asking them to report them to the joint commission that occurred simultaneously. and that acute care and we have two teams of surveyors at the beginning of the covid issues there. both were slated to go for five days. and on the fourth day of that survey process and we have our first positive patient with the state of deficiencies and with very few findings. a lot of what they were investigating they were not able to substantiate or not find any

that legitimized approving this struck the joint commission that accredits health care organizations mandated pain is treated like the 5th vital signs as patients routinely had their temperature and blood pressures checked doctors were expected to ask each person to rate their pain on a scale from $1.00 to $10.00 doctors and hospitals were mohnish to if they did not treat this pain the joint commission developed this pain as the 5th vital sign. as part of a grant of that was provided to them by the pharmaceutical company purdue pharma the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations recently defined and adopted stringent pain standards on the basic thrust of our new standards is that organizations and practitioners have an obligation to ask the patient even if the patient doesn't look like he or she is in pain ask them be surprised to hear when you go to a doctor's office how they ask you or are you having pain. no you may go for a raise that has nothing to do with pain which just added lighter fluid to the fire because because it became equivalent to say if you hav

the two main issues are new credit line through esm and joint commissions are still at the table. there is no breakthrough at this stage. we'll see what finance ministers will do today. >> thank you for that. let's let's update you on some chinese news car sales fell 40.8% year on year the group giving us a snap shot of how much weakness we've seen in auto sales as a result of the coronavirus. earlier on, we updated you where they are seeing some improvement in imports and exports into and out of china at this point as they try to address the lockdown here in europe, giuseppe says they have to maintain strict lockdown they have advised continuation of the strict measures urging the government to produce a road map for returning to work confirming the issue will be reviewed at a meeting today. multiple reports indicate the measures will be extended beyond next week. i see, steve, the new leader of the option has wasted no time weighing in how long we should expect to see this >> i saw that. he doesn't want an exact date but he wants an idea of what it looks like the option is holdi

in 1983, and in 1984, general hospital's accreditation by the joint commission was in jeopardy.he hospital did not have an affective governing body and had antiquated management systems and staffing shortages. we heard from hillary ronen today, and she called it bizantine, antiquated, it sounds the same. we've heard about staffing shortages. we've asked questions of our management that they are unable to answer. it seems similar. in addition to these accreditation issues, there were issues with ambulance response times. that's first responder issues. we're talking to e.r. staff who are on diversion 60% of the time. even then, many people in the community felt that the city mental health is not responsive to the needs. remember mental health s.f.? sounds similar. so the joint commission was created so that the city could make budget and policy decisions more transparent because the business would be conducted i in public meetings. when the joint commission was created, after this 1983 and '84 crisis, the aids epidemic was under way. and it was the frontline staff then that brough

again, for the members of the public and those on the commission who usually are not on the joint committee, this is kind of business that is usually done at that committee. i am not sure if she is visually present or just audio. >> my intent was to be visually present as well. i don't know if anyone can see me. this is the first time and i can see all of you. >> we cannot. what number -- let's see. >> i don't think it's vital that you see me as long as you can hear me. the other thing is that there is this delay when i am actually on the video. so it is my audio is via the phone so i can be simultaneous with the proceedings. >> sure. i do not have power point slides and i do not think i have to have a visual if you are okay with me not having a visual. >> please proceed, doctor. >> so thank you so much. good evening. i have several items for you to review. and dr. chow, thank you for your comments and your questions. i wanted to clarify that we changed the actual state of the privileges and have major revisions and do not change the dates at the title of the actual privileges or the sps. t

again, for the members of the public and those on the commission who usually are not on the joint committee, this is kind of business that is usually done at that committee. i am not sure if she is visually present or just audio. >> my intent was to be visually present as well. i don't know if anyone can see me. this is the first time and i can see all of you. >> we cannot. what number -- let's see. >> i don't think it's vital that you see me as long as you can hear me. the other thing is that there is this delay when i am actually on the video. so it is my audio is via the phone so i can be simultaneous with the proceedings. >> sure. i do not have power point slides and i do not think i have to have a visual if you are okay with me not having a visual. >> please proceed, doctor. >> so thank you so much. good evening. i have several items for you to review. and dr. chow, thank you for your comments and your questions. i wanted to clarify that we changed the actual state of the privileges and have major revisions and do not change the dates at the title of the actual privileges or the sps. t

again, for the members of the public and those on the commission who usually are not on the joint committee, this is kind of business that is usually done at that committee. i am not sure if she is visually present or just audio. >> my intent was to be visually present as well. i don't know if anyone can see me. this is the first time and i can see all of you. >> we cannot. what number -- let's see. >> i don't think it's vital that you see me as long as you can hear me. the other thing is that there is this delay when i am actually on the video. so it is my audio is via the phone so i can be simultaneous with the proceedings. >> sure. i do not have power point slides and i do not think i have to have a visual if you are okay with me not having a visual. >> please proceed, doctor. >> so thank you so much. good evening. i have several items for you to review. and dr. chow, thank you for your comments and your questions. i wanted to clarify that we changed the actual state of the privileges and have major revisions and do not change the dates at the title of the actual privileges or the sps. t

joint statement. ioc coordination commission chair john coates said the costs should be reduced further through a rigorouseview of service levels for all areas of the games. coates stopped short of mentioning what the ioc's share of any additional costs would be, but he said the ioc will not stand by and see our international federations collapse. the ioc and the japanese side agree that the present plans for the venues and competition schedules will be retained almost unchanged, and they will discuss the matter with officials of the games' venues. >>> with millions of people around the world required to stay home these days, concerns about domestic violence are growingng. u.n. secretary general is urging governments to take this into account as they craft measures to slow down the virus. nhk world's reporter tells us what's been done in austria. >> reporter: restaurants, stores, and schools were closed when the austrian government imposed severe restrictions weeks ago. people were ordered to stay home except when shopping for groceries and e essenttials. ththis family lilives in the wen part of the count

again, for the members of the public and those on the commission who usually are not on the joint committee, this is kind of business that is usually done at that committee. i am not sure if she is visually present or just audio. >> my intent was to be visually present as well. i don't know if anyone can see me. this is the first time and i can see all of you. >> we cannot. what number -- let's see. >> i don't think it's vital that you see me as long as you can hear me. the other thing is that there is this delay when i am actually on the video. so it is my audio is via the phone so i can be simultaneous with the proceedings. >> sure. i do not have power point slides and i do not think i have to have a visual if you are okay with me not having a visual. >> please proceed, doctor. >> so thank you so much. good evening. i have several items for you to review. and dr. chow, thank you for your comments and your questions. i wanted to clarify that we changed the actual state of the privileges and have major revisions and do not change the dates at the title of the actual privileges or the sps. t

are scheduled to enter into a joint closed session for the public utilities commission regarding existing litigation regarding pacific gas and electric company today, march 10, 2020. >> okay. members of the public, we now ask that you exit the chamber and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them, and we will reopen the doors, the chamber once we finish with the joint closed session, and the public will be allowed >> okay. are we ready? do i need to do this? no. we are now back in open session. may i have a motion for the board -- what? that the board finds that it is in our best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations? a motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. >> for the record we will show that supervisor haney is not in the chamber >> okay. then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. i will hand this over to you for p.u.c.'s action. >> commissioners, can i have a motion on whether to disclose. a motion by commissioner maxwell not to disclose s

are scheduled to enter into a joint closed session for the public utilities commission regarding existing litigation regarding pacific gas and electric company today, march 10, 2020. >> okay. members of the public, we now ask that you exit the chamber and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them, and we will reopen the doors, the chamber once we finish with the joint closed session, and the public will be allowed >> okay. are we ready? do i need to do this? no. we are now back in open session. may i have a motion for the board -- what? that the board finds that it is in our best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations? a motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. >> for the record we will show that supervisor haney is not in the chamber >> okay. then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. i will hand this over to you for p.u.c.'s action. >> commissioners, can i have a motion on whether to disclose. a motion by commissioner maxwell not to disclose seconded by commissioner paulson

one development we have seen is that the joint commission, which accredits hospitals, has released atatement saying they do not see a reason, from a regulatory perspective, why hospitals cannot allow people to bring in their own ppe to protect themselves. i think it is heartening to see that happen and i hope we continue to have that support. we are making sure all of our frontline health care workers are protected. host: a few more minutes with allison haddock from houston. she is joining us from home. she is a member of the board of the american college of emergency physicians. this is dan out of el paso. -- diane out of el paso. i was associate dean of baylor college of medicine. my best friend is an hiv patient. he has been in prison since august and he gets out in a month. i don't know what to do when he gets out. what do you think? one of our concerns as whoicians has been those are in unstable or group housing. if anyone comes in with symptoms of covid or potentially symptoms of covid, we want to make sure we have a safe place to discharge them to where they will not be transm

this is a joint effort between the chief executive officer mayor london breed, the board of supervisors and the public utilities commission as well as the city attorney's office. tomorrow there is a joint closed session meeting, the first of its kind in my memory between the puc commission and the board of supervisors in this chamber at 4:00 p.m. this is a resolution as the clerk just said, affirming the city's support for the acquisition of pg&e assets in the city and county of san francisco, contingent on certain conditions. and we have voted on many similar resolutions up until now. but as we go into this joint meeting with the p.u.c. and as the p.u.c. has on their calendar a very similar, almostite cal, resolution, that they are scheduled -- almost identical resolution that they are scheduled to vote on tomorrow afternoon, i wanted to bring this to the committee and subject to our deliberations and public comment, send this to the full board of supervisors as a committee report. the language should not be new to any of us except for maybe supervisor preston, which recites the history of the provision of electrical ser

and of course most surgical for example is one of them and this joint procurement mechanism is where the commission can buy huge amounts and have a single store that they can then distribute the equipment to the countries that need it most the 1st thing to have arrived i think even to this week the mosques the other materials there are still the contracts are still to be signed for the deliveries. you referred to the symptomatic ties to china and the u.s. now talking about lots numbers of corona virus infections with no symptoms at all what do we know about so-called silent carrying in europe and what are those implications you know 1st of all about 80 percent of people who get infected will have no symptoms at all should the problem of not just the symptoms we know for from studies even if you are about to get symptoms or get very sick 2 days before anything comes out for you to see that you have the infection you could also spread the virus so that's where the real worry is on this are simpler to carry its carrier state is not a long one so it's not like for example a tribe which is lifelong unle

are scheduled to enter into a joint closed session for the public utilities commission regarding existing litigation regarding pacific gas and electric company today, march 10, 2020. >> okay. members of the public, we now ask that you exit the chamber and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them, and we will reopen the doors, the chamber once we finish with the joint closed session, and the public will be allowed >> okay. are we ready? do i need to do this? no. we are now back in open session. may i have a motion for the board -- what? that the board finds that it is in our best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations? a motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor safai. >> for the record we will show that supervisor haney is not in the chamber >> okay. then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. i will hand this over to you for p.u.c.'s action. >> commissioners, can i have a motion on whether to disclose. a motion by commissioner maxwell not to disclose seconded by commissioner paulson

director to execute a memorandum of understanding, with the transbay joint powers authority, tjpa, the metropolitan transportation commission, the peninsula corridor joint powers board, the california high-speed rail authority, and the city and county of san francisco for the establishment of a new organizational structure that will support the efforts of the tjpa in the development of the downtown rail extension to a ready-for-procurement status. that is an action item. and item 18, allocate $11,906,558 with conditions for downtown rail extension, phasing and partial 15% design and appropriate $2,636,109 in prop k sales tax funds for rail program oversight and project development support. that is also an action item. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i think we are all very, very familiar with these two items, that have been bounced around for getting on to a year. and that led in some part to the expert study and the recommendations that rolled out of that. but i think have now been embraced by all of the different transit agencies, that are named in item 17. with that, i would like to thank our staff,

director to execute a memorandum of understanding, with the transbay joint powers authority, tjpa, the metropolitan transportation commission, the peninsula corridor joint powers board, the california high-speed rail authority, and the city and county of san francisco for the establishment of a new organizational structure that will support the efforts of the tjpa in the development of the downtown rail extension to a ready-for-procurement status. that is an action item. and item 18, allocate $11,906,558 with conditions for downtown rail extension, phasing and partial 15% design and appropriate $2,636,109 in prop k sales tax funds for rail program oversight and project development support. that is also an action item. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i think we are all very, very familiar with these two items, that have been bounced around for getting on to a year. and that led in some part to the expert study and the recommendations that rolled out of that. but i think have now been embraced by all of the different transit agencies, that are named in item 17. with that, i would like to thank our staff,

director to execute a memorandum of understanding, with the transbay joint powers authority, tjpa, the metropolitan transportation commission, the peninsula corridor joint powers board, the california high-speed rail authority, and the city and county of san francisco for the establishment of a new organizational structure that will support the efforts of the tjpa in the development of the downtown rail extension to a ready-for-procurement status. that is an action item. and item 18, allocate $11,906,558 with conditions for downtown rail extension, phasing and partial 15% design and appropriate $2,636,109 in prop k sales tax funds for rail program oversight and project development support. that is also an action item. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i think we are all very, very familiar with these two items, that have been bounced around for getting on to a year. and that led in some part to the expert study and the recommendations that rolled out of that. but i think have now been embraced by all of the different transit agencies, that are named in item 17. with that, i would like to thank our staff,

director to execute a memorandum of understanding, with the transbay joint powers authority, tjpa, the metropolitan transportation commission, the peninsula corridor joint powers board, the california high-speed rail authority, and the city and county of san francisco for the establishment of a new organizational structure that will support the efforts of the tjpa in the development of the downtown rail extension to a ready-for-procurement status. that is an action item. and item 18, allocate $11,906,558 with conditions for downtown rail extension, phasing and partial 15% design and appropriate $2,636,109 in prop k sales tax funds for rail program oversight and project development support. that is also an action item. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i think we are all very, very familiar with these two items, that have been bounced around for getting on to a year. and that led in some part to the expert study and the recommendations that rolled out of that. but i think have now been embraced by all of the different transit agencies, that are named in item 17. with that, i would like to thank our staff,

item 13b, variance will be continued to april 30, joint hearing of planning commission, and item 15b will be continued to the regular variance hearing on march 25. >> thank you. commissioners, that will place us under your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission the public or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 49 missouri street and item 6, case 022530cua, 4 west portal avenue, conditional use authorization. i have no speaker cards. would any members of the public like to comment on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner johnson. >> move to approve items 5 and 6 with conditions. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve items 5 and 6 under your consent calendar, [roll cal

joint recovery fund for the time after the pandemic the 27 e.u. leaders met in a video conference call today diplomatic sources say that they agreed to ask the european commission to work out the details. of the common recovery plan this is the 4th time that the leaders have met since the virus outbreak began in italy. where he u.g. 1st live and ally and she took part in that summit today and she warned that all you countries need to see a steady recovery or risk deepening the divisions within your by the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities some countries are certainly hit harder than others and unless unless we act decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergencies between member states will increase our listing the story now to brussels and speak with the chief international of the richard walker getting b.g. you richard so how do e.u. leaders after this meeting today how do they plan to tackle this huge problem. well we are a few baby steps closer to an answer on that brain but we're still not quite there basically all that 27 e.u. leaders managed to agree on so far is the really broad strokes of what t

