this pandemic, many child care centers remained open and guidance is written through the department of public health and department of social services, aided by our team at the department of education, much of it does envision child care centers remaining open and make sure they have a lot of personal protective equipment to keep people safe. i'm happy to say through the government office and emergency services, we sent personal protective equipment to more than 10,000 schools in the state. face coverings, face shields, touchless thermometers, sanitizer. take the temperature of your children at home. if you see any symptoms, keep them at home. and then temperatures get checked again at the child care center. our child care centers have done a great job of using the whole campus, including the outdoor space to broaden the footprint of the campus so it's more ways to accommodate physical distancing. and so, again, i want to just tip my hat to our child care centers. we know parents need these to work and that's why you're seeing the push from the governor's office and others to create these kind of wa

department of public health. we also have the ability to further reduce department's budget without calling department's back to this committee. we will include those deliberations as we finalize the budget. with that, let me call our controller and also our mayor's budget director to discuss item number one. you have the floor. >> good morning, madam chair. the city has a number of financial policy that's have been adopted under procedure nz ths inthe charter. one time revenues should match one time uses in the budget. that policy was adopted eight years ago at this point. the budget that's before you though has three hundred thirty two million dollars of one time revenue resources and less than that in one time uses. there's an imbalance between those as we talked it out earlier in previous weeks. that's permitted but it does require the board to suspend that financial policy for the upcoming period. that's what the legislation before you here today does. >> thank you very much. do you have anything else to add?

i also want to thank the department of public health and my or some of our former colleagues, katy tang, who has been a remarkable liaison between the department of public health and the board of supervisors in this and other matters. appearing before us is dr. stephanie cohen and jim marks from the department of public health, and let me say that i am quite aware that testing is under a lot of constraints in the city, in the state, in this country as testing resources are being moved to other parts of this country where there is much more transmission and death. i am also aware that i have -- i'm not aware of, i have been a champion of making sure that in residential hotels that exist in northbound beach, chinatown, the tenderloin, the mission, for the most part, which are extremely transmissive environments with congregant shared settings -- shared kitchens, shared baths -- that we do everything in our power to decrease the spread of covid through increased testing, and we've done that in a variety of ways. colleagues, i want to say that given the constraints that i've earlier mention

i also want to thank the department of public health and my or some of our former colleagues, katy tang, who has been a remarkable liaison between the department of public health and the board of supervisors in this and other matters. appearing before us is dr. stephanie cohen and jim marks from the department of public health, and let me say that i am quite aware that testing is under a lot of constraints in the city, in the state, in this country as testing resources are being moved to other parts of this country where there is much more transmission and death. i am also aware that i have -- i'm not aware of, i have been a champion of making sure that in residential hotels that exist in northbound beach, chinatown, the tenderloin, the mission, for the most part, which are extremely transmissive environments with congregant shared settings -- shared kitchens, shared baths -- that we do everything in our power to decrease the spread of covid through increased testing, and we've done that in a variety of ways. colleagues, i want to say that given the constraints that i've earlier mention

i pushed back on the department of public health to say it is not enough to say that you will actually lower the amount of deliverables that they will have to deliver and actually lower the case load. in fact, it is the responsibility of the department of public health to provide infrastructure support to provide the demand, because there is a great demand. i would like an update on that a. i would like to know what procedures have been followed. are they taking the case load that we originally had -- wanted them to perform. we now there was great need. i have not seen anything actually as an update to this. so again this is the februar february 2019 budget. yeah. budget committee meeting about west side community health center. i know that i did not bring this to you -- forward before. but if since we're meeting next wednesday, i would actually love an update about what we are doing to help the west side community mental health center. and also are they at full capacity now. and if they are not at full capacity now, why not and what kind of supports are we going to be giving them. the

charges for the department of health clinics are said in the department of public health ordinance, ande occasionally request rate increases by the department of public health and the board of supervisors. there's some background on this one in particular. over the last 1.5 years or so, we have been doing a lot of work, and the board held some hearings and had some discussions on the issue of balanced billing, and that is an area -- that is the situation where an individual comes into a hospital, including zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, and their insurance covers part of the bill, but not all of the bill, and then, the balance is charged to the patient as an individual. and that reflects a small amount of our patients. but for those who are affected by it, they end up with a large medical bill, unexpected, and largely where they received emergency services out of their control. that can be stressful and burdensome, something that somebody doesn't need when going through a medical emergency. so we had a lot of discussions about this about 18 months ago, and the department has

