Transcripts For SFGTV Small Business Commission 20240712

Not, i dont think, yet been read, but i would like to table item 86. President yee okay. Can i have a second . Supervisor fewer second. President yee second by . Supervisor fewer fewer. President yee seconded by fewer. Madam clerk, on the motion to table . Clerk on the motion to table, which essentially renders items 42, 43, and 86 moot before the board [roll call] wi with clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to table passes. So i guess we should go back to 42 and 43 and read it, call call those two items. Supervisor peskin they may be moot. Clerk they are. President yee so do we need to call . Clerk no, they disappear on the agenda. Theyre only on the agenda because of item 86. President yee all right. So theyre moot. Lets go to madam clerk, can you please read the in memoriams . Clerk yes. Todays meeting will be adjourned on in memory of the late city administrator robert bob passmore. President yee is it okay if we do it on behalf of the whole board . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee okay. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes the items before us today, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk. As there is no further business before us today, we are adjourned. Hell oh everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. Well, covid has changed our lives. The fact it is has changed how we go to work, how we go to restaurants, how we interact with each other but this year will change how we vote. We want to make sure here in San Francisco, we make it as simple as possible. Im excited to be here to announce that although we cant do what weve done in the past, and provide early voting in city hall, we are going to be doing early voting right outside on grove street in what looks like a Beautiful Party at the present time. I want to thank the department of elections, and he will talk about more about exactly the steps that his team has taken to ensure that we not only make voting accessible, we make it safe. We want to make sure that people feel comfortable if they need to vote early. They can come to this Voting Center and it will be opening on monday. If they want to vote on election day or drop off their ballots on election day, well have 588 locations all over the city. And, what is dont be alarmed if you dont receive your ballot you wont be able to vote. This department of elections has received everything. If you didnt receive it in the mail can you provide replacement ballots. If you are going out of town and you need a ballot mailed to a different location, theres a system in place to do just that. For whatever reason, you are not certain or uncomfortable accessing a paper ballot, theres just a lot of options. Theyve been sending things in the mail, sending things online to say our goal is to make this as easy as possible. In the last president ial election, sa san franciscans tud out in record number. It was a 80 turnout. In 2008, it was 81 . This is a city that prides ourselves on making sure our voices are heard. Were not going to covid stop us from making sure that you have access to vote in San Francisco at your convenience. Im excited and i know that theres a lot of confusion out there but this department of election has done everything it can to make sure that its easy to call the department of elections, call 311, go online if you need information for where to pick up a ballot or a replacement ballot. We thought of everything. So, theres no excuse for anyone in this city who is a registered voter not to vote. And in addition to that, if you are not registered to vote, and you would like to register to vote, you have until october 19th. So, make sure that you take the opportunity to go online and this center is open and you can come here and register to vote and you can vote on the same day. In addition to the dress up locations on election day, and this Voting Center right across the street from city hall, we will have a number of of drop off ballot locations the weekend before election day. Linda brooks Burton Library and the branch library. Because again, were trying to make it easy as possible and its ballots inperson or on election day. If you need more information, please visit the department of elections website at spelections. Org. Call 311 or call 415 5544375. So with that, i just want to again thank everyone for their cooperation, the work they do. I really want to express a special thank you so john arts and the department of elections staff because they have been working very hard to make sure that no question is unanswered. Anything or any scenario that could occur, they wanted to make sure they were prepared to support and address the public. And they work with the number Great Community organizations and to get out the vote and some of those organizations are with us today, including George Chance from the chinese Newcomer Service center, jackie flynn, the ex you director of and these are organizations who make sure that communities all over San Francisco have accessed to vote. And we appreciate the work that theyve done for many, many years. I also want to thank martha cohen, the director of special events, for taking such time and care with creating a warm and inviting space. Thank you, martha for your work. And with that, i want to turn it over to our special guest, joining us here today, you probably recognize him because the tallest person here. Our state senator, scott wiener. Thank you, madam mayor. And i also want to thank martha and also our department of elections and john arts for once again really stepping up to make sure that san franciscans can vote and vote easily. Thats one of our core values in San Francisco that we want people to vote and we want to make it easier for people to vote so i have complete confidence in our department of elections that we