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the american hotel lodging association has issued safe stay, industry-wide guidelines to provide hotels with a comprehensive set of best practice protocols. california lodging hotel association has adopted safe for its safe cleaning program. based on my 45 years of public health practice, specializing in infectious health and disease transmission, i find these measures appropriate. face coverings, distancing in all of indoor common areas, and guests requiring to choose contactless check in options as well as daily room cleaning limit contacts between hotel employees and guests. [inaudible] furthermore, it has some arbitrary cleaning requirements that are not only unnecessary but potentially detrimental to worker health and safety by exposing workers potentially to covid-19 as well as unhealthy cleaning sources. thank you very much for listening to me today. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm [inaudible], president and c.e.o. california lodging and hotel association. we represent more than 6,000 hotels in california and more than 215 hotels in san francisco. we greatly

the american hotel lodging association has issued safe stay, industry-wide guidelines to provide hotels with a comprehensive set of best practice protocols. california lodging hotel association has adopted safe for its safe cleaning program. based on my 45 years of public health practice, specializing in infectious health and disease transmission, i find these measures appropriate. face coverings, distancing in all of indoor common areas, and guests requiring to choose contactless check in options as well as daily room cleaning limit contacts between hotel employees and guests. [inaudible] furthermore, it has some arbitrary cleaning requirements that are not only unnecessary but potentially detrimental to worker health and safety by exposing workers potentially to covid-19 as well as unhealthy cleaning sources. thank you very much for listening to me today. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm [inaudible], president and c.e.o. california lodging and hotel association. we represent more than 6,000 hotels in california and more than 215 hotels in san francisco. we greatly

the american hotel lodging association has issued safe stay, industry-wide guidelines to provide hotels with a comprehensive set of best practice protocols. california lodging hotel association has adopted safe for its safe cleaning program. based on my 45 years of public health practice, specializing in infectious health and disease transmission, i find these measures appropriate. face coverings, distancing in all of indoor common areas, and guests requiring to choose contactless check in options as well as daily room cleaning limit contacts between hotel employees and guests. [inaudible] furthermore, it has some arbitrary cleaning requirements that are not only unnecessary but potentially detrimental to worker health and safety by exposing workers potentially to covid-19 as well as unhealthy cleaning sources. thank you very much for listening to me today. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm [inaudible], president and c.e.o. california lodging and hotel association. we represent more than 6,000 hotels in california and more than 215 hotels in san francisco. we greatly

300,000 people continue to claim unemployment insurance and in a recent survey from the american hotel lodging associationnearly three quarters of hotels will have to lay off employees if they do not receive additional government funding in las sector it'sno down nearly 25 percent the most among all sectors. i know you appreciate how hard the industry has been hit you talk about their needs to be reliefitional targeted can you identify what that looks like specifically for this industry? >> that ppe is the most effective way to get targeted relief to those jobs you are referring to. again we would provide a revenue declined test to make sure it allocates the businesses that really need it. >> but i just heard senator even is a ppe is not working in his state and is not working in nevada because w clearly too many are suffering around the hospitality industry so what do we need to do to target? my concern is a comment we made earlier that some sort of relief is better than nothing. i'm not about picking winners and losers but i think that comment is unfortunately i don't know how you can identify an indivi

city, so many major hotels have been shutting down but the latest report from the american hotel and lodging associationg that thousands of hotels are at risk for closing their doors for good. the report highlights 5 key issues, first one, the fact that now they are saying 4 out of 10 hotel employees are still not working because we know hotels have been closed. almost two-thirds of hotels remain at or below 50% occupancy. you also know people aren't traveling as much anymore, we can see reflected in travel stocks and some of the major, major chains out there, we know marriott here has trouble, the w, they are saying even urban hotels could face collapse and this is just -- has a trickle effect across all cities. previously before the break we talked about orlandoing are the lowest occupancy rate and this is having a trickle effect and industry leaders are trying to push for an extension of the ppp and they want additional relief specifically for the hotel industry as well. stuart: yeah, well, it's a disaster and that's a fact. kristina, thank you. susan has bee in my bonnet because of tesla. susan: tes

300,000 people continue to claim unemployment insurance and in a recent survey from the american hotel and lodging association nearly three quarters of hotels will have to lay off employees if they do not receive additional government funding. in las vegas and reno employment in our hospitality and leisure sect sector, it's down by nearly 25% most among all sectors. start with you secretary mnuchin. we've had this conversation and i know you appreciate how hard-hit our industry is. you talk about there needs to be an additional targeted relief. can you identify what that targeted relief would look like, specifically for this industry? >> well, i think the. ppp is the most effective way to get targeted relief to the jobs you refer to. we would put a revenue decline test to make sure that it was allocated to the businesses that really needed it. >> but it hasn't been. live, i just heard the senator say ppp wasn't working in his state and it hasn't worked in nevada. clearly, too many of our businesses are still suffering around the hospitality industry as well from live events to restaurants. so what do we need