Entertainment commission. For all of you that dont know me. My name is maggie weiland. And im the director of the Entertainment Commission. Nice to see high oh, thank you all so much nice to see all of your faces today. Although this is our 13th annual summit. This is actually our 20th year of being a City Department here in San Francisco. So this is a big year for us. Um i dont believe i see him in the audience. But i did want to thank terence alan today for all of you that know him. Yes so terrence was a founding commissioner on the Entertainment Commission, and he had the vision in the early oughts to create this department. Um and really, um, find a way to strike a balance and find compatibility between nightlife , venues, neighbors and law enforcement. So thank you to terrence. Hopefully he is watching this somewhere. Ah um or watching it later, and i just wanted to thank all of my current commissioners who are here today. Youre going to be hearing from many of them during the pro
Homeland of the ramaytush alone. Who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place. As well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. This meeting is being held in hybrid format, with the meeting occurring in person in city hall, room 416 broadcast live on govtv and available on view on zoom or listen to by. Calling 166919006833 using meeting. Id 89641684613. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. While there will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of
Broadcast live on govtv and available on view on zoom or listen to by. Calling 166919006833 using meeting. Id 89641684613. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. While there will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. For those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of remote Public Comment total for each agenda item because of the 20 minute time limit, it is possible that not every person in the queue will have an opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote Public Comment from people who have received an accommodation due to disability will not count towards the 20 minute limit. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by video or call in for each item. The commission will take Public Comment first from people attending the meeting in p
There a way for us to use our vast resources more efficiently maybe effectively maybe even on Foreign Policy well get some of the facts that will harvest from the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred kaufman joins us from new york fred thank you for being with us the department of agriculture released a recent report which documents that the cost of food for families is about seventy one hundred dollars per year thats only up just a little bit over last year and that has really impacted iowa and south dakota where in the Second Quarter of the year the g. D. P. The Gross Domestic Product which actually negative but as important there are twenty three other states so you combine that all of all of those thats half the states of the nations are being impacted negatively by these food prices because of the commodities that they grow obviously and many people dont realize how many states of the unions have a role in producing this food that makes us really the most plentiful
Effectively transmit information in the form of a change in the charge this method could have ventured an able instantaneous communication across vast distances this isnt all just interesting t. V. And Technology Facts the innovations are changing our lives and they are part and parcel to an enormously important portions of our Global Economy so with Technology Companies who are the largest but you can guess number one. Yep apple tops the list they have more than two hundred billion dollars in annual sales and made a profit of forty five billion dollars last year according to forbes fifteen of the top twenty five Tech Companies are from the United States with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i. B. M. Intel Cisco Systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year is a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday Presiden