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 covid-19 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 covid-19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have so
colleagues, a concern about the cost; the same concern about supervisor walton s and haney s measures. you look at new york, and how it s saved so much more than it s spent, but of course that s after it s 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 i m wondering if you d considered starting it a little later, similar to what supervisor haney had done for the d.p.w. so it doesn t cost money right away for the city budget where we re 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 that s 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 controller s office fiscal analyst is very modest [inaudible] s
i m 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 don t want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say that s not how people want to engage, and that s 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 i ll 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 i ve 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 unl
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 couns
away restriction there, so they are not able to load even today because it s tow away. other times of day what we re looking to do is now that we have full-time parking on the other side of the street, we re going to look at relocating loading spaces to the other side of the street or as close as possible. part of the process will be working with merchants to identify loading needs. we have done our best job to identify relocated spaces for now, but we are going to be looking at merchant by merchant by merchant is this meeting your needs, and we rapidly get out there and find an alternative solution if we need it, including potentially even this might open the opportunity for outdoor dining and other things that wouldn t have been possible before because of the tow away restrictions. [indiscernible] market street was we looked at all of the cross streets and rearranged most of the parking for the first half block of the cross streets to make sure that there was adequate loa