicators. Weve been there for over a month. Its extremely sobering that we reached this point. Its extremely concerning. Our reopening remains on pause. The main reason we joined the watch list was because of our rapidly growing rates. Our goal is to keep the increase to less than 10 . Since january the Health Department has been planning and preparing for covid 19. We built up the capacity of our Health Care System. We added testing sites a sites. Today supervisor stephanie announced, were creating a care site that we hope we will not need. Its located in the presidio but will serve all san franciscans. It will serve patients who no longer need acute care but are not ready to go home. They would have medical medical supervision and care from staff. I hope this day wont come. We hope our hospitals will never need to open the relief that this site represents. That depends on you. All of us. Please. Please wear a mask. Its really not that hard. I want to see San Francisco open schools instead of medical sites. We want to see houses of worship open their doors. Sit in their favorite barbers chair. Hug our grand children again. We can make that happen. We still have time to turn this around. If we want those things we cant take chances and hope this virus is not as infectious as the data and facts tell us it is. Everyone needs to behave as though each of us has covid 19. Think about that. We know half as many doap donte symptoms at some period. Be careful. Every time you wear a mask, socially distance. Wash your hands. Avoid gatherings. Youre moving closer to the day we can live more like we did before march. Everyday you take a risk you move us farther away from that day. We can prove testimon works aga. Covering our faces may be the most important. On friday San Francisco updated the orders. Everyone over the age of ten should wear a Face Covering. If youre alone in a space that people might use later, cover your face. If youre handling food for other face, cover your face. Basically, cover your face. If youre passing someone on the sidewalk, your face must be covered. Other things we must do. Washing our hand hands, stayingx feet apart. If you are meeting. Meet out side if you can. Of course, please you must stay home if you can. Short of the vaccine or cure of covid 19 these are the most effective interventions that we have available to us. They work if we take them up and practice these behaviors everyday. You can do this. Its up to us to flatten the curve again. Thank you. Thank you doctor and thank you supervisor stephanie for your time. Well begin the q and a portion of this meeting. We have a variety of questions for dr. Co lfax. The first question is from the associated press. We havent seen the devastation in the homeless communities. Why do you think that is . I think its a number of factors that so far have helped us avoid worse Case Scenarios with people experiencing homelessness, we took action early on with our partners and support of housing and with our Community Seven is agency part mere ins. Ensuring that best practices were rapidly a applied. People had the materials necessary to reduce the spread. Other key interventions that we did is make available hundreds of hotel rooms so people experiencing c homelessness were able to shelter in place. Over thirty five hundred people have been placed in those hotel rooms. Weve done a lot of out reach work on the street. Providing hygiene. We had an intense Clinical Team that provided health care for people before the pandemic. This team has been working around the clocke clock to ensue people get the best care. Its a variety of actions that weve taken to avoid some of the outcomes weve seen in other jurisdictions. Thank you, doctor. The next set of questions are from ab c seven. Face shields should be worn in addition to face masks. Do you for se for see this beina requirement. The most important thing is that we ensure in public that everyone is wearing a Face Covering if they are over ten years of age. Weve been very clear that protecting our Health Care Workers is key. How close is San Francisco to getting off the watch list . We continue to see increases above the 50 hospitalization rates. I cant speculate on how soon. We are in a major surge here and anticipating on average seven hundred fifty in the hospital by october. If were on and off the watch list what is key is we work to flatten the curve and recommit ourselves. We did it before and we can do it again. Its going to take the whole community to make this work. Are social gatherings the major reason for the surge. Its a major ko contributor. People should not be using testing to determine whether they should gather. If someone is infected, the virus is extremely contagious. They are contributing to this increase. If you go to a gathering and somebody has the virus and is going to transmit it. We have to understand that with more virus in the community you saw how quickly we went from four thousand to five thousand tcases. Please, please dont gather. We have a handful of questions about San Francisco issuing fines on people who dont wear masks in public. Weve been emphasizing the needs of these masks and the social distancing as we continue to emif i if emphasize. Were schorrin exploring how wey increase enforcement particularly in situations where requirements that are very clear are not being followed. This would be enforced following up with businesses an other situations where people gather. Were working with communities for voluntary compliance. Were looking at increasing enforcement. In regards to the press ci the. Who is paying for it and who will staff it . The city is funding the site. It will be staff by Health Departments and u c sf providers. Well take care of 93 patients. M what has it historically ben used for and is it prepared to accept patients. It will depend on the capacity of our hospitalization across the city. If theres a need to move people out of the hospital quickly and make room for covid 19 patients. I cant speculate on the past use of the site. Thank you for your time today that conclawed concludes the prs conference. For additional questions please email. Good morningi know many of you have n tuning into the press conferences and reading releases for updates on covid in San Francisco and status every opening. Often those dont give us the chance to talk in depth about the complex issues we are facing. This is why talks like this today are so important. Today i am joined by dr. Grant colfax, director of department of Public Health to dive into one of the most complicated issues that we have focused on including information about the data. Today dr. Colfax and i are going to talk about the data the department of Public Health is tracking and what it means for San Francisco in our ongoing response to covid. We know there are a lot of numbers out there. Like the Key Health Indicators Available Online and it can be difficult to keep track what it all means. I know at the end of the day Everyone Wants to understand exactly what this means and when will we open . This is so fundamental to the decisions we make forral of you every day. We want to explain it to make it easier to understand. The data shows where we have been in San Francisco. It gives us insight into where we are going. It gives us the ability to change course if we see a concerning spike like recently. We had to pause the reopening activities and businesses as a result. With data we can model what the future might look like if we take action or dont take action. By makes decisions on data, science and fax, we will make decisions that slow the spread of the virus and save lives. We know that we are going to be living with covid for some time and the goal is to use this data to adapt to our new normal. Lets get started, dr. Colfax. Thank you and welcome. Can you fleacan you please prove where we are in San Francisco as it relates to the numbers. Thank you for your leadership during this time and really supporting all of us as we focus on the data, science and facts. I have a presentation with a lot of data i would like to go through. If there are questions that you would like to share during the presentation, please let me know. I will just give us a snapshot where we are today, talk about what we can all do to bend the curve, reduce infections across San Francisco and talk about what the future may hold if we do not wear face masks, practice social distancing and good hygiene. Can we go to the slide presentation, please. First slide is number of cases in San Francisco. All the way back, please. Okay. We have a preview. This is where we stand right now in San Francisco. Anybody can follow these data on a daily basis at our San Francisco data tracker sf. Gov and follow to see where we stand. Today we have nearly 4600 cases of covid19 diagnosed in San Francisco. I think it is important to also realize that nearly 1,000 cases have been diagnosed just in the last two weeks. We continue to see a high level of diagnosis. Two weeks is when people are infectious. 1,000 people in the last two weeks. 