The city is not helping with the staffing. It is left to the merchants to be fully staffed. The Small Businesses can barely staff our own staff. Do we need to make it this complex and difficult to do this . If it is a short term pilot thing. What i will say with the extension of the Health Orders rendering Indoor Dining pushed out indefinitely. We dont really know, and other forms of indoor business, maybe indoor retail will be closed. Our outdoor spaces are overnight become much, much more value automobile. We are running out of bones to throw at Small Businesses. Right now the space outside is one of the few bones left. We need to help the Small Business community to make sure the space is easier and less expensive and less complex. We need the opportunity for shared spaces including streets closed is being promoted and facilitated in our cultural district. Places like 24th street. The city is helping a lot on helping us understand how to do this. But they are not helping do it at al
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My staff works really hard, and i think we are doing everything we can to make it easier for providers and for consumers to be able to access the services that are available to them and serve the people of the city. Any questions . Thank you, kelly. It might be helpful for newer commissioners if you summarized how a consumer qualifies for ihss. What are the requirements . In terms of income or right. So in order to be able to qualify, you have to be medical eligible. If you are, you would call cristas shop, and they would arrange to have a social worker come who would determine how many hours per month you are entitled to. And once that happens, you can hire whoever you want. And about 85 percent of consumers in San Francisco have a friend or Family Member that will do the service for them, which i will also just add, keeps people housed, because then they know they can get paid to provide the service for a friend or Family Member, so there will still be income coming in. 15 percent wh