Off from her restaurant job. It helps with groceries. It is pretty great. To make it as a drive through distribution center. Workers from the nonprofit connects young to Community Load up cars and suvs with food boxes containing fresh fruits and vegetables, chicken, eggs, and milk. They also give out face coverings to people who dont have them. You can make a lot of healthy meals for from what you get here. It is one example of the unprecedented need for food during the pandemic. In february we were serving about 270,000 individuals. Now we are over 500,000. She says e demand doubled in just a few weeks and is not slowing down. We went inside the Second Harvest food bank where it literally takes an army to package all the food boxes which will be sent to hungry people throughout santa clara and san mateo counties. This group is from the 129th rescue wing of the California Air national guard. The guard stepped up when shelter in place nearly wiped out the food bank volunteers. We lost a
Education and the jobs. Thank you all very much. I hope you have a nice weekend. March 13th live to the effect the coronavirus is having on Nursing Homes. Live coverage here on cspan3. We join it in progress. Said, under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients needs pap clear directive. Unfortunately on march 24th Governor Cuomos Health Department issued this directive in contradiction to the cms dai take covid19 patients. New jersey essentially copied the same directive from norcal order with similar deadly results. Two weeks earlier Governor Desantis in florida prohibited transfers kv s covid19 patient were positive to Nursing Homes. Very different orders resulting in very different results. And pennsylvania, continued to accept new admissions and readmissions including patients covid19 positive. While defending this decision even Pennsylvanias Health secretary moved her mother out of a nursing home.
Away restriction there, so they are not able to load even today because its tow away. Other times of day what were looking to do is now that we have fulltime parking on the other side of the street, were going to look at relocating loading spaces to the other side of the street or as close as possible. Part of the process will be working with merchants to identify loading needs. We have done our best job to identify relocated spaces for now, but we are going to be looking at merchant by merchant by merchant is this meeting your needs, and we rapidly get out there and find an alternative solution if we need it, including potentially even this might open the opportunity for Outdoor Dining and other things that wouldnt have been possible before because of the tow away restrictions. [indiscernible] Market Street was we looked at all of the cross streets and rearranged most of the parking for the first half block of the cross streets to make sure that there was adequate loading Space Availa
Commissioners. Does anyone have an amendment, or moagdz to approve. So moved for approval. Second. President bernal i will do a roll call vote. President bernal yes. Vice president green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. Thank you. Item 3 is general Public Comment and id like to just put this information back on the scroon be r screen, the callin number is. 4084189388. Access code 1465666224. Once you dial, you press the pound twice and to actually get in line to make Public Comment, you then press tries tries 3. Araceli, are there any people with their hands raise forward general Public Comment . There arent any. Okay. Great. Commissioners, lets just wait a few more seconds to make sure no one comes in, and we can possibly move to item 4. Item 4. The annual request to the Health Commission meeting ar approval of potential chapter 21. 42 sole waiver usage in fiscal year 2021. This item was brought at the june 16 meet and the item was deferred because the r we had issu
Meeting. Very good, Board Members. Weve been supplied with the minutes and i will ask first, is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on our april 7th minutes . For members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv from april 7th, please call 888 8086929 and then code 9961164 and then finally 10. Mr. Moderator, yo if you would let us know if there are members of the public who wish to address the board. Operator to summon each question press 1 and then 0. It looks like no members of the public dialing in at thisman. This minute. So we will close Public Comment. Well close Public Comment on item 4 and ill entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. I heard two and would you please call the role. role call . Mr. Chair, you have a unanimous vote. Very good. On communications, well provide overview as to why were doing things this way and ill be more brief than i was last time, but due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommenda