provides supports to, we are going to be working with them to open up camps and programs that they will then be made available for all of our families. we are looking at around 100 programs that will be available for families starting june 15. we are asking all of our nonprofit agencies to follow health guidelines, which still has shared, restrictive groups of young people in consistent three-week programming at a minimum. we will also put on our website, dcyf.org/care. more information around the health order, around the drexives and the guidelines, with how private camps are also fulfill all of those requirements and then document

that they are going to open up. so look for that website to go live -- actually the website is live now. but look for the forms to go live soon. >> great. >> and over time, mayor, i think we're going to try to inventory -- try to provide parents with as much information as we can about all of the camp opportunities because we have to think about it as a network this summer because of t hable to have a list and some reference materials for not just rec and park camps, but all of the private camps happening around the city, too. >> yeah. and i want to touch a little bit because, you know, child care has been important because we have allowed that to continue for essential workers. can you talk a little bit, maria, what we can expect as it relates to the 0 to 5 age group

and what might be available during the summer? >> yes. so, we're really excited that this new health order that you have authorized with our health department to allow the expansion of child care services for more families. so, there are child care programs for children 0 to 5 right now that are providing services for our essential workers and other allowable businesses. under this new health order, we are now opening that opportunity for more families. we have hear that there are families out there who are working, who need care, who really, really need care for their children. and for children to need -- to need opportunities to be with their friends. so, this health order will allow more families to have access to these slots, these child care slots. i do want to caution folks that we are still following health

guidelines and so the slots are going to be limited. we are restricted to a smaller group of children per site. so i just want to set expectations for everyone that it's not just usual child care as we remember how it was a year ago. >> yeah. and i do think it's great that, you know, this is providing an opportunity for kids to come together. so we're talking about pods of 12 within the course of a summer camp or preschool or in other arenas so that not only can kids -- can parents get to work, but also it gives these children an tounlts interact with one another because i'm sure, especially if it is a child who doesn't have any siblings, to be able to play with another kid was -- like i know everything for me as a kid and i just feel so awful that

these kids can't go out there and enjoy one another. this is an opportunity and a great opportunity. but i also, sadly, know it is a very limited opportunity. but do want to touch on, you know, teenagers because i know one of things that happens often times they are always left out. so i am commited to making sure that opportunities for all is available so that we have paid internships for kids during the summer. and that we make that available, especially for our teenagers. because, you know, already they're missing their graduations and activities and events. and we want to make sure that they have a productive summer as well and they're not left out. so, maria, make you can touch on what might be happening with opportunities for all and i know that with rec and park, we have a number of teens that are going to be working and helping with these camps during summer.

let's talk a little bit about, you know, how kids who are teenagers can sign up for some of the programs. >> thank you, mayor. so actually a lot of our programs are doing a lot of connections to young people now but they're doing it remotely. they're doing a lot of wellness checks and follow-up on what academic support these young people need. so, once again with this health order, we're now allowed to have face-to-face and in-person connections with these young people. so, we're going to work closely with our nonprofit agencies to help young people connect to internship opportunities or actual job opportunities at some of these summer programs or at offices that are slowly opening up. so, there's great opportunities for private sector folks who are now interested -- who are opening up and would be interested in being a mentor

for a young person this summer. that would be amazing. however, if that is not available, our young people are actually engaging in project-based learning right now. so a lot of our young people in our workforce program will be doing small projects that are -- that is remote for the agencis that they're assigned to. there will be engagement but it is so much better if the engagement is in person and not remote. i do -- >> how do they sign up? like a teenager that wants to participate and have access to a paid internship? >> for now, we're directing everyone to go to dcyf.org/care so they can find out what's available in the community and make sections there. i also do want to say that, for

young people and for families who are struggling right now because there are young people and familis who are struggling right now we do have a website that is available and under the mayor's leadership, she wanted to prioritize mental health services for families and for our essential workers and other service providers. for those who are struggling and who need support, please go to fieldsan francisco.org to learn more about different resources for parents, for young people and for adults and service providers. >> and also can we call 3-1-1 and be referred if we don't have access to the internet? >> yes. we'll definitely make sure that that's possible. >> great. great. we want to make it as easy for people as possible because i know sometimes you jump on a website and trying to figure it out or if you don't have internet access but want to ma you are that your friend knows that this might be available

for their family. talk about what some of the teens are going to be doing in your program this summer. >> sure. for the last 607 years, san francisco has had a program called workreation, where we actually fund teenagers, kids between the ages of 14 and 17 to work in our camps. and because of your leadership and focus on getting these camps opened safely and getting kids an experience, we're hiring approximately 200 kid this is summer that will be counselors in the camps that we just talked about. i also think there is an amazing opportunity, mayor, for those private camp providers that want to operate this summer to hire teenagers. here's why. the health order and the health guidance requires a minimum of two staff for every pod of 12 kids.

and for private camp providers used to operating with a ton of kids and a few staff, you won't able to do that this year and staff won't be able to move around between pods during the camp session. for private camps to operate, they need to be very well-staffed and we highly, highly recommend that private camp providers hire teenagers to help and provide some support in making sure that your camps operate safely and smoothly and gives these kids a great experience and opportunity to make some money. >> i want ovidan example because, for example, we have been providing a camp at -- well, i guess it is called a camp, i don't know what it is called, but we have been providing support for young people whose families are essential workers at hamilton rec center. so hamilton rec center has several rooms that could be used. so, i know that the plan is there is going to be probably

two or three pods of 12. and each of those pods have their own rooms and their own activities around their rooms and they are also able to go outside and enjoy the field but not in the same pod, although they have their workers that are assigned to their pods. so, it provides for more opportunity to support more young people. so, the good news is even when they're in these situations, they're social distancing, but you know how it is when you're a kid and you're out playing, most likely you're going to somehow have some interaction where you might touch or be next to each other. so that is really why the importance of keeping these pods to what they are is significant in preventing the spread of the virus and giving these kids a chance to have their community of people to hang out with. >> yeah. i think that is what we're going for. it is super important for kids to first of all get outside and

reengage and, yes, there will be indoor spaces. but a lot more emphasis on being outside this summer for children. and as you know, mayor, for them to be together and hang out and a under the health guidance to your ve point for those who are concerned about the health of our children, under the health guidance, kids within the same pod can play sports. they can do certain activities. >> so, k they play basketball together? can they -- >> together, within the same pod. they can do those activities. and that is why this whole pod concept is very important. our public health officials have been focused on minimizing risk. it is impossible to eliminate it 100%. but minimizing it. and that is the whole premise of these long three-week sessions and these pods of 12. depending upon which spaces a camp uses a camp may be able to have only one pod of 12 kids

but may be able to have two pods or even three pods. as you know in hamilton or season seth rec center where the richmond or jolie, some of our buildings have multiple spaces, some schools where camps might operate have have multiple spaces. and then we've got the best park system in the country. so, we have plenty of outdoor spaces as well. for each pod, each pod requires a minimum of two staff people and staff cannot circulate between pods. so, again, for all you private camp providers out there, hire kids to hep you umme. >> all right. well thank you all so much for the insight. i'm sure a lot of parents are excited about this. i am hopeful that, you know, some of the -- in addition to the private -- the public camps that we'll provide with rec and park and a number of rec centers and nonprofit partners will be able to provide a sufficient number of locations within the public sector and

hopefully in combination with the private sector, many of our kids can have an enjoyable, effective, fun summer. so, we appreciate that and for more information, make sure that we reach out to department of children youth and families on the website or call 3-1-1 and before we wrap it up, i do want to talk a little bit about this weekend because it's memorial day weekend and typically everyone -- first of all, the weather in san francisco, even today, is gorgeous. and most of the time people want to go out and have barbecues and hang out with friends and family and i really like the idea of what you did in terms of circles in park to make it clear like you have to stay away from each other. we want to be next to each other so bad. but at the same time, we're doing so well. we still see the numbers of infections going up. but we see the number of hospitalizations going down, the number of those who are in

i.c.u. going down. san francisco is doing well. and the last thing we want to do is get too comfortable and all of a sudden go backwards so we still need people to keep their distance. we still need people to wear masks. we still need people to wash their hands regularly! wash your hands! but phil, tell us a little bit about what we can expect with the parks this weekend because we are, as much as we know people would want to use the parks, we'll be out in force regulating during memorial day weekend. again, we don't want to shut down any parks but if it comes down to that point where things are out of control and aren't following the guidelines, we won't have a choice. we really need people to be on their absolute best behavior. so, tell us about what we can expect with our parks this weekend. >> sure. i mean, mayor, you covered it perfectly, which is that, look, our parks are super important right now. they are the one place where people can get outside, get

some exercise, connect with nature and you have been amazing at making sure that these spaces are open and accessible. but for them to stay open and accessible, people need to do the right thing and over the last 10, 11 weeks, most people have been. but we need to focus and not ease up so you can be outside but you have to socially distance. we still recommend that you wear a mask. no partying, you know, no big events, no big picnics. just enjoy nature and enjoy a little time with your own immediate family or your own roommates. we will have park ranger, san francisco police department, police officers. we'll have sheriff's cadets, fire cadets, police cadets and the neighborhood emergency response team, all doing education and outreach. there are over 1500 signs in all of our parks indicating what you can and can't do.

just do the right thing so we don't put the mayor in a position where she needs to take more drastic action. it is amazing, mayor, in a lot of cities just threw their hands up and say, oh, parks closed because we don't want to deal with it. you haven't done that. you've kept parks open for people. so, you know, we're all asking the public to do the right thing this weekend. the weather will be nice. you will want to get outside. if you have to get in a car, it's too far. so go to your neighborhood park, enjoy it. but socially distance. if you're deloris or jackson or the marina green or washington square, we've offered a little bit of pop-up behavioral art to inspire you to claim your own space. that is the circles that are in some of the parks. and, you know, they're intended to be joyous and inspirational, but intended to remind everyone that we need to be mindful as we continue to fight this virus.

