So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
The fall. And include social distancing, hygiene measures and handwashing. Schools will attempt to maximize the number of School Events that can be held virtually. School lunches will be eaten in classrooms or out doors. Guidelines are meant to prioritize student safety. The guidelines are to help administrators and others put the right procedures in place to reopen. However, whether schools can move forward with reopening for in Person Instruction will depend on the containment of covid19 in the weeks and months to come. The guidance will allow all of our schools to plan effectively for the possibility of School Campuses offering and Person Instruction in the 2020 2021 school year to the greatest extent practical. The guidelines do not allow electives and Extracurricular Activities in which social distancing and face coverings cannot be maintained at all times. This includes choir, band, and cheerleading. The announcement from Santa Clara County comes after a National Organization of
Rising cases. We cant just focus on those areas having the surge. He was the entire country at risk. We are having 40 thousand new cases and they and i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. There was some encouraging news on the search for a vaccine. The United States will start at 30,000 person trial next month. Health and School Officials have released a set of guidelines for the safe reopening of schools in the fall. This includes procedures for social distancing, hygiene measures that include handwashing and schools will maximize School Events that can be held virtually or outdoors on School Lunches will be eaten in classrooms or outside. The guidelines are meant to prioritize the safety of students. They are intended to help administrators and others but necessary structures and procedures in place to be ready to reopen. However, whether schools can move forward with reopening for in Person Instruction will depend on the containment of c
Some specific instructions to members of the public who would like to make comment . Sure. I want to remind everyone to please [inaudible] and were hearing someone make a latte or coffee or something. Lets maouts our microphones unless were talking. Hi, even. My name is mark morowitz, the Health Commission secretary. Im going to flash the side again to explain how to make Public Comment. The phone number is 8883634734. And the access code is 2241350. Once youre on that line, you will be able to listen in on the meeting and when you want to make Public Comment, you press 1 and 0 in order yes, 10 in order to get on to the line for a specific item. For those of you who are watching on sfgov tv, a reminder that there is a delay on what youre seing from what the live meeting is. So, i encourage you to get on the Public Comment line one item before you intend to speak so that youre on in time. That way there will be no timing issues. And, again, we apologize profusely for the issues at the l
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t