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>> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional

requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. >> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be

able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up.

>> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be

>> mayor london breed: good afternoon, i'm san francisco mayor london breed. and thank you so much for joining us here today to provide some good news for a change as it relates to just the rough year that we've been having as a result of this global pandemic. as of today in san francisco, our case rate is at 261 cases per day, and that's down from a high of 372 cases per day. our hospitalizations are at 194, and, sadly, 293 people in our city have lost their lives due to covid. our infection rate is below 1.

we're at .95, and our i.c.u. capacity is stable at about 26%. the good news is that we are in a better place than we've been in a long time. and today we got some even better news from our governor who announced the lifting of the stay-at-home order in the bay area. and in the state of california -- but more importantly in the bay area, because that pertains to us -- we anticipate that tomorrow we will be told that we will be in the purple tier, which provides us an opportunity to do so much more than we have been doing. the fact is that we got here because after the thanksgiving day holiday, we saw the numbers begin to creep up aggressively. and we shut down early because we were very concerned as to what this would do to our i.c.u.

capacity in the city. if we had continued along the pace that we were going and did absolutely nothing, at this time the end of january we would be out of i.c.u. beds. and because we acted quickly, and because i followed the health care orders that were provided by the department of public health, we did so early, even before the state required us to do so. because we did that in san francisco, we are in a better place. but we're still in the midst of this pandemic. we still have a responsibility. yes, this is good news that we are finally seeing a difference with our numbers. but there's still work to be done. it still means that we have to wear masks and we have to socially distance ourselves from one another. you have to just use common sense and continue to just accept that we are going to be living with this for some time, even as we see the numbers

decline, even as we reopen, and even as we start to administer even more of the vaccine than we already have. so what does this mean? what does this mean in terms of our reopening? well, as i said, it's good news. so outdoor dining can resume. personal services can resume as long as you can wear a mask. so you can get your hair done, you can get your nails done. a number of things with personal services, as long as you're able to wear a mask. this will start on thursday. outdoor museums and zoos -- outdoor entertainment, like skate parks and mini-golf, indoor fitness limited to one-on-one. indoor funerals for up to 12 people. so these are things that were not happening before, and they will be in effect as of this thursday again, thanks to all of the hard work that we have all

been doing to stay safe. we'll also see capacity increases in our grocery stores and in retail. and in outdoor fitness and outdoor religious and political events. outdoor recreation and some low contact youth sports can continue as well. and golf and tennis with people outside of your household, and small gatherings of up to three people, no more than three households per group, and what we're saying, again, because we remember not this past weekend but the weekend before, we saw so many people at the delores park and at alamo square park and at parks across san francisco. and we saw them gathered with large groups. there were, of course, a lot of people who were just following the rules and keeping their distance. but we did have some real challenges. today is a beautiful day. yes, it's cold outside, but the sun is out. just keep in mind that this is just not an open door for us to all of a sudden to let our hair

down and to do whatever we want to do. let's keep doing what we're doing. let's keep being smart about wearing our masks and who we interact with. let's limit the number of people that we interact with so that we can make sure that we don't see another surge and see this virus continue to get out of control. today is, of course, a day of celebration but it's also a day to just remind ourselves of the importance of how much more work we have to do to get to a better place. now i want to talk a little bit about the vaccine. we in the city have developed a capacity to ramp up to up to 10,000 doses a day. now, of course, we want to do more than 10,000 doses a day if we have the vaccine. this past friday, i was at city college, where they first started to administer the doses there and they've been able to administer over 1,600 doses so far and that site alone has the

capacity to deliver up to 3,000 doses per day. we also have a site that we're opening up at musconi and in community where there's large sites in partnership with our private health care providers so that we can get to people sooner rather than later. our goal is to also to make sure that we're doing pop-up sites in neighborhoods and communities that have been most impacted by the virus. we want to meet people where they are. we want them to feel comfortable when they get the vaccine. so as soon as we get the number of doses that we need to start to administer, we will do just that. i will say that there's been a lot of misinformation, there's been a lot of criticism that has surfaced over the course of the rollout of delivering the vaccine to people. and i just want to take a moment to talk a little bit about what we've been doing here in san

francisco. in fact, when we first found out about what we would need to administer the vaccine, including the freezers and all of the other technical stuff, we learned that information back in august. and we instantly prepared for that because we knew that in a place like san francisco, with the number of people that we have both living and working here, that we would need to make sure that we had the capacity so that when the vaccine was delivered to us that we had the refrigeration necessary to basically to keep those vaccines ready to go for people before they were distributed. the work that went into the infrastructure, working with our private health care providers, and just understanding what needed to be done in terms of traffic coordination, in terms of distribution, in terms of checking information, it is a process. in fact, when i was at the site at city college this past friday, one of the conversations that i had with a doctor is that

these vaccines, they have to stay refrigerated at least until the hour before they're actually used. so just imagine the coordination that goes into that alone. this is a complicated process. and i want to be clear -- that had we waited to start more recently, like some people had said that we did, we wouldn't be where we are now -- opening up large sites. opening up and setting up pop-up sites and distributing the vaccine at some of our community clinics where many of our elderly live and are able to walk to. we wouldn't be in this position had we waited to start. we started last year in the summer as information came, and we adjusted. and we stepped up to the challenge to meet the need. in fact, the department of public health specifically based on the number of vaccines that we have received, we've already have distributed over two-thirds

of those vaccines to individuals and the remaining batch that we have are mostly for people for their second dose and are scheduled to be given to others for their first. those vaccines are coming in the door and they're going out the door as quickly as we can make that possible. so i want to be clear that it is complicated, it is challenging. but this same department of public health is the department of public health that had advised me as the mayor in the beginning of this pandemic that we had to shut this city down so that we could save lives. it's the same department of public health that led the efforts during the aids crisis where san francisco was left on its own. it's the same department of public health that i am working with to roll out the vaccine distribution. because not only do they know and understand the importance of what this means to save lives in san francisco, i understand the

importance of what this means to save the lives in san francisco, to get our city reopened, and to get our economy going again. nothing is more important. i trust and support and work closely with the department of public health to make the hard decisions to get this vaccine out to the public as quickly as possible. so i want you to understand that we are in a better place, we are not where i want us to be, because we don't have sufficient supply of vaccines to distribute to the public. but i will guarantee you that as soon as we get them, they will be out on the streets in someone's arm so that we can get things rolling again. and i appreciate the patience and the understanding of so many san franciscans as we go through this process. keep in mind san francisco has done an amazing job through this pandemic. i know that we're tired of being indoors. i know that we're tired of the

schools being closed and not being able to connect with our friends and family. i'm tired of this too. i understand how important it is to get back to our lives. i understand that more than anyone, because i feel the responsibility, the weight of this entire city, and every single resident. i feel that on my shoulders every single day. but i'm asking for more patience and understanding and trust that we will continue to do everything that we can to get these vaccines out the door. in fact, tomorrow i'll be having a conversation at 1:15 online with dr. susan philip and dr. naveena baba, who are two incredible women who have helped to lead this effort from the beginning so that we can ask questions about some of the concerns that i've been seeing

from people who are wondering, well, why is this happening and that's not happening. why is this going on and that not going on. well, tomorrow your questions about the vaccine will be answered. and i hope that it will instill just really an understanding and also a clear guide for what we are doing here in san francisco and what we need to continue to do to get the vaccines out as quickly as possible. and i am excited today. i'm excited today because the vaccine rollout -- i'm excited today because many of our small businesses will begin to open. i'm excited because i know that people in san francisco, although this is a great day, they realize the importance of still following safety guidelines around covid and understanding that the virus is still out there and that we still have more work to do. but today still is a day of celebration. and i'm, again, grateful for all

of you for everything that you've done to get us to this point. now, the last thing they want to touch upon is we have a new president. i love saying that -- we have a new president, we have a new vice president. and one of the first announcements that the president made last week is the fact that our shelter-in-place hotels that have been provided to many of our homeless people who are a part of this vulnerable population, that they would not only just reimburse the 75% that they agreed to reimburse at the beginning of this pandemic, but this president has committed fema to reimbursing us at 100%. what that does for our budget is incredible. we're still facing a significant deficit, we still have a lot of financial challenges, but what this means is that we have a level of certainty. no, this is not going to be forever, but it will be long

enough that as we start to transition some of the people that we have in hotels in san francisco into permanent housing situations we can now backfill those hotel rooms with people who fit the guidelines under the fema requirements for reimbursement. that is really great news. and i'm excited to continue to work towards trying to get our most vulnerable off the streets. but i want to be clear about something. if you were not on our list to receive support and care in our homeless system as of april last year, and you basically came to san francisco thinking that there's an opportunity for you to get help in some capacity, unfortunately, we will not be able to help you. and the people that we'll be able to serve are people who were part of our system of care before april of 2020.

they're already on the list, they're already waiting. they're sleeping outside. they're sleeping in tents. and we are not going to jump the line for someone who just decided to come to san francisco yesterday. there are people who are waiting and they will be prioritized and they are the only people that we can help at this time. so i want to make that clear that that is what is going to happen moving forward, with the good news of receiving reimbursement 100% from fema. so i want to thank each and every one of you again. today is a good day. today is not a day to go outside and to throw up your mask in the air and to celebrate in that way. you can go out and celebrate and throw your hands in the air and just keep your mask on. make sure that you're continuing to comply with this health order and doing everything that you can. when you go to restaurants, just be mindful. when you visit friends or family, just follow the health orders. we're not out of this partner p,

but we're better today than we have been in a very long time. it gives me hope that we are finally getting to a better place -- the place that we continue to talk about. the place where we say that we're the light at the end of the tunnel. well, we're seeing a crack of that light come through bright. and that's because of your work and your efforts and everything that you've done. so, thank you. and the better our numbers get, the more we will be able to open, the more that we will be able to get back to a place where we can see one another in person again. thank you again. and now i'm happy to open it up to questions. >> thank you, mayor breed, for your remarks. before we begin, the question and the answer portion, we're going to take a moment to allow reporters to submit any final questions they may have on webex.

thank you, mayor breed. at this time we'll start with dr. colfax. >> mayor london breed: okay. thank you again. dr. colfax, i'll let you do the white gown.

>> good afternoon. >> thank you for your patience. dr. colfax, your first question comes from various media outlets. why are people from out of the county getting vaccinated at city college? >> thank you so much for the question. i think that city college has been a great partnership with ucsff, and if we had enough vaccine we could get you 3,000 vaccines there a day easily right now. but i think that key issues to understand right now is that for the vaccine, the focus has been eligibility for vaccine has been for health care providers and for people 65 and over. many health care providers work in san francisco, but outside of

san francisco. so many of the health care providers will be vaccinated here because it's a place of work. similarly, people who are 65 and over who are eligible for the vaccine, they may live in oakland but they may have their health care provider here in san francisco. so they would be getting vaccinated here. vice versa, if you live in san francisco but you have a health care provider in oakland, you could go to oakland to get vaccinated. the issue is that the bay area is porous and we're all interconnected and we need to get vaccines into arms as quickly as possible. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next question comes from various media outlets. why are we reopening with new virus variants circulating? how will the city deal with new variants and avoid shutdowns? >> so we are opening at a high level of case diagnosis. we're at about 30 per 100,000 right now, which as the mayor mentioned, is substantially lower than we were just a few

weeks ago. so this is very good news. we know that the rate of the virus spread in the city is slowing right now, which is also good news. we will continue to monitor the rate of spread and hopefully that will continue to go down. with regard to the variants, we are concerned about that. but there's no reason to panic. we know that wearing masks, social distancing, and using the good hygiene practices, we believe that it's also effective with regard to reducing the variant's spread. so right now, even with this relatively high rate of cases, because things are moving in the right direction, because our hospital capacity -- even through this third surge -- remained relatively good in san francisco, compared to other jurisdictions, and the fact that san franciscans had now beaten back three surges -- look, we have been in this for nearly a year right now. it's time for to us take this approach of gradually reopening

and we're reopening, and let's see where we are and do the right thing so that we could even get to that next step and open up more. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next question comes from heather knight, san francisco "chronicle." how many vaccine doses has san francisco received and how many has it given to people? >> so right now, heather, we have received as a city 127,000 vaccines. that's across the whole city. that's across the health care systems, across the city. and we've administered as a city, we estimate just over 59,000 vaccines have been administered. at the health department, we've received 34,500 vaccines to date. and we've vaccinated more than 23,000 people.

now in those numbers i want to stress a couple of things -- we are ready to go with mass vaccine sites right now. we need to get to 10,000 vaccines a day. the numbers that i gave you alst with regard to the vaccine that is remaining that those vaccines have been scheduled for second doses or appointments that have been made for first doses for most part. and with the d.p.h. supply, even with the 10,000, our total that we'll get this week, we will be scheduled to basically to exhaust our vaccine supply by as early as wednesday or thursday. we need more vaccine right now so that we can get those shots into arms. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next set of questions come from alex fererria, san francisco business times. in what ways will the restrictions in place in san francisco be on thursday differ from what the state is allowing

in the purple tier counties? or, is the county reopening to the full extent of the purple tier? >> so just to be clear right nod that the counties are coming out as the shelter-in-place order, we will be told what tier we're in tomorrow. we'll look at that very carefully. and with regard to the orders, those will be -- be released accordingly. and that those will be released on thursday at this time. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next question comes from holly striker of kqed. what amount is the expected next shipment of vaccine in san francisco? >> so, remember, we have visibility only to the vaccine that the health department will be getting because the other health care systems in the county, the kaiser and the sutter and the dignity, they get

pulled from their regional counterparts what vaccine they'll be getting. what i can tell you right now because this is what we have insay the into -- is that the health department is scheduled to get 10,575 doses this week. that number could change. and we will know that number when they tell us that that number has actually been shipped to us. but, again, that's ready to go out the door right now. we need more vaccine. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next question comes from eve batty theatre s.f. can we hear more about the thinking behind the decision to leave the 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. stay-at-home order in place? >> so, what we're doing right now is working to gradually to reopen the city. we're taking the initial steps in a situation where the rate of the virus is still relatively high. we want to see that number continue to go down before we

release that 10:00 to 5:00 order. so let's just give us a little more time and see how those numbers do to ensure that we don't have to reverse again. nobody wants to go backwards again, so let's take the first step. we have beaten back three surges. let's prevent a fourth surge as much as possible. >> thank you. the next question comes from christian kaftan, channel 2 news. how will this work county-by-county, when the entire bay area was covered under the state's previous order? could there be surges in other counties that could impact san francisco? >> well, i think that has been really great about the local county collaboration -- actually, a year now -- is that the bay area health officers have been coordinating and working together. and for the most part the region

has been well coordinated. so, again, we will see what tier the counties are assigned to by the state tomorrow. and i expect that in general that the county orders will be aligned for the most part. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next set of questions come from dan curman. who is getting vaccinated at city college? those in the san francisco health network? those in the ucsff health network? or anyone over 65? >> so people who are eligible for vaccine right now are health care workers and people over the age of 65. right now that site -- those patients -- are ucsff patients who by the most case meet the 65 and over criteria, and, again, once we get more vaccine we're ready to go and give up to 3,000

vaccines at that site alone. >> and a poll question, do you feel as if the feds are sending less vaccine to the bay area region compared to southern california due to the massive outbreak there? >> i'm not going to speculate on what the feds may or may not be doing. i think that the bottom line is that across the state regionally and locally we need more vaccine as soon as possible. san francisco is ready for the vaccine. our goal is to be able to inoculate at least 10,000 people a day. as you just heard, the health department is getting just over 10,000 doses this week. so we need to get that vaccine here so that we can get it into arms as quickly as possible. >> thank you, dr. colfax. and we will now continue questions with mayor breed.

>> mayor london breed: all right. >> mayor breed, your first set of question comes from nbc bay area. what do you say to landlords who feel that they're being taken advantage of by tenants who continue to pay zero dollars in rent and intend to continue living rent-free during the eviction moratorium? >> mayor london breed: well, i appreciate the question. and, you know, san francisco since the beginning of this pandemic, through not only the rental subsidies that we had through the city and county of san francisco, that try to provide some additional rental

assistance to make sure that when this is over that people are still responsible for that rent and will need to pay it. we just found out from the federal government that san francisco will be given $26 million in stimulus money to help with rental assistance. this will be significant. we know that it's not just the people who are struggling to pay their rent, but some of the small property owners and others who might be struggling because they're not receiving that additional income. there is hope with this new $26 million and i'm excited to see what that does to help to address some of the challenges that exist. because what we don't want to happen is that we don't want -- after this pandemic is over, we don't want to see a lot of people getting evicted and we also don't want to see a situation where so many small property owners who rely on this income to help to cover the expenses of maybe their in-home support services work, or the repairs on their home, we don't

want to see them in a bad situation either. so right now, great announcement, $26 million in rental subsidies. that's a start. we know that there's more to do. but i think that we're going to continue to work towards the goal of trying to make people as whole as we possibly can. >> thank you. and a follow-up question, should the future stimulus checks include a requirement that a portion of those funds go towards a person's rent? how can smaller landlords afford to keep allowing renters to live for free? >> mayor london breed: i think that something of that nature might be somewhat difficult to manage. i know that, for example, we have the ability through the resources that we provide for rent subsidy to make direct payments which ensures that these resource goes directly to cover the rent. on a federal level, i have no control over that, but i do think that it's important for us to do everything that we can to make sure that we get direct payments into the hands of landlords, to make sure that we

avoid the evictions that could occur if these rents are not paid. >> thank you, mayor breed. your next question comes from ron lynn of the "los angeles times." some restaurant owners have been very upset at the outdoor dining ban and have opposed the government orders to shut them down. do you think that san francisco's latest success vindicates your efforts to impose an outdoor dining ban and to implement stay-at-home orders, even ahead of the state's timeline? >> mayor london breed: well, i truly believe -- yes. if -- you've gotta understand that to close down a major city like san francisco, and then also when you see the numbers surging and to have to go backwards, those are some of the hardest decisions i've ever had to make, because i know what it means -- not just for the people who are supporting these restaurants -- i know what it means for the workers and the food and all of the things that

these restaurants have to do to be open in the first place. but the fact is that we had to prioritize saving lives in every decision that we made. and what we're seeing are the impacts of those decisions because our case rates, the deaths that have -- are the lowest death rates in the country of any major city in san francisco, the i.c.u. rates, i think that all of the numbers that we're seeing in san francisco demonstrate that we made the right decision and now that we are reopening outdoor dining, we want to continue to make sure that we are being very careful. because we don't want to go backwards. >> thank you, mayor breed. your final question comes from kathleen novak of kcbs. with the extra funding from the federal government, will san francisco be able to open up more hotel rooms to people who might not qualify for fema reimbursement and cover the costs out of the city's budget?

>> mayor london breed: well, we are not certain that that's going to be possible because our goal is to provide permanent housing, not temporary housing. and what these hotels and these safe sleeps sites that we opened up during this pandemic have done is provided temporary shelter for the people who, unfortunately, are homeless. and we're being reimbursed for that purpose. but our resources, the money that we have in available to assist with our homeless population need to be used for permanent housing options. and that's where our priority will be. >> thank you, mayor breed. there are no additional questions. >> mayor london breed: thank you. >> this concludes today's press conference. thank you, mayor breed and dr. colfax for your time. (♪♪♪)

>> i'm san francisco mayor london breed. i'm so excite the to be here today to swear in the next assessor-recorder for the city and county of san francisco. joaquin torres. i want to say a few things about joaquin. i known him for so many years. we started off many years ago in city government in the mayor's office in neighborhood services, doing work to help support communities. he has really an incredible personality. he always focused on getting the job done for people who need it the most. it is not a surprise in he's been able to work his way up into numerous positions that has helped steer the city in the right direction. let me just give you an example. when the san francisco housing authority was in trouble, we

were having numerous challenges. the federal government threatened to intervene. joaquin torres was appointmented to serve on the commission. at that time, he became the president of the commission and he helped move us in a direction that has allowed for us to get investments to rehab 3400 units to get us off the red with the federal government and to get us back on track to support the families of the san francisco housing authority. it was very personal for me as someone who lived over 20 years of my life in public housing that we did something that didn't display the resident and that recognized that they needed to make sure that the. conditions of public housing didn't continue down the wrong path. we appreciate his work. which was a volunteer job.

