understand in a particular school. schools are very different and each school sometimes has specific problem solving we need to do together. we launched collaborative meetings with our site leaders. we developed a hybrid learning partnership protocol. the chief of facility may discuss more about that. we are looking at how things -- how staff and students occupy and the flow of traffic moves throughout the building to ensure that we are following safety guidelines and identifying new routines if necessary. we're also identifying outsource sfas spaces for each cohort and strategies to support learning outside. we need to understand the interest for in-person learning

and distance learning. we understand that the language and the ways which we're thinking of things in this complex way is very confusing so we continue to work on our communication upgrades to make information as clear and as accessible to all stakeholders. our goal is to get students back to their in-person learning at their homeschool, recognizing a need to adhere to safety and staffing and that students strive best in communities they're familiar with and with teachers for whom they have relationships. staffing does not align with the site indication or with the students at all times. that's one of the things we have to look at. throughout this, families will absolutely have the option of whether they want to return to

in-person or if thaw would like to continue with distance learning. the next indicator, the general safety measures. that was a discussion that the previous presentation really walked you through many of the indicators and measures that we are putting in place. every single one of these tasks aligns with the d.p.h. guideline and the d.p.h. application. so we can drop all that information directly into the application that we will need to create for our phase 2b. we are moving steadily towards this, a big thing that we succeeded is that we now have an agreement to support us in part of what we are trying to do in standing up this testing site. we have almost all of our health and safety protocols has been

developed. we're turning all of those protocols into more family-friendly and family facing documents, working on translation and all of that. i'll talk about that more on the communication side. we have test kits and analyses to support the development of return. we work on how we stand up these test sites and how we develop the communication system as we heard in the previous presentation. that's one of the most important parts, what do we do with the information we get, how do we turn it around quickly and how do we prevent and mitigate more exposure for other students, staff, and families. the operational list to put all these measures in place is considerable. then we're going to dig into

this more during the question section. our chief of h.r. is here and he can also offer a more detailed information that we didn't cover in our presentation. our goal is to have a test site at every school site as we reopen and this is going to require one to two at every site. we will work on identifying agencies to support us with the data mapping and implementation into our data system. we're working on creating a covid-19 school dashboard. this will have many dashboards, some of them detailed and specific to folks that need to know so we can turn the information to d.p.h. as quickly as possible to public facing dashboards, to our families, to our employees, just to the general public. dashboard specifically for the board of education commissioners, so they have the

information they need to know in realtime. we're designing out many different communication trees, so those who need the information will have it as quickly and as -- as quickly as possible. we need a centralized team that manages all of these processes and full scale. if we're back to phase tree, in-person learning, sfusd will probably run the largest covid testing operation in the site across 120 locations, so you can imagine the operational lift that it will taked and we'll be responsible for what we want to do and doing it well, teaching our students. the next is staff trained in the health and safety protocol. we're getting close on this. we identified all the staff that needs to be trained. we're partnering with key

stakeholders. we're getting ready to launch the modules and adjust as necessary. as you know, as we talked, the information is constantly changing about general health and safety protocols so we need a whole team that is looking at the health and safety protocols, changing them, and having to retrain staff as necessary. so again, as we open into these phases, we can get good at it and at a full scale operation, we'll have 10,000 employees that will have to have a system that we're constantly training and updating their training for. i talked mostly about all of this. we're close with a lot of the content and creating the communications tool and the trainings are designed to be asynchronous and independent. we will be offering ongoing information sessions for focu s focuses -- folks that want more enperson learning for questions

and working through scenarios and things like that. the next operational indicator is informing families of our health and safety protocols. we are moving, making progress in this area. it's going to start in the next few weeks. we're going to be really reaching out to the families directly, so that we can start having conversations with them and giving them the information they need and providing spaces for them to ask the questions and come to an understanding. we want all families to understand what they are being offered in in-person learning so they can make a well informed decision on whether or not to return to in-person learning and what that will look like or if they would prefer to stay in distance learning. we developed a family safety information on pretty much all the different areas, health and safety protocols, meals, transportation, symptom checking. we're working on multidimensional explanations.

some work with words, some work with pictures, we have a checklist developed of all the assets we're developing. we're working on the translation of all of them. we're about to start our offer with in-person information. are the covid-19 prevention measures in place? that's the next one. we're also moving in that direction. a lot of the conversation was about protocols in an event that a staff or student exhibits covid-19 symptoms and tests positive. that's a big area. we have the protocols in place. we're working closely to drill

down really clearly on where is the hand off and if we have a student or staff exhibiting covid-19 symptoms or reporting testing positive, that the families are supported the way they need to be supported. we asked d.p.h. in providing more work flows and visual information so that we can share that with families of what would happen and how we would go through that flow together and where the hand off is from our coordinated care team. we're working in the division and designing what does that look like, how do we utilize the resource link line to assist us in that effort.

sorry, i'm so use to having someone do this for me. i apologize. so we have a lot of things ready to start training and giving this information out. we are awaiting labor partner agreements to identify that the staff will be prepared for the health screenings. we want to set up a system where i think you heard about the community pledge and that's part of our registration process and we're asking all students and staff to do the screening at home. we're working on how that gets documented and we will as a safety prevention measure also do some type of screening, not the temperature checks for the regions that ana was talking about because we don't want to create bottlenecks and have social distancing challenges, but what does it look like? how are all staff supporting the health screening? how do we move students into isolation if need be if they present symptoms at school and what is the follow up with families and how do we support them in the next step? so we're moving towards progress

in that. i am going to turn this over to our -- [inaudible] >> i can keep queuing it up for you. just let me know when i need to go forward. >> thanks. good afternoon commissioners and supervisors. i'm the chief facilities officer here at san francisco unified school district. i'm going to speak about the next two measures. next slide please. great. so our measure number 6 on our dashboard is our school facility prep for social distancing. there are four sub tasks here, some of them which we made substantive progress on and some we're getting off with the beginning of the work and we plan to pick up pace quickly. one that has gotten a lot of feedback is assessing school site infrastructure for hybrid

learning and checking out classrooms to see the conditions of the windows and their operaability but we're also looking at the building system and the hvac and sinks and classrooms. so i've been pleased to be working with the department of public health, who has also given us a team of about 15 folks or so who next week are going to be in our sights and trying to get as many assessments done as possible. so we have also heard from now over 20 parent volunteers who have also suggested -- i'm sorry, not suggested but volunteered. they suggested themselves, but volunteered a long with our board members to go out and do

these assessments and we actually spent the past few days pulling together or volunteer on boarding materials and/or reentation -- orientation. it sounds easy but when you're in the real world, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the details and distractions in the classroom so we want to provide clear guidance to folks on how to do that. we appreciate everyone's patience as we build up those volunteer materials but we think it will be worthwhile and make for a better and faster product. so while we're at 35% right now, again in the next week or so, we hope to make a leap there and we definitely expect that all the assessments for elementary schools and early education centers, which is our focus during phase 2a will be complete by the first week of december. that data is critical for helping us understand kind of the magnitude of both problem

solving that might need to occur, both specific sites and across the district and also you know, helping us -- i'm sorry, could you go back? >> i'm sorry. >> that's okay, and helping us then strategize on how to work with site administrators. we're at 100% in getting our cleaning and disinfect tants supplies for our custodial team to support the work and again, now next slide please. >> yep. >> thank you. now where we're really drilling down is what we're calling our hybrid learning partnership protocol where facilities, operational teams, our own health and safety teams work with site leaders one-on-one to help them develop site plans that will ensure stable cohorts, manage circulation and social

distance. so the data that we're collecting goes directly to buildings and grounds to help shape our own projections on their workload and set clear priorities on repairs and it goes into this site preparedness process where we sit down and really have to help principles look at their sites and think about everything from where do you want the isolation room to how would you like the exterior of your site set up to support beginning of the school day, arrival and departure, and thinking about setting up classrooms and all of which we hope to provide templates and guidelines for but at every site, there is some customization required in terms of the space planning. so next slide please. so this is also just an important constraint that i've been sharing with folks since this summer. i think it will not come as a shock to parents or staff that

