Centre of any in the united states. It is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. It is a National Treasure and we need a Strong Organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. The c. B. D. Is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. If case in case you havent seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. So i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is susan and i represent the San Francisco conservatory of music. We are enthusiastic supporters of the c. B. D. We have 400 and more students
Francisco opera. I walk every day from the castro neighborhood into the civic centre neighborhood. I have been in San Francisco for over 11 years and i am just amazed by the transformation that i have seen in civic centre we do have more to do and we would appreciate your support in helping us do that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Patrick mills here representing the bayreuth family of businesses including the by right cafe kiosk on Civic Centre Plaza to enthusiastically support the renewal of the c. B. D. At Civic Centre Plaza and to attest to the astute management of our facilities, your support and opening our business, the safety and cleanliness of the plaza and most importantly, the building of Community Within the Community Benefit district. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I live at 100 van nuys. I worked with him on ways to improve civic centre and in 2006 , he authorized the creation of a civic centre c. B. D.
Maintaining order in the rightofway. Some of the most beautiful streets of the city are to be found in jackson square. We hope to be underway by 2020. So thats the presentation. Its long in coming, about 12 years in the making, and i think youll see substantial support from all the Property Owners who have returned their ballots to improve this Great Community benefit district. Thank you. President yee thank you. Okay. We will now open public testimony. If youre here to in support of the assessment district, please come up. You have two minutes. Hello. My name is frank collins. Im here representing clint mark landmark properties. This has been a long time coming, as marco said, but nothing worth doing comes easy. We urge you to support the formation of this district. This is both an opportunity and responsibility of all the Business Owners in the district, and were very excited to get going. Thank you very much. Supervisor rodney fong with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I seek
This is bbc news. Im carrie gracie. The headlines at 11pm a woman who flew from china to london has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of uk cases to nine. Its understood that she is being treated at St Thomas Hospital in the capital. The chief executive of an nhs trust at the centre of concerns over the preventable deaths of babies has played down the scale of the failings. Police in Northern Ireland have charged a 52 year old man with the murder of the journalist, lyra mckee. Screaming. A 26 year old woman has been jailed for two years after she tried to open the door of a plane midway through a flight. In the us, the veteran left wing senator Bernie Sanders narrowly wins the New Hampshire primary, a key stage of the contest to choose the democrats president ial candidate. And at 11 30pm, well be taking a second in depth look at the papers with our reviewers lord digby jones and henry bonsu. So do stay with us for that. Good evening. A ninth person has tested
Well have an extended interview with the head of the trust involved. Also tonight another coronavirus case in the uk, but the dozens of people who arrived from china and were held in quarantine for two weeks have tested negative and will be home tomorrow. Following the killing ofjournalist lyra mckee in londonderry, a local man has been charged with her murder. And we meet Alice Dearing, whos hoping to become the first black woman to represent Great Britain in olympic swimming. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, it all came down to the final ball, but englands cricketers were beaten by one run in south africa. Good evening. The head of an nhs trust at the centre of concerns about preventable deaths of babies has claimed that the extent of the failings is not clear. Susan acott, whos chief executive of east Kent Hospitals trust, now says there have only been six or seven avoidable deaths at the trust since 2011. The trust has previously accepted responsibility for at least ten deat