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Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that it is taking place, what transparency would we find, given there was not much transparency out of china in some critical early days and weeks, how would you assess the threat of a pandemic coming from the african continent . Can i start . Sure. Im confident that should such a pandemic start in africa we would have tremendous cooperation. I look back on the situation with ebola in west africa wher
Okay, good morning everyone, welcome to the june 16th Committee Meeting of the Treasure Island mobility management agency. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. [roll call] mandelman absent. Mandelman present, we have kwur corium. Great, would you please call the next item. Chair, may i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes, please. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 8882045987. When prompted entering access code 2858465 as seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. If you wish to speak on an item, dial 10. Each caller will be allowed 2 minutes to speak. When your 2 minutes are up, we will move to the next caller. Best practices is to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of your television or radio around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and the 30 second lag time during the course of the meeting. The nov
Announcer sfgov tv, San Francisco government television. Good morning, everyone, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the june 10th, 2020, regular budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. Im joined by Committee Members, supervisor shamann walton, and rafael mandelman, Hillary Ronen and northerlienorman yee. Clerk yes, madam clerk. Due to the Health Emergency and to protect board members, and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This caution is taken pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives, Committee Members attending the meet through Video Conferencing and participate in the meeting to the same extend as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. Each speaker