grant colfax, director of department of public health to dive into one of the most complicated issues that we have focused on including information about the data. today dr. colfax and i are going to talk about the data the department of public health is tracking and what it means for san francisco in our ongoing response to covid. we know there are a lot of numbers out there. like the key health indicators available online and it can be difficult to keep track what it all means. i know at the end of the day everyone wants to understand exactly what this means and when will we open? this is so fundamental to the decisions we make forral of you every day. we want to explain it to make it easier to understand. the data shows where we have been in san francisco. it gives us insight into where we are going. it gives us the ability to change course if we see a concerning spike like recently. we had to pause the reopening activities and businesses as a result. with data we can model what the future might look like if we take action or don't take action. by makes decisions on data, science a

collaborative was first funded by the department of public health. so we're looking forward to working together and continue to strength our defense of our s.r.o. residents. thank you very much. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mattias. any other members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1? >> yes. two additional callers. i'll unmute the next caller. >> supervisor peskin: next speaker, please. >> caller: hello. can you hear me? >> supervisor peskin: yes, i can. please proceed. >> oh. this is trudy. i'm calling from center city collaborative, part of the housing clinic. thank you, supervisor peskin, to extend this legislation for another 90 days or more. one thing i do agree with all the speakers who spoke in front of me -- before me about the emphasis of testing and the outreach. one thing that i definitely felt that is terribly lacking and i'm hoping and willing to work with d.p.h. on it is like the reaching out to the community-based organizations that's already working with tenants in various buildings. because we bring the rel

with that, i want to ask the director of the department of public health dr. t kol fa x fax to please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax director of public health. happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. when it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. our investments in testing, contact tracing and food security among other items have helped san francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. here is an update of where we are with the virus. as of this morning. six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. we're currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. that's a slight drop from last week. it's a 20% reduction from our peak in july. because of our efforts. because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. the effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading. it'

. >>> time is 404, the sudden resignation by the head of california's department of public health. dr. sonia and jill gave no reason for her resignation which came less than a week after a health department computer system undercounted the number of new coronavirus cases. she took over last year as the head of the state department of public health. >>> your the latest numbers on the coronavirus cases. california has now 560,000 coronavirus cases. more than 10,000 people have died from the virus. the number of hospitalizations in the virus have gone down for six state praise. here in the bay area we have more than 61,000 cases and 914 people have died from the virus. >>> a san quentin prison guard has died from the coronavirus. sergeant gilbert palazzo is the first one to die from the virus. he had been hospitalized for more than a month. relatives believe he caught the virus at work after inmates from the chino prison were transferred to san quentin. his son vincent talk to us from south korea, where he is serving in the u.s. army. >> i don't think it was done correctly, personally.

so thank you all so much for joining us, and at this time i want to turn it over to the department of public health director, dr. grant colfax. >> well, good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax, director of the public health department for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, mayor breed. it was almost exactly six months ago that we stood on this balcony as you declared a state of emergency for the city. because of your leadership, mayor breed, and thanks to the scientific expertise and the community wisdom that we are so fortunate to have here in san francisco, and through the tireless dedication of city workers and community members, we are better off to do. we have been careful. we will continue to be careful. faced with a new highly infectious virus, we have taken a measured approach that protects the most vulnerable in san francisco and slows the spread of covid-19. we will continue to move forward with a thoughtful, incremental phased approach to reopening that will hopefully allow us to avert large outbreaks, keep our health care system at capacity, and mitigate even further damage to

of command in the state. leading to public health officer seemingly abrupt resignation on sunday night. >> we are here at the department of public health but it seems it was never reported. is there truth to that, and if so, why were you not notified? >> we made adjustments to the team, a new approach to how we address the issues and how we address these issues going forward. it is absolutely true and that is why we are here, as transparent as we can be. >> the source can be traced back a week to a news conference that the governor gave about cases and positivity rates trending down. the problem is the numbers from last monday did not include a backlog of more than a quarter of 1 million test in the system. the doctor says the backlog is now clear. >> we were able to process these over the weekend as well as to all of the normal weekend work to ensure that we ended the weekend with very few records in the system. >> the governor says he didn't know the data from the decades old system was bad when he was at the podium. >> i was unaware and i was made aware later that evening. >> now, as the governor mentioned the syste

