Questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselves, and commissioners, if youre making rustling noises, and youre not muted, i am going to mute you. So i apologize, but we want to keep the sound quality good. So well move onto item 3, the directors report. Hi, commissioners. Gra
But i wanted to take this opportunity to just start with, really, how far weve come. Its been a very, very challenging seven months in San Francisco. When this pandemic first hit, we had to make some really hard decisions. And with those hard decisions, we knew it was not only going to hit our economy as a whole, but it was going to have a tremendous impact on our Small Businesses, especially businesses in the community. We saw, within the first time that we closed in the month of april, we saw unemployment go to over 60,000 people, and as of today, we have over 200,000 people who have filed for unemployment. Weve seen businesses close, and some that we have gone to our entire lives, weve seen them close permanently. Weve had to balance a 1. 5 billion budget deficit in San Francisco. Its been hard. Our unemployment before the pandemic was less than 2 , and at its height, went to 12 , and today, its 8 . So yes, from an economic standpoint, we have had some really challenges in our city,
President ial elections show a couple winstein come. And so the ethiopian Prime Ministers ordered a final offensive on the Northern Tier a region and says a humanitarian corridor will be opened to help those fleeing the conflict that has warned residents to stay indoors. After ordering the army to move in on the regional capital of meccania, a government imposed deadline for to Ground Forces to surrender expired on wednesday. There has been nearly 3 weeks of fighting with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. And the United Nations is one of critical aid shortages in the region and says it fuel cash and food are running out. And many, theres a space of already fled over the border to neighboring sudan. And when morgan reports from the where we are is a camp thats not far from the sudan, is here border. And its where more than 15000 refugees have arrived over the past 3 weeks. All of them saying that theyre escaping shelling that theyve seen people being slaughtered, that the
Welcome to stand together, uniting discrimination town hall by the Human Rights Commission. And im the host and i produce programs at the commonwealth click of california and kcew, San Francisco bay area. This is the first of many town hall decisions that discussions that we will do to discuss the discrimination. What we need to to do to come together as communities so well try to get to all of the major issues today but if we dont, dont worry, this is one of the many town hall discussions that well do. Before we begin our program, here are a couple of special leaders in the city who have remarkeds. And id like to introduce you to the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Director davis . Thank you so much, michelle, and i look forward to the conversation with our panelists. We are very grateful for this opportunity to have a conversation together. We will continue to have discussions. We are saddened by the increase in case incidents of hate crimes, but we a
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