will run a beautiful election here and that we will it will just be a really strong showing and a really difficult period of time. This is a partnership between the state and our counties including San Francisco we took action at the state level to people being able to vote during a pandemic and we authorized global vote by mail o so everyone gets a ballot even if you are not signed up as a permanent absentee and not put barriers in order to get an absentee ballot and normally, it has to be post marked byelection day and i do want to ask people please, try not to rely on post marking on election day and sometimes you can mail it after whatever the pick up is at that particular box and there are unfortunately thousands of ballots each time where people just mail it too late in the day. It doesnt get post marked. Make sure you are going to mail it, please, troy t try to mail tractortrailer dait theday bef. Even if theres a problem with the post office, which i dont think there will be. You have plenty of time if you mail it right up to election day. It has 17 days to a arrive instead of three and that is a huge change in stay law that weve made to just make sure that every ballot can be counted. What this is really about is auctions. We want people to make choices that work for them and people can drop it off in different locations and of course, we have absolutely amazing voting facility here which will respond to our health needs in terms of allowing people to show up and vote safely. And to be able to do it efficiently. The capacity here, as you can see, is huge. Its going to start on monday and also be opening two weekends before the election. Were making it so easy for people to vote in a way that works for them and their family and their own health situation. I have a digital town hall last week with our secretary of state, alex padilla and with con on cause and a representative of the American Postal Workers Union and she was very, very clear that she has confidence that the mail is going to work well for this election. Despite some of the turbulence we were saying, theyve been able to move through that and she assured us our postal workers, who are some of our front line essential workers, who are putting themselves out there during this pandemic so we can do what we need to do as eye society theyre going to work incredibly hard and they will deliver the mail and people can have confidence in the mail. So, again, thank you, madam mayor, thank you to our department of elections and lets just run a great election as always. Thank you. And now, i want to invite up our director of elections, john arts. Thank you, senator werent. Thank you mayor breed and also for organizing this event. This is a great timing for an event like this, just before early voting begins. Early voting will begin october 5th here at the Voting Center located outside bill graham auditorium. This is an example of the mayor and the senator wiener have indicated and the department and city have take ep steps to make sure that voting is safe and healthy experience for all voters in San Francisco. The ballots we mailed actually tomorrow and voters will start receiving ballots on saturday and then theyll most will receive ballots on monday going through the election week. We have a full compliment of polling polic Police Station ple want to drop off or they dont want to mail their ballot back, just before elections day, is they are outside the voting area so voters dont have to go mud the voting area. They decrease the amount of traffic that voters would experience at election day. And everything that weve done since really the end of the march election going through the cycle for november, has been to plan in relation to conduct an election, while trying to respond to a pandemic. So everything that is happening here at bill graham auditorium, is organized so that people can maintain social distancing and theres ppes that our personnel are wearing and useing and the public has provided ppe and hand sanitizers and sanitizing wipes, face shields and things like that and the same for the polling places. The voters and coworkers can maintain social distancing as they go through the election process on election day. Weve had p. P. E. S available for the voters and the poll workers on election day. And the inperson voting here at the bill graham auditorium and the polling places theres a cleansing of the areas and materials and the commonly used items throughout the day so voters will go into a clean voting environment when they go to cast their ballot on election day. Also, i want to echo the comments about the post office. Weve had conversations and meetings with the post office before this election and to make sure there was no issues and with the processing and to support the conduct of this election for november. The post office of senator wiener noted, has put tremendous men does attention and focus on their abilities and their requirements to give ballots up to vote and he is get ballots to voters to elections here in San Francisco. I want to share the city and the departments of elections has put much time and thought into this and so theyre safe and secure and everyone has a good experience on election date ill turn it over to george chan. And even we call chinese and were helping everyone. So this year were happy to be receiving support from the city to continue the registered people. So, this year, we see the ballot we mailed to you and we help people register. We follow that many times they dont know if you change your address, make sure you update it, ok. So also, if you do know your status, we can help you to check it as well. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is jaclyn flynn. Im the executive director of the a phyllis randolf of San Francisco and were working with the department of the elections in the city to really get out of vote this year. So i ask you, how important is your vote . 2020 is a challenging year as a nation. We have lost over 200,000 american lives from covid19 and these fires, as you can see, continue to raise and scorch our state and homes and businesses and and the california economy and our air quality and and they leap gap in time with racial tension zoos tie that they spilled into our streets. So i asked again. How important is your vote . This year and you can help redefine our jail system you can help reform our Law Enforcement system. You can help fund our parks, you can vote for housing and healthcare and your vote is a vote for change. I ask you, what can you do to effect change and if you can, do it early. Send it in my mail. Drop it directly into a ballot box and thank you to the city for creating an accessible space for folks to do that safely. And if you must safely head to your poll, please wear your mask and vote. I encourage awful us to ask our families, our friends, our work colleagues, our neighbors to do something important, vote. This year has been hard on all of us. And as i think about why its so important, i think about my own kids. And i realize that i have the power to set a clear example that im not satisfied where were at in this nation today and im not going to sit back. I will be an element of change. The a phyllis randolf institute will be on the frontlines reaching out to our seniors and over 5,000 units of low income Family Housing across is this city. Well be facing this year of covid, hitting the streets to ensure education and access to voting. You can help us in that fight. Im inspired by San Francisco. A city that votes for change. Im inspired by inspired by a t looks like me. When i vote i celebrate my skin, my lips and my determination to be represented by someone that understanding my perspective. To all my asian brothers and sisters and to all my latino brothers and sisters, we need you. We need bilingual folks and to my caucasian allies, we are all in this together. I challenge everyone to get education and make a plan and vote. Thank you. Thank you to the press and the immediate why for getting the word out and most importantly, we want to make sure that voting is easy. If you have any questions or concerns, what is interesting this past weekend, i heard from a lot of folks that said i didnt get my ballot yet, what is going on . What is happening. So people seem to be very excited about voting. We also want to make sure that folks are able to get their ballots and theyre able to get their questions answered and we make it as simple as possible and we also keep everybody safe. When were showing up to our polling places, or our Dropoff Center or this particular center here across the street from city hall, were all using the wash center to wash our hands and were wearing our masks and complying with our Health Orders because thats how were going to be able to continue to not only get through this but adapt to the needs to make sure that we are able to not only vote but vote safely. Thats what this is all about and so thank you all so much for joining us here to the today. [applause] we are here today to discuss a very, very important issue that has been plaguing our community, even more so under covid. Some call it sideshows. Its something that, under covid , is happening all over San Francisco. Two weeks ago, we have one of the worst incidents that we saw in the city. It went on for an hour and a half, almost two hours. At the end, three individuals were shot and one individual died. I want to be clear, this is still under investigation. It is not necessarily associated with the activities that were happening that night, but its something that certainly shows and underscores that these are dangerous events. These are events that cannot be tolerated in San Francisco. These are not professionals, these are not individuals that have professional training to do these types of stunts and tricks with their cars. I want to say clearly that we have zero tolerance for these in San Francisco. At the end of the day, i also want to extend my condolences to the family in sacramento that lost their life. This individual was about to have a child. I dont want that to be lost. I think we need to pay respect to that. Yesterday, chief scott and i, after working on this for a couple of months, along with the mirrors office, introduced a piece of legislation that would increase the ability in San Francisco to impound vehicles. I want to be very clear. If you do involve yourself in these activities and we are able to videotape and document your car and your activity, you have the penalty of being arrested and put in prison for up to six months. We have the ability to impound your vehicle and first defence is no less than two weeks. Second offences longer than that and third event, just shy of 30 days. If you get involved in these, the police chief well talk about the unit and the task force that they have assembled to put together on this. We will take your vehicle. We will impound your vehicle and there will be consequences to your actions. I want to thank all the neighbours and all the individuals that have been involved with this. I want to recognize our captain who is around here. Thank you for working with us on this. And especially thank you to chief scott and the mayor for all of her support and hard work on this. Now i would like to introduce our mayor. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you for being here today. I really want to take this opportunity to recognize the leadership of our supervisors. Since i have been mayor and since he has been supervisor, we have been doing a lot of work for the community. We have heard from a lot of the residents and merchants on the need for this community. And what i appreciate about his work is that he is bringing the resources, he is bringing the attention, he is bringing the support to what is a neglected part of the city. And even for the first time in over 20 years, one of the first Affordable Housing developments in the city, just on the streets , he helped to save units that were almost lost to market right with low income families. The reason why i go back to that is because its so important, it is so critical to make sure that we have someone who represents the district and answers to community and answers to the needs of the residents here. In in this particular case and the slot sideshows, the supervisor answered the call. He reached out to me and reached out to the team. It was not just because of the complaint of the people who live here and work here. It was the cause and currently a dangerous situation. It is dangerous for the participants, dangerous for the spectators, dangerous from all the folks who are in range of this particular event. Let me just say, i grew up in San Francisco. I have seen sideshows. I know people want to participate in them. I know people think they are fun and they are exciting and especially during covid. People feel like theres nothing to do. They want to go out and participate and see these things , but sadly, we are putting lives at risk. We are participating in these events. Sadly they could result in someones death and that is why were here today. We dont always want to use this heavy hand of Law Enforcement to address issues, but in this particular case, because of the danger, you have left us with no choice. In San Francisco, they will not be tolerated. We will do everything we can to address them in a manner in which it is fitting of what is happening. Do not come to our city with the sideshow crap that creates the problem that we dont want to see in our neighbourhood. Do not use this as a play to congregate for that purpose. We will do everything we can to make sure it doesnt happen and this is just the first step. We hope that you comply. We hope that you will also be considerate of what happens at these particular events. We understand that people want to do this, but they are dangerous and this is no fun if someone is killed. With that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce our police chief, bill scott. Thank you. First i want to thank the mayor and supervisor for their leadership. I want to reiterate a couple of things that have been said. First and foremost, these exhibitions of the stench driving, under the law are illegal. It is reckless driving. I cant tell you how many times people put their lives at risk for these exhibits. I want to point out a couple of things and highlight some of what the legislation offers and how it can be helpful for us. Number one, this legislation sets expectations of accountability. If you participate in one of these events, if you do trick driving, if we see it online, we see it in person, it is outright dangerous. If your car is impounded, the first offences it will be impounded for two weeks. Second offence, if the car is impounded, it will be impounded for 29 days. Your car will be impounded no more than 30 days, but definitely no less then what the law allows. We want to be consistent, we want to set expectations of accountability and consequences in the city, and if we can prove that you are behind the wheel, you will be arrested. What we are doing in the Police Department Police Department, a couple months ago, as a supervisor mentioned, we trained a spot of officers to deal with this event. We cannot do this alone. Our Law Enforcement partners in the bay area, this is a regional problem. We see all across the state. We are working with partners and other jurisdictions who had similar issues and we are communicating. When he the publics help in that because when you see these things occurring, we dont want people to put themselves in harms harms way. If you have any Video Surveillance at your residence or your business or videotaping with your cell phone or video camera, please share that information with us. A lot of people will posted online and that is okay too. If you are going to posted online, give it to us as well. Part of what needs to happen for this work effectively is we need to be able to put the driver behind the wheel. Then we can do something with that case. I want to say to the incident that brought us here today, we know and i know and we have heard from the public. There is a lot of frustration when these things occur. We have to have a thoughtful plan to respond to these events because of the danger. The one that the supervisor was referring to, there were hundreds of spectators. There were 50 cars and more participating. When two officers arrive at that scene, they cant just rush in. What our experience has told us is that often times we are compensated. We see officers surrounded, cars vandalized, we see, not in this city fortunately, but we see officers run over. We have to bring the appropriate resources to deal with this situation. It takes a little time to rally the resources. The units that we train up, we want them to specialize in being able to deal with these situations. It is a resource driven need here. We understand the frustration, but we want the public to know that we are working to make the situation better. We have trained our officers and we are working with supervisors. We have the mayors support and the legislation. It will bring consistency and consequences. Lastly before i close, i want to give examples of what we are talking about. This event a couple of weeks ago , as i said, there were 300 spectators, 300 vehicles and unfortunately a man was shot to death in the immediate vicinity. We had over 100 calls. People are concerned for their safety. You cant blame them. People are tired, yelling and screaming, if anything, you are bad news. When the officers arrive and shots were fired. Now they are dealing with a life or death situation