joint recovery fund for the time after the pandemic but when just 70 e.u. leaders met in a video conference today and diplomatic sources say they agreed to ask the european commission to work out the details of a common recovery plan this is the 4th time the leaders have met since the virus outbreak and it's of the. year chief fund fund and i until. passed in their virtual summits and she won that all e.u. countries need to see a steady recovery or risk deepening divisions within the block by the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities some countries are certainly hit harder than others and unless unless we act decisively and collectively the recovery will not be symmetric and divergences between member states will increase. earlier we talked to did our views chief international editor richard walker in brussels and we wanted to know what the e.u. leaders actually agreed on basically all the $27.00 e.u. leaders managed to agree on so far is the really broad strokes of what they want to happen they have agreed that they want to have a big recovery fund that is designed to help countries recover their economies once the the really intense phase

necessarily be a joint statement they'll just be a statement from the european council president and most likely he will then say ok we think this could be a way over to you european commission you guys go work out something that we can maybe sign off on in the next week said ok thank you to the deadliest 1000000 the crane and rich or poor. now here is a look at other stories making headlines around the world wildfires have devastated about 10 percent of eastern. national park some 6000 hectares of forest meadows and people have burned since sunday poland is facing its worst droughts and he is off to unusually dry winter spring with. gold has been rising to a 7 year high price as a base just look to a safe haven people in thailand have been among the children with the precious metal trading at more than $750.00 an ounce. back to germany now the trial of 2 suspected members of syria's secret police has opened in the city of copeland's the men face charges of murder torture and sexual assaults they allegedly committed in a damascus prison in 20112012 prosecutors are using universal jurisdiction rolls to try the 2 suspects in this country they entered germany as asylum seekers'

with the metropolitan transportation commission, san francisco transportation authority, san francisco transbay joint powers board to enhance the facility of the downtown extension. this is to implement a new organizational structure -- do i have it? -- to support the tjpa projects in the most efficient manner in collaboration with the partner agencies in the bay area. the goal is to -- is to be -- to take the d.t.x. to shovel ready status in the next two to three years. as way of background, in july of 2018, we received an allocation of approximately $10,000 million from sfcta tot resume work on the preliminary engineering on the downtown extension. that was suspended in december 2018 after a discovery of the fiss fissures detected in the tunnel under the street. after that, the sfcta initiated a peer review of that effort, and at the same time, the board asked me to initiate a peer review with the american transportation association. the peer review was concluded in may 2019. that concluded in recommending that the tjpa have less reliance on consultants and have more depth on tjpa staff to have mor

joint. e.u. debt but germany the netherlands and others wrongly opposed the idea of so-called bond a compromise could lie behind these walls the e.u. commission could borrow money and if you bomb against the security of the e.u. budget something like a limited edition of mutual debt it isn't spending. and the german chancellor has already said she's willing to explore the idea. to address the pandemic and germany will participate in solidarity measures that could be only an issue rescue package and find 100000000000 euros. the question is what the commission says from low. ground. aric arrogant is a complicated issue something that e.u. leaders will have to negotiate making it more complicated is the fact that they're not going to be huddled in one room they're going to be meeting the video conference how will this work logistically. without a doubt it makes it more complicated and in fact finance ministers already showed that an all nighter summit a summit that dragged on for 16 hours is even possible just using a t.v. screens and computer screens which often chance of going back and set off the one off to the last a digital summit if you wa

with the metropolitan transportation commission, san francisco transportation authority, san francisco transbay joint powers board to enhance the facility of the downtown extension. this is to implement a new organizational structure -- do i have it? -- to support the tjpa projects in the most efficient manner in collaboration with the partner agencies in the bay area. the goal is to -- is to be -- to take the d.t.x. to shovel ready status in the next two to three years. as way of background, in july of 2018, we received an allocation of approximately $10,000 million from sfcta tot resume work on the preliminary engineering on the downtown extension. that was suspended in december 2018 after a discovery of the fiss fissures detected in the tunnel under the street. after that, the sfcta initiated a peer review of that effort, and at the same time, the board asked me to initiate a peer review with the american transportation association. the peer review was concluded in may 2019. that concluded in recommending that the tjpa have less reliance on consultants and have more depth on tjpa staff to have mor