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
Meeting. Following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during this health emergency, the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. Thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, madam chair. The first item is business is item one, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. [roll call] clerk the next order is business is item 2, announcements. A, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on tuesday, june 16, 2020, at 1 00 p. M. B, announcement of procedures. Please be advised that each member of the public has up to two minutes to address the commission unless the chair designates a shorter comment period. To call in, dial 18885578511. Dial the access code 7500645, press pound, then pound again to enter as a participant. This number will also show up on the screen during each Public Comment section. When you are con
We have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in janua
The authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and Small Business. Sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda item today. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling 8882045984 using access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, you dial one and zero when the q a period opens, and you will be allowed to submit your testimony. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce when your time is up and direct my staff to take the next person in the queue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or computer. At this time i would like to take roll. President hyland. Here. Vice president matsuda. Here. C
Total 2. 2 frillion relief in the cares act and its far below the investment that the federal government provided in 2009 and 2010 in the education jobs fund. And whereas the Public Education is one of the largest employees employers of any organization, public or private, in the nation. And whereas published Economic Research has demonstrated a strong connection between a countrys g. D. P. Growth and its investment in elementary and secondary education and whereas research has found a strong casual relationship between levels of schooling and wages that individuals earn over a lifetime. And whereas the Public Schools to thrive and for our students to realize a bright and productive future, the federal government needs to make a substantial new investment in our wellbeing and whereas the council of the schools, and the National Education association and the American Federation of teachers and the National School Boards Association and the American Association of School Administrators a