Across the united states. You know, city leaders, whether you are in a city, town or village are uniquely situated. What do i mean by that . In the state of the union you have National Media do you have congress and its all about trying to score partisan points. But, in the state of the city its really talking to constituents, connecting with them about what youve done and about what you are going to do. I will tell you another place where we are uniquely situated. We see our constituents every day in Grocery Stores and in our places of worship and in everyday areas like the ywca and sometimes they just show up at city hall, whether they have an appointment or not because they want to talk to the mayor. Guess what . We talked because that is what mayors and what city leaders do. This year i gave my eight state of the city address. I will tell you, we have gone to doing this as a ted talk because quite honestly it got so long and i got so tired of reading it and they got tired of hearin
This is about an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning and welcome to the National League of cities. It is my distinct honor to bring you greetings on behalf of the board and the staff of the National League of cities. We are excited about this presentation this morning, as we discuss the state of cities across the united states. You know, city leaders, whether you are in a city, town or village are uniquely situated. What do i mean by that . In the state of the union you have National Media do you have congress and its all about trying to score partisan points. But, in the state of the city its really talking to constituents, connecting with them about what youve done and about what you are going to do. I will tell you another place where we are uniquely situated. We see our constituents every day in Grocery Stores and in our places of worship and in everyday areas like the ywca and sometimes they just show up at city hall, whether they have an appointment or not because they want to talk
We recovered . Yes, we are on our way. Our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. Since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. Currently we are at 95 of our precovid hours of operation. In the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. We have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. They are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to San Francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. Can we talk about programs after covid . Absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. We were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. We doubled our level of programming for personal finance, Small Business help, jobs and careers. We have a dedicated Small Business center here at the library. There is a wide suite of pr
[ cheers and applause right now at 11 00, we do have breaking news along the bay area freeway tonight. Interstate 780 is shut down in both directions. This is all unfolding in the venetia area. Chp confirming eastbound and westbound lanes are closed, between columbus parkway to southhampton. Traffic is beginning to backup, because of this closure. We do have calls out to learn more about what exactly is going on. We will, of course, update you as we learn more. Our other top story, our list just got longer. United airlines under scrutiny tonight, after a string of mechanical problems involving the boeing planes. The latest happening today, when a piece of a plane apparently fell off, somewhere between sfo and its destination and oregon. This is the seventh issue with united jet in the past few weeks. Nbc bay areas tom johnson is at sfo raking down what may have gone wrong. We have to make it clear that this is an older boeing 737 800, about 25 years old, not one of the newer boeing 737
I left mine in the car. Thanks. Madam chair. We are ready to begin. Okay i like it. Are we still planning. Okay okay. Good morning and welcome to the august 18th, 2023, regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Todays meeting is being live cable cast on of gov tv and streamed live online at esp gov tv. Org ethics live for Public Comment. Members of the public may attend in person or may participate by phone or the web platform as explained in our agenda document. Mr. Clerk, can you please explain how the remote Public Comment will be handled today . Thank you, madam chair. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak. For those attending in person, opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period will be made available here in room 400 city hall. For those attending remotely Public Comment period can also be provided via phone call by calling. 14156550001. Again, the phone number. Is