Peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item 1 is a resolution receiving and approving
And the position that youre going for, whether its a request to me to be a member of a board or a commission, that i have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on an
Planning commission received authorization to reconvene through the end of the shelter in place. Im requesting everyones patience in advance. We have now migrated to web ex and are all new to the platform. Especially me. I expert this will eliminate some technical difficulties but may create new ones. If you are not speaking please mute or turn off video camera. Sfgovtv is broad casting and streaming live. We will receive Public Comment for each item on todays agenda. You can call 415610this access code will change on a weekly basis. That is one of the changes associated with migrating to web ex. When you are connected and would like to make your Public Comment for a particular item, please press star three to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have thirty seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is up. Best practices are to speak clearly and slowly. At this time i would like to take roll. Proposed for continu
County Health Officer issued a number of Public Health orders relating to covid19, including a staysafeathome order. The governor and state Health Officer issued an overlay staysafeathome order. To protect the city staff and members of the public, the City Chambers are closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspendin suspending suss making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. The Mayors Office has authorized the Historic Preservation commission to reconvene remotely, recognising that the commissions consideration of certain projects in a certain government operation and the authorization directing the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure, housing and Small Businesses. Today, the Historic Preservation commission reconvenes for the first time in its history remotely using video and teleconferencing technology. The platform is not perfect and at times may even appear to be clumsy. Therefore, we r
The director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax. The director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. The director of the department of Human Services trent rhorer. The director of the department of homelessness and housing, abigail stewartkhan and our police chief bill scott. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start by providing the most updated numbers currently. We have 1,058 cases here in San Francisco of those diagnosed with the coronavirus. And sadly, we have 20 people who died from this illness. And for more information, please visit data sf. Org covid19 for our full tracker and more information that you may be interested in reviewing. Today i just wanted to talk about the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. This weekend marks the 106th anniversary of the earthquake. When we all can look back on our history and remember during that time, not only did the earthquake hit and it really physically destroyed buildings and many