Sfgovtv. Were ready to begin. President mccarthy today is wednesday, march 18, 2020. This is the regular meeting of the building inspection committee. I remind everyone to turn off Electronic Devices and the first item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy . President mccarthy here. Clerk commissioner moss . Commissioner clinch. Commissioner jacobo. Commissioner tam. Commissioner alexandertut. We have a quorum and our item is item 2. President s announcements. President mccarthy good morning, everybody. Just moving everything is moving parts here. I just wanted to have a few words to read into the comments and to my president s announcements. Im confident and dedicated i am confident that the dedicated and hardworking staff throughout the department of building inspection are aware of the response to the people of San Francisco and will continue to do their duty and uphold the public trust which theyve been doing in the last week. As you know were dealing with, you know, a Pub
Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and mr. Kirk. Mr. Clerk, do you have announcements . Clerk due to covid19, and to protect Board Members City Employees any public the board room is closed for the meeting, however, members will be par cities remot palting remotely on the authority conferred by i im logged into rules and cant hear anything, period. Im not sure i should hold up the meeting because i dont knol that they have amendments that t require my input, is there a wai to let people know . We just heard you, ann. L um. Continuing with my statement. This is taken on authority conferred by governor newsom, stay at home order and all a proceeding local state, and federal orders, declarations ans districtives. Committee members will be attending through Video Conference and participating to the same extent as if present. Public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgov. V. Org are streaming. 26 numbers up on t
Moving parts here. I just wanted to have a few words to read into the comments and to my president s announcements. Im confident and dedicated i am confident that the dedicated and hardworking staff throughout the department of building inspection are aware of the response to the people of San Francisco and will continue to do their duty and uphold the public trust which theyve been doing in the last week. As you know were dealing with, you know, a Public Health emergency in our city. And our state and country, that we have never, never had to encounter before. On behalf of the commission, i urge all d. B. I. Staff and customers to follow the instructions under Public Health officials and to do their part to prevent the spread of covid19. I applaud the department for taking steps to limit the virus spread such as increase social distancing between the customers and d. B. I. Staff, and the more frequent cleaning of commonly shared public services. Continue to Pay Attention to all of the
Because it is the only relevant statement of our agencys values and it determines how we use our very, very limited resources in order to uphold the public good. Public transportation plays a Critical Role in the unfolding of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco. I want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise, who will facilitate this meeting. Do you want to go over what were doing today. Thank you, jeff. Good morning, everybody and almost afternoon. While we cant meet inperson were grateful you are joining us today online and really appreciate that you are taking the time to provide input on our budget.
At that report that you have access to. Supervisor fewe. Chair fewer thank you, president yee. We are looking at extended answers. We had a good conversation and fo formative conversation with the chancellor of ucsf. Were wondering, im just wondering, i think this committee should know, what the extra cost for hotel rooms, e. O. C. Centers, everything weve had to deploy, if we could get a ballpark number, that would be helpful. And also, i would ask my colleagues, if were modelling whats happening in other countries. We know that countries have opened up and closed down again, and opened up again. For example, in hong kong, restaurants were open, and bars were open, and stores were open. And then, theyve had a surge, and theyve had to, again, shelter in place. So we may go through some of these transitions before we are done with this thing, and i think to have the projected cost of what we think might be for these things this year going into next year. Thank you for this presentation.