Commissioner paulson. Without objection, that is the order. Mr. President , i would like to note for the record that the p. U. C. Commissioners caen and vietor are not in chamber okay. Colleagues that brings us to the end of our joint special meeting agenda. Madame clerk, is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for today, mr. President thank you. We are adjourned. [please stand by] good afternoon, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed and i am joined here by a number of departments who will be talking later on during the press conference. We are joined by department of Emergency Management director Mary Ellen Carroll as well as department of Public Health director, dr. Grant colfax. The director of Human Services, trent rohr, the director of Homeless Services for the city, Abigail Stewart kahn and our police chief bill scott. We have a pretty lengthy press Conference Today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with
Will provide daily updates of key data that describe the impact of the coronavirus in San Francisco. Data are an important tool to help san franciscans see the picture of the coronavirus in our community. This knowledge will help us all do our part and see over time how this situation is changing. Our data analysts have been working tirelessly to collect information from across the city and create accurate i want to stress accurate reliable reports to guide our decisions and inform the public. The department of Public Health collaborated with the controller and open data sf and Emergency Management and i want to thank all colleagues for hard work and support. The tracker features information about cases, demographics of patients, hospitalizations and testing. We will add more Data Elements and they will be updated as we gather more information and continue to improve the tracker. Lets review the tracker now and go to the first slide. As you can see, today there are 676 San Francisco re
Doing to keep all of our meetings running smoothly, which i know that is challenging in these times. And mr. Clerk do you have announcemented . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and the Committee Room are closed. The members are participating in the meeting remotely, the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, both cable channel 26 and sfggovtv. Org are streaming. And the ability to speak during the Comment Period are available by calling 8882045984. And you can utilize an access code. The code is, 3501008. Ill repeat those numbers, the calling number is 8882045984. And the access code is, 3501008. And once callers are connected they s3501008. And once callers are connected they should press the pound symbol. And then press the pound symbol again. And then after theyre connected if they wish to speak they should dial 1 and then dial 0, in
Taking on this particular contract, but this is just a way for us to view these things. In so far as this is ongoing service, and we Fund Services for periods of time, generally a fiscal year, and the service is not provided to the full extent in one fiscal year. Yes, it pushes it out. But it means that there is a cost savings in that particular fiscal year when the service is not provided. Right . Yes. Youred noing your head. Youre nodding your head. I see you nodding your head. Sorry. I cant see myself. [laughter] as commissioner safai said and we heard from commissioner fewer and others, this is not going going forward, it is not going to be business as usual. Well have like a lot of very hard decisions to make, so its better to make them sooner rather than later for whatever that is worth. But please proceed. And the board will see this next month as well. We have a bunch of requests from public works for their annual programs for curb repair and Tree Planting and equipment and oth
Conference today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with. So i want to first start with city test s. F. And we know that every single day there are people who are working, City Employees who are on the front lines. Our police officers, our firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need i