Implementing this program but there are other parts that have access indie indiscernible . Operator you have three questions remaining. Speaker i would like to commend the sfmta on the slowstreets program. I think its great and particularly, i have frequently used the one on sanchez and if anything, thats to be extended even further and the slow street on 20th can be extended west, as well. I think that would be a great idea. I want to reiterate what everybody else said regarding the tenderloin, an equity standpoint in ten in terms of mg everyones lives better, its unfair they dont have slow streets. And people should take a step back and remember 30 of people in San Francisco dont even own a car and yet up until now, almost 100 of the streets where dedicated largely to cars and even now, 95 , so i think thats important perspective to keep in mind and just remember as we go forward, i think that this would be great to implement, especially after the pandemic and hopefully, make the city a better place to live in. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Operator you have two questions remaining. Speaker i live in clipper street. And i get t have to be careful i leave my house at the wonderful slow street area. Im calling to share my support for the slowstreet program. I enjoy, likmostly, im excitede expansion in golden gate park. Im a rollerskater and i appreciate using the park as much as i can and as far as i can and we should be able to use the park from every side of the city and i think everyone should have access to the park and i think its really important. I think that this program and other programs like it can be the outreach that they need and we want and having space for people to create their own programs is more important than creating programs for people. When i was listening earlier and i heard people say when we get attack to real meetings, this is a real meeting and that can still happen. Between park and rec, its all real and were all here right now and i would like to thank the board of directors. I just found out while i was listening to this that theres a part of duncan that is why would you want to ride your bike or rollerskate or teach your kid how to skateboard on that . That doesnt make any sense. The tenderloin, the main thing we need is public toilets and so, public toilets and then we can talk about the closed streets. Pai indiscernible . Next speaker, please. Speaker im a richland district resident and im actually on cabrero street right now and just yielded to a jogger and i just want to say that im a big fan of the slow street getting implemented so far throughout the city, especially jfk drive and lake street, paige street and the great highway. I think that these should be part of the landmarks in the city. Until that time, which i know would require a lot of planning, i want to just say i applaud the staff that have been doing their outreactheiroutreach and to supr fewer, who i hope will take ownership and take walks on the slow street. Earlier, the caller mentioned about the third street avenue slow street and the cabrero intersection being a problem. I was there ten seconds ago, i think it could be worked out. I am in a car and i dont think it will be a problem for our neighborhood if we just treat each other with civility and share the space. Thank you. Thank you, and was that our last speaker, moderator . Operator you have one question remaining. If anyone else wishes to address the board, dial 10 now. Next speaker. Operator you have three questions remaining. Next speaker, please. Speaker this is Hayden Miller and just wanted to voice my support. I live a few blocks away from lake street, soon to be cabrio and excited to be on the slow street and i look forward to more. Thank you so much and im looking forward to golden gate park. So lets keep these streets going. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Operator you have two questions remaining. Speaker hi. Im asking you to remove duncan street from the safe street extension. It would be hazardous and the implementation would be impractical. It looks nice on the slow streets but on the ground it doesnt work and its dangerous. Duncan street is completely cut off and theres no way through for pedestrians. indiscernible . Operator you have one question remaining. Speaker i apol advis apoloe background noise but im picking my son up from school. Im on 20th street and i see people and their children walking back and forth in the little commercial district here. We heard from a lot of our residents and neighbors they wanted something in our neck of the woods and it seemed like a great idea. indiscernible . Speaker for my neighbors that have concerns, they go about their daytoday lives and safer if you wanted to do it by foot or by bicycle. So thank you for your consideration and we hope you pass this. Moderator, any additional questions or speakers . Operator you have zero questions remaining. So with that, we will close Public Comments and i know that some directors have questions. Director tumlin, maybe you could address this about the tenderloin. We would like more slow streets in the tenderloin neighborhood and can you talk about the limitations and the constraints given that its a much more dense area . That there are transit lines in the other sorts of considerations and maybe you could talk about those and work with the Fire Department, specifically around jones and other streets in that area. I would be happy to start and tom mcguire could add to this. The tenderloin has the greatest concentration of Vulnerable People in all of San Francisco and that covers all categories of vulnerability. Its also a neighborhood that historically has had threeway bound traffic through it and in this period of covid time, from mobility perspective in San Francisco, theres no need for routing freewaybound traffic through the tenderloin and for the entire tenderloin, south of ellis and east of hyde, streets where were currently running buses on, from a basic mobility functional perspective, theres no need for vehicular traffic. What there is a need for and its related to the fact that the tenderloin has the highest concentration of vulnerable populations in San Francisco, if therthere is a need for unimpedd emergency access and it has by far the highest call rate for the Fire Department and the building heights in the tenderloin all require the big fire trucks with the ladders and stabilizers in order to be able to operate in the tenderloin and its important that the fire trucks are not delayed, that they are not moving barriers out of the way. And so, for the issues strictly with the sfmta purview, there are no problems with the street closures of any kind in the tenderloin and we need to be respectful of the needs of our sister agencies. Particularly the San FranciscoFire Department and also the San FranciscoPolice Department which, of course, has a major Police Station in the tenderloin. We also have had some challenges in the covid period about decisionmaking. And so, up until recently, all of our streets projects that weve been doing are implemented under the Health Directive and therefore, we as sfmta dont get to do what we want. Our work needs to be approved through the channels that have been created under the emergency directive, which require a lot of input from a variety of departments, several of which have effective veto control over our work. And they also need to have a strong tie to positive Health Outcomes which include, also, emergency services. And so thats been part of our frustration in the ten tenderlo, that the simple techniques weve been able to deliver so quickly with some simple little barricades with sandbags in a neighborhood of low buildings. Therefore, not requiring the big fire trucks, low buildings, no overhead wires and no Traffic Signals and no commercial activity, those technics that we view ed this have been successful in places like the sunset dont work in the tenderloin and what were struggling with is to figure out what are the techniques that work and do we have the resources in order to procure those materials . So the tenderloin remains our highest priority. Its the place weve actually invested by far the most effort and were finally starting to see some results with jones street, turk and levinworth has not been mentioned, but it has been much slower because it has required collaboration with agencies that have a different mission than we do. And tom, perhaps, you could add more along with the recent success. One more thing, actually. In terms of i know we dont put on sunday streets, and i know weve sun sunday streets in the tenderloin. Were there any lessons from that to be applied to which streets we choose for this process . Yes, so another history with the tenderloin, of course, it requires a high level of management. Anything that we would do there needs to be carefully managed with Community Partners and so the small efforts we have done that have been successful have been in collaboration with Community Partners largely around accommodating through distribution, accommodatin and r communitybased partners have helped us. One thing we are trying to figure out doing resources for is doing more sunday streets like events, where we are managed play streets. The challenge there is getting through the Health Department restrictions against gatherings in this time. And so, for many of the ideas that weve tried to put forward, that conventional approach was denied to us. And so, again, were trying to make progress on figuring out what can