It is even what it said in richard. You can ask for the reasons,. What if theth court is concerned about favoritism being displayed to a politically powerful defendant . Is that a proper reason to have a hearing . Mr. Wall no. That is a concern that is not the domain of rule 48. Judge griffith what is your authority for that . Mr. Wall in the United States, i would say richards or falkirk. It does not matter. The District Court might believe the government has a bad motive to do all sorts of things, favoritism or something else. But everybody agreeing that the United States cannot be made to bring a prosecution even if it even ifeven if it is its motive is not regular or impermissible, the same is exactly true of a prosecution. There are checks on that. Judge griffith what would be an appropriate hearing for judge sullivan to call on these facts in this case . What are the outer limits of what he could do or what the government would think is appropriate . Mr. Wall i dont think there i
Can we have the next caller. Caller good evening, supervisors. Todd snyder for district 5. I thank you for amending this measure next week and supporting it thus far. I ask that you continue to support it today. And i want to point out that an arbitrary number of Sworn Police Officers provides no flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of our city. And this came from a Consent Decree entered into in 1979. And lifted in 1998. It has no relevance to the city today. So i urge you to continue to support this measure and to put it before the voters on the ballot in november. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller i already spoke once and i have been unmuted. Clerk i believe this person has already spoken before per their comment. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller yes, im a native san franciscan, and im in my 60s. I want to express that changing the charter to minimal staffing is a deadly Public Policy decision on your part. No doubt that crimina
We did a whole thing to calculate it and we gave the Zoning Administrator the ability to adjust it as needed. The point is to ep sur ensure it a bar masquerading as a restaurant and theyre legitimately serving food and we think this allows an easier way for businesses to combine still clearly having food as a major focus of their revenue model. Where did you get that figure . It was a calculation from our restaurant study, we took the model from washington, d. C. And then we redid it through a local study of revenue of restaurants and took the 25 percentile and i can send you calculations if that would be helpful. Where you say the Zoning Administrator can lower the figure at any time, is that decision bound by any oversight by the Planning Commission or board of supervisors . We added, i believe im searching the legislation now, a requirement that he demonstrated how he calculates that, to provide that extra bit of oversight and if i can find it, that would be helpful. The Planning De
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
Please recommend this Charter Amendment to the full board of supervisors. We look forward to looking with you all to defund sfpd and reinvest in our communities. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker. Speaker good morning, supervisors. Im a resident of supervisor ronens district. I wanted to call again to thank you for listening to the community and removing maximized Police Presence and moving the Charter Amendment forward today. I wanted to just give a brief comment to the Organizational Work thats been happening and a shoutout to defund sfpd now. We look forward to meeting with you oneonone to discuss the concrete ways to cut the budget of the sfpd and this Charter Amendment is crucial because it gives us more flexibility in the budget and we need to reallocate resources to services that make us safe. Supervisor yee, thank you for bringing this forward. One comment i wanted to make is that, this is a predominantly black campaign and were turning out plentiy new voices a