Mayor breed is joined by the director of Public Health, grant colfax. The director of the department of Human Services, trent noor. Todays numbers for the number of people who are infected by covid19 here in San Francisco are at 1,340. Sadly, we have had 22 people who lost their lives to the virus. As a reminder, you can find the full dashboard of information at datasf. Org covid19. There is a lot of great information on the number of people who have been infected by zip code, race, and other information that members of the public expressed interest in. As a city, we have mobilized to combat this Public Health crisis. Weve been focusing on our frontline responders, our healthcare workers, and our essential employees and what they need to protect themselves. These are the people who are of course our healthcare professionals, our first responders, and people who are actually our essential city workforce. The folks who are driving the muni buses, the people who are managing traffic. The
There is a lot of great information on the number of people who have been infected by zip code, race, and other information that members of the public expressed interest in. As a city, we have mobilized to combat this Public Health crisis. Weve been focusing on our frontline responders, our healthcare workers, and our essential employees and what they need to protect themselves. These are the people who are of course our healthcare professionals, our first responders, and people who are actually our essential city workforce. The folks who are driving the muni buses, the people who are managing traffic. The people who are providing the Grocery Store clerks and others who continue to support the city as we deal with these real challenges. I want to be clear that from the very beginning we knew that it was important to ensure that we were protecting the people that we expected to show up to work in their various capacities. The sad reality is what weve had to deal with around a lack of co
Of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco. I want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise, who will facilitate this meeting. Do you want to go over what were doing today. Thank you, jeff. Good morning, everybody and almost afternoon. While we cant meet inperson were grateful you are joining us today online and really appreciate that you are taking the time to provide input on our budget. Its especially important that we have public input and continue to have public input as we move our budget through the approval process. So, just a couple of logistical issues and housekeeping kind of stuff. This conversati
Because it is the only relevant statement of our agencys values and it determines how we use our very, very limited resources in order to uphold the public good. Public transportation plays a Critical Role in the unfolding of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco. I want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise, who will facilitate this meeting. Do you want to go over what were doing today. Thank you, jeff. Good morning, everybody and almost afternoon. While we cant meet inperson were grateful you are joining us today online and really appreciate that you are taking the time to provide input on our budget.
People who are frontline workers in a very difficult situation, are very low paid, are mostly people of color. I used to call them and i still consider them the heart and soul of opeiu. These are people, a lot of them who have formerly been homeless and worked themselves up. And then read the paper and see what was in msc south, which was horrible and disgusting. And they had to shut that down. They all want to be tested. And each of them who are working today deserves an incentive pay. I cant urge you enough to make this a consideration, frontline workers are frontline workers and these people need the frontline workers support as much if not more than the rest of the workers. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Hello, speaker. Hi. Im cochair of the Housing Providers network and codirector at fish, the Supportive Housing. Thank you for hearing this item. And to you and the controller and the budget direct