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At a joint hearing on the coronavirus and the procurement of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies. This rants an hour and a half. Joint hearing will come to order. Let me begin by thanking everyone for joining us today. I hope that my colleagues, our witnesses and viewers are staying healthy and safe. I want to thank chairman pain and Ranking Member king of the Emergency Preparedness response and recovery subcommittee, for coming together with Ranking Member crenshaw and i to hold this hearing. We are here to discuss federal and state efforts to picker critical supplies and response to the coronavirus pandemic. First, i want to acknowledge that the federal Emergency Management agency, fema, who is put in charge of the federal govern ....
I hope my colleagues, witnesses, and viewers are staying healthy and safe. I want to thank chairman pain and Ranking Member kane at the Emergency Preparedness respond and Recovery Committee for coming together with the Ranking Member and me to hold this hearing. We are here to discuss federal and state efforts to procure critical supplies in response to the coronavirus pandemic. I want to acknowledge the federal Emergency Management agency, which was put in charge of the federal governments response, was asked to testify today. Fema is not here today, but i understand there is an administrator to appear before the full Committee Later th ....
And he left everyone in the Police Department with his love of San Francisco, his love of the Police Department, a love that he had been a seven cisco police officer. It is a huge loss for the Police Department. We miss him dearly. I want to thank you, supervisors , for recognizing joe today. We have not been able to find him since he left, so we are glad he is still around. Joe, good luck to you and your family, you are sorely missed. I will be calling you for advice as the years go on. Thank you to the board. [applause] okay. Next up is supervisor fewer. Thank you. I would like to invite mr. David parr to the podium, please. Colleagues, today i would like to thank david parr for his 34 years of service to ....
It is still the last vestige in San Francisco that really hasnt changed that much. You have irish people with the latin, with africanamerican, with asian, it is the most diverse district in the city by far. It is a gigantic district, and therefore hence the five different supervisory districts, but hit has a long history in the transition. Most of the people, and why i love it there most, they are family. The people who are there, i really got to enjoy. Florez, stefani, rosemary, roseann, sharon everhart, rex in the back, my good, good people, and like i have told people in the past, if he was a little bit older, and you could have raised hell with me when we were youngsters, like you want to say that all these people, and the last one, my leader, the voice in your ear whether you want to hear it or not, joelle. [cheers and applause] but its because of the people like that from my officers all the way to the people that work with m ....
And sharing it with me and educating my staff also on how to do it. And i know that you have always wanted to build more, build faster, and the idea that youve also looked out for our lowincome seniors, i just want to say thank you and i think were going to be doing a lot of Work Together in your new capacity. Good luck. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, i just wanted to add my voice on a number of things. First of all, maybe we should rename it the kate hartley act, item 64 later on todays agenda, finally getting right the way we do loans. And its rare that the board of supervisors delegates its authority, but i think you have, with your staff, crafted that just right. But most importantly i want to thank you for implementing legislation for the prop c repurpose dollars that is allowing us to acquire those s. R. O. Hotels that toured with president yee. Thank you for the commitment to the s. ....