charges for the department of health clinics are said in the department of public health ordinance, ande occasionally request rate increases by the department of public health and the board of supervisors. there's some background on this one in particular. over the last 1.5 years or so, we have been doing a lot of work, and the board held some hearings and had some discussions on the issue of balanced billing, and that is an area -- that is the situation where an individual comes into a hospital, including zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, and their insurance covers part of the bill, but not all of the bill, and then, the balance is charged to the patient as an individual. and that reflects a small amount of our patients. but for those who are affected by it, they end up with a large medical bill, unexpected, and largely where they received emergency services out of their control. that can be stressful and burdensome, something that somebody doesn't need when going through a medical emergency. so we had a lot of discussions about this about 18 months ago, and the department has

like to first thank my colleague, supervisor katy tang, who is now the liaison between the department of public health and the board of supervisors for working to attempt to craft amendments to this emergency ordinance that we previously enacted which, candidly, the department of public health, due to any number of constraints on the human resource side and the relative side, testing equipment, swabs, what-have-you, have not been able to fully implement. dr. stephanie cohen has agreed to reach out to the three s.r.o. collaboratives in the intervening week to figure out what they actually can do. i don't want to impose legislation that is unrealistic, but i do want to continue to take every step and utilize all of our resources to make sure that covid-19 does not spread in some of the most transmissive environments in congregate setting, that being the s.r.o. hotels. with that, seeing no further comment, i'll open this up for public comment and then, i'll continue this for one week pending dr. cohen's outreach to the s.r.o. communities. madam clerk, there any public comment? >> clerk: mr. chair, michae

an abc7 news reporter, kate larson, spoke one-on-one with the doctors of san francisco department of public healthrea has been chosen to participate in one of five national vaccine trials coordinated through co-vpn. the prevention network. >> this is a real pivotal moment for us here in san francisco and the bay area. >> san francisco's director of public health, dr. grant colfax says phase three trials developed by oxford university will begin this month. >> really excited that we're taking part in this trial. >> san francisco's participation in the trial would not be possible without dr. susan buckbinder who is on the executive committee. >> i did bring it here. it is such a need and so of the solution. >> she has spent her entire 32-year career at san francisco's department of public health, working on hiv vaccines and prevention. she's one of the nation's leading experts. it is really work on the work we've done on hiv and understanding the immunology of the disease. many of the leading scientists working on covid vaccines and treatment come from the hiv field. >> which is why so many of the t

is totally unacceptable. >> reporter: supervisor erin peskin says he is working with the department of public health to start enforcement as early as next week. he says it appears the organizations operating these food carts are also exploiting workers. >> these individuals are basically indentured servants and they are worsening the situation in a pandemic. >> we have to follow the tax rolls and so forth whereas these other people follow zero rules. >> reporter: supervisor peskin says enforcement is not about targeting immigrant workers trying to make a living. he says the crackdown will include issuing citations. >>> in san francisco police have a suspect in custody after a deadly shooting in the south of market area. officers swarmed the parking garage at fourth and mission at 3:20 this afternoon after a person was gunned down nearby. teams of officers used canines to track down the shooter. police said the victim was taken to the hospital but later died from their injuries. the parking garage was shut down, along with mission street during the manhunt. police say they eventually located a suspec

with that, i want to ask the director of the department of public health dr. grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax director of public health. happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. when it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. our investments in testing, contact tracing and food security among other items have helped san francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. here is an update of where we are with the virus. as of this morning. six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. we're currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. that's a slight drop from last week. it's a 20% reduction from our peak in july. because of our efforts. because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. the effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading.

