>> supervisor haney: -- our clerk today is erica major. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: [inaudible] and the board, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely.

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>> supervisor haney: thank you. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. may we have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer before i take the roll? >> supervisor ronen: so moved. hillary ronen. >> clerk: okay. as far as the roll -- [roll call]

>> clerk: mr. chair, you have a quorum. >> supervisor haney: thank you. madam clerk, will you please call the first item? or actually, will you please call items 1 and 2 together? >> clerk: yes. i'd number 1 is a hearing regarding how covid-19 has impacted the schedules, policies, and the provision of services for san francisco unified school district and city college of san francisco. item 2 is a hearing to discuss

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and we have interpreters here to announce the meeting. [speaking cantonese language]

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>> interpreter: thank you. >> supervisor haney: thank you. anymo any more announcements, madam clerk? >> clerk: that concludes the announcements. >> supervisor haney: okay. great. we have two items on the agenda, the same two items we had two weeks ago. obviously, things are changing so quickly and moving so quickly, including, most importantly, the start of school for sfusd and beginning of classes at ccsf, so we wanted to make sure to continue to hear these items, as we said, use this venue as an opportunity to get updates, to answer questions, to provide a space for solutions and collaboration. i do want to make sure that, with each of these committees, especially moving forward, that

we have some level of focus in terms of where we are putting a lot of our energy and time. i do want to know, i think the last meeting went for about six hours, and we had many important conversations within that, but today, some of the folks who were at that meeting will not be with us today, although we have representation from all of the institutions again, and despite some of the time limits that some of them have, i'm going to do my best to make sure we hear from everything. i'm going to flag some things that are important for today. earlier this week, the budget identified $4.3 million of funding for community hubs, and an additional $1 million for testing at the hubs. the hubs are going to play a key role for families and students for the next few months, and i do want at that make sure that we have time and focus to hear more about those

community learning hubs, the coordination, and connections to the school district and educators, enrollment, and opportunities for outdoor education. i asked all of the presenters to talk a little bit about outdoor education. this is something we've had a little bit of education and interest in. it will happen in the community learning hubs, and thinking about how outdoor learning is factoring into how we're thinking about our next steps collectively. we will have presentations from sfusd, ccsf, community hubs, and rec and park, and d.p.h. will only be able to be here for the first hour. so again, i want to thank everyone for their hard work

for the last few months in light of the challenging situation we are in. i'm not sure if uesf is going to be here, but i want to make sure i always give an opportunity for our educators to provide updates, and i will make space if they're going to now be here. i'm just told that they are being referred to as community hubs, not community learning hubs anymore, so i note that. i will move forward to the presentations, but first, i want to open it up to any members of the committee to make opening comments. just so you know, i'm going to start with ccsf, city college,

because we did not hear from them last time. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you very much, chair haney. i just wanted to give you an update on the progress made from last hearing on all the to-do list that i had created, together with the school district, dcyf, and d.p.h. so i did want to let you know that we did get $1 million for testing for both the staff at the community learning hubs as well as the children. what i asked d.p.h. to do is to write up the plan for what that testing will look like, and i can give a preview of that

plan, but they're refining it as they learn more about how the virus, you know, spreads in environments like the community hubs. so the way that it would work is staff would be tested prior to them starting and then every two months thereafter. any child that is exhibiting symptoms of covid-19 will be tested, and all will be eligible for free testing at the city testing centers. that's the plan as of now. i personally think it should be a little bit more proactive and intensive than that, but at least we have somewhat of a

clear plan on how we will surveil the community hubs so we've got a handle on testing. turn out the state had some concerns about the 20-children limit at each hub site, so they created a limit of 14 children at each hub. that's the feedback we've

gotten from d.p.h., so that definitely seems more in line with the safety measures that we've heard about so far. what that means, though, is that dcyf needs to find even more locations than they already found to keep to that -- growing to that 6,000-child goal that we have for these community hubs, so that remains a huge priority is finding the spots where we can host these hubs. in terms of distance learning, dcyf is still working on that, and there's still some negotiation. i'll just leave that there until we have some more information from the teachers union and the school district on that, but there's active

work to make sure that any child with disabilities receives the services that they need in order to be able to engage in distance learning in a successful way. the -- the server that we talked about two weeks ago, we're still trying to understand the priority population for the community hubs so that we can tailor the survey to those populations, so that is under works. the $4 million that chair haney mentioned that we were able to secure in the budget process is specifically going to be used to give additional pay to the nonprofit workers who are staffing the community hubs. that's -- that's really great

news because these workers are doing work above and beyond their normal school activities and deserve to be compensated appropriately for the role that they're going to be playing, and that's really exciting. and finally, i've asked the d.p.h. to really acknowledge that parent-led hubs -- so separate from what the city is setting up for vulnerable communities, but parents that are working full-time and have hired co-ops or full-time child care to do distance learning, it makes no sense that we as a city would say that this is an activity that's not allowed when it's practically impossible for the parents of

young children who are working full-time can help them engage in distance learning without something like this. it's sending a very, very confusing message that needs to be corrected, so we are in the process of changing the language around the guidance of how to keep those parent-led hubs safe for all kids. and with that, i just wanted to make sure that i updated everyone on the to-do list from two weeks ago, and i'm sure we're going to create a to-do list today that we'll update in two weeks, but all forces in the city, from the school district to the school board to the educators union to the board of supervisors are hard at work, and of course dcyf, if i didn't mention them, are hard at work making sure that these hubs are not only safe,

successful, and established as soon as possible, but making sure we're doing so in acco coordination with the school district, the school board, and the teachers' union. >> supervisor haney: thank you, supervisor ronen, so much, for your incredible efforts. i'm surprised you're not asleep. yesterday morning at 2:00 a.m., they finally voted on the budget, and i know that supervisor ronen was working hard to ensure that the funding priorities that we discussed in this committee and are essential for our funding for educators and our schools were part of that. so with that, if there are no other members of the community that want to provide introductory comments, we can jump to our presenters.

and if our presenters would state their name and affiliation before they present, we're going to start with kristin charles from city college. >> thank you. i believe grace is going to be pulling up my presentation today. hello, supervisors and trustees. i am kristin charles with city college of san francisco. thank you so much for this opportunity to fill you in on where we are with respect to fall instruction and services in light of the pandemic. i just want to acknowledge how challenging it is to make decisions and pivot under these circumstances for everyone, right? our students, our faculty, our staff, our administrators, our

trustees, everyone involved. all right. as you can see from this slide, we're starting with all classes via remote distance learning. i just want to emphasize that remote distance learning is not the same classes as our city on-line but were developed as on-line classes from the beginning. there really is a significant difference there, and, you know, we are of course planning for in-person instruction in certain areas, pending state and local restrictions. you can see those areas listed there, mainly in the areas of health instruction and culinary arts and hospitality. and, of course, we are following department of public health guidelines to ensure the safety of our faculty, staff, and students, we will see where we end up with all of that.

so in terms of providing support for faculty during covid to deliver remote instruction, we have a community canvas system, and all faculty with instruction assignments have been receiving instruction in distance learning, again, distinguished from on-line learning, on-line classes. equity is really paramount and emphasized by the office of on-line learning and educational technology, and the ways in which they promote equity are listed here:

asynchronous instruction and flexible attendance. i want to point out that that is really important because many students have children at home and/or they have others at home for whom they're caring, and in many cases, they have limited wifi access, so this access is really important to them. okay. we can move to the next slide. so i mentioned that, for our students, we are -- you know, we provided a welcome to canvas user module, which is embedded in each of the remote instruction classes. we also had a passport to canvas training that students could self-enroll in, we have a 24-7 canvas support hotline. we are also providing on-line library services, on-line

tutoring services also embedded into canvas, and we've posted tips for successful remote learning to help students be successful. all right. next slide, please. with respect to student services during covid, we have essentially set up -- established a virtual campus on our website where students can access virt service counte-- v service counters via zoom, so there's help with registration, counseling, financial aid. we also are providing emergency aid to students through cash grants and safeway gift cards. we're also making technology available for students. we have a chromebook loan program. we're also providing them wifi hot spots.

and i would just like to also comment -- i think we were also asked to talk about how the first week of school went. we're actually completing the second week of instruction at this point. as you can imagine, it's a very busy time. students are adjusting their schedules and adjusting to their schedules, and we'd anticipate, you know, that they'll be doing that more than usual given that it's remote. you know, it's just a lot of unknowns right now. and of course, there have been some technical challenges, as one would expect, but we have a technical team, addressing issues as they arise. so there really are support systems in place to handle technical glitches, and this is really also why we emphasize asynchronous learning in

combination with synchronous learning. if you have a zoom meeting, and that's your one chance to connect with students, that's an issue. the good news is that the technical issues that we encountered were limited in that time frame, so that's a good thing. so i just want to close by echoing supervisor ronen in the last meeting, in that switching to distance learning is an enormous task, and this certainly is unprecedented, and it puts educators at all levels in a very difficult place, you know, just profoundly difficult place. so we're -- we're so proud of what our faculty has been able to accomplish under these circumstances. i mean, generally, we always are, but especially now. so thank you for this opportunity. >> supervisor haney: thank you so much for that update, and sorry about a couple of weeks

ago. >> no worries. >> supervisor haney: committee members, any question or comments anybody has for city college? trusty randolph? >> hello. first of all, i want to thank miss charles for all the work that she's done getting ready for on-line learning. this was new to all of us, and the scramble that faculty and staff and everybody had to do to move on-line -- i think two weeks, we got ready in two weeks. we moved up spring break and everything. but it doesn't come without issue. yesterday, we had a really long board meeting, and one of the things that i learned about

on-line learning is that, you know, doing everything on-line specifically during the fall semester when a lot of high school graduates come to city college for the first time to experience college, having a sense of community and in-person support is incredibly important. i remember, you know, when i started community college, i was all on my own, and it was difficult, you know? i had two jobs, i had to figure out how to take classes, i had to figure out how to do homework on my own schedule. i had to pay rent, i had to buy food, and i almost dropped out because it was just so overwhelming. but because of the in-person support and my peers and faculty, i was able to make it, and then, here i am, you know, going to a four-year university, getting my masters. and i am worried that that is missing for a lot of our students, especially students of color, who don't have that

in-person support right now. so i know that all of us are working hard right now, but i know there is going to be some long-term impact on student outcomes and success. the likelihood of some students coming back in the spring or finishing their certificate or even transferring is incredibly low, and that's what i hope we can monitor, and i hope we can come up with some potential solutions. i know that these community hubs that most people put on, you know, the k through 12, but there are a lot of students who need those community hubs. also, the first or second ' semester at a community college, i have no idea what that is going to look like, but

the homeless that are attending city college that normally get the in-person support, none of that is happening right now. so there are students that need our support that can't be done virtually. so maybe over the next couple of weeks, while we're dealing with this fall semester -- and i know that it looks like city college is potentially planning to be all on-line for the spring semester, is we kind of think about how we can better support those students like me. because i don't know that i would have made it in an all-online environment. i don't know where i would be today. if you lose your first semester, it impacts the rest of your life. so that's what keeps me up at night. i hope that maybe two weeks or a month from now, we can have some discussions what those

solutions are for -- or needed for. i know that we are submitting our accreditation report which specifically has learning outcomes and objectives that can only be done in person, so what does that mean to our accreditation as well as ongoing support for our students. programs like puente and arise, those are peer supports. how does that look like in an on-line environment? i'd like to have some discussions on that. because what we've learned in our meetings between the school district and the college board -- and i know that chair haney was part of them in his time on the school board -- is that, you know, the programs that we're doing collaboratively that make sure that high school graduates can come to city college or even

have programs during the summer to catch up, those are all impacted, so that's what i am i little concerned about, and i hope that we can get together and discuss. the question i have now is a follow-up from two weeks ago: have we moved any further with the community hubs that we were potentially going to have at city college locations? is there an update in the conversations that i know dcyf has had with city college? are we any closer to potentially doing something there? i don't know if dcyf is here, someone from city college can address the conversations that we've had? i would love to hear what the status is of those. >> this is leslie molloy, chief

of staff to the chancellor of city college. we asked them for an informal written proposal so we can work through with our attorneys the response and what kind of real estate and space we can provide, so we've been waiting for that for a number of days, and as soon as we get it, we'll move quickly. >> okay. because the reason i'm asking is i think it would be great not only to help sfusd by opening up our centers, but also, i would like to see if there's an opportunity to open up those community hubs to our own students. because i know that even during registration for our e.s.l. classes, there's a lot of monolingual students who don't understand how to do registration or even attending e.s.l. or other noncredit classes over zoom, so there's been a lot of challenges around just enrollment and

registration for monolingual students. so i think community hubs specifically in chinatown would help kind of facilitate that in-person interaction. i know that there are guidelines from d.p.h. and others that need to be respected and adhered to, but i don't want -- i don't want us to lose that potential opportunity one way or another, especially if the spring semester is going to be on-line again. >> absolutely. thank you, trustee randolph. >> great. that's all i have. thank you. chair haney. >> supervisor haney: commissioner moliga? >> commissioner moliga: thank you, supervisor haney. i just wanted to piggyback off of trusty randolph's comments. i agree. you know, i think the conversation does need to expand to pre-k to 14. right now, it's k through 12. i think we need to definitely think about the model from

pre-k to 14. i also want to just mention that, you know, this learning laws thing, i'm glad that folks are talking about it at the secondary level. i think it really is a public health issue, and i think the burden right now is put upon the academic institutions to be able to identify these. but what it sounds like to me, it's becoming a public health issue, right? and i think a collaboration between all entities to maybe form a task force with folks that are on both sides to really figure out what this actually looks like and how do we begin to identify [inaudible] the truth of the matter is we talked about this at our school board meetings. we have kids, young adults, folks that are pretty much, you know, spread across the city.

and the challenge is how do we put eyes on all these folks, you know, how do we put eyes on all these folks, and how do we leverage everything from sfusd, from the city and county, you know, to reach all these families and students? and i don't think that's an isolated issue, right? i don't think that's definitely an isolated issue. i think that's a good place where d.p.h. can fall in line, you know, public health. like, how does d.p.h. fall in line supporting this thing behind learning for folks, because i do think it's a public health issue. and i also just wanted to kind of give a highlight, you know, as much as, you know, a lot of this has, you know, really been challenging, the program, you know, for some kids, you know, has been really successful. the one challenge i hear from some kids is the enrollment

process is a little bit difficult, right? so, you know, i think what folks was telling me is they were saying something, like, if you could build a more high school friendly enrollment process, i think it would be able to streamline the process even more efficiently. so i think that's something we can probably work together on with sfusd and ccsf. but for the most part, i also hear kids that haven't gone to school in a long time are showing up. kids that are bullied are having more participation around on-line learns. so there definitely are some pros, but i definitely wanted to highlight that. >> supervisor haney: thank you, commissioner moliga.

>> this is one of the things that i wanted to collaborate to make the student experience as good as we can right now. these are all of our students. i mean, they're all san franciscans, you know? they're all touching different points in our system. when i think about, going back to trustee randolph's comments, the students and all the systems they touch all throughout san francisco, the single parents and all the systems that they touch all throughout san francisco, making sure they don't slip through the cracks, i think that's a really great opportunity for us, and i would just echo the comments earlier, figuring out if it is a task force or someone within this body to look at some of those touch points because it's really about creating that safety net, that safety net right now that we can for our students, given that we're in a

virtual environment. i know it's challenging for us, and i know it is for the supervisors right now, realizing that safety net for folks, realizing for those people that we serve, there are those intersections, so it would be good to map that out and think about some creative strategies because i don't see in the near future when we're going to be out of this crisis. we are going to be on-line for spring and, you know, same thing with our sfusd and looking at, you know, what's happening in, you know, next year there. this is kind of like a new normal for us, so just really want to get ahead with the conversation about that and just thinking creatively because there's also the mental health piece, as well, just going to school and trying to navigate. i know we're all in the middle of that, trying to go to work in the middle of a pandemic

when there's wildfires and everything else. there's an isolation piece to this, as well. i know for students, it's a big part of their success at city college is being able to have that community, which is very challenging to be able to have that community on-line, you know, in this environment. so would love to think about our safety net and our shared safety net and think about how we can put our arms around our most vulnerable students right now. >> supervisor haney: thank you. miss williams, is there -- or sorry. miss charles, sorry. abc charles, is there anything that you wanted to respond on this? it seems like there's a lot of questions and comments about how we're reaching students who may fall through the cracks, what type of outreach that sfusd, you know, shared a lot

with us, some of the different strategies that they have to stay in touch with students. i know it's obviously a -- [inaudible] in terms of how you're addressing [inaudible]. >> i'm afraid you're cutting in and out for me. is that true for everyone else? >> supervisor ronen: yes. >> okay. >> supervisor ronen: erica, should -- >> clerk: you may want to turnoff your camera. that'll help the connectivity. supervisor? >> supervisor haney: i just wanted to turn it over to -- >> clerk: sounds like he want going to say turn it over to

the vice chair. do you know who's the vice chair of the committee? >> clerk: it is supervisor fewer, so -- >> supervisor ronen: i'm happy to play that role, so i don't mind filling in for her. >> clerk: okay. in the meantime, i will get in touch with supervisor haney and let him know how to call in. >> supervisor ronen: oh, are you back, supervisor haney? no. are you back, supervisor haney? nope? okay. so it looks like there's nobody else on staff to speak. is there any other comments? >> i think supervisor haney was around the middle of a thought, like, how do we formulate

thoughts around how to keep students from slipping through the cracks. i don't know if we should wait for him to hop back on, but i don't know if abc charles or vice chancellor charles can speak to that piece. i know that there's representation from dcyf that's on the line, but i just don't want to lose that comment because i think it's just so critical. >> so i'd be happy to speak to that. first of all, yes, what you're saying resonates with me in terms of thinking about how we can provide some hub structure, something akin to that for our students, and i think the idea of a task force to think about all the intersections. you know, unified students are our students. we share a lot of students. unified parents are definitely

or students, or -- are definitely our students, so we do share a lot of intersections in our world. i do want to think about the support that we're providing [inaudible] limitations. one thing i think we are working on, in general, providing sort of the wraparound hug support, if you will, for students is something we've been thinking about for a long time precovid. one thing we have been working on through our reimagining the student experience initiative, or r.i.s.e., which commissioner rudolph referred to, is our student success teams. we've actually organized for students getting ready to come to our college, we've organized into academic and career

communities, affinity groups, if you will, so we have developed groups in terms of career communities. this semester, we are having our first meeting of two our two teams -- our two concept teams. one in health and safety, and one in s.t.e.m. this includes counseling faculty, student aid advisors, librarians, student coaches, and others who are really coming together to provide that kind of support for students who will be working through our communication mechanisms for how that will work, and it's really a very exciting development, and it's been -- you know, other colleges have

used this approach, as well. and i think it really holds a lot of promise, and it's something, in particular, that becomes very critical right now but is always critical for our students. so -- and there are other efforts. certainly, you know, the virtual student services counter is a big part of supporting our students. we had a day for students, letting them know we're here as they walked through everything about the college, as well. we have a whole lot more, but i did at least want to mention that. >> supervisor ronen: i think we have chair haney back. >> supervisor haney: yes, i'm here. can you all hear me okay? >> supervisor ronen: yes.

>> supervisor haney: okay. so thank you, associate vice chancellor. we definitely appreciate it, and we will look forward to hearing from you again in a few weeks. and i did want to just -- i know department of public health has to learn in a couple of minutes, and so trustee randolph had a question a couple of minutes before they had to takeoff. trustee randolph? >> yeah. i was wondering if you had a chance to look at other colleges or campuses in regards to covid-19, and if you issued feedback or recommendations for us? >> yes, we have received the state's guidance, and then, we also have, last friday, a week

ago today, released our own guidance and directive for higher education. that's in all institutions of higher ed and all adult education learning programs, as well, and i am very happy to circulate that all to you, but i believe city college has already received that and is preparing any of the plans necessary for all of you. >> great. so i would love to see if we could have, maybe in two weeks or a month from now, once everybody had time to look at it or review it, if there is a way, chair haney, to maybe have some type of conversation or discussion here in how it interacts with everything? >> supervisor haney: absolutely, yeah. we'll -- we'll bring that back for a couple weeks. >> great, thank you. >> supervisor haney: great. so with that, i think we'll

move to our next presenter. our next presenter will be mele lau smith from sfusd. >> thank you, chair haney, and i think we have a -- hopefully a short slide deck for you, if that can be loaded. what i am just going to update on today is the presentation that we had at the board of education on tuesday and outline the roles that sfusd will take moving forward to collaborate with dcyf and the city in the community hub. so next slide, please. i won't spend too much time because we've talked about the community hub initiative a lot. so we know that it's designed to provide in-person support and following the public health guidelines and being neighborhood based and focusing

on our most vulnerable student populations. next slide. we also know that dcyf is the main organizer in executing the initiative, including sf in demand, focal students and conducting registration, and that dcyf and other student partners are organizing and providing the staffing, technology, and materials for the community hub. next slide, please. we also know that the public health guidance currently requires that schools remain closed, and that as we school districts continue to -- that we all, sorry -- continue to limit contact with people not in our household, which is really vital for us to flatten the curve and to get back to all the in-person things that we really desire strongly to do. we also want our focal students to have access to learning support opportunities in person, and we do, as sfusd, continued to plan for gradual return in a hybrid form, and we are primarily focusing on

elementary schools at this time when data and science indicate it's safe to do so. next slide. [please stand by]

>> we do want to sink up any space with the gradual return because we know how disruptive it is to be in one place one week and another place another week, we're trying to coordinate that. that's probably what we'll do with scheduling and distance learning materials and things like that. and we do hav have state and fel grants for after school programs. those fund lz no will not be usr the community hubs.

