Virus. This is two and a half hours. This hearing will come to order. This thing is another remote hearing by video. A few Video Conferencing for minors youre probably health used to these. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before years displayed on screen. To minimize the background noise, please click the mute button until it is your turn to speak or ask questions. Theres a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until resolved. I remind all senators there is a five minute clock that still applies and should be on your screen. At 30 remaining i will gently tap the gavel sometimes i forget to do that but i will try to do that better today. And remind you that your time is almost expired. To signify the process well get it rated to go by seniority for this hearing. Today Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell will update the committee on Monetary Policy development. In the state of the u. S. Economy. Its only been four months since the last hearing burstin
You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone
Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commiser grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public
Department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone can be a Good Public Health hero in this response. That includes not going to work or school if you are sick. Stay at home or seek medical attention. Avoid coughing into your hand. Cough into your elbow or sneeze into our elbow. We recommend to not shake hands, but do an elbow bump instead. A key piece moving forward. And also a reminder to get a flu shot, and a flu shot does not prevent coronavirus infection, but it prevents symptoms similar to a coronavirus infection. Get a flu shot to prevent getting symptoms.
Thats in general protection of the property. There are concerns about how this work is going to be done, given that breaking up the concrete in this particular way is a little bit more invasive, doing it onsite than it would otherwise be for cages where you normally just put rocks into the cages. Do you dispute the design they have come up with is compliant with the building and planning code . Yes. We would not be here otherwise. So what part of the Building Code does it violate . I believe its stated in our brief, and i believe mr. Paul can attest to better. We took issue with some of the engineering calculations and what was submitted in that regard. I dont think thats in the brief, actually. He has a if you would like to hear from our from an engineering standpoint theres no question pending. The design process its okay. I think you have a part in the brief here. I did have a question, ms. Raphael, if you did have a settlement, and you did have this design for five years, why was t