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 governments response was asked to testify today. While fema is not here today, i understand that and miss straighter gaynor plans to appear before the full Committee Later this month. Im pleased to hear this because it is vital that we Work Tog
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Seeing none. A point of clarification. Secretary silva, there seems to be some confusion about from the public about what was actually approved for item 10. 4, can you confirm that the item as approved by the board at our last meeting does not add an additional annual allotment of 200,000 per year, but instead caps the annual disbursement of funds to 300,000 annually for a possible five year term of the agreement. That is correct, the amount you approved was, not to exceed amount of approximately 1. 5 1. 5 million over a three year initial term, with two options of one year each. So that would be five years potentially total. And then in the calculation of charges in the contract, costs are not to exceed 300,000 per year. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. Then, well now open item for Public Comment. Is there anyone that would like to comment on item four. And this is the approval of minutes seeing none. Do we have anybody on the phone okay. Well now close Public Comment, colleagu
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Push it worked in the renovation and we believe that it will work for the expansion. We believe that there is tremendous public benefit, but job creation, and city, general fund creation. This process today is just the beginning of a long process. We will be loved with a great amount of community out reach and public communication, because we believe that not only will this be a great benefit for the community, but also for the neighborhood. I leave two blocks from the center and i do care about the neighborhood that i live in and i believe that this enhancement will not only make the center bigger but a bigger player and a better piece of our neighborhood. I just want to point out some of the economic facts. Two billion dollars in direct spending in San Francisco economy has already been lost. Between 2010 and 2019 because the center was not big enough. These were groups that would have come to San Francisco but decided not to because there was not enough space. The increase and avera