is their health care provider. vp pence: right. dr. butler: so we want to make sure that information is provided to healthcare providers as quickly as possible, particularly since they're prioritized so that they can confidently receive the vaccine and then also serve as examples for their patients. vp pence: well, the confidence piece is so important. and we did see some positive progress, but this fall, i think in september, we only had half of the american public that said they'd be prepared to take a vaccine. i think that's closer to 60% now and rising. i want to be sensitive to everyone's time. i know you're initiating a project to build confidence in the vaccine. i think it's incumbent on all of us in public life to communicate the thorough process. we've gone at a record pace, but we've cut no corners. dr. butler: that's right. vp pence: in this. i think that what we want to do is assure the american people there's been no compromise of safety or effectiveness in the development of this vaccine. we just, und

, that level of detail to provide as much information supported by data and science are provided to providers so patients are aware of the issues is critically important. it is one thing that the fda does. >> thank you. next question from pro-public up. >> to what extent has the fda inspections of manufacturing sites? >> to give you an overview of the inspection process, we had a blot of tools to ensure the quality -- a lot of tools to ensure the quality and safety and make sure any medical product would meet our high standards. a lot of tools at our disposal which we have used. i don't know if you want to get more specifics. >> for emergency use authorization, we are not required to do the site inspections that we would for a biologics license application and fully approved vaccine. that said, we relied on a combination of tools to ensure that we are confident that these vaccines are being made in a manner that is consistent with the high quality that americans have come to expect from vaccines taken to prevent disease. >> thank you. our next question comes from usa today. >> thanks for doin

provided more than $100 billion for amtrak to prevent further furloughs, more in payroll support to provide support for illinois airline workers and to provide funding for illinois bus companies to keep their workers on the job the part of the money that we put in here was for the logistics of the vaccineses that will now take place across the united states. we provided some -- i think the negotiators are adding to the amount and i plawd them for that. what we -- applaud them for that. what we left out is significant too. we did not provide any direct assistance to state and local governments. this morning i got on the telephone with a group that has been kind enough to volunteer for many years to -- to consider the applications of individuals in illinois who want to attend our service academies. some of these people have been doing this for 20 years. i really respect them and thank them for doing it. i try to take myself out of that consideration so no one can ever claim political contribution was taken in any way. one of the persons who did in part of the meeting this morning was skip lee

grants to all early education providers to all providers across the city who have been struggling. there's much more to operate under the public health order than meets the eye, and for that, i'm going to thank you for bringing up this fund as a life saver. we're going to be providing grants as a lifeline, and then loans for those that the grants won't quite cover. the grants are going to be made available first as a priority, and secondary, if a program needs just a little bit more help, then we'll be able to offer them loans, as well. the funding will be able to cover citywide. of course, prioritization is always to programs that are in higher need and in neighborhoods that have the most need. so those are the two things that we clarified. the other has to do with clarification around the funders for the family resource centers. it's been a joint initiative since the beginning, and that's been through the department of children, youth, and families and, of course, first five san francisco. as we move through, we want to look at the entire early childhood system as we're not only

consider a provider's relationship with an agency and the provider associations. long-standing commitment to taking children with subsidies, and also priority neighborhoods. they must have a solid business plan, commitment to financial business support. furthermore, i would like to also encourage o.c.e. to provide support for whatever insurance child care providers need because i believe those are not cheap. so that's all i'm going to say for now. thanks so much. thanks to all the board members who works hard to make sure that our children are served and our providers are healthy and compensated well. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we hear from the next caller, please. >> hi. my name is pat sullivan. i am the president of the board of the -- of the family child care association of san francisco, and i wanted to thank president yee, the board of supervisors, the office of early care and education, and all our community partners for all their help in helping us get through this horrible crisis we're in right now, and i just want to say how grateful we are for a

that's providing significant support for the economy now. we don't think the economy suffers from a lack of highly accommodative financial conditions. we think it's suffering from the pandemic. and people wanting to not engage in certain kinds of economic activity. we expect that with the virus that that will improve. that condition will improve. nonetheless, again, we will -- are prepared to use our tools. we will use them at such time and such amounts that we think would help. >> thank you. scott, n.p.r. reporter: thank you, mr. chairman. some forecasters have suggested there is a lot of pent up demand for travel and entertainment and services and the like that might stop being pent up in a hurry if we do get to a point where the vaccine is widely distributed. and that the beaten down service sector might have trouble meeting that demand in a hurry. how might that affect inflation in your mind, and would that be just a transient problem or something that might warrant closer scrutiny? chair powell: that has all the markings of a transient

