The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Im supervisor mandelman. I chair this committee. Joined by supervisor stefani and supervisor walton. I want to thank the great folks at sfgovtv for staffing this. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you very much. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the legislative Committee Room is closed. This is taken pursuant to local state, federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meetings as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. The number is being streamed across the screen. Public comment is available by phone, by calling 408 4189 8 408 4189388. Once connected and prompted, todays i. D. Is 146789102. Press pound and then a second time. When connected, youll he
Back summary openings. A lot going on in the states and around the country as the numbers continue to spike. A question for you has the pandemic impacted your behavior and if so, how . 30,ou are under 2027488000 . 50,een 30 and 2027488001 . Age,u are over 50 years of 2027488002 . You can also send us a text message at 2027488003 or facebook andt at twitter. We begin with this piece that marks the difference between these latest couple of weeks. Surge is not the same as new yorks crisis. The virus that ravaged northeastern u. S. Cities is surging through western states. It is different this time. Younger people are getting sick with covid19. States that have brief lockdown are encouraging social distancing and mask wearing. Many have embraced the usual summer rituals. Health officials are sounding the alarm of outbreaks going through house parties. Some took the end of stayathome orders as permission to live their lives unimpeded. Old, bentez, 30 years the night at a nightclub sharing d
Reporter the covid19 pandemic is causing delays in the courts. They wanted to make sure the victims and their families saw the Golden State Killer brought to justice. Many of them are in their 80s and 90s. Many of these people deeply affected by these crimes may not be with us at the time of jury trial. Reporter people packed into a ballroom at sac state university. Executors provided shocking new details. The defendant for sherry on the worst stomach in bed and tied her wrists together. Reporter he was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences and 15 concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole. The scope of his crimes are staggering. Reporter the killer and rapist was a ray pruitt also known as the visalia ransack her the original night stalker and east area rapist. He targeted victims up and down the state including and co. Contra costa, alameda, and santa clara counties. Is time he escaped. Living communities terrified. Reporter investigators got a stunning break in
Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of the meetings and the transcripts are available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. During the covid19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the meeting to the extent they are present in their public legislative chamber. The board understands the need for Public Access is more acute during this covid19 pandemic, and the board believes its essential to have the public participate in this meeting. I will just reiterate some of the opportunities that members of the public have. We are able to receive your written correspondence and make it part of our file. Our address is San Francisco board of supervisors city hall, room 244, San Fra
Thank you for the privilege of your time and the opportunity to update you on our response to covid19, where we are as a state, and where we are going. I thought it would begin by trying to contextualize a little bit about the last number of months. As you may recall, california was the first state in the nation to formally engage with the cdc, the Trump Administration and others. S in relationship to this pandemic. We engage formally by allowing the repatriation of flights from overseas primarily from Mainland China to come into the state of california. This was a conversation that occurred in late january and the early part of february. Those relationships were formalized through a series of agreements that allowed for that repatriation. Covid19, this pandemic, the coronavirus was on our radar screen for many weeks before it became a framework of reference for the nation. As wellhe opportunity to develop further relationships not only with the federal government and partnership with