Happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. The das office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. The District Attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this. We realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. It was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. They put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the Tech Community in this process. Code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. The office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital
Ordinarily, the act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The governors executive order has suspended those rules. Members may observe the meeting and they may offer Public Comment by calling the Public 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 Com
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 Comment period, viewers and callers will be instr
Doctor, weve got your back. Thats the end of my 30 seconds, mr. President. President thank you. Time is up. Thank you, dr. Aragon, for being here, but i am a little disappointed that we had general question about the same issues that we talked about and my colleagues just talked about, and there was some commitment by you to come back with some overall idea of how you would get to a plan if not a plan. So i will talk to you or contact you in the future to see if we need anymore briefings. But today i am going to go ahead and end todays briefing. Again, thank you, colleagues, for hanging in there. And thank you, dr. Aragon and thank you, dr. Baba for being here today with us. Good night, everybody. You can out more information about this data and on our data tracker, on our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, t
How has your department been preparing for the crisis . Well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and city departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. So we still have to do the cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. And the other thing is all our workers are Disaster Service workers, so we have been providing the Emergency Operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. Have you obtained Additional Space for the city to use during this crisis . Yes. The crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of Public Health, the department of human services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. So, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a buildi