The meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. This is the april 22, 2020 regular budget and finance committee meeting. At this time, i will also be calling the Appropriations Committee. I am joined by supervisor [inaudible] broadcasting this meeting. Motion to for todays budget and appropriation committee. Thank you. Can i have a second please . Roll call vote, please, madame clerk. The motion . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. There are five. Supervisor fewer thank you. Welcome. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Care Emergency and to protect members of the public, the board of supervisors and chamber room are closed. However, members will be participating as if theyre physically present. All the comments will Public Comment will be available. Streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. By calling 888 2045984. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial 1 and
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Conversation. I wanted to start with our former surgeon general. If you could just tell us from your perspective how you think we are doing here in the United States and what you think we should be doing differently. Thank you, chelsea. Its wonderful to be here with all of you. Reflect on what an extraordinary moment it has been. Is, most of us have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes in the world has not seen this in perhaps a century or more. So it is something we will remember for the rest of our let me start with the good some of the measures we have been taken are actually starting to work. Were seeing a flattening of the curve and a reduction in new hardestd some of the hit areas of the country. We are also seeing interesting things happen in technology acceleration, for example in telehealth, which is being more rapidly adopted. There is the bad news as well. Unlike perhaps what we saw in china where there was closer to a single peak and then i drop going toUni
The director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax. The director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. The director of the department of Human Services trent rhorer. The director of the department of homelessness and housing, abigail stewartkhan and our police chief bill scott. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start by providing the most updated numbers currently. We have 1,058 cases here in San Francisco of those diagnosed with the coronavirus. And sadly, we have 20 people who died from this illness. And for more information, please visit data sf. Org covid19 for our full tracker and more information that you may be interested in reviewing. Today i just wanted to talk about the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. This weekend marks the 106th anniversary of the earthquake. When we all can look back on our history and remember during that time, not only did the earthquake hit and it really physically destroyed buildings and many
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