income or less. we will be reimbursed by the state for our expenditure by 2030. we propose and expect to use the funds for 221 unit project that mercy housing is developing at 600 seventh industries in district sixth. [please stand by]

by 700, with financing sources for that project are still under review by the affordable housing loan committee. at any city loans greater than $10 million will require board approval. we recommendapproval of this resolution . >> thank you mister menard.

>> checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. members of the public who wish to provide comment it á3. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that isyour cue to begin your comments . do we have any callers? >> mister clerk there are no callers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. thank you so much, this is great. i want to make a motion to move item 10 to the full board with a positiverecommendation. roll call vote please . >> on the motion to forward to the full board with a positive recommendation, the vice chair safai. [roll call vote] we have 2

aye's, with vice chair safai absent. >> chair: thiswill go to the full board with a positive recommendation, thank you so much .all right, can you please call items 11 and 12 together. >> yes chair haney. item 11 authorizes the director of the mayor's office of housing to execute an amended and restated loan agreement with sunnydale infrastructure phase 1a 3 llc, for a total loan amount not to exceed 25 million to finance the second phase of infrastructure improvements and housing development related to the revitalization and master development of up to 1770 units

of replacement public housing, affordable housing and market rate housing, commonly known as the sunnydale hope sf development and adopting findings that the loan agreement is consistent with the adopted mitigation monitoring and reporting program under the california environmental policy act, general plan and priority policies of the planning code. item 12 authorizes the parks department to accept and expend cash and/or in-kind grants valued at 10 million from sunnydale infrastructure llc to design and construct the hers playground recreation center for a term tocommence upon approval by the board of supervisors . members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001.

meeting id24832226487 andpress pound twice. if you haven't done so pressá3 to sign up to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments . mister chair . >> chair: and we have mister lieu . >> my name is jason lieu, hope sf team from the mayor's office and mohcd. excited to come before you with this new phase of revitalization and talk about the infrastructure gap loan and expended expenditure for the herz recreation center. hope sf was created under the merrick avenue administration response administering federal funding forsan francisco's largest public housing sites , hunters view, potrero and sunnydale. hope sf presents commitments for by the city to achieve reparations for past and ongoing trauma systemic racism and deep and persistent povert

. one of the goalsof hope sf is to build racial and i connect economically inclusive neighborhoods . hope sf and mohcd do this by preventing displacement of families through anti-eviction policies and wraparound services so residents remain in their neighborhoods through this transformation and using creative activities to honor the history of those communities. this investment in these communities have resulted in obsolete infrastructures so in order to restore public benefits we have come before you today to present this infrastructure loan at accept a request for the new rec center. at this point i would welcome mike colleague the project manager. >> good afternoon chair haney, supervisors safai and mar.

i'm with the office of housing and community development and am project manager of of hope sf here to present hope sf sunnydale on behalf of their mr who was on leave. sunnydale hope sf is the largest hope sf site adjacent to mclaren park, ingalls golf course to the north and bounded by crocker, amazon park to the west, upon the street to the south. next slide.so we are 775 existing units of public housing atsunnydale have the time the master developer agreement was executed . next slide. sunnydale hope sf will be completed in nine infrastructurephases . the phases have been highlighted on yourscreen . next slide. today's sunnydale developers have completed parcel q which

is located outside the boundary of sunnydale hope sf but is not included as part of the sunnydale hope sfsince residents have moved into the completed project .total of 55 units of which 41 or 75 percent of the units are for sunnydale residents in units with project-based section 8 vouchers and 14 units are tax credit affordable with no operating subsidies. next slide. the sunnydale developers have completedinfrastructure phase 1 a1 and phase 182 and the infrastructure includes block six , 290 because he had affordable housing located inside the boundaries of sunnydale hope sf .it totals on hundred 67 units of which 125 or for sunnydale public housing residents and are supported by project-based section 8 vouchers.the

remaining units are also affordable without a rental operatingsubsidy . locbegan at least in the 2021 . the market rate development within the phase 1 a1 and 182 which is a small blue highlight below the arrow has not been completed or started. it's been delayed due to the pandemic. next slide. so for this request mohcd is requesting the infrastructure loan for 25 million to finance the second phase of infrastructure improvements. infrastructure improvements include masks, upgrading of the areas for future affordable housing and community center. realigning and grinding sunnydale avenue to include a bike and creating a new street along the installation along with installation of newpublic

utilities including streetlights . next slide. if the 25 million infrastructure loan is approved the loan will allow the infrastructure previously described and will allow completion of three graded locks. two for affordable housing on blocks three a and 3b. there will be a unity center of about 25 to 28,000 in blocks three a and 3b combined and unlocked one, a full community center . the two affordable buildings are planned on block three a and 3b and three a and 3b will contain 170 affordable units with 75 percent set aside for sunnydale residents and within that i spoke incorrectly. there is a 3000 square foot

commercial space within the affordable block blocks 3a, 3b are anticipated to begin construction in october 2022 assuming our leveraged financing is secured please note there is no market rate housing lots planned in the sunnydale phase one infrastructure.in summary, sunnydale hope sf is very active with 222 completed affordable housing units . the infrastructure loan request before you today were an evil to start construction on another 170 affordable units and other committee amenities. next slide. so just outside of sunnydale phase 182 gratian parks will construct recreation centers that will be adjacent to sunnydale block one community center which is in infrastructurephase 183 . mercy related sunnydale hope sf development team has been working with the recreation and parks team to construct a recreation campus that will benefit the sunnydale residents as well as the greater

visitation valley residents while the first recreation center will be owned by the city, recreation and parks plans to work with mercy related sunnydale hope sf team to develop synergies between the sunnydale block one can unity center and herz recreational center. recreation and parks have requested this loan infrastructure and recreation and parks accept and extend requests are presented and hopefully approved together due to timing. if the affordable housing plan in blocks three and 3b as planned. as planned in fall 2022, it is conceivable that the occupancy lease three a and 3b affordable housing will occur in 2024 when the herz recreation center is complete. i will now pass this

presentation to nathan sinclair, my colleague with recreation and parks will discuss the reiteration center and accompanied expense . >> good afternoon supervisors. i am agent sinclair with recreation and parks department worship team and i'm here to request your approval to accept from sunnydale infrastructure llc cash and or in-kind grants valued at up to $10 million for the design and construction of the playgroundrecreation cente and through the associated grant agreement . next slide please . cindy touched on sunnydale infrastructure is a partnership between mercy housing california and related california which is implement a multi-base program called the hope sf honey neighborhood plan. the plan includes development of a neighborhood on that will be the center of neighborhood activity and amenities including a 25,000 community

center on the sunnydale campus housing in early childhood center, meeting rooms and other community spaces. as part of the development sunnydale infrastructure is also partnering with recreation parks department to support construction of a new recreation center right next door at adjacent herz playground. next slide please. the sunnydale visitation valley communities have long needed opportunities for safe indoor recreation and since 2018 partners have worked with sunnydale residents and others in the community on a robust outreach process to develop the proposed concept for a new recreation center including eightmeetings and workshops as highlighted on the slide. next slide . the proposed recreation center will be approximately 12,000 square feet and will include a professional size basketball court with seating for 200, multipurpose room and kitchen.

the project will construct a new fitness area and nature play area adjacent to the rec center along the pathway improvements to better connect the rec center to the new home communitycenter and rest of sunnydale . next slide please. currently the project is funded with $10 million city funding from the 20/20 health and recovery bond along with the $600,000 general fund allocation and then a $10 millionprivate fund-raising commitment . which is being led bysunnydale infrastructure in collaboration with the boys and girls club's of san francisco . and we're also seeking some additional funding to complete the project includingapplying for astate regional parks grant and federal funding from the annual appropriations process . next slide please . and were also asking that you approve the associated grant agreements with this project and just to call out a couple of highlights as i mentioned

both city and sunnydale infrastructure commit $10 million in funding for the project and recognize that additional funding could be needed to deliver the project and we commit to working together to identify sources of funding or project delivery methods to resolve this gap. a few of the additional sources we are pursuing or on the previous slide. sunnydale infrastructure would provide an in-kind grants of designs for the project and also provide support for construction of the project using any grantfunding not expended on design and this support may come in the form of cash to record park to manage overall construction projects which we think is most likely one in-kind grants as some of the construction work such as siteprep work . and lastly as cindy touched on we agreed to work with sunnydale infrastructure and

its affiliates to develop a future agreement for use of the rec center or programming design to the visitation valley communities. next slide please . to close, we arecurrently in the design phase of the project and anticipate beginning later this year with the center opening in 2024 and we'll you will support approval of this grant and i would be happy to take any questions. iq . >> very exciting, that was beautiful. thankyou for your hard work on this and it's definitely a community that will benefit usually from this rec center. is there a bla report on this item ? >> we reported on both, chair. item 11 filed 211266 is a resolution approving a restated agreement between the mayor's office of housing and sunnydale infrastructure phase 1 a and 3a llc for $25 million to fund horizontalinfrastructure . we show the sources and uses of the loan package on page 37 of

our report. the infrastructure improvements are expected to be completed and conveyed to the city by december 2023. because this loan agreement structure was, is consistent with the developmentagreement approved by the board for this development , we recommend approval of our resolution. item 12 521-1269 is a resolution authorizing rec and park department to accept and expend up to $10 million from sunnydale infrastructure to construct the playground and improve and associated grant permitting agreement. as shown on page 44 of our agreement for $10 million in grant funds are being matched by $10 million in obligation bond in addition to $600,000 of the general funds provided by

rec and park department which together total $20.6 million of committed sources. however as we show on thatsame page 44 thetotal cost of the project is budgeted at $24.2 million . leaving a $3.6 million funding triple to complete the project . the department is still seeking data and federal funding to close the shortfall and the grant agreement doesn't obligate either party to close thatfunding shortfall. we recommend approval of this resolution as well and i'm happy to answer any questions . >> appreciate it. can we go to public comments please >> yes mister chair, checking to see if there are any callers in the queue . members who wish to provide comments these press star 3. for those already on hold please continue to wait until you are prompted. until you have been unmuted and that's your cute comments.>>

my name is lieutenant and i'm from the sunnydale community and i hope that you guyssupport this . this is something that needed even in the announcement, sunnydale is one of the most neglected communities and the are mentioned in the index and we're trying to make sure we get everything we need to serve the community and make sure that the kids in ourcommunity are taking care of thesame way they are across the city . this is something that's really needed in the community . thank you. >> thank you drewjenkins for your comments. next speaker . >> caller: my name is fran martin and not affiliated with the greenway goal program and we are now constructing the mclaren park plants garden outdoor education center located across the from the

current hertz street recreation center. i was also involved with the visitation valley planning alliance and has supported new housing ofsunnydale since 1999 . consequently i am absolutely in full support of accepting the funding you areconsidering today this infrastructure is long overdue in a matter of social justice . thank you . >> thank you for your comments. misteratkins, next speaker . >> caller: my name is larry jones and i'm from saint hill and i want to give a shout out to all the supervisors listening. another shout out to recreatio and park board andeverybody else who played an integral part in getting us where we are. i want to report on the stabilization of the community . the morale is high .

everybody's happy to see progress. attitudes are improving because they now see people's words are being put forward. there were neglected for decades and now hope sf in collaboration with the city is finally showing the votes so that these children knowing that what they see in the future is promising. the violence is down because partners on are now working on this project to rebuild the community withhappier homes and happier vibes . i encourage you to accept this and let's keep this momentum going because this is the best thing that's happened in the sector since i've been around and i've been here for over 45 years and i would put all my support behind this project . special shout out to my guy, thank you. >> mister atkins, do we have any morespeakers in line ? >> there are no further colors in the queue.

>> chair: thank you so much, public comment is closed. i want to thank everybody who called it and the leaders from sunnydale for your commitment and i'm happy to hear there's hope and excitement about this project and i agree this is one of the most neglected parts of our city and for us to be able to make these investmentsand to have a hopeful future for the residents . that is much overdue and much welcomed so thank you everyone for your work on this. before we vote on these i wanted to make a motion to excuse vice chair safai for the remainder of themeeting . if i can have a roll call vote. >> a motion to excusevice chair safai for the remainder of the meeting . [roll call vote] we have 2

aye's with commissioner safai excuse. >> chair: great.and if we could, if i could make a motion with items 11 and 12 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> on the motion to forward both items to the board with a full recommendation member mar. chair haney. we have 2 aye's with vice chair safai excuse. >> chair: thank you so much fo your work. i appreciate it . all right, our last item mister clerk, can you please call item 13? >> mister chair, did i miss that vote on sunnydale?

