Committee. I am joined be i vice chair he is, kin and thank you to the clerk and sfgov tv for hosting this meeting. Do you have any announcements mr. Chair . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members to the employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members of the committee will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfg tv. Org are streaming the number across the 2013. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are available via phone by dialling 882045984, and once you are connected to that phone number, use access code which is 3501008. After entering the access code, you will be prompted to press the pound symbol. Then press it a second time. If you wish to add yourself to the queue to speak on a particular agenda item, dia
There is a lot of great information on the number of people who have been infected by zip code, race, and other information that members of the public expressed interest in. As a city, we have mobilized to combat this Public Health crisis. Weve been focusing on our frontline responders, our healthcare workers, and our essential employees and what they need to protect themselves. These are the people who are of course our healthcare professionals, our first responders, and people who are actually our essential city workforce. The folks who are driving the muni buses, the people who are managing traffic. The people who are providing the Grocery Store clerks and others who continue to support the city as we deal with these real challenges. I want to be clear that from the very beginning we knew that it was important to ensure that we were protecting the people that we expected to show up to work in their various capacities. The sad reality is what weve had to deal with around a lack of co
Further presentations. Lets address this question. The Division Circle site is some of what you are saying and it is sort of a yes and, supervisor ronen. From a design perspective, this is a site that is shared and im going to tap dr. Boren in a little bit who is also on the line to speak to some of the medical questions. Its a site that is being kind of jointly set up, not kind of. Is being jointly set up by hsa as responsible for mass care and shelter. The traditional shelter operator and the department of publichealth as the medical Behavioural Health provider for the city. I would prefer having a sight for people with covid19 and we no the capacity of the inq site that stan talked about is a challenge so, we want to make sure were maximizing every resource in the city. From the staffing operational staffing the site, they asked to find a provider who is willing and able to operate that site alongside the department of publichealth. Staff will be do the medical and Behavioural Healt
Both channel 26 and sfg tv. Org are streaming the number across the 2013. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are available via phone by dialling 882045984, and once you are connected to that phone number, use access code which is 3501008. After entering the access code, you will be prompted to press the pound symbol. Then press it a second time. If you wish to add yourself to the queue to speak on a particular agenda item, dial 1 and 0 in order to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the orreder in which you dial 1 and 0. While you are waiting, the system will be silent. The callin system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until the line is open for comment. Everyone must account for the time delays and speaking discrepancies we may encounter between live coverage and streaming. Best practices for callers are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly. And turn down you
And over the longterm with our testing strategies. It is also crucial to continue to do everything we can to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. That includes staying at home, social distancing covering your face around other people and frequent handwashing. It is also important that we continue to ensure that the Healthcare System is on high alert and prepared to handle a surge of cases and to be able to treat everyone safely. And it is critical that we do all of this work with an eye towards equity. The Health Department is commit to the health and wellbeing of all people in San Francisco and to do everything we can to support the health and full recovery of all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. Thank you. Is and now police chief bill scott who has been incredible partner to this pandemic will make a few weeks. Remarks. Thank you and good afternoon. Im bill scott, chief of police of the San Francisco Police Department and i would like to start o