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From YouTube: Governor Newsom's COVID-19 Update - February 23, 2021
Description
Governor Gavin Newsom signs a comprehensive legislative package to provide urgently needed relief for individuals, families and businesses suffering the most significant economic hardship due to COVID-19, including $600 one-time payments to low-income individuals and households and four times the available amount of relief for small businesses.
Recorded February 23, 2021 in Sacramento, California.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus
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B
One
year
ago
we
might
have
casually
walked
into
a
small
business
like
solomon's
here
or
horchata
in
my
district,
without
thinking
twice
in
the
intervening
12
months,
we
had
to
rethink
everything
we
do
even
going
out
to
get
a
bagel
or
a
coffee
in
the
intervening
12
months.
The
operation
of
these
businesses
has
been
anything
but
casual.
B
I
have
not
operated
a
business,
but
I
did
run
a
non-profit
organization
before
I
ran
for
office.
Running
non-profits
and
small
businesses
is
never
a
casual
enterprise.
It's
harder
now.
The
pandemic,
forced
owners,
non-profit
directors
and
their
employees
to
think
over
and
over
again
about
how
to
keep
things
running.
B
They
have
had
to
adapt
to
conditions
that
are
constantly
changing.
The
aid
that
we
are
offering
today
is
a
way
to
stabilize
these
important
community
fixtures.
It
is
a
recognition
of
the
fact
that
small
businesses
and
non-profits
are
more
than
the
services
they
provide.
They
are
also
important
job
creators
and
important
cogs
in
our
economic
machine.
B
B
B
Lower
wage
workers
have
often
been
on
the
front
lines
and
service
jobs
with
high
levels
of
exposure.
This
will
give
them
an
additional
tax
rebate
to
help
them
make
ends
meet.
We
are
also
for
the
first
time,
including
taxpayers,
who
are
left
out
of
the
federal
stimulus
there
are.
There
are
so
many
immigrant
workers
doing
the
hard
jobs
paying
their
taxes
and
suffering
from
covid
at
higher
rates
than
the
rest
of
the
population.
B
Despite
those
hard
times,
we
can
take
our
collective
resources
and
use
them
to
help
one
another
and
to
help
our
state
rebuild
its
greatness.
In
fact,
that
willingness
to
work
and
to
share
our
resources
is
exactly
what
makes
california
great
it's
my
pleasure
to
introduce
my
partner,
the
senate
pro
tem
tony
atkins.
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C
C
I
can't
help
along
with
the
speaker,
but
think
about
the
small
businesses
back
home
in
san
diego,
like
venice
pizza
in
north
park,
the
book
catapult
in
south
park,
one
of
my
favorite
places
and
professional
nail
in
mission
hills
who
will
feel
much
needed
relief
from
this
package
of
legislation,
and
it's
not
just
small
businesses,
as
the
speaker
pointed
out,
who
will
be
on
the
receiving
end
of
this
help.
5.7
million
working
californians
stand
to
benefit
from
an
additional
six
hundred
dollars,
much
needed
cash
in
their
pockets
to
help
pay
the
bills.
C
This
will
be
made
possible
through
our
earned
income
tax
credit
program,
something
that
is
near
and
dear
to
my
heart,
something
that
speaker
rendon
and
I
worked
on
together
to
develop
in
the
assembly
and
have
been
working
on
ever
since
to
improve
including
a
massive
expansion
of
the
program
under
governor
newsom
in
2019
governor.
Thank
you
for
that
truly
meaningful.
C
C
When
she
said
the
price
of
doing
too
little
is
much
higher
than
the
price
of
doing
something
big
make
no
mistake,
california,
being
in
the
position
to
put
10
billion
dollars
into
our
economy
where
we
need
it.
The
most
is
something
big
and
that's
just
the
start.
We
will
continue
to
build
on
these
actions
as
we
work
on
the
state's
budget
in
the
coming
months,
so
before
I
hand
over
the
mic,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
our
governor
governor
newsom.
Thank
you
for
being
willing
to
do
something
big
for
california,
governor.
