Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. Supervisor safai supervisor safai is present. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Board Meeting, members will participate online as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in the five following ways. First, you are welcome to submit via email at board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. If you do not have internet or youd like to listen on the go, you can listen to the meeting on your cell phone. The telephone number is 8882045984. When prompted, enter the access code 3501008, press pou
Good afternoon. Director of Human Services agency. Thank you, mayor breed, thank you dr. Colfax, thank you director khan. What i want to do today is update everyone on the status of our hotel, securing hotels and activation and deployment and give you data on the numbers we have both secured, under contract as well as individuals in the rooms. I know im going to repeat myself from the last press conferences, but there might be individuals from the press who are new. I wanted to start with an overview. One important part of the Human Services agency role in citywide disaster planning includes mass care shelter for our most vulnerable residents. We continue to follow the latest guidance from local and National Public Health Experts to minimize exposure to those who dont have adequate housing. And to ensure there are enough hospital beds available in San Francisco to treat patients with covid19. To this end, we started on march 9 when we activated our operation center. We began securing h
The department of corrections is here. Thank you for joining this afternoon. Joined today by kathy from the Grocery Association and mark from banking and finance. We will be talking here in a little bit. First of all, i just want to remind people as i always do, folks, this is really, really important, the social distancing. We have talked about this in the past. If you are out enjoying the weather, it is a great day today. Keep thatyou have to six feet distance. Do not gather in groups of more than 10 people. One thing that is incredibly you are anif employer and somebody shows up , sendk for you who is ill them home. Some people are taking the temperatures of people before they come to work. To be sure way people are following the guidelines. It is allergy season right now. But if there is shortness of breath, fever, if you have those types of symptoms, you need to stay home and everybody in your household needs to stay home. This is where we really need people, if anybody in your ho
Grow over a potential Mental Health crisis triggered by the governments social distancing break elations ali talking to a psychiatry. Welcome to r. T. You can be grown a virus crisis is ramping up pressure on the Health Service as the u. K. Death toll continues to rise and it comes amid reports of n. H. S. Workers suffering abuse with some becoming a target for muggers were in this r t u k shabda evers dash he joins me know how that shot he is so as we heard there some pretty dramatic developments absolutely as states 3 of the National Emergency situation plus a lockdown sonoran the death toll is now at 465. 00 which is up 43. 00 in the last 24 hours on the number of cases then the United Kingdom has got 9 and a half 1000 cases 100000 people though have been tested across the United Kingdom yes say those with the highest number since the outbreak began so things really are still expected to get a lot worse before they get better particularly for the n. H. S. Who is bearing the brunt of
About cities, towns andville eamings have a tremendous opportunity to usher pofe activity and in a time of growing change in washington. The best way to move our communities forward is to promote partnership, leading together with other local, state, federal leaders. We can all overcome the toughest challenges that is facing our communities. This is our charge and our residents have elected us and why we have come to washington every single year. In fact, the last 55 years, we have come to this congress collectively one voice. You know, issues like the outbreak of the coronavirus, i would be remiss if i didnt talk about cities being on the front line of dealing with this Ongoing Public Health emergency. Local elected leaders have the responsibility to ensuring the health and safety of their residents. We are thankful for the federal spending package passed last week to allot 8. Billion in this Public Health crisis and looking forward to meeting with Vice President pence on wednesday at