Okay, i think we can start. Cochair madrid okay. This is the mayors disability Public Meeting for november 20, 2020 at s 1 p. M. My name is alex madrid. Thank you, alex. Im Deputy Director of m. O. D. And serving as clerk for this meeting. This is a virtual meeting. Its being broadcast to the public on sfgovtv. It is open caption and sign language interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds nine meetings and generally held on the third friday of the month. Please call the Mayors Office of disability at 415 5546789. Or by email, you can contact us at mod sfgov. Org with any m. D. C. Business. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, january 15, 2021 from 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. This will also be an Online Meeting and will be broadcast on sfgovtv. Thank you for joining us. Well now do roll call. And helen, joining the meeting. Sorry. Great. So ill go through the list . Can anybody hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Great, thank you. Please say present when i call your name. Alex madrid .
White house is underscoring this troubling statistic. 2. 5 million women have been driven from the workforce since the pandemic hit. On the medical side of this whole thing we now have news on Johnson Johnsons oneshot vaccine. Its moving closer to authorization for Emergency Use so that is a step in the right direction. Also that i had Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene once again defending her controversial rhetoric one day after her colleagues voted to remove her from her committee assignments. Going forward ive been freed. I do. I feel freed because you know whats happening on these committees . You see, we have a basically a tragically controlled government right now, the democrat. How does her party move forward now that trump is out of office . Her response. It doesnt. And i want to tell you, republican voters, support him still. The party is his. It doesnt belong to anybody else. Lets start there with our cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean who had quite an
Dealing with the pandemic but its right there and put on full display, our societies inequality and injustice. This display hasnt been in words or theories, its been in death. Our societies inequality span over 400 years of slavery, segregation, jim crow and racism. These inequalities exist in many forms, healthcare, Public Safety and justice. Back and African Americans make up just 8 of the states population nearly 18 of covid19 deaths over the past several months have been from that same community. Inequality in healthcare results in death, pure and simple. Our justice system, lady justice is supposed to be blind but many in our eight feel, rightfully so, the color is all thats seen. Incarceration rates bear that out and incidents from breanna to minneapolis, it is very real. Disproportionate death and in my short time as governor, ive felt a lot. Individuals try to create fear and terror in my own family but thats been a few days, maybe a week. Certainly not a lifetime. I will never
Injustice. This has not been in words or theories. It has been in death. Inequalities span over 400 years of segregation, jim crow, and racism. These inequalities exist in many forms. Health care, Public Safety, and justice. Black and African Americans make up just a percent of the states population but nearly 18 of covid19 deaths over the past several months have been from that same community. Inequality in health care results in death. Lady justice is supposed to be blind. But many in our state feel rightfully so that color is all that is seen. Our incarceration rates bear that out. Incident with breonna , it shows it is real. Disproportionate death. In my short time as governor, i have seen and felt a lot. I have had individuals try to create fear and terror in my own family. But that has been a few days, maybe a week. Certainly not a lifetime. I will never understand how it feels to carry the frustration and fatigue of racism in a world and country that has failed to address it in
We have a quorum. Thank you. Can we have a motion to excuse for the durcration of this meeting commissioner marr requested an excused absence and commissioner safai ewill join us list. We will take that without objection and go to the chairs report. This month i was gratified to learn from our staff and this was actually in the press that the California Public utilitiesy commissioner has ruled to reverse the policy on the confidentiality of uber annalist data. As we know they are regulated by the state p. U. C. Aprequired to submit annual reports to that agency. Despite our advocacy and the City Attorneys Office calling for it as well as the airport this has not been made available to the public or to cities and counties such as ourself. Commissioners proposed decision on data confidentiality seeks to treat these as public by default as well they should be. This decision validates our views why the Public Record act mandates disclosure and cautions companies against making over broad c