You call in before comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute the device youre listening to the meeting on. When yothe meeting is limited te minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting officer of the meeting and when your time is up, youll hear an alarm sound. Speaker are requested but not required to state your names. Please show the small office of business slide. Today we will start with a reminder that the Small Business commission is a public forum to voice your concerns about policies that affect the economic vitalities and Small Businesses in San Francisco. Our services are completely free of charge and before item one is called, i would like to thank Media Services and sf gov tv and a special thanks to jim smith for moderating or Public Comment line. Item 1, call to order and role call. role call . Mr. President , you have a quorum. Wait withi, you didnt call. [ laughter ] please call item number 2,
Im hopeful for the future. These months of Public Health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. Not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on and change society as we know it. I know today is about our budget and our path forward. As we step into the future, one that im hopeful for, is important we take a moment to recognize where weve come from. At the beginning of this year, we were living in a different world. Our Unemployment Rate was at a historic low. Tourism was at alltime high. Hotels were full, we had all plans to shape the future of this city we all love. I know i have plans to address homelessness and housing, to reimagine our Mental Health system, to improve transportation and make our streets safer and build a more equitable city. To lift up those who too often are left behind. Like i said, we had lot of plans. What we didnt have plans for was
The charter that you have to do that . Yes. Thank you for your explanation. I appreciate it. President yee i still need a second. Seconded by supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you. President yee i see that theres so we will call the amendment. Clerk on the amendment, supervisor stefani. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer aye. And supervisor haney. Aye. Haney aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin aye. Supervisor preston. Preston aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Take the roll on this item as amended. Clerk on item 15 as amended. [roll call] [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection, the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, the next 18. Clerk to lease Real Property at 333 valencia street for 15 years anticipated to commence on february 16th, 2021, from 333 valencia owner l. L. C. , at a base rent of appr
Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So lets go ahead so the motion passes. Can we have a roll call on the item itself as amended. Clerk on item 46 as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, lets call item 47. Clerk item 47 is a resolution to oppose indias exclusionary National Register of citizens and citizenship Amendment Act and reaffirming San Francisco as a welcoming city, expressing the city and county of San Franciscos board of supervisors solidarity with San Franciscos south Asian Community regardless of religion and caste. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar colleagues, i know its very late, but i would like to speak to this item because so many south Asian Community members spoke out on this and its important to them. Through this motion, San Francisco is joining an International Movement in condemning indias exclusionary citizenship amendment and also joining cities like seattle,
Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue t