Oakland including allegations of abuse of power and harassment of city staff. If any Oakland Police officer treated a member of the public the way this commission treated the chief and the command staff, they would have been reprimanded or fired. Reporter that is her lawyer and says the Police Commission and mayor orchestrated her termination as a result of her whistleblowing. The filing is an administrative claim for compensation including lost wages, future earnings, pension and Healthcare Benefits and damages for emotional distress. The city has 45 days to respond to this before the file becomes a lawsuit. We have reached out for comment to the Mayors Office and they referred us to the citys Attorneys Office, the citys Attorneys Office has no common. Back to you. Santa clara county is making good on its promise to expand access to covid19 testing. We looked into what it takes to get a test in East San Jose and we will get to the governor right now with his News Conference underway. Not just here in california but all across the country. California, as you may recall was testing 2000 people every month. For the beginning of april. We have increased our testing capacities substantially over the course of the last number of weeks from 2000 per day to over 25,000 per day. Over the last six or seven days, those numbers have increased to roughly 30,000 a day. All told, the state of california has tested north of 100,000 people. We have a lot more work to do but the work of our Testing Task Force has been very successful. Particularly, not only dressing the needs in the aggregate but focusing testing strategies and a much more strategic way, specifically focusing on rural areas in the state of california and on inner cities. To make sure we are truly testing all californians, not just some. We mentioned a week or so ago some new contracts that are being expended, some that were new, serve would provide 80 sites in rural parts of the state. The first mobile testing site we announced over a month ago and in partnership with google, we announced the commitment to doing 86 additional sites throughout the state. We are able to launch a new site called covid19, not new, well known but a site that allows you to drill down and get more information about the testing sites. If you go to covid. 19. Ca. Gov, you can now find the location by simply pressing in your zip code. You can provide more information if you wish. If you start with the zip code, you will see these testing sites come up on a map. You will see it through optimum serve, verily and the Community Sites that we have partnered. The sites that are not included are additional testing cited hospitals but these are the sites that the state is contracting that are approximate. We within 30 to 60 minutes depending on where you are in the state of california. I recognize there are testing deserts and we have work to do to put more flags on the screen that you just saw. We are making Real Progress in this space and we hope you take advantage of not only going to this site but getting your zip code and potentially the extent you wish, making a reservation contacting that Community Test or contacting barely and or optimum serve. Those are prompted on this site so you can literally make direct reservations for testing on the covid19 website. Thats a new tool, we wanted to socialize today and make available to you. We have an enormous amount of work to do this, this will expose that but in a transparent way. We have been very forthright in our recognition that we need to spread out our Testing Capacity and deepen it in certain communities. This will show the areas where we still have work to do. E it based systems. That is something for consideration. It does give you a sense of what is out there. And also a recognition that there are some testing sites in the site and we hope and real time through the work of our Testing Task Force to make sure we have opportunities for everybody in those areas as well. Another thing we have been working on is we moved with the announcement earlier this week to discuss reopening our economy with modifications, sectors, of our economy with modifications. And adapting and reopening parts of california, regional parts of california with modifications, variances, based on criteria. The fundamental point that we needed to advance was the protection of our workers. A few weeks back you may recall an announcement where we advanced support for workers in the food chain. From farmworkers to the folks, frontlines, grocery lines in the state of california for expanding sickly. You may recall, the federal government provided sickleave expansion for employers less than 500. Not for some of these larger chains and their employers. In the state of california, we augmented that with the announcement that we made a few weeks back with paid sick leave through the food supply chain. There were others that were left out of that support. Quite notably, out of federal support, those folks, the healthcare workers in the folks we rely on the most and many of our First Responders and firefighters, paramedics, they were left out the original sickly, announcement from the federal government. I just signed an executive order to extend benefits, workers comp benefits in those sectors and now broaden beyond the healthcare and First Responders sector to all sectors of our economy. Under what we call a rebuttable presumption. That may be confusing to some except to say if you have tested positive or been diagnosed with covid19, by a physician, you are eligible for this workers comp benefits. It can only be rebutted by your employer but under strict criteria. This is a way of providing support to our critical workers. That are essential in capacity not only to meet the needs of people today but as we begin to enter into this new phase in start to reopen the economy. Our essential, the capacity to deliver on the services that we want to expand. And increase across the state of california. This is, i can assure you without getting into the weeds, people are very passionate in the space. In terms of what they want to see but this executive order will narrow the frame and at least provide some certainty of relief on this presumption for the next 60 days. It has a retroactivity to march 19. It extends for 60 day period and should provide some calm and relief to our healthcare workers that were otherwise scratching their head wondering why they were not part of some of these original announcements both at the federal level and state level. I think do justice to the incredible heroism on National Nurses day. Here in the United States of america to say thank you to our nurses, thank you to our frontline heroes, firefighters, paramedics doing cpr and the like. Thank you for a Job Well Done and this is the least we can do. In terms of targeting that support on a rebuttable presumption for your workers comp. Whole idea is as we move into this second phase, we want to keep workers healthy and keep them safe. The worst thing that we could do is have a worker that has tested positive but doesnt want to tell anybody and can spread the disease because he or she can afford not to work. So that is why expanding to all sectors of our economy, this is so important because we want people to feel confident and comfortable that they will have their benefits. User benefits after you have already exhausted and drawn down any federal benefits may have accrued or other state benefits. There are provisions, criteria that we lay out in this executive order. I think it is a healthy step in the right direction, critical step in the right direction as we move into this phase. I am pleased that we have our director, the department of industrial relations is here about this program, part of her Large Department of industrial relations but among many other responsibilities, victoria has, is making sure our workers comp system is working, operational as she has been working overtime with industry leaders, business as well as labor leaders all up and down the state. And trying to forge to the extent we can, a framework of understanding and capacity and depreciation to be able to make this announcement today. I would be remiss if we didnt ask her to come up and talk a little bit more about this program and talk a little bit more about how you could avail yourself more understanding and knowledge about what this means for you. Thank you so much governor knows him and for your great leadership in this space. Workplace health and safety is Public Health and safety. This benefit applies to all workers. All of those frontline workers that are risking their health and safety to ensure the health and production of all of us. All of those that are putting themselves on the line. This ensures that if you test positive or diagnosed with covid19 that is later confirmed the subsequent testing, and you report to work between march 19th and 60 days from today, a positive test her diagnosis is within 14 days, of reporting to work, it is presumed that you contacted coming covid19 and you are covered under Workers Compensation ensuring you have proper medical coverage and proper benefits. We have insured that there are strict criteria to ensure that we are protecting Worker Health and safety and employers have the ability to present evidence in the case that it is discovered a worker does not have covid19 or they do not contract it at work and we were able to ensure workers are protected, able to get better and returned to work safely for the betterment of all. We will be issuing Additional Guidance in the coming days to help provide greater clarity. Thank you to the frontline workers for all the work you are doing throughout this crisis. Thank you victoria and thank you to your team for organizing this program and getting order to my desk earlier today. A couple other executive orders we are also announcing today. Around the issues of property tax relief. Both for residences as well as business. A personal Business Property tax that people are required to pay north of 100,000. Both are familiar to many individuals that may be watching. With some clarity, a few months black as relates to penalties associated and fees related to the assessment of property taxes and we made the point that we were working with the counties to see if we could coordinate and collaborate in a way that can address the hardship claims that were coming in and allow people to get on payment plans without experiencing that rather sizable 10 tax code penalty. That is assessed on those property tax bills. We have been working with the county associations in this executive order will provide more clarity in this space and extend through next may, next may, the penalty waiver. For fees and related fines associated with a 10 tax code requirement. It will allow people with hardships to get on payment plans and not have to experience that penalty, at least through the end of next may. We think this is significant clarification, we think this could be significant relief at that timeline that extends into the new year. As many of us who have had the 10 fee assessed through no fault of our own, maybe just neglect, maybe nacve about the penalty. Many people just struggling to make ends meet. And those property tax bills are so large for people and so challenging at this time. That we wanted to provide this clarity and that executive order that we signed today. As i said, we extend this not just this relief to personal residence, we are extending the deadline for property, rather personal property for taxes associated with businesses. That currently is a may 7th deadline where you would then have that same 10 tax under the tax code. We are extending that through may 31st of this month. So for