Information about social distancing, and working with trusted messengers to share that message. We have been supplying essential household needs directly to community to minimize the time they have to spend outside. As the mayor mentioned, weve been giving gift cards out to families and working with seniors so they can purchase things online using those cards. Weve been developing Distance Learning materials and distributing thousands of books, computers, and activity sheets throughout communities that have not only been hit by coronavirus, but prior to this pandemic and having this shelter in place were struggling with the achievement and opportunity gap. We are trying to work with our partners that ensure that after this is over those gaps are not wider. We have been partnering with the equity studies task force to develop strategies to allow us not only to address what is happening now but to be more intentional moving forward. Closing the Digital Divide by providing equipment for s
You are watching live coverage on cspan. Uomo good morning. Be up withasure to everyone this morning. Cleans. In corona always we are in queens. Theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. I am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. It was called that before the virus. There is no connection between corona queens and the virus. Let me introduce my colleagues. Pay foy, chairman of the mta. To my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. Garrett rhodes to my right, who is the deputy superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. The today is saturday. I know that because it is on the slide. Otherwise i may not have known that. Days based on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, been here before and that is true. But even when you are in Uncharted Waters that does not mean you proceed blindly. You want to stay informed. E
Wayne. The governor says his Administration Just started discussing the option the idea would be to make up for the time students of losses spring because of the shelter in place some fours michelle case and talk a bay area educators who say they are willing to do whatever is the best for the students. Theres been a learning loss and you can either just wrong. You know roll over and just accept that or you can do something about it so thats i think it if we can maybe start the school year low earlier that would help mind that gap a little bit close that gap a little bit at this point its just a possibility, but california governor Gavin Newsome said in his press conference on tuesday the school year may started bit earlier this summer nowhere to she comments were more like what it is. Right earlier this month, the governor also addressed with school may look like next year staggered schedules an extra cleaning obviously none of us ever could have imagined that this would be our reality
From april 7th regular meeting. Very good, Board Members. Weve been supplied with the minutes and i will ask first, is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment on our april 7th minutes . For members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv from april 7th, please call 888 8086929 and then code 9961164 and then finally 10. Mr. Moderator, yo if you would let us know if there are members of the public who wish to address the board. Operator to summon each question press 1 and then 0. It looks like no members of the public dialing in at thisman. This minute. So we will close Public Comment. Well close Public Comment on item 4 and ill entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. I heard two and would you please call the role. role call . Mr. Chair, you have a unanimous vote. Very good. On communications, well provide overview as to why were doing things this way and ill be more brief than i was last time, but due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the P
Propriations committee. And i am sandra lee fewer and im joined by supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman and by 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. Whil