money of our community bases organizations that support our after school progranses ar proge working at the school days. we all talked about many times before, health and staift bein g the primary goal. some additional guidance that has allowed us to address the cohort side. testing capacity and cohorts that are being developed around bupublic health. we have to talk about who our agreed upon population for those community spots and what data is needed to identify those students and how we work together to get to those

numbers. and just a continued conversation of locations how can they be acceptable thins this is a neighborhood based strategy and what does an acceptable out reach program look like. we have continual forms with our community partners to support students and families we'll look to that structure to continue to support the c bos to support student nz the hubs. we're always hope to go get more technology support and family resources will continue to be at the forefront of our planning. i already said we're going to keep working with d c yf and continue to work together on this. it's very great to have the board of edto be to spo be so

positive and in support. >> thank you. i see that supervisor ronan has a question. >> a few questions. why is fsusd not pursuing and looking at offering it. >> we are look kining into it. we are not offering it right now. >> if you could explain why. >> we have agreements with our labor partners and need to understand what buildings will be used, what buildings will continue to be open. we are also working through that

with our administrators principal. we should have a lot of those yeses answereanswered in the nef weeks to identify that. there's a lot of work that has to be done at school sites to be prepare it to be ready. we're trying to focus to open for elementary students. students receiving special education education learning. that doesn't mean that we wouldn't have any hubs in them. we have to make sure they are ready. if we needed that school site to be open for hybrid learning. we have to have an exit plan. educators are providing the learning and whatever we can do

to help them engage in distance learning. that's our first priority. i think we have a meeting in three weeks or something. i'm sure we'll have an update of where we are in that thinking. >> you kind of answered a little bit of my question. is sfusd looking to pursue a limit waiver to allow students with disabilities to cam back and learn in person on campus. >> we haven't had that discussion with the board yet. i know that's something we're all thinking about. that guidance just came out tuesday. we have to wrap our heads around what that means and wait for guidance from the department of

public health. i don't have an answer for you but it's high on our list to have discussions. >> i'll keep asking the same questions every week. >> it's high on our list of things to do. >> i know it's only been two weeks. i'm wondering how participation is going. do you have any data on participation. >> you mean in terms of distance learning? the great thing about what we are doing is taking attendance. we know that immediately whether students are engaging. we don't have that, we'll make sure that we'll provide that information in our next

presentation. i don't have it off the top of my head. >> you don't have exact numbers. but do you have general. par >> we'r>> we're getting a ls from families asking how to engage. i would say that it's more than the spring. i really don't know. i appreciate the question. >> some really positive feedback. i'd use that tech line. it is amazing. people answer immediately if not get a response back. i really want to appreciate it. it's working so well. thank you so much. >> thank you. the amazing people who are the architects behind it who designed it. we got the grant and put all of

the resource nz people instead of people. it is an area that we're looking to enhance with more support. we've expanded it to students which is great. we're getting a lot of calls from students on how to navigate the system. >> there's a few great things. >> a lot of time, i don't know if you know this but in the budget you also did support additional funding for more resources for the resource link. it's all part of the budget process. >> that's great. it makes sense that it really is, i've only heard fantastic feedback about it. the other things i know folks always ask is we do have buy los angelebilingual staff on it.

we have a language line for the many many other languages sm you don'languages.you don't have to. you can immediately someone on call for translation, we're developing all those types of enhancements to make it work

>> today is the end of the second week of school. educators are going above and beyond. we're hearing about challenges

for students. educators are pretty exhausted. distance learning is so different from in person teaching and learning. certainly not our choice. we're doing what we can. each student deserve ses a quality education. i wanted to add some additional information based on chief smith's report a couple of different things s things. seven hundred of our members requested access because they have some challenges of other working people and parents. that's going to start probably next week with the phase of a little over a hundred of them. they westbound work withing a total of four schools. they are not guaranteed in their

own schools based on the capacity that she touched on. elementary schools aren't being used because of the possibility of the hybrid model at the elementary school level. we haven't started negotiations yet but we'll be doing that soon. i want to make it cheer tha clet there needs to be a balance between what families need. we know the district has worked hard to provide these work spaces. i want to make sure that this doesn't become that educators are taking up space where we could we having children in those spaces. we are talking about four schools and a few more might be added. there are about a hundred and twenty work sites in sfusd.

because of the potential implications for public education. this is-i have a lot of respect and admiration for the hard working folks who are working in community based organizations, and parks and rec and libraries to provide opportunities for students. but we also know, this is not about them. i want to front load that. we also know there are forces out there, particularly under the current federal administration that would like to dismantle public education

all together. we need to make sure that the plans we're put innin in place e base on an extreme emergency situation and not building blocks for replacing public education teachers and trained educators with folks who work also work hard with students but it's a dir different situation. we're calling them community hubs and not learning hubs. i don't think it's pair know yas can be a continuing conversation. i thank you for your time. >> thank you. thank you for raising all of

those questions and concerns. i do want to flag and maybe we can ask this which d c yf and rec and parks come up what are the options that could be available or are available to educators who are also challenges with provide sg provg distance learning to their own children as they provide distance learning to others. i want to ask about that. i did have a question which i think is prepared to talk about this. we had a lot of questions about outdoor learning and outdoor education and how that is being considered or assessed as we think about potential hybrid models in the coming months and

maybe chief smith may want to comment o on that as well. many parents and teachers have been organizations around outdoor education, and questions about that. just wanted to get your thoughts and how you're thinking about that. >> sure, yeah. we are getting a lot of questions about outdoor education. i wish we had an answer. in six weeks time we'll have this many outdoor education. we're really trying to provide quality distance learning. it's hard on everybody. that is also at the for fron fof our planning. it's the grace and compassion. we're moving as quickly as we can. we know that's an option.

we're looking at outdoor education. we know that's something that's coming. >> just to chime in. we'll be able to provide an update in the next week or two, it's more of a technical thing. i know it's really not the most glamorous topic. she is figuring out how to move furniture around, we can't really open up the outdoor space until we can move our things indoor and outdoor to make it safe. it's a tease tedious task. we'll be able to provide that update to you likely in two weeks with something more concrete. >> thank you.

i appreciate that. we'll get updates on engagement and attendance. i'm sure you'll be presenting that regularly to the board of education and we would love that have more information about that as well. community members any questions before we move to our next presentation. thank you all again. we greatly appreciate all of the work and the perspective and the approach a you're going about it with grace and compassion. thank you president solmam for being here and your critical partnership in this. i believe we have director sue here. thank you again for joining us for another committee meeting and for all the work that you're

doing. >> it looks like it's not working. sorry. i apologize supervisors we are having some technical issues. >> we can see it now. >> oh, you can. >> for a minute. >> you got it?

perfect. good morning. thank you for again inviting me back to share updates on our community learning hubs mish hus initiatives. for the sake of public members who are tuning in today i wanted to very quickly go over the initiative a little bit more information about the initiative before i give you an update. on july 23 our mayor agreed announced that the city will be standing up community hubs to support our highest need children. her announcement it will take a village to address the wide range of learning needs of our children. trying to get them through this pandemic. a village is what we ended up

creating. i wanted to emphasize that these community hubs are not shadow school. there's no intention to recreate school in these hubs. our staff are not certified teachers. we're relying on the great exert ees oexpertise of sfusd teacher. these hub hads are meant to give stability at a highly disruptive moment in their lives and our lives as parents. we created these community center it support learning for children. several key factors for these hubs are that they will have more stable cohorts of young people. the hubs will focus on building

social emotional well being and of course providing opportunities for children to play and socialize safely which is crucial for their emotional health. they will all be staffed by youth development professional. when you think of these hubs as full day summer programming but just happens to be running during the fall. when we designed the hubs, we designed it with racial equity at the forefront of the process. we create the hubs to prioritize our most marginalized in the city. low income resident, as well as the camps. our hom homeless youth, foster

youth. we acknowledge there are many disparity with our african americans, a latino, latina, lan x. we can speak to a lot of data how hard distance learning is this past spring. most distance learning was really really hard for these highly disconnected young people. research pointed to this new term called the covid slide. which is just a cominnation of nocombination carean not being s where they are with their peers. in combination together it's turning into not a soaf i ha coe

but a covid a-it's really important to us to prioritize these highly disconnected young people. so we don't continue to lose all that learning. i wanted to show the process for how we are going to do out reach, registration and enrollment. as you can see, we are leveraging the very wide and deep connections of our community based organizations to connect to families. as well as the very well established relationship that our sf department as well as housing department and other government institutions have with families. we are now actively doing out

reach to those families. and then, we will be providing essentially an enrollment package for family ses s familin decide whether or not participating in the community hubs one righhubs is right for y ses. thephams.they are make sure thee meeting the right criteria. we want to prioritize families who are involved in multiple systems who do not have access to the internet and learning devices. finally we will make the appointments of young people toll each of the hubs. i want to give you a very quick update on enrollment.

on monday august 24 24d c yf released the invite only application. it was trans translated into six different language ses.

-looking to stand up on september 14th, 66 sites that will have two thousand slots available. and i just wanted to share the status of sites for all of our phases. as of right now we have almost a hundred sites we have secured throughout the city. we are on a daily basis building more sites. aseas was mentioned earlier regarding the sites over at city college at san francisco we're actively working with city college to see if we can activate any of their site nz phass inphase two.

once again, i want to recognize the partnership that is make tgg this work. we have a great partnership with the recreation and parks department as well as our public library, dupt o department of h, technology, public health, department of public works and all of our c bo ses. there's a list of all our c bos. we can't do this alone. throughout all of these hearings, it's all of us coming to together. all of us standing up and working to the because our children success really reflects the success of our city. we are all working together.

to the public who is watching this, for those of you who are compelled to say, what can i do? how can i be a part of this village that the city is designing and creating. i want to share that for those who can, please, make a donation to give to sf. because we will be able to use thoases funds tthose funds to se community hubs. and of source your donations will be tax deductible. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you. i want to open it up now to community members for questions. >> thank you.

thank you director sue for the presentation. i had a couple of questions. thank you for the work, pushing this out. i first wanted to actually say, you yoa know, i heard susan jumn the call earlier. there's a very crucial piece there's interconnectedness. there's a lot of things happening. we have to figure out how to bring everybody together. i just wanted to say that i had a couple questions around-you mentioned public house hadding d hope sf, didn't hope sf represent public housing. >> hope sf is only a few housing sites. there are other sites throughout the city. >> that's what i thought. when i saw public housing and

hope sf, it was kind of confusing because they are all public housing. i wanted to make sure we were covering the entire san francisco. in terms of the out reach of our homeless population. what does that actually look like. we're talking about 15 percent actually applies. what is that percent in our homeless population. >> once again, it's 15 percent as of this moment. a lot of our public housing residents don't have access to internet and computers. we're working with the development on housing and

homeless, sfhs to reach out to the families and bring applications to them. i don't have the actual percentage of how many children are homeless in my head right now. i can get that information to you. >> okay. i appreciate i that. for me. that population is super vulnerable. you know, i understand we have a lot of programs running in and out with public housing. we've done a good job. that population right there for me, is what is the stree stratec plan. i want folks to dig deep and identify what our out reach points are for our population. can you talk about what are the

access points for sro family ses. >> we are relying on our connections were srf families. if you have suggestions we would love to connect with you. right fow ttio now it is workinr c bos and our net has-on tuesday the board of education is now in full support of the collaboration between the city and the school district. we are now being very focused and more targeted in trying to direct families who are living in sr os or are homeless. >> gotcha. i know folks have been working a lot wf alot with c bos.

i know a lot of folks are running through the clinics. we have programs and i feel like, you know, those are all good access pointses. arpoints.are we interconnected e folks for access points. i'm pretty sure we are. okay. yeah. thank you. >> in terms of the last question, have you worked at all with the so collaboratives and the family cla collaborative thy are all over the city and work with families. they would be the right entity to work with to get those paper

applications in all of those families hands. >> i actually have an e-mail that is one click away from being sent right now. >> good d good good. i remember you had an online sort of form express interest in the program, you had received upwards of a thousand interest- >> at the end around, yes, around two thousand five hundred throughout the city. >> of those 2700 hown o 2700 hof those would have been eligible under your priority system? >> hi, how you are you?

we pulled those names and we ran them against all the youth that we have in our system who, you know, the priority population. we were able to pull them out and be able to out reach to them through our c bos who we're currently connected with. some of the other youth, you know, it's funny because we've had this conversation of self identified. now being able to work in full partership with the school district and take the name sessd say do these youth stay within the population that you identified. that needs to be priority. there's no way to do checks and balance unless you have some other system that you can run those names against. >> now what you're able to do is receive an application and sfusd

can confirm whether or not this person fits within your priority population. >> yes. >> i see. of those 2700 do you have- >> i doafn don't have a number . we have give you the number that is in our system. we can give you that number but i don't have it off the top of my head right now t. once we as we get more applications in, data sharing, you can't really share names across certain entities of some of those names once we get applications and run against that to see if any of those names come off and any of those families have been connected through other

entities. i remember two weeks ago you said of those 27-thre fethere wy few of them were eligible for the program p program. no disagreement, just acknowledging that there's a huge need out this. >> there's a definite need. i shared with you in past presentations that of the fifty six thousand public school students twenty six thousand qualify for free and reduced lunch. there's no way we can serve that population.

