Broke both stories on Twitter Joins us from the Los Altos Center with the latest on the effort from the virus spreading there. Robert . Reporter well, as you said, the cdc has always warned that senior care facilities face a lot of risks, even if all the residents follow the rules. Now were here at that los altos site that just had its first case and are trying to be very upfront about it. The los altos subacute and Rehabilitation Center says it took precautions when the coronavirus outbreak started, but last friday, march 13th, a 75yearold man was admitted from a local hospital who came down with a fever the next day. The center then found out last night he tested positive for covid19. Neighbors familiar with the facility say it shows there is only so much you can do. Its a very nice place. Reporter are you surprised at this . Not really. I know there is going to be more cases coming up. And people in the rest homes of that age and compromised immunity, its its a place where its bound
Californias population could contract coronavirus over an eightweek period and were talking about more than 25 million californians. Hes basically saying thats if we dont change our ways its not clear what kind of matthews using but its a sobering projection of the governors stressing californias need for help in the pandemic he is making a plea to President Trump his proposing a floating hospital ship that might be brought in to help. But those are all things that hes expected to talk about when his News Conference gets under way when it does we will go to that and make sure you hear about it tonight the Us State Department is warning americans not to travel abroad. Its issued the strictest possible travel advisory level for this is warning people to avoid all International Travel because of the coronavirus pandemic as for americans already outside the country. Basically theyre being told to get home immediately or stay there be prepared to stay abroad for an indefinite period of time
Imperative upon to understand these people that have done these jobs many, many years, actually granting them some expertise that could be a qualifying factor to retaining these jobs. I would love to see a recent analysis, also, about those people in temporary and exempt positions by race and wage levels. Because when we took a good preliminary look at this, we saw that many people in management positions that were exempt were actually white individuals, while we see in the temporary positions, very lower positions that were paid much, much less, they were primarily people of color and African Americans and latino. So i think were in agreement, mr. Ponder, that that is absolutely not acceptable. And i would just want to say that i would suggest to you and also to miss ng from the Civil Service commission, that we are putting people into training positions, that we should be also allocating a pathway to permanent Civil Service. That anyone that comes into a training position, that they
Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your under
Haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervisor sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions and the impact it has on our Civil Service industry. I realize that discussions have been ongoing between the department of Public Health and local 21 regarding a process of conversion for these positions since the last hearing that we ca