Hi. How are you . V. P. Elect harris how are you . Good to see you, jose. Are you . Hi, everybody. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving. Thank you so much for coming down. We are honored and touched beyond belief that youd choose us as one of your first corporations coming down here and we hope some of the work that we do will inspire the work that this administration does. It is interesting. Right now during covid we have been focused on food. Were doing crazy amounts of food. 2. 5 million moods. Fresh groceries that we have sent out through the sfism this is economically affecting the world community. What we have always been about s much more than food. It is mend to strengthen bodies, empower minds and build communities. We have wanted to put ourselves out of the business of giving away food and training men and women. One of the things, Vice President , elect is the Silver Linings of these dark clouds that we have seen is more people are understanding of and willing to listen to
High registration. Were 2000 voters away. The vote by mail ballots have hit historic levels with higher levels than the 2016 president ial election. On the day before election day we had 146,000 in house. Well go over 200,000 today. If you dont fill out the online today you can go to the registrars to fill out a provision ballot. In southern california, someone set fire to an official ballot collection box. It was in baldwin park. Arson investigators say a number of the ballots were burned. The registrars voters who dropped off their ballots should call for assistance. 30 million americans have cast their ballots. Early voting started in florida today with wait time three hours in places. I think people are starting to see the importance of voting and we try the stress its important to vote, folks are taking that opportunity. In georgia theyve seen 1. 4 million voters in the last seven days. Thats up 148 in the first six days of early voting in 2016. New rules for the next president ia
Committee room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in the following ways you may email me im john carroll. If you submit Public Comment by email, i will include it part of legislative file. You can also submit your commentary in writing through the post and direct your letter to our office in city hall. The address there is one dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place. Finally mr. Chair, items acted upon will appear on the board
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 15th meeting. Im supervisor gordon mar. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, you have any announcements . Clerk i do mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and employees during the covid19 health emergency, board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Com
Clerk thank you. We have four yeses. Motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Please call next item, please. Clerk next item, number 20, discussion item, executive directors report. I will keep mine very short, however, i do want to point out that weve been extremely lucky since the shelter in place order. Weve been able to hire two of our t members of our Leadership Team into permanent positions. Ba do is on the reporting side, and were more than happy that bill and his team have adopted him and have assured us that they will be always available to help him be successful in his job. A second key hire that we have brought on board last month and a project that ive been working on for 15 years, and that is to get a Quality Assurance Operational Risk office started in the department, and i have been working with mr. Derwin brown for nearly two years, i think over two years, frankly. Tried to convince him that he needed to leave the l. A. County plan and come up and join us in San Franc