Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. Supervisor safai supervisor safai is present. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Board Meeting, members will participate online as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in the five following ways. First, you are welcome to submit via email at board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. If you do not have internet or youd like to listen on the go, you can listen to the meeting on your cell phone. The telephone number is 8882045984. When prompted, enter the access code 3501008, press pou
And i look forward to working with the departments and the neighbors to open up a safe sleeping site at the castro area soon as soon as possible. And the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mar. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin let me take myself off of mute, thank you, madam clerk. I want to start my roll call by thanking president yee for including me in the Armenian Genocide commemoration and then as referenced earlier by supervisor safai, today together with supervisor mandelman, we are introducing permanent legislation as it regards capping the delivery of service apps like uber eats and grubhub. And, of course, later on todays agenda, were voting to concur with the mayors nine supplemental declaration of emergency which places a 15 cap on the commissions that these Delivery Services can charge. And as i had mentioned a couple weeks ago at the board of supervisors, my office and i want to thank my legislative aide lee. Lee
Culture and relevancy and in the 3 criteria that is outlined and i will go ahead and read them the businesses operating in San Francisco are for thirty or more years with no break in San Francisco operations exceeding two years and from the businesses operated for more than 20 years but less than thirty and sill satisfies the criteria the Small Business commission of these this business as significantly contributed to the history avenue particular neighborhood or communities and if not knit in the registry theyll face displacement again even with that criteria we have to remember the mayor or the board of supervisors that makes that determination of the businesses under thirty years the businesses troubled to the neighborhood history or identity of the community and the business is commented to the physical altercations defined including the art formations so section 3 is the business telling their story about those 3 criteria and those 3 criteria and weve asked for them excuse me. To
Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o
Good morning, everyone. My name is nirra tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress, and im really honored to be joined by our esteemed Commission Members for the new report from the Inclusive Commission a commission convened over a year and a half ago. Im very honored to be joined by our cochairs, dr. Larry summers, former treasury secretary, and ed ball shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the u. K. We convened this commission because we at cap are very focused on the challenges the middle class is facing in the United States, challenges of stagnating wages rising costs. What we recognize these were not just trends that the American Public is facing. Its really Global Trends are faking us and we can learn from other countries. So that is why weve undertaken this effort. I hope everyone has gotten our report, a very big report. And im going to now turn it over to larry and ed, and then i will ask questions of our Commission Members to get their thoughts, and then r