custodial staffing has been on the lean side at sfusd and that the kind of routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols that d.p.h. is requiring, which by the way i do not consider to be burdensome or intense, but just routine. over the past years of shrinking resources that have hit the custodial team, so now we're at the place where our existing custodial staffing which is 300f.t.e. can clean so much on a 24 hour period, so just focusing on high touched surfaces. it's about the size of our early education stand alone sites. so we are able to be able to provide support to the phase 2a priority populations that have

been identified. when you look at that elementary school footprint and you assume 50% classroom capacity due to social distancing measures, that gives you about 15,000 daily feet. i want to say about, this is not precise. it's a magnitude number meant to give people a sense of the real, again, gap between our traditional 55,000 student body when at normal capacity and it's also something that i want to emphasize. we have not only the ability to play with how we use space to serve students, but also schedule. as we think of those 15,000 daily feet, it-- seat, it's not that same student that sits in that seat everyday. okay, next slide please. p.p.e. has been a topic since this summer and we've been working on this since this

summer, which is why we're in such great shape on this particular metric. go to the next slide. i project right now that we're at 85% and rapidly closing in on 100%. our signages and production, and really over the next two to three weeks, this will go to 100% as partition orders arrive and our signage is both produced and we're trying to create site packages so our custodial service team will dispatch these material from the warehouse and deliver, you know, an appropriate number of bundles and packages as needed, based on the number of students at site, staff, and types of programs there. so, that concludes kind of my part of the presentation. i'm happy to turn this back to the chief. >> thanks.

so i will go over deputy superintendent makes her apology for not being able to be here. she's in labor negotiations, so we thought it was important for her to spend her time there. it's not that you're not important, we do want to keep moving in that area. so our eighth indicator is instructional learning plan and the majority of the dashboard functions are focused on reopening schools, but this really focuses on optimal delivery of instruction, both in-person and distance learning. our priority is to create a robust in-person learning plan while continuing to enhance our distance learning. we know we will have students participating in both throughout the year. so we developed the community health pledge, which is one of the sources of conversation and something that's really important because as we all

know, the pandemic doesn't stop or start at the doorstep of the school. this is something we all have to be committed to in whatever we do inside and outside of school. we have begun to develop and launch the in-person modules. we are continuing to provide distance learning to students and we are now starting to do the big lift in thinking about what is the technology needs, what is the use of space and what are the other logistical steps we need to do. and we've been looking at researching the best practices for distance and hybrid learning and have been learning collaboratively with educators from other large urban districts. the current thinking in our in-person learning is to the extent possible p-k will return

for daily in-person learning. other student groups will rotate through a mix of in-person and virtual learning throughout the week. families and students will have an option to opt out of in-person learning and continue to engage in online distance learning. while at school, students will receive live instruction and when at home, students will continue to receive a combination of synchronous instruction and asynchronous instruction. we are engaging our site leaders in the protocol to plan for in-person learning and distance learning options. we're working on finalizing in-person schedules in collaboration with transportation, finalizing plans for students that don't join in person and family and staff about their interest and their capacity to participate in in-person learning. we have reconvened the teaching and learning work group and the

other work groups that are meeting monthly to give us input around instructional learning plans and the many things we have to think about in returning to in-person learning. a key principle in our planning as i mentioned earlier is that it's best for students to be at their homesite with their teacher and staff. so we will continue to work around that model, continue to enhance distance learning and we will definitely need classroom resources and materials to support safety protocols and sharing of high touched materialsful we'll talk about that more in the resource section. i'm going to turn it over about the labor discussions. i'll keep doing the slides. >> hi, i'm the chief h.r. manager for the districted and i wanted to share where we are at with our labor partners.

next slide. so you can see the big buckets of work. the first one is exchanging proposals with our labor partners and that's well underway. i'll show you more on the next slide. [please stand by]

>> i'm the commission president. it's a covid-19 health emergency and to protect entertainment member and the public the city home meeting rooms however members will be participating in the meeting remotely and this were state and federal orders. commissioner members and employeepublic comment will be l 26 and sf govorganize and each speaker will have two minutes to speak and opportunities are available via the zoom platform using meeting id860 0851 1366 or calling (669)900-6833. if you are using zoom, select the raised hand option and if calling by phone dial star 9 to

be added to the speaker line and you will be unmuted when it's your turn to speak. call from a quiet location. dial star 9 and re recommend that you use zoom audio or telephone, you may submit a written public comment through the chat function on school thank you to sfgovtv and media services and we'll start with the roll call. you said this is november 17th y is december 1st. >> i'm looking at the old script, let me make sure i got the right one. that's my fault. i'm like the guy in anchor man, i'll read anything in the teleprompter. careful what you put in that

script. can someone roadway sen resend e script. >> here we thought we won this time. >> we'll get that to you right now. >> i'm going to send it right now. >> let's start with the roll call. >> clerk: [roll call] all right. the first rule of order any of the members who want to comment, can you hear me?

>> you are going in and out. it's muffled. can you har me ok now? >> so this would be for general public comment. any member of the public who wants to comment on an agenda item that is not listed on our agenda and i'll ask if there's general public comment. >> i'm checking the queue and currently no one has their hands raised and there are no comments in zoom chat. >> we'll close general public comment and we'll move onto the approval of the meeting minutes and this is discussion poll as able action to approve the meeting minutes of the november 17th meeting,. >> that's correct. it's meeting minutes. >> oh, ok. >> sorry. >> i got it right that time.

>> you did. sorry. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> there's a motion and a second. any public comment on the approval of the meeting minutes? >> there are no hands raised and there are no comments in the chat. >> all right. we will close public comment and we can have our vote. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> the meeting minutes have been approved and we'll move to item number 3. >> thank you, president, good evening, commissioners. i have a couple of brief updates this evening.

if i could have your assistance, senior annalist rice, if you are able to screen share for me, that map would be great. i wanted to update you with some new music permits statistics and so we now have sent over 100 approval letters. 102 permits have been issued. 20 have been ineligible and 47 are in various stages of review or in conceit and five of those 46 wh46 were sent to me to appro they will get issued by tomorrow is my guess. we're really chugging along. when we started, it was taking g two and a half weeks across permits and we're down to 10 days and i'm hoping to get that to a week as soon as we can. if we take a look here, this is

our google maps that we created for all of our brick and mortar permits that we keep up-to-date and so i would like on the p.o.e. icon too. p.o.s are all the red icons and we have about 300 of those from san francisco and you can see how spread out they are. if you unclick it, dillon, you will just be left with now all of these little daisies that represent a jam permitted place so as you can see, they're pretty similar' mapped to our p.o.e. and same if you had clicn it. it's great to see and we can share this with the public as

well. especially so folks can add entertainment to an outdoor space. so we will share a link of this with all of you. i mute hav might have it from py discussion and e-mails because this is the same link. we've just added another layer of permits to it. so that is the only thing about jam, aside from the fact that all of the, dillon you can stop screen sharing unless they want us to look anything up particular. the only thing i'll mention too is we had updated you all a couple weeks ago on streamline improvements we made to the current online permitting process that digital services helped us create and that's been really helpful in drawing amount of time folks have to spend on the application as it eliminates having to do several up loads that are delick tive that's all

i have for jam. the other update i wanted to provide for you all this evening is just around the health order and so you will have seen that they have a massive update to the health order, given the fact that there's a surge in san francisco and we're seeing a spike in covid cases and we're continuing to roll back. of significance, for this group, i think the main takeaway is the fact that this is now a say safer at home limited activity order essentially. so, we have a 10:00 p.m. close down of outdoor dining now. which is a big difference from

before. and i think the folks that it impact the most are bars that have been partnering with food establishments to offer services past 10:00 p.m. some going to 2:00 a.m. out doors so at this pointing you have to have everybody off the premises at 10:00 p.m. so we're trying to message it similarly to how you would close down a bar and have everybody off premises and having signed their check and stopped drinking at 2:00 a.m. is similar with the 10:00 p.m. end time, however, we can still have restaurants doing take out and as well as delivery past 10:00 p.m. so there are other limitations that this brought in terms of fitness facilities, for example, we're allowed to do some indoor before that is not allowed anymore. that is really kind of the highest level update for you all on that and we'll go ahead and