only the house bill provides that relief. any other measure will be doomed because the house cannot come back to pass it in the time that we have left in this session. so, the majority leader essentially blocking a step that will literally save lives, supported by the vast majority of the american people. a significant part of his own conference and every democrat and have no doubt every democrat will vote for it we clamored for it. a higher stimulus payment ffor months when the majority leader refuses to come to the table. then when the president of the united states failed to lift a finger, he was on the golf course when it might have made a difference in raising that 600 dollars amount. higher during the negotiation . but looking forward, there's a way to provide this released to americans without leaving here in a contest of blame. but in a new year of mutual congratulations. pass the $2000 stimulus payment plan as a standalone, clean bill. i just want to say i'm probably the only senator who has supported two measures, o

. 10,000 are being held to account for provider new enrollments coming in, or other necessary provider adjustments. additionally, cvs and walgreens, beginwe're grateful for, vaccinating staff and residents in nursing homes the week on or about december 28 under the pharmacy partnership program. their doses come from the state's pfizer allocation. 000between 40,000 and 60, will be shipped to cvs and walgreens for nursing facilities. facilities. this process is fast-moving, ever-changing, and we will continue to calibrate our plans. we will provide updates on a regular basis. yesterday i hosted a call with the department of public health, where more than 2700 to bejeweled participated regarding the vaccine rollout. the feedback helps, because it helps us target our question -- the questions into very specific faq's. for regular updates these visit mass.gov/covidvaccine to learn more about when you can expect to have access to the vaccine. individuals with questions about what days they can be vaccinated, can send an email to covid-19-vaccine-plan-ma@mass.go v for prioritization clarifica

last month i provided a full report with data from the report of 2020 and provide updates along with the monthly data from october. the monthly report includes the statistics as of the end of october and want to provide more updated numbers as of the end of last month. we had a total of [indiscernible] for a total amount of slightly under $1.9 million. we've had 77 coronavirus related loan suspensions and 847 coronavirus related distributions for a total of a little over $27.8 million. as i mention the last month, the new loan provision expired on september 23 but the coronavirus loan suspension will be available until the last week of this month. the new loan numbers i just reported are final and next month we will be reporting the cares act number with the finalized loan suspension and distribution numbers. also i want to point out the recent increase in enrollment numbers due to the pandemic and subsequent shelter in place order and faced a decrease and after we adapted our communication and addition of webinars and marketing materials [indiscernible] we saw a fivefold increase in

number one, we are having to create a provider system. that really only begins when they find out through the system and receive the vaccines, so each one of the hospitals or long-term care centers or pharmacies, this is the first time they have ever provided this vaccine, and what we are now seeing is it takes a little bit longer to administer than i think the federal government thought when they were coming up with those numbers. take a hospital. you do not want to vaccinate everybody the same day at the same time. you worry about work schedules, and, again, you have to have people taking care of them on the covid unit, not everybody at the same time. so i do not think we are seeing a problem with the system. we are just seeing realistically how long it takes when you get in x thousands in the group to get them vaccinated, but in the future, there are going to be more challenges as the groups get bigger. there are challenges to make sure we have a large enough provider network. we are working on that now. but remember, the larger networ

the substance abuse and mental health services administration provide services for mental, behavioral, andy dick disorders. the health-related concerns connected with -- and other responsibility for toxic substances and disease registry. addition is recent the agency for health care policy and research. it strives to assess the effectiveness of medical care. the public health service response to needy members of the community providing care to native americans through its indian health service. it also assess the elderly, drug addicts, those with aids and others that might be forgotten. when it started, the mission was to serve a group that had little access to medical care, merchant seamen. that was in 1798 when an act of congress signed into law by president adams provided for the government to maintain hospitals for sick or disabled people as had been done in england. for its first 80 years or so, the marine hospital fund was administered by customs inspectors in the seaport of the new nation. grew, soited states did the number of sports. green hospitals and clinics on the east coa

in the meantime, we will provide updates as they are available. the more you know, the more confident you will be making decisions. iwant people to know that plan to be vaccinated after health-care workers and long-term care residents and staff. exactly when that will occur will depend on prioritization for the next phase. we will speak about that in a little bit. my decision to wait is not based on any hesitancy against the vaccine. wantg this first phase, i to make sure that those on the and long-term care residents who are at risk are vaccinated first. i am confident that the vaccine is safe and effective. being forward to vaccinated as soon the supply increases. i will let you know exactly when that will be. in the meantime, i will continue to follow public health guidance to protect ourselves from the .irus covid-19 is not over simply because the vaccine is here and beginning to be administered. but the finish line is finally in sight. be a marathon,ll not a sprint. we need to pace ourselves. that still holds true today. a few short months fr

providers. we are a private school. we provide financial afraid our pockets. and our teach thers and families depend on us as they would at any school and i'd like the echo lucy's comments that we serve a lot of essential providers in our apparent community. we also shut down completely for shelter in place. of course we could not collect from our families during this time. we did obtain federal p.p.e. funds to cover payroll but that is one part of our cost. most providers are suffering a really big double bind of higher costs to operate right now. and lower income. due to the limit and means of complying with the necessary health requirements right now. so covid has had a huge hit on most providers. we have to hire more teach thers. we definitely have to perditional supply and i'd like to emphasize that grant funds rather than additional loan commitments are the most useful to recuperate lost income. child care is an industry that runs on thin margins. our private programmes are struggling to re-open and recover and continue. so, grant funds would definitely

a unique expertise they may not providing -- be providing now that might underutilized, if they have other professional capacities that are available or that they would avail themselves to. we want people to consider joining the health corps. go to our website. we want to actively onboard additional members for the program. by the way, health corps has been incredibly effective, especially skilled nursing facilities. we have 871 folks actively many already have been. theyan see 109 facilities have been supporting the last number of months. here is the point i was previewing a moment ago, around additional preparedness outside of just human capital. here are physical assets. we talked a lot about the capacity we had, roughly 2000 beds, i think it was 1872-plus beds, but it is roughly 2000 outside the health care delivery system, facilities in what we refer to as warm status. more on that. valley see imperial college, we already have some capacity to provide 100 beds in warm status in imperial valley and imperial county. , it is through the gateway to northern california, not the immed

who are the frontline providers? who are going into the s.r.o.s to see if people are ready to get clean and sober? if they're ready to get clean and sober, are we not there? are we bailing? >> judy, can you talk about if healthright 360 has outreach, and safe harbor, they have outreach, and they're able to facilitate people to residential treatment, aif that's what they're interested in? can you speak more to that? >> yeah. i think there are devly people that want to get off drugs, for sure, and the path to that is through counseling and mutual -- definitely people that want to get off drugs, for sure, and the path to that is through counseling and peers that have a few more years under their belt of being sober. and peer navigators are a big backbone of the system. so covid has been hard on those groups, and sometimes in the residential programs, they can do the groups because people are in quarantine for a while before they join the milieu, the congregate setting. otherwise, what our programs are finding is that ev

you are the only provider. is there any misinformation you would like to clear up for the committee this afternoon? >> we are encouraged and sometimes forced to think about this issue as a dichotomy is black or white and the reality is that it is not that way it isn't me versus them. i am a physician and a provider of healthcare and my job is to support my patients no matter what they are supported by their families and communities. we are providing compassionate care and i'm providing care in the community that i grew up in. >> the issue about coercion, can you address that at all? >> one of the witnesses mentioned a pregnancy support center and what we are talking about is the state clinics next to a mere abortion facility to mislead i've cared for patients that have mistakenly gone into those places and have been held hostage and unable to leave and falsifying and are coercing to carry on with a pregnancy that they may or may not want. i think it really comes down to what we are doing when we say that we are

can you provide the details? gov. wolf: i cannot. that is what the general assembly will have to do. we will implement as quickly and efficiently what they decide to do. the general assembly and the executive branch have learned a lot throughout this pandemic as to what works and what does not work as well. clearly we need to get the money into the hands of businesses. we need to do it quickly. we will work with the general assembly to figure out the best possible way to do this. >> next we have jim from kyw. >> jan hit on the questions i had but i will drill more. $145 million conduct spread -- can get spread free quickly in a state as large as pennsylvania. you mentioned restaurants and bars. would you try to focus specifically on them? i know you touched on that, but again, how quickly that money can get spread to have less effect? gov. wolf: it is a great point. $145 million to the businesses most in need. the general assembly, we will work together with them to figure out what those businesses are. don't forget the money that sh

the tier one is patient health care providers in the unity. that would be people like ophthalmologists, dentists, and those types of people that are patient-facing staff. once that group has been vaccinated, we will come back and do the non-patient staff with folks in the business office. those that are directly interacting with patients. our hope is that by next week, we have vaccinated the vast majority of health care providers and they can move on to phase two. my understanding is that it includes firefighters, teachers, law enforcement. there is lots of excitement around here about the ability to move forward with vaccinations. i need to acknowledge governor reynolds and the state support not just getting the vaccine out, but we have partnered with the state. we prevent hospitalizations and we are grateful for that. we are grateful for that. we have seen a spike late in the year. our numbers are trending down. unfortunately, inpatient numbers are trending up due to some spikes in nursing homes. certainly the vaccine will take us a long way

provide you with what you needed. number one. number two, in order to ensure that we would be in a position to acquire more vaccine doses if and when a vaccine had first signs of performance, we built options in each and every one of our agreement. that's the right thing to do. that's the thoughtful way to allocate resources and taxpayers' money. as soon as we knew that the vaccine works, the negotiations started and i think the secretary really described the nature of the partnership that we have with different companies. some are more arms length. and others are extremely onp hold. when pfizer was unable to specify when vaccine doses would be delivered, we don't need 100 million doses of vaccines starting in september or december of 2020. 20201. we need them in the second quarter. if they make it into the second quarter. if they don't, i think there are enough vaccine doses, as you could see, through the first option agreement with moderna, now doubling the amount of vaccine doses we have, and with the johnson vacci

but can provide in our scope of work. these things are focused on the toll-related support as a subset of the overall range of business and worker supports that we will provide. the last thing is that future low-income households are a remaining policy area that we haven't yet made a recommendation, and the reason is because we want to bring recommendations to you that are consistent with and developed together with san francisco's downtown congestion pricing study. in the sfcta board last -- in just the previous meeting, we described means-based and other types of exemptions and discounts for the downtown potential corridor price. we would -- we recommend that treasure island be as consistent as possible with the downtown program, and so would -- so consider the same range of options to -- for affordability here for treasure island's future residents. our outreach time frame, most of this will be done after the holidays, circling back with the specific businesses that have contacted us with questions and feedback so far,

we have been providing a much-needed support, as much as we can to help get them open. right now, we are working with the district to set up the testing system. we shared funding and staff to help facilities get ready we will do whatever we can to get our classrooms open. i know it is not easy. it is for the good of our entire community, and for our kids and families. nothing matters more. back in summer when it was clear schools weren't going to open this fall, we knew we had to do something for the kids struggling with distance learning, including my niece and nephew. that is where we launched this community hub initiative. as the first semester of the initiative comes to a close, we have an opportunity to look back on all that we have accomplished with this incredible program. as i said when we first started the program, it takes a village to get the children the resourceses they need to thursday five. that is especially true during the pandemic. we have an incredible village in san francisco. in a matter of weeks we got the program up and running with the help of co

>> correct. >> we provided you with the eua of the pfizer vaccine? any questions or ccerns? >> no. >> i will be doing your left a today. [inaudible] >> how long ago did you extract those syringes? >> that was done in pharmacy and i picked them up at 2:15. [background noises] all right. nice deep breath. it'll poke. one, two, three. >> how does it feel? >> just fine. will♪ ♪ ... ... mistrust that has its roots in historical wrongs. i think the ongng disparities that exist and latent biased and sometimes conscious bias further sets o that mistrust of vaccines and the medical community more broadly. so i think it's important for black and brown communities and members of such to see members that look and walk and understand the stories and understand whas going on that this person looks like me and understas mend feels safe and trusts the virus and vaccine and feels comfoable getting it and phaps i need to rethink this at the very lst ask my doctors and take that step forward. this isn't just the best way forward, this is the best and only way forward. >> and i think that i

this created a challenge for probation because what was happening is we were going through a provider to get information about reports and incidents that were happening with individuals who were on the len tronnic -- electronic monitoring program. we decided to go on our own to make sure it was efficient and effective. that's why we engaged on a contract of our own. the average monthly cost with $7,322, which averaged $144 per client, per month. that has gone up a bit during covid to $11,442 as an average monthly cost, but that still equates with the number of clients we have on electronic monitoring to about $224 per client, per month. that equates to $7.50 a day. it's the equipment lease and the oversight of our probation staff. so this is much less than custody costs associated with an individual that is being monitored and certainly by engaging in our own contract, we have reduced the cost by about 50% overall by bringing that in house. that concludes our presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. any questions for chief fletcher? yes supervisor wa

ovwhen that provide relief, we did provide economic impact payments. with senator hawley wants to do is just duplicate. no changes, no modifications, no further target. with those economic payments were about $275 billion. to 166 million people. remember, 25 million people lost their jobs. we sent our checks to white-haired 66 million people. average about $1673 per person. which may be more relevant figuresho how many households do we send those checks to? we sent them out to about 115 million households. about $2400 per household. so again, $275 billion to 115 million households. now that was about 4.5 million households than the number of jobs lost. today, with only 9 million jobs lost, that's a big number it's a big number i'm not minimizing that. 9million jobs lost, if we repeated and sent out to another one or 50 million households, that is 12.6 times the number of jobs lost. if we doubled it goes from 275 million to five and 50 billion. that is a happy trillion dollar dollars. i know it truly doesn't sound like much anymore. seems like hundreds

the other thing is that we have over 1,000 providers that have signed up to be providers and not all of those currently have vaccin vaccines. now that we've moved into an additional category in phase one, i think a lot of them will offer vaccines in their offices, additional place that the public in particular these older individuals can go to be vaccinated and we are going to do active outreach to additional providers to ensure that all who enrolled get additional vaccine and orders in and also others around the state who may not have signed up to encourage them to do so, that we truly have the state covered with vaccine. but i think this is a fabulous way, a happy day to end 2020 with an announcement of the potential to save many, many lives in georgia, even in the next several weeks, so, i really appreciate you being here and i'm just grateful for governor kemp's support for moving forward. thank you so much. >> all right. any questions? >> yes, thanks. >> [inaudible question] >> i'll let dr. toomey speak more to that. she's probably got more later data as we say, sometimes on tha

i'm the cochair of the homeless emergency service providers association. we stand in solidarity with our providers and the other advocates and activists to urge the passage of the legislation for the 30 right now. there is a lot to say about it that's been said so i will just say that it was put eloquently that $6 million is a small price to pay to follow through on our obligation to provide the housing stability that residents need to meet their basic needs that's the whole point of psh. thank you. >>> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> speaking from experience as a federal benefit specialist, administers ssi and from consultations with those that stayed on there. i have to say this is not a good idea. it is simplistic it sounds very generous. it people are paying $400 out of $1,200 they would be paying even less, $800 in spending money is not what you need if you're housing arrangement includes food for example. you know, there should absolutely nobody should be rent or homeless because they can't afford what the standard of rent is. ab

fedex and others to the providers and plan for state. they maintain throughout the requirements for transportation. the vaccines are received, there is one other group of sites will get to your question. the receive by pfizer on site and then they start the ministration. based upon the first 327,000, we are confident in our capacity with the cold chain requirements met by our providers. as you recall, and i'll repeat it again today, we have secured, we already procure and expect delivery end of this month in early january supplementary ultra cold storage and cold storage that we would distribute throughout california just as the redundancy major to provide more confidence depending on where the vaccines go in our capacity to deliver them, to augment what our providers arty have. mind you, providing vaccinations in american history, there was a sense of overwhelm. we haven't yet for no other reason than this, the scale and scope of the 19 million vaccines will provide on an annual basis and how sophisticated our network is. there's always

free of charge as much as they request we can provide. we have never not provided an amount of rapid testing that has been requested by a local government and local department of health. it's not that we have a shortage of rapid tests. but we do have to have a model that shows we can start to reopen businesses. and anyone who thinks we are going to make it another six, nine, 12 months with a closed down economy, that's just not a realistic possibility. so that's what we are trying to work on and demonstrate. can you do it? can you use testing to reopen a business safely? and can you do it on a large scale, which would be the bills? also, many stadiums across the country are already opened. and without any testing whatsoever. but the model doh is re-on is smart. how do you use testing to start to reopen businesses? that is going to be the challenge in 2021. we are still working through that. western new york has also done a good job in getting ahead of their positivity rate. they had the highest positivity rate in the state. today, they ar

and to have informed conversations with your health care provider. encouraging to see the percentage of people who wants the vaccine continues to rise. a recent survey that we conducted found that nearly 57% of hoosiers said they would get the vaccine, while 34% said they were not sure. we want to make sure we get the necessary information to that 34% so they can make the choice that is right for them. who haso thank everyone walked alongside us in this journey. i see a lot of excitement in my hospital colleagues who have received the vaccine and it is our goal to bring that same excitement to all hoosiers. >> thank you, dr. weaver. before midnight as we were watching at home and looking at one of your screens, you probably got a message across the screen that said that congress had passed a nearly 6000 page spending package combined with a covid relief bill. overovid bill accounts for $900 million across the country. senator todd young is with us today to talk about that whole journey, and it was a journey. i know you are somewhat, as we all were, a

one of congress' most critical responsibilities is to provide for the common defense. the national defense authorization act is how we will deliver. madam president i yield the floor and notice the absence of a corporate >> thankho you madam president. i was disappointed last week when president trump vetoed the nda,

my salary would not provide for a third child. so i contacted my doctor. i was seen right away because i had the history of tubal pregnancies and i was told not the office even though i had asked about it, they didn't know how or where i could get an abortion if i wanted one. and that was totally shocking to me. i thought that can't be true. but that is what i was told. i left. i felt completely defeated and confused and distrusting of the medical system. i called a friend who is an activist doctor who told me i needed to speak to another doctor and i needed to know who it was and she could provide the prescription for the ru-486. i was able to get in touch with her. and i discover there were many barriers to the prescription. one was basically telling me all of the bad things that could happen to me if i decided to terminate the pregnancy. of course this doctor is an activist and believes in reproductive freedom but this is the law she has to follow and also told me that if i had any complications i shouldn't tell nurses or other doctors. i hefty amount o

cdc, the system is stood up, that provides individual case consultation. but in addition, to really enhance this period, cdc has stood up a new system called v-safe. it's an active surveillance tool that uses text messaging and web-based surveys to monitor vaccine recipients for adverse events. recipients complete brief surveys up to really intermittent surveys to 12 months following vaccination. then as part of the program, recipients that report a significant health event that impacts their daily activities or leads them to seek medical attention will be called for more information and report will be generated. this is an opt-in system, and so we're going to have a heavily enhanced engagement around implementation of the program. we really need people to sign on to this system to give us the best data possible. large link database monitoring systems will provide safety data when vaccine becomes more widely available in the priority groups and the general public. this includes, again, existing systems like vsd, the fda's extensive system, and systems from

patrick: a question about hoover's role providing aid. he was key to providing aid in europe in world war i and world war ii, but not to americans. is that how you would frame that? he had different roles at different times. with theis work commission for relief of belgium, the american relief administration, and then he set societies for poland in 1939, when the germans and russians had invaded those countries. he tried to set up something similar to the crb in world war ii, and was unsuccessful. worlden, with the postwar , many of the people he had trained with the commission for relief in belgium started heading many of the humanitarian agencies that the new united nations created. for example, the person who started with hoover in belgium unicef and heads essentially basis the structure of unicef on what he learned from hoover in belgium and gets in 1965,eace prize which he declines. he dies before it is awarded. he asks that it be given to the agency. generation ofle people dealing with nongovernmental organizations and humanitarian