residences, we extend through next year. For businesses, we are providing Small Businesses that relief at least through the end of the month. To give people some more time. Working with the board on this, they were assessing how many calls they were getting, concerns, that were being raised and providing at least a little bit more time and will give us more time and more clarity through the end of this month. That is the framework today of these executive orders, hopefully providing some clarity in areas where we are getting a lot of inquiry and hopefully providing a little bit of relief for many people that are anxious because of the economic challenges of this moment. The economic challenges, they are quite extraordinary. We are now facing the need to continue to provide unprecedented support to people that are filing uninsurance claims, these pandemic unemployment assistance grants, over 4. 2 Million People now in that system, 477,000 of those under the program. 10. 6 billion now has been distributed. Remarkably since sunday, 2 million has been mistreated from the ui and pua accounts. So now north of 10 billion, 10. 6 , 2 billion now, just in less than a week of dollars that we are getting out as quickly as we can. I bring that up proactively, consistently because i recognize so many of you cant wait much longer, cant wait on a line for a human being to answer or your claim to be adjudicated. Wait for questions, wait for that check in the mail. Just know they are continuing to work as hard as they possibly can at the department and another Conference Call this morning with julie, sue and her team, continuing to try to do everything they can in their power to get these claims to. 2 billion since sunday. Through this week. Almost 11 billionnow in total without precedent. In our States History and you will see these numbers translating to unemployment rates. Very very soon, not only in california but across the country. That will be rather jaw dropping. It is sobering, we have anticipated it and its reflected in will be reflected in budgets, local budgets, state budgets, the National Budget and communities all across the United States. Our budget comes out in may, on may 14th. In a few days, those numbers will be made more visible, real to people as we are working overtime to make sure we submit a balanced budget. We talk about california being a nationstate. The only distinction, its a figurative not literal. One thing that we dont have is a printing press. We are accountable to balancing our budget and will continue to make this point as we have made on multiple occasions. We cant do this without the federal government. We really need leadership at the federal level to provide the magnitude of support, not just for the state and california but for cities and counties all across california. Where revenues have simply fallen off a cliff. In just weeks. Not even months. Again, these unemployment numbers portend that future so i want to highlight and bracket the unemployment conversation in light of that conversation. Let me know go back to the opening conversation about moving people back into phase 2 , back into the economy through this phase two process. We will put out guidelines as early as tomorrow. As it relates to the industries that will begin to make modifications to our stay away order and industries will be allowed to move with adaptation and modifications into this second phase. Primarily in the retail space but also the manufacturing and logistics space. Yesterday we were at a small business, they will be the beneficiary of these changes, they will begin to do Curbside Pickup but still a lot of work for businesses to get their modifications in order. We are also working with the counties across the state of california that wish to go further. Clarifying that expectation, what the details are in terms of the guidelines on testing, tracing capacity, search capacity, ppe and many others. Prerequisites. To opening up even further. On the issue of ppe, it is appropriate that they pause and reflect on this remarkable moment in our history. We all took off on a plane that we were building as we were flying. We refer to the procurement of ppe across the spectrum of the wild wild west. A few months back. There has been wonderful reporting and i want to complement the work of one of our state newspapers. And the incredible work being done with the Washington Post highlighting some of these examples in those examples in maryland, some examples specifically in new york, many other states. Hundreds and hundreds that will be exposed, cities, not just dates over the course of the month and some of his efforts have gone awry. We have been we have been in realtime updating you. I mentioned a few weeks back on multiple occasions, some of those masks that were turned back that we procured. We were able to get our money back on this, others that customs and border took away, contracts, materialized contracts that didnt. There were larger contracts that didnt cost the taxpayers a penny. Cautionary tales and a few months back we were able to reposition our approach to our procurement and ppe and that led to an announcement about a large procurement with a company you id and other nonprofits were part of a broader consortium of efforts to secure our supply chain from the state of california. Why is that so important . For our First Responders, front line employees, healthcare professionals, absolutely our Skilled Nursing facilities, also the ppe is critical for reopening the economy. We have this large contract where we talked about the products coming in in may and june, two month contract and we are a few days in. We were very blessed a week or so ago to get early shipments, earlier than we had anticipated on the contract of these surgical masks, procedure masks. What that has allowed us to do is begin to move into phase 2 earlier than we otherwise would. Let me be specific. We have distributed over 15 million of those procedure masks. A few weeks ago was about 4 million. Now we have distributed over 15 million in we have in our possession, 19. 9 Million Masks that we are now in the process of disturbing. We tried to get it in and out as quickly as possible. We havent been in this position. We were the beneficiary of these larger contracts and security in our supply chain. That is good news on the front end. The unfortunate news, part of these larger contracts is the backend where we needed certification. From federal certifications for these and 95 respirator masks. That has been delayed so on the backend, delay on the front end. We had a new product coming in and all of these things work out themselves but the good news, we learned a lot in the process. From those previous contracts and we have partners now that we didnt have in the past including department of justice, fbi, many others that are helping scrutinize these contracts a little bit more closely or at least those that are part of the contracts in the supply chain. All of that was a reset a few montother governors, mayors, city administrators, facing similar challenges, all of this will be a part of our after action report across the country. Where we all ar a position of learning a lot and obviously the parallel of making those mistakes. Thats why its so important that we hold the line on these contracts that we have secured so we can get the product in, continue to continue our advancement into phase 3 and ultimately to where we want to go and back to some semblance of normal life once we have a vaccine. Until then, ppe will be so foundational and so important to these reopening efforts. And continuing to make Real Progress in that space. One thing, i have been a little frustrated by and i know you have as well. I know these contracts havent been made public as quickly as we would like them to be. Many Different Reasons for that. Often lawyers, god bless them. It involves, redacting things, timing issues, we just want to make sure we deliver ultimately on the needs of so many whose lives are at risk if we dont i asked my team to accelerate his contracts, get them out there. I want to be cautious at the same time, it could create setbacks but you deserve them and its a core value of mine. That is something i deeply believe in transparency so we have work to do to elevate those efforts and i want to on that and acknowledge that and let you know that progress is being made. You should expect those large contracts and others to get out there if they are not already online. Many more in these larger ones, we want to get out the next few days. And make sure people our legislative leaders, a lot of these things, the public deserves that information and you will get that very soon. Good news on the ppe side. In terms of progress on these masks that have allowed us to move in the second phase. We are still on track for that second phase this week. We are for a number of other reasons. Not just testing, tracing, that we talked about. Todays the first day of that Virtual Training that we will be doing with criminal partnerships to train the first cohort of tracker and tracers. At least what i call disease detectives. We will have 10,000 of the first, we will hopefully get to about 20,000 of a the course of the next few months. That is foundational and our reopening efforts. So is the data. Thats what guides us, makes these determinations and allows us to make announcements. I want to update you as i do every day. On some of this data. Hospitalization, the numbers improved over the last days, so did i see you numbers. Both went down and 1. 5 respectfully. I was encouraging news. Very relative and contextual but we had good news over the last week versus the previous week on the number of deaths, yesterday or over the last 24 hours, those numbers went back up a little bit. I just want to extend my deepest condolences and simply say once again, it pains me to say announce that we lost 95 souls in the last 24 hours to this virus, we have seen those numbers dropping and we hope is not a new data point that becomes a trend line but a data point that i will have to share reday and that is the number sadly of people who have lost their lives and lost 24 hours. The number of people who have tested positive, looking at case rates, you will hear a lot more about that. Talking more about case rates, thats the percentage of people testing positive versus the total number of people that are being tested. I spoke yesterday about how we have been bouncing back from 1200, people testing positive today, as i have 2500, 2600. We run the lower end yesterday, on the higher end today in terms of the announcement. In that bracket. Stabilization over the course of many weeks, decline in certain areas but not as much as we love to see. The stabilization of that curve is one of the foundational indicators to allow us to move forward in the second phase. The indicators on ppe, another critical indicator to move into phase 2, tracing work that is being done in real time, this virtual economy and the Data Management systems that we now procure will be up and running, sharing Data Information in realtime to counties across the state. And the collaborative spirit that continues to permeate. There is exceptions and im sure you will ask a few of those. There are the exceptions. The spirit that is alive all across we announced three beaches prior to the day of reopening and to their credit, they modeled their reopening plans along the lines of those that were advance yesterday at huntington beach. They are continuing the incredible work that san diego and la and others had done in terms of advising a lot of that work. We are making Good Progress and they made a lot of progress last night with the county administrator. We are working on final