Convening the closed session. [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum, and so the board will now go into the closed session. So your instructions are to hang up on this call, essentially, click the red button, and then go into the calendar, the closed session, and then separate log into that meeting. Clerk yes, mr. Chair. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions on that . Roberta, you may need to change the outlook invitation so that we can start the meeting early. Its not scheduled until 4 30. Clerk okay. Very good. Okay. So look for that, folks, and please log in within, lets say, the next five minutes. So to the members of the public watching, thank you for accommodating this unique format and showing the resilient city that we are. All right. Thank you. Well move into closed session. Good afternoon, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed. Im joined today by the director of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, as well as the director of the department of Emergency M
Wish we were together again. So the word unprecedented is getting quite a workout over the past month or so. Jack, it certainly applies to what was happening in the Energy Market over the past week. Right at the start of the week the Energy Markets you know what . Lets get weird. I know you think youve seen weird, but how does 37 sound on a barrel of crude oil . Does that mean i can go to a gas station, theyll pea me to if fill up the car . Thats not what it means. In the futures market, each contract has to do with a specific type of Oil Delivered to a specific place at a specific time, and on april 20th when that may west texas intermediate contract came due, you better have had a pipeline and storage tank willing to accept your oil in oklahoma or you got closed with next to zero liquidity. Most people didnt have it, so so we had prices go sharply negative. Now jack if you have a boat that holds oil, thats a nice thing. Funny you mentioned that because on my street wise podcast for b
Supervisor ronen and president yee is with us today. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for this meeting. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect members, and the public, the board of supervisors and the chamber and the Committee Room are closed and so all members will be participating in the meeting remotely. indiscernible and the comments will be available for each item on this agenda. At sfgov. Sorry, sfgov. Tv org, and the number is across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And the comments to speak during the Comment Period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984 and, again, 888 8882045984, access code, 350018. And press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1, and then 0, to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lunch lined up in the order that you dialed 1 and 0. While waiting the system will be silent and the system will notify when you are in line and waiting. All callers remain o
People. There are 17 people who died as a result of this virus as of today. As a reminder, you can visit data sf. Org for the full tracker with information on what who has been diagnosed, the number of tests and other resources that are available or any questions you may have. And i want to just start today by reminding us really how far weve come from the very beginning. Weve made it our mission to slow the spread of this virus, to help those vulnerable populations, to keep people safe and were continuing to do all we can to do just that. Were still dealing with the number of cases in San Francisco and we also know that there will continue to be challenges and we will continue to see increases in the number of cases of the coronavirus as we continue to do testing. You know, it may seem like this will never end, but it will come to an end. And i want to be clear that although you may hear about San Francisco and how well were doing, that we are flattening the curve, now is definitely n
Much. Great to have you. Thank you all for being here. My administration is taking action to ensure america has the medical resources and equipment needed to fight the global pandemic. It has been a brutal pandemic for 150 countries all over the world. Weve had Great Success over the last month. The millions of pieces of equipment have been delivered successfully by us, purchased and delivered. We have made it available to the states. The governors have been very gracious, for the most part, a couple that arent appreciative of the incredible job. They have to do a better job themselves. Thats part of the problem. Generally speaking, i have to tell you the governors have been great. I just spoke to the governor of new jersey, governor murphy. He is very thankful. Governor cuomo has been very nice. They really appreciated with the federal government has done. When you look at the hospitals being built all over the country. By the army corps of engineers and fema. It has been really incre