Committee room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in the following ways you may email me im john carroll. If you submit Public Comment by email, i will include it part of legislative file. You can also submit your commentary in writing through the post and direct your letter to our office in city hall. The address there is one dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place. Finally mr. Chair, items acted upon will appear on the board
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 15th meeting. Im supervisor gordon mar. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, you have any announcements . Clerk i do mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and employees during the covid19 health emergency, board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Com
Clerk thank you. We have four yeses. Motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Please call next item, please. Clerk next item, number 20, discussion item, executive directors report. I will keep mine very short, however, i do want to point out that weve been extremely lucky since the shelter in place order. Weve been able to hire two of our t members of our Leadership Team into permanent positions. Ba do is on the reporting side, and were more than happy that bill and his team have adopted him and have assured us that they will be always available to help him be successful in his job. A second key hire that we have brought on board last month and a project that ive been working on for 15 years, and that is to get a Quality Assurance Operational Risk office started in the department, and i have been working with mr. Derwin brown for nearly two years, i think over two years, frankly. Tried to convince him that he needed to leave the l. A. County plan and come up and join us in San Franc
Visible. Is a very different time when youre in a different situation where you can see the enemy and this is different with the coronavirus. And for privacy reasons they cant say how many covid19 positive patients they are treating but there is no hiding the stress, technicians check the temperatures of anyone coming in and only one Family Member is allowed in the e. R. With the patient. And then there is this. Strangers dropping off food and snacks for the staff. A small thank you for their tireless work on this battle field thats now stretching from sea to sea. And right now, the nurses are triaging two possible covid19 patients here at good sam. Good sam is preparing for a possible surge but there is way to possibly avoid that surge, the nurses say self isolate, stay at home, help these doctors and nurses out. Damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Good perspective. Thank you, damian. And the doctors and nurses were right there in Santa Clara County, which is our bay area epicenter. A
Her body was escorted to a funeral home in elk grove. The bay area native was gunned down wednesday while responding to a Domestic Violence call. Rachel has more on how families of fallen officers are being connected through tragedy. Reporter at the investigation into the shooting continues there are groups offering support to the family of this fallen officer. Pictures line the walls of susans home like memories lined the walls of her mind. Her husband was a Richmond Police officer killed in a crash responding to a domestic disturbance call in 2008. Losing sacraments a Police Officer Tara Osullivan this week brought back emotions. It broke my heart. I wish i could keep them say. Reporter she knows that is the case for the family of every fallen officer. She volunteers with concerns of police survivors. The minute we hear and officers down we reach out to the agency to see if we can be support. Reporter to help with funerals offers counseling and provides camps to connect those whose l