>> i also excused you for the remainder of the meeting. >> i'm back. ifyou don't mind we can rescind the vote on the sunnydale item. i do want to vote on it please . >> i first have to rescind the boat? >> yes chair and you do. >> chair: can i make a motion to rescind the vote on excusing supervisor safai for the meeting? >> on the motion to rescind, the motion to excuse. feist chair safai. >> clerk: we have 3 aye's. >> now if we canrescind the vote , on items 11 and 12.>>

on the motion torescind the vote on items 11 and 12 , [roll call vote] we have 3 aye's. >> that i say a word or two, i'm sorry this isparticularly important to me i want to see a couple of words . for this item . so my career in the city began working in sunnydale. there's a long history as you heard today of many broken promises to this community. also was very instrumental in helping lay the groundwork for san francisco's hope sf so i'm very proud of the work that i've done there and very proud of the people that have continued this work, many of you and you heardtoday talk about their commitment tothis

community . this is long overdue . many of you have visitedthese public housing units . some of them i don't have showers. they were billed as temporary worker housing when people were returning from world war ii to come back to the city. and be reintegrated back into san francisco. not necessarily ever intending to live as long and last as long as they have. though there has been commitments to this community over theyears but most of them broken . i'm happy to, i want to be added as a cosponsor to these two items and very happy to see this move forward. i want to pointout proposition a , the vote is helping to fund this infrastructure improvemen . we don't have those kind of dollars available in the city so the voters of san francisco are very wise and were very lucky in the city to have these

dollars to dothis kind of work .otherwise it would add additional significant delays and years to this project. just wanted to say very exciting to support this as well as the commitment to building recreation and support services for this community and very proud to be a cosponsor of this and all the greatwork the community has done over this time . thank you mister chair. >> chair: thank you for your support and leadership and one of the commenters did give you a shout out. >> i heard that. >> chair: very good. i will make a motion to send items 11 and 12 tothe full board with a positive recommendation . >> on the motion to forward both items to the full board with a positive recommendation, vice chair safai.

>> clerk: [roll call vote] we have 3 aye's >> chair: thank you so much, i appreciate it . mister clerk, can you please callitem 13 . >> item 13 is an ordinance amending the public works to permit office of the treasurer and tax collector tocollect the mobile food facility renewal fees on the unified license bill to annually on march 31 . members of the public who wish to provide comment should call 415-655-0001, meeting id 2483 332 6847. then press pound twice. if youhaven't already done so press star 3. a system prompt will indicate you have raised yourhand.

wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments . >> chair: thank you so so much for your patience, welcome . >> good afternoonchair haney and members of the committee . amanda freed with the tax collector. today i'm presenting an ordinance that would bring the department of public works foo facility permit fees on to our unified license bill . as you may recall our office collects annual license fees o behalf of many city apartments . aftera permit is approved by the agency the business owner receives the bill from our office do every year by march 31 . this bill like a seamless experience for small businesses by reducing the number and frequency of bills received from the city and providing a single point of contact for renting a multitude of annual fees. this legislation would shift collection for mobile food facility permit from the tw to the license bill. the change would impact about 100 small businesses and all

these businesses already receive this bill for other charges. i know my colleagues from dpw are present toanswer any questions you have about this fee. otherwise thank you for your consideration . >> great. mister menard, is there a bla report on thisitem ? >> we did not report so chair haney. >> chair: supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank miss three and the tax collectors office and may your breed's office or working on this minor streamlining of the fee collection for mobile food facilities but i think this is great. i've heard complaints about the payment that mobile facilities have had to make particularly for food trucks outthe outer sunset farmers market .

this is very much appreciated and i would love tobe added as a cosponsor for this as well . >> chair: i agreewith all of that . and for you to beadded as a cosponsor as well .let us move to public comment please. >> operations ischecking to see if there are any callers in the queue . members of the public to provide commentpress star 3 to be added to the line to speak . for those on hold wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. mister atkins,do we have any speakers ? >> are no callers in the queue. >> public commentis now closed . i think we are ready to move

this item, item 13 tothe full board with a positive recommendation . can we have arollcall. >> on the motion to the forward to the full board , vice chair. >> please add me as a cosponsor. >> noted mister vice chair. member mark. we have 3 aye's. >> we will go tothe full board, thank you so much for your leadership . we appreciate it. with that, mister clerk do we have any items. >> that concludes our business mister chair. >> this meeting isadjourned, thank you all .

>> hello every one. thank you so much for your patience. good morning i am san francisco mayor london breed with dr. colfax giving an update what is happening with omicron because we are anxious to know when is this going to start dying down? good things are starting to plateau. it doesn't mean we take our guard down. even though we are still seeing additional cases, even though our hospitalizations are very

high, we have the capacity to handle what is coming our way, we are starting to see just a number of plateaus and trends from other parts of the country afternoon world show the people ahead of us and the cases skyrocketing. we are paying very close attention. it seems like san francisco is behind all of that. we are following a very similar pattern to other cities across this country. if that is any indication plus with san francisco being 82% vaccinated it is really hopeful for the future and hopeful that we will continue to move forward. we will see some additional improvements as the days go on. i know it has been a very challenging couple of weeks over the holiday season. as we continue to say one of the

most consistent things through out the course of two year pandemic the light at the end of the tunnel is here. we may go through another tunnel but know there is hope and there is light. i am here just to also say because i know that many people are asking a lot of questions. what is going on with testing? what is going on with the tenderloin emergency plan? why are things not moving as quickly? many of us should understand the city and bureaucracy is challenging. keep in mind that we see these numbers of the omicron variant spike. we also see them spike with city employees. a lot of police officers, firefighters, muni drivers, department of public health workers and those at san

francisco general are out with omicron. we are going to continue to experience this challenge for some time. we ask for people to be very patient with us, to know we are doing our best, working to backfill those positions when they are out with over time and the number of other resources. these are the times we are living in. as a result we just have to adjust to our environment. to talk more specifically about where we are with omicron, what to expect for the future and you know the hopefulness when doctor colfax is smiling and excited and hopeful and giving an indication things are going to get better. i know that is what is going to happen. we get to come outside and play, right, dr. colfax? please welcome for an update on

the covid-19 omicron variant and what is happening in san francisco here is dr. grant colfax. >> good morning everybody. thank you, mayor breed for your leadership as we enter the third year of the pandemic. third year. we are seeing covid-19 cases drop relatively rapidly in the city. we can now say that we are on the beginning of the downward trajectory with regard to the surge. latest data showcases peaked on january 9 with seven day average of 2164 cases per day. it has steadily dropped each day since then to 1076 per day on january 12th. this is good news. it has been a rocky start to 2022. hang in there a little longer. the surge is not over yet.

hospitalizations which trail the peak in cases will still continue to go up. fortunately, for now we expect to meet capacity within the healthcare system to take care of people with covid and other healthcare needs in the hospitals. we are urging people to remain particularly vigilant for a little bit longer. cases are still very high. cases are still very high especially compared to prior surges. we all need to get well past this peak. look, i know that everybody is exhausted. let's give gratitude to front line staff who as the mayor said have been working over time to patch together coverage as colleagues become infected and have to stay home. many of them became infected, too. tonight bely, for the vast majority of our cases in the city, cases are mild because

people were fully vaccinated with the first series and for many people they were up-to-date on vaccinations with regard to boosters. at this point, it looks good with regard to making it through. we are likely to make it through the surge and come out in a much better place. it is important to emphasize with case rates so high what we see across the country, the state and locally we are in a far different place than a year ago with our prior surge. we are getting through omicron, the most transmissible yet. it is more transmissible than alpha and delta. we managed to keep hospitals, clinics and essential services open. most cases have been mild or asymptomatic especially for those up-to-date on vaccinations, especially for those who get the booster.

we have proven covid doesn't have to upend our lives even if we have to be vigilant, smart and flexible to adapt to what is needed when needed. as your public health department i want to stress that our goal is not to prevent every case of covid. omicron proved that is not possible. our goal is to prevent the worst outcomes, severe disease. hospitalizations and deaths. with regard to that, i want to ground ourselves in comparison to last year. last year we lost 165 san franciscans to covid in january of 2021. this month to date we have lost five. now we don't know what covid has in store for us, but we do have great defenses against this virus. vaccinations and boosters and i

expect in the relatively near future effective antiviral medication. we know how to layer defenses. during periods with high transmission when we must protect front line workers and vulnerable by masking, testing, improving ventilation. staying home when sick. omicron taught us we have vulnerabilities in the system of care. we need testing to be accessible, affordable and fast to truly use this tool together safely. we are working with our state and federal partners to make rapid over the counter tests easy to come by and requiring the healthcare system partners to step up and do their part with regard to testing as they have done with hospitalization. we anticipate new tools to become available soon such as

retroviral medications to better protect people who are especially vulnerable to severe disease. as we come out of onl omicron we will drop restrictions when and where they may being sense. we acknowledge that individuals have different level of comfort with the risk of covid and because of certain medical conditions. your risk assessment may vary. what you are willing to do with yourself and family may change depending on your risk assessment. individuals may want to adapt to their own risk and comfort level within the conditions stipulated under our health orders. we ask you to be tolerant and work together to make each other feel comfortable and supported. it is certainly possible we will deal with other variants in the

future, hopefully, we will be able to wait covid among the other infectious diseases we have to contend with by not letting them up end our lives. san francisco, thank you for all you have done and continue to do as a city and we will continue to get through this together. thank you. questions? >> i am confused. you are saying that the cases are beginning to fall rapidly downward. the surge is not over? >> well, the cases are still high. it depends if you depend surge as straight up. we are still in the surge. cases are higher than ever before. i just want to make sure that

people understand that we are not out of the woods yet. cases are still extremely high. they plateaued and are going down. they are at a high level. we are looking at data from other places where it had been ahead of us and it showed that cases could go up fast, come down fast. we are on the downward trend. they could go back up. we hope that is not the case. given where we have been for over two years now, i think the point is cases are starting to come down. hospitalizations are still going up. the rate of increase is starting to slow down. the important news is that hospital capacity still remains robust. we still have capacity to take care of people if they have covid or other medical conditions in the hospital system that is a key metric going forward.

>> what type of restrictions are you talking about? >> well, it will be combination of factors we are looking at. it is too premature to speculate the order they would be lifted. we would look at similar processes by which we have lifted restrictions after the prior surges. it is the layered defenses we required. you know we have had the indoor masking back into place. that is something we would look at in other similar restrictions. i don't want to jump too far ahead. we are still at high rates. hospitalizations are going up. they will level off we expect soon. important thing is after having been through the surges we want to be responsive in a way that reflects that we need to live with this virus. we don't want to hold onto

restrictions waiting for omicron or covid to go away. that is not going to happen any more. we will reach a place where covid is endemic. we will live with the virus. our lifting of restrictions will reflect that new reality. [indiscernable] >> the prior boosters is that going to help us? >> i refer you to the healthcare orders with regard to where people are required to have boosters. our point is that omicron has shown that people need to be up-to-date on vaccinations to be as protected as possible from omicron with regard to hospitalizations which is our goal here. getting people access to boosters is key. one of the reasons we have been so successful with the surge is

because we have a high booster rate. 61% of people vaccinated in the city have received a booster and are up-to-date on vaccinations. that is far higher than the national or state average. we want people to continue to get boosters. we will make them available in the healthcare systems including health department and pharmacy partners. [indiscernable] >> it is clearly important that

we have testing capabilities throughout san francisco that people can trust. unfortunately we have had challenges with bad operators. i really applaud the city attorney's office and the city attorney for taking action and paying close attention to challenges that could arise for people taking the situation for granted. >> it is not unchecked power for the police department. the fact is we want to address the challenges of crime in our city. in facts, you know, everyone is now carrying around all of these gadgets, phones, some someone's face in the public. anyone not law enforcement can see everything going on. people from all over the city and when you talk about a situation for example what

happened in union square. the fact that there was a lot of online chatter, our officers were aware and needed another resource through video to observe the behavior and because of our ordinance could not, there are a lot of things that could have been prevented based on information we get. we are not only asking to allow this to happen based on evidence. part of my ordinance is to say we have to also report this information like when this is accessed by the san francisco police department it will be made public, it will be provided to the board of supervisors. if there is a need to do an investigation or anything about why they chose to do it and it t wasn't necessary, that will be dealt with. the goal is to address public safety. the fact we need the tool. responsible use of this tool to

do so. [indiscernable] >> my response is that the voters will decide because we are talking about the fact that, you know, we have major challenges with public safety. when i say public safety not just about theft. it is about assault and the number of people who have been attacked on our streets, the number of people who have been robbed and as salted. we want to make sure that we are using every tool at our disposable responsibly to keep people from san francisco safe. i don't think what i propose in my ordinance is unreasonable in light of everything that has been happening in san francisco. >> the voters of san francisco support you. go forward with it. >> thank you very much. from the mouths of citizens.

>> mayor, could you address the businesses and restaurants in san francisco that have had a lousy christmas. >> everyone had a lousy christmas. >> what words do you have for them for some of the restrictions to be lifted? >> my hope is that yes, as dr. colfax said. we also have a responsibility to follow the state orders. mostly when we look at the data, hospitalization rates, number of people who sadly passed away, it makes it possible for us to potentially remove a significant number of restrictions. i think ultimately regardless of the restrictions that is not keeping people away from these places. it is really not wanting to contract omicron. that is really what people are focused on is keeping distance to not get it. it is highly infectious and

challenging, people are getting it. the good news is that people for the most part are not ending up in the hospitalizations and dying in numbers we experienced this last year before we had access to the vaccine. i am hopeful and optimistic for the future and sadly so many small businesses and restaurants and families and people not able to get together is very, very challenging. my hope is as we begin to reopen and see numbers decline we are careful and go out and support our restaurants. we order pick up from the restaurants and support our small businesses. it is going to take all of us to get through this. part of that is san franciscans doing more to support our businesses. my drycleaner i have been going

to the same drycleaner since i had a drycleaner. i am not getting as many clothes cleaned as before. talking to find out how can i as long time customer be supportive? donations are helpful to the businesses you care about and support in that way. >> thank you very much everyone.

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water with hill high on the corner and she was in her rain boats so she had fun doing that. >> i saved our house. >> so adopt a drain 25 locations that you can >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to

have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally

(♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to

remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying

constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work

with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco. as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and

how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flowers, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where

being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead,

and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it.

>> a lot of times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider

public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part

of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not

present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump administration and i think how each of the artists has responded so that call is interesting. the common i've got time i've b with 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in san francisco thank you, thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth

in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first summer 6200 jobs and been building. >> i'll high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a large part of the jobs it did manual resource center started off a a youth program and our first year 35 percent of the young people working full-time we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the

city and the greater bay area. >> we have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea have the city staff so the airport is here, starbuck's is here we've been retail we have restaurants, we have offices and so the young people will get an opportunity to partner search warrant with so many of the great champions for jobs. >> for the past 5 years we've hired over 3 willed youth to work as business traces they have been promoted to supervisors. >> if you're doing a job at starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire working at anothers architectural firm understanding

debris or a media to understand reading and writing differently those are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young people that the resumes a it pulls them to the career opportunities and building inspection commission make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skills by the time many of them leave they'll leave with jobs and new relationships building their network of the opportunity to thrive and i think i could focus and i check around the booths to see had is available i'm hoping to get a job but have employers you know employers give practice. >> i feel this will be a great way to look for jobs we can do this like you get paid.

>> when our young people walk we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a room that has a our computer lab an opportunity for them to do cover letters and talk about updating their profile and i think how you do things on the internet we help quam and they can update tare resume and can look in interviews and on the spot job officers we hire about one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting out of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk out with a job. >> we'll rock and roll i guess in the job interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 builds a great foundation gymnasium a

positive outlook and more importantly confidence. >> we really want to do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility of what we can be and do we have them go home i want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately got on the path. >> good morning good morning caitlin i'm caitlin lopez 23 years old i moved out to california and san francisco, california had i was about 8 years old and actually put in foster care at the age of 9 or 10 had a baby at the 16 years old so i've kind of had this crazy like youth experience. >> despite the challenges she faced caitlin finished high

school and take advantage of program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was matched walking sweet spots office i thought imitated not been in that type of office ones i got into the office with my supervisor we boptd and i got a call from h.r. i got the position and i'm in. >> i have. >> we hired merry for 8 weeks and saw how she did she was only going to work 8 weeks but at the end question offered her a position part time. >> i have those traits it has been great working here my term of 5 weeks was pretty much like

family supporting each other i feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in job without the jobs plus program i - i probably would have not even had a job. >> in her case she's a mother of two now going to school full-time and making it happen so if she can do it differently anyone that has a willingness to try at least try to make it can do it. >> those programs are amazing they're so important for young adults to really go out there and make a better future for themselves and despite not having a traditional - you can go out there based on the programs that's what they're for they want to help you succeed.

