The regular meeting for the commission of investment and infrastructure. I would like to welcome the members of the public who are following the live stream as well as the staff who will present for us. The members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is roll call. Please respond when i call your name. [ roll call ]. Clerk all members, excuse me, all other members of the commission are present. The next item is announcements. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held remotely on november 20, 2020. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment reared, all dialin participants from the public will dial 14156550001 and the access code is 146436701
Pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a fighting chance to survive and preserve our communities of color. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Great timing. Thank you. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller . If you press star 3 and you have are unmuted start speaking lets see if thats you. Well go bax to the next person. Can you hear me now . Yes, welcome. Very quickly, im following gill, marina and the atu local 1575 president and Mary Travis Allen and happy to be in that group. I note the unfortunate p
Make sure to vote in person at one of the 588 locations across the city or at city hall on tuesday, november 3rd. Thank you. [ ] as always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in h
Regular meeting of the Public Safety services committee. Im rafael mandleman, the chair of this committee, and im joined by our vice chair and supervisor, our clerk is john carroll. As usual, id like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for staffing the meeting and i. T. In lending their support. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I do. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, board member and City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee will close v. This was pursuant to declarations and directives. Community members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically presentment Public Comment will be available for each item on this agenda. There a Public Comment callin number across your screenful your opportunity to speak and speak during Public Comment speder available via phone by calling 4156550001. Once youre connected and prompted, enter the meeting i. D. Of 146
Physics of Climate Change require it. So it is better to do that today when it is less complicate and expensive. Therefore i ask you to make exemptions to the ordinance. The past legislation without the ultimate steps of reducing the cost. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Caller i live in supervisor peskins district 3. I support passing the strongest version of this ordinance. Amidst the backdrop of a Global Climate emergency i want to point out the committee only discussed the weaknesses and im asking the committee to respect the publics intelligence by affording us a modicum of debate and ask with the financial feasibility and industrial and laboratories are exempt. Please discuss on the part the developers can squeeze out of the requirement without much effort. I hope youll address this at the committee meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller rolled up our sleeves and sat back and listened and learn. We learned a lot abo