Statements, i want to acknowledge the loss over the weekend of congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon who changed history at great personal sacrifice. In 2015 i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the blood sunday march which he led. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing the confluence of a health crisis, economic depression and a series of killing is that laid bare the Racial Injustice that still paints the country. Our focus is on covid19s disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors. As well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority communities, black and latino residents are infected with a virus, nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine has the worst Racial Disparity in covid19 cases in the country, also comprise less then 2 of maines population, they account for approximately 23 of all cases, lik
Ashley . Hi. Were waiting for okay. Great. I want to thank you, commissioners, for having us . My name is ashley scarborough, and im working in primary care central . Its my pleasure to represent a large and Interdisciplinary Group and working to include lgbt in the group, so thank you . For this initiative, its really more than Data Collection . It offers an opportunity for staff to align with our values and moving towards True North Equity creating culture change and ultimately providing more inclusive care for the lgbtq population. I want to recognize the longer term efforts in the department for gender equity Data Collection . And just the staff advocating for this data and advocating for this community so aligning with that over the last few years has also been structural policy incentives and mandates that have been elevating the priority of Data Collection, including local ordinances authored by scott wiener, state legislative bills, and payforperformance dollars, part of the pr
For everybody, it is easy to understand it. If they come to chinatown, they see that chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. I want to show you guys a video about the chinatown station. I want to show you guys a video about it. [ music playing ] thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im here to air the video given by a merchant, from easy travel. He cannot come to this meeting, he was too busy. I support chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am here on behalf of the owner of the chinatown hair salon. He cannot come today. [video playing] i support chinatown station only because it represents all chinese. This is what i want to say. Thank you. This video is also from chinatown. The owner could not be here. I am glad to play for her. [video playing] next speaker, please. Hello board of supervisors. Today i am here to speak on behalf of of eight chinatown Business Owners. Like thousands of San Francisco residents against most of
Good morning. So im mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. Welcome. Were here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a Technology Perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. So ive been the director here for a year, and its just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. Were so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their daytoday lives in their personal technology have above what 911 is. This is going to make our calltaking more efficient and honestly its going to save lives, which is really the bottom line and why were here. Thank you so much and ill hand it over to our mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for being here today. I want to add to what mary ellen said about what we need to do to take our Emergency Resp
Supervisor mar yes. I would like to thank both candidates for your leadership that youre already showing and contributions to our city in your respective areas and still young leaders, yeah, its just great to have you, you know, so actively involved in our city and our communities. I appreciated mr. Williams perspective on how entertainment is important to our communities in improve our quality of life, especially for those facing gentrification and quality of life issues. But i think im inclined to support the reappointment of miss caminong just given her depth of experience on the Entertainment Commission and her experience in these communities. I would like to make a motion that we recommend the reappointment of Dori Caminong to the Entertainment Commission with positive recommendation as a Committee Report. Supervisor walton thank you, supervisor mar. Were on the same page, so well take that motion, move it forward without objection. Clerk this item will be recommended as a Committ