Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy
Spare other queer kids from the rejection that he faced. Tom met jerry in 1972, which hao whomhood build a life together. The two would marry in october 2013 in a public block partystyle wedding. Tom was diagnosed with h. I. V. In 1983, a death sentence at the time as little was known about the virus that was killing gay men by the thousands. Tom far outlived his diagnosis and over the decades he and jerry donated time, money and loving support to countless causes and organizations. They founded the Diversity Foundation which for years has been the quiet caretaker of the rainbow flag. And tom gave countless houring to secure lighting for this most iconic installation of gilberts flag. Tom and jerry maintained and lovingly cared for the hundreds of the rain bow flags that line the street. And yet as recalled in a recent bay area reporter column about toms life, few people knew how much work tom put into caring for these beloved and internationally recognized symbols of queer equality. B
And distractions continue to present other challenges. But theyve also inspired of reexamining and education lstems to build a future of learning is a personalized and supported by teachers and technology. In the microsoft, we know the research for the class of 2030 life morning. Moving forward, we are seeing increasing emotional skills in higherlevel skills and personalized learning. Becoming very critical as well as teaching is really a growth profession as we move forward. So were really looking to develop technologies that help enable all students to develop the skills essential for work and for life. Close wonderful to be part of this event today bring a mother to discuss key approaches in education with governor bill lee ang Tennessee Party you so much for joining usnk governor. Thank you it is a great audience and organization. Try to be here. Thank you so much print is the 2020,ch with the covid19 tornadoes wildfires, spin super challenging here. What can we learn from your exp
Afternoon, and thank you, everybody, for the opportunity to participate. For this session, just a quick framing, when we look back at the spring when covid19 disrupted 7 billion students worldwide, leaders, educators, teachers, students and families showed remarkable adaptable and dedication as they worked to keep learning happening for all students. When we start a new school year, they have inspired reimagining of Education Systems to build a system of learning thats personalized around the opportunity and that is supported by teachers and technology. From our own work at microsoft we know from mch that we called the class of 2030 in life where theyre learning that moving forward we see an increase in importance of social, emotional skills, higher level cognitive skills, personalized learning becoming critical as well as teaching is a growth profession as we move forward. So from our work, were looking to work on technologies that help all students develop the skills essential for wo
Those who illegally camp on state property would now face a class felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison rather than a misdemeanor and as a cherry on top right in time for this years controversial lections an important elections and any protester convicted of this new felony crime would effectively lose their right to vote you see felony convictions in tennessee and in many other states across the country often result in the revoke ation of a persons most basic right here in the United States of america and that is our right to vote to take part in our government in response to this new law the tennessee executive director of the a. C. L. U. Heavy weinberg said quote we are very disappointed in governor lees decision to sign this bill which chills free speech undermines criminal Justice Reform and fails to address the very issue. As of Racial Justice and Police Violence raised by the protesters who are now being targeted. And that my of rens is the real truth we are seeing across