Peskin present. Preston well return. Ronen present. Safai. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Haney present. Safai okay. I received a message that supervisor preston is having trouble signing in. So we will make a note of that, mr. President. And the minute on which he arrives. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Recite 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 very much. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Who records each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. The minutes reflect that due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as ph
Globally there are almost 1. 6 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus with the global death toll reaching 95,000. The United States leads the world with more than 460,000 cases and 16,000 reported s. California is now trying to extend extra benefits to Health Care Workers on the front lines of coke and 19 our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains the governors latest update. California Health Care Workers on the front lines of covid19 now have access to travel vouchers and stipends governor newsome announced thursday the state will reimburse lower wage workers 100 of hotel costs and provide vouchers to others who need to sleep away from home for work so that theyre allowed to stay closer to their patients. And provide them the opportunity not to worry about being out of pocket or worry about exposing their families or god forbid worried about another night sleeping in their car. So they can stay closer to the needs in their communities. The 150 hotels that are part of the
Tickets to people they still flock to the beaches. The state parks in marion county, the unincorporated areas which is why at 1159 last night they decided to go ahead and tell people youre no longer welcome at state parks in marine county and other unincorporated areas if you drive to the location and walk into the parks and if they spot your car. They will issue a ticket a 100 they will have full enforcement by the Sheriffs Department and other Police Agencies throughout marine county, the whole goal is to keep you at home to let you celebrate easter in your neighborhood or in your front yard but not come out to the state parks and beaches and we talked about his robin marty for weeks now, but even the governor when he first issued the shelter in place and then he saw the huge number of people turning out to the museums the parks and the other areas that he told people to grow up. Well hes no longer telling people to grow up. Now hes giving people 100 reasons to stay home for easter.
So really a huge reduction obviously nobody should really be getting their own. But there are those who we need we need to get our groceries and things we need to stock up also essential workers like doctors Nurses Health care workers. Those who are working in restaurants keeping us fed. Those are the people who depend on this and now holding a transit is picking up passengers who usually right mean each helping out the Transit Agency during this coronavirus pandemic as you reason that they we do service on because a lot of operators are state polls due to coronavirus concerns now we have a map of the new can really get a good look at how its going to be running there will be service to the financial district weekdays between the Golden Gate Bridge to walmart to Fishermans Wharf and levis plaza their service to the Civic Center Area past their daily between Golden Gate Bridge and the Salesforce Transit Center boulevard near east to boulevard man mess and mission streets and you can pay
As going to the parks many parks actually are shut down and my colleague Sarah Stinson will have a little bit more on that and just a few moments but a lot of people are still walking past the barriers, the fences and enjoying the parks and obviously getting too many of those remote parks, they have to drive in moving forward. You will be issued and take it were not sure whats going to happen if you get repeated tickets. But they obviously want to crack down on that especially since a lot of officials are praising the bay area for doing such a great job with flattening the curve a lot of people are not and we saw this a couple of weeks ago where Governor Newsome he saw our footage and many other news footage of people flocking to the beaches and he told people to grow up and if theyre not growing up moving forward they will pay up. I cant believe at this point theyre still not listening you dont want that ticket thank you will we appreciate well as the u. S. Death toll from the coronav