50 people have died of covid19 related illnesses in the city. While any one death from covid19 is too many, a few pieces of promising data here is that our death rate has leveled off for a number of weeks. Our clinicians are doing a better job using science how to manage the disease. This could change at any moment, especially if the Healthcare Systems are overwhelmed and people are not able to get the clinical medical attention they need. There is a lot of information on this slide. You can go to sf. Gov to see this. The big graph with the green line is number of tests done in San Francisco over june and into july. You can see those gray bars are the number of tests done every day. I will say that we have exceeded our goal in San Francisco. We set a goal of 1800 tests each day in San Francisco. For the last week we have been averaging 2600 tests each day in San Francisco. You can see from that jagged green line that is the Positivity Rate. That is of all of the people tested on that day what is the Positivity Rate . That has been gradually increasing over time. It is now 3 overall time. We have recently seen a large spike in the Positivity Rate, which is indicative of the virus spreading throughout the community. You can also see from the yellow bars in terms of cases in terms of race that we have a disproportionate number of people of color diagnosed with covid19 compared with the population in San Francisco overall. The latin x accounts for half of all the dyeagnosed cases. We also see large numbers from black Africanamerican Community and asian community. This is why we are working with stakeholders across neighborhoods to ensure that Community Leaders and neighborhoods and Community Members and families are actively engaged in the response, know where to get tested and care and where to access the other services needed during this very challenging time. Things like having access to food. Food security, behavioral and Mental Health services and counseling, is very important going forward. Mayor breed do you want me to talk specifically . I want to clarify something so we have about less than a 6 africanamerican population but seeing about 5. 4 of the cases africanamerican. We dont see disproportionately the number of cases in th the bk Community Like throughout the country. We clearly see disproportionat disproportionately the Latino Community cases. The question i have is because that in comparison to any other race in San Francisco is where the biggest challenge is. My question is what are we as the city doing . What is the department of Public Health doing to address this significant disparity . Thank you, mayor. We have been working from day one with regard to preparing and anticipating Health Inequities in the covid19 epidemic largely because we know that the virus spreads unconditions in which we have seen in San Francisco that have affected Health Inequities for a long time. With regard to the disproportionate impact in Latin X Community we have been working with your Latino Task Force on covid19 to ensure that education, community engagement, testing access is strong and also that we are ensuring that when people do test positive that they not only have access to the medical care but the Behavioral Health support, social services support, food access and not only they have that but their families have that. If people are not able to isolate and quarantine and not able to do that in their living situation we are also ensuring people have access at hotels as alternatives to their Living Conditions so they can isolate safely and not put others at risk for transmitting the disease, acquiring the disease. We are also ensuring with the Contact Tracing, which is such an important tool in this pandemic we have culturally appropriate Contact Tracing being done. Half of the Contact Tracing is done in spanish right now. We have culturally competent contact tasers. It is not just about ensuring that people feel comfortable talking to us about who they may have been in contact with and put at risk for disease. We want to support the individual. Supporting the individual, linking to those services. We ensure people get access to care for covid19 and medical care in general. Under no circumstances will people be identified by immigration status. This process is very confidential. Some challenging around the inequities that exist with the city respond. From day one we operated an equity team through Emergency Operations center but unfortunately what we are seeing in San Francisco is significant number of people diagnosed with covid19 are mostly in the southeast, eastern part of the city. The Testing Capacity is in the center of the city, and we are seeing disparity in terms of Testing Capacity. Why havent we done more other than pop up locations on a regular basis in the various neighborhoods. Why have we not done more for stationary locations so it is easier to access testing . From day one when we scaled up the Testing Centers we had Southeast Health center first. Then we established a testing site outside the zuckerberg hospital as well as the Mission Neighborhood health center. We are also expanding testing sites in sunnydale, potrero hill and we have just recently started testing at the hub and mission. It is a key priority of ours to continue to ensure people have access to testing, particularly if they are in the neighborhoods where we see the highest prevalence of covid19. The one opened in the mission this weekend they expected 100 people and tested over 200. We have to take the testing where people are. I will turn it back to you to finish up your presentation. Thank you, maam. Mayor, you talked about equity and Covid Response. I will reinforce this slide emphasizes we had our equity front and center of our Covid Response from beginning and continue to ensure we make investments as we move forward. I also wanted just to point out where San Francisco is relative to other communities that are dealing with this pandemic. This is looking at San Francisco compared to other cities and jurisdictions across the country. As you can see so far our case rate is relatively low to other places. Our death rate is quite a bit lower at 5. 8 per 100,000 people. Compared to other jurisdictions we are significantly lower than other places. Our testing rates while we continue to expand testing, our testing average is 2. 92 tests per 1,000 and that compares to other places. We needsh to expand testing. Thithis is a regional and natiol issue. There is a lot of demand for testing now and delays in test results. I would emphasize here in San Francisco our Public Health lab was one of the first to offer testing. We continue to expand that and work with private providers, kaiser and others to ensure low barrier testing is available to people. Promising news. We are in a vulnerable situation. The mayor spoke about indicators right now. This is the slide looking at the hospitalizations in the city from march into july. You can see that our hospitalization rates are starting to increase. The dark bars are the number of patients in intensive care. Light are the people in acute care, medical surgical beds that are sick enough to be in the hospital. Those numbers are significantly increasing. This is very concerning. We got up to a high of 94 in april in terms of hospitalization rate. That was the first surge. Thanks to everybody in San Francisco we flattened the curve and crushed it. Now it is going up. We in another surge. We are in another surge and we expect to see these hospitalization numbers to continue to go up. The yellow bars in this graph also show the number of people in the hospital who have been transferred from other jurisdictions because other jurisdictions are in serious trouble as well. Many of these include patients transferred from the outbreak in san quentin. We are in a surge even taking into account those transfers. You talked about indicators. This is one of the key indicators in the city. People can go to sf. Gov to see the indicators. This is the change in covid hospitalizations by week. This is number of people in the hospital with covid 19. That rate of change. As you can see for a long period of time we were doing really well in the city. We were in the green zone. That is the green dots here. That increase was less than 10 . Then we saw a big jump consistent with the surge in the graph i just showed you. We continue to be in the red zone with a double rate of 20 compared to our target rate of 10 . This is reflective of the surge. This is why we made the very difficult decision to put reopenings on pause. Similarly, we are seeing a big increase in the Positivity Rates of people who are testing. This is the number of cases diagnosed per 100,000 population over seven days. You can see we were in the yellow zone for a long time, and our goal was to get to 1. 8 per 100,000. We are now above 6 per 100,000. You can see that on the right. This slide is updated to july 11. We are at 7. 8 per 100,000. This indicates that the virus is spreading throughout the city. Particularly in the areas that you mentioned southeast part of the city. This is a complicated slide. I will take a minute to describe it. This is looking at the reproductive number of the virus. What is the reproductive number of the virus . That is how fast the virus is is transmitting through the population. Reproductive rate of two means for every person infected with the virus, two people get infected with the virus. That is a very high transmission rate. Reproductive rate of. 5 so half means for every two people infected with the virus, only one new person gets infected. That is really good. For every two people infected only one new person is infected. That means is virus is going down in the population. Reproductive rate of one in the dotted line across this graph means for everyone person infected with the virus, one more person is getting infected. What we really want in a situation we are this is get that reproductive number below one, which means for every person infected with the virus less than one other person is getting infected. That is key. What does this graph actually show . These are scenarios modeled at u c berkeley. We asked given the dates take we gave you to analyze what are the best estimates for the reproductive rate. That is shown o on blue across time. We were doing well in San Francisco. The rate was below one as low as. 85. If that had stayed the virus would have burned out in the city. Unfortunately, you can see here that starting in early june we started to cross that one. Right now we estimate that reproductive rate of virus is as high as on average 1. 25. It could be even higher. That is what the blue fuzzy leans. They are estimates of the model. Most likely it is 1 point 25. It could be higher or lower. Right now our best estimate is 1. 25. That doesnt sound like that much different, right . That is half a decimal point from where we were. Why is that a big deal . This is what keeps me up at night. This is what happens if the reproductive rate stays at 11point owes 1. 25 with the current surge. That dark line most likely scenario if everything is the same at 1. 25 we would hit 830 hospitalizations in the city. Think about that for a minute. In april we peaked at 94. Thanks to all of the work people did in San Francisco we sheltered in place, drove that number down. It is now plausible that we hit hospitalizations at 830 if we do not do more to stop the spread. Those lighter blue peaks are plausible scenarios as well. We could get up to 6,000 hospitalizations. It reflects the challenges that new york had. We hope this doesnt happen. It is so key here. We have a window to do better. B. Next slide. And again, another very concerning situation. This related to the reproductive rate of 1. 25, so this means that we will have more people die, and if you follow that blue line, this means we would average, excuse me, 890 deaths from covid19 in 2020. Were at 50 right now, and by the end of the year, we could be at 890 with a reproductive rate of 1. 25, and again, unfortunately, those white shaded blue lines show we could get much higher scenarios, approaching 2,000, and even 3,000. So this is this is serious. This is a we are in a very concerning time right now with this reproductive rate of 1. 25, and we need to drive down below 1 as soon as possible. Next slide. But there is hope, and this is looking as of july 4, because we were looking at the july 4 weekend and asking everyone to do their part. If we could reduce that rate by half, we could dramatically reduce our hospitalizations and our death. We could go from the hundreds that we talked about to as few as 50 and 70. And even the scenarios that i showed you with those light blue shaded areas, we could see more deaths through 2020. So if we do our part, we could save lives and keep people out of the hospital. Again, even in the next two weeks, if we could all do our part, we could really make a difference. You see in the next two weeks, we wait for the reproductive number to reduce by 50 , we still have peak hospitalization at 340 and an estimated 220 deaths in 2020, so time really makes a difference. Next slide. So key introduction to reducing r. P. E. This the reproductive rate. This has real socioeconomic and other consequences, as well. Discouraging gatherings, especially inside, and i just want to emphasize right now that, really, please do not gather with people outside of your immediate household, and especially do not gather indoors, it is very dangerous to do that. Please, it is literally saving lives. And then, continuing to offer testing, expanding our testing, and Contact Tracing. Such key tools to our efforts going forward. Next slide. So i alluded to this, but really, riskiness of the activity, we know that outdoors is safer than indoors. Its at this point that, based on the latest data, its 10 to 20 times safer than being indoors. Its risking out to be involved in gatherings with people outside of your immediate household. Half of the people who transmit covid19 are asymptomatic. And you can get covid19 right after you test. So dont think that just because you test negative, you can get it from people that you hangout with or you can transmit it back to older people in your household. We continue to emphasize wearing Face Coverings, 6 feet of social distancing, and washing your hands. The frequency, the more people go out, the more they are putting themselves and their loved ones at risk. The duration, the longer people spend time together, the more risk it is for transmission, and then, the distance. This is why we are focused on the social distancing and the importance of that going forward. Next slide. And then, i did want to talk a little bit about hope going forward, and talk about vaccines are being looked at and developed, and unfortunately, theres not likely to be any vaccines soon. Key experts estimate it could be 12 to 18 months before a vaccine is widely available. Thats very different from saying a vaccine is going to be available in six months to a year. But im hopeful, according to mayor breed, that we will be testing extensively across the city and also at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, and we will be focusing on engaging communities most at risk for covid19 to support them in participating in vaccine trials as soon as august. Thank you, mayor, and thats my completed presentation. The hon. London breed well, thank you, dr. Colfax. I know were at the end of our time here, but i do want to take this opportunity to just speak to the people in San Francisco who are struggling. There are some people who are struggling, who have no paychecks coming in, and its really hard. And what happens, in addition to the loss of your financial ability to take care of yourself and even your family, Mental Health becomes a whole other issue. And it seems as without our churches, our religious services, our ability to congregate and come together with one another, our spirituality as well as our coming together in the world, and our ability to socialize as we do on a regular basis, its almost as if were trading one Public Health crisis for another. We know, for example, Domestic Violence has gone up, suicides have gone up, people are more stressed in trying to figure out what to do with their lives. We see some of the Violent Crimes going up in the city. How do we justify that . The fact is you and i know were going to be living with covid for the 12 to 18 months or even longer, and so this is hitting in various ways as we try and keep people safe and try to prevent the surge in the 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. Good afternoon, everyone. It is now 1 0s p. M. My name is Miguel Bustos and this is the regular meeting on Community Investment and infrastructure. For tuesday, july 21st, 2020. Id like to welcome members of the public who are streamlining on this. Or listening to us live and i want to thank the staff who will be participating in todays meeting. Following the sidelines the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure that the safety of everyone including members of the public and thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, call the first item. Clerk the first order of business is item 1 roll call. Commission members, responded when i call your name. [roll call] clerk commission scott, you are on mute. Commissioner scott is present. [roll call] all members of the commission are present. The next order are of business is idea 2, announcements. 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Its best to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and fluently and turn down your television or radio. The next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. There are no matters of unfinished business. The next order of business is 5, consisting of regular a again ga. First the consent agenda. Item 5a, approval of minutes, regular meeting of june 16th, 2020. Authorization a First Amendment to the personal Services Contract with a Liability Company contractor and increase the contract amount by 31,000 for a total not to exceed 76,000 and to expend the term by one year through june 30th, 2021 to provide continued Real Estate Advisory Services for the negotiation of disposition and Development Agreement for trancebay block 4, assessors parcel number 3739, portion of lot 008, trance bay redevelopment project area, action, resolution number 16 162020. Do we have anyone that wishes to speak on this item . Trance bay. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 408 4189388. And enter access code 1462925173 followed by the pound sign and pound sign again. Press star and then throw to be placed in the queue and automated voice will let you know when its your turn. Well give the public a few moments to call in. Are there any members of the public . There are no callers on the line. Clerk thank you. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no members of the public, on the phone, wishing to comment on this item. No further questions to speak on this item. Commissioners, may i get a motion for these two consent items . I move the item. Thank you. Is there a second . Second. Commissioner scott seconds it and take roll. Clerk please announce your vote for 5a and 5 0 5b. Commissioner bracket commissioner scott. Rosales. Yes. Bustos. The chair is four ayes. Motion carried. Madam secretary, call the next item. Clerk the next is the regular agenda number 5c through 5e related to the plan amendment for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project area will be presented together and acted on separately. 