While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. There will be some gaps and dead air, so we beg everyones indulgence, but we think its important that muni go about its business and hold the meeting, and well have to go ahead and cope with the limitations that Technology Presents us. Sounds like everybody has done this before, but if youre participating via remote technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblemati
Technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any Public Comment on item 4.
Lets get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the march 21st, 2020 special meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Here. Supervisor fewer, did you say present . Yes, i said here. Fewer present and supervisor haney . Here. Supervisor mandleman. Present. Supervisor marr. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronan. Present. And supervisor sayaye. Present. Supervisor stephanie. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. And supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in the reciting of 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. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that the staff records each of our
Issued. We are continuing to see that trend. For those that have to go out, be careful. Social distance. We had a significant drop in property crimes and violent crimes. The overall crime is down over 26 from this time last year when you do a month to missouri comparison. That is a month to missouri h comparison. Report crimes if you experience them. We are doing what we can to try to limit exposure to officers, general public and general public to officers. You can call in if it is nonviolent call the Emergency Line 415 5530123 to report the crimes. You can utilize 311 or utilize the website. Some crimes you can report online as well. We have started a call in center for Crime Reporting to make it easier to report those crimes. If you have suffered a crime, report it. If it is violent we will respond to those crimes in person. I ask everyone watching this add hed the Public Health orders, keep your distance, listen to what the professional in the Public Health department and around th
By when . That is a great question. Let me be clear. From the beginning of this issue, the mayor and all of the leadership of the city has put housed Public Health and unsheltered Public Health on equal footing. Our sheltered and unsheltered population on the list of people receiving services from day one. First from the hospitals, the individuals now in the hotels. In the coming days we will stand up hotels with the support of Human Services Agency Responsible for mass care and shelter to rapidly expand the Hotel Capacity they have already obtained those hotels. We are pivoting to moving to staffing, supplying and transporting those individuals. We are be beginning this process with people vulnerable to covid19 among the homeless. We hear you and know that being homeless makes you vulnerable, and we need to start somewhere. At the direction of Public Health that is people who are over 60 or who have an Underlying Health condition that makes you vulnerable to covid. I know you have a p