>> we'll be committing to 25 jobs in the tech. >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 3 and 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me is a network of the community that made the difference no way i'll be with united way this network was here for me this was personal and professional so important we create the opportunities who know the next ceo or champion of the community is coming today to find their path. >> that's the roll in san francisco we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) >> the goal for 2017 to create 5 thousand jobs for youth if you want more information invite them at sf youth.org

you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is dr. steven zutnick. >> hello. the show is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. the director of the therapy center of san francisco and he's a professor in counseling psychology at usf. he's here today to talk to us about resocializing, and returning to the office. welcome to the show. >>. >> thanks, chris. good to be back.

>> as we re-open, people are having different reactions. some are embracing the recent shifts while others are having a hard time readjusting. >> yes. i think it's an excellent question. my basic bias on this i think to give you a general overview is we ought to be following cdc suggestions and requirements, what they say, because that's where a lot of the things come. should i wear a mask. should i not wear a mask. my answer is, yes, absolutely. i think we should wear a mask. i think we should social distance. it not only makes an impact on covid, it makes an impact on other diseases as well. as you and i were chatting, the deaths from flu usually average 30,000 a year. we've had 2,500 deaths from the

flu so far this year, but at the very least, you need to be vaccinated. >> going back to the office is also an issue. there are some people are thrilled returning to work, others are nervous about it and there's a group of people who've been working onsite all along. let's start with those who are worried about returning to the office. what can be done to relieve their concerns? >> i think identifying a cohort of colleagues, fellow workers who you can just talk to and share experiences with. you know, when you look at the advantages of groups, the major one is when we sit and talk to other people, we suddenly discover, oh, this isn't just me, i'm not some strange guy here. so everybody else i'm talking to is worried about the same thing. i think that will raise awareness among people. to say, oh, i don't know, what are we going to do?

do we have fresh air in here? can we open some windows? does the boss care if i wear a mask? >> how about those who've been going to work all along. possibly the most traumatized. how would you talk to them about managing the possible stress and resentment they may have been feeling. >> the most at-risk population is the essential worker who because they are also one of the lowest paid populations, have taken the biggest hits and the most risks. they're still at high risk. so they're dealing with a lot. they're dealing with depression, anxiety, insomnia quite a bit. and you've got a lot of ptsd by the way one last point on the health care workers.

that's the tip of the iceberg. these are also the people who often have the least access to therapy. so we've got all these people out of there who've been in the trenches the entire time, never had a break, suffering a lot of trauma, and there are no services available for them. >> lastly, let's talk about management. with varying attitudes towards the lifting of restrictions, there may be some struggles in the work place. how would you advise management to ease the transition? >> management can encourage vaccination or require it. they can keep masks, physical distance, hand washing, all of these things. and hopefully management will be responsive. i think, you know, given the title that the series, this is all new. we're all just moving in to a whole new phase. we haven't begun to see the research that's going to come out of what we've just been

through. we've been through a terrible pandemic. there's been a huge toll and i don't think we've seen the tip of the iceberg on the impact. >> do you have any final thoughts to share? >> yeah. i think this pandemic has highlighted a lot of things. for me, certainly, is mental health professional and a behavioral scientist. it's clear to me, we need to educate people about science. this is not unknowable to people. the basic of science is constant questioning. when you ask a question in research, you get one answer and about five new questions. things evolve continuously. so, yeah, when the cdc first came out a year and a half ago, they said, no, we don't need masks and then they said oh, we do and then everybody went

crazy. oh, look how bad the sciencetists are. that's exactly what science does. we thought we didn't need it. then we discovered it was air born. i think we're seeing we have huge holes in the health care system and conversely, i think we're finding with the vaccination, what it means for everyone to have access to health care without worrying about how am i going to pay for it. so i think this is really forcing us to look at everything. it's been a very difficult time. it's going to continue to be a difficult time for people, but i think that's also getting us to look at some really critical issues in health care. >> well, thank you so much for coming on the show dr. zlotnick. well, thanks again. we'll be back with another episode of san francisco rising shortly. for sfgov tv i'm chris