Good morning. Welcome to the june 25, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Im supervisor rafael mandelman. I chair this committee. Supervisor walton has not been able to be here today. Our clerk is john carroll. I want to folks at sfgov tv for creating this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Thank you very much. In order to protect Board Members and public during the covid19 health emergency. Board of supervisors legislative chambers taken pursuant to all local, state and federal orders. Committee member will attend the meet thuing through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the Public Comment number across the screen. Comments are your opportunity to speak during Public Comment and they are available by via phone. Once connected and prompted in the meeting i. D. The i. D. Is 145 8532772. Press pound and pound again to be connected. You
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining todays briefing on covid19 in North Carolina. As of today, we have 41,24 1760 new cases reported today , a new high. 760 people in the hospital, and sadly 1092 deaths. Dying from covid19 or mourning a loved one who right now can be isolating and difficult. We are praying for all those who are suffering now. Today, our concern is growing about the increase in cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina. This is also happening in many states across the country. While our hospitals still have this can we know change quickly. So we are working with hospitals and tracking hospitalizations and icu beds closely. Today is North Carolinas highest day of new cases since the pandemic started, and it is also the highest day of testing that weve had with over 21000 tests reported. But the high number of new cases is not just related to more testing. These numbers show the disease is spreading, that more people need hospital care. This has to be take
Able to be here today. Our clerk is john carroll. I want to folks at sfgov tv for creating this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Thank you very much. In order to protect Board Members and public during the covid19 health emergency. Board of supervisors legislative chambers taken pursuant to all local, state and federal orders. Committee member will attend the meet thuing through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the Public Comment number across the screen. Comments are your opportunity to speak during Public Comment and they are available by via phone. Once connected and prompted in the meeting i. D. The i. D. Is 145 8532772. Press pound and pound again to be connected. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star and three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a q
Or residents of San Francisco have been trying to address relative to a huge amount of homelessness on our streets that has been exacerbated by the covid19 crisis. The floor, supervisor fewer, is yours. Supervisor hello . Supervisor, you are muted. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor i would like to note that director pennick is also joining us for a comment. Thank you, chair peskin, for scheduling this item. I would like to provide some background on why i introduced this legislation. While San Francisco has shown leadership and responded quickly to covid19, the city has struggled to respond to the publics needs of the atrisk population this threatens our ability to lift the shelter in place order and jeopardizes the Public Safety of everyone. And Public Health safety of everyone. And the mayor previously stated a goal of procuring 7,000 hotel rooms and the board passed legislation to acquire even more, but the city is falling short of the goals on both counts. As of this morning only 1,991
49 Lab Confirmed cases. 1760 new cases reported today and a new high, 760 people in the hospital and sadly, 1092 deaths. Dying from covid19 or morning a loved one who right now can be isolating in difficultin and we are praying for all those who are suffering now. Today, our concern is growing about the increase in cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina. This is also happening in many states across the country. While our hospitals still have capacity wean know this can chae quickly so we are working with hospitals and tracking hospitalizations and icq beds closely. Today is North Carolina highest day of new cases since the pandemic started and it is also the highest day of testing that weve had with over 21000 test reported. But the high number of new caseh is not just related to more testing. These numbers show the disease is spreading, that more people need hospital care. This has to be taken seriously. In the last week we have done an average of over 15000 tests a day and this