About how her organization is approaching testing, treatments and vaccines and which countries she says are doing the best right now handling the pandemic. Plus, the interim president of new yorks mta joins us to discuss a path forward for pass transit and whether people will ever feel comfortable riding in a crowded subway car again the biggest subway system in the country. Lets focus on the big stories were watching kayla has the latest on a new 3 trillion relief bill proposal. Mike diving into the Federal Reserves Corporate Bond Purchase Plan which kicked off today. Kayla, lets start with you and washington relief. We are waiting to hear from House Speaker nancy pelosi to discus what they are calling the heroes act this second wave of multitrillion dollar stimulus that now democrats say is needed to jumpstart the american economy. Pelosi has urged her conference to think big, even as many fiscally minded democrats have raised concerns b about the price tag. In this 3 trillion packag
Power to order individuals that walk out on the street and may someday need help in the hospitals have decided not to issue that order in the past seven weeks. I want to know why because it doesnt make sense to me, and it doesnt make sense to my constituents, both housed and unhoused. If you walk the streets of the city, it doesnt make sense to any of those thousands of people that are obviously dangerously camping in the street right next to each other with no access to hygiene. So i dont want you to hide behind the City Attorney, i want to know why you havent issued a health order requiring intervention on the basis of Public Health facility. You just shutdown the entire economy of San Francisco, and you were willing to do that, and i stood by you, and i stand by you in that decision. You have not been willing to do that for the homeless population, and i dont understand it. We as supervisors have done everything in our power to try to force the situation, but were not the Public Hea
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.
If you have any questions, i can answer them. I dont, thank you for that. Sousupervisor hainey. Who is still with us and is dan still here . And i want to make sure there are final questions that could be answered by a number of different people. Yes, im still here. Ok, great. So i have a couple of questions and im not entirely sure who would answer these. So weve had questions about the Housing Needs of people who might be existing the jail system and we know that our jail population is declining fairly rapidly during this crisis for the purposes of Public Health and that a significant percentage of the people in the jail are homeless. And how is that process being handled and do we know how many people have been placed into housing or shelter or hotels, who have come directly out of the jail . Certainly people out of the jail and homelessness would be heap who would be among the folks we would be trying to house in this system. This is emily cohen from hsh. If somebody comes out of j
What that says is that even though we locally are doing everything that we can to provide resources to the public, we know that theres so much more that needs to be done. We cant wait for a federal stimulus check in many cases, people who are living paycheck to paycheck and need money to pay their bills. And we know, especially our hairdressers and our nail salons, our barbershops, theyre probably suffering the most. Because if they dont work they dont have any income. So this is a very challenging time for all of us. And as we deal with the protecting of Public Health, we need to always protect the Financial Health of our families and communities. After were able to reopen what is that going to look like . And how will we be able to continue to make sure that everyone has a decent paying job with benefits . Thats the foundation of our city and its necessary for us to figure out ways in which we can help to support one another and uplift one another. Just a few things that we have been