Necessary trip . So theres a lot of work that weve been doing over the last few weeks that feels like a year and a half because weve done a year and a halfs worth of work in the last few weeks. Were very fortunate in the city of San Francisco under the leadership of mayor london breed and especially under the leadership of the department of health, under the leadership of dr. Grant colfax, we knew what was coming, and the city acted quickly as most other places. And as a result, San Francisco is in better condition than so many other places around the world. Here in San Francisco, we watched what was happening in wuhan, and even what was happening in seattle, who was a week ahead of us. San francisco infection rates tracked neatly in response with those other cities in a similar timeline. This allowed us to do scenario planning and get ahead of the crisis before it hit us. We knew that things could get very dire indeed. Wuhan shutdown their entire system. Our city did its efforts for a
Participating via remote technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any P
Technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any Public Comment on item 4.
And its going to be a big change for people it can be make you feel a little bit all to stop e coronavirus s from spreading across our state. In fact in a letter to President Trump the governor warned he predicts more than half of our state will be infected with the coronavirus within an 8 week period that if we do absolutely nothing we go about our regular life thats 25 Million People and to stop that from happening that is why the governor put the order in place. So what does this mean for people its nothing new for us in the bay area but lets take a look at our screen and refresh our memories means grocery stores, gas stationand banks will remain open pharmacies will remain open. Restaurants will be open for takeout only people are allowed to go outside for exercise children can play outside as long as they keep that 6 feet of distance, the National Guard will assist with delivering medical and other supplies and step instance volunteers are very limited now due o the fear of the co
Structures that were able to be saved, i think theres a car a couple cars burned there and then look this home they were able to save that home. So they are trying to save homes as they continue to evacuate homes. James, yeah and those evacuation zones have changed a bit over the last 24 hours. Heres the y perspective. Again its still just an evacuation warning for a lot of the the coast leading out towards a highway one oh one. Thats the situation that you see in blue that we course have the mandatory evacuation zone in purple that is unchanged it still includes the town of geyserville and healdsburg and winds are as you can see here as we zoom in on the map. And again all those communities are still within the mandatory evacuation zone, not so much because the fire is actively burning in their direction but because its still very dangerous and they need those roads to move around and mobilize all the Fire Fighting equipment that they need when term we talk about active burn youre goi