Can you please call the roll . [ roll call ] clerk you have a quorum. Announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Approval of the minutes from the october 6 regular meeting. Can we open up the line for Public Comment on the minutes from the october 6 meeting. You have zero questions remaining. Well pause 20 seconds. If no one comes on the line, well move along. Clerk if members of the public wish to address the board on the meeting, please dial 10 to join the queue. And the number is available on the screen, should anyone want to join. You have zero questions remaining. Then well close Public Comment. Directors, are there any additions or amendments to the minutes . If not, may i hear a motion. Motion. Is there a second . A second. Please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk 50. Item 5, communications. Due to the covid19 emergency, this meeting is being held virtually and all members of the public and staff are participating via video conference. This will
Please type your name and your question exactly as you would like it to be read. Submit before the last speaker is finished. We will read in the q a portion. Thank you for joining us. Today we have doctor grant colfax, the director of the office of economic and work force development. Cheryl davis, james executive director of collective impact. Member of the Latino Task Force and Stefani Garcia. With that i will turn it over to dr. Colfax. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us before this long weekend. I just have a brief statement to make with regard to where we are in the covid19 pandemic. It is a Public Health message that is really that we need to send across the city, across the region, across various neighborhoods and communities. This fourth of july, th the saft thing to do is stay home. In San Francisco we have had an alarming increase and significant increase in covid19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have soared. We are in
Colleagues, a concern about the cost; the same concern about supervisor waltons and haneys measures. You look at new york, and how its saved so much more than its spent, but of course thats after its been up and running. And i so want this measure to get on the ballot because it is so the right thing to do at the right time, but im wondering if youd considered starting it a little later, similar to what supervisor haney had done for the d. P. W. So it doesnt cost money right away for the city budget where were not facing an unprecedented deficit. I just want to assuage some of my colleagues concerns so that it will get on the ballot. At least thats my hope. Supervisor mar just like all my colleagues, i share a concern over our huge budget deficit unprecedented budget deficit, as well as the important other proposed measures that we heard today. Again, i you know, the actual cost, based on the Controllers Office fiscal analyst is very modest [inaudible] supervisor mar so i think that gi
Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless
We must work to slow down our arterial corridors, before thinking and creating in our education enforcement strategies. I want to comment and hear updates on what has been done and what also clear and what also would be clear time lines and measurable goals for what is being planned. Please call the first item. Item one, roll call. Commissioner peskin sorry about missing that part. Commissioner peskin. A present. Peskin present. A commissioner stefani. Commissioner stefani is stuck in the psns committee of board of supervisors and i was given the short notice as chair of the t. A. Unable to find a replacement and it is chair yee and myself for the duration of this meeting. Stefani absent. Commissioner yee. Here. Yee present. We have a quorum. And mr. Chairman, i would like to motion to excuse commissioner stefani. Okay. Roll call. On the motion. Oh. Do we need let me just check with legal if we need a roll call on that. Angela, this is counsel for the t. A. You can skip a roll call if