not to mention his day job, when i became mayor, i appointed joaquin to be the director of the office of economic workforce development. i did it because my experience as a district supervisor and someone who worked in the community, he would always about the community. he could have sent staff members and his staff members were present and available. he was always on the ground facilitating conversation and making connections between what the community needed and what city hall needed to do to support them. his leadership style is really what helped to not only look at some of the disparities and issues around equity that we were dealing in covid, he worked tirelessly to make sure that grant moneys were going to small businesses. he helped create the

african-american resolving loan fund. he helped address lot of the disparities with the latino community when we saw surges of cases in that community and a need to provide financial support to a number of agencies including those small businesses. his understanding of finance, his understanding of how economic development works, his work with small businesses, big businesses and all things san francisco, makes him just really the perfect candidate to be the next assessor-recorder for the city and county of san francisco. with that, i like to bring

joaquin torres forward so i can swear him in and make it official. are you ready? >> okay. >> i, joaquin torres, do swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that i take this obligation freely. without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion and that i

will well and faithfully discharge the duties which i'm about to enter and during such time, as i serve as the assessor-recorder for it city and county of san francisco. congratulations. [applause] >> congratulations.

ladies and gentlemen, your assessor-recorder, joaquin torres, [applause]

>> thank you mayor breed. thank you very much. thank you to my family who was here with me today. to my mom, who's listening in from downtown south, to my two dads who i marry in this building to my sister, to my wife. to my aunt and uncle up north, to my friends aall of you who joining us online. the collection of billions of dollars, property tax dollars is essential to constantly and solvency of this city of san francisco. i'm honored, mayor breed, for the confidence you placed in me as i assume these responsibilities as the assessor-recorder for the city and county of san francisco.

all of these depend on the financial foundation built through the hard work of this office and that is a responsibility i take very seriously. in the western edition. you treated me with grace, with the respect and with bearing that told me you better do right.

from my grandfather, who has a butcher rose before work before dawn each day so he can buy a home for his family and help his three children become an artist, bilingual teacher and education leader and an amazing public servant. to my nana, who taught me the love of caring, that came in a file wrapped package that she packed for my flights back and forth between separated parents. to my grandmother, who has a seamstress steadily towards the purchase of a beautiful home. to my father, who broke barriers for latino politicians at a time when being a mexican-american was a significant hurdle for

leadership. to my mom, who after career writer and journalist taught me true courage meaning and strength. i'm very proud of my family my mexican-american family. a family of teachers, artist, writers, journalist, butchers, caretakers, cooks, seamstresses and soon to be lawyers for what they strive so achieve and what they continue to give back to family and to society. i'm grateful for them raising me defined by resiliency and public

service. i'm a very proud husband to an extraordinary artist. my wife, rebo who guide me through stresses of public service who shown what it means to be loved, to love to be wrong, to be compassionate and vulnerable. thank you for seeing me. thank you for seeing supporting my love for this work. i'm so fortunate to have these people in my life. who shaped my approach to public service, not all of us can be so lucky. not all of us can rest at night knowing that the love and care we hope for is part of successful life will be for us when we need it most. it's that awareness and those values principles and ethics that my family has instilled in me, carried with me the toughest times through the hardest of life challenges. when i called out for help, not

knowing if it existed for me, it was my family that heard my call. it's that care and our ethics that i work to infuse in my 11 years of public service to the city. they've given me the confidence and strength to know that every shred of my being that my community need to be listened to and heard. it's those values i will bring to this new role as assessor-recorder. these are the values we need always. but especially today, when people are hurting so badly, so deeply when they need to know there's a government caring for them with caring and doors open and not shut, a government that's accessible and be accountable to you the people that we are proud to serve. i want to thank city administrator chu for her commitment to the professionals at the assessor-recorder's

awesome. thank you for haig this -- makingthis transition a succl one. i joined a team of hard working and professionals that made carmen's vision for fair and efficient government, not only a reality but an envy of offices up and down the state. that's a legacy i'll strive to continue and excited to learn and work with all of you at the office to continue down that path. one of excellence, one of continuous improvement for the betterment of san francisco. to the team i part with today, the office of economic and workforce development, you have prepared me for this moment. it's been long hard year for so many businesses and workers throughout this pandemic for the barbers, gyms, bars, the fears, the actors, the concessionaries,

the tattoo artist and restaurants, hotel workers, janitors and office workers. nonprofits rising up and you all every single one of you rising up to meet these moments. to meet so many entrepreneurs determined to make it through this. for their workers, for themselves and for it city that they love. what you shown me, what all of you have taught me, those were the moral authority, those with the formal authority. the mayors, the assembly members, senators and controllers and supervisors, which you taught me once again is that there's always hope on the horizon. every storm eventually breaks for the clear sky above. to the diverse communities that i serve with respect to

gratitude during these 11 years of service, for the neighborhood leaders, coalitions of parity and equity for the public housing, merchant leaders, thank you for the confidence you placed in me. to serve you for many years more. to find new paths to build a better and more prosperous san francisco for all of us. i thank you mayor breed. all of you for your leadership and your trust. now i'm ready to go to work. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you all so much for joining us today. this concludes our program. stay safe and healthy. let's get our city open. [applause] >> good morning, welcome. i'm michael lambert, your city librarian. on behalf of the library commission, we're so delighted that you could join us today for this important announcement. i would like to acknowledge our library commissioners that are

present, teresa, tanya, pete, john, and dr. lopez. thank you all for being here. madam mayor, welcome. we are so honored that you could participate in this event. we appreciate your leadership of our city and we are super excited about your announcement today. with that, i will invite you to get us started. maybe i was premature on that. oh, there she is. [laughter] >> did we start already? [laughter] >> i was just welcoming you and thanking you for honoring us with your presence and your leadership. we're super excited about your announcement today.

with that, i invite you to get us started. >> all right thank you michael. i appreciate that. good morning everyone. i'm really excited to share some incredible news. as you may know, before i was mayor and even before i was on the board of supervisors, i served as the executive director in the western edition. i saw how deeply important arts are and in creating a vibrant and diverse community. believe it or not, i used to sing in a choir, dance, and perform, but i was not the best at it. however, the arts connects us to one another. it bridges the gap in our culture by helping us understand each other. they are how we express ourselves during our brightest and happiest moments, and sometimes some of our darkest ones. for people of all ages, arts and culture can help us navigate a world that can be confusing and

strange. they can also provide opportunity not only for jobs and income, but for people who are in under served communities to find their voices and to make sure they are heard. that includes the role of our city's poet laureate. since lauren was made our first poet laureate in 1998, this prestigious honor has showcased san francisco's finest poets from many diverse backgrounds. their work has reminded us how it means to be a san franciscan, it reminus -- reminds us of our diversity and calls attention to our most pressing issues and inspires us to create a more equitable and just society. it inspires young people to search for their voice in a way that may not have -- that they

may not have thought was possible before. it opens doors of opportunities for them to pursue their dreams. that is why i'm so excited today to announce our eighth poet laureate. before we get to the big announcement, i would like to thank and recognize our outgoing poet laureate kim shuck for her imcredible service for our city. she represented our city beautifully through her work and has given her time over the past few years to serve our community. whether teaching at the local colleges, universiies and public schools or helping the library launch their first ever american indian initiative, kim on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you for your service and we would be honored if you close out your tenure with one last reading as poet laureate. >> thank you mayor breed.

there we are. i do have a poem. it's called san francisco has a new poet laureate. pick any bench, stoop, any fourth star in this city or over it. sit quietly, you'll hear the water of time. keys rattling, heart and innovation, war and colonization that only grows on the south side of that mountain right there. you'll hear the poetry of place, popsicle sticks scratching on the curb, jump rope songs, chess moves and love curses. every night in some back room, the future and past in autopsied words, gorilla words shouted at unsuspecting somewhere in north beach. the skyline mutters poems that

have been and poems to come. if you stand at the cafe's door too long, you will hear what they choose to call in this moment a poem. old wives tales along valencia, you can hear the purring of fog as they pass through, the paintings comment quietly on every new show and if your hearing is very good, ambrose's dictionary runs on a certain bar on a certain bar stool and the faint laughter from one of sam's jokes will still grind breath. victims in more languages that you can see, and the unbound seat 3. there are songs of varying and unbaring to found all over the richmond, every bench, every head stone under the sand. paula talks stories at state, at

tables and cafes that turned to bars. john's words rattled justice and the voices of those taken in captain jack's war has made them into their own songs too. there is an eighth poet laureat of san francisco and with the title comes more wealth and words than all the great libraries that have ever been. i would like to add that you will hear a lot about honor and responsibility. there are a couple of tricky things. one of them is that people will steal your pens. i had some pens printed up. i'm not going to say what they say and i don't think they will prevent your pens from being stolen, but they will raise the value of their resale on ebay. i'm going to share with you just very briefly what dr. jose said to me a couple of days after i was named the seventh poet laureate. he said that everything you have done up until this point got you

here and none of that will matter. what matters now is what comes next. have a great time and you do know where my kitchen table is when you want to hide. take care. >> thank you so much kim for that amazing poem. thank you for representing san francisco so well over the past few years. we look forward to seeing what comes next for you. now, it is my great honor to announce our eighth poet laureat. i had the privilege of knowing this individual for many years as he worked and volunteered at the african american art and culture complex. he has mentored men young men and women that came through our doors and taught them how to find their own vote and make themselves heard. his poems are just one of the many ways he fights for racial justice, equity, and human

rights. he has shown our community what it means to be a successful poet, as a black man from san francisco. we are incredibly proud of the work he has done so far, especially his commitment to inspiring black men and boys and providing support for young people in our community. he will continue the work that our ancestors did as they fought for their own voices to be heard. i am beyond excited to see what he accomplishes as the san francisco's eighth poet laureate. i am happy to present tongo martin, the eighth poet laureate. >> thank you madam mayor for this incredible, incredible honor. i prepared some words that i hope i make it through.

