There. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Supervisor peskin any other members of the public for general Public Comment for todays meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and were adjourned. Thank you, chair. Please remember to remain on team. Sfgovtv and producers, getting ready for timm this meeting will come to order. And welcome to the september 25th special meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the City Employees and the public, the elective chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken to the local state and orders and directives. The members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. However, Public Comment will be available
Under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to decline that invitation. This committee and the va shared a common goal to pass the mission act in 2018 to better serve veterans and their families and we continue to Work Together to address important issues for our nations veterans. I would expect them to be here with this to share all theyve accomplished since the va was transformed with this legislation and discuss what needs to be done to make improvements. The va is an integral part of in dialog, which is why i planned a whole subsequent engagements with the va officials to discuss title 1 implementation. Id be remiss not to recognize the unprecedented challenges this have year due to the covid19 pandemic. The dedicated staff on the v as front line deserve our thanks for fulfilling the Fourth
And, commissioners, Public Comment . Clerk those of you on the Public Comment line press star, 3, to make a comment on the minutes. Star, 3. All right, no hands raised. So we can move on. President bernal upon review of the minutes, commissioners, a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Clerk i will do roll call vote. [roll call] great, the item passes. Next is the report. Im sorry . Is it okay if i call out . President bernal yes. On the minutes. Clerk okay. So the next item, number 3, the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The director of health, and i will summarize and take any additional questions. Theres a lot going on in the world of Public Health. Some good news, september 9th the Supreme Court upheld proposition c, which will free up hundreds of millions of dollars for funding for homeless services, including a significant amount that will be dedicated to the Behavioral Health services for homeless individuals. So we are looking forward to hearing more on the lega
For a 2nd and to another big factor in this election to the course the coronavirus pandemic the u. S. Has hit with same you figure is 7000000 cases 200000 deaths i think huge numbers the biggest in the world and this is how significant is the coronavirus and then it kind of bathed in this election one would have expected it to be the number one story all the time but we are living in a time of economic crisis now the replacement of the Supreme Court to go with another justice i think actually the biggest significance of this judicial appointment has to do with trying to distract the public from the underlying failure to address the cole did challenges coronavirus hooley and swiftly in a coordinated fashion. Will this make a difference when we look at the poll numbers they have been sort of frozen. A significant. Lead for joe biden and it appears no matter what the headlines are that different stays the same so i suspect what makes this particular election different is just how stable t
Starting with one big picture question of all the enterprises affected by the pandemic yours has to be one fe. The most you are about mobility and people have not been mobile. What is the main discovery will surprise you are taken from this experience. We lost 80 percent in eight weeks. That was quite surprising. But maybe even more surprising isat what happened next. People, no matter the circumstances in the midst of epidemic still have a desire to travel. Didnt want to go to crowded hotels, they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live there somewhere getting homes from airbnb there is a fundamental desire to travel and connect and see the world i dont think anything can stop it let alone a pandemic especially if veyou do it responsibly but there is a strong will to see the world it has to be done in a much narrower context. Host airbnb is a new way to do something people have done for a long time to travel and lodging. Because there is a large structure of ar