Hygiene. Thank you for coming. I hope everybody has disinfectant that they can use. We spaced out the room to be as safe as possible to my staff and minority staff, thank you for working together. We are back, we spent 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet. The committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we have other things for the good of the nationlike filling judicial vacancies or getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states it will be as prompt as we possibly can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings on the effect of the virus in Detention Centers for immigration purposes and we will try to Work Together to have those hearings. Im curious myself about safely in the nations prison. Next week we will hear about liability issues related to the virus. What can we do as a congress to safely open up and minimize legal exposure for those to reopen the ame
Just wasnt enough and this time around most of the funding will go toward the popular Paycheck Protection Program that ran out of money earlier this month. Its intended to help Small Businesses stay afloat during this pandemic and want to break down where all this money is going exactly take a look. So in all this stimulus package will cost about billion. An additional 310 billion of that money will be added to the Paycheck Protection Program. The bill also dedicate 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion will go to more testing that comes at a time when all levels of government are recognizing that we need more tests before lockdowns can be lifted. And we returned to normal house leaders approved the bill this afternoon with overwhelming bipartisan support including our own representative maxine waters, the dedicated her vote. Her sister. She said is dying from complications with the coronavirus. Im not only rise in support of this legislation this the enhancement act. I also would li
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Colleagues from the city are online today, john fitzky and john francis and the manager of our section at oewd. Well ask for a motion to accept the sud, addresses the number of technical corrections that the City Attorney discovered to help clean up at this time. So on to the presentation. You see the site today and thank you to both supervisors walton and peskin for those introductions. I want to set a little bit of context from a planning perspective, too. And some of you may have seen this slide before. Its the framework at oewd established, the southern bayfront framework with an organizing strategy to help keep track of this suite of projects that the city has processed over the past couple of years and the waterfront, obviously, together, representing an incredible amounamount of space for jobs ad Housing Units and we tried to coordinate an approach that makes the Public Benefits commensurate and the District Needs as a whole. And then moving to the context of this area of this c