That total, gov. Gavin newsom said the state saw a 26 jump in new cases, just yesterday. The Navy Hospital ship mercy arrived at the port of los angeles this morning from san diego, the la mayor said the ship is now essentially the largest hospital in the city. Can provide care to up to 1000 noncoronavirus patients, those beds will free up hospitals to concentrate on coronavirus cases. At a briefing on board the ship, the governor said facilities up and down the state are preparing right now for a surge in patients. We are in the process now of having secured roughly 4000 beds of some type to prepare for the surge which we believe will start taking shape in the next week or two based upon our modeling. Also today, gov. Newsom addressed the growing economic certainty that has been crated by this outbreak. He signs an executive order banning enforcement of eviction orders for nonpayment of rent, through may 31. Health officials here are bracing for projected influx, and the coming weeks.
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
You have to have worked 25 hours in the past two months. If they are a new provider they gev a packet to apply for health and dental benefits but if they are providers who worked in the past and took a break and worked again, they have to take the initiative to apply. Thank you. You have a menu that you say you are going to give us. Im going to give it to you. And you will be translating into different languages. I know there are a lot of asians using it. So what kind of languages are you thinking about . Its currently in english. We are in the process of translating it into chinese. And we have had to go through so many different people, because there are some of the terms we use dont translate well, so we are trying to make sure that it makes sense. So we are doing chinese next, and then we are doing spanish. And then if we have any money left, well do more. Will you give me a copy in chinese when its ready . Absolutely. Thank you. I think its important to remember that the budget fo
Year, and we are well into that. And one of the things that im not going to go through every single action, because that would take all morning, and president serina would not appreciate that. [laughter] its difficult to contain my enthusiasm. Right . But i did want to talk about a few highlights. And so im going to go goal by goal and just kind of highlight one or two things in each goal. So goal one, strategy c if you have your plan in front of you, strategy c is to strengthen San Franciscos caregiver network, including enhanced support for Informal Caregivers and supporting a robust provider workforce. Our action was to strengthen processes to enroll and support ihss independent providers. Previously the Service Center was operating in a small office with really inadequate space and we used to have lines down the street, even in the rain and things like that. So this is really better. And its also better because our Service Center, being able to serve providers as well as clients is
Incorporating more technology in communicating with our riders about our services and such. We partner with slide wheel to allow our paratransit taxi riders to use their app to request a taxi. In particular, if you are a wheelchair user, you can specifically ask for a wheelchairaccessible taxi using the app. We have launched a taxi online portal, which allows for paratransit taxi riders to pay their portion of the taxi of their taxi debit card as well as view their trip history and report lost or stolen cards through this online interface. And we have two advisory committees who advise the m. T. A. Paratransit about the accessibility issues that they face throughout the city. One of them is the paratransit council. This is comprised of paratransit riders, Service Providers and communitybased represent i haves. They advise the m. T. A. On Service Quality issues with paratransit as well as help assist us in policy development. The second one is the multimode accessibility advisory commit