an abc7 news reporter, kate larson, spoke one-on-one with the doctors of san francisco department of public health. >> the bay area has been chosen to participate in one of five national vaccine trials coordinated through co-vpn. the prevention network. >> this is a real pivotal moment for us here in san francisco and the bay area. >> san francisco's director of public health, dr. grant colfax says phase three trials developed by oxford university will begin this month. >> really excited that we're taking part in this trial. >> san francisco's participation in the trial would not be possible without dr. susan buckbinder who is on the executive committee. >> i did bring it here. it is such a need and so exciting to be part of the solution. >> she has spent her entire 32-year career at san francisco's department of public health, working on hiv vaccines and prevention. she's one of the nation's leading experts. it is really work on the work we've done on hiv and understanding the immunology of the disease. many of the leading scientists working on covid vaccines and treatment come from the hiv field

the department of public health i'm not seeing that. as a parent that is concerned for spread and concern for families i wanted to know if the dedepartment of public health hs any recommendations for this activity. >> : thank you, commissioner collins. we are aware of this national phenomenon and seeing national headlines related to this. we don't have any recommendations at this moment in time but are discussing it internally. we just received the state guidelines for schools last friday and are revisiting all of our guidance as a result of what the state has issued into the state as to whether any guidelines they will be releasing on the micro school dollars or pod pods. it's a phenomenon that's not occurring just in san francisco but throughout the state and nation. we are experiencing community spread. we are in the middle of a surge. we're definitely working on this. the health officer is considering it and whether and how it can be done safely. we don't have any recommendations at this moment in time. >> : great. i have one more qu

california and then getting them, we do this in cooperation with the state of california department of public health. and the ucla public health school. it is going great guns. we've trained 8,000 people about how to be contact tracers. a lot of these people are repurposed state employees and local employees and based on a very successful model we've had here in san francisco. we're probably, there are other people training contact tracers as well. l.a. and orange counties both have large programs. we're trying to fill the need. and the need isvast. we probably need, i would guess maybe twice as many as we have now. the question is what do you do when they go back to their day jo? san frais we've libraryians doing it. it is real structural issues. if you're telling a guy who is feeling totally fine and he lives day to day, basically the cash he can put in his pocket from day labor, that he has to go into isolation for ten days, by the way, you won't get paid. by the way, you're doing this for society. but you're going to have to give up a week and a half's words of wages, that's a problem. in san fr

with that, i want to ask the director of the department of public health dr. grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax director of public health. happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. when it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. our investments in testing, contact tracing and food security among other items have helped san francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. here is an update of where we are with the virus. as of this morning. six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. we're currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. that's a slight drop from last week. it's a 20% reduction from our peak in july. because of our efforts. because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. the effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading.

.>> i'm district twe leadership of the department of public health flattened the curve in san francisco. the steps we have taken together have saved lives. one of the reasons the city acted so quickly so early was to not overburden our health care systems. as the state of california and bay area counties have begun to gradually reopen, we are seeing some troubling signs. we have a seven day average of ninety eight new cases per day. our demand for acute care for covid positive patients has goan each week. today dr. and i are announcing the establishment of our first low acuity medical site. located a 163. it will open with twenty patients. it's not expected to treat covid positive patients. when i starred this i facility i was truly impressed at the first rate medical facility. the city's ability to confront covid 19 depends on our ability to care for those with all manner of conditions. sprained angels to heart attacks. other ailments are not stopping just because of the pandemic. opening this facility will shore up our ability for the hospitals to treat covid 19. it is not a drop in a

the state department of public health says it's still trying to pinpoint the problem with its system.his is our top priority, and a team of dozens has been working around the clock to resolve these data problems. businesses that are closed just don't know when they're going to be able to reopen, and those that are already open say this is just making things more confusing. at zonk toy store they've managed to stay open by almost becoming a plant pop-up shop. for now they're simply surviving. >> we don't know if he can open one day, if we have to close the next day. >> reporter: they're hoping the state's data issues get resolved and infection rates continue to drop in santa clara county so they can get back to something a little more normal. in s bay area news. >>> here are the updated numbers. the bay area reporting more than 1,200 new cases today. alameda county adding 332 cases. santa clara county also high, adding 220 new cases. contra costa county not far behind with 208. napa county had the fewest new cases with 18. >>> things are improving at san quentin, though six outdoor ten

