controller, ben ro rosenfield. >> hi, actually, this is mary ellen carroll. i'm going to kick it off for this evening. >> president yee: my script says you're last, so, you know, hey -- welcome, mary ellen. >> okay. yeah, i'm happy to -- very pleased to be here this evening with you, honorable board of supervisors. again, i'm mary ellen carol, and i'm the director of the department of emergency management and here representing san francisco's covid-19 command center. the covid command center, which is physically located at moscone south, it's structured to manage our overall emergency response to this global pandemic. this includes the shelter in place hotels and the operations associated with them and with city's reimbursement commissions to fema, the federal emergency management agency. since july, we have been in this what we called unified command structure. the departments that represent the command organization at the open are department of public health, department of emergency management and human services agency with the department of homelessness and

director of the department of homelessness and housing, and department of emergency management, mary ellen carrollen, we'll hear from providers who have been serving shelter in place hotels, including community partnership housing. we'll then open it up for questions and comments. following that, they'll then have two minutes each for those who win to provide public comments. with that, supervisor walton, would you like to make some opening remarks? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, president yee, and colleagues, thank you for convening today as a committee of the whole so we can learn more about the shelter in place rehousing and demobilization plan. on october 27, my colleagues, supervisors haney, ronen, preston, and i, also sent a letter to the department of homelessness and supportsive

controller, ben ro rosenfield. >> hi, actually, this is mary ellen carroll. i'm going to kick it off for this evening. >> president yee: my script says you're last, so, you know, hey -- welcome, mary ellen. >> okay. yeah, i'm happy to -- very pleased to be here this evening with you, honorable board of supervisors. again, i'm mary ellen carol, and i'm the director of the department of emergency management and here representing san francisco's covid-19 command center. the covid command center, which is physically located at moscone south, it's structured to manage our overall emergency response to this global pandemic. this includes the shelter in place hotels and the operations associated with them and with city's reimbursement commissions to fema, the federal emergency management agency. since july, we have been in this what we called unified command structure. the departments that represent the command organization at the open are department of public health, department of emergency management and human services agency with the department of homelessness and