Chair peskin welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee today, september 21, 2020. I am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor ahsha safai and supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, could you please make any announcements. Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, city hall and board rooms are closed. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment will be available on each item of this agenda. Depending on your provider, you can watch the meeting on cable channels 26, 78, or 99 or sfgov. Org is streami sfgovtv streaming the number across the stream. The number is 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1462832975. Press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, please press star, three to be added to the speaker line. Best pra
Well as the live event to the stream. To enable Public Participation sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming this hearing live. We will receive Public Comment for each item on the agenda today. Sfgovtv should be streaming the toll free call in number at the bottom of the screen. Public comment will be made available by phone by calling that number. 888 2733658. Entering access code 3107452, pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected and would like to submit Public Comment for a specific item on the agenda, bless 1 and then 0 to be added to th to the queue. You will have three minutes. When your allotted time is reached i will direct my staff to take next person to speak. Best practices to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and mute your television or computer. At this time i would like to take role. President hyland. Here. Commission Vice President matsuda. Here. Commissioner black. Here. Commissioner foley. Present. Commissioner johns. Commissioner pearlman
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Or residents of San Francisco have been trying to address relative to a huge amount of homelessness on our streets that has been exacerbated by the covid19 crisis. The floor, supervisor fewer, is yours. Supervisor hello . Supervisor, you are muted. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor i would like to note that director pennick is also joining us for a comment. Thank you, chair peskin, for scheduling this item. I would like to provide some background on why i introduced this legislation. While San Francisco has shown leadership and responded quickly to covid19, the city has struggled to respond to the publics needs of the atrisk population this threatens our ability to lift the shelter in place order and jeopardizes the Public Safety of everyone. And Public Health safety of everyone. And the mayor previously stated a goal of procuring 7,000 hotel rooms and the board passed legislation to acquire even more, but the city is falling short of the goals on both counts. As of this morning only 1,991
In the mission, 22 residents tested positive for the multiple requests and it took six days to get everyone tested. We dont want to see this happen again. So having said this, at the heart of this matter for me is the basic idea of taking care of people. Constituents who are living in dangerous situation and bottom lines, and being our sisters and brothers keepers. Putting folks in hotel room where is they can be isolated and properly quarantined to protect them and others who have it, and to safely shelterinplace is what we need and thats why i support this legislation. It saves lives. You have 16 questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Hello. I am hi. Im cochair indiscernible and a longtime tenderloin resident. And im calling today because, you know, i live in an s. R. O. In the tenderloin and i have been here for a lot of years and i have to say that looking at the infections and this is frightening. Were finally getting indiscernible . And the s. R. O. S are not like other apartm