Thank you. Good morning. I am mayor london breed. Thank you for your patience. Today we have a total number of 9544 cases of those diagnosed in the past six months of covid in San Francisco, with sadly 83 people have died. This is, as i constantly say, a fluid situation. Remember just recently as i reminded folks at the last press conference, of course, one day we were talking about a phased plan. Then the next day we had to make significant changes. More recently we had a level of confusion between state issued guidelines and local guidelines. I want to be clear that we are definitely working and communicating with the state. I just believe that there was a level of confusion as it relates to what we were doing here locally because of our numbers and because of our Public Health officials. What we try to do is provide you the most uptodate, accurate information. It is important that you visit sfgov. Org to find the latest in guidelines. There are certain things that we have repeated o
As a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. Please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. We will do our best to receive questions up until the q a begins. Remaining questions can be sent to des sfgov. Org. And here is the mayor, london breed. The hon. London breed good afternoon, everyone. Today, im joined by Community Organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid19 for our community. I was out with the Latino Task Force earlier this week to distribute p. P. E. For all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. The sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little okay, a lot of fun. And the African American arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the Community Members know where they can go for support, from sharing in
Community. I was out with the Latino Task Force earlier this week to distribute p. P. E. For all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. The sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little okay, a lot of fun. And the African American arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the Community Members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with Community Engagement and outreach throughout the city. So since the start of this global pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the sprea
Announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. President caen commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. Are there a
Tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i believe in transparency, and i believe in the examining of data and accountability and also support the positive moves toward Police Reform. And as you know, im a soontobe new mother, a