5c approving the report to the board of supervisors on the amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South and redevelopment project and connection with an increase in hotel rooms on the Mission Bay South block 1 hotel parcel and authorizing transmittal the report to the board of supervisors and providing notice that this approval is within the scope of the Mission Bay Redevelopment project, approved under the mission bay final subsequent Environmental Impact report and a program eir and its described in for the purchasing of the California Environmental quality act. And adopting environmental finding pursuant to the California Environmental quality act and Commission Based south redevelopment project area discussion and action and resolution number 172020 and 5d approvalling an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South, Row Development project in connection with an increase in hotel rooms on the Mission Bay South block 1 hotel parcel, recommending adoption of the redevelopment plan amendment by the board of supervisors and submitting the recommendations including the redevelopment plan amendment to the board of supervisors providing notice that this approval is within the scope of the mission bay Row Development project approved under the mission bay final subsequent Environmental Impact report fseir a program eir and adequately described in the fseir for the purposes of the California Environmental quality act and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act Mission Bay South, redevelopment project area discussion and action resolution number 182020. Conditionally authorization an eighth amendment to the Mission Bay South owner participation agreement with focil mh370 mb, lla a delaware limited Liability Company providing notice that this approval is within the scope of the Mission Bay Redevelopment project approved under the mission bay final subsequent Environmental Impact report, fseir, a program eir and is adequately described in the fseir for the purposes of the California Environmental quality act. And adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act. Mission bay south redevelopment project area, discussion and action, resolution number 192020. Madam director. Good afternoon, thank you madam secretary. Through the chair this item is amendments to the planned documents that would allow for an increase in the number of hotel rooms on block 1, hotel parcel from 250 to 200 and through a conversion of already designed and under construction suites to individual hotel rooms. Also known as the soma hotel. And in addition, we had been before the commission a few times over the years for the major phase application as well as the approval of the project and and we were in front of the commission and given an overview of the mission. Weve been working with the developer over the last year in preparation for this and due to covid or were slightly delayed. I want to just share that the remainder of block one has a 350 unit residential project and the groundfloor for the other half which is currently under construction. Were proposing the changing of the city administrators and the envelope stays the same its riereallocation and one to two g room and a bedroom. I would like the mission bay project team to present on this item. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon chair bustos, vicechair rosales and commissioners bracket and scott and as i english inne mentionedr of the ncaii. There are throw items before you today regarding the soma Hotel Project which would increase the number of hotel rooms in an existing building through the conversion of suits to individual hotel rooms. The conversion will not result in an increasing building area it will have an effect on the exterior of the building. The proposed increase to hotel rooms requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan and the owner participation agreement as well as to already approve design documents the major phase and basic concept and design or bcsd for the project. As mentioned in this staff memorandum, well bring the bcsd to commission for consideration at a later date. Next slide, please. Here is an overview of todays presentation. First we will cover the three action items before you, and then we will talk about the project currently under construction and how the increase in rooms will be achieved through the division of one and two did he d bedroom su. Well talk about the requirement and we will end with a summary of all of the actions that will happen after the hearing including the schedule for the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors. Resolution 17, 18 and 19 are before you today for approval. Next slide. Current projects. The project under construction on the block 1 hotel parcel is a 250 room total comprised of 213 individual rooms and 37 suites. The hotel will have a pen tease such as meeting room space, a restaurant as well as publicly accessible rooftop space. The project Site Construction in 2018 and is expected to finish in early 2021. Next slide. 2020 and concluded. Here is a visual of the hotel under construction. As well as a rendering of what it looks like upon completion. Again, the did vision of suites will be completed through interior work and will have no affect on the e exterior. This is us in the Mission Bay South project area and shows the square of the soma and block one and to the east park to the north which is also under construction and channel street to the south and to the west. The project area is well received by neighborhood Resale Services and transit as shown on this amenities map. Next slight proposed project. Soma will divide suites into 49 individual rooms. Since Commission Approved in 2014, soma hotel has seen changes in the hotel market and does not expect as high as a demand for suites. This proposed change requires an amendment to the redevelopment plan and opa and in those documents, a requested increase is rounded to 50 rooms versus 49. The increase will need to be reflected through a bcsd and major phase amendment. The last bullet of this slide notes that all the of the agency whos review this item for approval, including plan, the board of supervisors, the Oversight Board and the California Department of finance. Next slide. Proposed changes. The table on the slide shows the change from the current project to the proposed project. The proposed change leaves nine suites remain north the program. And you can see in the second row, the buildings over all Square Footage is the same because the additional rooms will be achieved by moving interior walls and adding doors. Next slide. This slide shows the typical flor plan afloor plan at the hoe and twobedroom suites. They will be divided into individual rooms. Each suit has a living room which will be converted into an individual room. Next slide, Plan Document amendment. The revalment plan is an increase in the number of hotel rooms on block one. There are also minor language deletions doing with the 2013 redevelopment plan amendment which was also associated with block one. This gave the developer at the time the flexibility to build either 350 units of residential and a 250room hotel and a larger 500 hotel room on the site. They performed the former option so the hotel parcel to soma hotel and finished the units in late 2017. Next slide community outreach. They were presented to the Commission Citizens advisory and and they have discussed this proposal to divide during a construction related community meeting. And there were no questions or comments from the community regarding the suit conversion. Next slide. Small business enterprise. The project complies with the south opa program and diversity and economic development. Which includes ociis Small Business enterprise or sbe program. Soma hotel participation rates have charge ove changed over thf the project it has made efforts and worked with ocii team to do so. Workforce program. So soma hotel has worked with ocii on the local hiring for construction jobs and since it began construction in 2018. In addition it has begun to plan for permit jobs through conversations with the office of economic and Workforce Development and ocii regarding Hospitality Industry training placement. Next slide. Finally, as mentioned earlier, there are approval entities with the Plan Document changes after commission today and it slides out of the Planning Board of supervisors and Oversight Board hearings as well as the final mayoral Signature Department of finance and determination and Effective Date for the redevelopment plan amendment. This concludes our presentation and we can answer any questions you may have. Also on the line for this item and available for questions from ocii are mark, the project manager for mission bay. George bridges, contracts compliance supervisor and jose compose. From the project sponsor soma hotel on the line are amy, project manager and eric smith, district offedirector of operat. We have a law firm are also available. Thank you so much. Madam secretary, do we have anyone on the phone who would like to speak on this item . At this time, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4189388 and enter access code 1462925173 followed by the pound sign and pound sign again. When prompted, please press star 3 to be placed in the queue and automated voice will let you know when its your turn to withdraw your question. Press star 3 again. Well give the public a few moments to call in. Bracket. We have month members of the public wishing to speak on this item. No further questions to speak on this item from the public i will close Public Comment. My fellow commissioners for any comments or questions. Commissioner, do you have any comments or questions . Can i go last . Sure. Commissioner scott. Are there any questions or comments you have about this item . No questions just the comments that being that there are no changes on the experience and just changes for the interior and i just totally am for this project and this speaks on how its moving so thank you for your presentation and the work thats being done with this. Thank you, i have a question about the retail space. I apologize that im having challenges and i dont have the handout but i believe it was a 4,000 square foot space and i was plans for the activation space. If you for that question vicechair rosales and if its a 4,000 square foot restaurant space, its on the mezzanine level of the hotel and eric smith or amy from the hotel might have more information on the plans for that space. This is eric commit, good afternoon. For the retail space, we have not identified a tenant or a concept at this time. Were or possibly something else. It could be any one of those actually. As i said, its just not been finalized. Thank you vicechair rosales. Commissioner brackett, back to you. I just like to get a handle on, i know that you lightly mentioned the specific width around the local hiring piece and i just was wondering if you have any hard numbers on the previous project in terms of the percentage of local hire and local businesses that were hired on the previously project. Thank you for that question. George bridges is on the line and i believe can address your questions. Yes, good afternoon commissioner bustos, commissioner scott, commissioner brackett. Initially the project came in at 52 sbe participation, the 28. 5 minority and 18. 5 womenowned business and the project has continued to employ a diverse team of consultants with regards to the hotel itself, they brought on an African American local architect to help them with the restaurant and were really excited about that and daryl and davis with Dna Communications has been working with the soma hotel from the conception of the project and with regards to construction, theyre at 14. 5 sbe and bewbe and their tenant improvement work is Still Available for local small minority owned businesses so were looking forward to increasing local hire in that regard. The workforce, the construction has been consistent with other oci projects running around 16 local hire. And with regards to the end use, the citys first source hiring programs, is the soma hotel obligation for permanent enduse jobs and we met with the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development last week and we met with the soma Hotel Representatives eric and amy on friday. And we are really excited about the opportunity for here entry level and other opportunities at the soma hotel working closely with the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development and i believe they have a meeting set up in the next two weeks which is really quite an advance from the opening of the hotel which was spring next year. We hope theyll continue to collaborate and make opportunities for folks that live in the city to work closely to where they live. So i guess i have a couple followup questions. Seeing that were only at 14. 5 , of local hire, are there any other plans that you guys have to increase that number working with inaudible have you figured out ways that you will increase that number, especially considering right now were going through covid and we expect to see an increase in unemployment in San Francisco and people looking for jobs in the next year or so with this project. Have you guys talked with oewd about that . Yes, commissioner brackett. We met with oewd a couple weeks ago to strategize for the next annual report and were looking at ways to think about how can we increase local hire, hold contractors and developers for first consideration given to those that live in the city. So as we continue to discuss strategies with city build, and can them, were hopeful that on our projects well deincrease and were still insid in the mif analyzing that data so well be back with you next month and hopefully well vaber strategy of moving forward and ensuring that folks especially in the southeast have access to our projects. Last question, just wanted to hear from you. I know you mentioned that there was an area you guys were trying to increase hire tenant improvement. Can you give me an idea of what you are looking for or what areas ite encompasses. Id like to ask amy from soma hotel to talk about the availability of the tenant improvement work. Good afternoon, commissioners, can you hear me . Hi, good afternoon. We have two, the groundfloor and ti project and the retail base and theyre still will be going under construction. Those two spaces we have, thats what were speaking of when we say future opportunity for more first source hiring. Through our contractor. Thank you. And one last question, i know you guys might have additional retail space besides the 4,000 square foot restaurant, are you planning on having a amenities within the hotel that may be open to Small Business contracting like a gift shop and a coffee shop or anything else like that within the property itself . Thaw guys might be or are seeing out to the Wider Community . Thank you for that question commissioner brackett. This is gretchen with ocii. Amy, would you be able to answer that question . Im sorry. I will defer to eric smith on the operational side of the project to answer the question. Eric, are you available . I am. Good afternoon, again. Currently, the only items or additional items we have besides the retail on the ground level is the rooftop restaurant and bar. Theres a possibility of a small coffee shop, coffee bar that well put on the ground level and its a kiosk type. So that at the moment is really the only opportunities that were presenting to have. Thank you so much. So i want to go back to commissioner bracketts questions regarding local hire. You know, when we look at mission bay and we look at how the fact that this was a former redevelopment area, we look at it as a Community Resource and we partner obviously with some businesses and some companies to help build it out and at end of the day, its really just about doing the right thing. Hiring san franciscans to build their city. So, amy and i hope you can work with george and others. Here is an opportunity for the soma hotel to say, you know, we are not only are we interested and building but were very much interested in lifting up a community. That is one thing that the commissioners, i know, all agree that and beating the drum about this, and see it as an investment. See it as an investment and other projects you want to have in the city. I hope that you take to heart our dough sire that we get people from this area and give them an opportunity to help build the area and i know that you have subcontractors but as the main company, you have leverage and you can help influence and i see corporate america, i would utilize that influence to help our subjects do even greater work and most often than not it wasnt a heavy lift on the part of the company, but it was a tremendous help to the local communities. I did work through out the americas so where i went, i tried whether its mexico city, brazil, i even tried to make sure that i wasnt just there doing something as a transaction, that i was trying to transform and help the community thrive in those areas so, i look forward to the numbers next month that you offered. I hope given were starting early, soma hotel could really stand for that so i would appreciate everyones efforts and we all would appreciate everyones everyday in trying to raise up a higher number and really just providing people with opportunity. Right. What a time to be able to say, were doing this. So, thank you for the presentation. So, were going to be voting on these items individually and we will start with item agenda ite. May i have a motion for this item . Yes, mr. Chair. I move we approve of the items c to record to the board of supervisors from the amendment of the reval plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project in connection with increased and hotel rooms on the Mission Bay South black one resolution 17 2020. Is there a second . I will second. Vicechair rosales . Great, again, we were going to vote separately on this item starting with item 5c. Madam secretary, please take roll. Clerk commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Abstain. Commissioner scott. The vote is three ayes, one abstain. Motion carries. For item number 5d, may i have a motion . I move we approval the 5d approving an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project and connection with resolution number 182020. Thank you, commission scott. Do i have a second . Yes, i will second. Thank you voice chair rosales. Madam secretary, take roll for item number 5d. Clerk please announce your vote for item 5d when i call your name. You were on mute. Abstained. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vicechair rosales. Yes. Chair bustos. The vote is three ayes one abstained. Motion carries. May i get a motion for item number 5e . Mr. Chair, i move that we authorization an eighth amendment to the Mission Bay South, owner participation agreement, resolution number 1 192020. Thank you, may i have a second . I will second. Thank you voice chair rosales. Madam secretary, please, take roll. Commissioner members, please announce your vote for 5e, when i call your name, commissioner brackett. Abstain. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vicechair rosales. Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. Clerk the vote is 3 ayes the ayes, one abstention. Please call the next item. The next regular item is item 5f, approving an amendment and restated 457, deferred Compensation Plan and to confirm as needed the plan to applicable law in accordance with its terms. Discussion and action resolution number 202020. Madam director. Thank you, madam secretary through the chair. It looks like we are ready to present on this item. This is to enhance staff benefits to staff and were excited to move this item forward. With that ill turn it over for a overview of the program. I know she has representatives from mass mutual who are available to respond to questions as well. Good morning, commissioners. My name is brie and im the Deputy Director for finance and administration and as a executive director said, were here today to talk about how to update or updating our deferred plans. Im waiting for the powerpoint to come on. Ill give it a minute. Jamie, can you put it on the third slide. Commissioners, a deferred Compensation Plan is a plan that is of benefit to the employee because it allows them to take a part of their earnings, pretaxed, with hold it, send it to their deferred Compensation Plan, the administrator then invests those money on the employees behalf and overtime that money grows and contributes to that employees retirement savings. In the private sector, this is known as a 401k plan in the Public Sector its known as a 457 plan. Ocii started out with the plan and we were the Redevelopment Agency and we have continued with that same plan through the dissolution of the current date. Our current plan has 120 participants and that is current and active employees and retirees and the plan is administered by mass mutual and has been essentially since the inception of the plan and the plan is run, according to a document that is very creatively referred to as the Plan Document, which is essentially a list of all the of the rules by which the program is administered and that primarily has to conform to i. R. S. Regulations. Because it is a tax deferred retirement plan, the i. R. S. Obviously has a strong interest in the way these plans are implemented. Ocii last updated its planned document in 2007. So, what we are coming to you odd to discuss is a number of changes to the planned document that would bring the planned document uptodate with current irs regulations and add two new sets of benefits for employees. Jamie, if you could move to the next slide. The proposed changes fall into three broad categories. The first category reflects changes made to the plan to reflect i. R. S. Regulations that have changed since 2007. And those run the gamut from small Administrative Changes like allowing employees to have completely Paperless Administration of their plan and to go fully electronic, to more substantive changes that are in line with i. R. S. Regulations, for example, i. R. S. Regulations now say that compensation received as an independent contractor is eligible for participation in a 457 plan, compensation received as military pay, is allowable as to participate in a 457 plan and employees may now change their deferral amount instead of just a quarter end. So, the general council, the director of administration and hr and i met over a period of six months and talked with mass muse actual the Plan Administrator and reviewed these changes and confirmed that the changes were administrative in nature or a benefit to the employees. The second bucket of changes is related to allowing employees to borrow from their held earnings, so with that, it means if an employee is with holding a certain amount of money from their paycheck every pay period and contributing that to their retirement account, they could borrow from their own with holdings up to 50,000 or 50 of their vested amount and they would borrow those funds at an Interest Rate that is equal to prime plus 1 and prime is the lowest rate that they charge each other to borrow. A very favorable Interest Rate and less than they would pay if they were borrowing the funds through some commercial means. The funds would be repaid essentially the employee would be repaying themselves through automatic withdrawal from an employee designated account. The third set of benefits that we would like to now offer to employees are related to benefits that were allowed by the cares act and the cares act was the act passed by congress in march of 2020 in response to covid19 and looking for ways to alleviate the financial burden of covid on throughout the country t allowed for changes the first would be to allow penalty free withdrawals of up to 100,000 in the calender year of 2020 currently you have to pay hefty penalty on that amount and impact could withdraw and and and currently if they can borrow 50er and if we were to make it and allowed to borrow and it would allow for loan repayments to be suspended for a full year and that means currently they are required to take them from their retirement with holdings and in order to not enforce retirees to take distributions when the market is down, this would allow so those are the three primary buckets of changes were proposing. One making changes to update the plan to march current i. R. S. Regulation and two allowing employees to borrow from their own withheld funds and allowed by the cares act. If you can go to the next slide. So, ocii staff, myself, the general council, and the director of Human Resources and administration, met with local 21 and sciu Union Members and staff representatives on june 30th, 2020 to discuss these proposed changes and Neither Union had any objections. So with that, i am happy to answer any yes. Theres a time members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 14084189388 enter 1462925173 and enter the pound sign and pound sign again and when you are in, please press star 3 to be placed in the queue and automated voice will let you know when its your turn to withdraw your question please press star 3 again. Well give the public a few moments to call in. Please put through any callers once they enter their request. Thank you. Please press star 3. There are no callers on the line. So chair, at this time, there are no more members on the phone wishing to comment on this item. Hearing no further questions to speak on this item ill close Public Comment and ill turn to my fellow commissioner. Commissioner brackett, do you have questions or comments . No comments or questions. We hear a little feedback so whoever that is, please, make sure you mute your line. Thank you. Ok. It appears to be so generous and thoughtful in light of can you still hear me . Yes. In light of covid to consider the families and the emergencies that are popping up without any warnings. Im pleased to hear and i so i am for this. We have a motion, may i have a second. I second. Commissioner brackett has a second. Madam secretary, please take roll. Please announce your vote for item 5f when i call your name, commissioner brackett. Yes. Commissioner scott. Yes. [roll call] madam secretary, please call the next item. The next item is 5g, delegating authorities to the executive director to adopt Successor Agency policies during the publicHealth Emergency, consist ants with the Compensation Plan for covid19, as the city and county of San Francisco. Discussion and action resolution number 212020. For the benefit of the employees in light of covid19, the various agencies from local and this action would allow us to implement and make those benefits available to employees. Hopefully you all can hear me. I have technical issues. Jamie, if you are ready for the slide. Ok. Good afternoon, chair bustos and commissioners, thank you for your time today. The actions before you today, as executive mentioned that they are paid leave and employment policies that ocii wishes to implement and cod fie emergency and the goal of these policy is to provide income security for staff and should they unfortunately impacted due to the publichealth order and it is of note they are consistent with the city and county of San Franciscos policies that they implemented and the slide speaks to, the authority under which the agency is proposing to the adoption of these policies are as follows. Mayor breeds proclamation and declaring existence of a local emergency and the proclamation authorization the city and county of San Francisco Hr Department to create a paid leave policy. The San Francisco Public County Health Office Shelter in place order in subsequent shelter in place orders as well as governor newsoms shelter in place orders and the federal family first coronavirus responsibility. These are the provisions in place that grants or agency to implement the policies that are coming forward for discussion. Jamie, next slide. So, the first large policy is the federal paid sick leave policy and there are five criteria that staff have for the use of this. There must be a federal state or local shelter in place order. You must be under selfquarantine and experience you may be caring for an individual under a quarantine supported thaanindividual and ig for a son or daughter or a school or place of care has been closed to covid19. That also includes childcare providers. Next slide, please. So, for the type of leave, there are three primary leaves, the first say federal paid emergency sick leave and it would grant staff 80 hours of paid sick leave. You see the different criteria that could apply. Covid19 diagnosis quarantine order or School Closure for child or elder care and in addition, theres additional paid sick leave. All staff will receive 80 hours of addition pay sick leave and this may be used for any purpose and we are monitoring the citys policy and we hope to monitoring the same. In addition theres leave advancement and that will provide 80 hours of pay leave and this would be available should staff exhaust the federal sick leave, any additional sick leask and exhaust their own balances. And then, the last benefit there you see is employee furlough due to work side closure and lack of work. So, should an employee who is able to work, may be due to not working available or lack of equipment we will continue to pay them salary and thankfully were providing our critical work to the public. Theres an Employment Policy that we are asking the commission to act on our labor agreements have a provision that says when you reach a certain cap on vacation or floating holidays, you have to use them and they cant carry over and this position of is would allow the agency to wave those caps pas as you cabecause with the sn place and certain travel restrictions, staff cant take kavis so thivacation so they wot crew at their current level and they can crew up 80 hours over the maximum during over the duration of the emergency and employees will have until december 31st, 2021 to take vacation or reduce the balance so theres a long time to burn those balances. Also, employees can rollover floating holidays over the limit through a fiscal year 2021 and 2022. Also, staff who have legal holidays, they can be carried over as well. Next slide, please. In addition, the last Employment Policy has relayed compensatory time for eligible and non eligible employees for purposes of definition and eligible employees not non exempt, non exempt staff would earn overtime unless they elected to get comp time. So for comp time, employees are allowed to earn up another additional 80 hours of comp time over the current cap during the publicHealth Emergency. This is also extended through december 31st, 2021 and for comp time for an eligible employee they may earn up to 80 hours of compensatory time on an hourforhour basis during the publicHealth Emergency. Of note, co compensatory time is cash out and any time would have to be used by december 31st, 2021. Next slide, please. Our labor partners, we met with our labor partners, local 21 and seiu local 21 on june 30th, 2020. Our labor partners raised no objections to the days for most commission and they are in agreement with moving forward. With that, i am happy to answer any questions after Public Comment. Thank you, very much. Madam secretary, can we have the public who wishes to speak on this item. At this time, members of the public, who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 408 4189388 and enter 1462925173 and pound sign again replace the jew to withdraw your question please press star 3 again for members of the public, who are already listening to us by phone, please press star 3 if you wish to sub my a Public Comment at this time. Well give a public again a few moment to call in if they havent already. There are no members of the public wishing to comment on this item. One question is, the changes to the paid leave cap is that only due to it being a thing an emergency and does that go back post covid19 and is in a permanent change. It is. Thank you commissioner. It is related to the publicHealth Emergency should it be extended or once the publicHealth Emergency has been lifted, then it would go back to the regular cap. I dont know if theres any longterm financial implications of the non capped paid days. Its shelter in place and you answered my question. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner scott. Just the comments that im just really deeply moved by the sense of integrity and compassion for this time and season that were all going through. Vicechair rosales. Questions or comments . I had a question regarding inaudible . Im assuming that the additional leave, which i think are all wonderful and hopefully wont necessarily be tapped in the case of someone who falls ill, but if im reading this right, these are separate leads, right. You know, some of them the federal leads comes from federal funds i presume and the others that are local leads would be paid by our budget so if im understanding that correctly, my question is, basically a confirmation so we have the budget to cover these leaves. Yes, the larger answer is yes we do have the budget to ash soshnikov througabsorband it isd and its a riel occasion and making available the flex time so staff and so the budget is the budget. So i am still here and you are 100 correct and i could have left. Thank you. Thank you. That makes sense. Thank you, commissioners, i just want to say to our staff to ensure youre ok. For you to know you matter to us. And that your work is important not only for us as a commission or as a administrative staff but also to the city and your family and so, we want to make sure that you are ok and we have to let you know you matter to us. Im happy were doing this. Thanthank you, naddia, under yor leadership for opening us through and the i move we give authority to adopt the Successor Agency policy during the publicHealth Emergency. With resolution number 212020. I second the motion. Madam secretary, we have a first and a second. Please take roll for item number 5g. Announce your vote when i call your name. [roll call] the chair is four ayes. Motion carries, madam secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 6, Public Comments on non agenda items. Kale 408 4189388 and interact sis code 1462925173 and press pound and pound sign again and please press star 3 and be placed in the cue to speak and automated voice will let you know when its time. If there are members of the public who are on the line and who wish to submit their request, please press star 3 now. Again, well give a few months for the public to call in. There are no callers on the line. Thank you. Mr. Chair, there are no more members of the public on the phone. Secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 7 report of the chair. Mr. Chair. Clerk item 8, 8a informational memorandum on true marketing outcomes report on Affordable Housing units the avery and first is 450 folsom straight a mixed income rental tower with seven units and second is 250 free mont street, 100 affordable podium with affordable units and transbay project area discussion, 8b informational memorandum on the marketing outcomes report for 10 kennedy place, 10 ennis court, blocks 56 and 57 and 528 hudson 23 and 33 kirkwood avenue both on block 55, Hunters Point shipyard phase 1 and inclusionary below market rate units at 80 area Median Income and Hunters Point shipyard project area discussion. Madam director. Thank you, madam secretary through the chair. We provided a staff report on this item earlier this year and some of us were at the Ribbon Cutting of the avery 250 free mont or the 80 Affordable Housing units. The amenities that is located within the site and cop holders that applied to cop. For the hill soft and shipyard phase 1 and 70 units as you know but 11 units aggregate and we dont have cop leased up here but we have representatives from condition the city who applied. Those are occupied now and staff is on hand to respond to questions. Great, thank you. Its just the report to the executive director and im not sure if theres any questions. There are no questions of the commission. I think we can go to the next item. Are there any questions from the commission . There should be Public Comment. Clerk if i can invite the members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 408 4189388 and enter 14629 1462925173 followed by the pound sign and pound sign again. Press star 3 to enter into the cue. Press star 3 if there are any members of the public listening on the phone, please press star 3. Well give the public a few moments. Do we have any callers on the line . There are no callers on the line. Mr. Are no members of the public wishing to comment on this item. My fellow commissioners, to see if they have any questions. I have a question and a comment, ill start with the comment. I was able to attend the opening of the avery and it was really beautiful to hear some of the residents talk about their experience and being able to be in the property it now and some of the rips with their neighbors and so fourth. I did have a question and maybe, im not sure if this happens now or later, but, i know there was some discussion around one of the actual persons who moved into the units and there was a discussion regarding the screening process and that she almost got screened out of the opportunity because there were a couple of credit, very minor credit issues and or lack of resources to getting into the units. So, i was just trying to find out if, as we move forward with other properties, if naddia has comments about what may be happening different and the new properties in terms of maybe additional a suttance that the mohcd may be able to provide or if q foundation the regional funds for that. Thank you, commissioner brackett for the questions. Ill send it over to inaudible to respond to that. Weve been prioritizing this issue because youve raised it a number of times so we are trying to be as aggressive as possible to allow for access to housing. Would you respond to what weve been doing differently and what we are planning . Yes. Thank you commissioner brackett for that question. And, actually, we have worked with this lease up team on a couple of Different Properties and the team usually, and im surprised to hear that one of our applicants was having such a difficult time, and im really sorry for that. The team, we make sure we start from a place where were trying to get people in. Were not trying to lease up with excluding people. So, with that said, on the properties moving forward, absolutely we work from the beginning to the end until 100 occupancy to assure that applicants are giving every opportunity to take advantage of these lease up projects. That said, if in fact we do hear of someone having difficulty dont hesitate to reach out from anyone from the most d team or me and im happy to talk about the process. Commissioner scott. No comment on that. Just are we at comments at the closing or questions and matters . Did we reach that. Were just discussing madam directors information report. No comment. Ok. Vicechair rosales . Yes, thank you. I had a question and a comment. And again i have to thank the staff for the reports because its one of my favorite things to do is read these reports and really understand how folks are receiving housing and entering the housing process and the testimonies are gratifying to read. Thank you again. My question is this and ive raised it before in the report, for instance, on the c. O. T. Applicants for the avery, theres a mention that a couple of the c. O. P. Applicants were over income and in the past, i and other commissioners have expressed the interest in tracking, if you will, or keeping in track with those households that are over income and in the expectations that we have housing in the pipeline that they could qualify for and they would be interested is he i want to ask pam, what are we how are we assisting the over income households that may not have qualified for this round . Can everybody put themselves on mute. Theres someone who has a gentleman speaking behind them or somewhere in the room and its really rude. Please, if you can just put yourselves on mute so that we can hear as well as members of the public can hear the comments that are being made. Thank you. Can commissioner, im sorry, commissioner rosales, can you repeat