The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 19th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is the vicechair Catherine Stefani and gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, the members will participate in the meeting remotely. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the numbers across the screen. And Public Comment is an opportunity to speak via phone by calling 1 415 6550001. And, again, thats 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. Agai
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There are two callers. First speaker, please. So, again, commissioners, this pandemic, as you can see, very few people want to participate in any of these major projects. So we leave it to you, our representatives, to do Due Diligence based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus rapid transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. And we havent learned anything what happened on Market Street before. We always dont seem to learn something from the past projects and we dont seem to have a checklist. We just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they cant do a needs assessment. And then we love to have our fire chats, the Public Comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you dont seem to be paying attention to us. Its going to come to bite you all in the back. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank y
From staff as to the results of that on the ground yacht outreach. There have been businesses and some of them highprofile in the media that have gone under very early on in the van ness b. R. T. , but can you respond to commissioner haneys question . Hey, everyone. We have been trying to figure out how to best do outreach considering covid19 restrictions and not really being able to engage in person with businesses in the way that we have before. We have conducted a lot of outreach to businesses online, the phone and weve done a couple of things doing social distancing and wearing masks. We are canvassing businesses over the next two weeks to get them information about the grant and to find out how theyre doing. Supervisor peskin right, but i think what commissioner haney is saying, and i believe this to be true, we have a lot of precovid premarch 16 data. So i think when he hear this at our first meeting in october, it would be very helpful if the sfmta and oewd can present what the
Improved. We look forward to getting confirmation of this, but its very good news. If so, we have longterm improvements, lane reductions, protected bikeways and upgrades. With that, im happy to take any questions to conclude my report. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Chang. Any questions for our executive director . Seeing none, thank you for that thorough update. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on the executive directors report . Yes, there is Public Comment. First, speaker, please. Good morning, caller, your two minutes begins now. Good morning, can you hear me . Supervisor peskin yes, we can. Good morning, its david pilpel. Very extensive report, very comprehensive. Just wanted to mention i didnt actually hear it on the better Market Street project. I understand that a finding of Significant Impact was issued in the last couple of weeks on that which i think is significant. Also the better Market Street project. I also noted since last weeks Board Meet