good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and transportation committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. i am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. our clerk is ms. erika major. could you please do you have any (inaudible). clerk: yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating remotely. this precaution is taken (inaudible) state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. they will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if they re physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment
clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. president yee: okay. thank you. please place your right hand over your heart. would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee: on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of the meetings and the transcripts are available on-line. madam clerk, are there any announcements? clerk: yes. during the covid-19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the meeting to the extent they are present in their public legislative chamber. the board understands the need for public access is more acute during this covid-19 pandemic, and the board believes it s essential to have the public participate in this meeting. i will just reiterate some of the opportunities that members of the public have. we are able to receive your written correspondence and make it part of our file. our address is san francisco board of supervisors city
clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. president yee: okay. thank you. please place your right hand over your heart. would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee: on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of the meetings and the transcripts are available on-line. madam clerk, are there any announcements? clerk: yes. during the covid-19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the meeting to the extent they are present in their public legislative chamber. the board understands the need for public access is more acute during this covid-19 pandemic, and the board believes it s essential to have the public participate in this meeting. i will just reiterate some of the opportunities that members of the public have. we are able to receive your written correspondence and make it part of our file. our address is san francisco board of supervisors cit
clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. president yee: okay. thank you. please place your right hand over your heart. would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee: on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of the meetings and the transcripts are available on-line. madam clerk, are there any announcements? clerk: yes. during the covid-19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the meeting to the extent they are present in their public legislative chamber. the board understands the need for public access is more acute during this covid-19 pandemic, and the board believes it s essential to have the public participate in this meeting. i will just reiterate some of the opportunities that members of the public have. we are able to receive your written correspondence and make it part of our file. our address is san francisco board of supervisors city
we are placing people into hotel rooms on a daily basis. we have opened four hotel rooms for the non-covid homeless population in a very short period of time. there is another one opening today. and more opening over the course of the next week in rapid in a rapid approach. reporter: okay, thank you. that concludes all the questions for today s press conference. i also want to thank john c. who is troubleshooting our online meetings and ellen mccue from the board staff who are assisting with the public comment line. madame clerk, are there any communications? yes, mr. president. during the covid-19 health emergency, board members will participate through the video conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. regarding the public s participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting public comment, there are three public hearings on today s agenda. two of which are expected to be continued. item 10,