Hours, even though were starting cooler, the extra sunshine compared to yesterday and no threat of wet weather todayeans temperatures jump m back to the low to mid 60s in most neighborhoods. Mid 50s along the coast. Still expecting wet weather tomorrow. Well talk about that coming up. Could the u. S. Be headed to a National Lockdown . Experts are split on the idea. We do have an answer from dr. Fauci. Jobina fortson has more on what he is saying this morning. Thank you. As the u. S. Faces a massive surge in cases, dr. Anthony fauci says americans need to wear masks distancing to avoid another lockdown. He was talking to Robin Roberts this morning. The idea of a four to sixweek nationwide lockdown has been floated to control the spread of the virus. Dr. Fauci says it doesnt seem likely to happen. There is no appetite for locking down on the american public. But i believe we can do it without a lock john. I really do. Help is really on the way. You know, if you think of it metaphorically
Vice chair eaken. Here. Eaken present. Director heminger. Here. Have you a quorum. Though were legally required to have on the agenda to make its announcement because its clear were all using sound producing devices during the meeting we wont make the announcement. Approval of the october 20, 2020 meeting. Im ask the moderator to open the bridge and ask colleagues if theres amendments to the Meeting Minutes from october 20. Seeing none, is there Public Comment . Moderator is anyone on the line . Have you zero questions remaining. Well close Public Comment. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Chair borden secretary boomer please call the roll. [roll call] director eaken youre very faint. [roll call] madame chair, we can approve the minutes. Item 5, communications. Chair borden i lovely speech i get to give at every meeting. All members are participating Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors and public. In the published notice for the meeting a
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And have recognized the densities and that the adjoining counties to north and south with a lot of work to do. I think it would be also good to focus this conversation regionally through the terms and lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really appreciate everything that you have, and please any closing comments for you, supervisor mar. And what is your will . Thank you so much, chair peskin and supervisor preston for your comments and engagement in this really important discussion. There is a number of very important items to get to so i will keep the closing comments very short. I did want to summarize that my goal today was emphasize the importance of data and who is the housing for and are we prioritizing and addressing the Housing Ne
Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we o