Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue t
Good afternoon, everyone. We have a fair amount of stuff to get you up to speed on and well go well take through this as fast as we can questions. Ake afterward. I think tomorrow were at a different time. Alex, what time tomorrow . Can you come back to me. We have a call with the white tomorrow which conflicts with our normal time. We are going to be earlier. I think noon. 12 00 tomorrow. It will be right here. The only issue with that and ill speak with judy, you may ot have all your data as buttoned down as you would like by noon. It takes judy and her team a morning. Nt of the in fact, all of the morning to get to where she wants so we can be as accurate as possible. Again, im honored to be joined my partner and government, sheila oliver. Great to be with you. The department of Human Services, Carol Johnson. Were going to hear from her. Her left at least answering questions if not jumping on a topics, superintendent colonel pat callahan. O my right, as i said, she no longer needs an
Good evening everyone. They were forced to leave as kinkaid fire roared to their home, families are back home but life is far from normal. Cal fire saying the fires are 65 contained, but the fire has burned monrre than 77,000 acres. 165 homes burned. Neighborhood evacuations were lifted yesterday. And now a new set of problems in santa rosa tonight. Now they have to get back and try to deal with all of the stuff that is happened to their home. Yeah, you know, halloween is one of those holidays that is kind of spooky and weird but given all thats been going on a lot of the family i talked to tonight say they welcoming halloween saying it is a kind of a comfort for them. Massive bulldozers and fire trucks from all over the state are coming off the fire lines tonight, a sign that Real Progress is made on the kinkaid fire. Its now 65 contained. In winsor residents are returning home and theres signs the fire burnt close. The house smelt like a ashtray. He is still unloading his pick up. Wi
We sold just medical cannabis, this to me is next step to becoming fully legitimized in the community. Reporter temporary license expires in may, businesses have 80 days while board reviews applications for permanent license to be good for year. State and federal taxes. Pay every dime to every entity asking us to pay. File out and file federal tax returns like any other business. Reporter owner says they pay federal taxes on all sales but still a gray area since the sale of marijuana is illegal in the eyes of the federal government. As result most dispensaries require you to pay in cash since banks are federally insured entities. Not with buddys. Allows card. Hold and maintain business checking and merchant account. Most cash only. To me its security risk. Dont want to subject customers to. Reporter convenience to keep customers coming back. Aside from state and local taxes, 15 excise tax on the sale of marijuana. Expected to generate 1 billion in tax revenue for the state each year. R
All at risk of having exacerbations or recurrences of their disease. The spare the air alerts are designed to help this. The management district says smoke from one fireplace can pollute an entire neighborhood and there are an estimated 1. 5 million fireplaces in the bay area. Wood burning is the number one source of fine particulate pollution. And it accounts for 4 0 of thee pollution. Reporter now heading into our 18th spare the air alert this season there is advice for the vulnerable. I advise them to stay indoors on days like this as much as possible. And if they go outside, not to exercise, and if the pollution is really bad particulate masks. One of the challenges of our job is to make sure that people understand this is a continuing issue. Spare the air is not just a slogan. It is the law. Those who cheat can face fines starting at 100 and increasing for repeat violations. In the newsroom, carolyn tyler. So will the new year bring us new weather patterns . It will indeed bring u