Commission meeting for tuesday august 18th. We will call this meeting to order. Will you please call the roll. Yes, commissioner bernal. [roll call] commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to raise your hand for a specific item, please press star 3. When you get on the line, you press pound twice and then star 3 if you would like to raise your hand for an item and well talk about the comments for each item. Commissioner bernal, would you like to move forward with the approval of the minutes or wait for commissioner chow . Commissioner bal
Is he dialing in now . I will call. And i apologize. No problem. Well give him 30 more seconds. Thank you to dph staff and everyone making this meeting possible by webex. Commissioner bernal thank you. Before we move onto the approval of of the minutes, i want to share with the commission, with dph staff and all those watching as members of the public, that as you know, we are under an excess i have heat advisory and there may be rolling blackouts in San Francisco, the beginning as early as now 4 00 p. M. In San Francisco with an anticipated restoration of power around 7 00 p. M. We dont know exactly when this will happen or if it will happen or what areas of San Francisco will be affected, we do know about 103,000 customers accounts will be impacted by this. I know director colfax will talk about dphs response to the heat advisory during his remarks and i want to assure the commission and members of the public the Health Department will be monitoring the heat situation and take all ap
Maybe some of these positions wont be necessary. I do not support layoffs this year. Supervisor walton, how do you feel about supervisor ronens proposal. We are hearing from supervisor yee and mandelman that they are opposed to layoffs but open to putting money in the second year on reserve. Excuse me, you are on mute. I am definitely open to putting 7 million on reserve for the second year. Again, it is hard for me at this point. Not an impossibility without knowing the officers it is an issue now. What you are hearing there is an appetite to put money the second year on reserve, not for layoffs. Chief, what you have heard now is that what we are saying is that we are thinking a substantial amount of money on reserve the second year. This committee is opposed to the layoffs. If we put reserves amount of money on the second year, colleagues, we would put it in budget and finance reserve, is that correct. Yes, that is. I think we have a proposal on the table. We are looking at superviso
Commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to raise your hand for a specific item, please press star 3. When you get on the line, you press pound twice and then star 3 if you would like to raise your hand for an item and well talk about the comments for each item. Commissioner bernal, would you like to move forward with the approval of the minutes or wait for commissioner chow . Commissioner ball do we have a quorum . We do. Is he dialing in now . I will call. And i apologize. No problem. Well give him 30 more seconds. Thank you to dph staff
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the sign institute of policy and politics summer series sign of the time. Im amy, executive director and at the sign institute we are a laboratory for University Wide collaboration and incubator for policy innovation. It can mean the best and brightest of the public, private, academic and nonprofit sectors as well as journalism and its program is only possible by a generous gift from our alumni, jeff simon and his wife meera for todays topic is the path to recovery, what is the true state of the u. S. Economy and it cannot be more timely. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our cosponsor for this event, the school of business at American University and to think the dean for his support and also thank the distinguished leaders joining us today from our board of trustees and alumni board members. It is my pleasure at this time to introduce the people who will be leading this incredible conversation. Sylvia Matthews Burwell is president of