Chairwoman good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 2, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is captain stefanie, and well soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. Mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairwoman can you read item number one. Item one is appointing two members to the commission on aging and Advisory Council. Chairwoman than thank you so much. I believe were joined by juliette rothman. If juliette would like to come up and address the committee, thank you so much. If you just want to share with us your interest in the appointment. How are you . Good. Im here to seek reappointment to the Advisory Counc
Borders of europe are open to migrants. Innovations can appoint a new Prime Minister but the power struggles may be far from over. And the fight for which u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful will face off with donald trump turns to South Carolina which is holding its primary. In sports 5 top league games in italy have been postponed because of coronavirus restrictions the olympics are also interrupted and will be in senegal where africas best boxes off still trying to qualify for tokyo 2020. 5 to more than 18 years of war a deal between the u. S. And taliban has put afghanistan on the path to what many hope will be a Permanent Peace assigning to place here in qatar a few hours ago and in 18 months of talks one of the key components of the deal plans for a complete withdrawal of all u. S. And nato troops within 14 months if the taliban sticks to its parts the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o flew in for the signing he says the agreement is a crucial 1st step toward peace. This
Lot of sweat and brainpower into figuring out what do our riders need to keep them coming back. One factor contributing to the decline, competition with Ride Share Companies like uber and lyft. But the survey of riders found the number one reason people gave is many of them werent going out as much on weekends. Number two, they didnt like the long wait between trains on the weekends. But number three was dirty trains. Number four worries about crime. Number five, concerns about the homeless. Police chief ed alvarez said crime was down 18 in january of 2019 versus january of 2018. Cell phone thefts were also down 40 over the same period. Were not declaring victory just yet, but were continuing to work on it, and were going to keep building op it. Bart is also exploring ways to get the riders back. One proposal is to offer discounted fares to certain riders like students and seniors, or even going a step further. One of the things weve been doing is handing out free passes for the weeken
All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect
Does anybody have anything to say . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is number two, approval of the minutes for december 17, 2019. We will need a motion to approve. I move to approve second. Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner perez [roll call] all right. The Meeting Minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from our executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Its been since november since ive seen you all in this setting. So this is fun to be back. Happy new year. And i wanted to take a moment and thank Senior Analyst rice, dylan, just for being Commission Secretary tonight while crystal is on a welldeserved vacation. My only update for you all this evening is relative to new years eve. This is one of our biggest evenings of the year that we prepare for and we provide information to all of the other city agencies for Situational Awareness abo