All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im london breed, im mayor of San Francisco. And today we are joined by the department of Emergency Management, director carol as well as the department of Public Health director, dr. Grant coal fashion. Colfax. We are joined by police chief scott as well as our sheriff and the director of homelessness and housing services, abigail kahn. Today we want to provide a few updates of where we are and and some very serious challenges that we face. So far as of today, we have confirmed 797 cases and sadly 13 people have lost their lives due to the virus. The covid19 virus. And we had said all along that this would be very challenging, and in fact, in the past week or so, dr. Colfax and i continued to make it clear that it is of course important to stay at home as much as possible. Because the fact is the worst is yet to come. And today, unfortunately, we have a situation that we knew could potentially happen in one of our congregate living settings. An outb
Propriations committee. And i am sandra lee fewer and im joined by supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman and by supervisor ronen and president yee is with us today. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for this meeting. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect members, and the public, the board of supervisors and the chamber and the Committee Room are closed and so all members will be participating in the meeting remotely. indiscernible and the comments will be available for each item on this agenda. At sfgov. Sorry, sfgov. Tv org, and the number is across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And the comments to speak during the Comment Period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984 and, again, 888 8882045984, access code, 350018. And press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1, and then 0, to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lunch lined up in the order that you dialed 1 and 0. Whil
Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 26. Clerk item 26, motion to concur and actions taken by the mayor in the 9th and 10th supplement to the proclamation on april 10, 2020 and april 14, 2020, to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the Novel Coronavirus covid19 pandemic. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, colleagues. First, i wanted to start with a House Keeping issue. It is my belief that in at least one, if not two, of the mayors declarations, it was accompanied by legal advice. We all received president yee supervisor peskin . I dont know if your video is on or not. I dont see you anywhere. Supervisor peskin hold on one second. Wait one second. Yeah, my video is on. President yee okay. My bad. Supervisor peskin okay. So as i was saying, my understanding is that in at least one, if not two instances, the mayor has received privileged legal adv
There is a lot of great information on the number of people who have been infected by zip code, race, and other information that members of the public expressed interest in. As a city, we have mobilized to combat this Public Health crisis. Weve been focusing on our frontline responders, our healthcare workers, and our essential employees and what they need to protect themselves. These are the people who are of course our healthcare professionals, our first responders, and people who are actually our essential city workforce. The folks who are driving the muni buses, the people who are managing traffic. The people who are providing the Grocery Store clerks and others who continue to support the city as we deal with these real challenges. I want to be clear that from the very beginning we knew that it was important to ensure that we were protecting the people that we expected to show up to work in their various capacities. The sad reality is what weve had to deal with around a lack of co
Meeting. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfg tv. Org are streaming the number across the 2013. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are available via phone by dialling 882045984, and once you are connected to that phone number, use access code which is 3501008. After entering the access code, you will be prompted to press the pound symbol. Then press it a second time. If you wish to add yourself to the queue to speak on a particular agenda item, dial 1 and 0 in order to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the orreder in which you dial 1 and 0. While you are waiting, the system will be silent. The callin system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until the line is open for comment. Everyone must account for the time delays and speaking discrepancies we may encounter between live coverage and streaming. Best practices for callers are to