Guest the fact that we would assemble as a body. There are several references in it that suggest that they dont see us being able to vote any other way. The counter argument to be fair would be traditionally the house and the senate have control over their own rules. This is a rule change. It was certainly adopted under he process that we have. There is a legitimate argument here. The legal scholars are split. Each side actually introduced information to that effect during the course of debate on this. More than that, i just think republicans feel pretty strongly that the house ought to be in session. Its an important to assemble to the country, important to legislate. Turf tell you quite often members honestly dont talk to people with other points of view until they are at the house. When they are in their own districts they are in a bubble, so to speak, particularly given the nature of many, many districts around the country. We think the interaction is an important part of the legis
Guillermo . Unmute yourself, commissioner, so we can hear you. Yes. Commissioner guillermo, are you there . Commissioner guillermo im here. Clerk thank you. And is commissioner chow on the phone by chance . Commisioner chung yes, i am and i will try for the visual connection as the phone goes on. Clerk okay. And commissioner bernal, i believe that you have smgz to say . President bernal thank you to my chigdzers and welcome to all of the members of the public who may be viewing the Health Commission meeting for tuesday, may 19th. Before we begin i wanted to let everybody know that the commissioners and i have sought to with the support of the mayor, beginning in june to meet twice a month with remote meetings. So on the first and third at a new time at 3 00 p. M. The meeting on the first tuesday of the month will include a covid19 update and a d. P. H. Update and contract items and d. P. H. Program updates. And the meeting on the thursday tuesday of the month includes covid19 updates a
S San Francisco has been doing a great job flattening the curve and sfds has been a big part of that. The stepsky foundation and Silver Giving Foundation at 225,000 and somaland foundation 476,000, linkedin, 146,000 and the Webb Family Foundation at 70, Golden State Warriors at 50 and walter and alysse haas fund and the Tipping Point community at 25, and the stepski foundation is 20 and i want to thank all corporate and giving foundations and individuals this is a Response Fund the ones their gave before throughout the year and this is the ones for the covid19 response. And toma bravo at 1. 1 and anonymous at 11,000, Golden State Warriors at 125 and the hellman foundation, 50,000 and palms against poverty is 28 and herbert and Gene Foundation at 25 and facebook is 20 and cohen elevators is 20 and the wells fargo 20 and google fiberton 10. Wellington management 10, the 697 and alaskas airline 5,000 and odell family and dennis wulliver kelly and these are all that have given towards are
Commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor commissioner stefani . Walton absent. Yee present. We have quorum. Commissioner peskin for you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. Enter access today 2858465. Not sure if its showing up on the screen. But then follow the system prompts. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be in the taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, and turn down the volume on the speaker. Please allow for a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam clerk. I move on to the chairs report. Colleagues, this mo
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this hearing will come to water. Welcome, welcome. Today the committee convenes to broadband during the covid19 pandemic. I extend my appreciation for my colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly t