Meeting. Madame clerk, would you please call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer present. Han haney . Well return. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston well return. Ronen present. Safai. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Haney present. Safai okay. I received a message that supervisor preston is having trouble signing in. So we will make a note of that, mr. President. And the minute on which he arrives. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Who records each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President.
Peskin present. Preston well return. Ronen present. Safai. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Haney present. Safai okay. I received a message that supervisor preston is having trouble signing in. So we will make a note of that, mr. President. And the minute on which he arrives. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Who records each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. The minutes reflect that due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as ph
Announcer sfgov tv. San francisco government television. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the june 8th, 2021 meeting of the rules committee. Im so sorry that we started late this morning. We were having difficulty with Public Comment. And i just want to advise any member of the public who is listening in, if you want to be included in the queue to be a speaker in Public Comment please press star three. Its a little different than other meetings. This time you press star three. Ill remind you when we get to Public Comment each time. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is supervisor catherine. Supervisor stefani and were joined this morning by supervisor Shamann Walton perform our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Before we get started, id like to ask that anybody thats not a member of the committe
Estimates all but 5 of californias 58 counties are likely eligible to start relaxing guidelines in offering in restaurant dining in the coming weeks counties have to meet the new criteria to begin doing that and reopening schools of course all of this with modifications. The new criteria czar that counties have to be stable in their covid related hospitalizations and no more than 20 covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks and counties also have to have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 residents. Over the last 2 weeks or less than a percent of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days. Pretty stringent. The governor though says that june looks to be more optimistic. Expect if we hold the rate. Transmissions we hold the Positivity Rate down we continue to do justice to the hospitalization icu numbers that will be making announcements statewide not just with the regional variances that would for retail not just to be picked up but in store retail to be loosened up. In addition to sp
San franciscans and our city safe. I also want to thank our city, our coordinating pardtners and organizations who continued to protect our businesses and community as a whole. Finally, i want to remind everyone that we do continue to be in a significant and very Serious Public Health emergency response, and so therefore, we urge everyone to continue to practice the mitigations and safe practices to protect yourselves and others, and this includes Wearing Masks and maintaining distance whenever possible. Finally, i am going to introduce our chief of police, bill scott. I want to thank chief scott for his leadership and for the leadership and work of his his officers and the department over the last few days to help maintain safety and calm in our city. Chief scott . Thank you, mary ellen. I am chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department, and i, too, want to thank mayor breed for her leadership in doing this during a time that weve endured over the past couple of months. To go an