mr. wagner. okay. next item. covid-19 update. >> thank you, commissioners. grant colfax, director of health, i will provide a brief update with regard to covid-19. commissioners, currently 24,564 cases of covid-19 reported in the city. we have had 198 deaths. this is looking at the characteristics of the covid-19 cases. you can see here that pandemic shifted in terms of concentration of covid-19, distribution of the dye agnosed cases -- byagnosed cases. it is a disproportionate share it has dropped. it was slightly above 50% number of months ago. you can see with regard to our age groups. the majority of the covid-19 infections are in people 49 years or younger. smaller proportions in older populations. we call it the older populations at greatest risk for serious illnesses. then with regard to sexual orientation, you can see distribution. quite a bit of missing data that we are continuing to collect data bisexual orientation as required by the state. with regard to gender. male consistent with the biology of the virus. this is the characteristics of the dea

mr. wagner and miss louis, thank you so much for your fantastic work on this budget. i just want to remind everybody that last year you had to go through this process twice because of the pandemic and the change and the budget timeline. so, certainly, grateful to all of your work to get us to where we are now and know that this budget was just as challenging to put together. and it's also a good reminder with the mayor's priorities and equity and behavioral and mental health, how much they align with the priorities of the department. and how critical is the work that the department continues to do every day, even outside of the pandemic. so, thank you for bringing that all to us as well. commissioners, do we have any questions or comments on this presentation? i don't see any. all right. thank you very much. we'll look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. >> okay, thank you, commissioners. >> president bernal: all right. moving on to our next item, which is other business. do we have any other business? and no public comment on this item i imagine. >> clerk: we'

mr. wagner. do you have something to add, mr. wagner. >> i was going to add to clarify further. should the committee wish to further restrict that appropriation to codify the recommendation here today, our office can prepare an amendment to the ordinance and the board can add don't -- adopt that. should i wish to restrict control, that would be the way to do it and our office could draft that legislation for you. >> that is a level of control that didn't exist in the original appropriation, is that right? >> that's correct. >> supervisor, i would just say i know ms. louie responded. this would not be the first time the legal boundaries of the appropriation were less specific than the intent. we always for all of the reasons that ben described. we represent what our intent is to do and we do it. we do understand that we have discussions about our intent in the budget appropriation and those have meaning. we will be back before this board regularly and will be back before the our city our home committee regularly. this legal issue exists in other appropriations but our practice is

speaker, as the member designated by mrs. wagner, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. wagner will vote yes on h.r. 335. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. bill pascrell, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. pascrell will vote yes on h.r. 335. as the member designated by ms. bonney watson coleman, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mrs. watson coleman will vote yes on h.r. 335. finally, as the member designated by mr. paul tonko, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. tonko will vote yes on h.r. 335. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by representative brian higgins, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. higgins will vote aye on h.r. 3 356789 the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek

mr. wagner and miss louis, thank you so much for your fantastic work on this budget. i just want to remind everybody that last year you had to go through this process twice because of the pandemic and the change and the budget timeline. so, certainly, grateful to all of your work to get us to where we are now and know that this budget was just as challenging to put together. and it's also a good reminder with the mayor's priorities and equity and behavioral and mental health, how much they align with the priorities of the department. and how critical is the work that the department continues to do every day, even outside of the pandemic. so, thank you for bringing that all to us as well. commissioners, do we have any questions or comments on this presentation? i don't see any. all right. thank you very much. we'll look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. >> okay, thank you, commissioners. >> president bernal: all right. moving on to our next item, which is other business. do we have any other business? and no public comment on this item i imagine. >> clerk: we'

mr. wagner presented the resolution but i would like the privilege then of actually moving the resolutionor consideration by the commission. thank you. >> thank you. >> president bernal: all right. let me see, well, mr. brown, certainly we are presenting this resolution to you with our appreciation, we wish we could be here in person to hand you a nice framed copy of it and shake your hand and pose for photos and everything and while we can't do that, i know our commission secretary will arrange to get the physical resolution to you with our gratitude. is there anything you would like to say? >> i have it now. >> president bernal: see how fast he is? >> i want to say more than just thank you. i do want to thank you for the opportunity to come and work with the department again. and i think we talked a little bit going away thing we were doing today in a zoom meeting with other staff but there were challenges at the time we talked but we had no idea about covid-19 coming at the time i was asked to come to the department. so, you know, i always welcome a challenge. the challenges have alway

mr. wagner and miss louis, thank you so much for your fantastic work on this budget. i just want to remind everybody that last year you had to go through this process twice because of the pandemic and the change and the budget timeline. so, certainly, grateful to all of your work to get us to where we are now and know that this budget was just as challenging to put together. and it's also a good reminder with the mayor's priorities and equity and behavioral and mental health, how much they align with the priorities of the department. and how critical is the work that the department continues to do every day, even outside of the pandemic. so, thank you for bringing that all to us as well. commissioners, do we have any questions or comments on this presentation? i don't see any. all right. thank you very much. we'll look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. >> okay, thank you, commissioners. >> president bernal: all right. moving on to our next item, which is other business. do we have any other business? and no public comment on this item i imagine. >> clerk: we'

mr. wagner presented the resolution but i would like the privilege then of actually moving the resolution for consideration by the commission. thank you. >> thank you. >> president bernal: all right. let me see, well, mr. brown, certainly we are presenting this resolution to you with our appreciation, we wish we could be here in person to hand you a nice framed copy of it and shake your hand and pose for photos and everything and while we can't do that, i know our commission secretary will arrange to get the physical resolution to you with our gratitude. is there anything you would like to say? >> i have it now. >> president bernal: see how fast he is? >> i want to say more than just thank you. i do want to thank you for the opportunity to come and work with the department again. and i think we talked a little bit going away thing we were doing today in a zoom meeting with other staff but there were challenges at the time we talked but we had no idea about covid-19 coming at the time i was asked to come to the department. so, you know, i always welcome a challenge. the challenges have alw

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