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Notices About the COVID-19
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For a comprehensive guide to COVID-19: please read this article.

At the time of this newsletter, San Francisco has 8 confirmed cases of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. The 2 initial patients are unrelated and both are being cared for at separate hospitals. The 6 new confirmed cases are related to the 2 patients. The patients do not have a history of travel to a location with confirmed COVID-19 cases, and have no known contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 case. These cases are likely indicative of community transmission of COVID-19.

On Thursday, March 5, Lowell High School decided to close the school and all events and gatherings for the time being out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well-being of the community due to a student related to one of the patients being treated for COVID-19 in San Francisco. Lowell High school remains closed today. 

PUBLIC HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AS OF MARCH 6
1) Vulnerable Populations: Limit Outings

• Vulnerable populations include people who are:
  • 60 years old and older.
  • People with certain health conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, kidney disease and weakened immune systems.
• For vulnerable populations, don’t go to gatherings (of about 50 people or more) unless it is essential. If you can telecommute, you should. Avoid people who are sick.

2) Workplace and Businesses: Minimize Exposure

• Suspend nonessential employee travel.
• Minimize the number of employees working within arm’s length of one another, including minimizing or canceling large in-person meetings and conferences.
• Urge employees to stay home when they are sick and maximize flexibility in sick leave benefits.
• Do not require a doctor’s note for employees who are sick.
• Consider use of telecommuting options.
• Some people need to be at work to provide essential services of great benefit to the community. They can take steps in their workplace to minimize risk.

3) Large Gatherings: Cancel Non-essential Events

• Recommend cancelling or postponing large gatherings, such as concerts, sporting events, conventions or large community events.
• Do not attend any events or gatherings if sick. 
• For events that aren’t cancelled, we recommend:
  • Having hand washing capabilities, hand sanitizers and tissues available.
  • Frequently cleaning high touch surface areas like counter tops and hand rails.
  • Finding ways to create physical space to minimize close contact as much as possible.

4) Schools: Safety First

• If there is a confirmed case of COVID-19 at a school, DPH will work with the school and the district to determine the best measures including potential school closure.
• Do not go to school if sick.
• If you have a child with chronic health conditions, consult your doctor about school attendance.
• Equip all schools and classrooms with hand sanitizers and tissues.
• Recommend rescheduling or cancelling medium to large events that are not essential.
• Explore remote teaching and online options to continue learning.
• Schools should develop a plan for citywide school closures, and families should prepare for potential closures.

5) Transit: Cleaning and Protection

• Increase cleaning of vehicles and high touch surface areas.
• Provide hand washing/hand sanitizers and tissues in stations and on vehicles.

6) Health Care Settings: Avoid as possible, protect the vulnerable

• Long term care facilities must have a COVID-19 plan in accordance with DPH guidelines.
• Long term care facilities must screen all staff and visitors for illness and turn away those with symptoms.
• The general public should avoid going to medical settings such as hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, even if you are not ill.
• If you are ill, call your health care provider ahead of time, and you may be able to be served by phone.
• Do not visit emergency rooms unless it is essential.

7) Everyone: Do your part
The best way for all San Franciscans to reduce their risk of getting sick, as with seasonal colds or the flu, still applies to prevent COVID-19:

• Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
• Cover your cough or sneeze.
• Stay home if you are sick.
• Avoid touching your face.
• Try alternatives to shaking hands, like an elbow bump or wave.
• If you have recently returned from a country, state or region with ongoing COVID-19 infections, monitor your health and follow the instructions of public health officials.
• There is no recommendation to wear masks at this time to prevent yourself from getting sick.

