Chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation meeting for june 8, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by vice chair ahsha safai and dean preston. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Because of the covid19 pandemic, the board of supervisors and legislative chamber are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments
The united educators of San Francisco, the over 6,000 teachers and school staff who work in our schools everyday. This thursday, uesf is hosting an emergency town hall on how the pandemic, the crisis of the pandemic is going to affect the work of educators and the lives of our students. Its clear to educators that the last thing that our students who are now suffering through the pandemic need is to be put in a situation of housing insecurity and potentially homelessness due to the economic duress of the pandemic. So when educators get together this thursday, theyll be brainstorming ways to help our students get through this both economic and health crisis. On top of this, we also recognise that the students most vulnerable to the pain and suffering of the pandemic and the economic insecurity are a te black and brown students. While were marching in the streets to find justice for george floyd and to make sure that black lives matter, the least we can do is to provide housing security
Family members and friends are becoming a lifeline for corona virus patients and mexico. After 3 months of closed borders and restrictions through the coronavirus pandemic some European Countries are now opening up to some of their neighbors germany has opened its border to all your members except for spain finland norway and sweden frances president maduro macron is claiming the countrys 1st victory in the fight against code 19 restaurants and cafes are operating at full capacity but micron is cautioning for people to be vigilant while the u. K. Is still working to contain the virus england is easing restrictions anyway allowing nonessential businesses to trade again wales and scotland are still waiting to hear when stores there can open we have teams on the ground dominic amos at the german danish border Natasha Butler standing by in paris 1st lets go to censure. In london our town hall is standing by live so you are on Oxford Street one of the busiest shopping streets perhaps in the
Locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments in the following ways. Email myself at erica. Major sfgof. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org. Lastly, the director of the office of civic engagement, adrian pond, has applied a spanish interpreter on item 1 to assist speakers in their native language with our Public Comment. Lets have arturo consenza interpret the public remarks. [speaking spanish language]. Interpreter thats everything. Thank you. Chair peskin gracias, arturo.
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