we do to make it possible for children to be able to play safely in the street in the tenderloin but not actually have that be a public gathering that results in the kinds of activities that are not supposed to be happening during shelterinplace . I have one question about ha, because in my neighborhood last weekend, not this past weekend but last weekend, there was tents in the street and i thought it was a straight fare but istreet fare butit was a me. I dont understand how that stuff is allowed and then we cant figure out a way to slow streets which are legal, congregating of people. I dont know who approved that or how it happened. Thats not something that was sanctioned. The supervisors were there and others. So, again, i noticed it mostly because there were actually, like, tents, not expensive kind, but kind of the tents that you have at soccer fields kind of thing. But anyway, just kind of was trying to figure out how that happens and how we can figure out working with the city for recreation purposes, congregating opportunities. Because its not meant that necessarily there is playing all together. Its lots of people congregate to do whatever they do. So maybe thats something we can work through with the Health Department or whomever, because i see it all of the time and theyre in the public right away. And no one theres no it doesnt seem like a consistent policy. I feel for the people in the tenderloin, theyre so devastatedly impacted and there arent enough play spaces and they feel we cant justify not doing something sooner. Tom, what did i miss in my statement . That was pretty comprehensive, jeff. I think just making it clear to this board that are four specific street reductions of traffic or removal of traffic from the streets projects in the tenderloin and theres the project we already did to reduce the capacity of golden gate avenue and that was done early in the shelterinplace and theres the jones street decision which doubles the amount of walking space on jones street and now today, well be able to get out in the streets in the next week or so. And then the other two were working on are converting and expanding the pedestrian space on turke and a similar kind of expanded pedestrian road on levinwortt and were working those through with the Fire Department right now. The sum total of those four will actually be a pretty Robust Network on four of the streets among the most dangerous for people simply trying to walk around in the sense of their exposure to traffic and so we have a breakthrough on jones and were hoping to have this shortly on levinworth and turke so that very soon, well actually see a network of carfree streets in the tenderloin. Great, with that, ill turn it over to director eakin because i know she has questions. Im sure other people have other questions. I wanted to pick up on a couple of things we heard through Public Comment. The comment about embarcadaro was a great reminder we had a conversation a couple months ago. We heard there wasnt enough and ill just hear staff respond to the pretty provocative suggestion about taking half of the street and making it a slow are street and or give us a status update on the other embarcadaro project. So embarcadaro is like the tenderloin where the traffic volumes out there right now are very low. From an sfmta perspective, we would have no problem converting the northbound lane into a twolane. Its not in our jurisdiction and the court right now is in a far worse financial position than even we are at sfmta. Their tenants are struggling a lot and very stron and have stra their market is. And so, the stakeholders want to maintain full traffic capacity in order to attract cars to the various destinations on embarcadaro. So maintaining the capacity while creating a bikeway is a longterm objective bu, but thas a very expensive project and we have not found a solution that can do both. Director mcguire . No, sorry. Great. And then, ill also just join director brinkman in expressing my sadness that broderick is coming off the list today. That was one my family was excited about. Weve heard from Public Commenters on that, as well. And strongly recommend that we come quickly with a substitute to meet that corridor need that was identified. And on that note of the Larger Network on the connections, weve spoken a few meetings ago, i think, of the idea of a Larger Network and i think the presenters spoke about how were taking steps toward the complete network, but how there are some significant gaps remaining and so im thinking about the next step after this process. Are we looking to create a network and will you be bringing back a next phase so the board can fill in some of the gaps . We have no idea how long shelterinplace will last. Given the health data from this week, it appears that it will be lasting for quite some time. You heard that muni will be suffering for many months to come. We have lost about 30 of our Service Hours and twothirds of remaining service and a total loss of 10 to 80 of munis capacity and in precovid terms that is preventing 3,000 people from using muni everyday. We have to focus on shifting focused to the most we are 10 off as part of the overall Street Network and so in order tor San Francisco to continue on the economic recovery, we have no choice but to accept the geometric limits of driving and emphasize the most significant modes of transportation. So in addition to providing safe space for outdoor exercising, it is directly related to the covid emergency that we need to allow for people in San Francisco to feel safe walking by cane, using wheelchairs and scooters and skateboards in order to get around. And s so there is to reason we cannot have a phase five or six and would love to continue getting direction from this board as well as policymaybers and the publimaybemakers on pols on what that would look like. Just echoing the concerns about the vizidaro street and the constraints there and that is one corridor but i think we have examples of that. How do we have safe access to Grocery Stores and restaurants. Weve been encouraging merchants to take advantage to move tables or other services out parking lane so that the narrow sidewalk space can accommodate people walking. Weve also used the parking lane to accommodate some queuing and key destinations along divizadaro and will continue with the merchants to help manage that. Having a couple of spaces taken over doesnt help with access destination and i was wondering what more proactively looking at spaces where we should be looking at a solution that will meet the need more directly. Yeah, i can response to that briefly, if you like. We are actively looking at streets parallel to create that northsouth connectivity that the caller talked about. Were bringing you this because this is what we had ready to go at our deadline for this meeting. But this is were talking about doing this in phases but its a continuous process and whether its shared spaces or slow streets, we are always looking to expand this network everywhere weve got interest and support. So we will definitely be looking at that specific corridor in phase four. Thank you. And i swale tha will say i hd from merchants about the speed of the traffic because the sidewalks are narrow and theres a narrow street and people are trying to speed around the bus and so, i mean, i think we should, maybe, think about portions of that street are transitonly and, like, we have the transit lane and the slow streets lane. We could have slow streets shared spaces and i think, like supervisor pekkin mentioned, how to create slow slow shared spaces and other people saying lets think about the parklet things because lots of businesses would like parklets but the sharedspaces program kind of prohibits them, which doesnt make sense because from a safety and security standpoint of sitting on the street where theres traffic, you know, you want something sturdier than a railing on corridors where traffic moves pretty fast. Directors, any additional comments . Seeing none. I will undertake a motion that i note that the motion needs to strike broad i know this is painful for a couple of you. I will sadly make the motion to remove broader street from the list of slow streets and i do this because i know that staff has worked so hard on this and i appreciate everything that all of you are doing and im sure that well find a way forward with all of this. So i will make the motion to strike. Is there a second . I will second it, but can i ask a question. Is lombard in or out . Madam chair, lomb remark rdat on the list of slow streets to be approved today and i understand that implementation, it was previously approved and please correct me if im wrong, but the board could only act on items that were noticed in the agenda so that the public had noticed that the board was taking action if lomb remarard t noticed and it would be improper to act. Is it clear to supervisor peskins office that that is our reality or is he expecting something different. Supervisor peskins office is aware of the brown act, the Public Meeting law. And weve bee made it clear e lonbard is not part of this action, it was a part of the earlier phase and were moving forward immediately with elementing it, ideally within the week. Great. So youre saying you dont need another action . Correct. Ok. Well, thats a good answer. Great. And so we have a motion and second on removing broderick street from the list and a role call vote. role call . If i do not vote for this broderick doesnt get removed. Is that correct . Yes. Fascinating. Ok, well, maybe someone can set up a conversation with someone from the Fire Department. I will vote very reluctantly and i think this is a mistake. With a neutral like that, i should vote no but ill vote aye. And madam chair, the motion to remove broderick street has been approved. So then, i need a motion on all of the remaining items the item is amended. Motion to approve the item is amended. Role call vote. role call . Madam chair, the motion is approved. This does include the business before you. We will ajourn our meeting and we we will b will be havingl meeting. There will be no meeting on august 4th and thank you all for joining today. Adjourned. Hi everyone, thank you for joining us today for the Panel Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue to do our work, primarily because we know that the revenue impact of our work has been very, very large and disperse impact to the city, from the types of programs were able to support people with us specially during covid19. Were continuing to do that. I think on another note, i think i also serve as the Economic Recovery Task forces cochair, so very much excited to speak to you about the work of the task force coming up in our additional conversations and the last thing ill say in terms of introduction is that im a brand new mother of a 14yearold i mean 14monthold, not year old, but she is growing very quickly and i think more than anything i really am truly seeing and appreciating what it means to be part of a working family, especially during covid19 because there are so many different challenges associated with worklife balance among other things. I want to recognize that i consider myself in a very fortunate place because i have my health, i have a job, and i think that is so much more than a lot of people are facing at this moment. I think we always have to count our blessings in terms of things we do have and recognize that there are many people who need much more in terms of help than where we are. Im happy to be part of this conversation and i look forward to hearing from the co speakers today as well. Thank you. Thank you carmen. Lets go to joy next. Good morning everyone, my name is joy jackson morgan. Im the executive director. Im a unicorn in the city, a San Francisco native. During this time third street has really focused on our young people in addressing the needs that youth have been coming up with, primarily with housing. That has been a huge issue for our young people and food has also been an issue. Weve gone from having our food pantry to having food delivery for our youth and their families. Were currently serving about 50 youth and families per week. Were also trying to keep our young people engaged. This has been a hard time for them adjusting to Distance Learning and not having the certain outlets that theyre accustomed to. So we continued our Youth Development program. We have been keeping our young people engaged, and active, and connected to their peer groups. This is not the norm for any of us. We are use to be being able to go outside and going where we want and now were confined to zoom or many of the platforms we come to be recognized with. Its been difficult for young people, i think, because this is their time in development where theyre suppose to be social and not having these normal things has really taken a toll. So weve been trying to make sure that our Behavioral Health services is available to them, our clinic has been closed since march, and were in the process of trying to get our clinic reopened in the next few weeks so we can start delivering some of our medical services as well. So really trying to stabilize our young people the best way we can and help them through this difficult time, both economically, food, sheltering, heal health. Definitely, thank you joy. Last but not least, veronica. Good morning everyone. Good morning to my panelists. My name is veronica shepherd. Im with the San Francisco department of Public Health. My primary work is around Food Security and racial equity. I support primarily the African American faithbased coalition. Its a coalition of 21 plus churches across the city of San Francisco with primarily African American congregants. Covid19 through the population of people were put into a whirlwind. Shelterinplace hit and there were not a lot of city plans on how people would be sustained. The coalition i work with, because of its infrastructure, we developed a partnership and was able to provide meals immediately across the city. As of todays date, they have delivered over 110,000 meals across the city. Theyre feeding almost 1,000 households each week. Its been quite a challenge. For those of you listening that dont know, the African American community, joy kind of spoke to it. We have been suffering precovid and theres been huge disparity issues between racial inequities. So the shelterinplace and the coronavirus had just added another additional issues on top of what was already going on, on top of the heightened Racial Climate. Its like this stew of a lot of issues that people are facing. We have seniors who this isolation is impacting them mentally and emotionally. We have hunger, issues that hit immediately but were addressing that. We have children in households that cant go out as joy was talking about. I have families where there are ten people in a household and only one person is working. I mean there are so many issues that are spiraling all at the same time so part of my work and role is to support people, help them to stay safe, provide resources and information, and continue to just be that light as a beacon for people who were living complex lives precovid and continue to live complex lives in this pandemic. Thank you veronica. Thank you everyone for those good introductions. I also wanted to quickly note that anyone watching from home, you can feel free to leave a question in the chat box or if youre watching on facebook, leave a question there for our panelists and well get to those at the end. So i wanted to shift it over to carmen. If you can talk more about how was the Economic Recovery Task force created and what is the purpose of this task force . Sure, absolutely. So the i think maybe folks may have heard that the task force is a convening of the mayor, as well as the president of the board of supervisors normen yee. I think as we started to learn more about the pandemic, learn more about the disease and how it was spreading, i think the picture has become that much more complicated and i think you see that with the most recent resurgence with covid19 and the Health Indicators coming back to a negative when it comes to hospitalizations, as well as the number of people who are contracting it. So, it is going to be a big challenge in terms of how it is that we deal with it as a city. I think in general, San Francisco has been really trying to take a measured approach on how it is we have been thinking about economic recovery and making sure were grounding how it is that we are approaching both where were directing or services, house were making sure that were providing different support, based on information on the ground. So actual data, statistics, information that helps us understand whats happening from a health perspective. I think as veronica and joy mentioned also, i think there is a really strong recognition that covid19 really is, is even though the disease does not discriminate, what were seeing is some of the underlying inequities that exist are being exacerbated by the disease. We are seeing instances where people who have the least income security, the people who are at least able to take a break from their job, people who are not able to tell commute, people who dont have savings or have poor Chronic Health conditions who are the ones that are the most impacted by covid19. So we see this from the latinx community, where they are 15 of San Franciscos population, but they make up half of the people who are testing positive in terms of covid19. We seen a disproportionate amount of deaths being asian, pacific american, and the impacts to the African American community and were also seeing in the asian community, a rise in terms of xenophobia, a lot of people being blamed for the creation of covid19 and the spread of it, even when we all know that thats untrue. So i think we see some of these disparities. I think one of the partners we have Going Forward in our w challenge and recognizing women is the department. Im not sure if folks have seen but they put out a report that was telling which spoke to how covid19 is exacerbating inequities amongst women. So again, women tend to be concentrated in lower wage jobs and jobs that may not have as much ability to do telecommuting or some of these other options that people currently have. We are also typically people who will be primary caretakers for young children, and our seniors, and our children, and there is a disproportionate impact among women. Were concentrating on what kind of policy decisions can we be pursuing as a city to enable recovery and think of equity while were at it. If we will have scarce resources, we need two different programs to support our workers, families, and san franciscans as a whole, where should we put that understanding there is a disproportionate impact on how covid is miimpacting our city. S there this is such a significant challenge to us. A lot of the work in terms of spre spreading and food securities are some of the other things. We still have to think of intermediate term. Thats what the Economic Recovery Task force is trying to do, putting the on the ground experiences together, coming up with a coherent plan and strategy on how the city may want to approach reopening going into the future. Definitely, very impactful. I want to bring it to veronica and knowing that Health Disparities are tied to systemic racism and this is a Public Health issue that disproportionately effects people of color and black and brown bodies, what can our leaders do and those in power do to change this tide . I dont think we have enough time. [laughter] ill give it my best shot, okay. Its a loaded question. For our community and im specifically talking about African Americans, we as leaders in this city, particularly at the higher level has to be honest about the Structural Racism and violence thats been perpetuated by our people ever since slavery. We have to be honest on how it looks and how it shows up in each of our systems. We have enough data on the black experience to build cities about, but we dont seem to shift on how the racism and its structure is continuing to keep these barriers and these hurdles high so our communities cant thrive unless we change the Program Project mentality. Were not really pulling out the roots of the racism. Were just doing check boxes. Theyre always like a band aid. They never really resolve the problem because were not going deep enough and were not being honest enough to say were putting systems in place that perpetuate the inequity. Until we as leaders all come together at the highest level and have honest conversations that will be very uncomfortable, because t going to reveal how our own biases stand in the game, to be honest. We have to own up to the fact that a lot of the systems in place, were protecting them at the highest level. People who make up 5 of a population, but have the highest Health Disparities, the worse education outcomes, the highest rates of mass incarceration, i mean i can go on and on. Something is intentionally wrong there. Half of the Homeless Population is black and there isnt even that many of us. What structures continue to perpetuate this and how are we protecting it that it keeps going . We got to be honest, otherwise we are going to continue to Fund Programs that are not sustainable because theyre not designed to be. Theyre not going to dig out the deep root of the problem. The entire country has been functioning in systemic Structural Racism and violence against black people. Now we just got to own that. So it comes back to checking ourselves with our own bias i cant say biases, and you cant tell your community were here to help you and you need a heart transplant, but you give me a band aid. How does that help my community . Yet we continue to do this. So somehow until we as leaders at the highest level can sit down and be honest about what were actually doing to black people and particularly right now with the Racial Climate that were living in, its been unleashed and against us and yet were fighting to get basic needs, food, housing, struggling to get testing out here in our community and yet as karmen spoke, the need is huge. Were not being honest. I think weve been so conditioned to operate in our different slices of the pie, we dont see the whole picture. We dont see how the ingredients are combined to create the recipe we want to build. We need to have conversations that dismantle the racism and make sure that everything were doing is connected to some policy or some ordinance that dismantles the barriers against African American. Absolutely, thank you. Joyce speaking on that, i know that you spoke a little bit in your intro about how this effected your organization right now. How has covid affected your ability to provide Behavioral Services to youth . Both carmen and veronica, i dont know how i get to come after both of you. You spoke so well about this. I think Health Starts in community. It is a community response, a neighborhood response, right . When you start to take away some of the things that were accustomed to, to have this sort of response, on top of the social determinants of health we already had, it definitely puts us at a disadvantage. We need to acknowledge the roles and how that relates to the disbursement of resources and the response from the city. As veronica eluded to before, we are scrapping for resources, for testing. We had to do all telehealth for our Behavioral Health services. Thats not a community model, right . We depend on relationships. We depend on each other for our needs. We build a rapport with you and then that gets taken away. They trust us. Its like were a boutique clinic. It was designed and created by the community and youth to be the beacon for their needs. So i think when we talk about policy, i think we need to look at how there is racism in the Decision Making and that we need to look at whos at the table and who has the power at the table to make these decisions and to help Bring Community to the table so theyre at the forefront of the Decision Making, the solution and the progress. How do we hold the city accountable for try to address our needs without the community there . So when we look at these things moving forward, as veronica said and carmen said, we have to put our leadership and the Community Leadership to help with some of these policies and Decision MakingGoing Forward. Thats the only way were going to crawl ourselves out of this hole were in. Yep, definitely. I hear that and agree. Speaking about policy and good policy, but just often the foundation of good policy. I want to open this question up for all three of you. How have you seen this city or your organizations budget effected by this pandemic . Can i just start by saying i want to appreciate what veronica and joyce said. I truly think that when we talk about economic recovery, i agree with joy in terms of the Community Based approach. Its really important there are community leaders, network, and existing relationships that can only strengthen and either make that work or not work. I think that is really important to acknowledge. I think to veronicas point as well, i really appreciate the comment she said about how we need to be willing to confront those Difficult Conversations because i really feel whenever it comes to the conversation around race, its really, it is very hard to talk about. Its very hard to be vulnerable and talk about what you dont know or to be fearful of saying the wrong thing and then that makes the conversation around race hard. When we start to see the outcomes that we talked about, whether its economic outcomes, Health Outcomes, so on. Theyre tied to race. So how do you say that its not connected . So i do think that its important for us to begin taking those steps. Its hard to do, but im hopeful that were going to start to have more conversations and the more conversations we have and sustain conversations, not just for this month or next month, that we can actually see progress. I hope thats going to be the case. I know that its going to be the leadership of the city, but also in our community and how we all interact and what kind of personal responsibility we can all take with dismantling the system we have. In terms of budget, you know, budget is incredibly tough for the city right now. You know, i think what were seeing is a 1. 7 billion deficit because a lot of the revenue has been drying up, all these things tied to Economic Activity has pretty much stopped. So i think thats been a big challenge for us from our organizations point of view. Were trying to figure out the best way possible to continue our work because for folks who dont know, the Assessors Office is responsible for property taxes and our operation brings in about 3 billion of funding to the city year after year. That helps to fund our social services. Its the largest source of general fund revenue for the and Public School and education, which is also important. We want to make sure to continue those operations, but its not going to be easy because if were going to defeat this budget deficit, it looks like potentially cuts. I think all of us are looking for areas where we can cut to help make balance and wont impact people and services, but for an organization like mine where 80 of my expenses are people, thats hard to do. I think that youre going to see that to be really true, especially with so many of our nonprofit partners, where it was already hard to begin with in terms of being able to run the operation to recruit, and to keep talent and people in your organization, to pay them something that will help them survive in a high expense city and now that were in this situation, its even harder. So i just want to acknowledge that its true. Its true for the city and its even more true for a nonprofit partner. I will imagine that were going to have a really challenging time. With that being said, in my point of view, were committed to doing everything we can to continue to bring in the revenue that is fairly due to the city and we will see a lot of challenges to that. We are already seeing a lot of commercial properties and others saying covid had an impact. It certainly has an impact, but from a Property Value point of view. We dont think it has an impact for the fiscal year upcoming. So that is just in my mind understanding where were going to have challenges coming forward as a city. Its going to be tough. Thank you. Im going to jump in. For me the answer is twofold because i work for the Health Department and lot of the budgets were redistributed because of covid. Then i work for community and people on the ground, and their