continue up to date everybody on our mailing list, which you are all on. if we have any other updates to the health order in the coming days. that's all i have. do you have any questions. it's less than a day before we hear is goinhear what is going l have to close outdoors and it will be very difficult. is there a public comment on this agenda item. >> i'm going to just flash on the screen the slide. which shows the public for

public comment. people want to comment. current low ye see anybody with their hands up an. >> i'm going to close public comment. all right. we've gewe'll go to the next aga item. >> good evening, president bleiman and hello commissioners. i have a pretty quick update for you regarding the enforcement report. you will see it's been uploaded into the google drive folder. i don't have anything highlighted to speak to you about as far as the specific business. something i did want to share as a data point is in the last two weeks since we've met at our last hearing we received 13

complaints, which is quite a decrease from the two weeks prior in what you received 16 complaints and the two weeks prior to that we received 24 complaints relative to sound so it is a significant decrease and the number of interactions with our permit holders. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have about the report or anything enforcement related. please, just let me know. >> sounds good. >> just checking, you all have access to then enforcement report while we're in this hearing, correct. >> yep. >> i don't have anything

specific. it sounds like part of that enforcement report was the holiday time. is that fair to say or is that? >> yes, it is. that's right. deputy director, can i ask you a question? >> please, please. >> i. just looking at the oasis s. there anything you can add to that. i'm looking at 927 it says ec still doing enforcement right

now. >> so since that latest -- since that last enter tree from september 27th, the oasis has received a jam permit and we haven't received further sound complaints about their operation. this report is ever green so it is, you kind of get to see a snapshot sips the conception of jam to present and so those older entries are what is happening at that time. i'm not going back and updating them to be current with today, it's rather this is what happens on september 27th. so, they're in good standing and they have no on going problems with their jam permit at this time. >> perfect. it's a great example of the system working. well done. >> i think they're also closing down their outdoor stuff for the winter. as well. >> it's pretty cold out there.

trying to hang out for an hour. i'm pretty sure it's getting rough. >> are we getting calls about heat lamps? has that happened to us? >> with the fire department, right. >> it should be. i'm just wondering if people arh to us at all. accidentally. >> so complaints are not -- to the entertainment commission, no, complaints are not. the cert program started supporting the fire department and educating businesses about heat lamps so they're cross trained and when we visit

locations. >> you can't have one without paying $375, is that correct? >> that's correct. at this time. >> i just want to go on the record saying that someone should do something about that. the businesses that i talk to $375, dehave $20 and so the idea that you would just be able to cough up $375 to -- i want to go on the record for that. >> i wanted to let you know your audio is in and out at least i only heard about half of what you wept on th went on the reco. >> now, you might want to check

your wifi connection. >> yeah, i may log back in an my phone. does anyone have any other comments. >> just so we get the essence of what you were pointing out, you are critical of the permit fee? >> right now to charge $375 to everyone who is forced to go outside. yes. i'm going to fix my internet. i'll talk about it in commissioner comments and questions. >> thanks. >> is that a permit fee of $375 per heat lamp or just to have heat lamps? >> just to have them. >> it's per address. >> yeah.

>> still seems like a lot. i grow. agree. we should be trying to make it easier for them. >> it seems really high when you think about our penalty structure when someone is a bad actor and we're charging 3750 $375 that seems really out of line to me. >> so let's open this up to public comment. is there any public comment on this agenda item. >> i'll flash the screen again.

there are no chats or comments. i'm going to close public comment for this. that brings us to the next agenda item that starts at 6:00 on the dot. >> that's >> so, i'm just going to introduce this agenda idea quickly. it's, i'll pull it up here --

this is going to be agenda item number five which is the update on final recommendations from the san francisco economic recovery task force and we have assessor recorder carmen chiu here to present to us. thank you for attending. do you want me to take over now? >> yes, please. we just heard from the city administrator and she won't be able to join this evening. >> got t. sounds good. first off i want to thank the commissioners for having me at your meeting today and being able to share some of the information and i want today share with you in advance i have a hard stop at 6:30 today so i'm hoping to get through as much of the presentation as quickly as possible so i can leave room for questions. on another note, if there are a few items that are in top of mind for you that we don't have a chance to address, concerned

me an e-mail and we can follow-up with you sol. holly from my team is joining this meeting so if you put questions in the chat as well, we'll follow-up as much as we can so just to give a quick background, my role topically is assess are for the city and county of san francisco and i typically have inner acted with many of you have an economic recovery perspective and it's really required by employees and i want to bring you up to speed on some of those things and what i plan to cover today include where we are in terms of the

city and there there's no economic recovery if we don't have activities open and available or business activities happening in the city. the second thing i'll cover with you are the representations at the task force and i'll try to point out the elements or the pieces that speak specifically to folks who are in the entertainment world or sphere and i wanted to just touch upon two of the resources that either are currently still available for artists and for small business. so hopefully it will provide an overview for people who might be tune north and for you as well. so i'm going to share my screen. i want to confirm we can see that. yes, ok, great. all right.

so, where we are in terms of the cheering system and where we are at the epidemic or the pandemic and i think many of you know these are sort of the main factors that the city is using for considering when we open activities and when we pause and roll back. first and foremost, we have a series of state requirements that we have to follow and the state is issuing and making changes along the way. i think that they are learning as much as we can as we go and so, we're not only adjusting and amending based on what we know here locally but we have to adjust to changing state requirements as they come. i think one of the things i wanted to emphasize here is i know it's been difficult for members of the public and we actually see our data quickly

and much quicker sometimes than what the state sees and so we're able to react more quickly and we also are much more aware of our health-care system and these are the five components that we're looking at in terms of to protect our frontline workers and shows carrying for the sick. i put a red bracket around hospital systems and cases because you know these are two of the biggest factors and most heavily weighted areas at this moment in terms of us watching

out what we do. these two elements are also what the state is really looking at what they're putting us in different tiers. so this is updated as a earlier today so you can see where we are. i want to draw your attention is you will see for the most part, when it comes to our hospital systems, we're seeing a pretty significant increase in the number of cases that are requiring hospitalization at the 58% level. it puts us in our own red zone and with regards to that and you may say that in the hospital care system when we have 33% capacity, in both our acute care and icu bed that's pretty good and we're going to fill that capacity very quickly if the rates of increased cases continue to rise. when we see the rise, we're not seeing a slow, steady rise but an expositional increase. even a 33% capacity doesn't give us a lot of runway with regards

to beds that are available to care for those and we're watching these very, very carefully. from a disease situation perspective, we're doing a lot of testing right now and you can see where we're tracking that everyday and we're seeing that number is steadying and we're not seeing that that number of and we received the data the impact of the thanksgiving holiday weekend and travel. this 87% and 84% number is a

little bit dated. we haven't seen the most updated numbers here, especially with the quick rise in case counts and i would imagine that number would probably is more rosie than it truly is and i mentioned before these are the two it's another graph that shows you the history of the number of cases per 100,000 that we've seen in the city. you see here that we're in the third surge of covid-19 increases for the city and we have been able to clamp down on the surges and bring it down. what you will notice here is that we're at a case count that is much higher than we've seen even compared to the last one and again we still have yet to account for the holiday season and also the winter season which tends to bring more in terms of flu, cold and other respiratory disease that's is not good to be mixed of course with covid-19.

this is the state cheering system. they have a four tier system that goes from minimal, moderate, substantial and widespread. using case counts per 100,000. the percent tests positive and another third index called the healthy places index for the most part and they take a look at metric one and two which is the test positive and the number of new cases and essentially which one is worse, it will be the tier that you are assigned. in the past, the way that this works was that if you are in a particular tier you had to sit in that tier for at least three weeks and you had to demonstrate two weeks of needing a less restrictive tier to you move to that less restrictive tier. the state would re-assign counties on a weekly basis every tuesday. since that time, it's changed because they have seen a pretty significant rapid rise in terms of cases across the state. what they have seen and need to do to respond more quickly to

put countries in a restrictive tier. now they can make announcements about your tier assignment on any day. it's not done on a weekly basis and you will see we were put into the purple tier on a saturday and in addition to that, there's no kind of waiting, a waiting period to go backwards so you you wouldn't sit in the red zone for three weeks and purple and and san francisco is assigned to the widespread tier on november 28th. you see a quick graphic look in the state of california and you will see it almost all 58 countries are really in the substantial or widespread category. there's one county that looks like it's in moderate zone at this point.