i'm already filled with tears. >> i'm going to let you have the floor, it's so great to have you. thank you for all the magic you created over the years. as i said earlier, when we work together at the complex, there were a lot of challenges, especially with our boys and we had unfortunately a lot of violence in the community and just seeing you as this literary figure and inspiring these young people to look at other ways besides, you know, being out in the streets and doing stuff that was happening then, focusing on how poetry, how music is poetry, and how they can really shift their voices to tell their own stories. you brought that to their lives and i know they continue to

carry it with them today. so, you have been an inspiration for so many years, directed at so many generations of people. i'm so grateful that you accepted this honor so now i want to turn the floor over to you so that people can know who you are. if they don't know, now they know. we're looking forward to the work that we know you're going to do to make san francisco proud. so the floor is yours tongo. >> thank you. thank you very much. incredibly humbled and honored. also, deep appreciation to the selection committee. i want to send love to my mother and brother as i am only an extension of their love, imagination, and revolutionary commitment, love to my two powerful sisters and the

whirlwind that has nothing on us, love to my family above mud and lava, love to my father and the rest of the village that is not here in the physical form. i would also like to thank kim shuck for being a leader of poets and beautiful force of the people. a poet of any station is secondary to the people. a poet of any use, that belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, one of arts most important incarnation is that expression of mass resistance but really what art teaches us with its dominantable energy,

the indominantable energy of an idea is evident that it is oppressors themselves who are in the position of resistance. it's bigger than any imperialistic, cognitively reflected in any generation. the power is ours and it is oppressors who are resisting us, resisting humanity, resisting us pretty well. it's resisting our right to determine our reality, resisting a coming epoch of liberation. mass participation in art is what is always created in san francisco, futurism. san francisco has legend too fearless for me to count myself as one of them. i am from this legendary

collection of thousands and thousands of participants, revolutionary history and culture. i'm proud to be one of the anonymous thousands in san francisco who have road these buses all night, who has been raised in marcus's bookstore, who wants justice for mario woods and alex, who wants freedom. what the people taught me is that unity is the only thing and taught me that individualism, as it is practiced and codified, romanticized in this society is not really about your adventure through life but at its core, unfortunately, individualism is about practicing the selective humanization. other people are only human beings when it suits individual

interest. civilism of sorts, that is deeply connected to slavery, both from what the society evolved from and process that addicts you to and power struggle that alienates ourselves, and at no point do we find the dehumanization of other people, the deanimation of people acceptable, are let alone necessary for an individual journey. so as much as i would love to assign the rest of my days to an individual invention, that time is over. history is heightening, showing us more and more everyday that we're part of people, a people beyond systemic description, and we need the entire pallet of protecting human rights and nurture human curiosity.

the madness we see today shouldn't be surprising. these apartheid nativity scenes come home to roast and a capitalism in crisis, what is mixed in with the parole papers and the environmental racism and program deliverables and passivism. we're in a time of epochal shift where this is opening its arms if we don't open the historical process more critically. where do we go from here? what is our revolutionary practice or more conveniently, it begins with cultural work. it transforms the way that we relate to each other, transforms

the way we relate to the earth, to a way that is conducive to liberation. a poet belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, respecting their spirit. my only aim as poet laureate is to join with that energy, join with that consciousness in order to create vehicles of unity. events, workshops, readings, publications, these are all just vehicles of unity. i will never tire in building as many as the city can handle. so, meet me at the library. [laughter] >> if you can't make it, i will for sure meet you wherever you are. let me now say rest in power to

cure junior and diane, and i will conclude with this poem titled faithless. a tour guide, through the robbery, he also is. cigarette stand, look at what i did. ransom water and box spring gold, this decade is only for accent grooming, i guess. ransom water and box spring gold to corner store, war gangs, all these rummage junk. you know, the start of mass destruction begins and ends in restaurant bathrooms as some people use and other people clean. are you telling me there is a rag in the sky waiting for you? yes. we should have fit in. warehouse jobs are for communists and now the whistling is less playful and if it is not

a city, it is a prison. it has a prison. it's a prison, not a city. when a courtyard talks on behalf of the military issue, all walk takes place outside the body. a medieval painting to your right, none of this makes an impression. you have five minutes to learn. when a man goes sideways barb wire becomes the roof. did you know they killed the world for the sake of giving everyone the same back story? watching indiana, fight yourself into the sky, oh penny for when. it goes up and over your headache, marking all aspirations, the first newspaper i ever read and the storefront, they left us down where the holy spirit favors the bathroom. for those in the situation offer 100 ways to remain a loser.

watching those clock, what are we talking about again? the narrater at the graveyard, 10 minute flat. the funeral only took 10 minutes. you're going to pin the 90s on me, all 30 years of them? why should i know the difference between sleeping and the pyramid of corner stores on our head. we die right away. that building wants to jump off other buildings, those are down tone decisions. what evaporated on earth that we can be sent back down? thank you all again, much love. i want to give the whole roll call right now but that's too many. much love to all my family and thank you again madam mayor. thank you. san francisco for better for worse, which you are raised, you

know? >> thank you so much tongo. just so you know, the chat is blowing up. there is so much love and excitement for what you will bring to san francisco and i just want to thank you so much. thank you for the incredible poem and your inspiration and just everything that you continue to do. i look forward to what you will accomplish as our city's poet laureate. i can't wait. it's going to be exciting, especially when we open up. when you talk about meet me at the library, it's like that's your slogan now. [laughter] >> so we're going to take it to another level. that's your slogan, meet me at the library. hitting all the libraries all over san francisco. >> that's right. >> just inviting the people in and really bringing it back to some of the basics. you know, with the way technology is nowadays,

sometimes we get away from just picking up a book or picking out a book or looking through an index card. i guess we don't look through index cards to find books anymore. sitting there and having discussions, i'm looking forward to what you're going to bring and really excited about that. i really want to thank the people that nominated you. you know, there was a really compelling, you know, letter of support that you know, went into all the details about your work. you have a lot of fans out there. i want to thank the selection committee, the people who served and had to go through all of those applications because i got to tell you, it was a hard decision and i was so excited that so many people in san francisco, you know, really embraced and support poets in such an incredible way. there are so many wonderful nominees. i'm looking forward to you connecting with all of them as well and really the outgoing

poet laureate kim shuck, thank you for that poem and your commitment to san francisco and the role you have played over the years. thank you to san francisco public library and the commissioners who are joining us here today and our librarian, michael lambert. so many amazing people and i think that based on your comments today, meet me at the library, that's going to be a new part of the campaign to really bring people together, to inspire and to really you know, set things off on a whole other level. thank you tongo for your work and commitment. we're so honored that you will be san francisco's eighth poet laureate and if there is anything left to say, you're welcome to have the floor. if not, we can turn it back over to michael lambert. >> i just want to say much love and appreciation. >> great. >> thank you so much madam mayor. my heart is full,

#meetmeatthelibrary. congratulations tongoo. i want to thank all of you for joining us this morning. our public affairs office is happy to help facilitate any interviews with our new poet lawyer -- laureate, thank you all and have a great day. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪]

>> mayor breed: good morning, everyone. thank you all so much for joining us here today! i can't tell you how excited i am to open this vaccination site right here musconi center. let me take us back a little bit. when this pandemic hit our city,

our country about a year ago. in san francisco, we had to get ready. as much as dr. colfax and i fought over what was going on and whether or not we needed to close down the city because we understood the significant impacts on people's lives by making these hard decisions, we knew it was the right thing to do. we knew it was the right thing to do because it was about saving lives. when you look at where san francisco is in terms of our death rate, even though every life lost is tragic, we are the second densest city in the country with the lowest death rate of any major city in the country. we've saves thousands of lives here in the city. it started here at moscone

center. i want to thank the director of the department of emergency management mary allen carol for her hard work. [applause] >> mayor breed: and the people who came here to work not only the folks who work within her department but so many city employees, who signed up as disaster service workers, who answered the call, and who have been showing up to deal with challenges around this pandemic. whether it's homelessness and encampments, testing and getting testing sites set up in the city, whether it's information because people were confused about what was going on, the people in moscone center showing up every day for the past year, the sheriff deputies, the fire and police department, the librarians, the department of public works, people from all over the city, they are the ones leading and managing this

effort. we're grateful for their work. i know that no one is more excited than they are that we are finally at this place to deliver this vaccine at the same place we've been managing this crisis in san francisco. what i'm so appreciative about is this consortium. led by kaiser permanente to open the vaccination site, where we will have the capacity to deliver 7,000 to 10,000 doses per day. san francisco has a goal to deliver at least minimum 10,000 a day. this one site on its own can basically do that. but we're not stopping there. we're opening a site in bayview. he have opened a site at ucsf.

we have a small bayview site open now. we opened a pop-up now in the mission, one of the most impacted communities as it relates to this virus. you know how we're doing it? we're working together. the department of public health led by dr. colfax, the healthcare providers that are a part of this consortium, we have all come together, because we know how important this is to reopening our city. we've saved lives, yes. but we know there are still challenges, not just our economy but around mental health. our children are not back in school. people are not back at work. folks have lost their job. we know how critical the rollout of this program is. and the reason why it's going to be a success, is because of each and every one of you.

so i'm grateful that all of you are joining us here today. and i want to take an opportunity to recognize a few members of the consortium. because sites like this don't just open because we say we want them to open. they open because of people who helped to put together refrigeration system, transport system, doctors, nurses, the clinicians, the people who are going to check folks in. there's so much that goes into setting up even a small site. and we have to make sure the logistics are just right, so that we do not waste one vaccine and so that we get these vaccines into the arms of the people who need it the most as quickly as possible. first of all, thank you to dr. colfax and the department of public health. in partnership with kaiser permanente, we are so grateful

to kaiser and what they're going to be doing at this site. i want to reiterate, this site is not only for kaiser patients. they will be helping with people 65 and older at this site. and they'll talk more about how you sign up, because we wanted to make sure that we had an accessible site that was this large city-wide to make it easy for people to get vaccinated. adventist health, thank you so much. thank you to dignity health. thank you to futureal health. the california medical oh and -- association and primary care association. all of these providers came together to make this available. it officially opened friday at 8:00 a.m. the normal hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily. as long as we have the vaccines,

we will have the places in which to distribute them quickly as possible. again, i want to thank all of you for joining us here today. we are looking forward to what the future holds in san francisco. we are getting the vaccine out as quickly as we possibly can. nothing is more important. and this major site will play a significant role in getting our city to a better place. i don't know about you, but i'm ready to celebrate. not today. i'm ready to celebrate in a few months when we're able to say that the city is open. that the city is open for business. that we can do things in and outdoors. that we can finally eventually one day, dr. colfax, take our masks off and wave them in the air like we just don't care. [laughter]

>> mayor breed: i don't know about you, but i'm looking forward to that day, and that day is coming. but let me also just say, i appreciate the people of the city so much, because you follow the health directives in most cases. you wore your mask. you kept your distance from people. you didn't get a chance to visit your family and your friends the way we're used to doing. we sacrificed so much. and we're going to need to sacrifice just a little bit more. because we are almost there. i can feel it. today, the sun is shining. and i can feel the energy and the excitement about the future of the city. i can feel the energy of the conventions that will be returning to moscone center. the people who will be going to restaurants both in and outdoors.

