Welcome to the tuesday, august 4th, Virtual Meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. Im the Commission President and due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Entertainment Commission members, city employment and public and city hall meeting rooms are closed. However, well be participating remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declarations and Commission Members and employees will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen and each speak will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available during the zoom platform using meeting i. D. 89143696905 or calling 833 5480276 toll free. Using zoom platform, select the raised hand option for Public Comment. Dial star 9 if calling by
Latin america could go hungry this year because of covert 19. After weeks of protests u. S. Federal agents may be pulling out of court. U. S. President ali trump has long accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now hes taking action against it hes ordered a major scaling back of the u. S. Military presence there maybe 12000 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head to the United States the european command and special operations h. Q. Would also be moved from germany to belgium changes are expected to cost us billions of dollars. As anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States just much the United States has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the Core Principles of enhancing u. S. And nato deterrence
Currently stands is too broken to be reformed and must be rebuilt from the ground up theyre now taking input from experts and City Residents to develop a new Public Safety model jesse what do you think about this plan well somethings got to be done certainly something has to happen now its a touchy situation though ive been a governor and certainly before that i was mayor of the 6th largest city brooklyn apartment or soda and this is new to me i have never heard government without police so this is all New Territory now kim a form and go ahead without police at all i tend to not think so you must have some type of police force but i think when they take money and diverted to other causes thats a good idea because that gets to the underneath cause of why you need police in the 1st place. But youre still going to need police what do you do if theres a violent situation happening if the bank is being robbed if youve got one of these crazy shooters walking into a school or a place of busin
Gov. Abbott first i want to thank everybody for being here. Everythingk the people around me have been working on so very much. The chief, who has been one of the leaders in responding to covid19. We have the general who has done document is job in helping texas respond to covid19 and to instill a sense of safety and security in our communities to allow peaceful protests to occur. I want to point out in particular the director who has been involved across the entire state over the past week, making sure that our communities are as safe as possible. Also, all of these people behind the cameras who have been manning this Emergency Operations center, for everything you have been working on in the course of responding to covid19. In typical texas fashion, we are dealing with multiple challenges at one particular time. What we are here to talk about today is the status of this Tropical Storm. You can see the map of it behind me. I will be making reference to that map as we talk about the pa
Minneapolis city council which has announced a veto proof plans to dismantle the citys police force after nearly 2 weeks of protests over the Police Killing of george floyd the council has not released the details of its plan yet and there are still many hoops to jump through but its a start officers will reportedly remain on the streets until the plan is finalized but chokeholds and neck restraints have now been banned Minneapolis City Council says its going to rebuild Public Safety through a Community Based approach some ideas they have proposed include deploying the Fire Department to handle Drug Overdose calls and health care and social Service Professionals to deal with Mental Health issues they say the policing model as it currently stands is too broken to be reformed and must be rebuilt from the ground up theyre now taking input from experts and City Residents to develop a new Public Safety model jesse what do you think about this plan well somethings got to be done certainly so