Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
Track any adverse reactions. At least five ultracold freezers similar to these have been installed in various county owned facilities with more on order. They will store the vaccines at up to minus 90 degrees fahrenheit. Some freezers are portable and they are currently compiling a list of where ultra cold storage is available. We are prepared to store, then distribute the full volume of what we received. Everything can go wrong, the logistics are enormous. Dr. Schwartzberg says that the debate is on about who is next in line, police, firefighters, people with comorbidities, and so on. That just seems like a very difficult conversation to have. It is, you can see that people with resources, and the money will demand special favors. I hope our society is able to withstand that. The cdc has shortened its quarantine recommendation time from 7 to 10 days, and Santa Clara County imposed a 14 day travel quarantine on monday. Without possibly change now . They are considering it or they will
Reporting its second highest single day covid death toll. In california shattering a record, nearly 21,000 cases in 24 hours. 113 deaths. And the Positivity Rate hovering around 7 lets take a live look at san jose were Santa Clara County appears to be in the worst shape this evening. There are only 44 intensive care beds left in the entire county. But there is some hope on the horizon for these vaccines. Reporter just a short time ago the county sent us the final draft of the Vaccine Distribution plan that just got uit is 65 pages long. No indication as to exactly how many doses they have or when they will get here but they are working on it. Before we get into that lets talk about hospitalizations, it is not looking good. These numbers are gravely concerning. The assistant chief medical officer development is sounding the alarm about hospitalizations. Currently there are more than 1900 and the hospital right now, 287 or covid patients. Santa clara county is at 80 capacity, only 44 icu
President yee good afternoon welcome to the november 10th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk all members of present, mr. President. President yee thank you. Please plays your righthand over your heart. Join me in reciting 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. President yee thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Who coordinates our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Current Health emergency, the Meeting Minutes will reflect that the Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conferencing to the same extent as though physically present.
President yee supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. I just want to make sure i understand the situation here, and i guess a question for mr. Kennedy. So as i understand it, this is sort of the j i understand the plans that were in place as an Emergency Response. But then, now with rail service not coming back for this foreseeable future, any changes to the j, are they on hold now, pending the reopening of the of the rail service . Right. So we are we will be depending on the outcome of this appeal process, we will be going to our m. T. A. Board, advancing the second phase of the j project, which would coincide with bringing back the j rail changes in early february, late january. That means it would go across market to church and duboce during approve by our board, and when service would build up, we would build a temporary accessible boarding platform at safeway there that would allow that service to go into effect. Supervisor preston i think what im trying