public health to develop a prospective response plan for long-term care facilities in addition to l laguna honda. i am grateful for this help and we need more. from the beginning of the global outbreak, efforts by the city to prepare for the coronavirus have prepared the most vulnerable population. residents who are over 60 years old and those with certain underlying health conditions and chronic diseases. the residents of laguna honda hospital are in the most vulnerable of these groups. laguna honda has a total of 11 confirmed cases of coronavirus. nine are amongst staff and two are among residents. all are in good condition. since march 26th, 158 staff

and 54 residents were tested for the virus. among residents, two have tested positive and 51 negative and one result is still pending. among staff, 156 have tested negative and 25 more tests are underway. and i expect more cases of coronavirus in the laguna honda community among both staff and residents because it is now spreading throughout the bay area. we are drawing on all of the resources we can muster at the local state and federal level to strengthen our response. laguna honda has been and remains a top priority in the city's preparation and response to coronavirus. the first health officer order after declaring a local health emergency in early march was to restrict visitors from laguna honda to protect the

institution's residents. laguna honda leadership has worked actively and diligently to train staff on coronavirus including the use of personal protective equipment, ppe, for all cleaning of common spaces of resident rooms and other prevention technique. here is what is happening on campus right now to respond to the outbreak. first, the hospital incident command system is activated to manage the crisis and the incident commander, troy williams, is here to answer further details about that process. the state infection control nurses are creating expanded protocols on environmental cleaning, ppe, and staff safety. the cdc is intensifying the information to look for sources of infection and the pathway of

spread and this will prevent a plan that taking the coronavirus situation fully into account. the two units where the cases have been diagnosed, south 4 and south 5, are under an extensive quarantine order. each of these units houses approximately 60 residents. within these units, doors have been secured, sheriffs are at the doors preventing residents from leaving and only allowing appropriate staff to enter and residents are being assessed for symptoms on every shift and staff are being screened twice for symptoms at every shift. testing of all staff on south 4 and south 5 where staff cases have been found is almost complete. to date, nine positive cases have been confirmed. and testing of all patients on

south 5 where patient cases have been found is complete and results are pending. to date, two positive cases have been confirmed. all nonessential personnel are restricted from entering the facility. all essential visitors, staff and residents are medically screened and all laguna honda staff are screened at the start of each shift. in addition, laguna honda is setting up a field care clinic on its grounds as a precaution in case there is a need to separate groups of patients. we are continuing to assess the situation and adapt our response accordingly. working with our state and federal partners. however, even best efforts are no guarantee against the spread of the virus. there are currently 374 cases and six deaths due to

coronavirus in san francisco. in addition to our focused, rapid response efforts at laguna honda hospital, they are preparing for the expected surge of hospital patients. i remind all of sanfrancisco to do your part in slowing down the virus. by decreasing community spread, you will help protect vulnerable groups like the very residents of laguna honda and other long-term care facility residents across the country, other ederly people and those with underlying he health conditions. this is the time to come together as a community while we stay home whenever possible. i cannot stress that enough. unfortunately, we will be seeing more cases and deaths in the

coming days and weeks. please do your part to keep those numbers as low as possible. thank you. and i would like to introduce mr. yee, board of supervisors.

>> good morning. i'm t norman yee, president of e board of supervisors and i'm in district 7 in which laguna honda is located. i want to thank dr. colfax and mayor breed in taking a stand with these vulnerable populations we're dealing with. we knew that at some point somebody was going to be infected. so as tough as it's been to say no visitors coming to laguna honda, it's something we had to do. think about it. the people that are there in the hospital are now not with their families, not with their friends visiting. and the love that the family and

the friends want to provide for them, they can't. so a tough decision, it was very difficult to make, but think it was the right decision. problem, in fact, it delayed any infection there. it probably, in fact, reduced the numbers that we're seeing today. what i'm saying is probably reiterating what dr. colfax was saying, that we need to take an aggressive stance. we need to attack this aggressively and do everything we can to slow it down, to minimize how many people are going to be infected, whether it's staff or the seniors themselves. one thing that we could do even more aggressively if we have the tools is to start testing everybody there, everybody. we can't be working in a vacuum.

we can't be guessing oh, where is the next person that will be positive? we have to get ahead of that. so as dr. colfax and mayor breed were saying, we're reaching out to the state and federal government and please respond because we need your help. that's all i have to say today and thank you very much to the residents who are behaving the right way, social distancing, stay at home as much as you can and enjoy whatever you can at home and if you have to go out, make sure you are staying away from people, at least six feet and to continue washing your hands. thank you very much.

