It is friday august 14th this is the appropriations and budget meeting im sandra fure. Fewer. Thank you for sf gov tv for broadcasting. Do have an announcement. In accordance with governor newsoms executive order no. N3320 declaring a state of emergency regarding the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their board and Committee Meetings to convene remotely Via Microsoft teams and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Visit the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meetings, or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via you can call 14156550001 again 14156550001 me
Pres. Trump nice place. Ive been hearing about this one, great job. Great job. Thank you for being here. Its an honor. A very important time in our country. A lot of things are happening. I think where it all ends up, it will be very good for everybody. Its an honor to be at Gateway Church with the attorney general, william barr. [applause] and my friend ben carson, who has done a fantastic job. [applause] and a young star, jerome adams, general jerome. [applause] along with a lot of my friends out in the audience. A lot of the great political leaders from texas. Some great friends. I want to take you for being here, faith leaders, members of Law Enforcement. So important. We want law and order. We have to have law and order. [applause] we have to have strength. You have to do what you have to do. You look at seattle, we came in, just hearing about it. We were talking about it. The law and order. Look at what happened in seattle. They took over a city. A city. Big city. A big chunk of
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
In the mountain pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and if you are a member of Law Enforcement and want to give your perspective, you can cause at 202 7488002. You can post on twitter at cspan wj. Or facebook. Com cspan. Monmouth university released a recent poll taking a look at relations between police and minority communities. Here are some of the findings from that pole. It showed 87 of those polled felt that individuals of their race are more likely than whites to experience Excessive Force. 49 of white americans say police are more likely to use Excessive Force against a black culprit, and 39 of whites say police are just as likely to use Excessive Force regardless of race. That was done by monmouth university. Atre is more to the poll their website. Several communities are reaching out to dialogue with members of minority communities on the topic of policing. I will show you a couple. This from kansas city, kansas. Saying the mayor once members of the community to share their exper
Oakland including allegations of abuse of power and harassment of city staff. If any Oakland Police officer treated a member of the public the way this commission treated the chief and the command staff, they would have been reprimanded or fired. Reporter that is her lawyer and says the Police Commission and mayor orchestrated her termination as a result of her whistleblowing. The filing is an administrative claim for compensation including lost wages, future earnings, pension and Healthcare Benefits and damages for emotional distress. The city has 45 days to respond to this before the file becomes a lawsuit. We have reached out for comment to the Mayors Office and they referred us to the citys Attorneys Office, the citys Attorneys Office has no common. Back to you. Santa clara county is making good on its promise to expand access to covid19 testing. We looked into what it takes to get a test in East San Jose and we will get to the governor right now with his News Conference underway.