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President yee good afternoon and welcome to the august 18, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely Via Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their meeting chamber. The city believes that it is essential all communities with and without internet have the ability to participate remotely in this meeting
Advisories are all gone from the National Weather service. There may be some from the chp. Heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and down to the south. You can see not too much in the way of orange and red for us, but wow, look at the Atmospheric River just pounding parts of monterey and all the way up to modesto, gilroy and merced. Right now, our winds are still coming out of the south. Theyre still gusty, just not expected to cause much damage. Heres our planner for today. Low to mid 50s now. Near 60 from noon to 4 00. Mid to upper 50s at 7 00 with tapering rain today. We will be faced with a difficult ride. This is interstate 80 through emeryville. Things are slowing down. There have been quite a few accidents. Lots of spinouts. A high wind advisory for the san mateo bridge and the bay bridge. Heres a live shot of 680 in walnut creek, this is southbound traffic moving past geary and highway 24. There was a solo spinout on eastbound 24. Just a heads up, we got reports of a possible
The showers will taper considerably this evening, mid 50s. Lets talk more about that commute with frances. We had a few accidents and numerous spinouts this morning. Heres a live shot of 880 in oakland making your way past the coliseum there. Southbound traffic is for headlights and northbound traffic is on the righthand side. Southbound past 980, an earlier crash cleared. Traffic is slow through the area. Heres a live shot of 680 in walnut creek. A new problem just reported near treat. Thats in this live shot, but it looks like it is a spinout. Well check out the ride in the north bay. Visibility is limited. Water has been splashing. Theres ponding and an injury accident eastbound 80 at apion. That one not causing delays. Just be careful and give yourself extra time this morning. The weather is creating a traffic headache for many. From the wind and rain in the bay area to snow in the sierra. Amy hollyfield is live along 580 in livermore with a look at how things are moving. Hi, amy.
Good afternoon. I sat on the task force and thank you supervisor campos for that appointment so this is a simple message that the San Francisco voting task force its recommendation is for an open source gpl Voting System so the resolution that were asking to pass is the next logical step and hoping that you support it and thank you as well supervisor wiener and i want to say im a resident in your district. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is brent turner. Hello supervisors. My name is brent turner. Kim unfortunately because of the weather couldnt make it today so i have a statement after my statement. Again i will brent turner and chair the Election Committee for the San Mateo Democratic Party and chair the state of california Democratic Party Disabilities Committee on elections, and i im the secretary for the California Association of voting officials. Cabo is dedicated to providing the Election Administration community with election options and advocate transparency via publicly