Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
A recall a building on post street he and a walked on back in guessing 2005, 2006 which presented some very similar issues. It was a tax credit building. And what happened was and this has not happened a lot but it does come up, what happens when you take an Affordable Housing model and allow for protections and plot that on a place where people either were rent controlled or thought they were rent controlled tenant and that raised issues and complications and we worked through that and did legislation and supervisor peskin made clear tenants werent losing the protections even if you overlaid Affordable Housing. Honestly, colleagues, if midtown had been build in 2014 and everyone had come in we wouldnt have that problem and thats a shift in people with rent control protection to another program. Many protections of rent control exists in the program for example eviction protections, you dont need the rent board and frankly theres more loopholes in the rent control that allow people to
Obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate Via Videoconferencing as part of our hearing microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. So i just say that as a reminder and as a little housekeeping issue, but please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullen at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Lets see, where is the clock on the screen . There it is, okay. In any given year, one in five adults experience a Mental Illness such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. But 2020 has been a year like no other. In a recent poll, half of adults report that their Mental Health has been negatively impacted due to the coronavirus. One can only imagine
Entertainment commission, thank you for convening this evening to address this important issue. My name is nola mariano and today im speaking in support of the San Francisco International Arts festival petition to have an enhanced city guidelines. In considering the safe reopening of the performing arts it must be noted that in addition to the diversity of artists making and performing work, theres equally wide range of scale and size of artists and art organizations producing the work. I think that it was a mistake to put all art organizations into phase four that focuses on indoor halls and their health risk. The arts festival, while still a indiscernible is a Diverse Group for Services Including marketing, and production and box office support. These will be scheduled to meet the city guidelines and available for live video streaming. It has guidelines that go beyond those currently provided to include an organized digital box office, house managed to get people safely seated. And s
You h. O. About the state of health in the Central African republic. We meet the sound artist using poetry and song to explore how colonial power was brought western sexism to her birth country cameroon. And im presuming to welcome to news africa thousands of people in senegal as capital death call home after a stroll at the weekend brought nearly a years worth of rainfall in a single day this is video from a densely populated suburbs off to cause some residents had to be evacuated by canoe local media reports that at least 4 people have died in the flooding across the country the government has come under fire for its response to the disaster. Homes a swamps. And these sandbags havent been much help. Flooding has become a fact of life for families here and far deeper than this water is the frustration which keeps rising even as the flooding subsides in this stack a neighborhood people feel theyve been forgotten and ignored for years. Since 2012 the state comes in makes promises but un