Assistant Katie Sullivan and i am julie rosenberg, the boards executive director. Our Legal Process clerk is also present. We will also be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board this evening. Scott sanchez, joseph duffy, and chris buck. The Board Meeting guidelines are as follows. The board requests that you turn off or silence all phones and Electronic Devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. Appellants, permit holders and Department Respondents are given 7 minutes to present the case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated with the parties must include the comments within the 7 or 3 minute periods. Members of public who are not affiliated have up to 3 minutes to address the board and no eare buttal. Time may be limited to 2 minutes if the agenda is long or if there are a large number of speakers. The rehearing requests the parties are given three minutes each with no eare buttal. Our legal assistant will give you a verbal w
And the position that youre going for, whether its a request to me to be a member of a board or a commission, that i have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on an
President Francee Covington is trying to log on. Vice president kathrin feinstein. Present. Commissioner stephen nakajo. I am present. Commissioner ken cleveland. Present. And there is a lot of feedback at least on my end. A lot of feedback. I am experiencing the same thing commissioner cleveland. I think Everyone Needs to mute mute if you are not speaking. Commissioner rodriguez. Present. And chief of department jeanine nicholson. Muted for me. I am present and if everyone can mute when they are not speaking i think that would help with the feedback. If you are not speaking, just mute. Item 2, general Public Comment members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address the remark to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or to Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a resp
Call the meeting to order of. Please call the roll. roll call . You do have a quorum. Should i call your next item . Yes, please. Public comment. Address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar and the members of the public that wish to provide Public Comment under this item should dial the published public phone number which is 855 2826330 and enter access code on 126466, press pound and pound again followed by star three to be added to the queue. Well go ahead and give a few moments to see if there are any musmembers of the public that wt to address you. Again, members of the public that number is 855 2826330 access code 126 4667331, press pound and pound again and then store three to be added to the queue. All right members, we dont have any members of the public that wish to comment on that particular item. You can go ahead and close that. Id like that. At this point in time your agenda youre scheduled to go into closed session. Ive not received any indication that
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each