Chair m chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, march 5 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by supervisor matt haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervi sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions
It. A few partly cloudies in the mix. Temperatures will be bumping up well above seasonal averages. I do believe sal is here and he will tell us things are quiet. Good morning. Traffic is off to a nice start here. If youre looking at some of the far away commutes. 580, 205 dublin. All this traffic seems to be ago. There are some construction closures here and there. So far, not causing major delays. You can see the traffic is moving along with the concord commute. 4 01. Lets go back to the desk. The long passengers of getting passengers off the grand princess cruise ship this morning. That ship had been idling off the coast. Finally traveling under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday. It is now docked at oaklands pier 22. Many port of oakland Truck Drivers who park their rigs at that same location are concerned. Right now, we just need to get information. A lot of people just want to understand whats happening and we just havent gotten danger c its a few hundred yards. It is expected to t
Mike, you are watching out for a mattress in the east bay. I urge other drivers to watch out as well. Theres not a lot at the bay bridge toll plaza. This is light for a tuesday. Well track that. Were looking at over here in the east bay just off the east shore freeway. Valley view just over here reports of a mattress crossing both directions for that roadway, so just keep that in mind if you are traveling along San Pablo Dam road heading to or from i80. The rest of the bay shows green sensors. Only a little slowing out of the altamont. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Back to our Coronavirus Crisis coverage for you. Our team is tracking developments from several angles. First lets get to tracie potts live in washington this morning with details on the new white house prevention plans. Tracie . Reporter in that prevention plan, focuses not only on health and very much on the economy after the big selloff we saw on wall street partially because of fears over the impact of this virus. President
From 9 00 p. M. To s6 00 a. M. , ad it just wrapped up. Thanks. The grand princess cruise ship is docked at the port of oakland as we speak. It will be there as long as it takes all the passengers to get off. Last night at least five people were loaded into ambulances and taken to hospitals. Sky 7 was overhead as the ship travelled into San Francisco bay and it passed under the Golden Gate Bridge and as you can see here, under the bay bridge and docked at the port just afternoon. This map gives you a closer view of where the ship is docked. Its in the ports outer terminal harbor, and its pretty far away from alameda and the es cue wary. Julian is in the south bay, where the city announced a ban on large events, but we will start with Amy Hollyfield who is live at the port. Reporter there are still people on the ship. They could not get everybody off yesterday so they will work again on that today in just a few hours. We have spoke to some passengers that said they are happy to be here,
Theres more than more people there on the grand princess cruise ship. Passengers are expected to disembark today and head into quarantine. The ships arrival had the attention of the nation and the world yesterday. Looking live now at the white house today President Trump will meet with lawmakers about a proposed payroll tax to help boost the economy in the midst of recent selloff. More on the coronavirus outbreak including Live Team Coverage coming up in a few minutes. A look at your forecast with meteorologist kari hall. We have the storm system just to the south of us spreading some rain into parts of the south bay. Well be watching that today as it moves a little bit closer. Nice to see some rain moving at least into parts of the bay area. Not all of us will see it as we look at the models. It shows the rain moves as far north as palo alto and then weakens as it moves northward. Well talk more about this coming up. You have another bridge that has lights. More brake lights. Its in t