budgets were just pretty much destroyed by a lot of this work. So from the citys lens, from the Health Departments lens, the new guidelines, the Mental Health money has been drastically reduced, which impacts our commune huge because there wasnt enough resources for black people and their Mental Health needs before covid. With the reductions i saw from Gavin Newsoms office, its going to have even a harder hit for our community because as i stated earlier, all of this impacts our mental and Emotional Health and wellbeing. We have people who are seniors that are isolated and are just not doing well because of this intersection of us being around people has impacted us all. So from the community lens, its a huge struggle because youre trying you got funded to do certain programs and certain projects that are going to sub support people and yet people are sheltered in and cant come out. Our Community Also doesnt have access to Technology Like a lot of other communities. Those resources arent always available. As black people, many of us live multigenerational. Our programs are for the seniors or for the kids or for the working poor. We arent looking at Household Level responses. Were all impacted. If grandma is getting the grocery bag, all the eight people that live in that house are going to live out of that gross bag, which is probably going to be gone the same day they get it. So the programs have been impacted by the pandemic so the resources arent as great as they want them to be. It has changed the last few months, but its been a huge impact on trying to connect resources. As joy said earlier, we as Community People know each other and try to build upon what we know we all have, but were all still fighting for the same bread crumb. Its not like joys program got an abundance of stuff. Our wonderful baby y here, a great resource to our community yet theyre trying to engage our community, families, seniors, all the people they serve from an extended reach. The question about the budget has to do with the people on the ground compared to the Health Department who are trying to take resources and redistribute them in an equitable way, but the need is so great. Theyre trying to figure it out each new day. Things keep changing. We have federal guidelines that impacted our budget. There are layers upon layers of things that people have to think about daily. Thank you. All right, im going to answer this question wearing two hats. Im going to start with the first hat as being cochair. So this is my third year. Every year we put out these recommendations, trying to be as equitable and Community Focused as possible. As a cochair, i am worried about this plan shrinkage in the city. When i say that, when we think historically when these things come up, black and brown people are always at the tail end of this. This is who is going to get hit the hardest. It will come out of the Police Department or Fire Department, wherever it is, its in our neighborhood. Trying to make sure in every decision being made around this planned shrinkage that were taking an equitable lens or equitable approach. The director put out a Covid Response not work book, but i cant think of the word. She put out a great report about how we should approach our recovery as a city. I recommend people should read that. Also my other hat as a leader of a nonprofit, im terrified because by this point in the process, nonprofit leaders will know what were working with. This delay is adding another layer of stress. Youre trying to keep your staff calm and make sure you have money to pay for the things you planned for. Now were waiting for your city counterparts to know if this is going to happen. Youre trying to keep your population to conserve calm. Its a whole level of stress for nonprofit leaders because we dont know whats going to happen and all the things that we grown to trust and depend on are all at jeopardy. I just want to say that health is involved in all policies, whether its education, transportation, whatever, intentional or unintentional. So like we really need to focus on how all of these policies and event the way these budget cuts come down and what impact its going to have on communities of color. Yes, definitely. That is so true. Speaking on that, in todays debate, the Public Health recovery and the economic recovery are often times pinned against one another. So, how do each of you envision a community where these two could be integrated to create prosperity . Lets go to carmen. I was going to let someone else take the lead. In terms of tracking this, when you look at the reproduction rate of covid19, in march it was something above 3. That meant for anyone with covid19, they were basically spreading it to 3 other individuals. San francisco in the bay area took Decisive Action to do shelterinplace in midmarch. They were faster than many other places and it helped slow the spread pretty quickly. When you look at the trajectory of reproduction rate, it dropped dramatically after shelterinplace went into order. For a long time it was under 1. Thats a good thing. You want the number to be under 1. Around the beginning of june or so that started to inch up and now were likely above 1. Thats where we are in terms of the reinfection rate. We want to bring the number down or we will see spread in our communities. I tell you that because what happened that drove that number down was two things. We closed a lot of businesses, reck recreation was also shut down. The second thing, i know for myself, psychologically we were seeing what was happening across the country and around the world and new york. We thought we better take precaution because we dont want to see that happen here. We dont want to see lines of ambulances going into the hospital with us having to make decisions on who to treat and who not to treat. Many of us took a lot of precautions and then that flattened the curve when we reopened the economy in midmay or so, i think a few things happened. I think you know, number one more Economic Activity was happening, so more people were coming in contact with one another. I think a lot of people let their guard down. Weve been cooped up and people thought it wouldnt hurt if i just saw so and so. Overtime as you start to be social, you forget you shouldnt have give someone a hug. I think its hard is see what of the resurgence is related to Economic Activity and what is he rated to our social behaviors. I think the one thing ill say is that im still hopeful that we can open up more of the economy so we can get our budgets back online and our support back online and to help people too. There is a cost to shelterinplace. We heard a lot about the cost to business, the cost to losing jobs, which is not small. Those are big things when people lose their incomes. There is social and emotional challenges, Mental Health challenges. Veronica spoke about social isolation amongst our seniors. We are seeing more food insecurity. There is also the typical ability for us to be able to detect things like abuse. Were not seeing kids go back to school. Were not seeing more avenues for some of these things to be daylighted for example. So it is not without other costs associated with it. I just wanted to say that because part of reopening the economy and getting back to as normal as possible is because there are other impacts we have to see. I do think that we can continue to do it, but we really have to double down in terms of our own social behaviors. Thats hard to do because were use to being the social people we are and seeing your own family. I do think thats what needs to happen in terms of the city and other actions that need to occur to make this a not a here or there or win or lose situation. We have to take more personal responsibility. All of us do. We have to remember to buckle back down again right and not try to get back together and do as mump as we can to social distance and wear masks. Those are things we can take on ourselves to do. As a city we need to think harder about how do we support people during this time . So if we want people to not spread, it means we need to support people who get sick, to make sure they have a replacement income, and they are not going to lose their jobs when they do that. I think there are a lot of policies that need to happen that support Economic Activity so people can have good health behavi behaviors. I just want to say we all have work to do on the policy side to help people who get sick and making sure our Public Health has the resources they need to help with Mental Health, with contact tracing, and testing. The last thing i have to say is that we need to think more regional. I think we started off really well in terms of coming together as a region to slow and close things down. When we started to open back up, counties did it all different ways. So there was a lot of confusion on what is open here and what is open there. When things are open in another county, people from our county and rightly so were saying oh, ill meet you over there to have dinner or whatever it was. You know, it just shows you that spread isnt contained within our county, right . People go, they work in other counties. People come here to work. So i think our lack of having a regional approach when it comes to opening really hurt us. I hope we can get back on track with some of these things so we can come together and be more coherent and cohesive on how were moving together. I could talk for hours about this stuff. So for me megan and thanks carmen. That was wonderful. The question has a different turn for me. When i think of economic recovery or Public Health recovery, i have to ask for who . Our health was terrible before covid. Our Economic Life was very poor precovid. So, when were talking about the recovery of these things, if were talking about black people, we have to have a whole different conversation. The Median Income for white people was 101,000 and for black people it was 29,000. Our Health Disparities are the worse across the city for every group. Its a different discussion. Again, everything all the racism that black people and people of color just in general experience is connected to economics, period. So its not just about the pandemic but for my community, it heightened everything that was already in place and occurring. So when we talk about recovery for people who are already oppressed, already impacted by the social determinants of health, the conversation has to take a different nuance. We need honest conversations on what does recovery look like and for what population are we talking about . If youre already twothirds of the food chain and the issue for you is this pandemic, but you still have food, housing, your bills are still being paid, that recovery will have a different outcome for those at the bottom of the barrel. Right now what we see and i know carmen and joy have seen it, its the despair in everyone were seeing. How long will this go on . I have people that i know that dont have jobs and are so afraid because theyre going to end up losing the place theyre renting because they cant pay. I think of recovery for those who are marginalized already and its a different conversation. I agree with carmen. It has to have a regional approach so were not all doing our own thing based on the communities we live in. We do have to think about that. I learned last week because of my exposure to data in the Health Department. I currently live in the census track, in the bay view. Im a native here, born and raised here, that has the highest cases of covid. Oh god, im scared to leave my house even for a basic need. There are people that are Walking Around and theyre not thinking about Public Health recovery. Theyre not thinking about economic recovery. A lot of these people dont even wear masks and theyre not just the black people. It has a different layer added to it in our community. That recovery requires the voices from our community to be leading those conversations. What recovery looks like is not the same as in the bay view. Thank you. I very quickly. Go ahead. And i think that was a perfect segue into one of my points about the community aspect. I was thinking since young people are now one of the fast ers populations to be contracting covid, i have this crazy idea, why not hire them to be our contact tracers . They know who are around and who is going to be somewhere and all this other stuff. Have them help us track this for us. Its their population that is now entering into this. We didnt do a great job with our young people in messaging. They have all kinds of messages going on, does the mask really help, i thought we can go here, is this real, all these different things. So now getting them involved, getting them educated on whats really happening and helping them be a part of the solution is going to engage them, is going to help them in economic recovery. Its going to give them experience that hopefully later on you now have your new Public Health team. Even hiring young people to be Community Ambassadors or captains to help with the Data Collection in specific neighborhoods. I think about whats happening in sunny dale. Hire young people to help with that. Even in the shelterinplace hotels, how can young people be part of the stat . I think there are ways that we can include community and im using my youth lens because i run a Youth Organization but community in general. These are ways we can incorporate the community in a way that doesnt make them feel tokenized and you understand what youre going to do and youre going to sit here and this is on the checklist. This is having them feel a part of the solution and helping their community that is also uplifting them economically. Can i add to that too . We have a Seniors Group called network for elders out here. I know the president and she says theyre trying to communicate because so many of them live alone and they dont even have laptops to do that. They used to meet monthly before covid. I asked how many laptops do you need . She said eight. They dont have the money to get it but its a way to stay connected and to be able to engage and feel like they are also part of what they can do to shift the narrative. It could be small but its so critically needed. Yeah, i love what joy had to say about engaging the youth that way. The city has a huge need for contact tracers and well have a huge need for a while. I think thats an idea we should be exploring as a city and to veronicas point. The Digital Divide is terrible. Youre seeing thats playing out in terms of education. If you have parents or kids that dont have access to technology or the connection, or dont know how to use it, youre seeing theyre falling further behind. Thats a huge challenge. Yeah, so really quickly, i guess a follow up to this is what are some of the red tapes that can be addressed. Youre shaking your head veronica, theres too much red tape. Thats something to think about and maybe theres Community Building down the road. A question we have from an audience member, denise asks how has the covid crisis effected or complicated the housing prices . Hi denise, thanks for your question. We saw an uptick in young people trying to escape Family Violence just in a weeks time. Before the city was allowing them to use Emergency Hotel vouchers we said were going to use them and ask or forgiveness later. So we tried to get our young people somewhere where they could get safe. It started as a week, then growing into a months time and we thankfully were able to sustain them during this whole shelterinplace time. It ended up being 12 young people we had to do this for outside of trying to house i think during this time we were rapidly trying to house all the youths on our list. In addition to the emergency housing youth, we housed close to 20 young people during this time. It looks like rent is going down but there is still a huge need. There are a ton of young people still in the queue and we had to slow down because of resources. Its been strapped because all the money that had to go into hotels, food, just making sure that everyone has the electronic stuff like laptops, hotspot, all of that. It just put a huge strange on our resources strain on our resources and there are still a lot more people in the kuwaiting to be housed although rent is dropping. This is like we went into this crisis with homelessness being one of our huge issues at the city and weve done a better job of trying to address it, but its only going to like its a deep hole. We need if i can advocate for anything right now the two things would be housing, food, and Mental Health. I can say that as a homeless response system in general, everyone not just youth, everywhere faces this crisis during shelterinplace and even now. Definitely. Does anyone else want to answer that question briefly . I guess just quickly for me, its just thanks denise for asking that question. Its so complex. Our housing, our homelessness shot up. I mean we got hundred times more Homeless People here in the bay view than we had before because resources shifted. Things that use to be available in certain parts of the city werent anymore. We even have people that are in sheltered environments without food and going to the Homeless Services to eat. So its just very complex and i ditto everything that joy said. All these of these intersections have to be addressed because theyre all happening at the same time. Definitely. So i want to open it up to our Closing Remarks and last questions here as were coming to time. How has each of your personal experiences guided your strategy to recovery and what are some resources that you can provide to our audience and try to keep this under 2 minutes. I think well be good. Ill go very fast, which is you know my parents were immigrants here so my parents i grew up most of my life where my parents think racism because they couldnt speak english well and they worked in low income jobs. My mom was a seamstress and my dad worked in a kitchen. It always colored my perspective because when i think of policy and how we respond to economic recovery, i think of the people who cant make it to the table. I think of the people that cant come out and advocate because they have to work or i think of the people that cant or dont feel they can speak up. So, i think that is something that will always be with me. Its always keeping that perspective on who cant come here to say what they need to say and we need to be thinking about them too. I think in terms of this pandemic, its even more clear about how it is that we need to be protecting, especially our most vulnerable communities. Joy, if you want to go. Yeah, ill go. I dont think you come out of Hunters Point without being an activist. One of the most overused but appropriate words to describe our neighborhood is resilient. So i think weve learned how to, you know, make something out of nothing. I think again as i talked about earlier the village model of really making sure that we all were helping each other no matter what, even if we had something little. Let me help you get this. I think thats been sort of the beauty of all this, seeing how San Francisco has come together to make sure that we are at least trying to address our most marginalized. I seen people come out to help our seniors like veronica was talking about with the Faithbased Community and serving all those meals. That came from just conversations, very organic conversations. Seeing that and seeing how the networking has i have really been amazed at how everyone has come together in all different fronts. In terms of resources for the audience, i just really want people to get out here and advocate, right . Weve talked about all the things that need to happen. Get engaged. Look at the next budget meeting. Look at the next Police Commissioner meeting. Look at all these different meetings where we need folks to come out and advocate for the things were talking about. Were going to need your voices to make this happen. This is where the community is at the table. This is where we shift the power in the Decision Making. We need you all to show up and advocate for these things. Ill leave you with that. And im going to end with very little. The resources i bring is food. People know me as you need food, call veronica. I pretty much know where all the food is and how to get it to people. More than that, i bring grace. I bring dignity. I bring values and humanity to peoples lives who are suffering in multiple ways and spaces and places, whether they speak english or not. I think that hope and joy said, the resilience we have helps keep people helps people know that somebody cares and somebody really shows that they care about how were experiencing life each day. I dont care whether youre giving a person a napkin or referral. Do it with dignity. Do it with hope. Do it with grace and remind people that theyre not alone. To me thats the most important. If we dont stand for the values that we say we represent, it doesnt matter what we have to offer. You can treat people very badly for something they really need and theyll walk away from you because you disrespected them. So i think that is critical of how to engage people, specifically in this pandemic. Thank you. Thank you veronica, carmen, and joy. Your comments are much appreciated and i hope the three of you collaborate down the line. I just want to plug for summer in the city is their next event, august 6th. This is a big event for all women to celebrate and i know that carmen also has the w challenge coming up celebrating the 100 Year Anniversary of woman suffrage, both are tied to womens suffrage, keeping it in line with womens rights and of course what that means for women of color especially black women and brown women. Thank you again for everyone that is watching from your homes. A remind to make sure that you are socially distant, wear your mask, and stay informed. Thank you. Chair fewer good morning everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the july 31, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. Im sandra lee fewer. Im joined by gordon mar and matt haney. Do we have any announcement. Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners City Employees and the public city hall is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local and state federal orders, declarations and directives. Commission members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Then pound and then pound again. When connected you will hear the meet discussion and in listen mode only. When your item come up, dial star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practice is speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email to myself the lafco cle clerk, or by u. S. Mail at one dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california 94102. That concludes my announcements. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call the item number two. Clerk approval of the lafco minutings from the june 19, 2020 regular meeting. Chair fewer any comment or questions. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. Please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Is there anyone on the line . There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is now closed. I want to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes from june 19, 2020. Do i need a second for that . Clerk yes. Chair fewer second please . Second. Clerk motion to approve the minutes. [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Do we need to excuse missioner pollock from this meeting . Should i make a motion . I like to make pa motion oexcuse commissioner pollock from this meeting. Could i have a second please . Supervisor mar second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call item number three. [agenda item read] chair fewer thank you very much. We have our executive director presenting on this. Thank you, good morning commissioners, bryan goebel executive officer. This item will authorize the lafco to enter an construction with banner production to provide Renewable Energy consulting to the lafco. The lafco is mandated to provide oversight of cleanpowersf in august of last year we issued a request for qualifications for Renewable Energy expert in three Service Areas. I outlined all of this in your packets. By the okay deadline, we haved a total of seven responses. They met the minimum qualifications to work with lafco. There was only one response for service area one, which is to support lafcos oversight of cleanpowersf. We gave all of the respondents a Second Chance to apply and by the february deadline received a total of four responses. On march 13th, we convened an r. F. Q. Evaluation panel made up of chelsea from chair fewers office and a legal counsel. Of all four respondents, vanir scored the highest in the supervisor and proposal evaluation. On june 16th of this year, the lafco issued an intent to award a contract to vanir. The panel were impressed with vanirs presentation during the interview and their understanding of the role lafco plays with cleanpowersf. They have done their homework. As well as by the firms documented expertise and proven record in the Renewable Energy field. They are a minority and women owned company. The staff member for the role at vanir will be jenny witson with Extensive Knowledge of Renewable Energy issues. The team who will work with lafco, i outlined this in your packet, includes developing the framework for the c. C. A. Program in los angeles. They have c. C. A. Experience. This would allow us to significantly strength and our oversight role of cleanpowersf by retaining expertise from a firm with experience in this field. Im very excited to work vanir Going Forward. My recommendation is that you approve the contract. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up for Public Comment please. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. Please wait to indicate the system has unmute you. Are there any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on this item . Yes, i have one in the queue. Hello commissioners, eric brooks with californian for energy choice, i worked the last 14 years to get cleanpowersf off the ground. Support of this, the diversity and the expertise that this company and team has is both crucial and impressive. Its great to see this Going Forward. Theres one big caution and hopefully vanir is watching this as well so they get this message to both the commissioners and to vanir, the big caution is that all the expertise looks great but the one thing that i dont see from either of the commission or the contractor is the plan and the ability to integrate all that spirit expero plan a Virtual Power Plant for the San Francisco bay area like the sydney, australia renewable plan. Thats what the advocates have been watching for 14 years. Its not coming from the sfpoc. We need this contractor to be expert on power plant and hire contractor to build it. Thats absolutely crucial. Its the one thing i would say to step up your game on both the commission and the contractor. Thank you. This looks great. Its great to see that were moving forward and i look forward to communicating with all of you in the future including vanir. Clerk thank you for your comment. Anyone else on the line . That completes the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is closed. Mr. Brooks, comments are noted. I think we are now able to make a recommendation to approve the contract with vanir Construction Management as mr. Goebel has recommended to us. Supervisor mar i had a question for mr. Goebel. I wanted to clarify is the contract with vanir going to cover all three Service Areas . I noticed lafco received responses to the r. F. P. From different bidders in the three different Service Areas. Vanir only submitted a response to service area one and Service Area Two but not service area three which identify proposed programs for communities of concerns. I wanted to clarify whether the scope of this contract will cover all three Service Areas . Chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you for that question commissioner mar. I want to add that Jenny Whitson from vanir johnson us as well. No, this contract only covers service area one, which is supporting lafcos oversight role of cleanpowersf. I think it could maybe be possible that vanir could help us develop scope of work for service area three, which other service they didnt apply for. This is mostly to support service area one. Chair fewer commissioner mar, would you like to hear from Jenny Whitson from vanir. Shes available for comment to answer questions. Supervisor mar yes, sure. Im curious how whether lafco will be