We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
Public Health Director grant colfax as well as the police chief bill scott, department of Human Resources director trent rohr. Currenttor odirector of emergeny management. We will help guide you through this unique challenge. I want to thank the workers who are in the hospitals working with people every day, healthcare workers, nurses, doctors, support staff showing up every day. I have seen a outpouring of love and support from san franciscans who are social distancing outside and giving hand claps and love to our healthcare workers. We appreciate what you are doing every day to keep people safe. We also want to say thank you to First Responders, police and firefighters, bus drivers, Grocery Store clerks, so many people who are showing up to work to help provide help and support and assistance to others. What you are doing on the front lines means so much to us. We truly have a deep appreciation for your commitment to serving others during this pandemic. We all know that yesterday the
Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone and participate in the meeting as if they were present. Public comment will be available for this agenda via the number scrolling across the screen. Best recommendation is you call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn out the t. V. Or radio. If you would like to submit your Public Comment via email, please submit it to me linda, linda, wong, wong, sf. Gov. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item 1. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have john lau from the office of economic and workforce development. Yes, supervisors. I have a presentation, which i am opening now. Can you share your screen . I just did press share. I do not see it. Ill try to open it again. John, if you hd like, i ca pull it up quickly. Let me try again now. Chair fewer, you have someone on your roster. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor walton chair fewer, if i could sa
We also have learned this afternoon about how the military is getting more involved in this response to the crisis. President trump says he is signing the defense production act which authorizes him to ramp up production of critical supplies such as medical equipment and protective gear for health care workers. We never had to even think in terms of these numbers but we need millions of masks and all of that will be ordered. We need respirators. Ventilators is a big thing. Reporter the pentagon is also deploying two Military Hospital ships. Hospital ships mercy and natis dicialerted oy of fieland expedition hospital to be prepared to deploy as well as needed based on direction from the commanderinchief. Reporter as Economic Impact from the pandemic also continues to grow, President Trump says he is working with congress to send checks to americans. It is moving along fast. Again, theres a great bipartisan effort going on i havent really seen before to this extent. Reporter the plan is
Francisco Police Department chief william scott. Question from kpix. Plenty of crowds on corners in the tenderloin, some with nowhere to go and others dealing drugs. Are there plans to address this crowding . Yes, and that is why it is important to work with city partners. It is a difficult issue. Crowds on the tenderloin. I have been out there with officers and seen it firsthand. Some comply and some dont. We have to keep going back and trying. The drug dealers, there is space in the jails. I want to emphasize for those committing serious crimes, those out selling drugs and causing gatherings to be worse because people are gathering to buy drugs, that is a Public Health problem. We have room in the jails for those type of individuals. Officers have been out. We are trying to educate people to give them an opportunity to comply, but as i said earlier, there is a time what enforcement is appropriate. We want to save our jail space for people that are committing those serious crimes like