Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you move this project forward. Its exactly what we need into san
Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the appropriations committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very muc
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl
On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. City attorney . I just wanted to clarify one thing. The motion was just to accept the modified d. A. Into the board file. It was not because the changes were substantive, just to accept it into the board file. Just wanted to clarify that point. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madame city attorney. And now i in closing i just want to say to president yee, a very happy birthday, president. Thank you for joining us. And we have another meeting that were very late for. Were over an hour late, but i am going to call a recess for 15 minutes. I would say supervisors have been sitting at this meeting and i think we also sfgovtv wants to transition. So lets take a 15minute break. Lets come back at 2 25. Excuse me, madame chair. I just wanted to clarify that the motion so the motion that were taking, were on item number 4, can we also take a motion on item number 5. Su
Welcome to the programme. A Military Coup appears to be underway in myanmar. Reports say the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders have been detained. Soldiers are on the streets of the main cities and communications have been cut. Tension has been escalating since the november elections, which the nld was declared to have won by a landslide. The military, whose proxy party won only a few seats, has claimed the results were fraudulent. 0ur South East Asia correspondentJonathan Head is in bangkok. He says facts are difficult to confirm at this stage. Well, its not that clear from here in bangkok. Were getting a lot of reports from contacts inside myanmar. It does appear there are numerous reports that the key leadership of the country, including Aung San Suu Kyi, have been detained by the military, very early this morning, before dawn, that the capital, naypyidaw, which is not the main city, that has been more or less cut off. People are been having troubl