D
Thank
you
madame
pro
tem.
Thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
thank
you
for
your
incredible
leadership,
I'll
brag
on
that
in
just
a
moment,
but
I
just
want
to
recognize
andrea
and
the
team
here
at
solomon,
it's
great
to
be
back.
We
were
here
in
september,
signing
some
bills:
economic
relief
bills,
bond
acceleration
bills,
hiring
tax
credit
of
100
million
dollars.
D
We
put
out
a
framework
to
allow
new
businesses
to
have
that
800
dollar
franchise
tax
fee
waived
as
well.
We've
seen
a
21
increase
in
new
business
startups
just
in
the
last
calendar
year.
So
the
issue
of
economic
growth,
economic
development,
economic
incentives,
tax
credits,
supports
for
small
businesses
is
not
unique
to
this
moment
and
these
bills
that
we're
signing.
Today,
it's
been
a
cause:
that's
united,
each
and
every
one
of
us
legislative
leaders
and
the
legislature
and,
of
course,
advocates
across
the
spectrum
here
in
the
state
of
california.
D
D
Through
this
very
difficult
and
trying
time
with
that
said,
this
7.6
billion
dollars
of
direct
relief
that
we're
providing
today
not
only
helps
support
small
businesses
but
supports,
as
the
pro
temps
said,
some
5.7
million
californians,
with
direct
stimulus
check
relief,
not
only
in
the
eitc,
but
also
people
that
have
been
beneficiaries
of
calworks,
ssi,
ssip
and
the
cappy
program.
We're
also
providing
support
in
the
way
of
not
only
direct
checks
to
that
cohort.
But,
as
the
speaker
rightfully
noted,
regardless
of
your
status,
those
that
have
been
left
behind
in
that
federal
stimulus.
D
California
is
not
going
to
leave
you
behind,
and
I
want
to
just
congratulate
the
speaker
and
the
pro
tem
for
their
leadership
and
their
demonstrable
example
of
making
sure
that
we're
there
for
the
folks
that
have
always
been
there
for
us.
I
just
got
back
from
arvin
in
kern
county
and
the
privilege
of
being
a
medera,
some
12
or
so
hours
ago.
D
Farm
workers,
food
workers
never
took
a
day
off,
never
complained
and
were
there
to
make
sure
that
everything
was
on
your
table
and
tables
all
across
this
country,
and
I'm
very
honored
to
be
here
today
as
governor
of
this
state.
That's
not
leaving
those
folks
behind,
as
it
relates
to
legislation
that
addresses
their
need
and
provide
relief
directly,
not
only
to
individuals
but
households
of
mixed
status
and
that's
something
you
know
frankly,
distinctive
in
this
country.
D
I
don't
know
many
other
states
any
other
state
that
does
what
this
state
is
doing
and
for
that
we
are
not
ashamed.
We
are
proud,
and
so
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
their
leadership
and
the
remarkable
support
that
we
saw
as
the
pro
tem
set
across
the
spectrum
bipartisan
support
to
advance
this
collective
cause,
so
that
cause
by
the
way
includes
grants.
D
Five
to
twenty
five
thousand
dollar
grants
for
small
businesses,
nonprofits
cultural
institutions,
an
additional
2
billion
75
million
dollars
in
grants
that
will
start
going
out
building
on
the
500
million
dollars
of
grants
that
have
already
been
going
out.
Supporting
small
business
I'll,
remind
you,
grants
not
loans,
a
profoundly
important
distinction.
So
that's
number
one
number
two:
we're
providing
relief
in
the
way
of
fees
and
licenses
for
two
years:
there'll
be
no
cosmetology
barbering
licenses.
There
will
be
no
fees
associated
with
those
licenses
or
with
alcohol
beverage
licenses.
D
I'll
give
you
an
example:
the
59
000
businesses
that
have
abc
licenses,
some
of
those
license
fees,
are
as
much
as
1
235
dollars
were
waiving
those
fees
not
once,
but
over
a
two
year
period.
