Thank you so much, that was an incredible discussion. If youd like to buy their book, the green button you can click that. Thats it, thank you all so much. Have a good night. Representative rick larsen, democrat from washington, recently joined booktv to discuss the books hes reading. Congressman rick larsen of washington, whats on your reading list right now . It has been long but its coming in to the middle of the summer now so im working on racked the third iq novel by joe your day a los angeles mystery writer and iq is his character and wrecked is the third book in the series. Its a detective novel. Is a private investigator and a lot of action a lot of great relationships in that book so im working on that. Im also working on Frederick Douglass biography published recently working on that, its a fairly long book so im popping in and out of that in and out of that duck quite a bit. Kind of taking that into chunks. For the policy wonk in me, david dollar at one of the think tanks in
I dont know the definitive answer. I think n that yes, you are correct. We need to check that and get back to you. Right, my concern is, given everything we know in the short term, i would hate for San Mateo County to act because of that imperative. And then i guess the question is, is it possible, i guess you cant really pass we vote to pass both. That sounds bizarre. Not to say that you want to change your vote and but it there a way for the City Attorney to pass both measures . We prefer no government structure but if there were government structure positions, we support them. We couldnt do Something Like that. I understand this is very unorthodox. As of our meeting right now, and if they vote the Santa Clara County board of supervisors. That impasse is what will prevent the measure from appearing on the ballot. It wont be the action we take no matter what action we take. Because thats what you might call a preexisting condition. And as i said, i had any number of conversations with
That i was talking about before. I dont think that we can leave public bank to decide at this point. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk that is the only caller. Chair fewer okay, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, is there any more business today. Clerk no further business today. Chair fewer thank you very much everyone. We are adjourned. Disantsing. The second Corner Grocery store i went to, tables were set up. This means, you know, were in the middle of a pandemic, and i think my life is more important than having to pay a quarter for a paper bag. I think this should be suspended for Senior Citizens or suspended, period, until the mayor says that were going back to normal and. [beeping] thank you, caller. Are there any other callers in the cue operation . No more callers in the cue. All right. Thank you, operations. Thank you, charles. The next item is item 5, an update on the departments ongoing Racial Equity hish tive. The speaker is timmy [indiscernible]. This item is
Emergency, the commission on the environment meeting room is closed. Commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken per student to the pursuant to the statewide stay at home order. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgov tv. Com is streaming the number at the top of the screen. When connected dial star three to be added to the queue. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in the following ways. Email to the department of commission affairs, if you submit Public Comment via email it will be part of the official file. I will call the roll. [roll call] we have a quorum. President stephenson next agenda item please. Clerk next item is the president s discussion. President stephenson good evening everyone thank you to everyone who made it to this meeting. Let me share some best practice
The information had gone out op some social media sites and it is here, it is now, lets do. Reporter he says these groups appear to with a completely different crowd intent on only one thing, looting. Their fist target that night, game stop. Once the security gate came down, it was a free for all, in and out went the thieves wiping the store clean. Every time police tried to protect one store, the looters were on to the next, traveling in what looked like an organizationed caravan of cars. We go from business to business and clear out looters, you know, by the time were two businesses away, the looters were back in the first business. It was backamole all night. Reporter at the same time across the bay in San Francisco, police were also out numbered. Their target . The downtown slopping district. Everything from clothing to jewelry. Reporter here is the scene caught on Security Camera at the westfield mall. Hundreds of looters swarming the building ransacking store after store. We as a