The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
Were really not too far off that 25 , if we look at it 10 years from now. Thank you very much. Thank you, now were going to open this up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1463082077. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. We currently have 20 people lined up to speak at this time. May we have the first caller . Yes, i will unmute the first caller. Thank you chair ronen and Committee Members. This is doug on behalf of Teamsters Joint Council 7. Were also members of the food chain workers alliance. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the shoutout and her leadership. I feel so proud when i think of how far we come since that fir
I think in terms of the Animal Welfare, that will be the most and were seeing anywhere between 50 to 60 cost increase to move over to nae products. And for us, its figuring out ways to creatively pass that along, whether it to be the cafe or increasing our prices through the cafe and, also, reducing meats. We have reducing meats and every monday is a meatless monday and normally, we would serve about 200 pounds of protein on a monday, but over the last, i would say, three months, we havent done meat on mondays and thats pretty significant. Thats about it. Im happy to answer my questions. Thank you very much. So we have elvis lavaera to speak about laguna honda. Yes. Im from the laguna honda hospital. So, yes, we currently serve 170 residents and offer a 28day cycle menu to the residents. What makes the hospital is unique is the population that we serve, the highly vulnerable population and the age group. A lot of our residents are here and their length of stay is two weeks to some have
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