Costs as a result of the economic downturn. 600,000 of the tax collectors to administer individual loans for Small Businesses impactedded by sarscov2. Members of the public who wish to speak should be dialing to be added to the speakers list. You might recall we continued this item from last weeks meeting. Today we have with us supervisor ronen. Would you like to make some comments . We also heard the report last week, too. Supervisor ronen . I want to thank you for the question you posed last week. My intention with this ordinance is to get assistance to Small Businesses who are suffering enormous losses at this moment and do it quickly. Sorry. Let me shut the window. Sorry. Hard to work from home. Basically, what has happened between then and now is i have been working with the Mayors Office and with the director of the office of economic and Work Force Development, and with the enormous leadership of my chief of staff, and we have reached an agreement that will make this legislation
Next questions are for chief scott. This is a question from maygan cassidy. How many officers or sworn staffers have tested positive and how many have been exposed or quarantined on your staff . We have had two officers test positive. We have had 53 quarantined. Some of those are back at work. We have been very fortunate working with the department of Public Health and the mayor and others who provided leadership early on. We hope we can continue to see this good fortune. We have not been severely impacted at this point. At this point only two. Follow up from sf gate. Do you have plans in plate for the a significant number of First Responders become ill. We do. We have seen other places around the country with this. We started with modifying our protocols, administrative units and officers that work those units were rotating in patrol to supplement. We modified the patrol schedule and have several models in the event we have significant short sage ages of personal. We have several mode
To react to certain types of new stories. Reporter thats especially true when the stories have Significant Impact on commerce. The markets been down like five straight fridays. Ever since this virus began to pick up speed. Reporter the Chinese Government has locked down a large, normally highly productive region that makes components for countless other finished goods. Those goods, manufactured worldwide are dependent on Global Supply changes. A worldwide slow down of economic activity, its gdp, or Gross Domestic Product is in for a big hit of its 3 growth rate. For this quarter and next quarter, our gdp isnt going to have a three on it. Probably isnt even going to have a two on it. Its probably going to be lucky to have a one on it. Reporter canceled 50 sailings due to less cargo demand. The port of oakland issued this statement. We anticipate an impact on cargo volume in the spring, because shipping lines have already canceled some voyagesment. This is probably going to have more of
Fired, but kirkpatrick said the shooting was justified. Do you regret . I cannot be bullied to change my opinion. I knew that if i had called that shooting out of policy, that i would have been the darling of reform. I would have had great headlines. Yall would have thought i was amazing. I was not willing to sell out. If the public shooting is the reason they were looking to terminate me before due process has come to an end, then something is definitely wrong with our system. I am going to be asking the department of justice to open an inquiry. Into what specifically . The federal oversight system, and that includes all the parties involved . Oakland is safer than when i came, however, my termination, i think, has created a great deal of damage that was not calculated in terms of culture change. It has created a total destabilization. Its hard for these officers and staff now to believe, does the city really believe in these values . Because they didnt practice them. Can you talk abo
With the community about this disturbing incident. Reporter city leaders talked along san bruno avenue and they say they are angry and upset by what they saw in that video. [ crying ] this cell phone video posted on social media shows an older asian man being chased and harassed by another man with the stick that appears to be a trash tool. A lot of vanity was used. Victim was seen trying to walk toward the recyclable pile neglect someone commented that it occurred in the bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. It is reallyheartbreaking reporter the police and of the bayview started a meeting monday night speaking about the incident. The meeting was scheduled before this weekend, and an audience member expressed concern that older asian folks are often the target of crime the Police Captain said the department has not received a Police Report from the victim or any witnesses in this incident. Still he says an investigation is underway the officers are trained to locate and identify all