The county. Face coverings are required at all times and may only be removed when people are actually eating or drinking. These allowances were made despite the fact the county is as michelle just mentioned on the states watch list because local case rates are higher than 100 per 100,000 people per day. The new rules go into effect today. Places of worship can only hold outdoor services. Indoor malls are also required to close. Back to the oakland zoo reopening, only for Outdoor Activities like rides, indoor exhibits not open to the public. It has been closed since march when regional shelter in place orders went into effect. They will limit attendance at the start of reopening to 2500 people per day. You have to get a ticket ahead of time. Officials say it costs 1 million a month during the pandemic to manage the zoo which has been a grave difficulty for them to pay all of that without having any money come in. Alameda county said the rest of its reopening plans are on hold. Michelle
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
I want to thank you all. I want to step thank staff and partners for taking me seriously. Madame clerk can take the roll call please. [roll call] there are 11 eye. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please go to our first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please read items 24 through 47. Twentyfour through 27 continued from march 24th and june 23rd, 2020 comprise a public hearings of persons and certification of conditional use authorization issued by the Planning Commission to demolish a threestory singlefamily residence and construct a fourstory mix used building with three dwelling units at approximately 1,731 square feet of ground floor commercial within the neighborhood. Item 25 is the motion to approve the decision and approve the conditional use authorization for the project. Item 26 is the motion to conditionally disapprove the departments decision subject to the adoption of written findings by the board in support of the determination. Item 27 is
Clerk mr. President , all members are present. Before we move into the meeting, i would ask that all participants please turnoff your camera. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during the pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the board meeti meeting through online conference as though present inperson in the chambers. We will receive your written correspondence and make it part of the file if you send it by u. S. Mail. Our address is San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall room 244. San francisco, california, 94102. If youre sending by email, send to board. Of. Supervisors sfgov.
We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid