This is the september 2, 2020 rescheduled budget committee. Im sandra lee fiber. Fewer. I would like to thank lina mendoza. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors are closed. However, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state and directives. Committee members will attend and participate in the meeting to the extent as if they are physically present. Public comments are on this item. We are streaming the number across the screen and each member will be allowed two minutes to speak. Call 415 6550001. And access code 146 8286649. And then press pound twice. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion and you will be muted and in listening mode only. Your item of interesting comes up, dial far thre star three ant practises to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in the following way. Email to myself, the committee clerk. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as a part of the official files. Items acted upon are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15th unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much, madam clerk. Can you please call item number one. Item number one, the administrative codes of the office of the chief medical examiner to include post partum Investigation Services and update these amounts. Members of the public who wish to provide comment shoul mr. Bakowork skiokski, the fs yours. The item was discussed when the city administrator came before the budget appropriations committee. At that point, we presented the fees to the office of the chief medical examiner that we needed to amend some of the fees that did not reflect the current cpi adjustments that are allowed by the controller and so, what you have before you today is that amended legislation to adjust those fees according to cpi, remove some fees for equipment we no longer use and add a few other fees. And that will be charged to outside agencies to the extent we provide testing for them. Chair any comments or questions for my colleagues . Do any of these added fees pertain to individual fees to the medical Examiners Office . Only for outside agencies. Chair thank you very much. And you have your amendments. You distributed the amendments and theyre not substantive, correct. They were provided at the last committee meeting, yes. Lets open this up for Public Comment, then. Can you please open up Public Comment for item number one. Yes, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not done so, press star three to be added to the queue and please continue to wait if youre on hold until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are from any callers on item number one . There are no callers. Chair i would like to move this as amended. Could i have a role call vote, please. Just to clarify, the amendment was approved at the last meeting and if we could just recommend it to the full board. Chair lets recommend it, role call. role call . Chair item number two. For the acquisition, rehabilitation of atrisk housing located at 270 turk street to the acquisition and preservation programs, including the preservation and seismic safety program, Downtown Neighborhood and Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for a total amount not to exceed 31. 8 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. , 146 8286649 and press pounds twice i. Dial star three to line up to speak. Chair we have Brianna Lopez and miss chan. The floor is yours. Thank you, chair and committee members. We are asking the committee to afford indiscernible . We are asking for preservation of 270 turk street and the item was heard in committee and at the end of july, we made amendments to correctly characterize the loben as acquisition and preservation loan. And were happy to answer any questions if there are any. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, did we hear from the bail on this item . Yes, we did at the last meeting. Chair thank you. It seems like ions ago that we had that conversation. Any comments or questions for my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are any callers to comment on item number two. No callers on item number two. Chair Public Comment is closed. I wanted to give bla an opportunity to add anything. I would just comment that this reflects what miss chan had to say that the legislation before you today incorporates amendments made in committee in july to remove the Small Program as a source of funds from this loan and, also, to add an option purchase to the language in the resolution and we recommend approval of the amended legislation. Chair i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote, please . role call . There are three ay session. Chair madam clerk, can you please call item number three. Resolution approving the Municipal Transportation Agency contract number 201901 with Transportation System inc to implement and maintain a new realtime arrival at 88. 9 million for a term of six years with two optional fiveyear terms to cover Software Subscriptions and equipment life cycle, maintenance to commence following board approval. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. , 146 8286649 and press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star three to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin comments. Chair today we have with us jason lee and ramos from sfmta. The floor is yours. Im the Program Manager for the next generation custom information system. We launched a realtime launch system and by predicting when muni would arrive, weve seen a rapid increase in outbase emerging mobility modes. Though times and technology have changed, the system is reaching the end of its useful life. In our community outreach, the public told us they wanted more and so to meet these expectations, we didnt want it to simply be about continuing the functioning system that we had. The goal was to transform the way transit agencies interact with customers, using proven Core Technology and position San Francisco to be a National Leader once again. Particularly, as we navigate and cover from the covid19 crisis, better Realtime Communications and with our customers is needed now more than ever. Weve identified highlevel goals focused on the customer experience, quic equitable acce, promoting sustainable transportation, facilitating better travel decisions and rebuilding riderships after covid19. And we are proposing a nottoexceed contract of 89 million with twoway Transportation Systems, which rank the highest out of six for the Customer Information System. The duration is for six years, plus optional terms to cover Software Subscriptions. The sfmt board of directors gave approval on july 16th. If approved, we would seek additional board approval prior to exercising the fiveyear terms. Were planning to launch this systesystemsystem by the end of. This is a communitydriven project. Weve conducted qualitative outreach to shape the features of the Customer Information System. Over 5800 people responded to an online and paper survey available in multiple languages. And to ensure equity and incorporate the diverse needs of San Francisco in the design, we conducted inperson outreach to groups with students, senior citizens, people with disabilities, the business community, the chinese and spanishspeaking community and others. We will continue our outreach efforts into detail project design and we would like the publics input on how we can best communicate information intuitively. We would also like to understand where the public would most benefit from additional signs should funding become available. In our customer outreach, we wanted to find out how the availability content and presentation of realtime information could increase transit ridership. Even with no changes to the underlying Transit Service itself, so we presented a survey response with hypothetical 20minute wait scenarios with different types of realtime information. For example, we compared showing arrival on the thirdparty app and we tested showing an earlier arriving route within walking distance. So the findings gave us key insights. First, we found income has the strongest demographic influence on transportation choice and the greater the income, the more likely one would choose another form of transportation instead of muni. Second, survey finally suggests that target and contextual information can increase ridership and eliminating the influence of income all together on someones decision to ride muni. When presented with alternatives, over 80 of respondents chose muni. This was an improvement ranging from 21 Percentage Points for the lowest bracket to 53 Percentage Points for the highest income bracket. This can help to mitigate a twotier systeme system and helo bring people black t back to trs we recover from covid19. This new system will, indeed, help us to address and recover from covid19 and the new system will improve service awareness, restinreflecting changes in reae and providing multiregional transit information. It will improve Public Safety, encouraging social distancing by showing how full muni is and by having doublesided signs viewable from outside shelters and high ridership locations, as well as displaying announcements in multiple languages. It will make our planning more responsive, providing twoway outbase communications with customers, a new Analytics Platform for ridership patterns and providing more consistency vehicle spacing through a tool that our field supervisors can use to manage. And so now, lets look at the enhanced information the new system will provide. In addition to more accurate vehicle arrival predictions, we will offer dynamic maps showing vehicle positions on buses with onboard digital signs people will know how much time they will have to make their connection to another Transit Route once they arrive at a transfer point and like many other cities with networks, we have a dense system with multiple transit options. Well offer alternate routes. Well offer crowding information so that customers can decide whether they want to wait for another bus with more space. Well provide realtime information about elevator and escalator status, alzheimers as other information. We will provide detours and signs will indicate if a route has been detoured and the route planner will reflect reroutes in realtime. Well tell customers when bart and other services are coming and well ensure San Franciscos diverse population has access to information by being able to post messages in longer such as chinese, and spanish. San francisco residents and visitors will enjoy this through a systemized upgrade of transit shelters, rail platforms and underground stations. The new displays at shelters will be much larger than the current textbased signs and will show graphics and maps. Competitors who also enjoy doublesided signs up to onethird of the shelter locations. The contract will also include maintenance. This shows the future signs five times larger than the current signs. This is just a sample of what we could show here on the bottom. The new system will allow us to much more easily modify the look and feel of the displayed content. Among the transit agencies in the United States, muni has one of the dennest networks. And unlike many other alternatives, Accessible Information is built into the fabric of the new Customer Information System. For example, we will be able to provide information about accessible stops and elevator, escalator status. The new signs will have annunciation capabilities at the push of a button and will provide itineraries on user references. During the Detailed Design phase of the project, we will continue to Seek Public Input to maximize the systems accessibility. And were now going to switch over to the finances of the system. This breaks down contract expenses. The total contract duration of 16 years corresponds to the expected life span of signs where we structure the contract this way to commit the vendor to operations and Maintenance Support for the entire life span. The board of supervisors will have an opportunity to to approe the contract for the two optional extensions scheduled in the sixth and elevnith year of the contract. Contract includes warranty, covering all parts and consumables and rather than just applying signs, the contractor is committed to maintaining them for the entire contract. Approximately 7. 8 million for software and 7. 1 million for upgrading our existing signs. Back in fiscal year 2018, we started setting aside 25 million in onetime funds for the state of good repair project including 14. 8 million in Transit Impact Development Fee funds. We also have discretionary expenditures to phase in the system expansion based on cashflow and funding availability, including 4. 7 million for solar powered sign and 3. 5 million to upgrade subway arrival signs. Pout this shows a comparison of operations of Maintenance Cost for existing system and a oneforone replacement with the new system. So for only about 47,000 monthly in operating expenses incrementally or lets than 570,000 annually, were getting upgraded software and integrated mobile trip planner in payment, a new Analytics Platform and a systemwide sign upgrade. To put this in perspective, if the Customer Information System is able to recapture one of fiscal year 101 2019 ridership,t will be beneficial. We will operate on generating dynamic content while we see needs to post temporary signs. Chair comments or questions. indiscernible . The proposed resolution approves a if you contract between mta and through the Transportation Systems for the next generation customer system for muni. The contact is for additional sixyear ter term subject to the board of supervisors approval. The total contract amount over the 16year term would be 89 million and this is on page 12 of our report. Of that amount, 25. 4 million is Capital Expenditures which would be funded from the mta fund balance, the remainder would be annual operating expenditures that would be funded from mta operating revenues and we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Just to give an example, i may be standing on the platform waiting on the t and may see next t in seven minutes and you look up and it will say next t in 35 minutes. Will it do anything to give us the honest, upfront time to say next t or does it have anything to do with just kind of helping people navigate how long their wait time may be. Thank you, supervisor walton for that question, absolutely. A big focus on this is improving the accuracy of predictions. We know that the Current System has some limitations, particularly in relation to around the start of when trains begin their services or buses begin their routes. And so were focused on making sure that we have accurate predictions there. Thank you, because i think thats important if youre thinking a train is going to come in seven minutes so youre willing to wait and you look up and comes in 40 minutes. Some can say, maybe its safer and better just to walk, quicker just to walk, but if you keep getting different times, it can throw someones day off and thats important. A big focus of our signage was to make it a lot larger and to be able to display graphics so that we can show a map illustrating where the vehicle is located. So we found in our research that gives people extra confidence that the vehicle is actually there as opposed to just seeing a number, so when you see it on a map and you see it moving, you can say, its actually coming. Chair mandelman. Thank you. There is tremendous user dissatisfaction with the current nextbest system. It is i hear it about it a lot and i think we all hear about it a lot, it is unreliable and frustrating to people and this is the same contractor. And so, just wants to understand maybe a little further from the mta how a new contract or the same contractors that have delivered a product that our users have been terribly unhappy with is better this time to go around. Great question. And so. Its not a secret that the Current System is approaching two decades old. And what was Innovative Technology back then is no longer innovative. This contractor has recognised that and has completely redone its platform. So what we are getting here is fundamentally a much different approach at providing predictions. I think before you could imagine it as really startup style mentality and as the industry has matured, there is, you know, a lot more understanding about how to make things work appropriately. Your face isnt one of confidence. Supervisor, what are you thinking . I mean, i have no basis to know. I just know what we have now is bad and hoping what we will get a good and were relying on fine work for the good folks at the mta to see clearer that the problems that we may have with the Current System will not be replicated or that we can rely on this contractor to deliver a product or several orders of magnitude better than what weve had now. One other thing to note, too, is that the new system is actually owned by a Different Company when we first got it 20 years ago. Next bus was a startup organization. Company. The new company has cubic and experience in a whole variety of transitrelated applications and mostly related to fairs. But realtime information is a big part of it. And as i mentioned in my response to supervisor walton, were really focused on not just providing a number, like, observation, ititscoming in s0 minutes but showing ve visually where it is to give more confidence. A lot of the frustration comes from rerouteing services or making a change rapidly. For example, with covid19, we made four or five different changes so far. And this system gives us a lot more flexibility to show those reroutes and the Service Changes in realtime, as well as providing alternative routes. You know, where theyre feasible. And so that people arent just left stranded out there. Ok, good. I think those are good questions and i think weve all about at a munistaff where it says six minutes and then you look and its 21 minutes and youre, like, what . And so, seeing no one else in the queue, lets open this up for Public Comment. Madam clerk, ca can you please l Public Comment . Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. Press star three to be added to the queue. I have one caller in the queue. Speaker this represents a break for muni riders as you have discussion frustration is the problem. We can dramatically improve the riders experience by giving then information about rider times and alternate routes nearby and a Minor Service change like a breakdown or traffic or bus driver absent can have a major impact on a riders day. We urge you to approve the resolution for muni riders. Thank you. Thank you, are there any other speakers . That completes the queue. Chair Public Comment is closed on item number three and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Can i have a role call board. role call . Chair madam clerk, can you call item number four. Authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a great in 488,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration for participation. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin comments. Chair we have dean goodwin from the department of Public Health. Mr. Goodwin, you have the floor. This is a repurpose slide that my director and myself put together. We are presenting to other grantees how to use this funding that we received and this is onetime funds that were approved as part of the federal appropriation for funded services to help address the needs of those impacted by covid19. Next slide, please. Thank you. This is a little snapshot of our budget. Our total programmatic budget is over 37, nearing 38 million. As you can see, about 21, 22 millions of that is local general fund dollars and the rest is funding of some kind of or another, either part a, b or c. And just a reminder that the eligible metropolitan area or ema as were often referred to, is made up of three counties, San Francisco, moran and san matteo and its appropriated by biosphere based on the number of hiv cases in each of the three counties. Next slide, please. And just an overview that Service Provision of the hivheld Services Funding programs during the covid19 pandemic, all of our providers continue providing hiv Client Services at some level during the first few months and they were via telehealth and by phone and clients with emergent issues were seen in person and dental services were only provided at an emergency level, but those amount of Emergency Services have since resumed. Residential programs, of course, continued as theyve had previous other services were provided by providers by phone or via the internet. Next slide, please. One of the things that we did at hiv Health Services was to continue to check in with our providers frequently to share information with them as we had that available frequent provide communications and updates on the ability of covid testing and anything else of interest to them or their clients. We sent out multiple surveys to check the level of services for clients and how they were provided, what the Staffing Levels were like and how they were using telehealth. So thats how we used a lot of if funding as these visuals indicate and the first three sort of indicate how we utilize funding for reimbursing of expenses that were impacted on the cbos and then for the expansion of existing Services Based on the need, we focused on meals and Emergency Assistance for the most part with money set aside for emergency housing and client incentive vouchers. Next slide, please. This is the breakout of the Funding Amount before you of 488,185 and again, for the three county amounts and the amount for San Francisco, specifically, 85 of the clients are here and its about 758. 197 is mostly reimbursement for covid expenses experienced by the communitybased organizations and 52 has been set aside for extending of essential services allocations for about 215,561. The next slide, thank you for use timyour time and im happy o answer any questions. Chair there is no bla report so can we open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are callers that are ready. Operations, please let us know if there are callers who would like to speak. Chair i would like to make a motion to move item number four with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote. role call . Chair can you please call item number six. Item number six, authorizing the office of be indiscernible . Chair we have adrienne palm with us. The floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor. Good morning. Thank you very much for your consideration of this a e for supplemental census grant from the state of california committee. We have a proo brief update foru and well be happy to answer questions afterwards. If you go to the first slide, not everyone can vote, but the census is something everyone can participate in and we started outreach efforts in july of 2019 and we were on a role. The official campaign was launched in january and we were able to execute over 339 events before covid19 hit followed by the senseless killing of george floyd and countless black and brown americans. So all of this exposed the raw, Economic Health and social inequities in our society and put a hard stop to all of these censusrelated communities and Assistance Centers that were so successful in 2010. Next slide. So, we were left with a challenge of how to overcome a double pandemic and then how to inspire hope and motivate residents to participate in the census. And so, the next slide shows a map of who is im sorry. This is an updated map and we are right now at 64 in participation and it is the state of california is at 65 im sorry, 67 and the National Rate is 65 . And then the Census Bureau started seeing nonresponse followups and these are the doorknockers that go around to all of the house holds that have not not participated. There have been continuous politicalization by the trump administration, excluding undocumented immigrants and changing the posts and in shifting the end date for the census and that was moved up to september 30th. Next slide. In the red circle, youll see, again, no surprise but just exposes the gross inequities and showing Economic Opportunities for the citys most powerful population and if you go to the next slide, so now there are overwhelming barriers to those who are at least able to participate or who need help to participate and then, of course, with covid19, theres been a lot of misplacement since the start and many people have moved out, whether its permanently or temporarily theyve moved outside of the city and so, even people who would normally, could and would participate, have not yet done so and you go to the next slide and weve had to do a full pivot after the shelterinplace order was implemented, social distancing, totally knocked out all of the wind owl of ou out of our grasss community outreach, all of the things so effective in 2010. And you go to the next slide, many parts of our sf Counts Campaign continue on digital platforms. Our Community Partners have had to pivot to conduct outreach by phone, virtual assistance over the internet and many of us are not real experienced in Virtual Conference calls and consultations. So its taking awhile for people to get used to that and the challenge, of course, is that over 25 of our households lack Internet Access and as you found with the Sf Unified School district kids, they may not have broadband or bandwidth and they may need help to participate and theres about ten of our population who could respond on their own but havent. And if you go to the next slide, the next slide is just highlighting the art and action part of our campaign. Its using art as a vehicle to include and motivate residents and so all of the images, Pretty Amazing art. The next slide was created by black, brown, indigenous and other local artists and then the next slide show shows what was d in the campaign and then communicating messages in different languages and reflecting the people of San Francisco and the different cultures. If you go to the next slide, there are more than 150,000 households that still havent participated or who may need help filling out the census questioquestionaires. If theyre not counted, the city could risk losing about 8 billion in federal funding over the next ten years and thats money that we soarly needs a with know. Needs a you know. Needs a you know. On the last two slides, theres another equally and important reason why we need every resident regardless of their status to participate. Within an administration that is continuously attempted to move the goal post, has cheated and attempted to suppress census and voter participation, residents of San Francisco need to exercise their right and responsibility to participate because all of our lives depend on it. And then the last slide, i was e by some of our youth. Thank you, supervisors and that ends the brief update and happy to answer any questions if you have any. Chair any questions or comments for my colleagues . I have to say, i love the artwork and you know, in a way, i kind of almost hope that when we have a new administration in office, federal office, that we will do a recount of the census. I just feel that with covid and everything has just its not been on peoples minds, and so to get a really and crit count, i wish that the administration could say, you know what, well do the census over and fund it really well. Looking at this appropriation, it is not a lot of money. I wish that it was at least twice as much money to really get into the households, you know, that were having a hard time with. Theres to bla report and i see no comments or questions and lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. Chair i would like to make a motion to move this to the board and can we please have a role call vote . On the motion role call . There are three ayes. Chair can you please call item number seven, madam clerk. Number seven is a resolution to amending the cares act for person with aids, Coronavirus Program from the United States department of housing and urban development to expand the amount of 118,000 for the period of march 15, 2020 through june 30, 2023. Members who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 146 8286649 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star three. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Chair thank you very much. Today we have brian chu and gloria wu. Hi, brian. Good morning. Earlier this year in july of 2020, this committee and the full board approved the accept and expend for the housing stunthousingopportunities. Subsequent to the approval of that resolution, we were informed that the county of san matteo, for which we are the intermediary organization would like to expend their portion of this cares act retroactively which is permitted by the hud legislation. And they wanted to expend it from march 15th, through jun june 30th and we were informed that we needed to include that explicit retroactive language into the approval of that legislation. There is no change to the expenditures schedule. It simply allows us to permanena may day audi daysantamatteo to e submit this to the original resolution. Than any questions or colleagues. Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. There are no callers in the queue. Chair thank you very much and Public Comment for item number seven is now closed. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i please have a role call vote. role call . Chair madam clerk, can you please call number ten. Item number ten, resolution approving for purposes of Internal Revenue section 147f. please stand by . Supervisor mandelman weve seen these resolutions before. Its to refinance tax loans they used to acquire and rehabilitate School Campus on van ness street to retake that fan financeing n get our sign off here. The refinancing will allow them to spend less on Interest Payments and more on classes and Financial Aid and the other things that they do. I would say theyve been engaged with the community and in addition what they call adjusted Tuition Program that theyve done lot of outreach. They have programs for neighborhood kids other the summer. Im hopeful that well be able to move forward in this positive recommendation. Supervisor fewer we have someone from the comptroller office. Thank you for considering the resolution today. As supervisor mandelman said, this is tefra. We have Rebecca Foster from the San Francisco school. So they can speak more detail about the school and the project. For the committee and public, tefra is tax equity, fiscal responsibility act. The proposed financing is on behalf of San Francisco Friends School. The debt will be issued through the California Enterprise Development Authority or ceda. That the city and county and city of San Francisco participates in. Were bringing the resolution to you because the federal tax law requires the governing body of the jurisdiction where the project is located approves the financing of the project after providing the opportunity for public input through a public hearing so the bond can be issued on taxexempt basis. In this case, the jurisdiction, which is the city again, is not obligated for any payment on the bond. Per federal tefra regulations we published hearing notice on august 4, 2020. The public hearing was conducted by the Office Finance through teleconference on august 12, 2020. To give you little background on the school and in addition to what supervisor mandelman provided, the mission of the San Francisco Friends School is for students to learn in a community grounded in quaker values, reflection, integrity, and stewardship. Teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires, curiosity, cooperation and hard work. They encourage students to engage with the world working towards the quaker ideal of caring and just society. The purpose of the project is to the proceeds of the sale of the obligation will be loaned to the borrower for refinancing as mentioned also to finance reimburse the borrower for renovation and equipment of that property and to pay various transaction cost and other related costs. Assuming all the required approvals are obtained the authority ceda expect to issue obligation in amount of 25 million bond council this will have no fiscal impact to the city and county of San Francisco. The original project is located in district 8. Thank you supervisor mandelman for sponsoring. If there are any questions, i will be happy to take them. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Are there any questions or comments from our colleagues . Weve done couple of these before. Do you like to add anything . I want to add a thank you Committee Chair fewer and supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman for the warm introduction. We appreciate the board for the request. The original funding was used to renovate the levi straus renovation. It is strictly refinance as this shall mentioned helps to free up funds that we can put towards program and students. Our approach has been to be not. Only in the mission but of the mission and a real part of the community. We seek to educate our students through Community Engagement and service and have a number of programs. Im happy to answer questions on our horizon summer program, Friends Community Scholar Program or any other things that we do. Chair fewer any comments or questions . Supervisor mandelman, we take your word for it. Lets open up for Public Comment. Clerk just checking to see if theres calls in the queue. Let us know if there are calls already. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item 10. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is closed on item 10. I like to make a motion to move to to the board. Can we have a roll call vote . [roll call vote] three ayes. Chair fewer call item 11. [agenda item read] chair fewer we have direct director, from department of Emergency Management. The floor is yours. Thank you, good morning chair and supervisor enrique penic directors of real estate. Hopefully you can see the screen. Im before you asking for positive recommendation for resolution authorizing a lease 1663 Mission Street on behalf of urban Area Security initiative. It is an initial tenure lease but fiveyear option. We are moving into 5000 square feet office space. This is a oneforone exchange. The lease term is the initial ten years with two fiveyear options. Both subject to board of supervisors approval. The basement is 41. 42 per square foot per year. Which works out to 208,551 per year. Theres a threeyear annual increase. This compares to their current rent at 711 van ness. You can see by the differential in rent, the remember is the rent going down by approximately 17 . The city only pays for janitorial at this new location. All other services are folded in the base of the lease. In addition the landlord is paying per tenant improvement. Theres a twoyear prerent allowance. Two month free rent is to allow flexibility in the completion of the tenant improvement plus moving for one location to other. There shouldnt be a situation where they will be require to pay double rent in old and new locations. The reason for this move and this relocation choice as you may recall, Assessors Office have occupied prongs approximately 9800 square feet of office space. This lease at 711 van ness expires june 31, 2021. It was one of several leases that were identified at cost safer cost saving measures with the building at 49 south van ness. This is part of a threeyear plan to build and occupy 49 south van ness and realize some cost savings by terminating this lease at 711. The 1663 mission site was determined to be best suited because of geographic proximity to the civic center. The space also allows for compliance of covid. Its lower rent plus the flexibility of starting the lease. You may or may not be familiar with uasi. When i first met them, i was not that familiar with them. Uasi is department under homeland security, they are Grant Funded Program administered by d. E. M. To prevent, protect, against respond to and recover from terrorist incidents and catastrophic events. These are the people that you want close by in the event of an emergency. Were pleased that were able to find the location that met their needs of price point thats reflective of the current market. This concludes my presentation. Tristan from uasi is available and im also available to answer any questions that you might have. Chair fewer can we hear from the b. L. A. . Item number 11 approve resolution for new lease between city of tenant at landlord for 1663 Mission Street. The initial lease term is ten years with two fiveyear options to expand they are subject board of supervisors approval. We summarize cost on page 30 of the report. The lease cost are paid by the uasi grant. In addition as stated in his presentation. The rent under the proposed lease is less than the current rent paid under the existing lease 711 van ness. We recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues. Supervisor walton thank you so much chair fewer. Thank you so much director penic. I have two questions. One just out of curiosity. Whats the Purchase Price of the building . The building is not currently for sale. We did not explore that. It was recently purchased and it is a multitenant building. The landlord provides this space. Mostly to nonprofit. Its a recent acquisition by the buyer. We did not pursue a purchase of this site. Supervisor walton does uasi have anything to do or work with i. C. E. . I would let tristan answer that question. It goes to their mission. Good morning everyone. No, we dont have any business with i. C. E. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair fewer thank goodness for that. Any other comments or questions . Weve heard from the b. L. A. Lets open up for Public Comment. Clerk operations please let us know if there are callers ready. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment for item 11 is closed. I like to make what motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Can i have a roll call vote. [roll call vote] there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, please call item 8 and 9 together. [agenda item read] members of the public who wish to provide comment should call number on your screen. Chair fewer today we have Tiffany Kearney from h. H. A. Good morning chair fewer, supervisor mandelman and walton. Im lead nutritionist and Program Analyst for the department of disability and aging services. Policy came at a crucial time when Nutrition Services were needed more than ever and still are. The amendment allows for the provision of Nutrition Services for older adults and adults with disability starting in july 2020. Selfhelp is one of 13 nonprofit communitybased organizations that have grants with d. A. S. To provide Nutrition Services. Selfhelp provides congregate and home delivered nutrition Meal Services. This includes providing meals that meet nutritional standards, nutrition education, nutrition risk screening and client assessment. D. A. S. Meal providers have experienced an increase demand and Meal Services and had to change how they operate to provide meals since covid19. Our nutrition partners have been steadfast in meeting the increase demand and changing Food Service Operations to ensure the health and safety of clients and staff. When the mayor declared the Health Emergency in march selfhelp was quick to modify their services to meet the needs of their clients. They continue to be flexible in their provision of meals and services. Currently, they are providing take away meals at eight meal sites located in six different districts. The meals at their site are chinese cuisine and hot and frozen. In their Home Delivered Meal Program, selfhelp offers chinese and american cuisine and the meal also come in hot and frozen. They are delivering meals in eight districts. Selfhelp meals are heart healthy and meet current dietary guidelines. They offer a low sodium meal option. This amendment to selfhelp Grant Agreement will allow them to continue providing meals to consumers enrolled in their Nutrition Services program and serve additional clients who are eligible and need services. Thank you and thats it for selfhelp. Chair fewer thank you very much. Are you one of them was for selfhelp and other one was for meals on wheels. Are you speaking to meals on wheels also . Yes. We are requesting approval for resolution to also amend the meals on wheels Grant Agreement that will increase funding and extend the term of their grant until december 31, 2020. As with selfhelps grant, our department was able to extend the meals on wheel grant up to six months without requiring Commission Approval because of the declared Health Emergency this past march. The amendment will allow for the provision of meals and services for older adults and adults with disabilities starting in july 2020. Meals on wheels is one of eight nonprofit communitybased organizations that produce and deliver meals to older adults and adults with disabilities living in the city. In addition to delivering meals, meals on wheels conducts inhome nutrition assessment, and nutrition risk screening. They provide nutrition education. Meals on wheels is our departments largest home delivered meals partner and serves clients in every district. They have three Home Delivered Meal Programs. One provides meals to older adults. The second provides meals to adults with disabilities and the third is emergency Home Delivered Meal Program that provides both older adults and adults with disabilities in urgent need of nutrition support within a few days of contacting d. A. S. Intake. Modify their Food Service Operations to allow for social distancing for staff during food production. They increase frequency cleaning delivery vehicle and implemented appropriate p. P. E. Use for all staff. The amendment will enable to continue providing meals to consumers enrolled in their program and also serve more clients to who are eligible and need home lived meal service, delivered Meal Services. Thank you. I cant hear you. Chair fewer could we hear from the b. L. A. Please . Yes, chair fewer members of the committee, items number 8 and 9 approved expedited amendments and selfhelp for the elderly. Item number 8 is the contract agreement with selfhelp to the elderly summarize expenditures on page 17 of our report. Actual expenditures are not to exceed amount recommending the resolution to reduce the amount by 246,591,000 from 11. 6 million to 11. 3 million. We recommend approval of the resolution has amended. On the meals on wheels contract, expedited amendment extending it to december 2020 and we summarize expenditures on this contract on pages 23 and 24 of our report. Again, the contract math exceed the actual expenditure. Were recommending amending the proposed resolution and for clarification, were recommending reducing it by 499,288. We recommend approval of the proposed resolution as amended. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions to my colleagues . Lets open up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public like to comment. Clerk operations checking to see if theres callers in the queue. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comments on items 8 and 9 is closed. I would like to make a motion to approve amendment. Lets take item 8 and 9 separately on a vote. Can we take it together . Clerk yes, you can take it together. Chair fewer i can take it both together . Thats great. I like to approve amendments brought forth by the b. L. A. Items 8 and 9. Can i have the roll call vote on the amendment. [roll call vote] chair fewer i want to thank h. H. A. To selfhelp for the elderly. [please stand by] were here because theres a penal code requirement that be presented to you annually, as well as evidence of financial responsibility and thats why were here today. The rules and regulations are defined by the scope of services and theres been no change since contract approval last year. And, also, in your package, theres evidence of the financial responsibility essentially liability insurance. Just a brief program history. It was established to provide alternatives to incarceration, participation is ordered by the courts and we administer is as awarded by the cores. There wacourts. There was a fee d that has been done away with. In 2018, they ruled courts had the ability to pay and at the same time, the Sheriffs Office waived fees for sentence. And so there are no fees. The current contract for which you have scope of services was awarded to sentinel in 2018 by a bid process. And it is there are a lot of people that the courts send to us as evidenced by the last slide i have and we had been averaging about 100 participants a month, 100 individual names a month and now were up to somewhere in the 300 to 400s. And thats all i have. I also have lieutenant Jonathan Kuntz and he can talk about the program if you have any questions there. Thank you very much. And any comments or questions from my colleagues . Sorry, i cant see folks in the queue. Im here. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much, chair fewer and thank you mr. Holland. I have a few questions. With all of the transformation going on with reform, et cetera, is this programme going to be modified at all to address any of the tran transformations . How do you mean . In a sense, as i understand it, although im just a finance person, but i as it is, this program was provided to keep people out of custody and so it provides an alternative and we have been working with the courts to keep people out of custody and we have about twothirds, if not more of the total justiceinvolved population out of custody and the courts often like to be able to point to something to alleviate concerns about the Public Safety. And so they often order electronic monitoring and then we applied electronic monitoring as ordered by the courts. Out does that answer your question at all. To a degree. I have a series of questions that will be programmatic and financial. Is there somebody who will be able to assist with answering the programmatic questions . Lieutenant johnson is on the line and he may be able to answer. Whats the cost of the contract and how many sheriffs staff are assigned to implement the program . The annual cost is about 1. 1 million and we have probably about 20 or so staff who are focused on alternative programs, monitoring people to manage them out of custody, 20 to 25 people. Probably 18, 19. I would have to reach out. I dont have that in front of me. Do we have data showing the audit of the Electronic Program . We do have some data but we dont have it here today. So right now, we dont know what the recidivism rate . I dont have that information now, no. Can you tell me what charges are referred to the Electronic Program and what there is for candidates of this program and for pretrial . So this program is mostly pretrial. Pretty much every charge can be reffereferred to us up to homicy the courts. Its the courts that are decides who is or will not be put on the program pretrial and 90 something percent of the people we have are pretrial. So its determined by the courts in conjunction with the public defender in the d. A. And i can add detail to that. In july of 2020, there were a total of 474 individuals who participated in this program and of those, 403 were pretrial. How are we ensuring were not keeping folks in custody who are unhoused . Its up to the judge to release him or not to electronic monitoring. We at the Community Programs allow people that are up housed to chargin our building 24 hour. They go over in or ye orientati. If they have nowhere to charge, they can come back to us and charge, daily, if they want, but the devices are lasting three, four, five days and so they need to charge, they can come back to us and well help them charge. I also believe the pretrial has data that shows what pretrials recommendation is versus what the Court Decides to do and i know there is some demographic information that goes with this data. But, again, we dont have that today, but we could get that. Yeah, because that was my next question. Do we have the racial demographic breakdown . There is that data and so theres the recommendation and then the action by the court. And so i would love to know the data that shows effectiveness, any information about audit that, you know, what would let us know recidivism and how successful the program is and also a racial breakdown and how does that compare to the rest of our criminal Justice System . Chair supervisor, if i may, we could continue this item and ask him to come back with more information and maybe invite pretile, also, if you would like. I just wanted to put that option on the table, if thats something youre interested in, supervisor. Thank you so much, chair fewer. Noim excited about that option. Chair thank you. And do you have any more questions, supervisor walton . No, i would love for us to continue this. Thank you very much. I see supervisor mamdelman in the queue. Thank you. You are anecdotally about people cutting the monitors off. How often does that happen . It happens often. The straps are made of rubber and people that dont want to be on the program, they do cut it off. We try to go to the location where the device was cut off and try to find the device and locate the person if we can. But generally, once the device is off, we generally dont know where theyre at and arent able to locate them. I would love more data on how often its happening and what the crimes are that people are accused of. We can put that together. Chair it sounds like theres a data point that you want included for our continuation and we can continue this not to next week but the week after. And so, i think that brings us to the 16th of september. Are there any members that would like to comment . Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready and if you have not done so, press star three to be added to the queue. There are five people in the queue. Speaker as you know, many clients are placed on electronic monitoring and we are also concerned with how Little Information we have about the actual effectiveness and positive impact of the current electronic monitoring contract and the system in general. And clearly, you know, we contracted private companies to provide this service and they have a financial false interest in keeping people shackled with electronic monitors longer. So we would like more information about how these contracts support both Public Safety and criminal Justice Reform goals of San Francisco. Just like we want the least number of people in jail for the shortest time possible. I know we collectively would like to see the least number of people shackled to the ankle monitors for the least amount of time. Just to follow up on supervisor waltons question. We woul, we would like to hearh. We hear about those put in jail because they were unable to find a place to plug their device in on time. So thank you, appreciate the time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im from the public defenders office, Law Enforcement integrity unit. And its unclear how this Program Costs so much money, if in july there were 474 people. Thats the most thats ever been on it. It costs around ten dollars a person a month, and that accounts for 56,000 a year. Is it mostly the 18 and 1 19 deputies on the program . Does the 1. 1 million come out of the sheriffs budget or is it a separate item. It seems the company has and an interest on keeping people on the program. I appreciate the board and the sheriff are considering the vocations of this Program Going forward and not just rubberstamping it another fiscal year. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im me he melissa hernandez. Im asking to please mark this unfavorable as far as this resolution. It creates hardships for our communities. Quadrupleleing pequadrupleing sr alarm. Approving this resolution as is and the usual is not an answer to the peoples call to rethink Public Safety. Were already seeing an uptick in Police Surveillance and we should recognise signing off on electronic monitoring is effectively signing away selfdetermination and agency for members of our communities. Before the pandemic, San Franciscos jail population continued to grow even as more people were being placed on electronic monitoring. This is not the mark of a system that is designed to help people succeed. We dont even know who is forced to accept ankle shackles in exchange for getting out of jail. Ive been waiting for this from the sheriff and im here to say that electronic monitoring is not an alternative to monitoring. It would mean more power and control are spent on the prison industrial complex, specifically jailing, policing and surveillance. Those resources, power and control should be reinvested in the communities themselves where they belong. Thank you. Thank you, networks speaker. Next speaker. Speaker im calling to impose the electronic monitoring, electronic monitoring is not an alternative to jailing. From 2018 to early 2020, the number of people with ankle monitors tripled in San Francisco but the jail population mostly grew, showing that monitors were used as an expansion. The reduction in ththis is privh draws into question where that money is going and we are also wanting to get more answers on who is put on these programs and further surveilled and as we know, sfpd is furthering surveillance by getting into the surveillancsurveillance camerast the city. Thank you. We would like to not approve the resolution and we would like to get more of our questions answered, as well. Have a great day. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im Edward Hernandez and im a d7 resident and a volunteer member of the acl view of the San Francisco chapter. Im here today to state that electronic monitoring is not an alternative to prison and it is an expansion of surveillance. Electronic monitoring is financially irresponsible and not effective. Please tell us why you want to invest in electronic monitoring and other forms of prison and why youre actively choosing to decline black and brown communities. Youre perpetuating a system and policies. Its easy to see policing, prisons and policies as necessary for Public Safety. Speaker the number of em has tripled and that has not meant a reduction in the jail population. They are going along with more folks locked up and specifically spent on private corporations on the ankle shackles for the longest period of time possible. The expansion em lead to an increase in the sheriffs budget to compensate for overtime costs for supervision on em. We saw in the controllers report last year, this is one of the heaviest places for overtime. We should be investing in support networks in the very communities that actually help folks heal and ask about the needed jobs, healthcare and Mental Wellbeing and we do this through our own recognizance release program where folks are released to show up after completing a safety assessment. Speaker i cant believe San Francisco could spend over a Million Dollars to punish people further when theres no evidence presented to show that electric monitoring would make anyone safer in San Francisco. I would prefer for this committee to reject this contract and instead of continuing this paid for hurting people in this manner, simply allow everyone to go about their business while awaiting their court date. We can put people on their own recognizance release as we do for some people already and allow people to be here in San Francisco, living, breathing and working while we wait to resolve their court case. Remember, people are to be treated as innocent until Proven Guilty and people should be given the benefit of the doubt and we should treat people able to afford bail. I vote to reject this contract today. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Are there any other callers in the queue . That completes the queue. Chair public item on this item is now closed. And so i believe that there is interest in continuing this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee and i believe that supervisors have given direction to the Sheriffs Department and also, perhaps, supervisor walton, we may want to call in pretrial also. And so, i make a motion to continue this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Could i have a role call vote . Just for clarification, this is september 16th meet. Chair , yes anyes. role call . There are three ayes. Chair is there any other business before us today . No other business before us today. Thank you. We are adjourned. Thank you. Good morning. I am mayor london breed. Thank you for your patience. Today we have a total number of 9544 cases of those diagnosed in the past six months of covid in San Francisco, with sadly 83 people have died. This is, as i constantly say, a fluid situation. Remember just recently as i reminded folks at the last press conference, of course, one day we were talking about a phased plan. Then the next day we had to make significant changes. More recently we had a level of confusion between state issued guidelines and local guidelines. I want to be clear that we are definitely working and communicating with the state. I just believe that there was a level of confusion as it relates to what we were doing here locally because of our numbers and because of our Public Health officials. What we try to do is provide you the most uptodate, accurate information. It is important that you visit sfgov. Org to find the latest in guidelines. There are certain things that we have repeated over and over again that we are at a point where those are the kinds of things we should automatically do. That includes making sure we wear our masks, social distancing, doing our part because what happens is there are a lot of questions asked of me and so many leaders in the city. The biggest question is when can i open my store, when can my kid go back to school . When can i do this or do that . I understand the desire. I have those same desires, and the only way to get to that place is if we all do our part. Today we want to talk a little bit where the city is, a new phase every opening because of where the city is, but also just reminder that just because this happens doesnt mean that we, unfortunately, cant pull things back if we see a surge. Labor day weekend is coming up. Everybody is thinking, well, this is the time i miss my family. It is six months. Here is an opportunity to get together. That is highly discouraged. Highly discouraged, especially if you want your kids to go back to school sometime soon, you want to visit your elderly parents in the senior home that probably doesnt still allow visitors, if you need to reopen your shop to go back to work. As we approach Labor Day Weekend, it is so important that we remember in those family and friendly gatherings that occur that is where we see through Contact Tracing where the spread happens, where we run into problems. We saw it during the fourth of july weekend there was a spike and during holiday weekends. We understand human nature wants to connect with other people, but we have got to get through this. We have got to get through this. Dr. Colfax will go into more detail what is happening in the city. We are still based on the state system that has been established that the governor announced last week, we are still in the red category, and we want to, of course, move away from that as much as possible, but it doesnt mean that we arent able to move forward to provide guidance on when we expect to reopen. We are off the wait list, which is a good thing. We are not out of the woods. Keep that in mind. As of today, we no, i thinks like haircuts and outdoor hair salons and massages can resume, outdoor pools can reopen. This is not what people wanted. I sure dont want to get my hair done outside, to be honest. I get it. This is what we have to offer. We also said that as of today that gyms can open, our door gyms as well. We are working on the guidelines to make sure they are prepared. Most likely september 9th would be the first opportunity that could be available. Another thing after being removed from the state watch list, malls were opened. As of today malls can reopen because we are no longer on the state watch list, and because they were open previously before we were placed on the state watch list. Now, i also have heard there is a lot of talk about not knowing what the guidelines are for various businesses. I want be to direct any business, any community, anyone who is uncertain what they need to do to sf. Gov reopening. There is not only a laundry list of guidelines for various businesses, there is information that you can review so you can be prepared even if your business is not open at this time. You dont have to wait until these announcements occur. You can get ready before the opportunity is available to your business. The path forward is good news. Again, we have Labor Day Weekend coming up. We have real concerns because the more reopen, the more people are gathering and spreading around, and we still have concerns. We want you to do this responsibly because we want to make sure we see these businesses continue to be open. All plans are subject to change, just like they were before. The last thing i want to do is tell you that we are going to be opening and then need to make changes and start closing businesses again. That is the last thing i want to do. The good news is that starting midseptember, hotels for tourism and visitors, outdoor movie theate theaters and mini , tour buses, boats. Indoor museums, zoos and aquariums with approved safety plans, houses of worship can allow Outdoor Services up to 50 people. That begins midseptember. We will provide the specific date once we have confirmed the date and make sure we are in touch with those various businesses with the appropriate guidelines. The end of september is, i think, really good news. This is something we should all be working towards. What that means is sacrifice of another month of masking and socially distancing and doing everything we can to get to a place where we can have indoor personal services. We can move hair and nail salons and barbershops and massages by the end of this month indoors. That is incredible if we continue at the pace we are now. And we will be able to allow tattoo, piercing and indoors no more than 25 and 50 outdoors. Door oneonone training with the gyms. Safely with mask wearing because that is critical to success of not opening establishments but allowing them to remain open. The path forward for schools. I just want to be cheer that as mayor i am, of course, very, very supportive of our schools, our kids, in particular, and wanting them to learn, grow and thrive. What we have seen this year with our students, especially those students who may not have parents or grandparents or Family Support to help in lessons. When we provided devices and internet service, they are still falling further behind. It is why it was so important that we open these learning hubs. We are almost at capacity. We know how vital it is that kids have access to people who are able to help them with lesson plans. I am extremely concerned about the future of our children as we continue with covid. We have to make prioritizing the ability to get schools reopened, we have to put that at the forefront. We know it is not as easy as we can open the schools. There are teachers and educators concerned, we know we need to put together plans. We know it is not my decision but the decision of the School District to move this forward, and my plan is to do everything i can to work handinhand with the School District so we can move forward to get kids back in school as soon as it is safely possible to do so. Starting in midseptember we will have Community Learning hubs. K through 6 schools that submitted health and safety plans through the waiver process will be able to open. I want to be clear. There is a process and it is their decision. We want to be clear that the opportunity to move forward with k through 6 is possible. After that work toward getting the following open by midoctober, after that the goal is to take it to the next level. By midoctober k through 6 not part of the waiver process will be part of the waiver process and will determine whether or not they will open. Middle school through eighth grade. High School Students are similar to adults. We are cautious and not certain we will move forward with high schools any time soon. All of this again has everything to do with the numbers, with where we are, with what is happening as we open more businesses, as we start to move around San Francisco like we havent before. We will all play a role in this success of what we do moving forward. I cant reiterate that enough because you all have been a part of stopping the spread at one point. When we first started this journey six months ago, this city was like praised, it was praised because of our fast action and because of the people of the city who played a role in doing everything you could to not only stay home but to also support your neighbors and to support one another. Six months later, i am tired of it, too. I am tired of living like this, too. I understand how you feel. I cant imagine what parents are going through or people caring for elderly parents, but you know what . We all have to sacrifice. We are all going to have to sacrifice to get through is this. As i said. If we want to move to the next level, if we want to get kids back in school, want be to keep the business that we grew up going to open, the businesses that rely on us every day, if we want to keep them open, all of us play a role. I want to thank you all for your cooperation. I know it is Labor Day Weekend, i know it is attempting, but, please, keep in mind that this virus is still out there and we need everybody to play a role in making sure that it doesnt continue to spread, and as we reopen we dont want to see the numbers go back up, which will force us to take a different direction. That is the last thing i want to get out here and say is that unfortunately, i told you yesterday that we were opening and i am telling you today that we have to close because of the numbers. That is the last thing i want to do. Keep that in mind as we move about the daytoday activities. This is really great news for Small Businesses, especially the personal services that i know are struggling to survive. Thank you all so much for your cooperation and work. At this time for a detailed Public Health update from the director of the department of Public Health, doctor brent colfax will joint us join us. Good morning, everyone. Thank you, mayor breed for all you do for this city every day. I am dr. Grant colfax, director of department of Public Health. I am happy to join the mayor and cochair of the City Economic Recovery Task force to discuss the San Francisco path forward towards recovery. As the mayor just explained the state has removed many of the restrictions that had previously prevented us from reopening low risk activities and businesses. While we have managed the impacts of the virus better than many other cities and counties. For example, we have one of the highest testing rates of any city in the country, and given the rates of infection, we thankfully have one of the lowest death rates in the country. Both of these, while being one of the densest cities in the country. We still need to move forward with gradual reopening as infection rates remain high as do hospitalizations. They have gone down over the past few weeks. We still have one of the highest hospitalization rates in the region. Of course, we are continuing to monitor the virus in our community and adjust and adapt our response as needed. We continue to have a high positivity case rate, and this continues to proportionately impact or Latino Community. Today in San Francisco we have 9544 confirmed cases of covid19. Over half of those cases are diagnosed in the Latino Community. We have made progress, but there is much more work to do. This is a priority for the department of Public Health. The reality is that we know more about the virus today than we did six months or even three months ago. We learn more and more about the virus every week. We are able to analyze more data and learn more about the relative risk and preventative measures we all need to take to reduce and slow the spread of the virus. This information is so key as we continue to follow the science, data and facts. These will inform our efforts as we open incrementally so we can manage the spread of covid19 and sustain the progress that we have made. We continue to monitor the rules and limitations of the states friday announcement, but in San Francisco we are placing an emphasis on our city indicators while decides whether we can reopen more and at what pace. We must look at the local contacts. Remember the state guidance is broad brushed, meant to cover counties as small and rural as yuba oral pine but also as large as la or as dense and urban as San Francisco. We will continue to be guided by the local Health Indicators which tract the covid19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and Contact Tracing capability and availability of all important personal protective equipment. I want to provide an update on todays indicators from our data dashboard. The rate of new cases of covid19 remains high. We are seeing about 75 new cases every day right now and are still in the red zone. Our Hospital System indicators measuring the rate of increase of hospitalizations as well as capacity of our Healthcare System to respond are in green and indeed that is good news. Our other Health Indicators remain solid. Testing is green. We are testing over 3500 people a day, more than double our goal. Contact tracing is yellow and orange. We are reaching about 81 of cases and 77 of their contacts. While this metric has improved over the past few weeks, our goal is to reach 90 on both. Our ppe supply is at 100 of what we need for 30days, placing us in the green zone. The gradual reopening of Outdoor Services, hotels and children activities means people will start to move about the city more. Increasing risk and potentially Community Spread of the virus. With more activities we will likely experience an increase in not only cases but also hospitalizations. We will continually assess the new positive case counts and hospitalization numbers. Our reopening pace will be informed by our ability to manage the risk of more activity that may result in more cases and again more hospitalizations. Reenforcing the mayors comments, we need everyone to do their part, especially as we enter the holiday weekend. We must remain vigilant. I know six months if we are tired, but we must dig deeper and do our part. There is more virus out there than ever before, and indeed we have a narrow window to keep moving forward. The most important thing you can do to slow the spread of the virus is to continue to take precautions. I thank you for taking these precautions in march, june, july, now and in the future. Even in this time of uncertainty, especially in this time of uncertainty, it is important to remind ourselves and our neighbors that we do know how to slow the spread of the virus. Stay home as much as possible, cover your face to help us all keep on track. Keep six feet apart, wash your hands frequently, and please do not go out if you are sick and avoid social gatherings. We are in this together, and together we will get through this. In this evolving risk environment we will bring back our communities and economies the same we continue to fight covid19 by working together. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to introduce assessorrecorder carmen chu, cochair of the citys Economic Recovery Task force to discuss further the San Francisco path towards recovery. Thank you may or breed and dr. Colfax. We were here on friday to share our plans for expanding outdoor activities. We mentioned at that time we would be back this week to talk more about forward plans as we think about other industries. As dr. Colfax mentioned and the mayor pointed to we consider the restrictions and parameters the state provides. We will continue to reopen based on local Health Indicators. Today is important because it shows all of us what our path forward could look like. I will take a moment to thank the Public Health team for all of work they are doing to keep San Francisco residents and workers safe. I want to thank all of you for your individual actions that collectively have made a difference. Because of your actions, wearing a mask, keeping social distance and making sure you are taking precautions, we are here today to talk about what a path forward could look like. I want to acknowledge how hard it has been. I think for many people over the last month, month and a half it finley set in another i eye fine finally set in. We felt heart break we wouldnt be moving forward and this might be here longer than we hoped. We miss our family and friends and want to get back to work. More than anything as the city first started down this path when we first entered shel shelterinplace. We were here and it didnt really settle into us what this would all mean. What we did know was this this was going to be a situation unlike anything we had ever experienced before. Not only from Public Health perspective we are in the middle of an active Global Pandemic the Economic Impact would be so devastatdevastating and quick. Unemployment went from under 3 to 11 . There are over 60,000 in San Francisco unemployed at the moment. So many kids are having a very hard time adjusting to distance learning. Our most vulnerable continue to be isolated in homes and other settings. Not only that, we have heard from so many businesses they are hanging by a shoestring. In the beginning we knew there was a lot that we did not know about the disease. We had a lot to learn about how it is spread, prevalence and what it means for those infected and what treatments would look like. We know more today. We knew we had to b be flexibled transparent to sherry opening plans to get the economy back on track. We are transparent and will share forecast as soon as we know it, share guidance and best practices with you so you can operate safely, so that you can interact safely. We knew that we had to let the data guide us to make sure we were careful about watching the hospitalizations, our case counts, test positivity to allow that to guide decisions if it is safe to reopen, pause, or take other actions. We had to be thoughtful in our approach. We had to make sure that we understand the impacts of the actions we are taking. We go this is important to sustain the progress that we make. It helps no one when we pingpong and go and open and close businesses. People have to make investments to pull back or not able to use. These dont help our economy, they hurt our economy. We knew we had to focus on information an and guidance. The safety of our workers, customers interactions matters with economic recovery. There is no economic recovery unless people are confident reengaging with our city and city life. We will continue to provide immediate relief to workers, families, businesses. We will continue to be as flexible as we can. Through our words and actions we will break the narrative it is a decision between Public Health or the economy. Over the last few months we know we need both. That is our continued commitment to you. I am cautiously excited. There are many cautions out there, we hope you continue to do your best during this week end. I am excited this plan recognizes many things. One, we need to take steps to move the Economic Activity indoors. We need to do it safely to sustain the opening. It really does begin to recognize what that path forward could look like. This plan also recognizes the importance of uplifting large and Major Industries in the city including hog hospitalities. Thousands are employed in hotels and restaurants and retail stores. We can do that safely. We have shown the world we can do this safely. I will rest on this one thought. It is a refrain you have heard before. The idea that that progress isnt automatic. Again, i think san franciscans are familiar with this call to action. We have heard it before in all of thesive vit rights movements that we have had. While we make progress sometimes we somewhere to fight to make sure we dont lose ground. That is what we are facing. We know this can come back. What we have shown is that we know how to beat it back and can open up businesses together. I want to thank you, San Francisco, for all of the work you are doing to continue to help move our city forward and make sure we are able to keep opening in a sustained and safe way. To make sure we balance taking care of workers and customers at the same time. Thank you, San Francisco. We will begin the q a portion with dr. Colfax. The first set of questions from the San Francisco chronicle. What have you learned about reopening and about the virus since may and june that you are applying to reopening plans now . I think we have seen in our local response as well as across the country that we can mitigate and slow the spread of the virus, keeping the Hospital Capacity adequate and having enough capacity in our system to care for people who become infected. The other side that we have also seen is we know if we let down our guard, the virus can spread very rapidly. I think it is really getting this balance between the need to manage the control of the spread of the virus and realizing that there are key factors that we need to consider with regard to education, mental health, Behavioral Health and other Public Health considerations that we need to take into account in our reopens. We know that masking is so key. We know that more than ever. Something we learned a number of analysis have shown if as a society we can get up to 80 masking that will have a dramatic effect on the virus. In the guidelines coming out there will be an emphasis on the need for facial coverings. Out door activities are safer than indoor activities. Outdoor activities you can see in the phasing that we have. Outdoor activities that are expanded as of today. We also understand the need after six months for children to come back in to inperson learning as much as possible. We think that can be done in a safer way. From what we have learned in the data globally, we will be making recommendations around how to move forward with educational activities. There is no such thing as no risk. Pacing is important. That is why we spread out this process every opening and we need to be cautious as we go forward. Thank you, dr. Colfax. This is from ev baty. Are there Indoor Dining problems that keep it off the list of those you are hoping to open in september and october . If you look at the pieces we released today they fall into the buckets of the lower risk activities. The component of Indoor Dining there are a number of things that are concerning. Outdoor dining and takeout is open. There are opportunities there. Indoor dining would be in a later date at this point because of the risk that is entailed in people sitting down for long periods of time in crowded croud quarters taking off masks. I miss going to restaurants. If we all do our part we will be thrilled to see it coming online sometime in the future. Many next question with healthner from the San Francisco chronicling. Any plan for reopening kids playgrounds and basketball courts and Outdoor Recreation item . We are evaluating. One of the key things with regard to playgrounds. I would love to see them reopen and many parents and kids would as well. Playgrounds are mostly uncontrolled environment with a lot of children mixing different ages, interacting with different families. That does increase risk of transmission. At this time we do not have a date to reopen play grounds. Our Health Officer and Pediatric Team is looking at the data. That is something we would like to do as soon as it is safer to do so. Next set of questions are for mayor breed. First set of questions are from heather with the San Francisco chronicle. Six weeks after the city settled a lawsuit regarding the tenderloin how are things going in the neighborhood amid the covid19 pandemic . We didnt just put together a comprehensive plan to address homelessness and the large number of tent encampments we have spread to other neighborhoods where we have seen a level of homelessness that typically these particular neighborhoods dont experience as well. In the tenderloin in particular we saw over 400 tents with a few hundred people. We have been able to reduce that to as of today 41 tents. We have been able to get most of those people the help and support they need. That includes transitioning some of those folks to the safe sleeping sites, some into hotels, some into permanent be supportive housing. It is easier said an than done. It required a village of people working several different agencies. The home less Street Operations center under the Emergency Management because of this covid crisis and need to try to get people indoors, prevent the spread within the Homeless Population and provide people with a safe place to sleep, this operation has been incredible. I want to thank all city workers who played a role in going in to address the real challenge in several areas including one by ocean beach, one on oak street, in addition to the tenderloin. These camps resolution teams include workers from the department of public works, members of the San Francisco police department. Workers from the department of Public Health and the mag management team. I want to thank them. They are out there every day. Our Homeless Outreach team. When they began the resolution of addressing the encampment site. They dont show up just that day. They have to develop a relationship with the people there to understand the challenges they face so they are able to provide the support and assistance that they need. It is an ongoing process and the most effective thing we are able to do to resolve encampmentses and it is something we will continue to do. People are tired and frustrated and there is a lot of poverty and lack of housing and resources for so many folks. It is something we are working hard to address. Our program that we have established applan around homelessness has been the most effective that it has ever been since we put together this plan to address encampments. It is going well. It is not good enough. Going back to the conditions of the tenderloin in particular, it is really shorible. I want to be honest. We may have removed encampments but what we see in soma and the tenderloin around the behavior, urinating and def if indicating and public acts that are unmentional that have impacted the quality of life for the people in the community, we see things get worse. Part of what we need to do especially around the significant amount of drug dealing that occurs in the tenderloin, it is to to point where we have to get dress i. We cant have it both ways. You cant be upset that we are making arrests and then be upset we are allo allowing it is cont. These acts should not be tolerated. We will continue to push and do our job to make sure we cleanup this community so that people walking down the street with a baby stroller dont have to get off and go to the street to walk around a bunch of people selling drugs and shooting up. Is that okay for families to live like that . It is not. We are in a much better place than in a long time. Thank you madam mayor. No further questions. This concludes todays press conference. Thank you, madam mayor, doctor colfax, and ms. Chu for your time. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after coping with covid19 with chris manning. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. My guest today is tanya peterson. Shes the director of the San Francisco zoo on sloat boulevard, and shes here today to talk about how the zoos managing during the pandemic and how theyre reopening. Tanya, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Im really pleased to hear that the zoo has reopened again. Thats great news. Can you tell us what changes youve made to make visitors to the zoo feel comfortable and safe when theyre there. I understand now you have to make reservations, and theres only a limited Number Available each day. We were making changes before shelter in place. Fortunately, because we work with animals, and we have a vet hospital onsite, we have the safe coverings before the shelter in place. While we were closed, we made some internal and external changes. The first one, i guess, would be online reservations. You now need to make reservations to visit the zoo, just like your favorite dinner restaurant. That is an effort to slow down congestion. Try to keep everything smooth, and we can control the number of families coming in over the course of time. Thats great. What about the indoor exhibits and the playground. Are those off limits now . Well, theyre not off limits, but the playground, we had we had started Child Care Program for essential workers even when we were closed, and the playground is used exclusively by our Child Care Programs. So if you can think of the zoo, 100 acres, about a good third of it right now is reserved for child care, so what we do is we have the weve got the children in their safe pods. Theyre with each other for three weeks. Theyre in a controlled environment, and in the morning, one pod has the playground, we disinfect, and in the afternoon, another pod comes. All indoor spaces were closed before the shelter in place. The one thing im asked most frequently about is the train. We have a 100yearold train, and as soon as we can disinfect that, well get that open, because thats the number one question i guess, when is the train reopening. Is there a map how youre supposed to walk around the zoo . Yes. In certain areas, we created a oneway path. We try to make it fun. Theyre generally in the shape of bear paws and colored you know, follow the blue bear paws, follow the red bear paws but weve tried to make it fun. When children have not been out for three months, they were climbing anything and everything. We didnt anticipate that, so we put coverings open water fountains, statue signs. Kids had been cooped up, so they went crazy the first few days. More control in place. That sounds great. How did the zoos residents respond to a lack of visitors. Did you observe any behavioral differences . Absolutely. We have some shy residents, gorillas and orangs. We have a male orangutan, he would blow me kisses. The rhinos, they would come out when i would feed them. How does it feel to have the zoo open again to the general public, even if its a limited fashion . It feels fantastic. Im a mother, and i know its been hard on kids. To be able to open safely outdoors were one of the few zoos on an ocean, so youve got the coastal air coming through. We see families or selfascribed pods coming through. Its been great for our staff and for our visitors. Its been heart warming, all the true experiences the first few days. Clearly. You have a lot of mouths to feed. How did you cope with the pandemic so far . Were you able to get some financial assistance, and how can viewers contribute if theyd like to . Well, thank you. We received some help, but we burned through that quickly, and we received some financial donations. We burned through a lot of our funding, and we were really feeling it. All of the people who supported us and hung in there, i thank you. You can join as a member. Its a tax deduction. David attenborough said it best. If the zoo becomes extinction, we all do. In the wild, poachers are getting the best of the wild anima animals, but i think with the help of the zoo and the community, we can save the animals. Where can i go if i want to donate . You can go to sfzoo. Org. You can join, become a member or make a donation. It takes about 30,000 a day to feed all of our 2,000 animals, so you can pick how you want to help. Well, i appreciate you coming onto the show today, miss peterson. Thank you. The animals and i thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Youve been watching coping with covid19. For sfgovtv, im chris manners. Thanks for watching. As a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. Please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. We will do our best to receive questions up until the q a begins. Remaining questions can be sent to des sfgov. Org. And here is the mayor, london breed. The hon. London breed good afternoon, everyone. Today, im joined by Community Organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid19 for our community. I was out with the Latino Task Force earlier this week to distribute p. P. E. For all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. The sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little okay, a lot of fun. And the African American arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the Community Members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with Community Engagement and outreach throughout the city. So since the start of this Global Pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus. Overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. You cant walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. Since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t. V. , radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. A team of Disaster Service workers han been on the streets daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. Since january, this team has distributed more than 3 million flyers. Posters, and fact sheets across the city. You cant turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. This provides good information, and many people are listening. However, as weve stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture peoples attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. We want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who arent Wearing Masks. We wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because were all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep San Francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. I asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel Community Led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. Our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. Because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. Im proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of communityled campaigns ahead of Labor Day Weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. But first, i want to address why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. Historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of american workers. Because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. It is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. We know this virus has disproportionately impacted our frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping single day. Labor day marks the end of summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. As we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing is to do is for people to stay home, but lets be real. People miss each other, and theyre going to decide to get together. So if you do, we ask if youre going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drink. We know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. In addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening San Francisco. Lets be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. Lets share the love, not the virus. And at this time, id like each of our Community Partners to talk about their campaign and why its important to protect our communities this Labor Day Weekend and beyond. First, we have dr. Scott sampson from the California Academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our city. Thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. And warm thanks to all of our partners. Im scott sanchez, director of the California Academy of sciences. The academy has been part of San Francisco since 1853, just three years after california became a state. We care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. When we heard that San Francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. The science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid19 curve. This campaign, available in four different languages all over San Francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our entire community safe. Whether youre missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy, we are all in this together. We are excited to keep the citys reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits San Francisco has to offer. I wear a mask so that we ask safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in Golden Gate Park. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you, dr. Sampson. Now next, we have up annie chung from selfhelp for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and Pacific Islander community. Annie . Thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. Im annie chung with selfhelp for the elderly, and as mayor said, weve been on the frontline, providing essential meals and other Elder Care Services to all of our seniors in San Francisco. And were honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid19 pandemic, and to educate the chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. Mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. I urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. Sampson just said and practice the three ws one, wear masks, two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. I know the Labor Day Weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and gatherings. Only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. Remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the same utensils or chop sticks with each other. Be aware at all times. Protect yourselves and others, and think positive. [speaking cantonese language] thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do. Next, we have director glen from the African American arts and cultural district. I understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that well see at the end of this press conference. Evan . Thank you, mayor breed. We really appreciate the continued support that the city of San Francisco has shown the African American community. Its been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. My name is evan glen. I am the executive director for the African American arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. So it was a process working with fran says zamora, the frances zamora, the department of Emergency Management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so thats what youre going to see in bill boards across the city. We also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. After talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughters going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. So we got together with a rap group out of the fillmore, 16yearold girls called the poppin twins, and they wrote the rap that were going to share for