where three people were shot. They needed to get medical aid and save their lives. It complicates the matter. Often times what we have found is these events, often times turn into conflict with shots fired. A good example, august 24th of this year, there was a motor vehicle, a daytime event. They were stunned driving. They were burning rubber and approximately 100 spectators cheering them on. At one point, one of them lost control of the car and almost hit several spectators. We did not have anyone killed in that situation. I could repeat it over and over again. We have we had other incidences in the recent past were events of culminated with shots being fired and people being hurt. Here is the message. If you participate in these illegal and reckless events, your car, if we catch you will be impounded and it will be no less than two weeks on the first incident. No less than 29 days on the second incident thereafter. If we put you behind the wheel, if we can prove that you aided or abetted in the participation and the facilitation of these events, you will be arrested. Even if you want arrested that night, if we have the evidence and video through the evidence that we need to prove then we are coming after you. That is the message that us, the mayor, the board of supervisors and the people of the city want you to hear if you are participating in these events. Thank you for your time and thank you for your leadership. Thank you, chief. I want to underscore one last point. Lets make this clear. People that also set the perimeter, people that use their vehicles a set of these events in criminal terms called aiding and abetting, those two will have their vehicles seized. We will have the ability to go after them. Its not just the individuals that are driving the vehicles. Is the individuals that are participating in and major participants of setting up the events. That is something that chiefs got in i have spent a lot of time talking about. The mayor feels really strongly about this. We have to have accountability. It will not just be the individuals who were driving the vehicles and doing the stunts, it will be the people who are aiding and abetting and setting up these events. We also, as a result, and i want to thank the mayor as part of the budget process, will be getting over 15 cameras on this camera and Video Evidence is one of the most important factors in these crimes. This corner that has been plagued a few times, in the next few weeks we will have 15 video cameras put up. We have been working with a captain in his office to increase foot patrol. It is not just about the activity itself. It is about setting the environment to make sure people understand that we take the safety of this neighbourhood as a top priority. [ ] my name is london breed and i am the mayor of San Francisco. Im joined by the supervisor of this district. [cheers and applause] we are joined by dr. Grant colfax with the department of Public Health and your Amazing Community member who helped spearhead and put this thing together. E. J. Jones. [cheers and applause] and let me start by saying that, you know, i really want to express my appreciation to all of the people with the resources that are here, to all of the folks in this community for your patients, for your understanding as we deal with one of the most challenging world pandemics that we have ever experienced ever. It has been an adjustment for all of us. We have not been able to come together with our family and friends. We have not been able to visit or open. So many of our Small Businesses are still closed. It has been over six month and it has taken our toll in our city and our community and all of you continue to be patient and continue to do your part. I see so many people, they are wearing their masks. People are socially distancing and doing their part because that is how we will get to a better place. More importantly, we are living with covid for some time. We all know that. And how do we get our city reopened . We do it by making sure that we provide access to testing and it has to be consistent because you can get tested today and then contract the virus tomorrow and then say, wait a minute, i am feeling a certain kind of way, but i have symptoms, but i just got tested and i was negative. And the fact is, we have to make it easier. We have to make it easier in the communities on the Southeast Side of San Francisco because we know the disparities are right here in communities like the o. M. I. We know that our latino population in particular has experienced higher amounts of covid19, over 50 of the over 10,000 cases diagnosed in this city have been people of latino descent. So we have to make sure that we bring the testing and the Contact Tracing directly to the community. Sites like this are so critical. The consistency of having pop up sites and permanent sights in the o. M. I. , in the bayview Hunters Point and in the mission are critical to our ability to get this virus under control and make sure that we meet people where they are in our communities so they can get tested whenever they want, no questions asked, nothing regarding your immigration status. We are here to protect Public Health and that is what this is about. [applause] so i am really excited. This is not just a testing sight this is also a site with resources. This is a site where we are going to provide access to various resources because this is really about the community. I want to thank e. J. Jones for his leadership. [applause] i want to also just say, just to put this into perspective, you all know the task on monday. We just opened an indoor salon. And you know what . I was so happy to get a manicure and pedicure last night. I didnt know what to do with myself. [laughter] i really didnt. Yes, it was the best experience ever. I want to make sure that places that we all go to, the people who have been suffering a collecting no income whatsoever, we want them to stay open. We want them to continue to be open. The fact is, we are doing okay with our numbers. We want to keep it that way. We want to improve the numbers. That involves all of us playing our role. In fact, we are doing okay and we anticipate, by the end of this month that we will be an orange. We are currently in red. We are not out of the woods, but we expect, based on if the numbers continue to go the way they are going, we will be at level orange. As a result, we will be able to open restaurants indoors at 25 capacity if that occurs and if we continue the way that we are. Because we know that restaurants are suffering. We know hair and nail salons are suffering. We know gyms are suffering. We know our Mental Health because of our inability to access our churches and our spirituality in the way that we have before, we are suffering. If we continue down this path, we will have an opportunity to reopen safely. Covid hasnt gone anywhere so far. We have to get used to living like this. We have to get use to the socially distancing and mask wearing. We want to have a party, and over time were hanging out with their families in the backyard or at the park, but we get too comfortable and we start drinking a bit and start kicking things up. We cant let up. We cant see another surge. We cant go backwards. We have gotten come too far. San francisco has been a leader in this whole coronavirus world pandemic. We were the first city in the country to say, you know what . We will shut it down. Our numbers have been decent, our death rates, sadly we have lost a lot of people, but not in comparison to other places. We are doing okay, but we can do better because i want to keep these businesses open. I want to make sure we dont lose the fabric of San Francisco and what makes San Francisco so great and so special. And that means we have to do our part. I want to thank each and every one of you for being there today we can have a good time socially distancing and wearing a mask. I have been saving a lot of money on lipstick, by the way. The fact is, we are all in this together. I appreciate everyone that each and everyone of you have done and at this time, i want to take the opportunity to introduce your supervisor of this district to has been an amazing, amazing advocate for the people of this community. [cheers and applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you to our mayor. Isnt she doing a wonderful job leading our city and taking the heat . We are all sacrificing. I know she actually put out a message this morning for our schools talking about families. There is a lot of people struggling right now. There is a lot of children, a lot of families who are waiting for their opportunity to go back to school. The work that we all do together as a community, coming together as a Community Benefits everyone it benefits those that are suffering the most. Theres a lot of children right now that are waiting for their opportunity to get back into the classroom and so much of that is already being underscored by what we have done in this community. We opened up one of our Community Learning hubs. I want to thank london breed and dr. Colfax and for the work that they have done and the Covid Command Centre for joining us here today. At this site is Community Driven this site is a perfect example of how a community that comes together shows its resiliency and strength. After months of fighting to open a testing sight, the Community Came together. These folks are volunteering their time. These folks are going above and beyond what they have been asked to do. They are a model of strength for the rest of our community. This is how it should be done. This resource hub, as you see here, it is more than testing. They can get access to Food Services and access to housing services. Soon they will be able to access the flu vaccination. All of this has come and shown how the community can come together and really serve those in need. I also want to give a special shout out lets give it up for invest black. For their leadership and owning this site. They have come together as a community and shown how you can lead and how community can turn a National Music movement into a neighbourhood driven movement. I want to give a special shout out to e. J. Jones for the wonderful work he has done here leading this site, being on zoom calls, juggling his day job and continuing to do what he needs to do to lead us through this effort. I also want to give a shout out to Patty Clement and catholic charities. This is their sight and their location. Patty was not about to say no. She just said, let me tell you how we can make this happen. I am ready to say yes. This pop up has been driven also , i want to give a special recognition to a lot of the people that have been here every day. I always recognized bernard munro, mary and al harris, felicia thibodeau, glenn brown, maurice rivers, delia fitzpatrick, brandon wiley, monique guidry, mary thomas, jeffrey morris, all the folks that have been here on the Ground Fighting every day, volunteering every day to make sure this community is safe. If i didnt mention you, im sorry. I try to remember everyone thats involved. Thank you again for all of your work. I am proud to be here and proud to be part of someone who has been supporting this all this time. Im really proud to be the supervisor of this district. Thank you, everyone. We will bring up dr. Colfax. Good morning, everyone. I am the director of health. Thank you, mayor breed for your ongoing leadership and supervisor. It is an unprecedented time in San Francisco. Because of your leadership, we are in a better place. There are so many places across the United States with regards to covid19. I want to thank e. J. Jones. Thank you so much for spearheading this effort to get to work on the ground. Also, the southwest community