Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and mr. Kirk. Mr. Clerk, do you have announcements . Clerk due to covid19, and to protect Board Members City Employees any public the board room is closed for the meeting, however, members will be par cities remot palting remotely on the authority conferred by i im logged into rules and cant hear anything, period. Im not sure i should hold up the meeting because i dont knol that they have amendments that t require my input, is there a wai to let people know . We just heard you, ann. L um. Continuing with my statement. This is taken on authority conferred by governor newsom, stay at home order and all a proceeding local state, and federal orders, declarations ans districtives. Committee members will be attending through Video Conference and participating to the same extent as if present. Public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgov. V. Org are streaming. 26 numbers up on t
Moving parts here. I just wanted to have a few words to read into the comments and to my president s announcements. Im confident and dedicated i am confident that the dedicated and hardworking staff throughout the department of building inspection are aware of the response to the people of San Francisco and will continue to do their duty and uphold the public trust which theyve been doing in the last week. As you know were dealing with, you know, a Public Health emergency in our city. And our state and country, that we have never, never had to encounter before. On behalf of the commission, i urge all d. B. I. Staff and customers to follow the instructions under Public Health officials and to do their part to prevent the spread of covid19. I applaud the department for taking steps to limit the virus spread such as increase social distancing between the customers and d. B. I. Staff, and the more frequent cleaning of commonly shared public services. Continue to Pay Attention to all of the
To take you to albany, new york, for a briefing with governor andrew cuomo. You can watch all of our programs at our website, cspan. Org coronavirus. This is live coverage on cspan. Cuomo thank you for taking the time to be with us today. We want to update you. The number has increased. It is nothing new. It has been a long month. Something a little different in the data today, we are not 100 sure yet what the significance is. We are feeling our way through this. Number three, 18,000 positive cases. Positive cases are up to a total of 122,000 positive cases. The number of patients ischarged, total discharge 12,000. 1700 discharged in one day. The number of deaths is up. That is the bad news. 159. 44,159. We pray for each and every one of their families. That is the worst news. Deaths overber of the past few days has been dropping for the first time. What is the significance of that . It is too early to tell. This is the impact by state. Interestinghe data oray be in the hopeful beginni
Because it is the only relevant statement of our agencys values and it determines how we use our very, very limited resources in order to uphold the public good. Public transportation plays a Critical Role in the unfolding of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco. I want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise, who will facilitate this meeting. Do you want to go over what were doing today. Thank you, jeff. Good morning, everybody and almost afternoon. While we cant meet inperson were grateful you are joining us today online and really appreciate that you are taking the time to provide input on our budget.
Next, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo updates his states response to the coronavirus. He said the number of virus related deaths in new york is dropping for the first time, as well as the number of icu admissions. Stay a medical officials and others joined the governor at the briefing. Gov. Cuomo good evening. Happy sunday. Good morning. Happy sunday. For those of you who celebrate, happy palm sunday. Thanks for taking the time to be with us today. We want to give you an update as to where we are. The number has increased. Which is nothing new. It has happened every day since we started this. It has been a long month. Something a little different in the data today, we are not 100 sure yet what the significance is. As we are feeling our way through this. Number of people tested, 18,000 positive cases. Positive cases are up to a total of 122,000 positive cases. The number of patients discharged, total discharge is 12,000. 1700 discharged in one day. The number of deaths is up. That is the