there's need. it's ufn unfortunately we only e the capacity.

tar tait's it's another thing te on parents. a lot of nodding but i don't have an answer. >> we called out to our team. we continue to increase the form on our website. it's a path of collect toing daa that you're looking for supervisor. >> i hoaf yo hope you get the ie from people that aren't eligible for the program. that's what we found out when did you that. so you're out reach plan then, is based on, you know where you're putting the paper applications. it's not just on population. is your out reach plan that you're going to get a paper

application in every homeless families hand. or is your out reach plan based on neighborhoods and spots that are hope, you're going to do out reach to fill those spots. >> we're working with our port partner. i'm been in contact with a bunch of different agencies that have their hands on homeless families and the youth. it's multiple, as we're work withing them yesterday, we were explain t it might not be the neighborhood that they are in. they can be placed anywhere they have space. it might not be the neighborhood if that's not the most convenient. we're trying to develop what is the best strategy.

the staff is entering those applications into our systems and work withing the different point people. whether it's whatever entity it is to connect that family or that youth to a hub that makes sense. for some, there's no address. i was having a conversation with one agency and i was like, can you use our address and does that mean they have to come to a hub that's close to us. no, not necessarily. how our system works there's a manual system where we gave this code to you. this family is hulll hull actuae bay view. there's a manual process of placement as well. we're not necessarily going by neighboneighborhood by neighbor.

how many families are you trying to out reach to. here are the codes, let's pult them iputthem in the hub that me sense. we wouldn't be able to switch them. maybe we can't if that's not the most convenient hub right now. we have to work out those mechanisms and components because we don't know how that will look until we get started. we are trying to put in some preliminary steps. this is what the steps will be for the paip every paper applid out reach folks who are going to use and fill it out and put it in and connect with as many as possible. even then try to connect with many more.

i think we have to do it in partnership with our-with the agency that's we're work withing. it might look different for compass families than it will look for hamilton or the folks we're working with sfhs. >> what i'm really focused on is how many families want this and need this service? that's all great what you are doing. there is a much better partnership with sfusd and the educators union. the person who knows best about their students is the educator. i'm wondering if-there's a commitment and i don't know if

susan is still on the call there's a submitment tha commith elementary school level can say that program would be good for this student or this student. that would cover the whole universe. >> absolutely, yes. >> i really want to have the most optimistic outlook on the process that's happening right now. i really do but it is actually not true that there's a stronger partnership with uesf wrying now. that's a work in progress.

i'm very glad to be here but we have work to do on calling this a partnership. thank you. >> can i ask you a question. i think that the partnership with uesf is so essential to making this as successful as it can be. i would love to participate in deeping that partnership an deepening that partnership and making it a partnership like you said. judge ping by the reaction they were feeling that the teachers of educators in the classrooms being part of identifying which students which would most benefit from the programs. it seems like a really important part of it. i just wanted to know if you had any thoughts about that hand how

we could put a process in place and if that's appropriate. if educators could weigh in on which of their students should get an invitation to this program. >> this is the first i've heard of this idea. >> i've just come up with it as i was speaking. i don't know that it's an official idea. i came up with a question as we were having this conversation. just fyi about that. >> the next steps would be for uesf and the school district to talk together about what it looks like for participation for such an endeavor. we're open to that. i'm just going to say, it's not clear to me what our

relationship is to d c yf, or if we have one. i would like to. >> i would love to play the roll of maybe in between these hearings setting up a meeting with all parties to discuss that. would would that be something that would be welcomed? >> yeah. i think it is critical for the district to check in as well with president soloman. i will reach out with my kowner partmycolleagues. we can connect with your office and d c yf as well. >> that sounds great. thank you. >> did you want to say anything else?

>> no. thank you. i will let you know. thank you. >> sounds good. >> i just had one more question, is that okay? my last question is about food. i am infuriated about what i've been learning about the-the federal government and the usda not subsidizing the foods that are going to be provided in this community hub and to president solmans point, i think it's related to president somans point about a really sort of under handed way of trying to privatize the system.

make it as difficult as possible to assert the needs of children in these hubs. i'm woonderrin wondering if youk a little about that. how we can fight and get our federal delegation on the case and back-my office is drafting a resolution to put before the board of supervisor ses rights. we need to educate the public to this really mysterious act of federal government to deny food to children. if you could elaborate on that. >> it impacts a lot on the school district site. our school district now not only are teachers trying to, you know

do the distance learning curriculums and engage with children. they are also trying to figure out the logistics of which child is connected to which schools so they can pick up the food. it is logistic cal nightmare. i don't want to speak on behalf of the school district. this is very different than what was happening when sheller in place first started in place in the spring. we lived under a waiver that allowed us to essential say children who show up at our fisties to get food will get food. no questions asked. we prioritize our children for eating. we have that waiver for a long time for our state of emergency.

now moving into the fall, that waiver is now pulled we don't have that anymore. what is ending up is that from the hundreds perspective, unless these children actually are part of-we would have to do some time of logistical rearrangement to get reimbursed for the meals that we'll be revieding t provie childrenning sm we'rchildren. we're looking at a fan financiap because we're not going to turn away children. we will be feeding them. all children deserve to have access to food and to meals. particularly while we're all

living through this pandemic. >> [indiscernible].

>> trying to connect the dots because we're trying to ask the board of supervisors to actively help us with these technical guidelines and details and help us with our federal-with our federal delegation to push on the waiver. and so i know that this has been-this is now going to be an issue with sfusd students are snot going to be able to qualify it will be a fiscal rim pac impn the city to meet that dpap. thergap.there's been a lot of discussion. we're follow thg aning this andk

withing our teu student nutritin team. our off-line from our conversation we're having here. i'm working with supervisorror who helped draft this resolution. if this is a joint effort. we'll work with your office as well to help with that introduction on tuesday. i know it's a speedy process and a lot of technical details amongst it. please go with us as we're trying to get as much up to date information for you sm. >> i didn't realize the bigger impacts. i'll be happy to help on this. i'm glad we're talking about this so we don't double up on

the work. thank you for the update. it's outrageous. i can't believe what a cynical and cruel act this i is on the part of the federal government. it will never cease to amaze me how cruel they can be. it really can a big deal. >> about twenty school sites are eligible. in order for students to qualify they have to apply for it which is more difficult. it's a paper application. there's so much to fill out. people is that have students, students and family that received free and reduced lunge last year we'lreduced lunchlasto provide that through september. but unless they actually apply

for this, they won't be able to receive this after september. these barriers are things that have have been created by the federal government. the public charge order is causing-they want to qualify for this. we have been able to provide the meals based on the quawl fibbingfallcall fictioqualifica. each school sites. they have to apply physically-a lot of attention from school staff. a lot of rebuilding trust and to be able to do it. these kind of barriers have been really problematic. it will in return bleed into the city resources in order it provide meals for these families

that desperately need it. any support in interprets of advocacy will be really appreciated. >> thank you so much for your work and fighting for the nutritiousal needs of our students and count yes in. anything i can do to help sm making noise. and really educating the public. just when you think that the trump machine admission can't dy crueler. they do something like this sm we havsmwethis wehave to createt this. thank you. >> thank you. i know we want to get out here and not be here for six hours.

iei'm also super disappointed ad hearing about people being inconsider using our kids as bargaining tools. i'm super disappointed. in full sup or. thank yosupport.there were two s that came into mind. i wanted to make sure they are in mind. are we in the shelters, vetting and searching for kids and imettingetting support. >> we're working with the the department of housing services to not only go into their family shelters but their safe sites to make sure that we out reach to

homeless families in those facilities to share with them that there's an opportunity for their children. >> okay. and thank you for that. can you talk a little bit more about what our current partnership with our organizations that are supporting our lgbt families and-that's the one group i haven't really seen being in the data recently. i know there is needs in that community that i want to make sure we're also paying attention to. >> i can get back to you on that question. i know that we partner with a lot of c bos that prioritize our lgbtq population. we're leveraging our relationships with our c bos. they have staff that they will

be an anchor for us through the lens of their expertise and connections to certain populations sm populations. i can definitely come back to you with those c bos who are working with our lgt dpcq popu population. >> thank you. one thing i wase i was going to. i know a lot of family ries are picking up food and meals on a regular basis. when there's that direct out reach when it comes to the community hubs is information being provided to them directly? i know we're working mainly through our non-profit port ners but not alpar ners.non-profit.p.

there are students that are not engaged and showing up for the learning. they are-as a connected question about enrollment, are you concerned that we received 26 or 28-did you expect a lot more than that. has it effected your assessment of the need in any way. >> can i answer this from the

application. the krmc bo's just started react on wednesday. we expect more to come in through the weekend. the last meeting we had talked about focused out reach. we have open spots for two how. we only out reaches to about eleven hundred families so far. this is the first wave, second wave. phase one and phase two. our first wave is ow reac out ro our c bos. we have principle contact that social workers who contact us about we have this student who really needs to be in your hub. can we get them there. so we're doing what we're calling ad hoc. to sending those out specifically. we can do thoases in the

mechanism i-thing rzthings are . it's very controlled. we know how many are going out in the number of youth we have slots for. the initial waive we have are the c bos that are gradually going out to second tear, third tier. we can make those connections. once again, two thousand for phase one. we're going to try to go to another two thousand in phase

two. i had a wonderful conversation with the youth on treasure island and connect withing the families and making sure they have the resources and they understand what's happening and hearing how many students-we're trying to make these connections and create these opportunities for families who that are first wave not connected to the c bo but have access points. we have to be very careful because we don't want family ses to get their hopes up and not necessarily be able to get into a hub. you were talking about keeping it active application and keeping it open. that's one of my biggest fears is that it's open and we have so many and so many families start to believe and have hope that they can potentially get into a hub. we would have to tell them no or turn them away. how do we balance that

expectation around actually possible. >> great. thank you. appreciate that. i'm sure we'll continue to get updates. in a couple weeks when we meet again we'll have many more applicants and more updates on the demographics and supervisor ronan would love pob involved in ways we engage our educators and work with you as well i'm sure. we'll all follow-up on the things the federal government is doing that is unhelpful. this is one of many. with that i want to let sfusd go. and insight our last presenters before we turn to public comment. if we have our last presenters

from rec and park who are here. >> i guess i get to be the first presenter to say good afternoon commissioners. i don't no if i've ever presented before for this committee. thank you for having us here. before i get into what, we would provide a little bit of context of what the recreation department work during covid since this is my first time presenting to this commit he, i wanted to say a word about our partnership and the work we've been do withing the department of children youth and family.

we often talk in government the need to breakdown silos and different missions work together. we've been working hand in hand with d c yf for the last six months. i think it is a benefit, not just for our staff an services we provide but also i think it is a silver lining in all this that i think will be to the benefit of our communities the type of partnership and collaboration we've been working with together. i really want to thank maria and their entire team.

i want to talk a little bit the recreation departments role in all this. if you can advance the next slide. one thing that has become more important than ever is i'm sure you sense how important parks have been during covid. what we've learned is parks and recreation amenities are not nice to have. they are must have nz thes in te community. they have have been the place for many months now where all people have an opportunity to invest in their own mental and physical health. they've been absolutely vital. it is also important to note that we're now six months into the city's covid response.

