colfax. reverend shaw of bethel african american first friendship and other clergy persons who are here. i stand to say, we should applaud our mayor for taking the positive step to make sure that in the city and county of san francisco african americans will not be at the bottom of the barrel of the well when it comes to educating in a positive way. our entire community about the fact that all of us should be tested and vaccinated. ms. cassie cook is also a member of third baptist church and as a pastor and as one representing jesus of nazurus. for that profit came and said that they may have life more abundantly. so we are pleading with and as i did with my own children who are this generation. i gave them some gentle yet direct indication, don't calls me to feel that i need to disown you. because james brown it not bare children who would not understand that you don't look alternate facebook. you don't look at those people who come up with some kind of conspiracy theories. just to divide ot

colfax. and thank you rodney fong from the san francisco chamber of commerce. and we are at e.m.s. pilates studio and this is a place we wanted to come here today and as of today, august 20th, the new health order goes into effect with bars indoors and gyms and studios like this are required to show proof of vaccination. and i want to start by saying this isn't about punishment. this is about trying to get our city to a better place. and it could be a lot worse if we've never even had a vaccine. and so yesterday, i went to the philmore western edition community, the place where i grew up and ms. cook, she and i attended the same church. i've known her my whole life. her son is a little bit older than me. he got sick. he refused to get vaccinated. within a week or so's time, he was in the hospital and sadly passed away and ms. cook talked about how and how when our son came to see her, she was worried because she has had the vaccine, but she has underlying health conditions and was concerned a

colfax. another question i have is regarding testing. we're starting to see a lot more people getting tested for covid-19. is the city going to ramp up testing again, especially that the mass testing sites have been closed? >> yes. so we ramped up testing dramatically in both at our al -- alemany sites and [inaudible] and at this point, that increase in demand has not decreased in supply. we are working with our partners and across our health care system partners, kaiser, ucsf, sutter, and so forth, to expand testing. people who have health care providers are experiencing some delays both in getting some appointments and some delays in getting test results back, so we're working to mitigate that as much as possible. we're also working to access home test kits, which we haven't had in prior times, to help people get rapidly tested. but we acknowledge that testing demand is increasing and, again, are working hard to expand testing options, testing hours for people so that people can get tested when they need to. >> okay. great. next, we'll

colfax. >> i thank you, katy, and good afternoon, everybody. it's really good to be here and prioritize where we are with regard to covid-19 in our city. thank you, everybody, for joining. looking forward to questions and some discussion. we have some slides that i'll be presenting to let you know where things stand, and i know that this pandemic is creating greater challenges within our community. next slide, please. so as of today, we have over 41,000 cases of covid-19 diagnosed in our city, and we have 565 deaths. we are now in a fourth surge, and you can see that we now have an average of about 235 cases a day, and unfortunately, we are seeing another surge in hospitalizations as of august 1 with 97 people in the hospital. san francisco has done a great job of vaccinating people, and again, thank you for your collective efforts in supporting vaccination. it is our ticket out of the pandemic. 70% of everyone in san francisco has been vaccinated, and that includes, in that calculation, peop

colfax. >> good afternoon everybody and thank you, mayor breed for your ongoing leadership during this pandemic. i want to thank chiba piano lounge for sponsoring this. and, of course, the amazing dph team, the mobile team led by dr. mary mercer. just remarkable work. we have 77% of eligible san franciscans now fully vaccinated in our city. so this is a remarkable achievement and, i think while the next few weeks will be very challenging and we're seeing covid-19 increase dramatically in our city, it's very important to remember that hundreds if not thousands of lives have been saved. we're in a much better place than during the fall and winter surge because people are vaccinated. because these vaccines work. because they keep you out of the hospital. because they are saving lives as we speak. if you are not vaccinated in san francisco. this is not a good time to be vaccinated. the delta variant is here. it accounts for more than 90% of our cases now. and it is a highly transmissible and ther

