The meeting has started. The meeting will come to order. This is the april 8th meeting of budget and finance committee. I am calling it to order at 10 00 a. M. It is a rescheduled meeting at 10 05 a. M. And the meeting scheduled for 10 10 a. M. There are other supervisors present. Will you please identify yourself. Anybody else who is not on the budget and Appropriations Committee . Thank you very much. I would like to thank Daniel Williams from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees and the public the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state way stay at home order. All proceeding local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference or telephone and participate to the extent as if they were physically comment. Comments will be
District attorney about the Public Health orders and i will say that he has been extremely supportive. Weve talked specifically about the need to if the need arises, he is supportive. I dont have those cases in terms of the details to discuss the merits of either of those cases. So, i dont think thats appropriate for me to go into detail that i dont have. But i will say they were both of the Public Health order violation nature. And those eventually will make its way to the proper authorities and the prosecutor and well see what happens. Reporter thank you. The next questions are for dr. Grant colfax. Thank you. Reporter dr. Colfax, the first question is from kate wolfe. Is the San Francisco medical Examiners Office testing for covid19 in people who have died . So, the medical examiner is following c. D. C. Guidelines with regards to testing for covid19 in people who have died. That would include people who die suddenly who have a known contact with somebody whos covidpositive. Reporte
Modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. The Digital Services team was created in 2017. It is 2. 5 years. Our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. One of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. We have 58 Different Department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. We are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. It is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. Our goal is you dont have to know the department. You are dealing with the city. Now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. Here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to Work Together to make it easy to comply with the rules. There are more than
Family, and what ive heard is residents gave them cans. [inaudible] but were here for unity today. Youve got to get the story right. Okay. Thats how it is, but we cant treat seniors that way. But any way, peace and unity. Thats why were here. Supervisor walton so thank you, reverend burch, and thank you, reverend fong. As you can see, theres community tension. What i want everybody to know is that its not about the politicians that are here today, its not about the v. I. P. S that are here today, but its about this community and bringing everyone together, particularly when we have obstacles to overcome as a community. We are about uniting, about uniting, we are not about division. I do have an official statement that i want to read on behalf of my office here as the supervisor of district 10, and then, we will hear from our illustrious mayor. First, i want to apologize to the chow family for what happened on this site. We do not tolerate bullying of any kind as an office and as a comm
Amen. It you to turn to the person to your left and right and say youre beautiful. All of you are beautiful because were here to stand in solidarity. Life is ugly, and sometime bad stuff happens. But im blessed to be here. Just say a few words, repeat after me. Peace. Pause. Shalom. We are gathered here to stand firm on peace, beauty, and solidarity. We plray especially for the chw family, and what ive heard is residents gave them cans. [inaudible] but were here for unity today. Youve got to get the story right. Okay. Thats how it is, but we cant treat seniors that way. But any way, peace and unity. Thats why were here. Supervisor walton so thank you, reverend burch, and thank you, reverend fong. As you can see, theres community tension. What i want everybody to know is that its not about the politicians that are here today, its not about the v. I. P. S that are here today, but its about this community and bringing everyone together, particularly when we have obstacles to overcome as a