>> and i just want to say that please don't get offended if, you know, our park rangers or someone walks up to you and asks you, you know, are you guys in the same household just to, you know, make sure that people are following these orders. we have a responsibility. and the other thing is, if you're not the police, then please don't act like you're the police. we don't need you to walk and regulate and tell other people what to do because that creates more drama. it creates more tension. so we are doing the very best we can. we want to make this park and open space available to you because we know how challenging this has been. for the most part, san franciscans have followed the order and we are so fortunate that we have amazing residents in the city who are taking this seriously, even though not everyone is complying which has made life difficult in some respects. but please let us deal with that. we're doing our very best to try and reduce this curve to

the point of it being nonexistence because i know how badly we want to get back to being out there, to going to work and allowing kids to play. but the fact is coronavirus is with us for some time. it is not about getting back completely to normal. it's about adjusting to our new normal in a responsible way. it is going to take time. it's going to take ai, patience. we appreciate everyone for what you continue to do to help san francisco be a leader in this effort. thank you, phil ginsburg, thank you, maria su for your insight. for more information call 3-1-1. i know there might be a lot of questions also about the schools and other things. we're happy to continue these conversations based on your feedback. based on your questions. because many of us are doing the very best we can. this is not like anything any of us have ever expected. so, we're all in this together.

we're going to get through this together and that requires us to continue to be patient, get information to you as soon as it is available and just really try to come together, lift one another up, enjoy the memorial day weekend. and thank you all so much for your cooperation. have a great weekend and we'll see you next week.

>> good morning. the meet willing come to order. welcome to the thursday, june 4 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i'm supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee and joined by vice chair aaron peskin. committee member matt haney will be joining us shortly. [inaudible]. thank you for joining us, supervisor haney. and i want to thank this committee's clerk, john carroll, and also like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this remote meetingful mr. clerk, do you have any mouments? -- announcements? >> yes, thank you, mr. chair. we are closed during the covid-19 health emergency.

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goodlett place room 244 in san francisco, california, 49102 is the zip code. items today will appear on the supervisors agenda of june 4, 2020 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call item number one? >> agenda, item number 1 is an ordinance amending the planning and building codes to authorize the waiver of fees related to granting legal status to existing dwelling units constructed without required permits and extending the waiver through december 31, 2024. requiring annual rofrtses on the fee waiver program and making findings of consistency with the general plan a priority policy and findings of public convenience or necessity. under planning code section 302, members of the public who wish to provide public comments in this ordinance shall once again call the public comment number. 415-655-0001 and the access

code that is 920536187. press the pound symbol twice and then star and 9 to enter the queue to speak. and one last thing, mr. chair. i'm in receipt of a memo from your desk asking that this be agdized as a committee report. >> thank you again, mr. clerk. colleagues, i introduce this ordinance to reauthorize the planning and building inspection fee waivers for the unauthorized dwelling unit legalization program. now more than ever we need to focus on the preservation of housing and housing that both safe and habitable for workers and families in our city. in 2014, the city created a program to encourage homeowners with unauthorized dwelling units constructed without building permits to bring them out of the shadow. this slol voluntary program requires homeowners to meet light safety conditions, making a habitable unit a legal part of the housing supply and has resulted in 169 units being

legalized. in my district, there are many more potential opportunities to participate in this program. my constituents include many single-family homeowners with unauthorized dwelling units antethans loving in these units. this is an undesirable position for everyone involved and i heard from constituency requesting a solution. this ordinance will incentivize the establishment of safe and relatively affordable units to stabilize housing for the community. and was supported unanimously at the building inspection commission and planning economy. sing as we enter a period of greater housing instability, including declining incomes, potential foreclosures, installing of new construction, and increase predatory practices, we need to provide every additional tool to keep people in their homes. this includes supporting homeowners at risk to stabilize themselves by bringing in a family member or generating rental income and for tenants who need safe housing to work and thrive in san francisco.

in addition to authorizing the waiver of planning and building fees for permits to legalize u.d.u.s, the legislation also requires annual reports on the fee waiver program. and i have two amendments pertaining to reporting requirements to make at committee today. in the ordinance, d.b.i. would be required to provide annual reports on the legalization program. including the amount of fees waived, number of projects, the building tide and the nature of ownership. there is much needed information about applicants to inform future policies and expanding accessory dwelling unit housing in the city. i would like to amend to add that the department should additionally report on if there is a tenant in the unauthorized unit at the time the applicant submitted the application for a permit to legalize. and also if there was a tenant in the unauthorized unit in the

five years prior to submission of the permit application to legalize. without a housing inventory, we do not have adequate information about the tenancy of our housing stock. so, this would provide much needed information to understand how communities are living in my district and city-wide. the second amendment is to clarify that the department may determine how to collect information for their report which will include but not be limited to self-reporting by applicants. the amendment will clarify that the ordinance itself does not require excessive d.b.i. staff time and add nointion verify the applicant's self-reported information, such as the tenancy. and if an approximately cants owns multiple propertis in san francisco. so john murray from the department of. building inspection will provide a brief presentation on the unit legalization program. followed by a b.l.a. report and staff from the planning department are also available to answer questions.

i'd like to welcome john murray from d.b.i. >> thank you, supervisor. i'm john murray with the department of building inspection,, which as you know, is the agency responsible for overseeing building safety in san francisco. i'm joined by my colleague tom fesler who works in our technical services division. the proposed ordinance you are considering today renews the waiver of d.b.i. planned fees and legalization, the fee waiver went into effect 2015 and expires june 21 of this year. as you all know, san francisco is home to a great number of unpermitted dwelling units. estimates range from 30,000 to 40,000. i've seen 50,000 as well. although it's hard to get a concrete number. but what we do know is that many of these units are not fully compliant with san francisco's building codes. we see things like wiring and

plumbing, inadequate exiting or ventilation, caoelings that are too low and a variety of other code violations. the goal is legislation, as was mentioned before, is to provide an incentive to building rs to get those units legalized and up to code so that not only are they preserved as housing but they're safe and habitable for the residents. since the fee waiver program went into effect in 2015, we have issued 365 permits for the unit legalization and 169 unit legalizations have been completed. the average applicants saved about $4500 in building and planning fees combined. and the majority of those were in single family homes. as you mentioned as well, on february 19, the building inspection commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the proposed fee waiver. and with that, we are happy to answer any questions.

>> thank you, mr. murray. let's go to the b.l.a.'s office to present the fiscal analysis on this item. ms. campbell? >> good morning, chair mar, members of the committee. if the proposed ordinance would continue an existing fee waiver of permit, building inspection and planing permit fees for the development of accessory dwelling units, based on information provided by the respective departments, we estimate that the reduction in permit fee revenues over the term -- extended term of the waiver would be about $1.8 million. and we consider a approval of the proposed ordinance to be a policy matter for the board. i'm available for any questions you may have. before we go to public comment, do you have any questions?

great. seeing none, let me go to public comment. are there any callers on the line? >> thank you, mr. khaifrment operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. if you've not already done so, press star and then 9 to be added to the queue to speak. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that your line has been unmaoutsed. do we have any speakers? >> operator: mr. chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> great. thank you, operations. colleague, i would like to move to accept the amendment.

[roll call] mr. chair, there are three ayes. >> thank you so much. and i would like to move that we send this item as amended as a committee report to the tuesday, june 9 meeting of the board of supervisors. mr. clerk, please call roll. >> on the motion that the ordinance be recommended to next tuesday's board meeting -- [roll call] the amendment passes. >> please call item 2 through seven for closed session. >> they are settlements of

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thank you. we are bringing this celebration online virtually, like many organizations, we're finding new ways to celebrate and we're doing it all online. at this time, i would like to welcome our distinguished panel presenters, the mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed, and all of the viewers on facebook live. so i hope you're watching. tell a friend and we are on facebook live, at facebook.com/sf. you can text that to a friend. for this afternoon's program, we have six community leaders representing civil righters, children and youth services, as well as arts. each presenter will have two minutes to share their perspectives and have the opportunity to ask mayor breed a question. we have a lot of ground to cover and let's get right to it. our first presenter is vincent penn, for affirmative action.

