Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined on this Video Conference with rules Committee Vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. Our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. Physically present. We are streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Commentses or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984. Access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. Press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. You will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will
There are other supervisors present. Will you please identify yourself. Anybody else who is not on the budget and Appropriations Committee . Thank you very much. I would like to thank Daniel Williams from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees and the public the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state way stay at home order. All proceeding local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference or telephone and participate to the extent as if they were physically comment. Comments will be available on each item. Channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. You can call 888 2045984. 888 2045984 access code 3501008. When connected Public Comment is open and dial one
Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. I guess this is unusual, but ill say it. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , issue have one. Due to the covid19 and to protect City Employees, Board Members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 Board Meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings Via Video Conference call remotely. This precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governors order. The members will attend meetings through the Vi
Emergency in this covid19 pandemic. This is a serious situation and we are all concerned about the health and safety of our fellow americans and citizen soldiers and airmen. Thus far members of the national , six guard have tested positive for covid19. We have forced Health Protection measures in place and we will keep our National Guard members informed as the situation develops. We all play an important part in ensuring the health and safety of communities and this is a responsibility we take their take seriously. We are here to support each other and communities. I want to talk about what the National Guard is doing in response to covid19. First of our, its an historic event unlike any weve faced in recent years. When theres a hurricane, you can see it on a map and you have a sense on how hard itll hit. Its like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state and territory. Some are category 5, summer some are category threes, and some are category ones. We dont no one this was going
Sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. So its really important that communities like bayviewhunters point participate because in the past, theyve been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasnt enough. Were going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. You know, any one of our given blocks, theres 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u. N. Of San Francisco. So its our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. You go online and do the census. Its available in 13 languages, and you dont need anything. Its based on household. You put in your address and answer nine simple questions. How many people are in your hou