Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the april 27th, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is rules Committee Vice chair catherine stefani. Id like to thank sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and protocols, Board Members, City Employees and the public, the board room is closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This caution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order and proceeding local, state and federal orders, and directives. Sorry, guys. Supervisor ronen sorry, i thought you were done. Clerk Committee Members will be attending through Video Conference and participating in the meeting in the same extent that they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26, sfgov. Org are streaming the number up. At the
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And if you want more information, you can please visit datasf. Org covid19. Its or tracker with detailed information around testing and other helpful information by zip code that people may be interested in seeing. And today, i had a couple of things to talk about specifically, the new health order issued on friday by our county Health Officers and i really mention this on friday, but i think this is really exciting, that even though we still have challenges that exist, the ability to allow people to get back to work is so important. And construction in our city will be allowed, as well as outdoor businesses and today, i just want to express, again, my appreciation of the outdoor activities, outdoor businesses and how important it is to make sure that we start to gradually get back to business. We know our governor announced a plan that he will release on guidelines, as well as timing of when some of our Small Businesses, our book stores, small retailers can get back to work and i thin
A delayed exchange deal. And im here to stay with your sports british motor racing legend Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 there and more later this news hour. Lets get going in the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has in the last hour or so been discharged from some Thomas Hospital in london he was there being treated in i. C. U. For corona virus in a statement mr johnston said he was hospital staff his life hes not going straight back to work hell continue his recovery at his official country residence checkers now meanwhile spains reporting a rise in deaths for the 1st time in 3 days 619 people have died in the past 24 hours and the United States has surpassed italy so have the worlds highest death toll from coronavirus well. 20600 people are known to have died since the break began well speak more about that with mike hanna in washington shortly we also standing by for us in madrid and idris in a budget hell tell us about reports of racism against African Students and expa
Anthony fauci. He spoke with Savannah Guthrie from the today show saying that theres no one size fits all solution here but testing is a big part of it and were seeing more. Beyond 3 million tests, thats really far, far greater than we were a couple weeks ago. Right now theyre developing the capability of even escalating and accelerating that even more so that we would be able to have a significant number measured in the millions of tests each week. Reporter overnight we saw the Washington Post reporting on a draft plan by fema and the cdc on what to reopen first focusing on agencies that service children, schools, and child care and summer camps. President trump has said he thinks some states might be able to start reopening for business before may 1st. Laura . All right. Ill take it from here, tracie. Thank you. A new emergency measure in San Francisco will help shelter thousands of the homeless in hotels. This comes at a cost of nearly 200 a night per room and thats before the addon