Of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers
Of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers
Of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers
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
Im not the smartest commissioner or the most knowledgeable person. This is a constant fight, but you know, this looking at the country, looking at what happened to all of the individuals who have died recently from from White Supremacy and Police Violence, weve got to do better, ive got to do better, and, you know, i didnt really i guess i just as you can see, i got out of i had surge in the last week, and ive spent a lot of time on my back thinking, and i dont have any answers tonight. Some people think that were you know, as i said before, and ive read it online and on social media, were putting a gloss over operator your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To answer each question, press one and then zero. Commissioner hamasaki do i need to stop for something . Clerk no, you can go. Commissioner hamasaki i dont have anything deep or profound to say, other than i really hope, i really hope that this is a moment that we rise to, and i i just we cant just keep going and reading