Announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. President caen commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. Are there a
We have a quorum. Very good. Secretary can you please make the announcement. Mayor breed and the governor looked at the restrictions and the meet is held the conference and televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgtv. Id like to extend thanks to the staff and i. T. Staff for their assistance during the meeting. Id also like to note on the published agenda there was an incorrect dialin number for this meet. The correct dial in number is scrolling on the live feed. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item call the number. Before you have the minutes of july 28. Are there corrections or additions to these minutes. Seeing none id like to open it up to moller caen are there corrections or are there comments. Please press pound, pound to speak. Are there any callers. Theres one caller with their hand raised. Ill unmute them now. Speaker you have two minutes. Clerk this is regarding
Hop Health Officer abruptly resigned. I try not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves the larger good. At the end of the day, he buck stops with me. Im accountable. Reporter the governor saying testing is one of the governments top priorities, and said there are encouraging signs that the number of coronavirus cases is slowing from the rapid increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to get to where everybody wants to go. For now, dr. Erica pan, previouslyiously alameda countys top Health Officer is the states top Health Officer. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. In washington, President Trumps Coronavirus Briefing was interrupted this afternoon by secret Service Agent who asked the president to leave the room. The briefing had just gotten started when the agent came in and spoke to the president who quickly followed him out of the room. We later learned ther
Time when President Donald Trump suspended h 1 b visas to the end of this year. So canada is putting it out there. Their doors are open in Silicon Valley and ceos are seeing the impact. Sitting in board members, ceos have related theyre trying to hire programmers from russia or other parts of the world. Reporter how worried should Silicon Valley be, with them trying to poach talent from our area . We should always be concerned that we are protecting and preserving our competitive advantage as the hub of the innovation economy. Reporter the pandemic and immigration halt has take an toll. But the pay in canada still does not compare to Silicon Valleys. On average, the tech workers here in the United States in Silicon Valley can make almost double what theyre making in some of the tech hubs in canada. Reporter but the hope is that when the pandemic ends, the talent comes back or holds on. Or theres always canada. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. Making the bay area a better place to
Lightning and fire danger. That is why there is a fire warning. You can see that they collapsed. It is still hanging around. We have a big fog bank. The wind is cranked up for many. Temperatures are taking a plunge. We have a little warmup. We have 50s and 60s on the temps. Oakland and livermore is pretty close. 36 Miles Per Hour means extra hold on the hairspray. There is a rock n roll delta wind. With that in mind, we are looking at a day where temperatures are going to be below average to near average. That is not something we have said. Over to cell now, hopefully things are quiet at 4 30 on a tuesday. Is that the case . Things are still quiet. That is the way we like it. Lets talk about the bay bridge approach. You can see traffic is looking very good. We have not had a lot going on. We are also looking at interstate 880 in oakland. That traffic is moving along very nicely. Northbound 280 in san jose, in fact, in general, it is looking good in san jose. Lets go back to the headlin