So moved. Second. Thank you for seconding and thank you everyone. Again, shereen, remarkable work by the department and as far as this meeting is concerned, thank you to all those who participated in setting it up and if i got through it, it means anybody can get through it. [ laughter ] thank you. Thank you, stay safe everyone. Until next month. Welcome to the thursday, may 7th, meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im gordon mar, the chair of the committee joined by vice chair aaron peskin and matt hainey. Thank you to john carroll and i would like to thank sf gov tv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employee expose ths, the chambed Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were present. Public comment will be available on this agenda and both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming on your scre
Memorial day ended up being a working holiday for state officials in response to the pandemic and its economic effects. The department of Public Health releasing new guidelines on shopping war shipping and protesting. California continue to lift parts of it stay at home order monday allowing churches and other houses of worship to reopen so long as attendance is limited to 25 capacity capping at 100 attendees the state says congregations must also implement employee training sanitation and physical distancing Standards Health officials suggest requiring face coverings for singing and group re citation or eliminating them altogether. The state is strongly recommending churches continue with Virtual Services but leaders of 3,000 places of worship say theyre ready to resume in person this week i heard one pastor, good like thats. During a Church Online is like watching a campfire on television. It just isnt the same you know still work another green light given monday in store shopping is
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A business that opens up how they operate, how close, how many employees, how close can they operate. What they have to wear. And yet you say nothing about lets say, tents on the street. You just leave it to the c. D. C. Guidelines about how far things need to be apart. There seems to be my impression and i will close with my impression is that you have put anything related to homelessness into a category that you have decided is a policy matter for someone else to deal with rather than a Public Health issue. And i am telling as a District Supervisor and shared by some others on this board that that is creating, that lack of guidance is creating enormous confusion in the streets. It is creating confusion among the Police Department who are not sure what they are enforcing out there in the district. It is created really complete chaos in the streets. We are all trying to deal with it, but were not the folks who have the power to issue Public Health orders tomorrow like you do. So i woul
26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming on your screen. Each speaker will be allowed to two minutes to speak. Comments to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 888 2045984 and entering an access code for our meeting, and thats 350. 3501008. Then press the pound symbol twice. When you are connected dial 1 and 0 to be added to the cue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order in which you dial 10. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The callin will notify you. All callers remain on mute until the line is open for comment. Everyone must account for time delays and speaking discrepancies that we may encounter between the live coverage is the streaming. And best practises for callers are to call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly to turn down your radio and your television or your streaming device you may be using to listen to the proceedings. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways