This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 415 6550001. 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 1460772734, a
Wyden and klobuchar are so right. Also for a democracy many will be returning their 2020 census forms. We leave this program and go live now to virginia or Governor Ralph Northam is about to give an update on the states response efforts to the coronavirus pandemic grid this is live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon and i hope everybody had a nice weekend and to all the mothers across the commonwealth a belated happy mothers day. Today i want to talk about Northern Virginia regional pace to ease restrictions. Petersburgs water, d b and our elections here in the commonwealth. First we reported doing 9801 tests yesterday which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the datas website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginias an update on where we are with our eta metrics. You saw these slides on friday they were all so available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases by the date they we
Join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is about an hour. Good afternoon and thank you for joining todays public update. I am here with dr. Horace smith, dr. Tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the Illinois Medical District and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon,. I want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid19. For months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. Beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright lig
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