colfax. >> i thank you, katy, and good afternoon, everybody. it's really good to be here and prioritize where we are with regard to covid-19 in our city. thank you, everybody, for joining. looking forward to questions and some discussion. we have some slides that i'll be presenting to let you know where things stand, and i know that this pandemic is creating greater challenges within our community. next slide, please. so as of today, we have over 41,000 cases of covid-19 diagnosed in our city, and we have 565 deaths. we are now in a fourth surge, and you can see that we now have an average of about 235 cases a day, and unfortunately, we are seeing another surge in hospitalizations as of august 1 with 97 people in the hospital. san francisco has done a great job of vaccinating people, and again, thank you for your collective efforts in supporting vaccination. it is our ticket out of the pandemic. 70% of everyone in san francisco has been vaccinated, and that includes, in that calculation, peop

colfax. >> thank you. i guess we will nowmove on to the next item on the agenda which is general public comment . >> commissioners, no one on the line so there's no general public. >> the next is an action item, the laguna honda hospital and rehabilitation is the year 2122 hundred and billy will present at michael phillips the ceo is also here with us. and can alsohelp answer any questions you may have . >> hello commissioners. i thought my camerawould work when i turned it on . there we go. it's my settings so apologies for that. you all can hear me okay? that afternoon, my name is millie conover, she financial officer of laguna honda presenting the 2022 budget. i'll start by giving you a bit of background about the program. the laguna honda fund is funded through public donations received either directly through our website or directly from donors or through our organization city bridge. the donations are spent exclusively on laguna honda residents on programming that supports general benef

colfax. >> i thank you, katy, and good afternoon, everybody. it's really good to be here and prioritize where we are with regard to covid-19 in our city. thank you, everybody, for joining. looking forward to questions and some discussion. we have some slides that i'll be presenting to let you know where things stand, and i know that this pandemic is creating greater challenges within our community. next slide, please. so as of today, we have over 41,000 cases of covid-19 diagnosed in our city, and we have 565 deaths. we are now in a fourth surge, and you can see that we now have an average of about 235 cases a day, and unfortunately, we are seeing another surge in hospitalizations as of august 1 with 97 people in the hospital. san francisco has done a great job of vaccinating people, and again, thank you for your collective efforts in supporting vaccination. it is our ticket out of the pandemic. 70% of everyone in san francisco has been vaccinated, and that includes, in that calculation, peop

and the river fire near colfax is now part of the dixie complex. it destroyed nearly 100 structures, many of them homes. reporter stephanie lynn spoke to one resident of colfax, who lost her childhood home to the fire. emily matthew keeps herself busy managing the beach hut deli in colfax. we've been trying to stay open, just in case families need to come in, you know, not everyone like people's house burned down, so not everyone has access to food and the work a welcome distraction. i lost my house and the fire, but it's okay. it's for we're working it out together as a family's matthew grew up on bear view drive just north of colfax high school, the river fire burned her childhood home to the ground. it's completely life changing what happened here, eric lunetta runs the pizza factory in town. he's lived in colfax for nine years and says he's never seen wildfire comes so close. it was just a pillar of smoke right from our house, unable to find a hotel for miles lunetta and his family wound up sheltering in this room in the back of their business.

colfax to lose at least 300 people. that's why we've had to put together the appropriate vaccine outreach team as well as mandatory mask indoors even for those who are vaccinated. the last thing we need that's the easiest thing you could do to support one another. we should be so proud. san francisco's a dense city and we had one of the lowest death rates. we all came together in the beginning of this pandemic. we took care of our neighbors. we went we got that last hurdle l, that last stretch. it's like the nineth inning and we just need one more hit out the ball park. and if we all just roll up our sleeves and start to get vaccinated even though we have concerns, we're doing it for our fellow san franciscans. and, so with that, i want to turn it over to dr. grant colfax. >> good afternoon everybody and thank you, mayor breed for your ongoing leadership during this pandemic. i want to thank chiba piano lounge for sponsoring this. and, of course, the amazing dph team, the mobile team led by dr. mary mercer. just remarka