Clerk okay, mr. President , you do have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee welcome, supervisor safai. Lets see. Where are we . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. President yee go ahead. Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during covid19, members of the board of supervisors participate in the same extent as if they were in the chambers. The board of supervisors believe that all communities with or without the internet have the following available options to participate in this meeting. We will receive your correspondence and make it part of the legislative file. Address the mail to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, room 244, Sa
Quorum. thank you. Before i ask the clerk to make a motion. I ask for a motion to excuse the absence. Can i get a second. second. accelerate we do that without objection . i believe so. No vote required. without objection. Commissioner is excused. Do you have any announcements . yes, i do, chair. Public comment maybe available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987. Follow the system prompts. When you wish to speak on an item dial one zero to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order which received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. thank you madam, clerk. This month, i want to start by congratulating director of our Capital Projects. His project and partners at the Treasure Island development authority. Cal trans, the Bay Area Toll Authority and the United States coast guard for the south gate road realignment
Rates of transmission we all have to Pay Attention in order to get it under control. Reporter all nine counties in the bay area are on the monitoring list. San mateo was added on wednesday exceeding the metrics of less than 100 cases per 100,000 people. If it stays there for three consecutive days, indoor operations at hair salons and the gyms would be forced to shut down. This is something that nobody aspires to. Being on this list if we are on this list forever it could potentially cripple our economy. Reporter supervisors believe that the state needs to find a balance between shutting everything down and opening without restriction. He said his county has got to this point. Next week is proposing an ordinance to allow county staff to issue administrative fines to people and businesses whose skirt mask orders. Some people are taking the virus seriously. And if they want take it seriously enough then we will have to take these actions. Reporter of san mateo remains on the watchlist th
No word yet on the cause. And its a very s ofea. Bunojust om ngnto the bay area. Including one thats burned 11,000acres. The mineral fire erupted monday in Fresno County near highway 198 in colinga. The wind whipped flames exploding to 11,000acres with 5 containment. Smoke from this fire is collecting now over the east bay. And in san bonito county the socalled coyote fire has grown to over 200acres in just a matter of hours. Chief meteorologist paul hagan tracking those conditions for us, paul . Yeah, you can see the haze out there right now as we look out from mount hamilton. It almost looks like high cirrus clouds overhead. Fortunately, the fire crews are able to get a handle on that martinez fve testimony scenic fire. And the fire danger really wasnt that high today. Not by our standards this time of the year. We ranked that on our fire danger index. And these are the values we have out there this evening. This is a scale from 0 to 10. Its very simple. We want to be as close to zer
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou