Staff, and members of the public, the Commission Chambers and city hall are closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and commissions, making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through may 3, 2020, recognizing that the commissi commissions condition of concern projects is an essential consideration. It needs to consider action items pertaining to infrastructure, housing, and Small Businesses. Today, the Planning Commission reconvenes for the first time in its history remotely using telecommunications. It may at times be slow, and it may be clumsy. Therefore, we ask your patience. Commissioners and staff will be participating in the meeting remotely but participate as if we were physically present. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is televising this meeting live. Sfgov is streaming the toll f
Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in 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. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time
Trying to find out a way of funding if we spread it out too thinly, but which could support advertising if our board approves. In the short run, we are making sure that we are eliminating driver renewal fees for the extent of the Health Emergency. Drivers can continue working out on the street without paying their renewal fees while were in this Health Emergency. Its the least that we can do in order to support our operators. Were also thinking about if we can waive the taxi fees for the next two fiscal years, given the huge impacts being felt by our taxi operators. Those are things under discussion outside of our budget but which we would likely do. Im going to shift my bicycle gear and move on and talk a little bit about the Golden State Warriors. During this last fiscal year the chase arena was open and we were successful in that opening because this agency partnered with the Golden State Warriors and provided excellent transit and Parking Management and curb management. One of the
Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in 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. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time. Members of the public are ad
And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi