Necessary trip . So theres a lot of work that weve been doing over the last few weeks that feels like a year and a half because weve done a year and a halfs worth of work in the last few weeks. Were very fortunate in the city of San Francisco under the leadership of mayor london breed and especially under the leadership of the department of health, under the leadership of dr. Grant colfax, we knew what was coming, and the city acted quickly as most other places. And as a result, San Francisco is in better condition than so many other places around the world. Here in San Francisco, we watched what was happening in wuhan, and even what was happening in seattle, who was a week ahead of us. San francisco infection rates tracked neatly in response with those other cities in a similar timeline. This allowed us to do scenario planning and get ahead of the crisis before it hit us. We knew that things could get very dire indeed. Wuhan shutdown their entire system. Our city did its efforts for a
Welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisorses. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined virtually on Microsoft Teams by vicechair supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and ff gov. Org are streaming the channel across the sf gov. Org are streaming the channel across screen. You can call 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Then press pound and then press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the qu queueu to speak. The system will notify phi you w
Participating via remote technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any P
Welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisorses. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined virtually on Microsoft Teams by vicechair supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and ff gov. Org are streaming the channel across the sf gov. Org are streaming the channel across screen. You can call 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Then press pound and then press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the qu queueu to speak. The system will notify phi you w
Technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any Public Comment on item 4.