the folks who will be taking their children to school. the people who will show up to work and be able to congregate with one another in the lunchroom. some of the basic things that we miss so much, i feel it. it's going to happen. but we're going to need to sacrifice a little bit more. and in addition to sacrificing, we will do everything we can to roll out these vaccination sites, advocate aggressively to get more vaccines quickly. get them to the people of san francisco. and open our city back up to celebrate again. thank you all so much for being here. and at this time, i want to turn it over to dr. colfax of the department of public health. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. this is an exciting day. a very exciting day. a good day. i have to say when i woke up

early this morning, my husband said to me, you seem so happy today! what is going on? i said, this is a day that will make a difference in san francisco. this is a day of partnership, of collaboration, of pride what we can do together when we come together as a community, as a community of people of clinicians. of people who work hard on the operations and logistics to get this done! i was here monday. i started seeing this going up! the progress has been amazing. look at this place. we're going to do 7,500 people of vaccines a day. i want to thank kaiser so much for your partnership. this conversation started awhile ago. thank you for your collaboration and partnership at the hospital council to make this happen. and of course, thank you, mayor, for your leadership during this incredibly challenging year. your courage, your fortitude,

your leadership in helping us slow the virus. our partnerships with healthcare providers are critical meeting our goal of vaccinating everyone who lives or works in san francisco in order to bring an end to this pandemic as quickly as possible. these high-volume sites will help us serve people that -- and would not be possible without these key partnerships. and as you know, although vaccines remain in limited supply, we are building the partnerships and the infrastructure so that when vaccine is readily available, we are ready to go. 10,000 vaccines a day in san francisco. we can do that now. we can do more than now soon. we are building a comprehensive vaccination network with a variety of options for all those

who live and work in san francisco. and this system is focused on equity. equity, speed, and access. the department of public health, its community partners, also will continue to vaccinate people through community clinics in western additions, china down, bayview, outer sunset, where we know the virus continues to spread. we're working to expand our neighborhood access sites to the bayview, excelsior and visitation valley with the highest numbers of covid-19. we're working with our pharmacy partners to bring vaccinations throughout the city. it's all of the above approach to focus on the speed, the access, and most importantly as we've seen during this covid

pandemic, equity. our work with community and healthcare providers have been an integral part of our covid-19 response. today's announcement highlights that part. i'm glad i can be with you today and recognize that work. with that, i'd like to hand this off to the kaiser permanente. secondly, as a kaiser patient myself, thank you. >> thank you. thank you mayor breed and dr. colfax. i was thinking this morning about how february 2020, a year ago, kaiser permanente was preparing for greeting the very first covid-19 patient into california that were coming from

the princess cruise ship. and it has been quite a year for all of us. and throughout this year, we have constantly asked ourselves how can we do more. and this site, this hub, is an example of coming together, doing more together to create something that would not have been possible without all of us working together. this is the largest vaccination, mass vaccination site in the state of california with the 10,000 a day capacity. only limited by vaccine supply. and i want to thank so many people here who helped. and of course, the city. and the city leadership for offering moscone city, which is the perfect location and type of venue for this mass vaccination.

i'd like to thank the state leadership, governor's office and department of public health for believing in the vision of the consortium to provide the vaccines so we could help vaccinate the general public. and i'd like to of course -- you're going to hear later today the consortium partners, adventist health, dignity heath and our planning partners, who are here today, california medical association, primary care association and the red cross. the red cross lent their experience to us in terms of mass vaccination planning. it's really together that we are so pleased to bring the hubs to the public. these hubs answer the public's call for immediate and meaningful vaccination. the hubs represent the

consortium's values. the mission to vaccinate the most diverse and broadly-reached populations. it was important to us that in our planning, that no one is left behind. the surrounding areas of the moscone center, we've reached out to community health clinics, such as the mission neighborhood center and health 360. we've reached out to senior centers. and we've reached out to homeless service providers, such as the provider resource center to ensure again that no one gets left behind. now, moscone center is the first hub. but i'm excited to say that tomorrow, our second hub opens serving with the same mission. and serving the same need to vaccinate efficiently and

equitably across our different markets. and these hubs use the state's my turn scheduling and appointment system. so i want to thank the state for quickly putting that together in order to make it possible for the general public to get vaccinated. and we -- and all the sites are -- eligibility defaults to county eligibility requirements. i want to say our hope, our aspirations, is that we can get to as many 75 year-old and up individuals as possible. 75 year-old up just represents a subpopulation of the 65 and older at most risk for impact -- long-term impacts from covid. again, these hubs are the largest in california. and we plan to be ready for when vaccine is available. you know, some day soon, there will be much more vaccine.

and it's really important that the state of california is ready with efficient ways to vaccinate the public. so we are actively working beyond these two sites to explore additional locations throughout the state of california. and we're doing our part to do more on behalf of saving lives of the people of california. thank you very much for being here today. [applause] >> and i think -- i don't recall -- oh, keisha from dignity health, please come up. thank you. >> thank you, janet. on behalf of dignity, it's an honor to be able to be part of this incredibly important initiative to be able to improve the health of our community. we're very grateful. it is a wonderful day. and we are so proud to be representing the consortium of

healthcare organizations. coming together for a common cause. and that is to make our communities more healthy and get them on the other side of this pandemic. what an absolute honor to be a part of this. the goals for this unique partnership, among the consortium of state-wide health organizations is eventually stand up a network of hubs across the state, which will serve as a model for similar efforts in other states as well. i'm just excited personally to be part of this in helping to make history. locations will be chosen to maximize access. especially for communities where populations who are historically have experienced challenges with respect to health and healthcare access. dignity health, we always talking about reaching the disenfranchised and the poor. this is directly in line with the mission of our organization. the moscone location is part of a network of high value vaccination sites organized by the city and county of san

francisco and healthcare providers. this consortium will enable partnering healthcare organizations such as ours, dignity, to leverage resources and staff, align operations for efficient and safe vaccine delivery and offer convenient parking for patients, if needed. as part of this collaboration, we will remain committed to getting the covid-19 vaccine to the community in accordance with state guidelines equitably and as vaccine guidelines allow. at this time, i'd like to hand it off to andrew, president of care delivery at adventist health. [applause] >> thank you, keisha, thank you, janet. and thank you, mayor london breed. what an inspiration and privilege to be part of this. i'm andrew john, president of care delivery at adventist

health. on behalf of adventist health and the 80 different communities that we serve, thank you to healthcare workers across this state for your continued heroic response to care for californians in this unprecedented pandemic. thank you, mayor london breed, and our consortium partners, for the heavy lifting, the coordination, and the investment that has made today's model possible. and i want to say a special thanks to my colleagues at kaiser permanente, for taking an early and leading role in organizing this consortium. somebody needed to step up. kaiser was there, and i'm proud to be a part of that, as well as adventist health is proud to be a part of that. thank you for bringing us together, because it's together that we're going to beat this pandemic. today's mass vaccination hub serves as a road map and as a model for how we're going to eradicate covid-19 from the face

of this earth. it's a model for restoring health. a model for restoring wholeness, and a model for hope. i'm going to turn it over to my friend and colleague -- my new friend and colleague, who is the c.e.o. of ventura health. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much. ventura health is delighted to be standing with this consortium and mayor breed for the important work. we see the vaccination as an essential step in the recovery of the nation and the state. in addition, we see this as an opportunity for students, who are in allied health and nursing programs across the state to gain patient care experience, so important for them to getting their licensure. in this state alone, california

needs an estimated 500,000 new allied health workers to be on the frontline of caring for the growing and graying of california. so this is such an important experience for them. and we invite you to help us get the word out to colleges that they can participate in in this opportunity. thank you. and now, i'd like to introduce the physical and chief of kaiser permanente of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you. i am privileged to serve as the physician and chief of kaiser permanente of san francisco. on behalf of our physicians, nurses and healthcare team, i'd like to welcome you to this mass vaccination hub. we've seen firsthand and up close the impact of covid-19 and the toll it's taken on our community, particularly

affecting and disproportionately affecting our communities of color. i want to take a moment and sincerely thank mayor breed and dr. colfax on their work. their actions saved lives. their actions preserved i.c.u. capacity. their decisions made it so we never run out of ventilators in our i.c.u. i'm so lucky. and our colleagues across this city feel indebted to you. you have made a difference here. finally, through the miracle of science, we have some hope. the advent of a safe and effective vaccine to end this pandemic. and it's just a delight to be able to talk about building immunity in this great city. so let this vaccine hub be a hub and beacon of light and hope for the future. today, is a day to celebrate. kaiser permanente has a long history in prevention and in vaccine delivery.

and together, with this consortium, we're going to build on that expertise with this partnership and really expand, broaden our delivery of vaccines across this great city. we will -- and we are committed to an equitable distribution of vaccines to our community. we will be focusing on the highest risk for complications from covid-19, specifically in our elderly and in our communities of color. let's not forget, though, that until we build full immunity, we'll continue to wear masks, keep our distance and wash our hands until we've eradicated this disease. that's why it's important we do this efficiently and broadly starting with our most vulnerable populations at risk. since we started vaccinating a few weeks ago at our medical center, i've had the pleasure of seeing my colleagues in healthcare and our elderly get vaccinated. when i ask our doctors and

nurses if they've had any side effects from the vaccine, what they usually tell me is nothing but pure joy and overwhelming relief. that gives them strength to carry on during this continued ravaging disease, and fight this final surge, hopefully. i'm also meeting with seniors in our community who are coming out of their homes for the first time in nine or 10 months. they tell me about their hope to see their families again and to hold grandchildren, some of them for the first time. today, marks the end of the beginning -- sorry. today, marks the end of social isolation. it's the beginning of the end. it's the end of a raging pandemic, and the beginning of restoring health and healing to this great city. thank you for this opportunity to deliver an injection of hope into our community.

>> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015.

mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning

touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. with structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the

stick.

>> first it's always the hardest and when they look back they really won't see you, but it's the path that you're paving forward for the next one behind you that counts.

(♪♪♪) hi, my name is jajaida durden and i'm the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. and i'm over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. and some tree inspectors as well. i have been with the city and county of san francisco for 17 years. and i was a cement mason, that was my first job. when i got here i thought that it was too easy. so i said one day i'll be a supervisor. and when i run this place it will be ran different. and i didn't think that it would happen as fast as it did, but it did. and i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. and six months later i became the permanent supervisor over

the shop. >> with all of those responsibilities and the staff you're also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. and she's able -- she's displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the deputy director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. >> she's a natural leader. i mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. and the most important thing is when we have >> ♪♪e have ♪♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession >> there's a new holiday

shopping tradition, and shop and dine in the 49 is inviting everyone to join and buy black friday. now more than ever, ever dollar that you spend locally supports small businesses and helps entrepreneurs and the community to thrive. this holiday season and year-round, make your dollar matter and buy black. >> this is a special meeting of the small business commission, february 8, 2021. this meeting will come to order at 4:33.

members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 415-655-0001 then (415)655-0001 again. access code is 146571 -- sorry. they changed it. hold for a minute. access code (146)278-9246. press pound and then pound again to be added to the speaker line.

when an item of interest comes up, dial star three. you will be added to the queue. call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly. three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. speakers are requested but not required to state your name. please show the office of small business slide, sfgovtv. >> today we will begin with a reminder the small business commission is to voice opinions and concerns about policies for the economic vitality for small

businesses in san francisco. it is the best place for answers to do business in san francisco during the local emergency. if you need assistance with small business matters particularly at this time find us online or via telephone. our services are free of charge. before item 1 i would like to thank media services and sfgovtv for coordinating the hearing and live stream. special thanks for assisting with the public comment line. call item 1. >> item 1 call to order and roll call. commissioner adams. >> here. >> commissioner dickerson. >> here. >> commissioner dooley. >> here. >> commissioner hule. >> here.

>> commissioner laguana. >> here. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> here. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> item 2. introduction of new commissioner lawanda dickerson. >> commissioners i would like to take this moment to warmly welcome lawanda dickerson to the small business commission for her first meeting. she is the owner of u3 fit in bayview. i am thrilled to have her join us. i am ex streetly pleased to report that she is also an experienced and accomplished drummer. that is very important. commissioner dickerson, would you like to say a few words? >> i would love to. thank you so much. i want to say greetings to

everyone on the commission. it is an honor to be here. i am excited to be part of this small business commission just because of the experience that i have had being a small business here in the bayview san francisco. i have had the amazing privilege and so much has been invested in me with all of the help i have received through oewd and spdc and the different organizations in the city and county of san francisco. i know my heart and passion is to see that everyone gets the same opportunities that i received and to support small businesses, especially coming out of covid. we want to make sure we get as many small businesses up and running. those who didn't have hope to

every start again. we want to be the driving force to get them up and running. san francisco i believe small businesses people rely on us. it is my honor to be here. i am so excited to participate with you all and to be part of the team. thank you so much. i feel welcome. >> very well said. thank you. the, commissioner dickerson. any comments, commissioners? >> wouldn't say welcome. i look forward to working with you. i am really excited. we have somebody from bayview on this commission. it is long overdue. i just love what you just said about coming out of this, giving

people hope who didn't think they had hope. it seems that is the theme today. i dealt with it at work a lot, and i see the light at the end of the tunnel. now we have to get to the end of the tunnel. i appreciate your thoughts. welcome. >> thank you. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> i want to welcome you. it is a pleasure and honor to welcome you. welcome aboard. >> if thank you. commissioner dooley. >> i am excited to have a new commissioner with new opinions. that keeps the commission vital and ongoing. welcome, welcome, welcome. thank you.

>> thank you. vice president zouzounis. >> thank you. welcome, commissioner dickerson. we are excited to have you. i hope you are ready to go to work. i am excited to collaborate with you to make sure we represent all of the san francisco small businesses. welcome. >> thank you. commissioner hule. >> welcome to the commission. i look forward to this year. i am excited to have you on the commission. thank you for joining. >> thank you. commissioner dickerson, we have had a chance to speak. i am thrilled beyond words to have you here. you will bring a new exciting

perspective to the commission that is timely and particularly appropriate given your operation of physical fitness studio that has been a subject that has come before the commission in several different ways as we navigated the public health crisis. i just know you will be fantastic, and it is going to be a lot of fun. welcome to our particular circus, and hope you will join in the fun and games. we are very much excited to have you. with that is there anyone else on the line for public comment? >> there is one person in the queue at this time.

>> hi, commissioner dickerson. i am the legacy program manager working for the office of small business. you can see my name here in the meeting. i want to just congratulate you and welcome to the small business commission. i am not presenting. i do present every other meeting and work closely and under regina. i just wanted to welcome you and looking forward to working with you. thank you so much. >> thank you. commissioner dickerson, heads up the legacy business program. normally you would meet him and the staff. of course, nothing is normal now. we have to deal with these zoom introductions. he is fantastic and real asset to the office of small business. we are lucky to have him. any last commissioner comments before i move on?

director. >> i want to welcome you to the commission. i look forward to working with you. facilitating your interest in what you want to get accomplished. working with the commission and working with the staff of the office of small business. welcome. enjoy your first meeting. >> all right. thank you. next item, please. >> 3. presentation 13 fund. update and report on 13 fund's philanthropic investment

thesesis on small business development. jason, i will show the presentation. >> let's see if this works as is. if not, i may have to -- they tried to tell me to quit out to enable sharing. i might do that at this time. sorry to give you one more hiccup. >> not a problem. you can also e-mail the files and say next slide. we have done that in the past as well. >> i will give this a quick try and come back. >> we will tread water. welcome both of you. we are happy to have you here. i don't know if you want to set up with a couple words beforehand, but i will open that opportunity up to you if you want to take it. >> jason will give it more

context. i was born and raised in the bay area, lived here most of my life. worked with nonprofits and the obama administration as well. kind of coming full circle. we have been entrepreneurs for a while and now focusing time on how to support the local communities in san francisco and new york. i am excited to share with you. >> jason, are you able tolgain control? >> it looks like i can share my screen now. this is exciting. >> assisting restaurants in the pandemic. i will cover this introduction

which sounds like it is started. i will let him go into the details. this is our presentation for today. can you see my screen? >> you are good. >> fantastic. we are both entrepreneurs. i did grow up in boston, but i spent nine years in the bay area. you can say my formative developmental years of college and young adulthood. that is where we first got to know each other. we started a nonprofit in college exactly or about 13 years prior and it was to raise money for micro finance loans to small business owners.

it is quite incredible how life takes you for a loop. last year in the rounds of march, april, may we exited our companies and started tech companies at the time. obviously, there are a lot of challenges. the country and people were facing and business owners were facing. while we were grateful to have this financial windfall, we certainly were feeling and recognizing the pain that a lot of small business owners were facing. we wanted to give back to the communities. i live in new york and we are very close friends but separated by distance. this is a way to find an opportunity to invest in communities we care about. we did set up the 13 fund to

make a minimum of $100,000 charitable gift over the next four years to a series of causes that we feel are important to our community. that includes small business development, affordable housing, mass incarceration and causes we continue to flush out. one of the things we wanted to do with our -- there are a number of generous benefactors for our cities and one of the things we wanted to do was to really understand the problem area and to be transparent about how we were learning from our research. we have this process where we first research the problem area, interview directly people who are impacted or affected by a challenge. we talk to experts, we talk to

public servants, folks trying to make a difference. we wanted to break down those key challenges. publish it publicly. there is no reason why anyone else can't have access to what we are learning. we are all smarter and more effective working together. we look for organizations that are addressing the problem area with these key challenges in mind or who we feel are connected directly to the sort of root causes or most critical issues of that problem area. we are in the evaluation phase. we reached out to about eight organizations. we are in the process of selecting a small number for zoom interviews and to make a

donation. between san francisco and new york. why restaurants? specifically, one in seven small businesses closed across the country. one in three were restaurants. few other industries were as immediately affected. it is a major loss in the cultural energy and reasons why our cities are considered some of the best places to visit among the world. we both come from immigrant backgrounds. he is from pakistan, i am from a chinese background. our communities are entrepreneurs, food entrepreneurs, many of them. this is their livelihood. we knew that, obviously, there was an anti-asian sentiment among restaurants, among the

public. that definitely hurt those people. this is what we have done. i will turn it over to bilal to highlight those areas and the solutions we have come up with. >> thanks, jason. we have conducted over 28 interviews with a lot of research. we had our volunteer that worked with public and market data to come to a conclusion about the primary challenges restaurants are facing to come to a conclusion where it might become self-evident what solutions we can help with. in this context we came to four conclusions. one of the primary things before the detail is there is no silver bullet. i think a lot of people we were

talking about what is one thing to do to save restaurants in san francisco? there is no one thing to do. it is many different factors from many different angles, and it is going to be a lot of lead bullets to get to the actual solution. to encapsulate the scenes that we saw. as we walk through this, i am sure a lot of you are familiar with these components. the first theme is sales. everyone knows there is a reduction in sales. the trends how sales were changing in that context. second is limited access to capital. basically that restaurants specifically face a larger barrier to entree and access to

the capital to survive the pandemic and other businesses i will talk to you about as well. the third is the interesting finding we discovered. there is a lot of discussion publicly of text flight from the bay area. one of the discussion is labor flight from small businesses and restaurant goes with permanent impact. the last is rent debt, one of the top issues. we will get into that as well. i think everyone knows that sales are falling. we have shelter-in-place orders that are for an important reason, it is hurting restaurants' bottom lines. the important thing to recognize

is that one shift is that some of this change is going to cause from our perspective looking at data and trends a permanent impact after the pandemic in terms of patronage accessible to restaurants. the data here is the primary sources of revenue. it differs by suburb goes with in the city. in urban areas it was tourism, conferences and office workers. tourism will return by 2021, conferences by 2022. that is a big share where the restaurants get patron age. the last is office workers, companies based in san francisco now are working from home.

