All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im london breed, im mayor of San Francisco. And today we are joined by the department of Emergency Management, director carol as well as the department of Public Health director, dr. Grant coal fashion. Colfax. We are joined by police chief scott as well as our sheriff and the director of homelessness and housing services, abigail kahn. Today we want to provide a few updates of where we are and and some very serious challenges that we face. So far as of today, we have confirmed 797 cases and sadly 13 people have lost their lives due to the virus. The covid19 virus. And we had said all along that this would be very challenging, and in fact, in the past week or so, dr. Colfax and i continued to make it clear that it is of course important to stay at home as much as possible. Because the fact is the worst is yet to come. And today, unfortunately, we have a situation that we knew could potentially happen in one of our congregate living settings. An outb
Madam clerk,co, could you ple call the role. To role call . You have a co quorum. Any announcment . Due to the covid19 and to protect bored members, the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item and both channel 26 an26 and each person will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can all 888 2045984. Access code 3501008. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected dial 1 and then 0 to speak. Youll be lined up in the order you dial 1 and 0. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open and best practises to call are from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television and radio. You may submit Public Comment. Oif you submit comment via elizabeth mayelizabethemailit w. Thank you, and lets be clear, that is e
Quarantine rooms are not able to do it in their current living situations, that they are offered hotel rooms. Question the numbers for laguna honda have not risen for some time. Is it safe to say that laguna honda is out of the woods . Answer i would not say that. I thought this was good news that we havent had a detective error for some time. But this is the largest if not one of the largest nursing facilities in the United States with over 750 residents. We have staff there working to take the best care of our San Francisco residents who need the best care. We are being vigilant and have extra staff to assist us. We are ting we can and hope not only hope, but taking the actions necessary to slow the spread of covid19 in laguna honda as in elsewhere. I dont think we can say conclusively that we are out of the woods. Question have any of the residents been moved out facility . Answer of those diagnosed with covid19, there are several residents that have been moved out. Im pleased to sa
And i say that to the mta as somebody who absolutely believes that the agency was chronically underfunded for many years when it was treated solely as a general fund department. Transportation, both on the operating and capital side, was in the puc days when muni was a puc property, always fell to the bottom of the list. And there have been a number of things that have happened, prop e in 1999, the Charter Amendment that i did in 2007 that brought a significant amounts of fee and fine revenue that used to go into the general fund was diverted to the mta and most recently what the entire board of supervisors put on the ballot and passed proposition d, the tnc tax that is a new source of revenue. And i look at those things, and i realize that fair box recovery is important. And i agree that people who are more affluent should pay for it, and we all know that, and just your slide 7 showed that in almost all of those categories, people of color and lowincome individuals were very large pro
A limited capacity, so as a result, were asking members of the public calling in through the 800 public line is to call in once essentially. Call in and follow the hearing. Every time someone calls in, hangs up, and calls back counts against the city. In the event that our at t bridge fails, we may be forced to recess and call back in. However, this should not take too long, about five minutes at the moment, okay . So just, again, i do apologize in advance for the clumsy nature of this remote hearing, but this being the third time my staff at least is working through the hearing process, im beginning to feel much more comfortable. Commissioners, at this time, id like to take roll. [roll call] clerk thank you, commissioners. I will remind not just the commissioners but staff and anyone on the teams live event, if youre not speaking, mute your camera. This will allow a much more efficient meeting to be run, and our producer to see all the cameras necessary. Commissioners, first on your a