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The ground, money in our pockets. A small step, but a very welcome one for San Francisco. A barbers collective, setting up shop in a street food barr. There have been fewer customers eating at the food trucks. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee in the south of market area with more on this unusual partnership. Reporter food trucks used to be parked here, now stations have been set up to accommodate dozens of barbers. Some tell me starting tomorrow morning. Well, welcome back. Reporter this is the barbara collective in San Francisco. Barbers are renting space at this venue, normally reserved for food truck vendors. It felt good to actually run clippers through hair and just seeing the hair on the ground, us as barbers always say hair on the ground, money in our pockets. Reporter its the First Time Since the shutdown that hes clipping here. He will be joined by dozens of other barbers in this outdoor space from the collective officially opens wednesday. We are just ready to take the
Has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. So thats how were going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i be
Urging caution. Unfortunately it was positive. Im one of the contact tracers from the county. Reporter jill is a covid detective with a deft touch. Did you have any symptoms yourself . Not really. Reporter informing people they have covid, quizzing them on their contacts and finding out what they need to stay isolated. When she started this work in june she was swamped. There was such a backlog. Since then we have sort of gradually caught up with everything. So yeah, it was really bad. August has been a much better month for us. We have seen reduction by half an hour case counts. Reductions in deaths, fewer outbreaks. Reporter july to august, a turnaround in marin, curving covid spread at san quentin prison in outbreaks among nursing homes. Positivity rates are dropping, but this morning against complacency. We are still vulnerable to losing the gains weve achieved if we relax too quickly. We have seen that happen already, that happened in the month of june. Lets take that as a lesson
Has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. So thats how were going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i be