Small Business Commission. The meeting is being called to order at 11 05 a. M. Small Business Commission thanks Media Services and sfgov tv and the department of technology for televising this meeting, which can be viewed on sfgov tv 2, live streamed at sfgovtv. Org. Members of the public, who will be phoning in, the number is 888 3634735. And the access code is 4134030. When prompted, dial 10 in order to be added to the speaker line. The auto prompts will look at callers entry. The questionandanswer time. But this is the Public Comment period. If you call in before Public Comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute your device that you are listening to the meeting on, when it is your time to speak, youll be prompted to do so. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker, unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Speakers are requested but not required to state their names.
Members of the public, who will be phoning in, the number is 888 3634735. And the access code is 4134030. When prompted, dial 10 in order to be added to the speaker line. The auto prompts will look at callers entry. The questionandanswer time. But this is the Public Comment period. If you call in before Public Comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute your device that you are listening to the meeting on, when it is your time to speak, youll be prompted to do so. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker, unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Speakers are requested but not required to state their names. Sfgov tv, please show the office of Small Business. Today well start with the reminder that the Small Business commission official public is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Busines
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
Is not we dont need to be captives or hostage to the idea that in an earlier age there was no physical way, there was no technological way for us to come together and i would suggest that only under the very narrow circumstances anticipated by this resolution could we continue to work on behalf of the american public. I appreciate and yield back you also raised are the point. I dont think theres any constitutional issues revolving revolving around whether or not committees can meet virtually. I mean, the constitution the commit constitution creates the committees. We all agree on that. Miss shalala. Mr. Chairman, i want to make a comment about the suggestion that scientists and Public Health people are making policy in this country. They are not. Were the policymakers. The governors, the mayors are the policymakers. They seek advice during a crisis like this one with a vicious virus from experienced scientists and Public Health officials, and they can take that advice or not take that
Further presentations. Lets address this question. The Division Circle site is some of what you are saying and it is sort of a yes and, supervisor ronen. From a design perspective, this is a site that is shared and im going to tap dr. Boren in a little bit who is also on the line to speak to some of the medical questions. Its a site that is being kind of jointly set up, not kind of. Is being jointly set up by hsa as responsible for mass care and shelter. The traditional shelter operator and the department of publichealth as the medical Behavioural Health provider for the city. I would prefer having a sight for people with covid19 and we no the capacity of the inq site that stan talked about is a challenge so, we want to make sure were maximizing every resource in the city. From the staffing operational staffing the site, they asked to find a provider who is willing and able to operate that site alongside the department of publichealth. Staff will be do the medical and Behavioural Healt