Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the may 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating
Back into our community, and making sure that all of the businesses that have supported us over the years are here to support us in the future. Reporter time is of the essence, and the time is now. It is essentially critical, were talking about businesses that for many, work on a month tomonth misses. Reporter economic develop Alliance Just released a survey of 2000 east bay businesses, predominantly sole proprietorship. Overwhelmingly, they say this is the biggest challenge for now. To make the most critical piece of that is reestablishing the connection with customers, hitting orders going, and starting to get back into the flow of things. Reporter overdue rents, bills, hiring people paled by comparison, their Small Matters but any could end the business. Trying to get out of that hole is a daunting proposition for many. Reporter this is really about survival, we will see how it gets in the future, but nobody knows so far. No one knows how may businesses and Contra Costa County and e
A business that opens up how they operate, how close, how many employees, how close can they operate. What they have to wear. And yet you say nothing about lets say, tents on the street. You just leave it to the c. D. C. Guidelines about how far things need to be apart. There seems to be my impression and i will close with my impression is that you have put anything related to homelessness into a category that you have decided is a policy matter for someone else to deal with rather than a Public Health issue. And i am telling as a District Supervisor and shared by some others on this board that that is creating, that lack of guidance is creating enormous confusion in the streets. It is creating confusion among the Police Department who are not sure what they are enforcing out there in the district. It is created really complete chaos in the streets. We are all trying to deal with it, but were not the folks who have the power to issue Public Health orders tomorrow like you do. So i woul
Getting two senators, but its about our right as tax autonomy andans to the autonomy that can only be achieved through statehood. Esterday i imposed a curfew at 7 00 p. M. , about 25 minutes that curfew we note as the country round noted that protesters in front f the white house were dispersed using some form of munitions. D. C. Police throughout the night last nightcurfew and i think the chief will confirm of people , a number were arrested in violation of their protest. Ask the chief of to come up and describe our response last night and then take a few questions. Bowser, hank you, mayor thank you again for your continued leadership in these very difficult times. Im the chief of police for the metropolitan Police Department. Day night marked our fourth of demonstration activity here in washington, d. C. Related to senseless death of george floyd. Began with two separate groups at approximately square e in lafayette and one in the vicinity of the u. S. Capitol. Groups were peacefully
Ventilators as the item sat on the tarmac in china waiting to be shipped off to the country that rightfully purchased them well appears that theres no holds barred loop grab perpetrated by the United States bedroom government has of course found its way back home yes multiple state officials and local Health Groups from massachusetts to illinois to texas have been sounding the alarm that various federal agencies have been scooping up shipments of personal protective equipment and other valuable medical supplies for quite some time now according to a letter published in the new england journal of medicine by a medical doctor andrew artin steen with Bay State Health massachusetts 1st after spending valuable time just trying to convince the f. B. I. Not to confiscate his shipment of k n 95 respirators and face masks he was then soon shocked to learn that the department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting his pee pee. Only some quick some quick calls leading to intervent