In
addition
to
these
small
business
loans,
that's
the
relief
being
provided
in
this
package
as
well.
The
golden
state
stimulus
is
those
dollars
that
direct
relief
check
of
six
hundred
dollars
to
those
categories
I
mentioned
in
addition
to
that
we're
doing
more
on
food
banks,
we're
doing
more
for
people.
D
Parents
need
diapers
that
can't
afford
diapers
we're
doing
more
to
support
our
community
college
system
with
financial
aid
and
grants
a
hundred
million
dollars
boy
we're
not
just
doing
that
community
college
we're
doing
at
the
uc
and
csu
over
300
million
dollars
at
the
c
as
well.
You
see
302
million
299
million
dollars
at
the
csu
of
additional
ongoing
money
for
those
conveyor
belts
for
talent.
D
Those
ppp
loans
not
only
to
the
state
or
rather
state
taxes
and
making
exemptions,
but
on
expenses,
and
that's
about
a
2.3
plus
billion
dollar
commitment
over
a
number
of
years
that
the
state
will
be
making
making
this
entire
package
just
shy
of
10
billion
dollars,
that's
big
even
by
california
standards.
So
we're
very
proud
to
be
here,
honored
for
their
leadership.
We
moved
quickly.
We
moved
effectively,
just
as
we
did
a
few
weeks
ago
on.
D
The
issue
of
moratorium
on
evictions
shows
what
we
can
do
when
working
together
across
every
conceivable
difference,
not
just
geographic
but
also
political
and
ideological,
and
so
that
bipartisan
spirit
is
what
we're
also
looking
forward
to
taking
in
as
we
work
and
invariably
you're
going
to
ask
where
we
are
with
school's
reopenings
we're
working
together
on
that
we're
not
going
to
negotiate.
I
know
you'll
attempt
get
us
trying
to
negotiate
all
three
of
us
together
today
I
don't
mean
to
be
spokespeople
for
the
speaker,
the
pro
10.
D
They
could
speak
for
themselves,
but
I
don't
intend
to
negotiate
here
today.
All
I
can
say
is:
we've
been
negotiating
for
many
many
weeks
now
and
in
that
spirit
that
brings
us
here
today.
Getting
things
done
is
the
spirit
we're
bringing
into
those
negotiations
on
schools
as
well
final,
brief
points.
D
When
we
talk
about
light,
I'm
talking
about
bright
light
at
the
end
of
this
tunnel.
I've
been
all
over
the
state
of
california
over
the
last
few
weeks,
seen
it
first
hand
we're
seeing
vaccination
rates
increase
across
this
state.
We've
surpassed
the
country
of
israel
in
terms
of
total
number
of
doses
that
have
been
administered
now,
over
7.4
million
doses
have
been
administered.
We've
been
averaging
just
shy
about
200
000
doses.
Every
single
day
the
only
constraint
is
manufactured
supply,
we're
not
getting
enough
into
the
state
of
california.
D
D
Today
we'll
announce
five
additional
counties
moving
out
of
the
purple
tier
into
the
red
tier.
We
will
preview
eight
other
counties
that
likely
will
be
pulling
out
a
week
later
and
even
more
still
in
two
weeks.
This
is
moving
stabilize
case
rates,
stabilize
positivity
rates,
positivity
seven
day
down
to
3.0
14
days,
3.3
case
rates
down
to
3
500
today,
just
think
about
one
month
ago
today
it
was
2
23,
000
down
to
3
500
a
day
hospitalizations
down
41
percent
icu's
down
40
percent,
just
in
the
last
two
weeks
deaths.
D
We
had
a
record
number
of
deaths
a
month
ago
yesterday
and
now
we
have
death
rates
about
a
third
of
what
it
was
tragically
still
too
high,
but
compared
to
where
we
were
just
30
days
ago.
So
we
talk
about
light
at
the
end
of
tunnel.
Again
I
talk
about
a
bright
light,
we're
going
to
work
through
these
next
few
weeks.