our park system has never closed. our staff is fully supporting student ses everyday. all of our parks have been open, all of aw of our restrooms haven ohm. we had to modify so they have safe s. som. some activities have been closen closed. kids are allowed to use some of our outdoor amenities even though they have not open to the public. that's a hemt health policy decn designed to contain community

spread. we have been able to give our children some access to these important amenities. we have lots of spaces and while they have been open for people's health and welfare, we've constricontributed to places whe we've modify p parks to social distancing circumstances. we have safe sleeping sites. we've been distributing our resources to the city's fight against covid as best we can. just a little more detail on our

pop-upon learning that public health considerations to close, i believe the date was march 12th. in partnership with d c yf and our friends at the san francisco public library been a great

partner in literally four days we set up a proar gra program fs and non-profit agencies we made emergency child care availabl available-our organizations were an continue to be on call three times a week to both plan and monitor and overall it was quite

successful, we had over five hundred front line workers involved. a lot of people have a variety of child care options. it was a very successful program. and significantly not a single documented covid positive test traced to either emergency child care efforts or our summer camp program which i think is important to note that we were able to did it safely with great help from the department of public health. once the school year officially ended we transitioned to our prebreadand butter. the social and emotional health of our youth. we were restrained a little bit. they required us to operate with

much smaller pods. although we have many spaces if you can only have a pod of 12 youth it requires both space and-it pren presents staff and e constraints. but we had over three thousand available slots s slots. one of the terrific things we have done. we're the largest provider for children in san francisco. there's a vast net work of non-profit partners and some private partners. the collaboration between d c yf and the park result pd froed fra private net work for san francisco families with information about what the capacity is a little about the

program and where it's located. a little silver lining in our collaborative work. we employed about a hundred and thirty or a hundred and forty youth. this summer who are slightly older. they are 13, 14, 15 year oals os who got paid and worked in these camps. 40% were scholarship and receiving a free camp experience for the free and reduced lunch program. through a program that mayor invested in with the support of the board, an extraordinary amount of out reach as done in public housing sites and saw actual upticks in yu youth fromr

programs. moving onto this fall. what rec an park is doing and we are playing a very-we are close partners but playing a supporting role to d c yf in our community hub effort. we're providing a hybrid of comukcommunication sites. one is parent focus or pront linfrontline worker worker focu. thrsesthere's some overlap in te populations. we are continuing to operate five emergency hubs and youth care sites that actually starts on monday.

we have close to two hundred slots we've been getting guide an. we're trying to a accommodate as many kids as we can. right now we have approximately thirty to forty vacancies left. enrollment was to go back to the population of family ses thatiee enrolled with us in the spring and offer them slots first. at least those that had regular attendance in the program. in addition to our e c y c sites we have another large number of sites that are being used for preschool and prek child care. as i started to note we're first reaching out to those families that participated with us in the spring. a lot of them are our

scholarship families. we're working with the department of health and human resources to make sure every available slot is taken. okay. our community learning hub, in addition we are also par nerring witpartnerwithing a larger progd operating nine different sites for our community subs. you see them listed here. this number isn't accurate. i think it's over three hundred students that we're able to accommodate. this program will start september 14th. we're staffing these sites our ourselves. a couple of things worth noting,

you see eureka valley on the list. we have two, let me confirm my notes. three cohorts of eight to ten children who are either deaf or hard of hearing or other form ses osof disability that will be staffed and supported but our own inclusionary staff. that will be our inclusion in this program. our goal here is not to do what our fantastic school district does or incredible teachers. to help them and support them by providing children who are in engaged with sfusd teachers with

some support and answer to families to provide them with social emotional development and enrichment activity. here are the sites we have identified as community hubs. we have another five site that's are already committed to-that are going to be used by non-profits in our system and we still have another five or six that are in maybe hoods where we expect to draw concentration for children eligible for community hubs that could be available for non-profits to operate.

this obviously is a village and we have not just partnered with the library but with a number of our largest non-profits. our own ym c a and the boys and girls club and others. i think maria presented this slide. this is the breadth of non-profit partners that we've all been working with in this program. you asked a little about outdoor education. i don't know that's been covered yet. i think the opportunity to expand or offer education in an outdoor setting is a super important one. want to share with you a little

about what we do and how we're thinking about adapting in this model. we actually have a great partnership with the san francisco unified school district. we were providing opportunities for twenty five hundred students through this program which takes students closest to their school for outdoor education. we directly with teachers in this program. in the year prior to covid we provided 25 hour hour of educat. we're providing outdoor focused education in these sites sm we . (pleasplease stand by)

>> supervisor haney: this is an area where i think our partnership with san francisco unified school district can grow. mainly, there's some [inaudible] right now, the best model is a hybrid of indoor and outdoor place-based learning, but this is an activity that we're very interested in, and i do want to note something that you all should be proud of called the san francisco city and nature network. san francisco is one of eight

cities working with the national league of cities, and the national children's nature network to standup sort of an intersectional collaborative between city, school districts, and nonprofit. precovid, we have engaged nearly 8,000 children through this initiative, hosted 350 preschools in nature-based play days, hosted nature events, and opened up nature play places, and we have trained 275 early childhood educators in outdoor

education. aga again, this is a cross sector collaborative, and these efforts are continuing between the school districts, cities, and nonprofits to see how we can get these opportunities to these hubs. next slide. nearly 70% of our facilities will be programmed this fall. obviously, we have some facilities in some neighbors that because of constrained resources are not included in our community hub program, but we are opening our parks to a variety of providers who are looking to use park spaces for out-of-school time activity. in fact, in just a few short days, we have received nearly 1200 inquiries have providers

about how to use park spaces. we are trying to sort them. this is complicated. we do run into use conflicts, and so i have an entire team that is sorting those, getting back to the requesters and figure out how can go where most safely and most appropriately, and we -- again, the sites for which we are not staffing directly or which we do not have existing nonprofit providers ready to go or near committed or are committed, we are working with dcyf on that list as other nonprofit providers move to support the community hub model, we move to make those spaces that were not previously available, available. next slide.

next slide. maybe you're trying. it might be -- actually, that might be the end. but it's really been a great honor to collaborate with so many providers and organizations and to support so many children and their needs. i'll stop there. >> supervisor haney: thank you, director ginsburg, and i just do want to thank you and your staff for all the ways that you're stepping up. i know that is not your sort of core work in so many ways, but

you're doing everything you can to be there and provide your facilities and staff and everything, so i really do want to appreciate that. pods to

access our play structures, but they are not yet open to members of the public. while i don't want to speak for public health, we have had

these conversations, and i think public health understands that this is very much an equity issue. what we are finding is while we are not able to accommodate every high-need child through a community hub or a pod, there are many, many children who are blessed with families with resources who have been able to figure out some options for recreation and structured play. supervisor, in your district, as you know, i've been working very closely with a lot of youth advocates in your community because we just invested nearly $4 million in amazing neighborhood playgrounds that we have not yet been able to open to the public. the rationale is this: is as you all know, covid is impacting our highest needs community and communities of color more severely than any

other neighborhoods, and that is exactly the neighborhoods that we want to open for public use, but there is concern about neighborhood spread. there is a possibility that mirrors the opening of playgrounds with some testing or perhaps opening playgrounds in a limited capacity, such as when we open, when we have street closures, like we're contemplating in the tenderloin, maybe on those days, we should be opening playgrounds, too. again, i'm not the health expert and don't want to misrepresent anything, but it seems like what we understand more after several months is this is not about touch and about sanitation, because it is very difficult to keep a playground clean, but really, a little bit about capacity and making sure that children are wearing masks, and that we're all wearing masks. and we know now that that is kind of the key driver.

so, you know, i do think to the good, that in my conversations with dr. aragon and dr. colfax and ana, who was on the call today -- and i know the mayor feels very strongly about this -- we are all aware of the increasing impact of covid on our children. and i am increasingly passionate to work with this committee and our health care experts and our city leaders to provide more opportunities for our children to resume healthy, normal lives or at least what is as close to normal as can be. our children play is very serious business. it is about risk taking, about creativity, about

socialization. it is about problem solving, strengthening their immune system, and stress relief. playgrounds are some of the most equitable resources we have, and public health services is very blessed. from an access issue, we ha have -- we are trying. we understand the emergency need. >> supervisor haney: thank you. we appreciate that, and of course we need to ensure that everything is done safely, but as we are looking at the next phases of things, i know that we are -- we need to think about how we can provide the safe places for all children to play, you know, especially our neediest children.

so i want to have members of the committee to want to ask questions or make comments. trustee randolph? >> hello. it's good to see my former colleagues on the rec and parks committee. >> good to see you. >> i want to make a comment, but i want to thank the rec and park. it wasn't in your presentation, but you also maybe provide more indirect support to our students who are without internet connection, without a home. some of them still live in their cars, so having access to wifi is a very important resource to our students, especially when everything has moved on-line, and the digital device has become more problematic in the city when everything is literally on-line when it comes to education and access to education. so i know anecdotally from our

students, to take care of their mental health and well-being, they are out in the park, but they also are taking advantage of the wifi in some of the parks because the traditional places where students used to access the internet, like libraries or cafes or indoor places are no longer available to them. so they need to have places to do their homework and connect with their fellow students or professors. i don't know if you've thought about that or the importance that that plays to people's educational endeavors, but i just wanted to raise that, and thank you for that initiative that i worked on at rec and park when i know that i was with some of you, but thank you for that.

>> i probably should have raised that in my initial presentation. i really appreciate the opportunity to comment now. so yes, and when you were at rec and park, trusty randolph, you helped us with free wifi, and i think -- correct me if i am wrong -- in at least over 15 public spaces. but i know when we started working on emergency child and youth care, and now this program in partnership with the department of technology and our own amazing information technology staff, we invested significantly in upgrading wifi and bandwidth in some of our clubhouses and rec centers, knowing that they are taking on a heightened purpose, right? you know, wifi for parks and recreation is a mixed bag. we want a very good argument. a compelling argument can be made for people to put their

phones down and theurn their laptops off and connect to people face-to-face. we know that children are connected to devices precovid nine hours a day. we know it's there, but we want to encourage particularly or children not to use it. but for people who need to engage in distance learning or just able to participate in a life that is increasingly on-line precovid, this is something that we are leaning in. one of the projects that you are aware of, trustee randolph is the india basin. this is the deepest dive we have done into a concept called equitable development planning where we work with the community not just in a

traditional concept design construct, but the community has ownership with us in trying to figure out how to develop strategi strategies, when we improve the space, we don't do what some refer to as gentrification, and we don't weaken the neighborhood, we strengthen it. that's not just the design inside the park but outside of the park and how we leverage every single drop of a project to reinvest in the community, and we've been in the equitable planning process with neighbors that are in india basin, in hunters view and shore view for well over a year now. as covid starts, our equitable leadership came up with an idea that we embraced, which is they asked for a tech hub at india basin shoreline park. and this was even before some

of the community hub -- this is before we knew what the fall was going to look like at sfusd. this was really for people of all ages. yes, our children, but also our adults who need a little bit of support and a little extra resource and yes, extra bandwidth maybe to go on job interviews or to work or to go on-line and policyish up a res or do some work. in india basin, we will be lending laptops, giving chrome books, providing support for children and adults where they can come and safely use the bandwidth and engage in their lives. it's a community support annex

where kids can come -- you know, older kids can come and engage in distance learning. you're very right to point out the importance of digital bandwidth and everything we can do to close the divide right now. >> thank you. >> supervisor haney: thank you. trustee selby? >> thank you, chair haney. i also want to think everyone -- thank everyone at rec and park. if it were not for the rec and park, i would not be here because after covid hit, i started a daily trek to golden gate park, and i see a lot of people are there. one of the things that i see, particularly with golden gate in particular, is there's a lot of criticism that there's

