George floyd and of police brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders,
Brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders, janitors, mail carriers, de
Community for allowing us to apply for these grants. Although the recommendations of another task force have yet to be finalized, we fully participated and eagerly await the results. Prioritized scenarios with Disaster Response elements and encourage city departments to ensure their employees acting in an official capacity the second item we have before you is a resolution approving the mou between the city and county of San Francisco and 11 other bay area counties. As we have discussed, this mou allows San Francisco to serve as a fiscal agent for the region and would allow the uasi Management Team to continue critical regional projects such as interoperational mass Care Projects and operational shelters, so thank you and i look forward to comments or questions. Supervisor cohen all right. Thank you. Colleagues, we have a significant number of cards speaker cards. Before we go to the public comment, just wanted to see if theres all right. Well go to public comment. All right. Im going
And i just wanted to talk about one component of urban shield. Yell command is an exercise that prepares all of the Emergency Management and manage Operation Center staff for any kind of disaster, whether its man made or natural. And the whole purpose is to create an event that tests our regional capablities. And weve had these tests since 2013, and each year, we test a certain event. This last year, we tested our community or our availability to distribute our commodities in an event of an earthquake, and these are the types of things that yellow command prepares all of our regions and our Emergency Management centers to respond to. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Members of the committee. My names philip white. Im a training and exercise planner with the bay uasi thats based out of dublin california. Like mr. Massey and the speaker before me, ive had specific leadership roles in the urban shield programs. Specifically i
Im shawn sex ton. Im a captain with the alameda sheriffs office, and i had significant roles in urban shield in the last few years. And i just wanted to talk about one component of urban shield. Yell command is an exercise that prepares all of the Emergency Management and manage Operation Center staff for any kind of disaster, whether its man made or natural. And the whole purpose is to create an event that tests our regional capablities. And weve had these tests since 2013, and each year, we test a certain event. This last year, we tested our community or our availability to distribute our commodities in an event of an earthquake, and these are the types of things that yellow command prepares all of our regions and our Emergency Management centers to respond to. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Members of the committee. My names philip white. Im a training and exercise planner with the bay uasi thats based out of dublin ca