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.
Today we are announcing a new effort, healthcore. Ca. Gov that will provide a platform to match individuals that may have retired in the last five years that are nursing students or medical students that are nearing to incorporate and encourage them to be good on the platform to provide for the platform and meet the moment over the course of the next number of weeks as they continue to rise. We couldnt be more pleased by the incredible professionalism of nurses and doctors, our professional representatives that came together across many differences and organized to provide more flexibility, more Surge Capacity for the system. Allowing us to utilize our existing resources in a more resourceful way. I want to thank all the representatives for putting aside those differences and meeting this moment head on. To provide the flexibility that is required to meet this moment. We have an executive order that went out that will provide flexibility through june 30. This is temporary flexibility o
Nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. Forest service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to be able to welcome you back to the committee, thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately, it is up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from perfect, i agree that the priority must be on Wildland Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in hazardous fuel reduction and other active Forest Management activities. We know such investments pay dividends in reducing the risk of severe wildfire. Hopefully we will see this important work planned
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