the department of public health i'm not seeing that. as a parent that is concerned for spread and concern for families i wanted to know if the dedepartment of public health hs any recommendations for this activity. >> : thank you, commissioner collins. we are aware of this national phenomenon and seeing national headlines related to this. we don't have any recommendations at this moment in time but are discussing it internally. we just received the state guidelines for schools last friday and are revisiting all of our guidance as a result of what the state has issued into the state as to whether any guidelines they will be releasing on the micro school dollars or pod pods. it's a phenomenon that's not occurring just in san francisco but throughout the state and nation. we are experiencing community spread. we are in the middle of a surge. we're definitely working on this. the health officer is considering it and whether and how it can be done safely. we don't have any recommendations at this moment in time. >> : great. i have one more qu

have a great partnership with the recreation and parks department as well as our public library, dupt o department of h, technology, public health, department of public works and all of our c bo ses. there's a list of all our c bos. we can't do this alone. throughout all of these hearings, it's all of us coming to together. all of us standing up and working to the because our children success really reflects the success of our city. we are all working together. to the public who is watching this, for those of you who are compelled to say, what can i do? how can i be a part of this village that the city is designing and creating. i want to share that for those who can, please, make a donation to give to sf. because we will be able to use thoases funds tthose funds to se community hubs. and of source your donations will be tax deductible. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you. i want to open it up now to community members for questions. >> thank you. thank you director sue for the presentation. i had a couple of questions. thank you for the work, pushing this out. i first wanted to actually say, you yoa know, i heard susan

. >> i'm e leadership of the department of public health flattened the curve in san francisco. the steps we have taken together have saved lives. one of the reasons the city acted so quickly so early was to not overburden our health care systems. as the state of california and bay area counties have begun to gradually reopen, we are seeing some troubling signs. we have a seven day average of ninety eight new cases per day. our demand for acute care for covid positive patients has goan each week. today dr. and i are announcing the establishment of our first low acuity medical site. located a 163. it will open with twenty patients. it's not expected to treat covid positive patients. when i starred this i facility i was truly impressed at the first rate medical facility. the city's ability to confront covid 19 depends on our ability to care for those with all manner of conditions. sprained angels to heart attacks. other ailments are not stopping just because of the pandemic. opening this facility will shore up our ability for the hospitals to treat covid 19. it is not a drop in acu

phase 2 which would be a hybrid then the in person learning for some nfl disick with the department of public health says that that cannot happen until there's a drastic decline in covid cases and hospitalizations with lower rates of community transmissions plus establish contact tracing in the meantime support of programs known as community learning hubs were brought into focus tonight to make sure that parents still have that resource and kids get off the screens and have some alternatives. >>there's also real challenge with over use of technology. and too much soon and too much web-based interface is so we've really gone back and forth as an agency to ensure that we provide different means of engaging young people even to virtual platforms that address some of these concerns. >>to me truly say that heads will be small and focusing on stem school students who need. the supports the most well distance that he supports this access to white buying digital reading devices that will be out there recreation activities is in richmond activities will be ready until how and why this resource is family supp

like to first thank my colleague, supervisor katy tang, who is now the liaison between the department of public health and the board of supervisors for working to attempt to craft amendments to this emergency ordinance that we previously enacted which, candidly, the department of public health, due to any number of constraints on the human resource side and the relative side, testing equipment, swabs, what-have-you, have not been able to fully implement. dr. stephanie cohen has agreed to reach out to the three s.r.o. collaboratives in the intervening week to figure out what they actually can do. i don't want to impose legislation that is unrealistic, but i do want to continue to take every step and utilize all of our resources to make sure that covid-19 does not spread in some of the most transmissive environments in congregate setting, that being the s.r.o. hotels. with that, seeing no further comment, i'll open this up for public comment and then, i'll continue this for one week pending dr. cohen's outreach to the s.r.o. communities. madam clerk, there any public comment? >> clerk: mr. chair, michae

the head of california's public health department is stepping down. dr. sonnia angel is a announcing she's leaving effective yesterday. no reason given. she was the head of the department for less than a year. her resignation after a major blunder with the state's covid-19 tracking system. now a computer glitch caused several thousand cases to go unreported. state is still trying to work through that backlog to provide more accurate numbers. >>> and now to making it in the bay by keeping people in their homes. santa clara county is taking up the issue of the extending the eviction moratorium. it expires at the end of the month. last month a report by a law foundation of silicon valley showed more than 40,000 south bay families and small business owners are on the brink of losing homes and businesses. right now tenants have six nt months to pay back rent after the moratorium. >>> in san francisco, a growing call to have a moratorium ontoing. the city has a high number of people living in their vehicles. towing was halted since the pandemic began. but with p

