Submit Public Comment, email me at victor. Young sfgov. Org. If you submit via email, it will be included in the file as part of the matter. Comments may be sent to city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california. That completes my comments. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk. Can you please read item number one . Item number one is an emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide Public Health emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Thank you so much. This is supervisor mars item. Would you like to introduce the item, supervisor mar . Yes. Thank you so much, chair ronen, for allowing us to hear this item today. An emergency ordinance before us is in response to a true emergency. The lack of sufficient paid leave for workers to follow our Public Health order to weather this crisis. While there is no Silver Bullet to our health and humanitarian emergency, this measure will give an additio
San francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is april 14, 2020. Madam secretary, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk madam president , we have a quorum. Thank you. Before we begin today, i would like to make an announcement. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the restriction on teleconference. This meeting is being held with the members and staff participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the commission, sfpuc staff, and members of the public. While this Technology Allows us to hold this meeting via teleconference, there may be some gaps as staff is moving between speakers. Thank you for your understanding, and we ask for your patience. So to say, this is our maiden voyage. We ask the public to participate remotely by writing the commission or leaving a voice message. Going forward, we will continue to urge th
Clerk madam president , we have a quorum. Thank you. Before we begin today, i would like to make an announcement. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the restriction on teleconference. This meeting is being held with the members and staff participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the commission, sfpuc staff, and members of the public. While this Technology Allows us to hold this meeting via teleconference, there may be some gaps as staff is moving between speakers. Thank you for your understanding, and we ask for your patience. So to say, this is our maiden voyage. We ask the public to participate remotely by writing the commission or leaving a voice message. Going forward, we will continue to urge the public to write to the commission at commission thats a capital c at sfwater. Org. Again, thats commission sfwater. Org.
2027488001. And if youre a medical professional, call 2027488002. Good friday evening. Well begin, as we always do, was with the numbers. Curment of johns hob kinls university. 2. 2 million cases across the globe and more than 153,000 depths as a result of covid19. In the United States, 692,000 confirmed cases and nearly 7,000 deaths in the u. S. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen, the former president of planned parenthood the city commissioner from baltimore. Shes the author of a book and the visiting professor of Health Policy and management at George Washington university. Dr. Wen, thank you for being with us on cspan. Guest of course. Happen happy to join you and thank you for the invitation. Host there are reporters that in the city youre in, in philadelphia, in chicago and washington, d. C. , we have not reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont k
Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards