Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via 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 sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Fyi in indianapolis and you will hear from 3 candidates on the ballot who want to be here governor. I will be your debate moderator for the evening. I am nadia brown, associate professor and faculty scholar of political Scientific American studies. Now introduce the candidates, incumbent republican governor eric holcomb, democratic challenger woody myers and libertarian challenger donald rainwater. Thank you for joining us and giving voters an opportunity to hear from you. While we are here, we are in separate spaces will due to safety concerns, we look forward to having a robust discussion on issues tonight. My colleague asked about important issues facing hoosiers. They discussed education, covid19, taxes, the environment, guns, the fundamental role of government. The Debate Commission and i have questions from hundreds of ideas submitted across the state. Topics have not been shared with the candidates. The rules are simple. The candidates will be given one minute to make an Opening
I am michelle griego. I am len keise. We are ready for the sunshine. Bring it on, my friend. Oh, yeah, for sure but we are ready for it once again. What it is great to have that sunshine. Yesterday and the day before, we will continue with that weather pattern with that onshore flow, helping to clean out our skies and also bring out the sunshine. We are going to go over through the day today and tomorrow and we will continue with that clear air, that clean air for the bay area and that fresh air that is so nice to have and hopefully have been out and enjoying that fresh air for our region. We are starting off the day with good air quality all across the bay area and that is so nice to see. This morning, because of that ocean breeze with that cleaner air, we are looking at foggy conditions and some patchy drizzle first thing this morning. We are looking at along the coast and the bay, some patchy drizzle with oakland and it is 65 degrees, 61 in San Francisco and san jose is 67 and there
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 as i described in my testimony, we know that Nursing Homes with a higher proportion of black and latin residents have higher death rates, however theres not universal reporting of the race and ethnicity of those individuals within Nursing Homes who have been affected by covid. That presents for us a significant challenge when it comes to targeting resources in order to prevent the transmission of covid. Because, you know, when covid19 enters a nursing home its because someone has brought it in and what its telling us that if those Nursing Homes are following the same safety procedures of restricts visitors, ensuge that providers have clean ppe every time theyre coming in, then we shouldnt see these disparities. However we do. And the likelihood these disparities in rates of covid infections within Nursing Homes are going to occur are going to be even higher in communities with a higher burden of covid19. And so what were
The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h