Sfgovtv test test test test test test test test test test is good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, april 16th meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. I am the chair of the committee joined by aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to the clerk, john carroll. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. Comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 888 2045984. Use the access code. That is 3501008. After you have entered th
Cases of those who have been diagnosed with covid19. And sadly, we have lost 17 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 Francisc
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
We want to wish them the best, we like to see flattening of a curve in italy, madrid, new york theres the earnings world the earnings world doesnt bend. The earnings world responds. There are a lot of companies doing poorly, sometimes their stocks have reflected that sometimes their stocks havent i warn people that if youre going to do buy or sell stocks based on what the president says or what Governor Cuomo says, youre not being thoughtful it takes a thoughtful person to figure out whether you want a lot of exposure here or not. Does that mean if we did see more signs today some people theorize maybe theres a weekend bias to the counts if we got some affirmation over the next couple of days, what would it take for you to change that view . To say the market is looking through the Health Numbers i think we need to see testing, testing, testing. I would like to see the beginning abbott labs shipped its tests on thursday. I would like to see empirical evidence that people have antibodie
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