Please call the roll. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk president cohen, you have a quorum. Also here tonight, we have chief William Scott and director Paul Henderson. President cohen all right. Lets go ahead and get started. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me by saying the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Sergeant youngblood, please call the first item. Clerk item 1, general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public are welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners. Members of the public may call in 415655000 is and enter meeting i. D. 1871888899, then press pound and pound again. Press star, three to be entered into the queue and wait until until until you are prompted to speak. All right, commis
First, it certainly does seem like california fully moving forward in getting the students back into the classroom. Today, two of the biggest districts in the state were talking about San Francisco unified and los angeles unified, both started to return to in person learning. After months of pretty intense back and forth, dozens of sf preschool and Elementary Schools opened their doors. Thei. So, what lessons did we learn during this process, and where to go from here . Joining us now is the california state superintendent of Public Schools, tony thurman. Tony, always a pleasure having you on our sh good afternoon, thanks for having me on. Okay, this has been such a long road, tony picked his return to school for sf usd and down in los angeles, such a battle. California was one of the last in the state to reopen schools, why on earth did it take so long here in San Francisco, and really statewide . What ended up solving this, so we could get you today . You know, you can look for many
President cohen good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am malia cohen, president of the San Francisco Police Commission. It is 5 42 p. M. , and we are calling the meeting to order. Sergeant youngblood, could you please call the roll. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk president cohen, you have a quorum. Also here tonight, we have chief William Scott and director Paul Henderson. President cohen all right. Lets go ahead and get started. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me by saying the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Sergeant youngblood, please call the first item. Clerk item 1, general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public are welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners. Members of the public ma
American scientists and Health Care Workers and to highlight the increasing success that the country is having with vaccinations. Their efforts continue to be hampered by states that are relaxes or eliminating Health Restrictions which has mainly been happening in republicanled states. Right now new cases of covid19 continue to be stuck above 50,000 a day and there are still about 1500 deaths a day. More than 544,000 americans have died from the disease. In idaho, a state that has never had a statewide mask mandate, the legislature has voted to shut down until at least april 6th due to an outbreak that may be one of the new Variant Strains of covid19. At least half a dozen members in the statehouse tested positive for the disease in the last week. At least five of whom are republican. 58 of the houses 70 members are republicans who rarely if ever wear masks. In florida, things have gotten so out of hand that miami beach is under a State Of Emergency and is enacting curfews. This Video