President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 21, 2020, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call]. Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. Supervisor safai supervisor safai is present. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Board Meeting, members will participate online as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in the five following ways. First, you are welcome to submit via email at board. Of. Supervisors sfgov.
The outbreak. Californias stay at home order now in its fifth week. We sit down with one bay area woman whos been quarantined for nearly five months. The biggest sports event since the shelter at home order. How the nfl draft is expected to bring in huge ratings tonight. Ive been super excited to see any sort of live sports. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, tonight, we can put a face to americas first known death from the coronavirus. A seemingly healthy san jose woman who suddenly passed away in early february. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Kpix 5s joe vazquez on how shes being remembered and what her case could reveal about the virus. Reporter the first person to die of the coronavirus in the country was right here in santa clara, and now we know her name. Originally she was thought to have died from a heart attack, but now according to the la times, the county has informed them that trish dowd died of the coronavirus. My heart just sank. My heart g
Good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for monday, april 27, 2020. I am the chair of the committee i aaron peskin joined by vice chair staff fieand dean preston. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency to protect board members, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting room only as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on channel 26 and sfgovtv are sharing the number on the screen. Each member is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code 3501008. Then press pound and press pound again. Dial one and 0 to be added to the queue to speak. While waiting the system will be silent. It will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone
Hospitals. Next up for the bill, the oval office. A very good morning to you and thank you for joining us. Can you hear me now, Marcus Washington . I can hear you now, laura, and i can see you. Looking good this morning. Thank you for joining us. Mike will have a look at that traffic and the commute for you in about eight minutes. First, meteorologist kari hall will take us through the forecast. It is friday, kari. Excitement is in the air along that heat. Yeah, were going to have our warmest day of the week today, and it starts out fairly mild as we check out concord where well be in the mid50s. But then our temperatures really start to warm up quickly and by early in the afternoon were in the upper 70s, eventually reaching into the mid80s for today. Now there will still be some fog and Cool Temperatures along the coastline, but as you make your way over to the east bay, the north bay as well as the south bay well see the highs reaching into the 80s. Are than are thanks, kari. Avoidin
San francisco. Sadly, we have 20 people who passed away as a result of the virus. As a reminder, datasf. Org covid19 is where you can find details to find out who is actually infected as well as those who have been tested. I want to be clear from the very beginning when we heard about what was happening with the coronavir coronavirus, specifically in wuhan, china, sadly there were a lot of xenophobia of those in our Asian Community. This virus is not discriminating on the basis of race. Sadly, the xenophobia continues. We want our community to know we are here to provide the resources and the support necessary to deal with the challenges around discrimination. So its not tolerated here in San Francisco. In fact, as we look at the data and the inequities as it relates to covid19, we are seeing the disparities, true disparities around income and inequality and other things that have sadly been a part of our environment and our climate for so many years, that when there is a pandemic, tho