Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy
Any other supervisors that have joined us in. This is supervisor aaron pesk nix. Peskin. As supervisors join us, we will be introducing them for the meeting. And madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, madam chair, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting. As if they were physically present. Comment will be available under the anticipated. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 888 2045984, access code 3501008, is then press pound and press pound again. When youre connected, dial 10 to be added to the cue to speak. Submit Public Comment by emailing me at lind lindawong sfgov. Org. If you submit it via email, it will be included in the file as a part of the matter. Comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service to city h
Good morning, everyone. The meeting with come to orthopedic. This is is the april 29, 2020, regular budget and finance committee. At this time, i will be calling the Budget Committee. Im chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor raphael mandelman. inaudible . Welcome, president yee. I would like to thank sf gov tv and if other supervisors have joined us, supervisors, if i have not mentioned your name, please introduce yourself. This is catherine stephanie. Welcome. Thank you. Any other supervisors that have joined us in. This is supervisor aaron pesk nix. Peskin. As supervisors join us, we will be introducing them for the meeting. And madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, madam chair, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting. As if they were physically present. Comment will be available under the antici
Reporter first question is from jamie harp, associated press. To date, how many people experiencing homelessness have tested positive for covid19 . Thank you for that question. Im only aware of individuals who have tested positive at sites in the homelessness response system. Its a large system of care where people experiencing homelessness touch many different aspects. In the homeless responses to date, there are only three who have tested positive for covid. Those are the individuals that i discussed earlier. Reporter a followup to that where are they now . Those three individuals are in Good Condition and are either receiving medical care or at an isolation quarantine site operated by Human Services agency and staffed by the department of Public Health. Reporter thank you. Question from john king of the San Francisco chronicle. What is the status of the Vehicle Triage Center on geneva . Right. For those who are unfamiliar, we have a Pilot Project that allows people who live in their
All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im london breed, im mayor of San Francisco. And today we are joined by the department of Emergency Management, director carol as well as the department of Public Health director, dr. Grant coal fashion. Colfax. We are joined by police chief scott as well as our sheriff and the director of homelessness and housing services, abigail kahn. Today we want to provide a few updates of where we are and and some very serious challenges that we face. So far as of today, we have confirmed 797 cases and sadly 13 people have lost their lives due to the virus. The covid19 virus. And we had said all along that this would be very challenging, and in fact, in the past week or so, dr. Colfax and i continued to make it clear that it is of course important to stay at home as much as possible. Because the fact is the worst is yet to come. And today, unfortunately, we have a situation that we knew could potentially happen in one of our congregate living settings. An outb