Colleagues from the city are online today, john fitzky and john francis and the manager of our section at oewd. Well ask for a motion to accept the sud, addresses the number of technical corrections that the City Attorney discovered to help clean up at this time. So on to the presentation. You see the site today and thank you to both supervisors walton and peskin for those introductions. I want to set a little bit of context from a planning perspective, too. And some of you may have seen this slide before. Its the framework at oewd established, the southern bayfront framework with an organizing strategy to help keep track of this suite of projects that the city has processed over the past couple of years and the waterfront, obviously, together, representing an incredible amounamount of space for jobs ad Housing Units and we tried to coordinate an approach that makes the Public Benefits commensurate and the District Needs as a whole. And then moving to the context of this area of this c
To note for the record that the p. U. C. Commissioners caen and vietor are not in chamber okay. Colleagues that brings us to the end of our joint special meeting agenda. Madame clerk, is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for today, mr. President thank you. We are adjourned. [please stand by] the hon. London breed hello. Im San Francisco mayor london breed, and im joined today by a number of people for our First Virtual press conference so that we can demonstrate by example social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Im here with supervisors kathrin stefani and supervisor aaron peskin, as well as the director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, department of Emergency Management mary ellen carroll, department of Human Resources trent rohrer, as well as police chief bill scott. As of today in San Francisco, we have 131 confirmed cases, and we are doing everything we can to provide that update on a regular basis. Im really pr
Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. I guess this is unusual, but ill say it. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , issue have one. Due to the covid19 and to protect City Employees, Board Members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 Board Meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings Via Video Conference call remotely. This precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governors order. The members will attend meetings through the Vi
Colfax. This question is from the la times. Could doctor colfax explain why the surge would come in the next week or two and is that still plausible . Right now we have 279 cases of diagnosed covid19 patients in San Francisco. We have had three deaths. I cannot predict when the surge will come and how high the surge will be. Our efforts are to flatten the curve. We have taken early aggressive and science informed efforts to flatten the curve as much as possible. Over the next two weeks using the data from our community, the expertise of the scientists that we are working with, we will have a better sense where we are in that curve. I cannot speculate. If i could see the future, i would tell you right now what we need, where we need to be, where we will be in two weeks and what we will need to do to address that in two weeks. Again, from what we know today we are as prepared as we can be. We will continue to mon for the monitor the situation, respond to the rapidly changing situation ba
A phone lines we understand are still down people dont have basic they dont have access to basic necessities they dont have access to Emergency Services because of the telephone connection and complete information blackout and thats continuing for the 5th day and now but the Indian Government here in new delhi is keeping a close eye on the developments in parts of the Indian Embassy because because any protests today on the fust friday after those momentous decisions made by new delhi will be looked at very very closely frank thanks very much. Still to come for you here al jazeera hes ready to talk after 20 years behind bars tensional breakthrough in the war between turkey and the kurds from one crisis to another how the drugs trade in colombia is ensnaring venezuelans seeking escape. How in places ive got scientists and dry weather now coming into the philippines then a fabulous shabby right coming in here but nothing like as wet as it was last week they sweater weather will tend to n