as things are changing unsure when they will return not at the level before at least for the next three or four years. it is going to be awhile to come back. with that capacity we basically there are too many restaurants this year relative to supply and demand. over the next couple years it is going to, unfortunately, continue to be the case. it is not going to return for a long time to pre-pandemic. it is interesting as well with in the different communities and districts within san francisco and outside of the bay area, it is because of the patronage is from people in conferences. we noticed restaurants moving out of soma to other suburbs to other regions in the bay area. the restaurants in suburbs are not hit as highly by the

pandemic of sales because the patron name is less based -- patronage is less based on conferences and companies working, it is based on homes and families in the suburban area. the third issue we noticed is that the issue of shelter-in-place and unpredictability of outdoor dining going up and down has hurt a lot of ability for restaurants to plan. restaurants only have on average two to three months of cash reserves. the larger ability to predict revenue is extremely important. inability to predict or forecast that revenue is severely hurting their ability to run operations consistently. those kind of things holistically we are finding independent restaurants will

probably consolidate from represent 43% by the end of the year of restaurants. another interesting finding has been that the types of restaurants affected are the ones that are not -- you would think fine dining because they are all indoors. fine dining would be more hit but they have less closures. in terms of the solutions what are the lead bullets to do? there are a lot of factors and it is not easy to one. one thing is the pandemics will go up and down for six to nine months. if outdoor dining could remain indefinitely and related to that

relaxed health code to enable more street food or food trucks, it would be a significant boom to enable them to function in an outdoor dining environment. covid does not spread as much outdoors. ideally the next time we have another shut down the outdoor dining component can remain to enable these sales as much as possible. that is the co-opponent there. -- component. access to capital. there is a public conscious that ppp was in place and that would involve problems. the challenge has been because the restaurant margins are only 15% with three month cash reserves. they don't have a cushion for

emergencies. only those with access to capital to get loans they needed to actually kind of per assist. that was -- persist. we found the closure rates for fine dining establishments were like 2x less likely to close than fine dining. they had relationships with banks or wealthy clients. most restaurants are immigrant owned or don't have -- where english is not first language they don't have relationship with the bank. they are hurting the ability to get the large disparity in the context. when they do give loans not in the increments that restaurants need it. when they do it can be high interest rates to put people in

debt. the last point is a lot of the federal programs are covering employee payroll to cover that component. the problem is restaurants as compared to small businesses have a higher percentage of undocumented workers who do not qualify for ppp which makes it difficult for the restaurants to cover expenses. the recommendation is a ideally if there is a government sponsored or state-sponsored lawn programs or grants -- loan programs or grants so it doesn't put them further into debt. the complex component to fast track grant approvals. the time to take to get the

grants is all a ticking clock. most restaurants only have two to three months of cash reserves on hand. it is a clicking clock. anything to fast track or listen to the approval process is a significant boom in terms of capital in this context. next slide. these were surprising but deeply concerning. these are going to affect the restaurant industry after this year. number one problems restaurants impressed. it was competitive to get labor in san francisco due to housing pricing and commute time and resources available. in that context the restaurant is the primary lever to reduce cost is labor.

unfortunate universal metric of restaurants they monitor performance by sales per labor hour. the only primary lever they have when sales goes down is labor hours. they have to reduce accordingly the labor hours. in doing that, though, a lot of labor is moving outside of the bay area where shelter-in-place is not as strict. a lot of the restaurants are worried even after the pandemic goes away, these people left permanently and it will be harder to find talent in that context. recognize there is no silver bullet. the large level issue in improving affordable housing and programs the city is investigating can help to retain the workers who work here to

maintain a living wage to continue to work here and be a central component of our community. last is rent debt. this was affecting a lot of restaurants. we couldn't find a strong solution to get it fixed. the number one issue you are worried about today and after even the sales go back up. after labor flight or before it was fixed cost. it is the one cost that can't reduce by changing hours or their amount of food or any kind of issues. in one server 80% will not be able to make rent payment. they are taking on debt if they can get access to the debt. a study a couple weeks ago where

japan town shut down for this reason. they can't agree with the landlord. some land lords are thinking more long-term but obviously if you play the long game there might not be any restaurants to pay the rent over time. this is becoming worry some. a lot of restaurants are not paying rent or it is accumulating debt they will never be able to pay back. some solutions we are thinking of are moratorium on commercial leasing or property tax credits. more at the federal level for rent forgiveness. it can help incentivize landlords to be more generous and thinking long-term rather than short term eating up costs. in summary, supplementing

restaurants is superimportant to the city. the series of factors and changes to make to ensure restaurants sub assist at least through the next year and try to think ahead how to set them up for success once everything returns to relative normal to help them succeed going forward from there? i will take any questions. i will take feedback or anything that we can help with. >> commissioner, thank you very much. this is a very interesting presentation. i want to go back to the rent debt portion really quick. i am a landlord. i have 36 restaurants.

over several properties mainly in california and hawaii. i am working with every single one of them. i think outside the box. the one thing that you should add to the rent debt that you didn't mention is some banks aren't willing to work with landlords. that is i think the bigger problem out there. i think landlords would work with most of them. i work with mine, but i see other people where banks are not working with them. that is causing a problem. one of the things i am taking percentage rent right now. instead of fixed rent we are doing 10% whatever you do or we

move people's tables and chairs. we get them to do as much outdoors as they can. but the bank part is the biggest part. that is something that it does need to be addressed on a federal level, i believe. state and locals are under federal law. i see that out there and i have seen it more this time around than in our great recession, you know, 10 years ago. >> that is great feedback. there are multiple players and components. one of the reason the banks don't give money to the landlords because of the risk of real estate or interest rates.

>> interest rates are low. that leads to my next comment. in spaces where restaurants are going out of business and we have had restaurants just shut down prior to the pandemic, the interesting thing is in the last few months i am seeing new restaurants come in. because i have the stove and fixtures still in the restaurant, they can't open up inside. there is a lower cost to get in. i have a couple restaurants now with the same deal. i am not charging rent. here you go, here is an empty space. most of these are young people who are enthusiastic. they use social media which is fascinating and very interesting

to drive traffic into their businesses. percentage rent and see how it goes for the next year and hopefully, things will stick. it is interesting. the interest rates are incredibly low. if you go and the banks, the ppp, they have been very good with ppp loans and state grants and california have been very good. it is the mortgage payment on a mixed use building and a bank says we don't want to deal with it you have to make the payment, you have property taxes, insurance. that is where i think a lot of the issues lie.

>> commissioner dooley. >> thank you for your presentation. it had a lot of interesting details. i had one question about your suggestion about changing parts of the health code. do you mean for food trucks or also for restaurant? >> for food trucks and street food to make it easier for restaurants. there have been some that enabled shares spaces and what not, but a lot of restaurants we talked to wanted to branch out to do a food truck component of the business or just serve food outdoors more on a street food basis and navigating the process was pretty complicated for a lot

of them. it is a suggestion what is the hope? it is getting too complex and given the next year where most of the food is going to be served outdoors, how do we make it easier? this process is hard. >> something interesting about food trucks, too. you can move to where the people are. a restaurant is trapped in this place that used to have office workers now it doesn't. if you can put the restaurant be on wheels you can find the demand where it is. >> exactly. especially we noticed and i think the data suggested closures on polk street are less

than soma. nob hill is used to more families and suburban traffic. restaurants in soma are consolidating that no longer have a lot of foot traffic they can have a food truck in the city where they can get that traffic instead. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> thank you for the presentation. i was very, very interested in all of the data. [indiscernable] in the bay area the restaurants,

all of these companies the population. [indiscernable] because of the grants is there a program. [indiscernable] what happens is the fine tuned mechanism. [indiscernable] it is catastrophic. the population in the region for

like oklahoma, ohio, kentucky. i think this is going to have a catastrophic effect for years to come. [indiscernable] >> unless you talk to people, you will not hear this because a lot of the workers are undocumented they are not going to show up official reports. just looking at the data, i work in artificial intelligence data. i will tell you data lies. often times the real story comes from talking to people. that is why we mixed the data analysis and talking to restaurants. the actual issue you have to talk to people to understand it.

100% agreed. >> commissioner hule. >> thank you very much for the presentation. i was reading a little bit about your partnership and everything. i am wondering. it sounds like you both have put in to or committed to, is that right? i love the idea of like using a new kind of model, private model to help with a public greater good type of thing. i think that to me seems like the future of where business has to go. especially as we recover, is that when we think about business it also has to consider the social good for the social

kind of impact of what we do. i love that you guys are kind of sharing the ideas from different places to solve this problem. that is what i gathered from my little bit of reading and your presentation. how can the commission support the work you do either in helping with scaling or, you know, advocacy? i think this is really nicely presented and it is a lot of things we have all been kind of thinking about and dealing within our own communities. i would love to know what you guys would love to see out of your presentation today. >> what we would like to see if you can tell us what you need to make this become a reality, and we will help do that. one is we have a different

proposals at high level details. we are less familiar with what it takes to get it into execution and practice. maybe helps to know which you think are more plausible to get something done in the next couple months, and then what would you need from us to help build that case? in terms of research or public research for a better case for that. where there is not enough information provided, that would be helpful. second we would love to see whatever your commission things is possible even getting a couple of these will help. what you think is most possible and what is missing to drive to

the next. second. our vision is to develop the 13 fund and the start up world your company do angel investing. apply that model in a similar cop concept to philanthropy. it is a new thing. giving circles. we want to set a precedent so people in our community and other entrepreneurs would have an easy way to donate. what we plan to do is set up a sin do cat that we will donate to. this is what we think will

succeed. we can then publish a new report that says who else wants to join us? we have several people who said as soon as we choose we will donate to. in that component i don't know what you are promoting getting more like when we do the announcement to get more people involved to put money into that same effect. we love to have non-profits address these problems. the latter stage of evaluation. any non-profits that can help. we found access to capital and sales and new deal and working with ccdc and organizations that you are familiar with. i think the issues we haven't been able to find anyone helping with is the rent debt problem. that seems more of something the government can incentivize or

not. if there are non-profits that can help us talk to them during our evaluation process. does that help or make sense? >> that helps a lot of what i notice is that there is a disconnect between these different communities. i feel like people working in the tech factor and finance, especially like tech finance there is like a bubble there. the people doing like community service work in the community-based organizations there is that bubble. it is like there is often times no real opportunity for those two to come together in a meaning full way. >> everyone in tech community is working in the apartments and

not leaving. it gets worse at this point. the clubhouse right now. it is fascinating that there are rooms having public conversations with people both sides. immigrants speaking about their stories and political advocacy. it would be interesting to have that type of forum but public if people would be interested in that, i am happy to host to get more add row cassie for the work -- advocacy for the work you are doing. at least if you have a broader audience it will help bridge the divide. a lot of people are interested in helping but there is a lot of inertia.

we are willing to help but don't want to put in the effort. our goal is to reduce that and turn to energy. one of them is what we are doing now. more engagement would be helpful. >> i am happy to support and i think it is great. looking forward to reaching out after the meeting. thank you. >> i will follow up. >> one of the things that is part of this idea of angel philanthropy that i think i will speak for myself. if i want to make a larger contribution and understand what is happening to it and how it has the process, the change is going to be to develop a sense of conviction. i think a lot of reasons people get excited about angel

investing is to be that person to discover something new and using your brain to think about it. it is like a puzzle. we think there is an opportunity to do that same thing especially if they discover something and then all of a sudden not overwhelming but meaningful amount you have the opportunity to create a real amount of change, but there is this research component which to some degree is necessary to uncover the kinds of insights that undocumented point we heard that, but, yes, it is not always as obvious. the human research. >> are you done, commissioner hule? >> yes, thank you very much.

>> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you. that was a great presentation. a couple things. i do think there is a big component missing with how we are assessing the state of small business and who is getting support and who needs support and who is alive and well and who is not is not just basedded on the identity of the business owner and determining that but also the demographics including economic status of the customers they serve. i think that piece is missing. all i have seen around covid focus on identity, not on class, and not on small businesses still being a vulnerable

population. i would love to talk about how we can produce data around that. i know that in the family business i am part of we -- the people on the front lines know what they need best. i think it is great you have case studies one-on-one. i would encourage you to talk to the trade associations, merchant-led organizations which are not profits. i would definitely encourage whatever benefits come out of your communications with folks to look at the groups as who you are looking to support. one thing that i realize in conversations with technical assistance or as nonprofit.

they are -- they now have trouble with the technical support, city, federal or locally funded. they need clients. they need to build up their connection to those small business networks, informal groups that businesses are congregating in. there is definitely a gap of communication between technical support and any business. that is one thing to think about to talk to and who receives some benefits. >> setting up the websites?

>> technical support has become a catch all term for services for small businesses. there is, you know, obviously getting online, traditional tech support is a big issue, especially for, you know, immigrant businesses and what not. i mean who do i contact for what violation i got and there is no contact? what is my permit? a lot of these things are done through the office of small business but also a lot of organizations like the san francisco economic developmental line which is a coalition of technical support organizations that serve impacted entrepreneurs and small businesses and help with financial management, where to

start if they want to add to their business. it is really everything. >> commissioner dooley. >> i just wanted to follow up on the things miriam was speaking about. where the angel money might go. with the business association to work on a project where we could put together online shopping sites for different neighborhoods. i go to hawaii a lot. i am still shopping at very tiny stores that have grouped together. i am doing this online.

this is something that would help any of our neighborhoods by highlighting what special things they have. now this isn't restaurants. there is a lot of things that could be put online fairly easily with a relatively small amount of money. that is something i would love to talk to you about. it is a very positive thing. people like to shop online now. why not enhance the bottom line of some of our small businesses that way? >> i will give it something to look into more. in the direction which comes from tech. my first reaction is i should do this. my concern is that i am not sure how much the benefits are going

to help the restaurants for all the reasons we talked about. i will give an example. one data point -- not to contradict, how do we have the highest impact for the dollars spent? we look at how much the proportion to off and on site dining. pre-pandemic the proportion was 10 to 20%. 20% of the revenue off site. post-pandemic most severe shut down orders it was 80% -- 60 to 80% off site to on site. then as outdoor dining opened

again, more 60% on and 40% delivery online. in terms of the margin. the margins of the restaurants the revenue they were making is only 30 to 40% of the revenue they were making just at the same time last year. despite the shift to online ordering the revenue has not compensated to their original labels. i have to say everything from delivery fees like door dash and uber charges. 50% cap, i think. it is something that should help

businesses with online ordering. the issue i think is that i am not completion convinced that it is going to solve the problems of restaurants which is the patronage left. it can help with the margin level. i am still struggling with what has the largest impact to what we are looking at. >> thank you. i must be misspoken. with the idea of angel investors we need to keep in mind all of our businesses aside from restaurants are suffering. it is an idea. i have seen how successful it is in the state of hawaii. it was actually a lot of the money came from the state. i am throwing it out there. i have seen how successful it

is. >> restaurants are harder. other businesses, yes. shop i fi. they have done well. they shifted to digital. some restaurants have done well in shifting. the restaurants shift in restaurants is a kitchen of baked goods. for a traditional business not food oriented it can be a lot easier. you are correct. >> no other commission comments. i would like to commend and thank both of you for spending your time and your money trying to tackle this problem.

that is very commendable. it is very welcome. i took great interest in your presentation. a couple things. a little points to steer towards to help you. on the commercial rent which i agree with usa vexing problem, in part, as commissioner adams pointed out, the banks are constrained themselves with their own regulatory burdens to meet. sometimes they have flexibility and sometimes they can't. that creates a dynamic where it is hard to move forward. you mentioned property tax in your footnotes. property tax forgiveness as a

possible way to incentivize banks and owners, really owners how to move out. you might be interested to know if you go on spur. org. i was delighted to help create and hosted a stakeholder conference with banks and landlords and small businesses. the actual paper is keeping the lights on. we did that conference december 1st. one thing which came out of it. you might want to check it out. it is a line drive. it was submitted by the c.e.o. of fidelity bank, i think, paerr

proposal. essentially a much more detailed sort of explanation of that issue. i thought it was really interesting. i have been trying to get the state elected officials to take a close look at that idea. it is a bit completion. what i want to highlight. i want to amplify what vice president zouzounis said about really being thoughtful about how you approach equity issues. one thing that might come up for you in your small business research is that it has been disproportionately african-american and female owned businesses that have been hurt as a result of the

pandemic. one thing i noticed as sort of general economic principle. the shaller businesses, the more likely a small grant will have a material impact on its ability to survive and help. if you are looking for biggest pay on your investment dollar you might start prioritizing that equity piece of it. i think it may reveal some businesses that would becle positioned to -- be positioned to benefit and have disproportionately positive impact on the community precisely because of communities harder hit. you know, just a couple quick questions. i read your piece that was very

interesting. just to make sure i understanding this correctly. it sounds like you want to make sure that you are giving away at least $100,000 but you hope to create a angel list for gift giving? is that the idea? syndicates? >> the circles is more common term in the community. >> i would just, you know, be delighted to help with that. also, you point out there is already an enormous amount of existing research around what can really help. i wanted to echo and amplify that you speak with some of

these business association leaders who are really boots on the ground. they have seen a couple things. they have tried a few others. there are some things that seem attractive but they are dead ends or are too difficult to lift. there are other things that seem sort of like perhaps not as sexy but they deliver material results. i will be delighted as well to connect with you guys offline and perhaps help introduce you to some of these folks who would welcome the effort. finally, i will notice that the city itself has a program called give to sf. my understanding is that soon there will be an ability to give within that program. i am not 100% sure on that.

i can tell you the city processor identifying where to be of assistance and what works even if you don't choose to give to the city, you can learn a lot from how they analyze the problem because it is a lot of experts who likewise have a lot of experience and failed a lot. i know that is something we all learn from tech. an important qualifier for future success. you have got to make sure you fail enough, otherwise, it is unlikely you will hit it out of the park on the first time. finally, i have a invite, but i found it challenging. you have to be willing to interrupt people. maybe it is being on the

commission, i just even if i am in the speaker's area, i rarely speak. you have to ram your way in, but i would be delighted to join. >> it depends on the moderators and how much interaction you have. the type of people in the room and how combative or less combative they are. we want to be intentional about that. the worst is when the moderatorrors have their own opinions. the rooms we are hosting we are trying to listen to people. on the early point as well. to talk to those associations the focus is to support the

non-profits. specifically how funding of less than a certain amount. to your same point we want the dollars to have more sizable impact to the organization. also, because they are nonprofit industry. it is significant numbers that goes to the individual and there is important. [indiscernable] >> clarification. you use small businesses and non profits interchangeably. you want to give to non-profits who help small businesses or give directly to the small businesses. >> our giving efforts we are constrained to 501 c-3 as some

kind, not directly. >> that helps clarify. >> what about a 501c6? that is a trade association. are you donating to them? >> i believe so. [indiscernable] >> yes, there are limitations. >> okay. >> once again, thank you for choosing to engage and get involved. i am sure several of us will try to connect with you offline. i will say as a point of information for any commissioners, i have more clubhouse invites than i know what to do with. if you are curious, i would be

happy to send you an invite so you can see what we are talking about. >> it takes about a week to figure out what it does. lower signal to noise ratio. you have to follow a bunch of people you are interested in. i found one or two rooms each week. >> if you start with me, you will be in good hands. i am kidding. in all seriousness. if you are interested shoot me an e-mail mail or text. i will hook you up. we should check for public comment. any public comment on the line? >> there is no one in the queue. >> seeing none. public comment is closed. gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. appreciate you stopping by.

i look forward to working with you in the future. >> thank you so much. >> next item, please. >> item 4. child care support for small businesses. discussion and action item. >> so commissioners, this is the first of two resolutions we are contemplating today. this one takes up an issue many small pest and most vulnerable businesses attempts with, particularly women of color. that is child care. we know women are more likely to be the primary caregivers for children and depend on affordable child care options to participate as workers and job creators. we know that moms starting and building businesses necessitate child care, particularly single moms who are predominantly black

and latino. prior to 2019 the net majority of new businesses were started by black women and latino women. i will add that because i say this at every turn that i get, every chance i get. the fastest growing sector in the u.s. economy for the past two decades has been women-owned businesses. really facilitating female ownership of businesses is really great for the u.s. economy as well. with reliable child care available to them, black women and latinos who start the majority of new businesses can contribute to economic recovery and insure economic security. we know fellderral support did not reach women and people of color. women owned the businesses in industry among the last to

reopen. food service, retail and personal care. that is why we raise the issue today and urge more support in the child carell many for women and small businesses. do we have questions or comments or discussion about the resolution in front of us? >> i have a question. i know there has been at least two pieces of legislation in the last couple years in san francisco related to child care. one of had do with amending the planning code to allow for ground floor child care. that matters if we talk about that matters if we talk about

>> mayor london breed: good afternoon, i'm san francisco mayor london breed. and thank you so much for joining us here today to provide some good news for a change as it relates to just the rough year that we've been having as a result of this global pandemic. as of today in san francisco, our case rate is at 261 cases per day, and that's down from a high of 372 cases per day. our hospitalizations are at 194, and, sadly, 293 people in our city have lost their lives due to covid. our infection rate is below 1. we're at .95, and our i.c.u. capacity is stable at about 26%. the good news is that we are in a better place than we've been in