so thank you, and with that, i'd like to introduce mary ellen carroll, the director of our department of emergency management. [applause] >> thank you, chief scott, and thank you mayor breed. emergency management provides coordination in times of crisis, and today, as you've heard, there's no more significant crisis than what's happening in our streets and especially in the tenderloin. during the pandemic, san francisco demonstrated what can happen when we work together. at the mayor's direction, the department is going to collaborate with our community partners. over the next few months, the team will implement a multiphase assessment approach. the first phase is already underway. through meetings with community stakeholders and residents, we have developed an understanding of the challenges that we have to address. enforcement and the disruption of criminal activity to guarantee safe passage in our community. during this phase, social workers, clinicians, community partners, and resources will work in concert to offer wraparound services at a new temporary linkage site. when it's es

matt haney they need help and this is a statement of the urgency that help is on the way mary ellen carroll executive director of the department of emergency management will spearhead the effort an emergency declar. then allows san francisco to cut through the red tape to obtain the contracts the resources and the personnel that we need to address the crisis conditions in the tenderloin. it's welcomed by community members residents need action. they are going to be excited to see that someone's finally paying attention to the neighborhood to the residents christy. sharella is the director of community organizing and resident voice at the tenderloin community benefit district. she says last week mayor breed met with approximately. 50 tenderloin residents she listened to their stories about, you know getting harassed or assaulted on the street or hiding from gunfire in the middle of the day at a park the group. so spoke with the mayor's policy advisors about changes, they'd like to see in the neighborhood. i hope that the help that's offered is long-lasting mayor reed says it is the goal is t

so thank you, and with that, i'd like to introduce mary ellen carroll, the director of our departmentof emergency management. [applause] >> thank you, chief scott, and thank you mayor breed. emergency management provides coordination in times of crisis, and today, as you've heard, there's no more significant crisis than what's happening in our streets and especially in the tenderloin. during the pandemic, san francisco demonstrated what can happen when we work together. at the mayor's direction, the department is going to collaborate with our community partners. over the next few months, the team will implement a multiphase assessment approach. the first phase is already underway. through meetings with community stakeholders and residents, we have developed an understanding of the challenges that we have to address. enforcement and the disruption of criminal activity to guarantee safe passage in our community. during this phase, social workers, clinicians, community partners, and resources will work in concert to offer wraparound services at a new temporary linkage site. when it's est

mary ellen carroll. the last 24 hours with our federal and state partners at cdc and at the state department of health to determine whether this is indeed the first case of omicron that has been detected and that has indeed been the result of our work overnight. i want to acknowledge our outstanding health officer, dr. susan phillip, for our outstanding work. her team worked really hard to ensure we got this information as quickly as possible. but i want to emphasize that this is not a surprise. for those who have been following this, we knew that omicron was going to be here. we thought it was already here. we just hadn't detected it yet. so this is cause for concern, but is also certainly not a cause for us to panic. we are prepared here in the city for this. with regard to the case itself, the person recently traveled to south africa and developed symptoms upon their return. and they did the right thing and got tested and reported their travel history. they have received a full dose of the moderna vac

urgency, and to be aggressive in countering these problems, and this is why i've directed mary ellen carrolldirector of emergency management, to lead our multiagency coordination on this effort, bringing the coordination and urgent responses that we brought to covid this year. in essence, a covid command that will be a public safety command that will be specifically targeted at the tenderloin community, and i'm going to have mary ellen carroll walk-through the details of what this means. our priorities are focused on issues of drug dealing, private crime, public drug use, safe passage and accessibility for the people who live and work there, neighborhood cleanliness, housing resources, emergency medical calls, and we will be tackling illegal vending. in the short-term, that means taking actions like fixing the lights, adding additional lighting in very dark areas, dealing with the trash all over the neighborhood, but it also means coordinating with the police and sheriff's office on felony warrant sweeps, which have led to the arrest of 23 individuals so far with outstanding warrants. these

so thank you, and with that, i'd like to introduce mary ellen carroll, the director of our departmentergency management. [applause] >> thank you, chief scott, and thank you mayor breed. emergency management provides coordination in times of crisis, and today, as you've heard, there's no more significant crisis than what's happening in our streets and especially in the tenderloin. during the pandemic, san francisco demonstrated what can happen when we work together. at the mayor's direction, the department is going to collaborate with our community partners. over the next few months, the team will implement a multiphase assessment approach. the first phase is already underway. through meetings with community stakeholders and residents, we have developed an understanding of the challenges that we have to address. enforcement and the disruption of criminal activity to guarantee safe passage in our community. during this phase, social workers, clinicians, community partners, and resources will work in concert to offer wraparound services at a new temporary linkage site. when it's establis