>> we'll open it up to some question. >> madam mayor, this is a question from abc7. what is the city doing to help small businesses during this crisis. >> so one of the first things that we announced early on, because we knew there would be some real challenges with our small business community, is a fund to provide a million dollars in grants right away and that money has dried up and we provided a delay in business taxes until 2021 so that

businesses here can hold off on paying taxes until next year. we put a delay on a number of fees that businesses get charged and we also provided a $10 million fund for employees where you have businesses who have sick leave and, for example, if an employee only has two weeks of sick leave, we could provide an additional week of sick leave through a fund that is available and we've tried to make sure that we provided all of these options to small businesses. they can check out the website oewd.com for more information on how they can get additional assistance. the governor added additional -- there are others other actually before did not qualify for unemployment insurance that now qualify for unemployment

insurance. and so state unemployment insurance is available to a lot more people than it hav ever has before. so it's important that people apply because you may not think you're qualified, but you are. i'm working to develop a no-interest loan fund where we've partnered with a number of nonprofit agencies -- excuse me, folks in the private sector to contribute money along with public dollars and we're hoping to make that fund available to businesses sooner rather than later. we understand that businesses are suffering and there's some real challenges with paying bills, but i think our commercial moratoriums on convictions and a number of other things we're doing to really slow down or hold off on extreme responses to the lack of

our business community and their inability to pay bills because of the resources that they're no longer able to regenerate, i think that some of the measures we put in place will be helpful. i know they won't be enough so we'll continue to add a number of resources to help support our small business community and i just want to be clear, there's a lot of folks who are hurting out there and we'r we're going to do everything we can but this is a problem that doesn't exist in san francisco. it's all over the country, all over the world and it will be difficult to help every single person, but we'll do our very best. >> question from sin singh tao. for affordable housing, but what about luxury home building?

>> the fact is in san francisco, costle building anything is so expensive, the fact we don't build is a problem. it doesn't matter what sort of housing gets built. the fact is, when this is all over, people are going to need places to live and so i'm not going to pit between one housing versus another. housing is essential, period. and what we don't want to happen is what happened, especially when we started to focus on job opportunities between 2010 and 2015 during the time when we were attracting a number of tech companies and other businesses to sanfrancisco. for every eight jobs we created, we created only one unit of housing. you had people lining you in the western housing community where i grew up, where you would never see anything like this for one apartment, which i think drives up prices. so the fact is, all housing is essential. and we don't need to pick one over the other. the fact is, when this is all

over, just think about it, we have thousandscs of people on streets. you think we'll able to afford thousands of units to house them? this will require every single unit that we can get on the market, no matter what kind of unit it is. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next questions are for dr. colfax. this is from reedasm lbergati from the washington "washington?

what date are you used to make your posts positive? what's the view of using modeling to predict what will happen with the virus and are you relying on any models? >> thank you. we have some of the best people in the help department helping us pull in data from all sources, both locally, nationally and internationally to make an informed response. some of the key things we're looking at, obviously, are the number of cases and very importantly, the number of people who are hospitalized, including people in the intensive care unit, following numbers carefully, and using other data from china, italy and now new york t of what to be prepared for in worse case

scenarios and updating the numbers to see where we stand. so in terms of what we're missing, you know that there's clear testing deficiencies across the country and we're working to expand our testing capacity in san francisco. we still do not have an accurate prevalence number and, in other words, we not know overall per thousand people in san francisco what the rate of the virus infection is and we are working, again, with the uc berkley and ucsf colleagues to determine that number as quickly as possible to get the estimates and those will be very important in informing our models. with regard to whether models are helpful, yes, i think they are very helpful and they provide a number of plausible scenarios and they certainly do not provide certainty about where we're headed but provide plausible scenarios to help us plan our response going forward.

>> the next question is from jamie harr of the associated press. the department of public health is sending health inspectors to conduct inspections at sros. how many are checking and what are you looking for or not looking for? >> so we are focus on a number of things, but particularly with regard to hygiene, making sure that the procedures are being followed and making sure that we're doing outreach and education to the community, around the social distancing order and making sure that people have the information they need and, also, making sure that people have the information they need in the event they need care. they know who to call, when to call and to get the help from the public health department, their community and other healthcare providers and systems across the city. >> and this is a followup, if there are unsafe conditions, what will you do? will you move people out? >> we're looking at focusing on

the conditions are as safe as possible and if peopl symptoms, they are protected and that they're provided with resources and physical spaces that allows them to self-quarantine from their community and other people that they may come into close contact with. >> and the next question is from shannon lim of kqed. there's a question and followup. what are san francisco's plans to start testing hopeless people for the coronavirus? do they have a protocol for who they will be testing and when this will begin. >> so i appreciate the question and i'm emphasized that we are expanding our testing and it's a key priority of the department's. i just want to be transparent, though, what we're doing. to give you an example, when we send our request up to state with regard to asking for more help and responding to the laguna honda situation, part of that request was the request for

more swabs, testing swabs. therthis is not just limited ton francisco but a national shortage and we are struggling to get swabs in order to test and so along the supply chain for testing, there are severe limitations. while we are working to expand testing capacity, my public health lab is expected to triple its potential capacity starting today and we are still struggling along that supply chain to ramp up testing as long as possible. so anything from the specimen collection you need for swabs, from the processing reagents that are needed, our supply chains are episodic and hard to determine. so with regard to testing people who are tendernessin experiencig homelessness, we will focus on people who are symptomatic and people with high-risk exposures. >> miss lin's followup and similar to question from dan

simon from cnn. the medical director of the er at ucsf believes there's a flattening of the curve and credits the state-at-home order and not seeing a surge of expected of patients. do you believe this is so? >> i haven't spoken to the er directly. i think it's still too early to tell. we are monitoring the numbers. the thing is when this disease takes off, if it takes off, it takes of rapidly in communities just like new york, the escalation, the curve is very upsloping very quickly. it's what we call a logrythmic increase. we need people to stay at home and we are expanding the stay-at-home order and more details will follow. we are watching the data very

carefully and i do not know whether the aggressive actions early on have had the tentative effect but we need data to confirm that. >> from the l.a. times, a similar question, asking to clarify how many people with the virus are hospitalized in san francisco right now. and the sheltered place in terms of flatten the curve, if that's not happening now, when do you think we might see that happening? >> so to answer the first question with regard to hospitalizations from the latest data i have from the city systems, we have 58 people hospitalized with confirmed covid-19 in the hospital systems across san francisco. again, that number could rapidly change. and it's too early for me to speculate whether we're succeeding in flattening the

curve. >> the next question, may i ask if san francisco or dr. colfax are coordinating with any other bay area counties in the city -- excuse me counties, cities or the state of california on how long to extend the stay-at-home order? >> yes. certainly i am in regular contact with health directors across the region, as well as direct contact with state health leaders and the response to this pandemic and confrontatio yard e healthhealth order. this is far more effective from a regional approach. the order that will be released tomorrow will be another regional approach going forward and it is essential that we collaborate, share information and react to reduce the pandemic spread.

>> and the final question is from dominick vercasa of the chronicle. will any activities currently permitted, like housing construction be prohibited under the extended order? >> so the order will be released tomorrow and those details will follow. >> thank you. >> that concludes our press conference. thank you.

>> can we have order? wait a minute. i never used this. are we set? okay. good afternoon or maybe good evening and welcome to the marcl meeting between the san francisco board of supervisors and the public utilities

commission. welcome, commissioners and welcome president caen. so madame clerk, will you please call the role for the board of supervisors? >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> thank you, madame clerk. i will now hand this over to president caen of the public utilities commission. >> madame secretary, could you please -- i'm sorry what? >> nothing

>> could you call roll call? >> [roll call] we have a quorum. >> good of my i yield the floor back to you. >> thank you. madame clerk, thank you madame president. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sf gov tv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. thank you for joining us today on this very important topic. before we proceed, president caen, would you like to make any opening remarks? >> i will defer any opening remarks because i would like to get to the basics of why we're here.

and i know that we are moving in concert together. and let's proceed. >> okay. madame clerk, are there any communications? >> i have none to report, mr. president >> okay. let's go to the public comment. >> yes. at this time the publish may address the entire board of supervisors and the p.u.c. commissioners for two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. and mr. president, i will state that members of the public, if you would like to have hand sanitizer, there is some right outside the chamber door. >> okay. thank you, madame clerk. i will hand this over to president caen of the p.u.c. for the public comment. >> yes. to madame secretary, could you call for public comment? >> p.u.c. calls for any public comment on maries to be addressed during closed session -- matters to be addressed during closed session >> seeing none -- sorry. >> so this is a special meeting,

and i am supposed to somehow comment on what you all are going to be discussing. and what you are all going to be discussing will be shared by the city attorney who is going to talk to you about pg&e. so as one who participants in most of your meetings at sfpuc, i strongly feel at this juncture that sfpuc hasn't maintained a standard when it comes to your sewer and your water and also the hetch hetchy hydroelectricity that you all produce. and i find it very difficult that the city has no money. earlier on the mayor stated so. but somehow now sfpuc has the

audacity to now buy whatever pg&e wants to give up, which i know from following everything that pg&e doesn't want to give up anything that it possesses. it's beholden to those who invest in its stocks and shares. and they have clients that have been investing for over 100 years. and you all know that well. so i want to know if an assessment can be done, if sfpuc really has the capacity, the ability to buy pg&e, whether it's a small part or a large part of my that's all i'm going to say. because i cannot say what you all are going to be discussing. somebody may have the power to

hoodwink you all. thank you. >> tom gilberti. i'm not a fan of pg&e. it should have been taken over ten years ago. they kept saying that if the city can't run the city, why would they -- how could they run pg&e. well, i don't think pg&e can run pg&e. but at the same time, i don't want to take a piece of the city, the pg&e part of the city, because when we have forest fires, and they are caused by pg&e, the smoke comes down here. i think it's a regional matter. and it should be solved regionally. it's like a taylor. you get -- we can tell something for san francisco and what needs to be tailored out in the

suburbs and woodlands. and i agree, where is the money coming from to buy this? and good luck to all of you. i think this meeting should be open. i'm against these private, closed sessions. thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers? seeing none, yield the floor back to you, president. >> i believe that that would be concludes our public comment. i understand the p.u.c. must take action before they go into closed session, before we go into closed session. so i will hand it over again to president caen. >> okay. we are struggling here with our script.

so what do we have to do here? let's see. oh, yes. i need a motion to assert privilege. >> i most of to assert. >> second. >> any public comment on that? seeing none, all those in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carryies. so now i yield back to you, president. >> now that the p.u.c. has approved their item, madame clerk, please call the closed session item. >> scheduled pursuant to a motion number m20-0200 approved on february 11, 2020, board of supervisors and the p.u.c. are scheduled to enter into a joint closed session for the public utilities commission regarding existing litigation regarding pacific gas and electric company today, march 10, 2020.

>> okay. members of the public, we now ask that you exit the chamber and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them, and we will reopen the doors, the chamber once we finish with the joint closed session, and the public will be allowed >> okay. are we ready? do i need to do this? no. we are now back in open session. may i have a motion for the board -- what? that the board finds that it is in our best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session

deliberations? a motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. >> for the record we will show that supervisor haney is not in the chamber >> okay. then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. i will hand this over to you for p.u.c.'s action. >> commissioners, can i have a motion on whether to disclose. a motion by commissioner maxwell not to disclose seconded by commissioner paulson. without objection, that is the order. >> mr. president, i would like to note for the record that the p.u.c. commissioners caen and vietor are not in chamber >> okay. colleagues that brings us to the end of our joint special meeting agenda. madame clerk, is there any

further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president >> thank you. we are adjourned. [please stand by]

>> welcome, everyone. press mute if you come on to the

phone. the first item on the agenda -- i don't want to be muted because the people need to speak. for those of you who are just joining you, this is the march 17th, 2020 commission meeting and we're doing this for the first time using microsoft. please excuse us if we have any technology issues.