As of this past Saturday, San Francisco is in the state's PURPLE TIER for COVID-19, meaning the virus transmission is WIDESPREAD for the county. Reopening activities are rolled back and the limited Stay at Home Order will begin Monday, November 30 at 10pm which requires non-essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households from gathering indoors or outdoors between 10pm and 5am until December 21st. 

In this update: 

• COVID-19 Reopening and Stay-At-Home Updates
• COVID-19 Testing
• Community Announcements

Please stay safe and be careful. The COVID-19 pandemic is still among us so we must remain vigilant and remember to do the following: 

• Stay home as much as possible if you are able to.
• Wear a face covering: including masks, scarves, bandanas, anything that covers your nose and mouth. If you are working in an essential space with other people, you are required to wear a mask.
• Maintain 6 feet of social distancing
• Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap
• Avoid touching your face, eyes, nose or mouth
• Do not dispose your used face covering/gloves/PPE in the streets, please properly dispose in a trash bin
• If you are an essential worker or believe you may be exposed to COVID-19, get tested: https://www.sf.gov/GetTested

COVID-19 Updates

• Indoor worship
  • Indoor individual prayer is still allowed with updated safety protocols
  • Live streaming and broadcasting of services indoors is still allowed with existing capacity limits and safety protocol
• Indoor movie theaters
• Indoor gyms and fitness centers, limited 1-1 training may continue indoors with specific ventilation measures in place
• Indoor operations at museums, aquariums, and zoos but can continue outdoor activities subject to existing safety protocols
• Outdoor family entertainment centers: carousels, ferris wheels, train rides, and bungee trampolines

• Retail stores must limit capacity to 25%
• Indoor funerals of up to a total of 12 people
• Standalone grocery stores can operate at 50% capacity, but other essential retail such as pharmacies and hardware stores must decrease to 25% capacity.
• Reduced capacity to 25% includes low-contact retail services, like dog groomers and shoe repair shops.
• Reduced capacity to 25% also includes equipment rental businesses, like bike rentals.

• Restaurants may continue to operate outdoors. 
• Indoor personal services including hair and nail salons, massage, and esthetician services, etc. may continue subject to existing required safety protocols.
• Outdoor playgrounds, outdoor skate parks, outdoor roller, and ice rinks (at 25% capacity up to a maximum of 25 total people), outdoor battling cages, and outdoor mini-golf.
• Outdoor activities at gyms and fitness centers, including fitness classes up to 25 people, may continue subject to existing required safety protocols.
• Drive-in movies may continue with existing required safety protocols
• Outdoor religious services is still allowed up to the existing local limit of 200 people and subject to existing safety protocols.
• All schools – TK-12 -- that are already open for in-person learning may continue to offer indoor instruction.
  • Under the Purple tier, TK-6 schools that have not yet opened, may apply for a waiver from the Health Officer to open for indoor in-person instruction. Middle schools and high schools that have not yet opened may not open for indoor instruction, however they may apply to provide outdoor-only learning.

More information about changes related to San Francisco’s assignment to the Purple tier can be found at https://sf.gov/LimitedStayHome.

San Francisco’s reopening timeline can be found at https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco.

COVID-19 Testing & Flu Vaccines

D10 COVID-19 FREE Testing Locations

• Alemany Farmers Market
  • 100 Alemany Blvd, Walk-through & drive-through
  • Monday. 12:30pm to 4:30pm
  • Tuesday to Thursday, 8:30am to 4:30pm
  • Friday, 8:30am to 12:30pm
• Bayview Opera House 
  • 4705 3rd Street
  • Every Monday & Thursday, 8:30am to 4:00pm
• Southeast Health Center
  • 2401 Keith Street at Armstrong
  • Mondays to Fridays, 8:00am to 5:00pm
• Sunnydale Hope SF 
  • 1652 Sunnydale Ave
  • Tuesdays, 2:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Thursdays, 10:00am - 2:00pm
• Potrero Hill Health Center
  • 1050 Wisconsin Street
  • Mondays to Fridays, 9:00am to 12:00pm, 1:30pm to 3:30pm
• NOW Hunters Point Pop Up
  • 155 Jennings Street
  • Friday, December 4, 9:00am to 3:30pm
  • http://nowhunterspoint.org

Flu Vaccine & Prevention

• It could save your life.
• It protects the vulnerable members of your community.
• Getting COVID + flu at the same time = trouble.
• It will ease the burden on the healthcare system.
• It's FREE!

From the Office of District 10

African American Reparations Advisory Committee: 

The reparations advisory committee will have 15 members with various expertise and experiences working and living in the African American community and will be housed under the Human Rights Commission to research, develop, and present a true reparations plan for San Francisco. This is the 100% appropriate time to ensure reparations for Black people in San Francisco. With the commitment of resources for the investment in the Black community, with the unanimous passage of a reparations resolution here in SF, with the commitment from all communities to improve outcomes for Black people here in San Francisco and with the organized collaboration between Black people here in SF, the dreams of equity can only be realized with a reparations plan that allows for wealth accumulation, generational opportunities and true community ownership.

African American Art and Cultural District:

The African American Art and Cultural District has been critical in supporting and protecting our community along Third Street. I introduced an ordinance to extend the African American Art and Cultural District Citizens Advisory Committee sunset date to January 2023, and extend the written reports and recommendations from City Departments describing the cultural attributes fo the District and proposing strategies to acknowledge, and preserve the cultural legacy of the District. 