everybody today. With that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid19 out of any other area in San Francisco. We need to be aware of that. We need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other, and remain safe. And think about your grandparents. Think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isnt as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. But again, i just want to thank the city of San Francisco for the work that theyve been doing to support the African American community. The hon. London breed thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and were looking forward to seeing that video. Now we also know that the Latino Community has really been the hardest hit in our city. In fact, over 50 of the cases that have been diagnosed were people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it werent for the Latino Task Force. Theyve been an amazing resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. Theyre here to discuss the latino Awareness Campaign in San Francisco. So thank you, susanna. Thank you, mayor breed. My name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the Latino Task Force. Thank you so much for allowing me to speak and to collaborate dpshfor allowing the Latino Task Force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. The virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop the spread of covid19 and to protect our latino families ahead of Labor Day Weekend and beyond, im here to showcase the Latino Community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. Our actions speak leader than words. We can show love by masking up. We can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. Now we in the Latino Community know that food is central to our interaction. It is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. Love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young people. Hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. And last but not least, we have sacrificed [speaking spanish language] thank you. The hon. London breed thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. Im so excited for our next speakers. Sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. The sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the Lgbtq Community. The poster that you created was just amazing. Thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister roma. Hello, mayor breed. I cant wait to see that video, and of course im hungry for some great latin food. I want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. Your team is amazing. Since the beginning of the pandemic, its been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv aids, which we all know ravaged the Lgbtq Community very badly in the early 80s. And the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv aids with providing information and education. So when this got here, we thought oh, this sounds familiar. When tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters, and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of Harm Reduction and reminded our community that its best to stay safe and stay away from each other. This weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other. Its difficult, and itll be trying, and i want people to know that therell be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. But the sisters want to let you know that Wearing Masks can be fabulous. Look for us in dolores park on friday, where were going to be handing out 1500 masks, and then were going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5 00 p. M. In the castro. So thank you for including me, and its been my honor and privilege. The hon. London breed thank you, sister roma. I almost didnt recognize you without your makeup on. Maybe ill join you on friday. That would be amazing. Oh, thank you so much. The hon. London breed okay. Finally, i want to introduce a leader who has a Bright Future ahead of her. Athena matthews. It is so important to demonstrate proper covid19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid. Bypassi covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. Indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. It is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take on an active role in fixing our nations challenges, even beyond covid19, so to my fellow general fellow genzers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid19, but be aware of those around you. Tag us on social media at 60s. The hon. London breed thank you. At this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so lets get to it. [ ] the hon. London breed very nice. Thank you so much. That concludes our press conference. I guess now well be opening it up to a few questions. I want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. I love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding Creative Solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. I think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, its just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. And i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, its completely different. Even wearing a condom and the push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this country. The work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. So were thankful for your work, and at this time, were happy to open it up for questions. Thank you, mayor, and thank you to all everyone who joined us here today. Well jump right into the same questions. Mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question thatll cover it. What do you think about speaker pelosis decision to get a blowout in San Francisco on monday . Does she owe the Service Industry an apology . Is ignorance of the Health Orders an excuse . The hon. London breed well, let me start by saying that its really unfortunate that with everything happening in this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house. She has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. Its unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. The fact is we dont have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result of this virus. And had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. Our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are providing also good information. I know that theres been a lot of confusion with our Small Businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better responsibility of doing a better job around communication. So we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. And thats what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does matter. I do understand that the industry is suffering, not only the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. I understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. I understand this is hard for everyone. The decisions that were making around Public Health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and peoples li livelihoods have suffered. So i understand that, but i think its important to get back to the main part of Wearing Masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our Small Businesses in San Francisco as we begin or reopening efforts. Thank you, madam mayor. The next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. With the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and impeaches are open beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe . Look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and its important for people to socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. There are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. Theres other places you can enjoy, as well. So what were asking people to do is to just make sure that youre using good judgment. If you go to dolores park, and you see that its crowded and theres no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park . We will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, im sure, is not going to be any different. Ive had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues, people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and im saying, why are you calling me . Im going to say no way. Its not that im not only going to go, its just that these are places where the virus could transmit. Im just asking people to remember, be a part of the solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. We dont want to have to do enforcement. We dont want people out there, creating more attention than already exists because of people not being good citizens by Wearing Masks. We just want people to do their part. Were going to do our part. We hope we dont have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. We have so many parks where theres no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in San Francisco. The beaches have been a lot more manageable because weve opened up more space there. Again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. Thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. There are no further questions at this time, and this concludes todays press conference. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you. What were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the United States. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The policemrogram is very, ver in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready for the world out there. [ ] i just dont know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. It is an experience that you cant have anywhere else in San Francisco. [ ] [ ] district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. We have four neighborhoods that i represent. St. Marys park has a completely unique architecture. Very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in San Francisco. The Bernal Heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of San Francisco. There is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. It is as if you are swinging over the entire city. There are two unique aspects. It is considered the fourth chinatown in San Francisco. Sixty of the residents are of chinese ancestry. The second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. There is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. Not only for San Francisco but for the region. And of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the citys second biggest park after golden gate. Many people dont know the neighborhood in the first place if they havent been there. We call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. Every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. Where we are right now is the Mission District. The Mission District is a very special part of our city. You smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. They have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. And then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafe. It is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. Twentyfourth street is the birthplace of the movement. We have over 620 murals. It is the largest outdoor Public Gallery in the country and possibly the world. You can find so much Political Engagement park next to so much incredible art. Its another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [ ] it was formed in 2014. We had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. We worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. Most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. So the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. In the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the Mission District have been displaced from their community. We all know that the rising cost of living in San Francisco has led to many people being displaced. Lower and middle income all over the city. Because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. Its a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. There is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. There are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesnt completely erase the communities. We try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more Equitable Development in the area. You need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. The people on the businesses that came before you. You need to dialogue and show respect. And then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [ ] i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. So we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and workingclass. Back in the day, we looked at Mission Street, and now it does not look and feel anything like Mission Street. This is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. We created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. That is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. We have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [ ] [ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see grocery stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually really helped me. They will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. They are very knowledgeable. Very friendly. I think they are here to serve not only the Asian Community but to serve all communities in the Richmond District and in San Francisco. [ ] what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [ ] thank you. Good morning. I am mayor london breed. Thank you for your patience. Today we have a total number of 9544 cases of those diagnosed in the past six months of covid in San Francisco, with sadly 83 people have died. This is, as i constantly
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