this shows you a very quick snapshot of how the state tiering system and impacts local jurisdictions and for every single sector they tell you open at what capacity and depending on which tier you are in. we moved pretty rapid from the yellow tier a few things that are happening as a result of the state's new mandates, make it worse off for the city in terms of our ability to notice businesses. i think in san francisco we really do try to prefer to try to give businesses as much notice as possible if there's going to be closure because we

understand that people buy inventory and it takes more time to shutdown, you have to let employees know there's a lead time that we'd like to provide for businesses to help them get ready for closure and fortunately, the way the new state requirements work is that if you are moved back to a more restrictive tier, the counties have 24 hours to comply, basically, so we only have 24 hour notice essentially to give to businesses to move backwards or to close. and in addition to that, if people or different counties had hit a purple tier, it also requires that we enter into a curfew scenario and with the curfew we have 48 hours to comply with that so again, we're continuing to see new guidance from the state and we're also seeing that they're moving backwards more rapidly and recently you heard from governor gavin newsome they may have additional restrictions they may consider for coun tease that hit higher levels of case counts in the purple tier.

so, a few things just to clarify for folks in terms of what is now required of us that we have hit purple, is that there are two sets of things, as i mentioned, that are driving our actions on what can open or what has to close. one is what the state is requiring of us and there are also potentially a number of additional rights that our local county might put upon businesses and activities. so, this is really showing you that for the most part, most of our current restrictions are driven by state direction. so, a few things you will know have happened so far, the curfew was put into effect november 30th, again, we had 48 hours to comply with that when we're assigned purple tier on saturday and we had to roll back business activities within 24 hours starting on november 29th and that included closing museums, indoor activities from museums, zoos, aquariums, places of worship, dining and bars. so that was required by the

state for us to do within 24 hours of that assignment and in addition, it required that we restrict malls and retail establishments and grocery stores to 50% and of course there's some requirements with regards to gatherings. now you heard recently just earlier today, the department of public-health was on a press conference where they spoke a little bit about further possible limitations that san francisco is considering and that would include potentially further reducing indoor capacity potentially creating a travel quarantine for people who have traveled more than 150 miles outside of san francisco and then potentially looking at the possibility of reducing further outdoor gatherings including the number of people that can con agree gate and households that can mix. that's where we are in terms of our tier assignments and that's my mom.

it's not a joke, this meeting bombing. next i'd like to share with you, so, maybe i'll pause here for just a moment to see if commissioners might have a question before we switch to the next section. >> i'd like you to get to the next section. we do want to hear about the economic task force recommendations and it looks like you have 12 minutes left so i just want to make sure we hear that. so as you know the economic recovery task force was put into place, i want to say at end of april and it included about 100 or so different types of businesses across different sectors and large and small businesses and philanthropy, non profits, service providers, labor unions and as well as city departments. one of the things that i just want to note is that where we began as a task force and by the time we ended, it was a very

different scenario for the pandemic already so a few things have happened since that time. i think in the beginning there was a lot more believe that the pandemic would be more short lived and it ended up being mucf course at its much more extended and i think beyond that there were a number of parallel efforts planning efforts on economic recovery that was taking place, for example, on transportation, childcare, schools, et cetera. the economic recovery task force did not endeavor to troy to touch upon because so much was happening outside of that as well and so, this reflects really a point in time set of recommendations that we put forward to the mayor and to the board of supervisors. i fully expect that the mayor and the board will evaluate and take a look at these recommendations and they will probably chose some that they're going to want to advance, maybe others that they're going to want to consider a little bit further for future implementation and then i would imagine that they would also want to augment some of the work and thinking that was done here with additional efforts.

so just for folks to know that i don't think this is a closed book situation, there are many more opportunities to impact kind of what the city does for economic recovery going forward. they did issue the final report so that's currently available online. i'll ask holly to share the link with you if you don't already have it. these were the major questions we asked our task force members to address around business and jobs and vulnerable populations or economic development and arts culture and we wanted to know how to support businesses to succeed and what we needed to help workers do to reenter the workforce and how we help those most vulnerable and in need of assistance and how it is that we can make san francisco attractive for future development and future business and promoting growth in the city and then in terms of the arts, culture and hospitality it was called out separately.

there are many different industries in san francisco and we didn't call them out specifically in terms of a focus area. the reason why arts culture, hos hospitality and entertainment was pulled out because we understood that the sectors were amongst the hardest hit in the city because of covid-19 and potentially it would be monk the the hardest to return or it would be the longest impact because of additional restrictions on gatherings et cetera. we wanted to not forget about addressing this specific segment of our economy specifically. i'm going to go through seven slides that will share the major buckets about the recommendations that came forward. the first series of local recommendations center around local economic stimulus so this idea that is not san francisco can make comments in our money and budget in order to both create additional opportunities for people to contract with the city but also to make sure that

we help to foster investments in san francisco. so you see here these are things like investing in public infrastructure and supporting major projects, the idea here is that not only would creating projects employ people but those people were then frequent businesses in the city and continue to support additional businesses along the way. there were a lot of recommendations deferring impact fees and strengthening some of the small business opportunities programs that are available so again, programs that allow small business to do business with the city and thinking about how it is we promote the reactivation of different spaces around the city. when i look at these areas here, i think those per nant to the entertainment commission perhaps are those that 1.5 which is promoting the reactivation and additional use of buildings and spaces so are there ways that we can creatively think about how we use our building spaces to

create a safe opportunity for entertainment venues to happen. it has a nice -- it will help everybody as a whole and continualing to support the entertainment industries and arts and i think it's probably going to be an important one around here. the next series of recommendation, how do we improve ability for san franciscans to connect to jobs. this is really focused around how it is that san francisco can reorganize our workforce development. we have workforce programs in the city funded by the city and city departments and that's a lot. so we really wanted to figure out a way to consolidate what needs to be consolidated and make it easier for people to access programs that are most beneficial to them and have a no wrong door approach to this. in addition to that we want to do that job training and also creating additional

opportunities for first source hiring and subsidizing employment. you may know we recently announced that $7.4 million investment in the jobs now programmed that basically allows for san francisco to pay for the wages of employees if they meet certain conditions for the first three to six months depend ong the condition. the third area, which i think this is probably near and dear to many of the folks here, is really promoting a safe reopening. the city really can do good in terms of helping to create environment for us to build confidence in the economy but also to try to open that up as much as possible and i think this is unfortunate at this moment because we got put back to the purple tier so we've had to do a lot of restrictions but our hope is we will foster reopening as safely as we can and as quickly as we can to give businesses an opportunity to survive. this is very important so we

want to make sure that we have clear direction and guidance from our oewd and from our health department, we want to create access to ppe and testifying and tracing. we also want to make sure that people know that we want clean and safe spaces outdoors. for many of you, you are aware of our outdoor program right now shared spaces program has been one of the bright spots to the city's response so far and it's really made a difference for businesses to operate outdoors and that's not meaningful in some neighborhoods where you continue to have outdoor qualities of life issues that prevent that from being a real option so i think 3.4 really speaks to that and trying to stay and address that's an issue that the city needs to address. >> in the next area, we have the idea of preserving operations and lessening regulatory burdens so this is really this concept of trying to create as much flexibility as possible from businesses to operate under the

current conditions and shared spaces is a big one. we had over 2,000 applications that came through. roughly about 1,800 or so applications have gone through and are actually operating and opening whether it's other kind of sidewalks so it's very quick for the amount of time it was. that being said there's my iterations of the shared spaces program and we're trying to figure out a way to make it more forpermanent and accessible so they'll continue changes as we go forward. the areas that could benefit the entertainment commission, that if you were to focus on areas where you might want to play a role it's to say how do we engage and find appropriate outdoor spaces for entertainment venues to happen for things to occur. i think that 4.2 really speaks to that recommendation as to say we know that this point in time that doing things and in terms of in mass indoors is going to be adult if at all possible given our health conditions so can we do things outside.

can we repurpose outdoor large spaces to allow for private businesses and entertainment venues to do something. so, this is something that's important for us to consider here. and the other once speak to again just more flexibility with how you can use space. we have a lot of local land use controls that restricts what can be done in different place and so we're really trying to create flexibility there with 4.3 and 4.4 as well. on the last two, they're around trying to reduce some of the regulatory burdens associated with businesses. ben, you sat in with us in a meeting a really long time ago where we talked a lot about how all of the different mandates that have been put upon businesses have all created a layering effect that ends up being a large burden for businesses. so this is really saying the healthcare security and they're a big issue and couldn't verse

and this is really conceptually saying what are the requirements ask the businesses and our business establishments and are there. it may not sound like economic recovery for many folks but part of the economic recovery task force focus was around this idea about economic justice as well and i think many people knew that even before the pandemic hit there were many challenges with how the economy was growing and also who was benefiting from that economy. the next few slides speak to what can we do as we invest in a

future economy. you will see, i'm not going to go over them too much but they speak to creating educational programming, creating additional access to services, connectivity and other things. the next one is similar to that. housing is a big issue. we want to support that going forward and it has a big impact on the economy. and finally the last one i will speak to you is just really this idea about imagining and building stronger neighborhoods as we go. san francisco is really unique because you go to other cities and you see the same kind of places over and over again. the same retail shops and vibe and you go to san francisco and you go from neighborhood and neighborhood you don't see that. you've unique characteristics and flavors where you go. and so we want to build upon those cultural assets that make san francisco unique and really try to capitalize on that as we.

>> gordie: go forward. many of these speak to the entertainment commission as well. they're about trying to utilize our artist assets and our neighborhood assets to say how do we tie these two together in a place space effort to make sure that we don't forget about the magic that is an fran and the artist and the what we've created, the atmosphere in the cul tier that we have here. i'm going to go through these quickly and i'll open it up for questions. i'm not going to go through these in detail because we are share the slide with you and you can have this. a few things for small businesses and workers. this first page is specific to the entertainment industry. you are aware of the jam permit because you've been working to administer and do this. there were a few other things, the red items are those where funding limits have already been reached for example so the art and artistry leaf fund, cultural

funding through arts as well as the basic universal basic income program, those are all over subscribed at the moment and however there are still funding for sf creative core as well as funding from the arts commission through the normal source of funding. i'm not going through these. this will show you just a list of additional small business programs that are currently still open. same as here. same is true here. these are available open programs currently. the only one in red is this childcare and education fund program which has been exhausted, however, recently with the passage of prop f it creates funding for childcare so we will see different funding and resources for childcare and education. this is a list of the other programs that were put into place for small businesses and have been exhausted locally. i will stop there.

i'm not going to go through the state and local ballot measures because you have received an update and you know that there's been a business tax overhaul that will impact small businesses i'm going to stop sharing my screen and open it up for questions that you might have. and i see it's 6:32 so maybe we can have just a few questions and we can follow-up. real quick, everything on there is great. i think the task force did a great job. the one thing that is missing, is the heap to the big venues and a lot of the nightclubs that are closed and they can't do

indoor, i mean, out doors, promotion and there are restrictions against musician and what they're coming up with is a big balloon payment at the end of covid when the eviction moratoriums are over what's the possibility of the city being able to put up some kind of a fund a low interest rate fund that based on square footage, that maybe people can take out that specifically for the night life venues because everything i see on your screens are great for the arts and great for the museums and i haven't seen anything for the venues that are close and these are a lot of mom and pop venues and small business owners as well. by the time they asked and applied for these small business loans they're already exhausted as you see and you saw those in the red. if holly can stay on when you are gone, i think there's going to be a presentation after you

about the small ven sues and how they're hurting and pleading to the city so i just want to see if you can bring that up to the task force. >> so, just so you know the task force has dissolved now, right. so the task force was put in place in april and then when the report was issued, it doesn't exist anymore in terms of it being a body but that being said the task force recommendations is only one series of recommendations at a point in time. i hope they can look at recommendations put forward in the task force and you can say here are the few we want to pursue and push the state to look at and i think what would helpful is for the commissioners like you mentioned, and we've

seen that before because when we look at federal funding that first came down the pipeline as well as state funding there were many programs that were available for unemployment but not for undocumented people, for example. right. so, we really tried to still some of those gaps either through fin philanthropy and it's worth highlighting areas where we might have overlooked or we need to revisit. >> great. thank you. anyone else? >> you are muted, dan. >> i don't have any really specific questions. i just would like you to reiterate, so, obviously taking a look at the forgotten industries like larger venues

and smaller venues and these things, can you just in the beginning, you said you may want to -- you said that this is not the stopping point, this is a starting point for discussion and the opportunities are xy and z and you mentioned going to the supervisors and the mayor. can you repeat that so we can get in our brain the best way that we, as a group, put this into action. >> yeah. you know, i think what i'm hoping this shares with you is the context in which we're operating and i think there are still going to be many, many bites of the apple here. i think what we're running against is resources and whether we have the resources to do everything that we want to do. i think what is probably the most beneficial and helpful is to take a look at the task force recommendations. there are a few and we can follow-up and share with you specifically which particular recommendations we think really hit the entertainment industries. so you can really focus on some of those. it would be to say are there any

of these recommendations here that you really want to champion and push forward to the board and to the mayor, either through an active commission so perhaps like a joint letter or resolution. similar to what i saw the small business commission do they also identify a few other additional ideas and they work specific to small businesses that they wanted us to address and that's done here with the entertainment commission too, similar to what commissioner lee mentioned if there are particular kinds of ways the city could be helpful, we want to hear all of those ideas and so, i think it probably would be very appropriate for this commission to review the recommendations of the task force and see if there's priorities you would like within that list and also don't limit yourself to that and say even the toe at tha totality industry and the structures because there are big and small venues and there's a whole

different, a whole range of different entertainment venues in the city and here are the things that we think the city has done well to help address the ones that we don't, you know, another thing is that we've been talk to go some of the large venue-type industries or groups, the folks who put on the large music festivals and so on, you know, i don't see a time immediately, of course, it's definitely not this year, where we'll bring in hundreds of thousands of people all at once. that being said, there were many things that they have shared with us that are helpful for them.

>> i think hear from many of these industries about things we can do to promote to make sure we're helping them plan ahead and similar for your industry and we'd like to know what those things are. >> got it. and i just wanted to ask one more question that came through the chat but i will ask it myself. the question has the san francisco used all of the cares act funding, 154 million can we see an updated report of the allocation and funding for the federal coronavirus relief funds. >> i'm not sure. i don't have the answer to that we can follow-up with you to find out what the expensive or what has been expended out of that fund. i think you probably have seen that there's been recent news about whether a new federal package will come forward in terms of relief and certainly we're hopeel with the new joe

biden administration we might see additional support for local businesses but, i think it's hard to say what is going to happen with the federal government at this point and we can follow-up specifically on the cares allocation. with you. >> all right. thank you. are there any other commissioner questions, i know we're 10 minutes over here. >> all right. seeing none, i'm going open things up to public comment. where you live, can you hear us. >> before you do speak, i just want to remind this is public comment not public q&a.

i can pose a question but we don't do a q&a in our commissioner meetings. we'll have to. >> if you leave your e-mail in the chat, staff can follow-up with your questions so feel free. >> so please, put your questions in the chat you can ask them openly and we can try to help to answer them but it's not a q&a. >> can you hear me. i did have a question so i'll just make a comment as far as from the entertainment industry goes. we're in a spot in san francisco right now that is a great location, it's the largest type of facility and residential area of it's kind in the country and it's park mer said right next to san francisco state. and we are a ak activating live entertainment. extremely covid safe. safe.

some the ideas are great. i have questions so i guess i will go through the proper channels to make those questions happen later. i think this is wonderful. let's just keep moving this forward and if there's anything that you think you can help in what we're doing in park merced, please, reach out to me. i'm friends with the entertainment director, stephen. thank you. >> not director. >> you can also e-mail our staff at entertainment.commissioner at sfgov.or rg and we'll get back to you. >> thank you. >> commissioners, the next person lined up is samuel morris. i'm going to allow them to talk. >> you have two minutes. >> hello, everybody.

my name is sam and i'm a resident of the mission. i'm just calling or actually talking because i'd like to advocate for giving assistance to live venues, as is mentioned in the previous presentation and afterwards in the comments. speaking personally, entertainment and culture night life, all those things are what make me and others residents and certainly tourists love san francisco and the city and i'm sure you will aware, we're able to go east on the sidewalks, grab to-go food at our favorite runs and support them as well as a number of other industries currently. but, since march or whenever the first lockdown happened, i hadn't been able to see my favorite band or my favorite local venues and as much as i would love to support them there's no way to do it. as i alluded to, venues are some

of the first businesses to close and they're going to be the last to open. and from what i understand they also generate good revenue for the city. i read that for every dollar spent at a ticket, at a venue, generates $12 in other local spending. i'd love to see additional support as alluded earlier for live venues and special or small mom and pop venues so they can continue to provide a lot of value to the city and enjoy to residents and tourists as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> next up in the cue is michelle delanie. >> i apologize, i just wanted to thank you again and i'm going to have to jump off the call but we'll commit of course to answering follow-up questions as we go. thank you very much for having me and i apologize.

holly will stay on and relay what you've said. thank you. >> thank you. >> michelle, are you there. >> yeah, i'm here, can you hear me ok, guys. >> yes. >> you have two minutes, go ahead. >> michelle from gallery i just want to again thank you guys. that was a great presentation and thank you for all you've done and just want to urge you to support emergency relief for san francisco venues, thank you for bringing that up and it's really important and i also just wanted to note i appreciated in the presentation you guys are thinking about how the effects on the streets outside really english us trying to do anything out there so thank you so much for paying attention to that because it's a real challenge for all of us so thank you for all you do and please support the san francisco venue coalition and we're trying to see how we can help all the venues here. thank you.

>> thank you. >> i am scanning the queue and no hands raised. >> we'll close public comment for this agenda item. we'll move on. the next agenda item is number 6. can i guys all hear me ok. great. the next agenda item number 6, which is discussion around the san francisco independent venues proposed relief package that they had and i'll let executive director remind us why we have this on the agenda and we can have a conversation around it. >> absolutely. thank you, president bleiman. so just as a reminder, this is a discussion and possible action

item and so you can chose to take action tonight and vote and just as a reminder, we brought this to the evening's hearings and in response to your request from the november 17th hearing where we heard from the san francisco venue coalition and the independent venue alliance and heard what their struggles are which wore hearing as well as their policy asks were and so what we provided to you all in advance of this hearing, and i want to make sure you all have access to it and are able to look at it during this item and it's in your google drive foldser and under items 6 and it's a pdf from both groups that is a three-page document with a background why the ask is important and it's all page one and page two is policy proposals which is what is up for

discussion tonight. page three is around eligible and we're looking at page two this evening and what you can do there's a couple different paths and if you grow with everything within the policy proposal there's about 10 listed here and you can simply vote to send a letter of support to our local policymakers including the mayor and board of supervisors for this policy if its entirety including having chair. >> bryan: bleiman. if you want to parse out and don't agree with all of them and what we'll do tonight and we want to hear what we do agree and we would come back to you on december 15th and a draft

letter you would vote to amend and then send over approved for support. so those are the couple of paths that you can set your minds and toward what we're doing tonight and i will let you, president bleiman take it from here. do you want to read out the policy proposals. >> yes, just to remind everybody i'm going to read through what the proposals were. it's 1-10. emergency relief for rent and mortgage payments in order to sigh cure spaces while closed. emergency financial relief for payroll to secure employees while closed. and three, emergency financial relief for utilities payments while closed. city pressure otherwise to the wave or reduce rates. number four emergency financial relief for insurance payments, and broad emergency relief as outlined in item 1-4 and district grant fund to venues at 15% capped at $750,000 or

forgivable loans at minimal to zero center this total relief package is estimated at $48 million. develop and implement a legacy business program specific to venues to be recognized as a valuable cultural as set with the eligibility criteria and reduce to 10 years, retroactive to independent venues and businesses from january 1st, 2020 and expires january 2025. abatement through 2021 or while venues are not allowed to operate at full capacity and provide background subsidiaries, extended pay back time lines and permanently wave review permiting and fees relevant and

of sfmta permits and fees to be issued as credit for future use and parking directly in front of venues to be preserved for sole use of the venue and a first right of refusal for temporary permits and transfer management had of the permitting fees. refund unsecured property and taxes from 2020 in eliminate them for five years. expand br-190689 to all san francisco protecting entertainment venue spaces from development of other uses and zoning for a period of 18 months after closure. those are the 10 items. we want to have a discussion here and i encourage it. i also, this is a letter that they wrote with their requests. and so we can't just vote to support their letter if that's

ok as well. i want to open things up to the commissioners now to have a discussion about this. >> a lot of it on here is truly written by the industry. i mean, i don't know, i mean, being in the industry, and dealing with all this when i was actively running a venue, i mean, these are all the hard-hit items. the sfmta stuff and things, i mean, that is an interesting thing. i never had to deal with that before. i'm in full support of this document without really any much changes. i'll go to you guys to see what you guys think about it.

>> i really appreciate the thought that went into this and i certainly understand the importance of it and i would like us to be able to move it forward in line with what assessor recording two was encouraging us to move forward recommendations and suggestions and i think there's a lot of stuff in here that is not specific to venues or the entertainment commission. rent and mortgage payments, payroll, utilities, et cetera. and obviously the city and again if we just heard the city has had some efforts to address this and i don't know whether any of the venues were able to access any of those small business and other funds before they were ant

makes sense to pull out those who are entertainment specific or move forward. i'm fine with moving forward but we may get push back because they're not entertainment industry specific >> correct me if i'm wrong but i believe they mean the implication is this is for the entertainment venues. >> that's my understanding as well. i'm just, you know, i think there are a lot of small businesses that would like rent and mortgage financial relief right now because they don't have any income, right.

>> i would say two things. one is that, our mission as this group is to promote and regulate and promote night life in san francisco and entertainment. it's not our job to advocate for other forms of businesses there are other commission that's do that it's our job to promote that and i would also argue personally and not that contradict what you are saying but these are my personal feelings, that there are particular cultural economic and that other industries don't provide so one of the cases that i've made regularly is that night life does, night life and entertainment offers a lot more than other businesses in san francisco do and i'm willing to go on the debate stage and have that in terms of the different

roles cultures it brings together and the what it offers to neighborhoods and that it's something greater than your typical case so i want to make that case. >> i have one follow-up on the utilities, when they do a similar package they can use that money for the utilities, even though we're shut down, you still have to have the refrigerators running. i know that the water bill reduces quite a bit besides there's less flushing but you have to keep your coolers going. they can lump it together instead of going one by one. they're pointing out what is hurting them. they have aw utilities and theyn include all that and help them, they can request certain amount of money to cover that. utility is part of the expense.

>> i'm not disagreeing with these necessary and i don't -- i think i'm thinking strategically and in terms of how to move this forward in a way that doesn't generate push back because it is specific to one industry. how do we make the case that either as president bleiman just described, this industry provides additional benefits which i think we all on this commission know, well, so in terms of how do we push this forward and make it as successful as possible to get as much as we can for our industry. >> one more comment too, i think because all the restaurants and all the other businesses retail have been given their all kinds of props and help, and the

venues are even the small bars have because of the gatherings problems, so we all know and maybe we're not going to be until spring that a vaccine comes out we'll get any relief. what what happens is the time the money is divvied up there's no more money available for these venues and part of it is fairness. i think all has been done for the other industries and it's now time to give some to the entertainment or to night life industry and i think part of the argument is being fair. it's a little bit lob sided and i own small business on the other side too and i helped on the entertainment side it hasn't been any life other than the fees and things like that but there hasn't been really a set of a little life preserver and i like to see a canoe or a boat.

that's my argument. >> i want to hear from commissioner wang, please. >> i kind of wanted to dove tail off of what commissioner thomas was saying is this it's compelling to find areas where we can add value versus like we sign off on this and it's advocating for other things that come up from that list, like finding performance outdoor performance spaces and as with everything else, the devil is in the details and i see things on this list like, eviction,

abatement, which that stuff and and it comes from the state level. a permanent waiver of fees and taxes as outlined by mayor breed, i looked at that link and she talks about waving fees and tracks through march 20201, not permanently and i don't know if that's a very persuasive case we can make once capacity reopens and so they're just certain things there that i do think are worth parsing out and finding and picking out the areas where we can be the best advocate. >> maybe i can make a session here for the sake of time. i think that commissioner thomas and commissioner wang are absolutely right and i think this letter, it's very timely in this hearing because it came right on the heels of the presentation from assessor

recorder chiu and the recommendations around the economic task force and i'm just wondering what might make sense is rather than vote today and we can have a discussion about it but we kind of take, we ask staff to work with individual commissioners and to parse this letter and have it combined with the recommendations from the ertf and see if we might be able to have one letter that is a little more specific that we're able to review in our following hearing. would that make sense? >> i agree. >> yes. >> yes. >> so that's, we don't need to vote on that, am i right? >> you do not. however, i may need more -- i'm hearing all of you, you may want to give me a little bit more direction. i think that i'm understanding you don't potentially want to

have this letter include items not relevant to our local government's jurisdiction unless you want to include it and just note this is something that our local government can share with our state and federal lobbyists so just putting it out there and then i think that items 7 and 8 that those are incredibly relevant to our offices' operations number seven i do need to just put on the record is our offices budget and so our annual license fees and permit application fees is what keeps the entertainment commission afloat. since they're waved, we're relying on general fund funding from other city agencies to be able to stay alive and support this work with we go back to normal times so that's important to call out that if that goes away, we would need to find a budget from elsewhere. number eight, i do

wholeheartedly agree with. i just want to put that on the record that that's something that i used to run a very similar program when i worked in the film commission and to support film shoots being able to take out parking spots. we fill sil tated that and that's feasible and is there anything else direction wise you want to provide to me outside of the discussing this with less than a quorum leading up to our next hearing. >> number nine, the unsecure property taxes that, a city tax, not a property tax like your mortgage. >> it's collected through the city. >> it's a state tax. >> it's a state law that requires all sorts of states and yeah, i would ask that staff do some work to kind of group these

into which ones are things that local government can take action on which are ones that would require state government action which ones would require some sort of other action so we have a sense what the targets are for each of them and that would be helpful in terms of what things do we move forward to the board of supervisors and the mayor and what things do we move forward with a request that the city advocate with the state or the federal government on. >> david kelly: would add identification of existing programs that might already be servicing some of these asks or once that are in the works and then integrating some of the things from, aim getting this acronym, rtf from some of those recommendations and once where we might be able to play more of a role in advocating. >> yes, and i think for that, i'm very familiar with those

recommendations because we worked on those as members of the task force both president bleiman and i and so we can play around with that and there's probably nine specific policy proposals within the ertf that are specific to arts, culture, hospitality and entertainment and so i do think that it will be really important if you want to make a vote at our december 15th hearing. i would likely present it differently and have it be the actual letter of support or i'll talk to teat attorney maybe we can do a resolutional continue actively but something that more written out thaw guys can tack on and then if you want, i mean, we could even -- i'm just trying to think through if you want anymore in-depth information int they're all available for all of

you and they're actually located in your folder for tonight's hearing and it was in the item for carmen so there's the actual report is in there and what i'll go ahead is do is just send you all an e-mail sharing that report again and highlighting the specific proposals numbers 24that are relevant to our work and i'd love to hear from you if you have specific ones you want us to highlight. >> thank you. >> all right. i'm going to open this to public comment. >> president bleiman, we have a few comments in the chat. one from piano pipe productions and another one michelle delanie for this item. >>

>> to these fees right now. well, i wanted to as you know i work for the san francisco foundation and today is world aids day every year. given the enormous impact the hiv and aides epidemic have had on the words of night life and entertainment, i wanted us to ask for us to adjourn this meeting in evening in memory of the members of the night life and entertainment completion who died of hiv and aids as well as recognize the enormous efforts of our night life and entertainment communities in raising money and raising awareness and providing support

to people living with hiv and aids. i love that idea. before we adjourn, is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there are no hands raised. there is another comment from piano pipe productions that was received during this agenda. want me to read it? >> all right. thank you for your time and consideration and i'm here to use you to support emergency financial relief and know this commission does not have the jurisdiction to award such a package but members of the commission are friends and supporters of live entertainment and knowledgeable and committed public servants so i'm here to ask you, use considerable care for the industry and hard earned understanding of governments to

advocate to the board of supervisors, mayor breed and the action to help sf venues makes it three this pandemic. i don't want to live in a city that can't host live music. i don't want to live in a city without dance halls and i don't want to live in a city that won't help one of the few things that make it great. it's culture. so, please, join with me and support this measure for immediate financial relief for san francisco venues. thank you. >> thank you, very much. and with that, we will adjourn this meeting in honor of world aids day and the contributions that entertainment has made to that cause. and all of the people impacted by that cause. thank you, very much. we will adjourn the meeting at 7:15:00 p.m. thanks. >> have a good night.

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>> chair fewer: good morning, e. the meeting will come to order. this is the december 9th, 2020 rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. i'm sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. i'm joined by supervisors shamann walton and rafael mandelman. our clerk is miss linda wong. i'd like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the board of supervisors, legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conferencing and participate in the meeting to the same extent

as if physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments are opportunity to speak during public comment period are available via phone call by calling (415)655-0001. again, meeting i.d. 146 414 8528. again 146 414 8528. then press pound twice. when permitted, you'll hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted. when your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following way, to myself, the budget and finance committee clerk.

if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the official file. spanish and chinese interpretations are those who need translation services. on items 18, 19 and 20 under the 2:30 p.m. special order. finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors' agenda of december 15th, unless otherwise stated. >> chair fewer: thank you very much, madam clerk. can you please call item number 1. >> clerk: yes. item number 1, resolution rerow actively approving the first to the second amended restated operating agreement between the city and county of san francisco, establishing the terms and conditions for scheduling of the city's electrical transmission for a term of ten years, beginning on march 2nd, 2018, and ending ten years after the effective

date of the resolution. not to exceed the amount of $100,000. members of the public comment who wish to provide public comment should call (415)655-0001, meeting i.d. 146 414 8528. and press pound twice. if you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. >> chair fewer: thank you very much, madam clerk. today we have with us mark from the p.u.c. margaret, the floor is yours. >> thank you. googood morning, chair fewer, supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. i'm the division manager of hetch hetchy water. the sf3uccertain is is requesting approval of a resolution, retroactively approving a first amendment to the second amended and receded operating agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the california independent system operator or ciso.

the term of the amendment would begin on march 2nd, 2018 and end ten years after the effective date of this resolution. not to exceed amount of $100,000. a little bit about the agreement. ciso manages the grid in california, subject to the federal energy regulatory commission. the city uses the grid to buy and sell electricity, so we must have arrangements with ciso to government the connection, transaction, on the transmission grid. the operating agreement, with the ciso is one of those. i know that we are requesting retroactive approval on this agreement. i want to give you a little background on that. the agreement expired in 2018.

the agreement was approved and continues to remain in place until there's a request to terminate the agreement. i agree that this is still not acceptable. and for some reason we missed md this agreement and hetch hetchy water maintains the list of agreements and termination dates. and we have updated -- for some reason this was not on there. we have updated the list to include this agreement. the city will not incur any costs under the amended second, unless the city requests that ciso provide services to the agreement allowed to the city to procure from the ciso, consisting of assisting the city to transition to a different balancing authority. stpuc says the transition services during the ten-year term will not exceed $100,000.

