Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. Madame secretary, please call the roll . If you could respond. Director forbes . Here. Director haney . Haney present. Hursh present. Lipkin, i think youre on mute . Director i think hes having internet problems. Weve seen him. Hes waved at us and said a little bit before he lost connection. So im sure hell be back shortly. Director tavares is absent. Director tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Madame chair, you have a quorum. Call your next item . All right, directors, the next item is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Callers can dial in and listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. I will announce when Public Comment is on each item or for general Public Comment. During each Public
Of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers
[inaudible] can you hear me . Even though it doesnt even though we hadnt gotten together in more than a month, it feels like all of us are all together all the time. Number of Staff Meetings is up 2x. Number of management meetings is up 2x. We were set up to work remotely. We do that because were on the road quite a bit, and we have nontraditional hours where were conducting meetings after hours, on weekends and evenings. This was a seamless transition for us. Weve had access to digital presentations, software of every kind, from excel to powerpoint, email. Access to our custodian. Its really been a seamless operation. The only disruption is that we havent been able to do travel to meet with external managers, but the number of manager meetings is still up 2x. And i would say that we benefited from good timing. We actually deployed all of the laptops to the investment teams with docking stations to be able to work here as well as remotely three months before the covid emergency, so the
Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are opening two additional meal pickup sites. These sites will be open from 11 00
It looks like were missing one board member . Miss collins. Do we know why . Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are