It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
Asked by the president to mirror back to you to postpone those and the meeting but its up to you to do that. I cant make that decision for you. These items will be postponed to the next meeting or a future meeting. Are they here . The staff for items 8 and 9 are here. We should probably go ahead and do it because they sat here all of this time. Im sorry. 8 and 9 are here . Yes . All right, so, sorry, everyone. Item 8 is the 2016 Public Health and safety bond update. Thank you all who came for item 7 and well move to the next 7 and well move to the next [roll call] at this time we ask that you silence also phones and sound producing devices. Thank you. May i have a motion to approve the agenda . So moved. Second. Any discussion . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the august 7th, 2019 Meeting Minutes . So moved. Second. Any comments or changes . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. Item four, directors report. Good morning, commissioners. I just wa
Not, i believe i am only candidate who the say to corporate elite, enough with your greed and your corruption. David gary, is demonizing capitalism going to resonate with voters. It has worked so well in caracas so lets do it here. If Elizabeth Warren is a capitalist, im the point guard for the knicks, we then get Bernie Sanders calling himself a democratic socialist, but there nothing democratic about being socialist this is all aother a, authoritarian, this is amazing to watch, we have a system brought provepity poverty in ri, people who started at walmart at Cash Register are now managers making a hundred thousand a year, these people they just hate wealth and success, they spend their days putting it down as corrupt. It their biggest enemy, it willl not sell, trump has to be laughing. I agree america is built on capitalism but it seems to resonate there is a major divide with wealth and inequality, polls have showed over past several decade, you pitch taxing wealth thats resonates
Good morning, commissioners. I just want to start with the Older Americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed a shortterm continuation of the Older Americans act. As i mentioned before, it was some set it on september 30th so they passed a shortterm resolution to keep it going until november 21st. In the meantime, we are hoping to work out the appropriation differences that they have, so we had really news on the house side that there were actually they were proposing some increases for the Older Americans act and on the senate side, it was much less impressive. So theres still a lot of advocacy to be done, and hopefully our advocates from San Francisco will be thinking about how we can reach out and make sure that the Older Americans act gets funded at hopefully better levels than it currently looks like on the senate guide. We will keep you abreast of that situation, but it might be that the depar
Older americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed a shortterm continuation of the Older Americans act. As i mentioned before, it was some set it on september 30th so they passed a shortterm resolution to keep it going until november 21st. In the meantime, we are hoping to work out the appropriation differences that they have, so we had really news on the house side that there were actually they were proposing some increases for the Older Americans act and on the senate side, it was much less impressive. So theres still a lot of advocacy to be done, and hopefully our advocates from San Francisco will be thinking about how we can reach out and make sure that the Older Americans act gets funded at hopefully better levels than it currently looks like on the senate guide. We will keep you abreast of that situation, but it might be that the department can send something on behalf of the commission. That