Can you please call the roll . [ roll call ] clerk you have a quorum. Announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Approval of the minutes from the october 6 regular meeting. Can we open up the line for Public Comment on the minutes from the october 6 meeting. You have zero questions remaining. Well pause 20 seconds. If no one comes on the line, well move along. Clerk if members of the public wish to address the board on the meeting, please dial 10 to join the queue. And the number is available on the screen, should anyone want to join. You have zero questions remaining. Then well close Public Comment. Directors, are there any additions or amendments to the minutes . If not, may i hear a motion. Motion. Is there a second . A second. Please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk 50. Item 5, communications. Due to the covid19 emergency, this meeting is being held virtually and all members of the public and staff are participating via video conference. This will
America at the point of no return. Welcome. You might know michael from his previous work he wrote 93 election. He was working the private sector at the time under a pseudonym until he was outed and then went to work for the Trump Administration and the National Security council. That work it is safe to say as an existential question and now you tell us we are at the point of no return. Ive attempted to ask at the top what do you consider to be an alarmist but i look around and see what is going on all around us right now. What is going on. What is your general assessment i would agree. The question is am i right or am i wrong. Im comforted somewhat by the fact people have come around and said i dont know or even im now completely convinced to be vindicated by that is only somewhat comforting for everything to turn out okay. So, i wrote the bulk of the book before the lockdown before for the 1619 riots, and they serve as a further indication the country is headed in a bad direction but
With the technology. Number one, were asking all videos to stay off so we dont get video bombed so that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your questions into the chat box commit to do that if youre familiar with zoom if you run your cursor across the screen you will see at the bottom of box that says chats, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type it in your questions. As you go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal, if youd be good enough to type in your questions as they happen they will come directly to me. They will not be shared with the rest of the group because we suspect there might be some trolls here who may want to bomb us with hatred and rage. We just assume not have to have all of you share that. They will come to me and thats fine, i dont mind being there psychi
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Please type your name and your question exactly as you would like it to be read. Submit before the last speaker is finished. We will read in the q a portion. Thank you for joining us. Today we have doctor grant colfax, the director of the office of economic and work force development. Cheryl davis, james executive director of collective impact. Member of the Latino Task Force and Stefani Garcia. With that i will turn it over to dr. Colfax. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us before this long weekend. I just have a brief statement to make with regard to where we are in the covid19 pandemic. It is a Public Health message that is really that we need to send across the city, across the region, across various neighborhoods and communities. This fourth of july, th the saft thing to do is stay home. In San Francisco we have had an alarming increase and significant increase in covid19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have soared. We are in