Portal for child care, but again, you can talk about the workforce, those needs of essential workers, and those that are active in searching for Job Opportunities that have been displaced without talking about the need to take care of their children. Some 20,000 vouchers have been set aside in our efforts to address the childcare needs of thousands and thousands of critical frontline employees. We also put that site up that identifies over 28,000 slots that are available today if you go to that site on covid 19. Ca. Gov. You can type in your zip code and you can see a number of licensed facilities and and around your community with available slots and information about health and safety, more work to do, t that our in that space, we will have more resources to invest in that space, coming from the federal government, some 350 million that we will be working with the legislature to distribute as quickly as we can. But again, im very grateful for the work the department of social service
May 15, 2020. The meeting will can the order. This the is the may 15, local meeting of the local agency formation. I am sandraly fewer joined by gordon marand cynthia pollock. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Due to the Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, staff and public, city hall is closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order and local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. You may participate in the meeting to the extent as if physically present. Public comment will be available on each item. On channel 26 and sfgovtv will stream the number on the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Communities or opportunities to speak are via by calling 408 4189388. Pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the discussions but you will be muted and in his senning mode only. Listening mode onl
Governor newsom two weeks ago today we laid out a road map for reopening the california economy in a phased, thoughtful approach. We put forth six indicater to indicate dwrors drive our Decision Making. Politics wont drive our Decision Making prork tests wont drive our Decision Making, political pressure wont drive our Decision Making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our Decision Making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we
Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 pati
Another indicator specific to , businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicators. We have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We are averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafter. I mentioned just yesterday optum serve that was doing the endtoend tests, deployed at 80 additional locations, primarily focused on Rural California. I can announce we are putting those tests in Sutter County and Shasta County as specific points of the movement in that space. All of those testing sites will be up and operational by monday. Verily also focusing on expanding their testing on a with a socioeconomic lens to Diverse Communities not onl