Im julie haener working from home tonight. It has course is announcing new efforts to combat the virus as the number of cases across the country continues to rise. There are now more than 3600 cases here in the bay area. Santa clara county has the most with more than 1200 cases. California as a whole has 15,000 cases. Thats about 1000 more than yesterday and 349 people have died statewide. In the United States there are now more than 337,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. The death toll is expected to jump this week. Today the president also announced new measures to try to fight the coronavirus. Reporter the federal government implementing new measures to help bolster the countrys fight against the coronavirus outbreak as the number of covid19 cases in the u. S. Continues to climb. This is an allout military operation that weve waged. President trump in the Coronavirus Task was delivering an update on the white house, outlining some of the new steps are being taken this week includin
Unemployment benefits last week. That is double the previous weeks record of 3. 3 million. Ringing the total to almost 10 million. Here in california 878,000 people filed first time and implement claims last week compared to 186,000 the week before. California has twice as many claims as any other state. Relief is now available for Small Businesses in california affected by the outbreak. Governor newsom today announced a relief package that extends the sales tax deadline for Small Businesses to july 1. Businesses with less than 5 million in taxable sales will be able to defer payment of up to 30,000 for one year without a fine or penalty. In essence it is a bridge loan. The money youve already collected, you will not have to pay the state for 12 months, no penalties or interest, de facto, alone. Governor newsom also announced a new job search website called on rca. Org. It will assist people that are laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic find employment and other resources. Today th
Taking on this particular contract, but this is just a way for us to view these things. In so far as this is ongoing service, and we Fund Services for periods of time, generally a fiscal year, and the service is not provided to the full extent in one fiscal year. Yes, it pushes it out. But it means that there is a cost savings in that particular fiscal year when the service is not provided. Right . Yes. Youred noing your head. Youre nodding your head. I see you nodding your head. Sorry. I cant see myself. [laughter] as commissioner safai said and we heard from commissioner fewer and others, this is not going going forward, it is not going to be business as usual. Well have like a lot of very hard decisions to make, so its better to make them sooner rather than later for whatever that is worth. But please proceed. And the board will see this next month as well. We have a bunch of requests from public works for their annual programs for curb repair and Tree Planting and equipment and oth
Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you
Conference today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with. So i want to first start with city test s. F. And we know that every single day there are people who are working, City Employees who are on the front lines. Our police officers, our firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need i