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Been configured to maintain 6 foot distances between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely, a few Video Conferencing reminders. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise, please click the mute button until you ask questions. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next senator until its resolved....

The hon. London breed good morning everyone and thank you so much for joining us. As civic demonstrations continue around the world, we are emboldened by the protests and the calls for action to address the racial injustices and inequities in policing and Law Enforcement. These protests come at a time when our communities have been struggling even more because of the coronavirus. For too long black people have been subjected to abuse at the hands of those in power. Now is the time that we can ma...

Okay. Agenda item number 1, call to order. To call the roll call. Clerk agenda item number number 2. President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk Vice President chris canning . Clerk present. Commissioner Karen Breslin. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. Clerk supervisor dean preston. Present. Clerk commissioner claire zvanski. Present. Clerk and commissioner randy scott is absent. President follansbee, we have a quorum. Okay. Can we call the next item agenda, number 3. Clerk agenda ...

Community and the dozens and dozens, it is worrisome to me that none of those have been chosen. I see, director davis, did you have anything to add on this point, director davis . I did, thank you so much, supervisor ronen. I just think, too, director simles point, we have been engaging with quite a few partners and folks on the ground and one of the challenges weve seen just with outreach and engagement, especially in the Latino Community is a disconnect and we have to be intentional about outr...

[roll call]. Directors, thats seven ayes and item 14 is approved. At this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. We have not yet received any indication that a member of the public wishes to address you on the items listed. However, they have an opportunity to do so now by pressing star 3 if they have already dialed in. Since there is a slight delay between our speaking and sf gov tvs live streaming, we will go ahead about wait about ten seconds or so, giving folks an opportunity to i...

Covid, as we deal with Climate Change as we deal with a number of other challenges we need to keep in mind that the need to wear your mask to socially distance and to even be just reminding ourselves and being a little more diligent throughout this process is necessary. Because we are also focusing on making sure that as we as we reopen we dont turn back the clock. You all know what happened a few months ago when one day, i announced we were going to be opening a number of places and today, some...

To account for over half of cases. And i just want to emphasize that we are strategically evaluating our efforts specifically in the Latino Community. Im happy to come back to the commission to report back on those efforts. Weve done a lot, and its clear that we need to continue to do more. This inequity has been with us since the beginning of the pandemic. We are focusing more testing and more testing resources and working more with the Latino Community providing lowbarrier testing. Our Contact...

Great. Well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the Public Health commission. Welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you im chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernals his 50th birthday, and i cant imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. However, hes decided to do so, and so im sure youll join me in wishing him the very best for his birthday. So i guess the...

This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format. And the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommendedf foot social distancing between senators and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it ...

[roll call] great. Well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the Public Health commission. Welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you im chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernals his 50th birthday, and i cant imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. However, hes decided to do so, and so im sure youll join me in wishing him the very best for his birthday. So...