Of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Preparedness,of preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for m
Amendment that was made to the Public Health Emergency League ordinance at last weeks Roll Committee meeting. The amendments that were considering to the Public Health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are Healthcare Providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for Healthcare Providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when theyre sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. To thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. And it goes without saying that Healthcare Providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. This ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if theyre sick or quarantined. We know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disagree that Healthcare Providers should be exempt. Theres been discussi
And sfgov. Org are streaming across the screen. Call 888 2045504. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the key. You will be lined up in the system that you dial 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent and notify you when youre in line and waiting. All will remain online. Everyone must account for the time delay between live coverage and streaming. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email me at victor young. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be included as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent to city hall 1, doctor carlton b. Goodlet place, San Francisco, california, 94102. That completes my announcements. Thank you so much, and can you please read item number one . An emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Thank you. Any opening comments . Thank you, cha
Welcome to the april 13, 2020 meeting. I am joined by Video Conference with vice chair supervisor stephanie and supervisor gordon mar and id like to thank sf gov tv for staffing this meeting. Any announcements . To protect members, City Employees and the public, the legislative chamber and k Committee Rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely at the same extent as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both the channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming across the screen. Call 888 2045504. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the key. You will be lined up in the system that you dial 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent and notify you when youre in line and waiting. All will remain online. Everyone must account for the time delay between live coverage and streaming. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email me at victor young. If you submit
Mayor breed good morning, e. Thank you all so much for being here. I am San Francisco mayor london breed. I am joined today by the director of the department of Public Health, doctor grant colfax, department of department of Emergency Management. Mary ellen carol, director of department of Human Services, trent rhorer, Abigail Stewart conas well as director of the department of m. T. A. , jeff tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think t