Grim milestone tonight, 15,000. We are hearing details about a san jose woman who appears to be the nations first coronavirus victim. Reporter friends tell me they cant believe it. A southbay mother and wife who has now become the nations first covid19 death. That was 12 days earlier than the previous case. Patricia dowd of san jose was 57 years old when she died february 6th. This week, a new wave of grieving as many learned their friend tested positive after her death from covid19. ; was absolutely shocked, speechless. Reporter s be steve banner worked with her at research. Her linkedin page shows she was there for 27 years. She was a wonderful friend and colleague. She was warm, engaging, friendly. She was a great teammate, both at lam research and even after work. She was one of those people you like to be around. Reporter friends tell ktvu she was a graduate of st. Francis high school in mountain view, a wonderful, caring person. She became sick in late january with flulike sympto
Present. Clerk mandelman. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin, peskin present. And supervisor preston. Preston, present. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, present. Supervisor safai. Safai present. Supervisor stefani. Stefani, present. Supervisor walton. Present. Can we confirm that it was peskin . Clerk im worried about him. Supervisor walton, walton present. Supervisor yee. Yee present. And supervisor haney, were you able to join us . Okay, haney not present. Can one of my staff check on him, please. Thank you. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. So somebody needs to cut their mike. Its sounding like theres a lot of bass clerk it sounds like supervisor peskin is trying to speak but his voice is changed for some reason. So, supervisor peskin, if you could stand by, a staff member will check on you. Sounds like a boar. indiscernible . President yee supervisor peskin you have a new voice. So, okay, thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, be you
President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 21, 2020, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call]. Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. Supervisor safai supervisor safai is present. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Board Meeting, members will participate online as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in the five following ways. First, you are welcome to submit via email at board. Of. Supervisors sfgov.
Sister communities to be doing the same kinds of work and we know that they are. We talk with them twice a week and we know that hotels are a part of the plan for all of the surrounding areas. And so, if youre experiencing unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco and youre not from here or known to our system of care, you are not going to be able to move in quickly to a hotel room in San Francisco. Thats part of the honest city thahonesty thati need to provid. Its not that we dont want to help you. It will take a tremendous amount of time and we need you to return to your Home Communities and get the resources there. So we will be placing people in our system who are known to our system who are vulnerable. To the specific question around gegeography. Are they in our system and have San Francisco roots and where are they located . This is similar and we know where people are experiencing homelessness and know where its increasing. Its increasing in the bayview, and increasing in the te
[roll call] item 2, approval of minutes for the march 10 and march 19, 2020, meeting. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor . Yea. Yea. Im sorry, we need to do a roll call. Amy, can you do a roll call . [roll call] chairman commissioner adams . Hes on another call. Hell join us later. Chairman okay. Commissioner gilman . Yea. Commissioner macros . Yea. Chairman commissioner wuho . Yea. Chairman the approval of the minutes, march 10 and march 19, 2020, minutes . So moved. Second. [audio background noise] the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, i indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. The pledge o pledge of allegiance. Chairman item 4. [the pledge of allegiance said again] [audio breaking up] okay. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent comments on each agenda item. Please note that during the Public Comment pe