Convening the closed session. [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum, and so the board will now go into the closed session. So your instructions are to hang up on this call, essentially, click the red button, and then go into the calendar, the closed session, and then separate log into that meeting. Clerk yes, mr. Chair. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions on that . Roberta, you may need to change the outlook invitation so that we can start the meeting early. Its not scheduled until 4 30. Clerk okay. Very good. Okay. So look for that, folks, and please log in within, lets say, the next five minutes. So to the members of the public watching, thank you for accommodating this unique format and showing the resilient city that we are. All right. Thank you. Well move into closed session. Good afternoon, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed. Im joined today by the director of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, as well as the director of the department of Emergency M
Supervisor ronen and president yee is with us today. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for this meeting. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect members, and the public, the board of supervisors and the chamber and the Committee Room are closed and so all members will be participating in the meeting remotely. indiscernible and the comments will be available for each item on this agenda. At sfgov. Sorry, sfgov. Tv org, and the number is across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And the comments to speak during the Comment Period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984 and, again, 888 8882045984, access code, 350018. And press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1, and then 0, to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lunch lined up in the order that you dialed 1 and 0. While waiting the system will be silent and the system will notify when you are in line and waiting. All callers remain o
People. There are 17 people who died as a result of this virus as of today. As a reminder, you can visit data sf. Org for the full tracker with information on what who has been diagnosed, the number of tests and other resources that are available or any questions you may have. And i want to just start today by reminding us really how far weve come from the very beginning. Weve made it our mission to slow the spread of this virus, to help those vulnerable populations, to keep people safe and were continuing to do all we can to do just that. Were still dealing with the number of cases in San Francisco and we also know that there will continue to be challenges and we will continue to see increases in the number of cases of the coronavirus as we continue to do testing. You know, it may seem like this will never end, but it will come to an end. And i want to be clear that although you may hear about San Francisco and how well were doing, that we are flattening the curve, now is definitely n
Documentaries online, studentam. Org. Next the World Health Organization holds a briefing on the coronavirus outbreak. We heard about social distancing, how closing schools and canceling sporting events can slow the spread of the virus. This runs one hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you very much for watching a regular press conference whether you watch it on the Youtube Channel or you are watching, today we have the director general and doctor molinaro the chief of supportive logistics and doctor mike on the phone to answer some questions. Two small announcements. The Business Continuity plan has been activated in order to deal with Public Health guidance as well as to deliver on its mandate, they are performing functions through teleworking arrangements. This functions can only be performed on site with access to this campus. There will be no immediate presence on the compass to date. It will continue to provide normal services. Our regular briefings will be Virtual Press c
Weekly caucus meetings. Republicans are meeting with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin this afternoon about the coronavirus response. We expect to hear Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell address reporters at 2 p. M. Eastern. The senate will gavel back in at 2 15 eastern and, of course, well have live coverage here on cspan2. Up next, a conversation on the coronavirus pan dem sick and public trust in pandemic and public trust in government. We hear from this forum hosted by the Atlantic Council. Good morning. This is fred kemp from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning into this timely, unfortunately timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the coronavirus epidemic. First of all, i want to thank ours. Speakers who are here tody and everyone whos joined us online whos being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause, and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period