corporation. Catholic charities, thank you for making this available, and to all Community Partners for their collaboration and support to the True Community assets. This is so much more than just a testing sight. This is that collective and Wraparound Service centre that we need and that we know we need to have our approach to covid19 take root and our prevention work. We are supporting people when they test positive in helping people in their recovery. Not only individuals, with families, friends and the community. Like the mayor just noted, more than 50 of our cases are in the latino community. When we saw this trend, we responded by implementing Community Mobile testing strategies to bring testing to neighbourhoods most impacted by covid19. Our Community Mobile testing site have visited and are regularly testing people in the mission, the excelsior, visitation valley, sunnydale, the o. M. I. , the tenderloin, the bayview, among others. And while this virus does not discriminate by race or ethnicity, it does exploit our existing economic and social disparities. We know that this pandemic affects communities more than others and we must continue to focus on an equity approach as we continue to expand our testing and prevention and care efforts. This is why Community Mobile testing like we are having today is so vital to our response. To date, we have tested more than 5,000 people in the Community Mobile testing sites and have tested more than 23,000 people at our Community Testing clinic. Our Community Mobile testing strategy allows us to respond quickly to where the response the virus is spreading fastest and help people get what they need. This includes isolation and Quarantine Services providing the hotel rooms for people who need to isolate and quarantine safely, food assistance, healthcare services. We are here on the ground helping people in the communities in which they live. Im happy to say, with regard to isolation and quarantine rooms that are available to people who test positive. Fortyfive of currently occupied as people who identify as latino. We have expanded our Case Investigation and Contact Tracing efforts with Community Members and we are now expanding our Contact Tracing teams so 50 of our investigators are collaborating and our spanish speaking. 90 of latino cases have been contacted by case investigators. And of those who have been tested, 15 have tested positive seventy 2 of covid positive patients have been hospitalized are latino, reinforcing the need to care and test and reach out to communities most affected. Testing is one part, but prevention is so important. Its so key because we do not need the virus to spread quickly , slowing the spread of the virus is so important. They testing hundreds of people every day. To date, thanks to the dedicated staff and 30 people who run the site, we have tested over 700 people in the community at this testing site alone. 700 people. This is the only thing that has happened in the last few months. We hoping that we will add 250 more people to get tested here today. Because of these efforts, we are on our path to reopening. A path that gets people back to work. Let the Small Businesses open the doors and get the economy back on track. As the mayor mentioned, we saw some vital reopenings happening this past week and we are excited about potentially opening indoor restaurants at 25 capacity soon. We need to continue this work together. Im proud of what were doing, but we must take these prevention efforts. You know what i am going to say. Continue to wear the facial coverings. It is so important. Continue to social distance and be safe, dig deeper and together we will come through this. Thank you. [applause] thank you dr. Colfax. He has just been at city hall so he had to come in and give all the technical details. They are very important. I also want to give a shout out to some performers who are here today. He and his amazing wife and talented children are incredible and awesome and we are so glad to have them in this community. They are always performing for the singers and other groups of people all over the city. Thank you. [applause] at this time, we will wrap it up with e. J. Jones who is just going to thank all of the community and talk about the work that he did to help make this happen. E. J. . [applause] good morning, everybody. First of all, my name is e. J. Jones. Im a thirdgeneration member of this like you community. This Community Means everything to me. I also want to first off thank by say i want to thank the mayor. I want to thank you for allowing us the opportunity to have testing in the community. My story, with covid19 and testing began in early july when i thought i had an exposure and needed to get tested and could not find a place that would test me sooner then two weeks out. At that time, i gave the call to the supervisor and asked what was available in the district. There wasnt many options. I was able to get tested at the mission hub thanks to Community Members. And right after the supervisor and i had a conversation about how we can bring testing to the o. M. I. With that said, as you look around this testing site is not about me. Its about the entire community that is out here. There are numerous organizations that come together on a weekly basis to make sure that our community is safe in our community is taken care of. Really, when you are looking at the success today, youre looking at the power of community. We are only going to beat this in community. I just want to thank the entire community for coming out. We would not be able to do this without each and every one of the organizations and members that are here today. I appreciate everyone so much. Thank you. [applause] on february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid19. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelterinplace. This will be our 24th remote