County Health Officer issued a number of Public Health orders relating to covid19, including a staysafeathome order. The governor and state Health Officer issued an overlay staysafeathome order. To protect the city staff and members of the public, the City Chambers are closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspendin suspending suss making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. The Mayors Office has authorized the Historic Preservation commission to reconvene remotely, recognising that the commissions consideration of certain projects in a certain government operation and the authorization directing the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure, housing and Small Businesses. Today, the Historic Preservation commission reconvenes for the first time in its history remotely using video and teleconferencing technology. The platform is not perfect and at times may even appear to be clumsy. Therefore, we r
Commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and small business. I will also remind everyone that the platform that we are operating on is not perfect. And will be clumsy. There worrytherefore, we requesr patience. In event the at t bridge fails us, we may need to recess in order to log out and log back into the system, at which time we will notify members of the public to call back in. To enable public participation, we are broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each item on todays agenda. Sf gov tv is streaming across the bottom of the screen and comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling the 888 2733658 number and entering the access code of 3107452, pressing pound and pound again. When you want to speak to an item, you need to press 10 to get into the cue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes and when you have 30 seconds left, youll hear the first chime
On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through the end of the shelterinplace order. Recogniseing that the commissions consideration of certain projects is an essential government operation, and that the authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and small business. I will also remind everyone that the platform that we are operating on is not perfect. And will be clumsy. There worrytherefore, we requesr patience. In event the at t bridge fails us, we may need to recess in order to log out and log back into the system, at which time we will notify members of the public to call back in. To enable public participation, we are broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each item on todays agenda. Sf gov tv is streaming across the bottom of the screen and comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by
Showers in the n b. You can see what we are going to have in the afternoon hours, increasing sunshine, and temperatures in the as we start this fourth week of sheltering in place, we check in again on the progress, and we check in with the highest county official in the county hit hardest. Lets go to julian glover. We are talking about the director of health here in santa clara county, and she was one of the first Health Officials to sound the alarm about the coronavirus in our community, and now she says we should prepare for social distancing to be longer than any of us would like us to be. Our efforts to slow the spread, shes restoring things to normal as we knew it before the coronavirus may take a while and we have to reevaluate what that normal looks like. Life right now is very, very different than it was at the end of the 2019, and part of our new normal and new life is living with a lot of uncertainty. She would not comment if the new normal on the social distancing efforts wo
The director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax. The director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. The director of the department of Human Services trent rhorer. The director of the department of homelessness and housing, abigail stewartkhan and our police chief bill scott. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start by providing the most updated numbers currently. We have 1,058 cases here in San Francisco of those diagnosed with the coronavirus. And sadly, we have 20 people who died from this illness. And for more information, please visit data sf. Org covid19 for our full tracker and more information that you may be interested in reviewing. Today i just wanted to talk about the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. This weekend marks the 106th anniversary of the earthquake. When we all can look back on our history and remember during that time, not only did the earthquake hit and it really physically destroyed buildings and many