the sfpuc respectfully requests the second amended and restated operating agreement, that the california system operator to begin on march 2nd, 2018, and extend for ten years from the effective date of the resolution. the sfpuc has shared the clerk and the committee members -- the non-substantive amendments. would you like me to read through the amendments? >> chair fewer: yes, please. >> in 2008, the board of supervisors or board approved ordinance number 31-08, a settlement of proceedings initial created by the california independent system operator at the federal energy regulatory commission against the city and county of san francisco to establish the terms and conditions for the scheduling of the city's

electrical transmission facilities, that interconnect with the balancing authority of northern california and the turloc balancing authority. in addition to approving the settlement, the board authorized the general manager of the sfpuc to enter into the operating agreement between the city and the ciso. the first operating agreement expired on july 1st, 2015. the first operating agreement established the terms and conditions for the scheduling of the city's electrical transmission, that interconnect with the balancing authority of northern california and the turlock irrigation district balancing authority areas. and after the first operating agreement expired, the city and the ciso enter into a second amended and restated operating agreement. the second operating agreement

has an effective date of july 1, 2015, and expired on march 1s march 1st, 2018. the board was not asked to approve the second amended operating agreement, because the extended term of the agreement did not exceed ten years. the parties have continued to operate under the second operating agreement since march 1st, 2018, because ciso did not file request with ferk to terminate it. the city and the ciso have negotiated a first amendment to the second amended and restated operating agreement, which is on file with the clerk and the board of supervisors in file number 200969. in addition to extending the term of the second operating agreement for ten years, on the effective date of the resolution. the amended operating agreement allows the city to continue,

one, be compensated for energy put into the grid that is used by other utilities. two, coordinated outages with the ciso. three, specify real-time operating limits for certain of its connections. the term of the agreement amendment would begin on march 2nd, 2018, and ten years after the effective date of this resolution, not to exceed amount of $100,000. that is the end of my presentation. thank you. do you have any questions for me? >> chair fewer: let me ask. colleagues, any comments or questions from ms. hanford. seeing none, let's open this up for public comment, please. >> clerk: yes, madam clerk. operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operations, please let us know if > callers are ready. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have

been unmuted. mr. coup, are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 1. >> madam clerk, we have no callers in the queue. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. public comment on item number 1 closed. i'd like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. could i have auto roll call, vote. >> clerk: would i like to accept the amendment presented by the p.u.c.? >> chair fewer: yes, please. i'd like to make a motion to accept the amendments. >> clerk: yes. on the motion, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: aye. >> clerk: chair fewer. >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chair fewer: yes. i'd like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. >> clerk: absolutely. >> chair fewer: as amended. >> clerk: on the motion, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: aye. >> clerk: chair fewer. >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. can you please read item 2 and 3

together. >> clerk: item number 2, a. >> commissioner ronen: retroactively executing an amendment to an agreement with calpine energy services so increase the cost by $27 million for a total of $30.2 million and extend the term by seven years for a term ending december 31st, 2029, approving an amendment to an agreement with calpine for renewable energy to increase the cost by $193.2 million for a total of $242.9 million and to extend the term by sevenning for a term ending december 31st, to 29 pop for a total of $220.2 million, not to exceed in purchases and approving an agreement with calpine energy services l.p. for electricity-related products for $59.4 million with a term of january 1st, 2024.

item number 3. for a total of not to exceed $1.2 million for a one-year term of january 1st, 2020, through december 31 of the, 2021, under an agreement requiring binding arbitration. members of the public comment who wish to provide public comment should call (415)655-0001. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. >> chair fewer: thank you, madam clerk. today we have michael himes with us, who is going to present on thames 2 -- items 2 and 3. the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair fewer. good morning, supervisor fewer, mandelman and walton. thank you for having me today. i do have a few slides to

accompany a short presentation for you on these items. and i'm going to bring that up. are you able to see the presentation? >> chair fewer: yes, we are. >> then i'll move to slide show format. okay. >> chair fewer: perfect. >> okay. great. thank you. so good morning again. my name is michael himes. i'm the director of the cleanpowersf program for the power enterprise. you have before you a resolution to approve a package of cleanpowersf contracts, with calpine energy services. for renewable energy and resource adequacy capacity. as a reminder, cleanpowersf is san francisco's community choice energy program, authorized by

assembly bill 117, adopted by the board of supervisors and the mayor and operated by the sfpuc. they've been serving since may 2016 with affordable, renewable and clean sources of electricity. today in total here, with item number 2, there are three contracts of calpine energy services that we're bringing to you for approval. first, we're seeking retroactive approval of an amendment to an existing contract to provide resource adequacy capacity from the geyser's geothermal power plant, located in sonoma county. i want to say immediately that the p.u.c. does not take retroactive approval from the board lightly. we try to only do this if there is an immediate or serious business need for the city, such as regulatory compliance, which expect be met on the standard approval process timeline. we will continue to be diligent

about ensuring that our contracts follow that timeline, and to limit the retroactive approvals, only to actions that are designed to protect the city from financial or reputational harm, if action is not taken immediately. as i mentioned a moment ago, the first contract is a retroactive approval of an amendment to an existing contract for -- [indiscernible] capacity. resource advocacy is a regulatory requirement, applicable to all entities that provide retail electric service to customers, including cleanpowersf. the requirement is intended to ensure that there are enough power plants available to meet peak levels of customer demand on the california grid. the purchase of resource adequacy capacity is not a purchase of energy from the plant. it's a commitment by the plant to standby for the grids to help keep the lights on. this amendment extends the term of the existing agreement, from

calpine's geothermal facility seven years to december 31st, 2029. the agreement also increases the capacity to be purchased by cleanpowersf by 25 megawatts for a total of 50 megawatts starting in january 2022. the amended contract costs will be $3.6 million per year for a total not to exceed amount of $30,240,000 over the new contract term. the contract is the result of a bid submitted by calpine in response to a competitive solicitation, conducted to support cleanpowersf's resource adequacy coronavirus effort -- compliance efforts. to support cleanpowersf's resource adequacy compliance filing, due to the california public utilities commission on november 2nd. the second calpine contract before you is a companion amendment to the existing

agreement to purchase the renewable energy produced by the geysers. i do want to be clear this one is not retroactive. only the first one was. like the renewable -- like the resource adequacy contract amendment, this amendment would extend the term of the existing agreement seven years to the end of 2029. the amendment will also increase the amount of base load renewable energy to be purchased from the geysers. a bay area local renewable energy facility from 25 megawatts to 50 megawatts. the renewable energy provided would be supplied to cleanpowersf 4 hours per day, seven days a week and will help cleanpowersf achieve a 100% renewable energy supply. the proposed contract will cost approximately $25.8 million per year. for a total not to exceed amount of approximately $243 million for the full term.

the amendment also extends and increases the community benefits commitment, that calpine made in the original contract, which is managed by our very capable p.u.c. community benefits team. under the new agreement, calpine will be making financial contributions directly to the hunter's point family foundation, to support stem education for the girls' 2,000 program each year for seven years from 2017 to 2025. so the amendment extends that commitment from 2022 to 2025. the girls' 2,000 program provides girls ages 8-16 with mentorship, financial support, and leadership opportunities. the stem education for girls 2,000 will focus on the impact of climate change, on communities like hunter's point, and actions that youth and their families can take to combat

climate change. under the existing agreement, calpine brought a group to the geyser's geothermal facility to show them an example of how renewable energy is produced. we hope that programs like this will spark an interest in utility service and clean energy. finally, we're seeking your approval of a new contract to purchase additional resource adequacy capacity from other calpine facilities, located in california. the term of the proposed contract is six years, from 2024 through 2029. the purchase under the contract of 150 megawatts of system and flexible resource adequacy capacity will support cleanpowersf's compliance with state regulatory requirements. the total not to exceed amount is $59,400,000 or about $9.9 million per year. the contract will help cleanpowersf maintain regulatory compliance in the future. it will also