your question. So, so the c. O. P. Manager and she works with mocd, what we do is we track these individuals and the Home Ownership opportunities that are coming. What is interesting, though, is that these individuals, yes, they were hired and the 50 but theyre falling in the 60, 65 , not quite 70 , 80 where we have units for sale. So, theres this gap, if you will, of Ownership Opportunities for individuals who are over income for some of our that said, we have where it goes to up 08 ami so households still interested in renting, up you will encourage them to apply at the six west project. In addition to that and i havent looked at the ami levels for that is the Home Ownership project that we have coming up in mission bay at block 9a. Hopefully well tier those well enough to get some of our c. O. P. Holders interested, eligible and first time home buyers and that. As a followup to that, is there any thinking perhaps and helping these overincome on one side but under income on the other side candidates with Workforce Developments support in some fashion to allow them a path forward to kind of climb and basically climb the economic ladder so they can meet those 80 just help kind of clearly theres an interest. Someone who applies and goes through the process of applying and being valu evaluated so im trying to be creative on how to help folks land their dream home, if you will, through other methods. I totally appreciate that. The group were working with are inaudible and theyre predominantly looking for rental opportunities, which is just kind of where this group happens to be. So what im hoping and i know when i talk to Maria Benjamin yesterday about this is what were hoping is that when we do our investigate r. F. P. We found those other individuals who were living inhouse holds at the time of displacement who are younger and could be more ambitious than a 60yearold and we really feel that maybe this population, the Younger Group is going to be interested in Home Ownership so that is what were excite beside this r. F. P. Because its great so we can get additional c. O. P. Holders into our program right now. To add to that, i know youve raised this issue before and i think what we can can continue to commit is having keeping a list and trying to revisiting our processes and policies how we can work with Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to figure out how to partner other resources so they can have access to housing so well put that on our list and were going to work with all of you individually without creating a committee to work on some solutions and enhancing our policies to make sure this is one of the things we work on with our partner sister agency. So more to come. Thank you. Thank you for that. And so my question real rewas one of on the one hand, i was happy to see that many of the applicants were coming from, hailing from district 10 and i looked at the demographics, i was frankly request respect to that demographic. You know were inter fitting the demographics and i know were in control of which is outreach and so it depends on timing and our foss to work with folks earlier in the process and get them into housing and at this time, i dont know if anyone on the team can respond but its not from lack of trying, its just folks are not ready and some are nonresponse tive based on what i heard from pam in the past and some are not interested where that unit is but we applied and well find that process when we do our issue. I just want to introduce maria, because actually, when we were talking yesterday, we were talking about and shes going to be in the process of an intern to make positive changes to our marketing and outreach plans. So, maria, are you there . I am. How are you commissioners. This is Maria Benjamin from ocd and i was just trying to jump in and so im happy to have the opportunity. The work of Racial Equity and making sure were doing the best we can for our black and brown applicants is the center point of low cds work right now. For the past five years or so, we have been focusing on improving outreach and improving connections to the black community to be able to make sure we are districting developers to go where they get news and weve made a lot of strides. We do have more black and brown people applying for housing now that we have. Our problem is its a bigger problem more than those programs. The black inaudible from major cities across the country. And so we are completely focused on doing everything that we can. Within our capacity to do that. What pam is speaking about, the project that we have going with an intern helping us with research, you know, facebook, you guys have mentioned facebook and social media and weve directed developers to go on facebook and and the type of targeted outreach we need to do is more of a anna let tick and affect and you go on facebook and believe me, the facebook people know exactly who you are. And i if you look for shoes on your google search, you have and so, we are looking to incorporate some of that targeted outreach that our marketing communities have been using to get to where black people hear about their news. Or where other targeted groups are getting information. So, it is exciting and it will be a step ahead, a step beyond what we currently ask the developer to do. Right now, were leaving it up to them to decide and they tell us what theyre going to do and we say ok, thats ok. Now, were looking to be more aggressive with it. More telling them, this is what you feed to do. Hopefully well get even more improved results. Thank you. Maria, i have a quick followup question to that. I just wondering, since theres been a lot of zoom calls within the black community recently, if c. O. P. Has thought about possibly putting out like a Community Zoom about housing opportunities that are going to be coming up in the next six months so that people can kind of. We look forward to setting it up so we can spread the word about the zoom meeting. Anything else . I think madam secretary, since theres not an action item we can go to the next item. Ok. Is the next order of business is item 9, commissioner questions and matters. Commissioner. Are there any commissioner questions . I do have a question. I know that earlier this year we were supposed to all split off into our different groups. And covid stopped all of that and i would like for us, before the end of the year, to possibly, if we could, naddia, maybe have a zoom call for the four different areas that we identified earlier and the community to giffi give input oe items to our commission. So, maybe having and our Small Business contractors or business comand come in on how we can ber help them during covid19 as well as put them in a motion so we can increase and local business numbers for next year. Well, in the process of working on that anyway, but to have behind the scenes meeting with the commissioners, so weve already started reaching out. And we want a road map before we get feedback on whether we want to do it in a public setting or behind the scenes. So that is already in the works. You should be hearing from jamie shortly, were trying to get the materials ready and we just met this week and so is thank you for the request. You will be hearing from us. Thank you you are always one step ahead of us. Yes, she is. With the Small Business, i had a question where i was reading, with the Small Business, as they are part of this, and upon three years, theyre no longer considered a Small Business with growth. Can you tap into that for me, what happens with a Small Business . What i would suggest is that we i dont have the answer. Its an opportunity you are breaking, sorry, i talked over you. Apologies. Ill give you a call and pose it. Its something that i would like to have an answer for. I had met with Small Business owners working with development and doing very well but just wondering what happens after that third year. When theyre no longer considered a Small Business . That theyre out of the range so they graduate and what we expect and well we can talk off line. Theyre learning and exceeding more than what is required or the thresholds that has been set by the policy and that participating in bigger contracts. [please stand by] im sure miguel may have some quiet time to recognize and acknowledge the loss of these two giants. Thank you commissioner scott. Youre absolutely right. While well close our Commission Meeting in their honor with the moment of silence before we get to that moment, madam secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 10, closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Mr. Chair . Chair bustos ill ask for a motion and second and well take moment of silence. Is there a motion . I move that we close the meeting. Is there a second . I second the motion. Chair bustos lets take a moment of silence. Commissioner ransomscott ca n i read a quote from john lewis . If thats all right with you. When i say ocii relate so much to the things that have been done by dr. King and john lewis and so many others, one thing that he said that really to me mirrors who you are is this. He said when you see something thats not right, something thats not fair, not just then do something. Sometimes that will bring you into trouble but its a good trouble and a necessary trouble. Thank you ocii. Chair bustos well do moment of silence. Thank you commissioners. We adjourned at 2 37 p. M. Thank you to the listening audience. Thank you to staff. Thank you. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 30th special meeting of government audit and Oversight Committee. I am gordon mar and joined by peskin and safai. Thank you to joh john john carrd sfgovtv. Do you have any enouncements . To protect the public during the covid19 Health Emergency with board of Supervisors Committee room are closed pursuant to various local and state and federal directives. Commit