[roll call]. Directors, thats seven ayes and item 14 is approved. At this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. We have not yet received any indication that a member of the public wishes to address you on the items listed. However, they have an opportunity to do so now by pressing star 3 if they have already dialed in. Since there is a slight delay between our speaking and sf gov tvs live streaming, we will go ahead about wait about ten seconds or so, giving folks an opportunity to indicate whether they would like to speak on the items for discussion in closed session. All right, it does not appear that any member ts of the public wish to address you on any of the items in closed session. There are a couple of members from staff and the team, so whats going to happen now is the i. T. Function is going to take effect to change your viewing ability, basically exiting the room, if you will, so that the board can get into closed session. I will as well be doing so. So well get
To account for over half of cases. And i just want to emphasize that we are strategically evaluating our efforts specifically in the Latino Community. Im happy to come back to the commission to report back on those efforts. Weve done a lot, and its clear that we need to continue to do more. This inequity has been with us since the beginning of the pandemic. We are focusing more testing and more testing resources and working more with the Latino Community providing lowbarrier testing. Our Contact Tracing and Case Investigation teams have expanded dramatically, and including providing culturally appropriate services and also providing Wraparound Services in Broader Health care needs and Behavioral Health needs, and youll be happy to know that we continue to offer isolation and quarantine options for people who are not able to safely quarantine at home. But theres certainly more to invest there, and im happy to return to the commission to report specifically on our efforts in the Latino C
Great. Well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the Public Health commission. Welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you im chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernals his 50th birthday, and i cant imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. However, hes decided to do so, and so im sure youll join me in wishing him the very best for his birthday. So i guess the next agenda item is the minutes. Yes. Thank you, commissioner. Item 2 is the approval of the minutes of august 18, 2020, and i can check to see if anyone thats in Public Comment, please press star, three to raise your hands. I have a change to the minutes. The minutes show me as present, and i dont believe i was present at that meeting. Thank you. Commissioner, and i apologize for that mistake. That was me. And there was actually somebody with their hand raised, so im going to let me get my tim
[roll call] great. Well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the Public Health commission. Welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you im chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernals his 50th birthday, and i cant imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. However, hes decided to do so, and so im sure youll join me in wishing him the very best for his birthday. So i guess the next agenda item is the minutes. Yes. Thank you, commissioner. Item 2 is the approval of the minutes of august 18, 2020, and i can check to see if anyone thats in Public Comment, please press star, three to raise your hands. I have a change to the minutes. The minutes show me as present, and i dont believe i was present at that meeting. Thank you. Commissioner, and i apologize for that mistake. That was me. And there was actually somebody with their hand raised, so im going to let m
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach