Meeting. Thank you, madam chair. The minutes will reflect due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Commission Members, employees and public the meeting rooms are closed. Commission members and staff will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders and directives. Commission members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if they were physically present. It is streamed live at sfgovtv. Once again, streamed live online sfgovtv. Org ethics live. Public comment is available on each item. Each member of the public is allowed three minutes to speak. Call 415655000 4156550001. The access code 146 2698877. Followed by the pound sign. Press pound again to join as attendee. You will hear a beep when you are connected to the meeting. You will be automatically muted in his senning mode only. When your item comes up dime dil star three. Please wait until the host calls on you. The line will be silent as you wait to speak. Ens
Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of
Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
For us on the committee to do something radical, to listen more than we talk. For us to heare from our colleagues on both sides of the aisle about their ideas for the next rules package. Regardless of who controls Congress Next year, i think we can all agree running this house with integrity means listening to all members so that is what we will be doing today. We took a collaborative approach with the rules package for this congress and im proud to say the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time to acknowledge no party has the monopoly on good ideas. Of what weve created together, the consensus calendar to expedite consideration of ideas with bipartisan support, the Diversity Office to get the calls falls of Congress Looking like the real world, and the Modernization Committee to advance good ideas from both sides to get this place functioning better. Although we were hearing these in committee, we required other committees hold them so all members have the chance to be hear
On each item. We are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities or opportunities to speak are available by calling 4156550001 and entering access code 146047 0765. One connected, darla start three to be added to the cue. Best practices dial star three to be added to the cue. Speak slowly and clearly and turn down any other devices. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment by email to the Commission Affairs officer through email. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the commissioners and will be included as part of the official file. I will now call the role. Everyone [roll call] we have a quorum. Great, next agenda item, please. The next item is item number two, president s welcome. This item is for discussion. Hello, everybody. To everyone who came out tonight to this meeting on the commission on the environment, let me begin by sharing the best practices for this meeting.