Mr. President , all members of president. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one makes under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv. The special order is the appearance with the honnable mayor, london breed. There being no questions submitted from supervisors one through four, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Ok. First of all, i want to welcome madam mayor breed and there were no topics submitted by supervisors today, but before you get started, i want to take the time to address the public on what we are preparing to announce next week. I want to acknowledge how we are collectively are reevaluating the structures we have in place with the Emergency Response. Communications between the board and Emergency Operations center has been a work in progress and it has been difficult for own or constituents to understand the status of the evolving emergency and what the future might hold. We have been in discussions with the Mayors Office on how to clarify this and make sure that all policy decisions moving forward can be clearly articulated to all members of the public. As elected supervisors, we are held accountable to our extents regardless of the social economic status or their vote. As the duly elected governing body of policy make es makers, e responsible for weighing and mitigating the policies for the greater good of the city and county. It has been challenging to respond to this crisis but we are working diligently with the executive branch to make sure there is an actual plan that we can share with it general public and restore the confidence that we are going to get through this together and wont be leaving anyone behind. In the coming weeks, the mayor and board are refining respective roles towards a more coequal collaboration. By bringing the policy makers closer to the polymakin policyg operations. Everything the city is doing is improving so we can optimize how we serve all of our constituents, the great people of San Francisco. I want to thank you, madam mayor, for taking this opportunity fire collaboration by work with the board and liaison stations at the Emergency Operations center and now working with us as we try to establish a deeper level of engagement so we can provide more accessibility is responsiveness for constituents, especially as we advance into the next phase of the Emergency Response and work towards the preventing and recovery. So i thought i started off with that, madam mayor and we welcome you to share your remarks. Thank you, president yee, and thank you so much for your willingness to collaborate and partner. As you know, this pandemic hit us hard. It hit the entire world hard and i think that San Francisco has been a leader in addressing this challenge as we have seen. Rather than the focus on being whats happening in our Hospital System and being overburdened with the number of cases that people are diagnosed with, we are, of course, at a point where we are having discussions about our economy, about recovery and we appreciate and welcome your partnership and feedback in those efforts. We are all in in together and i think its important to Work Together to try to resolve these very challenging issues during this time and so thank you for the opportunity to address the board. Today i really want to focus on our economic recovery and the bond for this upcoming election. Last november i asked the Capital Committee to replace this the parks bond with a Mental Health bond. We know this has presented challenges for our city. During this pandemic, we have seen this become more difficult for those on our streets and for many of or residents. We need serious investments in the better longterm care and more support for our neighbors in crisis. But now, with nearly 100,000 people in San Francisco filing for unemployment, we also need to support jobs, to build towards recovery and to support our communities, especially in their time of need. Today, im introducing legislation to start the process for a new recovery bond. First, this bond proposes serious investments in building, purchasing and the Mental Health facilities that our city and our most vulnerable so desperately need. And we cannot wait any longer to lay the foundation for a better system of care. The recovery bond includes significant investments in parks across our city and particularly in those neighborhoods that have seen reduced resources. These parks will disproportionately serve communities of color and directing resources to these projects, we not only build a safe space for our residents, but we can invest in jobs and putting San Francisco back to work because these projects are shovelready. Finally, ive carved out some bond capacity for basic infrastructure. Repaving or roads, laying our bike lanes and even building out curve ramps. These items arent flashingy, buflashy, butthey keep the cityd ensure to deliver basic services in every corner. Given the current state of emergency, i know it feels like todays bond deadline crept up on us and that there needs to be more discussion. I want to ensure all of you that im eager to hear and incorporate your feedback. Ive already heard from many of you that you want to see more and different parts reflected and i ive heard you dont think the urgency of our Mental Health crisis is reflected in this structure. I want to say that i hear you, im listening and i welcome