The subcommittee meeting will come to order. I want to thank everybody for coming. Ive got a fairly short statement that i will read and then i will turn to senator coons. Were obviously convening under different circumstances than our previous meeting. Were following the guidance of the cdc and the office of attending physician, so were spaced further apart. Our staff is reduced, but were grateful for all of them. The general public is watching online rather than filling up the room. So our hearing today will look a little different. I think we can all agree that the capitol feels a little different, the halls of congress feel a little different. Small businesses if theyre allowed to open at all are operating under very different circumstances. American homes have become classrooms and offices for millions of american families. And at least for a while American Life as we know it has changed. Nonetheless access or inaccess to Broadband Internet services especially in rural areas has b
Quiet continuing out towards the bridge. No problems into marin county no problems on interstate 80 as we look at the commute. The fog is not as big of an issue here. Its foggy in some areas. Silicon valley commute off to a nice start. Northbound 101 looks good from san jose all the way to palo alto. 4 31. All the way back to the desk. Of. President trump plans to release a transcript of another phone call he had with the president of ukraine and this follows the first day of public testimony in the house impeachment inquiry. Doug luzader tells us now there are more witnesses still to come. Impeachment process may be riveting television for some, but the president says he didnt watch the opening round. No i didnt. I did not watch it. Im too busy to watch it. Its a witch hunt its a hoax. The president may not have been watching but plenty of others were. The first two public impeachment witnesses sworn in for a long day of questioning. Deputy assistant secretary of state george kent and
Times the spare the air alert in effect and obviously with so many of the little ones heading out tonight to do some trick or treating want to keep an eye on those may be a keep an inhaler on hand if your kid does have some respiratory conditions. Bas there is some smoke settling into the bay overall air quality this morning has been moderate some not as bad as it could be but not as good as it was yesterday. You look out from the east bay right here does show blue skies overhead thats a welcome sign and calmer winds today, something that is very welcome after windy past week, cold temperatures though to kick off this morning freeze warnings in effect till 09 00am for portions of marine sonoma and napa counties right now were in the 40s and 50s for most spots in the day, although dublin youre one of our cold spots at 36 and then all across the north bay where we do have this freeze warnings in effect. We are in the 30s fairfield at 32 degrees you fell to 31 within the past hour. Later
Ashley . Hi. Were waiting for okay. Great. I want to thank you, commissioners, for having us . My name is ashley scarborough, and im working in primary care central . Its my pleasure to represent a large and Interdisciplinary Group and working to include lgbt in the group, so thank you . For this initiative, its really more than Data Collection . It offers an opportunity for staff to align with our values and moving towards True North Equity creating culture change and ultimately providing more inclusive care for the lgbtq population. I want to recognize the longer term efforts in the department for gender equity Data Collection . And just the staff advocating for this data and advocating for this community so aligning with that over the last few years has also been structural policy incentives and mandates that have been elevating the priority of Data Collection, including local ordinances authored by scott wiener, state legislative bills, and payforperformance dollars, part of the pr
For everybody, it is easy to understand it. If they come to chinatown, they see that chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. I want to show you guys a video about the chinatown station. I want to show you guys a video about it. [ music playing ] thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im here to air the video given by a merchant, from easy travel. He cannot come to this meeting, he was too busy. I support chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am here on behalf of the owner of the chinatown hair salon. He cannot come today. [video playing] i support chinatown station only because it represents all chinese. This is what i want to say. Thank you. This video is also from chinatown. The owner could not be here. I am glad to play for her. [video playing] next speaker, please. Hello board of supervisors. Today i am here to speak on behalf of of eight chinatown Business Owners. Like thousands of San Francisco residents against most of