You can also prepare for the possible disruption caused by an outbreak. Preparedness actions include:

• Prepare to work from home if that is possible for your job, and your employer.
• Make sure you have a supply of all essential medications for your family.
• Prepare a child care plan if you or a care giver are sick.
• Make arrangements about how your family will manage a school closure.
• Plan for how you can care for a sick family member without getting sick yourself.
• Take care of each other and check in by phone with friends, family and neighbors that are vulnerable to serious illness or death if they get COVID-19.
• Keep common spaces clean to help maintain a healthy environment for you and others. Frequently touched surfaces should be cleaned regularly with disinfecting sprays, wipes or common household cleaning products.

COVID-19 does not discriminate on race, ethnicity, class, gender or sex, and it is important that we do not either. 

Governor Newsom has declared an emergency for the State of California for COVID-19 and the California Department of Insurance and the California Department of Manage Health Care has announce to immediately eliminate cost-sharing, including but not limited to co-pays, deductibles, and coinsurance, for medically necessary screening and testing for COVID-19 and associated hospital, emergency department, urgent care, and provide office visits where the purpose of the visit is to be screened and/or texted for COVID-19. If you have problems accessing care for COVID-19 under your health insurance policy, you may contact the CA Department of Insurance's Consumer Hotline at 1-800-927-4357 or visit www.insurance.ca.gov.

The status of COVID-19 in San Francisco and the region is rapidly evolving. Please check the following online resources or call 3-1-1 for guidance regarding COVID-19 public heath safety information:

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Celebrating Black History Month

From the struggles to the success of those who have come before us to the future that we are working hard to create, Black History is celebrated everyday in our lives. This past month, we continued our work on reparations and celebrated our heritage and successes citywide.

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Reparations

In honor of Black History Month, I introduced a resolution with the support of all of my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors supporting a reparations plan that will comprehensively address the inequities that exist in the African American community as a result of slavery’s legacy of systemic oppression. This resolution will also create an advisory committee on reparations for the African American community.

PLEASE NOTE due to COVID-19 concerns, we are CANCELLING the following meetings: 

Thu 3/12 at Bayview
Davis Senior Center at 1751 Carroll
5:00PM - 7:00PM

Mon 3/16 in the Tenderloin
Eddy & Taylor Family Apartments Community Room
222 Taylor St
5:00PM - 7:00PM

Mon 3/23 for Ally & Supporters Meeting
City Hall, Room 201
5:00PM - 7:00PM

We will reschedule our series of community conversations on a reparations plan in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission. If you would like to participate in future meetings, please email my office: waltonstaff@sfgov.org or call 415-554-7670 to RSVP.

To get the latest update on our reparations work, please join our Facebook group: SF Reparations Now. 

We also introduced a resolution in support of United States House Resolution 40 to create a federal commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. Since 1989, HR 40 has been introduced at every Congress by former Representative John Conyers of Michigan who passed away last year and reintroduced last year by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. However, HR 40 has never been passed. The number ‘40’ is a significant number, being named after the unfulfilled 155 year old federal promise of “40 acres and a mule” to recently freed men and women.This resolution was co-sponsored and passed unanimously by my colleagues.

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Public Safety

We are working on the final design of the District 10 Community Safety Plan and we will distribute it once it's finalized.

In the last week of February, our district experienced several violent incidents including three shootings--two which were homicides--and an elderly assault and robbery. Two incidents happened within a weekend on Osceola Lane including a homicide and the assault and robbery of an elderly community member which was recorded and shared widely on social media.

We absolutely do not tolerate any type of senseless violence towards any of our community members especially towards our most vulnerable. It is heartbreaking to see this type of violence occur in our community, and no one should ever have to endure this. Our office has been working closely with SFPD and our District Attorney to make sure the elderly victim receives justice and support. I would like to thank the Community Youth Center SF (CYCSF) in Bayview, who has been working closely with the victim through this process.

In collaboration with Mayor Breed, city departments and community organizations, we organized a Community Healing event on Osceola Lane to stand in solidarity with all our communities.

We asked everyone who attended to pledge to:

1. Live violence free and help others live violence free
2. Support cross-cultural education
3. Stand up to elder abuse, prejudices, and bullying
4. Unite our communities and promote peace in our communities

We also supported our community-led efforts on a Rally for Love and Unity in Hunters Point.

Using the framework from our Vision Zero on Homicides and Violent Crimes Plan , we hope to continue to build relationships and bridge all our communities with restorative practices. We know that the Black and Asian community has suffered decades of trauma with lack of institutional investment in our neighborhoods which has resulted in communities being pitted against each other. Our office is committed to working with the community to build relationships through cross-cultural sharing to unite and promote peace in all our communities.

We have partnered with the Human Rights Commission to hold conversations to develop long term solutions as well as identify opportunities on how to build community between Black and Asian communities. If you are interested in participating in ways to bridge the community, please email my office at waltonstaff@sfgov.org.

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Wells Fargo's Predatory Practices

We held a rally with Open Door Legal to bring attention to the wrongful foreclosure of Ms. Teresita Pobre, 77-year-old Bayview Resident’s home by Wells Fargo. Ms. Pobre not only lost her home, she lost nearly $760,000 in accrued home equity because of Wells Fargo’s wrongful predatory practices and not once did Wells Fargo attempt to make contact with Ms. Pobre. Ms. Pobre is being represented by Open Door Legal, an organization in the Bayview which provides universal access to legal help who is working on suing Wells Fargo to reverse this unlawful foreclosure.

Since 2008, Wells Fargo has a history of predatory practices targeting the elderly, low-income folks, and our most vulnerable. I will be looking into options with the City Attorney and my colleagues to hold Wells Fargo and other financial institutes that target our most vulnerable accountable. This is a clear case of elder and immigrant abuse and cannot be tolerated.

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City College Supplemental Funding

To all of our City College students and faculty, we were unsuccessful in helping address class closures by providing a supplemental, as the Mayor vetoed our legislation. We look forward to the upcoming hearing to hear how these class cuts have negatively impacted students and community. We will continue to stand behind City College.

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Workers' Rights

American Airlines

On February 14, I was arrested while participating in civil disobedience with Local 2—by shutting down the streets to the airport— in order to push American Airlines to provide affordable health insurance for workers and to stop cutting costs that affect worker wages and jobs. One job should be enough.

750 Bush Garage

The parking garage at 750 Bush has been union since 1980. Now there is a non-union operator. Non-union means lower wages and no health benefits. We have a vast economic gap in this city. Support our workers and stand by our Teamsters Local 665!

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HOPE SF Legislation Becomes Law!

On February 26 in Potrero Hill, along with Mayor Breed, we signed the Hope SF Preference Legislation into law. Now former Hope SF residents who have been displaced will have preference to return to the neighborhoods and the communities they helped build. Real policies to help bring Black families back to San Francisco.

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Bayview Industrial Triangle PDR Space

We will continue to protect jobs and build true communities in District 10, that is why we have introduced legislation protecting the Bayview Industrial Triangle, one of the last remaining spaces zoned for Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) in San Francisco.

We have over 17,000 units of housing being built in District 10, with some of the highest percentages of affordability in this City. It’s laughable that anyone would say we are not building housing in District 10 or anti-housing. The Bayview Industrial Triangle was always meant to preserve PDR and this very small piece of Bayview will not solve the housing crisis. People from outside of our community will not dictate policy for our community.

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Prioritizing Current Cannabis Applicants

We are 100% committed to supporting equity in the cannabis industry. However, focusing and addressing equity in the cannabis industry appears doubtful in San Francisco as the current market will not sustain additional cannabis businesses greater than the number of equity applicants in the pipeline who have already applied. Ourlegislation will prioritize current equity applicants and also make sure that we do not saturate the San Francisco market to the point where it hurts the equity applicants.

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101/Vermont Street Improvements

After months of construction work — the 101 off ramp/Mariposa/Vermont intersection is almost complete!

