Good afternoon everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee im supervisor hillary ronen. With me is supervisor catherine stefani. And gordon mar. I like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Yes, due to covid19 emergency, City Employees and the public, board of trustees legislative chamber are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org. Our streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone. Number is 408 4189388. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted and in listen mode on
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Very important moment. Its right to pause and reflect and thank each and every one of are suffered. The need to do everything in our power to make sure that their immediate needs are attended to and that we move aggressively but thoughtfully and tray teenically with a health first mindset to reopening the economy in the peril of Economic Conditions. I want to begin not only to acknowledge those workers but to just remind you a bit about what weve been doing as both essential workers and those that have been displaced, we talked yesterday about a new portal for child care but again, you cant talk about the work force, those needs of essential workers, and those that are searching for Job Opportunities displaced talking about the need and caring for their children. Some 20,000 vouchers have been set aside in our efforts to address the child care needs, thousands and thousands of critical front line employees. Over 28,000 slots that are available today and if you go to that site covid19.
Servants, representatives karen bass of california. Representative Joaquin Castro from san antonio, who is the of the caucus, and has been very involved in immigration. Osby, from the university of San Francisco, he head ofident obamas the program in president obamas first term. , that2, he was my partner began, ironically, and china, was we talked about what becoming an epidemic unaddressed, as well as the traditional all of those years ago. Think are in a real strong position to answer ratio of about the economic disparities in this other countries across the globe. With dr. Ike to begin gosby. The obviousk question why do we have Racial Disparity both in the infection rate and the death rate of the coronavirus in the United States . Dr. Gosby well, thank you, mr. President. It is a real pleasure and honor to have an opportunity to speak to this issue. Correct in are convening this discussion. I think that what we, unfortunately, continue to see is an uncovering of the disparities in
Force to address Racial Disparities and healthcare needs. Shes extending a statewide stayathome order until the end of april. Her News Conference is about 45 minutes. Hi, it is thursday april 9th. Im here at the State Capitol with our chief medical executive. I want to begin by wishing everyone who celebrate as happy easter as well as happy passover to our jewish resident who are celebrating as well. I know that there are a lot of michiganders who usually come together to celebrate holidays or weekends for that matter with family and friends. This is a unique and challenging time. I hope that you are finding other ways to reach out to loved ones during during this time as we celebrate, as we cope and as we navigate these unsettling times. Since monday, we announced that the state of michigan has selected the suburban selection show place in novi with collaboration with ascension help as the sight of the second healthcare facility to extend medical capacity during the states response to