and now, i want to call up the director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen carol. -- carroll. >> thank you, mayor breed, and dr. colfax. san francisco plans for, responds to, and recovers to emergencies as a community. since the outset of covid-19 or coronavirus, as it's known, the public health and emergency management have been working very closely together. our operations centers have been activated for over six weeks, and as dr. colfax noted, we have been working closely with the community to ensure that the people we serve can stay informed and stay healthy. together, we have hosted roundtables, neighborhood outreach for businesses. with today's emergency declaration, we are taking this partnership to a new level. as we elevate the response in our emergency operations center, we will establish, and we have established today a community branch that will consist of community, faith, business, and education partners. as a result, community and government will work together to identify and coordinate a response to this emerging threat. as we expand this operation

to begin this, we're going to kick it off with director mary ellen carole of the department of emergency management. >> good afternoon. and happy lunar new year. we're so happy to be here. i want to thank all of our media partners for being here and we want to get the message out of public safety in advance of the safety and public celebrations coming up this weekend. i want to thank the chinese chamber of commerce, president kenny c. you will hear a lot of helpful information here coming up from a number of city partners and we're going to start in a moment with our supervisor president norman yee and the mayson lee from the mayor office london breed's office and sheriff myamoto and police chief william scott, our fire chief jeannine nickolson, and dr. grant co fax. the purpose again is to promote public safety and accurate messages and the whole city has been working together for the past few weeks to get ready for lunar new year and at the department of emergency management where i am the director, we will have staff on site at the parade site and probably most importantly our 9-1-1 d

to begin this, we're going to kick it off with director mary ellen carole of the department of emergency management. >> good afternoon. and happy lunar new year. we're so happy to be here. i want to thank all of our media partners for being here and we want to get the message out of public safety in advance of the safety and public celebrations coming up this weekend. i want to thank the chinese

to begin this, we're going to kick it off with director mary ellen carole of the department of emergency management. >> good afternoon. and happy lunar new year. we're so happy to be here. i want to thank all of our media partners for being here and we want to get the message out of public safety in advance of the safety and public celebrations coming up this weekend. i want to thank the chinese chamber of commerce, president kenny c. you will hear a lot of helpful information here coming up from a number of city partners and we're going to start in a moment with our supervisor president norman yee and the mayson lee from the mayor office london breed's office and sheriff myamoto and police chief william scott, our fire chief jeannine nickolson, and dr. grant co fax. the purpose again is to promote public safety and accurate messages and the whole city has been working together for the past few weeks to get ready for lunar new year and at the department of emergency management where i am the director, we will have staff on site at the parade site and probably most importantly our 9-1-1 d

operation center and a key part in that has been the department of emergency management under mary ellen carol who is the head of the department. again, we've done these things before, but i want you to have the broader picture that we have quite an infrastructure now that is requiring lots of people working at all levels, including clinical logistics, operations, communications and so forth. and so i'll turn it back over to aragon, but i wanted to have you have that perspective, as well. >> thank you. >> thank you, director. i would like to commend the department for the public communication. it has been very strong. i know the press conference, i believe held a week ago yesterday, received a lot of coverage, particularly in the chinese press and aa press and attending public meetings as you did today and thank you for that. commissioners, any questions? commissioner giliarmo? >> i have a different but related question. my understanding because of the travel restrictions in the transportation, logistic restrictions, there's been a worry that there might be a lack of supplies, medical supplies

to begin this, we're going to kick it off with director mary ellen carole of the department of emergency management. >> good afternoon. and happy lunar new year. we're so happy to be here. i want to thank all of our media partners for being here and we want to get the message out of public safety in advance of the safety and public celebrations coming up this weekend. i want to thank the chinese chamber of commerce, president kenny c. you will hear a lot of helpful information here coming up from a number of city partners and we're going to start in a moment with our supervisor president norman yee and the mayson lee from the mayor office london breed's office and sheriff myamoto and police chief william scott, our fire chief jeannine nickolson, and dr. grant co fax. the purpose again is to promote public safety and accurate messages and the whole city has been working together for the past few weeks to get ready for lunar new year and at the department of emergency management where i am the director, we will have staff on site at the parade site and probably most importantly our 9-1-1 d