your feedback and we do need more Mental Health support, more care for our neighbors and at the same time, during this pandemic, we have seen the incredible importance that outdoor space plays in our communities and everyone deserves a safe space to spend Time Outdoors and in their neighborhood and this bond isnt done. We have a month to get to we have a month to roll up our sleeves, speak with extents and weigh the completin the competef our city. This will be several hard choices in a very, very tough economy. After several years of strong Economic Growth and a growing budget, this year, we will have to make tough choices in our capital plan, in our budget and in how we Prioritize Services for our city and in the last year, we were community to champion together a 6 million Affordable Housing bond and over 6 million for Emergency Response and Public Safety and i want to thank all of you for your partnership and support of those efforts. Now to be clear, weve borrowed as much as we can from future bond plans and weve soaked up all of the extra debt capacity and we have to decide on what is most important. I want to hear from you. Im committed to having those policy conversations and taking your feedback and im hoping we can work collaboratively and quickly to create a bon measuree we can all support this november. Thank you all for the opportunity. Thank you, madam mayor, for joining us today. This concludes the special order. This item shall be filed. Thank you. Madam clerk, lets go back to our communications, and do you want to start it off. Do we have any communications . Yes, since the local emergency was declared, Board Members have been participating in board meetings remotely through Video Conference as if they were physically present in their chamber. Provisions have been made for members of the public to participate remotely in the following ways. For members of the public who do not have access to the internet, the u. S. Postal service will deliver written correspondence if you address to the board of supervisors and address it to city hall, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94012 and for those whose interest is just to listen to the meeting and not speak, you may do so by dialing 882045948. When prompted enter 3501008 and press pound twice and youll have joined and can listen to the meeting in progress. If you would like to provide Public Comment when item 12 is called, thats general Public Comment, there are some best practises and you can call from a quiet location, mute your television or radio, speak slowly, clearly and each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak in the jurisdiction of the board. Election time is always around the corner. There is to be no election eeeingin this video environment. Address the supervisors as a whole and not individual members. If once you are listening to the meeting in progress and you wish to enter the cue to speak, dial 1 and then 0 and that will move you into the speaker line to speak and youll be prompted when it is your turn to provide comment. You can get in line early or you can wait until Public Comment is called. The key is to press 10 only one time. Otherwise, if you press it twice, youll be moved out of the speaker line and back into listening mode. Two last points. The director of the office of Civic Engagement has assigned three interpreters to be on stanstanby to assist speakers in language with their comment. I would like to have each of them introduce themselves and let the Community Know theyre here for them. Today lets start with fay. speaking Foreign Language . Agnes lye. speaking Foreign Language . If you do have the internet and would lic lick like to submn comments, submit them and you can watch it livestream and you can watch channel 26. Note it is cable cast and results in a 20second broadcasting delay and thank you, mr. President , and to all of the members of the board and the public for your patience wit length of this communication and we are being advised from the public on what type of guidance is actually helpful. So thank you to the public and keep your comments forthcoming. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Before we begin, just a friendly reminder to mute your microphones. Are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the motion as amended . Motion to approve made by mandleman and seconded by supervisor stephanie. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . There are 11 ayes. Ok, this will be approved as presented. So before we get started, i want to give updates and ask a few other of my colleagues to give some brief updates on some emergency situations and what were doing about it. So, as you know, the board of supervisors have been going down differento the emergency operatn center over the past two months and i want to thank everybody that has volunteered to do that. And i particularly want to thank supervisor fewer who actually stabilized it for about a month there. And supervisor mar was there for the last two weeks. So this week, we actually dont have anybody down there and part of this evaluation that i talked about earlier is to step back and to see what is the best usage of at least the boards time in regards to our role with policy making and also to keep the best communication we can with the operations down at the moscoli center. So this would give us a time to reflect and say, well, should we continue going down or not . Is it helpful or not helpful and then if we conclude that its helpful, then i would, again, ask my colleagues to step up and volunteer to go down there. So thats sort of the update, with by related to our emergency order that we have started between mayor breed and myself, we ask that a task force be created, called the economic recovery tax force and i asked supervisor mandleman, would you give a brief update. I know that you and supervisor peskin have been attending those meetings and so supervisor mandleman. Yes, happy to provide a brief update. Thank you, mr. President. So this Economic Recovery Task force was convened by yourself and the mayor and the cochairs for the task force are carmen chu, the recorder and the treasurer, rodney fong from the chamber and Rudy Gonzalez from the Labor Council and supervisor peskin and i are representing the board and folks representing different sectors of San Francisco from big business, Small Business, labor, Nonprofit Community and lots of folks and then with abled staffing from the city administrator and workforce develop, the office of resilience and capital planning, the human rights commission, the treasure Tax Collector and Melissa White housMelissa Whitee staffperson and i believe carmen reached out for feedback. We had a meeting on april 4th, a just Getting Started meeting and the staff then convened, i think nine different smaller groups to discuss what folks are hearing and what they would like to see prioritized. And those smaller subgroup meetings, i believe have now been finished, and the meeting of the larger group is this thursday, may 14th. Based on those initial conversations, i think as recorder chu an and thinking abt Going Forward in three buckets of areas. First is the developing of plan protocols and tackling issues related to safe reopening and that is through may and that would drive the task forces work in may and june thinking about what kind of ppe businesses well need and what processes need to be in place and what questions should the department of Public Health be asking and what questions will businesses theyre asking about pph. So trying to be fa sil facilatad helpful. So in july and august, the other two buckets are more about supporting Business Resiliency over months and even years as we continue to deal with covid19, thinking about some of the issues that have come up with outdoor spaces and use of the outdoor space and how to support workers and workers resilience. And then the a aspirational thinking, using the better resources we have, tackling the longerterm challenges and using this time to experiment and pilot new ideas and think about things like the greater challenges around environmental crises and how this period can inform that. So a lot of work to do and members of the board who are interested in engaging stakeholders in their districts, there is a website and folks are encouraged to fill that out and theres an email, i believe, that members can members can get in touch with melissa or carmen. And i think thats what i have. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, supervisor mandlemm man. Mandleman. Theres a lot going on in the city, trying to address the future is the media and certainly the Economic Recovery Task force is just one of many, by do have our people on the board as representatives. And another body that has been some work, thats tryin trying h for more local relief is also represented by two of our colleagues on the board of supervisors and that would be supervisors researc ronen and sr stephanie. Supervisor ronen, can you give a brief report in whats going on with how to get started and ho. Supervisor ronen. Thank you, supervisor yee, for this opportunity. I have a few updates to give to sf and theyre all pretty exciting. I wanted to start out by saying that the givetosf program was started by the mayor at the beginning of the crisis as a way for donors throughout the city to support other people in San Francisco as the situation has become more and more grave. And since then, the Mayors Office developed a committee to serve as oversight of this fund and supervisors stephanie and i are sitting on that committee on behalf of the board of supervisors. The Oversight Committee makes decisions about how much to allocate to each need and when to do that. And in general, we have there are three different buck buckets where the money is allocated and 50 of the money goes to Food Security, which is an endless need that we have all over the city. For the first time, were seeing unhoused residents in the street citing hunger as one of the Biggest Challenges to surviving and we have food banks and lines at every food give away that extends for blocks and the donors run out of food way before everybody gets the food they need. And as the mayor mentioned earlier, we have a Record Number of unemployment in San Francisco reaching 108,000 today and so, the need for Food Security is greater than it than its ever. The committee is making sure that 50 of the funds go to this need that is urgent all around the city, especially with cities and unemployed families and the unhoused. An additional 35 goes to supporting Small Businesses and the lowwage workforce. The most two important programs finished exclusively by givetosf are the resiliency grants of 10,000 to Small Businesses with five or less employees, as well