Co-Sponsoring Legislation from Other Offices:

We cannot have a plan for moving people out of Shelter In Place hotels if we cannot state explicitly where they are going. Evicting people to the streets is cruel during this pandemic and the cold weather season. We have resources in place that could address securing and continuing to fund SIP hotels and we have additional resource opportunities that have been identified, whether it be ERAF, possible federal stimulus, Proposition C allocations and state resources like Project Room Key and the Governor’s announcement of an additional 62 million dollars to provide support for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Upcoming Legislation & Hearings

• On December 10, 2020, we will hear the findings and recommendations from the Economic Mitigation Working Group through the Office of Small Business through the collaboration of the Office of Economic Workforce Development, Small Business Development Center, Office of the Controller, Office of the City Attorney, the Tobacco Retail Permit Program, Supervisor Sandra Fewer's office and my office in response to mitigating effects of banning e-cigarettes without FDA approval. For meeting information: https://sfbos.org/events/calendar/upcoming
• We have requested a hearing on the Equal Employment Opportunity office's practices in light of the corruption on pending cases. The Budget Legislative Analyst will also report their findings on EEO. We are still working on a date for this hearing. In the meantime, we have introduced a resolution urging EEO to collaborate with the Human Rights Commission on investigating EEO cases. In the future, we hope to establish oversight of the EEO office.

Public Safety

In the past few weeks, the District 10 office has continued to respond to shootings and homicides. During the shelter in place, shootings have occurred at Alice Griffith Apartments, Sunnydale Developments, Oakdale Avenue and Third Street, Hawes and Gilman Streets and various locations throughout District 10 neighborhoods. Community members and neighbors have had to bury babies, young men, mentors, and family members.

To date, one-third of the city’s total homicides have occurred in District 10 in 2020. Citywide, there have been 45 homicides and 15 of those homicides with a firearm occured in District 10. Last year, there were a total of 41 homicides citywide and 9 of those homicides occured in District 10 with a firearm. District 10 by far has the highest homicide rates compared to all districts. Despite the efforts and investments pledged by the city to help District 10, senseless violence keeps happening in the southeastern neighborhoods. 

Through collaboration with community based organizations, town halls, and meetings with residents in the past year, I announced the District 10 Community Safety Plan. The comprehensive plan is a new community process desperately needed to support successful public safety work in District 10. The plan brings together all stakeholders to create change and bring the voice of the community to the forefront of addressing violence. 

Recommendations in the District 10 Community Safety Plan include:

• A violence prevention oversight committee for youth violence for ages 12-25. This will be the driving force in determining a District 10 action plan against violence.
• Community experts in violence prevention in the Black, Asian, and Latino community meeting monthly to work together to create real community solutions addressing violence.
• The community is involved in defining effective violence prevention strategies, evaluation tools adopted by the city, and any development of a violence prevention plan.  

Three immediate actions of the District 10 Community Safety Plan include:

• Elevated role and support from the City & County of San Francisco in implementing public safety strategies with community.
• Establish the District 10 violence prevention monthly convenings through the Violence Prevention Convener.
• Reimagine what community mobilization and peace planning efforts look like.

The following strategies are also addressed through the District 10 Community Safety Plan:

• School-based intervention and prevention.
• Mediation and truce negotiations.
• Increased community partnerships and coordinated interventions.
• Increased transportation and transit safety measures.
• Culturally responsive service providers with elevated support from the City & County of San Francisco in public safety strategy implementation.

In addition to announcing the District 10 Community Safety Plan, we asked all District 10 residents to pledge for peace and stop the violence. The Peace Pledge includes standing with the District 10 community to support the implementation of new strategies to address senseless violence, pledge for peace, ask for coordinated resources and commitment to the implementation plan, and ask to help come up with new solutions to best address the violence that plagues our community.
The pledge also asks the community to

1. Live violence free
2. Help others live violence free
3. Keep children, families, seniors, community centers, churches, parks, and schools safe.

City Department Updates & Resources

Clerk of the Board of Supervisors

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• Holidays at Home offers guidance about travel, gathering, and other holiday activities as well as safe options for San Franciscans to engage in over the holidays.
• Shop and Dine in the 49 offers information about how to support local restaurants and businesses during the holiday shopping season.
• Help Your Neighbors in Needoffers information and access to San Francisco-based volunteering and philanthropic activities during the holidays and beyond.

• Safer holiday celebrations: https://www.sfcdcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COVID-19_Guidance_-FINAL_Holiday_Celebrations_11.10.2020.pdf
• Safer holiday travel: https://sf.gov/information/guidance-safer-holiday-travel-during-pandemic
• Tips and FAQs for gatherings: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/covid-guidance/Gatherings-Tips.pdf

Community Announcements

African American Art & Cultural District Membership

Grant/Funding Opportunity

Bayview Hunters Point is a frontline community in terms of environmental justice and climate vulnerability.  There is funding for community organizers to participate in a year-long training to build capacity to conduct deeper and successful organizing around community determined needs in regards to those two issues. 

Application due on December 3 at 5pm.

https://partnersadvancingclimateequity.org/apply/