grant colfax, director of department of public health to dive into one of the most complicated issues that we have focused on including information about the data. today dr. colfax and i are going to talk about the data the department of public health is tracking and what it means for san francisco in our ongoing response to covid. we know there are a lot of numbers out there. like the key health indicators available online and it can be difficult to keep track what it all means. i know at the end of the day everyone wants to understand exactly what this means and when will we open? this is so fundamental to the decisions we make forral of you every day. we want to explain it to make it easier to understand. the data shows where we have been in san francisco. it gives us insight into where we are going. it gives us the ability to change course if we see a concerning spike like recently. we had to pause the reopening activities and businesses as a result. with data we can model what the future might look like if we take action or don't take action. by makes decisions on data, science a

service facilities and article 25 requires public works refer wireless applications to the department of public health and the planning department and both departments determine this application complies with article 25 and as a result, public works issued a final termination in approving the application after the andbl it d in. the planning department is in attendance and can speak more to the review process. the health department is not in attendance but can take comments through email. >> thank you. and so, mr. sanchez, would you like to weigh in? >> sure thing. >> this is not a planning location. the planning protected locations are where you are street views or you have historic issues and in this case, it's just because it's in a residential zoning district and the zoning protected location compatibility standard means that an applicant or personal wireless service facility site permit, zoning protective location demonstrates the wireless service facility would not significantly detract from any of the defining characteristics of the residents. and that's the standard that is applied to -- given

with that, i want to ask the director of the department of public health dr. grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax director of public health. happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. when it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. our investments in testing, contact tracing and food security among other items have helped san francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. here is an update of where we are with the virus. as of this morning. six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. we're currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. that's a slight drop from last week. it's a 20% reduction from our peak in july. because of our efforts. because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. the effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading.

. >> clerk: item 16 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of $660,557 from the california department of public health for participation in a program entitled disease prevention and control local infrastructure funds for the period of february 1, 2020 through june 30, 2023. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. >> clerk: on item 16 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. then without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. go to item number 17. >> clerk: item 17 is a resolution to authorize the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a grant application under the department of housing and community development's local housing trust fund program for an amount not to exceed $5 million. >> president yee: okay. go ahead and call the roll. >> clerk: on item 17 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. without objection, the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, let's go to item number 18. >> clerk: item 1

we need clear guidelines with checklists from the department of public health. pecifically made for outdoor performing arts. san francisco international arts festival would like to help the department of public health to create these guidelines and to support the entertainment commission in reopening the arts industry safely. this can be done through a prototype outdoor festival at fort mason on october 24-25, 2020, just before the rainy season starts. this event can be a way to test operations, guidelines and procedures for outdoor performing arts. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, lisa. going to screen share for one moment. all right, the next person in line to speak is a person named shau shau. hi, sasha, you are unmuted. you can go ahead and speak. you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me, can you hear me now? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >>> caller: i'm sasha higby. i have seen the way that arts can feed our spirits, both individually and communeally. i'm speaking this evening to ask the city to advance the priority of outdoor performing from phase

with that, i want to ask the director of the department of public health dr. grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm dr. grant colfax director of public health. happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. when it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. our investments in testing, contact tracing and food security among other items have helped san francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. here is an update of where we are with the virus. as of this morning. six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. we're currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. that's a slight drop from last week. it's a 20% reduction from our peak in july. because of our efforts. because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. the effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading.

. >>> well, the director of california's department of public health abruptly stepped down from her job. dr. sonia angel did not give a reason for leaving. dr. angel was named the state health officer and california department of public health director just last october. today california's health director thanked dr. angel for her service. >>> well, coronavirus cases here in the u.s. have now surpassed 5 million. 40% of those cases are are in just five states. california has the most. followed by florida, texas, new york, and georgia. more than 163,000 people have now died from the virus in the u.s. health officials believe another 30,000 americans could die by the end of the month, and that the death toll could reach 300,000 by december. scientists are also getting a better idea about whether people can plan -- whether, rather, people plan to get vaccinated. according to a gallup poll, 675% of americans safe they would take an fda-approved coronavirus vaccine. 35% said they would not. >>> there's still a number of questions surrounding the executive ordeump signed over t aimed at provi

we need clear guidelines with checklists from the department of public health. pecifically made for outdoor performing arts. san francisco international arts festival would like to help the department of public health to create these guidelines and to support the entertainment commission in reopening the arts industry safely. this can be done through a prototype outdoor festival at fort mason on october 24-25, 2020, just before the rainy season starts. this event can be a way to test operations, guidelines and procedures for outdoor performing arts. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, lisa. going to screen share for one moment. all right, the next person in line to speak is a person named shau shau. hi, sasha, you are unmuted. you can go ahead and speak. you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me, can you hear me now? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >>> caller: i'm sasha higby. i have seen the way that arts can feed our spirits, both individually and communeally. i'm speaking this evening to ask the city to advance the priority of outdoor performing from phase

public can hear, honoring maria x martinez. whereas, she served the city and county of san francisco as a devoted san francisco department of public-health and staff member and leader for 23 years and whereas, during mrs. teen he is tenure, she served in the following leadership roles. deputy director of community programs, senior staff, director of health, chief integrity officer and and whereas the highlight of her career at the dph was her role and extra care and aims to improve outcomes for adults and experiencing homelessness and san francisco and to enhance care coordination and they solidified among dph the department of homelessness and supportive housing and bringing them together to wrack in ways they had been under her leadership envision san francisco adopted a population based approach providing housing and human services to adults experiencing homeless. it highlighted care coordination and inner agency data share to identify and problem soft and street to home plan with whatever it takes approach. she helped build initiatives and public policy and for the past 15 years she was an active board member of the chicana latina fo

california rate elementary schools for in- person learning could be possible after the state department of public healthguidelines. we are here with details. good morning. >> reporter: there is a chance that elementary school kids could get back on the classroom this year. there are a lot of rules to follow. according to guidelines released by the california department of public health, if schools are in counties not on the monitoring list, they could open for in-person learning. if schools are on the list, the have to get a waiver approved. give counties have more than 200 cases per 100,000 people in the last 14 days, they won't be considered for a waiver. the waiver only applies to elementary schools which is considered from tk to sixth grade. school leaders have to outline the reopening plans that go along with the state's rolls on disinfecting, health screenings, physical distancing, testing triggers for distance learning, and wearing masks, among other things. the application has to have the support of parents, community groups, and labor unions which is an issue win oakland. the teachers union in

health care facilities with preventing and improving infection control. attorney mike dark, who specializes in nursing home reform, says both of those efforts are inadequate. >> the california department of public health kind of perplexingly during this pandemic has shifted away from enforcement, away from citing bad facilities into a kind of supportive role, which is a weird thing for a regulator. >> reporter: inspectors that usually write citations are now acting like consultants. >> and that creates a terrible conflict of interest. >> reporter: for the i-team, stephanie sierra, abc7 news. >>> the u.s. hit a grim new record this week. we recorded the most coronavirus-related deaths in a single day. more than 1500 people died from the virus this past wednesday. that has brought the u.s. death toll to over 166,000. that's a staggering figure, without comparison. in some states, school districts are preparing to welcome back students for in-person instruction. arizona's largest district will see about 70,000 students return. crates of ppe will be shipped to campuses. dr. anthony fauci says the risks for in-person instruction are high. >> we are living, all of us in historic pandemic. we've never

close exposure would not necessitate quarantine, with that designation but the georgia department of public health has guidance right now that would require that person to be quarantined for a period of time, either ten or 14 days before they come back. the essential worker designation to allow them to come back quicker than that and continue to work. >> and the governor in georgia's yet to make a decision about it. if he decides to enforce it, what can you do? >> well, we would continue to advocate for moderated measures and we're working with some of the other education associations in georgia which includes superintendents are the most concerned about this issue and their concerns of having to shut down schools on a rolling basis because of the number of staff who are exposed and are not able to come back to work under current department of public health rules and working with them and the governor's office very soon to try to come up with some other mod rate designation or enhancement of this designation that would ensure that anybody that's exposed is clear and able to come back and not sprea