mostly white and asian people using the park, even though it's open to others. i actually just texted the mayor to say, would you like to walk in the park with kids that you know so that they sort of experience that? there's black and brown people in the area, but yet, they don't seem to be going to the park. there seems to be some inequity there. >> well, this is the 150th anniversary of golden gate park, and the slogan is golden gate for everyone. we had provided free transit from every single neighborhood to the park, so free transportation to golden gate

park. many years ago, we renovated the beach soccer field, and that has resulted in one of the goals of that project was to bring a significantly more diverse community who plays the international game to golden gate park and to the ocean, which has been very successful. we are in the process of renovating the golden gate park tennis center, a $30 million project that will include, in the clubhouse, something called our tennis learning center -- t.l.p. -- tennis learning center program. we are partnering with five

schools where kids come to engage in learning and tennis supports. the kids that are most engage, most interested -- and these are kids coming from every neighborhood, primarily children of color. our new stewardship program brings kids from a variety of schools, so does greenagers. there is a commitment to make sure that golden gate park remains everyone's park. in the music concourse itself, we have the great wheel standing there, the symbol of hope that is 70% completed. the idea is to bring children from every neighborhood for free to the whole, and then, the other side of the music concourse is renovations that

are being done to the band shell, and there's something for a program that will bring neighborhood performing arts groups to the band shell. so there are just a number of initiatives where we engage in neighborhoods all over the cities. listen, our parks are all about geography, right? and people are most likely to use their local parks, so you're going to see the -- besides taurus, the greatest numbers of golden gate park come from the richmond and haight and panhandle and cole valley neighborhoods, and those de demographics are what they are. we agree 100% that we want to work with additional community partners to ensure that -- i think that golden gate park is

the best shaurban park in amer. i may be a little biased, but i want to ensure that. >> so you mentioned environmental educators, and are those environmental educators, are they coming from golden gate city college, are they coming from sfusd? i'm just wondering where your environmental educators come from? >> well, they come from us. we hire them, we train them. they also come from the conservation corps. we have a theater program with staff on internships to us. some of them come from san francisco state in our recreation, parks and tourism division and/or they're people that have a background in

conservation, natural resources, and community engagement. this is a big part of our own internal staffing model. >> that's wonderful. i would love to see if we could add ccsf to your recruitment pile. >> we can see that. >> yeah. >> and trustee selby, i know you know we have a very important and close partnership with city college with our gardener mode el. i want that thank the supervisors and the budget committee for supporting this during a time we had to make some tough decreases. >> and i wanted to say that it

appears that park and rec is doing a wonderful job of outreach. sometimes, when i look across the city, i see that some departments may be great in something, and other departments may struggle with it. i just want to see that there's some cross pollenation between yourself and other departments, all of these folks at this very difficult time that we're trying to reach kids. i just want to say that i think it sounds like you're in good strong relationship with sfusd and dcyf and maybe a little bit of, you know, communication regarding outreach because it sounds to me like you've sort

of got it -- exactly what you need to do. >> thank you. [inaudible] outreach and engagement. it's something you can always improve on. it's something that we take seriously, and we're continuing to improve on. it's impossible to have every single person in a community paying attention to the same channels where outreach happens, so the formula, the recipe has to be a network, and i personally think the department of children, out, and families is outstanding at outreach in part because their mission and work, where we -- we are our own provider in a sense, and so we work with the kids and families that come through our system one way or another. it has a pleasing system of

nonprofits -- an amazing network of nonprofits, you know, in every single nook and cranny of the city. and obviously, everyono one knr kids better than you at sfusd. it's something we all have to approach together. and then, just a quick follow-up on your question, trustee selby. [inaudible] our youth stewardship program and interns, and we are actually recruiting for that program right now, so after this hearing, my staff will get you and trustee randolph the recruitment information. >> thank you. >> so you can share that within your network. >> so i'm sorry. one last question, and that has to do with a statistic that came out recently, that 44% of san franciscans are suffering from anxiety or depression right now, and on average, in

america, it's 19%. so i don't know what it's like elsewhere. i suppose it's very, very high, as well, because of covid, and i think one of the things that's really difficult is the yoyo effect of open, close, open, close. first of all, kudos for not having a covid case in the work that you've done so far, but i cannot imagine there's not going to be a covid case moving forward. you know, that's how viruses work; they move through the population. what happens in the case of a covid case in a hub? i apologize. i just got here about an hour ago, so what happens if that happens? do we go back into shutdown? >> a couple of good questions on that.

first, i'm very humble -- i pointed that stat out. it's not that we haven't had covid cases, we haven't had covid cases traced to the program itself. you're right. the virus travels, we all live with families. we all have some social contact and social engagement with the world, so we are very humble, and we fully expect that that's certainly possible and plausible. for the last six months, we have been working very, very, very closely with d.p.h. on what the rote cals are. we did have an example of a positive -- protocols are. we did have an example of a positive covid case that came from the relative of a staffer. the staffer called in and said i just tested positive, and, with public health guidance, we closed the facility down for a couple of days, talked to staff

and the students and family participants and were able to open pretty quickly. the city has done a good job, and i know there's money for additional testing for the workers that are going to support these community hub initiatives, but i think the staff -- we're up to 6700 tests for rec and park staff right now. so we encourage our staff, and we provide them with information how to get free testing, and we take our -- the guidance and the -- not just the orders themselves, but the i'dance from d.p.h. on how we're supposed to do this very seriously. i started by saying parks are nice to have. we all like to go to ribbon cuttings, and parks are nice to have, and they're great for the occasional barbecue and little

league games. even though they foster happiness and joy, parks are very serious utilities in the cities, and we need to treat them as such. we need to treat them as importantly as we treat our water system, our streets, our public safety system, our emergency health care system. because what the data will show, as we confront serious mental health challenges right now, in which we're forced to respond to a level of substance abuse and mental health you cuity that you -- health acuity, what the data will show is front end access to open space, front end encourages access to nature, strengthens immune systems, increases problem solving and activity. we need to be taking this

seriously, and even though the investments you make, you won't see the r.o.i. overnight, right? but we will -- i guarantee you, the most we invest in our parks and our open space, the -- the healthier san francisco will be ten years from now and 20 years from now in terms of its mental health. >> thank you. >> supervisor haney: thank you, director ginsburg. i did have one question to clarify about the emergency child care, and i know you and i have talked about this on a number of occasions. just if you could clarify exactly who is eligible for it. we had a conversation about the needs of our educators as it relates to distance learning, emergency child care. are our educators eligible for this emergency child care, and

who specifically is eligible, and who's enrolling? >> right now, given the limited capacity that we have, the limited criteria that we have are limited active workers and response workers. my youngest child is going into her senior year at lowell, and she is working with her teachers quite a bit these days, and so we certainly understand that teachers need child care, too. i don't have a perfect answer for you at the moment. in the limits capacity that we have in -- limited capacity that we have in this model -- and there are other models that have sprung up. we were in march, three days after the city shutdown, and everyone else in the district was not allowed to operate.

we have 40 to 50 slots left, given the capacity that we have, and i'm happy to have a conversation that, you know, makes sure that, particularly if there are available slots, that we take care of those that need it most. and i know that sounds like a little bit of a vague answer, but because of the size of the pool, we have limited the eligibility criteria right now for our emergency health care workers and disaster service workers within the city and county, but particularly -- and we'll see what happens in the next week or two. but if there is sea remaining existing capacity and/or we can figure out some strategies together to offer, then, we want those slots to go to those on the frontline, our teachers and those who need help with

child care the most. >> supervisor haney: i will follow up with you on that because i think expanding to our child educators are essential. they are disaster workers in their own way and should be treated that way. also, i'm thinking about ensuring we meet the need of frontline and hospital workers. it sounds like there are some facilities that are not being used right now that could be in terms of having the space for it. i think it's something that we could revisit soon, and i just want to express my continued willingness to work on you on how to make that happen. >> of course. we do have -- staff resources are really the challenge with expansion, so maybe there's some creative ways to approach that. and, you know, this is fall -- and this is, i think, an

important in dealing with the conversation, we've shifted focus a little bit. when we go back to the spring, when we had many more emergency child care facilities open, our focus was on the parents, right? the parents who needed to be on the frontlines and participate in covid response. this community hub abnoms to our kmfrgs earlier about playgrounds, that we need -- conversations earlier about playgrounds, that we need to shift our focus a little bit more to kids and the emergency circumstances of their parents. look, in an ideal world, we try to do it all, but we've made a very specific and deliberate policy shift towards supporting the community hub model and our highest need children at the moment to make sure they have

what they need to participate in sfusd's learning model, given all the health constraints that sfusd needs to confront. so that's been our priority, but i hear you, supervisor haney, and i totally understand the point and very much committed to supporting our teachers as much as we can. >> supervisor haney: great. thank you, director ginsberg, and thank you to all of your staff for their work. i do want to open it up for public comment now. madam clerk, do we have anything in the queue for public comment? >> clerk: mr. chair, operations is checking for callers in the queue. if you have not done so already, please press star, three to be entered into the queue. for those already in the queue, please continue to hold until

the system indicates that you are unmuted. sean, can you update us, please? >> operator: we have two callers in the queue. >> clerk: hello, caller? >> hi. my name is sucrea ray. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> okay. great. i really wants to speak to the importance and urgency of making outdoor education -- essentially having school outside -- a priority for the school and for the district. i am a parent of two children, one who has just entered second grade, and one who has entered sixth grade. i can tell you that distance learning was effectively

disaster learning for us in the spring. i had to stop working to teach my daughter because as a first grader then, a six-year-old, she was definitely not prepared to be in front of a computer all day, and frankly, her teacher held only one half-hour zoom session twice a week. so it's an unsustainable composition for us. we continue to do most of the education for our daughter who's now in second grade, although her teacher is putting much more effort into our schooling, but i appreciate. but when you talk about children that age, they really are not meant to be in front of a screen that time. we even have had to get our daughter computer glasses because of the discomfort of looking at the screen is causing her. it's difficult for children her age and children in general from any disadvantaged background to go to school,

learn in person for their social development, for their physical health, for their ability to learn interaction skills, but also, for the ability that parents work. i was privileged to not work very much this spring, but i cannot do this indefinitely. i've been sitting, working all morning while i'm trying to make a comment on this. i also want to say school outside is a completely appropriate and feasible and wonderful thing to do. it does respond to the concerns that parents have about safety. it is the most equitable solution because it allows everyone to go to school. i grew up in a very disadvantaged background. i would have been one of these children whose parents wouldn't have been able to attend school distance learning. my mother was a single mother, a nurse, and there's no way that she could have surpris

surprised -- supervised our distance learning. so i want to encourage the school district and everyone -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. you have two minutes. you'll be notified that your line has been unmuted, and you may begin your comments. >> hi. my name's julie roberts fung. i want to express my appreciation for all the work that's being done for students and efforts around testing. i agree with supervisor ronen that once every two months is not enough for testing. i also want to ensure that our c.b.o. staff have sick days and benefits provided. i want to remind everyone that

safety is the highest priority for families? we now have 1,000 youth covid cases in san francisco? i'm disappointed to hear that d.p.h. has been under pressure to declare home pods safe, given that they won't have the testing and oversight towards safety that we have in community hubs. i'm really glad to hear about the efforts around food being highlighted. families are already feeling the crunch. we've estimated that we've lost 8,000 meals in the tenderloin. we're doing all the thing that we can to get families through the complicated system to qualify for food. i want to emphasize we need a full restoration of the grab