for over 50 years, he has been at the forefront of events introducing civil rights and justice and providing equal opportunities for chinese and asian americans, caa co-launched a program to collect data of anti-asian incidents in the country encouraging asian pacific americans to report these incidents. please welcome vincent penn who will provide us an update on asian violence incidents. >> thank you. at the outset of the pandemic, san francisco state universities and the asian pacific study's gunpoint anplanning in los anget community members could report incidents that were happening against asian americans and pacific islanders. in the past month and a half, we have received 1700 reports for both harassment, bullying, physical assaults and race-related property vandalism

from across the country, including 117 incidents here in san francisco. the data shows that women have been proportionately harassed and all asian communities are being harmed. most is happening under shelter-in-place orders, so we expect the situation to get worse as orders are lifted. in some ways, this is not a new problem, just an escalated problem, made worse by the covid-19, as well as the trump administration to blame everything on china. we all appreciate, mayor breed, the strong, strong stance you have made towards hate towards asian americans and all communities, but given the difficult economic and budget situation facing the city and the community, are you able to have resources to build in the capacity to address these anti-asian situations? >> well, i will say that as many of you all know, it's going to be a real challenge for our city

financially. but, from the very beginning, before people were really paying attention to this pandemic, to the coronavirus, our asian community in san francisco was already being impacted. the level was zenophobia, the attacks and other violence against ederly seniors and we were experiencing that before the pandemic hit hard and so, this is something we've paid close attention to, working with law enforcement, working with our small business community and trying to provide resources, but it's knot goin not going to be h the situation we're in. i'll start with, specifically, with what's happening around a lot of the attacks and the violence and the robberies. i want to just express how important it is that people report these things to the police, because this is going to

help inform a lot of the decisions that we make. and we heard about a lot of incidents that have not been reported and we know there might be fear or people who are uncomfortable with that. i'll be looking to so many of your organizations to be that vehicle. we've provided access to a bilingual act that's available, so some of our officers can call and get a translators on the phone to communicate and report crime. we need to do this now more than ever, because that's going to be important so that we can make sure people understand that not only this is happening but the work we have to do has to be started on supporting where we know the challenges are. recently, i a nancy tong has reported on the board of

supervisors and there's rumblings of not supporting her. as much as i believe in criminal justice reform and as much as i don't want to put people in jail, if you commit an act of crime, you should be held accountable, and there should not be a negotiation there. having someone who believes that on the police commission, on the law enforcement community is important to making sure that people don't feel comfortable coming to san francisco, committing crimes or attacking other people. so that's part of one of the challenges we will continue to face and i'm definitely planning to do everything i can to make sure that the investments are there to support this community. the businesses, it's really been tough. it's been tough because, again, it hit our asian businesses before it even touched anyone else and already, with the millions of dollars that we allocated to support our small

businesses, whether it's a $10,000 grant or up to 50 $50,00 no-interest loan, we know we need to do more. so i'm raising money, as well as redirecting resources to support our businesses. and again, your help and your support to get people to apply for the funding is really necessary. we have an equity team that's embedded in our emergency operation's centre, where their sole goal is to work with communities that are usually disenfranchise. so, for example, from day one, there were a number of businesses who were supposed to shut down but they didn't shut down because they didn't understand, they didn't speak english and there had to be another level of communication to make sure that they understood and they were connected to resources. and so we're going to have to continue that. because this is going to be really hard for us because some of these businesses are not going to be able to reopen.

so the question is, how do we make sure that we outreach to the community? how do we make sure that we provide them with the records and the support that they need to maybe even transition into doing something other than what they were already doing? it's going to be a partnership with all of you because we cannot do this alone. we need trusted community representatives who people support and respect and who will help to identify where there are holes, what we may not be doing right and how we can make that connection to support our communities. we've made a lot of gains over the years because we've had really good budget times, but we are really in trouble. and it will require all of us to work together and it's going to require a big sacrifice. we want to make sure we're not leaving anyone behind, especially our asian community, which has been impacted over this virus more than any other community.

>> thank you, mayor breed. and you have a great bunch of allies on this call in addition to people on facebook who are tuning in right now. so are next presenter is sarah wong, the executive director of the community center of san francisco. she started as an organization that focuses on addressing issues for at-risk in chinatown. and over the years, she gets involved in the city-wide agency serves over 8,000 multi cultural youths, and please welcome sarah wong. >> thank you, thomas, thank you, mayor. thomas is doing the best job so i'll jump right into the topic. to the pandemic has really become another reason to target asian communities a communitiese country. it's our hope to turn the table around in education.

ethnic study's courses have been instituted in all of san francisco school district high schools to give students an introduction to the experience of the ethnic communities that are rarely represented in textbooks. we need to work with project-based learning on racial justice in cross-cultural relationship buildings, such as by educational documentaries, and also chinese exclusion acts. what most of our youth programming have moved to virtual settings, most of our youth are still dealing with fear, isolation and this triggers depression and other mental health symptoms. and many of our youth couldn't even talk on the phone with our staff to share their feelings due to the lack of privacy and space. it is crucial to prioritize the offering of cultural competent

mental health services to students at the schools and community settings in this current crisis. and as the incidents of violence will continue to increase, especially after the school reopens, i would like to ask mayor breed to not only send a strong message to our young people in response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia, but to create a task force where our community members track incidents of anti-hate violence in communities and schools that target our young people. kind of similar to the current hate campaign at the national level, and also the policy in action plans to ensure all of our young people will be able to be in a violence-free community. some thank you, sarah, and thank you for providing that perspective. i think that's an incredible idea. i think that -- i'm happy to do whatever i can and i love the

idea of -- as i was hearing you speak, i was thinking we needed to launch some sort of campaign around this, to really highlight how this is not the way. and i will touch bases with the superintendent to figure out whether or not this can be incorporated into their distance-learning strategy. in fact, as you know, as a recipient of some of the resources where you're able to help support your youth through opportunities for all and other programs, i love the idea making sure that the opportunities for all kids who are participating in paid internships, working with them to come up with strategies and ideas and outreach in order to be the ambassadors. when i was in elementary school here in the city, my teacher, because i talked a lot and drove

my teacher crazy, if someone was sitting in the corner by themselves, i would try to solve their issue and i think that's the level that we got to get back to. we have to get back to caring about what's happening with each other and we want to make sure that, especially kids who, unfortunately, may not even know better because of their upbringing or what have you, we have to make sure that they are educated about how harmful, what they do is when they attack anyone with a racial slur or anything else for that matter. i think the time is now for bridge building and for a campaign and something that could be inspired through our young people. and i know you, along with john

osaki, jcyc would be two incredible resources for all programs to look at a way to incorporate that into the work we do and we'll touch bases with our superintendent, dr. vincent matthews and then the director of the human right's commission, cheryl davis, who oversees the opportunities for all programs and maybe there's something we can get started with now to really turn the tide on this. >> a lot of discussion about

>> we're now back in session. thank you everyone for your pa*i,. will you please report on the deliberations in closed session? >> yes, mr. chair. the committee took the following actions. agenda items two, three, four, six and seven, the committee acted unanimously to recommend each of those ordinances to the board of supervisors. for agenda item number five, chair mar was excused via a unanimous vote and the remaining members recommended that ordinance as well to the board of supervisors for consideration on june 16. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i believe we need to make a

motion to not -- to disclose the closed session discussions. >> so moved. >> please call the order -- >> on the motion from vice chair peskin to not disclose [roll call] mr. chair, there are three ayes. >> thank you. mr. clerk, any further business? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. we are adjourned.

>> today's special guest is

claudia dume. >> hi. today, my guest is claudia gorham. she's the deputy managing director of the real estate dri division at the city and county of san francisco, and she's my special guest. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> i know that your department is the department for managing and renting properties, and also cleaning for the city. how has your department been preparing for the crisis? >> well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and city departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. so we still have to do the

cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. and the other thing is all our workers are disaster service workers, so we have been providing the emergency operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. >> have you obtained additional space for the city to use during this crisis? >> yes. the crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of public health, the department of human services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. so, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a building -- a vacant building to put supplies or if they need to put some trucks, we will help them locate that office building or that property based

on their factors that they need. we will then contact the landlord or the property owner of the space or the building owner decides they want, and then, we negotiate the terms that they need, whether it's a permit or a lease, we'll help the city attorney draft that agreement. >> nice. so can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of -- such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic? >> certainly. the city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to moscone south convention center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. we have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this

covid-19 crisis. all of the department of public health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. they need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid-19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. so we've been assisting them with places to stay. you mentioned the palace of fine arts. it has over 100,000 square feet of space. it could it -- we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, we're going to use it for different needs. we're going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can use it for this crisis. we're using the bill graham

civic auditorium and tfor the deployment of ambulances. the fire department needed additional supplies, so we're using it for that service. >> that's great. i also understand you have a staff of custodians, electricians, janitors and other support workers. how are they helping the city? >> we could not be more thankful for our civic and engineering staff under our real estate division. they have been working 24-7 since this crisis began, not only doing their daily responsibilities to keep the public buildings open and operating for the city staff continuing to go into the office but also because once the crisis started, several memos came down as to additional cleanings and how to do disinfecting, and we have to

do the c.d.c.s recommendation does. so not only do they do -- recommendations. so not only do they do their regular cleaning, they are also doing deep cleaning and disinfecting in places like the public safety building and the haul of justice. but they're also going in and doing a deep cleaning and disinfecting after we had a suspected case or a confirmed case of a person having the coronavirus. so they're going in and doing this every night since this started. our workers are continuing as laborers to make the buildings safe and secure and maintained. and however we help or however we can help the e.o.c., we do that. >> well, thanks for coming on the show, claudia. i'd like to thank you and your entire team on behalf of all the residents of san francisco for all the work you continue to do.

>> thank you very much. it's been a pleasure. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another pandemic-related episode shortly. this is coping with covid-19. i'm chris mathers. thanks for watching.

