Was begging everyone to cancel their thanksgiving travel plans. Now they would like to see everyone canceling their travel plans for the foreseeable future. I traveled a lot during the pandemic. Tons of safety measures. Many passengers drifting through the Oakland Airport were not traveling for pleasure. Im traveling for work. Well airport staff was busy hanging stockings the cdc was, again, asking everyone to cancel their Winter Holiday season travel plans. Given the state of things i can understand limiting travel for Recreational Purposes or leisure purposes. So what exactly does that Winter Holiday travel mean . Listen to how Robert Redfield describes the nearterm. The reality is that december, january and februar will be rough times. I actually believe they will be the most difficult time in the publichealth history of this nation. Largely because of the stress it will put on the healthcare system. I dont think people will go for it. I think it has gone the complete opposite way.
Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Heres a look at the latest numbers. As of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. After approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that Pfizer Vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. For example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. Yesterday the United States had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. More than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. Hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. They are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Meantime dr. Anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting with members of
Extra opportunities to them as well. I want to thank everyone working on this project for their thoughtfulness and for your listening ear. Thank you, commissioner. Vicechair, any questions or comments . I dont have too may be questions. I wanted to make a comment that i thought that the effort by the soma hotel to reach out to the firm fu for our Consulting Services for onsite artwork was creative, and something they think that does help, certainly, the older community. I want to commend that creativity and the only question that i have is really more on activation . And obviously were in covid and obviously we all know this, the comments from the public are like this and a Significant Impact on the hospitality industry. So im just wondering if theres going to be a slow rollout in terms of activation . Im just curious in terms of the activation of the space and the hotel itself next year. This is eric smith. I can probably field that question. You know, the activation with space and th
Then pound appound again. You will hear the meeting discussion but yo you will be md ied listening mode only. Call from quiet location and turndown your television and radio use or submit by email to marrtotothe committee. Please note this meeting is recorded will be available at sfgovtv. Org. Would you like me to call roll . Yes, please call the roll. roll call . All are present. We have a quorum. Welcome everyone to day one of our city, our home oversight committee. We will move to item 2. Do we have any Public Comment at this time . Members of the public who wish to comment should call 4156550001 access code 1460283650 and pound and pound. If you havent done so please dial star three to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until you have been unmuted. You have three minutes. Checking the list now. There are no callers. Thank you. We will move to item 3. Approval, with possible modification of the minutes of the october 20 meeting. Is there a motion to