supervisor matt haney announced on twitter that he and supervisor hillary ronen dean preston and shamann walton introduced a measure to keep hotels open. well under the city's current shelter-in-place rehousing planned 7 of those shelter-in-place hotels are set to be close later this month. this will force nearly 2300 people back out into the streets. county leaders are buying to hotels to house people in need of a safe place to sleep. the county supervisor approved the purchase of the towne place suites and the pacific in hotel, those are in redwood city towne place suites will house 95 seniors with extremely low incomes. pacific n will provide temporary housing for those experiencing homelessness. well along the peninsula man's body was found yesterday near highway 35 and quell courts in san mateo county. authorities say the man has been identified as excuse me the man has been dead for quite some time. investigators are treating this like a homicide skyline boulevard will remain closed between quell court and state highway 92, at least until later this afternoon. the captain of the dive boat

i'm joined by supervisors shamann walton and rafael mandelman. our clerk is miss linda wong. i'd like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the board of supervisors, legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conferencing and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments are opportunity to speak during public comment period are available via phone call by calling (415)655-0001. again, meeting i.d. 146 414 8528. again 146 414 8528. then press pound twice. when permitted, you'll hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted. when your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet lo

matt haney announcing on twitter today that he and supervisors hillary ronen dean preston and shamann walton introduced a measure to keep these residential hotels open. also tweeted shelters are mostly shut down because congregate environments are dangerous. we should transition people currently in hotels in the housing and or treatment and keep hotel rooms available to being to bring people off sidewalks and alleys during the spiking pandemic under the city's current shelter-in-place free housing plan, 7 of those shelter-in-place hotel rooms are set to close later this month forcing nearly 2300 people back out onto the streets. >>a new free covid-19 testing site is open in san mateo county this drive-up testing site started testing people today on the campus of a jefferson union high school district in daly city the county hopes to conduct 500 tests, a day. sam zell county supervisor david says this testing site is one of several things needed to keep the virus from spreading. >>we need to make sure that we test we give people resources that test covid positive and in addition to that we ne

i'm joined by supervisors shamann walton and rafael mandelman. our clerk is miss linda wong. i'd like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. the board of supervisors, legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conferencing and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments are opportunity to speak during public comment period are available via phone call by calling (415)655-0001. again, meeting i.d. 146 414 8528. again 146 414 8528. then press pound twice. when permitted, you'll hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted. when your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet lo

and hats off to our colleague supervisor and joint powers board rep shamann walton and his colleague david pine and i rarely say things like this, who showed true leadership. the sales tax will provide not only a lifeline to this regional railroad, that connects gilroy all the way to san francisco, through san jose and san mateo county, which has been struggling like all transit properties with extreme revenue losses, because of ridership levels during the pandemic, but the funds will offset our own obligations in the amount of some 15 million ad year to provide operating support, which will be a shot in the arm from muni. finally the fund funds will proa way to build towards caltrain's future as an electrified service. we look forward to hearing about that project later on today's agenda with mr. fungy. and again thank you to everybody who made this happen and particularly the voters of the three counties. and finally i'd like to thank many of you. i was not able to attend. i got tickets to the freida exhibit at the dejung. i want to thank commissioners yee, mandelman who observed w

that's why i support shamann walton's legislation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we have 41 listeners and 18 callers in the queue. if you like to provide public comment, you got to press star 3 to get in the queue. otherwise, those 41 listeners will not be able to speak. next caller please. >> hey. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> sorry. this is allen scott. i am the other than of. inspectindependent, the managin. i moved to san francisco 1977 because of the live music scene. in 1999t 1999 i started my prodn company doing shows all throughout the city and many venues that don't exist. in 2004, i bought the justice room and opened the independent. since 2020, since covid hit we've had literally .3% revenue compared to 2019. we've had under $10,000 and it's been in sales. the clubs in san francisco are vital. it's a reason people live here. it's a reason we're a world-class. just imagine all these venues closing, we have san jose with no clubs and just an arena. that's what we're looking at. it's very hard

that's why i support shamann walton's legislation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we have 41 listeners and 18 callers in the queue. if you like to provide public comment, you got to press star 3 to get in the queue. otherwise, those 41 listeners will not be able to speak. next caller please. >> hey. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> sorry. this is allen scott. i am the other than of. inspectindependent, the managin. i moved to san francisco 1977 because of the live music scene. in 1999t 1999 i started my prodn company doing shows all throughout the city and many venues that don't exist. in 2004, i bought the justice room and opened the independent. since 2020, since covid hit we've had literally .3% revenue compared to 2019. we've had under $10,000 and it's been in sales. the clubs in san francisco are vital. it's a reason people live here. it's a reason we're a world-class. just imagine all these venues closing, we have san jose with no clubs and just an arena. that's what we're looking at. it's very hard