I also want to thank john c. Who is troubleshooting our online meetings and ellen mccue from the board staff who are assisting with the Public Comment line. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. During the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members will participate through the Video Conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Regarding the publics participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting Public Comment, there are three public hearings on todays agenda. Two of which are expected to be continued. Item 10, the public hearing on Law Enforcement staffing and items 11 through 14, the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review. Both items are expected to be continued to the near term. The public hearing that is expected to [inaudible]. Please utilize this information. We will also display it once those items are called. And please feel free to submit your written comme
Deputy City Attorney lisa powell, sophia kitler in mayor breeds office, and my legislative aide, edward wright. Colleagues, im open to my questions that you have, and i urge your support for this emergency ordinance today. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, mr. President. I just want to say a true great deal of gratitude for supervisor mars leadership on this issue. We did a similar thing on the city side all in the vein of ensuring that city workers would have access to the appropriate amount of leave during this time of crisis. Supervisor mar, i want to thank you for your leadership on taking this to the private sector and thinking about and including those Health Care Workers and other frond line essential workers that have been left out of the conversation. Were in a big fight right now with the large Property Owners in the city and county of San Francisco as pertaining to janitors, frontline workers, and theres all kinds of attempts
People who are frontline workers in a very difficult situation, are very low paid, are mostly people of color. I used to call them and i still consider them the heart and soul of opeiu. These are people, a lot of them who have formerly been homeless and worked themselves up. And then read the paper and see what was in msc south, which was horrible and disgusting. And they had to shut that down. They all want to be tested. And each of them who are working today deserves an incentive pay. I cant urge you enough to make this a consideration, frontline workers are frontline workers and these people need the frontline workers support as much if not more than the rest of the workers. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Hello, speaker. Hi. Im cochair of the Housing Providers network and codirector at fish, the Supportive Housing. Thank you for hearing this item. And to you and the controller and the budget direct
And over the longterm with our testing strategies. It is also crucial to continue to do everything we can to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. That includes staying at home, social distancing covering your face around other people and frequent handwashing. It is also important that we continue to ensure that the Healthcare System is on high alert and prepared to handle a surge of cases and to be able to treat everyone safely. And it is critical that we do all of this work with an eye towards equity. The Health Department is commit to the health and wellbeing of all people in San Francisco and to do everything we can to support the health and full recovery of all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. Thank you. Is and now police chief bill scott who has been incredible partner to this pandemic will make a few weeks. Remarks. Thank you and good afternoon. Im bill scott, chief of police of the San Francisco Police Department and i would like to start o
Quarantine rooms are not able to do it in their current living situations, that they are offered hotel rooms. Question the numbers for laguna honda have not risen for some time. Is it safe to say that laguna honda is out of the woods . Answer i would not say that. I thought this was good news that we havent had a detective error for some time. But this is the largest if not one of the largest nursing facilities in the United States with over 750 residents. We have staff there working to take the best care of our San Francisco residents who need the best care. We are being vigilant and have extra staff to assist us. We are ting we can and hope not only hope, but taking the actions necessary to slow the spread of covid19 in laguna honda as in elsewhere. I dont think we can say conclusively that we are out of the woods. Question have any of the residents been moved out facility . Answer of those diagnosed with covid19, there are several residents that have been moved out. Im pleased to sa