Chair fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will and to order. This is the october 28, 2020, regular budget and finance Committee Meeting. Im sandra lee few are, the chair of the committee, and im joined by the members, supervisor walton and mandelman. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency, the City Employees and the public and the board of supervisors and the legislativ legistate meetins closed. And precaution is taken to the local, state and federal orders, and declarations and directives. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. Public comments are available on each item on channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org or streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during a Public Comment period
Well get to that, friend. Lots of rit . Ye let me take video of this. He could kill me. But let me take video. That is the question. Cant wait to talk about that. What are you doing . Hi, everybody. Lets jump right into weather because im hogging the spotlight there. I apologize. Its tuesday. Yesterday we put everything on hold. We look forward to tomorrow, thursday and friday. Starting at 5 00 tomorrow through 11 00 friday, we have a fire weather watch and this will be upgraded to a red flag warning later on today. S going on outside. Pretty clear out there. You can see it from sutro tower. 64 degrees and well see how it unfolds. 60s this morning and 60s to nea rd low on the way. Well talk about that coming up todays californias health and human secretary will give us an update on the states pandemic. Dr. Ghaly said recently opened schools have not added to increases. Well bring that to you live on the abc7 the state is expected to move from the red tier to the less restrictive orange
United states over the past two weeks. Until we understand the magnitude and the potential duration of increases, it makes sense for us to pause, to make sure we are mitigating the virus, so we can continue to move forward and not backwards. We remain in relatively good shape compared to other major cities. We still continue to have lower infection rates compared to places like new york, philadelph philadelphia, denver, and los angeles. We continue to have the lowest death rate among major cities and the highest testing rate, as the mayor said, currently testing over 5,000 people a day. I am confident that working together we will again beat back the virus, as we have done two times before. But i wouldnt be me unless i reminded you, keep wearing those masks, so important, saving lives by wearing those masks, continue to physically distance, wash your hands, avoid large groups. The holidays are upon us and now is not the time to throw caution to the wind. Lets be here next year when, ho
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