and go sites, where d.c.o. allowed students to come from the neighborhood. there's a lot of families with children who hadn't in the community hub -- aren't in the community hub that still need food. the c.b.o. sites are the only ones that are meeting this need, so i really want to emphasize the urgency of that. thank you all for your kefeffo that more families are getting their needs yet, and we can get students back into school where their full needs are met. community hubs are good alternatives, but they aren't replacements for schools or school resources. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. sean, do we have another caller? >> operator: there are no more callers in the queue. >> supervisor haney: thank you. with that, public comment is

now closed. fellow commissioners, trustees, supervisors, anything more that anybody wants to ask or share? again, we really just want to appreciate everyone for the work that they're doing, for all of the presenters and departments and institutions. we appreciate you and your staff. i do want to flag that our next meeting will have to be moved. our meeting two weeks from now will be the week of labor day, where the board of supervisors will be on a recess, so we'll figure out the next time for our meeting, and i would now like to entertain a motion to continue these hearings at the call of the chair. >> supervisor ronen: so moved. >> clerk: would you like me to

take roll call, supervisor? >> supervisor haney: sure. >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 1 and 2 to the call of the chair -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have four ayes. >> supervisor haney: great. thank you, madam clerk, and so we will revisit these, i'm sure, with a lot of updates in a few vehicles, and i'm there's some follow up items that came out of this meeting, as well, and we'll be in touch with everyone about that, and

supervisor ronen and i will work on moving some of those forward. madam clerk, are there anymore items? >> clerk: that completes the business for today. >> supervisor haney: great. thank you, madam clerk. this meeting's adjourned. >> mayor london breed: thank you, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and today i'm here with the director of the department of public health, dr. grant

colfax, as well as our chair of the economic recovery task force, carmen chrks hui. as of today, sadly, we have lost 83 people because of covid, and we have 9,212 confirmed cases, and dr. colfax will provide more details as it relates to covid-19. before we get into details and possibly some good news, today, as a result, sadly, of the wildfires, the air quality is really terrible in san franci o francisco. in fact, we are in the red zone which means we are asking people to stay indoors, to keep their windows closed, and i know that this has been confusing and really challenging because on the one hand because of covid we are expressing to the public that it's important to do things

outdoors to avoid the -- to reduce the transmission of covid-19, and then on the other hand we're dealing with the wildfires and the air quality, which is also a real challenge, and sadly they contradict each other, but we know that the air quality will change based on the wildfires, and so as a result it's important that we are paying very close attention to that and we are adjusting. there's so much uncertainty, and i know there's so much frustration. we knew when covid hit that the possibility of dealing with other challenging events around air quality would be possible. we know that any other situation, any other emergency could happen, and it's important that we adjust. it's important that we are prepared. so again, i know that it's been very confusing, but i want to express my appreciation for your cooperation and ultimately the goal is to protect public health, is to make sure that

you're not impacted by covid, and it's also to make sure that you're not impacted by the air quality which, as i said, is at this time red. what the city has done on a regular basis through our alert sf is provide updates. if you want to sign up or if you want to call 311, we are trying to get the information out as soon as possible. we don't know when the winds are going to shift and when it's going to impact the city, but today i'm sure many of you woke up and you smelled fire, just like i did in my apartment, and i didn't have any windows open, which was odd, and so i do understand this is confusing and scary and uncertain, but we are doing everything we can to make sure that the public is aware of what's going on. you know what's interesting is we've been living like this for the past six months, and one of the things that i made clear from the very beginning is we

will do everything we can to make sure that we are communicating with the public as much as possible. it's been really challenging because there are times where we don't completely have all the information. there are times when there has been uncertainty, but whenever we've had ability to tell you whatever information we had, we did that. and one of the things that i know has been extremely frustrating is especially when we were doing really well in the beginning of this pandemic. it looked like things were going in the right direction and we made announcements about businesses and things that we anticipated could reopen, i remember going to the zoo and feeding the giraffes and getting super excited about what was to come, not because i personally wanted to have those experiences, but it had everything to do with knowing the challenges that people are

facing in this city, especially our small businesses, especially our parents, especially the elderly. when i think about the hundreds of businesses that have closed permanently in this city, or the hair salons or the nail salons or the people that have not been able to open, when i think about the kids who are having challenges because they don't have parents or maybe family members at the home that could help them with distance learning, so we are seeing them fall further and further behind, this is a real struggle for all of us. we have been living in this. we have been dealing with this, and the fact is because san francisco has been through tough times in the past and gotten through them, we will get through this too. and so we want to thank all of you for your patience and understanding. six months. six months. so we're getting used to living

in it, and now it's time for us to make some levels of transition. the good news is, as we came out before and we said there were challenges, and unfortunately we'd have to slow down our reopening efforts, we are here today to say that we expect the governor to hopefully make some good announcements this afternoon about our reopening process and the state watch list, and we'll see what happens at that time, and once we know exactly what that entails, we will come back to you next week with some additional announcements, but as of today we are really excited to announce that we are finally able to allow some businesses to open to do outdoor services on september 1, so that's next week. this includes hair and nail salons, and it also includes outdoor gyms. so, look, i know when you talk

about a woman, for example, and getting our hair done and doing it outside, it sounds crazy because if someone gets color or someone gets a blow dry, they need their hair washed beforehand, and this requires that we make some adjustments to not only if we want to get our hair done but of course if we want to support those businesses that have been closed for far too long. the fact is, it's an adjustment, and we are hopeful that as we see the number and the changes continue that we will be able to allow more. so hair salons, places -- barbershops, nail salons and outdoor gyms are allowed to move forward, but unfortunately facials and tattoo places and things like that, we're going to have to put a pause on, and dr. colfax will go into more details about that. and the whole point of why we are able to do this is because

in these particular instances people are able to wear a mask. public health will provide guidelines that will make sure that you know exactly what to do, because ultimately what we don't want to do is open up these places and then all of a sudden see a spike and then have to go backwards. and i also just want to say something about what this city has done for small businesses. look, i know it's not enough, and i know that we can do more, but we've already helped over a thousand small businesses with anywhere between 10 to $50,000 in grants and loans. we've raised over $29 million in private money to help support so many of our struggling businesses in san francisco, but being closed for six months, we know, has had -- has taken its toll, and so we are doing everything we can to try and

deal with the city's bureaucracies, to try to get rid of fees and delays and process and other things that are costly. our small businesses are hurting. they need us now more than ever, and so as we reopen, yes, resources and financial resources and forgivable expenses are going to be critical, but long term there's a lot more work that we're going to need to do to support our small business community, and i'm definitely committed to that. so what will happen if and once -- well, once we're off the watch list? it will provide us with an opportunity to do more. it will provide us with an opportunity to allow more things to open, and i want to be clear that as more things open in san francisco, the possibility for spread goes up. so the last thing we want to do, as i said before, is to go

backwards, and we also understand that families, especially with school starting and distance learning, i know parents are at their wit's end, and again, i also know that there are students who may not have parents or family members or other people in their household that can be of support as they are trying to learn their lessons. you know, it's sad to think of, you know, the challenges that many of these kids face. i remember -- i mean, i just think about when i was a kid and how i drove my grandma crazy, and if we were in a similar situation at that time, and as you remember back then there was no technology and it would have been very difficult to have a whole distance learning through technology strategy, but my grandmother wasn't always able to help me with my lessons, and

so having resources in the community like the community learning hub that we're proposing through the city are so important. they are especially important for kids whose parents can't afford to miss work. they are important for kids who may not have a family member who can assist them at home, so i know that so many of you want to take advantage of these opportunities, but we don't have enough spots for every child. so you are welcome to sign up, and we ask that you can considerate. if you are able to support and help your kid at home, then we want you to allow the opportunity for some of those other children who may not have those same resources to be able to access these learning hubs. and as we move in a direction of getting off the watch list, our goal is to do everything we can to support our families by making sure that we not only

have these learning hubs but we are hopeful that we will soon be able to provide some guidance as it relates to schools and reopening. we don't know what that is. we don't know what that entails. we don't know when that date might be, but i want you to know that we are keeping in mind the importance to make sure that we are supporting families. we are supporting kids and we are making them the priority as it relates to their need to learn in person, their need to come together with their friends and to play and to live and to enjoy life to the fullest. even now as we speak it pains me that there are parks, there are playgrounds that are empty, that we don't hear the noise and the sounds of children playing in school yards and enjoying themselves and living their lives. it pains me, and i know that people who are parents, it pains them too.

so as we move forward and as we try to push forward with allowing more businesses to open in san francisco, it's also going to be important that we prioritize families and we make access to opportunities for families, for children in particular the priority in this city. now i know so many of you parents are used to scheduling, soccer on thursdays, ballet on tuesdays, tutoring on wednesdays, like you have a whole system because it works for you because you have to work and you divide up the duties and you have a system, and covid has really disrupted that system. we all are living in a lot of uncertainty, but the good news is the city has adapted to this challenging time. we have adapted and we have been a model for the rest of the country despite the challenges that we still face. so this is an interruption, of course, in our lives, but eventually we are going to get

to a better place. eventually there will be a day when we can get together and not think about wearing a mask. eventually there will be a day where we will come together and we'll remember this time, but we'll remember what we did to contribute to getting through it. because when we talk about the fact that we are all in this together, we really are all in this together. and we all play a role in the success of the city. we all have a role to play in making sure that we see these cases continue to decline. our livelihood depends on it. the future of our city depends on it. we're all looking forward to the day where we're not even thinking about walking out of the house with a mask on. that's where we're going to be one day, and so until then,

let's continue to stay safe and healthy by doing our part. let's support one another and our neighbors and continue to do what we can to keep a positive attitude, despite the obstacles. we made adjustments in san francisco. i love seeing people use the safe streets program and walk in the middle of the block and just hang out, and kids riding their bikes with their siblings and the things that are happening because of the street closures, the restaurants that have taken their businesses outside and the people and the bustling and the fun and how folks are still able to go outside and come together. san francisco is still alive and active and well. as we go through this very challenging time. so i really want to thank all of you for your work and your support and i want to make sure i haven't forgotten anything, and it doesn't look like i've

forgotten anything. so the good news is you don't have to hear from me for the rest of the day. the weekend is upon us, and i'm asking, again, that you continue to avoid large gatherings. keep in mind and pay attention to the air quality so that especially those with underlying health conditions and respiratory issues that you are not outside, compromising your health, to do everything you all can to continue to help us fight this virus. we are able to move forward september 1 with very minimal openings, but hopefully significant to so many of the people who have been closed for at least six months, maybe even longer. this is a huge step in the right direction, and hopefully next week we'll have even better news to get our city and the people

of our city to a better place. so thank you all so much for joining us, and at this time i want to turn it over to the department of public health director, dr. grant colfax.

>> well, good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax, director of the public health department for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, mayor breed. it was almost exactly six months ago that we stood on this balcony as you declared a state of emergency for the city. because of your leadership, mayor breed, and thanks to the scientific expertise and the community wisdom that we are so fortunate to have here in san francisco, and through the tireless dedication of city workers and community members, we are better off to do. we have been careful. we will continue to be careful. faced with a new highly infectious virus, we have taken a measured approach that protects the most vulnerable in san francisco and slows the

spread of covid-19. we will continue to move forward with a thoughtful, incremental phased approach to reopening that will hopefully allow us to avert large outbreaks, keep our health care system at capacity, and mitigate even further damage to our economy and community. i want to provide an update on the covid-19 data in san francisco. as you know, these key health indicators help us monitor the spread of the virus in our communities and assess our ability to respond to the pandemic. and if you go to data tracker at the city website, you can follow these key indicators as well. the rate of new cases of covid-19 which helps to show how quickly the virus is spreading

unfortunately remains high. we are seeing about 75 new cases every day right now. that number has been coming down in the recent weeks, but it remains in the red zone. and i want to take a moment here to make a key point with regard to our cases in san francisco. over half of our covid-19 cases continue to be diagnosed in the latin community. while it is the case that the department has worked with key stakeholders in community to address this issue, and we have made progress, it is simply not enough. we must continue to do more. here are some examples of what we will be doing in the immediate future to help address the ongoing latinex pandemic. the department will soon be establishing a $5 million grant program to help community-based

organizations expand community health worker teams, outreach and education. we will continue to expand case investigation and contact tracing teams to a team of over 300 trained individuals and ensuring that at least half the team is fluent in spanish commensurate with the needs identified in the community. we will continue to expand access to testing for the latinex community. we must measure and hold ourselves accountable for increasing testing rates in the community most at risk for covid-19. this means this demand expanding testing sites to new venues, potentially transportation hubs, making testing lower barrier and ensuring wraparound services are seamlessly coordinated to support people if they test positive and need isolation and quarantine support.

our turnaround time for tests, city-based tests, has come down, and i'm happy to say at this time it is less than two days. we will increase our support of education and prevention activities, including ensuring that masks are widely available to those who need them most, and we will continue to ensure to strengthen our outreach and support so people know that regardless of immigration status, all will be welcomed and receive care in our public health care system. san francisco, after all, is a sanctuary city. now to continue with the indicators, it is fortunate that our hospital system indicators currently remain green. this indicator is crucially important as it gauges our ability to handle a potential search of covid-19 patients. our other health indicators

remain relatively solid. testing is green. we are testing about 3700 people a day, more than double our goal. contact tracing is in yellow and orange but continues to improve as our testing time turnaround has improved. we are reaching 81% of cases and 77% of contacts. our goal is to reach 90% of both. contact tracing is one of the most important ways we find and stop the virus before it spreads further. our p.p.e. supply within the department is at 100%, placing us in the green zone. so as we follow these indicators, as we continue to gradually reopen our city, we

are focused on equity and safety. this means opening areas with lower risk and helping those who are suffering dearly as a result shelter-in-place. while covid-19 is a public health priority, so is the development and learning of children. we know that education and particularly early education is a key public health intervention. we can simply not hit pause on our children's development. they must continue to learn and grow. we also know that prolonged school closures can exacerbate the socio-economic disparities and amplify existing educational inequities in our city. classrooms, after-school programs, child care facilities

and learning centers are all an important part of our community infrastructure. they provide safe, supportive learning environments for students, and enable parents, guardians and caregivers to work. they also provide critical services that help to mitigate health inequities, such as meal programs and social, physical and behavioural services. we know that returning children to learning in developmental environments are critically important, and yet it must be done cautiously in this environment of ongoing covid-19 risk. we see the gradual reopening of schools as a significant step forward in our city's long path back to normalcy, helping jump

start the struggling economy by allowing more parents to return to work and contributing to the long-term well-being of children. that is why moving board with learning centers, community hubs, classroom learning and child care facilities is a top priority of our phased reopening plan. however, these facilities must meet minimum standards, including providing detailed safety and protocol plans. and while the development of our children is a priority, so is the safe reopening of our small businesses, the backbone of so many of our communities. and after six months of this covid-19 pandemic, we have learned a lot.

we know that outdoor activities are the safest to avoid infection and, therefore, certain outdoor services and activities can occur with less risk of spreading the virus. as we increase outdoor activities, we must, we must continue to wear our mask, socially distance, and wash our hands frequently. our success is so dependent on each person doing their part. the gradual reopening of outdoor services and children's activities will increase travel, and interaction throughout the city, which means we are at increased risk for more community spread of the virus. as people start to move around the city more and increase

activities, we must, again, be so careful. i ask, wear a mask. we can reopen our city in a responsible, measured and phased approach that leads and must lead with equity. we can address health and safety alongside our children need to return to the classroom, and residents need to get back to work. in the absence of an imminent vaccine or effective treatment, we need to continue to monitor the virus, to continue to work to flatten that curve and slowing the virus's spread in a manner that will not overwhelm our progress, our health care system, our economic system or

continue to increase the inequities and the pandemic that i described earlier. we can only be as successful as our collective action is going forward. san francisco has led the nation and saved lives with our phased and measured approach. in order to preserve our hard-fought gains now, we must monitor the virus as we continue to move forward with children's activities and outdoor businesses. as we open, slowly, with caution, we want to sustain our progress, and as long as san francisco continues to make progress in slowing the spread of the virus and state guidance allows the potential for more activities, we can get san

francisco back on track. thank you. >> first off i must say i'm thrilled that dr. colfax helped to wipe down the podium in advance for me. thank you, dr. colfax, for your comments. good evening -- or good afternoon, everybody. i want to say just how important it is to be here today and recognize all the challenges that i think so many families, businesses are facing at this moment. it's so important today that we continue to find ways to help businesses reopen, even if it means starting outdoor first.

today's step recognizes a number of things. first, it recognizes the importance of education and the role of education for our children. families not only depend on our schools and educational opportunities to be able to actually go to work, but it also means a big deal in terms of our kids' ability to develop, to grow and to live fulfilled lives. i'm very thankful for the department of public health, for putting forward guidances and to create a process to enable that to happen. the second piece that this step recognizes is the importance of reopening and the reality and urgency that businesses are facing. i grew up a daughter of restaurant owners. on weekends i would go to the restaurant, i would help to wait on tables and go and help wash dishes, and i know even before covid-19 it was so incredibly hard for businesses to succeed and to survive in the city.

from thousands and thousands of people we heard the challenges they are facing economically through the economic recovery task force. i think as the mayor spoke about earlier, businesses have been closed for months, some up to six months and more. so many businesses are open at only a fraction of what they were before covid-19. we know that immediate lifeline programs, like the federal ppp program are coming to an end, and i think more than anything we recognize that people need to know more information in order to be able to make good decisions about what they do in the future. should they stay open and continue as they are? should they take out an additional loan? do they need to close up their businesses? we know that opening outdoor services alone won't be an option for everyone, and it's not lost on us about some of the challenges outdoor services provide, including what we're doing with some of the air quality issues today.

but we also recognize that every bit counts, especially now. what we know is that the virus has taught us that flexibility and creativity is incredibly important. we need to try and we need to adjust as best as we can. so far over a thousand businesses have applied to use outdoor spaces through the shared spaces program. we hope that this program or what is announced today will allow for more and more businesses to take advantage of this opportunity. we know that the coming months will be the warmest where outdoor operations could actually be impactful for businesses. we're also about to enter the high retail season, and we also need to recognize that we need to take every step that we can to allow reopening to occur in a safe way. dr. colfax spoke earlier about where we are in terms of the health -- or public health perspective. we are still in a very challenging time, and though today's steps really acknowledges the need to reopen while balancing public health, i

think it's really worth underscoring that there can be no possible long-term sustainable economic recovery without making sure that we're effectively managing and stopping the spread of this disease. workers need to continue to feel safe working and our customers need to feel confident and safe re-engaging in the economy for this to work. so i'll close my comments today by making two requests. the first: support local businesses if you can. it makes such a big difference when you do that takeout order, when you order from your local restaurant, when you buy that good or that product from a local store. it helps to get them through just one more month, one more week, one more day. and second, please continue to wear a mask. please continue to avoid taking unnecessary risks. san francisco businesses and our workers are relying on all of us doing those two simple things that have been able to continue

staying open and sustain the progress that we've made, and also to allow us to open further. thank you so much. i think the first question might be for me, so i'm going to stay up here. >> thank you. we will begin the q&a portion for you. your first question comes from sf business times. when san francisco is off the watch list, does it become the city's sole discretion to open indoor service for salons, gyms, et cetera, or will more restrictions from the state need to be rolled back before that can happen? >> thank you, alex, for that question. i think it's an important one. we understand that there is a lot of confusion about what can open and what cannot open. people are seeing across different county lines that different activities are opening up in san francisco versus in other places, and they also hear sometimes conflicting or confusing information coming from different levels of government. so i think the answer is very well asked because it helps to

clarify the process. there are two things really that we need to continue before we figure out what is next in terms of opening. the first i think is dr. colfax has mentioned is really paying very close attention to what the progression of the disease looks like in san francisco. do we see case counts rising? what do our hospitalization rates look like? what does that spread look like? are we able to reach the people who has been infected? are we able to effectively mitigate that spread? that's one really important component. so san francisco will be taking a look at those different data and statistics to be able to say what does it look like, can we move forward. the second piece that is also important is that the state also provides overlaying requirements in terms of what local jurisdictions can do. in addition to putting a program in place for a watch list, they have also said state-wide certain types of activities can or cannot open, regardless of whether we're on watch list or not. so i think as the state continues to make additional

changes, as they continue to adjust, we're going to be watching very, very closely to make sure that we're following what is required of us, but also making sure to communicate that as clearly as possible in terms of what it is that we are able to do and to open. thank you again for that question, alex. >> thank you, ms. chu. the next set of questions are for mayor breed. mayor breed, your first question comes from andrea borba with kpix. what are your thoughts on lax mask wearing and social distancing seen at national events like the rnc and protests? >> mayor london breed: i was thoroughly disgusted that the

leader of this country would allow such a thing to occur. it was just -- to sit there and to watch it and to see it, when we are in the midst of a global pandemic, where hundreds of thousands of americans have lost their lives, it was very unfortunate, but it doesn't change what we need to do here in san francisco because we follow data, we follow facts, and we use science in order to make good health decisions, and it's a poor example of what any leader should be doing at a time like this, and we need to do better. >> thank you, mayor breed. the next question is from melanie woodrou with abc 7 news. anecdotally some san francisco teachers have shared that attendance is already low for distance learning. are you aware of any attendance numbers yet for the new school

year from the san francisco unified school district? and can you speak to what, if anything, san francisco will do to address truancy? >> mayor london breed: well, i will say that i'm not aware of the attendance records of what's happening with the school district at this time, but this is why opening these learning hubs and providing opportunities for students to have places to go where they cannot only get help with their lesson and how to log in and to set up and to get the support that they need, but also so that they can get food, it's really unfortunate that we're in this situation and so many kids are not getting the resources and the support that they need. we couldn't sit back and wait until this pandemic end. we couldn't sit back and wait on what decisions might happen and the uncertainty. these learning hubs that we have established are so critical to supporting our young people, especially if this is -- you know, early indications of what

we can expect to see and the achievement gap, as we know, as a result of what just recently happened when distance learning took into effect, we saw that those kids who didn't get, for example, the free devices or needed additional internet, wi-fi, they continued to do well in school. meanwhile, even the kids we provided devices and support to through high-speed internet, they continued to not do so well. so we know that the achievement gap is widening, and it's important that we do everything we can to support our young people. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next set of questions are for dr. colfax.

dr. colfax, the question comes from abc 7 news. a group of san francisco gym owners are claiming the city received a waiver from calocia to open gyms at various city spaces, including the police department, public works and the coroner's office while private gyms are facing closure due to restrictions. can you confirm the city employee gyms are open, and what relief is possible for gym owners? >> i'm not aware of any waivers. there are allowances in the order for government services to deem what is essential, so there is at least a theoretical possibility that gyms could be open. certainly this goes against public health advice. i certainly wouldn't recommend

people working out inside enclosed quarters at this time. >> thank you, dr. colfax. there are no further questions at this time, and this concludes today's press conference. thank you, madam mayor, assessor chu and dr. colfax for your time, and thank you everyone for joining us. ♪ san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and

preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought

to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full

range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station

number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference

point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help and we're willing to help

>> i'm supervisor hilary ronen and vice chair stephanie and gordon mar. i would like to thank everyone for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely and committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same nt