Roll. Clerk chair peskin, may i make an announcement how to Public Comment during this meeting. Chair peskin absolutely. Clerk Public Comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987. And when prompted, entering access code 2858465. As seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order of which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn the down your television. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Item 1. Chair peskin go ahead and call the roll. Clerk commissioner. Supervisorfewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner haney . Hay supervisor haney present. Reporter commi
Threatening to halt much needed checks to millions of americans. Desperate times. Some hospitals now forcing two patients to share a single ventilator this morning a look inside one of new yorks busiest hospitals where doctors are doing anything they can to fight the virus. Those cases plus danger zone, deaths in louisiana. The dramatic spike blamed on new orleanss most iconic celebration. People werent only catching beads here, they were catching the coronavirus. Just ahead, desperate plea for help from louisianas governor and the nfl star stepping up in a big way. Drew brees joins us live january 27th, 2020 from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. It is friday morning thank you for being with us. Im home again hoda, its been a lot week a lot of developments and that continues. A busy morning. Major developments on the coronavirus. The 85,000 cases in the u. S. , now t
Have to navigate during this time. Do we have somebody whos in contact with the Police Department so that they can relay this message . Were in contact with the Police Department, so we can relay that message. Thank you. Are you done . I have one more thing. Its questions about the sick leave and the sick leave bank. How can people who have a number of sick leave share with others who have little during this time . So commissioner, i know that uesf and sefu both have catastrophic sick leave banks. Yeah. We have the open period for uesf just closed, so ive been in discussions with susan and carolyn, and actually so were trying to look at how and what is the need of reopening that on an emergency basis. Were a little stretched out right now, in terms of actually being stretched out, but i am in communication with the union on that. There have been a number of developments on covid19 related to legislation, so were reviewing that, as well. In terms of sefu, we have a rolling donation. Its
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
Otherwise, id consider it approved as amended to be a policy matter. Chair fewer thank you very much. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, chair fewer. First, i just wanted to thank supervisor walton for his incredible leadership to look out for undocumented members of our community but has been left out of the federal relief package. You know, i always feel so grateful to live in a city that, you know, the theme of covid19, were all in this together. And whether you were born in this country or born outside of this country, youre a human being who deserves to survive and live with dignity, and i just very, very much appreciate supervisor walton for his perfect, incredible work here, and his staff, tracey brown. I also, you know, want to thank the mayor for creating this fund immediately so that it does not need to be delayed. Thats fabulous news. Thank you for standing up for immigrants, mayor breed. I did learn this morning, which was very surprising to me, from supervisor w