The San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating in the Board Meeting through Video Conference and to the same extent as if they were physically present in their legislative chamber. Provisions have also been made for the public with and without the internet to be able to
Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the may 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating
And now is the best time to do it. We are doing a good job, but we could be doing much better and time is of the essence. And last week and is a bad time to be gutting the smta board when the decisions need to be made with quorum, with qualified advocates like director rubke who is a passionate advocate for disabled and the people with disabilities community. And last but not least i love for this making duty free for all. And to come up with funding structure and build ridership up and those who do not feel comfortable riding muni, we need to have space to use bikes to get around the city safely without conflicting with cars so we dont see a spike in deaths related to vehicle collisions. We continue to have vision zero in mind. Mr. President , it seems as though there are no other callers in the queue. Oops. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay. All right. Seeing no other callers, then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call the for adoption without Committee Reference age
Good afternoon. And thanks so much for joining us on the kron. 4 news at noon. Im Stephanie Lin in our top story this afternoon. And then they start cain. Velasquez has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges. Kron fours Charles Clifford joins us live now with the latest details on those proceedings. Hey, charles. Hey there. Yeah, Cain Velasquez is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder and hes been in custody for months. But today he finally entered a not guilty plea on all those charges. Friday morning, Cain Velasquez entered the courtroom wearing a face mask and quickly waving to his family and friends sitting in the audience despite being arrested back in february and appearing in court multiple times since then blazquez didnt enter a plea in the case until today. Kane is accused of trying to kill this man. Harry glory. In a separate case, color t is accused of sexually molesting a 4 yearold boy who is related to kane. Prosecutors allege that back on february. 2
Testing catherine. Yeah, thats what theyre hoping for, pam. And can Officials Say . In just the past week theyve distributed more than 600,000 doses of the Monkeypox Vaccine all across the country. And they say theyre now able to perform as many as 80,000 tests every week. The white house, as you know, has been criticized for responding too slowly to monkeypox. Local doctors say yes, they hope the announcement from the white house today. Well get Critical Resources out faster to people who need them. Most. We need to make it easier to roll this out to the people who need them most, which is that at msm population and trans people have with men until this is its probably going to bleed over into the general population and time is of the essence. Time is ticking. The longer we wait, the more and more expensive. Its going to be not only in terms of dollars, but in terms of emotional starts. With monkeypox now considered a Public Health emergency and the country. Some lawmakers in sacramen