D
Next
few
months
till
we
get
to
that
herd
immunity
get
that
manufactured
supply,
get
these
businesses
fully
operational
and
provide
this
relief,
that's
so
desperately
needed
to
millions
and
millions
of
californians,
and
for
that
I'm
proud
to
be
a
californian
today
and
proud
of
the
leadership
that
is
assembled
in
this
state,
led
by
our
speaker
and
our
pro
tem.
So
with
that,
we
are
happy
to
take
any
questions
and
I'm
encouraged
that
the
leaders
are
here
so
we're
not
the
only
ones
having
to
take
questions.
A
E
D
F
G
F
D
D
Yeah,
so
it's
it's
cal
works.
The
cappy
program
cappy
program
is
relatively
modest
about
15
000
people,
cal
works
beneficiaries
that
will
get
it
through
their
ebt
card
mid
april
and
then
probably
seven
weeks.
Those
that
have
the
itc
will
be
the
beneficiaries
of
those
supports
and
then
ssi
and
ssip
recipients.
Those
are
the
four
categories
of
eligibility
and
support
in
the
program
we
just
signed.
H
Hey
governor
katie
orr,
with
kqed
news,
first
of
all
so
great
to
be
back
in
person
happy
to
be
here.
My
question
for
you
is,
as
you
negotiate
the
school
reopenings
rather
than
individual
districts
bargaining
with
their
teachers.
Unions
individually.
Have
you
considered,
or
are
you
pursuing
a
statewide
mou
with
teachers,
unions
to
kind
of
streamline
the
process.
D
I'm
not
going
to
get
in
any
details
in
the
weeds
right
now
we're
we're
I'm
not
saying
we're.
You
know
the
one
or
two
yard
line,
but
we're
certainly
in
the
red
zone
in
terms
of
working
with
the
legislature
and
the
senate,
leaders
and
senate
and
assembly
leaders
and
staff,
and
so
I'll
just
leave
it
at
that.
We
look
forward
to
working
together
this
week
and
see
where
we
end
up.
I
Hi,
governor
ashley
zavala
with
next
star
media
group,
with
the
economic
or
the
grants
for
small
businesses
77
in
the
first
round,
were
given
to
businesses
that
were
considered
disadvantaged
or
they
were
owned
by
women
minorities
veterans
et
cetera.
Do
you
still
hope
to
maintain
that
same
ratio
moving
forward
for
who
gets
these
grants?
Well.
D
We
were
able
to
notify
53
percent
as
minority-owned
businesses
disproportionate
number
of
women-owned
businesses,
but
you
rightfully
note
that
77
statistic
which
is
underserved
and
that's
defined
more
broadly
rural,
not
just
urban
areas,
part
of
the
state
that
have
traditionally
been
underserved
and
identified
as
such,
and
so
we're
hoping
that's
how
we
designed
this
by
the
way
isabel
guzman,
you
know
not
only
one
of
the
best
but
the
body
administration.
Sadly
just
I
mean
happily
just
took
her
to
run
the
sba
federally.
D
She
helped
design
this
system
in
distribution
and
allocation,
and
I
think
the
reason
the
assembly
and
senate
wanted
to
go
even
further
in
terms
of
subsequent
support.
Application
was
because
of
the
wisdom
of
making
sure
that
we're
guided
by
that
equity
principle
and
being
able
to
prove
not
just
assert
that,
on
the
basis
of
those
first
rounds
of
grants
and
applications,
so
absolutely
we're
hoping
in
that
spirit.
It's
not
a
numeric
number,
but
in
that
spirit,
to
continue
to
advance
that.
J
Hi,
governor
sophia
bolag,
here
from
the
sacramento
bee,
I
have
two
hopefully
quick
questions
for
you.
First
of
all,
just
quickly,
can
you
tell
us,
when
you're
planning,
to
name
a
new
attorney
general
for
california
and
then
also
there's
a
push
for
the
state
to
guarantee
two
weeks
of
paid
sick
leave
for
workers
who
can't
work
because
of
covid?
Is
that
something
that
you
support?
Well.
D
I've
supported
in
the
past
we're
working
with
legislative
leaders
on
that,
precisely
and
without
getting
in
the
details
and
weaves.
We
were
having
this
conversation.
The
three
of
us
just
a
number
of
days
ago,
specifically
so
we'll
highlight
that
we
have
more
to
say
at
least
I'm
unless
they
have
something
to
say
more
on
that
point
today
and
then,
as
it
relates
to
the
a.g.
K
D
D
How
we're
going
to
set
aside
administrator
days
in
terms
of
ministering
those
doses
for
our
educators
and
how
we're
going
to
allow
for
equity
and
that
distribution
and
allocation,
as
well
as
any
of
the
details
of
the
school
negotiations.
As
I
said
on
now
multiple
occasions,
we're
going
to
leave
those
to
the
private
conversations
and
I'm
very
hopeful
we'll
be
able
to
socialize
those
very
shortly.
F
Hi
governor,
it's
alexi
from
the
san
francisco
chronicle
good
to
be
back
in
person
after
so
long
california
trails
nearly
every
state
in
the
country
in
terms
of
the
percent
of
students
that
have
gotten
back
to
in-person
instruction.
Why
do
you
think
california
has
been
sort
of
uniquely
unable
to
get
schools
back
reopened
so
far?
Well,.
D
We're
working
on
a
deal
with
the
legislature.
I
really
am
proud
to
be
here
with
two
legislative
leaders
that
have
really
committed
their
personal
time
and
energy
to
this
cause:
they're,
not
outsourcing
it
to
other
staff
and
to
other
leaders.
We've
been
engaged
for
weeks
now
months,
candidly
on
getting
our
school
safely
reopened
for
in-person
instruction
doing
it
in
a
very
deliberative
way,
focusing
on
our
youngest
cohort
two
grades.
D
D
I
think
the
most
notable
thing-
and
you
heard
me
say
it
just
a
moment
ago,
a
month
ago
yesterday,
we
had
just
shy
of
800
deaths,
reported
the
highest
single
day
number
of
deaths
in
states
history.
Since
the
beginning
of
this
pandemic.
It
was
three
four
weeks
ago
that
los
angeles
was
dealing
with
a
significant
surge.
D
It
was
just
a
number
of
weeks
ago.
We
were
working
with
other
jurisdictions
across
the
country
to
get
mobile
bans
to
address
the
need
to
find
more
body
banks
because
of
the
deadliness
of
this
pandemic.
Wasn't
that
many
weeks
ago
that
we
had
55
56
000
cases
in
a
positivity
rate
close
to
14
percent,
we're
in
a
very
different
place
today
and
look
forward
to
putting
out
the
details
plan
after
we
work
through
those
details
with
the
legislature.
L
Governor
brian
hickey
with
kcra,
can
you
elaborate
a
little
bit
more
on
the
partnership
with
blue
shield
and
how
people
will
eventually
be
able
to
make
those
appointments,
we've
reached
out
to
several
counties
and
they
all
keep
pushing
back
to
the
state
and
no
one
really
seems
to
know
how
that's
going
to
be
rolled
out.
Well,.
D
This
is
the
first
phase
of
that
transition
to
the
tpa
and
in
that
transition
is
getting
people
off
those
old
systems
and
there's
so
many
different
systems
in
this
state
predates
all
of
us
here
and
we're
trying
to
get
everybody
on
this
single
platform.
So
in
that
transition
we
said
this
for
weeks
and
weeks.
I
said
it
yesterday,
I
said
day
before
I'll
say
it
again.
Today,
there's
going
to
be
some
white
water,
it's
going
to
be
a
little
headwind
and
we're
working
in
that
transition.
D
I
was
in
four
counties
yesterday
and
that
transition
is
going
pretty
well,
but
it's
a
transition,
and
so
people
are
getting
used
to
the
new
coding
new
strategies
and
and
we're
hopeful
that
we
can
work
out
the
bugs
by
the
way,
including
the
issue
of
abuse
in
terms
of
people
getting
the
codes,
we're
going
to
go
away
from
group
codes
to
individual
codes
and
we're
working
with
the
counties.
On
that.
We
don't
like
to
see
those
abuses.
We've
been
highlighting
those
abuses
they
haven't
been
highlighted
for
us.
We
were
down
at
ramona
gardens.
D
We
were
highlighting
that
with
a
number
of
legislators
just
a
few
days
ago,
or
it
was
pretty
clear
at
that
public
housing
site
that
not
everyone
was
from
that
community
and
we
found
out
subsequently
that
that
code,
somehow
a
community-based
organization
shared
that
code
and
there
was
a
group
code
and
you
started
to
see
people
come
from
outside
that
community.
So
we're
working
through
those
things
and
we're
correcting
for
those.
E
E
On
that
I
mean
there
are
case,
case-based
restrictions
for
reopening
and
why
do
teachers
have
so
much
of
a
say
in
the
reopening
plans
when
people
like
farmworkers,
so
you
just
saw
people
like
firefighters,
people
like
grocery
store
clerks.
If
they
don't
go
to
work,
they
don't
get
paid
and
they
don't
have
a
say
about
whether
they
go
into
work.
I.
D
So
a
lot
of
schools
are
opening.
We
have
thousands
plus
schools
that
are
open,
been
operating,
have
been
open
for
some
time.
In
the
state
guidelines,
the
state
of
california
put
out
a
25
case
rate
was
guided
by
the
work
that
wh
had
put
out
harvard
university
and
others
consistent
with
a
lot,
not
all
we're
a
little
more
restrictive,
acknowledging
that
than
the
cdc
guidelines
and
the
spirit,
certainly
of
what
the
biden
administration's
hoping
to
accomplish.
The
entire
state
is
below
that
25
case
rate
has
been
for
some
time.
D
That's
why
I've
been
very
demonstrable,
very
specific
in
my
hope
and
expectation
that
we
safely
reopen
these
schools
and
we
move
forward,
and
we
look
forward
to
working
through
the
details
with
the
legislature
and
getting
our
kids
safely
back
in
school.
But
I
want
to
note
I
have
a
little
bit
experience
with
this.
D
My
kids
have
been
in
school
at
a
school
in
school
out
of
school,
that
teachers
are
still
teaching.
We
need
to
respect
that.
It's
just
not
optimal
online
versus
in
person,
for
social,
emotional
reasons
and
other
reasons,
and
so
they
are
being
paid
to
teach
and
with
respect
you
can't
teach
without
teachers,
and
we
believe
everyone
has
a
voice
and
we
believe
we
go
a
lot
farther
when
we
go
together
as
opposed
to
fast
when
we
try
to
go
alone.
That's
the
spirit
of
our
engagement
and
negotiations.
D
Yeah,
I
I
forgive
me,
I
barely
heard
your
comments.
I
certainly
didn't
hear
that
assembly
member's
comments,
so
I
can't
even
comment
about
his
comments
except
to
say
we're
working
with
the
legislature
to
work
through
these
issues,
and
I
look
forward
to
socializing
those
very
very
shortly
we
put
out
plan
in
december,
we've
been
working
together
to
address
so
many
different
issues.
This
is
not
a.
This
is,
unlike
any
other
school
system
on
in
the
united
states.
D
It's
six
plus
million
kids,
hundreds
of
thousands
of
professionals
that
make
these
schools
really
work.
58
counties,
470
cities,
1050
plus
school
districts,
different
independent
county
elective
boards,
etc,
size
and
scale
and
scope
requires
some
consideration.
Nuance
like
everything
we're
doing
with
the
size
of
21
states,
populations
combined
and
so
one
size
does
not
fit
all,
and
so
we
have
to
tailor
make
strategies
and
incentives
and
baseline
expectations
we're
doing
just
that
and
we're
looking
forward
to
sharing
with
you
the
fruits
of
all
those
efforts,
hopefully
in
the
next
few.