providing nonprofit status. they will be required to comply with all responsibilities under their existing lease agreement. to will be require -- they will be require to report rent amount that will not be forgive know because they received government aid or any local programs that aided them. they will be required to resolve unsettled disputes. in exchange, tenant benefits will be provided as follows. prorated rent forgiveness from march 1st through may 31st. similar to the l.b.e. program, the rent paid rent credit will be applied starting on july 1, 2021 through june 30, 2022. any rent credits will be apply to any amounts prior to the beginning of the forgiveness period. i will now be turning over the presentation to assistant port director, michael martin. >> good afternoon commissioners, mike martin assistant port director. now moving to the second of the two resolutions that are proposed for your consideration this is to do with the payment program for deferred and delinquent balances. the ratio rationale f

it provides some updated information. on that report, first of all, let me note the printed document and i think perhaps online it references it was a holdover. my apologies for that. it was, in fact, item number 9. you see we have the public financing program came to a decision on -- conclusion on december the 3rd. last date that the candidate could see submit public financing reviews, claims under the program for this year. so there was an inch up in terms of the dollar amount. that candidates were able to qualify for for the entirety of the 2020 election. in all there were 50% of the candidates who participated in the third round and actually qualified to receive the maximum amount, coupled with the other candidates who also came within 70% of the maximum. it was quite a year in terms of overall participation and the ability of candidates to really take advantage of the new program. so as commissioner bush said earlier in the meeting, we have the march that we typically review the election cycle and bring you forward i

it lets them provide the farmers with updates that increase efficiency. this process has allowed them to create four new models in the last two years, with upgrades to both the body and robotic picking arm. and perhaps their most impressive achievement, improvements to their image recognition system have helped increase harvesting accuracy from around 50% to up to 80%. >> translator: we're always working towards providin farmers with the most cutting-edge technology. that's one reason we use a profit sharing system instead of just selling them the hardware. that and our priority is getting the robots out in the fields to be used by as many farmers as possible. >> farmers growing other produce don't need to be jealous for much longer. the companies are working on robots specifically designed to harvest other vegetables. >> okay. so, a robot that picks asparagus. this is pretty cool. >> that is very cool. it's a brilliant company. it actually won the accelerator award last year. that means that it is not only, well, top-notch robotics and technology in japa

then we will expand to other providers as we get into january. as far as cardinal innovations the department continues to work through the process of folks who are disengaging with cardinal. our teams are reviewing that information and i don't have any other further update. >> next question please. >> our next question is from michael hyland with cbs. >> this is michael from cbs 17, i want to ask first about the updated list you all went over for distributing the vaccine. couple questions related to that, how are you defining who in essential worker is and why are people who incarcerated prioritized where they are above students and general public. >> first, we relied heavily on the cdc advisory committee recommendations and they just recently changed in the last couple of weeks. they began looking at the statistics of who was getting sick and dying and a age was a factor that was pretty significant that effected whether people would get really sick and die age is much easier thing to be able to tell about somebody rather than whether a person ha

we can't provide the housing that we provide. >> reporter: back in bridgeport, paul hernandez is safe for at least a few more months. he applied for trhap, and the prograpaid his landlord $4,000, enough to cover the back rent he owednd most of his total for january and february. after that, the 57-year-old is counting on receiving disability sefrom sociarity insurance, or s.s.i. he applied this fall his doctor told him that given the hip condition and issues with hr heart, he should no lon work. >> right now, i'm on borrowed timeyou know. i mean, the program helped me for a bit, but... >> reporter: what are you going to do if the s.s.i. does not >> i mean, i d't really know, you know. i'll cross that brt ge when i there. >> hill: as 2020 drawso a close, we wanted to give our producers and reporters here at newshour weekend a chance to reflect on some of the segments they worked on this season. hari sreenivasan spoke with newshour weekend's yvete feliciano on how she's been navigating the news in this unconventional year. >> sreenivasan: ivette, you would often be traveling around the