pursuing consultant support for Service Area Two and three . It is my goal that well be able to based on what i heard from commissioners in the past that service area three is a priority, particularly picking up on Winston Parsons work that he did with his report with number of power disconnections in San Francisco and doing work in this area and other work that the commission deems a priority for communities of concern. Im not sure if ms. Whitson would care to say a few words. Mr. Goebel and commissioners, vanir is excited to support the lafco and service area one oversight of cleanpowersf. In termings of the comments that we heard, well work with mr. Goebel and commissioners to consider any advocacy comments be and recommendations and incorporate those accordingly into lafcos recommendations. Were very excited and we look forward to working with lafco and many other stakeholders that are looking at the cleanpowersf implementation plan. Chair fewer thank you very much. Ms. Whitson to reiterate the question from commissioner mar about working in areas two and three. Would you be able to lend any expertise. I know that your contract for Service Area Number one. Im assuming that you have the expertise for two and three should we expand the scope. Is that correct . Yes, we we do have the Technical Support and expertise for Service Area Two. We are willing to help develop the scope for service area three. We can certainly help with developing that as well. Chair fewer commissioner mar, any other questions or comments . Supervisor mar no, thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you very much. I think that seeing no one else in the queue, i like to make a motion to approve this contract. Could i have a second please . Supervisor mar second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call item number four. [agenda item read] chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you madam chair. Commissioners, this item would allow the lafco to extend its contract with the jobs with Justice Education Fund to conduct another survey of on demand workers in San Francisco. The focus of this survey would be delivery workers. Who are among our front line workers now. Our previous survey, those delivery workers who participated in the survey, mostly in San Francisco, more than 60 of them. I gone into detail on this in your packet but the survey would have two part. The team would recruit for a representative survey of workers on four platforms, two grocery and two food with a target of 200 workers on each platform. They would also conduct a survey of delivery workers are unionized. To understand how the work is performed when the workers are employees with union representation. This will then compare the difference and have some analysis on that. The first step of this next phase will be to do a pilot to develop a methodology that prioritizes Public Health and safety for the team who will be working in the field. A part of that how they will determine whether or not this would be inperson survey using all the safety protocols and or whether it would be a phone survey. I think thats something they hope to work out with the pilot. We do have funds left over from the previous representative survey since it was cut short. That would cover the pilot phase and then conducting the next survey would actually be dependent on additional funding from private foundations to the tune about 360,000. Weve already applied for one big grant and im starting to work now with the team on fundraising strategy moving forward. I feel confident that we can raise those funds. Im looking forward to this next phase of work with the survey team. The contract will be extended for one year and my recommendation is that you approve the contract. With that im happy to answer any questions. Chair fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up for Public Comment please. Clerk operations checking to see if theres callers in the queue. For members waiting online and wish to speak, please press star three now to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the similar indicate you have been unmuted. Anyone on the line . I have one caller in the queue. Hello general commissioners. Eric brooks again. This time representing our city of San Francisco, local Grassroots Group and the San Francisco green party. I wanted to really you probably already thinking in this direction, it is vital during the virus crises that we get responsive and data on what front line workers need because of the virus crises. Especially with were just finding out today that congress is totally dropping the ball on support unemployment support maybe a lot lower and that essential workers like this, is vital that were paying them a lot of money. Soothe like doing this. We really need to get data and responses specifically on that. Not just for this industry but this will cover but if we get the right kind of responses it will apply to uber and lyft and maybe even whole foods workers, Grocery Store workers, you name it. So we can get some guidance on giving real relief to front line workers and make sure theyre paid well enough to justify the hard work that were having them do. Those are my comments. Chair fewer thank you very much. Anyone else in the queue . Clerk i dont believe theres anyone else in the queue. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Commissioner mar. Supervisor mar thank you. I wanted to thank executive officer goebel and my former colleague, the academic partner and others for all your work on this groundbreaking study on workers in San Francisco. I fully support extending the contract for jobs for justice, to do a new surveys with the food and grocery delivery workers. Im very interested in following up on recommendations that came out of first round of survey and supervisor haney particularly the recommendation to explore licensing system for food delivery. I think the second phase of the survey of those workers will align well with us and initiatives that can support these workers better. So thank you. Chair fewer thank you commissioner mar. Any other comments . I like to add my ditto to exactly what commissioner mar said and thank mr. Goebel especially for staying with it and being able to fund these really important studies. Thank you very much. Having said that, anyone else in in the queue . I make a motion to approve the reservation authorizing the Second Amendment no, Second Amendment to the agreement between lafco and the jobs for Justice Education Fund for on demand delivery workers. Can i have a second please . Second. Second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number five. [agenda item read] chair fewer i think today we have our counsel inder khalsa to present this item. Good morning madam chair and members of the commission. It is my pleasure to bring to you today an extension to the chair fewer i see no one in the queue. We can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please press star three now to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Is there anyone on the line . I have one caller. Its eric brooks again. This time representing all four of the groups that i mentioned. Just to give thumb us up to renewing the executive officers contract. Its been very refreshing to work with bryan. Todays meeting is a clear indication that bryan is getting stuff done and his ability to get the supervisors to realize the importance of this commission has been important as well. I would urge you to approve this. Thank you. Clerk i believe that is the only caller in the queue. That is correct. That completes the queue. Chair fewer thank you. Public comment on item number five is closed. I would like to make a motion to approve resolution for bryan goebel executive of office services. Second please. Second. Chair fewer thank you commissioner cink. Singh. [roll call vote]. You have four ayes. Chair fewer please call item number six. Clerk item number six is Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4156550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star three now to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. Is there anyone in the line to speak . Yes, i have one caller. Hello again one last time. Commissioners, eric brooks representing all four of the groups that i mentioned before. I cant say this with enough urgency. If you look whats happening in washington d. C. Right now, the trump administrations handling of the Economic Crises that has merged from this virus and other problems with the economy is dismal at best. Even the leadership of the Democratic Party is not stepping up to make sure that things are funded and the people are funded the way they need to be. Housing is producted the way it needs to be. I would urge you to take the public bank off the back burner because were now facing a situation where San Francisco is likely to be under extreme crises, especially for housing even with the protections that weve got in place. Its vital that we make sure and get the public bank on the front burner and moving forward as quickly as possible so we can get people out of harm and get coops funded and things like that. So we can fund things like cleanpowersf that will be much easier to build than saving the planet if we get money from a public bank to build that Virtual Power Plant. Sydney, australia power plant that i was talking about before. I dont think that we can leave public bank to decide at this point. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk that is the only caller. Chair fewer okay, Public Comment is