>> announcer: you're watching "coping with covid-19." today's special guest is lindsey holmes. >> hi, i'm chris manus and you're watching "coping with covid-19." today my guest is founder and c.e.o. of dispatch goods and former clinical profusionist at ucsf. she start add new initiative called project clean to provide alcohol-based cleaning products and hand sanitizers to at-risk bay area communities. lindsey, welcome to the show. >> thank you so much for having me. it's lovely to see you. tell us a little about your background and how dispatched goods of san francisco's restaurant community. >> sure. we launched, in october, we've been working on this for a little over a year. and we partnered with restaurants to provide them with a free reusable container system that could replace

single-use products. we partnered with yelp! headquarters in downtown san francisco and 10 restaurant partners as of february before covid-19 hit and employees at our corporate partners could request the reusable containers when they were getting their lunch for takeout or if they were getting it delivered to their office. we then handled the pickup and dish washing. >> so, obviously the virus pandemic has hit and now you've had to pivot your company and i understand you lunched a new initiative called "project clean." can you let us know what the program is all about? >> sure. so we basically -- when this hit, we asked ok, what we do we have and how can we help? we also noticed there was a gap in the supply for hand sanitizers to certain community members and individuals and we talked to a distillery about

making hand sanitizer and, in true form to our mission, we decided i bet we could collect enough containers from the community that we wouldn't have to supply more single-use plastic containers and we launched project clean and with that, we collected over 200 containers. they're spray squeeze bottles and working on supplying the cleaning products. >> what has the response been from the community at-large and how have peopled help? >> we're donation-based and self-funded right now. we are buying basically the products at cost and is not charging us much for that. they're also just trying to cover our expenses and we had a little bit of donations coming in. but if you go to our website, you can either donate

containers that you have, we'll come do pickup. we're doing it twice a week now. or if you yourself need any of the cleaning products, you can fill out the form and request those as well. and then there is also a place to make a donation. >> so, where are you handing out the hand sanitizer right now? >> we're doing it in the same route as the drop-off route. so, the hand sanitizer will be finished today. so, tomorrow we'll be doing our first round of drop-offs and we've been contacted by health care professionals who after they come home have nothing on their hands there. we have been contacted by retirement communities and contacted by physicians in their offices that they don't have anything and a individuals that just weren't able to get the supplies because they were sold out so quickly. basically during our normal pickup routes now, we will be doing the drop-off as well. >> that is fantastic. you know, i think that is a wonderful service you are providing, lindsey. thank you so much for coming on

the show and keep up the good work. >> thank you so much, chris! i really appreciate it. >> and that is it for this episode. we'll be back with more stories shortly. you've been watching "coping with covid-19." i'm chris manus, thank you for watching.

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>> the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, may 26, 2020. roll call, please. >> president caen? >> here. >> vice president vietor? >> present. >> commissioner moran? >> here. >> commissioner maxwell? >> here. >> commissioner paulson? >> present. >> we have a quorum. we begin the meet, i'd like to make an announcement. due to the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and that governor newsom and mayor brown have lifted restrictions via conference, it's being

televised via sfgov tv. there is a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgov tv. on behalf of the commission i'd like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff. if you wish to make public comment on an item, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound, followed by pound again. when public comment is called, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. you will be -- you will hear an automated voice that will tell you when it is your turn to speak and your two-minute speaking time will begin. i will alert you when your time has expired. these instructions will be repeat. if they haven't already done show, i'm going to ask the commission and staff to minimize microphones to minimize background noise. and i'd like to note that item number 9 has been removed from

the agenda and will be rescheduled to a different meeting. madame president, your first order of business is item three, approval a of the minutes of. may 12, 2020. >> yes. commissioners, before you have the minutes of may 12, 2020, are there any additions or corrections? seeing none, madame secretary, could you please open this to public comment? >> members of public who wish to make public comment on item 3, a approval of the minutes of may 12, 2020, dial 88-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. [dinging]

mr. moderator, do we have any comments on minutes? >> operator: madame speaker, there are three callers in the queue. >> you have three questions remaining. >> callers, please note this is for item number three, the minutes. first caller, go ahead. hello, caller. >> you have two questions remaining. >> hello, caller. this is public comment for item 3, minutes. go ahead. >> caller: i'm sorry. i messed up. i was wanting to be in the general public comment. i've never done this before. so, i messed up. >> ok. no worries. no worries. >> i'll hop off and do it again. >> ok.

thank you. >> next caller? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> hi, caller. this is public comment on item number 3, the minutes. >> caller: hi, there. i also misunderstood. i wanted to make a general comment and not on -- >> ok. thank you. we'll do that as the next item. >> caller: ok. thank you. madame president, we have no public comment. >> commissioner, any further discussion on the minutes? seeing none, may i have a motion? >> president caen? oh, i'm sorry. >> i'll move -- >> move to approve. oh. second. >> madame secretary, please call the roll for the votes. [roll call]

we have five ay irks. >> the motion caser. next item, please. >> item 4 is general public comment. members of public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. by dialing 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. and while we're waiting for callers, i did receive two e-mail correspondents to be entered into public comment that were forwarded to the commission and i'll take the two minutes and read each of these public comments. the first one is from maddelein

mueller. please put this into document. it is not for an item that is on the agenda, but may be soon so it is sent now and will be referenced on 5-26 during public comment on items not on the agenda. it involves a complex issue and commission members will no doubt value to t time to read through the materials. a resolution to acquire the balboa reservoir property for city college of san francisco presented by the defense city college alliance, dcca. preamble -- the overwhelming support for the recent prop-a, 845 million facilities bond for ccsf show san francisco's desire development and growth for city college. the balboa reservoir is a critical element for dccf use.

the members of dcca, therefore, recommend the following resolution -- one, whereas proposition a and $845 million facilities bond measurefor new and renovated buildings at city and college of san francisco also included the authority to acquire land. and whereas the voter elected trustees of city college of san francisco are responsible to the citizens of san francisco for the protection of the institution, its students and employees from the effects of political inclusion, including any encroaching privatization of a public college. and whereas the voters of san francisco previously defeated two proposals for private housing development in balboa reservoir, proposition b in 1987 and l in 1988. whereas the san francisco public utilities commission signed an agreement in 1991 [inaudible] half of its reservoir property -- [bell ringing] and the timer is up on that item.

again, this was forwarded to the commission so you have the full gist of the public comment. the second is from mr. dave warner. dear president caen and commissioner, it has been a great honor to communicate with you, not just for your present role at the sfpuc but for your experience, expertise and values you bring to the commission. i'm sorry to report troubling information. in resolution 19-0057 march 26, 2019, regarding the bay dock to ecosystem, there is a clear system that directs staff to include biological outcomes in the voluntary agreement. but when reading the portion of the agreement for the river that was recently published on one of irrigation district's websites, there is no specific biological outcome mentioned. it is troubling not just because it is the primary objective of environmentalists, discussions with the sfpuc or perhaps even more so because of the accountability governance concern.

if the commission makes a specific resolution, it is expected that staff will follow that resolution or communicate back to the commission that staff is having difficulty implementing it. otherwise, the resolution becomes meaningless and the effectiveness of the commission's oversight is reduced. a biological outcome statement in resolution 19-0057 was key because it was solution to the conflict between the conflict of water agencies and environmentalists. the water agencies said that salmon populations could recover with nonflow medical examinerer and less water than the state water resources can full board required while the environmentalists said that at a minimum the swrcb's full measures were intended -- i'm sorry, were needed in addition to nonflow measures. by studying biological outcomes in the voluntary agreement t flow conflict became moot as flow debate didn't matter as long as fish populations recover. perhaps staff has been intending to communicate to you at a future meeting of not

being able to add biological objectives to the voluntary agreement. if so, the communication should have been done before the volunteer agreement became public -- [bell ringing] again, that correspondence was forwarded to the commission this morning. and mr. moderator, can you open the phone lines, please? >> yes, madame secretary. >> operator: you have five questions remaining. >> hello, speaker. go ahead. >> yes. my name is thomas. i'm the former trekererer of the libertarian committee of san francisco. i'd like to call the attention to the east bay. it's a huge 55,000-acre parcel that travels four counties. it is slated for development and an inclusion into the state park system. however, governor newsom's budget cuts that line item and it is on the market for $65 million for the first time in

85 years. the agent is todd renfrew with which the p.u.c. has an existing relationship because it acquired the wool ranch property from him. and although the press [inaudible] doesn't have water, it's simply not true. this 55,000 parcel is adjacent to existing p.u.c. watershed property and could be developed for future water resources, set aside for future water resources or set aside for other resources such as the development of wind power. i urge the sfpuc to investigate finance mechanisms that may not have been available. specifically the public banking mechanism under senate 3wi8 57, the use of time dops and the use of private loan contracting. the p.u.c. could acquire this property through an asset swap and if the p.u.c. involved nontax, nonfinancing mechanisms, i could add the property, which is a

55,000-acre, unbelievably beautiful open space, unencumbered by any conservation easements to its existing enterprise. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> operator: you have five questions remaining. >> hello, go ahead. >> caller: yes, thank you, president caen and commission. i'm the person who's going to make a comment related to the resolution which you began the reading of. i'll say this this resolution to acquire the balboa reservoir property for city college of san francisco is posted and available at this website. it's www.publiclandsforpublicgood.org .

the overwhelming support for the recent prop-a facilities bond for city college of san francisco voters desire for environment and growth of city college. the reservoir is a critical elements for city college use. the plan to privatize it in in other words to buy 1100 housing units, mostly at market rate, contradicts and undermines the public interest and members of the dcca therefore recommend the following resolution. and they're all documented, you know, the source for the whereas in the document. just wanted to mention a few things. various entities have supported the transfer from the p.u.c. through the college in order to make the -- retain the public status and there is a possibility that both expanding the campus and having 100% affordable housing, the san francisco labor council, the

coalition for san francisco neighborhoods and the college's participatory governance council. i'd like to mention clauses nine and 10s. nine says whereas city college lease the reservoir property continuously since 1946 as the only entity -- [bell ringing] >> thank you, speaker. >> operator: you have four questions remaining. >> go ahead, speaker. >> caller: thank you. hi there, president caen and fellow commissioners. i want to thank you for us to cut in and make comments through this covid per. i hope you're all safe and well. i'm born and raised in the bay area and currently live in san francisco and i live in district 2. i'm calling about my support about restoring and protecting the river and the water and the bay delta system. the cold water that flows

through the delta and s.f. bay are important and make a difference. every day, because i do this, you can walk down to the municipal pier at a quad park and you can see people fishing and crabbing, every day that i go sailing on the bay, without fail, you now see harbor por poises and when i was a kid, this was nots the case. and the salmon boats are out in the water again. so the river water flowing from the source all the way through the delta to the bay is very important. i'd like to encourage the sfpuc to voluntary release the 40% of unimpaired flow and has been discussed many times. and if it is a dry year, they can always revert back to the previous ban. this is possible. because demand for water is low and san francisco and bay area residents have been very good at showing their willingness to conserve water, they're very environmentally-minded and i

would like the sfpuc to keep that in mind when making flow decisions. if it hasn't been addressed yet, it would be great with the recommendations by president vietor be addressed. thank you for your time and please make decisions based on the environmental value for the bay area. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> go ahead. >> caller: my name is michael frost. i live in san carlos. i have two young girls and we love fishing together. and my girls pay attention to what's in the news and what's going on and they ask me all the time -- dad, what is life going to be like for me environment tally? is the world going to burn down? will there be any fish left in the oceans? questions like this. what do we do? what are you going to do.

what i'm doing, kids, is i'm going to put pressure on our existing leaders, our elected leaders and our appointed leaders to establish priorities for what matters. water is life. and fish are leading indicator of the health of a region. if the fish die, we die. i would like this board to assign priority to the flows of fresh water into the bay belt ecosystem. because water is life and fish cannot survive on nonflow measures. my 6-year-old understands that. fish need water. the fish die, we die. and we have an insatiable market that we're all living up to and it is tough to catch up with it. but we need to understand hard truths. this is one of them. this is an important time in

our society. people are looking more and more to the environment. today we're living one day at a time and i'm going to implore you as leaders to put priority on to the fresh water flows which is the life blood of this region. if the fish die, we die. we're at extinction levels in the bay delta right now. bottom line. and i don't want to have to explain extinction and the planet being burned down and a repatience market to my kids anymore. [bell ringing] >> thank you. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> caller: my name is francis de la costa. and you are still work on the technical problems, but all the same s it doesn't matter. what's important is that we get an opportunity to voice our opinion.

we have this pandemic and i should oefp our eyes. and one of the things that we have to reflect upon is resources and high-density living. all other days of high density living, the last time i was throng this meeting, one commissioner was trying to make a point that we shouldn't be wasting water or we shouldn't be using too much water. and instead of listening to her, the general manager ganged up on her. i read his words. and the general manager should wisen up. the general manager of the sfpuc who makes $400,000 a year should wisen up and represent the people. if he cannot represent the people, then he should step down. now what's going on at city

college, what's going all over san francisco, when i comes to the usage of our resources, we have to be very careful as the previous speaker said. water is life. that is a concept from the native americans. we failed to respect the native americans. this is their land. each and every square inch of this land was stolen from their native americans. it is time to repent and this pandemic is a sign for y'all to learn something. thank you very much. >> madame secretary, i believe this is the last caller. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> caller: hi. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. my name is mary holser and i'm

calling in support of the water quality control plan and i would really like the ask you, commissioners, please drop your lawsuit against the latest plan. the plan is designed to protect, preserve and repair the bay delta estuary and it is seeking to increase the amount of water to be released from the various dams. the amount of water that the current voluntary agreement plans to release is not enough to flush and replenish the wet lands along the river. and it isn't enough to limit salt water intrusion, which is damaging the delta. in general, it is not enough to preserve the health of the delta and to safeguard a clean water supply, not just the water supply for single use. it's many people depend on the river. that includes safe drinking water and supporting various

livelihoods such as salmon fishing industry, and industrial agriculture. you, as the commissioners, have a responsibility to the environment as a whole and you should encourage -- no, you should insist on reducing dependency in the river by ramping up water conservation methods and recycled water projects. the ecological crisis in the delta is not going to get any better until there is enough water released from the dam to allow this delta itself to make itself healthy. it's important to put a strong bay delta water quality control in place to repair the damage and preserve a healthy delta environment for future general railsings. -- generations. i totally support the previous speakers in favor of this. thank you. >> thank you. do we have any additional callers?

>> there are no more callers in the queue. >> ok. general public comment, item 4, is now closed. madame president, your next item is item 5, communications. >> any comments on communications, commissioners? seeing none, madame secretary, could you please open this up for public comment? >> members of public who wish to present comment on item 5 communications, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker lineful

mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> madame secretary, there no call ores in the queue. >> i do have a comment. i was on mute. on 5e. i wanted to ask a question regarding 5e. >> certainly. >> i just want a little bit more background about -- it says the bids are, you know, whatever it is, 5e, aye like a little more clarification on 5e. the status of the connect -- of the change orders.

it just says 5e. it doesn't say who. it just says water system improvement program status of construction change orders. >> can he respond to you? >> good afternoon, commissioners. this is cathy howe, a.g.m. for infrastructure. this is a report that we provide at the request of some of the former commissioners and they basically wanted to know the status of all the list of projects that we have and how close -- how much of the construction contingency we were using and how many change orders we had and basically to report out on the change orders for all of the construction that is happening under the water system improvement program. >> ok. and the reason for that was? >> at the time, the bids were coming in quite a bit lower because the economy was not doing that well and a lot of

the contractors were really eager to bid on our projects and so the bids came in very low and so everybody wanted to know twr contractors going to put in a lot of change orders to try to recupe some of their costs for the low bids that they had put in for. >> and was that happening and is it happening now? >> the program is now about 98, 99% done. and so for the change orders, it really was very specific to the project that was being done. on some projects, the construction change orders was well under the 10% that we usually budget for. on others, it was a bit higher. for example, for calaveras dam, i was quite a bit higher but a lot of that had to do with not knowing what the soil

conditions were and not knowing that we had hit a slide area and a unstable area for putting in the dam. but in general we stayed -- if you exclude calaveras, we stayed pretty close to the 10%. >> great. thank you. >> madame secretary, there is one caller in the queue. >> ok. thank you. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> caller, this is on item 5, communications. >> caller: yes. i apologize. my comment is actually for just a few minutes ago in the general comments. but i was unable to get through. i was on the whole call. can i take one minute to comment in a general way?

for item 4? >> president caen, is that ok? >> yes. please take two minutes. >> caller: ok. i'll take less than one minute here. yes. again, my name is jeralyn moran. i live on the peninsula. this is a comment on the need for water stewardship on the river regarding the bay delta. i am a wildlife biologist by background and i care deeply about sustainable stewardship of our natural world. [echoing] i'm sorry. i can't understand you. i am also one of your constituents here on the san francisco peninsula. the urgency to correct the continued overwithdrawal of water from this region's ecosystem is reaching a crisis level. there's no more time to continue what has already been

tried. i'm not alone in this perspective. i implore you to boost all water conservation and water recycling projects, including the resumption of work on the bay delta water quality control plan. thank you for considering my comments. thank you. >> thank you. mr. moderator, are there any other callers? >> there no other callers in the queue. >> ok. so public comment on item 5, communications, is closed. >> could you please call the next item. >> next item is item number 6. , report of the general manager. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you once again for your support and for helping us to continue the essential work. we must keep delivery of water,

power and the global pandemic continues on. we continue to rethink and revamp our operations at p.u.c. right now many of our employees are still working remotely. for the employees who were still reporting to facilities, we continue to take every step necessary to ensure their safety and well-being. despite all the disruptions to our way of life, our customers continue to receive water, power and sewer services without interruption. while we continue to upgrade under this current condition, we must begin to shift our focus to the future. to determine how we move in a

post-covid-19 world. we have a team of employees representing every enterprise to put together our business continuity plan. that plan will summarize -- that plan can be summarized in three key words -- response, recover and reimagine. we continue -- we consider it a master playbook for how we will adopt where we work, how we work and what we work on while continuing to provide our critical services to our customers. many of the issues that this team is tackling comes directly from responses that we collected from our very first covid-19 pulse survey. more than 1100 employees responded to our survey and that represents 48% of our total workforce. overall, 73% of our employees

view the p.u.c. response to the covid-19 [inaudible] at this time. a mark that we can be proud of. however, from the survey, we have collected detailed feedback from our customers, which includes -- which included valid concerns around using public transportation, health and safety conditions in the workplace and the tools and resources we need for performing work remotely over the next 12 to 18 months. my deputy, general manager and chief operating officer, michael carlin and the chief people officer are leading the business continuity planning team and we expect transformational changes as a result of this work. as always, we will keep you all updated on this effort as it

progresses. while we continue to push forward with efforts to meet the needs of our employees, we also focus on responding meaningfully to the needs of our customers. just two weeks ago, we launched our emergency customer assistant program with the goal of helping residential customers maximize their discount opportunities. this effort automatically extended the program for current enrollees and provides new enrollees who are experiencing financial difficulties due to covid-19. so far the response of this program has been outstanding. in one week, we received over 2,000 applications and i think we're approaching 3,000 applications as of friday. the covid pandemic has brought on challenges to our agency ies

and we see hope amidst crisis. we are already exploring plans for similar, temporary saving programs for businesses and nonprofit customers. by continuing to work with our customers, employees, city partners and others, we will look to move forward from these dark times and be a stronger, better and more responsive agency. i want to thank you for all the support on all of these efforts and i look forward to continuing to work with the commission for the weeks and months ahead. and that concludes my comments. do you have any questions, i'd be willing to answer them. >> commissioners, any questions?

>> yes, i have one. last week, or i think we had some issues with some of the employees with p.e.e. they were having some problems. has that been resolved? >> yes. actually, we had been receiving literally pallets of p.p.e.s and so we are in a much better place and i want to give thanks to the e.o.c., with the mayor's emergency operations center that is led by our very own person who actually led our operations over here, so, yeah. they have done an outstanding job of providing us with p.p.e.s lately. >> ok. so, those -- those employees

are -- have been satisfied or you're work on their satisfaction? >> well, you know, we -- we are, you know, we take everyone's concerns seriously and so, you know, the issue about p.p.e.s, we're making sure that we're providing p.p.e.s more regular to folks because at one time they would have to use one p.p.e. for, you know, for a couple of days and now we're providing more p.p.e. so that they can use them less frequently. and in the beginning, even doctors and everyone, it was a shortage of p.p.e.s. and now i think we're in a better place. and then as i stated in my comments, what we did is to do a survey of p.u.c.-wide and close to 50% of the folks responded. although we received over 70% favorable, you know, saying we're doing a favorable job,

the 27% we are wanting to hear what their issues are and a lot of their issues were about [inaudible] [echoing] i hear an echo. and they also were concerned about taking public transportation and i think they're just nervous about coming back to work. and so we move from the concept coming back and repopulating our office to basically, you know, seeing who absolutely needs to come back to work and so that is sort of a shift on how we're looking at, you know, progressing and operating on what we call reimagining how we do work in the p.u.c. so a lot of the things that we're working on, we're working

with the department of human resources, the city administrator, they're taking a leave on how to bring city back, to -- you know, back in service. so, we're working closely with them. >> any other comments? on the general manager's report. madame secretary, could you please open public comment? >> members of public who wish to provide comment on item 6, report of the general manager, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound, followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line.

mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> yes, madame secretary. we have one question in the queue. >> thank you. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> caller: here is how i see it. the san francisco public utilities commission is an enterprise department. so you commissioners understand you generate your own money. so, we shouldn't include the people who are involved with the general fund. when it comes to p.p.e.s and other things that have to be in place. if the wider equipment is up in place, somebody is at fault and

it doesn't mean that [inaudible] could predict a pandemic, but since the pandemic is here, we have to learn from that. now having said that, we are talking about things and go all over the place when it comes to the community. in the community, and i've been serving the community for over 40 years, and some of you all know that, i'm one of only ones continuously within the trenches, our children are [inaudible] our seniors are dying and one of elements that has brought about this slow death is the sewage treatment plant. and all the suggestions like what happened during the pandemic now is really not relevant when what is at issue is what is a san francisco public utilities commission and i've said it a million times,

what are y'all doing to help the community? the bay view community. some of the [inaudible] $200,000 in grants and are closed down. y'all know about this. and you look the other way. and now this is our time to do justice. this is a time to have your heart in the right place, to help our infans, our children, our youth, our elders. from slowly dying. otherwise -- >> thank you, mr. decosta. >> caller: thank you very much. [bell ringing] >> do we have anymore callers? >> there are no more callers in the queue, madame secretary. >> thank you. public comment on item number 6 is closed. >> next item, please. >> next order of business is

item 7, new commission business. >> commissioners, anyone? new business. >> yes. >> commissioner moran. >> thank you, madame chair. i'd like to request that staff develop a water supply budget worksheet for use by staff and the commission and members of public. my reason for that really is two-followful -- two-fold. one is to provide transparency as to the process we use to make decisions about water supply and the use of that water supply. and the second is to hopefully create a common can framework for the discussions that we have been having and will continue to have about the allocation of our water supplies. so i have send a more detailed version of that request to staff but i wanted to make that a request through the

commission as well. >> so noted. commissioner maxwell, did you have -- >> yes. yes. thank you. i would like to request a report. i'm sure our fire is season has more than started and sko -- and so i would like the see a report in our next meet in regards to where we are, what we have done and the work we have to do to make sure that we're doing all that we can do to be safe. from fire. >> excellent. yes. any other new business, commissioners? >> is it appropriate for me to ask -- to go a little bit of what we're thinking a little

bit further than that. i think that is extremely important and i wanted to catch all of it. can you elaborate a little bit on that move? -- on that more? >> i will slightly. >> ok, slightly is good. >> it is not a calendared item so we can't have a discussion about it. but i think that we sometimes get lost in the weeds of particular calculations. without stepping back and saying, how do those calculations relate to the bigger picture of how much water we have available and how much demand we have placed on that water. so, what i'm looking for is a tool that will help summarize that at a pretty high level in order to facilitate the discussion, to identify not only areas of disagreement but also to help modify how much that disagreement might reflect. that is the intent of it and i

think if we want to get into greater discussion, i think that, first of all, i think it shouldn't take very long to develop the work sheet. i think it would deserve probablying having a couple of sessions in regular p.u.c. meetings about what it means, how it is constructed and how it might be used. >> thank you. >> any further new business? >> i have additional clarification on that and i'm wondering if we could possibly ask the staff and i don't know if this is what you had in mind, commissioner moran, but for an outline of what would be in the water supply budget by the next meeting, at a minimum. >> next meetings come pretty quickly. i think -- i think we should be able to have. a general outline of it by then.

but that is something i'm not producing, staff would be. so i'd have to leave it to them. [talking at once] >> yeah, thanks. that's good for now. >> just to let you know that we're giving a water supply update the next meeting. so, just wanted to let you know that. >> any further -- >> this is commissioner paulson. i want to make sure that you guys can hear me. >> yes. >> we can't see you. >> he's dialed in. shall we call public comment on item 7? >> yes, please do. >> members of public who wish to provide comment on item 7,

new commission business, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. >> do we have any calls? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item number seven is closed. >> next item, please. >> next item is item 8, consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar,

are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussions of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests in which event the matter will be removed from calendar and considered as a separate item. >> commissioners, is there any matter that you would like removed from the calendar? seeing none, please proceed to public comment. >> could i make a comment on the consent calendar? i don't want to remove anything. would now be a good time? >> i -- i believe so. >> i just want to comment that i -- there are a couple of items related to pier 70 and i did learn recently that that development project is going to

have a black water treatment project as well as fossil-free fuel system so they are going to be cutting themselves off from gas and using renewables and i just think that's quite laudable. we saw that when they became our largest customer for clean power s.f. so i was just very pleased to learn about that and to see that and just would like to alert and request potentially our communications team if the item does pass that we want to be tracking and promoting those kinds of projects as a p.u.c. really reduce our water use and fossil fuel use and that development seems to be really exemplifying those two pieces. >> thank you. >> to clarify -- sorry. this is franchesca. just to clarify for the public.

pier 70 is being heard item 13 under regular calendar and is not part of the consent calendar. >> oh, sorry about that. >> let's proceed to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide comment on item 8, consent calendar, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound, followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. [honking] >> mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> madame secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment on item number 8

is closed. >> commissioners, any further discussion on this item? may i have a motion? >> move to approve. >> and a second. >> second. >> second. >> madame secretary, could you please call for the vote. [roll call] >> you have five ayes. >> the motion carries. item 9 has been removed from the calendar. [papers rustling] >> item 10. public hearing adopt a new

scheduling of hetch hetchy power enterprise general use municipal electricity service rates for fiscal years 2020-20 2* 1 and 202-22 to take effect on july 1, 2020 for certain city agencies, certain noncity governmental agencies such as the san francisco unified school district and certain nonprofit entities such as the california academy of sciences and that are closely related to the city through city governance, financial support and other legacy relationships. the proposed action constitutes the approval action for the purposes of ceqa. and this should be -- will be introduced by deputy c.f.o.s charles pearl. >> good afternoon. commissioners, charles pearl, deputy c.f.o. the proposal before you today is to increase the general municipal electrical rates by

one cent per kilowatt hour each year over the next two years beginning july 1 of this year. as the commission secretary noted, the rate applies to certain city department and other discounted electric customers. the rate increase has been included in the city-wide five-year planning and is necessary to support the ongoing financial health of the hetchy power enterprise. enable it to continue reliably providing greenhouse gas-free power to its customers. the rate increase will provide the enterprise an estimated additional $3.5 million next year and fiscal '21 to pay for necessary planned operating and capital investments. the rate increase is supported by the city's required 2016 power cost of service study which recommended moving all of our customers, all of our power

customers to closer and full cost of service over time. this proposed rate action supports our sfpuc rate payer assurance policy as well as our strategic plan goal of financial sustainability. commissioners, this rate action ties with the financial plan and the budget that you approved on february 11 of this year. but as you know, we are currently working to retool our budget and all of our enterprise, including the power enterprise, with updated revenue projections and we will be reporting back to you in about a month, either the end of june or very rly july with a revised budget and how we're planning to rebalance those. with that, i'm happy to take any questions you have on this item. thanks. >> commissioners? everybody's muted.

any questions? comments? madame secretary, please open up public discussion. >> members of public who wish to make public comment on item 10, dial 888-273-3658, access code 310. . 7452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. more moderator, do we have any callers on this item? >> there are no caller in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 10 is closed.

>> commissioners, is there any discussion further on this item? seeing none, may i have a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> madame secretary, please call the roll call vote. [roll call] >> we have five ayes. >> the motion carries. thank you very much, mr. pearl. our next item, please. >> next item is item 11, retroactively authorize the general manager's implementation on may 12, 2020 of a temporary emergency bill

discount for certain sfpuc residential customers who have been financially impacted by the covid-19 emergency. the temporary emergency customer assistance program for covid-19 relief program provides eligible residential customers with a bill discount of 15% on water, 35% on sewer and 30% on hetch hetchy power bills for the next six months, spaning from march 4, 2020 to september 4, 2020. and this will be introduced by erin ranks. >> hi. good afternoon, commissioners and members of public. so, the item before you today is just one piece of the sfpuc's response to the really devastating financial impact many residents and businesses this is that who might otherwise have thought they were doing ok are really struggling to cover basic expenses, including our utility bills. so, to provide at least some measure of support for customers as they try to adjust to the new normal we're all

dealing with, we're proposing a temporary emergency six-month bill of discount for residential customers who have lost income and who are experiencing financial hardships paying their utility bills. as was mentioned, this discount ranges from 15% to 35% off the the water, waste water and hetch hetchy power bills and open to customers for their primary residence only and they certify they experienced income loss related to covid-19 or the shelter in place order. further more, the income before that loss happened has to be under 200% of the san francisco area median income. the full description of the program will, as well as the application that can be filled out online, is all attached to this item. because this is a time-sensitive program -- we know people are struggling now and they can't wait months to get this support -- to meet this need t general manager took action on may 12 to launch the program and began accepting applications. so, the item today seeks to retroactively approve it and to

authorize and continue it until september 4 and if there is any questions, i'd be happy to answer them. >> commissioners, any questions? madame secretary, please open it up for public comment. >> members of public who wish to make public comment on item 11,dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. >> mr. moderator, do we have

any calls? >> there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on item 11 is closed. >> may i have a motion on this item? >> move to approve. >> second. >> madame secretary, please call the role call vote. [roll call] >> thank you. you have five ayes. >> the motion carries. thank you. next item, please. >> item 12 is authorize the general manager to negotiate

and execute a memorandum of understanding with the public works department, municipal transportation agency, fire department and port commission regarding the authority and responsibility for operations and maintenance of public improvements at the mission rock special use district. and approve amendments to the mission rock infrastructure plan. >> and deputy g.m. michael carlin will introduce this item. >> so, the title of the item actually explain what is we're doing here. it is a memorandum of understanding to outline responsibility and authority for each city department as we go into port property in the future. port property, port streets are going to stay under the sdwru, of the port but we'll have infrastructure under those streets and we want to make sure we have the ability to fix those streets going forward. i will naention mission rock is the one doing the black water system and the micro grid.

>> commissioners, any questions? >> yes. i have a question. since part of another reason that it's coming before us is because there's going to be a change, i think because they're going to do something different, which is the light weight cellular concrete and i don't know whether it has been done or not, but they don't know how that's going to affect the streets. and so my question is, since it's unknown, the cost associated with the maintenance of utilities and the light weigh cellular co-concrete will exceed the cost of maintenance, utilities in the street without the light rate cellular concrete. if we find there is a problem, who's going to be responsible for that? will the developer be

responsible for differences from the light weight concrete to the regular? >> yes. so, we're going through the process right now and evaluating light weigh cellular concrete with the port and the public works. it will come under the jurisdiction of the city engineer who will have to make a determination of the use of light weigh cellular concrete. it's also that we have written into the m.o.u. that it's -- there will be acceptance criteria and there will be failure criteria and it will come out of the incremental tax fund for the project as a whole to make up the difference between what we would normally pay for in a street the differences with the light weight cellular concrete. so we're working on that with all the other domestics as well. we haven't landed on that as well. it's not an alternatives and not the final say to say that's what we're going use. >> if we decide to use that.

who is going to be -- >> yeah. if the city engineer makes a determination on the use of it and the responsibility again will come out of the tax benefit for the project to make up the difference at that point in time. we have a responsibility for if it was a normal street, if something broke, we were replacing it but if it is failure of the light weight cellular concrete, that difference between normal fixing it will come outs of the tax increment for that project. >> lit not be the san francisco p.u.c. that will pay for that. >> for the increment. that's correct. >> ok. so, we will not be liable. >> that's correct. >> ok. thank you. >> i just wanted to also let you know that we have, you know, negotiated to put a pilot out there, a real live street section where they actually had

[inaudible]. i think that was the first day i came out of quarantine to go and visit that site. and it is interesting. the basic concept is that normally you have bay mud, you [inaudible] so it will settle over time. again in effect that they didn't have time, they removed a portion of the bay mud and put lightweight concrete that was lighter than what they removed. so, they're releasing -- removing weight from there so that it will settle. so, that is the concept. s the concern we had is that what if our facilities are buried into light weigh concrete. you can't dig it up. so, that was one of exercises they performed in front of me and the city engineers. and you can actually dig it out. it's different than soil. so they -- the developer is commited to whatever tools or

equipment necessary for us to dig it out and they will provide it, and as michael indicated, if there is any differential and cost than we would normally do in the street versus this, they will cover it. and so, yeah. right now it's really up to the city engineer to accept this light weight concrete or not. >> so, what -- so we would have soil and asphalt? normally? >> yeah. so normally, you know, it's layers, right? so we have, you know, soil and in this case it will be bay mud. and then we would have some gravel and then we will have the light weight concrete and then we'll have half the concrete and then we'll have -- i mean thes a fall, asphalt and concrete on top. so you have a wearing surface that looks like every other street. >> i see.

so, we have four steps with the light concrete rather than three. >> yeah. >> basically, yes. >> normally, yeah. normally we have all streets that have concrete. a portion of the street is asphalt, concrete and then you have the soil and stuff. now we just have a lightweight concrete and in the wearing surface, which is asphalt-concrete. >> wow. so it -- so is there a concern that it's less durable or as durable? i mean, our streets are pretty rough right now. you know? they don't seem to last as long as maybe they used to. there are a lot of pits in it. so i'm just wondering. >> well, my take is that, you know, if you have a thicker concrete section, you won't see a lot of, you know, breakage

because what we experienced in especially the bayview is that when you have the settlement, you have a concrete base and after a while when you have a void, you can't really see it and what happens if you have a leak in the pipe, it starts eroding the soil. now it is concrete and you won't get that erosion. so i think it could have [inaudible] better, but my fear is when you go to dig it up, we want to make sure that we can easily access our pipes just in case something happens. >> ok. so you're thinking it might be more durable, but it may be more of a hassle to dig it up. >> yes. >> ok. thank you. >> this is commission kerr

paulson, if i could just say a couple of words in. so many of these projects, especially projects that are, you know, might be adjacent to rising tides and whatever else, this is being, you know, heavily experimented with and commissioner maxwell, your questions are absolutely apropos because anytime different construction technologies come into place, everybody wants to know is this going to work, is that going to work? sort of like when the plasters said well, sheetrock will never replace it. [laughter] and things -- you know, things sort of change and i've heard nothing, you know, as the -- in my day job -- that this is going to be nothing but, you know, not just good for the roads, but good for all accessibility to infrastructure and all the new ways that people are looking at doing the horizontal parts of these development projects. so, that's just my two seconds.

thank you. >> any other comments, questions? madame secretary, could you please open public comment? >> members of public who wish to make comment on item 12, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. >> mr. moderator, do we have any callers? >> there is one caller in the

queue, madame secretary. >> thank you. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> go ahead. >> caller: i've been hearing some of your statements and y'all can make whatever statement you want to. but how does this project on mission rock, where we environmentalists for the longest time have been working or informing the department about toxic and substances control about real contamination on the site. the other things don't count much. the main thing is, has the site been mitigated? just because there's some land

there, we just cannot use it for whatever. this is what we've done all over candlestick point. we've done it on hunters point. parcel d, c, e, f, it's all contaminated. don't look at it in a superficial way and i've come before you before, when the people make the right type of comments, you don't like it. what is holistic about this project? that is what you should ask yourself. what is holistic about this project? at mission rock. this is a very, very, very contaminated site. >> are you done?

>> ok. ank you. do we have anymore callers mr. moderator? >> the queue is empty at this time. >> thank you. that closes public comment on item number 12. >> commissioners, are there any further discussion on this m.o.u.? seeing none may i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> madame secretary, please take the roll call vote. [roll call]

we have five ayes. >> the motion carries. next item, please. >> next item is item number 13. authorize the general manager to negotiate and eke cute a memorandum of understanding with the port commission, san francisco public works, san francisco municipal transportation agency and the san francisco fire department regarding each drm's operations and maintenance of public improve. s the pier 70 special use district, including improvements located in streets turned por's jurisdiction. and this will be introduced by deputy general manager carlin. >> so it is the same sort of idea. this is another m.o.u. between authority and jurisdiction. the thing here is basically they did surcharge this site with dirt so there is no light weight cellular concrete involved but we need the m.o.u. to have. the other department outline

authority and responsibility moving forward. i'd be glad to answer any questions. >> commissioners. questions. comments. madame secretary, please open public comment. >> members of public who wish to make public comment on item 13, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. [music playing]

mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> there is one caller in the queue. >> thank you. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> go ahead, speaker. >> caller: so, pier 70 was used during world war ii to build ships. there's also the stack there which means there was a power plant over there. now i never mentioned this before, but never once do you all know about this and maybe you know about it that you look straight in the eye and lie. and this is what it is. there's one million tonnes -- i repeat one million tonnes of coal tar by the stacks. it needs to be mitigated.

there are two huge ammonia spills which were done by the navy. which needs to be mitigated and abated. now why i was choosing sites that are contaminated, and others have said this, too, others in the know -- why are we choosing sites that are contaminated so that we have some housing? and you know when they do this, the passing of the e.i.r.s and all during christmastime. but they never expected this pandemic to come. now listen, i said this 25 years ago. no good will come at hunter's point and there is one commissioner there that's heard me say that. no good will come at hunter's point and no good will come at pier 70.

now here's another factor that you all never, ever took into account. human remains of the first people were found at the site. why don't we respect the sacred sites and respect the human remains of the first people? because spirit,ly y'all are bankrupt. [bell ringing] and, again, to go forward with this project, you have blood on your hands. >> thank you, mr. decosta. mr. moderator, do we have any other callers? >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. that closes public comment on item 13. >> commissioners, i would like a motion and a second on this item. >> move to approve. >> second.

>> madame secretary, please take the roll call vote. [roll call] >> you have five ayes. >> the motion carries. madame secretary, could you please read the items that are to be heard in closed session? >> item number 16 is existing mitigation, david alfaro et al. versus city and county of san francisco and item number 17 is existing litigation state water board cases, scament tore superior court jccp number 5013 originally filed on january 10, 2019 in tuoloune superior court

as san joaquin tribute tears authority et al. versus california state water resources control board case number cu62094. >> madame secretary, please open the line to public comment for the items on closed session. >> members of public wishing to speak on items 16 and 17, dial 888-273-3658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. [music playing]

>> mr. moderator, do we have any calls? >> madame secretary, there are no callers in the queue at this time. >> thank you. public comment on closed session item 16 and 17 is closed. >> at this time, i would like the request a motion on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege. >> move to assert. >> second. >> madame secretary, please take the roll call vote. [roll call] >> you have five ayes.islators r federal leaders around what that will look like and the summary

there. >> you don't want to press us with the real numbers? >> the initial protection for next year is upward of 80 million. the staff presented some initial budgeting solutions that worse case scenario with the budget solutions, we're nearing about over $55 million. >> thank you. >> go ahead, superintendent. >> the may revise comes out then and we'll have a much better -- i was going to say a better picture but it won't be a better picture. but at least the governor's first projection after this pandemic, so it will have what he is seeing and what he views as the effects of the pandemic on the economy. so we'll have more after thursday.

>> great. thank you. before we move on, engaging with the public and so that similar -- how critical it is to engage our stakeholders to understanding what this would mean as far as tough decisions ahead and tough conversations. >> thank you, commissioner lamb. and any reports from board delegates to member organizations such as csba and cgcs? all other reports by board members? >> actually, i have one question

about the budget. i was looking through the agenda. are we coming back to this? >> it is not on our agenda. >> so just one thing quickly i wanted to say to the proposed changes i looked through. i just have questions and i would like somebody to follow up with what the cuts to those positions will mean around the affinity work. that's critical to the students that we serve to those programs and i know that is one of the proposed solutions to the cost measure and i'm not trying to get into it now, but i just wanted to make that public and for someone to talk to me about what they see as the impact on those students, when those positions are filled. >> commissioner collins. >> i had a question because i had raised questions and it's related, somewhat, to

commissioner cook's question i had raised, some specific questions that i said i wanted and i thought i wanted to get follow-up on. theres was a whole bunch of positions that were eliminated in the student's family community support and i wanted specifics and i'm just wondering, i think it would be helpful for all of us as a board to get that information, and i was hoping in a report, i would like a dialogue and i am wondering if we could put that up on the cal-meeting agenda because staff is supposed to respond. i think other commissioners will be interested and i think it's more after dialogue than one way. >> ok, so when we do agenda review, we will make sure to fit it in more. >> thank you. >> so the next is calendar committee meetings and i don't know, mr. steel, if -- i know you've been in contact with the

different advisory committees. >> yes. so i have been gathering information on who's ready to report and i'm going to bring that to a general review for us to continue to schedule for the remainder of the year. >> and as far as our committee meeting, does any board member have a date and time for their next committee? >> it is posted in the agenda, mr. sanchez. >> oh, they are, ok. my bad? i'll read further. the upcoming meeting on student assignment which is monday, may 18th, at 5:00 p.m. and then budget and business service's committee meeting is wednesday, june 3rd and this is at 3:00? >> yes. >> great, thank you. and that's all we have right now. >> and i would like to schedule a meeting, but i'll be sharing that once it's scheduled.

>> thank you. >> that's for curriculum. >> section m, other informational items are staff reports and one with updates and two, the may william's quarterly report. section o is memorial adjournment and i am going to ajourn this meeting in memory of marlene kayhaus. we will ajourn our meeting in memory of marlene who passed away after battling with ovarian cancer and survived by her mother, teresa, her sister who is 51 and her only daughter, michelle. marlene was born in san francisco, california to el salvador immigrants. marlene grew up responsible,

mischievous. marlene loved family and grew up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins with precious memories along the way. growing up, marlene went to russian river, playing and listening to music and summers in el salvador with her family. alongside family, marlene loved education. marlene was fond of the arts and was a phenomenal student. she had a great economic career where she met many life-long friends. marlene went on to attend mercy high school and met more of her life-long friends and they grew up listening to motown music and disco. she studied to be a nurse. after a long deliberation, marlene went on to live in el salvador with her family. it was there that she realized

her true passion for helping others, specifically children. in el sa salvador, marlene workd for her uncle's clinic. upon her ru return to the u.s.a, marlene changed her major and pursued an major in education. she pursued an masters in education. as her passion and skillsets continued to grow for education, marlene began working at the san francisco unified school district. marlene spent 37 years in the district and received many awards, recognitions and named principal of the year and marlene transcended diversity,en conclusion by being the first latina principal. in addition to leading, she was the principal at the spring valley and er taylor elementary schools. in her tenure at usfsd, she was

with the commodore stockton. par lean was always kind, open and loving mentor. marlene always touched the lives of her students and teachers with her positive attitude and was always searching for ways to improve in the futures of unrepresented children and i personally will never forget her smile. the board of education and superintendent of schools extends sincere condolences to the family. so wit at this time, we'll take public comment who wish to speak to closed session items and there will be a total of five minutes.

>> the board will go into closed recess and we'll >> the board approved contracts for two principles, the board voted seven ayes for the principles. and the board seven ayes approved the contract for one interim assistant principle. and the board approved the contracts for one supervisor in the matter of p.s. versus s.f.u.d., and case 202 on 251, a vote of seven ayes. and case 20021 -- to pay up to the stipulated amount. the board by a vote of aches ayes and one absent approved the non-re-election of two

provisionary zero certificate employees. the board by a vote of, i guess seven ayes approved a settlement agreement with one certificate to administrator. okay, are we done? >> i think so. i don't hear anybody. okay. so that concludes our meeting. the meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> goodnight, everyone. >> thank you. goodnight. >> goodnight, everybody.

>> announcer: you're watching "coping with covid-19." >> hi, i'm chris manus and a you are watching "coping with covid-19." today joining us is susan girardeau of the california pacific medical center. and mow to cope with emotional stress of a major daf.

she's here today to talk to us about how to help young children cope with this ongoing pandemic. dr. girardeau, welcome to the show. >> thank you very much. >> let's start by talking about some of the issues that 5 to 11-year-olds might be facing. what are some difficultties they might be experiencing during this pandemic? >> the biggest difficulties that all children experience is fear and anxiety and it's displayed in a variety of different ways. the kids have a fear of a family member getting sick or themselves getting sick. they have a fear of separation. obviously with our quarantine, all of us at home, children still have a fear of separation in own home, which means from

room to room, that they cannot be home alone without a parent. it is very difficult and even at night to sleep in their own bed can be a problem and an issue that is under the umbrella of anxiety. the other parts that play into it is the anxiety of when will this end?