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it supports health providers and educators and farmers and transportation providers. it provides critical investments to expand broadband in rural and low-income areas, access which is vitally important when many schools and many businesses are operating remotely. it i -- it includes another round of direct payments to millions of americans who are still struggling to pay their mortgage or their rent and feed their families and heat their homes and meet their monthly obligations. if they can't do all those things, now they will at least get help. and i urge that this bill also includes $4 billion in emergency funding for the gavi alliance. let me explain that. and i appreciate those senators who supported me on that money in the emergency funding for gavi. this is for the procurement and delivery of vaccines to countries around the world whose rudimentary public health systems are being overwhelmed by covid-19, whose economies are in freefall due to the virus. we cannot defeat this global pandemic and international travel and congress could not recover without fightin

we have individuals who can provide interpretation. if someone does come on to the interpreters, just jump in and assist them with their language needs. let's hear from the next caller. >> good afternoon. echoing our appreciation for the reenactment of this emergency ordinance. we really need to work together to ensure that folks are taking the proper precautions and recommendations seriously. one of the things that we heard is that our approach requires transparency. unfortunately, many times when you look at why we're not disclosing information, some of that doesn't actually translate into best practices for bringing our community into action. as you look into prevention work, we really need to ensure that this ordinance is not only reenacting that we continue to work with d.p.h. to communicate proper notice when there's a test positive case in the s.r.o. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. to listeners listening, press star 3. this is your opportunity to provide public comment on this issue. do we have another caller p

guidance on telework external to the federal government has been provided. it is my understanding by our wage and hour division and we would be happy to get you that information. >> i appreciate that. focusi on the department of labor's rkforce, can you share any instances where work you initially thought had to be done in an office space ended up being compatible with telework? and are any of these instances relate to changing labor's view of determining telework eligibility? >> we had a higher percentage of people whose jobs were not considered telework eligible under the telework enhancement act prior to the pandemic and our managers and supervisors have worked to see how those positions can be refmatted, how duties and responsibilities can be reallocate asked how technology can be leveraged using data on forms that have now been converted to digital so we could send more of our employees home to work during the pandemic. we have very few jobs that require an in-office, on-site presence, jobs like receptionist, jobs like mail clerk, jobs like building eng

and we appropriated another $320 billion to provide loans, to small businesses and incentives for them to maintain their payroll so people would have income in the small businesses once we got the virus in the rearview mirror would still be around and help rebound our economy, in texas there was 417,000 paycheck protection loans, $41 billion worth, average loan was $115,000 although i was on a zoom call with the texas bankers association and one told me the smallest loan was $300, i'm sure there's an interesting story behind that but the point this was needed help and it has run out and then we need another investment in vaccine distribution, the logistical challenge of getting this vaccine around the country is mind boggling. but we can see is already working because of thorough planning and good execution. we need more money to make sure we get the job done. and we need to make sure that schools particular as people feel more comfortable going back to school in person that they get additional support so they can bring the children back into the classroom and keep them in teachers and

mcdaniel has been very busy providing assistance to c.o.p. holders. also, paper applications are not being accepted during the pandemic, so mohcd has extended the application period from 21 to 28 days, and all c.o.p. workshops and information sessions have gone virtual. next slide, please. and as you can see, this is what director sesay was talking about. she introduced this item. i'm also here for an action item, which is the second five-year extension for the c.o.p. program, and the next five-year extension, if approved, will take us through december 31, 2025. and in the upcoming, in the next five-year period, as mohcd continues to administer the program, we really are excited to work with the mayor's office and mohcd as they work with the state to assume and expand the mohcd program. and we anticipate providing an update to the commission in the spring 2021. and finally, we are very excited to inform you that we will be releasing an r.f.p. later this week to seek submittals for consultants on-site occupancy records or s.o.r.s. they must be cultural

he provides support with us also. next, i want to bring on the ceo of empire records, one of the biggest record labels in the country. my brother who's also native of san francisco like me and mayor london breed. >> i wanted to say i appreciate everything that you're doing for the community. i've known you for over 20 years. it means a lot to me who you're doing for the community, what mayor london breed is doing for the community in helping to keep the streets safe and better place to raise our children and conduct business and run operation in the city. i wanted to say, i truly appreciate. it means a lot to me. i lost a lot of people that i love over the years to senseless gun violence. quite few in the last 60 days. i wanted to do my part to contribute and just be a battery in your back. thank you so much for everything that you do. >> thank you so much, brother godley. he's being really humble. this gentleman here was instrumental of actually contributing to this cause and making this happen. big respect to you. i

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