Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th
Any other supervisors that have joined us in. This is supervisor aaron pesk nix. Peskin. As supervisors join us, we will be introducing them for the meeting. And madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, madam chair, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting. As if they were physically present. Comment will be available under the anticipated. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 888 2045984, access code 3501008, is then press pound and press pound again. When youre connected, dial 10 to be added to the cue to speak. Submit Public Comment by emailing me at lind lindawong sfgov. Org. If you submit it via email, it will be included in the file as a part of the matter. Comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service to city h
Good morning, everyone. The meeting with come to orthopedic. This is is the april 29, 2020, regular budget and finance committee. At this time, i will be calling the Budget Committee. Im chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor raphael mandelman. inaudible . Welcome, president yee. I would like to thank sf gov tv and if other supervisors have joined us, supervisors, if i have not mentioned your name, please introduce yourself. This is catherine stephanie. Welcome. Thank you. Any other supervisors that have joined us in. This is supervisor aaron pesk nix. Peskin. As supervisors join us, we will be introducing them for the meeting. And madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, madam chair, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting. As if they were physically present. Comment will be available under the antici