SFDPW re-striped the pedestrian walkways on Mariposa and Vermont along the south and east sides of Vermont/Mariposa intersection which have made them more visible. SFDPW came out to the intersection and performed tree trimming for a stop sign that was hidden going westbound on Mariposa towards Vermont. They also added another stop sign to make it more visible as you come up the hill. 

Caltrans replaced all of the "Do Not Enter" signs on the ramp with new signs and added additional signage. Caltrans also recently re-striped the ramp which has helped make the "school zone" lettering be more visible.

The sewer work is done and the street has been re-paved. We have four way pedestrian curb cuts and a new east-west pedestrian crosswalk on the north end of the intersection.

We’re waiting on the stop sign and crosswalk striping get put in across the Vermont ramp!

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Budget

District 10 is excited to hear from our constituents around budget concerns. Our office will be hosting several budget community discussions to discuss the city budget process and collect input from our community.

If you have a budget request, please fill out this form: Budget Request- Sup Walton

If you would like to schedule a meeting with our office regarding the budget, please fill out the form to schedule. All meetings are Mondays from 1-5pm.

We have honored quite a few community heroes at the full Board of Supervisors meetings and we want to hear from you on who’s your community hero! Send us your nomination with a short bio and your community hero may just be honored at the regular Board of Supervisors meetings. Please email natalie.gee@sfgov.org.

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Ms. Ellouise Patton

We kicked off our first Black History month honoree with Ms. Ellouise Patton! Ms. Patton is San Francisco native who serves as the Chair of the Bayview Citizens Advisory Committee, serves on the Legacy Committee for Hunters Point Shipyard, the African American Arts & Cultural District, the Community Based Transportation Plan Steering Committee for Bayview, India Basin EDP Leadership Committee and the Bayview Merchants Association. Thank you for your decades of leadership and commitment to Bayview Hunters Point. We appreciate all of your work!

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Ms. Doris Vincent

For Black History Month special commendations, the Board of Supervisors took the opportunity to highlight and honor the achievements of Black women in San Francisco. I had the privilege of honoring Ms. Dorris Vincent. Ms. Vincent has touched the lives of many not just in the Bayview and Fillmore but the entire city and county of San Francisco for decades!

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Ms. Carol Tatum

For Women's History Month, we honored a true San Francisco, District 10, and Bayview legend, Ms. Carol Tatum! Thank you so much for paving the way for so many women in San Francisco!

Due to the high amount of community events and announcements, we will be sending out a separate events and announcements newsletter which will include a broader scope of annoucements. If you have any announcements that you would like to include, please email natalie.gee@sfgov.org.

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Census 2020 - Be Counted!!!

What is the Census? 
Every 10 years, the US Census Bureau counts everyone in the US and its territories. Census results impact political representation as well as our fair share of federal funding. Those resources support schools, hospitals, roads, and social services for San Francisco’s communities.

• To be counted in the Census, go to www.2020census.gov.
• You can go online using computers at SF Public Library locations citywide.
• You can attend a Census event at the library to learn more about the Census.
• If you don't have a permanent address or living siutation, you can still fill out the Census to be counted!

Why is it important to be counted in the 2020 Census?
The Census count is used to decide:

• Political representation: Census numbers are used for “apportionment,” i.e. determining how many congressional seats each state gets. If we are undercounted, California could lose a seat in Congress.
• Federal funding: Census numbers are used to allot funding to states for housing, childcare, transportation and much more

2020 Census Timeline

• March: Households receive mailings about how to take the Census.
• April 1st: Census Day
• Late April through June: Census takers visit non-responder residences
• December: Apportionment counts sent to President
• January 2021: First results published

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Can't afford to pay your Fine, Fee, or Ticket in San Francisco?

The San Francisco Financial Justice Project can help. Check out their resources available to you to reduce fines, fees, tickets and how to qualify. 

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District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton | 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl, San Francisco | Room 282 Office Line: 415.554.7670 | General Email: waltonstaff@sfgov.org